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The Business of Buying for Other Women.

of making selections for them She obtains
a good commission also from the houses
she patronizes. In short while il she is
clever she can control as paying a line of
customers as the star salesman whose ex-
penses, salary and commissions are paid by
the firm employing him.
There are a great number Of women who
think that they are not competent to select
their own clothing, and in out Of the way
cities the opinions of the dressmakers are
never rated SO highly as an idea that comes
from New York. So the buying agent
asks, by letter. for particulars as to age,
compile xion and tastes Of her customers,
particulars which women are rather fond
Of giving,
With these details in hand, she decides
what colors and fashions are appropriate,
suggests certain costumes for certain occa-
sions, plans wedding outfits within speci-
fed sums and sends to her customers the
articles attractively boxed and packed in
tissue paper and tied with narrow ribbons.
She stipulates for a check in advance, and
one we'll filed order Is likely to bring her
n lot Of other commissions from the GUS
toner.
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She an English =

of lovely faces seeing neither horses nor
people, only one another. A difficult en-
trance to the tang OF tan bark, and then a
difficult exit to fresh air end tea, in the cozy
tropical parlor Of a restaurant less classically
smart but where there was more Of human
interest and occasional snatches OF bright
conversation.
aShall we talk Of the show or the people
herefr began the New York girl very
few have entered horses and their synonym
for a blue ribbon is laurel leaf.
.The beautiful woman In yellow-brown
velvet with voice like a cello, Is sculptor.
She does portrait busts into which she con-
trives to model temperament, and won
derful objets dart In gold and silver and
bronze that have the sea ard the wind
and the sunlight In them, and abe ia still
very young and very happy, in spite Of
being SO beautiful
And the round, short, unromantic- look
ing man with sparkling eyes and many
gestures IL tenor OF melting voice, whom
a whole house rises to acclaim on Italian
opera night.
And the small, near sighted chap who
looks 50 terribly depressed is the greatest
wit Of two continents. and he seems blue.
not because he is embarrassing, but because
the world IL. He once characterized the
Horse Show as a place TO provide exclusive
ness for the masses
And there In the window is very famous
poet " hose brow Acknowledgement is there are
three women already here in the tearooms.
whom he would like TO drink orange pekoe
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have an i'll shaped mouth, or crooked nose,
or little eyes, or no eyebrows ard still he
pretty il her hair is becomingly arranged.
but If all her other features are well enough
and she has an extremely high forehead
with the hair growing upon it in an awk-
ward line and is obliged by fashion to dis
play it in unadorned simplicity, she will
never be more than a nice, sensible look
ing person.
What pitiless wreckers OF a woman's
chance of beauty were those uncomprising
coiFures, one OF whose principal features
was the display of every available bit Of
forehead. The worst OF it was that in the
old times fashion was as the laws Of the
Medes and Persians not to be deviated from
by so much as hairs breath.
1t Is no wonder we hear 80 much about
the great beauties in those days. for If a
woman was good looking enough to endure
one Of those trying exposures Of the fore
head she must have been very handsome
indeed Nowadays when the hair Is draped
so becomingly over the imperfections Of
the brow all girls are pretty. Monotonously
80, perhaps, for We often need to have a
famous beauty pointed out us, she looks
so exactly like all the other women.
The soft, curly bang and the low dropping
pompadour are so much more important
aids to beauty than rouge and powder that
one cannot but regard with wonder the
many fashions of hairdressing which have
dispensed with them entirely. The Egypt
ians. Greeks and Romans had extrem ely
low foreheads by nature.
With the Greeks the hair grew well over
the frontal curve Of the head down to the
middle OF the forehead, but the brow was
very wide at the temples, II not high, and
in accepting the classic standard of beauty
this must be considered the ideal type of
forehead. Evidently, though, it was very
far from the ideal Of Christian Europe for
women, at least, during the greater part
Of 1000 years. Whether the monkish
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every hand. ,
It was as the New York girl said. The
women who knew best were mainly in
simple tailor suits. They suggested an
Importance greater than clothes, were
apparently in delightful harmony with
life, a joyous life, with geographical bound,
aries for all sympathies, life undsturbed
except by the headwaiter.
simple luncheon with no wine surprised
the cousin.
we really drink more than we used to,
but we are more conventional, was the
explanation. sand lunching alone. although
there are chapsrons at every table right
and left, no wine IL better
With luncheon ordered-a small luncheon,
just CLAIMS and sole and a breast Of chicken
with delicious salad and coffee and Camen-
bert--the visiting began. Half the smart
women who came in were introduced, and
there were plans for restaurant luncheons
and teas throughout the week.
Women who were to ride their own hunter
gave days and hours, and notes were made
10 see one woman drive her own coach
and-four, another woman win the tandem
blue ribbon No one talked horse slang
or looked at all sporty or was in any way
seemingly identified with the show, though
their money and horses and interest were
its foundation.
After luncheon, because the cousin de-
INJURED about her costume, there was n
hurried change and a return in velvet TO
the show at four, 10 excited horses, blare
OF trumpets, crashing music, row upon row
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THE WOMAN WHO DROPS IN.
A Social Nuisance That Apartment Hotels
Are Fortified. Against


