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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-17

| UNI BRELLAS
Yes, we have an assortment you
could easily choose from.
TOWELS
Just the kind you would choose
for Christmas gift-1.O0 pair
fine all linen damask weave or
huck-eiUher kind are hemstitch-
ed.
NAPKINS
Big size dinner Napkins, fine
linen, assorted designs, only 1.98
dozen.
BEAUTIFUL RENAISSANCE
PIECES.
Center pieces and doilies, a choice
variety for you to choose from.
SOFA PILLOW TOPS
More than a hundred Of them
any style you cal wish is likely TO
be here-25c to $50 each.
BEAUTIFUL PILLOWS
Ready for use at moderate prices.
CUSHIONS
1Oc to 2.25 each, for the dresser.
POCKET BOOKS
Chatelaine bags, Boston bags.
club bags, dress suit cases-the
best variety in the county, lowest
prices too.
MUSIC ROLLS
Leather covered TASKS, photo
cases, glove cases, tie cases, cuff
and collar cases, handkerchief
PICTURES
A big variety of lovely pictures at
prices way below most stores.
DECORATED CHINA AND
ELEGANT CUT GLASS
\ display that it will pay you we'll
TO see. Both lines reasonably
priced.
STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES
just, such an assortment as you
might expect to find in the large
city stores is here for your inspec-
ton and at prices that will make
you wonder how we can sell for
so little. It's beCauSe IL comes
direct from the factory to US.
Prices ara for articles with ster
ling silver handles, 15c, 19c, 25c,
SIC, soc, 62c, 75c and CSC, and a
good variety at each price.
JEWELRY
You'll find our dry goods store
prices for jeWelry will save you
money. Rings, pins, sleeve links,
brooches, buckles and all such
things are here in large assort
menIS.
4 TOY STORE
We have opened one on orr sec
on1 floor and it is the biggest and
best in the county. Bring the
little folks to enjoy the sights here.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-17

In Newport Center, Dec. 9, daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Proper.
In Barton, Dec. 8, daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs. A. W. Shedd.
In Newport, Nov. 90, a son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Allan S. Holbrook.
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MARRIED..

At Lowell, Dec. 5, by Rev. J. II. Gone of
Westfeld, Miss Sara J. Parker of Lowell to
Harmon A. Covey of Barton Landing.
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Less than you can buy the silk for
a skirt-bargains that will be
snapped up quick.
SILK WAISTS AT 90,
In this offering are lot of the
regular 5 90 walsss-and the best
values that eould be sold at five
doIlars-now 3.98.
SILK WAIST PATTERNS
Ap unusually attraetive line OF
silks FOR waists-many OF them
Only enough for one waIst-no
one else viii get one just like any
OF these-and we offer them at
29S and 3 90 pattern.
FRENCH FLANNELS
for waists. There is big assort-
inert here. Prices soc to 75c a
yard Costs 125 to 1.SS for a
walsh pattera. Can you find a
place on your list for one of these.
FRENCH FLANNEL WAISTS
Ready TO wear; 1.98 mp 80 500
LADIES NECKWEAR
Was never more stylish than now
was never pretGier than we offer
10 Christmas shoppers-and from
such an assortment of all desir-
able styles of ties re can please
any buyer '-'-'',. l..
MEMS NECKWEAR
Choice STYLES and beautiful coiors
az same price as asked for the or
binary kinds-5Oc-anG the ones
you can get here VIII be in a nice
tie box worth 1Cc-nG extra charge
for box az I.
GLOVES AND MITTENs
Tor ladies and children, for snen
and boys.-Ther& aye AL sorts here
from 152 to $50 paiY -.'5..} @.,>..-
HANDKERCHIEFS ~. ~ 5* - rUs~
by. the thousa nd for ) our inspeg,-
tion AID ali linen, nstitehed
kerchief only sc. Better ones
here-some hand embroidered up
10 ,. o. each.
SILK MUFFLERS
soc, T5c, 100, ., 11.5e. Expect
some very choEce designs at tbess-
SEEAWKN3T HALF HOSE
tor m=,.'s wear We hare. iust
rec ived a case and off+r ea,ern 4s
a. hst r>e4 Eh 1T 1ec or s PRS Ter 90.
Sc ne arr Coz on, so1l.,. II - saerino,
some black, soGat- browa mix,
some graz ,n,x, SOM taney-aIi
-sabj-cJ. IT, SINE slight inpt rice
Mun, but not to nu,t the bose
Usual price 25c a pair, 8 pairs $50
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Wishes to inform his customers that he is
not dead, but is running his business just the
same as he always has. He has two Green
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

