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Soppreaa That Nervoua Laugh,
A musical laugh Is a rare gift; a
hearty one Is Infectious; but If you are
Incapable of either, suppress a laugh
that means nothing. The woman who
really laughs Is a joy to those around
her. It may not possess a pitch that
delights a muslclanly ear; It may have
Infectious little notes that do not stand
for harmony; but If It Is real and joy
ous It will make all those who hear It
smile.
The laugh that Is annoying Is the
one without meaning. It Is a nervous
ripple that Is often used as a period
or an exclamation point. It Is placed
at the ending of every sentence, and
takes from the spoken word any mean
ing or emphasis it might have. Many
women who do It are not conscious of
it. They are far from silly women
They have poise and Bense, and are not
as easily confused as one would Judge
by the futile laughter they give after
their sentences. If this Idea Impresses
you at all, watch your own style of
talking when outside the family circle
and Intimate friends. You may not be
given to laughter, but again you may
find that you unconsciously punctuate
your most commonplace sentences with
a laugh that is as artificial as your
back puffs.
If you do this, atop It. This noise,
which is a giggle In girls, an Inane
laugh In women, Is the result of pure
thoughtlessness.
The remarkable sound, given to man
alone, called laughter, should be used
only to express mirth. When It Is not
spontaneous It Is not laughter, and the
men who write dictionaries should give
It another name. Giggle Is the only
substitute so far, but It does not desig
nate that Insipid, mirthless sound that
hundreds of women permit themselves.
Coraet Doea Not Pinch.
A corset that can be hooked with
out pinching the body and tearing
the underwear to bits Is that Invented
by an Illinois woman.
The advantage of
this Is derived from
the fact that the
hooks are located
just to one Bide of
the lacing and are
prevented from In
juring either flesh or
clothing by a flap ex
tending under them.
In most corsets the steels and hooks
xtend down the center, and in press
ing the hooks and eyes together It Is
no uncommon thing to pinch a ridge
of flesh between them or tear a gar
ment. With the stays shown In the
Illustration this annoyance Is eliminat
ed. They lace down the center and
the hooking arrangement Is to one
side. Underneath the hooking devtce
Is a shield which presents a perfectly
flat surface at all times to the body
and no matter how hard It Is to get
the corset together, there Is never any
danger of squeezing or Injuring the
flesh or clothing in the operation.
THEEE LATE STYLES.
Health and Beaut? Illnta.
The woman who exercises can more
safely indulge In rich foods, fat meats,
wects and pastry than she who leads
a sedentary life.
Forcing food Is one of the surest
roads to dyspepsia. Except when not
In normal health the average person
should skip a meal occasionally when
not hungry.
Eyes which have become Inflamed
from exposure to the sun can have the
bloodshot condition quickly reduced by
bathing them for five minutes in water
as hot as is comfortable.
Biliousness should be fought in the
first stages. Try regulating diet. Take
(lass of hot water half-hour before
each meal and at bedtime. In either
morning or evening glass squeeze juice
of half a lemon.
Do not neglect the value of fruit In
Improving the complexion. Nothing
equals the juice of oranges and lemons
to clear up the skin and brighten eyes.
The latter must be diluted and taken
without sugar, a half lemon In a glass
of water.
Perfect cleanliness of the teeth Is
most essential and can be secured by
a thorough brushing In the morning
and after each meal and using an
antiseptic lotion. Dental floss should
be drawn between the teeth after each
meal and before retiring.
You must not stop laughing, or you
will be like the woman who at an
advanced age had not a line or wrinkle
In her face, but whose countenance
was entirely expressionless. Dreading
these same lines and wrinkles, she
had all her life schooled her features
to express neither Joy nor sorrow.
Good Work uf Wiimta,
The mayor and oouncllmen of Dee
Moines have asked the Civic Commit
tee of the women's clubs of that city
to present to them their plan for a
elty beautiful, and It is possible (hat
the first step will be the engaging of
a civic expert, who will consult with
the city authorities and the ladles,
and a plan bo formed.
Lark uf Iteverenee fur Womca.
