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Throughout all the turmoil the north
sole remains cool.
•
Every woman, before she Is allowed
to vote, should be able to make a cher
ry pie.
Home is a place where a man can
do as he pleases if be Is married to
the right woman
Why should a girl approve of being
railed a duck and object to being de
scribed as a goose?
To those whom it may concern: A
Philadelphia scientist declares a man
need not die unless ho wants to.
What a mail can't understand about
a woman Is how she never realizes
how smart he has to l«e to shave him
self.
Yes. Mr. Rockefeller, “it is a blessed
thing to struggle," e.en If you can’t
make the old stovepipe fit. It brings
the higher moral qualities Into play.
Bays Dean Breckinildge of the Uni
versity of Chicago:
“The hired girl
Is queen In the American household."
True, undeniably, but why rub it in?
Few girls of 20 are as considerate as
one described by a Western newspa
per, who wears her hair braided down
her back to help her mother to retain
an appearance of youth.
Why not extend the voting privilege
to our American women, with a gentle
God bless 'em? It would save lots of
trouble, and they are bound to get
what they want, anyway?
King Edward has tiestowed knight-
hood on Lieutenant Shackleton for get-
The lieutenant
ting farthest south,
was lucky In that his performance did
not Interfere with the regular business
of any other south pole hunter.
Knud Rasmussen, a Danish naviga
tor, who has lived amongst the Eski
mos and is married to an Eskimo wom
an. says Cook went do the pole all
right, Peary says Rasmussen knows
about aa much about it as a yellow
dog
men. Met get held from wearing ell«
or other cliff hats, and the disease be
comes hereditary and spread* te both
| sexes
If they would sav« their hair.
I the doctor says. the human ra<e must
essablfsh the fashion by gjfng about
their various vocations bareheaded.
The reason why the stiff hat Is partic
ularly provocative of baldness is be-
cause It presses close about the tern-
plus and cuts off the hl< od supply to
the head
It migfit seem that the
DIVORCE OFTEN A BLESSING
monstrous contraptions with which
By Justice Henry B. Bratt n.
women surmount their crantums would
There la no question counseled with tt>e ad
be more injurious than the light silk
ministration of the law so fertile of litigation
or derby male head coverings: but not
and so exacting of public atteution as di
so. The feminine headgear is fastened
vorces. That separation of church and state
on to the hair with hatpins, does not
which is a cardinal principle of American
press upon the tlssles at any point,
jurisprudence is nowhere more applicable
and permits the free circulation of air
than in that which concerns the marriage re
through the hair and all around the
lation.
scalp. In fact, the feminine hat, out
It is not perceived why the partnership ere
landish as it often appears. Illustrates
ated by marriage should so far differ from a commercial
In all its forms the superior genius of
partnership, that one may be dir solved at pleasure,
women In solving the problems of
while the other is absolutely indissoluble. A proper re
clothes. The women deriionstrate It
gard for the interests of the state as well as the perser-
also by dressing in such a manner a «
vation of domestic happiness would seem to require tiiat
to appear cooler and more comfortable
when the whole object of matrimonial compact had been
in summer and warmer. In winter, to
defeated by the habitual, persistent and uncontrollable
aay nothihg of the degree to which
conduct of either party and that relation which should
their garments excel those of the male
represent the acme of human happiness is made to
sex in beauty of detail and genera! ef
stand for all that Is most repugnant to our desires and
fect
It is difficult to Imagine what
anticipations a severance of the ties should be per-
the poor male of the human specie« 1.«
mitted.
covering,
The ladies can go bare-
The clergy have generally been outspoken in denun
going to do about this matter of head
elation of the acknowledged evils of divorces and dis
headed, if they choo.e. without much
' erectly silent in respect to their utility, ignoring the
Inconvenience or lack of ornamenta
distinction between the causes for which they may be
tion, because they can dress their
granted and the procedure by which they are obtained.
