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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

And She Made Him Draw n Big Prize
In Loves Lottery.


in Loves Lottery.
From the Buffalo Express.
There was young man who had a girl
friend. He went to see her at regular in
tervals. He made his last call one day la ST
week. She had some wedding cake from
the nuptials Of a friend Of hers. and she
was telling him Of new way she had dis
covered for finding out whether you were
going to get married within a year. IT will
take some OF this cake" she said "and put
1t in this envelope. and will take seven
slips Of paper and write on six of them the
rames Of six girls you know, any one, Of
whom you are likely to marry. The seventh
will leave blank. Then will put the slips
in the envelope with the wedding cake and
give the whole thing to you. Now, you
must take It and put It under your pillow
when you go home. In the morning. the
very first thing after you open your eyes you
must take out one slip. Do this for seven
mornings In succession, and on the last
slip will be the name of the girl You are
| sure to marry. If the blank comes last you
will never marry"
The young man was quite impressed with
the scheme. He took the envelope and
promised faithfully to fulfill all the condi-
tions and to come back and report at the
end OF seven DAYS. He went home and put
the envelope under his pillow. Next morn
ne uTtW OUT q sip, anu on IL was the
rame Of the girl who had given the charm
to him. He thought that that was pretty
tough luck, for he really liked the girl very
much. He was out rather late next night,
and when he awoke he was In a hurry and
forgot all about the charm. When he get
home that night he began thinking the mat
ter over and wondering who the other girls
were.
He got the envelope and peered into IT.
The slips We're all carefully folded and he
Gould not see a name. Then his curiosity
got the upper hand He took out all the
slips and unfolded them. All of the re-
naming six had names on them and in
each instance the name was that OF the girl
who had prepared the charm. He sat down
and thought long and earnestly. Then he
put on his evening clothes and went
straight up to that girls house. He stayed
long time and when he came away he
was smiling and happy. and there is going TO
be wedding on the West Side one of these
days!
There II a girl who has a long head
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
WOMEN WHO FLIRT.
A Habit Some Are Born With. and
That Others Acquire.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The born firt Is not dangerous. She may
appear so. but In reality her little coquettish,
fascinating ways are not the cultivated
wiles OF siren. but are as natural to her
as breathing. In all probability when her
eyes first opened upon this world she smiled
at the doctor. and through her babyhood
end childhood up to the time she was consid-
cred a woman that guileless smile wrought
havoc with every man who came within
the circle OF its sunny influence.
She doesn't think she is flirting. She is
merely enjoying herself. Men have always
paid her q certain amount OF homage and
that she intends to have I'd to the day of
her death. The born flirt need not be beau
tiful, she need not be even pretty, but IL she
possesses that personal magnetism that
counts for more than symmetry OF contour,
men win adore her and she will let them till
the end Of time.
All women dubbed fiirts are certain to
come in for a considerable amount OF un-
kind criticism from those who do not I'M
9erstano them. The unconscious ffirt will,
however, after awhile disarm her worst
enemy, for IL time Is taken to study the
little lady the strange phenomenon viii be
discovered that she fiirts just as much with
women as with members of the opposite
sex. Her pretty ways are Irresistible to
men and women alike. and so she goes on
smiling and magnetizsng all who come
within her power. and those that came to
censure remain to praise.
But oh! what different character is the
deliberate hirt, the woman who coQuets
with intent to KILL who lets filtration run
into romance, and then with one strong
blow destroys a mans hopes just for the
sake Of seeing the card house she has built
up scatter into its component parts before
her very eyes. She is the type of woman
who separates husbands and wives, who
sows discords in hitherto happy families.
who enjoys making sweethearts unhappy
and younger women envious Shit, is a
schemer who plans her campaign deliber-
ately. not a little skirmisher who uses her
weapon on all alike. -''I' r
The fiirt by design is a dangerous person.
She loves to wound. She delights in the
cries of those who have been pierced by the
darts from her havoc-dealing eyes Her
victims are fewer than those that come to
the net of the born firt, but their suffering
is real. their pain bitter. The natural fir.
will go on flirting with her own husband
after they have been married twenty years
but the other one.f chance or design brings
her man, whose name she is asked 70
bear. no longer wastes her time on him. but
looks around for some one else's husband
to practice her wiles upon. ----s.;f
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
For her the sweetest blossoms should break a per-
fume rare
For her the tenderest music should come floating
through the air;
For her the choicest pleasures should bedeck and
pave the way,
And brightest beams Of sunlight at her feet I'm
glory play.
For her the blushing rosebud should discard its
cruel thorn,
And for her heavins bosom other eager secrchers
scorn;
For her pure contentment should throw its arms
about
And circle her. while pleasure shuts slI care and
sorrow out.
For her I'd make The Journey through this land of
bitter tears
lasting day Of smiling love, devoid Of doubt and
fears;
Her path should grow Respondent, the way be like
a DREAM
d make her life with happiness like dearest
heaven SEEM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

