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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22
A TEXAS WONDER.
HALLS Great Discovery.

One small bottle of the Texas Won
der, Halls Great Discovery, cures all
kidney and bladder troubles, removes
gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame
backs, rheumatism and all Irregular
ties of the kidneys and bladder in both
men and women, regulates bladder
trouble in children II not sold by your
druggist, will be sent by mall on re-
ceipt of 81. One small bottle is two
months treatment and will cure any
case above mentioned. DIR. E. w. Hall,
sole manufacturer, P. o. Box 500, st.
Louis, Mo. Send for testimonial. Sold
by all druggists.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22
READ THIS.

Dyersburg, Tenn, June l, 1901.
This is to certify that have used
one bottle Of the Texas Wonder, Halls
Great Discovery, and have been greatly
benefited, and can -cheerfully recon-
mend 1t to the public.
c. H. OLSTON.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22

The spreading of rock on the pike be-
tween here and Jasper has been ~ last
resumed, to the delight Of our citizens
who trade literally at that place.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22
The Kidneys and the Skin.

If the kidneys are weak or torpid, the skin
will be pimpy or blotchy. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla strengthens and stimulates the kidneys,
and clears the complexion. By thoroughly
purifying the blood it makes good health
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22
WATCH US GROW.

Rev. S. P, Angel, of Daisy,
Tenn, formerly of Whitwell, re-
news his subscription.
WATCH US GROW.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22

E, P. Taylor, of Whitwell, ora
ders the News sent to him another
year.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-12-22
WATCH US GROW.
Miss Pearl Thomas of Stevenson,
Ala, now reads the News.
WATCH US GROW.

Jas. R, Owen, Benbrook, Tex,
reuews his subscription to the Old
Reliable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
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mind. 1t had become worn into holes
just where each of Pynchems substan-
tial feet had pressed it, so that more
than once he had tripped upon it and
come near falling. Opportunity the
very night before the boy called with
the collecting pushcart Mr.. Pynchem
had said, with divers unconventional
expressions, that if he ever found that
old rag there again he would "histe" 10
out the front window. Thus perforce
Mrs. Pynchem removed it, skillfully
working it off on charity.
But the gem of the collection for the
destitute little Hobbs was Mrs. Spar
ing's last winters calling hat. 1t had
been perfect dream when the milliner
first turned it out, all silken, spangled
gauze and radiant rainbow tinted panne,
with sparkling buckle that had be-
come SO furnished that Mrs. Sparing
could never use it again. In It's pristine
perfectness there had been likewise real
ostrich plumes upon that calling hat,
but these Mrs. Sparing had prudentIy
ripped off that she might have them
renovated for another winter.
Such were some of the items in Miss
Scripp's charity collection for the desti-
tute Hobb children's Christmas.
TABITHA SOURGRAPES.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
FOR POOR CHILDREN.

| NIX children were left destitute in
one of the few poor families in a
wealthy and fashionable suburb.
1t was near Christmas. A benevolent
lady, Miss Scrip, had the children on
her mind, but was not able personally
to do much to gladden. them at the joy
full Christmastide, for she herself was
not rich. Her neighbors were, how
ever, and Miss Scrip determined to
make a canvass among them and Sc
cure gifts of food, clothing and money
anything that could be spared from a
wealthy household to make Christmas
merry for the Hobb children.
. Miss Scrip gave notice to her neigh
bors of her charitable intention. All
the ladies replied that they would re-
joice to contribute. Two days before
Christmas Miss Scrip sent a boy
around with a pushcart to make collec-
lions. He returned with an assortment
of bundles as large as that of a laun-
dryman on Monday morning and not
unlike it in outward appearance.
With pleased anticipation, Miss
Scrip had the boy carry the parcels
into her pretty little dining room. Then
she began to overhaul their contents.
She began with the largest parcel.
She uttered an exclamation of disap-
pointment, veXation even, as there un-
folded before her the remains of that
ivory white chiffon gown which had
done duty at parties two winters for
Mrs. J. Van Blinker De Whytte. Its
multitudinous fiouncings hung in fes-
toons; its accordion plating was bat
tered and bulging like an antique UNI
breIla; its front was stained with parti-
cles of feasts ranging from heavy din
ners of state to after theater "snacks."
How can that be cut down into warm
coats and stockings for the moor little
Hobbs?" murmured Miss Scrip as she
laid it aside, with a deep sigh.
Few of the parcels were marked with
the name of the donor. Evidently the
fair and generous givers wished to do
their aims in secret. 1t may have been
that, but Miss Scrip concluded as she
proceeded to go through pile that they
were ashamed to be known and for this
reason had refrained from attaching
their names to their respective dona-
lions. Unfortunately for this amiabIe
precaution, however, Miss Scrip recog-
nized most of the articles. Mrs. Thrifty
had sent her old rain coat. 1t was out
of fashion; it was also bedraggled; it
also let the rain through in spots.
Again Miss Scrip showed the unpleas-
ant article aside, with sigh, and muir
INJURED:
''How can I make that available for
keeping the poor little Hobbs ?'
Miss Florence De Whytte sent a pair
of pink satin slippers run over at the
heel She tucked into the tiny toe of
one OF them a necktie of her brothers
that had been worn so long it could
never by any possibility be used again.
Mrs. Pynchem sent, indeed, a wooden
rug. 1t had lain at the threshold of her
husbands bedroom almost time out Of
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An Awkward Mishap.

