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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

A sensible girl will not keep lot of COS
metics and drugs on her toilet table, but there
are few articles she should always have in
a convenient place. She should have an ar
ray of glass stopped bottles containing alco-
hol, alum, camphor, borax, ammonia and
glycerine or vaseline A little canphor and
water may be used as wash for the mouth
and throat if the breath is not sweet Pow
dered alum applied to fever sore will pre-
vent it from becoming very unsightly or
noticeable. Insect stingS or eruptions on the
skin are relieved by alcohol. A few grains
of alum in tepid water will relieve people
whose hands perspire very freely, rendering
them unpleasantly moist. A few drops of
sulphuric acid in the water are also beneficial
for this purpose and are also desirable for
those whose feet perspire freely. We should
always recommend care in the use of scented
soap; in many cases the perfume is simply a
disguise for poor quality. A good glycerine
or honey soap is always preferable. OF
course one may rely on scented soap from a
high class manufacturer, but it usually costs
more than it Is worth. In addition to the
soap for bathing, white CASTLE should be
kept for washing the hair. Occasionally 6
little borax or ammonia may be used for thi'
purpose, but it is usually too harsh in it!
effects.-Rural New Yorker.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

The ideal woman of the future must be
woman Of grand and strong physique. Bull
wer says ''the match for beauty is a man,
not money chest" Equally true is that
the match for the ideal man, the coming
Twentieth century man, is a woman, not
bundle of aches and pains. And woman will
not have gone far in her search for health
before she will have discovered that her dress
is fetter self imposed, which she herself
must summon strength to break. She must
cast OFF her slavery to the fashion plate and
go back to the freedom and grace of the old
Greek ideals, and find in the deep bosomed
Junos and the stately, well poised Venuses Of
antiquity, with their loose girdles and fiow-
ing lines of drapery, her models in dress.
She must be strong and many sided men
tally. All art, all culture, all those mighty
principles of physical and psychical law-of
which an ancient Greek has said that ''the
divinity is mighty within them and groweth
not oldn-must minister to her intellectual
wants, for how shall she give life who knows
not the principles of life2 Last, and best of
all, she must be grand in that freedom and
purity of soul which shall make her love a
royal boon, a guerdon worthy of all knightly
and chivalrous homage to the man who shall
call her-wife. -Caroline +. Corbin in Chi
cago Tribune.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

And then this lady exalted, as all cookery
experts do, the dignity of labor in the
kitchen. She protests that she does not want
q woman to be a household drudge but
"hone maker That is a very charming
phrase, but the Listener does not believe that
what keeps the majority of our New England
housewives away from the fullest personal
contact with pots and kettles is any notion
about the indignity of labor, but rather the
sheer impossibilty of performing all that is
required of wife and mother in this genera
ton and devoting themselves to the pots and
kettles, and the coal scuttles, and other
kitchen arrangements at the same time. 1t
is simply out of the question unless woman
could succeed in getting up revolution of
her own against all the customs of our life
at this epoch and could simplify domestic in
stitutions to a point quite unknown for a
generation past.
There are women who are "home makers"
In the good old sense; who do their own
work, and keep their parlor In good order at
the same time that they do their kitchens,
and go to church, and keep their children
neat and well dressed, and fulfill in some
degree the social requirements of the time
But such home makers are generally grave
makers for themselves. and sometimes for
their children. No man has right 20 lay a
woman under such q tyranny of toll; no
woman has right to lay herself undr- It. II
she survives 1t by her own inherent strength,
and escapes paralysis, she is pretty sure to
put the stamp of inyalidism upon her children.
And she dwarfs her own moral and mental
growth at the same time she dwarfs the
stature of her children.
The Listener doubts whether the slavery OF
homework has not really a more hideous
record behind it than negro s'avery on the
southern cotton plantations, 1t would be
very charming, indeed, if household life
could be so simplitied that housewife could
do all her own work and not break down heI
health and have some time left to catch W
with the world; if civilized people coulC
borrow some lessons from care free, easJ
living gypsies, and could manage to ge
along with one-tenth of the mere friction o
taking care of themselves that we now vast
our energies in, and sacrifice none of our cul
tivation in letting 90 of it. But that seem
to be out of the question The life that W
live We are in for now. And the genuin
home maker, under such system, must b
somewhere else most of her time than in tn
kitchen Boston Transcript
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

