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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-12

10 Them. There were the typical club
men. tall, faultlessly dressed swinging
along with athletic strides. There was
the sharp "cllppety click" Of countless
horses hoofs on the smooth asphalt
and the gay throng Of broughams ana
yIctorlas on their way back from the
mark. Now and then I would catch
glimpse OF the occupant OF brougham
cleaning from the dark interior Ike
Jewel in her dinner dress Of pale silk or
creamy lace. From the rose hued lights
OF Delmonicos and sherry's to the
deeper rel splendor Of the Astoria the
avenue was one whlrl Of gayety--one
vast call 10 pleasure-and even farther
down the way other glimmering lights
echoed the cry Of their more fashiona-
bic sisters. An, yes, felt It was good
70 be back again.
have always been glad that we
lived In a house, although for the mat
ter OF that II we lived In an apartment
we should always keep 1t ready for use
from year TO year. But did you ever
reflect that more than half the popula-
ton OF New York changes its dwelling
place every fall? Not only those who
stop in boarding houses, but those who
have apartments as well From Au-
gust 10 October on any pleasant DAY
one may see these miserable nomads,
armed with a long list Of addresses and
n pencil. prowlIng about In search OF
homes. And what a miserable search
Il is. with the prospect Of the minimum
OF comfort for the maximum Of money
As Polly Benedict remarked TO me yes.
terday, It's a question Of whether your
rtarye in a palace or have plenty to eat
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muscles around them A reader OF the
human couu,enance would conclude
from this that the lady Is one who sees
everything but Is not q great talker'
This estimate would be correct Mrs.
Roosevelt Is a particularly delightful
converser when she chooses TO be- but
that Is not overoften and only among
her family and intimates. That pres
ldent who complained that he never
knew but one woman who did not talk
when he wanted to think would have
been chai med with Mrs Roosevelt,
The first characteristic to be noted in
the distinctly American type Of woman
is her all round capabllity In the man
agenent of affairs. financial and other
wise This quality of all round husl-
ness capability New Englanders long
ago named faculty" and 1t Is as mark
ed In the new mistress OF the White
House as It was IN the mother Of
Garfield when she patched her boys
clothes and saved and contrived 10
send him from the log cabin home
10 college. II Mrs Roosevelt were
poor woman, she would manage
somehow 10 keep out of debt and
educate her children, and both they
and she would be always neatly dress
ed and exquIsltely clean Millionaire
Hetty Green, quite apart from her per-
sonal eccentricities, has the American
woman quality of faculty IN an emil
nent degree. To transact necessary
business quickly and wisely without
making the least fuss about It, as Mrs.
Roosevelt did when she scrubbed her
boys faces and hands over again with
wet towel just as they were entering
the carriage to join the inaugural pro-
cession last spring, delaying the grand
start itself few moments for the
purpose-this Is evidence OF that same
! feminine faculty"
! As developed thus far the true type
/ OF American woman-praised be the
/ godS,-ls not sentimental or given 10
! overmanifestation OF emotion, and she
never has Mysteries She knows that
/ violent outbursts only injure her cause
morally and herself physically. One
could never under any circumstances
/ imagine Mrs. Roosevelt losing her head
or throwing up her arms and screech-
/ Ing Faithful 10 her type, her will Is
strong, her reason and intelligence are
self poised; she understands herself,
her family and the world, She has
| that high order Of both intellect and
conscience which frequently exists to
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gether To do what Is right one must
have intellect enough TO know what Is
right. Again praised be the gods for
the woman who knows and does and
makes no fussl
II would be a vital mistake however
to conclude that because she has
brains aud will power the mistress Of
the White House or her type Is lacking
In the affections. on the contrary, that
Is precisely where they are gloriousiy
endowed, Their devotion, whether TO
family, friends or principle, is deep ana
strong as the fathomless stream that
flows on forever; but does not waste IT.
self In spurts. II knows better. Mrs.
Roosevelt would die for her children
none the less because she is their wise
trainer and the director OF their edu-
cation, while so far as her own personal
ambitions are concerned she has simply
blotted herself out and merged her eN'
istence into that Of her husband.
