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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12

members at luncheon, and each n
dishes as possible.
To be ideal such a club should be a
neighborhood affair, SO that If large
two of the members could entertain
together, thus making the task of sery-
ing luncheon to so many less burden
some.
A club which does not enforce strict
rules limiting its menu to a certain
number of courses will be almost sure
to prove a failure, as there are few
women who can withstand the tempta.
ton to strive to Guido their sisters in
matters of his kind, and without such
limiting rules q club Of this kind will
soon become a burden. One such club
has an ironclad rule that salad and
dessert shall not be served at the same
meal.
The charm of a club where new
dishes are studied and cooking prob
LENS discussed is its informality. The
women who belong to it come together
with a common end in view, that of
learning something. Besides this, there
is always the added value which
comes from meeting with other wo-
men and exchanging views and expert
ences. 1t keeps the busy housewife
from getting into a rut in her house
work. and it takes away a little of the
element of drudgery from the round of
household tasks. If two members en-
terrain together as many as ten may
belong to such a club, but If Il host
ess entertains alone the club should
not number more than six.
If there isn't a luncheon club in
your neighborhood, why not start one?
Why not manage to discover an enter
tanning aspect to the old tiresome ques-
ton of "What shall we have to eat?"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
The Luncheon Club.

Why not have a luncheon club? 1t
is not an especially new idea, but it's
a good one, and the wonder is that
there are not more of them in exist
ence. The principal object of a lunch
con club is obviously enough the serv-
ing of luncheon. This may be with q
purely social end in view, but 1t isn't
half so entertaining this way as when
a certain educational motive is includ-
ed In the reasons for the clubs exist
ence. If the club exists for the pur-
pose of trying new dishes and expert
menting In cookery 1t Is not only more
fun, but decidedly more instructive as
well, and in such a club the members
take turns in entertaining the other
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
IL Did Not Work.

Mr.. Seabury and his wife were on
the point of moving to another fiat
Both of them were anxious that the
transfer should be made at the least
possible expense, and the nearness of
the new home promised materially to
further this aim.
~ can carry loads of little things
over in my brown bag" announced
Mrs. Seabury, 'and you car take
books and so on in your big satchel."
In discussing further the matter of
transportation Mrs. Seabury remarked
that Notwithstanding the heat she
could wear her winter coat over, leave
it and return for her spring coat. The
idea charmed her impractical husband.
why. l can do the anne thing!" he
said. "rll wear " one suit and
then come back for anotherv'-Youth's
Companion.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
First Woman Rhodes Scholar.

The first woman Ehcdes scholar has
arrived in London in connection with
the scheme for founding scholarships
for women on the lines of the schol-
arships for men founded by Cecil
Rhodes.
The scheme was formulated in 1905
by Nine. Thayer, then chairman of the
education committee of the Society of
American Women In London, who is
devoting her life to carrying out its
development.
Miss Clara Howard, the scholar In
question, who was entered for a year
of postgraduate study at Girton, is
from Columbia university. and her
scholarship was raised by the Society
of American Women In London, the
nucleus being subscribed by the edu-
cation committee during Nine. Thay-
er's Craftsmanship.
Miss Howard arrives in America
with a brilliant record. The woman
Rhodes scholars will In future be
chosen by competitive examinations.
There was hardly time for this, how
ever, in this case, and thus Miss How
ard was chosen on the recommended
ton of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the wife
of the American ambassador in Lon
don, and of DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president Of Columbia university.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12