Thank heaven, they have at last
ceased to sew silk spetticoats on drop
stitch machinesI Never shall 1 forget
the modification of friend of mine,
and incidentally OF myself, for 1 was
with her. She caught her heel in the
ruffle of her petticoat, and the strain
must have started the seam, for it be-
gan to rip. Before we had gone half
block it was trailing on the ground, and
before we could stop it seemed to me
that the whole ruffie, with yards of
thread, was wound around her feet.
She did the only thing possible picked
it up and tucked it into her muff. For
tunately it was a large Inuff.
Our old friend the seal is once more
enjoying favor. Yes, it was bit out of
style; respectable and rich, if you WILL
but out of the height of style. The
main reason for it's return, I'm thinking,
is that furriers are using more discre-
ton in the way they make it up. They
are following mainly the box coat mod
ell and giving up the attempt to make a
tight fitting seal coat. Tight fitting seal
coat! Save the mark! Did you ever
see one? OF all the disfguring articles
it is the worst. 1t can't be tight fitting;
that's all there is to it. And when the
attempt is made it causes a woman to
look like a cross between a grampus
and an elephant
Just little hint to you. When you
have your sealskin coat made over next
have a collarless effect outlined with an
application of fiat black silk braid. 1t
will make you look less Chunky" and,
besides, you can wear chinchiIla or an
erlnine stole with it and thus vary the
sameness. Also if you want to add TO
the fancy effect have your sleeves made
with wide, bell cuffs and fill them with
very deeply tinted ecru lace.
1t is these fancy touches which re-
lieve the sonberness of a fur garment
It seems to me that a gray cloth gown
is about the most practical dress a wO-
man can have, for it may be used dur
ing the winter on a good many occa-
sions when a velvet dress would be
much too elaborate, and if made close
fitting, with a trimming of passemen-
terie or dyed lace, it is ultra chic for
spring wear without a coat. cos
tune of gray or champagne cloth is
most useful in April and May, and the
wise woman bears this in mind when
planning her midWinter wardrobe.
1 have seen some advance spring
styles in fancy neckwear, and the odd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
Ellen z. Kenyon
Warner
q Educator and Student of Child Nature 81

