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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14
sPAIN,s QUEEN.
New York.

A correspondent who had a near
view of Princess Ena in Paris writes:
A passing glimpse of the princess as
she assembled the queens stairs at
Versailles afforded me this impression
She is very tall, fair, of a round face
resembling the Duke of Connaught's
when he was her age, and with the
cheeks, chin and something in the
mouth of Queen Victoria. when young
good humored and inclined to hearty
laughter. When the princess does. not
laugh she does her best to wear the air
her late majesty preserved at drawing
rooms. The eyes are tdes yeux quef-
conque'-not large or expressive, but
not dun either, and rather agreeabis
It would be hard to describe the color
of hair that escaped from the hat I
have seen autumn foliage as it turned
from russell TO pale yellow. comparable
to it. A "toison dor I cannot cali il,
but it might be that if the tinge Of
russell were replaced by gold But
Partisan hairdresser would know new
to cast sunbeams on it. as Auguste did
on the lively auburn hair of the En-
press Eugene. Princess Ena is too
much Queen Victoria's granddaughter
not to be as much in love (and for life
with Alfonso as he Is now with her
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The truth is we dream of clothes.
We judge by clothes and we live for
clothes.
The pity of it all is this mad desire
TO peacock takes our money, time
and energy for better things And it
is not confined to the idle rich classes
either
Many a working girl goes hungry to
buy herself bit of cheap jewelry or
a ribbon. Look at the monday crowd
of girls on their way to lunch from the
Office and you will be struck by the
fact that they carry their salaries on
their backs. Worse than that, the
wife of a petty employee will put her
husband in debt rather than go with
out a new gown she covets, even
though her restricted social oppor-
tunities viii force her to wear it on
shopping expeditions in order that she
may have a chance to show it off and
that it may not go out of style hanging
in the closet.
What geese we women are, when
there is so much else in the world
which is really grand and interesting
and worth whilei
Then there is another thing.
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n the eastern part of this land it'll
is said that people with long
purses go to the Adirondacks for
their summer vacation. while
those with short ones take their way
to the CatskilIs and declare they like
it better. Who wouldn't under the
circumstances
Hon. David B. Hill, urging the pres
ervation of the forests of the Adiron-
dack region. once called it the nations
pleasure ground and sanitarium. This
may have been true when Governor
Hiil said it, but it is certain that the
Adirondacks are fast becoming q pleas
ure resort chiefly for American mil
Nonaires. The hundred square mile
tract included in the Adirondack
mountain region comprises, roughly
speaking 1000. 900 acres of land for
est ana stream. OF this nearly or quite
1.000. 600 acres are already the prop
erty Of American money lords. vii
liam Rockefeller owns $4,000 acres. He
has a whole lake all to himself. Elk
elusive Of buildings he is said to have
paid half a million dollars for his es-
tate.
ON the shore of Sycamore lake Alfred
c. Vanderbilt has an estate, which it is
said cost S5O0,0OO. Coils p Hunting
tom bought up. thousands of acres of
Adirondack mountain side. built upon
his property a lodge which was one of
the show places of the region and died
there in 1901. J. Pierpont Morgan has
a splendid summer home which he
calls Camp Cncas on#the shore of Mo-
hesan lake. The late w. c. Whitney's'
Adirondack estate included . whole
tots nship along the borders OF Upper
Earana1 Ike. He bought out ana out
IT,. village of WaWbeeis as If lie could
put IS 81 las pocket. There were 3d.
"a acres in his mountain farm.
"A Eaese that looks like d magnificent
castle his been built by @. H Cohn
Oh Upper ssaranac lake The cot
tages and other ouJbuldings sur
rounding the castle gre numerous
enough to give the place the appear
ance OF q town. yet it pleases the pro-
prietor of the big palace to call it
cabin Not in such cabins" were the
great americans born and bred. AM
bassador Whitelaw REID. toe, has an
Adirondack home 1t is On Upper St.
Regis. Levi z. 8Iorton's estate IS on
Upper saranac. Thomas Carnegie,
brother Of Andrew. built on Raquette
lake mansion which Is also one Of
the show places Of the Adirondacks.
ed .0O5 acres of Adirondack land and
fenced it all in. Many wealthy game
clubs have purchased square miles OF
forest. mountain and lake and have
made leg camps more or less luxurious
to which they HE them in summer
to dsh, from Sept. I to Nov. IS to
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brood over disappointments even more
terrible than crimes Who knows? At
any rate, it may be a comfort to some
to know that in the Adirondacks are
still secret spots where a human be-
ing may hide from everybody.
A pathetic interest is connected
with some of the Adirondack winter
resorts. While various mountain ho-
tells are open all winter and guests go
to them from time to time for the fun
of it, to enjoy tobogganing and skeeing
and such other sports as are possible
at 20 below zero, there are those who
exile themselves in the frozen noun
tain forests hoping TO escape the doom
of the consumptive. It was these Gov
ernor Hill had in mind when he called
the Adirondacks the sanitarium of
America. Wrapped to the teeth in
furs and blankets these invalids brave
ly sit in open verandas and play
games or read and write with mittened
hands. At night they sleep almost in
the open air with the arctic cold all
about them. Brave heart they keep
up and cheerful. and it is pleasant to
know that many a time they recover.
Robert Louis Stevenson spent the win
ter of 1888 in a cottage on Lake
Moody and wrote 1.-The. Master of Bal
lantrae" there.
One effect of what may be called the
tanning of the Adirondacks has been
to bring women more and more into
prominence in connection with the
business of caring for summer vfsi-
tors. It has been found that woman
can plan and conduct a recreation.
camp better than man can, especial
ly where women are among its in
mates. Scores of women now make q
business Of this every summer. The
millionaire families have brought
pianos and oriental rugs and fashion
plate gowns into the mountains, and
women like their SsVn sex around
them to see after their wants.
To be successful Adirondack camp
keeper a woman must know woodcraft
and be a good shot. She must know
how to serve as guide to parties seek
ing hunting and fishing grounds or to
girl students who botanic or geologic
or get object lessons in natural his
tory There is an ever increasing num-
Der of these among American college
women. The Adirondack woman guide
must be familiar with the name and
habits Of each bird and wild creature
must not be afraid of snakes, must
know the course of the sun by day and
read the consultations at night so as
10 guide her people She must be IA
miliar with every tree, plant and flow
er. Besides all this she must be q good
cook and camp housekeeper All this
knowledge it is said women acquire
sooner than men do. because women's
eyes are quicker than mems.
LILLIAN GRAY.
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me and the pianOla across the street
When they are not kept going both at
once 1 esteem myself fortunate, but
even when alternating I get them
pretty thoroughly dinned into my nerv-.
Gus system. Then there is the parrot
four doors below. But what is dis
lance of four doors to a healthy par
rots voice. The little boys on the
street we will pass by in silence be-
cause it has come to be a recognized
fact that boys are unable to play with
out emitting blood ~curdling sounds.
But the little girl in the next house
Oh, mel Oh, my What loud voiced
child! And where are the nerves of
the people who live with her? She will
converse in clear, cheerful tones by
the hour all by herself if necessary or.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14
WHEN a JAP GIRL IS TILTED.

