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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-02-03
LOCAL NOTES

Il
Mrs. Robt. Ironside Is sick.
Blue grass seed 1t Ed. Lees.
Mrs. A. N. Green is quite Ill.
White clover seed at Ed. Lees.
Bermuda grass seed at Ed. Lees.
Blank bills of sale at this ofiice.
J. r. Warren OF Adair is In town.
/ I'd Lees knives are good knives. II
Buy your coal from Walton Lumber
| Co. tt
Dode Denny Of Claremore is in the
city.
Old papers at your own price At this
once.
JIM. Rix OF Adair was in town yes
terday.
Walter Charlesworth is in town
from Grove.
Curtains 70 at any ouggy at Bruno
|Graffunder's.
The best watch and clock repairing
at Foreman's. tf
". Gray OF Chouteau was in the
city yesterday.
II you don't get your ChIeftain tele-
phone the cflice,
McAlester and Chefs coal at Wal
ton Lumber Yard. TT
Three desirable lots aud houses for
sale. Apply here.
]. e. Cloud OF Pryor Creek is at
tending court here.
Laprubes and horse blankets at
cost at Lee Barrett's.
Toe Cnieftain ofiice is tine place to
purchase bills OF sale.
Tosh jackson OF Alton is attending
court here this week.
George F.. Stringfellow returped
from Catoosa yesterday.
WI. Davenport and son Tom are In
Chelsea on business today.
Dining room girl and q dishwasher
wanted at Hotel Green. tt
wAETED-To purchase an allot-
ment for one near Vlnita.
T. J. Gambill and Geo. McLauRlin
OF Bluejscket are here today.
When you need eye glasses 60 to
Foreman's, examination free. TT
Horace Adams and G. G. Irwin OF
Chelsea are in the city today.
Mrs. H. Q. Barrltt Is very sick at
her home at the Kentuckey house.
Harve Cochran is here ia the
capacity OF witness in the q. s court.
Screened lump McAlester coal at
WaltoS Lumber Yard, phoae ~. Il
Charley Poole and Fox Dannene-
berg Of Chelsea are IN the city today.
Henry Scraper OF Southwest Cst5 is
among the visitors at the land Office
today.
w. II. Dougherty. and Henry Suttan
OF Grove are attending q. 5. Court
today.
Visiting cards printed with cur new
type faces "Engraver's Roman tie
the latest.
Y. II. Adalr, Joe HiRdon au1 chas
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
SEND THEM TO BED
WITH A KISS.

o mothers, so weary discouraged,
Worn out with the cares of the day.
You often grow cross and impatient,
Complain of the noise and the play;
For the day brings so many vexations,
So many things going amiss;
But, mothers. whatever may vex you,
Send the children to bed with a kiss
The dear little feet wander often,
Perhaps, from the pathway of right,
The dear little hands find new mis-
chief
To try you from morn till night,
But think of the desolate mothers
Who'd give all the world for your
bliss,
And, as thanks for your infinite bless
ings,
Send the children to bed with kissl
For some day their noise will not Vex
you,
The silence will hurt you far more;
You will long for the sweet children
voices,
For a sweet, childish face at the
door:
And to press a child's face to your
bosom,
You'd give all the world for just this !;
For the comfort twill bring you in
sorrow,
Send the children to bed with a kiss!
Unknown author in Chicago Record
Herald.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
WOMAN'S WORLD

and Hollandaise this or that. is an
achievement entirely beyond the aver
age plain cook. 1t will keep the mis-
tress continually standing over the
kitchen fire, and the game isn't worth
the candle 1t is using up $40 worth
OF vitality and good looks and ami
ability to save 10 cents worth of cold
food. In the South we are always COM
planning of the basket that is an in
dispensable part of every colored cooks
toilette, but it isn't such a bad way
TO dispose of the leftover food prop
osition. We do lot of unintentional
charity in that way, and the remnants
of cold yittles" that goes into a hun
cry little darky's stomach has come
mighty near hitting the right spot.
After all, aren't we all victims to
the idea of saving things? Keep
everything. Some day you may need
it, runs the old adage, and so we go
on piling up useless rubbish, although
experience teaches us that we ne'er
do need them. And if by chance we do
in the process of time need them, the
moth has eaten them, or the mildew
spotted them, or the rats devoured
them, and they are no good anyway.
1t is women's distorted idea of economy
that makes them burden themselves
with things that they don't really want.
They simply haven't the courage to
make a clean sweep and give them
away.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
EXALTED BY GOSSIP.

