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SWEETEST OF TOWNS. AFTER LIFE OF THE COLLEGE GIRL GRADUATE Grasse, Near Cannes, in the French Riviera, Perfumes the World. HERO OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORA TION. MADE A FORTUITE IN FUN. Man Who Adapted Gravity Roads to Amusement Parks Now Rich. How millions have been made out The sweetest town in the world is of the lightest and apparently most Grasse, in the foothills back of Cannes ridiculous amusement devices and how on the French Riviera. All through the American public has made Coney the year Grasse is really one big bub Island and its ilk a national institu bling caldron where are distilled gal tion is told by Reginald Wright Kauff lons, barrels, hogsheads of perfumes. man in Hampton’s Magazine. He says: In the spring violets, roses and nar A little more than twenty-five year» cissus form the principal ingredients, ago L. A. Thompson, a mechanical in the fall jasmine and tuberose. All engineer, then in the West in search the flowers are grown in the open sun, of health, saw a mountain gravity except the violets, which, requiring road in operation in connection with shade, are hidden between rows a mine and, remembering that the con olive trees. temporary amusement parks were The flower pickers of Grasse and strangers , to all devices save seesaws» the flower girls and flower women of box swings and merry-go-rotmds for the “Jeu de Ballon,” says the Lady’s children, he began to wonder if it Pictorial, form a far more picturesque wouldn’t pay him to go from one of element than the perfumemakers of these places to another and superin the factories where the fragrance is tend the construction of gravity roads, distilled; Coiffed with great, flat, pan the freight of which would be, not ore, cake hats of plaited straw the flower but adult, amusement-seeking hu- pickers cannot fail to impress one. manity. With them are their helpers with Thompson made drawings. He got square flower-laden baskets on their a piece of ground. Then, doing much backs and a smile—the traditional of the work with his own hands, he smile of southern Europe—on their built his road and proved his theory. faces. It was a trivial thing, that first As for the process by which the per switch-back, compared with the sort It is about the span of • a lifetime fumery of commerce is made, it is as that you may ride in to-day. Ten per ago—71 years—since Miss Zeruiah varied as the flowers which make up sons at a time climbed a long flight of Porter marched through Oberlin Col the ingredients. Primarily the essen steps and clambered into a car that lege and came 'out at the other end tial oil or otto of a flower is obtained promptly dropped them down an in with a head full of ’ologies and ’isms. SHACKLETON. only by distillation. The residue is cline of 450 feet. Then they got out» It was recognized as an epoch-making then mixed with clarified or refined climbed another flight of steps, and event, and every living soul on the PALACE of EGYPTIAN KING. swarmed into another car which pork fat by. boiling in great copper continent had his or her pet theory as kettles and being stirred constantly House of the Pharaoh Hophra, Con brought them to their place of de to the consequences that must ensue. parture. The entire contrivance had with a wooden pestle during the oper- temporary of Jeremiah. Among all the sages who must have ation. The great result of the work of this cost just $1,600, but Thompson had discussed the matter with indignation It is this boiling down with fat that year carried on at Memphis by Prof. “made good.” or delight or amusement, was there Park owners changed their scoffing gathers the perfume to itself. The Flinders Petrie urider the auspices of even one who foretold what has really Impermeated grease is then churned the British'School of Archaeology, has to imitating, because the switchback begun to happen; who prophesied up with refined alcohol in another cal been the discovery of the palace o! was emptying their own places, but that in this year of grace, 1909, the dron until all, or nearly all, the per King Apries, the Pharaoh Hophra of their change was only the traditional number of women studying in institutions fo^ higher saying a great deal, for she does not come of a class fume. has passed into the spirt. the Bible, who was contemporary with one from frying pan to fire, because education would be quite half the tale of men, while co given to raising a quiver-full. Dr. Smith’s comparison The fat remaining, with a slight Jeremiah, B. C. 629-588, Zion’s Herald the canny Mr. Thompson had made a. educational institutions would be facing the danger of of college women with their non-college relatives went few quiet trips to Washington and impregnation still left to it, is made says. being