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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
A Lovely Table Ornament,

Make some baskets in fancy shapes
with pliable copper wire, cover the
wire well over with either a pale green
or a white gauze
Into the baskets fasten securely ferns
In several varieties. The ferns are most
effective if brown. and autumn timed
ones are introduced with the green:
also few geranium leaves.
Make Il solution of alum, one pound
of alum to a gallon of water. When
this is cool, sink the baskets into the
solution.
When there is light covering of
crystals all over the baskets. remove
carefully and let them drip u hours.
The colors of the foliage are distinct
ly seen through the crystals and retain
their freshness for good while
Baskets treated so make pretty
decoration for the dinner table, par.
ticularly when flowers are scarce.
Say, stand one basket in the middle
of the table on piece of mirror and a
basket at each corner Of the table,
Home Notes.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Sandow tn Man,an

sandow has been telling London wo.
men what he thinks of feminine attn
letics. He asserts that women can pre-
serve an ideal figure by fresh air and
exercise, and by those two factors only,
He disapproves entirely of corsets,
which he qualities as tight splints, and
he attributes to their use the weakness
OF the muscles of the back and a sus-
ceptibility to lung disease. Naturally
he condemns Is inch waists and pre-
fers the Venus of Milo with her "a
inches of circumference. But, though
he advises outdoor sports, while not
considering them as good as the an
Gent game of ball played by Nausea
and her maidens, he says that it is the
muscles of the trunk which require
exercise in order to hinder the increase
OF embonpoint, and neither cycling,
walking nor rowing sufficiently en-
ploys these muscles. No woman
need fear, he says, to become too mus
cular. as layer of adipose tissue is pc
culiar to her structure and is really in
tended to soften the outlines.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

force and so get well sooner. Has
some special piece of good fortune
come In the way of one whose ac-
quaintance you value? Write YOUR sim
cere congratulations.
Don't think you have not time to
spare for these courtesies. 1t is the
busiest women who do find time for
them, for they realize themselves how
few pleasantly written words will
make tue arid desert Of an office desk,
the drcary, though populous, Sahara Of
a schoolroom rejoice and blossom like
a spicy. wayside rose.
With the deep and bitter griefs Of
life stranger intermeddleth not, and
even friend must be chary of wordy
sympathy, but you can at least write:
My heart is with you. God comfort you!
1t is the taking thought for others,
the putting oneself in anothers
place that shows the finest flower Of
courtesy. Big subscriptions to colleges
hospitals and libraries have their use
fulness and should receive the praise
that is their due, but it is
The little nameless, aforementioned acts
OF kindness and of love
that shed the truest sweetness amid
this working day world-Christie Der
rell in Housewife.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
"The Star spnngled Banner, stop. =
Feast.

The women of Lincoln, Neb., worked
with such will to raise funds to pro-
vide an entertainment for the First
Nebraska regiment upon it's return
from the war that they had $40 surplus
In the treasury after giving the SOL
diers one of the finest gastronomic
feasts ever prepared in the city. The
women who had worked the hardest
said they were more than repaid by an
incident which happened at the cele-
bration and showed the real spirit of
the soldiers. While 600 of them were
seated at the table the band which
furnished music for the feast struck
up THE Star Spangled Banner" and
Instantly every man dropped knife
and fork and rose to his feet until the
air was finished.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Women Teacher. outnumber Men.

lie advance OF women as educators
is startl4ngly and pleasantly set forth in
a recent issue of the London Times.
A writer in the official organ of the
association of school boards has COM
piled some Interesting statistics, show
ing how vastly now women teachers
outnumber men. 1t says:
lin 1919 there We're 1O.S16 men, GER
tificated and uncertiticated, as against
l2,Si0 women. Last year these num-
bers had reached a total of 27,5O4 in
the one case and of a. 242 in the other
That is to say. within the same period
the increase of women teachers has
good deal more than doubled that of
the men. Concerning the numbers of
pupil teachers-that system of appren-
ticeship which Matthew Arnold vigor-
ously defended after it had stood the
test OF 40 years-the comparison is still
more striking. For while in 1873 there
We're 1882 boys and 1S.4O3 girls in
the ranks of the pupil teachers. in 1898
the former class had diminished by
1866 to 6,977, and the latter had in
creased by S.02S to no fewer than o.
43l. At this rate the ladies will soon
have complete control of the educa-
tional problem
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A WOMAN MISSIONARIES HEROIC
WORK IN THE INDIAN FLOODS.

