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working so hard that they scarcely look
ed up as I entered.
asked as to their wages, and found
that they were about 4 of our cents per
day, and that the pay of the older hands
ranged from that to 20 cents. Think of
working ten hours for cents. and that
in the dust of a spinning mill, / photo
graphed some of the children, frightening
the little ones almost to death as l did
so. The manager tells me that he has
many whole families employed in his
factory-father, mother and children all
working. There are no laws against
child labor, and ths>~ babies aid In keep
ing the wolf from the door.
Speaking Of babies, there were several
of these in the mill. Some were still at
the breast, and their mothers had brought
them along that they might not lose
work. 1 remember one girl of eighteen
spinning away with an Acknowledged in
FAINT on her knees, and another had a
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ent that way. ! never know when ! go
into window how it is going to look
when completed unless it is a set ar
rangement"
The caller was puzzled
why. that means any special design
built on a frame. he explained For
instance. we always have an elaborate
display on holidays and anniversaries.
ST. Valentine day. and 1 can see in my
minds eye the whole window arrange
ment just as it will look when fin
ished.'
CHANGING up and down the long sweep
of windows, the scribbler thought he
surely must have great range of men
tai vision.
And then he told how hopelessly, de-
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claim Doesn't it look just like a real
room
Mattings also have much to do with the
soul-trying moments of a furniture dress
er and the gentle spring meets no an
swering softness within his troubled
breast.
The florist has somewhat of an ad
vantage. He knows his flowers, frequent
ly he loves them. and how to dispose Of
them in a window comes naturally. A
of which represents the deluded BELIEF Of
the writer before going into a fowet
shop for information. Afterward She
knew that there is nothing less promising
than a tumble OF potted plants. cut
flowers and nondescript. terms. Being
shown such a collection and asked just
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avans of fifty barrows each. They are
paid something like cents gold a day
and other labor is proportionately cheap.
Another American institution which is
doing a big business in China is the to-
bacco trust 1t has its agents in all of
the cities, and has established several
big factories. There is one at Shanghai
which employs 1900 girls in making and
packing cigarettes. There is another at
Mukden, and third at Hankow Indeed.
the Americans are changing the Chinese
from pipe smokers to cigarette smokers,
and machine-made cigarettes are now to
be bought far west as Tibet. The
business is done under the name of the
British-American Tobacco Company, and
it has in i'll employ both British and
American of GERS. The chief manager Is
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WINDOW Trimmers in
" Large Stores Must Be
Original in Their Work
All Sorts of Designs Are
Used, and Colors Are Ar
ranged So That They
Will Not Conflict-Nature Is
Studied, and Her Harmony
Is Often Utilized by Win
dow Trimmers-Ideas Come
During the Day, and Work
Starts at Nightfall-Window
Displays Are Often Costly
and Represent Great Sums
of Money.
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IT IS UNLoADED BY COOLIES WHO CARRY IT UPON THEIR
HEADS.

BABY IN basket beside her. The child
was quiet. AS l chucked 1t under the
chin two yellow dimples broke out in it's
cheeks, and it smiled. In another place
l saw three month-o4d baby lying in
a pile of white cotton waste on the floor
of the mill
X X
This factory works day and night, and
there are quite as many children en-
pIoyed in the night shift as in the day.
time. One thousand hands are always
busy Sunday and week days, all the year
through. Its chief product Is cotton
yarn for the domestic weavers. This is
made up into bundles, which are
then packed into bales of 400 pounds
each, and shipped all over the country.
The yarn is woven into cloth on hand
looms, and it supplies a large part of the
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come into vogue, and it is used more and
more every day by both men, women and
children.
One Of the Americans employed in the
tobacco factory at Shanghai tells me they
had big strike the other day. A thousand
odd girls left the establishment and re-
fused to return until their grievance was
settled. The trouble, strange to say,
came from a coffin.
The girls were In the habit of changing
from one department to another without
asking the manager, and they looked SO
much alike that the foreign officials could
not tell If they were in their right places.
Thereupon a system of badges was insti-
tuted. giving to each girl a pin labeled
with characters indicating the name of
the department to which she belonged
Every girl had to have her own badge
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OW do the shop

