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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

dear peopleI'' exclaimed Mrs. G.. II.
Gilbert with tears in her eyes as the
last curtain fell on Granny"
1t was the night Of Mrs. Gilbert Is
first appearance as a star and the ova-
ton she received almost robbed her of
her self-possession, but it was emotion
because the people cared SO much for
her, that made her stumble over lines,
not stage fright.
To few women has such a reception
ever been given as greeted Mrs. Gil
bert. But then, few women make their
first stellar appearance at the age Of 50!
Mrs. Gilbert has been one Of the mar
wells as well as the favorites of the stage
and for ffty-eight years she has played
her character parts, taking few vaca-
tions and losing little time from i'll
ness. Il. -
For thirty years she played with
DalW's companies and when Mr.. DAILY
died Mrs. Gilbert thought her career
was at an enc.
~ don It know what will become Of
me-" she said, "I had put my whole
life IN, Mr.. Days keeping and now I
am left alone. -
She had all of her plans made to re-
tire from the stage, but Charles F'roh-
man offered her a part with Annie Rus
sell and her six years engagement with
him has eliminated in her appearance
as a star. 1t was Mr.. DAILY who really
named the new play.
Come, Granny, that s your cue, he
would call to the white-haired old lady
waiting in the wings at rehearsals.
When F'rohman decided to star Mrs.
Gilbert he asked Clyde Fitch to write a
play. for Days Granny Both were
quick to see the possibilities in the
name and it was settled before a line
was written. Mr.. Fitch has showed
on old age in his play and in one act
Mrs. Gilbert is on the stage from curtain
ITO curtain. The play shows the 'sunshiny
side of human nature, something I'M
common in a Fitch play. Mrs. Gilbert $
representation of "Granny'' is wonder
full for a woman Of SO and her endur-
ance of the physical strain is equally
remarkable
| Mrs. Gilbert does not consider herself
an old woman and she believes that her
interest in the doings of the dav has
contributed5 not.,a little to her well-pre-
| served wouth and her success. She
adapts herself to new conditions as fast
as new conditions arise and has re-
NAMED ldfashioned only in her OBJ
| lection to the frivolitv Of many, of the
younger stars. For thirty=fve years she
| has been the central figure in a church
sewing society in New York and several
hours each morning. are devoted to
charitable work. She was born in Eng
land, but as she came to the United
States in 1S49. Americans have grown
! to feel that she belongs to them and
| their love was shown in their welcome
to her as star at the ripe age Of So.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

!. Donald, the Bruce, the Wallace and
Iso on thru all the best-known clans.
And if you are Scotch descent, it is
| the very swagger thing to have shirt
waist suit in the plaid Of your own
clan.
The materials are a heavy Scotch
wool mixture, silk mohair, wash fan
mel, light Scotch flannel, taffeta, silk
and wool wolfe and straight cotton
stuffs. If you want to be most fash
ionable you will have a wash-fannel
suit in some tartan color, a design that
has been fought under, sung to, and
that has been an inspiration to the bag
pipes on many a battlefield.
The wool or silk shirtwaist suits all
have plated skirt, wide box p1aits
or narrow knife plaits, or cut circular
or accordion plated. And the blouses
are plated to match, full over the chest
for perfect comfort, loose in the arm
hole, moderately full sleeves, with the
comfortable elbow spring; They are
and double stitched and fatty pressed,
and the silk suits sometimes trimmed
| with bands, collar and cuffs of Suede
leather.
| The wool suits are worn with stocks
in bright silk and belts in bright leath-
er, or with black belt and white lawn
collar and cuff bands, the lawn hem
stitched or trimmed with fine convent
embroidery, or coarsely embroidered in
Russian or Bulgarian color schemes; or
the most dominant color of the plaid
is used in the embroidery.
Where leather trimming is used,
belt is made to match, and it is very
sWagger to bind all the leather edges
with taffeta, the same color or black.
You can. get a Suede skin from, any
shoemaker and have him dye it the color
prettiest with your plaid, all for very
little money, and be ultra fashionable
Lust by using your own taste and in
genality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

