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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
The Care of the Hands,

In frosty weather, particularly if dark
clothes are worn, the hands, very soon
become soiled, and require frequent
washing. They should be washed in
warm water. not hot water, and, if DOS
sible, in soft water. After washing they
should be dried very thoroughly in bran
or oatmeal, and great care taken that
the nails are most thoroughly dry: in the
drying the cuticle can be pushed back
sufficiently to show the half-moon at the
base Of the nail. Nail-scissors, not used
for any other purpose, should be used to
cut off any hangnails; but it is better to
use-a file to keep the nails short, and for
this purpose there should be three Or
four files of varying size. To give the
luster desired there is a new kind of
wash that makes the nails pink, not deem
red, and also gives a gloss and finish,
After this is put on the hands should be
washed, but sufficient of the polish will
remain.
After the hands are washed the second
time to remove the polish the nails should
be rubbed briskly, either with a piece of
chamois, a nail polisher, or by rubbing
them again with the palm of the hand,
This last method is perhaps the best of
all, for it polishes just enough without
giving too exaggerated finish in ap-
pearance.
Rings are so much the fashion that the
hands must of necessity be we'll kept, but
it is-a mistake to wear too many rings.
particularly with plain gown; it is to
be hoped that it will soon go out Of fash
ion to wear them with anything but
evening dress.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
The Eugene is Now the Mode.

The Eugenie fashion Of wearing the
hair is the mode of the hour in Paris
This demands coil low in the nape OF
the neck, with a few ringlets and q
cluster Of flowers, and is becoming only
women with perfectly shaped heads and
slender necks. In America fashionable
women are wearing the couture lower
than for some time. The pompadour eff.
are less pronounced than formerly, al.
though it is still pulled prettily about
the ears. forehead and nape. The coil
is arranged to show beneath the crown
Of the hat,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Johnny's Most Serious Problem

The preacher: ':And do you. n lways
say your prayers before you 90 to bed.
..What are the things you pray for?.''
Johnny---...'Well. mostly that pa Won, 7
and out what I've been dom through
the day San Francisco E4aminer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Baby's Sleeping Hours.

"a child should sleep by ITSELF as.
serts an authority On baby culture; 'un-
der no circumstances with an older per-
son or another child. The mattress
should be firm but soft. For young in
fants a heavy army blanket folded and
laid Oh spring bed is quite enough, and
is much better than a mattress, as it can
be thoroughly aired, disinfected, washed,
etc. A healthy child up to / year old
should sleep about two-thirds Of the
time, and until child is years old a
daily nap should be insisted on. If a
child is generally wakeful during the
night, shorten it's sleeping hours during
the day.
Rocking and walking to induce sleep
is an extremely bad habit to form. Com
mence from the first day. Place the
baby in bed, see that the hands and feet
are warm, that there are no wrinkles in
clothing or bedding; darken the room
and leave the child alone. 1t rarely
takes more than one or two nights to
train an infant into good habits Of sleep.
playing with children and excitement
of any kind should be avoided, especially
just before bedtime. Shaking rattles or
anything else continually before child,
constant amusement of any kind is all
very injurious, the mind being kept in a
state of incessant activity with no rest
and paves the way to nervous prostra-
ton Of the adult. j.
"A certain amount of crying is indis-
pensable to healthy child-not fret
full, worrying whine, but a good, healthy
cry A baby who has not strong cry is
in Il serious condition, and must be made
to cry, otherwise tile lungs collapse and
death results. Boston Herald. 4 :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17

