Middletown transcript., 1905-12-30

There are no newsboys in Spain
Women sell newspaper on the street.
II you can't be beautiful you can veal
acean, smiling face and help things along
that much anyhow.
Don't be afraid of sunshine it gives
bloom and color. "Where the sun does
not enter, the doctor must, Is an old
proverb.
A girl who knows all about it, says that
being in love is very much like being
homesick, only it is entirely different and
| million times worse.
Tn the period between 1S40 and 1850
women of fashion wore shoes made of the
same material as their gowns prunela
boots being the accepted style.
Miss Emily Schrader, IL years old. ac'
complished the feat OF husking 125 bushels
OF corn on her fathers farm at Tiskilwa,
ILL.,, in nine hours. She won piano.
When Miss Alice Roosevelt, as Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, goes abroad on her
wedding tour she will be presented by
American envoys to the kings and queens
OF all the countries she visits.
No woman can be well and strong with.
out getting out Of doors. Some stay-ins
don't know there is sky they think it's
made of wall paper, they see it SO rarely.
What is more stimulating or encouraging
than brisk walk on crisp fine, clear
morning?
Miss Elspeth McCeland, who caused
rather sensation in the "trade' in Eng
land recently by announcing herself as a
| builder, has built a model house for the
cheap cottage exhibition. This is home
| for workingman and its entire cost does
not exceed $3.50.
The Lake Erie & Western Railway
company took the step some time ago OF
placing woman in charge OF one Of the
village stations On their lines. The ex-
pertinent has proven such success that
the company has decided to appoint other
| women to similar positions.
There are six women in London, says
| writer, with tact, brains and experience
enough to form the government or run
any great industry from the London &
Northwestern railway to the Times-Lady
Lugard, Lady Aberdeen. Mrs. Humphry
Ward. Lady st. Heller, Lady Jersey and
Lady Warwick.
It is well that housewives should know
| that paper bags are made of compound
of rags, lime, glue and similar substances,
mixed with chemicals and acids. When
dry these can do no harm, but if allowed
TO become damp paper bag is unfit to
touch articles Of food. Never, therefore,
keep food that is Of damp or juicy ma
tnre in paper bag.
Two hundred thousand babies 60 down
to death every year in France for want
Of bottle Of pure milk. These are the
babies that diligent doctors are trying to
save. France frightened at the aimin-
shing number of little Frenchmen that
come into existence annually, has deter
mined at least to preserve to maturity
| those that do arrive and thus attempt to
replenish her national life.
A woman who was great tale-bearer
happened to hear one neighbor speak
slightingly of another and Immediately
carried the words from the first to the
second neigllbor claimed that she thought,
as friend, she ought to let the second
neighbor know what the first was saying.
But instead Of thanking the tale-bearer,
the neighbor said: "It makes no difference
to me how many rotten eggs my neighbor
has on his premises, but the person who
carries the decayed hen fruit to M, house
and breaks it under my nose is my en-
emy." sermon in an eggshell.
Great interest is taken in Washington
over the announced engagement Of Miss
Alice Roosevelt to Hon. Nicholas Long
worth. 1t is expected that the wedding
will take place in February at the White
House and it will prove one Of the most
brilliant social events that las ever been
witnessed in that historic mansion. Miss
Roosevelt will be twenty-tllree years of
age next February, speaks nearly all the
European languages fuently, and is the
country's most popular young woman.
Congressman Longworth is thirty-six
years old, was born in Cincinnati, and is
serving Ills second term in congress. He
is graduate at Harvard, an alumnus OF
the Cincinnati law school and before COM
ing to Washington served in both houses
of the Ohio legislature. He is quite
wealthy