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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

heartily as when she gazed upon the
mad and merry crowd.
No sooner was she seated than down
the stairs came two of the most weird
and curious objects that had yet ap-
peared upon the scene. They were
tall and dFaped in black with flowing
sleeves like wings. They moved in
long steady strides and in perfect uni
son. Instead of speaking to Mr.. and
Mrs. Strickland and Miss Damon. they
made a low sweeping bow and passed
on.
When the music began they danced
soIemnly together but without touch
ing each other. This play went on for
several dances to the intense mystery
and delight of the whole company.
At last when every eye was on them
they slowly slipped out of their black
shrouds, and there stood Miss Van
Wyck and Bertha Jamison one of the
older girls in Miss .Damon's room.
This was the GROWING success OF
the evening. That Miss Van Wyck
and Bertha should have taken SO much
trouble for the younger girls partyl
Never did happier, friendlier
crowd of young people leave any
house than left the Stricklands' that
night Not one OF them had the least
doubt that she had been enjoying the
best time of her whole life.
But IsobeI knew that she really en-
joyed it most of all because with her
fathers and mothers help she had
been able to give pleasure to the oth-
ers
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gies had done their work. They knew
there must be something wrong with
a girl when her women friends praised
her like that Perhaps she had been
Tilted at the altar or something to
make her bad risk matrimonially in
her own town.
If only somebody with Elsie's real
interests at heart had made Spiteful
remarks about her-said she was pref
ty but knew it too we'll or was an aw-
full firt, or used rouge or let the boys
hold her hand! But, 0, the deadly
monOtOny of her reiterated Virtuesl
1t would queer any girl. Elsie was
really none too good She had all the
ordinary human frailties. Perhaps
the boys could even have held her
hand if her friends had let them alone
until they had progressed that far.
1t looks very much at this stage
of the game as though there were
nothing doing for Elsie. She has been
out ten years and she has never had
an engagement ring She is still pref
ty and looks youthful-that's one adj
vantage of being only ordinarily good
looking. It is the pipperinos who fade
early. She still trims her own hats
in excellent imitation of the thirty dol
/ lar patterns, makes herself fetching
little frocks and goes about patiently
wherever she is asked, doing the agree
able and being polite. She has tried
not to let anxiety sharpen her features
or her temper, but she is thoroughly
aware that she has reached the quar-
ter stretch and that the chances are
against her nnishing in the money. A
thousand times have Elsie's friends
had it all fixed up with themselves
to marry her off to some man and
now and then the man was Of a similar
inclination at the start, if they had left
it to Elsie. She would have pulled il
off long ago if she hadn't been so han-
dicapped with her friends. An enemy
or two-in the mildly, helpful form
I of a society rapper-iS what Elsie
needs. No poor young girl with her
/ be without one. What is it Ebert
4 Hubbard says2 I'VE are advertised
I by our rabid enemies no less than by
our loving friends"
/ If Elsie ever does get married, It
viii be because she keeps the affair
from her friends until it has passed
that critical point. just at the begin
ming of d mans interest when 1t won
stand forging. But she will make an
ideal cha eron and model for man
aging mammas. For she has learned
the value Of judicious opposition
/ 1T takes both ardour and opposition
| to win a man. a wise woman said the
other day. IF I had a girl to marry
off I would furnish the opposition and
llet her furnish the ardour. And If any
one started q report to the effect that
she would make a good wife I would
have that person sandbagged, bound,
gagged and carried out of the country
4 For that's the worst hoodOo a girl can
have. am more and more firmly
convinced All the time that man
loves a girl not for her virtues but in
spite of them"
If she is wearing her last season.
clothes made over that is one sign Of
9. trousseau IN preparation.
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But this wasn't all. In his frantic
terror of the wolf the deer had Ieaped
aside and been caught between two
saplings growing about a foot apart.
Struggle al he would, he could not get
loose.
Here is meat to last US and the dog
for two or three days" said Joe, as he
understood the situation, and he step
ped forward with his AK and gave the
struggling animal its death blow.
Mr. Wilkins had often shot deer al
most from his own doorstep, and the
boys had helped him to dress the car
cases. Each had a stout pocket knife.
and it was not long before they had
the hide off and the body cut up. The
dog got all he could eat, and then Joe
said:
I'VE will go on for about a mile and
then build fire and have supper. If
we are to keep any of this Venison
for tomorrow, it must be roasted. To-
night there viii be plenty of wolves
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Observations Of a Day
By the AMATEVR PHILOSOPHER

