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or business or even things that 50
wrong in the house. What I'm most
gratefuLfor this Thanksgiving is that
have the best husband in the world
Miss Sarah Ann Spinster rose. She
was a stately looking woman who car
ried herself well. She had a clear,
steady eye and face with no nonsense
in it. She said:
Tive much to be thankful for. new
er had a husband to take any cares off
me, SO 1 had to learn to manage finan-
cial matters myself, and 1 can do it
with the best 1 never had human
being to earn money for me. 1 learned
to earn it for myself I need and
something more. I'm particularly
thankful 1 have my own money to
spend. 1 never had a chance to cod
die myself by staying indoors in
storms, but had to be out in all wealth
ers and get used to it. 1 never take
cold when I get my feet wet. have
good health. 1 can take care of myself
under all circumstances. If every dime
have were swept away could irnme-
diately go to work and earn more.
believe in my heart I've more to be
grateful for this Thanksgiving than
any of the rest of you
JANE MOSES.
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To women the most interesting of all
will be Nine. Won Suttner's ideas on the
future development OF the feminine sex.
To this she puts no limit. She says:
I'm the development of the new race
women will strive for the so called
manly virtues, such as courage and
force, men for the wonlanly virtues, so
called, becoming gentler and more SYM
pathetic. Hitherto it has been consid-
cred excusable in men to be rude and
harsh in women to be weak, cowardly
and excitable. In the new race none of
these faults will be excusabIe in either
SEX
The baroness private history is ro-
mantle and as Interesting as her own
fascinating personality. She was born
in Prague, Bohemia, in 1913, the daugh-
ter of Field Marshal Kinsky of the
Austrian army. 1t is odd that this
apostle of peace came of line of SOL
diers. Two of her fathers brothers
were also military men of the rank of
general, and her mother was of the
family which produced Theodore Koer-
ner, the poet soldier. Yet her horror of
war showed itself in some of her first
writings.
Bertha Kinsky was Countess Kinsky
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ed late in 1889. A German writer says
the appearance of the book was meteor
ic and made a tremendous impression.
Violent criticism and enthusiastic
praise alike greeted it, and comment
was heard on every hand, but the praise
exceeded the criticism In session of
the Austrian parliament the minister of
finance said:
"A German woman has recently de-
picted war in a way to make one trem-
BILE. 1 beg of you to devote some hours
to reading her book. He who then can
still cherish the passion for war, him
can only pity
h. Count Muravieff, one of the minis
ters of Alexander III. of Russia, gave
him the book. The car read it, babe
Muravieff visit the baroness and hear
what she had to say concerning arbi-
tration and peace among nations. The
interview was reported to his master
by the count. The car was so Impress
ed that he called the first universal
peace conference to meet at The Hague
and invited all civilized nations to send
delegates. Thus it is that a woman
was behind the first definite and large
movement for arbitration instead of
war among the nations. Fittingly so,
too, for women suffer most from war.
In Die Waffen Nfeder" Nine Won
0uNlnSI I0aI DAY
to this she has been speaking and
writing for world peace. She was one
of the most eloquent speakers at the re-
cent Boston international peace con-
ference. Following that conference she
lectured in various cities of the Union,
her theme still peace, glorious peace,
which will preserve human life instead
of destroying it, which will cause glad
ness instead of weeping among women
which will bring prosperity to the
worlds nations.
In Washington Mime. Won Suttner was
invited to call on President Roosevelt
She says he knows how to put his big
stick" in his pocket and that his sin
cere, most earnest desire is that arbi-
tration shall take the place of war, that
there shall reign the universal brother
hood of nations, and he believes the
world is coming to it. She finds that
King Edward, too, is one of the great
est of peacemakers.
Like all really high bred people, Bar
oness Won Suttner is extremely simple.
kindly and sincere in her manners. In
our country she sees civilizations
greatest opportunity, but regrets that
old world social snobberies should have
somewhat laid hold on US. She SAYS:
Everything good should come first in
your country, unfettered by old ways.
You can be an example to US; you must
not take our example. Your women can
have the greatest strength in the peace
movement, but they must be educated
to know that war is not necessity.
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WHICH HAD MOST TO
BE THANKFUL FORT

