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toners had an attack of rheumatism last
winter and while she was laid up she asked
me 10 come and exercise her dog. l didn't
nave the time. but l recommended my
friend, and from that beginning now she
has quite a number of dogs that she takes
out for "A walk everyday"
1t seemed very q at first" said the
friend. who isthe blonde of the trio, to take
out dogs. You see. an the year before l had
been working my way by taking little girls
To and from school. last year several of
my little charges were sent OH 10 boarding
school sOon after Chris mas. 80 ! found my
self with more time than ! needed for my
studies on my hands and tess money than
would cover my expenses. Though / knew
next to nothing about dogs. l was fond Of
them, so | determined To try exercising that
one at least. At the end of my second walk
with my first dog patron 1 made up my mind
to try 20 get others. Through an intro
duction from my friend ! got all the dogs
owned by her clients.
"Inow have six girls whom ! take TO school
and ten dogs that / exercise. DO you
know how | kill two birds with one stone?
Before gathering up the girls in the morn
ing l gather up five of the dogs. then we all
go to school together. IL is a lot of fun
really for both the girls and the dogs. In
the afternoon l TAX -four of the other dogs.
and again the girls are ready to rOmp with
them. The other dog is vicious and l never
risk taking him either with the girls or the
other dogs. He has to be taken alone, bur
his mistress pays double.
Across the hall in the same fiat house
live three more girls who are working their
way. One il from Pennsylvania. one from
Texas and the third from the upper part
of New York State. The New York girl
was the first TO ak about her way special
of earning money!
Il clean p%arlora.- she explained. Il
suppose you might call me a visiting parIor
maid. for that il just what | am. In the
apartment hotels the chambermaids either
nave 80 much to do or are so ignorant that
they never give an apartment more than a
skimming over. There are many ladies'
who live in apartment hotels who while
they cannot AFFORD to keep a personal maid
are willing tO@pay some one to come once
a week to give their FOOms a thorough
cleaning. There 1 come in.
Il prefer TO go ono a week for the simple
reason that = room is easier cleaned that is
cleaned once a week than II it is allowed
to go twice IA long. 1 try when possible
to select the day previous to the one on
which my client receives her friends. Some
times that is impossible and 1 have 20 do
the best 1 can. My work consists in sweep
ing, busting, wiping pictures and bric-a-
brac, washing on and fertilizing the house
plants and in many instances attending
10 bird cages
wW "
field in the apartment houses with Kitchen
cites as a cook and general housewOrker.
She has all the work she can do and de-
clares that she is we'll paid for it.
There are a good many women in New
York living in small apartments that for
one cause or another DO not keep a girl
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who are very glad to re, some one to come
in once or twice a week TO clean up and do
% little baking and fancy cooking" the
Pennsylvania girl ,~eXplnined. "0f course
there are many women and girls who go out
to do such work by the day and the hour
and many of them charge ,ess than | do.
but none Of them. at lGIst none OF whom
| have ever heard. ran baRe cakes and cook
a really good d%inTer."
My work il buying and selling second
hand lacCs and iewelry." The girl from
TeXas admitted. Il didn't originate he
work. ii might be called an Inheritance,
suppose. This is my third year I'm college
aud my secOnd ia the business. The frat
year that ! came 10 Aew York uheg girl who
occupied the room that new sleep in
bought and sold second hand lace to pay her
way through college and as she finished that
year and knew that 1 Yves looking for work
she turned II over 20 me. r
My method Is TO -end out cards teEipg
just what I aim 10 90, 70 sell and buy old
lace and jcwelry, Rv old / dOn't .Iean in
years. bar simply lJcc and iDwelrv chat has
been used have MN " Offers of lace n
jcwelrT ga J never think Of even calling
10 see. iCf he stumble reason that | haven't
the time. Most Of NV customers arc lace
members who after they mend and clean the
laces Oher them 10 customers of their own.
Unless enc has had experience she would
be surprised nc the size of the business thai
IL done in New York buying and selling old
Iaces. | know at least a dozen lace mend
ing establishments that keep several
members regularly employed.