OW do the shop
windows of Wash
ington's stores get
ID e g S e d'?" is a
query not many
can answer in de-
tail. That the win
dows do get dress
ed, almost as often
as a great lady and
with as much care
and attention to
STYLE and effects
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HE 70 w t h OF
Shanghai b e a t S
that of the gourd
of Jonah, which
sprang up In a
night. It Is now a
modern Europea-.
city. 1t has busi-
ness blocks (which
might By dropped
down New York
or London and not
be- out Of place,
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everybody knows. but the details thereof
and the labor, skill and artistic talent in
volved are as unknown to the general
public as the secrets of the bellies boudoir
10 her admiring SWANS.
Window dressing is an art with as many
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and residences whiC., would be f1ne IN
Washington or Pe.is. Along the Buno'
the wide road which faces the river. are
a dozen or Tore banks whose capital
runs into the tens of millions and whose
managers are trusted that they can
dip into the pockets of the nations and
draw out at pleasure. On the same
street are clubhouses. some OF which
nave cost hundreds Of thousands OF dol
lars to build. There are big hotels
where you can live as we'll as at home,
and shops, with plate glass windows
containing European goods OF every de-
.cription. Shanghai is the Paris OF the
tar east. 1t is one OF the richest cities
Of Asia, and it takes the best of all that
Is going.
Shanghai is preparing to manufacture
Tor the new China 1t is putting up
factories and foundries and starting all
sorts of new industries. 1t has SILK
Natures which are producing bales of
raw silk for our American weavers,
modern -four mills equipped with Mil
waukee machinery. and a cigarette fac
trust, which employs more than 1000
hands 1t has eight great cotton mills
with several hundred thousand spinoies,
and some which have $1,000 or $1,000
d
these mills over $1,000 Chinese men, won-
IN and children are employed, and they
are spinning and weaving cotton quite
as we'll as in any Of our American rae
tories The most of them are managed
by Chinese foremen and they give some
idea of how the Celestials expect to make
their own cloth In the future.
During my stay here / have visited
some of the biggest of the cotton facto-
ries / went through the establishment
of the Soy Chez Cotton Spinning Com
pany today. 1t lies on the Whampoa rfv-
er. the branch of the Yanstse which
gives Shanghai access to the sea, and
landed right at the mills and the goods
shipped thousands of miles into the In
terror by means of the rivers or to japan
or the United States. The suburb con-
nected with 1t is known as Hongkew.
This Is a great factory center, and its
smokestacks dot the stream. running
along its banks almost to the Yangtse.
The buildings of the Soy Chez COM
pany cover several acres. They are OF
gray brick and are Swallowed by a smoke
stack which rises to the height Of
twelve-story fiat. Entering them, found
over a thousand men, women and chill
dren at work. l went through room after
room filled with girls who were weaving
and spinning, and I saw 200 children
tending the machines. Some of them
were little tots not higher than my waist
and many did not reach to my shoulders.
The smaller children we're pulling bas-
kets filled with bobbins here and there
about the rooms. The larger ones were
tending the spinning mules and all were
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dow dresser schemes and plans all day
and then begins work when his cotem-
poraries cease. This applies usually to
large department storesLand It was in
such that the up-to-date decorator held
forth.
His is a regular dual personality in
every way. BY day he is manager of the
entire store, which Is patronzed by the
most exclusive and fashionable shoppers
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dow drHsers. Mile after mile they stroll
through the woods. noting the tint of
a leaf here, bit of sky above the tree
tops there. the CLEAN of snow against a
holly bush, the richness Of evergreens
and tints and hues which the mother ar
fist of all has daringly put in the same
"set.''
Often he explained, my seemingly
inartistic use of the most vivid colorings
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and-silver-spangled gauze ribbon of
unobtrusive- shades, unrolled and coaxed
from the floor half way up the rear wall.
There they are held by carelessly tied
bows. 1t seems much more simple than
1t really is.
This store also has an interior staff Of
decorators in charge of young man
who began his business career as helper
in the upholstery department. He dis
covered that he could handle carpets and
rugs deity. He was given a chance to
'see what he could do and did it. To-
day he is responsible for the varying
ideas in ceiling and wall ornamentation,
in displays of the specia! selling article
for the occasion and for the best arrange
ment of whatever might be overlooked If
left merely on the counters or center ia
bles. He must think up new ways of
draping the evergreen and smilax at
Christmas, devise Fourth of July ideas
that have not been utilized by his COM
petitors and be generally on the jump.
The department stores do not have all
the talent, however Mems furnishing
shops have each their own especial win
dow timmers. The furniture stores en-
ploy men who know how to place furni-
ture In window SO that 1t will look nat
ural.
The hardest thing in the whole bust
ness said one Of them rs to accom-
plish this. Did you ever tumble the fur
niture in room and then try to put 1T
about so 1t would not have a stiff, set
look? Well, that same furniture in a
window will take on an absolutely dia-
bolic determination to look as though it
had been hewed out of rock. 1t takes
years to learn how to give it that natural
appearance which causes people to ex-
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different schools and methods as that
represented by the palette. Each sue
cessful decorator has his own especial
trend which he, follows out. no matter
what the material to be utilized, size of
the window or nature of his patrons.
With one it is an effort to obtain one
striking centerpiece, from which radiate,
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SHANGHAI.