Mr. Edwin Markhatu's observation
that the chief social shortcoming of
the United States may be our Increas
ing lack of reverence for women will
act meet with general acceptance. But
Rose Beaver Hat with a Scarf of Satin and Marabout, a Scarf and
Muff of Gray Chiffon and Ermine, and a Hat and Muff of Pleated Rose
Silk and Fur.
it deserves consideration. It is per
fectly possible that women may have
the largest rights where they have
the smallest reverence. And if this
reverence of men for women be really
lacking, It Is certain that the respect
of women for men will fail also. And
when the relation between men and
women shall be thus degraded, noth
ing can save the whole fabric of life
from a process of swift deterioration
Chicago Examiner.
ftidsanct fimctes
The cuirass has suddenly become a
fitted garment of silk elastic, smooth
as a glove from neck to wrist and hip
line.
The newest sleeveless coat is cut
out generously under the arms and
the sides are held together by cords
Instead of bands and straps.
The fichu of Marie Antoinette folds
round the shoulder, forms a sleeve,
crosses in front and tics at the back,
concealing much of the figure.
The outline of the Watteau plait
grows almost a familiar sight. It Is
belted In or allowed to fall loosely, ac
cording to the gown and the occasion.
Some charming old-world frocks are
carried out in soft taffetas, shot with
three or four pale colorings, such, for
Instance, as mauve, pink and perl
winkle blue.
Leather hats promise to be particu
larly popular with the traveler. They
are to be had in patent leather as well
as suede, and in a wide range of
shapes and colors.
The modified kimono, which Is the
old wrapper with a Japanese touch In
the sleeve and banded edge around the
neck and downward, remains a fa
vorite for bed-room wear.
The center parting of the hair with
the wide Racamier chignon and wide
puffs at the sides comports well with
the big millinery of the day. Women
with small, delicate features find It
especially becoming.
Sashes worn with the cuirass gown
of the moyen age are fastened so thai
their flat folds He close upon the low
er edge of the cuirass, while the bow,
tied to the right of the center back,
falls among the lower plaits of the
skirt.
Keeping Table Linen.
In keeping the table linen that Is
not In daily use many a housekeeper
Is annoyed to And that It has yellowed
badly and must be washed again before
it can go on the table again.
This can be overcome if, after being
laundered, the cloths and napkins are
carefully wrapped In deep blue paper
or In a sheet that has been heavily
blued.
Mending with Machine.
Table linen and tears in clothing can
be darned better and In one-tenth the
time it takes to do It by hand. It
needs a double-thread machine, as It
cannot be done on a chain-stitch ma
chine. Use fine thread, about 100 or
120 for table linen. Remove the foot
of the machine, or leave It -
lifts high enough so that you can see
where to stitch. Put the part of the
article to be mended In an embroidery
hoop, place under needle and stitch
back and forth, toward and from you,
till it Is filled with thread one way.
Then turn and sew across the threads
till entirely filled. Do not turn the
work at end of each row of stitching,
but draw it back and forth, running
machine as fast as you wish. In case
of a Jagged tear, draw edges together
with basting thread before Inserting
in hoop.
A Quick Loach,
Lunch at a railroad station meant,
for some people, two pieces of half
raw dough, called bread; a sample of
butter hidden beside a Bmall scrap of
partially cooked ham that won't stay
Inside of the sandwich and won't come
out. And the description Is not com
plete without the admission that It is
"grabbed" and "bolted" while the
clock hand jumps from minute to min
ute. It doesn't sound nice, and the
description ought to be enough to In
sure a well developed case of Indigestion.
Hat for Traveling.
If a woman is going away only for
a few days, so that her baggage Is
limited, it Is decreed that she may
wear a large hat
on the train. But
the medium sized
or small hats are
the best for the oc
casion. The large
bats are hard to
pack, and this is
the reason so many
of them are worn
on the train, the
smaller ones being
lng packed away.
A chick little
French hat, admirably suited for trav-
ilng. It is burnt straw, trimmed with
band and bow of black velvet, put on
as Indicated In sketch. Three deep
purple roses nestle close to edge of
narrow brim on left side.
THAVEMNO HAT.
Moonlight Sore Eyea.
Moonlight Is so Intense at times In
Cuba that It causes sore eyes, and the
natives go about with umbrellas and
paralunas. This affection Is cured, ac
cording to Frank Stelnhart, former
consul general to Cuba, by washing the
eyes with moonlight-fallen dew. These
dews have been found to have radio
active and electric properties.
Catting Soap.
Soap improves with keeping, so It
always should be brought In large
quantities. Before storing it, however,
It Is well to cut the bars Into conveni
ent pieces, for this is most easily done
when it Is soft The cutting may be
done with a piece of string or wlr
more easily than with a knife.
Waiting Yet.
Man was before the woman made.
And sat anticipating;
And she has kept him ever since
Just waiting, waiting, waiting. (
Judge.