Sometimes a bit of gossip about a
person, when it is not scandalous,
scores to his or her advantage and
creates. a personage out of an individu-
al who might otherwise remain en-
tirely unnoticed. certain man, says
the New York Tribune, who has made
his way into the innermost precincts
of smart society became persona
grata entirely on account of the mys-
terry which seemed to envelop his an
tecederits. No one could find out just
where he came from. He was a crack
polo player and capital cross-country
rider, and gradually got to know
lot of men, who found him a thorough
sport and liked him for his quiet, gen.
tlemanly ways. Some of them intro
duced him to their wives, and he be-
gan to be socially known in a small
way. Then the mystery idea. was
started, and people began to talk about
him. From being acquainted with only
q small set he became known to So
ciety generally, and smart women who
had nothing to do grew interested i'm
discovering his antecedents. There was
a wellbred dignity about him, how
ever, that prevented direct questioning
and no one could find out anything
about him. AS his tsnduct is ire
proachable in every way his means
abundant and his manner exceptional
ly good, he has become a great social
success. n
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
AN ACTRESS TAMES A MOUSE.

Miss Flora Mitchell, an actress, who
has been confined to the Homestead
Hospital in Marion, says the Indianap-
oils News, where she has been an in
valid for five weeks, has tanned a
mouse. For more than a week the
mouse has been almost a constant COM
panion of the actress, who says that 1t
has greatly helped her to preserve her
cheerfulness.
The first week Miss Mitchell was
confined to her room she noticed the
occasional presence of the animal, and
being lonely began to lay bread
crumbs and other mouse food where
it would be handy for the little Great
ure. Soon it became holder and after
a few days IL would come near the
bed and eat the mites of bread and
meat almost as soon as they were
dropped by the hands of the sick wom-
an.
She gradually began to reach toward
the animal until finally she touched it
and stroked it's furry coat. 1t has
never shown the least fear, and about
a week ago Miss Mitchell picked it up
and allowed it to run at will over her
hands and lap. From that time she
has not had the least trouble in pick
ing it up. In fact, it will run toward
her and seems to delight in being
fondled. 1t makes no attempt to bite
her, but when others attempt to fondle
ii there is trouble at once.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
ONE OF MANS BLIND WAYS.

"One of the most incomprehensible
ways men have of going it blind land
their name is legion) is their rash
method of choosing a wife, said a
grandmother yesterday. to the New
York Tribune. ''In every other depart
ment of life the incumbents of imDor-
tant positions will be chosen for their
fitness for the place, the greatest care
being taken to investigate their capa-
bi4ties, yet man will deliberately
choose a partner for life with no
Knowledge whatever of her true char
acter, or whether she possesses the
qualifications that are necessary to in
sure happiness and comfort. In ten
years time, my boy, said an older man
TO a young friend who was contemplat-
ing matrimony. it will not make one
fota of difference to you whether the
woman you have married is pretty or
plain, but, oh, what a difference 1t will
make II she Is unselfesh and a good
cook or notl
TO keep man happy says a mod
ern proverb, you must feed the brute
well. Not a very polite way OF stat
ing the case, but II Is true, neverthe-
less, that we are 80 constituted that
we can only be happy AZ we are made
comfortable and our surroundings are
pleasant, and n woman who under
stands how 20 bring about such eondi-
lions Ii the true heipmeet, IL young
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03

men could only be brought to think SO.
"A few years ago two young couples
started housekeeping on approximate
ly the same basis. The husbands were
both in business, earning moderate in
comes, the wives inexperienced, at
tractive girls, who were chosen for no
other reason than that one which is
as old as the hills, i. e.. that the men
fell in love with them. Then came
the test. One woman developed into
the true homennaker. She took to her
domestic duties with cheerful enthu-
siasm She kept her household ex-
penses within her husbands resources,
and gave him capital dinners, deli
cious breakfasts and cheerful COM
partnership. The other woman, on the
contrary. is fretful, complaining and
extravaganza, and her husband is har-
assed and worried by his efforts to
make money enough. Both of these
men took the leap in the dark, so to
speak Neither of them was acquainted
with the true characteristics of the
women they asked to marry them.
That one was fortunate and the other
made miserable was the irony of fate
so far as the latter man was concern
ed, for both We're equally undiscerning
and unrefecting."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03

