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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-20
WHAT OUR NElGHBORS SAY
LOOKING AT VERMONT"
(From the Barre Times)

TT may be playing the game to
roll up a republican majority in YER
mont during presidential campaign,
as is said to he Chairman Hitchcock 8
intention, but In this topsyturvy year
the effect in the middle west is not
likely to be tidal. However. money is
not so plentiful in the Green Noun
tain state that the politicians will OBJ
ject to a liberal contribution from the
campaign fund"--New York Sun.
Both the sentiments expressed by the
contemporary will find ready support
ers That the remainder Of the ma
tion is going to wait with bated
breath to learn how Vermont went"
in the election next month is mat
ter for question, although the polite
ial leaders may turn mildly inQuisi-
tive eye In this direction along about
that time. But Vermont must go
through the form of rolling up the
usual majority In any event. for the
satisfaction Of the republicans of the
state, II not for the intense gratifica-
ton of the leaders OF the party at
large. To do that requires money, and
that's where the contemporaries sec
ond sentiment will find ready sup
porters. the republican state COM
mittee needs the money" or SO we
are told. Hence the belief that the
leaders Of the campaign in this state
| will not be averse to receiving
/ whatever may fall from the national
campaign fund. The degree of i'm
| portance that the national leaders at
tach to the Vermont election will be
] t,,JI cot Tod he ho ci ~ In n iph
they donate for legitimate purposes
| in the State.
THE OLD HOME WELK IDEA.
The town of stowe clings to It.
"Old Home Week" with tenacty
which must convince some other Yer
mont communities before long that
there IL something worth while in
these annual reunions of former and
present residents. Plans are well
started In that town for welcoming
the old-homers back to the shadow IF
Mount Mansfield; and another celebra
ton is looked forward to. Elsewhere
in the state the "Od Irme Week" idea
ie dying out. II IS something which
deserves to be continued. although
perhaps an annual observation is toe
frequent for most OF the communities
Barre Times.
Springfield still combines the "Old
Home Week" idea with the Annua
fair Of the Springfield agricultural
association. The idea of Old Home
Week is continually good one and
and should not be allowed to die out
II was thought here that the annual
| nj fof good
time for an Old Home Week. but
even the interest in it seems to lag
However this year more enthusiasm
| has been shown than ever before
| Probably the Old Home Week idea Is
not dying out but is rather increas-
ing, though stated celebrations OF Old
Home Week with appropriate exer-
cises are not as frequent as formerly
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-20
DEFINITE INFoRMATIoN DESIRED

I'D like glass Of plain effervescins
drink said thirsty man.
"You haf vanilla or you haf raspber'
ry?' asked the the young woman Ia leu
tom behind the counter.
IL want plain drink. no haVor'ng
understand me-" responded the th'rsty
man. testify.
Yes, but vat kind favoring you Van'
him mitout? Mtout vanilla or mtou'
raspberry ?'-Chcago journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-20
A WINNER.

But he's always telling her she's
clever"
That's nothing, III cut him OUT III
tell her she Is beautiful. Houston
Post
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-20
Women Prefer
Cuticura Soap and Ointment for
Toilet, Bath and Nursery.
Tor preserving, puril

!, purifying and beAuti-
Tying the skin. scalp, hair
and hands, for ecsernas,
rashes, inhammations,
irritations, itchings and
channgs, q well rs for
sanative. antiseptio
cleansing and many pur-
poses which readily sus-
gest themselves to
wo m en-. especially
mothers, Cutioura Boan
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-20
and Cudoure

and Cutiolrs Ointment arc unrivaied.
H. 3 H SSss :? sa:S
,$ura gesovent 6oey. fcf IN ihs iorm Of Ckoeoists
oSs vst9 Posse raB rHs M e css
Corp- sols Props Boston. Mass
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! satin. Others have merely facInss Of

Of satin. Others have merely faclngs Of
satin.
A particularly chic coat from a famous
Partisan designer was in mastic cloth and
black satin, but the design might be efec-
lively carried out in pongee. taieta or any
PLAIN coat material. A sketch is given Of
this model, which with its stitched bands
and big covered buttons presents a tailored
aspect, yet achieves artistic grace at the
same time.
Chains formed Of big links made from
heavy cord covered with silk are used to
hold some Of the new French coats across
the chest in place Of the ordinary braid and
cord ornaments. and one or two exclusive
houses are showing button and chain links
they have a distinctive French name
which has slipped our m~emory-for the
fastening OF cutRway GOAT fronts and Of
open sleeves. These are round balls of
colored crystal in the colors Of the various
semi-precious stones-smethyst, topaz, 10.
set in gold or silver and fastened together
by gold or silver chains composed Of large
links.
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The FIGURE FLAT IN FRONT
WAYS TO FIT ONESELF FOR THE
MODISH DRESS LINES.

