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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
SIMPLE BEAUTY CULTURE.

It is an excellent thing to follow the
 example of Miss Helen Gould, herself a
 slender, graceful woman, but acquaint-
 ed with many who need simple instruc- l ton. With party of young lad es she | formed a class in the Berkeley Lyceum, | in New York, and there, twice a week, | went--is going still-for calisthenics. The costume she wears is Turkish
 trouser suit baggy at the knees, gath cred in very full at the garter line and again gathered at the hips. The blouse is gathered upon an elastic and there are means of joining which absolutely
 prevent the two from coming apart
 Thus equipped the class take exercise in a well fitted out gymnasium and know the delights of ring and horizon
 tai bar work, while some of the more expert can manage the vaulting pole and the suspended hoops
 But gymnasiums are not within the reach of every woman, nor the time to attend. gymnasium suit though, can be owned by all and a simple inn plement, like broomstick. A wand can be purchased, but broomstick will do nicely.
 A good flannel suit, warm enough to require absolutely nothing underneath it. a pair of felt slippers, thin, soft stockings, silk or half silk in preference to other grades, and a broomstiok will equip a woman for a very excellent series of exercises She will need also a hassock or stool, something on which she can rest during the time she Is ac- quiring figure and grace,
 The length of time required for daily work is something which deters many a woman from undertaking it. If one can take the time in the morning be- fore dressing there Is no time wasted in getting in and out of the costume, but if one must dress and undress, then the length of time practically consumed in the exercise is much greater
 It is really not necessary to own a suit nor to go to any trouble in the matter of daily routine. One can really go through with all the exercises in ones night clothes, and ten minutes night and morning will suffice.
 Rut let us suppose that the woman who is going to reduce her weight and improve her figure is undertaking it in earnest. Let us say that she is willing to devote an hour to it every day, and that she will go to the expense of lit- tie gymnasium suit and will clear place for the daily work
 If there are, two or three women in the family. or if there is man who will enter into the spirit of the pursuit. it becomes much more interesting and a friendly rivalry soon begins to exist | Which shall soonest begin to lose weight, which shall soonest become pro l fcient in doing the feats, which will l learn to walk with least fatigue and 1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
The George H. Ford
 Co.'s N
About the Sale

The sale made necessary by the retirement of certain int nterests is still in progress, and much remains of value and interest to the person who would buy an object of lasting value. A few of the special articles may here be enumerated:
 A bow-knot brooch of Paris mounting, contains 34 diamonds and whole pearl center. The price on this has been reduced from $20O to $15O.
 A brooch of 15 fine diamonds, re- duced from $260 to $20O.
 A diamond and pearl brooch from $120 to $95.
 A diamond and sapphire cluster ring of ten stones, reduced from s2OO to $150.
 A diamond sunburst, brooch and pendant, very fine grade, reduced from $275 to $22O.
 Antique gold brooch and pendant of five large pearls and IS diamonds, with finely wrought gold necklace, reduced from $175 to $135.
 A butterfly diamond, emerald, opal and ruby pin and pendant, reduced from $100 to $65
 A diamond brooch of seven stones, reduced from $1SO to $1OO.
 All articles in the retirement sale at reductions of 20 to 50 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
The First steps.

Standing up brayely beside the chair,
 Stepping out bravely, too, But steady! It's very much further there Than it looked, little chap, to you. Three whole steps; it's weary way;
 It Is perilOus, hard. and long. No babies may journey upon it till they Have grown to be brave and strong. And little feet and wohbly knees
 And a balance that's hard to keep Will fare but roughly on roads like these So easy, if one may creep. Why should you want to walk at all? For the erring feet but lead Ger the Slipppry floor to q crul fall, And a pain that is hard, indeed. And we who have learned, go stumbling
 through
 Lifes dangerous pathways, and meet With many a long, long step, that's too Severe for our faltering feet. So be content, for a little while, To escape the wild alarms Of those three steps, and just coo and
 smile
 Safe up in your mothers arms Il J. Montague, in Portland Oregonan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
NOT IN 4 HURRT.