Mrs. Joe Leiter-so she is called by
society-wife of the Chicago million
nire, noted for her beauty and a
charming woman withal, recently prov
ed herself a humanitarian and q help
meet to her husband when he was
fighting fire in his coal mine at Zeigler,
Ill. The Letters were at home in Chi
cage when they got news of the disas-
ter. Mr.. Letter took a special train to
the scene. His wife went with him.
When they arrived at the mine Mr..
Letter went to work with his men.
Mrs. Letter was at hand minlstering
to the miners who had suffered in the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
MARIA

the various rudiments of knowledge.
Wonderful Is the way In which the art
of writing comes to them under 81
gnora Montessorfs system, almost as
the art of walking comes. Milan, the
intellectual capltaf' of Italy, has just
started a children's house on the same
lines in the fine new workmen's dwell
ings built under the auspices of the
Umanitaria. The ideas of Signora
MontesserA have been carried out herC
under her own genial supervision, and
the Casa del Bambini promises to be a
happy place for the little ones.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12

disaster by serving them with sand
witches and coffee which she helped to
prepare and encouraged them by her
presence and with words of praise and
hope. On her order bandages, medi-
cines and salves were taken to the
mouth of the shaft, where she had
erected a temporary hospital tent.
Cots and warm bedding were provid-
ed, and when a famished miner was
brought out from the burning pit he
received quick and effective treatment
When necessary, Mrs. Letter admins
tered relief with her OWL hands.-Be:
fore her marriage to Mr.. Letter she
was Miss Juliette Williams of Wash
ington. Her father Is Colonel j. r.
Williams of the army. His daughter
was popular in the official set. Her
social success in London after her
wedding was instantaneous. Her pop
ularity in Chicago remains what it
was before she became the head of the
Letter house in that city. Her actions
at the Zeigler coal mine fire have in
creased for her the admiration of her
many friends.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
A Need OF business Women.

"My earnings amount to $50 a week,
and l have named my trade visiting
housekeeper to business women" said
a young New York widow who has the
support and education of four small
children to look out for. 1T was a
question of putting my children In an
institution or finding some way by
which 1 could earn a living at home.
'"There are several business women
who live in the same uptown flathouse
with me. None of them feels that she
is able to keep a regular servant, and
the cleaning woman who came to them
weekly v did what they wanted.
"They were always envying my neat
rooms. One day the thought struck
me, and I offered to do their weekly
cleaning and mending. My charges
were 50 a week for cleaning and 80
cents for mending. To the cleaning
woman who always accompanies me
1 pay 81 a day, besides giving her
three meals.
This woman ome In at 8 a. m.
and after eating her breakfast helps
me to get the children off to school.
Then we set my own little fat to
rights. After this is properly accom-
plished we begin the real work of the
day, making the fats of my patrons
shine like new
while my woman scrubs, cleans,
airs and makes the beds I mend and
prepare the clothes, house linen and
personal apparel for the laundry. /
see that the curtains are kept fresh
and clean, that the china and glass
are washed and polished. l clean the
silver and knives and do the thousand
and one little things necessary to make
a fiat look bomelike.
"On Monday we do the four fats
which are in the same house with me.
On other days we can only do two a
day, because they are some distance
away. OF course, If l didn't have to
be back at home in the middle of the
day to give my children their lunch
and make sure that all was going
well with them I might take several
more flats. 1t is my children who are
behind all this work, and my first
thought must always be for them"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Words of Praise

