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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

crease In. numDer, perhaps the best
models those trimmed only with tuck
ing. Tucking is used for lingerie
waists again; some of the newest mod
els are made of all-over tucllng. The
materials are of the softest and finest,
and, q comfort to the laundress, such
iron very easily; even tucking need
have no terrors for the wash lady.
With these waists lace and embroidery
are used sparingly, and must be the
finest of the fine.
A frock of pink handkerchief linen
costs money, but is SO exquisite one
forgets the outlay With the pink
handkerchief linen a very fine Swiss
embroidery goes beautifully, and en-
ploy the embroidery sparingly, not to
detract from daintiness. There is
no lOvelier summer combination than
the ordination of pink and white, and
to-day the pinks all being in such es-
TEEN, it has fashion as we'll as pretti-
ness to commend it.
Very delicate dresses are worn on
the street, the public thoroughfares
thereby given holiday aspect. Once
it would have appeared strange to see
a matron strolling along the street in
dress of pale blue silk, but not to-
day. A young matron looks very
pretty and youthful in gown of light
blue taffeta, it's fashion so simple as to
cause no comment when made use of
as a church dress. There is separate
upper part and ruff1ed sleeve of cream
cotton lace, so soft and pretty one for
gets TO criticise quality. The girdle,
as girdles should be, is of the material
Of the main part of the dress nothing
more awkward, it seems to us, than
a gir6le drawing attention to the
point where waist and skirt meet. To
return to the costume whose details we
have suggested, the hat accompanying
this toilet is yellow lace straw, the
long gloves the same shade.
For the aesthetic value, every big
automobile should have a group of
summer ladies on the back seat, their
voluminous draperies and floating wells
taking from the machine aspect of the
ugly vehicles. Yesterday an auto
flashed by with three ladies in the
rear scat, and we noted all three wore
white chiffon wells, and that the effect
was better than when colors are
Haunted. If of good quality the ch1f-
fon veil may be WASHED in soap and
water, is a clearly veil and dainty
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

The City of Pittsburg and
Her Many Millionaires
The Number Very Large in Proportion Populatono the
Fortunes We're Made-Not All "Spendess."


Industrially Pittsburg is most adj
vantageously situated; it is the center
of the iron, steel and glass industries
of this country, and the largest ship
ping point for bituminous coal. Coal
was the foundation of the Smoky City's
wealth, and coal gave the nickname it
of late years has been trying to throw
off.
Some of Pittsburgs men of great for
tune made their wealth in STEEL Gas
greatly inflated sthe fortunes of others.
Not Il few ''struck oil' Not a few
made huge profits, and here, as else
where, graft has created and added to
golden store. Some have made their
money in beef, and some in beer; some
in stogies, and some in steam engines,
to say nothing of the alchemists who
have transmitted into gold window
glass, plate glass, bottles, lamp Chin
neys, armor plate, locomotives, sewer
pipes, air brakes, electric motors, and
thousand and one other things
turned out in the worlds workshop at
the forks of the Ohio"
Many the ways the money has been
made, many the ways the money is
spent. And having given tacit promise
not to dwell on $4,000 banquets to-
footlight favorites, let us confne our
selves to mention of more substantial
| ways of disposal of wealth. Mr.. Car
negie's unique profession Of: giving
away money is too we'll known to need
any comment. Let us speak of less
well-known Mr.. Phipps. Henry Phipps
started life as office boy and clerk, be-
came after Carnegie largest owner OF
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Nine: Mariani- Mast she began to hope.
And when at last Lima was to make her
debut IL grand opera at Lisbon she
was waiting anxiously to learn the re-
suit. ,..z ,::.:>.
:. When she learned the pitiful result
Ada Cavalieri took a great decision.
Quitting her place at Genoa she hurried
to Paris.
She settled down beside her wound
ed and reckless sister. Did she try to
comfort her? How could the born old
maid comfort her? But it is certain
that the frigid Ada wrestled with the
fiery Lima seven days-and triumphed!
Groan1ng in spirit like the camel,
Lima again renowned the easy life and
money of the music halls. Again she
took up the burden of grand opera.
Love, with great shining eyes, no long
er beckoned her. But on and on she
bore the burden, with her sister always
by her. How she finally succeeded is
we'll known.
In 1901 she was singing the principal
part of Mimi in Puccini's "Vie de
Boheme' at no less an opera house
than the San Carlo of Naples. Next she
secured brilliant engagement for an
entire season at the Imperial theate1
of MISUNDERSTANDING Violetta in "Trav-
iata," Marguerite in Faust" Mimi in
"Vie de Boheme'' taking fine re-
venge on the cruel Lisbon public by an
overwhelming triumph as Media.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
LOVE, HOPE AND WORK


