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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Rhenish and westphaian Society OF Popular
Studies has just published in its Journal inter
estlnE paper upon tho subject OF ecclesiastical
anathem4s launched in the Middle Ages against
animals. These naledictlons did not relate 10 mis-
chiefs already done. but were in the nature OF o
protection against evils to be apprehended and
werc solely directed against creatures considered
Inischievous. Thus IN 1l2l st. Bernard cursed the
mosquitoes. as insanity Americans have done
IN more recent times and probably with Just
i;tle effect Even post-Reformaton Protestants
sometimes had recourse to comminatory measures.
rs witness tho pastor Of Dresden. who. IN 1852
cursed the sparrows for dstracting his congrega-
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and thsl.
children left town yesterday for their country
place at Westbury. Long Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18

Mrs Marcus DAILY Miss Harriet DAILY. Mrs
| Richard McCreery and Lawrence McCreery. az
well as Gibson Fahnestock and H c. Fahnestock
were among those who sailed yesterday for Eurou.
on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18

Captain and Mrs. Dighton Probyn are STAYING a,
the Waldorf-Astoria- Captain Probyn is an ofsca-
Of the Royal Artillery and a nephew OF General
Sir Dighton Probyn. Privy Purse 20 King Edxars
Mrs. Probyn is sister OF Sir Albert Seymour ara
a daughter OF the late Sir Francis Seymour Masrsr
Of the Ceremonies to Queen Victoria.
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down that she has man with a bust
ness head back of her. You ask why
don't take hold and run things and
give you an object lesson. I will do
ing and run this house for a week,
and if I don't beat your figures an to
squash then my name is not BOwser.
We may not save enough over your
extravaganza to attend the next
worlds fair, but you'll have had a few
lessons in finance to do you good"
Mrs. Bowser held her peace as to
further discussion, but the cat sat up
and gurgIed in his throat and said to
himself:
Some one is going to have sur
prise party a week from tonight, and
I'll bet dollars to cents that IL won't
be Mrs. Bowseri"
Monday morning Mr.. Bowser took
hold He got up half an hour earlier
to do it. In twenty minutes he had
left his orders at the butchers and
grocer's and returned smiling. but he
did not tell Mrs. Bowser that ne had
had row with both of them and been
called a crank by each.
During the week he changed butch
ers four times, changed grocers three,
and ordered butter and milk from
three different creameries. AS for the
baker, he had to change every day. He
had q way of calling them robbers and
cheats and scoundrels, and of threat
ening them with dire pains and penal
ties. and in reply they told him to
take his custom elsewhere and be
hanged to him.
It had become necessary during the
week to buy a half ton of coal for
the kitchen. He had meant to make
q saving of fifty cents on that, but by
the time he had called the goldman a
f1int-hearted vampire, and limited that
he had never given over 1900 pounds
for a ton he was told to buy else
where. He spent nearly half day
and visited five different yards before
he LEFT his order. All this was on the
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fault and I'm not blaming you for it,
but I often feel that something ought
to be done. If 1 only had little
more time
you'd run the house -
s'I would, and I'd make such a saw
ing as would open your eyes Where
you save cents I would save shillings,
and we'd get more and better for our
money to boot. When I look over
your house bills of a Saturday night
I'm amazed at the way you have been
stuck 7 don't always speak of it, be-
cause what's the use but you are
not to be trusted with money, and
that's a fact"
eff you are so smart, why don't you
take hold and runs things for a week
and give me an object lesson?" she
asked as the cat came in from the
kitchen and nodded to her to sass
back"
Mrs Bowser. do not claim to be
smart as you call it, and there is no
occasion for this conversation to drift
into acrimony. 1 am only what am,
but that means that I can do more
hnanciering in half an hour than you
can in a year. No woman has a head
for finance. When you read that
Hetty Green or any other woman is
worth S20s0O0.ooO, you just set it
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NOT a ONE WOULD COME. HOWEVER.

