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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
When Women Are Prisoners

pink cushions on the floor. They greet
ed us with shy smiles and soft muir
murs of "Ohayo," the Japanese Good
day." while they simultaneously bowed
the blue black heads to the ground.
Politness is one of the chief virtures
in Japan, and in the prisons special
lessons are given in manners and de-
pertinent, and classes are even held
to teach the art of tea serving, which
is an important ceremony with the
japanese. The idea is that whatever
raises the self-respect of the prisoner,
whatever improves her behavior and
manners, aids her reformation. The
teaching is very comprehensive. Les
sons are given in weaving, dressmak-
ing and sewing, and we saw some eX-
ouisite embroideries made in the prison
and artistic garments cut kimono fash
ion.
The prisoners work in sheds all day,
so that the cells are practically sleep.
ing apartments, and it has been found
that working in association under Of
fetal control makes for reform and
health Prison in Japan is an educa-
tional agency and the women work and
are paid wages for what they do.
Prizes and decorative awards are also
given as an incentive to good work and
The Japanese of today could teach
US a great deal in the matter of PEN
ology. They allow their prisoners more
liberty, they show a more sympathetic
interest in their welfare, than we do,
Everything is done to teach them in
dustry and morality. AS their be-
havior improves they are given better
food and various privileges. Every
thing and every prisoner is scrupulous-
ly clean.
We visited the bathroom, which con-
tanned about fifty quaint little wooden
tubs, measuring two feet by four feet,
These are not for washing purposes,
but are much appreciated luxury. A
Japanese washes before entering
bath, and everybody has heard of the
custom of that country that makes
bathing a regular household ceremony
partaken OF in order of precedence.
Every prisoner has to wash three
times a day and has a hot bath three
times a week in Japan. When the
prisoners have served their sentences
arrangements are made by the state
for providing them with remunerative
work on discharge.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
How Short Girls May Look Taller

IT'S a furor of fashion to be tall
and If you are not tall to look
Il 40. There are women tall enough.
but who look dumpy. The thing for
them to do at once is to reduce their
weight.
IF you reduce your hips you will
look taller" is an axiom of the beauty
culturists. So set about It.. If you are
short and thin, then hasten to broaden
YOUR sholders, expand and initiate your
lungs; draw back your elbows ana
breathe deeply. FIJI out your bust
and chest. This will actually make
you taller and appear more so.
Short girls generally carry them
selves badly. Keep your head thrown
! hack and your chin out. The woman
| who keeps her chin down in her nech
always looks shorter than she is. Take
| physicaI culture lessons. all you girls
who would be tall; learn to walk
gracefully. and train your muscles into
suppleness. Take walks in the open
air with a light, buoyant step, your
shoulders thrown back, breathing deep
lv through your nose. And stretch
yourselves every moment of the day
when you can.
Three inches real or apparent, may
he added to a woman's stature by a
little common sense.
The short girl who would be tall
shold go in systematically for stretch
ing exercises. Lie down fiat and
stretch out your arms as far as possi-
Bile above your head. Also practice
neck movements-keep on stretching
your neck out just like a goose to
elongate it, Stretch your legs out
taut and keep stretching yourself on
tiptoe Hold out your chin and your
abdomen, and stretch continually.
Here are some excellent stretching ex-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
THAT scARY MAN

Papa SAYS there isn't any Bogie Man at all
But I'd like to know what scares me 50 when
I'm goin' through the hall
On my way to bed when the lights are low
and all the house is stlll
And there's one there 'cept only me and
little brother Bill
It creeps up right behind and hollers
''Boo!" like that,
So loud you'd think they'd hear It in Mr.
Tomkins' fat
But that's the queerest thing Of all-the big
folks always say
They never heard a weeny sound when IT
scares us kids that way.
1t makes us awful creepy-like, and then we
look around,
And I think wee feel much better II we real
ly truly found
A great big man a-standin' there, with whis-
kers on his face,
But when we look he isn't there; he isn't any
place.
And then we run and run and run right down
the hall so fast,
We haven't any breath at all when we reach
our room at last
If there isn't any Bogie Man, WELL I'd just
like to know
why somethin's always scarln' us, no mat
ter where go,
sometimes when I'm playin' on the saud-pile
in the yard,
Pretendin' I'm a-buildin' things and workin'
Just as hard,
That scary thing comes up behind and hoi-
lers in my ear;
Hey, kid get off that pile o. sand What
are YOU doin' here2"
My papa bought that sand for us. know it. 8
ours for keeps,
But when / hear that awful voice you bet
get the creeps,
get into the house;
I'm most as scared mamma is when she
sees a teeny mouse.
w. II. James in st. Louis t-Dispateh.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

