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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
ShiF&WafSt Suits
Some Points to Be Remembered in De
signing Useful Dress for
Hot Weather.

On the whole sheer silk gives best
satisfaction for really useful dress
that is intended only for constant wear
In hot weather. Such a gown should
be made quite simple, with detach-
able yoke and cuffs, so they may al
ways be kept fresh and neat. A sleeve
finished with deep lace cuff or mar
row wristlet of embroidered linen is
altogether desirable for this style of
gown. as short sleeves with long gloves
are as uncomfortably hot in summer
as they are cold in winter, and natural
ly one cannot go about in the~-city
without gloves, and cotton varieties
are anything but fashionable. The
skirt for shirtwaist suits should clear
the ground by a good two inches and
should be worn over stiff silk petit
coat that is fitted we'll about the waist
and hips. This underskirt should flare
out at the feet or rather from below the
knees, for a short silk skirt that is not
very wide and faring is distressingly
unpopular. Princess and Empire frocks
are to be popular, but the two-piece
dress is also in favor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09

Mrs. Emma Stolt, 1869 Oneida St.. An
pleton, Wis, writes:
''Peruna has done me a great deal of
good since l began taking it and am
always glad to speak good word for it.
Three years ago [ was in wretched
condition with backaches, bearing down
pains, and at times was so sore and lame
that could not move about. 1 had in
f1ammation and irritation, and although
1 used different remedies they did me
no good:
"A neighbor who had been using Pc
runa advised me to try it, and am glad
that did: 1 began to improve as soon
as took it and felt much better.
II thank you for your fine remedy. It
is certainly godsend to sick women.
Catarrh Of the Internal Organs.
Miss Theresa Bertles, White Church,
NO., writes:
II suffered with catarrh of the stom-
ach, bowels and internal organs. Everv-
thing ate seemed to hurt me. Inever
had passage of the bowels without tax
ing medicine. Twas so tired mornings
and ached all over. had pain in nv
left side, and the least exertion or excite
ment made me short of breath.
Nov, after taking Peruna for six
months, am as well as ever was. Pc
runa has worked wonders for me. I be-
lieve Peruna is the best medicine in the
world land recommend it tony friends"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09

Taiku, ea.-PictureSQue, placid
and pltiable, whiterobed but not an
gelic, Korea stands at the cross roads
Of the orient. a personification of the
tar eastern question. Religiously con-
sidered the situation here Is doubt
less the most interesting in the world.
Certainly this is the most promising
and successful missionary field now
before the eye of Christendom.
The contrast between Korea and
Japan in this latter respect is marked.
Across the strait, the missionaries are
all concerned over the independence
movement in the native church, and
fearful lest they should do or say
something to offend the sensitive jap
anese pride. Here. the missionary has
none Of these problems; his one con-
Germ is how to visit all the localities
that are calling for him, and how to
find time to instruct all the cate
chumens awaiting him, and to receive
into the church the men and women
ready for membership, since some
churches can be visited only every
three months or half yearly. In a
word. here are missionary conditions
more nearly ideal. and more nearly
what the Christians in America think
foreign missions to be, than in the
more famous country of Japan.
Wipng Nation OF the Earth.
If ever country needed the con-
solutions of religion, it is poor Korea.
AS a consequence, chiefly, of her own
incapacity and official corruption, she
has fallen into the hands of power
full neighbor, who, apparently, is sys-
tematically effacing all the manifesta-
tons of Korean national life and iden-
tity. Her king Is prisoner. unable
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
1wo.Pjece frocks.

The principal dress form continues
to be the two-piece form-that is,
waist and skirt separately made, and
the waist so finished that it may be
worn over the skirt and itself be made
to form the finish and the girdle The
newest skirts are all of exaggerated
length and fullness. The old bell skirt
is reviving-that is; it is. called the old
bell skirt, but: in fact, it too, is changed
and appears novel. 1t fits closely over
the hips but Immediately below them
beg; to fare, and is sometimes fully
eight yards wide at the foot The re-
suit is a swirl of pretty godets or
plaits, which begin at the hip line, and
mass of entangling material about
the feet which only she who is mis-
tress Of the art OF walking and dane.
ing can manage gracefully
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
SOMEWHAT OF A REFLECTION,
Naive Comment Of Debutante That
Amused Hostess.

