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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
WISDOM, W0MEN'S BEST.

Lillian Russell is an actress who
has convictions and the courage Of
them. A New York paper recently
made a feature of a symposium on
the question: (which is the most de-
sirable for a woman-beauty, good
ness or WISDOM" Every one of the
scores Of players who contributed
made her bid for public approval with
a pious exhortation upon the delights
OF being good. Miss Russell came
out candidly with the following:
Goodness, beauty, wisdom. And
the greatest of these. for woman or
man, Is window.
Goodness is such comparative
term. II is 80 much more difficult 10
say who IL good than TO say who Is
beautiful or wise. What Is virtue on
earth may be vice IN Mars. and, GER
talnly, what ~ merit IN New York Ia
demerlt IN Constantlnople. Even IN
one place IDEAS OF goodness vary ex-
ceedingly. Most people believe thai
IN my sex, chastity means Roodnea..
while have heard n urged maj
charity generosity and loyalty are
inner traits. one thing may be- taken
~ irrefufable-Only the wise woman
observes the credit ~ being a good
woman. Others are accidents.
Without undertaking the desir-
ability ~ fhf power ~ gnoanera
think worth mention that fho ,vsu,.
20 remembered through fhe ager 49,
ihn wise women, rather fh1n ~
5000 ones. Perhaps fhis d berauer
I.stinftt u Wefs common fhan via.
COR Attnntleefa fhlf. ana ff0iu
ne ssminsfeiai sisspeiri i ksss
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

bride I have seen this autumn looked
as though she felt the weight and
enormity of her train. She actually
shrunk into insignificance beside 1t,
and shriveled up under her enormous
tulle veil. She was entirely subordi-
nate to her clothes.
Did you ever see Nine. Rejane in
one of her chiffon CONNECTIONS? 1 did,
1t was of sky pink, with a mantle of
pink chiffon falling from her Shout
ders and almost completely enYelop
ing her. Well, that was floating
dress, and 1 don't remember once
having seen Mime. Rejane walk a step
while she had the dress on. She just
seemed to float onto the stage like
cloud, to float from chair to divan,
and to float out again. She didn't sit,
she didn't stand. she didn't kneel: she
Just moved and that was all you
knew. When she changed that frock
for short, girlish one, with a baby
waist, you wouldn't have recognized
her. She looked ten years younger.
Her chin had been lowered, her eyes
had grown big and innocent-looking,
and she seemed suddenly to have ac-
quired feet and to have lost ten years
and gained ten pounds. 1t was all in
the feeling induced by the frock.
An actress makes her frocks
part of herself. If they are frilly she
f1utters and f1irts in them: if they
are hobby she becomes at once jaunty
and debonair; if they are magnificent
she takes on a new dignity. She
trails them, bangles them. sweeps
them, holds them. clutches them,
fiutters them or hugs them. just as
they seem to need it. She makes
them subordinate to herself. while, at
the same time. she brings into relief
their most striking feature and dis
plays to advantage their slightest
suggestion.
Every gown has some sort of mo-
tlf, and unless you are able to dis
cover its artistic significance YOU will
appear as badly in it as though you
should quote a bit of poetry without
knowing what it meant"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
WOMAN'S WORLD

OF course, the unconventional wom-
an scorns the weakness of dress. To
be suitably gowned for an occasion
is to her an evidence of a tottering
understanding and a weak intellect.
She is never so happy as when she
looks like a figure of fun. Give her
the opportunity to appear at an even
ing reception in bicycle leggins, and
short skirt, and her cup of bliss over
flows. She doesn't mean any rude
ness to her hostess. She fails to COM
prehend that ones clothes are the sub
TEST sort of compliment. and that
they may either say, "Oh, don't think
much of this. Any old thing will do
to wear to your house." or else. II have
put on my bravest and best, as is
only fitting when l am your guest"
don't deny the frequent charm of
the unconventional woman. She has
the absorbing interest we all feel in a
thing that is angles in every direc-
tion, and that we don't quite know how
TO handle There is even a charm in
her blunt speech, and the uncompro-
mlslng directness with which she tells
US the truth, but, like certain pungent
sauces, little of her will flavor a
great deal of society. After all. it is
the conventional woman who is the
only one with whom it is easy to get
along. She may not be exciting but
she is satisfactory She does what
you expect her to do. She recognizes
your rights, and insists on her own.
She knows what to see and when TO
De blind. She never looks under the
crust to see the under-side of things.
ana accepts your polite fibs in the
spirit in which they were offered. She
never makes you uncomfortable She
never brings up forbidden topics. If
you lived at the top of a tenement
mouse, and she went there to see YOU.
she would never complain of the steps,
put insist upon the magnificence of
the view. II you served her fricaseed
cat, she would eat it. and talk aho11t
the ancient civilization of the Chinese
IL takes great many things to
make this comfortable world. and
chief among them is conventionality.
Dorothy Dix.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
THE ANTI-KISSING LEAGUE.