An the world wants to know what
she will make Of the social regime OF
the present administration. To begin
with, she is a lady TO the manner born
like a queen. While her own tastes are
simple, she is perfectly au fat In con
ventional social usage She has dig
nifty of her own which Is able TO KEEP
people of when they would approach
too closely Commonplace familiarity
Is destructive of the best social results
and the white House mistress knows
how to prevent II In her own way-gen
ny and not giving offense The influence
on American society Of such a COO
headed, high bred, intellectual woman
will be pronounced and farreachlng.
Mrs Roosevelt Is an accomplished
musician and linguist and will be ono
of the very few ladies in the Washing
ton circle who can converse with somt
OF the foreign diplomats In their owl
tongues. She has a noble literary dis
elimination and is well acquainted with
politics. both foreign and domestic she
dresses richly and carefully but plain
ly, and always in perfect taste Al
home she likes 10 wear white, Further
the remarkable distinction IS claimed
for her OF having no fads, in which par
tlcular the first lady of the land Is enti'
tied to sympathy for she misses a LOT
Of fun. She has. however that rare
sense Of humor which Is such a SAVING
grace In woman.
Finally. and best Of all, both thi'
highly endowed perfectly bred lady
and her husband, coming as they do
from the so called first rank Of Amer
lean society, are entirely republican
and democratic in their tastes. sympa
thies and principles
Socially, the Roosevelt admlnistra
ton will be one the American peopl
may be proud OF In ehnement 1t vii
be the peer OF any court In the ol'
world. while In republican smpllcit!
and domestic morality It viii be a les
son 70 them LILLIAN GkAf'
Washington.
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3 I)F|GURES (.
SS Oh AND DO
{ < FASHIONS ?


in plebeian surroundings. Polly ought
TO know because she Is young woman
with artistic tendencies, a tiny income
and exalted ideals. One year she ac-
tually lived In a bachelor apartment in
the Cresus skyscraper building, with a
rental in four figures and a beautiful
view Of Fifth avenue. fancy that
during that trying time she subsisted
mainly upon the view and the empire
wall paper, for she admitted TO me aft
erward that crackers and beef extract
were the principal items Of her bill of
fare.
At the end of the season, when she
had become so thin that she actually
couldn't find a corset small enough for
her, she gave 1t all up and went into
boarding house somewhere In the
Twenties where an inartistc but whole
some smell Of cooking perpetually lin
gered in the halls and attested the
reality Of three square meals day
BY the way speaking Of thlnness re-
minds me of the opposite thing. Have
YOU noticed how the way Of the stout
woman Is being made easy for her
| nowadays? Before the straight front
corset was invented what was she? a
shapeless thing tied in the middle like
sausage And what agonies did she
endure 10 get even that one narrow.
stringllke effect? Now all is changed.
| She presents a most imposing and dig
nlned front view, with her shoulders
set squarely back and her stomach and
hips drawn in. The Objectionable waist
line IA merely indicated by the daintiost
and most sloping Of glrdles. Nay the
fat woman can aspire to even more.
She Is given the consolation OF knowing
that in time she may dwindlc TO the
most sylphlike proportions. II she has
courage and wears a certain KIND OF
corset. This IS most cleverly devised so
that each day madam may draw In GER
tain laclnRs which connect certain
seams which contract not the waist
line alone, for that would be fatal 10
proportion Of her outline, but prac-
tIoally the entire corset. which thus
each day shrinks, as II were.
And do you ever notice peoples backs
-women's backs, ] mean? DO you re-
allZe that the back OF a gown is more
important than the front nowadays?
At least with a smart woman II Is, and
this Is Just how you can distinguish the
smart woman from the amateur. The
new back is as short as II Is possible to
make II In the case Of long wasted wo'
men, and even with the short wals,ed
ones the belt has decided upward
tendency directly In the middle OF the
back The old days when woman had
TO have her waist as long as her Gre
ator made Il, even II II ran down "a
her heels. are gone. You decide where
you want your waist to end so that 4
will make the right proportion accord
ing TO your skirt length. and behold
your modiste puts II there. No more
excuse FOR "all waist" and sawed of
women. But ! hear some one eXelaim
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PRETTY AFTERNOON COSTUME FOR AUTUMN WEAR.

