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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Lost Meanings.

"Those who care for the beginnings
of things may be glad that the quill
pen survives to remind us that the
original pen was plucked from bird"
observes a writer. Germans and
Frenchmen are in no danger of for
getting that, thanks to their respec-
tive words 'feder' and plume, but the
English pen suggests a feather only
when one chooses to think about it
and recall the Latin 'penna' Almost
all our writing materials are no longer
what etymologically they profess to
be. Paper is no longer made of pa
pyrus; pencil is not little tail
penicillus.' like camePs hair brush: :
the lead of lead pencil is not lead.
and the india rubber with which we
erase it's marks does not and never
did come from India. Even of parch-
ment there is probably not fragment
in the country, except, perhaps, in a
museum and coming from Pergamum,
in Asia. a."-Chicago News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

The egg shampoo is one of the best
to be obtained 1t is cleansing and at
the same time provides food for the
scalp and hair, making 1t fine and
glossy.
Use may be made of the almond
meal jars and cream jars of good size
by filling these with medicated cotton.
which is employed for applying pow
der and liquids for the toilet use.
Excellent for sprains is the starch
poultice. Pour boiling hot water on
starch. spread on linen and apply hot
Poultices may also be made of hops.
hemlock or charcoal. Medicated pouI
tees may contain any drug ordered
If instead of drinking a strong cup
of tea or coffee when suffering from
a bad headache woman would drink
a cup of hot milk she would be more
apt to cure the pain. not because not
milk has medicinal properties. but be
cause 1t is more easily digested than
tea or coffee and sootheS instead OF
stimulates the nerves
A clear, healthy complexion is an i'm
possibility for woman who stays
much indoors in winter. Women
should understand that the pores as
much as the lungs need fresh air. and
failure to give 1t will simply make
them larger in their effort to breathe.
The fact of living in badly ventilated
rooms is frequently the cause of large
pores In the face.
In bathing the hands tepid water
and a bland soap should be used, and
always dry them thoroughly. If they
are inclined to chap it is good plan
to use lotion composed of glycerin.
one ounce; rosewater, one ounce, and
tincture of benzoin, five drops. Rub
a few drops into the hands whenever
they are bathed. Use also before re-
firing and draw on a pair of large
soft gloves.
People who are told to use smoked
or colored glasses in the house some
times find this impracticable because
they interfere so greatly with vision.
This objection does not apply to or
dinary white glass set in cuplike
frames so shaped that they cut off all
light save that which comes from the
front The protecting part may be of
wire gauze. vulcanite or such like
Glasses to suit the vision may be set
in such frames. and the latter, even
without the glasses. are of use when
one reads by a light placed at the
right or left of the head Another
good protection for the side of the eye
is a pair of lensless spectacles with
hinged side pieces OF black glass,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
A Noble Youth.

In the Bodleian library at Oxford is
a most touching record of heroism and
self sacrifice on the part of child
The lower door of st. Leonards
church, Bridgeworth, was left open.
and two young boys, wandering in.
were tempted to mount to the upper
part and scramble from beam to beam
All at once a jolst gave way. The
beam on which they were standing
became displaced The elder had just
time to grasp it when falling. while
the younger, slipping over his body,
caught hold of his comrades legs. In
this fearful position the poor lads
hung. crying vainly for help. for no
one was near.
At length the boy clinging to the
beam became exhausted. He could
no longer support the double weight
He called out to the lad below that
they were both done for.
could you save yourself if ! wer"
to loose your" asked the younger lad
81 think ! could" returned the elder
'Then goodby, and God bless you"
said the little fellow. loosing his hold
Another second and he was dashcd
to pieces on the stone floor below
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

NOTICE Is hereby given that an ap-'
plication will be made to the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania on April 1 8,
1911, at II o'clock a. M, under the
Act of Assembly, entitled an Act to
provide for the incorporation and
regulation of certain corporations.
approved April 20, 1874, and sup
plements thereto for the charter of
an intended corporation to be called
the Wallen-Paupack Power Com
pany, the character and object of
which is the storage, transportation
and furnishing of water with the
right to take rivulets and lands and
erect reservoirs for holding water
for manufacturing and other pur.
poses, and for the creation, establish
ing, furnishing, transmission and US
ing of water power therefrom and
for these purposes to have, possess
and enjoy all the rights, benefits and
privileges of the said Act of Assem-
bly, and supplements thereto.
LAURENCE H. WATRES,
Solicitor.
Scranton, Pa. 22eoi3
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
MISSOURI HELPS CL0THE
PEERS FOR CORONATION.
Furnishes Weasel Skins to Deck Eng
Iish Aristooraoy.