Wonderful Helen Keller-A Sweet
Courtesy - Ordering Trousseau
From Afar-She Was Not Willing to
"Obey."
Miss G. j. Stahl, Methodist mission
airy at Darjiling, India, an Iowa girl
and former student at the Northwest
ern university, Evanston, Ills, is the
heroine of Dariiling, where, as reported
by cable, 400 lives were lost in the re-
cent floods. Miss Stahl is teacher in
the Lele Villa branch of the Calcutta
Girls school. The flood brought on
landslide which left the building in
momentary danger of collapse. AL
ready nearly exhausted from her eff
forts in behalf Of the flood sufferers.
Miss Stahl left the building at the
head Of long line of children and aft
er hard and perilous climb succeeded
In guiding her charges to place Of
safety. Miss Stahl's courage saved her
pupils from the death which overlook
others at Lele Villa. Miss Stahl's home
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
A Diplomats Impression.

A lately arrived diplomat who has
been enjoying the summer at one Of
the most fashionable watering places
had an American friend as his guest
During some conversation concerning
the country the diplomat in reply TO a
question as to what impressed him
most. replied: ''The most noticeable
thing which has struck my foreign
mind is. according to their own testi-
mony. the extreme delicacy and phys
ical weakness of the American women.
young and old. There is hardly an hour
that do not hear some of them PRO-
Claiming that they are dying. They die
of the heat, they die of the cold. they
die OF laughter and they die of grief;
and then again l have heard the ex-
preston, just expired with SURPRISE
"Of course, this last | know to he
joke. But it certainly is curious to note
the extent to which American woman
hood is drifting to the grave, if the
statistics of their own proclamaticns
of the fact are reliable. 1t is really
wonderful So solemn was the horri-
fed diplomat that his auditor is at a
loss to know whether he was serious or
not. His name is withheld because on
nothing are diplomats so sensitive as
to be published in criticism of the fair
sex.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
1t Toll. For Row, death.

In the heart of London is st. Pauls
cathedral. and in it's high belfry is a
great bell that, with few exceptions.
tolls only when some person of royal
English descent dies. That is. this
honor is paid to the memory of some
person who might have inherited the
English crown. The exceptions are the
consort of the sovereign, the archbish-
OPP of Canterbury, the bishop of Lon.
don, the dean of st. Pauls and the lord
mayor of London. The bell tolled ia
the one on which the hours are struck
and its knell is sounded only after
much red tape has been gone through
with. On the occurrence of death ia
the royal family the home secretary
notifies the lord mayor, the lord mayor
notifies the dean of st. PauHs and the
dean instructs the bell ringer to toll the
bell at intervals of one minute for an
hour. The bell was last tolled to an
nounce the death of the Duke of Clar-
ence, Jan. II, 1S92.-Chicago Record,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
They May Ride.

Korea has finally decided to permit
her womankind to ride on the street
cars at all hours of the day This is
probably the greatest concession to
modern civilization ever made in the
Hermit Kingdom. Up to the time of
this spasm of enlightenment women in
Korea were not allowed upon the street
in the daytime. But at s o'clock in the
evening, at the ringing of curfew
bell. men retired within doors and wo-
men sailed forth for exercise or pleas
ure, finding both streets and street cars
vacated for them AT the present time
Korean men are elated over the fact
that but few women have ayailed
themselves of their new found liberty.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
A Sweet Courtesy.

If you would be popular among your
women friends, do not neglect the
writing of little notes on special occa-
sions-notes of sympathy, of condo
lence, of congratulations take but
few moments and are SO heartening
to the recipient.
Is friends engagement announced?
Write her few words to show that
you are glad because Of her gladness
Has another friend fallen i'll? Send
the note which tells how sorry you are.
but at the same time make it merry
and amusing, that she will laugh per.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Deceitfu1 Appearances.

