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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
WOMEN NOW AND FORMERLY.
The SoIons Of the Early Days and the
Clubs of the Present Time.

A woman is denouncing womens
clubs as producers of cleverness, not
Of scholarship. Were her structures
thus begun and ended there would be
little to say in negation. For scholar
ship has ever been, must ever be, soil
tary, AMI cleverness come somewhat
of gregariousness. Reading, as has
been truly said, maketh a full man,
conference ready man and writing
an exact man.
But when the discriminating con-
demner of woman's clubdom adds that
women of the former time, 'the wom-
en- of the great days of the Salons"
were scholars and not merely clev-
err" she should annex a photography
of the subject to sustain her brief
The salons were the first women's
clubs. Originating in Italy during the
renaissance, their briefhour were pol
1shed with the new learning, to which
women were peculiarly entitled, for af
ter the scholastic philosophers, with
Petrarch and Boccaccio in literature
and Dante, it was to the women of
Florence that learning was most IL
debted for the resuscitation of CLASH
cal taste and antiquarian research.
Women in middle ages received
more extensive classical and artistic
culture than women now enjoy, but
the educated proportion was compare
lively small. Music, also, especially
upon the strings, women cultivated to
higher skill; they had more time,
and Italy is the mother of music.
When the salon became an I'M
doubted power in France it repre-
sented less the scholarship of the
period than it's ambitions and intri-
CUES.
In England there was no period in
which many women were conspicu-
ously learned. Your typical English
man remains to this hour the tory
against progress for women in science
and the arts. When Lady Mary Wort
ley Montagu formed the first wom-
ans club in the island it was desig-
mated in derision the BLUE Stock
ings," although it was a man who
wore the cerulean hose at the meet
ings. Even Walpole made fun of
feminine pretension to culture Mrs.
Montagu "holds her feast of shells in
her feather dressing-room,' he wrote.
An English author of considerable
reputo was shocked Wnen ne heard
rumOr that his mother contemplated
publishing a novel, and he implored
her not to do So because ga female
author" he considered "a sort of half
man."
While clubs waste the time of the
really learned, they undeniably dis
seminate among the less fortunate a
beneficial acquaintance with the best
that has been thought, done and said.
The really learned woman of this
time is more learned than the studious
women of any former time because
science and travel increase the op-
portunities of the women of today
and science and travel alike were lit
tie known to the women of any form
er age.
Womens clubs have their justified
place among contemporary institu
tions-Chicago Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
THE BARBER IN ITALY.
You Must Pay Him According to His
Standing.

Eyes, sir; that's something like o
shave,'' said the Man Who Travels, as
he emerged from Herald Square bar
Der shop, his face smooth and white.
"And, talking about BARRIERS, did l ever
tell you about my experience in Italy?
Well, say, we certainly have got them
beat yard.
Now, all through Italy you rarely
find a barber shop in small town. You
drop in on a quiet little place and di-
rectly you manage to let some native
know what you want. Then he points,
and finally you keep on going in that
direction.
"You come to a cross roads, and there
you find your barber. He is invariably
a little old man, and he has stool at
the side of the road, and perhaps you'll
find him with his patron standing up
against a fence. Somehow they don't
like to sit down. Funniest thing you
ever saw.
81 came across one one day, and he
had a lean-jawed old man backed up
against the fence and scraping away for
dear life. But, say, that old barber was
ingenious. Know what he did?
s'Well, you know how hard it is
sometimes to shave the cheeks The
cheek gives and you can't get at the
beard Now, that trouble is lots worse
if the man is hollow-cheeked. But that
didn't bother the rural barber. He got
around it all right. He fished out a
spoon, put in in the old mans mouth,
bulged out the cheek, and the rest was
easy.
''You don't pay the BARRIERS in Italy
any fixed price. You give 'em just what
you think they are worth, but you must
be very careful because il you under
estimate mans idea of his own worth
he gets nightly offended. The little
old man at the country cross roads you
give what would be equivalent to pen
ny, but in the swell shops in the CAPT.
tai you are liable to give up two francs.
Had to myself.
zone day l dropped into shop in
Rome with a friend who was familiar
with the customs of the country. My
barber was expert all right, and when
he finished l gave him 20 cents. I
thought was quite liberal. You should
have seen him. He became very indig-
nant and started to splutter in his ma
tive tongue.
"'What's the matter with the chap?'
| asked my friend.
"He's offended because you didn't
give him two francs answered by
friend. You see, he shaves the uncle
of the king. New York Telegram.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
LAUGH TT OFF.

