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was formed ten years ago. It required
nine years of persistent effort on their
part to induce New Jersey, through its
legislature, to contribute 81, 500 year
to the support of women who had spent
their working lives educating the
states children.
Thousands of this country's many
millioned men could. by giving annually
their income for just one day to an age
pension for Americas women public
school teachers make comfortable and
happy the last years of this republics
most deserving class of workers, yet
not one has stepped forward to help
them. Perhaps the aid they have so
well earned is not forthcoming because
these teachers are only women.
One millionaire, George W. Perkins.
however, has helped one of his former
teachers in Chicago. Mary Elizabeth
FarsOn, to make a fortune for herself
through wise investments. George w.
Perkins is now the partner of J. Pier
pont Morgan
Miss Farson is principal of the Libby
school in Chicago. She had the addi-
tional advantage of possessing a broth
err, John Farson, who was and is a
banker. He also aided Miss Farson in
making investments. She has been
very fortunate to be sure but has her
SOL 1lAANilJ 10 liLdih, dlIEI all. LOT the
success she won. She has an orderly.
systematic mind and one that naturally
looks ahead and provides for the future.
She began by preparing herself to be
a teacher of the best kind. She loved
teaching, and that made her adopt it
for livelihood. Being a first class
teacher, she naturally got first class
appointments and saved her money.
Like the majority of thoroughly refined.
highbred people, her tastes were sim
pie and she lived quietly. as she does
still When she had sufficient funds to.
invest she invested them under wise
direction, so that today she is said to
be worth 100000. Miss Farson travels
during vacations. She is also a club
woman
Either Chicago offers better oppor-
tunity for money Investments than
most other cities do or else Chicago wo-
men teachers are shrewder and more
foresighted than most of their class.
for several Of them have accumulated
comfortable fortunes, so that they are
not obliged to teach. though they stin
prefer to do SO. Among them are Mrs.
Ellen J. Hardick, principal Of the King
school. and Miss Caroline G. Adams,
principal of the Goodrich school
Everywhere, however are chances
for the school teacher TO better herself
financially. a young woman teacher
in Brooklyn bought some vacant lots
and paid for them gradually out of her
savings. She had to exercise a genu-
inc Ben Franklin economy while she
did so, but she achieved her aim. Then
she built upon the lots a large tene-
ment house with a number of fats in
it. She mortgaged the lots and build
ing to pay for the property, then rented
the fats to good tenants. She lived in
one of The aHartDehta herself. col
lected her own rents and looked after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

ter the big well was dug. After the
spring thaw that tract of ground was
found to be high and dry. The waters
of the springs that had made it a
marsh We're conducted into irrigation
channels and that made Miss Murphys
bargain yet more valuable. What cost
her ST 900 she sold in a very short time
for $4,000. enough, properly invested,
to give her a good income for life.
Women teachers could do much for
themselves by organizing and standing
together for better pay At the same
time each individual teacher may help
herself by saving what she can and
waiting to seize opportunities for good
investments Grit and holding fast to
fixed purpose are the main thing.
MARILLA WEAVER.
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"che-ild' seated in the shadow of lux
uriant palm playing with two of the
greenest and most active parrots 1 have
seen.
" Yes. they be mine.~ remarked the
janitor. with honest pride. an fine
likely little birds just learnin to talk
He would have exhibited them to me
if had not gathered up the tail OF my
gown and fed.
When Tom is elected to the legis-
lature there is only one bill I am going
to devote all my energies and powers of
bribery to having him pass, and that
viii be known as the anti-parrot law.
4 expect it viii start him on the
road to the presidency. 1t will if the
apartment house dwellers of New York
have any hand in the voting
After a letter like that doesn't it
seem almost a crime for me to be sit
ting here on the piazzi of my friend 5
country house swinging my spotless
white canvas shoes from the hammock
and luxuriating in a cool white muslin
with plenty Of open work insertion
in it,
Speaking of open work. don't you be-
+ lieve what too good people say about
it's going out of style. have seen
right down here in Allenhurst-but
there. Considering that this appears
/ in print I don't think I viii tell you
What I saw.
But / assure you it was very pretty
gown, and she belonged to the innel
circle of the smart set.
What is a woman this summer with
out a grass green parasol? Hopelessly
out of it. I have counted no fewer than
twenty-five in one afternoon on the
ocean drive. They are fearfully unbe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25
WOMEN SCHOOLTEACfERS WHO PROVIDE FOR THE FUTURE
SOME REMARKABLE INSTANCES FENNE IIRET AND FORESI

