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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
CHINESE WELCOMED TO CITY.
Imperial Commissioner and Suite Now
DomiciIed at Capital.

Bringing gifts for the president and
Mrs. Roosevelt, the secretary of state
and Mrs. Root, and other notables, the
imperial Chinese Commissioner Tang.
Shao-Yi, Prince Tsai Flu and their suite
arrived in Washington.
They were met at the station by AZ,
sistant Secretary of State Bacon and
a detachment of White House aides
Immediately after the exchange OF
greetings the visitors were conducted
to the house in Scott Circle arranged
for the official residence. In addition
to the Scott Circle home, which is one
of the most commodious in the city,
the residence of Rear Admiral Barker
at 1905 Rhode Island avenue, has
been fitted UP for the accommodation
of the secondary members of the
retinue.
Elaborate plans for a period of off
cial entertaining had been completed
but owing to the three months period
of court mourning nothing will be done
aside from an unofficial exchange OF
civilities with those bearing intimats
relations with the staff.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers OF this
paper. On account of his wide eXpe-
rence as Editor. Author and Manufac-
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William 4. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave. Chicago. III. and only
enclose .tWo-cent stamp for reply
Most people like large rooms, but
large rooms call for large house.
This plan is 81 feet 6 inches by So
feet in size, and is built on the square
order, severely plain in design and
general treatment. Instead of crowd
ing in as many rooms as possible they
are made larger than is customary at
the present time, but it gives to the
house an air of old-fashioned comfort
that is quite luxurious.
Luxury means in many cases some
thing that is difficult to secure. Since
the advance in prices of labor, wages
of skilled mechanics, prices of hard
ware and most building materials, the
tendency has been to build smaller
houses and smaller rooms. Probably
the after maintenance has as much to
do with the general trend toward
smaller houses as any other eonsid-
Grafton, because it is almost impos-
sible to obtain help of the right, kind
to keep large house in order after
you get it. Then the extra cost of
heating large house is serious OBJ
lection to some people, but the i'm
provement in hot air furnaces and in
hot water and steam heaters has gone
a long way to reduce cost in this re-
spect.
The shape of the house also has
a great deal to do with the cost of
heating A house built after this de-
sign is very compact. There are no
side rooms to carry the heat to at a
disadvantage, so that with modern
heater in the basement this house
may be kept comfortable for less
money than the heating of a much
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
UnofficiaIIy Fired.

"A western magazine editor narrat.
ed, at a Tolstoi birthday dinner in
Chicago, an interesting story about
the great Russian.
"Tolstoi," he said, "abominates
sneaks, spies. He intensely abom-
mated Melikoff, whose treachery and
cruelty to the young radical party was
scandal even in Russia.
"Melikoff one day, suspecting that
good deal of revolutionary work
was going on at Tolstois estate, Wis.
tied Yasnaya Polyana unexpectedly.
. Do you come said Tolstoi to him
sternly, officially or as a private per.
son? If you come officially, here are
my keys. Search. Examine every
thing. You are quite free to do So
But, count said Melikoff, believe
me, | come to you as a private per-
son.
Tolstoi looked at him in silence.
Then, calling two staIwart mujhiks,
he said:
Here, pitch this man out of the
house!'"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
The Pierrot Ruff.

A Pierrot ruff, but having a huge
bow at the side in which little Pierrot
would not have known himself, is one
of the pretty little gifts to pass from
friend to friend. Choose marquisette,
crisp chiffon, net or point d'esprit in
one of the catawba or wistaria shades.
Rufus of these exclusive colors may be
found in some of the shops, or the
materials may be bought and carefully
doubled and quilted into shape. The
very full quillings are then fastened
on to a. soft fold of silk of the same
shade, measured to fit the neck. The
bow of satin ribbon is, again, the iden.
teal color, and be sure the match is
perfect
While it is very lovely to say "tie
on with big soft bow" it is far
wiser to caution the giver to have the
bow tied permanently, and to fasten
Pierrot's ruff with a hook and eye.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
First Floor Plan.

