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e— THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 11, 1909, Activiti Golden Anniversary of a Sérva o DWN In NeW Jersey, A few miles from New Brunswick, there is to be a unique celebration to- day In honor of a sefvant who has been employed at the old Price homestead for fifly years, that long stretch of time, Mary the servant, has not been fll to glve wp her dally duties, has taken few of the vacations allowed her, and has nevet asked for a ralse of the wages originally agreed upon—$100 a year. A jewel of a housekeeper, surely, deserv- During Grogan ehough Ing the tributé of affection which family neighbors owe, The eervant has had some remarkable qualities which have spread her fame throughout the countryside. The last time she asked for a day out was twenty years ago, when she went to New Brunswick, elght miles away, to spend the day. She has not been to New York since the clvil war. Then she came to make inquiries about one of her children who had gone away as a drummer boy. She went by stage coach to New Brunswick and took the train from there. She has never asked for an evening out since, The Price farm has been ih the famlily for more than 100 years. It's a good 1 time to remember ck just how they got Mary, but Mre. Price says that shé recol- lects that thefe was a nelghboring family that had had Mary for twe months and were moving away, and that they recom mended Mary to her when she was lookir for a girl fot gencral housework. Mary had landed at Castle Garden ih a salling ship with her three children, Patsy, Mary and BiL. two days. The Prices put Mary's three children up at the farm and there she reared them and helped to rear nine little Prices, of whom The voya alie says, took fo seven are lliving. The first baby the Prices had after Mary came and whom Mary used to mother Is 49 vears old himsell now. He has built his own home on part of the farm, and is one of those who will be at the celebration Mary treats him and all the others as though they were children yet. The red-cheeked Irish girl who started in to wash dishes and bake the bread in the Price home half a century Ago 1s some- what bent now, and the fifty years Have frosted the jet black hair she brought to the farm, but even if she Is 78 years old she Is hale and hearty enoUfth to get up at each morning and get the breakfast Just as she did the first mornifg after she took the place. Bhe cooks as well as she did then, and around her in the little kitchen are many aged implements of her art, Including one pan in which she ha baked bread for forty years. All of her three children have grown up and gone away, and 8o have many of the children born on the farm, and whom she helped to rear, but Mary has gone on cooking and baking bread for the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren to eat. —— Cars for Women, Cats for Men. The reservation of rear cars for women in the Hudson tunnel during rush hours and the prospective adoption of the plan in the subway are first steps in what un- der favorable conditions may develop Into an ultimate segregation of the sexes on transit lines. How the open cars on Broadway, first Installdd for smokers only, were Invaded by women who upheld thelr right to use them s a matter of local transit history. It 18 unlikely that forcible measures will be necessary to keep men out of the special women's cars. But It s profitable, the World thinks, to speculate on the contingencles which might arise through an eventual dissocia- tion of the séxes in local transpertation. There {s no déubt that women would de- rive most benefit from the change. Men passengers would be seriously Inconveni- enced if banished from the women's cabins of ferryboats. it 1s, the reservation of a single tunnel or subway car for women reduces by one-seventh the number of seats men passengers can oceupy to thelr exclusion, and to that extent in- creases the number of male straphangers, To reserve dlternate surface cars for women would distinetly augment mascu- lne discomfort unless the other cars were reserved for men. »>— Persecdting the Bachelor, Tt half of the sehemes proposed by matri- monial enthuslasts are carried the bachelor, flke the buffalo, seems fated to become ex- tinet. For several years the proposal to tax him out of existence has becn more or 1ess constantly bruited, observes the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Last week & Wisconsin legislator gave notice that he would introduce & bill providing for the es- tablishment of a state matrimonial bureau s an adjunct to the bachelor tax, with the view, of course, to making his eapture more certain. And now comes the Chicago Dressmakers’ club with the demand that the desperate quarry, driven to the license office by these furious huntsmen and huntswomen, shall be required to