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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
A Graceful Carria ge.

That woman may look like doll
the world admits, but the fact that
she walks like one is bringing down
on her marcelled head oceans of
scathing sarcasm. A writer in an
English periodical is responsible for
the latest teapot tempest, and the
faults which he has found for which
to arraign the gentler sex prove him
an innocent bystander of more than
ordinary acuteness.
ITO walk beautifully" he says in
beginning his attack, 'is gift of the
gods, one which in these degenerate
days they appear to withhold jeal-
ossly, more especially from the An
glo-SaXon and Teutonic races"
Probably he has met with a differ
ent class of foreigners in England to
what we see in America, otherwise
the average Chicago woman might
take exception to the statement that
follows: They bestow the gift with
niggard hand among the Latin peo-
pies and royalty only on the Orien-
tails"
Women" he goes on calmly to
say, "are despair. They shuffle,
they stride, they waddle, they prance,
they scurry, they do anything but
walk; and, what is worse, they never
realize their vile mode Of progression.
If woman danced or played games
or sang as badly as she walks she
would have but few opportunities to
display her deficiencies. And she
walks like mechanical toy.
"The deplorable lack of dignity to
modern women is one cause of bad
walking. Dignity was understood
by our forebears and is inherent in
the Oriental, but the age of hustle is
upon us, and hustle and dignity will
never meet.
People say that to argue from
statues is absurd, but conceive of the
Venus of Milo as she must have been
when she left the sculptor's hand,
and then imagine her stepping down
from her pedestal in the Louvre and
walking up the long gallery! Could
any one. doubt the divine beauty of
that progress? The modern Venus
understands nothing about the beauty
in movement-all she cares about is
getting over the ground. Chicago
Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEW
MANY ORDERS FOR STEEL
Dun's Weekly Review Shows Gener.
ally Favorable Situation at
Opening of Fall.
r.. C. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
Of Trade says:
Retail trade increases at the lead
Ing cities as the vacation season
closes, and the opening of fall lines
Is attended with most satisfactory
results. AS the staple crops are Sc
cured and marketed, there is a
prompt Improvement in mercantile
collections throughout the agricultural
districts. and the decline in prices was
especially helped in stimulating ex.
oort trade.
Postponed business is coming more
Freely to the steel mills, and there Is
less disposition to wait for more fav-
)rable conditions. Structural steel
shapes are constantly ordered, espe-
cially for bridge work, and the rail
ways seek all forms of supplies in
larger quantity than was expected for
some months on account of the finan-
cial pressure. Bessemer iron Is main
tanned by the small decrease in out
put, several more furnaces being
blown out for repairs last month
than resumed.
Primary markets for dry goods are
seasonably quiet, without any evil
dence of weakness. Manufacturers
of cotton goods are in strong posi-
ton. having large contracts on
hand, and prices are well maintained
Reports from worsted mills indicate
fairly full activity, but there is con-
siderable idle machinery in the wool
en- mills.
Footwear shipments are holding
close to the highest movement ever
recorded from the Boston market, but
the winter season is not opening as
well as most manufacturers antici
pated
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

There are 1857 deaf people in
Maine
Brazil is spending SIS 100000 on
battleships.
Russia and Japan have agreed to
protect China.
A huge meteor dropped into the
sea near Amagansett, l.. l.
Indianapolis has All private
switches within it's city limits.
Secretary Root was discharged
from Muldoon's Sanitorium as cured.
Fifty people we're buried alive by
a vast avalanche of snow at Juncal,
Chile.
Many Americans returning from
Europe are unable TO get first class
passage owing to the homeward rush.
Owing to the protests from Boston,
the plan to move the frigate Constitu-
ton from that city has been aban-
doned.
President Roosevelt has planned
world peace conference to be COM
posed of the Ambassadors at Wash
ington.
1t was officially announced in Toxic
that Japan would yield nothing to
China in the matter of Kcrea's
boundary.
A modus vivendi with the. United
States to cover the Newfoundland
fisheries for the present season was
signed at London.
New Jerseys State Commissioner
fancies that "fashionables" are losing
interest in the automobile and going
back to the horse.
Reports Of committee of educators
declare that one-third of all the
school children in the United States
are retarded in their studies by phys
ical defects.
The registrations as compiled by
the Auto Directories Company show
that about 100000 registrations of
automobiles have been taken out in
this country, covering forty States.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
Hoydens of the Past.

