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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

line. forming a corselet effect. The full
ness of the waist opened over a " effect
both back and front. This was filed
in with white lace. The small sleeves
had very high puffs and We're finished
with wide cuffs of lace. The short
bolero coat which went with this was
of the same velvet, shirred across both
in the body part and in the sleeves. A
cord and tassel effect ran from shoulder
to shoulder, and the edges of the boIero
and short wide sleeves were edged with
fringe.
With this was worn a black chiffon
velvet hat trimmed with a white POM
pom and a huge white aigret. A small
stole of ermine and a big pillow muf
also were parts of the costume to COM
pIete the black and white effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
CHEERFUL THOUGHTS
FOR THE NEW YEAR.

FOREIGNERS who visit America
for the first time are impressed
before all with the lavishness OF
supply on every side. the luxury dis
played They say no other nation has
so much money as we have, and no
other people spend their wealth so free
" 1t is true that few of US are con-
sciously aware that we possess so much
wealth. yet if we contrast our circum-
stances with those of individuals of like
social standing in other countries we
shall see how much better off we are
than they Did you know that the
farm products alone of the United
States for 1905 amounted to over So.
600, 900, 900? No farm crops in any other
country at any time ever were so great
To begin, it is much to be thankful
for this Jan. 1, 1906, that we as ma
ton are so comfortably off and-bless
ing of blessings our land is at
peace at home and abroad. Think of
Russia's New Year!
Come. let US resolve to fill all 1906
with cheerful thankful thoughts!
You think you as an individual wo-
man, maybe, have not much of hope
and joy to face 1906 with? Let US see.
Suppose you have six children and have
to buy pair of shoes Tor one OF an
other of them every week. Are they
all healthy and possessed of good sense,
neither deformed nor silly nor subject
to fits? oh, be thankful, even though
they do keep your nose to the grind
stone, for here are six little men and
women who through you have oppor-
tunity to learn life's glorious lesson of
achievement. There are your neigh
boris two poor little crippled children,
born with spinal disease. There IS thai
hapless idiot in the next street whom
for thirty years his mother has tended
like babe--a man in stature an in
FAINT of three months in intellect. Look
on your six rosy, romping ones, among
the brightest pupils in their classes,
the teachers say. Have you nothing to
be thankful for. looking forth into 1906?
Maybe you can ONLY afford a plain
billed" dinner on New Years day. Do
you know there are in this land at least
a hundred thousand people who have
no New Years dinner at al. that in
one part of the country and another
there are that many persons every cay
who have nothing to eat and know not
where to get anything? Are you better
/ off than they?
Again, suppose New Years day is for
you only one tiny break in a round Of
toll that continues day in and day out
six days in the week, year after year
in shop. store or Office. You can do
your accustomed labor without much
trouble It is wearisome, but it gives
you a good living and you are secure
in your place. You are so busy you do
not have time to fret and get into mis-
oJ,faF Is1ra those xvhoca lives rn EMMY
and, after all, things are not positively
bad with you. Well, when things are
not positively bad with US they are
| certainly positively good. and that is
the right way to look at the matter
Think of the plain, everyday comforts
of life which are certainly yours. re-
member how badly OF you would be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

sense" garments make them uncom-
Portable instead of the reverse.
Then you take into Consideration the
fact that common sense garments are
rarely pretty and that they usually con-
trive to make woman look her worst,
and you will understand why few wo-
men can feel easy in their minds and
therefore comfortable in them.
No, Indeed; so far as I am concerned
at least you may give me the strictly
conventional both in men and women's
dress. No AngOra effects in mems hair,
no spotted necl1ties and flowing coat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

ton, because there are 50 many of
them, we can make the resolution to
get fewer costumes at time and keep
them in better condition.
If we have been imprudent and con-
hded the secrets of our heart to our
friends we win no doubt profit by the
experience and make a resolution never
to do so again if we look back at the
awful results in some cases.
If we have quarreled with all our
relatives and best friends we will no
doubt, in looking back at the causes,
wonder why we We're so silly over small
things and take the wise resolution to
remain at peace with all the world.
If we have had wrong views of life
and things in general a New Years re-
Election does a great deal toward set
ting us right again, but there is no
use in moping and making ourselves
miserable over things There is a fu-
ture before every. one of US and there
viii be until the end of our days.
That is the beautiful thing about New
Years day-we have another year in
which to do our best and repair the
mistakes of the past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

