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state of ecstatic deirum that Oh well, there
use thinking about such mpossibilty And here
these marvellous beings trudgng up and down the
platform in perfectly calm, self contained manner
chatting with another. not about ST. Joe Kansas
City, but about how things had looked t'other day
when they in NYawk or Frisco or Denver or
Chicago or Moo Oreenz They had really been to these
remote phantomlike cities, one felt sure, or they
wouldn't have been talking that way, would they?
Strangely serene superbly base beings that those
platform strolers were! Twas period when men,
travelling a-rail, those long linen busters in the
summer time protect their clothes The eloquent
Ctyed rakishness of those rumpled, cinder smudged
linen dusters How did silently declare in his soul
that the day would come-must come!-when he too
would walk up and down deepo platforms, after step
ping from highly vanished trains in careless matter
of fact sort of way, wearing rurnply linen buster
closely butoned round the neck-yes, and with per-
spry handkerchief swadded round his collar on hot
days too lust like those miraculous beings (By bit
ter sort of irony the travelling linen busters had passed
to the discard long before reached the to acquire
one)
1t was period too when windows were un-
screened, that all the strong passengers, and
women, who stepped from the trains that stopped at
deepo, had smudges of SCOT their in the
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hollows of their eyes. Gloriously decorative sooty
smudges considered them They showed that the
wonderful folk had come long way They couldn't
have got sooted up that way in coming just from ST. Joe
Kansas City. Yep they'd been travelling those
magnificent trains for whole days and nights! One
almost by the sheer spendor of that thought
The Boys and the Bucheous Women
OCCASIONALLY boy Of ones own age would ap-
~ pear the platform of one of the step
down the deepo platform with his folks; dandyfed
boy, big for his age but still in knickerbockers Jus
felers put on long pants when were ten or twelve
you know, and with big smoke soiled linen collar
hanging his jacket and his hair all brushed at the
sides and slicked into spitock at the front, and with
white hands except for the sooty snudges-yes, and
sometimes with watch chain suspended from the
lapel buttonhoe of his jacket! watch chain, maybe
attached to enough watch! Oh, ethereal vision!
This boy, catching gazing at him with wide, Won
derng eyes, would glance back dsdainfuly; them for
ones further bedazzlement he'd tug his watch chain
and pull out and glance rather boredy atyes, hon
est! sure enough silver watch that ran
Well, I'll tell you. Life never seemed worth dime
for hours and hours after catching sight of boy
like that down deepo 1t did not, really. After
the train had gone Id imagine him sprawled out in
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derng your He would know that the beauty that
cannot endure through two hours walk is not worth
pursuing
Without meaning to be unkind must emphasize
the fact that in my opinion there too many doll
women in New York, too many doll girls growing into
womanhood. 1t is the heart soul, and mind that mat
ter, at least that should matter You don't suppose
OH foolish one that he is going propose to you be-
you have such beautiful eyes and sweet mouth,
do you?
"You notice that the other sort doesn't get pro-
posed to very often? say the girls who trying to
think what they instead of how they look?
That is easily explained.
In the first place, far my experience goes there
aren't very many of them. In the second, is a
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beauty cases, and VIO-
