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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05

life, its refreshing breezes, its sweet
scents and the inimitable pictures
which relieve the eye that has looked
upon hard stone and brick walls and
pavements all through the week.
How much would such treatment en-
hanee the value of the wonderful park
system of Chicago! What great moral
lesson would it be to the people! What
a greater lesson would it prepare them
to receive unconsciously from nature
and art combined!
A city like Chicago is remarkably
fitted to impress such lesson. Its park
and boulevard system is superb. In its
OWE peculiar way it is probably un-
equaled. The parks and public squares
within the city cover an area of 1875
acres, not counting the boulevards con-
Meeting them. These boulevards run
all around the city, forming a some
what thinned-out park, as it were, all
around, broadening into large parks
every few miles. Those boulevards
which serve to connect the parks, leav-
ing out others that are auxiliary and
not essential to this connection, meas
ure almost forty miles in length.
The parks proper contain conserva-
tories for plants of tropical origin,
greenhouses for other plants, lakes
with boats for rowing, small geological
gardens; and the parks located on the
shore of Lake Michigan, which are Jack
son and Lincoln and the Lake Front
parks. have the unrivaled attraction of
the lake, whose cool breezes make the
climate of Chicago as pleasant as it is.
No wonder that with such an extent
of park area Chicago was able to ac-
commodate worlds fair better than
any other city. 1t could give six hun
dred acres within the city limits and on
the shore of the great lake which. for
the purposes of the landscape features
of the exposition and protection from
excessive heat, is as good as the ocean.
An inhabitant of a big city who had
been out in the country for a few
weeks, was signing over his work for
the beauties and the air of the country,
and broke ont into the complaint: ITS
too bad they didn't build the cities 0Et
in the countryr"
CnlcaSOan uOeS HOG HdVe occdSiOH
for such regrets. He can find country
life. hunting, fishing and aquatic sports
of all kinds right in the city. A few
miles south is Lake Calumet and the
swamp region around it, famous for
ducks. 1t is within the city limits.
South and west are extensive prairies
for any kind of games. Lake Michigan
extends all along the east front of the
city. A former mayor of Chicago called
it ''city of magnificent distances. :"
But sometimes the distances are too
magnificent for comfort.
III. f. o. HEINEMANN.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05

But, do you know, have suspicion
that there are exceptions to my proverb-
1 believe that there are American
girls who do whimper. Every body
whines at our house." one of them told
me once.
Does anybody whine at your house,
my dear Mary?
Perhaps conscientious Mary thinks
that all this which have been saying
merely recommends an ornamental
virtue; that the substantial things Of
religion are not bound in with it. Wit
she please listen to my text? "a merry
Eeart doeth good like a medicine.
Doeth goods not that substantiaf
Dear Mary, know that you long anG
pray for ''clean heart" for a ''n-7S
heart" Do pray a little for merry
one. 1t doeth good.-Forward
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
INTERESTING NOTES.

THE largest taxpayer among wom-
en- in Maine is Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey.
THERE are nine graduates this year
from the woman's law class of the Uni
versity of the City of New York
ONE of the literary lights of PhiladeI-
phia is Mrs. Henry Wood, who con-
tributes regularly to the magazines of
that city.
Miss MARY ABAR is city editor of the
Appeal Avalanche at Memphis In the
brave lexicon of Miss Abar there is no
such word as fear. She will go where
ever a man is willing to risk his life for
an item if it is worth running down
SOFIA GREGoRIA HAYDEN, the archi-
tect of the woman's building of the
Columbian exposition, is not a native of
the United States, as generally believed
She is Chilian by birth, the daughter
of Elecena Davala, Peruvian of Span
ish descent Santiago was her birth
placn and in appearance she shows her
SpaL ancestry.
Mis-, MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT has Just
been c., :e;l Fellow of Yale univer-
sity, the first woman to receive this dis
tinction- Miss Scott is a graduate and
VI. \. of Vassar college, has studied at
Johns Hopkins, and was student in
honors at the University of Cambridge,
Eng She will proceed to the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy.
MANY ladies of high rank abroad ss
well as many American women of un-
usual mental ability have adopted the
profession of nursing. Among the for
mer are the Princess Helen Cusa, who Is
a nurse in the children's hospital at
Jassy; Lady LevensOn Cover, in Lon
don hospital. and Miss Godolphin Os-
borne, niece of the duke of Leeds, who
is matron of the bennington Hospital
for Incurables
Nor to belong to woman's worlds
fair committee is now regarded by
titled and aristocratic European women
as a positive lack of distinction. In
deed, the interest in the exposition dis
played by prominent and influential
women in most of the European coun-
tries is truly remarkable. The exhibit
of woman's work is sure TO be very
comprehensive and complete, and, 1t Is
believed, surprising.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
Defining a Cocktail in Court

