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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30
INSTRUCTORS FOR DOGS.
AristOcratic CANNES Must Now Have
GOvernesses to Give Them
Special Lessons.

What next? The dogs who walk In the
best tailor-made attire, and whose fam
lily trees are usually far more genuine
and impressive than those of their own
ers now have their own governess. In
winter she lives in New York; in sum-
mer she follows her charges to IA
nous and fashionable seaside resort.
She is paid by the hour to come to the
house Of Fido's adoring mistress and
broaden Fido's mental horizon and de-
velop his latent genius She teaches the
dear little fellow to sit up and bark and
sneeze and beg for sugar plums; to turn
somersaults; to shake hands and faint,
and otherwise prove his claim to an in
tellect of no mean order.
Furthermore, the governess takes
Fido walking every day. His mistress
is often too busy or too tired to accom-
pany him during his hours of exercise.
She does not trust her servants with
the duty Of serving as his escort, SO the
governess Is paid to accompany the
little dear during his walks abroad. Her
business is to keep him amused and
guard him from low company.
Last winter the governess tutored
more than 30 dogs. At certain hour
every morning she takes ten or II pro-
teges out on their leashes. She keeps
the peace among them sees that they
have good scamper and roll on clean
grass, teaches them to swim, fetch and
carry, and guards against their con-
tact with ours that might infect them
with mango, distemper or rabies.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

The most singular forest growth in
the world is encountered In the Falk-
land Islands, dismal region constant
ly swept by a strong polar wind What
appear to be weather-worn and moss
covered powders are scattered about,
and when one Of these curious objects
Is seized In an attempt to overturn It,
strong roots are found to hold It down.
these powders" being, In fact, native
trees, which the wind has forced to
assume this shape. The wood appears
10 be twisted mass Of fbers, almost
impossible TO cut Up into fuel
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

NJ. Rambout. an attache OF the Elysee
palace, the Official residence OF the presi-
dent OF France, has been collecting
menus OF state and other dinners for 20
years and now has 5000 The names Of
the dishes of state banquets indicate the
relations or alliances sought for with
other nations; for instance, "A la
Russo figured prominently at the time
Russian alliance was desired. The
most recent menus show dishes "a lAn-
glaise," indicating the desire OF the re-
public for more friendly relations with
ENGLAND
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

A curious wedding took place recent
ly at the parish church of Aylestone, a
village adjoining Leicester, England.
the contracting parties being Ben
Moore, a shoe hand, aged 30, and Mary
Ann Fell, a laundry girl, aged "a. The
bridegroom is cripple, who has to use
a hand-propelled machine as a means
OF locomotion. He was wheeled into
the church and up to the chancel steps.
and remained seated throughout the
ceremony. At the conclusion he was
wheeled out beside the bride.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30
Pigs in the Par1Or,

Il was In water waist Deep saving
my hogs" writes Mrs. Andrew Harton
from her home on the outskirts of North
Lawrence, to the Kansas City Journal
Il carried IL shoats, weighing about so
pounds apiece, into my parlor, and they
stayed there four days and nights. |
tied my COW on the porch, and the COW
and two hogs stayed there two days
and nights. for the water was right UP
to the porch"
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Dog Has Smallpox.

A dog belonging to a Cleveland, O..
family that has been Ill with smallpox
was recently under observation at the
detention hospital He had symptoms
of smallpox. his hide being covered with
postules. The case Is quite rare in medi-
cal practice. To satisfy himself as to
whether dogs are susceptible to the dis
ease the health officer will experiment
with other dogs and try to give them the
disease
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30
Heart Strings Particularly.

Whatever music there may be in the
instrument called man. says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, cannot be
brought out fully and entirely until
woman takes 1t in charge and plays upon
the strings of It.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

Rubber that grows underground is
an interesting product Of the French
Congo. II Is obtained just beneath the
bark Of several plants, the best samples
being from the root bark Of the Ian
dglphia tholloni, and It is OF the finest
quality. When the bark Is broken the
two pieces are held together by the rub
Der lining, which is Of great elasticity
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30
lie Probably Mazda IL.