Muies are not the only useful article
t1hat toe state of Missouri furnishes to
the British empire Weasel skins also
50 from "show me" land to London
In big st. Louis fur house a score
1 men have been busy sixteen hours
day at sorting thousands of weasel
pelts, which arrive in an endless sue
session of mail and express packages.
It is long way from this scene to
Che gorgeous historical pageant of the
coronation of King George V. Yet the
weasel skins which the st. Louis work
men stack in neat piles are destined,
under the aristocratic name of ermine,
10 ornament the robes of peers and
peeresses and perhaps the state gar
ments of the king and queen them
selves.
For st. Louis, "the fur capital of the
world" is supplying most of the er-
mine which the lords and ladies of the
English realm will wear at the crown
ing of their sovereign. One st. Louis
Grm sent $4,000 ermine pelts to Lon
don last month and has $4,000 more
which are being held for an expect
ed rise in price. Jan. % an auction
House in London sold 10000 ermine
skins. most of which were collected
by st. Louis dealers.
The little animals from which the
ermine skins were stripped are the
same in species as the marauding
brown weasels which farmers boys in
Missouri and Arkansas catch in trans
in their henhouseS. But in Canada and
such northern states as Minnesota and
Vermont, nature, to protect the weasel,
turns its coat white in winter to match
The snow.
Four months ago. when the northern
SHOWS fell, they turned pure white, eX
eept that the tip of the tail became a
glossy black. The change in color
wrought a miracle. When brown the
pelts are worth about cents each
snd are considered fit only to cover
Toy animals for children. But on be-
coming white the fur is metamorphos-
ed into ermine. to which for centuries
the adiectives royal and precious"
have been applied and which in Aus
m-ia all are forbidden by law to wear
save those of the emperors blood.
One ermine skin before being manufac
tured may be worth from 81 to S5.
For each robe from 800 to 1000 pelts
will be needed. What the kings coro-
nation robe will require may be judged
from that of Car Nicholas of Russia,
which was made of 250,0O0 skins.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
&I
MiIady's
Mirror
*

Beauty rides on lion. Beauty rests
on necessities. The line of beauty is
the result of perfect economy. The cell
of the bee is built at that angle which
gives the most strength with the least
wax The bone or quill of the bird
gives the most alar strength with the
least weight
'It is the purgation of superfuities."
said Michelangelo. There is not
particle to spare in natural structures
There is a compelling reason in the
uses Of the plant for every novelty of
color or form. and our art saves ma
terial by more skillful arrangement
and reaches beauty by taking every
suPerfuous ounce that can be spared
from a wall and keeping all its
strength in the poetry of columns. In
rhetoric this art of omission is a chief
secret of power. and in general it is
proof of high culture to say the great
est matters In the simplest way.-Em
erSon
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

The famous beauties of the world are
wise when they leave no portraits of
themselves. Take Marguerite of Va
lois. She was an immoral, dishonor-
able, criminal, scheming. unscrupulous
villainess, but she was lowered with
such charm that there was not jailer
or an enemy she could not charm when
she tried. No, nor a woman-not even
the wives of her lovers. Men came
from every country, taking year long
journeys, only to see her and went
away, after little glimpse, saying
they had "seen loveliness itself" Then
one sees her portraits. Too much fore
head, not enough eyebrow, a straight
nose and expressive mouth dn one pic
ture lovely mouth)-and that is all.
Mary, queen of Scots, was very lovely
three kingdoms battled because of
her beauty-and yet her pictures leave
one cold. Fouche said her portrait
showed every trait of the lowest GRIM
inal type. That was before he knew
whose picture he criticised.-London
Truth
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

