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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28
VOL. Xxx.
PIANO ECONOMY.

You come to us with confidence because you realize
the unusual that to this great organization
the largest wholesale retail distributors Pianos and
Organs in the trade You buy direct from manufacturers
you buy with confidence here too knowing worthy de-
pendable character of instruments
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28
Lumber Wa nted.
Eor Sale.

JNOR SALE-New milch cow years; also
Il ten other nice young cows and good Jcr-
sey bull. +. j. JOHNSON. Newfane. VT. Att
NOR SALE-TwO-stOry house and lot. stu-
II ated on Estcy ST., in EsteyVille, belonging
10 the IL. ID. Wellman estate Must be sold at
once to close estate. II. G.. BARBER, Admr
LNOR SALE OR TO RENT. My house and
II barn; house suitable for two tenements,
four rooms each; pantry, closets, furnace, etc
MARTIN SCOTT, ~ Forest ST., or enquire of
Freeman Scott, l23 Main st. 4l-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28
Special 9ntires.

WISH to correspond with woman about IS
l. years old; matrimonial intentions. Ad-
dress A, Phoenix Office. 4S-lw
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28

Factories rushed orders-why
let us deliver later; you better
Liberal allowance for your old Observation-Disclosures
cash or easy monthly payments
Unusual values in used Pianos and Organs
have Upright, Mahogany case full size Piano latest
improvements, ivory keys soft pedal etc. year
factory, reduced from $500 to $195.
Fine Square, cost $780, new, 500
Handsome Sterling Organ nearly new S4s
Handsome New England Organ nearly $50
Handsome Smith American Organ at $a5
Piano and Organ Stools, Silk Plush Piano scarfs
structon Books, Music Cabinets
finer useful things Holiday gifts?
Do you know carry fifteen twenty-five Pianos
of half different open you to Sc
lect from?
them
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d@anted.

NHOPPERS wanted. s. A. SMITH Com
~ pany, Brattlcboro, Vt. 40tf
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T OST.-A black and tan female hound: 500
IL will be paid for information leading to its
recovery. II. A. HOLMAN, Hinsdae, n. II.
46-4S
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10 8ent.

yTNo RENT-Upstairs tenement at 81 North
l. Main st. 45-tt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28

1t is not economy to buy cheap instrument.
1t is economy to buy good instrument cheap.
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LNSTRAY. Came into my pasture in Dunn
II merston, two-year-old heifer. black
with white markings. The owner is hereby re-
quested to prove property, pay charges and
take her away. 1870 J. II. HILDkETH.
STRAYED or stolen from my pasture, a
- light red COW II years old. | would be glad
of information as to her whereabouts. The
pasture is known as the james Stoddard pas
ture near Mr.. Bnck's. HENRY COBB, Towns
hend. VT. 4S-jD
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ITO RENT-Two furnished rooms at 81 Canal
i street. A. If
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NTANTED-Soft wood lumber of all kinds
w Either standing timber or delivered at
mill. HOLDEN g. MARTIN, Brattleboro 46tf
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TENEMENT TO RENT. Inquire of II. B
i LARkIN, Brattleboro, VT. Is
rINO RENT-Small tenement-trst fioor-en-
Il trance both Clark and Canal Streets ST.
MRS. +. s. MORSE, ~ Canal st. IS
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
DRESSING THE TREE.
How 1t May Be Done to Secure the
Best Effects.

The Woman's Home Companion
gives some hints on decorating a
Christmas tree safely. 1t is we'll
known that when tapers are fixed
to the laden branches, after the
gifts are taken off the lightened
boughs spring up and often set each
other on fire. The mode indicated
here avoids all that. ~:
~'First,' says the Companion, thin
cut the branches sufficiently to: al
low the gifts to show to good adj
vantage. Then with an auger bore
holes in spiral row about four
or five inches apart the whole length
of the trunk. Have some fat sticks
prepared, an inch wide and half an
inch thick, and of varying lengths.
Sharpen one end, and insert them
according to their graduated lengths,
giving each a blow or two with a
hammer to insure it's being firmly
fixed. Paint them. green. At the
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
Oil as Medicine.

In Levantine countries they say the
external use Of oil prevents rheuma-
tism, govt and other kindred maladies,
which are aggravated by external
ch1lls, and that the internal use Of the
oil removes the toxic condition of tho
blood which leads to the generation Of
these maladies. .
Heavy Monetary Transaction.
It is said that in ono day recently
howard rockingham, representing
the associated banks on the door Of
the New York exchange, loaned $1s.-.
GOO, 900 At an average interest Of 1z3k
par Cent 81 - -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
Air Propeller in. Operation.

