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The age-herald., 1900-06-03


 If they remained firm and in their places no alteration of shape could be attained for it is useless for people to attempt to deny the displacement. Being then more or less out of their right positions they are unable to fulfill their functions properly and become more or less congested, giving rise gradually to long string of ailments which constantly tend to become chronic. There IS, however, no possibility of get ting rid of this waist compression unless some form of dress visibly two-legged is to replace the skirt. Without 1t the barrel shape would continue in an unbroken line Qlke Noah's ark figure) from the shoul- der to the ground, and though this would be no Whit more unnatural than the waist compressed shape it would be more mo- notonous and clumsy looking. So the two things, skirts and waist construction being interdependent, will forever stand or fall together.
 It is not too much to put this even more strongly, for if picture to ourselves
 such figures as we daily and hourly see among us with a nineteen or twenty inch waist and think of them unclothed and With two legs, we cannot think of them
 without shudder unnatural mon- strosities.
 Why women cling to this very strange
 mode of dress is one of the most puzzling
 things in the history of the race. No dress can well be more inconvenient for all act i've occupations than a skirt It doubles
 the toll of all who have to work, making carrying anything about Qncluding a child) and especially up flights of stairs, an &C., tually injurious undertaking, owing to the necessity it causes of hiding the body at ap unnatural angle and consequently throwing the strain on the wrong muscles
 In muddy weather, too, holding the skirt up is most unpleasant and wearisome, and indeed, impossible if the wearer has any, thing in her hands. And at all times the skirt is singularly ill-adapted to locomo- ton, owing to it's resisting weight against the legs and its liabil4,y to twist round them in a wind
 For games such as tennis, hockey, etc., 1t is so unsuitable as to be positively re volting.
 It is curious to note that although of all forms of dress a skirt is probably the most indecent many women will say they prefer it on account of its decency. Yet mo- ment's consideration shows that a dress which pretends to conceal the legs and at
 the same time is so constructed as to un-
 cover them incesantly on the lease emer- gency is both indecent and suggestive
 Women have a perfect right to adopt a rational dress. It is modest clean-even
 in mud-and looks its best on the natural
 human figure; and as for resembling a
 man Gan objection often brought forward
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
WOMAN'S WORST
 FOE IS DRESS
Il Kills Her in Spite of the Fact That She DevoteS Her
 Life to It.

In spite of all the devotion of women to dress, it Is a sad fact that this very thing has become their worst enemy Not be- cause the love of adornment is wrong, nor because the wish to be admired is other than natural, but because women cannot be got to discern the great difference be- tween deformity and adornment, nor to perceive that truth and reality must be the right and only foundation of all true art.
 Consequently their dress has become mere tangled mass of materials. Extreme ly artificial, and being in its first concep- tion not only hideous but also opposed to every natural line. It requires all sorts of eXtraneous decoration to make it bearable.
 It seems absurd to have to remind people what the actual form is which they are seeking to clothe, but it is almost neces- sary for the sake of argument Beginning at the shoulders, it may be described roughly as an upper part of a nearly straight obong shape, supported upon two comparatively slender legs, the mar rowest part being at the feet and ankles.
 can this resemble anything less than an upper part with a sudden constriction in the middle narrowing it to almost a sec ond neck, and supported, not on two legs at all, but on a long single barrel with the widest part on the ground? For that is the outline of the form which unavoidably rises before the minds eye at the thought of the appearance of any woman.
 It is perfectly certain that this compress sion is the center of the body being en- tirely unnatural and only achieved by out side pressure begun in youth, does incal- culable harm, as nature has planned the inside organs to fit into the space arranged without any tapering, at the waist line. The exaggerated corset-made waist is therefore produced by compression suf-
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
worms and shrimp fasten themselves t