either. On the following system she
bases her work. literary and otherwise:
| Professionalism of data
Second.-EXaminatio analysis, COM
parison, classification.
Third.-Generalizati
Always she makes sure of her facts,
| then goes ahead.
Her heart is in the common schools of
her country, in which she is proud to
have been educated. She was born and
| reared in Brooklyn and was promoted
| from pupil to teacher in its schools.
| For several years she was superintend
| ent of a primary department. There
| she found great field for the study of
| that child nature she loves so well. Her
mind, comprehensive, clear and exact,
brushed aside the cobwebs of tradition
in educational matters and went to the
| heart of the matter. She loved chill
| dren; she was born with a gift for in
| structing, both as teacher and writer.
| With it all she has infinite sense of hui
NOR, and these powers, gifts and facuI-
ties explain Ellen E. Kenyon Warner.
Before she left school Miss Kenyon
began to write for publication. Her
first contribution was a story in ten
chapters called Brother Jack and l."
She was afraid to tell anybody about it,
so wrote upon an upper corner of the
manuscript her address, also the price
asked for the story, $20-a huge price
she thought-and mailed it to a juve-
nile magazine OF which Jennie June Gro
~ was editor. Nellie Kenyon was i'm
mensely surprised when a little later
she received a letter informing her that
Brother Jack and T. was accepted and
requesting her to call on Mrs. Croly to
: help arrange the illustrations.
To support herself through this ordeal
Nellie took a school friend into her con-
hdence and persuaded this friend to go
with her to Mrs. Croly. When the two
girls appeared before her gentle Jennie
June looked Nellie Kenyon over from
| head to foot and said to her, you are
very young to have written that story"
Thereupon Miss Kenyon made a state
ment which the friend tells on her to
this day, a statement the most extraor-
binary that ever issued from the lips of
feminine creature:
"Oh, I'm not so young as 1 look'
Meanwhile during the time Jennie
June was talking to Nellie Kenyon the
schoolmate, slyly edged near to the IA
nous woman editor so that her own
skirt might touch that of the editor
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Contrast In Furs.

The fur lined coat is a feature of the
winters fashions. For evening wear in
gray, tan or white it is charming, par
ticularly when relieved by a collar of
prettily contrasting fur-for instance, a
champagne colOred cloth Will be reliev-
ed with a collar of dark marten, while
a pale blue garment will have a collar
of moleskin.
Gray chiffon velvet is much used for
gowns and for evening coats. Black is,
of course, always in good taste, and,
owing to its glossiness, it is not nearly
so somber as the ordinary velvet.
Hats are growing q. little larger, es-
pecially for dressy wear. 1 have seen
two imported models recently which I
consider very smart. One was a straight
brimmed shape of pale blue panne vel
vet. For sole trimming it had a huge
ruche of three shades of tulle-pale
blue, heliotrope and pale pink. The
other hat was of pale pink tulle and
Irish lace, with two pale pink ostrich
tips dropping over the brim on the left
side and a moss rosebud falling against
the hair.
By the way, moss roses are the latest
millinery fad.
Hairdressing is undergoing another
change. Smart women are no longer
combining themselves to the figure g.
In fact, there is a distinct epidemic of
braids. A favorite way is to braid the
hair into two pigtails and to cross them
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I can't bear the people who give me
useless Christmas presents, like paper
cutters, for instance. Who ever uses a
paper cutter? The leaves of all books
come cut nowadays, and as for the
magazines, a hairpin is always more
convenient because you have it right
there, even if it is not so elegant. I
have three paper cutters now, and all
they do for me is to get lost and step
ped on.
Handkerchief cases are another null
sance. Who ever puts handkerchiefs
into a handkerchief case, unless it is
some very prim old maidy person? I'm
sure 1 never should bother. Glove boxes
are quite another matter. A glove box
is both pretty and useful if it matches
your dressing table in shade. The trou-
BILE is that most people never think of
that trifie, and they don't mind sending
you a perfect dear of a lavender covered
box when everything you have is as
Che e0yoed fba o,tortsr
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She did this in order that she might
afterward cut out the piece of her skirt
that touched Mrs. Croly's and keep it
as a souvenir. Girls will be girls.
With this first success and similar
ones that followed, for awhile the
chances were about even whether Miss
Kenyon would be a writer of fiction or
an author dealing with philosophical
and educational topics. She was drawn
about equally both ways. When she
became a teacher in the public schools
the question was settled. Teacher she
was and is, whether orally or in print.
The next step in authorship followed
in an odd way after she began teaching
It came about through Miss Kenyon's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
A BUSINESS woMAN's COSTUME.

