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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
W0'nan Personals.

The Queen Of Roumania has accepted
the Presidency Of the new Woman's
Library which is shortly to be opened
in Paris.
The Empress of japan, who is soon
coming to America, will have in her
suite two manicures, dentist, fourteen
doctors, ten fan-bearers, and a vast num-
Der of female attendants.
CURIOSITY is an essentially feminine
virtue, but most observant observers
have observed that man is not at all
unwilling to listen to the information
his inquisitive wife may have gathered.
The Irish sculptress, Miss Mary Red
mond, who has been studying for three
years in Italy, has returned to Dublin.
Although little over twenty, her work
is much admired and she is over
whelmed with orders, among them one
for bust of Gladstone.
MARION HARLAND is devout advo-
cate of the woman's club. aShe who
establishes woman's reading club in
an agricultural district, writes the we'll
known authoress, "does more to check
the deadly progress of farmers wives to
the insane asylum than all the doctors
and medical journals in the land.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is living
quietly in cottage in Florida, sur
rounded by an orange grove She rises
early in the morning, takes a short
walk, breakfasts, and then devotes four
hours to literary work. Her forthcoming
novel give will expression, in round
about way, to her religious views.
A vIsryoR who recently called on Miss
Murfree Charles Egbert Craddock)
found her in plain quarters. The room
was as bare of pretty decorations as the
average hotel apartment. The carpet
and paper swore at each other, as the
French say. There was the usual COM
plement of armed and armless chairs
and high writing table of the kind
usually found in offices, with Web
ster's unabridged upon it. Miss Muir
free, is of medium height, with square,
colorless face, blue-gray eyes, and a
mass of red-brown hair. She limps
painfully and seems rather shy OF
| strangers
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
roads. and the tendency IS to increase
the number.
Making Fac. Of fhe Won.e,s.


A woMAN's rights lady remarks that
the highest use of man is to have his
life insured for his wife's benefit. It'd
BIS.
The wife who keeps her husbands
buttons all sewed on has manifest
right to fish his pockets. Son,erpille
Journal
WOMEN, it is said, live longer than
men. This. comes of their keeping their
age secret. Death doesn't know when
to call for them. Boston Courier.
Upon her lover remarking, Il think
I'll marry thee, Jane Scotch maiden
replied, 81 would be muckle obleeged
to yeti ye would. st Louis Maga-
zine.
II is noticeable in the correspondence
of young mothers that the first baby is
spelled with big B, but later on there
is tendency to let the capital drop.
Philadelphia Times.
HUSBAND Maggie, what's the use of
paying girl $40 month while you do
all the work? Wife Well, if we didn't
have girl the neighbors would say
that 1 had to do all the work. --Mumcy
Weedy.
SALEsMAN-T This black, ma'am, is
called desespoir. 1t expresses the most
intense grief. Now don't you think,
madam Young Widow No. I
don't. Sell it to Mrs. Fifty-six. De-
spair, indeed Boston transcript.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
What a Girl shomld Learn.

To sew; to cook; to mend; to be
gentle; to value time; to dress neatly;
to keep secret; to be self-reliant; to
avoid idleness; to mind the baby; to
darn stockings; to respect old age; to
make good bread; to keep house tidy /,
to control her temper; to be above Cos
siping; to make home happy; to take
care of the sick to humor a cross old
man; to marry man for his worth; to
be helpmate to husband; to take
plenty of active exercise; to see mouse
without screaming; to read some books
besides novels; to be light-hearted and
feet-footed; to wear shoes that won't
cramp the feet; to be womanly woman
under all circumstances.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
Won,e,. n. Railroad Offices.

