The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-20

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what clothes you wear. Begin
now to break in one or two pairs
of shoes, unless you are the fortu
nate possessor of some old shabby
shoes that you have long discarded
Swallow your pride about the M.
pcarunce OF your feet, aud Just
consider that there are vastly more
things for people to look ut than
your feet, and wear these prccious
comfortable shoes. Arrange for
II fresh pair of hose every day and
n different pair of shoes advise
high shoes 10y all means.
II requires more thought 10 pack
II suit ease or grip for n few days
stay than II does for several weeks,
for IN the latter ease you simply
take II trunk and fill it mp. A
small sarchcl should be used for
your toilet belongings, and among
them should he some powdered
boraX, n bottle of witch hazel and
some good foot powder, so that the
feet may be bathed in boraX water
every night and thoroughly rubbed
with the witch hazel. so that they
will be easy and comfortable for Il
good nights rest. A good foot
powder should be put in the shoes
every morning. After you have
been at the fair day or two you
will appreciate what | have said
aud il YOU have followed instruc.
tlons you will he ready to thank
me, for this is wisdom drawn from
my Chicago experience.
In the matter of dress, Il shirt
waist suit with the skirt walking
length, aud n change of shirt
waists, is the only thing that will
be cumfortahlG. You do not want
to be bothered with dragging skirts
or anything that will interfere with
you III your sight seeing The
city papers complain that there are
many exhibits not complete. For
this let us be grateful accordingly,
for unless one has weeks instead of
days at ones disposal, it will be
impossible to see everything. |
have on my desk an envelope
marked Worlds Fair" and as |
read the papers daily cut ont any
item that strikes my fancy as to
what | wOnld like to see, so that
in the first few days | will be sure
to see few particular things, In
your little hand satrhcl he sure to
carry some pieces of sweet chocO.
late to nibble at when resting in
some of the buildings, or listening
to the band concert, or sitting at
some point where you can feast the
eyes on some beautiful scene.
1t is amusing to read the way the
various transit companies arrange
to take care Of the visitors. The
city people are so accustomed to
swinging to a strap in the street
ears that they do not mind it.
The transit company has arranged
to carry 26, 900 sitting passengers
and 22,00O standing ones daily.
Fancy the audacity of the company
calculating how many of the paid
passengers they expect to stand up
in the ears. One of the railroad
trains which carries passengers an.
nOunces that when scats are filled
no more passengers will be allowed
TO enter the cor. This is as it
should he, and is n lesson to the
transit company. Ever since |
read of the project of the Inside
Inn at the Worlds Fair grounds,
! had intended going there, solving
the street car rush by that means,
and soon ! can tell you all about
il.
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An item has been going the
rounds of the Southeast press con.
cerning the suicide of n well known
lawyer. Ii proved to be simply a
rumor without Il grain of truth to
it. The home paper denied the re.
port, hut the denial was never pub,
lished in one half the papers that
published the original item. Which
reminds me of story once heard:
A certain woman confessed to n
priest that she had repeated II
slander concerning n neighbor, and
after repeating it discovered that it
was false, and she repented so
much TINT she wanted to undo the
mischief she had done. The story
is variOusly told: One is that the
priest told the woman to take a
handful of mustard seed or n hand
full of feathers. | think the latter
is more convincing She was told
to start from her home and scatter
the feathers to the wind as she
came to the church, and then he
would tell her what else to do. The
second part Of the penance was to
collect all the feathers in her
homeward way. What an impos-
sibilityl So it is with the gossip
and slander that abounds. 1t is so
easy to repeat and repeat, but
when it is found that the gossip is
untrue. it is quite another thing
to have the same people hear the
reputation. Many girl has had
her life ruined by careless SANDER
and gossip, and often there is no
way of meeting or refuting the
reports, for the victim may be
wholly ignorant of them. There
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