abundant hair In bpcoming ways, and
I < annot recall a divorce fairly obtained. without fraud
its mass furnishes an adequate protec
and upon due and personal notice to the other side that
tion against the weather, even in the
did not apparently redound to the welfare of the parties
cold season. But there are compara
and prove a real blessing.
tively few men past the first flush of
youth who have enough hair to keep
HOUSEWORK AS EXERCISE.
their scalps warm or protect it from
By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.
the rays of the sun
And if they’
adopt a light, soft hat that will not
There are all sorts of ways for a woman
press upon the temples, how are they
to exercise in the house and accomplish work
going to keep It upon their heads on
at the same time And she Is doing more than
a windy day? The matter might be
accomplishing housework. She is accomplish
arranged for the coming generation
ing a good figure, which should make house
Boys could be taught to go bareheaded
work worth while if nothing else did.
«nd thus save their hlrsuite heritage;
Women who live in hotels and boarding
but the case of the mature or middle
houses usually get too fa , because they have
aged man who Is already Inclined to
nothing to do, and religiously taking a walk
baldness Is rather a sad one.
every day is not enough. If a woman does her own
housework and goes at it with the idea in view of mak-
FEET OF SEA BEASTS.
ing it do for physical culture, she will be surprised at
how many different things there are in connection with
Their Appearance VX hen the Skin 1>
her work that will answer for gymnastic exercises.
Stripped Off.
Sweeping is an excellent exercise for developing shoul
Of all the feet that I have looked at
der and chest muscles, but Itetter still is the carpet
I know only one more utterly ridlcu
sweeper, which is as good as any gymnastic apparatus,
lous than the twisted flipper on which
Dusting and rubbing both may be used for physical de
the sea lion props his great bulk in
velopment,
and there ls a kind of foot polisher for wax-
front, and that Is the forked fly flap
ing
floors
that
might have been invented purposely for
which extends from the hinder part
W. T Stead claims to have had an of the same. How can it be worth any
Interview with the spirit of Gladstone, beast's while to carry such an alwurd
who is reported to have said that he apparatus with it just for the sake of
was not interested in worldly affairs. getting out into the air sometimes and
Nevertheless we can't keep from be pushing oneself about on the ice and
lieving this to be a pretty interesting being eaten by polar bears? The por
poise has discarded one pair, turned
world.
the other into decent fins and recov
In cases of collisions and accidents ered a grace and power of motion in
at sea. salvage will be paid on human water which is not equaled by the
life as well as on property. Life, by greyhound on land,
Why have the
this provision. Is made as valuable as seals hung hack? I believe I know
property, though, on the other hand, the secret. It Is the baby! No one
some might argue that life Is above knows where the porpoise and the
all price and that Its salvage Is merely whale cradle their newborn infants—
a plain duty. Incumbent on all, to it Is so difficult to pry into the domes
humanity.
tic ways of these sea people—but evi
dently the seals cannot manage it, so
If the Indians continue to Increase
they are forced to return to the land
ard prosper, the time will soou come
when the cares of maternity are’ on
when the government will cease to
them.
treat them as wards. The present In
I have called the feet of these sea
dian population is In excesa of three
beasts ridiculous things, and so they
hundred thousand, or nearly forty
are as we see them. But strip off the
thousand more than when the last
skin, and, lo, there appears a plain
census waa taken.
The number of
foot, with its five digits, each of sev
taxed Indians In 1900 wm almost dou
eral joints, tipped with claws, nowls?
ble the number in 1890. "Playing In
essentially different, in short, from
dian," If the sport keeps up with the
that with which the toad or frog first
times, may become a game of manag
set out in a past too distant for our
la g a successful farm Instead of scalp
Inflrm imagination. Admiration itself
lag white settlers
is paralyzed by a contrivance so sim
ple, so transmutable and so sufficient
Who owns the north pole may some
for every need that time and change
day become a live question, but to-
could bring Strand Magazine.
day. In spite of the speculation on the
A Flrele»» ( iiokrr.
