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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Hints to Girls.

Bedspreads of net are especially
dainty and airy for summer bedrooms
Upholsterers show a heavy variety or
the net for this purpose which is rath-
er coarse-meshed. The spread should
be large enough to fall over the bed
On three sides and just clear the floor
when finished; it should have an edge
Of heavy Russian lace 4 or 5 inches
wide . If liked, a ruffie or valance Of
the net may be put around the bed,
the l~ace-edged spread to fall over it.
These spreads are often used over an
under piece of colored sateen, green,
rose or yellow.
To supplement the services of a
small writing desk a deep shirred bag
of heavy silk or of velveteen may be
fitted and attached below the table OF
the desk. This is useful to hold let
tiers, etc.
A delicious tea cake that may easily
give your - o'clOcks" a deserved rep
utatiOn is thus made: Reserve the
white Of n of six eggs, beating the
yolks to a stiff froth; add five ounces
Of sugar and the same quantity of al
monds that have been blanched and
pounded fine in a mortar. with three
ounces Of flour, the grated rind of half
a lemon, n ounce of orange peel cut
very fine, a dust of ground cloves, and
half a ~teaspoonful of cinnamon. Final
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Etiquette.

If you cannot be present at the we'd
ding reception Of your friend you
should send your cards to the bride
and bridegroom and also to the brides
parents. or to whoever invited you to
the wedding reception. If you attend
the reception you should leave our
cards at the house. Should the bride
groom be an intimate friend it would
be both kindly and courteous to send
a present to the bride-not necessarily
an expensive gift-with a note of con
graduation and good wishes.
II is not necessary for the bride to
provide carriages for the guests at the
wedding unless the guests come from
a long distance. and carriages must
meet train. Bridal wells should always
be worn unless a bride wears a travel
ing costume. Tulle wells, absolutely plain
or finished with lace, are the most be-
coming of all. The veil should be long
enough to reach within a short dis
lance Of the hem Of the skirt. 1t Is al
ways a little difficult to arrange for a
bridal procession when there 70 a maid
of honor and only one bridesmaid, but
in order to mark the distincboo b.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
The Unknown Swamp.

Within twenty miles Of one of the
largest and most energetic Of the
Southern cities of the coast, and on the
border lands of two of the Oldesi
Southern States, there lies a district
some two or three hundred square
miles in extent, but little better knowD
at this day than it was $50 years ago
when George Washington himself laid
out a route through it's wilderness
Nhe name alone, 1.-THE Disma
Swamp" is a by-word everywhere
when the spring is far enough along
for the wild honeysuckle and jasmine
and the arbutus vines to be hanging in
delicious masses over the sides of the
bitches and reaching down to the red,
brown water, of a color SO clear and
warm and sunny, hen there is.a fes
tival time in the Swamp. Companies
Of young people come from the villages
lying around the borders of the
swamp, twenty or thirty at a time
with some slight camping outfit, EN-
bark on large, fat-bottomed dugouts
that draw but little water, and theu
are poled up the bitches for ten OF
twelve miles from the fertile farm
lands of the outer world to the say,
hgely luxuriant beauty Of a lake hid,
den in the midst of the wilderness.
Then at a camp on the lake shore they
spend a night or two. fishing in the
lake, polling along it's shores, doing a
little shooting perhaps, much dancing
in the evenings and merry-making, un.
It'll they are poled out again, often by
a different route. A real spring fes
tival that has been a habit in that
country for many years.-Leslie'!
Monthly.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
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alarming concessions of the Canadian commissioners b
tunnel builders and power companies on that side of thu
river. Several power-houses are being built in Victora
Park itself, and, worst of all, another is building in thu
gorge at the foot Of the Horseshoe Falls. The CANADIAN
commission has shown itself SO indulgent to industrial
companies that confidence in it is violently shaken. The
New York commissioners have made a protest against its
concessions. and the feeling is that, bad as is what has
been done, there is only too much reason to fear that worse
remains behind. Another ominous enterprise is going on
at Niagara. An American company is using electricity ia
prophetic story that turned on the discovery of a process
for getting nitrogen out of the air and turning it into
food. The upshot Of the tale was that the atmosphere
was deprived of so much nitrogen that the resulting excess
of hydrogen made every one tipsy, and thing went from
bad to worse, until finally the atmosphere took fire. II
any such process as that has begun at Niagara the police
should be notified. Whatever needs to be done to restrain
the liberality of the Victoria Park commission must be done
by the people or Government Of Canada. All we can Go
is to spread the tale Of vandalism and stir renonstranca-
Harpers Weekly.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