Copyright 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
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storage tanks. l found such tanks at
Hankow, 600 miles up the Yangtze XII
ang, and saw the steamers unloaded by
means of pump. The tanks there hold
tens of thousands of barrels. They have
factories connected with them, where the
tin plate is made into five-gallon cans.
These are filled with oil and are distrib-
uted by the Yanstzeeand its tributaries.
The stuff is economically handled, being
sold in smaller and smaller packages as
it gets farther away from the ports. and
in some places almost by the spoonful
The Standard Oil Company has tanks at
Tientsin and Hongkong. 1t. does by far
the biggest oil business in China, although
the Burmese, Russian and Sumatra com
panieS compete.
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Within the past year one Of these latter
companies has opened UP a new oil terri
tory about two hundred miles north of
Picking. The oil is carried in cans on
wheelbarrows over one hundred miles to
a canal and thence floated down to the
capital. The Wheelbarrow men go in car
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ct is impossible for any one to lay
down a system for his helpers to fol-
low he continued. Each one must
figure it out for himself. AS we'll try
to tell an artist how to paint picture!
And not the least Of my trials Is en-
deavoring to train boys for window
dressers who just think they would
like it. and have not the slightest tall
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
BELATED STORY TELLS HOW
ROOSEVELT ROUTED THUG
Landed on .AssaiI ants Jaw When He
Was Attacked While Taking
Walk One Night.

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA story
of how Roosevelt, when president,
knocked out a would-be assailant was
made public here today for the first
time, following the report OF the man
ner In which he handled the man
who attacked him at Island Park, n.
Oak.
Roosevelt's fondness for long walks
led him to. start of at midnight one
night. With Secret Service Agent
Craig. who later was killed In a trolley
accident at Pittsfeld, Mass, Roose-
welt walked to the home OF Elihu
Root, then secretary of state, who
joined him. They we're walking down
Connecticut-ave., with Craig about
fifteen feet behind. Craig was start
led TO sec a big man spring from be
hind a tree toward the president. The
secret agent drew his revolver. be-
fore he took a step there was thud.
The president was rubbing his right
fist. which had been badly bruised
against the assailant's jaw.
For fifteen minutes Craig worked
with the supposed robber before he
was fully conscious. He was unarmed
and asserted he had intended to ask
for money, not knowing the identity
NJ his prospective victim
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
TRUANT COMES HOME
TO FIND BRIDE DEAD
Young Brooklyn Broker Stayed All
Night After Stepping Out to
Buy Cigarettes.

