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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
HOW TO CULTIVATE
A GRACEFUL WALK.

~ NE Of the most graceful women on
the stage is Julia Marlowe. Her
step and carriage are perfection,
yet it is said when she began her stage
training her gait was so awkward and
shambling that 1t vexed her greatly.
She resolved TO correct it. She studied
and practiced till she found how to
stand and step correctly. then with
sturdy will began long walks across
the country. maintaining every moment
this poise and step.
By correct and faithful pedestrian
exercise unsightly fat may be walked
off and a good complexion, good mus
cles and good digestion walked on.
Much, however, depends on what phys
ical trainers call poise-that is. the way
the body is held and carried. Mrs. M.
Landon Reed, the Delsartean, herself
one of the most graceful of women.
shows in the presence of her pupils
how a woman may make herself look
ten years older or younger without
moving step, simply by changing her
poise. How to get the correct one Mrs.
Reed explains as follows:
standing erect chest up, shoulders
natural, arms hanging relaxed, let the
weight of the body be transferred Slow
" from the heels to the balls of the
feet If the arms are raised to a hori-
zontal position as the weight is trans
ferred from the heels to the balls Of
the feet a further seA5e of lightness is
felt, and If one takes 3 deep breath at
the same time the sensation is as il
one might fly"
Well. that is the correct position to
maintain in walking or standing-ths
chest held bravely UP, the arms hang
ing loosely and naturally by the sides
part of the foot. Time out of mind the
front portion of the human foot has
been called the ball." why it is impos-
sible to say, for it is more like ball
than like brick. But at any rate on
the forward portion of her foot the wo-
man must stand and walk if she would
feel and give others the impression
that she feels young and light
Practice the change in poise before
a mirror, and you will be convinced of
this for yourself. Then if you have the
grit and perseverance to live up to
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gracefulness of step and poise you will
never look like an old woman In your
figure.
Most people bear all their weight
upon their heels. At every step they
come down kerplunk, kerplunk, like an
OK. Walking upon the heels Is not
only exceedingly ugly, but it jars the
spine at every step, in time often in
f1icting serious injury. It is a fact that
weakness of the back and soreness of
the spinal cord and spinal nerves char
acterize half of the women in civiliza-
ton. No inconsiderable part of this
trouble can be laid at the door of the
ordinary walk, the coming down heav-
lily upon iron hard shoe heels. lar
ring and shocking at every step the
whole spinal nerve system even up into
the brain. don't ask you to take my
word for any of this. Just practice IL
for yourself, stepping heavily with all
your weight upon your heels in the or
binary way, chuggity, chug, then walk
ing with the weight balanced lightly
upon the fore part of your foot No
comparison? 1 thought so. The differ
ence is as the difference between the
gait of a cow and the gait of an ante
lope.
Now, again, have you the grit to
keep it up? All, there's the rub. Many
women walk badly and heavily, and the
worst of 1t is that the carriage of as
many more girls as grown women is
thoroughly defective. It is not enough
to just get over the ground" Simply
by your style of walking you can ex-
press the manner and dignity of a
queen or the shambling, waddlinx
SLOUGH of a slovenly, old. fat woman.
What to do with the hands in walk
ing is a matter that bothers some self
conscious women. Well, I asked Mrs.
Landon Reed about this. I confess I
did it to find whether her opinion
agreed with my own, for have decid-
ed notions on this point. was greatly
pleased, therefore, to have her answer.
Let them hang naturally at the sides"
The unsightly habit of clasping the
hands in front of the waist which MANY
women have acquired throws the body
quite out of the graceful poise we
should maintain in walking and stand
ing. MARY GOULD LYLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

pELIeHTs Oh TRAVEL.
New York.

