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of etiquette for any one to take his de-
parture from the ball before the emperor
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rigid social censorship is exercised on
the attendance of persons at the imperial
court, which is the most exclusive in the
world. The first essential Is good birth
or a high position in the army, navy or
state service. No Jews and no men or
women who are actively engaged in trade
are admitted to court society. No news
paper man must ever be admitted to the
precincts of the court. In cases of per-
sons of high birth but undesirable reputa-
tfon there Is no laxlty of morals but the
undesfrables are mercAessly excluded.
With rare exceptions, no divorced persons
and no persons involved In any kind of
personal scandal are admitted at court
When strangers are introduced for the
first time their antecedents are Investigated
In advance with great care. There is a spe-
cial department of the imperial household
headed by the marshal of the court, which
Is Entrusted with the duty-of aseertaining
the suitability of male candidates for pres
entation. and there Is similar department
under the mistress of the empress house
hold for the control of female candidates.
All the most intimate details about each
candidate are carefully ascertaiued by all
sorts of means, including the employment
of detectives If considered necessary. For
eigners can only be presented at court II
the court or the mistress of the empress
household by the ambassador of their own
country in Berlin. The ambassador Is re-
quired to guarantee that they conform with
the requirements imposed on candidates for
presentation at the German court. If any
ambassador were to bring about the presen-
taton Of any one who was afterward found
to have feen unsuitable for the honor he
would commit such a grave breach of eti-
Quette that he might be compelled to va
cate his position. Consequently the for
eign ambassadors IN Berlin are extremely
cautious in recommending candidates for
presentation, and the most careful of them
all Is the American ambassador In these
circumstances there is not much opportun-
ity for ambitious American heresses to gain
access to the German court. The fact that
the German emperor consorts with the
group of American millionaires who attend
the k1el regatta every year Is no proof to
che contrary, because during the seyen
days which the kaiser spends at Kiel court
etiquette Is relaxed to an extent unknown
at any other time of the year.
H. ELPHBERG.
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dressing table a manicure set This con-
sists of small pair OF curved scissors q
nail file, an orange stick, channels polshcr
ana a little box of nail powder. When
ABOUT TO trim the nails soften them by
dipping the ends of the fingers into warm
soapy water. File the nails first, gently
press back the cuticle with an orange stick
rub them with little yaseline and polish
the nails with the chamois A girl who
neglects cleanliness in the daily toilet of
the hands and nails is either Indifferent to
bathing and to the proper care of the body
or eise her early surroundings have been
hands may be rough or red, but they are
invariably immaculate Clean hands are
the hallmark of gentlewoman
Ink stains may be removed by the use OF
pumice stone, by lemon Juice and salt or
by dipping a sulphur match into rain water
and rubbing 1t on the stain. Fruit stains
may be removed by holding the fingers
In the fumes of sulphur match.
Now that have said all this about beau
dful hands. / want to add something else,
which Is just as important as any of the
rest. No hand that is not womanly will
ever have claim TO be regarded as charm
ing or exquisite. Womanly hands are those
which are engaged In kind offices for those
one loves. The girl who is helpful unsei-
fish, generous and kind is the one whose
hands will deserve most praise.
must add word, too. about the cordial
hand-clasp. Some girls have a limp, fabby
way of shaking hands They really have
no grip. Others go to the opposite extreme
and almost crush friends hand when
they grasp 1t. There is happy medium
in this, as in most things. When you meet
friend in the street or at your home. tt
is very seldom necessary to greet her with
kiss. Almost never should one girl kiss
another in a public place. The only excep-
tfon is when friends are separating for a
long time or for a journey, such as cross
ing the Atlantic or the continent Then
kisses are in order. Usually it is enough TO
shake hands when one encounters friends
or acquaintances and the hand-clasp should
be warm and sincere.
Do not rush to fads in Misunderstanding.