sons or those having heart trouble
need to be careful how they indulge in
cold baths. Anything which is shock
to the system is bad for them.
When the respiratory organs are in
good condition, one may take Turk
ish bath once a week, remaining in
the hot room not longer than 20 min
utes and following the bath by rest
and light nap lasting for about two
hours.
Lest the skin lose too much of it's
natural oil, after the bath the face
should be covered with good retir-
ing cream. AS the pores have been
expanded by the warm bath. the
cream will be readily absorbed and
will serve as a food as well as lubrl-
Gator for the skin. Always, before,
entering the hot room at the Turkish
bath, cover thesface with good cold
cream and before going out into the
open air with rose cream and skin To-
ton, over which should be spread a
layer of rice powder.
For an ordinary bath at home the
temperature of the bathroom ought to
be kept at 70 degrees. The water
should be tepid. never hot. Distilled
or rain water. If it can be obtained.
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teresting thing to look back and consid-
er how much of legend and story clus-
tiers about them. 1t was on the olive
clad mount in Palestine that the Great
Teacher was inspired to the divinest
message that Humanity has ever re-
ceived; it was in the academic grove
that Plato walked and talked and
taught his matchless precepts, more
farreaching and potent than the sword
of an Alexander; in the forests of DOM
remy Jeanne the maid dreamed the hes
roic dreams that saved France, and in
the dim forests of Gaul and Britain the
Druids built a majestic theology. It
was in the legend haunted Harz Wald,3
the Boehmer VALID, the Bakcnyer Valid
and the Spessart Valid that most OF
the fairy tales which charm childhood
in the pages of Hans Christian Ander-
sen or the Grimm brothers had their
origin. In fact, most of them were
born in charcoal burners and wood-
mems huts. Wherever trees flourish
imagination courage and truth -four
fish, the women are beautiful and the
men brave and strong. If these quail.
tiles are the result of the influence OF
trees on the mind and if, through their
modification of climate and atmosphere,
such vegetation is capable of inf1uenc.
ing the health of the body, the forestry
circles and the forestry committees in
womens clubs are most useful and SEN
sible developments Of women's efforts
for the benefit of the public.
ELIZABETH SCOTT RAYMOND. /;
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T>HE only hot baths that are safe
to take are Turkish and Russian,
for other hot baths weaken the
heart. A sponge bath in lukewarm
water evening and morning is bene-
ficial however. Another objection to
hot baths is that they absorb too
much of the natural oil of the body.
They are enervating, just as hot
weather is enervating. with its great
demands on the vitality.
Hot foot baths, with sea salt, are
excellent for those who are suffering
with tender feet. Take a teacupful of
the sea salt and add two gallons of
water as warm as the feet can endure
it, Put the feet into such bath ev-
cry night, and soon there will be a
very noticeable Improvement in their
condition.
No one can overestiInate the bene-
fit of baths to the central health and
to the condition of the skin. The
; beautiful compilations and superb
Z health of English women are due to
their attention to the bath and open
air exercise,
What will suit one temperament in
the way of baths may not suit anoth-
7 er. For instance. weak, anamic per-
=
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uous efforts which clubwomen are max
ing along this line can question the val
Tie of the work done by some womens
clubs.
The latest project is to form clubs
among the children and interest them
in the planting and care of trees. Chill
dren's reform clubs have proved sue
cessful in other lines, and there is no
reason why they should not in this.
Nothing could be more worthy of en-
couragement than pride in ones home
and it's surroundings.
Many nurseries sell in the spring 100
small trees for the sum of 81. No more
appropriate gift can be given to child
than a. dollars worth of tiny trees, which
can be set out about the farm or home
grounds. If cared for properly, these
in few years will not only be valuable,
but a source of pleasure and education
to the children. The young trees are
only seedlings, of course, and must first
be planted in cool, moist spot and
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lions, for when the child is older 1T
may then be induced to take an, interest
in the rearing of silkworrns for COM
merciaI purposes, an interesting, profit
able and not so difficult employment
as it is supposed to be. Children should
early learn to interest themselves in
useful recreations, ones which will ben
eft them mentally and physically and
be a preliminary training for the after
school of life
The trees may be planted to form an
ornamental avenue, or may be placed
along the northern and the western bor-
der of the farm as windbreaks to pro-
tect the stock and crops. In cities
trees serve to modify evil atmospheric
conditions. Their generous greenery
counteracts the i'll effects of noisome
and unhealthy exhalations, for, as the
trees take in earbonic acid gas and give
out oxygen, they are powerful purifiers
of the atmosphere.
In the west the catalpa flourishes; In
the middle west, on the prairies, the
sturdy cottonwood, whose growth is
very rapid. The white and the Scotch
pine, the sugar maple, the elm, the ASH
the chestnut, the poplar, the linden and
the plane trees are adapted to different
localities and different soils. A good
nurseryman can always suggest the
trees likely to be most satisfactory un-
der certain conditions.
England is famous for its beautiful
parks and forests, protected, as many
of them are, by law from the encroach-
ments of the ak welding spoiler. They
have been the glory as we'll as the
curse of the little island. If, instead of
being reserved for the few, they had
been thrown open to the many, they
might not have endured as they have
for centuries.
There is moral significance about
the preservation of trees. Those peo-
pies who have been most noted for their
love of freedom and their physical ex-
cellence have been jewellers among the
shades of the forest or upon the slopes
of forest clad mountains. 1t is an in
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! ATHLETIC GAMES FOR WOMEN.
BASKET BALL and
BOWLING ON THE GREEN.
HOW THEY ARE PLAYED


