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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-11
WEAKNESS.

Is never cured by medicine, as YOU wen
know II you have tried IT, You might
gain temporary relief IN weak. debilitated
organs, or stop pain FOR q short time
by doping them with poisonous drugs
which help one function al the expense az
another. But Nature viii not be fooled
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Take fa~ Janses street cars for - b,cy,
Gle races Saturday. October II 2 2. IN
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worse condition after such druggfng-and
restore II 10 the function from which h
came. Gu who have thus trifIes3 with Ma
ture IN ignorance OF her laws should use
remedy which Will SUPPLY NEW
], ifEsNGTH without injury or drugging
the delicate membranes.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

The huge and noble addition on the Thames
embankment to the hotels of London, when
it is finished and opened, may claim to be
the largest establishment of its kind in Eu-
rope, if not in America.
The newest market novelty is the tomato
sausage. 1t is made in a domestic Way at
Portland; it is delicate pinkish white and
tastes of sage and ripe tomatoes. 1t has made
quite a hit in that city and surrounding
towns.
Despite the strike in the Ishpeming and Ne
gaunee iron mines. it is believed the ship
ment Of Lake Superior ore this season will
reach 10000 900 tons, 1000 GOO tons in excess Of
the best previous record.
A farmer of Albany, Ore is exhibiting a
bunch of forty-two stalks of wheat with 924
meshes and about $500 grains, which grew
from a single kernel. Another farmer, in
Cedar Rapids Neb.. has a cucumber five feet
long and still growing.
San Jose, Cal, has shipped more fruit dur
ing the third week of last September than in
any ayo s ether week on record The total was
pounds was of canned fruit. and 1860 900
pounds of dried Drunes.
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than average ambition. Appears to be
religiously Inclined.
r. B. Mahany, of the Thirty-second New
York District, a Republican, was de-
scribed in this way:
HAS an artistic temperament combined
with business push. Is ambitious and
fancies the odd and unusual. Is fond of
attention and the notice of his fellow
men. Has cultivated small eccentricities,
but they are not allowed to interfere with
his work. He is capable of doing the
unusual or unexpected at any time. Is
self-possessed and persevering. Will work
hard for anything he is interested in
A HOT-HEADED MEMBER.
S. S. Barney, a Republican, of the Fifth
Wisconsin District, was described as "a
man who can be relied upon TO make the
most of anything, no matter if the tide
of battle be against him. Hot tempered
and excitable, but popular. Has more
friends than enemies. Is a convincing
friends. Energetic and an early and late
worker. Has strong opinions. but is open
to argument
E. F. Acheson, of the Twenty-fourth
Pennsylvania District, a Republican, was
pictured in this way:
"A close observer and a careful man
at all times. Is studious and a deep
thinker. Is secretive and delves into the
heavy things of life Has strong deter
minat.on and enjoys argument
Miles Crowley, a Democrat of the Tenth
Texas District, was disposed of in this
way:
rs a contradictory kind of man. Is OPP
posed to the conventional and has small
faith in the law of precedent. Is self-re-
liant and humorous. Is hot-tempered, but
loyal friend. Happy under adversely
and is not easily defeated in anything
that he undertakes. Is jovial and in
clinel to take risks Thinks quickly and
is fortunate. Has the faculty of making
many friends"
w. S. Knox, Republican, of the Fifth
Massachusetts District, was described as
man who took a sober and sedate
view of everything. He could be de-
pended upon to follow in the beaten paths
of knowledge and experience"
Frederick Halterman, of the Third
Pennsylvania District, a Republican. was
pictured as possessing fixed opinions not
easily changed. He is a plodder who never
tires, but keeps on until his goal has
been reached. Has high sense of duty.
Is slow. Never jumps at conclusions and
takes nothing for granted
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careless way of managing small things
like dress permits the skirt to soar in
the winds whittier it will. But she gets a
lot of grim and severe satisfaction out
of cycling, although she was the most
difficult pupil 1 ever handled.
Sometimes she wears leggings and
sometimes she doesn't, and it doesn' I
make a bit of difference to her if her
stockings are striped in all the colors of
the rainbow. One day she rode here for
two hours with a lace shoe one foot
and button shoe on the other. and in
cold white stockings. But if she doesn' t
know how to dress, she knows how to
talk, and talk well, too.
