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VIEWING WEDDING PRESENTS.
Remarks by the Guests which Ara 6us-
ceptible Of Misrepresentation.

Remarks by the Guests which Arc sus-
ceptible OF Misrepresentation.
women viewing another woman's we'd
ding presents say things which are liable
TO he mis~interpreted,' said the bachelor
who declares he hates weddings but always
goes when invited. and other things which
no favorable Interpretation would make
complimentary TO the bride or to the giyers.
It's the way Of the sex, / suppose.
"Now why Is 1t that the most common
remark Of the women who are inspecting
the layout OF silver and cut glass and other
gifts more or less useful is What a lot Of
presents che gotl' They don't mean any
thing unkind. but the inference an un-
initiated eavesdropper would draw 10 that
they wonder why she got 30 many.
"Of course they vary the remark. What
a lucky grill says one, as II she would like
to add, Some persons ave too much luck.
And another says, I wonder where they all
came FROM implying almost that the prloe
couldn't have enough friends to make 30
many gifts and must have sent some OF them
to herself just to make a showing.
'Now these women don't mean any harm.
It's just their way Of expressing admiration.
usually. But there are others who surely
evince An uncharitable. petty spirit.
"They pick up and examine every article
and appraise it in loud whispers; They
express voluble wonder as to whether the
silver Is solid and doubt the g~enuineneee OF
the cut glass. Even IL they like a thing
they will decide that 1t wont wear well;
Pretty silver, but how. 1t will scratch
says one, while another knows the china
is lovely but is sure to break easily,
And 90 the tongues wag, while the quiet
man in the corner keeps a watchful eye.
He IL a detective and distrusts every one.'
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like a bill OF fare-so much to the butler
the chambermaid, the cook, the chauffeur.
and goodness knows who"
Il cannot imagine how she came into
contact with the cook in an English coun-
try house; but did she tip Bridget when
she left your
why. no. I don't think she did. In
fact, / am sure she didn't. But why do
you askp'
Because it Is guests like Mrs. Hoosit
that make the servants slam down dishes.
From what / know Of Mrs. Hoosit ! think
hat her knowledge Of tipping has been
gathered from the newspapers. They are
continually printing advice bout tipping
funkies in England and whether to give
gamekeepers paper or gold, but they never
say anything about tipping the maid Of all
work that Is found In most American homes.
especially in summer cottages
why, we pay Bridget SIS, and I am sure
she does not expect tips
while she may not expect them, in the
sense Of being entitled to them. l think 1t
would make a great change in her IL she
got them now and then. Our girl is Ger
man. and you know We lived In Germany
for three years, and II there is one lesson
l learned over there it is that II you want
good service you must show that you APP
preciate your servants
why. / am sure that we appreciate
Bridget. That is why we brought her to
the country with u.s."
Perhaps Bridget thinks the guests do
not appreciate her. Servants have feel
ings just like other people. and a double
dose of cooking and disb~ashing oo g hot
Sunday for a lot Of strangers without as
much as thank you is hard
You don't expect people to get up from
the table and thank Bridget for having
cooked the dinner, do your
"No, but really well bred people, those
who know what's what. not pushers like
Mrs. Hoosit. never forget the servant
when they pay a visit Of any length to a
house. In the old country they manage
those things better than we do.
"In Berlin, for instance. every one lives
In apartments. and at 10 O'Clock the porter
locks the large doors that lead from the
big basement hall to the street. II you
are invited out TO dinner and stay late IL
will be necessary for one OF the servants
TO take a light and the key and go down
with you to let out.
This is the time selected by the guests
to give her their tips, and you will see
each Of them as they descend the stairs
furtively feeling for a mark. or even fifty
pfennigs. to slip into the ready palm as the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
CANADA WANTS CLEAN MONEY.
Careless Habits Across the Border Have
Bred Disagreeable Conditions.