Gloves with Ctrelea.
The smart glove that many fashion
able women are wearing has the hack
heavily embroidered with circles in
colored silk. This Is in the color, U
not tone, as the kid of the glove.
. TEJORS WHILE YOU WATT.
ndnatr? That Haa Thrives Sin
lean De Keiike Gave It a Start.
The corner stone of opera is the ten
or, and tenors are scarcer than four
leaf clovers Comic operas are now
written with baritone heroes for that
reason, the Brooklyn Eagle says, bat
the great operas were written when
the disappearance of the tenor had not
been dreamed of, and tenors must be
had to sing in them; else no opera.
Hence a tenor voice is a surer and
often a larger source of income than
a gold mine. Opera managers go up
and down the world listening to cab
men, truck drivers, old clo' venders
and the singers of popular songs in
the cheap resorts, in the hope of hear
ing a voice that can be developed into
an operatic tenor. For heretofore ten
ors, like the poets, have been born and
not made. The manager's best chance
was to find such a voice before his ri
vals and pay for Its education.
. But Jean De Reszke changed all
that , He sang for years as a not es
pecially conspicuous baritone in Eu
rope. He was a good enough . artist,
but nobody thought of . calling him
great. Then a Paris teacher, adding
two or three notes to the top of his
voice, in a few months transformed
De Reszke from a singer at $2,500 a
month to one drawing $2,500 a night
Since his transformation the musi
cal world has dreamed of raising bar
itones Into tenors as the alchemists
dreamed of transmuting lead to gold.
And now a New York teacher has done
the trick. Rudolf Berger, who has
long been one of the baritones of the
Berlin opera, was the subject of the
experiment On Tuesday night he re
appeared In Berlin, after a year's
study here, as a tenor and sang Lo
hengrin, with what the cable reports
to be great success. The audience la
said to have gone wild over the suc
cess of the singer and his teacher, and
no wonder. If that could be done
with other baritones the problem of
an opera for every city would be
solved. Probably It cannot, more than
once or twice In a generation, but that
will not prevent a lot of ambitious
teachers from trying it. Presently we
shall see advertisements, "Tenors
made In the off season," as we now see
the signs of the emergency tailors. It
la a great idea If it will work.
Temperamenta,
The physician of a former genera
tion used to talk much of the "tem
perament" of his patients, that Is to
say, the predominant type of physical
constitution possessed by each. He
studied this permanent temperament
fully as carefully as he did the dis
ease temporarily present before de
ciding upon the line of treatment to
be adopted.
Even to-day, although the physician
speaks less of temperaments and
diatheses, and perhaps would ba at a
toss to tell the names by which they
were formerly designated, he by no
means ignores the physical tendencies
tf his patients. From the viewpoint
3f temperament, one may regard the
human family as divided into five
great classes, although few belong
solely to one type. Most persons have
i mixture of two or more, being classi
fied rather by the one which predom
inates. -
The first of these temperaments Is
the lymphatic or phlegmatic. In this
the individuals are of a quiet, rather
Inert disposition. They move Blowly,
but they move surely. They are
usually dependable people, true to
their word, and faithful to perform the
duties assigned to them.
A second type, in many ways the
direct opposite of the first, is the
nervous temperament. These persona
are quick in their movements, ener
getic In work and In play, strenuous,
but often without staying power. What
they acompllsh they accomplish quick
ly. The third type is the gouty, san
guine, or rheumatic. The Individuals
of this group are of florid complexion,
frank and Jovial disposition, good
eaters and sleepers, and "never sick;"
but In later life they pay for theli
previous health by gouty attacks, and
when attacked by serious illness, they
are likely to succumb quickly.
Persons of the bilious temperament
ire poor asslmllators of food. They
suffer from Intestinal Indigestion,
which leads to repeated attacks of
"biliousness;" all the processes of se
cretion and excretion are sluggishly
performed.
The fifth temperament Is the strum,
ous. These people have poor digestion
and defective reparative power, little
cuts and scratches healing slowly;
they are always "catching" whatever
sontagious disease Is about; they lack
firmness of texture; the glands in the
neck, in the armpits and in the groins
frequently become enlarged.
The treatment of the same disease la
persons of different temperaments
aften varies greatly, and hence the
Importance of the study and power to
recognize the five distinct tempera
ments. Youth's Companion.
Occasionally a man is so absent
minded that he pays his gas bill the
lay before It is due.
LAND FOE. EVERYONE.
