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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-30

Entered at the Postoffice at Freeland. Pa,
as Second-Class Matter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
The Sweetheart Ring.

The sweetheart ring is a product Of
the past summer. 1t is a band Of
heavy gold, in which is set, instead Of
n jewel, a fiat cube of gold, on the sur
face of which the initials of the re-
cipient and the donor are intertwined.
Thus it may be used as a seal The
1lea is that when a Irritation is on be-
tween a summer girl and young man
they exchange these rings, which are
by no means binding in the sense that
an engagement ring is. Apropos of
this, there is said to be quite a code of
etiquette involved in the sealing wax
used by the owners of sweetheart
rings. Red is never proper at this
stage, because it means ardent love.
Blue is a favOrite color, signifying
truth. Green means that the afiec-
ton is fresh and tender, while yellow
indicates jealousy. The saving grace
of the sweetheart ring lies in the fact
that either the youth or the maiden
may return his or her ring without Of
Philadelphia Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05

Lady Warwick has been discussing
the question of present day society in
the pages of The Lady's Realm. She
lays stress on the capture of fashion
able London by what she calls the
merely rich
The birth of the new order is traced
to the death of the prince consort
and the queens consequent withdraw
al from the capital and from social
functions. "Mammon," says Lady
Warwick, laid siege to the fortress
the outworks fell one by one. and the
citadel surrendered without discretion.
The progress was slow at first, but the
end came with startling rapidly. The
golden key unlocked even the most eX-
elusive portals. Mammon ruled SUI
preme. Never at any previous period
in English society has the power Of
wealth been so great"
Society, in Lady Warwick's opinion
and it is Il very true One-has suffered
a revolution. "The former leaders of
society" she says, are elbowed on
one side if they cannot compete in the
display of mammon. Birth, talent,
service in the state. all have to give
way before this new power, which is
the more dangerous because it is sen
sible of no checks and acknowledges
but small responsibility"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A CHICAGO WoMAN's TRIUMPH IN A
NEW FIELD OF ART.

Women With Youthful Husbands.
When Summer Is Over-The Dress
Suit Case-Custis and Evelyn Byrd.
She Preferred Breaking Rocks.
Women as sex are often accused
OF "dabbling in little things" rather
than attacking any of the larger prob
lens of life and labor. Especially in
the realm of art are they said to busy
themselves with details to the exclu-
sion of larger features very often. That
the average woman artist is deeply
enamored of small and pretty" pic
lures is a statement which, truthful or
otherwise, has been very often made
However this may be, it Is not often
that woman artist attempts a piece
OF work so large and planned upon
such generous outlines as that which
a certain Chicago woman-and artist
has just completed.
Margaret West-Kinney" is the name
with which this woman signs her pic
lures, and she, in company with her
husband, Troy S. Kinney, and Ernest
st. John, both local artists, painted the
curtain and looked after the decora-
lions for the rehabilitated Grand Op-
era House of Chicago. The curtain
represents a sylvan scene, with plenty
of fresh and delicate green things
growing" on every hand and with
waterfall in the foreground to give
character. The picture is framed in
gold and cream upon a rose pink back
ground, and NEUROLOGICAL scene, rep
resenting the nine muses., runs across
the top, with allegorical figures on
each side. The conception, in which
all three artists shared, is both fine
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05

couple of years ago. Last February
she was married to a gentleman who
had for some time acted as her private
secretary, Stephen Townsend, F. R. A.
s., handsome young Englishman Of
some 80 summers.
OF ladies who, as spinsters, married
men much younger than themselves
there are one or two notable examples.
Perhaps the most remarkable is that
of the "angel of goodness" Baroness
Burdett-Coutts. Her ladyship was
born in the year 1914 and is conse-
quently now of the age Of sc. She did
not marry until she had reached her
siXty-seventh year, when she accepted
the hand and heart of William Ash
mead-Bartlett, now NJ. P. for West
Minister
This gentleman was at that time only
80 years of age, and instead of giving
his wife his name, as nearly every
man does when he marries, he assum-
ed that of his wife. The baroness Is
one of the few women in England
who are peeresses in their own right.
This rare honor was bestowed on her
in 1871 and never did it have a more
worthy recipient.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Preferred Breaking Rocks.