outside, and he didn't think it neces-
sary to say anything to Mrs. Bowser
about it. What he did say when the
week was up was:
Now, then. weTl see how we have
come out. 1 don't want to hurt your
feelings. but if there is a balance in
my favor over you. I shall have to
speak about it. Haven't we lived just
as well during the past week as any
during the year2''
Yes. I think so.'' admitted Mrs.
Bowser.
I'VE viii take the meat first. Dur
ing your last week we paid for at least
three pounds of solid bone Last week,
under my espionage, we didn't pay for
three ounces.
But you are mistaken, Mr.. Bow
ser. 1 have saved and weighed all the
bone, and there's a little over four
pounds"
1T can't be-"
Come down to the kitchen and
see
Woman. don't fool with me. If
you have gone out in the back yard
and picked uD four pounds of bones
to weigh OF against me it will be the
worst move you ever made in your
lifeI''
'sThe bones are fresh. and the cook
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-07
FINANCIER BowsER.
He Runs the House for a Week and
Figures Up Profits.

1t come upon Mrs Bowser all of
a sudden. Mr.. Bowser had come
home seemingly pleased with the
world at large. but at dinner he hap
pened to observe that there was a
good deal of bone in the steak, and
as he kept his eyes on it he said:
Mrs Bowser, have you and the
butcher formed little trust against
me 2"
'sDo you mean the bone in the
meat?" she Queried.
st mean nothing else. The Internal
robber has made you pay for at least
three pounds of hone to one of meat"
cit couldn't be. only got two
pounds in all, and I'm sure We have
meat and to spare There is consid-
cradle bone, but it just happens So
yes, it's always just happeningt I
have paid that butcher a thousand
dollars in cash the last year for back
bones. thigh-bones. shanks and ribs,
and I tell you it has got to stop. If
was running this house do you sup
pose tradesmen would dare take such
liberties with me2 Not by long
When a woman goes into a butchers
shop looking as humble as cat, and
asks if they won't pTease sell her a
tough old steak with a lot of bone
in it. she'll get what she wants III
take that bone over after dinner and
hit the internal rascal in the head
with it!''
ssI'rn sure [ do the best I can
quietly replied Mrs. Bowser-
Yes, I think you do" he admit
ted. "but. neverth eless, the fact stands
out like a knot on a log that you are
not a close buyer. In other words,
you are no financier. 1t isn't your
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to tell you about the particularly pretty
materials the big New York shops are
showing for tailor mades. The tailor
made this year. you know, is not going
to be strictly tailor made at all It will
be just the thinnest imaginable little
blouse coat and skirt. The former will
be all shfrred around the long Shout
dered yoke and made to puff prettily
into a high. tight fitting girdle. In the
front it will remain open to show the
very dainty needlework blouses which
we are to wear this year instead of the
stiR shirt waists.
The materials for these suits are soft
silk in plain and fancy weaves, mostly
least, mohair. The latter comes dyed
in blue, brown, silver gray and, what
is a decided novelty, heliotrope. 1t is
no longer plain, but distinguished by
tiny dottings and markings.
The pongees come in the natural
shade, in brown, in heliotrope and in
pale gray. There is also a rich tone OF
blue. The pongees are particularly
pretty when combined with rich en-
broidery of the oriental variety.
The skirts OF all these street gowns
must be cut so as to clear the ground.
They are deeply plated both back and
front. and the short jackets either
swing loose over a wide belt or else
blouse back and front, also over a wide
belt The day of narrow belts is Ut
terly passed.
The newest sleeves are rather held in
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Eren take dinner in restaurant

