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The age-herald., 1901-11-10
BY ALFRED CECIL.

o LL the world agrees that the
 /NN physical health of women is JrN essential to the strength and
 longevity of the new race of people coming into being on this side of the Atlantic ocean. For many years at a time when the people scattered along the Atlantic coast were practically isola- ted colonies, differing from one another in national characteristics, the question or uniform type was not considered. even If thought of, by the writers and thinkers of those days. The hardy set tiers of Massachusetts Bay and of the Providence plantations. the pioneers of the Connecticut and of Acacia, were not only type of physical manhood and womanhood peculiar to what we now call New England. but in fact, peculiar to the middle class of Old England. from whence they came. Their yeers of habit mode of life, and condition had made them tall, gaunt, wiry, sinewy, spare and aus tere. In great and marked contrast were they to the English of Maryland, Virgin la and the Carolinas, who were recruited rom a very different, and very distinct type of English people. These people were broader. rounder. full-framed, with bones we'll covered with flesh.
 If these two divisions of English people separated by class distinctions, political and religious ideas in England had set tied within easy access to one another in this country, intermarriage would have been the result and the common ances- tors of the new type would have been English. But between these two sets or colonists there was an almost forbid ding stretch of territory occupied by the Germans of Pennsylvania and the Dutch of New York, to say nothing of the still distinctly separate third set of English settlers in Pennsylvania In Georgia were the Scotch and in Florida the Span- ish, while along the northern borders of New Hamphire, New York and along the Mississippi river were the French.
 These varied ingredients in the boil- ing pot of a nation might be confusing as to the result but the structural for nation of the new people had gotten un- der way before the enormous immigra- tion of Irish Scandinavians, Teutons and Italians poured an infusion of new blood into the new people. sSingularly enough the English type though numerically the lowest, has prevailed, which is largely due to the fact that the basis of the En- glish people is Teutonic blood. The pres ent frame structure of the American peo- pie Is due to the Teutonic blood derived
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friends and attendants of the maid to be captured.
 The honeymoon, which is now or ought to be only a pleasure trip, was in those marriage e-by-capture days almost a ne- cessity. It was the time of discreet hid ing from the wrath of a father-in-law and of a father. After the month had expired 1t was generally found that philo- sophy had given way to revenge, and after a few more presents had been ju- diciously bestowed and explanations given the loving couple were received into the bosom of their relenting family A shoe Is now thrown after the depart ing pair flor luck" but it Is probably a survival of missiles hurled after the robber of the bride for anything but good luck.
 The practice of throwing rice Is of Eastern origin, where rice is the symbol of fertility. It is intended to express the hope of the wedding guests that the bride may become a happy mother
 Gloves used to be given at weddings
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taken place nearly so soon if the honey moon had been spent in a calmer way. We know the riddle: What is the diff ference between a honeycomb and a honeymoon? One consists of many small cells, the other of one big sell. This need not and ought not to be the case.
 We are so accustomed to the different matrimonial customs and ceremonies that we do not inquire about their origin. And yet they all had a meaning once. The of flee of the "best man." for instance, though now sincure, was not so when marriage by capture prevailed. Then a bridegroom seized the girl he fancied without troubling about the consent of her parents or even of herself, and his friend assisted in the operation, making sure that the coast was clear or keep ing at bay the infurated parents. From the same primitive times dates the cus- tom of the bridegroom giving presents to the bridesmaids. The presents in those days constituted a bribe or toll which was given to blind the eyes of the girl
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ing priests, clothed in their robes, opened the services by reciting the chant of praise and thanksgiving. The chant was in not unmusical minor key, and was delivered without change of pitch. First came supplication for lavors, then blessing on fathers and mothers, next prayer for all people and all living things on earth and, finally. an appeal to Buddha for more wisdom and right eousness.
 Next the great book of Buddha was opened, and one of the priests, after rais- ing 1t reverently to his forehead, read a chapter, turning the leaves rom the right to left instead of from the left to the right. During the reading Japanese heads were bowed as in prayer, and the priests appeared sunk in devotion and meditation.
 After the conclusion of the chant, D. Toki acted as moderator. and, not unlike the leader of a church conference, intro duced the speakers.
 Rev Harada's address to his congrega- tion was as follows
 My Dear Friends-I am greatly de- lighted to have you here on this occasion the dedication ceremony of the Bud- dhist church. which is now officially open ed for the first time in America, and it gives me great pleasure to meet and ad- dress you.
 q think 1t is only ten or fifteen years ago that our people began to come to this country, and since then their num- Der has increased remarkably each year, spreading almost all over the long coast of the Pacific.
 Most of our people who came here have been staying in the country, work ing very earnestly and faithfully for their employers. and at the same time have never neglected their duties-duties to their own country, great Japan, their families relatives, and friends. They have lived in peace and harmony, but they have been in great danger of losing their own religion, simply beca'-ss of
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much of a good thing and that a honey moon may become a treacle-moon and pail from excessive sweetness.
 During his honeymoon Walter Savage Landor was reading some of his poetry to his bride. The lady seems to have been a little tired of the honeymoon in general and of the reading in particular (though Landor read beautifully, for she let go the arm of her husband, jumped up. and rsg to the window to see dear delightful Punch," which was being per formed in the street. It was a pad be- ginning, to show so liIne interest in her husbands work; but little quarrels are sure to take place when people honey moon not wisely but too we'll It is mistake also to have too much excite ment in a honeymoon, to undertake, for instance, to see in a short month all the churches, all the picture galleries and all the waterfalls in Europe. Trunks are troublesome to pack, trains do not go at the hour wished, and there are many little mishaps trying to the nerves and causing quarrels which would not have
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HOW TO MAKE HONEYMOON DELIGHTFUL !" .. ". ., E

