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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
Ban on Suicides.

In view of the frequency of suicide at Dover. England, the local clergy have agreed not to dse the prayer book order of burial at the funerals of those who have taken their own lives.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
Odd Coincidence.

Babies arrived last Good Friday in the homes Of twin sisters. living within a block of each other on Colgan street, Louisville, Ky. There was but 56 min vtes difference in the time of the births.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
woman's Way,

There never was wedding at which some woman didn't size up the bride and say: Well. there's no accounting for tastes. IN. Y. Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
Brief and .o the Point

Rev. snyx preached Sunday night on charity. The sermon was paak.-Po Pocz- kontss Cvs.) Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
Kansas All Rsrht

With her banks full of money and her granaries overnowing. nobody is now asking: What aiIs Kansasy'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-05
Good Tam.

Pluck and Push make a team that keeps the dogble-tree even.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06
LAUNDRY LINES.

TO clean channels skin, wash it in
cold water. You may wash a skin in
this way as often as you please and
still keep it soft
Turpentine will whiten clothes in
the wash if soaked in it or if added to
the water in which they are boiled. It
will take ink stains out of muslin
when added to the soap.
An experienced laundress recon-
mends washing white silk embrsidery
in lu1ewarm soapsuds. After wash
ing rinse in clear lukewarm water, dip
in gasoline and shake dry.
When starching anything with a
fringe double the article in four parts,
gather fringe tightly in the hand and
hold it while you dip the middle in
starch. When dry shake the fringe
well and comb with a coarse comb.
# a tablespoonful of black pepper
is ss,..wed ITO tie dr3t water Il which
&C.. c. i MA 49 it will
prevent its spotting. 1t will also pre-
vent colors running in cambrics and
muslins, and it will not affect the soft
ness of the water.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06
Women's EmpIoyments.

There was a time When it was not
considered respectable Tor a cultured
man to choose anything but enc of the
learned professions. : hen these fail
ed to support him he turned his abili-
ty toward the mechanical, industrial
and commercial occupations and made
professions of them. There is no rea-
son why women should not organize
and promote those employments from.
whichs the cry for help cor. IS inces-
sanity. Housekeepir~ cooking. Dire SD
making, costume &C ;gaing and tie
care Of children are down in the
depths for want of cultured Intelligent
organization. Because they have been
considered mental does not make it
necessary for them to remain so. Ev-
cry one knows instances where some
brave and clever woman has boldly
dashed in and made Il success in some
of these directions :.a1 was honored
for it by all who knew her. Ameri-
can Magazine.
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DRESS HINTS.

In facing a sleeve turn it and place
the facing inside the sleeve before
sewing it on.
The proper corset will make the abb
domen less prominent. Have the hose
supporters placed at the front of the
corset and drawn fairly tight.
If wooden dress goods are hung out
of doors, right side out, for three or
four hours or. all night Gf safe) they
will be shrunken as satisfactorily as if
done by a professional tailor.
The shine that shows a serge skirt or
Jacket to be no longer new can easily
be removed by sponging the garment
with bluing water, such as is used to
launder clothes. While still damp press
the goods under a thin cloth.
For holding a dress skirt in place in
front make a little strip Of the goods,
doubled, and about four inches long
and an inch wide. Stitch to the inside
Of the skirt band in the middle Of the
front. When the skirt is put on, this
strip is pinned to the corset with a
safety pin.
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or the polishing afterWard will take
long time. In cleaning such floor it
is better to use a soft hairbrush rath-
er than stiff one. After being well
swept the floor should be wiped with
a dry, soft cloth in order to take up
all dust. II there are any spots they
may be removed with a cloth wet with
turpentine or they may be rubbed with
a cloth Wrung dry out of warm wa
ter. This will take off the polish, but
it may be restored by using a weight
ed brush. This brush has long han
die and is pushed back and forth till
the polish is again restored. Wooden
cloths may be used, but of course it
will take longer and the work will be
tedious. The weighted brush as well
as others should be thoroughly cleans
ed two or three times a year by wash
ing them in warm water to which a
few drops of ammonia has been added.
New York Post
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BAKING DAY.
How One Woman Gets Splendid
Bread With Little Labor.