IN honor OF Thanksgiving the Friend
ly Circle club resolved that at the
mid-NoVember social meeting each
member should tell the rest what she
thought she had real, solid reason to
be grateful for. Some of the ladies had
never hitherto considered they had any
thing to be grateful for, SO the PROPOSE
ton sent their minds exploring in new
fields which was in itself a matter emf
nently thankworthy.
Miss FaddiSh opened the programme
with: Madam President, fellow mem
bers and guests, 1 am grateful at this
Thanksgiving time to announce that
at last 1 have found the Truth" (Miss
Faddish pronounced it with capital
To my life has been devoted to the
pursuit of Truth. When the Yoga
breathing system was fashionable L
went in for it with all my might. I rose
at daybreak and, with my face to the
east, 1 practiced breathings, posturings
and saying my mantrams. That went
out of fashion, which showed 1t was
not the Truth. Then came the Mys-
teal Memberhood of the Peacock Blue
Magi. It, too, dropped out of fashion,
thus proving it was not the Absolute
Truth. Then we who follow Truth
found out about thought transference
and charging the solar plexus and the
enjoined by Azwashtur Thingummy, our
master from the orient, till we fairly
felt our pineal glands thump in our
heads. Then we found out Azwashtur
was no oriental adept at all, but just a
smart ex-valet who had imposed on us
all. My, but we dropped our solar pick
uses in a hurry! But now, my Sis
tiers, feel have found the real Truth.
It is the cultivation of TheopneuSty- 1
Order of the Ancient TheopneusticS.
Oh, the joy of Being!"
"WeH, of all things! Thankful for
the blessing of a new fad!" murmured
Mrs. Praxu.
Miss Faddish rolled her eyes plying
ly over those of her audience who were
not Theopneustics. Mrs. Motherly, a
gentle little woman, said, with slight
timidity, as coming Immediately after
Miss FaddiSh:
''For years, confess, I've longed for
Perian lamb jacket with chinchilla
trimmings. For the past year. too. I've
wanted so much one of those beautiful
white, gold banded china dinner sets
with monogram in the center of each
piece. This Thanksgiving I've got both,
and I'm perfectly delighted"
Mrs. Goodlove said:
"All this year of 1904 I've been read
ing in the papers perfectly horrid
things about husbands. Something
must have broken loose among the
planets that has driven husbands to be
dreadful. Some of them have killed
their wives; others have beaten them;
others have stolen their money and
run away from them. 1 never heard the
like of such horridness of men toward
women as there has been this year. So
I'm thankful above all else for per-
fectly perfect husband He's just as
nice and polite and sweet tempered to
me as he was before we were married.
He takes every care off my shoulders,
so that I am not worried about money
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ODD ORIGINS OF WORDS.

litter originally meant courtship.
Goodby is a contraction of God be
with you.''
Deuteronomy is from two Greek
words meaning second and law. The
fifth book of Moses is so called from it's
being mainly repetition of law pre-
viously enumerated.
Fashion was the old name for a Ger
tain disease of the horse. 1t is alluded
to in The Tanning of the Shrew,"
where Petruchio's horse is said to be
infected with the fashions" The COM
pla:.lt is a common one, but not among
r IS.
AZ FIRST sight there appears to be lit
tie Connection between hattery and the
wagging of a dogs tail. Yet in nearly
all the northern languages the same
word signifies both, and fattery is GER
tainly derived from the word signifying
to wag the tail. In the old Norman
fagra signifies to f1atter and also to
wag the tail.
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This congress has greatly encouraged
me-"
Like light shining behind alabaster
shine the genuine soul sympathy and
the intellectual life through the face of
this beautiful, stately woman. She
spoke of the butchery of manhood, the
very flower of it, in the present Russo
Jap war.
'It ought to sicken the civilized
world said the baroness, 'fbut people
are so callousi In private life if one
man dies other men have pity and are
sorry. But when 10000 men die in war
the pity is not 10000 times greater, but
SOC times less
Her fine face lighted with a wonder
full brilliancy as she spoke of the future
of this country and of American women
OF the United States and its feminine
type she said:
Everything is in big proportions
American women who work do more
than those of other nations. Even in
physical proportions American women
excel others. They are taller and slen-
derer than European women. believe
this is owing to physical culture. be-
lieve this country to be the soil where
a new humanity will be born"
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Many interesting religious and social
rites have clustered themselves around
these wedding garlands.
RUDENEss AT THE TABLE.