A charming hostess of one of the
big houses" as they are called by
those who are welcomed into them.
has the added beauty of premature
white hair. That which seems to her
contemporaries an added charm may
appear to the crudely young a mark
of decline, at least so it appears in
one instance of which the hostess her.
self tells with enjoyment.
The lady is connoisseur of an
tiques. At one of her teas debutante
rich with the glow of youth, but sadly
constrained with her sense of novelty,
was handed a cup of tea; the cup
was beautifully blue and wonderfully
old. The hostess desiring to light
On the strain on her youthful guest
by a pleasant diverting remark, said:
THAT little cup is a hundred and ff-
ty years old!"
"Oh," came the debutante's high
strained tones: "How careful you
must be to have kept it so long!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Her Aim.

A man who runs a truck farm In
Virginia tells Of the sad predicament
in which a colored man named Sam
Moore, who is in his employ, recently
found himself. Sam had had consid-
cradle difficulty in evading the on
slaughts of a dog from a neighboring
farm. Finally the dog got him, as
Sam kicked at him.
Sans wife, hearing tremendous
yell, rushed to the rescue of her hus-
band. When she came up the dog had
fastened his teeth in the calf of Sans
leg and was holding on for dear life.
Selling a stone in the road, Sans
wife was about to hurl it when Sam,
with wonderful presence Of mind,
shouted:
MANDY! Mandy! Don't frow dat
stone at de dawg! Frow it at me,
Mandy!"-Youth's Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
The SinuIe Lorunette,

The single lorgnette or quizzing
glass is again making Roadway into
fashion. 1t is impressive as we'll as
piquant, both in and out of use, and is
deliberately trimmed with chased gold,
and in many cases with diamonds. 1t
is worn dangling from the end of a
long MORE ribbon chain. jewelers.
are selling ribbon chains not only for
this purpose, but for that of carrying
a small fan, purse or miniature set
in jeweled gold. Other jewelers. are
selling MORE chains made of strands
of ribbon divided by links of gold, and
the newest and prettiest links have
pearls threaded upon them. They are
replicas of the ribbons men used to
wear long ago to support their quiz
zing glasses, but it is women who af-
feet them now.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
His Name for II.

was once teaching a class of small
pupils in physiology in a rural school
and asked the class what name was
given to the bones of the head as
whole. A little girl raised her hand.
What is it, Lucy?" asked.
"Skull!" she answered.
Correct" said I; "but what other
name has it," expecting some one to
answer "cranium." All were silent
for while, then little fellow who
seemed to be in a deep study quickly
raised his hand, his eyes sparkling
and a confident smile spreading OBJ
his face.
What is it, Henry?" I asked.
"Noggin," was his immediate reply.
Judges Library.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Maple TRANSPARENCY

Place an iron frying pan on the
stove and into it put one-half cup but
ter, one-half cup sugar, and one cup
maple molasses. While this is melt
ing break in four fresh eggs, not beat
en-, and stir sufficiently to prevent the
eggs from cooking in a mass. Cook
and stir until the mixture is dry
nearly in the frying pan and is trans
parent in color. Then remove from
the fire and let stand while you line
deep pudding dish with a rich pie
crust. Add one cupful of juicy fruit
to the transparent mixture, pour into
the pudding dish, and bake. Tart
fruit is best, such as cherries or rasp-
berries, but any leftover will do so
long as it is juicy, because if it is not
tart enough tablespoonful of vine
gar may be added
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09

