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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-31
Al MERGER OF uNNumgeRED MILLIONS

Wichita used to boast several railways including
trunk lines viz: Fe the Missouri Pacific the
Frisco and the Rock Island The indications are now
that will have but systems and their feed
and branches, towit the Missouri Pacific and the
Rock Island least until the Orient is completed and
the Missouri Kansas and Texas built in This threat
ened consolidation al old lines will stimulate the
building Of
The dispatches Of yesterday announce that there will
held today. in the city of New York meeting of
the arrangements. directors and owners Of the Rock
Island Of the Fe and of the Frisco with view Of
merging these great systems or for consolidating or
something of the kind 1t that the big holders in
these roads respectively holders in them severay
The proposition is unite them least the extent Of
operating others interest if not under one
management
The scheme is a stupendous che even for this day Of
stupendOus undertakings But the proposition or conee-
Of such combine has been in the air for months
The dispatch alluded says that The proposed cutoff
Of the Santa Fe in New Mexico would not be britt and
instead cutoff would be constructed through Kansas
which would enable two systems to share in the use
of the tracks to California But this announcement
seemed decidedly premature 4 few days later Presi-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-31
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE

The Philadelphia Ledger. a conservatvey indepen
journal Of wide influence again charges the British
government mot the British people, with unfendness
towards the United States. As showing what not
section Of public opinion in the northern
public IS a paragraph from the Ledger's leader
may be quoted
Efforts are making in England TO place the entire
responsibility the alliance upon King Edward but il
is not the king who makes such alliances; he may
scheme them but the ministrythe real government
which consummases them It the British premier.
Ar Bafour and Lord Iansdowne the foreign secretary
who actually the alliance with the Kaiser CT sand
bingham and they responsible for only efectng
H. but continuing that its unfrendl character
country has been clearly exposed With respect
to the English governments ard the people generally
the conditions very similar those which existed
during civil Then the governing classes
oil England against the Uaon cause and the GOV
erned classes for It The latter more united
and more opposed the alliance with Germany than
they were the governments prO-Coafe5eTscy policy
from 1861 TO 1865 and viii be Il the
eminent though urged by The king. should Be com
PEELED TO surrender public opinion and withdraw from
the compact with Germany.
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Mrs Hale walked across the room and
walked back again. The dOor-beh again
tangled its summons. yet Mrs Hale hssi-
tated Romance had come to her Had
she tbs. courage to take Il by the handF
The brilliant blonde came out Of the
house opposite with the distinguished
looking man Mrs Hale saw her glance
at the impatient visitor.
The man outside lifted his b-ows IN IN
DISGUISED admiration when Mrs Hale
onened the door The pet dimpie- the
SPARKLING eyes. the stray curis and the
routing mouth. with 81 moist. ful lips.
made a picture too charming 20 Dc re-
sisted
WIN she asked.
The mar put out his hand and smiled
II .. ne Introduce myself. he sid. as
NJ Hale vsIded her hand 70 him 7
am Captain VIII Cuthhertson. Just back
fror. TIE Cape. and YOU arr
That's Just shat J mean u explain.
LAUGHED sfrs Hale. Mrs HIS has left
49, and I opened your note ~ mistake
NJ name IS Mrs Hale 7 do1't know
where Mrs HIS Is and here's your
note
s~an,af- C,itNberrson took the note. ana
-rith a roe1isn sn1iIe Rhich Mrs Hale
answered zsth 6ovucssf EYES. crsT out >
pencil crossed o@ NJ Hii1s name iFp,7
~ e-veiors. zrnse Sorueshlnz sri hanf-
81 ,he note hack 20 &rs Hale
She Looked Z 81 nirshe1 rosy I'D and
sr-T7sf family.
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Cordell Herald-Sentinel: 1t is reported
that Wichita capital is willing to build
hotel in Hobart if d site is given and
s. 1000 in cash. Hobart seems TO be full
of hotels now, but none are large enough
to suit the trade The city has out
grown them. Cordell needs a good hotel
and offers a good opportunity To capital
seeking this kind of an investment.
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THE AUTUMN SHIRT WAIST.