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat de-
voted some space recently to the sub
ject of female clerks" in railroad Off
ces, admitting that "this class of labor
is employed as much from an aim to
economy as efficiency. The women in
these offices are paid from 500 to $55
per month, which is from one-half to
three fourths rs much as men get for the
same work. At the general offices, of
the great systems centering in St.
Louis. q great number of women clerks
are employed. They are found in all
departments and win encomiums from
those in whose employ they are. OF the
700 employees in the general offices at
Cleveland, about per cent. are women.
The Nypano general offices have a
larger proportion of young women on
their pay-rolls than any other local line,
and majority of them are in car ac-
counts office. When this department
was organized two years ago, Mr.. Babb
made the experiment of testing the
capacity of female labor, and he says:
For certain kinds of work in this Of
fee I find young ladies are better
adapted than young men. They are as
class thoroughly conscientious and
painstaking, and do not slide over the
work in the siipshod way that some
young men do. For instance, I find
them particularly valuable in tracing
cars. We keep an individual record Of
the wanderings Of every car, and in this
routine work the young ladies give bet
ter satisfaction than men. OF the
twenty.four employees in this office
seventeen are young women. Their
wages range from $40 TO $45 per month. 4
The percentage of women employed
in the Nypano building is about 20,
In the auditing department Of the Lake
Shore and Bee Line roads women have
also gained firm footbold. ForRssort.
ing and checking up tickets they seem
to have peculiar fitness, and the wori
is done with great accuracy, rapidity
and neatness. Women clerks are also
extensively employed in some depart
ments Of the New York Central, Mich
igan Central and many other largl
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF MIR
STRANGE.

Mr.. Strange was an eccentric man
who did not know the three family dogs,
either by sight or by name. Each OF
his three boys owned dog, and as the
boys and the CANNES were inseparable,
he never saw the boys without at the
same time beholding the dogs. He
knew his boys, unquestionably, but he
belonged to the class of the absent
minded who realize only objects of the
first-class. Dogs were beneath the pur-
view of his intellect. And from this
unusual idiosyncracy some amusing
consequences followed.
If hog came into the yard in the
absence of the boys, Strange would
vain1y try to direct the attention of the
dogs to the trespasser "Sooboy
sooboy whoope! sick i'm sooboy! 500
boy!" he would cry, clapping his
hands, but Tige and Bull and Bob would
sneak under the house with lowered
heads and tucked tails. They seemed
to be saying to each other, What can
be the matter with the old fellow?"
Strange one day met his three boys in
afeld. Each was sporting with his
dog. The father, to amuse his sons,
suggested race. The youngsters were
to run to him, and the one that reached
him first was to be rewarded. Away
went the lads with shouts and laughter,
and the CANNES with yelps Of delight.
In few seconds the sire saw that the
youngest child was being outstripped,
and he began lodging the big boys in
order to throw the victory to the little
one. But the biggest of the dogs mis-
took the gentleman's nimble perform
ance for an assault upon his playmates
and seized him furiously by the seat Of
his pantaloons.
The way that dog growled and
wagged his head and tore cloth was 9
caution to old man Strange. And
though those boys looked sad and kept
silent as they followed their tattered
and indignant sire homeward, they he
enough laugh corked up in them to haavs
exploded the boilers of the Great East
ern.-T 'erds Sifti7ags.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
WHAr rs ELECTRTclrY2

AS the use Of electricity becomes
more general there Is increased curios-
ity to learn what it Is, says the Electric
Poaoer. It is considered 4 misterious
force, because in it's normal condition il
cannot be seen. The wire which con
veys the current gives no manifestation
of the energy which is passing through
it, Just as the poet seid; I'VE take
no pote Of time save from it's loss So
with electricity, it must be measured Is
It flies, It is trHe, however, that it
laws are perfectly understood, Is il
secessary that we should know what i
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
MAN As WE'LL rs EMPEROR.

This story is told of the Emperor of
Austria: A criminal had been sem
fenced to death. The death warrant
was placed before the Emperor to sign.
Convincing proofs of the mans guilt
had been produced, and yet shadow Of
doubt lowered in the Emperor's mind.
He was just about to sign the warrant
when he put his pen down, and sat for
three hours immovable as a statue and
plunged in deep thought. At last he
began to write his name, but hardly had
he completed the first letters when q
tear rolled down his face and fell on
the fresh ink, Turning to the Minister
in attendance, he said: @See, my tears
obliterate my name, I cannot sign this
deed;" and he tore up the death war;
rant Ye,o York Tribune.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THE OAK ROOM At WINDSOR.

