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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-06
SOME PASSERS BY
AND STOP-0VERS

With the arrival of the steamship
China in port Friday afternoon at 4
O'Clock. the Pacific Mail line was we'll
represented in the har5or, with the
Siberia at the Eva end.
Among the passengers to arrive for
Honolulu We're Mr.. and Mrs. D. Z. ALI
SON society folk of San Francisco, who
will spend their honeymoon here. Miss
Power and Miss Bills returned from a
business trip to New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Gait and children returned
from the East. VIM. McGrew, bridge
engineer, arrived to install some brid-
ges in the Islands. L. c. Merrick, a
prominent business man of Chicago,
accompanied by Miss Merrick and Miss
SybiI Moorhouse, is here on a pleasure
visit. Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Merrill, or
Holbrook, Merrill and Stetson of San
Francisco, Mrs. Merrill and Miss r.
Merrill, will spend a few weeks in Ho-
nolulu.
Among the through passengers were
Captain w. A. Adams, 5th Royal Irish
Lancers, a well known army officer, en-
route to the scene of war to observe
operations. ]. W. Davidson, recently
appointed consul at Antung, and Hon.
F. D. Cheshire. newly appointed as
consul at a Manchurian port, are en-
route to the scene of their labors. Mr..
John Fox, ,Jr., is the we'll known author
of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom
Come Captain ]. B. Milton is an
American naval officer. Mr.. T. ].
Smith of Portland is the representa-
tive of the Portland-Asiatic S. S. Com
pany. en- route with Mrs. Smith to Yo-
kohama.
Major H. N Beddoes is an English
army officer en- route to Shanghai. E.
A. Bartlett is the nephew of the hus-
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THE LATE COUNT Won wALDERsEE.

battles of Graveiotte. Beaumont, Sc
dan, Beaune la Rolande, Loigny, Or
leans and LIE Mans. He was chief of
staff of the Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg, and after the end of the war be-
came German Charge d'Affaires in Par
is in 1871. He was appointed Chief of
the Prussian Staff in 1888 and in 1891
commanded the Ninth Army Corps. He
held several other high posts in the
German army and although at times
roundly criticized by other high officers
he has always been supported by the
German Emperor Had he lived until
April Sth he would have reached the.
age of seventy-two.
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PART I
Island Or auges.

Ripe and sweet, Csc doz.; 81 per 1e0.'
Wahiawa pineapples, 15c. and up;
pineapple sweet pickle pineapple pre-
serves, pineapple jam. pineapple syrup,
an IN glass. at -25c. per jar. Sauer
kraut in 21alb. tins at zoe. a tin. Wa
biawa cabbage. the best the market
affords, Wahiawa butter milk, fresh
and cold.
CLARK FARM CO. LTD.
Phone Main 17S.
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xh,s Afternoons Concert.

Following is the program to be play
ed by the band at p. m. today, on the
Capitol grounds:
PART T.
The Old Hundred
Overture: The North Star .MeyerbeeF
Ballad: THE Everlasting Day" Beaver
Selection: eli Trovatore'' ...... Verdi
Vocal: Operate Selections" ..
-. 49,. ........arr. by Berger
PART II. .,
Vocal: -Four New American Songs"
1890. .....arT. by Berger
Introduction: ''Lohengrin'' Wagner
Intermezzo: True Love. .Kretschmar
Selection: Popular Airs ..Stromberg
@The Star Spangled Banner
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THIEVES
ROB CAR MEN

Petty thieves are depriving Rapid
Transit motormen and conductors OF
their lunches, and the carmen are lying
in ambush for the offenders. When time
comes for lunch for certain men who
cannot leave their cars, their lunches,
in baskets or in paper, are brought 10
them while on the run, and are often
deposited on the seat within the car,
if it is a closed car. or under a seat
if it is of the open variety.
In one of the closed cars a motor
man has suffered from two invasions of
this kind. He does not begrudge the
thief the tempting morsels of food
which he or she hypothecateda but he
deplores the fact that they have been
so unkind as to keep his silver fork,
knife and spoon, as we'll as sund"y
glass and china dishes.
One motorman proposes TO put
strychnine in the food and see if this
will prevent the offerings.
4
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-06

C. L. BrownelI, the author met three
old Seattle football comrades in Ho-
noluiu, when passing through in the
Siberia. They were Governor Carter,
Captain Strive and Fred ]. Church.
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DEATH OF FIELD MARSHAL
COUNT Won WALDERSEE

Field Marshal Count Won waldersee is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01
The AesTEMIoUs JAPANESE.

