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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01

hams Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds of
female troubles, and l feel that l can
never praise it enough. - Mrs. LIZZIE
HOLLAND, Noah, Ky.
TheChangeof Life is themostcritical
period Of q woman's existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Nomenaverywhere acknowledgements
that there is no other remedy known to
medicine that viii so successfully carry
women through this trying period as
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs.
For 80 years it has been curing
women from the worst forms of female
ills Inflammation, liberation, dis
placements, tibroid tumors, IRREGULAR
ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
ti&l letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
Driftinu Souls.

All there be souls none understand.
Like Clouds they cannot touch the land,
Drive as they may. by field or town.
Then we look wise at this and frown,
And we cry, FOOL" and cry, Take hold
Of earth and fashion gods of gold!'
Unanehored ships, they blow and blow,
Sail to and fro and then go down
In unknown seas that none shall know
Without one ripple of renown.
Poor, drifting dreamers, sailing by,
They seem to only live and die.
Call these not fools! The test of worth
Is not the hold they have on earth.
Lo. there be gentlest souls sea blown
That know not any harbor known,
And oft of this the reason is
They touch on fairer shores than this.
Joaquin Miller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01

! guilty, feeling the desire to blow the
foam off a crock of suds, but when he
felt in his pocket he found himself
discharged for lack of evidence. Some
body had disturbed his change during
the commotion. So we sat, dry, upon
the stools listening to the dagoes fid-
ding on deck If anything. Tobin was
lower in spirits and less congenial
with his misfortunes than when we
started.
On seat against the railing was a
young woman dressed suitable for red
automobiles, with hair the color of an
unsmOked meerschaum. In passing
by Tobin kicks her foot without in
tentions, and, being polite to ladies
when in drink, he tries to give his hat
a twist while apologizing. But he
knocks it off, and the wind carries it
overheard.
Tobin came back and sat down. and
l began to look out for him, for the
mans adversities We're becoming fire.
quent< He was apt, when pushed so
close by hard luck, to kick the best
dressed man he could see and try to
take command of the boat
Presently Tobin grabs my arm and
says, excited:
"Jawn," says he, do We know what
we're doing? We're taking a voyage
upon the water"
There, now" says l; "subdue yer
self. The boat II land in ten minutes
more"
Look" says he, "at the light lady
upon the bench. And have We forgot
ten the niger man that burned me
ear? And isn't the money l had gone
"a dollar siXty-fve it WASP"
! thought he was no more than sum-
ming up his catastrophes so as to get
violent with good excuse, as men will
do, and l tried to make him under
stand such things are tribes.
Listen" says Tobin. we've no ear
for the gift of prophecy or the mira
Giles of the inspired. What did the
palmist lady tell We out Of me hand?
IT'S coming true before your eyes.
Look OUT says she, for dark man
and light woman; they'll bring We
trouble Have ye forgot the niger
man, though he got some of it back
from me fist? Can ye show me
lighter woman than the blond lady
that was the cause of me hat falling
in the water? And where's the dollar
siyty-five l had in me vest when we
left the shooting gallery?"
The way Tobin put it it did seem to
corroborate the art of prediction,
though it looked to me that these acct
dents could happen to any one at Co
ney without the implication of palm
istry.
Tobin got up and walked around on
deck, looking close at the passengers
out of his little red eyes. | asked him
the Interpretation of his movements.
Ye never know what Tobin has in his
mind until he begins to carry it out.
"Ye should know" says he, I'm
working out the salvation promised by
the lines in me palm. I'm looking for
the crooked nose man that's to bring
the good luck 'Tis all that will save
us. Jawn, did We ever see a straighter
nosed gang of hellions in the days of
your life?"
Twas the $50 boat, and we landed
and walked uptown through Twenty
second street, Tobin being without his
hat.
On street corner, standing under a
gaslight and looking over the elevated
road at the moon, was a man. A long
man he was, dressed decent, with a
cigar between his teeth, and saw that
his nose made two twists from bridge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
A Chance for Boys to Make
a DOlIarl

