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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
The Lenehteningo of Youth.

Probably no other good thing that this
latter end of the century has brought
woman has been received with such de-
vout gratitude as the additional lease of
youth. The ballot is blessing which
we have not yet decided we want, not
cation. the privilege of working on equal
footing with men appeals only to women
who are bread-winners, but every daugh-
ter of Eve would stay her fleeting youth
if she could. No woman is strong-mind-
ed enough to view unmoved the first
wrinkle. or gray hair, the first faint
prophecies of coming age.
The customs of the past accorded to
our grandmothers but brief springtime
Of life. When woman married she was
supposed to be done with the frills and
frivolities of life. She tucked her glossy
locks under matronly cap, and there
after lived in the reflected pleasures of
her husband and children, and was
forced to find an outlet for all the energy,
young soul in ordering her household
affairs. At IS she was middle-aged, at
90 she was old.
Not so today is woman Judged. We
have found that age is an elastic condi-
ton that fits itself to the heart and mind
of a woman as we'll as man. The
woman of 35. who has travelled,
thought, who has enriched heart and
brain with experience and feeling, is in
the best sense still in the flower of
youth, while the matron of &c. still
abreast of the times. full of interests,
studying, perhaps, new language or
art. is in the very prime Of life. She
has outlived many of the trivialities and
some of the sorrows of life, her horizon
is broadened, and her heart schooled by
many experiences, and she is the center
around which society revolves. At her
age her mother had long been relegated
to the chimney, corner: No one would
be crude enough now to call her old.
The poets and the novclists have
made our ideals and are responsible for
the worship we have given youth, but
we are beginning to think for ourselves
and ask If there are not other Qualities
and whiteness. We refuse any longer
to accept as possible the heroines of no.
nance who ut 18 were capable of all
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Hard to Learn.

a former minister to the United States
from Argentina found great difficulty i'll
learning the English language. The
Washington Pathfinder reports the senior
as saying:
Il make often many meestake when
speak Americana. l make a bad blum
der the last time l am received at the
White house. \ beautiful ladee tell me
something which happen in your Civil
war. She says she see it. Now. think
to myself. l will be polite and make the
sonora grand compliment.
lit is impossible that you see it,
madam l say. You must have been
born many. many years before the war.
''.All the time" he added. Il mean aft
er the war But l make meestake.
l say before. No, the ladee was not
pleased. She felt much contempt. -
Youths Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Fresh Air.

\ physician says in the European edi-
ton of the New York Herald: Fresh air
and ventilation are as necessary in an
apartment in midwinter. at very low
temperatures. as they are at any other
time Of the year. My readers know that
air is the bread of life, that it is indis-
pcnsablc food, and that it becomes
exhausted and vitiated very quickly, so
as to be unfit for breathing and even
poisonous, when the supply is not con-
stantly renewed. Teeming with germs
IF all species, the air is permanently
filled with different kinds of fermenta-
tons, and when it comes from our lungs
it is not only highly charged with car
homie acid gas, which is unsuitable for
life, but with other cmincntIy poisonous,
volatile. pulmonary eXcreta Whence the
inference that not only is confined air
unfit for indefinite breathing, but that
it is quickly transformed into an as
phyxiating and deadly poison. In this
way can he explained the danger in
CURED in sleeping an entire night in the
stasnant atmosphere of a carefully
closed room. y permanent system of
interchange ought to exist between the
room and the air without, which is rela-
lively clean and unused
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

same errand, caught sight of the pillow
case, enlptied it in his own bag and re-
filed it with sand. BY and by the dea-
con returned mpty-handed and carried
off his pillow case without noticing the
change. In fact, he filled his sugar
bowl and tried to sweeten his coffee
before he found out how badly he had
that, as he confessed afterward, II was
almost wicked enough to wish there
might never be another wreck on this
here cONSt again."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
A ccurate Record.

