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The Columbus journal., 1910-08-24

up their prices all the time and some Of my friends
have tried to convince me that you could get
meal cheaper at the higher priced restaurants in
New York than in London.
Il determined this time to collect some real
data for comparison and a result I have kept
the bills Of many meals I had in London. 1t Is
my intention to duplicate the meals I had over
there at of the restaurants here. item for
item. did this with of them the other day
and demonstrated that for such a meal London is
a lot cheaper than New York.
Here is the bill for a luncheon I had at one
of the most extensive hotels In London:
The Columbus journal., 1910-08-24

HE return OF Colonel
!: !: 4: !: !; !: :: !:
Roosevelt and party NNNE
from Africa. with the WNIMz,
cargo of animal speci- SdEA
mems which had been
killed during their in Y
vasion of the jungle. Y
caused a New York
dealer in wild beasts
TO talk Interestingly of the busi-
ness in which his firm is engaged.
There are nearly a dozen firms
in New York city that carry on
an immense business in the trans
The Columbus journal., 1910-08-24

MADAME MERRI.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
The Woman Who Shops and Shops and Never Buys
Makes the Department Store Girl Miserable
Cynthia Grey Learning Many of
the Troubles of the Shop Girls
Life i'm Tacoma.
BY Cynthia Grey

In one of the big downtown de-
partment stores the other day |
stood watching the stream of be-
lated shoppers crown in packed
mass through the doors just sec
ond or two before the closing
hour.
rs it always like this?" / asked
the girl at the umbrella counter.
Usually worse she said.
Some women just seem to wait
until the curtains are pulled down
and then take that as signal to
begin their afternoons shopping.
I'VE can't make move to go
or disturb the trimmings of our
counter until the bell rings, when
every shopper has left the store.
Sometimes it's o'clock or $3.50
before we can leave
This made me wonder what the
seamy side of the life behind tho
counter really was, so the next day
l asked the glove counter girl to
tell me her troubles.
At Glove Counter
eve don't have as many as
some of the other girls" she
laughed. Most of the women
know pretty we'll what they want.
The worst difficulty is that so
many thing they wear smaller
size than they do. One came in
the other day and said she wore
51a.
81 knew she couldn't wear that
size, and put on pair of 6 u
They fitted splendidly,' she said.
| didn't say word.
/ next inquired Of the pretty
girl with the bobbing curls at the
veil counter. Whatever her an
noyances, they didn't seem to have
affected her good nature.
Cur homeliest customers" she
said. "eXepect a veil to transform
them into raving beauties. Lots of
times some old witch will come in
and try on. every veil in our en-
tire stock-big dots, and little
dots, flowered lace wells and plain
ones, and then decide that none of
them are becoming"
At the hosiery counter l made
my own observations. 7 saw
ladies look over the stock of Ital-
ian silk, thread and cotton Isle
thread stockings, in black and col
ors, and at the end of this eX-
hausting surver, say: well, |
guess l will just take some plain
black ones today, size az, tho
kind I've been getting right along
three for g dollar"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
AT THE TACOMA.
Nine. Nazimoya Tonight.

No theatrical engagement in
this city this season will be more
eagerly anticipated than that cd
Nine. Nazimova, the English
American star, whose perform
ance of the intellectual dramas i'm
English have been so widely dis
cussed and commented upon.
She will come to the Tacoma
theater for two nights, beginning
tonight.
For her enga cement here Nine
Nazimoya will present two Liays.
The opening bill tonight will be
Ibsen's Little Tyof."
On Tuesday evening Nine.
Nazimova will present The Fairy
Tale" a new play from the Ger
man, of Arthur Schnitzler.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

Strolling along further ! stop
ped to talk to a naughty beauty
who presided over the hair coun-
ter. Looking over a baby noun
tain of false hair she exclaimed:
"My sakes, the ignorance of some
of them people that come here!
Lots of 'em pick up one of these
here rats and ask what they're
for! As if everyone nowadays
didn't know!
THE worst, though" she said
with offended dignity, sis when
they doubt your word. I'll hold a
rat or switch up to their head
and they'll insist that it doesn't
match. after l tell 'em it does. ]
guess | ought to know And Civ
ing a vicious jab to one of her
floosened puffs. she handed a new
customer the usual Something in
hair?"
= Upstairs in the millinery de-
#bartment a business-like little
woman said feelingly: IT'S a
wonder that all of us up here are
not in padded cells. It's the hard
est section to work in there is, be-
cause only one out of every ten
buy, and less than that number
ever had any intention of buying
What makes them come
them"
Just to put in time, to amuss
themselves.
The MiliinerS' Troubles
1--WE milliners are misrepresent.
ed anyhow. So many think that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
"A Thurru Rest
by EDMUND VANCE COOKE.

