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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
LET YOUNG GIRL ENJOY YOUTH.

A young girl should avoid the
somber clothes of a grandmother.
Debutantes-probably from the new
delight of wearing grown-up
clothes-fancy themselves immense
ty in black velvet OF satin; if it has
some passementerie with chenille or
jet, their sense of pride knows no
bounds. One might as well encour-
age lark to croak! Youth, fresh
ness, girlishness-it is the most
beautiful thing in the world. Let a
young girl enjoy everything-every
moment, every second, every gift OF
life as it comes-and not try to pre-
tend she is blase. If popularity
were but as attainable as age, she
need only wait for the impact of its
sudden approach.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
QUEER FACTS ABOUT DREAMS
More Exclamation of Curious Ideas
That Sometimes Come to One
During Sleep.

In a paper on the mechanism and
Interpretation Of dreams, read re-
Gently before the neurological section
of the Academy of Science, Morton
Prince of Boston stated that dreams
are in reality psychoses, or types OF
delirium, and are characterized by
the same general symptoms, if one
may speak Of symptoms aside from
disease. Mr.. Prince said he did not
believe with Freud that every dream
represents the fulfllment of wish,
but rather that it represents the IN
fulfillment of fear.
One woman mentioned by him al
ways dreamed that she was surround
ed by a myriad Of cats, and she
would usually awake when they
seemed to be attacking her or when
she was thrown hclplessly among
them. Under the hypnotic influence
it was found that in early childhood
this woman had been greatly fright.
ened by a pet cat, which had
scratched and bitten her, and that
the memory of this occasion, al
though seemingly buried deep in the
tumble of past experiences, neverthe-
less had certain psychological col
oring which caused it to be resur-
rected only during unconscious
states.
Such facts, he said, may explain
in a measure the curious and appar-
emily utterly illogical single words
and statements coming from the lips
of those in delirium, but it will al
ways be found that just as in many
hallucinatory states Of the insane the
mind is working at tremendous
rate, much faster than the organs OF
speech can record the ideas, and
hence what comes to our ears from
the dreamer is simply mass of non
sensical words.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
"a = VICIOUS BATTLE CRY
amy Exasperates. as M.,r
a s,an.'s Explained, BY the
o'okenin' Bad Grammar i,ssd

. i / z F..
nes Des aa the cats softness, lazi-
' i,sss, nulllness and purring amiabil-
NY n.y., her piercing war cry in the h night
s5artles and exasperates US bevond
: - oearlngnot by its loudness but
~ : certain vicious, weird, halter
lying, half-infuriating note in it
u makes US spring to arms with
Inc oootlack, or other substitute for
lne boomerang, as the warwhoop Of
our Tribal enemies did a century or
Injuries m ago, says DR.. Woods
hutchinson, in an article on the
dread OF cats, snakes and mice in
Success Magazine.
One Of Mark Twain's wise old
1rontlersmen had caught this note
when ne explained TO the tenderfoot
that animal speech had rules Of COM
posltion and grammar, just like hui
man speech, and that ssthe reason
a cat rifles ye. SO amt on account of
me noise she makes, but on account
OF the sickenin' bad grammar she
uses. And he was right, for the
grammar OF scalp-lifting and the
whole alphabet of battle, murder and
sudden death tingles and screams in
the rasping cry. Nothing makes a
man quite 80 furiously angry and
ready to throw things as to find him
self frightened without reason.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
MEAN TRICK ON YOUNG PAIR
Letter Bearing the Inscription "7he
Honeymooners" Sent to Washing
ton Hotel For Bridal Couple.

How would you like to receive
letter in strange hotel with the
words "the honeymooners" written
across the face of the envelope in
bold red letters! Well, that is what
a couple now en- route to Washington
will have to contend with. When
they step up to the hotel clerk and
ask for mail he will hand out let
ter bearing that inscription. eve
get many queer and startling mis-
sives in the days mall" said the
clerk, 'but this is about the spiciest
have seen in long time. l won
der how Mr.. and Mrs. Newlywed
will behave when the letter is hand
ed to them? The handwriting is
that of lady, and she has played a
mean trick on her friends. Wash
ington Correspondence st. Louis
Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
OLD MALTA IS INTERESTING
Historical objects and Other Traces
of the Stormy Existence OF island
In the Mediterranean.

