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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07
THE REFLECTIONS
of a KNOCKER b. b John Rs.t Ken
he Discusses the State of Literature.

lf1 UMPH!" said the Knocker.
That's a large order
What is?" demanded Redface.
Il haven't heard you give any order
for a week When you do a little IN
sweetened in tall glass with car
bonic on the side for me-
'YOu'H have to wait. Redface. I'M
less you'll lend me twenty-five-Tm
posted for house charges sou know,
returned the knOcker. The large order
referred to IS the suggestion by that
English writer, Marriott Watson. that
a series OF articles be written by emf
nent men of the day on Books That
Have Made Ne Cry If / were to
start IN on q subject like that hanged
II don't think I'd have . life job of
IT, ana mighty weepy one at that"
What's the point? demanded Red
face. What does ne mean py Books
That Have Made Me Cry?r-
'Oh, he refers to stories that start
your tear ducts going explained the
knocker- stories with weep and a
sniffie on every page. The death of
Little Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin for
instance Colonel Newcomers death
The death OF Socrates from an over
dose of wood alcohol The sad case of
Little Nell che pathos of Tom Pinch.
Paul Dombv and all those jolly little
daughters Of his. The death of every
body in sight in Hall Gaines tales.
and the sorrows Of Satan by Marie
COTelli which were enough if you re-
member to bring tears to the eyes of
an iron dog
They never made me cry" said
Redface.
We'll. maybe you're not an iron
dog observed the knOcker. You
never can tell But il they ever get
that series Of articles started I'd like
TO get in or IT just for the chance to
pay my compliments to the fellows
that are doing the books these days.
Such d lot of tear compelIers never
were in any other age The mortality
Of the Ma gazines. those ripping
streams that feed the vast ocean of
literature, Is getting 10 be something
dreadful You can't pick up q maya
zine these days that isn't full of dead
babies anG dying brides The book
that doesn't give your tear bags
squeeze and set d JOhnstown flood
coursing down your nose these times
isn't any good and by lingo its high
time the reading worm turned. Authors
seem TO think there isn't enough misery
I'm real life without their adding to it
with stories that rip the readers heart
up the back and down the front. Why
7 heard the other day that a New
York department store at Monday
bargain sales throws in dozen hand
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07
THE PLAIN GIRL HAS ADVANTAGES
BY MARGARET Z. SANGSTER.

