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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

When a woman's zeal for religion
prompts her to ask strangers imperti-
nent questions about their attendance
at church she must expect to be
'sjarred" occasionally.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

a man gives up his religion for
his .wife's when he marries, and the
wife gives up her politics for her hus
bands.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

''It is my opinion" said the village
deacon, "that if people would begin a
little sooner to carry flowers to man
instead of waiting until the hearse
drives up to the door, that there
would be a whole lot more happiness
in this world"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25
JUST SUPPOSE THE CASE.
~ UPPoSING a case:

- oPPO &c JOo
worked hard the
livelong day till
your back ach-
ed every night,
in dirty. grimy.
work, that made
you look like
the devil. Sup
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

F. NJ. LUTsCHG, County Clerk
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25

A Kansas City paper is response
BILE for the following: A girl from
New York was visiting in Kansas.
One day she ran into the house and
called excitedly: "Come quickl Your
little pigs are eating up the big pig
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thing the look of John Wesley or Jona-
than Edwards or some of the old time
divines.
Not even when she was supposed to
rest, however. did the indefatigable wo-
man preacher stop labor. During the
past winter and spring she has been
lecturing on her favorite topics. She
believes that organized philanthropy Of
fers a vast and productive field for the
efforts of trained women, both as vol-
unteers and as paid assistants. Faith
full to her advocacy of betterment for
the race, she has been at one time or
another recording secretary of the Ma
tfonal Council of Women and president
OF the Rhode Island branch, director
of the New England Woman Suffrage
association and member Of the board of
control for the Rhode Island State
Home For Dependent Children. She
also prepared a book of order of service
for public worship. which is extensively
used.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer have a fair
daughter, Lucy. aged eighteen. She is
at the beginning of a promising career
on the theatrical stage and has also
demonstrated her talent in dramatiza-
ton The bent toward public life in
both her father and mother with her
has taken the direction of the dramatic
stage. and her parents have not op-
posed her choice.
ELIZABETH LEE
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But when the man marries the girl
he finds out her real self2 Naturally
But then she's married to him, and he
has to make the best of it. You see
that every day. and it goes by the po-
etic phrase ''wane of the honeymoon
In nine cases out of ten it's nothing in
the world but finding out the real girl
But here is the strangest thing of all;
While man exacts that a girl shall be
a compendium of all the maidenly vir-
tues he doesn't mind at all if she is ut
terly devoid of the masculine quality
known as "squareness." In fact, from
my experience I have never found it
to fail that men love best the girls
who treat them worst. I am sorry to
say the man / treated most unfairly
loved me best and 1 have at least two
male acquaintance who will worship
all their lives girls who threw them
down and walked all over them, to use
a very inelegant but forcible express
sion. The last is an unfailing recipe
When / am really quite crazy over
some man shall break his heart and
then be enshrined in it all the rest of
my natural life. There is only one
draw back to that. however. When 1
see that my ideal can be made to wor-
ship me by this means I shall worship
him no longer am seeking the man
out of a hundred, the man who win re-
spond to fair, honest, square treatment.
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WOMEN WHO SUCCEED.

