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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15

csety or corporation by its legal name.
y lady left a bequest some years ago to
a certain board Of missions, in this way.
81 wish one thousand dollars given to
the Weman's Board. Of which Miss
Jane Smith is a manager
This was a piece Of incensequence,
that had no Ill results, because the heirs
at law knew all about the board in ques-
ton and were aware of the identity of
the particular Jane Smith concerned
But that legacy might easily have
missed its destination. It was very
loosely put down. and other gentle
women are warned to be careful in sim
liar emergencies.
Many good people distribute their for
tunes during their own lives, and have
the satisfaction of seeing the good their
money can do. No pleasure can be
greater, and, in view of the strife over
wills which is far too common, this
course is, on the whole, the most prac-
tical one for people of large wealth. Yet
even this does not free them, or any of
US, from the obligation to make our will.
when We are in SOUND mind and reason
able health, and deposit it in some safe
place, where it can be found without
trouble to our survivors.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
THE CARE OF THE TEETH.
Children Should Be. Taught the Nice
ties Of the Toilet from Their
Earliest Years.

Children should be taught to use q
toothbrush and some good dentri1ce
after every meal, and especially be-
fore going to bed at night There are
few things more offensive to the sight
than a foul. neglected mouth, and few
things easier to avoid. if proper care
is given the teeth. One of the cheapest
and most effective dentrifiees is COM
mon table salt, dissolved in little wa
ter, and if used with a good brush regu-
larry. very little else will be needed.
There are many tooth soaps on the mar
ket, at reasonable prices, ard many
of them are very good, but often they
ones own dentrifice. If the gums are
tender and inclined to bleed easily, Sc
1eet a brush adapted to their tender
condition. and do not give them ex-
cessiFe friction. Your dentist will tell
you a preparation for hardening the
gums without harming them. A great
many persons cannot use a hard brush.
A very good tooth soap is made of pre-
pared chalk six parts and good, pure
soap, one part, rubbed together thor
oughly. Charcoal, powdered pumiee
stone, cuttle-fsh and similar sub
stances are not readily soluble in the
mouth, and often do more harm than
good. The teeth should be brushed down
ward from both sides of the upper teeth
and upward from both sides on the low
er teeth, and the mouth we'll rinsed
with a simple solution of water and
powdered borax, or water and table salt
A BIT Of thread. or dental floss. should
be run between the teeth in order to
remove any deposit which has escaped
the brush.
# children were taught these littla
nieeties OF the toilet from their earliest
years, the habit would become fixed,
and they would not think they could
neglect this important duty Of cleanIi-
ness of the mouth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
PLAYGROUND OF A NATION.
Where Nature Has Been Exceedingly
Generous in the Bastowal
Of Her Favors.

What is there anywhere that can be
even compared with the marFels of the
heart of the playground the yellow
stone National park Here ii one
place are terraces surprising those of
New Zealand, geysers far more won
derful than those of Iceland, water
falls more stupendous than those of
Cumberland or Killarney hot springs
Of greater heat and mineral springs
more marked than those Of the Au-
yergne, pools of incompatible beauty,
with bear, deer, elk, buffalo and eagles
to give life to the scene. the whole set
among canyons of glowing ttnts and
crags of beetHng height, while all the
region is easily accessible on splendid
government built roads polieed by
United States troops This is the play
ground par excellence. Some day. sagS
the World To-Day, the weary oaes9 ot
France and Germany WiItfalI into Zine
and spend their summers in the Rdck-
les. To the uninitiateG this wiIlt all
sound like characteristic American
brag: to the Initiated. as 3 weak I'M
derstatement Of the facts.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
CONCERNING THE BATH.
Find Out What Is Good for Oneself
What One Woman Consid-
cred an Ideal Cleansing.

