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The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-18
SELklRk'S STORAGE

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The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-18
IaiPRoyED CITY PROPERTY FOR
AMERICAN STORAGE AID MOVIES co
GsRgl.l El0ENi Q ST0aA6E C0.
|, B, LAHGAfI 6 c.,

Moving 70 aHs 'r ~ last 8; Louis snd 81.
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The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-18

WI ILDET EN,AaiPG E.,I NO. / / o.
w g. meets eveEy ssGomi and fourth Mon
day at hail No !, Odd Fellows Hal, corner
Ninth and C;i-e streets. All visiting Pnt-iaTchs
arc most co ia IL .I.r.tca and members .ncE:
earnestly requested 70 attend vor. IN degrees
every session. o 9. CO3STOtE. c p.
=. q Rhlades. Scribe.
The sun., 1904-05-22
THE ELASHLIGHT FIEND.
Fer mer Tlntype Artists or the Csunn
Who Have Invaded the CITY.

VINO Have Invaded the city.
HAS it ever occurred to you asked
New York photographer, that the tin
type artist, a. he called himself, is passing
ont OF business, Here and there you viii
find him, at a resort like Coney Island or
Far Rocksway. and not long ago found
one in the vicinity Of Grants Tomb.
But the tintype artist OF the smaller
country town is memory. You -. <nat
has become Of him' Most OF item. think.
have become itinerant hashlp,ht artists.
And for real battlefield .ierve they are
ahead Of the Japapsse soldiers. They
will walk into an ofhoe With their outfit
take a fash OF the room. and before the
occupants realize il the apparatus is at
work. the fash is made. and the chaPs
who do it-there are generally two Of them
fold up their tripod and vanish.
20 wonder what it was for. They find
out within few days. One OF the itinerants
returns with mounted pictures, which ne
offers for 81 each.
Strange e say; The people Who hsvs s
,se Ieen opnion pa tSss I they often do 50 to Keep
the pictures from being exhibited else
where. In other words. they buy up the
IF book agent or canv.sser gets aceess
to your once you show him the door, but
one OF these strolling hashlight hends
can walk in upon you, distract you from
your business, fill your room with smoke.
walk out, come back in a week. and sell
you what be calls . picture. and you sub
in contact with a nursing bottle. And
the funny thing about IL is that this chap
comes TO the city to do his business You
never find him in the country town.
The sun., 1904-05-22
MONEY IN CORNS AND TEETH.
Early Days Of Dentistry-Hew Old Woin
Carried On Hh Business.


II Gyes one rather ache in the mouth
to reject this, a gentleman no died recently
in London has left an estate OF nearly ElTo."i.o.
all from making artificial teeth.
Better that way than the fashion In which
his prototypes raised their wealth. Before
the artificial tooth was created DEFICIENCIES
hAd to be made good by the real article. %
body snatchers ravaged the cemeteries ~
night breaking up the jaws Of the dead 10
extract their teeth TO sell TO dentists for in
sertion in live mems mouths An army OF
these ghouis followed Wellin cton. They
we're licensed as suffers. but. once night fell.
out car their pliers and out came the teeth
OF those dead and dying on the blttleheids.
1t is horrible idea, but ve are not 50 much
more refined to-day. Only eighteen months
ago somebody was exploiting the bones Of
our soldiers who had fought and died under
Lord Wolseley in the Ashanti war. The
Door rehcs were shipped TO London. tax en-
to an auction room to be sold as curios.
and only at the last moment was public opinion
too strong 10 permit the wicked Transaction
to be carried through
Not 20 far from where the prosperous
tooth factor has just died there used e hive
old Wolf He did not aspire 70 the title
OF chiropodist simply a cutter OF corns he
More than thousSnd and che5.s % ihs p1sa h am AIs tnsr
| bishop, who, V lille be submitted painfn
corn to the razor. piled has persuasive ton sue
upon the cutter Here was a IeT 70 oe cor cor,
| cut you. was the only response OF Shyi ocs
If make you bleed you'll ole. vas aj,oihei
| grim way he had OF silencing clients. L. his
| dingy old room. pstronized by all the hons
| Of the stock Exchange and everybody who
! was anybody with corn- he piled up q iof'-
| une of over six figures and vas stan CONN {
money up TO the date OF his death At the aSe
The sun., 1904-05-22
NOT A BABY, But 4 HAND ORGAN.
A French woman ntroduces New Lee
for 4 Baby Carriage In Fffth Avenue.