take a olvil service examination and to furnish satistactory evidence of his ability to pay the dressmaker's bllls before the license 18 lssued Clearly the lot of the unmarried male eligible Is In the near future to be an unhappy one If his harriers have their way. Every avenue of escape may be cut off. Like the unfortunate suspected of witcheraft, who proved thelr innocence by drowning and confessed thelr gullt by swimming when subjected to ordeal by water, he is to be driven to marriage and then denied the doubtful sanctuary by the license clerk unless the commercial agencies vouch for his ability to pay the dressmaker. If the proposed regulations be adopted—and it must no’ be forgotten that the legislative majorities are com- posed married men, and that miscry loves company—his only apparent recoutse is 1o the courts, where he may plead that such statutes are trankly, even brasenly, confiscatory, And here again he runs plump against the menacing fact that most of the judges are benedicts quite as envious of his single and untrammeled blessedness, perhaps, as thelr fellows In the leglslatures. In these days of rlotous regulation, when the alr is filled with the clamor of D-.l-:!lu.;v SANATORIUM Laclr Tt This institution is the only one in the central west with separate buildings situated in their own pmule grounds, yet entirely dis- tinet and rendering it possible to classify cases. The ome building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of noncontagious and noumental diseases, no others be- ing admitted. The other, Rest Cottage, being designed for and devoted to the exclusive treatment of select mental cases, requiring for a time watchful care and spe- clal nursing and Views of Progressivé Women in Various Walks of Life the reformers and the legisiative Nikles aro flecked With ominous signs, the bash- clor may as well prepare for the worst, even though he desperately hopes for the best. But let not his persecutors deceive themselves. In the moment that thelr bound and breathi sacrifiee Is lald upon the altar there will be born In his breast a flerce and overmastering desire to be revenged upon his tormentors. A ter- rible vengeance may easlly be wreaked upon the mefcenary dreasmakers who have mothered this latest mode of torture. Once the mystem of compulbory matrie mony 18 established by statute some re. #entful ex<bachelor may rise In this or that legislative hall to propose the regula- tion of dressmaking ratos and feminine fashione, with full assurance that every marriéd colleagtie will vociferously pledge his entliuslastie suprort. The reckoning with other Classes of matrimonial regula- tors may be longer delayed, but the dressmakers, having greedily and Incau- Hously sowed the wind, may egpect to reap the whirlwind that has been gather- ing since the day when Adam's patrimony was equandered by Bve In her effort to garb Nerself In obedience to the first dic- tates of those whimsieal and tyrannical taskmistresses, the modes and fashions. S — Children a Dlessing. Mme. Gadski flared up in domestic wrath when she read Jh New York what Olive Fremstad had to say about the impossi- bility of combinihg married lite with an artistic career. She sald things. Tt I8 un derstood that Mme. Loulse Hother, who s the mother of twins that flourish In health and celebtity, will within a day or two come to Mme. Gadski's suppott. Mme, Gadski #ays' “Mme. Fremstad is wrong |8 saying that wifehood and motherhcod are an obstacle to art. I have found both of them essential to the development of my art, ahd & great ald to It I could not Tully express my emotipns until I knéw the emotions of a wife and mother. “Mme. Fermstad says that children are a hindrance and not a comfort. My great- est comfort, my rest from the strain of acting and all the exactions of my artistic 116 T find In my daughter. Before she was born I traveled with a maid. Now how much Rappler I am with my pwn daughter for my companion. — A Woman Who Does Things. It is a joy to discover a person who dares to do the thing everybody ought to do and who also dares to do it first, says the Circle Magazine, telling of the work of Mrs, Caroline Bartlett Crane, of Kalamazoo, Mich, Some fow years ago a meat-inspection bill was up before the Michigan legislature s the result of constant campalgning on the part of Mrs, Crané and her Kalamazoo club women. The farmers In the lesislature dlscovered that meat Inepection would cnt off their small slaughterings and they were up in Afms at once, side tracking the bill at the first reading. News of the defeat reached Mrs. Crane at 4o'ciock In the morning, and, catching A 4:3 train for the state capltal, she arrived betore the opening of the morning session. Then she proceeded to win soma of the oppo- sition and through thelr efforts the bill was brought up for a Gecond reading. It was @galn on