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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Worth on TaiIor.NIade Gowns.

Worth, the great French dress
maker, does not approve of tailor
made gowns. In his fascinating ar
ticles now appearing in Harper's Ba-
Ear he says, among other things:
In the morning we will admit the
suitability of tailor-made gown.
worn with blouse of excessive neat
ness. Such a gown the American
wears at breakfast, in that respect
differing from the Frencnwoman,
who takes her chocolate alone in the
seclusion of the boudoir, clad in a
muslin or cashmere peignoir. But
supposing there is a wedding, a char
ity bazaar, or a luncheon party to be
attended; a drive en- automobile; a
shoot or a ride? Each occasion will
determine the choice of attire.
yet there are women who will go
in tailor-made attire to an afternoon
reception, or to that smartest of af-
fairs in the eyes OF the Frenchwo-
man, wedding. Excuses of great
number and variety the defaulter will
find for herself, if questioned. She
will say, This is my new frock, or,
1 haven't anything else fit to go in
or again, The day was dull or, The
tailor-made is my choice, you know;
l never wear anything else. All poor
excuses, madame, not to be tolerated
in any grade of society,""
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
women's Hats More Costly This Year.

1t will be larger. 1t will be
rolling brim, ornamented with fluffy
laces and cockadee entwining the
national colors. 1t is known as
Mothers JOY" but in commercial
parlance is called the Campaign"
hat This is the latest creation of the
milliners who are members of the
National Association, says a Chicago
dispatch to the New York World.
Pearl gray and blue are to be the
fashionable shades. The hat is to
be worn on the back of the head,
with lace lid" covering the hair
beneath.
Presidential campaigns come high,
so do the hats, and it is to be pre-
sumed that it is from this fact they
derive the name. They will cost from
$40 to $500.
A symposium of the views OF the
milliners as to 1908 styles-leaving
out of consideration the Campaign"
hats-shows the following forecasts:
Hats are to be chiefly trimmed
with flowers, preferably roses.
Hats are to be more expensive than
last year.
Hats with feathers are to be worn
only on dress occasions.
Hats to be fashionable must be in
gobelin blue, pale yellow, and shade
of green or fame red
The Merry Widow" sailor with
wide brim is to be much worn.
Hats, it is declared, will range in
prices from SO to $3.50, with the
average hat at about $25.
The psychology of bonnets is the
chief subject of consideration at the
convention, according to lime. Hunt,
president Of the association. In MAX
ing the announcement President
Hunt said:
There certainly is psychology
of hats, entirely aside from the fact
that the souls of the majority of
women are in their hats. If every
woman world only look in the glass
when trying on hats, and instead of
giving her undivided attention to the
hat would study the outline of her
face as seen under the hat, she would
then look with scientific approval or
disapproval upon the hat. So few
women do that, you know. Fit the
hat or bonnet to the face and you
will always look up-to-date and be
a fashion plate, no only in ones own
fancy but in the publics eye as WE'LL"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
THE PASSING OF THE FoREsr.


AS long as the forest stream shall live.
Inc streams shall flow onward, still
singing
Sweet songs of the woodland, and bring
ing
The bright living waters that give
New life to all mortals who thirst.
But the races of men shall he cursed
Yea, The hour of destruction shall come
10 the children of men in that dav
hen the forest shall pass away:
When the low woodland voices are dumb.
And deaths devastation and deaIth
Shall be spread o er the face of the earth.
Avenging the death Of the wood.
The turbulent streams shall outpour
Their walls of wrath. and no more
Shall their banks hold back the high flood
Winch shall rush Ger the harvests of
men;
As swiftly receding again.
Lo! after the flood shall be dearth,
And the rain no longer shall fall
On the parching fields; and pail.
And dust.clouds shall darken the sky:
And the deep water wells shall be dry.
And the rivers shall sink in the ground
And every man cover his mouth
From, the thickening dust. in that
drouth;
Fierce famine shall Gomez and no sound
Shall be borne on the desoate air
But a murmur of death and despair.
Alexander Blair Thaw, in the Century.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
South Carolina Cork Tree

