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The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
WHAT WIFE SAYS -coEs."
hut Il Sometimes 10 Bad for the
Painting.

When a property-owner knows moth
ing about paint it is bad for the
property-owner, and bad for the paint.
er. 1t would not be SO il the property.
owner would always hire a skilled
painter, and then really leave every.
thing to him. But the HORSEPOWER SO
often fools himself on one or the other
Of these things.
The skilled painter In every c0mmu.
nifty has some of the most incompetent
competitors that ever vexed a consci-
entious workman or contractor, and
the incompetents get jobs generally by
working cheap. In the next place,
when the skilled painter is hired, they
do not leave everything to him, as SO
many property-Owners boast they do.
They interfere most ignOrantly and
most fatally. They insist sometimes
On using paint materials without in.
0estigating whether they are good or
not. Or perhaps they insist on the
painters hurrying the work
I'm not going TO have that painters
mess around my house a month";" the
wife says, and what wife says goes
at the cost of a lot of wasted painting
money.
If the painter stays away a few
lays TO allow the paint to thoroughly
Try the owner says: That painters
Rejecting this work-guess he's side
tracking me for Jones' work. ] won't
stand it."
What chance does painter have to do
good work for a man who is continually
tagging at him and otherwise handi-
Gaping him without meaning it, of
course)? A poor job is the inevitable
result of such interference.
Poor painting costs the houseowner
money-don't forget that It might
pay you 10 get the practical paint
book. painting specifications and in
strument for detecting paint adul.
terants. which National Lead Co. are
Offering under the title of House
Owners Painting Outfit No. 49, Ad-
1ress National Lead Co.. 1902 Trinity
Bldg, New York City This company
90 not make paint Ghey leave that to
the painter to do) but they make
pure white lead (..Dutch Boy Painter"
trademark kind, and they can tell
YOU how to save money by securing
durable painting.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

last fed. exactly as if he had planned
to get the next fly. He sat there
looking very sober and innocent, when
the mother returned, but she saw the
trick at once and gave the insect to
the right bird. and 1 fancied she
whisked the interloper with her wing
as she passed. by way Of cufiine his
ears. Probably he was the rogue of
the family and she knew him too
well"
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
MOTHER BIRD NOT DECEIVED

as the mother caught an insect and
dew back with the morsel to each
open beak in turn.
The regularity with which she kept
count, feeding one after another, in
exact order. from top to bottom of the
row. was very interesting.
Presently one small chap grew i'm
patient. and while the mother was
away fluttered over and crowded him.
sen into the place next to the Bird
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

Tolls to get the American battle
ships through the Suez canal are
stated to have been $4,000. That
looks high; but when the japanese
fleet starts to capture all our Atlantic
coast cities We will not let it through
the Panama canal for a cent less.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
FiedsIins Got No Second Helping Tn
til Its Turn Came.

Il was much amused one afternoon I"
says an observant naturalist, by a lit.
tie family scene on the twig of an elm
tree, where fly catcher had her tiny
brood OF five. just out of the nest, all
percned IN row. She was feeding
them, and the little dots took their
rations with great content a. often
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

Those San Francisco park officials
who saw thousands of little snakes fall
from the clouds and neglected to
gather few to prove their story will
never be at home when opportunity
comes knocking at their doors.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

The annual catalogue of the Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania for 10000 shows
that the teaching force consists of 454
members, an increase of 10 over last
year. The students number 1870. or
an increase of POI. The college regis
tration has increased from 2,668 to
1883. every one Of the departments of
the college showing large and sub
stantial gains; 30 also do the graduate
and professional schools.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
Success at Last.

