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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
"FIDD-lh BOB" L,.. At:f
Tennessee Senator, However, Said to
Be Great Lmpersonator Of Grand
Opera Stars.

Washington.-A year ago al article
was written in which Senator Taylor
of Tennessee was called "Tiddlin'
Bob" and the name stuck.
II have known Senator Taylor ever
since we were boys together said
Mr. McCord, land I tell you that he
never could play the fiddle. He can
saw out tune, in way, but as to
really playing, he can't do it. / have
been where 10000 people were de-
manding a tune from his fiddle, and
I never yet knew him to respond. The
only reason was that he could not
play, no other. His brother, ALT, ex-
member of Congress, is fiddler that
is worth while, now. He is not vio-
linist, understand, but he is as fine
fiddler as one could wish to hear. He
has Ole Bull beat to finish. He
doesn't know as much as the senator
about technic and notes and all that,
but he can fiddle and the senator can
not.
However, the senator could have
made his mark as an opera singer, it
he had chosen that instead of the lee
ture platform and politics. He is the
finest impersonator of famous grand
opera stars l ever heard. This is
something he can do, and no one ever
hears Of it, while he bears national
reputation as a fiddler, and he can't
fiddle.
"Apropos of music, there is good
joke which Senator Taylor perpetrat-
ed upon himself at the Nashville CEN
tennial. AS is usual at such affairs,
there were different days, and, natu-
rally, Senator Taylor made the ad-
dresses of welcome on these days.
This series of addresses of welcome
was fairly wonderful On the day set
aside as music day, he made one of
| the best speeches he ever made and
he held his audience spellbound by
his eloquence. OF course there were
| several composers and many great
professors of music, men of world
wide renoWn, no doubt, who dWelt
upon his words with rapt attention,
until he came to the mention of the
| famous composers. He spoke OF the
priceless gift of music given to the
world through the medium Of such
perfect masters as Wagner, Mendels-
sohn, Beethoven, Rubinstein, Tam
| hauser and several others. Well,
when he mentioned the opera Tam
| hauser, as a member of the immortal
band, l saw a smile pass over the
| faces of the distinguished musicians
and their kind, but, luckily, Senator
| Taylor did not notice it.
afterwards, when l told him Of it,
he said, Say, Laps, did I do such a
thing as that?' The addresses were
later published in book form, but the
quoted composer did not appear in
the illustrious list"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
The Winning Of Hlzlda
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
BY Charles L. Doyle

Hulda was having hard time of it,
for she found herself unable to decide
which of her two suitors she preferred
Hans, she had to confess, possessed
some advantages which weighed neav-
lily in his favor. Mr.. Ball, the man
across the street who owned the big
apartment building, was particular
that he liked Hans. Besides Hans
could speak Swedish and the acknowl-
edged that it was pleasant to talk with
him in the language of the dear old
home across the sea.
But whenever his plain, open coun-
tenance with the blue eyes twinkling
below the yellow hair was pictured in
her mind, she blamed him for being a
little too ordinary. She could see a
dozen such any Sunday in the little
Swedish church. Now with a man
who wore fine blue coat with n five
pointed star ON the font of it, and
carried a mahogany club it was differ.
ent. No one who looked at him could
fail to see that he, being a part of the
government, was superior to the com
mon run of men. Michael had told
her that he was the right arm of the
law, and she had looked her admira-
ton. She had known him almost as
long as she had Hans and he was
, very good to her.
On Sundays in the park he would
get her a seat close up to the band
stand. Then when the concert was
over, he would stroll across that part
of the park that had signs to keep off
the grass erected upon it. Of course
Micheal the all-powerful could walk
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
A Cloak Room Story.

One of the congressman who had
just returned from Europe remarked
that this story reminded him of a
scene on the banks of the Serpentine
in London, when lady and gentle
man paused beside a stylishly clad
nurse in bonnet and floating veil and
the lady exclaimed, looking at the
children of two and four who accom-
panied the girl:
What charming children; are they
not lovely, Edward?"
Edward replied that they were all
that the heart of man could desire.
will you kiss me?" said the lady.
''They don't usually kiss people,
madam" said the nurse, "but of
course they will you
The kissing ceremony completed,
the woman of fashion asked:
"And whose dear children are
they?" as she looked admiringly at
the rosy cheeks and bright eyes of
the little ones.
Madame" said the girl in amaze
ment, they are your own. They
know you because they have often
watched you from the nursery vim
dow, as you passed to and from sour
caTriaga
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