6on't put on your far-off glasses hunting
lions in the way,
Don't go probing round for troubles-just
ignore them, day by day.
Don't go signing: Yes, it's pleasant just
at present, but-ah mel
There's the sorrow of tomorrow--where
VIII all our sunshine be?"
IF the worst is in the future and has been
there all the while,
We can keep it there by laughing till we
make the others smile.
If the worst is in the future, let it stay
there; for we know
That tomorrow's always threatening to
bring US so-and-so;
But tomorrow with it's sorrow never
comes within our gaze,
For all time is just a pageant Of these
busy old rodays.
Let the worst stay in the future where
jf.e has been all the whilei
We can keep it there by laughing till the
others start to smile.
when we look toward the sunset in the
gorgeous afterglow,
Let Us thank the blessed Father for the
things we do not know
Let us thank him with all fervency that
he has never sent
ANY burden quite unbearable; that, while
our backs have bent
Underneath the load, we've had his arms
about us all the while
Let us laugh away our troubles till the
whole world wears smilei
Let US laugh away the trouble though our
eyes are dimmed with tears;
Let US laugh away the heartaches and the
worries and the fears;
Just ''be good and you'll be happy"-if
you're happy, you'll be good
For the rules so double-acting that it's
seldom understood.
Oh, there is no future coming with a lot
of trouble in
We can fight it off by laughing till the
others start to grin!
S. w. Gillian in Los Angeles Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
A Bad Influence.

In early days when the prairie re-
gions of the West were first settled it
came about that nearly all of the
choice tracts of timber were gobbled
up by land spectators, leaving the set
tiers on the prairie without fuel and
fencing which they could obtain law
fully. 1t did not take very long to
place these tracts of spectators tim
Der lands in the minds of these settlers
outside of the operation of both moral
and civil law. This business had de-
moralizing effect upon the settlers. We
know of one community where not I'M
til the last stick of spectators timber
was gone was it possible to maintain
any kind of religious service. After
the timber was gone church was built,
and the men who stole the timber are
now bright and shining lights therein.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
ROOSEVELT'S MEMORY.
Incidents Prove That It Is g Very
Keen One.

Most public men pride themselves on
their good memories. There are few
congressman but who tell wonderful
stories of their ability to recognize a
majority, if not all, Of their 150, 900 con-
stitutents. President Roosevelt makes
no such claims. He DIES, however, says
the Washington correspondent of the
st. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat, pride him
self on his memory of things he has
read The president has told some Of
his close friends that he may see a
man a number of times about some
thing in which he is interested, and no
matter will have to be recalled to his
attention. Let the man address a letter
to him once and present his case, and
the president always remembers it. The
same is true of his knowledge OF books
and general literature. Just the past
week German journalist called upon
the president and spent an hour with
him. The entire conversation turned
upon German literature, and the Ger
man found his knowledge was equalled
by that of the president He made bold
to ask the president how long it had
been since he had read the German au-
thors, and the president promptly an
swered: ooh, not for many years, be-
cause I haven't had time to read in the
German since leaving college" Then
there was another illustration of the
presidents excellent memory when
Tom Fauntleroy of st. Louis called at
the white house the other day. The
president grasped him tightly by the
hand when introduced by Congressman
Tawney. AS soon as he caught the
name, he repeated: 'Fauntleroy?
Fauntleroy? Fauntleroy of st. Louis?
| remember you we'll. You wrote me a
letter shortly after our Cuban cam
paign, and were kind enough at that
time to connect my name with the pres
idency."
Time to Interfere-"What are they
arresting the man for?" "They caught
him selling coal in short measure
strawberry boxes. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
That's Different.-'T see Chicago
girl has risked her life to save her pet
cat" II wonder if she ever broke or
tried to break mans heart just for
the fun of the thing. "-Chicago Record
Herald.
Doubling Dennis.-Judy-Will we
give me yer promise, Dennis, that yell
love me forever? Sure, Judy, but Dim
hardly of the opinion that Oi'll lasht as
long as that.-Richmond Dispatch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
A pISREPUTABLE KING.
King Leopold Who is Planning Visit
to America.

