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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

she spend all her money she took only
enough to pay her way and two weeks
board. This would require her to go to
work at once. Getting letter Of intro
duotion to the chief engineer of the road
scented herself and asked for employment.
She said she could do clerical work, and
knew something of nursing. She was ac-
cordingly engaged on a small salary. She
soon informed herself about the country,
and as she was a good talker, distinguish
ed strangers to whom the country was to
be talked up were put in her hands. As
soon as she saved money enough she
bought town lot in Billings and a few
weeks after sold it SOr double the money.
AS there was no bank in town she used to
do banking business on the street by
casbing checks,
Then she went into real estate, and when
she broke her leg she had a map of the
town hung in front of her bed and carried
on business on her back. She was not
then Mrs. Meadow. Mr.. Meadow was a
storekeeper who had taken Spotted Horse
mine for debt One day she sent for him
and offered him s1l 900 for it. He was
touched by her lack of business sagacity,
and chivalrously told her it wasn't worth
it. She persisted in buying it, and in six
months she took ont of it 500, 200 in gold.
Mr.. Meadow subsequently married her.
She is now the treasurer of the Billings
board of trade and is worth several mil
lions. She conducts business in her own
name, and her husband is only her con-
nubial partner,-New York Evening Sun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

The prevailing style among women of
dressing the neck low" said an artist re-
Gently, "emphaszes the fact my profession
has long accepted, that Il woman with Il
head well supported by a graceful neck
and rising from even, sloping shoulders, is
not common. Look about in the company
of young women, whose faces perhaps are
delicate and pretty, often beautiful, and
whose figures seem, when facing them
rounded and elegant, and then get behind
them and see how few show an attractive
pose from that point. Even if she has
good back and shoulders, which is almost
rare toan exception, she carries her head
so far forward Of her chest as to develop an
angle at the nape Of the neck, where ma
turc certainly never intended to put one
Most women, however, have prominent
shoulder blades, one shoulder point rising
higher than the other, or, worse still, Il
trick of carrying the right side of the figure
Il triiie in advance of the left, which gives
them from a side or back view a decidedly
crooked appearance This, too, in spite Of
the modern hue and cry about gymnastics
and physical culture. IL is going to take a
generation of careful training to do away
with these bad habits, and when | see
these young schoolgirls going about the
streets 10y dozens, with heads still bent and
shoulders rounded, | think il may take
several generations to accomplish much
good. "-PrOVldcnCe Journal
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
The Cotton Picker.

The path of the inventor is usually
strewn with rocks, and foot-sore and
weary are the travellers but if the path
leads in the right direction it ends in a
bed of roses. Field GOODYEAR, Bell.
Howe, and Mccormick each had an ins
vention worth a kings ransom, but were
forced to travel the rocky road before
money could be obtained to place their
invention on Il paying basis. How many
read their history and think if they had
such chance how quick they would be
to embrace it. While the truth is that
they do have just such an opportunity,
but fail to recognize it. The invention Of
the Cotton Picker is second in impor-
lance to nothing that has been brought
out this century, and the opportunity is
now presented to invest in an enterprise
that must be so profitable that a calm,
dispassiOnate statement of the facts
would be considered fabulous by manv.
sBut the facts are easily learned, and
Can be used to base a prediction of re.
suits. People who wish to profit by the
knowledge of what may be safely exc
peCted of the Cotton Picker must act
promptly, Howe and Bell worked hard ID
force the fact of the great value Of theif
inventions upon the attention of the peO
pie of Boston for years before they suo
Cceded in obtaining the indispensable
financial backing to put the companies,
formed to manufacture their machines,
on a paying basis. I
The invention Of Angus Campbell has
| only been presented a few months, and
proves that this is faster and better age
for inventors, and that the BostOnians
are more appreciativc than they were, for
the Cotton Picker Company has made as
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
WOMAN AND HOME.
THREa BRAVE SISTERS WHO SAcRl-
FloEp AND WERE SILENT.