lures, the furnishings of which will re-
quire a great deal of studying and
planning to bring out all the splendid
possibilities. Such rooms nowadays
are seldom or never carpeted. The
floor is hard wood with a finish that
shows the grain to advantage. The
floor is nice enough to leave without
any covering whatever, but no ore
likes bare floor because of the noise,
and from the further fact that no
room has properly furnished appear
ance unless the floor has been care
fully provided with rugs that har-
monte with the wall and ceiling dec
orations.
There is a good deal in proportion
ing rugs to the size of the rooms. This
large living room should have two
rugs large enough to reduce the out
side margin to about ten inches. The
space between the rugs in the center
should be about the same, but this
space directly in the center of the
archway should be filed in with an.
other rug to avoid stepping on tie
polished floor 1t needs this little
rug for looks, and 1t needs it to ure.
vent a bad spot by wearing away the
foor polish.
The rugs, wall paper and curtains
must, of course, harmonic In colors.
Turkish rugs are quite fashionable,
and the genuine Turkish rug is a prize.
but they have their disadvantages.
Most of them are too soft to keep
their place on the floor, and if the floor
is highly polished they are SO slippery
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Famous old Washington store.

Mention Stuntz at any club OF din
ner or social gathering in Washington
and the foodgates of Renaissance are
opened. Through the dark days of the
civil war and reconstruction, il days
of national plenty ana panic, the little
candy shop kept open all day and
through the evenings to satisfy the
wants of children and brighten the
lives of fathers md mothers.
Joseph Stuntz died in 1864, before
the close of the war, but the fame of
his shop had spread, and it already
had been necessary for the wise-man-
aging wife to add to their stock with
toys from Baltimore, imported from
the old country. What little boy in
Washington, whether northerner or
southerner, was not made happy in
those days with soldiers in nice Ger
man non committal colors?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Plans for Bedrooms.

Instead of double bed take two
single bedsteads, remove the upper
part of the footboard, put the two
ends together in one corner of the
room, make bed on each. Then you
have the center and the sides of the
room for other things.
1t is also nice for larger room that
is to be occupied by two individuals
or elderly people, for they can each
have their own bed and can often
wait on and be company fer each 9th,
er many times when otherwise they
would have to be alone.
And it is a good way to fix the
little girls or boys room, so that
when they have cnums come to see
them and stay over night they win
have a nice spare bed for them 10
their own room.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
SIGH ron GOOD OLD TIMES"
Wearlsome Members of Used-to-Be
Club at Washington.

This is the time of the year, WHEEL
the lean-shanked cling to the covers
until the last call for breakfast and
the ice water in the shower Kisses like
steam when it hits the chests of the
full-blooded, that all the members OF
the Used-to-Be club come out of hid
ing and begin to disturb the air. |
met one of them--a newspaper man,
too-on the street the other day. He
bemoaned the fact that we never have
skating any more. According to his
highly veracious remarks the Potomac
river used to freeze about the LIST OF
August and stay frozen until the list
of May. 1t was an easy thing in his
youthful days to skate from Washing
ton to Alexandria or Marshall Hall or
Indian Head, right out in the middle
of the channel. Honestly, it was.
Why, he used to do it pretty nearly
every day, between lunch and dinner.
Honestly, he did. But nowadays there
never is any ice. The river never
freezes and skates are drug on the
market. These are bum times. Hon
estly, they are!
That's the line of talk that is being
handed out these sunny days, and it
is enough to make a normalminded
man tired enough to sleep for three
days without turning over This, how
ever, is only one feature of the activ-
tiles of the Used-to-Be club. There are
other members who wall over the pass
ing of everything from the recipe for
that famous time-fused colonial punch
to the numbering stage coach which
preceded the present methods of rapid
| transit
But what's the use? Anything in
human guise that doesn't consider
these times of airships and open
plumbing just the best old times that
ever prevailed since the world began
ought to go home and take large,
glazed pill. His liver is on strike
Washington Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Too swift.