the point of defeat when one of these newly acquired champlons called for & five-minute recess to permit Mrs. Crane to dlscuss the blll. Mrs. Crane talked to the point, making the purport of the bill clear and emphasizing the great need of it. During the rest of the day and night she Interviewed farmers, every- where convincing them of the reasonable- ness of the proposed law. The next day when the bill was finally read it was pass- ed by an overwhelming majority. Which goes to show that Mre, Crané is a woman who does things The Woman's Civie was the result of a organisation. In the palgn of the league Improvement League vigorous campaign of street-cleaning cam- the women gathered together the men on the job and gave them somo lessons in handiing a broom. OId men they were for the most part, not used te hard work interference of pet- tlcoats. It was another great day . when they washed down the asphait with a hose and broome, almost resoriing to soap and scrub bruthes in an effort to get off the dirt of ages. There was no sprinkling ot pavement after that day but a thofough sorub twide A week with the fire departs ment to assist. The men Whe were lazy and refused to work In the new way were dismiseed, the men who took pride in the few system had their pay faised; In this fashion the white wings were whipped into shape, becoming, before the end of thréee months a rival of tire department for brilifant service. or the The Woman Athlete. Miss Wilma Berger, the 0-year-old nurse who felled & man who attacked her near Lake Shore arive, in Chicago, with a jiu Jiteu twist of the wrist, dares any one to bother her on her late evening strolls. “Police can't protect me from ruffians, but I can protéct myself,” &ho says. “If the young gitls of the country would learn this Japanese art assaults on girls would end. “Mashers?"~and Miss Berger threw back het head and laughed defiantly—"Why, let them take me by the hand. Th floor them. It's as easy, a8 easy As— With a sidestep and a quick grip on the newspaper man's arm she lifted him to his toes, 80 that a #ingle move by him would break his arm. “That,” she explalned, releasing him, “is the simplest of the holds are hun- dreds. “Oh, it's monstrous,” she sald Indige nantly, “the way girls are at the mercy of assailants who lle In walt for them. 1f mothers would only glve a few minutes a day to thelr daughters' Instruction In jlu Jitsu they wouldn’t heed to be afraid to trust the girls out alone at night."” “Instead of glving all their millions to schools and libraties 1 wish some of tho philanthropists would protect the girls of this country agaihst the brutes who make them afrald to leave thelr homes alone. They could safeguard ihe glrls by providing for their instruction in jiu jitsu. “Why, look at me! I'm a nurse at the Henrotin hospital. I llke to take a walk sometimes late at night. And I just dare a masher or any other kind of a man to bother me. I can take care of myselt. Miss Berger, who lives with her father, Dr. Frank J. Berger, 9@ Southport avente, was fof & time assistant to Tsunefiro Tomita, & Japanese jlu Jitsu Instructor of fame. here — Little Things to Remember, Tyebrows are Improved by tlhie use of a little vaseline every other night. For delicate skins nothing I8 softer ana more healing than aimond meal .n’ the washing water. Relaxatlon is one of the greatest of beautifier To cleanse the teeth thofoughly, use, waxed dental floss after each meal Damp hands should be after treated to powdered alum. Some pimples disappear under the appii- cation of bismuth. A little glass of orange juice taken In the morning is splendid for clearing the com- plexion. To correct stooping shoulders, always ro- member to stand with the abdomen drawn In and chest thrown out. To acquire an erect and graceful carriage, practice wziking abiut ye a while each day balancing a book on your head, Th's 18 & good old r Flvesminute exerelses are now part of tho health regime of wll ambitions girls. Af bathing, throw the h 1 ck as far as posaib five tim 1 the arns back five times, to broaden the chest, bend the knees forward five times, and the upper part of the body backward and fcrward from the walst. Walk around the room on the toes, to strengthen the muscles at the k of the legs, and whilc with still in a glow rub weil the bath towel and dress. Women of the Orle The movement toward glving more free- dom to women In India grows, d grows quietly, which encourages the bolief that it is a real reformn. It is n year ago/since an Institution was ojoned in one of the larger clilos, which offered to educate girla whose parents will unmarried until promise to keep them they reach their 20th year. Many of the smaller towns are now taking up the question of the remarriage of widows. The feaction is really a strong one, and not only does the idea of allowing these girls to reach