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Our Duty to the Blins.

At meeting in New York last week to
raise money for schools and shops for
the blind. Mark Twain. who presided, read
letter from Helen Keller which he said
was a classic and deserved a place among
the literary productions Miss Keller had
expected to be present. but was not able
to do so on account OF sickness, and the
letter was dictated by her on a sick bed.
The meeting, which was under the
auspices of the New York State Associa-
ton for Improving the Condition Of the
Blind. secured pledges for $4,000
ITO know what a blind man needs"
wrote Miss Keller. you who can see must
imagine what It will be not to see, and you
can imagine it more vividly If you remem-
Der that before your journeys end you
may have to go dark way yourself. Try
to realize what blindness means to those
whose joyous activity is stricken to mac
ton.
1T is to live long. long days-and life
is made up OF days. It is to live immured,
baffied. impotent. all OF Gods world shut
out. 1t is to sit helpless, defrauded, while
your spirit strains and tugs at its letters
and your shoulders ache for the burden
they are denied-the rightful burden OF la
Dor
"In an instant an accident blinds a man.
The day Is blotted out Night envelopes all
the visible world. The feet which once
bore him to his task with a firm, con-
fident stride stumble and halt in fear OF
a forward step. He is forced to a new habit
OF idleness. which. like the canlSer. con-
sumes the mind and destroys its beautiful
faculties.
Memory confronts him with its lighted
past. Amid the tanbigle ruins OF his life
as it promised 70 be he gropes his pitiful
way. You have met him on your busy
thoroughfares with faltering feet and out
stretched hands patiently dredging the uni.
versal dark, holding out for sale his petty
wares or his cap for your pennies; and
this was a man with ambition and capa,
bilities
at is because we know these ambition.
and capabilities can be fulhlled that We
are working to improve the condition Of thu
adult blind. You cannot bring back sigh
10 the vacant eyes; but you can give
| helping hand 20 the sightless along theii
| dark pilgrimage. You can teach then
new skill. For work they once did will
the aid OF their eyes you can substitut,
the work that they can do with thei
/ hands
They ask only opportunity, and oppor
tunity is the torch OF darkness. Thsl
crave no charity, no pension, but the salts
faction that comes from lucrative toll, ant
this satisfaction is the right Of every hu
man being"
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assg Comment Gossip and Stories for and About Women Folk

