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times when get home Iiie downen the sofa
and go right TO sleep. I am so tired Once
in a While take up u book but usually when
1 don't go to sleep 1 sew or go TO see
friends. The other night was going on the
street cars to visit friend, and thought
Id read one of Mrs Hol mes novels on the
way, but think girl looks so conspicuous
reading a book On car, so hid mine under
my cape and didn't look atit.
Most OF the girls have goodhomes ,Iguess.
They either live with their par ents or with
friends Most of the girls have alady friend
who works In the shop with her. They go
around together To parties and eiitertain-
ments and dances. We don't have much 10
10 with each other in the shop or outside sol
haven't been III many of the other girls
houses We are pleasant to each other but
we don't meet outside. Each one has their
own friends suppose. There Is tale bearing
and unpleaSantness, think, If the girls are
cumming outside the factory. I know two
or three of the girls in the shop belong to
working girls clubs and they tell about the
good times they have. but guess most giIls
are like myself, they like their homes and
in tie evening when they get home they stay
there to visit their own friends That's tie
incest way i think. l don't believe you'll
ladies who work for living like 10 be re-
minded that they are working girls when
they are outside the shop Anyway most
OF them don t intend to be working girl all
their days. SO what's the use OF gettin 9
into working girl s clubs andunions and such
things?''
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range to catch odors and an electric fan
to carry them off.
In addition to the range is an open
fireplace where birds and fowls areroasted'
here one sees all the old-fashioned para
phernalia cranes, pothooks, spit, sgeWers'
a trivet and a jack.
The oaken dressers have glass doors or
diamond-shaped panes of glass, but the
bright particular innovation of th,s fln-de-
steele kitchen is a huge tie which stands
over against the range; Il is metal table,
and constructed in such way that 1t can
be heated by means of pipes which are
laid about he Under part OF the table, the
object Of the hot metal table is to serve
as a receptacle for the different dishes
as they are taken from the fire, that they
may not grow cold while undergoing the
grocess-aiwsys more or less elaborate
OF decoration, before being bome forth on
costly dishes. by liyeried footmen, TO the
dining-room.
Only tue more sutistan tial parts Of the
dinpcr are cooked In Tie kitchen proper
little room. separated by glazed sliding
doors atune side, is the pastry room;" here
is where the dainties are manufactured
q merlle-top pastry table anda hollow glass
rolling-piu, which can be filled with ice,
are features OF the pastry room Perhaps
the most alluring objects are the rows OF
ranekins and mnlds for Jelly, aspic and
puddings; they are Of every hare-melons,
birds. birds nests, swans, doves, conu-
copias-every form that can be imagined.
Gas stoves only are used here.
In the room where the vegetables are
prepared are enough knives and vegets able
cutters 70 stock cutlery establishment.
The mill is that part or the kitchen where
mills for coffee, pepper, ginger and such
like things abound. In the Astor estab-
lisbmenJ coffee is roasted and ground only
as is is needed
The ruling genius OF the kitchen and
1 its suite is the chef, under whom is an
assistant cook, whose duty it is to keep
accoun' Of supplies received, and to make
note of articles needed.
Mrs Astor usually makes out the menu
| for the DAY, although this duty is often
/ delegated TO the chef, or even to the as
sistant.
Three kitchen rlaids and 4 scullery maid
| who presides over the destinies Of the
scullery, d room spotless in its white paint
and Files, complete this branch OF the
menage.
There are no patent dish-w ashers, but
a white tiie-llned sink. with dishdrain
ers anu grooves galore.
Taking it all in all, the modern kitcher
has an aesthetic beauty all its own, ever
il its mission pertains more to the pros,
than tie poetry OF life.
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then ST a week may be entirely satlstac-
tory Apparently there Is no spirit OF
corIradeship among the cardmakers. What
strikes the outsider most forcibly about the
card factory workers is the lteralness
with which they have taken old Thomas
a'Keinpis' Injunction to mind their own
business.
Seven dollars week isn't so bad, says
Essie Vassar, who has been working at
the trade for eight years. Its only the
fini shers get that. Most of the girls who
cut and trim and paste get from 81 to st.
Fini shing requires great deal or expert
ence. You have to have very quick eyes, 80
you can detect the slightest imperfection
in the desi gn on the back of the cards,
and you have to count them rs you go
along. A fin sher handles about 10000
cards a day. and il she lets one ever SC
slightly imperfect slide through she is
likely to get discharged. The other day
in Our shop a finisher who had worked
there for ten years was discharged for let
ting a card go through that no one but a
gambler OF card manufacturer would
ever have noticed. The foreman said IL
she had been new hand he wouldn't have
done it, but she had been there long
enough to know better. They have to be
very strict or the girls would all get care
less The perfect cards are for gamblers
use They only Use u deck once, and II
there was the slightest difference IN the
backs of any two cards they might be ac-
cused of cheating. The ones that are
thrown aside by the finisher are sold to
ordinary players
..Seven dollars ism t such bad pay, though,
anyway. It's higher than girl viii get
in most trades, and card making isn't sea-
son work. In mosttrades you llfind there's
q lot Of work for a few months, and then
nothing at all. OF course, you have your
time to do something else, but I'd rather
work at something that's steady all the
year around. Then you know what you've
got. There's nay father He's a stone ma
son, and gets such big wages-$4 day.
They used to say in the shop when there
was talk of slack times. and we We're liable
to be laid off, that / oughtn't to mind, be-
cause had father who got 81 day and
could support me. But just kept account
last year and his wages averaged S13 a
week. You can't live very well ON that,
especially II YOU have sickness and trouble.
as we've always had. Ny mother was sick
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THE TYPICAL WORKING GIRL.