live in the country colonies, disdain the
old routine of elaborate costuming and
live in their outing suits or riding hab-
it's during the day, slipping into a din
ner gown as easily as though it were
a kimona, without primping or the old
hour or two hours of dressing before a
mirror with a maid.
All the mysterious functions of the
toilet belong to an age when women
had more time and the pace of life was
less swift. The younger women of So
ciety to-day may have maids who at
tend to the care of their wardrobes,
but in travelling the maid is often found
more of a nuisance than otherwise.
So the valet has taken her place, and
this has come to pass through women
observing how much more useful the
ordinary valet is than the ordinary
maid. In the bachelor apartment
houses for several years past there have
been cooperative Wallets who look after
the rooms and wardrobes of a dozen
or more men for a small fee each week
while the services of a lady's maid are
always among the expensive luxuries.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
ONE OF LIFE'S CONSULTATIONS

ITO be very fond of ones clothes is
a great consolation in life" remarked
a woman of many experiences recent
ly, to the New York Tribune. sit helps
to keep one contented, it preserves
youth and it is wonderful proven
tive of blues 1t should be considered
in the light of a virtue rather than
that of a fault, or at least a vanity,
as is generally the case, for to love
pretty surroundings argues domesti-
city and is essentially feminine. 1 do
not mean, be is understood, an ex-
travagant fondness for dress; that is
quite another thing, and is as repre-
hensible as it is generally considered
to be, but to find congenial occupa-
ton in the selection and making of
lone's gowns. and pleasure in their
success, which creates a certain fond
ness for them, is a very good thing
for our sex, and I always pity wom-
an who looks upon dress with dis
dain as tiresome necessity"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
HOW SHE GOT AN INCOME.

The woman without an income is
not a rara avis in New Orleans, says
the Times Democrat of that city. 1t Is,
indeed. astonishing to know how many
there are; some of them riding in car
riages, too. who never have a dime to
expend. Lords and masters-such they
are to the meek women who permit
such a state of affairs-do not object
to the bills coming in at the head of
each month, and sending a check, but
as for giving sums of money for the
maintenance of the household and the
person of his spouSe-too many object
to that! That is why many women
back down at the thought of paying
car fare and turn pale at the sugges-
tion of a return treat of ice cream.
Being without a cent is a pretty dole
full state, and often the wage-winner
is better off in this way than her friend
who Tolls in an upholstered boudoir
without a copper to give to a maun-
dering beggar
This is d true story of an uptown
New Orleanian, and may she be
unique in her generation She lives in
a great house, and when she goes to
the opera with her lord she has a car
riage, and she is an exceptionally de-
cent dresser. But, alack she doesn't
know the sensation of receiving a dol
lar bill from the man who pays the
freight. He likes to feel how depend
ent his wife is, perhaps, and to make
her feel it, too. She has grown des-
perate over her empty exchequer, and
has resorted to dishonest means of
supplying herself with ready money.
There is no recalcitrance in the matter
of paying monthly statements on the
part of his majesty, and he hardly
glanceS at the items thereof, so milady
has grown bold, and adds each month
to her purchases a dozen towels or
dozen pair of stockings or two dozen
of handkerchiefs to her account These
are charged and my gentleman pays
for them like lamb, never thinking
that the towels he has paid for would
supply a Turkish bath establishment;
the handkerchief would outfit a Cape
Nome boarding school, and the stock
ings would suffice for a wife who was
centipedal! He blissfully sends the
oheck-fortunately he doesn't permit
his spouse to handle that-and thinks
no more about 1T. And what does she !?
There is an old faithful negro nanny
in her family who sympathizes with
her in the drawing of every breath,
since there is no drawing of checks
from am adamant husband. The mann
my sets forth and visits certain neigh
borhoods with her handkerchief.
towel and stocking stock in a basket,
selling them for what she can get for
them. This sounds like a fairy tale
but it isn't. This tragedy of burning
a mans income at both ends is going,
on to-day in an uptown household,
and still no one is happy! The wife is
bound to be discouraged by her own
dishonesty, artifice, expedient, and
she has a SENSE of w9&tefIIlnpSS
which is not pleasant to any properly
balanced woman,
IF 1 had a. husband like, that I'd
read the riot act to him. said a. young
woman who knows the conditions, for
the Vaccinations of wives of cranky
husbands will out like murder. land
then I'd have heart to heart talk
and we'd have a mutual understand
ing
Probably they had" observed the
cynical woman, land this is the re-
suit"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
SWELL GIRLS HAVE WALLETS.

