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FADS IN CARE OF HAIR.

Recklessness and old fashioned sup
erstition in peculiar mixture are shown
in the different efads and fancies wom-
en- follow in caring for the hair. The
gasoline or "dry shampoo" of late the
fashionable cause of numerous explos-
ions in Paris, is now frequently but
vainly requested at the Chicago hair
dressers, says the Tribune.
It is asked for by the woman who Is
In hurry, by the one who doesn't want
the wave taken out of her tresses, by
she who is afraid of taking cold, and by
the white haired woman who approves
of the peculiar and beautiful B.ue white
tone and silky softness which every pro-
fessional hairdresser admits this pro-
cess gives to gray locks.
In contrast to this there is Chicago
establishment especially devoted to
clipping, smuggling, and such processes.
where fashionable customers como IN
great numbers at the new of the moon.
This is at the request Of the proprietor,
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lean would relax, take his time, read a
pink paper, loll in the far chair without
eagerness to be through. Then time be-
gan to press. To read and be shaved.
was possible. Then to read and smoke
and be shaved was possible. Then came
the official boot-black who, by the CO.
operation of the barber, and by means
of a moved chair, polished shoes while
the bearer read, smoked and was
shaved. This seemed like the'limft. But
the other day saw case that added a
new element. The barber was cutting
the patients" hair. The patient hac
his foot on the boot-black's box. With
his left hand he held newspaper and
readjusted his cigar. His right hand
rested on the tablet of manicurist. She
was a pretty manicurist, and she bent
her blond head over the right hand until
it was finished. Then she moved around
to the other side of the chair, with her
stand and tablet, and manicured the left
hand, thereby enforcing the use Of the
right hand to hold the newspaper.
/ can't see how the completely of life
in BARRIERS shop can be carried much
further But you never can tell All the
fashionable BARRIERS, and some that are
not fashionable, have manicurists.
They, at least, have come to stay.
OWEN LANGDON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24

States and now the department of agri-
culture has published an exhaustive
pamphlet descriptive Of the stranger
and his work.
This document, which is entitled
1.-THE Habits of the Kelep, or Guatema-
Ian Cotton-B Boil Weevil Ant" sings
the praises of that insect in no uncer-
tain key. Prof Cook, who has pre-
pared it, has made close study Of the
ant, 1000 Of which were brought from
Guatemala and deposited in the cotton
belt of Texas. He feels authorized to
declare that relief from the ravages Of
the boll-weevil has been found. He
states that the ant attacks and kills
the adult boll-weevil and thus holds
this most injurious insect in check and
permits the regular harvesting of q
crop of cotton even under conditions
favorable to the weevil."
The ant, he finds, Injuries no form OF
vegetation and takes nothing from the
cotton plant except the nectar secreted
for it on the leaves and floral envel-
opes. He further finds that it is readi-
1y capable of domestication, transport
tation and colonization in the cotton
fields OF Texas. Two questions yet re-
main to be determined, one is whether
Keleps will survive winter climate of
Texas and the other whether they can
be propagated in sufficient numbers to
protect the whole Of the cotton belt
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24
RAILROADS NOT POPULAR.
Travel in Japan Is More Pleasantly
Pursued by Boat or Native
Conveyancea.