swamped by the horde of women clamoring for .to show that neither had an average of quite two liv had protected his device by a series, Into soap, a by-product which is no in known Hitherto no palace has been admission? ing children, with the college woman a trifle below the of iron-barred and time-locked pat considerable factor in the turnover of at Me- in Egypt other than the tower Taking Oberllh, the first coeducational institution, average of the other, on account of her later marriage. ents. To-day he is a millionaire, is the establishment, though often enough dinet Habu and some portions of a at and, therefore, the best for such comparison, one finds Emerging from the thicket of figures and contradic the head of a company capitalized this left-over product is simply sold to rather earlier date. The palace was the number of graduates divided into 1,415 men against tions which surrounds the marriage of the girl gradu- at $900,000, and builds scenic railways another concern whose business it is 400 feet long and 200 feet broad, with 1,631 women. Women now outnumber the men in va ate, there arises another difficulty, but happily a less (he is just now in London building to work it up into toilet soap and sell a fnlddle court 100 feet square. It was rious other Western universities, and ^Stanford has had perplexing one. If she decides not to enter the state of which, running over a mile and it under more or less poetic names. adorned with painted columns forty one) arbitrarily to limit the number of women admitted lest matrimony and rear a small but admirable family, what carrying sometimes twenty-eight per A more primitive method of making feet high and surrounded with stone- It should be overwhelmed. In the East, Tufts College happens to her? How does she earn a living? sons to the car,, frequently cost $100,- perfume is that which was in use at lined walls fifteen feet thick. The ap has been forced to decide on the segregation of its In the old days a well-bred and well-educated woman the beginning of the industry at proach to the palace led up through 000 each. women, after the fashion of Harvard, for they are pour could teach, and she could do nothing else. Nowadays, Grasse. This method prescribes that a large mass of buildings to a plat ing In so fast as to upset the men’s department. while many professions are open to her, she still chooses coarse linen or cotton cloth should be form. at a height of about sixty feet So to the music of June a new note has been added— this career in preference to any other, although the the sound, light yet solemn, of thousands of girlish feet proportion of graduates it claims is not so large as for- £ first impregnated with the finest olive above the plain. In the ruins scale armor, hitherto marching down the college aisle and across the com merly. The lines of work opened up by modern sociol- • oil, then stretched on a gauze wire rarely found in Egypt, was discovered. frame. mencement stage and out into the great wide world. It ogy afe attracting a great many. Such professions will Upon this cloth are placed thin lay Good bronze figures of the gods were was thoughtful of the rose to choose the same month doubtless soon begin to rival teaching, and professors er^ of flowers, the' layers being also found. What rrof. Petrie de as this fine flower of civilization—broad-minded, too, of economics in women’s colleges bear this In mind. Charles Dickens’ library chair, th» changed many times until the oil-im scribes as a supreme piece was the Turning again to the admirable statistics of Bryn for she faces a serious rival. The sweet girl graduate one in which he was often photo fitting of a palanquin of solid silver, pregnated cloth has absorbed a satu holds the center of the stage, and if poets have not be- Mawr, one finds that 145 students are teaching. Deduct rated solution of oil and perfume. This a pound in weight, decorated with a graphed, sold in London a few day» gun to rhapsodize over her It is merely because the sta ing the number of graduates without occupation, there clojth and its precious burden are aft bust of Hathor, with a gold face of ago for £74. are left about 450 who earn a living. Of this number tistician has not yet finished with her. The author of “An Englishman’s erward treated with an alcohol bath, finest workmanship of the time of It is not easy to figure out that more than 50 per 145 is a high percentage. The percentage is not, how Home” saw it performed for the first which in turn separates the perfume Apries. cent of college women marry, and it is a hard struggle ever, keeping up to quite this level.' Forty-five girls The great gateway and immense time recently in Pietermaritzburg» from the oil. to get that far. Some colleges have pretty full figures, ate put down as “paid