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The San Francisco call., 1908-03-29

sponsibie for It all, quite omitting to
smention any of the things that mems
01ybs are responsible for. The society
lEditor says that as matter of policy
sshe contemplates learning how for it
will give her the entree to circle of
Interesting people and opportunities
for exclusive writeups. The telegraph
editor, who halls from Kentucky. sees
in the present situation an opportunity.
for Uncle Sam to recoup the federal
revenues lost through the abolition of
the liquor traffic, since q doubling Of
the tobacco output is now practically
assured, and he says that in case of
war the country Will be saved One
of the younger reporters is working up
i a bit of doggerel to head the divorce
column in which he associates cigar
cites" and "suffragettes. He smokes
90 day and his sweetheart has dis
missed him in consequence. The proof
reader says that the man who handles
the exchanges has sent In the same
Jokes on the subject no less than four
times within fortnight, and the cir
culation manager announces a marked
falling off In subscriptions among
prominent church members because of
the fiippant tone in which SO insidious
a menace Is treated In our editorial
section. We have been little short
on miscellany, for the enterprising ap-
prentice. threw our last instaliment of
new plate matter In with the type
metal day before yesterday, and we
have no local story featured for next
Sundays edition Ny chief, having
heard the circulation managers COM
ment, asks me to furnish the neces-
sary dope" in the shape of censor
ious article setting forth the proposf-
tion in uncompromising mathematical
guise, thus:
If a given number of our feminine
population persist in smoking 16 cigar
cites q day, how long will it take them
to consume enough to reach. If laid end
to end, from New York to San Fran
cisco? How many yards of substantial
dress goods could be bought with the
money expended by a hostess in treat
ing II of her feminine intimates week,
ly throughout the year to this form OF
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= lt1Om0xss CousessY1,n 1/AHReof
IdNaH0@goN@u1 G10~MukeYakySN