IGURES produced at the con-
vention of the National Edu-
cational association show that
n the average pay of women
public school teachers in the primary
grades in this country is less than that
of city street cleaners. The outlook of
the future is so discouraging for these
teachers that the most capable and as
piring among them are leaving the pro-
fession in numbers and studying law
or medicine or entering the commercial
and industrial world. One young wo-
man college graduate turned to fash
fonabie dressmalzing and in a few years
had a fortune at her command, with
annual trips to Europe and a luxurious
home of her own.
So many Of the ablest women are
leaving pedagOgic ranks that there
threatens to be a real dearth Of the
right kind of teaching talent in Aneri-
can public schools. Not long ago an
aged primary teacher, one of the most
successful in her city, died in the
poorhouse. Such a fate naturally
scares away from the teaching. profess
sion exactly the women most wanted in
it. If the pay of the woman teacher
continues so wretchedly inadequate it
will not be many years till there are
left in the primary schools only the
dull, dead and alive women who teach
merely mechanically for a living or the
thoughtless, crude young girls that ex-
pect to teach only long enough to get
together money to buy their wedding
clothes.
The prevailing sentiment among
these crude young creatures was shown
in a recent movement in New York city
for q voluntary annual tax of 2 per
basis of an old age pension fund. Al
most to a woman the young teachers
opposed it and, after the usual manner
of ignorance and inexperience, opposed
1t violently.
"Why should we skimp to provide an
annuity for a lot Of old teachers? p they
said. 1--WE don't propose to spend our
lives in the schoolroom. We are in the
bloom of our youth. We expect some
thing else"
The something else" these girls look
forward to is particularly misty IN this
time when men are scarce and, what is
more. so often Indispensable after they
are caught.
In some places women teachers have
been wiser. BY various means, by
taxing themselves. by giving entertain
ments. by securing donations from
private individuals and inducing city
authorities to appropriate money to
their fund they have accumulated suf-
fcient to provide an annuity for every
teacher when her time comes to retire
on account of age. In some instances
the annuity reaches s400 to $500. This
is the case in Cincinnati. In New Jer-
sey the women teachers, with Miss
Elizabeth Allen, principal of the Hobo
Ken normal school, at their head, have
themselves established a fund for re-
=siring teachers who belong to their or
ran5zation. This incIudes 1000 mem
sers. Their pension fund association
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25
DELICATE woRk

The chief industry of Bethlehem of
Judaea is that of the mother Of pearl
workers. The shells are brought from
the Red sea, and in the hands of native
artisans are polished and carved, the
larger into elaborate designs; the
smaller arc cut up for rosaries4 and
crosses. The work is all done by hand,
and the methods are amazingly primi-
tive to d spectator from countries of
steam and electric power. but the re-
suits are extraordinary. one she'll was
carved in scenes from the birth of our
Saviour. the agony in the garden and
the crucifxion and has the general eff
feet Of delicate frostwork. Under the
magnifying glass every detail is seen to
be perfect in outline and in finish. It
was executed to order for a wealthy
American and cost nearly SOC. About
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

Speaking of looking and Of keeping
cool, have you ever tried an iced to-
mato followed out on a bed of lettuce
and filed with chopped walnuts ane
baby onions. the whole smothered IL
chilled mayonnaise7 Delicious is MOI
the word to express it. We had some
at the club for dinner the other night
and I intend having them in futurs
regularly three times a week.
certainly am cl1attering at length
but before close want to tell you Of
a new stunt in the woman wage earn
ers' line It is lady eyebrow clipper and
grower, and she comes around to de
bes' people, quite as regularly as tbs
manicure. Summer is a great time to
improve or change your eyebrows, be
cause the hairs grow faster then, and
you know it certainly makes a heap OF
difference in ones expression Any
way. the woman is making quite a bit
of money with her salve and electrical
needle. I am thinking some Of having
my brows changed from the straight
line of the literary woman to gentle
curve suggestive of a more frivolous
disposition-that is, 1 viii if it doesn't
cost too much.
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EasiIv Reeoanized.