A Japanese woman. when abandoned
by her lover. takes a peculiar and pic
turesque revenge When she no longer
has any doubt as to his faithlessness
she gets up in the middle Of the night
and 2''ts on a pleasing dress and wood
en- sandals. Attached to her neadoress
she carries three lighted candles, and
suspended TO her neck hangs a small
mirror. She takes in her left hand &
small straw effigy of the faithless one.
and in her right hand a hammer and
nails. Walking graveiy to the sane
tuary. she selects one of the sacred
trees and nails the efigy securely to the
trunk. She then prays for the death
of the traitor. vowing that if her wish
is granted she will take out the nails
which trouble her god, since they are
fastened to q sacred tree. Night after
night she comes to the tree. adding one
or two nails. and repeating her prayers.
persuaded that the god viii not hesi-
tate to sacrifice the man to save the
tree.
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on all sides you hear snatches like
these;
eyes. we are late getting away this
summer, but, you see, the seamstress
disappointed US, and you have to have
SO many white gowns when you go to
X blythe Sea-
sNIy blue pongee siUx2 My dear, she
has had it a month and only the skirt
done and part Of one sleeve
Il would start Saturday It is fear
f,uv hot. and my husband IS very
anxious we should 60 but I want to
take in Cashem's special sale Monday.
nv dear. they are going to have
nstfste princess gowns trimmed with
iace for s10-75. Think of that Oh
YES. / have quite a few dresses, but
haven't a blue and I thought at that
price it wouldn't matter if didn't wear
4 more than once or twice
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anything but -''t ,,o,oes 70, s o,'g -"
loud key A o@9 ~ 'o''V'
man across the way thinks he can
sing humorous 90 songs. and so
prano on the side floor Cleft side Of
elevator) IS under the impression that
she can reach yet another octave
higher
The telephone. the elevator, the dumb
waiter and the front door bell do their
share, often all at once.
The apartments in the third floor
(righ0 and the first floor 0ef) have
been sublet for the summer months to
the kind of people that board all vim
ter and save up that they may live in
white stone apartment house at a
third of its rental during July and Au-
gust and entertain ali their friends.
Which, believe me. they do-enough
to last them all the year around.
But 1 wouldn't mind it near so much
if I didn't hear the voices of women
with that unmusical laugh which, alas
is distinctly American
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Clyde Connues Ber Hmabe Discussion

