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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
PA, DECEMBEB 5, 1902.
SOOTHING SHOPPING.
A Peaceful Experience at tho East
Morley General Emporium.

A Peaceful Experience at tho East
Morley General Emporium.
The exhausted shopper sank upon
the sofa, while from the open mouth
of her reversed Boston bag poured q
cascade Of little parcels, freshly strug-
gled for at the Monday bargain coun-
tiers.
"Oh," she cried, "why does one have
to shop in the city? Everything is 80
hurried, confused, complex, distractng
and nerve destroying! If l were only
back at East Norley
Last summer while 1 was there l
had to buy yard Of dark blue ribbon,
and l drove over to the one store at
the crossroads to get it. 1t took some
five minutes to convince the amiable
proprietor that l really wanted dark
blue and could not be persuaded to ac-
cept light instead, which he considered
more suitable and becoming to a fair
complexioned person of my years; he
added reassuringly that anybody under
forty was not too young for baby blue.
Another five minutes were given up
to his incredulous reluctance to believe
that two inches wide would not do as
well as three, especially as the three
inch width had been mislaid on a top
shelf and he would have to get step.
ladder to get it down. Several more
minutes passed in the search for the
ladder, its laborious portage from the
cellar, its erection and repair with
piece Of twine, the braces being broken,
and his final ascent to the dim and
dusty upper region, whence the box of
wide ribbons was at length produced.
II found a shade that would do, and
he leisurely measured off yard, fin
gered it, then paused to rub q per-
picked ear and smile ingratiatingly.
Fact is,' he confided sweetly, 4
sold the last pair of scissors in the
store just before you came in, and I've
forgotten my jackknife. It's kind of
awkward cutting 1t off, but I'll man.
age somehow. l guess there's an ak
in the she'd
"He carried the silken roll away
with him as he started with comforta
BILE deliberation to find the ak, which,
though the hunt for it was long and
persevering, evidently could not be
found, for we caught glimpse of him
at last through the half open door to
the back shop severing the required
yard of ribbon with an old chisel.
"It was all so serene, so soothing and
so satisfactory! l believe I shouldn't
be wreck before New Years every
winter If l could only do my Christ
mas shopping at the East Morley gen.
eral emporium. Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

II once threatened to sue an old fel
low in Vermont for $40 that he owed a
client of mine," said New York law
yer, "but the threat did not seem to i'm
press him much.
"'What good will it do you to sue
meP he asked.
at will get the money l answered,
"Here the fellow came up close to me
and said, Say, If that's so, sue me fol
500, won't you, and give me the other
$1O.'
81 gave up hope of collecting that
claim."-New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
"WHY DID THEY TIE HlM7"
Tommy Ii Still Mystined Over the
Nathan Hale Statue

Tommy Il stll Mystined Over the
Nathan Hale Statue.
Mrs. Worth last week came over
from Brooklyn with her precocious
nine yearold son Tommy and walked
with him across the City Hall park
Tommy manifested lively interest in
the Nathan Hale statue. He wanted a
good, long look at it, and his mother
humored him.
Mamma, what's he tied for?" was
Tommy's first question after his search
ing examination.
$50 he can't get away" the proud
mother replied.
as he aliveT was the next question
mo, Tommy; he's made of bronze
and there's no life in that"
'Then he couldn't get away, could
he, mamma
"No, dearest"
''Then what Is he tied forY
"You see, dear, the soldiers caught
him and bound him that way. and then
they hanged him."
did they kill him, mammaT'
eyes, darling"
"Then he is dead, isn't hep
"Yes, love-"
"Then how could he get away"
"Um-er-why, Tommy
"Then why did they tie him, man.
mar
Only the roar of Broadway could be
heard above the intensity Of her 81
lence, and as she led the little fellow
along he echoed over and over what
did they tie him for, mamma Y-New
York Times
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
PhilosOphic Pills.

Lots Of talk about this old world not
being bright one, yet If it went to
blazing first thing you'd do would be
to call out the fire department.
There's always life in the old land,
but the world gets mighty tired digging
SO deep for it.
The charity Of this world covers a
multitude Of sinners that don't care a
straw for any other covering.
Some folks spend so much time In
looking backward they never see the
train coming till it's too late to step
aside-Atlanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
CYNICISMS.

If the average mans salary were as
short as his memory, he would starve
y death.
The trouble with most men is that
their stomachs do more thinking than
their heads.
Remember, the people you would like
to see dead may be the pallbearers at
your funeral.
After a man has done wrong he more
thoroughly understands the Importance
Of keeping secret.
Women of wealth sometimes forget
to speak to laboring women, but they
are afraid to show such pride to the
dressmakers.
1t makes no difference to what church
the family belongs, the daughter usu-
ally selects the most fashionable to be
married in.-Atchison Globe.
The COnyfct,s Motto
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
r EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
L. November l6, 1902.

T EHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
L. November l6, 1902.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FREELAND.
8 l2 m for weatherly, Mauch Chunk
Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Phila-
delphia and New York.
z 20 a m for Sandy Run, White Haven,
Wilkes Barre, Pittston and Scranton.
8 is a IN for Hazleton, Weatherly, Mauch
Chunk. Allentown, bethlehem, Easton,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
8 SO IN for Hazleton, Delano, Mabanoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel.
/ ! 32 m for Weatherly, Manch Chunk, AL
lentown, bethlehem, Easton, Phila-
dephia, New York, Hazlcton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt.
ll4la m for White Haven, Wilkes Barre,
Scranton and the West.
A A. p IN for Weatherly. Mauch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Easton, Philadel-
phia, New York, Hazeton, Delano
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Mt. Cafme.
and Pottsville.
8 33 m for Sandy Run, White Haven,
Wilkes Barre. Scranton and all points
7 30 m MI for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
z 20 a IN from Pottsville, Deano and Haz.
9 l2 m from New York, Philadelphia, Eas.
ton, bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk, Weatherly, Hazleton. Mahanoy
City, shenandoah and Mt Carmel
o SO a m from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
IL 80 a IN from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen-
apdoah, Mahanoy City, Delano and
Hazleton.
l2 35 m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauoh
Chunk and Weatherly.
d a. IN from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
8 33 m from New York, Philadelphia,
Easton, bethlehem Allentown, Mauoh
Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan.
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Hazle-
ton.
z 80 IN from Scranton, Wilkes Barre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire Of Ticket
Agents
ROLLIN Fl. WILBUR, General Superintendent,
26 Cortlandt Street, New York City.
CHAS. s. LEE, General Passenger Agent,
26 Cortlandt Street, New York City.
G. }. GILDROY, Division Superintendent,
HazletOn, Pa,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

The young man in the dress suit was
angry.
II say" he exclaimed, otis deuced
outrage"
"What is?" asked the proprietor Of
the restaurant.
I've been mistaken for waitah
twice" complained the youth.
Thunder and guns!' cried the pro-
prietor excitedly. "We1l have to find
Il way to stop that or l won't be able
to keep any walters. brooklyn Eagle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

mo" grumbled the husband in a
spasm of confidence to a friend, 'T
have no place at all for my books. The
storage room is kept exclusively for
my wife,"
"oh, she puts away those things that
are trife too good to be destroyed,
yet scarcely good enough to be of use"
Brooklyn Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

II heard good story the other day."
began the grocery man, "about GER
tain politician"
"fhat will do" interrupted the dis
appointed officeseeker. "In the first
place, there are no certain politicians"
News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
DR.. DAVID KENNEDYyS
II cured Pa frECk KleIy Of
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After He Employed Five Different Physl.
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FOR

at is with my sincere thanks and
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

"I'm afraid my husband doesn't love
me any more" said the bride Of six
months, with an overgrown sigh.
"When did you discover the change"
asked her mother.
when 1 discovered that he had quit
leaving any change in his pockets" re-
piled the young lady sadly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
And One of Them Went Wrong.

And One OF Them Went Wrong.
Adam was lucky in another way. He
had no friends to come around telling
him how he ought to bring up his boys.
Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

"Your father has a strong box at
home, hasn't he, Willie" said the
teacher.
"Yes'm,' replied Willie; "the one he
keeps the limburger in = Yonkero
Statesman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05
PLEASURE.

December 6.-Masquerade ball OF the
Happy Farmer Club at Dinkelacker's
hall, Butler valley. Tickets, 25 cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-05

Or. DAVID KENNEDY'S CHERRY BAL SAM best for
Colds, Coughs, Consumption. 2sc. SOC, Sioo.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27
Copyright 1902 by Douglas sladen !