1t has recently come to be the style
for women who travel good deal TO
take a masculine valet along with
them instead of the maid with whom
the woman of means was invariably
accompanied a few years ago. the
passenger list of a steamer recently
arrived at New York. says the Chron-
icle of Chicago, bore the name of a
young woman of wealth followed by
the words land man servant" But it
is not at all unusual in large establish
ments where many servants are en-
ployed to have a Japanese or colored
boy to attend on the women of the
family.
In travelling the services of a man
servant are very necessary to women
who are without male escort. Abroad
such a servant is known as the courier
and while his duties are not considered
mental he does everything that a valet
attends to for his master in travelling,
such as looking after trunks, buying
railroad tickets, ordering cabs and pay
ing bills
So it has come about on this side
of the water that the up-to-date girl
travels with a valet rather than a
maid. Seasons ago she adopted her
brothers suit case for convenience IN
trale, his stock tie and his scarf pin.
Even his shoe last she made her own
and then she began to have her saddle
fashioned like a mans for horseback
riding.
All of these innovations were adopted
not merely as fads, but because they
were found to be more convenient and
sensible than the more feminine ways
of doing things. The man servant also.
it seems, fills his place more helpfuliy
and better than even the most accom-
plished maid.
Lady's maids are genuine luxuries
nowadays and are needed only by
women who, owing to their active So
cial life, are required to dress many
times during the day. But the aver
age women prefers the simpler mode of
life,
For manicuring. hairdressing. mas
saying and complexion treatment the
up-to-date woman now uses the serv-
ices OF a specialist, whom she visits al
public establishment or who calls at
her own home by engagement. Num-
bers Of women, especially those who
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
BEAUTY DON'TS
FOR THE WOMAN
WHO is ATHLETIC

Don't exercise one part of the body
too much and another part not at all.
Let the development be symmetrical.
Don't use too much force. If ex-
ercise is too vigorous you will be ex-
hausted before you can complete it.
Don't exercise beyond the ability of
the heart to keep pace with you. Pal
pitation is a certain indication of ex-
cess.
Don't exercise for at least an hour
after meals.
Don't forget that a bath should fol-
low exercise.
Don't use iron dumb bells, but wood
en- ones. The former chill the blood.
Don't have intermittent attacks of
receive any benefit you should devote
some time daily to athletics.
Don't forget that where there's a
will, there's a way. If you really mean
to become strong and shapely, the way
is easy and simple.
Don't forget to inhale slowly and
deeply when performing any exercise.
This will make the chest deep and full.
Don't think that athletics should be
a matter of inches and pounds only.
Their increase is certain to tell most
beneficially on the health and spirits
as we'll.
Don't exercise a moment after you
feel exhausted.
Don't stand with the back bent over,
the shoulders thrown forward, the
head dropped, and the chest sunk IN.
Don't protrude the hip and abdomen,
or rest the weight unevenly upon the
feet No exercise is of any heneft
whatever unless the correct standing
position is taken every time.
Don't forget that every woman is as
young as she looks, but that she can
not look young with a broken figure.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03

the sample bottle. Before he could lay
hold of it, however, L had removed it
from his reach.
" on second thoughts, I guess I'll
take charge of this said [, just to
prevent the rest of my neighbors from
being swindled as 1 was And with
that I displayed my weapon and wait
ed for explanations. His face was a
study. 1t went from red to white and
back many times before he opened his
lips, and during that interval of 81
lence he recognized me.
81 made "a few trenchant remarks
that seemed to impress him rather for
chilly, for he took my advice and made
his exit at once. without a word
" And you kept the whole two quart
bottle of cologne?' her friend asked
incredulously.
The woman in. brown laughed and
nodded. But I divided it with my
neighbor," she added. when you, come
over I'll treat you. 1t is, perfectly
exquisite, and there is almost a quart.
1 shant have to buy any perfume for
a year or more"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
ONE GIRL WAY TO SUCCESS.