/ low voice In a gracious manner, IN
kindness. in Difference to older people,
I in the thOughtfulness whfch neglects no
little courtesy. a plain g.rl whose van
ity has never been pronounced, who
has never thought much about herself
or the effects she is producing, is often
more winsOme than the arrogant
beauty.
-''Where did you fall in love with your
wife," I once asked a man of wide
reputation in the professional world
At the bedside Of her grandmother.
was the reply, where I noted the
sweetness of her ministratiOns, and the
tenderness and patience of her daily
life
The great doctor paused, Il never
made "a better diagnosis" he said.
than when I decided to try and win
Louise and bring her into my life
T. who know Louise well. agreed with
him She had been q dear girl always
but not n great beauty.
Very slight things, a random word
the tone of a laugh. the readiness to
please by a trifing self denial often
bowl a man over in that spring time
of life when a young mans thoughts
are lightly turning toward love. 1t
does not occur to him to thing of Molly
whom he has met on moonlight drive.
or at \ picnic as plain or handsome.
Something in herself more subtle. less
SNOWY than her looks, has called him
10 her. Nature who may be said after
many thousands Of years TO know her
business pretty well. has successfully
managed to call OF mate to mate All
through the lesser creation it is the
male who Outrauks the female. in ex-
ternal splendOT the latter wearing the
palmer dress and dcmuTely receiving
the homage Of her more brilliant lord.
Apart from this. the habit of beauty
having reached its acme. is TO fade.
The supeTbly beautiful girl rests on her
iaurels and fOrEetS to cultivate her
mind SinCUiaTly. and it is rather puZ-
zllnE. too, the most gifted women are
not lowered with very marked person
al beauty There is no reason why
LONELINESS should monopOlize brains
and culture. but there Is a snare which
betTays the beauty and seldom entTaps
her opposite tt Is the snare of a too
easily satisfied and too COmplaCent
mood over what has already been
gained. and without some thing of the
divine despair that Il always reaching
forth for more knowledge and more
intellectual stores. TO woman grows.
( The commonplace mind inevitably
stamps its dullness after awhile upon
the face. Mind and heart have a great
deal to do with making people good to
look at.
But shall we coucede the fact that the
majority of married women are plain?
They may look so in the eyes Of mex
perienced giTlhOOd. Perhaps they are
in the midst Of those years when the
nursery is crowded. and they are losing
nightly sleep in bending over cradles
Wait five or ten years till this period
Of stress has passed and YOU viii see
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them reach a season of second bloom
which Is quite as beautiful as the bios
soming out of girlish days. Attend any
convOcation where women on the hitber
side Of middle age are present in mum
bers, as for example a federation of
clubs. and you viii see hundreds of
pleasing and attractive women who
were plain in giTlhOOd, but who are
daily growing lOvelier. No girl would
admit that her mother is anything but
beautiful and most girls discern beau
" Of soul in all older women whom
they love. a beauty beyond that de-
pendent on tint and line, illumines the
face of a good woman
So, the plain girl may take comfort.
Time viii be kind to her. If she give
a wide berth to discomfort and fret
tulneSS, if she be gentle and coDsid-
crate and above all. if she continue to
cultivate her mind. TO know what is
going on i'm the world, and to live out
side OF herself. She. shall grow more
beautiful with the years. Let her ex-
pect this. Far more than we know. the
ego dominates character and dictates
what impression we shall make in So
ciety and at home. what sort of looks
we shall have.
A lovely soul may now and then be
housed in an Ungainly body. but should
this be the case there will surely be
some compensation in a beautiful
smile. a quick appreciation of fun, or
genuine regard for others. which will
triumph over the disability
How about the assertion that there
are so many handsome men2 Sup
pose we confess it. Men have a great
advantage over women in the freedom
of their garb- Their clothing does not
hamper them A woman on a wet day.
Juggling frantically at her skirts to
keep them out of the mud, holding her
pOcketbOok and her umbrella and very
likely a bundle, is a spectacle to ex-
cite the pity of gods and men
Her brother stTiding on beside her
has none of her disagreeab bic impede
menta- In all weather he marches on
with entire freedom and joy. He
meets men out of doors. and his day
is more or less filed with excitement.
A wOman's life. unless she rises above
il by sheer force of viii. Is apt to be
monOtOnOUs and Circumscribed. No
wonder she ceases TO grow The man
has every chance for growth and de
velOpment. If ne is not handsomer at
30 than he was at p. he is somehow
to blame But the plain woman. too.
may console herself. she viii never be
plain in the eyes that love her
Copyright. 1865. by Joseph B. Bowles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07

How does 1t happen" said a girl the
other day. that so many homeIy
women have handsome husbands?
Dummy little women without a bit of
style frUmps who have not the least
idea what to wear, ugly women who
positively could never have had any
looks TO boast of, are married to men
of fine presence and absolute good
9oks. I cannot understand it
T., Said an older woman: Il have been
''thinking about the same problem
Among the girls who went to school
when I did, there was one who was our
belle and boast Sally Y. a girl 50
brilliant that she seemed to light up
room as soon as she entered il. She
was grace itself. her eyes were blue as
the sky. her hair spun-gOld. her COM
-plexion a miracle No one could COM
pare with her But though she had
plenty OF admiration she did not marry
It seemed as if she could not ind the
right one, or else nobody wanted her
I have never settled that point 10 my
satisfaction Today she is an old maid
fat and sallOW. and not at all interest
ing. You would not dream that she had
ever been a beauty
The girl next i'm attractiveneSS to her
was SOphy b. a lovely creature with
successful in her own style as Sally
though perhaps less startling. Both
girls belonged to the type called stun
ming. Sophy married and has a large
family. She Is now an ordinary look
ing woman. very domestic and by no
means beautiful In our set the plain
est girls married best, and strangely
they have either retained more C9Iuell-
ness than those I have mentioned, OF
else they have acquired II with time
The plaiuest girl I ever knew, bids fair
to be woman extremely distinguished,
and remarkable for good looks in mid
die age. How can il be explained
Are there perhaps advantages in be
ing plain, To begin WITH Girls are dis
posed to deny this. and no wonder
Does the average man fall in love
with girl on account of her beauty?
Is there anything better than beauty,
more fascinating, more subtly attTac-
tive and more pleasing to the other
sex Judging by observation, the spec
tator would say that the strange indie
Unable and elusive attributes denOmi-
mated charm is far more TO b. priced
by girls than mere beauty Charm con-
sists not so much in complexion. in
grace of form. and in The physical per
lection that constitutes beauty as in
certain spiritual qualities which are
more potential than anything external
The charm of a sweet and gracious per
SOnality outweighs that of a merely
beautiful face and graceful figure.
Beauty IS in the eyes that see. To a
man in love. the girl he WOrShiDs Is
beautiful She may be as namely a. a
hedge fence but he does not suspect il.
There is wonderful aJtracJiveness in a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07
Your Work.

