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to seed. she gathers the seeds, sows
them, watches and tends the resulting
plants till they fructify and in like man
ner gathers the seeds of this second
generation and gamers them for plant
ing. She regards all change in the
floral kingdom as manifestation of a
force that is seeking new expression,
and she treasures it accordingly, being
wiser with her plants than most par
ents are with their children. In time
the change she has fostered becomes
fixed, then a new flower appears on
the scene.
Hybridizing is an intensely interest
ing part of Mrs. Shepherds work. She
carefully selects the flowers she wishes
to cross then takes upon the tip of a
little camel's hair brush some of the
pollen of one flower and deposits it up
on the pistil of the other flower. Thus
transported to new home, the strange
life, whatever it is, in the pollen, seizes
upon the pistil of the fortified plant
and nourishes itself and produces a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-08

A WoMAN,s mol"
New York

Here is an account of the primitive
method of courtship in the region of
Greenland's icy mountains:
When the Danish missionaries had
secured the confidence of the Green
1anders, marriage was made a religious
ceremony. One of the missionaries thus
described the style of procedure in
choosing and getting wife. The sutton,
coming to the missionary, says, II
should like to have wife" "Whom?"
asks the missionary. The man names
the woman. Hast thou spoken to
her?" Sometimes the man will answer,
Eyes; she is not unwilling, but thou
knowest womankind." More frequently
the answer is mo" "Why not?" 'It
is difficult; girls are prudish. Thou
must speak to her" The missionary
summons the girl and, after a little
conversation, says; Il think it is time
to have thee married. 81 won't marry
What pity! 1 had a sutton for thee
'Whom?'' The missionary names the
man who has sought his aid. HE is
good for nothing; I won't have him. -
But replies the missionary, che is a
good provider; he throws his harpoon
with skill and loves thee" Though
listening to his praise with evident
pleasure, the girl answers, mo, won't
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flower different from either of the
originals. 6
Mrs. Shepherd, fascinated with her
beautiful task, thought little of the out
side world till at length the outside
world came to her. People desired
seeds and cuttings from her garden,
and presently a f1ourishing trade with
professional f1oriculturists and seeds
men developed. She sent out new va
rieties of begonias, nasturtiums, pop
pies, cosmos and other flowers. Women
who cultivate from the seed in their
pretty gardens in the east the wonder
full yellow California poppy and other
exquisite flowers from the Pacific7coast
will be interested to know that this
quiet, interchangeable woman foricuHur-
list was the first person to grow flower
seed for the eastern states trade. Her
seeds have found their way throughout
Europe. She is the pioneer flower seed
grower of California. Mrs. Shepherd
also writes and lectures on her favorite
topics. LILLIAN GRAY
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MEN IN woMEN,s PLACES.

81 cannot understand why women
are so desperately anxious to enter pro-
LESSONS and trades which obviously
are suited only to men," says writer,
while they allow men to supersede
them in others that seem by right to
belong to women alone. One of these
is the art of hairdressing; another is
cooking; a third is dress designing.
Men are acknowledged to excel in all
these occupations. but it is my firm
conviction that, if women only chose,
they could cut out the men and be en-
titled to the higher wages. It is absurd
to think that a woman should not be
able to dress hair better than a man."
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The Guimpe Dress.