Reduction Methods From India. Russia.
Denmark and COIOradO-Fresh Air I'm.
pOrtant-starVtng Not Necessary II One
Notwithstanding . Good Carriage.
II you want to get the fat front figure
you must learn how and when TO exercise.
II Is useless to take exercise at night when
you are tired, and just as useless TO exercise
before a meal.
There was a woman who gained flesh
and lost her figure through playing bridge,
Being seated many hours Of the day caused
her to grow stout and made the flesh
gather in the wrong places.
To make an already bad matter worse
this woman had ordered her spring ward
robe and the gowns had come home, There
they were, all beautiful in their straight
front outlines. There were princess gowns
with long panel effects in the front, calling
for a straight, fat fronted figure, and there
we're empires with their curiously short
back, also calling for an ideal forml And
their owner had grown too stout to be able
TO wear them.
This woman was a person Of energy and
she resolved to remedy matters at once.
In her search for the right kind Of physical
culture she came across a woman who had
studied reduction methods in India and
found that the system met her needs.
She learned that food could be eaten in
plenty provided one exercised afterward
Directly after lunch she opened the windows
Of her room and exercised for fifteen min
utes. The work a with the arms only. She
stood erect, stretched her arms upward,
brought them back to the body with a
snappy movement and repeated until the
fifteen minutes had expired. Her arms may
have ached a little, but she knew that she
had lost flesh. This should be repeated
after each meal.
Women who are reducing should know
how much weight to lose. II they bant
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FLY TYING BY GIRLS.
LOng Island Farmers Daughters Kent
Busy by Anglers.

Among che Long Island farmep'
daughters there are not a few who sup
port themselves by making artificial flies
for anglers. In many instances in which
the farmers wife cannot dispense alto
gether with her daughters services she
will 90 arrange that she can give her a
few hours 10 herself each day.
This time many Of the girls spend in
tying flies. They 20 first for a week or tw O
to headquarters to learn the art, after
which they remain in their homes, where
the %fymaking materials-hooks, feathers
and silks, as we'll as a card showing colored
reproductions OF the flies to be made-are
sent them.
II you happen into the home OF ops NJ
these girls while she is at work che will
show you what she is doing and talk 10
YOU about red and black hackles, black
gnats, yellow duns and many other fiies,
as though Il were the most natural thing
in the world that she should know all about
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little, but iat women are almost always
bundled up In clothing.
Reducing the weight is done differently
In different countries. A visitor to Russia
came back startled with her experience
with lie physical oulturists.
On the day Of her arrival at a country
place Just out Of 81. Petersburg a maid
Knocked on the door and announced that
she had come TO give her q physical culture
bath. The maid produced several very
large and very rough bath towels and
q long brush supplied with fine wires and
the stifest Of bristles.
The maid took the brush and ran Il
lightly along the back Of the lady's neck,
fairly lifting the skin. The lady WINGED,
and the maid remarked that "my LADY,
was evidently not accustomed 10 the wire
brush In her own country.
Then came the critical part Of the opera
ton. The wire brush vas carried bTiskly
over the shoulders and back until the skin
was red and glowing. A bath Of very cold
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them. When the flies are made they are
fastened TO cards. boxed and mailed TO
headquarters.
The amount earned at fly tyi ng depends
entirely upon the skill OF the worker and
the amount Of time devoted to the work
The mother Of one well dressed farmers
daughter says:
"My daughter don't have much time to
tie flies. but nevertheless she manages
30 earn all her own clothes"
A Long Island commuter who did not
know that the young women we're en-
gagged in this industry was requested one
morning by his wife TO stop on his way to
the station and ask a certain young girl to
come and assist her with some house clean
ing. When he returned home in the evening
he informed his wife that the girl was Ill
aud could not come.
what is the matter with herr inquired
his wife.
Il don't know exactly. replied her hus-
band, Il never heard OF the disease before,
and / didn't ask any questions. Her mother
lust said. Tell your wife that my daughter
couldn't possibly 90 out to work now for
she has the flies
The flies made on Long Island are not
nigh class. nevertheless there must be 2
big demand for them, as the fly makers are
busy a great part Of the time.
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THE LANDLORDS REAL TEST.
Mr.. F1atdweI ler on the Need Of q Fire In
the Raw SnrInEtIme.

