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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-27
THE MILWAUKEE,

"The Pioneer Limited st. Paul 70 Chi
cago. "Short Line" Omaha to
Chicago. Southwest Limited1 Kansas
City to Chicago.
No trains in the service OF an, raj
road in the world that equals in equip
ment that Of the Chicago, Milwaukee q
St. Paul Ry. They own and operate
their own sleeping and dining cars on oil
their trains and give their pations an
excellence Of service not obtainable else.
where.
Berths on their sleepers are longer,
higher and wider than In similar cars on
any other line. They protect their trains
by the Block system.
Connections made with all trans-con
tincntal lines In Union Depots.
Her tales Dansk, Svensk OF Norsk
iiier wird deutsch gesprocheh.
II. s. Rowe, General Agent, Portland
Oregon. l34 Third Street, corner Alder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
WOMEN ARE VICTIMS
OF THE Sitting HABIT.

IAVE you ever noticed how the ma
u jority of women spend their
time during the summer vaca-
ton, whether by the seaside or at a
mountain resort? If you do so you will
observe that many of them merely hang
around and wait for mealtime, mean
while crocheting slippers for Christmas
gifts.
They sit the summer through on
verandas. They have good appetites
and they eat, bless them. how they do
eat! They get fat, of course they do
That is how poulterers fatten a goose
or a hen, make it sit still and stuff it.
When they go home the feminine va
cationers have themselves weighed and
declare they have gained" SO many
pounds. Are they perhaps unaware
that fat is not a sign of health-on the
contrary. They have taken no physical
exercise during the summer, and this
muscle stranglirg fat has infiltrated
their bodies and made them clumsy
and barrel shaped. You will notice that
two-thirds of the women who just sit
and sit and sit from morning till night
grow barrel shaped. Their bodies settle
down about the hips till they lose the
use of the great grand muscles of the
waist Women who so far as years go
are yet in the prime of life count it no
disgrace to let other people tie their
shoes for them.
This inveterate sitting habit is large
ly what causes women to "lose their
figure as it is called. At a summer
resort this season I have been par
ticularly interested in comparing wo-
men of forty to fifty and their daug
{o,.e 1f as~ he
daughter was slim and active, the
mother looked a barrel in skirts, just
staying where it happened to be dump
ed Yet ere she had become a victim
of the pernicious sitting habit, the
mother was even as the daughter-slin1,
active and graceful. Nature gave her
the right kind of body, perfect in
strument, in good repair, and she SIM
ply let it go to wreck and ruin. Ma
ture always avenges herself on us if
we slight her gifts and do not take
care of them.
They're a lot of old Marys over
there" said a young man of such a
group of sitters.
In book written by an oriental psy
chologist it is declared that the first
! requisite for good health is the per-
| fectly erect position, in reality letting
the whole body hang from the ribs in
stead of letting it tumble down upon
the hips as the women sitters do. How
can one think high thoughts with the
chest in? asks the oriental writer. The
vicious sitting habit is peculiarly a
feminine one. The position so many
women allow themselves to slip into
enlarges the stomach and contracts the
chest, at the same time bowling the
shoulders. Sometimes you viii see a
family of half a dozen women, every
one of whom has the sunken chest,
round shoulders and prominent stom-
ach of the habitual sitter. Among the
whole six there is not grit enough to
lift one breastbone and take deep
breath.
It is possible for every woman to
overcome the barrel shape, even after
she has acquired it. and the result is
well worth the trouble Here is an ex-
ercise which, practiced a few minutes
morning and evening with only loose
garment on, will do the work Place
! the hands firmly uRon the stomach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
The Lady of Discords.