bias. Formerly bias was given them by
loading one side with lead; but now the
more simple method of turning one
half of the oval smaller than the other
half is adopted. The chief difficulty of
the game consists in each player mas
tering the bias of his own particular
bowl
The jack or mark to be bowled at con-
sists of a white ball of smaller size,
which has superseded the old fashioned
cones. The peg has length of cord,
with one end firmly attached to a bone
or wooden peg, and the other passing
through a hole in a similar peg. 1t is
used to determine which of two bowls
is nearest the jack. A rub or set oc-
ours when a bowl comes in contact with
any object on the green. The footer is
the small bit of mating whereon each
player stands in delivering his bowl.
Cast or point is the term for each unit
in scoring the game, which is up or won
when the number of casts agreed on
has been obtained by the winning side.
A dead bowl is one knocked off the
green or against one lying in the ditch
or an Illegally played bowl. In either
case it must at once be removed. Should,
the boundary of the green consist of
fence a bowl is considered dead when
touching it. To mark or set mark in
dicates the delivery of the jack at the
commencement of the game. The jack
must be bowled at least 63 feet from the
footer and not over three feet from the
edge of the green. The bowling gen.
orally takes place from both ends of
the green
A void end occurs when neither side
can score cast. Turning the jack is
when player claims the game to be
finished as the bowls then lie. This can
only occur when one side has but
single bowl to deliver, all the opposite
sides bowls having been cast.
/ Any even number from two to eight
persons may play at bowls. This is of
itself an advantage. No especial dress
is required, but short skirt and
sweater are usually worn.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
athletic girl must look lean and lank.
Curves are essential to womanly beau
ty, and exercise properly taken develops
them. For summer girls who aim at
acquiring perfect proportions quote
the old Greek standard:
1.-THE perfect body should measure
eight heads in height. and the head
should divide into three equal parts.
The three measurements are taken from
the chin to the lower part of the nose,
from the nose to the forehead, and from
the forehead to the crown. The. nose
should be equal in length to the chin"
A woman's extended arms should
equal her height if she is symmetrically
formed according to artistic standards,
and the circumference of her closed
hand should exactly equal the length
of her foot. She should be able to en-
circle her neck with her thumbs and
third fingers. There is no reason why
woman should not keep herself at the
proper weight for her height, and as a
result make of herself, very nearly at
least, perfectly formed woman.
There is also an old rule of artistic
proportions which says that the width
of the shoulders should equal the width
of two heads, and the length of one
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! WOMEN AND TRE[PLANT|NG,
, NEW DEVELOPMENT OF
MODERN CLUB WORK.