There is one savings hank here. says
New York letter. which keeps an ac
curatc record of the calling Of it's de-
positors. During the last year there
was only one actor on the list. while
there were 1892 tailors: there was but
one editor while there were 725 laborers:
there was but one boardiny-house keep
or and 33I peddlers. There were lots
of shoemakers. bakers. BARRIERS. walters
cigarmakers. hut very few musicians,
liquor dealers. lawyers or policemen.
The last-named probably patronize the
national banks and trust companies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
No Hurry,

"Ouch! oh! help! help" screeched al
from the upper etory of IL the nf eade
hotel i'll Hawville Ok. "Oh, gee-whizz
Quar-r-r-r!''
whats the matter upstairs, JIM
inquired Alkali Ike, who had dropped in
for his nightcap.
"Ah, l reckon it's one of them fool
tourists havin' trouble with his spring
bed replied the night clerk. New.
corners don't understand how to mana &c
them beds very we'll, an every night OF
two somebody gifts one of the Spiral
springs screwed into his back like &
shirt stud. When git your pizen mixed
We'll go up thar and unscrew the pool
cuss. Yells like it hurts him consider.
able, don't he?'-Truth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

y Somerset county attorney who rel
ishes joke at his own expense says he
once sent to a rural Office a writ for serv.
i"", with directions to be very particular
i'll regard to the return, saying: IF
for any reason you are unable to write
the return properly, get some experienced
person to do it for YOU Some time
aftcrward the writ was returned by the
officer property served and signed, with
Il letter reading substantially as follows:
Il do not know whether this return will
De satisfactory to you. | have lost one
finger, but | wrote it as we'll as l could.
If for any reason you are unable to read
IT, get some intelligent person to read
it for You. Augusta lMe.) Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
A Little Mixed.

Mike is en- Irishman just fresh from
the Emerald Isle. who recently came to
Hackensack N. j., and was employed by
two gentlemen, each keeping horse in
the same stable. to look after their
equines. One day Mr.. Jones told Mike
to hitch up his horse and bring it around
to his residence.
Mike did as he was hidden, but when
Mr.. Jones saw the turnout he said:
is Mr.. Smiths animal"
"Begorra," promptly replied Mike, $50
it is. l knowed that wasn't your horse,
sir, but couldn't quite make up me
mind which horse belonged to the other
gintleman.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

together. They were found buried in
mcorland, and their good preservation
They are of very thin metal, and gen.
orally seven feet long. They were al.
ways found in pairs, the one in tune with
the other. i.
A few years ago it was found out by
DR.. Hammerich that they could still be
blown or played upon. Their tones re.
sembled those of the tenor horn and
they have ~, to soft, but ut, powerful sound
in D, F. or G, and these tones form an
accord, but no SCALA" On the balcony
in the court Of the palace in which il
kept the Northern museum, two mem.
beers of the "capella" blow tunes OH two
Of these primcval horns to the delight oi
the habitnats.-San Francisco Chron
icle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
College Joke,

Occasionally q good joke comes from
the Medical college. At the clinic recent
" DR.: Wander Veer happened to meet Dr.
Perkins and make a facetious allusion
to the streaks of silver that were appear
ing in his head. The latter, turning on
the senior physician, laid his hand first
upon his own head and remarked: "My
dear sir. here's the head that does the
work" Then taking hold of the doc
tors whiskers. which are also getting
gray, added: "And there's the chin
that's working ALBANY Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Easily Satisfied.