To nervous person vulgar manners
at the table are the most irritating OF
all things. 1t takes away the pleasure
of eating, the relish for food and in a
measure units the digestive organs for
their work. The fact is that it does us
absolute harm to be affected in this
way during the process of digestion,
and persons habitually annoyed by
such things are sure to suffer seriously
from it. At no other place do the hab-
it's of vulgar people appear so vulgar
as at the table. Women who set them
selves up to be teachers of morality
and who condemn coarse or rude talk
in others are guilty oftentimes of man
ners at the table that would really
shock them if they knew how they af-
fected others. The matter is one that
demands consideration from young and
old, and if there are persons who know
of themselves that they have rude
habits at the table, whether it is of one
kind or another, there should be no
time lost in correcting them.
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Then she got all over it.

Then she got all over 1T.
Unfortunately did not, and as apollo
giles never occur to people of this warm
hearted and impulsive temperament
why, have to play she is as absent as
the apology.
What a nuisance it is for people to
express their feelings openly 1 don't
believe in telling lies except to shield
other people. q hope am not tread
ing on any ones principles, but you
know we shall all be judged by our
consciences) Sometimes, also. I own
to the fdiocy of fooling people, but only
when the fooling is of such trans
parent nature that the foolish deserve
to be caught, and am even getting out
of this childish trick as l grow Sadder
and more sedate. But-and here comes
the big but-when / detect a fellow
being making a statement which I know
is on the bias, but which for some oc-
cult reason she believes is necessary,
thank the powers that made me that I
have the sense to tuck my tongue be-
tween my teeth and in silence admire
the lie as work of art.
Besides. there is a chance that even I.
the infallible one, may be wrong for
once.
And, anyway, I haven't Jared the
peace of the surrounding atmosphere,
for which deserve a vote of thanks.
There are two female characters that
ought to be "cut out" You hear of
them oftenest in the schoolroom-the
little girl who says, 81 seen you." and
the little girl who says, you Iie!"
Usually in polite circles this ingram
NAUTICAL and this forceful statement are
both very early nipped in the bud, but
sometimes, in the case of the warm
hearted and very impulsive people, they
Iinger on in disguised form and make
a bit of trouble now and then.
Well, I would also send the impulsive
and the warm hearted to my school for
tempers.
Dainty Vision With Substantial Ape
tite.
To leave behind US a painful subject.
yesterday my eyes were blessed with
the sight of an incongruity. 1 was seat
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in her own right. Her father died when
she was an infant, and her mother edu-
Gated her thoroughly and brilliantly.
Nine. Won Suttner is one of the most
accomplished women of her time. She
speaks English exquisitely-so admira
bly, that one who hears her wishes with
all his heart American women could
speak their native tongue as well as she
does.
Countess Bertha Kinsky's first be-
rare tenor singer. He started to
America to make concert tour through
the country, but died on shipboard and
was buried at sea. After number of
years Countess Bertha married Baron
Arthur Won Suttner, seven years youn-
ger than herself. The marriage seems
to have been an ideal one, although the
young couple were poor. Both, howev-
er, became writer's, and both were sue
ceSSful.
At first, owing to the prejudice
against women writer's, Nine. Won SUIT
ner used simply the nom de plume B.
Oulot. None who read her books or
sketches dreamed a woman was the au-
thor so fearless, brilliant and original
were these A fine large surprise there
fore overcame her readers when they
learned the feminine authorship of the
literary productions which had so
aroused them and set them to thinking.
Bertha Won Suttner's character, her
writing and her life work have in con-
-tinental Europe done much to widen the
belief in the intellectual capacity of wo-
man. LILLIAN GRAY.
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tulle bow or mar the whiteness of hel
huge ermine tippet.
The Craze For Ermine.