The man who dropped in to lunch
with US at a downtown cafe, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, ordered Little
pigs in blankets" which. he informed
us, is one of his favorite Yiands.
II particularly like the way they
serve them here" he remarked, FIRST,
because they know how they should
be prepared, and secondly, because
they use a certain brand of bacon
furnished by a very enterprising young
woman whom 1 met last winter l
like to patronize individual thrift, es-
pecially feminine thrift. Queer bust
ness, that of hog raising, isn't it?
/ wish you could see this particular
girl; charming in manner and speech,
and thoroughly well educated"
How on earth did a charming girl
ever come to choose such a disagree
able business as pig-sticking?" asked
a curious listener.
AS usual, necessity was the mother
of her choice. Five years ago, on
leaving school, she came into the pos
session of all that was left of a once
valuable estate, then the most ruin
Gus of all ruins, a broken-d down, weed
choked Georgia plantation. 1t had
lain practically waste for twenty
years, with the exception of a few
acres surrounding the old hulk of
mansion, where a tenant lived and
raised a few bushels of corn year by
scratching the surface of the plot.
The girl owned not a dollar. She left
her aunt's home, where she had lived
during her school life, and settled in
the leaky old house where she thought
the matter over. Nobody would buy
the farm. She couldn't. cultivate II,
and she didn't want to give il away.
Her tenants two fattening hogs sug-
gested plan which at first seemed too
daring and distasteful TO put into ac-
ton. Those hogs practically fattened
themselves on Bermuda grass, fruit,
vegetables and the few nubbIns OF corn
occasionally tossed their way, and
were enormously fat at that
We'll. she finally found a purchaser
for the few acres OF tiled land, which
was uncommonly rich. For the price
received she built fences, made pens,
and had the stubble and toughest
growth OF ten acres OF bottom land
cleared. This she planted in corn.
Then she started with a dozen hogs.
the best 10 be had, studied all the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03

formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt of New
York, is one of these. She has, says
the Woman's Home Companion, as
gift from her mother, now Mrs. Q. II.
p. Belmont, a string of pearls more
than three feet in length, that was
once in the Jewel casket of the Empress
Catherine of Russia. She also shares
with the present Czax'ina part of the
collection of Count Orloff. The Ouch
ess has the Orloff pearls, believed TO
be the finest in all Europe, while In the
Russian crown to-day glitters the IA
nous diamond presented to Catharlne
by the Count.
Mrs. Belmont's gift to her daughter
was not her only souvenir of old-time
royalty. She retains a diamond chain
which was at one time also the prop
erty of the Empress Catharine. Its
length is more than seven feet, and its
value is one hundred thousand dollars.
The same sum was paid for another
string of pearlS-as well II might have
been, for once. they encircled the neck
of Marie Antoinette, the most beautiful
ever barred to an executioner. A sim
liar interest attaches to a part of the
collection of the Countess de Caster
lane, once Anna Gould of New York.
She possesses the famous Esterhazy
diamond, set in the center of a heart
shaped brooch; but even above this she
prizes a gift from the Marquis and
Marquise de Castel1ane. This is a SUI
perb necklace of pearls. consisting of
five strings, each of historic interest,
held together at one end by a magnif1-
cent square emerald surrounded by
twenty-four diamonds. One of the
strings once belonged to Marie Antoi-
nette, and another to Henry of Ma
varre. Could woman ask more than
this association with the most beautl-
full but unfortunate of queens, and
with the most dashing lover in all the
annals of the adopted country of the
little American Countess?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
HEART SACRIFICE.

If had loved him less, perhaps
/ do not know, one cannot know
He might have loved me more, and l
Should not have felt within me grow
The crying loneliness, which comes
To women's hearts that love and wait
In longing, hopeless hopefulness
Outside the unpermitting gate.
And yet, if I had loved him less,
/ should not know-one could not
know
The rapture of loves sacrifice.
Those fires, through ashes, always
glow
To light the long, hard way that leads
The faltering spirit up to see
The infinite unselfishness
Which saved mankind on Calvary.
William j. hampton, in May Smart
Set