Mr.. F1atdWe Iler on the Need Of q Fire In
the Raw springtlme.
Spring, the gentle ~springtime, is the
real test OF the landlord" said Mr.. Flat
dweller. There was a time when all
landlords started their fires at a certain
fixed date in the fall and shut them OF at
a certain fixed date in the spring, but that
custom has now happily in great measure
been s%upplanted by more enlightened
ways, OF at least as far as the fall starting
time Is concerned.
"For there are now moreand more land
lords who start their fires in the fall when
it gets cold, without regard 10 the date.
a very great improvement this; but have
known landlords who started their fires
early and who we're most generous Of their
coal all through the winter who shut Oh their
fires for good at the first touch Of warm
weather in the spring, when the first crocus
crooked, and that is something greatly 10
be deplored; for often there are later in
the spring raw, chilly days when we really
need a fire as much as we do in the colder
days Of winter-those days when without
a fire We cannot get warm by closing the
windows, but when we can get cool by open
ing them il we have a FIRE and It gets too
warm.
$50 | say that spring is the real test Of
the landlord, and that that landlord is most
20 be admired who keeps his fires going al
this season until we have settled moderate
weather. and fortunately II may be said
that in this enlightened age he 10 ~increas-
ing in number. And he IL not without
his reward. for the landlords best invest
ment Il a contented tenant
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water had been prepared, and into this the
lady was expected to take a dip,
aYou will find that il feels warm after
your exercise" said the maid. The lady
tried 1t and found 1t very cooling to her
burning flesh.
But it was not until she had emerged
from her bath that she felt the IMMIGRATION
Of the experience. She was as light as
a feather upon her feet then. She took
the treatment for a week and lost nearly
five pounds,
In Denmark when a lady gets too stout
she is urged to get out upon tho hills and
tend the sheep. She has fresh milk to
drink and she also eats fruit and herbs,
but no fish nor flesh nor fowl. She lives
in the open, and she loses weight.
The so -called Colorado treatment con-
sists in sleeping out Of doors in a Sleep
ing parlor built with sides Of Japanese
mating to keep the wind from blowing
upon you, Only two pieces Of bedding are
required. There must he a German feather
bed to place upon the floor OF the sleep
ing parlor, and another feather bed 10 be
drawn over the sleeper.
Both beds must be very large, The
one to be used on top is fully ten feet square.
II can be tucked in on all sides, and when
the snow blows II can be drawn partly
over the head. In the summer there is a
feather bed Of lighter weight.
The principle Of reducing the weight by
open air sleeping is that the lungs, being
fully supplied with oxygen, will do better
work. They will draw in deep breaths
and so be able 10 burn up the Fat.
English women are slim because they
keep their homes cool, Women who ill
their rooms with fresh air are simmer,
as a rule, than those who cit In an over
heated atmosphere. The lungs do better
work under the circumstances.
Keep cool II you want TO get thin; lear
your weight upon the balls Of your feet;
take deep breathing exercises after each
meal; and Of course walk as much as you
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they can lose half a pound Of flesh a day,
but the method is weakening.
A quarter Of a pound a day ia sufficient
for the woman who wants to reduce slowly
and steadily, but she must have scales
10 be sure that her weight does not creep
up Just when she thinks it is going down.
She should weigh herself when she gets
up in the morning and again at night. II
tho weight remains the sams she is losing
weight. This may seem strange, but it
is true. There need lie no change from
morning until night.
A woman loses fash during the night.
1t is then that she fGsts and then that the
body becomes wasted. When she wakes
in the morning she will weigh a few ounces
lees than she did when she vent to bed.
The trick in getting thin is TO keep from
gaining flesh during the day.
Walking in the open air benefits the
complexion. People who are reducing al
most always look pasty, They are ex-
ercising end dieting and their skin shows
the p~rivation o. their daily life. They
look sad and dull, tired and worn.
In India the stout person takes the mind
cure as we'll as the physical cure. She says
to herself, Il am not hungry After she
has repeated this she takes a walk and
eng ges in something TO occupy her mind
So she let's a meal slip by.
Getting the straight front line is partly
a matter Of correct pose. The woman who
rests her weight on her heels will never
have a good figure for a princess gown.
She must learn 10 rest her weight upon
the balls Of the feet. At first this will
make her feet lame, but she must keeF
night on.
Wearing thin clothing will make one
SHAGGY in tho front line. The skin OF the
body needs 10 breathe. Slim women veal
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can. II u no use 10 starve yourself unless
you exercise al The same time.
Learn TO hold your chest out. When
you walk learn 70 carry the upper part
Of the body upright. Don't bend for
ward, and Of course don't bend back. No
one can show you better how TO do this than
the man who has been through a West Point
trimming.
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ARMADILLO FLOWER BASKETS.
Quaint R~eceDtacles From Mexico Made
Out Of whole skins.

