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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-04-13
MARIAN MARINE TALKS OF
STREET COSTUMES.


Silk gowns are to be quite a feature
of the Spring fashion, aud when it
fret became evident that shirring,
with all its train of pufs, frills and
furbelows, was to set the pace for the
prevailing fashions, many q sigh went
up as the clumsy effects of former
periods we're recalled. But that was
before all the supple alriness Of old
time rich textures had been fully
revealed by the manufacturer. In the
former days when q silk frock was in
the height Of It's glory, the more it
stood out the more elegant it was con-
sidered, and the "stand alone" quality
Of silk was the badge Of respectability
Of its happy possessor.
To-day silks r not selected for
their "stand alone quality, but for
their su~ppleness, although soft rich
ness and "body" are as much appre-
ciated as ever.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-04-13

ontside business, and Okolona busl-
ness men would do we'll to get togeth-
er on a basis similar to that adopted
by those of Lynchburg. As a contem-
oIary says: Association is to-day
the law OF the business world, the
instrument OF power. aud the shortest
road to accomplishment" Aud judic-
ious advertising ia which the leading
business interests take active part will
do more than any other one thing to
establish the most pleasant and
profitable kind Of association.
Mr.. Robert Huntington has return
ed from Natchez, after a very pleasant
visit.
Miss Marguerite Buchanan left Mon
day evening for Knoxville, Tennessee,
where she will spend the m
Mrs. W. A. Harbour entertained in
quite = delightful manner on Monday
afternoon complimentary to theMisses
Wheeler.
Suppose we had woman's suffrage;
who would make the garden this
spring7
Ever notice that nearly every man
who started out on the farm seems
prond NJ the fact.
The Railroad Commissioners have
ordered the railroads Of the state to
substitute glasses for the old tin cups
on all trains.
Nearly every aself made'i man Is 20
proud Of the job that be doesn't hesi-
tate to tell who did it.
Do not worry.
Eat three square meals a day.
Say your prayers.
This city was surely built by those
who loved nature 10 all her more sen
suous and adorable aspects. Okolona
ia an island in 3 sea Of verduTe. Look
at the trees. These are for the birds
to play hide and seek, and for the
katydids with their eternal opera, be-
ginning with 3 quaver and ending in q
double forty. Streets upon streets Of
houses, tree emb0wered-here a par
terre and there a flower garden. For
dainty feet there is the velvet Of the
grass, from which as one walks, there
is heard a certain swishing, such
swishing as comes from the silk aud
satin edges Of q throng Of Dancers
In the moonlight the purple lIaess
seem to cry to the white. Take old
mother Eve today II she were alive
and perhaps she is In some Of her
dauqhters-aud set her down 10 Oko
Iona Of q spring or summed morning
before the sun has we'll risen, with the
dew upon the grass and IN the air q
benediotion and q soft south wind
blowing. Put old mother Eve here,
we say, and let Der look but once up
on the whole magnificent picture &c
the sun has painted Il upon the cam
vaas furnished By nature, and from
her vlthered lips would barst forth
the involuntary exclamation; HThls Is
paradise. Where Il Adam7"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-04-13

Debt is a good deal like a mustard
plaster. It's easy enough to take on,
but everIastingly hard to get rid Of.
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at Pioctor's Twenty third street
rheatre next week, whore the best acts
of European and American develop.
ment are found leading the bill. Paul
S%padoni, the premiere heavyweight
juggler, is at the head Of the program
in his remark able sDecinlty in which
the lea1ing feature is the catching
of fifty forty pound cannon balls
upon the hack of his neck in rapid
succession. The trick is one of the
greatest difficulty but so certain is
Spadoni and so nice in his Judgment
of distance that hs has never had a
mishap. There are many other feats
which mas made familiar to his audi
ence through his stay at The Hammer
Rouf and on the Proctor circuit.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14

present for the first time-iB Newark
the smart comedy success "The.Maid,
The Mouse and the Man." a clever
little playlet in which she has been
markedly successful in New York and
elsewhere. 1t deals with Its theme in
original fashion and does not depend
upon the employment of old ideas for
it's Gee Hayes and Healy, a
clever team of eccentrics, hav Q a new
speciality for q funnier than their old
idea and one that is a distinct de-
p~arture from established comedy
methods.
"The Cavalier" in which Julia
MarIowe starred successfull last sea-
son, is announced for the permanent
Proctor stock company at the One
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14
DRINK DID 1T.
The Sad Confession of a Man Being
Taken to Prison for Partici-
patton in a Murder.