These boomers here he said, taking
up another picture, I'VE got rid of as
soon as we conveniently could You see
they are not boomers at all, but close
fitting knickerbockers.
Now. a New York woman doesn't ex-
hibit herself that way without a reason.
put that woman down as an adven-
tureSS and I know that 1 am right, for
all the other women seemed to have sized
her up intuitively, as they gave her the
coolest kind of a shoulder She was prac-
tically frozen out. and 1 was glad of it,
for we might have lost many of our best
pupils had she remained.
"Bloomers are mighty interesting things
from a scientific standpoint" he said, in
closing, land one of these days I may
open a college for the teaching of their
language"
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There is the signature of William Alden
Smith, for instance. He is a Republican
of Grand Rapids, and represents the Fifth
Michigan District. Below this signature
the professor wrote:
conscientious and a hard worker. No
fancy for intrigue. Has got a will of his
own and viii be a bad man for any one
to try bunco games on. Is susceptible to
fiattery and is fond of public notice. Is
capable of overcoming great obstacles and
has an abundance of perseverance"
Robert J. Gamble, Congressman-at-
Large from the Yanktown District of
South Dakota, was the next sigma ture in
spected and it invoked these observations:
rs terse and abrupt N manner. He
has well-rounded opinions. but is some
times eccentric in his doings. Is self
reliant, affable but determined. Is a
good business man."
CONSERVATIVE STATESMAN
The signature of James H Huling, of
Charleston, W. Va, a Republican, came
next. 1t was criticized in this way:
"A man whose opinions are not easily
swayed. Is reticent about his affairs and
could be safely trusted with secret He
does the thinking while other people do
the talking. Is a safe adviser, but is too
conservative to make a great statesman.
Evidently believes the old proverb, which
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HER BONNET.

Her bonnets Just the sweetest thing,
1t fiouts the world as she goes by,
It's tied down by the sweetest string
I'd like to be that string. but. "My!s
The bonnet might not be the thing
So sweet, if should be the string.
Her bonnet's just the sweetest thing,
1t tips a bit above her eye
The birds-the birds begin to sing;
They want to sing as she goes by:
Ihey think it S daybreak, and, oh myin
It's just because she's passing by
Her bonnet's just the sweetest thing.
1t roofs in just the sweetest hair
And eyes and mouth. The birds will sing;
They think it's spring when she is there.
It's Just because she's passing by.
want that bonnet, but, "Oh, myi's
white rose of resesl" Why be shy?
About the sweetest bonuet's string
The lads, the lads will sigh and sigh
For Gods white rose that makes it sprine
And daybreak for the birds-and l
Just want that bonnet, but. 'tOh. myr'
William Page Carter in Harper's Bazaar.
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peculiar to man, and nearly every man
has his own idea as to how best to pre-
pare it. Recently when on a visit to
I New York Senator Gibson. of Maryland,
old a number OF young swells how terra
in should be cooked. Here is his advice:
Put hot poker for a moment on the
back of the terrapin, making it poke out
its head; then seize the head with two
pronged fork, and with a knife cut off the
| head Immediately between the fork. Put
the terrapin in pot of boiling water and
| boil for ten minutes or twenty. Then
pour off the hot water-the first scalding
| having removed all eXtraneous matter
and put it in another pot of boiling water.
Boil until done. This is to be ascertained
by the scales on the back slipping readily
upon pressure of the fingers. The terra
pin thus cooked can be placed aside and
kept until required-indefinitely on cold
storage.
ITO prepare the terrapin for dressing
place it on its back and remove the bot
tom shell. This exposes the meat of the
| terrapin to view In the centre of the
mass will be observed a small, purplish-
looking substance inbedded in the liver.