Air Propeller in Operation. F.
BY lar the most novel exhibit shown
at the recent German motor launch
exhibition on the Wannsee, at Berlin,
was boat depending for its propul-
sion upon an air propeller, thus pre-
senting in concrete an idea which for
the last ten years has been periodi-
cally bobbing Mp. ...z5s.s...s
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
7%1 x y 7F7r* 7 1E
R.n.beeuM
outer end the candle holder is firmly

outer end the candle holder is firmly
fixed"
TO the topmost branch before the
tree is put up, affix the "Christ-child'
the winged doll, secured by slight
rubber bands under the wings. Gilt
paper stars and crescents are pref
ty, affixed here and there to the
boughs. Gay silk and carleton bags
full of nuts and candy, oranges and
spp1es, bundles of stick candy tied
with, ribbons, little baskets and
cornucopias of figs and raisins, gild-
e6 walnuts, popcorn balls, strings OF
popcorn and cranberries, candy
canes, paper chains-all these and
other things they will suggest will
decorate tree so prettily that the
children for whose pleasure it is con-
structed will forget, in their delight,
that it is not weighted down with
costly gifts.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12

Christmas Etiquette.
No holluay joy can be complete to
those who have not tried to make
other hearts happier. This is Christ
mas etiquette.-Ladies Home Journal.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12
Good Insurance Risks.

:. -. Good Insurance Risks.
Talking about ages and Longevity,
insurance people say that the life of
a Jew: is 40 per cent more valuable
than that OF any other people except
Quakers and preachers. =.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12

I'D you hear what the old
man said to me when he
gave me the ten?" asked
Robert Allerton of the
bright-faced cashier as
they prepared to close the
Office the night before
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-12

An in hearts IT, lind O. oxe at mates Teller &kadl
Till a"ere a. happy no $aees mother s1as an dad
Housto Post.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
a Hint to the Home-Mdker.

"There's one idea at least in home deco
ration that the magazines devoted to
that subject have not heard of. re-
ma rked an observant young man with a
keen sense of the artistic. Continuing.
he said: Il visited my sister recently.
and, knowing the rather limited means
of her husband, ] was much surprised
at the many beautiful pictures that deco
rated the walls throughout the house
water colors they seemed to be, and the
touch of the master hand was apparent
ly evident They were framed very ap-
propriately. too-the frames Of many diff
ferent kinds Disgusting the similarity of
the pictures. I asked my sister how she
happened to have such a wealth of art.
She smiled and told me the secret Every
time she saw really artistic half-tone
print-plain black and white, you know
in any of the popular magazines. she cut
it out and mounted the picture on a
heavy piece of cardboard. Then with a
bog of water colors she herself painted
over the print, the varying lights and
shades being exquisitely brought out
merely through the transparency OF tho
colors She informed me, too, that but
little technique was required to produce
beautiful results. but that an artistic in
stinct was necessary in selecting proper
frames, so as to relieve the idea OF
monotony where a large number was de-
sired for the decoration of the house
beautiful I might add that In my opin-
ion half the secret of my sisters success
lay in the excellent judgment she used
in the selection Of subjects. '-railadel-
phia Record.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
was going to say monotony, of a perfect

