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most beatifc expression, s'what a
grateful flavor nutmeg. does add to
smear-case. This is the paragon of the
season
The supper dishes cleared up and
the bishop gone, the hostess said to
Aunt Dinah, BE sure and get Miss
Betsy another nutmeg at the store in
the morning."
"Lor', Miss, Miss Betsy didn't had no
nutmeg, jes, took a piece of black wal
nut from de ole window sill what dat
Yankee carpenter was repairin' to-day,
and done grated it over de cheese.
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Had Great Powers.

A justice of the peace for the Maine
woods, addressing the judge as Most
High" was reprimanded and told that
there was but one Most High" He
who had created the whole world out
of nothing.
well, judge" lie answered, "you Gre
ated 81 Sewell justice of the peace, and
if that isn't making something out Of
nothing, what is?''
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Death for Weakling Babies.

Nearly all Indian children that one
sees are hardy and we'll formed. This
is because only those of robust consti-
tuition survive the trials and exposure
of their babyhood. 1t is desired that
only the naturally strong should sur
yive, for it is a custom in most of
the tribes to wilfully expose, suffoca e
or drown born weaklings or deformed
babies. Death is the lot of the un-
happy little baby whose health and
physique are below the tribal standard.
The Albino child, and these are more
common among the Indians than might
be supposed, is certain to perish soon
after birth, because the coming of such
child is regarded as evidence of dis
pleasure of the Great Spirit.
The redskin babe is released from
his lacings and swaddlings as soon as
he is old enough to walk, and then
his real child life begins. He has
great freedom. When it is warm
enough to go without clothes, and the
Indian child is Injured to cold, he tum-
bles and romps naked. His pets are
dogs and ponies and is as fond OF
these as, are his blond cousins. AS he
grows old enough to run he takes ar
| interest in the athletic sports of the
tribe and the usual young Indian games
are deer and hounds, hide and seek
foot racing, pony racing, bow and arrow
shooting, spear throwing, wrestling
and follow the leader
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4 New Planef Discovered.

Be sure to read this weeks story,
Nebula, recently discovered Orb,
within a hundred miles of the earth.
The story is told by the historian of
the exploring party which made the
most remarkable air-ship voyage on
record.
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peoples each generation works not on
ly for its own well-being. but for the
well-being of the generations yet un-
born, and if we permit the natural re-
sources of this land to be destroyed so
that we hand over to our children
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JAPANESE YELLOW PERIL.
HIORI CALLS 1T A MYTH. ISLAND
NATIONS EYES NOT ON
PHILIPPINES.

Japan Stands for Open Door and a
Square Deal to All-American Aid
Welcomed.
Japan is inclined to resent the re.
currence of allegations in the news.
papers of this country that she has
designs upon the Philippines. In an
address before the members of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Hon. Eki Hioki, First Secretary of the
japanese Legation, expressed in nc
uncertain terms what is believed to
be definite statement of the policy
of the Mikado with reference to the
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Song of a Dakota Blizzard.
Ye that have steers, prepare to she,
hem now.

On the election of Henry Addington
to the chair of the House of Commons
in 1889 the salary of the speaker was
fixed at 5000 pounds ($30,000) per
annum.
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Developing the Brave.

The child is given every possible en-
couragement to play and is, never
whipped by his parents, because it is
the Indians philosophy that whipping
breaks the spirit of the child and the
Indian ambition is to be brave and
self-reliant. 1t is fact that though
the Indian child is not subject to cor
poral punishment and the ruder forms
of discipline which white children are
often made to endure, they are rever-
ent, obedient, docile and extraordina-
rily respectful toward their parents
and seniors. 1t is the Spartan quality
which the mother and father strive to
develop in their boys.
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Future OF the Orient.