Curzon by her marriage. then Lady
Curzon OF Kedleston and when her ia
ther-in-law dies win be Lady Scars
dale.
1t Is when she has passed the fourth
decade that a woman Is now said 10 be
most dangerous TO the susceptible Of
the other sex, says an English woman's
Journal. Her face may have lines that
Sweet and twenty regards with dis
may. her figure may be fuller than
sweet and seventeen" deems graceful.
II may even BE- that art has 70 step In
where nature fails In the matter Of
hair ind complexion, but II Il manner
which tells. IN carriage. In interests In
thought. the woman Of forty az the
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WOMAN'S ODD LITTLE WAYS.
BY TABITHA S0URGRAPES.

the office, kindly consented TO sit up
all night too, FOR her TO try the SEN
fences on him as she wrote them, to
tell her whether she got the clrcumilex-
es right This being arranged, the fair
writer opened tiny blue and gold
blank book that lace manufactures
had given her at the exposition and
which she had filed cram full Of
notes on music at the library. Then
she thought she was ready
There are three stats whereby q
fair woman writer may leap into lit
erary composition. three beginnings
Of her theme--one is In the most
ancient times" another Is In the
Middle ages" while the third is In
varlably There Is subtle some
thing Mrs. Van HebHdes tried oil
three OF these in turn on her patient
spouse lie was for the middle ages"
but she liked the most ancient times"
best. and he was not in favor OF the
Subtle something" az all, although
she particularly favored that He
said it sounded like flapdoodle. FL
nally however, they compromised the
matter In way acceptable TO both,
as married couples should always do,
and She began thus:
There Is a subtle something In the
music Of the middle ages that carries
the souls Of men back to the most an
Client times"
The start was made. Then Mrs.
Van Hebrides said
Charles, do pull down the green
shade over the white one. That white
square stares at me so II makes me
nervous"
SO said. so done The fair essayist
wrote another sentence. Then:
Charles. ! can't write on this pink
paper It's too sentimental looking
Give me some blue
Twas done. and things were well
for FIVE minutes Then.
This tne pointed pen digs into the
paper sol want stub. My
thoughts will flow more vigorously
off stub"
Thus It goes when woman writes a
paper
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attention Of her audience and TO I'M
press them with her erudition and ear
nestness.
There Is a school district In Reno
county. Kan. In which there are
schooihouse and a teacher but not a
solitary pupil. Miss Mary Scrogglns.
The teacher, opens school every morn
ing and holds herself In readiness 10
Instruct any children who may come.
but she Is the sole occupant OF the
building. There are plenty OF children
in the district. but they are OF Catholic
pareniage and attend a paroehial
school.
a young lady living IN cambcrwell'
England. recently asked her mother &c
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ron worLp BE ENGAGED GmLs.

Never allow thoughts Of love ana
marriage to occupy your mind TO the
exclusion Of all other thoughts.
DO not, dear girls, be Of the opinion
that any husband Is better than none
and eagerly accept an offer merely for
The sake Of being married.
DO not forget that the girls who are
most successful IN securing husbands
are those who DO an Ia their power TO
III themselves for the role Of matrons
while spiusiers.
DO not give way to the dangerous
habit Of playing az courtshlp.
Il has often uiprCd in the bud many
a girls good and perhaps sole chance
Of changing her name and condition,
DO not get into foolish infringement
9- clande,une correspondence with a
man unknown 10 your family. II he
wants 10 woo you, let him set about Il
io an honest and Straightforward way
DO not think your parents hard heart
"a and monsters OF cruelty II they re-
fuse their consent TO an engagement
which In your eyes may be suitable
from every point Of view. They are
older and wiser than you. Therefore
believe they are acting for the best.
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kE-- MA-.-
New York.
COsT oF NIcTonIt,s TUNERAL.
New York,

The sum OF $4,000 was required to
dciray the expenses OF Queen Nictorla's
obsequies. Though considerable, this
is not the largest amount spent on
public funeral.
That Of Lord Nelson cost $4,000 more,
while the burial OF the great statesman
Pitt. six months later, cost the nation
"a similar sum.
