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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1910)
TOPICS OF TIIE TIMES CHOICE SELECTION OV INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comments and CrltloUrae naiad Upon the Happening of the Dar Historical aad Nowa Notaa. Hatpins are the deadliest weapons that now go about unconcealed. Have you seen Hamilton lately? His picture Is on the new $1,000 bills. Why send missionaries to Africa when a Pennsylvania court convicts a woman charged with witchcraft? Dewey thinks the American navy Is the best on earth. We earnestly hope this may not cause another scare in England. Abdul Hamld has It doped out that It was fate that overthrew him. Fate, and a bunch of Young Turks up to the ears In guns. An Indiana woman has just mar ried her tenth husband. What a choice assortment of pickle dishes she must have by this time! It should not be forgotten that Ab dul Hamld Is one of those misguided people who never permit themselves to be Interviewed for publication. A Detroit man was fined the other day for laughing at a woman who wore a beehive hat. Evidently he did not pay for the hat, or else he would have wept. The Czar Is going to circumnavigate the globe in his yacht. The last Rus sian sea-going expedition did not get quite around, being stopped in the 3ea of Japan. Pullman Is spending some millions enlarging Its plant. There will, how ever, be no gymnasium for the porter. He Is expected to get bis exercise pull ing the public leg. Elinor Glyn says In her new book that no American men ever tried to flirt with her. Her comments on Americans and American customs are naturally a trifle bitter. We are glad to note that a start has been made in building a free bridge at St. Louis. A reporter for the Times of that city saw a man a day or two ago boring holes i.n the river. wno has not tot rich s&rt with Borai feeling of pity, If not of contempt It It desirable that we should all shake ourselves out of this falsa Idea an begin to understand thai there ar what a noted New Englander has call 2d endurlngsatlsfactlons In life which have nothing to do with money. The love and respect and gratitude of one's fellow men are worth more In the evening of life than those who have them not can realize. Every worthy minister has these rewards, and would not exchange them for much gold. , A mean Chicago reporter took a census and discovered that among 835 Chicago clubwomen three babies were born last year. A baby somewhat in terferes with club activity if you are Inclined to care much for it. A Pennsylvania woman's big hat saved her from drowning. We de cline, however, to utter a word in praise of the big hat until we are assured that it was not the lady's headpiece which caused her to be blown into the water. A retired politician laments that how he Is out of power his friends have deserted him. A man of his ex perience should have a better sense of the meanings of words. Ills friends have not deserted him, only those whose professed friendship had its origin In his or their selfish ends. China is an example of a nation which is showing Itself not afraid to imitate other nations. Not long ago six graduates of the Women's Med ical School nt Shanghai recel"ed their diplomas. The institution was founded three years ago, and its principal is a woman. Two of the Assays read by he graduates were in English. Germany has a resourceful govern ment It is UBing as an incentive to reluctant taxpayers a letter from Mar tin Luther, in which the great re former says: "I gladly pay my groschen for the Turkish campaign, and hope I am among those who pay them willingly, for of grudging people there are enough. And I would also show a good example, and others can then say that Doctor Martin baa "lelped," The country is growing and tho Bummer vacation Idea has boon culti vated. Summer resorts have been es tablished wherever there are conceiv able excuses for them and before the season ends everybody has been "somewhere." Only a fow who go, however, have luxurious vacations. The great majority go in crowded cars or 'excursion steamers and stny In bandbox rooms at hotels. And they sUy but a short time. The average summer vacation Is physically tiro some, but it is a good thing, all the same. It Is a change. It satlsflos the nearly universal desire to go some where. It gives to men and women ail appreciation of their homes. It 's a practical lesson In contentment No thoughtful person can contem plate the scenes attending the funer al of the flev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuy lcr, in Brooklyn, recently, without concluding that there are compensa tions la the Christian ministry which can be compared favorably with the retards of secular business. Dr. Cuy Ur was 87 years old, and had rutlred from the active pustorate at the ago of. 70, after serving one church for thirty consecutive years. More than two thousand persons crowded tho meeting house of this church for tho funeral, and ai many more gathered