with a pretty young woman. who, fresh
from years of theorizing, pounces down on
the world with her new-fangled notions of
reform. impatient of restraint, and eager
for conquest. The Smile of the rose ends
with the blooming. The flower is content
10 let its fragrance please whom it will, and
often wastes it's sweetness on the desert
mir but you don't catch girls wasting any
Of their sweetness on anybody or anything.
y 1t seems great pity that girls should
- bloom so much earlier now than they used
n 10. They live in a forcing house atmosphere
Il that puts thern~through course after course
y of learning and PUSHES them into the mar
ket with their wares before their powers
are fully developed. The result is not al
ways pleasing. Yet it is loves labor lost to
tell the June girl that she has only just
commenced TO learn life's lesson, and that
so far as fruitiOn is concerned, she is yet
in the bud She believes that she is fully
equipped for the duties and responsibilities
of life and is perfectly satisfied with her
self II you venture TO suggest to her-but
Il you are wise you will nOt-that she has
Just reached the point where learning be-
. gins. she will awe you into silence with her
learned speculatiOns, in which you will dis
cover that she has ''lunched with Plato and
supped with Pericles," and knows the Nebu-
lar hypothesis and DisbOscat ton. and nlost
Of the other diabolcal isms. Just like You
know e PlUrtbus Unum." That is. she
knows the book part of 1t. and no more
Anything outside Of that is a dead language
TO her just as Latin is to you; yet you both
J have trick of phrasing.
f- The Vase May BE Shattered.
I wonder II. after all, we are quite kind
10 the June girl? She is so altogether
charming and lovely. in her snow-white
robes, her smiles and her pretty self-assur-
ance. that it is all but brutal to intrude our
wisdom and experience upon her and so We
3 let her go, knowing but too well that the
day win come when all her little world of
theories will fall in ruins about her and
hard cold facts stare her in the face. to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

Bweetest when its leaves first unfold them
selves to the kisses Of the vagrant winds,
and IL no blight has touched it. its frag-
rance fills its little world with delightful
perfume. and its subtle charm is felt in
every fiber Of ones being. The June girl is
like the tenderly-cared for rose. She has
never felt a chill, and the winds Of heaven
have never been permitted to touch her
heavily. She has been fed upon those things
that would advance her mental and moral
interests. and tenderly sheltered from all
that would warp or distort her refined SEN
abilities Certainly, then, when she bios
SONS out, she ought to delight all who come
near her. and doubtless does. for time. for
y is hard to be practical and cold blooded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