She was wheeling baby carriage down
Fifth avenue. In it stood little old hand
organ. which she stopped every now and
then 10 play.
s,,;r,o,,s one. even for New York, and
people glanced at her with interest one
nasse-by stopped TO ask her about herself.
The first question the woman did NOT
understand She looked anxious and ex.
plained in broken English that she had
10 permission TO play
You are French;'
She nodded.
In Frsnch the paseerby asked ehe had
been PLAYING the hand organ long.
NO. but now il Is necessoare, was tho
reply ,,,,.
YES
Your hushand,'
..Jf mis- r,nre-I am a widow
Have YOU been here long,
Five years.
As she talked she kept turning the handle
O, the organ, which emitted faint; "nee1y
sound tha, In nowise prevented the que,
toner from hearing her softly uttereo
words Her voice and manner were pretty
She did not seem al all impressed with
the fact that she was doing conspicuous
thing She wheeled the baby carriage
| along with the same domestic gait sne wouio
| nno,onscio,,slv have assumed had she been
ty7,ndlinr one OF her children through the
Probably when the wolf had poked oPeI
her door too wide that morning she bad
| simply said to her children. est Heees
soirf' and taken the hand organ out ior
| walk instead Of the youngest child
The sun., 1904-05-22
Tender Retrospect Of
Miss Dellmar Travers
A CONFESSION THAT EXPLAINS WHY SOME
NICE AMERICAN GIRLS DO NOT MARRY

she has passed 3o-or is if 20, feel have
earned a right 10 ridicule ies temps, les
n0Vrs.
You understand me? A shell OF cyni-
cism is our reward for not having married.
Il was brought up on books. Not hav-
ing sisters and brothers, and my family
young people formed ideals; ! made
my own world.
Il had several spinster aunts. In fact +,
il was the family pride not TO marry be-
cause ordinary men were not good enough
for the women OF our house. and unusual
ones were rare. To balance this. perhaps,
most q the young men, cousins, uncies.
though al first they were discriminating.
too-well. II they did marry, after having
tested women pretty thoroughly, it was
apt 10 he their own housekeeper, OF some
actress, and, Of course, l heard these rumors
i was thoughtful: / drew my own conclu-
sions
a Little fortune was left me. / was
| quite alone. liked my own world. and
| yet i thought that some time-it Is per.
MISSILE, is il not?-a man created especially
| for me would share il with me. At 10
thought this.
i was something like q young MAJ
brought up in the company Of priests, wht
has not tried the world.. who consider
| love an ideal who knows that IL IL onl,
10 te found in the Church. yet who woul'
try life | was no, shy. but had forme'
habits OF seclusion.
After q ~hile I yielded to the demand
Of society, my little circle, and began y
see young friends. 70 20 oua II seeme'
The sun., 1904-05-22
Origin Of . Marriage Custom.
From The 81. Louis Globe Dem oeru'

FROM the 81. Louis @ lobe Dsr oerdf
Casting Z shoe after q newly married
couple is one Of the oldest customs that still
cfirSs 10 the fabric Of this up 10 date iife. :
Mr John Clinton told me recently. Cen
tures ago. nay. thousands OF yeArs ago. II
was one Of the means employed by the people
Of antiquity to indicate ownership.
When q piece Of land was purchased or
given 10 one, or q man acquired ownership p
OF house q COW, or took unto himself wife.
IL was the established custom TO cast . shoe
over the land. the building. the animal or the
woman thus asserting 70 the world that he
had acquired all rights Of ownership. The
custom is mentioned in several places N the
Bible, but the only instance l can specifically
recall 70 mind just now is in Palms X ..
where the phrase, Over Edom viii cast out
my shoe. e employed 70 mean that By this
method viii owpership be as'srted. re-.
shoe after the newly marisd. but In this
ancient custom is It's origir found. 20 DOE
a relic OF barbarian nnger in our midst. and
for her own sake the bride ought to eee to IL
that il 10 no longer practised.
The sun., 1904-05-22

