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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-16
STOCK MARKET
FURNISHED by Walter A. Nichols &
Company

FURNISHED by Walter A. Nichols &
Company
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Americans
In London firm and unchanged to v
above parity General market irregu-
lar July imports and exports exceed
those of any year with exception Of
July, 1907. c.. +. & L. annual state
ment will show earnings of above
$1,500,000 net. International revenue
collections increased $43,515,0o0 in
fiscal year. Comptroller Pendergast
announces in London that English
bankers have promised to take liberal
share of New York revenue bonds.
London early market: Union Pa
cific advanced 4; Amalgamated, a;
Anaconda, Is; Northern PACIFIC. y;
Atchison down Is; United States
Steel, Is Southern Pacific, "a Katy,
". Moderate rallying power seems
to us still to be possessed by United
States Steel, Union Pacific, Reading,
Southern Pacific, Atchison and Ches-
apeake a. Ohio.
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WILL ENTERTAIN GUILD.

st. Mathews guild of the Epis
copal church will be delightfully."- en-
tertained Wednesday afternoon al
2 o'clock by Mrs. c. F. Flint, 82s
Herman avenue. Tea will be served
and guessing contests and other
games will follow.
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SHlNGTON-In the program

WASTING OTV-T1 Ute TTUE1 dT1I
of seven vaudeville acts offered by
the Washington this week, there is
a most refreshing and entertaining
artistic in the person of Miss Cora
Simpson. winsome American
maid, who has seized upon the
fads and fancies of every-ray char
acters in her limitations. Her
work is distinctive for daintiness,
refinement and charm and her
happy sense of humor is most en-
iOyable
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-16

six different kinds of love. Here
aer the definitions he gives for
these:
"Emotive delusion."
Fixed idea"
parliamentary paranoia."
psychic neurasthensia"
Episode symptoms of heredi-
.tary degeneracy.'
n Psychic emotive obsession."
These terrible definitions de-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-16

The national forests of the coun'
try cover an area as large as Texas
and Ohio combined.
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SCREENS TO ORDER

Screen doors and windows made and
put up complete. Phone us. We
Fall for order Free delivery. Prompt
Jervice. Max. 2002 Y. Shop 200a
Indiana ave. W. A. Robinson. Prop
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is captured the police look for a
story which will astound the
world unless the Nipponese hides
behind that mask of stoicism which
has ever separated the Occident
from the Orient.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-16

Geological problem, bewildering in
its possibilities.
Little further light can be
thrown on the strange case until
the capture of Henry Yamaguchl,
the fugitive Japanese, and when he
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PATENTS

can save you time and money on
your patenta II. IL. Smith. solicit
tor OF u. 8. or foreign patents.
caveats. trademarks. drawings. sis
Jameson bldg. Phone, Main ll20
for appointments evenings
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PANTAoEsCoPE

Matinee daily, 2:45: any seat, 15c.
Evenings, 1870 and 500; seats. l5c
and 25c.
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NATUROPATHY AND CHiRo.
PRACTIC
PRIVATE sANIrARiuM

Human oven and electrical water
baths; electric massage and vibra-
and all chronic ailments. BurEund'u
Sanitarium, 420h Riverside. Green
Block. M. 1913.
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FARMS FOR SALE
HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS
HOTELS AND LODGING HOUSE,

Wanted to buy, hotel or lodging
house; must be bargain. Neil,
Box IS, city.
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SISTERS CARDoWNIE
Burope's Premier international
Dancers.
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$40 plants the seed that secures for
you later a home; then IS per
month. Call and see us. F. 8. Barrett
& Co, 1872 Wall street.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