The dinhg-room at Windsor is only
used by the Queen when there is a
party of sixteen and upward. The
apartment in which Her Majesty habit
ually lunches and dimes is the Oak
Room, which opens from the corridor
and overlooks the quadrangle. One
side of the room is hung with splendid
tapestry, which was presented to Her
Majesty by Louise Philippe. At one
end is Angeli's first portrait Of the
Queen, which is faced at the other end
by the Duchess Of Edinburgh, a picture
painted shortly after her marriage. The
other pictures are portraits OF the Prin-
cess Of Wales and Of the Duchesses Of
Connauoht and ALBANY.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
AT4LU4BLE CFMENT.

A new cement has been used to reno-
vate many stone buildings of Paris, and
Is likely to prove useful for various pur-
poses. A powder is made of two parts
of oxida of zinz, two Of crushed hard
limestone, and one of pulverized grit,
with certain proportion Of ochre as a
coloring agent. A liquid to use with
powder consists of six parts of zinc dis
solved in commercial muriatic acid,
with one part of sal ammoniac, the
whole diluted with two-thirds Of It's
volume of water. A pound of powder
to two and half pints Of liquid gives d
very strong cement. arkansas Trap
9lpy.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
Memory Hoops.

Memory hoops are the latest fad in
Kansas City. A memory hoop is about
ten inches in diameter and will hold
from thirty to forty bows or knots.
And the thing for the male friends of a
young lady to do is to give her hand
some piece of colored silk, which she
ties ON the hoop. The girl who covers
the most hoops in this way is considered
the reigning belle.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
NICE LOOKING MEN AT Il DISCOUNT.

NICE LOOKING MEN At n DISCOUNT
My ideal husband is one who would
appreciate his wife and home and not
90 to places of amusement alone and
leave his wife stay at home. I don't
want nice looking man, as they are too
deceitful and conceited, but one who
would be good and true to his word and
love me for myself. Until I find one
like that will stay single. I am only
% now and have kept house for my
father for seven years. and I do not
think housekeeping failure. as I know
how to appreciate good home. n
Home Girl I'm Ne,c York journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THE LADIES'.
A Highly Seasoned Pot POurri,
Dished Up Especially for
the Tender SEX.
FAIR WOMEN AID THEIR WAYS.
A Bit of Nonsense. Little Hum,r, and
Stme Solid Chunks of Useful
Information.
Cause and Effect.

Mr.. Henpeck (meaningly) Ella
Wheeler Wilcox says all girls. should
be sunny.
Mrs. Henpeck HUH Most girls are
sunny. It's after they become women
and begin living with husband that
all the sunshine goes out of their life.
Mr.. Henpeck subsidies. -NeU York
WeeElu,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
A SOLUTION.

"Why do poets begin SO many of theil
lines with the interjection, oh Mr..
Scribbleton," asked young woman Of
youth who sometimes woos the muse.
@Pm sure / never thought of that, !"
said the young man, refectively.
aBut it's noticeable that they use the
word very freely
Possibly it's because they're so con-
stantly in debt that the word owe
comes natural to them. That's the
only solution of the question that I
could offer. - Merchant Tyaretey.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
gHrLDREYss LUNCHES.

