The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-22
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this true just now" he continued.
For some reason or other there is
an impression which comes to those
contemplating matrimony during the
fall season that unusual good fortune
will follow the tying of the nuptial
knot on Thanksgiving Day. Supersti-
ton in mild form seems to cling to
the American people, and the best
the counter where applications are
made for marriage permits. The day
before last Thanksgiving, for instance
there We're issued fifty-one licenses.
There was a constant line at the desk
throughout the day. and l don't be-
lieve there were five applicants who
came for the unlicense unaccompan-
led. The bride-groom-elect seems to
think that in securing license he
must undergo a trying ordeal and the
chances are that his friend will have
to speak first and state what is want
ed 1t is hardly necessary for either
one to announce the fact, however,
for we are able to pick the license
seeker almost every time.
October seems to be the most pop
ular month for marrying nowadays.
1t has even outstripped June the long
famed month Of weddings But no
matter how busy the season the mar
riage book always enjoys rest Fri
days. 1t is seldom, indeed, that more
than one or two licenses are issued
on that day of supposed ill-luck.
But returning to Thanksgiving, it
is pretty study to figure how many
of those ffty-one couples will be as
thankful one year from that day. At
the city hall there is hardly any dis
lance from the marriage license desk
to the counter where divorce suits are
handled We witness the beginning
and the end Of many marriages."
Although steel WOOL has only been
used as substitute for sandpaper
during the last six years. it is now
y
ing purposes by metal workers car
penters. cabnetmakers, housep paint
erS sign painters and grainers through
out the United States" said whole
sale dealer in the material to writ
er recently steel wool is an art-
Gle of regular manufacture and is put
up in one-pound packages very much
resembling rolls of cotton batting. 1t
is composed Of sharp-edged threads
of steel, which curl up like wool or
the familiar wood uoer known as ex-
than the latter material. the finest
quality being not much coarser than
the coarsest Of natural woods
The superiority of the steel wool
over the ordinary sandpaper consists
in its great pliability, which enables
a worker to polish or smooth down ir-
regular parts Of molding or ornamen-
tai woodwork. Such work can be
done with steel wool far better and
much more eXpeditiOusly than with
sandpaper. The latter clogs in use,
perfect polishing edge or surface. The
wool is made in various degrees of
coarseness the coarser grade being
best adapted for taking off old paint
or varnish and for smoothing and
cleaning floors like those of bowling
alleys. The wool is generally used
with gloves to keep the sharp ends
from sticking into the workmans
fingers.
One of the most delighted visitors
to the Paris exposition the past sea
son was young woman who the most
of her life had been and still is an
operator on button machine in a
Washington shirt factory. When in
her teens the ambition of her life was
to be able to see with her own eyes
the many attractions of Europe but
the family was barely in moderate
circumstances, and the European trip
was to her but dream apparently
never to be realized. Nevertheless
when her school days were over and
she went into the shirt factory her
fancy of walking in the old galleries
of art, climbing the Alps and steam
ing down the Rhine operated to re-
lieve the monotony of her work. At
last an opportunity came: relative
will was one of about three thousand
dollars to the poor buttonno1e worker
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