helped some. Not a vicious knock, of
course, but just enough to let him un-
derstand that she didn't have all the
virtues. A man expects a woman to
be inhuman but none of Elsie's friends
were willing to allow her this priv
Iege when they were talking to a pos
sible husband for her. They said she
was so clever and so capable; she
made all her own clothes, ana was
such a good cook; she had a sweet
disposition; she was economical;
everybody liked her; she was so good
to her mother and She would make a
splendid wife. You know. yourself.
that If you heard all that about a girl
you had never seen from a lot of wo-
men. you would set her down as a
frost. And yet the friends Of Elsie
who married and went away to live
pounded it into their bachelor friends
for weeks before Elsie came to visit
them. When they met her and saw
that she was really pretty and attrae-
tive, they could hardly believe their
eyes. However. the preliminary eulo-
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of this work being done directly on the
fur. A pretty touch of color is given
by the vest in Oriental embroidery
which continues up to form the small
standing collar. The sleeves of the
coat are novel in style, having deep
beeI shaped cuffs set to puff tops, the
velvet medallions surrounded by braid
trimming the sleeves. It will be quite
a fashion this winter to combine diff
ferent furs in one costume For in
stance, a hat of one fur being worn
with a coat of another. Crinchilla is
the most popular of the millinery furs.
The delicacy of the fur as we'll as its
beautiful color makes it especially
adapted for this purpose. Floral
trimmings continue to be used on
Chfnchilla hats. Sometimes a single
rose in bright color affords the only
relief from the soft tones of the fur
which composes the entire hat.
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ma nefectire,s Rnse.

j imagine the detection Of crime
through knowledge of botany is rare.
Sir &C eorge Birdwoods wide acquain-
lance with botany once enabled him to
discover an adventurer who was posing
as a British nobleman. The young fell
low happened to remark at dinner,
after admiring some floral decorations:
you should see the Amhersta nobilis
in its native woods Sir George re-
Piled: You come from Rangoon,
then? % And afterward it was found
that the man who was posing as a
member of the British nobility had
escaped under shady circumstances
from Rangoon. I know Of a case
where a detectives astuteness led to
of a criminal He had
been connected with a railway and had
been in hiding for some time. The de-
Elective had reason to suspect a man
posing as a farm laborer. He visited
the farm and asked the man the time
suddenly. Instantly, with the habit Of
lifetime upon him, the Ia.borer an
swered, .-10.15sp Il thought so said
the detective, you viii come with me. >
Only a railway man would have tcld
the time in that fashion:-London Daily
News.
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that her triumphs and successes had
excited the envy of her friends, they
would have gotten busy with their
hammers and all would have been
we'll. But she was just an average
girl, not especially favored by fortune
in any way. She was pretty enough,
when she had her makeup on, and
with the right gown, the right stage
setting and in a becoming light She
was popular enough, but she occasion
ally had an unlocked night and she
had to put her personal feelings aside
and iolly up a number of dead ones
in order to insure herself against neg
lect when the competition was keen
as when there we're pretty visiting girls
in town or an unusually large crop
of charming buds. But she would
have gotten along all right-trust her
for that-if it had not been for the
officious kindness of her friends who
since she was not conspicuously sue
cessfuI in any way and never threat
ened to throw them in the shade. were
very fond of her and very anxious to
help her out.
It may not be absolutely true that
every knock is a boost where girl
is concerned, but there is no
DENYING that every knock is an
evidence of power. The girl that
everybody speaks we'll of nobody
is jealous of. A girl can stand a little
hammering and live it down, but if all
her friends organize a Lend a Hand
her upon the men they don't happen
to want it is all off with her.
Now this girl l am telling you about
was hardly out in society before her
friends began their system of boost
ing. They seemed to have it made up
among themselves that she wasn't able
to take care of herself and they in
sisted upon looking out for her. It
was of course desirable, even neces-
sary that she should marry sometime,
but there wasn't the rush about it that
they made it appear. If a man looked
twice in her direction, they pricked
UP their ears and said How nice that
would be for Elsie" and imm ediately
had them both for diner. The next
dance they arranged for him to get
her card in his invitation Somebody
wanted them for a chafing dish sup
per and somebody else for a game of
whist The man, who had perhaps
been rather taken with Elsie's not un-
! skiIful management of her modest
gifts and graces, at this evident de-
/ Termination to thrust her down his
throat on all occasions, of course be-
gan to wonder what was the matter
with her. He may or may not have
/ had a notion of marrying her-usually
4 her friends didn't give him that much
ltine-but it was a cinch he didn't
want a gold-brick. and her friends
] made it look so easy it seemed a shame
to take the money
There is nothing like a little judi
/ cious opposition to help along an af-
4 asm of a lukeWarm lover Any child
/ knows that. And yet these kind friends
/ of Elsie's never seemed to think of it
If some one had knocked on her a
little to any of the twenty or thirty
men who went her way it would have
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a sToI.EN CORIPOsITION.