oppresssd BY the thought Of aaying 10
t6s plAcs and being 90 far frcm tho -
A weariness came upon him; tho Ar
seemed sitting. the valley % narrow; IN, Inc
sr xes fsithfSi ssh S1 to his vow. be followed on.
Suddenly the little Offering touched
the shore turned. hit against stump
and stopped.
Mirie saw throus b The mist = new ~ nOSSs; Ossc:
before with his uncle. be reoognineo tbe
house and exclaimed in a choking voice:
The widows house"
Sorrovfully be approached and raeea
his hand to rap, when the window showed
Iebt and Miri, saw two embracing shadows
sprear. The widow was Lot alone.
Surprised, the young man turned ns
ewes to the river and saw that tne nttse
light had taken its course again ana WEE
gliding with the current DE gave srea'
Al. that was only a proof he cried.
That fcke widow will not be my "ne'
Thank you
Conferred, be vent on With quicker step.
felt bis whole being eased by . confused
Es he adyanced, the river widened and
became more rapid. the valley became Iess
nsrcr s & sss sssss9 assI ,.ser % IN e eiesrer SKY
He breatbed more freely.
The light stopped again, made prisoner
by Hoat ting weeds. The sailor TUNED
his head and saw q poor little house he
thought, THE home OF Muchette.'
In great distress he bade adieu to his
dreams OF the sea and resignedly lifted
a hand and raped. The door opened
a little way, and. having pronounced the
name Of her be sought. mans voice re,
piled that Muchette was married and had
nothing to do with traveller Of the might
sCan .his be the last trial:' cried Mirie
.Muchette will not be my wife. Thank
you, Marie de Bon Secours, Ali lhank
And Mirie In ecstasy followed the light
on as he had promised A pale light OF day
pierced the fog. The river became wider
and wider No more trees on the bank
no more green fields. no more wooded
hills. but low dones which ended in sandy
fats.
All at once a great breath Of life-giving
sayor came from the vast e1panse and
filled his lungs He felt himself borne
upon wings. The last mists disappeared
as by enchantment. The little light went
out, died softly In the splendor OF the day,
And Mirie. in ECSTASY, lied with profound
joy and fervent gratitude. understanding
TO what companion in life. to what sure
friend in death, the LADY Of Bon Secours had
led him, saw before him the boundiese
The sun., 1904-05-22

had begun to seem tiresone They vere
either grown UP boyp very charming,
very stupid, Of no depth or they were
solid men, obtuse-~ith their depths, one
might say, filed in. With what mud or
debris these men bad filed their souls up
to the surface knew not.
.One man, still Young. vet becoming
rapidly mature told me his life Then be
proposed. liked him the BEST but had,
fortunately, not grown to love him - l
miRht-he spoke too soon 1t was killed,
the feeling l might have bad for him
Then / realized that knew nothing at all
OF men. Men! Did not the word man stand
for something splendid strength which
had not lost its young delicacy, youth
that had not hardened into mere facts.
a maturity where ardor had npened- not
coarsened, a career where honesty OF pur-
pose and intellect had built . beautiful
shelter for me, for my soul?'
Miss Dellmar Travers arose and walked
about the room She pu, aside the hang
ing white curtains and breathed the fresh
air of the May day, and then she stopped
over the jardiniere Of growing towers
and selected a superhuous leaf here. a
stun,ed bud there, for rejection. Then she
Strengthened up and began to look amused
again.
of course. you think me . fearful ego
tist. Who am to choose 80 squeaInhhly!
But remember the entecedents.
And please consider, also, that / am
quite fair in my mental attitude. / have
reached the conclusion now that all these
young men Of my first observation were
lacking only in high intelligence. They
were all too good for me in every other
way. They were honest, every ono. ]
was the one who WAS not honest.
What do / Dean' II is hard to explain
| TO a man.
They did not shirk the common human
| way, and / did.
We'll. after - i went TO Europe and BE-
came perverted. I knew you would be
| shocked. But II has this advantage. ]
( must speak the truth.
OF course, as l had shirked the human
way earlier and refrained from marriage,
| on the Continent l shirked. too. and became
only Q surface nirt. ] learned the httle
tricss. the fiery play. and IL ~as only play
absorbing al nrvt. and exciting TO les .
man kis your hand. 70 hsar him tsl1
The sun., 1904-05-22

