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winners barred. lst, 10;
 Tennis Match-First prize, racket; 2d, one-half doz balls.
 Trap Shoot, 20 Birds-First prize, SIP 50; 2d, s7.5O; 3rd, s5. Five per cent. entry fee added to purse.
 Four-Round Boxing COntest-First prize, SlO; 2d, s5.
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THE OTHER SDEn-WY MRS. HENRY GRAVES WAS ODDA LIFE

She wore what her mother and sisters
sent her from their last winters ward
robe. But all the time the dollars she
saved, week after week, were going
into the bank Why she ever had the
sense to keep the fact from Henry, |
don't know, but when he had chance
to buy in an interest in the De Haven
Hardware Company, and was groan-
ing because his family expenses had
prevented his saving dollar, she
handed over her little bank-book-arld
it paid for the coveted interest. And
from hardware and the De Haven in
huence he worked into steel.
Somehow Henry Graves had never
forgotten how to act like other peo-
pie nor how to make a good showing
for himself. While he had been using
finger bowls and orange spoons on
the road and at his club-he had to
belong to a club for business reasons
Harriet had been sitting coal and
taking sprouts off potatoes. And when
you've kepl one eye on toy savings
bank and the other on the coal pile,
you sort Of forget your table manners.
But, somehow, Harriet never forgot
how to make her children happy till
now.
81 reckon I'd better write her to
come up here for month or two.
1t would give the children a rest from
her oddities-and it would give lot
of pleasure. You don't happen to have
an extra sheet of writing paper to
spare, Bessie"
The younger Simms girl sprang to
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In perfecting your arms there are
two points to be considered, Mr..
Blashhe1d has warned you. First, they
must be strengthened as to muscle;
second, they must be rounded as to
flesh. Exercise will attend to the
former; massage to the latter.
The exercises taught for developing
the arms are infinite in number They
are performed with and without ap-
paratus, and the results are largely
the same, whichever one of many ex-
cellent methods you choose. Dumb
bells, Indian clubs, pulley weights,
wands, games like bowling and tennis,
houseworll, movements without appa-
ratus-any of these things may give
you the large and vigorous arm that
the artist demands. A woman who
had the most beautiful right arm
ever saw told me that she had built it
up from lean one by persistent egg
beating with the old-fashioned kind
of beater. II did not set out to beau
tify my ar1n,' she explained. Il was
merely making cakes to support my
family by their sale; but the arm was
reaping the benefit all the time. My
left arm is as small and feeble as
other women's.
Exercises which call for tension are
the most rapid means of enlarging a
slender arm. Go through motions in
which you imagine that you are rails
ing a heavy weight in each hand.
Clasp an imaginary iron dumb-bell in
each hand while the arms hang at the
sides; raise the bells slowly to the
shoulders, then lower slowly and re-
peat several times. Next, let the arms
fall in front and raise the bells toNthe
chest.
Raise hands to cut as shown in the
picture, edges of palms forward,
thumbs against shoulders. Extend
forward, return, continue in quick
repetition. Keep the hands rigidly in
cutting position all the time. This
will enable you to keep the whole arm
tense, and more force will be put into
the movement.
Hands to strike" calls for the fists
instead of the cutting hands. The mo-
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, ton is the same in both exercises.
Drop arms at the sides, fingers out
stretched Raise arms to a level with
the shoulders, laterally extended.
Drop. Raise. Continue in rapid
counts.
Place your hands on the castings of
the sill. Keep your feet in position,
lean forward until your arms support
you from falling. If you will let one
arm do the supporting for moment
you can feel its biceps with the other
hand, hard and tense.
Hanging in rings or from bar is
a good arm developer.
AS to massage of the arms: All
massage should be taught personally
by a skilled operator, but l will de-
scribe the motion as we'll as | can.
If you cannot employ a professional,
do the best you can in following these
rules. Seize the left arm at the shoul-
der with the right hand, or vice versa.
Work down toward the wrist with a
motion as if the arm were piece Of
goods that you were wringing water
