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FRUIT SALADS.
Bar Harbor.

There is an endless variety of fruit
salads, some good, some bad, some in
different The fault in the bad and in
different mixtures lies not so much with
the combination of fruits selected as
in the manner of preparation. Fruit
salads, hurriedly and carelessly pre-
pared, are positive evil. If you would
make one worthy of the name you must
observe all the little niceties of detail.
Suppose for instance, you wish to
combine bananas. pineapple and ber-
ries. which is an especially. good selec-
ton. First of all, choose perfectly
ripe. firm fruit. the best your market
affords Next select a large shallow
bowl; a glass one is particularly nice.
as then the colors of the fruit are to
be seen, and the dish will invariably
attract and please the eye.
Arrange a layer of sliced bananas in
the bottom of the bowl. then layer of
berries. which have been cut in halves.
sprinkle the berries with a little pow
dered sugar, then add a layer of shred
ded pineapple, some more sugar and a
few drops of lemon juice. Repeat these
layers until the bowl is full, having
the pineapple on top, then decorate
the top with some fine berries and set
away on the ice to become thoroughly
chilled. If the salad is made early
enough to allow of it's standing for sew
eraI hours before it is to be served, it
will afford a delightfully."- favored
strip. and be most deliciously chilled.
A combination of sliced peaches and
berries. served with whipped cream, is
another dainty morsel. Prepare the
fruit in layers. with sprinklings of pow
dered sugar and just a few drops of
lemon juice. and set aside to cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Mary Rankin
CranStOn, S sssss,ss'sa'

tute. and in the matter of sending So
biologists abroad to gather facts one of
the most valuable of them.
Helen foots TIE bills
Others prominent in the institute and
it's good works are three college .presi-
dents. women every one-Dr. NJ. Carey
Thomas of Bryn Mawr. Caroline Haz-
ard of Wellesley and Mary E. Woolley
of Mount Holyoke.
If they only knew it, it is the mission
of the very rich to do what Miss Gould
is doing-foot the bills of sociological
scientists while they Investigate the
general condition of this unhappy hui
man race and suggest measures which
viii lift it to a higher plane.
1T doth not yet appear what we shall
be-" even on this earth A few of the
very rich have comprehended their mis-
sion, and like Helen Gould. have gone
to meet it. Robert Garrett of Baltimore
is member of the institute and warm
ly interested in its endeavors for the
betterlnent of man. Not long ago he
sent Mrs. Cranston. the Institutes Ii
brarian and herself an eminent So
ciologist, to study the public play
grounds for children all over the
United States. She made a thorough
examination of these and gave an ex-
nduSllVe report NO sooner naQ she re-
turned from this tour. however than
another rich man who knows his bust
ness directed her to go to Europe and
study there the status of cooperation
in all its phases. making report to him
and suggesting those points wherein
the system might be intelligently APP
piled in the United States.
The capitalist who this time sends
Mrs. Cranston on a sociological quest is
Stanley Mccormick OF Chicago. Mr.
Mccormick, too. belongs to the Ameri-
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INSERTIONS.

