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Dquatty trees and palms are placed 90 tina
secluded nooks are formed, toward which
the crowd, merciess In It's intrusive spirit,
Is sure to move, for all the world, and o.
pecially the roof garden world, loves .
lover.
The clever New York girl has q roof
garden Of her own II she wants one. She
covers the roof with rugs, hangs rows Of
swinging Chinese lanterns from pole to
pole, she has hammock and silk cushions
and table and chair OF wicker, so that tho
weather will give them a nice stain.
She has an eye for the practical az well
as the sentimental, and big chest at one
side keeps all the perishable mat erial from
the clements and saves the trouble Of re-
moving them every time the roof Is used
Here she has her parties and her tete-a-
tetes. She has tho punch served from
the top Of the chimney, which gives her
an opportunity to stand outlined against
the starry sky while she ladies the draft Of
nepenthe for some admring swain.
One girl told her experience, which may
serve as warning to others of her class.
Il just made up my mind that If he didn't
come to the point that night might as we'll
give up the struggle and go down the third
time, there must be something rather re.
poseful about that last sinking, think.
Il managed to get the rest of the crowd
to look at some old steeple or something
that loo,led up, and then we were alone.
l pretended to be mixing the punch, but it
was all fake, for it had all been mixed
hours ago,but talked on and on and made
myself as amusing as possible.
Finally I stepped down. and just as I
sank on hescushions at his side discov-
cred that he was sound asleep. He had
all tho appearance Of having been that way
for long time. He was propped against.
the chimney and had all the cushions.
Invoke him up quietly, for knew the rset
of the girls would guy me to death. He
said he had been working hard all day and
1t was 80 dark and restful that he just
dropped of.
Perhaps it was all right, but have my
opinion Of a man that drops Off at roof
party that's ALL"
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does not dare dazzle tho sight of man with
her loveliness. It's not for me to say which
Is which.
1T is not such an easy thing to be
mystery as you may imagine. And this
summer curiosity Is very pervading
quality! But 1t pays! 1t pays
For instance. we have instituted bureau
of information on one Of the roofs and
you would be surprised at the number OF
questions that are asked 1t was intended
originally simply to be place where people
could find out about the checks for their
seats when mistakes we're made, but If you
bclieveit,a woman came up the other night
and asked us to find her husband
She had been staying out of town and
heard that he was around with typewriter
and was on his trail. We don't intend
to lend ourselves to anything of that kind
but if we can help we do. In this case the
description was so accurate that we found
him at once, only very much to her disap-
pontment he was with business partner
and they were drinking lemonade between
the acts-rather a disappointing situation
for wife. who had come long way from her
seaside hotel for nothing"
The goat already referred to has rather
mournfu air which has replaced his last
Of the roof garden. he announced that he
believed its day was past, but its night was
as good as ever.
1--WE told Hammerstein," he remarked,
shat you can t make a stock farm with one
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GoLDF1ELp; New; July s.-The search
for gold brings mankind together in oddly
assorted lots. If you don't believe 1t come
to this mining camp in the heart Of the
Nevada desert, twenty-seven miles from
the nearest railroad. There are 8 900 people
here now, and the only notable absentees
are the Chinese and Japanese. They are
not here because they can't get in. This
camp has an exclusion act that works to
perfection. Long before Monaghan gets
near the outskirts of the camp telephone
or telegraph has announced his coming
reception committee, or, to be more
exact, a departure committee, awaits him,
and away he goes. There's no yellow
peril" here.
One cannot take half a dozen steps
through the main street of the camp without
meeting some one of the hundreds who
have come here within the last two years
without a penny and can now write their
checks in four, five or six figures. Not
the least notable of them is n woman. Mrs.
Addie Williams
When gold was discovered here two
wears ago she was one of the first to arrive
on the ground. She knew nothing of
mining camps. and it was her plan to put
up hig lodging tent for the new arrivals.