The city nephew was showing the
rural uncle around town.
Where be we going now, Bub?"
asked Uncle Dewberry.
Going up in the Lightning studio
to have your picture taken,' respond
ed the young man.
And what then?''
why, then well go over to the
Lightning shoe shining parlor and have
your boots shined up
Gee! And then?"
Why, then you'll get a lightning
shave. have a Lightning lunch, catch
the lightning express, and
But Uncle Dewberry held uu his
baud.
I reckon that be little tAn swift
for this old man." ne said. quietly as
ne took a firmer grip on his yellow
satchel. What do you take opr old
uncle to be-a lightning rod, b ,bsr
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
OLD FASHIONS COME BACK.
Ornaments Worn by Another Genera
ton Become Popular.

So much that is old has become new
that our grandmothers possessions
are being held up as the latest thing
in fashion. This is not only true of
cloths, scarfs, hair ornaments, high
heeled slippers, but of jewelry.
With the craze of Byzantine jewelry
has come the revival of three kinds Of
ornaments worn by another genera
ton.
These are corals, seed pearls and
canoes. All three are in the height of
style.
Necklaces of seed pearls are almost
as valued as diamond ones these days.
Brooches of them are sought after and
worn with great pride.
Canoes, if good, are now worn on
the most elaborate evening gowns as
well as for street. Large ones set in
filigree gold or seed pearls are used
for the shoulder clasp or the front of
the bodice or a belt buckle; the small
er ones are quite fashionable TO catch
turnover collars together, to fasten a
iabot, or to pin bow of ribbon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

der-sleeves. The overskirt and pima
fore bodice of the cloth are trimmed
with Greek key pattern, worked with
gold and brown narrow braid; velvet
covered buttons form a further trim
ming.
The yoke is of piece lace.
Hat in velvet of the color of the
skirt, lined with soft, pink satin, and
trimmed with a rosette of satin and a
long brown feather.
Materials required: For the dress,
nine yards velveteen, four yards
cloth 4S inches wide, several dozen
yards of narrow braid, three dozen
buttons, one-half yard piece lace.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
AstroIoaer's Letter to Van Buren,.


An astrologer's letter to President
Van Buren,, forecasting the results of
his election in 1910, is a recent ac-
QUESTION of the Library of Congress.
1t is unique specimen, and, perhaps,
gives crude idea of some of the
fallacies of our grandfathers. The fol-
lowing is an extract: 81 have opened
the horoscope for Gen. Harrison,
which accords with the chief events
of his past life and which, if right,
he will not fill the office of president
during the next term, even if elected.
And the danger apprehend to your
self is not from your public opponents,
but from those on whom you repose
confidence" Those who are supersti-
tious may be inclined to credit this
star-gazer with some measure of wis
dom, for Harrison, although elected,
died month after his Inauguration.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Or. Hale Loyal Westinghouse.


Repeated winters spent in Wash
ington are making loyal Washing
tonian out of the chaplain of the
senate, Dr. Edward Everett Hale. He
denounces the ignorance and stupidity
of those who think that the 10000
Office holders are unfit appointees OF
politicians. In very many depart.
ments," he says, the work done chal.
lenges the wonder and respect of the
experts of the world" He doubts
whether any university in the world
can bring together so large a body OF
accomplished men of science as can
be seen in Washington during the win
ter months. AS for the congressional
library, there is no other in this coun-
try in which one works with more sat
isfaction.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Ambitious Women at Capital.

