The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-02-04
concluded Next Week,
THE NEW WOMAN,
Random Dashes at Ter Many Fads AMI
Fancies.

In providing couchcs with the FASH
ionable array OF pillows very fiat "slimp-
sy" ones should not be forgotten. They
are n genuine Oriental feature and show
that people who loll most of their time
on divans know how TO do it. Pillows
OF many sizes. if all are burstingly fat.
will still leave comfort unattained.
When q pillow is made only a couple
otinchcs in depth it must be loosely
quilted beneath the outer cover to kesp
the down in its place.
Mrs George w. Gable, tho wife of
the novelist, is one of the most beauti-
fnl ONE seen in literary circles here.
She has forget-me-not blue eyes, an
oval face, perfectly regular features and
q complexion like a white rose leaf-all
this though her hair is white and her
oldest daughtA- just married.
THE greatest boon fashion has given
us this great while, said q oma who
loves style and hates dirt and has, con-
s%equently, been torn with conflicting
emotions ever since long skirts came
back on US, sis wire in dress skirts.
When the bottom Of a skirt is wired it
makes it possible to hold it up so that
it will not drag in one place while you
are showing your garters in another"
Cooper. is the n of the family on
whom the great philanthropist's mantle
has fallen. though the public knows but
little of her wide charities. She is q
handsome woman of the world who
conceals rs far as possible her constant
good works. She supports q kinder
ten eeIrgsrely at a cost Of $500 q month.
and thSsis only one item in a long list.
Too ngsch use of the opera-glass is
inc reason why SO many city women Of
fashion have bad eyes and must deform
themselves with eyeglasses-so says an
oculist.
DR.. john Wood, student of art. says
the modern woman's figure differs de-
cidedly from the typical woman Of
Greek art and not altogether for the
worse. She. tho modern Caucasian
woman, has more tapering limbs; that
is, smaller wrists and ankles, aud,
strange to say, a deeper, finer chest.
In carriage, too, the modern ideal is for
q more erect position and a tiatter lack.
The japanese think that the soldterly
carriage of our best beauties is un-
feminine and ugly aud makes Chem look
tierce
A Millionaire's Unusual Check.
They were talking about queer checks
drafts, ETC., in one of the local banks,
says the San Francisco Post, and q gem
tleman not long from Kansas City, Mo-,
finally told the following:
Il was once employed, he said, ito
collect a balance of $40 which was due
a well-known building firm of Kansas
City from an eccentric old millionaire.
How he made his money I don't know,
for it is said he could neither read nor
write, but he had it all the same.
well, l found the old boy down ia
his cellar, and was gratitied to hear him
say that he could pay the bill at once.
i haven't that much cash with me, he
said, but just wait a minute
HE felt around as If looking for a
piece Of paper, and | was just about to
offer him some, when his eyes rested on
q piece of board about eighteen inches
square.
"tJust the thing he said, and with
that he picked it up and made a lot Of
queer looking marks on 1t.
asThere,' he said, take that to my
bankers and it'll be all right
II protested, but he insisted, and final.
ly l did as he said. ! handed the piece
OF plank, obviously enough I tell You.
to the paying teller. but what was my
relief when lie merely smiled. studied
the hieroglyphics q moment, and hand,
ed me $40. Then he laid the board up
on a shelf, and that was all there was to
it,
ut TRANSFERRED that the old man hads
system Of signs all his own, which hi
bankers had agreed to respect. All thu
same the plank check seemed curious
even to them, and it Is hanging up 10
the Office Of their establishment now"
aDear ms1" cried the nurse, the baby
has swallowed my railway ticket. What
shall ] dop" Go and buy another:
right away" returned the mother. 4
nm not going to let the conductor
punch the baby Comic CHS.
There were i. lsA booEs printed lasse
year, and although not all If them sera
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