"Oh. look at that woman crossing the
street, How do you like that hat? 1
don't think it goes very well with
Yes. they say she is a great actress.
but, my sorrows, how 'tacky she is
off the stage. I saw her on Fifth
avenue the other day and she actually
wore a blue foulard with a tight skirt
and one of those lace coats without
speck of chiffon lining in it. Give me
a genius that knows how to dressl''
Yes, she has a lovely disposition,
but what hats she wearsi''
Etc etc
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about clothes. -, 800
in Paris. but they do not occupy the
mind and conversation of the Pa
risienne to the exclusion of every
thing else as they do influence some
women of my acquaintance.
The difference is painfully apparent
when you come home from travelling
on the other side. There you find
charming salons where the sleeves of
the mistress of the house are perhaps
not of the latest cut, but where wit
and epigram sparkle, and you 60 away
refreshed and invigorated mentally.
But in America. 1 am sorry to say.
the subject of conversation where wo-
men congregate is more than likely to
be friIIs, if it is not the servant ques-
ton
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what WiII the -llarvest Re7

MY sorrows, what are we coming to-
Are we soon to be distinguished as the
noisiest nation in the world, with noisy
music. as exemplihed by the popular
taste. and noisy laughter as you hear
it on all sides. and noisy dress, as you
see it on every street,
/ actually read an article the other
day in which a doctor. begged mothers
not to restrain their children. Fer
said he. If you hush their screaming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14

keep the mosquitoes away and let the
mixture stay there till it wore off. They
got lost they tumbled overheard out
of their canoes into icy waters and
did not take cold Nobody minded, be-
cause they were out for game, these
temporarily wild men. But
They are all gone away;
There is nothing more to sag
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Italian town have l heard the mixture
of discordant tones have enjoyed
since my return home to my city
apartment for awhile.
Please to believe in the first place
that I live in select neighborhood
and not in a tenement, as you might
infer by the choice and variety Of
sounds enjoy
There is the pianola to the right Of
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ms" and it is now only in the little
family camps that d woman may still
be comfortable and get rid of the
wrinkles that trying to keep up with
city clothes has plowed into her face
The advent OF women and million
aires in the Adirondaeks has left com
paratively few of the old time stag.
camps. where men who cared only for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14

street cars and
American ideas
of poIiteness.
If You voice
your d isapprov-
al they say Eu-
rope has gone
to your head.
The best thing
is to keep your
thong hts to
yourself
But there are
one or two
things 1 would
like to oriti-
else.
American Wo-
men are "dafy"
about clothes.
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Adirondack private preserves. build
upon it a group of modest wooden cot
tages and live there camp meeting
fashion through the summer months.
It is pleasant for theschildren and very
agreeable for the woman who has the
brains TO enjoy wearing a short skirt
and a sweater and thick boots and
staying outdoors 1nT the sweet woods
all day and not dressing for dinner"
But the invasion Of feminine frills in
the Adirondacks took place along with
that of the millionaires' palace cab
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Dow the *atlon's pleasure Ground and Santarlum Bas
Become the Summer Resort Of the Hmerican Money Lord