was going to say ronotony, of perfect
" smooth throat.
The absolutely beautiful woman Is
statue, and very often a few little defects
give her life
The beautiful woman may appeal to our
artistic sense. but seldom to any other
sense.
In her presence we feel benuulbed.
and. as we get quite close to her, we
often have sensation akin to that of a,
man with no clothes on leaning against
the North Pole.
She is naughty and seldom cheerful.
She has no sense of humor. She ever
stands sentry at the door Of her majesty,
and as she walks. stands and sits, she
never lcses sight of her Outlines.
If she were your wife you feel you
would have to spend your life IN con-
slant daily fear lest you should crumple
something and break the symmetry OF
the whole ensemble.
The sensation would be very much like
tho one you have in some OF those old
fashioned puritanical houses where you
. find all the chairs placed In row against
the wall at perfectly equal distances
You dare not sit down for fear OF caus-
ing immediate disorder and confusion. If
Won are pressed, and you do sit down.
you want to apologize, for. somehow, II
doesn't seem fair on the furniture.
The beautiful woman is to be admired
at a. respectful distance, like the Venus
de Milo In the Louvre, who is seen at
her best from the beginning of the suite
~ rooms at the end of which she stands
IN all her unapproachable. majestic
beauty.
/ object to perfection in general, and
the beauty Of woman makes no exception
TO nv rule I am not happy or contented
when I find nothing to be desired
I sometimes like to suggest myself my
own little improvements to a sight OF
nature, to a work of art L IKE nay
ina gination to be at work.
The beautiful woman is seldom clever
and seldom interesting, Like the pea
cock. she should be seen and not heard
At school or college she did not stoop
over books, because it might have spoil
ed her figure. ard her hands never
stroked her head for fear of disarransihs
her hair and native genius seldom goes
with great beauty. Female seniuses are.
40 rule. we'll labeled by a thoughtful
Providence who saw that man ran Few
OF no risks.
The perfectly beautiful woman should
no avoided as much as perfect genfuses
| in the tender relations of the sexes.
Madame de Stae1, George Sand aud
| George Eliot were manly in figure ana
| gait, and very plain
| Rachel was not beautiful. 1t would De
| ungallant to mention some others VINO
| are still alive.
| Beautiful ard pretty women are neHe.
Jealous of female gentuses, for oeauti1ui
| women are the MASTERPIECES or creation
| the female geniuses are its freaks
| On the other hand. the most famous ie-
male genius might resent being told that
| she was not beautiful.
Talleyrand vas one day sitting at table
between Madame de stael and the ex'
rujsite1y beautiful Madame Recamier-
| Here I ann." ha remarked, sitting pc
| tween Genius ard Beauty.
| without nossessins either. retorteI
Madame de- stae1. pioued at the remark
OF The willy statesmean. who was very
ugly raan.-Max O'Rell-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12

than the hundred trifles which consssne
quite as much time while yielding Tar
less desirable result. As a consequences
these long winter evenings and dull, dreary
days find girls and women hemstitchlns
frills, whipping on lace edginss, running
fine tucks, feather stitching and perform
ing similar feats of neeolework that will
be seen later in snowy lingerie and dainty
wrappers. in jackets for wear within
ones own room or at the family breaH>
fast.
For the lingerie cambria. long cloth,
nainsook, fine lawn and the newer Parls
muslin make the favorite materials, all
though many women cling to the old
fashioned fire soft muslin, holding it
more durable and not less agreeable TO
wear. Preferred trimmings are Valen-
ciennes, torchon and other cotton laces,
ruffles OF point d'esprit net, embroideries
and ruffles Of linen lawn. hemstitched
with rows of feather stitching above.
Tucks are everywhere, when possible
hand run, otherwise, finely stitched by
machine and nothing makes more at
tractiye finish. Both torchon and the
German Valenciennes laces are durable
and amply repay their cost, tut MANY OF
the cotton laces, while extremely pretty
when new, are perishahle in the ex-
trcme. Mechlin shrinks to nothing and
many others fall into holes. F'rills CT
linen lawn, or Of point d'esprit are charm
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12

silk velvet that brushes every time any
ncdy locks hard at it. My dressnakns
warned me to be careful OF it-atter I'd
ought 1t and had it cut-and I've done
renaDce ever since.
I've walked miles and miles because
knew a street car would ruin 1t, and
can't always take carefully padded
curriage. I've stood up everywhere 1
could, and I've picked out chairs that
hadn't buttons in their upholstery. One
night was invited to theatre party,
and when I arrived a trItiIe late I found
a cane-seated chair ready for me. en-
dured agonIes for one whole act, and
when my husband came lack after tho
interuission I rushed out 10 meet MN
and made him tell our hostess he'd just
had a telephone message that oahy was
desperately LII with Group and we'd havs
to go home. just had TO get away from
that dreadful cane-seateH chair some way.
Last week I was invited TO luncheon
at a house never miss going to when I
ran. I dressed myself, and then re-
membered the dining-roon, there has
chair seats of embossed leather, with big
| tacks on the edges. couldn't think or
getting the pattern of these chairs stamp
| ed In my gown, and I hadn't the nerve
| 10 ask for a plain cushion, so l mad 20
send word was suddenly taken III, ana
: that necessitated my staying at nome
| three days and missing two other Things
! I was dying to go to. l gnash my teeth
every time I see that velvet gown. l m
| ,o;rr TO have It washed and trorsd- Per-
| hans II will look like MIRROR velvet then.
| At least I shall be able TO sit down IN
| II without having heart failure. end II
! It's ruined utterly, shall hardly 90
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
The Latest Craze.
ping-Poug and How TO Play IA Brand New
Game.

