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ayerts the danger by condensing the
nicotine and keeping 1t out Of the mouth.
Pipe users who cling to old pipes are
always injured by excess nicotine. An
old pipe is a dangerous thing and should
be handled with care. This will be I'M
pleasant news for many proud possess
ors of what confirmed pipe users call
sweet old pipes" The briar pipe aud
the meerschaum are the best-with the
latter the less dangerous IL properly
boiled frequently, so as TO get rld OF
excess nicotine. Briars should be dried
out in a very hot oven or better still in
hot sunshine where possible.
Science has now shown many errors
in the old-fashioned ideas rs to injur-
les from smoking. The nicotine In the
ideal smoke does absolutely no injury,
for it should be entirely burnt up. The
nicotine is not a drug to which smokers
become attached. The yellow fluid In
pipes and what stains the fingers Is not
nicotine-it is oil Of tobacco and 1t Is oil
of tobacco that gives the perfume to
cigar, pipe and cigarette.
The average man in good health can
smoke a pipe of light tobacco after each
meal without injury to his health. Per-
sons who smoke before going to bed are
invariably inhalers, and their sleepy
feelings come from being slightly poi
soned by inhaling carbon monoxide gas.
1t is habit that necessarily ID inJur-
ious. '-' -a
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sister of Mrs. John R. McLean). when
she married the Baron. He has advanced
steadily In his profession and is now
Russian Ambassador to Japan with every
prospect that he will ere long succeed
Baron Rosen as the Cars personal repre-
sentative at Uncle Sans seat of govern
ment.
The present prominence Of Clifford
Pinchot, until recently forester of the
United States. recalls the fact that his
sister married Sir Alan tombstone, a
British diplomat who has represent
ed King Edward in some of the
principal capitals of the world and
who is said to be slated to one
day get the coveted berth of British
envoy at Washington. Lady Her
bert sister of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
and widow of the late British ambassador
to the United States, proved how much
an American wife can, by her influence,
aid her husband to obtain desirable as
signments in the service. Miss Riggs,
who married Sir Henry Howard, is an
other American woman who has long
been conspicuous in British diplomatic
circles
Belgian diplomats constitute another
section of the cosmopolitan body of
statesmen where the popularity of Amer
lean women is attested. Baron Moncheur,
who was only recently transferred from
the post of Belgian minister to the
United States, has married successfully
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mate part of the game. and the sight
seers seldom realize that they are being
outrageously overeharged and as they
usually have plenty of money everybody
Is thoroughly contented.
The rougher element is usually granted
one Afternoon during which 1t is permitted
to throw the confetti en- platre, which is
really nothing but plaster of paris made
up into tiny pellets. This stuff can sting
the face severely, and is actually dam
gerous to the eyes. However, a fine
mask of wire on The order of n gigantic
tea strainer is usually worn to protect
the eyes and face Tons of this ma
terial In the form of little pellets Is
thrown away on the authorized day.
Everybody's clothes are white with it,
and the more congregated streets are
covered with the fine powder from it.
The carnival season also In most of the
cities where 1t Is of Importance celebrates
the ending of winter and the advent of
spring.
In Southern Europe, where snow is sell
dom seen along the Mediterranean Sea,
February is very warm. Hence spring
here begins early and roses, hyacinths,
carnations and many other flowers are
to be had in profusion. AS a result 1t Is
possible to throw away such flowers.
Whereas in most big American cities
enormous roses would be rather too ex-
pensive to throw away by the tens OF
thousands during the first half of Feb
ruary.
In Madrid the most important float this
,, season was typical of the Spanish cam
paign recently ended in Morocco. In Flor
ence the most admired float represented
1.-The Victory of Spring" and was a SUI
perb floral display. In Cannes the Wig
gest float was n giant mosquito, WIN ne
gauzy wings supported by an iron frame
work were covered with pretty girls in
handsome fancy costumes. At Lisbon the
most popular float referred to the return
of young King Manuel from his trip to
England and Paris and Spain.
