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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Work For Educated Women.

The demand for employment by
educated women is greater propor-
tionately here than in any other
country. Nowhere i'll the world is
the dilemma of woman accustomed
to luxury and suddenly thrown on her
own resources so distressing as in
England. This problem was dis
cussed yesterday at a great confer
ence in London where representative
women of England, Ireland and Scot
land met to decide on the best means
to help educated women to earn a liv-
ing wage.
Lady Beehive pleaded for the for
nation of a London trades school for
women where education on special
studies could be combined with trade
training. Alice Woods, of the Maria
Grey Training School, gave some re-
suits of inquiries into the subject of
coeducation in America. She said
the custom had originated as mat
ter of convenience, and it was an ex-
cellent training for girls. Regarding
the statements as to the effeminacy
of American boys she attributed more
to the great predominance of woman
teachers than to the presence of girls
In the schoolrooms.-New York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
School to Cure shyness in Royalty.

~ OtAAC e'A htSo III AbOy siAtts
Why is it that the young English
Princes, and especially the Prin-
cesses, are so shy? Is it the manner
OF their education? Be that as 1t
may, understand that Princess Mary
of Wales, like her two brothers, will
be sent to school instead of being ed
ucated privately. This great depart
ure from tradition in the case of the
ladies of the royal family is due to
the desire of the Princess of Wales
that her family should be free from
the painful shyness that makes the
lives of some other members of the
royal family something of torture.
The Princess holds that this excessive
self-consciousness is due to the pri-
vate education of the royal children,
and that it can only be avoided by
bringing the royal children into free
contact with their contemporaries.
The King and Queen fully approve of
this departure. as they are quite con-
scious of the harm that has been done
to some members of their own family
by unnecessary seclusion and exclu-
siveness.-New York Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
k !;l(!EllEgE!EERzEI|
Which he did.

"Young jerks is somnambulist.'
II thought his aunt told me he was
a Swedenborgian." Baltimore
American.
Teacher-"If you are kind and po-
lite to your playmates, what will be
the RESULT" Scholar-"They'l think
they can lick me" -Philadelphi In
quirer.
Il should never have thought that
studying would have cost so much
money" Yes, father; and if you
only knew how little have studied"
Judge.
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Upon his face a frown.
Twas hot to stand upon the deck,
But twas hotter sitting down.
Harvard Lampoon.
My stenographer can write one
hundred words mnute." So can
mine, but she doesn't seem to care
what words she writes. Cleveland
Leader.
He-"Do you think it would be
foolish of me to marry girl who
was my inferior intellectually" She
More than foolish-impossibl
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wigwag-"I believe there is
tinge of insanity in all religious en-
thusiasts." Henpeckke-"Yes take
the Mormons, for instance; any man
that wants more than one wife is
plumb crazy. Philadelphia Recor1
There once was Miss, and Mr.
Whose last name, in truth, it was Kr.
Now this Miss missed q kiss
The Mr.. Kister kissed Miss.
Brooklyn Life.
Mr.. Subburbs-"I have just re-
ceived the plans of our house from
the architect. He says it can be
built for $4,000" Mrs Suburbs
Gracious! And we only have $751;
900 to build it h!"-Philadelph
Record.
YES" said the old man, "'my
daughter is still studying French"
But she can't speak the language at
all, can she?" remarked the friend.
"She couldn't at first, but now she
can speak of it just enough to make
herself unintelligible. philadelphia
Press.
Mrs. Van Stoo-"Where were you
so late last night" Mr.. Van Stoo-
'I-er-why, was addressing a politi.
cal meeting, my dear" Mrs. Van
Stoo-"Ah, indeed? And did you
have full house, may l ask?" Mr.
Van Stoo (absently) -"Once, but the
other fellow held tours. cleveland
Leader.
Physical culture, father, is per.
fectly lovely. To develop the arms
l grasp this rod by one end and move
it slowly from right to left" well
well" exclaimed her father, what
won't science discover? If that rod
had straw at the other end you'd be
sweeping. Louisville Courier-Jour.
nal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
The Enemies in y
Our Vocabulary
BY o. S. MARDEN.