Most of nv laces are bought from the
maids OF wealthy women. though l have
several dealers ~ second hand clothes who
give me the refusal Of all laces that are
bought on their handsome gowns and
coats. ! understand that at one time hand
some. sometimes even real lace was bought
in that way. Vow people are toO wise.
When the lace Of y gown is really costly the
maid vino sells The gown takes IL on and
replaces it by o cheaper quality
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the constantly increasing Latin American
trade. These people buy largely and are
quick to notice and adopt any novelty OF
gowning. They drive a great dea and
~patronize the sightseeing coaches, which
nave often a Spanish "tooter" on board for
their benefit.
10 They do not frequent the theatres much,
but are never known to miss an operatio
performance. Many of them are enter
tanned by the residents OF the Spanish col
ony. These entertainments often take
place at the Spanish Club, which meets at
the Hotel Marie Antoinette and which has
a ladies' day once a month.
One of the permanent exiles here con-
tends that the constant travel back and
forth is having a very appreciable effect on
the manner and customs of the visitors.
For instance, formerly il was not usual for
an unmarried girl to go out with a young
man unless chaperoned. In New York the
young people of the Spanish colony are
allowed the same privilege that the Ameri-
can girl enjoys. and she IL often seen at the
theatres and other places Of amusement
escorted by some masculine friend Of the
family, a custom which is being adopted in
the southern countries more and more.
There was a time, too. when the Spanish
woman undoubtedly suffered by comparison
with her American contemporary and when
she had reached middle & had forfeited
nearly every claim she had to good looks and
grace. Having accomplished marriage, she
was apt to think hat the be-all and end-aIl
OF existence. Now she has changed he,
point Of view and il az tenacious Of her
good looks as any other woman.
h has not. however. reached the point
OF complete emancipation which ia evil
denced by an independent career. The
Spanish American women are with rare
exceptions home women. and az the men
ton Of the word club they either laugh
as at something intensely amusing or wave
the suggestion aside as something as prob
lematic as the airship transit question.
They are content. as one OF them asserted,
TO enjoy the aides days az the clubs OF
their husbands, fathers and brothers for
the present. although one who was recently
in the Argentine Republic Inc was loud
in praise OF the culture and progressive
ness of the people of Buenos Ayres de-
scribed h woman's club there as an in
teresting place. counting many charming
women on is membership list and having
an undoub:ed social prestige.
IT Spanish residents here are very
hospitable TO the South American and
West Indian visitors and during the season
many entertainments are given in their
honor. Any one who is fortunate enough
TO be admitted into this community nav
be impressed at once with the lavish dis
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American friend that II would be better 10
compromise their differences;
what. compromised Why, W can have
four revolutions in the time II would eakb 10
effect one compromise"
Another story In Of an American Journalist
cut OF work. who told an editor that he was
a war correspondent and would like 10 Do
sent TO South America.
But there is no revolution there at preB-
enti' objected the editor.
-Oh. 1 know that" the journalist said.
shut, IL you'll send me, III start cue IN two
hours"
I'VE are so used TO the subject Of South
American rsvolutions.' said the pNlpristor
Of a spanish American hotel. STRAIT we
simply laugh. at their announcement. but
they are tragic enough TO thOee concerned.
However. a smile may be permitted when
1 tell you as a fact that in leas than q month
this last year 1 saw four successive PresN
dents OF the same South American republic
enter this hotel foyer"
But most OF the visitors from Latin
America are not revOluEionists. Rich mer-
chants, planters and men OF leisure really
represent the travelling class. They nay
he less interesting. but they are better
appreciated by hotel men, shop keepers
and business men generally than the revO-
lutionists. Thus the proprietor Of the
Hotel America is quite rank in saying
that he does not desire the patronage Of
revolutionists.
Great bluffs" he denOminates them.