A recent Investigator has attempted
to show that Lombroso and his follow
ers we're wrong in asserting that men
of genius were of small stature OF
230 individuals of eminence he found
that figures were obtainable for 1903:
of these sixteen were of middle height
f1fty-eight above and twenty-nine be
low.
Americans particularly combined
greatness with inches. Jefferson and
Jackson were more than six feet tall
Sumner was six feet four inches. and
Washington. Lincoln and Beecher were
more than six feet Among famous
foreigners Tolstoy was a large man
and so were Thackeray, Bismarck and
Darwin.
On the contrary, many of the worlds
greatest geniuses were undersized and
even deformed. Napoleon. Poe, Pope
Alexander the Great, Nelson. Blake
and Caesar were small men.
After all is said. genius is no re-
specter of rules.-New York American
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
FOR THE CHILDRE:N
The Eskimo Cows Slim.

In the far north i'll May and line In
mense numbers of elder ducks fly aion.
the coast bound for their breeding
grounds far to the east of Point Bar
row, Alaska. At this season every per
son, male and female, is supplied with
the Eskimo implement called by them
ke-lov-i-tow-tin. which is made as fol
lows:
Eight balls three-fourths of an inch
in diameter are cut from ivory or bone
with tip or ear through which hole
is drilled. Eight strands of finely
braided sinew are tied to these balls.
At the opposite ends the strands are
brought together, each Of exactly the
same length, and tied to ten or twelve
quills of some sea fowl, when the i'm
plement is ready for use. The bunch
of quilts is grasped with the right
hand, while the fingers of the left
comb out the strand, and when all
clear the balls are held between the
forefinger and the thumb.
This is done in few minutes when
a flock of ducks are seen approaching.
w utu Tie BuLnS 10 u6uI tueuSh, WIN a
quick. circular motion, just the same
as throwing a stone with a sling, the
missile is launched among the flying
birds. when, if one of these strands
crosses the neck or wing of a duck. il
brings it to the ground. where it is
then captured.
The action of the air on the strings
tends to separate the balls in their
fight, so that they cover quite space,
and if the birds are punched they
often bring one down, and the boy or
girl who can do this is proud and
happy
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

If you have hurry call to be beau
tifu without the time to work up to
the permanent affair here's your
chance: First wash your face with
warm water and almond meal. Make
sort of paste of those things and
wash off with warm water and dry
lightly. Then apply your skin food
lest there be any reaction from the
drastic treatment to follow Now
take a piece of lemon and rub it over
the face till the skin Smarts. Rinse
again, this time with water that is
gradually brought down from cool 10
cold.
You are then ready for the final Ger
emony. Hold a good sized piece of
ice in towel and iron your face with
it, Then look in the glass. This has
been found an absolutely reliable rec.
ipe before asking for the coveted new
bonnet
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
SONGS BY WIRELESS.
Experiment In TeIephonins Made by
Harvard Students.

Members of the Harvard Wireless
club are winning success in their ex-
Heriments with wireless telephoning.
Conversation, songs and instrumental
music on the graphophone have been
flashed from the Harvard college sta
ton in Jefferson hall to the stations of
the members, where it was said to be
reproduced with absolute clearness.
By using electric current of high fire.
quency alienation in connection with
wireless telephony distances up to for
ty miles have been negotiated success
fully.
AS for long distance telegraph rec
srds, the members of the society feel
that they have no reason to complain.
z. b. Wolverton, the manager of the
dub, has picked up messages from Mil
waukee, Chicago and Tampa, Fla. Oc-
easionally he is able to hear messages
from Key West.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
LAWS FOR BELGIAN PAINTERS
Restrictions Regarding lntoxicants and
Employers responsibilities.