For the several ingredients of which DIR.
Pierce's medicines are composed, as given
by leaders in all the several school of
medicine, should have far more weight
than any amount of non-professional tes-
timonials. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion has THE BADGE OF HONESTY on every
bottle-wrapper, in a full list of all its in
gradients printed in plain English.
If you are an invalid woman and suffer
from frequent headache, backache, gnaw-
ing dlstrM in stomach, periodical pains,
disagrekBe catarrhal, pelvic drain,
draggihg1down distress in lower abdomen
or pelvk, perhaps dark spots Or specks
dancing before the eyes, faint spells and
kindked symptoms caused by female weak
ness, oSeth9 arrangement of the feminine
organs, }bV can not do better than take
DIR. PierdeE Favorlte Prescription.
The hospital, surgeons knife and opera
ting ta4dmay be avoided by the timely
use of Navorlte Prescription" in such
cases. Thereby the obnoxious examin-
atoms and local treatmentS Of the family
physician can be avoided and a thQrQuRh
Course OF successful treatment carried out
In tbe MlXacXQ o. Inc home "Fayorite
Prescription " Is composed oil the very best
native medicinal roots known TO medical
SCleuC6 lOI buc Cuk0 vi WOAndH PCCulldA
ailments, contains no alcohol and no
harmful or habit-forming drugs.
Do not expect too much from "Favorite
Prescription; " It will not perform mira
cles ; it will not Dissolve or cure tumors.
No medicine will. 1t will do as much to
establish vigorous health in most weak
nesses and ailments peculiarly incident to
women as any medicine can. 1t must be
given a fair chance by perseverance In ita
use for q reasonable length of time.
You can't afford to accept a secret nos
trum as a substitute for this remedy Of
known composition.
Sick women are invited to consult by
letter, free. All correspondence is held
as strictly private and sacredly confiden-
tial. Address Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association. DR.. r. v. Pierce, Pres,
No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the best
laxative and regulator Of the bowels:
They invigorate stomach, liver and
bowels. One q laxative /; two or three q
cathartic. Easy to take as candy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
What the Duke Meant,

His grace the Duke of Argyll was
addressing u select company in a Lon
don drawing room on the present state
of things In South Africa. II look for
ward TO the Time" he said. 'when the
Englishman will marry the Boer girl
and have an English wife as well!'
Respectable dowagers looked their
surprise, and the men began to smile.
Then the duke carefully explained
that he meant, of course. that the Boer
girl should become an Englishwoman
to all intents and purposes.-Reynolds
Newspaper.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Woman Rules This Empire.

Mrs. Annie Ordway is the ruler of
a strange little colony in the southern
part of Florida. The section is known
as the Koreshan empire. Mrs. Ord
ways title is 'pre-eminent," although
her subjects call her a~ffectionately
Victoria Gratia." Estero, on the Es-
tero river, is the capital. The found
er of Koreshanity is DR.. Cyrus r.
iced. Colonies were established in
Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere,
but for the last few years the follow
ers have been concentrating in the en-
pire in Florida. K~oreshanity is de-
rived from "Koresha,' the Persian
word for Cyrus. For the present, says
one who has recently visited the en-
pire, a central nucleus practices cell
bacy, while other orders of the sys-
tenn sustain the monogamic marriage
relations.
MARCIA WILLIS CAMPBELL.
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DAILY BATH INJURIOUS.
Cherished Custom of Anglo-Saxon
Race Knocked on the Head.


Race Knocked on the Head.
One of the most cherished traditions
of the British race, the cold tub every
morning. is mercilessly criticised by
DR.. j. Ii. Clarke of London in Vital
Economy; or, How to Conserve Your
Strength" published recently.
DIR. Clarke contends that in the mat
ter of health we are enslaved by words
and phrases. "The pores of the skim
is a phrase at the shrine of which
many feeble folk are sacrificing the
last flicker of their energy in the daily
morning tub. Plenty of fresh air is
another tyrant which has claimed
numberless victims.
81 once lost a good patient, who was
always ailing, by cutting off his daily
morning tub" says DR.. Clarke. He
grew strong and put on weight, and
it Is one of his delights to shock his
friends by telling them how many
years 1t is since he had a bathl'
Toe much soaping and scrubbing, ac-
cording to DIR. Clarke, remove the lu-
bricating material secreted in the
glands of the skin to make 1t soft and
supple, and the removal leaves the
skin more sensitive to atmospheric
changes.
The skin is a self cleansing organ.
By soaking the body the self cleanse
ing cells absorb water, swell up and
die.
lone has only to rub oneself after a
bath and they come off In little rolls.
These do not consist of dirt, as is the
popular idea, but of dead skin cells. I
often tell people that 1t Is quite pos
sible for them to wash themselves
dirty. They remove SO much Of the
protecting surface that they give the
dirt a real chance of getting into their
skins"
Ir. Clarke recommends as a substi-
tute for a bath a folded towel, wetted
in the center and passed rapidly all
over the body. This will open the
pores sufficiently without entailing
any shock.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Holly Beach school Exercise,

