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Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
WATCH THE SHOULDERS.
They Should BE Level, Large, Erect,
Insensibly Descending and Del
icately Poised.

A common form of neglect is the
shoulders, which are allowed in child
hood to grow lopsided, and take on an
ungraceful stoop. Often they are
crowded so by ill-fitting corsets that
they seriously displace the collar bone.
Instead of such malformation they
should be level, large, erect, insen-
sibly descending, and well poised,
making the waist appear round and
small. Massage and oils will do much
to tone up the neglected shoulders,
and the skin can be whitened and
made beautifully firm by this paste,
which is of Spanish origin: Beat the
whites of four eggs in rose water,
adding few grains of alum. Beat un-
til the paste is thick. Spread the
composition on layer of old linen
and apply to the neck and shoulders
at night. French ladies are so ex-
pressive with their shoulders that they
give them every advantage, as their
"shrug" is a part of French conversa-
ton. An authority on the subject
says: A difficult habit to break is that
easy, lazy manner of sagging down
when sitting, which, in: addition to
sleeping on high pillows, makes so
many round shoulders and sunken
chests. People should always watch
themselves, and when they discover
the fault straighten up; but it is so
easy to settle down in this way after
years of indulgence in the habit that
many get discouraged and prefer to
grow crooked. Let me warn you, Ia
dies, to be eternally vigilant in ac-
quiring a good sitting posture. The
joints you possess were given to you
to bend with, and it is almost crime
to sag down as if you had no lungs
or other vital organs. Hold in the
backbone, throw the chest out, bend
from the hips only, and so contribute
to the perfection of your figure, your
beauty and your health.-St. Louis Re-
public
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
WOMAN'S IDLE TEARS.
The Modern Heroine of Fiction In
No Longer a Weeping
Weaklinx.

What has become of woman's tears,
idle tears? A cynical old bachelor late
ly remarked in the hearing of woman
that he wondered what had become of
all the crying members of her sex. He
said that he had not seen a woman cry
in some years, and that, so far as he
could see, there are just as many things
to cry over as there ever were, and just
as many women. He did not object to
the absence of tears; he only wondered
about it.
This thing has received attentions OF
various kinds before now. It was first
noticed in the novels. The young WON.
an in modern fiction does not do nearly
so much weeping as she used to do. To
be sure, she has not always so much
excuse for it. When a young lady was
lover whom she did not want, and told
that unless she married him at once her
family and all her immediate friends
would be killed, there was really con-
siderable excuse for tears and swoons
on her part. This type of heroine -four
ished in the beginning of the present
century. She was followed by the hero
inc who cried as child does to get
something she wanted-and usually
got it, if it happened not to be the moon
or anything equally unattainable.
Sometimes she was young lady of
religious predictions and shed tears
over the sorrows Of others, or over her
own religious sentiments. 1t has been
estimated by careful statisticians that
Miss Ellen Montgomery, heroine of
"The Wide, Wide World" must have
shed at least five gallons, two quarts and
one pint of tears in the course of her
adventures in two volumes. But the
young lady in the modern work of fic-
ton does not cry. If she is of a pas
slonate nature she now and then ''bursts
into storm of sobs," out she does not
often do it, as old-fashioned people
would say, "before folks" She is more
likely to preserve a calm and more or
less uncomprehended silence. Another
type of modern heroine is the CHEEKY
girl who endures all her tribulations in
silence, or laughs about them, and is
the sunshine of the family circle while
her heart is secretly breaking. Itmust
be confessed that this type of young
lady would be considerably more to the
taste of the ordinary man than the old
fashioned type of fearful patience. The
''man's woman''-courageous, gay, toll
Grant and reserved as to her private
feelings-is coming to the front in fic-
ton, and this ideal is decidedly worth
studying, by the novel-reading girls of
to-day.-Chicago Chronicle.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
Marking Household Linen

1t is customary to mark household
linen which is made before marriage
with the maiden name of the bride,
but after marriage the initial of the
husbands last name is taken. If the
marking is done with ink write the
lastnamein full, but if embroidered, use
only the initial. The tablecloths may
be embroidered in the center or in
one corner. I prefer to have all house
hold linen marked in the corners. You
may buy at any of the large dry-goods
stores kid letters in all sizes, from
those suitable for handkerchief up
to those large enough for household
linen. A plain white tablecloth is
suitable for all occasions. Unless one
has an abundance of money it is bet
ter to be content with a good quail
ity of plain white damask than to in
vest in fancy tablecloths.-Lad
Home Journal.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
LEGAL TENDER MONEY.
Why Creditor Classes Object to q
Plan That Will Permit of an
Expanding Currency.