from gown or coat. There is moth
ing smarter than it's trimming OF
uuills, and nothing that will stand
wear so well. The turban IS just as
pretty when finished with group
of wings at the left side, and an or
nament placed to hold the drapery
at the right.
Fig. 2 shows model covered
with blue kid piped with white and
trimmed with a pair Of large white
wings. The bow at the front is made
of the leather so that the entire hat is
of this material. The same model 10
very pretty with the hat Of MORE or
corded silk, and the trimming of vel.
vet or kid. It has already proved
popular made of black MORE, faced
with white and having band Of white
kid about the crown finished with a
fiat bow of the same at the left side.
This model is very elegant with broad
black velvet ribbon used for the front
bow, mounted with wings in white or
black Cor both.)
Silk-covered hats hold the center OF
the stage, and those of MORE and
corded silk most popular. One of
them is shown in Fig. 3. They are
to be found in all sorts of colors and
color combinations, but black and
white in this hat has outdistanced all
others in the race for popularity. The
model shown is of white MORE faced
with black It's trimming is triple
ruche of box-plaited maline about the
crown and upper brim, and crushed
tie of velvet finished with a knot at
the side. Such model is the best OF
between seasons millinery, and as
near to all-the-year-round wear as can
be found
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
GATHERED FRILLs OF LACE
Useful in Arranging the FuIIness on
Corset Covers Used with
Thin Waists.

A girl who is little inclined to be
thin will often find it hard to make
the fullness in the front of her sum.
mer waists sit just as she would like
to have it. These thin waists cannot,
of course, be kept in the proper lines
all the time, as thicker ones with
bones can, and they need adjusting
when they are put on. A great help
in arranging the fullness is to have
little gathered frills of lace or en-
broidery on the corset covers to be
used with thin waists.
These frills are also most useful
with all lingerie gowns. Many of the
fronts that are largely made of very
thin lace insertions, and they need
something to hold them oul Besides,
the effect of these little ruf1es is much
better through the transparent lace
and lawn than when the buttons of a
corset cover can be seen.
The frills should not be sewed to
the corset cover, but to a separate
piece of muslin, which must be ar
ranged to fasten on the corset cover
with tiny buttons, or can be fastened
with the very small safety pins under
the upper rufle. A piece of muslin or
lawn must be used large enough to
cover the front of the corset cover
from near the top to below the bust
line. On this are seWed two or three
rufiles-the number depends on the
height of the wearer and the width
of the lace used-made OF lace
strong enough to stand considerable
washing, or of embroidery.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
chande In Couture.

The entire change in the couture
the low head dress, with the absence
of rats or pads of any kind in the
front of the hair, has completely al.
tered the look of the fall hat The
heads of all the hats are enormous
and would slip down over the face.
if they were not REINFORCED with
halos, or lids, which permit them to
rest on the crown of the head. The
turban and large cavalier shapes are
most prominent among the comina
fashions, and velvet, plush and fuT
with the inevitable and magnificent
aigrette, are especially in evidence
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
THINGS ABOUT PARSLEY

once too large and too reconcile to 90
more than referred to. The associa.
ton of parsley with death is more ex.
pl1cit. 1t is pointed out that the
name of the Inflated son of Lycurgus,
from whose blood the plant was tabled
to have sprung, has the meaning OF
doom bringer," and that this in itself
indicated parsley as essentially a
death plant. 1t was therefore in prac.
tically universal use for strewing the
graves of the dead-so universal, in.
deed, that it became a conventional
phrase with regard to any one in "ar.
ticulo mortis" that the next thing he
would need would be parsley (for his
grave)-"to be in need of parsley"
came to be recognized periphrasis
for "to be, on the point of DEATH
London Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Nothing Like Il Here.

Joseph Letter, at a dinner in Wash
ington, said earnestly Of his approach
ing European tour:
Where I am going I'll find some
thing that we haven't here, that we'll
never have here-namely, hopeless
poverty"
Mr.. Letters seriousness gave place
to a lighter mood.
Why" said he, 1.-The poverty of Eu
rope is Sc acute that am credibly in
formed it is quite a common thing
over there for little children, knock
ing at neighbors' doors. to whine:
"'Please, ma'am, mother says will
We lend US somethin' to pawn till pay
day EVENING""
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Peasant Modes.

- s-%A~

The peasant skirt is a case in point,
with its deep kilt and it's broad sash
draped round the hips and tied at the
back in a loose bow. Then there is
the chemise paysaIne of the Swiss
type, expressed in snowy muslin slight
ly gagged into a narrow band of en-
broidery so that the throat is left en-
tirely bare. The chemise paysanne
has balloon sleeves cut of at the ell
bows and finished like the guimpe
with band of lace or of embroidery.
Such guimpes as these are extreme
" useful for the frocks of girls and
children, and of great beauty as fin
ish to cloth and serge frocks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

There is line in gowns that threat.
ems to keep its popularity. This liz
the one that brings the skirt material
up to sharp point at the bust in
front and between the shoulder blades
at back.
Not even the woman who is having
her best frock fashioned in this man
ner admits that the approaching point
is a pretty one. The human figure
seems to demand points and curves
that go downward, but in the turn.
about-face of the universe of clothes In
the twentieth century one is thankful
to escape with merely a perverted
point.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Enaaaement Luncheon.