And yet here is what a friend writes
me from Denmark. She says: They
have here a celibacy insurance compa-
ny, and If the holder of policy is I'M
married at forty she receives a life an
nuity. OF course if she marries before
that time she forfRits all her premiums .
That isn't such a bad gamble on human
nature as it sounds because if a woman
fancied herself in love or was so, which
is sometimes the same thing. she would
throw over her policy in the thirty
ninth year and eleventh month If nee
essary, and she probably would do so
in Denmark anyway, even If she were
rot in love. for fear she would lose her
last chance. KATE CLYDE.
New York.
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Let me tell you something" re-
piled Mrs Bowser, after looking over
the list .''You have paid Is cents
more than I did on your potatoes: 10
cents more on cabbage; u more on
rhubarb: cents more on tomatoes
and ; cents more on caned corn and
peas. The total is 55-cents."
Woman, you have become cross
eyed" he shouted.
"Dop't worry about my eyes, Mr..
Bowser. Here's 3 cents too much on
maple sugar; cents too much on
pickles; 3 cents too much on honey
and cents too much on a cam OF
cherries That's IS cents more Wait
a minute. Your meat bill totals up
S4-20, while mine is accents less. Your
groceries total 500 while mine was
only $50. The butter and milk are
$2.25, which is 35 cents in excess OF
mine, and while 1 got coal at S6-25 a
ton you seem to have paid 81. Mr..
Don't Mr.. Bowser mel" ne inter-
rupted as he walked up and down and
gestured. In my week of running
there are the figures to prove it,
But how can they2"
Because they do"
But they prove that you spent about
that much more than I did. and the
butcher also got three times as much
bone on on you I'm taking your own
| figures for it, You said you could
Yes, 7 said I could run the house.
/ ing lingo l have done it, I knew it
would be this way. You'd knock RE
out il It was possible thing, and you
are trying your best"
''Eut here are your figures"
Figures be hanged You have got
possession of this book at night while
I slept and altered the hguFesi''
why. Mr.. Bowserl"
You didn't want to give in that ]
was a better hnancier than you. az
yo-s
At that moment the front door beh
rang, and Mr. Bowser answered it TO
find tramp at the door It would
have been in his play under the cir
curnstances to throw willie" down
the steps and over the fence, but N
his financial confusion he gave the
man a dollar bill instead of nickel
and shut the door. Two minutes later.
when the tramp was out Of sight. It
flashed over him that he had made a
mistake, and he stood in the hall snd
waved his arms and jumped up and
down and tried to get of swearwords.
Not a one would come. however. and
after hammering the wall with his fists
he made a sneak upstairs and left Mrs
Bowser and the cat to smile at each
other Copyright 1904, by G. B. Lew
isl
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ssPIace aux Robes.,


If you are by force of circumstances
an amateur dressmaker I want to ask
you if you have considered the subject
of robes. These are handsomer than
ever and cheaper. The spotted net and
muslin robes are particularly effective
because they have a multitude of ruffies.
which. by the way, it would take an
eternity to cut out, trim and sew into
place. Some of the summer dresses
only require to be Joined together on
the seams, with the addition of a pretty
stock and a belt of taffeta- OF such a
description was a lavender muslin
beautifully trimmed with lace medal
lions which 1 saw recently. It's cost
was only SIT, and as it did not require
any lining you can see for yourself
what an inexpensive gown it would
have made.
There seems to be a craze for baby
hats just now. The only trouble is that
the cheaper shops are copying them.
and we have the modifying spectacle
of lace baby hats even with a wreath
Of flowers marked $4.9S. OF course no
style can live long in the face of that.
For my part, 1 prefer for a dressy hat
the smart lace shape trimmed with os
trich feathers. either white or pale tint
ed A French sailor hat is very smart
made this way with one ostrich plume
brought around the crown and the 9TH
er allowed to droop on the hair at the
back.
There is craze about town just now
for the French sailor of deep red
wreathed around with masses of pop
pies shading from palest pink to deep
OK blood tones. Here and there to give
the whole character are loops of deep
red velvet ribbon.
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literary labor or just merely very
ing (Which a good many women put
down to the score of work., but any
way you are tired. What you need is
q Change chance to go out to see
something, to hear something gay, even
IL it 10 only the pIink-a-plunk Of :
string quartet in a restaurant. In
stead of that you have to rack your
brain to entertain a man who is prob
ably not half so tired as you are, but
lets himself slump mentally. with a
look as much as to say: well, here
am. Entertain me- You ought to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-07
statu. of Unmarried women.


