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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

manhood. No? But they provide the
example, the atmosphere. The other
men consciously or unconsciously iIni-
tate them, if not in things that involve
income at least in point of view and
standards of life. We are becoming
English, all of us, slowly, but surely.
There is the good side of it, the outdoor
life. meals at the proper time, etc, but
our men are changing They are be-
coming English, too. and every one will
tell you that Englishmen as a nation
make the poorest husbands in the
world. It's the deadly Anglo Saxon of
it, the element which makes a man stand
the burning of hot iron without wine
ing and bear an impressive face when
others would betray themselves. but it
is the same thing which makes him
brood and think to himself and be
ashamed to ask for sympathy or really
to give it. He may feel. but he won't
express it, and it is that deadly silence
against which a woman's heart beats
and beats itself out in q vain effort to
gain sympathy and love which she
must have and which she can't and
won't nind-read.'
The man who started the doctrine of
self repression let loose a clammy, cold.
venomous snake upon the world, and
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New York.
NURSERY WINDOW GARDENING
New York.

An ornament for a nursery window
that will be of interest to the children,
as they can prepare and watch its
growth, is a turnip or a large carrot
followed at the root end and suspended
by ribbons in a sunny window.
Fill it with wet earth and sprinkle 1t
with oats or other seeds that sprout
readily.
The lower part of the vegetable will
soon shoot forth green sprays that will
grow up around it,
The little owners task will be to see
that the earth is kept wet.
A coarse sponge also may be sus-
pended by a cord in a window. Damp
en- the sponge and sprinkle with grass,
clover, mustard or fax seed.
Before many days the sponge will be
a pretty ball of living green.
The sponge must be kept very wet
and when the grass grows brown in
spots pull it off and sprinkle the place
with fresh seeds.
Another way is to cut piece of fan
mel the size of saucer or the middle
part of a plate.
Sprinkle the flannel with seeds, place
on the window seat and keep dampened
with water.
The flannel will quickly become a mat
of green.
Many children will enjoy watching
the growth of these seeds from day to
day better than playing with expensive
fOvS
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Guccessful Women
- Mine Operators
And Prospectors

the town Kingdom Springs because
there is nearby never falling fountain
of mineral water which tastes BAD
enough to be immensely valuable me-
dicinally. Having founded her town
and christened it, Mrs Latey went TO
Washington and obtained a postoff1ce
for it. The Kingdom part of the name
is in honor of George Gould's son.
In the beginning the woman miner
sought to persuade her father to go
into the enterprise with her, but he
told her he had already troubles enough
of his own. Besides that, he believed
she herself was equal to managing
mine or anything else. That he was
right in his estimate his daughter has
proved by successfully settling two
strikes among her employees In one
of these the woodchoppers who supply
fuel for running the machinery Joined
the striking miners.
Then there are the Misses Chenowfth
and Brice who are operating mine in
Colorado. l like again and again to re-
call their story.
The young ladies are Missouri girls
in their early twenties. They lived in
the Ozark mountains. Mabel Cheno-
! with's father was weak in health at
home in the Ozarks, and, young as she
was, Mabel managed his farm for him
till four years ago. Then he journeyed
to Colorado in search of the health he
had lost. He became a mining pros
pector. He tramped the country in
search of health and gold. The health
he never found, neither gold. He did,
however, find what he believed to be
a rich vein of copper, and he began dig
ging a tunnel into the mountain side.
Mabel went to his mine and helped him
with his work. All seemed to prosper
when suddenly, Mr.. Chenowith was
stricken with pneumonia and died. His
daughter went back home alone with
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Keeps Him Guessing.

