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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
TIRED OF HIS GROWN
WHY KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM
MAY ABDlCATE.

Cares of state Too BurdensOme For
His Keen Sense of Humor and Kind
Henrt-Thc Heir Presumptive.
King Leopold of Belgium. gayest of
monarchs. whose many escapades have
been scandal in Europe for years, is
at last in serious trouble. His present
difficulties are due to his subjects, who
so far forgot "the divinity that doth
hedge about king" as to chase his
royal highness through the streets of
Brussels, threatening bodily harm. On
top of the mobbing comes the report
that Leopold is to abdicate his throne
in favor of his nephew. Prince Albert.
An alarming feature of the situation
in Belgium is the suspicion that pre-.
walls as to the loyalty of the army to
the king, The rank and file of the army
are believed to be in sympathy with
the present Socialistic Republican
movement. These things, it is alleged,
have made King Leopold weary of his
job.
King Leopold is an up to date mon
arch. He has always been Il hard
worker, and, though he is no longer
young and has a white beard of pa
triarchal length, his alertness is that
of a man in the prime of life.
lie gets up at o'clock in the morn
ing, winter and summer, and by
O'Clock he has read, digested and anno-
tated all his vast correspondence. Some
times he reads his letters in his study,
but if the weather be fine he gets out
into the beautiful park of his palace at
Laeken and reads them as he walks
up and down. Exercise, hard work, So
briefly in eating and drinking-these
are his sources of health and vitality.
Few brussels shopkeepers of good
position live more simply than the king
of Belgium. At s o'clock he has few
grapes, a peach and cup of chocolate.
AT noon he takes what is called on the
continent his second breakfast. 1t con-
sists of scrambled eggs, steak and
Hamburg tillet, a favorite and special
dish of his, and some spinach.
Dinner is at the early and unfash-
ionable hour of 6, and it consists of
soup. small entree, bit of roast beef,
game when in season, asparagus and
little fruit. He drinks just three glass
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

Of Negros, where he remained for over
a year. 1t was during his service on
this island that he gathered the nate
rial for 'Dauiel lyerton." His duties
brought him into contact with the opu-
lent sugar planters as well as with the
Filipinos. and the types of native char.
acter which he has presented in his
novel have at this time a strong claim
upon national interest.
On his return to the United States,
eighteen months ago, Mr.. Putnam re-
signed from the army, but he did not
relnquish his keen interest in the Fill.
pino race. He is giving evidence of
this by returning to the islands as ed
itor in chief Of the Manila Cablenews,
a daily paper about to be established
there by the Manila Publishing COM.
pany.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

lean matron. She is par excellence a
diplomats wife-quick witted, cordial
and tactful.
Mrs. Joseph Choate was Caroline
butcher Sterling. She was born in
Salisbury, Conn, and spent most of her
girlhood days in Cleveland. In 1860
she was married to Mr.. Choate and re-
moved to New York. Mrs. Choate is a
blond, her hair now slightly tinged
with gray. Her featres are aristocratic,
her cheeks rosy with health and her
eyes dark and brilliant.
Mrs. Choate is the possessor of dig.
nified and at the same time winnirs
personality. She is thus generously pre-.
vided with all the attributes most need
ed by diplomats wife.
The Choate family is charming ons
There are two sons and a daughter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02


HOME OF MRS. ROBERT J. BURDETTE, Los
ANGELES.
So to the allurements of the conven-
tion, sufficient in itself to attract the
clubwomen, will be added the glamour
of Los Angeles in the season of flowers.
The serious part of the programme is
in the hands of the California Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs, assisted by the
four local clubs of Los Angeles. Dele
gates will be in attendance from all
parts of the United States, as well as
from Canada, Europe and Australia,
so the state and city organizations are
on their mettle to give them recep-
ton that shall surpass in open heart
ed hospitality, variety and novelty of
entertainment all previous efforts in
this line.
This work is going forward under the
direction of Mrs. Robert J. Burdette,
wife of the humorist, who has shown
great capacity for organization and
has the situation we'll in hand. Mrs.
Burdette is president of the California
ANNNieiliOh anu 10
toned as president of the General Fed
GRAFTON to succeed Mrs. Rebecca Doug
las Lowe. Mrs. d. Il. S. Denison, the
vice president of the general body, is
the logical candidate, but may not ac-
cept. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Den
yer is also in the field.
Sunny Crest, Mrs. Burdettc's home,
is one of the finest in Los Angeles.
The Spanish mission architecture is
particularly pleasing, to begin with,
while the wealth of roses, palm and
pepper trees could only appear to such
profuse advantage in the land of sun
shine. The house occupies an emf
nence in fifteen acre flower garden.
The business session of the conven-
ton will extend over eight days, begin
ming Thursday, May l. The most i'm
portant matter to come before the dele
gates is the color question. There is
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
reat Britain
Qn0 the
BOer War
DHN WATSON (lan MacLaren)

