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international Exhibition.

The crown Of all exhibitions for I'VE
stock purposes is the international.
1t will be held at Union Stock 1ards,
Chicago. Dec. 16 to %, inclusive. vi
course you will plan to attend? only
$500 via the Santa Fe. You may
buy your ticket any time Dec. 16 TO
10. Inquire at ticket office.
T, e PURDY, Agent.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
MOST ANY IN G

Newspaper reports say that Chaun.
cey NJ. Depew has aged greatly in the
last six months. Maybe there is a pos.
sibility that he will some day be as old
as his stories.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Headline Her OFF.

Hello, Bill, what've you got there?
Been doing some Christmas shop
ping?"
Yes, | thought I'd give my wife a
little surprise this year. Went over
to a shoe store and bought a swell
pair of slippers
There's nothing like surprising
your wife. A little thing like that
will tickle her to death"
Don't you believe it. She'll be
sorer than a mule. | bought the slip
pers for myself"
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
TALL SPENDERS ARE YANKEE
big FOUR" AMBASSADORS

REID. TOWER, MCCORMICK AND
MEYER THROW OUT $5oo,ooo OF
GOOD MONEY EVERY YEAR TO
MAKE THEIR DIPLOMATIC JOBS
GOOD THEY'RE NOW THE
HOTTEST SUNCH IN EUROPE.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

The holiday rates will be one and
one-third fare to ali points via the
Santa Fe route. Call at the ticket of.
fee and get particulars.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
The Knock Feminine.

Miss Elderton says she just loves
to have a lot of fine antique rugs
around"
81 don't doubt it. She so delights in
having everything in harmony"
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

LOT furnishing mdJ'
ting ~Commissary /
will be received un.
Der 2S, 1905, and
formation furnish,
y. S. reserves rigl
ject any or all pro
thereof. Envelopes
sails should he e
for ~Commissary
dressed to Captain
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
The Great Cattle Exhibit.

At Union Stock Yards, Chicago, De-
cember 16 to %, inclusive, is an event
that should not be missed. The arls-
tocracy Of the bovine kingdom will
be there. Attend the international
by all means. Low rates G45.OO) VIA
Santa Fe. Tickets on sale December
16 to 10. Inquire at ticket office.
nv 4, u Appnt-
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

The Quebec mob must have been
terribly infuriated to throw eggs at
Bernhard, with eggs so high.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
This'll Hold wild Bill for a VIII

This'll Hold Wild Bill for a While.
Now. | wish to ask Wild Bill, as
this party thinks they are so smart,
to tell me how cold it is when it is
twice as cold as two degrees above
zero. SO now go to figuring and be
sur you give me a correct answer
quache (Tenn.) News.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

You are going to visit the old home
during the holidays. Cheap rates "a
an points. via the Santa Fe route.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

or course you are going east. Way
not2 The holiday rates are low. Ask
at Santa Fe ticket Office for full par,
ticulars.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

James H. Eckels says that at the bot
tom, the great mass of the American
people are honest. Regarding those
at the top, Mr.. Eckels says nothing.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

Have we done everything possible
to restore law and order?" asked the
czar.
"Oh, no, your majesty" replied
Count White. 81 have several cards
that | have not played, but" and his
voice grew serious, 'if this rough
house business doesn't stop soon
fear that | shall be compelled to call
in General Sherman Bell"
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Fort Bayard, n. NJ, December 8,
1905. Sealed proposals, in triplicate,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-05

