The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-01-12
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| ne DapClSC women OF Cne world are
supporting 300 missionaries.
You can't prove you are amiable by
saying that some other woman is not.
"Why is corn sometimes like a bash
full mann" at is slow to pop" 1.-THE
question:
TO clean tan leather boots, pour a
little turpentine on wooden cloth and
rub the boots.
In Austria field labor is still largely
done by the women, who also thrash
the grain with fails.
! Ont at Independence, Mo-, there is one
woman who gets a chance to 90 to all
the funerals. She drives the hearse
Don't use kerosene to light your fires,
but drop little sugar on the wood and
light it. 1t is safer and works just
as well.
| Queen Alexandra was CT years old the
other day, but You can bet that all the
l
didn't look it.
| Miss Alberta Newton, teacher of
Grand Island, Neb, has this season
managed the Grand Island high school
football team with success.
To remove bad smell from the
hands, a garment or any other article
hold the same in the smoke of corn
meal sprinkled on burning Goals.
A tablespoon of vinegar added to cook
ing turnips, onions or other i'll smelling
vegetables will kill the smell. Burning
paper in a room will purify it wonder
fully if coffee, camphor or spices are not
handy.
Kisses given in public are actionable
by law in Russia. A kiss in the open
street is penalized with s., while kiss
i'm a tram car is under fine of $24.
Declarations of love on post card
make the sender liable to a fine of SD.
The introduction of women into in
dustry, says President Roosevelt in his
address, is working change and disturb
ance in the domestic and social life of
the nation The decrease in marriage
and especially in the birth rate, has
been coincident with it,
If the woman next door hangs out
more clothes than she can wear, whose
business is it but her own? Perhaps
she is trying in her feminine way to
hide the fact that her husbands bust
ness affairs are shaky-she is making
strong bluff in society where appear
ances are capital.
Led by Mrs. Roosevelt, the wives of
cabinet officers have decided to raise
the standard of the culinary art in
Washington. With this end in view,
cooking schools will be conducted in pri-
vate homes for busy women in official
life, so that, as in the days of yore,
hostesses may have the pleasure of pre-
pairing, with their own hands, dishes for
their guests.
The American club woman reminds
me of a diamond in the shirt bosom
of corpse" said Rabbi Isador Philo
of the High Street Temple this after
noon at stands out glaringly against
the dead matter it adorns. The club
woman is stranger to her children
if she has any-and her poodle is the
object of more caresses than either her
children or her husband.
After taking measurements OF the
height of women in France, England and
| America, doctor announces that the
English woman is the tallest and Amer
lean comes next The average height
of the French woman is feet l inch.
The American women is nearly two
inches taller, and the women OF Great
Britain half an inch taller than the lat
ter. American women, however, weight
slightly more than either OF others, their
average weight being about liz pounds.
One of the largest magazine agencies
in the country is conducted by wo-
man, Miss Jennie Hanson OF Lexington
Ky. Some years ago while teaching in
the public schools at a salary OF S4o
a month she began taking subscriptions
for the magazines. Finding that she
could make a success of it she gave up
her position and rented an office where
she conducted the business on much
larger scale. She now owns her Office
building, to which extensive additions
have recently been made, and also a
considerable amount of real estate in
Lexington.