TFO" INC IOTONto W OTtu.
Canada Is now more than ready for clean
currency. The dirty bills and defaced coins
which are circulating among the people Of
the country add no credit to the good name
of the Dominion. II sanitary considerations
do not suggest something better then pride
Of country should rise to the occasion.
Canada has probably the most d"isreputable
medium of exchang e OF any nation which
pretends to civilization. In this the Govern
ment itself is the chief offender and has
been during the changing administration
since confederation. Dominion dollar and
two dollar notes are permitted to circulate
until they reek with dirt and scarcely con-
form in size to the newer notesfwith which
they are counted from time to time.
II Is where silver is used In greatest guam
titles. however, that the debauching OF the
currency Ia most noticeable. Plugged half
dollars. fattened dimes. worn quarters and
crumpled five cent pieces are showed on In
the channels OF business. The church COL
lection plates and street railway boxes have
become receptacles for much OF the smallest
of il. The plugged half dollar given in change
by one street car conductor to a passenger
is refused on another car.
So long as defaced money was accepted
freely IL caused no Inconvenience, no loss
or embarrassment. 1t was simply unsightly.
In the larger centres all this is changing.
People will not accept defaced money-ir
they know II. 1t is a positive handicap to
business and a constant jar to the self-respect
Of the man who tries to pass II along. In
the meantime there Ia laxity at many of the
gateways to tourist travel from the South.
= This results in the infusion OF a great amount
OF United States currency into Canadian
trade channels which may or may not be
Objectionable according to the point Of
view, but which also brings along a deluge
OF defaced United States coin. and this can
not be circulated south Of the line.
II is the business Of the banks and the
Government to purge the currency.
The design Of Cansda's silver money Is
commonplace, 1t lacks distinctiveness and
Il Is wanting In Canadian sentiment. There
Is plenty. Of material upon which TO base a
design, which means more and looks better
than the present issue. The beaver maple
and many other things might be made to
play n part in a new design.
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door is passed. II you visit a house for a
few days in Germany, even IL it is only a
pension, you are just as careful to say good
by to the servants as to the hostess
Il had no idea they put on such airs
1T is not airs. 1t is a sort Of sympathetic
recognition which results in good service.
You must remember when o visit a
house that they are not your servants.
although you make many demands upon
their time and patience.
Il had two girls at our cottage on the
shore for a few days. They brought clothes
enough for a season at Newport. but they
let us pay for bringing their trunks and
themselves to and from the station and
they never lifted a hand to do anything
while our girl Gretchen was within call.
She buttoned up their frocks for them and
wrung out their bathing suits and took ice
water to their rooms every night.
When they were gone | said to Gretchen
that ! supposed she got a nice tip.
why, they didn't even say good-by,'
was all she remarked. as she looked up the
Dad after them.
Il always make it my business to find
out whether my guests have remembered
the servants or not, because il they don
l make it up to them in some way"
But are not the girls wages enough"
i suppose 30; but her age are for
ordinary work. and there Is something in
accompanied by a cheerful goodby. seem
bigger to a hard working house girl than a
dollar a month added to her pay.
Whenever / have company at home.
a large dinner or luncheon, making a lot
of extra work, ! always give our girl some
thing extra. n | never stay over night
at a strange house without tipping the
servants. II those fiunkies that are hired
by the dozen and get $50 or $40 a month
must be tipped by rich people, why should
not a girl who has to do the work Of the
whole house and gets only s1s or $40 a
month for it be equally entitled to some
consideration"
Don't you think it spoils them' Don't
you think SOM hostesses would object
having it done''
Not a bit CT 1t. II the hostess objects
to it she is very foolish, because it makes
her girls more willing and anxious TO please
other guests that follow. When a girl
has a lot OF extra work to do for guests,
and gets a nice little tip and a good word
from them for it, she Is ready and willing
about her mistress having too much com
pany. When l tip a girl | consider that
! am doing my hostess a favor by keeping
her servants in good humor,"
But suppose the people you ask dom
know any better, or forget II. or have never
been in the habit OF tipping servants In
private houses?"
Then / should make the girl a little
present myself or pretend that my guests
had left it for her.
And you think that lie better than giving
them moro wages for the extra work they
may nav to do in the country''
Il am sure OF II. No matter how we'll
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
$3.50 FOR A PAIR OF CORsETs.
Paris Women Often Pay That Price Here,
So London Hears.
FROM Ti-Rifs

Whatever views may be held on the subject
Of small waists and tight lacing. it is q fact
which IL often overlooked by the critics OF
women's fashions Of to-day that corset
making has progressed on such enlightened
lines during the last decade that it does not
follow because a woman wishes to reduce
her waist by several inches that she must
undergo the refined torture" which anti
corsetites declare is necessary. The secret
of a small waist really lies in a certain amount
Of exercise, proper diet and a good corset.
II q fair price Is paid for the latter a woman
need not suffer through tight lacing.
OF CO urse. 1t was not always 30. 1t is not
a hundred years ago since stays were COM
posed not of whalebone or hardened leather
but OF bars Of iron and steel from 8 inches to
4 inches broad and is inches long. Again,
during the reign of George Ill, the top OF
the steel stay Dusk had u long stocking
needle attached to 1t to prevent girls from
spelling their shap pc by STOPPING too much
over their work,
In the days Of Catherine de Medici IS inches
was the fashionable size for the waist. and
to achieve this an overcorset OF very thin
steel plate was worn. 1t Was made 10 two
pieces opened longitudinally by hinges ard
was secured when closed by a sort OF hasp
and pin, like an ordinary box fastening.
The box corsets OF to-day are made on a
foundation of Greenland whalebone. which
has steadily risen In price during the last
twenty-five years from Zoo to CO. 900 a ton.
Cheap whalebone can be bought for $50 and
f4O a ton, but II soon dries and becomes
brittle. thus spelling the corset as we'll az
the figure. II is better to pay three guineas
for genuine Greenland bone corsets than
one guinea for Imitation bone. for not only
do the former last three times as long but
the bone ca be taken out and used again.
By the way. II may surprise many readers
to learn that the fair Parisienne often goes
to America for her %corsets. where they are
made in the most extra VACANT styles. Fifty
pounds for 3 single pair Is frequently paid.
Corsets at this price are not only made OF
the finest silk but are decorated with brill
ilants. The busk being Of is carat gold.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
new IDEAS IN PETTICOATS
CHANGES MADE NECESSARY BY
TIE SHEATH SKIRT.