The principal of all debts, public and
private, and the interest on all private
debts, could be paid in either gold or
silver coin or government paper. The
debtor, whether the nation or individ-
uals, by law and under the contract,
had a right to pay with either one at
the debtors option. This is what the
great creditor classes did not want done.
This was what they were trying to pre-
vent when the words of Gov. Morton
were spoken. The debts were contract
ed with these three standards of pay
ment, and with a certain volume of
them. 1t was a crime to change either
the standard or the volume. This the
New York associated banks, the Wall
street gamblers and their foreign abet-
tors, knew as we'll as President Lin
coin.
The first movement after the war in
the scheme of legal robbery was a
clamor for the retirement of all paper
currency issued by the government.
This meant contraction of the debt
paying money and an increase of the
value of the legal tender unit or dollar.
In two years prior to 1869, Secretary
McCulloch destroyed nearly $s00,oO0,-
0c0 of debt-paying money.
Before the passage of the resumption
act the circulating medium had been
contracted over $1,000, 100000.
The result was tremendous decrease
in the debt-paying ability of the nation
and the people. Everybody knows
about the disaster that followed.
A committee was appointed by con-
tain what had brought it about. This
committee reported March, 1877, that:
"The true cause of the stagnation in
Industry and commerce, now every
where, is the effect of everywhere ex-
listing falling prices, caused by shrink
ing in the volume of money"
Even before the report of this COM
mittee, the London Bankers Magazine,
in October, 1873, called attention to
the. fact that:
"While the deficiency of gold in Amer
lea is circumstance accompanied by
many adverse effects, the contracted
state of legal tender gives rise to re-
sults immeasurably more serious. The
growing dearth of the currency was
the main cause of the disaster"
The prices of the peoples products
went down everywhere. Their debt
pay ing ability grew less, but the evil OF
debts and the burden of taxation in.
creased. Bonds, public and corporate
at discount, rose to par. This was
hailed by the hypocritical schemers as
a national blessing and as evidence Of
ability at the treasury department.
Our resources and productive powers
were such that we hardly observed the
large per cent. of our products every
year being taken from us and turned
to the creditor classes without consid
eration.-A. j. Van Vorhis.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17

RIVER FLIGHT.

There was no rudder to the boat, but
in the bottom we found barrel stave
which answered the purpose. With this
Margaret steered and kept sharp
lookout ahead, while padded up the
river. The moonlight shone on her face,
strove to get in among her tresses,
kissed her forehead, her lips; while
above her the simmer of the ripping
water seemed to my ardent imagina-
ton the gold braid upon her robe.
"Harl1!" she exclaimed.
I ceased to row, we both listened
and heard splashing at the ford be-
low. We knew it was the sound of
horses in water.
"Mufle the oars.'
Tearing off pieces of our clothing, we
made mufflers; then I gave way, and
we shot up the river, putting in all
my strength, Margaret again keeping
q lookout ahead. Suddenly she turned
the boat into the mouth of a creek.
''There is boat coming down." she
gasped.
pulled up by the shore and waited
under the shadow of the trees, and in
a few minutes the boat was opposite
the mouth of the creek. There were
three men in it, two pulling, and one
in the stern who appeared to hold tiller-
ropes. I could not distinguish the
dress of the oarsmen, but the moon.
glistened on the gold-laced cuffs of the
man in the stern, and I knew he was
confederate officer.
Never in my life have kept so still.
It seemed that my very breathing
would betray US. Charon in his boat
on the Styx could not have been more
terrible to departing souls than was
the man sitting in the stern of yonder
skiff to me. =
The boat seems to stop, or at least to
90 at snail's pace. They are turning
to search the mouth of the creek.
No, it is my imagination; there is the
stern of the boat, and the officers back
full towards me. The sound grows
fainter. I draw long breath.
What's that? Listen! Anew danger.
Thunk-thunk! Thunk-thunk! Great
heavens! another boat! It is coming up.
We listened and heard the receding
skiff hail the one approaching. There
was parley; we could hear them talk
ing, but not what they said. After
short conference they separated, one
continuing down, the other coming up
the river. The latter made slow head
way, the oarsmen now and again ceas-
ing to row. ...s.
''They are searching the shore, " said
Margaret. Pull farther up the creek. i"
# / gave q dozen strokes with long
sweep to each, which sent us around q
bend and right under oyerhanging
bushes. The approaching boat turned
Into the creek az we expected, but came
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
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REMARKABLE WOMAN.
and Embruiders with Her Teeth
and EOngue.

