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New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

must be admitted, seems TO be getting away from
the dress idea. TO found new school swimming
school, perhaps.
But through the pictures there is always the hand
of the artist playing the feminine instrument de
picting heights, depths, joys and sorrows by means
of lace, sable, the cloak over the chair the tip of
scarlet shoe, the plumy midnight OF big black fan
1t IS only when We get among the dress socialists
that We begin 10 see the OVERRIDING bad doing
of good thing. Yet the robes of a white nun or a
hospital nurse show what inspiring idea even the
simplest costume can convey. Poverty Is no excuse
Tor dOwdy1sn, nor is a lack of physical charm.
Witness Bernhardt, ReJane, and the PatCambel
she whom that last straw bTOke.-and observe the
regal charm, the splendor the actual glory OF good
gowns. we'll worn by the unbeautiful, the Old the
crooked.
1t is the gewgaw and the tawdry, the upholstery
materials, the dISCOrd of hues the duel of lines that
bring the smile and exc, the tear. And the Dress
Reform that defOrms is perhaps a step lower than
all the rest-the skirts hung from the shoulder the
hee,less boots the health waists, until it tOssup
at club windows whether it is going coming
these are all things and nothing but they have not
to do with that other thing-the Snare.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

cOrding 10 the game. There loud chords and
pink candle shades needed as aCCOmpanimentS for
of the wary that have to be hooked and in
the basket before they know what is going on, and
there professional dyspeptics who would shy at
short sleeve to whom gardenia pinned IN the V at
the back of the bodice is alluring as sin.
When the dress producer who first planted the
agret trembling upon the female brow dragged out
his idea the whole shimmering length of the gown
until it rested for yards upon the carpet he surely
had in mind oriental vision of the proud bird of
terraces who has never won any real in life
except as a duster.
This is because it lacks soul. 1t can't sing. So the
clever modern woman, sensing this, pins a diamond
star in her hair. and at the falls. There is
the Light the Sky the Promise in the East for the
Poet Man to dream about until he is all tangled up.
This map of it hasn reache him yet He is like
who IN dim church feels religion stealing over
him. when it is really the incense and the organ and
the nebulOus tapers that are hitting him. The great
painters understand these things, and produce the
effects IN their sitters indirectly by of drapery
Sargent dashes in psychology in lightning like
flashes of paint in the hair the gown the skin even
until his women dazzle you. Bodini-well, he, it
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07
Marvels of the Mirages

THE mirage, that most peculiar of all 4ndscape
illusions, Is here seen in all its forms / made
sketches OF many, one OF which a tv .--orm mi
rage, the distant landscape being seen m erted and
again, above the inverted picture Reproduced IN IT'S
natural tOrm As an accidental peCuliari-y a single
scarlet band ran round the horizon sorne hat above
1t, 70 the extent of three quadrants The t-equency
OF these mirage pictures due To the atmOs here act
ing IN some respects like a mirror arise rom the
absolute purity OF the air which is entirely rec from
any veStige of smoke or dust
The pale, blue, atmospheric envelOp following the
shape OF the earth, is well defined that one can
understand the ancient beliefs that IL dome Of
soild crystal, on the upper side of which olympus
ana the gods might be supported. SO too the an
clent Greek idea that the mirage revealed strange
and grOteSque animals in the air becomes under,
Standable through the optical distortions produced
oy the atmosphere within the actual field Of VISION
Ships, men, or birds. moving away from you may
take on all sorts OF shapes and become Tremendously
enlarged, through the refracton of the light rom
them, due TO their having entered currents OF ar on
different density. Birds may become flying mon
SterS, and beasts gigantic.
inns peculiar mirage, called by Flamu3rion 'n'
inferior, has been observed best AtrIcan deS
erts- In one instance quoted by HIM, hocS Ol
hamingos. rising from bank, became SO large a.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

By Albert Operti
Illustrated from Drawings by the Author

They are on each side and equidistant brilliant
apparent spheres, brightly COlOred IN red orange,
green, and blue. Actually they are stately spherical
ralnbows an optical effect produced by the sunlight
SHINING through an atmosphere of minute ice Spc-
ulie and striking the eye At certain angle As the
sun gets above the horizon. a third NAV pear be
meath 1T, or all three may appear as Sphe~es upon
great white ring. halo surrounding the
But however the sun dog may be eXpial-e ei Sc1en-
tInCaly, 1t ever seems more or less unC.--v. pro-
duCing the same effect on one as lunar -llnbOw at
night; the feeling that the laws of Mature somehOW
have got out of gear.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