In the streets outside to show thutr affection and respect fur the good man. This tribute was not a ft mil and impulsive t-ffort to atone for luck of. chuer to the man during his life. It was the continuation of regard even to the last possible uiomout Had Dr. Ctyler devoted himself to luaklug money, ho would have accumulated a large fortune. Instead, he devotad bUiisolf to the conservation of all that I good and true aud beautiful In his fallow men, and accumulated tor him self aud for them a large store of that which is Imperishable, Bo much straw is laid on auccesa. In the su of galtlng rich, that many poraoua Had It difficult to look a a luau The public refuses to get excited over the portentous fact that the American family Is dwindling In size A census bureau statistician has been compiling the figures, and he finds that In the period between the first federal census In 1790 and the last In 1900. the American family has de creased from an average of 6.3 per sons to one of 4.6. Around this cen tral fact he groups a number of oth ers. such as the fact that, whereas the average number of children under 16 In each 1790 family was 2.8, it Is now 1.5; and the fact that the ratio of whites over 20 to those under 18, has changed from .78 to 1.58 In the same nerlod. While the birth rate has declined In the paBt century, so has the death rate. Modern science, modern methods In the prevention and cure of disease, modern common sense about matters of hygiene and health have worked wonders In add ing years to human life. At the very cradle the child has a far greater life expectancy than the Infants of 1790. We do not have so many children as our ancestors, but we give them a bet ter chance to live which Is, after all, much more to be desired. The larger percentage of children who now reach maturity Is compensation for the smaller aggregate number of births. And still there Is much to be done In America to-day in the way of giving the child the enjoyment of Its right to be well born and well nurtured. In the slums of our great cities the per centage of Infant mortality Is still ap palling. Filth and squalor still fur nish happy hunting grounds for ma lignant microbes of many species. The deadly germ flourishes In the cit ies largely because of the concentra tion there of the uneducated elements that come from Europe. They bring their uncleanllness and their Ignor ance with them. Americanization usu ally works a transformation, If not In them, at least in the next genera tion. It Is a striking fact that the large family and Ignorant poverty go together. The tendency of civiliza tion, of widening intelligence, of so ber thrift, Is to limit the propagation of children. The obvious lesson is that crusades against tuberculosis are far better than campaigns against race suicide. It Is more humane and more in accordance with the true principles of social economy to guard the purity of the milk supply than to Inveigh agalnBt the reluctance of American women to rear many chil dren. Fresh air and sanitary condi tions are more to be desired than large families In which deaths are frequent Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 4e$aU$aa$fi efaf! 44'a4,'4,n4,444,44,aj Haawr c IS OUR NAVY CRIPPLEDf ONCEUNlNU a person who was what (for a reason to the writer unknown) is called a "bluITer," or "four-flusher," a well-known wit recently said: "Enter his front door and you find yourself in his back yard." One hearing that may be pardoned if he think of the American navy. It Is all front all line of battle. Behind this nothing! Virtually no colliers, no transports none of the hun dreds of auxiliary craft that are as essential a part of a navy as the battleships themselves, for without them the battleships are Impotent for aggression good for nothing but defense of our home ports. Lacking these servitor craft at the back of it, and at the back of these a merchant marine, and at the back of that 'a const population of deep-water sailors and fishing folk, a fleet of fighting ships is like an army without teams, trains, forges, pontoons, telegraphs, va ried Industries and a warlike people. This Is no indiscreet and unpatriotic revelation.' There Is not a naval attache at any embassy in Wash ington who has not repeatedly demonstrated our help lessness to his government Not that It particularly concerns the good naval attache; he is merely a spy, gravely borne upon the rolls of his ambassadorial chief and as gravely accepted because in some disguise he Is inevitable. His duty is to worm out naval secrets, and our lack of a real navy Is no secret. It is a matter of record at every admiralty and chancellery In the world, including, naturally and particularly, those of the Jap anese. Ambrose Blerce, In Everybody's. !: I A GENTLE TEACHER. -?