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and dozens OF new chamber and dining
suits. That she will fall an easy prey To
their attractions Is vouched for by a sales
man OF twenty years experience.
Unlike the European housekceper. this
man says. the American has no
sentimental objections to changing her
house furniture every few months, One
reason doubtless is the lack of heirlooms.
The American woman continues to spend
for furniture, with the result that the
manufacturer continue 10 flourish.
According to the salesman referred 10
one retail furniture concern Of New York
sold in four weeks preceding September
nearly u quarter million dollars worth
Of furniture. and nearly every stick OF IL
was of domestic make.
There is a belief" said this man. that
American made furniture 10 not 10 we'll
made as that sent from European markets,
that American workmen are less skilful
than workmen on tho other aide. We
have customers who will buy nothing of
domestic make. Those persons are both
right and wrong.
Take art nouveau furniture made by
hand and carved by hand and America
can't hold a candle to Europe, for the
reason partly hat skilled labor over here
Ia 90 much dearer that tho cost Of pro-
duction would be far greater. But only a
small percentage Of the art i've style
OF furniture Is bought in New York. Il il
more and more the custom for travelled
New Workers. to buy IL in Europe.
Leather work, too, and many examples
OF leather chairs are made better In Europe
than hero. even TO the big morocco down
stuffed kind. fashionable nov for library
and dining rooms. We keep in stock the
best Of the imported and Of the domestic
make and the difference In quality 10 quits
apparent.
But whore machinery IL used tie different
In every largo city OF the world maohinery
10 used o In furniture making. and wher
IL comes TO . question OF machinery Americs
leads bv q good deal. Nearly every New
York furniture mousse keeps some imported
machine made goods In stock. and wher
shown side by side with the American dupli.
oates even I can't see much difference. and
the wearing qualities Of n are just 40 good
a. those Of the other.
Twenty years ago ! couldn't have
said that. The imported article still costs
more thar the domestic on account OF the
81 Der cent. duty,
Just now domestic furniture 10 nearly &c
per cent. higher than 1t was two year, ago,
enormous and quite out Of proportion to the
increase In population. Persons Of ordinary
means are spending moro for furniture and
demanding more artistic furniture than
they used 20 and they ara getting Il, too.
Ten years ago even the majority OF ordi-
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nary price chiffoniers were Of yellow oak
and nothing else. Persons Of moderate
bought oak dining and bed room
suits Of plain wood finished in oak grain
and OF lyrical American pattern ard
ties OF ordinary oak furniture are made and
sold. but the person OF moderate means
doesn't buy IL. He wants something more
distinctive. more artistic.
"Housekeepers now talk Of periods and
styles Of woods. n the oak they select
10 dressed up out of all resemblance to its
humber relations. Instead Of carr, ing
in stock half a dozen styles, say In 'he more
expensive chifoniers and dining suites and
two or three In the commoner lines. we now
are obliged to keep just a. many artistic
examples in n a In the other and \ far
larger variety Of tho medium than e the
Other.
what causc the change? The cus-
toners themselves. not the manufacturers.
and Indirectly the periodicals and news
papers which make q feature Of giving adj
vice on tho subject Of house furnishing,
1 q dG;sp o yssr 'o. sES thu .hssc N, seEs% to Ss
the. gave, shoppers would descend on a
clerk asking for furniture OF a certain make
q particular kind OF ood u get cross
when they couldn't find them.
time and time again I have soothed
one and another young h~ousekeeper nv
she described Al such times the iirm
always stood by me n before long We had
a good many sue orders. and taking our
we began to keep that sort Of furniture
in stock.
.Other dealers did the same. debating
the result that to-day the latter turn out
even in furniture Of quite low coat designs
OF almost any period and calculated TO APP
peal to seekers after novelty.
Michigan IL h greatest furniture making
state. but from almost every state come
designs s~ani-annually which appeal 10 New
"The Morris chair Ia essentially an
American productive export many ~
them 70 other countries--but barring that
one design there are few articles OF nirnl-
ture now In the market but owe something
tunstely for the trade the New York woman
10 ch~angeable and the styles in favor on'
year are not always in demand the next.