The British government has granted q
pension of 81 900 a year to Justin Nc
Carthy, the writer. III he has had the
luck OF most writer's. remarks the Chi
cago Record Herald. the money VIII!
come In handy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

Ninety per cent Of the Inhabitants OF
western and northern Africa are Mo
hammedans, aud every man Of note
IN central Africa owns slaves, his station
In life being rated by the number OF
slaves be owns and the wives he pos
sesseg. When the girlh reach the axe Of
l3 they are as rule wooded.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

New York has an armless child that
can pick up pins and needles with her
toes. The most careless man on earth,
remarks the Baltimore American, with
his arms full OF crying baby, can pick
up carpet tacks with his heel without
looking.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30

Ethnologists are Of the opinion that
when America was discovered there
were not on the continent OF North
America. any more Indians than exist
now.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-07-30
support OF the Poor.

Great Britain spends $4,000 900 a
year on the support Of the poor This
does not include private charities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

has visited every town in the country, and
he knows all the leading men by sight, and
many of them intimately. He goes about
through Stockholm in ordinary dress, and
often unaccompanied by attendants. He is
accessible to almost any one. and there has
been less red tape about his court than
about any other in Europe.
His son Is little more stiff but he is,
am told very good fellow nevertheless.
He is more OF a theorist and a dreamer
than his father. and is not SO literary or
scientific.
An Artist Prince.
sat one night at the restaurant in Skan-
sen. outside Stockholm. within five feet Of
Prince Eugene. the youngest child of the
king, who is now thirty-eight. He came
into the restaurant with a party of friends
and sat down perfectly at home in a crowd
of five hundred. He had on black BUSH
ness suit and a black derby hat, and both
he and his companions kept on their hats
as they ate. This was the custom of most
of the men present, although many had Ia
dies with them / noticed the prince took
substantial meal, washing down his vi
ands with pint Of 5O-cent claret. When
he left the room the people rose and he
took off his hat and walked through the
crowd bareheaded. This prince spends most
of his time painting. and is said to be the
best painter in Sweden.
Prince Oscars Romance.
at the same place with Prince Oscar
Bernadotte and his family. In fact. they have
rooms just across the hall from me, and
they eat in the common dining room. sit in
the common parlor and act quite like COM
mon people. Prince Oscar Is the second son
of the present king. and his wife was Ebba
Munck of Fulkila. She has no royal blood
in her veins, and in order to marry her the
prince had to renounce his right to the
throne He did and no is known
as Oscar Bernadotte, taking the family
name of his father. He has a beautiful
wife and very charming family.
The King is Thrifty.
The royal family of Sweden is a thrifty
one. 1t has civil list Of very nearly
half million dollars from Norway and
Sweden. and in addition the king has a lit
tie more than $4,000 year from the fund
voted to King Carl XIV and his successors.
At the same time his ajesty has palaces
both in the city and country. in Sweden
and Norway. and he owns stock in many
undertakings. Among other things he is
interested in brewery, and I am told that
the royal beer Is always served at the royal
luncheons.
I visited one of King Oscars palaces on
an island in Lake Malar going through a
score or more of great rooms covered with
gold and carvings, 1oored with tiles or
mosaic and walled with impossible pic
lures of the kings and queens of the past.
Later on I strolled through the grounds
and tried to enter a tower where I was
told the king often came to drink after
dinner coffee and look al the view The
place looked like a restaurant. and king
like. wanted to drink coffee too and feast
on the view. was kept out, however, by a
lady, who told me she had rented that
tower of his majesty for her summer resi-
dence, and would permit no trespassing.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Housekeeping in Paris.
From Harper's Bazaar.

