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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
LaFollette's Wife a Real Help to Him

mfr. LaFollette's great gift was
that Of oratory. He tried for all the
prizes in sight, and had the air Of a
man who thought he could win. Miss
Case had some oratorical talents of
her own, and began to cultivate them
early and late. She won in the end,
for the special prize for oratory at
graduation came to her and not to the
man who later became her husband"
It was not long, however, before the
would-he winner of the prize won the
winner, and they were married short
ly after their graduation from the uni
versity in 1879.
Mrs. LaFoHette is very domestic,
and the social life at Washington has
little or no attraction for her. She
spends much of her time In works Of
charity and education.
When her husband was elected to
congress Mrs. LaFollette spent her
first winter in Washington taking a
cyurse in the law school of the George
Washington university. Should it
ever happen to be the part of this Wis
consin woman's duty to aid her hus-
band in his campaign for the presi-
dency, it is said he will have at his
command assistance he will in no wise
neglect
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
3 Round the Capital !
va Information and Gossip Picked Up mere
M and There In Washington
ATTORNEY General Is a Stay-at-Home

Mrs Bonaparte has been sufferer
from a neculiar digestive trouble LOT
many years, and she frequently mas
been ordered to the German spas for
treatment. Mr.. Bonaparte has urged
her to go, but has refused to be per
suaded into accompanying her. AS
she is a devoted wife Of the old-fash'
toned tyne who would not appreciate
a soiourn in Europe without ner nus
hand. Mrs. Bonaparte has been COM
neued to get what aid she could at
American springs.
All the world knows how keeniy
disappointed the indomitable Eliza
beth Patterson was when her only son
decided to marry an American MISS
Williams of Baltimore, when she had
chosen his princely cousin Charlotte
Bonaparte for his consort Rumor has
it that Miss Williams, afterward moth
er of the present encouragement OIL
the United States, had reason to know
Of her august mother-in-law's senu-
ments regarding her. Charles Bona
parte emphasizes the fact that he at
least of the American branch OF 3e
great Corsican's family Is proud OF
being the only American, and he is SO
deep-dyed in his love OF his native
country that he will not leave her
soil even for brief visit.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
MILK AN EXCELLENT COSMETIC.
Can Be Used in Many Ways to Very
Good Advantage.

Milk is a cosmetic that women OF
| to-day would do we'll to include in
their list of complexion washes.
| For example, when woman is very
tired and her face has been exposed
to the sun and wind one of the best
| lotions she can use is hot milk COM
press. For this purpose the milk
hot-shou1d be put into basin, and
| then two soft pieces of muslin, large
enough to cover the face, should be
placed in the liquid. When these
cloths are saturated with milk that is
as hot as the hand can endure, the
woman should lie down and spread
the congresses over her face. These
should remain on until the cloths have
cooled.
Tae muslin should not be wrung
any dryer than is necessary to prevent
stream of milk from running down,
and as rapidly as one cools another
warm compress must be applied.
This treatment should continue for
ten minutes, the final cloth being left
on as long as one has time to spare.
On getting up the face should be
wiped with a soft cloth, damp with
water, and then thoroughly dried. At
ter this treatment the skin will be
found soft and white, with none of the
dull or hard look that comes from ex-
| posure.
The milk bath for the whole body,
despite the ridicule attached to it, is
beneficial and has the added merit of
being inexpensive.
When preparing these baths rich
quality of fluid is desirable, because
of the extra amount of cream. But
skinned milk is effective, too. For
an ordinary tub anywhere from six
quarts to three gallons may be used
This is poured in, and then hot water
in sufficient quantity to cover the body
is added. In this one lies fer Is or 20
minutes, the effect being softening and
tonicizing to the skin as well as rest
full to the nerves. If this and milk
applications to the face are made
every other day., improvement in the
general looks cannot fail.
cream may be constantly applied. Only
a very small quantity should be useG
at a time, for the instant it becomes
sour not only is it's virtue gone, but
there is danger Of injuring the skin
A simple preservative when cream il
employed as cosmetic is boracit
acid. One-half teaspoonful of thi!
powder is stirred through the cream
after it has been dissolved in wine
glass full of milk.
If this application is used precisel!
as ordinary cold cream it will feed TIT
tissues and soften the skin in a re
markable way. 1t is not put On unit
after thorough bathing in warm water
and then as much should be rubbed ii
as the pores can be made to hold.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
Haiti Falling Into Rarbarlsm,