subject. It is of little greater practical
moment than the question about the
A workman's ingenious application
age of Ann. If it is frozen sea no of the laws of chemistry to his own
body owns It, and nobody cares for purposes is reported by a writer In
it. But in the distant future, when Tit-Bits. A few minutes before noon
flying-machine« are so perfected that the other day a big laborer on one of
they can beat againat the flerce arctic the buildings now being constructed
winds, and fast enough to go to the in Chelsea said. “Well. I think I’ll
pole and back from Chicago in twenty- heat my coffee for dinner " He pro
four hours or thereabouts, the polar reeded to do so without the aid of a
Ice may be valuable for cooling sum fire or even the use of a match
mer drinks—If. indeed, some one In
He took his bottle from his hand
the meantime has not Invented a way bag. and with It went over to the
of bringing the arctic cold to the tern
wooden contrivance in which mortar
perate clime by a pipe-line
was mixed. He put about half a shov
elful of sand In a corner of the mor
It used to be an accepted theory tar-bed. having previously scraped that
that the business world has nothing part of the bed dry and clean.
Then he took a piece of lime about
to do with the private life of business
He pushed
people
As long as a man attended as large as hts two fists
honestly to his business occupation, the lump of lime down Into the yield
was true to hie obligations and paid ing sand, put his bottle upright on
his debts, that wa* considered suffi the lime, banked up the bottle with
cient. It Is no longer considered suf- sand to hold it In position, and was
Sclent, The business world, before It ready for the important part of the
will accord to any man the highest work.
Dipping about a pint of water from
rate of credit, must be shown that
the man Is not only faithful and reif a cask near by. he poured It on the
able, but Is not addicted to habits end I molded sand easily, allow ing it to per
occupations which may Impair his colate through the coarse grains. Put
standing
The business world has a ting on a little more sand to hold the
right to know of any business man bottle In position, he went hack to hl»
"not only where he spends his days, work.
In ten minutes the noon whistle
but where he spends his nights" It
has a right not only to know his blew, and the laborer went to his tire
financial standing, but also his status less heater, took from It his coffee,
In the scale of social decency. The boiling hot. in a bottle that had at no
man who Is fatthful to the duties of time been In danger of breaking in
his office and false to the standards the heat, and proceeded to enjoy his
of domestic decency must have his homely but hearty meal.
financial credit marked down and the
Just before a girl gets marirad, she
business confidence of his fellow men
la
treated with the same consideration
lowered to the class of extra-hazard
that Is shown a turkey before Christ
ous risks
A learned doctor lays ths blame for
• f « Increasing baldness that Is beeotn
a parent among women, to the
R>AL OLD CROFTER'S HOM1
P apers b ™ e
HOLDS MARRIAGE RECORD.
Hloomi union, 111., Ju« lice Ila« I nitr<l
5,000 < onpka.
Bloomington. 111 . Is becoming world
famous as a Gretna Green, due to the
popularity of its clergymen and jus-
tices of the peace In tying matri-
monial knots, The great magnet for
those seeking the altar of love, how-
ever, is the marriage parlor of Jus
tice William R. Hendryx. a veritable
Cupid's bower, where blushing brides
and gallant grooms from all over the
fnlted States come to plight their
vows. ■Justice Hendryx now holds the
world's record, having married 5,000
couples, far more. It Is said, than any
other, be he bishop or judge, parson
or justice. He is now marrwing the
grandchildren of couples whom he uni
ted in wedlock forty years ago and
will shortly attend a reunion in Chi-,
cago of a family where he performed
the ceremony for eacn member.
mas
Justice Hendryx'» "marriage par
Nltrogen Iodide is so sensitive that
lors" are In a class by themselves
the touch of a fly's foot would ex
Tourists are always advised to visit
plode M>
these parlors, whether matrimonially
*
Hepruducllua
Built
k
♦
I fat women If there Is a force pump In the house, like
the ones used in summer cottages for filling tanks in
the attic, the house worker will find the best sort of
exercise ready made for her benefit, which will probahly
please the men of the family whose reluctant duty’ It
usually Is to keep the tank full
N cor-ets should !>e worn when working the force
pump. The body should be free to follow the movement
of the handle
Work for five minutes, then rest a bit
and start in again, resting and working alternately for
twenty minutes or half an hour.
