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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
As Carried On BY the Swedish Movement
System.

From the time Of tn organisaAion Of
the Young Women's Christian Assocla.
tion In Scranton, the Importance Of the
physical department was recognized.
Tho n1st year classes In physical cui.
ture were organised Theee olasass
were held In the reading room. and
much onthusiasm was manlfestsd
A gynma1luan waS soon found Q n&caD.
sity, and at present the upper door OF
the Christian Association building Il
used for that purpose being eQuiDpsa
with the most essential appafatuA Dur
ing the past year the Swedish system,
which is based ON the Ling principles Of
physical culture. has been used. Dr..
H3almar Ling. the greatest authority
on the science Of general kinesiology
founder. This Swedish system Of gym
nastics has been derived from mechan.
les, anatomy. physiology and psyche
logy, and all Of these branches Of
science enter into the course Of study,
which embraces both educational and
medical gymnastica The first IL used
in schools and the regular gymnasium;
the second Is applied to pathological
cases, largely by massage. In teaching
q class after giving them first the cor
rect standing position, q movement OBJ
tanning the correct carriage of the head
is given. Then follow few general In
troductory movements for control Of
the body. The exercises follow in a
regular sequence, no matter how far
advanced q pupil may be, and this
sequence 10 the kernel Of the whole sys.
tenn.
This system deals with ths pupil a N
individual. Its aim being to develop
one part Of The body In proportion to
all the other parts, and to have ali
under perfect control Of the will Every
thing Is subordinate to the best pos
ture of the chest, and the fullest expAn-
sion Of the lungs. Every movement 10
really breathing exercise. Good
breathing capacity L. Of GrUataP value
than muscular strength
One Of the best features Of the Swed-
ish system Is Its adaptibiiity to every
situation and environment ExcsIlsut
work Is often done In private houses,
where only chairs, rope possibly and
pole are available. OF course more
can be accomplished II one has proper
apparatus. yet there arc free standing
exercises which no apparatus In the
world can substitute. It Is believed
that free exercises develop co-ordina.
ticn and general physical culture, while
tivate force. The proper use Of respira-
tory exercises during . gymnastic les
son kaves the pupil rested instead Of
fatigued. In using gymnastics a. q
science the idea is to improve the quail
ity OF the muscles, not to see how large
they can be made. The mere outward
measurement does not give the real
value Of muscles. In many gymnas-
iums the measurements are taken and
a standard Is made towards which the
pupils work. but In gymnastics as in
any process which has to do with the
development Of a human being each in.
dividual should have as his ideal stand
ard the best Of which his abilities make
him capable.
Those who learn the lesson that the
first wealth Is health, can the better
serve God and their fellowmen.
JANET q. ADAMH
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
THE TELEPHONE.

The telephone q popular because so
few people know how to use 1t. 1t
would seem as II Ninsteenth century
intellects ought 70 grasp the idea In
twenty years, but they have not. In
some cases the idea has grasped their
intellects.
Some ecrantonians appreciate the
modern telephone - much - they do
The way that Scranton clings to that
ancient variety proves their love for
antiquities, and warns outsiders not to
effect to much at time, a. An air OF
clo-cum.ness pervadea our city.
The telephone was made to make
time. It II indispensable to the busi-
ness man. Through the telephone he
can transact important business In q
distant city in FIVE minutes which
would otherwise consume hours and in
cur considerable expense besides.
A half decade ago this was IN un-
known possibility.
Up to that time the only device for
transmitting speech was q little toy
called the thread telephone, consisting
Of two boxes open at one end and closed
at the other with a diaphragm Of parch-
ment. Knotted to the center Of each
diaphragm were the two ends OF q
piece Of twine. BY means Of this SIM
pie contrivance people a hundred yards
apart would keep conversation with
out difficulty. as the vibrations Of the
voice constitutes so many pulls on the
cord leading to the opposite diaphragm,
causing 1t to describe similar move
ments, and reproduce the original
sounds given. That evidently was ade-
quate to the needs Of the people at that
time a. they progressed no farther
It was reserved for Prof. A. G. Bell
to solve the problem, ana win the tro-
phies Of the discovery.
He produced the first form Of articu-
lating telephone in 1875, q thing his
conscience would not allow him to do
had he foreseen the degree to which IL
injures the morals Of the people today.
Although greatly modified and i'm
proved, this instrument IL still in use,
known az the Long Distance Bell Tele-
phone.
The combined interests Of the tele-
phone. telegraph and cable systems and
messenger service place our people in
direct touch with all parts Of the world.
We have all the latest appliances and
improvements on the BELL" In connec-
ton with telephone system in our own
city, In charge OF large corps Of COM
petent opsratQrA and no city twice its
sise can boee cf q larger number Of
chrome grum6lers on the subject Of
Il is as popular in the business world
s;.t1 9: sas s,rsi sssEsHs srr question i' in %
The habit Of worrying themselves for
fear' the opefa&ot VIII not Do hef duty
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
HEAD ADORNMENT.