-: Scholars In America are, for the most part hampered In their research es by the fact that they must teach in order to live. Classroom work takes DERBY HATS AND BALDNESS. HERE is in Russia a popular saying. "He Is as baldheaded as a Senator." Senators in Russia are usually baldheaded. On the other hand, among the millions of Rus sian peasants it is very unusual to And baldness. A comparison of ' these two facts led even the physicians to give In tellectual work as one of the causes of baldness, and this notwithstanding the fact that there are a great number of women who are intellectual workers, but who are not baldheaded. Again, tho clergymen of the Russian church, who are forbidden to cut their hair or shave their beards, are blessed with long, luxurious hair, which by its length and thickness will compare favorably with any woman's hair, and the clergymen are Intellectual work ers, too. Now, my explanation of this fact la that the Russian peasants and the common people at large wear capB; women, shawls or hats on their heads; the clergymen, only soft hats, with wide brims, while the Senators always wear tall silk hatj with tight brims. These tight hats, like derbies, bring about a gradual starva tion of the hair follicles. From these observations I have come to the con clusion that baldness in otherwise healthy m?n in tha prime of life Is chiefly due to the wearing of derbies. In America it Is especially developed, because young men begin to wear derbies in their teens. The ma jority wear them all the time, even while they are working in the offices or shops. Boston Globe. P CROPS AND COST OF LIVING. 1 REDICTIONS of cheaper living, based upon ample crops, must be taken with some caution. We. are not confronted by tho problem of 2 wheat, which Mr. Patten probably did not expect when he wa3 predicting it last Bprlng. His predic tion served his purpose admirably. In stead of shipping wheat into Chicago and breaking the May market the sort of thing that has broken nearly every predecessor of Mr. Patlen In "bull" operations the farmers held on to their wheat and waited for that $2 quotation. Wheat is selling in Chicago for less than a dollar. Food ought to be, and probably will be, cheaper than it has been lately. But cotton and wool are high and textile prices show no disposition to recede. Most of the prices, are rising.. Structural steel is not a com modity that the average citizen purchases, but he 19 affected by Its price, iftid all steel prices are up. Hides ere on the free list, but the shoe stores and factories are stocked -up with gooda purchased before the repeal of the hide duty and prices are not yet coming down. The most important item of expense Is rent and with the growth of population that tends upward, but the extensive building operations all over the country may keep abreast of the demand. Philadelphia Record. A WHY ENLISTMENTS ARE FEW. N unfailing sign of prosperity is the diffi culty United States recruiting officers en counter in persuading desirable young men to enlist in the army and navy. This is now in evidence and shows clearly that the demand for all kinds of labor through out the country has checked the desire of Young America to wear a uniform, with the assur ance of good food, clothes and shelter for three years. Young men already In the ranks and on shipboard aro showing an eagerness to be released from their enlist ments In order that they may accept more remunerative employment in civil life. There Is opportunity In both branches of the military service for bright, capable recruits to learn trades at which they can earn good wages in various lines of manufacture. In the coast artillery and on shipboard hundreds of men become skilled electricians by being taught the mechanism of the big guns, torpedo plants and regular electric machinery. They get a good start In the new and ever-developing field of electricity, and their services are at a premium when they are released 'rom their military occupation. Philadelphia Press. Chester, sitting at the switchboard, drew towprd him a box cover contain ing a miscellaneous collection of pins, paper fasteners, rubber bands and pens. He selected a rubber band and JuBt so much of their energy from re- deftly snapped It .at the left ear of .... I Tn..l.l ... t. ..... ... 1 . V. LI. lw..,t search, with tho result that It is only the men of great strength of character who can accomplish much besides tho regular routine. In the Atlantic Monthly thore are some anecdotes of the late TrofeBsor Child of Harvard College which Illustrate tho character of tho man and the difficulties undor which he labored. A guest was asking him once how it was that with so little leisure he had been able to prepare a certain paper. "Yes," he assented, as he stood by the fireplace, "I hadn't much time for It; but I kept the books and papers ready on my desk, and sat down to them, even If there were only twenty minutes or so free." "And you had to leave It," I suggest ed, "to correct themes!" A grim look came Into his face, "Do you know," he Bald, solemnly, placing his foot on a light rhalr in front of him, "that I corrected themes in Har vard College for twenty-five yearsT" It has been remarked that Mr. Child never lifted