Summer is the ideal time for testing
ones ability to endure the daily bath,
but no woman should make the change
/ too abruptly Neither, after taking warm
baths all winter, should she attempt to
plunge into cold water. like the expert
enced cold-water fend. If she is accus-
toned to daily Tubing in warm water,
let her reduce the temperature of the wa
ter a few degrees each day until it drops
to IS. If she cannot stand a cold plunge,
let her try sponging with cold water. For
this purpose she can use foot-tub,
filling it half or third with tepId or
warm water in which she stands, and
then sponge off the body with water
from the cold faucet. This sponging
may be done with an ordinary sponge,
a Turkish wash-rag or the bare hands.
Another way to educate oneself up to
the daily cold bath is to use the shower.
Take a warm mot hotl bath. lasting
from six to ten minutes, and then turn
on the cold shower for a quick finish.
If you have no shower attached to your
tub, buy for % cents one of the rubber
tubes with a nickel spray attached, of
the sort most often used for rinsing the
hair after a shampoo. Attach this to
the cold water faucet and spray the
body with it brislsly.
One successful newspaper woman,
who spends the entire summer in town
taking her annual vacation for senti-
mental reasons in October, lay down
this regime Of bathing. She says that
she is not strong enough to take cold
dip every morning, but she takes a cold
sponge, rubs herself quickly, and if it
is a. sunny morning rolls herself in a
kimona and lies for a few moments
where the sun can pour upon her. IN
winter she takes exercise fol. five min
utes in place of the sun bath. When
she comes home at night, before going
to dinner, she Invariably changes her
gown, bathing her face, neck, chest and
arms with oatmeal water, which she
finds extremely soothing. Then just
before retiring she takes a warm mot
a hot1 bath for Is minutes, and re.
tires to sleep the sleep of the just-and
the well-cleansed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
CRADLE OF MANY SORROWS
Crib for Foundlinss in Which 1900
Infants Are Placed Every
Year.

There is cradle within the door
Of one OF the great institutions of New
York before which constantly recur-
ring tragedy is being enacted. 1t is
a plain cradle. quite simply draped in
white, but with such a look of coy
comfort about it that one would
scarcely suspect it to be a cradle of
sorrow, says Tom Watson's Magazine.
And this cradle is the most useful,
and. in way, the most Inhabited
cradle in the world Day by day,
and year after year. it is the recipient
Of more small wayfaring souls than
any other cradle in the history of the
race. In it the real children OF sor-
row are placed, and over it more tears
are shed than if it were an open
grave.
It is the place where annually 1900
2oundlings are pIaced-the silent wit
nesses of more truly heartbreaking
scenes than any other cradle since the
world began. For nearly So years it
mas stood where it does to-day. ready
draped, open, while as many thousand
mothers have stolen shame-faeedly in,
and, after looking helnIessly about
have laid their helpless offspring with
ID its depths.
For IS years, winter and summer,
In the bitterest cold and the most
sitting heat, it has seen thsm come
the poor, the rich. the humble, the
proud; the beautiful, the homeland
one by one they have laid their chill
dren down and brooded over them
wondering whether it were possible for
human love to make SO great a saeri
fee and yet not die.
Still the tragedy repeats itself, and
year after year, and day after day, the
unlocked door is opened and de.
throned virtue enters-the victim OF
ignorance, and passion. and affection.
and q child is robbed of an honorable
home
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
SAVED BY A WoMAN's WIT
She Sacrificed One Thousand Dollars
to Stage Robbers, But Saved
Twenty Times as Much.

A good Illustration Of the quick wit
OF woman appears in the following
incident Of the old coaching days of the
far west, The man of the tale does not
show off IN the best Of lights, and did
not deserve his reward, says Youths
Companion. The coach was on its way
over a lonely road, and carried among
its passengers 3 lady going to Icsn 5ner
husband and man travelling by him
self.
Il have $1,000 in my pocketbook, CON
fded the lone traveller to the lady. and
I feel very uneasy. Would you mind
coneealing it in your dress? If We are
held up they are less likely to search
you"
The lady consented and hid the roll of
bills. Toward evening the shout OF
Throw I'D your hands," brought the
coach to q standstiH, and four men,
masked and on horseback, demanded,
at the point of the pistol, that all money
should be Immediately given up. The
lone traveller passed over all his remain
ing cash, consisting Of q few dollars
and was congratulating himself Oh his
escape, when, to his horror, he heard
the lady say:
= have $1,000 here, but I suppose /
must give them up and without further
hesitation she handed over the precious
pile Of greenbaclfs.
The robbers rode off in high good hui
NOR, but as soon as they were gone the
traveller let loose his wrath. He abused
the lady IN no measured terms, and
hardly stopped short OF calling her a
coward The accused said little but
when the END of the journey was reached
she invited the angry man TO her house.
Z shall have to accept. he said, sulk-
itg Il haven't cent II the world
through your stupidity"
As he was dressing for dinner that
night his host came to his room.
Here are the thousand dollars, ne
said, which my wife ventured to Dor
row, You see, she had $4,000 hid IL her
gown. and she thought ii she gave up
your thousand it would save further
search. Thank you for the loan, which
saved me heavy loss. .
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
IN A MANGRovE FOREST
Graphic Description Of an Australian
Wild with It's Unapproaeh-
able Natives. s.

