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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
Inauguration Gown
 Of Mrs. Governor Gage

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are very sensitive. The clothing must be loose.
 A MUCH WORRIED MIND-In my re- ply to Elsie R. Nc l have given formula Will you please read 1t? Am sorry could not answer your letter sooner, put there were many ahead Of it. Thank you for your cordial wishes.
 AGGIE K.-You can reduce your flesh permanently only by a thorough change of diet and life, assisted by continuous exercise. Avoid all SuSary and Starchy foods. all fats and fattening vegetables, such as rice potatoes, turnips and beetS. Eat sparngly of butter. drink little cof- fee and no milk, and substitute toast tor bread. Get up early in the morning, never sleep more than seven hours-and walk and exercise all that you can. Two meal will help. according to Trousseau, a celebrated French physician. To remove the white spots from the nails melt equal parts of pitch and turpentine in a small cup add to 1t a little vinegar and pow dered sulphur, and rub on the nalls. There is nothing that will remove super fiuous hair permanently except the elec- tric needle, and this is not practicable save when the hairs are coarse and scat tered. For the fuzz that grows upon the face you can keep it worn down to the surface of the skin by the constant use of piece of smoothly finished pumice stone or you can bleach it so that 1t will be scarcely perceptible by. applications or peroxide of hydrogen. to which few drops of ammonia have been added.
 BABY TEETH-Try lemon juice with a little borax added to whiten the skin. particularly where there are freckles After using lemon juice upon the skin do not neglect to use some cold cream. It is impossible to say just how long you must use preparation to see it's good effects Some skins are much more re- isponsive to treatment than others. Six weeks is usually a pretty good test
 BARBIE-I really do not know enough about the article you mention to express any opinion as to it's merits. In fact, do not know which particular one you re- fer to. If your blood is poor. as the doc
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E1 HAT there are among the many
 readers of these Beauty Talks a
 vast number of brave little bread
 winning girls and women l feel
 lS more than certain. Many of them,
 no doubt were never intended for work of any sort; indeed, l am pretty sure that in the great and wonderful be- ginning of things it was never meant that women should work.
 I am very firmly convinced in my own mind that in the original mapping out Of things it was intended that women should be a soft, pretty thing of whims and ca prices-a thing to be petted and humored and taken care of. But, alas! the scheme of the universe went awry, and in the general confusion and chaos woman was pushed out into the world to put her shoulder to the wheel and to assist in the common struggle for existence.
 That this is true is proven by the mum Der of weary, patient, brave little faces one sees at oclock upon the crowded streets or in the street cars, all hurry ing home after long days work in office
 Woman is not given to the solving o. enter not into her logic, and so, when the day has been particularly long, and hard, when she has come home with sharp the back of her neck she feels positive that the only answer to the question as to whether life is worth living is large round "No."
 When she has reached this stage there is just one thing for her to do. First, she must get out of her tight clothes. Then she must bathe her face and neck for five minutes in tepid water. After that she must take out the forty odd hairpins that are torturing her throbbing head. let her hair tumble over her shoul- ders, and then lie down fiat upon her back.
 At this point she must not pick up and begin to read a cheerful or pious book nor any other kind of book, but just relax every muscle in her body and give her self up to the single thought of how heavy she is and how the couch supports her.
 If she does not drop to sleep, as she probably will, she should rise at the end of half an hour. She will scarcely know herself for the same weary pilgrim that staggered into the house short time before She will feel several years younger; there will be no pain anywhere, and life will seem altogether more TO- seate and very much worth living.
 Some Sunday, soon, I m going to give a special beauty talk to these heroic working girls and give them a few hints as to how they may enjoy some of the luxuries of the toilet without going to any great expense. I have made my talk short to-day so as to try and get caught up in a measure with the correspondence.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