Sum- sea, and wind had shaped it into fantastic ice
palace with towers and pinnaCles irregular white
cathedral floating silent and mysterious on the sea
With ITS translucent edges and the brilliant be
hlnd 1t, 1T became outlined entirely in magnificent
Jewels WIDE band of rubieS emeralds. OpalS da-
mondS turquOlses, every precious stone that the
mind could recall, framed pinnacle, tower and wall
Dainty cascades dropping from the heights and
tumbllng down the projections became falling
streams OF gllttering Jewels, OF brance unparalleled
III was strange lesson IN the lavish beauty with
whlch Nature may adOrn the world. Ii became
part OF that 1neXhaustibe polar panorama which
only TWO words can convey, mystery and magic"
Inc midnight sun, cIrCling IN its small confined
eccentric orbit, seems a different from that of
the world lett behind. One goes TO bed in full dav-
hight, warned only by the clock that it is bedtime
Out sleeping hours are few-at least mine were-be-
cause there IS so much to and 10 do This new
and strange sun has its dogs (sun dogs they are
called and they themselves strange that one
takes long TO become used to them As the sun
rises, two other of the same size rise with n
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

tllCN liCN 81 " =
resemble Arab horse
men. \ spahee sent
forward IN eonSe
Quence. to scout, Was
subject To the same
distortion his horse
legs elongatlng anu
the man beng poi nc
up in the AIR. AiteI
the soldiers Of TINS
expedition became
familiar with the Phe-
nomcnon. it became
a source OF grea'
amusement. Thistle
heads which tloated
lightly ON the wa'e,
were launched on :
lake and blown .l,, away :.
bv the breeze Whe"
thev reached the hlls
where the atinvs
pheriC uniui@s.ie', ~,
and irregular refr2s as.
tons began they .s. Is
came enlarged 70 ~
CorhHass 1r ggSs -
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

7 DID my best, as
i the artist of the
Peary expedition of
1896 81, to commit
TO canvas the incred-
ible splendOrs of the
Arctic land, sea, and
sky. Sketches COW
ering three hundred
academy boards, and
castings of the Eski-
mo taken under the
greatest difficulties,
represented a small
portion of my work
during the expedi-
ton.
But | was COM
PEELED to admit that
the realities of the
polar world, the ex-
traOrdinary and un-
paralleled effects of
light, of color, and of
background, are far
beyond the limits of
palette and brush.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07

1t is world OF color so brilliant that the hand falls
hopeless, of magnhcence grand that all idea of
reproducing 1t is lost in the awe it inspires Be-
fore the strange results of prismatic light upon
ice and snow the artist sighs vainly Before the uni
fire, in the celestial Kaleidoscope of the
aurora, he simply can hold his breath and gaze in
wonder.
To begin with, it is a world of white and blue the
white of the ice and the blue of the fresh or rain
water ice Ice, familiar with it in temper
ate regions, does not exist there The sea ice that
OF which icebergs formed, resembles chalk or
lump sugar from the salt inclOsed in as forms
on the surface. The RAIN water ice when seen is
a rich blue, generous dispensatiOn of Providence
which enables the Eskimo. wherever he may be to
md fresh water but let fog appear cutting off the
light, and the ice and the snow become black
SnOwwhites and coal-blacks may appear in the
same landscape. The midnight sun. burning blood
red on the horizon, may light the white world TO any
color. Turn your back to it, and the whole world
becomes blue from the palest and pures the deep
est Prussan. One may mountain ranges of
raspberry, OF orange, of copper, of bronze and of
gold. The fantastic color variations know no linn
its. The mountains themselves cut, sheared and
shaped into most fantastic forms by the irresistible
glacial erosion, Oftentmes brilliantly CoOred
through the different strata thus laid bare.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-07
Work of Wonderful Designs

