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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cnre. E. W. Groves signature
&c on each box 25c.
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Vote the republican ticket
and be on the winning side.
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-11-02

A vote cast for Mark Smith is
one vote against the best inter
ests of Yuma county.
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-11-02
YUMA PRECINCT
Vote the republican ticket.

Vote for Fowler the friend Of
Yuma.
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-11-02

The next president Of the
United States will be republi-
can.
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COUNTY TICKET.

COUNTY TICKET.
For Councilman,
A. Y. GREER
For Representative,
w. H. LYON
For Sheriff,
WILL II. BUCK
For Supervisors.
G.. ". MEEDEN
II. II. DONKERSLEY
For Recorder,
JAS. POLHAMUS
For Treasurer,
O. G.. JOHNSON
For District Attorney,
p. T. ROBERTSON
For Probate Judge,
BURT DUNLAP
For Surveyor,
w. II. ELLIOTT.
YUMA PRECINCT
For Justice of the Peace,
J. l.. REDONDO
For Constable,
J. L. HICKEY
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-11-02

JONAS A. EDISON, the H.
ventor, in mapping oft the
problems of the future, gives
first place to the necessity os
fighting the bacteria which
give us our diseases. Next
to the actual. bacteria of dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-10
ONE HEALTH FAD THAT
Is WORTH SOMETHING.
TO begin, it is necessary to under
stand that no one exercise, no