now l can't remember what it is"
whereupon the obl1glng Thomas in
variably made suggestions.
WAS it your purse, or spectacles, or
checkbook, SIR" and so on, he would
inquire, until he hit upon the right
object.
One night, after the old man had re-
tired, the bell rang for Thomas, and
on reaching the bedroom he found his
master rambling aimlessly about the
room.
Thomas, Thomas he said, 81 came
up here for something, and now I've
forgotten what"
WAS it to go to bed, sir?" suggested
the faithful retainer.
"Ah, the very thing, the very thing!
Thank you, Thomas. Good night"
A clergyman. walking one day in the
country, fell into thought. He was so
accustomed to ride that, when he
found himself at a toll, he stopped and
shouted to the man:
Here, what's to pay?"
PAY for what?" asked the man.
For my horse" said the clergyman.
what horse? There's no horse, sir"
"Bless mer' exclaimed the clergy
man, looking down between his legs,
Il thought l was On horseback
One of the finest instances Of absence
of mind ON record is that furnished by
a certain Oxford don. whose scholar
ly abstraction" frequently landed him
in difficulties. Dining out one night,
he suddenly became immersed in
thought, and for Il time sat gazing at
his plate, evidently deeply engrossed in
some mighty problem.
Now, it happened that his left-hand
neighbor, a portly dame, had a habit of
resting her hands on the table, palm
down and fingers closed.
Suddenly the professor awoke from
his brown study, seized his fork, stuck
it into the plump paw reposing to the
left Of his plate, and. beaming genially
through his glasses, remarked, my
bread, 1 think"
The first Lord Lyttleton, an English
nobleman. was very abSent-minded. It
is declared Of hin that, when he fell
Into the river by the upsetting Of a
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Easy Way to Clean House.

A systematic way of cleaning avoids
confusion and at the same time makes
the work much lighter. For instance,
one or two days can be devoted to
the cleaning of beds; another day to
the cleaning Of windows and taking
down the soiled ~draperies which can
be washed and ironed on the following
day. After this Is done, a day should
be set apart for the brushing down of
walls and freeing pictures and mir
rors from dust and dirt. This work
can be followed by what Is necessary
in the way of withdrawing. paperins
and painting. Then comes tie ,oors.
If you are fortunate enough to have
them polished or painted. a day can
be utilized IN having them cleaned and
freshened. Where carpets are used
1t is an excellent idea to have them
taken ur and purified from he win
ters dirt. The expense 10 NOT large
and It gives the s~at.sfact!on thas ONES
house IL moro sweet and haahhfui
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Work and Leisure.

~ MAINE motornan, having come into a fortune or
L. 100000, announces that he will continue to work
for the company that now employs him. His money
at 5 per cent would give him leisure and an income
six times as great as his wages, but work is MS
choice. The president Of Harvard, who said In Boston
the other day that a man should work as hard and as long
as his health permits, will be interested in this Maine mo
torman, John c. Trip.
But the possession Of wealth puts obligations On Iripb
He must try to do more than to earn his weeks wages. lie
must aspire to rise until, like Motorman Root, who was
running a car seven years ago, he becomes general mana
ger of his company. He must cultivate his mind as much
as he can, studying books and men and politics, making
himself every year a more useful member of society. He
must dress as well as his purse permits, and educate his
children, if be has them, and give his fellow motormen a
make life more complex for him, loading him with new
responsibilities. He will find enough to do to keep him
busy if he does not seek to shirk his obligations.
And a word about President Eliot's precept regarding
hard work. 1t is the salvation of man that he is obliged to
labor. He is happier than he would be under enforced
idleness and more useful to society and to himself. And
to work a little harder than you have to-that is the secret
of success.
Relaxation in it's place is equally beneficial. The Har
ward president gets it when he goes to a Boston symphony
concert or makes an after-dinner speech. He got it as a
youth rowing a boat with other undergraduates on the
Charles River. If he had spent that leisure or were to
spend it now in hard mental labor unremitted we do not
suppose he would be any greater man than he is, any more
than we can suppose a motorman or a miner working hours
overtime would be more serviceable to his employer or
better equipped for the next days work. There is much
to be said to the contrary, and much to be said about that
moderation which secures for the toiler a proper relation
between work and leisure.-New York World.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
ABSENT.MINOED VICTIMS.
Ludicrous Tales Told of Their Ex-
traordinary Performances.