every Sunday in the United States and
what proportion of it is given by women
and what by men2 Queer notions some
people have of the scope of a society
formed for the betterment of man.
Mrs. Cranston departed recently on.
her mission to secure the information
desired by Mr.. Mccormick. During her
tour she viii visit city and country in
England, France. Belgium. Holland and
Italy She will work unweariedly gath
ering materials in shop factory, home
and hospital. and on her return will
compile a book dealing with co-oDera-
tive production and distribution in Eu-
rope. 1t VIII be Interesting ssud in
structive. She will get many a slgges-
tion which sociologists in the United
States may profit from. In cooperative
distribution England stands at the head
with her great stores in which the
stockholders are at once buyers. sellers
and profit sharers. But when it comes
to cooperation among agriculturists
no doubt Mrs. Cranston will be able to
tell European sociologists how a cor
poration of 500 plain Iowa farmers last
year conducted successfully a business
of producing. buying and selling that
amounted to over $500, 600, and did it at
an expense of only $4,000.
Like all intelligent women. Mrs.
Cranston is deeply interested in the in
dustrial progress of her own sex While
in Europe she will investigate women's
employment in all grades and see
wherein we can learn from Europe or
Europe can learn from US. One phase
of the working woman's life in England
especially is unknown to us here-that
is the custom among firms that employ
large numbers of young women of
boarding and lodging these employees
on the shop premises. In some of the
largest department stores of London
the women clerks are boarded on the
upper floors of the store buildings and
are consequently under considerable re-
straint. This is called living in Is
the plan good one or not? Mrs. Gram
ston will find out.
ELIZABETH LEE
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daisies, through a lover who has died,
through great sorrow, through books
through contact with superior minds
and then her troubles begin. She can
not live in a world peopled by those
like her. There are too few of them
She must exist in the midst of a crowd
of, to her, cackling. insincere woman
kind, and she must, outwardly at least
conform to their ways and to their
standards. The men she meets ordi-
narily are made for the other women,
and unless she teaches them all over
again to revise their ideas on woman
they will be no comfort to her There
are other men. of course, but they,
too. are in the minority, and minorities
meet more seldom than majorities. So
you see. it's a hard life for her and her
only hope is in having a streak of
genius somewhere about her-the abil-
ity to raise herself to a position where
she can afford to choose her friends and
be herself.
Then there is the third class-the
never to be developed, the ones the
world terms old maids.
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SMALL DETAILS.

It is attention TO the small details of
her costume that makes a woman well
dressed Her dress may be beautiful.
but if her gloves are not appropriate
the effect is ruined. Her hat may be
suitable and becoming, but if it be COW
cred by the wrong veil all is lost II
her shoes are not in keeping she will
not appear as well dressed woman
The reason that the French woman is
one of the best dressed women in the
world is that she pays strict attention
to even the smallest details. She has
no haring contrasts and no one part
or her costume is conspicuous, all is
harmony ana the tout ensemble restful
and pleasing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

can Institute of Social Service. AL
though its members are scattered all
over the Union. the headquarters of
the organization are in New York city
at 105 East Twenty street. It's
president is Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong.
Mrs. Cranston is to be found at the
New York Office when not away on a
quest. She is southern woman. pos
sessinga the rare tact and yivacious at
tractiVeness of the daughters of the
south. On her it devolves to answer
many of the thousands of letters of in
curry that come to the society asking
questions, wise and otherwise. on what
the writer's believe tp be sociological
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but you didn't love the other one?''
Yes. did, but I made up my mind
of sudden that 1 had only one life and
l wanted to be comfortable in it. l do
like my comfort and that's all there
was to it"
Did you ever regret it2"
Never! How could I when had
made up my mindi'
How much better that is than the
sickly. sentimental way some girls have
of pretending that they no longer love
the poor man now that they have fallen
in love with the rich onei
How much better this is than the girl
who appears all devotion in the pres
ence of her iance and who when with
her girl chum looks discontentedly at
the small diamond in her engagement
ring and exclains pettishly, "Oh. L
wish / had a rich mani"
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of the dance nor 'ieAi ways
the music of the soul: who are perpet-
ually thinking of their own comfort,
and, as a consequence, are without the
real joy which comes from giving one
self to others and receiving in return
from them.
am speaking of the true old maids
now, not of the women who remain un-
married through a loss or from choice;
the women who remain single because
they are too small TO excite any feeling
of companionship in any mans heart
the fates deliver me from them!
Well. really. 1 am getting serious.
Who would have thought it possible?
Fortunately these attacks do not come
every day.
Above all things. 7 worship sincerity
would rather any day meet a sincere
devil than an insincere angel. If a
woman is selfish or mercenary and adj
mits it l can positively like her. It's
her point of view, and it's all in the
point of view, you know.
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trimmed in lace, or a round bit, also
edged in lace, viii do. If she wears
a pongee gown. she must have a mou-
choir of the same fabric.
District LADY, hope you and your
husband agree now, Mrs Notact2 Mrs.
Notact-Oh, yes, mum, we agree on
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home of punched leather or linen sewed
with sewing silks and beads. Various
simple designs can be carried out in
leather, satin and crochet work.
Little, screwed up feet have quite
gone out, and the beautifully shaped.
undeformed foot is now the thing. She
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Candid Mrs. Jones.