TT is agreed on all hands that inven-
1 tion offers one of the surest means
= of attaining fame and fortune, and
one of the shortest, too. Now, there is
no lack of inventive genius; there never
were SO many clever persons in the
world as there are today. but somehow
their energies are not always applied
in the right direction, and so they fail
1t is just the old story of "eyes and no
eyes,"
Observe a plumber laboriously pour
ing melted lead over pipe joint and
smoothing 1t down with leather pad
Can you not think of a way to join
those pipes cold and to do it quickly
and thoroughly? If you can there is a
fortune waiting for you.
Then, too. there is nice, easy little
invention that will certainly bring you
thousands annually-that is just a SIM
pie and effective means of fastening
panes in window frames. Surely it is
slur on the inventive genius of the
age that we should still have to resort
to putty in this enlightened twentieth
century.
Have you ever watched a car driver
or motorman lean over with long
crowbar to shift the switch at juno
tion, or a man at the corner with lever
for the same purpose? Devise a plan
whereby the driver or motorman. by
simply pressing a footplate on the car
platform, might move the point or
switch whichever way he desires, and
many car companies throughout the
country will take up your invention.
The wealth of a Rothschild is wait
ing for the inventor of a satisfactory
paving material. At present the rule
seems to hold that what is good for
the wheels is bad for the hoofs and
vice versa. That is to say, where the
road is smooth and the wheels run
easily there is no grip for the hoofs,
and where it is rough the vehicle is
hard to drag. Then there is the motor
to consider. Propelled by the back
wheels, it is bound to skid If the sur
race be at all greasy. What is wanted
Is a smooth, hard, absorbent surface
with at the same time a perfect grip
There are scores of little things
wanted, and wanted urgently. for the
ilvehllon or which no technlcal knoWl-
edge is required. One of them is a
really good can opener. something that
would cut the can open with one round
sweep, without risk of gashing the fin-
gers or running the temper.
An envelope that could not be opened
without detection would be welcomed
by the manufacturers
The bottle that can not be refilled is
still asked for. There are several on
the market. it is true, but the right one
is yet to come. And a word should be
added as to a shoe and glove fastening.
Consider how much time is wasted in
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
For Parasol Handles

"HE quality OF unobtrusiveness is
not the most characteristic one of
many of the new parasols. The
handles OF many OF these are most re-
markable. and never has there been a
season when greater opportunities for
expenditure in this line were offered.
Carved ivory figures in full relief may
cost any amount that one cares to give
If an effort is made to secure genuine
works of art, for which, indeed, it may
be necessary to resort to the antique.
AT least there is every incentive to
do SO If one has the money, now that
carved ivory figures as parasol handles
are among the latest suggestions of
fashion. Those which have so far been
imported are delicate figures of pi-
quaint maidens, but the fad opens the
way to any amount OF rivalry in the
effort to secure exquisite miniature fig
ures that shal be unique and particu-
iarly suited to ones style.
There are also colored horn handles
among the latest importations. These
are made of the same semitranslucent
material that was once so much used
for fancy combs. The designs are of
heads in quaint poke bonnets, etc, and
the colors are dark green, amber. tor
toise shell brown and dull. dark rose.
There are also heads in ivory among
the new handles.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Sponge Farming

~ PoNGES are hereafter to be grown
- like corn or peas, or perhaps we
should say like oysters, for the
sponge is an animal organism. Expert
ments carried out in the Mediterranean
show that the cultivation may be under
taken with great probability of success
on the French coast, and it will not be
confined to the shores of Tunis, as was
feared when it's possibilities were first
discovered.
Sponges from the opposite shores of
the Mediterranean have been already
carried to France and planted there.
and we may expect that in years to
come the sponge fisheries will be great
Iy extended by such methods.
The Investigations made on this sub
ject recently have proved that sponges
may multiply by fission. or division of
substance, but that they also reproduce
by means of larvae issuing from the
whole sponge, from pieces split off or
from the young sponges.
Fragments of sponge transported to
another locality heal in about three
months and then begin to grow; irreg-
ular pieces some become spherical and
rapidly enlarge. adding % times their
own volume in the course of four or five
years. The growth, Of course, is slow
during the first year because of the
necessity for healing the wound caused
by tearing off the fragment from the
main body for transportation.
The character of the spongy tissue
appears to be somewhat altered by cul-
tivation, the dark tint becomes much
clearer and whittier. It is not yet known
whether there is sufficient change to
alter the commercial value of the
product, either for the better or for
the worse. All these observations have
been carried on by two enthusiastic
Frenchmen, Messrs. Dubois and Allie
mand Martin. in their laboratory at
Sfax, Tunisia.
The result. we are told, is the crea-
tion of science of "spongiculture, .
whose principles. if followed out on the
lines laid down by its founders, will
make fortunes for the diligent, not only
in France, but in Tunis as well. the
product being larger. better and more
easily gathered.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