A little red button worn by some
800 women, old and young. married
and Indifferent. among the leading So
cial sets of the City of Mexico, marks
a new departure, or, rather, a new
step, in progress. This little, round,
red button signifies membership in
what is known as the Anti-Kissing
League.
Members of the league take a solemn
pledge not to kiss each other, in pub
le or private, but put it on the
ground that kissing is contagious, or.
rather, the means of conveying con-
tagious diseases from one fair lin to
another.
There is nothing visible to the nak-
ed eye in the constitution of this
league against kissing other than men,
pers OF the female. persuasion, and, in
TACT, the practice. aside from the sup
posed danger of infection, is decidedly.
TO the male sense, not only deplora Bile
but unnecessary. When one woman
takes two or three minutes of time in
a street car to kiss three or four
other women before alighting from the
car she certainly violates the Golden
Rule by making all those passengers
wait. How far this new league will
conduct its offensive and defensive
campaign remains to be seen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

proved my contention. Any trades
man will tell you that what is rarest
is most valuable.
Beauty as an influence is much
overrated. 1t is an entirely transit
tory power, which, if l may make
paradox, does not live even through
it's own life. A wise woman will re-
tain her sway over the minds of men
thrice as long as a woman who is
merely beautiful. In every decade
We have women who are prominent
by reason of their faces and their fig
ures, but who never achieve anything
means alone. Moreover, beauty is
temptation and danger. To the
woman who is not wise. also. it is a
fatality.
From the days of Greece the wom-
an with brains has been a queen. One
recalls her with reverence. where her
merely lovely sister is thought Of
with condescension. Helen of Troy
is joke; she would have been a non
entity but for the bloodshed and
rapine she brought about On the
other hand. one cannot admire Peri
cles without admiring Aspasia; Soc
rates, without Diotima; Pompey, with
out Cornelia; Senecus, without Marcia
and Helvia; Epicurus, without Lanti-
UNI; Lucius Burus, without Panthea, or
even Diogenes, without the girl who
was half his intellect.
Mind, l am not saying aught
against the beauty of goodness or the
goodness of beauty. l merely declare
that / had rather have been Eliza
beth Barrett Browning than any
other creature of my sex in history.
In the choice between the three traits
given l remember that there is one
which comprehends all. Who is wise
IS likely also to be good and beauti-
ful.'"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
WOMEN'S STRANGE PETS.

The prevailing craze for unusual
pets, says the London Daily Mail,
was exemplified at the opera at Covent
Garden the other night, when we'll
known lady brought with her a chame-
leon, with delicate chain around its
neck, which enabled it to run up and
down the curtains of the box.
Mime. Bernhard and her tame leo
pard were the sensation of a couple
Of decades ago. Mrs. Arthur Cadogan,
Lord Cadogan's sister-in-law, had d
fancy for poisonous snakes. One small
snake she frequently wore on her arm
as a bracelet.
More pleasant as a companion was
the tame otter which used to follow
Lord Linlithgow's sisters, Lady Doro-
thea and Lady Estella Hope, like a
dog.
Lady Anglesey possessed a marmoset
no bigger than mouse, which she
used to carry about with her, but it
has not been seen of late, so some evil
has doubtless befallen it. Lady Con-
stance Stuart Richardson has given
up her snakes. Another lady kept a
hedgehog, which followed her about
with great intelligence, but it had its
drawbacks as a companion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
THE ART OF WEARING A GOWN.

