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The Washington times., 1908-09-28

Policeman John T. Roberts, while re-
turning home lost a roll Of money,
10 So. The policeman had
the money in his watch pocket and did
Lot miss It until he went TO look for il
this morning
The Washington times., 1908-09-28

An exciting game of baseball was
played yesterday afternoon at Glen
Echo between the WOodBsSnts and the
Glen Echo teams, resulting in a yIcfory
for the former by a score Of Il 10 2
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
"cHRISTMAS CARDS OF
KINGS AND QUEENS"

The Merry Yuletide" would. indeed,
| be q sad affair for European royalty
| if each monarch were required to send
a Christmas present of intrinsic value
to Thousands of relatives, public Of
fcials and faithful servitors. who must
be remembered each year with some
7 sort of royal token.
Christmas remembrance from the
king or queen is very highly priced,
but. it being understood that no royal
purse could stand the strain of send
ing Jewels or valuable presents, every
body is quite content TO receive the
inexpensive compromise Of Christ
mas card.
Every royal person nowadays has a
special Christmas card printed for his
or her own. use. The cards have ar
tistic designs, as a rule, and are hand
somely but not too extensively pro-
duced. They are changed every year,
and naturally great interest is felt as
Christmas comes round again to see
what new designs the great personages
will select. On this page are shown
some of the most interesting Christmas
cards of Europes kings and queens.
They are those of the kaiser. the king
and queen of England, the queen of
Norway, the princess of Wales and the
queen of Spain.
1t is interesting to notice that the
kaiser has selected for his card a sub
ject closely connected with England's
navy. 1t is in connection with Eng
lands navy and naval affairs generally
that the kaiser has been getting into
so much trouble lately. The great de-
velopment of the German navy has
made the British suspicious, and SO
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
About the Nose.

The nose is a very much neglected
| feature of the face. Upon it's symmet
| ry depends the beauty of the face and
upon its proper functioning depends
the health of the entire body.
The nose, like any other organ OF
the body, can be cultivated into health
full action and beautiful appearance
One set of exercises will accomplish this
double purpose.
In the first place, the general rule
should be laid down to always breathe
through the nose. Mouth breathing not
only gives a person a gaping, homely
look but it is bad for the health as
we'll The nose was made to breathe
through, and it will not retain its prop
er shape and appearance unless it is
made to perform its normal function
fully and properly. Breathing is the
natural exercise of the nose.
If you see a person with a thin,
shriveled up nose, you may be pretty
sure its owner is not breathing prop
erly Many a woman has such nose
and does not know the reason why. 1t
is probably because she is breathing
through her mouth instead of through
her nose. Or she may be drawing in
the breath properly, but is eXpelling it
through the mouth.
This depriveS the nose of some of its
natural exercise, but, worse than that,
it poisonS the secretions of the mouth
by bringing the saliva in contact with
the poisonous carbon dioxide in the ex-
PEELED breath. This is injurious to the
complexion as we'll as the health.
A. good exercise to begin with is to
place the ends of the fingers of the left
hand sideways against the left nostril,
closing it completely. Then place the
fingers of the right hand on the right
cheek and push upward toward the
ear. Now draw in a long breath and
eXhale with equal slowness.
This win have the effect of forcing an
unusually large quantity of air through
the right nostril, and it will also act
as powerful stimulus, not only to the
nose. but to the entire right side of the
face. Draw in and eXpel twenty long,
deep breaths in this way. Then re-
verse the position of the hands so as
to give the same treatment to the
other side of the face. Draw twenty
breathS as before.
Now put both hands on the cheeks
and press upward. While doing this
you should close the mouth firmly and
be sure that not a particle of air is
permitted to come through the mouth.
The nostrils should be dilated to the
fullest extent. OF course. while doing
this the head should be thrown back
and the chest expanded so that the
whole body shall get the benefit of the
exercise
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
Uomdn'S u)orId
Conducted by Helene Vatesu.