ing which will be like the little boy who took
THOROUGH REST
Examinations and don't if passed,
An don't if didn't vacations at last!
Gee! thought woud git the days dragged by
AS Davy Jones who calls an don't know when to
Pop ought b ut she knows BEST
a boy o my age a thorough rest.
an Dave will get mornin' bright an soon
till flies till
Cause dinner the Hustlehardshis nine,
Is gon to series for the championship with mine.
The behind at dark has the others best.
Then I'm goin to learn the>other fellows how to dive
Billy Potter thirteen in twenty-five.
An
the block, an if win he'll bust face
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
Freckles
"Once Freckled Always Freckled"
No Longer True--How to
Remove Quickly.

Miss E. M. Berger, of Beloit,
Wis, along with thousands of 9TH
ers, believed it impossible to re-
move freckles, and that she'd al
ways have them. She knows bet
ter now. She heard OF Kintho,
got a two-ounce package and
tells her experience in the follow
ing letter:
Il was always of tho opinion
that freckles could NOT be re-
moved, but 1 thought I would give
Kintho a trial. and IL has truly con-
WINGED me that freckles CAN be re-
moved. 1t has proved all you claim
for it." .
Get a two-ounce package of
Kintho extra strength) at toilet
goods counter of Ryner Malstrom
Drug Co., and see how quickly 1t
will Danish your freckles-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
oe5zigs:@tY

The young people of the First
Baptist church will hold a recep-
tion Wednesday of this week. The
reception will be under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Leonard Ellis, chair
man OF the social committee.
Twelve members of the Basket
club were entertained Friday
evening at the home of Mrs.
George H. Stone at her nome ON
South G street. Several of the
members had just returned from
their summer vacation, and the
greater part of the evening was
spent in the pleasant exchange of
experiences.
Mr.. George T.. Griffith, former
ly of this city and now of Los
Angeles, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
A. f. Albertson.
Mr.. Frederick Helig, who for
the past three years has been in
Alaska, is the guest of his sister,
Mrs. Foster Bullard of North
Twenty-ninrh street. Mr. Helig
expects to spend the winter in this
city.
I'm honor of Mrs. Frank Mon
telius of Grand Rapids a whist tea
Marie Metzger Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. Foster Billiard has cards
out for an afternoon bridge party
to be held at her home on North
Twenty-ninth street Thursday.
The NeighbOrhoOd Bridge club,
which has been recently organized
to hold fortnightly meetings dur
ing the winter, will be entertain
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Forbes Haskell, 521 North Aims
worth avenue on Wednesday.
On Tuesday of last week Miss
agnes LeBross was united in mar
riage with Frank l.. Poole. The
ceremony was solemnized only in
the presence of the immediate
family and few intimate friends.
A farewell reception was given
10 Rev. and Mrs. Horace Clapham,
who for fourteen years has been
pastor of the Trinity church, who
leaves next Tuesday for Southern
California, by the Ladies auxil-
larry of that church. The pastor
and his wife leave with the best
wishes and deep regrets of their
Hook.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for a banquet and social
evening at the Y. w. G. A. tomor-
row evening. The affair will as
semble the girls who were last
summer members of the Formosa
camp.
Mrs. C. Kinnear will entertain
the Missouri Woman's club tomoT-
row afternoon at her. home, 402
South o street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

we'll tell our customers anything
just for the sake of selling a hat.
Now that's not SO. We would
much rather send a woman Off
with a hat that is pretty, becom-
ing and a credit to the store than
with one that isn't"
OF all the departments, the girls
standing up trying on suits all
day got the most of my sympathy.
The pests of this department
usually come in pairs. and | saw
dozens of women, each aceompa-
MED by q relative or friend, put
on suit after suit, many of which
EXACTLY correspondent with the
price and description they gave,
and then made their escape. muir
muring: mo, | don't think I'll
buy today. We were just looking
Iaround."
Isn't that annoying" / observ-
ed to the little woman, who had
just sunk into a chair eXhaused
after one of these ordeals.
1T happens every day" she
said. and they expect the same
patience and attention when they
have no idea of getting a suit, and
We know they haven't.
Now, we're awfully busy up
here, and while we're attending to
such people customers are kept
waiting who really want to buy.
The management expects those of
us who are paid a big salary to
have big sales record at the end
of the week. 1t isn't human nature
for us to want to waste our time -.
and il isn't business"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