The Great A'orlhweat la Welcoming
Tena of Thouaanda of SetJlera.
-Homes are to be had for practically
ill who apply and hardships and high
prices do not and should not count
in the face of independence and fu
ture prosperity, T. G. Morehead says
in the Delineator. Public lands in the
United State3, subject to entry and set
tlement, amount In area to twenty
three, times all the acres devoted to
all agricultural pursuits In Iowa, the
greatest agricultural State in the
world. Were all the acres tillable, no
less than 4,750,000 families might re
ceive their allowance of 160 acres and
Independence. Each year the popula
tion of Trenton, N. J., or. Oakland,
Cal., finds homes In the new north
west, and still public lands remain to
supply 160-acre home3 to every man,
woman and child In New York City
and Philadelphia combined
" The terms are easy, yet harder than
they were. It is now necessary to make
one's residence on the homestead four
teen months before securing permis
sion to commute, and by paying t
3mall amount receive patent to the land
A short time ago the residence require
ments were eight months. The price
asked Is small,, from 50 cents to a few
dollars an acre, with time allowed in
which to make the payments. Or one
may live on the land continuously for
five years and cultivate it and so gel
It free of cost.
Each day of the year a heavily
laden train comes to a halt in west
ern Canada and pours forth Its cargo
of eager-faced homesteaders. Sunny
Alberta, prosperous British Columbia
ind unpronounceable Saskatchewan, to
say nothing of unspellable Asslnlbola,
have been In their dreams for months,
perhaps for years; at last they have
been reached.
Poverty is behind these homeseek
srs, a few more days and, looking over
the rolling prairies, they will be mon
irehs of all they survey. The reversed
train disappears over the eastern horl
son, but there Is no regret. They have
jome Into the promised land. Seventy
three thousand of them made the trip
and took up homesteads last year.
That means 1,200 coaches filled to ca
oaclty. each day of the year a train of
four cars filled with hopeful humanity.
A HAPPY HISTORIAN.
The intellectual training of Edward
Gibbon, the great historian, is a mat
ter of unusual interest, writes James
Ford Rhodes in Scribner's Magazine.
"From my early youth," wrote Gibbon
In his "Autobiography," "I aspired to
the character of a historian."
He had "an early and invincible love
of reading," which he said he "would
not exchange for all the treasures of
India," and which led him to a "vague
and multifarious" perusal of books.
Before he reached the age of 15 he
was matriculated at Magdalen College,
giving this account of his preparation:
"I arrived at Oxford," he said, "with
a stock of erudition that might have
puzzled a doctor and a degree of ig
norance of which a schoolboy would
have been ashamed." He did not adapt
himself to the life or method at Ox
ford, and from them apparently de
rived no benefit.
Gibbon passed nearly five years at
Lausanne, from the age of 16 to that
of 21, and they were fruitful years
for his education. It was almost en
tirely an affair of self-training, as his
tutor soon perceived that the student
had gone beyond the teacher, and al
lowed him to pursue his own special
bent
After his history was published and
his fame won, he recorded this opin
ion: "In the life of every man of let
ters there Is an aera, from a level,
from whence he soars with his own
wings to his proper height, and the
most Important part of his education
is that which he bestows on himself."
This was certainly true In Gibbon's
case. On his arrival at Lausanne he
hardly knew any French, but before
he returned to England he thought
spontaneously In French, and under
stood, spoke and wrote It better than
he did his mother tongue.
"I have drawn a prize In the lottery
of life," wrote Gibbon. "I am disgust
ed with the affectation of men of let
ters who complain that they have re
nounced a substance tor a shadow, and
that their fame affords a poor com
pensation for envy, censure and persecution.
"My own experience, at least, haa
taught me a very different lesson.
Twenty happy years have been ani
mated by the labor of my history, and
its success has given me a name, a
rank,' a character in the world to
which I should not otherwise have
been entitled."
'HE WEEKLY
ISTORImljN
1
Reaaoaa Enongh.
Father You seem to look at thlnn
in a very different light since your
marriage.
Miss Newly Married Daughter
Well, I ought to after receiving four
teen lamps and nine candelabra foi
wedding presents. Tit-Bits.
177(1 The colony of Delaware erected
Itself Into a State and framed a
constitution.
1780 Washington went to Hartford,
Conn., to consult with Rochambeau
concerning some definite plan of
action.
1792 Royalty abolished and France
declared a republic.
