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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Must Keep Her Joints Timber.

10 remain young woman must keep
her joints limber," remarked a fine-look
ing specimen of womanhood in the car
this morning. l heard no more because
the seat l sought was at the far end of
the car, says writer in an exchange. T
pondered the subject all the way to the
office, and decided to give some simple
exercises to keep women young. A
Western newspaper woman whom T met
this winter said that the morning bath
kept woman young, and surely the two
combined ought to furnish the secret of
perpetual youth.
These exercises are but four in number
and need not occupy more than ten min
utes. l have said that the morning bath
need not occupy even that amount of
time, so it is really very little which
You give for the blessed privilege of
STAYING off the effects of old age. Stand
erect with hands outstretched on a level
with the shoulders and slowly raise
yourself on your toes as far as possible.
Keep this position for a moment only.
and then slowly sink back upon the en-
tire foot. Repeat this exercise for TWEEN
ty times or more and then change to the
second exercise, which is for the benefit
of the knee joints.
Place the hands on the hips, rest the
weight of the body OIL the right foot.
slowly raise the left leg and extend it
in front Of the body. Then bend the knee
again until the toes point downward and
straighten as before. Repeat this exer-
else twenty times aid change to the left
foot, so that the right can have it's share
in the exercise. BY that time YOU are
ready for exercise number three. which
enables you to keep your waistline,
strengthen your back and keep your
shane generally. Stand erect and 1aon
knees and try to touch the floor with
your fingers. You won't be able to do it
at first, try as hard as you will, but
each day will bring You nearer to it.
Repeat this exercise like the others.
Place the left hand on the hip and ex-
tend the right arm. Bend as far as DOS
sible to the left side, repeat and change
to the right side, and you will find your
daily ten minutes the best investment
you ever made.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Originality in Dress.

, Lack of individuality is hardly to lie
described as fault, but it stands us /
bar to the complete success of the Won
an who wishes to combine originate,
with perfect taste, is the decision Of
masculine observer. I
Individuality is really the final test Il
success in the matter of dress. The do
icate perception which can measure TIN
effect of the slightest details, the abilit,
to make every costume express the veal
or, belongs not to every woman. 1t i
ion. Without it only u negative success
is possible. A woman who lacks orig,
inality may not make a fright of herself
hut she will hardly win encomiums ia,
her appearance.
1t is said often that there is nothing i,
woman's dress that man SO dislikes as
an aping of his own garments. Fer
horseback, walking or any form of atA.
letic exercises, a womanly adaptation Of
certain masculine garments is desirable
because, as a rule. they allow Create,
freedom of movement. But for ordi
nary occasions, woman's dress is artist
cally so much superior to mans that q
woman loses by imitation, to say moth
ing of her loss in the esteem of her male
friends.
The Nineteenth century has given us
the business woman. A word to her
In business you are at liberty to adopt
the standard which men accept for Their
own dress-that of comfort and convent
cnce. None but captious critic will
find fault with you if you find it desira
hle to put pockets in your skirts, or tc
abbreviate their length for rainy wealth
err. Your great desideratum is simplicity
and neatness.-Demorest' Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03

1t Regime with a Chest of nrawers
and Makes Trouble for Families.