Ermine, by the way, is worn to an e1-
tent never before seem 1t figures in
every shop window both on evening
and afternoon gowns. 1t appears in
wide stoles, in tippets with tiny ermine
heads, in four hand ties edged with
fringe and in tiny military collars with
lace jabots. Some of the more up to
date shops make a speciality of ermine
sets for dresses consisting of collar and
front pieces and cuffs, and every shop
keeps ermine trimming by the yard.
The cheapest way, however, if you
wont an irregular piece Of ernine for a
hat or for a trimming is to buy the
SIX ms, slit them with a sharp knife,
stretch them on a board and then slit
the 80 so as to form 20 or three tips
to / = -ewed into the fur where they
look best. The tat must be slit with
care, because a strip of skin must ex-
tend clear down to the black hairs. But
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LINEN WALL PANELS.

There rs considerable scope for the
nimble needlewoman in the present day
fancy for embroidered linen wall pan
els. For a boudoir or morning room or
a girls "den" nothing could be more at
tractive. Panels of white or soft cream
worked in a variety of shades are I'M
doubtedly the prettiest, but certain soft
green's or delicate blues or, for a room
of sunless aspect. a combination of yell
lows would be equally admirable in re-
suit. Girls who are clever in design as
we'll as in embroidery always take
much pleasure in working this modern
kind of tapestry for the adornment of
their rooms
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looked up to as the only pair of trou-
sers in the family, and this is enough
to cramp the disposition of the best
man that ever breathed.
A friend of mine supplies this inter-
esting information. She rushes over
nearly every day to confide her woes to
me, usually about lunchtime.
1 have almost decided that 1 shall
never marry. If she comes over anoth-
er time to spoil my lunch I shall be sure
of it. But if I do, witness heaven the
oath, it shall be the seventh son of a
seventh son who has been well knocked
about and punched by his brothers.
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Not Conducive to Friendship.

Speaking of tempers, did you ever
meet the good hearted maiden who in
speaking of herself modestly says: 81
have the best disposition in the world.
1 never bear malice. When get angry
1 am simply furious, but then 1 get
right over it," Oh, me, and also oh,
my! have met her. 1 also am not on
speaking terms with her. It's awkward,
but 1 couldn't help it. In one of her
perfectly spontaneous "an over in a
minute" outbursts she delicately man
aged to insinuate that 1 was-that 1
was-well-er-that 1 hadn't spoken
the truth.
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day. when he feels all
right he is perfectly charming. and then
suddenly you go up to speak to him
and you find that he has completely
changed. You never know when to ex-
pect it either"
I pitied her, for have seen some of
that sort of thing myself. The man in
question was the most good natured
thing you ever saw. big and rolly poly.
Children could play with him, and he
wouldn't bite no matter how much they
mauled him. Oh, yes, 1 am speaking of
a man, but somehow dog SMILES come
to my mind. Then all at once he would
change. There would be first omi-
nous quiet, followed by grunted an
swers to questions, and then pro-
nounced fit of the ugly sulks. You
might ask him what was the matter
until you were blue in the face, and he
would invariably answer: Nothing,
why, nothing. What's the matter with
your" Then he would relapse into
suIlks deeper than before. The next
time you met him he would be all right.
When asked at a propitious moment
the reason for his latest attack Of the
sulks the answer would invariably be,
"Oh, everything is the matter!" or else
he would rake up something out of the
past.
He certainly was a wonder for franz
ing excuses about his fits of bad tenn
per. If he had displayed that ingenuity
"Oh, everything Is the raGtterP'
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wasted over the divorce evil. For one
thing, it would hardly exist.
A school for tempers, and for only
chiIdren-ah, my friends, what a grand
missionary field opens out before US!
would make the only boy in the
family also attend the school for only
children. His case is just as bad, and,
in fact, a little worse. While the only
son of the widow occasionally shows
handy qualities much appreciated by
the lady he honors with his heart and
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Baroness Bertha
Won Suttner
ADVOCATE OF UNIVERSAL PEACE
ATE OF UNIVERSAL