The foreigner who goes to Japan to Sc
things avoids the railroad when he con
templates short journeys or pleasure ex
cursions into the country. Railwa.
travel is cheaper in Japan than any othe
mode of travelling, but the natives prefe
to travel by water or by kurumas if the!
are not going a great distance, says
London paper.
| When one contemplates travellns
about over the country his route mus
be specified minutely, and no deviation:
are allowed other than his passport call:
for. There is no more delightful tril
than ride of few hours through the
rice fields and mulberry plantations
beautified by lotus ponds. The mulber
! ries have no chance to grow up into
trees, but are simply clusters of greer
leaves on the tender shoots which feet
the silkworm.
You are surprised that at the inns
| everywhere you eat in your own room
| as there is no such thing as separate
dining-room. When you arrive at an inn
eAASy eASoASA yOu O. IOOul III "A4SA yoQ
sleep, eat, and entertain your friends
All this is quite compatible with COM
tort, for at the clapping of your hands
your dinner table glides In, guided by a
pretty Japanese girl, who kneels and
bows before you SO often, as she comes
and goes, that you begin to wonder if you
are not u prince instead of an ordinary
traveller seeing the sights of the orient.
The fine tablecloth is spread and the
dishes appear as if by magic, one girl
serving each guest You sit on your mat
with your chin on level with the tiny
table ana its hand-painted china, and all
your wants are looked after without your
having to utter command. The sami-
sen played by nimble fingers aids your
digestion and supplies the finishing
touch t. the dinner
After the meal the girls remove the
tables and all traces Of the dinner and
the dining-rOom becomes the reception
room. The college professor may be one
Of the curious callers, and as japanese
etiquette permits man to stretch out
AAo 'AoAI W any 1CuSLu IL OLu Two uOuIS u
ten you are the unwilling victim of the
professors Unsuitable curiosity, which
permits him to ask questions pertinent
and Impairment For instance. when
you show him pair of very old and
handsome bracelets, a brooch and an
amulet collected in a trip through the
country, he insists on knowing the exact
price of each.
At bedtime the little girls tame run
ming in, their arms filled with quilts and
white sheets, which they spread on the
floor for beds. Then they bring the
makura, or pillows, which are little
wooden boxes with rocker bottoms, and
the most uncomfortable invention that
ever sprang from the brain of man.
Across the entire room they stretch
large mosquito net Their duties at an
end, they retire with many bows and
leave you to WOO sleep between the
sheets on the hardest floor in Christen-
DOM
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24
SOCIETY MARRIES ABROAD
And It Is Nothing More Than Nat
ural Desire Which Prompts
It to Do So.

"Yes," said the professor, seated III
the front porch of summer boarding
house, according to the New Yorl
Times, Il saw in the paper about another
heiress marrying foreign noble. Bu
you know such things do not worry the
scientists, for they are interested in thu
welfare of the whole world. They looL
at things In big way, so to speak.
THE reason, however, SO many Amer.
lean women are marrying abroad is cas-
lily explained. 1t is all according to ma
ture. There is striking similarity in
the habits and instincts of all animal.
and this case shows very we'll how much
alike man is to the other animals As
a matter of fact. If one is to study human
nature thoroughly, he must study the
lower animals. and very often he will
discover trait in lower animal before
he discovers it in man, for the lesser
animal may show the characteristic
plainly where man has nearly lost it or
has just begun to acquire it.
But as say this case shows how
very much alike man is to the rest of the
animals. Every one knows that it isn't
the society girl alone who desires to
marry somebody who lives far away.
The common village girl delights to have
a fellow from some village, or better
still. from city. Now to show the SIM
ilarity. Hunters and men who know will
tell you that deer, in certain season of
the year, take it into their heads to tray
Ell day and night and that finally they
mate with does in regions far from their
former place of habitation. Ernest
Thompson Seton tells us that in the
springtime the partridge becomes crazy
as it were, and flies aimlessly from one
section of the woods to parts that it
never before saw There it mates and
raises its brood
ut is perfectly clear that this instinct
which compels deer and partridges and
many other animals to seek mates from
afar, also compels maids to desire hus-
bands who live at distance. Scientists
say the instinct was provided by nature
in order that stronger and better race
might follow"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24
THE JAPANESE WOMAN OUT OF DOORS