1T IS fortunate thing for this coun-
try that women's clubs everywhere
/ are taking an interest in forestry.
Magnificent as were the original forests
of America, acre by acre they are be-
ing swept away, until once we'll wooded
hill slopes are becoming as bare as the
prairies. 1t is upon the quality and
luXuriance of trees that the beauty of
landscape largely depends. Rainfall
is regulated by the vegetation, floods in
many places being regular occurrences.
because the trees that once took up the
heavy fall of moisture in some partic-
ular region have been removed. Trees
supply SO much that man needs, from
fruit to fuel, that it seems the most ex-
IRENE blindness to permit the forests
to disappear.
Arbor day is now celebrated in 40 of
our states, and nature study part of
which includes the knowledge of the
neighborhood trees, is apart of the
course Of study in almost every school.
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AuxA1 hNlay
IT
New York.
TRousERED WOMEN TAXED.
New York.

In France women are allowed to wear
male attire. but they must pay for the
privilege. The amount of the tax which
a woman pays for wearing breeches is
about $40 year, but her willingness to
pay the tax does not insure her the
right to wear. these garments. AS a
matter of fact, the right is conferred by
the government as tribute of great
merit and the honor conferred is some
thing like that of the coveted ribbon of
the Legion of Honor.
The only women to whom the right
to wear male attire has been given are
George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, Nine.
Dieulafoy, the Persian archaologist;
Nine. Foucalt, the bearded woman;
Mines. Fourreau and La Jeanette both
sculptors.
Frenchwomen are very anxious some
times for the right to wear male attire,
but it is carefully guarded. Last year
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BATHING AND THE COMPLEXION.

is the ideal bath water. Distilled wa
ter formed the baths of many great
beauties, distillation being the only
merit in the so called beauty washes
of morning dew. ~
If daily bath is taken, five min
utes is the time allowed for remain
ing in the water. When the bath is
taken but once a week, as in the case
of invalids, 20 or 80 minutes is long
enough for the immersion.
Never use anything but absolutely
pure soap for the bath. / always rec
ommend the best quality of Spanish
olive oil soap. There are many imita-
tions of this put up to sell cheaply,
and these should be avoided as care
fully as laundry soap.
After the bath the body may be
sponged, off with a little cologne or
toilet water. If the body is anointed
with pure rose cream. it will make
the skin as smooth and soft as rose
leaves. n
:. Y zr8G.<.
New York.
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~oLF links are in some danger OF