as they used to be given at funerals. Herrick wrote in his "Hesperides:"
 What posies for our wedding rings
 What gloves we'll give, and ribbonings,' and Pepys records In his diary that, be- ing at marriage service, he had two pair of gloves, like all the rest"
 There was a nice custom in the Parish of Yellow, Nottinghamshore. When banns of marriage were read out in church person previously selected stood up and said: God speed them welll' and the clerk answered Amen.
 Indeed, these clerks of old used to be busy at marriages. One of them, jeal- ous of the sacredness of ,Ae work at which they were engaged and for the building in which they were, called out loudly to couple who were making a premature attempt to indulge in oscula- tory practices: Now, then, behave your selves!' He was evidently of the opin- ion of the man who said: "There Is only
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strike work for a year. Nor, to speak plainly, have we good enough tempers for this sort of thing. With us when the honeymoon Is too prolonged the parties become bored. Suppose they go to sea- side place in winter or early spring-what are they to do? They read all the books at the old sailor library of the place, and then there is nothing to do but look at the old sailor searching all day with telescope for imaginary smugglers. l have heard of a business man, who,
 growing weary of a prolonged honey moon, telegraphed to his office for one of his ledgers to be sent down to him and amused himself with it. Of course, he was a brute, for all his books should have been the looks of the lady; still there was great deal of human nature in Punchs sketches of the waning of the honeymoon. In one of them bride says: Wouldn't it be nice, Algy, dear" or "Algy, darling" or whatever she called him. If an old friend were to turn up?" Yes" he growled, Tor even an enemyl" So 1t is that we may have too
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Look out for next Sundays Age Herald-November 17. 1t will contain magazine supplement of eight pages printed In six colors. In 1t will be a comic page, a page on cookery, one of fashions, one of the latest musical pro- auctions, short stories, and page for the children. No other newspaper In the South has ever attempted art work of the character The Age-HeraId will produce next Sunday and every Sum- day hereafter. Order from your news dealer in advance.
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illiam Hugh Robarts in Washington

