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The leader., 1904-09-21

does diminish tie pain accom- anyine
maternity. With its aid mothers can afd
do bring healthy sweet disposifioneS
and ideal babies into the world
Morning sickness, sore breasts ard ex
circulating pains caused by Tie raduallS
expanding organs, are relieved by this
penetrating aud relaxing liniment
Among ihe manifold aids to:chil dhixti
H0kller'E Friend has grown III popularity
and gained prestige among rich W'Qfieii
as well as poor; i IS found and Welecned
IS the naausiou as well as il the cabIn
nv 1eseenine The mother 8 agony of mind
and dimini ing pain heantiiil 6nencs
u wrought upon tile cliiId aud instead u
peeTisli. .tehipe and siclzly forms foe
have healthy, laughing humanity teEIlalil'
iit0 a blessing epeE TO yop and IS cpuntt3.
HI Efnfeisis 18th Hsnt i,ef r rienA ei &fsaq'
WFitf kqr cux lEef R9oF Y ~ ttf &A a g -
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The next meeting will be with
Mrs. a. G. McNair, Thursday
Sept. %, 5 p. NJ. Mrs. Noodle
then serves refreshments ID her
usual delightful manner.
The leader., 1904-09-21

AT the meeting of the Brookha-
ven branch held last Thursday
with Mrs. +. Boyce Noodle, the
question of serving hot lunches
for a. nominal cost at the public
school was widely discussed. The
committees were appointed to as.
certain the name of the number Of
mothers who would financially
support the project, in the way Of
purchasing tickets pretty much as
IN buying bread and milk. The
following ladies compose the com
|mittee: Mesdames Noodle, New
ton, Robertson, Batchelder. Miss
es Kohlman, Pfeifer and Martin.
Quite a number ofsunshine badges
we're sold, and the colors, white
and yellow, /. S. S., are familiar
greetings to the casual eye.
The leader., 1904-09-21
] have sold Ghamberlain,s Cough

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The leader., 1904-09-21

The Sunshiners sun is The Bull
lletin. It never sets. Its warm
rays gladden. human hearts every
where and always and its beams
Light up the gloom Of distress.
The Sunshine Bulletin is the
official publication of the Interna-
tional Sunshine society, giving il
detail, the work of the different
branches. Its 80 pages are focus
ed each month from every quar-
ter the good deeds Of all who are
willing to do something for some
body else.
In addition, it gives to its read
ers each month many practical
hints, useful tc those who do their
own sewing, much interesting
data of ideal housekeeping, fash
ion news and illustrations of the
most authoritative type.
For one whole veal, lit will shine
in your home with all its genial
warmth, if you will send yearly
subscription Of fifty cents to head
quarters.
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POSITION OF RUSSIAN WOMEN.