NEW YORK Sept. Mrs. Edna
May Lyon 90 years old and a bride
of seven months, was found dead from
gas poisoning In the bathroom OF her
home at No. 1852 Pacific-st. Brooklyn
when her husband, Oscar F. Lyon
came home after spending the night
with friends.
The young man, fire insurance
broker and a member OF the Twenty
third regiment, left his bride about 10
o'clock at night. telling her that he
was going out to buy package OF
cigarettes. He also promised TO bring
his wife a bottle OF sarsaparilla.
But while buying the cigarettes he
met several friends and forgot all
about going home until a. m. He
tiptoed into the fiat, expecting 10 find
his wife asleep. When he found the
bedroom and other rooms of the fat
deserted he became alarmed. He
traced strong odor OF gas to the
bathroom door, which he found locked.
Then the young man called his sister.
in-law. Miss Worlne Dodge, who has
an apartment in the same house.
When she came he kicked in a panel
in the bathroom door and slipped the
bolt. The bride lay dead In the bath
tub
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
GAMINs
FULL OF TRICKS
l1eet Arabs Have Greatly Increased
n Numbers-0ne Youth Steals
$4,000 BY Blncoo Game.

BERLIN, Sept. 7.--Americans who
revisit Berlin after some years quickly
perceive that the street arabs have
greatly increased In numbers and
vastly deteriorated In manners. All
these gamins are In constant pursuit
OF pennies: they plague foreigners TO
buy useless tribes at high prices; they
fan over each other to open the doors
OF private automobiles and carriages,
and leave the stains OF their fingers
on the handles; they turn cart
wheels before a visitor until he
brides them to go away =
q Such Objectionable methods are
honest, but some OF the street boys are
vicious criminals. The police have
offered reward of $3.50 for the ar
rest OF one such; they have identified
him as gamin, but cannot find him.
Before postonice to and from
which Office boys carry money for
their employers such messenger en-
countered a respectfully dressed young
fellow who stood In seeming amaze
ment with a half-dollar piece in his
hand. The messenger boy of course
strolled up and asked what was the
matter. why. I just picked up this
haIf-dollar and don't know what TO
do with IT, said the other. 1T does
not belong to me-"
The messenger stared In wonder at
snch simplicity.
Pocket It." he advised, before the
policeman sees It,"
"Oh, / cannot do that" said the
other lad, that would be theft
The conversation continued, the two
boys strolled along while the messen.
ger explained that II his new acquaint-
ance could not burden his conscience
with a half-dollar that did not belong
to him he would put II in a safe place.
You can trust me- continued young
hopeful See here, my boss trusts me
with whole roll OF gold" He proud
ly displayed a bank packet OF gold
pieces such as are transmitted through
the postoffice.
Good gracious" said the young in.
nocence, do you really carry all that
gold about in your hand?"
why not?'.
well suppose il Is all right, but
/ always put my money in this pocket"
Five minutes more and the messen-
ger had. the half-dollar for "safe-keep-
Ing" and the disguised gamin had the
packet of gold In his pocket, Just to
see how IL felt to carry so much
money" After another FIVE minutes
he gave an identical packet to the
messenger. When his employer
opened IL 1t contained-pieces OF lead.
Within week the wicked but in
genious gamin had practiced this trick
so successfully that he had stolen
$4,000 and avoided arrest. Then the
police offered the reward for him.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08

ST. PAUL. Sept. Miss Mabel
Boardman OF Washington. member Of
the central committee Of the Red
Cross society. yesterday pointed out
in an address to the national conser'
walton congress that while Japan is
planning a permanent Red Cross fund
OF s7,50O,0O0 it seems impossible to
raise such a fund in the United
States, though citizens give literally
as occasion requires. New York has
promised to give 100000 toward a
permanent fund in the United States,
and Miss Boardman asked whether
the United States might not raise
$4,000, 900.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
FAMOUS WHISTLER HEARS
OWN TUNES ON PHONOGRAPH

Guido Gialdini. the accomplished
whistler, who contributes refined
musical number to the Miles theater
bill this week, Is something OF celeb
rity In the old world. Before he left
Europe for his present tour of America
his services We're In great demand
ariong manufacturers OF photographic
records and many of the records he
has made have been imported to this
country
Even while Gialdini was registering
In the Morgan house, on his arrival In
this city, someone I'm the hotel start
ed photograph going and the artist
instantly recognized the record as one
he had made i'm Berlin. IL was purely
a coincidence, for the man at the pho
nograph had no idea that the author
of the whistling fantasy was In the
room. To his great establishment,
Gialdni Joined in the tune and when
he had finished caused even greater
surprise with his explanation.
A peculiar formation OF the teeth Is
accountable for Gialdinfs unusual
ability as a whistler. He has whistled
since he was old enough TO know how
to pucker his lips and II has become
almost a second nature with him. He
whistles almost necessarily simply
because he likes il, and also because,
as he claims, II is very beneficial
exercise.
Gialdini was a linen salesman be-
fore he took to the stage. On one OF
his business trips, in Switzerland, his
fellow passengers on the boat were
so impressed by his talents that they
encouraged him TO become profes
sional. His first public appearance
was at a charity fair in Berlin. and
his work created a sensation. From
Berlin he went To- Paris, and thence
on TO other large cities OF the CONT
nent. scoring tremendously every
where
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
INSURANCE MEN GATHER.
National Association OF Life Under
writers Opens Sessions Thursday.