There is cork tree in Fairfield
County. The Enquirer had never
heard Of such Aing in this State
before, but the tree is certainly there
and it is a whopper, three feet
through.
w. W. Blair, of Blairville. brought
into the Enquirer Office a specimen
from the cork tree, section of bark
several inches long and an inch and
half through. 1t looks like good
commercial cork. Mr. Blair said
that from the best information he
could get the tree was set out about
1850 or few years before by a man
named Youngville.
The bark. has been stripped from
the tree from time to time for quite
distance up. The tree is an ever
green and very beautiful.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01

maybe she WEI s.aks ulndys give
him back"
No, no, daughter, we won't do
that; think how terrible it would be
to be an Indian giver!"
But, papa, if she gave him back
herself"
Her sob was strangled by the sight
OF Billy coming down the street.
holding as tight as possible Spotty,
while that treasured beast alternate.
ly licked Billy's face and struggled
to get down.
DO you know what that kid did
pa?" Billy's voice was shrill with
Indignation. went and gave nv
dog away 'thout asking anybody.
But I went and got him. l bet she'd
give him to the dog ketcher; that kid
has more nerve,"
"Oh, Billy, wouldn't; I'm so glad
you got him back. l was going to
ask Gladys to give him bask wasn't
/, papa? l think he's the dearest.
cutest, cunningest little lovey in the
world
She Rugged boy and dog until
Billy, looking very suspicious, com.
manded her to quit.
What day are we going to Fox
Lake," asked Victoria, skipping by
her fathers side.-Chicago News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
ETM6IE&S.e
3 S@EgtA

tits no disgrace to be poor" II
can remember time when it was
no disgrace to be rich. Louisville
CourieiA ournel
THAT Mrs. Sawbones always al
ludes to her husband as the dear
DOCTOR" well. that's the kind of
doctor he is."-Tit-Bits.
ut is easier to be good than great"
remarked the moralizer. YES" re-
Joined the demoralizer. zone has less
opposition. Chicago Daily News.
Most everybody in this land
Is maxim something pay,
Some of us maxim speeches and
Some of us maxim hay.
Washington Star.
Baker is the luckiest man alive"
"What now" "He has fifty-horse-
power car and wife who's afraid to
go out in it. "-Harper's Weekly.
81 wish knew what my wife
would say to me when l come home
tonight" Il wish l knew what my
wife wouldn't say."-The Smart Set.
Nodd-"What does this money
stringency mean, anyway" Todd
"Why. the thing has simply spread
from me to the whole country
Life.
do you blame man for wearing
a monocle if he wants to-" NO."
answered Miss Cayenne. 'But I
blame him for wanting to."-Wash-
ington Star.
A silly young miss in Cohoes
Had freckles all over her nose.
And she cried till she tried
Suicide, then she died
But whether that helped no one knows.
Puck.
Brother-"You can't think how
nervous I was when l proposed"
Sister-'You can't think how nervous
she was until you did. Town and
Country.
He-"It has been said that wo-
man can make a fool of any man.
Do you believe it?" She-"Of course
not. The best she can do is to de-
velop him. Chicago News.
The Girl-"Are your poems well
read?" Ye Bard-"Some of them.
l think my last Thanksgiving poem
was read by over two hundred ed
itors. Chicago Daily News.
Meeker-"Just one year ago to-day
/ led my wife to the altar" Blocker
You did, eh?" Meeker-"Yes,
and right then and there my leader
ship ended. Chicago Daily News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
The Lady and the Tiara.