A witness in case recently on trial
in one of the courts in Boston testified
that the defendant was not drinking
man land only took cocktails Judge
Blank, who presided, is a teetotaler.
He noticed among the spectators well
known physician, bonvivant, and at
the recess called him up to the bench
and asked him to define cocktail
"a cocktail" responded the doctor,
'fs feather dipped in an emollient
which is applied to dry or irritated
throat for the removal of dryness or
irritation"
The learned judge thanked him, but
the story that the court subsequently
dipped feather in vaseline and touched
his palate with it under the impression
that he was taking cocktail is proba-
bly, a lawyers yarn.-Boston Tran
ScrinA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
The Upright Judge.

The plaintiff made clear case that
the money was owing, but neverthe-
less the jury found for the defendant
Turning to the counsel for the plaintiff
the judge observed:
ut is, of course, your intention to
file motion for a new trial?"
at is, your honor"
Consider it filed 1t is granted and
this verdict is set aside. Gentlemen of
the jury, I'd have you know that in this
court it takes thirteen scoundrels to
cheat an honest man out of his dues.
Report to the clerk and get your pay.
You are excused from further service. a"
Detroit Free Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
BILL NYE ON ROADS
The Humorist Makes Plea for the Horses
of the Republic.

of the Republic.
Our wagon roads throughout the
country are generally disgrace to CIV
ilization, and before we undertake to
supply wooden underwear to the Afri-
can it might be well to put few dol
lars into the relief of CALLED and broken
down horses that have lost their health
on our miserable highways
The country system, as / recall it.
was in my boyhood about as poor and
inefficient as it could we'll he. Each
township was divided up into road dis
tricts, and each road district was pre-
sided over by an overseer of highways,
whose duty it is to collect so many
days work or so many dollars from
each taxpayer in the district. OF
course, no taxpayer would pay dollar
when he could come and make mud
pies on their road all day and visit and
gossip with the neighbors and save his
dollar, too.
The result seemed to be that the
work done was misdirected and gener-
ally an injury to the road With all
due respect to the farmer | will state
right here that he does not know how
to make roads. An all wise Providence
never intended that he should know.
The professional roadbuilder, with the
money used by the ignorant sapheads
and self-made road architects, would in
few years make roads in the United
States over which two or three times
the present sized load could be easily
drawn, and the dumb beasts of the re
public would rise up and call us blessed
for doing it.-Bill Nye, in Good Roads.
Remains of a Mammoth In London.
During some recent excavations for
main drainage purposes at Endsleigh
street, in the northwestern district of
London, the workmen, at depth of
twenty-five feet from the surface, came
upon the remains of mammoth and
other prehistoric animals. a portion
of one of the mammoth tusks on being
brought to the surface was found to
measure at its thickest part two feet in
circumference, and the probable length
of the tusk in its original state would
be about ten feet. The loamy soil in
which these remains were found also
yielded many seeds of plants which
were contemporaneous with them and
which have since been found to consist
of twenty species. From these it is
learned that the land was at the period
indicated of marshy nature, and as
certain other deposits were found over
lying these remains, the geological age
during which the animals lived may be
included in what is known as the gla-
cial period. At least, such is the opin-
ion of the secretary of the Geological
society, to whose scrutiny the speci-
mems were Observation-Disclosures Jour
nal.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