From Harper BdzHT
The father and mother eat at home when
they do not eat out, but absolutely no III
formal social intercourse invades the apart
ment which Is more than anything else
sort of factory In which is produced what
ever the family need for life outside. A
vast amount of sewing is done here French
girls of even wealthy parents, after they
finish school, attend courses Of dressmak-
ing and millinery, and to a great extent the
Industry which turns out the French woman
as a model of good dressing, to be followed
by the world, is carried on by the women of
the family in what would be the home IL
the French knew the meaning of the word
A reception day is vigorously kept, and
much entertaining at dinner and dejeuner
may be done, but always of a formal char
acter A person having the penetrating
qualities of book agent might venture TO
try dropping in on French woman on
a day when she Is not regularly receiving.
but in the natural course of ordinary so
cial experience In Paris this would never
happen.
Such order of living readily permits great
economy One has not to waste time, good
clothes or house room in daily preparation
for the unexpected guest. Six days of the
week French woman may run her sewing
machine in the middle of her salon If she
likes, secure from the interruption OF
chance callers. 1t is said that the chief
function of the petit salon of Paris apart
ment is to provide storage room for ball
gowns which on reception days are taken
down from the chandelier and locked up IL
a bed room till the guests have departed
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them entirely. and is painted in extremely
life-like tints. The girl who puts on this
one changes her face really. The new fea-
lures are quite regular and the tmts are
peachy. 1t Is new face. you understand;
and there are girls who look well with 81.
Its life-like character is much enhanced
by the fact that it Is arranged to be held
to the face by means OF a great pair of
plain automobile goggles worn over and
outside of it. So they do not form part of
the mask. as in the others; and they give
real look to the artificial face.
In the old days. two or three centuries
ago. the ladies wore masks as a usual ad-
Junct 10 street costume for two reasons:
ta) TO protect their delicate compilations
from the wind and sunlight; and
OBJ To protect their personality from the
rude public gaze. For example, in the time OF
Charles the Ninth of France the fair ones
of the court and city took delight in daily
promenadeS. In carriages and on foot back
and forth in the delightful avenue then
called the Queens Court, now a deserted.
shady street along the River Seine. There
every afternoon. the four hundred of the
epoch moved in dignity and leisure. mingled
with by the ambitious and the wealthy OF
the middle classes. The great ladies kept
their masks on much for the plea sures
of surprise and intrigue as to protect them
selves from the gregarious contact which.
indeed. they sought. And the maids and
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those of the United States, and they look
much the same
The last play 1 attended was Peer Gynt. ="
by lbsen. the great Norwegian poet and
play writer. l had to leave my hat and
coat in the dressing room, for nothing Is
allowed to be taken to the seats The
scenery and stage management were excel
lent; the play was well set and the acting
was good.
Speaking of Ibsen, it is wonderful how
proud these people are Of him. He has a
statue in the heart Of Kristiania, his bust
is In the art gallery and there are also
several fine portraits Of him belonging to
the city. The poet is now well up in the
health. He lives quietly and comfortab Iy
here in Kristiania.
Norway's New Ruler.
I saw the new ruler of Norway and
Sweden while in Stockholm. 1t is now nine
months since King Oscar withdrew from
the government of the country and made
Prince Gustaf. his eldest son. regent of the
two kingdoms. The young man has been
ruling well. and. SO far as I can learn, he
is popular in both Sweden and Norway. He
is now forty-five years old. and is at the
beginning of his prime. He is a straight.
tall. fine-looking fellow. martial and kingly
in his bearing. and possessed. it Is said, OF
much OF the ability Of his father. He was
married In 1881 to Princess Victoria, daugh-
ter of the Grand Duke Of Baden. and ne
has three sons 30 that the line Is secure in
his family.
The old king does not absolutely with
draw from the government. and he could II
he wished resume the throne. He has been
ruling Norway and Sweden since 1872,
more than thirty-one years. and he is now
seventy -four.
The whole royal family Of Sweden is
democratic in Its tendencieoL King Oscar
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WOMEN WEAR MASKS
Fair Automobiles in Paris
Hide Their Faces.
OLD FAD REVIVED
BUT IT'S NOT CONFINED TO THOSE
WHO MOTE"
Lends a Certain Air Of Mystery to the
Wearers-Chance for
Intrigue.
OLD FAD REVIVED
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS. September Is. 1903.
Madame, 1 beg of you, take off your
mask"
''Sir. you show great confidence in max
ing the request!'
Then. lift up just little corner of it,
''Since when has Monsieur X become
so ardent an explorer"
Madame, you know me?"
Madame. you disguise your voice as well
as your lovely facet
Eat least. tell me where saw you last?"
"Or when I shall see you again."
You might think this a masked ball con-
versation. But 1t is not. Conversations
like 1t may be overheard in Paris daily at
the present moment In the alleys of the
Great Park. on the terraces" of sylvan
lagos, in the avenues and boulevards of
the great capital itself The fair mask CO.
quotes. The fair mask revels in her in
cognito.
After lapse of almost 200 years. the fair
mask has returned again to Paris What
has called her back from those old days of
romance and intrigue? Neither romance nor
intrigue, but rather industry and invention.
These bring the automobile: and the auto
mobile brings the automobile mask as