In the war between Russia and ia
pan the problem of furnishing a food
supply will be for both countries one Of
the hardest to solve and will limit the
number of men that can be put into the
field. In this great advantage will lie
with the little islanders because of the
amount of work they are able to do on
a small amount of food. The japanese
are naturally abstemious in the matter
of eating. Rice is the staple of diet,
with dried fish as almost the only meat,
and with plenty of vegetables and fruit
when they can be obtained. An Amer
lean traveller in Nagasaki was amazed
one day at seeing the swiftness with
which the Japanese men and women
boys and girls, passed baskets of coal
!. from lighter to ship, chattering mean
while as If it were but a picnic in which
they were engaged. When noon came
and they stopped fol lunch he went
among them and examined their provi-
sions. One had an apple, tomato and
onion. Another had about three
heaping tabIespoonfuIs of boiled rice.
Another had two tomatoes and a tiny
rice cake. OF the man with the onion
the traveller asked, rs that all you
have?" "Why, yes" was the reply; 81
would not care to eat more just now,
for 1 have five. hours more work this
afternoon" what did you eat for
breakfast" "Oh, something very fine;
a bowl of rice, with some little strips
of dried fish, "And what will you eat
tonight when work is done?" "Proba-
bly, some boiled fresh fish. lettuce, to-
matoes, onions and cucumbers." Ac-
customed to such light diet from in
fancy, the Japanese builds great en-
durance on it. On the road to Picking
the Japanese soldiers required only =
handful of rice and kettle of boiling
water to prepare a meal which met ev-
cry Requirement.
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son, a promising youth, in college. Two
years after the Walkers removed to
Philadelphia this son, their only child,
died. Last December Mr.. Walker him
self died, leaving Mr.. Weightman, at
the age of ninety, with no one at hand
to assume the management of the drug
manufacturing Observation-Disclosures so
vast that it is said that the partners in
the firm of Powers & Weightman fire.
quently derived therefrom each a profit
of $1,000,000 a year. After her hus-
bands death the wife stepped into his
place and became to her fathers enter
prises all that he had been and more
too. Mentally she greatly resembles
her father. She is clear headed, cool
and capable of following details with
out getting them tangled. She never
gets ratified, never loses her temper.
Mrs. Walker began by accompanying
her father through his laboratories and
offices and acquainting herself with his
vast real estate properties. Day after
day she was with him learning. Early
this year she was made partner in the
drug manufacturing work. and her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01


two especially chic costumes made. The
first is a corduroy of medium gray
shade made with the skirt just clear
ing the ground and the short jacket
having a wide boned belt fastened with
a cut steel and silver buckle, the but
tons, by the way, being of the same
metal. With this she will wear a white
silk blouse and a gray and white toque.
Her stole and muff will be of chinchilla,
although gray squirrel would look al
most as well for some one who had a
shorter purse. 1 forgot to say that
when she wishes she can insert twist
of pale blue in the folds of her turban
and let knot of the same tint appear
on her dainty muff.
The second costume is of red cloth
1t consists of an entire dress made
very simply and trimmed with red
embroidery of the same shade inserted
with velvet medallions of a slightly
darker tint. The skirt is long. With
this is worn a three quarter length
coat beautifully strapped and trimmed
with medallions of the deeper velvet.
The hat worn with this is in several
shades of red velvet and roses. A
short stole of sable or marten would be
pretty to go with a costume like this
particularly if it had a couple of fr-
regular choux of shaded ruby velvet by
way of decoration.
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give. You may know it instantly. The
sweet tempered, comfortable, smiling
look all Japanese women and girls
wear is lacking to the American f5mi-
nine face, young or old. In it's place 10
the telltale expression of corn and bun~
ion. Really and truly, in order to weaR
high heels and shoes two sizes too
small is it worth while to ruin forever
the shape of the feet. torture oneself
till one is heart sick, soul sick and body
sick, be unable to go afoot ten miles to
save ones life, to walk like a hobbled
horse and to acquire permanently the
corn look in the face? The little Jap
woman, with her health, physical
strength and endurance, her graceful-
ness and her bright, happy face, is sur
ficient answer.
MARY GOULD LYLE.
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of vast fortunes in
- America have found it expe-
dent, in order to prevent their