Several years ago there was a fashion OF
elevating a friends hand in rather abrupt
perpendicular way, which had an extremely
awkward effect. That style is now obsa-
lete In your own home do not greet v!s-
itors with mere stiff bow. Offer your
hand. You have, of course, the privilege
of refusing to shake hands with a person
you dislike, or with one of whom you do
not approve
THE hand of Douglas Is his own" but
one can hardly offer greater slight than
to refuse or overlook proffered hand.
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lap. or. If busy with the pen or the needle.
they still retain their feeling of calmness.
1t was all very well for Dorothea to
nave had those statuesque hands" ex-
claims Marjorie, but just fancy that she
had been in my case, and had dishes to
wash. beds to make, and sometimes pieces
to iron Although l am school girl /
have to help my mother with the mousse
work, and ktchenwork spoils a pretty
hand l am aware that many girls think
just as Marjorie does about this. / have
even known girls who shirked household
tasks and allowed tired mothers to grow
more tired instead of trying to ease their
burdens. simply because they feared to ruin
hands of which they were vain. You would
never do this, am sure, you girls who are
reading this talk
I" 1t Is possible that hard daily labor with
out intervals of rest may coarsen and en-
large girls hands. but few of US are ex-
posed to this danger With little care
girl may work in the garden may sweep,
dust, or. If need be, Scrub, and may wash
dishes three times a day and not injure
her hands In the least Gloves may lie
worn in the garden. India rubber gloves,
fitting tightly to the skin, are a good pro-
lection against hot suds, and dainty dish
washing. which is pre-eminently Iady's
work, Is greatly helped by the use of q
mop. For pots and pans there is an iron
dish washer which Is more radical and
thorough than cloth in ones hand. If
You are troubled with rough, red or cal
lous hands. If they crack in frosty weather
or the skin peels off, be extremely fastidi-
Gus about your toilet soap. Wash the
hands very thoroughly with soap of good
quality, rinse them in tepid water, and be
sure to wipe them dry. If hands are Al
ways wiped until all the moisture is gone
and absorbed by the towel they will sell
dom crack. The use of cold cream well
rubbed into the skin at night especially
around the finger nails, softens and whit
ems the hands and a good plan for girl is
to slip such hands into a loose pair of
gloves. An old pair of her fathers or
brothers gloves answers admirably.
While 1 am about 1t let me caution you
not to wear dress gloves too small for you
or that fit too tightly. Instead of making
your hand look smaller, tight gloves exag-
gerate its size. Gloves should be long
enough to fit the fingers comfortably and
should come up well over the wrist. I am
rather old-fashioned and do not like to
see young girls putting on their gloves in
public. Ones outdoor toilet should be
fully completed before one leaves the house.
1 know a school where girls receive de-
merits If they go out to walk MAKE
calls without putting on their gloves first.
Every young girl should have on her
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A CITY HALL. OF TEN THOUSAND YEAKs Aao

studied the mysteries of the stars-when. 1t
silent chambers. where in the dawn OF
priety holds up its hands at In our day,
record OF the hands upon the wall
Here is the human element. Here Is
where you feel the blood quicken and the
stiffness of twice five thousand years. You
Dear. dead women, with such hair, tool
WHAT'S become OF all the gold
Used to hang and kiss their bosoms?
l feel chilly-and grown old"
With a sharp, slim hunting knife 1 once
tried to strip away of these dainty,
dimpled hands The plaster upon which it
was imprinted crurnbled into dust. At last
the owner of the hand was really and truly
dead. I went back through the chapparal
to the loneliness of the neighboring hacien-
da to smoke.
That is the strange thing about these ex-
traordinary ruins of Mexico, they are so
silent and yet so full of voices They are
so awfully eloquent upon the theme of
mans littleness and the unimp ortance of
him and of all created things To illus
trate, chapters, possibly books. have been
written upon the subject of glazing, going
to show at just what stage of Egyptian his
tory it was invented, and yet L have
crawled, gasteropod fashion, underneath a
temple in Mexico. down through long pas
sages in the pyramids, the sides and CELL
ing and floor of which had a white plaster
ing and glaze which even after the lapse
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in-chief of the German army. with a
plumed helmet on his head and golden
hilted sword hanging at his side. The
golden spurs on his high military boots
clink as he steps along the parquet floor.