There Is a brand new game In town.
In England, where 1t has been In vogue
some time. It Is known as ptns-pons'
over here II is called. table tennis. says
the New York Sun. Table tennis IL
NOT particularly new. but TINS table ten
mis- is so new here that 1t IS just Being
taken I'D in this city and Is scarcely
known outside % New York. which gets
all good things first In England ping
pong is craze.
The game i. simplicity itself 1t 10
playatie on an ordinary dining room
table. It is lawn tennis in miniasi-a
with a few modification net sup
ported by movable posts Is strstcheo
across the table and the bail IS pa .,.'
hacL and forth across thc net. me
n,svine surface is not subdivided into
courts as In lawn tennis All you nave
| 10 do Is to knock the ball gack ana
| fo-+b over tn. net The implement or
n-op,,lsion is much the same as ten
nis racquet. It Is smaller. and instead
| ~ o,ft strirgx single piece OF Teilub Is
rseS tightly stretched. as drumhead-
| when the ball strikes this there Is
! -nu,ica! ring. clear. oell-Ike ptns-pons
| sound. which gave the game Its Ensiish
,,u, You hit the ball with ping IL
| comes flying hack with pong and De-
| tuser III. music Of the contract ana tne
| snrvpsss required to return the oaih
| YOUR ears. eyes and muscles are Asps
busy.
THE ball IS an important factor IN tho
game. The nature OF its construction
has had much 70 do with making t'is
game possible and popular. Inc pau -
hollow and made of celIuioid IS
very lively bali as full OF bouncing quail
ties az a rubber bal and moreover Is
60 Iisht that it Will not break glass Be
ing comparatively harmless when II h,ts
ANYTHING Its lightness is its cnief recon-
,,erdatfon The rules of the new taoia
| tennis say that dinins-room table about
,ina to seven feet long and half ths
| usstb il the s,sst 70 play on: also that
.1,obt,v bsfors the fire will improve their
.,as,fcjty,. The warnino courses cannot
ha recommended for the balls since
| the latter are made Of csiiuloid and
neat nigh: result In their speedy van-
| isfrent.
two persons play the game. One IS
| the server. .he other the striker out. Az
ter the first game the server becomes
! the str!ker-out and vice versa Only ur.-
| serhand service Is permitted and there
| f. no second service as In lawn tennis
| On the whole the ruies are much the
| same as lawn tennis. One imnortant ak
ceot,on. however, la that no vollsvtng 70
/ allowed There are deuce and love
Eend Sets and all that sort Of thfn4.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
The Year Book.

II -
Last folio of forgotten ages
First Of the years of Gods New Cen
fury;
What blood and tears and tragedies
Have stained and blurred the closely
lettered pages!
What prophecies there he;
Transcendent courage, Chr!st-hke sac
rifiCes;
What Inspiration from the lips Of sages.
Eyentful year: a queen in splendor sleep
ing,
A nation weeping at her castle gate
The people loved her and she tarried late.
Most cruel year; a great Republic keep
ing
Its Chieftain's holiday; incarnate hate
We know not else to call it-struck the
blow
That brought deaths pallor to the snil-
ing face
Beloved. great in life. supreme in death,
His last words sweet with tenderness and
Calmly he yielded up his struggling
breath
Without mur,ner, Since God wills it
so''
The cloud that drifts athwart our eyes
may have a silver side.
We may not know his purpose when we
ask that sorrows cease;
But knowing not. we pray and pray-the
New Book open wide
Ring in, o joyous bells, ring in the thou
sand YEars OF Peace.
-E. c. Tompkins. in Frank Leslie's Pop
nlar Monthly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
Dainty Lingerie and
tempting Negligees.