~ MOdish PetticOat Limp and Glove Fit.
ting About the Hips, NOiseless and Self.
EHacins-New Silks Used In Making "
-Fl0unces Of n New Kind In Use.
ghe fashionable petticoat has been forced
TO change it's character during the las
year, has lost It's b~ouffant elf-assertive-
ness. it's ~crispness. it's rustic. and has grown
gradually imper mt limper. less and less
obtrusive. The concessions have been
made in the interests of self-preservation,
for have not the ultra modish abandoned
ipettiooats altogether in connection with
many Of their frooks and adopted tights
in their placer
But the majority OF womankind has
bald fast to the pettiooat and insisted only
that that garment should adapt itself to
,existing modes, should not declare by
superfuous wrinkles or fitness it's presence
sunder the clinging sheath fitting dress
skirt, should not give a wide flare to skirt
folds that ought to fall straight about the
fleet. Nine women out of ten still wear
q pettiooat under even the most Directoire
! of frocks, but It is a humbled and chastened
pettiooat. a garment self-effacing, noise
less, fashioned Of soft material, q mere
ghost Of it's former aggressive self.
The lingerie petticoat must ave no
starch to-day. Its upper part must be
fitted closely. its lounce must be set on
with little fiat tuoks instead of shirring or
so cut and shaped that it joins the skirt
without fulness. 1t must not be too ample
either. this petticoat f~lounoe. and it must
fall in the softest of folds around the feet.
adording a support to the bottom of the
dress skirt, yet not forcing it out.
Many Of he new French lingerie petit
coats dispense with the under support and
is narrow fril. having merely a deep.
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employed to aot as guides by the nsw
Anglo-American Club In London. They
are to show club members through different
places OF historical interest and to make
O speciality OF assisting women shoppers.
In the Lincoln School at Santa Barbara.
CAL. the pupils are taught to bind all the
books that get out Of repair, to cane all
chairs needing It and to mend any and
every, thing at home or in school that needs
mending.
Miss Italia Garibaldi, a Granddaughter
Of Gen. Garibaldi. has Just been appointed
to take charge Of the Methodist Girls
Home School in Rome. This school stands
on the street named for Gen. Garibaldi
and almost in the shadow Of his statue.
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china silk IL rated among petticoat mater
ials and even crepe is made up into petit
coats, though its tendency to stretch makes
1t less desirable than frmer silken stuffs.
The group Of petticoats sketched here
illustrates SOM Of the new ideas. All Of
these models were in white. but some Of The
same models were offered in other color
ings. though the white petticoats were
better for general use with light
frooks than my Of the delicate
tints.
Each Of these models had the
glove fitting top. fitted as nearly
as possible without a wrinkle and
widening but slightly below the u
hips. One petticoat in a very
soft satin had at bottom a deep
accordion plated f%iounce, which Of
course joined the upper partquite
fla tly and hung almost straight.
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SHE, TOO, WOULD LIKE A TIP
CASE OF THE MAID OF ALL WORK
IN THE SUMMER COTTAGE.

A Housekeeper's Idea OF Why Servants
Sometimes slam Dishes Down on the
Table and the Cure TherefOr-Tfpping
I'm the Household as Managed Abroad.
Two plainly dressed women, evidently
on a shopping trip to town. happened to
meet on the train. After the usual small
talk had been disposed Of one asked the
other how she liked her cottage on the
Connecticut shore.
1T would be very nice but for the mos
quitoes and the trouble we nave with our
girl Bridget. We brought her up from the
city with us, because We did not a to
lose her. But she is not the same girl in
the country.
we ave a good deal of company, you
know. On Sunday we had four people
staying with us and two more came down
from Hartford for dinner, 80 we were nine
at table. and I was ashamed OF the way
Bridget waited on them.
SHE almost slammed the dishes down,
and when it came to washing up afterward
! thought she was trying to break things.
although OF course 1 did not care much,
because the orockery in these furnished
summer cottages Is dreadfully cheap and
common stuff
'What was the trouble2 Was 1t the first
time you had hadivisitors?'
'Oh, my goodness. mol We ave had
two or three people staying with US every
week end or for a week at q time ever since
w came up here in june. and we always
have company for Sunday dinner
Are your guests all Americana
'of course. What do you suppose they
were?'
Il wondered II they were German-Ameri-
cans, or people that had lived abroad"
why, Of course, they have lived abroad;
that Is, some Of them.
There wss Mrs. Hoosit and her daughter.
You remember her. A regular fend for
charity bridge for prizes; says it gets you
into society and all that sort Of thing.
'Shs spent two years abroad, and she
is never tired telling about the swell people
she visited and the lovely country houses
they have In England and all the things
you have to know 30 as TO be in good form.
Why, the tips she had to give were out
ragsous.
She said there vase regular scale, just
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

