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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
A MIX-UP OF STYLES.
slipping Eject Hard to Obtain on
Shoulders That Are Proc
nouncedly Square.

Discriminating dressmakers have
serious problem to settle just now,
says fashion authority.
In the 1880 designs, which are fast
becoming the smartest and newest of
fashions for 1908, the cape, revers, man
telet and pereline play an important
part. The grave question to be decided
Is whether their gracefully falling
lines, which are inseparably associated
with the sloping shoulders of long ago,
will seem tolerable on the square,
sometimes pointedly square, shoulders
of to-day.
Ihe cape, revers, mante1et, and pere-
line are here, along with the immense
moving sleeves and voluminous frilled
skirts, and about IS women out of so
have square shoulders. 1t will be seen.
therefore, that the question is of i'm
portance.
AS to just what is the best thing to
DO under the circumstances opinion is
much divided at present Many women
OF an independent cast of mind, and
some others who believe in piquant
contrasts, maintain that the fact that
sloping shoulders were once worn with
capes and perelines is no reason why
square ones shouldn't become them
just as well. But that the eternal fit
ness of things cannot be eluded so
lightly is shown by the fact that the
illustrators who seek to adapt their
handsome girls to the prevailing style
OF dress and the dress to the girls have
OF late considerably toned down the
aggressive squareness of shoulder,
which only short time ago was one
OF the most valuable possessions of
each proprietary type of girl.
Square shoulders have been admired
from time to time. The Egyptians ad-
mlred them and so did the Greeks, but
from the days of Venus de Medici until
they came in again with the pre-
Raphaelites they were eclipsed by the
luxurious fall and Clytie-like droop of
the shoulders called swanlike by the
poetical and champagne bottle by the
irreverent.
The high favor of the sloping shout
der came IN the '30s, with the fashions
which demanded their support and
became them so well that the combined
influence of fashion and shoulders pre-
vailed for three decades. In themselves
these were gracious fashions, rich,
moving, half concealing, half reveal
ing. A trif1e too abundant for the stout
woman they may have been, but a
Dressing for the thin one.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
PHOTOGRAPHS EVERYWHERE.
In Hatpins, Belt Buckles, Clocks and
on TOmbstones Now
adays.

photographs of real people are seen
in odd situations nowadays, says the
New York Sun.
photographs of members of ones
family or friends have long been COM
mon in brooches, watch fobs, neck
charms and badges, but now they are
set in the most inconsequent of dress
essentials and toilet appointments
A girl fastens on her hat with pin
that ends off in her sweetheart's pic
ture or reflects the features of her
baby sister.
The mother wears her sons likeness
set in one half of belt buckle, with
his wife's picture perhaps as a COM
panion piece.
The minister's features ornament
the end of a deacon's walking cane or
show out in the handle of his umbrella.
The beau has his loves photograph
On his match safe or in ring setting
of bulb-like proportions.
A glimpse at the catalogue of the
most up-to-date Photographic jewelry
shows pencil tops, bracelets with four
and five bangles, cuff links and hair
fasteners all decorated with portraits.
Some are tinted on porcelain and set in
q framework of lacquered metal; 9TH
ers are black and white, chased gilt
and plated silver setting.
The most striking of the hatpins
and dress fasteners are encircled with
hre-eyed or grass-green stones. Others
are set in glittering white brilliants.
when the likeness on the hatpin is of
an elderly man or woman, maybe the
father or mother Of the wearer. the
contrast between the sober, common
place features and the gay setting is
interesting.
photographs kept as treasures and
mementos may be the occasion of vanity
to the original, but not even the veriest
coxcomb, it would seem, could feel fiat
tered at seeing his picture on hatpin.
on the initial stick of fan or in the
handle of parasol.
Not only articles of adornment now
boast the familiar photograph. They
are set In paper weights and on the
upper left-hand corner of clocks. are
even mounted in vases and on the backs
OF hand mirrors and of brushes of va.
rious sorts. And the visitor to any one
OF the popular cemeteries may discern
them set behind glass as the chief or.
nament of gravestones.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