worms and shrimp fasten themselves to 1t, until in a few years every inch of tim Der is covered with thick growth of anil nal life. It Is this which makes, not only these wrecks. but also all rocky reefs and sunken projections of any kind, the favor ite feeding places for great hordes of blackfish.
 The best bait for blackfish under all or dinary circumstances is the little land crab known as fiddler which burrows by myr- lads in all the sand banks along shore. There are however, two varieties. One kind, which is found on muddy ledges is dark blue or almost black. Only rarely do blackfish bite on them. Ordinarily they do not appear to attract the fish in the least The only fiddler which is absolutely sure bait, other things being equal, Is the china back crab, which is found only on the sandy shores. This crab looks exactly like beautiful porcelain. Its color is light vio- let and white. It is not always easy to catch fddlers. They are shy little animals and pop into their burrows at the first sound of a footfall or the shadow of an enemy.
 The best way to catch them, if a large quantity is wanted is to lay an open bar rel on the beach with two blanks set edge ways in such a way that they make a triangular gate with apex toward the barrel then, if three men drive the fid- dlers before them they will run for their burrows, and, finding the barrel in the
 
 the two boards, when they can easily be captured. If fddlers cannot be obtained, sand worms, skinner clans, hard clans, or mussels will make good bait. Sometimes when blackfish will bite neither on fiddlers nor anything else, they will take hermit crab eagerly.
 A few last words: Do not use hooks of any but stout, hard steel: the fish have powerful teeth, and can bite a thin hook in two If fishing over a wreck or rough, rocky reef, be sure to snub your fish up hard as soon as he Is hooked. It is all right to let him run and play after you get him from the bottom, or away from the wreck but if the blaosfish gets his head when he is struck, he will almost certainly run in the crevices in the rock.
 Never be careless when blackfshing. Even though the fish may be running small, it is impossible to tell at what mo- ment a monster may take the hook.
 Blackfish have been known to run as high as twenty pounds. But fish have been caught in places where none over one-half or three-quarters of pound have been known in years. On the other hand, the place may have been full of big fish for days, and the angler may strike it on bad day, when there win be none but tiny ones
 The hook used should be of the special kind, made for blackfshing, known spe- officially as blackfish hooks Nos. 1 and 2, the largest sizes made, with a triple or quadruple smell, are the best. Leaders are not necessary. These wreck and bottom
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
GOOD FISHING
 IN DEEP WATER
Now, With the Trees All in BloS- som, is the Time to Catch
 the Biggest Fish.

When the apple trees stand clothed in a glory of pink and white blossoms, and the wild violets spangle the green fields where everything is moving and growing under the jovial touch of the spring sun, then is the time to seek the sea and go a-fish- ing.
 As the waters have warmed, the flat win ter fish, the founders, have fled into the deep sea to stay until the cold winds of autumn begin to blow. From that same mysterious world there comes another fish equally plebeian, but far more sturdy. This fish is the backfish, the bulldog of the sea; built like that animal, with massive shoulders and mighty jaws, and with the same fighting qualities. The tautOg, or blackfsh, is not "gamey' like the bluefish or weakfish. His slimy sides are mottled with rich shades of black and gray and dingy white, but there is no beauty about them.
 Angling for blackfsh is not sport; but if the chunky fellows are sought in the open sea, where the ground swell heaves and the winds blow high, his pursuit will make the fishing excitingi or if the angler prefers to seek the tautog in quiet sedSe- lined salt creeks or in sheltered coves, 1t becomes as restful and charming a pas time can wish.
 Of course, in the fishing in the open sea the biggest fish are talSen but the fishing in the quiet waters is not barren of rlch rewards. At any time, i'll any place, how ever, a hoary old giant may come to the hook.
 Blackfish root on rocky reefs, along bar undiscovered old timbers, along the chan nels, where the marine worms build their coral-like lime formations, and along sed- gy shores, where the tide has worn away the land and dug deep holes into the over hanging bank. This habit of feeding on crustacea is what makes an old wreck such a good fishing place.
 Whenever there is a wreck in fairly deep water, the work of the ocean begins on it at once. Animal forms of all kinds seek it and make 1t home. Barnacles, small sea crabs, hermit crabs, mussels, oysters
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
Promptly Decided
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
 He flattered himself that he was clever man, and he decided to propose in clever way.
 "The use of 'shalr and 'will' always pug zled me-" he said, refectively. T never know just which is the correct word to use."
 "The rule is very simple" she replied, innocenty. Just remember that"
 "Oh, never mind the rule" he interrupt ed. "Just tell me which is correct-T shall marry you or will marry you.'"
 Neither" she answered, promptly.
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
ALAS THE DAILIES ARE DEAD
They Quit at Neodesha After Four Days
 of Continuous Existence
From the Neodesha Register.

