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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-12
I'm CITY SCHOOLS
B Dard Considering Equipment OF d
Building With New Fire
EXtinguisher.
PURCHASE OF NEW BOOKS
Increase of IS in the Enrolment for
The Month - Bills Al
lowed.

The board of education held a reg
ular meeting last evening, all eff the
members being present. A representa-
tive of the company which manufac-
ture the kilfyre extinguisher present
ed proposition to the board to equip
all of the school buildings with the
apparatus. The matter was referred
to the fuel and heating committee TO
Investigate, and make a report to the
board at a later meeting
The usual allowance of $3.50 was
made for the purchase of new books
as needed in the high school library,
and the procuring of additional tables
for the drawing classes was author
lied, TO meet the necessity arising
from the great increase in the enroll
mcnt in the manual training classes.
OF the freshmen enrolment of 143.
40 are boys, and of this number 40
have enrolled for manual training The
pupils who have entered the high
school from the grades have some gen
eral knowledge of the work. and a
very definite interest in the manual
training. The enrolment in this Class
is nearly G5 per cent of the entire
class.
Growth of the schools.
The statistical report of the super
intendent for the month, shows an in
crease of G5 in the total enrolment
for the month, and the increase along
other lines of school work, as shown in
the report, indicates a healthy devel-
Opment in the schools, growing out of
the steady advance of the number of
people in the city. The report is as
follows:
Enrolled for the year 3,444, an in
crease of G5 over same month last
year; enrolled for the month, 3,444,
an increase of G5 from last year: num-
Der belonging at close of month. 1872.
an increase of "A from last year; aver
age number belonging. 1885, an in
crease of 40 from last year; average
daily attendance, 1882. an increase of
81 from last year; percentage of at
tendance, 97.5, an increase of 1 per
cent from last year; percentage of
99.934. a slight decrease
from last year; number of cases of
hardness. 81, an increase of 10 from
last year; number of cases of truancy. |
II, a decrease of s from last year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-12

up kgin" a Good Thing
a man which he commences to
patronize the American Steam
Laundry. THE best laundry I ever
struck ia what those who indulge
in a little slang would say Uut
entire nous if you want your linen
as faultless as when you flrsI
bought it, in color and finish, we
VIII guarantee 10 do 1t to your sat
iy:action every time. Careful hand
ling and artistic work are among
our Up-to-date methods
AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY.
Twelfth Street and Fifth Avenue.
yPaOne 17GS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-12

man was the stage director and Brady
the call boy at $40 per
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-12
Holding on Al Leech.

Weber and Ziegfeld tried to buy the
contract that William a. Brady holds
with Al Leech. Their offer was re
fused, Leech and his Girls viii Be
Girls" company made a great hit in
New York and Brady intends after
this year to put Leech at the head of
a big musical company which has al
ready been booked for a Broadway
opening.
One Night in June Closes.
The company presenting "One Night
in June" which visited Rock Island
two weeks ago. has closed Poor bus
mess.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-12

His present engagement has been one
series of enormous audiences
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HOW HE KNOWS FALL rs hE7
And How He Is Able TO Tel Nhsat i'll
Time, Spring Comes ArSuiid?f

