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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
INTERESTING GOSSIP FOR MAID
AND MATlaON.
fhe Spring SevvinE-The backward
Child-Green md Blue in avO
That Last-HOusehold
Hints-Fashion Echoes. H

1t is claimed that two or three hours
spent daily in the open air is essential
to perfect health, but Ssw to take so
much time from necessary duties is q
great problem in a woman's life.
Unfortunately all OF the average
woman's duties lie indoors, and must
perforce be done there-sweeping and
busting and sewing; and if she have
a family of children and a purse not
%overfull, the sewing alone is enough
to occupy her every day and all day.
Few women have a settled rule
about taking exercise, and a friend,
OF the writer, living in the country,
who confessed that she never went
outside her doors TO" two months last
winter, is but a type Of many who lead
Shut in i've because they do not real
lZe II absolute need Of outdoor air
for their mental and physical we'll
being.
Nothing is more natural than for a
mother to wish to sec her children
prettily and appropriately dressed,
but if this can only be done by a con-
slant and unremitting labor, which
obliges her to give up the privilege of
being a companion to her children, is
1t not a great and fatal mistake?
Simple clothing and a mother inter-
csted and companiorable are better
for every child than all the luxury in
the world; and if the good times which
they have together can be taken out
Of-dOorS, how fortunate for every one
concerned!
A good way to dispose of the neces-
sary ''Spring sewing is to engage a
skillful seamstress who operates the
sewing machine. If the garments are
cut out beforehand, she will be able
Il they are plain in style and simple
in construction, to do all the machine
work in three or four days on a large
number. Simple gingham slips for or
binary wear in summer, which are,
quickly made and easily Numbered,
should form the principal part OF ev-
cry young child's wardrobe at thai
season. With this work all done,
summer, when it comes, may be fully
enjoyed by the mother as we'll as the
children.
In one household known to the
writer a seamstress is engaged to
come one day each week during three
months, January. February and
March and the intervals between are
spent in finishing the work she has
left, and planning other work for the
next sewing day. Surely some plan
could be devised by every woman to
reduce this necessary work to a sys-
tenn, and enable her to enjoy a daily
outing with her children in the lovely
days of spring and early summer, I'M
fettered by worry about the sewing
Harper'S Bazaar.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09

crop than could be secured with rheii
use. Some soils may need but little
to enable them to produce full crops,
Where a clover crop has been plowed
under, an application Of wood ashes
may be all that is necessary, as both
potash and phosphates are. contained
in ashes, the latter in small quantity,
however. Ashes also contain lime in
large proportion. An application OF
200 pounds Of ground bone, with the
liberal S Of wood ashes on clover
sod land, should give good results
with a favorable season. II wood
ashes are not obtainable, use sulphate
of potash in any quantity that may
be preferred, not less than 800 pounds
per acre being a fair proportion, with
200 pounds Of bone meal, If the land
is otherwise in good condition from
the clover sod. The object should be
to buy the right kind Of fertilizer for
your requirements instead Of buying
that which may not be lacking in the
soll.-Philadelphia Record.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Is Green and Blue in Favcr.

among the many shades Of green
that are in vogue this year the pale
silver tints and those in golden
green are most sought after. These
delicate shades are found among silks
and diaphanous summer fabrics, and
IN the list OF dress aud millinery gar
nltures. Valley, lilies, snowdrops,
white lilacs, anemones and white vio-
let's are very fashionable, these sur
rounded with every shade Of foliage
from tenderest lettuce and willow
tints to deepest mry tie.
Following green in favor comes blue
for both spring and summer ear
TINS dictate of fashion is respectfully
accepted. 1t is hard indeed il women
OF any and every complexion can not
suit themselves out of so much var
iety. 1t is not always easy to asso-
ciate a particular shade with the name
applied to it; still, we understand
what periwinkle blue is; postman's
blue does not lay any tax on the pow
ers Of ~imagination; we L familiar
with cornf1ower blue, brakes neck,
swallow and peacock, which is more
or less green. Although rated among
the standard colors, blue is one that
needs quite as much car in it's selec-
ton as green or violet. Its effects on
the complexion gnOWS momentum. II
IS happy or it is disastrous.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Equal Quality Potato Seed.

