The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-28
AN EASIER LIFE.

have an easier life if they lived some
where else, trainer in a well-known
gymnasium volunteered to a group
Of her pupils recently.
"You are not willing to exert your
selves and yet none of you-~wants
to grow fat. If you'll take my adj
vice those who want to get married
will go to Calabar, and those who
don't aim at matrimony will take the
train for Boston.
why? Why, for the simple rea-
son that women neither grow fat
nor get married in Boston, while in
Calabar to get married a woman has
FIRST to be fat. Yes, indeed, in Gala
bar 1t is the invariable custom to
fatten woman before she is allowed
to marry. ~
Just look at the streets of New
York and see what the women come
to look like. Why, the meal sack tied
in the middle, proverbial in my moth.
er's day, doesn't begin to express
either their weight or their figure as
I see them. A cotton bale set CROSS
ways, with a water bucket on top
for a head, is the nearest thing /
can think of.
SIN spite of such proportion just
spend morning in a gym and hear
the way they puff and groan over
taking little exercise. That is when
they attend the lessons, which is
the exception not the rule.
And when they finally decide to
give up all together, to give up all
pretence of the exercise which they
have never taken, they come to me
with such AN apologize manner. You
would really fancy they had been do
ing me favor, a charity to join my
class. Maybe you do look upon me
as an object of charity. Well, I'll tell
you that l look upon myself as
would-be public benefactor; a prophet
without honor in her own country"
New York Sun.
THE TELEPHONE EXPRESSION.
There is no good without its attend
ant evil, and this is as true of the
telephone as of many of the other
wonderful time saving contrivances
of the day. Now that this convenient
instrument is installed in every well
conducted establishment, some sug.
gestions as to its use and abuse may
be useful.
Those who wish to avoid the wor-
ried telephone look" says a woman
Of many activities, SHOULD make up
their mind to resist holding CONVEX
sations with their friends. Let It be
an understood thing that only mes
sages are received, and then arrange
with a responsible servant to take
these down exactly. We all know the
discomfort of trying to tell friend
something of Importance, while all
the time he or she has the distract
air of awaiting the tinkling of that
well known little bell / was at a
luncheon party the other day, when
the hostess was called to the tele-
phone from the table. After futile
efforts at comprehension she discov-
cred 1t was not herself, but one of
the guests who was wanted. This
entailed another upset of the luncheon
table, and the absence of a guest for
some time, with another agitation
when she returned The luncheon
p@rty was quite spoiled, and it need
not have been had the rules l have
given been in force in the house,
New York Tribune.
WHAT EXPLORERS HAVE DONE.
BY her intrepid journey of explor-
alton across the almost untrodden
wilds of Labrador, Mrs. Leonidas Hub
bard, Canadian lady, who has re-
Gently come to London, has once more
demonstrated the courage with which
fragile, gently nurtured woman can
brave hardships and dangers which
might we'll daunt any man. For twelve
years Miss Constance Gordon. Cum
ming wandered over the earth from
the granite crags of California to
the ''fire fountains of Hawaii" climb.
Ing in the Himalayas and penetrating
into the heart of China and Thibet.
Miss H. NJ. Kingsley explored the
CAMERON regions and made herself
quite at home among fierce gorillas
and fiercer cannibals. Lady Baker,
who was the first European to sight
Albert Nyanza, thought nothing OF
walking into the tent of an Arab
slayer and fetching out the captives,
while Miss Jane Moir, Mrs Bishop,
Mrs. Marshall and others also occupy
honored places as explorers.-Wo-
mans life.
WHEN YOU WALK.
When you walk, walk straight.
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