1t was composition day at the H
Street Grammar School. and there was
much detection among the boys, for
a real professor from the college was
to be present at the readings.
Arthur Graham especially was in
despair. He chewed and sharpened
the end of his pencil, but could not
make a start. When the boys were
dismissed for the noon hour, he did
not accompany them; he wanted to
study q little, he said.
AS soon as the room was empty, he
went to the shelves of books behind
the teachers desk. Arthur remained
there half an hour. and then returned
to his desk with a folded paper, which
he placed carefully in one of his
books.
When it was time for the compost
lions one after another the boys We're
called out to read. When Arthur s
turn came he went forward with
trent bling limbs. But as sentence af-
ter sentence was allowed to pass un-
challenged, his courage rose, and final
~ he stood erect and read confidently.
When he finished, the teacher nod
ded approvingly, and many of the
boys. he felt, were regarding him cur
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| "A 1mOst eveey creature had some Pseallef.
CO unGtion or trick

next hour the boys were busy cooking
their venison.
With his ak Joe peeled a piece of
clean bark off a slippery elm tree, and
when the meat was fairly well roasted
it was wrapped up in this bark to be
carried along with them on the NOR
row.
Then a second fire was built near
the entrance of the cave, and a big
stone rolled in to shut off most of
the space. and when the sun went
down and darkness began to fall the
boys and the dog crept into the snug
retreat to spend the night.
Several armfuls of leaves had been
gathered, and the beds were almost as
good as the boys had at home. They
were both tired out with the days
tramp and within half an hour after
lying down they were sound asleep.
Two hours later the forest resound-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

Fashion is clamoring SO loudly for
variation in all of the seasons modes,
that even the furs bear the imprint. In
times past women have been content
to have fur garments in staple styles,
letting the richness of the pelt used
take the place of nomlnaty In design
But they are no longer content with
plain fur garments. demanding that
they shall be as elaborate in detail and
as individual in style as those Of cloth.
One Of the best furs for novelty de-
signs is the Persian lamb. This takes
most kindly to all sorts of trimmings,
and can be treated in practically the
same way as velvet or plush. OF ex-
ceptional beauty is little Persian
lamb coat almost close fitting and very
designs of silk braid in the center OF
which are set medaliions of velvet, all
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While too much stress cannot be
laid upon the Importance and the pop
ularity of the velvet hat in winter
modes, the beaver hat is not to be lost
sight of. This is also strong claim
ant for popular favor, and a great
many women are matching up their
fall suits with beaver hats. The beav-
er flats or bodies, as they are more
properly termed, come in all of the
fashionable shades that appear in the
dress goods. The durability of beaver
makes it especially desirable as a ma
terial for a hat that will see hard
wear. There is something very soft
and it affords a splendid contrast with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
THE BEST UNCLE MAN.