a broad band of the plain, soft, delicate
gray.
These striped goods are best left un-
trimmed with any other than their own
pretty patterns, and the palmer they
are made the moro becoming they are.
Bias bands, ruffles and tucks seldom
look well upon striped goods, and the
material should be put together in a
fashionable way and then left un-
adorned unless one chooses to trim it
with lace and ribbons.
Striped goods are not economical to
make up. The stripes must be nicely
matched in the waist, and this often
causes the material to be cut to poor
advantage. But then the goods are SO
pretty that one can afford to waste an
extra yard in the cutting. For those
who are afflicted with too much avoir-
dupois there can nearly always be
found the plain goods of the same shade
as the ground work of the materials,
and this will do for waist which may
then have lapcls, collar and cuffs of the
other.
If you arc a bargain hunter, you are
taking great delight now in the reduc-
tlons in the winter goods counter
full of wooden material of very good
quality was ticleted with card which
read: Reduced to five cents yard"
The material was, Of course, thin
and perhaps trifle on the order of
what the old ladies call "slcezv," but it
was as good as that which sells for
rs cents a yard in the fall of the
year, and such goods will make up
into very pretty morning gowns for the
house, and will also, if iudciously
created, do duty as picnic and excursion
dresses.
Furs have come down at least 10 per
cent. on the fall prices, and very often
one can get real bargain at almost
half price. 1t is the time, too, to buy
underwear. Beautiful wooden under
5 garments that sold for So in the fall are
now marked down to SLIPS. and SO on
through the whole catalogue of wear
Ing apparel Dry-goods men do not care
to cary over stock from one year to
another, and they have not the facili-
ties for storing away great quantities
of furs and wooden goods where they
will be out of reach of the corruptng
qualities of dust and moth.
BY all means, do yosr next winters
buying now if you can afford it, for
you save at least a third on the grand
total.
Bargains IN Christmas presents, too
Ebut spe,i. II sofuyj, are to DC found,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

of novelties and they arc anxious to
change from the old to the new. They
like to get out of the winter into the
spring, and then they are anxious to
change to midsummer styles. In the
summer they long for the becoming
furs which designate the fall and au-
tumn fashions, and then the same old
story begins again. and people are the
same all the world over.
The newest styles of hair dressing
are n little less elaborate than they
were in the winter, and they are so
easy to do ut home that the hairdrcsscrs
are quite discouraged.
a woman with q proper regard for
her browning glory" waves her hair
all over the front ana sides of her head.
Then she braids it from the middle,
back of her head, and tying pretty
fresh ribbon around the braid, she
doubles it up in under until it hugs the
back of her head and neck. Then she
sticks several daggcrs, arrows and sew
eral other kinds of fancy pins through
it, and then, arranging her bang be-
comingly, she sticks in two or three
more fancy pins near the top of her
room, happy in the thought that she has
done her own hairdrcssing right up in
the latest style aud that she hasn't had
to pay hairdrcsser.
How do the hairdresscrs like it? They
do not like it at all. They say that it is
too bad, and they arc piling up false
hair upon the heads of the fancy figures
in their windows, hoping TO incitc the
fair passers-by to come in and have
their hair dressed likewise.
ut cost nc only ST. said woman
patting lovingly snd admiringly a log
white cidcrdown cloak which she was
wearing.
'Then you must have had made it
yourself" remarked n friend.
eyes, l bought pattern which told
me how much goods to get. Then
laid the goods and cut out the cloak in
the simplest possible way. l lined it
with white satin, trimmed it with this
shaggy. white fur, and, as you see,
have Il cloak which is very pretty and
which cost as said, only 81"
Two very neat house dresses were
shown me last week just before they
were sent home. They were for two
young women who were in the habit Of
giving afternoon chocolates instead of
afternoon teas. One of these dresses
was a combination of deep rcd velvet
and old rose satin. 1t was made in
very simple style and could not escape
being admired, for the two shades
harmonizcd so exquisitely. The other
was of two shades of green. The waist
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

L. INSTALLMENT STOCK. = Mem.
bership fee, 81 per share, which carries
the stock the first month, after that the
monthly dues are 60 conts per share.
Q. PAID UP INTEREST BEARING
STOCK.-s5op per share (par value, $780,
yielding dividend. payable scmi-an-
nually, January i, and July l, of per
cent. per annum on the $50 paid in, which
is duly remitted by check to the share
holder.
8. The stock is expected to mature in
seven years from date of each series re.
spectively, tho same being issued
monthly.
4. There is no Investment anywhere
safer or more profitable than it's stock
With the assets Of the Association in
vested in first mortgages on improved
town real estate, duly insured for the
benefit of the Association, on a basis
not exceeding so per cent. OF it's value,
as ascertained by appraisers who are
themselves stockholders of the Associ-
alton, while tho debt of the member
borrowing is being curtailed every
month of its existence, it is difficult to
conceive of a safer investment than its
stock affords to the prudent investor.
Apply at Homo Office, ITO Jefferson
street, or to
JAMES R. TERRY, or to SIMMONS,
CARPENTER & TINSLEY, Roanoke,
va apr19-1y
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