Everyone intending to plant pota-
toes ought to aim for the best seed
that he can obtain. 1t may cost more,
but this increase of cost is the best
investment that the potato grower
can make. The drouth last summe-:
ripened prematurely the potato crop
in many of the best potato growing
localities. All potato growers kno "
that such seed cannot be kept with
out serious waste from sprouting
from the eyes. The only remedy for
this is to procure seed from the crops
grown so far north that the potatoes
barely ripen before being ready to-
dig. and can be kept until late In
spring with their vitality u%nimpaired.
There is always an advantage in:
northern grown seeds to be planted in
more southern localities. This sea-
sou owing to the condition of the po-
tatoeS at harvest time. most of the
middle state crop will make poor seed
and it needs to be changed for that
grown under more favorable condi.-
tlons.-Rural World.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Fashions that Last

1t has been said that 1.-The fashion,,
a well-known writer on the perennial
subject of dress who expressed her
self thus, but we can hardly agree
with her when we see coats, skirts
and blouses running a steady course
of seven O eight eason This is a
sufficient proof at least that all favor
ed fashions do not de young" the
useful articles of dress particularly
such as may be called cosmopolitan.
The newest tailor-made coats and
skirts are very smart in appearance,
the coat much shorter than we have
seen it for some time, with rampant
sleeves a "world too WIDE to be in
any sort of proportion tc the jacket
itself. Most of the models are round
ed off in front and plain over the
hips, the fulness being kept strictly to
the center of the back. where the ma
trial is no spared, falling in plais that
stand well away from the figure.
Such a coat admits Of the display of
a whole series of natty looking Shirt
waists or shirt fronts only. these latter
needing special are in their adjust
ment. Safety pins, as we'll as a few
dainty lace pins, are requisite to keep
them strictly in position; indeed, the
utmost nicely is essential. for few
things of the kind are more to be de-
cried on the score Of good taste than
attempts to achieve smartness with
ont corresponding neatness.-New
York Post.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
MRS GRUNDY SAYS,

That some are confident Hades will
have to be enlarged.
That as a reckless talker the girl Of
the period rivals the parrot.
That unbridled, malicious tongues do
as much harm as unloaded guns
That too many lawyers labor more
for their fees tina for their clients
That the sycophant finds himself en-
tirely at home in fashionable society.
That h fine Italian hand" is seen
in some late international engagements.
mat women who never went near
Worth are loudest deploring his death.
That the social ascendancy of the OBJ
scure does not interest the astronomer.
That women who compromise them
selves are as lost as those who hesitate.
That society women who have spe-
c1al means of livelihood are numerous.
That he is a foolish fellow who thinks
taking the Kelley cure is a distinction.
That it would be a good thing if
some of the clubs went out Of existence.
That some of the ''lectures'' under
fashionable auspices are akin to twad-
die.
That "how DIDO" is the only thing
that does not cost money in a court of
law.
That fashionable sympathy is the
kind extended to get further particu-
lars.
That with so many comic papers it is
to be expected that old jokes will reap
pear.
That high collars are the only thing
that makes some men hold up their
head.
That women interviewed about their
divorce are not in need of any nerve
tonic.
That the commercial feature of inter-
national marriages is not given pub
licity.
That a power Of removal bill for op-
GRAFTON in society would be a good
thing.
That everybody who is anybody ap-
pears to have arranged to "go to Eu-
rope
That amateur poets are sometimes as
much a nuisance Is dogs in Constan-
tinople.
That it is a precarious thing to
change ones religion for the sake Of a
marriage.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Points on TillaSe.

Prof. Bailey told the New York
Horticultural society hat tillage is
cheaper than manures. With proper
tillage we can draw upon the i'm
mense reserves of plant food in the
soil. The manuel labor required for
such tillage is cheaper than borrowing
money for fertilizers, while we still
have in the soil a balance Of fertility
which is not drawing interest. Tillage
makes plant food availab BILE for crops.
breaks up the capillarity Of the sur
face and interposes between the moist
under soil and theair as complete 8.
mulch as a wooden blanket is to a
cake of ice. Tillage of itself is the
first fundamental essential of agri-
culture, and the farmer is the one
who does the most of it. A spirited
discussion followed, in which a num-
Der of cases were cited Of orchards
bearing large crops Of apples when
u~ncultivated, to which Prof. Bailey
replied that next to tillage and ma
nures, pasturing with sheep and hogs
was undoubtedly the best. If an.
orchard is doing we'll without tillage,,
let it alone; if not, pillow it up.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
The Backward Child.