Baratinslzi never defended himself
proves nothing. He may have been too
chivalrous or he may have had no
excuse.
Baratinski fed to his yacht. Simply
that.
Cavalieri moved with dignity to the
railway station. On her lonely trip
from Lisbon to Paris by the Sud Ex-
press, accompanied only by faithful
maid, the company disbanded-who
knows what bitter thoughts may have
been hers? All, work that had all gone
for nothing! Really, I know of no
more pathetic figure than that Of the
disabused and lonely girl returning to
Paris.
A few weeks later in Paris she
learned that Prince Alexander had al
lowed his Paris apartment to be sold
out by the sheriff. The young folks
never met again. Prince Alexander
shortly afterward married the young
Princess Yourievski, morganatic
daughter of the deceased Car Alexan-
der H., living with her mother in high
Partisan society. And Lima Cavalieri
remained "the most beautiful woman
of Europe!"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

new midsummer chapeaus have much
higher crowns, this perhaps most no.
ticea5le on outing hats.
The little coffee coats are Of an
elaboration, but skirts are plainest of
the plain. A well cut and fitted plain
skirt always has more style than a te-
trimmed one, the lines following those
OF the figure and making a more pleas
ing effect. The popular coffee coat an
sWers many purposes, adds a dressy
touch to costume, hides deficiencies,
and is just the thing to throw on at
home when an unexpected visitor ar
rives.
A very pretty dance frock for a
young girl is made of pink organdy,
and is an exception to the plain-skirt
dictum just laid down. But dance
frocks may be exceptions-so long as
they are pretty and becoming> The
skirt is just succession of founces
the lowest about ten inches wide, a
founce decreasing in width one inch as
it ascends, save that those about the
hips are of like size and the skirt is
constructed OF many lace-edged ruf1ies
and also the sleeves There is a round
baby yoke, with low Dutch neck, Of
lace insertion. The girdle is of pink
liberty silk with long streamers at the
middle of the front.
The tulle boas, both colored ahi
those of white or black, are worn with
pleasing effect by tall women; but the
short woman should not take to rufus
For her the low neck, which fortunate
ly happens to be the fashion at pres.
ent, and the rolling collar. A V-shapet
cut is becoming to the stout lady, ant
gives more slenderness than the Du;cl
neck. But tulle boas, or no tulle boas
women to-day, slender and pump, art
very prettily cOstumed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

siderable Russian house and young
man about Paris.
Prince Alexander came to have i'm
mense admiration for the talent, the
voice, the beauty and the goodness OF
the girl.
"You must cultivate that voice." he
told her. "You are wasting yourself
on the music hall stage, which is not
worthy of you. Take up opera!" he
advised her.
On Road to Grand Opera.
Like the camel that is being loaded,
Lima groaned in spirit. Like the
camel, she was slow in getting started.
But, still like that reliable creature,
once started, she kept going. In 1867
the music halls saw no more of Lima
Cavalieri; and it became known that
she was diligently cultivating her voice
under Nine. Mariani-Masi.
Three years passed in work and love
and hope. Then Lina's chance, came in
1900, when she was allowed to make
her debut at no less a musical center
than the Theater Royal of Lisbon as
Media in "Pagliacci"
Unhappily, the Lisbon public is a
hard one. When it pays for grand
opera it insists on having something
near perfection. The debutante was
young, exceedingly lovely, with a
sweet voice; but she showed inexperi-
ence. Did she not also display nerv-
BUSINESS due to emotion over some low
ers' misunderstanding? One would
prefer to think so-for the Judging OF
Prince Alexander!
The first night the Lisbon public
made no sign. The second night it
simply chased the whole company from
the stage Of the Theater Royal.
Alas for work, for hope, for love!
There was riot in front of the curtain
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