The cynic wants to know what Is gained
for any rational being when a city full of
women undertake to make and receive for
NAL visits y 4th persons whom, for the most
part, they do not wish to see. What Is
gained, he asks, by leaving cards with all
these people and receiving their cardsl When
a woman makes her tedious rounds why is
she always relieved to find people not INF
When she can count upon her ten fingers the
people she wants to see, why should she pre-
tend to want to see othersi Is any one de
ceived by it, Does anybody regard it as
anything but sham and a burdeni
Much the cynlc knows about i'll Is 1t not
necessary to keep up what is called societyf
Is it not necessary to have an authentic list
of pasteboard acquaintance to invite to re-
| ceptionsi And what would become Of US
without receptionsl Everybody likes to give
them. Everybody fiocks to them with great
alacrity. When society calls the roll, We all
know the penalty of being left out Is there
any intellectual or physical pleasure equal to
that of jamming so many people into house
that they can hardly move, and treating
them to Babel of noises in which no one
can make herself heard without screaming
There is nothing like reception in any IN
civilized country. 1t is so exhilarating-
Harper's Magazine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

Edmund Russell, the artist and lecturer,
says: Don't emblazon your front door with
armored knights and rampant lions, because
they don't belong or grow here. Don't put
your initials or your name over everything
you possess, so that people who pick up fork
or look at pillow sham will read John
Smith, my property It's all right to mark
things of use in some such away, but not
things of beauty, and if you must so mark
them make the letters small and put them on
the back of the object, not the front The
lady who wears her initials in diamonds on a
brooch is vulgar. The man who prints his
monogram on his china does useless thing,
for nobody is going to run away with his
dishes
Don't assert too much at the table, Don't
be too snowy and complex Don't make
your napkin rings too emphatic and obtru-
sive. Put flowers on the table, but place
them loosely or in glass, for if you put them
in china or any other Opaque substance you
conceal half their beauty, namely their stems.
Don't entirely cover your wall with pictures
and when you have a picture don't let the
| shop keeper kill it with big gold frame
| Try bronze or something that will relate te
| the picture on the wall and not make 1t stand
out like a big shiny spot of color and gill
| gingerbread. decorator and Furnisher.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

If you wish to make angels of young people
who were not born such, make your house a
home where they find q rational welcome.
Teach them how to build for themselves,
wisely and truly. Giye part of your life,
your love, your wealth, your home to making
angels Of the lost. l know some who thus
create about themselves an ever widening
paradise II from our world dear ones arc
to be drafted to make populous other para
discs, it is possible only as we SO train them
that they shall have a paradise spirit and fit
ness. Is there, on the whole, any study
nobler or greater than home buildingi What
an infinite study it is. Yet it all concentrates
in our own power to be ourselves what We
wish our wee ones to become. What exact
copies children are of the homes they live in
You may almost describe the furnishing OF
the house from the way the boys conduct
themselves Mary E. Spencer in Globe
Democrat
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

Another wonderful discovery has
been made, and that, too. by lady in
this country. Disease fastened its
clutches upon her and for seven years she
withstood its severests tests, but her vital
organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months she
coughed necessarily and could not sleep.
She bought of us bottle of Dr.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption and was
so much relieved on taking the first dose
that she slept all night, and with one
bottle has been miraculously cured. Her
name is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write
W. c. Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, n. C.
Get free bottle at Hartz & Bahnsen's
drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05
ELECTRIC MOTIVE POWER.
Probabilities Of its Adoption on the
Holmes syndicate Of street Railway

