The National tribune., 1908-07-23

and joined the great army of Govern
ment employees who fill the various De
partments. He had a little home in the
p, dusty suburb of Kenilworth, about ;
s,qparter of a mile from the marsh along
the Anacostia River. and this marsf
wa. filled with spatter dock, which !:
a sort of poor relation of the beauti
full water lily. The sight of this spat
ter dock made the veteran think of the
ponds of lilies near his home in Maine
and he began to be homesick for them
and to wonder if they couldn't be made
to grow on his little place. So he dug
a hole about 10 feet square just below
a bank near the marsh that was so full
of springs that water was oozing ou
everywhere. When he saw this hole
fill with nice clear water he wrote dowT
to Maine and had someone send hin
some lily roots, just the wild kind ST
common there, and when they came he
s-set-them ont in the little 10-foot pond
Like everything that comes from Maine
they were good all thru, strong and
: hardy, and they got right to business
and fiourished nightly. Then the vet.
eran made other ponds, bought and
planted expensive cultivated varieties
and began experimenting in hybridiZ-
ing Today his one little pond has
grown to nine big ponds from which
he gathers more than 1900 lilies daily
of a dozen different varieties. six at
experimenting. He no longer picks up
his package of lunch in the mornings
and hurries off to town to his Depart
ment. All his time is given to his lilies,
hundreds of which are shipped every
day to Boston, New York, and other
rites. They are among the most beauti-
full water lilies raised anywhere in the
country, and their sale affords him an
excellent income. His out-of-doorS life
has improved his health wonderfully,
and while he bears Uncle Sam no
grudge, he finds it very different
thing being his own master. All of
which only goes to prove that good
living is hidden away in almost any
thing, if one only has the keen eyes to
see 1t.
For some reason American women
do not seem to have the vigorous,
abundant hair that the women of many
ether countries possess. This lack has
necessitated the wearing of false hair.
which demand has been supplied large
~ by France and Germany, but recently
this supply has been very scarce, as the
German peasants are no longer allowed
to sell their hair, and the closing of the
monasseries in France has cut off an
other source, il having been the custom
for women to sell their hair before en-
tering these sacred institutions. More
false hair is worn today than has been
for many years, the merry widow
hat requiring numerous puffs, curls,
etc, to build up the head to fill out the
!. enormous rim, and even those women
not addicted to this fashionable head
gear are arranging the hair much more
deliberately than they did a few years
ago, which necessitates the reinforce
ment of their natural tresses by
switches, etc. With the French and
German supply cut down, the hair deal
ers were obliged to look around for an
other market, and it is said that many
woman is now wearing the "pigtail''
of defunct Chinaman which has been
ubleached and then dyed the desired
shade. These "pigtails'' are supposed
to have been cut from the heads of the
criminal Chinese, sold for mere song,
and taken to a factory in Connecticut,
where the bleaching and dying is done.
While the hair of Chinese men and
women looks glossy on the head and
seems abundant, it is said to be of in
ferior quality and after being bleached
and dyed soon fades. OF course. the
most expensive hairdressers do not deal
in this Chinese hair, but the woman
whey patronizes such nowadays must
son given above; Caucasian hair has
doubled in value during the last two
years.
to the throne of Spain, now a little over
a year old. has had the "cutest'' little
soldiers suit made for him, and, ac-
-cording to Spanish custom, has been
enlisted in the royal army. From time
-fmniemorial the first regiment of the
! line has been the regiment of the King,
and as soon as an heir to the throne has
1been able to walk he has been enrolled
therein. The little Prince of the AS
.rfo I.n1 Ill IT, Iar
. first company of the first battalion of
this regiment, and in the dormitory of
its quarters has been placed a tiny cot
bed, where the little fellow will sleep
occasionally as soon as he is old enough
to leave his nurses. At the long table
in the refectory, where these soldiers of
the King take their meals, the Princes
place has been assigned, where will be
placed his own dish, knife, spoon and
fork, tho it will be several years before
he will eat and drink with is COM
q raGes. At the ceremony the other day
the baby Prince was very engaging in
his gay little uniform, and looked
very bright and intelligent as King AL
fonso held him in his arms. The solemn
. questions put TO the little warrior by the
Archbishop were greeted with beaming,
heavenly, baby smiles, and properly an
swered by his august father.
1t is to New York City that most
Z Americans go II they have any money
TO spend, unless they go abroad, and
there that one expects to find the very
last word In luxuriousness. The New
Yorker himself is responsible for this,
being the spoiled child of the world
and perfect study is therefore being
constantly made of means to increase
J his comfort and pleasure by those anx-
tous to get his money. No class OF
people are more enterprising In this
!. respect than are the proprietors OF no.
tells. and while the country abounds in
rich and luxuriously appointed hostel
ries for the accommodation OF Winter
guests, il has been reserved for the
: resta lrant and hotel keepers of New
York to inaugurate a change which
/ will moi only keep in town many peo-
pie in the habit of either gong &c
: Europe every Summer or o. leaving
town day or two each week. but also
of attracting thither those Of othel
cities who find the metropolis under
these new conditions more fascina. ms
than ever. and week or so spen
there more enjoyable than the sam,
time at mountain or seashore hotel
For good many years the roof-garder
idea has been employed by the majori:,
OF these hotel people, who. when In;
Summer season came around, would pm
q few sickly palms with some ratheI
rickety chairs and tables on the roof
and announce their roof garden read,
for business. Even this, inartistic an;
crude as IL was, was a great improve
ment on hot dining rooms, with littI
or no attempt made TO change thej
Winter character, but it was not enough
10 keep the rich patron from runnin,
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