Il will tell you story that will
show you how unreasonably insati-
able some women are in their desire
for novelty" says Worth, of Paris,
in his delightful article in Harper's
Bazaar. ut was told me by one of
the most renowned jewellers in Paris,
who remodels the crowns of Europe
and has the most exalted among his
clients. A lady came to him one day,
and asked to see the very latest tiara
he had. 1t was shown, and the de-
sign pleased the lady, who said it
was really very beautiful. But, she
asked, was it new?
Assured and treasured upon this
point, she decided to buy it. And
then suddenly she put last question
to the jeweler, How old is it, pre-
cisely?' she asked, eagerly. She
was told 1t had been three weeks in
the establishment, and great was her
chagrin thereat. What Three
weeks.' cried she. why, thought
1t might have been only three days!'
And even fairly simple tiara takes
three months to make, what matter
whether it had been finished three
days or three weeks ago? There
could certainly be nothing newer."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
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scwed in. But this is not so. Many
new jumper-dresses have been made
for Palm Beach, and the latest mod
els are smarter and simpler than be-
fore. They are without the cap that
used to tie over the sleeve of the
white waist or white guimpe below.
They are yokeless, sleeveless gowns,
all in one piece, and often in one
color, both as to material and trim
ming. There is no mandarin effect,
because there is no more sleeve than
what there is on mans bathing suit.
Blue linens are trimmed with braid
in self-color, and panel the full
length of the gown in front is usually
covered with the braid applied in an
intricate spiral-like or Grecian key
design. Buttons, covered by hand,
and also decorated with the braid,
are features of the trimming. A
pretty white linen frock, made in one
but with high neck and long sleeves,
had yoke and cuffs of rich Irish
lace. Through the lace satin ribbon,
golden brown in color, was pulled in
and out, terminating in effective lit
tie knots and rosettes The ribbon
was also run through the lace on the
cuffs. With brown ribbon, brown
hat and brown shoes; with blue rib
bon, blue hat One might have a
variety of effects with a white linen
gown, if bit of ribbon were run
through the heavy lace of yoke and
cuffs as keynote to the color scheme.
Many of the new white shirt waists
have collars, detachable, embroid-
cred with heavy black mercerized
linen, and cuffs (not detachable!)
embroidered in the same way. Some
of the thin linen shirt waists, as we'll
as the lingerie gowns, are decorated
with coin-spots embroidered in color.
Often the spots vary in size, and blue,
in all shades. is the favor'te COLOR
Brooklyn Life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
The Boll-WeeyiI.

DR.. L. o. Howard says that the
Mexican boll-weevil, which causes the
loss of millions of dollars in cotton
every year, and which first crossed
the Rio Grande about 1894, is still
advancing, having now reached Ar
kansas and Oklahoma on the north
and the Mississippi Valley on the
east. 1t has shown itself extraor-
dinarily adaptable to changes of soil,
temperature and moisture. At pres
ent, Dr.. Howard says, it seems that
the further spread of the insect cam
not be stopped, but as soon as the
conservative methods of the cotton
growers shall be changed, and the
advice which chronological experts
have been giving for years past fol-
lowed out in practice, 1.-The boll-weevil
will cease to be a pest of the first
rank, and the cultivation of cotton
can be carried on almost as success
fully in its presence as it was in it's
absence. Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Missouri school with Ono puni,.

Worth County has a school dis
trict that we believe cannot be du-
plicated in the entire State.
1t is District 2, 65, SS, Greene
township. There are only three chill
dren of school age in the district, and
only one of them is attending the
home school, the other two attending
elsewhere. The teacher is paid sS2
a month to, teach this one pupil, and
there is no doubt about the child GET
ting good instruction. A district
that will keep school open for the
benefit of one child and pay a teach
er $32 per month"; must certainly be
loyal to the cause of popular educa-
tion.-Grant City Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Better Values.

The Good Roads bill now being
urged by the National Grange pro-
vides for a national highways COM
mission of three members to have
supervision of the construction and
maintenance of public roads. The
bill has been approved by the Ma
tional Grange at several annual con-
ventions, and has been carefully
drawn so as to meet all objections
raised against previous bills for the
same purpose. The commission
would have power to aid in the con-
struction and improvement of any
road in any part of the country. This
power. of course, would depend large
ly on the amount of money which
Congress appropriates for this pur-
pose.
Better roads make higher priced
farms, according to the results of in
vestigation by the Department of Ag-
riculture. Records show that farm
lands have been known to advance
in value from fifty to 500 per cent.
on account of the Improvement of
roads connecting them with market
towns. A comparison of the per-
centage of improved roads in the
various States shows that the aver
age percentage of the improved roads
in all States where farm land is worth
less than $40 per acre is only 10 per
cent, but in the States where the
acreage value is more than $40, i'm
proved roads constitute an average of
nine per cent. of the total mileage,
showing in general way that the
more good roads the better value for
farms.
1t is a matter of common observa-
tion in this part of the country that
farms are much more quickly sold
after State road has connected the
neighborhood with the nearest large
town. One of the first questions
asked by prospective buyers is re-
garding the means of reaching town,
and the presence of a good macadam-
lied road is often one of the leading
attractions which causes buyers to
accept the terms on which the farm is
offered for sale.-American Guilt
vator.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Automobiles and Good Roads.