t Is difficult to associate the light
hearted, childlike Japanese women
Il with the dark, forbidding and de-
pressing side of life suggested by
prison. But even in the Land of the
Rising Sun crime and the punishment
of it have to be reckoned with, and
the question of reforming woman
criminals is a prominent one in Japan
just now.
Penology has made rapid advances
there of recent years because the Japa-
nese have the capacity of assimilating
the best methods of other countries in
every subject they seriously consider.
They realize that the prevention OF
crime is even more important than its
cure writes Elizabeth Sloan Chesser
in the Guardian, and the drift of their
legislation is toward nipping crime in
the bud. They have grasped the fun
damental principle that much crime
is due to adverse social conditions.
and their idea is to lessen temptations
to crime by improving the social and
economic state of the people and by
probationary methods.
With regard to their treatment Of
women and girls sentenced to prison
for such crimes as theft, drunkenness,
arson Ga very common and serious
crime in Japan, where the tiny wood
minutes, and fire spreads quickly from
house to house,, reformatory methods
are rapidly being employed all over
the country. When 1 visited Ichigaya,
one of the chief prisons for women in
Japan I was much struck by the
humane and curative system that has
been organized of recent years. The
first impression of the prison contrasts
markedly with ones idea of prison
in this country.
There are no massive buildings and
glass windows with iron bars, no bare
stone floors, no long corridors and tiny
cells where the prisoners spend long
hours in solitary confinement. The
buildings surround a central court
yard, and are built of wooden planks
or standards, cage fashion, so that the
prisoners are living an open air life
day and night. The floors are covered
with corn colored mating and the
woodwork is polished till every grain
is visible. The prisoners wear pink
crepe kimonos, which contrast with
their ivory faces and cleaning hair
We were taken to one large room
where three rows of pink-clad figures
xyare snuatting Japanese fashion on
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
Gratifying Signs of the Times

and, as in most factories, the first is
the most important. If wrong start
is made, everything that follows is put
wrong. If, the food isn't well mastl-
Gated and mixed with the saliva, the
stomach, the liver and the intestines
are thrown out of gear.
Consequently. many Of the most ad-
vaneed doctors are paying a great deal
of attention to the condition of their
patients teeth They know-to garble
Shakespeare a bit-that good digestion
waits on mastication, and health on
both"
A Cleveland mother was heard to say
recently:
Il have Just been having a siege at
the dentists with my small son.
think it is Just as important to start
him off to school clean and whole phys
ically. with good, clean, well kept
mouth, his teeth in good condition
and other bodily ailments, If he has
any, cured up, as it is to start him OH
with six new bIouses on hand, and his
shoes and trousers gulltless of holes ,
Some mothers are so particular about
the shoes and trousers on boy whose
teeth are marred by cavities, whose
eyes are weak and whose nose IS
stopped with adenoids or catarrh.
The Passing of a Trusted Adviser
The recent announcement of the
death of Maria Parloa of Bethel Ctu
is not without significance to this and
the past generation of housekeepers.
Mrs. Parloa was noted for her work
as a domestic economist and lecturer
and writer on cooking, and many
housekeepers hold her name in reVer-
ence. with grateful remembrance Il
help given by her in their home work.
She was a pioneer in the field now Of
fering such rewards to those who have
trained themselves in the science Of
housework and are teaching others in
various ways Thirty-f1Ve years ago
she gave a course of lessons in sick
room cooking to medical students at
Harvard-a form of instruction then
novel in which every trained nurse is
now drilled Mrs. Parloa dealt with
both the hygienic and economic effects
Of cooking and did much good In this
field. She was the author of First
Principles of Household Management
and Cookery" Kitchen Companion"
1.-THE Young Housekeeper, New
Cook Book and Marketing Guide" and
Home Economics"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