-OUNDERS of vast fortunes in
America have found it expe-
dent, in order to prevent their
financial properties from being
dissipated, to leave the control of these
properties in the hands of one son, by
whom the estate was held in trust, to
be administered for the benefit of all
its owners. The Astor possessions have
been thus held together nearly centu-
ry, while the wealth from them has in
creased like a SNOWFALL rolling down
hill 1t has been the same with the
Vanderbilt interests, and recently Will
liam c. Whitney followed the custom
. by naming in his will his son, Harry
Payne Whitney, as the financial head of
the house.
In the administration of these vast
American estates that descend from
generation to generation the women
heirs as rule, actually count no more
than if they were the daughters of a
titled family in Great Britain. The
custom has been to cut them off with a
comparatively small income, while the
bulk of the properties has gone to the
men heirs.
The late William Weightman of Phil
adelphia broke the rule and left a wo-
man, his daughter, Anne Weightman
Walker, the business head of his house.
Mr.. Weightman was past ninety when
he died and had perhaps lived long
enough to find out that no man can
excel a woman in business acumen and
administrative ability when she sets
her head to it. 1t is true if Mr.. Weight
mans sons or his son-in-law had been
alive one of them might have been
made the head of the house. Still there
are other male heirs to his estates who
could have been named for the place to
which Mrs. Walker was appointed. It
looks, therefore, as though the great
chemical manufacturer gave his daugh-
ter control of all his interests, even to
the laboratories, solely because he
knew she was better fitted than any
body else to take charge of them.
Mrs. Walker is sixty-one years old,
but has bright red brown wavy hair, a
clear, girlish skin and a girlish figure
that make her look far younger than
these years. She is of an intensely ac-
tive temperament and must always be
doing something. She has from choice
attended to her own financial affairs,
which kept her busy even before her
sudden accession to her fathers sixty
millions. 1t is this intensely busy life,
the life OF one stepped to the lips in in
teresting work, that has kept Mrs.
Walker young. She is the widow of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01
MRS. RRowN,s DRESS.

Wife-Can you tell me what sort of a
dress Mrs. Brown wore at Miss Well
ingborough's wedding today?
Husband-Well, she had one of those
new fashionable dresses made of what
do-you- call-it stuff-sort of a mixed
color and trimmed all over with
what's-its- name? I don't remember
whether it was cut low or not or
whether there were any sleeves, but 1
think there must have been a train, for
saw a gentleman fall over it, and I
heard him say something that won't
repeat. Her hair was done up in the
new fashionable style, you know-just
like our dog. after it has been out in
breeze of wind. I don't remember any
more details.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01
FEMININE STRENGTH
AND GRACEFULNESS.