and the sphere must be narrow If the mem
tai horizon is circumscribed. But there is
one thing that can be done, and that is
easy of accomplishment: The June girl can
save herself from being a laughing stock
among her enemies, an object of pity to her
friends, and of bitter modification to her
self in after years. She can at least write
her own essay and discuss subjects with
which she has a speaking acquaintance, a
reform much needed and greatly to be de-
sired. 1t takes a mighty pretty girl and
one that Is most charmingly gowned to
arouse enthusiasm for subject which one
knows Is plagiarized from the cycopaedia
and one must be blessed with Spartan forti-
tude to sit submissively silent while listen
ing to girl in her teens settle the silver
question in a half dozen pages, or a girl
with a lisp truculently assert her faith in
free trade. She may possibly talk less
blindly of hope and charity, but even here
she must be bound by her few years and
narrow experience to a circumscribed
sphere and in the broader field of religious
theorizing, in which the best minds of the
age fight wordy and endless duels, the
sweet girl graduate grazes with a COM
placence that is little short of maddening
But barring the essays and valedictories
which are endured as enc does the whoop-
ing cough and measles, because they can't
be warded of, the June girl is creature
to be loved and lauded. She is always
youthful, and that in itself is charming
and she Is generally pretty; appropriately
gowned, youth and beauty make a COM
bination that can't be discounted. even by
the average graduation composition. Per-
haps that Is one req son why the sweet girl
graduate pays such strict attention to her
commencement gown. She knows that If
she looks very pretty indeed the ennuied
audience will forgive her much, and in this
she exhibits wisdom beyond her years, an
Unborn perception akin to the instinct of
the animal, perhaps.
The commencement Gown.
Dear mel what a lot of moralizing a bit
of tulle and a shred of lace will lead one
into! was over In the West End paying a
visit to a swell modiste-professedly, and
ihcider tally hoping to get some ideas Of
how the summer girl was going to gown
herself. When 1 ran in upon madam, as
she sat in a veritable mist of lace and
lawn, silk and satin gauze. evolving com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
Duty of the Host.

From the ladies' Home Journal.
At dinner party the host should lead
the way to the dining room with the most
important lady guest upon his arm. and
seat her at his right hand. He should then
remain standing until the guests hate all
taken their places.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
exhausted when put to the test of actual
The Graduating Essay.

1t Is not the fault of the girl that she
does not know more when she graduates"
she absorbs the little learning, which is
such dangerous thing. exactly as sponge
does water, and puffed with her consuming
greatness it is hardly her fault that her mind
has limitations, as well as the curriculum.
One small head cannot contain everything,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
Becoming Costumes for the Stage
ID on Commencement Day.
SOME IDEAS ALSO as TO THE ESSAY
The Sweetest Of All the June
~ Roses Are the Girls.
SOME SIMPLE COMBINATIONS
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

HE CROP OF JUNE
girls Is almost ripe
and graduation dress
IS are in order. There
Is something emf
nently fitting in as
sociating the month
of roses with sweet
faced girls as fresh as
half-opened ros e 8
themselves, but the
idea might be car
ried much further,
with perfect proprie-
~ Tho rosa ia of its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
FOR WEAK NERVES
Use HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.

II is particularly useful In making weak nerves
strong. II contains necessary elements Of nutri-
tion for the nervous system, obtained from natural
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

Halls Hair Remover contains the natural foo
and color matter for the hair. and medicinal herbs
for the scalp. curing srayness. badness. dandrur
and scalp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
The Hard Problem That Girls Are
Often Confronted With.
SONORA SARA CITES some INSTANCES
Advantages Of Some Forms of Do
mestic Service.
4 GIRLS PLUCKY VICTORY
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

F I HAD TO EARN
my living, / wonder
how I would go about
itY"
One day a lot of
young ladies W e r G
gathered at our
house, and in COM
mon with everybody
else they got to dis
cussing one Of the
burning questions"
Of the d a y-ques-
lions as hard of solu-
ton as the probley,,s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
For n Stately Creature.