Changing hands so often through
the ages as Malta has done, it is not
surprising that the place presents
many traces of its stormy existence.
The chief are those associated with
the rule of the Knights of st. John,
while the most magnificent is the ca
thedral of st. John of Jerusalem,
with the banners of the knights float
ing in a dim religious light. His
torical objects of another kind are
to be found in the church of San
Public, where, in a vault beneath
the building are preserved the en-
balmed bodies of a number of monks,
which the curious may inspect but
not touch. A second exhibit of this
character is to be seen in the Chapel
of Bones in st. Johns cathedral,
where there is grotto decorated
with thousands of heads and cross
bones. Elsewhere the first touch of
the approaching east is seen in the
quaintness of the dresses, in the
'Shood of shame" worn by the wom-
en- as a reminder of the French &C.
cupation, in the diminutiveness of
the ponies and the polished roofs
and flowing sunblinds of the car
riages, in the cheapness of the res
taurants and the dead-white COM
plexion of all the buildings. At the
moment of arrival perhaps the most
striking feature is the train which
carries the casual visitor to the old
capital of the island. It is both
primitive and ramshackle, and is
composed of the discarded stock OF
many systems. It moves so slowly
that passengers get into and leave
the carriages anywhere en- route
without stopping the train. In the
tunnels the first-class passengers are
supplied with candles for their own
illumination, while those of the
third class are left to sit in darkness,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
MUMMlES FOUND IN MEXICO
Excavations In Catacombs Of Guiana
iuato Reveal Remains of Persons
Buried Hundreds Of Years Ago.

Mummifed remains of persons
who existed hundreds of years ago
have been dug up in the work of ex-
cavating that has been going on in
the old catacombs Of Guanajuato,
Mexico. The people whose bodies
we're discovered must have lived
long before the settlement of the re-
public, and the finds have occasioned
much interest among scientific men.
Some of the bodies were decked with
beads and ivory trinkets that were
in vogue before the coming of the
Spaniards, SO these people must have
lived in that part of the country
many centuries ago. The mummies
were discovered under an old GENE
terry while excavations were being
made by some prospecting miners.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
pApEREWskps INSURANCE.

The attack of neuritis which pre-
vented Paderewski playing at the
Queens hall, in London, recently,
recalls the fact that each of his fin
gers, thumbs, eyes and toes is sep
arately insured. Some time ago a
slight splitting of one of his finger
nails prevented him from playing
and an insurance company paid him
$4,000. The famous pianist is very
careful about allowing persons to
touch his hands. He will not allow
admirers to shake him by the hands
and he never accepts bouquets for
fear he may prick his fingers with
the encircling wire.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
WORK FOR TEMPERANCE.

No temperance movement of mod
ern times has grown so rapidly or
been SO successful as that founded
little more than a year ago by the
Rev. r. +. Patterson, in the city OF
Armagh. Familiarly known as the
ACatch-my-Pal" crusade, it has
spread over Ulster, Transforming the
life Of many of its towns and vii
lagos. All over the north Of Ireland
recreation rooms and reading rooms
are springing up to act as counter
attractions to the public house. In
Scotland it is rapidly gaining
ground. 1t is spreading also in Eng
land. The magnitude of the work
has necessitated Mr.. Patterson's re-
tirement from the pastoral duties IN
order that he may give his whole
time to it's development.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
DINNER MlSHAP.

Dreadful was the embarrassment
Of debutante who was pushed 80
vigorously against the table at her
first dinner that she spilled claret
from every glass at the table.
The hostess took, it well, though
she could doubtless have murdered
the girls dinner partner, but she
heaved sigh for her best table
cloth-for claret makes bad stain.
The man redeemed his fault by
quietly rubbing the spot in front OF
his place with salt until it almost
entirely disappeared. His partners
attention attracted, she, too, started
a salt rub. Soon all the guests at
the table were laughingly doing the
same, until by the end OF the din
ner scarcely trace could be found
of the spilled wine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
NEEDED AN EXPERT LAWYER.

According to the Chicago Daily
News an attorney of that city was
called on recently by woman who
said he had been recommended to
her as an experienced divorce law
yer. Difidently admitting the i'm
parchment, he inquired as to the
grounds on which she expected to
base her suit. "Oh," she said, II got
nv divorce several months ago.
What I want is lawyer who will
get my alimony away from the law
yer who got my divorce"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
ROUGH ON CHICAGO.