One thing is sure. and that is that
more attention is being paid to the
comfort of unmarried women. They
have as distinct a social status as the
bachelor. and if they know how to
manage they may have almost as COM
Portable a time of it, which is saying a
great deal. There are now apartment
houses exclusively for woman where
she may have more than the comforts
of home and be almost free from gos-
sip-that is, as free as she can be in a
place entirely populated by women.
Then she need no longer mind the fact
that some boarding houses prefer to
cater entirely to men, because there are
any number of apartment hotels where
she is hailed with joy as a prospective
tenant. She can so TO the theater alone
il she wishes. and, better still, the
day has come when two women can
even take dinner in a restaurant with
out exciting unpleasant comment.
II this state of affairs continues 1 can
see the marriage rate decreasing Wo-
men will become particular on the hus-
band proposition now that their liberty
is no longer made bitter for them.
However, you wouldn't expect to find
encouragement to spinsterhood com
ing from old fogy Europe, would you?
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books left in this world, and an inter
esting book is worth three uninterest-
ing men,"
Anyway. it's just a habit Get a man
in the way of being lazy. and he will
stay so every time.
Give me the man who knows what is
going on around town and who takes
a lively interest in it; who is not toe
blase to go to the theateT and laugh in
the right place and who has a good.
healthy appetite for supper afterward.
Give me the chum who is equally good
for an expedition to Chinatown or a
trip to Sherry's. who never misunder-
stands you, who is always jolly and
who doesn't pose For the benefit Of
that man I am willing to deal cut my
choicest conversation and my sweetest
smiles, not to speak of wearing reck-
lessly my prettiest gowns.
Men certainly don't always under
stand girls, but that is because most
men are naturally th0ughtless. A man
will send a girl a cart load of flowers
and then perhaps forget her on her
birthday. 1t isn't the quantity; it is
the thought that counts. A bunch of
violets may be bought for as little as
rs cents. Isn't that better than send
ing nothing at all because one can't
the man to weep because he can't affefo
to send you roses, but the violets at
least will show he has not forgotten
you, and a girl can't always tell with
out these little signs.
However, let US cheer up and reflect
that since the revival of the ankle
length skirt women toe in much less
than formerly.
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~ - "a A1AAE 4 = ~
tom and sits
and sits and
sits while you
make forty diff
Herent kinds of
vaudeville of
yourself for his
edincation. Then
when he has
enough he goes
home satisfied
and recreated.
And you? Well.
your throat is
dry, and you
are played out.
You may have
been sewing all
day or engaged
IN artistic or
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will tell you that she cut them out OF
your meat day by day
I'VE will see to that presently" he
said, as he looked troubled and the
cat grinned with delight, "and mean
while we will go over the prices OF
vegetables Here is my list for you
to look at I figure that have made
saving Of ninety cents over you in
the week Ninety cents won't buy a
house and lot, but it is ninety cents
saved 4"
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glad to have a man call on you any
way"
But don't think So
There must be a reason for the chair
warmers existence, and, OF course, the
reason is a woman. When I ind man
who has been badly trained /. revert to
the old proverb. "Cherchez la femme"
Well, the chair warmer must certainly
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come from Old
Maids hall. But,
my goo On e SIS,
even a very old
m aid should
have more self
respect than to
X e e p c h a ir
warmers on her
regular list.
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~HERE is a variety of man with
which I am afraid I have
mighty little patience. haven't
much patience anyhow, but
this sort of man seems to
fairly evaporate what I have refer
to the species known as "chair warm
err" Away with him!
You know the man as well as / do
He comes with the regularity OF old
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Chair Warm
Ing a Habit.

To women who
have been in
the habit Of en-
pertaining such
doleful PROPOSE
tions I want to
say: Cheer up.
my dears. You
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at the bottom. but they have a decided
bag at the elbow in combination with
an extra long shouIdered effect.
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worth very much, but you are worth
more than that. If your conversation is
worth calling around TO hear. it is worth
the usual exchange good time. If he
wants your society for nothing, let him
&c. There are still a few interesting
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-07

Materials For Tailor Mades.
I just put that phrase in as a gentle
introduction to fashions because want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-07
There is only One
Genuine-Syrup of Figs
The Genuine is Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co.