Manicure. They talk scandalous Cos
sip in tone that informs half the car
what they are saying.
once it was my privilege to hear a
man get UP and address two women
who had been giving their views of the
conduct of another woman in shrill
voices.
Ladies" said the man, what you
say is lie. You are speaking of my
sister"
Two crushed and humbled women got
off at the next corner
Now, there is another type of woman
who talks in the street car, and she
is the one who takes her stand before
some man who is sitting and begins a
TRADE something like this:
well, l do hope I'll not faint, but
know I never shall stand it, for l live
way out at the end of the line Don't
you think it's something fierce the way
the men act these days? Here I've been
shopping all day and I'm just worn out,
and these cars do jerk you around SO
it seems as if my arm was goin' to
break off, and so on and so on.
She is usually accompanied by a dear
friend named Marge. and the pair chew
gum and bewail the fate of the feminine
standee in way that is insufferable
good sense in the car.
Do l blame a man for sitting still
under such circumstances? l do not.
] think he is perfectly justified in hold
ing on to his place forever and making
those two impossible creatures stand
clear to the end of the line" and fur
Their il he could.
The recent styles in big hats have
been very trying to those who must
ride in street cars, and as for these
long-pointed quilts that Whisk around
and jab one pleasantly in the eye at
the slightest pportunity-they must
have been invented to enrich the ocu-
list.
No woman with good sense will wear
such clothing in the street car as will
render her fellow travellers uncomfort-
able, and the big hats are a miracle
of appropriateness.
Even if she does not wear a big hat
many a woman will put in her hatpins
in such a way that they make deadly
menace to those who stand near her.
1t is nothing uncommon to see two
or three sharp points sticking out two
inches beyond the hat, and in case the
wearer is given a sudden lurch she
could easily infiict frightful wound
on those next her.
Yes, my sisters, it seems as if there
might be something in that beam in
thine own eye business, after all.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
Well I know the thought will strike
Street Car Manners.

By Sophie K. Underwood, in Chicago
Inter Ocean
We talk so much about the rudeness
OF men on the street cars, and their
absolute refusal to get up and give
any woman a seat, unless she is old
and decrepit, or carrying a baby, that
to me the women might look a bit to
their own good manners, since they
demand so much of the other sex.
Too many women, on the street cars,
degenerate into the most shocking
rudeness, varying all the way from
carrying huge parcels to elbowing their
seat mate practically off the seat.
You have all been in a car when
some well-dressed portly middle-aged
woman entered. and two of YOU
squeezed apart and made a place for
her, provided she was willing to put
up with a minimum of space
Was she grateful, and did she sit out
from the back of the seat and leave
those beside her in moderate comfort
She did not repay the proffered cour-
tesy that way-not she She pushed
back and elbowed vigorously until she
was leaning back luXuriously and her
would-be benefactors were sitting up
right and most uncomfortable on the
edge of the seat
Experiences like that are enough to
make the best Of us pessimistic about
being polite TO women i'm street cars
After this we will simply take up as
much room as we can and refuse to see
the portly ladies with the vigorous
elbows.
Then there are the women who will
insist on carrying big packages and
baskets in the cars. Sometimes this is
from necessity, no doubt, but very often
it is not, and of all the irritating little
three cornered tears that ever you saw
in good cloth suit, a rough spIint
basket can make the worst
AS for the woman who goes shopping
and returns laden with parcels fat and
parcels slim. and who is nervous lest
she might have lost one somewhere,
and who sits, anxiously rearranging
them, letting one occasionally drop TO
the fioor-isn't she a pest?
She viii try to pack them together
compactly, but the long slim parcel is
sure to swing out and slap off the
glasses of her unfortunate neighbor,
and then in the confusion and apologies
two or three of the little parcels slide
off her lap and must be rescued.
/ have often wondered whether the
woman with the armful of bundles was
really enjoying life by creating all the
disturbances. or whether her unpleas- |
ant experiences would teach her a |
lesson.
AS for the women who talk audibly |
in the street car, the less said Of them |
the better. They are i'm the class of |
the Idiot who Explains the Play and /
the Person Who Gossips With Her
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
Old oaken Bucket Is Full of Germs

