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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

goods man years ago, but most people
have forgotten that, now he's worth
| his millions, and he's got the most
gorgeous place, quite like one of your
old castles. The worst Of 1t Is his
mother lives with them, and when she
was showing the bride-Cora-over the
house (Which was decorated pretty
weirlly for the first wife), the old
lady kept explaining: This is the
Louise Seize room; this is the Queen
Anne room Cora just looked at the
things and said. What makes you
think So? Sma. I. wasn't 1t? But
Coras changed everything inside the
house now. She loves change. She's
even changed her birthday, SO as to
have 1t in leap year; and as for her
mind, she changes 1t entirely at least
six times day; says that's why wo-
men have nicer minds than men; they
change them oftener. But I've gos-
siped enough about person you don't
know, Lady Betty. Let's talk about
England. run over to Paris for
month or two most years, but I've
only been twice to England. did all
the sights. though; didn't miss any
thing. gave four days to London
alone. Candidly, don't think your
women dress nearly as well as we do,
or hold themselves as well, but per-
haps you're more feminine looking.
taking you all in all. don't mean
anything personal Of course. But
do think your men are lovely. met
perfectly charming member OF par
lament, and he Invited me to tea on
the terrace. Such strawberries and
cream! But I'm afraid hurt his feel
ings. said l couldn't help thinking
house Of commons a most insulting
name, and IL we called our senate any
thing like that We couldn't get an
American man who respected himself
to go into 1t. But English people are
so queer. They don't seem to mind
admitting that there Is class above
theirs"
Betty doesn't need to know any
thing about that" said Mrs. Ess Kay.
"She is on the highest pinnacle"
"Oh, dear, no." said l. "There are
the royalties"
Don't you think you are just as
good:" asked Mrs. Taylour.
II never thought about 1t In that
way" / answered stupidity. For, OF
course, hadn't.
Surely you don't bob to them?"
Indeed we do" protested.
"Well, then: l wouldn't" said Mrs.
Taylour firmly. I'D have my head
cut off first, especially before I'd curt
sey to man.
Quite q color few into her face as
she asserted her independence, and
Mrs. Ess Kay must have seen that
the invalid was getting excited, for
she rose quickly to 80.
"Cone. Betty" said she, and I came.
The lift plunged US down through
the inner workings Of the skeleton.
had the sensation that 1t was drop
ping away from under my feet and
that as l dangled above 1t, like wab-
bly, little balloon, my head had been
LEFT besind somewhere near the top.
But | didn't leave my heart behind In
Mrs. Taylour's fat.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

know it was very wrong in prin-
ciple. but when we got to the Grand
Central station Tor depot, as perhaps |
ought to call IT, did wish that slavery
existed again SO that | could have
bought two or three Of those delight
full cafe au lait colored porters In gray
livery and red caps. There were sew
eral l would have given anything to
have to take home with me and make
pets of, but suppose even If they
had been for sale they would have
come too expensive, and should have
had to give them up, for their eyes
alone. to say nothing Of their pleasant
white grlns, would have been worth
pounds and pounds.
As for their voices, they were the
sweetest Id heard in America-soft
and a little throaty. with a peculiar
quality, quite different from the voice
of person who hasn't been dipped In
cafe au lait. With their vivid red
caps, their brilliant eyes and their
lightning fash smiles they looked to
me more like great, wonderful tropical
birds than human beings. and they
seemed SO honey luscious in their good
nature that I'm sure all the things that
serious and learned people say In Eng
land about the dangers OF the In
creasing colored population in Amer
lea" must be nonsense. Serious and
learned people do make such mistakes
through never seeing the fun in any.
thing, and every few years they find
out that they have been quite wrong
in what they have taught with 30
much trouble. about comets and NIL
crobes and men and other progressive
things.
We had a number of these tropical
birds that have been tanned TO serve
the railway, to help US with our bags
and things getting into the train, al
though there were Louise and cou'
ple OF Mrs. Ess Rays footmen as well.
| looked at their brown hands, and
they were quite pink inside, as pink
us mine. l don't know why this gave
me a shock, but it did. Perhaps one
had the feeling that the nice creatures
were only painted to play their parts
or that their white souls-just like
ours-were striking through their skins.
1t was beautiful train. Even the
engine was diGerent from our kind,
much fiercer aud reared its head high
er, like wild stag compared to q
stout but reliable OK. Our carriage
had no compartments In 1t, but was
Just one long, wide, moving corridor
all plate glass windows and mirrors
and painted panels and velvet arm
chairs dotted about rather like hotel
drawing room Oh wheels.
There were good many people In II
when we got In, which annoyed Mrs
Ess Kay SO much that she wished
she had borrowed private car from
friend who would have loved lending
1t. But l was glad she hadn't, for the
people were part Of the fun. Mrs
Ess Kay was sure they were no
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
tCUNTINUED.)