AT
 Fashion grows lavish. She dis
 plays gowns with a reckless hand N T Church, calling, reception, dinner W and ball gowns are shown with an entire disregard of the aching voids that their purchase will create in the pocket book.
 Capes, wraps, jackets, opera cloaks, coi- arettes and boas in bewitching array are likewise placed where they will best at- tract the feminine eye.
 For during the holidays a woman's wardrobe has unusual demands made upon it. The wear and tear of the Christ mas shopping practically ruins her shop ping gown. Then there must be a dainty new gown for church and a fresh-looking calling gown. A pretty dinner gown is another requisite for the holiday ward 'obe, and add to that a wrap and the list Is fairly complete.
 If my lady has not gowns that meet her approval and she looks them over with an unusually critical eye she manages to plan new ones despite the hurry-furry of other holiday duties.
 An opera cloak for the holiday cotillon. 70 be worn by one of the new debutantes, s a striking new innovation in that style of garment The new circular founce ef- sect is used In fact, it is cut like the latest golf cape, but, of course, touches the floor. It is of a shell pink and the .iderdown has the effect of crape. Soft sWansdown outlines the entire garment. A handsome imported cape to be worn 1t the opera by a local grand dame was also seen. The material was brocaded white satin, appliqued yellow satin re- rers outlining the yoke and ending in tabs hat reached to the bottom of the cape n front. The sleeves were of the yellow satin and exactly the shape of those in Japanese kimona. They are very much shorter. reaching just to the elbow. The sape ties in at the waist and Is lined
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the juice of three lemons. Use as a sham poo and then rinse thoroughly.
 FERIDA.The best treatment for black night with camePs hair face scrub ping brush, castle soap and tepid water. Then after the face has been thoroughly rinsed and dried apply good cold cream, such as the creme vioiette formula for which was given in last Sundays Call. Do not neglect for one day the tepid sponge bath and in obstinate cases of blackheads 1 advise two hot. soapy baths week. Daily exercise and proper food are most necessary. Stop pinching This is most unnatural proceeding and altogether too irritating. A little pow dered borax ona bit of linen rubbed light ly over the blackheads is also good. I do not advise sulphur baths, unless ad- ministered by an experienced person.
 ELSIE R. Mc-The hair will not grow See to it that these are removed from time to time. The excess of dandruff is undoubtedly the cause. of your loss of hair. Here is a dandruff cure. that is al most infallible and which I am confi- dent will stop the falling hair: Forty eight grains resorcin, one-half ounce .glv- ounce bottle. Apply every night. rubbing it into the scalp. The scalp must be kept perfectly clean else the hair will not flourish as 1t should. The formula for
 Spermaceti one-half ounce: white
 wax, one-half ounce; sweet almond
 oil, one ounce; lanoline, one ounce;
 cocoanut oil, one ounce; tincture
 benzoin, 10 drops; orange flower
 water, one ounce.
 Melt the first five ingredients in porce- lain kettle. When thoroughly incorpor- ated remove from the fire and add the benZoin and orange flower water, beating with an egg-beater until cold. The cost of the materials will be about 40 cents, I think Two tablespoonfuls equal one ounce and one teaspoonful is equal to one dram. The brown spots on the face and neck are probably liver spots. and come from a disordered liver. There is no remedy but to cure that which causes them. l answer questions through the mail only when the information asked is umnS.
 EVA-Write again and just as often as you feel inclined. If you will please read foregoing replies to Bluebell and Elsie R. Mo you will find your first two questions answered. I have never known the skin food to cause superf1uouS hair. In trying to put on flesh 1t is better, I think to de- pend upon the food one eats. Of course, cod liver oil and other oils will help in the fattening process. but unless these are prescribed by ones physician it Is better to let them alone, as they are very apt to upset the stomach. Massaging the face with the skin food will plumpen 1t. Bathing it in warm milk will also have this effect.
 MISS CURRAN-For answer to your first question-Melt together equal parts in thoroughly every night. Question No. 2 calls for equal parts of lanoline, cocoa butter and cocoanut oil, melted together Massage with this for fifteen minutes, rubbing around and around and up The rubbing must be gentle, as the glands
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LOST ON q SHOPPING TOUR

IfN AY, old man. made the most ab-
 surd mistake yesterday. A police
 patrol wagon passed me, and I
 could have sworn I caught a glimpse of you in it.' What time was it?' About in the afternoon; perhaps a little later"
 Well, it wasn't a mistake. It was T. What! You arrested, What for?" ITO save my life.' "Why, how?' Well, the trouble began when my wife
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door and given in charge to a policeman as a shopiifter I could have hugged the store detective as I once more felt the glorious free air of heaven upon my fe-
 "But how did you fix the matter up?'
 .Oh, easily enough. The Judge hap pened to be a married man himself, so when I explained and offered to either return or pay for the gloves.which, by inc way. were a pair of coalheaver's mitts-he discharged me at once, ruling that mine was a justifiable expedient, since necessity knows no law. Harp CTS BaZar.
 Providence tempers the wind to the shorn I .lb" That is why Christmas comes but once year.
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Answers to Correspondents.

BLUEBELL-The dark lines under the eyes and the fading of the roses from your cheeks indicate some physical dis order. Try and discover what 1t is and remedy it. Witchhazel is the only thing I know of that may help the dark circles,
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
FRILhs OF FASBIoN.