To sit on rock pile and hammer
away at elusive powders is not always
matter of choice. Many a hobo can
tell of the discomforts of such a job,
but it remains for Aunt Hattie Rob-
inson, a coal black negress, to declare
that it is great deal easier than
many another task which falls to the
lot of her race.
"Aunty" Robinson is on the rock
pile because she wants to be. She is
not a criminal. To the contrary, she
breaks rock on the street in plain sight
of every one who chances to pass the
corner of Seventh and Biddle streets.
1t is a matter of choice with her
When her husband obtained the con-
tract to break the rock for contract
ing company which is repairing North
Seventh street, she promptly Joined in
and made herself one of the active par
ties to the contract.
"Aunty" refused at first to talk about
herself and her unusual occupation,
but when it was suggested that she
worked as If she had experience she
grew talkative.
mo, suh," she said, you needn't in
sinuate that 1 have been in the work
house. No, sub, l amt been in no Jail
for nobody. No policeman cher had to
talk to me bout anything, an they
amt goin to. I've been SO years in
this world, an 1 amt no fool. 1 knows
Pze dom something funny, but it's a
heap easier than washin, an if wants
to do it it amt nobody's business"
With that "aunty" turned on her
heel and waddled down the street.-St.
IOuiS RpDublic
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Our shirt waist In England.

There probably never has been an ar
ticle of women's clothing which has
dominated so completely the British
market as the American shirt waist.
The best shopkeepers this year had
heavy stocks of them. A few consign-
ments of these shirt waists were put
on the British market in the summer
of 1898 and found a ready sale, for in
neatness of fit and novelty of design
they were attractive and surprisingly
superior in price to blouses of English
or German make. In the spring of
1899 shopkeepers generally gave to
dealers in American shirt waists what
they considered were exceptionally
large orders, but the summer demand
was far greater than was anticipated.
One London merchant had sales of
American shirt waists amounting to
$277 ,390.50, and a salesman for a big
wholesale house says that two-thirds
of his blouse sales this year have been
American.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Women With Youthful Husbands.


Lady Randolph Churchill, or, as she
now prefers to call herself, Mrs. George
CornwallisWeSt, is by no means the
first lady of prominence to marry a
man less than half her own age, says
London Tit-Bits.
AS is well known, this clever hand
some and enterprising American wom-
an is the mother of a son who is sew
eral months older than her present
youthful spouse. 1t is 26 years since
she became the wife of the late Lord
Randolph Churchill, who died in 1895.
Nobody who witnessed her wedding
could have imagined that she would
take unto herself as a second husband
a young man at that time unborn. At
the present time Lady Randolph is
well into the forties, while her hus-
band has not gone far into his TWEEN
ties.
The lady so long famous as Mrs
Langtry, but whose correct designation
has for some little time been Mrs.
Hugo de Battle, is another who has
married as a second husband man
young enough to be her son. Having
been born so far back as the year 1852,
the Jersey Lily has been charming the
world for fully a quarter of century.
1t was in her twenty-second year
that she was married to her first hus-
band, Major Langtry, who died two or
three years ago. Her present husband,
Mr.. Hugo de Battle, son and heir Of
Sir Henry de Battle, is now in his
twenty-ninth year. For some time
past he has been absent in South At
RIGA fighting with his regiment.
When Nine. Patti was married to
the Swedish Baron Cedarstrom, she
not only secured a third husband, but
one a great many years younger than
herself. The world famed songstress
has so we'll preserved her youth and
beauty that people are apt to forget
that she is now In ner ffty-eighth year.
She was born in Madrid in February,
1913. At the age of % she became the
wife of the Marquis de CauX, and IL
years later she found second husband
in Signor Nicolini, who died about two
and a half years ago. Several months
afterward her engagement to Baron
Cedarstrom was announced, and before
many weeks had elapsed the marriage
took place. The baron is a handsome
young Swede of engaging manners
AS counting by years he is little more
than half the age Of his gifted and
ever youthful wife.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
famous authoress Of Little Lord
Fauntleroy" and many other notable
works. is a recent addition to the list
of elderly ladies who have young hus-
bands. She was born in Manchester In
1S49 and is consequently now in her
fifty-frst year. When only 16, she mi.
grated with her parents to the United
States, marrying eight years later DR.
Burnett Of Washington.
From him she obtained divorce q
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Custis and Evelyn Byrd.