philanthropists.” As one of walls descend deep into the mound, Natal. The play made a “hit” with. Another method for extracting the this number observed, this is a dreadful name to call . as Bryn Mawr and Smith. perfumes '•from the flowers is that of Indicating that there lie ruins of suc the colonials no less than at home. Since 1879 out of 967 students at Bryn Mawr 224 have anybody, but it indicates the tendency of college worn- enfleurage. By this means the most cessive palaces built one over the “David Harum” continuers to get it married. Out of 3,854 students at Smith 1,296 married. en to turn toward social work of one kind or another, delicate of essences are yielded indi other. Prof. Petrie prophesies that tn self read. The Appletons have recent Physicians come next with 12. and the profession of Dr. Mary Robert Smith, who studied for the Ameri rectly by being allowed to filter slow six or eight years excavators mignt ly brought out a new edition of the- can statistical Association, drew the conclusion that private secretary counts 11. This latter work is at- ly from the crushed blososms through dig down to the earliest records, of the story, and state that since it first ap the average age of marriage would be between 26 and tractlng more girls than formerly. Lawyers are four in a quarter-inch layer of cold fat in Egyptian kingdom. peared, in 1896,' more than 1,100,000 27 years, or two years later than for non-college wom number. On the side of art 17 girls ti&ve taken up shallow glass pans. From twelve to copies have been sold. en. The average age at graduation is probably about 22. music as a career and three chose art. Other occupa Let Him Stay a Man. « seventyrtwo hours is required for the If one goes back five years to look at the figures, the tions include photography, inn-keeping, managing a Prophecy always accompanies an ex A man soon gets mighty tired of enfleurage, depending upon the varie number of marriages does not show up very well. Be shop, bookbinding, illustrating, hand weaving, trained position. Now it is Major GeneraL ties of blossoms and the season of the treating his wife like a goddess. If he Greyly, who, in his “Hand Book of ing generous and going back ten years, one gets 50 nursing, wood carving, millinery, jewelry work, jour cannot be at ease with her, and smoke year. per cent In Smith, less in Bryn Mawr. Dr. Smith nalism and library work. Several are deans of colleges; when he pleases, and take off his coat Ala&ka,” considers that by the end of By calculated experiment and by ac there Is an agent In a government office and a title made a careful and important study, but one is inclined this century the population of Alaska. cident as well many curious truths if he wants to, and throw ashes on will ----- a «« nf N a EWHV—- to think from these figures that college girls, in the Searcher In a law office. the floor and cigar stubs all over the Office corner Mam ana becona ots., have been brought to light concerning East, at any rate, must marry rather later than the age The census of 1900 showed among women workers 2,00 one block west of depot. ’Phone Main house, he is going to be mighty un the art of the perfumer. White blos she gave. Prof. C. F. Emerick« writing In the current 50 astronomers, 100 architects, 40 civil engineers and no35mch!9 onlil 921. soms have been found to yield the comfortable, and long to go where he Political Science Quarterly, remarks that the marriage 30 mechanical and electrical engineers. These cannot can. For It is born in a man to like most fragrance, with those of yellow rate for Vassar women jumped from 53.5 per cent for be traced to their respective colleges, but np doubt they and orange tints at the bottom of the to do these things, just as it is born those at 40 years of age to about 63 per cent for those have degrees to their account, as have also the 3,000 a girl to like to do her own pet list. A strong light decreases the in at 47. Cupid is not always, apparently, a hasty boy. women clergymen. things. Moreover, if a girl has once odor of perfumes, though this may be Why women colleges should be so “touchy” on the It would seem that the college woman, married or known a man in a perfectly comfort accounted for by the fact that the able chummy way, she will find him subject of matrimony it is not easy to understand. There unmarried, gets a good deal out of life. Unmarried, sense of smell is stronger when that worth twice O much as before he Is certainly no disgrace in remaining unmarried and she has an Interesting profession, Married, she has a of sight is enfeebled. doing a share of the world’s work in ways other than healthy child and a statistical fraction of another dropped his awe of her. Men are It is a curious fact that the ethereal pretty nice as they are, but for good domestic. healthy one. Three-fifths of th>3 child and a fraction is extract of any flower resembles the ness’ sake, don’t try to make a man Although she marriep later and probably marries less a boy. What more could the heart of a woman desire? perfume of that flower very little. The ladylike. He isn’t and won’t-be if he than other women of her class, the college woman has Of course she marries late, ^but civilization brings that odor peculiar to the rose and jonquil is even half a man.