The feminine, waist looks larger, but it really is no larger than it was year ago, the same style corsets being worn, and, indeed, waists are compressed a bit more
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Uncle Bob-I suppose you got lots of nice Christmas presents?
 Little Jimmy-Naw, didn't get nuth- in but a lot of useful things.
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aHATl there are among the many readers of these Beauty Talks vast number of brave little bread winning girls and women l feel more than certain Many of them
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Test New Varieties,

Every season the farmers receive so
Hcitations or temptations to purchase
seeds or plants of some new variety
and yet If they will read the circulars
and descriptions, as well as the claims
in favor of the new varieties Of the
past, they will find wonderful claims
in. favor of some that are barely recog
nized now. This is because something
better comes every season (thougt
some new varieties are worthless), but
the production and quality of all kinds
of fruit have b. en- improved by the in
PRODUCTION every year of new candi
dates for favor. No farmer or fruit
grower should accept the claims in ia
yor of new tree or vine, but should
test it himself by procuring only one OIL
two for that purpose.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
uses of Porpoise Skin.

Everybody knows that porpoise skin
makes good shoe strings; good, at least,
as far as dura biity is concerned. 1t is
not SO well known that porpoise leath-
er also makes good shoes, and that
there is quite demand for them. A
porpoise leather shoe, if made well in
the first place, always fits we'll; for,
while it is very stretchy material, it
can never be made to cover more sur
face, no matter how much it is stretch
ed. What it is extended in one direc-
ton it loses in another. This peculiar
ity makes it very close fitting, and at
the same time soft and pliable, on the
foot. 1t is used chiefly for shoes by
people anxious to keep their feet dry,
as it is absolutely impermeable to
water
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
NEVER TOO SURE.

Against the probability or possibility OF
mischance or accident we can never be too
sure. But if we should stop to consider
how great is the chance of sudden death,
we would be made too timid and unhappy.
Caution is needed not to be foolhardy, and
precaution to know what is best to do when
an accident happens. One day this winter
two men We're walking. and one said /:
Were too timid in treading on slippery
places. I tread firmly and never think
about them, and SO escape fall" Never
be too sure" said the other, sit is that that
throws you off and makes the fall the
harder" Just then they came upon place
covered with thin snow, where kids had
been sliding. The first speaker slipped, and
came down with his foot turned, and badly
sprained his ankle. He was a cripple on
crutches until short time ago, having used
many things without beneht. Up to that
time he had not used st. Jacobs Oil, which,
when used, cured him completely, so that
he walks as usual. There is a proba bility
that for the rest of the season he will walk
cautiously, with the precaution of having
this great remedy ready for use.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Care of Seed Corn.

Probably no better place for the
braids of corn saved in the ear for next
springs seeding can be found than to
hang them beside the chimney, where
the heat from the stove or fireplace will
protect them from freezing until fully
dry. About as good a place as this, and
some think better, is in the smoke
house, where the hams and bacon are
cured. But in either case the braids
should be visited often to see that moth
ing gets at them. The squirrel is the
worst enemy of sweet corn, because he
only digs out the chit or germ of tie
very soundest and best corn. He will
leave an entire corn cob full of corn
more OF less damp, and feast on that
which has been thoroughly dried for
seed. The germ of sound, dry corn
has a flavor much like a nut, ard it. is
very nutritious.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
A Coin In the Bottle.

There have been patented all kinds
of schemes devised for the purpose Of
securing a bottle that cannot be re-
filed after having once been emptied
of it's contents. A great deal of fraud
is said to be perpetrated by filling the
bottle of some standard liquor with an
inferior grade, and palming it off as
the original bottling. An ingenious
Philadelphian proposes to accomplish
this by blowing coin in the body Of
the glass bottle, and he thinks this will
be tempting enough to induce someone
to break the bottle as soon as it has
been emptied. Philadelphia Record:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
L;nseed VS., Cottonseed Meal,

Both. fax and linseed meal are now
SO cheap that there is no reason why
cottonseed meal should be brought
North to feed. No young animals nor
hogs of any age should be fed cotton
seed meal. 1t is very difficult of diges-
ton. The loss of animals killed by cot
tonseed meal more than counterbalance
the gain from feeding it where it does
not prove injurious. Of course linseed
meal must be fed in small quantities,
but it is not so dangerous for young
stock as cottonseed meal, which for
calves and pigs is often fatal in very
small doses.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
More Ancestral HefrIooms.