= everything relative to Presi-
 /AN dent Roosevelt possesses the
 /@N greatest interest something 00 touching his tenderness and tastes as a sportsman may be of conse- Quence to the country whose destiny he has been so unexpectedly called upon to guide And apropos of the subject there is no word in our language that is more abused and misconstrued in its meaning than the term sportsman. It is applied to all sorts of pursuits followed by those who deal with games of chance more or less disreputable in their character. The yachtman and short-card dealer are alone termed "sportsmen," though there is no more similarity in their pursuits than there Is between day and night
 President Roosevelt comes of a family that have been lovers of the rod and rifle and double gun for over one hundred years. His uncle, the Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, is the author of one of the best works upon small game shooting that has been given to sporting literature In the last half of the nineteenth cen tury. President Roosevelt became a big game hunter more by accident than any thing else. Over a quarter of century ago he invested quite a sum in a cattle ranch in the widest part of Montana. Circumstances that need not be entered Into here made 1t necessary that he should become actively interested in it's management
 ''If there was anything in the world of which I was more ignorant than I was about the manner in which a ranch should be managed, at that time, don't know what 1t was," he said to a friend, who inquired how in the world he ever
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she enters the cage of a strange beast and begins calling it by a name When sheh as made 1t understand that 1t Is meant by this the hardest work is done. Sometimes, of course, the lions do be- come a little savage, but by means of a steel rod with three small prongs at the end she keeps them at a distance.
 She has never used a whip in the pre- liminary training of an animal. When MT. Leo behaves he gets little beef, and by and by Mile. HeIlot and her lion become friendly
 It will be seen by those who witness her performance that she has not the slightest difficulty in making the animals go through their antics-a great contrast to the old type of lion tamers who fired revolvers, burnt red fire, made hideous
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ALL HOLLAND IS
 MAKING TROUSERS
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leagues long ago that store presents would not be received. q will accept only gifts of love-" said the little Queen,
 my baby isn't to have and machine stitched dainties if can help it." But in this way you will receive only monstrosities," spoke up her mother, Tor aside from ourselves and the Elm press of Russia there isn't a Queen in Christendom who can sew together a baby's nightie. Yes, come to think of her, the young Queen of Italy might, for she was as poor as when she was girl" M
 'fMonstrosities Or not" answered Will hehmina, "I will have self-made things or nothing. And if they are too gro tesque, think of the fun we will have at the expense of our cousins and sastsrs and aunts.s
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their having had no spiritual hand to guide their faith-that Is, of Buddhism in this country.
 "It was deep regret of the high priest of Buddhism in Japan, and he sent here two priests for the first time in the year 1899 to minister to the spiritual wants of our people on this coast. They establish ed a Buddhist mission in San Francisco as soon as they arrived and in December of the same year their mission was ex- tended to the people in and about the city of Sacramento.
 "A young mems Buddhist association was formed here under the auspices of the mission. and it's members now num- Der several hundreds. A oaby cannot be- come man at once, and everything must have a due time before it reaches ma turity. We at first rented house next to this church as our mission, and re- mained there until the last month, when we removed to this building"
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No Vacant Lot for Her.
From the Boston Herald

From the Boston Herald.
 He-Darling I love you. Will you not make me happy by sharing my humble lot with me?
 Shells there a nice little house on the lot, Henry?
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ness to tame animals given by Mile. Craire Heliot. At the Hippodrome, in the British capital, great crowds have gathered daily to watch her putting a number of lions through exhibition tricks.
 Although in her early twenties now, Miss Heliot has in the last four years tarined nearly thirty of these huge Af- rican cats. seldom striking one of them, and depending entirely on their response to her gentle treatment
 Armed with nothing but a small whip
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noises, and scared the audience as much as they did the poor animals, who were kept hucdled in a corner of a caravan cage, alarmed more, perhaps, by the fire than by the teaching of their trainer.
 Mile. Heliot goes about her work dressed in an ordinary evening gown, calling the lions by their pet names, pat ting and caressing them as if they were a number of cats.
 In all her lion training career she has only been bitten once when. as she de- scribed 1t, it was her own fault.
 Mile. Heliot was born in England some twenty-five years ago, and it is only within the last four years that she has made a hobby of tanning wild animals. Lions are her favorites, and she means to keep to them.
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HLEGMATIC Lar - has be- enthusiastic duril.., the last
 few weeks over a marvellous
 display of the power of kind
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N HE honeymoon has been defined N~ by Dr. Johnson as the month
 after marriage which Is full of S tenderness and happiness D That is what 1t ought to be, but even the honeymoon may be spoiled. This is done when 1t Is either too long drawn out or filled too full of excitement.
 Do your readers remember the honey moon, or rather honeyyear, that was enjoyed in the pastoral days of the Old Testament? When a man taketh a new wife he shall not go out in the host neither shall he be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken. n."-Deuteronomy xxiv., 5. As new wife" would for polygamists of ten mean an additional one matrimony must have brought to people then a great deal of leisure, far more than we can get in our rapid, competitive age. Few of us possess sufficient oxen and sheep and manservants and maidservants to
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