If the Fifty-Seventh congress is as
 sure as it is slow it will ultimately do
 some good work For one reason or
 another there have been a great many
 adjournments without sessions, until
 there have been almost as many days without sessions as days when the two houses were transacting business. Up
 to the present time only two of the many appropriation bills have been re- ported to the house, the pension bill and the urgent deficiency bill There are seven other bills to come from as many different committees, and Chair man Cannon will have to prepare sev- eral other money bills himself The pension appropriation bill has passed the house, but the urgent deficiency bill still hangs fire. Money bills will have to come in from the following committees: Agriculture, Postofffce, Indian, Naval and Military, in addition to which there will be supply measures for the military academy and for the diplomatic and consular service The chaiFmeM of many of the committees having these bills ill charge have not yet taken the first steps toward fram- ing them. A few have held hearings for the purpose of learning the reasons for certain estimates that are new this year, but on the whole the status of ap- propriation bills is very backward. The house has done nothing in the direction of disposing of the seven contested elected cases that are on the calendar. These have been divided among the three special commit tees that are 'or- ganized for the purpose of investigat-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

cast of her Majesty's face. The new
 stamp shows the profile of the king
 which has a dignifed, somewhat severe 1 and stately expression. It is the reign ing monarch, and not the first gentle man in Europe" that is here depicted. The picture is natural, grows on one
 and is likely to be popular. The slight 1 badness of the crown of his Maiesty's head is indicated, and the mustache | strongly marked. The features are ! thrown into strong relief by being in- closed in a deeply shaded oval. The face turns to the left, like that of the late queen in the present stamps no
 the coinage it is customary to reverse
 the profile with each new sovereign; but
 on a stamp, if the face turned to the
 right 1t would be looking off the letter,
 stamps being usually placed at the right
 hand top corner. King Edward is far
 too courteous to turn his back on the
 addresses in that way.
 On the left side of the oval is a curved
 branch of bay leaves. with berries I
 was assured that the branch was bay
 it might have been privet for anything I knew. To the right is a. branch of oak, the peculiarly shaped leaves being easily recognized. Above the oval is an imperial crown surmounted by cross and ball, and on either side of this forming an arch broken by the crown are two curved labels, with the words Postage and Revenue" in white let ters. A straight tablet below the aval shows the value of the stamp, also in white letters. The designs of the sage green half-penny stamp, the he'd penny one and the blue tWopence half-penny are the same, except for the values named on the label at the bottom.
 The change from the lavender of the present penny stamp to the red of the new one is to bring this country into line with the other countries of the Pos tai Union. The postal convention deci- ded ome years ago that green, red and blue should be the color of the three stamps in use England is the last country to conform to the reguIa- ton as regards it's penny stamp. The French ten centime stamp, and the German ten pfennig, are red. The Canadian tWo-cent has been from purple to red, and the In- dlan one anna from plum color to red The United States has also the regula- ion colors of green for one cent, red for .Wo-cents, and blue for five cents. The blue of the five-cent American stamp is rich, deep ultramarine, quite unlike | he turquoise of the French twenty-five 1 entime.-London News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
coon YORK IN NEw HAmpsHlRE.

| That is a pretty sensible forestry | movement which is moving in New
 Hampshire. Under the lead of form CT governor, a number of thoughtful and energetic New Hampshire citizens organized a society for the protection of the forests in their State. They make an express disavowal of any in- tention to prevent the cutting of tim
 ber they recognize that numbering is
 legitimate, and that it is one of the
 States important industries The so-
 ciety intends to work with the lumber
 men, and so far as possible to bring
 about change in their practice of cut
 courage: so too, the failure to clear up
 the tops of trees or at least to cut the
 under sides of the branches so that the
 trees will rot rather than dry and be-
 come infammable fuel for forest fire.
 Further they have sought to induce
 the lumbermen to leave enough trees
 in the tracts which they cut to provide
 seed and a certain amount of shade for saplings. President Frank w, Rollins has suggested that it might be well to exempt timber planters from taxation for a term of years and to penaize men who neglect the timber on their lands or allow fields to lie waste. Under his lead the society is working for freer distribution of young trees and tree seeds, and has begun a campaign through lectures in various parts of the State and the distribution of print ed matter setting forth it's aims.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
THE NEW BRITISH STAMPS.
Show the Profile of King Edward in
 Bright Ruby Ink.