Speaking of looking attractive. it
seems to me the most stunning cos
tune ever invented is the princess
dress surmounted by a short coat
reaching to the top Of the waist line.
This is the smartest dress design
shown along the avenue at present. It
will make almost any woman look tall
and graceful.
AS for those who are tail already,
they can modify the short coat and give
it ampler lines and thus take from their
height.
in black chiffon velvet. The velvet was
slightly figured with pin dottings and
markings. all in black of course. It
was made with shirrings at the waist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

all the available space the a4tics can
afford until the day of removes. which
is also the day of reckoning, arrives.
have known cooks with mania for
preserving stray saucepan lids. broken
crockery, cracked bottles. kettles which
leak and a score Of other useless chat
tells where more deserving and nend-
able objects seek the dustbin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
LOVES SWEET REWARD.

I care not for the thorny way,
Though the skies lower black above me
The dark sings sweetly to the day:
you love me. dear! You love met
The winter blossoms as the May,
And the sweetest birds are singing;
The storm hath still the rainbow's ray,
And all LIES bells are ringing
And bright the night and clear the day,
With stars or storms above me,
While life shall sing and death shall safs
You love me. deari You love mei''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

tails please my eye. And as for wo-
men, no hobnaiIed boots. rainy day
skirts and thick waists. 1 beg of youl
Our first duty. if not to ourselves at
least to the world that has to gaze on
US, should be to look as decorative as
nossible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

There is very little indication that
long sleeves viii be worn. Even in this
winter weather you can see for your
selves how the elbow sleeve reigns.
Hats viii be exquisite next spring.
with odd picture shapes and dainty
combinations of color
Take it all in all. milliners and
modistes say that 1906 win be notable
year in the annals OF fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

ANOTHER new yeari might as
"a well admit that I am not any
more fond of New Years day
4 "A than I am of birthdays. They
both make me reminiscent.
I think it is always a bad plan to look
back too much on the year that has
gone. You are apt to overlook the good
things and dwell on the mistakes. 1t is
better TO look ahead. The year that is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

coming always
has the attrac-
ton of a beau
tifuI blank page
waiting to be
written upon.
But there are
a few resolutions
we can make
without dwell
ing too long on
the past. When
we look into the
closet. for in
stance. and see
a whole lot of
dresses half
worn and shah
by, dresses it
would take quite
a sum to put
into good condi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

som e woman
starts up full of
energy and ready
to revolutionize
the feminine
world. She de-
signs garments
said to be the
only real things
and urges you to
wear them if
you want to at
tain comfort and
a ripe old age.
But her fad
does not gain
many followers.
The truth is
some of US arc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

Women leho find comfort - ''7l DS
tn French heel shoes. e - -0i " r- 80
take the fiat soIed shoes the reformers
commend so ardently It would be
positive torture for good many wo-
men to wear them. The arches of no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
Work of CIubwOmen
During the Past Year

q T a meeting of clubwomen re-
HA Gently Rev. Anna Garlin Spen-
Ger called the woman's club
the mon professional university
for women in their second youth" What
this university is to the feminine sex
may be judged from the fact that dur
ing 1904 there We're organized 1900 new
clubs for women.
The Lyceum club. organized in Lon
don by Miss Constance Smedley. but in
ternational in its object and scope has
been busy. enough during 1906. 1t has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
SMART EVENING BoDIcs.