York and Chicago than in any other cap
ital in the world. Nearly every man has
his occupation. Idleness is unpopular in
the United States and no man, however
rich, would gladly retire from work. He
dies, as a rule OF overwork and overworry.
THE worship Of wealth is still carried to
an excessive pitch, but the discerning may
see a vevulsion Of feeling. DESTINATIONS
wealth is being laughed out of fashion,
Beyond question an amazing number Of
women wearing beautiful dresses and mag
nihcient jewels are to be seen in New
York, but one reason why they are not seen
in London is the vast size Of our metropolis
and the number Of places where wealthy.
or temporarily wealthy, people may congre-
gate.
This Characteristic Of the American.
women. who spend more on clothes and
Jewels than any other women in the world.
is the more surprising when the Puritan
origin Of many Americans is remembered.
THE temperament of the American peo-
pie is of a past age. Their faces and
features belong to another period. They
suggest the old masters. l saw people
constantly who might have been the
originals OF portraits by Rembrandt or
Jan Steen, girls with types Of counte-
nances associated with the French before
the revolution, with the same combina-
ton of delicacy and vivacity and frailty.
Among modern Europeans these types are
very rare.
Perhaps the most interesting of the
products of America is its women. While
they take little or no interest in political
affairs, while they seldom, If ever, show
the least interest in the business or pro-
fessional work Of their male relatives,
they show extraordinary activity IN club
life, In organizations OF every description
philanthroplc, social and educational.
America, the combination of so many
races. has produced a woman having some
thing in. common with all races and which
stu remains something which can only be
defined as American.
1.-The American woman makes an excellent
wife and devoted mother. but to a great
extent her intellectual and social life is
not at all closely associated with that OF
her husband. And the American men
really seem to encourage this.
''They spend money on their wives and
daughters but on the tacit understanding
that the wives and daughters shall ask
no questions and above all, offer no advice
THE prospects OF art and literature in
America seem more than considerable
American painters are working out By
degrees a style OF painting which is al
much American as Japanese art is jap.
anese.
'Tn literature Americans seem uninfiu
enced by English sentimentality or French
psychology. They do not like the thinking
parts OF novels-they want something L
happen or somebody TO do something.
I'm 4 slow. determined, logged way the!
seem TO be working out a national litera
ture.
Il see in America a reincarnation o.
old Europe in a younger. more energetic
people, RELIEVING the past in a state OF lib
erty unknown 10 US even In the presen
day." said Mrs. Craigie. in conclusion
They combine the temperament OF IN,
past with all the advantages OF the pres
emit"
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from the Rhoads school was the result of
a conspiracy. She attacked the testimony
Of DR.. Harvey, who was president of the
Thirty-fourth Section Board at the time.
and his witnesses. Miss Miller, too, forci-
bly, presented the points in that evidence
which favored her claims.
The deposed teacher remained calm dur
ing her argument, and only once did her
voice gain in strength. This was during
the answering argument of Ulysses 8.
Rooms. DR.. Harvey's counsel. Miss Miller
sprang to her feet and told the lawyer
that he was misquoting the testimony but
she desisted when Chief Justice Mitchell
told her not to interrupt.
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- addressed a woman's club In New
kS York City recently on what ath-
49, letic games, II any, are inju-
dielous for women in the form in which
they are played by men?" He said. in
part:
I'm physical education women should
not be expected to excel In physical exer-
cises which are adapted to men, nor
should they be required TO teach athletics
to2men and boys. as is the case in some
OF the schools in the west. Such a require
ment Is not only injurious to women, but
equally injurious to the men. Let woman
rather confine herself to the lighter and
more graceful forms Of gymnastics and
athletics and make herself supreme along
these lines, as she has already done in
aesthetic dancing. Let her know enough
about the rougher sports to be the sym
pathetic admirer of men and boys in their
efforts to be strong. vigorous and heroic
while admiring and applauding all there
is In athletics which tends to make boys
courageous and manly let her not hesi-
tate to condemn all that tends to make
them mean, vicious and cowardly. Let
woman use her influence in trying to raise
foot ball and some OF the rougher athletic
games from their barbaric stage to a
standard more in keeping with our present
civilization, and she will do more for the
moral and physical welfare of herself and
the community than she could possibly
do by entering the arena as a competitor
in these contests"
The forms Of gymnastics TO which woman
should confine herself DR.. Sargent classi-
ned thus; All forms Of dancing, calisthen-
les. and light gymnastics. archery. lawn
tennis, swimming, field hockey, la crosse,
sprint running. bicycling, rowing, canoeing.
golf, skating, fencing and all gymnastlc
plays and games. These were the athletic
exercises and games, he thought TO which
women were best adapted, and in which
they We're most likely 70 excel
Among the athletic sports and games
that would be likely TO prove Injurious 10
most women, II played in the form in
which they are played by men. DR.. Sargent
particularly mentioned foot ball, ice
hockey basket ball, boxing. pole vaulting.
heavy gymnastics. These games prove in
furious 70 women he said. because OF the
limitations imposed upon her by her phys
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zeal confguration. the tendency to become
masculine in form and character IL she
tries to excel in masculine pursuits and
her inability to bear a prolonged mental
and physical strain.
Nevertheless, he declared these sports
and games could be so modified as to meet
the peculiar requirements OF woman. with
the result that all Of them could be played
by her with reasonable hope OF physical.
mental and moral development
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"Hes most frequently been employed ncipient phthisis
bronchitis, influenza pneumonia Group asthma dphthea in
scarlatna dyspnGa 0ho BREATH dyspepsia hydrothorax
(dropsy Of the ohest and aundce n-Edwn NJ Hale NJ. D.
vI most important herepeutcal effects witnessed in dis
OF the respiratory (breahn Used in Group
functional amenorhna (absence Of mense chronic
tarrh and nasal polypi.p-R Barthoow, M. d.
GLVCERINE.
The United States Dspensatory OF Gycerne: Uwhen
given internally is laxative, and it has also been suggested
substitute for codiver oil in phths consumpton7
oThe solvent and presevatve properties well agreeable
taste and permanent consence Of gycene render
full as menstruum Ia sovent) in pharmacy"
Prof Finley Elngwood, NJ d. of Bennett Medical College,
Chicago, of Gycerne: vFor internal Gycerne
septic laxative and nutye taking the place OF cod liver oil
TO large extent with children in the latter particular This
fact is denied, but IS capable Of demonstration.
VT prevents decomposition encourages
ecreon and if small quantity be added to ice water and
drank regularly in these levers is intestinal anseptc
and nutritive.
"In dyspepsia it excellent purpose. Holding fixed
quantity of the peroxide of hydrogen in solution it is OF the
best manufactured products of the time in its action
upon eneebed dsordered somachs especially there
alton catarrhal gass catarrhal Inflammation Of stomach)
it most efficient preparation Glycerne will relieve many
OF pyross hearbun) and excessive gastric acdy 1t
useful in chronic intestinal dyspepsia especially the hatuent
variety and in certain forms of chronic constipation stimulating
the ecretoy and excreoy functions of the intestinal glands"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-08
T'he AmerIean Woman.