Probabilities Of its Adoption on the
Holmes syndicate Of street Railway |
Lines.
Mr.. G. B. Holmes, president of the
street car syndicate that has acquired
control of the majority of the car lines of
the three cities, attended convention of
street railway managers at Richmond re-
Gently. being president of the ASSOCIATION
and at Its close was presented with
floral street car and team which cost
$780, l. was the most important gath
ering of the kind ever held in the United
States. There were $50 com panies rep
resented, The capital stock massed there
was estimated at $3.50, 900, 900 and the
wisest heads in the business put in day
and s>half of close attention to the cleo
trio problem. There were representatives
of every electric street car system in the
land at the meeting and each was heard
in turn. There was no difference of
opinion as to the general principle IN
volved. Everybody agreed that electricity
is the coming power. and the only point
of difference was reached when they
tried to determine and select the best
method of applying it. Then it was
found that the storage battery, the over
head and the circuit system all three had
their advocates.
Mr.. Holmes opinion is that the over
head principle made the strongest show
ing. exhibiting great advantage over the
storage system. The latter is ponderous
and cumbersome. The storage cars weigh
seven tons each.
According to the Democrat Gazette, Mr..
Holmes says that it was shown that there
are forty-eight electric car lines in opera
ton in as many cities in the union. Dav-
export had particular attention because
of the hill, which every street car manager
IN the United States has heard of. since
the electric cars commenced running
Davenport's Brady street hill' is some
thing all the street railway managers il
America knew about,
The reports at the meeting showed
that the total mileage of electric line
now in operation is 1864 miles, with 81
cars, while 1884 miles and PAT cars ar,
summed up as projected. This ha
all been done since last February
There are three miles of electric ca
: track in Washington. 1t is operated b,
the overhead system, and is highly
t satisfactory. St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Kansas City are anon!
the cities that are now putting in plants
They are doing it, too, in spite of thei
success with cable lines. In Cleveland
they are putting electric cars on Eucli
a avenue, one of the finest streets in Amer
lea today.
According to all reports, the expert
ence of those who took part in the Wash
Y ington convention gives decided en-
phasis to the manifest superiority G
electricity All that requires testing no
is the durability of the electric plant
'. In the judgment of all managers they wi
prove superior in every particular to q
1t other systems in existence. This comm
h winter will test them thoroughly. al
/, next year will see more electric lines Or,
jeeted than there has yet been concel
ton of.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

Last week occurred the annual cleo
ton of civil officers of the Rodman Rifle
Military company. The following off
GERS were elected
President-Wm. Stewart
Vice Presidents-Clarence Blakesley
and Harry Simmons.
Secretary-Ed. NJ. Cook.
Treasurer Hugh A. Mcdonald,
Directors-W. T. Channon, Ed NJ
Cook, E. A. Mcdonald and W. T
Drips.
1t was decided to establish a ligh
gymnasium and properly equip it witt
dumb bells, Indian clubs, boxing gloves,
turning pole, etc.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

A friend was spending the day with me the
other day, and while she was here our pastor
called. After he left, the friend said: ibid
you ever notice with what respect Mr. Con-
rad speaks Of his wife and how courteously
he treats her at all timesm l nodded assent,
and my friend went on: 81 suppose my hus-
band is as good man as ever lived, but his
mother did not train him to be courteous to
ladies. His sisters were his slaves, and
thereby he is spoiled as a husband. l wish 1
could train several hundred boys to be hus-
bands for the girls of the next generation.
Do you suppose they'd consider it their pre-
rogative to drive the girls out of the east
est chair, take the sunniest corner of the
room, the best place by the light, throw
books, papers or slippers down for some one
to put away, and grow up with the idea that
wife must be the valet and tho rest of the
household stand respectfully by to obey Or
dersl You smile, but this is anything but a
subject to laugh over.
81 really believe husbands never think how
their unkind ways hurt. They don't realize
the difference to us-for instance, in their
manner when they come to dinner. All day
the wife has been alone with the children and
servants, and is more hungry for kind word
from her husband than an epicurean feast.
He comes in just as the dinner bell rings
For wonder dinner is once ready on time,
the husband says Couldn't he have saved
that heart stab by saying; That's pleasant
sound to a hungry fellow, and what binders
him from adding what would be milk and
honey to a weary soul all the rest of the day
nay, all the rest of her life-tyou are good
o., Isn IA
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

look, an act, that differs from the acts,
words and looks used in polite society. When
she first stepped from her fathers house into
an assembly room where well bred people
had gathered, she simply transferred herself
to larger but not different sphere. Her re-
quests are entreaties, favors are returnd by
thanks, little acts of service are done quietly,
as a matter OF course, and spirit of kindness
and consideration is associated with all she
says and does-Youth's Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