the state of womanhood before matrying, instead of while little children, but actually the mar- rlage of widows has become a desirable matter #0 that matchmakers now seek for husbands for widows and the young men are willing to accept them. It is only a few monthe ago since one of the native high court fudess arranged a mafringe for his widuwed daughter in o manneé: that was very public, and the uewspApers were sufficlently enlightensd openl¥ to approve Ms course. This I8 & murvelous change. A® 10 the women of Turkey and Persia doubts begin to rise ns 1o whether they can hold the freedom they have worked for—not becauke of thelr Kkindred and friends nor because of ah ungenerous spirit O the pArt Of the FevSIUTIAN.AE 1A Both countries whom the women have striven to «1d, but because the struggle for fre dom 18 alrendy apcken of as forsdoomed to fallure. Persiany en's counsel and ald, Turk party, but signk the meantima Persian trust to thelr as do the are ominous. women are wom- Youns n hoping fot success. Ifi both countries At is the high-cliss womeh who are cultyred, that are making a fight fot lberty. While her poorer sister {s ignorant, the Persian woman belonging to the middle and upper classés has been leavened with mod ernlsm In the achools conducted In Persia by Americany, French and English. How far these #chools have succeeded can be Inferred from the fact that the Perslan woman has not héen merely Invested with surface culture. but, on the contrary, has been Inspitsd with a genulne love for freedom. The Perstan women of the cul- tured class sang pralses to the Persian Parliament when It was first estabiished They believed that a new era hal dawned upon the ecountry. One patriotic woman wrote A poem and dedioated it to the law- making body. The following lines are a part of It Can despots destroy the thelt despotic insanity? they harm the institution glorified by Angel Gabriel {n heaven? Never shall a tyrant have the power overthrow the structure Whoee foundation rests on equality Another case will serve to show the de- votion of the women of Persla to thelr country’'s cause. A sweetheart who lived in one of the provinces refrained fiom Writing to her lover, telling him how mueh she missed him or complaining of his ab- rence. #he wrote him, Instead, that she looked upon him as a deputy who had to be far away from her. She sald: “I wish 1 could be with you In our dear Parlin- ment. But T do not complain. T want you to stay theére as long as the country demands 1t of you. Be brave and strong and remember that the Parliament must bo defended with the last drop of blood, In doing so you are bullding the Persia of the future, whoss greatness depends on the courage of tha men of todny." —— Woman to Doss Parke Sqund. Again have women shown their desire for managing affairs and performing work which has usually fallen to men. This time 1t Is the women of Bayonne, the New Jersey City adjacent to the Btatue of Liberty. who are aspiring and in spite of the ridicule that firet grectod the sugges- Parltament In Can to freedom and Curious and Romantic Capers ot Cupid He Took the Hint. CAUSE he found that it would not be possible for hiM to secure a much de#ired pastorate as long as he remalned single, the Rev.. Rdward Barber of R the Methodist Episcopal church south, without waste of tmie, took to him- #elt a bride He has been in charge of a church near Lautel, Md., and came to Baltimore to at- tent the Annual conference, and to see it it were posible to get a Virginia appointment. “Brother," sald the presiding eclder, “if ¥ou were married, you would fit that place; but unmarried you had better not have 1t.' Mr. Barber got Into communicatfon with Laurel and in a few hours Miss Alta Mildred Welsh, 18 years old, was enroute to Maltimore. 'They were marrled and the bridegroom got the charge he wanted i Aged Suitor Balks. Love and land hunger wen't mix. Otheps Wise Llaste Bohner might have enjoyed today's clear, crisp alr and spring sun- shine by riding about Cypress Hills ceme- tery in a buggy on a honcymoon trip. In« stead ke spent the day In her home at 26 New Jersey avenue, East New York, sing- e Take back the heart that thou gavest! What Is mine anguish to thee. But it was a twostep time that she ployed the accompariment for those words, ard between stanzas she sald she'd much rather be walting at the church than walt- ing for a ar-old bridegroom to wake up to the fact that two persons could hot live on $ a week. “Here s what he wrote, here's his very note,” trilled the jlited Lizie as she swung 'round to the piano again to et In musi the dttails of how she had been wooed by Charles C. Griffith of 26 Jamalca avenue, an anclent bacholor with & weak heart, asthma and $%0,00. Lizzie, who is only 2% and heart whole, takes care of other persons' children for a living, and s as full of jingles