Flower and fern baskets made OF arma-
dillo skins are a novelty in florist shops.
They come from Mexico.
The entire shell-like skin OF an arma-
dillo Is used In making a basket. The high
arche1 back shell forms the deep bowl CT
Inc basket. Tail and head covering are
bent together into a loop over the bowl for
a handle,
The natural grayish coloring OF the skin
il retained. The baskets are about q foot
IN length.
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SPECIAL SALE OF
Imported Pique Robes pnn.tO

100 RquiSitely Hand-EmbrodsTed and Soutaehe Effects,
latest model walking lengths-vanety Of designs.
Regularly 3a9,S 50 to 5000, $500 70 $500
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RAFFLES IN PETTICOATS.
Countess de MOnteIl me Head Of . GanE
OF Hotel Thieves.

Paris, March is.-The French and Ital-
ian police have arrested q gang Of hotel
thieves for whom they have baen search
ing for the last fifteen years. The last
TO fall into their hands was the head and
brains Of the gang, a woman known At
fashionable resorts Of Europe and in
America as the Countess Of Monteil,
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| Her real name is Amelie Condamlne,
and a few Of her other adopted names are
Countess OF Manola, Countess Of Beau
bourg and Baroness de Vergnes. For
a month two detectives have followed this
feminine Raf1es from Paris to Macon, TO
Cannes and then to Nice. where she was
staying at one Of the finest hotels on the
Promenade des Anglais.
About ? o'clock one morning they saw
her leave her room clothed in a costume
suited TO her calling, a black woollen jersey.
a short black clinging petticost, a black
cloak like a monks covering her head,
and sandals with felt soles. She was In
the act of unlocking a bedroom door
when the detectives arrested her.
Upon her person and in her room were
found all the usual tools Of a burglar, beau
tifully made jimmies, files. false keys,
screwdrivers, pocket electric lamps, DC.
She had a concealed pocket in her skirt
in which we're twenty-seven small pincers
made Of silver and steel and used for turn
ing from the outside keys left in a lock
inside the door.
The police have traced her presence In
Brussels in 1898, London 1899, Nice 1900,
America 1901, and Arcachon, Mentone
and Cannes in 1902 and 1908. but she never
( operated in Paris, where she enjoyed a
blameless reputation, driving in the Bots
de Boulogne every day and attending
race meetings, always beautifully dressed
and using a we'll turned out carriage.
...A A.. gnttpA a. h. A.u.a
IN Paris Is a photograph taken in iSUi near
New York showing her on the point Of max
ing a balloon ascent.
Several note books were also found.
One contained a plan Of the transatlantic
liner In which she sailed from Havre to
New York. The names Of the chief pas
sengers are noted, the details Of their bag
gage given, and notes are added Of this
kind:
Mr.. and Mrs. Il, cabin No. -, generally
leave the key in the lock at night; the lock
works stitfy, Press hard,
Mr.. Nj. cabin No. -. on the right a
valise in which his pocketbook Is kept. Very
rich. Sleeps lightly. Chloroform.
That the Countess used chloroform in
her burglaries is confirmed by the discovery
Of several TASKS in a cupboard in her dress-
ing room.
Al Alexandria the jewelry End purse Of
a rich American disappeared one night
from his room. The landlord susDected
two Of his guests-a man named Frandin
and the Countess. Frandin prosecuted the
hotel keeper for defamation Of character
and secured 500 damages, and the judg-
ment was ordered to be inserted in three
local news-a pers. Nevertheless he turned
out to be one Of the gang, and with
Canussa and Amer was arrested a week
before the Countess at San Reno.
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Novelty Wash Dress Fabrics