At Nice an enormous polar bear held
up king carnival, who was attired as If
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cism of small section of the German
press. However. not all participants In
German American matrimonial alliances
nave gotten Off thus easily. Perhaps the
most historic example Of the obstacles
that may beset such couple is afforded
by the experience of the former Miss
Helen Mouton of New York, who mar
ried the late Count Paul Won Hatzfeldt-
Wildenburg, who was for many years
prior TO his death the German ambas-
sador to Great Britain. The couple came
athwart the wrath of the mignty Bis
marck who was bitterly and unreason-
ably prejudiced against all such inter-
national marriages and who actually
compelled the diplomat to divorce his
American wife. The Count complied
but following the downfall of Bismarck
he quickly remarked his former wife with
the joyous sanction of the late Empress
Frederick, who cordially detested Bis
marck.
Toe present German Emperor Is like
wise accused of upsetting things as an
aftermath of u German-American diplo-
matte marriage-that of Herr Won
Bruening and Mrs. Gordon Mckay, d.
vorced wife of the late millionaire. How
ever, the wrath of the Kaiser, in this
instance, was reported to have been
kindled not so much because of the
marriage as by reason of the report that
the couple had accepted a monetary set
Element from the former husband of the
bride. In the end, too, the sovereign
relented and restored Won Bruening to
the position in the diplomatic service
from which he had been deposed.
One of the most appealing love stories
of this generation eliminated a few
years ago In the marriage of the beau
tiful Miss Langham, of Kentucky, and
the late Baron Speck Won Sternbarg,
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parents down to the youngest fodder in
the family connection. All schools have
holiday and all public functions are dis
continued except such as the postoffice
and markets, which cannot be suspended
without serious inconvenience.
But the great fete day of the carnival
season is the Tuesday, the last day of
festivity that precedes the first day OF
Lent. This day is 'Mardi Gras," literally
French for Fat Tuesday, the adjective
fat being inherited from the Middle
Ages and referring to the fact that 1t
was the last Tuesday when fat living
could be INDUCED in until Easter ar
rived. This expression of "Mardi Gras"
has nowadays come to cover the whole
carnival season.
This is the historical origin of the
carnival season which today is considered
one Of the worlds sights, and on which
annually millions of dollars are expended
when the cost of travelling Is added to
the other expenses of making successful
these gay days of dancing in the street,
of masquerading in masks and dominoes
and throwing flowers and confetti.
This season the Sunday before Lent fell
on February 9th, making Tuesday, the
9th, the Mardi Gras for 1910. Unsuri
passed weather made all the various car
nivals tremendous affairs, that were
hugely attended. All the carnivals are
municipal functions and except in CAPT
tails like Lisbon, Rome and Madrid, the
mayor of each city is in charge of the
celebration. Even In the capital elites
the royalties are merely spectators of
the professions and in happier years, be-
fore the danger of assassination made
royalty so afraid of big crowds, kings and
queens were known to mingle with the
happy throngs and throw roses and con-
fetti like ordinary and more care-free
mortals.
At Mi-Careme another big carnival is
held to celebrate the fact that the peni-
tentia season is half ended and until
the last week of March, and even ut some
places until early in April, the carnival
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two American society leaders. His Sec
ond wife. who was Miss Clayton, daugh-
ter of Gen. Powell Clayton, soldier, poll
tlcian and diplomat, is accounted one OF
the most beautiful women In official life
in any country. Count de Buisseret, who
ton, likewise has an American wife.
whom he married when stationed In this
country years ago. A number Of South
American diplomats of high rank have
chosen American brides, one of the most
notable of these alliances being the COM
paratiyey recent one wherein Senior
Corea, long Nicaraguan minister to the
United States, led to the altar Miss In
dia Bell Fleming.
A rather unique position in this sphere
of society is that of Mrs. Yung Kwai,
the American wife of the first secretary
of the Chinese legation at Washington.
The wife and daughters of the envoy,
like their predecessors in the same POSI-
tions. speak very little English, so that
IL devolves upon Mrs. Kwai, former
Springfield, Mass, girl, TO do the hon
ors. of this Oriental establishment on
many occasions. American women have
married diplomats of practically every
nationality, but probably there are fewer
In the Oriental roster than In any other
and the American wife is almost I'M
known in Japanese diplomatic circles.
which is possibly fortunate should
strained relations ever ensue between tue
two countries.