shoot deer and in the dead of winter
to hunt rabbits and spear pickerel
through the ice.
The old Adirondack natives, families
whose men folk for generations have
made a living as hunters. guides. trap
pers and lumbermen. for well or I'll are
being driven out. They at first resent
ed bitterly the notices posted every
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WIon1en

you viii prevent their lung develop
ment, and if you teach them to be
quiet and not talk so much you will
retard the growth of their brains
Well, I am for retarded development
thenl It's my opinion that according
to the doctors reasoning we're going
ahead as q nation much too fast.
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with It. Ingenious miners used to
make stovepipes of it. Wherever civ
ilized man goes, there goes the tin
can. When the north pole shall be
discovered a baked bean can will be
hung upon the end that sticks out
Hail to the tin cam
Occasionally friends in the cities
lease land not yet included in the great
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hunting and fishing per Sc bunked in
anyhow. They for the time threw off
all restraint and lapsed into savagery.
Men. who shifted eontemptuously at
pork when at home and who would
have had TT if they had not been
groomed TO the top notch every day.
ia the deep woods log camp smacked
their lips over bacon and aapjack as
a delicious morsei. wore their sweaters
night and day and washed infrequent-
". They smeared grease and lamp
black over their faces and hands to
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seated by the
open window,
will hold a
spirited dia
logue with some
one whose re-
plies you can
not hear and
neither appar-
emily can she,
for her re-
marks are pune
tuated with
loud WHAT'S
every few min
utes. It is ap-
parently inpos-
sible for the
child to talk or
IN d e r 5 { a n d
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came gamekeepers. hewers of wood
and humble underlings on the very
ground they and theirs had occupied
of civilization The North woods is
region.
Much of the primitive Adirondack
wildness is gone. Nearly all the lakes
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forty rods around the millionaire game
preserves forbidding any hunting, fish
ing or trespassing upon the very
grounds that they and their ancestors
had regarded as their rightful own for
centuries. They resisted and made
trouble. But what can poor noun
taineers do against money. whether
made in oil. embalned beef, iron. rail-
roads, Wall street SHINING or pills
Many of the natives finally accepted
employment on the estates of the oil
and pill American aristocracy and be
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The Modern Babel.

Some one has named New York the
City of Noises
never realized before how much
we disliked silence
Talk about the volubility of the
Latin races! Never in any French or
qabc ,3o,oyo ,,c-oss the ,tresf
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eyes Some Things you are mighty
glad TO get back to. such as interesting
magazines. Sunday newspapers, ice
and cream sodas. not to speak of the
American man. who seems pretty nice
alongside of the European average
specimen
But. then, there are other things
which don't strike you so faverably-
the rush and scramble. the crowded
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and ponds. at least 35S of them, have
been definitely mapped out and named.
Maeadamized roads-ye gods have
taken the place of Indian trails that
led from lake to lake before America
was discovered and dated almost as
far back in history as the mother-in-
law joke. Everywhere now on the
glorious mountain heights or in the
sweet darkling mountain Businesses is
to be met that advance courier. of
American civilization. the tin can The
desolate Klondike diggings are strewn
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The mighty Adirondaeks hide per-
manently, however. a few individuals
about whom an almost uncanny at
mosphere hovers. They are hermits
concealed in the secret places of the
mountains-white men in hiding from
their kind. One or two of them are
deformed men. it is said, and perhaps
they are shamed to face even the pres
ent imperfect specimens of the hui
man race Others mayhap have com
mitted crimes, others possibly have
shut themselves away in solitude to
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HEN you come back tol
your own country from
Europe you are apt to see
things with unblinded
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03