About ten years ago." writes an
American woman, 81 met = Russian
lady of rank and wealth who congratu-
lated me on being a citizen of a re-
public. AS my allegiance to my sex is
greater than it is to any theory ever
established by men l replied that I
could not see that being a citizen of a
to be congratulated on. She was
amazed a this and asked me for an ex-
PLANTATION, whereupon 1 asserted that I
was confident that our sex had not
Jared so badly, either politically or le-
gaIly, at the hands of the Russian gov
eminent as at the hands of the United
States republic. Each of us wagered
that the other was wrong, and to settle
the question we agreed to gather GER
tain data concerning women in our re-
spective countries. We found that
while in America millions of wives had
no Individual control over their prop
erty for about two centuries every
wife in Russia had been the legal mis-
tress of her own fortune; that while
every woman householder in Russia
had had the right to vote on all rnunic
ipal matters for several centuries, mil.
lions ofswomen in the American repub-
lie had no such rights; that 5000 wives
were deserted by husbands in the re-
public to 500 in Russia that thousands
of tiny girls were employed in facto-
ries in the republic, while no little girls
can be legally employed by Russian
factories"
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does not write easily. and his struggles
to utter himself are sometimes ago.
nizing.
Besides, the countess is the only
one who can read the great Tolstois
writing. She prepares all his books for
the press. One of them-"War and
Peace'-she copied six times before it
suited her husband.
Three of the Tolstois' children are
now married, and the amiable countess
is grandmother oh, yes, there is an
other part of her duties that must not
be forgotten. Tolstof is a vegetarian,
SO called; will not touch meat. His
faithful wife has run the whole gamut
of things that grow, trying to prepare
palatable and at the same time nour-
ishing food for him from those articles
of diet that to him are not taboo
She has succeeded to such an extent
that she told a friend recently she be-
Heved she could prepare a different
dinner 365 days in the year from the
various fruits, cereals and vegetables.
Talk about Tolstoi working hardi
Think what his wife does!
It is an odd sight to see the family of
the great Russian at dinner. All but
himself are flesh eaters. They likewise
enjoy china, silver and pretty table ap-
puIteHdiAceS. ACCORDINGLY you VIII see
the wife and children eating the viands
that other people do off china with sill
yer forks and spoons. AT the counts
place are only a pewter mug and plate,
with a cheap knife and fork. A bowl
of potato soup vegetable broth such
as the peasants use is before him, and
of that he eats, clad in a long, coarse
peasant blouse, with boots and leath-
er belt or girdle. Quite likely at the
same time the countess at her end of
the table will be richly gowned and
wearing jewels of rare value.
MARILLA WEAVER.
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GOOD FOR CHICAGO cLuewoMEN.

Clubwomen of Chicago are rejoicing
at the kind word said of them by the
board of health in its annual report,
which declares them responsible for q
falling off in the infant death rate.
IAN improved milk supply, the anti
toxin treatment of diphtheria and 9TH
er causes often cited for the decrease
of infant mortality are equally made
quate. and the department is disposed
to attach more Importance to the edu-
cation of mothers in the hygiene of the
young" the report says. 1.-THE efforts
of women's clubs and similar organiza-
lions in this education have been grow
ing steadily during this period of de-
creasing infant mortality. and it is be-
lieved this is the principal factor In
giving the baby a better chance for
life."
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enjoy life in the rare moments when
her devotion to her husband and her
administrative duties will permit.
Yet printing and selling the counts
books, managing the family finances
and rearing thirteen children have not
been the half Countess Tolstoi has
done. She herself taught the thirteen
children English and music. Not only
she is her husbands publisher; she
is also his sole editor. She is a highly
cultivated woman, speaking, besides
her native Russian, French, English
and German fiuently. She is an ad
mirable literary critic. She herself per-
sonally goes through her husbands
manuscripts, copying, correcting and
suggesting changes or making those
which Tolstoi's own striving for exact
expression prompts him to make. He
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must see Miss Mousely or expire; so
entered and trailed my way into a
chair. From his explanations it ap-
peared that he owned the studio three
afternoons a week.
Well, we became very good friends.
He made me stand in the light SO that
he might study my profile, and you
know that when an artist reaches that
point
Suddenly the door bell rang. We
both jumped. No, it was not Miss
Mousely, but it was an old maid friend
of Miss Mousely who felt she must
see her, and-yes, she would wait.
Beautiful picture, we two women sit
ting there as stiff as pokers, while in
the other room the artist washed his
brushes with unnecessary violence,
while he muttered things in Russian
which 1 felt glad 1 did not understand!
Presently conversation began to trickle
slowly. l gathered that the newcomer
was not sure that Miss Mousely would
return at 5, but she hoped SO. man
aged to instiH a few more grains of
doubt in her mind. Finally after what
seemed ages the clock struck 5; then
the hands showed ten minutes past. In
the inner room the painter was work
ing himself into a fit. He would not
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Countess TOlstoi
Wife Of the Great Russian Writer