 Bright Ruby Ink.
 The government of this country is lit- erally throwing money away, Yester- day I became for the nonce ar ardent stamp collector, and offered a sovereign for one of the new red penny stamps which are to be issued to the public in a few weeks The offer was scornfully refused. As Messrs. de la Rue have al ready printed something like five hum dred million of the new stamps, and are turning them out at the rate of five uI six millions day, while the Chan cellor of the Exchequer is at his wits end for cash, a simple arithmetcaI cal cuiaton will be sufficient to show the criminal folly of failing to realize the stock at present values, instead of wait ing for the inevitable slump.
 However, although not allowed to purchase. I was permitted to look at whole sheet of the new stamps, with King Edwards portrait. in a bright ruby carmine ink, repeated two hun dred and forty times. The portrait has been executed from a design by MT. Emil Fuchs, the sculptor, who, it will be remembered, went to Osborn after the death of Queen Victoria to make
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
MANY GREAT AND GOOD FRIENDS.

It appears that the United States has many great and good friends in Flu rope and just now they seem to be tumbling over each other to show their
 friendship. That is a beautiful decla-
 ration that the German foreign office
 makes when it declares with all posi-
 tiveness that Germany, neither before
 the outbreak of the Spanish American
 war nor during it's course, proposed in
 tervention to other powers. Neither did Germany support such a proposition made by any other power 1t is true that in several instances, suggestions were made to the German government from another source, in the sense of in- tervention. But the German govern ment, without exception, maintained negative attitude toward such sugges- tions, and made known it's negative standpoint whenever occasion offered. It is further remarked that it was not from an Austrian source that such sug- gestions reached the German govern ment.
 Rich and prosperous, and everybody friendly, except a few little brown men. Surely the cup of the United States is pretty full
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

numbers, and what is practically the
 rabbit season, is the period extending
 from October to May the rabbits begin-
 ming to come in greatest bulk immedi-
 ately after the first snow.
 The best rabbits come from Indiana and Michigan, and we ket great quan-
 titles of rabbits from Missouri and Kansas and Nebraska, and jack rabbits, more than twice as big as ordinary rab- 'oits, from Dakota.
 The supply of rabbits is practically unlimited, the quantity brought here being regulated only by the demand Rabbits make. without exception, the cheapest meat to be found in the mar ket
 l They are bought almost wholly by i Germans and other purchasers of for eign nationalities. If an American goes gunning and shoots a rabbit or two he is likely to eat them, but not many Americans buy rabbits in the market.
 At the same time the number of for eign- born residents here who eat 1ab- bits is So great that the consumption of them here is in the aggregate very large, Solid carloads of rabbits, while not common, are by nomeans so un- common that they would be considered remarkable, A carlcad contains $500 pairs
 still, rabbits come along more com monly ill shipments with other game. Great as the quantity of rabbits now 'sold here is, I doubt if it is much, if any, greater than the quantity market ed here few years ago, for while the population has greatly increased, the demand for rabbits is restricted largely to particular sections of it.
 But if rabbits and various other sorts of game of more general consump- tion have for one reason or another, stood still or receded in supply, that is not true of poultry. of which our sup plies in comparatively recent years have enormously increased. We get | poultry nowadays commonly and daily | and in good condition from regions | where, not so many years ago, such | shipments would not even have been | thought of, this due in great measure ! by vastly improved facilities for trans portation and improved shipping meth ods, supplemented by the cold storage facilities afforded him.
 "T should say that New York's poul- try trade is twenty times or more greater than it was twenty years ago." New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
USUfE.