detail of commonplace convenience. So
much for plain facts. But there others.
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The new Prince Regent of Norway and Sweden.
eating at it's marble tables. The men had
their hats on, although many of the women
were bareheaded. They were all well
dressed for laborng people and all well
behaved. Each person waited upon him.
self, taking his plate to the counter to have
1t filled with soup or meat. AT the same
time boys and girls were coming in and
going out carrying buckets of soup and
meat home to dinner
Slot Restaurants.
Kristiania has a great many automatic
or slot restaurants, such as 1 have de-
scribed in my letters from Paris and else
where. In such places you can put in a
coin equal to a nickel or dime and take
out sandwiches, roast beef, hot coffee, a
plate of strawberries or a glass of cham
payne.
There are also excellent eating places in
the business sections. | have been taking
some OF my meals at the Masonic Hall
restaurant, opposite the parliament house
l get as good dinner there for 80 cents as
is served in New York for dollar. / have
one of its bills of fare before me It starts
out with crab soup after which come a
grilled salmon steak and pota toes one-half
of a wild duck and salad, and ends with a
cup of ice cream. l washed that meal
down with half liter of imported Munich
beer fresh from the cask, and the whole
including my fee to the waiter was rs
cents.
Ibsen and the Theater.
Indeed. these Norwegians live well. They
have good homes, good stores. good food
and plenty of amusements. They are fond
of music, and they have frequent concerts
Their National Theater is finer than any
in Washington city. Between the acts
there are long pauses, when the people go
out and walk up and down the beautiful
halls outside the audience room Connected
with these halls are restaurant tables,
where one get anything from a sand
witch and beer to a plate of ice cream.
have noticed that beer is the favorite bev-
erage and that ladies drink 1t at such
times much as the men. The theatrical
audiences about as well dressed as
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ley, oats, rye and beans. Some horses. cat
tie, sheep goats and swine are reared and
also about 100000 reindeer.
=. A Spoon-Fed Country.
A country like this cannot raise its own
food. Its stomach has to be filled by the
spoons of other nations, and today we are
not ladling in our full share. Norway
annually imports about $25.0O0,00O worth
of food products. Half of this is grain, the
imports averag ing seven or eight bushels
to the inhabitant. About half the grain
comes from Russia, one-fourth from Ger
many and the remainder from the
United States. Denmark and Rou-
mania. A great part of the imports are
rye. one-fourth is barley, about one-twelfth
wheat flour and less than per cent wheat
Our grain exports to Norway are increaS-
ing. They would be much greater If we
were to establish elevators here and keep
a stock on hand for speedy delivery. At
present there is not a single grain elevator
in Krstiania, and none, l venture, in the
whole country. We also send Norway lard,
side meat and bacon, American meats being
exceedingly popular.
A Dinner for Seven Cents.
Speaking of Norwegian food, these people
live as we'll and cheaply as any people
In the world The hotel rates are high, but
the meals are excellent, and I am as well
accommodated here as I was in Berlin.
There are many cheap restaurants, and
there is one which feeds 1000 people day
where you get dinner for cents.
The average cost of meals ranges from
to 13 cents and you can buy as much or as
little you please and carry 1t home or
eat 1T In the restaurants. This is Kris
tianias famous steam kitchen. which has
been in successful operation for forty-four
years, and which is said to make money.
l found it in an ugly brown building not
far from the business center of the city.
1t was when 1 entered; and there
We're then 500 men, women and children
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mans mask. 1t Is not SO with the ladies'.
and at this point there begins the great de-
parture.
Women's motives are the same from aga
to age. The practices that depend on them
may be kept down for time. but they can
never be extinguished. Now, again. at the
end of long time. the fair ones have good
excuse to put on masks in public. They
want to avoid the dust and the rude wind
stroke. Why do they not take their auto
mobile masks off when the devfl-Wagon
stops its speeding? There are perfect rea-
sons 1t will disarrange their hair. That is
one quite sufficient reason. And as ii APP
plies to putting on as well as taking off
the mask, We have an explanation of why
they go masked in cabs out to the Bots and
elsewhere. But behind these reasons we
can see quite plainly there are other mo-
tives, unconfessed. They are the eternal
motives of eternal femininity.
A Strange Sight.
So strangers, when they come to Paris in
these days, the strange sight Along
the avenue of the Champs Elysees. along
all the converging avenues that lead to the
great park, in cabs, on cafe terraces, or
simply promenading on foot. there are to
be a thousand ladies wearing masks.
You must admit 1t is attractive. Mans i'm
agination, always hoping for the best, sees
beauty behind every mask. So romance
gets a chance again. And intrigue also.
How 1ar Will IL go. ms Is tne question
every one is asking. Given the astounding
ly rapid rise of automobiling in Paris, one
might as well. ask how soon the practice
will be all but universal. France is at once
the land of the cheap automobile and the
moderate but well-settled income from in
vestment Here automobilng is not at all
the wealthy mans exclusive sport. Today
girls go about in masks although they have
no automobile. Tomorrow they will have
the vehicle as we'll And countless others
will buy masks, at least-so as to be ready!
STERLING HELLO.
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In General Use There.