And now the doctors are after the
old oaken bucket, the iron-bound
bucket, the moss-covered bucket that
hangs in the well. It's germs, OF
course everlastingly and inevitably,
germs!
The bigwigS tell us we must never,
never, never drink water hauled to the
surface of the earth in this ancient and
honorable receptacle. The bucket s
usually damp condition-especially the
moss-covered ones-is said to be very
attractive to bacteria, bacilli and other
bugs, Varmints and things that go to
make up united germdom. They are
reported to flourish thereon like the
proverbial green bay tree of glorious
memory.
1t has been figured that as many as
100000 germs may comfortably quar-
ter themselves and wax fat on one
square inch of old oaken bucket terri
tory. Not only is that statement STAR
Ting, but when coupled with the fur
Their assurance that there isn't a va
cant square inch on any old bucket
thus far known to science, it becomes
positively terrifying.
All the same, we shall not reject fur
ther friendship with the old oaken
buckets of this land just because the
germologists seek thus to cover it with
dishonor. Our grandmothers and our
grandfathers i1nbibed inspiration there
from back yonder in the days before
germs were patented and put on the
market, and so did their sisters and
their cousins and their aunts-and the
man who denies that they were fine
and healthy lot of Americans doesn't
know what he is talking about! And
even if they did get an occasional ache
and pain that might have been traced
back to these sturdy cid friends of
their youth, they got rid of them with
out an operation for appendicitis, or
something else equally as formidable
and fashionable.
1t has almost come to the point in
this day and time when a person dare
not stick his or her head out of doors
for fear of the germs flying around or
crawling about, anyhow. They mock
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
HELENE vALEAU'S ANSWERS.

MISS Naleau will reply to all Ques-
IONS asked by the feminine readers Of
me lntermoIntaiE Catholic The WEI
known character and authority of hel
Iephes need no introduction to those
already familiar with her ability. Miss
Naieau viii take a kindly and personal
interest In those who write to her, and
VIII spare no pains in seeing that their
inquiries are answered fully and care
Aully. Write only OH one side of the
paper. Address letters to Miss Helene
Naleau' lntermountain Catholic.
-
1t is not at all uncommon to find the
skin on the back of the arm from the
elbow to the shoulder extremely rough.
having the appearance of sort of a
permanent ''goosedesh.'
In almost all cases this is due to
bathing.
Sometimes it is caused by not rub
bing the arm briskly enough when
washing.
1t can be easily gotten rid of by
bathlng the arms and using friction on
them and then drying them thor
oughly.
Now rub the spots with a cake of
toilet pumice.
4'ANNtAS AAitAHocleSI COiI CIedlll llllO Ilenl
TO prevent any irritation arising from
the use Of the pumice stone.
If this treatment is followed once
every day the rough spots will soon
have disappeared and the skin will be
soft and smooth.
Have you noticed the way the little
girls are wearing their hair?
AS you know, the Dutch bob" has
been the prevailing style for dressing
a little girls hair, and those whose
mothers could not bring themselves to
sacrifice q pretty head of hair received
little or attention from Dame Fash
ion.
Thing i, changing. however, and
the CIR! Who's air is not bobbed may
have her mar essed in this chic and
'Frenchy' fashion: The hair is parted
in the middle rom the forehead to the
nape Of the re~k and rolled on the
sides
The remainder is then braided into
two braios which are crossed in the
back.
The ends OF the braid are brought
forward above the ears to the top of
the head, where they are tied with two
huge butterfly bows of ribbon to match
The afternoon dress.
This style of hairdressing is neat and
smart and keeps the hair in a healthy
condition If it is not rolled and braided
too tight.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26
The Amenities of Christmas.
Detroit Free Press. }