"H you must work, and If you like
good pay and short hours, as, OF course,
you do, whether you're man or woman,
choose the trade in which fewest women
are employed" say the economists.
1t Is just possible, to be sure, that the
making of playing cards is an exception.
The trade doesn t seem to conform to the
rule, at any rate Less than half d dozen
fatories supply the country's demand for
queens, kings, deuces and the rest of the
card family. Cardmaking Is a trade OF
which very little is heard, and scarcely
more than thousand women have found
their way into it, And yet the highest
wages any one of them receives is ST a
week. To the skilled mechanic that seems
pitifully small sum on which to live for
seven days. Such things are relative. how
ever. 1t all depends on your ideals. IL
your desire lis like the cardmaker's, to
work all day every day in the year, go
home and lie down on the lounge, sew
or go IN Il party or to visit your friends,
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girl, bright or dull, pretty or plain, can
acquire the power of fascinating by means
of statuesque poses, exquisite grace of
movement, and flexible facial muscles
Some can learn the art, or enough for
an effective beginning, In dozen lessons
OF an bour each (at So lesson, be it under
stood. Others, less gifted by nature, spend
an entire season with but scant result but
no one can give herself with any serious
ness of purpose to the science of charming,
for u year without acquiring an aIlurement
vouchsafed by nature to the very few. No
matter how awkward and angular the
debutante may be, year OF Greek
postuIing." the '.Delphic dance" and the
Penelope web'' Will convert her into a
creature of grace and beauty who counts
her victims by the score. The Delpbic dance
is series of slow, rhythmic movements in
which arms, legs and torso alike take part
II is intended TO develop grace of motion in
the entire body by giving absolute control
of the muscles and Joints. The dance is ac-
companied by dreamy, waltz-like music and
is extremely pretty as we'll as practical,
The student sways from side to side,
backward and forward, sinks now upon
one knee and now upon the other, rises so
slowly that the movement is almost i'm
perceptibie, Eovers like a butterfly, with
extended arms, and sinks again in a grace
ful abandon TO the floor 1t may not be
all grace at first, but il is pretty certain
to be before the lessons end
The Penelope web is designed to train
the hand to graceful movement aud de-
velops flexibIlity in the fingers. A frame
holding @ tapestry stands before the pupil,
who, seated in Greek chair, is required
to haitate the NOV EN- ents of arms, fingers
and hands IN weaving and raveling The
| natural awkwardness changes into charm
ing grace under this exercise with wonder
full rapidity. This, too, is ACCOMPANIED by
slow music, dreamy as the siren strains
that sought In vain to keep Ulysses from
his faithful Penelope
The voice also is carefully trained, and
conversation becomes almost a song, SO
exguis.tely modulated are its tones, SO
rhythmical its melody, and when the
aegthetico-physical culture girl has gradu-
ated, let the man who Is unwilling to be
captured seek safety in flight It is his
only hope, for Merlin Is still helpless be-
fore Fiyian's charm of woven PAGES aud
| OF waving hands"
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L0VE-MAKING AS A STUDY.
Facial Expression and Soulful Modu-
lation Taught at So an Hour.