"Westover is perhaps the most beau
tiful of all the celebrated colonial
homes of Virginia." writes Mrs TIL
DEUS Horton in The Ladies' Home
Journal. at Was built by William
Byrd, Virginian Of Virginians. The
greatest of his many claims to distinc-
ton was his beautiful and beloved
daughter Evelyn, perhaps the most Gel
ebrated belle of that day. She was ed
ucated in England, whittier she accom-
panied her father on almost all Of his
trips as colonial agent, and was pre-
scented at the court of George l. She
had many lovers and naturally many
offers Of marriage from men Of dis
tinction in the Old Dominion, for she
was not only beauty, but an heiress.
Her heart, however, was given, so it
is said, to her cousin, Colonel John
Custis with whom she had had child
ish love affair, but whom she had not
seen for some years, and she refused
positively to marry any other man.
Finally, quite in despair, her devoted
father sought to arrange a marriage
between her and the gallant Colonel
Gusts. For some reason that gentle
man was quite Indifferent to the match
and refused it altogether. 1t came to
light later that during the years Of
their separation his fancy had become
estranged from his ,erstwhlle favorite
Cousin Evelyn, and he was at the time
of the ovartlIre from her father deeDly
in love with one Martha cambridge,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Rich Autumn Millinery.

Autumn millinery will be rich in the
extreme. Beautiful velvets, heavy
with gold thread or incrustations of
lace, are built into oddly shaped tur-
bans and large picture hats. Brims
roll up to reveal punches of ostrich tips
or choux against the hair. Brilliant
blues, emerald green's, violets, yellows
and pinks are used in place of the pas
tel shades that were so popular last
season. But, above all, there is an ex-
cessive use of massive gold embroid-
cry. Picturesque effects will dominate,
and the line of the brim rather than
the trimming will be the important
feature of winter millinery. Sweeping
feathers will be favorite decoration.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
MARGARET wEsT-K1NNEY.

and pleasing. Not a single trace of the
mere ''prettiness" so often considered
inevitable in the artistic work Of wom-
anly brain and fingers is noticeable Ell
Their in basic idea or subsequent han
ding. The coloring is uniformly good.
Mrs. Kinney, who is the first woman,
so far as known, to attempt work Of
this order, is better known for her por-
traits and landscapes than for the lar
ger work toward which she has been
quietly working for some time. Origi-
nally Peoria girl, she has been a res
ident of Chicago for five or six years
and prior to her residence in this city
had done noticeable work in connec-
ton with the Art Students league Of
New York and during her four years
residence in Paris. In the latter city
she studied under lie Favre, Fleury
and Meissonnier. She is enthusiastic
over every branch of her chosen life
work, as BELTS an artist born and bred,
and particularly so in regard to work
Of the character indicated by the cur
tain.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05

There's a wonderful land called Bogyland
On the other side OF the moon,
Where the big round sun stock still doth stand,
And it's always afternoon.
The time Of year it is always May,
And there's never ice nor snow,
But they never can tell the time Of day,
For the Bogyland clocks don't so.
No houses are builded in Bogyland,
No cities nor towns are there,
But beautiful trees in blossom stand
In the sunlight everywhere.
The leaves don't fall nor the roses fade,
And the birds don't fly away,
And both in the sunlight and the shade
1t is just so warm each day.
They never labor in Bogyland
And nothing is bought nor sold,
And nobody there can understand
Why people should strive for gold.
There sugar grows on a sugar tree,
And creams in the rivers flow,
And bonbons always are furnished free;
Oh, wouldn't you like to go2
A wonderful land is this Bogyland
On the other side OF the moon,
And the people there are a happy band,
And life is a blessed boon.
I'll tell you what we had better do
Some beautiful summer day
just pack our traps, with friend or two,
And sail for that land away.
And I'll be the king of the Bogyland,
And the babies all shall be
My loyal subjects each to stand
And defend me valiantly,
And well dance to a rollicking, Jolly tune,
Just forever and for aye,
In that land where it's always afternoon
And the month is always May.
Julian S. Cutler
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
When summer Is Over.