"I wish 1 KNEW" said the girl with
the chiffon muff. to the New York
Press. "why stage gowns, like stage
love-making and stage sentiments, are
always so much more beautiful than
those in real life"
"They are not" said the other girl.
Half the gowns one secs on the
stage one wouldn't wear in a draw
ing room or on the street for any,
thing I'm the world. DO you know
that lots of actresses buy their inn
ported gowns from the secondhand
dealers? Well. they do!
1T is not the gown, but the way In
which an actress wears II that makes
IL so attractive. She knows what sort
of frock TO buy just how TO put II on
and just how TO carry Il. That Is
what nine women out OF ten In pri-
vate life don't know. The average
woman selects "A frock without any
reference 10 herself whatever. She
Just buys A because II II pretty. and
puts u on exactly as ~ goes. Usually
she looks like an animated clothes
rack. with her garments hanging on
her.
IAN actress gets into the feeling Of
her gown. The moment she slips
into Il she feels her role. II the
gown u long and clinsinR and flmy
and diaphanOuf she simply floats
every minute that she has n on. n
d has yards and yards ~ train she
learns how 10 manage ~, how 10 ait
down 30 that n VIII wind ltfeif
around hrT. how a. sail acrOan fhe
room az fh0tRh she were trailing
wings sner her. bow 80 turn without
stumbling 800 over her skirts. she
feels fFery inch ~ fhe dignity fhat
a frain gives. and enc plfa ~ her
naughty look WITH hfr hauFhfv
fr0fF 800 600 woman lu private ne
alWnYf io0ff Az fhpuFh ber trailing
r'arfn reff ilaf booked cn behinl
Thsy eff not PCS ~ ter Every
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

Bishop McVicker of Rhode Island
told the members of the Boston Episco-
pal Club at their dinner the other night
one of the best of the Butler stories.
Butler was on his way to Boston to
try case before Judge Shaw. A young
friend met him on the train and he
asked If he might look at the notes
on the case. Butler acquiesced. The
young man, to his astonishment, saw
written in pencil at the top of page
l; Insult the Judge" "You see,
said Butler, II first get Judge Shaw's
III viii by insulting him in some way.
Later In the case he win have de-
cisions to make for or against me. AS
he is an exceedingly just man and as
have insulted him, he will lean TO
my side. for fear Of letting his per-
sonal feeling against me sway his de-
cislon the opposite way
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
A FORMULA FOR MARRIAGE.

The Frankfurter Zeitung has discov-
cred formula for marriage Nothing
is more certain. it says, than than
this formula is right. The question
asked is what age should mans bride
be? The formula is: Let x be the
mans age. Then x-2- -7-bride's age.
For example, man is "a; the half of
his age is II; then II plus is "a. The
brides age should be "a. For a man
of "a, therefore, the proper age of
his wife is "a. Take the man of go.
x-2-60-2-3O- 7-37. The man of so
must marry a woman of 81. For the
Juvenile marriages of southern lati-
tudes the formula is equally valid. The
hot-blooded Castilian, for example, of
Is wishes to marry. The formula says
x-2-1S-2-9- I-7-16 His wife should be
16 years old.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
OTHERWISE.

Praise, says the Chicago News, keeps
a woman young and a man-dead
broke.
You never realize what a small salary
you get until the plumber sends in his
bill.
When a man is too old to be made
fool of by a pretty woman he's
certainly in the centenarian class.
A woman's glory is in her hair-un-
less you catch her with it done up in
curl papers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

When a man had the legal right to
whip his wife provided he used a
stick no thicker than his thumb" wo-
men were just as anxious to get mar
ried as they are now.
If you tell a woman her baby looks
and acts just like her she is pleased.
but if you tell her she looks and acts
just like her baby she doesn't like it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25

preston and the dovelike gentleness
OF her eyes. She was voted the beauty
with these special points mentioned.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
FatteninR Beef Cattle.