from. Go back up from the wrist and
continue the motion up and down, up
and down. Use skin food in connec-
ton with the massage.
But if legs are too short, what is to
be done? 1t is not true that inches
can be added to ones length, no mat
ter what some quack physical train
ers may say to the contrary; but it IS
true that stretching exercises will
straighten crooked legs and extend
those that are not inclined to show
how long they really are. Some per
sons bend the knees a great deal in
walking, thus causing themselves to
appear short-1egged. This fault can
be corrected by stretching exercises
of many kinds. Kinks can be unkinked
and legs made to give themselves the
value of every inch that they possess.
Raise yourself by clasping low bar
or two chairs stood back to back.
Swing with the toes pointed down,
legs stretched to their utmost.
Place mattress on the floor, lie
on your back upon it, raise your legs
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clothes ready for the Arlington-Pos
wedding Honestly, if you're maid of
honor or bridesmaid at fashionable
wedding nowadays you need almost
as fine a trousseau as the bride her
self There's to be house party
you didn't happen to see my old
friend, Harriet Graves, did your" in
terrupted Miss Merrill drily.
For an instant the two Simms girls
looked puzzled.
81 mean Mrs. Henry Graves" Janet
had stopped knitting and was gazing
at them with quizzical air that
should have been a warning. But the
younger girl huttered, butterhy-like,
into the net.
"Oh, yes, Mrs. Graves was home,
but, you know, we really saw very lit
tie of her. She's so odd"
81 suppose she hasn't kept pace with
her fanily?'
well, just to be honest, Miss Janet,
she is a great trial to them all, and il
was a topic we steered away FROM
after we saw how the girls felt. She
does the oldest things. Why, you
know, after the servants have gone to
bed, she goes around and turns out
all the electric lights, except one wee
burner in the upper hall. It's just
dreadful when the rest of the family
come in late from the opera or q
dance. And Mondays she goes right
down to the laundry and insists upor
washing some. of the finest things
like silk stockings No doubt the
laundress could do it much better, fol
they pay ridiculous wages to theii
help. And her clothes never hit her
and when there's company she ..flit:
around in the background like {
shadow, and she actually worries be
cause they use the best plate Sc
! often"
"My, myl Best platep How thing,
have changed since l last visited tn;
Graves homer' murmured Miss Mer
rill to herself. The girls caught TIL,
! words.
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she didn't know any more about
housework than-than you two girls
do. She had been head of our class,
and she knew Greek and Latin from
A to lizard, but she couldn't fry an
egg | don't suppose she had man
aged very we'll, but that was no rea-
son why, when Henry let his partner
get the bot of him and skip the coun-
try, he should lay all the blame of
his poverty at the door of Harriet's
bad household management. But he
did. And Harriet, being both sensi-
tive and aware of her domestic. short
comings, tried to redeem herself. She
went to the other extreme. Nothing
was too menial for her to attempt.
When Henry was not home she stint
ed the table, and if the children hadn't
been given plenty of bread and milk
they'd have been sickly. She didn't
allow herself even the milk, it seemed
to me. But when Henry came home
there was meat and potatoes and
hearty food, because Henry worked SO
hard.
Il noticed that Henry was out-of-
town for his firm a good deal, and the
| firm kept him at pretty good hotels.
"For about FIVE years / managed tc
see Harriet at least once a winter
remember one year arriving late al
night and finding her making cherries
out of red flannel for the children's
Christmas tree. E had had an artists ac
eye, had Harriet, 8d the homemade
things and the homemade pleasures
she gave those youngsters to hide the
ghost of poverty from their eyes
brought tears to mine many time.
Shed make up the most beautitu
fairy stories | ever heard and enter,
tain the children by the hour winter
nights. If she hadn't been SO busy
setting patches on their clothes anc
mending stockings she might have
written out those stories and made
more money than Henry was earning
Henry had to wear good clothes
on the road, to keep up appearances
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straight up in the air, with knees rigid. |