As a render Gus for women anxious
to annex titled "in-laws," Washington
is fast attaining pronounced promi-
nence. AS members of the presidents
official family, cabinet hostesses have
the entree to the Blue Room" that
social holy of holes, within whose
sacred portals none enters without the
acquiescence of the presidents wife.
Here all the diplomats and their titled
visitors, by force of circumstances.
congregate on the occasions of the
large White House functions.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
FrilIs on Muffs,

A pretty fashion is that of adding a
frill of soft satin or closely plated
chiffon to the lower edge of fur
muffs.
Brown is used with all brown furs,
black with black and white with such
furs as ermine and white fox.
When furs are scant this addition IS
decided improvement.
The immense round muffs that are
forcing their way to the fore have the
cosiest-looking arrangement of quilted
and primly looped ribbon at the ends
where the hands are received.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

smaller house would have cost ten or.
fifteen years ago.
These are the days Of large living
rooms. People have found that at
least one room in the house should be
as large, as light and as airy as it is
possible to make it. Across the front
of this house, Il by 35 feet inside
measurement, is practically one great
room with fireplace in one end and
with plenty of plain large windows
that are in keeping with the general
character of the house.
This large living room is intended to
be one of the main decorative fea-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

as to be positively unsafe, especially
for old people. 4 first-class machinery,
made American rug is good enough for
any room if it corresponds with the
surroundings.
The dining-room offers another
splendid opportunity for decorative
ability. The room is we'll calculated
to show furniture to advantage. 1t is
- feet 6 inches by 16 feet in size,
and there are no projections or cor.
ners to interfere with the proper plac.
ing of handsome dining-room decoras
tions.
Another feature of this house that ia
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

Election bets are always objection
able. Now and then, however, one is
recorded which has an amusing side.
N New York a young woman who
manifested great interest in the out
come of the recent presidential cleo
ton was asked why she was so ex-
cited. because" she said: IF Mr..
Taft wins, / have promised to marry
a certain young man." But suppose
Mr.. Bryan wins?" "Oh. in that case
the young man will marry me-"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

well worth consideration is the pantry.
1t is seldom you get such pantry in
any house. The extension of the back
porch to inclose one end of the pan
try has been taken advantage Of to
lay out an arrangement that will ap-
peal to most women. 1t is large
enough to hold considerable china,
and the sink so conveniently situated
is q great satisfaction st dish wash
ing time. / often wonder why sinks
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

source of Washington's water supply
the fountain of nearly 100000 people
is a place of geologic wonder and
scenic miracle-a place riVen and rift
ed as though God at some remote aeon
sought to wreck the earth. 1t is there
that the Potomac river, Appalachian
born, bursts through the piedmont
plateau and into. the coastal plain,
The place is called Great Falls, though
its glory is more in rocks than in
water. It looks like a relic of earth's
throes. Once, the geologist would
have said that Great Falls was chap
ter out of the catastrophe period, and
that is the impression of the layman,
but your geologist of to-day be-
lieves that there is no clean breach
between the past and present, and that
the forces which wrought these mar
wells are still operating, and that,
therefore, Great Falls may be the re-
suit of geologic evolution instead of
Titanic crash.
Imagine a vast upheaval where ma
ture sundered the mountains, turned
earth's bowels of stone inside out, shut
fed the rocks and then left the ruin
without one smoothing touch. Through
the deep gashes, seams and gorges
the Potomac pours, churning around
powders as big as houses, and paint
ing the chasm white with spray.
Along the lower rocks not a plant
form peeps from the cracks and
wrinkles of the stone. Higher up,
where the water never rises, but
where the mist makes things drip,
pale sage, feeble cedars and pallid syc-
amores cling, half-starved. On the
top of the cliffs, oaks, poplars, beech,
naples and rugged sycamores enjoy
happy tree-life, donning fresh green in
spring and turning blazing reds, bright
yellows and somber russets in the au-
tumn, and behaving like trees that live
in less tempestuous places.
The predominant rock at Great
Falls is Carolina gneiss, primeWal
rock of almost unthinkable antiquity.
Thousands of ages after the formation
of this gneiss, masses of igneous rock
were forced into it. There was an
uplift of thousands Of years, next long
ages of erosion, and later in pre-Cam-
brian times volcanic lavas poured over
the upturned rocks. Then followed
more ages Of erosion, after which the
land sank, the seas rolling above it
and laying down a thick flooring of
sandstone, shale and limestone The
water rolled deep here in the begin
ming of the Cambrian and into the 81
lurian ages.
Whether the gneiss, the rock which
makes the main spectacle at Great
Falls, and which was once deep-seated
in the earth, appears at the surface be
cause it has been heaved up out of the
pits of the world or whether the sur
face of the world at that point has
been so deep
Iy worn away
as to expose -
the gneiss, ge- = SSss no.lHITII1le
ologists can s1a5tasgz!gsss :S,=z-753z5A
not agree.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
One Of the Washington "Hons.o