Not long ago a few of the very
young women among the guests at a
country house finished busy day by
a confidential chat in the room of
their guiding spirit, and that person
relieved her mind on the occasion
of some matters with which it had
been much occupied during the day.
MRS. A." she said, was moralizing
to Mrs. J. for an hour this morning
about our outrageous tomboy be-
havior. She declared that the women
of past generations would have been
Mortified at our conduct, and that 1t
is because Of our want of decorum
that men now show so little respect
to women. She is greatly concerned
as to what the quality of the wives
and mothers Of the future will be
when they must be chosen from
young women who throw all dignity
TO the winds and behave Ike factory
girls out for q holiday But. all
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25

yoked side to side with fifteen chains.
The approach of vessel was sig
nailed from the tower of the Unitarian
Church. Fires were then kindled in
the camels, which started out to meet
the ship. With the chains heightened
to form loops deeper than the keel
of the vessel, the camels ranged them
selves on each side of the ship, sank,
stretched their chains taut by the aid
of thirty windlasses, rose and lifted
the ship with them, until the whole
did not draw more than five feet of
water. Then they fioated, with their
burden, up the harbor.
The ponderous contrivance proved
to be an expensive economy, and
when, after five or six years. the cam
els came to need repairs, the owner
did not think it profitable to make
them. So the camels of Nantucket
went to decay, and their bones lay for
many years in the docks.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
Married SWecthearts.

Pretty decorated medals are fash
ionable in Paris as a present from a
husband to wife on the various an
niversaries of their wedding day.
The first anniversary is the cotton
wedding day. Secondly comes the
paper one, and the third is the leather
one, so solid that it has to last two
years. The next anniversary that
has its special attribute is the fifth,
one of wood, and yet another gap
occurs before the seventh, or wooden
event.
The tenth anniversary is called
d'etain, the tin wedding day, and the
twelfth sole, or silk. This is fol-
lowed by leaps and bounds by the
fifteenth, or porcelain, the twentieth,
or crystal, and the twenty-fifth, or
silver, wedding day, the one most
commonly kept of all.
Pearls are tbs appropriate symbol
of the thirtieth anniversary and
rubies of the fortieth-significant no
doubt, of the prosperity that has at
tended the Woodworking husband s
efforts in business. When he takes
home to his wife a golden wedding
gift it is to grace the tiftieth anniver-
sary OF their nuptials. Daily
Mail
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
Nantucket "CameIs."

When one reads in Nantucket rec
ords of nearly seventy years ago that
ships were taken across the bar by
the aid of "camels," a picture of
stretches of hot sand, oases of palms
and great ships of the desert" moy-
ing in procession is presented to the
minds eye. The vision, however, is
out of the way. geographically bo-
tanically and zoologically. The sand
borders the cold New England shore,
the palms are wanting, and the cam
els bear no relation whatever to those
of flesh and blood. The author of
Nantucket Scraps" explains the mys-
terry.
In 1892 the Penn arrived off Nan
tucket, laden with thirteen hundred
barrels of sperm oil. 1t was the first
ship taken across the bar by camels,
and the event was considered so i'm
portant that the town bells were
rung, the gun fired, and the whole
population turned out in a general
rejoicing.
The bar, which blocked free way
to Nantucket docks, stretched out in
dangerous menace to heavily laden
vessels. 1t was the custom to break
the cargo outside and land the oil in
boats; but this was an expensive and
tedious process, and the invention OF
the camels was hailed with eagerness
The camels were two huge boxes
one hundred and thirty-five feet lonl
and nineteen feet deep, fitted with
water-gates and pumps. so that they
could be raised or sunk at pleasure
They also possessed an engine, pro-
peller and rudders. They were
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
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though Mrs. A. could no doubt find
thousands to support her in her opin-
ion, don't believe we're so bad,
after all, or that we are one whit
worse than the young women of the
past.
you know my great-grandmother
was a great belle in her day, and ac-
cording to her account she and the
companions of her youth-possibly
some of Mrs. AS respected ances-
tresses were among them-conducted
themselves in way that would make
us feel as il we were literally mo-
where They were not i'll educated,
and they were beautiful to look at,
but they romped and played practi-
cal jokes and apparently INDUCED
their boisterous spirits without let
or hindrance. Yet my great-grand-
mother and many of the friends who
Joined in her romps became wives
and mothers who were above re-
proach. 1t seems that the noisiest,
maddest, most mischievous maids of
sixty years ago were often the most
sincere and affectionate of their sex
and became the best helpmates and
housewives. The hoyden of the past
has turned out very well, and is now
an example of her descendants, so
let us bear up bravely under the re-
proaches of Mrs. A. and her kind.
Some day we may be models, too. -
New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
A Disputed Heirloom.