pretty little dsaconess left IN tbs other
once yesterday.
Dreams and Memories
The thing is done. snd win be run.
double loaded, on the d-st page OF the
supplement. with illustrations Today's
issue is already going to press The
foreman has long since ceased yellin8
Copy" The managing editors wife
called for him an hour ago IN their
automobile The clicking OF the tele-
graph instrument Is stilled and the
manipulation thereof gone TO an Italian
dinner with his chum. The solitary cub
reporter is on duty at the telephone TO
keep up live connections with the
morgue and the police station until the
last moment. and has fnperscnally In
quired why Il Is that women ara so
hard on a man when what he most
needs is sympathy and forgiveness I
am inwardly revolving a converse
proposition. FOR which biting n1enthol
offers no solution The air OF these
inner rooms is sitting and my brain IS
numb. Another nerve racking week Is
drawing to a close. with no advance in
pay. no improvement In the weather.
no letters, no friends near at hand, no
social diners in prospect, no home. no
money with which to entertain neigh
bors or colleagues; In short. nothing 10
relieve the grind. II one could but slip
away into Nirvana for a little spacel
Back over the years memory speeds to
the tiny garret bedroom. with Its prirnI-
tive furnishings and towering plants.
Again the quiet secluston. the restful
abandon. the b1issful contemplation aro
mine as in fancy watch the dfaphan-
GUS clouds OF fragrant smoke doat just
above my head
The door behind me swings open and
small package is tossed over nv
shoulder on my Sunday copy "Good
night and pleasant dreams." calls he OF
the menthol and the differential calcu-
lus. and is gone ere can reply The
little box bears a Turkish emblem and
contains a dozen A swift inventory OF
my cramped apartment uptown recalls
an old easy chair and a sumptuous
lounging robe. pot OF geraniums in
the. window and q coll OF oriental punk
yet unburned, the fumes of which will
preclude the need OF explanation The
package is swept into my grip. thu
roller top Is closed upon the annual
statistician. the world IS left behind.
Once more I HE me TO the realm OF
sweet Oblivion and know again the up
lifting calm OF my 1rst cigarettsf
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Neither do I; it's jolly" responded
lazily, putting another sofa pillow un-
der my feet and beginning slowly and
judiciously to rinhale minute quantities
Of the smoke. / was drifting into sea
OF forgetfulness.> What mattered the
unwashed dishes below stairs or the
next weeks algebra examination? I
would surprise my English teacher
with prose poem about the lotus
eaters, whose dreamy somnolence was
mine. The air was blue. The world
was full of peace.
by the gods" thundered pater-
nal voice from the ertry, followed by
terrific pounding on the wooden parti-
tion and mothers startled step from
the kitchen. My dear, what are these
girls Of ours doing In here? Open the
doori' And we obeyed-
The grave old Frenchman was still
regarding me with look of polite in
quiry, and found myself saying:
Really, monsieur, I fear the result
might prove fatal. It is rather risque
for women, is It not?"
1T is as you think. mademoiseile. /
know always my place among ladies'"
And he straightway changed tie sub
3ect.
Not long after this I was again re-
minded of my youthful escapade; this
time by Polish savant, who without
any apologies lit his cigarette at the
dinner table and nonchalantly passed
the case to me.
do Russian ladies always smoker"
/ asked IN surprise.
Certainly, my ingcnue, and plenty Of
other ladies, too. You really ought to
learn If you would be a true bohemian" /"
The custom OF smoking had spread
surreptitiously much farther than I
supposed. Some pursued their new
amusement in deadly secret; some had
married foreigners or widely travelled
men who sanctioned It; others had no
hesitation about taking a few dainty
whiffs now and then in the company
OF gentlemen who were their guests,
and one of these declared that she
thought II very much more dignified
form of sociability than drinking cham
pagne with them. A number OF the
strong minded placed 1t on a par with
suffrage and other masculine privileges
which they were resolved to exercise
courageously and Unfortunately fol-
the mere sake Of showing the sterneI
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sex that they were not longer to be
trodden upon.
But nowhere did ind a woman who
derived any soulful enjoyment from her
new vagary. Mono claimed that 1t aided
her digestion or Gained her nerves
save one old southern nanny. who
puffed away at clay pipe in the se-
clusicn of her back porch whenever
she had "the misery In her head" In
no other instance was any restfulness
apparent during the operation. 1t was
merely the delightful experience Of
tasting forbidden fruit, and the self
consciousness which mars feminine
activity In many e worthier cause is
here most lamentabIy made manifest.
Did you ever watch girl hold a
burning match? How different her
nervous manipulation of it from the
caressing and familiar touch OF the
masculine hand. The envied tyrant
shelters it closely. yet without burn
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= nv ILL --lduC414OASSAAt 4i1 2 a
SX cigaretteT' asked the old
M French gentleman sitting
opposite me at dessert It
was said with the utmost
gravity and respect
Shades OF my Puritan grandmothers.
A cigarette2
Thank you. monsieur, but 1 have
In the midst of nay disavowal there
suddenly arose before me, across a wide
decade. the memory of a tiny garret
bedroom whittier my naughty twin sis
ter and 7 had fed with two of the OBJ
noXious little articles concealed under
our aprons. We were scarcely IS and
still under parental authority. After
locking the door we drew them forth
IN delightful awe and outlines, and
laid them down In a gingerly manner
on the edge OF the table as though they
were firecrackers. Then while my ac-
coinplice procured some matches
stopped up the kcyhole and put a, board
over the broken window.
Nov" she exclaimed triumphantly,
striking masculine attitude and
match at the same time. But it didn't
go.
II guess girls aren't built that way"
she grudgingly admitted after few
more futile efforts, and applied fl TO the
under surface of the bureaus marble
top.
With some difficulty we each got "a
light" and after two or three tentative
puffs were so startled at our success
that we laid the little internal ma
chimes down again and looked at each
other IN a sort OF terrified elation not
unmixed with suspense. But not find
ing ourselves stricken down by divine
wrath nor (more fearful thought> with
nausea, we took them up once more.
They had gone out, and another strug-
gle was necessary to induce the ex-
halation of balmy fragrance, which this
time was mingled with the odor Of
einged hair, while unwilling tears were
forced from smarting eyes as the fumes
arose vertically into them.
Tip your head back" suggested my
fellow sinner. seating herself before
the glass to practice nonchalant ges-
lures with her cigarette.
Lets lie down, so as to be all ready
II II makes az seasick,' 1 faltered.
7eahr sne exclaimed, turning side
wise and eievating her small feet with
some exertion TO the top Of an old
Saratoga trunk "Tisn't going to.
don't believe. Let's be comfortable .
And she blew a most enviable smoke
wreath into the air above her curly
head
Quite overcome by this demonstra-
ton OF skill and daring. threw my
self on the creaking old couch and for
q few minutes took only enough whifs
70 keep my cigarette from going out
There hovered before me the picture
Of Tom Sawyer and his white-faced
comrades abruptly separating after
their first smoke on the desert isle
shut my eyes in dread and laid one
hand against my diaphragm Slowly 6
delicious orowsiness stole over me-
Lets have another II we can get
st." presently suggested my enterpris-
ing rival, who had already finished
hers II don't blame the boys FOL
smoking" And going to the window
she carefully buried the stub in POI
OF geraniums.
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ing his fingers, and puts 1t out at just
#the right moment--not with vague
seand ineffectual gyration that Is likely
to ignite his clothing, but with one
fell blow, which is never so misdirected
s to- extinguish the newly kindled
spark at the same time. Tho smoke
never gets In his eyes, his cigar draws
at the first or second trial and he So
renely tosses the match away and re-
signs himself to bliss.
1t is long since sat Wis . Wis with
the gallant. old Frenchman and was
considered unsophisticated by tho cos
mopolitan Pole. A revival OF the ques-
tion mooted then has caused furore
quite out of proportion to its actual
Importance. The superficial element of
|. femfninity in the ranks OF the upper
ten is seeking q little cheap noto-
,, riety by doing the unusual, and mere
man. as OF DID, essays to retard the
brutalizing effect of emancipation
upon lovely woman" who will soon
,, have left him nothing he can call his
own-not even his silver ash tray.
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What Might Be