At the marriage of daughter of
Carroll D. Wright to John Bruce Nc
Pherson of Gettysburg, Pa, the bride
wore a veil made by her greatAgreat-
aunt, Miss Duncan, beautiful pattern
of old-time lace. The brides silver shoe
buckles were pair worn on his we'd
ding day by her paternal great-great-
grandfather, Colonel Jacob Wright, a
revolutionary soldier and a New Hamp-
shire pioneer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Telerraphic BrevitIes,

The town council of Mankato, Kan, in
tends to stop by ordinance the singing,
humming or whistling of the song, ."Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight"
The destructive cigarette may be sold i'm
packages of ten in Tennessee. Judge
Clark of the United States Court in Chat
tanooga held that the term Original
package" could be applied to the smaller
boxes.
A serious freight wreck occurred on the
New York Central Railroad near Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. Several hundred pounds
of rock had fallen upon the track from
the wall of cut. The engine and sixteen
cars were derailed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS

We are asserting In the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA:' and
PITCHERS CASTORIA,' as our Trade Mark.
I, DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of" PITCHERS CASrORIA," I"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
facsimile signature of CHAs. H. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHERS
CASToRIA which has been used in the homes
of the mothers of America for over thirty years
Look Carefully at the -wrepper and see that it is
the kind yoN hare aLz0ays bought, and has the
signature Of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The centaur Company of which
Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, MD.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Value of the British Navy.

1t is interesting to note that the capi.
tai value of the British navy at the
present time exceeds es4, 900, 900 The
first cost of the feet which led to the
downfall of Napoleon was but e10.-
900, 900. The fleet then comprised be-
tween 48O and 49O fighting vessels.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Warm Stalls for Cows,

Take two cows and give one a warm
stall, with clean bedding, allowing the
other stall in which there is a crack
In the wall, which let's the wind come
through. The COW that is comfortab BILE
and warm will give more milk than the
other, because she<has warmth in her
favor.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
CLAIMS TO BE ,4o YEARS OLD.
Georgia Negro Who Says He Remem.
bers the Revolution.

y
bers the Revolution.
Samuel Andrew Gibbons is an old
negro, who, if his claims are true
is the oldest living native of Chatham
County. Gibbons says that he is lac
years old and that he was II years
old when the revolutionary war be-
gan.
A reporter met Gibbons on Bay
street yesterday and had quite a little
chat with him. He does not begin. to
look as old as he claims to be, but
he gives circumstantial details which
go to prove him very old man. A
peculiar feature of his story is that
he says that up to month ago, when
he returned here, he had not been in
Savannah for seventy years. The old
man is not in his dotage by any means,
and uses pretty good English.
Il was born on a Fairlawn planta-
tion, over that way (west Of the city,"
he said, "and l belonged to William
Gibbons. The Gibbonses owned a
whole lot of property here then. l
s'pose they own some Of it yet used
to run barber-shop right over OF that
corner" pointing to the corner of Bay
and Montgomery streets.
Il don't know the names Of the
streets now, 'cept one or two. They
didn't have all these streets when 1
left here. That street they called
South Broad used to be the common
where the soldiers mustered. They
h,I -n&
wooden building. I don't know wheth-
er it was the same square the market
is now on or not.
Eyes, sir, 1 was here when the first
revolution in the United States of
America took place. was II years old
them
You saw General Washington, Of
course?"
"Yes,' sir; saw him. All the peo-
pie turn out to see him, and they fired
guns
"Did you see LafayetteT'
'fes, sir. He was the man they put
down carpets in the streets for him
to walk on. They had big gather
in in Monument Square and a whole
lot of soldiers. They don't treat Presi-
dents now like they used to-
The old man was evidently under
the impression that Lafayette was a
President.
Il was sold away from here seventy
years ago." he said, "and brought 5000.
l have been living all about in Florida
and Alabama ever since. l remember
the falling stars. That was seventy
years ago"
The old man was positive in all his
statements, and could not admit that
he might be mistaken in any of his
facts.
81 left a daughter in Florida when
went to Ala bama," he said. "She was
just big enough to tie in a napkin.
went back there the other day and
found her, and her hair was whittier
than mine"
This statement, If true. would appear
to be pretty good evidence of very old
age. If the old man was, as he says,
II years old when the revolution be-
gan, he would be 139 years old to-day,
sc that his statement that he is 140
would not be much out of the way.
His statement that the failing stars"
occurred seventy years ago is not far
wrong. The great meteoric shower
occurred in 1888; that is, siXtyfour
years ago. He gives a circumstantial
account of this event, which Is not re-
markable, however, as, according to
his own account, he must have been
an old man then.-Savannah News.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
TREMENDOUS EXODUS TO THE
KLONDIKE.

Despite the warnings of those who have been
on the spot, and predict suffering in the Klon-
dixie region, thousands OF adventurous Ameri-
OF them sh ould be provided with that medicinal
safeguard, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
warns and nourishes the system and prevents
malaria, rheumatism, kidney trouble, besides
remedying liver complaint, dyspepsia and
constellation
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-07
Rurn Field Refuse,

Wheat stubble and refuse may be the
harboring places of chinch bugs and
other enemies. AS soon as it eau he
done rake up all refuse and dre the
pile. The fall of the year is good
time to fight the enemies that do the
most damage in spring and summer.