King Edward witnessed the most gor-
geous funeral Of the nineteenth centu-
~ in London II was that OF the great
Duke Of Wellington, on which about
$3.50. 900 is said to have been spent
The Duke Of Marlborough funeral
In the previous century cost barely
s25. OOO while the more recent interment
u Mr. Gladstone involved an eSpen-
diture Of only half that sum.
The last rites Of the Grand Duke
Nicholas Of Russia cost $4,000 more
than that Of the late queen, and the
great Emperor william Of Germany
was buried at cost Of only $4,000
Thirty thousand dollars was spent
on flowers alone at the funeral OF the
murdered President Carnot
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am also callous TO the sight Of poodies
clad in widows weeds, but when II
comes 20 what ] saw last night at a
fashionable hotel / have TO draw the
line A pretty girl was attired In the
most frivolous OF white gowns. cut with
round neck and short sleeves. ana IN
the nature Of violent contrast to her
handsome jewels she wore on the upper
half Of her bare left arm most CO.
quettlsh band and rosette OF sooty
black Grape I wonder II some people
in this country really know the mean
Ing of proper mourning.
Not to leave you with such a melan'
choly subject. let me announce that the
smartest hat this fall is the all black
Calnsborough If you want to be thor
ouyhly up to date, get one
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wake her at 6 o'clock In the morning
When her mother entered her room,
the young lady was absent, and the
mother naturally concluded that her
daughter had aroused herself. At Z
o'clock the daughter was discovered In
bed fast asleep. Between 9 and Z
O'Clock she had been seen on her bicy-
Gle In Dulwich park on that there Ia
no doubt whatever. The evidence a. II
Is unassailable and yet the daughter
herself Is entirely oblivious OF the cir
cumstances
When Lady Curzon dies, she win
have borne four names, though mar
rled but once she started lie az Mls.
Mary Letter. became MIRA George n.
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present day Is as young as her daugh-
ter less than half her years, but her
mind IS better balanced, her judgments
are clearer
\ woman as a sea captain, the only
licensed sea captain Of her sex In the
new world. has been revealed by the
recent census. She Is IN command OF
one Of the largest steamboats, on the
Mississippi trading between New Or
leans and Vicksburg, and she has been
az sea for the past ten years only a
few weeks ago she gave conclusive
proof that the best traditions OF sea-
manshlp may be as well carried out by
a woman as by man. Her steamer
ran ashore, and both the tunnels were
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broken. The passengers became panic
stricken. while the sparks that few up
ward threatened 10 set hre TO the YES
sell Mrs feathers for that Is the
name Of the captain, az once appeared
on deck aud not only succeeded IN
calming the passengers but took her
Mac. at The wheel FOR twenty-four
hours az a stretch.
4 general view Of the legal condition
OF women throughout the United states
win be presented IN volume by Pro
lessor George James Baylcs Of Column
bia university which Is to be published
IN a few weeks. In Il women's property
rights ara :hc grounds for divorce are
fully considered
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VI FHEN the Roosevelt family
removed themselves and
GAf their belongings into the
WW White House, many per-
N N sons wondered where and
how they would stow all
the children, Such persons did not
know Mrs Roosevelt. a lady who in her
way IS quite as much the head OF her
family as her distinguished husband Is,
indeed II there had been nobody to
look after the finances and the babies
while the husband aud father was
away on his picturesque expeditions OF
war and hunting where would the
Roosevelt family now be2
Some rich women born and bred In
the United States are crude products of
The untamed soil Of liberty; others are
merely made over European fine ladies'.
But the feminine sex Of this country Is
fortunate enough to be represented IN
the White House by typical Amerl-
can woman, the daughter Of two cen
turtles Of republican culture and free
dom. II may be said further that her
type is purely American, found no.
where else. The noblcst and handsome
est race OF humanity masculine and
feminine Is certainly 20 be produced IN
the United States from the blending OF
many peoples under conditions OF liber-
~ and abundance such as mankind has
never before known,
Edith Carow Roosevelt has In her
veins the blood OF English Dutch and
Welsh ancestors, handed down through
many generations Of pure Amerlcanism
Besides representing the type OF her
country women she has strong indI-
vlduality of her own. which social con-
venlionality fortunately never could
kill II is irresistible, II Is fine and per-
feet. Under all circumstances what
this woman says goes"
Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, the president
second wife and first sweetheart. Is a
brunette, which Of itself makes her a.