One kissed his hand to his one-twenty-four,
 The other kissed his to renown-
 Farewells to them both, and Neadesha-
 Just as the Sun went down.
 Beginning with today the Neodesha Dairly Sun and the Neodesha equally daily Register cease to exist. That sentence may sound funny, but it isn't. It is a death sentence. The Sun and the Register will hereafter slumber in the same peaceful grave, hands casped, beneath the weeping willow and the twining vine; under the laurel, the Register; under the willows the Sun.
 No flowers.
 Last Sunday evening the Register learn ed that the Sun Ii ended to start a daily paper in Neodesha It was pretty short notice for the Register, but it decided 1t could do just as much work for just as lit- tie money as anybody, so it started a daily too, that appeared on the same evening that the Daily Sun did. The venture was great deal of work in the world that the Work and didn't bring in any money. That was what it was expected to do. There was a great deal ofwork in the world that the Register hadn't done yet and a great deal of money in the world that the Register hadn't spent, and with these splendid na- fural resources in it's favor the Register decided 1t could live just as long as the Sun could It has done it and is satisfied
 To the 124 subscribers who came to ii bv "Wednesday noon-and whose names were published yesterday-and the seventeen who have come to it since, the Register could have none but the warmest thanks It shall always be the friend of everyone of them, whether they see fit to subscribe for the Weekly Register in the daily S place or not. To all those who had sub scribed for the daily for a week from three to five papers are still due These unexpired subscriptions will be filled with the same number of issues of the weekly if that is satisfactory. If it isn't, you are out. The Register never refunds any money It is against its principles-you will have to stand it that long, anyway Several persons insisted on paying the carriers for several weeks in advance. The Register could not refuse these sub scriptions without betraying to the public that it believed it was really on its last legs even before 1t got on its first ones. The money thus paid will be credited on the weekly unless it is desired that 1t be refunded. The paper will be stopped as soon as the credit expires unless otherwise ordered. The weekly will not be forced on anybody. You will all be swarming in to subscribe for 1t soon enough.
 Neodesha may have daily papers again but not for year at least. By that time Neodesha may be big enough to support a daily paper or two Let us hope so, any, way, and If 1t is the Register will be the best one; you may bet on that.
 And so goOd-by
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
Net Homer, After All
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American.
 The rising poet had recited several of his efforts to the fair young girl, and as rising poets usually do, he paused for comment
 Truly" sald the maiden, "you gre the best specimen of Homarus Anerseanus I have ever seen."
 The rising poet was even more wildly proud than usual until he looked in the back of the dictionary and iearned that Homarus Americanus' was the scientific name for lobster"
 This is the result of allowing our daugh- ters to read the classics, and talk sla.is. too
The age-herald., 1900-06-03

by those who do not clearly know what Is meant by rational dress) it is to be hoped the person who has ever seen man dressed as here depicted will come forward at once and say when and where it was!
 Whether the public is fully aware of 1t or not, the present style of women's dress is inimical to perfect health. It saps the energies and lowers the tone, for de- formed animal is rarely in the perfect health of a Well-made one.
The age-herald., 1900-06-03

One kissed his hand to his one-twenty-four, The other kissed his to renown- Farewells to them both, and Neadesha- Just as the Sun went down.
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
Stevens and the Servant

From the Argonaut.
 The famous Thad Stevens had a cciored servant in Washington named Matilda. who one morning smashed large dish at the buffet. What have you broken now, you black idiot?' exclaimed her master Matilda meekly responded:
 'Taint de fo'th commandment, press de Lawd!"
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
The Old Mans s self-Defenc.

