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The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Divorce Record Held by Kansas City

| vanced is the development of indivi
| dualism. self-assertion and self-inter
est
This spirit is said to be antagonistie
to the simple life. 1t is the spirit
| fostered by the New Woman, the wo
man of the clubs and the suffragette
movement. A number of ayocations
are now open to women in which a
bright girl can earn a salary making
her independent. After a few years
of this life she may marry well or
she may marry man who cannot pro-
vide the little luxuries of life she was
able to provide for herself before mar
riage. II"
That woman should be discomfort
ed after giving up independence and
a life full of diyerting incidents, the
daily trip downtown, the work in an
office until noon, the daily gossip ba-
Ear at luncheon and the mingling with
a busy world, is not considered sur
prising. From this class many domes-
tic discords come to swell the big
grist for the divorce mill
Men in the professions do not think
of marriage until they are at least 80
years old. They try to become estab-
lished and to attain dependable po-
sition before marrying. This contrib
utes something to domestic discord,
for the man Of 80 or over has accumu-
lated habits that are not easily adapt
able to those of his wife, particularly
ii she is near his own age.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

Il ANSAS CITY, Mo.-How to be hap
N Ply though married seems to be a
question hard to solve in this city,
for recent statistics show one divorce
for every four marriages. This is be-
heVed to be the highest record for
matrimonial detacbments in the Uni
ted States. Taking Missouri and Kansas
there is one divorce for every eight
marriages, and in the United States
one for every ~. England is at the
other end of the line, with one d.
Vorce for every 400 marriages.
DR.. Charles A. Elwood, professor OF
sociology in the State University. has
recently compiled the figures uron
which the divorce statements regard
ing Missouri marriages that failed are
based
He has found that 80 per cent of
the divorces are obtained by women
and in nearly all cases the allegations
made by wfveseare sufficient. Among
the reasons advanced by DR.. Elwood
for the increase of divorce is the de-
cay of religion, particularly in the
religious theory of marriage and the
family. Another probable reason adj
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
One Man Booms Street Fakers' Sales

| be detected by persons 1 have induced
to purchase by suggestion instead OF
direct appeal, as the ordinary sales.
man would do.
Now, l don't get a divvy on all
sales. The way work is this stroll
along until / find one of my partners
doing nothing in the sales line and
then l get busy. He's selling a me-
chanical toy, We'll say. l stop, exam
inc it closely, ask for q demonstration
and comment on the thing until I
have six or eight people around me,
then buy one of the toys and walk
away. I've worked that crowd up to
the proper pitch. One sale follows
another and as the crowd increases
the faker benefits accordingly
Il never butt into crowd that is
buying. That would be useless. I wait
until things are slow or stagnant,
and then l jump in and laugh or
a pointed comment does.&he trick. /
don't sell directly; l merely suggest
and the vender rakes in the coin and
passes over his goods
MY rake-off? Oh, yes. I have from
twenty to thirty takers on my list,
and they come around to my room
every night and buy back what have
purchased from them during the day,
at five times the regular price.
L seldom visit man more than
three times day, and frequently not
more than once or twice It's worth
from $50 to 500 a week"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

times, and said that ought to have an
operation. / would not listen to that,
and when a friend Of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now / look the picture Of health and
feel like it, too. I can do my own house.
work, hoe my garden, and milk cow.
| can entertain company and enjoy
them. I can visit when I choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. I wish I could
talk toeyery sufferingwoman andgirl."
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
It is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. It has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
fammation, liberation, fbroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you tryit2
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

THlCAGO.-"Capping" for street ia
~ kers has been founu a highly lu.
crative if novel way of earning liv-
ing by at least one young Chicago.
an. 1t could hardly be called work,
stroling about the streets at such
times as might suit the stroller's own
sweet will, but if his story is true, the
returns are greater than the salaries
OF many men who work long hours in
shops or Offices.
1T is through my ability to draw a
crowd and get 'em interested in the
toys and gimcracks you see peddled
On the streets, the capper said, that
boom the takers sales. get a per-
centage. ''The only rule l follow"
be went on, "and the only rule fell
low in this game can follow consist
emily. is to change his make-up4as fire.
quently as possible. l never attempt
disguise of the stage sort, with fake
Whiskers, grease paint or anything
treaky. But do wear several suits.
coats and hats in the course of the
day and make 1t rule to dress in
conspicuously, so that cannot easily
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