i time. This visiting is, of course, only,
exchanged between the women, or be-
tween the men. Mixed parties are sell
dom permitted Men-calls involve no
end of trouble, and are conducted with
great ceremony, even amongst friends
and gossips, for at whatever hour call
is paid meal must always be placed in
front of guest, and a little gift has to
be presented at parting with as much
ceremony and flattery as hero receives
when the freedom of city is bestowed
upon him on his return from victory.
OF course, a woman's daily life great
ly depends on the nature of her mother
in-law; or, If she is fortunate enough
to have none, upon her husband. If he
is really fond of her it can be made up
of many simple aesthetic pleasures;
for her domestic duties are very light.
and if he is broad minded he will allow
her to accompany his relations to temple
fairs, theaters, flower picnics, and moon
light excursions to famous points Of
beauty. But if he is marrow mined
grudging Asiatic in his feelings toward
women. her life would seem to consist
of sitting on her knees in front of a
hibachi, smoking as lightly and sparing-
ly from the pen-like pipe as bee sips
honey from a garden of flowers. You can
see as you pass along some quiet street
where the shoji of the houses are drawn
to protect the dainty interiors from dust
and publicity and dark eyes of some sub
missive wife peering through the holes
scratched in the white parchment. In
Japan every shoji has its eyes, especially
if the foreigners happen to be on the
other side of the paper l shall never
forget the interest my clothes caused to
a party of merry servant girls in a
primitive native inn. So anxious were
they to thoroughly examine every ar
ticle wore that after was in bed. or
rather laid on the floor under heavy
quilt, they asked, with charming polite
ness. if they might show my honorable
corsets to their neighbors!
With few household duties to perform
no novels to read, and no hats to re-trim,
a Japanese woman has plenty of idle
time on her hands; yet satan never
seems to find the proverbial mischief
for her to do It may be that the cere-
mony and etiquette which would attend
his reception keep him at bay, for he is
known to get through almost as much
work in the day as the German emperor.
l have purposely said nothing about
the japanese woman who earns her liv-
ing as clerk or typewriter, school
marin, or what not. She is beginning to
make her appearance, and much has
been claimed for her as a Regeneration OF
the lot of the japanese woman. especial.
ly in the direction of divorces, for. as a
wage-earner. she has to be considered.
IS her poorer sisters capable Of manu-
al labor have always been considered.
But she it not genuine japanese pro-
luct. She is an American exotic, and it
remains to be seen if Japan will approve
Of such innovations now that she is >
irst-class power.
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every national campaign for q big bill
OF expense. These documents repre-
sent many thousand tons of mail mat
ter which, if they paid the regular
rates OF postage. would cost hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars to distribute
through the mails.
This is educational work and both
parties take advantage of the liberal
laws that permit public documents to
pass through the mails free. The DEM
ocrats are now reaping the harvest
they sowed last session when they put
forward their best speakers in the
house and senate to make arguments
which they concluded would be useful
in%the conversion of voters in this
campaign. 1t is a remarkable fact.
however, that of these speeches now
being distributed Is per cent were de-
iivered by southern men whose adj
dresses will be of no advantage in
those states south of Mason's and Dix
on's line. It is admitted that the "solid
south" needs no campaign material in
the educationa. line All of this south
ern contribution is intended for north
ern and westerns consumption.
There are only five northern demo-
Gratis who have contributed to these
documents and four of them
are serving their first terms in con-
gress. The congressional committee
decided that these new members
should be given a show, so they were
accorded the privilege of the floor and
made addresses to be utilized In their
districts for their reelection
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24
Another Sermon Spoiled.

He was very thin man, and UNI
doubtedly he believed his mission in
life to be that of reforming the uni-
verse. He was death on all bad hab-
its, from smoking to eating hard
boiled eggs. and fishing was down on
his list as one Of the things likely to
encourage laziness.
Science, art" lie sneered, s"in fish.
ing! Why, where is it? Why, great
big fellows like you spend days some-
times without catching fish"
"Quite right" said the fisherman:
"and unless you move I shan't get .
bite, either!"
why should my presence make any
difference to the ignorant fish,"
well, you see, that thin black line
on the top Of the water is your shad-
ow. and the fish think it's another
fishing rod and won't come near
Stray Stories.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24