That's what but he'll find which of BEST
I'm feelin pretty strong I'm having such rest
There's goin a picnic you life I'm gon.
I'm entered in the swmmin pole an rowin
The an potato mine bet dime,
An in the mile simply got have the prize "for time,
ticket the like that prize the
A Teller exercise well just rest
gon to visit unces farm. He lets me do the chores
right the field
going to git bag to punch so won't git too fat
We're sx-day I've to train for that
want many things don't know which is best
vacations fore git thorough rest"
"Goodby, Little Tot
Copyright odge Pub. Co..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

When an umbrella is worn out,
10 not throw it away before you
ave removed the ribs. They are
lust the things to use to support
lowers instead of stakes, because
hey are strong and can hardly be
seen.
Soak silver in sour milk over
hight. In the morning it will look
bright as if it had been polish
d.
In grandmother's day fruit
cakes and buildings We're kept in
I stone jar with am apple. The
apple shivels without decaying,
.mparting it's dampness to the
cakes. By renewing the fruit
when necessary, such cake can be
kept in proper condition for a
long time.
Before hanging out the clothes
n the winter, rinse the soapsuds
from hands, rub a teaspoonful of
vinegar over them and dry and
warm them we'll. This treatment
is sure preventive of chapped
hands, and keeps them soft and
white.
=
Even quite cheap table linen
may be made to look as glossy
as finedamask If ironed in the fol-
lowing way: After the linen has
been washed, boiled and rinsed,
wiring as dry as possible, roll in a
dry sheet, and leave for an hour.
Then iron until thoroughly dry.
Take old stock Tugs and socks
black or colored, cut them length
wise into inch strips and put
them into mopstick. Dampen
it'll kerosene and let hang in the
zen air for day, when nor
III be ready for use. Shake well
ael time, and occasionally add
little more oil, always letting
air thoroughly.
the best ScrubDmg brush fol
porches is made by clamping q
scrubbing brush in mop handle
Iron pots and utensils which
are not in daily use are apt I'd
rust; to prevent this, make a
paste with thick starch and q
strong solution of soda and water,
and with this coat the inside OF
the article in question. This can
easily. be rinsed off when the pot
is wanted.
When the cream of wheat Is
ready to serve chop quickly five
bananas. sweet with a little con-
fectioner's sugar and a teaspoon
of lemon juice, and pass through
a sieve. Serve this with the
wheat with or without cream.
IT, hIa aaIk H. A. 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

ed recently what she considered
the hest period of young sing
er's life.
Instantly the prima donna an
swered, "Those years in which she
knows no one but Master Work.
and in which not a soul knows
her"
Continuing, Miss Yaw said:
Work, as we all know, is after
Iall its own reward. There is no
road to success in any line of en-
deavor except by work, and I
know CT no better sensation than
the satisfaction that comes from
resultful toll"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

a heaping tablespoonful in a
quart of water is one of the best
lotions for tired eyes. The wa
ter should be pure, and after the
salt is dissolved the whole should
be strained through cheeseclOth,
as there are always impure PAL
ticles that will irritate if allowed
to get under the lids. Have. the
water pleasantly warm, not hot
nor cold, and use either an eye
glass or bit of old linen; battle
without rubbing,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

Rev. +. II. Groom speaks Sun
day evening, Oct. %, on Char
acteristics of Delinquent Chill
dren. ," Central Christian church,
North l. and Steele SITS. $50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
CyNtkiaGrcys
6rrespo1,deI.L

Dear Miss Grey:
= What will remove warts?
GRATEFUL.
A: Apply with wooden tooth
pick a drop of nitric acid until
the wart smarts. Then put on a
couple of drops of ammonia. Re-
peat daily until wart is killed.
Dear Miss Grey:
Please tell me how to make I'M
cooked chill sauce, and how to
stuff peppers so they will keep all
winter. A READER.
A: Chilli sauce is cooked souce,
no uncooked. For stuffed peppers,
cut tops of green peppers and re-
move seeds. Fill with salt and
cover with cold water. Let stand
two days and drain. Soak in cold
water a day, then fill with the fol-
lowing stuffing: Two tablespoons
each grated horse radish and
minced cabbage, one teaspoon
chopped onion. one-half teaspoon
each of powdered mace, nutmeg
and ginger, one teaspoon each
celery seed, peppercorns, sugar
and mustard seed, and one table,
spoon olive oil. Tie on tops, pack
in crock and fill crock with boil
ing vinegar. Pour off and repeat
scalding a week later.
Dear Miss Grey:
In entertaining friend in tho
evening is it proper to serve a
lunch? If so, of what should it
consist? ALICE.
A: Yes. Coffee and sandwiches
or lemonade and cakes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
Ellen Beach Yaw Thursday.