ahSS hoIu VI 1hSti LA
t~raordinary Performances.
A peculiar trait of humanity is what
is called Observation-Disclosures, and many
are the amusing stories told of those
suffering from this species Of mental
alteration.
y Cambridge professor, whose fits Of
mental alteration were as frequent as
they were amusing, was one day out in
a heavy rain, with his umbrella held
high over his head. when he met a
friend, who stopped him and ex-
claimed: Dear me, Prof. M. why
don't you put up your umbrella? You'll
be drenched."
Put up my umbrella?' said the pro-
fessor. 1T is up"
For half an hour, more or less, the
professor had been walking the streets
with a closed umbrella held above his
head.
At another time the same scholar
was riding downtown in an electric
car, and lost himself in a book he was
reading. Suddenly he noticed symp-
toms of merirment among the other
passengers. What cotld they be laugh
ing at?
The mystery was explained when he
discovered that, having been annoyed
by something between the plate of his
artificial teeth and the roof of his
mouth, he had removed the teeth and
was holding them up to view between
the thumb and finger Of his hand!
Still more embarrassing was the case
of a lady who hurried into church one
Sunday morning without her bonnet,
and when reminded Of the omission
by her husband, who had preceded her
by several minutes, ros hastily and
hurried ND the broad aisle with a large
red parasol raised and held close to
her head.
A certain old man suffered much
from Observation-Disclosures, and was fire.
nuently compelled to seek the assist
ance Of his servant.
~ homas," he would say, Il Lave
lust been looking for something, n
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

and peaceful slumber. Warm water Is
better than cold for the purpose. This
remedy will prove useful to people
suffering from Overwork. excitement
or anxiety.
Children in schools should be care
fully watched in order to guard against
troubles with the eyes, as shortsight-
edness is becoming yearly a more COM
mon defect. They should not be al
lowed to hold the books nearer the
eyes than fourteen inches, and must
not stoop owe their work.
The "no-soap-on-the-face'' fad would
win more adherents If so many of its
advocates did not carry on their faces
more or less blackheads-the yery
thing that cold water and mo SOAP
are supposed t. Danish. There ara
without doubt some skins SO tender
that a smart scrub with a brush, warm
water and soap roughens and breaks
them. There are also many young
women living in the country who have
charming complex.ons notwithstanding
that cold ~water-and hard water al
that's their only cosmetic. 1t Is
plain, however, that for most women
who live in a large town, where dust
and CRIME are rampant, soap in some
form is a necessity If they would keep
t ieir faces clean. Plentiful bathing
with cold water after the face bath
with complexion brush and soap Is a
necessity, but taken by itself 1t gen.
orally works mischief.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
CANADA'S DIAMOND FIELDS.
fines as Rich as Those of South ~