How One Woman Gets Splendid
Bread With Little Labor.
How is it you always have such
beautiful bread?' was asked busy
housekeeper, "sour milk and bread
mixer" was the reply. Asked to ex-
plain, she said: II mix my bread with
sour milk Invariably That is, / allow
four cups of milk, one cup Of luke
warm water with the yeast dissolved
in it and three cups Of hot water add
ed to the milk eight cups OF liquid In
I'll. Two tablespoonfuls of lard or one
tablespoonful of batter and one of good
beef drippings go into the LIQUID and
then fifteen full cups Of -four and
saall handful Of salt For a long time
could not be persuaded that any
mixer could make bread as close and
fine as my two hands could make it.
Nowadays the mixer does the work,
and il | am too busy to make it myself
one Of the children can do it just as
we'll If the ingredients are measured
into the mixer. | no longer dread the
baking day, though it comes oftener
than it used to, by reason of the fact
that the lovely bread we have gets
eaten up SO quickly The gas stove
robs baking day of much CT it's old ter
rors, by the way. Thirty-fve minutes,
no turning, no burning is our recipe
for it's use. Brooklyn Eagle.
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THE MINERS LAMP.
A Little Experiment That Will show
You How 1t Works

A Little Experiment That Will show
You How 1t Works.
1t is absolutely necessary for the
miner to have light to work by down
in the bowels of the earth, and yet
ordinary flame is out of the question
because it would put the lives Of the
miners in peril. There is a gas in most
mines called fire damp, which is a
light carbureted hydrogen, and when
this is mixed with atmospheric air
and exposed to fame it explodes with
great force. The safety lamp, how
ever, invented by Sir Humphry De-.
a noted English chemist, does away
with the danger This lamp is construct
ed OH the principle that fame will not
pass through gauze. A simple expert
ment will show you. Hold a piece Of
iron wire gauze over a gas burner and
you may readily light the gas above
the gauze, for it readily passes through
when unlighted. But if you move the
gauze several inches above the burner
the fame will not pass through, be-
cause the gauze takes away the heat
so quickly that the gas will no longer
burn. In the sa,2e way the fire damp
Of the mines can go through the pro
tecting gaUze of the safety lamp and
burn on the inside, but the fame can
not get to the outside.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06

~ w WI OMAN s a
WORLD a
~ lzaaz1E zEz57
MRS. ALICE M. BUTLER.
THae Only Woman Railway Promotes
In This Country.

TAe Only Woman Railway Promoter
In This Country.
Missouri is, the home of the only
woman railway promoter in the Unit
ed States Mrs. Alice M. Butler Of st.
Joseph Mrs. Butler has had expert
ence in promoting many railway lines
Bhieh are now in successful operation.
AIRS Butler plans great things but she
Es far from being feminine Mulberry
Sellers. She has not had a failure in
ali her career.
Mrs. Butler has done most of her
work in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Ohio. She promoted line from Dav-
export, Ia, to LIE Clair and Clinton,
which Is. now in successful operation.
She has already tapped the fertile Nod
away valley Of Missouri and has plans
10 ggtdiron the state with a network
of iRterurbans that will revolutionize
farm life ia Missouri
With all her strenuous labors, and
AIRS. Butler is a hustler in every sense
of the VOID, she retains her womanli-
ness, is quiet voiced, ladylike in every
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TEE ACRoBATIo BOX.

