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3 L&} THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1897. HIS POCKETS WERE RIFLED Unknown Drowned Man Found in the.Bay Off Howard Street. His Purse and a Nickel Picked Up on the Wharf Where He Fell. Murder Theory Dissipated by a State- ment Made to Sailor Booth by Two Witnesses. An unknown man, supposed to be a sailor, was found drowned yesterday morning early off the Howard-street | wharf. The body was recovered by John Swansen and Harry Kraft. They | rolled the corpse on a barrel, believing that life not yet extinct, and when Policeman Caster came along he had the remains conveyed to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where it was found that the man had been dead for some time. The Rece covered that the pockets of the dead man had been turned inside out—which | has been the cas | ring Hospital surgeons dis- | with almost every | corpse that has been recovered from | the bay for several y past. It is | believed that the persons first finding | dead bodies floating plunder them of | whatever valuables they may be pos- | sessed and turn them loose again to be picked up by innocent partie | The suspicious circumstance in the | present case is the fact that a buck- skin purse, ‘containing 5 cents, was | picked up near the end of Howard- | street wharf shortly after the finding | of the dead man in the water. This is a fact which lends color to the theory | that murder and robbery might have been committed. The hands of the deceased showed | that he was a man who earned his t living by severe manual labor, ana his general appe S to the belief 3 Danish, Swed- raction, between He was dressed in lack clothes, with black but- tons of bone or horn, white shirt and collar and dark bow tie. His stockings were brown or tan, tipped and heeled with white. The hair and eyebrows | are brown, with sandy mustache; the eyes light blue and the nose slightly aquiline. A small bag of tobacco and | a pipe were found in the coat pockets. The body was taken to the Morgue, | where it will be held for some days for identification. A small patch of skin | had been rubbed off the right cheek- bone and another off the chin, and | thagse marks were caused, in all proba- bility, by the body having been washed by the tide against the foot of the | wharf. | Harry Kraft, who resides in the Cal- ifornia House, on the corner of East and Folsom, called at the Coroner’s of- fice shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon and delivered to Deputy Cor- | buck- | | | oner McCormick an old-style skin purse and a nickel, which he and | a man named Swansen found on the wharf at the foot of Howard street | after they had recovered the bod, He and Swansen jumped into a boat, and when they puiled the corpse on board they were surprised to see that his pantaloons were unbuttoned and one | of his pockets pulled inside out. | A. J. Booth, a or residing in the | same house as Kraft, also informed | Mr. McCormick that two young men, one about 18 and the other about 20 old, told him shortly before 4 lock in the morning that they saw the deceased staggering about the wharf drunk, and that they layghed at his funny antics after his hat fell overboard. As soon as they saw him | fall over the stringpiece they raised the | cry, “Man overboard!” They explained | to Booth that they lived in Oakland, | and, having missed the last boat, were | spending the time pending the start- ing of the first beat in loitering about the wharves. Kraft was in a saloon near by and | heard the cry of “Man overboard.” | ‘That was what attracted his attention | and induced him and Swansen to at- tempt the rescue. SENATOR MANONEY LAID T0 REST The Funeral Was Attended by a Large Concourse of Friends. A Fitting Eulogy to the Memory of the Deceased Pronounced by Father Powers. All that is mortal of the late Sen- ator J. H. Mahoney was borne to Holy Cross Cemetery yesterday morning. The service at the Baldwin Hotel was | an imposing ceremony. The parlors were crowded to overflowing and the line of mourners extended along the corridors into the street below. Many of political prominence were there. Delegations from the Veteran Firemen | United Workmen, to both of which organizations the dead Senator be- longed, attended. Prominent poli- ticians of both parties, Senators, As- | semblymen, members of county com- | mittees, officials, deputies, merchants, | brokers, lawyers, they gathered in force to pay a last tribute to the man who had been before the pulic so long and had done his share in the ad- vancement of the State. In the center of the great parlor of the Baldwin Hotel lay the handsome casket. Flowers were sent in the | greatest profusion, but the names of | the senders were not conspicuous on | the cards. The most beautiful of all, | perhaps, was a tall cross of violets | and lilies with