There is nothing more delightful in
the world than travelling, and yet very
few people really enjoy doing so. They
expect exactly the same food they get
at home, they want comfortable arm
chairs, and even the joys of a French
bed do not make up for the loss of their
favorite lounge. They have no capacity
for adapting themselves to the ways of
the country through which they are
passing, they take no interest in the
study of humanity by which they are
surrounded. they only stay at huge no.
tells containing hundreds of rooms
where every one is merely a number
and where a French cook, a German
waiter and a local chambermaid repre-
sent to them the life and ways of the
country. This is not travelling at all.
People lose all the comforts of home
and gain none of the experience of for
eign life. To get to out of the way
places, to live among the people and
with tifIe people, to see the endless ways
there are of accomplishing the same
end, tc note the thrift, the different
modes of agriculture, to study the
schools and the educational systems, to
attend churches and watch the people
at their devotions. to go to theaters and
music halls even if one does not under
stand, are all an education and an in
terest only obtainable by travelling
through foreign lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
Mrs. Adna
X
K. Chaffee,
FTsf Lady
Of the
Army Circle
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wood furniture the yellow man prizes
above all other. There. too is a Philip
pine room, with the bamboo and wicker
American Indian curios of divers sorts.
It is an object lesson to be permitted
to visit the Chaffee home.
General and Mrs. Chaffee's elder
daughter is married to Captain Harnil-
ton of the army. Their son, Adna jun
Tor, is in his second year at West Point.
The youngest child, Helen, is now if
teen years old. Mrs. Chaffee herself
looks ridiculously young to have a
married daughter, but perhaps that is
because she has had a life so stirring
that she has never been able to settle
down." She is slender and girlish of
figure, with hair, erstwhile light brown,
turning gray early after the manner of
American women's hair. Her face,
however, remains young. and that, too,
perhaps, is after the manner of Amer
lean women. 1t is a pretty face, full of
sweetness and animation.
Mrs Chaffee has some good stories
tipathy to being photographed she says
when he was about to depart for China
she instructed a friend in Washington
to make him have picture taken. The
friend obeyed instructions. In due
course Mrs. Chaffee received a great
batch of her husbands photos, with a
note from him saying he hoped this
would be enough pictures to last her
all the rest of her life.
ALICE w. MORTIMER.
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the microbe outright or so acts upon
the mucous membrance of the nose
that it renders it proof against the in
lection.
Speaking of the arctic regions, it is
worth mentioning that year spent in
the extreme north is worth all the hair
tones in existence to the bald. Arctic
whalers and explorers have almost
without exception testified to the amaz-
ing growth of the hair on their heads
during exposure to below zero tempera-
ture.
Indeed, it is said that if the roots of
the hair are not absolutely destroyed
even persons completely bald can re-
gain their hair by spending twelve
months among the eternal ice.
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est obstacle your own There, there!
Don't tell me something that 1 know
already. Beware of a redheaded wo-
man. It doesn't make any difference
what the color of her hair is; I'll be-
ware of her all right.
MY hand a very interesting one?
Yes-er-so people seem to think. Oh,
you mean you'll make a complete read
ing of it for SIS. Why, certainly; with
pleasure. Oh, gracious, 1 haven't a
penny left! Well, until next time,
then.
HAS any one seen a tall, handsome
man with a vandyke beard? He was
to have taken me home. Well, if he
doesn't turn up I'll have to be sent
home c. o. D, that's all, for I haven't
a bit of money left.
"Oh-h, Jack, here you are at last.
bless your heart! I'm almost dead.
Take me away from here before I sell
my powder puff
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that the orphans need shoes and stock
ings. Sell those tickets whether you
are introduced or not"
And 1 sold them.
Wont you buy a ticket for the au-
tomobile? You have bought ten al
ready? Oh, yes, but you didn't buy
them from me. You probably bought
them from tall girls with brown hair.
but you didn't buy any from a little
girl with black hair. Tickets sold by
little girls with black hair are sure to
win. They can't all win? Um-um!
Very true; but I'll put a special bless
ing in the upper left hand corner of
this one, and it will be sure to win,
only don't tell the others. A two dol
lar bill? Oh, am sorry, but I have no
change. Better take another ticket
with a blessing in the right hand cor
ner. Here it is. Thank you. Angel
man!
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81 hand Q 90 tnterestinq onel''