5000 YARDS GINGHAMS, ZEPHYRs, SILK MULIs,
CRYsTALINES, voILES and P0NGENETTEs,
Regularly sse and SOC. yard zoe, 2Sc, $50
1000 ydS. WHITE DRESS LINEN, 36 inches wide
French FiniShl Special pree, yard, Z5C
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Black and CoIored Dress Fabric.

BLACK BRoADcIoTH, 81 inch, SpOnged and 'hrunk,
high luStrs. Value 1900 yard, $50
coLoRED SILK voIIEs AND MARQUIsETTEs;
solid elOFS, plain and striped, in large variety Of street
and evening oolors; 43 inch. Values $500 and S7.75 yard, l.o5
cGLoRED WOOL SUITINGS checks and fancy mixtures;
a inch. Special price, yard, O0C
HIGH GRADE FRENCH AND ENGLISH NOVELTIES, Marquis
cites, volss, FrsnH, English and Scotch suitings, Mohairs,
shgss, chsviOts and French Embd Robes at attractive prices.
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Imported Dress Trimmings

FlIET BAND&an attractive ssSortmsnt In the new Spring eolOtnES,
braid and floss embroidered 3 to 9 inches wide.
Regularly csc. to $685. "a AUG to 5.OO
MONDAY AND DOING THE WEEK.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-28
KAtAKIELA WARM
ON THIEVES TRAIL

Chief of Detectives Jack Kalaklela
has surprise in store for certain ad-
venturOus young men who have been
trying to put Honolulu in the class
of easy towns for robbery.
Sunday or Monday last and for the
second time within thirty days the
Manoa residence of r. l. Lille was
burglarized.
Kalakiela and his auxiliaries have
been on the trail of the thieves since
the first raid, but now it is under
stood from Kalaldela's set jaw ana
determined brow that these chaps will
either cease their pi1lage or be discov-
cred.
Mrs. Lille returned from Hilo last
week and on Tuesday morning fast
Mrs. Lille went to the house and found
the lock of the front door out of or.
der. Gaining an entrance she founC
all in disorder and is reckoning wha
is lost.
1--WE will get them soon, now" sale
Kalakiela this morning.
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

At the meeting of the Hawaiian
Historical Society, held last night at
the University Club, Chief Justice
Hartwell related the circumstances of
Queen Liliuokalanis abdication, pre-
senting the society with the original
and corrected drafts up to the fifth
and final one. He was her attorney
on the occasion. President Dole. Of
the Republic of Hawaii was not APP
prised of the proceedings until the alb
klication was handed to him. The
Queen was then a prisoner in her for
mer palace.
George r. Carter, president of the
society, gave an account of the pro-
gress made by Howard Ballou in pre-
pairing a Hawaiian photography for
the Congressional library
Mr.. Ballou presented a paper on the
press sent from Hawaii to Oregon.
A. r. Judd read extracts from a
newly discovered fragment Of the jour
nal of his grand father, DR., c. p. Judd
the famous missionary statesman.
Gorham d, Gllman's journal Of a
canoe cruise along Nhe Kauai pail
coast In lSil was not read but Will
be published In the proceedings,
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AN UNEMPLOYED
SECTION Of HAWAII

HILO, August PIT am going into
a practically unexplored country" said
Forester Ralph Hosmer on Monday,
into a part of the Territory which has
never been surveyed and into which,
so far as known, none has ventured
Mr.. Thurston and Mr.. Harris will pro-
badly accompany me into the wilds of
Puma as the Mahogany Company has
applied for the right to cut ohia on
certain Government land there. My
decision will be formed from the COM
mercial or business aspect, as there is
no water supply in Puma to be des-
troyed by a cutting down of trees,
and water must always be the first
consideration. Today have been
busy attending to several local mat
tiers near Hilo."