OF an the uncle-men I've got,
The very best of all the lot
Is Uncle Joe. He amt like some,
That foller at me: BILLY, come
And tell US what you've learned at
school,
And do you know the Golden Rule?
And what is six times eighty-three?
What towns are on the Caspian Sea %
No! Uncle Joe, he says We'll, Dick,
really think you're looking sick;
You're studying too hard, maybe,
So you just come and go with me-"
And thea=Mas have some fun, and so
I think a lot Of Uncle Joe.
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velvet trimmings A most attractive
hat Of the saucer shape has the upper
brim and crown of beaver. Facing
and trimming the brin is a drapery Of
velvet of the same tone. Trimming
the bandeau and the back of the
briIn, are ostrich plumes placed in a
curious way in which milliners seem
to insist upon this season which gives
immense height at one point and thus
exaggerating the slant from front to
back or side to side. Across the back
of the bandeau are loops and ends Of
ribbon of soft white taffeta with picot
edge. Such hat made in the new
blue tones or in the wine-red shades
so fashionable this winter, is at once
attractive and practical.
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/; you.
:...---...-. ...-.... ....-...-..... e;
This was the invitation that every
girl in Miss DamOns school found on
her desk one morning. What buzz it
made both in Miss Damon's room and
in Miss Van Wyck's alsOl A fancy
dress party at IsobeTs! Wouldn't it
be lots more fun than a picnic or a
circus or anythingi
A little group of happy girls crowd
ed about Isobel.
you're a perfect dear to have it,"
they said
The night of the party the Strick-
lands house looked like some strange
land. The rooms were all stripped Of
furniture and lighted with tall candles
over the few electric lights that were
burning different colOred tissue papers
had been tied so that they gave out
weird, soft beams. Every recess or out
of the way corner was made into a lit
tie grotto with palms and orange trees
Pumpkins guarded the entrance. and
field corn, squashes and gourds made
/ the decorations.
And such strange company as
poured in Few of them looked like
/ human beings at all, and not one was
/ recognizable as a respectable girl from
/ Miss Damon's school.
/ Harlequin. Pierrot and CoIumbine
/ wood nymphs, babies, newspaper and
! tissue paper constructions with only a
pair of legs declaring them to be any
thing but animated paper heaps-that
/ is what arrived.
There were a few elaborate cos
tunes ballet girl in tulle and span
/ giles, a Folly in pink silk and bells, a
court lady and a japanese mousmee.
/ These were either masked or had soft
wells wrapped about their heads and
and faces as the Turkish women wear
them.
At first a mysterious silence pre-
vailed. Almost ever creature had
some peculiar motion or trick, and
went about repeating this and peering
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
THE QUESTIONABLE ALASKAN.

There was once a man in Alaska
Who was just determined to ask a
Question of everyone;
But as he met none,
He asked a few. this man Of Alaska
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
AN ANruR AFFAIR.

A man who lived on the Amur.
said, There's naught in this stream
to allure
Me to settle by it,
So I'll wander a bit
In quite other lands to make sure"
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ed to such a terrific noise that they
awoke with their hearts in their
mouths.
(To Be Continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

Mrs. Swagger-Do I look good in red?
anything, my dear.-Buffalo Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

Once upon time there was
a girl who was poor but honest
or fairly so. She was of modeF-
ately prepossessing appearance, clever
enough and had all the usual accom-
plishments and parlor tricks. She
made a little money go a long way
when it came to buying clothes and
always managed to put up a pretty
good front for almost any occasion, al
though it required good deal of
scheming and planning, turning, dye
ing and making over. But the girl was
of a cheerful disposition, had a keen
zest for life and felt that 1t was worth
the trouble. Perhaps also she was not
without expectations that something
would come of it some day.. but she
was in no hurry. It was her friends
who did the hurrying. And there was
where the trouble lay.
If this girl had been rich or a prize
beauty or a regular man-charIner so
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1soBELL's PEACE FESTIVAL.
(By Euphenia Holden. Illustrated by
Rosalie Arthur)

Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Strickland
request the pleasure of your COM
pany, Friday evening, November
3, at eight o'clock.
Dancing.
Please come disguised so that
your best friend will not recognize
you.
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z4HIs is a sermonette on the
text, Lord, deliver US from
our loving friends"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-09-02
OREGON NOT ALL STOLEN.
Plenty Of Good Land Left in the
State for Investors and
Settlers.