Then Mrs. Ess Kay explained that
was interested in her apartment be-
ing UP su hign and Thought ber plucky
to live in it before tho house was tin
ished. This amused Mrs. Taylour
very much.
I'VE are Just thankful to be in it.
she said. II was tired out with house
keeping. the servant question is toe
awful"
Il see you've traircd Durscmaid
for Rosemary" said tirs. Les Kay,
I'VE met them going OCT"
Isn't Rosemary pet?" Mrs. Taylour
asked ne as if she were speaking OF
somebody else's little girl.
Sweet" said. "i!as she been ill:"
mo. Do you think she LOOKS deli.
cate:"
ut was the hospital rGrse"- be.
gan. but Mrs. Tayiour laughed.
"Oh. suppose that would Strike you
as funny But We often have them
for our children We poor New York
women have SO much to Go socia.iy
we have to be relieved Of all feeli2a e
Of responsibility If we don't want to
come down with nervous prostration.
| shall hang on to this same nurse for
years II she'll stay; she's SO good and
only $40 week. When Rosemary
grows up and comes out she will be
her maid, you know, Lady Betty. Do
you ever have trained nursemaids IN
England?"
NO" l said. Fancy"
"Oh. It's splendid thing for girl
nothing like it. You see. the woman
looks after her like maid and nurse
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
fro BE CoNTIHU UED.1
The Human Icmperature.

Put to the test of the thermometer,
1t appears that the normal tempcra'
ture Of the body is almost inyariable,
regardless Of latitude or season. Put
ting the bulb Of the thermometer uli-
der the tongue Of an Eskimo at the
frozen north or Of a man under the
blazing sun Of the tropics, we find that
in each case, the body being In state
Of health, the temperature is about the
same. the difference not amounting to
a degree. We may say absolutely that
the average normal temperature OF
human being is about 9S.5 degrees
f., Just as we may say that at sea
level water boils at 212 degrees F.
New York American.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

important than we are at home. You
could tell from the very way they sat
and held up their heads in the motor
cars and dogcarts and other things
that they thought the world was theirs
and they were the people to know in
1t. One was driving 4 tandem, and she
didn't look more than seventeen. J
was glad when she bowed to Mrs. Ess
Kay. because she was pretty and !
made up my mind that should like to
know her.
That's Cora Pitch!ey's stepdaugh.
ter. Carolyn" said Mrs. Ess Kay. DC
you remember Margaret Taylour tell.
ing anecdotes of Coray She doesn't
bother much with the girl. People
are talking about them both rather n
lot this year, they say"
Carolyn" | repeated. What a
pretty name and how American sound
ing, somehow. Fancy her driving tan
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
Mutton Birds.

During six weeks every autumn the
400 inhabitants Of the Australian Fur.
neaux islands make enough money to
support themselves In idleness the rest
of the year. They do this by catching
the very fat young mutton BIRDS"
which are hatched there In such num-
bers that the focks when they mi.
crate extend for miles. They furnish
food and oil, which is used for lubri-
eating PURPOSES and also as substi-
tute for cod liver oil.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
pu4 In Mara Worda.

"Now, Peters, said the teacher,
what Is II makes the water Of the sea
30 salty?"
salt" said Peters.
"Nextw said the teacher. "What is
It makes the water Of the sea so
salty?"
"The salty quality Of the sea water"
answered Next" SIS due to the ad-
mixture Of sufficient quantity Of
chloride of sodium to impart to the
aqueous fluid with which 1t commin-
giles saline flavor, which is readily
recognized by the organs Of taste"
Right, Next" said the teacher go
up onew
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
The way to arrest the waste and re-

The way to arrest the waste and re-
store fertility Is by better farming.
Hence the most important of all things
is for the farmers of the United States
to wake up to the necessity for better
farming. Call it scientific farming, book
farming, common sense farming, call 1t
what you like; but the essential thing Is
to obey the laws of nature that govern
in the soil and thus maintain Its orig.
inal fertility. The first duty OF every
farmer anywhere In the United States
is to wake up to the terrific waste that
is going on and having walked up he
must wake up his neighbors by using
every opportunity to impress upon the
minds of farmers generally that their
individual prosperity and the prosperity
of the nation depends upon the adoption
of better methods of farming. Turf,
Farm and Home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
EnIarging the Dairy Herd.