CASTELLATED, lowered, machicolated it is diff
cult TO believe, at times, that some conscious de-
sgner has not shaped them in their grOteSque but
regular forms Brilliant COlOre1 strata and beds of
minerals pink quartz, gray gneiss, malachite tel
lurlc iron, jasper, tourmalin, SOapstone blue red
brown and orange, play their part in diversity
ing the reflected light. | near Wilcox Head
Greenland a beach a mile and a quarter long en-
tTely overland with puverized garnets. The sun
striking the sand became vile band of tire of
bloOd-rei /, molten flames. extending the entire
length Indeed the earth in its setting of white ice
seemed melted it blazel
The most beautiful. the most brilliant the most
dazzling sight the surface OF the earth offer is
the sun behind polar iceberg. The first time / saw
this phenomenon in Melville Bay. The berg was
a hundred and fifty feet high with two caverns the
length three hundred and fifty feet on the water.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Odd Use for Bread,

Perhaps the most novel use to
which bread it put, says The Ameri-
can Food Journal, may be seen in the
great factories of the Elgin National
Watch Company, at Elgin, ILL.,, where
more than forty leaves of fresh bread
are required each day. Superintendent
George E. Hunter, of the watch fac
tory, is quoted as saying:
There is no secret regarding the
use of bread in this factory, and / am
willing to tell all can concerning It'll
From the earliest times in the history
of matchmaking it has been the Gus
tom of watchmakers to reduce fresh
bread to the form of dough. This is
done by steaming and kneading. They
can use this dough for removing oil
and chips that naturally adhere, in
course of manufacture, to pieces as
small as the parts of a watch. There
are many parts Of watch, by the way
which are SO small as to be barely
visible to the naked eye. The oil is
absorbed by the dough, and the chips
stick to it, and there is no other
known substance which can be used
as wiper without leaving some small
particles attached to the thing wiped.
This accounts for the continued use of
bread dough in the matchmaking in
dustry. The Elgin National Watch
Company uses something over forty
loaves per day, or about |
"A, 900 pounds a year."
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Revere's Ride Not a MYTH.

1t is curious how many intelligent
persons will read without understand
ing what they are reading. Were
this not SO we should not now be
having a convulsive tempest in a tea
pot over Paul Revere's famous mid
night ride. The letter from Hancock
to Gerry that Mr.. Benjamin has pub
l1shed does not make this ride nor
does Mr.. Benjamin say that 1t does.
All that Mr.. Benjamin says is that
from what Hancock wrote to Gerry
the midnight ride of Paul Revere
was unnecessary. This may be quite
true in the light Of today, but we
are not dealing with what was neces-
sary or unnecessary, but with what
was actually done and it W. .ho.-~.t
necessary at that time, perhaps, that
Revere be sent Off to give the mid.
night warning. Paul Revere has been
aptly called "The Messenger OF tho
Revolution" from the many rides he
made, far and near, on behalf OF the
peoples cause. His famous midnight
Tide is an historical fact, and not
merely poetic legend of Henry
"adsworth Longfellow. Next time
md all the time read with understand
in Phi'adelrhia Ledger,
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
CONGENIAL WORK
And Strength to Perform II.

A person in good health is likely
TO have a genial disposition, ambition
and enjoy work.
On the other hand, if the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong
food, work becomes drudgery.
until recently" writes Wash
ington girl, II was a railroad steno-
grapher, which means full work
every day.
Like many other girls alone in a
large city, lived eat a boarding
house. For breakfast it was mush.
greasy meat. soggy cakes, black cof-
fee, etc.
AFTER few months of this diet /
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings. My work seemed a terri
BILE effort, and thought the work
was to blame-too arduous.
AT home l had heard my father
speak Of young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Crane
Nuts and cream and nothing more for
breakfast.
Il concluded if it would tide him
over a mornings heavy work, it
might help me, SO on my way home
one night l bought a package. and
next morning I had Grape-Nuts and
milk for breakfast.
i stuck to Grape-Nuts, and in less
than two weeks I noticed improve
ment. l can't just tell how well
felt, but l remember l used to walk
the IL blocks to business and knew
now good it was simply to live.
AS to my work-well. did Won
ever feel the delight of having CON |
genial work and the strength to per-
form it? That's how felt. | truly
believe there's life and vigor in every
grain of Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co. Rattle
creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Rea-
;on."
Ever read the above letter? A new
me appears from time to time. They
re genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Modern Amusements.