Appearances are oftentimes deceit
full, but it is just as well to avoid bad
ones. Here is story that an out Of
town girl told the other afternoon at a
tea party: Il knew a girl, lovely girl
in all ways, who was engaged to man
who died before the wedding. In just
year afterward she married another
and luckier man. No one blamed her;
no one could. A year is a span long
enough for a disconsolate widow, and
therefore great space for fiancee,
who may not even wear weeds. Now,
this lovely girl. being dainty and re-
fined in her tastes. had for her favorite
flower the modest violet. Eschewing
the conventional bridal roses she elect
ed to carry bouquet Of her much
loved dark blossoms. A slender wreath
of the same bound the snowy veil on
her fair head. To carry out the effect,
the bridesmaids wore violet hats, and
the decorations everywhere were in
violet, purple ribbons even spanning
the church aiSles to let the bridal par
ty pass. In itself all this was very
pretty and poetic, but even as Brown
ing is read by the context, SO was this
wedding. People looked at the purple
and white and cried as with one ac-
cord, is it possible that she is still in
mourning for the lover who died| and
commented on it as very singular
thing. The explanation was easy
enough, and sweet and pretty easy,
but the appearances-well, as usual,
they We're desperately deceitful.'-
Elmira Telegram.
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FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A KIND HEARTED GANDER.
He Was a Friend Indeed to an I'M
fortunate Old blind Goose.


fortunate Old Blind Goose.
My grandfather had a Swan river
gander which had been reared near the
house and had consequently attached
himself to the members of the family,
so much so that, on seeing any of them
at distance, he would run to meet
them with all possible demonstrations
of delight.
But Swanny was quite an outcast
from his own tribe, and as often as he
made humble overtures to the other
geese so often was he driven away
with great contempt, and on such occa-
sions he would frequently run to some
one of his human friends and, laying
his head on their lap, seem to seek
for sympathy.
At last, however, he found a friend
among his own species. An old gray
goose, becoming blind, was also dis
carded by her more fortunate compan-
IONS and SNanny lost no opportunity
of recognizing this comrade in distress.
He at once took her under his protec-
ton and led her about. When he con-
sldered it we'll for her to have swim,
he would gently take her neck in his
bill and thus lead her, sometimes a
great distance, to the waters edge.
Having fairly launched her, he kept
close by her side and guided her from
dangerous places by arching his neck
over hers and so turning her to con-
venient landing place and. taking her
neck in his bill as before, led her to
terra tirma again. I
When she had goslings, he would
proudly convoy the whole party to the
water side, and if any ill fated gosling
got into difficulties in hole or deep
cart rut Swanny, with ready skill,
would put his bill under it's body and
carefully raise it to the level ground
Philadelphia Times.
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Wonderful Helen keller.

Helen Keller is a student at Radcliffe
college this term, she having passed
her entrance eXamina lions with honor
under the same conditions which sur
round the ordinary candidate, but with
added difficulties owing to her infirmi-
ties, which only girl of her indomi-
table will would attempt to overcome.
AS all the world knows, she could nei-
ther see the examination papers nor
hear the voice of the examiner. Also
she was deprived of her usual inter-
prefer Miss Sullivan; first, because
Miss Sullivan, knowing neither Greek
nor Latin, could be of no assistance to
her in translating the questions put in
those languages, and, next, because it
was decided best that this unusual can
didate should be guarded in every pos
Sible way from the slightest suspicion
of having received assistance. A gen.
tleman was found who was quite un-
known to Miss Keller and unable to
speak to her, to write out the eXamina-
ton papers in Braille characteristic
system of writing by punctured points
employed by the blind, The day of the
examination 1t was discovered that he
used the American method, while Miss
Keller had learned the English system.
more books being printed in that one,
The questions We're thus written at the
dictation Of the proctor, and immedi-
ately handed to Miss Keller, who had
to master the unknown characters be-
fore rapidly writing the answers upon
typewriter.
An instance of the girls unusual con-
centration and self control can be gain
ed from the fact that she had left at
home her Swiss watch, made especially
for the blind, and so was unable to
tell how long time she had in which
to answer the questions. This alone
would have made the ordinary woman
quail. Nevertheless the afflicted girl
passed the examination in algebra,
geometry, elementary Greek, advanced
Greek and advanced Latin triumphant
~. She was in no way favored be-
cause she is deaf, dumb and blind. She
sat in darkness and silence, surrounded
by strangers, yet she surmounted all
EMBELLISHMENTS Bazaar.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Dainty Luncheona