LACK London finds Australia good
Zeal like our own Wild West" said a
San Franciscan. Il met him in Mel
bourne. He had already picked up a
bushel of local stories and sketches.
He ted me a story of an actor who
Lad just returned from long tour
inland. This actor said of his tour:
The first night, sir. in Uluwalla, I
Mas Kissed. sir. Missed; the second
night was egged. sir, egged; but the
third night, sir
Here the tragedian slapped his ex-
paEded chest.
the third night. sir, played be-
hiud a net
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17

Faith ID something q gooe deal
brighter and mightier than fear Of the
future.-ChicaSo Tribune.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
What cic Lacked.


II Is related of South American
general. who W2S extremely well
pleased win himself. that once, when
about to sally forth to a grand dance,
he surveyed himself contentedly in the
mirror, and then solilcquiZed thus:
All, Thou hast all-bravery,
wealth, position. good looks. All, what
dOst thou lack?"
Whereapon his orderly. who. I'M
known to the general, was close at
hand, remarked:
.SCnSc. general. sense,"
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
Unfortunate Expression.

That fruitful source of Elirth, the
mixed metaphor, is ever with us. II
illustrates on almost every appearance
the truth Of the saying that the sub
lime and the ridiculous are but step
apart.
In book on the laboring man. con-
tanning some excellent ideas, there
appeared the following sentence:
What manner of woman is she who
would turn her eyes toward other
things. which would become ashes on
her very lips?"
The flippant answer is, of course, "A
cross-eyed w0man-Youth's COmpan-
ion
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
DID WELL AS COLLECTOR
The lawyer hurried to Billv,s side

The lawyer hurried to Billy's side.
You IDIOT" he said soto voce, do
you want to ruin my business? Here,"
and he thrust SO bill into the old
mans hand.
Back to the merchant toddled the
old man.
well. Billy said the merchant,
did you get it,"
The old man grinned.
Il got my half, all right" he
chuckled; but you'd better look out
when you go back to get your half
he's right smart hot over it, subj
Success Magazine.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
INSTRUCTED.

Coctor-What are you doing in that
'nb2 You'll catch your death.
Patiens-But, doctor. didn't you .ell
mo 10 take the pills in water?
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
Fatal Catastrophe,

Young Wife (mournfully)| am
afraid, doctor. my poor husband with
this wretched cold will cough up his
life.
Young Doctor (startled)-Oh, trust
not, my dear madam; at least not until
he coughs up my bill-BaltimOre
American.
Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar to get it. You. dealer o.
Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Some men haven't sense enough to
do the best they can.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-17
cUTIcURA CURED HIM.
Ee1sma Came on Legs and Ankles.
Could Not Wear Shoes Became
OF Bad Sealing and itching.

Il have been successfully cured q
dry eczema. was inspecting the 70
moval Of noxious weeds from the edee
OF q river and was constantly In the
dust from the weeds. At night ]
cleansed my limbs but felt q prickly
sensation. paid no attention to 4
for two years but + noticed q scum
ON my legs like fish scales. I did not
attend to 1t until it came to be too
itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were an
sore and scabby and I could not wear
shoes. had to use carpet and felt
slippers for weeks. / got q cake of
the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. In less than ten days
could put on my boots and in less than
three weeks / was free from the con.
founded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss,
Chief Of Police. Morris. Manitoba, Mar.
20. 1907, and Sept. "a, 1905"
e"ster Drug + Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

without lining either
O equally suitable.
aounce
to a a
sktband
yoke embroidery outlined with insertion the lawn is tucked
dghtfng being match the The waist
Is
of
and
made
shoulders in
Hat crinoine trimmed with ribbon ana h
Materials required for the dress yards AZ inches wd
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
CHIFFON FOR THE SLEEVES.
Gives Right Touch to the Transpar
ent Materials So Popular In
Hot Weather.