Haiti is described by Rear Admiral
Colby M. Chester as a "degenerating
island" and he presents facts to show
that Haiti is falling back into con.
dition of harbarism. 1t is getting
blacker and blacker, the white ele-
ment having been practically exter-
minated or removed from the i-Isnd.
It is the one country in the vorld
where white blood is at discount.
Voodoism is still practiced and AID.
miral Chester tells of an officer Of the
United States navy who stumbled by
accident into a voodoo meeting held
in the thick woods with horrible cere.
monial. After being threatened with
death he watched for good opportu-
nifty and ran for his life, not stopping
until he reached the protection of his
ship. This officer has to his credit
one of the most gallant deeds enacted
during the civil war, but his COM
rades on board his ship said they
never saw man more frightened than
he was when he returned to them and
he himself says the memory of the
event produces a horrible nightmare,
which he will never be able to over
come.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
Rnhes d'lnterieur.

There seems to be no limit to the
filmy loneliness of the robes d'interi-
eur; their artistic neglige appearance
combined with the prevailing clinging
semi-elassical style appeals to the sus-
capabilities of the vraie elegante in a
remarkably forcible manner. One of
the new models had an under dress of
fieur de peche gossamer chiffon, over
which was worn a long directoire coat
of coarse lace dyed somewhat deep
er shade than the under dress; the
long pointed sleeves were of lace-al-
most medieval in design-threaded
with gold, the same idea being repeat
ed around the decolletage. Sometimes
these coats-such distinctive features
this year-are of rich brocade, hand
somely embroidered, or they may be OF
a gossamer material of contrasting
shade finished with deep old gold Or
silver fringe.-The Taller.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

WI AsHINGTON. - Acknowledgement
w Charles J. Bonaparte is an Ameri-
can who never has passed out OF the
dominion of Uncle Sam and who has
registered a VOW never to do So
When Mr.. Bonaparte accepted po-
sition In President Roosevelt's cabi-
net he made known this limitation on
his usefulness and took the place only
on condition that his official duties
should never oblige him to leave the
United States. Just why the attorney
general has determined never to visit
an alien land no one can say positive
ly, though it is easily surmised that he
makes this protest against the way in
which his maternal grandmother was
treated by the great Corsican. During
the lifetime of the elder brother, Col.
Jerome Bonaparte, Charles Bonaparte
frequently was invited to Paris by the
head Of the family, thea in his prime,
Napoleon III, but he always disdained
to notice the invitation to join a
family circle which frowned on Amert
can affiliations.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

| There have been from time to time
many reported inventions of bullet
proof coats or undershirts; but some
how none ever seemed to meet really
adequate test. Now comes the story
that a Russian colonel has devised
a garment Of this kind which is act
ually what Is claimed. While the
formula for construction is not given
out, the announcement is made that
the materials are three and a half
times as hard as steel and are war
ranted to ward OF a Mauser bullet
fired from a .high-power rife. Still. 1t
is not going to be easy to obtain or
wear the bullet-proof coat. The gar
Tnent is very costly and weighs five
pounds, and man trotting around in
il must feel something like the armor.
incased knights of old. But, asks the
Troy Times, what are cost and weight
compared to value as life preserver?
Il the coat is truly bullet proof no
doubt there are good many rich and
titled persons in Russia who would
think the garment cheap at ten times
the cost In money and discomfort.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