En- explorer in northern Australia
thus describes his vain efforts to make
friends with some wild natives who
ran away from him: 1--WE had hardly
begun to move from cover when We
saw several dusky figures running
across the salt marsh into the man,
groves. We started in pursuit at a
run, but when we reached the camp
we found it, as we expected, deserted.
The fire was still burning and the
haste in which the black fellows had
left their camp was evidenced by the
fact that they had forgotten to- take
with them what must have been the
largest part. of their weapons. Boom
erangs, spears, throwing sticks, nu-
labs, shields and remnants of q half
consumed meal of roasted baobab nuts
were lying about the place. We fol
lowed the retreating savages into the
mangroyes.
I'VE traced the diyerging footnarkg
through the dense, dark, eerie, smell
ing inferno with the Instinct of sleuth-
hounds. Nothing will ever obliterate
from my memory the impressions that
hunt made on my mind. The place
seemed to be the very heart of the
huge solitude in which we were sit
uated. Overhead there was a dark,
closely knitted canopy of leaves. Only
here and there d patch of ineffabIy
blue sky that appeared to be irnmeas-
urably distant cleaned through riffs
IN the armament of foliage Through
the apertures the sun shot vertical
shafts of golden light that counter
feited gilded pillars, except where their
masses were broken by contact with
the trunks and limbs of the trees.
Slender flying huttresses vau1ted
away from the trunks in long series
of elliptical arches. The whole scheme
or design of the jungle might have
been that Of an unimaginable medi-
aeYal cathedral conceived in night
mare and executed in q delirfum It
seemed to be peopled by unseen, silent,
thinking, feeling beings capable of ac-
ton and the twisted and eontorted
boughs and branches stretching out
hideous mud-stained arms that APP
peared ever intent on catching and
holding one in their s1oathsome en-
braces intensified the impression At
last. baffed. they gave up the hunt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
osLER LIST FOR BRITAIN.
Che Chloroforn Prescription for Men
at Sixty Would Take Many
Of the Noted.

A learned man has recently proposed
that men who have reached the three
score limit should be pain1ess1y removed
from world which has no further use
for them
Suppose, says the New York Tribune,
it were to be done; preliminaries set
tied, and the tumbrils in readiness, one
Of the first to step in would be his
gracious majesty King Edward VII,
and it would be incumbent upon the at
tendants respectfully to intimate that
Queen Alexandria would be required to
take her place beside her royal hus-
band Another occupant of the van
in a years time would be Princess
Christian.
If his majesty chose the last ride might
be enlivened, however, for by royal com
mand Sir Henry Irving. Sir Charles
Wyndham, Nine. Sarah Bernhard,
Nine. Patti and Charles Santley would
be qualified under the age limit to &C
company the royal party to the lethal
chamber.
So far as England is concerned, the
whole bench of judges, which numbers
20, would depart, save nine.
Sir John Fisher would have to relin-
quish the cares of Office Of the admiralty,
for he has passed Dr. Ossler's allotted
span by four years. Admirals Seymour,
Fremantle and Hay would be among a
very large number of maritime notables
who would have to accompany him.
The army also would suddenly be be-
reft of Lord Roberts, Lord WoIseley, Sir
Evelyn Wood, Sir Redvers Butler and
Lieut., Gen. French. It's pleasing to note,
however, that Lord Kitchener would be
allowed to continue his career of use
fitness for another five years.
There would be very few dignitaries
Of the church left, Dean Bath and Wells,
Carlisle, Chichester, Gloucester Ches-
ter. Ely and Hedeford and the arch
bishop Of York would have torelinauish
the superintendent of their respec-
tive dioeeses summarily.
Science would lose Mr.. Edison and Sir
Hiram Maxim, Lord Avebury and Sir
William Crookes; literature would be
bereft of Count Tolstoi, George Mere
dith, Clark Russell, Algernon Swim
burne, Alfred Austin, Mark Twain,
Frederic Harrison, w. Z. Alden, Thomas
Hardy, Justin Mccarthy, Barring Gould,
Sir Francis Burnand, Miss Braddon and
aOuida, and Journalism would mourn
Mt. lie Sage, Of the Daily Telegraph, Sir
William Howard Russell, Thomas Cast
ling and many another stalWarts of the
fourth estate"
For the most part the present cabinet
would still be left, but his colleagues
would have to bid adieu to the marquis
of LansdoWne. Last, but by no means
least, Joseph Chamberlain would have
to join the silent majority.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
CHINA STILL HAS PIRATES.
Attacks on British Steam Launches
and Boats Are frequently
Made.

