The 'Woman Who Never Reads.
"I love my mother-in-law," said a
young woman recently, "but a visit
from her almost gives me nervous
prostration. She Is kindness Itself,
would do anything for me, except
leave me alone five minutes - at a
time. She Is one of those uncomfort
able people who never reads, but sits
with her hands folded hour after hour
and expects to talk or .be talked to.
My children are going to be readers If
I have to beat a love of books Into
them." ,'.
There are few characetrlstlcs more
trying than not to read. If you do
not love books for their own sake,
cultivate a taste for them, in the In
terest of your own popularity. The
woman who never reads Is rarely a
popular guest. She Is a dead weight
on her hostess and wears thin the ut
most hospitality. If you have a friend
Sa 70'jr house v.'ho, you k?!OTr, !? only
too pleased to get a chance at a book,
you do not worry about her entertain
ing. '. .
Every housekeeper has duties that
must be attended to, and to .hustle
them through while a stranger waits
idly for your return, is conducive to
nerve strain. Conversation, like bon
bons, should be taken In moderation.
About the only one that can thorough
ly enjoy unlimited chatter Is a mem
ber of the monkey tribe. To talk the
clock around generally means words
not Ideas. Even though the woman
who never reads has a fondness for'
the needle, it does not help the har
assed entertainer much. Besides be
ing a bore to others, the woman who
never reads generally Is a bore to her
self. The true book lover Is depend-
with wide Insets of coarse linen lace
of the same color. Around the neck
la a fold of bias black satin passing
through rings covered wtih crochet. A
brown hat faced with black, trimmed
with short brown ostrich feathers and
black aigrette,' is worn with this suit.
The Becond figure Is another adapta
tion of the princess. It can be made
of any color. In any shade, with hat
;
in tones to match. The principal note
is the touch of black that seems nec
essary to the fashionable frocks of the
season.
To Clean Papered Walls.
Make a dough of flour and cold wa
ter and knead, as you would bread, un
til It Is free from stickiness and be
comes perfectly smooth. A piece of
the next best thing Is to own either a
small oil can, such as can be bought
for 10 cents, or a medicine dropper.
Put the tonic. In either of these recep
tacles, which are equally good to dis
tribute the liquid evenly on the scalp
without wetting the hair. Divide hair
Into strands and go over each part
carefully before making a new divis
ion. While the -tonic is being applied
with one hand rub it In well with thai
finger tips of the other hand.
Cupid DefenalT.-
"There were something like 46,000
less marriages in New York State dur
ing 1908 than there should have bee a
under normal conditions of Increase,"
writes Richard Maxwell Winans in
Harper's Weekly. The. author ascribes,
this. fact to the new law compelling
brides and bridegrooms to appear In
person at the City Hall in order to se
cure licenses. The publicity and Its
attendant unpleasantness have driv
en many couples to take advantage of
the facilities for marriage that are
offered by adjacent States.
Han a Girl Lllcea.
You couldn't get a girl to confess It
but the man she most-admires Is oft
en He whose Ideas never coincide with,
her own.
He who tells her point-blank that
he hates to see powder on her face.
He who never says that some other
girl looks pretty.
He who always appears interested
when she airs her little tribulations.
Keep Umbrella In Good Order.
Open your umbrellas and place a.
drop of oil In each joint; now open
and close the umbrella several times
to Insure the oil penetrating to where
it Is most needed. Wipe off any super
fluous oil, and In case some gets on
the cover, remove with gasoline. Re
peat this process In the course of a
SOME PRETTY FROCKS FOB LITTLE GIRLS.
The school frock of navy blue serge is worn over a Japanese blue shantung. is trimmed with embroidery,
white skirt powdered with currant-red spots; while the The sturdy little 4-year-old wears a little pale blue cash
little walking costume is carried out in cream cloth mere frock worked In soutache,
trimmed with soutache. The charming little frock of
-LIHCOLK COUHTT LEADER
R C COLLINS, Editor
r N HAYDEN, Maaasar
TOLEDO OREGON
Few Americans have risen higher
than the Wright brothers. .
Castro has discovered the vanity of
bluffing when the other fellow knows
your hand.
The late Henry H. Rogers was only
about half as wealthy as you thought
him and probably not half so bad.
A poet has Just died In Denmark
leaving 1,000,000. We presume he
dallied with the Muses as a side issue.
Let it be said for the preachers that
they have not as yet begun performing
marriage ceremonies with Jokers con
cealed In them.
When the Sultan of Turkey dies
twenty-three guns will be fired. Amer
ican slang must have penetrated the
Moslem Empire.
Evolution which slowly removes all
physical members or organs that are
outgrown ought to get busy with the
vermiform appendix.
"Docs the FrM tha pnet a liv
ing?" asks the Literary Digest. Let
us see. It was either a living or a
killing, we have forgotten which.
Orvllle Wright says that an airship
Is as safe a mile up as it is ten feet
up. Safer, doubtless. The air Is much
purer and there are fewer disease
germs.