A curious case of pearl necklace
has been before the High Court.
Miss Lucy Henrietta Catherine Ellis
claimed the pearl necklace belonging
to her aunt, the late Duchess of Ser
moneta. The pearls are valued at
100000, and the question is whether
they shall be handed over to the
BY her will the late Duchess of Ser
moneta directed if the necklace
should be in London at the time of
her death it should go to her Italian
executors. When she died the neck
lace was found in Florence, and on
this Miss Ellis based her claim. The
Italian witnesses made affidavits that
the duchess often wore more than
four rows of pearls in the necklace,
and it was contended on behalf of the
Italian legatee that the necklace was
made up at one time Of ten rows
of pearls. The necklace was produced
in the Judges room, and two experts
arranged it on a dummy bust. AS it
was shown it consisted of eight rows
-four found in England and four in
Florence. The Judge held that the
pearls found in London were not part
of the pearl necklace which was
awarded to Miss Ellis. Nor could
the pearls found in London go to the
Italian executors. On Photographic
proof as to four rows his lordship did
not rely much, as the pearls had been
restrung since the earlier photo
graphs were taken.-The Sketch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
The Ignorant Waitress.

mo, madam" said the waitress;
I'm sorry, but don't know the name
OF that flower. In fact, l can't tell
you the names of any of the table
flowers. We had only year of bot
any In college, and am not familiar
with the fora here" This reply to
idle questions proved a staggerer to
the guest of a fashionable hotel on
Lake George, leaving her for a mo-
ment unable to speak. At last, re-
gaining her composure, she raised
her lorgnette and, staring at the
young waitress, said: ut strikes me,
miss, that person of your attain
ments had better be doing some
higher order of work" Thank you,
madam" was the response. 81 hope
soon to be doing something better,
but it is the money l have earned
- waitress that has enabled me to
learn. | shall be graduated from col
lege next year, and | have been prom
ised a position as teacher in the
prep school / attended" Curious
ly enough, the woman of fashion
found it difficult after that to main
tain the air of superiority and patron
age she had affected toward the wait
ress. A friend of hers recalled that
she had enjoyed only a grammar
school education.-New York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
NR FRlkLS IN
wMAAEAsNgoM@

Darned nets are shown with floral
and conventional designs.
For evening and dancing frocks
fancy bordered chiffons are charm
ing.
Beneath the long or short coats
the skirts are adjusted to the hips
like a glove.
One of the effects of white collar
and cuffs on the coat of color is to
give it cool look.
Many nets have a deep boder of
lace, and matching the lace bands
for the sleeves and bodice.
If the sleeves are not all of the
Nippon shape, most of them at least
simulate this simple cut.
There are belts of stitched kid
alternating with lines of colored tin
sci galloon shaped to fit the figure.
Longer and longer grow the
sleeves of gowns and separate waists,
the longest of them just disclosing
the finger tips.
The yoke or collar that extends in
a stole-like line down the front to
the waist-line is among the new neck
wear recently imported.
There are extremely wide belts OF
harness leather in the natural color,
made of several narrow strips,
stitched together so as to perfectly
fit the figure.
A new waist is called the Boule
and is very becoming. 1t is usually
of embroidered linen and val. and
shows no visible seam, as the waist
and sleeves are put together in one
piece.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
A Chance For Hens.

