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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
WOMEN SHOULD SWIM.
Ii Is the Only Way 10 secure a Per-
feet Ef..urf Gaxs Rnsfnninr.

Ii LIS the Only Way 10 secure n Per-
feet Figure, Says BOstOnian.
That any woman can swim herself
into good if not a perfect figure is the
belief of Miss Beatrice Street, instruct
or In the public swimming tanks at
Brookline, the woman who teaches all
the children in Brookline to swim,
Phoebe Dwight says in the Boston
Traveller.
And when | saw what Miss Street
had accomplished for herself l did not
wonder at her confidence in the won
ders her art can work, especially after
she told me that she had at one time
been slight to the verge of ungainli.
ness. Miss Street, who has the repu-
tation of being one of tn most perfect
ly built women in Massachusetts,, is
not tall-fve feet aai three-quarters
in her swimming suit-but she has a
figure so perfectly formed and carried
that one is not the least bit conscious
of her shortness.
But Miss Street does not believe in
working with the direct object of q
good figure. Swimming gives a WON
an a good figure because it develops
her or trims her down into perfect
ly normal or healthy condition" she
explained If she's too fat 1t makes
her thinner If she's too thin ii gives
her muscular development. One should
work to be healthy and the good figure
will be a natural result"
Nothing in excess" is one of this
athletic young woman's favorite mot,
toes. 1T isn't good to try to either
lose or gain weight too FAST" she said
When a person tells me she has TAX
en- off forty or fifty pounds in year
know she can't be in very good
condition. And in the same way
don't think it pays to put on flesh too
rapidly. The weight you gain slowly
is the good, ealthy weight that Will
stand by you.
Swimming cannot possibly hurt
any one, except some one with very
weak heart. Any one can learn to
swim and swim well. Long-distance
swimming is, of course, matter OF
endurance and strength, but any one
can learn to swim short distances east
ly." is Miss Streets dictum. Why.
when you realize that we have sue
ceeded in teaching even cripples and
partially paralyzed people to swim
you can see that no ordinary person
can have any excuse for not being able
to learn to swim we'll"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
Not an Inch of Healthy skin Left.

My little son, a boy of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doe
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college.
but its treatment did no good. A.
the time | was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was 50 bad that | had TO cut
his hair off and put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on him on bandages, as it was
impossible 10 touch him with the bare
hand There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass OF
sores The bandages used to stick TO
his skin and in removing them it used
20 take the skin off with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. | began to think that
he would never get well, but after the
second application of Cuticura Oint-
ment | began to see signs of improve
ment, and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled off twenty
times, but it finally yielded to the
treatment. Now | can say that he is
entirely cured, and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day. twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam.
114S Forty-eighth St, Chicago, H.,
Oct. 9. 1907
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
The Failure of Parties.

In the parliaments of Germany,
France, Austria and Italy there is no
such thing as a clean-cut division be-
tween government and opposition
parties. Great Britain and the United
States have offered the chief examples
Of unequivocal party government. and
in both there is an evident falling away
from the old ideal The. present Con-
gless of the United States is so heavily
Republican that there seems almost
room for two Republican organizations.
We see hint of such an outcome in
the apparently irreconcilable conflict
between regulars and insurgents. Their
differences appear to be more real than
the differences between Republicans
and Democrats. In fact. the Democrats
are a negligible quantity. They have
no strong spokesman, and evidently no
distinctive program TO offer. Their
very weakness invites dissensions
among Republicans.
Something of the same tendency to
break away from the old tradition of
His Majesty's Government and "His
Majesty's Opposition is noticeable in
Great Britain. The sitting Parliament
Is broken into four groups instead of
two. The majority belongs to neither
the Liberals nor the Unionists. but to
a flying wedge composed of Laborites
and Irish Nationalist. Asquith is to-
day governing by the support of the
Laborites. and by the naughty conde-
scension of the Nationalists, who agree
not to kick him out Immediately. ii
they should exercise their power to
discharge Asquith, they could not gov
ern themselves. but there would have
to be new election or they would
have to support Balfour, who would
begin where the Liberals left OFF and
in as great a quandary.
The situation is the logical result OF
the failure of the old parties TO do
what they have promised The Liber-
ais have for years had standing
pledge to bring about home rule. They
never have honestly tried to do 1t since
1885. The Unionists have standing
pledge to consolidate the empire, but
they never make any progress with it
when they are in office. They are 10
day on paper pledged to protection.
but their ranks are honeycombed with
free trade sentiment. They are ira
ditionally supposed to oppose home
rule, but they have no other cause for
il than an unreasoning prejudice
against everything Irish. If they had
been wise enough to grant home rule
themselves, they could have done it
with the acquiescence of the English
constituencies, and then gone forward
with their schemes of empire. Both
parties have faltered at the brink of
their responsibilities with the result
that neither to-day has the confidence
of the country.-Minneapol Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
Political Comment.
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4 business Commission.