There is many q mother who feels
disturbed and anxious because her
child either exhibits small interest in
school. or else is unable to shine
among the other children there. or
perhaps even to keep pace with them.
She is haunted by a horrid specter of
~dunceship and backwardness, and of
her darling o%utstrippped and left be-
hind in all the other struggles as well.
But do not let her be too soon dis
couraged. II her child has no anti
tude for learning exactly what the
others are learning, perhaps there is
an aptitude for something else quite
different and apart, and of lust as
much value. Let her. scrutinize and
discover and help the child along ac-
cordingly in the ways where nature
directs.
Our system Of graded schools is in
deed lifting all children to a broad
table-land of general information, but
however excellent it's mental disci-
pine, 1t allows no space for Individual
growth in individual ways. Every
child is being run in the same mould.
There is no place for idiosyncrasy or
for development upon original lines,
and there is an ever-present danger of
capitalization, OF becoming fixed at a
given point or ceasing all DEVELOPMENT.
If her child has q rooted dislike for q
certain thing, or a positive disability
in the direction of another, the mother
would be wiser to make an effort to
have those studies set aside. and to
let him give himself to those which
he does like, and where, if he cannot
distinguish himself, he can at any rate
expand what power he has. Surely if
his strength and time are dissipated
on those studies concerning which he
is hopeless, there is no strength or
time left for those where he might do
much.
1t is probable that the great men of
the past developed themselves as their
tastes and %inclinations led; they did
not learn all they learned because
some one else had learned it, even if
certain branches were a foregone con-
clusion, ana that which they did learn,
they learned because they felt the i'm
pulse and the need.
II is not the man who is just like
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Household Hints.

Raisins for fruit cake are very much
improved by cooking. Let them soak
out slowly, and then simmer until the
skin is tender. .
If well-fitting shoes are worn at
work about the house, the feet will be
less tired than when one wears the
loose slippers that are supposed to be
%restful, but are really very wearisome.
A woman has invented a useful fish
knife thai scales, cleans and bones a
fish without mangling it. Another in
vention is a new liquid that makes
lace curtains proof against fire.
Take one-third turpentine and two
thirds boiled linseed oil, with a little
Japanese drier added. Buy a can of
burnt sienna and blend it thoroughly
with this mixture. This gives a rich
reddish brown.
Parsnips require no soaking in
water. They need simply to be
scraped. cut in half, put into cold
water and allowed to simmer for
thirty minutes OF until they I ten
der enough to be pierced with a
straw. They should be served either
with drawn butter or poulette sauce,
which is made by adding the raw
yOlk of egg to drawn butter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Inexpensive Fancy Waists.

Fancy waists may be made of sonic
brilliant colored lovely creped cotton
goods, when a collar of silk or satin
to match is added. If a wide satin
ribbon hangs loosely from the collar
to the belt and handsome bows be set
on the shoulders, the general effect
will be of a rich silken garment,
while the price will be very different.
Smoky and cloudlike lawns are made
up yer gray silk, the bodice to such
a dress being Of pale yellow, with
miles of frills of the smoky lawn.
Very delicate nainsook comes gather
ed at intervals into a series of tiny
tucks, the spaces between set with
little nainsook frills. A Ealf-yard of
such goods will serve for a front to q
bodice that at first look will seem to
lave been the results Of patient hand
labor. Little frills Of closely gathered
lace are set along all edges. aud the
edges of the bands of ribbon that
drape the fronts Of bodices are very
often thus finished.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
WICKED INVENTION.
The Gra~phophone Is u Fruitful Occa
sion of Sin.