founce that gives such ample. fitness
about the feet. This hounce is faced up
to a distance Of about FIVE inches with
feathelWeight haircloth, which holds it
smartly fared. The corsage droops low
v n erect Of soft 1o SHRED s SIX nous
seine; a closely folded. fchu Of the
the shoulder finish. The sleeves, too,
are Of the mousseline, a full puff from
shoulder to elbow, over which falls
deep ruffle of the lace.
- For the family dinner, which is still
Thanksgiving, there are many ysle charm
ing informal costumes prepared. The
favored fabrics for these are crepe de
chimes and. soft finished silks. There
is a special advantage of economy at
tached to gowns of these fabrics this
season, inasmuch as they may be made
ming than ruffles and plaitings and
touch Of lace or fine embroidery on the
collar.
Such a gown of the soft crepe de chine
is in the dull rose color the Parisienne
is SO partial to. The skirt is amply
full, and as foot finish and arranged
three groups Of narrow. ruffles, barely
an inch and half wide The drop
skirt has a strip of featherbone crino-
lette sewn in the hem at the top Of the
ruffle, this holding the soft crepe de
chine skirt properly spread. The bod
ice is softly draped over very care
fully fitted and fully boned lining. There
is not the. slightest suggestion Of stiff
ness in this waist, but it's lines have a
grace, only possible where a well-boned
isette and the fat scalloped collar are of
white cloth embroidered in gold. Two
soft rosettes conceal the front closing,
and wide girdle OF black satin gives
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
New Economical Tricks.

Another boon to the economically mind
ed is the prevalence of costumes of two
materials. The directoire modes quite
lead to this. Cloth skirts,
often in white, with bodice of rich bro.
cade in pink or blue or yellow, showing
long postillions that extend as sashes
to the hem of the skirt, are full of sug-
gestions to the woman who must. con
skirt of last years dress and a few
yards of silk picked up for the pro
verbal song at a sale of "short
lengths will give her costume of as
Sured style.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

York point, the Braille, the Old Line
and the Moon, and she learned the La.
ter while she was in ST. Louis
No one has ever heard Lottie SuTI1-
van make a complaint and her happy
disposition is q surprise to those who do
nat know her. She is never idle. She
dressed q large doll which is the wonder
OF the visitors at the Colorado exhibit in
nearly all her own clothing. has pieced a
Guilt and is a model of neatness in her
work for the $50 pupils of her school
There are in the United States alto
lgether only thirty-five persons who are
blind, deaf and dumb and their educa-
ton is one. of the wonders Of the day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
New Zion Models.

The prevalence of the long coat has
not by any means driven the Elton from
the field. Indeed, many of the best
of the late models show some modifca-
tions Of the Elton, often with {. smart
position attached. And tho position,
by the way, has certainly, in its favor
the fact that it is almost universally
becoming.
Little waistcoats of leather. or velvet
or rich Japanese embroideries, or even
of simple pique or linen, lend an air of
A wooltex model in Scotch mixture,
made along the lines Indicated above,
is trimmed with wide mohair braid
which covers the skirt seams and deco
rates the jaunty little Eton. In this
case the waistcoat is in leather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
LET GO OF THE
ST,REETCAR STRIP
Swing from Two Straps in Crowded
Car II You Would Avoid the Danger
Of Becoming Permanently Deformed,
for Lopsidedness Results from Hang
. ing TO a Strap with one Hand.