CHxEAI1EENsS LOWGH Lns
A child at play from morning until
night in the open air, will make away
with an incredible amount of food, and
be healthier for SO doing; but let it rely
upon the regular hours for taking it. It
will then enjoy the blessing of coming
to the table hungry, for that certainly
is blessing, as those deprived of an APP
petite can heartily testify. Nor is it
any sign of distress that they are clam
orous for the meal to be served, their
keen appetites only assuring you that
there is not much probability of COM
plants being made of the dishes set be-
fore them, provided always there is
enough.
A prominent physician and surgeon
once said of his three children who
were then well-grown youths and the
picture of health: "We never allow
our children to lunch between meals,
and they are all good eaters; we never
allow them tea and coffee, and they are
all good sleepers." All those same
children have since graduated from col
leges and are holding high positions to-
day in the professional world, robust, of
excellent habits, though inheriting q
frail constitution from mother who
died young.
The annoyances and discomforts
arising from this habit Of lunching must
be innumerable; the interruptions of
your time for reading, sewing, or social
calls, by hungry Child, demanding at
tention, that will not be set aside; the
untidiness that must follow the prepa-
ration of even plain bread and butter,
for one, two, or three children; the ex-
ira steps required from either servant
or parent, these alone make strong
plea against such habit; but when we
consider the violation Of the whole
dietary system, and all the evils that
stand waiting to give them grip of
punishment for their indulgence, we
cannot help crying out against the evil,
and urge better understanding Of all
laws of digestion, and what is quite as
important, indigestion.
Pope says, @the proper study Of man
kind is man, and certainly no part Of
man, and his habits, needs more careful
looking after than the food he eats, and
the regularity with wdich he partakes
of it; and children are but men
on a little smaller scale. If
men are SO easily led into bad
habits, both useless and debasing,
by contact with bad companions, why
should we expect our children to be
free from the same weakness of copying
these habits Good Housekeeping.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
NOT FOR SPORT.

Grocer Ito clerk What are you do
ing there, Henry?
Henry-I am picking the dead flies
out of these dried currants.
Grocer You just let 'em alone. Do
you suppose that I am running this
business for fun? Do you think that I
come down here early at morning and
toll all day just for the spirit of the
thing2 Yop let those flies alone. =
ArLdaasgag Traveller.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27

WHY ST.. RzrRIoK sUUcHEDED.
The following is from Charles De
Kay's article on Christian Ireland IN the
Ceaa,at,'y: It is an old error to count
st. Patrick among the emissaries, mis-
sionaries, or nuncios from the see Of st.
Peter. His conversion Of Ireland was
an independent act, which may be
compared with similar independent con-
versions Of the Bulgarians and
other nations to the Ortho-
dox or Eastern Church by st. Cyril and
st. Methodius four hundred years later.
The terms OF his confession of faith and
his letteritoa Welsh brigand who carried
off his converts into slavery, two au-
thentic documents, forbid any other
view. Rome was indeed in the field to
convert ireland, but failed because the
situation was not understood. A few
years before the arrival Of st. Patrick
Ca. d. 430) the then pope, Celeatinus
r., sent Bishop Paladius. Though there
is no record Of harm done to him by the
pagans, but, on the contrary, he was
permitted to build churches and leave
pastors, yet his reception was SO chilling
that he left. He never reached Rome,
death overtaking him in Pictland, what
is now Scotland, North Britain having
received that appellation since his day
when overrnn and conquered by a Kettle
return wave out of Scotia or Ire
land.
1T has been suggested that Patrick
never existed, and that his legend was
founded ON these meager achievements
Of Paladius; but the hypothesis has too
many documentary, historical, and
Legendary evidences against it. There
was every reason for the want of success
Of bishop coming from Rome where
Orthodoxy had been discarded for q
more enterprising and ambitious form
OF Christianity. Paladius must have
found the upper classes free-thinkers,
addicted to Druidical and other heather
vices, to human sacrifices and the black
art, to polygamy certainly, and more
than probably to occasional acts Of can
nibalism, such as drinking human blood
and tearing the human heart with the
teeth. Such things have often co-ex-
listed with high grade of civilization.
That Paladius was permitted to build
churches shows two important things
one, that the upper classes were con-
temptuous of the new religion, the
other, that Christians were present in
Ireland. But they must have been
humble folk and of the Orthodox East
ern sect.
"How came it that Patricils sue
ceeded where Paladius failed? Pri-
marily because he had nothing to do with
Rome or Italy. This preserved him
from the active jealousy of the upper
classes, the kings, chiefs, and Druids,
who had good reason to perceive that
Rome, having retired her armies from
Britain, was now trying to extend her
sway by religion. 1t also conciliated
Christians scattered along the borders
of the island, who must have resented
the pretensions of the Roman bishops
with as much yigor as did the Orthodox
of the East. But there was another
reason for Patrick's success. He adj
dressed himself to the temporal and in
tellectual leaders, the chiefs, Druids,
and Files" or poets, because he was q
man of genius and saw that only in that
way could u community existing on the
clan system be converted"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THORoUGH EDUCATTON.