We want all the bones we can get. Can
use heads, hoofs, horns-anything in the
line of bones-if only dry. We will pay
soc per hundred pounds for thoroughly
dry bones-we can pay even more if
strictly clean, bard, fresh, dry, boiled
butchers bones-and pay freights from
your station il shipped in lots of 200
pounds or more. Ship in barrels OF cheap
Sacks c. S. PAGE, Hyde Park Vt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01

make a voyage upon the water very
soon and have a financial loss. / see
one linz that brings good luck. There's
a man coming into your life who will
fetch We good fortune. Yen know him
when We see him by his crooked nose"
as his name set down" asks To
bin. "'Twill be convenient in the way
of greeting when he backs up to dump
off the good luck"
"His NAME" says the palmist,
thoughtful looking. "is not spelled out
by the lines, but they indicate tits a
long one, and the letter % should be
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
TObin' S Palm
BY o. HENRY

Copyright. 1905. by Mcclure. Phillips q Co.
(IT%lOBIN and me, the two of us
went down to Coney one day
for there was 81 between US
l.r1al-zB and Tobin had need Of distrac
tons. For there was Katie Mahorner
his sweetheart Of County Sligo. lost
since she started for America three
months before with 5000, her own say
fngs and 500 from the sale OF ToDin-s
Inherited estate, a fine cottage and pig
on the Bog Shannaugh. And since the
letter that Tobin got saying that she
had started to come to him not bit
of news had he heard or seen of Katie
Mahorner. TObin advertised in the pa
pers, but nothing could be found OF
the colleen.
SO to Coney me and Tobin went
thinking that q turn at the chutes and
the smell of the popcorn might raise
the heart in his bosom. But Tobin
was a hard headed man, and the sad.
ness stuck in his skin. He ground his
teeth at the crying balloons, he cursed
the moving pictures. and, though be
would drink whenever asked, he scoru-
ed Punch and Judy and was for licking
the tintype men as they came.
So l gets him down a sideway on
board walk where the attractions were
some less violent. AT a little By s
stall Tobin hats, with more human
look in his eye.
"'Tis here" says he, 81 will be di
verted I'll have the palm of me hand
investigated by the wonderful palms.
Of the Nile and see if what is to be
will be-"
Tobin was a believer in signs and
the unnatural il natura He pos
sessed Illegal convictions in his mind
along the subjects Of black cats lucky
numbers and the weather prediction,
in the papers.
We went into the enchanted chicken
coop, which was fixed mysterious WitA |
red cloth and pictures of hands with |
lines crossing 'em like q railroad cen |
ter. The sign over the door says it Is |
Nine. Zozo, the Egyptian PIANIST
There was a fat woman inside in !
red jumper with potloCa5 uAI Leusljes |
embroidered upon It. Tobin gives her |
10 cents and extends one Of his bands |
She lifts T0oin's hand, whi.h is own |
brother to the hoof Of /. day horse, !
and examines il to see whether It's a |
stone in the frog or "a cast shoe be has !
come for.
Man." says this Nine. Zozo, the
line of your fate shows
"'Tis not me foot at ALL" says Tobin !
interrupfing, Sure, It's no beauty |
but ye hold the palm of me hand"
1.-THE line shows, says the madame,
''that we've not arrived at your time
of life without bad luck. And there's |
more to come. The mount Of Venus
or is that stone bruise ?-shows that |
we've been in love. There's been rou-
BILE in your life on account of your
sweetheart"
"'Tis Katie Mahorner she has refer !
ences with" whispers Tobin to me in
loud voice to one side.
81 see" says the palmist, "a great |
deal of sorrow and tribulation with |
one whom ye cannot forget l see the
lines of designation point to the letter
X and the letter NJ in her name"
"Whisty' says Tobin to me- do ye
hear that?'
Look cut" goes on the palmist, |
"for a dark man and light woman.
for they'll both bring We trouble. Ye'll |
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
Keen on Keepin' On.

If the day looks kinder gloomy
An your chances kinder slim,
If the situations puzzlin'
An the prospects awful grim
An perplexities keep pressin'
Till all hope is nearly gone,
JUS hustle up an grit your teeth
An keep on keeuin' on.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
Ability.