SprCJtL FAVOR IN SIGHT FOR
YHE TTB VARIETY.
pr.,,y New Materials Provided for Them
An Embarrassment Of Riches In the
way ~ the N0n-Washable Blouse
No,,eis Not Greatly Changed.

The sheer summer blouse viii soon be
40, If ..,s.;n and already heavier blouses
s,'J slir. S.tsts are in great demand.
w;.bi,, thsl las, low seasons the all-the-year-
.,.,,j ,,sr of tub shirt waists has gained
many advocates and the fashion is a SEN
.ibl. one, particularly for those women
yhooreno. filing lly-of roles and
who's, morning occupations quickly soil
their morning attire.
rhcrc is comfort in the thought that
.,,ch a,,ire may 20 into the tub each week
ora come out fresh and spotless. Then,
,,o for many women the tub waist is more
comfortable than one of flannel or cloth,
l., ,,,, ,yer.he,ted houses, and the woman
,,ho does not find it warm enough may
.nnplpmcnl it by one of the long sleeved
woven corset covers that may be bought
at any Of the shops
Rr the washable shirt waist for general
an,umn and winter wear should not be the
.heor garment popular in midsummer.
and even the madras waists are not suit
ollie Very fine blouses OF MULE. bat
,.,e Sr., hand wrought and elaborate
wore worn for matinee and other day
time occasions last winter by few fashion
ohIe women, but the Gust ON was not gen.
era and for ordinary morning wear the
sash Shir, waist was made III chevlot vest
Ing and other heavy cottons.
The beautiful mercerized cheviots, vest
irg,. hop ,arkings, &c, that scared into
orel, favor last spring and have been much
worn upon cool days this summer are ideal
materials for the winter wash waists, and
shir, makers are busy filing orders for such
waists. The autumn showing of the ma
terials surpasses that Of the spring. and
though the soft heavy white stuffs are first
tayori'es some of the veItings, mercerized
co.,on canvas and cheviots in darker color
ing- are very attractive.
one mercerizsd cotton closely resem-
bling heavy raw silk is shown in all the
gamut Of dull blues, and is dotted with red
white or black Another heavy mercerized
fabric is in small plaid of green blue
black and white Biscuit or pongee coat
vestng in basket weave makes handsome
shirt waist, and the same material with
re or green fiecks is decidedly chic
The finest of these heavy mercerized
stufYs are by no means cheap but they will
oIltwear silk and are both cleaner and
smarter On the bargain counters at the
midsummer sales one may now pick up
remnants Of white mercerized cheviot,
cotton damask &c. at a fraction Of the
original price of the goods, and for the
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THE SUN, SUNDAY. AUGUST is. 1908.

The woman Of to-day, being perfectly
formed, is long Of limb. This, too, is some.
thing that can be acquired. Take the
woman who is fiabby in her muscles and
she will tell YOU that she ia too short in
her lower limbs. That is an effect of being
too stout, II women wore blcomers they
would notice this the more quickly.
Fat men will tell you that as they grow
fat and as the waistband increases in size
their legs grow shorter. And 30 it is Will,
a woman.
But the ideal girl Of to-day is not fat
She has taken it all of with exercise, with
massage and in various ways, including
walking, cycling and dieting until she IL
just the right size. She wears a fat fronted
straight corset whieh gives her the desired
front line, and she is slender below the belt
10 that her limbs are as long as nature i'll,
tended to have them and as 1.-THE as art ard
graceful exercise can make them.
In the arms the woman of to-day is de-
clared to be particularly lovely, She has
taken elbow exercise until her elbows are
Just round enough and her arms are COW
cred with layer Of soft, smooth fesh but
with not announce OF over-hesh. The
arms that are big and red and fat are
memories only of other days.
The figure of the ideal girl, the girl you
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ing color are we'll liked, and tiny embroid-
cred crescents decorate some Of the new
fannels.
In silks. Louisine. peau de cygne and
soft taifetas have the lead, and there is little
that is radically new, although there are
variations in plaids. checks, stripes and
other designs, and many new effects in the
shot or changeable taffetas which have
received empathic Partisan Endorsement.
These shot silks minele not only two but
sometimes three or four colors, and many
of the blendings of color are exceedingly
lovely.
Among the Louisnes are silks in very
small dark-colored checks, over which
are sprinkled wafer dots in black or white,
and these make excellent blouse fabrics.