At his right side walks the empress In a
low cut dress and a long train. which Is
borne by eight juvenile pages, all of aristo-
cratic birth and all dressed In velvet. I'm
mediately behind their majesties follow the
his military suite. the officers Of his naval
suite. the remaining members of his per-
sonaI suite, the ministers of state, the
high administrative officials, all in uniform
or in court dress. Behind them follow the
crown prince and crown princess, with
their own attendants and suites, and then
all the other princes and princesses with
their attendants and suites.
This procession starts at the Swiss hall
and proceeds around three sides of the pal
ace to the white hail. passing through ten
chambers on the way. In the first of these
chambers are assembled the guests of the
very highest rank. In the next those OF iess-
er rank. and SO on down the various grades
which are so carefully observed in Ger
many. AS the emperor and empress enter
each room every man present bows so low
that the trunk of his body stands at right
angles to his legs, and the ladies' curtsey
until 1t seems that they must all fall
sprawling on the floor. When their majes-
ties enter the white hall the sight of SIX
or seven hundred men and women simul-
taneously making these deep obeisances Is
never-to-be-forgotten spectacle. At ball
the emperor does not dance because 1t
would be incompatible with the imperial
dignity for him TO encircle any waist with
his royal arm. 1t would be grave hrc.ch
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persons men and women alike, must kiss
the hand of the empress when they are pre-
sented to her or when she addresses them.
When the emperor desires strangers to dine
with him he does not invite them. but the
marshal OF the court Informs them that his
majesty commands their presence at dinner
on such and such a date and at such and
such a time. The guests assemble and are
escorted to the dining room, where the vice
marshal of the court shows them their
places. They must not, however, take their
seats until the kaiser has taken his, so that
they have to remain standing round the
table until the kaiser enters the room. The
kaiser invariably compels his guests to walt
for him on such occasions, frequently as
long as fifteen or twenty minutes. Two her.
aids then advance from the direction or the
kaiser's private apartments and take up
through which the emperor will enter.-The
master of the ceremony then appears In a
gorgeous braided uniform and bearing his
wand of office, with which he strikes~the
floor three times. This Is the sign that the
emperor is at hand, and moment later his
majesty becomes visible, marches briskly
into the room, acknowledges the profuse
bows of his guests with slight inclination
of his imperial head and takes his seat
Close upon his heels follow those of his mill
tary, naval and personal suites who are
doing duty for the occasion.
No one at the imperial table may begin to
eat or drink until the kaiser has set the
example. No one is allowed on any pre-
tense whatever to leave the table while the
emperor remains sitting. When the dinner
is over the emperor rises, bows slightly
and disappears through the door by which
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Of incalculable time was as perfect as that
on the surface of piece of Pittsburg plate.
And they say there is no marble In Yuca-
tan. But down at the end of that chimney
like passage was chamber, perhaps nine
feet by twelve and projecting into it a
great head of the most heroic magnitude.
and carved with magnificent strength from
a block of pure white marble. It's whole
contour. even to the remarkable head or
nament, was strikingly Egyptian. Here
was the innermost idol, the strange ap
proach to whose sanctuary probably none
save the high priest knew.
Snowy white, too. was the Titanic pillar
right and half buried in the ground, where
turies ago, from the summit of the temple
ference was greater at the top than at the
Maya scholars undertook to decipher the
he pored over 1t for a moment and said:
1t is upside down..
Here, then, was the pillar not of the broad
top, but of the broad base, and the out
ward curve recognized the world over as
the sign manual of the ancient Egyptian
builder.
But whence the white marble and when.
since the time of the Rameses, have the
Egyptian builders brought their arts and
the Egyptian priests their symbols across
either Pacific or Atlantic to the painless
wilderness of Honduras, Yucatan and south
ern Mexico?
The Aztec civilization which Cortez found
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of the Brahmin, back straight to Yueatan.