A recent engagement luncheon was
arranged in this manner: A Towns
cup was placed in the center Of the
table and was filled with tiny boxea a.
bonbons. Ferns and roses were ar.
ranged in the cup. Ribbons ward
drawn from each gift to the plate ana
one little box, when opened, held =
tiny card with the engagement an
nouncement. Another method is 70
write the announcement on a placar6
that has a heart and silver dart rim
through it. This may be placed in
conspicuous place on the mantel.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
BY JULIA RoTToMLEY.

BUST now there is nothing more in
teresting to the shopper than the
/ milliner's windows. They are
abloom with their autumn millinery,
and their offerings seem much more
to the taste of the average woman
than were the early showings of the
season just passed. These new hats
will not be the sport of the carlcatur-
list, as many modes for spring were.
They are not startling, and they are
elegant and attractive. Dame fashion
seems to have adopted new fad
judging by the new fall stayles, it is
fashionable to be sensible in choosing
at hat. There is a drift toward dur
ability in all millinery and especially
in hats for the street.
Hats of silk, cloth or leather pre-
dominate and trimmings are of quilts.
wings, well-made fancy feathers com
bined with ribbon, velvet or maline.
This last looks fragile, but since the
process of water-prOodng, it has been
| discovered, it holds its own with other
millinery fabrics.
Three pretty new models illustrate
| the seasons modes. The round hat
trimmed with quilts is a draped tur.
ban made of beaver cloth over buck
ram frame. This hat is also seen
made Of broadcloth. felt, silk and OF
chamois skin combined with velvet
Some of the best models shown for
fall so far are made of chamois. As
it may be successfully cleaned, it will
appeal to those who require a durable
hat and want pretty one.
This model is a happy choice if one
happens to own a piece of good broad
cloth, or other heavy fabric. left over
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

The charge is made that the phono-
graph and the automatic piano are
lowering public taste. That is one
way of looking at the situation. These
new inventions are taking music into
homes where it never was before and
never would be but for them. They
are doing for music what the inven
ton of printing did for the art Of
reading. There is still literature-and
some of the beautiful creations in lit
erature come from those who under old
conditions would never have learned
to read. There may be hope for mu.
sic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

That the barnacle is a bothersome
beast has been in evidence before and
since Dickens used it as an illustra
ton of certain human qualities. The
big battleship South Dakota was dry.
locked at Mare Island navy yard re-
Gently and 900 tons of barnac1es were
scraped from the bottom. 1t is such
accumulations that hinder the speed
of many of the swiftest warships.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

News comes that prosperity has
struck ireland so hard that the coun-
try is contented with English rule,
Rnt to have the lion and the lamb lie
down together without the lamb being
inside the lion is contrary to all Eng.
Iand,s idea of the sacredness of prece.
dent. to say nothing of Ireland being
hapDv. though peaceful.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

The occultation of Mars by the
moon the other night was spectacle
interesting to astronomers, but not i'm
portant in revealing anything not pre-
viously known. Figurative significance
it had none whatever, more's the pity
An occultation Of Mars that would
mean the end of wars on earth would
call for a special assembling of the In.
ternational Peace Congress at The
Hague to adopt resolutions of congrat'
nlafinn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

The speed nuisance has become so
bad in Chicago that it is seriously pro-
posed to equip the street crossings
with bumps" to jar the autoists into
some recognition of the life, safety
and right to the streets of others. The
remedy is drastic, but a trife print
tive. A few speed maniacs serving
workhouse sentences would doubtless
NisnnSe of the nuisance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

The state department at Washing
ton has been notified of the estab'
Nshment of steamship service between
Acajutla, Salvador and Salina Cruz
Mexico, the Pacific terminus of the
Tehuantepec railroad, that will re,
duce the time of the mails from New
York to Salvador from Is to 8 days
This will facilitate business, and dem
onstrate that improvements in the
mails and in shipping will increase
trade between North and South Amer.
fna
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