The following Lincoln's birthday
program was carried out yesterday at
the Holly Beach public school:
Singing, "Star Spangled Banner, y
by school.
Welcome, Mr.. Lloyd.
Governor Forts proclamation, Su-
pervisor Chalmers.
Reading, Mary Charlson.
Reading, Elsie Duran.
Poem, James Martin.
Song, "When Johnny Comes March
ing Home"
Anecdote, Norman Dowler.
Reading, Joy Bright.
Recitation, Esther Yenney.
Appreciation, Joseph Shoemaker.
Song, marching Through Georgia."
Recitation, Warren Yenney.
Poem, Honor Bright.
Epigrams of Lincoln, Sixth grade.
Song, Marie Maxim.
Recitation, Thekla Gloeckler.
Recitation, Olga Goldberg.
Reading, Harold Nickerson.
Reading, Raymond McAllister.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Bessie
Smith, Adele Dowler.
Remarks, Mr.. Yenney and Mr..
Chalmers.
Song, tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
WOMEN BUTCHERS.
An Unusual Feminine Occupation FoI-
lowed In Paraguay.

lowed In Paraguay.
The butchers in all parts of Paraguay
are m In the public slaughtef
houses the cattle are dispatched by
men. This is the only part of the work
done by men. The animal is skinned
and otherwise prepared by women who
are dexterous in the use of the saw
and knife. 1t is served out to the Gus
toners by women-not generally by
weight, but by the piece-and the price
is very low.
Women of all ages act the part OF
butchers. Some are young and pretty,
others old and wrinkled. The womeB
are great bargainers and keen to pull
a new arrival almost to pieces in the
hope of securing his custom. These
women butchers earn good wages. and
man OF. .those-in -theiE
own account acquire modest fortunes.
The cause of this state of things is
the heroic war waged by Paraguay
more than thirty years ago against
the overwhelming forces of Brazil, the
Argentine Republic and Uruguay com
bined. This war, which lasted five
years, bore many similar points of re-
semblance to the recent Boer war. It
ended in the almost total humiliation
Of the a~blebodied male population of
the country.
When the war was over the people
had been reduced to the most abject
poverty and were on the verge of star
walton. Worse still, owing to the de-
struction of the male population, per-
feet anarchy prevailed, and all the
work formerly performed by males
fell on the fair sex. They rebuilt the
houses which had been burned down.
titled the fields and wove for them
selves rough homespun clothing from
the cotton grown In their own fields.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Queen of American sattIefields.

Mrs. Lucinda Dogan, ninety years
old and known in Virginia as the
queen of tive battleields," is still liv-
ing. Her home in Groveton overlooks
the first Bull Run fight, which took
place July 21, 1861. The house is in
the center of the field on which was
fought the second Bull Run battle
Aug. 20 and 80, 1862. After both bat
ties Mrs. Dogan with her children
went out among the wounded and adj
ministered to their wants so far as she
was able. When the long trenches for
the dead We're dug she assisted in the
burials. The wounded were so numer
Gus that the medical stats of both ar
mics used all their bandages. Mrs.
Dogan gave up her bed sheets and
towels to the surgeons and assisted
them in preparing the bandages. An
hour before the second battle Stone
wall jackson sent n of his staff to
tell Mrs. Dogan that there was going
to be a fight near her place" and ad-
vised her to get away. Before she
could start the first guns were fired
A sick woman whom Mrs. Dogan had
been nursing in a house near her own
was killed by a shell soon after the
battle began. Before the last fight n
forest stood around the little town.
When the battle ceased the trees had
been shot down, and nothing but their
stumps remained. Mrs. Dogan's mind
is still unclouded, and she tells the sto-
ries of both battles in an interesting
manner.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Cleaning the Sewing Machine.

