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WANTED-Man Cor woman) as manu- lecturers representative for 80 Coola," the great summer drink. Ex- elusive territory. Salary and commits sion. 25 glasses 25c; sample 15c '. J. S. Ziegler Co.,, Chicago.
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AGENTS -ss6 weekly salary, s10OO life,
 sl50 dividends, BIO weekly health-acci-
 dent policy. Brotherhood" Box S55, Denver, Col 4-23- 5-14-21-2S
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TEACHERS for schools ana colleges; all departments, grades. principals, super intendents Many calls daily. Guaran- ted service. Three agencies. one enroll ment; twentieth year. Sheridan s Teachers Agencies, Greenwood, s. C..
 5-20-4t-su-tu- -wed-fri WANTED-Sewing help in dressmaking and white work; will give steady work to good help. e016 4th avenue. DreSsma ker.
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WANTED-Na who is tired of being another nEnss slave to learn the mall
 order busir>ess~ Send for free booklet. Salvo. 2551-S, Kedzie avenue, Chicago. s10O MONTHLY and expenses to travel
 and distribute samples for big manu- facturer; steady work s. Scheffer, treasurer D 115 Chicago.
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AGENTS-Portraits, BOG; frames, 15c; pillow tops. BOG; sheet pictures, 1c, and
 art novelties at lowest prices. Catalcg free. Oak Park portrait and frame Co <, Oak Park, III. 5-14-4t-su
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FOR SALE-Drug store: good location; business from start; will sell or lease; other business calls us away. Address Drug Co.,, care Age-Herald. 5-21-2t AN opportunity that will not be offered again; an attractive money making rooming and boarding house for sale Rooms filled. Best 1oca ton, North side. For cash or time. Address p- 6, care Age-Herald.
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AGENTS are coining big money with our new negro pictures, Negro Angel" Little Shepherd,' Heaven ward" Jesus Died for Negroes, Booker Washington" Jack John son." etc.; portraits, frames, pillow tops; catalogs and samples free. Ser lin Art association, Dept. 101, Chi
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SALESMAN for this territory who has experience in selling advertising spe- cialties. premium goods or calendars; s25 a week drawing account and ex- penses A new house with new line of advertising specalties. M. J. Walsh & Co.,, 440-452 ". Huron st., Chicago, III.
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TEXAS is selling good lands s1.50 to s5 per acre; one-fortieth down, balance 40 years. Write for particulars. Texas School Land Publishing Co.,, Houston, Tex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

FREE farms in Utahl The Hatchtown Project, built by state, waters the finest agricultural lands in America. Water rights at actual cost. Opening soon. Ten years time Address for free booklet, "Hatchtown Project State Beard of Land Commissioners, Salt Lake City, Utah. --
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ARCHITECTURAL draftsman s125, tin ner and cornice maker 8, four railroad clerks S75 to s100, foreman sash and doors s. Business Mems Clearing House Houston. Tex.
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$8 per 100 paid for collecting names and addresses; steady work; stamp for particulars. Calvert Sales Co.,. 217-219 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md. WANTED-Housekeep for widower; col- ored band, summer resort second short order cook; woman run mill boarding house: stave mill foreman; other open ings. Room 696. Chamber of Commerce building
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

ENERGETIC agents wanted every where to introduce our fire appli- ances; they have been well adver- tised, have great merit, and sell quickly to owners of property of all kinds; splendid money makers for agents. Address Knight & Thomas, Inc, 99 State street, Boston, Mass.
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AGENTS-s15 daily; new copyrighted negro pictures, Jesus Died for Both" ," "Heavenward,' "B. T. Washington and others. Only negro pictures ever published. All negroes buy-300 per cent profit; sample free. Portrait agents, the new Daisy portrait is a crackerjack seller. Write us. Peo- ple's Portrait Co.,, 723 W. Madison street Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

AGENTS--100 for luminous and gold name plates, signs, numbers;. big profits samples free. Wright Supply Co.,, Englewood, III.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