you can tell the sisterhood a mile
off by the wads of advertisements and
notes they carry, and now and then
some poor perspiring soul whose damp
hands can scarcely hold the volumes of
printed information she carries will
hail another unfortunate similarly
laden and ask her if she has found
anything yet.
"a few months later, clad in velvet
and furs, with their aristocratic noses
slightly pink from the frost nipped
air, it would not be safe for either of
these women to address the other with
out an Introduction, but now. with the
landlords and the thermometer con-
spring against them, they forget their
dignity and exclusiveness in their com
mon misery.
1.-THE more z look at apartments the
more I see the necessity of women ar
chitects. What woman in her senses
would design a kitchen opening imme-
diately off the front door? And yet an
arrangement of this sort spoiled one of
the most attractive apartments shown
to me
"Then take the long hall with little
rooms strung on either side of it, re-
minding one of highly vanished match
boxes. Are We never going to see the
end of it? It is still appearing in the
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ment. Yes, It was worth capitals.
With its walls covered with ivy and its
front stoop a bower of palms, it faced
the park. and as 1 looked out of the
parlor window at the magnificent view
I wondered if any one would have a
chance to get ahead Of me if
ran all the way to the agent to sign
the lease.
When suddenly a peculiar little
sound strangely familiar. reached my
ears I inclined my head at a more
favorable angle and then 'KWAH!
KWAH-Hi in unmistakable accents
smote the air The noise came from
below, and. directing my gaze thither,
beheld the janitor's fair haired little
Z hare counted ta.entn-1lre N nne rftoraoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25
TREATMENT OF A WATCH.

If a watch is expected to go well and
to keep good time the first and chief
demand it makes is that it should have
regular attention As Car as possible it
should be wound up every day about
the same hour. and if it is worn let it
be worn regularly. not laken out for
three days and then returned to its
case for the remainder of the week.
Extremes of temperature should also
be avoided, as sudden cold or hesk
works havoc with valuable watcY
and its delicate mechanism. Another
point to be noted is that the watch
should be kept in the same position. II
it is carried by day in an upright po-
sition hang it on a hook at night, pref
erably against something soft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

$50 persons make q living by this in
dustry, which is 500 years old. IN the
shops the workmen sit upon the floor
their benches in front Of them; the ali
is full of whitish dust. and the light
admitted by the single window and the
open door. is so dim that the exquisite
tracery of the wrought shells is a mys-
terry even before the visitor notes how
few. simple and crude are the instru+
ments employed.
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~ uQLlAAz lAt6 -ACl-
Hooa D'aee OF. test of summer
months, July and August.
Woe to the luxurious person who
thinks it viii be more comfortable to
have a nice summer in the country
first and then wait for September to do
her home huntingl She will retire. baf-
fed from the most promising situation
only to be told over and over again:
I'VE are very sorry, but we have moth
ing left. All our apartments were let
in July and August" Nothing remains
for the luxurious person to do but to
take some arrangement of rooms she
does not want and to wait with what
patience she may for the next July
with the prospect of two movings in
stead of one to reward her for being so
lazy
"Oh, the joys of the hunt. It would
need blank verse to do them justice, -
writes friend "and pretty blank verse
at that" (Which I think was hardly
nice of her to say.) up to the present
moment have interviewed no fewer
than $50 likely abodes for myself and
the bull pup and not one came up to
the mark.
81 have become one of that sad
faced throng that starts out with the
light of resolve in the eyes and a clean
shirt waist on the back in the early
morning sunlight (good and sweltering
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

