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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
MARRIED MEN MORE
PRONE TO SUICIDE
Shooting Seems the Most Popular Mode
Of Self Destruction.

Speaking of suicides, I ran across an
interesting lot of statistics the other day
and 1 learned a few things that had not
known before" said a man who takes
lively interest in the subject OF vital sta
tistics land l want to make the state
ment right at the start that married men
are more prone to take their lives than
married women. The statistics show that
shooting is a fayorite method OF ending
life. I had always believed, but with
out any special reason, that poison was
the most popular means of suicide The
following facts will show the means
adopted in 10000 suicides: Drowning,
500; shooting. 3.247; poison, ESQ; cutting.
$40; gas, go; jumping. 473; hanging. 952;
miscellaneous, 302 You see at a glance
that shooting is n favorite method with
persons who hustle themselves out or
the world before the time set for them to
leave. However. poison is good sec
ond There is one other interesting
thing about the figures just given, and
that is the smaller number Of persons
who drown themselves. / was under the
impression that drowning was Il more
popular way of quitting the world. 1t is
an easy way and l should never have
guessed that so few persons chose this
method OF ending life. There is an
other table which may not be uninteress-
ing to persons who take an interest in
matters of this sort, for 1t will show the
social status of the victims. The facts
are as follows:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
How a Missouri Maid Ost
Her Hair at the SeashOre

the auburn hair? Can't you put us
on?"
"Well, 1 was sitting here last
Wednesday morning when one of the
sisters strolled along and noticed the
old clothes wringer.
"'Oh, how nice! she said, and then
turning to me, she asked:
Is that here to wiring out bathing
suits?'
mo- said I, that's for your hair. to
wiring the water out of it.
why, that's perfectly lovely! TIL
go and tell my sister. And off she
went.
II had to go to the office about that
time and just stopped a minute to
chat with a gentleman from Baltimore
the one that lent me his tortoise pin
when some one began to scream
right out here where we're standing.
''Of course, rushed out to see what
was the matter. And what do you sup
pose it was? That girl from Missouri
had taken that be-you-ti-ful hair of
hers and put it into the wringer plain
Just loose, you know, without any
towel around to hold it, and had got
her sister to turn the crank.
"You can imagine what happened.
Part of the hair stuck to the upper
roller of the wringer and wrapped
tight around it as 1t revolved, and
when the handle was turned the other
way the rest Of the hair got wound
around the other roller.
Then the girl at the handle lost her
head and began to work the thing v1o-
lently back and forth in a desperate
effort to undo the mischief. and that
was when hor~ sister began to scream.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

An electric hair dryer appeared and
a common clothes wringer disappeared
at an Asbury Park bathing place last
week. And thereby hangs tragedy.
I'VE lent the wringer to a girl from
Missouri to take her hair home in,"
explained the young person the droop-
ing pompadour who runs the women's
end of the establishment. Being from
Missouri. you see, we wanted to know,
and, of course, she found out"
The speaker was telling her story
by this time to q group Of young wom-
en- who also wanted to know, just like
the maiden from Missouri. So while
they coiled their hair and wrung the
salt water out of their bathing cos
tunes they listened.
''Of course, you girls all know that
when you want to dry your hair with
q clothes wringer you must first wrap
@ towel around it and be sure there
are no loose ends sticking out" pur
sued the story teller. But the girl
from Missouri didn't know that, and
neither did her sister, who was with
her.
They'd been bathing here for sew
eral days and drying their hair in the
sun. And such hair! 1t was simply
e-you-ti- Red and gold and CLOS
sy-you know The kind the dyer
can't make for any Of us.
"And when they had 1t almost dry
they'd walk back to their hotel with it
hanging down their backs, and for the
next fifteen minutes the boys would
be coming around asking, confidential
ly:
Say. May. who are those girls with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