very soft linen cloth. She Is now ready TO
LOOK into the mirror. and the chances ar,
that she will find that her wrinkles have
disappeared. A little powder. u she uses
it.. will make her skin appear like that OF
q child OF 4. or course It will not stay like
The ugly burrows that sometimes come
between the Dyes can be treated with strips
Of plaster. which viii keep the skin stretched
for q while and 90 give II q chance to re-
cover Its strength, or one can v them
rubbed out with little rollers.
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a waiter in a restaurant may be paid he
would rather have the tip, because 1t shows
him that the customer is pleased. 1t Is
the same with servant girls. They are
all human. and | have seer a pleasant
word. with a half dollar pressed unpre-
tentiously into the palm, make a tired
looking girl 60 back to her work as blithe
as a ark"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

Afrill OF lace Is usually got under the seal
loped edge and the founce Is set on the petit
coat with shirring, the silk being 80 fine and
soft that such fulness shows no awkward
line under the dress skirt.
Other pettiooats of china silk, less expen-
sive but rather more pretentious and quite
effective in a way less elegant than that just
described. have deep founoes formed OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

North Carolina has just acquired it's first
woman dentist. Mrs. d. z. Mcclure Of
Asheville having obtained a license to
practise from the North Carolina Dental
Association,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

One hundred young women have been
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

A missionary deaconess In Liberia has
edited in native dialect a book containing
the Ten Commandments. the Apostles
Creed. the doxology and a number Of the
best known hymns. The book is not only
the first book published In the dialect but
the first successful attempt 70 make it a
written language.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16

Miss Anna Pritohett Of Louisville, Ky.
has just been appointed to the chair Of
economics at Wellesley College. She has
Just passed her twenty-hfth birthday apc
Ii the youngest member Of the Wellesley
faculty.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-05-09
STATE UNIVERSITY AND
ITS GREAT PLACE IN
THE LIFE Of THE WEST

Throne Fills Eks Theater to Hear Splendid Address to the
GRADUATING Class of University of New Mexico by Chan
ceIor Strong of University of Kansas Final Event IN
Unusually Successful Commencement Week at the SChooI
on the Hill.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-28

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Poor fishing weather.
Subscribe for the Herald.
O'Conner, the well driller.
Lumber at cost at Ramey's.
Saturday is decoration day.
Fishing tackle at Anderson's.
Larson, real estate. that's all.
Wood Wanted at Herald office.
We can print your butter wrappers
Base ball goods at Anderson's
The Nezperce Land Company
Dollar watches at the jewellery
store. If
Allkinds of placards at the Herald
Office.
Get your horses shod at Nc.
Lennan's.
O'Conner, the well driller, don't
stay long.
E. Olson is laid up with a sore arm
this week.
Hooks and lines for the trout at
Anderson's. p
Horse shoeing. horse shoeing. at
McLennan's.
You can't miss it if you patronize
the Boss Barn
Mrs. w. J. Ramey is a Seattle
visitor this week.
Mrs. Perry Sanger is recovering
from a sick spell.
Money to loan on real estate.
See P. w. Mitchell.
The Nezperce Land Company
wants your property.
J. T. Fisher, OF Culdesac, is in
own today on business.
See The Nezperce Land Company
or real estate bargains.
Geo. McClintic is down With the
lfamatory rheumatism.
II. D. Pardue was among the |
cattle visitors this week.
Buy your screen doors from the
,amey Lumber Company.
FoR SALE-Red Durock Jersey
lale pigs Geo Stellmon.
Wire cut horses treated at Nc
.ennan's shoeing shopf free.
SPEc1AL-Chicken dinner Satur-
ay at the Nezperce Inn
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Educational & Cooperation Union.
Local No, 2, are requested to attend
meeting which will be held in
Wilson's hall Saturday afternoon,
May so, at Q 100.
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and Mrs. Ida Ryne, Of Portland,
spent Sunday and Monday in Nez-
perez with their brother, Charles
Pomeroy.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-28

The Rapey Lumber Company.
Ltd, will commence on June 10 10
close out their entire stock of lum.
Der at Mill No. /. Prices will range
from $500 and up per thousand.