~OLF links are in some danger of
Y being deserted by the fair sex.
~ Feminine vitality and strength
are likely to be gained from playing
basket ball instead of golf. During the
last year the game has become popular
with women, and those who are phys
ically fit say they enjoy it more thor
oughly than they ever did golf.
The game itself, unadorned, is mod
flied form of football. Two baskets
suspended six feet in the air at each
end of the court, are the goals. The
players (two teams) are not restricted
to numbers and take positions in the
feld-center, forward back and at each
goal. The regulation Rugby football is
used, but it is to be thrown-not kicked.
The start is from the center, and the
object is to put the ball into the OPP
ponents basket and incidentally to
maui any one who tries to prevent it,
An agile body and an active mind are
necessary to make good player, and it
is convenient to know how to dodge dex-
terously when it comes to tackle.
There is no lack of action. In fact, ac-
ton amounts to abandon in basket ball,
but this gives it it's recommendation as
an athletic exercise. Throwing a large
ball to a height above the head brings
into play the muscles of the arms, chest,
neck and back. The skirmishes to gain
possession of the ball develop the hip,
abdominal and leg muscles, while the
constant lodging, running and tussling
give suppleness to the figure. 1t seems
the most all around exercise that has
ever been open to women, and it is GER
tainly new departure for yigor and
force and rough and tumble activity,
for it holds it's own with any sport
hitherto considered suited only to the
physical possibilities of man. If wo-
man Is strong enough to stand it, the
game will be popular. 1t is perfect
relaxation for the mind and for tired
nerves, but it is wise to be sure there
is no heart or lung trouble before Join
ing club.
Bloomer wearing is the only serious
drawback to the general popularity of
basket ball. Boomers are an absolute
necessity 1t is out of the question to
be ladylike either in appearance or
manners while indulging in the game
It will undoubtedly shock some maids
and amatrons to see a bevy of young la
dies sporting on the greensward of
fashionable summer resorts attired in
full gymnasium regalia, but the bicycle
has been too long with us not to have
taken off the edge of old fashioned mo-
tons of modesty. Whether society will
rally and give its sanction to basket
ball and boomers remains to be seen.
Meanwhile Staten Islanders have re-
vived the ancient game of bowls, which
comes in before basket ball or golf have
fairly got under way. Bowling on the
green is a popular game at Sandring-
ham, where it is often played by the
Princess of Wales and her daughters in
the spring, and bids fair to become a
popular sport on this side Of the At
lantic. 1t is much the same game as
curling, only, as the bowls are weighted
on one side, less strength and more care
in looking out for the "bias'' are re-
quired. The bowls are made of lignum
vitae. and instead of being perfect
spheres are more or less oval, with a
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The women's clubs all over the country,
moreover, are now pledging themselves
to advance interest in forestry. Some
of the clubs have special committees
whose business it is to look after the
subject and to promote interest in it.
The civic clubs make the planting of
shrubs and trees one feature Of their
work. This includes the setting out Of
young trees in parks, along the differ
emit thoroughfares-in fact in any place
where they will add to the beauty Of
the town, No one who knows the siren
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placed outside in their proper positions
when they are larger and stronger.
Children who live upon farm are es-
pecially recommended to an interest in
tree planting. Each child should have
it's special trees, which it should be re-
quired to care for. These may be shade
or fruit trees, and as the fruit trees
may bear fruit in about five years, the
investment is one that soon results in
profit for the little one. The mulberry
tree, which is the food of the silkworm.
is profitable tree to plant in some sec
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the government was petitioned in vain
by Nine. de yalsayre. This lady is well
known for her propensity to fight duels
and her efforts to get elected to the
French assembly She is pretty wo-
man, with profusion of blond hair,
but her beauty had no effect on the
hearts of the authorities, who sternly
refused to allow her the coveted priv
ilege.
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The hand painted for day both
learn that american will he the
tons is less than hundreds of dollars and $1,000
dashing American widow In it combined the
the
tightly Another was delicate shade
slirto
chiffon heavily laden with several plated frs
lace
ne
fla
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A RIBBON EMBRoIDERED BAG.

A useful and pretty piece Of fancy
work is bag of turquoise blue velvet
ornamented with an embroidery in rib
bon. The embroidered design repres
sents dogwood blossoms, the petals be-
ing put on in such way that they
seem to stand away from the velvet.
The center of the flowers and the stems
are embroidered in silk. INSTEAD Of
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head and two noses should make the
breadth of the hips. The length of the
nose should make the breadth of the
wrist, while the breadth of the lower
arm, where it is the largest, should
make one and half noses.
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Very imposing the embroidered foes fashion
pastel
falling in
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c1RL,s PRINCESS PErTIcoAr.

Hygienically it is wrong to attempt
to make a child's waist support its
clothes. and practically it is impossible,
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so it remains
that for the Sc
curity of their
petticoats there
are but two
plans-either to
fasten them to
their stays or
to make them in
princess form
from the Shout
ders straig h t
down.
1t is not nee
essary to en-
ploy any very
thick material,
W hi c h w uld
only be cumber-
some.
TO cut the
petticoat lay the
center front to
a fold of the ma
terial to avoid
a seam, and
that. Z with a
back in two
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dogwood. sweet peas, anemones or any
flowers with rather loose, irregular pet
ais may be used ,s
This bit of fancy work may be used
to hold opera glasses, nending utensils
or embroidery silks. Clasped about the
mouth with band and bow Of ribbon
velvet. it looks very jaunty. The inside
Of the bag is lined with silk of a shade
lighter than the outside or pale con-.
trasting color.
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pieces sharply sloped out from the
waist, gives sufficient fit. The opening
is down the back and is given neat
appearance by wide hem facings.
The petticoat is designed for girls
from to IL. Five yards of material
are required for the LARGEST size.
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n o y
tn punte ofbmto which ont atn
form ron hem Numerous rows
in g for 20 t ~ y d mattel