A good start has been made with
the bill to establish a commission of
five senator's and five representatives
to inquire into the business methods
OF the executive and legislative
branches of the government. The
Senate has passed the bill without
any material opposition. AS Mr.. Taft
has spoken in favor OF a measure OF
this sort and other leaders of
the House have been urging the econ
omies which this bill aims TO bring
the chances for its enactment long
before the end of the session are ex-
cellent.
Senator Aldrich said that 100000.
900 is wasted every year by the gov
eminent in the duplication of work.
the employment of three men to do
things which two can do better, and
the extravaganza in appropriations for
needless purposes. He suggested a
commission to make a comprehensive
investigation of the whole question of
outlay and to devise means to stop all
the leaks. In his address in Newark
Mr.. Taft favored the commission and
urged the adoption of some budget
scheme like that in operation in Eng
land, France. Italy and the rest of the
great countries, in which the matter
of outgo and income would be placed
in one set of hands. so that deficits
would be prevented. This is in line
with suggestions which have been
made by the House leaders many
times.
AS the commission is to be COM
posed of members of Congress solely,
its report will be sure to get attsn-
ton BY our national lawmakers as
we'll as by the President and the peo-
pie. That there is need for stopping
the waste is manifest. The President
has been calling attention 10 it from
the beginning of his term. He in
departments to cut down the esti-
mates to the lowest mark compatible
with the good of the service. The
House fell into line with this econ
omy idea to the extent that several OF
the appropriation bills as passed by
that chamber were below those of
year ago. One or two of them, espe-
cially the rivers and harbors bill are
in excess of last winters appropria-
lions. which brings the total a little
higher than it was a year ago. The
quicker the business commission bill
~. a. NJ
be pleased. This promises to lead to
the adoption of the budget plan and
thus tc check needless waste.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
A Wise Little Girl.

Miss Mary Garden. at a tea at the
Belelvue-Stratford in Philadelphia,
praised the skill of the modern corset
maker.
1T is really wonderful" said Nlss
Garden, what this artist can do. I
have seen fat old women who. from
certain aspects, looked like supple girls
1t was the corset-maker- And that re
minds me of an answer that | heard
in Sunday school when / was a little
girl.
What is it. our superintendent
asked, that bands US together and
makes us better than we are by ma,
ture?"
"'Our corset, SIR piped a wise little
girl of s."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
MoONSHINE BUTTER.
Strange New Industry Costing Uncle
Sam. Millions OF Dollars.