You must have had an interesting
love affair, Mrs Jones'" signs the senti-
mental young person
Yes. my dear child" declares Mrs.
Jones. with decision. but I didn't
marry it. I had two men after me; one
was rich. the other loved. 1 thought
it all out and 1 married the one that
was rich"
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u r e d creature
who has neither
the spirit to win
a cold blOOded
marriage and a
brilliant position
for herself nor
the largeness of
mind to suffer
and amount to
something.
One is often a
consequence of
the other in this
world. If she has
to suffer she only
shrivels up pre-
nlaturely- She
is one of those
who enjoy nei-
Their the music
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that time has made her branch of the
business very profitable
Loose back coats are not being made
so generally as they were, and a close
back begins to be smarter. In long
coats the fronts are half fitting.
Very pretty bags can be made at
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ind money. The thrifty parent aulti-
rates this. The sweet young thing
s told how Minnie So-and-so. without
half her good looks, captured rich
nan and was waited, as in a fairy tale,
rom poverty and deprivation to a life
If ease and plenty, and how Gladys So
'nd-sos fiance gave her a diamond
leart big as a pancake and that
gladys jewelry in a few years will be
worth mentioning.
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has the prettiest foot who can display
it cornless and bunionless.
Employment is one of the best REM
edies for the disappointments of life.
Let even your calamity have the liberal
erect OF occupying you in some active
virtue.
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WHITE INDIAN LINoN WAIST WITH FRENCH KNOTS.

everything now. CAfter a pause): E
said you was a meddlin' old fool t'other
day, mumi
Mrs. Bertha Williams is manager of
the book department of one of the
largest stores in Chicago or America.
She has held her place six years and in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
WOMAN NEW AND OLD.

The Dresden designs are among the
most successful and popular for paint
ag buttons. Floral sprays in pale tints
lso make appropriate schemes.
Come Japanese girls when they de-
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The whole trouble is that from the
beginning of time woman has been en-
couraged TO make herself difficult, eng
NAUTICAL, insincere. It has always been
expected of her and the more COM
pick she appeared the more fascinating
she was deemed But with the new era
of woman a great deal of this has
ehanged-more win change. Men are
learning to expect in women the mas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

NelOped. Sounds
like classifying
a We g e t a b e.
doesn't it2 Well.
it's much on
that or d e r.
Taken in the
raw or undevel-
oped state a
young girl is
just about the
most phi a b l e
thing magma
BILE. Even the
young American
girl supposed
to be so indie
pendent) has her
weak point. and
that. my dear
friends, is her
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their lips
The up to date girl win have hand
kerchiefs to match her dresses. Either
hemstitehed square of the goods,
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shared then. We were mainly an agri-
cultural nation and any man willing TO
work had plenty to eat and wear and
was socially as good as anybody else
if he behaved himself. This is the ideal
state
We must return to that social state in
a way modified to suit modern times.
There are those who believe this
ideal may be realized. To that end
some of these golden dreamers organs
lied the American Institute OF. Social
Service. If they had said 7sociologicaP'
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cJnine qualities of truth and sincerity.
1t is the wise man who appreciates sim
pie directness in a woman; the foolish
man. who does not know the difference
between the true woman and the false,
will learn in time also.
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IA LESSED are the people with
small hearts and small minds.
Oh heresyi
~ Not a bit of it, Allow me to
tell you that they are the people
who get through life comfortably If
you don't believe it study human ma
lure, and if you wish to study human
nature go to a summer hotel 1t will
make clear many things to you, show
you the inner machinery-the working
If the belts and pulleys.
Take the girls especially. There are
.hree stages of them--the undeveloped
he developed and the never to be de-
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mo Rirht sort nf GirI-

But now and then a girl breaks
through this. Life comes to her with
is full force. She blossoms out like
1 gorgeous flower in a field of prim
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The Real Old Maid.