Pittsburg's m1llionaires have done
great deal to make the city famous,
Pittsburg's millionaires have done
much to make the city infamous. Of
late we have had instances not few
of the latter, until the prosperous
smoky town there at the junction of
the MOnOngahela and Allegheny has
become byword and reproach, an il
lustration that money is the root of
much evil-to again misquote that Oft
misqnoted proverb.
But even the most careless must ad-
nit that there are millicnaires and
millionaires, that not all are given over
to the world and the flesh. And per-
haps it were we'll to consider for. a
moment other aspect of Pittsburg mil
liOnaires than the overShadowing one
of gay old boys and 1.-THE foolish young
man" liking their champagne from
high-heeled slipper OF popular chorus
girl.
To be sure the fabulous wealth did
come SO fast to SO big class of men
in PittsEurg it is no wonder they, a
large proportion, lost their heads. Men
have gone mad for no less reason, and
is not the degeneracy, the Indifference
to the good old bedrock virtues, but a
kind Ct madness? It takes a pretty
level brain to stand success, and to rise
from a job of dollar a day to the
control of multi-millions as a rule is a
little too much for a mere man. In a
very interesting article in the Brook
Ign Eagle some time ago the reader
was given a glimpse at the material
progress so marked a feature of the
Smoky City in recent years. The arti-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

AT this time of the year the very
prettiest possessions in the wardrobe
are brought forth. No more saving
now Tor great occasions, summers
reign is brief at the best, and let us
wear out summer stuffs ere the season
vanish. A group of warm-weather
frocks of exceptional beauty we are
tempted to dwell upon. One was a dull
pink muslin, made in quaint modified
Empire fashion; worn with this a
snort sacque coat of dark red glace
SILK, the hat black chip draped with
black lace and bearing a single red
rose IN front. A tall dark-eyed girl
wore white muslin dress and a short
light blue glace coat, with a white lace
lingerie hat trimmed with light blue
ribbon. A matron looked exceedingly
we'll in little black glace coat accom-
panylng white voile skirt, white
embroidered collar standing out
against the black Of the coat.
White and yellow are sometimes
very gcod together, especially if only a
little Of the color be used. A white
Danish cloth dress, creamy In tone,
and trimmed with straps of cream
silk, was worn with a yellow straw
hat adorned with yellow plumes. This
costume was effective, and change
from all-white quite pleasing. The
parasol, Of course, was white. Nine out
OF every ten parasols seen are white.
A white wool trimmed with bands
OF light gray is modish, introducing
the pale gray note and the strap trim
ming liked on tailored dresses. Not a
little brilliant green is used in ribbons
for midsummer millinery, and hat
crowns are now of 4 remarkable
height. This does not mean that the
low-crowned hat Of early spring is rel
egated to things that were, but that
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
NOT THERE TO SING.

"The latter began the accompani-
ment to popular song, which, with
some hesitancy, the applicant for a
job attempted with what voice he
had. His effort was about as bad as
it could have been.
"'Look here!' cut in the MANAGER,
after the singer had cleared his throat
for a. second verse, that will do! You
actually have the nerve to ask me for
a job?'
Certainly replied the sad one in
an injured tone.
"tWhy, man, you can't sing little
bit!'
+ ".I don't claim to be able to sing
calmly. responded the man, and I
don't want to sing. I am stage
carpenter. I was only singing to
please you people-you seemed to be
set on it,"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
Beautiful Animal Seen by Young Eng
lishman in Nigeria Was Of Peace
full Disposition.

That the lion is not always the roar
ing, tearing beast of legendary de-
script1on may be. seen in the following
extract from the diary of a young
Englishman who is at present serving
his country, in northern Nigeria: :. :$*.@
II had just topped a long incline and
was walking my pony. when on COM
ing around a corner Of the road, hid
den by. some trees, saw, 40 yards il
front Of me, basking in the sun on an
open Patch Of burning grass, q mag
nifcent5 full grown lion: The sun was
not strong, and he was very *lazily.
Ticking his tall from side to side.' He
had short name. and his eyes were 8
lovely amber red In the weak sum
ss .=ss Sss Il =.5= 3..zs
:s.5sM first sensation Was one 81 ct
establishment, 4 prot found amasIzement
and del light at seeing such . beast,
sHe.was q beauty, and Sc seemed impos--
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The Fashions of the Dav