Sah-
"Moonshine butter" is making a good
deal of trouble for the government in
these days. says the Ohio State Jour
nal.
The reason is simply that there is a
tax Of 10 cents a pound on oleomar-
garine that is colored to initiate but
ter, whereas on the uncolored article
1t Is only Cne-fourth of a cent a pound.
OF course, this offers an invitation
to fraud. A man rents a house or a
"oleo" from a meat packer. puts 1t
into big vat. heats 1t, adds the requi-
site amount of "anatto" to give the
desired tint, mixes it thoroughly and
sells the stuff as fresh dairy butter"
This sort of thing is being done at
the present time Oh a considerable
scale in most OF the large cities of the
East and Middle West 1t gives the
government more annoyance, ten times
over. than all the distilling OF Illicit
whisky.
Oleomargarlne Is composed OF AMI
NAL fats and cotton seed oil. 1t is
perfectly wholesome and good deal
Of 1t is used for cooking. instead OF
butter Its first cost. at wholesale. is
10 OR IL cents a pound. All right so
far. But when hundreds OF tons of II
are sold without paying the tax of 10
cents a pound-the extra and illegiti-
mate profit to the "moonshiner' being
9A cents-the loss to Uncle Sam is
great
In fact, 'moonshine butter" is cost
ing the government great deal more
than unlawful whisky. The process
of manufacture is much easier and far
cheaper than that OF whisky and the
producing plants are often very diff
cult to locate. Those who conduct them
are in many instances desperate char
acters, and every now and then rev.
enue officer Is killed in making raid
upon one of the counterfeit butter FAC
tories.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
WHAT Is THE ANSWERP



ton to Parcels Post.
What is the answer? There isn't
any one answer; but the parcels post
is one of several answers, Golfers
says. Everybody Knows now the old
story. When John Wanamaker was
postmaster-general, some one asked
him why he didn't have a parcels post
like every other civilized country? He
said there are four reasons: The first
is the Wells-Fargo Express Company,
the second is the American Express
Company, the third is the Adams Elk
press Company, the fourth is the Unit
ed States Express Company Every
once in while our consuls in Europe
write to our government telling how
the parcels post works in Europe In
Senator Platt's day Senator Plat was
once the president of the United States
Express Company he used to have
such reports withdrawn from the pub
lie. Here is a recent one from III. S.
Culver, United States consul at Cork.
Ireland This report was printed in
the Rural New Yorker:
Farmers. merchants and manufac-
turers patronize extensively these
means of communication between the
markets and the Isolated individual
customer. The rates by parcels-post
are cents for one pound or less,
cents from one to two pounds, and 2
cents additional for each pound up to
eleven-the weight limit of parcels
The length of parcel allowed is three
feet six inches, and the greatest length
and girth combined is six feet. For
example. a parcel measuring three feet
six inches in its longest dimension
may measure two feet six inches in
girth. Eggs, fish, meat. fruit. vege-
ables, glass, crockery, liquids. butter.
cheese, etc, may be transported by
parcels-post."
II we had the parcelspost in this
country the farmer could ship one or
five or ten pounds of butter, or a few
dozen eggs, or peck Of potatoes, or
a basket of apples. to his individual
customer in the city, and avoid the
middlemar. Fishermen in the north
of Scotland send fresh fish to the Lon
don market this way. Also, il We had
the parcels-post system in this coun-
try, the express companies would
quickly reduce their rates and stop
paying 500 per cent dividenda
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31

An Irish authority thus defines al
an expert the effects of a we'll deliv-
cred curse: The belief among the an
cient Irish was that curse once pro-
nounced must fall in some direction
If it has been deserved by him on
whom it is pronounced it will fall on
hin, sooner or later. but If it has not
the IT viii return upon the person
who pronounced it, They compare IL
to wedge with which a woodman
cleaves timber. II it has room to 60
it will go and cleave the wood. but il
1t has not it will fly out and strike the
woodman himself who is driving il be-
tween the eyes."-London Globe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL
Right ON the job When the Board
ing House Went Into Decline.