The average man who keeps cows
does not keep large enough herd to
run the business most economically.
Four or FIVE cows on a farm cannot be
run as economically as a larger herd,
which is very evident. 1t takes very
little more time to feed herd of ten
or twelve cows than it does herd of
four or five. am aware that many
people would keep more cows if it
wasn't for the extra labor, but in my
Judgment the average farmer ought to
keep cows enough so that he can keep a
man to help him. Then it would not be
confining for himself and he would make
money enough out of the extra number
of cows which be could keep SO that he
would not be confined so much to the
dairy work, and could give more time to
reading and studying, and in the long
run would make more money than
where he attempts TO cut down his dairy
herd so that he can do all the work him
self and not have TO work too hard.
It's a good investment to have cows
enough so that one can feed up all OF
the roughage that he has on the farm
and not have any hay to sell. Feed 1t
all out on the farm, and it's good in
vestment too, in addition to the grain
which he raises on the farm, thus manu-
featuring more manure, which, when ap-
Piled, improves the land. In doing this
the farmer has two chances OF making
money. He makes something when he
usss this feed, because when he manu-
features this feed into milk he makes
profit on the feed, and then by applying
the manure TO his lands he increases the
fertility of his land so that he grows
better crops; consequently he is in a
position to realize from two invest
ments.
When one has a good herd of cows on
a farm, from 10 to 20 or more, he takes
more pains with them because he has
larger investment and he looks after
that investment in more business-li like
yay than where he has only two or
three or four cows. With small num-
Der of COWS the money received from
them is all used up for the ordinary ex-
penses of the family and the farmer
doesn't appreciate it. If he has good
business herd of cows there is money
enough received from them so that it
will be noticeable and can be used in
the business, and much more interest is
taken in dairyipg. / would not try to
convey the idea that man should keep
more cows without regard to their
quality. l believe the first thing that
should be done is to try and improve the
quality of the cows. 1t Is certainly
poor business to keep a poor COW, but
we can not only keep good cows, but we
can keep more of them, and If We get
larger incomes from our farms we are
consequently better satisfied with farm
| ing and with dairying. A small invest
ment in anything is liable to be neglect
ed, while good snug Investment in any
proposition will be carefully looked
after and with corresponding results
Colon C. Lille in Michigan Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

We had a number of these tropical birds
wasn't sure at nrst sight what /
did think Of the great splendid houses,
with mere pocket handkerchief lawns
such as people would have for sub
urban villas at home, but they gave
me q tremendous impression Of con
centrated wealth. This seemed place
where everybody was rich, where mil
lions were at a discount, and thought
whatever else l did think-that II
would be a place to stop away from
unless you were happy-happy and
strong and gay.
But there was one thing ! was very
sure Of. The avenue itself was more
full than our park in the topmOst
height of the season.
People don't look happy driving In
the park, not even the pretty people
l have found that whenever l have
been, and, though that isn't so very
often yet, Vic says 1t is really and truli
always the same.
The great beauties look bored. an,!
some of them have their faces painte,I
and the air of wearing transforna
tions, but not one Of the charmin.
women driving up and down Bellevri
avenue that afternoon looked boreG
and hardly any were painted. i neve:
saw people appear to be 80 delighte'
with life and so thoroughly alive. as
the glorious sea air were frothing
their veins, like champagne.
In the park you don't see peori
laughing and talking to each oth,
in carriages. They simply lean ba'
on the cushions with an expressi'
that seems to say. This Is the Oh:
thing | can think Of to do. so H.
doing 1t just to kill time" Proball
they don't really feel like that, bl
they look 1t. And as for the peoil
who sit and watch or stand and wal,
they've usually strained expressim
In their eyes us If they were afraiC
of missing somebody or something
Importance.
But here In Bellevue avenue ever!
body was smiling and chatting. and
noticed that the men weren't so pr
ternaturally alert as the men In Nc'
York. Some had actually taken til.
20 let fat, which. so far I'd had r..
son to suppose, was thing that new
happened to American men.
Aud somehow the young girls hat
the air Of being great deal mors
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
Maxine Sure.