One nuisance that modern customs have
done away with and that promises to be-
come extinct in cities is the person, man or
woman, who makes habit Of dropping in
to call on friend or an acquaintance at
all sorts Of hours, without regard for the
engagements or duties of the one visited.
In villages and in towns, where life is
not so filled up with the duties imposed on
persons socially active in New York, it Ia
perhaps possible that persons may well
come the occasional dropper-in. but in this
city it argues fine and well developed
6elfishness In the woman who, because
she may have an hour or two to kill. at once
argues that some nearby acquaintance
must necessarily welcome visit from
her,
People who dwell in houses are, Of course,
protected by their servants from these
unexpected visits. Flat dwellers are the
principal victims OF the bore who assumes
that she must be welcome at whatever hour
she may happen to have the leisure to pre-
sent herself.
SO pre- cnounced has this form Of friendly
intrusion become, that in most of the well
managed apartment bouses visitors are
not permitted to ascend the elevators unless
their names are first sent up. receiving
day indicated on a card means that on that
day the presence of friends is expected
and provided for, but the indiscriminate
caller who takes chances of disturbing
a dinner party, or perhaps family quarrel,
pres,unes on friendship.
Such people are often heard lamenting
the inhospitality OF cities, but the fact is
they mark themselves at once as unde-
sirable acquaintances when they choose
their hours for visiting with reference only
to their own convenience and pleasure.
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The buying agent is en- evolution Of the
professional shopper. A few years ago
both callings were comparatively unknown,
but now there are great number OF women
who make comfortable incomes out Of the
business of buying for others.
1t might be supposed that women were
too fond OF shopping to intrust the task
to others, but there are many women
whose social duties do not give them the
necessary time for tour of the shops when
the season demands new clothing, and there
are others who dislike the shopping tour
intensely.
The professional shopper as a rule pur-
chases for women in the city or suburbs,
but the buying agent who now advertises
herself attends 10 the wants Of women in
the South and the West and makes two
annual trips to Europe TO study styles and
materials and perhaps TO lay in a stock OF
desirable novelties.
In reality, she is not 80 much a buying
agent as "a salsswoman who obtains GUS
toners that pay her for doing the work
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II was fashionable to have the forehead
round, sometmts oval and someti
square, or with the charming widows
peak.
Though crmping pins and curling irons
are of unknown antiquity and were fire.
quently used to wave the long hair, the de-
lights Of a genuine bang were almost un-
known from classic times till the reign
of Elizabeth. In the time Of Charlie i.
a little, charming, babyish fringe was al
lowed to soften the outline Of the forehe ad.
In Charles lis day this had degenerated
into lawle ss, struggling locks.
Then came the period OF imposing and
stately coiffurs beginning with the COM
mode and running through pompadours
of various sizes which left the ad
quite bare again; then the reign OF mock
sentiment when the hair was cropped and
curled in a thousand tendrils which fell
gracefully into the eyes and were supposed
TO express the extreme limit of lncen-
ventionality.
After tits were the long years OF the
middle nineteenth century when pretty,
fe minine decorum was the keynote OF
all hairdre ssing. This was the heyday of
the IN, elk, neat part from which bands OF
hair, smooth and shining from pomade,
dropped to frame the high, oval brow.
The next step, a gp at one, brings US
around to the bang again and this time it
was the much abused Idiots fringe
1t served good purpose, though, for when
after running through several forms II
finally went to the place where all good
fas lions go. it left as it's legacy the theory
that individual becomingn, IS was, after
all, the main object in life and from that
time, be the fashion what it may. no woman
with a high, unsgbtly forehead has felt
herself obliged to expose all its shortcom-
ings to the gaze Of a critical public,
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NEW ETIQUETTE IN TEXAS.
Code Compiled by sheriff Boone When the
Gaming Houses We're Closed.