THE Addie Machine Co.,, of Wilkes Barre, Pa.. manufacturers of Wales Visible adding and listing machines, having opened a permanent agency at 2113 1st avenue, Birmingham, Ala, have desirable territory to offer good specialty men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

young men and women to take advantage of our low summer rates now in effect for Wheeler scholarships. Wheeler Business Col lege, 19o9h-171h 1st avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

CHEWING GUM-Sell to dealers in your town; clean, profitable business built up quickly with our brands; four flavors; novel packages; write today. Helmet Co. Cincinnati O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

MAN cleared s11S2; lady s720 last six months, selling Holidays Marvel Shoe Polish. selfshining' waterproof;
 why not you? Write for demon strated sample and terms. A. D. Hol- laday 126 w. 31st street. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

FAN season now on; splendid side line for travelling salesman; small pack age. easy sale; liberal commissions. Address with references, stating ter ritory. Aug. Cast Bank Note Co.,,
 St. Louis. The old reliable calendar house. 5-31 2t-su
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s75 WEEK to some one your town
 Why not you? Why keep your en- ergy staked at s1.50 to $4 day when your ability in my work pays you that in few hours; full working plans free. Write today for your ter ritory. Only one in each town. c. F. Swartzbaugh, Box 543 Toledo, O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

AGENTS-Astounding proposition; sell our fully guaranteed Globe Safety razor and blades; retails 50 cents: money back if dissatisfied; profit 100 per cent. H. R. Sensor sold 156 In 6 hours. Sample 30 cents. Largest line of cutlery in the world; write quick. Millgot Sales Co.,, S13 National Union Bldg, Toledo, O.
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out stamp mail chutes in office buildings, hotels, apartment houses, or wherever used Is no convenience. Our stamp vending machine on each floor makes your mail chute complete; territory now opened to responsible parties. For particular address Charles Matt, ITO Broadway, New York City,
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START in for yourself Be Independent! We can help to establish you In a pay ing business; full information on re- quest. Address Desk 70. The Selfaid
 Service, Washington, D. C. 5-21-3t-su
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MACHINERY

FOR engines. Doiieis, and second
 hand machinery. Atlas engines, Atlas repairs. see Geo. E. Lum Machinery and Supply Co.,, Bell 56o. 3-5-su-tu-th-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

Co., Anderson Ind.
 AGENTS-The biggest money maker ever known; the improved 1911 Can chester incandescent kerosene lamp will revolutionize lighting methods; burns air instead of money; six times brighter than electricity, gas or acetylene at 1-10th cost; burns with or without mantle; burner fits any lamp: saves 75 per cent oil; no trim ming wicks; showing means selling; territory going fast; write today par ticulars free; handsome outfit fur nished; beware of limitations. Can chester Light Co.,, Dept. 69, 26 State street, Chicago, III.
 HAVE you heard the great noise? Our Lucky 'Leven" combination $3 20 value), you sell for $1. will put you on easy street; the juiciest spring proposition out; If you don't have daily profits of SC to SIC you are due at the morgue; Newcome aver ages 30 boxes a day, profit SIS; LOOK good? Sure thing. Great crew man ager's proposition; good for $loo weekly profit :, this is only one pippin in our "27 varieties" From factory to you-no middleman's profit Get aboard. Davis Soap Works, 4 paws Bldg, 1425 Carroll avenue, Chicago' AGENTs-send for free catalog of Thomas guaranteed hosiery for men. women and children. Agents make t5 to S15 daily. Free sample. Thom- as Co.,, 17o1 Mathews Bldg" Day ton, O.
 CHAPINS T"Little Wonder. sample f.a... 1nn v,ar4 cant. big selling pat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

PORTRAIT agents desiring highest grade work, best quality materials, newest designs In fraries lowest prices, prompt. delivery guaranteed, should write for our price list Pal mer Portrait House, Dept. x, 354 East 51st street, Chicago, Ill.,
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WANTED-SALEsMEN