Country Cousin-Are you sure ! am
in the right train? Town Relative
(who has had about enough Of IT.
Well, | have asked seventeen porters
and thirty-two passengers, and they
all say "ycs." so think you'd better
risk it.-London Telegraph.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

Good horses are becoming so valuable
that we must take better care of them.
The electric street cars and the steam
thresher engines lifted great burden
off the horse, but the automobile and
the mechanical traction have given but
and little help to the horse.-Turf, Farm
Home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

"Sunlight and air will rid our herds
of tuberculosis; medicine and slaughter
never will" was the unqualified state.
ment of John d. Nichols, president OF
the Ohio Dairymen's Association, In an
address to the Michigan dairymen at
their last convention.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
: : SzUaot~ =

W AS anxious, to travel in
an American train, so
Mrs. Ess Kay said we
might go by rail to
Newport instead of by
boat as she had intended.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

A pig will never foul his sleeping quar-
ters II allowed any sort Of . chance to
keep them clean.-Farm Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE PLOw."

Correspondence on practical agricultural topic
Is solicited. Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY d.
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocrst, Paris. Me.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-17

aTd cuffs. Coats OF blanket cloth and rain
prnof coating are being worn as much as
the bulky coats OF bear. musCuash and
skunk
Quite the latest thing is a "transforma-
ton, motor rug and burnOOse, which is
woven OF heavy silk to resemble fur and
serves the double purpose of rug and cape.
The new little motor bonnets that look
like the coal s"'I'tle hats Of long ago are
so very becoming that the style mas been
adopted by women who do not own ma
chimes Made Of fluffy beavers i'm soft
colors. and trimmed with pretty satin bows
and streamers that lie coqueuishly under
the clun they make a most fetching frame
for the face. even though they do not allow
so Iuuclr as single little curl to peep out
Some are made Of chiffon over silk and
trimmed with marahou or fur and are tied
with silk strings that are edged with the
same.
Though il is a pity to cover these pretty
creations with wells. some women find them
Indispensable The plain squares are worn
as much as the deliberately shirred and
ruffed wells. for. once the trick Of adjust
ment is acq aired, the former can he made
10 look even neater than the shaped and
fitted ones
Nothing gives more solid comfort than a
pair Of warm, sIr lined gloves. The new
est are supplied with a kind of gusset. so
that they iii snuEly over the wrist. Some
are trimmed with fur cuffs. some have
beaver tops and some have the fur side
outside
New-York tribune., 1909-12-17
PLAY BY BRYN MAWR CLUB
Medea y of Euripides To Be Given
for Benefit of College Fund.

The "Medea' of Euripides. I'm Gilbert
Murray's translation. will be given this
afternoon at o'clock at the Maxine Elliott
Theatre under the auspices of the New
YORK Bryn Mawr Club. The play will be
presented by the Bryn Mawr Club of Ros-
ton George Riddle. Joseph Lindon Smith
and Malcolm Lang have ben active heIpers.
Mr. Riddle training the actors, Mr. Smith
supervising the scenery and Mr. Lang writ
ing the music and training the chorus.
The proceeds of the play will be devoted
To the fund Of s25OOOO which the Brvn
Mawr alumne must collect before next June
IN order 10 obtain an equal sum promised
by the General Education Board Among
inc patrons and patrOnesses are the Presi-
dent of the United States. President NJ
carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr. Dean and
Mrs Clarence ID. Ashley. President Nicholas
Murray Butler. Mrs Francis II. Cabot Mrs
John Claiiin, Mrs. Thomas 4. Edison. Mrs
simon FleXner. Mrs. Robert ". de Forest.
MI and Mrs. James J. Higginson. Mrs.
DANIEL = Lamont. Hamilton W. Mabie.
Erander Matthews. Harry Thurston Peck.
Henry Mills Alden. Mrs Frederic Peterson.
Mrs Charles A. Peabody Mrs George Ha-
ven Putnam. Mrs. HiIborne Roosevelt Mrs
West Roosevelt. Mrs. Arthur n. Scribner.
Louis G. Tiffany and Mrs Charles Lewis
Tiffany
New-York tribune., 1909-12-17
PURSUING POLITICIANS.
Votes for Women Committee Working
for Suffrage Lawmakers.