The girl who makes discords All,
don't have her for a friend. She is the
blunderer who will hurt your feelings
as she hurts the piano and your ears.
And the girl who plays Massenet's
songs as if they were five finger ex-
ercises. One, two, three, four-fault-
less time-each finger raised ia, ia, ia,
tee, Ia, ia, tinkle, tinkle on the upper
notes, growl or two in the bass. Soul
less as tin pan, with the light fingered
Intelligence of the initiative monkey
You'll find her just the sort of a girl
she sounds like.
But you will seldom find a player
who has both time and expression
without beauty in her character.
The other day I read an article adj
vocating short hair for women 1t was
not urged on strong minded grounds,
but on the plea of better appearance.
The writer said that not one woman
out of ten understood how to fix her
hair properly, that few women sham
poo often enough, that the array of I'M
kempt heads, no two hairs lying in the
same direction, is most inartistic and
distracting when you go to a theater
or any other place where women take
off their hats, and SO forth, and so on.
Well, of course, it is an exaggeration
but as a matter of fact, why do not
hairdressing? Here is a means of
making herself beautiful that even the
poorest girl has in her power, and yet
what the poorest girl does is to buy a
yard and a half of cheap ribbon to wind
about her throat while she does up her
greasy locks any old way, ramming
them down with half dozen cheap
| combs from which, alas, very often
| teeth are missing.
Let me tell you that it is more i'm
| portant to have your hair waved and
/ done up smoothly and glossily than it
! is to have your sleeves of this year,
fashion. In fact. better a shirt waist
worn with a becoming couture than a
mussy head of hair stuck full of hair
| pins and cheap combs, along with a
silk gown of the latest design.
| What every woman ought to do is to
! study her face with the aid of two
mirrors, decide style of arranging
her hair which will make her head ap-
| pear attractive from all points of view
She does IN her 0redsy locks in anu old icdu
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ting yachting costume and sit on deck
and look pretty. Her father, Randall
Morgan, owned a sea going yacht and
Miss Morgan aspired to be able indie
pendently to sail anywhere she liked in
it without having to wait for some man
of the Morgan family to go with her.
Indeed, no man of her family is SO
fond of the water as she. When re-
Gently Randall Morgan and his sons and
daughter departed for cruise along
the rugged and ragged coast of Nor
way it was Miss Jane herself who COM
manded their yacht Waturas. The
Waturas is larger than the ships in
which Columbus sailed to discover
America, being 200 feet long.
Miss Morgan is dashing commander
cautious withal, as well as entirely
skillful in navigation.
Countess Ella Haggin Festetics de
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ever, is navigation to a goodly number
of other American women. To them it
means a livelihood. Worthy women
they are, too, women and girls-that is,
for at least4one of these feminine cap
tains is only seventeen. She. is Clara
Rose, master of a Hudson river schoon-
er engaged in the brick carrying trade.
Captain Clara's father and mother live
with her on the schooner, and her IA
Their was himself formerly commander
of it, but now his daughter is at the
helm. The youthful captain is quick
and peremptory in giving orders. If a
shore lubber ventures any impertinence
when she appears in port on her
schooner, his answer may be a brick
bat, hurled with no weak or uncertain
aim.' shes quicker than a cat and
takes no back talk said one of her
crew. Miss Rose is an exceedingly
capable and shrewd business woman,
On each trip down the Hudson from
the brick works she clears several hun
bred dollars.
On the Ohio river one of the famous
captains is Mrs. Mary B. Green, who
lives on her steamboat, the Greenland,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
Arm Carriers For Children,

/ think there is such a pretty fad in
children's dress just at present. 1t
consists of two little arm garters made
of pale blue or pink ribbon. You shirr
the ribbon over an elastic band just
barely snug enough to hold up baby's
sleeves. and you finish off with tiny
rosette. A pair of pink, of pale blue
and of white shirred ribbon arrange
ments like this would make a nice
birthday present if placed in a dainty
lowered box. Both tiny boys and girls
are wearing them this summer, and the
object is to hold up the sleeves of the
little frock elbow length.
There is absolutely no decrease in
the popularity of English eyelet en-
broidery. 1t appears even on some of
the new evening gowns, and 1 have just
had one shown me of black crepe de
chine in which large eyelets were work
ed in heavy black silk so that. they
formed design like a trail of leaves
AS the slip worn under this was OF
white taffeta covered with white ehif-
fon you will readily see how smart ii
was.
For fall wear a number of belts and
collars are being shown all done in
this same work, and at present it seems
to me as if every second white linen
suit see is similarly decorated.
| Nowadays no gown is complete with
out some bit of hand work, and clever
| women who are forced to buy things
ready mades often introduce these
| touches themselves after the dress
comes home.
Really, to keep yourself in style
means to keep yourself busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
fhz Mak
Seabright, N. J.
TRAVELLERS, PReJupIcEs.
Seabright. N. J.