covered wicker or leather tray on top
and two or three shelves within.
A miniature tool chest de luxe is an
other new bit of equipment for the
country house. These are also of wick
er and leather. If one wishes to be very
smart and expensive. and are made
with q box top which contains places
for cord, nails, screws. glue, etc. Under
this is a drawer in which is complete
array of small tools. hammers of sew
eral sizes, screw drivers. etc.
A new telephone record bound in soft
leather is equipped with a new device
which has practical merit on its side.
1t has fastened to 1t by a wire spiral a
pencil which can be pulled to any
length necessary to write on any part
of the record. but can not get away
from the book entirely. AS soon as the
person using the pencil has finished
writing 1T springs back into place
again Everybody knows how hard 1t is
to keep pencil on a telephone record
and how exasperating it is to want to
take down a number, and have no pen
ell at hand. Nor will tying a pencil to
the record avail. for it will be sure to
be united when somebody wants to use
a pencil elsewhere. The spiral works
admirably and will doubtless be found
a boon in houses where much telephon-
ing is done. The book is made with the
record for keeping messages on one
side and on the other a telephone ad-
dress book. The record part may be
renewed at will.
IN the wicker and leather also are
the mail boxes meant for country
houses. At the top OF each box are
movable cards setting forth the times
Of the next outgoing and incoming
mail, which are changed according to
conditions. These are. of course, not
new, except in shape and the kind of
materials used. 1t has heretofore been
usual to have these mail boxes of
leather.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

now is to put on this powder so as to
make it conspicuous, fashion not at
all original, for it was in vogue with
the North American Indians before the
white man came.
Every afternoon you can see in Fifth
avenue and Broadway and every even
Ing at the theater and in the restau-
rants women, and young women too,
who probably have good complexious.
that a strong wind would blow 1T off. 1t
gives a woman a chalky, anemic ap-
pearance, making her look more dead
than alive. 1t is not becoming. it does
not add to her attractiveness and no
man goes in the street from choice
with woman fixed up in that way.
In no thing is there such slavish
obedience to the dictates of fashion as
in the matter of millinery. And the
men who pay the millinery bills have
notice also that there is change in
the fashions with a regularity that
gives a bank account a shock. Peach
baskets. Merry widows and all the
other kinds followed one after the
other. and with the large hats came
the deadly hatpins. Chicago has tried
to legislate against these instruments
OF torture, but what's the use? If it
is the style to wear long hatpins the
women will wear them even if it tears
the eyes out of all the men who ride
in subways and streetcars.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

ters pertaining to fashions has been
shown by the quantity Of false hair
they have been wearing during the last
few years. Millions of dollars, and
that is no figure of speech, are ex-
pended each year by the women of this
swirls and other contrivances that may
or may not be named. 1t is hardly con-
ceivable that the women themselves
think they look better with all that
false hair on, but some one, and 1t is
suspected that this some one had a
was the fashion and the women did
the rest.
The worst feature of this is that
most of the women will have to wear
it for the rest of their days, no matter
what the fashion may be. The con-
stant wearing of the great quantity
of puffs and rats has deprived the hair
of the proper nourishment and the
women really are getting bald. There
are women parading Fifth avenue
pounds of hair, and their husbands
know that in reality they have not any
great advantage over Mexican pup.
The situation has resolved itself to
this: Women are getting bald because
they have worn SO much false hair,
and they will have to wear false hair
because they are bald. 1t is an end
less chain that is going to make the
big banks go after the accounts of
hair dressers. If the next two genera
tions go in for the false hair as the
present one has the third will be one
of bald women. And there is the
economic waste. If the time taken by
women to fix UP their false hair and
put 1t on was devoted to some useful
purpose there is nothing. not even the
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Large Waists