For example this season mahogany y
more popular than IL has been in thirte
year.. specially In dining and bedroom.
rooms And the Colonial period leads.
with the Georgian period second. There
Ia little difference between them In looks,
The Crunweilian period m third;
IN this the columns are s%erpentine ana
brass knobs are used instead 81 glass
somer In mahogany than In almost any
other wood. AZ any rate at present We
are sending out uncommonly large orders
OF mahogany furniture of high grade,
Tho Adam and the sheraton style arc
the CromweIlisn, are carried out very suc-
ceasfuly In dark oak. But In and near
NeW York city customers who can
AFFORD y ere ~clannoripg for MAHOGANY furni'
turs OF the Coionialo o. Georgian period
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The SCHOOL TEACHERS LOT
CONDITIONS Nov AND THIRTY
YEARS AGO COMPARED.

Dr. Thomas Hunter Replies 10 Those Who
Think That Women School Teachers
GrumbIe and Explains Why Their
work u Harder Than II lsesi 10 lie.
About 10000 trunks belonging to
public school teachers and principals went
out Of Greater New York during the last
two days Of June. The same 10000 trunks
came back again during the last ia va Of
the first week in September. Meanwhile
many another wagee Garner envied the owners
Of the trunks their long vacation.
The 10, 600 included veterans and beginners
women who nave watched New York grow
up m women young enough to be their
granddaughter. and curiously enough the
point Of view Of all of them who said any,
thing about the possibilities and privileges,
the disadvantages and unple~asantnesses of
a teachers work was almost exactly the
same. Judging from their remarks, there
are two sides to the proposition that COM
pared with the woman public school teacher
Of thirty or more years ago she OF 1907 has
q soft snap-a proposition advanced lust
now by many persons who are not school
teachers.
These outsiders incline TO the belief that
atiOh Ohit "hkV ~ tHC DlDllV
school teacher Ia the least ~contented with
her lot. that she is a chronic grumbler.
Like the female mosquito remarked
a ma VIII lives on Staten Island and I'M
officially is Interested in the educational
affairs OF that borough. "the female public
school teacher generally nag to keep
herself aggressively before the public.
AZ most people know. 1t is the female
mosquito that attends 20 all the singing
and stinging done by the family.
Think Of the short hours, the long
summer vacation. the saturdays an and
no end Of holidays which fall to the teachers
lot nowadays. n yet she il not happy
not nearly 30 happy as was the old time
teacher, who got about half az many holi-
Y and half as much pay.
Strange. isn't itp Give the women
public school teachers the earth, say /.
and they would ask to have a fence put
around IT,"
The staten Islanders sentiments are
echoed by many. They present one side
u the proposition.
Don't go To a woman teacher. DO 10
Q man. some one who knows all the outs
and ms Of the school system by actual
experience the Staten Islander had re-
pIed 10 a suggestion that probably the
otner side VI tho story would BE- different.
Acting on this suggestion, DR.. Thomas
hunter. who fifty years g was teaching
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taking his life in the most matter Of fact
way. as il he did il every week or two.
Finally one OF the middle West NOM
bers OF the party-the middle West il So
deadly practical!-said that il he appear red
AZ Lucerne and spoiled that for us by fiirt-
ing with the girl. who said she couldn't
help it. she would send him a despatch
saying his wife knew all and was on her
way To meet him. We asked her how she
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trimmed balcony. His joy was short lived
for while the scarlet coated orchestra
was playing a Neapolitan love song At
Dime the waiter brought in a blue some
thing on a silver salver.
The Frenchman read IL. gave one
de~pairing look at the girl who couldn't
help Il. flew from the room a. IL the science
OF aerial navigation had been solved and
W. never Aaw him again.
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understands that a few brilliant students
in a class will help To lift nv a large com
pany Of stupid ones. and similarly in morals
and ma ners the same thing is bound TO
occur"
And the effect on the 10 per cent.--will
IL not he bad?"
by no means. Time and time again
have noticed girls Of polish and refinement
gain in strength, courage and Performance
10y coming in close contact FOR a term with
~rougl,er, stronger. lcss refined classmatesand
without losing any of their finer qualities. '
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-02-27
Hotel Paris

.oJO" Ell aqua mineral natural de VILAJUIGA, es
remedo las intermediates del Es6mago Dspep
maas dijesOnes Su sabor agradabe
como comn Este para est6mago hay
en- caas de botellas de o botelas sueas las
Icasas siguientes
MAYAGUEZ, don E. Franco
PONCE, Hotel Colmado de don B. Melia
AGUADILLA Farmacia de don J. ]. Font.
AREC1BO, Hotel LAS Baeares" Cafe de los Sres Mir
IOrpi Ca.