charity work, of course. 1t was all in
& good cause-I want you to understand
that before proceed any further-but;
to tell you the honest truth, I never
fiirted with so many men had never
met before in my life. There, there!
What have I said? It may lead you to
suppose-but don't you dare suppose
anything of the sort, because I don't,
and, what is more, I never did.
But was told to do it; nice, gray
haired old ladies told me to do it. They
said: go ahead. my child. Remember
that man was made to be iollied and
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Have a brunette chance on the au-
tomobile! No? Then 1 wish I had red
hair. You don't like red hair? Then
what color do you prefer, because if
you tell me I will introduce you to
girl with that shade of hair? There
are several of us selling tickets. There!
Watch him run away Wretch
what is that 1 heard out of my left
ear? wed better move away from
this automobile before they victimize
us@ Why the idea of two great, big
broad shouldered, generous looking
handsome men making such a mean
remark as that! You wouldn't .nind
my victimizing you very much, would
you? No, I thought not; they don't
usually It's awfully sweet of you to
say SO. Both of you want tickets? An
gel meni
Eyes, when I have sold all the tickets
I will come over and talk with you.
How many tickets have I left? Why,
three. You will take them? Bless
your heartl I knew you wouldn't let
me stand here firing myself
BY and by I go around and have
private prowl by myself. That is where
I make my great mistake. Have a
chance on the wheel of fortune?" Well,
never could resist that. Three chances
and nothing at all. But 1 shall always
be convinced that the last chance was
lost because fat woman next to the
wheel sneezed and it made an extra
revolution.
Let the mouse give you a nibble
out of the cheese-16 cents" A little
boy dressed as a mouse stands in the
center of a big imitation cheese, and
when you have paid up he reaches
down and claws a, small parcel, which
he hands to you, Tapping his ears COM
ically as he does so. Very fascinating!
I draw a tinsel box full of villainous
candy, which I eat, I don't know why
any more than why 1 accepted the
cough drop total stranger held out
to me when I was sitting in the auto
mobile. 1 must be like the elephant at
the circus.
'Take a chance at the mysterious ap-
pie tree?" Three chances. First time
an orange colored bit OF cheesecloth-
awful hint to keep my room busted;
next time round pill box with legend
"a remedy for that tired feeling" and
inside a tiny pasteboard chair. with
the legend, eco way back and sit
down." third time. forget what it was
the third time, but I lost it.
Will I have my silhouette done for
a dollar? OF course 1 will. 1 am by
this time non comoos mentis. I am
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
ROYAL BRIDAL wREArHs.