AUSTIN Tex. Nov. IA moral wave
has swept over all the primo ipal cities OF
Texas in the last few months and as re-
suit gambling is thing of the past in some
Of these places. 1t il in San Antonio
and Fl Paso, the two remaining wide open
towns OF the State, that the full force OF
this wave has been felt.
In FL Paso the crusade against gambling
was taken up by the moral and religious
element. and petitions 10 close the gam.
bling houses were presented to j. H Boone.
Sheriff OF FL Paso county, by delegation
OF prominent citizens.
Sheriff Boone sent a notice to each game
keeper telling him that he must 20 out OK
business on a certain day at a certain hour.
He followed up these individual notices
with a general proclamation which wss
published In the principal newspapers Of
FL Paso as follows:
TO THE PUBLIC
Leave your pistols At home unless Won
have commissions TO carry them. Carrying
concealed weapons Is in violation Of the Law.
You might get caught and excuses Will not
pay the fine.
Side door entries and back way snesNs
may set ySg iR,S Sse There is strong
Don't fan to post yourselves on what are
the violations OF the Law
The law applies TO all places in FL Paso
county as well as in the city.
Washington Park will close Saturday
night and will not open until Monday mcrn-
ing.
Take my advice and be on the safe side.
II will be too late after you are caught.
These warnings will soon cease. and then
we will do business strictly.
J. H. BOONE. Sheriff OF III Paso county
The hour for final closing was fxed at
3 A. NJ. All night long crowds filed every
gambling place in the city Men fought for
places at the tables. Men who had never
staked a dollar before in their lives sat in
the games just for the sport OF it.
When the hour OF A. M. arrived all
games were stopped. doors were closed
and the reign Of gamblers in Fl Psso was
at an end.
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to, and he is awaiting a fourth, who, be-
cause expected, is less desired. But he is
a kind poet, and when she comes he will
read her lovely ouatrain which she will
never know was inspired by the beautiful
lady with the gold-brown hair.
And the tall woman with the hstless
body and vehement way Of talking Is a great
pianist who is enthusiastic in her manner to
the shaggy haired impresario because he
can do her no kindness and he listens pleas
antly for the same reason
And while the New York girl gossiped
on 10 the bewildered, interested and curious
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cousin the black city night fell abruptly
and bulbs Of FIRE glowed out down the wide
avenue and shot up all around the taroom.
and the music from the early dining room
drifted In among the ferns and palms.
and the poet left the scene OF his confusion
and the unhappy people went away cheer
fully together while the tenor softly hummed
the sIntermezzo..
And then II was remembered that there
was dressing for late dinner, with more
horses and trumpets and music and rosettes
to follow and box for the last trilling
fact Of the play.
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PARSONS PAID HIS FARE.
No Pass for the subNay's Engineer When
the Interborough was In Control.

1t wss the day after the subway had
been formally turned over to the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company and
opened to the public. William Barclay
Parsons, the engineer Of the Rapid Transit
Commission, and Vice President, Edward
p. BRYAN of the Interborough entered
one of the uptown stations.
Mr.. Parsons fished in his pocket for a
nickel and started for the ticket seller S
booth.
sDon't do that, Parsons, said Mr.. Bryan.
Come in on my pass.
Mr.. Parsons hesitated moment. Then
he said:
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Yesterday | was the master underground.
Now I'm plain citizen again. 1hanks'
but I'll pay my fare
Which he did
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LIFE TN 4 srUDI0.
Popular Just Now because Of Revolt
Against the Fiat.