FAJARDO. Farmaca de don Luis Ordonez
GUAYAMA Sres, Freiria Hnos.
CAGUAS, Sr Ambroso Machuca
MANATI. Sres. ]. Padr6 Ca.
HUMACAO, don Aurelio Ramirez
MAUNABO Fa1macia de don lose G. Sugranes
CAROLINA. Sres Arsuaga Ca.
CANOVANAS. Sres Fernandez Sobrinos.
SAN JUAN Farmaca Colon, de don R. Almazan Sucesores
de Fernandez hermano Sucesoes Sobrino Fernandez
Garcia Perez Ca don Jose Fernandez don Francisco Carero
|y sus agentes generates F. Font hermano
Precio en- todas parties 30 ctvs. botea de 1litro.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-02-27
InfOrne del tempo
sxASA (ui fERyso EL Z, Ds FgBREae

Generalmente reino un tempo nu-
blado durante los tres primeros dfas
de la scmana, excepto en- algunas To-
calidades de las divisiones Sur Oes-
te. Los dfas. 20, II y % fueron nota-
blemente claros y calurosos. Ell dfa
g Ell tempo fue claro en- Ell lado
Norte, pero nublado y amenazador en-
la parte Oeste y Suroeste de la Isla.
Reinaron vientos extraordinariame en-.
te fojos. La velocidad mayor del
viento en- San Juan fue IS millas por
hora; del Este, Ell dfa II.
La temperature media en- la isla
fue 72.3o, que eS I.7o Sobre la de la
.semana anterior y cerca de I.oo bajo
el promedio de los ocho af1os pa
sados.
Las temperatures de los d1as 20 y
81 fueron onsiderablemente sobre Ell
promedio, pero los tres prim eros dfas
de la Semana fueron muChO mas ba-
jos del promedio. ~
La temperature mas alta que han
informado fue 900 en- Mayagiiez el
dia 81, y en- Ia Central Aguirre ell
.dia 3.
La temperature mas baja, $50
ocurrjo en- Lares, ell dia q. De las
estaciones que han informado, la
temperature mas alta promedi6 76 Q !,
en- Can6vanas y Ponce, y la mas baja,
go, en- Aibonito.
Ell promedio de la precipitation en-
la isla fue LA pulgadas, que es GER
ca de tres veces la cantidad usual en-
esta estaci6n del aflo.
La cantidad mayor semanal que
han informado fue 3.o2 pulgadas en-
Manati; Ia menor, o.26 pulgadas, en-
Cayey, y o.4o pulgadas en- dos esta-
clones mas.
En- la division Norte la precipita-
cion consisti6 en- ligeros y amodera-
dos aguaceros, y ocurrieron por 10
general, durante los tres primeros
dias de la semana.
Ocurrieron refre scantes aguacer oS
en- toda la division Oeste y la parte
Oeste de la division Sur, el dia p.
En- algunas estaciones la lluvia del
dia 3 fue enteramente fuerte, en-
dicho dia Sc registro mas de una pull
2ada en- Iuana DiaZ, COlOSO, Af1ascO
y San German.
En- la parte Este de Ia division Sur
los aguaceros fueron repartidos y
mucho mas ligeros.
La siguiente tabla demuestra la
variaci6n de temperature y la cantl-
dad de precipitation EN- estaciones
determinadas:
fESPER.TTRA PRECI-
Pl1ACIok
N.x;r. Hn;u. NsA, G.uanal
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PIE r C LOTT

r, famoso novelista Pierre Lott ha
1,aoado al Cairo y en- dicha ciudad
nermanecera sels meses oedlc"uo q
rscr,plr una Fnovela que oe tltulaia
..Au pied des Pyramides.
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an aristocratic vendeuse. and lunching alone
being an impossibly trite affair. each day she
pays off sundry debts of hospitality by liberal
Invitations to share the meal-at the functions
expense.
Flowers make stall so much more attract
i've" remarks another excellent woman; and
promptly orders liberal supply OF choice speci-
mems, three-fourths being sent to her house
where dance is being given. the payment of
the whole coming out Of the expenses"
1T would be positively wicked to lose that
fine old dragon china!" observes a dowager to
whom two valuable jars have been given for
sale at a bazaar; and when they figure among
her daughters wedding presents under the
label. THE Bride. from her Mother" friends Of
the family like the historical parrot. think
good deal. but say nothing
OF course, the social status of the offenders
SO long they piIfer from that abstraction, "a
charitable object" and leave intact the belong
ings of their friends-render their offerings alb
soutely safe. Can any one accuse the wearer
Of a coronet of anything so paltry as the pocket
ing of cab fares? What are several dozens Of
pairs Of gloves to the owner of a Scotch moor
and house in Mayfair?