Even the cabalistic phrases used by the
priests of Egypt and in the most profound
rites OF every mystic cult in Asia he found
in the Maya Inscriptions of Uxmal and Chi
chen-Itza, ruined cities of the isthmuS.
In the temple ruins of Uxmal LIE Plongeon
found part of what had once been the statue
Of priest. Over the dress was an apron,
and carved in relief upon 1t was the symbol
Of the extended hand, so well recognized
among Masons of the day.
This symbol of the open hand Is a preva-
lent one throughout all the Maya ruins. In
the Casa de las Mujeres ("House of the
Women') in Uxmal, and in other places,
there are dadoes all around the stucco
walls. formed by the impress of women's
hands which had been dipped in the brill
liant dye of the sacred colors, blue green
and red. The lines of these little long dead
hands are still as clear as II they had been
pressed there yesterday, and no feature OF
/ these stupendous ruins brings to the ex-
plorer with more force the marvel that here
confronts him.
These mighty temples tower into the blue
sky Upon their pyramids. with their end
less terraces of solid masonry, their won
derfully carved facades rich in all forms
of symbolism and ornament-facades which
successive dynasties superimpSsed, one out
side the other. as may be seen at any
transverse break in the massive wallS-the
splendid burial monuments rear themselves
amid masses of vines and orchids and trop-
ical trees, the insects and burrow wing ami
mails turn up bits of ancient pottery, the
same terra Gotta that the taciturn natives
carry land fro today, and with the self
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sunshine at the effort to wiring from them
their history or their mystery.

sunshine at the effort to wiring from them
their history or their mystery.
y
They arc older than Egypt. They go back
to the period of primitive man, for thus far
all the excavation into their miles of ma
sonry has never revealed the existence of
an iron or steel implement. Their innumer-
able workmen carved those towering facades
and squared the millions upon millions of
wall and stair and foundation stones with
chisels of obsidian. But how they built!
In the mythology of Yucatan, Honduras,
Chiapas and Tehuantepec there stands forth
clearly the legend of Cain and Abel. The
whole story of Genesis is here written, the
entire symbol system of the isthmus COIN
cides in perfect detail with that shown in
the later relics of Asia. The relationship of
this ancient vast, but as yet unplaced life
of the isthmus with that of Asia and north
ern Africa is plain. Its greater antiquity IS
also plain. That 1t was coeval with the
great submerged Island of Atlantis, which
furnished the story of Noah and of which
the West Indies and Azores, once mountain
tops alone remain to speak. is practically
proven by internal evidences, but how this
civilization, of which not even dim tradi-
ton remains among the present inhabitants
of the land, made its way into the eastern
world. this Is a question for which the
scholars, who ever since the Spanish con-
quest have been delving into the mystery,
have had as yet no answer.
LIE Plongeon traced Freemasonry, through
the Egyptian mysteries and the ceremonials
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I once overheard one of the boys tell
how he had helped an old Frenchman.
IT was down in southern Idaho last trip
said he while waiting at the station for
a train to go up to HALEY an old man
came to the ticket window and asked how
much the fare was to Butte. The agent
told him the amount-consideraby more
than ten dollars.
Mon Dieul Is 1t SO far as thatT said
the old man. 'Eh bien very welD, I must
find some work
But he was clipper old fellow. had
noticed him that morning offering to run
a foot race with the boys He wasn't wor-
ried bit when the agent told him how
much the fare to Butte was. He was
really eomical. merely struggling his shoui-
ders and smiling when he said: Very well,
/ must find some work Cares 1ighten care.
The old man. leaving the ticket window.
sat down bench. made the sign of
the cross and took out a prayer book.