Whenever a woman fails in business
of any kind she is pointed out as an ex-
ample for her sex to take warning by
and lay to heart the lesson that women
have no head for business, whereas the
truth is that men fail in about the
same proportion as their sisters, though
the latter have far greater odds against
them since they have had no training
for systematic routine work and have
not inherited the mental condition nee
essary to it.
The women who succeed are those
who go at their work with a determine
ton born of courage and positive con-
viction and whose energies are untiring.
A notably successful woman has told
her sister workers that the secret Of
getting on is to fight-fight quietly. but
stubbornly-aga the obstacles in
ones path. All the world loves a fight
er, whether it be man or woman-fght-
ers who believe in themselves. who plan
their daily battles as generals plan
their campaigns in war and who are as
fair and generous in the struggle as
they are brave. These are the heroes
and heroines of the day. They COM
mand success by deserving it.
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others. it is astonishing what an
amount of trouble she will give herself
and how helpful she viii be. But all
this is spoiled by her increased i'll tenn
per in the home circle.
How can the girl who is not genuine
expect to possess the desire of all girls
"a happy home of her own2 She inn
poses upon man for time. but when
the mantle of airs and graces slips from
her and he has been treated to one or
two domestic scenes what bitter disap-
pointment followsi Girls don't put on
your smiles with your visiting cos
tunes. but let them be for home wear,
and they viii become part of yourself.
happy, but cultivate willing cheerful
disposition and a determined spirit to
make the best of things. You are not
only making those who love you suffer
but are laying up for yourselves store
Of misery. You can avoid this if you
wish it; every girl can become what she
should be-the sunshine. of her home.
Begin today by wearing your company
manners at home: exert yourself to be
pleasing. agreeable and oblging. espe-
ciany in small things. and you viii soon
be quite content to let the world see
your real. true self. The girl who pos
sesses kind heart and a perfectly nat
uraf manner is one Of the happiest crea-
lures in existence. Kind hearts are
more than coronets:" they are welcome
guests at every board and a universal
blessing
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-~N@@~f'r
Now. just fancy coming down from
these heights and talking about fash
ions. Yet that's what I ought to do.
The fact that am getting my own
wardrobe satisfactorily is no reason
why you may not be making mistakes
in yours In fact, that is just what is
worrying me.
For instance. suppose you should for
get to make for yourselves three-quar-
ter length coats of unlined silk. think
how sorry you will be later on
You buy. seven yards of silk (peau de
cygne is pretty. with a figure in lus-
trous black. if you wish). You cut it
with a center back seam and two side
seams. the latter on the bias to give the
fare Then you add pufed sleeve
with a fancy cuff and a wide collar Of
lace or silk edged with fringe, and be
hold a chic and simple little garment
OF course you don't line it. but you I'm
ish the edges neatly, facing it for quite
a distance back.
Also, if you own an automobile and a
pet dog at the same time you must in
clude among your expenses a motoring
costume for the pup. such as the one in
the sketch. which is both becoming and
suitable KATE CLYDE.
New York.
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handsome public meeting hall. which
he intended should be the headquarters
of an associa tion for philanthropic en-
terprise. After his death his family and
the executors of his viii requested
Anna Gariin Spencer to come to Provi-
dence and aid them in fulfilling his
wishes. Mrs Spencer was especially
desired to organize religious society
to occupy the building Mr.. Eddy had
erected, henceforth to be known as the
Bell Street chapel.
The western migration was aban-
doned for the time by Mrs Spencer,
and she returned to Providence to aid
the trustees in administering the Eddy
bequest A religious society was organ
lied whose aim was the putting into
material shape Of the intentions Of
James Eddy Next the society and
trustees earnestly requested Mrs. Spen-
Ger herself to become the resident min
lister and regular pastor of the new so
ciety. This work of conducting James
Eddy's philanthropic plans as he would
have wished was so important and Mrs
Spencer knew so much concerning these
/ that the proposition of the Bell street
organization was one to be seriously
considered
The upshot was that Mr.. Spencer.
also factor to be reckoned with, gave
up the western migra ton, too, and ae-
eepted a parish near Providence in or
der that his wife might prosecute the
work to which she had been called.
During the fourteen years of her
highly successful pastorate at the Bell
Street chapel Mrs. Spencer did an
amount of other work, writing. speak
ing. organizing and teaching in the so
Geological and philanthropic field, that
seems almost unbelievable for one of
| physique so delicate as that of Mrs
I Spencer. She is a slight woman not
tall, with thick gray hair which. swept
back from her temples gives her some
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FRENcH WoMEN sAILoRa-

1t has just been decided that in
France a woman can now become a
sailor If she likes. This decision was
arrived at in the following way: A ves-
sci was recently leaving one OF the
French harbors, and. being short Of
hands. the captain engaged a young
woman who said that she was willing
to do a SAILORS work. At this point the
local authorities interfered on the
ground that there was no precedent for
employing a woman in this way. and
the matter was referred to the minister
OF marine, who decided in favor Of the
woman He said that she might serve
as a sailor, but that she could not be-
come captain of a vessel
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GOOD MANNERS AT HOME.