| ~ OMETIdES one is tempted to ask,
"Does It pay?" Does all this agi-
| ~ tation about living conditions, the
care of babies. clean milk and fresh
air pay? Is anything accomplished by
so much effort, or is it just so much
/ less effort inspired by sentiment
| To the skeptical inquirer it Is gratify-
ing to be able to answer with assur-
/ ance: yes, 1t does pay" The effort,
for instance, to teach young mothers
how to care for their children has been
rewarded by a very marked and deii-
mite saving IN infant life
In Philadelphia, for instance, during
! August, says an eastern exchange,
there was a decrease this year of IA
per cent in the number of infant
deaths from August of the preceding
year.
Philadelphia may be proud. 1t is
probable that the death rate among
children in the city of Cleveland will
show a smaller average for this sum-
mer than It did last, although August
was fraught with especially trying
weather conditions which made the
record for that particular month poor.
The record in Philadelphia is es-
pecially gratifying TO the PhIadelphla
Alliance for the Care of Babies, an
ganlZat1On which IS under Ine aus
pices of the department of public
health and charities, the board of edu-
cation, the Congress of Mothers and
several other organizations which have
to do with the home and school. The
alliance undertook early in the spring
to educate the young mother in the
care Of the baby in hot weather, and
to that end lectures were given in
school buildings by volunteers and in
struction was offered by home vista
tion.
With how great success the work was
rewarded the figures clearly show.
They only go to prove that effort OF
this kind is worth while and does tell
in the end.
The Right Start
A New York doctor, addressing
company of mothers, is quoted as say
ing:
'1The body is a mandatory. 1t has
to manufacture bone and blood and
muscle and brain out of bread and
butter, eggs, beef and milk, and Won
derful process 1t is. Now, the first part
of the process takes place in the mouth
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
Flowers Earn Her College Course

afternoon walks of that resort is along
the shaded road or over the fields to
the farm where an attractive girl is
doing wonders in flower growing. Few
visitors to that garden fail to return
and none come without buying at least
one bunch Of the posies. Many of the
women who visit the garden become
interested in flower culture, and for the
last two seasons the girl has done
thriving business planning gardens for
her patrons and writing out for them
explicit cultural directions.
In some cases the girl starts seed
lings for customers, getting them
started in fats in March. AS she is a
fiVe-day boarder at college she finds
time for this extra work on Saturdays
and Sundays, paying a younger sister
to care for the seedlings in her absence.
Last summer the girl supplied flow
ers twice week for the dining tables
of one of the big hotels. So artistic
was her arrangement that her work
attracted wide attention and admtra-
tlon. and this year three other hotels
have given her similar commissions.
Besides the advantage of fixed in
come. the table decorations bring her
many extra customers.
Believing that it pays to be artistic,
the girl personally superintends twice
each week the arranging of the flowers
on the hotel tables. She has laid in a
supply of cheap but attractive wide
mouthed vases and jugs in gray, green
and yellow pottery, and uses in them
flowers of harmonious coloring. The
same vase is not used twice in success
sion on table.
These vases are the girls own prop
erty and the hotel has no responsibility
about them. AS the servants like her,
few are lost or stolen, and the cost is
trifling should harm arise.
So successful has her money making
been that the young woman has
changed he1S life plans. Instead OF
teaching she will take a course in land
] scape gardening
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

ercises to make you supple and straight
and taller;
Lie fiat on your back on a hard
mattress. Plant palms downward
straight at the sides, but do not grip
the ticking with them. Now draw
the legs up slowly. bending out the
knees, and holding the knees in the
air and heels close to the body. Now,
with a quick and sudden movement,
thrust the legs out straight and fiat
on the bed, the toes stretched as far
as possible anl pointing down. This
brings into play every muscle from
the knee to the tip Of the toes and
sets the limbs tingling. Draw up
slowly. counting seven and inhaling;
hold position through seven counts,
and again thrust down, eXhaling
through the mouth. Rest four counts
and repeat.
Lie fiat on the back, heels and balls
of the feet together, arms at sides,
palms down. Breathe slowly seven
times. Now, with the shoulders or
upper part Of the trunk rigidly fiat on
the bed. raise the middle of the trunk,
generally known as the waist line, by
the muscles of the hips, inhale as you
lift. counting seven; exhale as you fall.
Next inhale deeply and lift the lower
part Of the trunk and let it fall in
quick succession, repeating the move
ment perhaps five times while inhaling
once.
Reverse the exercise described above;
that is, let the lower part of the trunk
rest on the bed and lift from the waist
line up by means of the muscles OF
the shoulder blades. Use the same
methods of counting, inhaling while
counting seven; hold the position, then
lower the trunk counting seven, and
exhaling. Then work rapidly, with five
uplifts to each breath.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
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We sweep away all the doctor
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state Of health is. You can get your
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not at all, as you prefer; there is posi-
lively no charge for examination. This
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nearly every disease, which are sold
by all druggists.
Send today for a copy of our medical
examination blank, which we will
mail you promptly, and if you will
answer all the questions, returning
blank to us, our doctors Will carefully
diagnose your case and advise you
fully.
Munyon Remedy Co,
Fifty-th and Jefferson streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