7o tent It's assistance 20 the cause Of justice ana
Lto SSLIlooto II the government of the state inc art
mainly in the pictorial gibbeting OF defeated op-
ponents, found IN sisna ampIer deyeopment upon
foTrsd 5 Of the noble Palazzo PunoESSi or1i MLGh
S1n1lone Martini and Ambrogio Iorenzetu, nae
oe frsseoss that are undissuissd P2SSal Pen ca
preston and the superiority OF good over pan gov
ernment IN promoting the happiness Of the citizens
q senas turbulent domestic history. TO md 81
beFnardne enforcing his arguments against dsSoro
5y reference to Ambrogios fresSoes. and sxto!ling
en, Of whom this building formed the official resi-
ton, and theory adverse TO the mixing OF poll
Ies with religion prevents him rron, aedTessthhs hs
electors upon the use they are to make OF their
votes. Is secret Savouritlsm displayed By high
Is treated 10 a fable in which the beasts hold
chapter in imitation Of the monks, FOR the trial
chair; and the receives heavy punishment for
trihing offence. whilst the goat wolf and fox are
aosolved after serious IllsaeneanouESS. Or aas
marked tncapacity for his duties been SHOWN oy
prominent state functionary? The criminal alb
surdity OF such appointments is displayed IN a
Hfellke picture OF the birds attitude towards
new scarecrOW-the extreme OF Difference till the
imposture Is dscoveredi then insult too gross for
our potter age TO specify. 1t is 70 be added that
retical only, and confines itself to mouiuon. He
does approve Of the acceptance by his brethren
his time, and recorded for us on the painted book
covers OF the Archivo. Of appointing monks TO the
You have reason" he says, "to believe that
your lay treasurers have made away with the
Rp 26 o 5Rs Ra But so are ySS you dsr
that the monks don't steal; and Is II not enough
for you go TO hell yourselves in your ardour
il Why. ] believe, If had the post, I should
be a greater thief than any OF them For Gods
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
ART PUBLICATIONS..

-Ae third portfolio issued 70 members Of the
arundel Club, the society organized n London
'o' NE reproduction OF old masters not generally
= 0ess.o-s may be expected next month. At
.-e outset Il was explained that as the mem
Dsltalp was Increased the number Of plates in
ea1 portfolio would be increased. and the
- - incoming issue VIII illustrate this principle
80 second portfolio contained only fifteen pho
Hs'eVures, but the third viii contain twenty. a
peasant result OF the fact that the club has
%" aoout two hundred and sixty mem bers. II
" 70 oe hoped that the membership may soon
= oo1eled, for then subscribers might expect
- 4eest forty plates n the annual portfolio
- subscription % one guinea IS small enough
-'-h'oeTlng the value received and tho serious
Ve1se Incident 20 the enterprise. The pho
sispher has often 10 travel great distances
- Ie country n order % take pictures which
= N out-of-ths-way places We may
:, mat while hitherto q has been necessary
Aeao subscriptions direct 70 The secretary
A. Oe't Ross, Esq In London. they may now
entered through Cottier & Co. the well
" art dealers n this city.
Wen the first OF the Arundel portfolios was
r'eTee The photographs proved n some cases
a. ,s~-isisctory. The photogravure process was
-. &C Tor the second. This in turn has been
'7a IN some quarters, unfavorable com
a. SUE having been drawn between the Arun-
e.. E-~'ss and others IN the market; but the
&c Is easily explained. The Arundel
!, ,'es ere never retouched. the idea being
l,.- al absolutely faithful report OF the orig
To-. t-1'1Ie, even 10 the disclosure OF those res
winch occasionally dishgure H. These
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
ROOM OF THE "yIGHT WATCH"
Frnm 90 Academy

From The Academy.
Among the torchlight professions, laying OF
wreGths and other pageantry Of the Rembrandt
celebrations, one matter Of practical interest
stands out Al Amsterdam the new room in the
RyksruseuTn-the Might Watch room. as II IS
called-was opened, and the famous picture IS
now seen in the light that suits IL best The
room reprOduCes, as closely as possible the
lighting Of the old guild house Of the ''DoeIen"
for which the picture was painted. It has never
been seen 70 advantage in the Ryksnnuseurn
and it was not till the Rembrandt Exhibition OF
1895 that the best lighting for II was discovered
and is now 70 be seen as II has never been seen
before II IS interesting too, 20 note that one
feature OF the Celebra tiOns was the performance
at the theatre Of some scenes from the "Aedea'
Of Burgomaster Rix, Rembrandt's friend and
sitter