A Massachusetts, automobilist, hav.
Ing injured his car while trying to
drive it through a road deep with
sand, sued the town of ASre for dam
ages, holding that it had no right to
have highways over which he could
not safely pass in vehicle of recog-
nized legitimacy. He won a verdict
for 800, curiously enough, in the
local court, where he might have
been expected to lose, but now the
Supreme Judicial Court of the State,
where the chance of winning seemed
good. has reversed the judgment,
holding that, while towns are respon-
sible for accidents to carriages using
their roads, the automobile makes
its Journeys at its owners risk, at
least on roads where other vehicles
would not be endangered.
This is a decision to provoke
thought. Ones first impression is
that it lacks both justice and wisdom.
for the automobile no longer exists
on suffrance, and its highway rights
have received frequent recognition.
To be sure, the motorists plea that
roads should be made for the vehicle,
not the vehicle for roads, has not yet
obtained the dignity of legal maxim,
but the tendency seems to be thus
to honor it, sooner or later, and, Just
as towns are no longer deemed to
have done their duty by providing
paths along which men on horseback
can force their way, so it will not
always be enough to void claim for
damages if horses can drag wagons
along without tearing them to pieces.
Enough it still is, apparently, in
the opinion of the Massachusetts
jurists, which seems strange, too, for
by comparison, at least, Massachu-
sets is State of good roads, and
most of its inhabitants fully appre-
ciate their value-New York Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
TRICKS OF ARMoRY RUNNERS.
Little Devices of Board Floor Athletes
to Run With Spikes.

Aittic DtNlceS Oh lbOafu tIOOr Athletes
to Run With Spikes.
IN the armories around the city,"
said the athlete, before the Governor
shut down on the continuous use of
them for athletic games, the runners
used to compete great deal. After
while many Colonies issued orders
forbidding spiked shoes.
Now, some of the tracks on the
board floors were very small, and in
the sprint races those who didn't wear
the short indoor spikes were very
much at disadvantage. They used
to try all sorts of devices.
"One favorite trick was to put a
spiked shoe on the right foot. That,
being on the outside away from the
pole, gave something to brace against
in scrambling around the turns.
THE clerk of the course was sup
posed to make an examination of the
shoes of each runner as he stood on
his mark before the race was run. In
most cases he went to the runner and
said, Let's see your Shoes
The man put up his left foot,
showing a plain, rubber soled shoe
Then the clerk said, All right, never
thinking to look at the other shoe,
and the man got away with it in that
manner. However, the clerks found
out about it after a while, and then
started to look at both feet.
Some men beat that by answering
to their names when they were called
for the heats and then stepping off
the track for a moment as if to talk
to friends watching the races. When
the starter said, Take your marks
they hoped back and ran in the race
all right with their spiked shoes.
Then after they won the heat or
the race they ran right on to the
dressing. rooms and changed their
shoes, reporting to the judges at the
finish later, still out of breath, in
regulation shoes, but willing to take
the calldown they got for not report
ing to be checked off in time. Finally
inspectors on the turns who got so
that they could tell the sound of the
spikes queered that game, and even
tually before the many sets of games
were cut off the runners almost uni
versally obeyed the rules. New
York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Should Our Girls Learn Tradese