Popular Just Now because OF Revolt
Against the Fiat.
II a census Of studios were taken In New
York the result would indicate tremen-
dous development of the fine arts, But
studios are now demanded not only by
everybody who aspires to be called an
artist in any line. but also by some thousands
Of simple domestic folk who know nothing
professionally. OF sculpture. painting or
music.
There is a revolt against the six. eight or
ten room apartment, with stufy little holes
and corners and minimum Of light, and q
demand for the sort Of thing that one asso-
ciates with the word studio.
Young married couples and persone OF
small families are demanding apartments
that shall consist mainly OF q single big
room. This room, which in many cases,
has a fireplace that will really work, Is
living room and dining room in one, and 1t
sometimes serves also for o sleeping apart
ment.
such are the studios for families Of somo-
what moderate means. For those who
can pay higher rents there are studios
with one really noble room, such as would
grace an old Venetian palace. and several
smaller rooms
In some cases the main room OF the apart
ment is 80 large that the ceiling is high
enough to admit Of rooms opening OF
it. Tenants are paying as much for
such apartments as they paid few
years ago for many-roomed suites In fash
ionable neighborhoods. With rich rugs on
the floors, low lights and suitable hangings
these great rooms have dignity and charm,
and yet do not lack cosyness.
The studio apartment. however, in its
new development, tends more than ever
to restrict hospitality to dinners, receptions
and the like, and to make it impossible
that guests shall be entertained overnight.
The real visitor is a difficulty, unless the
family consists OF merely man and wife,
and the houseful OF company is a luxury
left for country folk and suburbanites.
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The Curly Bang nnd the Low Waving
pompadovr Great Beauty Makers
High Foreheads Intellectual, Perhaps,
but Not a Pr city Feature Of Woman's
Face, Save In Rare MISUNDERSTANDING
the Hair Becominsly, the Rvle Evolved
Alter Centuries Of Experiments :. -
The scientists who make the mentally
defective their study must have settled
it to everybodys satisfaction that hair
growing low on the forehead is no sign OF
idiocy. for bangs are being neatly dove
tailed upon the low sweeping pompadour
and no one utters a word Of protest.
The time was when the introduction OF
that same soft, insinuating bang was re-
ceived with a whrlwind Of disapproval'
Idiots fringe was one OF the mildest
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names applied to it by scan
dalized husbands and fathers
who had pinned their faith to
women with high, open fore
heads, surrounded by meek and
also excessively sleek bands OF
hair.
This was all very we'll as to
sentiment, but is there a woman
living who would not rather look
pretty though slightly feeble
minded. than homely though
never so thoughtful? From the
standpoint Of the greatest good
for the greatest number, there
never were such helpful friends
to the feminine kind as the
curly bang and the low, wav-
ing pompadour which sweep
the eyebrows.
This is perhaps because the
forehead is unbeautiful more
often than any other part OF
the countenance. Awoman may
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critics OF fashion, who stormed 30 hard
and usually accomplished 80 little, succeeded
in that one instance in impressing on
the featherheads the theory that hair grow
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long in fashion.
So much was a high forehead admired
that the hair was sometimes shaved back
till half the head was bare. Sometime 8
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ing low on the forehead indicated an animal
nature, if not feeble mind it is impossible
to say, bat certain it Is that during med
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Side door entries and back way snesks
may get you into trouble. There is strong
force of men watching YOU.
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Our Importations

OF foreign glassware for the table and TO
decorative purposes were never 40 attractiv
as they are this season.
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The law applies TO all places in Fl Pas
county as well as in the city.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-02-10
MAY RIVAL BEAUMONT.
Experts Speak Hopefully Of the kint
la Lake Oil District.