This was the confession of one Har-
ry Napoleon, who was recently taken
to the prison at Columbus, O., to serve
out a life sentence for murder:
Drink did it," he kept on repeat
ing. Drink and bad companions.
God! how | wish l had never touched
the n and avoided the other. And
the sad part OF. it is, they wrecked not
only my life, but brought sorrow and
woe to my poor old parents.
"Just Think he said, "the first
drink | ever took was bought for me
by a relative. When l was IL years
old and made my first communion l
took a pledge not to touch liquor till
l was 81. During all that time l fol-
lowed the pledge faithfully and while
other boys met and rushed the growl-
err l stayed away, and when WANTED
company | sought those l met at
church. When l became 81 | made up
my mind to keep on abstaining from
intoxicants. But just a month after
WI I'd | came downtown one day with
this relative, and he took me into a
saloon. We met some friends and
they all wanted to buy drinks. ]
drank several bottles of pop, and then,
because this relative said pop wasn't
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14

Hundred and Twenty fifth stree
theatre next week. Ills play, by
Paul Kester and George Middleton
was recently given Il fine performances
at the Fifth avenue theatre and will
be done here with the same careful
attention to detail. william Iugersoll
will have n %congenial role in Captain
Oliver and will doubtless add to his
favor ly his playing, while Beatrice
Morgan, Wallace Erskine, Fred Chap
ellie, Peter Lang, Sumner Gard,
George Friend, Ryley Chamberlain,
Marion Berg, Margaret KirkeT,
Mathilde Deshon and others will ap
pear.
Plenty of novelty and good enter
tainment are TO be found on she bill
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14
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All economical h1usckeepcrs take adj
vantage Of This sale, as such reduced low
prices dn not prevail very uf'rt, ard il is
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made.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14

good for me- I took a glass OF beor
The next thing I took was a glass Of
whisky. In q few minutes l was
drunk.
ut was months afterward before
tasted 1t again, but when l did, the
rest wal easy.
81 began meeting with boys and men
and took part in their GROWER rush
ing / drank as much as any of them.
The night We are supposed to have
killed the man l was drunk and SO
was Neuman.
II had been in the saloon next door
to where l lived, on Atlantic street,
and had a few drinks. When | went
out Neuman followed me, Keeping
about $50 feet behind me and calling
for me to wait.
I'VE met the fellow that was killed
near the railroad track. He was an
inoffensive looking fellow and passed
me without saying a word, though he
looked as IL he wanted to asst some
thing.
"When he got back to Neufnan he
asked him where some one lived.
"Neuman was in a quarrelsome
mood ard struck him and the fellow
struck back. | ran to help Neuman,
and that's all there was to it. We put
the body alongside the track to make
1t appear he had fallen from a train.
If | hadn't been drinking, | would
never have mixed in. And if Neuman
hadn't been drunk, the quarrel would
Mt have started.
1--WE didn't want to rob the man, be-
Gauge we didn't need to. had money
and q good job. Why, ever since !
was 16 | haze never earned less than
$3.50 a day. Once I was earning sS5 a
month.
Il was Just % the day before | was
arrested, so you see it was only during
two years that I drank at all. How ]
wish those two years were blotted out,
| see now the only way for anybody to
avoid The possibility of my present
position is no. to touch it at all. But
I have found 1t Out too late, as many
another mar has.
Drink brought me here. Nothing
makes 1t so easy for a fellow to get
into trouble as drink. I face a life in
the penitentfary because of drink and
bad companions.
"Tell every yeung man to steer clear
Of both of these and he'll steer clear
of such Il position as now find myself
'n."-Nationa1 Advocate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-14

@A Gle
fN~M Gbeatres
Pr0Ct0rs.

In line with the splendid produo-
tions made at Prootor's Fifth avenue
theatre of late comes the announce
ment of William Gillette's great war
play "Secret Service, which has been
for so long one of the standard plays.
The Proctor management has secured
the entire original production with
the mechanical effects and other fen
lures, but with new scenery and the
play willibe given as careful q pre-
paration rs though 1t were intended
to make this revival for an extended
Broad way run.
O. B. Jefferson's onormous scenic
production Shadows of n Great
City" is the attraction at Proctor's
Fifty-eiRhth street theatre next
week. This melodrama, one of tho
. most successful productions upon the
American stage in tho past years, is
being shown this year upon a much
larger scale than ever before. In az
dition to the big scenic picture of
He'll Gate in the East river. in which
la tank containing forty-thousand
gallons of water is used and from
which ascIIild is rescued by the cor
vict hero, has heen added another
most successful effect, that of a thun-
der storm with real water and electric
flashes.
Odette Tyler, assisted by Robert
Hickman and James S~pottswood, will
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so 90 in stamps with a barrel of the
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Buy it now while 1t lasts, for it
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THAT Bothers Him.