Wholly obscure, Miss Dellmar Travers
lives in the seventies. ! was told that she
was distinguished only by not being afraid
Of talking. that her reputat ion had not been
tampered with by her friends, nor made
brilliant by her own attempts that she
was not difficult TO see, and therefore
4 am little bewildered, she explained
'Why should any one wish 10 know what
have done or thought You see, ] have
not done anything.
That Is just the distinct ion? Very
clever. Yes. know what you mean.
feel it myself when people insist on play
hg the piano TO entertain me. They are
really more impressive when they refrain.
well, to tell the truth. this is my great
faux. my best quality. | am so hard to
piease--oh. I'm not cross grained. difoiie
have philosophically made up my mind
to keep my fine discrimination for rare
oocasions- II does not prevent me from
liking my friends, the fact that they are
oftsa deplorabie in their mediocrity! Ever
men
Yes, what l have said about men makes
people call me a cynic-a woman cynic
What . contradiction A woman is q
synonym OF pity. sympathy-and we'll
] have two per~nns IN me-the mere woman
the real ~oman-and all about these two
h an arrnor. a shell And this shell grow
thicker every year
No, ! do not blame myself. liul
autobiography wall ne; do any harm, per
hAps- Ii IL Jus; what you want' AnC
you mean To write thIs,-
A0 Travers laughed rather naughtily.
"a woman may laugh q, every thing vbo'
The sun., 1904-05-22

like . period Of waiting
Il was not husband hunting. 1t caused
q little contempt. the frank snares girlishly
planned which some would lay for the
husband. the cowardioe with which others
deceived themselves in that old-time ex-
clamation. I shall never marry.
.Of q tolerant disposition. ! understood
both. But my habits Of thinking made
me see that neither was right
A husband, OF course q woman ex-
pecsed q husband! What else could abe
expecs? As for the common methods,
the plans and tricks!'
Misc Dellmar Travers shrugged her
shoulders genially. She wore soft white
6chu. Ii was not an unbecoming gesture.
thought she must have brought this from
Europe, at least from Paris. both shrug and
fchu.
You do not think am talking scanda-
lously, though you are q man, / do not
pretend, never pretended, TO dislike pleas
ing men On the contrary, like tt
is, when it is worth while.
And l am very liberal. Oh, very. /
find it, OF about two years ago did find it.
eIhilaratine to even please any kind OF
mana conductor. a workingman. even
q clerk. But this was only reaction OF
course I have analyZed all this. ] know
myself as few girls do.
For. do you believe, il took me until a
TO come TO the enforced conclusion-there
were no men in nv world! Not one. not
one that was good enough for me-De.
Of a family OF arisocratic spineters, OF
Grabbed. unmentionable unciee-to to marryi
i was astonished. lived through 9
period Of six months in utter misery.
sax that the times when had been in love
and with such different nen!-were merely
subjective states. The men had nothing
to do with it.
of course. several proposed do moi
count my oonquests l was always sorry
when I avoks the next morning.
'Onoe was engaged for two days Thal
] was the frs; time. I had to break IT, Why,
Oh, that cannot 90 into! Maseriaizatioe
was not reaiixatioa'
-onoe l was engaged for q longer time
two veeks- But the day after I had 20
cepted ! rushed away TO the country an<
repented. Soon afterward I sailed fos
Europe.
'Amerscan msn-that u. mso Of ny caaaI
The sun., 1904-05-22