Carefully remove this substance with a
knife, being careful not to cut or break it
in the operation; it is the gall, and is in
tensely bitter and would spoil the dish
TICK the meat from the bones, cut up the
entrails and liver with the other meat,
place all in a chahng-dish as the picking
process proceeds. and when everything
thus 'come-at-able' about the terrapin has
been secured place your chaf1ng-dish over
the spirit lamps. Before lighting pour a
cup of hot water into the meat, this to
prevent the sticking of the meat to the
bottom and edges of the dish, involving,
if this precaution be not observed. the al
most certain burning of the meat. AS
soon as the fires are lighted put into
your dish a print of butter, cutting the
butter into bits as you add it; with the
butter a plenty of black pepper and salt.
Let the mass gently simmer until the first
amount of butter has melted and perme-
ated it thoroughly; stir in half as much
more butter-it VIII be difficult to get too
much butter-taking care to keep the dish
covered, save when stirring. mo other
condiments are used in the dressing of
the terrapin.
when the terrapin is/served let each
guest add sherry, noF Madeira. to his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-28
HOW The 54TH WRITES.
A GraphoIogist UnfoIds the
Secrets of New Members.
WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED.
Some of Them Have Too Much Am
b1tIon, and Others Are Too Easily
Influenced, but the Majority
Show Up Well.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-There is such
a mass of new timber in the Fifty-fourth
Congress about to convene that the vet
eran politicians, diplomats and lobbyists
do not know where they stand. They are
journeying into an unknown land full
of precipices, quagmres and pitfalls. One
genius among the worried statesmen, who
has communicated with nearly all of the
new Congressman, said that he tried to
solve the puzzle by taking a large num-
Der of their signatures to a professional
graphologist for analytical purposes The
experiment cost the statesman fifty of
his good dollars, and now he is waiting
to see if there is anything in the prog
nostications of the handwriting specialist.
He is assailed by several doubts on this
score, but intends to wait patiently until
personal study has given him an oppor-
tunity to judge the matter himself
A number of the signatures are repro
sduced here. They may not mean much
to the average onlooker, but to the
graphologist they revealed many secrets.
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it cook on the flesh side first and very
slowly. If you use a gas range, it is
quite simple. Turn the lights low and let
the cooking go on for a half to three
quarters of an hour. If you bron over
Goals, far greater care will be required.
Select a sheet of thick white paper and
butter it well; on it place the lobster.
and both together on the broiier, SO that
the paper protects the flesh from direct
contact with the heat. Slip the broiler
into the holder as far as possible from
the Goals, and watch closely while the
cooking is going on. When the meat is
cooked, turn and broiI the shell side
for a moment or two.
Season with plenty of butter, little
salt and pepper and serve smoking hot,
either with melted butter or a sauce made
as follows: Mix equal parts of melted
butter and olive oil and season with to-
mato catsup, tobasco sauce and Worces-
tershire sauce. a small quantity of each
only being used.
The terrapin has always been the dish
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Do BLOOMERS TALK ?
Bicycle Tutor Says They
Tell All About Character.
HOW He READS THEM.
When the Wearing of Them Be-
comes Universal Femfnfnity VIII
No Longer Be an Unread0bIe
PuzzIe-SOme Odd Examples.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-In one of the
cycling academies frequented by the
wives and daughters of wealthy men, is
a mana bicycle instructor, who has
made a discovery. He calls it the Ian
guage of the Boomer" and he claims to
be able to size up the character of a
woman by observing the cut of her
bloomers.
If this is SO a small-sized millennium has
been reached and the problem of ac-
curately reading woman-a problem which
has puzzled philosophers of all ages. from
Plato down to Steve Brodie-has been
solved. Fortified by a little knowledge of
the bloomer the future man Will be able
to read femininity at a glance Mar
rage will not be the lottery it once was.
A young man about to venture into the
double state need only apply his knowl-
edge to his fancee'S boomers and he Will
know exactly what is in store for him.
one direct result of all this will be to
force many divorce lawyers to seek other
pursuits. Many women because of the
fel-tale boomer who might otherwise
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|SWELLS who CAN COOK.
Dozens of Young MiIIionaires
Are Expert Chefs.
EACH ONE HAS A SPECIALITY.
Lee Taller Knows All About a Bar
bacue; Center Hitchcock Is an
Expert on CLAIMS and Creighton
Webb Is an Adept with Oysters.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Men may make
better cooks than do women, but the cost
is fearful and wonderful. Before they be-
gin to show off their chafing-dish accom-
plishments they must needs have a whole
grocery store within easy reach.