OF standing out square and warlike
they are curved and pretty.
You cannot make them wholly Sion
ing at the first trial, but you can do
something for them. You can slope
them little. Draw the abdomen in
throw the upper part of the chest out
as lar as you can. Now, with mighty
effort pull down the shoulders. throw
ing them back at the same time.
An exercise to assist the square
shouldered girl is one that can be per
formed with the pockethandkerchie
Take the handkerchief by the ends
and twist the ends until the hanr]ker-
chief is "a long, tough, string affair
Now take the ends in hand and see.
saw them across the back of the neck
continually.
Ihls is fine exercise, but as soon as
the girl athlete can manage it she must
try not to touch her neck with the
handkerchief. She must hold her arms
behind her head, but the handkerchief
must not touch the neck. There is a
certain shoulder exercise to be oh
tanned in this manner which is very
refreshing
Another exercise is to take the
handkerchief by one end and fling it
around her head. In the loose end she
must tie weight, and thus. with the
handkerchief in her hand, she sits and
hlngs 1t to the breezes. This waving
exercise is good practice for the Shout
ders and it gives them a certain poise
and agility. so to speak, which will
prove very useful in the search for
sloping shoulders
Carrying dumb bells in the hands
has also been recommended. But this
is tiresome. ltdoes the work, but one
becomes weary. The dumb-bells which
are heavy are merely carried aboat.
not swung, the object being to exert
pull upon the arms and the shoul-
6ers.
Rowing is one way to make the shout
ders slope. The one who is exercising
must take the rowing position. This
as nearly everyone knows, is a sitting
one, with the knees slightly bent and
the arms out. In the absence of a
pair OF oars one can grasp the table
legs or any other firm support for the
arms. The game is to pun long. long
pull and strong, strong pull, but not
long enough or strong enough to in.
jure the back.
A continuation of such exercises as
these viii in time give curve to prac.
ticaily any pair of square shoulders.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

form of the sandal tan slipper that is
attracting notice has three straps
which fasten with brass harness buck
les.
White ties, and ties OF. white suede
and tan leather combined will be used
for dressy outing. The tennis shoes
are about what they were last year,
and also the riding boots.
Brilliant as are the seasons shoes
and slippers, the stockings easily keep
pace with them. The black silk lead
with their usual quiet popularity
only some are not so very quiet this
season. One finds them plain and
ribbed and open-worked as of yore, but
many are of fancifulness that de-
lights and surprises.
Some are inset with long, elliptical
medallions of black thread lace, 9TH
ers with similar medallions of black
net embroidered in color. Some are
striped up and down with lines of tiny
steel beads, others with lines of black
spangles.
Some are embroidered with stately
clocks of severe lines, others with
| clocks not SO severe that burst into
little rockets of flowers at the tops.
Some are dotted with little rosebuds
or wreaths of minute flowers, or bright
sunbursts; and the favorite grape de-
sign trails over others.
A great rose adorns the instep of
some of the most charming, the stem
of the flower scrolling up from the
toe of the stocking. There is really
no limit to the variety of black silk
embroidered stockings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The number of German steamers in
1871 was ISL; in 1897 this number had
increased to 1925.
For picking up and kissing little
boy in the street Birmingham eng
land) man has been fined 40 shillings,
or one months hard labor, for as
sault.
Native feelings in India have been
Eurt by the new rupee, because the
king appears on it without his crown.
To be bareheaded is repugnant to
the oriental.
Glasgow corporation is about topro-
vide work for the unemployed in that
city, and the difference of cost be-
tween the wages paid and the value
received is to be borne by the "com-
mon good fund.
The Chinese board of revenue has
completed the census of China, show
ing it to have population of 1885,
447,OO The numbers of inhabitants
in Manchuria, Mongolia, Thibet and
Turkestan are estimated.
Japan's government report shows
that insurance policies aggregating
S99,0S3,9 39 are carried by Janapese.
One of the Leeds (England) magis-
trates, has calculated that last year
6 1856 was spent in drink in that
city.
A benefit concert for two murder
ers, whose guilt was proved, but
whose friends wanted funds for
last appeal, was recently given at
Brisbane, Queensland. After the con-
cert the father, brother and sister
of the murderers (who were broth
ers) appeared on the stage and were
applauded.
The old Calvert home, at Mount
Airy, Nd, which for, more than two
centuries has sheltered the descend
ants of the first Lord Baltimore, was
offerd at public auction recently, but
was withdrawn from sale because
only half of it's actual value was bid.
Il is rumored that Secretary of State
Hay will be among the bidders when
the property shall be offered again.
The mansion was built in 1860, and
was primarily used for the Calverts
as shooting box, but was later en-
larged. renovated and made the per-
manent home of the family.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
HOW GOLD NUGGETS GROW.
Observation Shows They Increase I'm
Weight with the Lapse
of Years.