nlnes as Rich as Those of South ~
RIGA, Perhaps, Near Hudson's Bay.
Somewhere in the far North, south
f Hudson's Bay, lie undiscovered dla-
nond fields as rich as those of South
Africa. At least, this is the assertion
# Professor Nv. II. Hobbs in an article
written for the Popular Science
Monthly.
In proof of his remarkable statement
Professor Hobbs has prepared a map
which shows within a few hundred
miles where the great diamond belt
nay be found.
The reason of his investigation was
the discovery Of the following seven
diamonds in Wisconsin and adjoining
States:
Eagle stone carats
Oregon diamond ............ 4 carats
Kohlsville diamond .........2 ii carats
Saukville diamond ........... carats
Burlington diamond .......... = raratS
'Dowagiac stone" ..........1 caratS
Milford diamond ........... d carats
These diamonds were picked up by
farmers who were ignorant of Their
worth, and kept as curios for years be
fore their true value was discovered.
The Saukville diamond was kept on
the clock shelf Of q farmhouse for six
teen years before it was recognized as
anything but a curious bit of bright
quartz.
The Eagle stone was kept for sew
en years and then sold to a Milwaukee
jeweler for a dollar, neither buyer nor
seller having any idea of its worth.
Perhaps the strangest fact aIoIt
these discoveries that attracted thu
attention of Professor Hobbs was that
the soil in which these seven diamonds
were found was not in any case the
kind from which diamonds could be
produced.
In spite of all the digging and delv-
ing that followed every discovery no
second stone was ever found.
Professor Hobbs soon discovered
that all these diamonds, besides a
number Of smaller ones, had been
found along the ridges of land formed
millions of years ago by the great gla-
ciers that had moved down from tina
north.
He at nee concluded that the pre-
cious gems had been carriad to the
places where they were found by these
moving icefelds that are known to
have existed long before there was any
life on this planet.
When at last the glaciers stopped
and melted, the diamonds which they
had carried on their backs were
dropped upon the ground, to be dis
covered ages afterward by Wisconsin,
farmers.
The important question, therefore, ia
be answered is: At what place die
the glaciers pick up the diamonds?
Professor Hobbs replies by tracing
seven lines northward from the places
where the stones were found, showing
that they come almost to a point JUS
south of Hudson Bay.
"The ancestral home of these dia
monds," says Professor Hobbs, mus
he in the wilderness Of Canada be
tween the points where the severa
tracks converge upon one another. L
is by no means improbable that wher
the barren territory about Hudson
Bay is thoroughly explored a regioL
for profitable diamond mining may ba
revealed.'-New York World.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

MRS. L. a composer OF no
mean ability and plays the piano well.
Mrs. Townsend is a native Of Phila-
delphia. She possesses beauty, tact
and grace and is popular in the diplo-
matte set at the Belgian capital. She
takes a deep interest in struggling
American musicians abroad and has
often helped them in the line of their
studies and in other ways. Her home
in Brussels is famous for it's hospital
ity. the brilliancy and wit of the host
ess attracting to it noted personages.
Among her particular friends in high
places are the Prince and Princess
of PleSS.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Learn to FORGET Injuries.

- NJ people are so intent on revenging their injuries
that they never have time to accomplish anything
NwOrth while for themselves. From a purely selfish
and practical standpoint, not to consider the moral
aspect of the matter, revenge is not worth the trouble
that it takes to accomplish. A man had better employ
himself in honest, productive labor which will bring him
some valuable returns instead of giving himself up to petty
schemes for getting even on his enemies: Every man
would do well to wipe out all those old scores Of enmity
which he had intended to pay back by evil retaliation, and
start afresh to do something honest and positively bene-
fetal for himself.
After all, most of our enemies would be our friends if
we knew one another better. Few men are wholly or ma
liciOusly evil, and when one does another an injury there
is usually some misunderstanding at the bottom of it. How
often it happens that mutually hostile men, having been
thrown together by chance and become mutually acquaint-
ed, conceive a warm friendship for each other?
This is a busy world and life is too short to remember
grievances a long while or to take trouble for the sake of
obtaining revenge. A man must learn to forget injuries
as well as to remember favors, else he will go backward
instead Of forward in life. The past is dead. Let it be
Think of the future and endeavor to build up your own
fortune and happiness instead of tearing down the fortune
and happiness of your enemy, who may be, for all you
know, some decent fellow not nearly so black as you paint
him.-San Francisco Bulletin. .
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
COIOrS Injurious

Experiments with glass of various
colors in greenhouses indicate thai
nothing is better than plain uncolored
glass. With violet colored glass the
size Of fruit was decreased, and quality
injured and the earliness retarded, al.
though the number of fruit was great
er. Other colors were injurious IT.
every way.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Disappointed.