y Unfortunate it is for civil
lized peoples that a single
one of them neither intuitive-
~ ly understands the languages
of the rest nor has time to learn these
tongues. Thus many of the rarest gems
of literature are lost to all but one ma
ton and genius the most ilIustrious has
little appreciation outside of it's own
land. Were it otherwise America would
long since have rung with the fame of
Baroness Bertha Won Suttners book,
Lay Down Your Arms" C'Die Waffen
Nieder''). In its original German die
Waffen Nieder' has passed through
thirty-one editions. 1t has, besides,
been translated into eleven languages,
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ed in a reStau-
rant nibblin g
away at a late
lunch when in
trailed a vision
in ermine and
fine linen. She
was evidently on
her way to a re-
ception and had
rushed in for a
hasty bite be-
fore the ordeal.
S n e car fully
studied the bill
of fare rather
an expen siv e
one, I am bound
to admit-then
she turned out
the loose change
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RIGOROUS TREATMENT.

When the Jap woman finds herself
getting fat she takes the most vigorous
exercise, and takes it continually. She
has been known to strain her muscles
in the determined effort to get off her
fat. Then she diets, and she does this
with a rigor that would scare the wo-
man of luxurious tastes.
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h and, bew ar e,
oh, my innocent
friends, how you
tamper with the
youth who has
been brought up
in the shadow
of half a dozen
petticoats! He
is apt to be a
tyrant. and the
habit of judg-
ing for several
feminine and
therefore weak
er minds makes
him think his
way is invaria-
bly, the b e S t.
More than that,
he has been &C
custoned all his
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HE DID NOT MIND.

ooh, Mr.. Avon" said a pretty girl
artist to an innocent countryrnan,
would you mind letting me stand in
your garden for an hour or two occa-
sionally? would so much like to
sketch those lovely trees of yours!"
mot at aan. Kinney" was the prompt
reply. Eye are welcome to stan there
aall day an ivory day. It'll save me
the bother o. putin up a scarecraai"
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in a dismayed manner and read the
menu again. Suddenly her eye lit on a
dish nniraculously within the limits of
her change, and without even winking
an eyelash she calmly ordered-corned
beef and cabbage!
While I sat watching her with horror
stricken eyes she sat there eating every
shred of that cabbage, which she pilot
ed dexterously SO it wouldn't fall on her
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it is not at all hard, and ermine is a
skin that sews very easily, because 1t
does not tear like chinchilla.
Ermine skins cost all the way from
$2.70 to SIS, according to size.
Try a touch of this lovely fur on your
evening hat. KATE CLYDE.
New York
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A Novel FINISHING School.

In the ideal republic 1 sometimes
dream of founding-er, by your permis-
sion-methinks there is going to be a
finishing school for the smoothing over
of tempers so that the human race will
be able to live in peace and harmony.
Were that school in operation in these
days there wouldn't be SO much talk
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Milady's afternoon tea or formal at
home serves a variety of purposes and
is one of the least troublesome as well
tanning.
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A SMART rAILoR COSTUME.

The costume pictured is of brown
face cloth of a lovely chestnut shade.
The natty little jacket is ornamented
with galloon, and the suede vest has an
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one of which is Hebrew. There is an
English translation of this remarkable
book, but it is much better known in
Great Britain than in America.
In brief Die Waffen Nieder" is a.
fiction story written in the interest of
peace among all nations by the most
distinguished advocate of human broth
erhood in Europe. Perhaps the visit of
its noble, beautiful and eloquent author
to America to attend the international
peace congress will bring her, her mis-
sion and her writings more to the notice
Of Americans.
Lay Down Your Arms was publish
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in making money he would have had a
happy and contented wife instead of a
divorce.
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Writes of Moods
and Ternpers and
Incidentally Sue-
6ests a School For
Il hem---Then She
VeerS Sudden
ly to rm in G
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IA
Clyde

7 husband has such an I'M
even disposition" I heard
a wife complain the other
day. when he feels all
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Dainty Vision With Substantial Appe-
tite.
To leave behind US a painful subject,
yesterday my eyes were blessed with
the sight of an incongruity. 1 was seat