and Indian Creek road, but the
last named needs one mile add
ed to it to complete it. There
has been five good stone cul'
verts put in on the M. G. aud
I. G. road and a new floor laid
down on the Little Indian Creek
bridge.
Last but not least Monroe
City business meu subscribed
81, $50 to the Rails County fund
to build d steel bridge across
Salt River at Joanna. The piers
Of which are made of large iron
tubes 81 inches in diameter fill
ed with concrete. Those on the
north bank penetrate the ground
14t feec and 19t feet on The
south bank. They are now at
work on the approaches The
entire work will be completed
Feb. uary 1st. and as the Rails
county court is perfectly salts
fed with it, it will be one of the
best bridges in the State.
Some one with more gall than
information started the report
that Monroe City has lost in
population during the past
decade" The facts in the case
are these: In 1890 the popula
tion of the city was 1922. In
1898 there was a census taken
by interested parties that show
ed clearly it was padded for all
it was worth. 1t made the pop
ulation 2Ol9 The government
census for 1900 is not yet i'll.
Now for the proof that the city
has not taken Il Single step
backwards, Since 1890 there
has been over 100 residences (tu
say nothing about business
houses. houses Of worship aud
the school house) built aud to
/ day there is II OF single piece
of residence property worth
$500 that is vacant.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Surprise Party .

The friends Of DR.. G. A. No
land surprised him with their
joyous presence Tuesday eve
The following members of
young society stormed his
home. Messrs Emmett Yowell,
Robt. Spalding, Claude Nichols.
Claude Henderson, Emmett
Hallock, Earl Reid. Theo Set
tie, Stewart Mccall, Rush
Tuner, Onie Rhodes and Misses
Gertrude Sharp, Ila Terrill,
Adelaide Lear, Minnie Willis,
Clara Piersol, Grace Turner.
Maude Hawkins, Ddvie Ebey,
Kate Henderson, Sue Boher and
Gay Settle. When the eve was
far spent the merry crowd ad'
iourned TO the restaurant
" here au oyster supper was
served.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Y. NJ. j. B. e.

The Young Mems Junior Bach
elor Club, gave royal and an
exceedingly enjoyable banquet
at the New Monroe Hotel
Friday evening. There was
thirty seven covers and the
members and guests did full
justice to the dainty viands.
The happy party was composed
of Messrs. Tt omas Dawson,
Harry Jackson, Harvey Gray,
John Utterback, William Ban.
mister, H. \. Ford, Elmo
Jackson. James Hornback,
Claude Nichols. Robert Sharp.
Alexis Nelson. James Sullivan,
Emmett Vowel. Ennis Tooley,
Thomas McCliutic and Misses
! Olivia Brown, Maude McClin.
| tic, Edith Jackson, Gertrude
| Mccall, Pearl Ely, Lilly Hus-
: ton, Ella Hawkins, Bertha
jackson. Mildred Scott, Dave
Ebey, BIanch McClintic, Louise
Jordon, Rosa Smith, Minnie
| Willis, Ada McClintic, Nellie
Rristow. Grace Boher and Mr..
and Mrs. II. S. McClintic, aud
MIR and Miss Suider of Kahoka
Mo, The evening sped by or
the wings of pleasant and
bright converse, cards, Krok
onole and otEer games.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Allie, the six-year,old daugh,
ter OF Prof. and Mrs. Fred
Jones, of Minneapolis, Mich,
who are the guests of relative s
in this city, met witt IA very
painful accident Sunday after.
noon. Several children were
playing around the band stand
in the north park and some OF
the little ones either pushed
Allie off the steps that lead to
the band stand or she slipped
and fell off and broke her col
lar bone.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
VOL, I3.
Lecture Concert.