,D WISH AS ONE WHO LOVES THE UNITED STATES
I NEXT TO HIS OWN COUNTRY TO MAKE AN APPEAL
BOTH TO THE MIND AND HEART OF THE AMER
mi lcAN PEOPLE NOT TO THINK HARDLY ABOUT US
EE BECAUSE WE DON'T SEE OUR WAY TO WITHDRAW
"A FROM THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
RNT THE AMERICANS TO BELIEVE THAT WE ONLY
THE eoERs TO TREAT OUR ENGLISH PEOPLE IN THE
fAL AS WE TREATED THE DUTCH IN CAPE COLONY;
THE 5oERs HAD NOT ATTACKED US WE SHOULD NOT
'ADE WAR ON THEM; THAT AFTER WHAT HAS HAP
There WOULD BE NO GUARANTEE OF PEACE FOR
NFRIcA IF THE TWO REPUBLICS REMAIN INDEPENDENT
STILE STATES; THAT IF THE TWO STATES BECOME AN
Y PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE THEY WILL
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN THE POSITION OF CANADA
STRAlA AND THAT THEY WILL THEN ENJOY SUCH
AND PEACE AND JUSTICE AS THEY HAVE NEVER
.lN THE PAST.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
CHARMING MRS. CHOATE.

Wife of the EmbassadOr to England
Il Tactful Hostess.
Mrs. Joseph Ii. Choate, wife of the
United States ambassador to the court
of st. James. is one of the most popu-
lar ladies of the diplomatic corps at the
English capital.
Mrs. Choate is liberal and charm
ing entertainer, and her grace and tact
have made the United States embassy
a most important social center. In her
salon gather the beauty and wit of the
American colony in London, and invita-
tions to her receptions, which are al
ways crowded, are sought for by mem
bers of the British nobility. The latest
photograph of Mrs. Choate shows her
as she is. beautiful type of the Amer
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

der their intention would not allow them to remarry the
the next week the next year. would have it at least
ears, and perhaps three.
place in the world where divorces are so easily
N in the United States, and there place in the world
stand high, where granted so many
and rights, place where they free seek the
and best things where they surrounded by much
s uch courtesy. such sympathy, such respect
q GREAT CAUSE WHY THERE ARE so MANY MORE d.
s IN THIS COUNTRY THAN ANY OTHER is THAT HERE
THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, WOMEN ARE GRANTED
1cM TO THROW OFF A THOUSAND INToLERABLE BUR-
UNDER WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN BORNE DOWN AND
I'D FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.
eve that if careful investigation were made we should
large proportion of the divorces granted in this country
kndiness and consideration toward woman readiness on
of the manhood of America deliver her from crushing
set her free, give her opportunity retrieve so far
life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
CHOSE NEWSPAPER MAN,
Leslie NJ. Shaw Selects Writer For
Private Secretary.

From printers ."devil" to private
secretary to the head of the United
States treasury is a long step in ad-
vance for a young man to make in
these bustling days of competition.
yet that is the record of Robert b.
Armstrong, just appointed private Sec
retary to Leslie NJ. Shaw. secretary OF
the treasury.
Less than ten years ago Mr.. Arm
strong was working in a Des Moines
newspaper office in the capacity of
boy of all work. That he has succeed.
ed in reaching the honorable position
he now holds is proof of his pluck, en-
ergy and natural ability.
Mr.. Armstrong had reached his jun.
ior year at Iowa State college when
his health gave out, and he was forced
to abandon further classroom work.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
Value Of Mortality
Tables In Life Insurance
YARD M LAMBERT. Chief Medical Examiner of Equitable
Life Assurance Society