Il can always tell when fall co,Se4E Shid
man who is not very sensitive to cdldbut
whose ears are acute, "by the cessatidhs or
the apparent cessation, of the mllsfcal
sounds that in summer are famaliais in
my neighborhood. -' -.
All night long, around where IllxA in
summer, we hear through the open %inti1ws
the sound OF pianos and piccolos, CDR bets
and clarinets bass horns and l9nssoSns,
oboes and flutes guitars and mandolhs,
violins, trombones, sa: ophones acyor-
Gions and Photographs, all going at once
in gigantic, volcanic. tremendous, up
roarious tumult; then there comes a. time
when. suddenly, become conscious thaf this
tumult has ceased. And then realize it
is because the windows everywhere IRE
closed and the sounds shut in. 10 5thN l
no longer hear them. = ,vsAI's :. Is
II don't fee, the cold myself and so my
windows are still open; but other people,
more sensitive. have closed theirs; and. so
when / no longer hear the sounds of their
pianos and piccolos, comets and clarinets
oboes. flutes, and all the rest Of them, why
then know that it il fall. .. TO A.YfT
But l know, also. that the VOLCANO 10
only slumbering; and that in due TIME we
shall hear again the same chorus, an going
at once, in gigantic, Volcanic tremendous,
uproa, ious, cataolysmic tunult. when ON
the first warm night the windows are opened
again in the gentle snrir ctime."
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the first to take up this personal style Of
hair dressing. Some Of the loveiest OF the
recent English brides appeared at the altar
with the sin plest coifures not a roll or puff
or artificial wisp of hair This in face of
the fact that the British Isles are the
home Of fringes, toupess, fronts, forwards,
transformations, frize,tes, tails and num-
berless other disiguring forms Of artificial
coiffures.
Lady Ulrica Barring, who was married in
the late summer. was one of the first OF
the most beautiful Engli' III girls to adopt
an entirely individual style of hair dressing
1t suggests just little Blrne-Jones
Gre,k angel, but then she has somewhat
a pre- Rapaaslite type of fare, aud the hair
is really 81 nper and prettier than any
R. A. pi ,ture 1t is partei, without waving.
and taken back neither tight nor loose,
half hiliny the ears, and loosely twisted
in a large knot, just reaching the nape OF
the neck.
The result is equally charming and sym
metrical front face or In profile. 1t is a
style that adds to the artist eject of a
ri ture bonnet. and Is simple and correct
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articles for remote scenes of action. A
British dame whose mind ran along in the
arduous channel of hoi seshoeing invented
a speedy, prof tai lie method of doing it..
A gentle, placid Swedish maid invented an
aluminium solder. A lock with 5000 com
binations shows fairly intricate feminine
mind. An electric fire escape proves the
resources Of a timid woman to whom Fate
had denied valiant natural protector.
But how account. for the eccentricity OF
sweet womanliness that designed ham
mer guard for firearms. a system OF barrel
topl ing a brake for vehicles and Iatent
on building blocks with bevell,d ends and
alternating rows OF tongues and grooves
for locking together
A water filter seems reasonable sug-
gestion from the mind that creates do
NEST lefty. So do a misunderstanding
machine dress support e.s, shoulder braces,
toys and puzzles; but how about mining
machinery. geogr az hical globes, sheet iron
shovels and street cleaning trucks, hand
saw and war vessel?
Besides the inventions brought out by
women under their own names in their own
rights, there are every year dozens OF sue
cessful inventions patented for women by
their employers and produced under
firm name. Other inventions are pur-
chased outright from women before they
are PATENTED. This is especially true, OF
novelties in cosmetics. toys, simrle Kitchen
utensils and dressmaRing f1nishings.
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cultivated. All sorts Of wavy devices are
used to destroy the old hard outline Of the
ponderous pompadour.
The soft roll is never lined or built up
even an inch beyond what pretty waves
or natural fluff will do
1t is parted and waved and held full at
the sides with combs, or rolled back Dutch
fashion without curling. This style is
especially becoming to a woman with low
forehead and hair growing close about the
face.
But the dropping wave is better where
there is much of statesman's brow-all
well enough as symbol of gray matter, but
not to be revealed for aesthetic reasons
Men are about as afraid of high forehead
in a woman as of a sharp tongue. Neither
stimulates admiration.
The Evangeline hair dressing, which can
be copied from any old daguerreotype,
is seen under many Victorian bonnets-
smooth brown tresse, parted and pulled
over the ears, and lustrous under the tiny
rosebud nosegays that line the brim of the
quaint old-time bonnets.
Here one should mention the encourage
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Then Mary Brush, some six years later
invented corset, an ugly. shapeless affair
that must have ruined Mary's figure and
digestion and worked havoc with the coun-
tryside-if she really made money
There has been no one article 50 often
patented as the corset. Until straight
front corsets came in women were SELDOM
comfortable with their stays on. and every
woman who got together a corset in which
she could face life cheerfully felt as though
she had boon for womankind, and her
husband usually believed her and patented
the article.
Following these first self-conscious small
patents, VIC men developed wider interest in
life, anckfasi.ion having Lad it's inning, Giet
was conslc cred al d baking powders were
patented ana ice cream freeZers and occa-
sional cooking utensils.
Then with the success OF these first pat
epts the lonely woman Of thinking capacity
came into her own and patents were taken
out for rocking chairs. hospital bano ages,
for reaping ana moving machines. for con-
veyers Of smoke and clnt ers, Tor halr re-
storers, for cam and reservoir construc-
ton for safety pins and hammocks.
The moi important and profitable patents
have been not those intended to reform
the human race or n axe either great fer
tune or fame, but those which were the out
growth OF ueeO ana Tie eApeI.cLce dIu
ssbiI.ty TO cope with it. The woman clerk
in the New York ste re who invented profit
able delivery system had felt the need
Of one, and knew all the practical DETAILS.
She mac fortune :,
Another woman who had much TO do
with hanu ling bags that once filed wouldn't
stand hut promptly spilled their cor tents.
|, invented a satchel bottomed paper bag.
She had the courage Of her former troubles
and took her bag to Washington and re-
eeiyed an oirer Of $50 600 fer the patent the
CAV II was Issued, Evidently others, too;
had suffered from the caprices OF the pointeo
bottcmed bag.
Most OF the patents haven't cost over
much brain or capital or time. They Just
make one little detail In life run smoother,
and the woman who invented them did so
in the first place to save herself trouble rub
Women are drawing incomes OF 5000
wear and me re fer having found small rem
e, les fer snail worr.es.
A glove buttoner Of simple device means
e. oo6 per annum a waist supporter that
renders the average hurried woman's
back less defenc ,less has made the In
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all the back hair to be dragged to the fore
head to complete its proportions, and
of en- even when every LOCK was pressed
into service to increase its mammoth pro-
portions it would demand further sacri-
fee of curled hair, rats, illusion, &c. And
completed it was the most absurd, mean
ingless, unbeautiful unhealthful couture
ever constructed.
The reaction from it, the downfall Of the
pompadour, means fewer headaches, more
beauty, more happiness. more admiration,
more health Artists will re- dice and physi-
clans will look triumphant, if lean.
OF course, In spite of the fact that woman
may dress her hair as she likes and be in
good STYLE there will be some few modes
that will be most widely followed, and these
are, fortunately, very generally becoming
1t will be most fashionable to dress the
hair at the back of the head very low. or
up and down, reaching from crown to nape,
or, for very stout faces, just reaching above
the C. IN, with always the long rather than
the wide effect at the back, and braided or
loosely rolled as suits the style OF the face.
Flatly braided hair pinned closely to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
A FLIER IN STOCKS
Came Handy for the wedding Anniversary
y OF the Man Who Took II.