you secretly, a. II II were wicked. that he
felt he WAS falling In love; to smile, to
gaze into his eyes and to grant him permis-
sion.
AT first I was naive, but after . few
months l never thought Of marriage.
Nv fortune was not large enough! And this
relieved me.
The men were not matrimoniAlly serious,
and I was not serious in any other way.
But put in a couple Of years learning 10
play with life, learning to be frivolous. TO
create an illusion Of naughtiness, to be
meretriciously spiritselle'
Then l rot tired and came home.
nursed an aunt who was Ill a year. and be-
came intimate with q trained nurse who
did the night work. After my aunt died
and this nurse went to work in the settle
ment on the lower Eas. Side. that strange
little city by itself. separated from my
New York by q equalid river called the Bow
cry. began to visit her.
i went more and more often. At last
I grew accustomed to the dirt, the swarming
bodies. the tenements, the refuse Of all
kinds that one sees. ! forgot these things:
/ grew to enjoy the little evenings at my
friends rooms.
COuiu pay picty "SA' oHo Aoa ~
ways been praised for IL by friends who
were not very discriminating. and then
by hatterers abroad, where l had really
studied again But here found, among
the young men and the few women who
formed q circle around my dear little friend,
the nurse-I found people far younger than
/ am who could play better.
Il found those who could paint, could
reason better. those who could think better,
those who were at the same time more
serious and more cynical! This last gave
me some grief. found nothing 10 despise
except neckties and uniidiness. But then
I found souls. sincerity.
.Crudeness, Never had l been where
there was more finish. more power Of in
tellect IN numbers. er~helming to be
able to speak Of the greater modern authors
composers, poets. painters, thinkers. as
was used TO hearing my friends speak OF
superficial thinss. and such as shopping
the trolley carA the dinner parties. the
latsss SouAa march. and all the rubbish
with which their nvss we're filed.
Here vas no mental rubbish. whasevss
ly IN The strssts undssfooS. Actually. as
The sun., 1904-05-22

last in the company OF the great Of the
earth. through these young, acute. brilliant
minds.
1T may seem strange. but I began TO see
that never before had lost the idea OF
finding a husband. / had not been honest
with myself found was actually still
hoping.
Fool that I am! fell in love With three
young Russian Jews, and one quite old one
in three weeks, Blu, then woke up. II is
too late am no longer able TO attain an
eminence.
These people were too good for me.
they are more sincere than I. / have been
spoiled. II had met them rs my young
friend did-hsd found a life work, bad .
righ, to earnestness! The Young can be 50
terribly earnest, il is almost unhealthy!
At least thought this al first.
This was early April. You remember
that We had q very late spring this year,
Well, went about with the idea that the
spring was only waiting for . mana real
man TO come before me, that was about
to fall in love really once for all. And at
last one evening l met a man OF mature
years.
For three hours beard him talk, saw
lNtO siIDik. iicct rSoi. hcaid ot1AcA
full things, "Reminiscences OF Europe. thought
OF all time, that made me ashamed
Of my superficial life abroad. His philos-
ophy was deep, his dreams were full-hav-
ored, his visions high.
'Only his days were sordid. and what did
the daily life natter heard real things.
heard the causes Of politics explained, the
causes Of literature. and human move
ments.
Three hours. and for three days l was
in a strange state Of mind. My antecedents
c.rumbled, stood out distinct. an individ-
uRli,y, free from them, free from my friends
my cynicism. my girlish dreams that had
died at last.
.Iwas not in love. do no; know whether
wanted TO lie in love, whether / should
ever think Of husband again i seemed
10 be free from personality, while indivld-
uali,y seemed about 20 awaken. 10 b
born
Mise TraverS became silent Her thoughts
formed an atmosphere Of their own abous
| US both. and yet /; was Is II the story vwo
ended
lis IL too sooo,' asked ., ~. tssA .
The sun., 1904-05-22