The guimpe dress is with US to stay
You see it in all colored silks, but is
prettiest in lavender. The guinpe is
best made of fine transparent organd1e,
with elbow sleeves ending in cuffs of
lace, the Transparent collar being also
of the lace.
The newest collar foundations are
made without the upper and lower stiff
bones. This makes them far more COM
Portable for summer wear, beside caus-
ing the neck to appear much smaller
around. The collars can be procured
for 10 cents each, and really there is
not an excuse left for the woman with
sagging neckwear. Put a collar on
every wash waist you have. They are
easily basted in and taken out for
laundering.
We certainly have the hot Weather
with US. Some people suffer very much
from it, but it is my private opinion
that great many more suffer because
they do not know how to take things
easy. For the woman who overdresses
in warm weather 1 have no sympathy.
1t is foolish and unnecessary, and If she
wants to go to a fashionable hotel
where five changes a day are necessary
let her not grumble-that's all. The
man who drinks hot coffee and eats
oatmeal every morning is simply
shoveling coal into the furnace, and so
is the nervous little woman who per-
sists in a meat diet. Many a nervous
wreck has saved his life by sleeping
out of doors, and that is what I want
to talk about. 1t is not SO difficult as it
sounds
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made trips to Europe and to eastern
cities and elsewhere, she entertained
friends and distinguished guests at her
home and was able to shape her life at
will.
Then there is that other California
woman, Theodosia Burr Shepherd, now
known to every f1oriculturist in civil-
cation as a hybridizer of blossoms and
originator of new flowers. Scarcely
outside of dreams in which flowers of
unearthly beauty float before the vision
can one behold blooms as beautiful and
wonderful as those reared by the name
sake of Aaron Burrs lovely, i'll fated
daughter At Ventura by the-Sea is
the home of Mrs. Shepherd. The bios
SONS about her home at Ventura are so
wonderful, so abundant and so fragrant
that they are fairly overwhelming to
the sense. and the sight of them makes
the heart ache because no human words
can describe their beauty. The begonia
Is Mrs. Shepherds favorite flower, and
Uhe has one begonia plant fifteen feet
high. It has sometimes $50 clusters of
blossoms upon it. This is the splendid
Marjorie Daw'' begonia, originated by
Mrs. Shepherd herself, there in her
airy queen garden at Ventura by the
beas
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dress for the day in some loose negligee.
After this she would return to the bal
cony bed, which had been remade, and
lie there watching the sea until a sub
stantial breakfast was brought at 8: 80
The day she spent in reading and en-
broidering and in writing notes. She
recovered her strength and appetite,
and from fitful sleep she managed to
rest soundly without a Single awaken
ing sometimes for ten hours at a
stretch. When she returned to town,
sleeping in bedroom was positive tor
ture to her until the cold weather recon-
eiled her to it.
People who are afflicted with nerves
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Christmas. I know of one girl who
makes quite tidy little sum clothing
dolls in an unusual or quaint manner.
She Is at present engaged in robing
a set OF them to represent Dickens
characters. They are to be raf11ed at
a church bazaar about Thanksgiving
time. Another woman, friend of hers,
is perfect wonder at making rag
babies, and you know, in spite of all the
French waxen beauties, the rag doll.
will always be the favorite of the very
young child. One of those rag dolls
which she made recently for a little
millionaire on Fifth avenue was as
large as real baby. 1t was made of
stockinet, the entire body being flesh
color, while the face and hands were
most artistically painted. The dresses
for this rag child were perfect copies
of those of the up to date infant, and
the paints used were waterproof, so
that if Miss Dolly fell into the bath
tub it would not hurt her at all. The
same woman makes fascinating ami
mails, her speciality being large brown
monkey most lifelike in appearance.
She derives a very good income from
her work and receives orders for Christ
mas trees and fairs months in advance.
Before I close 1 want to give one
more hot weather hint: Don't forget
the sick who are poor. There is no
greater purgatory than to be shut up
in an i'll smelling room without ice and
without wholesome invalids' food, when
ones very life depends on the right kind
of nourishment. Yes, 1 know there are
societies to look after these cases, but
they don't reach every one, especially
| in the small towns where charity work
| is not well organized and depends prin-
| cipaIlY on the kindness of individuals,
1t is bad enough to be poor If one is
| strong, but it is insufferable in hot
weather to be poor and ill at the same
i time.
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rays of the sun. Crisp white costumes,
and several of them, are necessary
above everything else. No number of
silk or yelling dresses will take their
place.
At Newport, for instance-and New
port certainly sets the style-white is
simply all pervading. At the tennis
meets and other functions where the
smart set congregates the woman
guilty of wearing a dark gown is the
exception By dark gown I mean
anything fused up, anything of silk or
wool. A wire meshed linen trimmed
with effective lace and worn with
lace hat trimmed with red roses and
a parasol to match was one of the most
stunning costumes seen there last year.
Now and then dotted batiste is modi-
fed with lilac or a pale yellow slip
and has both hat and parasol to CORE
spond, but everywhere one sees the
jaunty little coat and skirt of white
linen, worn with white canvas shoes, a
white linen hat trimmed with white
wings and a white coaching parasol.
This year the linen suits are not
trimmed SO heavily with lace as for
merly. They aim at a simple effect of
straps or embroidery. One of the
smartest costumes 1 have ever seen
was of white linen. The jacket with
buttonhole embroidery all over it had
little three quarter sleeves edged with
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HOW THE SUMMER GIRL
Tvog MAY GO CAMPING.