The fashion of wearing transparent
sleeves is certainly comfortable one
during warm weather; hence its great
popularity, for these sleeves cover
every type of arm imaginable--arms
so fat they resemble small holsters,
thin arms, white arms and sallow
ones. Indeed, until one has spent half
an hour in the shopping district 1t is
hard to believe there could be such
variety of arms. The fashion may
be pretty one as well as comfort
able one If the wearers would only
back the sleeves with thin white
chiffon or mousseline de sole. This
tone may be used whether the sleeves
are white, black or a color.
A novelty In parasols is being
shown by Broadway house that will
appeal to patriotic young women. The
covering is Of the regulation tan kha-
XII. embroidered with emblems of the
different regiments in scarlet mercer
lied thread
Another novelty displayed at the
| same shop is line of very pretty raj
fla belts at 81 each. For wear with
tan linen or pongee frock these
raffiia accessories are considered very
smart. Washington Star.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
To stretch curtains.

Use quilting frame or a curtain
stretcher converted into quilting
frame by lacking strips Of ticking or
any heavy material doubled to inch
width on the inner edges of the frame
where pins have been. Temporarily
pin the curtains on four corners and
at intervals on side, then sew them
on, instead of pinning them. with a
basting stitch. Scalloped edged cur
tains can be sewed on two at time
and three or more plain edged ones.
It is surprising to see no peaks In
scallops or straight edges and with
less labor and time spent and With
no sore fingers.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
WAYS OF CLEANING CHIFFON.
Material Requires Care In Cleansing,
and Some Time Must Be De-
voted to he Work.

Chiffon should be washed in soap
lather by carefully rolling and press
ing between the hands, then rinsed in
clean water and stiffened in gum wa
ter, one tablespoonful to quarter of
a pint of water.
Roll in a cloth to absorb some OF
the moisture, but It must not be too
dry when 1t is ironed.
To iron chiffon, 1t must be placed on
the table wrong side up and ironed
along the selvedge, as ironing across
would displace the fibers and destroy
the appearance of the delicate fabric.
When the chiffon is being ironed it
ought to be held tightly up in front
OF the iron to remove crinkles that
are produced by washing and to make
II quite even and smooth.
Chiffon ties with natural crepon
crinkle should not be ironed, but in
stead the ends should be pinned out
on a table. the tie just stretched
enough to permit of the crinkles fall
ing into their natural shape.
When dry fold 1t without pressing
the, folds in. air and put carefully
away
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Messina has had another earth
quake visitation. Comparatively lit
tie damage was done, for the grim
reason that the destruction wrought
last December was so complete, But
so severe were the shocks that had
the city, been in the former condition,
the disaster might have been on a
frightful scale. The circumstances
would seem to discourage the idea OF
rebuilding in SO dangerous locality.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
lad erlma Turned NJ.

Hats are turned up at all angles
around the briin, and the small hats
are made by turning up the brim of
an ordinary size hat very sharply at
each side, while the brlm in front
and at the back is quite narrow;
sometimes the brim is turned up at
the right side (while the trimming is
exclusively on the left), and some
times at the back,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

The season is at hand for the an
nual Sunday drownings. Every sum-
mer the warning for prudence and
care is given, and Just as regularly
the warning is disregarded. This sea-
son will probably have its due share
of water-pleasure tragedies.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

After having been caught in sudden
showers two or three times the intel
ligent man learns to carry an umbrel-
la and thus bring on protracted
drought.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

A man has just died in New Jersey
who left fortune of 100000. made
out of a penny toy shop. This was
absolutely untainted money, for every
cent of 1t meant child's happiness
given in return, which is rather rare
record as fortunes go in these days.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

1t is said that the best residents of
Newport are to organize revolt
agaisst freak entertainments, monkey
dinners and the like They are join
ing the safe and sane procession. SO
far as the summer season is con-
cerned. And the monkeys will be quite
as vel. pleased as the best residents.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

All the world loves a lover, no mat
ter what his salary; but when he as
sumes the responsibilities of matrl-
mony at SO per week society's sym
patty justly becomes desire to
spank.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

And now comes the disillusioner to
remark that man-eating lions are the
old, decrepit fellows with bad teeth.
1t is too bad. Next they will be tell
ing us that gorillas do not twist gun
barrels around their necks.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