Facial Expression and Soulful Modu-
lation Taught at S5 an Hour.
New York, Aug. THE man who is
charmed by a young woman's fascinating
manner these days can have no assurance
that it is not ALA delusion and snare set
80 entrap him. 1t is a thought fit 20 drive
man TO the monaste but there is no eSad'
ing the fact that society girls have taken
up the art of love-making a study. The
girls at Newport and Bar HaTbor are at
this very moment putting into practice the
lessons which they learned last winter.
with what success we shalisee atthe autumn
harvest OF October weddings.
This new study is of necessity divided
into several branches, of which facial ex-
preston and artistic posing a re the most
the idea-shaII we say with view 10 les
sening the proportion of unmarried women
in her native State?
Ia the quiet studio in the modem Atleps
where is enshrined the goddess whose fairy
wand confeTs these gifts, the girls whose
fond papas nave sufficiently well-filleu
pocketbooks may leam a perfect system OF
| controlling the muscles of the face and pro-
ducing at will any emotion desi red-or more
correctly. ssts expression. This is truly a
narrowing idea Think of the defenseless
condition of the susceptible young man when
pretty girl s natural fascinations are en-
hanced by this most Objectionable and per
nicious alliance with art, while even the
least attractive young woman may acquire
the dan gerous charm of brilliant playof eS-
preston.
Is a guilelesS youth OF soulful nature tand
large bank account the destined victim?
Then her figure droops into an exquisite
| languor, hands loosely clasped on the lap,
head thrown slightly backward with a
gentle inclination to one side, eyes uplifted d
| just trifle she is a breathing statue of
Refiec5ionl Ana the guileless youth gazes
upon the tender grace in ever line and curve
| If the lissome body the rapt peusive ness
| of the dreamy face, with d reverent ad-
,niration that needs only sufficient applica-
ton of Greek posing to develop into a senti-
ment mvre ardent.
But suppose il is man of the world, a
trifie blase. perhaps, who is to be sub
| 1ugated. The clever young creature WHO
! is versed in the up-to-diate aesthetic physical
culture knows entirely too much to try the
sentimental reflective on himi She is
artless but not ''bread-anc-5uttery. she Is
! hght-heaTted, bnt not frivolous, she looks
! up into his eyes with gay coquetry that is
| distinctly provocative, but at the slightest
| hint OF presumption on his part she draws
| mantle OF chilling reserve about her slight
| form while her mobile face expresses re-
| proachful surprise OF course, he is con
| trite for having misjudged her and shows it.
She resuoatiy 10 his unSnoken nlea forr,ar,,,n
| with generous and n o a,turing sweetness
Forgiveness and restored confidence speak
flom every movement OF the plant figure,
| every glance Of the changeful eyes
| It may be urged that girls have done all
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ONLY WOMAN "F. R. G. S."

Mrs. May French Sheldon, who was made
an honorary member of the AnthTopoIogicaI
Society of Washington some years ago, was
then one of four women claiming tina honor.
She has recently had another and greater
homer awarded her, having been elected
the only woman member of the English
Royal Geographical Society. and now can
write the magical letters IF. R. e. s."
after her name In connection with Iivings-
ton, SpeLe, Canls ron and Stanley. Mrs.
French Sheldoa was born in New York,
but MANY people consider her an English
woman, owing TO her having been educated
in LoEduH, where her home now is She
is q woman OF many and varied talents
an accomplished musician, a good painter
and on excellent sculptor. She has lately
finished !, portrait bustof II cnry NJ. Stanley,
which isSaid To be admirable. Mrs. French
Sheilon African explorations, which added
so materially To the fund of knowledge re-
Iating 20 the park Continent" We're con-
Quoted entirely al her own expense. She
Is very pretty and vivacious, and does not In
the least suggest the so-called strong
minded woman of (u,odern) ancient his
tory.
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not much Of d success at the opera last
winter Bevignani viii be the conductor.
1t 9 understood that the husband OF Nine
Sembrich is the financial end of the com-
bInation. The alto and baritone viii be
engaged in America, so that talent on that
side Of the water should be on the qui vive.
Another interesting item of operatio
gossip is that Melba has u goodiy sum
invested in the coming opera season. and
people who know Melba's little peculiari-
ties of temper are wondering what size will
do il matters are not To her liking when
the season starts. This financial COM
plica.ion introduced by Melba into the
ve.,atious operate whirl will make mat
ters additionally interesting to those who
are able to stand off and watch the fun.
Maurel has been named as correspondent
in the divorce suit which the husband of
Nine. Saville has instituted against the lat
Ter in England. Maurel's domestic trou-
bles have been further complicated by
a suit which his wife is about to bring
against him in PaTissSse that the popular
singer can be forgiven for looking sad
these days.
Calve has astounded the tuft-hunters
by. positively declining. to obey the COM
mand of the Queen of England to come
over and sing to her, The prima don
mas doctor having ordered her to rest
the Queens contrary order was treated
with contempt. Calve Is something Of
queen herself, and accustomed to consult
Calve regarding whose orders she shall
obey.
Manager Wolfsohn has for two years been
advertising Mile Ghaminade to give COM
positions OF her own.g but the lady has
not been Well enough to entertain All offer.
This year when Wolfsohn wanted to make
terms, Mile Chaminade promptly de-
manded ST. 900 deposit. Mr.. Woifsohn re
torted with a demand for a deposit of equal
amount, TO which the popular composer
and Iianiste would not agree; consequently
Chauinade viii probably make her New
York debut during the Lenten Sc Jason, under
private management Mile Chaminade
win play her own piano compositions and
be assisted by some well-known singer
She already has an offer from Il wealthy
New Yorker FOR the first recital at HE
Fifth Avenue house e
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Revenge.