1T is quite the ordinary thing to say
u that the wife of politician is his
adviser. The politician likes to have
it said, for there is a sort of sentiment
which attaches to it which appeals to
the people. The statement is not al
ways true, but in the case of Senator
and Mrs. LaFollette of Wisconsin it is,
for Mrs. LaFollette is a keen Judge Of
conditions.
Clear in mind and sound in judg-
ment, it was Mrs. LaFollette who pur-
suaded her husband to choose law
and politics and to give over all idea
Of stage career.
The wife the senior senator from
the Badger state met the man who be-
came her husband at the University of
Wisconsin. She was Miss Belle Case,
and her intellectr II attachments first
attracted Mr.. LaFollette. A story told
of their student days is as follows:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

Several plans have been made to es-
fsbhsh a national American university.
the idea, recently expressed in a bill
introduced into the house of represent.
atives, Is as old as the country. Wash.
ington, In his address to congress
in 1890, urged the promotion Of
art and science, and recommended
that congress consider whether this
desirable object will be best promoted
by aRording aids to seminaries OF
learning already established, by the In
stitution OF national university, or
by any other expedients." The ques-
fion suggested by Washington has not
been finally settled. although it has
been answered in part by the growth
OF many colleges and universities
throughout the land In a country like
ours Of wide area there should be
many great ceDters Of education. 1t
sometimes seems better to strengthen
the colleges we have than to found
new ones, but there is room for others
A national university might have spe
cial functions such as present instit1
tons are not in position to discharge
and its official nature would make it a
powerful influence in American higher
education, which is now disorganized
and uncertain in standard
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
The Dainty Summer Girl,

The spic and span girl this sum-
mer certainly will have large laundry
bills, for never before have SO many
accessories to the summer outfits been
launderable. Collars and cuffs or
starched vests are features Of all the
new coats, and these must be i'm
maculately fresh and crisp to be pref
ty. The front of every suit shows q
more or less fluffy jabot, and these
need frequent laundering. Cream
colored linen vests in lighter shade
than the suit color are feature Of
the new linen suits. Even gloves be-
long to the enlarged list of summer
launderables, for Isle gloves are
worn already, and washable chamois
gloves in tan, white and the natural
color are among the prettiest of the
seasons accessories. The new striped
collar has become too common for the
fashionable girls approval.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
ENAToR MONEY Of Mississippi has

SENATOR MONEY OF Mississippi has
~ lived 50 years with a broken neck
and did not know it until the other
cay. Not until nc went to physician
for treatment for neuralgia, from
which he suffered for years, did he
learn of his real condition.
At the first battle of Franklin, in
April, 1868, Mr.. Money was a cavalry
man in the confederate service. While
riding through the streets he was
struck by bullet that circled
around his ribs, doing no other in
jury. The shock was such that Mr..
Money was thrown from his horse
and struck on his head. Being help
less he was captured and taken with
In the federal lines. He did not ask
for hospital treatment, was exchanged
later, rejoined his troop and fought
until the war closed.
Years passed and Mr. Money en-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
THE WHIsKER IN PARIS.
Frenehmen Employ Every Means, Ex-
cept Greenhouses, to Get Growth.

1t Is in Paris that the whisker
reaches its highest state of cultivation
and development, says Everybody's.
The luxuriant verdure on the faces
OF some of the Parisians who strut
along the boulevard every day can be
compared to nothing but the riot of
vegetation in the tropics. Every Par
isian has whiskers, much whiskers if
he can, but some whiskers, at any
rate. He supplants natures efforts
with the best aids of the barber and
trains and nurses his hirsute appur-
tenances with anxious care.
The Parisians spend hours on their
boards and educate them into formal
gardens, set pieces, shrubbery, terrace
and vista effects. They lay out hair.
scapes with them, arrange them in IN
dulating meadows and Irvine them on
pergolas. There Is the long, spade
connection much sought by men with
black boards, which consists Of about
foot of hair cut square across the
bottom, and adds much glory to the
Wearer, for the whiskers always shine
and glfsten in the sun. There are side
whiskers and pointed ones, the heart
shaped and the curved, the waved and
the plain. A man who can train his
whiskers to grow in a new way is as
much of celebrity as a man VINO
writes a good poem or paints gooo
picture.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