1t is said that the Cubans have no
love for Americans. which was to be
expected after we have done SO many
favrs for them.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

The north pole seems to have few
er chances of remaining undiscovered
now than ever before since the world
began.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Great indignation is being expressed
in Chicago over high poker playing by
fashionable women and homes are
being disrupted. There must be some
stop put to this continual encroach-
ing by women on masculine privil-
eyes. ilN iIiffF
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

It is all right to sing and talk and
rave over the scent of the new-mown
hay, but take thought OF the chaps
who have to harvest 1t.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Cuba has four times too many star
boarders in public office, They are
eating up all the revenues.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

The Chicago University professor
who says that woman is to blame for
everything ought to be ashamed at
this late date to be falling in line with
the generations Of plagIarists of Adam.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Long columns OF hot weather ad-
vice are not needed. The best is tho
shortest-"Keep cool"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Soon areoplane accidents will be MS
fashionable as appendicitis operations
were few years ago.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

The fine growing weather of the
last few weeks will tell on the cost OF
food before long, and the story will
be Of the right kind.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Rad;um will not soon become a
household necessity. 1t is quoted at
100000 a pound.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Until the earth gets softer aero
planning is hardly likely to become as
safe sport as croquet
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

This ia the best month in the year
IN which to get statistics about the
kissing germs.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

lrhe action OF King Manuel of Por-
tugal in decorating his mother for
bravery N trying to defend him at. the
time Of his fathers assassination and
his bestowal of Honor on the police
man who killed the murderer of his
father WIN doubtless make him doubly
popular. There is too much human
appeal in this tribute to mother love
and to heroism in humble life not to
arouse response in the popular heart.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

Touch the picnic lemonade lightly.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

A New Orleans inventor claims
that he has wireless device by which
warships may be blown up at a dis,
lance OF four or five hundred miles
The best that can be said about such
inventions Is that they make people
careful about giving provocation to use
them. otherwise, they do not tend TO
show the progress OF the humane in
humanity lf3 ls
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
In Other DAYS and Now.

'rThose of us who have witnessed IN
augurations every four years since 1877
have been struck with the large increase
in the size of crowds" remarked z. b.
Cousins of Baltimore.
1T think it is safe to say that the
crowd at Cleveland's first inauguration
was 30 per cent larger than that at Hayes
and that the crowd at McKinley's was
double that of 1877. The great increase
is accounted for in a measure by the
changed attitude of the south. When
HAYES was inaugurated the war was only
y wears in the past The south was nat
urally still full of bitterness and few
men living south of the Potomac came to
Washington to see a republican President
indicted into office.
president Hayes did everything he rea-
sonably could to placate the south, and
when Garfield was inaugurated southern
bitterness against the republican north
was beginning to abate, but yet the
south was not largely in evidence in
washington March q. 1881.
''In 1885 the south poured itself into
washington to see Cleveland's Inaugural
ton. And now that sectionalism has
practically died out altogether Taft Will
draw the biggest crowd of all. The south
will be greatly In evidence and patriot
ism will rule
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
GERMAN STAGED.