—Atchison Globe. nearly as many children. She has more, in proportion to pass all over the world. The world has wagged con is a combination of ethereal essences to the number of years she Is married. But this Is not siderably since the days of Romeo and Juliet. T which is only arrived at by a long and Family Floriculture. George Marion, the stage manager, centers of maximum disturbance, the ing the association reaffirmed the reso tedious process. Nearly every odor requires a differ Is a lover of nature and a hater of greatest being under the Strait of Mes lution adopted at Chicago in 1907 to ent process to bring out its full value. overcoats and umbrellas, Recently, pub sina, and the other two near Palma the effect that it is desirable to go to Hawaii. “Keen delight”,j is said to Lilies, strangely enough, give out an during a violent rainstorm, he called ancj Monteleone in Italy. On other oc «¡light t in wading througn through ail all ' • casions some of these centers have be expressed in Hawaii over the pros odor resembling that of the rose, while on his mother, entering her presence the L ; on ¿he sidewalk and they the rose and the orange flower (ne- wringing wet. ^ion C- been successively active, 'but this time pect that the invitation will be accept “George,” said she, firmly, “you fror* he snow beside the walk, they' were simultaneously in action. ed, and the wonderful attractions of roli) each yield quite a different per his This appears to indicate some deep- the islands for scientific visitors are fume from that naturally looked for ought not to expose yourself in such dea weather. You will get pneumonia. ” and the scent of any and all blossoms It takes 13.82 cubic feet of air to seated connection between them. The set forth—their great volcanoes, thoir “But, mother,” explained George, ed iS—no shoe will stand it in- weigh a pound. total area disturbed by the Messina tropical vegetation, their wealth of except the jasmine can be fabricated . with a theatrical wave of his hand, Wlf( by the scientific combination of the animal and vegetable life, their eth earthquake was about 150,000 square Electric power is used on 2,286 miles is to & get the strongest shoes . WTO 1- ------------ rain? Does it “ why should I fear the of street railways in Great Britain to miles. In the San Francisco earth nological offerings. The association Is ottos of many different flowers. beei tting then! too coarse and quake the disturbed area covered more | sounding its members on the subject, 'It is comparatively recently that a not nurture the grass? Is it not life 148 miles operated by other means. taki to the flowers? ” with the prospect that there will , be a than 1,000,000 square miles. real violet \ perfume has been made. Probably the world’s swifest battle- “It is a long time,” said the good vap ship is the British Bellerophon, which Commenting on the recent announce strong sentiment' in favor of the pro The so-called violet perfume of a gen woman, closing a window, “since you mot ject. eration ago scarcely resembled the recently made 25^4 knots in an official ment of the discovery of a “new rival the | were a flower. ”—Success Magazine. natural odor of the flower, though it trial. of radium,” called radio-thor, and to Not Alway« What They Seem, ft mir The total pig iron production of the which wonderful properties are said to Professor and Mrs. "Hadley wer^ on was actually prepared from it. The wai Duchess Can Be Shabby. United States last year was 15,936,018 have been ascribed by its discoverer. & train bound for New York, whdre odor of the violet exists in infinitesi- A duchess may be as shabby as she Jong tons as against 25,781,361 tons in Dr. Bailey, of Chicago, Frederick Sod- Yale’s president was to speak before mal quantities in each flower and is pleases, and, in spite of socialism and novi dy remarks that the description of this a national convention. He made ise also very difficult to extract. 1907. a badly hanging skirt, she will remain Recent additions to the French substance bears an obvious resem of the hour and twenty minutes he st leather, especially selected. The a power in the land, but the suburban Beetle Hunting in Queensland. army’s field equipment were several blance to radio-thorium, which has spent in the train by rehearsing his process —the best known method of lady does not care to be seen with her A reward of Is. 2d. a pound was re best friend if the latter be wearing an pie automobile refrigerators for the trans been well known for some time. The speech in a low voice, using his hands The girls shoes are made in both y.eai er - cently offered by the Queensland old-fashioned frock.