Hussel-Yes. I'm a pretky busy man.
Dabster-I see you are, / don't sup
pose you're ever troubled with ennui.
Well. only with the pronunciation Of
it.-Philaaelphfa Press
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
HOW TO MANAGE
THE SUMNER MAN.

If any poor little soul who feels her
hold slipping from about the heart of
the man she loves desires a recipe for
bringing him back to her, let her set the
family cat upon the hearthstone and
study him. When she has attained a
scientific knowledge of his likes and
dislikes. his habits and idiosyncrasies,
his faults and his virtues. she will have
acquired the subtle art of managing a
man.
A cat is not really a wicked animal.
He is lovable in a way But he has a
complex nature quite different from
that of the simple dog. whose affections
are written in his eyes. A dog needs
only to be loved A cat must be very
deity handled.
Most women make the mistake of APP
preaching a man as they would a dog.
Before marriage they let him trot at
their heels, carry their packages and sit
at their feet.
After marriage they smother him
with caresses and cling about his neck
in a manner that would send the best
natured cat in the world scudding away
to freedom.
It is the woman herself who possesses
the dog nature-Iong suffering, devoted
and enduring. Possibly that is why she
cannot understand the masculine cat.
A dog loves his master; a cat loves his
home. A woman loves her lover; a
man loves the society of the woman
who makes him most comfortable. The
strongest masculine love that the world
has ever known has not been able to
endure the strain of burned chops and
curtain lectures, while the vainest and
weakest woman living viii often stand
up in the police court and fight for the
freedom of the man who has been ar
rested for beating her. 1t requires a
sixth sense in d dog or 4 cat or a man
or woman to understand each other.
A man, like a cat, may be cOaXed; he
cannot be bullied. The girl who at
tempts to attract man by pursuing
him with those obvious feminine at
tentions such as making love to his
sister and inviting him to call when he
has not thought of coming is, in vulgar
parlance, "f1inging herself at his head"
She is trying to charm him as she
would try to charm a cat by catching it
by the nape of the neck and rubbing
its fur the wrong way or by hinging it
a bone as she would fling a bootjack.
The man, like the prosecuted cat, is
aware that something is about to de-
scend upon him, and he runs.
1t is that subtle woman who looks the
other way while she bangles a ribbon
who attracts the most attention from a
cat or a man. The woman who can
wear a picture hat without apparent
| purpose, the woman who makes the
most of her own charms, but does not
| haunt them-she is of the subtle class.
A cat will always run after a ball of
bright worsted, provided it is not flung
at him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04


school, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had so
high a sense of physical purity in her
person and in her home that at last she
declared she would cease to permit any
train wearing woman to cross her
threshold If one ever did so that one
never got off without a "wigging'' she
could not forget Mrs. Stanton had the
eye of an eagle in reference to unclean-
illness, and street dirt is the worst,
most dangerous of all. Yet Mrs Stan
ton herself occasionally wore royal vel
vet or satin trains, but never upon the
street and never away from home un-
less she rode in a carriage to the place
where she was going
Trains are graceful enough indoors IL
one is willing TO put up with the both
er, but they are only in place in a
house or in carriage. In no spot are
they more of a nuisance and a menace
to the public health than in the church
or theater- Many an unfortunate has
caught pneumonia from the train Of
some woman's dress in church.
It is time the clean, refined, sensible
women of our country took the matter
seriously in hand and put a stop to this
public nuisance There are enough of
them to do il. A skirt of instep length
may now be worn anywhere even by a
fashionable woman one Of the odd
features connected with the thing is
that the longest OF the vile trains are
frequently made of very cheap material
showing that it is the poor women who
sport them. Perhaps they think they
IRE showing off high style. Again, the
aesthetic sense is outraged by seeing
exquisite and costly fabrics used as
brooms to sweep the filthy streets.
Worst of all, half the time these trains.
besides being covered with dust and
crime, are ragged and torn
MARY GOULD LYLE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