the inscription: *“J. H. M. Rest.” The wheat sheaf was con- spicuous among the floral tributes. All the dead Senator’s friends, all the or- ganizations to which he belonged, con- tributed, and the display was most effective. The religious ceremony over the re- mains was performed by Father Pow- ers of the Paulist Fathers. The dead man’s widow and daughter sat in an ante-room within hearing, accom- panied by the chief mourners. After sprinkling the coffin with holy water, while two acolytes burned incense, Father Powers read the prayer for the dead in Latin. Then he paid tribute to the dead man’s memory in a few ex-’ pressive words. He reminded his hear- ers of the life-long patriotism of Ma- honey; his service as a fireman, as a guardian of the peace, as a politician, | a while. | a light wind was blowing all day and | weapon. | ernor Markham J | cific Steam Whaling Company, | and for other purposes the wide world | over. | which has never been printed,” said as an earnest member of the commun- ligious views, Father Powers said: “He was a Catholic. A Catholic in practice; not merely in name, but in heart. What he believed he practiced, and his life bears testimony to his be- lief. He lived as a Catholic should. His last sickness was an act of faith on his part. For, at a time when he knew the end was inevitable, when he could well have been excused from the duty, he insisted upon going to mass. His deeds of generosity and charity were abundant, and were unostenta- tious. He had a heart full of sympathy for the poor, and there are many such who will mourn his loss.” At the conclusion of the services car- riages took the invited guests to the Third and Townsend streets depot, where a special train stood waiting to convey the party to Holy Cross ceme- tery. The following acted as honorary pall-bearers: Joseph S. Spear, Henry 1. Kowalsky, Senators Eugene F. Bert and Percy Henderson, Assemblymen Kelly and Dennery, Martin Kelly, Charles D. Leavy, two veteran firemen and two from the Order of United Workmen. L ROUGI BAR 0§ CHRISTIAS One Schooner Forced to Put| Back Into Port and Wait. | Another Cutting Affray Disturbs the Holiday Quiet—Captain Brown Honored. A singular occurrence for Christmas Day, happening as it does so seldom as to be noteworthy at any time, the bar was so rough yesterday that the schooner Martha W. Tuft, which start- ed for La Paz, had to return and wait The peculiar fact was that the bar is hardly ever known to be rough unless a stiff breeze is blowing. An altercation on board the scow Pinole, lying at Howard street wharf No. 2, yesterday, between the cook, Henry Weigel, and the stepson of the captain, a man named Henry Pan- horst, led to Panhorst being cut in the neck over the cartoid artery by the cook. The injured man was treat- ed at the Harbor Hospital, and Dr. Deas asserts that if the wound had be a little bit deeper the man would have bled to death. Weigel was arrest- ed by Officers Dillon and McGowan and booked at the Harbor Police Station on a charge of assault with a deadly He has a contused wound over the right eye. P. T. Brown, superintendent State tugs, was presented yes- terday with a handsome onyx clock by the officers and men of the tugs Gov- and Governor Irwin. . J. Leary, chief engineer of the Ir- win, made the presentation speech. The steamer Alliance sailed at 11 a. m. yesterday for Seattle. She is bound for Alaska in the interest of the Pa- and full accounts of her trip have already been published. She has been delayed owing to necessary repairs. The gasoline launch America, built for Kitterman, the Stockton-street furniture dealer, seems to be resting under a_ “hoodoo.” As fast as one thing is discovered wrong and repaired another crops up. She is now lying in Kane's Cove, and no use has so far been made of her. e A SIMPIE BEGINNING. The featherbone industry at Three Oaks, founded and developed by E. K. Warren of that city, is now univer- sally known by reason of the unique and successful direction of his energy and genius, says the Benton Harbor (Mich.) Palladium. Nearly twenty years ago Mr. War- ren was in the dry-gdds business and knew the varied uses to which whale- bone was put in dressmaking. He also knew that whalebone was growing scarcer and higher as the demand for it increased, and he as well as others thought some substitute would have to be supplied. One day he held a toothpick in his mouth, and as he meditated he chew- ed the little piece of quill, as is the habit of some people, and the harder he thought the harder he ground the quill, until it was reduced to fibrous fragments. Taking these fragments in his hand the thought suddenly oc- curred to him that here was a substi- tute for whalebone. It was very tough, exceedingly pliable and quite durable. Later he visited a factory where they were making feather dust- ers, using’ turkey feathers, which were