-HE other day I witnessed the
performance of a Japanese aero
batfc troupe in which the ac-
tors, all but one, were young girls. The
smallest of them could not have been
more than six years old. One was nine
or ten, another apparently about eight
cen years old. The little girls were as
nimble as cats, as graceful too. The
performance consisted of various ball
ancing feats. At first the two tiny
girls danced upon rolling globes, NOV
ing these about the stage, finally walk
ing them up a seesaw board and down
again. The globes were constantly
rolling over and over, the children
moving their feet correspondingly and
keeping their balance as readily as If
they had been walking upon level
ground.
Torrance balanced upon his shoulder,
without touching it with his hands.
long pole that had a ladderlike frame
work fastened to it. A little girl climb
ed like a cat UP that pole to the frame
work and did acrobatic feats that made
one fairly dizzy. The same little girl
walked a wire and danced upon it in
her bare feet. She pulled off her shoes
while sitting upon the wire.
Then came the most startling exploit
of all. The girl of eighteen, beautiful
creature, lay on her back upon a table,
her feet up in the air. Upon the Soles
of her little feet as they were turned
upward were placed two poles sup
porting a cross frame. AS she lay thus
the smallest girl climbed upon the
framework, working herself in and out
between narrow bars, finally reaching
the top, where she lay upon her back
side of the frame, her feet on the other.
1 don't know how long the pretty girl
supported upon the soles of her tiny feet
the heavy frame with the child upon it
doing acrobatic feats, but it was sew
eral minutes. When the act was over
she vaulted from the table, bowed her
quaint little Jap bow and left the stage.
The girls were graceful as fairies,
although they were so strong. Their
muscles, like their garments, were soft
and pliable, not an inch of them stiff or
clumsy. They seemed able to with
draw their strength from any muscle
and apply it where they desired.
After the show I saw them going to
their quarters. Their movements were
perfectly graceful still, and there was
not a corset, high heel or an "improv-
err of any kind about them. They had
simply trained their beautiful muscles
as nature made these.
Then l watched some American girls
going along in the throng. If you had
seen the contrast it would have come
over you like a shock how awkward,
clumsy and physically MANNED the av-
erage white woman is. Not one in fifty
even walked we'll The high heels most
of the girls wore pitched them forward
and made them step painfully and
n1incingly upon their toes, while the
frightened, unnaturaIly shaped corsets
added to the effect. The shoes and cor
sets, both being painful, gave a strain
ed, suffering look to the young women's
faces. Look upon the countenances of
the American women you meet in a
crowd and see how few there are with
out this same strained. distressed look.
1t is the look which corns upon the feet
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Tot0ing the auto home.

latest French pattern and requires the
personal attention of an imported
chauffeur. Even the fluid used to run
this most aristocratic machine comes
from afar in carefully packed bottles,
and it is odorless and clear. One pleas
ant morning the oil had run out, and
the chauffeur anxiously awaited the ar
rival of a fresh supply. When it came
in small key he promptly knocked off
the head and filled the machine hur-
riedly, for he was late, and quite a
large party of guests were waiting.
The machine started well, but soon be-
gan to show signs of slowing up, and
finally the whole concern came to
dead stop four miles from nowhere. In
vain the highly educated chauffeur
crawled under the machine and peered
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NJ man nedrQ eXctd1nlnS
n " N this in front of the win
dows of a dry goods shop. Red shad-
ing from copper to brass, brown in it's
most yellowish and claylike tints, green
that looked like dandelion patch hav-
ing a fit and autumn leaf tones shad-
ing into hideous old rose! The mate
rails, too, gave me slight satisfaction.
There were shaded effects of such di-
mansions that they might better clothe
hippopotamus than a winsome maid
en- OF ordinary build. And fgurings!
Wen. have dreamed of such figure
design in Nightmares.
For heavens sake, l ask myself, are
stuffs designed to set off the face, or is
1t a competition between the face and
the material and may the best one win
Because if that is the case there isn't
the slightest doubt which will win the
vietory-the material.
Some of the new hats are rather pref
ty-and expensive, too, by the way.
Brown, of course, leads in hats, as in
everything else This brown is COM
bined with a tint of orange so vivid
that few compilations will dare to look
yellow by its side. l always have con-
tended that it takes a bad complexion
to wear orange, and now 1 know it.
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worse, horrid paragraph appears in
the daily paper informing tradespeople
in general that Mr.. So-and-so refuses
to be responsible for his wifes debts.
Some women do not mind who suffer
so long as they can obtain their desires,
and if the dressmaker and niiliner re-
fuse to give credit the tradesman is
obliged to wait for his money. He does
not like to offend his customer, and she
has lost the right feeling about bills,
which could easily be settled If she
would only stifie the desire to follow
every little turn of fashion.
One hears that Mrs. A. is very badly
off and does not know which way to
turn in order to meet her liabilities, but
as one watches the dainty lady trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01

ping down the road in a gown of the
latest fashion, with a delightfully."- pic
turesque hat reposing on her pretty
head, one thinks many things and real
ly cannot sympathize when the lady in
question is giving an account of the
hard times through which she is pass
ing.
Women, be honorable! Learn to do
without what is not absolutely neces-
sary. 1t is only the weakminded wo-
man who yields to temptation, fondly
hoping to catch up later on, and here
let one remark that the Catching up"
process if ever accomplished is an ex-
ceedingly painful one.
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NV LAY is OF THE LAVENDER.