In the sanctum of an evening paper
the managing editor who comes in
very late, by the ways heard to re-
mark that the women's clubs are re-
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-29
By Lois Lee

- <NVF FILL mademoiselIe have a
cigarette?' asked the old
w French gentleman sitting
onnosife me- a. dessert II
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-02-22
a Historic Settlement.


The first purely American settlement
west of the Mississippi river was Cape
Girardeau, Mo. Its first settler, how
ever, was Ensign Girardot, a French
trader and for some time an officer in
the French army, who located on the
rocky mountain promontory just north
of the present town. From Girardot
the county was named. The first per-
manent settler at Cape Girardeau was
Louis Lorimier, French-Canadian,
who In 1882 came from the Miami val
lev, west of the Mississippi. His wife
was half breed Shawnee woman, and
through her great influence with the
Shawnees be was given a large grant
of land in 1795 by the governor of the
territory. Shortly thereafter the Span
ish government, deeming 1T wise to
populate upper Louisiana, offered free
lands exempted from taxation to set
tiers. Because these settlers came from
Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina
almost entirely Cape Girardeau claim
ed the honor Of being the first Ameri'
can settlement. Previous settlements
had been largely Spanish or French
Lorimler was counted as the father Of
the town, which dates in organization
from 1906 He died in 1872, having
survived his Indian wife four years
He was buried by her side In Cape
Girardeau on tree crowned hill over
looking the western Mississippi.-Kan
sas City Star.
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Leonie'sFavor
By INA
WRIGHT HANSON.
Copyrighted. lsos BY NJ. NJ. Cunningham

