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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

and more than likely you have
thought there was some exaggera-
ton. But let me prove the con-
trary by this walk over the fields
of Shottery, which, moreover, can
be proven again and again in SIM
liar walks anywhere in England.
SHAKESPEARE walked "cross lots" to
Shottery, and the paths are still
In use after these four centuries
and more. AS the country settled
up, and the land was needed for
tillage, the paths were fenced in
and left for the use of those who
wish to make short cuts. And
this, too, not because they had
any association with SHAKESPEARE,
but because there had been paths
here so long for the convenience
of the general public that their
presence had become an Estab-
lished Custom and a necessity.
All over England to-day, are
these little fenced footpaths thru
pastures, keeping unchanged the
short cuts of hundreds of years.
Everybody's meadows seem to be
at the pleasure of walkers and
there are stiles without number
and all sorts of queer turning
gates leading. from one to an
other. One special never-to-be
forgotten, wholly delightful walk
Of five miles was almost wholly
over such paths, and that, too, far
from the SHAKESPEARE country. It
was up hill and down dale, by
straight paths and crooked, over
stiles and thru gates, with
glimpses here of the open sea and
there of lighthouse, and in still
another direction, just suggestion
behind the haze of the beautiful
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

"Oh. dear!" groaned Hal 'Whatever shall we do?
It is going to go wrong. know it, and will
come'
And it if it going to rain in tor
rents" added Eliot dolefully. Mary drew her face
down in imitation of Halls pathetic expression she
answered mockingly:
Eyes, it's going to pour and nobody will come and
we'll all sit down and cry it, You old croakers,
you couldn't you trifle less encouraging? If it
does rain
(Which it isn't going to- interrupted Mabel, and
Mary added pleadingly: "Come, boys, do smile just
once to show you haven't forgotten how
eve have sold a hundred tickets, and those people
will be sure come" Estele sagely. 1T is going
to be a grand success feel it in my bones!'
GOOD luck your boies,' said Elliott smiling in
spite of himself Then he and Hal went off, looking
little less mournful.
The next morning they up and hard at
so early that they tell whether the day
going to be pleasant not but the soon decided
the question and one began to feel encouraged
and in a good humor. Walter worked bravely until
after breakfast when suddenly disappeared and
hastily retiring announcing that IF all the plays
world went to smash he couldn't sit up another
minute, :" which statement, made by plucky Walter,
showed must feel pretty sick. CONSERVATION
visible face, the troupe hurried off ia
to talk it over.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19