—Black and White. portation of fresh meat* cheapness of the new substance is ex to emphasize certain passages., that! Up to a certain point exposure to ploited, but radlo-thorlum can be ob A kindly matron who was sitting sugar planters, writes a Brisbane »till its and will not hurt the feet or injure tained from the thorium salts which (Australia) correspondent, for beetles Enough Said. radium rays stimulates the germina directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley, Bell—So you are going on the stage? a h^hnes are, dressy and attractive looking tion of seeds, but if that point be pass are manufactured by the ton in the and who had been watching and listen of the destructive sugar cane grub. that! | far-seeing writer who 'ieit uo' that Welsbach mantle Industry, and Profes- ing, leaned forward, and, tapping Hrs. Hundreds of men and boys have now Will you carry a spear? ed the growth is stopped. flna fine I® v a nicturft picture nf of ninnfoonih nineteenth century sorRutherford long ago suggested that taken up beetle hunting as a profes •Nell — the manager said I ’ d Ivory which has become yellow may Hadley on the shoulder, said feelirgly, life, and whose wide popularity among it might serve as a cheap and probably get the ’ hook! — Kansas City effect-; sion. One man earns £6 a week he bleached by dipping it in soapy “You have my sincere sympathy, my our /forefathers is such a proof of ive substitute for radium for many throughout the “ beetle season, ” and Journal. water several times and exposing It to their Intellectual vigor. Ah, but those purposes. Thorium produces meso- poor woman; I have one just like him the boys make from £2 a week. sunlight after each dipping. Impossible. the days of Shaw and Gals thorium, and from meso-thorium comes at home.”—Success Magazine. “Do you believe the suffragettes will were A new instrument for use when forth radio-thorium. Its activity is not Life’s Possibilities. worthy and Wells! Hardy was still Less Precarious Also. ever get what they want?” stropping razors includes a guide permanent, like that of radium, but It If we but lived as we ought to live Scott—So Rawson has become a “Not all they want,” whispered Mr. writing! What a galaxy of genius which prevents the blade slipping and would last for many years, and for and as we might live, a power would preacher. Last time I saw him he was Enpec, gazing about cautiously. people lived in them! How glorious injuring itself or the strop. most purposes would be as valuable in doubt whether to be that or a law go out from us that would make every “They’re women, you know.”—Kansas It must have been to be young in A matoh box containing a cigar cut as radium. those great times of change!’ So our day a lyric sermon that should be City Star. yer. I wonder what decided him ter, which clips off the end of a cigar great grand-children will talk, Ilka ■ . ......................... 1 — 9 Mott—He probably recalled the say seen and felt by an ever-enlarging Just' as the British Association for A Case for Sympathy, when thé box is closed, is the recent the Advancement of Science has ac ing that it is easier to preach thin to audience.—T. Starr King. i babies to whom things are revealed> The Proud Mother—This boy do now hidden from our prudence.” invention of a New York man. cepted invitations to hold sessions in practice.—Boston Transcript grow more like ’is father every day. For Justice. The dock of the tower of Colum- Canada and South Africa, so the Amer- If a woman is fat, that is enough The Neighbor—Do’e, poor dear? A man who thinks more of a iollar bla University, New York, Is said to ' lean association bearing a similar name We are firm believers in the maxim for the men; they say she has a fine And ’ ave you tried everything? — than he does of his self-respect Is in- be one of the most accurate in the ' is now seriously considering the ad that for^all right judgment of any man figure. world, varying but six seconds a year. visability of accepting the invitation sult-proot___________ ______ j or thing it is useful—nay, essential— Sketch. You can’t do it all, but it’s up to A rainy Saturday always makes a Prof. C. Davidson points out that the > of Hawaii to meet in 1910 in those A circle of friends is nice to kave to see his good qualities before pro nouncing on his bad.—Carlyle. store keeper mad. yoti to do all you can. <reat Messina earthquake had three > islands. At its recent Baltimore meet- round. Science vention choolSho For Girls