lets. What was it |
heard a woman muir
muir to a friend the
other day, a woman
with a whimsical
face who never once
glanced in my direc-
ton, though she looked
as if she'd been out in
the wind the whole
afternoon?
What though thy body
like the moon be fair,
Tulips thy lips and like
a bower thy hair?
And then there fol-
lowed something about
its being odd that the
secretary should have
bothered to paint her
little phantoms on
the air" That's how
| sometimes feel about
it.
I'm tired of hearing
you talk about him. l
don't care if you did
have tea with him at
the Palm Room yes
terday, with NIuriel
looking daggers at you
while you chatted.
AS you 81 lIlNelel q lcly
aver, he may be
swell " and " swag-
ger" and too love-
ly." One thing is
certain, he hasn't a
grain of sense, or he
would never hang
around and wait for
you while you waste
the golden hours tidy
inc yO,1r hair and now
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men, and then when some utlltarian male
invades the sacred precinct suppose room should
really be called the Temple of the Women, and that
/ am the oracle they come to consult, to find out
whether their beauty is still there.
l say our, because the Parlor Maid-the in
the neat black gown with the nifty white cap and apron
spends about much time there as do. If am the
oracle she is the prestess and it is plain from the
expression of her face that she gets about tired of
handing out hairpinS and powder do of pointing
out the need of them
l want say right here that like the Parlor Maid.
She and l understand each other She isn't forever
dabbng the end of her with powder rag for
thing, and when she occasionally up to to
get look at herself her eyes of Irish blue look straight
into mine b,snt like and she puts herself
to rights and turns away. She acts if prettness
accident and not the entire feminine idea
This naturally reminds me OF the others-they are
different. If there is in New York girl who
60 out for the afternoon without replenshing her
plexion rearrangng her hair and tonng up her lips,
Id like to see her Alas for beauty pershable that
it cannot outlast parade to the Park and back Or
perhaps its because all the worlds stage that they
much makeup.
The pink in the Parlor Maids cheeks is fast color.
And the knk in her hair is Nature and not Marcel.
When she washes her face her cheeks bloom like new
roseS-and wonder that there not meSalanceS
in the world. There be other parlor maids like
her, and from the scraps of conversation that
hear Il listen by watching the lips) there good
many milonares drifting about wearing peg-top
trousers and bored expression l have sympathy
with the that married Lottie the Lovely Shopgirl.
The Paror Maid had book about it, and the title
plainly visible to
But, as was saying my time like that of the yogis
of India, is wholly spent in reflection. Sometimes it
if my gray matter would crack and blister
from the constant strain upon it. Think for YOURSELF
Wouldn't you recoil if short, stout-oh very
matron in tyrannical straight front and pea
green gown should plant herself in front of YOU and
prp and preen her feathers and strut back and forth
trying to get the effect of her train for fifteen minutes?
Isn't it enough give mirror paress to review
line of and girls stretching from ten in the
morning until about two the next morning, each one
hanging breathlessly upon the vision of herself in the
glass? Wouldn't you get tired of beauties and
beauties and their everlasting contemplation of their
charms?
Sometimes l want to cry out and say, Go away,
girls, for Heavens sake, go away I'm sick of your
pink and white skins, your luscious lips your piled up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
By Frances Wilson
Drawin.s by Jessie Gill spie