If housework is done intelligently and quickly, with
out any dawdling, the worker gets all the benefit of the
exercise without being worn out. That is why so many
women are exhausted over housecleaning, because they
don't know how to do the work, and scatter their forces
by not being thorough.
ARE RICHES A BLESSING?
By E. S. Martin.
Imperfectly as wealth still performs its
proper functions, is it not better geared to
them than it has been jn times past? Of
course a lot of it is wastefully used; but not,
even now, so great a proportion of the total
wealth as appears, because the wasteful use
of it is apt to be far more conspicuous than
the fruitful use. Besides the very large share
of the total wealth that goes to maintain life
in no more than reasonable comfort, and to enlarge the
opportunities and better the lives of those who have it,
there is a constant expenditure of slices and shares of
the incomes of the greater fortunes in works of studied
and tested benevolence, and. al>ove all, in promoting ed
ucation and the discovery of truth. So common is this
use of superfluous money by individuals as fairly to
give ground for the suspicion that the limitations of the
profitable use of monyy for personal advantage are be
ing better appreciated. Those of us that have learned
a little, really want, not money, but life—the "more
abundant life” that is worth having. We want niQiiey
tn so far as it promises increased life; but, looking
about at the various people who have money abundant
ly and superabundantly, it is easy to see that, beyond
a certain point which many attain, the mere command
of money does not give the coveted increase of life. Ex
cessive fortunes seem as apt to blight life as to expand
it; and when they do blight it—breeding selfishness and
laziness, narrowing association, relaxing fidelity, and
paralyzing effort—they bring, not envy, but contempt on
their possessors. There seems to be nothing profitable
to do with the more enormous fortunes, the rolling up
of which has made so many observers anxious, but by
hook or crook to devote the bulk of them to securing
the welfare of the people from whom they were derived.
Harper's Magazine.
inclined or otherwise. Mottos calcu-
lated to promote matrimony, such as
for life,”
Carbon Bi au I ph Ide llaa Official Hec- "Perfect union." “Wedded
"Cupid's headquarters," etc., adorn the
nmuirndntlon na an Kitermlnator.
W. W. Skinner, of the Arizona agri walla, A monster mirror, ten feet
cultural
experiment
station, some square, which cost the justice $500,
time ago eent out this information on covers one wall, allowing couples to
have a full-length view of themselves
a most troublesome pest:
Ants, the large red and black varie while the binding words are being ut
ties which burrow into the ground, tered. Fresh flow’ers are provided ev
may be killed comparatively easily by ery day and are placed in cut glass
the use of carbon bisulphide, a liquid vases, to be presented to the brides.
chemical of a peculiar, disagreeable An organ for the rendition of a wed-
odor.
To be entirely successful, however.
th<- habits of the ants must be taken
Into consideration. Immediately after
a rain Is the accepted time to attempt
their destruction, for it is then that
the ants are very active, bringing out
into the sun to be dried any of their
stored-up food supply which may have
become damp.
A half teacupful—more If the
is a very large one—of the carbon bi
aulphfde poured into the nest at this
time will accomplish the result.' The
ground being damp and cool is an
other decided advantage In that it
prevents the too tapid absorption or
volatization of the carbon bisulphide:
consequently a less quantity of the
chemical is required.
A word of caution tn the use of the
carbon bisulphide Is deemed necessary.
It nm«t at all times be borne In mint!
that tiie substance is highly inflamma
hie and under certain conditions ex
plosive. Matches, pipes, etc., are to
be left at home «hen this chemical is
to be used. The carbon bisulphide can
be procured from any druggist, and
costs 50 cents per pound, but can be
bought for much less wholesale
It Is probable that the remedy Is not
practicable on n very large scale
owing to the cost of material, hut It ‘AV.B.'HENDR.YX n
frequently happens that these ants se
lect for their home, from our point of
view, most undesirable places, such as
public walks, or near one's door. In
such < lies a sure meat’s of eradicat
ing the p st is well worth knowing
Kansas City Star.
