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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
THE BODY BEAUTIFUL.
How to Obtain a Good Figure And a
Graceful Carriage.


A thoroughly practical article on
physical Culture for Girls" by kath-
airline Eggleston Junkermann, in the
January Womans' Home Companion,
contains these simple directions for
home gymnastics:
Systematic exercise can accomplish
so much that it is a marvel to one who
has enjoyed its benefits that it is not
more generally practiced. 1t is en-
tirely unnecessary to be mistress of a
system of physical culture. There are
few exercises, which, taken regular
ly and thoroughly, would accomplish
all that a system would. The tendency
is, however, TO be unsystematic in TAX
ing these exercises, and thus lose their
good effect. 1t is best to take them at
night. In bedroom slippers and loose
gown, with no bands to bind no col
lar to rub, girl is readysfor the ex-
erciSe that will make her rest as tran
quill and sweet as baby's. Every
muscle of the body is free TO stretch,
to stiffen with effort, or to rest itself
in complete relaxation.
''Clubs, dumb bells and other gym
nastic paraphanalia are unnecessary.
and really are more harmful than
beneficial. Grasping the bells en-
larges the knuckles; the friction of the
clubs harden the hands, and as it is
quite as easy to do without them, they
are better unused. After all prepare
lions for bed are made, even to ar
ranging the fat and somewhat hard
pillow, stand before the glass and be-
gin your exercise. There is real de-
light in watching the strong, easy
movements of a healthful woman.
And this ease and strength is within
the reach of nearly all women. The
fat chests, shapeless waists and badly
formed hips may be at least partially
rer,edied, and it requires only little
effort and persistence to accomplish
it. Too many women lack persist
ence. Instead of conscientiously tax
ing their exercise every day, they skip
a day when they are feeling tired OF
lazy; then two or three days at a time;
and eventually they learn to forget
| 1t. or decide that the game is not
worth the candle.
ITO develop breadth of chest. place
| the hands on the waist line a little
back of the hips, the fingers pointing
| forward. From this position move
the elbows slowly back toward each
other, making them come as nearly
| together as possible. Do this several
| times. counting four as the elbows ap
proach each other, and two to recover
position. BY counting to these move
ments a harmony is affirmed which
| viii develop the muscles evenly"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

CauSus is king. The time is coming
when he will be dethroned. 1t is time
that q man could go into the councils
of a political party and. dissenting
with mind and conscience from the
course decided on. be left at liberty
TO leave the caucus chamber and act
upon his personal convictions of poll
teal right. To insist that he is bound
by the action of caucus is degrading
and tends to kill honesty of political
purpose and action. Protest is the
right of every individual, within the
party lines as well as without. The
politics of the country have become
rotten through the enforcement Of
caucus dictation, and. they will only
be purified when caucus is regarded
as merely consultation room out Of
which the individual members of it
go as free to act as when they enter
ed. 1t must be or a deeper descent
into the political mire is sure to fol-
low.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The salvation of this government
today does not lie in the election of
this or that party's candidate, but in
the intelligent independence of the
members of the political parties. So
long as there is a blind following of
the party bosses, so long will there
be corruption in office and a deteriora-
ton in the character of the men who
are selected as the candidates before
the people. Party lines are likely to
be less closely drawn in the future
than in the past, and this will be a
real good.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Party politics seem to be neces-
sity, because parties seem to be a
necessity, and as consequent party
politicians seem to be necessity, but
if so they are a necessary evil. The
country would be the gamer by some
system of arranging matters that
would let the partisans out and by so
much diminish the need of periodical
lying on the part of so numerous a
percentage of the voters of the coun-
try. L is about accepted as true that
a man cannot engage actively in party
politics and tell the straight unvarnish.
ed truth. He must be untrue to his
own convictions or to the platform of
his party. He must have no personal
judgment or he must subordinate it
TO the Judgment of his party. He
must be content TO stand by and see
things done in the name of party that
as an individual he would scorn 10
give either his name or his counter.
ance to. Such is the fact in party
politics today.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The country has been apt TO receive
the declarations of the cepubilcan
platforms in good faith, as these plat
forms have been in the main honestly
ATTEMPTED to be made the basis of
Congressional legislation. In the
same manner has il received the BIZ
metIllist declarations of the st. Louis
platform. The country will Judge of
the honesty of the administration in its
attempts TO carry out that plank. No
more earnest effort to redeem a pledge
has been made by any president. The
free-silyer -popocratic- democratic-plu-
tocracy. may attempt to falsify
thar record, but the record is in
black and white. Impossiblities are
not expected of any government. I'M
less i is so expected by men void of
understanding, and it is according to
the eternal fitness that the expecta-
tions OF such men should not be met.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The holidays are over, that is the
big end of them, Christmas. How
many people have incommoded them
selves, given what they We're really not
able to give, paid toll to prevailing
custom as it We're, for the sake of
conforming to custom that is more
honOred in the breach than in the OBJ
servance. This almost compelled Civ
ing of Christmas presents is one of
the old customs that had better die
out. 1t might not have been best to
say this before Christmas, but it is
past and this can be reflected on be-
fore another Christmas comes around.
Giving TO personal and intimate
friends and to our own household
members in not meant here. but the
indiscriminate giving simply because
it is Christmas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