The evening bodice illustrated IS og
black chiffon inset with motifs of White
baby Irish lace. over the neck en-
placement OF the lace is a lattice erect
brought about with narrow black 7eI-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

luton that. come what may, we win
keep ourselves good tempered and he
thoughtful Of others as Of ourselves.
And. come to think, that is the best
wish for all Of US for this beautiful new
year; that during 1906 we may keen
good tempered and thoughtful of others
as of ourselves.
KATHERINE BLADES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

I must say I haven't much sympathy
for dress reform. Every now and then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

Knowing When We Are Wrong.
1T is a great good quality to be able
TO admit you are in the wrong
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

A majority of the tenement inspcc-
tors of New York city are women. and
Chicago's six women tenement in
speetoas are doing as efficient work as
the men inspectors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31

vet ribbon and large jet beads, one e,
which is applied in the center Of each
Handsome Jet passementerie heads the
panels of lace on waist and sleeves. The
finish at the elbow is of gathered chif-
fon above a full ruffie of lace. The gir-
die is of velvet.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
THE TURMOIL I'm RUSSIA.

The Russian council of workmen's
delegates at st. Petersburg resolved to
secure an eight-hour day by revolu-
ton IL necessary. Mobs sacked the
towns Of Gors and Krivoirog. Russia,
killing 500 persons and setting fire
TO the buildings. Many persons were
killed in Vladivostok, where soldiers
Joined the rioters after the warships
sailed.
The cars offer of crown lands to
the peasants Is regarded as a last ef.
fort to appease the hunger Of an awak.
ened nation. The imperial estates EN-.
brace 401, 6z4,0 900 acres.
Preparations are being made in St
Petersburg for serious battles in the
streets, following the sudden strike OF
100000 men, led by the revolutionaries
who seek to depose the czar. The PEG.
pie are panic-stricken.
The car in manifesto, paves thu
way for Russian peasants to acquire
vast tracts of land, boon for which
they have clamored for years, and
abolished taxes amounting to 100000
000
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
CRITICISM AND COMMENT.

rJProbably every one down there Is
now singing Maryland, My Mary
land" except Arthur p. German. 1t
isn't his any more.-Detroit Free
Press.
DThe old party Of free trade is dy-
ing. After 1t is dead and when, with
protection recognized as our settled
policy, political parties are dividing
along other lines, tarin revision will
be less dangerous to the public welfare
than 1t Is now.-Burlington Hawkeye.
DOhio democrats are scanning with
great interest a list of 5000 appoint
ments to be made by the new govern
or and the new mayor of Cincinnati.
This immediate change is the first
chapter in the promised reform, and
excludes at present all other branches
of the subject.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
DThe news that the south Is likely
to fight revision of the tariff helps to
explain why the democracy has been
searching since 1896 for a new issue as
diligently as Japhet in search OF his
idlucT, VI SOtlcUS VI Wlle. Inc
south is where the democrats live, or
people who call themselves democrats.
though now most Of them are firmly
In line for policies distinctly republic
an in their origin. Time as well as
politics makes strange bedfellows.-
N. Y Tribune.
DA good deal of comment on the
responsiveness of our administration Of
the Philippines is based on ignorance
of the fact that ought to be patent
that 1t costs us more to carry on their
administration than 1t did the Span
iards, simply because we are doing
more for them. The Spanish idea was
to keep the people down, ours is to
lift the people up. The Spaniards saved
money by not building up common
school system and by not improving
the port of Manila. IL we were to leave
the people to stagnate we should save
money, too, but that is not our way
and our way is the better, though it
may cost more.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
A WEEKS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST INTERESTING
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and Pre-
pared for the Perusal Of the Busy
Man.
rHE INSURANCE. PROBE.