Gold in its natural state, like many
other products of the earth, is an ar
ticle of development. What its original
elements are is still matter of some
speculation, but the fact has been
demonstrated that a nugget of the
precious metal left in it's original en-
vironments will gradually though slow
ly attract to itself minute particles of
gold dust and after the lapse of years
possess an added value, says mining
journal. Gold is known to have grown
on mine timbers which have long been
immersed in mine water. In the Cali
fornia State Mining Bureau museum
J there is specimen Of piece of jointed
cap and post taken from the Comstock,
where it had been under water for
years, in which gold has formed in the
joints and pores of the wood.
Gold is constantly being formed in
rocks and veins and placers. Just what
it is that the baby gold formation
feeds on to effect its growth is not
known; 1t 1T were new and wonder
fully lucrative industry might be born
and all other kinds of farming save the
growing of gold might temporarily be
abandoned. The formation and growth
are due to mechanical and chemical c-
ton. AS in the case of the animal or
vegetable, existing gold has existed in
some other state before assuming its
present form. Waters which percolate
through the earth's crust are said to
contain substance from which gold is
formed. Thus gold. like the animal
and vegetable, must have, water in or.
der to thrive. The gold in the water is
deposited when it meets the proper
precipitant. The precipitant may be
an earth current of electricity, some
vegetable growth or chemical in the
rocks.
1t has been claimed that the nuggets
found in placers are the formations
from the waters that percolate through
the gravels and are not from decom-
posed quartz, as generally supposed.
Those who so contend cite the fact that
in the center of nuggets can be often
found small grain of iron sand. This
was the nucleus around which the
earth current of electricity created or
deposited in electroplating. During
long ages this influence was at work
causing the gold to form around the lit
tie grain of iron ore and then grow tc
become bright, shining nugget of
gold much larger and purer than any
ever found in the veins of ore.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

Killing turtle with an arrow seems
a very difficult feat, since a very hard
shell covers practically all Of the ami
NAL, yet the natives of the Andaman
islands kill huge turtles with arrow.
as easily as American sportsmen kill
rabbits with shot. Accustomed from
their childhood to use bows and ar
rows, they soon become wonderfully
skilled in the use of these primitive
weapons. and. as they know the place.
where the turtles congregate, it is
easy for them sat any time to bring
home good bag of game. Sometime
they try their skill on large fish, and,
though the latter are harder to kill
than turtles, there are few island
ers who rarely miss their mark
Fishing Gazette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

cy toward elaboration and
picturesque extravaganza is reflected
in footgear as in all other details of
woman's dress.
There is no real change in the high,
walking shoe. The styles that have
found favor still hold their own
Neither do ties for street wear vary in
any marked degree from those that
have been popular.
The rage for walking slippers which
started last spring with the Colonial
slipper is undated, but the Colonial
aas rivals for street use in the sandal
and an entirely new patent leather
slipper which has a seam right up the
middle of the vamp front and fastens
over the vamp with heavy gilt buckle.
1t has the high French heel, not the
military heel, and though it is not
very sensible slipper for walking is
nevertheless used for that purpose.
Tan will be the favorite color for
outing shoes. When the russell shoe
lost prestige the year before last, the
eaI1skin in no sense took its place for
comfort. Nothing can be SO cool and
pleasant for summer hard-worked
shoe than the tan leather.
High tan shoes will be extensively
worn, for although they are not so
fetching as the ties or the Colonial
and sandal slippers, they are preferred
oy many, as they shield the ankle A
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29