Against great rock we sat, Leonie
ma l, and Leonie was reading aloud
Yesterday we had sat there, and tne
day before and many days before that
reading or talking or looking silently
st the sea foam pillng up against other
rccks out In the blue distance. and ey'
sry day had loved Leonie more.
On this Jay had thought to tell her
% but now that the day had come my
words were held. Before me stood
duty, grim visaged and cruel eyed. Be-
ssds me sat Leonie. slim, radiant, en-
trancing.
sFair lord, whose name know not-no-
BILE II Is;
vell believe the noblest-will you wear
nv favor at this tourney May" said
he.
s.rasr lady, since I never yet have worn
Favor OF any lady in the lists"
Leonie looked up at me, her brown
sves full Of the glory Of the master
Doet.
shouldn't you like to have lived IN
tAoss daysy she asked. Think OF re-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-02-22

FOR RENT-9 ROOM HOUSE;
corner Jerome and 18th streets
Apply to Capt. Ferchen, $50 18th
street 2-2-tf.'
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HELP wANTED--FEMALE,

WANTED--A GOOD STRONG
Scandinavian girl as chambermaid'
Apply NJ this office, 2-22-tf.
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"What, Ieoniev | asked SauIy, to1
now knew that must 20.
~ should give my knight his favo'
ana send MIN away. ana should stay
at home and pray and wait"
.Oh, Leonie" whispered. "Leoniev
She took from the lace at her white
throat tiny blue and gold swastika
and pinned 1t on my coat.
This is instead OF the red sleeve
broidercd with pearls" she smiled,
though her eyes were wet. And you
shall wear It on your coat instead OF
your helmet. DO you know what II
signifies, brave knighty"
sIt brings good luck and Is a tails
man to ward or the evil eye" ! an
swered, smiling. too. for had she not
called me brayeg
ssThat and more. The colors are 10y
atty and royalty, The up and down
points are heaven and earth, the right
and left behind you and before you
time and eternity. The symbol means
that you are not free from personal re-
sponsibility while you wear It. II
means noblesse oblige. dear knight.
Ride forth to your promise; be brave
and strong, and victory will be yours
So I kissed my lady's favor and then
her hand and rode away.
Aside from my desire for Leonie or
news concerning her, my year with my
foster father was a pleasant one. His
library was full Of books, his mind a
storehouse OF ideas concerning travel.
history and romance. He gave me my
mornings for writing, and wrote
much, glad that out In the world Le-
onie was reading and waiting.
The request he had asked might have
been whim. but he gave, leaving Le-
onie out of the question. much more
than he could have received. The year
was nearing Its close when he spoke to
me Of my future.
"You have no idea Of what these
months have been to me. Arthur" he
said as we were walking one evening
BY the lake In his meadow.
"And they have been much to me.
sir" / answered truthfully.
"what would 1t mean to you to have
them lastT' he asked. hitting some
goldenrod sprays with his cane, his
eyes on the yellow blossoms.
ut couldn't be quite like this, sir"
answered slowly, and then ] told him
about Leonie and the swastika.
"It wasn't a whim. boy. that has kept
you here" he replied. with smile on
his fine old face 'You had begun
writing to me of this Leonie, and 1t
happened that l had seen the girl.
though she had not known my name.
I wanted to test her. boy. You have a
future before you which must not be
spoiled by the wrong woman. Tomor-
row 60 back to her and II she Will
come bring her to me. The old house
needs you both"
had thought to find my lady where
l had left her, but she was standing
under some poplar trees near her owr
gate. As l came In sight OF her
vagrant breeze touched the trees, and
a shower of yellow leaves fell around
her like golden butterflies. urged my
horse forward and sprang from my
saddle
had thought 10 greet her In words
of the master poet, in language beft'
ting her true knight come safely home
but all my stammering tongue could ut
ter as her glad, welcoming face was
raised to mine was: "Leonie! oh. Le-
oniev'
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SITUATION WANTED.

