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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
Field Glasses.

Among the interesting foibles of the
country woman, who goes about in her
automobile, on her wheel. or who even
from deep cane rocker on q wide
casino balcony watches other women
achieve AmaZonian honOrs. is the trick
of carrying a pair of field glasses. A
small powerful pair of binoculars,
either single or double-b arreled, is as
distinctive part of the duck or tweed
morning dress as card case and jeweled
chain is in town. A snakeskin strap
goes around the waist, a small COLLAPSE
able case of the same hangs at the
side, and into that the glass. mounted
as you please or can afford. and no
larger than the tiny opera glasses some
persons profess to find comfort in. fits
in the case when not in active use.
Women whip out their glasses not
only to watch a golf game, an auto
mobile race. or a brush between two
boats. but to see who is coming down
the road, who bowed from the village
street, who went in at a neighbours
gate and also 10 show off their glasses
that maybe have exquisite mounts
and the owners initials in jewels there
on. MARY DEAN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
SOCIETY NOW PLAYS
PUSS In THE CORNER
Unique Form of Garden Party That
Is the Rage at the Fashionable
Resorts

h6SOrIS.
A novel form of entertainment that
has been stamped with the approval of
the fashionable throng at Newport,
Lenox and Islip is the puss-in the-cor-
ner party And indeed the idea of
amusing crowd of people at an after
noon function in this way is a most
happy one. AT this season of the year,
il seems as though Americans We're no
longer content to remain indoors, and
drawing rooms and luncheons are
equally stunned. They desire rather
to be in the open air, and the more
exercise there is combined with their
pleasure the better it suits their taste.
A stroke of genius is said to have
prompted the first puss-in- the-corner
party; and that it was a success is
proved by the way in which the conta-
gion is spreading. A good sized lawn. a
band of music and light refreshments
are the necessary requisites to give this
entertainment successfully
The invitations should be sent out at
least a week in advance and, as to a CO.
tillion, about the same number of wo-
men and men are invited. The lawn,
naturally, must be moved and trimmed
down to almost the texture of velvet;
and several sets of stakes, forming
squares, are set out at right angles to
each other. The larger these squares
can be made the more difficult and
therefore the more Interesting the game
becomes. At the top of the stakes are
fastened long streamers of gaily col
ored ribbons. which serve to keep the
squares separate. One will be of red.
another of orange, and there will be as
many as well accommodate the players
that are expected. In fact, noses are
counted in lust the same Way as for q
card party.
The scene, as soon as the guests be-
gin to arrive, is as pretty and gay as a
swarm of fiuttering butterflies. Almost
without exception the women wear
light fluffy gowns, while the men APP
pear in the inevitable white fianneis.
with short blue or black serve coats.
At a hint from the hostess the men
choose partners and q rush is made
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

her skirt is sure to display a pair of
anskles clothed in a guaze of beautiful
ly pierced Isle. and in the evening. If
she can possibly afford it, equally fairy
like silk weaving. A perfectly plain
black stocking is rarely or never seen
now. for it the open-work type is not
adopted wholesale, then spots are re-
sorted to. stripes showing only very
occasionally.
Both smart and novel are the pig
skin brown. powder blue and black
hose. freckled with white polka. dots
dashed on pell-mell. Some are large.
some are mere specks. and there is abb
solutely no order observed in their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
bostess For CraveIerS.
Good Railroad Companies Employ Competent Women In
Their Stations In Large Cities to Look After Fright
ened Sick or PenneSs ArrvalS-Excel-
lent Stories Brought to Light.