would acquire the curve that is pro-
nounced ideal.
The sloping shoulder takes us back
to the modes of 1880, when the sleeve
cap was fitted to the shoulder and
when my lady appeared very long of
neck. The shoulder seams were in
those days cut very low to give that
slope, which was then considered a
line of much beauty:
The beauty expert has solved the
problem of sloping shoulders without
the aid of the modiste and these are
some Of the suggestions she offers for
accomplishing this much to be de-
sired result:
Take up your stand in front of the
mirror and throw out your chest.
Take q deep breath. and as you do so
cry to lower your shoulders. Pull
them down, so to speak. until, instead
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
The West n Condition.

The west, somehow, has come to be
a condition rather than place. After
days in luxurious train, the casual
traveller finds himself in the cities of
the Pacific with the .ot-iinz shat here
are not the differences, the strange
ness, the westerness that he had ex-
pected. The real west which he has
pictured so fondly, the free, the
hearty, the fascinating, seems in some
degree to have escaped him. And pres
emily he discovers that the condition
which is called western is singularly
misplaced in the west; that the most
western of American cities is not Port
land or Seattle, but Butte City, 600
miles to the east of the coast.-Ray
Stannard Bakers, The Great North
west" in Century.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

I EVER were feminine feet
encased in covering more
l attractive than that to be
found in the shops just
4 now. The general tenden-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
Alpha ana Once.

Good Old LADY, wouldn't smoke
cigarettes it | were you. little boy.
Dimlnutive Mucker-An' I wouldn't
smoke 'em if were you-Harvard
Lampoon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

why is It," asked the curious
guest, shat ahe poor men usually
give larger tips than rich men?"
.Well, sub, said the waiter, ode po'
man don't want nobody to fin out
he's po'. an de ricn man DON want
nobody to IA out he's rich. suh."-
Chicago Trib:.ae.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

more enduring Importance than the
Easter hat, for the lack of the latter
may be forgotten, but a lack of the
former is ever present.
To be perfect the shoulder must
slope. Not made to slope by the use
of artificial pads introduced int ones
gown, but slope naturally so that per-
lection may be displayed with the low
cut evening gown. For the woman
TO- whom nature has given pair Of
square shoulders there is much hard
work and much self-denial if she
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29

Cairo Ill., important naval during
j frs by Com
the
of
by
Admiral Fooe
February 1862 taking with him of the Ironclad
in the
der of Fort Henry Admiral Fooe 6.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-04-29
SlopinS Shoulder Is in VogueI

OW to acquire the ideal
shoulder is a question that
is to-day of quite as zach
Importance as how to Sc
cure an Easter hat. The
Derfqct ShOn16ar iS auop ~
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-07
LOCAL NEWS.
BARTON.