The following little anecdote may he
of some interest, illustrating the p,athe-
nautical capacity of the Beers: "Six
years ago an Englishman owed sum
of $500 to Boer. When payment was
demanded, instead of paying the whole
sum, he only paid him $500. On arriv-
ing home, the Boer counted out his
money with 1.-The the aid Of Ready Reck;
f2OO short. He Immediately returned to
the Englishman, and explained to him
that, according to his Ready Reckoner,
he was E2OO short. The ready-witted
Briton seized the book, and replied that
it was last years. The Boer returned
satisfied. "-Tid-B Bits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Finding a Ship's Speed,

a ships rail is found by line about
fastened to a thin, sector-shaped piece
of wood, called log. The arc of the
log is loaded to make it stay vertical
when tossed into the sea; it then re-
mains in the same place lis supposed toy
in the water while the line is unwind
ing from the reel. The line is divided
into equal parts of so feet each, called
Since a half minute has the same ratio
to an hour that knot has to nauti-
cal mile, the ship runs at the rate of as
many nautical miles an hour as it runs
knots in half minute. If. say, nineteen
knots pass in half minute, the vessel
is then running at the rate of nineteen
miles an hour.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

gentleman and pretty we'll fixed; uni
versally considered good catch!
Kissed is a verb, transitive, too much
so, regular every evening, Indicative
mood, indicating affection; first and
third persons, plural number and gov
erned by circumstances. Mech! well,
everybody knows me-" And she sat
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
PIZZ1eh Pat.

Pat went to the clerk of the court and
obtained license to marry. In three
weeks he appeared there again.
:, "Shure!" he said. II haven't used the
"Wcll?"
AN l Ak We to take out the name
of Mary Flynn and put in Katie O'Con-
ner in the place Of it,
The clerk explained that this would be
i'm ?ossible; nothing but Il new license
would be in order.
''Be the powers, them" said Pat, I'm
in more trouble than liver. l only court
ed Katie to save me money on the H.
cense" -Youth's Companion,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
The Witch Dance.

When from the underworld the light
Shot through the dead and flying leaves,
/ saw witch dance, where the corn
Stood stacked In half hundred sheayes.
Their tatters streaming on the wind,
They bowed, they bent, they turned, they
tOst;
They trembled with an aguish chill,
Withered and shryeled in the frost
Modelling IN rhythmic time and tune,
What unsung slaves pcrchance they heard,
What strange phrase muttcred, all the
with wild and silent laughter stirred.
When happily a hurrying troop,
AS II one wound some fairy horn,
Out of the shadow rose. and then
Went dancing with the stocks Of corn
Each little figure waved her scarf,
"A score Of airy fairy flags;
Each cOrn-stoOk curtsied. turn by turn,
Rustling her old and silken rags
They capered here, they capered there,
Balanced to partners. tripped and twrled
NOW stately as saraband,
Now mad t0rantela whirled
So dark, so weird. so mockng these,
Things out Of cid, so sweet, SO dear,
So innocent, the fairy folk
One shiyered half to see them near!
When suddenly. the last light FELL
SAD wind moaned through signing
The witch-dance acknowledgements came
The children scuffling through the leaves
-Harriet Prescott Spofford in Harper's
Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
New Calling,

a New Calling. -Baron-"IIow am
to get my living? That is quite sim
pie, Herr Graf. Az you are aware,
elite of the capital, and 1 intend to en-
ter into an engagement with n large firm
of dressmakers and milliners It will
be my duty to attend during the busiest
hours of the day, and in my presence
the fair purchasers will feel quite
ashamed to haggle about the prices, dye
e?'-Fliegende Batter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
EmiDYOfdory,