A business woman must be econom-
ical She has not hundreds of dollars
to spend upon her wardrobe; conse-
quently if she is wise she finds out what
color is the most becoming and buys
an Office gown of that color and uses it
as the foundation upon which she
builds her system of dress. This color
scheme makes it possible to wear one
hat with various articles of clothing
without appearing radiantly dressed
like bird of paradise, and nothing in
business woman's office dress is more
destestable than finery. Simplicity,
cleanliness, harmony, are the three
qualities essential to the business wo-
mans wardrobe. 1t is not so much how
many clothes the business woman pos
SesSeS as it is the kind of clothing she
wears and her general appearance.
Good advice to the busy woman who
has little time to give to the considera-
ton of frippertes would be: Leave fam
cy things alone and content yourself
with the smart and useful stock and
collar which are now in vogue with all
the severer styles of dress. 1t takes
only two minutes to tie the bow neatly
or to slip a clean and dainty, prettily
embroidered collar on to a blouse or
bodice.
a muslin fichu can be worn in the
evening, but it requires skill and leisure
to arrange it. To be picturesque. is
charming, but never let your fancy for
the picturesque degenerate into untidf-
ness or unsuitability.
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NEWLY MARRIED.

She was newly married and did not
know a little bit about either house,
keeping or shopping.
Il want two pounds of paralyzed sug-
arr she began.
"Yes'm. Anything else?"
1.-TWO tins of condemned milk"
He set down pulverized sugar and
condensed milk.
"a bag of fresh salt. Be sure it is
fresh.''
"Yes'm. What next?"
"a pound of desecrated goldfish"
He wrote "desiccated cod"
Nothing more, ma'am? We have
some nice horseradish just in"
NO." she said; sit would be of no I-se
to US. We don't keep a horse"
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of her mouth to her ear because she held
her brush between her teeth In addition,
she spilled a bowl of panty" water on
her best table scarf, and every shirt
waist in her possession was decorated
with a spot or so. The last but not
least of her mishapS was a nice little
doctors bill because she would persist
in passing her paint brush between her
lips whether it had green paint on it or
not. Between the doctor, the paint she
used and the things the paint spoiled
she came to the conclusion that those
same Christmas presents were not par
ticularly cheap.
Old fashioned holiday week parties
are right in vogue both for those who
have the good luck to spend the Christ
mas holidays in the country and for the
less fortunate ones who have to stay in
town. In the latter case a room is dec
GRATED in as rustic a fashion as posi-
bic SO as to suggest the living room of a
farmhouse and all sorts of old fashion,
ed games are INDUCED in by way of
amusement. Each game has prizes, of
course
The prizes for an old fashioned SPELL
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treated from the philosophical point of
view. She founded a magazine called
| the Primary School, the first Ameri-
| can periodical devoted to the beginnings
| of children's education.
Her enthusiasm once aroused in this
direction. the indefatigable little lady
| continued to work for the public school
| as it should be. She organized teachers
Improvement associations. She contin-
ued writing educational papers, and
they came to attract attention in Eu-
rope as we'll as here. Some of them
were translated and printed in peda-
gogical journals in Germany. AT length
in 1893 Miss Kenyon became editor of
the different educational periodicals is
sued by d publishing firm in New York.
She also wrote entirely department of
the magazine, Child Culture" She
| published a book called |The Coming
SCHOOL,
Meantime the value of her education
al work and writing was becoming gen.
orally recognized, and she received from
the University of New York the degree
Of doctor of pedagogy Cpd. ID.
In all her educational writing Mrs.
Kenyon Warner goes to the bottom of
hings. In the teaching of little children
she would have none Of the artificial
expedient of memory drill. She says:
Reading is the most important of
school subjects. By the method used
in teaching a child to read his mental
habits for life are affected. Reading
should connect itself with all the inter
ests of school and of life and should
train the emotions and cultivate moral
and aesthetic tastes. The school course
IN reading should tend toward a COM
Drehensive and wholesome view of life
itself"
This feminine Herbert Spencer of
child education believes with the great
sociologist himself that moral progress
is achieved only by arousing the noble
emotions. Mrs. Warner looked about
for school readers which should do
this, at the same time following the
scientific method of induction and de-
duction in teaching children. She
found none that to her mind filled the
requirements, so took up the task of
supplying the need herself.
of the two Culture Readers already
published the first, for very young chill
dren, deals with Mother Love. Here the
author has gathered familiar nursery
rhymes, fairy tales and stories "out of
her own head" in such an attractive
way that learning to read will be gen
uine play to a little one. AT the same
time all the lessons ring changes on the
central theme. Mother Love.
The culture theme of the second
reader is industry, treated in a similar
manner. a manual for the teachers
use accompanies the books. In Mrs.
Warmers scheme song is also an i'm
portant part of child education. She
says: "A song is literature and should
be so rendered as to develop all its emo
tional values. Nervous, noisy singing
strains the voice; hearty, joyous sing
ing trains it. Songs like a lullaby may
be used to calm children after mirth or
boiSterous play
CHARLOTTE VAN BECK.
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sense of hunor. The noon hour she and
the other teachers in her building spent
together. The district was one inhab-
tied largely by an immigrant popula-
ton, and the children's attempts at
English speaking were at times fearful
and wonderful. The school was also a
continuous performance of amusing in
cident, incident duly reported to the
coterie of teachers by Nellie Kenyon.
Finally the auditors said:
Nellie. you must write a book and
put these things in it
Nellie did. The little book was the
beginning of her writing on school top
les. She prepared during her years of
teaching many papers on education
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very F'renchy looking girdles. In fact,
these Powered belts, done up in tissue
paper daintily tinted boxes to CORE
spond, have formed more than one
Christmas gift this season.
The worst freak of fashion which has
shocked my eyes for a long time l wit
messed yesterday. 1t was three quar-
ter box coat of gray and white mottled
leather which looked perilously like
snakeskin, and also a toque and muff
of the same. This, mind you, was sup
posed to be very elegant.
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@-WO impudent little English
sparrows sit upon the rim of
the iron fire escape and turn
their heads brassily this way
and that to leer at me out of their
bright. small eyes. To me they are only
mpudent little English sparrows, and
that ends it. But if DR.. Ellen z. Ken
Won Warner instead of me saw them she
would draw from them lessons in natu-
raj history, mercifulness to birds, Ian
guage expression. culture of the imag-
natiOn and maybe a combined lesson in
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tographs a long
time, and, to
tell you the hon
est truth, she
wanted to get
rid of them).
She thought she
really was prac-
ticing economy.
1t turned out to
be anything but
economy in the
end. For a week
she lived in an
atmosphere of
paint and muci-
lage, her nails
W e 7 e n e V e r
11o1 a-1 che
usually had a
smudge of paint
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She earned the quarter.