Caro- in Scarlet Fever-Length of the
yyaist-started with Little--The Com
mon Moth--A Woman Druggist--How
Women Carry Themselves.
"There are more pathetic stories of real
life that are never heard Of" said Mr. Ire
land, Broadway bookseller, than were
over invented by the novelist or dreamed
BY the most imaginative romancer of the
daily press. Some time ago I received a
letter from a lady residing IN the interior
asking me to 60 and see her brother, who
was reported sick In an east side lodging
house, and stating that if anything could
be done for him the expense would be glad
" betrayed. | had known the family
more or less intimately for number of
years and the young man in question |
knew as n handsome, cultured gentleman
somewhat scholarly, but most of the time
dependent He was one of the handsomest
men ! ever saw, and his sisters always re-
ferred to him with great pride.
Il found him at the number designated
in the letter under the care of a competent
physician. but from the latter | soon ascer-
tanned that it was the mans last illness,
and that the quicker we got him out of the
city the better. So as soon as we could get
him on his feet I got him a railroad ticket
and sent him home, where he died shortly
afterward.
Having some business out there | sub
seQuently called upon the ladies. ] was
there unexpectedly brought in contact
with - person had never seen or heard of
befort--a Goformcd idiot about forty -fve
years Of age, who learned from the rcluc-
tant lips of the ladies was their brother.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
When Women Carved.

In George rs reign it was the bounden
duty of the mistress Of a country house to
carve for her guests. Etiquette demanded
it Of her, and no one might relieve her of
her arduous task, not even the master.
To the latter was only assigned the easy
labor of passing the bottle and looking on,
while each joint was placed in turn before
his wife or daughter, as the case might be,
and by her rapidly manipulated. Carving
became one of the branches of a good fem
mine education, and there were profes-
sional carving masters who taught the
young ladies.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu took les
sons in the art three times a week, and on
her fathers public days made a practice of
having her own dinner an hour or two be-
forehand. A guest who did not receive his
portion from his hostess own fair hands
would have considered himself much ag
grieved. --Kansas City Star.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

Many women dress as if the face was the
only consideration, yet we see the face once
where we see the whole person twenty
times, as across "a room or the street
Again, they dress as if they We're a half
length portrait, not considering what is
below the waist. So She does in her short
mirror bat she forgets that what she adds
above she cuts of below, and were she to
look in long glass she would see by ap-
parontly shortening her limbs she loses far
more height than she gains 10y lengthening
her waist
The shorter the woman the shorter
should be her waist. Imagine short
stout woman with Il large head, wearing a
heavy wreath of French flowers on it. and
a heavier wreath with great dark leaves
mixed with the flowers encircling her form
at the end Of a long corsclet bodice. Were
she to look at herself in a long glass she
could hardly fail to see that she appears to
be cut OFF ut rhe knees. Such adress is sim
ply lUdiCrOus The stout woman who laceS
closely to diminish herapparcnt size makes
an almost tragic mistake. The form that
is squeezed in at one place must necessarily
puff out at another and the bust and
thighs gain additional prominence by con
trast with the small waist.
Ii stout women would wear lOoser frocks
and drape the front Of their bodices wit h
straight folds and not define the waist
sharply ut all, there would be an agreeable
doubt in the mind of the spectator as IL
how much was woman and how much
dress, where at present there is an alto
gcther unpleasant Observation-Disclosures
MHpaZine
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
The Title of Mrs"

The title Mrs. was in olden time applied
to unmarried as well as to married women,
and to young as well as to old. Sir Walter
Scott spoke Of Joanna (unmarriedD as Mrs.
Joanna Baltic. Although it was not per
haps so universal to address quite young
children as it was those over twenty one,
by the title of Mrs, yet it was frequently
done. The most ludicrous example of this
occurs in the ragister of burials for the
parish OF st, Margaret, Westminster The
burial of Millions second wife and that of
his infant daughter named after her, who
died at the age of five months, are both re-
corded in that register, the name in each
cnse being entered rs Mrs. katherin Mil
tom without any mark of distinction save
the letter "C' for "child,' after the second
name Even in the reign of George II, as
we read in 'popc's Letters" unmarried
ladies used to be styled Mrs-London Tit
Hit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

The name of the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts, granddaughter of the English
banker, Thomas Coutts, head of an i'm
portant financial house. endowed with vast
wealth, and among the most active people
in the world in aiding those not 50 we'll
supplied with the worlds goods, is well
known throu 5Lout the charitable world.
Among her conspicuous gifts to the
cause of making human beings happier are
the Church of st. stephen the Martyr in
the miserable Rochester row London. the
organization of the bishoprics of Cape
Town and Adelaide in Australia, and of
many emigration societies in Ireland
London Letter.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
MlRRORED MUSIC.