A pretty custom at English royal
weddings has been in vogue since the
marriage of the late Queen Victoria.
A sprig of myrtle from her bridal
wreath was planted. When the prin-
cess royal, the late Empress Frederick
of Germany, became a bride the little
branch had grown to be a tree and in
turn contributed to her chaplet. She
followed her mothers example, and
when the present emperor of Germany
was married his bride wore sprigs e..t
from his mothers tree. The practice
was observed in the marriage of the
king when Prince of Wales and has
been adopted by ali Queen Victoria's
children and grandchildren who have
married.
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is possible to take up one particular
branch and go through a course of lee
lures lasting six weeks only.
The fee for instruction in one of
these short courses is 81 $50 a week
to nonresident students, but the full
training for two years, including board
and residence at the hostel, is C IS
($325) a year
Women thus trained are fitted to
pass the examinations for the Royal
Horticultural society or those of the
oxford and Reading joint committee.
Successful candidates are open to OBJ
tain posts as gardeners, lecturers or
teachers, but the less ambitious may
content themselves by mastering one
or two subjects at a time.
The woman who will be satisfied to
devote her attention to the growing of
tomatoes and cucumbers, in addition
to the care of a winery or the culture
of mushrooms, will find an easier and
surer road to success than those who
risk failure by attempting too much.
1t is possible to make a fair profit by
growing only lilies or roses for the
market; strawberry plantation may
also prove a good venture. In Hamp-
shire one passes many hundreds of
acres laid out with these plants and
bordered by orchard trees Girls who
have lived most of their lives in the
country and have loved their gardens
will possibly need no additional train
ing. If they mean to adopt gardening
as a livelihood they should, however,
at starting make up their minds fully
as to the particular line they intend to
follow and stick to it with indomitable
will until it yields them success. Pa
thence tempered by hope is the gar
dener's motto.
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- HAVE broken all my resolutions
I am disguised with myself and
dead broke as well, for I have
- been to a fair in behalf of char
ity. But never, never, never
again. Do you hear me? Never again.
What is there so deadly about this
sort of thing? You come prepared to
spend 81 at the very outside and spend
ten. You would spend more, too, but
you haven't it in your purse, fortunate
~ for you. I think it is hypnotism.
And what do you bring home in return?
A motley array of things you couldn't
by any possibility use and wouldn't If
you could.
They put me in the automobile to be
decorative, and, of course, that hattered
my pride; but, incidentally, I had to
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vt is on record that Mrs. Chaffee
has said she hoped she and her
husband could go to Fort Riley,
- Kansas, and live the rest of their
days quietly there when the gen.
eral should be retired by age from the
army. The general had property there,
and she herself had many friends and
acquaintance.
But that was in 1900, a good while
ago as events move. General Chaffee
had just been sent to China then to
take charge of American military mat
tiers during the Boxer outbreak, when
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the lives of the
foreign ENJOYS
and their fami-
lies were in dire
peril in Picking.
The American
soldiers under
General Chat
fee made such
d record for
gallantry and
for refraining
from loot as
well that the
attention of the
whole n alton
and of Presi-
dent Mckinley
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eral years from
now. Can't tell
if I'm married
or not? Why
what do you
mean? Or, per-
haps we had
better talk of
something else.
Have marked
talents Don't
care anything
for that. You
have to work.
viii make a
great success in
public life and
meet royalty
My goodn e 8 8,
and 1 only paid
norn COL sGrnn+
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
HAVE YOU A PEARL NECKLACES

If you happen to be the happy owner
of real pearls wear them constantly.
for thus you will prevent the ravages
of a wicked little microbe which often
attacks pearls which are laid aside.
This minute parasite eats through the
outer covering Of the pearl, thus entire
ly destroying its beauty. Some ladies
wear their pearl necklaces always. even
at night. in order to protect them from
their unseen foes.
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automobile?" and thuswise for five
minutes. Nothing doing. ooh, I beg
your pardonI I have been told not to
use slang in this letter. Nothing oc-
CURED. Then. just to break the mo-
notony and to take the curse off I sold
myself a ticket, proudly giving myself
as treasurer a dollar and myself as pri-
vate individual a small ticket, which 1
promptly proceeded to lose, as I do ev-
erythinR.
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TOM L. JOHNSON'S DAUGHTER
FOR THE STAGE.

Miss Bessie johnson, the pretty
daughter of Tom L. Johnson. Cleve-
lands picturesque mayor. promises to
be quite as much of a success on the
stage as her father is in the political
world.
This young lady has for some time
been quietly preparing herself at a dra-
matte school in New York city.
In a recent performance of "Jephthah's
Daughter by the students of the dra-
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my fortune told for So? How ex-
cruciatingly cheap 'Um-weak line
of head Yes, I knew that Strong
line of heart No, not strong line of
heart; you mean prominent Want to
know my age? Well, 1 should say not
Not for $40; not that 1 am old, of
course, but people could count up sew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
NO cATARRH OR BALD HEADS IN
The ARCTIC CIRCLE

Explorers in search of the north pole
may die of cold, but never of a cold
The fact is that nasal catarrh is prac-
tically unknown within the arctic cir
Gle.
This seems to prove what many ply
sicians have long urged--that an ordi-
nary cold IN the head is an infectious
illness caused by a specific microbe.
The cold of the far north either kills
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sell chances on
the said ma
c hine. T h e
chances were a
dollar each, and
/ was presented
with a long-a
pressingly long
cardboard slip
made up of lit
tie tickets. I
smiled engag-
in gly (you
should see that
s milei) and
purred in hon
eyed accents:
won't you buy
q chance on
the automobile?
Won't you buy
$1,000 -. L.
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eARnENINe ZOE woMEN.