A GIRL who is working her way
N through college earns a comfort
"A able income each season through
her skilf with flowers. Her home Is
near q large summer resort and she
sells as many posies as she can Ialse
to the guests at the different hotels.
Though her success has been largely
won with ANIMALS, as this is the time
for fall planting of bulbs and peren-
mails, an account of this girls methods
may be suggestive to women with
garden.
She attempts nothing but the com
mon garden fiowers-sweet peas, dahI-
las, zinnias, asters, annual chrysanthe-
NUNS or painted daisies four o'clocks'
bachelors buttons, Coreopsis, mari
COLDS, pansies, heiotrope and sweet
alyssum. gladion, bellkower, phloX,
eoldenglow, petunias and dwarf sun
flower.
The flowers are raised from seed and
planted in rows in her fathers veg
etable garden, where the soil is rich
and we'll cared for. The first season
the girl did most of the planting, weed
ing and watering herself, but the sec
ond season she found it more profitable
to hire her young cousin to do the
rough work, while she attends to tying
up, arranging and seeking sales.
The flowers are cut early each morn
ing before the dew is off them and are
tied in loose. artistic bunches. There
are no mixed colors and tumble of all
sorts of flowers usually to be found in
the country bouquets.
Different priced punches are pre-
pared, some with shorter stems being
sold for 5 cents, thus attracting a
wide patronage from children, The
flowers are heaped on trays with an
eve to color effect and carried to the
different hotels about breakfast. time
each day.
The carrier has in his pocket neat
business cards of the girl, inviting in
spection of her garden. One of the late
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
70 BAKE POTATOES

Baked potatoes are a staple article
of diet in most families. They are
inexpensive and easy to prepare. Yet
constantly as they are used it is rare
to find one we'll baked--the skin is
either burned or the contents are not
mealy.
Do not have the oven too hot for
baked potatoes. If they are done in a
moderate heat for a longer time they
will be more evenly cooked.
Pricking the small end of a potato
with a fork before putting in the oven
will keep the skin from bursting
A German cook noted for her de-
ncious baked potatoes washes them
carefully, then rubs the skin with pure
lard before putting them in the oven.
They are much more delicate and
tender all through when so cooked.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
ICE NOT
A LUXURY
WHEN YOU GET FULL WEIGHT

Many families are now enjoying the
comfort of ice who have hitherto con-
sidered 1t a luxury. 1t makes a differ
ence when they are going not by the
iceman's guess or pleasure, but by the
table of weights we furnish. Now they
know for themselves the weight of the
ice, and pay accordingly.
Our ice service is something of a
luxury however. Drivers on "Orange
Wagons" are efficient, courteous and
considerate. Housekeepers appreciate
their leaving no confusion or destruc-
tion in their wake.
Our ice is pure--and carefully ham
died. Telephone your orders and they
will be promptly filed. Phones Home
1OO53; Sunset Main S191.
Los Angeles Ice s. Cold Storage co.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
LET'S PRETEND