Right ON the job When the Board
ing House Went Into Decline.
When the boarding house died
What's that? You didn't know the
boarding house was dead? On, didn't
you? Well, you know, at any rate.
that it had gone into decline. Didn't
your landlady often tell you that the
boarding house business was not what
II used to be? Didn't she explain that
the reason she had to keep asking
you for the money you owed her was
that she didn't seem able to rent the
parlor suite and the SecondhoOr front,
and she didn't know how she ever was
going to pay her next months rent?
Such a nice gentleman, too, IL was that
had had the parlor suite last. He had
been there for six years and
Well, anyhow, the boarding house
business is dead. in the big cities at
least. 1t died a lingering, painful
death, says William Johnson in Har-
per's Weekly, but it left an heir, a
vigorous. hourishing heir-the family
apartment hotel.
Be not deceived by the imposing
array of taxicabs that stands in front
of the boarding houses successor. Be
not over impressed by the boy in but
tons who opens the door for you in
place of the slattern maid VINO used
to come drying her hands to answer
the boarding house bell. Be not be-
guiled by the welcoming smile of the
courteous, clerk who stands behind
the near-mahogany desk. one artificial
potted plant three PAGES TO the left,
and two pieces of imitation armor
overhead Get a week behind with
your hotel bill and he will be as re-
lentlessly on your trail as your last
landlady was.
The family apartment hotel Is til,
clearinghouse heir. 1t has come into
its inheritance in Chicago, in Pitts
burg, in Denver, in New York, in Seat
tie. in San Francisco, in all the larger
cities. Hotel life Is now the fashion
Everybody who can afford 1t. and most
of those who cannot, lives in hotels"
Those who don't dare live in them yet
because of the increased expense
want to.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
THE CURE OF NANTERRE.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

When an old man is obstinate, he
can be very obstinate indeed. Such
was the case with the vicar OF Nam
terre, NJ Delaumosne, who died only
recently at the age of 81. keeping TO
the last his freshness and the full use
pf his faculties-to say nothing of his
pbstinacy. The cardinal had for a
long time been trying to get him to re-
lire. and without success, says lie
Figaro. The last attempt was made
by a special ambassador from his emf
pence, who was sent with the orders
10 bring back NJ Deloumosne's resig-
nation
He was received by the vicar with
The greatest courtesy and asked TO stay
to share the wears modest supper.
The visitor accepted thinking that
there would be plenty of time TO trans
pct his business later.
The good vicar proposed a walk. be-
fore supper, in order to whet the APP
petite. Together they set out, and
coon came to a cemetery, where the
vicar lost no time in exhibiting his
tomb. already prepared, with the fol-
lowing inscription:
NJ lie chanoine Delaumosne
Ne en- 1912
Mort Cure de Nanterre
The date of his death, as might be
expected, was left blank.
The ambassador from the cardinal
understood He supped. and departed
as he had come. The vicar was never
again asked to resign.
NJ Delaumosne was. as may be
guessed, really original man. Once,
speaking In his church to some pill
grims who had come from different
parts of the diocese to honor st. Gen.
evieve, he began as follows:
People from Puteaux. from Courbe-
vote, from Paris. and the other sub
urbs of Nanterre ="
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
Damascus, a Garaen city.

Damascus is a garden city touched
by the great desert. Under its roses
one feels the sands. Beside its trenl-
bling waters one dreams of the trent
bling mirage. The cry of its muez-
xins seems to echo from its mosque
towers to that most wonderful thing
in nature which is God without man..
The breath of the wastes passes among
the poplars as that Bedouin boy passed
among the merchants when he came
and when he went. In Damascus one
hears the two voices. And when one
looks from the sacred mountain upon
that city of dream, Graded among the
woods, one sees far off the tawny be-
ginnings of that other magic which
looks out from the Bedouin's eyes.
And though perhaps with the pilgrims
from Samarkand one loves to rest be-
side the fountains under the hedges
of roses, one is aware of the other love
intercourse with which has made De
maseus an earthly paradise for them
and fo- you.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31


Partisan Deggars have been known
to go far beyond a sham fight with
dog in the gutter for a crust, the Lon
don Chronicle says. Maxine du Camp
has recorded how. on an August Sun
day i'm 1887. at an hour when the quais
were crowded. a shabby man uttered
a cry of despair, and threw himself
into the Seine near the Pont de l'Alma.
He had sunk twice when a man in
workmen's clothes plunged in, swan
after him and effected an apparently
difficult rescue. As the crowd sur
rounded the two on the bank the res
cued one slowly came to, reproached
the rescuer for saving a hopeless,
voorhees, man, who had not eaten for
three days, and tried to rush off again,
crying. Let me die" The rescuer
pulled out half franc, saying. Take
this; / shall only have to go without
dinner to-day" and. of course, the
crowd literally followed suit. But the
skeptical police Swallowed the tyo, saw
them count up the spoils in a tavern
and presently arrested the two ex-con-
victs. dead drunk.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
"a PERS * 4np PEOPL~F>