AT Reading. England, is a horticul-
tural school for women. An English
paper says of it:
A full training in horticulture will &C.
cupy at least a couple of years, but it
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Well, it did take the curse off. for
began to sell chances after that, but
the fact that 1 began to address my
persuasive remarks to the men instead
Of to the women may have had some
thing to do with it. Give me the men
every time-er-er-I mean as regards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

done-I mean, the silhouette is done
1t looks like my third cousin by the
second marriage.
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matte school Miss Johnson made a de-
cided hit as the Countess Beatrice.
Mr.. Joseph Humphreys, an experienced
stage manager, became enthusiastic.
Miss Johnson, whose stage name is
Elizabeth Tourney. is a pretty girl
with a graceful presence. She has the
Maude Adams gift of doing little femi-
nine acts that appeal SO surely to an
audience
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

ions. So pack trains are instituted and
food and water are carried in on the
backs of men especially employed for
this purpose.
The fire fighters. when they become
exhausted, throw themselves on the
ground and sleep where they happen
to be, sometimes without blankets and
with only the hot, fire-eaten ground to
keep them warm.
Whole villages are sometimes wiped
out by the forest fires. Lonely little
houses hidden away in the clearings fall
easy victims. and after desperate bat
ties in which every py-son, from the
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

actually roasted in the fires in Maine
last year. was enormous.
In Township No. Al, New York, last
year. where the large trees grew close
to the sides Of a quiet pool in the inlet
OF Big Moose Lake, the burning timber
threw out a fierce heat that raised the
temperature in the pool so that it's sur
face was thickly strewn with dead trout
The difficulty and dangers of fire fight
ing under these conditions are great.
Firemen are frequently cut off from re-
treat by the flames, and their only
safety is in setting back fires" that
win burn space enough for them to stay
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

in while the flames rage around them.
The lack of water makes the fighting
very hard, as about the only means left
in many cases are turning the sod and
pulling away from the flames the loose
brush on the ground.
Crews Of hundreds of men go into
the depths of the forest. twenty or forty
miles from a house. sometimes, and
fight all day against the flames
At night, with the coming of the dew
and the damp. cool air, The fires die down
and it is very necessary for the men
to stay and fight it out then and there.
They have no time to go out for provis-
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

Hampshire and in Western States The
blaze lights up the country for fifty
miles N every direction. Great pines.
three feet thick at the base, standing
in the course Of the fire, shrivel, burst
into flames and a few minutes after are
spIndles Of burned and olackened lum-
Der. Often they are burned to the
ground
The heat IS tremendous. Before 1t the
Wild creatures fly through the forests
terror stricken often running out into
the fields and pastures. and in some in
stances into the front yards of farmers.
The number Of deer and moose killed,
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

smallest child to the grandfather of the
family, fights for his life and home. the
dry shingles on the roof catch fire and
the little family finds itself homeless
with the shutting down of night.
The night is often as terrible to those
lying exhausted upon the ground Of
their clearing as the day has been, for
vast clouds Of smoke settle down upon
the farm, thick. heavy. and strang-
ling. There have been instances within
a lew years where whole families have
been found dead from asphyxiation be
side the smoking cellars Of their home
steads.
often the grass is so dry that the fires
lean from the leaves and brushwood
in the forests to the fields and. driven
by brisk winds. run across the clear
ings to the houses in spite of all that
can be done to prevent them.
In such cases the buildings catch
from the bottom of the outside walls
and the family is powerless to save
them.
Every farmer in the forest sections
of the State has not only to piow his
ground for his crops. but as soon as
that is done must turn over a wide
swath around his buildings TO save
them from possible fires during the dry
season.
Last year in the Adirondack region
$685.. 207 worth Of standing timber was
destroyed by fires. In the catskiIl re-
gion the loss was $2s,075 in standing
timber. The loss of buildings. fences.
etc. in both regions amounted to over
$4,000.