n MEN generally discover every good
nj thing first and women follow on
after as fast as their lack of
knowledge and dread of Mrs. Grundy
permit. Men discovered the delights of
summer camping in forest and by
stream, away from all the uncomfor-
table restraints in which civilization
has prisoned the natural wild man.
Men deserted the fashionable summer
resort, and the girls were left lamenting.
Not long, though. The girl considered
the situation and said:
eff it's SO much fun going camping,
I'm going camping too"
Summer camps exclusively for the
woman sex have become almost COM
mon in some states. In Vermont and
New Hampshire abandoned farmhouses
have been converted into camp homes.
The farmhouse is merely the head
quarters of the campers. 1t constitutes
their dining room and kitchen and their
refuge on rainy days. The true camp
ers sleep in tents, not under roofs. In
pine forest districts, if the camp can
be so near the woods that fresh twigs
can be gathered for beds. so much the
better. First a rubber blanket upon
pine twigs in place of the conventional
mattress, with blankets for cool nights,
and the town -dweller sleeps in such
slumber as nobody but child can en-
| joy in the city.
There are wealthy society women
who take what they call the tent rest
cure. Slipping off altogether the ar
| tificial life of the fashionable woman,
they take not even a looking glass with
| them to the wilds in which they dis
appear. They do their own cooking, so
| it's said-though that sounds too good
| to be true. They braid their hair down
| the back like a little girl, wear very
| short skirts and no corsets. Their food
| is of the simplest. Part of the cure is
| that they shall write no letters, scarce
| ~ even talk for two weeks, if one can
| imagine anything in feminine form be-
| ing silent so long.
| ."The majority of women wear them
| selves out talking a doctor once said
| to a lady under his fare for nerve
| trouble.
| For the woman whose tongue has re-
| duced her to a state of nervous pros
| tration the solitary tent rest cure in
| the summer woods is salvation, but all
| the sex do not need so strict regimen.
| The majority of them are just those
| nice, wholesome, sensible, middle class
| women and girls who are the flower of
| their sex and the salt of the earth. To
| these the gregarious camp affords most
| pleasure and Misunderstanding in tents,
| eating in a common dining room and
| spending the rest of the time outdoors
walking, cycling, golfng, boating and
| bathing.
| The best way is to have permanent
| camp leased from year to year. If there
| is no house suitable for the headquar-
| tiers a big board shanty may be built
| cheaply. The women who most need
| the summer outing are the ones who
| work all the rest of the year, many of
| them earning money for themselves and
| others. For the woman teacher, the
stenographer. clerk or bookkeeQer. the
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summer camp will be recreation and a
delightful novelty. 1t would be easy
for women to put their spare money to-
gether and get the camp. A cook and
a man to do the heavy work of the
camp could be hired, SO as to leave the
campers time free. A fixed sum per
week, and it need not be very great
can be fixed on to be paid by each one
while she is at the camp. The girls can
go in relays from June till October,
arranging the time of each according to
convenience
Even two weeks of such camp life
would work wonders for the average
city woman 1t must be understood that
there shall be only the simplest dress-
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The Outdoor Sleeping Fad.

If you live in the country try putting
a tent on the lawn. Once you have
slept in it you Will never want to go
back to a stuffy bedroom. The owner
of a house with a balcony can easily
fit it with screens and rolling shades
of material thin enough to admit the
air and thick enough to protect from the
public gaze. In a city house tent or
screen arrangement can be rugged up
on the roof, and one night thus spent
in. the open will be found worth three
nights in a sweltering bedroom.
A friend of mine who was a nervous
wreck cured herself in this way. She
hunted until she found summer
Don,t foroet the sick ,,ho o,.e noor
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have the remedy in their own hands.
It is plenty of fresh air, thin clothing
and light diet.
: I sometimes think, though, there is
something in Marie Antoinettes re-
mark that nerves are the malady of
the happy Certainly the woman who
works hard has no time to waste on
nervousness. and if she is really break
ing down. let her try the outdoor sleep
ing plan, and in no time she will be her
cheerful brisk self again.
Dressing Dolls For Living.
At this time of the year many women
find emplOyment dressing dolls for
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T is enough to make the eastern

Y T is enough to make the eastern
woman jealous to read what the
feminine sex is accomplishing in
California. Eastern folk have
long known of the ranch of Mrs. E. P
Buckingham of Vacaville. 1t was not
particularly profitable ranch when
one day, now more than twenty years
ago, there came to the keen intell-
gence of Mrs. Buckingham the brilliant
idea of making the waste swamp grass
on her land pay her a good sum- How
she had the cleVerness to persuade the
leaders in presidential campaign to
adopt pampas grass plumes as their
emblems in parades throughout the
whole land, Mrs. buckingham furnish
ing the plumes from her California
swamp lands, many know. It was as
clever business stroke as agricuIturist
ever accomplished. The sale of the
pampas p1umes gave the brave ranch
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STILL persist in saying that the
women who do things are the hap