The Graphophone Is a Fruitful Occa-
sion Of Sin.
Some of the modern inventions are
so wonderful, so appalling, so incom-
~prehenslble, as to make one pause
In speeches. establishment. The lat
est and most astonishing thing is the
graphophone, which "shoots it's mouth
off, at the central telephone office. It's
the most Internal machine that I ever
met with. It's wonderful, and I have
listened to it with speeches. awe
"~speechless," because when it starts off
you can't ever get in a word edgeways.
You ring up 'central' and ask for a
certain number. If the line is busy, as
the girl seems to find it convenient to
have it most of the time, it seems to
me, instead of saying herself that "the
lines busy she sticks in a plug and
the g~raphOphone starts in with: ezra
%phopohne says the line is busy; please
call again."
You try to interrupt it with a word to
"central,' but you can't get in a word.
The internal thing keeps right along
until you hang up the receiver.
"Graphophone says"
"Helloa!"
"the Ii"
"Central!'
line is busy"
Il say, central!"
please call"
Central"
again"
Il say, cent"
"Graph-"
"Confound it, ~central!'
And so the blamed thing goes on in
its sing-song voice until it nearly
drives a person insane. The first time.
l heard it," says c. w. Willis in the
Boston Courier, it kept repeating the
same statement over and over. Final-s
ly I said, "Oh, shut up" but it took no
notice of it. 1t isn't a bit of use to
swear at the graphophone. Most any
m would find her match with it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
DOn'ts for the Horse.
ont check my head too high.

Don't check my head too high.
Don't cut off my tail and then ex-
pect me to stand easy without a ty
net.
Don't clip the hair off my ankles
and legs.
Don't burn my feet when l am shod.
Don't yank the bit in my mouth.
Don't say "Back!' when you mean
stand STILL"
Don't expect me to eat when l have
a bad tooth.
Don't hitch me out in the cold with
the wind blowing hard.
Don't leave a shoe on me more than
-four weeks.
Don't trOt me down hill.
Don't be afraid to water me when 1
am warm. Do you ever drink When
you are warm?
Don't whip me if 1 am afraid.
Don't ill me full of useless medicine
when l am sick.
Don't blister me all over if l am
lame. Let me rest.
Don't let some one drive me if they
do not know as much about going as
I do, especially a man who is drunk.
Don't forget to feed me three times
a day.
Don't call me Ii years old when l
am 26, and expect me to be as good
as ever.
Don't hit me yer the head.
Don't put binders on me if L go web
without them.
Don't forget my salt.
Don't run me if l have the collie
How would you like that treatment
yourself?
Don't burn the oars out of my
mouth and think that you are curing
the lampas.
Don't let some smart Aleck make a
trotter of me.
Don't work me all day without lift
ing my collar.
Don't put a mean nasty bit in my
mouth.
Don't leave me n fly time without
covering me with a light blanket.
Don't ALLOW my stable to be too
light in the summer time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Fashion Echoes.

Double : breasted travelling capes
when opened and thrown back reveal
revers of velvet O corded silk.
Ladies' wrappers, negliges, dressing
sacques. understands and night-dresses
are made OF soft, lightweight, fancy
f1annelette of either French or domes-
tic manufacture.
Handsome English mohairs have
been greatly, used in the formation OF
stylish, durable and ladylike travelling
costumes for journeys by land and
sea. Many varieties OF color have
been added to the familiar standard
shades, and there are pretty figures,
bars. dots, sprigs and stripes intro
duced on some of the newer weaves
Gowns made of fabrics can be worn
from the present time until late in the
autumn season.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
WEEPING AND STRIPPING.
Bad Effect Of IL Love Story on the Com
pleXion.

Bad Effect of IL Love Story on the Com
plexion.
Il suppose you see all sorts of people
in the course of a days rum" said
the observant man to the train boy
as he bought a package of wintergreen
chewing gum.
"You bet," said the boy, after the
manner Of his kind; look acrost the
way there at that a-cryin' over
'Unluckily Married-or the Doom of
Mary Jane
when she came on the car this
mornin' she were as pretty as a wax
figger, all red an white.
"Sence she's been a~-reading that nov
ell she's cried till her face is all
streaked and striped; the paints run
so h looks just like a zebry."
And the youth walked on, leaving the
observant man in deep thought.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
A Good Word for the Owl.