But when she reached Tonopah her funds
were exhausted. She held up the first
prosperous looking man she met and told
him point blank that she needed $500 and
wanted it at once He didn't have chance
to get in word of remonstrance. Without
stopping to take breath she showed him
what good investment it would be, how
sure he was to get his money back. con-
WINGED him that she was woman to DO
trusted and wound up by getting the cash.
The lodging tent was a winner from the
start. The price was 81 n night for n cot
that ia, for the reGu!ars-but the belated
wayrare- had to pay sometimes as high
as S. night. Mrs. Williams was not con-
tent to stopat that, but spent her days in
locating properties for herself, mining
claims and addtio ms to the town site OF
Goldfeld Two years in Goldfeld have
brought this energetic woman at least
$50 600 in cash and securities and prop
critics worth at least $500 600 more.
Another character of the camp is H. W.
Knickerhocker. a former Methodist clergy
man, who resigned his charge in Los Angeles
and came here. There had long been some
doubt in his mind as to some of the teach
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! and the best camera guards.
He soon found it useless and gave up
! the attempt. After he became an easy
| subject for the photogra nher every IaIcr
/ secured pictures Of him and then they
! did not care for any more.
! II a person is asked TO pose, and Is will
| ing to accommodate the public it is well
| to try and pose as naturally as possible.
! Here Ia some advice on the subject from
an expert photographer
Don't wiggle around and look foolish
and wonder how you are going to look.
Take it easy. 1t will not hurt you. The
| photographer is not going to throw any
thing at you and there is no need of look
ing frightened. as many people are apt
to do.
THE art Of quick posing is simplicity.
Don't appear too affected or selfconscious
Be nothing hut your plain self and you
will like your picture when you see it, and
even if you are ugly, people will say That's
a good. picture
And good picture, n natural picture,
does not show your physical imperfectons
half so much as picture in which you strain
your head or your body around in an I'M
calmly way to try to hide what nature has
given you. Much of the wide interest
which is taken in pictures to-day comes
from the fact that each photograph is an
individual thing and different from any
thing seen before.
ITO stop to dress up is the most foolish
thing you can do. Women often run and put
paint and powder on their faces when they
ara asked to pose, Powder makes them
look ghostly and red paint comes out black
and makes their faces look dirty.
Wrinkles in the clothes often add to the
attractivcncss and artistic effect Of a pic
ture. Even old shoes do not look had, but
new ones lcok better.
"Dont open the eyes too wide and on the
other Land don't close them too much.
Keep them at their normal opening and If
you don't know, from long experience,
Just which way to look il order to show
the best shape Of your head. loo!, pleasantly
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The Fortune Hunters at GoldGeld
A Woman and Ex-Preacher Among tho
Newly Rich.

ings OF the Bible. One Sunday morning
he broke down in the middle of his SER
mon and left the pulpit. To the vestrymen
Of his church he said
SYou will have to get another minister.
cannot believe what l am preaching.
l have made up my mind ] will never
go into a pulpit again as long as | live
And he kept his word. 1t was on Sept.
10, 1908, that the dominic reached Gold
field He was as fat broke as a man could
possibly be, but he borrowed money from
time to time, and at last took job in the
Red Top mine, working on the surface.
When he had worked a month of thirty days
at 81 a day he took his Sl2O and decided
there were better fields for his endeavor.
Before going to work in the Red Top
Knickerbocker had located several claims!
with nothing more than a hazy idea that
by chance they might prove valuable.
Out of his sl2O he paid his debts and then
started single handed to do tho assess
ment work demanded by law for the full
establishment OF his claims. He made
a little sale of one of these. and from that
time has kept going forward. until to-day
he is worth about $3.50 600.
II. l.. Colburn is another man on whom
fortune has smiled since his arrival. He
came here at the same time as the Rev.