This time Of year our attention Is
called to the beauties Of Nature as
shown In the flowers with their har-
monious colors and shapes. The Divine
Artist has given u the models for our
own adornment.
We often wonder whether our head.
gear is for protection or beauty or
little bonnets, consisting Of a bow Of
ribbon ana bunch Of hewers, were
certainly not for protection; and Il de-
psnds much on the taste Of the wearer
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(CONCLUDED.)
(CONCLUDED.)

able and much time is given to the
study Of sociological conditions exist
ing in them. The depression IN busi-
ness has retarded the advance some
what, but the committee ana the state
secretary work under q banner OF
promise and will not rest until In every
city, where there are large numbers OK
girls and the promise Of support, there
shall be a building. rented. II 1t must
be, but built and owned where 1t may
be, over whose door shall be written
the sign: 1.-THE Young Women's Chris
tian Association" Under that sign
shall there be such provision for rest
and growth of body, soul and mind as
shall result in culture of character
which might be gained under no other.
MARY 8. DUNN.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14

whether they are beautiful. The aim
Of every one sheuld be to secure that
which is becoming as well 40 pretty, re-
membering that what looks we'll on one
person may not on another. And the
finest hat will not make q handsome
woman or lovely face. for the real
adornment comes from within. A cheer.
full disposition makes a sunshiny face.
which looks wall under any hat.
NELLIE PARDW2
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14

men a. clients. especially those who are
wage earnsrs, also married women with
Children or dependent relatives. A.
many women now carry insurance ana
moro seek 1t either to provide life an.
nuity for themselves. or to make pro-
vision forsothers in case of the insur-
er's death. the new stats Of afRairs has
o. those'Who have TAKEN up the new!
Industry ssne snasgstio Women tADoso
largo financial sucaesA
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
WOMAN INSURANCE AGENTS.

One of the latest paying employments
for women is that Of life insurance
agent. Until within q few years in
s,irance companies were Avefse to issu-
Ing policies to women. But time has
est and best companies now eeAk wo.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-18
THE RoTrENNEss OF TURKEY.
A Government Carried on by Spies and
Based on Bribery.