Oregon has for years been afflicted
with q cancer known as the land con-
science. It has fastened itself upon its
highest as we'll as its humblest citizens.
But there is yet good land in Oregon
that has not been stolen, says Golfers
Weekly, and the judicial disinfectant
which the United States government is
now applying is fast reclaiming much
Of the land that was appropriated. !"
The patriarchal boards were wise
wise enough to lay claim to a good
thing. Oregon is great state. AS an
agricultural state it is. as old and well
tried as Minnesota, Kansas or Nebraska.
The Willamette river valley is q match
less farming land. 1t was the Mecca of
ambitious agriculturists before gold was
discovered in California. The dairy
products of that one valley alone amount
to $1,000, 600 q year, and the prize beef
at ST Louis last year came from there.
It's country where the farm hands get
well 1xed' SO fast there is no one left
to milk the cows.
Coos county, Ore, is typical Of the en-
terprise, industry and thrift OF all the
northwestern states. There is a county
of farmers and lumbermen with 1876
miles lying between it and the nearest
railroad, and yet they erect at the Port
land fair a 5000 building in which to
exhibit their wares. The banks of Ore
gon have deposits to the amount OF
$4,000 to every man, woman and child
within its borders, and Oregon is not the
greatest Of these states.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-09-02

lage successive sets of young women
who have been under the moulding
hand OF i single charming tearher-j
They repeat her flnest characteristics
and she givel the keynote to the eom-
munity e
Many years ago, before anybody
thought Of germs and microbes, thers
was most engaging and beautiful
teacher whose class Of 80 every after
noon were each dismissed with kiss.
At signal the girls closed their desks
and turned around In their chairs.
Then beginning with the first and go
ing ON to the last, each girl stepped to
the desk, gave her teacher her hand
and was dismissed with a kiss. You
may have some ol,i friend who can
remember scene like this IN ner
schooldays. We are much more care
full about kisses now, and do not en-
courage them from rosebud lips. We
have learned that even babies are bet
ter without too many kisses.
But there may be affection without
much demonstration II you do not
love your teachers they can do little
for you. II you dislike them, not only
will you do poor work under their care.
but you will not be SO sweet and Iowa
BILE as you might otherwise be. Il,
carry a stone in ones pocket to throw
if the chance come, is to cherish q
spirit of unkindness which acts most
unfavorably ON the whole life.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-09-02
senseless Advice.

The learned dissertations Of all the
professors and sages who tell US at
this glad season how to be comfort
able when the. mercury Is at 95 begin
with the ancient haldean maxim.
sDont Worry" This caution. observes
the Baltimore Herald, was old in the
days OF Babylon's glory. and knew the
sharp stings Of senile rheumatism
when Ireland still had kings. And it
was Just as platitudinous in those hap
ny times and just as innocuous and
senseless and silly as it is in this yeaI
OF grace 1905. Don't worry. forsootb
How can man help it? DoesnS
worrying mean thinking, and has q
mere human being control over the
machinery Of cogitation? He may
convince himself that he isn't hungry
when the sight Of ham sandwich
makes him weep, and he may control
his fists, his legs, his vocal cords and
his whiskers, but he has no manner
OF sovereignty over his cerebrum and
cerebe1lum. ri s
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-09-02

A woman's mol. 4 often contra
dicted by her eye.
Keep out Of the frying pan, and yoa
won't get into the fre.
The really self-made man never
boasts Of his architecture.
Envy Is q disease from which those
who do their best are Immune.
. It Is better to make haste IN begin
ming than to make haste to finish up.
A man can hy on the handle without
the aid OF q flying machine, buthe lights
hard.
"A successful man roots while his less
prosperous brother stands around and
sQueals. s#
e Some men and women appear vain be-
cause Of oversensitiveness. They lack
self-appreciation, 30 seek the apprecia-
tion Of others as : bolster 70 their self
respect 81