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dense the products of the tobacco so that
the harmful products do not reach the
mouth. The cigarette. by being exposed
and having n fairly open combustion, is
much less harmful that the cigar envel-
oped in Its air-tight wrapper. Wet or
damp cigars and such as do not burn
freely introduce much more nicotine into
the mouth than weii-dried and free-burn-
ing cigars.
With cigarette smoking goes usually
the inhaling nabit, which is hurtfui
through the invariable presence of car
bon monoxide in tobacco smoke. Its en-
trance into the lungs by inhalinS Is very
injurious Another point to be remem-
bered Is never to relight 4 cigar and
also never to smoke cigar for more
than half It's length. This also applies
to cigarettes. although by no means as
important, for In the cigar the amount
of dangerous matter increases rapidly
as the smoke grows shorter This Is
also true of the cigarette, but in a much
less degree.
1t should be remembered that no nico-
tine gets into the. system in the smoke
itself. Nicotine is destroyed by burn
irg. 1t only enters the system and does
injury when poor combustion lets it col
lect in pipe or in the butt end of
cigar or cigarette. The latter as burn
ing most freely leaves less nicotine to
epdanger the smoker, while the pipe
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like. A dozen men are put inside such
a king of the carnival and one works
the arm that doffs his high hat to the
cheering crowds; another works the
springs that produce the figures kingly
and realistic smile; another man rolls
the huge eyes from side to side, while
in Madrid this season one lucky indi-
vidual had the job Of sitting high up
inside the dummy king of the carnival
and smoking a monster perfecto cigar,
which gave to the papier mache figure
most lifelike aspect.
These floats frequently are 200 feet In
length and consequently far exceed any
thing of this nature with which Ameri-
can sightseers are familiar. The cos
tunes are usually very rich, costly silks
and satins being cut up into dominoes.
Under the cover of their masks the girls
of Spain, France and Italy-usually so
carefully kept indoors-frolic with a
lightheartedness impossible to the nations
of Northern Europe.
Often one sees crowds of young men
and girls exchanging jokes and throwing
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~ HAT tobacco. unless most abstemi-
ously used, will injure the smoker
~ has never been denied, but many
theories have been held as to which form
caused the least evil results. 1t was for
a long time generally considered that to-
bacco containing the highest percentage
of nicotine naturally tended to introduce
the most of the poison into the system.
No less an authority than the London
Lancet, however, now denies that this Is
true 1t is contended that the form of
the smoking plays the most important
part. Moreover, the Lancet claims that
the much-abused cigarette is less Injurious
than the cigar and is about on a par with
the pipe.
1t seems, according to high medical au-
thority, backed up by careful experiment
and much chemical analysis. that the least
harmful combination would be to smoke
dry cigarette tobacco in n fairly long
briar pipe. Also three pipefuls day
would make a fairly safe amount to
smoke without injury. 1t must be re-
membered, however, that in this, as In
everything else, the individual tempera-
ment or constitution is most important.
Two pipefuls might injure one smoker
and half Il dozen have absolutely no evil
effect on a man Of stronger nerves ana
leading an active, out-of-door life.
The superiority OF the pipe as form
Of using tobacco lies In its ability to con-
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flowers and confetti and many a care
less kiss is stolen right in the open
streets in the midst of the laughing
crowds. This year party of evidently
wealthy young women, dressed In silk
and satin costumes, ran through the
streets in Mentone dragging a long silk
cord woven with roses. Many stately
high-hatted individual lost both his dig
nifty and his balance through being
tripped up by those laughing girls, who
usually solaced the sufferer with kiss
after he had picked himself up
The most wonderful part of the whole
performance is the absence of ill-humor
or petty crimes. Our Inauguration crowds
are noted as harvests for pickpockets,
but in carnival season in South Euro
pean cites the thing Is practically I'M
known. The only highway robbery is
that practiced by cabdrivers, hotel wait
ers and such small fry who do, indeed,
rob the unwary sightseers by demanding
anywhere from double to quadruple fares
and tips.