James Hazen Hyde, testifying be-
fore the New York insurance legisla-
tive committee, declared that the Mer-
camille Trust company, an offshoot Of
the Equitable Life, paid $4,000 to
former Gov. Odell in order to prevent
an attack from Albany, as a-result OF
the shipbuilding trust scandal. He ex-
planned the $685.000 yellow dog" fund
and charged Hartman and Frick with
conspiring to get him to go abroad.
K. ii. Hartman denied on the wit.
ness stand before the insurance inves-
tigating committee that he ever ad-
vised James II. Hyde to settle with
former Gov. Odell, who was suing the
Mercantile Trust company. Mr.. Hyde
reaffirmcd his statement. Former Gov.
Odell asked the privilege OF being
heard.
Former Gov. Odell gave Hyde the lie
before the Armstrong committee. He
denied that he sand5agged the Equi-
table into paying the $4,000 shipbuild-
ing claim.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Deepw, who
was on the stand as witness In the
insurance investigation in New York,
expressed the hope that state legisla-
lures would enact laws forbidding con-
tributIons in aid of political parties.
He denied lobbying ut Albany and dis
claimed knowledge of the use of rail-
road passes to influence legislation.
Richard A. McCurdy, president OF
the Mutual Life insurance cOmDany
startled the trustees by announcing
that he had cut his $500 salary to
$4,000.
President Mccall OF the New York
Life Insurance company promises to
pay into the treasury of the company
s2S5,000, provided Andrew Hamilton,
the lobbyist. does not return that sum
al the company's money before Decem-
Ter 81.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

William X. Hearst, candidate for
mayor of New York on the municipal
ownership ticket, certified to the sec
rotary of state that his total campaign
expenses were s65,S43. This breaks the
record for such expenses, which was
formerly held by Gov. Higgins, who
spent during the last state campaign
$4,000.
William s. McSwain and Wilbur
Cole, an accomplish, were arrested in
Chicago on charge of attempting to
bIackmail Armour & Co., out OF s40.-
600 for stolen correspondence.
Thomas w. Lawson In a magazine
article declares clique of financiers
traded on McKinley's death.
Mrs. Astor entertained Prince Louis
OF Battenberg at dinner in New York
and caused new division in society
by selection of an exclusive rs, repre-
senting the cream of the 400"
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Grange, in its report, scores
grafters of millions who occupy posi-
tons of trust or hold down seats In
the United States senate"
President Roosevelt selected j. Van
Vechtin Olcott as candidate for the
chairmanship OF the republican coun-
ty committee OF New York, TO lead the
fight against B. B. Odell, Jr., under the
direction Of Plat.
A gas explosion at mine shaft at
Benleysville, Pa, resulted in the death
Of eight miners.
The Wisconsin supreme court, in >
decision, held that, in granting d.
vorces. judges cannot award children
to outsiders. but must give the chill
dren to one parent or the other.
Fire at Urbana, Ia, destroyed doz-
en- business houses and several resi-
dences. Loss, $4,000.
United States Circuit Judge Van De-
yanter at st. Louis overruled the de-
murrer fled to the Indictment OF Unit
ed States Senator Burton, Of Kansas.
and set date for trial.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25

white beds are women and girls VINO
are awaiting or recovering from opera
lions made necessary by neglect. ;,
Every one of these patients had
plenty of warning in that bearing down
feeling. pain at the left or right OF the
womb, nervous exhaustion. pain in the
small of the back, leucorrhGa, dizzi-
ness, fiatulency. displacements OF the
womb or irregularities. All OF these
symptoms are indications of an un-
healthy condition of the ovarics or
womb. and IL not needed the trouble
will make Roadway until the penalty
has to be paid by dangerous opera
ton, and a lifetime of impaired useful
ness 1t best, while in many cases the
results are fatal.
The following letter should bring
hope to suffering women. Miss Lucia
Adams, of the Colonnade Hotel, Seattle,
Wash, writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham.-
"About two years ago was great suf-
ferer from severe female trouble, pains and
headaches. Thedoctor prescribed for me and
finally told me that had q tumor on tho
womb and must undergo an operation II
wanted TO get well. l felt that this was my
death warrant, but spent hundreds OF dol
IOT hciPy Ouo ehS eeAa'O. MP
growing. Fortunately ! corresponded with
an aunt in the New England States and she
advised mo to take Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, as it was said to cure tu-
mors / did so and Immediately began to
improve in health, and was entirely cured,
the tumor disappearing entirely, without an
operation. wish every suffering woman
would try this great preparation"
Just as surely as Miss Adams was
cured Of the troubles enumerated in
her letter, just so surely will Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure
every woman in the land who suffers
from womb troubles, Inflammation of
the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous
cxcitability and nervous prostration.
Mrs. Pinlzham invites all young
women who are i'll to write her for free
advice. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
BITS ABOUT PLANTS.