TEW are aware that Countess So
- phia Andreona ToIstoi, wife of
the famous author, is by birth a
Jewess. While he pours forth
in his writings and lives in his
life what he yeonceives to be the true
and real teachings of Christ, his count
ess at her end of the line lives the ex-
act life of the typical Hebrew wise wo-
man of King Solomon. 1t is a curious
blend. What the lady herself thinks of
it she has never told, never Will tell.
After she had been married nearly
forty years to the count and borne him
thirteen children, rearing to manhood
and womanhood nine of them, mean
while keeping him and them all out Of
the poorhouse, the great writer ups
and pronounces his solemn dictum that
marriage is a failure all marriage
whatsoever. Whether the countess con-
siders marriage failure, again, she
has never said. Such q dictum from
him after all she has been to her hus-
band in all the years of their married
life might be enough to make her con-
slider it a failure so far as he is con-
cerned, but again and again this ador
able lady keeps her mouth shut.
After the young. rich, handsome, pet
ted and dashing Count Leo Tolstoi had
tried everything in life worth trying
the army, travel, society. feasting and
dancing, even daintily dabbling in lit
erature and being immensely praised
for his work; dabbling. too. into dissi-
patton in more than a dainty way, as
he himself tells us-suddenly his count
ship wearies of it all. not unnaturally,
perhaps. He marries a girl of seven
teen. He reforms. He begins to have
views" He takes his seventeen-y year
old bride down to his ancestral estate,
Yasnaya Polyana, where he was born.
Tolstoi had vowed he would never
marry and ended as such men often do
in taking a wife only half as old as
himself. She was the daughter of a
Moscow physician, an accomplished,
brilliant intellectual girl so far as her
intellect had had time to be developed
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child, and isn't that worth all the sour,
cynical epigrams in the world?
And then the next qualification, it
seems to me, 1 would look for if 1 were
a man would be that the girl could oc-
casionally broaden out and take a
mans point of view of things; that she
could leave behind her natural t'fniki-
ness" And it goes without saying that
I should want her to be a woman of her
word, with a fine sense of honor and
hatred of shams and hypocrisy. If
more men would make sure that the
women they marry have the common
virtue, too, of loyalty there would be
fewer divorces: but, strange to say,
man hardly ever has the sense to probe
for that particular trait.
At any rate the woman I should pick
out would be a good chum even should
the honeymoon chance to wane. She
would not be fretful or nagging or so
domesticated that she had no mind for
other things. And here's another point
1 would not ask her whether she could
sew or cook, but I would think twice
before I married a girl who had no
taste in fixing herself up or who could
not draw the window curtains together
in a coy manner and poke up the fire
and arrange the chairs in attractive
groups. That may sound trivial; but,
believe me, it is not. The girl who
lacks taste-and, alas, so many women
dolls a very poor home maker. In
fact, it is a constant irritation to live
with her. 1t is easy enough to have
pretty home and dainty house gowns if
you have plenty of money, but where
you need downright taste is when you
have to do cOntriving. Wall paper and
carpets of just the right shade mean SO
much when one is tired from a hard
days work, and a daintily dressed
blond or brunette head set off by a
gown of inexpensive material but just
the right color. certainly makes a diff
ference in a mans feelings.
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even deign to come out and join in the