Irate Passenger-I believe you're
driving over every stone in the road.
Driver-Waal, sir, II takes a purity
good driver to hit 'em all.-Boston Her
aid.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01

headaches, nervous
pro stra ton, and
hemorrhages.
Lydia e. Pink
hams Veget ia BILE
Compoundmademe
well and strong, so
that l can do all my
homework, and at
tend to the store
and post-ollice, and
Ifeel much younger
than | really am.
Lydia Il. Pink
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01

A good and faithful judge prefers
the honest to the xpedient.-Horace
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-09-01
THE
BEST
REMEDY
For Women-Lydia Pink
sVegetable Compound

=, Noah, Ky. -"I was passing through
the Change of Life and suffered from
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
MYSTIC WARDROBE"
NEW TIMES CONTEST

Part of the body, a dog, leader.
A military attendant, an official
garment of professional men,
An animal, small stream.
One of an ancient tribe, a measure,
grain.
A river, 100 square meters, a con-
sOnant.
A tract of low ground.
An exclamation, foundation Of
happy marriages.
Trivial, fur of a beast.
a band, to Join.
An envelope
To strike.
An infants morning dress. a cats
expression of contentment.
Crosswise, tegument.
A support, taverns.
a body of troops, cliques.
A vegetable, a prefix, a seafowl.
TO embrace, present indicative plu-
raj of verb TO be"
To supply, a partieipial suffix.
To hang, to make a mistake.
A promOntoTy.
Subordinate, merchandise.
A narrow tract of land, an obliga-
| ton.
Lateral, part Of a fowl.
A bird, part of weapon.
A letter of the alphabet, a preposi
ton.
A suffix, a shade of color.
The act of cleansing, the body, a
garment, which if one letter were
omitted would mean to pillage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
Couple Announce
Their Engagement
In Novel Manner

A young woman who wished to an
nounce her engagement in a unique
manner issued Invitations for a fancy
dress party in which the guests were
requested to come dressed as famous
lovers" Husbands and wives, brothers
and sisters, maids and their favorite
SWANS came together and great was
the fun trying 10 guess who was who.
There were John Alden and Priscilla.
Hiawatha and Ninnehaha, Paul and
Virginia. Queen Elizabeth and Essex,
Dante and Beatrice. Napoleon and jose
phine, etc. All characters were kept
secret and tie host asked the following
questions:
Are you fact or fiction?
Are you living or dead2 Of left alive
IN the story they are supposed TO be
Iving.)
Did your love lead to marriage?
Either, What prevented?
or. Did you i've happy ever Sfter7
What influence had The mans love on
What influence had the woman's love
on the MANI
your histOrye
The young hostess was dressed IN a
becoming evening gown. and her brother,
who acted as host. was not disguised
There was one man whom no one cOnlu
guess, as he wore a maSque and black
domino. After a lively time guessing,
and when nearly every one was dis
covered, the mysterious stranger was
found beside the hostess. and her broth
ct IN the following words broke the
news TO the merry lovers:
LAS you, dear friends, are fact and not
nction. living and not dead, as your
love led 10 marriage, and you have lived
happy ever after, we wish tonight 10
oner our congratulations and our good
wishes for the future to our hostess
and her fisnce, Mr.. John Blank
II IS need less 10 say that hearty con-
gratulations were in order and a jolly
dance followed. The refreshments were
simply ice cream in the shape OF double
hearts. one pink, one white, and small
heart cakes. a fruit frsppe was served
from a bowl surrounded by q wreath
OF pink roses, and each guest was given
4 rose as a souvenir.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
STRAWBERRY SEASON
WILL REACH CLOSE
BY THE END OF WEEK

The local strawberry season will come
to a close this week. It is practically
over now, for that matter. but dealers
are Of The opinion that by Saturday
there VIII not be a berry on the mar
ket
More or less interest is generally
aroused In the price Of commodity
when the close of the season ap-
proaches, as curtailed supply usually
produces higher prices. While quota
tions on strawberries have shown
tendency 70 fuctuate during the past
few days, there have been no real
changes In the market price, as the
berry could be bought for cents
quart. 1t is generally anticipated that
a scale Of prices, ranging from 10 10
cents quart. viii remain in effect
until the season is at an end.
Both foreign and local shipments of
strawberries that have been handled on
the Washington market this spring and
summer have proven satisfactory Not
only has supply been good. but quality
has been likewise. The berries now
reaching Washington were grown, for
the most part, within a few miles of
the city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
Some Timely Hints
For Proper Care
Of Your Carpets