Don't hang on the straps in the street
car, even if you do topple over on your
neighbor whenever the car stops or
starts. Better to be frowned at than
to grow lop-sided and you stand be-
Of every 100 women en- are i L ed The
doctor and the sdressmaker agree on the
number itta and they say it in most decis-
It is a New York doctor who blames
the street car straps. He states most
emphatlcaHy that hanging on the straps
uttes day. viii produce not only lop-
sidedness, but curvature of the spine,
hump shoulders and Static distor-
i ton. Twenty minutes a day for six
days in the week runs up considerable
time to devote to the strap, and each
more lopsided, and in danger Of be-
coming. permanently deformed.
An observing conductor says il
women are crippled from hanging to
street car straps they are crippled in the
left shoulder. - ] have noticed that
Women all take the strap in their left
change, no matter how far they ride.
Nine women out of ten will swing from
the roof with her left hand and the
tenth woman stands unsupported See
for yourself next time you get in a
crowded car - y
A physical cu1turist advises clinging
to street car straps for exercise, but to
secure tho proper benefit you must have
"a strap for each hand and swing back
and forth. This exercise will increase
the stature Of the swinger, but what it
will do to his neighbor, he doesn't say.
All authorities agree that one. handed
strap swinging tends to deformity, and
may produce structural difficulties. AZ
I woman who has been selling ready MAJ 8
1 suits for half a score Of years declares
/ that she doesn It fit a woman once q
week without having to alter the suit to
TT the customer S lopsidedness. 81
Il don't know what does it, ~ she admits,
Il but know what the results are.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
Plaid shirtWaist Dresses.

The smartest shirtwaist dresses for
this fall are plaid, the real Scotch de-
signs, or color schemes in the browns
and greens, Of dull tw2-ton s piaids. !;
not at all difficult to find the actual
tartan design, the Stewart, the Mae
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
FEW ENORMOUSLY RICH IN FRANC E.

+ = Z T
The French ministry of finance has Just
published the statistics of the wills proved
In Francein 1903, and from this It is evil
dent that the number of very rich in the
country has been grossly exaggerated.
Last year only 4s7 wills leaving more
than 100000 francs, or 100000. were
proved, and of these only LA exceeded
100000 francs, or $4,000 There were
only eight fortunes OF over 10000, 600
francs, or 100000, and the highest of all
was of the exceptional value Of 1000, 900.
It is evident, then, that the real millions
aires in France are very few, but 1t should
be noted that rich men In France marry
rich wives. SO that family may be much
more wealthy than the will Of either
father or mother would imply. But the
fact remains that the Frenchman is too
wise to be given over to the hunger for
gold. and that the whole joy Of living
for MIN is not conferred in piling up doll
lars, as 1t seems to be across the Atlantic.
4 There Were only 591 novels among the
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

Fitted lines prevail Of
stunning
embroidery
adjust the ns to the figure and Of spaced down the
shrrngs full lace rufle
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

The most truly national of American
holidays brings with it dinners and
family reunions and football games and
informal dances that; make womankinG
pause and consider well the subject of
times wonders If her Puritan ancestors
had not much to be thankful for in their
very freedom from the fret and worry of
selecting becoming STYLES. But it is only
on occasions that such gray doubts rise
when a gown just$ arrived from the
dressmaker is fitted on and: found want
ing, or when a perfect love of a hat
is priced way beyond what the widest
stretch her purse strings will permit.
On the main Womankind considers her
clothing and the selection thereof one of
the chief things she has to be thankful
for. And If perchanee she happens on
a description Of the Hsad-colored''
clothes OF her Puritan ancestors she is
prone to PITY. Bpt none the less she is
herself this autumn, for this is but. an
other term for russet colored. And
many are the charming costumes in this
shade and devious the ways in which
bright colors are introduced into them.
Velvet lends it's presence to every oc-
caslon this season, and it will be very
much in evidence at all THANKSGIVING
festivities, from the football game to
the formal dinner. A charming dinner
costume seen this week is in chiffon vel
veteen, very thin and soft, in rich
shade of russell brown. The skirt is quite
wide at the waistline, where it is shirred
in, but the fulness is SO nicely arranged
and the velYeeten SO thin and almost
sheer, that there is not the least hint
OF clumsiness: "A broad band of point de
gene lace fully1a foot wide laid over
brown chiffon, and this in turn over
green silk, breaks the skirt line at the
knee. This is banded top and bottom
with a wide fold of the velveteen, and to
the lower edge is attached the shaped
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

China has tree which produces OIL &
and two American firms now have houses
in China which are exporting theoil The
business has proved so successful that
about LOGO trees have been transplanted
from m u, nina to California Ind are now
growing well. - ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

This
uf of the
held fared
wide
of
o to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