Prior to the opening OF the twenty
first annual convention Of the Nation
al Association OF Life Underwriters
to be held In the Hotel Pontchartrain
Thursday. Friday and Saturday. a
meeting of the executive council was
held in the ladies parlor OF the hotel
Wednesday afternoon. Much import
ant business came up for discussion
and action. John II. Whittlngtcfl, Of
Los Angeles. president of the associ.
alton spent Sunday and Monday In
Detroit, leaving Tuesday for Toronto
or business and returning again tn
Detroit for the executive council
meeting. A large delegation OF insur-
ance men from Canada Is expected 10
arrive Thursday. Among notable
speakers TO be heard during the con
vention sessions will be Ebert Hub
bard. the famous "Philistine" Of East
Aurora. ~ Y: George T. Wilson. OF
New York, vice-president of the
Equitable Assurance Co, Insurance
Commissioner Barry and Hugh Chal-
mers OF Detroit.
The social entertainments to be Of
fered the delegates include theater
party. automobile trips and boat ride.
a banquet 10 bring the meeting To a
close. Saturday evening.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-08
BERLIN COMPLAINS
OF OBERAMMERGAU
"Oniy Americans and the English
Count for Anything There" Is
Lament Of One Paper.

BERLIN. Sept THE cutlery
against the commercialism OF ODER
ammergau" continues at regular inter
walls In Berlin. Not Americans but
Germans most complain of being
neeced. although occasionally an
American tourist arrives In Berlin
lugubriously displaying receipts for
Unexpectedly large amounts, saved as
memento OF How ! Was Done at
Oberammergau
The German press is taking up the
cry not In regret over American mis-
fortunes. but because IL strongly OBJ
jects to what X terms the Americana
zation Of the Bavarian Mecca.
"Only Americans and English count
for anything at Oberammergau: We
Germans aud other ordinary mortals
are thrust out altogether" is the COM
plant of one paper. which adds;
when Mammon Comes I'm at the
Door Devotion Flies Out of the Win
dow
A German illustrated paper re-
Gently printed on its front page pic
ture OF a long-haired. loose-robed OBJ
erammergauer labelled Anton Lang
Uhe Christus In the play. holding out
his hand in the fashion OF an Italian
waiter toward a soft-hatted American
tourist.
Americans themselves seem to take
much more generous view OF the
situation The majority OF them are
entirely content with the return they
got for dollars spent at Oberammer-
gau. Some indeed are indignant at
| the reproaches cast at the villagers
for the alleged mercenary dealings.
| Mrs. Thackara. the wife Of the
| American consul-general here, is thor
oughly familiar with the cost OF liv-
| ing In Germany, and thinks IL absurd
/ that Oberammergauers should be ex-
pected to entertain spectators at the
| Passion Play. She says
1.-THE requirements of the natives
are OF the simplest. Very unpreten-
tious dwellings,, furniture and food
suffice for them at ordinary times, but
once i'm ten years throughout the sum-
mer they are Obliged to act as hosts
TO several thousand wealthy. exacting
tourists. i'm order to properly satisfy
whose needs they are obliged TO buy
crockery. cutlery, linen. etc, while In
most cases an additional story Is
built onto their cottages. staircases
are inserted In place or ladders, and
many other Improvements are neces-
sary. Yet only once In decade. ana
/ that merely throughout the summer.
three times week can the villagers
of Oberammergau count upon board
ers. The miracle is that they can af-
ford to make the thing pay at all.