1t Begins with a Chest of Drawers
and Makes Trouble for Families.
"A friend of mine who has been too
busy with the problem of ways and
means to pay much attention to the
adornment Of his house asked me recent
ly to select for him Il good piece OF
colonial mahogany, as he wanted to have
one such piece in his house. and de-
elined to do so until I had explained
to him the cost" said Il sccnicaartist
whose house is one of the show pt&kes in
Il town near New York: II knew that
his furniture was oak and upholstered
stuff, and that just so sure as he placed
with it a good example of old mahogany
his troubles would begin. The nlahog-
any would kill bis oak, and in course Of
time would mean the refurnishing of his
house.
His was case of ignorance being
bliss, and l did not propose to upset
his household. l have seen the old ma
hogany disease work it's way into many
households. and in many cases the re-
suits have been disastrous. Talk about
having a mortgage ON your house. why,
that is nothing compared to the annoy
ance Of finding that you have lot of
modern oak furniture on Your hands. too
good to throw away, when You once have
begun to collect old pieces. 1t has taken
me nearly ten years to live down Il col
lection of oak furniture which l made
in St. Louis and which has hung over
me like the shadow of Il great sorrow.
was boarding in st. Louis and doing
work on big production, when my wife
and decided that we didn't like board
ing and that we would try housekeep-
ing. had no time to spend looking for
Il house, so we took the first one that
we could find. We spent just one aft
ernoon in furnishing it completely
dishes, draDeries, rugs, carpets and an
outfit of new oak furniture. The result
was just what might have been expect
ed. Our house looked like Grand Rap
ids showroom We moved to New~York,
leaving behind as much of our oak fur
niture rs we could, but when we got
settled here we found around lis lot
of il. which was too good to give away
and which we could not SELL
Il had picked up by this time few
old pieces of mahogany, and the more
studied them the more l despised my
oak. Then built my house, and was
forced to move some of those pieces into
degrees ever since, however, and now /
haven't got one modern oak piece left.
In the meantime l have watched friends
struggle with their modern furniture
after they had picked up an old piece or
two, and their troubles have been like
mine. When my friend asked me to
select an old piece for him l told him
what l have told you, and said that if
after thinking it over for a week he still
wanted to make the plunge l would help
him. He will proba bly, want to begin on
on an old chest of drawers, for that is
usually the opening wedge, and then old
andirons, tables with claw feet, and cor
ner cabinets will follow. concluding with
chairs, and the latter will keep him poor
for the rest of his life. It's like the
opium habit. and you can't shake it off. -
New York Sun,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Important Step in Education,

=. A woman physician says that she be-
lieves that the first and most important
step in education should be knowledge
of fundamental physiological laws, an Il.
norance and disregard Of which bring
about conditions Of body which hinder5or
prevent entirely perfect performance of
the duties Of life or an enjoyment Of its
pleasures. There is nothing new in this:
it is the doctrine of Herbert Spencer.
and his precepts are being. more or less
followed by school children. Rules for
health and self-preservation are given
out by workers in many lines of socio-
logical work among the poor. Such phys
taught thoroughly-not the number of
bones in the human body, but general
knowledge of the laws by whichSit is
governed. - re-,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Get Them All Together.

Theodore Hallam, a Kentucky attor-
ney, is generally reputed to possess about
the nimblest wit in the bluegrass COM
monwealth. A story of his repartee at
the expense Of the late Deacon Rich
ard Smith, the widely-known editor Of
the old Cincinnati Gazette, runs thus ::
Smith was chatting in the cafe of the st.
Nicholas with a friend abont political
affairs. 1t so happened that just then
the police superintendents Of Covington.
KY, and Cincinnati were having row
over fugitive, which ended lin. the
charge that the Covington officials were
Ha!lam entered the cafe. Deacon
Smith said: - f.. -
Z Hello, Theodore, see by the papers
that you're accused Of harboring thieves
over in your town 8, 80.
Yes. Mr. Smith, " Hallam drawled,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
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: She Sat a Good Example,.

Some one has said that our children
desire to begin where we leave off. Con
sequently, if they can procure the ele-
gances Of life in no other way, they will
secure them ON the credit system. For it
is a fact that the poor pay far higher
for the accommodations they receive
than do the rich for theirs. The usual
outcome of this kind of housekeeping is
that the debtor falls behind in his pay
ments, is annoyed by duns, borrows Il
trife from a friend to ward off the evil
day, and at last abandons hope, losing
furniture and all that has been paid as
interest and principal.
In happy contrast was the course
adopted BY bright-eyed wife in Lon
don. Calling at the house, 1 remarked:
Your home looks very pretty" She re-
piled emphatically: 1T is pretty, for we
have paid for everything in it, Then
she told ME that before her marriage
her intended requested her to select a
carpet. and he would buy it on trust, but
that she stoutly refused, and assured
him that the bare floor was good enough
for her until he could afford to pay for
what he purchased. l exclaimed, BRA
vo!:' and am persuaded the little Won.
an has made a good business man of her
husband by this time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03