1793 Gen. Washington laid the corner
stone of the national capltol in
Washington.
t812 Burning of Moscow during the
occupation of the city of Napo
leon's army.
1814 British retreated from Fort Erie
to Niagara.... British raised the
siege of Fort Erie.
1818 Illinois held its first election of
State officers under the new con
stitution. 1820 First General Assembly of the
State of Missouri met at St Louis.
1823 Samuel L. Southard of New Jer
sey became Secretary of the Navy.
1833 Boundary line dispute between
New Jersey settled.
1847 United States troops took pos
session of the City of Mexico.
1856 Last national convention of the
Whigs met at Baltimore.
1862 The garrison at Munfordsville,
Ky., surrendered to the Confeder
ates.. ..Harper's Ferry was cap
tured by the Confederates.... The
. Confederate forces were defeated
at Iuka, Miss.
1863 Confederates victorious in battle
of Chlckamauga Creek.
1864 A McClellan meeting In the Lin
dell Hote.1, St. Louis, was broken
up by a party of Union soldiers.
1867 The Antietam national cemetery
was dedicated with Imposing cere
monies. 1868 The Georgia House of Represen
tatives passed a bill excluding ne
groes from, the Jury.
1871 Lincoln's body removed to Its
final resting place at Springfield,
111.
1872 In a political affray at Columbia,
S. C, J. D. Caldwell was shot dead
and Maj. Morgan wounded by
George Tupper.
1874 Twenty persons killed and fifty
injured In a fight between the New
Orleans police and a mob that was
clamoring for the abdication of
Gov. Kellogg. .. .About sixty lives
lost in a great fire In the cotton
mills at Fall River, Mass.
1875 Indianola, Texas, visited by a cy
clone, and almost entirely destroy
ed. .. .Galveston, Texas, visited by
a fearful storm of wind and rain;
the city was Inundated. .. .Perry's
flagship Lawrence raised in Erie
harbor and removed to Philadel
phia for exhibition at the Centen
nial. 1881 Chester A. Arthur took the oath
of office as President of the United
States.
1883 Public Inaugural exercises at the
University of Texas.
1886 Michigan College of Mines open
ed for the reception of students.
1889 Union and Confederate veterans
formed a memorial association on
the Chlckamauga battlefield. ,
891 Intense heat in South Dakota,
preventing work in the harvest
fields.... St Clair tunnel at Detroit
opened. .
'898 Yellow fever became epidemic at
Brunswick, Ga.... Cherokee strip,
6,072,754 acres, opened for publio
settlement
1895 Chlckamauga National Park ded
icated with imposing ceremonies.
, ....Cotton States and Internation
al Exposition opened in Atlanta,
1897 Preliminary peace treaty be
tween Turkey and Greece signed
at Constantinople.
1902 Commander Peary ' arrived at
Sydney, N. S.. on his return from
the far north.". . .Cruiser Des
Moines launched at Qulncy, Mass.
1908 Gov. Hoke Smith signed a bill
terminating the convict-lease sys
tem In Georgia. . . .The Republicans
renominated Gov. Hughes of New
York.... Republicans carried Maine
by reduced plurality. .. .An acci
dent to Orvllle Wright's aeroplane
at Fort Meyer, Va., caused the
death of Lieut Thomas E. Bel
fridge.
Hat of the Fatnre.
Stella How will you have your hat
xlmmedT
Bella I haven't decided between
:he merits of a monoplane and bi
plane wing effect New York Sun-
Two oa the Jo.
Teacher You got well tanned this
summer, I see.
Johnny You're right, I did. Be
tween dad and the sun I'm pretty neaf
leather. Judge.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Fire destroyed the Savoy Theater.
Hamilton, Ont; loss $60,000.
"President Taft has appointed A. P.
Sawyer of Seattle to be auditor of
Porto Rico, to succeed G. C. Ward.
At Bucyrus. Ohio, Judge Babst ap
pointed George W. Whysall receiver
and Ell West co-receiver of the Co
lumbus, Marian and Bucyrus Electrio
Railway, operating between Bucyrus
and Marion.
Senator Carter of Montana declared
at Seattle that charges of water power
grabbing In his State were without
foundation.
Fraternities and sororities in the
high schools of Washington, D. C will
be allowed to flourish. and multiply so
long as they continue to be conducted
In an unobjectionable manner.
Gen. Ballington Booth of the Volun
teers of America, in a New York meet
ing last night scored big hats. He
said the "merry widow" had changed
to a "peach basket" or a "wash bowl"
and he wondered when it would stop.