his voice unduly; but some sort of physical emphasis was imperative, and this was furnished by tho chair. As he pronounced the "twenty-five years" with the most ex act and labored utterance, his foot was released, and the chair found a new site half way across the room. Another story: Once, in a class which was reading "Hamlet." he as signed some ordinary passage to a young gentleman who had been trained to the wildest feats of "elocution." and who now saw his chance for 1 minor tallty. The rafters of that hare room at the top of University Hall fairly echoed to the freniled performance; there were bellowtngs of rage, the low hiss of scorn, the ringing appeal. David, who sut with his head bent over the letter book he was lndaxlng. "Aw, cut it out!" protested David, scowling and rubbing the Injured member. "Didn't hurt you, did It?" asked Chester, with a grin. "Say, Dave, 'member that souvenir postal you Bent me when you was over In Michigan? That one where you and a bunch o' other guys was settln' in a ottomo blle?" "Uh-huh. What uv it?" Dave spoke with some languor, for he was feeling the reaction from a too-streuuous va cation. "1 showed It to a girl up In our block." replied Chester, "and she says. 'Who Is that good-looktn' feller that's grabbln' onto tho steerln' wheel?' she Bays." "Aw, fudge!" exclaimed David. He Rolzed his pen and applied himself to his Indexing, his nose almost touching tho imge of tho letter book. "Ou the level, that's Just what she said. I eays to her. 'That's tho kid that sent the card," I says, 'lie's my assistant.' "'He's some classy lookin',' she says. To look at urn you'd think he was the guy that owned the machine,' she says." "Aw, go chase yourself." muttered Duvld, flipping over the leaves of the letter-book. "She did, honest," declared Chester. "She's a dnndy girl, too." "Must 1 kinder foolish in her head," commented David. "All right. I ll tell her you said Rhe was foolish," re-marked Chester. "I'm goln' over there to night. Site's goln' to have the hull crowd over to listen to her uncles grapuophone. He's got tha crv of triumph, the wall or baffled hope, all accompanied by . 0,18 a kind of suppressed wheeze or "Tell nothln'!" exclaimed David, asthmatlo undertone which I take V'Don't you go an' tell her anythln' I to have been the "deep breathing" In- said. 1 don't care what you tell her," dlcated by doctors of this diabolical art. Mr. Child uncoiled himself slowly, craned out bis bead, lifted bis spec tacles, and peered, flist amazed, then quizzical, then triple, at the yep former. "Heavens, man stop!" No Aiprhenlon. "I made a gardou this year, but my next-door neighbor went In for fowls." "Thore'U be trouble between you." "Que not My garden ain't com ing up and his chickens are dying of cholera." I-ouUvllle Courier Journal. People have so many faults, aud Buf fer so many humiliations, that we won dar BDyoue Is conceited. Carmauy U Uia culei laud of dual at prul. he added, with some Inconsequence "Needn't get so sore about It," said Chesti r, turning to thrust a plug Into a hole In the switchboard. "Hello!" he drawled "Oh, hello, there," In a tone of suddenly awakened Interest. "Huh! Suro I know who you are. Say, Kit, I just been telllliK'Dave what ou said about him, and he says " "litre," interrupted David. "You shut up!" "lie says you're " David sprang up and put his hand over the mouthpiece. "Aw, chop It now, kid," he cried, angrily. "I ain't goln' to tell her." chuckled Chester. He pushed away the Inter potted hand. "Hay, Kit. he won't lemma tell ou what he said, lie's 'fluid tor. Huh? All right, I'll tell him. Huh? UVII. I'll Irv to maka him. II' a-ikt (a awful grvuch ,aluit girls, though. Huh? "All right. See you this eve. Good-by." He turned again to the Irate David. "Say, Dave," he said, "she wants I should bring you over to her house this evening with the rest of the bunch. I told her you was awful grouchy, though." "Yes, I heard you," growled David. "You got a right to keep your mouth shut about me I bet I won't go after what you said." "Aw, come on, Dave," urged Ches ter. "I was Just joshln. We'll have a dandy time. Come on, now." "You'll frame up some kind of a fake story about me if I don't go," said David with an effort at gloomy resignation. "What tlme'll you call fer me?" Chicago Dally News. THINGS TOURISTS DISCOVER. THE WORLD'S BANK NOTES. Hon tha Varlona Nation Differ In Their Tnatea. The only paper money that Is ac cepted practically all over the globe Is not "money" at all, but the notes of the Bank of England. These notes are simply printed In black Ink on Irish linen water-lined paper, plain white, with ragged edges. The reason that a badly soiled or worn Dank of Englnnd note is rarely Been Is that notes which find their way back to the bank are Immediately canceled nnd new ones are Issued. The notes of the llanque de France are made of white water-lined paper printed In black and white, whh numerous myth ological and allegorical pictures. They are In denominations of from twenty