conversation.
I yawned. "Well, I don't think it is
any good our waiting for her any lon
GER I ventured.
mo, I'm afraid not" she admitted.
We'll, then, suppose we'd better be
going" 1 remarked shamelessly. 1
arose, and she followed my example.
But I managed so that she moved to
the door first. The painter followed US,
wild eyed, for he thought I was going
to disappear like that. 1t shows you
just how much brain a man has. She
passed out first and held the door po-
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before she married and began taking
care of children and of a husband, who
was the most impracticable child of all.
The Tolstoi estate at Yasnaya Polyana
is so far from Moscow that a railway
journey of some nine hours must be
taken first; after that wagon or
drosky ride of ten miles. Nobody
lives near the Tolstoi home except the
peasant inhabitants of a tiny village
of one and two roomed huts, straw
rooted. upon the estate itself.
In the days when Tolstoi was sure he
never would marry he sold his ances-
trail home, a large and handsome one,
at Yasnaya Polyana. The purchaser
took the fine house to pieces and re-
built it elsewhere. Left standing upon
it's site was little house too insignifi-
cant to tear down and carry away. To
that little house went the seventeen
year-old bride with her genius of a
count After little while he left her
there alone and went stunning all by
himself, getting the philosophy of life.
Tolstoi possessed on his marriage an
annual income of nearly 5000 After
he took up his new philosophy, or, as
he himself says. after I was born," he
neglected his property till the income
dwindled to $4,000. The mind that was
course OF time " SNOlN0 nd
renina" and Resurrection could not
bother with money matters. The brave
young woman took the burden on her
own shoulders and herself learned to
administer the Tolstoi finances and do
it nobly, besides taking care of her
children. At length Tolstoi began to
write in the vein of thought that char
acterizes him today-radical ideas of
human brotherhood. religion and uni
versal peace
His own wife was the first to see
anything in his writings.
She borrowed money and herself pub
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lished his books. From that day to
this she has had charge of the publica-
ton of his works. She keeps the copy
rights in her own hands and with her
own hands takes in the money. Wise
womanl If she did not do so the nu-
merous progeny of the great man who
saw the folly of marriage after trying
it nearly forty years might not always
have had enough to eat.
At any rate this admirable Countess
Tolstoi is a most able financier. Toll
stoi lives like the poorest agricultural
laborer; the countess does not; neither
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To change the subject, talk about your
observation-disclosures The other day 1
started to make a call. l looked up the
address hastily in my book to make
sure and found it was % West Imply
sixth street I had been there twice
before, once in the evening early in the
autumn and once again to dinner, on
which occasion I had gone to the house
in company with my hostess after a
hard days shopping. Well, 1 entered
the street and fastened toward %. All,
there it was. The house looked famil-
lar. No; it was "a. Next door, then.
But next door was a fire station, and
on the other side of that, to my horror,
stood IL. The fire station occupied the
place of my friends house You cannot
imagine what a queer feeling it gave
me, and it grew queerer still when 1
asked a passerby whether it was indeed
Umpty-s sixth street, only to be an
swered in the affirmative. Then, in
deed I doubted the evidence of my
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kz- Mk
New York.
A HEROIC GIRL.
New York.