THO begin, it is necessary to under
stand that no one exercise, no
one remedy, no system of dieting
or hygiene is going to bring us perfect
health. What is good for one is bad
for another, and few methods of seek.
ing health are suitable for ALL One in
dividua1 enjoys above most things the
bracing effect of a cold shower or
scrubbing bath in the morning. Anoth-
er person may become so benumbed
and chilled by it as not to recover nor
NAL warmth of body for hours.
Again, there are those who preach
physical salvation by the one meal
day plan. One man is said to derive
fair income from simply writing and
talking the magic virtues of eating only
once day. Others declare that we can
get rid of all disease by swallowing
nothing but chopped raw beef and hot
water. This regimen makes the Vege-
tartan fairly foam at the mouth with
disgust and horror. To him the sum of
all villainies is eating flesh and perhaps
drinking coffee.
Then there are the amiabIe ladies
who teach physical culture in the news
papers. They give US so many twists,
lifts, leans stretches and thumps to
observe that one always wishes to ask
them if they themselves are well and
beautiful and if they do ever did do
all the things they direct girls and wo-
men to do in order to be well and beau
tiful. If they do them, then one won
ders how they ever get any time to
write.
Many have tried a dozen of the sys-
TENS prescribed. There are girls and
women who practice gymnastic exer-
cises month after month in full faith
that here is the fountain of eternal
youth and health. It is a sad disap-
pointment to them when suddenly some
day they are taken with disease or fall
victims to weaknesses just like other
mortals. Similar disappointment comes
, to those who put faith in persistent
massage to remove wrinkles or in some
magical cold cream to produce per-
feet complexion. No doubt all these
things do some good but there is no
magic in any of them.
So there you arei
The most useful of the health fads is
the deep breathing idea-that is, if you
do your deep breathing in pure air. We
all know about the deep breathing of
pure air, yet most of us fall into neg
lect of it and so need to be logged up
mentally in regard to it every now and
then. That is why l am mentioning it
hereto jog us all up and make US
loosen our garments around the waist
and lungs, hold the chest up royalty
and imbibe all the oxygen we can hold.
The right way is to breathe air slowly
and fully in through the nostrils, then
exhale it just as slowly and gently.
Thorough oxygenation of the blood in
connection with some active and use
full physical work will do more than any
other mere external observance to
make US healthy and handsome.
I saw yesterday a lady with an ex-
quisite complexion. She had just come
in from the country. where she had
been taking care of poultry and of a
vegetable garden the past six months,
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the big room. When she told of her
early efforts in cookery and said that
she put "a fowl into the oven complete
there was d shout of laughter. and in
similar discursive way she kept every
one well amused. Among women of
rank the best speaker is the Duchess of
Sutherland. What she has to say she
says with simple directness, and when
the occasion admits of it she can be
bright and witty. The Countess of
Warwick also speaks well. Viscountess
Harberton. that doughty champion of
the divided skirt. is another capital
speaker who has strong sense of hui
NOR and is not above making witty
illusions to her own appearance in '.ra-
tionals." Several women singers. nota-
bly, Nine. Albani, have been capable of
addressing the members of their own
profession crisply and to the point. On
general lines, the fault with women
speakers is that they incline to be too
serious
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ing occupation and work at it. Let
the house be kept clean by those whose
trade it is to keep house in order and
who are paid for the work. Let the
cooking, the sewing, the nursing, be
done in like manner by the specialist
who thereby gains a living.
Motherhood, the instinct of woman to
feed. clothe and shelter her children,
was in the primitive age the source of
all human industries. Now woman sits
back and says because of motherhood
she cannot work. Women are today.
doing less than they did in the year 1.
This being the case, let us not blame
men if they hold woman inferior.
Men are at present more civilized than
women because men are the human
workers. In all the animal kingdom
woman is the only female that is fed by
the male. In consequence of this
through the ages woman has become
oversexed.
Such are few of the strikingly orig
inaI thoughts advanced in the book
women and Economics" 1t has been
translated into seven of the different
languages of Europe. In Mrs. Gilman's
bookcase in her pretty New York fiat
is copy of it in Russian. Throughout
Europe it has set women to thinking.
In all ages and nations blessed be he
she who makes people think. Such an
individual comes to us like Whit of
the sparkling salt sea breeze in an in
land desert.
As it is, Mrs. Gilman calculates that
our present method of taking care of
the family wastes two -thirds of our
means of living and At per cent of the
worlds productive labor. Yet is she
strong in faith and hope. She sees the
world moving smoothly and rapidly on
toward the time when woman, too, will
engage in productive industry. More
and more girls of all grades are taking
up work for the world instead of house
work. AS a result this enthusiast says
it is not impossible to hope that home
may become happier than it is now or
that motherhood may yet be strong and
splendid.
Mrs. Gilman has written six books
The last one, Human Work" is classed
by scientists and scholars as an fmpor-
tant contribution to sociology. Its key
note is heard in it's name. She sings
the ever increasing joy and glory of
work and through it human develop
ment.
ITO do, to take part in that huge,
thrilling, organic life in which the indi-
vidual thrives unconscious, of which
the soul is lodged in each of us, and in
the ceaseless development of that
measureless vitality, this vast, ever in
creasing social life, to feel now and
again-always oftener-the distant mu-
sic of the universe grow clearer-that is
happiness" ELIZABETH LEE.
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is all body service, rninistering to the
merely animal wants of few persons;
that, too. without any pay. "A man.
cook can never be his social equal"
There is no more reason why a wo-
man should try to be nurse, cook,
housekeeper and seamstress all in one
than that every man should make his
own clothes, hats and shoes and build
his own house, says this vigorous
thinker. Take the farmers wife, whose
toll and whose fate are the hardest of
all. The farmer pays SO a week for
cooking and homework without know
ing it. That sum represents what his
wife could earn at heekeeping. dairy
ing, poultry raising or some other of
the pany lines of productive rural
work if the wife were free and not
overwrought and exhausted by trying
to conduct three or four special trades
at once
Mrs. Gilman holds that every woman
and girl should have some money gain
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This book, women and Economics
was the first fruit of Mrs. Gilman's ma
ture thought. 1t was published in 1898.
By that time her doctrine of human
work had taken definite shape. In
brief, it is that every individual, man
or woman, married single, owes
service to the human race. That serv-
ice must be rendered in the form of
productive labor not SO much for the
sake of the money earned as for the
due of service itself.
Now, the woman at home who cooks
and washes for her husband and acts
as nurse and caretaker to her children
without pay is a mere unpaid house
servant, therefore fulfilling neither her
duty to herself nor to the race. She is
not doing human work but is merely
a mental waiting on her own family.
Men do all that constitutes modern
civilization. Women are their house
servants" Worst of all, the work of
women in the so called home of today
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T,y different ,covs Of doing your hair.