Yet these things seem snail compared with
others related by this observer. young woman
of good social position and inadequate dress all
lowance collected diligently, it seems, through
last spring and summer for "a very deserving
object" and friends troubIesomely anxious to
know more were made ashamed of their unfeel-
ing curiosity by the reply: I'm awfully sorry,
but / really can't give you any particulars! It
would be much too painful. One OF our own
class, too, you know That enterprising young
woman bought herself a set of furs at the begin
ming Of the winter which the envy of all
her friends, and few years ago she negotiated
necklace on similar lines.
A similar Is fhaf NJ ba1o
on grand scale in London some time ago. All
the stallholders were persons holding a high So
claI station, and to all appearance the affair was
great success; yet, to the intense wonderment
and acute disappointment of many peopIe the
financial result was miserably Disappointing II
was singular coincidence, much commented
upon privately at the time that sundrv vast
been UNFORTUNATELY dunned for long standing
debts, shortly afterward had their hearts re-
checks.
1t is worthy OF note also that. while feather
ing their own nests literally from the proceeds
or their charitable enterprises, these aristocratIc
phllanthroplsts have no scruples whatever about
asking gratuitous services from musicians and
singers who live by the exercise Of their art and
Wno when they make actual sacrifices Of time
ana money, 40 not have their own cab fares and
clean gloves paid for. except out Of their own
hardly earned cash.
All this, concludes the writer is another arpu-
ment against the raising of money bv such
doubtful means as bazaars and entertainments
II people would give without waiting until the
money is extorted from them by such methods
they might have some assurance that their aims
were not being used 10 line pockets for which
they were not intended
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Waldorf Astoria stand. besides the tickets IN
charge or the numerous patrons.
Miss Helen Varick Boswell OF the National Civic
Federation has just returned from a three weeks
visit in Washington. While there she gave three
lectures Industrial conditions. which large
" attended by persons prominent In the official
apd social life of Washington. Miss Boswell who
represented the welfare department. showed the
contrasting conditions existing IN different indus
tries to-day. 1t was said by many who attended
the lectures that in Washington itself there
neG TOT welfare work as In many OF the
there is need Of reform along the lines of santa
tlon rest rooms and hospital rooms.
euchre and bridge whist will be given at the
Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday evening. February 10
at o'clock. by the Knickerbocker Relief Club. OF
which Mrs Camille Birnbohm is president Tickets
are 81 each and can be obtained from any member
of the club. The proceeds as usual will DO devoted
10 the immediate relief OF needy cases brought to
the attention of the society.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic S. Goodwin. Of No 4s7
Central Park West. have issued invitations ~ n
twentieth century banquet OF uncooked foods 70
be given next Saturday evening at o'clock Their
studio Will be turned into a banquet hall and covers
VIII De lald Tor sixty A novel and delicious menu
most enjoyable time is anticipated ImmediateiY
sneakeTs re W. o NUE. 20 which number OF noted
The guests of honor at the annual braat,os, -
the New York Section of the Council Of Ia",s,'
Women which will take place next Thursdav az
noon at the Hotel Majestic. West Seventy-second
street. rs VIII be be Mrs A. n Cohen. Mrs Julius Beer
me honorary vice presidents OF the club ANON,
MIS- Belle de Rivera, Mrs Tunis X Bergen and
there was a great rally Of ciubwouen at +ha
Hotel Astor on the occasion OF the annual racan
uon OF the Rainy Day Club on Wednesday after
noon AT hrst 1t was feared the thing would be a
i'ure on account OF the blocking OF transit facili-
ties by the storm on Tuesday, but in due course OF
une the Rainy Daisies and their friends began to
urn up IN trailing robes OF silk velvet quite
unconscious, apparently. that there were surb
Things as storms or short skirts In existence Thera
was programme of music and refreshments Usrc
served from a table decorated with little blue and
WAIte uthbrellaS or spun sugar The president Mrs
IA ralner was assisted in receiving by the Wis
mond. president of the State Federation. Miss
MARY Garrett Hay. president of the Daughters OF
ihuiana; Mrs. Margaret Holmes Bates president OF
the Daughters of Ohio; Mrs. Harry Waiiersten
PRESIDENT or the Rubinstein Club; Mrs. Clarence
6 sF president Of the Little Mothers Aid Assoe
Ciauoni Mrs. William Grant Brown President Of
ME- Me- Woman s West End Republican Association;
tn sara a rainier president OF the Shakespear-
lana Siun; Mrs. Alice Fisher Harcourt president OF
Twelfth Night, and Mira. susanna Leonard Went.