be different from other days. The
young children should have different
playthings, different games, different
dolls and be dressed differently. Thus
the child may, quite easily. learn to
look forward with pleasure, rather
than with dread, to the coming of
Sunday. Some parents have found it
TO be an excellent idea to keep certain
articles, candy and other special Sun
day features in a special room closet
or bureau drawer. AS the child grows
older parents should aim to replace
these childish things by Bible pictures,
Sunday-school papers and other suit
able articles.
Again, some children will look for
ward TO Sunday because their parents
spend more time with them on that
day. Others. because they are to have
a larger portion of cake. Others, be-
cause Of many other privileges which
the love of the parents has prompted.
Where this love of parents is apparent
IL is very easy for the child to pass
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stable; who could string the hay and
the corn cobs around so attractively
that the average man would consider
that particular stall wonderful place.
There are some women who can enter
the most cheerless room in a cheap
boarding house. fling a frock or two
over a worn chair. light fire in the
CRATE. pin up a few photographs.
spread their silver over the dressing
table and In FIVE minutes make the
place more attractive than an after
noon tea party. They are the women
who have an instinct for putting their
personality into every place and into
everything they touch. talent which
every truly feminine woman possesses
If she would but cultivate 1t.
The little bluff" at housekeeping. the
playing at domesticity." which IL easy
and inexpensive and more truly fas-
cinating than doing your own house
work or striving with the hired girl.
seems to be. therefore. the only solu-
tion of the boardinghouse problem. IL
you cannot own a house and lot. you
can at least always possess a potted
plant and a coffee urn. feather duS-
ter and a tea-table.
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cipality. and where no Mary Jane OF
all work can interrupt her tete-tete
across the breakfast table.
The greatest thing which the woman
who boards misses is the books and
flowers in which the woman who has
her own home. be it ever so tiny. can
revel. In the limited space of her
cherries room there is no place for
books and fiOWerpOts. She cannot plant
a window box without incurring the
wrath OF the landlady. who declares she
Is running the sill or staining the win
dows underneath. Her books are stored
away on the top shelf in the closet and
her jardiniere is filled with an artificial
palm as cold and unrespOnsive as the
boarding house folding bed. She does
not know the fascination which a dust
brush or a watering pot holds for the
average man. and she is not aware
that to most women a dust cap and a
feather duster are more becoming than
tiara and a scepter. Her husband
never comes in and catches her in that
most fascinating OF poses. en- negligee.
with her hands flung back OF her head
and her dainty slippers peeping out
from beneath frilly petticOats.
She is always correctly frocked, stiff
ly laced and perfectly groomed. In the
apartment hotel in winter and the sea-
side hotel in summer. alike, she sits op-
pOsite him at dinner in conventional
array with a conventional smile on her
face and a conventional remark on her
lips. He never knows the 10y OF that
after-dinner moment in the library or
the boudOir, when she might bring him
his after-dirner coffee with her dainty
hands and light his cigarette with a
look In her eyes th"4 would shock the
motel diners and make the waiter won
der II they were bride and groom. He
misses the quiet little supper after the
tneater and the little Irritation over the
breakfast table. He never knows tbs
JOY OF Kicking" because his chops are
ournt or his eggs too soft. His wife Ia
20 hlm IKE one OF those automatic dolls
In the shop windows. who look 40 corr
plete and beautiful in all their dainty
nnery' but which never CT anze their
for show. 80
The woman who boards has nlentv Of
ease, plenty OF leisure and plenty OF
mechanical comfort In these days OF
modern convenie noes; she has hours 10
devote to her complexion, hours to give
TO the arrangement OF her coiffure
days to spend at the dressmaker's and
money to spend at the beauty special
lists. But she lacks the one charm that
makes her worth while to the man who
loves har-the charm Of femininity. She
is like beautiful Jewel in an ugly set
ting She need not wonder IL her hus-
band spends most Of his time at the
club. man Is like a cat; he goes
where he Is made most comfortable
and where things are most interesting
and attractive. II you want him to
curl up beside you and purr, remember
that to him any sort OF make-shift
home" is more attractive than life in
the most expensive hotel apartment,
just as a simple white muslin frock is
prettier In his eyes than a Paris crea-
tion-and just as a woman who can
make good coffee or pretty sofa pill
low Is more fascinating and lovable
than one who can write an essay on
protoplasm or solve all the problems In
Euclid.
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who boards and you will feel fit OF
the blues coming over you at once,
without knowing why. The furniture
and appointments are in perfect har-
mony; the maid has left things in n
state of faultless neatness. and the
woman herself is gowned to the
queens taste In a stiff Paris frock;
but-the husband has gone out to his
club and you do not wonder that he
has. There Is nothing in the place to
keep him at home. The room and the
woman are like a music box without
music, q violin without strings.
Yet there are lots of women who
must board. Homes are an expensive
luxury to-day-even apartment-house
homes. A maid costs as much per
month as q Paris frock. and she Is
much more easily spoiled. Between
the servant problem and the rent
problem we are driven 10 the comfort
and economy OF boarding houses and
apartment hotels. where we can save
something for bon bons and theater
tickets and to meet our Insurance
dues.
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from the consideration of love of his
earthly parents to that of his heavenly
father.
AS the children grow older It is not
expected that they will spend much of
their time In play. At this stage they
Will need more attention from their
parents that the better training may
be given. Many will longer remem-
Der with great pleasure the sacred
songs sung at a certain hour each Sum
day. Certainly. but few parents are so
busy on Sunday that they cannot give
some time TO the reading or teaching
OF stories. and in other ways interest
their children.
So far nothing has been said about
attending services. Every young child
may find pleasure in attending Sunday
school When old enough to take in
terest in and receive benefit from the
church services IT is well that chill
dren should get into the habit Of at
tending these services. However. pa
rents should remember that II is far
harder for the children to remain still
any length OF time than for adults.
unless the services are very interest
ing. Parents, how do your children
look forward to Sunday? The true
answer to this question will determine
whether or not you have given the
subject the attention that Its import
ance demands.
What about planting faith in chill
dren? You need not do II. 1t is al
ready there. Children naturally have
faith in their parents. All we need to
do is to show children why every
child should have faith I'm God. BY
faith they may be taught the pro-
foundest truths of the Bible. How
early the little ones may be taught
that God loves good childrenl How
happy they are TO learn that their
good actions please not only their pa
rents. but their heavenly father as
welll
The training Of child's faith is one
of our most important duties. The
happiness and the usefulness OF chill
dren will largely depend upon their
faith.
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the road to a mans heart does not
reall-- lie through his stomach, but
through his eyes: and that il is not
actually the taste of her rarebits that
touches his affections, but the fact that
he has watched her mixing them and
that she has thereby been enthrOned
on the little domestic hearth Of his
Imagination.
Whether your amateur home be in a
summer camp, in a tiny bachelor fiat.
or In the third-stOry back of a third
rate boarding house, II is around a
little table. covered with white cloth.
that you must build. II.
There Is no stage setting so fascinat-
ing as a breakfast table and Worth
never made a frOck as attractive as a
shirt waist suit with little white apron
tied about II. Even the woman who
boards can have her chafing dish, her
samovar and her teapot, can use them
and the thousand and one little tricks
OF coquetry that go with them effect
lively and can thereby make a little
home" OF her eight by ten stall. But
the wise woman will have her little
make-believe home outside a boarding
house. tucked away somewhere all to
herself. where a man can feel like the
lord and master Of his domestic prin-
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19