Employers responsibilities.
Belgium has just drawn up a special
code of laws governing painters and
Me exercise of their craft which are
singularly strict and exhaustive.
From the fashion in which the new
laws hedge them in with enforced pre-
cautions one would think painting the
most dangerous trade in the whole
catalogue. In the first place no en-
pioyer of painters may employ man
who drinks alcoholic beverages to the
temporary extinction of his logical
power, and no Intoxicating liquors are
10 be brought into the vicinity of the
workers. Employers are responsible
Tor the care which their men take of
their persons.
They must see that every painter
washes his hands before eating, sus-
pend the men whose health is not sat
kfactory and discharge any one suf
fering from lead poisoning. A painter
may not wear the same clothes on the
street or in his home which he uses in
his trade. He is imperatively required
te arm himself with a special suit of
clothes and a screened hat.
Contractors and master painters are
restricted in the use of white lead to
the ground lead mixed with oil, and it
is stipulated that this mixture must be
so handled that it does not splash or
come in contact with the painters
hands.
The law strictly forbids scraping of
dry painted surfaces in which white
lead has been used. This will doubt
less prevent much carelessness and pro-
tect the careless painter from his own
indiscretion, but it is terribly restric-
tive and smacks of overlegislatiOn.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
CATCHING the Snakes Tail.

This is japanese game and is play
ed as follows: The players form n
line. each resting his hands on the
shoulders of the player in front. The
one who is the catcher is out. The
first player on the line Is called the
head and the last the tail. When the
game begins the catcher stands about
fifteen or twenty feet away from the
head and at a given signal tries to
catch the tail or end player without
pushing any one else. The others de
fend the tail by moving about in any
way they choose. except that the line
must not be broken, for should it break
the tail is considered caught and con
sequently must become the catcher
while the catcher goes to the head of
the line.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

Viscountess d. Azy, wife of distin
guished French naval officer. who re
Gently was in Annapolis. wears rings
in her ears which are round and large
as silver half dollar. She has
seemingly endless variety of these
huge ornaments, certain ones Tuscan
gold set in rubies. others diamonds
and aluminium. others pearls and EN-
eralds in tiligree old gold. One of the
most bizarre combinations is worn
with a costume of cerise satin and
mechlin lace and shows three pigeon
blood rubies depending one over the
other III a hoop of thin Tuscan gold
There are similar ornaments on her
bodice and big belt buckle in the
back made in the same way. Six hat
pins of exact design as the earrings
adorn the big black beaver trimmed
with cerise plumes and a bird OF par
adiSe
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Cards ON Sunday.

Pepys, the diarist. was greatly scan
dalized when he first saw cards played
on a Sunday. ~ did find the queen
the Duchess of York and another al
cards. with the room full of ladies and
great men. which was amazed to see
on Sunday, having not believed, but
contrariy fatty denied the same lit.
tie while since"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
At Dinner.

At Dinner.
No matter where we children are
We run in answer to the bell,
And dinner comes in piping hot
1t makes us hungry just to smell,
Poor father sharpens up his knife
And carves with all his might and main
But long before he's had a bite
Our Willie's plate comes back again.
We eat our vegetables and meat,
For mother, who is always right,
Says those who wish to have dessert
Must show they have an appetite.
And when a Sunday comes around
So very, very good we seem
You'd think most any one could tell
That for dessert we'd have ice cream.
st. Nicholas.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

The canal system of the Punjab, In
dia, is not only opening up that prov
ince to profitable cultivation and there
by making homes for millions of peo-
pie. but it is a source of revenue to
the government to the extent of 12h
per cent on the capital invested. The
mileage is 4,495, irrigating an area of
3-749. GOT acres.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Trained Horses.

II would be quite natural 10 think
when we see the wonderful THINGS
that trained horses are made to do in
the circus of today that all this be
longs to modern times and that such
things were never done or even
thought Of among the ancients, But
the truth is that all the wonderful
feats performed by trained horses now
are merely repetitions of what was
done several hundred years ago.
Horses were then trained to dance
on their hind legs and to fight mock
battles, striking at their enemies with
their fore feet, and to perform many
other so called tricks" One of the
most wonderful feats ever learned by
a horse was in the olden time. A large
three sided braided rope was stretch
ed several feet from the ground, and
on this the horse walked, preserving
it's balance perfectly.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Zuni TOYS.

Zuni Indians make their toys out of
clay and bake them hard so that they
will not crumble. They know how to
model dolls and goats and frogs and
cows and birds that warble when one
fills the hollow body with water and
blows through a tube inserted in the
back And they make all kinds of curl
Gus clay rattleS.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Srnall Tlainrs.

We are too fond of our own will
We want to be doing what we fancy
mighty things. but the great point is
to do small things when called to them
In right Snirit
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22

There used to be a country where all
the children were polite, but the geog
raphers have forgotten it's name.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-22
Possibly.