The new man, for there is a new man,
as well as a new woman, is well up on
all the things which used to belong to
womans especial province. He can draw
tea in the most charming manner, and
is as proud of his satin damask napery
as any lady in the land. He has his own
especial recipes for divers kinds of food
and drink. and woe betide any individual
who appropriates them for his own.
A knowledge of cooking is getting to be
a necessary thing nowadays for a bache-
lor. The young college man who does
not set up a chafing-dish and cannot dc
his share of the catering isn't up to date
All over the country the men are attend
ing cooking lectures; even physicians, who
go to hear about medical cooking; Sena-
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WOMEN AS ARTISTS.
Mr.. Chase Thinks They Are
Good Painters NJ Men.

Mr.. Chase Thinks They Are as
Good Painters as Men.
William NJ Chase, the artist. says he
would not advise any woman tosenter the
profession of art who is not able pecu-
niarily to remain unrecognized for a time
Putting aside the question of income he
sees no reason why women should not al
tain as great success as men, since genius
has no sex. Mr.. Chase also says that in
spite of the prejudice among certain people
against work done by a woman artist he
dehes any one to distinguish between two
canvases. one of which shall be painted by
a woman. In his classes he treats his men
and women pupils exactly alike critieising
the work without giving a thought to the
authors personality, and in his parlors hang
two pictures which he prizes as much ar
any he owns. one the production of a
French woman and the other the work Of 4
former student of his own
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THE YOUNG G1RLs, TRIALS.

There is little joy in this mundane state;
tbs disappointing world;
She looks a fright when her hair is straight
And it won't stay curled when curled.
We cannot have everything we like;
OF that she is certain quite;
She is criticised when she rides a bike
In the garb of blocmerite.
If she laces tight the reformers laugh.
If she doesn't lace at all
The set on the other side will chaff
Till her life is filled with gall. :
They'll talk Of her if she treats her beau
In a decent kind of way:
If she at a distance keeps him LOT
She's little prude. they say
She's quite too bold if her ways are bright
And her spirits are often glad;
She's dowdy if she's at home at night i,
If she ventures out she's bad.
Her conduct seldom approval brings
However her mind is bent,
It's fact, and if we were her, by jings.
We shouldn't care a cent.
Boston Courie1
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that those boomers belong to a matron
of forty or Whereabouts She has several
children and her home is a pleasant,
comfortable one. She is not old enough
yet to realize that her girlhood days are
over. If her life had been a less pleasant
one she would have known this long
ago and her mind would be running in
such a serious groove that the wearing
of boomers would never have entered
her head. But as it is, she is determined
to keep up with the procession.
Il would like to wager my weeks sal
airy that her husband muttered some
unseemly language when she first voiced
her intention of DOMINIC boomers, but
that has nothing to do with the matter
in hand, although 1 could relate many
stories, told me in confidence, of the
struggles some women have had with
their husbands on this boomer question.
Il is curious thing how men will joke
and laugh and seem pleased when they
see a pretty woman dashing by in bloom
ers, but let the wife or sister of one of
these men appear in the costume and a
regular cyclone of wrath smashes the do
nestle peace.
AN OPPOSITE TYPE.
tfNow here is a picture" continued the
instructor. returning to the original sub
ject. which, if any one will give it a
few minutes study, will tell it's own
story clearly. You can see these boomers
are altogether out of the ordinary. The
wearer doesn't care a snap about them.
She is riding a bicycle and her attention
Is concentrated upon that task. There is
a business-like determination about them
which indicates clearly that the outside
trivialities are not allowed to interfere
with the work in hand.
Il sized those boomers up at the first
glance as belonging to an old type of
the woman suffragist-the mother or the
grandmother of the dainty and fascinat-
ing creature called the New Woman. She
wears a skirt over her boomers, but she
might just as well discard it, as her
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A SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS.


The LOveIiest of All the Professions
Very Sadly Neglected.