Helena, Jan. 6~.-According to the
statement OF an oil expert from Tex
as. who has recently been over the
different fields In Montana, this state
has untold wealth in the petroleum
which will in tine be produced. The
mar who has. after thoroughly in.
specting the different oil sections Of
the state, made such a fiattering re-
port upon the ~undeyeloped resources
of Montana. IL Mr.. Thompson, of
Beaumont, Tex. For many years he
has been engaged in the oil business
In the Lone Star State.
Mr.. Thompson has visited all OF the
principal oil fields from the Canadian
boundary to the Gulf of Mexico. He
has just completed a tour of the Koo
tenai and Kintla lake districts as well
as the Swift Current country.
After noticing the excellent results
that have been secured from the limit
| ed boring done in the latter district
Mr.. Thompson unhesitatingly pro
nounced the holdings of the Swift
| Current company to be worth at leas
$4,000 an acre. The company con
trolls more than 1000 acres.
Mr.. Thompson also spoke highly o
the oil districts located in the Flat
head country. To the men interests
in the oil industry In the variou
parts of the state, this, coming from
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-02-10
Johnston's Funeral.

San Domingo, Wednesday, Feb. B.
The funeral of j.. G.. Johnston, engi-
neer of the Yankees launch, who was
deliberately killed by the insurgents
on Monday, took place this morning
instead of Monday afternoon, as had
been arranged. The body was escort
ed to its grave in the Santa Barbara
cemetery by a detachment of marines,
bluejackets and officers from the Yam
kee. headed by the ships band. There
were in all 100 men from the cruiser
in the procession. United States Min
lister Powell. the American consul,
and vice consul and nearly all diplo.
matte and consular representatives
went to the funeral. The provisional
government sent a detachment of
troops to act as an escort. The flags
over the governmental buildings and
various ~consulates were at half.mast,
Great surprise is expressed by all
foreigners. and especially by Ameri,
cans, that the commander of the Yam.
kee has not demanded immediate sat,
isfaction for this act of firing on the
American flag by the insurgents.
There was a heavy firing all day
around the city. A German steamer
from Europe was obliged to leave
port with its cargo on board, because
the crews of the lighters refused tc
work on account OF being exposed &c
the insurgents fire from across the
river.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-02-10
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the Board of Commissioners Of
Fergus county. Montana. until IL
o'clock. noon, of the ninth day Of
March, 1904, and opened at 2 o'clock
p. m. of the same day, for the cree.
ton and completion in the city of
Lewistown, Montana, of a two-story
stone jail and sheriff's residence for
Fergus county, in full accordance with
the plans and specifications as pre-
pared therefor by C.. Il. Bell. archi.
specifications may be seen at the Of
flee of the county clerk, at the office
of the architect in Helena. at the store
of the Montana Hardware Co. in
Butte. Montana, and at the store OF
Murphy. Maclay & Co.. in Great Falls,
Montana. Bids for the heating and
| plumbing, and for the jail work will
be taken separately. Proposals must
be addressed to f. j. Hazen, clerk OF
the board. at Lewistown. Montana
and must be accompanied by a certi'
fled check in the amount of two pei
cent of the bid. as evidence of good
faith on the part of the contractor
that he will. within a reasonable time,
enter into a contract and furnish Q
surety bond to the satisfaction OF the
board. for twice the amount OF tho
bid, should the work be awarded &c
him.
The right is reserved to reject an,
n or all bids. and to waive any In
formality in the same. should 1t b'
deemed for the best interests OF tbs
county so to do.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Chairman.
Attest: r. j. HAZEN, County Clerk
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-02-10
Patience Exhausted.

washington, Feb. 6.-"Send full
particulars about the assassination of
Johnston" is the substance of cable
gram which Secretary Moody today
dispatched to Commander Lewis C.
Heilner, commanding the auxiliary
cruiser Yankee, at San Domingo City.
When the details of the assassination
have arrived the secretary will be in
position to give specific instructions
as to the course to be followed.
Deliberation, it can be stated. will
be observed in the handling of the Do
minican situation. II the press dis
patches are confiremd, it can be stat.
ed that the naval commanders will
be instructed to demand and obtain
the fullest reparation. Nor will they
stop with this. Before the American
war ships leave Dominican waters the
inhabitants will have been made to
know that the Washington govern
ments patience has been exhausted
and the m~enacing Of American life
and property must a or the peo
pie of the island will stand the con
sequences. What additional wal
ships will 60 to San Domingo will be
decided when the official detailed re
port has arrived.