his finger straight on the pulse Of his
thought.
Love is supposed to be the greatest
thing in the world, but I have seen so
much of it worked out around me and
ending in disaster that I have my
doubts on the subject. The greatest
thing in the world. to my thinking, is
perfect understanding When it is be-
tween man and man it is admirable,
when it is between weman and woman
it is extraordinary, but when it exists
in spite of everything, in spite of love
itself, between a man and a woman,
then it is the most wonderful thing in
the world. When love has that-and it
hasn't it truly once in a hundred times
then there's nothing ever to fear, for
perfect understanding means that, no
matter how one fails, the other can al
ways put himself in that same place
and understand why it was. Oh. don't
think much of a love that only appre-
ciates the good qualities, and most
men and women's love is of that kind.
Give me the love that loves the 9TH
er's very faults and takes them in in a.
generous embrace as part and parcel
of the dear whole.
I'm not so sure there isn't world of
truth in the adage blessed are the i'm
perfect, for theirs is the kingdom of
love" It is, after all, when the other
one fails and we still love and still IN
derstand that we are giving the best
love a human being is capable of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

drawing from what she believes to be
the infinite power within the human
soul, she corrected a defect of vision
which had caused her to wear glasses
for years. Now her eyes are strong
and luminous. and her erect, 1.-the figure
is the expression of perfect grace
Mrs. Johnson is a vegetarian She is
also an enthusiastic student of the Del
sartean philosophy. To her it is an ex-
haustless fountain of wisdom. 1t has
helped her immensely in her modelling;
it has helped her to an understanding
of life which bears her above illness,
fatigue or dependency. She has writ
ten a book, not yet published, on the
true meaning of the Delsarte teachings.
Mrs Johnson's marble bust of Loretta
Mott viii be exhibited at the Women's
International Council in Berlin.
With a capacity for work that is not
less than marvellous. Adelaide Johnson
has perfect health. She rises very ear
~, works at high pressure all day, year
after year. with never even a headache
or the lightest weakness or twinge of
pain in her body. She is the perfect
human machine, and she has attained
this perfection herself. How? She
says:
4 believe the will is the means for
achieving conscious Immortality"
LILLIAN GRAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

The edges of the coat and Of the sleeves
were trimmed with large applique black
dots made of soutache braid wound
around and around, and they were as
large almost as a quarter. Just imagine
with this black and white hat, a full,
white blouse and a scarlet or grass
green parasol, and you will have a very
Frenchy picture
After all, the secret of good dressing
is not so much the material as it is
being in one becoming color from tip to
toe and having the right accessories to
go with it.
Before close let me add that the
embroidered shirt waist of batfste is
far more smart than the plain white
one. 1t is more expensive at first, to
be sure, but you make UP the difference
in the end, for it always looks we'll and
does the work of two waists, as it does
not continually need to be Numbered.
KATE CLYDE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
Back to the Modes.

But there is another subject in the
air besides love, and perhaps I had bet
ter pass on to it. mean clothes.
1 am living just now in big apart
ment hotel, and have a good opportu-
nifty to see some mighty pretty cos
tunes, not to mention, of course, those
I wear myself. (Thank you, thank
you'd
When the mohair suit is made we'll
kindly notice the accent on the when, %
because owing to the witness of the
goods it is not an easy proposition;
say "when''-it is certainly far smart
er than silk or cloth or anything else.
There are two such costumes in view
at this moment. The first is gray
made blouse fashion and trimmed with
heavy white stitching and applications
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
WOMEN RoorRLAcks.

Women in recent years have invaded
80 many of the occupations which in the
iast have been considered sacred to
nen that it does not come as a great
urprise to find a female bootblack in
he streets of London The lady in
question is the wife of a well known
bootblack whose pitch" is in Euston
road, outside Euston station. At pres
ent she only acts as her husbands UNI
derstudy, but It is her ambition to RIA
an independent business. The specta-
Gle of ladies' having their boots or shoes
cleaned in the streets is quite common
one in London, and. not unnatura1ly,
the female shoeblack believes that there
is a distinct opening for her labors in
this direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
SWIMMING POPULAR IN ENGLAND

Everything is being done nowadays
in England to encourage in young peo-
pie of all classes a love Of swimming
Curiously enough. it is among the up
per and lower classes that the sport il
so popular; the middle class young
people are the ones to give least time
to the practice The competition held
yearly at the Bath club for the ladies'
challenge shield has done an immensity
in making swimming popular among
society women. Their majesties are
great advocates of the sport and some
time ago attended the swimming
matches at the Bath club Indeed, King
Edward presented a handsome chal-
Ienge cup, for which the competition
was international. In many of the pub
lie schools free lessons are given to the
children in school hours, while the girls
are allowed to purchase material for
bathing suits at cost price and manu-
facture them during needlework times /,