Future OF the ORIENT
",The future of the Orient is great,
and the greater it is the better for the
world. With peace guaranteed by the
Anglo-Japanese alliance, anu equal op-
portunities in Korea and China Sc
cured by that treaty, as wen as by
the agreement of the policies of the
three great Pacific powers Japan, the
United States and Great Britain-an
important era has dawned upon the
Orient. During the last quarter of a
century all the great events of the
world have transpired in the East.
For years to come the East will still
be the center of the worlds great
happenings"
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trace. His mental food is composed Of
stories of warfare, and the chase.
The education of the Indian maiden
is conducted by her mother, who teach
es all the domestic arts which the
Indian maid should know.
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School of the Indian.

The Indian lad of the wilds is not
oppressed with book studies. He is
taught his nature lessons in the for
est, among the rocks or on the plains.
He learns by hunting, and camping
with his elders, and every Indian lad
tiles to win the prize of commendation
by proficiency in those nature studies
which the Indian holds is the highest
form of knowledge. 1t is around the
camp fire, or the fire in the lodge, that
the youth learns the traditions of his
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When the bath is ended cloth is
tied round the baby and he is hung
up on the branch of a tree or sapling
till sun and wind have dried him.
Then he is packed in his basket and
trundled on his mothers back home
ward to the family tepee.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1905-11-29

of the profits wherever gained with
any people. The United States has
been, is, and will be Japan's best Gus
toner.
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aims to be achieved. The pupils of the
truant school, boys under sentence for
incorrigibility and inyeterate hockey
playing, are her especial care. These
live in the truant home and have to
make their own beds and help with
other homework. Miss Richman calls
them her own boys, and with her wis
dom, sympathy and strength she has
been able more than once to change
to the upward path the career of a
boy already well along in the down
ward road She gives the boys of the
truant school the unalterable assur-
ance that they can come to her as their
friend always.
In no one of the professions has
woman advanced both in honor and
emolument so rapidly as in that of
the teacher. Year by year the aver
age salary paid to women public school
teachers is rising nearer and nearer to
that of men. In several states it is now
actually on a level with that. Women
are frequently instructors and pro-
fessors in institutions of learning ex-
clusively for men students.
Bryn Mawr college, which comes
nearest of any institution in America
to being a university for women, is
presided over by woman. Mary Carey
Thomas, Phi. D., LIZ D.. one of the
most scholarly women living. Mount
HoIyoke college. which grew out of the
| school founded long ago by Mary
Lyon for the higher education of girls
has, too, a woman president with q
string of degrees to her name, Miss
Mary e. WoolIey. Mary Lyon did not
dare in her day to name the school a
| college, much less to call its chief ex-
ecutive officer a president. but women
have showed the world on since then
| Wellesley college, likewise, has its wo-
| man president, Miss Caroline Hazard
an A. NJ. of the University of Michi-
gan. MARIL1AA WEAVER.
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foreigners of New York's famous east
side and strove to enter for good into
their lives. Mothers clubs were es
tablished by her, too; she had Friday
afternoon entertainments, musical and
otherwise, at which professional per-
formers of high grade freely gave to
the children their best talent. During
the summer vacations Miss Richman
several times went to Europe to study
educational systems there and to dis
cover whether France or Germany or
England had any better methods than
we have.
She loved her work, was an enthusi-
asst in it, and that was why, when she
went home after vacation two years
ago, she found she had been appointed
to the very honorable and lucrative
post of district superintendent.
A factory girl or milliners assistant
would think herself harshly treated if
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weather the upholsterers are compare
lively idle. and the prices asked for
work are lower
The great thing is to look ahead dur
ing the summer
If you take embroidery away with
you why not work something useful !?
You will be buying later on a hand
embroidered linen waist for winter
wear. I know you will Why not buy
a plain good quality linen waist, have
it. stamped and embroider it yourself
during your spare moments? You
will save good deal in this way. The
idea of buying the waist already made
is a good one, because notice that a
great many women do not make up
their shirt waist patterns properly aft
er they have embroidered them. It
is harder to fit tailor made shirt
waist than one would think, and I'm
sure I'd rather have even a plain cot
ton waist that fits smartly than any
number of embroidered botches that
wrinkle in every direction.
Then there is another bit of prac-
teal fancy work you can do during the
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school principal a number of years.
When she returned from her summer
vacation in 1908 she was told she had
been made district superintendent, and
nobody was more surprised than her.
self. But one who knew her well said:
New York is fully as much to be
congratulated as Julia Richman. We
might consistently extend Fluctuations
to the city fathers and mothers
Miss Richman is a woman who has
the natural mother heart. All children
are her children, and she began work
for those whom she could reach. 1t
was her own choice to be assigned to
one of the huge city's most poverty
stricken, most congested districts. She
has said that her hobby, If she has one,
is children's rights. During the years
when she was an actual teacher she
realized that there is a stupendous
work before public school teachers in
this country. That work is the Ameri-
canizing of the children of foreigners
If the primary school mistress cannot
do this, then nobody can.
Before she became superintendent
Miss Richman had labored to Ameri-
canize both parents and children in her
district. She was prominent in the
work of the Educational alliance, she
founded many social clubs among the
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Hamburg" Gowns.

