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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-09-20
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

Engineers on the Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain threaten to strike
unless their demands should be com.
piled with.
Mrs. Carlin has been indicted at
Beaumont for the murder of her hus-
band.
The second daughter of Congress
man Cooper was married at Beau
mont.
The title of Texas champion of ten
mis- goes to Mexico as a result Of the
tournament at Dallas.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-09-20
STRIKE IN ST. LOUIS.
Employees of Three Large Shoe Fac
tories Have Quit Work.

St Louis, Sept. 19.-Failing to
grant the increase in wages that was
demanded by representatives of the
Boot and Shoe Workers, three of the
largest shoe factories of this city are
likely to face a strike this week.
Wednesday had been set as the last
day of grace, but the decision was
reached yesterday that the strike, II
any, would not be called until after a
big union meeting that will be held to-
night.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-09-20
HER TONGUE STILL wAes.
Therefore Carrie Nation Goes to the
Washington Workhouse.

Washington, Sept. 19.-In the 20
lice court today Mrs. Carrie Nation
refused to promise not to talk to
crowds on the streets in the future
and was sent to the workhouse for
seventy-five days in default of the
payment Of a fine of s25. She was ar
rested yesterday on a charge of dis
orderly conduct.
c. A. McAdams, night baggagemas-
ter at Commerce, was found dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
Her Chance to Marry
last twenty-five
Continued from page 4

my parents in the high minded, self respecting
class that ignores its daughters futures. les
sened those deplorably few chances when at
eighteen went to college instead of firmly resist
ing the impulse to acquire little knowledge
whether Ithereupon became more unattractive
to men or they more unattractive to me is a
question for the wrangling of theorists. The
result is the same) After came out of college
wanted to do some work. / studied deco
rating or landscape gardening or law or went
into my fathers real estate Office. Now / am
old am all of thirty-onel | want to be
loved, married; want my own home, my own
children, my own husband. Is it too late?"
Take heart of grace, respondent maid. Col
lege women and women of their class marry
not only less than the general female popula-
ton; they also marry later. If perilously
near to half of them, as far as can be gathered
from the inevitably scanty statistics on the
subject, do not marry at ALL if over half do
not marry by forty years, nevertheless, many
of those who do marry, marry quite late IN
life-between thirty and forty instead of be-
tween twenty and twenty-five six. And
any woman, of ordinary presentability, inte!li-
gence, and charm, who realizes, like the clear
sighted, hypothetical young woman of the
soiiloquy, by the time she is thirty-one, that
she wants to marry, can undoubtedly accom-
plish her purpose
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Western division sixty and four-tenths per
cent. These proportions of married women
grow larger in each case until the age of forty
five is reached.
But, after ALL no woman, be she New Yorker.
Bostonian. or whatever, need despair. Local
statistics may be disheartening, but general
statistics bear out Thackeray and Mr.. Dooley
and all the social philosophers who have said
the first mentioned, "And this set down as
positive truth. A woman with fair oppor-
tunities and without positive hump, may
marry whom she likes. Only let us be thank
full that the darlings are like the beasts of the
field and don't know their own power" For
there is larger proportion of unmarried men
than of unmarried women in these United
States-or else the men ANONYMOUSLY denied
their true condition to the census taker.
Matrimonial Statistics
TN the North Atlantic division,-the New
/ England States, New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania,-the proportion of unmarried
men over twenty years to the whole male popu-
lation is thirty Lone per cent; of the unmarried
women, twenty-six and two-tenths. In the
South Atlantic division the proportion of
bachelors is twenty-seven and one-tenth of all
the men; but the proportion of unmarried
women to all the women is only twenty-five
and three-tenths. In the North Central States
there is a percentage of thirty unmarried men
out of every hundred, to nineteen and three
tenths of unmarried women. In the South
Central division the unmarried men are twenty
six per cent. of all the men, and the unmarried
women only seventeen and half per cent of
the women; while in the Western division
there are forty-two and one-tenth bachelors
out of every hundred men, to only eighteen
and a half old maids to every hundred women
And so there is one thought to, cheer the
grimly decided spinster: There are sixty and
half unmarried males to fifty-6ve and one
tenth unmarried females in this country. And
for the rests there not ample and irrefrangi-
ries the man who has lived next door for
twenty years and taken tea with her two
nights week during the whole period, a
woman always wakes up in the honeymoon to
find that she has married stranger.
But this touches the American woman's
chances tn marriage, and that is quite another
story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
Keep Away from New England