II is mistake to think that because life insurance
companies taking risks today which they refused
9 few years ago they any the less rigid in the
ner of their physical examinations On the contrary
- they particular than ever, and they have
= been gradually getting and more the
medicine has advanced.
my forythree years of experience in this line have
~ million and quarter of policies and have rejected
rter OF a million applicants We receive on average
atlons day and reject one-quarter of them
AtIER ALL NOTWITHSTANDING ALL OUR
AND ALL OUR EXPERIENCE, L WOULD AS
hE THE FIRST THOUSAND MEN THAT PASS
pR ON BROADWAY AND GIVE EACH ONE
h WITHOUT EXAMINATION AS l WOULD A
I'D APPLICANTS BY THE MOST RIGID EX-
ON, and believe the first thousand would live long
as well physically the second thousand But we are
'ed to DO business in the wholesale manner but must
IA case upon its individual merits for in other way
Ieneral results
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
No. so
ACTRESS MAY BE DUCHESS,
English Singer Becomes Bride of
Duke of Devonshire's Heir.

Miss Isabel Jay, the charming Eng.
lish songstress. has good chance OF
some day becoming a duchess. She
has Just become the bride of Mr.. Har-
ry Sheppard Hart Cavendish nephew
of the Duke of Devonshire. who is old
and childless.
Mrs. Cavendish has been on the stage
three years, She has been one of the
most popular singers at the Savoy the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

great divers ty of opinion on this sub
ject, but ii is hoped to settle it for
good and al at the coming session.
The prog ANNE presents many fea'
tur6s of great interest to woman club.
dom. One uf the most delightful meet
ings of the week will be on Thursday
evening. is will be an entertainment
offered by le Los Angeles clubwomen
in special compliment to the biennial
visitors. Ii will be an Interpretation Of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

love each for the other. If the children's
Re would be subserved by their maintaining
be- then they are under the highest kind of
Iton to maintain that home
MOULD MAKE DIVORCE DIFFICULT.
bld' compel people to take at least one year
l process of divorce. They should not be
b get through in one month or three months
4 and perhaps by the time year was ended
hight have had time to think it over and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02

ing the first week of May in that ideal
city, called by Paderewski 1.-The para
disc of America" Not only have the
clubwomen of California been working
to make this convention the most bril-
liant ever held by the federation, but
the business men of Los Angeles have
decided to hold the annual Fiesta de
les Flores, that magnificent spectacular
pageant. during the convention week.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
hat God Hath Joined Together
VERSUS
What God Hath Put Asunder
By Rev. MiNoT ]. SAVAGE of New York

90 BELIEVE with my whole soul that what God hath
joined together man has no right to put asunder
believe that in the where God has Joined them
IN together no man can put asunder, ever does
~ or or will; BUT 1 HAVE TOO
| MUCH RESPECT FOR GOD TO FEEL WILL
TO HOLD HIM RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE MAR
GES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE THE Be
MING OF THE WORLD believe have right to
that saying around
EHERE GOD HAS PUT PEOPLE AsUNDER NO MAN HAS A
h TO FORCE THEM TO STAY TOGETHER.
the husband and wife have both ceased to love each other
ere are children they should be permitted to
there chdren suppose husband and wife have lost
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-02
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= The CLUB.
" WOMEN'S
:. Meet at A
:: Los Angeles
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ANGELES is preparing a
glorious welcome for the
General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, which holds its
Sixth hiennial cacsion dur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
HOW TO CARE FOR
THE COMPLEXION