The real old maid is an old maid
from the cradle, and don't you forget
that She is the timorous. small meas
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EYOND doubt the happiest times
in this land were in the early
days when every man was his
own capitalist and his own la
borer Profits were equally
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matters, though the line cannot always
be drawn just where interest in So
GEOLOGY ends and meddling with private
affairs begins. One of the most diff
cult questions put to Mrs. Cranston
was How many of the United States
congressman are Christians2
I'VE gave that up at once says Mrs.
Cransron.
Another query was, How much money
is contributed for foreign missions
The Republican journal., 1903-10-08
News of the Veterans.

Capt. Frank A. Garnsey, the newly elected
president of the Second Maine Regimental
association, has appointed the executive
committee for the ensuing year. 1t is COIN
posed of Lieut.. S. Dean Benson of Co. A !;
Dr. H. F. Hanson, Co Fl, both of Bangor j;
and Henry j. Leach, Co. c, Brewer.
The twelfth Maine regiment had a re-
union in Fryeburg, Sept. oath. Seventy
members were present and they were most
Hospitality received and entertained by the
Grover Post and by the residents of Frye
burg. Dinner and supper were served in
the vestry, and brief addresses were made
by several comrades, interspersed with
music by quintet of ladies.
The 23d annual reunion of the 9Th Maine
veterans association at Newport closed
Sept. 23d. The following officers were cleo
ted William r. Blackman of Cambridge,
Mass, pres. R. G. Mcfarland of Lamoine,
John c. Haney of Bangor, Frank Campbell
of Cherryfeld, vice pres. j. K. Knowlton
of Camden, quartermaster; James b.
Neagle of Lubec, adjutant. It was voted
to meet next year at the time of the national
encampment in Boston.
The official visit of Department COmman-
der Joshua L. Chamberlain of the Maine
G. A. R. to Sergt. Wyman post of Oakland
Sept. 23d, was made gala event by the
local Grand Army men. After the inspection,
in the banquet hall of Memorial building.
Waterville, Fairfield, Winslow and Vassal-
boro Grand Army men were present. After
the campfire a public reception was held in
Memorial hall. This was in charge of Com
mander S. J. Thayer and comrades Howard
Wells and George Fl. Bryant of Wyman
post Nearly 1000 people, old and young,
took advantage of this opportunity to grasp
the hand of Names most famous cOmman-
der. Gen. Chamberlain made short ad-
dress.
The Republican journal., 1903-10-08
Report on Maine Crops.

In the quarterly bulletin issued by 'he
agricultural department Sept. Goth the aver
age crop conditions for the State are given
as follows:
Amount of hay crop, as compared with it,
average, 9s per cent. condition OF gram ,, ioo,
condition of fruit 80; amount OF apps; crop o3
as compared with last year IS; condition of of
corn crop, sweet 42, yellow 81; acreage ol
corn crop, sweet Sc, yellow 81. will,
With few exceptions the bean an,s crop ppowth WITH
be very light, having MADE STOW snoMtn snooota
and been badly damaged by rust insects
The condition of the potato crop is 9S per
cent. Potatoes have been generally sprayeu
with bordeaux mixture in ArooSto9k county
and quite extensively in several other couil-
ties, with very good results in a large MAJOR
ity of cases. ,,,,o, of
A considerable increase in the nullipei VI
dairy COWS is renorted from a few counties.
Knox county shows the largest percentage
in hay, grain and potatoes.
The Republican journal., 1903-10-08
A MODERN PYTHIAS.
The SeIf-Sacrifce That Edwin Emery, For
mer Principal of the Belfast High School,
Made for Frank A. Hill.