Do you perform your daily tasks
with the old time vigor and energy,
or are YOU becoming dull, Iistless and
Indifferent; Perhaps YOU need a
nerve tonic. Palmo Tablets infuse a
powerful stimulus to ambition and
make YOU a perfect glutton for work,
mental or physical. Use them and
note how much younger YOU will look
and feel. 50 cents. Book Free. Ad-
dress The 5. R Fell Co, Cleveland, ..
For sale by T. J. Hill Drug Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07
Points on Spring Styles.
lChicaEn TiInes.l

1
ct was our intention to publish this
week an ilIUminative article FROM the
pen of our fashion editor. but she has
been absent since last Tuesday Our
last knowledge of her was by way OF 4
telephone call, which Informed US That
she was attending a millery opening
and couldn't possibly get TO work Tor
several days. Consequently we were
forced to assign the financial editor TO
the task of writing up the spring eX-
habits Following i the record OF ms
Impressions and observations:
The outlook for business in the bon
nets and dress goods lines for this
spring makes the prospects Of
squeeze and some good picking IN May
wheat look like pitching pennies at a
crack in the floor. Why men are con-
tent to waste their lives merging rail-
roads and initiating stocks passes COM
preheuSion. How long has this thing
been going on. anyhow?
The bonnet pit was a surging mass Of
buyers from The tap Of the bell yester-
day. Heavy prices for small lots was
the rule. Fuss x Feathers Unlimited
was the -favOrite. although there was
also great activity in Wire & Ribbon
For "A time there were rumors Of
sell out I'm the wide brim line of Artifi-
cial Flowers Preferred The visible
supply melted like snow before the sun.
Several panic-Stricken traders, deCiar-
ing that they would simply die il they
could not buy any. were or the verge
of prOStratiOH. The panic was aveTted
BY the announcement that the Paris eX-
change would come to the relief Of
those caught in the squeeze
Lace Yoke and its brother line Fncu-
monia Cure. continue to go strong
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kerchiefs with every COPY of the
Prodigal Son fer readers to wipe their
eyes as they go along That shows
| what we are coming to. Literature is
getting to be one vast sob. 50 much so
/ that when my small nephew remarked
the other night that he was reading n
hysterical romance. meaning historical.
! nobody even SniCkered because they
believed he meant what he said
You're not very consistent said
Redface- You were jumping on
Henry James the other night because
you said he never touched the heart in
any of his books
He makes me cry Just the same"
said the knocker. I'm like one Of the
Babes in the Woods when I read Henry
James. | start in on one of his para
graphs and>when I'm half way through
the first sentence I realize that I'm
lost in a maze Of words. Every way I
turn l set IN it deeper and deeper.
Reading backwards there's no way out
Reading forward there's even less sign
of an exit Reading d page cata-
cornered brings no ligny and striking
the perpendicular you're worse off
than ever, ard there you are. baffied
at every turn. intellectually lost
covered with leaves. smothered in
parentheSeS spiritual starvation star
ing you in the face. night coming on
and nothing TO do but sob yourself to
sleep. I've done it many time and
oft Wept out of sheer desperation at
my inability to find the blazed trail
that leads to light and satisfaction I've
torn my hair in weeping wrath to
think that with my voca buIary. general
knowledge of the English language. and
comprehension Of the significance Of
commas. Semi-eOlOnS and periods there
lives man who can put together d
sentence that I can't follow 20 the bit
ter end 1t is one of my fondest hopes
that some day an edition of James
later books viii be brought out with
finger posts on every age labelled.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07
His OGiy Worry.