It is not necessary to get out your
| tape measure to discover that the pres
| ent American girls are about as per-
feet as woman can pc made
| If you glance at THE american woman
of today, the girl whom you meet on
Fifth avenue, orr the zone who goes
romping on the agoHf links in the
country, you will see that she is built
as she should be built. She is model
/ led and moulded after the type upon
which the statues of other days were
mouldede and modelled. And it does
not take a very great stretch of the
imagination to See in her the Venus
! de Milo and the Venus de Medici, roll
| led in one, with all the best points of
| each brought out.
! The American girl has somehow lost
| the large head which she once had.
| Today 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
girl OF the present day is clever enough
to make it seem smaller by dressing
her hair compactly and by smoothing
1T at the sides and waving it low over
her brow. She twists a little knot
low at the back of her head, or coils
it smoothly on top; and somehow her
head seems small and we'll shaped,
whether nature intended that it should
be SO or not Such is the cleverness
/ of the girl of today.
AS to the shape of her brow, which
should be low and wide and white,
here, too, the girl of the period excels
for she shapes her brow just as best
pleases her, making 1T low or high, or
wide or narrow, or any other shape
oval or square. She coaxes the hair to
grow up or growedown, to lie in rebel
lious little waves or to go back smart
1y from a forhead that needs to be
raised a little.
The ideal neck should be very long
and should be slightly larger where it
joins to the head. The throat should
be slim and the neck should gradually
widen to the shoulders.
Here, again, the girl of today is clever
for she manages to massage and by
the rubbing of cocoa. butter and the
free use of creams, to make her neck.
as plump as she desires it to be. She
is in absolute control of the hollows
Thereof. and she sfable by scientific
treatment with oils and lotions to pad
out her neck here, plump 1T out there
and shape 1T until it is just right un-
der the chin and at the back Of the
shoulders. izAsts - r-szs -
The girl of today laughs at the time
when there We're saltcellars in the necks
of the very thin girls,<and she thinks
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

by that time nearly two feet of the
girls hair was so tangled up in the
wringer that nobody on earth could
have got it free, and we just had to
cut 1t off about a foot from her head.
when she got up and looked in the
glass over there she just gave gasp
and wall and then began to sob.
And. of course, you can't blame her.
Who wouldn't?
Her sister called a cab and they
went back to their hotel. About an
hour later the sister came back and
said she'd like to borrow that wringer.
ct guess you may have it. said L,
but what are you going to do with it?'
1 didn't know but she was going to sue
us for damages and wanted the wiring
er for evidence.
Sister wants to get her hair back,
she answered. She thinks maybe she
can put it on again.
"'Well, / hope she may said I,
thinking they'd both gone little dotty
over the thing. and you're welcome to
the wringer, for we've decided to put
in an electric dryer in its place.
DO you know that those girls took
that wringer apart and got the hair
out of it, and then they combed and
combed until the tangles were all
gone and it was as fine as ever-only
of course it was still detached
But it wasn't detached for long.
The sister took it to hair dresser
and told him she had to have a switch
made in hurry, and he said all right,
he'd have it ready the next morning.
And he did.
while she was waiting for it the
girl had her meals served in her room
and din't show herself among the other
guests in the house. The next day at
luncheon she turned up with a full
head Of hair. as usual, and nobody was
ever the wiser, except her sister and
me.
TT was switch, to be sure But
you can't say it was false. for it was
all her own"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

you meet on the street every day, and
whom you admire, even in the abrupt
lines of her tailor made dress, is one
succession of cures. Hogarth's famous
line of beauty lies in her neck and in
her arms. Beardsley's wonderful
curved back, which began at the nape
of the neck and curved steadily down
ward, is reproduced in her to perfec-
ton.
They say that to get perfect curved
back with neck that is a vertical
swan neck, not too long nor too short,
and full of grace throughout, requires
a long course of exercises and gym
nastic exercises at that
You would be amazed If you could
see the society beauties at play in the
gymnasium in the afternoon. They
call it exercise, 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 Newport 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 a
certain amount of exercise of the kind
that is called figure training. The
principal feature of this figure train
ing 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 a hand
swinging little and catching the next
ring, until she has travelled all around
the gymnasium by means of the swing
ing rings. This is great exercise for
the back and the muscles of the neck.
But the woman without gym
nasium or the birl who lives in fiat
does not always see how she is going
to obtain roomful of swinging rings,
and she does not know how she is 60
ing 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 can place two chairs back to back
with 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.
Ii she will watch her opportunities
she will see many chances for using
her arms, and she must avail herself
of them, exulting all the while that
she is making her back more graceful
and that she is Strengthening and de-
veloping her neck.
The hands of the up-to-d date woman
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