Piracy continues to flourish in the
Canton delta and along the coast. Dur
ing the past year the British consul at
Canton reports there were half a dozen
serious attacks on British steam
launches. Chinese passenger launches
and boats are frequently held up and
plundered. Complaints are made to the
local authorities, but nothing is really
done to protect trade. Even within the
precincts of the harbor pirates and rob
bers plumber and loot with fmpunity.
Altogether the situation is hopeless,
and one is forced to despair of good gov
eminent under the present officials. The
people are left to protect themselves as
best they may, and such is their fear
and dread of having anything to do
with the Chinese yamen authorities
that no man, whatever his grievance or
wrong, will readily venture to apply to
the magistrate for assistance or redress.
This insecurity of life and property tells
seriously against all development of
trade.
From the silk districts come repeat
ed complaints of blaekmailing by local
bandits. Foreign goods sent into the in
terror under transit passes are pirated,
and only in one single instance, after Is
months Of arguing and battling with the
officials. has consul succeeded ii OBJ
tanning the recovery of a few articles and
the arrest of few men whom the magis-
trates grayely giyes ont as being the cul-
prits. In one case Hongkong junk was
pirated and the cargo landed in broad
daylight under the eyes Of the local Of
fcials by the villagers, yet nothing is
done and no redress can beobtained. .
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15

and It every bone in your body aches
try resting yourself by gymnasgie
stunts Take off your tight clothing
and. exercise.
s. i have certain stunts I always try
One of these is that of bending way for
ward and laying my hands fiat on the
floor. Then I throw myself back as far
as can. This makes the body arch
front and back. It is lovely for the
nerves and the muscles
Il believe people would be fuller in
the chest il they did these stunts more.
When see dat-chested women I feel
sure that they do not exercise. They
ought to begin and do stunts It is
easy and it takes no time at all You
can snatch IS minutes out of any day
to do these stunts.
The woman who wants a nice, full
chest development must not forget to
throw out her chest The fat-ehested
woman is apt to stoop. She bends for
ward; she has cough and she looks
pale. She should straighten up, throw
back her shoulders, breathe deeply and
take the gymnastie exercise. It would
do her good to bend backward and to
sway from side to side.
1.-THE hat-chested woman could beat
her chest. Beating your chest is excel
lent exercise. 1t may make you cough
a little, but no matter. Give yourself
a good thump, breathe deeply and don't
forget that you are trying to develop
your chest. The influence of mind
over matter is a great deal, aud kind
of instinct will tell you what to do
next. | have the widest, fullest chest
for my size in the world. And | think
l can take q great deal of credit to
myself
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
ON CHEST DEVELOPMENT.
Persistent Attention TO Exercises and
Good Habits of Holding Chest
Bring Fine Results.