Nell-"They say her husband is very indulgent." Belle-''Yes; he indulges too much Josh Wink.
 John-"Here Maria, I'll sing to the baby while you dress" Maria" No; let him cry Boston Herald The reformer takes only the highest grounds, leaving the rich, low grounds to be cultivated by the practical poli- tician.-Life
 Complaining Doctor, what makes my back ache sop Dr. Monke- Carrying it. Two dollars, please ''-- Brooklyn Eagle.
 Crawford - Does a woman always decline her first offer of marriage?" Crabshaw-"That depends altogether on what age she is when it occurs. "- Smart Set.
 Ut is the naked Truth" said he,
 She answered Never mind:
 It will not shock my modesty,
 So long as Love is blind"
 Smart Set.
 Playing in -Hixon-"Young Pellets tells me he makes q speciality of doctoring cats" Dixon-"Well, his pa tients are fortunate. Hixon-" How's that?" Dixon--"They each have nine ves''-Chicago Daily News.
 A Broad Hint-Gerald-"I have of ten thought that I ought to have stud fed for the ministry" Geraldine-"You wouldn't have been q success" Gerald -"Why not?" Geraldine-"You could mt make the necessary number of pas toral calls. you'd stay too long at one place. Brooklyn Life. An Unusual Occurrence. .--Towne- You seem to have a little cash. . Browne-"Yes; railroad accident. don't mean to say you got damages --- BroWne-"I mean to ! say a railroad I took some stock in l years ago has finally paid dividend. Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
Mir. Eimendorf,s Illustrated Lecture.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 I would like to call attention to the notice in your columns Of an illustrat- ed lecture on the Holy Land to be giv- en on Thursday evening at Harmonic hall by MT. Elmendorf. He has won q place at the head Of artistic photo- graphers, and comes to New Haven at my personal request as he was one of the company with whom I travelled in the East, and I think that his unusual ly fine pictures will afford an opportu nifty, next to visit to the places, to see the Holy Land They will be of special value to Biblical and Sunday school teachers Newman Smyth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
CARLOADS OF RABBITS.

New Yorks Big Supply is Being Eaten
 Mainly by the Foreign-Born Resi-
 dents.
 Rabbits" said wholesale dealer in poultry and game. "are in season the year round. That is to say. there is no closed season in which they may not be sold, but the time during which they are brought to market and sold in large
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
UNION PRISONERS OF WAR.

9Ql Jo lonbuea pue Sune9W Isnuuy
 Association.
 The annual meeting and banquet of
 the Union prisoners of War associa-
 ton in this state will be held at
 Grand Army hall in Hartford Satur-
 day, February 22. The officers of the association are: Captain Charles Avery
 of the Twenty-f1fth Connecticut, pres
 ident Samuel K. Spaulding of the
 Putnam Savings bank, first, and Geo.
 Robbins of Waterbury second vice. president; the Rev. Charles Dixon one of the oldest chaplains of the state, be- ing now past 80 years of age, chaplain;
 Major George O. Whitney, secretary, and L. J. F'illey of this city treasurer The association was organized in 1 1882, Warren Lee Goss the writer, was one of it's principal originators. The membership of this organization in- cludes some of the foremost veterans of the state. On it's membership roll are the names of Past Department Commander Henry R. Jones of New Hartford Major Jerome Tourtelotte of Putnam who was wounded and cap tured in the assault on Fort Wagner George D. Denison, the Hartford con tractor and builder, Norman l.. Hope, one of the most popular of the old soldiers in the state, Egbert Dart of Rockville, Lieutenant AlonZe G. Case of Simsbury, Captain T. B. Robinson of Bristol, the Rev F. F, Atwood of Hartford, Dr. Evelyn S. Bissel of New Haven, General E. $. Chamberlain of Barre, Mass, for years warden at the Wethersheld prison, and a veteran of the Mexican war. Colonel George D. Chapman of Middletown, H. B. Cook and A. D. Thompson of Bristol ex New Britain, Henry F. Savage of Der lin, General Frank D. Sloat and Hiram Buckingham of Washington, D. C., Lieutenant Herbert F.. Landon of Hart ford who made his escape through the | rebel lines after perilous adventures, | John w. Loon1is of the Aetna Life h. | surance company of Hartford, whose | personal heroism in the rebel prison | at Florence, $ C.,was of the highest | type Robert H. Kellog of Cincinnati, | O., Amos Nichols of Stafford Springs | Wm G. Hooker of Meriden, Henry C. | Williams of New Britain, James B. l Whalen of Hartford, John Coter, re- tired from the Hartford police force, ex- -Representative Thomas Walker of Colonel Jacob l.. Greene, president of the Connecticut Mutual l Life Insurance company, who could sing with the best of them through the war:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