The self-sacrifce That Edwin Emery. For.
mer Principal of the Belfast High school
Made for Frank A. Hill.
The death of Frank A. Hill, Secretary of
the Massachusetts, State board of education,
recalls to the memory of a few living per-
sons who were cognizant OF the event, a
hitherto unwritten chapter in his history,
a chapter of strong friendly devotion and
self sacrifice with but few parallels in real
life.
ular friend, comrade and companion was
Edwin Emery of Sanford. Emery was
Hills senior by three years. and probably
looked upon him somewhat as younger
brother whom it was his duty to protect
and defend. Certain it is that they were
inseparable companions, and that friend
ship existed between them that comes but
once in lifetime between two men.
The year 1863 the great battle year of the
Rebellion, found the two friends, who had
been graduated in 81, both engaged in
teaching. Emery was principal of the High
school in Belfast, and Hill was winning
laurels as an educator in similar position
in the Biddeford High school, and making
his home with his mother and his younger
sister. A draft for soldiers was ordered,
and among the names of those drafted was
that of Frank A Hill. His friend in Bel
fast saw the announcement, and, hurrylng
to Biddeford this modern Pythias demanded,
as {: friend, unincumbered with a family,
the privilege of going as a substitute for
Hill, without compensation.
What proteStations and objections were
made on one hand, and what arguments
and pleadings on the other, will never be
known, but Emery carried his point. Hill
remained to pursue his profession, and COM
fort his mother and sister, and Emery was
accepted, mustered into the service and as
signed as private to the 18th Maine regi-
ment, then at the front. No doubt had he
been regularly enlisted, his education and
ability would have secured him a more
prominent position in new regiment. Old
soldiers will remember with what doubt,
not to say disgust, substitute was looked
upon by the old volunteers. But man
who could be so true to friend as to sacri-
fee so much for him would naturally show
equal devotion to his country. By his ster-
ling qualities he soon won friends and made
his way to the front, was soon appointed
color sergeant to the regiment, was twice
wounded in the battle of the Wilderness
and promoted to a lieutenancy for bravery
in the field His wounds left him crippled
for life, and on his return to Sanford he ell
gagged in business which he pursued up to
his death few years ago.-Biddeford Jour-
The Republican journal., 1903-10-08

spondent improved the same opportunity
Almont Gerry from Haverhill, Mass, made
brief visit to relatives In town last week.
....Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Soule were pleased
to receive another little girl into their home
Sept. 18th. Miss Caroline Fuller has fine
position in South birmingham, Mass. as
leading trimmer, and will spend the winter
there. Mrs. Clara Dodge from Springfield,
Mass, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Elihu
Gould and of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hatch
several days last week. Mrs. E. ID. Chase
and little son Hugh, who have been spend
ing several weeks in Newtonville, Mass. :,
with her sister, returned home Saturday
night. Mrs. Sue Webb and daughter
Emma from Bucksport are in town for a
limited time. MIR. and Mrs. Frank B..
Mayo from Belfast attended the fair here
last week and stopped with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. E. McCauslin. Mr.. and Mrs. Libby from
Waterville also attended the fair and stop
ped with Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Stevens....
Elmer Bagley bought the Horace Mitchell
| farm recently and his aunt has bought the
Nathaniel Jackson place. Mr.. Jackson will
60 down river again this winter. so it is re-
ported. Mrs. Jack Legg and lady friend
from Boston, Mass, arrived in town recent
ly. =. William Henry Halves and Rufus
Ryan's daughter from Troy narrowly es-
capped serious accident last week while on
their way to the fair. When near to the
station the horse became frightened at the
cars and jumped, overturning the wagon
and dragging the occupants some little dis
tance There fortunately was plenty of help
near and Mr.. Hawes by clinging to the reins
saved further trouble. The occupants es-
capped with slight injuries, but the team was
somewhat damaged.