A new use has been found for the
domestic hen. The shells of the dur
nal egg can be used as mantle for
the fame of acetylene. A French
inventor, Emile Louis Andre, has
proved by experiment that the she'll
does not shatter or break, but is a
serviceable mantle. and emits a pleas
ant, soft light. All that is needed is
to perforate the shell at each end and
insert the burner. Where is the hen
that will lay eggs with shell thin
enough to serve as substitute for
the ordinary gas mantle?-Rochester
Post Express.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
A TIMELY WRINKLE.

Now that the time is come for
blouses to be worn without coats this
wrinkle will be found useful. Take
a piece of elastic about three-quarters
of an inch wide, and long enough to
go tightly round tile waist. Stitch
firmly at each end a piece Of tape
the same width as the elastic and an
inch long. Put button and buttonhole
the tape makes a firm foundation.
Now fasten this round the waist, owe.
the blouse; arrange blouse to desired
fulness and it will be kept neat and
smart for the rest of the day.-New
York Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
LABOR WORLD.

Prison guards in New York State
are asking for more pay.
The leather workers of Toronto
will ask for an increase of wages.
The Eight-Hour League of America
has been organized for the universal
sight-hour day.
The mattresses of Phoenix, Ariz.,
demand a ten-hour day. They have
been working eleven and twelve
hours.
1t is the intention of the Interna-
tional Photo-Engravers' Union to es-
tablish fund for aid of consumptive
members.
Members OF the Milwaukee Sign
Painters Union have had their wages
raised. The increase ranged from
fifty cents to s. day.
The percentage of unemployed in
Great Britain in 1906 was only Al
per cent, or 1.3 less than in 1905,
and "a less than in 1904.
Drug clerks in the West are rapidly
Joining the Retail Clerks Union, and
1t is predicted that this movement
will spread toward the Atlantic Coast.
st. Paul union painters will receive
forty cents an hour the present sea-
son. An agreement has been signed
between the union and the contrac-
tors.
The International Association of
Machinists of Greater New York and
vicinity, $4,000 strong. has voted to
demand an eight-hour day in the near
future.
Diamond workers, members OF the
Diamond Workers Union OF America.
are demanding better wages from the
diamond manufacturers of America,
the Association of Gem Dealers.
The Scottish Cancellation Board de-
cided to concede six and one-fourth
per cent. advance in wages at its
meeting in Glasgow, to come into eff
feet at once. This is the third ad-
vance in the present year. The con-
eession affects 10000 miners.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25
Sense of Proportion.

The sense of proportion is sadly
lacking In most people. 1t is hard to
make them realize that the more in
terests they have in life the better for
their special vocation. The woman
who thinks it impossible to do any
thing but the darning in the inter-
walls OF worrying the servants to
death is the woman who gives her
unfortunate family potatoes boiled
every day. To be a good housewife,
q woman must have her general in
telligence we'll developed.-Sa
Grand, in Daily Graphic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25

Recent automobile accidents have
resulted in the death or injury OF
the persons responsible for the dis
aster and have consequently not re
ceived the attention of the courts
The criminal negligeuee is there jus.
the same, urges the New York Call
and it is fair question for the
courts to consider whether thers
should not be pnblic action taken tc
prevent this form of self-destruction.
There seems to be no hope of reck-
less men learning to be careful Re
peated warnings appear only to make
them more Indifferent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25

Says the Rochester Democrat ana
Chronicle: Modern power boating is
wholesome as we'll as fascinating. In
order to enjoy it one need not neces-
sarily be a trained steam engineer.
At the same time it is pastims which
is not without its perils; and not the
least of these perils is buffeting white.
capped waves with disabled engine
or an empty gasolene tank"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-09-25

OF course success is largely a mat
ter of luck. unless 1t happens to be
Our success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
Sabetha Races End.

Sabetha, Kan. Aug. 31.@The prin-
cipal events in the last days annual
race meeting resulted as follows:
Pacing, 2:12 class-Ffrst. Major L..
owned by H B. Buckner of Manhet-
tan; second. DR.. Reber. owned by E.
r. Williamson of Salem. Neb.; third,
Major Lee, owned by Clarence Dingle
of Salem. Neb. Best time. 2:24 ~.
Special pace-First Pawnee Chief,
owned by George WEIGH Of Pawnee
City. Neb.; second. Freddy E. Wilkes
owned by L. c. Broom of st. Joseph
third. Capitola. owned by G. w. Myeri
of Sabetha. Best time. 2:27A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31