stripes and bouquets of pink roses. The
window curtains of white lace had out
er curtains of pale pink silkoline which
had a border of wreaths of pink roses.
The portieres of the two doors were of
rose colored sateen, which was figured
in self coloring. The bed was white
enamel with touches of brass, but it
was glorified by dainty frilled lace
spread over pink and a canopy of the
same material as the outer window
curtains. which, by the way, looked
exactly like china silk and cost 20 cents
a yard. The dressing table was of
birdseye maple with an oval mirror
and, of course the usual frilly covering.
The two rugs were of white goatskin,
and twin pink shaded candles threw a
rosy glow over this very roselike room.
/ have always maintained that in in
terror decoration it was not the mate
rial, but the color scheme, which count
ed, and I think this room would prove
me right if you could see it. There is
not an inch of silk in the whole fitting
nor a brass bedstead nor a mahogany
bureau, and yet the effect is perfectly
charming.
So much for good tastei
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hats which the really smart people are
wearing? Some of these are quite ri
diculous little affairs pointed like-a fer
ret's nose and set well over the eyes.
But they are fetching when worn on a
beautifully dressed couture, and how
hopelessly chorus girly' they make
the large hats look, to be sure!
A friend of mine has intrusted me
with the delicate task of buying her
an ermine stole, and 1 find, to my sur
prise, that ermine has very much in
creased in value. One used to be able
to buy a small neck piece for as low as
$40 or $25, and now it is excessively hard
to find anything under $40. The smart
est stoleS are quite narrow around the
neck, and they knot, tie fashion, with
fringed ends. The ends are pointed
and twice as broad as the scarf part.
Nothing is smarter and nothing makes
the plainest gown look more dressy than
a three piece ermine set-hat, scarf and
muff. The hat may be made far less
expensive if the crown is of velvet or
cloth. while the band of fur next to the
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WOMEN PusLic SPEAKERS.