Detroit Free Press.)
When on Christmas morning someon
Brings a present unto you,
Wrapped in dOWny tissue paper.
Tied with ribbon, red or blue.
And d little sprig of holly.
Just to make the thing exquisite.
You must say, 'Oh, it is lovelyw
But You must never say, "What
is it,"
You must rave about its beauty
And remark: It's simply fine!"
Just the very thing you wanted,
But you mustn't make a sign
That II is q strange creation
That you've never seen before.
For it's bound to shock the siver
If You ask her: Whats it for?"
Though you know you cannot use it
Or you wouldn't if you could.
1T Is not for you to say so,
You will be misunderstood.
You'll be deemed as one ungrateful
And will get chilly stare.
If you gush about her present
And then ask; as it to- wear?"
Well I know the thought will strike
yNl,
As you con your presents DER,
All these things are very pretty.
But I wonder what they're for?
But it wouldn't do to pain them,
So be careful what you say.
In week, up in the attic,
You may store their gifts away.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26

our slumbers at night and they disturb
our peace of mind during the daytime
They stare at us from every dish
placed before us at meal time-every
one from soup to ice cream! We are
sick and tired hearing Of germs-to the
right of us, to the left of us, in front
of us, it is always the same: Look
out, 49, sl1idoo, beat it; here they come
the germsr
Drat the germs that infest the old
oaken buckets, and such localities, any
way, say we! We intend to patronize
these true and tried friends, regularly
and cheerfully, despite every micro
scopic undesirable citizen in creation!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-26

| the kaiser recently seized an oppor-
tunity to explain that his navy was
directed mainly against the japanese.
This explanation equally dispeased the
British, the Japanese and the Ger
mans
The emperor evidently thinks all the
time about ships and navies. He has
drawn some spirited pictures of mod
ern warships blowing the waves, and
now he chooses a Christmas card deal
ing with the sea. 1T shows Sir Francis
Drake, the first great British naval
captain INDUCING i'll the fine old Brit
ish practice of drinking a glass of wine
on the deck of his ship, the Golden
Hind, at Christmas, 1873. He is drink
ing to the health of ueen Elizabeth
Probably the emperor chose this card
with the idea of giving pleasure TO his
many friends in England.
King Edwards Christmas card has a
subject which seems in keeping with
his cheerful character 1t is a picture
dealing with the origin of the Order
of the Garter. According to legend,
the countess of Salisbury was dancing
at court in the year 1349, when she lost
her garter, a circumstance which
aroused some mirth in the persons who
found it. The king then picked it up
and put it on his own leg, using the
expression which now appears in old
French as the motto of the Order Of
the Garter, meaning EVIL be to him
who evil thinks" At this time the
order was founded, and it has ever
since included the chief noblemen of
the country.
Most of the queens choose very ap-
propriate and beautiful subject for
their cards. 1t is THE Madonna and
Child as painted by different artists.
Cards dealing with this, the original
Christmas story. are sent out by the
queen of England, the queen of Spain
and the queen of Norway.
The princess of Wales has an inter-
esting card, showing the wise men of
the East following the star on their
way to Bethlehem, and there is a sec
ond card of the queen of England rep
resenting two Roman maidens listen
ing to the Christmas story in the earli-
est DAYS of Christianity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-30

ernment land and expects to make II
his home, 1t is hoped it will become
a law.
During those winter months a man
can do little on a piece of raw land.
He can simply make his domicile
there, while, were he away he might
be earning money to improve his
farm the next summer
should the law fail to pass it would
continue a useless hardship on men
who have little money or leave the
settlement Of the land to those who
have sufficient means to do without
this assistance.
The homestead law was intended to
assist men in earning a home, not to
impose hardship on the settlement Of
the country by men who wished to
improve the land, and not for the
purpose of making 1t test Of finan-
cal endurance.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-30
GALvESToN's ACHIEVEMENT

In the place of "A robbed, misgOV-
erned. and devastated city. the com
mission government of Galveston has
for six years so directed and manag-
ed nun clpal affairs and property as
to have virtually paid off the clty's
Indebtedness. brought its credit to a
premium, paved. lighted. and sever
ed its streets, brough all its depart
ments up 10 a good business efficien-
cy. given it a clean. honest. equitable
and human government, and made
It one of the cleanest, most health
full. prosperous and law-abiding cities
in America.
Besides that-as Galveston city
constitutes nine-tenths of Galveston
county in population and in value Of
taxable property-the city has virtu-
ally built around itself the now ia
nous sea-wall and is, by itself, rails
ing two-thrds OF its area from Is
inches to 10 feet so as to put 1t above
any future storm waters, And it has
done all this on a constantly decreas-
ing tax rate!
Who are the men that have done
this? Just plain. everyday American
citizens a banker, a cattle dealer, a
real estate agent and a wholesale
grocer as commissioners. The first
mayor r-president-who died in office
was a lawyer, the present one Is a
retired cotton merchant OF vary ng
national descents, of ages from a COM
paratively young man to a man Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-30
Y. NJ. c. a. PROGRESS.