A Mighty intelligent lady was superciliously
particular that none of her children should
ever hear any word spoken which has the
most distant resemblance to a vulgar sound !;
but betrayed freely to them every confidence
placed in her by others, telling them all kinds
OF secrets, and so habituated them to neglect
all feelings of confidence, as though she con-
sidered that of no Importance in bringing
them up in the way they should go. If con-
sistency be precious jewel anywhere, it is
in the training of a family of children. Bar
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05
WOMAN AND HOME.
SAVING PENNIES AT THE EXPENSE
OF HEALTH AND STRENGTH.

The Slavery of Housework-Bad Manners
Of Husbands-Home Infiuence-Society's
Foible - sfercenary Marriages - Toilet
Articles-"Thanks"-Ih Ideal Woman.
In my housekeeping experience. which
covers period of nine years, have come to
the following conclusions: First, economy
may be carried to such an extent as to be-
come chronic. Second, woman's mission
does not consist in spending all her energies
IN studying five cent piece in order TO dis
cover the secret of enlarging its capabilities
Third, 1t is not the mission of the wifeo
mother to make savings banks of the family
stomachs. Buy enough; select the best; cook
enough; eat all you want; but do not have
large quantity of anything left over, which
will require time and strength and the addi-
ton of other materials to render palatable
From time immemorial men and women
have been in the habit of laying mortgages
on their backs, making hands, muscles and
nerves do the work that money ought to do,
slpsly that they may outshine their neigh
% bors in large house. a new piano, handsome
lace curtains or n fashionable library" and
when all has been procured, if indeed Mother
Nature has not foreclosed her mortgage, the
fingers are too stiff to play the piano, the
mind too dull to enjoy the library, the back,
bent almost double, is held in place by the
sharpest of rheumatic stitches, and the soul
has been so pinched and starved as to be be-
You'd the power of redemption.
How has such state of affairs been brought
apouti Oh, by economy, saving the pennies
N at the expense Of health strength and soul
expansion. We can all of us cite instances
wat have come under our observation, and
NY have entered into our experience, where
49, women folks have made bargain with
wa. man folk" that they will do all the
- providing he Will pay them the money
In IL will cost TO hire help. Spring suits
IN ~ and draped in the latest style loom up
a., ue imagination of mother and daughters
.u Tor a/time everything passes along
.s,.s..slflhy. The spring house cleaning is dis
posed OF in short order; stoves are taken
down before the frost is out of the ground
the heavy spring work is done up early, SC
that the said women folks" can have 6
chance to sew on the new suits before the
warm days come on. But one day the doc
tor is called to visit the mother or daughter
and the old story is repeated, ''Ohl guess WI
tried to do too much and got overdone.
Fortunate it is for the sick one if long lines
does not follow, and if the front door doe
not wear ''drapery." Ten times the amour
saved % gone to the doctor, and poor Mothe
Nature has to repair the wasted strength b,
slow and wearisome stages.-Good House
keeping.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

In the pursuit of the goo1 things OF
his world we anticipate too much; we
eat out the heart and sweetness of world
ly pleasures by delightful forethought OF
them. The results obtained from the use
of DR.. Jones Red Glover Tonic far exceed
all claims. 1t cures dyspepsia, and all
stomach, liver. kidney and bladder
troubles. 1t is perfect tonic, appetizer
blood purifiersa sure cure for sgue and
malarial diseases. Price, 80 cents, OF
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05
interest

yourself in life insurance. You will find
the renewable term policy of the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance society of
New York to be the best, the cheapest
and the fsirest. Avoids the unnecessa-
rily high cost of level premiums and the
uncertainty and insecurity of assessment
insurance. Net cost for SIC. 900 for year
1887. Age 25. $107 90; age So, 1921 90;
age 40, $4,000; age 50, S199,S0.
LIEBERKNEcHT & OLMsTEAD,
Local Agents,
No. 1912 Second ave. Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