8 - Young Folks Column Il 8

The Village Coward,

The Village Coward.
'Fraid cat, 'fraid OF snake!
Hold the fence an scream;
'Fraid of the noise the toad frogs make
An the log acrOst the stream"'
'Fraid-cat, 'fraid OF the dark!
Cross your heart an die
II over sou run past dead mans park,
Then break your word an cry!'
- 'Fraid-cat, 'fraid of the girls,
Little Sammy Sim
Baby eyes an sissy curls--
Stick your tongue at him.
" 'Fraid- cat'-eyery one laughed
When he marched away;
Many's the "stay-at- home that chaffed
At Sammy Sim-that day.
'Fraid cat, 'fraid of the girls
But not of blood or she'll,
And the men that followed the tumbled
curls
Shrank not In the fire Of hell.
volunteer for daring deed.
A cheer In the face Of death,
laughing word for his wounds that bleed,
A smile with the failing breath.
And shaft Of marble above the sod,
Is all that tells of him.
But If ever Il brave boy found his God,
It's little Sammy Sim!
Mary Berri Chapman In the Century
Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03

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makes no difference. at what age sh,
narries. She is the clinging sort 81 cree
ture who looks about for man to leal
upon and generally finds one, for men Ii
talize on the subject in their youth AM
talk about the ivy and the oak. Whel
they are captured, ii they do not suffe
the fate Of the oak smothered by the ivy
but survive to tell the tale, they still
cling to. their theory; but they spend tn.
leisure hours Of their middle age at theh
clubs.-Sarah Grand in The Gentlewonl
m "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
The Value of Contentment.

There is no greater foe to woman's
happiness than restlessness. This does
not of necessity mean actual physical
unrest, but the mental quality of discon-
tent with ones self, ones surroundings,
ones own actions is the quality that
makes days dark and spirits depressed.
The self-satisfed poise, while not one to
be commended in it's attitude toward
the world at large, is infinitely more
comforting to it's possessor than that
eagerness to be or have something else
IMAM what we are not or do not possess.
The artistic temperament is never real
ly satisfied. True genius is possessed of
a spirit OF infinite despair over failure
TO achieve such greatness as genius
er satisfying to such; but alas, if it could
De now much happier the whole world
would DC: To find content do not look
IN the cities. Expect it not in the house.
nOtd where the wife is socially ambi-
tloels or the husband has political bee
III ms bonnet. Content, that sure md
certain, happy and restful feeling of re-
Pietlon, comes only to those who are sat
lsned with just enough to give them food
and shelter, with tiny margin for doc
tor rs oils and a luxury now and then.
The attire of others has no special
slsnlhcance-certainl it inspires no
envy: The handsomer furnishings, the
greater income mean nothing. Content
ment banishes all thought of advance
me. Inc smooth. unruft]ed brow u
.ne nal'mark OF the inward placidity. A
woman thus endowed does not have to
fear wrinkles. Time has no .terrors for
her Sleep, sweet and reposeful, with
never thought Of bills to be met On thu.
morrow, aids her in the possession of
perpetual youth that her socially ambi-
tlous sister longs to- possess, but cannot
guess the secret of it's being. It is all
repose,. but it is the product of mind
tranquil. as well as, a body at rest, and
to obtain it the words ambition and
worry must be eliminated from the lexi-
con of life.-Philadelphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Graceful Carriage Important.