An ancient custom ordains, we are
told, that each princess of the house
of Hohenzollern shall learn a trade.
What foresight this shows in the
most aristocratic OF houses to SO pre-
pare the women of the house that
they could, if necessary, stand en-
their own feet, and that they need
not in any emergency find time heavy
on their hands! Perhaps if the ris-
ing American aristocracy were to
educate its daughters in kind we
should find less unrest and unhappi-
ness in the feminine half of human
ity. 1t might even tend toward stem
ming the tide of divorces and sui
cides. To have no other occupation
than that of expanding money is to
make dangerous social factor of
ones self. Spending money for the
sake of spending money has never
made for rest or contentment The
only fixed rule to lay down is that
the more one spends the more one
desires to spend. 1t is, therefore,
the part of prudence to have side
issue, an interesting ayocation, and
none is healthier discipline than max
ing some of the money one spends.
This is a method almost uniformly
applied to, the sons of family, and
perhaps as distinctions between mas
culine and feminine methods and
pursuits are more and more obIiter-
ated we shall begin to follow the ex-
ample of the house of Hohenzollern,
and have our American princesses
taught trade.-Harper's Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Owns $4,000 Sheen DOGS.

"You talk of j. Pierpont Morgan's
collies," said Russian, what do
you think of a man who owns $4,000
sheep dogs?"
impossible"
mo, no. The man l refer to Is
Gustav Jovanovitch, the Russian
mutton king. Jovanovitch's sheep
whiten the Siberian plains for hun
dreds of square miles. They number
1,75O,OOO, and $4,000 dogs look af-
ter them. You talk of your man.
moth American business enterprises.
but have you anything to compare
with one employing $4,000 dogs?"-
Glasgow Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
LIVING "IN THE CHEAP"
1t is Unattractive to the Average
American,


The "old fellows INVASION in the
Latin Quarter in Paris is discussed
by correspondent as peculiar fea-
ture of life in the French capital.
Many middle-aged American business
men and Englishmen, it is stated.
suddenly abandon work and money
making to drop out of sight and re-
appear as Bohemians. Many of them
have only enough money to pay their
bills at modest hotels, or pensions,
eating the questionable food and
drinking the watery wines of the
cheap cafes. Their compensation for
living an aimless, hand-to-mouth ex-
istence is that they are emancipated
from the grind of the Office and from
such responsibilities as attach to
being a person well known in COM
munity. One American. who sunk
all of his capital in an annuity of
$50 week, is pictured as the most
contented and light-hearted of men.
He processes to know more about
French, Swiss and Italian boarding
houses at under dollar day" than
any English-speaking man in Europe.
All of the sunniest corners on the
Continent where a poor man may
nestle in contentment and revel in
freedom from care, at less than 81
a week, are parts of his pre-empted
territory.
Hear this philosopher upon a poor
mans paradise in Holland:
II know boarding farm with the
use of horse, piano and a boat,
with table beer and coffee after
meals, at 81 week"
Another haven of refuge and rest:
II can take you to green powered
white-as-snow cottage on the banks
of the Adriatic, where delicious pink
wines, different fish every day in
the week, fruits galore, goats milk,
cheese, bread and cake, and all the
honey you want, come to what we
call in America, six bits day.
All of this seems alluring in print.
1t is, doubtless, appealing in fact. to
many English remittance men and to
few Americans, but of the millions
who work in this country until they
reach middle life there will never
be many whose ideals of happiness
will ever be realized in a third-rate
Paris pension. or who will find con-
tentment eating bread and cheese and
drinking goats milk by the shores
of the Adriatic at an expense of six
bits day and the loss of their iden-
THY, their opportunities, their home
ties and their friends in America.
There would be less nervous ex-
haustion and heart disease in Ameri-
ca if higher percentage of Ameri-
cans would be contented with mod
crate incomes and be happy after
middle life with bread and cheese
and honey and table beer, although
there might be fewer new skyscrap-
ers, railroads and other visible mani
festations of American restlessness,
energy and constructive genius and
there might be more real happiness
per capita among American men. But
water will run up hill sooner than
the average American will find hap
piness in idleness and contentment in
living within an income of $40
week, while he has enough of his
lifespark left to burn a part of it each
day in pursuing the elusive dollar.
louisville Courier-Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-01
Vegetable Caterpillar.

A vegetable caterpillar from the
planting of a true caterpillar is
among the marvels of the Pink Ter
race region of New Zealand. Eating
some tempting fungus spores on its
way to it's final burrow, the creature
becomes transformed into a wood
like mass of fungus, with forms and
structures preserved. The cater
pillar is now veritable root, from
which stem shoots up eight or ten
inches, dropping other fungus spores.
Christian Work and Evangelist.