New moral or reform tavern was opened
a little while before the service at which
the bishop blessed it, but the enterprise
first claimed the attention of New York
and of the world after the bishops con-
secrating act. Mr.. Johnson, the shrewd
president of this new saloon association
who says that stockholders will get
no more than five per cent, and that the
markins are to be used to open new sa-
looms of this kind-had scarcely &C
complished the diplomacy by which the
bishop in person gave his blessing, when
a sign was hung at the door:
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tional capital. He is so we'll known
as Senator Davis that lots of people
believe that he is still occupying seat
In the senate chamber.
In the winter season Senator Davis
makes his home in Washington and
takes prominent part in public af-
fairs. He is not regarded as politi-
clan and every other one of his ac-
quafntances had to stop and think
twice before they could locate him po-
1itically before the st. Louis conven-
ton gave him the second place on the
democratic national ticket After his IL
years service in the United States SEN
ate Mr.. Davis again came into public
notice here on account of the great in
can congress, which first convened in
this city and which has since held
sessions. The senator has had great
interest in matters affecting Central
and South America and is understood
to be very largely connected with bust
ness enterprises in those sections, par
ticularly in Mexico.
He was one of the prime movers in
that great international scheme for
an inter-continental railway whose I'LL
innate purpose is to connect New York
with Buenos Ayres. He interested the
delegates to the Pan-American con-
gress in this subject and secured CO.
operation thst has finally resulted in
an extensive survey and report upon
the scheme. Lately he has out of his
own pocket betrayed the expenses of
special commissioners again to go over
the route and report upon it's feasibil-
ity and its advantages But what Sen
ator Davis takes hold of he generally
puts through.
The democratic vice presidential
candidate is staunch Presbyterian
and while in Washington he worships
at the Church of the Covenant, which
is jocularly and popularity known in
Washington as the Church of the
Government" 1t is an offshoot of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian church
where President Lincoln worshipped,
and among its founders were the late
President Harrison, James G. Blaine,
Justice Strong and others.
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Is
Ae'e saul tremendous an
nual saving in fuel and other expendi-
lures can be made.
It is proposed that one set of engines
supply the power needed in the white
house, the state, war and navy build
ing, the treasury, the new municipal
building, the city and general post Of.
fee, the new hall Of records, the de-
partment of justice and other build.
ings as they are authorized and built
Then it is proposed to utilize the ex-
haust steam from these engines for
the heating of the buildings during the
winter season. It is possible that this
idea may be put into operation in q
limited way with the present arrange
ments. At the capitol, for instance,
the exhaust steam from the engines is
now turned into the sewers and new
coal has to be used to make steam suf-
ficient to heat the big building. II
the waste steam from the engines that
run the dynamos could be turned into
the heating apparatus at the capitol
it is estimated that a tremendous saw.
ing would be made. Huge condensing
engines at central station, It is
urged, could use water over and over
again and furnish steam enough to
heat large number OF buildings.
Prof. Woodbridge will probably
make report on this subject at the
next session of congress when an APP
preparation will be asked to put it into
effect. The plan of heating separate
buildings from central plant Is not
new one, as many towns and cities
have it in operation.
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learnt to hurry, and to think that time
is Of some importance; while her gentle,
contented mother who sits at home in
her paper house knows that all eternity
is before her. and that hurry and desire
are the two evils which the teaching
OF perfect submission" correct in 3
woman's nature. To the true Japanese
woman there is nothing in the world so
important as etiquette and repose. Eth
quette is practically her education, as
It Is also the root Of her religion, for as
Mr.. George Lynch recently remarked in
one of his admirable letters from the
seat of war. the japanese religion con-
sists of being polite to future possible
tiles.
A woman's daily life in Japan is made
up of politenesses. Everything she
touches belonging to any one else is TO-"
that Is to say honorable" She takes
her honorable lord his honorable tea,
while he is still in his honorable bed,
and hopes that he will excuse her un-
worthy presence; and If she is giving
him the best she has, conventionality
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There are many in