live francs to otto thousand francs. Hunk of England notes are - of a somewhat unhandy size five by eight Inches. South American currency re sembles the bills of the United States, except that cinnamon brown and slate blue ate the pre ailing colors. Ger man currency Is printed in green nnd black, the notes being In denomina tions of from five to one thousand marks. The one thousand-mark bills use printed on silk fiber paper. It takes an expert or a native to distinguish a Chinese bill from a laun dry ticket if the bill Is of low denom ination, or a firecracker label If for a largo amount, the print being in red on white or yellow on red. with much gilt aud gorgeous devices. Italian notes ate of all sizes, shapes anil colors. The smaller bills, five and ten lite, ate printed on white paper in pink, blue and tannine inks. The most striking paper currency tn the world Is the one hundred-rouble note of Russia. wblvU U barred from top to bottom with all the color of the rainbow, blended a when a sun ray passes through a prism. In the center In bold relief Is a finely exe cuted vignette In Muck. The remainder of the engraving mi the note is In dark and llfcht brown Ink. The American practice of scattering strand of silk through the paper fiber a a protection against counter feiting la uulo.ua, Harper' Weekl. Traveling; Abroad la Really an Edu cation for the American, About half one's time in traveling abroad Is spent in buying stamps, a writer In the Delineator says. No mat ter how many I put on a letter I had no faith to believe that it would reach America. I found that I could send a letter with one stamp on it if I paid enough for it, also that I could get a denomination of which it would take twenty. In Cairo I put fifteen sphinxes and pyramids on the front of a letter and five on the back. As for postal cards Imagine asking for one In the Belgian language Wereldpost vereenlglng! But It Is In a Mahometan country that an American mind needs read justment. We woke one morning in Constantinople and found our calen dar nine days ahead of theirs, our watches seven hours behind and the name of the month Ramadan. The Mahometans seem to live up to their religion In a more definite way than we do, and we soon learned what to expect. The porter would drop one's trunk when the muezzin called to prayer! the saeredness of animal life compelled us to walk around the hun dreds of lazy dogs asleep on the side walk; we were required to take off our shoes Instead of our hats when en tering a mosque; women were not al lowed p pray because they "have no souls." Friday was the day for Sun day, and a camera was an "evil eye" and could not be carried Into any sacred place. Our artist was once charged 20 cents for keeping an evil eye In his room all night. Before the Journey ends the tourist has lost his Identity completely. At first he Is from "Kalamazoo, Mich.," then from "Michigan," later the "United States," soon the "States," and the writer was once Introduced to a gentleman from Tuscany as "the lady from North America." A Vlceroy'a I'lalu I.IvImk. The book which Miss Juliet Hredon has written about her uncle. Sir Rob ert Hart, the "Grand Old Man of China," for many years In charge of the Imperial Customs Service, Is full of characteristic and entertaining stories. Among them Is the following: One of the most Influential of Sir Robert's Chinese friends was the great 1.1 Hung Chang. The diplomat liked Li's household because of the simplic ity he found there no wearisome courses at dinner, but fish and, per haps, a dish of chicken with rice. In cautiously, as it turned out, he praised this frugality to his own Chinese ser vant, for the remark reached I.l's ears in a distorted form. Next time Sir Robert went there he had to face a grand ceremonial banquet. "Von shall not have the chance to go away again and say you have been fed like a coolie In my house." said the viceroy, proudly, at the end of the banquet "Nevertheless, the very simplicity cf your hospitality was what I most ap preciated." Sir Robert replied. "But If you believe that I could have made any such reinirk. aud If yon persist In altering the style of my reception. I shall not route to lunch with you again." What a grand old world this would be to live In If opportunity kuocarc at a inau's door aa oftcu j the III) colliKtvrt FISH THAT CAN WALK. tllmblna; Perch Travel Over Land from Water to Water. It may seem absurd to Bpeak of fishes as walking. The flying fish is well known, but its flight looks much like swimming in the air. We natural ly think of fishes aa living always In the water, aa being Incapable, in fact, of living anywhere else, Pearson's Weekly says. But nature maintains no hard-and-fact lines of distinction between animal life which belongs to the land and that which belongs to the water. If we can believe the ac counts of naturalists, there are flshea that traverse dry land. It is reported that Dr. Francis Day of India haa collected data of several Instances of the migration of fishes by