In the dictionary of fools we find
I can't very often, plenty of ifs
and lots of words like luck and 'des-
tiny and phrases like If only had
time or chance like other people.'
Did you ever think that many of
the words and phrases which you
constantly use are your real enemies,
that they leave their hideous pictures
and black shadows in your mind?
How many times have you been
kept from doing a good deed by such
phrases as: "Oh, can't do that" 81
am afraid that that will not turn out
well" "Oh, know / can't do that"
Somebody else can do that great
deal better" II am afraid to try"
Il haven't the courage Il fear |
shall take cold or catch some disease
If do this or that?"
believe that those two words 81
can't" have ruined more prospects.
and have kept more ability doing the
work of mediocrity than any other
two words in our language.
Il am afraid of this or that" is a
terrible hinderer, terrible Brighter
OF ambition, cooler of enthusiasm.
All achievement and all efficiency
depend upon initiative, and that is
easily killed by the fear words. the
words which express doubt and un.
certainty.
by thy words thou shalt be justi-
fed. and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned" - From Success Maya.
zine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Won the Bet.

Smith and Jones were passing
down oxford street, London, and be-
fore them strutted one of the mem.
bers of musical society, who sang
as he walked along snatches from
ballads and operas. to his own intense
satisfaction.
Il bet you level shilling" said
S. to j., that / give that chap in
front of us, who is singing, terrific
kick, which he will not resent, and
instead of being annoyed will thank
me-"
Perhaps you know him--he is .
friend of yours" ]. replied.
II have never spoken to him, and
he doesn't know me-" said S.
Right you are, then; I'll take
you, said ].
S. advanced to the warbler, and
watching his opportunity, dealt the
tenor a terrific kick. The singer
turned round, maddened with pas
sion at the unprovoked and unex
pected attack. S., in no way discon
certed, raised his hat politely and
with the most profound bow and with
the appearance of sincere regret
said:
Excuse me-! i thought from your
voice 1 recognized my old friend
Caruso." t ~ wui
The compliment was too telling
and the singer, overcome with pride
at the suggested comparison, replied:
MY dear sir, you are too kind
Smith won the bet, but the joke
should not be tried upon the same
tenor again.-Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Australian Coal.

Since the Hispano-American and
Russo-Japanese wars, the question OF
coal supply in the Far East has as
sumed new Importance, and the
search for the black mineral is pur.
sued in all promising quarters. Among
the great Oriental coal deposits are
those of New South Wales, and par.
ticular attention is now paid to their
development. Two of them have
been known for more than leo years
and the story of their discovery is in.
teresting. At Coal Cliff, south OF
Sydney, shipwrecked sailors were as.
tcnished to find cliffs of pure coal
bordering the sea. At Hunter River
the coal deposits were found By the
commander of an English ship OF
war, who, while chasing pirates
landed party to take water.-Ths
Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05


Chang understood all that; and II
seeme~to him that he had never seen
Ballyhoo show himself so persever.
ingly unreasonable before. But since
the responsibility for their well-being
had now been placed upon his shout.
ders alone. he acted accordingly. He
gave one last. almost irresistible tug,
brought away that red waistcoat all
but few shreds about the armhole,
and carefully placed it in the fanlight.
In five seconds it had followed
everything before it. Ballyhoo was
not trying to use his voice any more.
He was rushing Chang up and down
the car, batting him with a barrel
stave. And that was reasonable, at
any rate. for it did not hurt Chang
any, and it kept them both very near
ly warm
The rest of the story is what the
Jungling people will always tell you
first. For of sudden the car jerked
once, twice-and then stopped SO
lurchingly short that if Chang had not
been ahead just then, there might
not have been anything left of Bally>
hoo but pancake.
There had been an accident A
truck under the tender had broken
loose. Only that was not the acct.
dent that might have taken place.
That truck had smashed nothing but
itself. But a good hour ahead of
its proper schedule, and without hav-
ing any realization of it among those
long mountain curves, the second
Jungling train was following not half
a mile behind. A few short minutes
more, and there would have been
one of the most cruel rear-end coll
lisions ever known in Colorado.
But even as the second train
slipped by, out of the tail of his eyS
the engineer thought he saw a rec
flag. Not a second sooner than there
was direful need. he applied his air.
brakes. And the first person to hail
him was brakeman running weakly
up the grade from the train ahead.
In mis- hand there was a genuine dan
ger-signal
They had ample time to go back
and see what the first had been. They
found it hanging from rick Thanks
to Chang and his fine sense of pure
reason, it was Ballyhoo's red parade
waistcoat!-Youth's Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