To Keep Love Secure in the Home.
I'm the first few months of married
life lore is so sufficient and loving so
simple that there seems no other need in
life writes Helen Watterson Moody in
the Ladies' Home Journal. But by
and by, when care begins TO shadow
them, when duties present themselves,
and, strangely enough, conflict with each
other, when convictions clash and tastes
differ, then both husband and wife begin
to realize that back of love must stand
what l have called steady and sturdy
moral qualities'--justice, patience, homes
on these depends the very continuance of
love in marriage, for it is not possible
to go on loving unless that is found
which is worthy of love. l say this ad-
visedly. l know the world is full Of
men and women who think, either be-
cause they like to think so, or, sadly, be-
cause they must, that one can love where
one does not respect. 1t seems to me
that this does not ennoble ones ideal Of
love. One may pity, may have an ill.,
finite yearning tenderness over what one
cannot respect, but love is of royal birth
and recognizes only what is as royal as
itself. The way, then, to keep love Sc
cure In married life is not so much to he
anxiously watching and guarding lest it
should escape, or crying that love has
spread it's wings because the first holiday
romance is replaced by graver feeling.
but by living along simply and honestly
and frankly together, OH high plane,
looking most and always toward what,
soever things are true, whatsoever things
are honest. Whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report Then Love
will be not captive, hut il most willing
guest"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Ugly Old Shoes.

The following is not fancy at all-it
comes under the ''facts," and a very
sober one it is, too:
Girls do not take enough pride in the
care Of their feet. Maybe the long skirts
which they have worn for so many gen.
erations have got them into the habit,
but nevertheless there is no excuse for it,
and they should hurry up and reform as
soon as possible, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Sometimes it is because they ''hate to
break in new Shoes" and so go about
with cracked and shoddy ones that would
shock them dreadfully if seen upon the
feet of their husbands or brothers: some
times it is for economy, but oftener it is
simply through carelessness.
They imagine their feet do not show,
and so take no care of the really good
shoes they buy. How often Go you see a
woman with bright, well-shined foot
gear? And they are mistaken, for it
does show, and more than that, the men
notice it.
The other day I heard man utterly
condemn stunning costume, because
he had seen the sloppy, dirty-looking
boots which it's owner wore beneath the
handsome skirts. And he is not consid-
cred a noticing" man, either.
On, it's great mistake, girls.
Remember the old saying that "Wcll
booted and well gloved means well
dressed, and be wise in the future.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Essential of a Good Housekeeper,


1t requires real moral courage to be a
only as regards the affairs of the
kitchen, but the fashions of the parlor
as we'll. Who will deny that it needs
something more than tact to keep a
sharp watch over dishcloths, dish towels
and floor cloths, and to insist in face of
an indignant cook that they must be
kept scrupulously clean and in open sight
for daily inspection?
But sour and mOuldy kitchen cloths
are one thing and sanitary draperies an
other. Who ever saw perfectly love-
ly'' interior that was really sanitary as
d room furnished according to the re-
Quirements of the micrObe exert, that
was cozy looking? 1t certainly is hard
for the young housemaker to forego
plush door curtains because they shut
out light and air, when all her precon-
ceived notions of a pretty home include
some of those draperies. But then door
hanging can be taken down and aired
out of doors, so they are not so bad after
all.
But carDets-there's the rub! 1t is
gradually dawning upon women that
sweeping is a disappearing process in
stead of dust-removing process, and
that while the broom may remove the
surface dust from a carpet, more yet is
driven into the nap. The same lovely
carpet also absorbs unhealthful odors,
which come from the cellar or bathroom
in the form of gases.
The dust enemy is the worst the house
keeper has to vanquish. Dust and Its
Dangers" by S. Mitchell Prudden, is
one of the books of reference in a study
course of household economics. And
now the progressive housewife is finding
that there is a better way than stirring
dust up in one place to settle in another,
and that if there must be carpets in
stead Of hardwood floors there is a way
of wiping the dust off the carpet, which
is better than driving it in among the
meshes, to rise again with the every
otfall-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17

sons, whose early school training in her
native land makes her an admirable
teacher for this course.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Female Bootblacks in France

