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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS FROM GER.
MANY.

The superiority Of German household
and Kitchen utensils is discussed by a
correspondent, who instances as de-
lightful example the china or earthen-
ware rolling pin which has superseded
our primitive wooden one. 1t is almost
superfuous to point out that it is more
easily and thoroughly cleaned and is
cooler for pastry making than the
wooden rolling pin. II the well to do
American woman were to work in her
own kitchen she would surely never toll
crate such thing as the ordinary
pitcher, always narrower at the top
than the base and therefore impossible
to get clean except with much unnec-
essary labor. She would invent a soup
spoon with lip at the side, and she
would insist on everyday cup and
pitcher and vegetable dish handles be-
ing put on square. SO as not to harbor
irf lt.1-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
DRESS DoN'Ts.

Don't always wear red if you are a
brunette or think blue the only color
for blends. Reverse the order. A bru-
nette can wear all the light shades of
blue, and az blond is a symphony in
bright red.
Don't wear black, mauve or green If
the hair is black and the complexion
swarthy. Try yellow. scarlet or pink.
Don't choose delicate shades of pink.
lavender and blues, except deep navy
blue, If the eyes are blue, the hair dark
brown and the complexion not clear.
Don't wear pink and scarlet if the
hair is frankly red. Green and white
are the colors. There are brown, oak
and copper tints that make a redhead-
ed girl model for any artist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
PERFUMES THAT ARE
PREFERRED By ROYALTY.

If, as is stated, a PERSONS character
can be told by his choice of perfumes,
then the taste In this matter Of royal
personages Is certainly not without in
terest.
Queen Alexandra, whose love Of roses
and violets is well known, is particulars
ly fond Of the scents made from these
flowers. The king of Italy, like his
mother. Queen Margherita, has a pen
chant for strong scents, and his favor
lite is said to be patchouli.
The queen mother of Spain used to
delight in the essence of special vari-
ETY. of orchid which was only found in
the Philippines. Now, however, since
the disastrous Spanish-American war,
her majesty has lost her liking for this
scent and only uses 'eau d'Espagne %
which is made specially for her IN Mad
rid.
The queen Of Roumania, whose beau
tiful white hair and fresh, unwrinkled
complexion excite both admiration and
envy, uses a toilet water to which she
attributes the retention Of her charms
in spite Of her sixty years. There is a
good deal Of mystery about this water,
queens own recipe from flowers gath
cred by certain women, sworn to secre-
cy, in an unknown forest, while cor
don of sentinels keep away all inquisi-
tive intruders.
No royal lady is credited with so
large an expenditure ON perfumes
soaps. ETC.. as the czarina, who. 1t is
said, spends $4,000 a year on these ar
ticles in Paris. Violet scent is her maj
esty's favorite, but she apparently likes
almost every sort of perfume, for she
vaporizes the royal apartments daily
with the concentrated essences Of JAS
mine, jonquil. lilac, tuberose and white
violets. No wonder. in rooms SO heav-
lily scented, that members Of her maj
esty's suit occasionally have to retire,
faint, from her presence. The toilet wa
ter used by the czarina is perfumed
with violets gathered according to her
majesty's orders at Grasse between
and z in the evening, when she consid-
ers their perfume to be at its best.
The queen of Holland has a great 1ik-
ing for that good old fashioned scent
eau de cologne.
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III Az4z
New York. y
roo MUCH MATRlMoNY.
New York.