lnnd from one piece of water to another. A party of English officers were upon one occasion encamped In a cer tain part of India when their atten tion was attracted by a rustling sound In the grass and leaves. Investiga tion showed it to be caused by myriads of little fishes that were passing slow ly on. There were hundreds of them moving by using their side and small fins as feet, now upright, now falling down, squirming, bending, rolling over, regaining their finny feet and again passing on. These flshea were the famous cllmb Ig .perch and they were passing over the country to avoid a drought. When the stream in which they had been spending the season dries up they scalo the banks and, directed by some marvelous Instinct, crawl to another. Wilson Vance's novel of a Crom welllan soldier in old Virginia en titled "Big John Baldeth" Is to be brought out In England by the noted Bristol publisher who Introduced Hugh Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony Hope and other novelists of note. Wilson Vance Is the father of Louis Joseph Vance, author of "The Brass Bowl." There will be given to the world this autumn two books about the late Lord Kelvin, one of the really great men of science of the nineteenth cen tury. One Is the formal biography by Professor Sllvanus Thompson and the other Is a volume of personal reminis cences written by his sister, Mrs. King who has lately followed her brother Into the other world. Mrs. Velma Swunston Howard, haa returned to New York from a visit to the celebrated Swedish author, Miss Selma Lagerlof. A new edition of Mrs. Howard's translation of Miss Lagerlof's "Christ Legends" has Just been Issued. The book Is having a success as literature aside from its religious significance. Many of the legends it contains are not to be found in the Bible and have a distinct qualntness and charm of their own. Harry Delacombe, the author of the "Boy's Book of Airships," has been In the British army and became much interested in the subject on which he writes. He Is now a specialist In it and haa a personal acquaintance with most of the leading Inventors. He haa withheld his forthcoming book from the press as long as possible in order to get In the very latest Informa tion, and it Includes accounts of the Zeppelin dirigible and the Wright, Curtlss, Farman, Blerlot, Antoinette and other aeroplanes as they appeared at the International contests at Reims. To see ourselves as others see us Is always an Interesting occupation, and nothing can be more Interesting to an American than to know why he 13 unlike the English and the causes that have made . hJm the energetic, enterprising, active man that he is. In A. Maurice Low's forthcoming book, "The American People," these things are explained and the working of the American mind Is carefully analyzed. To be told that American character has been Influenced by the- Indian or that one reason why we are-different from Europeans Is because of our "cold waves" Is Interesting. Cicely Hamilton, the author of "Mar riage as a Trade," frankly admits that she speaks as a spinster. Her claim la that woman's one trade or means of livelihood haa been to please man, to marry hkn If possible, and to do the work that he Judges too tiresome or uninteresting to do for himself. The result has been not only that her profession of matrimony has been overcrowded but also that the low grade of woman's wages Is due to her lack of Interest in her work and re gard for it on account of her belief that her only respectable career was the marrying of some good man, or In case that failed In becoming the wife of an unworthy man. Miss Hamilton Is an English woman and the author of "Diana of Dobson's." SO NOT PROLONG CAiXh. LlaserlnBT at Meal Times Makea On Unpopular, When paying calls on one's friends, whether formally or informally, do not utterly disregard the hours for meals, for it la not good form to linger until the lunch or the dinner hour when yon have not been invited for the meal. If you do, you are likely to place your friend in an awkward posi tion. Either she must ask you to re main because she feels it necessary, or she has the meal delayed waiting for you to take your departure. Do not put yourself In the position of allowing either of these alternatives to occur, for no housekeeper likes tha routine Interfered with, and unex pected guesta are not apt to be popu lar, for In all weir regulated house holds the table is as conventionally laid for luncheon as for dinner, and to rearrange it at the last moment ne cessitates considerable change and special orders for the kitchen. All of which many housekeepers dislike, and therefore do not feel obliged to Invite callers at the last moment. If you are really wanted, you will be asked during the early part of your call, for the hostess who wants you will Insist that you take off your hat and stay for a long visit. If ahe does not ask you In this spontaneous way, do not embarrass her by remaining until the moment the meal is an nounced. No