TO KILL RED AND BLACK ANTS
Linet
uf
fur Childrea’s
Irish
Cabla
Playhoasa.
One of the show pla< es of Far Rock
away 1« the handsome residence of
James Caffrey, the Brooklyn Eagle
says. Vfdltors during the summer
months rarely fall to stroll up Green
wood avenue from the beach so as to
get a glimpse of this fine piece of
colonial architecture, with its massive
stone columns towering thirty or mor«
feet In the air.
But while the villa Is interesting,
there Is still a more Intereating ob
ject on the grounds that draws forth
exclamations of pleasure and admira
tion. It is the play-house of the Caf
frey children
This play-house occu
pies a prominent site on the great
lawn to the west of the Caffrey resi
dence. It is an exact reproduction of
an Irish crofter's cabin, and Is be
lieved to be the only one of Its kind
In this country.
The play-house is about 15 by 12
feet In size and one story high. The
walls are of hewn stone and white
washed on the exterior. It haa a
thatched roof, straw tightly bound to
gether to a thickness of about one foot.
There are three windows In the front
and three in the back walls.
Near the center of the front wall 1s
the entrance. Visitors notice a sign,
painted In real Celtic characters. "Don
Na Stoegas," which In English means.
‘‘Fort of the Fairies." There Is just
the faintest idea of a porch over the
entrance, the roof being supported by
two heavy trunks of trees. The door
to this "Fort of the Fairies" is made
of white birch limits, set together lat
tice fashion, and swung on heavy
crude Iron hinges. An old chain and
latch fastens the door when the chil
dren are not in the house.
While the exterior of the cabin is
Interesting, the interior Is equally so.
Inside the walls are covered with twlga
and straw Intertwined and cemented
over, while the children's playthings,
tables, chairs, rockers, dressers, stde-
Itoard, etc., together with toys and
dolls galore are found there. It Is an
ideal place for the children to preside
over and play in.
Tbr Sentimental Sen e.
My sentimental sense Is such
That Realism's ruthless touch
Can not displace
The fond embrace
With which Romance I cling to.
Now pigs are hardly thought to be
A theme for loving eulogy.
Or lyrical apostrophe;
Pigs are poetical to me.
And so a pig I sing to.
Oh, pig, thy blue and beaming eye
Forty years ago he waa
Smiles on me from thy rose-deck«4
uty sheriff.
elected justice of the peace and has
been re-elected every four years since.
STAMBOUL’S SHADOW THEATERS.
Marionettes
tlie
Contribute
Amusenieiit of
l.arnely
the
People.
to
sty.
Oh, pensive pig, ,
Romantic pig.
Hear my adoring sigh!
A cabbage, by the common herd
Is generally deemed absurd;
Both coarse and plain.
Of common grain,
A vegetable yokel.
And yet to me a cabbage seems
Fit subject for an artist's dreams;
For fond effusions, tender themes;
A cabbage. In the moon's pale beam*
Inspires my praises vocal.
Oh, cabbage, of the pale-green hue.
Washed by the pearly morning dew,
Oh. cabbage fair,
Oh. cabbage fair,
I bring thee homage true!
Dancing in the coffee houses of the
people in Stamboul is only a less com
mon form ot entertainment during
Ramazan than music, a writer in
Scribner's says. It is performed by
the gypsy girls, bare-faced, dressed In
vivid cotton prints and jingling* with
sequins, who alone
are Immodest
enough to enter a coffee house.
A more elaborate form of entertain
ment is provided by cafes fortunate
enough to possess a court or some
large back room. This is the marion And some there be of whom I wot.
ette theater. The Turkish marionettes, Who bolds that kitchen soap is not
A proper thing
known by the name of their star per
Of which to sing
former, Karaghieuz, are a national in
In sentimental measure.
stitution. In fact, their repertory in
cludes almost all there is of a na But kitchen soap, by one of taste.
Upon a pinnacle Is placed;
tional theater. In common with other
And any scene by It is graced.