l. b. Rhodes, Oregon secretary OF
the Y. NJ. c. A., has just issued a neat
little booklet entitled. "A Years
Progress" reviewing the growth Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. in Oregon and Idaho.
which form the district of which Mr.
Rhodes is secretary
The report shows that there are
now 81 local associations of the Y.
NJ. c. A. in oregon and Idaho with
total membership of 400, of which
number 900 are boys.
The local associations are divided
as follows: College associations, 16;
railroad associations, one; city asso-
Citations, three; county associations,
one, The membership is divided as
follows: City. $500; railroad, 500;
student, $40, and county 20.
One of the best achievements Of
the past year is the erection of a
railroad association building at Po-
catello, where over 500 men and boys
are now members and where an earn
est interest is taken in the work, al
though Pocatello is a typical railroad
! town with its usual proportion Of
hardened and needless men.
The growth of the association in
the colleges and schools of the two
states is also highly satisfactory. Es-
pec.ally strong work has been done
at Oregon Agricultural college, where
there is now a membership of about
1000.
The Y. NJ. C. A. is doing a noble
and useful work in the northwest 1t
reaches class Of people and in a
way that other like associations do
not reach and is one of the strong,
forceful, Christian factors in the work
of uplifting humanity and discourage
ing wrong doing.
Pendleton is noted in the report as
one of the unorganized points
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-30
CONCERNING WOMEN.

BY unanimous vote, the committee
on elections of the Michigan consti-
tutional convention has reported the
woman suffrage recommendation
back to the convention. Chairman
Watson of this committee declares
that the women shall have square
deal.
Hon. j. BHumphrey has introduce
ed a bill into the Ohio house of rep
representatives. providing for the
submission of constitutional
amendment enfranchising women;
and Hon. Frederick C. Howe has in
troduced the same measure in the
senate.
The Arizona Republican reports
the classification Of prisoners in the
penitentiary OF the territory on De-
cember 81. 1907, as follows: Whites.
male, 112; Mexicans, male. 249; fe-
male, /; negroes, male, "a, female, /:
Indians, male, 20; Chinese. male, l..
The total shows 40S prisoners, there
fore. only 9 Of whom are women.
The state librarian of Iowa is au'
thor'ty for the statement that, IN
1906, 1852 articles relating to women
appeared in the best English and
American periodicals; and in the first
nine months Of 1907, in these same
best magazines, 1877 articles on the
woman question.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-30
FOR MIR. GEER's GUIDANCE.

Since T. T. Geer feigns ignorance
as to the reasons why the East Ore
gonian mentions the fact repeatedly
that Congressman Ellis is a bona fide
resident of eastern Oregon, a word
of explanation may be necessary for
his guidance.
None are so blind as those who
will not see."
The reason for mentioning Mr.. FL
lis permanent residence in this dis
trict. is to call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Geer is not a permanent res
ident: that he came over to eastern
Oregon less than two years ago to run
for office as an eastern oregon
man." that he has not established a
permanent residence in Pendleton;
that he has announced that he is no
longer editor Of the Pendleton Tri-
UuIt anu llltltlOlN 10 ilOl Nh6Nb ~ 80
any business in eastern Oregon; that
he has been a candidate for office
almost perpetually since he became OF
age: that he Is not entitled to an
eastern Oregon office on such brief
temporary residence here; that it is
unfair to pioneer residents of the
eastern oregon district for profess
sional candidates to come up from
Willamette valley and claim the best
in sight within a few months after
moving over here
1t is hoped that this explanation Is
plain and explicit enough for Mr..
Geer. II not, another chapter will
be written for his benefit.