In Paris and other large towns of
in number. They wear a peculiar garb,
not unlike that of Sisters of Mercy.
which renders their appearance rather
neat and attractive. Not few among
them attend to their work with gIoyed
hands.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17

mirror. No pins OF other appliances for
holding the handkerchief in place are
needed. While yet wet it is stretched up
OH the surface Of the glass, it's own sue
ton keeping it intact until thoroughly
dried. The beauty of this process Ito
the boarder) is that it somehow impurts
to the handkerchief about the same
quality and stiffness that belongs to it
when purchased, and which is most diff
cult to obtain by the regulation starching
methods. The mirror-dried handkerchief
not only looks as though it were brand
new, but it keeps clean ever so much long
er. Indeed, the only defect Of the many
virtues Of the process is that it ruins the
mirror, and it is upon this ground that
she who owns the mirror takes umbrage.
Such an unlimited application Of mois-
ture soils and clouds the glass and effects
the quicksilver, causing it to peel off in
large flakes. After dozen or so such
dryings have been INDUCED in the mirror
is worthless-not only as mirror, but as
Il place upon which to stretch wet pocket
handkerchiefs, it being curious fact that
just plain unquicksilvered glass won't
answer the same purpose at all. Art
students and others given to the habit
have often tried to use the window panes
instead of the mirror, but it won't work.
1t is the looking glass or nothing if you
want to have your pocket handkerchiefs
look as good as new, and as yet the
economical boarder has discovered no
way to accomplish her end without incur
ring the displeasure of her hostess. 1t
would be interesting to know just how
she would manage if the mirror were
her own.-Philadelphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Two Practical Lenten Glasses.

A "darning and mending class" is a
good practical one: Some Of the girls
But those are only the kind who love to
be ION the go'' all the time. There are
some few girls in New York who can sit
still for little while and learn how to
darn their. stockings neatly, and mend
the house linen and their underclothes,
although they may hate it. The darning
and mending class consists Of fifteen
for an hours teaching They have Sd
young German Wolaan 10 giye the los
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
Society Women Keep Young,

Do you know why it is that the fash
ionable woman looks as young and rosy
at SO as the questionable woman gen
orally looks at 30? 1t is because she
takes care of herself. The questionable
woman gets her beauty sleep every night
and never dissipates in the matter of
balls and little suppers prepared over the
blazer while the rest of the world is
asleep. She eats her three meals a day
and at just the proper hours. Every
thing on her table is wholesome and in
tended to keep her skin rosy and her
little body lissome. She thinks it al
most immoral to clog the pores of the
skin with powder and pomade, and she
believes i'll nature absolutely. And lust
there is the difference. The fashionable
woman-or the woman of the world. if
you choose. for the fashionable woman
is hardly Il broad enough term for the
woman who is always young at 5O--be-
lieves in art. She knows that nature is
wonderful restorative, but she has in
hnitely more faith in art and science
When the wrinkles begin to come the
fashionable woman knows of Domades
and massellrs. She has found that the
Turkish bath will do more towards max
ing her eyes lustrous and her skin clear
than all the ten-hOur sleep and whole
wheat bread remedies in the world. She
wears corsets-snug ones, too-but thew
are cOrsets that fit the figure and do not
grip it in Il cast-iron wise, and she hangs
her skirts from the hips. But she can
dance all night and be as fresh and rosy
next day as if she had never seen the
inside of ballroom.-New Orleans Pic
avuno
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17
If 1t We're Her Own.

One of the unpleasant things that the
average boarding house keeper has to
contend with is fondness of her femin-
inc patrons for laundering their own
pocket handkerchiefs. Just the launder-
ing alone. would not be Objectionable.
however; it is the way it is done. Enter.
up their stockings in their own rooms
and without bringing down any open
wrath upon their heads. But the pocket
handkerchief practice is sure to incur dis
pleasure. Its technique consists id wash
ing and rinsing the article as thoroughly
as possible aud then drying it not upon
q rack or q chair back OF. over tbs radia-
tor or before the resiste but upon the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17

The flower man has become popular
side spf New York life, and, like the coal,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
RELIEF FOR SAN JUAN.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The United
States transport Mcclellan will sail for
San Juan, Porto Rico, from Brooklyn
this afternoon with a relief cargo for
suffering Porto Ricans. The cargo
consists of $4,000 women's vests, 1900
calico wrappers, 1900 mems under
shirts, GEO pairs of mems trousers and
a varied assortment of other clothing,
food, medicines and building materials
The total cash subscriptions for the
relief of the unfortunate reach $45,350.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