Let's pretend a little while,
That the world is managed right
That there's little which is vile,
That there's much to give delight.
Let us hopefully pretend
That the luck we have is fair;
Let US put a sudden end
To the murmurs OF despair.
Let's pretend that what we do
Is the work we like the best
Let's pretend the scene we view
Is Of all the loveliest.
Let's pretend we're satisfied;
Let's pretend we're brave and strong;
Maybe after we have tried
We can do It right along.
Chicago Record-Heral
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
THE CLOVER

swaying and nodding gayly,
With every wind that blows
The happy. red-cheeked clover
Down in the meadow grows.
The rains but make 1t fairer,
The winds but make it strong;
The bees which steal its honey
Its fragrance bear along.
When stricken by the sickle
II rears its head anew
To meet again the sunshine,
To drink again the dew.
The tender, hothouse darlings,
Shielded from sun and air,
May shrink from its advances
And deem themselves More fair.
But all the world is dearer.
And all the air more sweet,
Because the sturdy clover
Grows gayly at our feeti
-Minetts M. Low
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
Cleaning Straw Hats

Juice of one lemon, the same guam
tity of water, sulphur enough to make
thin paste. Take band off around
hat Apply paste over around outside
and under side of hat, using a small
brush. Put hat outdoors in the sun
until thoroughly dry. Then use a
clean, stiff brush to brush off all par
ticles Of sulphur which may adhere to
the hat
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
PEACH BUTTER

To make this delicious preserve,
halve and stone the peaches, cutting
the fruit into small pieces. Cover with
water and let simmer three hours. stir
the fruit from time to time, season
with cloves and cinnamon and seal in
lars.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24
REMINIscENcE

Jim Moneybagg?
Yes, knew Jim.
Played ball and tag
At school with him.
He may be smart;
He wasn't then.
Why. bless your heart,
1 knew him when-l"
"It beats me how
Some chaps succeed.
Called brainy now
And born TO lead7
He may seem SO
To city men.
But / dunno;
I knew him when-t"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

TIA as easy 10 secure a bargain in a used
automobile, through want advertising, as u
used to be-and still is-to secure morse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

The Angeius grill has excellent serv-
Ice and better food. Fourth and Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

Miss Elsie vanderpool Of 1881 West
ThIrty-sixth place will entertain the
Kappa Kappa Gammas Saturday, 10
meet Miss Terry, member or y. ,;
G. faculty. All Kappas resident and
visiting are cordially invited to meet
Miss Terry.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-07-02

The Gazette deeply regrets to hear
OF the very painful mishap that
again befell its young friend, Master
Jimmie Clinton, the bright and pop
ular little grandson of Mrs. Lizzie
Clinton. While climbing up into
a pigeon house at his home in Nat
chez, this week, he lost his hold and
fell some distance to the ground,
sustaining a serious fracture of the
arm, which unfortunately is the
same member that was broken last
year. Jim is such a genuine boy in
every sense of the term that such
accidents are not to be unlocked for,
and it is especially gratifying to his
numerous friends that the little fell
low bears up so manfully under the
trying ordeal. The last reports are
that while the fracture is extremely
painful and his arm again in splints,
Jim is making the best of the stu
alton and carefully laying plans for
further excursions on the RED Ar
row" in Lake Bruin in the very
near future. Jim is boy right.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-07-02
Huge Union Depot at New Orleans,

New Orleans, June 3O-Tentative plans
looking to mammoth Union Depot al
New Orleans are being discussed, largely
due to the recent action of the Texas &
Pacific railroad abandoning its old pas
senger depot and coming in to the ILL
nois Central Depot in the heart of the
city. The Illinois Central has bought an
immense area of land, whole city blocks,
Immediately adjacent to its present ter
minals and may eventually get to Canal
Street, opposite the Frisco-Southern Sta
ton, where it would be an easy matter
to connect the two by an enclosed via
duct elevated across Canal Street. Three
other lines now come into the Illinois
Central--the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley,
Southern Pacific, and Texas & Pacific,
while four likewise enter the Terminal
Station-the Frisco-C Colorado Southern.
New Orleans & Northeastern, New Or
leans Great Northern, and Louisiana
Railway and Navigation Company. This
leaves the Louisville & Nashville the only
line operating into an individual depot.
The change of the Texas & Pacific was
a matter of considerable moment, due to
the inaccessible and dangerous location
of its old depot on the river front, where
many hold-ups and murderous assaults
have been committed. After fight of
over a year before the State Railroad
Commission, the Progressive Union of
New Orleans finally secured an order d.
rectlng the Texas &. Pacific to go into
the Illinois Central Depot, which is con-
sldered an even more satisfactory ar
rangement than building new depot,
as the Texas & Pacific had no other than
the former river front site.