A department that may be described
rs that the Post Transit Travellers is
now regularly Differed and provided
for by the popular railroad companies.
The passengers who are to take the
outgoing trains are looked after, those
who arrive on the incoming trains are
seen to, the through" travellers are
directed, comforted and shifted con-
veniently on their way, the local"
travel properly disposed of, and then
comes the Post Transits-the wait
overs and 't-know- where-or-h how
-go-contingent,. n motley squad awk-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
en- the gatemar

one to meet her. When the gateman
addressed her she stood sachel and
parasol in hand staring down the long
station room with tear-blinded eyes.
I never was from home before" she
sobbed, and l don't know Names
name since she's married, nor where
she lives; her husband was to Saeet
me sure, and maybe he did come but
! didn't know him, and he didn't know
me and now I have no money to go
back home with. Name was to pay
my way back if I paid it coming on
and it's $6.75." The gateman took
Miss All-at-Sea's parcels SO she could
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

New York. July 21.-Which way are
overskirts going. Will we have them
next autumn. and of what type? are
some of the live questions in clothes
land. If you can get half hours talk
with some really knowing modiste, she
won't hesitate to tell you that the over
skirt is now only in its first infancy.
and that an undraped skirt will be the
exception in the fall, the exception even
among the tailors. 1t is no undis
guised fact that covertly women have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

When drawn TO the front its ends are
put through a small buckle of paste
Jewels. and this is pushed close to the
throat while from ii futter unconfined
two long scarf ends of ribbon.
Women who don't take to these de-
vices love TO bury their chins in the
cloudy mass of a wide winged bow of
nothing more costly than a long wish
OF white silk muslin, edged with imi-
tatlon Mecklin lace, which is nothing
more after all than an incipient Bots
de Bologne scarf that has ends flut-
terlnS to the knees.
should the necessity spring up as in
every woman's summer it does, for a
fresh. inexpensive hat to wear picnic
or garden party-wards, one should be
sure TO HE her to a hat counter and
purchase the toughest brown or deep
yellow or red straw she can find. pro-
Vlded II has a brim 10 tip over the
eyes. and to tilt uD behind on the
inside OF the brim three rows of mar
row self gathering ribbon of green
should be run. at intervals of an inch
apart. and then the outside of brin and
crown piled with fruit.
Fruit Trimmings.
Any milliner or millinery department
keeps grapes, currants, cherries and
sooseberries in sprays and clusters
.eii '"Vii Aoi4dSe on ndnd. ana II these,
with green leaves, are commingled and
laid IN full wreath about the crown.
having generous handful fastened
under the brim behind, as smart a
summers day headgear is secured as
we hear or read about. Though the
fruit Is so cOmmingled. the rule with
regard to midseason flower hats is
that you contine one species OF bios
som TO one straw frame. The modish
Hover topper is all of roses and ex-
clusively pink, or yellow. or red, or
white roses, at that, else it is a mound
of pansies. garden of big crimson
peonies, or, most enhancing in hat pos
sibilities, a Leghorn Overgrown with
tendrils and clusters of honeysuckle
All these millinery models borrow not
bit of sDlendor from an inch of rib
bon, scrap of lace or a twinkle of a
jewel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
WOMEN OF THE ORIENT.
Philippine Bellies Are Also Beauties
In Western Ewes.

A recent visitor of the Philippines
says the women of the island are re-
markedly pretty. having big anguish
ing eyes ana an abundance of long
hair. This they fasten up with big
gold pin and then adorn with flowers
They do not wear hats, but use sun
shades, and do so very coquettishly;
they wear very dainty shoes. embroid-
cred in gold and silver thread, but not
stockings.
They are distinguished by grace of
figure and movement, though accord
ing to our ideas not especially by re-
finement of habits for both women and
children smoke huge cigars and indulge
in betel chewing. 1t is their custom to
keep the thumb nail of the right hand
very long. as this assists them in play
ing their favorite instrument. the gui-
tar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

Many people can pack trunks very
nicely, but 1 claim that no one can
do it as we'll as I. nor can they drape
a veil or place the bridal wreath as
becomingly. l study and work out all
the little details of every particular
bride, and my time is entirely occupied.
but 1 am we'll treated, we'll paid. live
we'll and am saving money. So, natur-
ally, think my profession a good one"
LAFAYETTE NJ. LAWS.
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for the tables, where ribbons to match
those on the respective stakes are
drawn and tied around the right arms
of the men and the left arms OF the
girls The couples are, therefore, Sc
curely fastened together. When the
band strikes up lively deux- temps all
take their places in the squares that
match their colors; a couple in each
corner and one in the center fills up a
square. The old game that is known to
every child then begins with the GUS
tomary signals of ''puss," 'puss,"
When attempts to cross to the diagonal
corner are made, those in the center
attack boldly and try to capture one of
the couples and so condemn them to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
The Two Quaker Ladies.