WANTED-Salesmen to sell close-in sub division to the city. See Daniel, Room 233 First National Bank bldg.
 5-14-6t-su-we-fri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

ARTISTS EGINNERS-Catalog fashion Illustrating. Oportunlty to learn good paying profession. Fashion Cut Ser vice, 231 No. Fifth ave, Chicago.
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WANTED-BOARDERo

TWO delightful rooms with bath, one block from Five Points. Cool veranda.
 Thoroughly modern; private home. Ex- cellent meals. Call Main 4793. 5-16-7t
The evening world., 1911-11-01
MRS. M'REE SURE
OF ACQU|TTAL ON
CHARGE Of MURDER
Case Expected to Go to the
Jury To-Day, and a Speedy
Verdict Is Predicted.

OPELOCSAS. La, Nov. with the
hope that the end Of her ordeal was
near at hand. Mrs. Zee i,unge McRee.
accused Of the murder OF Allan Oar
land. the Tulane University student.
entered court to-day as counsel we're
preparing to submit their arguments.
II these are not prolonged 1t Is believed
Mrs. McRce's case will go to the jury
this afternoon. A speedy verdict Is an
ticipated.
Mrs. McRee's lawyers are confident
OF acquittal, they holding that the
prosecution has been unable to produce
evidence damaging 10 the defendant.
ON the other hand. the prosecutor In
tends to make the most OF the fact
that the three bullcts Mrs McRce fred
at her victim ns he was advancing 81
hor' all entered young Garland's back.
The prosecution : rebuttal hinged about
testimony aimed to show that the de-
gree OF intimacy between Mrs. McI,et
and young Garland was such as tc
preclude the argument that she feared
bodily harm at hts hands.
The evening world., 1911-11-01

stars most eccentric evening gown
but one can. and should blame her
mother for letting her nave II. We all
wanted ITO do up" our hair and wear
long skirts when we were thirteen or
so. 1t Is the desire Of every young crca-
ture to rush INTO life as fur.ously as
possible. 1t Is perfectly normal for The
hfteen-year-old girl to want to dress
like her mother or the aunts of her
school friends. But she should not be
allowed to do 1t any more than the
baby should be permitted to swallow the
shiny shoe buttons which he regards
as the most fascinating and delightful
nourishment.
What we need In New York more than
anything else-and all the municipal i'm.
provement societies should begin to agi.
tate for it's a renaissance of the young
girl-the slim, brlght-eyed creature with
downing hair and simple girllsh dresses
The rose with all its sweetest leaves
yet folded" not full blown and wired
and faded before Its time.
The evening world., 1911-11-01
HUSBANDS AND THREE BOARD
ERS DIED SUDDENLY.

Fred Brinkamp. sixty years old, hrst
husband OF Mrs. Nermilyea, died on a
farm near harrington. eighteen years
ago. The widow inherited Is 900 worth
of property. i
Charles Vermilyea. second husband OF
the woman. ATTY years old, died at
Map!ewood two years ago, leaving h'olo
IN life Insurance.
Frank Brinkamp, a son by the first
marriage. twenty-threc years old. dled
q year ago. leaving the widow $500.
Richard 7. Smith. a conductor. who
roomed at the Vermllyea horne. also
died suddenly.
No formal charge has yet been made
against Mrs. Vermilyea, who was aware
I that the police have been watching her
movements for several days, shortly
he fore her arrest yesterday she declared
that she had no fear OF the investiga-
tion aleady begun, They ma go as
far as they like she said. FOR | have
nothing to fear. | simply have been
unfortunate IL having people dying
\ about me,
nv first husband was a farmer and
he drank himself to death. though l
should be ashamed to admit 1t. After
I was a widow for two and a half
years married Vermilyea and We
moved to Chicago. lie was on a train
run to Jaynesville, Wis, when he be-
came III and after he was Drought
home | nursed him until his death,
'My son had married a widow ana
divorced her before his death. so that
explains how I came into possession OF
the 81, 200 life Insurance"
7 HNDNAEn NnnEDEn ARREGT
PENDING INQUIRY.
Mrs. Verm!lyea said Bissonette was to
be admitted into the Home Guards.
through her efforts. and that the insur-
ance he was to carry was TO be made
out to her. while after they were mar
ried he was to be made beneficiary OF
the insurance she carried.
So far, Coroner Hoffman, who or
dered her arrest, admits there Is moth
ing to show that any OF the nine were
poisoned. but the circumstances com
pei a rigid Investigation.
NEXT Friday viii tell the story ad
ded the Coroner. III 1t Is then re
ported that Bissonette died from ar
senic or other poison, I will ask fol
permission to exhume at least six bod
los OF persons who have died In thu
same house where Bissonette died. o
who were connected In one way o
another with the persons who occupies
the house. I am making no charge
against any one. All that I can say I
thai the subject under investigation will
fall nat or 1t will develop one OF tn
greatest mysteries the country has eve
known.
DR.. Springer. the Coroner's physician
who Is aiding DR., Lecount In the an
alysis Of Bissonette's liver, was NOR
o~utspoken. however.
'In my opinion he said, we ar
The evening world., 1911-11-01
NEARLY EVERY DEATH MEANT
CASH TO WOMAN.