with midsummer weather there
springs up on all sides a wonderful
variety of frivolous little coats. But
not few possess a beauty that gives
them an excuse for being lust the
other day We noticed one that seemed
to make the costume. 1t formed part
of an all-white toilet, the material Of
the small wrap beautiful, rather
heavy linen lace. It was a half loose
little coat, and of course the sleeves
were chopped Off at the elbow. The
distinctive features were the quality of
the lace and the touches here and
there OF black velvet ribbon bands
with white pearl buckles. A black vel
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
How Lima Cavalier, "Most Beautiful Woman Of
Europe" Has Won Her Way to Fame and "
Fortune by Hard Work.
is AIDED BY HER SISTERS DEVOTION
koue Affair ,0h Prince Alexander Baratinski the Begin
ming of ResoUe to Glue Up Easy Life and Fit Herself
for the Trying Roles Written by the Most Fa-
Masters of Music No.v the Idol
ofAdoring Paris.

Paris.-That "the most beautiful
woman Of Europe" may be discomfort
ed with her job is shown by the ex-
traordinary case Of Lima Cdyalieri.
AS music hall star of the first
magnitude she was flattered and feted.
She had but to show her beautiful per-
son and MARBLE a few ditties to earn
heavy money. The world had prac-
tically told her that her loneliness was
all-suficient without talent.
Lima Cavalieri tossed aside the bril-
liant sinecure and plodded the hard
road leading to grand opera. When
Parisians learned it they shrugged at
forgot her. Now she has just given
them mighty jolt by coming back as
a grand opera star, with a rumored
engagement at the Paris opera itself;
and furthermore she has just bought
splendid mansion in the Avenue de
Messine. But why she grew discon-
tented with being "the most beautiful
woman of Europe" and how she threw
up the music hall sinecure on the Off
chance Of succeeding in grand opera
remains secret.
The secret spring of Lina's change
of base began with a great hope, con-
tinued through great despair and
ended in a great devotion. The hope
and the despair were those of worldly
love. But the devotion was that of a
sister.
Nothing could be more striking than
the contrast between the lives chosen
by the two girls. When their widowed
mother died in Rome in 1889 Ada was
Is years Of age and Lima II. As there
were no relatives and the property was
small, friends put them in a convent
school of aristocratic connections,
whose side speciality was the edu
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
Applicant for Position on Stage Had
No Ambition to Be One
of the Chorus.

The following story is told at the
expense of a New York theatrical
manager:
1--WE were engaged one morning
testing voices for summer produc-
tion,' the manager, musical director
and myself; there was a rather long
line and all looking for positions in
the chorus, and nearly every voice
was below the standard, which was
very disappointing, and the manager
got to be very irritable as we got to
the last Of the applicants, who was
a very melancholy looking man. AS
he came to the piano he attempted
to make some remark, but was
promptly cut short BY the manager,
who said: q. :. :s' r. z: : (
=zs,, !. !. You will omit all preliminary re-
marks and get down to business! Try
him, be ad ded,, turning the al
rect
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

vet band edged the short sleeve, the
little jacket was closed in front by
ends. The dusky soft ribbon was very
pretty against the beautiful lace.
A number of refreshing simple hats
are worn with the simple morning tub
frocks, trimming reduced to the lowest
terms. One charming black chip sail
or has twined about its crown: a
wreath OF crimson ramblers, blue
sailor a. garland of baby white roses,
an all white hat careless spray of
daisies and nothing else. And the lit
tie frocks themselves are so fresh and
neat, as a rule one-piece dresses.
White mohairs and Panamas in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11
QUIET KING OF BEASTS.

sible to realize that he was really wild
as he lay on his side looking at me
with his head raised as dog does
when he hears his masters footstep.
He was fat as butter, sleek coated and
glossy. .....,.
my pony, as the breeze was coming
from the other direction, did not wind
him and went steadily on without so
much as prlcking up his ears. My
dog was walking on in front, about
ten yards, and luckily did not notice
him. Z It was not until was actually
passing him that realized that if
the lion took it into his head to fancy
q bit Of white man should be unable
to dispute his right. r $50
+ tier had proceeded some $50
yards the lion got9up leisurely and fol-
lowed: along the road behind me, but
after going about 100 yards, he turned
into the bush at. the side Of the road. Z
8
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