Ellen Beach Yaw. the foremost
living American coloratura sopra-
no, who is to be heard in concert
at the Tacoma Thursday, was ask
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24
This Repair Directory Runs Every Monday
N. .u...anz Is Your Ad Here -z--.u-.-z...

Z Pipes repaired at Princes Cigar
Store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

Table salt in the proportion Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

Soak silver in sour milk over
hight. In the morning it will look
bright as if it had been polish
4
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ALL AROUhD
THE HOrE|
By Cynthia Grey

When an umbrella is worn out,
10 not throw it away before you
ave removed the ribs. They are
lust the things to use to support
lowers instead of stakes, because
hey are strong and can hardly be
seen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-24

When the cream of wheat is
ready to serve chop quickly five
bananas. sweet with a little con-
fectioner's sugar and a teaspoonI
of lemon juice, and pass through
a sieve. Serve this with the
wheat with or without cream.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
A Martyr to Art.

(which tooth?" inquired the man of
forceps grimly.
ANY one you like responded the
victim calmly, $50 long as it's front
one"
But began the astounded dentist.
"Hurry upw thundered the visitor.
With bleeding heart the operator
hitched his forceps on to a bit of abb
solutely sound ivory, dragged his pa
tent three times around the room
and
"Hey. presto" smiled the dentist.
"It's out. But will you be so good as
to tell me why on earth you wanted a
sound tooth extracted"
"By all meanth." responded the pa
tient. You thee. I'm an actor. and
have to take part where the thpeak-
er lithpth. At firtht ! couldn't mathter
it. but now I'm thure it'll be thimply
thcreaming thuctheth!"
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
The Ever Active Brain.

The question. Does the brain ever
rest?" would seem to be answerable
only in the negative. Unconscious
cerebration appears to be necessary
concomitant of the powers of intellect,
and during sleep. whether we remem-
ber it or not. we are always dream
ing. OF course. during waking time
we are perpetually thinking. thinking.
thinking-not always logically and de-
liberately. but. all the same. thinking.
Dream is the thought Of the sleep
time, when reason is out Of the game,
and the fancy. or Imagination, has. the
reins. with nothing to hold her back.
We take many trip under her guild
ance that we are unable to recall when
she has resigned the reins into the
hands of reason. Awake or asleep. we
are always busy. The mind never
rests.-New York American.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
PROVIDING For His Guests.

Two men stopped at the store of Il
haberdasher who displayed in his
showcase job lot of collars at 3
cents apiece. One of them bought two
dozen. in sizes ranging from Is to 171a.
His friend politely controlled his sur
prise at discovering that the broker
wore five cent collars and inquired only
about the elastic neck. The purchaser
said:
I'VE live in the suburbs. Friends
who visit us and remain overnight
unexpectedly want clean collars the
next morning. 1t depletes my own
stock too far to keep furnishing these.
l can't always supply comfortable
size either. OF course the collars new
er come back. Since / discovered the
scheme of five cent collars l can pick
up anybody, take him home with me
and inform him that he need not bring
any luggage. because one Of my wife's
beneficences includes five cent tooth
brushes for the wayfarer. New York
Sun.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
Yorkshire MONS Finasrr.

A Yorkshire ipau and a Lancashire
man were conversiug together the
other day. The Lancashire man said
to the Yorkshire man. "Weil. Bill. do
you know the best way TO lind York
shire mans lost tingers:'
No" says Bill.
"Well. will tell you what happened
at our place the other day. Yorkshire
Dan had two of his fingers cut off
with a steam saw. and they got lost
among the sawdust. aud two of my
mates were down on their hands and
knees looking for them when the fore
man came up and asked what they
were doing. One of them said:
1--WE are looking for Dams fingers.
"'Oh, come OUT of the road said the
foreman. That's not the way to find a
Yorkshire mans fingers at the same
time taking shilling out of his pocket
and throwing it among the sawdust.
when the two fingers at once popped
up after it.
There. said the foreman. That's
the way to find Yorkshire mans lost
fingers "-Pearsons
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
NEGRO Business League.