While on the subject of things that 20
to help on easy and satisfactory dress
making we must not lose sight of the
carriage of woman, which has a Won
derful voice in the hang and swirl of her
garments. Il woman who throws her
shoulders forward brings about a mass
of wrinkles in the front of her bodice,
gives a rounded effect across her back,
and throws the abdomen up and out,
making the dress skirt short in front as
well as detracting from the length of her
waist i'll front. These are faults that
must be corrected ii you would have
perfect lines and curves in dressmaking.
If in walking YOU will hold your chin
we'll in, with the head slightly thrown
back, the shoulders and abdomen will
take care of themselves. and recede to
the position nature intended them to &C.
cupy, making the result Of your own or
your dressmaker's efforts more to your
liking and her glory.-Woman's Home
COMPANION. - :@.s$sss:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03

miles of aume, pipe lines, tunneled
through Il mountain two miles, estah-
lished a score OF giants, built up two or
three towns, and have the greatest active
placer enterprise in the world. Thorough
prospecting Of these grounds, from grass
roots to bedrock, indicates that they con-
tain more than $1OO,OOO,OO worth of
alluvial gold. Some Of the gravel bars
run 81 to 50 per cubic yard. The great
works in the two counties will soon be in
shape to add $500, zoo in gold annually to
the wealth of the world, The entire out
put the past season will probahly aggre-
gate 1925, 600. n !
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
"A Wife's Duty.

Girls who marry with the foolish idea
that it is their husbands duty to support
them in comparative idleness are making
serious mistake. 1t is wife's duty to
work and build up home by prudence
and industry in home management, as
much as it is her husbands to work out
side and to provide money. 1t is only a
person of great wealth who can afford to
hire refined person to take her place as
hOusekeeper. Only comparatively lazy
keeper to an ordinary maid servant, and
her family must suffer because of it.
The loss of the mother as the power at
the helm is one of the greatest evils that
can befall family. An energetic wom-
an will let no other cause but physical
incapacity keep her from attending to her
highest duties-those upon which the
comfort and health of her family depend.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Dress Is the Working Girls Social
Gauge.

The girl~who has definite social
standing, says Jane Adams in the At
lantic. who has been to fashionable
school or to a college, whose family live
in a house seen and known by all her
friends and associates, can afford to be
very simple or even shabby as to her
clothes. if she likes. But the working
girl, whose family lives in tenement or
moves from one small apartment to an
other, who has little social standing, and
has to make her own place, knows full
have to do with her position =Her in:
come goes into her clothing ont sf all
proportion TO that Which she spends upon
other things. But if social advancement
is her aim, it is the most sensible thing
which she can do. She is judged largely
by her clothes. Her house furnishing
with its pitiful little decorations, hel
Scanty supply of books, are never seen
by the people whose social opinions she
most values. Her clothes are her back.
ground, and from them she is largely
Judged. 1t is due to this fact that girls
clubs succeed best in the business part
of town, where working girls and
..rnnnG ladiaso- meet upon tv1uuf root:
ing, and where the clothes superticially
look very much alike. Bright and ambi.
tious girls will come to these downtown
clubs to eat lunch and rest at noon, to
study all sorts of subjects and listen to
lectures, when they might hesitate a
long time to join club identified with
their. own neighborhood, where they
would be judged not solely on their per.
sonal merits and the unconscious social
standing afforded to good clothes, but by
other surroundings which are not nearly
up to these. For the same reason. girls
clubs are infinitely more difficult to or
ganize in little towns and villages, where
every one knows every one else, lust
how the front parlor is furnished, and
the amount of mortgage there is upon
the house. In some very success,
ful downtown clubs the home address is
not given at all, and only the business
address, is required. Have we worked
out our democracy in regard to clothes
farther than in regard to anything else
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
The Horrors of Tea Smoking.

The Medical Press and Circular seems
to hint that the latest fashionable wick
edness is to take ones tea in the form
of cigarettes. Judging, however, from
what our medical contemporary says of
the vice, it hardly seems likely to be-
come general. The first sensation, it ap-
pears, though peculiar, is not as unpleas-
ant as might be supposed, but this con-
dition of qualified beatitude does not last
long. Then comes "a thickening of the
head and a disposition to take hold of
something or to sit down." If the novice
perseveres hc-or she-may be next re-
warded with a feeling Of cxhilaration,
intense but of very brief duration. But,
the after-effects, our contemporary SOL
;emnly AYERS, are too dreadful for con-
templation-even by medical common
tator--and it takes many hours before
the beginner even begins to revive. a
dustpan and broom seem to be the only
things then required for removing the
smoke ondon Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Girls Stunned by Men.