On the evening OF March Mrs. cragis
John oliver Hobbes), the novelist. lee
tured on THE American Woman" before
the National Liberal club in London. She
is the FIRST woman who has ever addressed
this club. According to the report IN the
London Express, she spoke as follows:
''Well-bred people are well-bred every
where; vulgar people are vulgar every
where and everywhere there is an idle.
foolish set who seem more foolish and more
idle than they are I'm reality
But there are fewer idle people In New
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and the hypocritical compliments to herself
personally by those who were the enemies
of all that she stood tor filled her soul
with WEAKNESS and disgust. But for men
who were fair and broad enough to recog-
nize the justice Of her cause and to treat
it and its advocates with respect she had
the highest appreciation, and for those
who reached a helping hand she felt the
deepest gratitude and friendship. AS to
herself marrying Miss Anthony often said
to the writer: Any woman will marry II
the man she loves asks her, / am no diff
ferent from other women Very few men
came up to her standard for a husband,
and in her young days the men who pro-
posed marriage had no attraction for her.
AS she grew older she Was so completely
absorbed in her work that she did not
have time to thing of it,"
-
Worthy of Her grandmother.
Another triumph has been won for
American womanhood. Miss Nora Stanton
Batch has been elected to membership in
the American Society OF Civil Engineers
the first woman so distinguished. She is a
granddaughter of the famous Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and the first woman to win
the degree of civil engineer in Cornell uni
versity.
Miss Blatch has been still further hon
ored. A Chinese student at Cornell. who
had watched her work closely, turns out to
be an agent Of his government sent TO this
country to organize thirty-six corps OF en-
gineers for the great Industrial undertak-
ings contemplated by China. He has Of
fered her fine position in one OF these
corps. His response to her inquiry as to
the difficulties a woman might encounter
in the interior OF China is interesting IA
two ways. II indicates the advance Of
thought in the new east and has a bearing
on the status OF the modern professional
woman.
II know Of no difficulties" he said. you
have chosen mans career; you studied
like man and your scholarship is superior
TO that Of most men. Why hesitate to do
a mans work? I suppose you do not
fear anything. Act like a man. As for
me I shall consider myself greatly honored
10 take the first woman engineer to China -
Miss Blatch has the offer under consldera-
ton.
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why Miss Anthony Never Married.