Coroner Hoffman, IL was learned to-
day, is making preparations to go 10
Darlington, H., Mrs. Vermilyea's for
mer home. and that he will demand the
exhumation of the bodies OF her rela-
tives buried there. =.
While my case Is not yet complete
the Coroner said. Il believe that Mrs.
Vermilyea has many things TO explain
concerning these deaths. We have UNI
covered much evidence and may form a
definite conclusion in a day or So"
I'VE are going into every phase OF
the case announced Detective Harding.
Mrs. Vermilyea was married twice and
both husbands died under mysterious
circumstances. She has realized about
Sij. 900 from the deeth of the nine per-
sons. and It seems almost beyond be-
lief that they should have died In such
a peculiar manner
Nine bottles of medicine seized at the
Vermiiyea home last Friday night by
| Coroner Hoffman will, 1t Is expected,
have an important bearing on the inves-
tisatlon. Mrs. Vermllyea was always
the first 10 report the deaths In heI
family or in the houses where she lived
When she was taken TO the Hahnemar
Hospital last night 1t was believed thai
she was Frustrated by her arrest, bu'
during the night she developed symp'
toms singularly like those OF Bisson'
ette. and the police believe she tried Il
kill herself when she went FOR her ha'
and coat after the warrant or arres
had been served on her.
The evening world., 1911-11-01
MRS. ROBERT MANTELL DEAD

Mrs. Robert Mantell. wife OF the
actor. known professionally as Marie
Booth Russell, died last night at s.46
o'clock at the Mantell home In Atlantic
Highlands, ". J. Mrs. Mantell had been
III for several weeks n Mr.. Mantell
had cancelled part OF his tour to re-
turn to her bedside; but last week she
improved so rapidly that -four days age
he r~ejoined his company In Pittsburgh.
Monday Mrs. Mantell became worse and
a telegram was sent to MIR. Mantell.
who reached home just about half an
hour before his wife died.
Death was due to an attack OF pncu-
monia and Bright's disease. Mrs. Man
tell was formerly known as Miss Peters
and at one time lived In Brooklyn. She
was married to Robert Mantell In 1900.
since which time she has always ap-
peared In his companies as his leading
woman.
The evening world., 1911-11-01

THE young girl no longer exists ex-
cept for stage purposes in the big
cities" a man remarked yesterday after
reading a speech made before the W. {.
T. Y. convention by DR.. Louisa G..
Parlngton Of Boston. The physician de-
clared that less attention Is paid to the
welfare Of children than to the care OF
horses and hens, IND her suggestion for
improving tho health OF both women
and children was offered In the BRIEF
formula
"NO BAREN-NO HOBBLE-NO
The evening world., 1911-11-01
GIRLS NEED PROTECTION FROM
THEIR OWN TASTE.