Possibly.
Mr.. Briggs-Here's an article, my
dear, very interesting article. in
which a prominent doctor say that a
certain cure for nervousness in women
is silence-con-plete silence. Mrs.
Briggs (promptly)-I'H bet anything
some fool of man doctor wrote that!
cleveland Plain Dealer
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07
How He Averted a Duel

The following is told OF former 'eN
ator Joe Blackburn OF KENTUCKY:
In the days of his youth the hen
+,ckian was asked by friend to sec.
ond him IN a duel. He consented anu
at sunrise the parties met at the ap
pointed place. Now, 1t was this hsa.
tnekian's duty to say the last "0,u 's
touching the terms OF the duel D Is,.
although he faithfully performed TINS
duty, the duel never took place, ,,,,,
A murmur of why not'' in v.aaa !,
ooes around whenever this story y
told whereupon the answer is as i0'
lows: wber
For a very simple reason, WIZ. :,
Toe finished speaking 1t was 100 '''
for a duel."-Harper's Masaz'Hs'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07
a Preaching Cross Restored.

The preaching cross in the village
of burlington, situated amid romantic
surroundings on the northern SIDE Oh
the Mendip hills, has, by the generos
itv of Col. Evan H. LleWeliyn' Deen
restored. 1t is recorded that carry III
1905 the handsome fifteenth century
base of the cross-all that then re-
NAMED of twas removed and uu
lied in building a new house lot Tue
then parish clerk. Happily, tse oraa-
mental dial stone did not snare 'ns
same fate, and this has been incoi'
porated into its original position III
the new cross. Three broad anu HAS
sive steps carry the old socket upon "
which rests a tall monoiith shai''
which is crowned by one Oh thos0
lantern-shaped canopies SO peculiar u
the west country.-From the Lonuon
Standard.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07
COFFEE HEART
Very Plain in Some re'p'''

A great many people go on su1e ,aas
from annoying ailments for. . iO.s
time sbefore they can get tneif ~
consent to give UP the indu'ss'
from which their trouble arises ~.
A gentleman in Brooklyn oe'
his experience, as follows: o,,h.
~ became satisfied some mon -.
400 that I owed the palpitation Of ny
heart from which l suffered ANN s.sn
daily. to the use Of coffee, Il nao y. vi
a coffee drnker for 30 years. wv s.,.
round 1t very hard to give up 'N'
erage. ,erv sen.
sible and straightforward and
tion n the claims Of Postum, a. a.
was so impressed thereby that "
Guided to give it a trial. ,,sat.
NV experience with It was un nsst
,sfactory till learned how II , ouS
to be prepared-by thoFoosn ,,suutes.
for not less than is or ~ h uas
After I learned that lesson
no trouble. ,,ost palst
postum proved to be a mos, .a p
able and satisfactory DOL
and have used it ever since, T., been
) 'I The effect on my health has Ia'.s zion
[ most salutary. The heart pa,p' rnuch,
from which used to suile1 ~ has dis.
> ,,u after breakfast mas Of
i appeared and never have a rss' away
r it except when I dine OF 'la ~ s,nd Of
n from home and drink the oia n aarvsd
g I : find that Postum cheers and , ,nas
crates while it produces no Do pos,uu
d stimulation" Name given os
'f Co. Battle Creek, Mich. ooens
e. Ten days trial proves an e''
. to many. .r,a Road .
at MELVILLE" in pkgs. Iheie
=. SON." ,....,, a %
Ever from time to tims Nunl
are genuine, true, and fu'
interest.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07

T 7 o Ill uCl fo''N
and other annoying
symptoms, anu a. !
can truly say, that
Lydia f. Pinkh a $
W bic CON- !
lpound has PROVED ed
]worth mountains OF !
lgold to me, as It
RESTORED my health
land siren Ct h. :, !
Anever forget to tel
my friends what what
lLydia E. Pinkham 5
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07
CHANGE
IN WOMAN'S
LIFE
Made Safe by Lydia E. Pinkham s
Vegetable Compound.

Creniteville. VT was passing
+hromgh the Changeof Life andsuileIeu