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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
The Plain Woman. She need not appear plain. She has at least one good point She may assume a number of others. She should experiment with her hair. She must study her coiffure from all points. Badly arranged hair may greatly ex aggerate a defect Well-arranged hair may balance and annul a defect The choice of a hat has the same good or bad effect A woman should beware of choosing a too pretty chapeau. It Is the same with a dress of any thing else. Rose pink or dead white, for In stance, wlUt emphasize a sallow com plexion. On the other hand, a cranberry pr a flame red, or a Bunsct shade, may make a sallow sister radiant. Colors which bring out her own color are the thing to choose when possible rather than those which kill it. A trim figure goes a long way, and a good carriage, a good corset and well fitting clothes do the rest. Philadel phia Record. Hard Work of Society Women. The lot of the average woman of society Is not easy, and particularly has this been true of Washington In recent years. It has been said that Mrs., Roosevelt works more hours every day than her husband, and that the de mands of her position are even more wearing than those of the President's. Other Washington women are almost as hard-working. Mrs. Taft the other day put the case thus: "My servants have their afternoons and evenings oft regularly every week, but there Is not a day In which I "have an hour I can honestly call my own." Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, so far, has refused to be hampered by the social rules, which year after year are becoming more rig orous In Washington. But It is said there am Indications of dlsnleasnre with her leisurely ways, and that there will be a demand upon her for more ac tivity next season. Stunning Afternoon Frock. A charming afternoon frock is made of pale gray silk voile. Waist and skirt are cut In separate parts, but both have a broad, double box-plait down the cen ter of "front corresponding exactly in width. These plaits are trimmed with small black velvet covered buttons In clusters of three. A deep round yoke of the voile, having a tab-like append age In front, has a second yoke of heavy white lace. Small diamonds of the same are also Inlet below the lace. The sleeves are bishop (a style that has by no means fallen from grace). Near the hand are empiecements of black velvet gathered Into lace cuffs. Shoulder caps of velvet extend along the yoke to the box plait . The chapeaux Is rose pink straw trimmed with shaded roses and a spray of geraniums. Limited to One Gown. A woman had this solved for, her by a fashionable dressmaker who good naturedly offered her a bit of advice: "If you can get only one gown," said she, 'let It be a good one and of the eml-tallored order. Do not get a se vere style, but one that Is' between the tailor-made and the frilled lingerie dress. A soft pretty brown veiling In a shade t of burnt brown would be good. Make It up over white and trim It with some very glossy wide braid. It will Btand the weather well and look nice each time it Is put on." Feminine Drag Habit. Women fly to restoratives wblch are but a slow poison. They feel faint and have recourse to all manner of deadlr drugs and pick-me-ups. The delicate equipoise of their nervous sys tem gets deranged, and they become a burden to themselves and a danger to the community, and they are, like the morphine maniac, eternally recom mending' every woman they know to try their own particular form of pol son. Crown. . A Pnaallng- Qneetlon Asked. A number of ladies were discussing the matter of taking care of their own business affairs, and one of the ladles ventured to remark that almost any CHIC OUTING SUITS. ' f' ' 1 , Plaid silk rubber bathing cape, tennis frock of khaki tussor trimmed In red, and linen riding habit with divided skirt. ' woman knew all about such things be fore she began to have any money to take care of It "It makes me dis gusted," she said, "to see the way In which the funny papers make sport of a woman who does not know how to sign and Indorse a cheek." "Well, what is a check 'In blank?"' asked one of the other ladies, and, af ter much discussion of the subject, even the wise woman confessed she did not know, and they decided that hus bands were good for something after all. - Climbing Stair Good Exercise. Few women can climb stairs properly. Some double themselves up and plunge forward, Intent on nothing but on reaching the top. Others labor and gasp. Much of this latter Is due to flabby muscles and a weak heart, but these Ills may be remedied by scientific stair climbing. Physical culturlsts say that no ever- cise is quite so beneficial. It not only strengthens the heart and limbers the muscles, It sets the liver working, too. The rule is to cimiD wun tue Knees, not using the muscles of the back. This is difficult, but, at least, any one can avoid doubling up the shoulders. A good many wealthy women are taking to it from choice, and have even had the elevators taken out of their country homes In some cases, that they might not be tempted to slight the er istic and grace-bestowing staircase.