These are the days when "nut brown
maydes" are met wherever one goes.
The rank and file of humanity have
prosaic city life, leaving behind them
the broad fields and forests and sing
ing birds. One thing, however, the
erStwhile fair vacationist has brought
with her and that is a complexion like
a Pawnee Indian. How she strove to
get it! She endured the suns fierce
rays without even q sailor hat for pro-
lection, boating, bathing, walking, golf
ing with bare head and ungloved
hands. And now is she not sorry? 1t
will require weeks of lemon juice and
buttermilk and creams of every de-
scription to bring back the softness
and whiteness necessary for the winter
campaign.
Other things, too, she will be obliged
to discard. The young man who serv.
ed well enough" as a cavalier in the
summer hotel may chance to be 'im-
possible in town. He has romped in
the water with the summer girl ami
carried her basket when they went
picnicking and quoted poetry to her
in the moonlight, and he thinks he can
do the same, with necessary allowance
for city customs, when they come back
to town. So he calls promptly, pre-
pared to greet and be greeted with the
gay informality Of the mountain or
seashore, and then his enlightenment
begins. The first time Miss Summer
is mot at home" If the fatuous youth
should call again, woe to him! She goes
down with q freezing dignity that
makes him feel that winter Is far in
advance Of schedule time, gives him
the tips Of lifeless fingers and says,
"Ah, how do you do, Mr.. Junetime?"
in a voice devoid of feeling, and adds:
"How exceedingly good Of you to look
me up! One never expects to meet
ones summer acquaintance again,
you know" in a tone that makes him
wish that he had drowned in the kind
ly summer sea rather than live to he
the miserable exception.
Miss Summer obviously and ostenta-
tiously makes no effort to be entertain
ing. The silences are frequent and
prolonged to agony, until poor young
Junetime. after five minutes that seem
like an hour. rises to so. Charmed
to have seen YOU" she repeats as she
might have said, 1T may rain next
week" He bows himself out with
murder in his heart, and she goes to
her room with a relieved THANK
goodness, he is settled. The idea Of
his ever comingp'-New York Tribune
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Lard In Ice Cream,

Here is another revelation Of the in
ner ways and secret workings of
things. 1t comes from some one who
is in the secret of the ice cream maker
1t is not we'll always to investigate
too closely the ingredients put into
food made out of the house, or, for
that matter, into the ingredients that
go to make even the best domestic
dainties. But it will do no harm to
tell this one little story. There is 4
delightful creamy smoothness to some
of the popular though cheaper, grades
of ice cream. 1t is a pleasant smooth
ness and suggests real cream from the
Jersey COW. and from that cooling dish
the imagination can wander away, if it
will, to pastoral dreams of running
brooks and country breezes. There
may be n connection with country life
through the ice cream, but it is not by
way of the COW, much of it. That de-
lightful smoothness comes from lard,
quantities of it, that go into the frozen
dainty in place of milk-cream is not
to be thought of-which might go into
the ice cream, though precious little
of it does.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
women CycIlsts Abroad.

Wheelwomen in Europe meet with
many difficulties. In Russia every
thing is managed "by order Of the
car" and cycling is no exception to
the rule. Before a woman can possess
a wheel she must obtain royal consent,
and this is granted quite sparingly in
Russia. France recognizes the right
of the husband as ruler and therefore
a wife cannot join a touring club until
she has received a signed permission
from her husband. In Florence wom-
en- cyclists must carry two bells to
warn pedestrians of the machines ap-
proach. Men are only required to have
one bell.-Chicago Times Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
The Queen of Holland,