And where does the good work come
in? Oh, beautifully She keeps him
ever her willing slave dangling on the
agony hook, for he will respond to one
feeling; he doesn't want to lose her.
Don't you forget .that-he does not
want to lose her no matter if he has
no real feeling for her; he doesn't want
to lose her whatever happens. Strong
feeling, genuine pulsing emotion-these
ne wouldn't know what to do with, but
this elusive, wavering unreality which
he is never sure of he will pursue to
the end of the world. The more color
less she is the better, for then she has
nothing definite to irritate him, and he
can make her in his mind just what he
wants; she will never be decided
enough to permit him to find out the
difference. A little cheap theatrical
emotion, that she has and knows how
to use it prettily, but of the real gem
uine feeling she has none to bother
her-not SO that she couldn't get over it.
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what does a woman know about as
saying?" said the miners. Their mere
man" prejudices were stronger than
Miss Vests official certificate, which
declared over the signature of the best
mining experts in the country that she
did know all about practical assaying.
Miss West remained in her empty office
till her funds were all gone. then she
and a young brother started out pros
pecting. Pork and beans and fapjacks
do not cost much.
During weary, disappointing months
that stretched into years Mary West
tramped among the mountains. Then
suddenly she found gold. What next?
She had now no money to develop her
mine. Back to schoolteaching again,
this time in Tombstone, Ariz. Keeping
the string on her mine while she served
as schoolmistress, Miss West at length
thirty foot shaft upon her claim. Not
long after that she sold it for $4,000,
buying another soon, which she man
ages entirely herself. This property is
worth 100000. Thus her bad luck in
not getting any employment from the
miners as an assayer was the real foun-
dalton of her fortune.
| A most interesting story for women is
also that of Mrs. Mary E. Latey, a ia
! NOfllc 81 4O0AS SOPidl1O SOlO singer,
| who turned mine operator in northern
Arkansas. She was naturally attracted
to mining and bought 200 acres of min
eral lands in what is called the -Jim-
mie Greek" region. Now she owns 1900
acres. Her mines yield lead and zinc
ores. After being a mine owner for
some time without-getting any returns
Mrs. Latey visited her property in per-
son. She found the work was conduct
| ed in such shilly shally, shiftless way
that at this rate she never would get
any returns. Thereupon the energetic
woman brought from another camp a
number of experienced, steadily work
| ing miners and put them in the dig
gings. She took from st. Louis up to
date machinery and put it to work too.
| She founded a town site and built cot
tages for her miners to live in, taking
up her residence in one of the cottages
] herself. She built q hotel and names
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her fathers body that she might bury
it in his own Ozarks.
With most girls that would have been
the end of the mining enterprise. Not
SO with Mabel Chenowith. She settled
her fathers estate in Missouri and
found she had a few hundred dollars.
With this she resolved to return to
Colorado and the copper mine. She
persuaded a girl cousin, Miss Mary
Brice, to return with her. With the
money Miss Chenowith had they bought
a mining outfit in Colorado and had it
transported to their claim Arrived
there they found man had jumped it.
However, he was not unreasonable
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Men are very strange beings. I am
aware that am not making an origi-
nal observation, but it is one which
strikes me more and more every day.
There are some cut and dried ideas
about men which should like to shake
up a bit.
There is that ancient idea about
mans chivalry, for instance. In books
he always when he sees a woman alone
and unprotected feels a sense of his
own strength and manhood, a desire to
use his strength to protect her. 1t isn't
because he cares for her, you under
stand. One is given to understand that
this feeling is almost unconscious; it
is so much a part of his nature.
oh, me, oh, my! 1 think that is the
only expression that will fit the case.
The one particular thing the average
man doesn't want is the necessity of
being sympathetic, and certainly never,
if possible, in a practical way. Cheer
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this snake coils it's deadly GOODNESS in
mans breast and makes him a curse
to those who love him.
Why is it that our musicians win
never write great operas, great songs
throbbing with love and poetry and the
pulse of life itself? Because it is not in
the blood, and there are some things
brain alone can't produce. Sing the
poetry Of Armand Silvestre set to mu-
sic by Massenet and then grind your
teeth over our cheap, perky and SEN
timentaI effusions. The poorest bare
foot peasant who shuffies in the dust
of a country roadside in France has
more poetry, more of the blessed true
feeling of life, than nine-tenths of US.
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to kiss the girl Ut o''e U''" 'OOAS u "ef'
of his heart to feel that she under
stands how dear she is to him. But
with the average American man the
kiss is his mode of understanding and
just about the limit of it, too, in most
cases.
Well, but if that is so why don't we
have a race of husbands like the Eng
lish-despotic in their ideas, silent, I'M
demonstra tive, selfish? And the answer
is because our women are not like the
Englishwomen. Heaven mercifuIly pro-
vided the antidote in one case where it
neglected it in the other.
The up to date American woman, it
is pretty well conceded by everybody,
leads the American man about as pref
ty a chase as it is possible for any one
to do. She has the trout method of
angling and dangling a man down fine,
and when you add to this the fact that
she is more soIicitous for her own COM
fort and more careless of her obliga-
lions than any other woman in the
world you get something of a key to the
situation. She doesn't SO very much
care for the deep and beautiful and the
tender and poetic. She may think she
does, but it is only in a superficial way.
She hasn't even the true elements of
them in her composition, so she can't
begin to understand how they feel.
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It is purely an accident of her ma
ture, and not much to her credit. How
ever, you see now and then a woman
who nobly overcomes nature and be-
comes the most selfish little animal that
was ever created. But even in such an
extreme case no harm is done. Her
husband, thanks to his being a man,
can get away as much as possible
business, clubs, etc.), which is more
than woman can do under the same
circumstances. Heaven pity the I'M
selfish woman tied to a selfish mani
I have had the pleasure of seeing one
example of that worked out under my
eyes. and I don't care to see another.
From morning till night he only
thought of his comfort, and she also
only thought of it. Now, it is well
known that the more things come our
way the more we want them to, until
we feel we can't have anything cross
US, no crumpled rose leaves to mar the
beauty of our perfect lives. And so it
was with this man. He became so in
the end that he would only do things
which pleased him, and he would never
even keep up anything if it began to
bore him or did not give him a certain
amount of pleasure. And the more he
was lacking the more she made up
sumo Olle Hdu " 10 Tue HdIu anu tlre-
some end of things, and she did it.
Some one had to sit up when member
of the family was i'll; she did it. He
got out of it gracefully on the plea that
he was never any good when there was
sickness around. To his friends he con-
fided that it gave him the blues" She
it was who planned all their simple lit
tie pleasures; he was always going
to do something. but he never could
seem to get around to the preliminary
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the frame proved conclusively that a
woman can drive a nail They had
offers of assistance in many forms.
even to matrimonial ones, none of
which they accepted. They even do
the tunneling and blasting themselves.
They followed the lead found by Ma
Del father and discovered that it grew
Iicner the farther in they dug. The
two young ladies are strong. healthy
handsome girls, womanly and intelli-
gent.
Ihus Mrs Latey in Arkansas, Miss
Mary West in Arizona and Miss Cheno-
with and Miss Brice in Colorado are
demonstrating that educated women
can be mine proprietors and even do
the rough work of mining. In Alaska
several women have also got fortunes
out of the ground.
ELIZABETH LEE.
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warp the friendship. And what
If you had to live with her ali your life
had to, understand? The trouble is we
are all of us so different and there are
so few of US unselfsh; also, what is
more to the point, there are so few of
US who will admit that we are selfish.
Unselhshness is the great thing.
You may be cooped up with a person
as different from you as the north pole
IS from the south, you may both Of you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
A MANS AND A WoMAN's VIEW
POINTS