and looked daggers. But Mrs. Mingo
had to be made happy at any cost.
Back to the city fat.s bag ard bag
gage. the patient Mr.. Mingo "toted' his
wife. 1t took her two days to recover
from the fatigue sof her journey, then
Mrs Mingo began to be very unhappy
again. The weather was hot and peo-
pie had to have their windows open.
A miscellaneous assortment of noises,
known only to the dweller in a town
fiat in hot weather, streamed from the
apartment houses out upon the circum-
ambient air. Mrs. Mfngo's search for
happiness once more was vain.
Tom she said, weakly and YEARLY,
'Fll die if I don't get away into a quiet
place in the country. There's a cat
with a fiendish voice that squalls all
night; the Joneses' baby cries all day;
Smith and his wife quarrel every even
ing and throw crockery and bottles at,
each other, and somebody across the
air shaft has got the most horrible tin
panny monograph you ever heard, and !
it makes those frightful vaudeville
jokes till 1 o'clock in the morning. Oh.
Tom, do get me into farmhouse, quiet
as the grave, where there are no other
boarders and where shan't have to
dress but once day. 1 am sure.I
could be happy in such a place."
Tom did. 80
A week and half passed this time.
Whether Mrs. Mingo had. found happi-
ness was not certain but it was certain
Mr.. TNIingo had, for the time at least.
But not for long. A letter came from :
Mrs Afingo, and It read: -
Dear Tom-I've got to get away from
this horrid old place die. 1 can't
stand it a minute longer It's dull. Oh,
the dullestz spot on earth-nothing do
ing, nobody to see. Not even a farm
wagon passes the road more than twice
a day. They don't know how to make
coffee here, either, and they don't give
you cream for it. / cannot sleep nights
for the the noise. A big rooster, crows
at midnight and startles me out of my
senses. Then just as day dawns calves
begin to bawl, pigs squeal and old Mr..
Turnipseed calls his boys, Josh and
Tim, through a megaphone to wake
item up. I'll go crazy if 1 don't get
away from here. It's so queer poor lit
tie me can't find happiness anywhere
Mr.. Mingo read the letter to his
mother-fn-law and asked her advice.
His mother -in-law remarked:
Its my opinion, Thomas, that If you
took AIexina to heaven she would be
unhappy because the harps there were
not of the new rose gold shade instead
of Roman gold.''
TABITHA soURGRAPEs.
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EARRlNe suPERsTlrIoMs.

p, The popular notion that piercing the
ear exercises beneficial influence upon
the optic nerve is very widespread. Lit
tie more than a century ago many men
in Vienna wore earrings for the good
of the eyes. Village folk in England
believe in the good effect of ear piercing
on the eyes just as firmly as their like
in Italy and elsewhere abroad. In fact.
in some places ear piercing is regarded
by the rustics as a remedy for many
troubles. AT the-other side of the world
boys have their ears pierced from a
different motive. A writer on Chinese
superstitions says that John Chinaman
pferces his little boys ears and makes
him wear earrings SO that if an evil
spirit happens to see him he will mis-
take him for a girl and will not take
the trouble to carry him away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-05