far as 1t counts, good mate for man
whose blondness incllnes TO auburn
She Is above the medium height, as dis
tingushed and graceful as Queen Alex
andra in her bearing and she has that
charm alas. so rare among American
women, a cultivated, distinct voice. II
you look carefully at her picture, you
will see she possesses the facial marks
of a close observer nose little long
and pointed forward eyes keen and in
tent looking, not too large, and with q
faint suggestion OF the oriental IN Inc
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Like the Turks and many Other
jewellers In oriental lands, the Moors
prefer moon faced" wives rather than
lean ones and are more soliciious as 70
the number Of pounds which their
brides weigh than about the stock OF
accomplishments they possess a girl
IS put under the process OF faitenins
when she is about twelve years OF age
Her hands are tied behind her, and she
is seated on a carpet during so many
hours every day. while her papa
stands over her with n matIaaue, or
big stick. and her mother at times pops
into her mouth ball Of couseoussou'
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IN FEMININE CIRCLES.

or stiff maize porridge, kneaded up
with grease and just large enough to he
swallowed without the patient ehok-
ing.
A slxteen.ysar-old girl In the pulpit
is the attraction at Holy Trinity Bap-
list church. Brooklyn. She breaches
morning and evening and Is able to
make her hearers forget that she Is
only young girl who ordinarily would
hardly aspire to anything more impor-
tant In church work than sunday
school teaching. This girl began
preaching when she was only thirteen
ana from the FIRST was able to hold the
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IF have my waist end half way up
my back. how am to make my skirt
go up so far. because even II IT Is hook
ed to the waist il is bound to wrinkle
and separated" The answer is ina;
your skirt is built up in the back just
as many inches as you have deducted
from the length OF your waist, so that
there is the same decided slope in the
skirt that there Is in the waist. win
straight skirt band of course, the new
style back won't go at all. But try the
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IA THEN a woman writes she ac-
NV complishes the feat in way
hh peculiar TO her sex.
Mrs. Charles Van Hebrides was APP
pointed by the i. II and NJ. Ala
dies Health and Morality Association
to give Q paper at It's opening
meeting for the season Mrs Van
Ilebrides was on her mettle. The
subject assigned 10 her was one Of
those in which the abstruse feminine
club mind deIights-namely whether
the musical compositions Of Wagner
or the melodies Of the Salvation Army
sway the American multitude more.
Having properly arranged for a
new japanese liberty satin waist
new hat and white gloves, thus get
ting the most important part Of her
task off her mind, Mrs Van Hebrides
was ready 10 begin her essay she
did not attend popular concerts where
Wagner music was given or open air
meetings at which the Salyationlsts
elected musical sound from throat
and tambourine. That would have
been the obvious thing for a mere
man 20 do, but women are different,
The lady went early one morning to
the FREQ Fossil Foundation library
and asked FOR the oldest books on mu-
sic that the establishment possessed
books dealing with the origin Of
music and the keynote OF the cats In
the garden OF Eden. Day after day
she attended the Fossil Foundation.
Great, rottinF leather tones into which
nobody, except perhaps clubwomen
who had 20 write essays, had looked
since the binder closed them were pa
uently scrutinized by this indefatiga-
BILE seeker after knowledge A week
Of this kind Of deving, and Mrs. Van
Hebrides was ready to jump OF a
precipice or begin her paper she
hardly knew which.
She decided 10 write az night, be-
cause then IN the gentle. mystical
gloom the spirit Of inspiration broods
with folded angel wing over human
ity. She had read that somewhere
and thought It fine. The maid had to
remain up to provide hot tea when
her Imagination tagged Tea helped
lnspiration-nay. on a pinch was In
spirntlon itself. Mr. Van Hebrides,
although be had had a hard day at
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new way, ana
you will see
how much taller
Il will make you
look.
Being a New
Yorker, ] am
used to vagaries
and absurdities
in mourning g,
The sight of a
woman with a
Grape band
around her coat
sleeve-a fash
ion which is
distinctly for
men on the 9TH
err side - does
not even attract