lily some process OF progression not
known to any written law, midwinEer is
apt to be given over TO white work and
the making of the daintest summer gowns
and waists. 1t would seem that winter
wardrobes being complete, tho minds of
their wearers run at once to the opposite
extreme and find delight in planning and
making garments that arc designed for
midsummer wear, or the dainty lingerie
that every woman likes to find III fresh
readiness with the opening of spring.
In spite OF the fact that the first dis-
play of summer materials has already
been made, it is little early TO speak
authoritatively upon how they are to be
made Next week hope to be able TO
tell YOU all about both the materials and
the styles, but for the present must con-
fine myself to the fascinating negisees
and the teuptingly pretty white wear that
lie so close to every woman's heart.
Gowns, cloaks. furs, jewels can pass
without a sigh said a woman of re-
Sinement with only moderate means, but
dainty un6ergarnents. charming break
fast jackets and ncsligees hold me SPELL
s>ound." and in 50 saving She but echoed
the thought OF thousands more To tie
conscious OF the rustic Of silk petit
coat or to feel the equivalent satisfac-
ton OF knowing that the underskirt of
cambria is. finely tucked and edged with
dainty lace is to feel a satisfaction that
no tailor-maoe costume. no imported hall
gown can ever quite equal. To enfo!d
oneself in a soft. warm lace-trimrned
wrapper while resting before making a
dinner toilet is to know a sense Of luxury
that no sables ever yet gave, Wise wo-
men, bearing all these facts in mind, give
8hc leisure that Is apt to come after the
holidays and with the quiet OF Lent. TO
their planning. II not to their making.
and not few do the latter part Of the
work themselves
FINE HANDWoRK,
Fine handwork is .. craze and luxury
IN one. Nothing else takes its place.
5 Tsourhs IN the form OF ready-made gar
xnents or paid for a. skilled labor prices
Il means big cost: but done in ones lei
sure hours Il becomes fancy work OF
1eacticel yet not less fascinating. sort
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
The Charming Woman
Preferable to the Beautiful One, According to
Max O'Rell.

Max O'Rell.
I prefer pretty women TO the beau
tiful woman and like the charming wo-
man best CT all.
The pretty woman remains pretty lon
ger than the beautiful woman remains
beautiful. and the charming woman lasts
forever.
e The beautiful woman Is often selfish
8 ard ccncaited. the pretty woman sell,
%1om, and the charrlir g woman never.
Do i object to perfect beauty IN a, wo-
z re T Z 'aeI Ind fault With regular feat
ures, with classical outlines and absolute
Attic figure.
Well. no-yet. there Is something cold
about perfection. and have known the
whole charm OF a won an to be- If not
actually produced. at any rate enhanced
by a few little defects: a nose slightly
turned up. an Austrian upper lip showing
the teeth and making the mo nth just
a little disdainful;; a suspicion OF small
salt-cellar breaking 4 the uniformity.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
Mrs. DaDis' Husband.

-. This funny little tale is told at Mr..
Davis expense:
On one of his recent trips, a fellow
passenger picking up acquaintance with
hin. and not knowing his Identity, start
ed in conversation.
It very soon turned to dogs. which
seemed to be very popular topic With
tho stranger.
Shortly learning that his new-madr ac-
oraintance's name was Davis, he inquired
of Mr.. Davis If he was not the MIR
Davis, owner OF some noted dog kennels.
Mr. Davis replied in the negative and
added that he was Richard Harding
Davis.
To this the stranger replied with great
emphasis:
"Why, of course, I've often heard of
you Mr.. Davis: you are the man whose
wife's bulldog takes all the blue ribbons
al the shows"
At last, at last, the great Richard Is
known as the husband Of Mrs. Davis!
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12

Janus as I; Oldest Of potentates.
Forward I look and backward and pc
low
count-as god Of avenue and gates
The years that through my portals
come and go. ,,s
block the roads and drift the teios
with snow, 500,
I chase the wild fowl from the frozen
ZEN; .,a,-
MY frosts CONCEAL the rivers IN theis
flow,
NV fires light up the heartts and hearts
Oh nen. -Lonsfellow.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12

as an evening and carriage wrap. but as
it always carries the negligee idea, its
close neighbor seems to me to find the
truer place in these garments designed
for hours of relaxation. Gorgeous ex-
amples are made Of Chinese embroidered
silks and satins, but, as in all things Of
the sort, there are simpler materials by
the score, that give most satisfactory
effect. MAY MANTON.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12
TIE Woes of tie
T,elyet GoqDn Woman.

eft i am the leading lady in funeral
before spring. sald a woman who gees
everywhere, 81 want MY obituary hean.
cd Died from a velvet gown car, can
sr,rd obut one really handsome visiting ,ls
gown in season. and this year. oy Z. ITO 60
advice Of a dear friend. invested N - :
velvet goHn-nots a durable yelVeteen, ous