straight up in the air, with knees rigid
Stand on left foot, hands on hips.
Point right toe and extend right leg to
the side, swing it to the front, to, the
side Continue this as long as you
can keep your balance, then reverse,
keeping the knee rigid all the time and
the leg stretched as far as possible
Some women who are not really
afflicted with short legs appear to be
by reason of too large hips In this
case your one solution of The problem
is to reduce the hips. This can be
done by bicycle riding and mat work
the same means used in building up
scant hips. If you are much too feshy
in all respects, the exercise must be
accompanied by flesh reducing diet
And not one of the suggestions
given here points out short cut to
beauty. There is no short cut. But
look at the beautiful classical models
that are before Mr.. Blashfeld's eyes
when he is telling you of your faults;
look at his own exquisite figures
modelled in the likeness of these. Can
you even doubt whether the end is
worth the effort?
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er length as judged by the measure
of the trunk In other words, wo-
men are inclined to be short-legged "
There, in that one paragraph, Mr.
had furnished enough food
for thought to keep ali the gymna-
sium instructors in the country work
ing over hours to digest it.
First, our arms are lacking; second
our legs are short. What are we te
do about the matter-the two matters
Take the Dianas of early artists,
he went on Their arms are most
beautiful and powerful at the same
time. 1t is the rarest thing in the
world to find any such arm nowadays
Many women lack strength of arm
The limb is evidently weak, i1nde-
veloped. Those who have good mus
cular development in this portion
usually lack roundness and beauty in
it. The muscles stand out in a mas
culine way, and there is none of the
graceful roundness that is SO much
desired by the artist"
Is this especially an American fail
ing?" l asked him.
mo, can't say that it is. I find il
common in many models, and my
models are chosen from all races, for
l work in New York, and that is a
wonderfully cosmopolitan city. Arms
are too slight in the great majority
of cases"
do you see any hope for the bet
tering of this matter?"
"A great deal of hope. 1t is a
splendid thing, this physical culture
that is becoming universal among our
women. America ought one day tc
produce a race of women with the
forms of Diana and Hebe. The ath-
letic training that began as a fad ana
is now developing into almost relig.
ion will bring about wonderful results
in the line of national beauty. If only
the heads don't keep on growing
larger. That is one of an artists
greatest trials. You know the classi-
cal standard calls for a small head
for woman, and the modern head is
distressingly large, as judged by
Venus and other beauties of old.
don't know what is to be done aboul
if. for the modern brains must have
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-16
By KATHERINE MORTON