DR.. Heinrich C. G. Hirsch, the
Viennese conductor, said recently
that New York's musical taste was
much better cultivated than Chica-
go's.
GA New York and a Chicago CIR" "
he went on, "met at the seashore. In
the twilight, while the sky famed
pink in the sunset and the hotel or
chestra played Massenet on the ter
race, the New York girl said to the
Chicago girl:
edo you like fugues?'
"The Chicago girl sighed and an
swered wistfully:
"'No, but l adore clams.'"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
ENGLISH JOCKEYS FORTUNE.


To make the fortune of q quarter
of a million as jockey is a feat
which places the late Tom Loates at
the pinnacle of his profession 80 far
as mere worldly wealth is concerned
Of course, the fees in these days are
much greater than when Fred Arch
er, who left $3.50, 900, and Fordham,
who was worth under 500, 900, were
in the prime of their racing careers.
But then it is not everyone who has
a Leopold de Rothschild to advise IN
the matter of investments, and it IL
said that Tom Loates was thus par
ticularly favored.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
LOG FIRES IN WARWICK CASTLE.

As to Warwick itself, where I ar
rived yesterday morning (1s34) one
enters by the fortress gate. Its
aspect is most severe, its courtyard
the most somber, its hall the most
enormous, its furniture the most
gothic, and its style the most perfect
that you can possibly imagine.
Everything suggests the feudal sys-
tenn. A large and rapid river bathes
the foot of the great dark old bat
tlemented towers. The monotonous
noise of the water is interrupted by
the cracking of the great trees
which burn in the gigantic freplaces.
In the hall huge logs are piled upon
the dogs which stand on slabs OF
polished marble, and each log re-
quires two men to put it on the fire.
From the Memoirs Of the Duchesse
of Dino.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
LOVE AFFAIR IN KANSAS
What the Ardent Swain Needed Was
q Spelling-book, Not Wife
Said Girls Father.

Kansas newspapers are getting a
lot Of pleasure out Of this incident,
which is said to have actually hap
jpened in an eastern Kansas county.
"a farmer received a note from a
young man who had been "going
with his daughter. It read: "Deer
Sur: Wood like your dauters hand
in marriage. She and me are in
luve. I think I needle wife. Yures
trooly."
The farmer replied by letter, say
ing: "Friend: You don't need a
wife. You need a spelling book. Get
one and study it year. Then write
me again. Kansas City Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
NOT A sAvANT.

Percy D. Haughton, Harvard's
foo+ball coach, told at dinner in
Cambridge story about ignorance,
asome sailors were being banquet
Cd in Philadelphia at st. Georges
,ball.o he said, "and young blue
Jacket, pointing to superb silver
easter, said,
aeWaiter, bring up that ERE chan
delier.' -.
asThat amt chandelier the
waiter answered, laughing. That's
a cruet.' ;. ;.
aWell, never mind what it is,
sa;d the sailor. Bring it up. We
amt all been to college
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
0 PREVENT SEASICKNESS
Henry sidswick Stood on the Deck
and Recited English Poetry All
Across the Channel.

An unusual preventive against sea-,
sickness is mentioned in the life Of!
Henry sidgwick. "Sir George Trev-
elyan once crossed the channel with
him in bad weather, and during the
whole passage sidgwick stood on
deck reciting English poetry with
emphasis and gesticulations slowly
to himself. He had explained be-
fore starting that this singular prac-
tise had been recommended to him
as a preventive against seasickness.
When they reached France he told
Trevelyan that he had nearly got to
the end of his English poetry, and
if the voyage had been longer would
have had to begin on other Ian
guages. Trvelyan carefully tested
the speed of recitation by a watch,
and estimated that about 1000 lines
had been recited between Dover and
Calais. London Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
DUE A JOLT.

$50 you are going to get married,
eh %
eyes, the longing for little home
where I can put my feet against the
wall, brace my chair back and smoke
NV pipe in comfort got to be too
much for me"
sWhat beautiful dreamP
s1sn't it?"
$50 beautiful that it will be
shame for you to get married and
spoil it,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
WISE LITTLE WALLACE.