CHELTENHAM (England) August
| 19.-In the cricket game between a
Worcestershire eleven and the visiting
Australians, which began here Thurs
day, the nome players, in their second
inning, were all out for 800 runs. In
their first inning Thursday the Glou-
cestershire men were all out for 203
runs. The Australians in their first
inning yesterday were all out for 22s
runs.
LONDON, August 19.-The recent
test cricket matches between England
and Australia were played in such fine
weather that they gave the bowlers
no chance and nigh scores resulted in
drawn games. Agitation has COM
menced for some reform of the cricket
regulations, either allowing four days
for important matches or for some syS-
tenn of handicapping with the view of
bringing the attack and defense more
on a level
LONDON, August 22.-In cricket
game today between the visiting Aus
tralians and a MiddleseX eleven, the
former, in their first inning were all
out for 445 runs. Middlesex in the
first inning was all out for 105 runs
and in the second inning was all out
for 100 runs
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
LOSE THEIR POSTOFFICE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The as
sault of the whitecappers at Peck,
Fla, on the colored assistant postmas-
ter there will probably result in the
discontinuance of the postoffice. Post
master w. c. Crum and National Com
Long have both advised it,
the office because no one else there
could qualify for it and that those
making the trouble rarely use the
mails. He has asked to be relived
immediately. Postmaster Crum says
the stamp cancellations on which the
salary is based amounted to $2.11 last
month and 20 cents for the first five
days this month.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
PLAGUE SPREADS
Reported in Many Places
in Europe.
Several Cases With Some Deaths in Palermo
and NarleS-0uttreak in Sranish
Cities.

| MADRID, August 20.-It is reported
here that a case of the plague has de-
veloped at Figueiria, Portugal, and
there is a rumor of death from the
| disease at Barcelona. Il is feared the
epidemic is spreading. Several quar-
on the frontier.
Three fresh cases of bubonic plague
are reported from Oporto. They are
said to be of a mild character. The
Spanish Consul there will be prosecut-
ed for failing TO notify the Spanish
Government of the outbreak 1t is es-
timated that already the commerce of
Oporto has suffered a loss of $500. 900.
LONDON, August 21.-The Madrid
correspondent of the Daily Mail re-
ports that one victim of the bubonic
plague died at La Puebla, just as he
was about to quit the country
LISBON, August 2O-The Sanitary
Board has resolved to isolate Oporto,
where the bubOnic plague has broken
out, with sanitary Gordon.
LONDON, August 21.-The Rome
correspondent of the Daily Mail as
serts that there have been several
cases of bubonic plague recently at Pa
lermO and Naples, three or four ending
fatally. All possible precautions are
being taken, but the newspapers do not
mention the presence of the disease in
order to prevent public alarm.
OPORTO (PortugaD, August 21.-
There were two deaths from the plague
here today A fresh case developed
Friday, two Saturday and one today.
The last is of mild type.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31

beware of cheap limitations. Sec tha' -. ,..s.
Ayers Cherry FCCtDra'. = Blow f.' .'- 80. Oh
each bottle. Put up large a.sd sII.i..
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
RI0T|NC IN PARIS
Four Hundred Injured in
Fighting.
Fifty Police Officers Badly Hurt Anarchists
Attack and Pillage Churches
Much Blcojshed