Have you noticed how many en-
broidery gowns are being worn this
summer? By embroidery mean the
old fashioned variety known as Ham
burg" You see whole dresses of this,
unrelieved by the slightest touch of
lace. Robes are utilized good deal,
especially those with paneling on the
skirt. 1 saw one recently at the yacht
club. It was made of the finest hand
kerchief linen. The embroidered bands
were in a design of large daisies and
their leaves. The skirt was laid in
panels with fine tucks on the hips. At
the bottom of the skirt there was a
very wide founce of the embroidery.
The waist buttoned in the back, of
course, and was tucked back and front
so that it fulled into wide girdle.
The neck was cut Dutch shape so
that it could be worn either low or
high, with the addition of stock and
chemisette effect. The sleeves were
short puffs gathered into a wide loose
band of the embroidery. With these
soft white gowns the proper thing is
to have a belt of pale blue or pale pink
taffeta. The corset cover bow is of the
same color and shows through family
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A SUMMER EVENING WRAP.
effect trimmed with mechin

thoroughly in cold water. A good cold
cream should be rubbed into the face
and throat every night If you are in
cIined to be bilious, every morning
squeeze the juice of half a lemon into
a glass of water and drink it before
breakfast. 1t will correct the condi-
ton.
No woman can be pretty without a
comedy mouth and good teeth. Strict
attention to the teeth is essential If
the front ores are prominent and
crooked call in the aid of a skilled dem
list. Sometimes when the front teeth
are irremediably ugly an expert dem
list is able to cut them off, leaving the
sound roots, into which may be insert
ed crowns of proper shape and size,
entirely changing the mouth for the
better. Keep the fingers away FROM
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II do hate drumming n.y. tie Mabel does
self" NOT NAV have
sometimes thought it was a pity, she is
so melodious'' miss Scrawnykins took
one term of lessons and then her teach
er gave it up in despair) But, you see,
Mabel has such q truly musical soul!
She can't bear to hear music unless it
is played beautifully. And so she said
to me in that sweet, soulful way she
has, Mother, dear I'd rather never
strike a note than outrage the sacred
ness of the piano by not being an
artist Dear child. I must say 1 do
hate drumming myself. Don't your"
elevating her lorgnette as a very pretty
girl sits at the instrument and begins
a ragtime medley.
But Mr.. Muchwealth moves off to-
ward the ragtime girl. He is ION to-
the press agent game.
At the hotel dance, when Mabel sits
partnerless, the mother press agent be-
gins: Eyes, my little girl doesn't care
much for ordinary dancing, but you
ought to see her fancy steps. 1
shouldn't like to have you repeat it,
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called genius" and know how it
lives-in studios improperly heated or
sometimes not heated at all, with a
closet gorgeously filed with boxes of
crackers, sardines and other delicates-
sen commodities; for society, few. of
the elect and the long haired species
of man aptly termed by a witty news.
paper woman '.angoras." The sort of
man who never had any decent home
training or circle of friends and whose
idol is "Bohemianism.'
Bohemianismi A fine word! It
covers, under the guise of art, all that
is cheap and unconventional. 1t is the
very word to appeal to a girl brought
up perhaps in a little village where life
is SO narrow that it is very dull. She
hasn't the sense to see at first, as she
will later, that there may be absence
of narrowness, together with refined
surroundings, and that conventionality
is sometimes a very good thing in this
world of mixed people. No, indeed,
the girl who comes to New York be-
lieving in herself and in her art-what-
ever it is-dips right away into Bohe-
mianism, which means broadening her
ideals,' learning the meaning of good
fellowship good fellowship she may
bitterly regret in after days when she