< Boston is cultured, but there are still many children there. Eight new gram mar schools are in the works and com plaint is made that this is not enough to fully meet the requirements.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

ing the protests, but none of them has been reported to the house.
 The senate has made better progress than the house, but it hasn't been very rapid. This eongrss seems to be both deliperative and deliberate
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

A mission in New York has bought T50 acres of wooded land on Long Island where work will be provided for home less, deserving men. After the land is cleared the men will be allowed to make gardens and raise chickens and live stock
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23
AMichigan's on guard tonight, Miabino,, t,1y NiabiUpt1 v

Judge L. D. Phelps of Rockville, Frederick c. Peck of Unionville. and the Rev. l. M Foster of the Methodist church, There are about three hundred Union prisoners of war now residing in the state At the meeting in February the first steps will be taken towards pe- titioning the general assembly of the state for the erection of a monument at Andersonville in memory of the Con- necticut soldiers whose lives were sacri- feed there during the summer and fail of 1894
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

In telling what modest and sensible girl a certain bride at that place had always been, the Minneapolis Messen- ger says she spelled her name G-r-a-c-e, not G-r-a-y-c-e.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

fant mortality among the Mohamme- dans is only l4O.4 per 1000, while among the Christians it is 342.1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

Rome is to be electrically lighted with power from the Marmore Falls, seventy miles distant.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

An ordinance of the prefect of police forbids the blowing of whistles and sirens in workshops and factories in Paris for a greater length of time than fifteen seconds. The prefect declares that the prolonged blowing of these whistles and sirens troubles profoundly the repose and tranquility of Paris ians"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

Thus saith the Supreme court of West Virginia: No woman is compelled to live with the worst of all brutes-a drunken brute--to the peril of her life and health, but she has right to leave furnishes her indubitable evidence of reformation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

The medical reports presented to the Russian authorities by the doctors of the different districts reveal an alarm ing state of things with regard to in- fant mortality. It appears that in many of the governments the propor- tion of the children who die during the first year is as high as 40 and even 50 per cent. In isolated cases it is even higher The reports ascribe this terri ble mortality mainly to the ignorance of the peasants and to the fact that the mothers have frequently to neglect their children in order to work in the fields. In support of this view it is not ed that the death rate is considerably higher in summer than in winter in spite of the severity of the climate. Another cause appears to be the grow ing practice of employing wet nurses, with the result that the nurses own children have to be fed by artificial means. This explanation is supported by the fact that the rate of infant mor~ tality is much lower among the Mo hammedan population, in whose case the law obliges every mother to nurse her own children. In one of the goV- ernments, for example, the rate of in-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

Great changes have been made among the negroes of German East Af- lica. They now use plates, cups glasses, spoons knives, umbrellas and occasionally clocks; they call for soap and for kerosene. In their market places they are seen drinking tea with sugar at table. The women have use of sewing machines, even in the in terior districts.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

It is said that Americans have been heavy buyers of the best farm land in Manitoba, where the wheat acerage next season will be increased twenty per cent. A new idea of the grain growing possibilities of Manitoba is given by the statement that less than ten per cent of the fertile land is un- der cultivation, although the farmers of Manitoba and the Northwest of Canada have already received $20,0OO, 900 for their wheat crop, and the total sum will probably reach sSO,OO0 900.