-
It's de important gUeSh ions NV ia
day wOt @Crrie= me-" said tho hobo.
Important questions er the day
echoed the weii-fed citizen
Oats wot ! Sed.' continued the mn
paced globe tro.ter. --mcaUiu' where 70
] cit sumthin ter eat an vhereU I
sleep Sec
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so that q fiction lover of ordinary in
telligence like myself could approach
one Of his novels with a reasonable ex-
Dectation OF getting at what the thing
IS all about 1t should be either that
or a Mental Gymnasium to which we
could send our minds to be trained TO
meet such emergencies as Mr.. James
writings present
"Bosh," calculated Redface Il
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Have Proved Their Worth.

The campaign undertaken by inter
ested publications to undermine the
faith of the people in proprietary
medicines has drawn forth the follow
ing from a high medical authority:
ut must never be forgotten that the
interest of the manufactures is to put
out remedy which is not only meri-
torious but safe. With small army
of enemies constantly on the alert,
ready to seize upon and magnify every
unfavorable circumstance, how few
are the cases of accident or injury
from the use of proprietary medicines!
Complaints in regard to the use OF
such remedies are exceedingly rare
and utterly insignificant, in COMPARE
son with the amount sold and the mil
lions of people who avail themselves
OF these remedies"
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Emperor William is sending to the
emperor of Japan present OF six
black stations for his stud farm.
Fridtjof hansen, the Arctic explor-
er. has been appointed Norwegian
minister To Great Britain.
A granite monument now marks
the spot where the Erie railroad was
begun, 20 years ago. in Deposit, N. Y.
Mrs. George Bovine, aged GO. OF
Washington, N. j., was so frightened
following a scuffle with a burglar,
that she fell dead.
Mutinous sailors on the Russian
steamer lsmail, from Odessa, Novem-
Der s, threw overheard such refugee
passengers as refused to give them
money.
John r. Plat, aged New York mil
lionaire, has lost his suit against the
negress, Hanna Elias, to recover
S6S5,00 alleged to have been given
by him to her under coercion. The
supreme court held that the charge
OF coercion was not proven.
The Boston police will station men
at the door OF every doctors office in
Boston suspected OF being used as a
place for procuring criminal opera
tons and the business of every appli-
cant will be inquired into. The cru
SADIE is the outcome of the suit case"
murder
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-16
Kaiser and Kinu at Outs.

King Edward and his nephew, EN-
peror William of Germany, are at outs
according to German newspapers,
which speak of the alleged quarrel
with the utmost frankness. Though
their difference is in large measure
of political character and is due to
the acts of the German emperor, a
good share of the responsibility must
be ascribed to those who have sys.
tematicalyly devoted themselves to
carrying tales from one court to an
other. Hostile observations regarding
Great Britain and the British navy on
the part of the German emperor were
reported to London, where they are
said to have been dismissed by King
Edward with the phrase, Let him
play with his navy"-a phrase which
was promptly transmitted by eager
courtiers to Berlin, where it produced
a prolonged fit of i'll temper.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-16
FOREIGN
EVENTS
THE HOPED-FOR IMPROVE
.MENT IN RUSSIA HAS
NOT MATERIALIZED.
REPORTED MuTiNY AMONG SOL
DlERS.
FRESH TROUBLE NEAR ST. Pc
TERSBuRG MAY PROVE MORE
SERIOUS THAN CRONSTADT.