solution, to hear final chord' Is the pieoe
ended: Or has the prelude been played 10
q mere pause in the music?-
Miss Travers cid not smile. Her cvn.-
cism had left her.
The music:' she inquired. Il am not yet
able to hear the music Nothing is 70 re
heard Of life but a discord. a janele, row.
I am too near it still. That is the trouble.
1 wanted TO hear music. and / never eot far
enough away 10 hear the sounds OF life re-
solve into harmony.
And yet never got into life. near to il,
to shape q harmony for myself 10 compose,
a. it were, my lifepiece. Twas stranded on
the shore Of tradition and the sea O. rlr
ancestors would never reach me, draw
me into that tradition again.
Yet was not fit for earth. And before
heaven could take me ] must die. l; IS
very peculiar.
But / have come to one conclusion. Tse
hunt for a mantle hunt for husband -
natural. You spend Y our life thus. and WHIT
do you gain, Experience, limited only by ,e
kinds Of souls the men have whom you me- :.
II one could exchange this search .or
different one-h woman were TO hunt .or
the idea-not the ideal in human shhIe
don't know.
You see. men are hunting for the saeA-
That is. TO them, women are sloo! from 'tf'r
ideals, while men are identical with o.r,.
They hunt for their idea alone, and re''.Tn
once IN a while to get rested beside s'-.
inferior woman. but we've think U.eI Srs
our ideal. our idea, and We try to attain 'ne'n
all the time, which is very unooul! or'A =
for them, and very disappointing for us
The only answer l can find 10 th.e a
Perhaps il we women were after the ls%
too. we might find comrsde who Vou
rest with us when we are tired, and 'e.p
10 renew the search.
But the man.
The man: Oh. he is on his way hscs
TO Russia to fetch his family 10. 49,
be has six children, besides wife '
course. he is really married 10 his IDEA o.. 3
50 q material wife does not count very = '.
And ! suppose. moreover, that he =
his fellows, with very brilliant ctuaE"..
very loving ones.
Yes, every ones life seems shape
but mine But do not IrnAS me Inc a.
unpAilosophicl. ! have been AVA
6eo . pSw realm, At last. That b AA-
think ] shAn bscone . psy choloG ST..
The sun., 1904-05-22
To Tell n . Man ShaNes Himself.
From, tkt PhilodtIph,o Record.

y csn tell IN q minute simply by looktn 9
&. a man whether be shaves himself or Is
razor and brush NO. il isn't a question ot
cleanliness. nor yet q question Of hackins Ihe
face There IL NO reason why q man " =
is accustomed to shaving himself should :
make as clean job OF it as the average bar Der
And vet can spot him every time. See thai
little lock OF hair that grows down the sioA
OF the face just IN front Of the ear. We.
when q man is shaved by a barber those I v .
tenth Of an inch The man y no shaves him
self on the other hand, is invariably lopside e
He AWAY. begins TO shave higher M on -.
left side OF the face than on the rct {
SIDE. as consequence Of which one soc
OF the face looks lon ger than the other No.
! don't know tina; I can explain this ptN-
nomenon. ! only know that the condition
exists.
The sun., 1904-05-22
Sugar Doe. No, lnyure the Teeth.
FROM Medical Tdlks.

FROM Mtdtcol IdIKS.
There te a prevalent notion that chiloieaa 2
are allowed TO ea, sugar they will have oao
,se.h ss a r,on.eouence There Is no iounoa-
ton whatever for such a notion; The neCoss
OF the West Indies are excessive consumes
~ syse,s They eat an enormous anonnt
os sussrcane, molasses and raw sugar les
these people have particularly me teeth.
Wha.erer other Injuries sugar may be capt oie
n, dninr to the human system. II is very oertain
that il does not do any injury 10 the 'ee'h'
either in old or youn persons
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-10-28

I The STATE OF NUR III
| DAKOTA
That subdivision 8, of section 215
of the Constitution of the State of