Think you.a flute Of reeds
Tho poet asks---can give
A starts song as it speeds
Bidding it breathe and liver
Ask of the river, where
Its current slideth sweet
Across u Naiad's bare
And bright unsandaled feet.
Straightway the waters dark
VIM whisper clear and strong:
''Night is the time to bark
The rush's1nystic song.
"Then do the white winged stars
Descend, in toyons flight,
The myriad silver bars
Wrought of the young moons light.
And then, where ever breeze
Shakes 1t, the sim reed hears
And learns the harmonies
Sung by the happy spheres"
.-Charles Henry Luders in Scribner's-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

In every line Of goods some
make or brand excels all
others and is accepted as
"The Standard" In Salt for
butter and cheese it is the
Ashton's that holds and mer-
its this distinction.
Most people are proud tor
say that they use the best
that money can buy. They.
do so, indeed, when they ina
vest in Ashton's Salt.
For sale everywhere
FRANCIS d. MOULTON & CO.,
Agents for L. 5, and Canada
20 Broadway, New York.
SPAULDING, KIAIBALL & co. and
o. J. WALKER % BRO Burlington.
4l,tv5n
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

The Seventy-second IIighlanders were
among the regiments commanded in 1909
10y royal order to discontinue wearing
their national costume. as j. was "obicc-
tionable to the people Of Britain" When
marching against the Dutch at the Cape
of Good Hope, during halt under "A burn.
ing sun, the Seventy begged their
piper to play the regimentai quickstep,
"Caber Feidh," to which they danced n
reel there and then, much to the astonish-
ment of the Fitty-ninth foot, who were in
the rear,-Coruhill Magazine.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

The day is fast approaching when an in
fant's chances of life will far outweigh
those OF death, and as this particular
branch Of knowledge spreads its influence
will be felt in IA marked degree upon the
health of the children of the poor in large
cities, those who now have to struggle as
best they can against sour milk, heat dust,
tenement life and all the evils and discom-
forts that attend the very poor, absence Of
cleanliness being generally the greatest
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

There is tree about forty miles from
Charleston which is thirty-one feet in cir
cumference Near the ground and divides
into five enormous branches each OF which
would make II fine tree, The tips of the
branches nearly touch the ground at about
thirty yards from the trunk. IL is live
oak. -Philadslphia Ledger.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

Queen Nictoria's digestion is so good that
her appetite is the envy and despair of the
court. When lords and ladies play with
their entrees, and satisfy hunger with
boiled milk in their private apartments,
the queen makes her way unhesitatingly
through any bill of fare, Neither grief of
mind nor fatigue of body affects her appe-
tite for food.-London Letter.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
DO Not Forget the Table Linen.

Every housekecper revels in the appoint
mcnts of her home and particularly her
table. In these days when so much art
embroidery is INDUCED in on bits for every
room in the house, of course the table linen
will not be exempt from the identifying
fingers of the expert ELECTROMAGNETIC
adplnh Ia Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

How many mothers are merely drags
upon their children and hold them back
with their old fashioned tenet and narrow,
outgrown themes? How much secret de
reption must come between the child and
mother in such cases as these,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

The Chersydrus is a snake over - = feet
long which inhabits the mouths of rivers
ana streams from southern India to New
Guinea, which peyer leaves the water, o.
ours far out to sea and feeds on fish. -
Quarterly Review.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
An Old Maids Insurance Company.

An old maids insurance company has
been opened in Denmark. Spinsters can in
sure themselves by small sum ON reach
ing the age of thirteen, and if still unmar-
red at forty are entitled to a regular al
lowance. If they marry, however, they
forfeit all claim.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
BURLINGTON FREE PRESS: THURSDAY, JUNE 49, 1892

around, so that when removed the outer
edge is torn off, and thus the letter opens.
The arrangement has all the convenience
Of a postcard, while at The same time the
contents are kept private. Trib-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
S.nrirh with Iittle.

Mrs Clara Meadow, few years ago,
when the Northern Pacific road was build
ing, found herself with 800 and no means
of support, After taking stock Of herself
she concluded to go to Montana. But lest
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

New York has a woman emhalmer of
the dead She is one of four in the United
States and of six in the world. Her name
is Miss Heaton Dart and she makes about
five dollars on each body she embalms
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23
MY DOUBLE.