tion etc., to express itself in some form of movement
Do know that you cannot think of a word without
starting to it? great many people cannot hear
vocal solo without themselves incipiently singing with
the actual performer That is why many people have
tired feeling in the throat after listening for several
hours to chorus. Then again many a person the
preachers finds himself preparing to strike the ball when
he is especially eager for three Dagger.
When have pleasurable feeling it is not our toes
put the corners of mouths that turn up. At the
thought of food it is tears but saliva that begins
now 1t is not perspiration but gastric juice that is
formed In increased quantities. This is principle that
can be absolutely depended upon; every thought and
feeling is expressed by kind of movment and ap
propriate movement at that
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31

A savage tribe in Africa daubs cloth
with clay, then rubs the dirt out in the
river. That's good deal like using a
hunk of yellow soap that is made
heavy with rosin and stale grease. The
rosin stays in the cloth and keeps some
of the dirt with it, and then your
clothes look streaky. Easy Task laun-
dry soap-the white soap made of CO.
coanut oil, borax, naptha and whole
some tallow-takes the dirt out. That's
its misunderstanding dirt out and driy-
ing disease germs away. Twenty-Five
years of reputation back of it, and
still il is but five cents a cake
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31

The leader of Tammany Hall is at
Hot Springs with a Mayor Gaynor
BOOM Roger Sullivan is there or there
abouts with Culberson boom.
Democrats are hurrying from the
West and South to talk over these
rival candidates of the Democracy for
1912.
And there is great cackii2g in Dem
ocratic henroosts all around the coun-
try in consequence.
The presidential Democratic nomi-
nation is not what Hancock once
called the tariff-a local issue There
fore il is difficult to account for all
this waste of words and wind about
the local saplings of Democracy. as if
they were real presidential timber.
For while all this chatter is going
on about merely local celebrities as
presidential possibilities the issue that
will make the candidate is steadily
taking form in Ohio with a man voic-
ing il so clearly that the stirring of
his spirit is felt across the nation.
The Harmon idea in government as
opposed 10 the Bryan idea-historic
Democracy as opposed 10 Social De
mccracy-that is the issue which a
real leader is making for the party.
If Governor Harmon had not been
making himself and his attitude a
national issue Mr.. Taft, who has
plenty of political perception, would
not have specially exerted himself to
take a hand in the Ohio campaign.
The Murphys and the SulliVans and
Gaynors and Culbersons ought to be
able to see the Democratic oppor-
tunity precisely where Mr.. Taft sees
the danger in 1912-namely. in Har-
mon and in Ohio-Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31

the announcement at the temple The
prince regent also, should reverently receive his
before the sacrifcia table of great
empress dowager. The government of the
ton, military and CIVIL the dismissal and appointment
officials and their promotion and degradation
left to the determination and decision of the prince re-
gent"
The power of the empress dowager OF China,
widow of Kuang Hsu, will probably prove to be neg
lgibe quantity. She is not empress mother, and
could therefore hope to take the place left
by her predecessor, even II she had the personal
strength and mentality of that great
The only mention that has been made of her since
the death of the emperor in Of the laws gov
erning the regency in which the regent is given per-
mission consult with her If he should oc-
cason to do But ii is added: Others shall not
arrogate this privilege themselves nstruc-
lions of the empress dowager, nor shall they presume
to transmit The their authority" This
efectuay annrls any power she might have hoped to
WELD and makes of her relict living out her
useless life in the confines of the palace and
awaiting her to take the fairy ride ascend
the far ntry"-Everybody's Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
The One Deficiency.

Matilda's Joined cooking class
At morning l awake
To find a fringe OF herbs and grass
Around my bit of steak.
At dinner decorations strange
Are floating in the soup,
And there are forks and spoons that
range
Just like warrior troop.
And there are ruffies on the chop,
And lemons everywhere;
know not where the craze will stop,
: In fact, 1 should not care,
If all the viands thus arrayed
With daintiness complete
Could some time and somehow be
made
More possible to eat.
st Louis Republic.