Succeeding years confirmed this sue
cess; and artistic and social satisfac-
lions of grand opera ceased to cost her
she had never done so well in the halls.
At the Theater of Ravenna, at the
Grand Theater Of Palermo, at the
Opera Of St. Petersburg, and notably
at the ultra-artistic Casino heater at
Monte Carlo she has had repeated en-
gagements. In Russia she is all the
rage. Her own country of Italy has
taken her to its heart.
And she has bought mansion in the
Avenue de Messine for her Paris resi-
dence!
During her present summer vacation
she will furnish it herself-a work OF
peaceful satisfaction.
Beautiful Old Maid.
1t is quiet street and rich-the
Avenue de Messine. It is a short
street of only "a numbers, running
from the statue Of William Shake
speare in the little square of the Boule-
ward Haussmann to the delightful Pare
Monceau, surrounded by it's palaces.
It is street of the newly rich, per-
haps; few great titled families live in
it. But those who inhabit it are snug
and at peace with the world. Well,
among all, there will be none more
snug than most glorious old maid.
You know who it is. There can be
but one such-*'the most beautiful old
maid in the world!"
In her own way she is happy. Is it
not strange Here is beauty gone to
waste, you will say. Well, judge for
yourself. Some time ago the somber
sister had skittish moment. It in
cited her to prove her equal beauty.
How she dressed in one Of Lima S
gowns and posed to one of the first
| Paris photographers as her famous SIS
! ter is tale that has been more than
| once told.
| For a time the counterfeit present
ments circulated in commerce, being
practically undistinguishable from pho
tographs of Lima Cavalieri. Nowadays
| they scarcely exist.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-11

Here the devoted sister interviewed
with force from her humble employ
ment at Genoa.
Too Beautiful for Governess.
On leaving the Roman convent
school three years after her elder sis
ter had quilted it, Ada Cavalieri Ito
give her the family name adopted and
made famous by the other) had to face
the same hard proposition that con-
fronted Lima.
She was quite as beautiful as Lima.
1ndeed-as you shall learn, If you have
not already heard 1.-THE sisters look so
much alike that photographs of one
have been mistaken for the other.
Also, she had a voice. Yet she never
hesitated. She had been educated for
a governess. 1t was correct and hon.
orable to be governess. And a gov
erness she would be. Even after she
had lost her first three places by a
strange and unique fault she never
wavered.
Surely, it was unique fault.
"This young girl is too beautiful to
be a governess,' wrote her first en-
ployer to the superioress Of the school
as she returned her. "Her conduct has
been irreproachable. She is goodness
itself, intelligent, patient and with a
talent for teaching. Yet will not
keep her. Her presence cannot but
prove danger in household"
At last a good and generous lady
beautiful enough herself not to be jeal-
GUS of another's beauty-took the per-
secuted Signorina Ada as teacher for
her two small children. may not
give her name; she was the wife of a
foreign consul.
Ada Cavalieri had watched her bril-
liant sisters triumphs with uneasy
wonderment that grew to terror.
She had fought with Lima 10 give up
the music hall career. She had never
ceased bombarding her with letters OF
'expostulation. Later on she compro-
missed.
Urged Sister Onward.
IF you will not give up the stage, be
a real artiste!" was her final appeal,
When Lima had begun studying With
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Uhf plate nj th1t *'Uhrff ~ .
III mnnfrtt Ennruttntt
BY WILLIAM H. MAXWELL,
Superintendent Of New York City Schools.

HE public schools have been good deal criticised for what
H - said to be neglect of the Three Rs the tendency
to special courses AS matter Of fact the socaed Three
Ix Rs have probably been carefully taught than
now know that there people who would
to the barren instruction Of years ago despite
educational methods It is said that children today
spell and CIPHER as well those Of half
= y great has been the anentaton the change
But the facts quite different III not generally
actual tssts haye bsen MADE
the children grades.
the Springfield whereas 1916
but who spelled correctly Il 1ooE
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there cent In arithmetic the
remarkable Sixty of the
problems correctly while in 1906 cent
30 much tor Springfield The tests made Brooklyn, N Y,
striking The questions given and girls
the eighth year Of the elementary schools children
rect answers that time had been while
cent In the arhetca tests 1916 the percentage pupils
received ~ while Brooklyn was a. Six
years than two cent missed word and
ten but word correctly In the Brooklyn
pupil who missed spelled but one
word the test in 1916 some
per cent spelled So badly speak for
Very positive conclusions be figures In
stead Of neglecting the three pupils are
twice proficient the children years their
oldme brain firing drill Meanwhile our modern
those atanmentS that depend
yelops of
an lines.