Every housekeeper should know how
to put up dainty luncheon for the fall
meeting parties or other autumn pic
MICS. \ crowd of Cincinnatians were
assembled on the banks of the Miami
the other day. The first lunch box
opened was large enough to hold it's
contents without any crowding. 1t
was wrapped neatly in white paper
and tied with bit of narrow white
ribbon, through which single twig of
apple blossoms was thrust On taking
off the cover the recipient found, first,
q Japanese napkin. whose white ground
was decorated in one corner with a
bunch Of apple blossoms. This bit of
thoughtfulness in the way of nap
kin, it was noticed, was the exception
rather than the rule among the boxes
in the immediate vicinity. On remov-
ing the napkin bunch of water cress
was the next thing discovered 1t was
placed on a piece of waXed paper that
covered the rest of the luncheon. There
We're four dainty sandwiches. each
small double triangle of perfect sand
Wlch bread prepared without crusts,
the filling a delicious compound of
minced chicken. cream cheese and
chopped almonds. The cress eaten
with them gave the finishing touch to
their appetizing quality. \ slice of de-
licious homemade white cake cut from
loaf that had been baked in two deep
layers, with an ice filling and top. was
part of the dessert. and several Sec
lions of choice orange. each section
peeled. Al Were neatly folded in wax
paper-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Ordering Trousseau From Altar.

A vast amount of very beautiful and
eNquisitely skilled work only PLAYS a
secondary and passing part in the
economy of trade. The big dressmak-
ers' models are so exclusive and pre-
cious that they are guarded from out
slders as one would guard jewels or
gold from a thief. Pattern dresses cost
enormous prices, and the gown build
ers use them bit by bit as ideas for
original costumes. To their far west
eln or southern customers they will
send eXquisitely dressed dolls to dem
onstrate specially designed costumes
they think will suit them. Not long
ago as many as two dozen dolls
We're sent to California to a young wo-
man whose trousseau was to be made
in New York. When the dolls return
ed. their frocks We're removed and de-
stroyed. yet the care taken to make
those miniature frocks perfect in every
detail Of cut. fit and trimming was
greater in a way than that the real
costumes will require
jewelers. send out designs or make
them up to exhibit to a customer in
wax. using sometimes paste stones and
sometimes real ones. The wax is melt
ed fiat and smooth into box, and then
the jewels are stuck into it. Black wax
throws up diamonds to perfection, and
the idea of the pattern tiara, ring or
aigret is to take is easily realized when
seen in this form.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
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MISS G. J. sTAHL.

is at Mount Ayr. Ia. and she is one
OF four women representing Ringgold
county Methodism in the mission field.
Miss Stahl is member of one of the
prominent pioneer families of the Iowa
county. She was born about 80 years
ago near the present town of Diagonal,
where her father, Michael Stahl, still
lives.
Miss Stahl was for some years a
teacher in the schools of her home
county and later in the city schools of
Corning. Her college education was
begun at Simpson college, Indianola,
Ia, and continued in 1892 at North
western university, Evanston, Ills.
For many years she was an active
helper in revivals. She went to In
dia under the auspices of the north
western branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist church. She sailed from
New York in the fall of 1892 and for
about six years was teacher in the
Calcutta girls school. Within the last
year she was put in charge of the
school at Darjiling. One sister, Miss
Martha Stahl, is professor of Latin in
Simpson college, and brother, Will
liam S. Stahl, is an attorney in Chica-
90.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Our Helpers.