John" she said, thoughtfully, ''tomor-
row is the birthday of that little Jones
boy next door"
'.what of it?" be demanded,
'.oh, nothing much,'' she replied, ''only
l happened to recall that Mr.. Jones gave
our Willie drum on his birthday"
We'll, do you think ! feel under any
obligations to him for that?" he asked,
irriuably. IF you do you ale mistaken.
II | owe him anything it's grudge."
''0f courso," she ans wered, sweetly
That's why I thought that perhaps you
might want to give the Jones boy a big
brass trumpet"
1.-The most resourceful woman in the
world.' lie exclaimed, deiightedly. And
the Jones boy got the trumpet.-chicago
Post.
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MRS. JACK ASTOR'S KITCHEN
Cook. Bake, Broil and Barbecue
Amid Marble and Cut Glass.

New York, Aug Not the least at
rractive apartment in the modern house is
the kitchen, ard IL The house happens To be
the homo OF a millionaire. this room, al
though ir may not be hung with rare tap
es,ry, as was tile kitchen OF Nine de Mont
pensier. is more than attractive. 1T is fas-
cinatng.
At least, this is tie case in the Astor,
Vanderbilt and Gould mansions. where
the Golfers, skiilets and ironware alone
are almost objects OF art.
Take the new house OF Mrs. Jack Astor,
on upper Fifth avenue, for instance The
kitchen, with its suite OF rooms, occu-
pies nearly the whole Of a large basement
There is the kitchen proper, the scullery,
tho vegetable room, the bread and pastry
room, and q small sanctum for tie cook.
where menus can be studied and arranged,
and conferences held with the maids
10 begin with the floor-the scullery maids
are down on their knees every morning
often as early as 4 O'Clock, giving it n
scrutblng which makes il shine like a
waxed floor. Above the wainScoting OF tiles
the walls are painted q dull gray TO haf-
monize with the color OF the tiles. Perhaps
the most conspicuous rnishings Of the
r0orn are the brightly FURNISHED coppers OF
every conceivable shapes and size. The roast
ing pans and frying pans are enameled,
and many of the utensils are nickel If
not silver-plated. These, together with
porcelain lined saucepans. folding grid
irons. flesh forks, oyster broilers and
i4rding needles. have hooks and shelves
on either SIDE OF the range. which is a
mammoth affair, divided into compart-
ments here g place for broiling and there
one Tor roasting. There is a hood above
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for years OF cancer, and my sister has been
blind since she was five wears old.

for years of cancer. and my sister has been
blind since she was five years old.
AT oardmaking you work right along
all the ear around. You hardly ever have
more than two weeks off, and the girls
who get into it stick at it. They say it's
a sure sign you'll be an old maid if you get
into a card shop. There's one lady In our
factory who's been there for eighteen years
The other day q lady who usedto work there
years ago and left to get married, came
back and asked for work. She offered to
work Tor Sc. OF course, that spoilsit. The
boss might have cut US all down TO Sc.
No; it woulGn do bit of good TO strike.
The girls III one department. tried it once.
Fifteen out OF twenty struck, but the firm
just got machines that do the work of ten
girls. and only require two girls TO attend
to them.
OF course, lust turning the cards over,
10000 OF them a day, is very monotonous
work, but after q while you do IL with
out thinking about it at all You can talk
some. and even think about other thin gs.
Your eyes and hands SCENT TO work by them
selves It's very tiresome though Some
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In Midsummer.