However, all this is considered iegiti-
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season extends with all its confetti
throwing and general joyousness.
The most conspicuous features of all
South of Europe carnivals are of course
the big floats typical of many things.
They are enormous structures, the bigger
ones often carrying as many as a hun
dred masqueraders In addition to a gayly
uniformed band. 1t requires from ten to
twenty pairs of horses to haul them
along. At each horses head there marches
a groom in costume, usually a domino
with a mask. This is needed because
the most celebrated of whips could not
be expected to drive a team of 40 horses
through crowded streets, filed with the
most grotesque maskers, wearing horns
and devils heads and throwing all man
ner of missiles at one another
In recent years the fashion of display
ing enormous figures made of papier-
mache has come into vogue in the big
cities. These figures are 40 or so feet
in height and represent the king and
queen of the carnival. They are worked
from the inside and are marvelously life
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AN ISLE OF SULPHUR.

n NE of the most extraordinary islands
in the world is located in the Bay
" of Plenty, New Zealand. The small
bit of land is called White Island, and
consists mainly of sulphur, the latter
mixed with gypsum and other minerals.
The island Is about three miles in cir
conference and rises about 1000 feet
above the sea. There is a boiling lake In
the center of the island and this sends
out acid-charged water. A boat can be
navigated in the lake If great care is
experienced. The sulphur from White
Island is very pure and efforts have been
made to obtain 1t for commercial use
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~MONG the Latin races the great
carnival season this year shows no
lack of feryor in enjoyment and
- no deficiency in the grotesque in
genuity with which the citizens of
Rome, Nice, Florence, Madrid, Lisbon
and a dozen other big towns of Southern
Europe have decorated themselves and
their cities.
At Madrid, despite the serious floods
in some sections of Spain, King Alphonso
reviewed the earlier professions Of con-
fetu throwing mummers In Rome the
King of Italy watched from the balcony
of his palace similar spectacle, while
all along the French and Italian Riviera
tens of thousands of tourists from both
continents have crowded to these joyous
events.
Only in poor drowned-out Paris the tri-
umphal Market Queens chosen from the
ACCOMPLISHMENTS were forbidden to head
the various sections of the famous Mardi
Gras procession. The choked sewers of
the city were deemed insufficient to
carry of the great masses of confetti
which crowd of several millions of peo-
pie are capable of throwing at one an
other. Hence the project of police de-
cided Paris must omit for the first time
In scores of years her carnival gaiety,
The true carnival season consists of the
three days beginning with the Sunday
that precedes the commencement of Lent,
which opens invariably on Ash Wednesday
and continues for 40 days, terminating a
lengthy season of meagre diet and social
repression with the Joy and glad tidings
of Easter. The first day of the carni-
val season then is the Sunday before the
commencement of Lent, and among most
of the inhabitants of Italy, Spain, France
and Portugal the religious services are
greatly attended and the ceremonies are
impressively beautiful.
The carnival begins in the larger cities
on the following Monday, and it is re-
markable with what thoroughness all bus
mess and commerce are abandoned. The
whole family partakes of the carnival
spirit, from staid and dignifed grand
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though much of her life prior to COM
ing to Washington, as ambassadress. was
spent In Paris, where her fathers bank
Ing house has been a landmark for his
countrymen. Madam Chambrun, wife of
Captain de Chambrun, the present mill
tary attache of the French embassy, was
Miss Longworth, sister of Representative
Nicholas Longworth By an odd coinci-
dence, Captain Chambrun's brother, the
Count Chambrun, who was attached to
the French embassy here a few years
ago. was accounted a sutton for the
hand of Alice Roosevelt, but was wor-
sted In the rivalry by Congressman Long
worth.