size and shape all you have to do is to
put the bullet in it. If not, you will
have to make the box.
Cut out piece of stiff cardboard an
inc! and half or two inches long
and about half an inch wide with
round or semicircular ends This is
for tie bottom of the box. For the
sides cut half inch strip of thinner
and more flexible, but still pretty stiff,
cardboard a.d glue it to the bottom,
exactly ~ right angles. The enGs of
the strip 2,lld overlap a little and be
pasted or s-1ed together. Make the
cover OF the box in the same way, but
the merest tri1e larger, SO that it will
fit nicely. Put in q large bullet whose
diameter is nearly equal to the width
of the boz, put on the cover and the
thing is done.
Now prop up a piece Of board or a
slate or a large book-an atIas-in
steeply Inclined position or get some
body to hold it that way; stand the
box on the top Of the inclined plane on
enc end and turn the other end down
until it rests on the plane and at once
let 60 If the inclination is steep
enough the box will roll down the
plane, but it will roll very differently
from round box. 1t will rise slowly
on end, tremble, go over quickly, with
a slap, rise on the other end, and so on,
and it is likely to stop in any sort Of
apparently impossible position.
You see, before it makes a turn it
has to wait for the bullet to roll the
length of the box, and the bullet is so
much heavier than the box that when
il is at the bottom end the upper part
Of the box is SO light in comparison
that the least inequality of the surface
may leave the box balanced on ole
end, not vertically, but pointing in al
most any direction and looking as if it
ought to fall.
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action, unassuming and extremely
modest She dislikes to talk of her
self, but to a Post-Dispatch CORE
Epondent lately had this to say of her
work:
$50 far as | know, / am the only
woman promoter of railroads in the
country 1t is work in which l am
interested beyond power of words to
express, and it is a work in which /
believe I am competent When you
rome to consider it there is no reason
why woman should not do such
work. 1t is the idea that counts in this
world, whether it originates in the
brain of man or woman. If cap
ataIist sees a chance to invest and
make every dollar earn five or ten,
docs he stop to ask whether it is a
man or woman who first gave him
9Se idea? There are no sex distinc-
-fi0nS in business.
With all my comings and goings, ]
might add l have had many strenu-
GUS experiences, but / have never been
A&ENGtCQ Ill Gllly I14tllllCl WHICH, CuS lCtCV
would find in the slightest way dis.
tasteful. l have to deal often with
politicians, but I am always treated
Exc a lady,
$50 long as demean myself proper
IN 4 can command the respect Of any
ERBn with whom my business br...l.--3
we IN contact We hear much of the
corruption of politics, but l have seen
EttLe Of it. have been cheated ont Of
Rly rights, and / have had hard times
70 obtain my rights, but business is
business, and the body polite is far
arom being corrupt and rotten, as pes
@Tmists would have us believe"
While Mrs Butler can hardly be said
30 have any permanent home, as she is
always on the go, her permanent adj
GreSs is the Hotel Metropole, ST. Joseph
She is at home, however, wherever an
Adea from her fertile brain can be made
SO work out-St Louis Post-Dispatch
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We'll Kent Hands.

Cover my sink are two bottles and
nail cleaner" said a housekeeper.
Zone bottle contains five parts Of lemon
juice to one of alcohol, which will keep
indefinitely. The other contains the
following lotion: One-fourth Of an
ounce of gum tragacanth added to one
pint Of softened water, one ounce each
Of alcohol, glycerin, witch hazel and a
dash of some sort of perfume. After
washing dishes or preparing vegetables
apply little Of the lemon juice, then
the lotion, and in moment my hands
are dry, soft and very smooth. All
stains disappear as if by magic, and the
nails are cleaned easily. The time re-
quired is not over two minutes. The
expense of the lotion is comparatively
nothing
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is 1T BECOMING?
The Test Women should Apply to
Every Article of Clothing.


Every Article OF Clothing.
Heaven help the woman who thinks
1t doesn't matter what she wears; she
is not only vain, but idiotic," is the cry
Of contributor to the London Ladies'
Field. This writer dilates on the alb
surdity Of any woman fancying she
can afford to be independent of her
clothes or that men never know what
a woman las on whatever they NAV
say to the contrary.
There is no doubt" as she acknowl-
edges, that men are genuinely sincere
IN making this assertion and really do
believe in their own Indifference to
such paltry accessories to feminine
charms as hats and chiffons But every
woman knows in her heart the great
part clothes play in her life, and so long
as men persist in falling in love only
with we'll dressed women it is useless
for them to proclaim the relative I'M
Importance of such matters.
"A well dressed woman need not
necessarily be. expensively dressed-at
any rate. from the male point of view"
sagaciously continues the author, 'and
where women make their mistake is in
assuming that it is enough for clothes
to be merely beautiful or merely
smart. The really vital question for.
every woman i'll reference to every hat,
gown, coat or fur she buys is or ought
to be. Is it becoming?
Life, indeed, for a woman must 81
ways be more or 1855 a question Of ap-
pearance, ana none Is so good or so
beautiful OF SO Intellectual that she can
afford to be dowty The att of dress
ing and of making the most Of her own
appearance, FAR from being a sign Of
supreme feminine folly, as many peo-
pie would lave rs believe, is in reality
one Of the most important arts a wo-
man can master. The really foolish
woman IS the one who neglects her
appeasa nee, wh5 is too lazy or too con.
ceited 2 fake any trouble with her
clio and who thinks it does not mat
ter what she we3rs'
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Sedative Skin Lotion.