| found each of the waiting rooms oc-
cupied by group of patients. To the
men, venerable Korean evangelist.
in wide horn spectacles, the curious
horse hair stovepipe hat of his race.
and a long flowing white robe. was
talking religion. A Bible woman does
like service for the girls and women
who visit the dispensary. In the con-
valescents' room l saw a young man
VINO, afflicted with cataract of both
eyes, had literally crawled over the
mountainous part of a 20O-mile iour-
ney, walking the rest Of the way and
spending more than two months on
the trip. DR.. Irwin had cured him. In
little more than IL years DIR. Irwin haa
treated 100000 patients, and has ner.
formed more than 5000 major opera
tons.
The Orient As 1t IL.
Coming to this city of Taiku in
cars made in Wilmington, Del, and
drawn by Philadelphia made locomo.
tive, l found the Orient in all it's an.
cient picturesqueness. Port cities al,
ways show the touch of the West upon
them. Taiku has not so much as a
Jinrickisha, nor roads for it to travel
on. The streets are narrow lanes
lined with mud fences and houses
Each Korean house has it's own COM
pound, or enclosure. Fhe houses
themselves are very low and verv
small. The usual room is eight feet
square and in this q whole family will
live AS for furniture, there practic.
ally is no such thing A chest of
drawers will hold the family posses.
sions, while others dangle from the
rafters. A block OF wood serves for
pillow; the Oriental sees nothing
strange in Jacobs stony pillow at
Bethel: The houses are matched with
straw, tied on with ropes. A village
presents dull gray appearance seen
from any distance. Large ugly dogs,
noisy but cowardly, swarm the streets
waiting for the inevitable day when
they will find their way onto their
masters tables. Taiku is surrounded
by wall, in the fashion of all Korean
cities; but the day I arrived the jap.
anese had begun to tear this down,
after standing for centuries.
The American Colony Abroad.
On a commanding site outside the
| city of Taiku found a settlement of
American missionaries living in
houses OF mixed Korean and Western
architecture. Formerly some of them
lived in native houses right down in
the heart of the city. where, I do, not
hesitate to say, no white man, mis-.
sionary or otherwise should ever live.
quite agree with the contention that
missionary should get as close as
possible to his people; but not. at4the
price of discomfort, darkness, depres:
! sion, dirt and disease which are in.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
DINNER FOR FOUR
DAINTY REPAST THAT CAN BE
SERVED FOR A DOLLAR,
Careful Planning and Proper Prepa'
rations All That Is Needed for
This Correct and Sat
isfying Meal.

A dinner for four is modest
enough undertaking for the little bride
who knows thing or two about cook
ing, but dinner for four, to cost not
over 81, is rather more difficult prop
oslt1on. 1t is perfectly possible, how
ever to accomplish this task if the
cook is willing to plan carefully.
10 start with, simple outline of
the menu could be something like
this: Savory tomato soup, followed
by broiled lamb chops, with mashed
potatoes and string beans, an aspar-
agus salad for third course, and the
dessert of strawberries.
In making the tomato soup for the
hrst course, it is possible to utilize
small portions of cooked vegetables,
which may be on hand. If there are
few boiled potatoes, half cupful
OF string beans, and another portion
OF peas or other vegetable, they will
make good beginning. Add to them
two raw onions finely chopped, and
handful of mince parsley, together
with couple of ounces of butter, and
seasoning of salt and pepper. After
these ingredients have simmered for
few minutes, add a can of tomatoes
Season with teaspoonful of allspice
and a tablespoonful of sugar. Cook
this slowly for a half hour and then
strain through a fine sieve. Thicker
the soup with a teaspoonful of corn
starch, mixed with the same amount
OF melted butter. Serve the soup gar
nished with small strips of fried
bread.
For the meat course have the lamb
chops broiled to perfect brown and
serve them on pretty platter, or bet
ter still, a chop plate, with the pota-
toes arranged in the center. Stand the
chops up around the mound of pota-
toes.
The string beans should be broiled
till tender and drained. Cook for two
or three minutes in little butter and
cream and serve very hot.
The asparagus for the salad should
be cooked in sailed water and then
cut into pieces an inch long. Chill for
several hours on the ice and serve
with a dressing made of the grated
yolks of two hard boiled eggs, beaten
up with three talespoonfuls Of OIL
the same amount of vinegar, salt
spoonful of salt and the same GUAM
tlty of French mustard.
Tire strawmerries for dessert may
be served with sugar and cream, or
may be cooked in little tarts and
served with spoonful of whipped
cream on EACH
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09