When he had finished reading went over
and sat beside him. talked with him He
was one of natures nobiemen without
title. He was a French-Canadian. He
came TO Montana early in the sixties and
worked In the mines- Wages were high,
but he married and his wife became an in
valid: doctors and medicines took nearly
all of his money. He struggled on for over
thirty years. taking money out of the
ground and putting It into pill boxes
Finally he was adyissd 70 take his wife to
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a lower altitude. He moved to the coast
and settled in the Willamette valley in
Oregon. His wife became better at first,
then she grew sick again. More medicinei
well, sir. do you know that old man
over seventy years of age-was working his
way back to Butte to hunt work in the
mines again, L spoke French to him and
asked him how much money he had. Not
much said he--and he took out his purse.
How much do you suppose the old man had
In it? Just thirty-five centsi I had just
spent half dollar for cigars and tossed
them around. To see that old man-separated
from his wife. having to hunt for work to
get money so he could go where he could
hunt more work that he might only buy
medicine for sick old woman and with
just three dimes and a nickel in his purse
was too much for me. said to myself:
ri cut out smoking for two days and give
what 1 would spend to the old man.
Il put a pair of silver dollars into the old
mans purse to keep company with his
three dimes and one nickel. 1t made them
look like orphans that had found home.
Mon Dieu. Monsieur. vous etes un ange du
ciel. Merci, Merci! tMy God, sir, you
are an angel from heaven. Thank you.
Thank you), said the old man. But you
must give me your address and let me send
back the money!
name and told him that would send him
my address TO Butte SO he would be sure
to get II; that he might lose IL IL he put IL
In his pocket.
aHe told me his name. / gave him a note
TO the superintendent at Pocatello. asking
him to pass the old Frenchman to Butte.
He talked until my train started. Every
few sentences the old man would say: Que
Dieu yous beniesse, mon enfantf MAY
God bless you, my boyD
''As / stood on the back end of my train.
pulling away from the station, the old man
looked at me, saying:
.Adieu. Adieui Then. looking up into
the sky, he made a sign of the cross and
said: Que Dieu vous protege. mon enfanty
(May God protect you. my boy).
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WHY THE KAISER TAKES
HIMSELF so SERIOUSLY
Curiostes of German Court Etiquette Which Inev
tab1y Tend to Swell the Head of
His Imperial Majesty.

preme Importance. score of the highest
aristocrats in Europe are always at his
beck and CALL eager to forestall every wish
before IT is uttered, and competing with one
another in the speed with which they carry
out his orders. This must necessarily ex-
erc:se an undesirable and injurious effect
on the emporer, and should be taken into
account in estimating his character and
qualities and his tendency as an autocrat
These aristocratic satellites of the i'm
perial person are bound in their intercourse
with his imperial majesty by the strict rules
OF etiquette prevailing at the German court.
Every officer, even If he has attained the
highest rank of field marshal, must stand
at attention and raise his right hand to his
cap in a military salute so long as the en-
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he had entered and after his departure his
guests are free to disperse

X
There are very stringent regulations re-
garding the dress which must be worn in
the presence of the emperor. officers Of the
army and navy must invariably appear In
full parade uniform, with their swords
dangling at their left sides, and wearing on
their breasts all their orders. decorations
and medals Ministers of state. high ad-
ministrative officials and gentlemen who
move In court society are obliged to appear
IN court civilian dress. consisting of The
plack cutaway coat. black knee breeches.
SILK stockings and buckle shoes. The hat
corresponding TO this costume Is a queer,
three-cornered structure, surmounted by q
plume, ana the waistcoat is cut away like
that or an ordinary dress suit. Ali male
persons who do not belong to high society,
put VINO happen to be In the presence of
the emperor FOR any particular occasion,
are compelled to wear full-dress suit, with
SILK hat. patent leather boots and white tie
IL Tor instance, the emperor Is present at
meeting or 5000 men, every one Of them
would nave to wear dress suit even IL It
were at o'clock in the morning. II the en-
peror visits photograph studio the pho
Women are obliged to appear at the Inn
perial court in extremely low cut dresses
III ladies' who go TO court do not conform
with this regulation they are simply turned
out. When the emperor attends gala per-
formance at the Royal Opera House the
same regulation holds good and II often
happens that ladies' do not come in dresses
cut low enough to conform with the regu-