TT IS as we'll to confess that when
I went to question Edwin How
4 land Blashfeld on the vital ques-
ton of feminine 1oveliness | did
not expect to gain any practical in
formation. To be sure, there are few,
if any, in America who are. so great
authorities upon this subject as is Mr.
Blashheld. Few artists in our land
have studied the real and created the
ideal woman through so long and
broad range of years and expert
ence as he has.
But before my mind rose the vision
of his wonderful wall flowers" the
women of his artist. dreams. the ideal
figures that represent the Human I'm
derstanding and Religion and Philoso-
ply and Emancipation; the goddess
figures that surmount all other figures
in the Congressional Library and
range around the collar of the great
gold dome.
ITS all nonsense to ask him about
human woman's faults and beauties, )"
l thought in an advance state of dis
couragement "He will talk in terms
of the ideal and the classic, and there
won't be a word of help or encour-
agement or warning for the scrawny
and the freckled and the prematurely
gray"
Then Mr.. Blashfeld entered his
drawing-room, where | was waiting,
and the very handshake of him and
his good, wholesome smile showed
him, ex-president of the Society of
American Artists, able to come down
from the region of the great gold
dome, with its galaxy of stately beau
ties, and talk of things that concern
the everyday people who walk about
below
you want to know what are the
most common faults that l find in
searching the ideal model" he said.
Women of this day lack the power
fu1 arm of the classical beauty, for
one thing. For another, there is Il
tendency among legs to lack the prop
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i suppose that was before Mr..
Graves got into steel?"
"Yes, considerably before that great
event. Harriet Graves and had gone
to school together, but somehow |
had never been able to visit her until
one winter about ten years after she
was married. They were living then
in a cheap suburban house, and she
did all her own work. Every morning,
after she had sent the children off to
school, she'd excuse herself to me and
disappear for about half an hour. One
day | got tired reading the morning
paper by myself, and just naturally
hunted her up. She was in the cellar,
sitting ashes and picking out bits OF
coal to toss back into the bin. She
didn't hear me slip down the cellar
stairs, for she was reciting poetry to
herself. l can hear her this very min
ute:
"'All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.
81 suppose Longfellow's poetry kind
of comforted her and made her forget
how the cinders cut her hands even
through the old gloves sheVvore She
always had a poetical fancy, did Har-
riet.
Another day, when she had disap-
peared mysteriously, | found her ir
the cellar again-and it was such Z
musty, cobwebby, gloomy place
picking sprouts off the potatoes. Hel
Uncle Jason had sent her two barrels
and she was trying to make them las
as long as she could, but the furnace
heat made 'em sprout.
"The sight of her working there
and thinking me toasting by the par
lor register over the last novel sh,
had somehow managed to borrow fol
me, just made me sick went tt
picking potato sprouts, too, and th'
first we knew, both of us were water
ing those potatoes with tears. Anc
then she told me all about it.
J When she married Henry Graves
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some place to stow themselves away,
| suppose. Perhaps we shall come to
form an entirely new standard of
beauty in this respect
1t looks as if his final suggestion
offers the only way out of the diff
Guilty, does it not? Physical culture
can do almost everything toward the
building UP of bodies, but it is at a
loss when it comes to the building
down of heads; especially with all the
colleges and clubs and universities do
ing their level best to make the mat
ter worse. Evidently there is moth
ing for it but to make ourselves con-
tented with our brains, even if they
have cost us our heads.
what about the American wo-
mans hips?' l asked. DO you con-
slider that they are too large as a gen
eral thing? Some travellers and stu
dents have said 500
~ don't agree with them" Mr..
Blashheld was prompt and decided.
"The fault is by no means common.
Among the women whose figures are
at fault in this respect are to be found
as many Europeans as Americans"
AllQ IHc Quiet COllllilOll ldull!
Short lower limbs. They are sup
posed to equal the rest of the body in
length, and they seldom do so. The
fault is so common that the eye is
used to it and does not realize it as a
fault. A student once attempted to
criticise a statue of Venus, saying,
What long legs she has The fact is
that most women, the women he was
accustomed to seeing, have short
ones"
This latter fault is less easily rene
died than the lack in arms, and yet it
is not beyond Our power to do some
thing about the matter. Study your
selves, and see how nearly you con-
form to classical standards. Take
your tape measure or your foot rule
and find out whether your legs meas
ure less than the rest of your length.
Look at pictures of Grecian statues
and compare your own arms with
theirs; are they as round and as pow
erft1I as the ideal ones?
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TCH-BY ANNA S. RICHARDSON

her feet, but for some reason she did
not answer the question verbally.
While Miss Janet Merrill was cares
fully inditing her invitation on the sit
ting room table, the two Simms girls,
in their own pretty, sunshiny room,
were writing joint note to Mrs.
Henry Graves, which ran as follows:
"My Dear Mrs. Graves-We have
just written the girls of Our safe ar
rival at home. We wish to add to this
our very grateful appreciation of the
many courtesies you showed us dur
ing our visit and the many pleasures
you planned for US Miss Merrill is
sending by the same mail an invitation
for you to visit her this winter. Should
you come to M, we would feel
honored if you would give us week
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RAISE HANDS 70 SHOULDER Wits TENSION

Edwin Rowland Bashed the Famous Painter and Mural
Decorator, Discusses the Difficulty Of Finding an Ideal
Feminine Figure and the Most Common Faults in the
Form Of the American Woman Instructions to How
to Mend These Particular Faults by Series Of Easily
ACCOMPLISHED Exercises.
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of your time. With best wishes, be
lieve us
Gratefully yours,
"ELIZABETH SIMMS,
"HELEN SIMMS."