| month. and then to $50 and then to $62 So
E1ohestly, believe that any firm that
would htrust an employ With thousands
on top OF thousands of dollars and then
pay him such niggardly salary is placing
| a premium on dishonesty
:. In regard to La Bountie's mental condi-
| tlon. his brother-in-law, Mr. Elmer is
| quoted as saying:
For months his mind has been unbal-
| anced by the burdens he was Carving.
| He was dealing in huge sums; was carry
| ing on great schemes; using funds from
| one account to keep another straight.
and was worrying l asked him about it
many times. He always had an answer
ready. He made me believe that he was
| overworked and was suffering from it,
IL Is reported that La Bountie's former
| employees have no idea of prosecuting him,
| ana that they Will be satisfied to have him
| turn over all his property to them, and ID
] Is even intimated that he may be re-
| tanned by them to manage this property,
| for it is believed that hel can make il nav
| better than any one else.
other business men are beginning to
| think that La Bounties peculiar talent
can be turned to legitima tie business uses
and there is talk of a syndicate to fur
nish him the necessary capital to carry
forward his real estate schemes
One of the heaviest realty dealers and
master builders of the city Is responsible
for this statement:
Il am told" said this master builder
that syndicate has been formed with a
working cash capital of 500, 900; that as
soon as La Bountie's dealings with Smith
d Wilson have been cleared up the for
nation of new firm will be announced
and that La Bountie will be the active
man of the firm with a handsome salary
and Il guaranteed percentage of all profits
You have undoubtedly been impressed
by the constant reiterations of the mem
bers of the firm that La Bounties embez-
elements would aggregate $500, 600 You
have also noticed the fact that the posi-
bility of an arrest is exceedingly far off.
mo denials will convince me. nor will
they convince the public, that La Boun-
ties plunges have been foolish. He oper-
ated with remarkable foresight. and for
the business he did for the firm was en-
titled to a salary of four or six thousand
dollars year. When the Courier brought
out the startling fact that Wilson & Smith
paid this shrewd fellow the pitifully small
sum of So so a month. the syndicate of
which l have knowledge began to take
shape. 1t is a completed plan now.
am told, ON what | deem competent au-
thority, and he will have a chance to
show what he can do with the realty
game with working cash capital of $780,
600.
IF that deal goes through it will be one
of the most marvellous transformations
within my recollection. La Bountie is
clever and competent. but it has taken the
revelations of his gigantic crookedness to
bring that fact to the attention of men
who do not believe that such talents should
be allowed to go to waste or to be diverted
into criminal channels
4
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
with change. how is he to be trusted with
liquors New York Press.
Had Slick Scheme.

A lad OF fifteen named Terkal, who lives
at Odessa, in Russia, recently constructed
box with false bottom which could
be opened from the inside by means -
springs Then he secured an accomplice
who was willing for a small sum - take
charge of the box and forward it 10 des-
tinations as directed. Terkal packed him.
self in the box and al convenient place
on the way left it. His companion marched
to the railway office, proved that his box
was ninety-three pounds lighter than it
was when shipped, and demanded dam
ages. This was done from place to place,
the railroad and steamboat companies only
being too glad to settle quietly.
Terkal left Odessa with 10 copecks
(about IL cents) and returned with 1000
roubles (about $1,000. Just as he was
about to leave the box for the last time
the railway police observed the move
ments of the singular box and Terkal was
arrested The whole story came out at
the trial, but the judge. taking merciful
view Of his adventures, punished him
with only three months Imprisonment
New York World.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

| do not grow old as did the hands of
| the woman of a generation ago. Have
| you ever observed the hands of an old
person or of a person of middle age?
And have you noticed how they be-
tray the years, even when the face and
| the complexion, the hair and the teeth
| successfully keep age at bay.
The hands are peculiar in that they
begin to show age quickly. At thir-
ty-five gradual change comes over
them. 1t is almost imperceptible, but
the flesh shrinks away, leaving the
muscles fiabby, and the hands begin
to lose their shape.
Soon their plump whiteness is gone
and the skin is drawn over blue veins
and hard knuckles, hollow places.
bones and knotted fingers Even stout
| old people often have emaciated.
| shapeless hands.
But the hands of the girl of TODAY
will not grow shapeless nor knotted.
/, Each night she rubs a good nail emol-
ient into the finger tips and she
presses back the cuticle to keep it from
| getting dry. She anoints the fingers
| with a cream which renews the nails
| SO that they will not crack. !,
| Then she rubs a hand oil into the
hesh and pats and spats the hands
until all the natural oil is restored to
them. IL her hands do not look ali
right if they begin to get out of sorts.
she puts on gloves for q night. and if
! her hands look very tired, as the flesh.
sometimes will, she makes paste of
oatmeal and olive oil and fills an old
pair or gloves with it. until her hands
repose in this fatty cream. 1t is not.
the most agreeable thing in the world.
put 1t whitens and softens, pumps out
and makes young again.
The girl of today Goes not let her.
feet grow old. At sixty she will not
need to wear cloth CATERS nor will her
feet require shoes too large, because
they are so tender On the contrary,
she finds that she can wear shoes that
are smaller and smaller, for she has
learned that the secret of comfort
able feet Is the nightly footbath, and
she sleeps her feet before she goes to
bed in hot water, afterward rubbing
them well with Vaseline
Corns are unknown to her and con-
sequently they require no shoe space.
AS for the bunion joint. it is myth.
something about which it is to laugh.
The girl of today is perfect in fig
ure, but she has science to help her.
She is just as she should be in style.
shape and figure. But it 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
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
RARTENDERs GET EVEN.
How the Drink Mixers Generally Resent
Insults From the Boss.