Even within the history of America
we can find many motives and prece-
dents of needlework which are inspiring
to follow. The Colonial danes believed
in ornamental needlework. and prac-
ticed it to an extent which gives us many
a beautiful example. l remember seeing
among the personal treasures of my
grandmother generations of infants
caps-little cup-shaped fashionings of the
finest linen and linen cambria, covered
with tiny wreaths and flowers wrought
in satin stitch. with borders and centers
in various methods of exquisite "open-
work" And there were muslin capes
lapoing one over another, each with its
ella borate border and edging of fine EN-
broidery, the upper one entirely covered
with wrought design: There were also
from waist to hem with flowers.
And all these things, tiny babies caps
and robes. and muslin gowns for the
bellies, and capes for the mothers of the
family, were wrought by the fingers of
mothers and daughters in the same spirit
of becoming responsibility with which
our present maids and matrons pursue
comprehensive schemes of benevolence
or study problems of political economy
But in spite of exhaustive philan-
, thropy and scientific economy, the tradi-
, ton of needlewOrk remains in every
woman's mind. and the tendency to it
in her blood. and in all intervals of leis-
ure or accidents of idleness it comes to
the surface. and bestows it's tranquility
with unfailing persistence. 1t has it's
revivals also. during which cities and
nations are seized with a mania of nee
dlework which is pursued with ardor as
new art; and yet all the time in the
far East almond-eyed and dusky women
have been stitching through the centii-
ries without lapse or cessation, and if
by slow advancement of destiny they
come to philanthropy and political econ
omy, l do not believe needlework will
vanish from the world. The needle-cure
, may yet be found 4 necessary alienation
of the effects of abnormal activity, and
needle sanitariums may be established
! for the victims of social over-exertion
and mental strain.
Fortunately it is cure always at
hand. and the work basket or the work
bag is perennially ready to bestow it's
healing and yield it's tranquilizing powers
to wounded wrestlers with the world
Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Presence of Mind,

\ college president who is great
gardener wears a glass eye. One day
this college president-it being summer
and he on his vacation-rushed in from
the garden, all soilcd and spattered an,!
without his glass eye. His wife was
seated with caller of Importance She
perceived the eternal untitncss of her
husbands condition and frigi,lly said to
him: John. go at once to the library
and tell your master Mrs. - wishes
to see him." He went and soon rean-
peared, clothed, eyed and in his right
mind.
This college president. it is plain. is
himself man of presence of mind.
There are plenty of men who, confront
cd by such remark of genius as this,
would have stared and falterul on,
But, my dear" and spoiled IT all
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
TOO MANY HORSE HIDES,
European Importations Have Glutted t
United Sta1eA Market.

United States Market.
The hide of the horse has always been
valuable for making ladies' fine shoes
and thongs for belt lacing. 1t is much
finer than the hide of a beef, and when
split makes a very fine and soft leather.
\ few years ago the market could not
get enough of them. That was in the
days when horse was horse, and
worth something, before the electric mo-
tor drove him from the street car serv-
ice. AS high as So was paid for good
hide, and it was a very poor one that
would not bring $3.50. But as the
horse got cheaper and the advocate of
horse flesh as food was REINFORCED by
the butcher who could palm it off for
beef, things slowly began to change.
Prices went down steadily, until now it
axes a No. ! hide to bring 81 so, while
fair ones 60 for SO cents, and the poorer
ones are thrown away. The consump-
ton of horse flesh in Europe, partfctl-
larly in Paris, seems to have increased
wonderfully, Judging from the S:heuvt
imnortation of hides to this country
while in this country it is said there is
not large city where the horse is mot
slaughtered for the market and sold
either openly or secretly. The meat
canning establishments are also credited
with utilizing great many broken-doWn
animals Thus, while the beef hide
market has it's fluctuations and days of
glut and scarcity, the horse hide mar
ket is completely stagnated, and there
does not seem to be any possible hope
for revival Of it.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Served as Private.

The late Monsieur Drury. an eminent
French historian, served, when 80 years
old, during the siege of Paris, as n pri-
Monsieur Jules Simon, a member of the
administration, caught sight of famil-
lar face belonging to one doing sentry
go i'll the uniform of a private. SIS that
YOU. Drury?" he cried. "To be sure"
ely. "And private!" why not?'
other laconically. eve can't
minister's" - 81. ..5s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
All Knew Her.