So old King Leopold is planning a
visit to America:
If Justice should be done; if the
matter of international courtesy was
not deemed of more Importance than
mere morals, the old monarch should
be notified that America doesn't want
to see him; that he will not be well
come.
He is a dirty, disreputable king.
There isn't a clean spot on his robes.
He has no respect for modesty, vir-
tue, decency-for good women and
clean men.
There are many bad kings in Eu-
rope. Some of them are very bad.
King Leopold is the worst. His peo-
pie fear him and hate him.
Queen Victoria despised him.
What is the trouble?
Women.
His life has been a dehauch. He has
had mistresses by the hundred. He
has repeatedly robbed his people to
gain money for some Of the vilest
creatures who ever disgraced their
SEX
Incidentally. he made the life of his
wife one long-drawn-out torture. He
disgraced her in all the ways vicious
mind could conceive of.
She died the other day.
Her death was release from bond
age.
What must a king think when a
woman is glad to die to escape from
association with him, her husband.
If King Leopold comes to America,
no woman should greet him. Society
should close the doors against him.
If he must come, let him seek his
pleasure in the haunts where paint
ed smiles are sold to the highest bid
der, where lights and flowers can
never hide the scarlet hand of shame,
and where music can not deaden the
groans of lost souls.
Best of all, let him stay at home.
America can never feel honored by
the visit of such king.-Des Moines
News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Pointed Paragraphs.

A man seldom realizes how much he
can't do until he tries.
Too many secOnd-clasS politicians
are drawing first-class salaries.
Barring pawnbrokers, few men take
too much interest in their business.
Misfortunes usually some in pairs,
out the first one came in an apple.
For a jOb-lot of New Years resolu-
tons at cut rates. apply to any of your
neighbOrs.
It's cold day for the plumber when
the mercury refuses to take the thirty
second degree.
Trouble, instead of brewing so much,
should do little baking, washing, or
scrubbing occasionally.
This is the proper season to forgive
your enemies. If you have no enemies,
forgive few of your friends.
A successful man is one who sue
ceeds in making his neighbors think as
much of him as he thinks of himself
Chicago News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Looking Toward the Farm

We received a letter not long since
from a merchant doing business in a
town in a Western state in which he
said that every dollar he was able to
save was being put into an 80-acre farm
located three miles from his town and
that just as soon as he could move was
going to quit the store and move on
to his farm, where, he says, he believes
he will be free from the daily fret and
worry incident to competitive business
life We think he is right in his con-
clusions. More than ever before the
farm conducted on modern plans is be-
coming attractive to very large class
of men engaged in mercantile and pro-
fessional lines of business and is one
gratifying evidence that the tendency
of men to rush to the city is being
gradually overcome.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
CANADA WANTS IMMIGRANTS.
Two Million Dollars Will be Expended
Next Year to Encourage Them.