Let US give over clubs for awhile and
start training school for mothers, says a
man. We do not need anything so much
in the world as good mothers As we'll
expect the housekeeper to turn out a batch
OF good cookies if she makes them of saw
dust and alum. as to expect the children
to develop into good citizens without the
right sort of mothers. The right sort Of
mother knows where her boy is all day
long. She spends her time entertaining
him rather than entertaining shallow
headed callers from everlasting to ever
lasting. She tells him stories, reads to him
and picks out tunes with him on the piano.
She is "chummy' with him. too, and has
his complete confidence. She doesn't allow
her girls to go to the depot to see the
trains come in, nor does she permit them to
spend nights away from the guardianship
OF their own home. She is watchful at the
same time that she is kind loving always,
but never languid in the performance of
those duties which the vast responsibility
of motherhood has laid upon her. Give us
better mothers and the world will soon be
full OF better men and women.
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POLLY.

Miss Moneybags the sunrise
Hath never viewed afar,
Nor in the dawn-enchanted skies
Beheld the morning star.
But Polly trips at o'clock
Across the twinklin' Gew
To milk the cows 7.
Meath apple boughs,
With petals drifting through. j
Miss Moneybags the ballroom
Adorns with gems agleam,
And sinks to rest with faded bloom.
OF conquered hearts to dream.
But winsome Polly goes to bed
With bees and butterflies,
And softly sleeps
And ever keeps
The dewlight in her eyes
Miss Moneybags in satin
May dazzle half the world
And oft the glance of envy VIM
Bediamoned and pearled.
But Polly in cotton gown
What need hath she of art,
When just to see
Her lissome glee
Hath robbed me of my heart?
-HarDer's Bazaar.
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WITH LOVES EYES.

You love me? Ali 1 know,
AS men love-no better, dear.
Worship? Yes, month or so.
Tenderness? Perhaps year.
After that, the quiet sense
OF possession; careless care,
And the calm Indifference
That all married lovers wear.
Blame you, dearest! Not at ALL
AS fate made you, so you stant
As fate made you, so you fall
Far below Loves high demand.
Yet how strange is Loves deep lawi
can look you through and through.
Tracing plainly Natures flaw
In the heart she gave to you.
Knowing all my heart. must stake,
All the danger, all the fear;
And yet glad, even so, to make
This, my losing bargain. dear.
Madeline S. Bridges.
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view. of Archibald Forbes new work in the
London sketch" The author of The I'm
pregnable City, is at all times an interesting
writer. and in this instance he is particularly
1t was upon the eve of the ranco-German
war Of 1870. and the small Prussian garrison
which held the town of Saarburcken expected
momentarily to be driven out by the French
army corps which lay more than a couple
Saarbrucken-and Mr.. Archibald Forbes was
OF their number-found the days of inaction
upon their hands. and, lacking other amuse-
Inent, they proceeded to marry a gallant
lows girl had walked heaven knows how
many miles to wish him God-speed in the from
BILE: and, the news coming to the ears of the
garrison, a pretty wedding was contrived
with the consent of the bridegroom's command
ing officer who stipulated only that the gal
liant sergeant in question should return in
stantly to his duties at the sound of the alarm.
All was in readiness, and the clergyman
was just about to join the couple in holy
matrlmony, when the sound of a bugle sud
denly broke in on the stiffness If vas fbe
the bride. buckled on his accoutermentS go a1d
darted off to the place of rendezvous In ten
minutes more the combat was in fnll inte 1en
ny. the french had carried the heights over
nanglH e me town, and were pouring down
Hpoh II tHelr artillery and mitraiIleuSe fire
Our motel was right in the line of fire and
fers 2 We exceedingly disagreeable quar-
ana waited for events. shell crashed into
s snd khIt a burst inside the cooking-stove
ana tiGI pew the wedding breakfast which was
sui IIaa psing Kept hot. into what an American
eeolleague called everlasting smash . It was
100 not 70 stay there. and everybody moved
strategiealiy to the rear A few DAYS later
vas was Fought. close to Saarbrucken, the des-
groom's regiment took leading mart re
gay after the battle was wandering over The
ing shudderingly on the heaps of dead ST1d-
denly came on our bridegroom in a sittine
through his throat. "-'A 0"ils'