Prof. G. NJ. Weed, Of the New Hamp-
shire Experiment Station, says of the
screech owl:
1T is n of the most beneficial
birds Of prey and deserves the encour-
agement and protection of farmers,
everywhere. Its food is very varied.
consisting of insects, crawfish. frogs.
fish, lizards, small birds and specially
mice. In warm winter weather it
stores up in its hiding place mice,
moles and similar creatures to serve
as food during the more inclement
periods. The only bad habit attribut-
ed to it. is that of occasionally catch
ing small birds, but since the introduce
ton of the English sparrow this trait
is favorable, to the owls usefulness.
since it is known to prey to consider
able extent upon this unwelcome in-
migrants"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
A Long Horse Ride

Lieutenant Cornelius G. Smith, Sec
ond Cavalry, has laid out a ride of
nearly 1000 miles on a single horse
and unaccompanied and will carry
neither rations nor forage, but intends
to depend solely upon the country for
sustelance for himself and horse. He
will start from Fort Wingate, New
Mexico, on April 10, and plans to cover
the distance to San Antonio, Tex,
within a month. The route over which
he is to travel is wild and barren, and
the outlook hazardous.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
Fertilizing in the Spring.

Perhaps there will be a greater use
Of fertilizers this month and next
than at any other season of the year,
and farmers who procure them may
easily eXpend nor than is necessary
or fail to secure the kinds which will
be the most beneficial to them. The
wants of the land and the crop should
be studied before the fertilizers are
applied, and it is in this respect that
the farmer can be wise or make a mis-
take. If, by study or experiment, he
can understand how best to apply
plant food to the most favorable ad-
vantage, he will not only effect a
saving in expense, but increase the
products of his farm. Manure is a
staple plant food on all farms, and a
farmer cannot use too much of it,
but it is seldom that a sutticiency can
be had. The progressive farmer now
uses fertilizers not only to increase
his crops but also to prevent loss of
fertility. Soils may be rich in some
substances and poor in others, being
unable to produce full crops because
a single substance is needed to sup
ply the crop with complete plant food.
Soil exhaustion occurs mostly on
farms where but one or two crops
are grown as ~Specialties. For in
stance, when corn and wheat are
grown on the same land in succession
for a few years, there will be a heavy
drain on the soil for the elements that
enter into the composition of those
crops, the most costly Of which is
nitrogen. When applying fertilizers
to such lands, nitrogen and pllosphoric
acid should be abundant, as the soil
will perhaps contain orc potash than
of the other substances, and especial
ly if the manure used is from dairy
COWS, as a large portion Of the nitro
gen and phosphates are sold Off the
farm in the milk. If clover, however,
enters into the rotation, it will add
nitrogen, thus permitting the farmer
to buy phosphates and potash salts
as the principal substances required.
and avoiding the expense of the more
costly nitrogen. There is no rule that
can be followed. however, as there is
a diversity of characteristics in soils,
and personal observation must be
made to assist in the matter.
The most e~Xtravagant farmer is he
who does not use fertilizers, as he de-
prives himself of a large crop and
loses the fertility of his soil, as we'll
as applying his labor to a smaller
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09

a short distance from the towns. Res
idents going inland take an armed
guard, and even the poor countrymen
bringing produce to market wear
swords. Many of the desperadoes who
Turk in the hill country are unsuccess-
full revolutionists, upon whose heads
a price is set, and others / runaway
slaves, driven by hunger to this means
of making a living.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09

every other man who helps the world
along the most, but the man whose
ditIerent training and growth makes
him individual and gives him a coign
Of advantage that lie would miss if
he went slipping along just like every
one else. Fl. s4 ~
Give the backward boy his
chance, then, at that which suits him
best, and be sure no harm can hap
peh.-Harriet Prescott Spotford in
Good housekeeping. ~s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-09
SLOE- EYED BELLIES.
THE CUBAN GIRLS JEALOUSLY
GUARDED BY DUENNAS,
AT Thirteen and Fourteen Years They
Are Courted and ~Marry-Old Maids
Past Twenty Years Are Passe-Sunday
Evening Promenade,

T IS AUTHORI-
tatively stated that
in the Cuban cal
endar there are NO
fewer than $50 hol-
idays, Sunday in
cluded, in which
nobody is expected
to do any work.
neither h man
V nor the
maid servant, nor
the OK, nor the ass,