Another extremely dainty dress was Of
fine dotted silk null. made with three
skirts, each one edged with Valenciennes
lace. The full front of the bodice was held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

This is to be what in old times was called
a 'typhus" season That Is. there Will
be more sickness than usual OF a typhoid
character. Remember, you who have the
management OF homes, that the disease IL
in a dirty dishcloth. a greasy sink un-
and impure water. The sink and teakettle
can be kept clean by a strong application
OF ammonia ana soap once a day or twice
a week at least; the dishcloth and water
will profit by boiling-nct together. how
ever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19


of the child, Kate came to Chicago and APP
piled to friends there for assistance till she
could get started at earning living. 1t Is
shameful thing to tell. but it is a fact.
that none Of them would aid her, beyond
offering her a little money and some old
clothes! The work that she wanted they
would not give her, because they did not
want to be troubled with the child. They
all ignored any former friendship. and were
so coldIy polite to her. whose father had
given them their own start in life, that she
finally turned from them In disgust. She
took little room, and, with the child for
her companion, worked at all kinds of make
shifts that offered few cents. Kate had
an inventive brain, and during the long
| hours that she bent above her sewihg-in
the hard school of adversely she had learned
to do even that-she amused the little sister
by telling her stories, original stories which
she invented as she went along, without
thinking much about what she was saying.
The Baby Critic.
"At last Minnie, the sister, fell i'll, and in
her restlessness begged for stories. till
Hates poor, tired brain refused to invent
any more new ones; so she tried to put her
off with reading some from a child's paper.
Fretfully, Minnie declared that Hates sto-
ries were best Sister, you write one and
send it for other little girls to read she
begged, and demanded to be held while
Kate was writing, promising to be very
good. So to please the whim Of the sick
child Kate spent the long hours of one
night penning a child's story. bending TO
her task over the flushed face OF her little
sister as she lay in her lap. often rousing
feverishly to know II the story was COM
pleted.
1T is the best you ever told me- cried
the baby critic when at last the story was
read to her. You send II to the paper so
that some other children can have 1t read
to them she said, and without faith thai
1t would Succeed Kate sent the story away
smiling rather sadly at the throwing away
Of two postage stamps. which meant q loaf
of bread less for herself. With a taste for
writing, but unaware Of a talent for it.
Kate had never tried to exercise a natural
| gift, and was perfectly amazed, four weeks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

II your hands are very rough ana sore,
instead Of using the nail brush, which would
irritate the broken skin, have on your toilet
table a box of coarse corn meal and after
soaping the hands pick up lot OF the corn
meal and rub the hands vigorously with Il
II is cleansing and healing. 1t is a nice
thing for children who are going TO school.
The chalk and dust OF the school room Is
very hard on the skin, and a schNpl boys
knuckJes are always griny. If You are
always careful to rinse the hands in clear
water after washing in soap. there IN not
nearly so much danger OF chapping.
II women only knew IL, they deform their
hands with tight gloves quite much as
:heir feet with tight shoes. One makes
corns and the other big knuckles. Tight
anything is bad form.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01
PATTERNS DRUG STORE
A Specially Of Prescriptions.
Literary Notes.