Lavender. sweet lavender,
Groweth in q garden fair;
Here and there along the borders,
,Mongst the Gayly haunting flowers.
Like Quaker maids the bushes stand.
Lavender. sweet lavender!
Who loves not lavender?
Who loves not lavender
Loves nothing right at all.
Quiet is her garb, ween-
Cloudy blue and grayey green.
Yet first favorite is she
With her gracious majesty
The rose, the garden queen.
Lavender, sweet lavender etc.
Bask they in the sun together,
Soul is knit to soul forever,
In one urn their ashes mingle,
Scent from scent you cannot single
In the fragrant potpourri-
Lavender, sweet lavender. etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-01
A WoMAN'S WORRIES.

What will not some women do to
crafty their love of dress 1t is really
astonishing the risks they will run, the
wear and tear of keeping tradespeople
quiet and even the possible wrecking of
their home.
The wife is worried, and the husband
cannot understand her preoccupied
manner He becomes cool and at last
demands an explanation or perhaps
discovers the cause for himself
Then there is a scene, and sometimes,
to the lasting degradation of the wom-
an whom he has sworn to love and
whom he has taken for better or
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WOMAN An HER BEST.

When girl is eighteen she thinks
the best time of a wonran's life must
certainly be from eighteen to twenty
two. When she has passed her TWEEN
ty-second year she is decidedly of the
opinion that from then until the age of
twenty eight really marks the. limits
of the best time, and when thirty
comes on the scene she is ready to give
way to those who believe woman to
be then at the zenith of her, life. j. $3.50
1t is generally maintained that after
twenty-five The average woman begins
to attain her physical and mental per-
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thing, but Oh,
there 1 go again
on t n e m a n
que s tion when
it's fashions I
started to write
about conscien-
t i o u s y. an d
fashions, by gra-
cious, you shall
havei
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FIVE MINUTE PEPPERMINTs.

Stir one cup of sugar and one-fourth
cup of boiling water over the fire until
boiling begins. Then cook five minutes
without stirring. Remove from the fire
and beat until creamy, adding mean
while six drops of oil of peppermint.
Half may be slightly colored with coch-
meal to give a pink tint. Drop in
rounds from the tip of a spoon on to
white paper. If too thick add a few
drops of boiling water and stir while
melting over the fire. Then remove
from the fire and stir and drop as be-
fore.
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and pried. The whole party had to get
into a wagon and tow the auto home.
And it was only there at lunch, when
the owner asked for some of the new
maple strip which had been sent to
him from the farm of a friend and
when he found the particularly fine
strip all gone. that the truth came out.
In the sernidarkness of the stable and
in his haste the Frenchman had simply
filed the machine with maple sirup
New York KATE CLYDE.
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you take sometimes two people of alb
solutely the same coloring and pretty
much the same style of features, and
one of these will be able to wear
bright red hat, while the other will
not? There is a twinkle-a latent dew
iltry-in the eye of the lady who wins
with the red hat, which twinkle being
absent in the case of the other, she
simply looks faded and dead when
brought near the vivid piece of milli-
merry. 77=+vz
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years after this she still retains her
charms undiminished. After this time,
of course, it depends entirely upon the
woman whether she chooses to adver-
tise her years or by her charming per-
sonality and clever dressing conceal all
ravages of time.
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slow pokes who
are about ready
to adopt a style
j Il S t as it is
pa S sing away.
The thing is to
wear a small,
pointed, canoe
shape whether it
is becoming to
you or not and
to look as if you
were enjoying it.
After all, it is
the expression as
much as any
thing else which
counts with a
hat, or else how
can you account
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