Wishing to assure herself that her
four-year-old boy, Wallace, would be
able to identify himself should he
get lost, his mother tested him with
the following results:
Mother-What is your name, lit
tie one?
INTELLECTUALLY.
Mother-What is your mothers
name?
Wallace Mamma.
Mother-What is your fathers
name?
Wallace-Papa.
Mother-Where do you live?
Wallace-In his house.
Whereupon it was thought best to
attach a tag to him containing in
formation of a more Illuminating
character.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
ONE OF HIS LITTLE SLIPS.

Mr.. Makinbrakes made another
futile effort to light the cigar his
host had just handed him.
"These Matches" he said absent
mindedly, "seem to be lacking in the
in the"
"Those are toothpicks," politely
explained the host.
ESWhy, Of course" said Mr.. Ma
kinbrakes, smiling genially at his
blunder; "any blame fool ought to
know that. Though to be sure, I
didn't mean by that had no in
tention-I wasn't referring, you
know-not for worlds would [ have
YOU understandable. Grimshaw, did
YOU ever read Rollins Ancient His
tory?"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
cox's TRIBUTE TO CLAYTON
Wisdom of the Politician Shown IN
Scheme to Lessen Number OF
Opponents.

George B. Cox, the old-time Re
publican master of Cincinnati, go
ing over the other night some OF the
great men in the Republican party
that he had met, said he couldn't
help thinking that Powell Clayton
was in some respects one of the Wis
est Republicans it had been his for
tune to encounter.
1You know" said Mr.. Cox, "that
we had furious time in this city
in the Blaine campaign of 1884. A
subcommittee of the Republican ma
tional committee came down here to
help straighten out the riotous dis
turbances. Nearly 800 United States
marshals were appointed. Some were
negroes and all were armed with
rifles. These negroes we're hard to
control. Some of them wanted to
shoot everybody and anybody on
sight. One of these ugly negroes
said to Clayton one morning: III
anybody hampers with me I'll blow
the top of his head off,
"Clayton looked him calmly over
and said quietly: No, my friend, you
don't want to do that If anybody
troubles you you want to shoot him
| in the leg, for that would take three
of the opposition off the field, the
chap who is shot and the two chaps
who will have to lug him off. ~
New York Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
HARD TO CONVINCE.

The canvasser was trying to con-
vince the villager Of the political
honesty of his own particular candi-
date. All in vain. Nothing would
persuade the voter that each and ev-
ery member of parliament did not
make pots Of money.
"Come," he said, 81 am not going
to believe that. Don't you see in the
paper often enough cries Of sDividep
sDividep Now, do you think they'd
CRY Dividep if they'd got nothing
to divide? No, no; they just take
the taxes and divide them among
themselves, that's what they do. y
London Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
HE STOOD BY HIS RELIGION
Baptist Admitted There Might Be
Other Ways to Heaven, but No
Gentleman Would Take Them.

Rev. DR.. Haslam, pastor of Geth-
semane Baptist church at Eighteenth
street and Columbia avenue, was de-
livering an address the other day at
a ministers meeting.
81 once knew a Baptist, an old
man of the hard-shell order. To
him the Baptist religion was the
only one.
zone day friend of his, who was
a Methodist, stopped him on the
street.
"eYou know there are other ways
besides the Baptist way of getting to
heaven he said.
"My Baptist friend drew himself
up.
"'That's true, there may be- he
said, with whitening scorn, but no
gentleman would take advantage Of
them "-Philadelph ia Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
THEY DESIRE ENVY.

"The ostentation of the idle rich
of Europe" said FL. K. Adair, the
San Francisco detective, on his re-
turn from a trip Of criminal investi-
CATION on the continent, ssmakes me
think of little Tommy Traddles.
tFTommy's mother gave him an
apple one morning, and afterwards,
at lunch, she said:
why, there's your apple in your
pocket still! Why haven't you eat
en- it?'
"1 didn't see more of the fe1lers
about Tommy answered. Apples
taste best when there's another kid
to watch you eat 'em.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Why WOMEN WANT SUFFRAGE.

Cardinal Vannutelli says that a
woman's place is at home and her
greatest ambition should be to have
one of her own. The wife, he says,
can do better in her own home than
on the platform. So she could with
the right sort of husband and the
husband is often only what condi-
tons make him, 80 the women by
their votes would change conditions,
which would change the husbands,
and then the women would enjoy
their homes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
WOMEN As VOLUNTEERS.

