The Washington herald., 1908-08-30

/ I've shaken bands With Presidents.
/ I've talked with shakespears's sock:
| ouoe ssw William Taft aud once
/ saw a real live duke.
I But. Oh. how mich long 70 80
/ Before quit earth scenes.
Z The women who write '-Helpfui Hints''
For Eouen's uagazines.
There's that dszoted Ms. Y.
Who has Eve children snail
And COOKS and scrubs and mends their clothes,
Ard keeps no help at al
l And spends al least hour day
In reading something fine;
Belongs 20 clubs. ard takes q walk
E1ca mornllg- rain shine
There's ''8iabel." nov. who tells abozt
The lovely blouse she made
For nine-y cenets. With that she bought
some net. pale blue n shade
And lined II with the back brsadths Of
last years party dress.
And Trimmed il with some ruse POINT lscs
tS1ch as We al possessJ.
The sir5ls was = vsi7st piece
She haSa5o1t the h01se.
The buckle rss her gTeat-sunt's once,
And finished Of the blouse
So that the whole thing vas 50 chic
u Simply looked imIezse-
And. reader, you can do the sane
With only ninety cents
Ths1 there's Miss x stenozzphsr,
Who. when her health broke down,
Bought. payfrg sfty dollars dosn
little ulzce near t1au-
Ard theTr n fourteen months s5e E1ds-
TIE easiest q jobs-
About to- thousand dollars c.ez-
B. SIMPLY rzIsiug squabs-
say I've Iooksd m Presidents.
And fsas t-lf.ng rhing.
And once s1ooE hands with nan
Who'd seen a real live king
But. CA Ulg-l nl1-t I long % see
Ilau urr1r Or prince
Tlcss z1Iae-1a-nau ccniuses
Who EEIse The Helpful Hints"
Talking about magazines for women. 7
heard two women arguing the other day
as 20 the respective merits OF two fash
ion magazines- one preferred the TX
palmer. let Us say. and the other was
equally strong in defense Of the Latest
Wrinkle Il wasn't what you'd call
profitable argument. for one OF the WON
eu does all her sewing or sinEla-thread
chain-stitch machine. and you know a
woman who uses that kind OF a machine
can't help feeling superior 20 any one
who uses a two-thread machine and
stitches hens on the wrong side, and
can't rip tuck out By a hoist Of the
finger But II IL wasn't a profitable srgu-
menJ. IL was certainly an earnest one.
Ezplainer patterns never fit wei over
the shoulders" one insisted. and they're
always Just a Iule behind the fashion.
never had any success making anything
TIL I began 10 take the Latest Wrinkle
4 don't see how you can cut anything
az all by their patterns said the other.
Their skirts never hang right. I always
"a --
There's such a difference In
their patterns
And they discussed in this wise da
cspo. and tor-issimo. and dimiuueudo. and
aadaEte. and allegro. and all the Ct1er
ways- and each had the same convictions
when they finished that she'd started IN
with An ExpIainer pattern Is no more
Ike a Latest Wrinkle pattern than a
lredEe IS Ike an aeroplane- They felt
sure Of e. And z they ever md out that
both sets OF patterns are cut n the same
building the magazines owned by the
same company, and the editor Of beth the
same man, I don't know what they VIII
say
The wise man has been showing his
books 10 ne. and the shelf he takes most
pride in IS filed with bound magazines
I've had them bound in the only way
that makes them really reflect the spirit
'f their time" he says I've had all the
advertisements left IN It takes more
covers 70 bind a years issues that way.
but 10 my mind 1t makes the book in
initely more valuable. Here's a volume
score Or so Of years old with an article
IN crOss-country hunting in America by
Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot T
Lodge What DO you find in the adver-
Using paEes2 a piano or two an old
ashioned bicycle. and the short-waisted
a1y with elaborate hair who's been using
omebOdy's Bloom Of Youth ever since Z
an remember and hasn't grown a day
'lcer- Not a word about kOdaks. and I
'lanolas. and Photographs. and sUtomo-
lles- And II you'd read the hunting ar
icle you'd md a tone that neither mans T
work shows to-day kind Of medieval .
ing 70 match the advertisements Take
hese volumes OF the early '9GS Il Il
adn kept the advertisements in. where f
would you md anything TO tell you safe +
y bicycles were new IN IS92 and bicycling
fashionable fad three years latsr2 .
-cre's an advertisement Of a nickel .
lated bottle with a lead capsule filed .
Nth gas 10 be screwed into the top and
unctured IN the process It was TO turn
lain water into CarbOnated IN a Tfv
% you see that advertised these days2
Doesn't the disappearance Of II suggest