Mr.. knickerbocker and they have been
friends ever since. One cannot leave
Colburn without word about Charlie
Taylor one of tho men whom Goldfed has
made rich, Thi, is Colburn's version of their
first meeting:
Il was out on Lone Mountain looking
after piece of property for people in Salt
Lake City. We had camped. and while
there two men came up and wanted to
pitch their hunks with us. W had no room
in the tent, hut told them they could put
their bed at the side to shelter them from
the wind. They We're Charlie Taylor and
George McCleiiand, now the owners Of the
Jumbo mine.
Some time later, while coming in from
that section with mule team, overlook
man plodding along the dusty road with
pack on his back. He had teen to Clover
dale, and on his return trip his horse had
broken down. To save his own life he had
started to walk in. 1t was Taylor again,
and helped him into camp. When l ne Il
met him he said he was going to prospect
out in the Grandpa district and said: 'All
l need Is $50 to buy grub II you will let
me have 1t I will give you half of all I GET
As a matter of fact, didn't have the money.
He managed to get II elsewhere. II had
been able to stake him then would have
had an interest in the Jumbo to-day"
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wicked or both, and the wife who knows
her business would no more leave her
husband to his own proclvites In the sum-
mer time than sho would a two-year-old
They are just about as responsible.
"She stays right on the ground now +,
and when there is roof garden mention cd
she goes along. There used to be a time
when men were always around complain
ing that wife would go out of town, talked
lot about the expense OF summer re-
sorts and the like, and the indgnity Of
being sent around to hotels or living in q
house all shut up and swathed in linen
covers give you my word just as man
to woman. that all the complaints hear
are the other kind-that wife won't go
away.
Not any vacation this year. says one,
and I've been a good husband, too, all
through the spring, fall and winter. When
ever anything went wrong I'd say: Well,
she'll he away all summer and what's the
use7 This year wife calmly announces
that she believes half Of the divorces are
caused by the trouble men and women get
into who are deliberately separating them
selves. She said: I took you for better
and worse. I've had the worse and III
just stay around and see if there's anything
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UNDER FIRE OF THE CAMERA
Rules for Persons A bout to Be Snapshotted.

Posing for publication in this day Of uni
versa Photography and general illustra-
ton s an art which nearly every person
should be interested in. One never knows
now when one is going to be suddenly
c'licd upon to look pleasant for the photog-
rapher OF some newspaper or maya zine.
As thls gentleman is generally in hurry
to get back to his Office there is no time to
dress and arrange oneself for the picture
taking operation.
II one is not accustomed to posing quickly
just as one is, without primping up, it is
not an easy task Natural posing is a rare
gift
with the photographer who is after a
news picture the main thing is light, and he
gives most of his attention to securing the
rest night possible as quickly as he can,
ana without giving the person to be pho
,ographed much trouble. When he has
MS subject in fair light he goes ahead
ana takes the picture, without paying
hhcn attention to the pose. For this
leason the ubject should do his own
posing
IN the first place stiffness Of expression
IN the face and form should be avoided.
he military man, who, by tho way, ia
always very fond of having his picture
taken and will pose for any kind of photog-
lapl"r at any time or place is one of the
hardest follows to get to timber up. He
always wants to look like dressed up ram
roo. at least until he has reached the rank
Of MAJOR
lh'n he tegins to take more reasonable
hu''i'ieS before the camera. and If you
VIII hp'ice some military portraits you will
ih''' A. rule, that the privates, sergeants,
I"eu'enan's and Captains always look very
s'fi ny the time you get up to the Colonel
ana the large variety of Generals you will
SEQ letter pictures with more agreeable
posing
Probably the best friend the newspaper
ana magazine photographer ever had in
NE army was Gen. Nelson A. Miles, and in
we navy Admiral Dewey. They were
hIwayS willing and pleasant when ap-
lr"ached and they knew how to pose and
y "a' never any trouble to get good pictures
Of them
IN Tie last few years great many public
men lave become enemies of the snap
slot photographer. but in no case have
'fy tc":i men who understood the art Of
quick posing. During the last political
r,a'ntaiSn Judge Alton Is, Parker, the
p'fn'c ratio candidate for President. took
a violent dislike to snapshot pictures. and
u" Nprnt good deal of his valuable time
i" e"jsing the newspaper photographers.
h''' he was always hard man to photo
era 'h even when he first started his cam
Ia'kh and was willing to pose for every
,"'E who asked him II he sat down he
,''hrh' ly stuck either his hands or his
'''' ont so that they became distorted,
ana If he stood up he assumed the stiff
w." u young military man.