The Hon. Mehmed V. is beginning to
talk as if he were laboring under the
Impression that he ought to do some
thing for the purpose of earning his
salary.
An Atlanta paper prints a recipe
half a column long for happiness. We
can give an effective recipe that can
be put Into one line: "Let her have
all the clothes she wants."
It Is alleged that an Ohio man re
cently coughed up three carpet tacks.
He must have swallowed them. Even
the most careless surgeon would hard--ly
sew carpet tacks Inside of a man.
Whlttler, down to date, U the only
man who expressed unalloyed pleasure
at being snowbound. But Whlttler
was not shut up In an accommodation
train with only one sandwich between
him and Omaha.
The dispatches state that Colonel
Roosevelt's rhinoceros was "bagged" on
Sunday. Of course, If a rhino comes
Into the yard on Sunday and tries to
get a chicken or something, It is not
wrong to shoot at It.
One of the doctors announces that
nobody can hope to be healthy with
out eating plenty of hard food and
tough meat that requires much chew
ing. Sometimes it seems as if many
of the doctors ought to be writing hu
morous stuff deliberately Instead of
merely unconscously.
Farmers no longer have excuse for
not knowing their business that is,
those few farmers who are Ignorant
of it for a "Cyclopedia of American
Agriculture" in four volumes has late
ly been published, which, It Is an
nounced, "tells both what to do on a
farm and how to do It"
The truth 1b that the natural boy Is
a born player. He plays to grow, and
plays with all his heart. He minds
his Instincts at the time when they
are strongest, and he Is less likely to
overplay in his earliest days than he
Is years afterward. It will be time
enough to steer him away from base-
.ball when some other game arrives
with at least an equal call to mental
and bodily agility.
Neither In scholarship not In fltneu
for the business of life does the prod
uct of the great colleges of the pres
ent day compare with the graduates
turned out from the little colleges of
a generation ago. Then, it Is true, the
boy with the diploma was often too
stuffed with Latin and Greek and
philosophy to be much of a practical
man; now he knows a little about
manners, more about clothes, some
thing about "grinds," "peache" and
"profs," but the sumum bonura of his
knowledge relates to drop kicks and
line bucking. The old type was bet
ter, because, though impractical, he
had a trained mind and was inured
to discipline, whereas the new prod
uct has gotten most of his training in
the ways of a good time.
In a recent speech Mr. Taft pro
voked a laugh by suggesting Ironically
that his audience read the Congres
sional Record. It Is unfortunate that,
owing to Its bulk and cost, the Record
la not a popular magazine, for only
through the Record can the Intelligent
citizen Baderstand fully the acta of
Congress and the beliefs and abilities
of Individual Congressmen. Our news
papers. In this day of tabloid report
ing and picturesque summaries, would
do well to give more space to reprints
of Important passages from the Rec
ord, or else to require their own re
porters to send exact reproductions of
the more significant debates. The Eng
lish papers give a much better account
of the proceedings of Parliament than
our papers give of the deliberations
of Congress. The English papers "re
port" Parliament; our papers talk
about Congress and strive to give orig
inal news, much of which, like orig
inal spelling, has only its originality
to recommend it.
Lord Rosebery, ex-premier, made a
grave, eloquent and alarmist speech to
a London congress of Journalists a
short time ago. The outlook In Eu
rope, he declared, was ominous and
even appalling. The preparations for
war everywhere were on a tremendous
scale, and little England was being
pressed hard to defend her liberties as
well as the liberties of her colonies
across the seas. She would go on
building war ships as long as she had
a shilling to spend, but would that be
enough? Would that avert . the dan
ger of reaction? Europe Is "rattling
herself into barbarism," and the great
question Is how that calamity can be
avoided. There are few observers In
Europe wuo will luuoiise luia uisiieaii.
ening view of the situation or outlook.
The -frenzied naval competition spells
terrific waste, but it . does not spell
barbarism. Even the most militant
champions of blg-navyism loudly dis
avow aggressive designs. Peace and
protection of commerce are every
where the declared objects of the ele
ments opposed to limitations of arma
ments or budgets. Germany fears
British control of all foreign trade,
but every one of her responsible states
men denies that she is preparing for
war. France is determined to keep
the peace and has given up all notion
of "revanche." It is deeply to be re
gretted that the powers cannot agree
on a sensible plan of armament limi
tation, but nothing will be gained in
the end by exaggeration and pessim
ism.. Barbarism? Old-age pensions,
Insurance against unemployment and
sickness and accident, the progress' of
education, science and industry, the
of constitutionalism and democracy,
popularization of the arts, the marcn
of constitutionalism and democracy,
the growing power of public opinion,
the increasing influence of woman
these and other features of our age
are hardly to be regarded as fore
runners of barbarism. In fact, it is
the pressure of the great lower and
middle classes for social and political
reforms that will eventually force the
governments of Europe to take up In
earnest the question of economy In
military and defense expenditures.