II see the tender side of passenger
nature also" went on the Post Transit
hostess.
Some time ago noticeably pretty
New England girl spent the entire day
here at the station seemingly on thorns
and pins of anxiety. She looked at
her watch or at the clock every few
seconds and no person came anywhere
about. but she watched them narrowly
Two Quaker ladies, travellers on the
local train who keep a select boarding
house in the suburbs. noticed her
standing about, and in the afternoon.
when they came in ahead of time for
their train they got to talking with
her The girl scarcely took her eyes
off the clock. and suddenly, as if she
had hoped against hope till she could
stand il no longer, she fell TO crying
and wringing her hands in great dis
tress. The ladies petted and soothed
her and finally her story came out. A
story ] had already guessed. She
had come to this station by appoint
ment-a long journey-tO meet the man
who was to marry her and had failed
TO keep the agreement. She had no
folks on this side of the water. she had
no money, and now being Tilted sic did
not want TO go back to the place where
she had been living and where this man
had courted her.
What did those blessed folks do but
bundle the girl off home with them,
and she is there yet as a sort of assist
ant housekeeper and companion. They
say she's an A l girl and they are
fond of her and hope nobody will take
her away.
1.-The people unaccustomed to travel
get all upset the moment anything I'M
forseen comes up" said the hostess at
another terminal station. "a large,
prosperous looking woman who came
in on the 7:10 northwestern train yes
terday on the lookout for folks to meet
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dry her eyes and then conducted her
to the Post Transit bureau genius,
who made her a cup of tea and ex-
planned that a ticket would be given
her to go home on the evening train
provided she would give her name and
address and a written promise to pay
the company as soon as might be. This
railroad company allows regular
emergency expense account to the
directors. Some of those helped out of
trouble return the money and others
do not. but whether or no the company
does the public a good turn in trying
as far as possible to set the tangled
threads straight.
Knows Passenger-nature.
ct am so schooIed in passenger
ture now that / can tell at a glance
whether things are amiss with the
people who come in here said the
Post Transit hostess. Some weeks
ago a young well dressed girl got off
the APO afternoon train AT 1:3O she
was still sitting here with a look that
said as plain as day that although she
waited she was not expecting anyone.
Presently L got into conversation
with her and asked if she was
stranger in the city. Yes, she was a
stranger and did / know of a furnished
room she could get that would be in a
respectable place and wouldn't cost
much. She needed a room for a short
time. l told her that l knew of such
a place, but suggested that as she was
young and this was a large city she
had better come home with me for a
night or two until she knew the ropes.
This overture opened her heart, as it
were, and with an air of great relief
she told me she had been much fright
ened sitting there thinking over the
strangeness of her situation. That she'
had run away from her home in
northwestern town because her step
mother objected to the young man
whom she favored; that she intended
TO get work in the city and support
herself until the young man was able
to marry her. No, she had never
worked nor been trained to do any
thing waSe-earning. but she was well
educated and was sure she could be a
clerk of some kind and get along. On
the morning following the night she
spent at my house l took a full half
hour persuading that girl to write her
stepmother as to her whereabouts and
To abandon the idea of trying to make
her way all inexperienced, in strange
city Eventually she consented. In a
short time as possible after being noti-
fed the stepmother arrived, thankful
to me and delighted to get back her
daughter. who she. said was attached
TO a man whose unworthiness the girl
did not understand. The two went off
in company, and / think the little
fright Miss Runaway had when she
= here in the station worrying over
what to do and where to 70 will have a
good effect
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nDon,t I Act Awful Greenpn

This was gasped out by a young
woman at a big city station lately on
relating her woes to the gateman. She
was a pretty, gaily dressed girl with a
look of happy anticipation on her face
as she stepped off the train that had
changed gradually to stark anxiety
when she realized that there was no
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
GARFIELD BEACH, JULY "A.
Bathing, boating, Dancing.