1t has often been said that the prog
ress of country may be judged from
the amount of consideration enjoyed
by the women thereof. Yet a French
writer recently declared that the women
of Japan enjoyed no consideration at
all, and many travellers have labored
to prove that civilization in that coun-
try is lopsided affair, confined to one
sex only. Now it is learned from re-
liable sources that a very strong femi-
mist movement prevails in Japan, the
empress herself leading the way. Ow-
ing to her initiative schools have been
opened in the principal towns where
girls may complete their studies in
science, foreign languages, etc, while
a university for women has been es-
tablished in the capital. Many of them
are employed in post and telegraph
offices. Travellers evidently prefer to
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and brings up her children under her
own eye. Her boat is large one for
the Ohio and carries 125 passengers.
Captain Green and her husband, who
is commander of another boat, own the
Greenland. Her management of it is
beyond praise.
Another river captain is Mrs. S. E.
Ballard of St. Louis. She is master of
the steamboat Lola, and her license is
for the Mississippi waters. Fitting up
and down Chesapeake bay may fire.
quently be seen the steamer Carrie,
owned and commanded by Captain
Carrie B. Hunter. a Maryland girl.
Well known in the waters of New
York harbor is the large tugboat Major
Ulrich. For years it has acted in the
capacity of tender to supply coal and
ice to vessels about New York and
Brooklyn. It's owner and master was
Captain julius Jensen. It's present
master is Captain Maude Jensen. the
former captains daughter. Her father
fell i'll and loss of his entire business
was. threatened. Then Miss Maude
hurried to the nautical examination Of
flee. passed muster. obtained masters
certificate and took her fathers place.
Now the business is said to be more
profitable than ever.
LUCY K. IRWIN.
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lifting it lightly toward the chin; then
throw the head back and by a sue
cession of quick, short, sharp breaths
lift the mass of slipped down flesh up
toward the chest and shoulders. Pull
the breastbone up toward the chin.
Inhale deeply, as well as quickly and
theoretically. When you do it proper
ly you can feel under your hands the
breath motion lifting the fat and mus
cles from your stomach to the chest
Preserved in, this exercise. attended
by habitual deep breathing and active
physical exercise upon the feet will
very soon drive away the unsightly
barrel shape. 1t requires steady prac
tice and great exercise of will.
But what better object can you ex-
ercise your will on than on yourself?
MARY GOULD LYTLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Wffe-My dear, I need a little moro
of this stuff and some trimming to
match. I wish. you would drop into
Jones & Co.'S and get it.
Husband-Let me see. Oh, know!
That's the shop where they have SO
many pretty girls, isn't it? Yes, I re-
member. That blond girl at the trim
ming counter knows your tastes and
will doubtless select just the sort OF
trimming you want mean the girl
with the golden hair, alabaster skins
blue eyes and sweet little
Wife-By the bye, there are a NUNS
Der of things / want in town, SO never
mind, dear. I'll go and get them my-
self
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
RHE days of the September fur