should have been 20 sen each. He Of
fered 25. The Japanese 'rickshaw
men, knowing that he was foreigner,
asked a dollar apiece When, at my
advice, he refused to give it, those two
coolies came into my parlor took out
their pipes and began to smoke. There
they stayed until l paid them a dollar
apiece"
The Doctors Opportunity.
One phase of missions about which
there are no two opinions is the medi-
cal work. Immediately upon landing
in Korea from Japan l came in touch
with this for the first time, because
the Japanese have their own medical
science, and there is practically no
medical mission work, in the usual
sense, in that country. On the hill
side as the traveller enters Fusan har-
Dor. he sees flying Red Cross flag,
and this, he learns. floats over the
hospital of the American Presbyterian
mission. This Is the only hospital in
t'usan and 1t was the first fully equip
ped modern hospital ever established
in Korea. 1t was started 13 years ago
by Dr. Charles H. Irwin, of Ohio, who
has ever since been the only physician
in the hospital, and the only European
doctor in Fusan.
The building would be counted small
as hospitals go in the West, but it has
half a dozen wards, with two, three
or four beds each, an operating room,
a convalescents' room and a dispen-
sary, with waiting rooms for men and
women, the sexes being separated in
Korea. The only assistants are Ko-
reans whom DR.. Irwin himself has
trained When I visited the hOsnital
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09

SO muCh d., ~ iooue pass to his own
OLD unused palace, except as he OBJ
tans permission to do so from a Japa-
nese functionary. Her laws are now
made and administered by Japanese
Her government institutions are all
managed by the latter. Even the SEM
blance Of self-government is being
Wrested from her feeble hand; while
robbery, abuse, oppression, injustice
and even murder are the lot of her
common people.
Into these intensely interesting and
significant questions it is not the pur-
pose of this article to enter. To indi-
cate them, however, is essential, if
conditions here are to be understood
For in their helplessness and misery,
the people are turning to the Ameri-
can missionaries as their only friends
and advisers. The king himself leans
more heavily upon the protection and
counsel of certain of the older Amer
lean missionaries than upon the most
trusted of Korean patriots. On one
occasion, when a great plot was in
process of execution, including an at
tack upon the palace, the king sought
for the presence and help of three
American missionaries, and while a
mob of thousands howled outside the
palace walls and soldiers surrounded
the imperial quarters, his majesty
clung-literally and physically chung
for protection to these three Ameri-
cans.
The Missionary and Politics.
Like ruler, like people. was in
specting this city-or mud village of
$4,000 people, as you may choose to
call it-with q young American mis-
siOnary, when an old man came to
him for counsel and help, his aged
wife ha slng been brutally attacked by
Japanese. The poor missionary is in
straite. He will not NEEDLE in poll
tics, Whatever his sympathies he
dare rot take sides on such questions,
aAd SO he is forever Tending off the
distressed and the prosecuted, and bid.
ding them endure their wrongs with
Christian fortltude.
Already I have found illustrations
OF self-restraint and forbearance on
the part Ct missionaries in the pursuit
OF their difficult role, that fill me with
admiration. After hearing of the ar
rOgance and excuses committed nv
the Japanese immigrants upon white
foreigners, as we'll as upon Koreans
I asked a muscular big missionary.
who looks as if he could administer
the law, as we'll as the gospel, how he
managed to get along. For the sake
of my work, just give in. When a
Japanese coolie bumps into me on the
street and tries to knock me down. I
simply say, Excuse me- and step
aside. A gentleman and his wife came
to my house few weeks ago in jim
rickishas from the station. The fee
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Bills Reason.

Hugo Osterhaus, the new captain Of
the battleship Connecticut, praised at
q dinner in New York the old salt Of
the past.
HE has disappeared" said Capt.
Osterhaus, sadly. "We made fun Of
him, and before our ridicule he blush
ed and vanished.
"Such stories as We used to tell
Of him!
Zone, for instance, dealt with an
old shellback's beard.
why is it, Bill a youth asked
the old fellow, that you never shave
your upper lip clean?'
"'Well, We see,' Bill answered, a
mans gotter have some place to
strike his match on"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Chicken Croouettes

One cup Of cold chicken chopped
fine, the same quantity of fine bread
crumbs; one-half can of mushrooms
cut in small pieces; a small piece of
onion grated; little parsley chopped
fine, one-half teaspoon of salt, one
fourth teaspoon of white pepper:
make cream sauce of three fourths
of cup of milk, one tablespoon of
butter, and one of flour; when cold
blend with the above ingredients, mold
in small wine glass, and egg and
crumb them, instead of cooking them
in lard. Butter a pan thickly and
bake in good oven. Insert a sprig of
parsley in each and if desired serve
with a rich cream sauce.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Keep Screens From Bindinu.