best adapted to the purpose. All feathers that had brush only on one side, now known as “turkey pointers,” were thrown out as useless, and, gaz- ing at the great pile of this waste, Mr. Warren wondered if these discarded quills could not be put to some good use. The toothpick incident recurred to him, also the growing scarcity and expense of whalebone. He saw that the “turkey pointers” had the best and largest quills, and, following up a | this idea, the establishment of a fac- | tory at Three Oaks for the prepara- tion of featherbone became a substan- tial reality about fifteen years ago. | At first the quills were treated in a | crude way, the feather being stripped and split by hand, and originally sold | to a limited trade as simple flat pieces; now 100 machines put the feathers through a score of processes that | transform them quickly from plain “turkey pointers,” received in great gunny sacks from different sources of supply, into the finished preparations known by a dozen different names to the trade and used in dressmaking The factory employs 250 hands here and fifty in its branch factory at Porter, Ind., and has its own electric- light plant and machine shops. It contemplates adding machines to make the paper boxes, of which it uses large numbers in disposing of its products. It has a corps of salesmen and saleswomen on the road, and their sales aggregate $1500 a day. —————— LINCOLN MADE A CONVERT. “I have a story on Abraham Lincoln United States Judge C. G. Foster. “In the winter of 1859-60 Lincoln visited Kansas, making speeches at Troy and Atchison. At Atchison he put up at the old Massasoit House, which every old-time politician will remember. Gen- eral Stringfellow, John A. Martin, Tom Murphy and I called upon Mr. Lincoln at the hotel. In the course of the con- versation Lincoln turned to Stringfel- low, who was a pro-slavery advocate, and said: “ ‘General Stringfellow, you pro-sla- very fellows gave as one reason why slavery should not be prohibited in Kansas that only the negro could break up the tough prairie sod. Now, I've broken hundreds of acres of prairie sod in my time, and the only question which remains to be decided is whether I am a white man or a nigger.’ | “General Springfellow admitted the force of the argument, and congratu- lated Mr. Lincoln upon his pointed, log- ical way of putting things.”—Syracuse ity in which he lived. Touching his re- | Standard WOMEN CAUSE W0 STABBINGS Jules Marty Was Severe- ly Wounded by Nat Wall, a Waiter. Wall Was Searching for Nellie Massey, Who Had De- serted Him. F. McArdle Gashed on the Neck and Head by Thomas Lavelle In a Fit of Jealousy. Nat Wall, a colored waiter at the Hotel Savoy, Post and Powell streets, is booked at the City Prison on a charge of assault with a deady wea- pon, and it is by the merest chance it was not murder. ‘Wall had been living at 112 Fourth street with Mrs. Nellie Massey, a woman who shot and killed her hus- band, a baggagemaster on the South- ern Pacific, about three years ago and was acquitted in the Superior Court. She left him Friday and early yes- terday morning he got filled up with liquor and went in search of her. He suspected she had gone to 211 Fourth street, and about 3 o’clock he made his appearance there. He knocked at all the doors, asking in a loud tone of voice if she was there, till finally Jules Marty, the proprietor of the house, went to him and told him to go away and not raise a disturbance in the house. ‘Wall was abusive, and, thinking he heard the woman's voice in a room, he tried to break open the door. Marty thought it was time to act and he at- tempted to eject Wall, who resisted and plunged a knife into Marty’s right eg. Marty fell with a groan and Wall fled. Dr. Forrest was summoned and attended to Marty’s wound, which, though serious, is not considered dan- gerous. Wall was arrested yesterday after- noon by Detectives Anthony-and Dil- lon and was taken to 211 Fourth street and identified by Marty. Another stabbing affray occurred yesterday afternoon, and F. McArdle, 611 Howard street, will have cause to remember Christmas day for the rest of his life. He has been living there with Jeannie Boyd, and Friday night Mary Hubbard, a friend of Jeannie's, came to stay with her over Christmas. Yesterday afternoon Thomas Lavelle, who is in love with Mary, called at Mc- Ardle’s house to see her, as he alleged she had taken $7 from him. He 'was re- fused admittance, and forced his way in by breaking a window. ‘When he got inside he drew his pocket knife and attacked McArdle. A terrific fight ensued, and the two women rushed out and yelled for the police. Policeman Murphy answered the cries for help, and when he entered the place McArdle was on the floor with a deep gash in his neck, severing two large arteries, and another in his scalp. McArdle was sent to the Re- ceiving Hospital and Dr. Howard