dications that the Newport society
which is New York society removed for
the summers somewhat goddess in
stitution. The searchlight has not been
turned on society with large rs" for
some time, and when the thing happens
again there will be novel revelations.
Yet here is an apologist in Mrs Corn
wallis-West, who says society is not so
black as it is painted Mrs. Corvallis
West, who used to be Lady Randolph
Churchill. and before, that Jennie Je-
rome. of New York. and who is sister
of New York's lively district attorney,
says that the smart set has been de-
scribed for the most part by folks who
don't know very much about it; that an
evil construction is put upon relatively
harmless matters; that society women
are hard driven by duties" the number
and nature of which people who are not
In society can scarcely imagine.
Particularly Mrs. Corvallis West
takes up the subject of society gambling,
which just now is most likely to take the
form of bridge-whist. In the first place,
says this defender of society. gambling
In smart sets" has existed from the be-
ginning of time. In the second place
''bridge" is. it seems. generally for low
states. But we are told that gambling
is not the worst aspect of bridge" The
worst aspect is its capacity for Destroy
ing good folk or any folk at all.
In New York. and in the places visited
and populated by New Workers in sum-
mer there is less bridge than there was
a year ago. This is not because ser
mons have been preached against it, but
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demands that she should call 1t vile. II
.he meets q next-door neighbor when
She is going out to purchase the honor
able daiku," immense radish, for her
august mother in-laws dinner. she will
snend at least ten minutes in apologizing
for her rudeness at their last meeting
which was, of course, as polite as the
present one. ,st,
- there was not lengthy etiquette
attached to the doing and the saying OF
+he merest trifles woman's life would
he absolutely empty, for when you con-
sider that her sphere in the world never
eYtends beyond her own home, and that
nor home has about as much IN 1t as
q naper lantern, what can she have to
do? - ro
matters of great Importance Every girl
-eceiyes as q part Of her educatlon a
+horough training in the art OF boiling
,.;ce IN all its various forms-the RED
-;cs for visitors and for fiesta days and
49, different varieties of rices required
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from the First partment Of the
Bull Run. east It will be
participated in by the regular troops
and detachments of militia
According to reports already re-
ceived at Gen. Corbin's headquarters,
some $4,000 men will participate in
these maneuvers and lively and in
teresting occasion is expected. It is
anticipated that this encampment of
federal troops, together with details Of
the national guards from north and
south will have an excellent effect in
still further cementing the friendship
of the two sections of the country,
once so widely divided The survivors
of the original Bull Run battlefields
are becoming fewer every year, but 1t
is expected that the maneuvers this
year will attract many of the old fell
lows who wore the blue and gray to
visit the old fighting grounds and COM
pare thu modern soldiers with those
Of the early SOS.
There are number of old Washing
ton RESIDENTS who recollect very vivid
ly the first Bull Run fight. The i'm
preston prevailed in this city and in
congress and among many of the mil
itary men that the first contest would
be a mere skirmish and the confeder-
ates would be so badly whipped that
the war would come to an end at once.
Citizens Of Washington determined to
go out TO where the battle was expect
ed to come of and witness this Skin
mish, much as they will go out in Sep
TENDER to view the army maneuyers.
The retreat of several thousand curl
osity seekers from Bull Run to Wash
ington still forms one of the comic
chalkers in local history.
How the Parties Work Uncle Sam.
The democratic congressional cam
9Aign committee expects to mail to the
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ro,.,.ors az Solitude.

J Mr. Minks (reading)-The captain 5
ITO was the only one who escaped ana
nc was thrown by the waves upon the
n,.acb of an uninhabited island.
Mrs. Minks-Poor thing! HOW ola
she ever button her dress IN the oacA'
fhe next morning?-N. Y. Weekly.
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Great Tea nrinker

Tea drinking is a constant occupation
for a Thibetan. In every tent and in
every house the tea kettle is always on
the fire. The laws of hospitality bind
all to present tea to their guests, and
every Thibetan carries with her
wooden bowl of Himalayan maple by
way Of a tea cup
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-24
jap Fire Work Secret

A Japanese manufacturer of pyro-
technics makes a rocket from which.
when it explodes in the air, there flies
away large bird. 1t is said that the
secret Of this wonderful production has
been in the possession of the eldest
child of the family for more than 400
years.