The lecture delivered at st.
Stephens church, Sunday even
ing by Rev. FIR. O'Leary, of
Macon City, was both interest.
ing and instructive. He took
for his subject: 1.-The Catholic
Church is the mother of the
fine arts" He handled his sub.
ject in an easy, fluent and ar
tistic manner that captivated
the large audience. The forty
2minute address will never be
|entirely forgotten by those
present. Rev. FIR. O'Conner, of
st. Louis, who has one of the
finest haratone voices in that
city, had charge of the musical
portion of the evenings exer-
cises aud acquitted himself so
we'll that every one was gle d to
be there. The quartette was
composed of Mesdames H. L.
Hardy and DR.. Corley. and
Misses Mamie Losson and Fan
ME Finks. There were three
chorus and a beautiful solo by
Miss Losson. Financially il
was success for the large au,
dience room was filled to its
fullest capacity.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
New Telephone Line.

The latest enterprise to be
pushed through is a telephone
line from this city to Ely via
Huntington. Messrs. l. p.
Stephens and j. B Gray are
pushing the matter. Mr.. Steph.
ems informs us that the right Of
way on poles now erected be-
tween this city and Huntington
has already been secured at no
cost. The only poles to be
placed will be between Hunt
ington and Ely and the wire,
insulators and poles for the en-.
tire distance of eight miles will
cost only S75. That amount
will be raised by subscription
and when 1t comes to progress
sion aud anything of d nature
that benefits the general public.
Monroe City never falters but
goes into it's pockets and puts
up it's share of the expense.
therefore the gentlemen in
charge of the enterprise will be
enabled to build the line. The
protection afforded by tel
ephone lines against horse
thieves. burglars etc. will pay
for them. They are almost
equal to insurance and cost
vastley less money.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Monroe City, the Queen of the
Prairies, retained in 1900, its
Merchantile and Shipping in
terests gained in 1899, and in
creased it largely in many re-
spects. The handsome and
large store rooms and office
buildings known as the Proctor
block was completed in 1900.
The Longmire office building,
one of the most complete of its
kind, also reached perfection in
the year just flown.
The First Baptist Church, an
elegant $500 house of wor-
ship, was completed. The
Grace Baptist Church, which is
a handsome brick structure, is
nearly finished aud will cost
about $4,000 which is another
building that shows pluck and
energy.
During the same period there
has been fourteen nice and com
Portable residences completed.
That is what private energy
does in town that is situated
in the center of one OF the finest
agricultural countries in the
Grand Old State of Missouri.
Also the handsome building oc.
cupied by DR.. A. W. Ely as d
private Sanitarium. There is
not a vacant residence in the
city.
The Catholic, Pr ysbyterian,
First Baptist, Methodist and
Grace Baptist churches are sol
id brick structures. The Epis-
copal church is of stone, and
the Christian, Holiness and
Second Baptist churches are
frame buildings.
The city boasts of one of the
best High School buildings in
the State. 1t cost SO, 900.
The city's financial affairs are
!. in first class condition because
such men as Mayor S. North,
Aldermen A. Boulware, D, D,
Nelson, D. A. Ely, j. S. Scott,
/ } H. Grady and j. w. Bell
look after them as though they
were their private affairs.
Monroe City, if anything i,
progressive aud just as fast a.
it makes money shells it out foI
improvements that are boil
solid, useful and beautiful
| It's six public wells and wint
, mills are in good condition ant
4. a boon TO both man and beast
1.-The Fire Department, it's en-
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

During the fall J mile of grav,
ell was added to the Warren
gravel road and a large hill
graded. One and one half miles
of new gravel road was added
to the Monroe City and Salt
River gravel road, and one
quarter of mile added to the
Monroe City and Joanna gravel
road. The gravel road running
northwest by the Hon, w. S.
McClintic place is in good con.
di tion and also the Monroe City