- New York Tribune. Maxima for Bnalneaa Glrla, "Unselfish sympathy for others ls never thrown away. Energy and ambition must go band In hand with sincerity. Do with your whole heart whatever your hand finds to do. If you are tbe first a fault to see, be the last to make It known. Be faithful and loyal to your em ployer. Never betray a confidence. Neatness, cleanliness and gentleness are the first steps toward the success ful life. Brain, heart and body must always work In harmony to achieve the great est success. An Innocent mind centered on the ob; Jectht wishes to obtain will generally result in success. Study the human character, especial ly your own, and constantly strive to remedy Its weakness. Moire parasols, with or without flow ered borders, are very popular. Silver in braids or fancy trimmings is much used on the pale gray fabrics now so much In vogue. Bias bands or folds of the material are much seen on the plaited walking skirts, two and even three being used. Trimmings of tiny points fallng In pendant fashion from leaves sewed to the frock material are a high-priced French novelty. Many ostrich feathers are seen dyed la shaded colorings tfom the deepest darkest tpnes down to the palest' most delicate tints. The walking skirt Is usually cut In seven-, nine or fifteen gores and then side plaited. The nine-gore model Is tho most popular and satisfactory. Among the nrettlest of summer frocks are the dressy batistes, In delicate tints ly indifferent? Nor somehow does she of blue, pink, lavender and ecru, em- j convey the impression of being partlc broidered In eyelets of the same shade, ularly happy. Her thoughts often uon.. Mnnin. 'seem far away from the surety In of extreme simplicity, the skirts de- whlcn she ls brlKht Partlclar Btar pending chleflv on their cut and lona Occasionally there flits over lies face, beautiful lines for their effect and hanging In graceful folds wlthoiih any trimming. Sashes are more popular than for some seasons past Dresden, molro and brocaded satin ribbons make the handsomest. From five to six yards are needed for those with long ends and several loops. Picture hats grow larger and a cor respondent In Paris writes thafcjt ls a marvel how the French women ever keep them on, so overbalanced are they at the back. With the brim rolled up on front or an exaggerated width In the rear they have a decided backward tilt - Dr. J. P. Crozier-Grifflth does not have a very high opinion of the so-called Intuition of mothers. . Some people are inclined to believe that Intuition will teach a mother -how to take care of her child, notwithstanding the over whelming amount of fact to the con trary. The baby animal ls cared for by Its animal mother, but the doctor thinks the human mother, without edu cation In tbe matter, is not as able as the animal to care for her young. He ls not very fond of the grandmother, either, who spoils . children. Mothers are foolish enough to give babies ba nanas, and then wonder why they have dysentery. This Is the one food that should not be given to children. How to Prononneo "Rajah" Silk. The rough-finished weave of dress silk spelled "rajah" Is pronounced as follows: The first syllable "ra" is to be sounded "rah," exactly , like the cheer of a Harvard rooter. The "J" ls only sounded as a "y," so the second syllable should be pronounced exactly like the 'Ja" of a German replying In the Urinative. "Rayah," both broad "a"s. It does not rhyme with major nor anything like It Wbere United State Women Ezaal. The American woman, according to Lady nenry Somerset Is better read and usually far more cultured than the English woman of the same class. She is a more agreeable companion, and she has a firm belief that she owes It to herself to make tbe; most of her mental powers; .. and these qualities make home life more attractive than many meals and much spring cleaning. MPUXJttE- , AMERICAN QUEEN 07 BEAUTY. Mra. John Jacob Aetor, tba Moat Admired Woman In London. An American woman, Mrs. Jdhn Ja cob Astor, Is the beauty of the Loudon season, writes a correspondent Wher ever she Is seen this regal woman causes a sensation. Crowds follow her about a room. Her height, her snowy hair over such a fresh young face, her amazing gowns and historic Jewels have dazzled London. Twice lately I have seen her In a "creation" which for originality and beauty I never have seen surpassed. On the first occasion she wore a costume of silvery scales which fitted her figure close, giving the Idea of some wondrous mermaid from the deep. The top of tbe bodice was filled in with filmy lace, suggestive of foam, and at her throat was the Em 'press Eugenie's famous pendant of blazing diamonds. On tbe other occasion she was attir ed In some black, cloudy fabric, which seemed to swathe her figure, revealing not a single Jewel. Above this, thrown Into strong relief by the contrast, rose her flower-like face, with Its crown of white hair dressed In big curls. In MRS. JOHN JACOB AST0B. which gown she looked the more strik ing It would be hard to say. A man who was present the other night at an embassy party remarked: "She" meaning Mrs. Astor "makes every other woman appear Insignificant and commonplace." ' Many' women are bleaching . their hair to resemble hers, and others, who do not care to go to this length, are wearing white wigs. Mrs. Astor has been here frequently, but she never be fore has made quite such a sensation. She looks utterly unconscious of the admiration she arouses or Is It utter- like a cloud, a careworn expression that makes her appear, for the few moments that it lasts, years older. I have seen her stand In the center of a crowd apparently not hearing a word that was being said by those around