In the age of witchcraft and super
stition it was believed that the fairies
built the old kinks in Glasgow and that
they had a right to them; so said Mr..
w. B. Paterson, lecturing before the
Old Glasgow club. The accommoda-
tion. afforded the pensioners was very
different from the present luxurious
age. There were no pews in Scottish
kinks before the reign of Charles /.
The people had to bring their stools
with them, and those that did not do
this simply sat down on the floor. For
the evening service parishioners like
wise brought candlesticks and candles
On the question of the separation of
the sexes Mr. Paterson mentioned the
interesting fact that there still existed
church in the city where this rule
was observed.--London Globe.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
ROYALTY AS THE GODFATHER
Difficulty in Europe Successfully Over
come by the Exercise of Some
Diplomacy.

In the early days of the reign of the
late King Leopold of Belgium sew
enth son was born to a Brussels WON
an, and when the king heard of it and
was told that the boy was the seventh
successive one and that no girl had
come to the family, he asked to be the
baby's godfather. Ever since then
every seventh son born in Brussels
has had the same honor, and the moth
ers have received gifts in keeping
with their station in life. King AL
bert, ip carrying out the old adage a
short time ago, had some difficulty
because the seventh son was twins"
according to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
"He could not stand for both boys, be-
cause that would give the family two
Alberts. The remedy was found by
Queen Elizabeth, who suggested that
her little son, the duke of Brabant,
be the godfather of the eighth boy,
who consequently received the name
of Leopold
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

M EW YORK.-William ]. Flynn. dep
~ uty police commissioner oil" this
city, and the head of the detective
bureau which rounded up the great
Italian kidnapping gang and also plac-
ed about dozen members of two or
three large counterfeiting gangs be-
hind prison bars, is marked man.
The Italian criminals of the metropolis
have declared that he must die. and
for the last two or three weeks have
been working overtime in advising
him OF the fact by sending threaten
Ing letters. Death in its most horrible
forms has been promised him; he has
seen the death sign given him scores
OF times in court rooms, and on the
streets, yet he goes calmly about his
business, anG the list of law-breaking
Italians in Sing Sing is constantly
growing.
Probably no man in the United
States Is more bitterly hated by
"Black Hand" members and Italian
criminals generally than Flynn. Re
lentless in the running down of these
bands of foreign crooks, he has arous-
ed hatred for himself among them
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
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Wouldn't 1t be nice within week or
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scalding. dribbling. straining, or too ~.
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The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
A Transaction In Stamns.

The stamp vending machines in.
stalled in many stores and shops about
the city are not favored by woman
who hurried into a drug store In Mas.
sachusetts avenue several DAYS aso
where there IS a branch post office.
"How do you sell your two-cent
stamps?" she inquired Indignantly.
1.-TWO cents apiece" replied Bassett
well. that's all right" she replied
while she fished in her purse for
coin. This is the fifth place have
visited after stamps. At all the other
places they had those slot machines
where you have to spend nickel for
two two-cent stamps. I made up NV
mind not to be held up il I had 10
walk all over the city. Give me two
stamps"
The woman laid down a dime and
hurried out with two two-cent STAMPS.
leaving six cents In change lying on
the show case. She did not return
Indianapolis News.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Delivery of a Letter Long DELAYED

The postman called a. her home
with postoffice department envelope.
Within was the time-yellowed sheet of
paper. 1t was not an envelope, for it
was written when envelopes were un-
known. 1t was folded square and the
ends turned in. and a postage STAMP
was pasted across to keep them there.
The stamp was Cancelled and the mis-
sive bore the date, Geneva, N. Y
April 20, 1888. Beneath this stamn
was another one, which read SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, Dec. ~, 1910.
No explanation of the delay appear
ed upon it. There was no mark from
the dead letter Office It probably
had been mailed by the sender, who
signed himself Whitney, and had been
mislaid in the postoffice at Geneva to
be found again just now.
1t was in relation to a shipment of
lumber which Mr.. Paddock was to
make from Yonkers, and contained
the information that $4,000 in paw
ment would be sent on receipt of the
consignment.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
For Washinaton's Birthday.