The recreation hundreds of thou.
lands receive in baseball park is
good for all concerned, players and
the public. Its advance is like the
improvement in vaudeville in 40 years
past. The vaudeville on Chestnut
street two-score years ago was moral
; ly UNNECESSARILY below that today.
The moving picture show is far above
the cheap concert saloon and music
hall Of even rs years ago
For Is to Is years after the civil
war there was no recreation but the
theatre, baseball, vaudeville that
would not be tolerated today, and
cheap concert saloons and still worse
music hall dives.
Mark the immense improvement.
Baseball has improved. Football and
many games have been added. Yauae-
Vile Is clean. The moving picture
may be trivial or vulgar, but is not
vicious Concert saloon and music
hall have gone. Where there was no
orchestra there are now four series
Of symphony concerts and other or
chestras are heard - Philadelphia
Press
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Tall Wives, Short Men.

Big men are usually shy and din
TENT and lacking In self assurance.
The woman who appeals to them ii
usually some sparkling vivacious,
eairyfike creature with kittenfsh ways
and rougish glances. The little man
on the contrary, is seldom burdened
with humidity. He is being OF great
aspirations and stupendous ambitions.
He believes in himself. (which Is the
reason why he generally can get the
woman Of his choice to smile upon
him. The dainty. Titania-like woman
has no charms for him. says Woman's
Life. The fve-foot-six or seven man
likes a woman to be one or two inches
his superior and thoroughly mature.
He breads any trace Of the bread and
butter schoolgirl. His ideal re-
sembles the strong, heroic women
has pictured. full OF char
acter and spirit, with fair spice OF
temper
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
The Turkey Was Tame.

A gentleman who was buying a tur.
key from old Uncle Ephraim asked
him, in making the purchase, if it
was tame turkey.
"Oh, yais, sir; it's a tame turkey
all right"
Now, Ephraim, are you sure it's a
tame turkey?"
"Oh, yais, sir; dere's no soft o.
doubt bout dat. It's tame turkey
all right"
He consequently bought the turkey.
and a day or two later, when eating it,
came across several shot Later on,
when he met old Ephraim on the
street. he said: We'll. Ephraim, you
told me that was tame turkey, but
| found some shot in it when | was
eating it,
"Oh, dat war a tame turkey all
right. was Uncle Ephrafm-s reiterat,
ed rejoinder but de fac, Is boss, Is
gwine to tell yer in confidence dat
dem ere shot was intended for me-
Youths Companion.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
TARGET PRACTICE.
! How and Why 1t Is Put Through in
Our Navy.

How and Why 1t Is Put Through In
Our Navy.
find it difficult to describe target
practice in way to be easily under
stood by the layman without violating
the orders of the Navy Department not
to give out information on profession
al subjects. However, what I shall
write may be found in publications is
sued from the department and not
marked ''confidential' and, therefore
hope not in violation of the spirit
the regulations.
First, We have what is called reeo"
target practice in which a careful re
ord of each shot fired is kept a.
reported to the department. Til.
firing is done in the most careful way
one gun only being fired at a time
except in case of turret guns, when
two of them may be fired at the same
time. The actual firing of the gun is
done by the gun pointer, the man who
would do the firing in time of war, I'M
der the general charge of the officer
of his gun division on board the Ship
Umpires are appointed who, under
the most carefully prepared rules,
watch the loading and firing of each
gun and note any mistakes that may
be made. This firing is for the pur-
pose of rating the gun pointers, who
receive extra pay if they make Ger
tain percentage of hits on the target.
Having once made this percentage the
pointer must, at each succeeding prac-
tice. maintain at least his rate of hit |
ting or his extra pay is discontinued.
To determine this important point an
nual practice is necessary.
When the target, a canvas screen
seventeen feet long by twelve feet
high, is spread on a float previously
for the purpose, the firing be-
gins. The captain runs his ship over
one side of triangle, so that the dis
,ance from the target varies from
about 1000 yards to 10000 yards when
It the nearest point. A signal to COM
nence firing is given and each gun
pointer is allowed to fire as many
shots as he can in given time Only
tits on the target screen are counted.
When both gun pointers at gun have
ired, or in case of turret guns the
'ointers of two guns, the ship leaves
he range and passes near the target
o that the result of the firing may be
cen and the hits recorded. In this
ray every gun pointer in the ship
axes his turn and the practice is con-
inued until every gun in the ship has
cen fired. Service smokeless powder
) used, but in order to reduce the ex-
ense as much as possible special
asst iron shells are used instead of the
teel service projectile which is of
luch greater cost.-Robley D. Evans
/ Broadway.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Military Anecdotc.