&.
Since the bar is necessary eyil-to
some folk-and is an institution of the
state-being Observation-Disclosures to 1t oc-
casionally must be excused. There are
some very clever men behind the bar. and
once in while a gentleman. Tab is usual
ly kept on him by the metal cash register
hours by maze of patented machinery.
If he steals a check of Is cents he is
caught, you may say. Not at all! The
sether day in fashionable resort the
proprietor, big-beHied and pompous,
'.called down. one Of his men before some
customers. AS to the question of right or
wrong, / say nothing. But presently
when Signor Pomposity turned his back,
the barman emptied full bottle of the
finest whisky into the washing trough I'M
der the bar 1t was worth at least 81 so.
That was his way of getting even. l am
informed that it is the usual way of re-
senting an insult frc:as the proprietor. The
mere stealing of IF is small mat
ter when the ban to be trusted
with thousands ars worth
of liquors. If a man Is be trusted
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

| William Elmer. his brother-in-Iaw at
whose home La Bountie and his wife
have been staying for the past week.:
Just think of the important position
La Bountie held with that concern and
look at the meager. almost niggardly sal
airy which they were paying him. He
practically transacted all of their finan-
cial business. He useds their money just
as he pleased, and the firm did not know
thing about it until that fake mort
gage bobbed up.
ut makes me smile to think of the day
laborer's salary Wilson & Smith were
paying that man. When he went to work
for them they paid him $25 a month.
After a while they increased it to s35
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

sent a check for $1,000 Now the church
people dc. not know what to do with the
money.
La Bountie continues to enjoy his free
dom. and is daily working with the firm to
straighten out the business and dispose of
his property. He has turned over the en-
tire business to the firm, and says that it
will realize a profit of more than 100000
in addition to getting back the money he
borrowed.
The relatives of La Bountie. while not
excusing him for his populations, state
airy was little more than SIS a week,
Wilson & Smith are in great good luck
to have restitution made to them. Said
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-01
UIEo

RAY--At the family nome. South Com
mercial street. Salem, May 3O'
1903. at 1880 D. m, Robert 7. Ray,
aged 81 years.
Mr., Ray was for many years resi-
dent OF Marion. He sold his property
there and removed 20 this city about
year ago. making himself new
home. But for some months he has
been falling, and. In spite Of the best
medical aid. passed away. He was
born In Summit county, Ohio, June
2. i942, and was married 10 Miss An
gle NJ. Hunt. June 4. 1856. who sur
wives him. lie leaves four children,
as follows. Mira Louie Johnson, OF
Corvallis: Mart T. Ray, OF Salem. and
Clyde and Elmer Ray, OF Michigan.
The funeral was conducted from
the residence al D. m. today. ser
vices by the Rev. Gordon, OF Leslie
church. and interment at City View
cemetery.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-01
THE SWIFT
AND HANDY
BICYCLE
Few Facts of
General Interest
Wonderful improvements
During the Past Few
Years - No Longer a
Luxury, but a Necessity

In this day OF hustle and hustle
what a great invention the bicycle
really Is.
How few, indeed. as they coast
along In the full enjoyment OF a spin
through the parks or country. ever
think OF the wonderful advancement
made during the past twenty-five
years.
Notwithstanding this fact. how.
ever. the bicycle industry witnessed a
development that was, TO say the
least, phenomenal.
Between the high bicycle OF twen.
ty-hve years ago, with the big wheel
In front and the little wheel behind,
and the safety bicycle OF to-day. there
Is a list OF improvements that is with
out parallel.
With the advent OF the Safety
people felt sure that the ideal whee
had arrived. This was not so, how
ever. as cushion tires. wood rims
spring forks. improved handle bars
saddles. chains, pedals, forks, pneu'
matte tires and a dozen other i'm
proyements followed each other I'm
quick succession. until the public be
gan 10 speculate as 10 what was com
ing next
What Is considered the greatest
Improvement OF the age OF bicycles,
next 10 the pneumatic tire. is the
ooaster-brake and II can be honestly
said that this device Is conducive OF
more pleasuue than all others com
bined
The Morrow cOaster.brake was the
pioneer OF all coaster-brakes placed
on the market and Immediately
sprung into a popularity that years OF
competition has failed 10 shake.
The perfection OF this device has
been no less wonderful than that OF
the bicycle. The Eclipse Mfg. Co OF
Elmira, n. y, makers OF the Morrow
Coaster Brake, have spared no eX
pense In its development. adm theii
efforts have been crowned with sue
cesa The New 1908 Morrow is, with
out exception. the most perfect brake
ever offered.