Women who do not thoroughly I'M
derstand the sewing machine often
blame the manufacturer when the
fault of stiff running can be traced to
not keeping the machine clean.
Most persons think that liberal doses
of oil are all that is necessary. Too
much oiling is injurious, and oil
where there has not been careful dust
ing is worse than none at all.
1t Is not enough to give a surface
busting. The cracks and ~creyices
must be kept clean. This cannot be
done with a cloth. Instead use a
coarse silk thread to draw back and
forth through cracks to get out fine
dirt that cannot otherwise be re-
moved.
The work of cleaning a machine is
lessened If a small bellows Is kept in
one of the drawers and the fine lint,
threads and rawlings are blown out of
the crevices. This should be done
every day that the machine is in use.
Care should also be taken that pins
and needles do not slip into the shut
tie part of the machine, as often they
clog it and the III cannot be dis
covered for some time.
1t is a mistake to use a cheap Oil, as
it cakes and makes the parts sticky.
Never let the machine stand Ipeey-
cred when not In use and guard care
fully from dampness.
Rubbing the running strap occasion
ally with n little vaseline or oil win
make the leather wear longer.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Woman'sWorl
MARIA M%0NTESS0RI.
Teaches the Children of Rome to Reae
and Write With Playthings.

and Write With Playthings.
One of the most interesting among
the many intellectual Italian women of
the present day is Maria Montessoril
who holds an appointment as lecturer
in the University of Rome Her rare
gifts of personality and %eloquence make
her a fascinating speaker and lecturer
But she is no less widely known for
her philanthropie work among the poor
of Rome, especially for her original
method of teaching children to read
and write by ingenious %playthings, in
stead of by the usual laborious meth
DDS. This system she has introduced
in the Casa del Bambini dhe children's
house,, the quarters especially set
apart for children in the model dwell
ings of the poor. Here the children
have their home. They play and learn
almost unconsciously at the same time
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Ono Way to Appear Young.

A wise young woman gives as her
reason for having learned the vertical
writing: ''This form of writing has
been used for but a few years in some
schools. When l have occasion to
write to people they are very apt to
conclude from my handwriting that /
have been out of school but a few
years, and accordingly 1 will be o n
sidered a real young woman
14This does not count for 80 much
at present, for l am only twenty
three years, but it may count a great
deal in getting me a start in the
friendship of a man later. l will not,
of course, lie about my age, but 1 will
get a more favorable start"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
The Same Old WAY.

Miss Madeline Edison, daughter OF
Thomas A. Edison, is said to be fol-
lowing in her fathers footsteps as an
inventor. For several years she has
been his comrade in working out ex-
periments in electricity. As her own
invention she has put on the market
an automobile map.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12

The speech Of the smart man and
woman sufficiently betrays the mod
is middle class. The modern vocabu
larry is very small, and the greater
part of it is composed of slang.-Black
and White.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12

The members of the D. A. r. propose
to give some sort Of memorial that will
mark the old Santa Fe trail. At their
last convention they approved a plan
presented by Miss Elizabeth Gentry Of
Kansas City to petition the state legis-
lature for an appropriation to put up
m~ilestones to mark the old trail in Mis-
solri.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
A Source of Jov.

what seems to be the matter with
Mrs. Brown that she's ailing soY"
why, poor thing, she's got one of
those newfangled diseases"
"She has? My. how fortunate she
is, to be sure. Here I've had nothing
more stylish thar lumbago, and I'm
three years older than she is."-Detroit
Free Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-02-12
Some For suffraaette Sisters.

Mrs. L. q. Bishop of the Chicago
Beach hotel has offered a prize of a
hundred dollars for the best words for
a woman suffrage song, to be sung to
the tune of 1.-THE Battle Hymn Of the
Republic" The competition is open to
both men and women and is interna-
tional.