Ida Hustled Harper, Miss Anthony's
biographer, says: There was q prevalent
belief that Miss Anthony hated men, It
would not have been at all strange II this
were true, for never IN all history was
woman so misrepresented. ridiculed. be-
rated and maligned as she was by men,
publicly in her early years and privately
when general sentiment would no longer
tolerate outspoken criticism. II would have
been most natural for her 20 hate men.
But she did not hate them. For many OF
them. indeed. she felt a profound contempt,
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delegation which offered her the nominal
ton she said: II do not care for the bick-
eTings ana excitement SI1t OF political life even
success Of II. Then the Office would take
me away from my home great deal, and!
this l could not and would not neglect.
for in my domestic life my chief happiness
lies. Nor do l consider II diguided for
a woman In my social position to lend
herself or her influence to politics"
Miss Evelyn B. Longman has won over
thirty competitors the first prize for a de-
sign for the bronze doors at the entrance
OF the Naval academy at Annapolis. The
best known work Of this soulptress was thS
figure Of Victory" in the Festival hall at
the St. Louis exposition, which has been
remodeled in bronze for the Union League
club OF Chicago. The doors, with the tram
som and space above, are to be twenty
one feet in height and ten feet wide. Miss
groups representing Peace and 'War."
The prize which the winner receives is
the contract for the execution Of the doors.
this purpose and the cost will In all prob
ability not exceed two-thirds OF that sum.
.
Household Notes.
A few grains Of rice in the salt cellar
will keep the salt from caling
littl oil rubbed on the stub end of q
pen will prevent its rusting in the handle
Large gothic letters are the most In de-
mand for marking household linen,
A few drops of lemon juice added to egga
that are being scrambled improves the
flavor.
A plate seraper is a wooden device shaped
TO mt the curves OF a plate and attached to
a handle OF convenient length.
Rubbing with piece of potato dipped In
common baking soda is said TO be an eff
fcacious method of cleaning silver.
Stand in bOrax water for little while
dishes that have become brown from baking
in the oven and they can be asily cleaned.
The round dining table is the favorite and
circular cloths may be had in varying sizes
and In simple or ornate form OF decoration.
II is considered that French table Hnsn
takes the palm for beauty and artistic de-
signing; Irish for fineness Of weave and
durability, and German for general service,
as II becomes whittier with use.
Present giving at dinner has become a.
general a custom as at Christmas and some
OF the gifts this season are expensive For
dinner given by woman living In Fifth
avenue, New York, toy 1auntlng car har-
messed to duck was sent to a big jeWelrT
establishment TO be filled with gold and
Jeweled novelties which were 20 be given
as souvenirs 20 the guests. These ex-
pensive remembrances were packed away ~
the bottom OF the car, and the toy was the
center decoration on the dining table
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Chat About women.

",
has received a memorial address signed by
1888 Jews of America and Great Britain
commencing the services OF the late sec
rotary in behalf OF the Hebrew people.
Olga Nethersole viii quit the stage in
eight years and devote her entire time to
fighting tuberculosis. She recently began
the study Of medicine and is in continual
correspondence with DR.. l.. +, Flick of
this city, the well-known tuberculosis ex-
pert
Miss Helen Kimber of the real estate
firm of Kimber q Howard of st, Joseph,
NO, is one of the very few women real
estate agents In the world, and the only
one, with the exception of her partner,
who is also a woman, who handles railroad
in Kansas. She recently visited the state
OF OaXaca, Mexico, where she closed a deal
for 1900 acres. She is figuring on several
other large tracts.
In a. small Jersey town not. far from
New York is young woman who is max
ing her living by setting out hardy gardens
for people. Being fond of plants she be-
gan by helping her friends to arrange their
this her services came into demand. and
now she earns her living by planning old
fashioned flower gardens for any who wish
the work done.
shopping district of New York City makes
a speciality of homemade dOughnuts, and
the way the business men flock there to
get cakes such as mother used to make"
Is amazing Women, too, drop in for aft
ernoon tea, and with the cup that cheers
enjoy the appetizing dOughnuts fully as
much as the men. In a city OF hotels and
factory made foodstuffs anything honey
is eagerly snapped up.
Mrs. Edgar Van Etten of Boston has de-
clined the nomination for vice president
Of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton of Massachusetts, on the ground that
much with her domestic life. In reply 10
a Daughter OF the American Revolution
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the inestnes if has proceeded to liberation
markably benefited by Hydrastis."
From Worganc Medicines" by Grover Coe, NJ D., of
Cork, extract the following VHydrastis Golden Sea)
exercises especial influence surfaces Upon the
liver acts with equal certainty and efficacy. AS choagogde
Oliver lnvgoator has few equals In affections of the Spleen
and abdominal viscera generally s efficient and reliable
remedy Also in scrofua ganduar diseases generally cutane-
eruptions indigestion debility darrha and dysentey,
constipation piles and all morbid and critical discharges"
The foregoing certainly wonderfully strong en-
dorsemens Of of Dr. Pierces chief ingredients used
In his "Golden Medical Discovery"
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proves appetite, promotes How of gastric
juice; tonic effect upon organs involved. A
good remedy in indigestion, dyspepsia,
chronic gastritis, increasing the secretion
from kidneys and skin" -American Dis
pensaJory.
Edwin M. Hale, NJ. D., Professor Materia
Medica in Hahnemann Medical College of
Chicago, says: UThere is no doubt of Collin
sonia's action on the urinary organs. 1t
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A Common Sense Talk.