living who can say "Thanlz you" at four
prices. This is the way he does it:
For 10 cents: "Je vous remerci, mon
sieur," with reverential shake of the
head
For cents; s"AIerci. monsieur"
For cents: "Mer-r-c'"
For cents: "Sis-s-s-s"-a prolonged
and unmusical hiss, which it is worth
paying more to avoid.
The expression, ''if you please" is
capable of similar variations, from the
courteous "s'il vpus plat" through the
brusque IS 'ou' plait' down to the
decidedly abrupt ''s' 'ou' p'" If a
Partisan waiter or "boots'' is very polite
he has either got big fee or expects
one. Excessive courtesy can be had
by paying for it,
One of the pleasantest things about
European trip is the consciousness one
feels that at the end of it all he is going
back to a land where hunlseys arc so
rare that those who want them have to
import them, where railway conductor
is a gentleman willing to answer any
number of questions for nothing if he
has time and not bcggar in gor-
SCOuS ulllOiill, uutl NilCIC VIC average
worllingman feels himself with reason
Gas good as anybody" In the land of
the free and the home of the brave the
hotel waiter is the only functionary
who is becoming European; and even
he retains his independence over three
fourths of the country, summer resorts
excepted. May it be long before others
follow his Ubiquitous example. One
would not wish to see the United
States, like Switzerland of glorious
history and inglorious present, turned
into nation of bcgSars, or its voters
classified, like those of England. into
"men," gentlemen" and fellows"
JOHN l.. iIEAToN.
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was braided, and straps came over the
shoulders as if they were suspcnders
The skirt was plain, with n deep band
of dark green velvet around the bottom
of it.
Last summer there was at Lcnox n
daring society woman who wore real
suspendcrs with little silk shirt ard n
plain skirt 1t was very bold thing to
do, because suspendcrs are the most cs-
scntially mannish things in mans
wardrobe.
The woman was pretty, and so ear
ried off the suspendcrs nicely They
were exactly like a mans and were
fitted out with little clasps and button
holes and all that sort of thing in pre-.
cisely the same way that man wears
his.
The afternoon gown had suspcndcr..
but they were womanly suspcndcrs. so
to speak, and did not make the wearer
look mannish.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

stranger permit to view the public
buildings!
Imagine the imam ut the window" in
an American newspaper Office adding a
few cents daily to his income by taking
coppcrs from people who have questions
to ask!
Imagine policeman who would take
one cent for directing n traveller to the
nearest letter box!
If person is gifted with a sufficient
ly lively intcllectto imagine all these
things coming to pass in America, not
as exceptional instances but as com
mon, everyday occurrences, he can then
form some faint conception OF what a
Europcani2cd American would lie like.
And it wouldn't suit him so we'll as the
present variety. The American sovcr-
eign, as Prof. Sumner says, cannot take
tips. II he takes them he ceases to DC
q sovereign and becomes fiuni,cy.
Giving tips in Europe is an exact sci
encc, the rudimente of which, ut least.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16

and If you care to take time very much
by the forelocls you can get Jimmy u
new book, Kittie doll, Aunt Susie q
workbasket and Uncle Tom smoking
jacket ut u bargain.
Bonbonnicrcs, sweetmcat boxes and
all sorts of little fancy things can be
picked up for song of siXpeuco.
But maybe you are not n bargain
hunter, Rand ifsoy you do notcare any thing
ut all about buying things just because
they are cheap in the hope that they
will come in good some time"
Winter hats are to be worn way into
the lap of spring-so we are told, but
do not believe it, unless you are willing
to set the style yourself by wearing
your fur toquc when the spring sunshine
is pouring down upon your head.
1t is all very well to talk about wear
ing the seasons fashions until late in
the year. But it is an entirely differ
ent thing to do so. People are very fond
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-16
EARLY FASHIONS.
They Are Seen Already in the Shop
Windows.
Tko Newest Styles in Ginchams-Stripcs
Arc to he Worn in Everything
Winter Hats VIII Not BE Soon
w Discarded.
IcopYRIGur, 1921