as Griffith is of gold. Bhe was willing to sing for E HAVE had late coats and coats of embroldered net be- fore, but surely hever have the designers brought out such fas- clnating coats to sheer stuff as are put forward to tempt women to extravagdnce this spring And extravaganée it really Is, for the filmy, exquisite things come high. To be truly successful thelr sheer folds should be Welghted down by embroideries, and too, they are lovely ohly when planned with true artistic understanding of line and fold, so the really smart models emanate from master designers, and that always spells high prices, And yet—and yet many of the men and women who copy are very clever, would perhaps have béen as famous as those master artists had they had their oppor- tunity and environment, and we have seen two or three coats in unpretentious work- toomé which promised to turn out very well Indeed, “There are so many beautiful embrol- deted bands, motifs and all kinds of orna- ments which can be bought ready made now," sald one of the dressmakers respon- sible for these coples, “that if one has an eye for line one can get a good deal of the etfect of the Imported models without hav- Ing the work done to order on the material, and then there are @ good many kinds of embroldery which are quickly done after they are onee stamped.” The typlcal sheer coat of the season is of net, chiffon, marquisette or lace, un- lined, perhaps slecvelessna demna to be worn ovet a frock eh sulle or contrasting, by way of an accessory rather than a wrap. That is, a woman will probably ot take off thig filmy coat as she would another wrap ,but will regard it as an Integral part her costume. Of course an lmmense number of these sheer coats are being made up to match trocks, and here indeed is the top noteh of extravagance in this particular line, for the sult coat usually cannot be worn with anything save the costume to which It be- longs. A sheer black coat, on the conttary, or a white coat may be put to varlous uses, and probably it is In recognition of this faet that the French makers have put forth a considerable number of chic models in black—black marquisette, black chiffon or blask net. Almost every well known house shows sometiing of this kind and every New York importer who cgters to the tashion- able trade has brought over at least on of the black coats. Some the models fall fuil shoulders or from a shallow these, while often draped in | tashion over the arms or in the back and ’-homn. the figure silhouette through the from the yoke, but most artistic of transparent or semitransparent folds, do unless very skillfully designed tend to add bulk to the figu and, for that many deslgners have preferred using bolero reason or short bodice effects for the upper part | of the coat, loosely fitted of yet | somewhat clinging and defining the figure | while from the short walst line th { materfal falls in full folds almost to the floor. A glanc for this page gener course at the two net coats sketch wil) explain better t lnes taken by wor such coats CHIFFON AND one of these mod- els the matetial was a fine black net, In the other a sk marqul- sette; but in each case the blaek ls outlined by em- broldery in a dull gold fine brald or cord and in black. The one model with the laced sldes was In- tended for wear with a plain robe of white and had long sleeves of the black net over white chife fon, but If in- tended for sepa- rat wear @ Hoeveless ar- rang of a short sleeve would doubtless be preferable, We ha rur across & number of o coals of this class with the touc of dull g0ld to relleve the black; and sometimes with gold and jet combined in the trim- ming. A Paquin model, intended for even- Ing ware—a casino wrap as such unsub- statial trifles are dubbed on the summer lists, has an odd deep yoke of shirred and corded black velvet Don't elevate your brows, madam. A shirred and corded yoke of very soft and lustrous black velvet Is no awkward or bunglesome ‘thing in Mme. Paquin's hands and the velvet Is eminently becoming next the face. This yoke comes solidly down over shoul- der depth and its bottom line runs on down in deep slender polnts, each point ending under a handsome rhinestone ornament like a large round button. The lower part of the coat Is in elther chiffon or fine silk net (our memory fails just there) and falls full and unlined to the floor, the fulness coming out between the long yoke points in a most effective fashion handsome model on the cape t superbly emrboered in The embroidery design GOLD EMBROIDERED NET T BLACK UNIC. masses the jet so heavily around the #houlders that' it gives somewhat the & effect as ay Below the net falls fuli, but there s very deep, Jet embroldery around the bot- tom, running up in gleaming scrolls upon the net and in a heavy, nar- rower border along the fronts. This cape is laid In fine