The fine, soft broadcloths or face cloths
were the Partisan woman's choice last
season for warm unlincd blouses TO wear
with coat and skirt costumes. and they bid
fair to be very popular here this season.
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meet on the street every day, and whom
you admire, even in the abrupt lines Of
her tailor-made dress, is one succession
of curves. Hogarth' famous line OF beauty
lies in her neck and in her arms. Boards
leys wonderful curved back, which began
at the nape of the neck and curved steadily
downward, is reproduced in her to per-
lection.
They say that to get a perfectly curved
back with neck that is a vertical swan
neck, not too long nor too short, and full
of grace throughout, requires long course
of exercises and gymnastic exercises at
that
You would be amazed if you could see
the society beauties at play in the gym
nasium in the afternoon. They call it ex-
ercise. but it looks a great deal like hard
work.
Nor do they exercise in the winter and
give it up when summer comes They
keep at it all the year around, and at New
port there is one private gymnasium which
rivals anything seen in the metropolis.
To get the long graceful back, the back
which is necessary before one can have
an ideal figure, requires certai n amount
of exercise of the kind that is called figure
training. The principle feature OF this
figure training is the work upon the rings.
Rings just convenient for the hands are
hung around the room and the pupil travels
along these rings, taking first one and then
the other in hand, swinging little and
catching the next ring until she has travelled
all around the gymnasium by means of the
swinging rings. This is great exercise for
the back and the muscles Of the neck.
But the woman without a gymnasium
or the girl who lives in a flat does not always
see how she is going TO obtain roomful
OF swinging rings, and she does not know
how she is going to travel suspended by
her hands and arms. Of course for her such,
exercise is impossible unless she has access
to gymnasium.
But she can do the next best thing. She
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grow old At 90 she will not need to wear
cloth CATERS nor will her feet require shoes
too large, because they are 10 tender. On
the contrary, she finds that she can wear
shoes that are smaller and smaller, for she
has learned that the secret Of comfortable
feet is the nightly footbath, and she sleeps
her feet before she goes to bed In hot water,
afterward rubbing them we'll with vaseline.
Corns are unknown to her, and conse-
quently they require no shoe space. As
for the bunion joint, Il is Q myth, some
The girl of to-day is perfect in figure,
but she has science to help her. She il
just AS she should be in style, shape and
figure. But il is only partly to her credit.
for the talent Of the world has been at work
for centuries trying to discover ways and
means by which lovely woman could be
made still more lovely.
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CASSATT LOSES A GREAT COOK.
Joe Green. With whom III Huns Chang
JOketi. Is Dead.
From the Phiiad.i phia Public LEDGER.

FROM inc InNGuetpntu f'hOVc LenQer.
Joe" Green, in charge Of A. J. Cassatt's
private car. fell dead yesterday afternoon
| in the Pennsylvania station at Thirty second
and Market streets. He had gone there to
| look over Mr.. Cassatt's oar which is under
| going repairs preparatory to being sent 10
| Bar Harbor for MIR. Cassatts use on his re-
! turn to this city.
The body was taken to 1859 South Nine
teenth street. where he lived. He leaves q
widow and two children,
Green who was a negro, had been with
the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1850, startin q
as mule driver. During tho civil war he
served nvs years with the Fifty eighth Mas
sachusetts Regiment. In 1874 he took char 90
of the car of Frank Thomson. who was then
general manager. He went through the
and saw the car burned by a mob. The
successor to cur 80. Mr. Thomeon's car, was
car 90. now used by President Cassatt. This
was built by the Pullman company and
presented to Mr.. Thomson. who had become
president. only few moRths before his
dent Thomson 10 supervise the building OF
the kitchen compartments, His last trip
with car 80 was made on July 9. when he &C.
Companied Mr.. Cassatt to Bar Harbor,
Green's reputation as a cook was wide
spread. His claim to distinction in this
capacity lay in tho fact that he could prepare
goOu Otu-laSnIOHfu southern QiSheS. When
Ii Hung Chang visited this country he was
carried back and forth in oar 10. He wanted
a special American dish enc day, and Mr..