To spoil carpet sweep il with a stiff,
half worn broom. but TO save a carpet
dip your broom In clean, hot suds once
a week. then shake it out and hang 1t
up to dry. This will make a broom last
almost twice as long as It otherwise
would
Rugs should be beaten on the wrong
side. then swept on the right side. Spots
may be removed by the use Of oxgall or
ammonia and water, using a sponge or
flannel Slightly moistened bran IS
equally as good as salt in Frightening
rugs and carpets.
Vinegar viii remove lime spots. SCOT
from an open chimney. OF the ca eIess
handling of stovepipes can be removed
by covering thickly with salt, and this
afterward can be brushed up quickly
without injury to the carpets. Spirits
Of ammonia, diluted with water, II ap-
piled with sponge or flannel TO discoI-
ored spots viii often restore the color
Remove ink stains with milk, and
after soaking up all that seems possible.
either sprinkle thickly with salt or wash
with a pure white soap, clean brush.
and warm water
For grease spots use powdered mag
nesia. fuller's EARTH or buCkwheat -four.
Sprinkle on spots and let il lie until
grease - absorbed renew the hour or
other absorbent material as often as
necessary.
Housewives are cautioned TO look out
for the carpet moth early in the spring
When carpet moths are discovered, after
removing all artificial lights in the
room, saturate the cracks in the floor
with benzine. Wash upper edge of the
carpet with a solution Of corrosive sub
Innate and alcohol, sixty parts OF poison
10 one part Of the alcohol. Be extremely
careful about using this If there are
children about.
For Ingram or three-ply carpets wiring
a cloth out Of hot water and lay II
over the edges or binding, and iron with
an iron rs hot as can be without sCOrCh-
ing. This destroys the moth as well as
the eggs. Wilton and the heavier car
pets must be steamed on the under side.
A good solution TO use in Wiplng up
the floor before putting down the rugs
or carpets is as follows: a quarter OF
q pound OF red pepper STEPPED IN a
gallon OF water, TO which are added two
drains Of strychnia poWder
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
Modern Dreaming
On Wedding Cake
A Lottery Scheme

MY sisters" said Brother Claude.
ARE now busily dreaming on wedding
cake.
Three days ago We all went TO
wedding and of course. each of US got
a nice little box of wedding cake, and
every night since then sisters have been
putting these boxes under their pillows
nights and dreaming on them to see who
they are going to marry.
There is an old saying, you know,
that marriage Is a lottery, and from
what my sisters tell me about the mod
ern way Of dreaming on wedding cake
1 should say that marriage is now a
greater lottery than ever. 1t seems that
the custom once was to put the cake
under your pillow three nights in sue
CessiOn, and then the man you dreamed
of TWO out Of the three nights was to
be your future husband. That was the
Old, the simple way, before things had
taken on their modern present-day tlab-
crate complications. In these Gays
Oh canning on wedding cake appears TO
be carried on like this.
You take seven little slips of paper
and on each of six of these you write
the name of a sutton, leaving the SeV-
enth slip blank. So here YOU have six
slips with names on and one blank
slip, and now without looking at them
you mix these slips all UP together Sc
that you won't know which is viii eh
and then You put all seven slips together
in an envelope.
by this modern method of dreaming
on wedding cake, with the envelope sys-
tenn you dream on the cake seven
nights in succession, and in the mor,tine 2,
OF eacn following day YOU draw a slim
from the envelope, and the last slip left
n the envelope after the seventh night ;
dreaming indicates your fate: If it's GOT
name on, why. that's the man you are
going to marry; if it's the blank slip
why; then YOU are going 10 be an old
maid.
You see that by this method there is
introduced a vastly greater amount of
doubt and uncertainty, and the period
OF excitement suspense. and interest is
very greatly prolonged; but while the
Old ana simple way was certainly tanner
the modern way, though far more ex-
citing and interesting, may be not with
out ITS disappointment in the end. 5ust
see how II may work out:
Among the men whose names YOU
put On the six written slips there is
pretty sure to be one whom YOU prefer
20 all TIE rest; bat his may be the first
name you draw out of the envelope after
the first nights dreaming thus alas !
the other hand il might be that the first
SLIP YOU draw out would be Ehe blank
the old maid slip, and in this YOU would
md perhaps reason for elatic5, and self
cOngratUlatiCn.
Again, the first slip drawn might
De neither the blank nor the slip bear
ing the name OF him you preferred, but
slip with the name of Enan for whom
you cared less; and so might the AGONY
be day after day prolonged and gro wing
all the time more narrowing, to the very
end Of the week
Such is the modern method of dream
ing on wedding cake as my sisters have
so kindly explained to me I believe
there is a reservation, If gOu don't like
the way one weeks dreaming comes out.
you can dream again on another piece.
that you get at the next wedding YOU
happen 10 attend. New York Sun.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
CHILD'S SIMPLE SUMMER FROCK
Daily Fashion Talk