Walter Scott liked to tell the story
of his meeting an Irish beggar in the
street who importuned him for a six
pence Not having one, Scott gave him
"a shilling. adding. with d laugh, Nov
remember. you owe me sixpence."
'"Och, sure enough" said the beggar
'and God grant you may live till I par
you
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so quickly and so cleverly Cconfound
him,) how to talk that he fills the heart
of his proud mistress with the joy of
constant exhibition and ours Without
I won't burn a hole through my best
cream note paper by finishing the SEN
tence.
We'll, Kitty, yesterday 7 really
thought had found The Ideal Apart
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newest houses.
What woman
would design a
home like this,
SO cherries and
impos sible to
furnish ?
And why have
narrow win
dOws2 Does it
cost so much
more to have
them four inches
wider =?
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the property in person. She long ago
had it paid for and is now well to do.
Then there is Miss Gwendoline Muir
ply, lively and shrewd young Mime
sofa schoolmistress. Adjoining her
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of these reasons
an exodus has
become a neces-
sity and a new
happy home
must be found
before Oct. 1.
AS every wo-
man knows omen
decline to have
anything to do
with the house
hunting and
they are wise)
the interesting
performance Of
going up and
down countless
front steps and
in and out of
dozens of real
estate offices can
only be pursued
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sunlight tool and who returns at night
fail with a mien as detected as ones
collars and cuffs.
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he Re as 0 n
Why.
you know
my dear Kitty.
that we are
fleeing from the
pretty intelli-
gent little par
rot next door,
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Town looking for next years apart-
ment
Ah. my friends. that is one of the
ragedies of modern city life
The rent has been raised, or the peo-
Die in the apartment below have pur-
,hased a gramophone, or the family has
increased. making one room more an
mperative necessity. and for all or any
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coming, too, but they look cool. ans
they go with everything.
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ZOE rHE YACHTING Ga

Very natty is the blue yachting cos
tune. The skirt is plain over the hips
and ten inches from the waist line i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

" " KHILE we are enjoying the
IA "a cool breezes of Pleasant
- Vile by-t he-Sea let us not
forget. our 1oiling sisters in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

AT a CHURCH wEDDiNc,

Allenhurst, N. J.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Neat NcCkWear

At $2.o0, $2.5o and $500 we show you a beautiful assortment of the newest things in Ascots; for S1.o0 beautiful line of Four-in-Hands; and for 50c a big line of Fourth. Hands. put up in neat, attractive Christmas boxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
News AbOUt Umbrellas

This department stands second to none, having bought and selected from some of the largest manufac. turers in this country; the line Is just little different from the other fellows Prices range
 from $3.50 tO............. $500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Shop Early in
 The Day

And begin tomorrow. Come down and select as many of your Christmas gifts as possible If not convenient to take now they will be held and delivered when and where ordered. You can also help by carrying small parcels with you and avoid sending parcels C. o. T. In, doing this you will greatly re- lieve the congestion of holiday shopping. Come and HELP.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Christmas Handker- chiefs m Boxes
 for Xmas

A mountainous stock. A variety of the great est magnitude. Qualities unrivaled at the prices | Those three terse sentences apply with all the forceuness of absolute truth to the Marx stock of Handkefchiefs.
 Many new and novel ideas in boxing these goods for presentabe gift at no extra charge. A few special prices:
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FOR WOMEN.
 Embroidered Handkerchief5, very sheer linen. These are hem- stitched with daintily embroid cred initials, Der OEo
 Six Swiss Handkerchiefs, embroidered and lace trimmed, put up in very neat holiday bcxes; the six rko TOT. -. ........... A neat little children's Hand kerchief, three in very pretty holiday box selling 1Oa for. .... ICC Also three put up in OSo book form for. =. -. .. ~cC
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Help

Ton Gan Help Relieve fhe Congestion Of Holiday Shop. ping Won'f You?
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Beautiful SU.S-
 DcnderS

All kinds, fancy Suspenders, neat buckles, put up in neat, attractive oval boxes. Price range .. kn from o0c to-. ....... -'eIO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Apollo Silver QuadrupIe
 Ware Make Good Gifts