'T"'ident Roosevelt has never been a
camera dodger; neither has he been poser,
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While I was commissioning from tho acct
dent that cost me my eycsigh' ] amused
myself 10y feeling everything within reach,
and each article i touched took on n now
meaning. Qualities that | used to notic,.
like color, out inc and proportion. were
for the time lost sight Of, and | now noticed
whether an article WINS smooth or rough,
hard or soft in texture.
Sounds also took on n new meaning,
and ! soon learned TO cultivate and make
the most Of them
People no longer had faces for me. Their
smiles and frowns were for the time being
oblterated although in the twenty-five
years that have interviewed ! have learned
to follow facial expression very closely
At this time, however, only noted my
friends voices, their steps and peculiarities
of motion.
had not been long feeling and cropping
my way about the house when discovered
that | could bridge over short distances
of space between me and objects with
which l wished to acquaint myself by
very peculiar physical process, one that
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He doesn't even stop to consider whether
it is real roof or not SO long as it Ia called
a roof You can take a top foor and n
it up with elect rio lights and bar, some
bunting and festoons of roses and call it
a roof and there you are.
We have tr1I various methods Of keep
ing roof garden really roofy. At the
Paradise there is farm attachment, where
goat, some chickens and a few ducks
make tho farmhred sport long for a drink
from the old oa4ien bucket. and in lieu of
that call for the nearest at hand. And the
more honesick he gets of course, the louder
and oftener he calls. When it comes to
appealing to sentiment especially Of the
roof garden variety. Mr.. Oscar Hammer
stein knows what he is about.
when everything else fails, you can
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and straight into tho lens.

and straight into tho lens.
IF you look dire city into the lens when
your picture is printed you are looking
directly at the reader IF you are looking
10 the side, your eyes ra lost to the reader,
and to see the entire eye as it appears when
you are looking at Il person is quite i'm
portnnt in good portrait
Above all things. conceal or partly
conceal your hands and feet. You should
appear to have these members, but don't
try to make them conspicuous, because,
oven though they may lie very pretty for
You to look at, they do not look we'll in
photograph.
1T nasl TO sit up straight and it is equally
bad To lean over to one side or too far for
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New Hork'S
Roof Gardens

sHow about the stock Of roof gardens''
wa asked,
Pretty small answered the press agent.
There are only three left"
Tho three mentioned, the Aerial, Wis
,sria and Paradise Garden, are those stu
o,ed IN the Amusement Belt. for the real
nro.s agent never allows his imagination
10 yan,lrr further afeld.
The press agent always has an explana-
ton to III any situation that arises In life
whether he life is simple or complex.
"Thrrc are as many as we need, he went
m for after all there is only certain
amonn, Of the population of the city that
con he formed a roof garden population,
and when you consider that the Paradise
cy,cnds over two theatres, the Victoria and
Beasco'.. and the Wistara over the New
Work and tho Criterion and that the Aerial
IL especially constructed for the purpose
uba, more do the public want? Each Of
those PLACES accommodates from twelve
m fifteen hundred and they are full every
night,
The roof garden population is the usual
mixed crowd that the summer time in New
York brings out. The swagger set are out
of town hut come in occasionally and they
usually take box for one OF the shows.
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ward or back. If you are tall and slender
try to take an esthetic pose. If you are
short and fat, don't double up ',ery much.