The votes for women committee OF the
League Of Self-Supporting Women and the
Collegiate Equal Suffrage League. which
has been working for a suftr rage Senator
TO succeed the late Senator Patrick Nc
Carren. has now extended its labors 10
other parts of the state. Mrs Hattie
Graham has gone to Buffalo where there
is TO be an Assembly election on December
y, and telegraphed yesterday that she has
appointments with both candidates Next
week Mrs. Francis Cabot. chairman OF the
committeeman alSO a member of the
Equal Franchise Society-and Mrs Harriet
Stanton Blatch are going to Canandaigua
and Geneva. the constituency of the late
Senator John Raines The Brooklyn work
eTs report appointments with two candi-
dates but the Democratic candidate.
Thomas Harden. is still being pursued. \
number Of wealthy women are said 10 he
backing this committee. and, In the midst
of its other activities II is arranging re-
ceptiOn for Alice Paul the American suf-
fragette. who has just been released from
HallOWay iail
New-York tribune., 1909-12-17
SEEN IN THE SHOPS.

A fruit bowl and dozen plates. with a
cherry design, sell for IS.
Hearth brushes. with Mission handles and
black bristles. are 1.
Double frying pans. designed tC Use on a
Gas stove and to economize space and gas.
cost 81. They can be used separately if
preferred.
A kitchen rack. with blue china wooden
handled spoons. etc. sells for IS.
New nutmeg graters with a crank sell
for p cents each.
Aluminium rice balls are newer than those
OF tin. and sell for 81 80 each.
A fsh scraper, most convenient device
costs IS cents.
An embroidered black chiffon scarf.
striped with bands Of caracul fur. with
nun TO match in the new pillow shape.
sells for So.
Brass incense burners sell for 75 cents.
while those in bronze cost So 80.
Quaint silver rings for the little finger
sell for s. and upward. and make accep-
table Christmas gifts
Pin feather pickers are among the new
kitchen appliances that will be appreciated
- TIA eaoIS. and sell for . cents
New-York tribune., 1909-12-17
SCORES DIR. ALLEN.
Mrs. Ed1cdrd Hezcitt ReSents
His Criticism of UOmen.

Mrs Edward X. Hewitt took Up the
white slave traffic at the Woman's Mu-
nicipaI League. No. 70 East 2sth street yes
terday. and took Up Or. William Allen os
the Bureau OF Municipal Research along
with il. ~ didn't take her long % dis
pose Of Dr. Allen. She merely remarked.
aprOpos OF his statement % the Womau's
Republican club the other day that worl-
en- were doing things without sufficient
knowledge, that Dr. Allen was a brilliant
example OF the tendency he criticised.
Some OF US women have at least soma
information on our subject" she said "D-.
Allen. in his structures on our interest n
the white slave evil and other questions.
expressed himself more forcibIy than dis
Creetly.
1t Is true that the vast majority e
women know nothing about the white
slave traffic. They have only a vague. hoI-
Tible fear. But many OF Us learned mora
or less about IL during the Investigations
OF the Committee OF Fifteen. and recent
Investigations suggest that the situation
has grown raCidly worse And whatever
any one may think as 20 the inevitabiIiry
OF prostitution. there can be no two Opin-
ions about this peril 70 innocent girls.
"Our first duty Is 70 inform ourselves. as
dispassionauely as possible We are an
emotional nation. but this matter Is too
gIave-we mustn't allow ourselves 70 make
an emotional indulgence OF its discussion.
The most reliable information we can o0-
tain is from the government. I have had
an interview with Mr.. jeremiah jerks. who
is TO speak before US on December IS on
the report OF the government immigration
Commission touching this subject. and
there is no doslbt IN my mind that a deplor-
obya zffr M "a AT a.
unchecked"
Mrs. Hewitt added that any one sin-
cerely interested IN the topic 70 be discussed
would Be welcome at the meeting on ths
18th inst, which would take place IN the
league rooms at o'clock But hope
only those prepared 10 spend time and
money will come" she added.