its brilliant wit and quaint items Her
first book was the mills of Cod Her
second is Nancy Stair" Mrs. Lanes
ideal of literary style is to shun adj
jectives like poison and to use Anglo
Saxon words.
Z .'In composition an unnecessary word
is a blemish, she says, and here is her
ideal of womanhood:
"a great souled woman, who has liv-
ed up to her highest and is determined
to hold every man she meets up to his
highest, can transform the. universe"
At beautiful Deer island, in the Mer-
rimac river, near Newburyport, Mass.
is the summer. home of the dean of
American teinperamental story writer's.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Many
an impressionabIe girl, now a woman
with gray hairs sprinkIing her brows,
had her soul stirred within her by the
splendid word painting, the tense emo
tional, situations in Sir Rohans
Ghost" 1.-THE Scarlet Poppy" 1.-THE
Amber Gods" and other tales whose
impression will remain in the mind
as long as anything remains. Harriet
Prescott uses words as painters use
colors,'' it was said of her.
Harriet Prescott was born in Calais,
Me, but early went to Newburyport.
In 1855 she was married to a Boston
lawyer, Richard S. Spofford, and the
welded life of the two was ideal. They
lived in Washington many years, with
their summer home at Deer island,
where Mrs. Spofford now dwells alone,
since Mr.. Spofford's DEATH She writes
there, doing her work mostly outdoors,
for she loves the water, the air and
sunny sky as a bird loves its liberty.
An ancient house is the Deer island
mansion IF Y111lSf he a hundred Yea re
old. Long ago it was a tavern. Mr..
Spofford bought the whole island, seven
acres, for the home of himself and his
wife The grounds are perfectly kept,
the views are wonderful and beautiful.
A public highway bisects the island,
connected with the mainland by the
oldest chain bridge in America The
Spoffords could not possess the high
way, so boarded it off to itself and thus
it runs through the heart of the island.
Mrs. Spofford has written much be-
sides stories. One of her books is art
Decoration as Applied to Furniture"
Verse she made, too, when a mere girl.
and once Whittier himself wrote to her:
Il have just got what I have long
wished for, a complete collection of thy
poems, and 1 have been reading them
with unqualified delight"
Harriet Prescott Spofford belongs to
the middle link which connects the old
time New England literary set with the
present generation. She knew, Long
fellow, Whittier, DR.. Holmes and Elmer
son. AS editor of the Atlantic Monthly,
James Russell Lowell published her
first story "In a Cellar" Her literary
life is chapter of. striving and per-
severing. She said once, 81 wrote a
hundred stories for SIS before / wrote
one for $780,"
And yet, after the distinguished ca
reer she made for herself, she hates to
be written about, because she has not
done what she "set out to do Who
has? MARILLA WEAVER
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rare music An audience OF women
rustIes with amusement, but seldom
laughs. A group of girls giggle. but do
not laugh A woman reading the most
brilliantly humorous story seldom gets
beyond a smile When Sir Walter Be-
SAINT, in his clever skit, "The Revolt of
Man." pictured the time in the twen-
tieth century when women should have
usurped all power-political, ecclesias-
teal and social-he shrewdly noted that
laughter had died out of England, and
when men reyolted against their fenai-
nine tyrants they came back to their
own with peals of laughter. Paris
doctor has recently opened a place for
the laughter cure 1t is a private in
stitution and large fees are charged.
The patients sit round room, and at
a given moment begin to smile at each
other. The smile broadens to a grin.
and at signal to. peal of laughter.
Two hours a day of this healthful ex--
ercise is said to cure the worst cases
of dyspepsia. But whether the habit
of laughing easily and naturally could
be acquired by this process is doubtful.
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Wasted Enerov.

I don't know why a mountain hotel
is more gossipy than seashore one,
but it is. For one thing there are few
er men, and the women are thrown
more on their own resources, which
means embroidery, gossip and wire
pulling. Speaking of the last, I have
often thought some of the genius wo-
men use to advance themselves socially
would make them noted in politics
There is one woman 1 know whose
game consists in tracking rich and So
cially prominent women to summer
hotels and there making herself at
tractive in some way to them. She
doesn't choose a place where they con-
gregate, for she knows in that case she
has no show. She reads in the paper,
for instance, that Mrs. Up to Date has
gone to a quiet New Hampshire resort
10 rest from the nervous strain of the
winter. That is her chance. She takes
1t by going to the same place, pretend
ing she does not know the social rank
of the lady she is pursuing, and then by
some perfectly accidental CD happen
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LET THE CHILDREN THINK.

We hear a good deal nowadays about
the independence of the coming gen
GRAFTON, and some people prophesy bad
results One hears on all sides from
the dear, good, old fashioned people
that children should be children and
so they should, but at the same time
the girls and youths of today go into
the world earlier than our grandparents
did and should, therefore, be encour-
aged to depend on themselves rather
than look to others for the small de-
tails of life.
There is difference, too, between
self reliance and the detestable indie
pendence of some boys and girls who
scorn to take advice from their elders
and those whose years of experience
give them the right to direct the youth
full footsteps. One is often inclined to
be bitter at the way ones advice is re-
ceived, but we must not let this trouble
us; we are generously willing to save
the young people the tunibles which
perhaps we have had, but if they are
puffed up in their own conceit let them
learn the lesson by tumbling too. 1t
will do them good, and the next time
/ we tender advice it will be received in
a different spirit
All young folk have their trying time.
| When they have passed .chiIdhood.s days
and not yet reached years of wisdom,
they are too often. a great trial to their
| friends. but it is well to hold ourselves
| in, because this very bunptfousness
will teach them many things; their
/ sharp edges will soon be knocked off
when they rub against others. and if
the feeling settles. into self reliance by
all means encourage it.
1t is quite true that a bought article
is often more valued than one which
has been no trouble to get. and SO with
experience. we.a now willing to bene-
fit by other peoples; but in days gone
by we probably thought as the youth
of today, that We knew best, and fol-
lowed our own inclination, with re-
suits for which we are now perhaps
sorrowing. We often pay. a big price
for experience, .butsit is all the more
valuable and is certainly never for
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Auto Costumes For poas.