There is growing opinion among
the more thoughtful of the American
people that Congress is not the true
representative of the people. There
is too much cause for this impression,
and as it grows and in its increase
creates distrust more widespread and
general in the integrity of that body
and the government in general it saps
the foundation of that confidence that
is the strength of all representative
government. The needed legislation
that is defeated every session in the in /.
terests of some syndicate, or class. or
of some rich individual enterprise gives
great color to this charge
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

There is no doubt great deal of
pleasantly INDUCED in by the hard
money press of the country, anent the
reception that Mr.. Bryan has received
in Mexico, but there is not single
Republican editor or leader of any
character orr intelligence in the Unit
ed States who would trade off Mr..
Bryan to the Mexicans, in the hope
of preventing his nomination by the
Democracy of this country in 1900.
The nomination of Bryan in the next
presidential campaign is one that the
Republicans would heartily second, as
there is no one man in the country
who Is so certain not to be elected. on
such nomination.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

richest plum IN the Hawley district
as saith the Houston Post, then the
Republicans In the state of Texas will
be again in position to wear Grape on
their hats yard long. The history
of the party in the state, and of the
proposed colonization schemes in
which the plum taker was conspicu-
GUS. alike point to the danger of such
a selection for the rewards of official
appointment. The Light does not take
any stock in the declarations of the
Post. Representative Hawley is hard
ly the man to make so great a blum
der. and it VIII be time to believe it
when Ii is done.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

If the Republican party is not going
40 disappoint the just expectation of
the nation, then it must put upon the
statute book such laws restrictive of
immigration as will compel an inteli-
gence in the immigrant, at least equal
to that which is required of American
voters in those states that put the
highest intellectual premium on the
right of suffrage. Nothing less than
this will meet the pledges of the st.
Louis platform. To this the Demo
cratic party will hold the government
and in doing it will be justified. To
this plank of the platform the presi-
dent has given his unqualified assent.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Lewis George Clarke, who is parad-
ed in all the illustrated papers as the
original of Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom
was not 10 the mind of the New Eng
land enthusiast when the great pic
ture of southern life grew under her
pen. She said so herself again and
again in answer to that question, de-
claring that no one person was in her
mind at all. The picture was an ideal
one, drawn from her own Imagination.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The Democratic journals seem to
think, or at least they say, that Mar
Gus Aurelius Hanna has no walk over
to his second term in the United States
Senate. This may possibly be so, and
it may be true that in declaring that
he sees no reason to conclude that his
seat Is in danger, Mr.. Hanna is only
whistling TO keep his courage up, but
II it is so Hanna will be the last man
to confess it until the last shot is
fired. the battle ended and the killed
and wounded carried off the field.
Better wait
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The verdict of the country for three
years has been that Durant should
hang 1t is almost time the courts quit
fooling around his cell and ordered the
tragedy to be played out and the cur
tain dropped.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The Democrats are raising the cry
that the Republicans are cutting of
needed appropriations in order to re-
duce expenses below income. The re-
duction below income is coming and
it is for the future TO say If any OF
the government departments suffer
on account of curtailment in appo-
priation. Income is coming up and
that is what really ais the Democratic
prophets OF evil. They would give all
their disappointed ambitions to see The
deficit under Cleveland repeated under
Mckinley.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Those pessimistic souls that are
looking for United States to make
fool of herself over the China oc-
cupation, simply because she asserts
her rights and privileges as to Hawaii.
are not very well acquainted with the
really American make up of the
President and his cabinet.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Great Britain is trying to make her
self solid on the Nile, in COrea. in South
Africa. in Northwest India, in Nieara-
qua. in Venezuela and in Ireland. The
little kingdom will stretch until she
tears.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Rlanco banquetted the officers of the
German man of war in his harbor, but
there was no peace on earth business
about the manner in which the Span
ish and Insurgeut forces put in the
Christmas day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The different opinions that are ex-
pressed by the different countries of
Europe as to what the United States
will or will not do in certain supposed
cases are well worth a study on this
side of the water.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