Now. / think most OF US will agree
that II n grown up woman wants to
wear false hair. color her cheeks or her
eyebrows or carry a stick Of red salve
about with her, because her lips chap
so easily she is well within ner con-
stltutional rights. But surely the very
young girl should be protected against
her own lmmaturity of taste which
The evening world., 1911-11-01
ATE A BRIDAL RING, MAYBE.

Where's the wedding ring?" Is the
question that is bothering twelve men,
oers of the Monday Evening Bowling
Club OF the p ':hwick section OF Brook
Ign. MJnday night the club bowled as
usual and had supper afterward.
The chief feature OF the supper was a
big cake, baked by Miss Helen Cuff OF
No. 1916 Cumberland street. She sliced
the cake into thirteen pieces. one slice
for every person at table. The diners BIZ
upon strange objects. such as buttons
p%cachpits, &c, hidden in the cake.
After It had been devoured, Miss Gun
asked, (which Of you got the wedding
ring?" Everybody looked at his or hel
neighbor, bit nobody said "Here!." Ye'
the ring could not be found anywhere
Some over-bashful person got It, Mis-
Cum thinks.
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AND A. sac
IS TO OA<

their young daughters to dress like the
worst type of chorus girl?' l asked
Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer. founder OF
Barnard College.
There's no doubt that many of our
with their faces powdered and rouged,
with false a n pitiful tight
skirts" said Mrs. Meyer. and the
mothers of such girls have much to
nsw for.
"Dut the truth 10, they DON
dare suppress h powder pun and
the rouge pot In h Cast Of their
own daughters for fear the poor
little things will miss . trick In
the marriage game and other girls
with less fasttdious mothers will
win possible husbands away from
them"
But this doesn't seem to be the whole
story. A great many mothers do moi
train their daughters TO the husband
hunt. For marriage 10 not the good
solid investment that It used to be. Di
vorce has become too easy to make
wedding seem like a paying life invest
msnt. And marriage. moreover. Is about
the only profession q girl can adopt IN
which age and experience will diminish
her efficiency instead of increasing 1t.
No, the real explanation OF the dis
appearance OF the young girl among u'
Is the snobbishness OF our dominant
ideals.
The Inexpensive gowns. Ia sim
Pic arrangement Of The hair, tho
inconspiouous jewels. all WIS.,
ibls symbols Of gtrlhood which
are sought after ana emphasized,
even In the attire OF royal prtn-
csssss, In oIder countries, are not
good enough, not contly enough Tor
our ovs~rburdened little women"
They prefer. and their mothers IN
courage them to prefer, the expensive
to the appropriate. the striking to tn
becoming.
The evening world., 1911-11-01

prompts the imitation OF this cosmetic
Venus.
There are girls Of fifteen and sixteen
in New York City who rouge their faces
quite as often and as much as a matter
Of course as they wash them. And they
are girls living in good homes and sup
posedly surrounded by good influences.
They hobble their undeveloped or UNI
chiselled bodies In tight skirts that
make them into unconscious cartcatures
Of the mode they seek to follow. and
offer to the jeer!ng passerby the most
daring revelations OF their nat little
chests.
unoonsoiously, and with the
most pathetic innocence, they emu.
late In hair ana clothes and car-
riags q type of oma Of whose
existence many Of them are quite
And they are not In h
least to blame. Girls Of nftsen
ana sixteen dress as their mothers
permit them to.
MOTHERS ARE TO BLAME, NOT
THE YOUNG GIRLS.
ssWhy do New York women allow
The evening world., 1911-11-01
BY NIXOLA GREELEY-sMITH.

The young girl of fourteen to sirteen is obsolete IN
Neo York. One may search the streets from the
Battery to the subudy's end ,oithout meeting one
bona fde specimen Of the old-tdshioned schoolgirl
pith a braid reaching to her udist and toith skirts to
her shoe tops-dnd pithou, puts, rats" pompddours.
false curls, hobble skirts or French heels.
Between the endeavors of our matrons to look lk'
school children-and what a sight they are with thei
tight, abbreviated skirts!-and the efforts Of the school
girls to dress like matrons, the freshest and mos
charming type OF femininity has disappeared from
New York life.
The evening world., 1911-11-01
DESIRE OF THE CHILD TO APE
HER ELDERS NATURAL.