Members of the National Negro
Business League will gather in New
York next week to hold their eleventh
annual meeting and talk over trade
prospects for the coming year. That
many negroes, especially in the South,
where they are supposed to be down
trodden, have made good in busi-
ness way and accumulated much filthy
1ucre, will be amply proven by this
gathering. Booker Washington and
many other colored men of promi-
nence will attend, and Theodore
Roosevelt has promised to deliver an
address.
The distinguished editorial cores
pondent OF the Outlook is now hard at
work on the speeches he proposes to
deliver on his tours of the West and
South. Nearly all of the addresses
have been dictated, but all will be
carefully revised. Much significance
VIII attach to these first formal utter
ances on national questions, and the
former President Is weighing each
word carefully. 1t may safely be
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS:

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Supervisors of Forrest coun-
ty, Mississippi, by virture of an order
passed at its August meeting, 1910,
proposes and intends to borrow the
sum of $s,576.94 from the Jail fund OF
the County for the purpose of defray-
ing the current expenses of the year
other than judiciary expenses, and to
execute therefore a loan war
rant in the denomination of
sS,576.94 bearing five per cent
interest payable to H. Gillis,
County Treasurer, and maturing and
being payable January 1, 1911.
NOW, unless ten per centum of the
adult taxpayers of the County, ex-
elusive of those who pay poll taxes
only shall petition against the issu-
ance Of said loan warrant before the
first Monday in September, 1910, then
same will be issued.
Witness my signature this, August
18th, 1910.
T. E. BATSON,
13-4Sats. Chancery Clerk.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
The Turkish Soldiers Fatalism.

The lethargy of mind which is the
mental habit ~ the Turkish soldier
the personal expression Of fatalism-is
q most valuable quality in its way. for
it means that its possessor is always
cool and collected. grumbles little and
has marvellous endurance. 1t is alien
to all forms of panic, just as it is alien
to conspicuous elan. If the Turkish
soldier never goes very fast. he never
goes very slow. Except by the best
trained or most dashing troops he Ia
bad to beat.-London Spectator.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13

We read lot about the students
- European countries, the press dis.
patches Indicating that their chief ac-
Slvity is in rioting, demonstrating and
raising the lower regions generally.
Now we shall have an opportunity to
Zee with our own eyes this strange
species, and Judge for ourselves
whether they are human. A hundred
genuine students from the University
'of Vienna, in black velvet jackets,
Nhite breeches, gay caps on their
heads and long black boots on theii
footsies, and armed with rapiers, are
on their way to America and will ar
rive at this port a week from to-
morrow. Accompanying the cutups
and sad dogs are hundred alumni,
presumably to keep them straight, and
also several proud papas and NAM
mas. All of the students are said to
be there with the voice, and they will
give several musical concerts while
on this side.
Felix Adler, founder and leader of
the New York Society for Ethical Cul-
ture, is fifty-nine years old today.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-13
fEEVER WOMEN
Alvs.ys Keep Their Hair az Fascinat-
4 4 Ing a. Possible.

aoma women are born beautiful;
6ome grow up to be beautiful. ana
some are clever enough to make tnem-
selves beautiful.
But all agree that no matter now
nerfect the features, how rosy the
cheeks, how sparkling the eye, no wo-
man can attain the perfection OF beau
~ unless she has an abundance OF
lnstrous hair--of her own.
And thanks to Parisian Sage, wnicn
ran now be obtained all over Ameri-
a. every woman can have naturai
hair il abundance: hair as iustrous
as the rising sun.
Partisan Sage is without the least
vestiee Of a doubt the most remark
able hair grower, invigorator ano
beautifier ever compounded
Il Il 40 far ahead of all commercial
tonics that THE OWL DRUG co. qua
rentees ii to eradicate dandrun. stop
f.lIine hair and itching scalp In two
,veslks, or money back.
psrisian sage Is sdelightfuliy re-
fyeehink. and il not sticky or greasy
( 1errs bottle for SO cents at drug
es.ls everywiere and at THE OWL
6e7ro co. 16ail orders fllsd, cnarg-
~ sx1id, ~ 0iroux NJ co. Bufia- q !.
< ,3 .- y !. i. S rs ~ u &