A very fine sedative lotion for the
skin and one which will remove the
oily shine is made by combining one
and one-half ounces of witch hazel,
three-fourths of an ounce of rose water,
one-half an ounce Of boroglyceride,
one-fourth an ounce Of pure oxide of
zine and one-half an ounce Of the pure
essence of rose. Apply at night and
morning.
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Torn Wall Paper.

When a hole has been damned in the
wall paper, as sometimes occurs in
moving. a piece Of furniture, if one has
no paper like the one on the wall or dis
likes the appearance of a patch, a jul
dicious use Of water colors will work
wonders. The torn paper should be
first straightened as neatly as possible
and glued down Then touch up the
vacant spaces and the seams with
paints the color of the paper at that
place. The break will be almost inyisi-
bic if the water colors are used care
fully. In patching wall paper always
tear the patch irregulariy instead Of
cutting it unless it is the full strip.
The edge will be less noticeable.
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Care of the Hair.

The hair responds quickly to little
care and attention. Every night make
1t a habit to brush your hair thorough
~, afterWard rubbing into the scalp a
small quantity of this antiseptic and
grower: Forty-eight grains of resorcin,
one-fourth ounce Of glycerin, diluted
alcohol to fill two-ounce bottle. Every
fortnight get good shampoo with eggs
and hot water. If possible take cleo
tric scalp massage, which will invig
crate the growth generally and pro-
mote the cultivation of the young
hairs that will gradually become a part
of the old halo. Before shampooing,
say twenty-four hours before, rub olive
oil into the scalp. Braid the hair loose
w at night.
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Rrmshing Velvet.

The whole secret in the care Of vel
vet lies in the management Of the
brush Take a hat brush which is not
too soft and which has bristles elastic
enough to return at once to their orig
inal state after being pressed aside.
Hold this firmly under the palm Of the
hand in the direction of the arm and
with the bristles downward. Press
them at first gently into the velvet;
then twist the arm, hand and brush al
together, as on an axis, without moving
them forward or backward. The dust
will be drawn up, and firted out with
out injury 80 the velvet, and the brush
must be lifted up and placed in a SINH
lar manner over every part required to
be brushed. By this method velvet will
last for years.
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To Rel = NefI-

Too many women 1o.l a veil up SO
carelessly unless the re a r@l holder
often carelessly en Ugh e7-en then
that the veil soon looks stE'iIsgc and al
together impossible. lie right way is
to roll it loosely from one end smooth
ing out that end without act5sallF pull
ing it into shape and keeping The edge
pulled out IS you roll. 50 that when
the veil is all in a soft little roll the
edges seem about even. The sort OF
care should double at least tile life Of
a veil
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06
A MENDlNG HINT.
Try Drawing Jagged Tears Together
With Human Hair.

Ts
Did you ever try mending ragged
tears i'll coat or jacket with hair
human hair? Well, try it, before you
exclaim in your doubt as to the out
come. You know long ago mending
used to be Il work Of art. Clothes were
much harder to get, and once obtained
every care was given them until they
literally went to pieces. Some one who
lived in those days-a dear old lady
taught me to mend With hair, and the
torn place on my jacket, or what had
been the torn place, became a matter
Of pride, because the mending was the
best kind Of art useful.
Place the torn spot in an embroidery
hoop, if possible, and then take a long
hair, from a head Of brown or black
hair, and darn with a very, very fine
needle back and forth, taking up
threads away beyond the tear on both
sides. Press the spot with a warm
t1atiron, after dampening it slightly en-
the wrong side, and it is finished.
The embroidery hoop is useful for
nendin9 tears in the legs Of hosiery,
dropped stitch in drop stitch stock
inss' being taken up easily in the hoop.
IIandkerchiefs, napkins, table linen
and tears in dresses and aprons. can all
be patched without a wrinkle if the
goods be first stretched in the hoop
Housekeeper.
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SAVE YOUR STRENGTH.
Don't stand When You Can Sit; Don't
Sit When You Can Lie Down.