One can't blame a little girl OF four
teen or fifteen for coming away from a
matinee with a burning desire to have
her next school dress made like the
The evening world., 1911-11-01
WOMAN SUSPECT
HELD IN STRANGE
SERIES Of DEATHS
Mrs. vermilyea, Arrested After
Y Fiance Dies of Poison,
Tries Suicide.
life INSURED TO HER.
le Has Collected $4,000 on
lives of Husbands and 9th
ers Who Passed Suddenly.

CRnCAGO, Nov. with . police
0cer on guard to-day at her bedside
y the Hahneman Hospital. where she
Ras hastily removed following a sui
kDidal attempt upon being arrested last
Night. Mrs. Louise vermilyea may face
4hs charge Of having caused the death
( not less than nine persons. either rel
lives or closely associated with her.
broner Springer Is taking steps to-day
Dr the examination Of at least six
)odies OF persons with whose deaths, It
believed by the police, Mrs. Verm!lyea
>ad a great deal to do. Some $3.50 o In
prance money has been paid to her on
)ccount Of these deaths. DR.. L. l..
k%ecount. ~toxlcologist OF Rush Medical
College. Is making an analysis OF the
6ver Of Arthur F. B~issonette. who died
1n commissions at the Mercy Hospital
|3ast Saturday.
= Bissonette. a probationary policeman
attached to the Twenty-second street
station, was a boarder at Mrs. Vermil-
(yea's house. No. 43 East T~wenty-ninth
street. and. according to the woman.
they were engaged to be married. Those
whose deaths that Mrs. VermLyea may
- called upon to explain include her
two husbands, a son. two daughters. a
granddaughter. a conductor and Bison
Afta
The evening world., 1911-11-01
GEEK WEALTHY MAN WHO
JJlTEp THE WIDOW.

The police are also trying to discover
che present whereabouts Of a wealthy
man who wal engaged to Mrs. Verm!l-
yea, and who failed to appear on the
day set for the wedding. The man 10
believed 10 be in Chicago. n his ex-
PLANTATION Of the eleventh-hour fitting
Of tho prisoner may throw some light
on the mystery surrounding the woman.
The prisoner declares herself the victim
Of an unfortunate series Of coincidences
B%issonette. she says. was poisoned by
some one Jealous Of his attentions to
her.
Cora and Florence. Mrs. vermilyea's
children by her first husband. died at
the age OF eight and four and a half
years. respectively.
p Harry ]. vermilyea. thirty-one years
old, telegraph operator. died at No. Sso
West Diyersey Parkway OF heart rail-
ure. s%uperinduced by malarial fever. on
Sept. 30. a few days after he Is said to
have auarrelled with his stepmother
over the sale OF a house al crystal
Lake. Ill.
Lillian Brinkamp. twenty-six years
old, granddaughter Of Fred
first husband of Mrs. Ner>ilyea, died
Jan. q, 1906, at No. @sl6 CLEVELAND ave-
nue.. OF acute nephritis.
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They prefer. and their mothers en-
courage them to prefer. the expensive
to the appropriate. the striking to the
becoming.
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on the verge OF the discovery OF n
Of the greatest poisoning mysteries In
the history of Chicago"
DO you believe that Bissonette met
a natural death?" DR.. Springer was
asked.
s,>Tn Z 40 nat no answered.
The evening world., 1911-11-01

We SCI little girls OF eleven and twelve o their way to school, thou
sands of them every morning, and a sweet and charming sight they are
And then suddenly they disappear and something new and strange that
Is not quite woman though 1T carries all the paraphernalia of mature
womanhood, yet Is NJ longer little girl appears hobbled, pompadoured and
batted I'M ready for conquest