copyright 1902 by Douglas Sladen.)
Japan is the antipodes as much as
Australia. If Australia has its Christ
mas at midsummer and its cherries
with stones outside the fruit, Japan
mas its oranges without pips and its
screws which work the reverse way.
and does most other things upside
down from our point of view The wo-
men carry their babies on their backs,
instead of in their arms, and blacken
their teeth, instead of trying to keep
them white. They also try as hard as
they can to look old, and the lower
they are in class, the more considera-
ton they receive from their. husbands.
There is generally, it must be con-
fessed, method in Japanese madness,
but it does look very mad to the unrea-
soning globe-trotter.
rake, for instance, the matter of a
woman carrying her baby behind, in
stead or in front-that is because girls
begin carrying babies so very Young
in Japan that it becomes second ma
ture not to remember the baby at all,
but to go on doing whatever one is do
ing without regarding the baby: in
ONAASA "OA8Aos Ny SAAlS new patent way OIL
carrying a baby woman can work
as well as mind the child-which she
does not mind. In fact, unless it is
her first, the mother does not gener-
ally carry the baby; the last baby, if
1t is a girl and weaned, carries L. Lit
tie japanese girls are weaned uncon-
scionably late, and begin their duties
as women almost as soon as they are
| weaned.
The first duty of woman, in the Jap
anese proverb, is obedience; the first
duty of Japanese woman in practice
is, when she looks about four years
old, to carry the next baby in a haori
(shawD on her back. The baby is fas-
tened so securely that it's little mother
ing sister can play ball or shuttlecock
in spite of the pick-aback The baby
does not cry or laugh-Japanese babies
are very solemn-but mods it's head
and runs at the nose. If there is no
younger sister to carry succeeding
babies as the years advance, the girl
will do her. counting and her house
work with the pick-a-back encum-
brance.
Why They BIacken Their Teeth.
The Japanese woman does not black
en- her teeth under any mistaken idea.
that 1t makes her attractive; she does
1T to make herself unattractive Her
husband is. supposed to know her
value; if he doesn't, he divorces her.
He makes. no provision for her and she
has no dowry from her family, but
divorced woman in Japan nearly al
ways marries again. She brings Moth
ing but a gentle and obedient slave,
and takes nothing away with her but
the same valuable commodity.
The reason why lower class women
receive more consideration from their
husbands than their upper class sis
tiers is that they are capable of earn
ing their own livings. which Japanese
ladies are not. So thoroughly is this
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

York letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
First. know that its young men was
no Impractical kid. In this case he
meant only to revive that good old
custom of "a pair of gloves" as for
felt. When he found her curled up IN
the hammock a magazine slipped from
her listless fingers, newell, VINO
wouldn't! OF a sudden she opened her
blue eyes on him and remarked accus-
ingly, tremble in her voice:
You kissed mel"
He lost nerve, felt all at once dread
fully behind the game and stammered
a denial. II know it was you,' she in
sisted. Evidently there was no DOUBT
in her mind about having been kissed,
it was just a case for Identification.
II am not the only person around,
he ventured. "There's Wilcox going
over the links now. He had to pass
here. And doubtless Dandy Will
liams-"
NO" she interrupted. cit was you,
know it,
Her look froze him, but he gathered
desperate courage. How DO you
know?' he demanded triumphantly.
A flush spread to her pompadour. Did
ever kiss you before?" he asked.
Granting I did kiss you just now" he
was pushing his advantage hard and
she squirmed. Il think / ought to be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

recognized that a lower class woman
divorces her husband If she is not sat
isfied, thing which never happens in
more select circles, unless the woman
Is an heiresS, when the husband is of
as little consideration as a lady. 1t is
only when she has no brothers that
japanese woman may expect money
from her parents. If they have only
daughter to leave their money to, the
, son-in-law has to take her name-and
the consequences.
In households which are uncorrupt-
ed by foreign influences, a woman, of
whatever class, is only a servant, un-
less her husband chooses otherwise.
She is expected to wait on him, brush
and mend his clothes, only speak when
she is spoken to, and always give place
aux hommes. 1t is she who pushes
back the shutter for him to pass
through, and she is expected to walk
pace or two behind him, even when
there is plenty of room for them to go
side by side. 1t makes no difference If
she is a duchecS, nothing makes any
difference, unless her husband Is an
Anglo maniac, except her clothes. If
Japanese buys foreign clothes for his
wife, he may treat her like a foreign
| lady, walk with her beside him. let her
| pass before him-even hand her things.
| maniac, that is, if he likes intercourse
with English and Americans. In Ja-
| pan, Americans are regarded as Eu-
| ropeans, and all Europeans are regard
| ed as English, unless they are profess
sors, when they are Germans. The
Dutch and Portuguese hardly rank as
Europeans, Holland being considered a
colony of Java, Portugal of Macao,
and their representatives rather Asiat-
ioky in appearance.
Japanese WOmen's Dress.
Nor do the Alice through
ing glass characteristics of the Jap
anese woman consist only in her rela-
lions with her husband. Take her
dress, for example. A kimono is more
adapted to the European lady's fig
ure if 1t is worn backside foremost,
and the Partisan costume suits the
Japanese figure better backside fore
most. If the dress comes from Ger
many it does not signify so much be-
cause the Germans are broad-minded
in their notions of fit.
A we'll dressed Japanese woman is
tied in at the knees so that she may
not seem to walk too freely. Japanese
women do not wear gloves, which is a
great saving to their families, seeing
that every glove in Japan which is not
sealed up in a pickle bottle or bis
cult tin, gets the spotty mold in the
first few hours of the rainy season.
When her hands are cold she pulls
them up into her sleeves, which are
long and hanging, as they were when
King Arthur's court began, and "he
had three ancient serving-men, and all
of them were thieves" Doubtless those
ancient serving-men, like the modern
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