Prof. w. A. Henry, whose reputa-
ton as an authority on cattle feeding
cannot be doubted suggests that
American cattle can be fattened upon
must less grain than our feeders gen
| crafty give them He says that many
feeders in the Western and Middle
States give to their fattening stock
from twenty to thirty pounds. and
sometimes thirtytive pounds day Of
corn meal, while in England and Scot
| land they seldom use more than six
| or eight pounds a day. They give with
| this from fifty to one hundred pounds
of sliced roots, usually rutabagas, four
| to five pounds of straw and from five
to ten pounds of hay. They claim to
send as good meat to market as we
can furnish them, which we may not
| doubt, but we are not sure that we
can grow the turnips as the corn
which we feed here, and whether beef
animals fed upon turnips would stand
| transportation as well, either alive or
| as dressed meat, as those fattened on
corn. Professor Henry thinks ensilage
should take the place In our stock
feeding that roots do in England, and
we do not doubt that a judieious use
of ensilage or some other succulent
food with the corn meal might induce
better digestion so that animals might
be as well fattened with a less
amount Of grain.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
The Striped Beetle.

The most troublesome pest OF the
cucumber, melon and squash vines is
the striped beetle which feeds on the
young leaves and gathers on the stem
near the ground gnawing the plant.
Where there are only few hills they
may be protected by screens or wire
netting. or common mosquito netting
on circular wire frames. Persistent
use of plaster of air-slaked lime will
drive them away, also tobacco dust.
The best poison is paris green a little
weaker than used for potato plants,
or one pound to one hundred pounds Of
plaster.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
To Stop Rattle of Spoke..

A good way to overcome the rattle
OF spokes is to go over the wheel and
tighten all bolts, then make water
tight trough large enough so that the
wheel may be set upright in it. this
trough should be about six inches
deep Then buy a gallon of linseed
oil and while boiling hot pour it in the
trough, set the wheel in it, rolling it
around slowly so that the creyices will
take in the oil and then, with a brush,
go over, with the oil, all portions
which are not covered while the wheel
is standing in the tub. Not only will
the rattle be stopped, but the wheel
will last great deal longer under
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
Late-Hatched ChicLen..

1t is not usually profitable to carry
the late-hatched chicks into winter
quarters, for they will not lay until
midwinter or early spring, hence will
consume more food than their eggs
will pay for. We have found ii an ex-
cellent plan TO keep the late-hatched
chicks on the range as long as possible
and when they must be brought in and
fed place them in quarters by them
selves. Then they are given just
enough room to take moderate Pxer-
else, some green food and for grain
mainly corn. only enough other grain
being given them to keep them from
being corn sick The idea is to fatten
them as quickly and inexpensively as
possible after they are brought in
doors. They are then marketed and
bring a price which makes it profitable
TO raise them to this point.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05

The tools and teams should sIw.x.
Dc the best circumstances will allow
Keep young stock growing ana II
VIII be earning something every dny
1t 10 not what is eaten but what !,
olgestsd that furnishes the strength
and muscle
harly maturity is one of the accept.
ed methods of lessening the cost of
stock raising.
A sharp pillow will sometimes save
great deal of strength in the team
besides do better work.
AS rule medium sized animals take
on flesh more rapidly and can be made
fatter and plumper.
The best means OF Increasing tbe
productiveness OF land and Of obtain.
ing paying crops is to keep the land
in high state OF cultivation.
Unless the manure is well rotted
and fined 1t should not be allowed TO
come in direct contact with the roots
OF fruit trees, but be scattered broad
cast over the surface.
Condition makes or unmakes the
horse, and on its proper conditioning
depends the development of its mus
cles and its powers Of endurance, and
on these depend it's speed develop.
ment.
Weeds are continually drawing from
the soil the plant food which should
go toward the development of the
growing crop, and the larger the
weeds are allowed to grow the more
or the plant food will they consume.
Weeds, making the best out of them
possible, are parasites not only on the
SOIL and farm crops, but also on the
revenue Of the farmer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05

