The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-12-25
DESIGNED FOR WOMEN.

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thing in sporting circles. The recoi
from each shot continues to load the
chamber until q magazine containing q
score or more of loads is empty.
In an article on "The Age of the
World" Sir Edward Fry, the famous
English geologist, declares that 100000.
900 years must have elapsed since the ex,
istence of life on the globe.
And now our fondest hopes to wake,
| Comes that old-fashioned breakfast
staple,
The hot, busckwheatless, buckwheat cake
With maple syrup, minus maple.
According to an English authority, we
eat more than any other people. 1t takes
20 pence day per capita to feed us
The Briton grows fat on % pence, the
German on 81 pence, Frenchman on Is
and an Italian on g..
Men never get to the front in any
| trade or calling who start into their
work feeling that their employer is their
enemy; they never reach promotion;
they seldom own shops of their own, be-
cause one element of success is lacking
Water plays an indispensable part in
both the environment and the internal
chemistry of life. 1t forms more than
half the weight of most living things
and all the active parts of animals and
plants consist of water holding the other
ingredients in solution or suspension.
One-half of the worlds production of
coffee comes to the United States. We
pay over $l,000,000 week for our coffee
! and send the money out of the country
Germany and France together consumed
last year only half as much as we did
We consume over 100000, or about ten
and onehalf pounds apiece, every year
Blessed is the poor man. Pick-pock-
cts don't bother him, nobody tries to
borrow from him, and no one asks him
to indorse note; he is not robbed OF
harassed by litigations; burglars never
invade his premises, and he sleeps in
peace; when he dies nobody questions
his will OF attempts to steal his body.
Some statistician has figured that
| there are 100000 Smiths in the United
States. Three thousand are employed
by the United States government and
nineteen Smiths die every day. In New
York alone there 10000. Including the
Smythes, the Schmidts, Shmidts and
other variations, the family is roughly
estimated to comprise 100000 in this
country.
The consumptives should make point
of going outdoors Immediately after 9
rain is the advice of London physicians
| who base their opinion on the familiar
| fact that rain washed air is much purel
than that which floats above dry city
During 'dry spell' the air becomes lad
en- with germs and foul odors with dust
and refuse, in fine but appreciate guam
titles. These the first downpour washes
out, leaving the atmosphere in circula
ton about the streets clean and pure.
A Madison, Wis, paper says that sc
| far this season l,S00 deer have been kill
ed in Wisconsin. Of this number 25(
have been shipped out of the state. Dur
ing the remaining few days of the oper
season it is expected that the slaughter
will be unusually large bringing the to-
tai number killed considerably above thai
of last year. The total number of resi-
dent hunting licenses issued in the state
so far this season is 81, 200 nearly 10000
more than last season.
The greatness Of the United States a:
a world power was never so manifest
to old world governments as now. They
realize that it belongs to the first ranl
and that only diplomats of the highest
rank and varied experience should bt
sent to Washington. The London Spec
tator recommends that the salary of the
British Ambassador be raiesd to $4,000
a year because the man who represents
Great Britain at the capital of the great
republic occupies the most important
place in that nations diplomatic service
Bachelors should be awakened to the
touch Next year is leap year. Fore
warned is forearmed. The question is
Will you pop now and get your ultimat-
UNI from one of your choice, or wait un
til January l, to be popped to and take
your chances? Two of the maiden ladies
who each vow to get man this leaI
year or bust a toga band, are the ole
girls who always let down their folding
bed to look under it in the hope of find
ing a man there, and the antiquateS
Nancy, who is credited with saying, "Oh
Lord, anything" If you hesitate and al
low yourself to become common prey
one of the archaic specimens may insis
on warming her feet against your verte
brae the rest of your natural nights
Thus is repeated the admonition, b