THERE are certain sections of the country
where she can accomplish it with less effort
than in others. No woman, having decided
upon marriage as what she wants and means
to attain, is advised to move forthwith to the
District of Columbia, or to any part of New
England. There has long been tradition
that Boston was the banner bearer of spinster
dom; but the twelfth census wrests this proud
prominence from it-along with it's old glory
States. The District of Columbia has thirty
eight and two-tenths per cent. of its women
unmarried, to Boston's thirty-seven and four
tenths per cent.
The sections of the country where marriage
seems most easily obtained by the persons de-
string it are the South and the far West. In
what the statisticians unimaginatively describe
as the South Atlantic DIVISION" fiftv-six and
half per cent. of the women over fifteen are
married; in the South Central division
ffty-eight and two-tenths per cent; and in the
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few hours, and others require from ten to
twenty-four.
plished by taking them very carefully out of
the soil and placing the roots IN the dye. They
absorb the liquid much slower than the cut
plants, but within twenty-four hours Roman
hyacinths become pink tinted throughout In
such cases the vein tubes proceed from the
root instead of from the cut stems If exam
med under the microscope, most striking
picture is presented of these plants artifcially
colored. The whole system Of intricate veins
can be clearly seen. running up from the roots
through the stems leaves, petals, and other
parts of the flowers. In the cut flowers the
motic- Of the co1ored liquid can be seen in
this way. The veins of the tulips appear
the largest and most conspicuous of all
the flowers, and they readily within few
hours become tinted pink. blue. green. or
purple.
While this method of coloring flowers may
not seem to possess any marked value, it has
been utilized to some good purpose. For in
stance, grower of tulips can tell within six
hours whether his breeder tulip is a feathered
or famed sort. BY the old method it took
often five or six years to ascertain this fact,
and at the end of that period many were found
unworthy of cultivation. The veining, Of the
petal is shown by the dye, and the grower can
determine whether it is worth while to spend
much time on such breeder.
Another practical use of this artificial color
ing of plants is to convert common green plants
into beautiful table decorations. The ordinary
Swede turnip when forced in the dark will abb
serb the colors of the dyes so that within six
to ten hours the leaves can be beautifully
fringed with red and the whole suffused with
rich orange. No prettier ornament for the
table could be imagined than cluster of such
colored leaves, purchased for tri1ing sum at
the grocer's. White hlacs, the abutilon, pri-
mulas, Christmas rose, and Solomons seal are
other plants which have been artifcially col
cd until nxa1 lfxr0 &c
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n
ing species have added greatly to VWS
our garden and field x1SAN
products, and he is =,-~m
Justly entitled to the
title, Wizard of the
Plant World" In the last twenty-five III
years he has experimental with some IN
three hundred thousand plum trees, ten w
thousand different apples, ten thousand seeding
potatoes, and upward of q hundred thousand
other plants. Ten and fifteen years are often
patiently devoted to the development OF
Single group of plants, and if from these come
a few sturdy crosses which show important
Improvement over the parent plants, all thu
work is fully justified.
It was not until sometime after the appear
ance of a blue carnation in the garden of
florist that its mystery was solved. 1t was not
genuine article, or at least its colorlng
matter was not natural. 1t had been artifi-
through capillary attraction. Since then
good deal of experiment has been conducted
with this new process OF color1ng flowers,
and to-day almost any colored cut flowers
can be ordered or made at home.
When the stalks of cut flowers are immersed
in aniiine dye solutions, they absorb the liquid,
which spreads rapidly throughout the system
of minute veins, and completely changes the
appearance of leaves, petals, and other parts
Of the flowers. In this way the appearance OF
cut flowers can be changed within a few hours,
although to obtain such results permanently
by the crossing process would probably require
quarter of a century and the use OF hundreds
of thousands of plants. The new art of color
ing flowers has no particular value to science,
but for the creation ofnovelties for house decora
ton it is certainly highly entertaining and inter-
esting. One may take Easter plants purchased
at the florists and convert them into flower
ing beauties totally different from the originals
The aniline dye solutions are made about
as transparent as claret, and the cut flowers
inserted in them. Aniline scarlet acts the most
quickly of all, and colors white flowers a beau-
tiful pink and scarlet. Beautiful blue tints
are obtained with solution of indigo carmine,
and various shades of purple are produced in
the flowers by mixing the scarlet and indigo
carnline. Blue dye with yellow produce vari-
Gus shades of green.
Some flowers do not absorb the mixed dyes
equally, and as result beautiful mottled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
COLORING FLOWERS