/
The red, white and blue of the flag
seems to be the appropriate coiol
scheme for Washington Birthday en-
tertainments. There are so many
pretty little things in the shops that
may be used for this occasion. Boxes
made in the form of drums or cooked
hats, which may be used for saltef
nuts or bon bons.
Small flags tied to stand make very
pretty decoration; they may be used
to hold the place card.
Fondant made into balls and dipped
into chocolate make very real-looking
cannon balls, and IL piled canon-b ball
fashion add to the appropriately dec.
Grated table.
Cherries are, Of course, the fruit
most appropriate to the occasion, and
may be used in numerous ways for
decoration or on food combinations.
For a children's party, nice little
surprise cake may be made, using
the ordinary sponge cake mixture,
which is more wholesome than the
rich cup cakes for the little people.
Bake them in gem pans, the little
brownie irons are nice shape
When cold, cut off a slice and scoop
out the center, fill them with preserved
cherries, put back the slice and cove,
with a boiled frosting or dip them In
softened fondant
Pineapple Lemonade.
Make a strip by boiling two cupfuls
If sugar and a cup of water together
ten minutes, add the Juice of three
lemons and one can of grated pine
apple Cool, strain and dilute With
one quart of water
A delicious sandwich to serve with
this lemonade is cottage cheese, well
seasoned with salt and we'll mixed
with chopped candied cherries.
French chops may be arranged on
q platter to simulate a cannon and DO
tatoes cut into balls and Drowned in
lat may be piled to look like cannon
balls. The potatoes should first be par
boiled until nearly tender, Their
in hot fat.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

snow hundreds of feet into the air
from all their SUBMITS, and upon this
exaggerated outline of the many
toothes ridge, that sunrise strikes in
red and gold and you may see a
sight that is not included in the very
finest of the summers repertoire. But
it is at night, beneath the moon, that
the Winter Alps become really SUI
preme The shadows are pitch black.
the snow dazzling as with radiance
of it's own, the "battlements that on
their front bear stars" loom awfully
out of the sky. In close-shuttered
chalets the peasants sleep, there. in
this silent world of ice and stars. the
enormous mountains dream solemnly
upon their ancient thrones, unassaible.
alone in the heavens, forgotten. The
Alps, in these hours of the long win
ter night, come magnificently into
their own.
ALGERNoN BLAckWooD.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
A Corner in Candles.

AS an example of trusts and monop
olies prevalent even in that early day
it may be mentioned that in 1850 one
Benjamin Crabb obtained the exclus
i've right to make sperm candles in
Massachusetts for IA years.
A year later, however, factory was
started in Providence, R. l., and with
In the decade there were eight fac
tories in New England and one in
Philadelphia. Their output greatly re-
duced the price of candles, which not
long before sold for five shillings a
pound. In those days $1.25 was worth
fully three times as much as it is now.
From the Designer
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Ignorance.

Laura Jean Libbey, discussing in
Brooklyn her appearance on the
stage, said:
II talk in my mcnologue about love.
marriage and the other interests Of
the heart. On these subjects women,
especially young women, are strangely
ignorant.
They really make me think, you
know, Of the little girl who was asked
by her teacher:
What can you tell us of Solo
mon?'
Solomon, replied the little girl,
was very fond Of animals
90 And how my dear said the
teacher, do you make that out?'
Because answered the little
girl, the Bible says he had 500 porcu
pines.'"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Ways of Serving Chicken.

| ways OF Serving Chicken.
Chicken need not be an extravagan'
dish, as the bits of leftover meat may
be worked into croquettes, salads'
creamed chicken and numerous otnef
dishes. The bones of the chicken
| need not be wasted, as they vile make
soup and broths.
Chicken la Marengo.-This is said
to be the dish that was served Napo
leon after the battle of Marengo
SINCE and clean flve-pound chicken
cut it up as for fricassee. In
saucepan melt two tablespoonful OF
butter and add three tablespoonful
Of olive OIL When it is hot, add the
white meat, with salt, pepper and
Glove of garlic. Mix and cook over
the heat until each piece is golden
brown. Have ready tomato sauce
made from IA can of tomatoes, little
onion, parsley, carrot and celery
which have been cooked until thick.
then rubbed through a sieve, and
tablespoonful of butter added. To the
chicken add a pound of fresh mush'
rooms which have been peeled and
sauted in a little butter for five min
utes. Arrange the chicken on plat
ter and add to the gravy three ia.
blespoonfuls Of tomato PURGE; stir
until it is hot. Pour over the chicken
and serve.
Chicken GibIets on Toast.-Cook
che giblets until tender over slow
fire, then chop fine; add the broth
In which they were cooked, season
with salt. pepper and little onion.
add half cup of hot cream. Pour
over buttered toast and serve.
Chicken croquettes.-Boil young
chicken until tender, cut the meat
into dice. Saute in butter a half
pound of fresh mushrooms, make
cream sauce, using the broth and
equal quantity of cream in making
he sauce; use three tablespoonfuls
If butter and three of flour; cook to-
5ether, then add cup each of broth
Ind thick cream
Chicken cut up and baked in milk
s new dish to many. Cover the
irst hour of cooking and remove the
over to brown. Thicker the milk
or gravy and serve poured arounf
he chicken.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Staggered, But Not FIoored.