&C A TWENTY SIX inch waist is con-
IL sidered small nowadays" re-
marked the clerk at the belt
counter in large department store the
other day. 'In fact we have very few
calls for belts of that size. The ma
jority OF women ask for a Is or 80,
and 1t is not unusual to sell 80 to
woman who seems to have an average
figure.
Hardly any of the new belts come in
sizes smaller than 26, and when the
rare customer asks for one we have to
get 1t made for her or have a larger
size cut down. The odd part of it is
that women are not the least bit sensi-
tive about their large waists. l have
seen them come in accompanied by
man and unblushingly call for 80
belt, try 1t on and then find it too small
and have to slip 1T to the outside row
OF holes.
Think what a comment a waist like
that would have caused a few years
ago. Only very stout women ever al
lowed themselves to attain such a cir
cumference then, but now the slim
woman has increased her waist meas
urement while the woman who is well
built, but not stout, is almost as large
in the waist as in the hips.
THAT is the explanation of the large
waists and belt" said the clerk.
"Womens figures have undergone such
a decided change in their outlines re-
Gently that hips and waists are al
most equal and belt would come very
near fitting either. Besides, women
wear their belts looser than they used
to, and the new wide leather ones when
cut straight have to be bit large in
order to fasten at ALL
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Why She Wears 'Em

My dear, why do you wear all those
puffs and all the false hair which make
your head look like anything but a
human head. when it is all so obvi-
ously false that it fools no one, not
even yourself?' is question that many
married men have asked their wives.
We'll, have to build my hair out
behind to wear the hats that are being
worn nowadays. You simply can't wear
the new style of hats without it," is
the invariable reply.
Why. then, do you wear the hats?"
Because they are the style"
Women say men are no less suscep-
tibie to the siren call of fashion, but
there is difference. 1t is true that
no one but the German comedians are
wearing the small fiat derby hats that
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
For the Veranda of the Summer Home

A MONG the minor novelties for the
A furnishing of the verandas OF
country houses are many fascinat-
ing articles Of English wicker and
leather so exceedingly attractive In
style and so perfect in finish that IN
spite Of their rather extravagant prices
their promise Of long endurance makes
purse. More expensive than similar ar
ticles made Of mahogany and like high
class woods. these wicker articles are
also more attractive. for the summer
house at least. and they look as If they
would wear equally well.
Most interesting of the new things Of
this sort recently sent from London is
g portable writing desk for use on the
veranda or in any corner of the lawns
or gardens where one may desire to
spend a comfortable morning in getting
of ones correspondence. The desk
folds UP so that it presents absolutely
the appearance OF a wicker suit case.
1t has handles like a suit case and is
not at all heavy. so that it may be car
ried around as easily as a basket. 1t
opens in the middle, divulging an inte-
rior lined with red morocco.
There are four wooden standards
which unfold mysteriously and become
the legs on which the desk stands.
There then remains perfectly fiat
desk. double the size of the supposed
two red leather flaps The top is most
beautifully fitted with every possible
implement needed in writing, all of
which are slowed away in little leather
pockets, so that everything is entirely
shipshape and there is no possible
chance for the small things to fall out
Under the leather top are small locked
drawers for stationery
In Neranda sewing baskets those
which fold after the manner of camp
chairs are still most popular There
are four uprights which cross each
other half way down and support a full
bag which closes at the top while the
saeker Is being carried. These are also
now made Of English wicker, and in
place Of the fiowered and brocaded ba ags
which have been popular the bags are
now being made OF moire silk in soft
deep colors.
Very handsome new sewing tables
for the veranda are made of English
wicker and leather. These have deer
rectangular box. for the top, the lid OF
which lifts up. displaying a perfectly
equipped basket and a comfortably
large space for storing away work
There are also conicaI baskets of Eng
lish wicker and leather
Cellarettes in the same material are
strikingly attractive. and these come in
many colors, although red is undoubt-
edly favorite combination with the
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
of Fashion.
By Ezra Knox