The story is told Of a Scotchman,
one of several brothers, whose father,
a wealthy man, had died. There was
much Quarreling about the property.
A friend condoled with them on the
bereavement. WELL" said he, "our
fathers death might have been 8 real
pleasure to us: instead of that it Is
only a misery"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Vandalism at NIAGARA.

LAMENTATIONS come from Niagara Falls over the.
intrusion of power-houseS and industrial innovations
upon the scenery. The American side has not been
- helped estheticaly by the various means devised to
make the river run in harness, but the reservation of
the State of New York seems to have been reasonably well
guarded. Victoria Park, on the Canadian side. has not
Jared so well. VOciferous complaints are made about the
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

women in Europe.
Recently while on
a visit to England
she was a guest of
the King a u d
Queen, whose adj
miration and high
esteem she posses
ses, and later in
London she o
ed c as a
musician. She Is
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
No Chance to Get Pictures.

Mrs. G~addie-They hain't got many
pictures in their house.
Mrs. Kromo-I didn't s'pose they
had. Why, she told me they don't
never buy No tea at all; don't use it,
Philadelphia Press.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Shall Ciergymen Work as Mechanics ?

who contemplate entering the ministry to learn some
trade either before or after ordination. He is moved
I to give this advice by the large number of minis
tiers who are without a charge. AS the number OF
ministers without charges is increasing rather than dimin-
ishing, the most effective way to comply with the law Of
demand and supply would be to reduce the supply. It
could hardly happen otherwise than that, under the plan
proposed, there would be either poor clergymen or poor
mechanics. The ministry is an eXacting profession, and
in the present strife for mastery in mechanics the inferior
is left behind. If it should appear that that inferior was
also a clergyman his value as a mechanic would not be
enhanced. There has never been q time when high schol-
was more urgently required in the pulpit than at
present. Not only does the layman incline more to enquiry
than formerly, but he enters the theological debate with
better equipment. If the teachings of the scientists Of
the nineteenth century do not possess the force of divine
authority they furnish arguments with which the skeptical
layman may confuse the minister who has not had time to
study both sides of the theological queston.-San Francisco
Bulletin.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Not Eeazed by Lightning.

A curious characteristic peculiar to
the California redwood tree is that II
the head is cut off by lightning a new
one will gradually grow out in its place
as shapely as the first.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
Moments OD1ugs>

tween the two the bridesmaid should
maid of honor and then the bride with
her father, or whoever is to give her
away. As in a church wedding, the
ushers head the bridal procession.
Health and Beauty Hints.
A hot strained infusion Of cam
omile flowers is useful as a lotion
when the eyelids are infamed.
Cold cream rubbed around the nails
will counteract the tendency to crack
and will keep the skin around the nails
soft and fresh-looking.
To cure corns take white-pine tur-
pentine, spread a plaster. apply to the
corn and allow it to stay on until the
corn comes off itself. Repeat THIS
several times.
For chapped lips wiring a soft linen
cloth out of hot water in which a little
borax has been dissolved and press
to the mouth. repeating the operation
several times daily.
A good remedy for sleeplessness is
to wet a towel and apply it to the
back of the neck. pressing 1t up to-
ward the base of the brain, and fasten-
ing over this a dry cloth to prevent
too rapid evaporation. The effect will
be found prompt and pleasant, o
ing the brain and inducing a sweet
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

If a oma is a widow, and has a
solemn 12-year-old daughter, the girl
has her duties the same as any chaper-
on.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
ly the single beaten white is quickly
stirred in and the cake baked in small
round pans.-Harper'S Bazar.
Beauty, Tact and Grace.

Mrs. Laurence Townsend. wife or
the United States minister to Belgium,
IS n of the most popular American
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

An electric carpet baAtR = q au>v&
ate sprtng fever.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30

Don't you complain too much, and
don't you find too much fault? Think
1t over.