Six men of the Newcastle steamer
Vesper, which was wrecked on the
rocks near Ushant, owe their lives to
the bravery of young girl
When the vessel struck the men
managed to launch boat, but owing to
the heavy sea they could not effect a
landing and were in imminent danger
of going down when the girl, who was
watching them from the shore, jumped
into the sea with all her clothes on and
SWAN to the boat, clambered aboard
and piloted it into the little bay of Pc
nerroch, where the occupants were
safely landed.
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Studying her profile.

litely open forsfne proceeded to the
very threshold, and then came to
full stop with a jerk. "Oh, believe I'll
leave her a motel" exclaimed as If the
thought had just struck me. There
was nothing for her to do but to go
out and close the door.
1 turned to the painter with de-
mure smile. Have you-er-writing
materials" 1 murmured gently.
But what he answered is neither here
nor there. He says he is going to paint
my picture with the expression I wore
when But there! 1t was a very
simple little maneuver. Don't you think
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tdltii anu QlSltl
fed. and. above all. it must have par
ticularly fine cause for its display
just cause-and- even then the less of it
the better.
There is a great art, too, in saying
just what you want in a very few well
chosen words. Always remember this
the individual you are trying to i'm
press viii be far more likely to have
your views stamped on his mind than
if you let loose the torrent of language
and useless repetition most women in
dulge in when things go wrong.
1 suppose it is hard to remember all
this when one is vary much excited.
Anyway, here are the points on how to
get angry in the correct way. And why
do 1 talk of this at alp Oh, merely be-
cause have seen three perfectly stupid
outbursts of temper on the part of
friends of mine today. The first occur
red on the street car. The conductor
didn't stop at the right place. Needless
to say the woman didn't gain anything
but she made herself the laughing
stock of the whole car so that l was
ashamed to be with her. The second
eutburst was with a child, and it was
the stupidest of all because you never
accomplish a thing by getting excited
with a child any more than you do with
a horse that you are driving; both need
a firm hand and patience. The third
was with a servant-nost undignified
of all-and, to make things a little
worse, the mistress actually forgot her
dignity enough to go down into the
kitchen to deliver this TRADE instead of
calling the maid to her in her room and
explaining in a dignified manner where
she had been at fault
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And, speaking of afternoon calls,
remember a slightly unconventional
thing 1 did once-not that the memory
worries me; memories of that sort
hardly ever debut here it is: 1 had
just left Nan Flittabout's house, and
was slightly exhilarated by her studio
tea; she puts peppermint in it, you
know. Therefore 1 did not see myself
going quietly home and reading a good
book for an hour or so before dinner
Instead I resolved to see whether
could rake up some one else to call
upon. I happened to be in the F'ifties
and it occurred to me that a year and
half ago 1 had met and promised to
call upon a certain Miss Mousely, who
had a studio in, let US say, Carnegie
hall for the sake of giving this partfc-
ular temple of music and the fine arts
a name. I instantly became enthusiast
tic over the prospect of visiting Miss
MouSely, and within twenty minutes
was ringing the bell of her studio.
There was the jangling of harp as the
door swung open-why do they always
tie harps to their doors ?-and a very
distinguished, handsome looking man
stood before me. bowling, palette in
hand.
"Why-er-ah" I stammered, 81
thought this was the studio. of Miss
Sarah Mousely''
in his eye. Wont you step in and
wait? She will be back at 81
suddenly made up my mind that
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the girl he is in love with, but treat
ing with consideration other people.
whether they are congenial or not,
whether they are rich or poor, fortu-
nate or unfortunate. I wouldn't for
anything in the world marry a man
who was not kind to children or ami
mails, and-why mention it last when
it is so important?-I would never
marry man who was not as kind and
as good as he could be to his mother.
And some silly girls seem to think it a
proof of love when man neglects his
family for them Unselfishness, gem
crosby and ambition are vital charac-
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A girl I know lost one of the best
chances she had in the matrimonial
line because the man heard her voice,
shrill, angry and vulgar, as she raised
it in dispute with her sister while he
waited in the adjoining room to have
his card sent upstairs.
And a sense of humor-what a boon
to a poor mani The girl who possesses
it doesn't have to have things just so
in order to find fun. In fact, the "bluer"
the outlook the more her spirits rise.
She can make fun out of anything and
laugh at nothing like a merry. healthy
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4 FEW OF THE sULrAN,s WIVES

The following are said to be the
names of some of the sultan of Sulu's
wives: Scent of Lilies, Hearts Desire,
Honey of Life, Dancing Sunbeam.
Blush of Morning. Oasis In the Desert,
Moon Upon the Waters Song of Night
ingales, Whisper of the West Wind and
Rose In Bloom.
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becoming exclt-
ed. A little
studied calm
ness, a way of
being forcible
without losing
your grip on
yourself these
are the things
that pay. Once
in a dogs age it
is necessary to
get angry, but
even then not
in the cackling,
hustered way
that most wom-
en- adopt. An
ger to be effec-
tive must be
deadly cold and
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90 her children.
The little house
at Yasnaya Po-
lyana had long
since a COM
fort a BILE and
commodious an
mex built to it.
and in that are
t h e f a m il y
rooms. They are
furnished hand
s o m e ~ a n d
tastefully, and
there the count
eSS and her chill
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about financial
prospects, and
usually, if the
two go at all
together the
looks and the
money-the girl
marries him as
soon as she de-
Gently can after
the proposal and
counts herself
lucky. But the
first thing the
wise girl viii
look out for in
a man is wheth-
er he has a
r e ally kin d
h e a r t. 7 h a t
doe sn't me an
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@F were a man it seems to me the
first quality 1 would look for in
the girl I intended to marry would
be a good temper and a sense of
humor. Heaven save me from the
woman who has neither! There GER
tainly is nothing sillier than a woman
in a rage, and it doesn't do a bit of
good either. Any woman with ordinary
cleverness can get what she wants by
going about it the right way, but she
never in the world viii get anything by