| PARIS, August 20.-France may end
write the story of another commune in
letters of blood. Feeling which has
| long smoldered in Paris broke into
| flame today and there was fierce riot
and menaced all of the civil forces
| that stand for peace. 1t began with an
| assault upon anti-Semites by anarch-
| lists and socialists and then when the
police arrived they became the COM
mon enemy and We're ferociously at
| tackled.
The disorder spread everywhere.
Angry men seized knives and clubs
and threw themselves into the fight.
The rallying cries of "Vive rArmee,"
and ''Vive Ia Republique!" marked a
man as friend or foe and he was struck
down or sustained. In the earlier Skin
mishes the police were defeated and
that seemed to give the rioters new
zest.
The striking scenes of the day were
enacted at the churches of st. Maur
and st. Joseph. The inhamed mob
stormed both of them and proceeded
to dismantle them at once. Sacred
waters were torn from the affairs and
thrown into the street, there to be
trampled upon. Sacred images were
smashed, tabernacles broken open and
l,D1, MD cd n hn ni1 Of
police rallied faithful parishioners an
Xious TO save their houses of worship,
but they were overpowered and thrust
aside Then the torch, the favorite
AS the mobs fed from the burning
churches the firemen came and quickly
the flames. Next there was
a rush for St. Nikolas, but the police
prevented it's destruction.
The last stand of the night was
made in the Eastern railway station,
where the police were re-enforced by
the Republican Guard, who frequently
the rioters The latter met
the onslaugnts with knives and also
nreQ a Few SnOtS. Inc ponce were
finally victorious and took twenty-five
prisoners. 1t was an Ominous night
in Paris Crowds thronged the streets
and everywhere there was display of
force.
There is every indication that there
will be more trouble and that France
faces a serious crisis cannot be doubt
ed Sebastian Faure led in the origin
al attack of the anarchists. He headed
an assemblage of 1000 men that gath
cred early in the day in the Rue la
and it was he who urged
his insane followers to the first acts
of violence When he found his mad |
dened cohorts beyond his control he
made cowardly attempt to leave them
but the police nabbed him. Official re-
ports show that 800 persons are in
hospitals and many of them will die |
THE police made $50 arrests. and it is |
that many more viii be |
taken into custody. 1t is said that |
Millevoye. the Nationalist leader, will |
be arrested.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
RIOT AT AMSTERDAM.

AMSTERDAM Aug. 23.-The dis
turbances at Hilversum. where martial
ued last evening. The mob stoned the
troops, who were occupying the town,
and the cavalry charged on the rioters
with drawn swords. Finally the in
fantry fired on the mob, killing one
person and wounding two others.
Quiet was restored at midnight
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31
GERM ANY WILL RATIFY IT.

BERLIN, August 19.-The draft of
the new Samoan act published here is
substantially as it appears in Ameri-
ca. The correspondent learns that
Germany will unquestionably ratify
the work of the Commission, although
neither Emperor William nor Count
Won Buelow is quite satisfied, consid-
ering that German interests are not
adequately protected by the wording
of the new act
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-22
St. Patrick's Church at Mont.

The enlarged and newly ornamented
Catholic church at Monti will be re-ded-
icated to the service of religion with all
the pomp and solemnity of the Roman
Ritual, on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 1890
a. M. The Improvements have cost
upwards of $4,000. The whole
amount has been subscribed and paid
by the parish. The people are justly
proud of their new church and are de-
lighted to offer il, free of all financial
membranes, to the greater glory of
Almighty God and the honor of their
patron, st. Patrick. A sumptuous
Thanksgiving dinner will he served in.
the Young Mems Reading Hall All
are invited to attend the exercises -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-22
u-Mrs. H. L. Graham and Miss
Noble Dixon visited in Dubuque yes
terday.
Shorthand and rvnewr,tinp.

Having opened an office over the ex.
press office, l am prepared to do short
hand and typewriting for the transient
and general public. Prices reasonable.
l am also prepared 10 make duplicate
copies of all legal documents, ETC., etc.
Will make specially of mimeographic
copies.
Will be pleased to receive your pat
ronage. RALPH w. CONGER,
Manchester, Iowa.
All orders left with MIR. Allison Doc
little, at the express office, will be called
for. 47w4
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-22
Council Proceedings.

Tie City Council met in regular
session in the council chambers last
Monday evening. There was no bust
ness of Importance transacted. The
ordinance committee was instructed to
prepare and report an ordinance for the
protection of telephone and telegraph
poles in the city.
Clerk Robinson reported the city
financas as fnlInWs.