missed that only because it had fallen
down behind the bed. There was
something about that waistcoat, too.
Ballyhoo had six one hundred dollar
bills sewed up in it. And with a
single plunge he gathered it up.
He did it too eagerly Chang saw
him; he saw that waistcoat, and at
once, with new hope, he extended
his trunk for it.
Now, from the standpoint OF pure
reasoning, Chang could not see why
Ballyhoo should no. have pointed out
that waistcoat to him as soon as he
saw that it had been overlooked. For,
as he put it to himself, "I've tried
the sackings and that wouldn't stay
in. I've tried the quilts and blank
cts, and they wouldn't stay. I've
tried all the rest of his clcthes-I've
tried everything but that waistcoat.
So doesn't that prove that that waist
coat is the very identical article
need?"
But Ballyhoo was not listening to
reason any more than if there mad
never been any such thing. With
Chang reaching his big trunk now
round this side of him, now round
that, he had to keep fiinging himself
up and down that monster, specially
constructed private car in a way
which made thinking difficult.
Quit it," he kept yelling at the
persistent Chang. cit away! Oh,
I'll fix you for this! I'll fix you!
Stop it,"
But Chang did not stop. He was
not that kind of elephant.
And then Ballyhoo lay down with
it. He had got an arm through one
side of that red waistcoat, and he
thought that if he could once get it
buttoned up on him, he would be all
right. a
| But by the time he had got his arm
through that one side, Chang had got
hold of the other. And then, firmly
and convincingly, he began TO pull.
Quit it," yelled Ballyhoo again
"Quit it! You old bat! Amt il
enough that you've got me pretty
near froze to death the way it is?r
That was precisely the point Chang
wanted to make. For what was the
use of their freezing to death when
If Ballyhoo only chose to stop and
think moment-they could both OF
them be snug and comfortable again
But if one partner had renowned the
use of his intellect. the more reason
why the other should use his. And
he began to exert himself in good
earnest. He began to pull indeed.
For his part, Ballyhoo stopped ar
guing now. He simply fiattened him.
self there, and tried to get grip or
the straw with his teeth, and on the
floor boards with his finger-nails, and
to kick Chang's chest in with his bare
feet. His one idea was to roll him
self back ON that waistcoat as fast
as Chang rolled him off it.
"Oh, you wait till / get. out O
here!D he cried. sill feed you dyna
mite! I'll run you out of the show
I'll beat you to death! Quit it! Qui
It! Quit i'll"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
For the Home seamstrcss.

Many of the new cotton goods have
the colors and markings of the best
silks.
For shirt waists, the wash fabrics
In merceriZed cotton are fine. The
colored goods have silky smooth
ness. and launder beautifully.
Linen crash is always a good ma
terial for spring dresses, as it wears
well, does not fade If laundered care
fully, and always looks fresh.
In making up linens, remember
that the material shrinks very much
when washed, and it should always
be well damped and ironed before
cutting. The lustre of the goods will
be dimmed by this process, but it
will be lost at the first washing, any,
way, and it is very hard to supply
the shrinkage to the finished gar
ment in any other way.
Many shirt waists are made with
broad shoulder effects by the use of
triple pleats over the shoulders, back
and front, and they are easy to laun-
der. Bishop sleeves, with small cuffs
and circular stock collars go with
these.
A good pattern for the skirt of a
shirt waist suit is one with no pleats
about the hips-a plain, flaring pat
tern, and only an inverted pleat be-
hind. The bottom should be
hemmed. and the trimming at the
foot should be folds of the dress ma
terial, with or without piping.
Challis, silk, Chinese crepe, nuns
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
CHANG, "BALLYHOO" AND
. "BALLYHOO'S" WAISTCOAT
AsagsK By ARTHUR E. MCFARLAND. xxx