When you put on your screens, if
you find that they bind, don't fuss and
waste your strength trying to force
them into place, but scrape the paint
off the grooved edges, using a piece of
broken glass or sandpaper, then
grease the runs (grooved edges) with
lard. If your screen door binds on
the bottom plug with soft wood the
lower hinge holes in door frame, then
with opposite end of door, when
closed, resting on match, attach
lower hinge in new place. To put
screws into hard wood first make small
hole with nail or drill, then coat screw
with wet soap before inserting.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
The Careless Town Farmer,


You may have read a little story
now going the round, of the man wto
moved to the country not long ago
and purchased farm. He was Just
getting settled when a man with q
book under his arm leaned over thu
fence and said:
"Just bought this land?"
Eyes,"
VERY fine farm
Eyes, sir; very fine"
Must be worth around a thousand
dollars?"
More than that; paid 81, 500 for It.
Then there are indications of coal on
it,, too, which are alone worth another
thousand"
You don't mean it?'e
Eyes, sir. And then the new branch
railroad is going to cross one corner.
I consider my farm worth $4,000"
Give thousand, eh?"
eyes, sir; I wouldn't take less.
What are you putting down in that
book?" q
J. "Oh, nothing much. You see, I'm
the tax assessor. Hope you'll stay
rome time. Good morning Topeka
Capital. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Bolster Cushions.

Bolster cushions are easily made out
of any material from five to eight
inches long and three to four wide.
Join up length, line either end with
a scrap of contrasting colored silk.
Draw one end tightly one and one>half
inches down, fill tightly with bran and
draw the other end up the slime.
Finish with ribbon tied in a bow
around the end, carried loosely across
and tied around either end to form a
loop for hanging on the looking glass
or wall. This idea can be carried out
around piece of circular wood or
blind roller, small gilt dresser hooks
being screwed through material to
hang keys on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Vacation.

The secret of rest is to get rid of
detail for a. time. Why is it that
sea voyage is regarded as the best of
tonics? Simply because the entire
change of surroundings wipes out the
mass of complications attendant upon
the daily routine of the ordinary
worker. We all need occasional free.
dom from the bondage of the tiny
strings that bind us to wearing tasks.
The man who realizes this and plans
his vacation accordingly makes no
mistake.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Pulled Shoulders.

All the shirt waists show the Shout
der puffs. The sleeves, instead of be-
ing drawn down closely and tightly
at the shoulders, are pulled out, and
in many cases the puffs are so large
that one is reminded Of the pulled
sleeves Of several years ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Shortcake With Ice Cream,

Bake large sponge cake in round
tin, and while warm cut off the top
and take out most of the inside
crumb; when perfectly cold fill this
center with a plain white ice cream,
replace the cover and put powdered
sugar and berries over the top and a
ring of berries around the edge; in
cutting slice through.-.Harper's Ba-
Zaar,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
Necklaces Of japanese Coral.

The vogue for Japanese coral is a
greedy one, and l do not wonder at
it for indeed these smoothly finished,
round beads of delicious pink are
alluring, writes a Paris correspondent
of Vogue. They are worn by young
and old alike. and are becoming. In
strings Of size only to circle the
neck they are Is to so francs; the
difference in price appears to be due
TO the shade of pink. Some are so
pale as to be nearly white.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
To Keen Meat Fresh

A barrel filled about half full OF
fresh charcoal, with wooden Stats
nailed across the top in which sew
eral meat hooks are driven, is most
useful for keeping meats fresh in
summer. It should be covered with a
piece of wire netting fastened to a
wooden hoop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
CLEANING Tins.

After washing they are beaten upon
table; or broad prepared beforehand
by being thickly covered with flannel.
The method Of beating is, first up,
then down, continuously until all the
fbers are nice and fluffy. e.