E HE days OF the september 1uI :
niture sales are upon us, and
if you see any of your friends
n sneaking up to town you may
be pretty sure that they want to look
up something attractive for their homes
at one-third of the original price.
To tell the truth most of US who
are married are already thinking OF
how we shall rearrange our houses this
fall. and those who are not married are
also looking somewhat eagerly toward
the fall because, well to tell the truth,
a month or two of man deserted sum
mer hotel is about enough for any
"sure enough alive" girl, and there is
always so much fun just after one
comes home.
You hear the first whisper of the
exodus in the air. It comes in this
fashion:
It wonder if they will wear brown
again this fall? I have a brown dress
packed away, and 1 am little afraid
that the moths
my dear, why don't you run up to
town and drop it at the dressmakers.
She opens in a week. L expect my no
tice of the fall styles any day"
And so forth, and so on.
Meanwhile the first detachment
leaves for a fortnight in the mountains
and one realizes that autumn is at hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
Women Who Are
Ship Masters

~ WO more American women
have been added to the list of
those duly licensed and en-
"A titled to command and navi-
gate any steam vessel in any and all
oceans on this globe from the north
pole to the south. One of these is from
the Atlantic side of the continent, the
other from the Pacific. The eastern
ship captain is Miss Jane Morgan of
Philadelphia, the western one is Count
ess Festetics de Tolma, formerly Miss
Ella Haggin, of San Francisco.
Miss Jane Morgan, one of PhiladeI-
phia most prominent bellies, handsome
and highly accomplished in all society
graces, obtained her license as master
mariner quite recently. She had a
natural love for the sea and took far
too much interest in sailing to be will
ing merely to wear a jaunty, tight fit
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superior to them and enjoy only the
things that are big and worth while
from day to day?
With which observation I will close
the subject. Perhaps-who knows?-it
is pleasant enough for those who merely
exist, because they don't know how it
really feels to live.
1 heard an artist say the other day
that he could tell a woman's char
acter by the sort of painting she made
He went even further, on noticing the
surprise of those around him, he said
if we would each of US make little water
color sketches of a group of trees in the
distance and would not sign our names
to our work he would still be able to
tell the creation of each one. 1t was
done to test him, and in every case he
guessed the right name. 1 must add
that the four women in this particular
group were of entirely different person.
alities. There was a quiet conscienti-
Gus sort of a girl, and her sketch was
almost devoid of color and most pains
takingly sharp in outline as if every
form had been gone over several times
with zeal. The careless girl whose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE.

The Rev. A. w. Jephson, vicar of an
English church. told a good story at a
board school festivity lately. While
marrying a couple he stopped the cere-
mony because the bride refused to say
"obey," and told her that if she did
not say the word there would be no
marriage.
"Oh, that's orl right" interrupted the
bridegroom, 'Tn see abaht that when
[ gets 'er 'ome.''
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A SMART SILK GOWN.

hair was always blown in nine differ
ent directions handed in a sketch all
wavy and blurry with a very good dis
lance effect, but a sloppy foreground,
while the girl who was fond of playing
songs without words in the twilight
gave a picture rich in tone but mac
curate in form, and the last one, a dear
little old lady, made picture like her
self, all dainty tracings and delicate
tones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Try the game yourself some time
when you want an afternoons fun.
It's the same with music, the quick
nervous woman can read at sight, but
Oh la, Ia, as the French say when it
comes to keeping time. Listen to her
playing, a burst of melody and then a
Chinese. succession of sounds, not dis
cords, but merely searchings after the
lost theme. When she reaches chords
they are played sharply, clearly, with
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slightly (but mind slightly with a red
solution, and I certainly think that any
girl with straight hair who goes I'M
curled in these days of easily arranged
curling pins deserves to be passed by
to the end of her days.
Try giving more attention to your
hair and less to your clothes and watch
the result.
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show us other sides of female life. in-
deed, they often appear 10th to ac-
knowledge feminine influence in the
countries they happen to visit The
celebrated DR.. Livingstone once came
upon an African tribe where the wo-
men sat in council with the men. He
solemnly tells US this was the drst
time he had found such a state OF at
fairs, and he hoped it would be the last!t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
THE NEW GEM.