How much pain and misunderstand-
ing would be avoided if girls would only
be natural The girl one meets away
from her own home is so frequently
purely artificial creature, to all ap-
pearance so sweet tempered, bright and
unselfsh, full of spirit and energy,
laughter and fun. But frequently in
her own home, where these qualities
would be so greatly appreciated and do
so much good. what do we find2 That
she possesses an unlimited faculty for
making home miserable. She is selfish
and i'll tempered and will see her own
mother overburdened by work or anx-
iety but will not hold out the helping
hand she would give to strangers. With
a desire to appear well in the eyes of
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awRIrlNe LovE lETrERs.

There is not a girl alive who win con-
fess that her lovers letters afford her
rather cold satisfaction. yet the fact re-
mains that not one man in a hundred
ever manages to hit the happy mean
between absurdity and a businesslike
stiffness that simply drives q loving, ca
ger girl to distraction.
NO sensible, bright maid pines to re-
ceive a sickly sweet missive pcppered
with curious diminutives, absolutely un-
like the exaggerated phrases that sound
so charming when murmured in the
moonlight.
All the little daily details of life that
are so absorbingly interesting when
they concern just the one person in the
world slip off the pen of their own ac-
cord, as do the loving references to a
remembered walk or talk. the when
we are married" refrain that will lurk
between every line and be sweeter far
in its confident comradeship than whole
strings of sugar sweet love words
The true lover in absence must share
every pleasure that crosses his or her
path 7 had a lovely time. They all
said my dress was beautiful, and quite
a lot of people seemed to like me, and
thought if only you We're there." Just
a little thing TO sit down and write half
dozen lines on q return from d Qdnce-
Yet the man who receives such a little
note is assured in the sweetest fashion
that, absent or present, the writer is his
and his alone
To do them justice the fairer half of
creation. as a rule, write infinitely bet
ter love letters than the opposite sex.
Loves he never so deeply. the very mic
est man is prone to shirk the letter
writing part of his courtship, to make
kilograms or the convenient picture
post card take their place. Even when
he does set his mind to the task he
seems curiously BILE to write a letter
that shall. be neither an insult to the
Intelligence OF the girl of his heart nor
the proverbial stone instead of bread
that she Graves.
There is a type of man. too. who ap-
pears ever burdened by a fear of com
hitting himself-on paper From him
proceed the business1ike epistIes already
alluded to-episties which are just star
walton diet to his sweetheart.
On evening frocks the merest excuse
for sleeves is enough.
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knowledge and observation. the preach
er gave her resignation to the congre-
cation TheN. refused to accept it, but
offered her a~year leave of absence in
stead
A born sociologist, Anna Garlin began
to write on her favorite topics when
girl Of eighteen in Providence. She was
born in Massachusetts and is an off
shoot of that old New England congre-
gauonalism whose sternness is softened
in the sweet voiced woman pastors face
by feminine gentleness and tenderness.
The Puritan rigidity died out when it
reached Anna Garlin. though its strong
conviction and power to do look out of
her eyes still Her mind is as liberal as
her heart is warm and large. She for
gives much because she knows much.
Various phases nf human experience
have been hers, each preparing her for
the larger life which was to come
There can be no better training for the
sociologio al and phi anthropic worker
than being educated in the American
public school. and there the girl re-
ceived much of her book learning Aft
er that came the most admirable train
ing for fixing knowledge in a young per
sons head-being q schoolteacher. Miss
Carlin served her term as teacher in the
public schools Of Providence. Mean
time Sne was IOf Illc years a GOnlflD-
utor to Providence journal. Yet
teaching and writing seemed not
enough for the intensely active mental
ity of the New England girl At an age
when most girls are Interested chiefly
in neck ribbons and ice cream Anna
Garlin was making earnest speeches on
educational. religious. reformatory and
phiianthroPic subjects, and she has
kept it up to this day. When she was
twenty-four years old she began to
preach although not yet regularly or
dained. She delivered Sunday sermons
for the Free Religious society OF Prov
idence for the Parker Memorial of Bos-
ton and for the Progressive Friends of
Chester. Pa
Then in 1878 the young lady married
Rev William H. Spencer. a Unitarian
minister with a parish at Haverhill
Mass. and rounded out her life with
domestic experience. But not house
keeping or motherhood and a particular
interest in three or four persons snuned
out Mrs. Spencer's interest in the whole
human race On the contrary. with a
steady quenchless fire burned her de-
sire 20 help and improve. The mother
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and he thinks he doesn't love her
which is just as bad. What they really
10 feel only the powers above know.
1ut as far as they are concerned they
ire making fearful mess of it,
And it's all because she was careless.
She didn't make up her mind first what
ihe intended him to be-lover. friend or
2laything- She tells me he was fasci-
lating i'm all three roles. and no sooner
lad she made up her mind to have him
rs one thing when he developed charm
ng qualifications as another. Finally
she did make up her mind on one point
she didn't want him as a lover.
That's right where she made her mis-
axe; no woman can tell at such an
Early stage of the game whether she
nay not at some time or other want
hat man to propose TO her.
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WOMAN IN THE MINISTRY.
ANNA GARLIN SPENCER