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IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS.
Mr.. Sargent Advocates Medical Inspection
Before People Emigrate.

At the close of lecture on Immigration Prob
lens yesterday, before the League FOR Political
Education. Frank +. Sargent. United States Com
missioner of immigration at Washington, urged
reconstruction of existing immigration laws that
all aliens who reach this country may be
sure Of entering 1t.
There were nearly fifteen thousand people
turned back last year" he said. My heart goes
out 70 them. We hardly imagine at what a
cost many OF them had severed all their home Ties
how tragic the separations of families entailed
when a child is discovered at Ellis Island to have
trachoma to be imbecile. and is sent back. Had
they realized that they would be admitted they
would never have come.
Il believe It possible to bring about such laws as
will prevent diseased and undesirable persons from
entering this country and do it on the other side
not here IL this and other countries which now
get together 10 hold monetary conferences would
get together and discuss humanity, the results
would be worth more to the nations than anything
that could be inauguTated.
Would there be anything wrong In establishing
at ports OF departure honest, fair medical in
spectors, who should give medical certificate TO
all entitled to come into the country"
Practicaoility OF closing the doors against further
immigration I'm not very much OF an exclusion
Est myself" be told the audience. I'VE tried sx-
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ALTO TROrSsEAU.

To be in fashion It is necessary TO spend ones
honeymoon motoring, and the bride of the mo-
ment is paying quite as much attention TO her
auto coats and frocks her caps, hats, wells and
furs to her dinner and tea gowns, her ball
dresses and opera cloaks. According to where
the honeymoon is to be passed depends the
lection of her clothes. for if the motor trip Is
to be along the French or italian riviera, or the
Dalmatlan coast, different auto clothes are
needed from those required for Jaunt through
England or Ireland Northern France AS
most of the shops have departments now where
the wants of the Southern tourists are provided
for, the purveyors of automobile apparel are
prepared to furnish everything I'm the way of
garments for motor trips in any section of the
world. Linen busters and silk tourists coats
sable listers and sealSkin hoods gauZy chiffon
wells. and mica masks, anything that milady's
fancy calls for.
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SOCIAL PILFERERS.
Under Cloak Of Charity Women
Line Their Purses at Baeaars.

After asserting that no less thantf1OOO0, or
$4,000. per annum given in what may be
termed amateur charity. is dishonesty diverted
from the channels for which it was originally
intended a writer in The Throne" proceeds to
pick some rather shocking holes in the mantle
of charity with which some OF the most aristo-
cratic women Of British society clothe them
selves, and which theS no doubt consider very
becoming. Not to mention the prestige and no
toriety which people get out of charity, it would
seem that some Of them do not hesitate TO use
Il as a source Of direct material advantage.
Clean gloves twice day for three days and
cab fares and luncheons really ought not 10
come out of the stallholders pockets" remarks
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There is something delightfully."- nlediesval about
the warrant by which King Edward has conferred
upon Queen Alexandra her own arms-in fact, 20
the American. the whole episode smacks OF bygone
usaes ana Iar-away lands. ITO give and assign
1lato our dearly beloved ConsoTt "A
Lady Of Cur Most Noble Order of the Garter"
Arms. Crown and Supporters So runs
the warrant Royal arms, ii seems are not tile
personal property OF their owner yet hereditary
but are the enblens az the undying sovereignty OF
TIE realm hence they are granted at the pleasure
q q sovereign The new arms OF Queen Alexandra
show the arms Of England impaled with those OF
Denmark, the Queens native country incosed iJy
lhe carter, with It's famous motto ''Honi sot oIii
mai pense.' surmounted by the crown OF England
ana supported on the right by the English lion
wearing the crown and the left by "a savage
wreathed about the temples and loins with oak and
supporting IN the exterior hand club all proper
Danish royal arms. Our crown" which the King
BFacl0usIy permits the Queen 10 use Is a fiction N
has no real existence, and its presence In the arms
VIII not anect the crown Alexandra wears which
Is quite small and made entirely Of diamonds.