IMITATION is q congenital charac-
teristic Of women. II any one OF q
dozen who are prominent IN the
social life OF the different cities OF the
world should appear In a public place
wearing a nose ring In three months
that form OF personal adornment would
be as common as earrings and would
attract no more attention on women in
San Francisco than they DO on the
women Of the Levant. In the matter
OF fashions the average woman has all
the originality Of the last sheep OF the
flock going through the fence.
Some man or woman, or perhaps a
group OF men and women. VIII declare
that the styles in this thing and that
thing will be so and so this year.
When that word goes forth the women.
oisregarding their comfort, their health,
the financial condition ot their hus-
bands and fathers. and even disregard
ing their personal appearance. will
obey the decree. and do It without
word OF complaint.
II the statistics could be obtained II
has been responsible for more deaths
than fashion. One reason for this IS
that war was an ancient and honorable
institution when a draped sheet and
sandals were the prevailing mode. But
when IL comes TO real suffering the
boudoir has it on the battlefield by
large majority, and yet no epics have
been written for those women who
have gone 10 their deaths after months
and years OF suffering with smiles on
their faces and happy in the conscious
ness that they We're In style.
1t is not for mere man to know the
suffering that has been caused by this
blind obedience to fashion. The order
that women should present a svelte
appearance. to be thin in order to wear
the mode in gowns that some one said
should be worn, was responsible for
more starvation than was ever known
in the prison pens in Andersonvilles
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
Men Don't Like 1t


Men Don't Like 1t
If any woman thinks that the piling
up of this hair until there is not even
a semblance of the shape of the human
head is pleasing to men they might as
well revise their opinion. If Leander.
after he swan the Hellespont, had been
greeted by Hero wearing about $SS
worth of puffs and curls which by no
possible freak of nature could have
grown on a human head he would have
sold his bathing suit then and there
and one of our prettiest stories never
would have been told.
The men of today are no different.
They hate the puffs and they hate all
the other contraptions the women put
on their heads, but they stand for it
because they have to. They don't want
to give up the women, and it is certain
the women will not give UP their false
hair as long as it is the fashion to
wear it. But it certainly is a JOY for
any man to look at one of those sweet
faced old women with her own hair
combed in a becoming way and with
out any puffs and braids that would
be obviously false. The only trouble
is that there are so few of these old
fashioned women. Fashion takes its
toll from all. and the grandmother and
granddaughter in many instances are
customers of the same hair dresser.
Another thing which from a mans
point of view is 'abominable, but which
must be the fashion or women would
not do it, is the overapplication of face
powder. No man objects If a woman
fuses" UP little and puts on little
powder If it can be done in such way
as to work an improvement and not be
noticeable. But the apparent purpose
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
A CoIIapsibIe Bonnet

g ONE OF the new motor hoods are
rather eccentric affairs, their claim
to popularity being that of utility
rather than beauty. They are made
over a novel arrangement of hoops to
prevent the hair from being crushed
and extend beyond the back of the head
in strange funnel like shape that cer-
tainly promises to protect the most
exaggerated arrangement of coils and
puffs. The hood is made of silk shirred
over the hoops and is fastened down
around the throat with broad stitched
band collar. The motor bonnet is fin-
ished with a tassel that hangs down at
the back. One of the practical points
about this queer bonnet is that it col
lapses absolutely and becomes per-
fectly fat.