hair your cartwheel hats tired of seeing you shipper
tired of witnessing your tender solcitude for your
back hair disguised with the concentration you put into
the adjustment of your jabots and gewgaws! am
tired of your-your mugs am not sure whether that
the Window Cleaner that like Petronus when he read
the literary productions of Nero am filled with desre
Yes, Marguerite, Kathleen, and Marie, charming
you are I'm tired of you and your paints, powders,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
OF A MIRROR

DER!H,!APs you ~, are ia
little ivory and crimson
reception room at the
end of the long corridor
in a certain down town
hotel. If you are, you
must have noticed the
large mirror in which you
can see yourself from top
to toe. That's me, as the
Window Cleaner would
say.
All day long-and all
night too, for that mat
teri do nothing but re-
fleet, reflect, and yet again
reflect the DAUGHTERS of
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Dyplay began over again. ana
so it goes on, hour after hour,
day after day.
Everybody has an ambition,
or if he hasn't he should have.
And l have mine, though | am
only a big mirror in a hotel re-
firing room. I'd like to be a
psychic mirror and reflect
minds and souls instead of
these doll faces, which are for
ever calling for powder. Id
like to penetrate the flesh like
an X ray, and show the Spirit!
But then-who knows?-
perhaps whitewash would be
needed instead of powder.
And certainly the Parlor Maid
would get scared and leave,
and that is a calamity | could
not face lightly.
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q
wrote, How to good is what is fair!" what
be expected of ordinary man, whose thinking is
mainly financial? He looks at the dolls, and he
without being conscious of it, says in his heart, She is
sweet, when what he means is She looks sweet,
which may be entirely different matter.
He marries you then not for your prettiness, but
because the prettness dazzes him and he doesn't dis
Germ the hoowness it covers. He thinks that hand
some is" necessarily means handsome does.
If he could but be in my place only one week; he
girls, girls with souls above dress! 1t matters
how plain, wart the will be acceptable if only
the face be a face with emotions in it and not dolls
necked blondes that look like wandering lilies and OF
the houris with dark eyes and languishing plumes
whose street gowns show a triangle of plump bare
neck We homely girls, with real
plexions real hair and real hearts" Over and over
have tried to show the dolls the hardness of their bright
eyes and the emptiness of their pink and white faces
but they refuse to see it. They strangely content
And | couldn't blame the Parlor Maid when last
week overheard her remarking the Window Cleaner
They, meaning the dolls, make sick" | felt
very much the way myself The occasion this:
pink and white faced girl, clad in blue velvet and
white fox, came rushing into the room with that
breathless air that they all have which might mean
that they were too late for very important engage
ment. All it does mean, however is that they have
wild, tremuous desire to see how they look.
The young in white fox inspected herself
agitatedy for moment Then she put down her muff
and gold bag and lifting her veil, cautiously poked
pulled, and coaxed lock of hair that seemed to the
unnitated to be doing perfectly well where it
At last she adjusted her veil again. but dissatisfaction
crinkled her brow
There moment of hesitation. Then, with
decisive movement she took the veil off once more,
removed glove and prepared to the struggle
with the stubborn lock of hair, which evidently
refusing to look pretty it could. Before it
finally adjusted her eyebrows daintily brushed upward
and outward, her lips bitten few times, her face pow
dered and veil replaced the gilt clock the mantel
had licked off thirty minutes of her little eetng life.
Even then she left reluctantly and with that nger
ing caressing glance that is the very of self
love- stout, voluptuous brunette whose would
have made Hogarth throw fit (the Window Cleaner
aganD stepped into her place with one of those ganees
that only woman give to woman, and the little
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20
How Leap Year Started.

HnmpSon. in his "Medii OEV1. Ka-
landarium." quotes the following
quaint tradition from an old Saxon
treatise: Some assert that the bis
seXtus or leap day comes through this,
that Joshua prayed to God that the
sun might stand still for one days
length that he might sweep the hea-
then from the land that God had grant
ed him and his followers II is true that
the sun did stand still for one days
length over the city OF Gebaon. but
the day went forward in the same
manner as other days. And the bis
seXtus is not through that. as some do
thioE"
I'm France ana some parts of Spain
AND Portugal there exists tradition
known rs the ghost of leap year"
believers in This say that marvellous
monster annually appears on leap day
and diSarrin&eS human affairs for the
remainder Of the year.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20
RAPID STORY WRITING.


For rapiditv of composition the prize
among 3oveiistS must be awarded to
Alexandra DUMAS. who died with over
5000 books to his credit. in all of which
he had some share. According to Mr..
Arthur f. Davidson. one of his biog-
raphors. he often declared that when
once he had mapped out in his mind
the scheme of n novel or a play the
work was practically accomplished.
since the mere writing Of it presented
no difficulty and could be performed as
fast as the pen could travel. Some one
disputed this: the result was a wager
Dumas had in his head the plan Of
the "Chevalier de la Maison Rouge"
of which he had not yet written a
word. and he made bet Of 100 louis
that he would write the first volume of
the novel in Seventy-two hours The
volume was to be formed by seventy
five large foolscap pages, each page
containing forty-fve lines and each
line fifty letters In siXty-siX hours
Dumas had done the work in his fair
flowing hand, disfgurel by no erasions
and the bet WIS won with six hours
to spare. london Chronicle.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20
Just the Other Wav.

Rudyard KiplinC was once visiting
at Il country house ut which Miss Dor
othy Drew. the famous granddaughter
of Mr.. Gladstone. then little girl. was
also staying She was sent out into the
garden with the distinguished author.
Later on. when the other grownlips
Joined them. little Miss Dorothy was
asked. II hope you didn't bore Mr.
Kipling?"
mo. but he bored me frightfully,"
DIV,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20
Wait a Bit.