an example.
saw n5ne once, but only once; have
hover seen him since, know not from
whence he casne or where he went, all
can say is this, surely saw him, my serv-
ant saw and talked with him moreover
he saved my life, and yet / am forced to
believe he never really existed, for we
never found the least trace of him in
place where il was impossible lie could
have escaped.
Now all this seems very extraordinary
TO you, 10 doubt incomprehensible. Well,
i am not surprised. l have given it great
peal of thought, and yet | do not under
tand it in the least. 1t is rs great mys-
kerry to me Us ever, but l will tell you the
Incident as it occurred;
ut was in the winter of 1865, when was a
|Ident at the University of Leipsc.
4 \ t. that time | was very intimate with
young count Bremen. We We're about
THE same age, were in the same classes and
lived in the same street. the Herzogs-
strassc, one of the oldest streets in that old
ncity, crooked gloomy and remarkably mar
POW. The hoQscs we occupied We're cX-
ktly opposite J'ench other. From the win
lows of Court Brenner's apartment YOU
tpuld look directly into my bedroom, and,
Ps | have said, the street was 50 narrow we
&7ould SIT. on the balconies Of am evening
Euoke orr mines and talk AS nllictlv rs if
i've were in the same room. but, as TO the
bnatter of rb9t yvevyara scarc4Iv cyernnart
One day Count Bremen was suddenly
called to Bavaria to sec an old uncle, his
only relative, who was very i'll. He de-
parted Immediately, saying it might be
some time before he could return.
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NOT I,novrtnr, what ia do tn while away the
,i,,o 7 ,nodo 81 vi.it 70 Counsellor XIV.
lfpifIel ore oY INV fatbor's old friends who
ccd in the o.ler end Of the civ
Pnt my wish wa. very disa,nointinc I
Rvas vaoileIr dissati.ied almost anyioue
could NOT tell why felt dro,vsv and
tunid and after losin,, seyar,l ,,,,noc of
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

Caroline B. lie Row says that sitting
upon the spine is one Of the most common
abuses of the body aud productive of more
discomfort and disease than any other one
cause"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

A very good and simple face tonic is ten
drops of Lenzoiu to one of rose water, Put
a few drops into the wash bowl when bath
ing the face. Both will soften and Written.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

opened the door and conducted me- to his
masters chamber. While he lighted the
fire | slipped to the window and looked
over at my house. was petriied with
amuzement.
My room was lighted, the curtains not
even drawn, and there was my unknown,
my double, standing before the chimney,
in the full light of the fire. While Carl,
my own servant, man who had been In
my family ever since | was born, an Odd do
nestle my mother had placed with me, in
whom she had the greatest confidence,
was waiting on this intruder, first taking
if his cloak, then his shoes, coming 60
ing, giving him all those attentions he
was accustomed to give me, and all in the
most natural manner in the world. AS to
the other parsonage, the use of my apart
ment seemed as familiar TO him as to my
self He acted as if he were perfectly at
home, leisurely undressed himself and
went to bed Yes, in my bed. Then the
curtains We're drawn, the LIGHTS put out
and saw nothing more
Hans went out wishing me good night.
made two or three turns up and down
the room, hesitating, perpleXed, not know
ing what to think or do, and, acknowledge
il, frightened and worried beyond express
sion.
At last, worn out with fatigue and ex-
element, ! laid down on the bed, trying to
concentrate my thoughts, trying to UNI
ravel this strange event of which | was the
victim, asking myself if / or the other one
had the right to sleepin thooupOsite house
All was SO confused, so heWjIdering ! lost
consciousness and ended Ivy falling into
heavy, dreamless sleep, which lasted until
morning.
|
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-06-23

DR.. Mary Jacob is president of the So
ciety for the ENCOURAGEMENT of Medical
Study for Women and treasurer of the
Women's Legal Educational society.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-04

Every populist must, from this date
until shutdown on November 8. be on
the watch tower. The Republicans
would storm tophet. If they had any
hope that in so doing they could elect
the legislature. No measure. honor
able or otherwise, which their father,
the devil, may suggest them, will be
left untried to carry that body.
They have given up everything else
and will want to trade to the populists
dead game for a vote for the law
making offices. Scorn their offer.
Stand by every man on our ticket, for
should they succeed in electing the
legislature. we would be assured Of
another four years reign Of "devil
law in the state, and another United
States senator to assist in enlarging
the avanues through which tribute to
the god of mammon can be forced
from the people. Raise high the
deople's standard. --Grsely News.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-04

Our esteemed contemporary makes a
splurge about Jerry Simpson intro.
ducing a bill to stop the coinage Of
silver and to issue paper money in its
stead. The aforesaid bill referred TO
was introduced by Jerry Simpson "by
request" and he at the the time said
he did not claim any responsibility for
the doctrines or propositions contained
therein. The peoples party stands
square toed and fiat footed on the free
coinage question. 1--WE demand the
free coinage Of gold and silver at the
legal raLiO of 16 to l." This is the
position of the peoples party. What
any man or set Of men may say to the
contrary amounts to nothing. The
Dark Horse is climbing up the wrong
tree.