Washington is a political shop ant
every other stranger in the town is an
Honorable" by courtesy. l am moi
surprised, therefore, at this story which
friend tells me. He has been Sc.
siding in Honolulu for several years
and is going back there. Recently he
bought suit case in Washington and
he asked the salesman to have stem
ciled on it his initials and place OF
residence. He wrote down on a slip
of paper tx. Y. g., Honolulu" When
the case came to his hotel he found
that the shop keeper had improved
upon the instructions and fixed him
up as follows:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Rosebud Hatnins

The latest novelty in hatpins is the
natural rosebud or half-grown flower
which, by some wonderful process, is
transformed in all its perfect beauty
of form and color into az :snperishable
substance. Nesting in the fur or
foliage of smart hat, they add tbs
newest touch of elegance
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

OF all the schemes put forward to
help the unemployed one of the most
alluring is the proposal by the Glas-
cow corporation to construct, at cost
of $SO,00O,O0O, great battleship canal
between the Forth and the Clyde, and
thus to link up the North sea with the
Atlantic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Hiah Boots of Tan,

AS the winter weather advances
there is wider popularity for the
smart tan boot that laces or buttons
six and eight inches above the
ankle.
The extra heavy soles are not used
as much as they were for city streets.
They are kept for county roads. The
fashionable shoe has a sole of or
binary thickness, is well arched, has
a slightly rounded toe, and a high,
straight Spanish heel.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

1t is estimated that the aggregate of
waste in all mineral products for the
past year amounted to about one mil
lion dollars day, and this doesn't in
elude the unnecessary coal that the
hired girls burn in the furnaces and
ranges of the land.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

In New Jersey an attempt will be
made to restore to life the next vic
tim Of the electric chair. 1t has fire.
quently been contended that electrocu-
ton was not fatal and that resusci-
tation was possible. Still, nobody pro-
poses to take that sort of electric
treatment for his health.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30
Almond ID IN Favor.

Mrs. WI, wife of WI Ting Fang.
has made. almonds popular by serving
almond cakes, with almond wine and
almond flowers for table decorations.
AS the table decorations are not so
easily attainable, artificial ones are
used quite frequently, and may be
obtained from the Chinese storea
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

Although there is no national law
against using the flag or shield of the
United States for advertising purposes,
the commissioner of patents has lately
exercised his discretion, and decided
that he will register no trade marks
which contain the arms of the United
States or of any state or city, or any
mart of such arms.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

A Matamoras newspaper calls atten-
ton to test of the pumping of water
in the Rio Grande region for irrigation
compared to the older method of con-
structing dams. A 36-inch pump with
$4,000 gallons capacity on a 24-foot
lift, was operated at fuel cost of 621s
cents an hour.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

Lately we have had expert testimony
to the effect that the oil business is
hazardous and that the coal business
is hazardous. Perhaps in time the
phrase, "a hazardous business" will
come to mean a business in which
men make abnormal profits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

A New Jersey legal official thinks it
would be highly indecorous' for
prison officials to allow attempts to
be made to revive an apparently cleo
trocuted man. As question Of pro-
priety and decorum, the matter had
not hitherto struck any one interested.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-30

Interest W LtlS
people Of Wash
ington and Incl
dentally to Amer
leans in the prov
inces, many Of
whose representa-
tives, when they
come to congress,
do not drink Pc
tomac water or
any other kind,
writes G. Henry
Sloane in the Il
Illustrated Sunday
MAGAZINE, r b e