effects are obtained. One part OF
the flower may be pink and other
, parts blue or purple.
Yellow daffodils are turned into
scarlet flowers, white lilies Of the
s4se valley into pink and
blue, narcissi into all the
colors of the rainbow,
and snowdrops into
striped flowers as gaudy asa woman S
Scotch plaid dress. Some of the flowers
absorb the coloring matter within a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
UTHER BURBANK'S stupen-

- dous operations IN improving
plants and developing new
characteristics by means of cross
ing species have added greatly to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
Embrolderles We with laces in pop.

E~mbroideries vie with laces in pop.
ularity.
Mousseline de sole braids embroid.
cred in gilt or in rich oriental colors
are one of this years features. In
deed, a touch Of color introduced into
almost any embroidered article sell
dom comes amiss.
The allovers and "strip-embroidery"
blouses are, on the contrary, made
with elbow sleeves, and may be
trimmed and finished as deliberately
as possible. One exquisite blouse in
the finest alloyer embroidery was
trimmed with irish crochet lace.
Turnovers are worn as much as
aver. Cuffs that turn back are shown
In the most exquisite designs.
Stocks vary little in shape, the tab
fronts being still very much in evi.
dence. There are new designs in the
embroidery, however, and here, too,
the touch OF black or some color Is
often found.
Plate doilies are great favorites just
now for the woman who has ample
limo to give to her embroidery. The
L NIM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
SAVES AER VISITING cAsOs.
One Womal's Pet Economy Certainly
a Queer One.

Women are proverbially niggardly
on one or two points; every woman
that ever existed had some pet econo-
my, no matter how extravagant she
may be in some respects. There's
the woman who spends hundreds of
dollars OF imported gowns, but hates
to give up one penny for a paper Of
pins. The p~apersaving person who
drops into department stores and ho-
tells to borrow stationery rather than
spend any money upon the commodity
always is with as; we all know the
stamp stealer md the match borrow
er; but the 3isiting-card economizer
is a new brand of woman who exists
only in the most exclusive society.
So niggardly is she on the point of
her visiting cards that she demands
them back from her intimate friends;
from her mere acquaintance she
steals them at an opportune moment
when the servants back is turned, or
when the mistress has left the room.
She puts them slyly back into her
card S By a clever series of ma
nipulations it is said she can make
100 of them go as far as 500 went be-
fore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
"UncIe Remus" Party Among Other
Suggestions Offered.
An Indoor Picnic.