SITUATION WANTED BY A
young lady Of experience. q position
as stenographer; has own machine.
Apply this office. z-s-St
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WATT"
esiving your lady's favor and kissing
her hand and riding away and riding
home again! All, but my part-wait-
ing at home while my knight was in
danger! That shouldn't like
maybe when he was about to ride
away you would have called him
back" yentured. Maybe you would
have said: I need you to take care Of
me. Let others do the fighting Would
you, Leonie?
zone can never tell what one VIII do
I'LL the time comes," she answered. and
would have turned to her book again
but my hand stayed her.
3Let me tell you story, Leonie.
Once there was an orphan boy who
was adopted by man and brought
up as his own son. The boy had been
left money, but the man gave to him
other things-loye and sympathy, en-
couragement and trust. When the boy
had grown to man the foster father
sent him out into the world to accom-
plish his hearts desire. Did ! say that
the boys ambition was to write"
'I understand, Arthur" she smiled.
when the boy was going away ne
tried to tell the man what he felt OF
gratitude to him, but the man laid bis
kind old hand on the boys shoulder
and said, Never mind that now, but
some time when make request OF
you you will grant It. And Of course
the boy thought then, and said so, that
any request would be small In compar-
ison with what the man had done for
him.
"In few years the young man had
become reasonably successful. In the
many times he saw his foster father
the request was not mentioned, but
the boy had not forgotten. Then ene
day he met you, and you know what
that meant to him. You must know
Leonie."
II think l understand, Arthur" sht
whispered, coloring.
"Last night the letter came. My fos
ter father has made known his re
guest"
1t was difficult to 90 on, looking int
Leonie's eyes. so full Of trust and hap
piness, and-yes, could see--so full O.
love.
'The request is year out Of my lif'
to be spent with him-a year free o.
Ill entanglements, as he expresses II
In the matter of love affairs. 1t meanI
neither to see nor hear from the WON
an / love. 1t means that If grant tn
favor / may not even tell the womal
I love her and ask her to wait till tn
wear Is done. Why couldn't he hav
asked any other thing under the sun
II must be a mere whim." finishe
hotly.
Leonie was silent for time. Her eye
turned away from me, gazing out 9
the feathery spray in the blue oil
tance.
eve may all be dead in year."
exclaimed wfathfully.
Then Leonie sighed and turned he
face to me and laid her slim hand 0
my sleeve. 4*
'sThe future Is not ours" she answe
Cd gravely. "only today. 1t may be
whim, but think he has reason, an
you promised to grant his request whe
he should ask 1t. I know now what
should do IL these were the days
knighthood"
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT--2 UNFURNISHED
Office rooms, near court house. In
quire 3S6 Commercial street, up
stairs 2-7-tf.
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Suffering and Dollars Saved.

E. S. Loper, Of Marilla, N. Y, says:
81 am a carpenter and have had many
severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve. 1t has saved me suffering
and dollars. 1t is by far the best
healing salve l have ever found"
Heals burns, sores, ulcers, fever
sores, eczema and piles. 2Sc at Chas.
Rogers & Son, druggists.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-02-22

The dull feeling in the head which Is
not quite an ache, but bad enough to
make one miserable, can be driven away
by Lanes Family Medicine, the best cure
for headache.
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LAUNDRIES.
Those pleated Bosom Shirts

Those Pleated Bosom Shirts
The kind known by dressy men in
the summer, are difficult articles to
launder nicely. Unless you know just
how to do it, the front pleats won't
iron down smooth, and the shirt
front will look mussy. Our New
Press Ironer irons them without
rolling or stretching. Try it.
TROY LAUNDRY,
Tenth and Duane. Phone Main 1891
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FOR SALE

ONE HUNDRED-ROoM HOTEL
for sale; doing a splendid business;
good opportunity for a hrst-class
hotel man.
WESTERN REALTY co.
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BOARD AND ROOM WANTED.

WANTED-BOY OF i6 YEARS
desires a place where he can do
chores for board and lodging and at
tend school, Apply at Historian Office.
2-2l-tf.
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Trains marked : run daily.
Telegraph ONCE.

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