From the New York VOL wacbsner
The name of the late L,snaeer. was
the Milwaukee actor and YET during
not known to BroadwaXibis control
the quarter of a century1anv in Tho
of the German stock Cor thu trua
Wisconsin city he did mi stage than
elevation of the Amerif that
other managers who nasr did not ex-
as their mission. Waciltf ended him
plot his theatre. He fof new and
self with giving the b{ tho latest
old dramatic productidyienna aIons.
comedies from Berlin All drama and
with the classical Gerriself.
he let the play speak fehas no need
A theatre so conductbf n,blio;+v.
of meretricious method adverttstne.
1t is under no necessity salad with
an attraction as a sl'eputation of
very little dressing" Istape stand
maintaining the hlgnenent.
ards is it's best advertnolicv of the
This appears to be tola vhouses in
managers OF the SeTihsy be success
this country. That it Irving place
full is illustrated in risd was tho
theatre, which under 4 tres and the
best of New York's ia stock com-
only one at which tlleseryed. What
pany traditions weres so var,ed a
other local playhouseirann tn show
repertory OF hlgh-clash and Maeter-
TOT 81 years-ouuerWch Calde-
linck, Goethe, Lessing,ew foreign
ron, comic opera and n; for children ?
comedies, Christmas plhe passinr of
The regret must be A,fter too brief
the New German theatrulness on tho
a promise of artisticf
same lines. r or Conried
AS between a Wach.oadvav man
ana the contemporaryuesti which
aser there can De if to the Amer
renders the better seq
lean stage. -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Aqitators For Reform.

Some reforms are welcomed by the
general public" said conservative man,
but in this day of fanatieism there is
such thing as reform run mad. In
Ohio a preacher is agitatng against kiss
ing, not on the ground of danger to
health, but because kissing is intoXicat-
ing. and therefore immoral
"A member of the Illinois legislature
has introduced a matrimonial reform bill
providing that no marriage license shall
be issued to a would-be groom unless he
swears that he has not. been intoxicated
twice within the preceding year. If such
a bill were to pass the law would become
a farce just as many another law be-
come dead letter, because it appears
unreasonable on its face. The man who
desires to get married, when he finds the
woman of his choice willing, will not let
a little thing like the oath proposed stop
him, even if he has gathered on few
iags within the 12-month."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
A REAL MAINE WINTER.

From the Kennebec Journal.
This Is a good, old-fashioned winter
throughout Maine, and a glimpse of con-
ditions up in Franklin county is given
by Phillips correspondent He writes:
Phillips is buried in snowdrifts 10 feet
deep, there being several of this depth
on the main street in front of the stores
The country roads are impossible, for
the most part, and rural free delivery ID
uncertain in the extreme. The milk sleighs
are about the only ones that have come
in from the country districts for several
days. Two feet of snow fell in this
weeks storm, and this, added to the four
feet already in the woods, has given the
lumbermen at least all they want. The
narrow-gauge trains have been no later
than their connecting trains, but the en-
ployes have had all they could attend
to to keep the tracks clear. Half dozen,
snow trains are busy hauling off the tor
of the big drifts that are found every
where. LAUNDERING and log-hauilng bus
mess, which is quite important at this
season. Is now at temporary standstill,
and the woodworking mills are now at
great disadvantage because of such snow.
This weeks storm was by far the great
est of the season thus far"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
Angels are bright still, though the
brightest fell. Macbeth.
San FranCisCO's HetCh-HetChy Project

San Francisco has asked Congress
to let it store water in Hetch-Hetchy
valley in the Yosemite National Park,
the water in the reservoir to be con-
veyed to San Francisco and other Cal
ifornia cities. The Secretary of the
Interior is willing, but the consent of
Congress is needed, and an agitation
has been begun to secure it. This as
it goes on will be known as the Hetch-
Hetchy scheme, and some will con-
slider it a scheme to grab valuable
privileges.
San Francisco proposes to purchase
its present water system and then add
to it the Hetch-Hetchy supply. No
one can reasonably object to this, al
though some do claim that the Yose-
mite National Park has been set apart
for the use of all, and not for the ex-
elusive use of any city. Some claim
the Hetch-Hetchy valley is the finest
feature of the national park and to
fill it full of water would lessen its
natural beauty
It is up to the city of San Francisco
to pledge itself to preserve the for
ests near the proposed reservoir and
the irrigation rights, and to demon
strate that it cannot procure a water
supply at any other place. The con-
servation policy must be- maintained
and perhaps San Francisco can take
from Hetch-Hetchy valley the water
It needs without impairing the SPLEEN
did conservation policy of the national
government.