us we get health and happiness from the sunshine
kZta do get strength from the woods and fields
JSA as Nature furnishes it to us. Just as mould
thrves in darkness, does disease. If all the animal
kingdom, including human beings lived out in the good
air and in the sunshine close Nature without taking
foul air into their lungs and improper food into their
tomachs the PERCENTAGE of sickness in this world would
be reduced to a mnimum-but civilization has brought
its ills mankind and these ills we go
to Nature for the remedy. We advise nothing but what
is rig 1t when we recommend to you medicine which is
purely vegetable and made from native, medicinal roots
found in the depths of American forests. 1t is
its composition. We recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery for rundown system in all cases
of impaired vitality, and give you few extracts
from well-known and recognized medical authorities
in regard to the ingredients contained in this medicine
which can confidently be depende : upon for the
positive curative action in all weak states of the
stomach accompanied with distressing indigestion
dyspepsia
This medicine takes its name from Golden Seal root
(Hydrastis Canadensis) which is one of its principal
ingredients.
We take up each ingredient of the "Golden Medical
Discovery" and quote authorities for its under
the headings of Golden Seal root, Queens root Stone
root Black Cherrybark Bloodroot Mandrake root and
chemically pure Gycerine.
Worlds Dspensary Medical Association Props Buffalo, N.Y.
GOLDEN SEAL ROOT
(EiydrastIs CsnadsnsIs).
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unsurpassed by few il any other Of the
known alternatives; most successful in skin
and scrofulous affections. Beneficial in
bronchial affections - permanently cures
bronchitis-relieves irritations-an impor-
tant cough remedy-coughs Of years stand
ing being cured. Aids in blood-making
and nutrition, and may be taken without
harm for long PERIODS
r. Bartholow, NJ. D., L. L. D., says
w4s-ao -
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phia, a recognized authority on MateT1d
Medica and Therapeutics, says Of Hydrastis
Golden SeaD: livery useful as a stom-
achc tonic stomach tonic) and in atomic
dyspepsia. Cures gastric catarrh (catarrh
OF stomach) and headaches accompanying
same. In catarrh of the gall duct and jaun-
dice, it is of especial utility. Constipation,
dependent upon different deficient secre-
tons, with hard and dry stools, may be
overcome by the remedy. Chronic catarrh
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practice as remedy in catarrhal states of
the bronchial mucous membrane and in
phthisis (consumption). 1.-THE strip is
much used as an ingredient in cough mix
lures"
Professor F. Ellingwood, MD, of Bennett
Medical College, Chicago, says: "The tonic
parent when it is administered in disease
OF the respiratory apparatus breathing
orpansl Of q snhacnLn LmilhA or linnnrinnA
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Alternative and employed for scroiua its various forms Most
satisfactory results have been obtained from its syphc
affections Recommended in habitual constipation orpdy
liver, iaundce piles asces (dropsy due to hepatc ver)
changes obstrucionsD
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QUEENS HOOT CsunInula sylvuuoa).

Prof. John King, NJ. D., says. Van Alternative lblo
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STONE ROOT (cOIIInsOnIa csnsdonsIs).

UAeratve tonic, stimulant. Valuable in laryngitis mil
tiers throat In diseases Of stomach and inesnes-
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MANDRAKE ROOT (POdOphyIIum Poutstum)

A BentIe stlmuIant tonlcj Improves the APP
petite. Particularly valuable in dyspepsia,
gastric and intestinal catarrh. Beneficial
in some affections of bladder" -American
Dispensatory.
Recommended in biliousness with mark
ed inactivity of the liver, sallow skin and
coniunctiva (eyes), constipation, dry stools
and bloated bowels, highly colored urine
containing uric acid, or urates in great ex-
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women and Athleticn.

Women and AthEetICn.
OR. DUDLEY SARGENT, physical
director at Harvard university.
addressed a woman's club In New
n York City recently on what ath-
Iattn o,r,ag 40 anx oro tns,,
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gravel atah Of the bladder and dropy from deficient
of the kidneys Cures irritation Of the cardiac hear
with rapid regular irregular beating Useful in valvuar
BLACK cHERRYBARK (Prunus vIrslnIana).
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of lung structure and restoring normal tone and normal unc
tonal acton-F Eingwood, NJ D., of Bennett Med College
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RLACK cHERRYRARI

Roberts Barhoow says oWld Cherrybark is an excelle
stomach tonc has long been held in great in dome