stitched and dressed his wounds. Lavelle and the two women were taken to the City Prison. Lavelle was booked for assault to murder and the two women for vagrancy. NOT SO HUMBLE NOW. An English scholar has been collect- ing statistics in regard to the manner in which men and women make love to each other. He informs the world that the number of young Englishmen who embrace their sweethearts at the mo- ment when they are inviting them to become their wives amounts to 36 per cent. On the other hand 67 per cent of the men in love kiss their sweethearts on the lips at the critical moment, while 4 per cent shower kisses on their hair and 2 per cent content themselves with kissing their hands. At one time it was the fashion for love-intoxicated youths to fall on their knees when about to make proposals of marriage, but this fashion is evidently dying out, for we are assured that only 3 per cent of those in love at present fall on one knee and only 2 per cent vent- ure to sue for the lady’s favor on both knees. A curious reason has been as- signed for the decadence of this chiv- alrfous custom, which is that of late years the nether garments of males have been so constructed that it is rather risky for any man to flop down suddenly on his knees in a woman's presence. On the other hand wooers of to-day seem to be far more nervous than the gallant men who wooed and won a century ago. Twenty per cent of the English lovers of to-day are aw- fully nervous when the decisive mo- ment comes. The behavior of the young women is similarly remarkable. ‘When the men invite them to share their homes eighty-one out of every hundred fall without a word into the outspread arms of their chosen ones; 68 per cent blush very becomingly, and in maidenly fashion shrink away, as though frightened at their companion’s boldness; one out of every hundred, possibly more, possibly less, says our English statistician, falls on the sofa as if about to faint and 4 per cent are really astonished at receiving propo- sals of marriage. On the other hand eighty out of every hundred know very well what the men have come for and hence behave just as they should on such a momentous occasion. Further- more60per cent look their wooers bold- ly in the eyes, but the most curious fact of all is that one maiden out of every hundred runs away before the young man has finished his pretty love tale, with the object of telling the good news to her girl friends. —e—— BEGGED WITHOUT WORDS. A dear old clergyman once exchang- ed pulpits with a younger brother min- ister well known for his aggressiveness. Speaking to him before service, the resident pastor told his substitute that the window behind the pulpit was bro- ken, but requested the latter to say nothing about it, as he had spoken sev- eral times without effect. He added that the h: books were badly torn, and finished by saying, in an apolo- getic tone, that “he didn’t suppose the people could afford new ones.” The young minister promised to re- frain from making any remarks upon these matters. After beginning service he found the draught from the window unendurable. He quietly took his over- coat and stuffed it through the broken glass. The deacons became very un- easy, inwardly resolving to remedy this at the earliest possible moment. ‘When he announced the second hymn he found the last two stanzas missing. He read what he had, then sald to the congregation: “These are all the verses in my book; if there are any more in yours you may sing them.” Needless to say, the window was mended and new hymnals provided be- fore the next Sabbath.—Vogue. ————— Low's Horehound Cough Syrup cures bronchitis; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. * NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. V / OODOOOOOOOOOOOOQOODOOOOOOOOO00000000000000000 = After- Christmas . . . . Discounts BEGINNING TO-MORROW 1 1 3ADIES" ance pure wool, fleeced ©0000000000000000000000000000 (INCORPORATED) 937-945 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. | HOW THIS DISCOUNT WILL BE MAD 2 Albums Rainy Weather Underwear NON - SHRINKING UNDERWEAR—Part to prevent shrinking, the bal- and jersey high neck, long sleeves. honest bargain.. (Better grade at OUR GREAT DOLLAR VESTS FOR LADIES—Every thread pure_sanitary wool, S., Swiss ribbed, a hig 00/000000000C000000Q0000I000! Tollet Set Calenda Le 2S Per Cent. 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RS ® — For $3 50......A sult pattern of Fancy Worsted | (rop = 7 — S \A suit pattern of Fancy Broche | OU PLUSH CAPE—An e n\'r‘nnnnpATED’ 937-945 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. 