Peach pink is the color of a new gem
called Kunzite, coming from San Diego
county, California. Its discovery is
owing to several professors, to one OF
whom its name pays compliment. I'm
der the action of the x rays it becomes
marvelously fuorescent, and even after
the rays have been diverted it remains
phosphorescent and is capable of photo
graphing itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

Some of these
trips would not
cost any more
money than is
spent on clothes
in which women
sit around pi-
aZzas and play
a silly little
game of cards.
But perhaps
it is as it should
be. Some of us
have to be fin
icky and love
details and the
monotonous life.
There are al
ways details to
be attended to,
and what If wo
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out mistake. for they require only
quickness. not sustained effort. But it
all ends in something pleasing, not the
tune perhaps, but something near it,
founded on it, minus the time.
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autumn with
it's brilliant
l e a V e S i t S
coaching and,
above all, it's
smart new felt
hats we are all
so anxious to
see.
In the mean
time there are
some resorts in
this Bile s S e d
country where
if you don't
play bridge or
tennis you are
hopelessly lost
so to speak.
You don't have
to have an idea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

But in my humble estimation the fact
that a woman doesn't go 'dotty'' during
the process merely shows that she is so
already.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
Why Not Real Vaeations?

I wonder when women will take real
vacations like those men enjoy-hunt-
ing and fishing trips, days full to the
brim with incident and adventure
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III YOUR IteLu5 you
may step out with both feet when you
dance, yet if you are able to alternate
your time between bridge and tennis
without getting "dotty" you are sure to
be in great demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
A RAGE COSTUME.

by a Partisan couturier for the races,
but makes an equally smart toilet for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26

and then stick to that style regardless
of what anybody else may do.
don't consider it any harm either for
the girl whose locks are of the tone
known as mouse color" to tinge them
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She does up her greasy locks in any old ,oay.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-04-07
'FARlIzFO!RS SALE I
DESCRIPTION Of FAR M oF:Ssivs'teYf:;;
!; Ian . RE'lN OLD IN
TAYLOR &C uNTY. |. ~ L 81


Contains 225 acres, 10 to 10 acres
tof timber; the rest in meadow and
bluegrass pasture. Some Of the land
is as good as the very best in the
county. On the average, 1t Is as good
as that Of any farm in this section.
Best timber has been removed, but
several hundred dollars worth OF
merchantable timber remains stand.
Ing. Fences as good as those Of aver.
age farm. Well watcred. Pittsburg
vein OF coal sold, except 4 "a acres.
This coal may be mined and removed
over land on payment Of damages.
Freeport vein Of coal not sold. Farm
lies well. Orchard of As apple trees,
20 varieties. Trees DID, but bear
enough every year for one family,
and some years 10 to 100 bushels.
There are several sweet cherry trees,
and few other fruits have been
started. There Is no incumbrance on
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rooms li1'Z eoampletea: sheep STABLE lot
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Cut Out This Coupon. /.

tograph. When the Emperor left the
Hamburg he gave Captain kaempff
as parting gift his autograph photo.
graph in gold frame, saying:
"WLen you receive your pretty
American lady friends in the cabin OF
The Deutschland want to be there,
too.
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Ref tons 8 il 8 aeh 4

Il one5way to find out how nice a girl
isn't stos marry ID
The way y tos set A sin % marry YOU
Is u (, make love TO her best friend.
IS The devil Job is So easy he would
ray her work overtime than get ID day.
on.
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IN GOOD COMPANY.
skaiser's Autoe raph Photograph With
q That 5ofi the President. &.
60 .----.f 53l7573

u NAPLES. April Several inter-
eesting stories are circulating here in
connection with Emperor Williams
visit to Naples. The most character.
sistic% is that regarding Captain
sKaempff5 Of the fsteamer Deutschland,
at present in command Of the steam,
erS Hamburg, on which the Emperor
came to Naples.
The Emperor knew Captain kaempfl
recently shad met President Roosevelt
and had in his cabin on the Deutsch
land the Presidents autograph pho
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between lowing u oman and being
sisTSlea III her. Is y
5ossiI, is hut one sotrap tflts
shy sabo iit ano her 4 before other
gets q chance 10 Ssayy: about her
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