The usual Spanish party consists of tn :
parents or other relatives and a number
OF young people. The feminine contingent
display wonderful gowns. especially II. as
often happens, they ave just landed from
the French steamer. The older women
nave handsome figures and colorful skins
contradicting the notion that Latin Ameri-
can women go 10 pieces early.
Such n party would probably be found
to be regular patrons of The hotel and to
come year after year. If there are boys in
the party the chances are that they are
TO be put in school. for there is scarcely
a private school Of note in New York that
has not a number Of Latin American pupils.
A few have as ma ny as fifty on their rolls.
1t is desirable that boys should learn the
language and the business methods here.
40 the parents say. but il is observed that
this rule does not apply to the girls. who
are still more guarded in their nome life
than American girls.
Many Of the hotels have Spanish inter-
prefers OF their stats at present, and the
stores nave also added them with a view to
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always bad. II the woman who is too fat
will stop drinking with her meals she will
soon discover a decrease in her weight.
But the physical culture, dIrectress
cannot control all tastes and all appetites.
and she il forced 10 adapt her treatment
10 individual cases. the woman who
will not do without drink with her meals
must be treated in some other way.
First I try 20 persuade her moi to eat
sweets, but sweet things are TO some women
the very essence Of ifes and when you cut
OF their sugars you cut OF their ambition.
The muscles do not seem TO work with
viRor when once the sweets are cut On.
children need sweets. 90 do old persons;
and 40, unfortunately. do a vast number OF
grown up people. TAT persons especially.
60 the physical culturist rs up against It.
She must find s~omsthing that 10 agree
able TO her clientele and at the same time
nIexinG. Il is solved by physical culture.
~Now, the woman who thinks she can
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ODD TRADES OF STUDENTS
CLEiNING SHOES rs THE SPE-
CIALTY or ONE GTRI,

while Another Exercises Dogs and Guides
Children to ChOOI- Caring for Apart
msnt ParIOrS and RUyIng anu Selling
Second Hand I.aces Keep others IsllsS
Ii is said hat at least one-tenth of the
women now studying in New York city are
working their own way and that those
who have sought and found new fields are
~ n Tple earning more money than the
women employed along regular lines.
Il arm a visiting bOotblack," declared the
smallest Of a trio OF Western girls who are
now occupying q small fiat on the upper
West Side. Yes. ! do other things beside
black boots. but II was tina particular
branch Of my trade which attracted atten-
ton and got me my clientele. | mend and
clean gloves and renovate the wardrobes
Of men, women, children and dogs.
Dogs? Well, | should say l did attend
to dogs clothes. Why. I'm valet 10 four
Of the finest dogs in the city. or at least
that Is what their owners tell me. II
had TO start again / am not a bit sure |
wouldn't announce myself on my cards as a
visiting dog valet.
What gave me the idea Of being a visiting
bOOtblack2 Well. when | came here 10
New YOrk-when | FIRST struck the town /
mean IL was To visit a friend who, having
married a New York man. was here and
living in an apartment hotel. I visited
her while her husband was on a trip and
from the time ( arrived TO the day / left
that woman was everlastingly complaining
about her shoes.
There was a bootblack in her apartment
hotel. to be sure. but he was so expensive.
That is. he was expensive when you con-
slider the tips. I learned also that there
were several shops in town where a woman
can get her shoes polished for nothing.
hut, she explained. no woman would ever
have the bravery to leave the chairs without
making il up in a tip TO the boy Then
beside the expense was the trouble OF re-
Numbering TO send your shoes down.
knowing that what one woman needs in
n large city others are apt to need also |
made up my mind what 1 should try for.
My method was TO go to prosperous looking
apartment hotels and after finding out the
names Of a few of the residents send up my
card. You see my car reads. Visiting
b~ootblack and valet
my clients all admit hat it was the boot
black that attracted them. Once 1 got
an audience with a woman my cause was
won. She would turn over her own and her
husbands wardrobe to me at n stipulated
price TO be paid weekly.
when l valet for dogs? Oh. that is a
simple matter. ] only press and keep in
repair their blankets or various articles Of
adornment. N blanket or coat doesn't
ht them then 1 do a little tailoring for the
beasts. II is not unpleasant work. as all
the dogs on my lists are bathed and exer-
cised by my friend. One Of my hest Gus
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the person who IL reducing by Japanese
methods must take a Japanese warm wate-
bath ZACH day. followed by a japanese
pinching massage, which is a series OF tiny
nips all over the body. This takes OF the
fat in little nips or softens the flesh so that
It is easily reduced.