If member of the feminine sex
speaks in public she does SO, as rule,
remarkably we'll. In lecturing, large
number of ladies have achieved sue
cess. Actresses are the most interesting
speechmakers. Mrs. kendall can be most
amusing. Mrs. Beerbohrn Tree speaks
we'll and brightly. Miss Fanny Brough
can always keep an audience bubbling
with mirth. Then there is Miss Lena
Ashwell, who covered herself with glo-
ry as a speaker at the New Vagabond
club dinner, when she was the guest
of the evening and had to respond to
the toast of her own health She was
easy, simple and natural. addressing
the three hundred odd guests as if she
had been talking to an intimate friend
Her voice was quiet and prettily pitch
ed, and every word was heard all ever
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incidentally amusing herself by keeping
an occasional summer boardel. do
not know when I have seen /. woman
with such an atmosphere of life and
power around and through her Talk
of human electricity! The lady had
been faithfully practicing deep breath
ing in the open air for several years.
She begins the breath at the waist re-
gion. She is a most intelligent and
thoughtful woman besides and has
learned that worry and taking trouble
to heart kill health and beauty more
quickly than anything else.
What, then, can a woman do to Sc
cure good health and good looks? The
real truth is that the woman's mind
has much to do with ii. Let her force
herself to remain good tempered I'M
der all provocation- Let her then do
as she would be done by and refuse to
worry or have her peace of mind upset
over anybody or anything. All this is
in her power through gradual growth
toward it. Then, the body must be kept
pure and clean as the mind. Food one
likes should be eaten when one likes.
Lastly. eternal iteration though it be,
the constant deep. slow breathing of
pure air.
So far as possible, one should forget
all about the body and it's ailments, its
age and its wrinkles.
MARY GOULD LYLE.
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certify of her words. In appearance she
is striking, above middle height, erect
as an Indian and entirely graceful. She
has heavy black hair that waves around
her temples and is twisted in loose
knot low at the back of her classic head.
Her eyes are large and black and flash
like diamonds when she speaks. Those
eyes tell you as distinctly as the voice
does that Mrs. Gilman is trimming over
with something to say and means every
word of it. HEP movements are quick
as birds and her dress skirts are of
short walking length, so as not to OBJ
struct her steps. A more fascinating
personality is scarcely to be found in
this tame world.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the
daughter of the author Frederick
Beecher Perkins, and his mother was
Mary Beecher, one of the daughters of
Roxana Foote, Lyman Beecher's first
wife. Charlotte was born in Hartford
Conn. She wrote her first essays for
various reform papers, writing at first
without thought of pay simply because
she must speak her mind.
In 1890 she began lecturing. That
year at San Francisco she did a thing
eminently Beecherian which, quite
without her anticipating it, made her
known in a fortnight throughout the
country. She was delivering a lecture
on the etn1CS ana aesthetics of wOman'S
dress. A statue of the Venus de Medici
was upon one side of the stage, dress
makers dummy upon the other. The
lecture was Illustrated by crayon
sketches she herself had made. At one
point in her talk she portrayed the evil
and the ugliness of tight lacing, then
suddenly held up before her surprised
audience the picture Of a horse laced I'D
in a corset The whole great bulk of the
animals middle body was squeezed into
a narrow space within which no breath
could possibly penetrate, while the out
ragged flesh bulged out at both the fore
quarters and hind quarters in a manner
ludfcrous beyond description. The au-
dience recognized instantly the telling
satire and roared it's applause and
Charlotte Perkins, then Mrs Stetson.
was made woman. Newspapers east,
west, north and south copied the pic
ture, and those who saw it never forgot
either it or Mrs. Stetson. How we did
laugh over that horse laced up in a
corset!
Ever since this capital hit which be-
gan her public activity the lady has
been thinking, talking and working
Two sociological problems specially an
peal to her-the woman question and
the labor question. She has appeared
as lecturer in most parts of America
and in Great Britain At the interna-
tional congress of women last summer
in Berlin Mrs. Gilman received an ovs-
ton. Women crowded around her and
followed her footsteps only that they
might see and grasp the hand of her
who had set them thinking by writing
women and Economics"
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A USEFUL RECIPE.

To make balls for removing all kinds
of stains from wooden cloths. take some
fuller's earth. dried till it crumbles to
fine powder. Moisten it with the Juice
of lemon and add a small quantity of
pearlash- Work and knead carefully
together till it forms a thick paste.
Then make into balls and allow to dry
and store away in a box Moisten the
article to be cleaned and rub it with
the ball, when all stains will disappear.
leaving the color perfectly unframed.
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type. One was dressed in a velveteen
suit a little in need of brushing. She
wore an enormous frizzly pompadour,
and on this was perched a large hat
with dropping feathers Her cheeks
were powdered pink, and loud spotted
veil completed her posteresque appear
ance.
The other girl wore her hair parted
beautifully waved and brushed and
drawn into loose, shiny coil. There
was no suggestion of a rat or of I'M
combed frizZiness. Her face was
smoothly powdered with cream powder,
but it was so nicely done that only
1Noman'S eye could have suspected it on
account of the velvetiness of her COM
plexion. She wore brown cloth cos
tune carefully fitted and with a neat
little tulle bow under her plump chin.
Her hat was small and perched for
ward at a dainty angle. Her shoes and
gloves were immaculate.
Now, the features of these girls were
pretty nearly alike, but their different
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the best of his power. sells them again
to some poor person.
When finally discarded as footgear
they still have a future. They come
into the hands of the rag dealers and
by them are sold to factories. where the
leather they contain is submitted to va
rieus processes till it gradually forms
a material resembling morocco leather.
Upon this, designs are stamped, and
handsome wall papers, coverings for
trunks and other articles are made
from it. Fact is often stranger than
fiction, and it is sober fact that many
a handsomely furnished library and
dining room has its walls covered with
a costly and beautiful leather paper
which was made from old shoes.
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some refined, some both, but take my
advice-if you have to choose between a
color scheme that will make you look
pretty and one that will make you look
refined choose the latter every time, for
what is beauty without refinement?
Not beauty at all.
1t is on the street, too, that you de-
tect most quickly the lack of refine
ment in girls looks. To quote a blase
clubman 1 know; "They can fool you in
the ballroom in those light, sketchy
frocks, but meet them in street cos
tune the next day, and you won't have
any difficulty in choosing between
them.
And, alas he is right! Not one wom-
an in ten succeeds in looking pretty and
neatly tailor made at the same time.
The morning and the street costumes
are the real test of girls pretensions
to beauty.
Smart Small Hats.
And, speaking of what is what in ap-
pearances. have you noticed the small
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two kinds of beauty-ordinary and high
bred. Sometimes the difference Is SO
slight that it depends upon the ar
rangement of the hair or the shade of
complexion powder used
Take the big pompadour, for instance,
particularly that .'wopsed" over one
eye, and notice what a common look it
will give to some face that would 9TH
erwise be refined. There are features
that can stand the big pompadour, but
any face at all inclined to be snowy
should adopt a far more brushed and
clinging style of hairdressing.
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tilt of a hat, for instance, may cause a
girl to look bold when her disposition is
really quite the opposite. A badly hung
skirt. particularly an overturned one.
will give an impression of personal un-
tidiness when it is really the dressmak-
er's fault.
1t certainly pays to study oneself. Sit
down in front of the mirror and try
different ways of doing your hair. No
tice the change they make in your face.
And study yourself in different colors.
Some colors make you look pretty,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-10
"SILVERN SLEEP"