According to an Ohio paper, this is
how high school girl recently parsed
the sentence He kissed me:" '''He,"
the word that brought the crimson to
her cheeks, lis a pronoun, third person,
singular number, masculine gender, a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

A lady teacher in one of the public
schools, in trying to explain the mean
ing of the word SLOWLY" Illustrated it
by walking across the floor. When she
asked the class to tell her how she
walked she nearly tainted when boy
at the foot of the class shouted, Bow
legged, ma'am!'-Stratford, To-, Courier.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Adventures OF a Maine Gum Chewer.

Last week. Bradford man who was
hunting saw an immense lump of spruce
gum on a tree. He attempted to knock
it off with his rifle, and the gum was
transferred from the tree to the barrel
of the gun. The man then tl.~~ to bite
denly froze to the cold steel. After
considerable shouting he attracted the
attention Of companions, who thawcd
him loose-Portland Daily Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
the complex emotions of a woman of

the complex emotions of woman of
the world, the aplomb to carry off diff
ficu!t situa tons, the subtly and fnesse.
to deal with villains and outwit scoun-
drels the strength Of heart to rise to
heights Of passion and self-abnegation.
These things come only with age and ex-
perience. They do not belong to IS, but
to % and over. 1t has been reserved for
this day to realize the French proverb
about age, and as long as a woman
keeps her heart young her interest in life
fresh. she carries her own spring time
with her. and with her it is always May.
and all the flowers are blooming.-New
Orleans Picayune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
A Novel Horn Hand.

An enoromus crowd fills the museum
court and neighboring square at Oopen-
to a unique concert. A number of an
Gent Scandinavian horns, more than
5000 years old, called "luren," are kept
in the museum, OF this collection four
teen are in good condition. They have
an elegant shape, and the fiat metal
plates at the mouthpiece show good tech
art. They are in different pieces fitted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
New Feature,

Rambler in the New York Mail and
Express refers to a pretty feature at IL
debutante's dinner: a Washington street
produce dealer filled an order the other
day for a dozen live baby ducklings.
''This is the first time in several years
have had such an ORDER" he said, land
although it is not complete novelty,
the idea Oh which the order was based
seems to have been kept for a good
while i'll the background The little bits
of yellow fluff were ordered for the pur-
pose of adding an interesting touch to a
debutante's dinner party, miniature
lake some ten feet long by three feet
wide having been arranged down the
center Of the table with border of
green moss and a few fine fat goldfish
to keep them company. | consider the
idea 81 singularly appropriate one for
decorating a debutante's festive board,
as the Youngsters had only made their
own debut a few days before they were
invited to take part in the evenings en-
tertainment. The gentleman who gave
the order assured me, by the way, that
on the morning following the dinner the
buckets would be sent to friend of
his who lives at Yonkers and there
placed under the maternal care of q most
motherly and respectable old duck who
has in her time brought up several
families in the way they should co."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13

"Stammering is an awful affection"
remarked the young woman. "Still. it
has it's advantages" said the society
young man. "Fellow doesn't need more
than two or three ideas to keep him talk
ing q, whole evening. indianapolis
Journal. sd, :s. Z, H. s...,aa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Many DeceptiOns.

The little receptions practiced Oh the
reading public are illustrated by story
told in the New York Mail and Express
1t is to the effect that a year or 50 ago
there came to the metropolis il sub
stantially built young Englishman, who
hoped to make good living by going
in for newspaper work and writing
stories for the periodicals. His success
was not so pronounced as to turn his
head by any means. and. in fact. he
wrote home not very long ago that if he
didn't freeze to death this winter he
would proba bly, starve. Now he is in
clover, and he explains it to his init
mates by saving that he made the ac-
quaintancc of a man whose name as a
writer of fiction has considerable value
to the editors of weekly papers and
monthly magazines, but who is perme-
ated through and through with the
bacilli of lassitude. He is letting the
young Englishman write the stories and
he signs them, and, as he is well paid,
they each make rather nice thing
IF If
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Wicked Deacon.

There was once n deacon on Cape
Cod who heard early one morning that
"' had been Il wreck on the beach
louise. He hurried down with
'nses: filed ono ';+h