San Antonio has good interests at
stake in that proposed Guadalupe Val
ley railroad and II would be good bust
ness for her people and merchants 10
see that her share in that road was
not neglected.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Some of these days there will be
revision of the rules that govern fiistic
encounters and football games and
bull fights will be thing of the past,
then the age will grow truly humane
tartan.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

New potatoes and lettuce and cauli.
flower and radishes and roses and sich
are on our Christmas table. ana yet
there are those who do not know that
nature made this the winter resort of
the country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Cuba is not likely to repeat her trial
and execution of autonomist emisa-
ries, simply because BlancO is not like
~ to repeat his experiment of send
ing in man to propose terms of
peace that are insulting to the Insur-
gents. The example that was made
of Ruiz was a wholesome one if it was
sharp.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

There is seldom week in the year
that superior fat cattle will not find a
good market in the cities of the north
and east. The fatter the cattle, the
more readily do they find a market.
Texas feeders find it so.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

There is not political prophet on
top Of snow or sod who can tell with
any approximate truthfulness what is
likely to be the outcome of congression-
al action this winter. Matters are
mixed muchly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The rain and the disagreable wealth
er of the past week have not been al
together unwelcome to the southwest.
There has been an appreaciable addi-
ton to the moisture that. this section
has long needed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Bryan isn't the only free silverite who
has not had the courage of his none
tary convictions in the face of the rap
id depreciation of the money that he
had in his pocket. Circumstances~al-
ter IDEAS
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The Spanish anarchists are plotting
TO take the life of Weyler. They had
better pause before they kill the hen
that lays their anarchistic fruit. Wey-
Ter is the friend whom they should all
defend.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
NEW CHICKERING PIANOS.

We have just received a new line of
the Famous Chickering Pianos, in
Grands and Uprights, in Oak, Walnut
and Mahogany cases. This is an ex-
cellent chance to buy q first cIass in
trument, and get a choice selection.
If THOS. GOGGAN & BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

All communications for the paper
should be accompanied by the name of
the author, not necessarily for publ
cation, but as an evidence of good faith
on the part of the writer. Write only
on one side of the paper in a plain hand.
Anonymous communications will not
be noticed. The Light will not be re-
sponsible for the statements of it's cor
respondents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Bryan did not have the courage to go
on gold basis in his own country. but
as soon as he found tendency~on the
part of his Mexican silver to depreciate
in purchasing power he changed it to
gold.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Gold deposits in Texas are like other
things connected with that state. nigh
ty irregular and uncertain, and this is
about all that the closest scientific in
vestigation has as yet discovered.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

A Pennsylvania court is about to
tackle the question of the right of n
woman to go through the pockets of
her husband while he is asleep and con-
fiscate the proceeds to her own use and
purpose.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
NEW PIANO $4,000.

We offer this coming week, a New
Piano at $4,000, and several good sec
ond hand Upright Pianos at $125.O
Good Organs at $500. We intend
closing out the ]. f. Jones & Company
stock and the goods will be sold re-
gardless of cost.
If THOS. GOGGAN & BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

II is worthy of remark how readily
Meinherr Germany can speak for the
government at Washington on case
in which Great Britain and the United
States are solely concerned.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Kansas City business men are look
ing over the intermediate country and
the terminal facilities at Port Arthur.
There will be good trade along that
line when the connections are all made.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

1t makes little difference what Spain
does or does not think, United States
keeps on the even tenor of her ways.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The school children and those who
are taking holiday lind a soft thing, in
the streets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

This week and Greater New York will
put Tammany in the saddle to ride her
a la Tweed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Ten horses and six bulls are the reg
uiation number that must be killed in Il
bull fight where Mazzantini holds the
boards. He has played his last in the
City of Mexico and had close call.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

This year closes with Australia in a
peck of trouble, and the next one may
see her dismembered.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Morgan thinks that the United States
should right now take steps to secure
her Chinese commerce.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

There will be no loss to this country
in keeping her hands aiOof from opera
tons in far away China.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Chicago and not Liverpool seems tC
have been making the market price OF
wheat this fall. 1t is well.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The weather clerk smiles at the man
ner in which he cut up capers during
Christmas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

This week to pleasure and then
year of the best business this country
has seen in decade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Modern surgery has demonstrated
that man needs no stomach. He will
soon learn to live without food.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Hawaiian annexation is what the
United States needs to place her best
at that troub,ous east.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Spain is in pet again, over her fan
cied discovery of some monkeyshine
business at Washington.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The Peace on earth and good will to
men" season has turned out no end OF
murders and robberieS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

Great Britain and Japan with their
allied fleets would cause Germany and
Russia TO pause in their schemes for
Chinese occupation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28

The X-ray seems to have been as de
structive in that Chicago Coliseum as
in the human framework.