value of the ship, amounting to 4,OO0
gold denaril When the storm arose
the kind-hearted sailors, evidently re-
speeding the rich passenger, first low.
cred Jonah only far enough for the
water TO reach his knees Seeing that
the storm subsidized, they drew him
back into the ship, whereupon the sea
at once arose again. The sailors re-
peated the operation several times with
the same result each time lowering
him deeper and deeper, until finally
they threw him into the sea.
The fish which swallowed Jonah was
created In the very beginning of tho
world for that special purpose. There
fore this fish had so large a mouth and
throat that Jonah found 1t as easy to
pass into It's belly as he would have
found it to enter the portals of very
large synagogue Ii had eyes which
were as large as windows and lamps
| lit up it's interior According to anoth-
or opinion, great pearl suspended In
| the entrails Of the fish enabled Jonah
| to see all that was In the sea and In the
abyss. The fish Informed Jonah that
he was to be deyoured by Leyiathan
Jonah asked to be taken to the mon
ster, when he would save both his own
life and that OF the fish. Meeting Lee
vathan. he exhibited the "seal of Abra-
ham, whereupOn the monster shot
away a distance OF two days. To re-
ward him for this service the fish
showed Jonah all the wondrous things
in the ocean (e. G., the path OF the Is
raelites across the Red Sea; the pillars
upon which the earth rests. Thus he
spent three days and three nights in
the belly of the fish, but would not
pray. God then resolved to put him
into another fish where he would be
less comfortable. Cramped for room
and otherwise made miserable, Jonah
finally prayed, acknowledging the fu-
tility of his efforts to escape from God
psalm cxxxix).--From volume Of
Jewish Encyclopedia. just published by
the Funk & Wagnals Company.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
TO MY MOTHER.

nj gently with her, Time; these many
years
life have brought more smiles with
them than tears,
" not thy hand too harshly on her
now,
It trace decline so slowly on her brow
Mt UiSe the sunset of the Northern
cline,
where the twilight fingers in the sum
mer time,
ID fades at last into the silent night.
re one may note the passing of the
Light.
may she pass-since it's the common
lot
IS one who, resting, sleeps and knows it
not.
John Allan Weyth In the Century.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
The Submarine Boat.

One OF the earliest suggestions of the
submarine was that OF British SNUG
gler, Johnson, who invented a boat
that was to travel under or above
water. With this vessel he proposed
to carry Napoleon from st. Helena.
but the emperor died while the boat
was under construction. The adher-
ents Of the emperor promised John
son two hundred thousand dollars on
the day the boat was ready to start
and an immense sum II IT proved sue
cessful. Some years later Johnson built
a boat with which he experimental In
the Thames for the British admiralty.
In this connection 1t may be mention
ed that one Of Napoleon's marshals.
Massena, began life as a smuggler on
large scale. and Commodore Thurot
of the French navy OF that time OBJ
tanned his knowledge of the British
coasts while In the employ of a SNUG
plpF
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05

An extraordinary instance of the In
telligence Of a monkey in the Royal
Park, Melbourne, Australia, has been
chronlcled. A monkey in large cage
was trying to reach a nut which had
been thrown down on the gravel path.
Putting its arm through the bars and
stretching as far as possible, 1t found
that the nut was just beyond his reach.
There was straw on the floor of the
cage, and going to the back, where 1t
evidently expected to find the straw
less damaged. 1t tested straw after
straw, dIscarding them one by one, not
thinking them strong enough for the
purpose. At last 1t found a satisfac-
tory one, returned with 1t TO the front
OF the cage. and very quickly. with this
aid. hooked the nut close enough to Be
picked up.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
Plan of a Stock Barn.

Here's plan of a barn with silo
suitable for three horses and fifteen
cows. The plan shown is for a barn
SO by 80 feet. The framework above
the basement consists of an eighteen
foot bent above the horse stable, then
a twelve-foot drive way, then twen-
ty-foot bent. In order to have room
for a team to be taken out beside
loaded wagon there should be an over
lay Of six feet In the NOW over the
cattle; this will give plenty of room
on the thrash floor. The stairway to
the basement goes down from the
drive floor into the feed-mixing room.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
Farm Notes.

Sheep will not bear neglect and
thrive.
Cropping the orchard generally does
mot pay.
A garden must be rich, mellow and
kept clean.
There is no animal more unprofta-
Die than poor sheep.
Currant and gooseberry bushes
should be pruned every year.
/, No improbable animals should be
Kept a moment longer than necessity
requires.
1t Is usually best to defer trans
planting trees until the frost has killed
the leaves.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-05
Southern Apples.

Attempts are being made in south
ern Florida to grow apples by grating
or budding on the Redhaw stock. The
CRAFTS are reported to be growing nice
w.. and one apple has been shown
weighing fourteen ounces and excel
lent in flavor and color. Heretofore
orehardists have not succeeded In pro-
ducing q good apple In the extreme
South.