quisite materials and workmanship.
When you have seen a Japanese but
ton (netsuke) you cease to wonder at
their not going into buttonholes. for
the button may be three or even more
inches long, and for the most part
takes the form of a human figure in
some grotesque attitude. The best ones
are made of ivory. but those carved
by famous masters out of odd SNAPPED
roots are even more priced, because
the Japanese values expensive unos-
Righteousness as much as British mid
die class householder of the era of solid
dining room furniture did. The net
suke is familiar object in England
now, where it Is used instead of the
china parrot for the blind cords OF art
blinds. 1t is also used for sprinkling
ehmantelpieces to insure the servant
busting them.
/ have said that the lower a Japa-
nese woman is in class the more con-
sideration she receives; it is true. also.
that the lower her class, the prettier
she is. A Japanese grisette-the
mousmee of literature-is capable of
being as pretty as any grisette ever
painted by Greuze. The type Greuze
painted for his Girl at the Fountain
the Japanese mousmee. Her eyes are
mostly black, but unless she has a
spark of good breeding they need not
be almond shaped, and differ little
from those of Europeans. The lower
class Japanese have a racial element
in them which has never been salts
factorily accounted for.
1t is the custom to say that the Jap
anese are a half Malay. half Mongo-
Ian people, the Monaghan type being
more prominent in the aristocracy and
the Malay in the people. But these
two races do not, in my mind account
for this type. One could readily be-
lieve that the soft beauty of the Japa-
anese peasant girl is accounted for by
an infusion of the blood of the gentle
brown races of the South Pacific ISL
ands, with whose natures she has so
much in common. 1t Is lucky for her
that she is pretty and gentle and good,
for Japan is a mans country, where
women are regarded as mere conven-
fences,
The Japanese talk of the three obed-
fences for a woman. She has to obey
her father till she is married, her hus-
band while she is married, and her
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27
IGipLsPLAYinc on koro AMP sAnIser


japanese woman, had their sleeves
half hemmed up for pockets.
The Japanese woman carries in her
sleeve a pocket handkerchief, which is
generally made of paper; a gaudy silk
case containing her op-sticks-you
take your feeding tools with you to
japanese meal instead of finding them
on the table-and another gaudy silk
case, which contains a looking glass
which isn't made of glass, but silver
colored bronze; her pocket comb, which
is of no use, but a piece of foreign
swagger; and her pot of lip salve,
which is not intended to soften the
lips, since kissing is not a Japanese
custom, but to color them to an i'm
probable crimson. She may keep her
fan and her smoking materials in her
sleeve, but she more often has them
suspended from buttons.
The Japanese do not use buttons for
buttoning; they stick them through
their sashes and let them hang down
by silver chains or silken cords, to the
other end of which they attach their
fans, their smoking kit, their medicine
chests, and perhaps their pen and ink.
All this sounds formidable, not to say
| unlikely, but there is still method in
| the Japanese madness.
The medicine chest Qnro) consists of
| little trays fitting into each other and
a cover, and would go into a cigar
| case; their ink is in the dry Indian
| form; and their pen is paint brush
| struck in the end of a bamboo shoot
They carry their tobacco in a purse,
| and smoke it in a little brass pipe
| hardly big enough to hold a cigarette.
1t only holds about three whiffs, which
would be inconvenient in a land where
the natives do not use matches, though
they forge foreign brands, if it were
not for the fact that there is hardly a
room in Japan which has not a piece
of charcoal smouldering in it on a to-
bacco stove tobacco mono), a finger
stove (hibachD, or a cooking stove,
which looks like a tool box with its
lid replaced by a scullery sink full of
gray ash. The pen and the pipe have
each their case made like the card
board cases in which razors are sold,
but of elegant workmanship and often
of costly materials
1t is only in cases and buttons that
Japanese woman can indImye her
taste for jewelry The japanese have
no such thing as jewelry in our sense
of the word any more than they have
oaths or bad language. Gold Is very
little used, and even silver is more
used for inlaying other metals than for
making things. The japanese silver
crumb trays which we see -over here
are foreign ideas constructed on for
eign models. The Japs have no crumbs,
not having any bread. The Japanese
woman's idea of jewelry is to have her
tobacco purse or her pipe case of ex-