In the first legal meeting OF the citi-
Eens of the little town of Albany, n
H., every soldier in the place was
summoned to assemble
The officers were duly chosen, but
It turned out that there was only one
private. Locking wistfully at his SUI
periors standing in array before him,
the solitary representative of the
ranks said:
Gentlemen, have one request to
make; that is. am the only soldier,
and / hope you will not be too Sc
we're in drilling me, but will spare
me little, as l may be needed an
other time"
He also remarked that he could
form a solid column, but that at
raeked him shockingly to deploy.''-
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Vanity in Six Nations.

The Tahiti girl, to acquire a fiat,
broad nose, sleeps with a compress
on it.
The Arab woman paints her brows
SO as to give them the, appearance OF
meeting above her nose.
Bellies of certain Amazonian tribes
have cone-shaped skulls, which are
obtained by wearing a mold on the
head from baby-hood until maturity
The Turkish woman imparts a faint
blush tint to nails and teeth.
Inc ladies OF Macassar paint their
teeth red and yellow alternately.
The Paraguay girl eradicates her
eyebrows, declaring that she does not
wish to resemble whiskered man
Chicago Tribune.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13

my friends what it has done for me. .
Mrs. E. HANSON, 304 East Long ST.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Another Woman Helped.
Graniteville, Vt was passing
through the Change Of Life and suffered
from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored my healthand
strength, and proved worth mountains
Of gold to me- For the sake of other
suffering women I am willing you
should publish my letter" - Mrs.
CHARLES BARCLAY, RID, Granite
Vile, vt.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any Of those distressing ills pc
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for
female ills. In almost every commu-
nifty you will find women who have
been restored to health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Estimates of Panama Canal Cost.

The proposal to increase the ap-
preparation for the construction Of the
Panama Canal is not unexpected and
should not provoke serious criticism.
At even the largest price now sug-
gested the canal will be well worth
having. 1t is worthy Of observation,
however, that the advocates Of the
high-level lock system now ask for
the construction OF the canal a larger
sum than 1t was formerly estimated
sea-level canal would cost.-New
York Tribune
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
ALWAYS AHEAD.

I'm afraid we have dissapoint-
nent In store for U.s." declared the
explorer.
mot at all. cap. Well reach the
pole in an hour"
"And something tells me that we'll
find a man there selling postcards"
-Pittsburg Post
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
BABY HORRIBLY BURNED

By Boiling Grease-Skin All Came
Oh One Side of Face and Head
Thought Her Disfigured For Life
Used Cuticura: No Scar Left.
my baby was sitting beside the fender
and we were preparing the breakfast when
the frying-pan full of boiling grease was up
set and it went all over one side of her face
and head. Some one wiped the scald with
towel, pulling the entire skin off. We took
her to doctor. He tended her a week
and gave me some stuff to put on. But it
all festeIsd and l thought the baby was
disfgured for life I used about three
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and it was
wonderful how it healed In about five
weeks it was better and there wasn't
mark to tell where the scald had been.
Her skin is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare.
! Henry St., South Shields, Durham, Eng
land, March %, 1903"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass,
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13

Mrs. Winsiows Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
Naming Her Brand.

PearlNIn the first chapter of this
novel it states that the heroine has
hazel eyes, in another it alludes to
her liquid eyes.
Ruby-Liquid? Well, er-perhaps
sne mas Witchhazel eyes.-Chicago
News.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13

A Simpleand Safe Rem rdy for cough
or Throat Trouble is Browns Bronchial
Iroches. They possess real merit. In
boxes Is cents. Samples mailed free.
John |. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13

South Africans are distinctly on
oatmeaLeating people, over $500 900
worth OF this American breakfast fond
Deing imported annually into South
Africa en
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
THE WHY on Ir

"a novel always ends with the mar
rage"
(Which is proper. There's moth.
ing novel about the subsequent hunt
for fiat and cook and a joi
lot OF furniture. Puck.