A marriage which took place in Kan
sas City today is Of exceptional interest
70 a wide circle of Topeka friends. The
bride is Miss Elizabeth Barriger. daugh-
ter of a retired army officer now liv-
Ing in Omaha and the groom, Mr. Wal
ter Hayes. son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Hayes of Topeka. Miss Barriger former
ly attended the College of the Sisters of
Bethany and has since visited here many
times the guest of the Millspaugh fam
lily at the Bishops House and latterIy
of her fiance's family With her sister,
Mrs. Alfred Bowie, she spent a part of
last winter in Topeka. The wedding
took place at the home of Mrs. Bowie in
Kansas City and they will be at home in
Topeka after a short wedding trip. Mr..
Ben Johnson accompanied Mr.. Hayes to
Kansas City this morning and attended
him as best man at the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs ) NJ Meade gave a din
ner for twelve guests this week in COM
pliment to the Rev. Douglas I. Hobbies
of Newton who was in charge of the
Grace cathedral parish during the abb
sence of Dean Kaye on his summer va
cation.
A young chap took visiting girl to a
dance, shy. prim little miss not more
than seventeen years old. and his brother
thinking to help him out with her pro-
gramme took two dances with her But
his assumption of the kind. brotherly
role was misunderstood and he was only
first dance the girl, blushing furiously
and in her primmest. nasty nice" tones
said: Mr.. Blank, don't believe know
you well enough to dance two dances
with you in one evening so 1 think I'll
give your second dance to some one
else when 1t don't concern you, let
1t alone"
Mrs. ]. G. Strickler will entertain
this evening at her home on Harri-
son street in compliment to Mrs E.
Mrs. Earle c. Williams, who was for
merly supervisor of the Bowman
Memorial kindergarten in Topeka The
invitations will be limited to mem
bers of the Kindergarten Alumni club.
x x
Mrs Eustace H. Brown of OIathe,
president of the Kansas Federation
of Clubs. is the third Mrs. Brown to
hold that office. The first was Mrs.
Sarah A. Brown of Lawrence, who
was president of the Social Science
federation, the name of which was
afterwards changed to the Kansas
Federation of Women'S Clubs. The
second was Mrs. May Belleville Brown
of Salina. who was Mrs. Eustace
Browns Immediate predecessor Not
unnaturally, perhaps, on account of
the name people who know them only
as prominent club women get the two
Mrs. Browns confused sometimes. Mrs.
Eustace Brown has been filling Chau-
tauqua dates all summer and one
place where she gave an address on
the federation work, a newspaper re-
port of the Chautauqua called her
MRS May BelIeville Brown of Sa-
lima, president of the Kansas fedora
ton But this was not the only time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31

pliable all the parts, and
assists nature in its sublime
By its aid thousands
of women have passed this
great crisis in perfect safety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
CURB BROKERS WILL STAY.
An Application to Have Them Ousted
Is Denied.

New York, Aug. 31.-An application
to Gust curb brokers from Broad street
has been denied by Justice Davy in
the supreme court. James A. Allen, a
lawyer with offices near the spot where
the brokers transact their business, was
the applicant. He said that brokers
make so much noise in the street that
it seriously interfered with the conduct
of his business Counsel for the
brokers submitted affidavits from 9TH
er tenants of the vicinity testifying
that they were not at all disturbed by
the curb brokers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
PRAY FOR The SCHOOLS.
Sunday, September 8. Will Be OBJ
served as Day Of Special Prayer.

New York, Aug. 31.-Sunday. Septem-
Der 8, is to be observed by the churches
throughout the country as day of
special prayer for the public schools
The plan was suggested by the National
Reform association and has been in
dorsed by the Presbyterian general as
sembly and other church conventions.
The fall term of the public schools be-
gins on the day following in New York
and many other parts of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
To Question the Papal Secretary

cutor has commissioned a magistrate
to proceed to Castel Gondolfo to in
terrogate Cardinal Merry Del Val the
papal secretary of state, concerning
the demonstration against him at
Marine. August 16 when a mob of
anti-clericals hooted and jeered at the
cardinal while he was driving in the
village. This will be. the first time
since 1870 that an Italian magistrate
has come in contact with a papal sec
rotary of state.