finds it is not so easy to get rid OF
these good friends as she thinks-in
word. doing anything that she
wouldn't have done at home.
1 am not speaking now of the girl
who is stwiId'-most parents have the
sense to keep her at home-but of the
girl who has ordinary high spirits and
who when in Rome wants to do as the
Romans do. That is all right, but it
depends on what sort of Romans she
falls among.
Many a girl has done some crazy
thing she never would want her hus-
band or her high class friends to know
in after years just because she fell
among the worst kind of thieves-those
that steal away a girls ideals and her
home ways.
am talking on this subject at this
particular time because it is now that
| the aspiring young woman is planning
| her wardrobe and packing her trunk.
| And say to the mother of such a girl
| in fact, to the girl herself-wait until
| you know some one nice in the big
city to which you are going. Some
one who will keep an eye on you, who
will invite you to tea and to dinner
| occasionally and not let you lose sight
of the true refined home atmosphere
| so many girls forget utterly while they
| are struggling alone in a big town
/ There is no loneliness like that of a
great city 1t will take you a long
| time to make the right kind of friends
SO don't start unless you have at Least
one home open to you. 1t may make
| a world of difference to you in after
years.
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the era that will
"A Ring out the thousand wars of
old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace,
the rapid advancement of scholarly
women to the higher places in the edu-
Gators profession is a cheering sign.
Poets, seers and women sometimes dis
Germ truer than lawyers and war gen
erals.
Encoura ging indeed to those who be-
lieve in the era of peace it is to find
Miss Estelle Reel, the eminent organ
izer in school affairs, for third term
appointed national superintendent of
Indian education. She was originally
President AcKinleys appointee, in
1898. Miss Reel is herself noble
product of American public schools, in
which she began her career by becom-
ing a teacher. She migrated early to
Wyoming, where she was soon made
county school superintendent because
of her splendid organizing faculty as
well as her educational qualifications.
She possessed also the invaluable
quality of getting on harmoniously
with people. Again she was dauntless
and untiring. After serving for awhile
as head executive of a county school
system she was made state education
al superintendent of Wyoming. Then
it became necessary for her to make
long journeys by wagon, on horseback
and often afoOt, through all kinds of
weather, many time through the I'M
broken wilderness. She slept now in
a wagon, now in an Indian tent and
again rolled in blankets upon the
ground itself, but not once did either
her health or her grit fail her.
Since holding her present Office Miss
Reel has bent her energies especially
toward the industrial development of
young Indians. Give them a trade and
above all. the discipline of steady work
and they will not be apt to lapse into
barbarism again, she argues. Par
ticularly DESTROYS is Superintendent
Reel to preserve the original Indian
industries, such as basketry. bead work
and the decoration of leather and bark.
Some of the most exquisite industrial
art work ever produced in America has
been made by Indian women who
never saw an embroidery needle or
frame. 1t is these unique Indian in
dustrial arts, the arts of peace, that
Miss Reel is endeavoring to preserve
among the nations wards at the same
time they are acquiring the white
mans education.
In New York city the position of dis
trict superintendent has salary of
from $4,000 to $4,000 attached to if
In that politically governed city women
teachers have little chance to secure
the best paid places in the public
schools and as yet only one has re-
ceived an appointment as district su-
perintendent. That one, however, Miss
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THE UGLY GIRL MAY
BECOME ATTRACTIVE.