women who do things are the hap
piest. Not only are they the hap
a piest, but they are the best wom-
en-. That is why a husband is short
sighted when he is jealous of some
talent his wife has. 1t is a great deal
better to be jealous of a talent than of
another man. This reminds me of a
nice little scandal which occurred a
couple of years ago. A rich man mar
rfed. over in Paris, a girl who had
pronounced talent for sculpture. After
the wedding he frowned severely upon
her modelling apparatus and ordered
it removed from the house. He wanted
a wife, he said, and not dauber in
clay. To have talent was all very well
when she was the poor Miss Blank, but
now that she had married a fortune she
must take her place in society and not
work any more. 1t did not matter how
much talent she had or thought she
had. really smart people did nothing
but go around and enjoy themselves.
Why couldn't she do the same and be
like other women?
Well. she did as he told her She
washed her hands of clay for once and
for all. She choked back all the beau
tiful aspirations she had, for they did
not belong in her present exalted posi-
ton, she had been told. She spent q
whole weary year trying to stand pink
teas and the inane conversation of
women who never could do anything
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marry. won't have him." 'rwsn I
won't force thee. shall soon ind q
wife for such a clever fellow" The
missionary remains silent, as though
he understood her Mo- to have ended
the matter. At last, with a sigh, shs
whispers, ''Just as thou wilt have it.
missionary" NO" replies the clergy
man; "as thou wilt. I'll not persuade
thee" Then. with a deep groan, comes
''Yes," and the matter is settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-08
A SUBSTITUTE FOR A LANTERN

If you want lantern and have not
one, make a substitute with a candle
and a paper bag.
Light the candle and draw over it a
paper bag which you have blown up
just as you used to years ago when you
popped" bags to make your elders
jump. Gather the bags opening round
the lower end of the candle, and you
will find that you have constructed 3
useful Temporary lantern. -s.
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terested in her art she would not have
been influenced by his sophistries, be-
cause her life would have been too full
of beautiful thoughts and aspirations
for her to adopt anything that savored
of discord or falseness, but as it was,
am sorry to say. she ran away with
him.
And everybody said it was her fault,
of course, but 1 think the crime was to
be laid at her husbands door. True, he
surrounded her with luxury, but there
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anu 1T yer IdQ
an orr ginal
thought in their
lives. TIL en-,
just as she was
b e ginning to
consider suicide
as an alterna-
tive to such a
life. she met a
very fascinat-
ing man she
n ever would
have known had
she spent less
time gaddin g
around trying to
kill time, ac-
cording to the
instructions of
her husband. If
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me IndL the dN-
erage WON a n
pays too much
attention to her
evening clothes
and too little to
what she wears
on the street.
To my mind
daytime clothes
are a great deal
more important
than ev e min 6
ones. If your
evening gown is
a little mussed
people will not
discover it half
so soon as in
the case of a
gown worn I'M
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vaIenciennes, while the skirt was sim
ply plated and hemmed ankle length.
With this were worn French sailor
hat, also of eyelet embroidery, trimmed
with a twist of pale blue, and one OF
pale pink taffeta ribbon.
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\ LOVELY FRock OF NOUS
SELINE DE SOLE,

The frock in the cut is of spotted
white mousseline de sole. The skirt is
encircled with broad bands of Irish
guipure and frothed between these and
about the bottom with valenciennes
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Don't forget the SICK acho are poor.

boarding house which had room with
a, balcony facing the sea. This she
screened with venetian blinds and fur
nished with a strip of carpet and cot
bed AT first she occupied this balcony
night and day. In the morning at
Z: 80 a cup of cocoa would be brought
to her, after which she would go into
the bedroom adjoining, fix her hair and
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AAOA : Id t.
She planted vine
yards and orchards,
she raised prize live
stock, and the Buck
ingham place be-
came one of the ia
nous farms of the
Golden State.
Mrs. Buckingham's
life became pleas
ant and fortunate,
as every plucky. in
telligent woman s
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is a luxury which stiles, and all wom-
en- cannot be classified as painted dolls,
and they can't all live a painted dolls
life.
The wise man discriminates, and the
wisest man of all thanks heaven that
he has wife with brains and some in
terest in life beyond gossip, Irritation
and clothes.
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A MoDIsH SILK GOWN.

ing-wearing one costume all day, and
no social fuss and feathers at all-if
the best results are to be obtained.
MARY GOULD LYLE.
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Have Nice Street Clothes.
And speaking of the latter, have
been looking at several very pretty
summer outfits recently, and it strikes
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-12-21

Tom Barrie came over from Calvin
last week for a stay over Sunday with
friends.
We have $4,000 to invest in Second
Mortgage Farm Loans. If you want to
borrow any amount see Attorneys Cor
don Il Wheeler at once.
w. f. Winter returned Saturday from
a business trip to Walhalla, where he at
tended the annual meeting of the Mayo
Brick and Tile Co.. of which corporation
he holds the Office of vice-president.
The pulpit FOUNDER who semi-occa-
sionally visits the new town of Sarles in
his capacity as a sower of the seed of
truth holds his services in the passenger
coach of the ct. Northern railroad
train which takes a ''lay-otf' at the end
town on the seventh day of the week.
One of the many flying railroad ru-
mors is that the Ct. Northern will build
westward from Grafton to the cement
mines east of Milton, thence north to-
ward the boundary line. Residents of
eastern Cavalier county have their ear
to the ground listening for the rumble
of wheels and the shrill whistle of Jim
Hills iron horse as it climbs up the hill.