The Canadian government is max
ing preparations for a very great i'm
migration next spring. The past year
parliament appropriated 100000 to
encourage settlement. Next year ST.
1000 will be expended. This move
ment is directed not so much to get
as from the old country, although
American farmers are welcome. A
change is to be made in the methods
of selling land by which actual set
tiers will get very easy terms, and a
large part of their travelling expenses
is to be refunded. This activity on
the part of the government, and the
still greater activity on the part of
the land spectators will result in a
great tide OF immigration from the
ting settlers from the United States
old country at least, anG may keep up
the American emigration. Over 25,-
900 have gone from the United States
the past season.-Des Moines Regis
ter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
The Groom's Mistake.

Last week a country bride and groom
we're enjoying a honeymoon visit to
Baltimore. By an observing gentleman
they were, noticed strolling about the
streets, stopping finally, and with evil
dent interest, before the lobby Of
Chase's theater. They scrutinized the
display of company photos and immed-
lately fell into an interesting discus
sion.
Come on" said the groom, Tets go
I'M
''Oh, pshaw," replied the bride, MAX
ing figures on the thing with the heel
of her boot.
And then they noticed the line of
ticket purchasers before the box Of
flee.
Gracious. look at all the crowd" he
said in a stage whisper; "'pears t. me
that taown folks must be kinder stuck
on themselves"
Everybody in hearing distance snick-
cred.
"S-sh, Silas!" commented his wife
Finally the line moved up and the
countryman had a chance to talk to the
ticket man.
What doesn't cost?" demanded the
what does't cost?" demanded the
blushing bridegroom.
''Dollar'n half piece for the best,' an
swered the man behind the wicket.
There was a consultation between the
bashful two. Then the inQuiring one
spoke again: you can't stick me on
prices, young man, even eff l am from
tn country. How much do We charge
for group picture?"
What do you want, anyway" de-
manded the ticket seller.
"'Gwan! amt this photograph gall
lery?"
mo; it's a theater."
''Then what in tarnation are We a.
doin' with all those sample photy-
graphts in front?" and, evidently dis
appointed, the two moved away.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Rape. Corn and Sheep.

This plan worked we'll He sowed
rape among his corn, three pounds to
the acre, at the time Of the last blowing
of his 1e0-acre field When the corn
began to harden, he TUNED into this
field 1,700 sheep and let them work on
the field until they had it finished up
along in early December. He then
shipped his sheep to Chicago, and his
returns showed that his combined crop
of corn and rape had brought him in
about $50 per acre. While this was not
a big return it was secured at so small
an expenditure of labor and so thor
oughly fortified and cleaned the field
that there is not little to commend
in the plan. Men with large farms and
insufficient help may get pointer here
of the value to them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Will Sing Americas Praises.

In the '60's and immigrant ship land
ed at Castle Garden, New York, bring
ing 500 Scandinavians from the hills
and valleys and fiords of Norway. They
were poor, honest and industrious,
lured from the fatherland by the stories
of the marvellous opportunities open to
them in this Western hemisphere. The
years passed by, and not long since a
company of 500 Scandinavians boarded
a big liner at the same city for re-
turn trip to the fatherland. These peo-
pie represented the best possibilities of
American citizenship in wealth, intelli-
gence and patriotism. 1t is pleasure
to picture the greetings which await
them over the seas and the pride with
which they will speak Of their adopted
country and its magnificent opportuni-
ties.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

The general extension of trolley lines
through country districts will do more
than any other one thing to popularize
country living. Where these lines are
built there will men eagerly seek coun-
try homes, where the conditions for
raising family are so vastly better
than they are in the city. Every troll
ley line project should receive the
hearty support and encouragement of
all people living tributary to the terri
tory through which it passes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

A man largely makes his own neigh
bors. If he will, he can by fair and
generous treatment surround himself
not only with good neighbors, but with
a circle of more valued friends. On the
other hand, he can by a mean and self
ish course of living very easily become
not only a man without friends, but
without neighbors as well.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

81 wonder" said the landlady, bright
ly, what made that fire in the furnace
go out last night?'
I'm all probability" observed the
boarder with the green whiskers, help
ing himself to another trapped buck
wheat cake, sit is looking for place
to get warm. colorado Springs Gar
cite.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