II was hot night in the first week OF
last August. The pharmaceutical chemist
was sitting among the bottles and test
tubs and mortars in his laboratory. His
family were In the country, and he wished
that he was with them. He happened
to be In his laboratory because there WASH
any other place he wanted to go and
because he had some work to do. About
10 o'clock his friend Quill dropped In
for nip of the doctors Scotch on his
way home.
.Say, Doc said Quill, do you want to
take little flier in the MARKET" .
I'D rather take a fier into the country,
was the reply. But since | can't do that
let's hear your proposition.
Quill. Its a stock with a history know,
but got it pretty straight that on or be-
fore Oct. is it'll be selling at So or better,
1t comes SO straight that, II ! had some
money to gamble with, I'd buy a little
myself and hold for about a ten point rise,
Just to have leeway enough.
"Ill think about It," replied the doct tor,
and after a nightcap with his friend, Quill
he went home. The next night Quilldropped
into the laboratory and the doctor said:
I'm in; got hundred at IS, and my broker
was curious to know who put me on
Last night Quill dropped in at the labora-
tory and the doctor remarked:
Say, neighbor. remember that 1nterna-
tiona Power tip1 Well, she touched 50
on Wednesday and let her go. ! cleaned
up just 81. 100, thanks to YOU, but that isn't
the best Of 1t. On Oct. 10 the Missus and
will have been married seventeen years.
A good many things might happen betw cen
now and the 10th, so thought I'd cinoh
the anniversary with a little something
to make it worth remembering. There
fore, having banked the seventeen hundred.
drew a check for the amount and gave it
to the best part Of me this morning, and she
v anted to know what 1t all meant. and
said:
.'Well honey. as an investment pure and
simple, I've calculated you've been worth
to me at least 500 year for the last sew.
enteen years, 30 thought Id better settle.
She gave me bat over the ear and did some
other stunts in which you wouldn't be in
terested, and. womanlike, she wanted to
know where got it, but all ] said was:
''Now you're commencing to begin
again
EN- around. The Missus likes what she
knows about EN-,
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ventor independent, and perforated hat
band designed by shopgirl in New YORK
State has rendered the shop owner half
millionaire. NJ,
about the inventions OF their employees
One of New England's miIlowneIs, who ID
herself an inventor, has arranged to secure
patents for women inventors in her snop
and share all profits with them. A single
device secured from one OF the women
hands in this way brings in yearly revenue
of $4,000.
In most factories, almost invariably so
in New England. II girl has good idea
in the way of an invention that will improve
the work she can get liberal ROYALTIES TOT
use of her patent and have the Initial
her.
More than one New England woman
who goes to work daily on the sound OF the
7 o'clock histle, dinner box in hand is an
inventor Of no mean reputation in her own
town and has much enlarged weekly diVi-
dends.
It is the opinion Of man who Is some
thing OF a patent expert that majority
of the most profitable inventions put on
the market during the past few years ha,
been patented by women, not women OF
great genius and wide scientific knowledge,
who own shops or women who are interested
in agriculture and general farming in the
Middle West.
Each profession in which women have
succeeded has brought 10 light a score OF
inventions to lessen labor and increase
pro- ts. Women school teachers have brought
out improvements In blackboards, eraseTs,
desks, chairs, bookrests, schoolbags, ply
81 ,ai culture exercises and diet sheets.
Women nurses and physicians nave
patented folding tents, hospital beds
bandages, facilities for improved santa
ton and all m amer Of conveniences Tor
invali1s.
Busy housewives have designed washing
and ironing conveniencee, composition Tor
kindling fires, butter workers and AL sorts t,,
work measuring cups, ohurns and apple
parers.
The m etropolitan woman has brought
out dress systems. improved IDEAS of cutting
patterns, helps in housefurnishings. novel
ties in the finishing Of gowns, the dressing
Of hair and in that most mysterious OF
modern beauty processes, good 81 coming
or course there is the woman who Is
born inventor. who gets up clever, practical
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
SCENTED DOGS.
Fashion Has Selected an Appropriate
Perfume for Each Modish Breed.