pink as pink can be, from the big fat
pincushion to the narrow ribbon on
your lambs wool powder puff.
Well, most women don't care anyway
It's present, and you ought to be glad
to get it; that's all there is to it.
For my part, I like gifts of a practical
or personal nature, things can wear or
put up in the room Still even that sort
of gift has its disadvantages. Look at
Bessie Flutterly, poor, but with exqui-
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site taste, and she always has some aw-
full Christmas present from her rich
Aunt Jane which she has to wear out
Last year it was very handsome satin
waist; but, oh, horrors, of a bright
shade of purple! AS poor Bessie was
wearing a dark red tailor made in those
days just fancy how she looked!
Then, too, speaking of things one can
put around the room, shall never for
get the year Susan Paddy had the ma
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mia for hand
painting" china.
She sent me a
small dish shap-
ed. like a flu
neral urn and
paint tie d with
anaemic looking
b u t t e r C u D S
which she told
me was to go
on my mantel-
piece. Well, of
course, it went
there-it had to,
for Susan is a
very good friend
of mine-but it
manage to slip
behind a fat
photograph, and
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-HE colored photograph has
proved very popular this year
for a Christmas present. but if
II you think coloring photo
graphs is easy you want to try it the
way a girl know did.
She gave every friend she owned a
photograph of herself in tastefully col
ored fancy dress (she had had the pho
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ing bee were shown to me yesterday.
They are very new fashioned diction-
aries only an inch square and inclosed
in tiny alumipium cases, each having an
oval magnifying glass in its cover OF
course the little dictionary is printed in
such tiny characters that it can only be
read with the aid of this ma gnifying
glass. But think how convenient to
carry around in ones pocketbookI