A marriage epidemic now troubles
Servia, and the cause of the trouble is
a system of marriage banks, which
were founded with the idea of encour-
aging thrift, but have had an exactly
opposite effect. Young men and maid
ems in Servia pay into these marriage
banks in order to secure a premium
whenever they marry. Immediately a
small sum has thus been accumulated
the desire to marry seems overwhelm-
ing. with the result that the first chance
Of entering the "holy estate" is eagerly
seized upon. To marry in haste usually
means to repent at leisure, and in Ser
via the effect Of premature and i'll con-
sidered marriages is such widespread
misery that the government is now con-
sidering the advisability of abolishing
marriage banks altogether.
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poster bed, my great-grandmother's old
patchwork quilts and heavy coyerleta
which wouldn't sleep under lie I were
paid for it. Then there's that ancient
wooden cradle, that old red table of
Aunt Jemima's and those lengths &c
carpet that have been keeping ten
years, thinking would move into a
house and have use for them. There
must be four suits of mems and boyss
clothes in the attic that nobody wears.
I'll send them to the Perkses. And look
at these stuffy, dust catching lambre-
gums and drapings in parlor, bedroom
and dining room. The Perkses can md
place for them. Out they go, and it,ll
be cold day when get new ones.
They're going out of fashion, anyway.
I've got furniture never used, never to
be used probably: enough to At out two
or three rooms. The Perkses will he
grateful for it.
I've two Jackets a trif1e worn that
meant to make over, likewise a. long
cloak. These go to the charities organ.
ization. Then those dresses Pm trying
to get remodeled-IH send them for
Christmas presents to my washerwo-.
man and to Sarah Stump for her girls.
They will be Christmas presents thesh
people will receive joyfully. Come ia
think of it, I've been making gowns
over and letting them get old fashionetl
again for fifteen years. Christmas dav
shall witness the end of 1t. SHAH give
in Christmas presents to those who win
be thankful and make good use of them
the three gowns not yet ripped up, and
VOW by Father Christmas never
again to load myself up with one dre,,s
that do not need at the time. That
wadded wrapper have not had on in
five years because it is too warm to
wear here, but which I have kept.
thinking might move to a cold eli
mate, shall send to old Aunt Susan M
in the mountains. 1t will be a real
comfort to her. Every article Of furni-
ture, drapery or overlooking bric-a-
brac shall give away.
Hereafter shall buy only what 1
need at the time, and that / shall use
till 1T is worn out: so shall simplify
my life. And every Christmas hence
forth shall have clearing Up SINH
lar to this one, giving away to those to
whom they will be useful all the pos-
sessions that merely cumber my way.
So shall escape the slavery of things.n
- JAGE MOsEa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
Speeding their first christmas togefner.

rant. Then comes the evening per-
formance. She must hurry back for
that, and when the long, long day is
over she is so tired that she is glad to
get home and go to sleep in warmth
and comfort. But on the following day
or on the Sunday after watch her cele-
Drate Christmas! What matters If 1t
is not the day? Stage people have i'm
aginations. There is the regulation lit
tie dinner, with presents. friends and
q merry time.
So to all Of US. high and low, talented
or stupid, happy or sorrowful, Christ
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24

Louisiana Purchase
exposition at st. Louis she is to us just
Nellie Grant Sartoris.
The manner in which she accepted
The post is Enthusiastically her ia
theirs way. He never once in his life
sought an appointment to a high or
great Office, but when 1t was offered
unsought he accepted it without hesi-
tation and entered on its duties with
put any fuss. Just SO Nellie Grant be-
came active president Of the board of
lady managers at st. Louis, the for
mer home town Of the Grants, where,
according to some chroniclers. Captain
Ulysses S. Grant used to haul in from
his farm wagon loads of wood and sell
them in the streets-back in the ffties,
that was. In 1903 they asked his only
daughter to be president Of the board
of women mana. rs of the worlds fair.
Briefly and m destly she consented
and at once left her beautiful Wash
ington home and Jared forth to st.
Louis without any fuss. In the EXPOSE
ton city she modestly established her
abode in a hotel. ready for the work
she was called to do That work is
social mostly, planning local entertain
ments receiving with honor and dig
nifty distinguished guests and providing
for them, particularly women guests,
also showing attention and hospitality
to the home folk, our own people. But
we are nation of well nigh 10000, 600
people: foreign folks to the number OF
over half billion more will send rep
resentatives, distinguished and other
wise, to the ST. Louis fair. A suit OF
rooms in a hotel was not to be thought
OF as the residence and headquarters OF
the woman president The hotel suit
was abandoned. Nellie Grant Sartoris
still without bit OF fuss, gave it uI
and took a large house.
There she is this day, administering
the functions of office. Her life has
especially fitted her for the social fea.
ture of the work; the administrative
featr y u. S. Grants daughter will
la VI the best as she goes on. She
Sied SO young that her frs
trained gown was worr
as presented to Queen Vic
british court Abroad sh,
Sand loved by all wht
pred in British society
any Of the Jealous,
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The CIV Christmas.

.
But we can't all Of us have Christ
in a town, for instance-in city with
high brick buildings and dwelling
houses all alike in rows.
OF course it isn't SO bad in house
with children in it and stairs up which
they can scamper to bed and banisters
over which they can peep, white robed
and large eyed, when they think they
hear Santa Claus, while downstairs in
the back parlor father and mother are
trimming the Christmas tree. the former
forgetting his business troubles and
the latter her social worries. Oh,
Christmas is good for the grown folks
as well as for the little ones!
Then there is the apartment hotel,
with it's plate glass and iron doors and
it's stiff orange trees on each side of
the entrance: no children there, or
they are in the minority, but young
couples spending their first Christmas
together and looking unutterable things
at each other as they eat at the tiny
little dining room table, with the still
timer little Christmas tree in a jardi-
Mere between them.
And don't forget the studio Christ
mas, with Its walls hung with holly
and mistletoe. it's shiny. waxed floors.
its hospitable punch bowl and its fes-
tive music, and the smaller studio. with
its chatting dish and its atmosphere of
fun and ambitious dreams.
For many, too, there's the boarding
house Christmas. Did you ever? So
did once. We understand then. Still
the landlady usually does her best
wifi, turkey and CRANBERRY sauce and
green's here and there, and. after all.
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MzE zzz!aaRE5ElB5 (Z, w