It has often been said that woman's
most trustworthy weal'on is her tongue,
but it has been left to Fannie w. Tuni-
son, of Sag Harbor, L. l., to show the
world what a very useful organ the
glossai organ really is, says Philadel-
phia Times correspondent.
Thirty years ago Miss Tunison was
born, and, to the grief of her parents,
she was found to be suffering from a
form of infantile paralysis which total
ly incapacitated her from using either
her upper or lower extremities. Her
parents were only poor farmers, in a
small way of business, and Fannie's
afliction not only weighed heavily upon
their minds, but upon their pockets as
well.
But Miss Tunison has turned her
shortcomings to good account. De-
prived of the use of her limbs, she gets
along perfectly well with her tongue,
and paints, embroiders and writes q
better. hand-or rather mouth-than
most people who are blessed with the
use of their ten dig;ts. She makes more
money, too, than the majority of her
fellow-townsmen, for last year she
earned over $1,000 by executing orders
for pictures given to her By summer
visitors at Sag Harbor.
Miss Tunison's work is of no mean or
der. The pictures that she paints COM
pare favorably with any amateur art
lists, and size paints with considerable
quickncss. So proficient is she at WELD
ing the brush with her tongue that she
excels at copying, and she possesses
several canvases that would bring cred
it to any :opyist. She is especially good
at painting pictures of the Montauk
Point lighthouse, and the little picture,
which tukes her less than 20 minutes to
paint, she sells to visitors for the price
| of one dollar.
But it is not only as an artist that
| Miss Tunison shines. She is expert at
fancy work as well, and, wonderful as
it may seem, she is perfectly able. tc
thread her needle and use the scissors
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
Golden SDice Cake.

Cream half a cup of butter, add one
cup of brown sugar and beat well. Add
the yolks of four eggs and one whole
egg, well beaten; stir in half a cup
each of milk and molasses, two and one
fourth cups of -four, sifted, with half a
teaspoonful of soda, half tea
spoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth OF
grated nutmeg, a few grains of cay.
enne and few gratings of lemon peel.
Bake in a square loaf, in moderate
oven, about an hour, and when cold in.
vert and cover the bottom with q marsh.
mallow frosting.- st. Louis Republic.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
[To BE CoNT1NUED.1
Her Answer.

"You say that you are from Ch1ca-
go,and 40 years old?" queried the court,
who was trying to determine what dis
position he should make of the divorce
case. "How many times have you been
married?"
The applicant for a bill opened up Z
dainty shopping bag, from which she
took little memorandum book. This
she studied rapidly while she tailed on
q blank piece of,paper.
II object!" interposed the attorney
for the husband. .-~ -.
"The witness has right to refrcsh
her memory" insisted the opposing
lawyer. -.# ~
''Once," said the witness, as she fig
ured up the tallies. .-
Once!" echoed the court. '..W'hat do
all those marks mean % # s@....
Il didn't want your honor to think
that I welded my only chance. That's
the number of good men who proposed
to me before I drew this BOBBY prize"
Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
How to Deodorixe Petroleum.