Education onght to be three-fold in
tellectual, moral, and physical; train
ing of the mind, the heart, and the
hands; building up together, and build
ing each with regard to its relations to
the whole man, the three departments
of mans triune nature, the three mem
beers of the human trinity. Any system
of education is defective which neglects
either of the three. A cultivated mind,
associated with dwarf moral nature,
and lodged in frame whose powers
have never been developed, is rarely
useful to mankind, and often curse to
its possessor. When the moral sense is
pushed to abnormal development with
out the accompanying and dominating
influence of the intellect, the result is
more likely to be an inmate Of a lunatic
asylum than useful citizen. Physical
training alone produces that thing in
which the human family makes contact
with the brute creation.
Society claims the right, based on the
first law of nature, to insist that all
children shall, to certain extent be
educated, Society puts its hand into
the stronghold Of the childless million-
aire, and takes his money to educate
the ten or dozen children of his pau
per neighbor. 1t does this in order that
crime and poverty may be diminished,
ii builds school houses and employs
teachers in Order that it may not have
TO build SO many prisons and hire SO
many keepers. On the theory that
ignorance begets vice and conduoes to
poverty, society makes war on illiteracy
through systems of public schools.
There is no question Of more general
and absorbing interest than the educa-
ton of the young, and there is no feat
ure Of American social life more dear
to the people, more carefully watched,
or more cheerfully supported than our
free schools. = Washington Post.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
DANISH JopRsAEg ~ 4 MBEICA

In the United States several Danish
newspapers are published among which
may he mentioned The DanpeUirke, the
Novdpeste,p, ana tbs Nordiske Blade
Owing to the large number Of Danes
residing in the large cities,An through
out the West and Northwest, all Of
these appear to enjoy large patronage
and to be doing q paying business.
In case in Memphis witness testi-
fed that 3 Jim then rushed the GROWER.
iaAhl I see,s replied the Judge, Jim
then drove dog of. did he9 under
stand, 60 On, sir. Detroit Free Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27

Is Nothing Is more familiar to us than
the action Of gravitation. We know
that it IS the attraction Of the earth. It
holds the atoms Of the earth together
and enables us to perform all Of the OPP
erations which make mp our daily life.
It Is, however, q mystery, but its laws
are all well known, and il we violate
them BY jumping off a prccipice should
we consider the force of gravity neces-
sarily dangerous? Steam is also some-
thing of mystery. It has been famil-
lar to mankind since the dawn Of cisili-
cation, yet how many people know that
it is transparent and therefore invisible
until il comes in contact with the air?
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THE NEW style OF TROUSERs

Jones What does the doctor say IS
the matter?
Smithley Gin bed) Infamnatory
rheumatism in my legs.
Jones (holding up pair Of the new
balloon style Of trousers)-Did You
wear these yesterday?
YES
No wonder you've got the rheuma.
tism, with trousers big enough to hold
q cyclone. - Chicago Herald.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-27
THE AUTHOR OF aROBERT ELS.
\ MERE.

BsiQFe Mrs. Ward was married her
name was Mary Augusta Arnold. She Is
the eldest daughter Of Thomas Arnold,
M. A.,of University College, and fellow
81 the Royal University Of Irelsnd. She
Is granddaughter Of DR.. Arnold Rugby
and niece Of the late Matthew Arnold.
She was born in Hobart, the chief town
of Tasmania, 100 miles southeast of
australia In 1879 she was married to
Thomas Humphrey Ward, fellow Of
Rrasenose College. Oxford. Her home
+ 81 Russell Square, London.
WEATHER report--a thunder-cIap.
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