Thomson told Green TO give the Chinaman
some old-fashioned corncakes, cooked on
a whole plate OF the cakes and ignored tho
rest of the meal II will he remembered
that the old Viceroy was OF very inquirn 4
turn OF mind When he finished dinner he
turned to Green and asked.
What do you get year for cooking mesls
like this?"
Joe" who had been warned to look out
for Lis questions, promptly answered:
Mr. Thomson pays me Is, 900 a year. sir.
Iii was for a moment staggered by the
figures, but soon recovered and said
These cakes are fine, but SIS 600 IL too
much to pay for cook think ] shall tell
Mr.. Thomson to cut II down to 81, O6O II you We
no objections"
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DOT BLED ms STAKES AND WOW.
Nerve Of a Railroad Superintcm iCnt Fight.
In- q Flood.
From I = Louisc,Uc M ra'd.

Did you ever see n man in a poker game
bet every cent he had on three noes? Well,
that Ia what W :, Carson. superintendent Of
the Missouri Pacific terminals M Kansas ity.
did But the stakes were bigger. probably.
than were ever played in a poker game.
He het seven locomotives and his job thHs
the Missouri Pacific bridge wouldn't go QUO
This, in, The face of III" fact ,th9t srvrp-
teen bridges across the KHw had already
gone And he won Now the Missouri
Pacific has the only bridge across m" kaw
at that place. When Mr.. Carson saw that his
compnny'5 bridge was likely to go tn" way
the others went he took desperate chance.
He derided TO weight the bridge down with
MoRur locomotives Seven of them. repre-
senting n value of s1?j,O0o. were run out on
tho trembling structure, He knew as did
everybody else. that if the bridge went tho
engines would go with IL, but he took the
chance and took il alone for The city was
cut of from communication with the other
heads of depnrr nrn,s, and th"r" was no
one to consult with Had the bridge and
engines gone, his Job would hAv" gone, and
with il "A large share ~ his reputation as a
man of sound judgment But the plan was
q winner, and now Ais stock isAWAy Ab0vo Da4
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The cloths come in exquisite colorings
and quality and should be made up in severe
tailor fashion with. perhaps, handsome
buttons to add distinction.
No startling novelties appear in the models
for every day blouses, though the yoke,
in one form or another, has regained It's
prestige after being for several seasons
banished from shirt waist province. The
very long shoulder line is an essential OF
the model blouse, and the yoke in varying
shapes assists in procuring the effect Hence
it's revival.
The epaulette is another recruit among
the supporters of the long shoulder line,
and is greatly in evidence upon the new
blouses. Deep collars, too, are seen. but
they are not practical on the blouse in
tended for street wear. II deep enough
to droop over the sleeve and accentuate
the shoulder line they crush lamentaoiy
under a coat. Flat. shaped collars, like
detached Jokes, are much used.
Such a collar ornaments a blouse in dark
blue and green shot silk which is sketched
here. The blouse has a vest of lace and
lace pufrs set into the full, slashed sleeve.
A fat collar. oddly shaped, is sprinkled
with French knots in black and white and
edged with tiny black and white silk cord.
Bands of silk dotted with French knots
and edged with cord trim the fronts and
sleeves of the blouse. and the loosely knotted
scarf has the same French knot and cord
trimming.
Several Of the new cloth blouses are also
among those sketched here. and all illustrate
the popularity of the yoke. One in China
blue cloth has a triple yoke curved and ex-
tending over the top of the sleeve Each
of the three overlapping edges is bound in
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can place two chairs back to back with
a little space between them Then she
can place her hands on the backs of the
chairs and lift herself upward She can
raise and lower herself again and again
until her arms give out
If she will watch her opportunities she
will SEQ many chances for using her arms,
and she must avail herself of them, exult-
ing all the while that she is making her
back more graceful and that she is strength
ening and developing her neck.
The hands OF the up-to-date woman do
not grow old IA did tho hands of the woman
of a generation ago Have you ever OBJ
served the hands of an old person or of a
person of middle age? And have you
noticed how they betray the years, even
when the face and the complexion, the
hair and the teeth successfully keep age
Mt bay.