Tea plants at the age of seven
years yield 700 pounds Of tea per
acre.
In Java there is on orchid, oil the
flowers of which open at once, as If
by the stroke Of a wand, and they also
all wither together.
Plants with white blossoms have q
larger proportion of fragrant species
than any others; next comes red. then
yellow and blue; after which, and in
the same order, may be reckoned vio-
let. green, orange. brown and black.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
CABINET OF THE PRESIDENT
Body Whose Privacy Should Be Re
spectcd by Press and Pub
lie Alike.

The PRESIDENTS cabinet Is not an Of
ficial body. II Is composed OF gentle
men who are high officials in their re-
spective departments, but when they
meet as a cabinet they are merely the
confidential advisers of the president,
who may adopt or reject their advice
as he deems best. The law does not
require them to meet. No record Is
kept of their meetings, but by custom,
and not by law, they do meet once a
week to advise with the president in
such matters as he may lay before
them. 1t is essential to the wisdom
and effectiveness of the government
that discussion at these meetings shall
be absolutely free, and no discussion in
such q body can, be free unless 1t Is
private, says the San Francisco Chron-
icle. Those who are accustomed to
meet with their fellows in the conduct
Of ordinary affairs we'll know that
there is seldom, at least at first, full
agreement on any proposed matter of
policy, and 1t Is only by threshing q
subject out In the lights In which 1t
may appear to different minds that the
wise course Is, finally ascertained and
agreed to. At the end of such dis
cussion the opinions Of all present are
likely to be somewhat different from
what they were in the beginning.
The efforts of energetic news men to
hnd out the subjects of discussion at
these cabinet meetings, and the vary
ing opinions expressed, have become
serious annoyance. The members
of the cabinet are political men who
wish to stand well with the press.
Many Of the press representatives are
themselves able men, on an intellect
ual and social equality with the heads
of the departments, with whom they
are likely to be well acquainted In
the competition for news and under
pressure from their offices there has
grown up tendency to abuse their re-
lationship with cabinet officials by ply
ing them with questions which they
have no right to ask, and then by put
ting this and that expression of the
evasive or negative replies which they
receive together to Infer" what was
said and done in the privacy of the
presidents council These differences,
as rule, are the main foundations of
the weird stories lelegraphed to the
press as coming from ''the highest au-
thority," but which are usually as
wide of the truth as the high author
ity" can contrive to make them, with
, out lying-if possible-with lying, IL
necessary.
With his customary directness the
president has taken the matter up with
the correspondents themselves and ap-
parently requested tnem to more fully
recognize the proprieties, and not ask
questions to which those of whom they
are asked cannot properly reply 1t
Is safe to say that none will be more
pleased than the correspondents them
selves to be relieved of duty person.
ally disagreeable to which they have
hitherto been urged by the proprietors
of the journals which they represent.
The news of the departments, of
course, will be given out by the de-
partments, as usual, but there is to be
no news of the confidential and unof-
fetal conferences Of the presidents ad-
visers.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
British Insurance Methods.

Touts from insurance companies
swarm in the poor districts of London,
and nearly everybody gets insured.
There is no medical examination, but the
insured party has to sign policy In
which he declares he never has had such
and such diseases. This generally gives
loophole for the company to refuse
payment. The agents, too, rather en-
courage understatement of age. because
II man is insured for $50 and he gives
his age MS so. whereas 1t 10 IS. the COM
pany deducts s25.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-11-25
Up to Date.

Patience-And was the bride dressed
up-to-date?
Patrice-She certainly was She
wore the dress her mother wore when
she was married IS years ago, and the
jewels her grandmother wore when she
was girl.-Yonkers Statesman.