Conditions in Russia are steadily
progressing from bad to worse. An
other mutiny is reported TO have
broken out among the troops station
ed at Krasneye Selo, eighteen miles
from ST. Petersburg, which may prove
even more serious than at Cronstadt,
where the rioters were mostly sail
1rs who were not we'll provided with
arms, as are the soldiers in this great
camp. The mutineers at Cronstadt,
however, were still holding out at last
reports and demanding that they be
exempt from the rule which calls for
the shooting of one man in every five
found guilty of disobeying or disre-
sarding the authority of their supe-
riors.
AT the admiralty offices in ST. Pc
tersburg, ii is admitted that the re-
volt had been brewing for a long
time, and that the sailors at Cron-
stadt are not the only ones in the ser
vice dissatisfied with their present
condition. 1t is also admitted by high
authorities that socialism had made
great progress among these soldiers,
and one evidence of this comes in d
dispatch from Japan telling of a re-
markable socialistic demonstration
among the Russian military prisoners
there awaiting the transportation to
Russia. The news OF the revolt in
Russia was greeted with acclaim. and
parade was at once organized and
speeches made commencing the stand
taken by the people against the auto
cracy.
The sentiments among these SOL
diers are said to be typical of the feel
ing throughout the army, with the
possible exception of the Cossacks,
who can be depended on to obey the
wishes of the car, except when there
is loot in sight, as In the recent anti
Jewish outbreak in Odessa
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-16
OVER AGE OF SUN.
Millions OF Years Difference in Scien-
lists Calculations.


lists Calculations.
The age of the sun has been for
many years a matter of controversy
between biologists and physicists. The
investigators of tidal friction claim
that 500 or 1000 million years have
elapsed since the birth of the moon;
and other scientists, arguing from
purely geological reasons, claim the
age of the sun to be between fifty and
1000 million years. On the other hand
it is asserted by physicists that, at the
rate at which the sun is emitting en-
ergy, it can not have been active for
more than twenty million years.
A solution of this discrepancy has
been recently suggested by Prof. G. H.
Darwin, president Of the Association
for the Advancement of Science, in
his presidential address at the recent
meeting of that body in johannesburg,
South Africa. He claims that the dis
covery of radium explains the differ
ence in these estimates, because it has
been shown that concentration of mat.
ter is not the only source from which
the sun may draw its heat.
There is every possibility that ra'
dunn exists in the sun, and its energy
will be more readily appreciated when
it is considered that, while it requires
from 5000 to 5000 tons of coal to pro-
pei 12,000-ton ship 5000 miles at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour, the same
amount of energy is contained in TWEEN
ty-two ounces of radium.
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Every mother possesses information
which is of vital interest to her young
daughter.
Too often this is never impaired or is
withheld until serious harm has result
ed to the growing girl through her
ignorance of natures mysterious and
wonderful laws and penalties.
Girls over-sensitiveness and modesty
often puzzle their mothers and battle
physicians. as they so often withhold
their confidence from their mothers
and conceal the symptoms which ought
TO be told TO their physician at this
critical period.
When a girls thoughts become slug
gish, with headache, dizziness or dis
position to sleep, pains in back or lower
limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude;
when she is n mystery to herself and
friends, her mother should come to her
aid, and remember that Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound will at
this time prepare the system for the
coming change, and start the menstrual
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pain or Irregularities.
Hundreds of letters from young girls
and from mothers, expressing their
gratitude for what Lydia h. Pinkham' S
Vegetable Compound has accomplished
for them, have been received by the
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.. at
Lynn, Mass.
Miss Mills has written the two fol
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will be read with interest:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:- First Letter.)
II am but fifteen years 81 age, am depressed
have dizzy spells chills, headache and back
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-16
Slim Chance For Poles.

The revolutionlsts in Poland have
taken such a threatening attitude that
martial law has been declared
throughout the provinces. The gov
eminent has been informed that a
revolution on a large scale like 1864,
was preparing. Kaiser Wilhelm is be-
lieved to have considerable influence
in bringing about this action on the
part Of the Russian government, as
he has been considerably worried
over the prospect of the threatened in
spreading into German and
possibly Austrian Poland. Franz Jo-
sef. too, is Interested in preventing
the further embodiment of his al.
ready troubled dominions, so that he
tween these three nations the op.
pressed Poles have very slim chance
of obtaining freedom by means OF
armed force.
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The Richest Man.

Croesus was king Of Lydia, coun-
try of Asia Minor, in the seventh cen
fury before Christ, and was renowned
for his prodigious wealth. His coun-
try was conquered by Cyrus and an
nexed to Persia, SAG B. c. His wealth
gave rise to the expression. LAS rich
as Croesus" But with all his money
he could not buy food so wholesome,
nourishing and palatable as Pills
bury's Vitos, the leading cereal food
CT the day.