her. But all this only adds to the in terest she arouses. It suggests a hid den sorrow, a burled romance, and things of that sort that inquisitive folk like to speculate about A COINCIDENCE. Peculiar Combination of Eventa Re lated by Andrew Lang. ' As to the long arm of coincidence," It may be as long as Is necessary. Noth ing Is Impossible to coincidence. An in stance of my own experience, said An drew Lang, convinces me of this fact I had been reading a foolish book, "Out of the Hurly Burly," and some of the rhymes ran In my head. They began: Bury Bartholomew out in the woods In a beautiful hole in the ground. In tbe afternoon I drove with a par ty of friends, and we took the refresh ment of tea at a house where there were several other guests, all unknown to me even by name. As two of these lived at a place on our homeward route they accompanied us In our vehicle. As we passed a wood on a hillside one of these anonymous strangers said to me, This Is the burial place of the Murrays of Glendhubreac." I absently and au tomatically replied: Bury Bartholomew out In the woods In a beautiful hole In the ground. A kind of chill blight settled on the party, though one of them tactfully asked 'me what poet I was quoting. When we bad set down our two strangers at their own home I was ask ed whether I knw tbe name of the gen tleman on whom I bad expended my P0" Qwatton? Of course I did not know, and of course his surname was Bartholomew, while, as be seemed m bad health, my citation had an air of brutal appropriateness. "Thus does fortune banter us," for Bartholomew Is a most unusual name In Scotland. Where tba Excitement Waa. I don't suppose It's unnatural for m to be excited now that the hour tor my marriage to the count ap proaches," said the bride. "I guess I'm tbe most excited person In town at this minute." "Oh, I don't know," replied Mrs. Nurltoh, her mother. "Think bow excited they must be over It In the newspaper offices." Catholic Standard and Times. An Art tat. "Your friend retains her age won derfully." Teg, she studied art In Europe." Houston Post If a loafer .won't work when you want him, be should at last refrain from saying he is too busy. i 'J H' juiy '. .i.' i ( i iinn,ii.iii uiui. i iji hi in' '.j in ij in J v v w vSfcN ' J,"..X..??... .....' . . .1 A . i X . Summer Peat. The illustration shows one of the most destructive of the summer Insect pests, which attacks both ' fruit and orna mental trees. It Is known as the'yel-low-neck caterpillar, and is usually found in numbers along the branches of trees, feeding on the foliage until the limb Is entirely denuded, when they migrate to another limb. The female deposits the eggs on the leaf of the tree, where they are usually hatched during July, and the young Insects be gin feeding on the leaves. The full-grown moth Is shown in the upper part of the illustration. The caterpillar Is about two Inches long, with a dull yellow band Just back of the black head. This pest Is familiar to most farmers, for It may be found In nearly every section of the country. A good way to rid the trees of them Is by spraying with parls green, but If this ls not desirable because of fruit on the trees, a torch made of cloth or small rags and saturated with kerosene may be applied to the Infested limbs and the Insects destroyed In this man ner. Dog Sanaaa-a No Joke. The old Joke about eating "hot-dog" ls no Joke in Germany any more, for no less than 7,000 canines of various breeds were slaughtered and eaten by the subjects of Kaiser William Inst year, according to a report from Consul George N.Ifft at Annaberg. The eat ing of horse meat seems to be quite general In Germany, for no less than 182,000 horses were slaughtered for human food in 1900. "Horseflesh Is very generally adver tised in tne German papers," says Consul Ifft, "especially In those In large Industrial centers, and most Ger man cities have at least one market wnlch makes it a specialty, claiming for It a higher percentage or nourish ment than that of beef, veal, mutton or pork. Neither Is It unusual to find advertisements of dog meat or for the purchase of dogs for slaughter. In the city of Cassel recently the police,' In searching for a lost dog, discovered a private slaughter house and arrested the proprietors, who were apparently making a regular business of stealing and killing dogs." In the city of Chemnitz alone, Con sul Ifft reports, 098 dogs were slaugh tered for human food In 1900, this be ing an increase of eighty-eight over the previous year. Hedge Trimmer. The trimming of a hedge Is properly the work of an expert, many years of practical experience being required be- fore first class work can be accom plished As a rule expert hedge trim mers employ a cut ter having but a ingle pair of blades. A Virginia man thought that a trimmer could be devised which would simplify the HE1H1B TBIMMEU. trimming and sure greater accuracy. Accordingly he designed tbe Implement shown In tbe illustration. It comprises a pair of knives, containing numerous cutting teeth.