Have you seen the early spring fash
ions? They are displayed already in
the shop windows, and they are seen in
all the stores as you walk up and down
Broadway or any of the large shopping
thoroughfares.
With frost in the ground aud with oc-
oasionnl falls of snow and wintry winds
blowing, one is treated to q sight of
some of the prettiest spring goods that
could possibly be imagined.
1t is very much like looking in n hot
house window to stand upon wintry
sidewalk and to gaze through the pancs
at the sateens, the challics, the muslins
and the cambrics which are now being
displayed SO lavishly everywhere. 1t is
as if one were permitted to take
glimpse of rare exotics growing lux
uriously under the panes of glass, while
the poor lool1er-on stands out in the
cold and admires the rare blooms.
Almost everything you sec is in
stripes. And such very pretty stripes!
They are broad and some of them are
lighter shades and going all the way
down to the deeper tones-all in the
same stripe. Others are of color con-
tidSlinB WIFI JIG BIOuHuWOrk Oh The
material and making such harmony
that it is as good as gazing upon an oil
painting just to look upon them.
Real artists must have been at work
designing such lovely things, and now
that they have finished their work and
are perhaps gazing upon it from the
shop windows along with the other
passers-by, they must surely be pleased
with their work, and they cannot help
being delighted with tho notes of adj
miration which fall from the lips of the
fair ones who stop to make choice of
the pretty materials.
A lovely pink gingham has stripes
which are at least three inches broad.
The stripes shade from almost white to
the deepest pink. A beautiful green
gingham has pink stripes. The green
is rather deep in tone and the pink is
fair, as if some delicate pink blossoms
had sprung from out bed of moss.
A soft gray background has broad
stripes of black and steel color. The
stripes are each an inch wide and arc
placed both together, and then there is
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two cents for showing traveller the
shortest way into town!
Imagine New Hampshire farmer al
lowing his children to sing songs for
pennies to passing tourists; imagine his
wife joining in the dscord and hurting
shrill curses after She traveller who re-
mains unmoved by it, after the Swiss
custom!
Imagine an apple seller in Central
park turning bcggar when her stock is
sold out!
Imagine an Adams express agent
keeping back two cents in making
change and srumbling at being com
PEELED to disgorge
Imagine an usher in the Chicago Aud
itorium hanging round" for pennies
after showing party to their seats!
Imagine n Washington 'help' pay
ing fifty cents to the private soldier who
strolls out with her Sunday afternoon,
on dollar to n corporal, or Il dollar and
quarter to Il sergeant, as the London
houscmaids are said to do
Imagine the baggage smasher of a
back country railroad in Indiana omit
ting to smash the trunk of the traveller
who has crossed his palm!
Imagine Vanderbilt : who is the
closest American parallel to duke in
England-admitting the public to his
picture gallery at quarter a head and
pocllcting the quartcrs
Imagine Pennsylvania railroad con-
ductor bowling humbly, hat in hand, to
the dude who has given him dime and
rudcly bundling into her car the poor
woman who has 10 dime to give! I'm.
aginc him rcscrving two unpaid sections
i'll sleeping ear from Philadelphia to
Chicago, for n bride of twenty-five
cents, as German conductor did for an
economical friend of mine!
Imagine the attendants in the Metro
politan mnsenm chasing visitors around
with unaslicd suggestions in the hone
Of fee.
Imagine an American omnibus or
coach driver waylaying every passenger
Tor drink money" at the end of n drive!
Imagine the clerk in left luggage"
Office asking whatever you please, sir,
for taking care of parcel when the
regular charge is posted outside!
Imagine Mr.. Wanamaller's post office
clerks tsvins to cheat the nnhlic, or the
ticket sellers in the Grand Central de-
pot making mistakes" in the change
to their own advantage!
Imagine Kansas City carpenter talk
ing present of the magnificent sum of
two cents and a half for giving q better
dressed man "light!"
Imagine a bar tender in st. Louis sa-
loon expecting one or two cents foy him
self every time he pours out drink for
a customer!
Imagine Philadelphia city clerk ac-
cepting three-cent fee for giving o