4 Government Carried on by Spies and
Based on Bribery.
There is a council of ministers-they
are puppets. There is grand vizier-
he is the mouthpiece of his masters
whims. Every single matter, down to
the most trifling-a squabble in coffee
house, for example-goes before the
sultan personally. Every appoint
ment is made and unmade by him. The
minister of police is his chief spy and
torturer. The minister of marine is
his ally in colossal peculation. The
minister of the interior is perforce his
means of securing as his own property
the richest lands of the empire, and
thus robbing the state of their returns
in taxes. Except himself, nobody has
any authority, nobody has any rights,
nobody can perform any of the duties
of his position, nobody's liberty and life
are safe for an hour. And the rotten
hole is cemented together by one huge
and all-embracing system of espionage.
Everybody suspects everybody else
of being a spy, and Turk hardly vent
ures to express a thought to Turk. Not
one minister can call upon another
without the fact being reported at the
palace. The best men are in exile. In
Constantinople there is but one man
who dares beard the sultan. That is
Hassan Pasha, minister of marine, and
he boasts that the sultan dare not de-
pose him. He receives enormous sums
of money for the upkeep of the fleet, an !!
and as there is, of course, no feet kept
up, these find their way into some pri-
vate pockets. Whether this is the hold
he has over the sultan we do not know,
but there is another statement made
to the effect that he possesses, and has
placed in safe keeping outside Turkey,
certain papers connected with the
death of Abdul Aziz, and that in case of
his deposition or sudden death these
are to be given to the world. In the
meantime, has enormous wealth, his
great influence and the hatred felt for
him by all his subordinates are three
indisputable facts.
There are just two really Influential
men in Turkey. The first is Lufti
Agha, body servant and adviser to the
sultan. With this valet the caliph OF
Islam takes counsel concerning the
domestic affairs of Turkey and its rela-
lions with the European powers. The
second is Abdul Huda, the sultan's pri-
vate mollah, the priest who conducts
the service in the royal mosques. In
comparison with this ignorant fanatic
! the council of ministers, yes, and the
ambassadors themselves, are mere wax
| works.-London Chronicle.
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outcry until 1 had passed beyond his
sight at the first turning in the road.
y / pedaled sereneIy on, little realizing
what commotion had left behind me,
End the one funny thing about this
most regretable episode is that } spent
an exceedingly quiet, peaceful and en-
iovable day, not knowing ! was pur-
sued, making no attempt to elude any
BODY. and yet eluding them in what
opueared afterwards to be by subtle
and crafty lodges. The magistrate
could not be persuaded that my sitting
on the veranda of restaurant IN the
main street of Intcrlaken, with the b.
rycle in plain view of everybody, was
not the brazen act of a hardened GRIM
;nal. who knew the police would be
searching for him in the back streets.
when the man standing against the
doorway had recovered partly from his
amazement at my sudden fight on his
,nachine he rushed to the police station
md told the authorities there piausl-
HE foreigner had engaged him in polite
Ouendortan conyeFsations and, whils
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-18
ACTORS LIKE WASHINGTON.
They Arc Fond of Spending Leisure In the
Capital City.

Every actor or actress, lyric or dra-
matte; will tell you that they love to
come to Washington. 1t is invariably
the pilgrimage of pleasure There are
several reasons for this. One reason in
chief is because great deal OF the talent
that appreciates talent is naturally at
the seat of government. where for years
there has been a centripetal movement
of bright men and women.
Another reason is that conditions
political and otherwise change so often
that men and women are not permitted
to move in grooves. This brings about
system of society, If it may be so called,
which is more free from cliques and
cabals than any other city in the United
States. The president is the president
of the people. The first lady in the land
is no bigger than the second or third
lady OF the land.
The few titled people hold title from
the people, and if they don't behave
themselves, as Andrew Jackson in
tended, the people get mad, and titles
and perquisites vanish at the next
election, including the coterie known as
the cabinet set.
Of course there is the diplomatic
corps, but that is not American. The
diplomatic corps changes also quite fire.
quently, but the theatric corps is with us
always, and it is perhaps draw as to
whether the people like the play
actors" any better than the play
actors like the people of Washington.
Actors, like everybody else, and they
are all mortals except when on the
other side of the footlights, are apt to
become lonesome if nN absolutely lost
in the immensely of the great cities
through which they go like birds Of pas
sage during the business" season. 10th
ing can be more solitary than the solitude
of grent city in which no one knows
anybody and in which il is difficult to
get acquainted with anybody.
Take any of the big cities like Chi
cago, st. Louis, San Francisco or Phila-
delphia. Land an actor there for the
first time, or the second or the third
time, and, barring the paradox, ne is
shipwrecked as soon as he lands. Time
hangs heavy on his hands. 1t is the
hotel, the rehearsal. and the perform
ance in the everlasting recurrence.
"This is the solemn fact without ex-
aggeration," said an old-time visitor to
Washington a day or two ago at the
Cochran. "You are all close together
here; your city is compact, and withal
there is no telling where it ends. lean
find more things to interest me in an
hours walk from this hotel than car
in any city in the world, and have done
come reveling in it in some capacity OF
other on the stage ever since l was 1:
years of age."-Washington Times.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-18
Women as Spoilers.