One OF the things that a man admires
most is to see a woman fussing about
table, arranging flowers. stirring
something In the chafng dish. lighting
the fire over a samover or pouring
tea. Any one OF these things makes
her seem wonderful and fascinating to
him-as wonderful and fascinating as
she did when they were tots and he
watched her mix mud pies and pat
them down in q f1uted tin plate
What makes the society girl SO fond
of giving chahng- dish parties and mix
ing punch or brewing afternoon tea? 1t
is the coquette in her that understands
the attractiveness in the ruffie OF
dainty swiss apron She knows that
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19

a tent than to board in the smartest
apartment hotel that charges IS a
day and keeps its bellboys in gilt
braid and brass buttons.
This is not the fault of the board
ing-houses. They are better to-day
than they ever have been. 1t is the
fault of the modern woman herself.
It Is just as easy to make a home"
out of two rooms and bath" as 1t Is
to make Ii out of fourteen rooms and
private stable; but somehow the
woman who boards forgets this. In
fact, she forgets every one of the lit
tie graces that once charmed her
sweetheart and might keep her hus-
band still charmed-a much more diff
Ycult task. She forgets how to use
ehafing dish or a samovar: she for
gets how to wear fancy apron and
WELD a feather duster she forgets
how to train a window box or make n
creton curtain. She even forgets how
to don a pretty negligee or set vase
of roses where it will show best. Go
into the room of the average woman
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19