Thomas said the head of the es-
Enlistment. you are more than an
hour late this morning
Yes, sir answered the Office boy:
I had to clean bout foot O snow
off'm the sidewalk fore / left home !"
a foot of snow, Thomas? The
snow isn't more than two inches deep,
at the outside
Il know it amt more'n that here,
Mr.. Spotcash. but in the part O town
wher | live the climates differ'nt."
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Met Death In Hot Starch

A fearful death was that of a man
named John Baird at mill in New
York. AS he bent over a large vat
filed with boiling starch he slipped
and fell into the hot mixture. He was
literally boiled to death before work.
men dragged his body from the vat
with hooks attached to a rope. The
hot starch had reduced the mans
clothing to fragments
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

Ar Atlanta man not long ago met a
darby who v'-7 driving horse SO thin
hat it stag j as it walked Why
don't you put more flesh on that nag?"
Indignantly demanded the Albanian
Scuse me, boss replied the driver
But is dom de best l kin. CANT
20 see. boss. dat po' boss kin hardly
carry what little flesh he's got on him
noU?"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
An Invarlable Assumption.

An lnvariable Assumption.
"It must be dreadful to have any of
your relatives become involved In
scandal"
eyes," replied Miss Cayenne. 1.-THE
only possible compensation is the ex-
tent to which 1t causes you to be Inn
mediately written about as a member
Of the most exclusive society"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Only Thina Possible

A medical professor asked his c,as,
III a patient swallowed heavy dos.
of oxalic acid what would you admit
ister?"
There was silence and finally one n
the younger students murmured in an
gwer, spiritual consolation"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
a S;nf,,f Waste

why won't you do something for
me? Don't l always vote your way"
Sure said the politician, "snd
that's what makes it seem so unneces-
sary to do anything for you"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

~ l. was la UcU
for four or five days
lat a time every
month, and so weak
| could hardly walk.
I cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and was so
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
case ma of fhnoo
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
heIpless,

They say Harold is an adept in III,
art of self-defense."
Nonsense! Hilda made him pro.
pose six times in one season.. Com.
tc Cuts.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Couldn't Last a Day

Couldn't Last a Day.
Howell can tell you how to live
on ten cents a day.
Powell-Don't do 1t, I've only eight
cents.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Turkish PROGRESS

The whirling dervishes of Scutar,
of informing its readers of the griey
ances of the strikers.
Java
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Just a Guess. perhans

OHSe N0SSSy FNTTIdPSs
Where Is 1t that Shakespeare says
Hope springs eternal in the humau
breast?"
In Don Juan,' | think"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
The Limit Of Depravitv.


There are degrees of baseness. Kid
naping baby Is wicked, but stealing
babe seems too monstrous to con
template in the headlines without
tears.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

HO has never tasted bitter
does not know what Is sweet.
When the good mans from home, the
good wife's table Is soon spread
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

What becomes of all the smashed
aeroplanes?"
"They sell them to the girls for
hats, guess"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
IX@KT'fGHEN
e EX(((l1ADINET
&k

AZ lL"S adorned
W. Amply that in her husbands
eye looks lovely
The truest mirror that an honest WIG
can see her beauty in.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Slkeston, Mo. -"For seven years I
suffered everything. I was in bed
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04

ITH an audacity of outline
denied to them in the soft
er seasons, the Winter
Alps rear themselves aloft
more grandly self-revealed
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-02-04
Ancient Church Customs.

ALGERNoN BLAckWOoD
Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-03-03
ALFALFA CLOVER.

Salzer's strain of hardy. luxuriant Alfal-
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It's the vigorous, healthy kind planted by
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