Of the age in the medical line is the
liquid fruit remedy. Syrup of Figs man :
ufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup company, San Francisco, Califor>
MA. 1t is agreeable to the taste, accepta
BILE to the stomach, harmless in its ma
ture, painless yet prompt and thorough
in its action. Hartz & Bahnsen, Agents
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

W. D. Suit, druggist, Bippus. Ind,
testifies: Il can recommend Electric
Bitters as the very best remedy. Every
bottle sold has given relief in every case.
One man took six bottles, and was cured
of rheumatism of ten years standing.
Abraham Hare, druggist, Bellville, OHIO.
affirms THE best selling medicine
have ever handled in my twenty years
experience, Is Electric Bitters." Thous-
snds of others have added their testimo-
ny, so that the verdict is unanimous that
Electric Bitters do cure all diseases OF
the liver, kidneys or blood. Only hall
dollar bottle at Hsrtz & Bahpsen's
drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

As well as the hsndsomest, and Others
are invited to call on any druggist and
get free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsan
for the throat and lungs, remedy that is
selling entirely upon its merits and il
guaranteed to relieve and cure all chronic
and acute coughs, asthma, bronchitis ant
consumption. Large bottles 80 cent?
and 81.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

II mother does not lay aside her courtesy
with her company dress, if father is as re-
nhed In speech when the door has closed after
the guest as he was when they conversed to-
gether, the child will learn to be habitually
polite and modest. For good manners are
better taught by example than by precept.
The woman who wrote the Practical
Thoughts of a Mother" says she has often
noticed that girls who have grown up in re-
erement and simplicity have shown, when
placed in the great world, such elegant tact
and behavior as to astonish high born ladies.
where has the little one learned itFr' ex-
claims some one Of them 'sShe behaves like
queen; and my daughter, who has been edu-
Gated in Paris, only just look at herl there
she stands and turns her back to that lady;
how improper"
The mother does not reflect that her
daughter has been taught many rules of be-
havior, but retains very few. But 'sthe lit
tie one" has imbibed courtesy with the air of
her home. Her mother has taught her few
rules of politeness but has set an examine of
high bred courtesy. The girl has acquired
SO unconsciously the art OF polite behavior
that she feels what is and what is not "good
FORM
In her home she has never known a word
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

The young miss whose flesh is fed on pabu-
lum of pies and pork, whose sleeping room
is generally on a ground floor, and whose
mental nutriment consists of the para
graphed trash of the nauseous weekly"
cannot, in the very nature of things, be ex-
pected to be an outrunner in the race OF
beauty, health or wholesomeness of soul and
body, with the young woman who eats good,
well prepared food, sleeps twenty feet at
least above ground in a well aired room, and
whose growing brain is stimulated, refreshed
and strengthened by course of good and
suitable reading. -"Miss Marigold" in Pitts
burg Bulletin
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05
Superiority of Town Bred Girls.

Town bred girls always have much
sounder handsomer, winter teeth than coun-
try girls; they are straighter backed, hther
Iimbed, broader chested, brighter eyed,
whittier, redder, clearer, wholesomer, brighter,
cleaner-aye, cleanerl Point not the finger
of scorn at me because l tip over, with a
seemingly iconoclastic touch, the divinity of
the farm house, tine suburban idol Of the
poets dream and the proser's poem-I speak
but the truth.
Cleaner: cleaner bodied. cleaner souled
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05

Who of us are without trouble be they
small or larger The blessings of health
are best appreciated when we are SIGH
and in pain. A hacking cough, asevnrk
cold, or any throat or lung disease are
gery troublesome; but all Of these may be
quickly and permanently cured by DR..
Bigelow's Cure. Safe and pleasant for
children. Price so cents.