Asiatic marionettes, they do not ap So smooth and bright, so pure and
pear in person. The proscenium arch
chaste.
of their minature stage is filled with
It Kites exquisite pleasure.
a sheet of lighted paper. The tiny Oh, kitchen soap, of graceful form,
actors. cleverly jointed together of I bring to thee my worship warm.
Oh. kitchen soap.
transparent materials, move between
Oh, yellow soap,
the light and the paper, so that their
colored shadows are all the public You take my heart by storm!
—Harper's Weekly.
sees. It is enough, however, to offer
an amusement worth seeing. The the
Fing lliaplay Arrounlr* For'.
ater of Karaghieuz would make an In
On a visit to* St. Petersburg a vis
teresting study In itself, reflecting as itor noticed that on the occasion of
it does the manners of the country. the birthday of the Czarina there were
Sometimes. Indeed, it has reflected only one or two flags visible, these be
them so faithfully as to require the ing displayed on official buildings. On
Intervention of the censor. But Kat a later visit, a week or two later, he
aghieuz himself, or Black-Eye, is al observed that flags were everywhere,
ways amusing, whatever may be hi« the very st terrs obscured by waving
lapses from propriety. This truculent
bunting
"Why." he asked a friend,
Individual reminds one of Punch, al
“do you show a flag now while you
though he is said to be a caricature
did not then?" "Well," was the reply,
of a veritable person, one of Saladin's
“a police agent came round and said
viziers. He
a humpback with a
that if I did not display one I should
blac1* beard and raucous voice. to
be fined 200 ruble«. So I hoisted
whom no enterprise Is too difficult or
three, to be on the right side, and the
too absurd. He is accompanied by a others are doing the same.”
righthand man, who points his repai
tee and la alternately his dupe and
< ent Fine hr Judge Ijkadle.
his deceiver. Their adventures and
Judge K. M. Ijindis, who fined the
thoae of the crack voiced ladies, t h ■ Standard Oil Company $29.240,000, has
brilliantly costumed gentlemen, the fined John Bower, of Rockford, Ill., 1
wonderful dogs, cats, mice and other cent. Bower had sent a threatening
creatures that make up the company, letter to his brother-in-law. who la al
ci eate a scene that the spectator of leged to have misused members of h1s
simple tastes willingly revisits. Among family. The judge apparently sympa
the elements of his pleasure must be thized with Bower and told him that
counted the ill-lighted barrack or tent If he had said to the relative what he
in which the representations take had written to him it would have bee»
place, the gayly dressed children com all right
posing the better part of the audience
Ice Boi Reparlee.
ding march is an important adjunct —here, for once ladies are allowed
"Huh!" sneers the plate of ice
the
loquacious
vendors
of
sweets
an
1
and an obliging stenographer in an
cream to the piece of limburger cheese.
adjoining office is ready to respond to drinks, and the music of plj>e and
“You needn't give yourself such air».
drum
to
the
accompaniment
of
which
a call for the strains of Mendelssohn
Didn't you see In the papers where
i the little colored shadows play on their
or lxthengrin If the accompaniment of
there are a million microbes to each
lighted paper
mu;« is desired. The justice is also
drop of ice cream?"
prepared to supply forgetful grooms
Plan of Procedure.
"I did.” retorts the limburger.
with full dress suits or brides with
Stella- What would you do with five "That's nothing Compared to me you
veils and mange blooaoms If request feet of books? ,
ar» a sparsely settled territory.”
1« made
A barrel of rice and a box
Bella—I'd read the last foot flr.st.—
of old shoes are also kept on hand, Puck.
When you die, will people say of
It la not uncommon for him to marry
you
"It's too bad he didn't die tea
No man who has ever attempted to
five couples in a «ingle day.
years ago!"
Hendryx enlisted in the I'nion army prevent a wom.tn from having her own
Th« world's estimated steam power
as a boy and fought gallantly for five way. has qjuch to say about "the
in u*v today is U.bu j.UJU Uorsepowtr.
years. After the war he became dep w eaker sex."