Trains will leave at 1890 a. M. 2.
$3.50. AGO. $50. GAS and 1880 p. m. Round
trip, rs cents,
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As Usual.

wagener's Grove every Sunday from Ii
to 9 p. m
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conceal their Identity. Tragedy COM
edv. romance, melodrama, family
secrets, family makeshifts and happy
go-lucky irresponsibles all float the
way of the Post Transit travel super
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It Would Pay Other Women.

do 1 think it a work where othel.
women can succeed? l see no reason
why they should not. Here in New
York there is certainly room for others,
because as / have just said, i have
very often been compelled to refuse
engagements. According to my obser-
vations there is a demand for just
such a person in all OF our larger cities
and a comfortable living to be earned.
But the woman who undertakes it
must be willing to perform her work
not only as well as any one else, but
she must do it just a little bit better.
The Billings gazette., 1899-01-20
Western wastefulness.

The cornfield is place where the
western farmer wastes a good deal Of
material. The stalks are heaped up
with rake and burned. There is abso-
lutely nothing left on the land with
which to replace the crop taken off.
Only at long intervals can be found a
prairie farmer who allows the land to
rest year. When one does, he reaps
big harvest again the following year,
but the average farmer cannot stop to
wait for such process. He plants to
corn, and in September sows wheat be-
tween the corn rows to make another
crop the next June, perhaps early
enough for crop of millet before snow
flies. The result Of this sort of agricul-
ture is being seen in farms that are very
susceptible to drought, that are produc-
ing smaller crops than they used to in
similar conditions and seasons, and in
the exhaustion that is being seen by the
farmers themselves all over the older
settled portion of the west. The Chicago
Telegram mentions all this as part of
the wastefulness which it attributes to
the settlers Of the plains. It was SO
much easier to burn the straw than to
haul it out Of the fields in the form of
manure or as dressing. It was easier to
change the location of the barnyard than
to move the contents to the fields, and
thousands of farmers have robbed their
farms poor by the process
The Billings gazette., 1899-01-20
.MONEY=MAkING WITH COWS.

An inspiring Record OF Results OBJ
& taineu by Kansas Dairy Farmer.
Mr.. T. A. Borman, Navarro, Kan,
presented n very interesting and able
paper before the Kansas State Dairy as
sociation on How We Breed, Feed and
Handle Our Cows-Results. (" Of this
the state station has furnished the fol-
lowing summary: A years report Of a
herd of IL grade Holstein COWS shows
an average annual yield per cow of
8,26S pounds Of milk. This brought a
cash income of $49.70. Add to this the
value of the calf and the skimmilk, and
we have total annual income per COW
Of $81.l7. This is the highest record
we have seen of Kansas herd.
Mr.. Borman weighs and tests the
milk Of each individual COW and says
that his cows will actually give more
milk when pair of scales hang in the
barn. If a COW falls off in her milk
supply, the cause is sought for and if
possible removed; if. on the other hand,
the COW increases her milk flow, the
cause is likewise investigated and sim
liar conditions supplied to the rest Of
the herd. By keeping these individual
records Mr.. Borman finds that while
his average COW produces $50 pounds of
butter, his best COW yields 476 pounds
"A difference of 116 pounds. This
kind Of records is of immense aid when
he wants to tweed out'' his herd. He
furthermore says that his yields are
larger the nearer his animals come to
being pure bloods.
Mr.. Borman is firm believer in the
scientifically 'balanced ration and
thinks that the profits Of the dairy
farL.er may be considerably increased
by the exercise Of more brains along the
line of feeding, and in this connection
he mentions the high feeding value Of
alfalfa for dairy cows.
Such records as the above are certain
" inspiring. Comparatively few farm
ers know what their herds are doing, to
say nothing of the individuals of the
herd. Furthermore, only few farmers
are able to get $81 out of a COW per
year Many Of our farmers think they
are doing we'll if they can get from $50
to $35 annual income per COW, and
there are number that do not realize
as much as $40 annual income per COW.
To some this difference may seem star
tling and perhaps discouraging, but
when viewed from another standpoint
it shows the great possibility of i'm
provement. What has been done can be
done, and it rests with the farmer him
self whether or no he will learn the les.
son these records are intended to teach
and then with heart, brain and muscle
set about to make his dairy COW more
profitable,
The Billings gazette., 1899-01-20
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.