Already In the days of Charles the Ninth
the masking-n-publ custom had the dig
nifty of old use. Brought into western Eu-
rope from Italy in the latter half of the
fourteenth century, its vogue continued for
more than 800 years. The old English COM
edies are full of 1t. their situations often
turning on its intriguing possibilities. In
the days of Elizabeth and Shakespeare. as
again in those of Charles the Second, ladies
went masked to the theatre. In the day
time they did their shopping masked. They
went about the town in masks by day and
night, and found eXhilarating freedom
in the practice. AS in the Queens Court
the masked grande dame dared to be both
gay and condescending, while the ladies of
the middle classes found themselves, behind
their masks. as good as any one.
So it is coming about again today in what
is supposed to be a hurried business age
In Paris you see men in automobile masks
as we'll as women. but what are they do
ing? They are always driving automobiles
Once the automobile stops, off comes the
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What's in q Namep
From the New York Times,


Capt. Risk of the Mallory Line steamer
Denver, plying between New York and
Galveston, Tex, is bachelor who attaches
a great deal of Importance to the question.
Whats in a manner" when applied to the
matrimonial question. On one recent trip
a party of passengers were discussing mat
rimony when the captain strolled up.
by the way, captain" said one of the
party, "how does 1t happen you've never
married.
"Oh, he could never find a woman willing
to run the Risk" interjected one OF the
feminine members Of the group.
mo, indeed" observed the mariner: mo
one can.run this Risk; I'm captain. And
no one seems to want to take the Risk,
either" he added.