Little frocks such are made in bishop
style are alway becoming to the little really
ideal for weather Embroidered batiste with
yoke Of plain material makes the one Illus
trated but all the dainty materials are appro-
pirate, the Dresden dimty that much used. the
and tie like. sturdy
ohambray s1ghams the dress desgnso play
time There a round yoke which finished
either style. illustrated, high
ing collar liked. gathered joined
The puffed whether they short
long gathered into straight bands AS illustrated
the frock a pretty for afternoon
For the four-year size required Sk yards of
material a. yards % wide, with yard 30
inches wide for the yoke and sleeve bands May
pattern No. cSs7 sizes ?, 4 and years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
PARASOL AND SCARF
MADE TO MATCH
YOUR NEW GOWNS

A touch Of bright color will be added
TO the costume this coming season in
parasoI and long, fiimy scarf. which IS
worn about the shoulders.
It is quite essential that the parasol
should match some part of the costume.
either frock, hat or pumps. and stock
ings
The many-ribbed japanese parasois
are popular this summer. They are OF
silk with quaint little japanese char
acters embroidered or hand painted on.
Those made Of Persian silk handker-
chiefs are most attractive and match up
well with the Paisley scarfs.
A Clio Clio SaE sunshade Of white silk
was lined with pale lavender and en-
broidered with japanese iris IN lavender
and tall spike leaves In vivid green.
With IL was worn a scarf Of lavender
and white stripe1 chiffon, with en-
hroidered vioIets scattered over the en-
tire surface TIE scarf was finished at
the ends with long white silk knotted
fringe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
EVOLVES NEW SCHEME
TO SAVE THE LAUNDRY
BILLS ON PETTICOATS

Ore clever woman, who is the mother
OF three sturdy little girls. has success
fully solved the summer white petticoat
problem. Now the terror of "washdsy
has been greatly Iessened and the num-
Der of little garments decreased.
For each little froek the mother
makes tiny pair OF boomers of the
same material. and this is an excellent
plan. for the little boomers are IN
doubtedly cooler and much more COM
Portable than stifiy starched white
petticoats.
They are ute scanty and fasten
above the kns IS with buttoned strap
that fits rather loosely, thus avoiding
an elastic and the hot, tight gathers It
causes.
1t requires very little material TO make
these boomers. and they are most prac-
teal in A family where there ar several
little folks, for they save fine white
petucOats from the ravages OF the laun-
dry, the laundress' temper, and unneces-
sary expense.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
NEGLIGEES IN WHITE
SWISS FASHIONABLE

Even the most fashionable dressmak-
ers lend their talents 10 the making Of
most attra ctiye negligees Of white swiss
lace, and ribbon. This wash fabric has
come into more favor for the kid OF
garment one wears in ones own room
or for breakfast and with luncheon with
the family alone. The swiss Is fine md
has a small dot, and the negligee is
usually made in two pieces. put together
on one belt, which is covered by a broad
sash of colored satin.
This is often high-Waisted AT the back
and Is finished at the left with g large
rosette and two long ends.
The neck IS open. IN V-shape. and an
ished with deep lace ruffies ard a how
of satin at the back
The tight elbow sleeves are finished
with ceep lace rufhes and a boz OF
satin at the back
such negligees are cooler and rresher
than those of silk or other materials
that do not wash.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-21
GETTING UP MENUS
FOR SIMPLE DINNERS
DURING SUMMER

A worHan who makes it her business
TO get up fashionable dinners for house
wives who wish all care taken from
their hands says that simple decorations
and service are the chief thing today.
Flowers never any more hide persons
sitting opposite each other. Low bowls
or vases with a few flowers OF the re-
quired color or with all green. such as
asparagus fern, when all green is more
effective, is better than an array Of con-
ventionaliy placed flowers.
Dainties OF the season are better al
ways than far-fstched and dear bought
novelties which are not of the season.
Better a fresh ordinary vegetable well
cooked than one Of higher price badly
prepared. Elaborate dishes and tFigged
up salads are not considered the thing
Al smart tables.
If there is q EaTnish TO the salad It
should be simple. Curlicues and other
fancy shapes cut with fancy knives for
the top OF the salad are not for the
private tables.