of children of her own, she felt, as all
good women must feel. that somehow
she was a mother to the human race,
to soothe, to bind up its wounds. to
love and to inspire it. Without as yet
being ordained. Mrs Spencer aided her
husband in ministerial work, preaching
and teaching with him in various pas
torates in Massachusetts and in Troy,
n. 7. It is an ideal life the pair live,
one not only in heart, but in sympathy
and work.
Il don't think says the woman min
lister, that anything so helps a woman
in public life as to have husband who
is in sympathy with her.
Neither, for the matter of that, does
anything help a man in public life like
having a wife. intelligent and brainy
who is in sympathy with him. Many
famous men have 50 testified When
old fashioned matrimony is Just right
nothing is so helpful to man or woman
as it is. provided always that the man
and woman are just right too. The
preachers decided that the best field for
their united labors was in the west,
whittier accordingly they prepared to
remove.
Then something happened
In Providence when Mrs. Spencer was
a girl lived James Eddy. a wealthy and
philanthropic citizen who did much for
the people. He and his family were de-
voted friends of Miss Garlin. Mr.. Eddy
was an earnest sympathizer with her
in her religious and reformatory work
About the time the Spencers We're pre-
pairing to go to the west James Eddy
died. leaving a large bequest for reli-
gious and moral purposes" In his life
time he had built upon his own estate a
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SPIRIT OF THE CONFEDERACY.
wreath in her hand, which she is about
to place upon the brow of the dying
one. It is a beautiful. noble piece of
sculpture. The inscription on the front
is: s'Gloria Victis. To the Soldiers and
Sailors of Maryland In the Service OF
the Confederate States of America,
1S61-1S65."
Ionic columns in bronze and a bronze
railing will be placed around the monu-
ment
This addition to the public art works
of Baltimore was made by the ladies of
Maryland who belong to the Society OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy Old
soldiers of the blue and gray alike par
ticipated in the impressive ceremonies
of its unveiling.
The story of the conception of the
monument is an interesting one. The
sculptor had received commission to
model a Confederate monument for
Springfield. Mo. He had striven for
the opera of tTannhauser'' the tremen-
dous Wagnerian music brought it to
him. Before him flashed a vision of
tattered fainting soldier, wounded unto
death, then He was about to sink
into the mire when saw a tail, power
fuI. splendid winged Victory swoop
down from the sky and clasp him to her
breast, while holding aloft a crown"
Springfield did not like the design so
expressive alike of pathos and power.
but the Maryland ladies did and chose
it for their monument
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thing she enjoyed herself thoroughly,
was perfectly comfortable and even,
grea test luxury of all. dared to show
her pet wickednesses. She even treated
the man as squarely as she would have
treated her own self. oh, horrorsi But
give the poor girl credit. She knew bet
ter than to do that. but she thought she
never would need to have him love her
If she had foreseen the future. she
might have arranged things perfectly
Its all a question of method
I'm future. Kate she remarked bit
terly. Il shall always go on the suppo-
sition that I may at some time fall in
love with them. I'll see to il that they
all fall in love with me. Then I can
have them in any capacity choose"
Yes, but that doesn't work either, as
I know to my sorrow. When I see my
most reliable man coming twice. thrice.
four times a week. phoning me every
other day and even writing letters
alas. I know the evil day is near when
I shall have to listen to the same old
story told either better or worse than
the last time. but pretty much the
same. And then-well. it's another
place to fill UP on my list
Oh, me, oh, my, it's a strange mix upl
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Maryland Ladies
Confederate Memorial