on her makeup" There is a chorus
OF Merry Christmas!", as she passes,
and If she is popular she may find one
or two little packages on her dressing
table, and perhaps one or two more
may come in between the acts.
She PUSHES through the matinee and
then, as there isn't time to eat regu-
lar dinner, hastily wipes off her "make-
up, ties veil over her face to con-
ceal the traces of it and hastens out
into the gathering darkness to get
something to eat at a nearby restau-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
IT is queer how ones notions sof
Christmas can change. When I
was a child Ooh. not SO very, very

Christmas can change. When I
was child Ooh, not so very, very
long ago for all that believe mel)
used to think that If there were
not tree loaded down with gifts and
stockings filed and dinner with GER
tain things. why, the day was not
Christmas; that was all. And If one
pie was substituted for another Of a
different kind, why. the whole thing
was wrong.
] am afraid the spirit Of the day was
long way from me. But, then, chill
dren certainly do cling to the outward
forms of things.
But now when realize the different
kinds of Christmases there arei First
and foremost, the good old fashioned
Christmas we love to read about, and
that takes place in New England
farmhouse, with spruce trees in the door.
yard weighted down with snow and the
surrounding hills and mountains white
with IT. There is a jingling Of sleigh.
bells In the air and spicy smell OF
good things floating from the tall,
orick chimney and in the pantry what
an array of dainties! Rows Of mince
and 'punkin" pies. huge brown ball
OF a pudding, not to speak Of But I
won't make your mouth water. When
New England housewife cooks she
does 1t Wholesale. Besides. there must
be enough and to spare for the numer-
GUS aunts and uncles and little cousins.
for Christmas day means great fam
lily gathering. And in the darkened
best room behold the Christmas tree!
Tall, shadowy and mysterious, con-
cealing among its spicy branches queer.
knobby white packages which might
contain anything from a. story book to
train Of cars and a doll. while among
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24

Mrs. Sophia Lovejoy Dickinson says.
THE average woman's club is too in
definite, too anxious to please men; too
busy, bustling, too self conferred. to
allow the members to help on the real
and important work Of the world
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24

the glittering,
ttnsel woven
branches repose
the pink, green
and yellow can
dies which are
to be lighted
that evening
after the long.
drive home from
church and the
late afternoon
dinner.
All. well, that
is the right sort
of Christmas, to
be surei One
always feels
nearer to Santa
Claus in the
country. where
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The Stage Christmas,

The queerest Christmas OF all, how
ever, is on the stage. Holidays are no
holidays at all to the player folk. In
fact, they mean double amount Of
work, for there is the extra matinee
which must precede the Christmas per-
formance. So after the long morning
sleep on Christmas day the actress
goes to the theater with perhaps a
sprig Of holly pinned to her coat to re-
mind her that 1t is Christmas and
dashes into her dressing room to put
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24

The general did not
remove the small fin
gers. but clasped his
own strong ones
around them and
thus read on to the
end Of the dignified
state paper. The
child was Nellie
Grant. This hap
pened a generation
ago, yet the little
lady is "our Nellie"
still. Even in as
Stunning the RESPONSE
Bile duties of presi-
dent of the board of
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mas comes once a year to wake us
from the monotony of our lives and
our eternal strivings and hopes and to
put bit Of idealism in our hearts.
And all Of u.s. from the tramp on the
roadside and the humblest servant in
the kitchen to the happy and the PROS
porous, are the better for this rever-
sion to childhood, this bowling down to
the spirit Of Christmastide.
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1t isn't Wnere
you are; it's
whom you are
with.
But there are
some who are
alone. Oh, I am
sorry for them!
Victims of am
bition far away
fro m t h e ! r
homes and their
people, with a
sprig of holly
tied to the soli-
tary gas jet and
the latest home
letter spread
out on the ta-
BILE, suspiciously
bury in spots.
And there are
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7 is signifcantof the esteem in which
the American people held General
Grants daughter that even while

er mentioned her as Mrs. Alger-
non Sartoris, but ever as Nellie Grant
Sartoris. Away back in 1863, when her
father was inaugurated president the
hrst time, his little daughter on the
platform at the east front Of the cap
itol broke from her mothers OBTAINING
arm during the august ceremony,
erept to her fathers side as he read
his address and took hold of his hand.
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of room for him to scamper around
wide enough to admit his rotundity.
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those whose w.
lives lie behind them and who are still
alone, without youth, without hope,
without ambitions, and am sorriest Of
all for them. The saddest thing in the
world at a holiday time is not to be able
to look forward to brighter things.
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AN IMPORTED FRocK OF WHITE TuLLE.

of
tafeta pompadur
sled with ribbon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15
The Fame of Married Authors.