Guest-Look here. How long am
going TO have to wait for that half por-
ton of duck ordered? Waiter-Till
somebody orders the other half We
can't go out and kill half duck TO
ledo Blade.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20

You don't like imitation fur coats?
Well. no woman liked them until re-
Gently, when the makers have pro-
duced such wonderful limitations that
they cheat even the trade with them.
such a deception is TO be seen in the
long coat pictured of electric seal and
Imitation Persian lamb. This "Mmh'
is not the imitation clo,h that Inns
passed for fur with which we have
been familiar for many Seasons. ~:
It's product of this season and caa-
not possibly Ire told FROM genuine .uf
unless c.ose. h-ta.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20

This coat would cost at least $500 if
OF pelte. and us it stands the price is
only so. Now what 90 you think OF
imitation fur coats?
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20
Eatinu Tin7s.

Friend-so you dined at WY s--.
ton, What did you have for di1ners
lrayeler-Iwonty miuutes.-K aus,s
City Journal
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20

Justice is The bread Of nations. Tray
are always u. shlae rar -Jott "a
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19
GALLAGHER NOT
YET INDICTED

New York, Nov. 19-James Cal
lagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor in
Hoboken last August, has not yet been
indicted by the grand jury. He is in
jail in Jersey City and although the
mayor has been performing the du
ties of his Office for several weeks
Gallagher is still detained Ito await
the result of the Injuries which he In
fllcted "
The Jersey City prosecutors declare
they would be glad TO get Gallagher S
case before the grand jury and move
IL to a speedy trial but efforts TO pro
cure from the physicians a written
statement to the effect that the mayor
Is out OF danger and strong enough to
stand the ordeal of appearing at the
trial have been In vain
A statement from the prosecuting
attorney. says;
While Mayor Glynor may be we'll
and sound and able to attend daily
to his official duties, it seems strange
that the doctors attending him won [
send 10 me q written report saying
just what the mayors condition is.
Until such a report is forthcoming
We shall not present the case to the
grand jury"
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19
CONDITIONS OF
MONEY MARKET

New York, NOV l9-(Wall street
weekly summary market
operations proved unavailable 10 stir
speculation into interests In stocks
Some help was given these attempts
by various factors in the general situ
alton, but they were neutrallzed by
other factors OF doubtful kind.
There was a distinct relaxation in
money markets both here and abroad
The heavy excess of export values
shown by the October foreign trade
returns gave confidence In the re.
sources OF the foreign exchange mar
ket
The greatly increased strength of
the Bank of Englands S condition help
ed to relax money markets every
where. The fall in meat prices and
a turn in the currency market, In "a.
Vor Of New York promised easier
money conditions. Moderate orders
for steel rails from the railroads fore
shadowed requirements on only a part
of productive capacity Deficient sup
plies were indicated by the terms of
bond sales
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19
INDIANS RECLAIM
DESERT LANDS

Washington, Nov. l9.-With the
help OF the Indian reclamation ser
vice, the Indians are turning some OF
their desert land holdings into profit
able agricultural lands, according TO
H F Robinson. who has charge OF
the Indian Irrigation In Arizona, New
Mexico and Colorado. In those states
the Indian service has completed two
projects. and Is building four more.
The six projects eventually will ir.
rlgate approximately 1900 acres of
Indian lands. In some parts OF that
arid region, where water cannot be
obtained from running streams, wells
are being sunk, principally for the
stock When a sufficient flow is
found, however. 1t is used for lrriga-
ton as we'll
The sinking of wells" snyS Mr.
Robinson. "helps to get the nomadic
tribes together where they can be ed
ucated The tribes in the desert coun.
try naturally flock around a source
of water supply and when there is a
large number In a settlement day
schools are established for the In
dlanS"
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19
PUE BIZ is
NOW QUE 7
After the SIaughtering
Of 100 to l7O
Combatants