Perhaps no single department in the store offers more suggestions to holiday gift buyers than this Apollo ware department with its wonderful varied stock of novelties and utities-oddly de- signed articles for the library and smoking room, as well as novelties in Housefurnishngs If you are puzzled over "What to buy" look over these things will bring answers by the score. For in- stance.
 Big assortment of beaut Silver Talcum fully designed Bread m Glass Tacum Holders SOo Trays for. with silver for. cOC 9nece svrrp Tray Dncb and Silver lined 75c; English shape; SO 1nt iuss 'no indeed l.cO '"'no'' ioit'
 A big assortment of Cracker Nut Bowls with gold lining Jars, with silver lined and squirrel decora 1k beautiful designs SA tions I.sc c CO
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FOR MEN.
 Box of six Initialed Handker- chiefs, one-half linen, a very good quality, and selling SOo during the holidays for. c OC Another box of six Initial Handkerchiefs, all pure linen and selling during the I on the holidays for. ...... l.UO Box of six Initial Handker- Handkerchiefs, all pure linen aud one of the best values We have, the box - kA for. -. :. .............l. .CU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
AH Aboard For
 cdp14e1 c9Ky!He f"f of TOyIand
Lod,,1o. Elevator Every Minute from tO6 OSiiCuutO. Week Days and Saturday From 10 10

Mechanical Trains Stationary Engines 25c 5000 Magic Lanterns 25c $5oo Safes 5o Soldier Sailor Police Fireman Tool Chest 25c $25o Mechanical things descriptions Everything for the little boys.
 Dolls from $25oo Doll sooo from 25c to $1500 Doll Trunks from Doll Houses from 25c to $500. Everything for the doll baby
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29

Briant s. Young. assistant secretary
of the church Republican committee,
has announced himself candidate for
a nomination for the lower house Of
the Legislature,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29
HOTEL PROPRIETOR
V,CI0USLY ASSAULTED
Hackman r. s. Webb Knocks
Him Through a Plate
Glass Window.

K. S. Webb, hack driver, made q
vicious and, according to witnesses. an
unprovoked assault uDou A, Fred Wcy,
proprietor of the Wilson hotel, shortly
after II o'clock Friday night, bat
terlng him severely about the facS
and knocking him through a plate
glass window of the entrance door of
the hotel Wey was badly cut on the
hands and foroarms by the broken
glass, but was not otherwise seriously
injured.
The trouble arose over the question
of the right of the hackman to stand
his team in front of the hotel entrance,
thing which Mr.. Wcy has protested
against for a long time. He has re-
peatedly asked the driver to change
his station, as the presence of the team
at times, to an insufferable nuisance.
Webb, for a time, complied with tho
request of the proprietor, and all went
well. Recently, however, he moved
back to his old station, and Friday
night Mr.. Wey asked him, politely but
firmly, to move.
For answer to his request he received
blow in the face which knocked him
down, AS he attempted to arise he
knocked through the glass door. as
stated. Sergt Hempel placed Webb
under arrest, and charged him with
assault and battery. He was released
on $15 bail.
A few minutes after the arrest of
Webb, G. l.. Miller, another hackmau,
became so vulgarly vociferous in his
denunciation of the whole proceeding
that he was also taken into custody,
and charged with using vulgar
language. He deposited SIS and was
rp lpa sp1
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29

Standard fashions only fashion,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29

|rs'' 'iead that is dry, white
~ IN weight seems to the
s''On Ike so much foam
aud non'nourishing pro.
i rs !, a piece of moist, light
.n'eFior of a biscuit be-
III sI'' a ball of dough is
,ss. ,S4 an appearance of solid.
tss :. Onc Question how the
ssNd. '''A can dis-
. i "tISnaer In s.I. that Suca food ere.
|'i.osss osssuen, di,order.' "'i0n'
{ j6e o,S; ".il nd great help by
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u 'es'ISsly Sacys end nilrogesn.oouuss s.o usS; suhl IN
tsd al IN tha thoroughly and per.
b : 'ac factory before be be-,
IA g Z, ! 5, ssisilitv of this foo1
,s.rS. '.ii' L IS Of , wlls Of dough. ugh
n" .Or.c 81 the srainss pleai hss lest, Esan
p Tif IN the process set Of
= sircalstioynos quickly and. di. Ii.
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/. p p, gray msi,srb sG rebuild, b;nlild partic,
y : nc ne ncrvc centers nj rue in nFqin nm
+ II S,Sp, !, g.. viii be e's yeri IN ifine fne
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