loose that he could see the dawn
through it in three places. Il might
have known it all the time" he
thought, and giving a good, strong,
vigorous push-he showed the whole
bundle through and out upon the
other side.
Now, that would have discouraged
some people, but it could not dis
courage Chang. For he knew that
stuffing things into that fanlight
made the car warm. There were two
or three sacks left, besides which
there were several things in Baliy-
hoo's corner that would serve MIN
just as well.
Well, would you believe it. whel,
he had just begun to get those other
things wedged in good and tight, they
went through, too, and followed the
sacking down the mountain!
So he had to go back to Bally-
hoo's corner again. There was moth
ing else for him to do. He had not
intended to. And after that he had
to go third time.
Perhaps five minutes later Bally-
hoo began to dream that he was
walking with Chang into a mighty
palace, such as he had seen on
children's page of an illustrated news
paper. And the king in it said it
was called the Cave of the Winds,
and If he would wait a minute or two,
he would see the winds all turning
into icicles. And just about twenty
seconds after they had turned into
icicles Ballyhoo woke up.
His old checker-board Guilt and
his first blanket were out on the
Rockies already, and Chang was just
then crowding the second one into
the fanlight. In fact, he was now
putting such supreme exertion into
the work that you could not say that
that second blanket ever really
stopped in the fanlight at all,
Another half-minute, and Ballyhoo
ceased desperately attempting to
throw Chang to the other end of the
car by the tail. With a sudden hor-
rid thought he looked for his clothes.
The one thing left was his red
parade waistcoat. And Chang had
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Prodigies and Genius.

Discussing the history of mathe-
NAUTICAL prodigies. Professor G. A.
Miller, of the University of Illinois,
remarks that the greatest arithmeti-
cal prodigy on record was a German
named Dase, born at Hamburg in
1924. He was kind Of human cal
culating machine, able to carry on
enormous calculations in his head,
but nearly incapable of understanding
the principles of mathematics. and of
very limited outside ability. On the
other hand, the celebrated German
mathematician, Gauss, was not only
one of the greatest mental calculators
on record, but at the same time man
OF vast mathematical genius. The
general conclusion is that extraor.
binary powers of mental calculation
have no necessary connection with the
possession of genius, or of great gen.
eral ability.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

confide things that you wish, on sec
ond thought, you had kept silent
about.-Florida Times-Union.
Wiles and deceit are female quail
Ambition is not vice of little peo-
le.-Montaigne
Force without Judgment falls of
its own weight.-Horace.
That is every mans country where
he lives est-Aristophanes.
Habits of justice are a most valu.
able possession Marcus Antonius.
Oysters are not good in month
that hath not ''r" in it.-Butler's
Dyet's Dry Dinner.
Ambition has but one reward for
ALL A little power, little transient
fame.-William Winter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Bees swifter Than Pigeons.

A pigeon grower in Germany mad q
trial OF speed between bees and pig.
cons. At the same time he liberated
a dozen bees three miles from theil
hives. and dozen pigeons the same
distance from their cots. The first
bee reached the goal quarter of a
minute ahead of the first pigeon. The
other bees came in ahead of the sec.
ond pigeon. The bees had been
rolled in flour before starting, that
they might be known from other bees,
and that made their flight somewhat
slower than it otherwise would have
been. OF course the pigeons would
win in long distance race, but bees
fly faster for short distance. The
Junior Christian Endeavor World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

yelling, cashmere. voile or henrietta
cloth may be used for dressy house
dresses. but the work dresses should
be of wash materials for hygienic
reasons.
For elderly women the shawl col.
lar is seen on semi-dressy street
dresses. The collar should fit snug.
ly over the shoulders, crossing on
the front of the waist in surplice
fashion.
The surplice waist is particularly
kind to the stout woman Most eld-
erly ladies wear black, which should
be softened by something white
against the neck and face, and with
the surplice waist. a front of some
soft white material can be filled in
the opening, giving it just the needed
toning down.-The Commoner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

Paris modistes, having exhausted
the possibilities of decoration of hats
with flowers, fruits and feathers,
have, according to the Gil Bias, been
compelled to look for novelties else
where, and haze decided to see what
they can make of the produce of the
kitchen garden. First experiments
are to be made with tomatoes, which
will shortly be seen in the smartest
hats, while the cucumber and the
parsnip loom threateningly on the
horizon. London Daily Mail.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

MeatBean Pie.-Getting a"hurry meal one day found
had few cooked beans, couple boiled beef
heart and bowl of mashed potatoes cupul the NICE
rich gravy from the heart correspondent of
The Epitomist trimmed and minced meat mashed the
beans and them through take out the skins
mixed these and the together baking dish
The mashed potato softened with water and
when beaten smooth spread evenly the "pe"
and the whole into the When through spread
little butter the crust" put the crate to
brown This dish pronounced good every bit
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Waterproofing Moccasins.