~ OMEBoDY says that many ugly
women might become beautiful if
they were not too lazy for per-
sistent effort Nothing is truer. A de-
termined will to be beautiful and
steady effort toward that aim will
transform the "homeliest'' girl into
thoroughly attractive one. Moreover,
so far from being reprehensible it is
the fixed duty of every member of the
feminine sex to make herself as come
ly and pleasant possible. The girl
does not need to be reminded of this.
She takes to it naturally. But the mar
ried woman needs the admonition. She
owes it to her husband and children
and to civilization to make and keep
herself attractive.
To be beautiful a woman must have
a pretty face, an erect, graceful figure,
neat, Immediately clean and becom-
ing attire, polished, charming manners
and a sweet voice. 1t may be observed
that under the heading of attire are
included becoming arrangement and
tidiness of the hair.
And on each one of the divisions of
the great science of beauty culture
whole chapter might well be written.
Sometimes scant and light colored
eyebrows and eyelaShes make inSig-
nificant a face otherwise eomely and
expressive. In such case it is quite
permissible to darken them and pro-
mote their growth. For darkening the
eyebrows a preparation of 100 grams
of olive oil, Is grams of crushed gall
nuts and grams of sal ammoniac
mixed together in vinegar is recon-
mended. The druggist will prepare it.
Apply to the eyebrows and very gently
| to the outer tips of the eyelashes
| every night with cameTs hair brush
| and wash lightly off in the morning
| in warm water.
The following mixture, it is said, will
| often make scant eyebrows grow thick
and long: Quinine and glycerine, equal
! parts. Rub softly, but thoroughly, in
to the eyebrows daily. Finally, take
plenty of sleep at night and do not use
your eyes for reading or for fine work
| except when you are obliged to.
| A good complexion is an essential OF
| beauty. Nearly every woman can have
| it with proper diet, added to strict
! habits in the matter of cleanliness.
Food should be simple. nourishing and
moderate in quantity; meals should be
regular. A very light breakfast with
out meat is best. Plenty of fruit and
| eggs whole wheat bread and nuts
well masticated constitute the outline
of a good diet for health and complex
| lOn Inc JdpdIteSe nave pIopdoly the
| smoethest, finest grained skin of any
race. and they live largely on rice with
/ some vegetables and little fish. They
/ also have variety of sweetened cakes
| of simple character and of these they
| are very fond. But the general rule
| with them is light, food and not more
of it than will absolutely satisfy hum
! ger
With all our supposed attention to
| cleanliness both the Japanese and the
Chinese can give US lessons in the mat
| ter of bathing and keeping the skin
| pure and healthy. The individual who
| does not wash his body all over daily
| would be a very dirty person in Japan.
| The best way to take the daily bath is
to scrub the body with very warm
water and moderately stiff, soapy
brush, afterward rinsing the soap of
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Women Educators
In High Places

Julia Richman, shows all the world
what woman superintendent can ac-
complish in one of the poorest, worst
and most crowded foreign districts of
Americas most foreign city.
Being woman, it followed that
Miss Richman received her appoint
mont apart from any political consid-
Grafton or pull, and that alone gave
her great advantage, because she went
into Office with a free hand. More
over, just like woman again, she did
not seek an appointment which New
York city men school principals ap-
parently think belongs by divine right
to them. Miss Richman had been
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THE PRINCESS OF WALLIS.

The Princess of Wales always enjoys
her trips abroad after the stress of the
London season, and she first learned 70
appreciate the beauties of Switzerland
when travelling with her mother years
ago. The princess is a great walker
and thoroughly revels in long ''tramps''
through the country districts. She and
her lady in waiting, Lady Eva Dugdale.
have many tastes in common, walking
and exploring the untrodden ways be-
ing among the number.
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Now is the time to secure an early fall
gown for a song. Select a color that
will look pretty in the evening, for a
gown of silk is more worn for dressy
occasions like the theater than it is in
the daytime, and get model that has
elbow sleeves SO you can wear long
suede gloves with it. A pretty shade
of champagne silk is always smart in
the autumn, because you can wear a
brown plumed hat with it and a fur
stole that matches the hat. In buying
things at sales it is always well to