0000000000000 0000000000 HIS CHRISTMAS WAS SPOILED J. Swanson of San Jose Viectimized by Bunko Men. They Introduce Him to a Game of Stud-Horse Poker and He Loses $300. Two Detectives Are Scouring the City to Find the Men, With Poor Chance of Success. It is almost inconceivable that in this enlighteried age so many men are so easily made the dupes of confidence operators. Strangers coming to this city from the interior have recently been made the victims of these sharpers, but all the publicity in theé world does not seem to have any effect in putting men upon their guard. There is a gang of bunko men who have their headquarters at 215 Post street and within the past two or three weeks they have operated successfully upon unsuspecting strangers. Their latest victim is J. Swanson, a visitor from San Jose, and he now mourns the loss of $500 in good coin of the United States. Swanson arrived in the city yester- day morning and while walking along Market street a well-dressed -man ac- costed him wishing him the compli- ments of the season. The man had a pleasant address and soon had wormed out of Swanson where he came from, what he intended doing and the more important fact that he had money in his pockets. It did not take long for the bunko- steerer, for so he was, to get Swanson to accompany him to 215 Post street on the plea that he wanted to introduce him to a dear friend who would be de- lighted to make his acquaintance. Swanson was taken to a room where another pleasant looking man was seated at a table covered with green cloth. He was introduced to Swanson as Dr. Hunter and the trio chatted away pleasantly for a few minutes. Then the doctor said to Swanson’s new-found friend: “By the way, I want my revenge on you for winning so much money from me last night at poker. This fellow,” addressing him- self to Swanson, “is a hard one to beat, but I think if he will give me a chance I can knock the stuffing out of him.” The cards were produced and the “doctor” lost $1000. Swanson’s friend took him aside and told him quietly that the “doctor” was a good thing, and if he had say $500 he would share the pot with him and they would go halves on any further winnings. Swanson's cupidity was aroused and he produced the $500. Immediately the doctor’s luck changed and Swanson's friend lost the $500 and a pot of money besides. He expressed his regret to Swanson, and, making an excuse that se had to go out for a minute, he dis- appeared. The “doctor” politely bowed Swanson out of the room, wishing him, sarcastically, a merry Christmas. Swanson pondered over the affair for some time, and then he came to the conclusion that he had been swindled. He went to police headquarters and notified Captain Bohen, who detailed Detectives Egan and T. B. Gibson on the case. The two detectives and Swanson scoured the “tenderloin” district yes- terday afternoon and last night, but were unable to find the two bunko men. They are well known to the police, and unless they have left the city their ar- rest is certain THE IRISH IN THE BRITISH ARMY. The world has been so widely thrilled by the heroic incident of the storming of Dargal Ridge that the following, from an editorial in the New York Evening Post, will no doubt be read with interest: There are now no Highlanders in the British army, and there are compara- tively few Lowland Scotchmen. The recruiting sergeant picks up a few boys about Edinburgh and Stirling Castle, but the stalwart battalions who fought at New Orleans and in the Crimea, and followed Havelock and Colin Campbell in India, are seen no more. In fact, the Scotch have ceased to enlist, for the simple reason that they can do better. Scotchmen gene- rally are too prosperous and indus- trious and canny, and emigrate too easily, to take ‘“the Queen's shilling.” The famous Highland regiments are new made up mainly of Englishmen and Irishmen, and consequently are really a kind of picturesque and harm- less imposture. * * Lord William Beresford, a fighting Irishman of the navy, has gone down armed with sus- picions to the War Office and dis- covered that the “Gordon Highland- ers,” who stormed the heights of Dar- gal—and set the Scotch bugles blow- ing, were mainly Irishmen, and that even the famous piper, who piped the “Cock of the North,” after being shot through both legs, was an Irishman named Findlater, and said, “Arrah, be aisy,” instead of “Hoot, mon.” * * * Probably everybody in the British em- pire knows that Marlborough was an Englishman and Lord Clyde a Scotch- man, but how many know that Wel- lington was an Irishman, and that Lord Roberts and Lord Wolseley are also Irishmen? The achievements of these men and of others like them go to English or Scotch account, while to the TIrish is left the glory of Kkilling landlords and cutting off cows’ tails. It is largely in these small things that Irish misgovernment consists. It has been made a crime and disgrace for the Irish to be national, while in the Scotch it has been encouraged, and the result is Irish hatred and aliena- tion. The notion that it can all be cured by a visit from the Duke of York and Mr. Balfour is part of the