Watching the reaper in the harvest field
The mingled pathos OF the falling grain,
And summer giory y now 50 soon to wane-
A new life-pioture seems 10 me revealed;
How gently Natures leading is concealed
How defsly she deceiyes the eye and brain,
While airs and scents. Intoxicating, reisn
A yon,h-tirue in the year 50 soon to yieldl
As we inplore no season to delay,
But follow eagerly the brave advance
OF .lirdand bud OF kernel. fruit andfrost;
So. Kindly Fare heguiies our haunted way
With dear Delusions that before us dance
And pipe the music of ''The World wen
Lost"
-Harper's Magazine Cor August
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BITS OF PARIS STAGE GOSSIP
Maurel as Correspondence Cha ini-
made May Cross the Atlantic.


made May Cross the Atlantic.
Paris, Aug. S.-The scramble Of art
lists tc secure the pickings of the con-
cert touring season is going merrily on
here just now. The merriment is likely
to change it's tone in short time. how
ever, for the season threatens to be very
much oyerdone, and many of the hopeful
singers aid musicians are likely to come
to grief.
Manager Johnson has engaged Ysaye,
vioIinist, at loo francs night for one
hundred concerts; Nordica. at 200 francs
a night; Pugno, the French pianist. and
josef Hoffman, formerly known to admir-
Ing New Workers as ''the boy pianist. but
who is now a grown man, and demands
60 francs a night for his services.
Manager Hirscbberg has on his list for
concert tours: Marcella Sembrich, soprano,
and Salignac, tenor, who, by the way, was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-11
TAX ON IDEAL ENDs.y
Chicago Lumbermen Do Not Want
Them Admitted Free,

CHICAGO, July 1O.-At a meeting of
the wholesale lumber dealers, the
matter of placing deal ends on the
free list was brought up for discussion,
and resolution has been adopted pro-
testing against eXempting any lumber
product from the duty. Ordinarily, it
was said, the word deal is under
stood to apply to lumber 21a inches and
thicker, not less than 8 feet long and
Z inches and upward wide The term
deal is used in a very broad sense,
however, and is often applied to boards
of any thickness. Deal ends" are I'M
derstood to be pieces trimmed from the
ends of deals, and are used largely for
match making purposes. They can,
however, be eight feet long. They ex-
pressed themselves as regarding the
adoption of the amendment by the
senate committee as a movement on
the part Of those interested in the
lumber business in Canada to secure
the entry of a large part of their pro-
duct to this country free of duty. A
resolution was also adopted favoring a
81 duty on rough pine and Norway
lumber, and $3.50 a thousand on dress
ed or milled lumber.
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N. Il. LAND GRANT.
Title Involved in IA Case on Trial Mt
Tacoma.

TACOMA, Wash, July 10.-The trial
has begun in the federal court of the
suit brought last year by the North
ern Pacific railway against several
hundred families occupying lands which
the railway company claims along the
Columbia river in Cowlite and Clark
counties The suit involves the title to
the Northern Pacific land grant for
forty miles east of Tacoma. The COM
pany claims title to the grant under
the act of 1870. In 1895, Secretary
Smith rendered decision, holding that
when the act of 1870 took effect the
lands in dispute were not conveyed,
having been appropriated by the prev
ious grant, subsequently forfeited. and
the company was asked to reconvey to
the government the lands already pat
ented The company holds that the
grants taken together were continuous,
ard has refused to reconvey
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-11
PECULIAR DEATH.
Elevator Man Crushed by IL Falling
Cake of Ice.

CHICAGO, July 10-Joseph Hide
brandt the elevator man in the Chi
cago Packing q Provision companys
building, at Forty-second and Cook
streets, met peculiar death today. \
cake of ice weighing about 200 pounds
had been placed on the fourth floor
near the open elevator shaft The
ice was not taken care Of and as it
melted, it gradually worked over the
aperture. The jar of the elevator. as
a heavy box was placed on the second
floor, helped 1t ever, and as the car
reached the first floor, the ice fell,
striking the unfortunate elevator man
sqUarely on top of the head, crushing
il into an almost shapeless mass.
Hildebrandt was twenty-eight years
old and unmarried.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-11

GEORGE L. SWIFT & CO., manfg. jobbers
overalls. shirts, pants, butchers, walters
barbers', and summer clothing. IA b. 4th