Famous women who necessarily adopt their husbands names at marriage some- times have funny experiences in conse- quence. The other day Mrs Mary E. Wilkins Freeman received the following clipping from a prominent newspaper which conducts a bureau of information column:
 TX. Y. z-Please give a short biogra- phy of Mary Elizabeth Wilkins Freeman who is noted for her writings on capital and labor.
 The biographical dictionaries and the author with that name. Milan w. Will has long been identified with the labor movement. She may be his wife. though I have no information on that point
 Mrs. Wilkins Freeman wrote a novel, entitled "The Portion of Labor which. after appearing as a serial in Harper's Magazine, was issued in book form by the Harpers. Doubtless this title had re- mained in the consciousness of the alert dispenser of information to the exelu- sion of every other fact in the career of one of the most illustrious of American authors. And now an admirer of Mrs. Wilkins-F Freeman has written a letter to the newspaper in question, in which he proposes the passage of a law for the benefit of bureaus of information com polling publishers of Biographical dic- tionaries and late encyclopa edias" to is- sue a new revised edition directly after the marriage of women authors, that they may be indexed under their hus- bands names
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15
Emerson and Hawthorne.

Julian Hawthorne's description of the between his father and Emerson is one of the most interesting of "reminiscences in his Hawthorne and His Circle, 0Har- pers)
 My father read Emerson with enjoy ment" writes the son, though more and more, as he advanced in life. he was disposed to question the expediency of stating the truth in dismembered form; he preferred it incarnate, as 1t appears in life and story. But he could not talk to Emerson; his pleasure in his society did not express itself in that form. Emer- son, on the other hand, cultivated my fathers company, and, contrary to his general habit talked to him continuous ly; but he could not read his romances; he admitted that he had never been able to finish one of them. He loved to ob- serve him; to watch his silence, which was full of a kind of speech which he was able to appreciates; Hawthorne rides we'll his horse of the night! My father was Gothic; Emerson was Roman and Creek But each was profoundly original and independent. My father was the shyer and more solitary of the two, and yet persons in need of human sym pathy were able to reach d more interior region in him than they could in Emer- son. For the latter's thought was con- cerned with types and classes while the former had the individual touch.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15
WiII Payne.

Mir Payne was born on a farm in Whiteside county, Illinois. The descent is purely from New England, running back in traceahe line to 16- something, and embracing several parsons. The grandfather. William Payne, went to H. linois in the '40s, a farmer The father, William A Payne, went to the public school at Morrison, Illionis. until his fif- teenth year, and then went to Harvard, Nebraska, where his uncle had a small bank, in which he learned to keep books and to do business with the farmers over the counter There he was married in 18s6 Four years later he went to Chi cago, and after a brief clerking experi- ence, went to the Daily News as editorial and special writer in the fall of 1890. Later he was city editor, and then f. nancial editor until 1896. For a short time he was financial editor of the Chi cago Chronicle, but since the spring of 1897 he has been financial editor of The Economist
 MT. Payne began to write about 1885, and during the next five years little stories and sketches found their way into daily and weekly newspapers published in Omaha and Denver In 1896, he brought out Jerry, the Dreamer" fol- lowed two years later by "The Money Captain" "On Fortunes Road is an- other of his books, and his latest novel, MT. Salt" has just been published by Houghton, Mifflin &s Co. It is a vigorous story of American business life today with its scene laid mostly in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15

nature of things must be her ultimate destiny What that is must be for her self to say. and she is slngularly forum ate that no outside influence of any kind will be put forth to control her action. So far as the United States Is concern ed, 1t has no plans of ambition with re- spect to her whatever she herself may think on the subject. If they existed at any time, they were the outgrowth of conditions that have long since faded out of sight. Were Canada to ask for incorporation in the Union tomorrow. there are sections of 1t that would make vigorous opposition vast interests that would look with extreme disfavor on such a proposition. Admission could not be secured without clash and an agi- tation which 1t would be the part of pru- dence to avoid. To Canada resolving upon her own national autonomy hearty approval would be given from the gulf up to the lakes. Not an American who would not rejoice to sec the flag of q young and vigorous republic flying over the immense territory that continent wide. sweeps away to the ice oceans of the Dole.