Wilhelmina, the young queen Of Hol-
land, is very pretty, though her beauty
threatens in future years to run Oh
somewhat massive lines. Her admir-
ing subjects gaze at her and then muir
muir to an acquiescent neighbor, Isn't
she pretty"
The young queen has fine eyes, a
clear complexion and a glorious tinge
of rose pink in her cheeks. Then her
hair is the rich brown that painters
love, and there is plenty of it. Wilhel-
nina has a reputation for dignity, bLe
not long ago she enjoyed herself so
much at a court ball. waltzing with the
energy of a healthy girl who has tenn
porarily forgotten she is a queen and
only remembers she is young and hap
ply, that q coil of her hair fell down
and had to be pinned up again by a
lady in waiting.
The little incident set all tongues
wagging. 1t was exaggerated and COM
mented upon ali over Holland with an
anxiety only abated by the discovery
that the queens partner in the dance
had been her uncle, her mothers broth
er, the Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
This relative and his wife, who are
both still young, are the only people
with whom Wilhelmina really frater-
nizes in a natural jolly way. She has
no friends of her own age, and in Hol-
land the royal family is limited to a
very small circle. The two or three
princes and princesses available are
middle aged, dowdy and dull. Yet
Wilhelmina obviously enjoys her
splendid isolation"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Gold md Silver Trimmings.

The gold and silver which are to be so
popular this season in so many forms
must be used with discretion, particu-
larry the gold. 1t is seen already on
blouses and jackets, conspicuous and
inartistic and unattractive. A little
gold is a good thing, but too much of
it is garish. The varieties of materials
in which it Is to be seen are increasing
constantly. There were chiefly the
plain, tightly woven gold and silver
ribbons to be seen last winter, but now
they are to be seen with loose meshes,
which make them prettier for many
purposes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
Her individuality,

The American woman is showing
with each season more and more indi-
viduality and independence in her out
fitting. Style is not everything with
her, and first of all she wants to know
whether a thing is becoming as well as
beautiful. And when it comes to freak
ish styles they are received more than
icily if advocated at all. The modistes
and milliners have a different creature
to cope with today from the woman of
a quarter Of century ago, who took
anything that was offered to her be-
cause she was told it was stylish.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
The Dress Suit Case.

A critic, q man, who admits at the
outset that he has no substitute to
offer for the convenience against
which he inveighs, pronounces strong
ly against the practice common among
young women of carrying dress suit
cases. wherever l CO." he says, 81
am confronted by procession of
young women struggling with these
heavy, awkward burdens. They spoil
the carriage of the most graceful Of
women, and | have an idea, more or
less borne out by observation, that
their weight is producing a race Of
one sided women. The practice is Il
comparatively recent one, and l am
wondering if it is as necessary as its
popularity would seem to indicate"
The one count in this indictment that
really deserves attention is that of the
weight of these convenient travelling
cases. Even the strong young arms Of
our athletic girls find them often a
dragging burden. Their wide use has
undoubtedly been brought about by
the emergencies of college girls. 1t is
easy to pick up a dress suit case and
get off quickly on a trip to town that
would be seriously handicapped if a
trunk filled with the necessary belong
ings had to be four times transferred
for perhaps two days stay. On the
whole, the dress suit case is doubtless
used because it is the most convenient
bag to carry, and until critics can Of
fer something better it is to be feared
that the Objectionable article will con-
tinue to be used. The caution to keep
its weight down, however, is a needed
and valuable one.-New York Evening
Post
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05

The well known sportsman, w. II.
H. Murray, said lately at dinner of
the Megantic Fish and Game club: "In
the sports and pastimes of the outdoor
life woman has found her noblest COM
partnership with man. = = Her cheer
fulness has enlivened the camp in days
of clouded skies and cloudier luck, and
her patience and courage have shorten
ed the longest trail and the hardest
portage. Her presence has refined our
sports and ourselves, and, while they
have made her more healthy and more
lovely, she has made US more manly
and worthy to be loved"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05

verse of happy, and. owing to the I'M
savory reputation of her husband, pop
ular sympathy would be altogether on
her side We're it not for her English
birth, English training and English
way of looking at everything.
\ couple of years ago she suddenly
left her husband and proceeded with
out any warning to the Mediterranean
with her brother, Prince Albert Of
SleSMick- UolStnin.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-05
4 LnnInnders, Friend.

The Laplanders depend greatly upon
the reindeer for their daily food. Rein
deer give them the only milk they can
obtain; their flesh is the staple article
of diet, eaten both fresh as yenison and
also after having been dried in the
smoke of their fires. The skin fur
nishes them with useful material for
clothing, and the living reindeer is the
beast of burden and draft animal of
those bitterly cold northern climes.