Who can give any good reason why
so many parents are anxious that their
children should be precocious? Precoc-
ity means early ripening. The same
parents would have no use for prema-
ture peaches. Why, then, should they
wish to have their children develop
prematurely? Surely nothing but ig-
norance can account for Zach a sense
less desire. The present civilization
tends to hasten unduly the developing
human being. Much care must there
fore be taken by parents in this re-
spect.
It is q grand, good thing that very
few of those supposed to be precocious
are really so. Most parents are only
too willing to believe that their chill
dren are little brighter than those of
their neighbors. This is but natural
None but the foolish. vain or ignorant
would urge their children forward in
the hope that they might appear pre-
cocious. History falls to furnish ex-
amples Of great men or great women
who were really precocious in youth.
On the contrary. the patient podders
are the ones who generally win lifes
victories. History is full of examples
of great men who were considered far
below the average ability while In
school. What good reason, then. Is
there for parents insisting upon their
children being hurried In their develop
ment? Why do we do that which will
result in so unduly awakening self-es-
TEEN and self-assertion as to make the
poor victims almost unbearable? The
childs mind is bound to be active. This
is natural The injury comes from
overtaxing 1t with matters which are
beyond it's comprehension or keeping 1t
under strain for too many hours.
Great care should be taken that a
childs mind does not develop at the
expense Of its body. AS has been said
before, the most important thing is to
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BIZ
MZW N2NZA1D

How to keep our husbands home and
to prevent ourselves from degenerat-
ing into mere automatons, sexless, zest-
less creatures, with nothing to do but
fancy work and gossiping, is now the
problem. There are some women who
have solved it. There are, In fact. some
women who could make a home a
home" out of stall in a nice. clean
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build up a healthy body. The signs of
brain flag should be watched for and
the warning should be noted promptly
If the child's head is hot, If the ex-
preston becomes one OF anxious de-
preston. If the forehead is wrinkled
and the hands frequently put to the
head. IL the sleep is disturbed and the
appetite impaired there Is serious
trouble somewhere. 1t is the parents
duty to see where the trouble is. On
the other hand, the parents must not be
too ready to permit the trouble to be
blamed on study. Probably not more
than one case out Of twenty reported
can be shown TO be the result of too
much school work. Very frequently it
is lack OF sleep, music lessons, parties
and other affairs which make 1t I'm
possible for the child to have the
proper rest which the growing body
demands.
IT will generally be found that the
doctors who complain most OF the over
pressure of work in school are those
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'OR every wife who boards there
is a husband who is bored. For
Severy wife who does not know
4 how to make coffee there is a
husband who forgets how to make
love. The girl who desires to retain
her feminine fascination from the
standpoint of masculine observation
had better play at housekeeping" In
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KEEPING BAD BOOKS
AWAYFROM CHILDREN
Thirty-Third Talk TO Parents by
WIN. J. Shearer.
WIN. J. Shearer.

o parent need be reminded that
it is important that every child
learn TO read. II is also i'm
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06

tack on a rival village, or is held in
honor of some great event, such as the
accession or investiture ct new mex
or king.
At Lake No, seven days steam from
Khartoum, the Bahr- el-Ghazal joins the
Nile, and the sudd begins. For nearly
300 miles the narrow channel winds
through a limitless expanse of papyrus.
partly rooted, partly floating, and a.
times completely blocking the river
Sir S. Baker was obliged to go round
by the Bahr Giraffe owing to such a
block, and in 1880 Gessi an Italian Of
fetal, failing to find the current, had to
cut his way through, lost many of his
men, and suffered so terribly that he
died shortly after rescue. The monot-
ony of the winding channel isfreQuently
relieved by lagoons, and it is in these
that the larger crocodiles and the hippo
potami with their jovial rosy faces
best loved to sport. 20 or more of
the latter being sometimes seen in
a shoal. The wild hippopotamus diff
fers as widely from our grimy, tor
pid, bun-eating acquaintance at the
Zoo as a Scotch mountain sheep does
from his cousin at London park.
About half way through the sudd, few
miles of solid ground, covered with
bush and fine euphorbia trees, occur on
the west bank. Here a field hospital
has been established for the sudd cut
tiers, two steamers, several boats and
about 800 men being still engaged in
clearing the last block" which is mean
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
DENMARK.