Of company, California
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-14
Heart
w eakneSS.

DIR. Miles Heart Cure has
made many hearts well after
they have been pronounced
hopeless. It has completely
cured thousands, and will al
most invariably cure or benefit
every case of heart disease.
Short breath, pain around
heart, palpitation, fluttering,
dizzy, fainting and smothering
spells should not be neglected.
Take DR.. Miles Heart Cure
and see how quick you will
be relieved.
1t cannot make a new heart,
but will restore a sick one by
strengthening the heart nerves
and muscles, relieving the
unnatural strain, and restoring
it's vitality.
IT had very bad case Of heart
trouble. For six months I could not
and feeling bad All days ss RI n 1he af sern
down. or fall down. three times. "
burst through, and I had difiiculty Il
getting my breath. I purchased a
bottle Of DIR. Miles Heart Cure, and
before I had used half Of it I could
lay down and sleep all night. Previ-
ously had to get up from five to ten
bottles and my heart Is as Regulars sIxer as
clock work. I feel like a new man,
and can work considerable for an old
man, 841 years old"
II. d. McGILL. Frost. Ohio.
Dr.. Miles, Heart Cure 10 sold by
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first bottle will benefit. II II falls
he will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
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ScSgxsks 5ID(JlIEI1Y
- <<< .. NE " 3 . E

liams, Lora Penquite, Ollie Penquite,
Estella Gates, Jane Jones and Eva
Baker. At a seasonable hour the
guests departed wishing their hos
tess many happy returns of the day.
X x x
Mrs. n. B. Ballinger, assisted by
Mrs. Geo. Bishop and Mrs. A. C. Og-
born, will entertain the ladies of the
United Presbyterian church and
their friends at a thimble party Civ
en- at her home, 623 North Eighth
Street this afternoon from 80 10
5 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bayer delight
fully entertained a party of friends
at point whist, Monday evening, at
which appropriate prizes were awar-
ded Mrs. John Youngfesh and Mr..
Sol Frankel. An elegant two course
luncheon was served by the hostess,
the evening proving most enjoya-
BILE one.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society of the
English Lutheran church will be held
this afternoon at two-thirty o'clock
at the home of Mrs. Harry Kaufman,
GA South Eighteenth Street.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-14

An entertainment under the aus
pices of ST. Vincent de Paul Society
will be given this evening at St.
Mary's Hall to which all are cordlnl-
ly invited. An entertaining and in
structive feature will be an illus
trated lecture on Rome delivered oy
Rev. J. F. Mattingly.
%%ss
The Woman's Home and | oreign
Missionary Society Of st. PauI's
Evangelical Lutheran church will
hold It's regular monthly meeting
this afternoon at half after two
O'Clock at the home Of Mrs. William
, South Seventh street.
On "Review on Work in Chi
~ will be read by Mesdames II. II.
tIeerhoff and William Bartel, ST.. A
large attendance is earnestly request
ed.
The Wednesday Aftermath Club
will be entertained this afternoon at
the home of Mrs. H. H. Wierhake,
7O5 South Sixth Street.
*x*
Miss Martha M. Dickinson will be
hostess this afternoon, at her home
in South Fifteenth street, for the
regular monthly meeting OF the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Socie-
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SURVEYORS
On the Pennsylvania Working Near
Dublin.

Dublin, Ind, Dec. 13.-Surveyors
have been at work here this week
running lines for the proposed widen
ing Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company's right of way. The move
is supposed to be in conjunction with
the announced plan of the company
to double track its system from Col
umbus to Indianapolis. The company
desires to purchase six feet of land
on both sides of its present right Of
way.
It has also been announced that the
company will reduce the grade be-
tween Cambridge and Dublin twenty
feet. From the Cambridge City de
pot to the depot here there is rise
Of 149 feet. This is the steepPst grade
in proportion to the length, two miles
to be found along the Pennsylvania
lines west of Columbus.
The grade crossing at the depot
and on johnson street are to be alb
olished. At these crossings overhead
bridges are to be erected.