understand from a friend who has
for dogs are regarded as necessities
and not as fads among the upper ten.
1t is said that the dogs eyes are ma
terially injured if he is not provided
with goggles, and that to take French
bull pup out without his protecting lit
tie leather coat is sheer cruelty and
leads to an early grave.
Be that as it may, the little leather
blankets are very pretty, as they are
ornamented with silver or gilt mono
grams, something like those one sees
on purses. One actress has a tiny
white Pomeranian whose leather s.suit"
matches his snowy white coat, the
owners monogram being in silver.
/ predict the fall of the chain purse.
Already dainty models in leather are
competing with it. The truth is that
one loses money from the gilded trif1e,
and while women don't mind leaving
money at the bridge table or the bar
gain counter they certainly do miss
their coin when it disappears on the
street.
And the complaint on this score
seems to be almost general, so shop
keepers tell me.
There is a young girl here at the
hotel who makes quite bit during the
winter months by telling stories at
children's parties. She is very bright,
and am interested in her. The stories
are Illustrated by pictures pasted on
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of them. She is methodical and writes
in the early morning, giving the after
noon largely to outdoor recreation and
exercise.
Have you read Nancy Stair?" Then
you Will be interested to know that it's
author, Elinor Mccartney Lane, is
Nancy Stair herself, her friends say
at least, so far as any ideal can be ex-
pressed in the dull world of physical
matter 1t is not the first time that
an author has sought, consciously or un-
consciously. to live up to the ideal
creations of his or her brain. Walter
Scott tried to revive the feudal age at
Abbotsford
Elinor Mccartney Lane is a fascinat-
ing personality. She lives in Washing
ton square, the home of artists, actors
and authors in New York city. Her
husband, DR.. Francis Ransome Lane
is superintendent of the Brooklyn Poly
technic institute. Before coming to
New York the Lanes lived in Washing
ton, where DR.. Lane was prominent
educationally and Mrs. Lane socially
with the leaves of her literary laurel
wreath bravely sprouting.
The splendid warmth and light and COL
or, the ever changing mood, the irresisti-
Bile humor that appear in Nancy Stair
are inspired by the Irish blood in Mrs
Lane. Her parents were Irish born
though Elinor Mccartney herself open
ed her bright gray eyes ON the light of
this world in Maryland. Father Michel
in Nancy Stair is drawn from the real
life of an old priest who in her child
hood stood for human perfection in the
eyes of Elinor Mccartney His church
adjoined her fathers plantation.
In Asheville. N. c., Mrs Lane has
spent the HveIiest hours of her life
There she established and conducted for
the fun of it a gossipy newspaper
which spared no man and no woman
but which made everybody laugh with
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has consumption and ask him to leave
the place.
1t seems to me consumption is the
curse of the Adirondacks. The coun-
try is superb, but you hear that hack
ing cough almost everywhere, although
distinct effort is being made nova
days to concentrate it's victims in GER
tain hotels and certain places. But it
seems to me 1 should be pretty careful
if 1 were mother with manageable
girls. There have been too many '.ro-
mances' lately in which the man has
fingered on wretchedIy for a couple of
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friends of mine, who have discovered
that the ideal way of spending the hot
weather is to forget you ever saw a
milliner or a dressmaker and to live
close to the pine needle covered ground
in the middle of the forest We shall
have a nice little party-two married
couples, three nice men and three nice
girls who haven't a muslin gown or a
pink ribbon in their entire outfit, but
who can manage a boat and angle for
trout with the best of US.
And that's the. kind of girl one loves
to see in the Adfrondacks
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ing making her acquaintance. Once,
when everything else failed she de-
liberately twisted her ankle and fell
downstairs, outside society woman's
door, and, of course, her groans and the
noise brought the latter to her help, and
the accident also forced her to send
inquiries every day. This was enough