-The massage rollers. even the home
made kind, are good. Tor they dig into the
flesh and make L soft. so that i6 IL easily
taken on.
-One Of my best exercises is rope jumping.
Jumping the rope takes the fat on the ribs.
IL makes one breathe deeply. and deep
breathing will reduce the fat on the ribs.
work will TAX the fat of the abdomen,
work Of q certain kind. | make my pupils
reach over their heads with n brush taking
the cobwebs on the ceiling and using the
arms with vigor. II IL good for the abdom-
ina muscles.
"StOoping over Is excellent for the fat
that aCcumulates in the shoulder blades.
| make my pupils q over until the fat
begins to drop on the shoulders"
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walk of her weight is mistaken. II can
not be done. Thu policeman, who is con-
stantly on his feet. is heavy. The house
worker who Is on her feet all day is nearly
always numbered among the stout sister
hood. And the street laborer il fat.
1T isn't exercise alone that takes OF
weight; it IL exercise and something else.
The letter carrier is thin. lii walks
continually and he carries a load. He ex-
ercises the muscles OF his Jack and ribs.
and here is where the fat comes honest.
IF q fat woman should take a letter car
rier's load and walk his walk every day.
day in and day out, rain or shine. early
and late, for one month she would lose
weight.
The getting up early in The morning
would be one thing; the short time allowed
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for meals would be another; the anxiety
az to the safety Of the burden would be a
third factor in losing weight and the con-
slant strain o the back and ribs, the
hips. the abdomen and the legs would COM
plete the work. IL would not be injurious,
but 10 certainly would be thinning.
The trouble with women who walk
is that they do not walk in the right way.
They dress in tight clothing, the shoes are
snug. the waist is taut and the muscles are
bound with many a string and lacing.
The results are obvious. Tn muscles
cannot exercise. They are tied down tight
and the fat ~accumulates.
1T is easy to exercise in ones own room
II n will persist in It. The trouble il
that IL IL monotonous. Few women will
keep 10 up.'
Queen Alexandra rides an automatic
horse. and the Czarina has an artificial
rowboat; the lovely Marie OF Rumania
has a bicycle which is stationary and upon
which she can pedal miles without stirring
out Of her gymnasium, and Queen Helene
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exchanging n few conventional remarks.
directing these 10 n great extent to the
strangers present. There is always music.
and when this egius the restraint vanishes
for a time, the men come in. choose their
partners for the dance, and soOn young
and old are moving slowly. dangerously
about with non Of the liveliness OF the
American twostep and waltz.
The dance over, the men return TO their
room and the women become wall flowers
again, keeping mp II lsnguid and impersonal
conversation urtil the next dance. After
supper the restraint vanishes completely
and just rs the carriages are called the
party is really warmed up and the iciness
Of the initial hours has vanished.
What we don't like" said one Of thepro-
f~essional men whose life work has been
among these people, els he attachments
we form 10 some charming man who comes
here exiled for life for some political Of
fence. We lake him into our hearts and
homes and presto' in a Few weeks there is "A
change OF administration and he comes %
say gOod-by."
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beheld her for six weeks. spread his palette
and picked up his brushes. Suddenly
after a sweeping glance at her he threw
Town his colOrs.
you have grown stout said he. L
cannot paint you. Go away, but come
again when you ire n more thin
This goes to show that to the artists eye
the slightest gain in flesh is apparent.
This brings me to the main topic
Of my discourse. namely. how TO reduce
once you nave grown fat.
THE Germans are the hardest to reduce
because they drink too much. l do not
refer TO alcoholic stimulants. but to all
sorts and conditions Of liquids.