The hands are peculiar in that they be-
gin 10 show age quickly. At IS a gradual
change comes over them. 1t is almost
imperceptible, but the flesh shrinks away,
leaving the muscles fabby, and the hands
begin to lose their shape
Soon their plump Wilderness is gone and
the skin is drawn over blue veins and hard
knrcklcs, hollow places, bones and knotted
fingers. Even stout old people often have
ema ciated, shapeless hands
But the hands Of the girl of to-day will
not grow shapeless nor knotted, Each
night she rubs good nail emollient into the
/ finger tips and she presses back the cuticle
to keep it from getting dry, She annoints
the fingers with cream which renews the
nails so that they will not crack.
Then she rubs hand oil into the flesh
and pats and spats the hands until all the
natural oil is restored to them, If her haDds
do not look all right, if they begin 10 get
out of sorts, she puts on gloves for night,
and IL Lpr hn ndA look tired. as the
flesh sometimes will, she makes a paste
Of oatmeal and DIV" oil and fills an old pair
of gloves with it. until her hands repose
in this fatty cream. II il not the most
agreeable thing in the world, but il whitens
and soitrns pumps out and makes young
aRnin.
The girl Of to-day does not lot her fec :
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SELLING WATERMELON HALVES.
The Retail Trade Is Glad TO Accommodate
small Families.

ALSO will sell halves" read the lower
line of a sign In front Of grocery store
the upper line of which read "Watermelons
on ice
Years ago dealers never thought ofputting
waternoelons on ice to cool before selling
Now il is the practice OF many grocers
and fruit dealers And while formerly no
dealer would have thought OF dividing a
watermelon. now many dealers VIII; and
when they sell half a melon they tie a paper
over the cut part to keep the dust out.
They do up a watermelon as package,
n thing that in the old days was never
done. Ill
Selling halves Of watermelons TO small
families who could not Use whole melon
and might not buy otherwise, marks the
make trade by supplying every want.
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black glace silk. and black silk scarf cravat
is drawn under little straps fastening with
tiny gold buttons and falls in loose ends.
Another blouse in flamingo old cloth has
a yoke much like the one just described,
but without binding. The blouse is laid in
deep side plaits below the yoke, but in front
is broad box plat narrowing toward tho
waist.
A soft Louisine scarf in red many shades
deeper but harmonizing, encircles the
throat and is tied in a bow in front. The
ends are slipped through broad slit in the
front plat and appear through another
ait at the bust line, below which they hang
loosely. ,,.,-
extending in stole fashion down the front.
Hand embroidery will again play an
imnortant part In the trimming Of heavy
blouses and is introduced upon cpaulettes,
front plaits, cuffs and strappings
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THE FINEST TYPE OF HER SEX
FIGURE or THE AMERICAN GIRL
PRONOUNCED IDEAL.

VI W. DhaC hWMNB WDhTm VoHW MhDW HuWW
To Make Themselves Beautiful Means
by which Defects Are Hidden or
GOrreete,l-The Value Of Exercise.
1t il not necessary to get out your tape
measure to discover that the present Ameri-
can girls are about as nearly perfect AS
woman can be made
II you glance at the American woman
Of to-day, the girl whom you meet on Fifth
avenue, or the one who goes romping on
thegoIf lirksin thecountry, you will see that
she is built as she should be built. She
Ia modelled and moulded after the type
upon which the statues of other days were
moulded and modelled. And it does not
take very great stretch of the magma
ton to see In her the Venus de Milo and the
Venus de Medici rolled in one, with all
the best points OF each brought out,
The American girl has somehow lost
the large head which she once had. To-
day she has the delightful little head Of the
Southern woman of French descent, that
small well-poised head which is so very
pretty that it is ideal
If her head is large by nature, the CIR
Of the present day is clever enough to make
it seem smaller by dressing her hair con-.
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downward with her hands upon her hips.
When she has finished this exercise, she
knows tha. her waist is n quarter of an
inch longer than before and that her chest
is fuller
The girl OF to-day has the smallest waist
of any woman in the world, the smallest
uncorsete ed waist, for the American girl
does not lace. She wears corsetS but
sh. wears them very loose and she pulls
them down low, so that, We're she meas
ured with and without she would b" con-
si,erubly larger with her "orscts on than
without them This has been tried again
and again, and the girl of perfect figure
il always IA trle larger with her corsets
on. which il exactly as it should be.