For keeping obtained moccasins
and boots waterproof use two parts
of beeswax, with three of tallow and
about six parts of kerosene, to make
a soft paste. Melt the beeswax and
tallow and when melted add the kero-
sene and let cool. Apply same as tai
low.-W. F. Purchase, in Recreation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Women and Their Money.

An English judge has refused .
recognize that woman's stocking is
the proper place for her purse. A
similar opinion was handed down by
a judge in Iowa not SO long ago, when
a plaintiff failed to get damages from
a railway company TOR injuries re-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Shoot folly as it flies.-Pope.
Success is the child of audacity.-
Disraeli.
We are not born for ourselves
alone.-Cicero.
Blossom by blossom the spring be-
-Swinburne.
Success wells the evil deeds of men.
---Demosthcnes.
We are not allowed to know all
things. Horace.
4 friend is a man to whom you
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
IDEAS From Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

Ideas From Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward. for whom a
dinner was given at the Waldorf
Astoria, told some 500 members and
guests that the evening use of the
grade schools In this country had
solved problem at which England
was still tamely fumbling.
Mrs. Ward said also that our
parks and Fairgrounds were beyond
anything that England had at pres.
ent, particularly the Fairgrounds, be.
cause Americans, through organiza-
ton, had discovered how to get the
most good out of them. The guest
of the evening declared, however,
that England was showing the way
in the proper use of the school build
ings, in that buildings never stood
empty, save in the early morning
hours. The English people, men,
women and children, were using them
for both study, relief and recreation.
Richard Watson Glider was toast
master. Other speakers were: Jacob
Riis, Robert w. de Forest, William
H. Maxwell. superintendent of
schools; Miss Jane Adams, of the
Hull House Association of Chicago;
the Duchess of Marlborough, Kate
Douglas Wiggin and DR.. Luther Hal.
sey Gulick, head of the Public
Schools Atlantic League York
Evening Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

r ROM the long dim tracts of the past strangely
blended recognitions of and bliss, undstin-
guishable to heart knows that
heart if it be dream of Imagination of memory
Yet why should wonder? Ir our happest hours there
may have been something in common with most sor-
rowful, some shade of sadness them by
passing cloud that allies them retrospect with
the somber spirit of grief and in unhappies hours
there have been CLEANS of gadness that seem now
to give the return the calm character peace Do not
all thoughts and feelings, almost events seem to
resemble each other when they as all past?
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
No Advance Agents.

1t woul1 seem that we have not as
yet made sufficient advancement in
science to Lee able to predict anything
about the coming cyclones until after
they have arriyed.-Chicago Inter.
Ocean.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

The Society of Master Painters and
Decorators of Massachusetts urges
the establishment of trade schools
with both day and evening classes.
The plea is directed to the Industrial
Commission of that State.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Think.

No matter what you are doing,
think your way. Don't so without
thinking; think everything out. Don't
run without a schedule; have pro-
gram and go by 1t. Think! Think!
Think!-The Sunday-schaQl Messen-
ger.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Duchess Seeks Retirement.

The Duchess of Marlborough, born
Consuelo Vanderbilt, has not realized
the hopes of her early girlhood, says
the Delineator. She has recently
made her first visit back to this coun-
try since her separation from the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

A solder that will fuse at a low
temperature and used in uniting soft
metals is made by adding three drops
of mercury to each ounce Of comAon
solder.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

subject to the action of liquid air,
lead becomes elastic, and can be
made to rebound or serve as spiral
spring during the continuance of this
low temperature.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

In Mayfeld's cave. in Indiana, a.
M. Banta has captured thirty-three
species of flies. two of them new to
science, thirty species of other in.
sects, and twenty-one species of the
spider class.