A man looks at life as through field
glasses. He gives himself a wide no.
rizon and does not always heed the
things which lie nearest him. A wo-
man has more of the microscopic in
stinct She sees the Importance of lit
tie things. and that is how so many
women have genius enough to make
two or three little dollars or even less
provide the necessities Of household.
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IDEAL md RenI.

We have Furthermore been looking
at our ideal for so long that
we have actually forgotten the real
man in the case, and the fact is that he
has been changing all this time. dare
say that there are some real Americans
left. There may be some out on the
plains, but certainly not in the big cit
les. They are surely not in the smart
set. No, you say, but the men of the
smart set do not constitute American
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~ IA clutch on woman s sphere
SO far that in whatever field
a a woman can achieve success
there is her sphere. Success
is the sure test. Now. the last place
Mrs. Grundy could conceive of a wo-
man gaining Industrial foothold
would be as a miner. Yet this day
considerable number of ladies have
proved themselves equal even to this.
There is Miss Mary West. Colorado
girl who, alternating mine prospecting
with schoolteaching in order to get
funds to furnish herself with the "gsub"
for more prospecting. finds herself at
length while still quite young lady
worth 100000 that she has acquired
the very fates themselves bow to the
intelligent girl who never gives down,
but pursues one object.
Mary Vests father was mining as
sayers in Leadville. She was naturally
drawn TO metallurgy and learned from
her father to make mineral provings.
But her father died and left her to sup
port both herself and her mother. She
was well educated and became teach
er in mining town. In summer vaca-
lions she studied in the school for min
ers in Denver. She saved from her
wages all the money she could and at
iCiiS III iA1d CtioUSl " 81 " OAtSd6O anu
finish her studies in the school of mines
there. She was turned out regularly
certified assayer, able to test and prove
ores with the best.
Now the girl thought her troubles
were over. She established an assay
office in Chloride, Ariz., expecting mine
| owners and prospectors would avail
themselves of her services, which she
herself knew were of superior value
But, no.. Her trouble instead of being
over had only begun.
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fulnesS is what
he wants. any
old S or t of
cheerfulness -
the cheerfulnesS
of the parrot,
of the ape, of
tn e any thin g;
but keep it up.
keep it upi And
of his chivalry
the least said
the better.
There are ex-
ceptions to this
rule. There are
just enough of
these exceptions
to k e e p y o u
guessing about
the whole sex.
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ssI Love YOu!"