=. y Mss.
could not understand much that was told
her.
She is now IL years old and her great
ambition is to acquire knowledge, to
know everything like everybody else. 8
She can read and speak in four different
systems, each one as distinct as the Nor.
Wegian and Chinese. They are the New
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
WHAT WOMEN
WANT TO KNOW

Fountain Pen Lealks-My fountain pen
anloys me by leaking, and 7 do not
seom 20 be able TO find the cause.
Perhaps you can help rne?- Student.
To prevent a fountain pen from leak
ing do not fill it too full Dry the
on the pen section and the top
of the barrel with bit of blotter or
soft rag. Screw tightly. The joint is
what is called ground joint and makes
a perfect joint if the parts in contact
are dry. It they are wet, the ink cam
not be entirely squeezed out, no mat
ter how tightly they are screwed to-
gether. The alternate pressure and re-
taxation of the fingers on. the Joint
while writing acts as. a pump and con-
stantly draws ink to the surface to soil
the fingers.
QUESTION FOR MONDAY.
10 Remove Grease Paint-What viii
remove grease paint from the face
!. without taking the skin with it?
recently took part in amateur theatre
Gals and my face was raw before I
got the makeup oT.-Dramat1cs
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19
CORNER Nv ANCESTORS
MORE FAMZL Y.

Name Boyme BY Irish and Scotch Kings Nearly zezye Gen.
tnries-Ihe Family Can Claim "1za1y7oaUer' Pilgrim
Brace Pioneers Who Began History of The Natiow-WGr De-
yez0bed q Heroine as Vel Heroes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

Two Girls, Who Have Been Blind, Deaf
and Dumb Since Their Babyhood,
Meet at st. Louis-Lottie Sullivan Is
as Gifted as Her older and Better
Known Friend.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-19

II There Were only 591 novels among the
s.874 books published ii Trance Ia 1903.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-10

| Rouse your courage; hope on. He is
sure of being least deluded who has the
daring to do that. The most ingenious
hope is nearer truth than the most ra
| tiOnal despair
Another source of light on the path
of human life is goodness. 1 am not of
| those who believe in the natural per-
| lection of man and teach that society
| corrupts him. On the contrary. of all
| forms of evil the one which most dis
mays me is heredity. But l sometimes
| ask myself how it is that this effete
and deadly virus of low instincts. of
vices inocuIated in the blood, the whole
assemblage of disabilities imposed up
on us by the past-how all this has
not got the better of us. 1t must be
because of something else. This other
thing is love.
Given the unknown brooding above
our heads. our limited intelligence. the
Grievous and contradictory enigma of
human destiny. falsehood. hatred. cor
ruption. suffering, death-what can we
think, what do? To all these questions
sublime and mysterious voice has an
swered. Love your fellow men. Love
must indeed be divine, like faith and
hope. since she cannot die when SO
many powers are arrayed against her.
She has to combat the natural ferocity
of what may be called the beast in man
She has to meet ruse, force. self inter-
est, above all, ingratitude. How is it
that she passes pure and scathless in
the midst of these dark enemies. like
the prophet of the sacred legend among
enemies are of the earth and love Is
from above. Horns. teeth, claws. eyes
full of murderous fire, are powcrless
against the swift wing that scars to-
ward the heights and eludes them.
Thus love escapes the undertakings of
her foes. She does even better-she
has sometimes known the fine triumph
of winning over her prosecutors. She
has seen the wild beasts grow calm,
lie down at her feet, obey her law.
At the very heart of the Christian
faith, the most sublime of its teach
ings, and to him who penetrates its
deepest sense the most human. is this:
To save lost humanity the invisible
God came to dwell among US in the
form of a man and willed to make
himself known by this single sign
love
Healing, cOnsoling tender to the I'M
fortunate, even TO the evil. love engen-
ders light beneath her feet. She clari-
fies, she simplifies. She has chosen the
humblest part-to bind up wounds,
wipe away tears. relieve distress,
soothe aching hearts, pardon, make
peace. Yet II is of love that we have
the greatest need: And rs we mediate
on the best way TO render thought fruit
full, simple, really conformable to our
destiny, the method sums itself up in
these words: Have confidence and hope;
be kind.
would not discourage lofty specula
ton, dissuade any one whomsOever
from brooding over the problems Of the
unknown, over the vast abysses Of sci
ence or. philosophy but We have al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-10