1t is conquest when we can lift our
selves above the annoyances of circum-
stances over which we have no con-
troll, but it is a greater victory when
we can make those circumstances our
helpers, when we can appreciate the
good there is in them. 1t has often
seemed to me as if Life stood beside
me, looking me in the face and saying,
Child, you must learn to like me in
the form in which you see me before
can offer myself to you in any other
aspect" Lucy Larcom.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
To Cure Soft Corns.

Saturate piece of cotton wool in
castor oil and place it between your
toes. The same application will allie
viate the pain of hard corns and do
much toward curing them. The treat
ment should be continued for week
OF more, and US the oil would soil the
boot a piece of india rubber tissue
should be placed over the dressing to
prevent the oil soaking through the
tocking.-Home Notes.
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HArNEE AND HER .Arrprp

ed than when loaded down and sur
rounded by little folks. She never gets
mad, is always kind, gentle and obeui.
ent. Hatnee is yet in the prime of life
being scarcely 30 years old. The above
splendid picture of Hatnee and her
Keeper was taken in picturesque spot
on the hillside. near her winter Quar-.
tiers, by Myers, the official zoo photog-
rapher.-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Her Sons Model.

A young student at one of the large
art institutions decided last winter to
try for a prize, says Harper's Bazaar.
He was under 20, and his competitors
were all older than he. He wrote his
mother about it, begging her to come
and pose for him, saying that lie knew
he could win it if only she were his
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
NINE, ADAM.

fall Of the empire Nine. Adam has
held the rank of first lady of the land.
She is perhaps the only woman in the
world whom men look up to and con-
suit in politics.
In 1919 Mime. Adam started La Nou-
yelle Revue and has conducted it with
great ability and success ever since.
Her reasons for retiring now are not
known.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
She Wa. Not Ready to "obey.n

A Church of England dignitary in
New Zealand is telling in London a sto-
~ of lady who recently called upon
MN IN reference to the approaching
marriage of a young girl relative. Her
especial request was that there should
be in the ceremony no mention what
ever of obeying cor any other rot of
that description" The clergyman, aft
er recovering from the shock of a sug-
gestion so utterly unexpected, explain
ed as politely as circumstances allow
ed that, though the women of New
Zealand had votes, could become NAV
ors and barristers and even eventually
sit In parliament, he could not hold out
any hope of a change of the marriage
service in the direction desired.
1t is plain from this that both in Lon
don and the English provinces the
omission here referred to is not so fire.
quently demanded or secured as in
America. There has been great deal
of talk about it here. The other day.
for instance. the wedding of two peo-
pie prominent in the western part of
this state was nearly married by the
prejudice. The bride had told the cler-
gyman, who was also to be her broth
er-in-law, that she would have none of
it. He declared that in that case he
would not pronounce the couple man
and wife. but when the time came for
her answer the bride added aloud,
mot" to her II will,' and, though the
clergyman shook with laughter. he did
not carry out his threat.-Philadelpn
Press.
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The Faithful Elephant

Hatnee, the big elephant at the Gin.
cinnati geological garden, is perhaps
known and loved by more children
than any animal in captivity. Thou.
sands of Cincinnati school children
nave ridden on her broad back, and
she is never happier and more content.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Learning to Sew

MY grandma says that little girls
Should all learn how to sew.
she raised up seven daughters, so
s'pose she ought to know.
do not like to sit SO still,
prick my fingers, too;
But mamma says that that's the way
That all beginners do.
Some day when grow big and old,
Just like my mamma now,
A daughter l may have to dress;
Of course l must know how
She'd think her mamma very queer
II did not know how
To make her clothes and dresses sweet,
And so Pm learning now.
practice on my dollies' clothes,
And stitches / will take
Till can sew them neat and strong
And needles never break.
Our Boys and Girls.
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,4AL--.s---~ .-~.>.--.,. .s,ss....
AN INFLUENTIAL WOMAN.
The Men of France Look Up to Her
and Consult Her In Politics.

The retirement of Nine. Adam from
the editorship of La Nouvelle Revue
mas created much comment and gossip
IN literary and political circles in Paris.
Nine. Adam stands first and fore
most as learned literary woman and
as femme du monde Since the down.