- The knives are attached to piv oted bandies, one knife moving over the other. When the latter are grasp ed, one In each band, considerable power can be applied to the cutter, "whereby over a foot of the hedge can be trimmed in a single cut It would be Impossible, with this tool, to trim too much In spots, forming an uneven surface to the hedge. The extreme length of tbe blades Insures an even cut throughout Cnctl aa Stock Food. The New Mexico Experiment Sta tlon has lsued a very creditable bulle tin dealing with the composition and feeding value of the prickly pear and other cacti. The spines of the cacti are removed by singeing with a torch, The protein content In the air-dry ma terial ranges from 2 to 10 per cent tbe fruit being the richest part The cacti compare favorably with many forage plants. Heretofore tbe great difficulty In the way of utilizing cacti as forage bas been tbe spines, but sinoe they can be removed by tbe torch a large amount of cheap forage ls made available to the stockmen of the arid t plains, . , , , THE YKLLbw CATERPILLAR. How Book Learning rara. "Book learning" for farmers ba been a thing to laugh at In the past It used to be thought that an almanac and one or two patent office reports were all a man needed to make him competent to "run a farm." We are getting past that day, and doing It at a pretty fast pace. In our times. Think of the report just published by the commissioners appointed a couple of years ago in the State of Louisiana to investigate crop pests, with particular reference to the boll weevil and the ter rible injury it has wrought to the cot ton crop. For two years these comxula-, sioners have been studying and exper imenting on tbe State farms In the Red river region, and now they send word out to the world that they have succeeded In growing cotton that can not be hurt'by the boll weevil. Just how they have done this we must wait to learn. The great fact ls that they have done it Think what this will mean in mouey to the fanners of the cotton growing States! Nor will the benefit of their work stop there. Other people than the cotton growers are in terested In cotton. We all have use for the plant and its products. From the poor man down In the most obscure quarter of the city to the millionaire in his beautiful home, we all need cot ton In some iorm or other. And "book farming" cuts the cloud which bas hung over the men who grow the plant and lets the sunshine out all over the world. ' Potato Teat at Cambridge. The university experiment station at Cambridge, Mass., reports that a variety of tests were conducted on light loam. The sprouting of seeds before planting did not appear very useful for ordinary purposes. Plant ing eutlre tubers gave better results than the use of cut seed pieces. Tubers weighing nine or ten to the ponml, or lVa to 1 inches lh size, were most suitable for planting. Seed Imported from Scotland pro duced equally good crops the first and second years, while the third year the crop was much reduced. The second growth, induced by weather conditions lu 1904, had a very Injurious effect on the cooking quality of the potatoes. The best results on poor light land were secured with a fertilizer applica tion consisting of 175 pounds of sul phate of ammonia, 350 pounds of super phosphate and 150 pounds of sulphate of potash. On the light loam soil the best yield was secured where- this same application of fertilizers, togeth-. er with twelve tons of barnyard manure per acre, was used. The barn yard manure alone gave good results. Frnlt Gatherer. Professional growers of small fruits have been on the lookout for som such satisfactory device In which the picked fruit can be temporarily held by the picker. These devices have taken many forms, tbe majority con sisting of baskets and similar recep tacles, which are secured to the body of the picker. A fruit gathehkb. vast Improvement in this line ls the fruit gatherer shown here, the invention of a New Jersey man. It consists of a leather recep tacle which Is attached to the arm, one end overlapping the palm of the hand, the opposite end being sealed. The open end Is shaped like a scoop. As the operator picks the fruit such as berries, cherries, etc., he drops It into the receptacle. The device does not In any way Interfere with tbe free movement of the arm Or hands, nor is there any likelihood of the fruit falling, out of the receptacle. Cabbage Hot. The disease known to the cabbage growers as black rot, or stem rot, has come Into prominence within the last few ye:irs, and is said to be a serious hindrance to cabbage growing In sev eral States. From a recent farmers' bulletin prepared by the chief of the division of vogetuble pathology, It ap pears that no way Is known of curing, the disease or of entirely ridding a locality of it when once it ls well es tablished. The whole subject of treat ment may be summed up In one word preventing. Tbe disease ls not con fined to the cabbage, but attacks a num ber of species belonging to the mustard family. Tbe planting of other crop for a long series of years Is said to be the only satisfactory way to get rid. of this disease of the cabbage when It has once become serious. Snmmer feeding- of Sheep. The summer feeding of sheep Is not difficult There is no other animal that can be shifted from field to field lr summer to consume the weeds as car sheep. When handled In this way, they will keep the fence corners clean. To what better ue could you put your, weeds than to turn them Into mutton? Inquires a grower In New England Homestead. But do not overlook tbe fact that they also enjoy and thrive upon good grass. In order to keep u large number on a small farm yoo should have small fields and change them often, for this gives them short. tender grass, which they like best, and , also keeps them healthy by not allow ing them to remain upon one pasture, too Ions.