The following rule for deodorizing
petroleum seems to be good one: Mix
chloride of lime with petroleum in the
proportion of three ounces for each
gallon of the liquid to be purified. It
should then be introduced into a cask,
where some muriatic acid should be
added and the mixture well agitated,
SO as to bring the whole liquid into in
innate contact with the chlorine gas.
Finally, the petroleum should be passed
into another vessel containing slaked
lime, which will absorb the free chlor-
Inc and leave the oil sufficiently deodor-
ized and purified Ladies' Home Jour-
mai.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17

shoulders with withe of willow, then
stood a moment calculating the dis
tance to the island. I was not a good
swimmer and disliked the prospect; in
deed, had not the distance been broken
by the island, would not have dared
to make the attempt. However, death
by drowning was preferable to death
by hanging, SO I walked into the
water.
Lord, how cold!
struck out Justify, but the cur
rent was so rapid that by the time
had gone two-thirds of the distance it
had taken me pretty near the south end
of the island and there was a1prospect
of my being carried beyond it. If so,
I would have to swim the whole width
of the river without rest. But kept
my head, and taking number of long,
slow strokes soon found myself in shall
low water, and walked up on to dry
land. Going to the extreme south end
Of the island looked down the stream
for Margaret. At that moment cloud
passed over the face of the moon, dark
ening everything.
resolved to swim the remaining
part of the river, but stood appalled, at
the water, which looked so black, so
merciless. I went in, feeling that I
was not equal to the task. My strokes
did not seem to pull me forward, but
I kept on till could swim no longer.
Choked by water, sank with pierc-
ing cry.
The next thing knew I felt hand
grasp my collar, then another pass un-
der my arms. After little my head
was drawn out of the water, and my
two arms rested on the gunwale of a
boat. T looked up and saw Margaret.
''Can you hold on?" she asked.
''No." ..-
II can't get you into the boat with
out upsetting it, ..-.-s
Holding me with one hand, she
reached the painter in the bow of the
boat. This she passed under my arms
and fastened the end, holding my head
out of water. Seeing me thus support
ed, she took up the oars, seated herself,
and began to pull quick stroke. It
seemed but a minute before we had
reached the shore and she was drag
ging me up on to the bank. I tried to
rise, but failed. Is
q s Margaret" gasped, ''how did you
find me?'' .s.
II heard You cry 2 .#5.. .53s
Why were you not at the creek1''
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
HOSPITAL INCIDENT.
Curious Way In Which an Ignorant
Foreign Woman Interpreted
Simple Prescription.

Doctors and nurses who have to deal
with foreigners in hospitals knew by
experience how careful they must be in
the use of words when giving dir :ctions
about medicine, otherwise the most or
dinary instructions would be apt to be
misunderstood, with probably fatal re-
suits. The head physician of we'll
known charitable organization in this
city recently had a curious experience
of this kind. A woman had brought her
baby for medical attention. 1t was not
really i'll, but very much needed daily
application of soap and water. The doc
tor gave the mother some medicine for
the child and then directed her tc
wash the baby.'' To many of the for
eigners the word ''bathe" is entirely I'M
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
"MarkinE UD'' Goods.

The trusts are advancing prices all
along the line and are consequently
prospering. They are not like the mer-
chant who said one day that he had
made $4,000, and when asked how, re-
piled: "By marking up his goods.
The merchant might mark up his
goods, but the customers would still
have the right to buy elsewhere and
leave the goods on the shelves. But
not so with the trusts. When they
mark up their goods the American peo-
pie must pay their advanced prices or
go without the articles. Such is the
power of monopoly.-National Watch
man. =,
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
Two Cla..e. NJ Peon1e

Industrial despotism, such as the
trusts are rapidly attaining to, means
that our people in the future will con-
sist of two classes, one born to rule
and enjoy all the good things of earth.
and the other born to- wear away their
lives producing wealth for their mas
ters with no hope of ever securing
respite or acquiring competence
National Watchman,
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
The Ripple a In Mode.

There is not an inch of crinoline
used in the new skirts; there is not
an ounce of starch put in the petit
coat, but everything around the foot
must ripple and billow and curl and
swirl until one feels as if one were
following in the wake of steamship
when going behind the fashionably
dressed woman!
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
XVI.-CONTINUED.