horizontal plaits across the arms so that theie Is a tlowing apery effect at the sides. Worn over & clinging frock of any of the charm- Ing #pring tones, these transparent black eoats are extraordi- narily effective, but they, of course, demand formal tolette and the models heavily and gorgeously adorned with metal, jet or crysial “are designed rather for evening wear than for afternoon and black coats will in company afternoon t Some coats of the same type as the biack models deseribed are made up In the soft smoky grays and usually in company with & gray hat posed to he worn though the gold any instances ac- ettes are & over any harmo: g color as well as over gray. Since these popular grays harmonize almo as generally as black, such & eoat has a wide sphere of usefulness. One smoke gray ma model which 1s drawn In at th st line by a cord and by embroidery of dull silver s an extraordinarily modish garr it & number of the mod- corded in Russlan fashi it the walst give too much thickness r 9 Innumerable coats of shee mater with white chiffon or wit : e belong to a class ap from th tra at, which sparent ¢ him and make Nome happy when he prorie ised to glve her the house In which shy Hived and a big 16t of 1and i the rear and $20 A week for house and spending money 1t was with that understanding that guests were Invited and the liouse was dec- orated for a Saturday wedding, But Griffith spolled things at the altar, He couldn't have done a hetter job at it if he had been the villain in & Third avenue melo« dtama. Something must be forglven on account of his age, but he went too far when he kisted the bridesmaid and@ nibbled a plece of frosting off the wedding cake before an- rouvneing at the last moment that he had decided not to glve Miss Bohner the deed to the house and lot as a tharriage gift, and had declded also that $ & weck would be blg enough allowance, a8 he couidn't eat much on account of his heart. PRy Wins Bride in Parlor Car. In a dusty parior car, whirling acro the continent toward the land of perpetual eurshine, a soldler boy, elad in his khakl uniform, was hurrying to the call of duty, that would lead him to the far away Philippines. Among the crowd of sweltering tourists, business men and pleasure seckers another warrior, a tiny person with a bow and arrows, and—a girl. For four days, among the grime and duat and dirt of the stuffy car, Sergeant Thomas H. Rowland of the United States army, fought the greatest battle of his Iife—and won. The spolls of victory was & promise that It filled the soldler's heart with glndness and the kirl's heart with sadness. But to the tiny warrior who had been his ally, it was simply the old, old story. 1t was five years &go that Miss Willle Raper of Virginia, anhd &n heiress In her own right, met the soldler boy, who soon became her swectheart Ih the parlor car. And it was five day# later that a trans- port was walting at the dock at San Fran- clsco to take him away from home. There were tears at the parting, for, Ia spitd of the sturdy coutage cf her for- bears—good old Virginia st-ck—she, the girl, ald the natural girlish thing, wept and told him to go and do his duty for his country; but to pléase—oh, please— come back and not let one of those horrid FAlipinos shoot him. And he; flushed with the victory of his four days' Whitiwind courtship, and, glad- dened by the promise he had won, boarded the ship with @ devil may care air, arter vowlng moré promises in return. At laet the Intrepld sergeant, tanned to a swarthy brown by his years of service in the far east, came back and took the first train south, seeking fils pretty' heiress in her mountain home and there he made her pay the foffeit of her promise. Weds in Rhyme. Justice of Peacé Wetrenteyor, the poet of Clayton, Mo., has established a record by martying six couples In one hour. In- cldcntally there were verses for each eere- mony. Up to the time of the fush it had been an unusually dull day for the man who thinks and talks and tles nuptial knots in rhyme. He was sitting with his poetic feet on his desk. Jambics, troches, anapests and dactyls playfully chased each other about the room. Yawhing and stretching his arms above his hend, Werremeyer muttered: “Qh, solitude, 1 love you not You bring me in no ‘shekels, 1’3 rn to make two young hearts one, en though the bride have freckles.” Shylng the revised statutes at his office cat, Pentameter, the poetic justice, was about to settle back in his chair for a shooze when the door was gently pushed open from the outslde. Wertemeyer was on his feet In a Jiffy to greet the couple In characteristle style: “Aha, you've Broke the spell at last. Walk 'in; I'm glad to sec you. T'll make you one And may the sun Ot happiness ne'er flee you." In cholce blank verse he pronounced the céremonial The footsteps of the first couple were still echolng in the corridor when the second appeared. “Aha," sald Werremeyet. “They're coming now as thick as flles Afound a sugar cask, Awake, my muse, Your bard enthuse To do this gladsome task.” For an hour there was no rest for the poetle justice. All of the six couples on whom he lavished the rondelays, triolets, quatraing and limericks were from 8t Louts, Whien the last had departed Werremeyer mopped his brow and sald: There was once a justice who doted On verse that the néwspapers quoted. He ted knots for six While a man could say ‘“nix," An achlevement, you'll grant, that was noted. Having done enough work for one day, he locked his office and went home. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Mother, (writing)—Bobby, how many times have T told you to Resp quiet? Bobby (reflectively)—S8even. Tommy~—Say, Johnny, did you ever think you would like to be a pirate when you beeome a man? Johnny (contemptuously)—I should say not. Plrate are played out. 1 want to be president of & big trust, or something of that sort. — Tommy, after going to bed, became thirsty, or thought he did. He called out: “Ma, T want a arnk." The mother's volce answered back: ““Tommy, you g0 to sleep.” Tommy grunted, turned over, and was silent for ten minutes. Then agaln: “Ma, T want a drink." ““Tommy, you go right to sleep,” was the reply, Intense silence again for ten minutes. Then: “Say, ma, I want a drink." “Tommy, If you don't go right to sleep I'll come ana spank you." More sllente, this time for about two minutes. And then: “Say, ma, Wwhen you come to spank me, won't you bring be a drink?"* tlon they are peralsting in thelr effort to be appointed park policeman and the park commission has At last decided that the experiment shall be tried this spring and summer, Mrs. Alfred S. Bwan of No. 64 Avenue K yesterday sald she would accept the position of superintendent of the corps of women. Six othet women have agreed to act as guardians for children In the park, and Mrs. Julla Goldsier, originator of the plan, expects many more volunteers. Alexander Christle, president of the park commission, sald yesterday: “Thie has been joked about a groat deal, but It has Its serfous side, If these women mean business and are willlng to report for duty at 8 o'clock In the morning, with another squad at ¥ o'clock In the after- noon, and If they are mentally and phy- sically eapable, I am sure the board will employ them." It Is not purposed to uniform the women, but to equip them with badgeés and canes. Household Helpa, A large pinch of salt put in the tank ot A ocoal oil lamp will cause it to give a better light Tty & little lemon and salt mixed the next time a price mark sticks to the bot- tom of china dlshes pr bric-a-brac, A little muriatie acid added to the rins- ing water after a blue and white fibre rug is scrubbed with soap and water will help to restore the color. Instead of adding bluing to water in which lace has been rinsed try making the final rinsing In milk; it gives a lovely creamy tone to the lace The esiset way to clean a eereal cooker 18 to turn It upside down in & pan of bojl- ing water and steam it untll the stieky mass Is soft and loosened from the sides of the pan Always line a cake pan with paper. The medium _ welght yellow paper, used for wrapping, can be bought for 10 cents a foll. Gréase the paper, not the pan, ex- ¢ept on the edge; When too many oysters have been greamed for filling pates they can bo re- heated the hext day by adding a little more milk and fresh seasoning. Heat in & déuble boiler or they may burn Do not put & tomato aspic to harden in a tin or fron baking pan; the acid In the Jelly acts on the tin and makes the salad taste. while the hiack pan gives an un- sightly black rim to the aspic. Cake pans can be more quickly greased It the pans are first heated. An casy way is to put small lumps of butter over the lining and stand pan on top of stove for a minute before spreading the grease A sticky cake or bread pan should not ba cleaned with a knife or anything which will ecrateh the surface and make stiok- ing more probable thereafter. For this reason the crust of bread often advised as a cleaner fs not desirable, — Chat About Women. Miss Emma C. Sickles is trylng to gef the government to establish a bureau of demestic #clence and lunchrooms in con- nection with the varfous government de- partments. ~She believes that cooking will, In time, rival stenogfaphy, book- keeping and ofher similar work Miss Beatrice Harradén has had many Interesting lotters written efther in re- lation to or prompted by her literary werk. They have come from some ped- ple ltving in lonely staticne in faroft countries. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, British Columbia and elsewhere. As a reward for her serviees In better- Ing the condition of the Itallans in South Brooklyn, Miss Elcanor Colgan, a Brook- Iyn school teacher, has recclved a golden cross from Pope Plus X, and a certificate which makes her a member Knlghts of the Papacy. Lady Cook, better known to Amerlcans a8 ‘'Ténnessce Clafin, {s golng to give an entertalnment this fall in New York, to whieh unmarried salaried people will pe invited, the object to be matrimony. She thinks the reason salaried people do not marry is because they do fot know one another. She s golng to ask 100 women, prominent scels to assist her in re- celving the unmarried people, Dr. Tekla Hultin, a member of the Finnieh Diet, says that in that assembly the women and men are seated not mc- cording to sex, but according to thelr political affiliations. The women imme- diatély ehanged the status of the sex by voting together In favor of laws for thelr grod. A woman could not leave the coun- try without asking her husband's permis- sion, and that was changed. Dr. Clara M. Moore of Denver has Just been appointed physician of the wom- an's department of the State hospital for the Insanc at Pueblo. Dr. Catherine Col- lins was recently put fn charge of the manufacture of antitoxin for the State Board of Health, in Georgla. Dr. Eara T. Mayo and Dr. Edith Loeber have joined the elinical staff of the Anti-Tuber- culosis league of Louisiana. Central Illinols possesses the oldest un- married woman in the United States. She is Miss Carrie Milhouse of Kendal coun- ty, Wwho will be 16 yeats of age May 1 next. She was born fn Norway and while in her native land was about to be led to the altar, but thanged her mind at the last moment and has remained single since. Bhe was famed as & beauty in Norway anhd tradition recounts her attrac- tive features when a young woman. Miss Borah is sald to be the only wo- man_lawyer in India. She is sald to make a comfortable income by practicing her profession and to encourage other wo- men to follow her example. Her most in- timate friend 1b Mrs. Sarofinl Naldu, the wife of an Hnglish medieal officer’ sta- tioned fn India. Mré. Naidd is a native Hindu and a poet. One of het books, “The Golden Threshald,” was well England both by the review buying publi of the be offered you? Or, do Most intelligent and or bab vorite ine ani of the several ingredients diseases for whic Prescription.” The substitute is made of, but vorite Prescription, is one of the new season's fads position and character o! whether as food or medicine ? For the cure of woman’s peculiar weaknesses and derange headache, backache, dragging-down pain or ditress and Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is iving strength to nursing mothers and in preparing the system of the expectant mother 's coming, thus rendering childbirth safe and comparatively painless. The “Fas rescription” is a most potent, strengthenin i the orgam distinctly feminine in particular. or St. Vitus’s dance, and other distressin, and orghanic diseases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorities of all the several schools”qf practice, recommend each Ll it is claimed to be a cure. sending a postal card request for a free booklet of extracts from the to Dr. R, V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, come to you by return post. It’s foolish and often dangerous to experiment with new or but slightly tested med- icines—sometimes urggd upon the afflicted as “just as good” or better than * Favorite ishonest dealer sometimes insists that he know know what you are taking into your stomach and s To_ him its only a difference of profit. Do You Open Your Mouth Like a young bird and gulp down w sensible people now-a-days Thls he feels he can well of which “Favorite Prescription You may read hatever food or medicine may ou want to know something of the com- that which you take into your stomach insist on knowing what they employ whether as food or as medicine. Dr. Plerce belleves they have a perfect right to INSIST upon such knowledge. So he publishes, broadcast and on each bottle-wrapper, what his medicines are made of aad verifies it under oath. afford to do because the more the ingredients of which his medicines are made are studied aand understood the more will their superior curative virtues be appreciated. ements, giving rise to frequent res indred symptoms of weakness, a most efficient remedy. i It is equally effective in tonic to the general system and to It is also a soothin, i cures nervous exhaustion, nervous prostation, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea g nervous symptoms attendant upon functional and invigorating nerve s made for the cure of the what rhtiv say for yourself by cading authorities, N. Y, and it will s what the proffered you don’t and it is decidedly for your interest that sou should ys(em expec!mg 1t to act as a cu Therefore, insist on having Dr. Pierce’s Fa tive. 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