A MERRY echo of the shot which
"A opened the battle of Manila Bay
was heard at the Raleigh hotel the
other evening when Admiral Dewey
and many Of his officers gathered to
celebrate with a banquet the tenth an
niversary of the famous fight. The adj
miral cut a large victory" cake as
calmly as he cut. the cable decade
ago and the corks popped not so loud
ly, but as continuously as the guns
popped at the Spanish deet-and with
happier results.
Not all the officers who won dis
tinction at Manila was at the gather
ing. Gridley, who fired when he was
ready, and several others have an.
swered the salute of death, and a
number are scattered around the
world on active duty, but enough were
in Washington to make the reunion a
striking one.
Chief among these present was AID.
miral Dewey. Another noted 6gurs
was Rear Admiral Coghlan, who won
much fame at Manila and more in the
''Hoch der Kaiser" incident. Other
rear admirals who attended were
Lamberton, Walker and Ford. With
them were Medical Director Wise, Pay
Director Gait, Representative Loud Of
Michigan, who was assistant paymas
ter on the Mccullough: Lieutenant
Commanders Brady, Bodderich, Price
Irwin, Scott, Kayanagh, Butler and
Doddridge; Col. Bergman, u. S. NJ. C.
and Pay Inspectors Martin and Price
When he entered the harbor of Ma
Mia DeWey's fleet consisted of his flag
ship, the Olympia, commanded b.
Capt 6. Y. Gridley; the Baltimore
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

are one Of the best women ever saw
an better housekeeper that I am
myself, which is sayin' much; but /
want to tell you also that you are
fool. amt a mite surprised at Jo-
siah Spranzy's foolin' you the way
he's been dom. His first wife was my
own cousin, named after the same
aunt / was named for, too. But that
amt goin' to keep me from tellin' the
truth about her. Here you are work
in yourself to death, tryin' to do like
she did. Do you know how she did?
No, you don't"
well, I'm goip' to tell you, own
cousin or not You said you wanted
to make Josiah comfortable the way
Julia did. Land! Julia never made
him comfortable day in her life!
Do you really suppose she made fresh
bread for him every day? Do you
really suppose she let him lay down
on the best velvet sofa at all, much
less with his boots on? Do you think
this house was bright an cheerful an
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
pARAsoL HANDLES VERY RICH.
Precious Metals, Fashioned Into Beau
tifuI Shapes, Employed.

The variety and beauty of parasol
handles for a girl who can afford to
buy without considering the cost par
ticularly seem never to have been SO
great as this season. Not only are
precious metals employed, but miner
ais well nigh as priceless are worked
into most beautiful, if simple, shapes.
Ivory is carved with the delicacy and
grace of fairy work, while woods, nat
ural and treated, are wrought into
things of beauty. Best of all, the
styles between those suited to a girl
and an older woman are so strictly
defined that there Is no danger of the
former being suspected of having bor-
rowed her mothers. Those for the
latter are ornate, while for girls they
are simple in their elegance.
Jade, that valuable Japanese stone,
Is to be enormously fashionable this
summer, whenever it can be employed,
and it is to be seen for parasols treat
ed in many different ways. One de-
sign is simply long, graceful, pear
shaped knob, its beauty due solely to
the shading and translucency Of the
stone and the grace of form. An elsb-
Grafton of this, which might be car
ried by girl of Is, has the handle
sprinkled with the tiniest of diamonds,
deeply inset, and there are gold tips to
finish the frame ribs, as well as gold
clasp for the strap. These sets of rib
fins nffhnr tn nra11 Gil
with clasps to correspond, are now
considered an inseparable part Of
parasol mountfngs and are purchased
with the handles. The tips are quite
unornamented and, while not small,
cannot be called large.
Some long, slender crooks are cut
from jade, and less expensive, but
truly charming, are handles cut from
carnelian and various agates.
These show most exquisite shadings
and are particularly suited to cover
ings of silks in solid colors, the
shades, Of course, matching the
handle.
Copper, beaten and worked in most
artistic forms, is novelty of the sea.
son. The metal treated with acids
becomes a mass of dull yet gorgeous
greens and blues, and so-called pea
cock eyes" are sunk in for additional
ornament. One handle shows this
gorgeous bird, the lines, for convent
ence' sake, being made longer and
more slender. The tail is enameled in
dull shades, and the bird is mounted
ON an unpublished stick Of oiled cedar
In other handles the copper is mere
ly twisted, bent or chased, but the
dull shading always obtains. The de
signs are not heavy in the hand, as the
forms are followed.
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yellow
for
thin
tinsel braid is then
of a
openings
for in
sewn the edge
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