From the Chicago Record.
 Nellie, I don't believe your father in- tends to let us be married"
 "Oh, Arthur-why?"
 T met him this morning, and he offered to help me get a job."
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
A Feminine Twist

From the New York Press.
 Mir Upton-I gave you double x only yesterday, and now you say I don't give kou enough to dress on!
 Mrs. Upton-Wel1 l can't stand on twenty-dollar gold piece.
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
MORPHINE AND
 WHISKY HABITS

Dr. Westmoreland by scientific research has discovered a perfect antidote, and in forty-eight hours guarantees to destroy all Choral. Whisky and kindred drugs with a painless and harmless remedy. The quan- tity the persons uses the length of time they have used any of them makes no diff ference whatever.
 CURE GUARANTEED
 Patients will be received and treated promptly, and not one cent will be required for treatment until the patients say that all desire and craving for theeir former habit is destroyed The patients should remain though very few do) under the observation and direction of the doctor for a week or more. The treatment can be given in secrecy, and is so mild that the most delicate have taken it with little or no suffering. In fact, the patient hardly realizes that he is under treatment until he finds himself cured and full of joy at his liberation from the most exacting and cruel masters that ever dominated a slave. Dr. Westmoreland has never failed to relieve all of the great number that have taken his remedy for these enslaving hab its or diseases. Why would any one con- tinue in bondage when he is guaranteed a cure? How could any physician devote his entire time to this one speciality and make this proposition, unless he knows he can cure you?
 No one that is addicted to any of these dreadful diseases or habits should fail to avail himself of this great opportunity of being cured at once of these, the greatest afflictions that mortal ever had For fur ther information call on or address
 J. W. WESTMORELAND, M. D.,
 APO Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. 5-6-3m- sun-tues-fri
The age-herald., 1900-06-03
An Extravagent Wife

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 "Smithers says he married in haste"
 And repenting at leisure, eh?' fNo. He says it keeps him so busy sup porting his wife that he doesn't have leisure for repentance"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-11-15
Does II PAY to Buy Cheap7

A cheap remedy for coughs and cold
is all right, but you want something
that will relieve and cure the more
severe and dangerous results Of throat
and lung troubles. What shall you do?
Go to warmer and more regular
climate? Yes, if possible; if not posi-
BILE for you, then in either case take the
only remedy that has been introduced
in all civilized countries with success
in severe throat and lung troubles,
"Boschee's German Syrup" 1t not
only heals and stimulates the tissues to
destroy the germ disease, but allys in
fammation, causes easy expectoration,
gives good nights rest, and cures the
patient. Try one bottle. Recommend
ed many years by all druggists in the
world. For sale by dealers in all civil
lied countries.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-11-15
STORY OF A LOST GEM.
With Moral for Young Men of the I'm
chIvalrlc Sort.

with Moral for Young Men of the I'm
chivalrlc Sort.
On State street, Chicago, few days
ago, Samuel w. Allerton, the rich
packer, lost an eight thousand five hun
dred-dollar diamond. He hunted high
and low, gnashcd his teeth and dashed
his words with some very tall dashna-
tion.
The next day Miss Celine Seeleman
was standing on State street corner
waiting for car. She had been on a
shopping tour and her arms were filed
with bundles. One of the packages fell
out of Miss Sceleman's hands and rolled
into the gutter,
A young man was also waiting for o
car on the same corner, but he did not
offer to pick up the package. Miss
Seeleman saw the car coming and
STOPPING, "made grab" for the parcel
which again slipped from her hands
and rolled still further along. The
young lady made another grab, and ac
she did SO caught sight of q diamond
in the gutter. The young man looked
at tie diamond till his eyes bulged
and when he had swung himself on the
car he very likely began TO debate
within himself the question: "Doet
politeness pay?'
Miss Secleman looked over the lost
and-found lads" in the newspapers
and, sending for Mr.. Allerton, restored
his gem.
Later in the day messenger boy
handed Miss Seeleman On envelope II
which was o very sweet little spring
bonnet check for two hundred dollars
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-11-15
THE GARDEN CITY MEDICINES
\ M AND TOILET ARTICLES.