IN Baltimore upon an elevated site not
Il far from the entrance to Druid Hill
park stands a beautiful sculptured
group lately erected and dedicated to
the Confederate soldiers and sailors of
Maryland The monument altogether is
twenty-three feet high. the pedestal be-
ing of Missouri red granite. The work
is cast in bronze after the design of the
Sculptor RuelSstahL tt represents the
spirit of the Confederacy. a winged fig
ure of heroic size supporting with one
arm a dying Confederate soldier, while
she holds the other arm aloft, a laurel
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It's the beginnings which count YOU
5now. just as your dress lining decides
he whole fit of your gown. You don t
want to cut it so that you can't change
he style or alter the seams if YOU want
o. Pardon these dressmaking SMILES.
2ut I'm in the midst of that just now.
and naturally it appeals to me.
Any crude boarding school miss win
ell you that you can't have any fun
with man if you expect him to pro
pose to YOU. I mean that YOU must
adhere to a strict course of action. mo
natter how great the sacrifice. First
ind foremost YOU must stay up ON a
linnacle- 1t isn't always the most COM
ortable thing in the world. especially,
that ism your natural place and Won
ire apt to want to come down and frisl1
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The same inn
pressive services
likewise includ-
ed Mrs. Spen
GERS installation
as the ehureh's
firs [ pa sto Z.
From that day
till a year ago
the minister e
woman served
her congregation
without a break.
Then. conscious
that she herself
needed change of
Canr,n anE I'D.
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THE FIRST ENcLlsH NEEpLE

The first needle used in England was
made in Queen Mary's reign by a ne
gro, who unfortunately died before i'm
parting the secret to any one In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth the art of
needle making was rediscovered by a
German, who impaired it to an Eng
hshman.
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lieve ] once before remarked, finds that
out very early in her career She dis
covers what qualities a man admires,
and she plays UP to them
Oh, you need not lift up your hands
in holy horror. Watch, and you'll see.
1t is done every time. consciously or un-
consciously.
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N YENER be careless.
N Why this rather trite maxim? =?
Oh, well. you see one of my
friends has just come to me be
wailine herself. Not that this
s anything unusual oh. sorrow No
indeed. For some occult reason am
he conhdant of nearly every woman I
know. but in this case it's rather funny.
or course there's a man in il. If there
we're not I should not speak Of the ep-
sode. Z. all-er-I mean-that is
Sack Co the point
She loves the man. and he doesn't love
aer-that is. she thinks she loves him.
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(ln case you
should feel curl
Gus on the sub
ject, I will tell
you frankly L
never expect to
marry)
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south originally for the health of the
younger sister. They saw an opportu-
nifty and engaged in melon growing. It
has proved very profitable to the two
brave girls
Dean Russell of the Teachers. col
lege at New York has received a gift Of
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-02
TWO SUBSTITUTES FOR A HOT
WATER BOTTLE.

Make a bag Of linen or calico measur-
ing IS inches BY 10 inches. Fiji tke-
with nice clean sand and sew up ait the
end. Place in the oven until thorough
ly hot then slip into a flannel bag It
is then ready for use and win retain the
heat for much longer time than the
ordinary earthenware bottle The other
substitute is a brick heated in the same
way and then slipped into a flannel bag.
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s., 900 from Caroline Phelps Stokes to
endow a competitive scholarship in do
nestle science. 1t win be awarded on
examination and viii be open to grad
yates Of other colleges.
Two girls. the Misses Raymond, have
established and are operating with
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-02

asked a lady in the hotel parlor. ~She
used to be mine" gravely replied the
little fellow, but now I've got twin
sisters SO she's only one third mine"
Dr. Helene Stocker is the editor and