well-mannered h03tess allows her maid to announce a meal while a caller is present, and If the visitor is thoughtless the lunch or dinner is often delayed until it i's almost spoiled, for cooked foods should be eaten as soon as they are done. This waiting Is a trial to the housekeeper and a cause of irritation to her husband, If she has one, and the visitor respon sible for such a state is never popular in that family. When you ask guests to a meal, If one of them is late, do not wait more than ten minutes. At the expiration of that time the meal should be served. This la only fair to your punctual guests, who deserve to have a good dinner, and not one that has been spoiled by standing. In order to get their guests together at just the right time some hostesses resort to the sub terfuge of naming a dinner hour half an hour earlier than they mean to have the meal served. This gets the tardy one there on time,. but It is not quite fair to the punctual ones, who are kept waiting. That old adage. "Punctuality Is the courtesy of kings," should be observed by everyone. Washington Post. American I'aahlona. "Why American women should bu. their dresses abroad Is more than I can understand," declares Mme. Nor dlca, the famous prima donna. "No matter how exclusive a shop I go to abroad, I find a score or more of American women buylag the best and prettiest designs for their shops in this country. No matter how much care I might take to purchase a dress, on my I return to America I Bhould be sure to see the very same model displayed lu I the window of some shop. Why 'American women should feel It neces Isary to have Imported gowns at all Is more than I can understand. America no longer Btands second to London or .Pari in deslgnlug gowns, for if It does not lead them It Is at least their (equal. American fashions are second to none in the world. Breaklan- a flecorj. "What was the matter with that boy I sent you?" "He ln't honest." "You must be mistaken!" "No, I in not. He said he was truth ful and that h lovad work, aud a boy that can lie twice with half a doiau words is too swift (or our bulot." lliouatoa 111 t- J ELEVEN DAYS IN THE BUSH, W. D. Pltcalrn, in his "Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea," relates an adventure which befell a friend of his. Bob Sanderson, In north Queensland. This friend, who was a man of good education and an experi enced bushman, waB on an expedition in search of new country adapted to stock raising. He had with him a party of men with tents and all neces sary provisions for the journey. After traveling about four hundred miles they found a good looking coun try, and pitched their camp. Mr. San derson wandered some distance from his party, and on returning at night fall, found the place deserted. His followers had struck their tents and made off. He was four nun deed miles from civilization, alone in the pathless bush, the home of "wild and treacher ous blacks, without a morsel of food, and with no weapon ut a revolver. There was nothing for It but to face the Inevitable, and he started on his long Journey. - Day after day he plodded wearily along, without any covering at night except the trees, finding here and there a few berries, and often suffer ing horribly from hunger and thirst. One morning at sunrise he was de scending a slope, when to his dismay, about fifty yards below him, he saw a large camp of blacks. One of them had Just risen, and was stretching himself directly in the faee of the white mtfn. This was a moment to test the stuff of a man already reduced by days of continuous tramping and starvation. But Sanderson did not hesitate. With piercing shouts he rushed down upon the camp, firing his revolver as he ran. The blacks took it for granted that he bad a large force at his back, and immediately broke In confusion aud fled across the river. For several days longer the man struggled on. Then on the eleventh day he sank to the ground, quite un able to go farther. Happily he waa now near a cattle station, and a stock man who waa out riding stumbled upon him. He was taken into tho bouse and every attention was be stowed upon him, and eventually h recovered his health and strength. A Deimrture. Mrs. Oatcake Maty Jane, who waa that young feller In th' parlor last nlghtr Mary Jane-r-He' an automobile Irummer, mother. Mrs. Oatoake Fer th' land's sake! Hev they got tew usln' drums 'stead uv horns on them pesky things?- Brooklyn Citizen. At Their Wont, "She doesn't think so much of men "What's the matter with her?" "Weil, she's cashier In a tailor shop. She's used to seeing men get fitted for their togs." Louisville Courler-Joui n&L kceui Reasouable "Everybody feels thut be ought to see Shakespeare." "That's one reason why they don't go, I reckon." remarked the theatrical manager." Louisville Courier-Journal. er I.ILrlr! "She thanked him with a look." "I a 'pose her gown waa ao tight that the couldn't trust beraelf to speak, eh " IxiuUvllla Courier-Journal. Women are superior to niaa bcau alaajra aa U7 ara.