One of the most raordinary orders
ever received has been booked by
firm of well known silversmiths. 1t is
for suit of bedroom furniture in ster-
ling silver. Among the articles are a
bedstead,. a cabinet, a dressing table,
a dozen chairs, three footbaths. three
hot water cans and other bedroom req
uisites Each of the four pillars of the
bedstead will be surmounted by
gracefully modelled figure two feet nine
inches in height.
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Above All. Look Refined.

The great thing for girl is to look
refined. Men-those in the matrimonial
market. sat least-vaIue highly a sweet,
spiritual face. the type of beauty that
Is like flower and not like a garish
cotton imitation of a blossom. The
cotton imitation may be Shower and
look handsomer in the glare of the foot
lights. but the real flower has the per
fume.
l am talking this way because naw
on the street two girls, both pretty and
both. strange to say, of about the same
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should continue the family tradition
and preach, preach splendidly and
fearlessly what she feels dead sure
is the truth. 1t is like a tonic shock
of electricity to go into the presence
of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and hear
her discourse sociology and human
work and destiny. Epigram, sparkles
of wit and wisdom. sentences of Sc
rious moral doctrine, follow one an
other, giving, as under stereopticon
flashes, a new picture every time. The
splendid fire, force and intellectually,
the radical originality of all the Beech
ers, are in the blood of Charlotte Per-
kins Gilman, prose writer and poet, lee
turer. reformer and true type of preach
er. An aged man who knew Lyman
Beecher says his great granddaughter
IS like him.
Even one who does not agree with all
Mrs. Gilman goes in for is fascinated
by her magnetism and the fearless sim
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Vogue of the Amethyst.

Amethyst jewelry is very much the
rage, and real and imitation crosses
and hearts are suspended by dainty
gold chains. They form an attractive
decoration for lace blouses and plain
tailor made gowns, but owing to their
large size 1 don't like to see them on
anything fussy.
l had the good luck to see a very
dainty bedroom the other day which
feel must describe to you because, al
though inexpensive, it gave such a good
effect. The wall paper was in pale pink
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The Value of
Appearance.

Ape a ran C e
means SO much
in this world
that I am al
w a Y S S o rr y
when I see a girl
losing chances
because she does
not create the
right kind of an
MI
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position If in
addition to be-
ing pretty she
is witty as well,
her chances are
doubled, and she
is almost sure of
making good
to use a slang
expression
But I have
seen many real
ly pretty girls
fail to produce
the effect they
should because
tn ey sim ply
10 ok ed pr TT y
without looking
well bred You
know there are