Nowadays the pet dog must be perfumed,
but it is not enough to scent him with any
old perfume. Modish women who consider
their pets try to select an appropriate odor
for them.
Thus, Japanese poodles are perfumed
with frangipani, which has a spicy Japanese
odor that suggests the Oriental nativity Of
the animal.
Mexican hairless dogs, which ?e enjoying
quite a vogue just now. are scented with
chypore, which has heavy, tropical odor
that suits these dogs Of the South. Very
little of it is used, az the scent is powerful.
Two OF three drops on the long hair behind
the head, where the dog cannot indulge his
tendency to licl, 1t of, is all that is neeti.d.
The shaggy Ssye terriers are scented with
stimulating extract of Scotch heather
sold by one OF the Fifth avenue druggists
and redolent of the Scotch flowers perfume.
Frerch poodles, which are not nearly 30
popular now as they used to be, smell
delcately Of some Partisan perfume.
Boston terriers have received as their
special perfume a scent made by New
York druggist and declared to be the sport
lest OF all odors
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OUT OF WOMEN'S QUICK WITS
4 HOST OF INVENTIONS TO MAKE
LIFE EASIER.
They Range From Collar buttons to Reap
Ing Machincs-Mahy Inventions sus'
gcst"d by Needs ut Home or In
Du Siness-MOrc Patents for women.

Read the list of women patentees at
Washington, if you think there is any limit
to the subjects they have considered worthy
Of their interest. War no more than peace
can cramp their ingenuity. The hospital
bed and The reaping machine are the better
for their inventions, and the question OF
irrigation is OF no less importance to them
than the hygienic feeding bottle.
And not only does the Patent Office prove
the widening field of woman's mental effort,
hut it also testfies to her growing sense
OF humor. Man may be grateful, nay. is,
of course; but she is the real gamer when
she patents n special fastening for collar
button that suppresses it's noInadic ways
and converts her former days OF sleuth-
like activity into times OF peace. she
speaks of that button as though the COM
fort of man was the aim OF her lie, out
us hcr time that is saved.
Again. ii was her rugs and carpets she
WAS saving when she patented fountain
pen that wouldn't leak. There was surely
a smile in the sleeve Of the woman WHO
patented a device for manufacturing cigars
at so much less expense that good brand
would cost no more than those that had
oTenIed the breath of her noetrils.
Up to ten years ago 1t was the exception
to encounter a woman's name in the patent
books. Previous to that time the few
patents applied for by women as rule
were mere expressions Of more or less I'M
intelligent vanity. A process OF weav-
ing straw with elk is the first registered
feminine patent II was granted to Mary
keis in 1909. and she undoubtedly dis
covered 1t in her pursuit OF the carnal JOY
Of pretty Sunday millinery.
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Joker and the bride.