While China and Japan are engaged
in a struggle which leads most OF US tt
study their history and institutions in
more careful way than we have ever
done before, it is fortunate to have given
US paper like that by Rev. William F.
Grifiis in the November number OF the
New England Magazine, on America
Relations with the Far East" Dr.
Griflis lived long in Japan. and his book
"Ihe Mikado's Empire, is one of the
best books on Japan. He knows where
of he writes, and his account here of the
early relations of America with the two
warning nations gives much information
that is fresh and valuable Warren F
Kellogg, Publisher, Park Square, Bos-
ton.
A Real Conversation" between
Conan DOYLE and Robert Barr, giving
glimpses of DR.. Doyle's home life and
his methods of work, and reporting his
opinions on the state of the novelist's
art in England and America at the pres
ent time appears in MeClure's Magazine
for November. Several portraits OF
Doctor Doyle and Mr.. Barr and views of
interiors in Doctor Doyle's home, will
accompany the article. Also a photo
graph of Mrs. Conan Doyle and por-
trait of Sherlock Holmes.
The November number of Scribner's
Magazine has for It's leading article one
of especially timely interest on "Elec-
ton Night in Il Newspaper ONCE writ
ten by Julian Ralph, one of the New
York Suns most valued special cores
pondents and newspaper man of wide
! ynerinnRa IIn 1psprihpl with his
well-known vivdness and truth, the
cxacting and laborous work done by
the staff of metropolitan newspaper
at such time, and gives realistic i'm
preston of the excitement and rush at
tending the analysis and summarizing of
the immense volume of news received
during election night The familiar
scenes In front of the office bulletin, the
cheering crowds and the humorous as
poets of all are drawn with perfect
knowledge and active sympathy. 1t is
fully illustrated with drawings by b.
West Clinedinst.
Henry Looms Nelson contributes to
the November llarpcr's a delightful arti-
Gle, entitled At the Capital of the Young
Republic, in which he offers glmpses of
official life AT Washington at the begin.
ming of the century. investing with all
the charm of witty and vivid narration a
period of real interest. The initial arti-
Gle in the same number has also an
American theme, and treats of by-gone
ddys-the days when sea-robbers of
New York carried on what they termed
the Red Sea Trade, regarding it as a
business rather than as crime; and
agreeable and companionable pirates
(in town that may still, unfortunately,
count among its officials agreeable and
companionable" persons who regard
robbery as a business rather thar as a
crime), are described by Thomas A
,Janyipr
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01
CORRESPONDENCE
Athens.

Many Of our people attended the cele
bratlOu az Skowhegan, and enjoyed a
ride to N0rridgewock on the electrics.
some of them think it would he a grand
thing to continue the road to Farming
ton so a to put our young people ia the
way of better access to that grand
training school for teachers, Pennington
Normal school. II seems AS though
Pennington must be glad to assist large
w in scheme so naturally affecting its
own interests.
Dr. Gowan, who promises SO much to
the sufferer, is to be at Athens, for con
suliation aud healing. the 9th of every
month till further notice. Consultation
free.
Mrs. NJ. T. Brown, who has been a
great sufferer for many years, but more
especially for the last two months. pass
ed away, Tuesday. the 23d. Mrs. Brown
leaves husband and two children to
mourn the death of wife and mother,
faithful and true, but whose loss is her
gain. The funeral occurred on Friday
morning, at ten o'clock.
c. F. Spaulding of the ''Corner" is do
ing job of painting on the buildings of
the late Barney Eaton.
There was a big pairing bee at the
home of Horace Elliott, Friday evening
After refreshments were served, the
crowd adjourned to the house of Frank
Allen, where they engaged in dancing
till Il late hour
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01
No. COrnyilIe.

Lewis Thompson is at work making
hoops.
Osgood Forbus of Brighton, was in
town Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Dunton and Mrs. Asa
Emery were In town one day last week.
Mr.. Aver, agent for the Maine Far
mer has been canyassing the town dur
ing the week.
Mrs. Ann Whitehouse of Cass Corner,
is visiting at John Taylor's in Athens.
Mrs. F. G.. and Mellen Greene called
on friends in town last week.
Miss Addie Whitehouse is spending a
short time with her sister, Mrs. Geo.
Hayden of Brighton.
Mr.. X. W. Marble of Harmony, drove
23O lambs through town, to be dressed
by Will Whittier of Skowhegan, for the
Brighton markets.
Mr.. Philip Gardiner is suffering from
quite a severe cold.
Mr.. Lyman Whittier went to Brighton,
after his lambs that have been pastured
there during the summer.
Mrs. G. l.. Hayden of Brighton, was
at her mothers, Mrs. Whtehouse, one
day during the past week.
The goods of Mrs. Mary Hight of
Athens, were taken through town last
week They were moved to Worcester,
Mass, where she will reside with her
children who have been there for some
time past. The goods of DR.. Filing
wood, have also been moved to Skowhe-
gan, where he intends to make it his
home for the present. While the goods
of these two families have been moved
from Athens, those of DR.. Pepper of
Norridgewock, who has bought DR..
Ellingwood's practice have been moved to
Athens.