When the naples fame with crimson
And the rigtis ale still with frost,
Ere the su.,,ln,., Turing beauty
Is'in aU, ;;i.n giutE lost,
Through tie nl:.2,itcs and the forests
An imne. o,7.' >....;nions flies,
Ard froi4. fetsnl.ng northland
The vii, b n,..s ana rise. -1
From streams, !vNsEs" hath rippled
And ll.ie, ...t. /, ,..,It no sail, y
From rear.. q; r:,S. aud lonely
That know 10 hun. er's J1ail.
The claE.or of their calling
And the w.i.istllng Il their flight
Fill all the day with marvel
And with nystery the night.
As ebb along the ocean
The great obedient tides,
So wave on wave they journey
Where an ancient wisdom guides.
Although the haze of autumn
They vanish down the wind,
With the summer world before them
And the crowding storms behind.
p. Macarthur in Youth IS Companion
The Billings gazette., 1899-01-20
winter Feed For Cows.

Succulent feeds in winter have two
advantages which Kansas station bull
letin remarks upon as follows: They
are appetizing, which makes the COW
enjoy her feed, and they keep the sys-
tenn in healthy condition and the
bowels loose. The nearer we can feed
our COW in winter to secure the natural
loose condition Of the droppings as they
are from June pasture the more she
can eat and the more she will be able
to give in return for each pound of feed
eaten. When COW is oonstipated, there
is feverish condition of the body, a
smaller per cent of the feed is digested
and converted into milk and the yield
is lowered. If the dairyman has neither
ensilage nor roots. he should combine
his feeds to secure az nearly as possible
the right condition Of the bowels. This
is hard to do without suoculent feeds.
In the list of feeds following the gen.
eral effect which each has in this re-
spect is given:
Loosening Feeds.-Alfalfa. sorghum
hay, ensilage, roots, bran, soy bean
meal. linseed meal. gluten meal.
CoDstipating Feeds. fodder,
cornstalks, Kaffir corn fodder. prairie
hay, timothy hay. Kaffir corn grain.
corn lin light feeds), cottonseed meal.
The Billings gazette., 1899-01-20
BenevOIence In Animals.

We have seen a small pig stuck in a
paling through which it had tried to
squeeze assisted by an elder one inside.
Attracted by its cries, it took the small
pigs head in its mouth and tried to
pull it through, in doing which it al
most pulled the sufferers head off. In
another case cat deliberately fetched
it's owner to assist another cat which
was lying helpless in fit. Moreover,
domesticated animals are to some ex-
tent progressive" and have realized
the notion of common good among other
creatures than their own stock.
There are good deal of service and
benevolenoe among very different do
mestioated animals, especially in the
form of protection, sharing Of food and
forbearance. Specialized instances in
which dogs or cats have taken food to
others could doubtless be authenticated,
though the writer has not witnessed a
case. But there is the strongest of all
evidence that they have tendency to
perform these and other services to other
animals, because the domesticated orea-
lures voluntarily offer these services of
benevolence to man. How can any one
doubt that animals Tin domestioation)
are willing to feed each other. when
there are cats all over England and
Scotland which delight in bringing food
as presents to their owners? We need
not 90 back to the historic cat which
caught pigeon every day and brought
1t to its master when prisoner in the
Tower.