Peschke-Koedt, a Copenhagen man
ufacturer who for years has distn-
guished himself by the humane treat
ment of his employees, is in the tolls
of the labor unions. As he did not
belong to any employers union he
felt at liberty to pay any wages, and
he made it rule to pay his employees
a little more than the scale accepted
by the unions and paid by his COM
petitors. But some time ago he found
that he could no longer pay more
than others, and at the same time
the labor unions "caused a. disturb
ance in the technical management of
his business" for which reasons he
Notified his employees that after
lapse of three months he would pay
cn;y the wages esta blished by the
union scale. But the labor union
proposed an arrangement which
would have been still more unsatis-
factory to Mr.. Peschke-Koedt, and
now he is ventilating the matter in
the press in a manner which is not
fattering to organized labor.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06

quantity Of silkworm eggs No CO.
coons were bought by the department,
but examinations were made of home
raised eggs. Two stations had been
established after the congressional ap-
preparation became available-one at
Philadelphia and the other at New Or
leans. At Philadelphia 518 pounds of
cocoons were reeled, producing 80
pounds Of raw silk. The quality Of the
cocoons handled was thus shown to be
very bad. They cost on the average IS
cents per pound, so that the raw ma
terial used in the production OF .
pound of raw silk cost $4.58 The raw
silk produced was sold for $40 per
pound, by which it was shown that the
cost of the raw material was greater
than the value of the manufactured
product. This result was laid to the
inexperience Of the raisers.
The California work during this year
was reorganized, and there was reeled
at San Francisco A pounds of silk. An
effort was made during the winter of
1sS4-S5 by Mr.. Joseph Neumann and
some others to launch the california
Silk Culture Development company"
with capital of 100000, but tho at
tempt was failure
For the fiscal year 1856 congress
again appropriated $4,000. The reel
ing establishments in San Francisco,
New Orleans and Philadelphia were
abandoned toward the close of the fis-
cal year. Silkworm eggs were dis
tributed in the spring of 1886; circulars
were sent OFT all over the country Of
fering to purchase cocoons, and at the
beginning of the fiscal year 1861 a
Serrel automatic reel was set up undes
a new appropriation from congress.
The last appropriation made by con-
gress was $4,000 for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1891. An estimate for
continuance of this appropriation was
made by the then secretary of agricul-
ture, but the appropriation was not
made by congress, and the work Of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
FINLAND.

Helsingfors, June 27.-The Finnish
senate at the first session following
the ssassination of Governor General
Bobrikoff issued a manifesto deplor-
ing the generals death and express
ing deep indignation at the "revolting
crime It points to the dangers of
continued agitation, and closes with
this appeal: 1.-THE senate directs an
earnest appeal to all right-minded
inhabitants to cooperate for the res
toration of quiet and order in the
country, and to endeavor, each one,
to justify the confidence which the
Finnish people, after a century of in
dissoluble union with the powerful
Russian empire, has had the good for
tune to enjoy on the part of the Rus
sian sovereign, under whose benefi-
cent protection Finland has developed
in the most fortunate manner, both
spiritually and materially.
The Jakkula estate in Hvittis has
been bought for $4,000 by the state,
and it is to be parceled out among
people who own no land.
New York, June 23.-The local
branch of the Finnish National So
ciety cabled to correspondents in Fin
land to ascertain the truth of the re-
port that revolution had begun in
Helsingfors. In answer the society
has received the following cablegram:
Satisfaction general. No serious con-
sequences expected. Authorities in
great perplexity. Convocation of the
landtdage is improbable. Every one
profoundly thankful"
The SOW finished the fox. It is not
often that Reynard becomes the prey
of such a stupid animal as the hog.
But it did happen at the hirvela farm
stead, Orimattela. Time and again .
fox had visited the hen-pen and
helped himself to fine dinner.
When the big SOW gave birth to pigs
the fox felt like varying his menu
and went for the sweet little morsels.
One evening the farmer heard fear
full noise coming from the hog-pen,
but he happened to be too busy to
find out what the trouble was. The
next morning he was astonished to
find Mr.. Reynard lying stark dead in
the hog-pen. The SOW had taken into
her head to protect her offspring and
had succeeded to a degree.