same huge mistake which has made Irish history such a ~hapter of woe. R COUNT GOLUCHOWSKI'S FORE- CAST. London_Spectator. The position of Europe is, therefore, this: Its artisans may in the twentieth century have insufficient work, while its agriculturists can grow neither farinaceous food mor flesh food—their only possible occupation—at even a reasonable profit. Transoceania, con- sidered as a whole, will at once feed Europe, and, as regards all staple in- dustries, undersell it. That, says Count Goluchowski, is the outlook for the twentieth century now coming so rapidly upon us; and what is Europe to do to meet such a condition of af- fairs, which “threatens the very exist- ence of her peoples”? Clearly, to be- gin with, he suggests, she must com- bine, or she will be overwhelmed in de- tail, not by armies, but by the extinc- tion or the profitlessness of industries without which she cannot live. She must adopt a protective system of some kind, and to accomplish that she must remain at peace. Count Goluchowski, as we had re- cent occasion to point out, is an abler man than the British world has as yet had an opportunity of perceiving, and it is more than possible that he is also a far-sighted one, while the facts which alarm him are patent to all economists and all Chancellors of Ex- chequers; but to make his prophecy of other than rhetorical value he should have told us more distinctly what form he thinks the ‘“‘defense” of Eu- rope should assume. The great prob- ability is that nothing effective can be done by Governments at all, and that economic safety for Europe—in other words, the means of supporting her increasing population—must be sought in a totally different direction. We do not suppose that the Austrian Chan- cellor thinks it possible to prevent America, India, Argentina and other producing countries from exporting food, for Britain needs food, and America wishes to sell food. That would be to meet the united Anglo- Saxon race in. arms for its existence, and is too big a job for any coalition whatever to undertake; and without prohibiting production what can a “combined Continent” do? It might, no doubt, prohibit the import of food; but if it does food will be dear, and it is the dearness of food in Europe which makes Asia dangerous in_the manufacturing competition. And it might also prohibit Transoceanic man- | ufacturers from coming in; but if it does both things it will cut up trade by the roots, and have nobody to buy | and sell with except Continental Eu- ropeans, who cannot, on the hypothe- sis, maintain themselves without ex- ternal commerce. “Taking in one an- other’s washing” is not trade. | Failing these two devices, both of which have so far proved unsatisfac- tory, what is Count Goluchowski go- ing to do? He can hardly offer a bounty on everything that Continen- tal peoples produce, as Germany and France do on beetroot, for no treasury could bear the expense, and no people would pay the necessary taxes. Then what is to be done? The truth is there is nothing to be done except to bear competition in patience, using so far as may be the superior intelligence of European captains of labor, machin- ists and inventors until success in the competition develops among Asiatics ‘new wants, a higher rate of wages, and a greater reluctance to work ex- cessive hours. Asiatics like ease and plenty and luxury like everybody else. It is quite true, as Count Goluchowski sees, that the world’s industry is go- ing to be pooled, and that this places | Europe for a moment at a disadvan- tage, especially as regards agriculture; but the process is a natural one, and cannot be prevented. As soon as it is complete and commerce is free each country will produce what it is best qualified to produce; and we may rely on it that Europe, with its superior energy and brain, and habit of organi- zation, will not be left hopelessly lag- ging in the race. Simplicity of life is not everything in industrial organiza- tion any more than in political, and on the political side Europe has shown herself an easy winner. ————— HINTS FOR THIN WOMEN. Boston Transeript. It takes time to get fat just as it takes time to grow thin. The candi- date for added flesh should get all the sleep possible—from nine to ten hours. In addition, & nap in the middle of the day will help. While napping no stays, tight shoes or bands must be worn. If one cannot sleep one should lie down in a darkened room at least thirty min- utes instead. In the morning a cold plunge or' at least a cold sponge bath must be taken, dashing the water on the shoulder, neck and coflarbone, drying with a Turkish towel and avoiding heavy clothing. A thin | woman should avoid cumbersome wraps, heavy-weight dress goods and linings. She should not tire herself bicycling and she should have plenty of fresh air. 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