Every girl can provide her dressing
table with a few necessaries which will
help to preserve improve the color
of her cheeks. The success of any
skin tonic depends largely upon its
being used at the proper time.
Complexion cream, which may be OBJ
tanned from any chemist. should al
ways be used at night. Girls who un-
derstand how to care for the complex
ion never neglect the night toilet Ger
rainly the face needs thorough scrub
bling at night, after the long days en-
counter with dust and other substances.
So at night before using the cream jar
that stands SO temptingly upon the toll
let table, be sure that the face is clean.
II the cream is applied to the skin
while the pores are clogged by dust.
Precipitation or soap. you deliberately
plan the destruction of it's beauty. If
you wish to invite blackheads, pimples,
splotches and a general mutfny of the
skin pores rub a cream in with dust.
The scrub that should precede the ap-
plication of the cream or skin food is
an all over tub. and then you should
use the camers hair scrubbing brush
for the face and a regular flesh brush
for the body.
After the brush scrub apply the
cream.
"A box of camphor cream should have
a place on your table both in winter
and summer.
Make it as follows: Olive oil, six
ounces; white wax, two and a half
ounces; camphor (gum), one-quarter of
an ounce; lanolfne, two ounces. Melt
the first three ingredients together in
little saucepan. Take it OF the fire
and beat until cold, adding the lano-
line during the process.
In these days when we read SO much
in places where the light is poor sore
eyes and eyes that ache are only too
common. There are many remedies for
sore eyes, but few girls know what
an excellent tonic for these most useful
members a cold water bath is; not the
ordinary sponge bath with closed lids.
but opening the eyes and holding them
open for a minute or more in clean cold
water.
To do this take teacupfu1 of water
and hold it close to the eye against the
face and open the eye in it. Open and
shut two or three times to wash out
the eye then dry with a soft towel
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ident of the International
Red Cross society. at the or
ganization's congress in ST. Petersburg
this summer are not surprising Every
civilized nation has cause to be CRATE
full to her. When she closed up her
work following our civil war, a work
that included after peace came sew
eral years search for missing soldiers
and families, Miss Barton went to
Europe, as she supposed, for rest and
study But in 1870 the Franco Prussian
war broke out. What then? Clara
Barton was on the ground. She had
had more actual experience upon a bat
tlefield than half the army surgeons Of
Europe. In 1864 the nations of Europe
had formed the Red Cross society, pri-
marily an organization for caring for
the wounded upon a battlefield. ire
spective of the side on which they
fought Friend and foe are alike to
the workers of the Red Cross" Clara
Barton was one of the foremost among
these. She and her aids were demanded
on the field in the Franco-Prussian
war. From battlefield to battlefield
they went, life saving angels Among
the decorations Miss Barton received
for her services in this war is the Ger
man one of the Iron Cross of Merit, be-
slowed on her by the venerable EN-
peror William
After the F'ranco-Prussian war there
was for time no particular war to
claim her immediate attention, and
Miss Barton worked in the cause of
humanity and peace in her own land.
Through her efforts the United States
became a party to the Red Cross treaty
eighteen years after the nations of Eu-
rope had ratified it. But Clara Barton
secured an amendment that shows her
to have been possessed of real prophetic
vision. It was called the civil clause
of the treaty and authorized the Red
Cross staff to serve not only in war, but
in what Miss Barton called the great
er calamities of peace" like the Johns
town disaster, the sea islands storm
the Mississippi floods and the destruc-
ton of Galveston. One of President
Garfield's last appointments was that
of Miss Barton to be president Of the
American Red Cross, a post she has
held ever since. During the MISSISSIPPI
pi floods Of 1884 she herself went down
over the waste of waters to give relief.
Once she found several hundreds of cat
tie, horses, hogs and sheep, all the
wealth remaining to their desolate own
ers, huddled upon a levee starving to
death. Immediately she chartered a
steamer, had 1T loaded with hay, corn
and oats and sent it to them. To this
day blessings are showered on her by
those owners.
At Geneva, Switzerland. is always a
resident International committee of the
Red Cross society. To and from it as
a central station are telegraphed mes
sages when emergencies arise in which
MD is required. During the war among
the Austrian states in 1888 this commit
tee telegraphed to the organization
throughout the world that thousands
of people in the Balkan mountains were
suffering terribly for the necessities OF
life. Some people in New Albany. Ind.
whom Clara Barton aided during the
Mississippi floods saw the appeal AT
once these grateful people telegraphed
$500 to Miss Barton at Washington, she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
A Col0red Waiter on the Woman Question
But are they all like that ?"