Small boys who are afraid to go Out
into the streets to play lest they should
get run over may be fired by the great
hope that some day they will be
president of the United States, but the
rough-and-tumble kid has his eye fixed
on a position as pitcher in the cham
pionship team Of one of the big
leagues. That appears to him to be 9
higher position than president or even
2ioorwalker in a department store. AS
he pitches the tattered bail in the va
cant lot his minds eye wanders for
ward to the time when admiring null
fitudes will rise up to applaud his
curves, meanwhile saving enough OF
their strength to throw pop bottles al
his adversary Of the rival team.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
Use Of Perfumes l. spreadlnq,

Doctors recommendations have con.
tributed to the popularity of certain
scents. The use of scent is becoming
really widespread, asserts dealer In
perfumes. "The doctors have pro
nounced in its favor" this man says
and have recommended those of thei,
patients who are particularly prone
to catching such complaints as infu
enza to use scent copiously, princi
pally by means of the spray. The odol
that is most in demand is appropriate
~ that of wood violets, springlike and
refreshing"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

Orchids are again in high favor as
dinner decoration.
Inside bonnets Of plated batiste
will be used under hats.
The smartest motor coats show a
revival of the ulster forms.
Costly wraps for daytime show a
tendency toward dark shades.
Solid colors are popular for mems
ties: also long bias stripes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06

gloves over her kid ones. These serve
to keep the delicate kid free from the
soil they might otherwise get from
contact with her skirts or furs. When
she reaches the reception, tea or din.
ner for which she is bound she pulls
off the protectors, and there are her
kid gloves as fresh and clean as when
she left home.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-06
! Thought Could Hold My Tonsueg

pleasant for him, when Julia was
alive? Well, it wasn't. Julia had
dyspepsia, an never cooked thing
she couldn't eat herself. They was
mighty few things she could eat, SO
it was mighty little variety Josiah got
on. the table. She kept all the shut
tiers drawn in SOS not to fade the car
pet an the wall paper, an Josiah had
to go in an out the kitchen door, SOS
not to tramp dirt through the front
hall He just loves flowers, and Julia
wouldn't have one on the place. She
said she liked grass better, but al
ways did think she did it just to
devil Josiah. Comfortable! Well,
guess he wasn't comfortable. If he
ever had any pleasures or luXuries it
was outside o. this house. Toward the
last she wouldn't even let him smoke
outdoors, because she said she could
not stand the smell of tobacco in his
hair an his clothes; en- here he's
smokin' in every room in the house.
Say anything about her! OF course
he don't! He just lays back an let's
you do for him! What man would
MT? An he's afraid to give you so
much as a word O. thanks for it for
| fear you'll find out he never had 1t
before an slack up on it. II ever
a man was better off without woman
that man was Josiah Spranzy when
Julia passed away! Land! She never
give him pleasant word nor pleas
ant look, so far as l ever heard; and
she never did one thing to make him
comfortable. If she was my own first
cousin a hundred times over, I'd
have to say it-she was just about as
mean a woman as ever drew breath
of life; an here you are settin' her
up above your mantel to go an wor.
ship"
She was so intent upon unburdening
her mind that she had not noticed
the figure standing in the room be:
yond. At his unexpected arrival both
women looked up in amazement; but
before even Mrs Keene could speak,
Miss Matty felt herself clasped in her
husbands arms. .
When he let her go, Mr.. SpranZy
stopped down and awkwardly kissed
her.
I'm mighty glad you know it, Mat,
ty," he whispered.
Miss Matty put both arms about his
neck, and drew his head down to
hers. 20 Josy!" she cried.