John Bean is in poor health.
Mrs. w. l.. Jacobs is i'm proving.
The village school opened this morning
Mass.
Miss Emma Allchurch has gone to Win
sted, Conn.
Mrs. Joseph Ready has been quite i'll the
past week.
A. b. stoddard was at Newport on bus
mess Friday.
Mrs. Damas Massey is very much i'm
proved In health.
Mrs. Fred wiggin, who has been quit e
H., is improving.
Daniel Magoon was Ill last week, but is
better at this time.
Miss Estells Orr spent Sunday wi tn
friends in Newport.
Mrs. F. s. Dyke is assisting in c. A. Bar
rows store during the Holidays.
Damas Massey has been confined to the
house for two weeks with the grip.
Miss Colby, OF Glover, is attending t he
academy and boarding at DR.. Gilmans'.
Miss Louise Johnson OF Bloomington is
stopping with Mrs. n. L. Foster this win
ter.
The next regular meeting OF Chapter No.
\ 10, o. f. s., will be held Friday evening,
Dec. IL.
Mrs. Geo Cummings Of West Charleston
visited her sister, Mrs. Alvin Tripp, last
week.
VIM. Baird is getting out stone for a
new barn which be intends to build in
the spring.
F.N. Bilodeau has moved into the Wy
man house on Water street, owned by Ar
thur Drew.
Lester NJ. Einsley and Lawyer Colby
. stoddard OF Barton Landing visited friends
4. In town over Sunday.
Mr.. Pond, who has been stopping at L.
J. Bickford's, has gone to Greensboro to
work for C.. j. ford.
The meeting of the Barton Fire Depart
ms mt will be postponed one week and will
be held ruesdsy evening, Dec. IS.
q. J. Jepperson and wife of Sugar Hill,
1 n. H., are visiting his sister and niece, Mrs.
Sarah simpson and Mrs. A. NJ. Cutler.
All members Of the Fire Department are
requested to wear their badges on the eve
ming Of the entertainment by the Canadian
Jubilee Singers.
Rev. Geo. c. Mcdonald OF Glover spoke
At the NJ. f. church yesterday in exc hange
with the pastor. Toe discourse was an
Interesting and helpful one.
Remember the lecture by DIR. Conwell
to- morrow night. Subject, personal
Glirnpses OF Celebrated Men and Women" !"
There are a few good seats left.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Fitzgerald aud Mrs.
ThurstoB, who have been at the Crystal
Lake House during the psst hve weeks,
have returned to their home in Island
Pond.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-07
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Flanders of this vii
age, is copied from an exchange:

of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Flanders of this vii
age, is copied from an exchange:
Edgar E. Flanders fell from his train
when coming in through the west yard on
the w. n. & p. division of the Boston &
Maine railroad, saturday night, and as the
result had to have his right leg amputated
above the knee, his left leg above the
ankle, and his left hand above the wrist, at
the hospital In spite of his terrible in
luries he was resting quietly this morning,
and there is every hope of his recovery.
Ihls is due to the duickness with which
he was taken to the hospital after the
accident, the speed and excellence of the
operations and his fine physical condition.
The accident happened near the Stevens
stone sheds, about three quarters of mile
from the Main street depot. The victim is
a brakeman on the train from Worcester,
which is freight. 1t Is due to reach this
city at 6:39, but was little late. 1t was
being backed no on siding to drop some
cars, when Mr.. Flanders either Jumped or
fell. Three cars passed over him. Up to
the present time he has been una BILE to
make any statement as to his version of
the accident. He is about % years of age
and lives on Arlington street. Both he
and his wife have been prominent in rail-
road trainmen's organizations"
Mr.. Flanders has been improving during
the past week and is now expected to
recover,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-07
EAST CHARLESTON.

Mr.. g. Cushing of Dixville, Que, called
on friends here last week.
Mr.. Will Hinton has rented Mrs. Ada
Cobleigh's house in the village.
Mr.. w. II. Bissell OF Beebe Plain was in
town last week calling on friends.
Mrs. Selma Wheeler, who has been quite
i'll for several days, is much better.
Capt-J. g Peene of Yonkers, N. Y, was
the-e uest of G. E. Blood Nov. 9th.
Miss Harriet Goodwin went to Morris
vile for several weeks stay on Dec 3.
f. B. Stoddard of Brighton has bought
the g. B. Stoddard farm near the village.
The village school will commence Mon
day, Dec. 14th, taught by Mrs. Edith
Hudson Stevens.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-07
SOUTH ALBANY.

Mr.. J" P. Uric Is able to be out again.
Miss Lima Gilmour teaches the winter
term of school in the Wright district.
The next lecture will be given on Dec. s,
by Rev. R. j. Chrystie of Craftsbury; sub
iect, Astronomy of the Bible"
The annual election OF off GERS of Mason
Post, Glover, will be on Dec. 10, and as
there viii be inspection at the same time,
all memb bers are urgently requested to be
present on time.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-07
EAST ALBANY.

John Simon continues to improve in
health.
Uriah Dfngman's people are occupying
the Rouin house until Mr.. Simon is alb. to
be moved.
Willie Riley, who went west for his
health last year, has returned to his home
here. While not entirely recovered he is
much better than when he went to Col
orado.