Don't Stand When You Can Sit: Don't
Sit When You Can Lie Down.
Women sit too much, and women
stand quite too much. Nothing is. more
Wearisome than standing about even
to tie well trained body that has been
drilled into good poise, and sitting is
not resting, however cleverly women
may delude themselves on this point.
The young girl who desires to keep
away crows feet and the jaded look
and to retain the suppleness and bloom
of youth should when off parade and
duty and in her own room make a
couch or the floor her habitual resting
place.
Absolute repose comes to the tired
muscles only when the body is in re-
clining position, and absolute repose
comes to the overstrung nerves only
when the muscular system is. perfectly
at rest, relaxed
The middle aged woman can WOO
back much of the freshness and 1.-the
someness of girlhood If she will be at
a little pains to learn how to rest.
Five minutes of rest fiat on the back
on the floor or on a hard, smooth couch
are worth half an hour of so styled
rest in an armchair or i'll that unre-
poseful tempter, the rocking chair.
Some one has said to the woman of
today: Never stand when you can sit;
never sit when you can lie down" This
eXhortation, applied with some elias
ITCHY, is an excellent beauty recipe.
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HANDY CHINA CLOSET.

open shelves. The top shelf has glass
doors to shut it in, since on this shelf
are placed the dishes least commonly
used. The open shelves have different
heights to accommodate all sizes and
shapes of dishes. The two small draw
ers are lined and are for table silver,
napkins in their rings, etc. The large
drawers contain Numbered table linen.
If the whole opens into the kitchen on
one side and into the dining room on
the other, with drawers pulling both
ways, it will be found still more con
venient
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The Sewing Room

AZ sewing room depends upon the eX-
aglt of the industry carried on therein.
Il1e more important things which will
make it comfort and a pleasure to
work in are an old pier glass, which
you can either hang or have mounted
znd, if possible, discarded piece of
Enrniture Of the dresser variety,
which will give a mirror to stand OPP
gosite it. This can be turned a little
SO that it is possible to get a full length
view both back and front A table
Bong enough to hold skirt can be
found in a kitchen table often, and by
AaVing an extra leaf put on the back,
ycu can square" it when an extra
Barge table is wanted This shape and
size are especially called for when do
Eng circular skirt. With scrapbasket,
B0rkbasket. and hamper for keep
Eng rolls of Innings and materials that
are left, bits Of which may be wanted
&ny time, and with low folding table
and one low and one high chair and
she machine, your sewing room is
equipped
"A manilSin and a tree rack, which
garments can be hung on WREN hal.
2nisaed, are also great helps
A much larger amount Of sewing is
apt to be accomplished in the house in
which there is a place Were Ia5t fin
ashed work can be LEFT, as it y possible
20 take advantage OF every bit Of spare
NINE, which never would be done If
aAings had to be got out.
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Maktng- over a cloth suit.

II you are making over an old cloth
suit nothing freshens it up more than
to responge it and thoroughly press it.
Do not Of course attempt to- sponge
any made up garment or treat it in the
same way that You would the uncut
material, but TO renovate an old skirt
thoroughly and make it over it is best
to rip ii srart in every seam and then
thoroughly cleanse and responge TIC
do this saturate a piece Of muslin
in warm water then roll up the muslin
and the cloth together and allow them
to remain for several hours. The
damp muslin should be placed on the
wrong side Of the material.
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Jolly S>~.Iing Game.

You can CAL I Journey around
the wa".9." if you wish
Take 49, Il 5.ozen or so sheets Of
cartthcc.l "a lite the names of cities
Oh them Sea Ter them around and
pa. a boy CIR g.rl in charge of each as
ticket agent. Give each one a card
containing FIVE or more words.
The oeher boys and girls play they
are travellers, and they stop at each
station, where they are detained by the
ticket agent until they have successful
II spelled the five words that are on his
card
In this way a great deal Of useful
spelling is done, but it is jolly game.