"The German woman seems to be born
with a thirst. and what makes IL worse in
that she drinks with her meals. This is
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says it he will nonchalantly drop the card
Of some commission house that deals ex-
clusively in firearms and recover it. with
much seeming embarrassment.
Follow the South Americans from the
steamers and you will snd them going to
certain hotels which with few exCep ons
lie in a narrow zone bounded by Sixteenth
street on the north m Thirteenth street
on the south. A small percentage go to
the Spanish boarding houses in the Sixties.
West, where there is a permanent Spanish
American colony.
A trip from one Of these hotels to another
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One new YORK SEASON ENDING
THL LAIN AMERICANS ARE NOW
HOWEWARD HOUND.

Fe1 Fhousand or Them Have Been Mare
THIS ' eRr-A Few R-evOEulOnsSts Among
Them New Works. Permanent Colony
~ spanish BIOOd-wAys OF the visitors.
Il ia estimated that during the Spanish
American season now ending. that is. from
AMI ~ November. at least ten thousand
Spanish Americans have visited New York.
They come from Cuba and the other West
Indian islands. Mexico and Central and
south America. ..t
Some Of them are young planters who
have made their first money In sugar
cane. tobacco or coffee and have appar-
rnrly heard that the primrose path along
the treat White Way has many pleasant
tollgaies Again there are wary parents
with pretty daughters, old stagers, who
come back year after year. and statesmen
who have political aspirations not too care
fully concealed abOut them and DISGUISE
the ammunition crop as "A New England
farmer talks Of the hay output.
Many Of these travellers in the early
sImmer have Saratoga OF the A~dirondacks
on their itinerary and pass through New
York hurTiedly rs if afraid Of the tempta-
tons which will meet and detain them.
A. least half only tarry a day or so before
setting III for Europe. .
The outgoing steamers nov bound for
The south ave the last Of the voyagers
on board. and many Of their passengers
show the very latest cry from the Rue de
n PaiN. Regent street and Piccadilly in
their smart gowns. while others nave trunks
and boxes filled with their purchases in the
shops or Broadway and Fifth avenue.
Ask any'o the political celebrities con-
corning another revolution and ten chances
70 one he says. -Nothin' doin'. but he does
IL with an air Of one suggesting the calm
preceding the hurricane. Perhaps as he
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ThIeyInE Rarl,rr,s Trick.

From me Minneapolis Journal.
There's a queer and nasty kind OF criminal
that We call the barber thief said the de-
tective. ~He Ia a -joHrneyman barber who
lifts your scarfpin while shaving Won.
These rascaLs have learned somehow or
other TO shave and haircut fairly vel. They
go everywhere in the rush ~season--Cali-
Rornia or Florida In winter. Atlantic City In thu
summer, and SO on and there the over
worked boss barber. with hands scarce. h
only too glad TO take them on. and to take
them on without references.
III doesnt take a clever barber thief long
to make n good haul. In n day In Sarakogn
one OF these men lifted ont Of m~lnionaires'
and sports ~neckties diamonds and Daarla
60 the value Of SS.OOO.-
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wrong V,gn for the Plsre.

FFOW IT. Z. T.
Prof. Huxley vas once surprised nv hcinR
asked 10 preside az a meeting OF The Anti
Tobacco League He Scceptedthe invitation.
and was heartily greeted by the large audi
ence, In his speech be told IN ane0iOte OF a
visit he pad tO-anOther scientist to discuss a
recent discovery. and they agreed on ar sub
iects except one.
My friend continued huxley. was a
great smoker, while ! hated tobacco IN any
form. Great aDplatsn.D On one occasion
when nearly guhoCfted by nay friends cigar
smoke. / eXpostulated with him. but he pushed
self. old olan; its the best remedy Re-
mCtaDtly | took Oneand smoked L.. And since
earth would induce me-tfrantic aDpiause)-
to fOreRO my after dinner smoke.
The learned gentleman was never again
asked 10 preside a. a similar gathering.