And now come to the chest develop,
ment. have the finest chest in the
world, they tell me. / am exquisitely
developed-if do say it myself. !
am not good looking, but I certainly
have nice chest and bust develop
ment. And for this there are certain
exercises, says an artists model, as re-
ported in the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
T am very supple. Sometimes say
that | was brought up in a gymnasium.
worked in a gymnasium SO long and
SO much that my joints ara very timber.
! can bend way forward and way back
ward, andsI can bend sideways and in
this way and that way. It is delightful
to be able to bend your body.
While / am fasting I bend and sway.
/ do the old-fashioned stunt of bending
forward and laying my hands fat on
the floor. I do this continually. 1t is
the way I rest myself If you are tixad
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
Great WarshiDs,

IN Brasseyss Naval Annual for 1904
which has just appeared. the figures on
effective fighting SHIPS OF the five great
nations are as follows; Great Britain
all ships. IT'S, battleships 65s France. ali
ships 50. battleships Sc; United States
ali ships Is. battIeships 49, German !. ali
ships SO. BattleshIps, So. Russia, ali
ships q, battleshlps 90 As TO drst-.
class battleshIps the figures are: Great
Britain, 5o, France. II United States.
25; Ger1nan q; Russia 133.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
Petticoats.

Pettieoats are as simple or as elab-
orate as one may prefer BY all odds the
most beautiful to wear with thin gowns
are the hand-embroidered batisfe petit
coats. These areas exquisite as human
ingenuity and skill can make them, and
some Of them are Of almost fabulous
price. One very dainty one bore the
modest legend that it might be had for
sl60! But there are pretty ones to be
had as low as SO, and they aremore last
ing and smarter than a silk skirt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
SHOULD MAKE A WILL
poor AS WELL AS RICH HAVE
SOMETHING 10 LEAVE.

a Duty for People with Little Prop
erty as Well as for Men Of Millions
Legal Advice Inlperative-Ihere
Should Be Frank and Full Discus
sion Between Husband and Wife
"Disagreeahle Surprises, Sprung
on the Living by the Dead, Are Of
All Human Experiences Most Mad
deRing.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
A Hair Tonic.

Here is a tonic which will increase
the growth Of the hair: Cologne. eight
ounces; tineture Of eantnarides, one
ounce; oil Of English lavendar, oil OF
rosemary, one-haIE dram each Apply
to the roots of the hair once or twice
a day It IS positively necessary tha1
the scalp should be kept clean Sham
poo at least once a week
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15

The great majority OF us are not multi
miIlionaires. We are plodding people,
more or less thrifty, doing the best we
can with what we have. Our farm. our
house and lot#in town. our live stock. our
pictures, our books and furniture. and
the savings Of our Woodworking years
are to be divided among our loved ones.
be gone, we want them to live on I'M
der the protection of our thought, under
the shelter OF ssas brooding care. So
we make the mos; equitable will we can.
and then. sleep better at night, in the
thought that life will not be wholly hard
for them, by and BY.
IN some states. both husband and
wife. to be safe. devise each a will. No
husband should keep his will a secret
from his wife, or. if il be the other way.
and the wife be the richer party. should
she keep her viii a secret from her nus
band, a will is sufficiently important
to be the theme OF free and candid dis
oussion and to be made an affair of con
jugal confidence. Disagreeable sur
prises, sprung on the living BY the dead,
are Of all human experiences most mad
dening
In the case of jewelry. eurios, farorite
prints and photographs, the fotsam and
jetsam Of pretty and priced souvenirs.
the course should be the same. An AZ
fecttonate family will regard as peculiar
ly sacred the wishes left in writing by
father. mother, or sister, though they
may not be legally attested. and the
keepsakes will not fail to go to the per
sons for whom they are intended.
A ring, a brooch, a string of beads. a
silver cup. piece of china. may be left
BIZ uncle or aunt. to a child not yet
grown. Though the .intrinsie value Of
such gift be small, II an expression OF
desire has been left in black and white
1t should be respected by the next OF
kin, and the souvenir carefully guarded
antiI The child is old enough toreeeiFe It.
=
People who bequeath sums Of money
10 benelcent causes, faYor5te charities.
or institutions, should be definite IN
stating amounts and destinations. It IS
of great Importance 70 mention the So
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
When Washinr

The hands can BE eleansed better with
warm water than with cold. but they
should always be rinsed afterWard with
cold water, as it keeps them ii better
condition
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15

An English scnoolboy recently wrote
the following essay on friendship.
- friend is one who knows all shout
you and likes you sill the same. Gn5,
cago Record Herald.