And when they had sealed and
stamped the envelope, Helen went
back to Miss Merrill and said quietly
Thank you, Miss Janet, for showing
us the other side of the picture"
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coloration come from high collars?
The juice of lemon in a half glass
of water is a good application for you,
l should judge. Rub in cold cream af-
forwards.
Miss P-I am not at liberty to rec
ommend dermatologist through this
column, but l should advise you to
consult some general physician whom
you know to be reliable He will give
you the name of specialist. Seek
one, in the nearest large city. Ger
tainly you can develop your bust Rub
it gently every night with sweet oil,
bathe it frequently with warm water,
build up your general health and flesh.
NJ 81 cannot understand your
shopping in vain for the face brush.
Send to large drug store in the near
est city of size.
"a Constant Reader" There are
so many causes of restless sleep that
| should like to hear more of your
health conditions before answering.
Bad dreams result from either mental
or physical disturbances. Do you
fall asleep with your mind full of wor-
ries? Are you troubled with indiges
ton? Try taking a cup of hot milk
just before retiring, then drop every
thought of care and responsibility,
putting yourself in a peaceful mood.
Sleeping on the back with the head
low often causes dreams. Sleep on
your side.
Weymouth. Read answer to
Miss P. The following skin food is
excellent to use in connection with
massage for any part of the body:
-Four ounces oil sweet almonds, two
ounces 1anolin, two drams spermaceti,
two drains white wax, three drains
balsam of mecca, ten drops oil of
roses (attar). Exercise with dumb
bells twice day and go through neck
exercises, bending and twisting the
neck in all directions. Results are
usually slow You may have to per-
sist several months before you see any
striking change. There is no get
pretty-quick" method.
Mrs. M. G.-Spread the following
paste upon a muslin face mask to be
worn at night: Whites of four eggs
boiled in rose water, one-half ounce
oil sweet almonds, one-half ounce
alum Beat to a paste.
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answers to Correspondents,

E. R.-A first-c1ass face powder will
not cause enlarged pores, provided
you take proper precautions. Wash
the face with warm water every night
and follow this treatment with COM
plexion brush scrub: Use cold wa
ter in the morning. Eat wholesomely.
Water is said to be fattening. Drink
all you naturally crave-not much ice
water, however | have not room to
give you special chest exercises, but
dumb-bells and pulley weights are the
best apparatus you can use. Nothing
but dye will darken light hair.
Beatrice B.-If used at full strength
the pyrogalic acid dye should turn the
hair black If not, you may have to
repeat the application.
L. H.-Keep your hair in curl with
a mixture of three ounces powdered
gum arabic dissolved in one-half pint
rose water; strain. | suppose the
growth of new hairs annoys you be-
cause they are short. Instead Of
checking them, strengthen and en-
courage them to grow longer by scalp
massage and an occasional dose of a
good tonic. You do not say why
YOUR neck is yellOw-does the dis
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The Boston Golfer.

The Boston Golfer.
Young Chicago your dad
play golf?
Young Boston-Indeed, yes; my
paternal parent seeks diversion daily
in the intricacies of that delightful
game.
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<NVFELL, girls, hear you've
X/ been down to visit Henry
Wv Graves folks said Miss
Tanet Merrill. unrolling

her knitting and beaming cordially on
the two pretty Simms girls, who had
just finished unpacking their trunks,
after their return from a fortnights
stay in the city. Have good timer"
Perfectly lovely sighed the two
girls as in one breath.
Graves folks all well?"
"AlI very we'll Mr.. Graves has just
returned from London, where he went
to push through some syndicate deal,
I believe. Harry had just come back
from two weeks shooting UP in Maine,
and the girls are busy getting their
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Mrs. M. G.-Spread the following
paste upon a muslin face mask to be
worn at night: Whites of four eggs
boiled in rose water, one-half ounce
oil sweet almonds, one-half ounce
alum. Beat to a paste.
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M. 81 cannot understand your
shopping in vain for the face brush.
Send to large drug store in the near
est city of size.