If the proposed oiling of roadways
in the parks affords relief from the
dust in these pleasure spots, why
would it not give comfort on resi-
dence streets which have the nature
of boulevards? The cost of the oil
and the application of it might be off
set to a large extent by reduction
in the cost of sprinkling service due
to the absence of dust on the oiled
streets,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Mexico is now getting more than its
share Of earthquakes and tidal waves.
The losses Of life there have been
very large and the destruction of
property tremendous. Italy is again
going through the same experience
and the people of both countries live
in fear that the worst has not yet hap
pened.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

movable from his
job as Secretary
of A gri culture
Wilson, gets as
much fun out OF
life as anybody.
There never has
been a man in the
state department
who knew SO
much O If h a n d
about titles, pre-
cedents and all
the little angular
tiles that go to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Predictions of plain skirts and plaid
waists seem to be coming true, if one
can put faith in the advance fall dis
plays One importer includes among
his samples frock with plain gray
cashmere skirt and blouse of coral
pink surah checked with fine lines Of
black. Chemise and stock are white
valenciennes insertion and fagoting,
and the fat collar and turned cuffs
are of the gray material and fagoting.
A large bow of soft black satin ribbon
is placed at joining Of collar, with
ends protruding from beneath pointed
piece below bust line.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

One national government is Install
ing an expensive wood,testing bureau
at the University of Wisconsin, evil
IDENTIFY being willing to hope that
there will be wood to test for some
time vet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Autumn Hair Dressing.

All coiffures are low, very much
built out at the back, and rolled soft
ly at the sides. Tiaras, Wreaths and
barrettes are the usual hair orna-
ments, also metal gauze wreaths in
the form Of laurel leaves.-Harper's
Bazaar.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Horrible EXAMPLES.

Prof. Pazaurek, originator of the
museum of bad taste in Wurtemburg,
believes every art museum should have
attached to it, as a matter of course.
collection of horrible examples, with
the object of raising the standard of
public taste.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

A Brooklyn girl has gone through
He'll Gate, an aquatic feat attempted
by many men who have failed in it.
The gentler sex is just now decidedly
in the swim.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

The pole has claimed it's full quota
OF human victims. Now that it has
been found, aviation is going to take
Its place in the sacrifice of life to gain
victory.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

While the constitution follows the
flag under most circumstances it may
find difficulty in following the flag to
the pole and camping out permanent
ly on moving hummocks of ice.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Those who missed the occultation of
Mars recently did not miss much.
1t was less exciting than some of the
things one hears in the airshaft of an
apartment house.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

What summer of achievement it
has been! Aerial records have been
smashed, over land and sea new speed
marks have been set, and finally the
mole discovered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

At any rate the world Isl glad to
tnink that finding the north pole is
no longer diminishing business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
Disappointed.

IT thought I'd buy direct from the
fountain head and save money"
And did you save?'
mo; ] got soaked"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Peru is sending it's presidents son
to learn scientific farming in Wiscon-
sin, though llama raising is but indif-
ferently taught there.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

There seems to be no such thing
In the world as an automatic and in
Violable polometer to ring a bell when
a man reaches the boreal climax.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Like the north pole, the Hs Hey COM
ct is billed for discovery by a process
sion of scientific scouts.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

There is many slip between be-
ing talked of for federal appoint
ment and the actual seizure of the
plum.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

heep the nations gates barred
against the foreign criminal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

We have it at first hand from the
poet that summer will not last for
ever.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

Halleys comet has had it's excur-
Sion ticket stamped in Heidelberg.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23

IN standing off the Moors Spain has
permanent job.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-23
FROM THE CAPITAL
STORIES BY TWO OF UNCLE SANS
ASSISTANTS.
Assistant Secretary Adee Finds Char
Iemagne Has 100000 Descendants
Treasury Official Is Booming
New Custom-House Model.

ashington.-Second Assistant Sec
retary of State Adee, who is as ire
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-04-22
Thinks He is Charlie Ross.

William Grant Eyester, of McKees
Rocks, formerly a coal miner at
Shamokin, Pa, now a brakeman on
the Plttsburg and Lake Erie Rail.
road, states that he believes he is the
Charlie Ross kidnapped from Ger
mantown, Pa, IS years ago, and
never recovered. He said he learned
early in life that he was not the child
OF his supposed parents and that
many things they did led him to be.
iieve that he was Charlie Ross. He
said he tallies in every respect with
the description of Charlie, even tc
moles on his body. Memories of his
early home, he said, agree with de.
scrlptions of the Ross home. Hi.
foster parents, who lived at Shonno.
KIN, are dead, and he has no evidence
OF his identity, and is not makins
any effort to prove his connection
with the famous case, dreading tn,
notoriety it would give him.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-04-22
Paw Paw, Mich
Another Operation Avoided.

Another Operation Avoided.
Chicago, Ill.-"I want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said I would
die if I did not have an operation, and
I never thought of seeing a we'll day
again. I had small tumor ana female
troubles SO that / suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me a well woman."-Mrs.
ALvENA SPERL1NG, II Langdon St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fbroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, and nervous prostration. l tcosts
but a trife to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.