The idea of an indoor picnic Is not
a new one, but its revival always gives
pleasure, so when a young maiden
said she was so weary of conven'
tional luncheons, dinners and teas
and wished for ''just one good time
with no Formally" the ever alert hos.
tess took the hint and in a few days
II we'll chosen couples were the re.
cipients of cunning little baskets with
a note requesting that the receptacles
be filled with a picnic lunch for two,
That they repair OF the date designa-
ted attired in tub suits.
At the appointed time there were
no tardy arrivals and it surely was
an enhancing scene for every room
had been transformed into summer
land, Japanese lanters twinkled and
cleaned from every nook and corner
there were softly shaded fairy lamps
palms, vines and potted plants. Large
Japanese umbrellas made most allur
ing I~ete-a-tete places and there were
porch chairs and settee's in place oil
the ordinary furniture.
Each man was given a fishing rod
and threw his line over a most real
istic wall and hooked, not a fish, but
a basket, the handle adorned with 9
bow of ribbon, and "he" had to fine
the woman who wore a bow Of the
same color somewhere on her gowr
or in her hair. In this way partners
were chosen.
The hostess provided napkins, drink
ables of all sorts, both hot and cold
aad delicious ice cream which was
packed in individual paper cartons
After the supper, which consumed {
good share Of the evening, eacf
guest took a turn at the fish pond
and caught a real fish which proved
to be a candy box filled. These fisl
come in all sizes and are just thu
thing for souvenirs at an affair o
this kind.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
NOT DOOMED TO sEcLUsIoN.
Austrian Nuns of Noble Blood Lead
Pleasant Lives.

The "arst lady" in the Austro-Hun-
garian court is now the abbess of the
Theresisn Convent of the Noble La
dies in Prague, a position which is
always held by an a~rchduchess. The
Archduchess Maria Annunciata, the
present abbess, who is a niece of the
emperor, has succeeded to the position
of first lady through the widowhood
Of the Archduchess Maria Josefa, wife
of the late Archduke Otto. The noble
nun of Prague live a very different
life from what is the usual conception
of convent life. They play a leading
part in the society of the city and are
not even compelled to live in the alb
hey, where each is provided with two
rooms and service. Handsome car
riages with liveried servants are also
provided for their use, and they have
a box in the opera. Each noble lady
lie paid $500 a year, while the abbess
has a salary of 5000 When they
attend court balls they must wear
black evening dress with a ribbon of
light blue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
I~nconslstent RecommendatIons

How can President Roosevelt recon
cile his recommendation for ship sub
sidy with his other recommendation
for an inheritance tax? The first
helps to create great fortunes by a
direct subsidy to be paid by the peo-
pie in taxes; the second would confis-
cate q great portion of what has been
wrung from the people by covering
1t into the treasury as a punishment
for having received 1t. If the people
through their representatives vote to
substitute ship-owners or the shipping
trust, the money received as subsidy
is by law the property Of the ship
owners; why, therefore, should it be
considered grating and that restitu-
ton to the people must be made after
the death-of the recipients? Evidently
the president believes that all the
great fortunes of the country have
been taxed from the people In the
form Of subsidies or special privileges
| such as tariff protection. But why NOT
be consistent and recommend the
| legislation advocated by the Demo
| Gratis to abolish the cause Of this
building up Of vast fortunes and there
would then be no need of conascation
gcr the fortunes would not exist ex
] ,ept In moderation
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
Rutterflx Gowns.

1t is to the butterfly that certain
dressmakers W their inspirations for
frocks. The fiutterer of the garden is
unsurpassed fer variety and delicacy
of color.
A French constructor of feminine
garb was the first who went to the
winged creature for suggestions. He
did so at tbp instance of an artist
friend. who said that Of all the har-
m%onious desigA in nature those of the
butterfly were the finest.
So the dressmaker has been sending
orders to a Boston naturalist who gets
choice specimens from tropical coun-
tries.
Only last week rs butterflies were
sent across the sea- to serve az sus
gestlons for gowns.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
BOOT TO BE WORKED IN SOFT
FINE WOOL.
White lvorlne ExceIlently Adapted
for the Purpose-FulI Directions
for Those Who Are Fond
Of Crochet.