Some of these Latin races know how
to say ST love YOU so that it means all
the poetry and the beauty of life. And
here we say it under our breaths with
prudery and sometimes we even take
it for granted, we are SO afraid it will
lose it's force if we say it too often. A
man of the races which have not for
gotten to feel will turn the whole life
of the woman he loves into poetry. He
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What she really does want is the most
she can get out of her lover in the way
of good times and the most she can get
out of her husband in the way of good
times and comfort
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They are like the prize packages in the
grab bag; but, do you know, think the
female novelists get them all.
The American man has been SO ex-
tolled by foreigners that we have form
ed a real. almost alive, embodiment, or,
rather, standardization, of him, and we
have given this being wings and halo.
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but let the girls
buy him off
peaceably and
fairly cheap.
Then, all un-
aided, the two
bra We girls
started to work
tn cir c l a i m.
With their own
hands they built
a t W o 70 ON
c a b i n. They
themselves saw
ed the lumber,
and the way
they alta che d
H.
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RoRAx EoR TIE SKIN.

Borax has a whitening effect upon
the hands and face. Some ladies who
desire to retain a fair skin take twice
a week a warm bath in which half a
pound Of borax has been dissolved.
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will live it and
breathe it as
he S i t S a n d
looks at her
w a t ching tn e
sunshine as it
lights her hair
or listening to
the rain as it
makes music on
the caves over
their heads. He
will feel the
b e a u I y OF a
thousand little
things that he
suddenly finds he
can enjoy with
her. He doesn't
necessarily have
to kiss the girl
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MRS. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, WIFE OF THE UNITED STATES
AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY.

American
the
Miss Helen Smith
in
enabled a
at
of
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THEArER COAT OF WHITE BRoADcLoTH.

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The San Francisco call., 1904-10-02
BALDWIN & HOWELL,
% Post st.

SS,000-Vicinity of Seventh and Bryant sts.,
6 fats. renting for SS1 per month; mort
gage of $4,000 remain.
S4,OOo-Larkin st. cor; cottage OF rooms ana
bath
s23. T37-Fine large lot. 1o5 :6x137:e contain
ing a double cottage of rooms and
bath; one of the choicest blocks OF NC
Allister ST.. splendid building site.
Sc, 700-Devisadero St, near Haight; new
and elegant fats of and rooms and
bath; rent for $50 90 per month; beau
tiful neighbOrhood
SS6, 000-SiXth ST. business property, 'front.'
ages stores, rooming- houses and
fats on rear street; rents for
5000 per month; look into this.
81, 750-Sixth ave, the park; beauti-
full new fats of rooms and bath each;
rent for ST 30 per month.
81, 5o0-Fifth ave, Richmond District; two
flats of rooms and bath; rent for $36
per month: lot 25x12o.
"a, ,50o-Fflbert St. near Hyde; cottage of 5
rooms; unobstructed marine view; lot
25x137 ;6.
"a, s4,0oO-Beeutiful lot on the north side OF
Eel! St, near Cole; most desirable resi-
dence location.
Sc, ,O00-Vicinity of Sixteenth and Valencia
SITS: house of rooms and bath and
rear house of rooms; lot 36x12o
$11 500-Pierce St. Haight; new flats
of rooms and bath each; $40, 900 mort
gage can remain; rent for $97 90 per
month; this is a snap.
IS, 5,25O-W ebster St, near Clay; nice 2-story
house of rooms and bath; lot "a: ok
S7:6; pleasant home.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-02

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Real Estate Agents and Auctioners
INVESTMENTS.
SD 5OO-Rents Sl724 per annum; choice corner
on Grove st; close in; improvements
consist of stores and mats; large lot,
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improvements consist OF houses and A
cottages; lot 55x12O-
S14, ,5oc-Rents $3.50 per annum; business prop
erty, near the Preside; improvements
consist Of stores; large lot s2:6x
1916
$40, ,5OO-Rents 5000 per annum; corner on
Pacific st; good improvements, consist
Of store, flats and dwellings; in
81 175PRents $40 Der snpum; business cor
ner, near 18th and Castro sts.; store,
fiat and two-story dwelling.
FLATS.
SIG Ooo-Rents S21OO per annum; nicely con-
structed fats Of rooms and bath each;
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and bath each; mortgage can remain;
baT BATS %ndoSs 1 fG4 B2iGf fonndfion. n ad n s9c
renting for $3.50 per annum.
s9,OOO-Rents 1852 per annum; Oak st:
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s7,SOo-Rents s73S per annum. which are
low; a splendid Mission bargain; San
chez St, close to Market; improvements
consist Of fats OF rooms and bath
each; 25x1O0.
81, ,25O-Reduced from $500; rents $726 per
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50. 25o-Only $500 cash: new corner flats;
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s4,5Oo-Rents $432 per annum; close TO Va
lencia and 14th sts. desirable bay
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