The long line of American brides Of
Russian diplomats started with Miss Har-
riet Beall Williams, who. as school
girl of 16 years. welded Baron de Bod
isco, then the Russian envoy to this
country. At this wedding Henry Clay
gave the bride away and President Van
Buren,, Daniel Webster and James Blu
chanan were among the guests. An Amer
lean woman who is likely to ere long
return to Washington as the wife of
Russian ambassador, is the Baroness
Bakhmeteff She was Miss Marie Beale,
daughter of an old Southern family (and
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- HE general public has come to re-
gard as in one class, class all those fash,
- whereby American girls link their
lives with those of titled foreigners
As matter Of fact, however, these mat
rimonal alliances In which Yankee society
bellies are the heroines may rightfully be
divided into two general classes. In the
one division might be grouped the mar
riages wherein girls of great wealth lit
orally and figuratitely link their fortunes
with the possessors of proud titles-pref-
erably nothing less than prince, duke,
or, at least, count. The other elassif1ca-
tion is made up Of the daughters of the
republic who wed foreign diplomats
often while these cosmopolitan globe
trotting statesmen are serving their gov
eriiments in one capacity or another at
the American capital.
This latter class of weddings being, as
rule, less spectacular than the FORMER
are granted less space in the columns OF
the newspapers but it may be remarked
they carry, on the average, much better
prospect for the ultimate happiness OF the
bride. Too often in the case of an inter-
4 national marriage in the New York 400
there is more than a suspicion that the
titled sutton has come counting lured
principally by the magnet of much-needed
American gold. To be sure, the brides
fortune Is sometimes an important con-
sideration in diplomatic marriage also,
but, on the other hand, many of these
Inter have been love matches pure and
simple, In which the measure of the
brides worldly goods was not taken into
account at all. The best evidence of the
existence of this spirit has been found
In the fact that In not a few instances
titled foreign diplomats have welded
American girls who We're wholly without
dot" some Of the smitten statesmen 60
Ing so far as to offend their home govern
ments by their choice.
During the past three-quarters of
century more than fifty American women
lave married foreign diplomats and the
fast majority of the alliances have turned
,ut happily. Divorces, the expected Sc
fuels of the other class of international
iofnances. have been rare and in not a
lew instances European diplomat and
kankee consort have actually constituted
.or officialdom on both sides of the At
nntic model of domestic devotion. Per-
laps the best evidence of the success Of
American women as the wives Of foreign
diplomats is found In the fact that SO
many of the sons born of these unions
ave, though reared abroad, ultimately
beloved in the footsteps Of their fathers
b the choice of American brides
= y particularly notable case In point Is
,foried by the romance Of Count Ferdi-
and Won Stumm, second secretary Of the
y Alermany Embassy ut Washington, aud
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the Latin races the great
carnival season this year shows no
lack of feryor in enjoyment and
y no deficiency in the grotesque in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-12-31
Terrible Train Of Troubles

Lake Charles, La. Mrs. E. Four
nier, sic Kirby street, says: The
month before took Cardui, ! could
hardly walk. had backache. head
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spells, sick stomach, dragging feel
ings, and no patience or courage.
Since taking Cardui, have no more
pains, can walk as far as | want to,
and feel good all the time" Take
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been found so efficient for womanly
ills. Cardui will relieve that back
ache, headache and all the misery
from which you suffer, just as it has
done for others. Try Cardui.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-12-31
BIG BANK ACCOUNT.
Girl Held In St. Louis On
Charge of Stealing.

St, Louis, Mo-, Dec. 9,-Lilly Nc.
Dowell, in Jail here on the charge Of
stealing $4,000 worth of jewelry
from H. Coteau Dyer. an attorney,
while acting as a servant in his home,
has Sl2.009 ON deposit in the Pitts
burg. Pa, Bank for Savings, accord.
ing to information in Dyer's posses
sion. Dyer has attached the bank
account. and, it is reported. Ira j.
Mix, of Chicago, on whose informa-
ton the girl was arrested here last
Saturday, also has filed an attach
ment.
Local detectives are making coun-
try-wide inquiry to learn whether
the girl has other bank accounts,
The value of the jewelry she is accus-
ed of stealing from different homes
in which she was employed is stated
by the local police to be at least
$75 900.