The arms and legs should not be too
straight. Prisoners always stand with their
arms and legs very stiff and at attention
Curves are always more graceful than
straight lines even If one is not built like a
Grccian model, Evcn old and wrinkled
clothes often look better than new garments,
because they take more to the shape of the
form and show the curves instead of the
straight limos
Summer PICTURES are more pleasing to
the eye than winter pictures, because the
light is better and also because lighter
fabrics ire worn to show of the graceful
ness of the form--if there is any"
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Main street where most OF my crrands
take mo. and the cross streets, trees, hitch
ing posts. telephone poles, and uneven
marks. In addition to this, the sense of
smell is quite convenient in city for grocery
stores. meat markets, fruit stands, and
bakeries can all be identified by their street
smell.
When have finished my crrands on one
side of Main street, | wait for lull in the
trait and follow very closely on some ones
heels across the street.
On my lecture trips to distant cities.
and into rural towns, | make most Of them
alone. but kind strangers give me "A
little lift here and there. The trolley cars
are great help to me, as they raoiate in
all directions from the depot in nearly
all cities and the man in brass buttons is
always ready to point out the right car.
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better coming my way. Two tickets
please
Are people so particular about the roof
garden performance was interpolated
at this point.
AIndeed they are not. All that seems to
be required Is a swirl and swish of skirts,
some colored lights thrown any old way,
a burlesque with lots Of ginger in 1t and
some catchy songs that don't suggest
Wagner any more than the play does lb-
sen.
The New Yorker Is gull.ble creature.
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always arouse peoples curiosity even when
the temperature has climbed to the fraz-
cling point. It's in the summer that curl
osity gets rampant, for people get tired
thinking of their own troubles and prefer
to watch their neighbors.
slave girl land from a steamer In a
red cloak with red lace mask over her
eyes and the whole roof garden population
Is agog. There are only two reasons why
a woman ever covers her face, and the same
reasons apply to her figure
The press agent wiped his forehead with
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a ba udanna, for it was a hot day.
-The two reasons a re these--either because
she is so ugly that she wants to hide her
self from the CRUEL gaze of an unsympa-
thizing world, or so beautiful that she
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Five Feet OF Ice In n We'll.

Wiiiimanhc correspondence Hartford Courdni.
After repeated efforts the depth OF the
ice in the we'll on the promises Of Walter
Pike In South Coventry has been determined.
The ice is now Ave feet thick and st III adheres
solidly to the walls Of the well. At the present
rate of tina wing there Ia a reasonable prospect
OF the ice remaining through the summer.
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rocky lodges. down which the water. IL
lumined from beneath, drips unsteady.
There are little stairways leading to
Romeo and Juliet balconies, and clumps Of
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billy and couple Of chickens, but be thinks
no knows best, SO I'm not goin' TO butt In
any more.
Another thing that doesn't agree with
my Idea Of tho picturesque" he fretted.
is calling this place Paradise Garden and
having a goat instead of a serpent. How
do you account for that?" i
Whatever question there may be about
the popularity of the theatrical roof garden
there certainly is none about that OF the
roof gardens on tho hotels. One OF the
fashionable hotels has reached the high
water mark in roof garden beauty with an
deliberately designed affair which is shown
In model in the hotel foyer.
Possibly the Hanging Gardens Of Baby
lon were more beautiful, but it is difficult to
believe. The fairness OF the surface has
been disguised by the artistic arrangement
Of huge mounds OF scarlet geraniums. and
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PUBLIC DEMAND FOR THE MYSTERIOUS.

PUBLIC DEMAND FOR THE MYSTERIOUS.
Then there are the Southerners, and now
We have a distinct Spanish set who come
here every summer and consider New York
the greatest summer resort in the world, as
Il is.
Perhaps you have noticed, said the press
agent cautiously looking over shoulder
to leeward, that there amt so many lone
some ones this year, not SO many as there
we're lat year and good many more than
there will be next summer?
The reason for it is simple as pulling
teeth; it's the divorce court
Women have walked up to the idea that
man is nher5 ntly simple when he isn't
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THIS YEAR AT LEAST THEY
ARE NOT TIE RESORT OF
HUSBANDS WHOSE WIVES
ARE AWAY. - % - -