Panics come and panics go, but the
movement for economic amelioration,
for the prevention of misery and dis
eases, for the equalization of oppor
tunity, proceeds unchecked. The
forces of civilization are too strong
In any part of Europe to make re
barbarizatlon even a remote possibil
ity.. -
WHALE HANGS ITSELF.
While Feeding- the Big Ktah Geta
Cable In Ita Month and Chokes.
A big whale tried to run away with
the cable connecting this city with
Alaska, according to a story brought
down from the north by Capt, Laflln
of the United States cableship Burn
side, says a Seattle (Wash.) dispatch
to the New York Herald.
The Burnslde was sent north along
the coast of Alaska to repair the ca
ble, because during the last winter
difficulty had been experienced in send
ing and receiving messages. The
Burnsida picked up the cable connect
ing Valdez' and 'Sitka a few miles off
Cook's Inlet, not far from Sitka. The
crew never had such a time hauling
a cable on board as they did that
day on the Alaska coast. Finally the
cause of the great weight was found.
Some time during the winter a
whalt feeding on the bottom of the
ocean with wide-open mouth collided
with the wire rope.
. Unable to shake the big wire from
the mass of whalebone in its Jaws the
big fish turned turtle, rolled over
once, turned around, rolled again and
dived. In these few movement the
fish pVoved himself his own hangman,
for the cable was twisted tighter about
the head of the whale than any mor
tal could have done with the most pow
erful machinery.
The whale drowned and the carcass
was devoured on the ocean's bottom by
other fish. The crew of the Burnslde
hauled up a great load of whalebone
and found a great twist in the gov
ernment cable that had been the
cause of the unusual difficulty in Bend
ing messages to and from either end
of the rope,
When a young and pretty girl ap
pears in a white dress and a blue sash
on a summer evening, a man feels like
taking a spoon and eating her.
ent on no one for her amusements;
"What shall I do next?" la never on
her lips, and "ennui" is a state un
known. The atmosphere of good books
makes for a refinement that levels
rank and social position. The woman
who knows Intimately tho master
minds of the world, who keeps up
with current events, has within her
self a well-spring of content, and rare
ly Is a source of discontent to her
friends.
The girl who can sew has great ad
vantage over the one who cannot, for
if she studies the gowns here pictured
she can evolve with very little" trou
ble and expense a beautiful frock for
afternoon or church wear. One that,
If made by a fashionable modiste,
would cost $50 or more, can be made
cheaply at home. Women's apparel Is
not closely fitted nowadays, which
makes it easier lor the amateur dress
maker. The first picture shows a prin
cess gown of figured foulard In brown
and tan, with yoke and sleeves of
cream-colored net.
The coat Is of heavy brown linen
this rubbed over the paper will make
It appear as fresh as new. One piece
may be used for a large surface, though
It should be changed for a clean piece
before it is too much soiled. If you
have plain paper on your walls and it
is faded or spotted, mix some wall
finish, of a desired color, .rather thick,
and apply It swiftly over the wall. If
done carefully and with dispatch the
paper will not' become wet enough to
come off, and will dry quickly, when
It will look like new.
Illant for Woman Suffrage.
Dlshop William Croswell Doane
said In an address the other day to
the graduating class of St. Agnes'
school at Albany, N. Y.:
"I cannot count it necessary and
perhaps It is not wise for me to cau
tion you against the loudly shrieked
call to give women the right to vote
and to be voted for.
"I am disposed to think that the
quiet and decent appeal of a' few of
the so-called suffragists will be so
drowned In the sort of howling der
vish performance of the so-called suf
fragettes that It will fall of any ef
fect. .
"At any rate, the argument should
be addressed rather to legislators than
to you, except so far as one Is justi
fied In saying here to you that your
womenhood will gain nothing by suf
frage and is losing every day in its
dignity and Its true Influence by the
hysterical clamor which Is employed
In the pursuit of this chimera."
Ualnar a Scalp Tonlc.v
The woman who is ordered to use a
tonic on her scalp must know how to
apply it or her hair will be In worse
condition than If none were used. The
ideal method is to have the tonic
rubbed In by a hairdresser, but as that
Is out of the question to most women.
few weeks and note how much less
you spend on umbrellas. In the mat
ter of the children's umbrellas, one
lasts as long as three formerly lasted
before we thought of the above plan.
Pale Green Foulard.
Bordered foulard . in a delightful
shade of green was used for an at
tractive gown patterned after above
model. The yoke of bodice Is formed
of fan plaits of white silk moussellno,
with stock, tab and side pieces of
lace. The bertha band and pointed
strap pieces are made from the bor
der, which has an embroidered ring
In green several shades darker than
material. These are edged top and
bottom with velvet ribbon in dark
green. Fancy crochet buttons are
placed in each point. Four deep cir.
cular tucks form the blouse and the
same number of tucks are used In
tops of sleeves. The skirt Is plain,
the dotted border forming the hem.