Women have the reputation of being
better spoilers than men, though there
have been some notable exceptions.
Mrs. Barbould, for instance, though
she was schoolmarm, once deliberated
as to the correct way of spelling dom
kew, and finally concluded it was
d-o-n-k-y. And the sedate Jane Austen,
the popularity of whose books has so
wonderfully revived within the last
decade, invariably wrote niece with
the "e'' before the 81" She wrote, con-
corning some proofs: 1.-THE printers
continue to supply me very well. /
am advanced in volume third to my
arra-oot." To this peculiar style OF
spelling an article sacred to invalids
there was, however, modest query as
to propriety in the margin Elsewhere
the 6emure Jane felicitates herself
upon an abundance of s4tamatas." Her
biographer, who was her granddaughter,
confesses that his gifted aunt was al
ways a careless speller, nor was she
herself wholly ignorant of her own
orthographical insecurity. She
laughed at it. and evidently considered
it too trifing q matter to deserve seri-
GUS attentions Detroit Free Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-18

An old man in England was sent to
prison for four months for petty steal
ing whose record, the judge who sent
enced him said, ''is one of the most
awful pieces of reading that has ever
come to my notice." In 1863 he was
sent to Jail for three years for stealing
two tame rabbits; he then got seven
years for stealing five shillings and a
shawl; then ten years, with seven years
police supervision, for stealing three
ducks, and finally consecutive sentences
of five years each on three charges of
stealing coat, q pair of reins, and a
shovel, with another seven years police
supervision. In all, IS years of penal
servitude for six thefts of objects whose
value amounted to few dollars. Chi
cago Chronicle.
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his mind was distracted in trying to
follow his remarks, had seized the OPP
portunity and also the machine and was
ut that moment making his way by the
north road towards Interlaken.
Now, capture under these circum-
stances seemed to be deliciously easy.
There were no branching off roada.
The mountains were on one eide and the
lake on the other, on neither of which
was bicycling practicable. Therefore
all the two policemen had to do, when
they mounted their machines, was to
ride faster than / did and so overtakB
me. AS had no idea that rice was ON.
l plugged along in leisurely manner
and would undoubtedly have been
taken near 1nterlaken il it had not been
for the fact that some years ago COM
pany built funicular railway from
the margin of the lake, mile or SC up
to st. Beatenburg. l had lived in St.
Beatenburg once, AID / remembered
that the road from there to Interlaken
was good one, so 1 thought that per-
haps it would not be a bad plan to go up
on the railway and coast down to In
terlaken. / knew a man who had done
it once. can well believe now that no
one ever tries it the second time. The
car goes up to st. Beatenburg three or
four times a day only, but when a
couple of miles away from the landing
l saw steamer coming in and knew
if reached the landing about the time
she did l would get car.
The policemen, it seems. caught sight
of me as 1 was making my squirt, and
they at once put on extra steam, but
there is deep bay just before one
reaches the funicular and they lost
sight of me as l turned the point. !
just managed to catch the car and got
on board somewhat short of wind. As
we went up 1 noticed an innocent and
unfortunate Englishman standing on
the road at the foot of the hill with his
bicycle beside him, and he was watch
ing us go up, taking rest at the SAND
time before mounting the steep hill