of an opening for the social climber.
The next winter saw her name at the
bottom of list Of patronesses of the
rich woman's pet charity. and I dare
say she will eventually be invited to
"small and select" affairs at home
Now, if that woman were only in poll
tics what a wonder she would bel
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have time to ,e gys'4 -, eMgs ne 1877 trout
touch that, and
I'll keep it for another season. Any
way, I have three waists not finished
and a couple of straw hats to trim, so
you see am very busy
Fancy that in midsummer When
will she have a chance to wear the
frocks by the time she has them fin
ished?
But there are lots of women like that
They don't understand that two birds
in the hand dresses bought ready
made) are worth nine in the bush in, the
shape of piles of material that keep a
woman Shaving throughout vacation
time.
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school = temperamentaI being a more
new fashioned word as applied to writ
ers than plain emotional Amelie Rives
did not found the school, though she
gave it powerful impulse. Several of
our leading American women story
writers are from such widely different
parts of the land as California, the ma
tive state of Gertrude Atherton; Mary
land, where Elinor Mccartney Lane was
born and reared, and New England,
where Mary E. Wilkins, Harriet Pres
colt Spofford and various others took
their rise.
Gertrude Atherton's work is char
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wool in it, is a necessity for an evening
gown in the mountains. Organizes can
be used only on rare occasions
OF course in the daytime the usual
whtte linen is seen, but after shutdown
comes the chill.
am giving this timely hint for those
who contemplate the trip.
If man really wishes to understand
woman nature he should disguise him
self as one of the sex and live for a
month at a mountain resort.
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acterized by a steady strength that does
not always go with the 'tempera-
mental literary style. Her maiden
name was Horn, and she was born and
brought up in San Francisco. Her
mother was Gertrude Franklin, great
grandniece of Benjamin Franklin him.
self. She is a widow. Her husband
was George H. B. -Atherton, also of Cali
fornia.
The old Spanish missions and build
ings, dating from the days when Cali
fornia belonged to Mexico, attracted
Gertrude Atherton in her girlhood. She
reveled in the Spanish-American leg
ends and historic tales, and from
some of these she gathered material
for her powerful story, 1.-The Doomswo-
man." which first drew general atten-
ton to the strong young writer of the
Pacific coast. The low old Spanish
house. L shaped, with it's long porch
running around the two inner sides,
where were laid some of the exciting
scenes in "The Doomswoman,' still
stands in Santa Barbara. OF late years
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colored cards and, when the money
VIII warrant. by stereopticon views
Some little stories have incidental mu-
sic, which she plays on the piano, such
as Mother Goose jingles, which she
sings, while the children laugh at the
funny poster pictures. Besides being
IN demand at parties she is promised as
a great treat to the convalescent child
who is good about taking his medicine,
and we are even going to have her here
to entertain us grownups.
Not a bad idea that
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on her nerves with their bad manners
and loud talk. andssl1e could not sleep
nights. Besides that. there was too
much dressing. Four times a day the
other women changed their costumes,
counting the bathing suit as one, and
she was far too weak. to change hers.
There shads been fogs every morning
since she had been there, too, and the
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swarrns of. servants and of people COM
ing and going actually made her dizzy
Her nerves we're more shattered than
when she went to the seaside. and Mr..
Mingo must, actually must, come and
bring her home. Mr. Mingo did so at
once. and the. clerks who did his work
for him while he was away grumbled
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Gertrude Anterior
has lived much
abroad, everywhere
she goes getting
local color for her
stories. In Spain
she saw a bull
fight, which she
did not consider
much of a show
after all. In trav-
cling she wisely
goes among the
common people
and makes a study