A cablegram from Minister Hart Of
Bogota announces that, according to a
recent government decree, there will be
progressive reduction Of 10 per cent
monthly in the export duties of the
country, beginning Jan. 1, 1903.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

The lawyers get so large slice Of
the estate of the well-to-do farmer
when he is foolish enough to let the
courts divide his property among his
heirs that every sensible man will make
such distribution while he is alive and
has his wits about him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

More farmers should avail themselves
of the benefits to be derived from read
ing the various bulletin issued by the
experiment stations. They can be had
free of charge upon application to the
experiment station officials.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

Dry years store up fertility in the
soil, and when wet season comes this
accumulated store of fertility is re-
leased for plant food, which fact ex-
plains the prodigious growth OF all
plant life in any wet year following a
period of drought.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

1.-THE great poets are born" remark
ed the sententious person. Eyes; and
they are also dead,'' replied the editor,
YEARLY .-Philadelphia Record.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

The debt habit is a good deal like the
tobacco habit-just as soon as some
men get out of either they are uneasy
until they get another supply.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

One small hotbed, 4 to IL feet, pro-
duced us $12 worth of early radishes,
lettuce, cabbage and tomato plants had
the stuff all been sold at market prices
1t did not take over two hours to make
it. A little later we will tell our read
ers how it was done.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

Blue grass, butter and bank accounts
are a trinity of agricultural blessings
which ever go hand in hand.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

There are hundreds of Western farm
ers who would have done far better to
have used their surplus funds in aiding
in the construction of trolley lines in
their respective communities than to
have locked up their funds in wild
lands in the British Northwest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

There are several things which dam
age cream-it hurts it to freeze it, to
overhead it, to mix it with warm sepa-
rated cream, to hold it any length of
time at temperature of over SO or to
keep it any place where it can possibly
pick up any bad odors, which it is only
to ready to do.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

The general verdict as to the value
of rape as forage crop is that for
pigs and sheep it is one of great value
AS general proposition on the average
farm it is better to sow it by itself
of an acreage just suited to the needs
of this class of stock kept on the farm.
While it may be grown as an after
crop following small grains and corn,
unusual drought of excessive rains are
each likely to prevent its best develop
ment. Anyway, be sure to SOW small
piece next spring and give it trial.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

A Maine hog swallowed box con-
tanning bank bills to the value of $3.50,
and it made as much fuss almost as the
holding of town meeting, while plen-
ty of Western farmers put $500 into q
bog, and nothing is though Of It.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
wright, 1901, by J. s. Trigg, Rock
Correspondence Solicited.

Missouri comes to the front with a
turkey weighing 81 pounds.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

my friend"
Martha Dubreuil said
this in a tone half railing
and half testing.
Pierre raised his head
without answering and
twitched nervously the
page blackened by ink. 1t
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

AS the time draws near for making
the second payments on Dakota and
Canadian land investments good
many men who have mortgaged good
farms in Iowa and Minnesota to buy
these Northern lands are going to find
themselves quite seriously embarrassed.
We do not see why it is that when a
man after working hard for years finds
himself at last out Of debt and in a
position to enjoy life he must needs in
cumber his property and take up the
fret and worry of the old life again.
Why don't men know when they have
got enough?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
HER PUNISHMENT.
BY HENRI DE FORGE.

Copyright, 1900. by Authors syndicat
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

We have a great respect for the poor
and ambitious boy who at % years Of
age has succeeded in earning and saw
ing $500. If girls knew what was good
for them, they would pay more atten-
to this class of young fellows and less
to cigarette and red necktie dudes who
have run up bill at lunch counter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

A partial explanation Of why more
poultry is not kept in the warmer sec
tions of the country is found in the fact
that it seems to be more difficult to
keep the f1locks in healthy condition
in such sections. The largest poultry
farms in the country are located well
north and not south, where it could be
cared for at much less expense.