Mexico City. Nov. 19-Re2orts from
I'ueba. where revolutionary rlotmg
occurred yesterday. are that the town
is quiet today Similar reports are
received from interior clties. Esti-
mates OF the number Killed In the
fighting EsFy from 100 to 40 On
this point. however, no Information is
available.
Strong forces of cavalry and infantry
He patrOllIng the streets and pickets
and shnrpshoolers occupy the church
towers The revolutionary movement.
Which began when policemen attempt
ed 10 break up meeting OF anti-re-
electlonlsts. appears to have ended
with the capture Of the home of Jose
Cerdan, who is credited with having
Loaded the rebels Ccrdan Is said TO
have escaped. He is a grandson of
General Miguel Alatriste. fDrmer gov
eInor of the state OF Puebla.
Forty-two alleged plottCrs against
The government have beer arrested.
They include the mother and sister
OF Ccrdan. II was the sister. and not
Cerdan's wife. as first reported, who
shot and killed Chief of Police Miguel
Cabecra and who in turn was shot
TO death.
The body OF Cabecra was thrown by
The rebels into the streets where II
remained throughout the lighting.
Troops OF artillery and cavalry are
held in readiness in this city to be
rushed to Puebla, If occasion re-
quires.
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-19
OFFICIAL DISTANCE
MADE BY BALLOON

New York, Nov. 19-Less than 20
IIiles separates the official distance
made by Alan r Hawley and Angus
| tus Post In the balloon America III
from being the worlds record.
J According TO official measurements
received from William Wclch, Chief
draughtsman of the war department,
| Washington the flight of Hawley and
Post from ST Louis 10 Pcribonka riv.
er, in the international cup race last
L,onth. covered Il distance Of LII 13-
100 miles, instead OF 1855 miles as re-
ported at the time OF the race
The worlds record is 1888 miles,
made by Comte Henri dc Ia VaulX in
ris flight from Vincennes. France, to
Korostichew, Russia, in thirtyfivc and
threc,quartcrs hours.
But Hawley and Post established a
new American record for balloon
flights
No doubt Is expressed by members
OF the Aero club that the board of
governors will accept these measure
n ents as final when the next meeting
takes place.
But Messrs. Haley and Post do
not propose to abandon claim to the
worlds record. despite the fact that
the Official measures shows the dis
tance Travelled to have been a trine
TO Comte de La VaulX Mr.. Hawlev
says;
Il am not surprised that the war de.
partments measurements reduced the
distance credited to me But ! will
..Nl ii,
Comte de La VaulX until his distance
has been definitely established by a
similar measurement of his flight. /
do not believe the distance he tray-
eled was officially established as Is
done In the case Of the International
cup races
The distance made by the other con.
testants of the international races
are reported by the war department
expert as follows:
The Dusseldorf III Germany Lieut.,
Hans Gericke. pilot. S f Pergiks,
aide. Kisklssink Que, 1,l3l miles
The Germania (Garmany) Captain
Hugo Won Abercorn, pilot: Herr Au-
gust Blankerts, aid, Coocoocache, Que
bee. 1919 miles,
The Halvetia, Switzerland, Col
Theodore Schaeck, pilot Paul Arm.
bruster aid, Ville Marie, Que, $50
miles
The Hamburg III Germany Lieut..
Vogt. pilot: w. F. Assman. aid. Lake
NipisSinS. Ont, 76G miles.
The Azurea, (SwitzerlanD. Capt.
Emil Messner. pilot; Leon Giyaudan.
aid BIscotasing. Ont. 17G miles.
The Isle de France (Francc), NJ
Alfred Le Blanc. pilot; Walter De
muth aid; Pogamassing. Ont. 722
miles
The st Louis No. 1 (Americanl,
A f Honeywell. pilot ], w Toll.
and aid; Hillman. Mich, 552 miles.
Tho Condor (France), NJ. Jacquesc
Fnure, pilot: f. c ;Scbmclck. aid
Two Rivers, Wis. AS miles.
The Million Population Club Gam.
erica). S. Louis Won Phul, pilot: ].
NJ oRellly, AID; Racine Wis SIT
miles.