This boot may be worked in any soft
wool with a suitable hook, and looks
extremely pretty in white ivorine,
which is a fine wool with a silk thread
running through it. Nearly n ounce
will be required for a pair. Back
thread to be taken up throughout the
work.
Work 35 chain-stitches, turn, pass
/, :, a double crochet in each of
the next 8, l chain, another double
crochet in the same stitch as the last
one; a double crochet in each of the
next 2, pass over 2 of the foundation
chain and repeat from = to end OF
chain Is points or patterns), turn
with l chain, a double crochet on the
end stitch of the previous row, pass
over l, a double crochet in each of
the next 2, l chain, another double GRO
Chef in same place as last, a double
crochet in each of the next 2, pass
over 2, y, a double crochet in each
of the next 2, 2 double crochets with
a chain between them in the chain
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
PE-RU-NA CURED HIM..
Cold Affected Head and Throat
Attack was Severe.

Chas. W. Bowman, LIST Lieut.. and
Adjt. 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols, writes
from Lanham, Md, as follows:
Though somewhat averse to pat
ent medicines, and still more averse
to becoming a professional AFFIDAVIT
man, 1t seems only a plain duty in
the present instance to add my ex-
p~erience to the columns already writ
ten concerning the curative powers
of Perunas
~ have been particularly benefited
by Its use for colds In the head and
throat. have been able to fully cure
myself of a most severe attack In.
forty-eight hours by its use according
to directions. Iuse Ii as a preventive
whenever threatened with an attack.
Members of my family also S
it for like ailments. We are recon
mending it to our friends"
-Chas. W. Bowman.
Ask Your Druggist for Free Pernna
Almanac for 1907.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-17
Pretty to Make for Infant

last stitch but one and work a double
crochet in the end stitch, turn with
l cnsin, and repeat this for 80 rows
(16 ribs). place the two sides care
fully together, and join with single
crochet. Round the top: Work a
double crochet on the top stitch OF
the seam, pass to the stitch at the
top of the next rib and work into it 5
trebles, with a chain between each;
a double crochet on the next rib, 5
trebles, with a chain between each on
the next, and repeat all round.
Top row.: 1 chain, a single crochet
in the back thread of the nearest stitch,
one chain, a single crochet in the next
stitch, one chain, and repeat into
every stitch all round the top Of
the boot; 10 chain, catch it to the
point of the rib on which the nearest
scallop is worked, 10 chain, carry
it upwards again and catch it to the
stitch between the scallops, 10 chain
down to the point on the next rib,
and repeat all round.
For the Foot.
Work a double crochet into each of
the 10 middle stitches across the
front, turn with 1 chain, a double cro-
Chef in the end stitch, a double cro-
Chef in the next, 2 double crochets
with a chain between in the next,
a double crochet in each of the next
4, 2 double crochets with a chain be-
tween in the next, and n on each of
the remaining 2 stitches, turn with
/ chain double crochet OF the end
stitch. pass 1. double crochet on next
Q double crochets with a chain be-
tween the double crochets; a double
crochet in each of the next 2, pass
2, double crochet on each of the next
2, 2 double crochets with chain be-
tween in the chain, double crochet on
next, pass 1, double crochet on end,
turn and repeat this row IA times q
ribs), then a row Of double GRO
chefs only, passing I'VE the Q chain
stitches, another row of s double GRO
chefs and fasten off. Recommends at
the seam. Work a double crochet in
each stitch right round the leg and
front of boot. Repeat this row 6
times, then decrease 2 by passing over
a stitch on each side of the middle OF
the toe; decrease each of the next
3 rows in the same way, and for the
next decrease 2 at the heel as we'll;
turn and join on the inside with single
crochet.
Tie around the ankle with chain and
tassels made of the wool used double.