Mrs. st. Clair Stobert founded
the Women's Sick and Wounded
Convoy corps, which works in con-
nection with the Red Cross in Eng
land. The women who join the
corps are all serious and the work is
voluntary, and not even the uniform
could be said to attract them, as it
is very simple and unadorned. The
women take training in their work,
90 into camp and so on, and hold
themselves ready in any national
emergency to 60 to work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
Millinery IN COLLEGE.

Mrs. Jessie W. Tobey is grand
uate of Columbia university, and
after she left school decided that she
would like to know how to make her
own hats. She found that she could
not learn except by apprenticing her
self to milliner, and this she did.
Since that she was worked to have
such courses in the university and
is now at the head Of the millinery
department of the household arts
school of Columbia university, re-
Gently established.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
NOTHING NEW.

"Can anyone in the class tell me,
asked the professor, ''the origin of
iris word 'muckraker,' SO much used
nowadsEs?"
"Why, professor" spoke up the
young man with the wicked eye, cts
at least as old as Sir Walter Scott.
Doesn't he make the hero of one of
his novels say, MY foot is on my ma
tive heath, and my name is Muck
caker?'"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
CON (.

@Poor old Sparks! He has left
this earth"
"What! When did ne die?"
.He may not be dead yet. He
went up little while ago in an aero
plane that was merely tied together
with strings"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
NOT FOR HER.

81 should think" said Mrs. Old
castle, "she might acquire little
more savoir faire."
"Oh," replied her hostess as she
tried to scrape a protruding chunk
of paint from Rembrandt, 81 guess
she don't want any more, I hear
she's dietin' now"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
MEREDITH DONE INTO ENGLISH.

'There goes George Meredith into
the post office. How like he is to
Watts portrait of him! I never can
get him to come near me, although
I have read all his books.
'sMr. Amarith says he is going to
bring out new edition Of them,
done into English by himself. It
is a good idea, and would help the
readers so much. | believe he could
make a lot of money by it, but it
would be very difficult to do, I sup
nose. From FaThe Green Carna-
ton"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
WHEN ROYALTY PASSED AWAY
Both Period and Style of Mourning
Were Strictly Regulated in
the Past.

Royal moruning in the past was
regulated far more deliberately than
nowadays. In pre-revolution days.
when the French court was in
mourning, the royal apartments
were hung with black and every
looking glass in the kings residence
was covered with crepe. French
queens, when widowed, we're expect
ed to remain secluded for six weeks
in room draped with black cloth
on which were fastened white vel
vet dots, supposed to represent tears.
The same custom prevailed in
Scotland. In the pamphlet which
George Buchanan wrote against
Mary Queen Of Scots he dwelt Sc
verely on the fact that long before
the 40 days following Darnley's
death were spent she showed herself
at window and Cooked out on the
light OF day"
Sumptuary mourning laws were
formerly found necessary in England
to restrict the extravaganza of the
nobility and their imitators in the
matter Of funeral costume. At the
end Of the fifteenth century it was
laid down that dukes, marquises and
archbishops should be allowed 16
yards of cloth for their gowns,
"sloppes" (moruning cassocks) and
mantles, earls IA, viscounts ~, bar
ons s, knights 6, and all persons of
[ inferior darraa only two
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
AS ANYONE COULD SEE.

"Wh-whats all thisp' exclaimed
the voter, unrolling the long, mar
row poster that had been given him.
"That's the little ballot, sir" said
the Judge Of elections, with the pa
tient, large hearted tolerance that
knowledge ever owes to Ignorance
and inexperience.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
QUITE REASONABLE.

Abner, Jr.-say, paw, our best
brindle cow is daown on tn village
lot a-eatin' ov all tn tin cans she
kin find.
Abner, Wa-al, what on ut?
Abner, Jr.-Nawthin', only |
thought mebbe she'd be givin' us
condensed milk soon.-Judge.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-03
SLIGHT REVENGE.

'Here's a story in a newspaper
about man who was run down by
an automobile while picking up a
horseshoe for good luck"
"That was bad luck"
"The horseshoe partly redeemed
itself, however.
'Tndeed:"
"a nail in it punctured the auto
nobilist's tire"