"Now, see here,' said with O GER
tain composure that would OCCASION
ally surprise me by breaking the rapid
current of impulse within me, I'VE must
lay plan. 1t won't do to go blind any
farther. What do you propose, cor
poral?"
You and the young lady git over the
river, find a nigger's cabin, and hide till
tomorrow night
"That's your plan; Miss Beach,
what's yours?'
IF we can find boat, we had better
go up the river. When they come here
they'll probably think we have crossed.
At any rate, there will be three ways
for them to track us-across, down
and up the river, and they won't know
which we have taken. If we can reach
we came, we will have straight road
home.''
"But we must leave our horses, and
we'll need them when we take to land
again."
II can walk from the upper ford"
said Margaret, IF we can only get
there; I've walked there and back from
home often. It's only five miles,
"All right, and now for sAiff. Punk,
you go down stream, and I'll go up.
But there must be a limit to our search;
neither of us had better be away more
than ten minutes. If we're not sue
cessful within that time We'll abandon
the plan.'
PUNK went off on his search with
more speed than had ever before seen
In his deliberate person. Margaret
wished to dismount, and helped her
to the ground, tied her horse to sap
ling, and started on my hunt up the
river. I followed the high bank, look
ing down on the margin as Invent along,
but used up my ten minutes without
success. Turning reluctantly, start
ed back to the ford hoping that PUNK
had had better luck. On the way
espied path leading down to the river
that had escaped my notice on my way
out; following it to the brink, there in
little cove partly hidden among bushes
was rickety fat-bottomed punt, fas-
tened to tree by chain and pad
lock. I smashed the paddock with a
stone, then began to look about for the
oars, which I felt must be near, and
found couple of short paddles leaning
up against a tree. Getting into the
punt, I showed off shore, and few
strokes, aided by the current, took me
down to the ford. Margaret was on
the shore waiting, and was overjoyed
to see me pulling boat, for PUNK had
returned few moments before empty
handed. He loosened his horse, and
mounting, rode down to the river to
let the tired beast drink.
'What are you doing?" I asked, sur
prised.
I'm going back after that flour
faced deserter."
you'll be captured"
"Never youmind, lieutenant, I haven't
secuted ever since this war began for
nothing. When go back there I'll be
somebody different from what am.''
There was no time for debate. Mar
garet was in the boat, seated in the
stern. began to pull up the stream.
"Good-by,' I said to Punk. II hope
you won't have to tell many lies.''
II can't see, lieutenant" called the
corporal, show y kin ruckencile yer
conscience to takin' another mans
boat"
"Oh, go on" And I pulled out of
hearing.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17

"They were watching the terry. l
waited long while for chance to get
by. If it had not been for that cloud
over the moon I would not have sue.
ceeded.''
'"That cloud was blessing in dis
guise.''
I made another effort to rise, Mar
garet giving me hand, and stood on
my feet. A man dislikes strength sup
piled by woman; I grunted my thanks
in no very warm tone, hut retained
Margaret's hand, both because I need
ed it's support and because found it
very pleasant standing hand in Hand
with her. After I had walked to and
fro bit and stamped my feet and
swung my arms, I led the way back to
the boat, and, getting in, was about
to take my seat at the oars when Mar
garet stopped me.
I'm the stern, please"
"Who's going to pull?"
II am"
''Not with an able-bodied man in the
boat, and that man soldier"
But the mere standing on my legs
was too much for my overtaxed
strength, and feeling premonitory
buzzing in my ears, obeyed her or
der, getting into the stern, and, pulled
by girl, meelly assumed the ignoble
duty of steering with barrel stave.
Willmar tribune., 1900-01-17
OmniDresent Youth.

Minister-Good evening, Willie; is
your papa at home?
Willie (aged seven, to his father in the
library)-Say, paw, did you see him
first?
Minister-Why do you ask your fa-
ther such strange question, my boy?
Willie-Well, you see, paw and Mr..
Bilkins are playin' poker this evenin',
and I heerd paw say he bet you wudn't
see him if he saw you frst.-Ohio State
Journal.