From the Utica Obscrrer.
AZ one of the recent weddings the bride
carried a prayer book. marked to open at
the marriage service. and from which she
was to read the responses and follow the
service. The practical joker was present.
of course, for there was never wedding
at which the practical Joker was not. just
before the ceremony he slipped the brides
prayer book into his pocket and left another
In its place which he had borrowed for the
occasion. When the bride opened 1t at the
altar she vas bit surprised and for a mo-
ment was lost In wonder as to what had hap
pened Then she caught on bit her lips
TO keep back a smile, and bent her head over
the book with no evidence of anything wrong.
book printed insGermpn. and the bride could
read only English. Neyerthsless. she had
the responses at the proper Gme and in tho
words set down IN the ritual.
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enough to be smart with a tailor bat.

enough to be smart with tailor hat.
Another pretty bride Of September,
Lady James Joioy, has quite a couture,
more original. II less picturesque, and no
delightfully."- suited to the irregular charm OF
her face. The hair In parted, Is naturally
slightly wavy. so that II pufrs little over
the upper part OF the ears. and the front Is
cut to curl in soft fringe that hides fore
head OF inharmonious height.
The hair Ia braided and worn smooth at
the back from crown to neck. the braids
drawn fat about three inches Wide. It Is
winning couture, al simple as possible and
suggesting interesting possibilities In the
much berated bang.
very lovely and unusual hairdressing,
distinctly French and ideal with wavy,
luxurious hair Is the art nouveau style.
It's little overpicturesque but for evening
wear and for girlish faces 1t Ia most attrac-
tive.
The hair IL parted and allowed to droop
a little over the forehead and to hide the
ears with curling masses and the back Is
done In large coil UP from the neck. but
distinctly lower and larger than the Psyche
knot. Flowers are worn massed over the
left ear, bit posterish. to be sure, but
youth and reddish curly hair will win you
around to it.
II the hair is most becoming done high
1t is usually waved and gathered up to meet
a soft curly roll only partly tossed back
from the forehead and the strand ends are
twisted around the fingers into natural
puffs, that are pinned close to the crown
of the head in a small group.
The French bread roll twist is a very
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To Care for Plants In winter.

doors and windows at some distance from
them on pleasant days and give them q
chance to breathe in pure oxygen in liberia
quantity. Give all the sunshine you can
And aim to keep the temperature of the room
Lsween 70 degrees by day and SIS at night
1t will probably. exceed these figures in
both directions. but try to regulate IL in
such "a way as to old the extremes OF in.
tense heat and dang rous cold
Use wster literally on the foliage Of your
plants BY washing of the dust Il keeps
open the pores Of the leaves through which
they breathe. and it tempers the hot. dry
atmosphere usually prevailing ip the living.
room. The only way TO modify this condition
is to keep water constantly evaporatinp
on the stove or register and make frequen,
use OF the sprayer.
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From The Philadelphia Record.

TFoHt Tue Th''u'ttPtu NecoTd,
One would hardly expect the subject Of
the forestry of Iceland TO call for much serious
attention. but lengthy investigation Of the
trees OF that country has recently been made
by no less distinguished a person than DR..
c. V. Prytz. professor Of forestry at Copen-
hagen.
He says that the prevailing notion that
Iceland has single tree only IL a fallacy,
and that there Is quite a retentlous growth
OF trees on the land, the soil not being un-
suited for the growth. The tree growth OF
the country has suffered from injudicious
cutting. he says: and he makes recommended
tions for the reforestration Of the lands and
offers suggestions about the planting of
ally, and it II thought that by sowing these
in places whera the snow lies deep long i'm
gained, At i appears to be only in winter.
when grass ls hot 10 be had. that these ami
mails devour the birch trees