But are they all like that"
Most of EN-. Business women some
times amt They's reg'1ah in their
ways, and you ketches on quick to what
they wants and you knows you can suit
'em, and after awhile you keeps your
head on with them as well as with a
man. They have it clear in their minds
what they want, and they sticks to it.
They's everything in gittin' used to a
customer to make a waitah feel easy
in his mind. Aftah you onct sizes up
your customer as reg'lah you knows
that one always wants rump steak rare,
cut thick, and anothah nine cases out of
ten will have bread puddin'. got one
old bachelor who takes q teaspoonfu1
of salt in a glass of water three times q
day to keep him young loolkin'.
But women does pear to me that
onless, as says. they's business wo-
men, and even some of them stenogra-
pliers after they've got all their order
sends a waitah back for something they
didn't think OF at first.
Where they could have all day, like
in hotel. maybe they could be propah-
~ served, but heah-Lawd of mussy-
they worries you with changin' their
minds till you disremembers every
thing. and they gifts you all tied up in
knot so you never gifts omitted
The trouble with q woman is she
never knows her own mind. kin serve
six men at that long table faster than
can serve two ladies at the little one
I've been waitah twenty yeahs, and
I've sized men and women mp. Ladies
is the notionate sect"
JOSEPHINE HUNTER
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pitfalls in the national capital early in
the civil war. At that time Clara Bar
ton was clerk in Washington, the first
woman clerk in the patent Office, where
life was made a bed of burning Goals
for her by the persecution and insults
of her male associates, who were OPP
posed to the innovation of women
clerks. I wonder if there are any of
these men left now and what they
think of themselves?
Some years ago / was at q club BAN
quet in Washington where whimsical
genius who was the entertainment
chairman had requested each speaker
to answer for himself or herself the
question, Where were you at the out
break of the civil war, what did you
do and why did you do it?'
Clara Barton was one of the speakers.
She told us modestly of experiences on
the field amid powder smoke and storm
and heat and cold, of searching and
working after battle sometimes TWEEN
ty hours without rest or cessation. She
thrilled US through and through, every
one OF US. am sure. At the close she
said:
why did do it? I don't know
LILLIAN GRAY
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TAN LINEN BLOUSE TRIMMED WITH LACE GALLONS.

telegraphed it to Geneva, the Geneva
committee telegraphed it to their work
ing corps at the front in the Balkans.
Miss Barton wrote of it:
Word came back to me that in less
than forty-eight hours the poor, cold.
benumbed. hungry and perishing vic
tins OF war far away on the mountain
coast OF the Black sea were nesting
under blankets and partaking of food
purchased with the grateful gift of that
comparatively little town hidden away
on the banks of the Ohio
In commemoration OF this prompt aid
- starving people Clara Barton re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
RHEN you don't like to wait Q
ladies?'

ssTHEN you don't like to wait on
laa :!sn,, a,,nno ain. =
actly partial to it,
why? Do they make more trouble
than men ?'
Lawd! This is a restaurant, you
know. It amt hotel. Men comes in.
and they's business men. and they
knows jist what they wants, and they
asks for it. and you've only got to call
out Double up on huckleberry pud-
din'!' and you rushes it to 'em. and
they PUSHES it down and leaves. The
quicker the waitah can bring them
their order the better they likes him.
But ladies'! They comes switchin'
and fioppin in, and they sets down and
they wants one thing and they wants
anothah, and then they don't want it
and then they wants somethin else,
and after they gifts it it don't suit 'em.
They make you change this and change
that and then git them somethip' that
amt on the bill of fare at all. and If
you says you amt got it they snin at
you and say it's Gurus kind of waftah
that won't take the trouble to bring
what they call for.
And then one says to the othah that
| this waitah don't know how to serve
ladies propahly anyhow; then they
changes the whole bill of fare. BY that
time you gifts so ratified that you can't
remember anything, and you gifts be-
hind with your dinnah- Did you know
there was SIGH thing as gittin' behind
with a dinnah when you're servin' ?
And when you once gifts behind you're
stuck. They's a hoodoo on you. and
you never gifts ketched IN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
THE QUEEN in HER GARDEN.

Queen Alexandra has many hobbies
and peculiar interests in life. among
which her love for nature must be reck-
oned one of the most interesting.
Passionately fond of gardening, her
majesty has devoted much time to the
practical side of it and takes a keen
interest in everything that concerns
Horticulture in her beautiful home at
Sandringham. When staying In Nor
folk, she is constantly in and out OF the
magnificent greenhouses which are sc
notable feature of the splendid gar
dens.
Her favorite flowers are said to be
pansies and lilies of the valley, but
roses are much admired by the queen.
Several thousand roses are planted at
Windsor in the moat garden below the
round tower and in the private grounds
OF the home park.
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nurses and doctors at the disposal of
the army medical authorities. In this
way there is no friction, and the regu-
lar army staff welcomes the aid. Miss
Barton and her Red Cross people were
last extensively heard of in connection
with the Galveston disaster. She her
self went to the ruined city and per-
sonally directed the distribution of sup
plies
There is not space here for even an
outline of her work since she, a daugh-
ter of Massachusetts,, first visited
wounded and sick soldiers from her ma
tive state when they were taken to hos