TIA fths Of fsssilIy remedaes made and sold by
deed 10 ccntaIn the pnrsst and best drugs A
Single trial will prove tilelr superiority. Any
,of these remedies with full directions for using
se4nt prepaid onTsceipt OF price,
HI aCdiEkactiou Laxative Tablets for Constipa-
ttou Biiioasness. Headache, Indigestion, Diz-
Ethess, and Torpid Liver. Strictly vegetable
as cRuts t~''ttN ~ = ~. -
Garden City Headache Cure, for. Nervous
Meaaaehef - 6
Headaciies Sleepl ISSUE Flatulency ana Sour
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-11-15
DESERTED MORMON WIVES.
EffeCts of tho Anti-Polygamy Law In
Utah Territory.


Many Of the former polygamists Of
the territory have abandoned their for
mer wives and children, pleading as an
excuse their desire to obey the law and
conform to the new order. Many Of
these plural wives, with their children,
are now living In q state Of extreme
wretchedness, unable to support them
selves and their children, while the
husbands, In the majority of cases, are
financially comfortable.
The mistaken idea prevails, writes o
Salt Lake correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, that the maintaining of a plu-
rality Of wives was heavy expense
upon the unfortunate man who obeyed
5 church and encumbered his house
h Id. This may have been the case in
my instances, but In the large ma
,ity of cases the additional wives
? owed to be many sources of addition
incomes, especially on the farms,
/ wing aided their Husbands" in i'm
P owing the property occupied and
h wing assisted materially In heapIng
Il bank accounts after the tithes had
| en- paid to the church. The law
s.ainst unlawful relations is made an
cuse to cast off these workers in
cir later years, and also to throw
r')on them the burden of large fam
| les, which 1t had been q religious
d'lty to raise.
The church and the Gentiles are
united In appealing to these men, who
are numbered by the hundr eds, to full
f1ll the obligations of manhood and tt
secure the peace and comfort of these
women who were led into polygamy
as we'll as to aid in the culture and edu
cation Of the children born by authori
ty of the church, II not under the sane
tion Of the laws Of the land.
But these men say; "We must no
violate the laws" While they do no
pose as martyrs, they lay all the blam,
upon the general public for interfering
with the social relations that prevailed
here under inspirational teachings,
In this city there are women seeking
In every honorable way to maintain
themselves and children, whose effort
are many times poorly rewarded. The,
see the men whom they once calle,
husbands indulging in every luxury
but no longer recognizing them, evel
If they are pinched or old. The desir
to obey the law is not so observabl
where the wives are still young an
attractive, as many secret visits nigh
bear testimony.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-11-15
CoNQUERINo A TIGER.
Prompt Action Saves the Life Of
TIrchin.

Prompt Action Saves the Life Of , 1t
Urchln.
- Mr.. Jnmrach, the London dealer in
wild beasts, Is man Of great perso al
strength and of corresponding coura o.
On one occasion he was called upon to
use both against tiger which had a
capped from It's "den." Mr.. Phil Rot p
son tells the story In his recent DO k,
"Some Country Sights and Sounds"
In moving "den," into which ii! or
had been just delivered, the bottom I'll
out and the rest of the structure inn To-
diately collapsed. The tiger wall cd
out from under the heap Of planks I'D
iron bars, and suddenly appeared in
the yard. Many people were look ng
Oh, the children, of course, being oil
to the front. On the appearance of he
hger there was stampede.
The tiger picked up q fat urchin by
his clothes, and walked out Of the I'd
with Its dinner In its mouth, Int nj
upon finding convenient place in
which to take Its meal. MF. Jamr ch
ran after the beast, flung himself u 'oE
its back, and grasping his throat itt
both hands, choked 1t until 1t ope led
Its mouth to gasp for breath.
The urchin dropped out and scr2m
bled off. The tiger, drawing at me
tremendous draught whole lung fu
Of air, turned upon Mr.. Jamrach. J Isl
then a man from the yard came in
ming up with a crowbar, and as h
tiger turned, he struck 1t tremen6 III
thump on the head. For q moment h'
tiger was dazed, but only for MON, 1t
then he prepared to spring again, u
Mr.. Jamrach seized the crowbar u
etrucls tho great beast another mig ,t,
U thump.
The beast, as II taking in the sit 10
| tion, tFotted oil by itself straight to h
yard. aRd, finding the door Of an EN- t,
den open, walked In.