There are many girls who are Stunned
by men, and for the most part the fault
lies with themselves. 5s:> II 10. S<ss:
The girl who never exercises herself
to be agreeable unless she can have ev-,
erything her own way is one of them, for
there. is not q man alive who will give
The girl who scolds is, another type:
she may be perfectly COCO. tempered, but
she has contracted the scolding habit,
aud so she Is left alone to scold at her
pleasure. VIII i, d. .7>s
Then there is the girl with the naughty
manner and cold stare. No man dares
to make love to her, because there III
nothing whatever to love n her. So the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Marriage and Friendship.

Marriage without love may be endnr-
able, but marriage without friendship is
intolerable, says the Woman's Home
Companion. And if man and woman
have no mutual tastes or habits, friend
ship, and even love itself, will languish.
Even the best and truest love loses with
youth its first fire and fervor, but with
purer love is built on the ashes of Tho
first. This love is made up of affection.
friendship, comradeship, trust, and per
vading all this a tender sentiment grow
ing out of the dear memories of long
ago. 800 90. = /
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
Monkeys as Cotton Pickers.

" "A Mississippi planter named Mangum
has been experimenting with monkeys as
cotton .pickers, and during the entire fall
of 1898 he had ten of these animals work
ing i'm his fields. They were taught to
perform the work by d New York ami
NAL trainer. and Mrs. Mangum is SO well
pleased with the results that during the
monkeys at work on bis plantation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-03
The "DateN.Line.

When it is ! O'Clock On Saturday after
noon at San Francisco, it is already 8
o'clock on Sunday morning at Manila.
AS the earth turns on it's axis from west
to east, the sun seems to pass over the
earth from east to west. Noon or mid
night passes around the globe at the rate
of fifteen degrees of longitude an hour
accomplishing the three hundred and six
ty degrees in a day.
Midnight, at the end of any day, say a
Saturday, crosses the American CONT
nent from Philadelphia (75 degrees longi-
tude west from Greenwich to San Fran
cisco 12O degrees west longitude) in
three hours, and passes out into the Pa
cific ocean. Before it reaches the coast
of Asia the date is changed. Sunday
has begun.
1t is easy to see that at every point
east of that where it is just midnight of
Saturday it is now Sunday. Since it is
necessary that each day shall he sup
posed to begin somewhere. men have
agreed that it shall be on a line one-balf
way round the globe from London. that
is, 100 degrees east or west from Green
witch.
But convenience requires that the line
MILL HOt De straight. Lie AHeliuldH VI
100 degrees passes through the eastern
peninsula of Siberia. Russia treats the
whole of her possessions as being COM
prised within the same day. Before the
United States bought Alaska the Asian
day was extended even to the American
continent. 1t was day later at Sitka
than at places due north from that place.
When Alaska became an American
possession, the day was changed, and
the dateline was shifted to the west of
the Aleutian archipelago. These are not
the only variations from the 1SOth merid-
ian. but we will not explain them all
Let us now trace the date-line from
north to south.
Starting at the North Pole, it follows
the meridian adopted until it approaches
the Siberian coast. There it bends to
the east and passes through Behring
strait. thence in a SouthweSterly direc-
| ton so as to take in all the Aleutian isl
andS. Next it curves back to the 1SOth
meridian. and follows it to the equator.
Again it bends eastward through the
midst of numerous groups of islands,
! leaving the Samoan group Oh the east
| and the TongaS ON the west. 1t sweeps
| almost to the 165th meridian. then
| curves back gradually to the 1SOth me,
ridian, and follows it to the South Pole
When a vessel crosses the Pacific from
east to west. it drops ,ne day from the
! calendar upon passing the date-line. In
| going from west to east it repeats one
| day. Thus there might he either two
| Christmases in year or none at all in
| the calendar Of a ship, according to the
! direction she was sailing ON the 9th OF
Observation-Disclosures Companion.