ways to come back from these far jour
neyS TO the point where we are, often
to place where we seem to stand
marking tine with no result. There
are conditions of life and social COM
plications in which the sage, the think
err and the ignorant are alike unable
to see clearly. The present age has
often brought us face to face with such
situations. l am sure that he who
meets them with our method will soon
recognize its worth.
Since | have touched here upon reli-
gious ground, at least IN il general way.
some one may ask me to say in few
simple words what religion is the best,
and 1 gladly express myself on this
subject But it might be better not to
put the question i'll this form. All re-
ligions have of necessity certain fixed
characteristics. and each has its inner
ent qualities or defects. Strictly speak
ing. then. they may be compared among
themselves. But there are always in
voluntary partialities or fOregone con-
illusions. 1t is better to put the ques-
ton otherwise and ask. Is my own re-
ligion good. and how may | know it!
To this question this answer: Your re-
Hgion is good if ii is vital and active,
if it nourishes in you confidence. hope,
love and q sentiment of the infinite
value of existence; if it is allied with
what is best in you against what is
worst and holds forever before you the
necessity of becoming new man; IL
it makes you understand that pain is
deliverer; if it increases your respect
for the conscience of others; If 1t rem
derS forgiveness more easy, fortune
less arrogant. duty more dear, the be-
yond less visionary. If it does these
things it is good. little matter its name.
However rudimentary it may be, when
it fills this Office it comes from the true
source: it binds you to man and to God
But docs il perchance serve to make
you think yourself better than others,
bubble over texts, wear sour looks,
domineer over others consciences or
give YOUR own over to bondage. stife
your scruples, follow religious forms
for fashion or gain. do good in the hope
of escaping future punishment? - oh.
then, If you proclaim yourself the fol-
lower of Buddha. Moses, Mohammed
or even Christ. your religion is worth
less; 1t separates you from God and
man.
l have not perhaps the right TO speak
thus in MY own name, but others have
SO spoken before me who are greater
than /, and notably he who recounted
to the questioning scribe the parable
Of the good Samaritan. / intrench my
self behind his authority.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-10

Blunders are sometimes very expen
sive. Occasionally life itself is the
price of a mistake, but you'll never be
wrong if you take DR.. Kings New Life
Pills for dyspepsia, dizziness, head
ache, liver or bowel troubles. They
are gentle yet thorough. % cents at
Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-10
A Costly Mistake.

(To be Continued Next Saturday,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-12-24

-. rflaSovl: and the clear. deep waters
ew.rn With brook trout, lake trout
hlaef -, picksrel. and the ferocious
n:uatScnsa
= Ts1 Mnon river, Kah-pee-kog lake
Go lie. and Blackstone lake, are
I'M renowned for game worthy
- H. Gportsman's rife, and Lons
,.,Saeer lake. Portage lake. Sllve1
,s,.s pine lake, Juniper lake and MUG
,e,s..,. other spots that should DC
laA 49,. IA shores of all OF these
s 49,. soiles Of water are capital Spec re- =
jill jill = ths primitive wilderness. nv
1ns - have visited these .eem anh
lev. -. mostly been genuine nsn-
"at ~ are happiest when 1ar
e en- nom civilization Few .e cles srand
s Az. r., majestic sweep OF e ene 81 navs
cle. 49,: within the she terea Oas ss
OLD 81 sss laugh undisturbed, ana ans
the l 1921. splash in the marshy ease -
vll ..,,ss - sandy shores: ). I VI Shadows
OF y - iocks cast their carr nh saa sweet
ana D ,ss sparkling water: Inc s"9 we
upon ,id berries greets US as W. We
odor - a.rre islands where, perhaps ~
pass ! ss..r i guarding ne If hull hnll.frogs,
q sns ~ the croahng OF a, Du the
souno, Of the birds, olssu a - otte1
or the .liness. The beaver anu s os.r.
solem here, and rare fur-oe ar
may .s We frequently hear 'ne