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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Make the corporations that expect
TO benefit by franchises, on which
the people vote, bear the expense of
the special elections on the referen-
dunn propositions-but treat them
all alike, Do not make fish Of one
and flesh of another.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

George w. Perkins of high finance
fame will not be cited for contempt
before the steel trust investigating
COMMITTEES. nor will he be pushed to
answer embarrassing questions. Did
any one really imagine that he
would? Certainly not.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Why do women outlive mem"
asks the Medical Record. One of the
reasons is that women do not try to
jump on moving trains.-Chicago
Record-Hera1d. And those are not
the only bumpers they avoid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

And now comes the golden rod
and the aster and also the thought
of the winter which is to follow the
autumn After the ice man comes
the coal man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Had His Opin-
lon.
"He is a great
ventriioquist."
us he, indeed?"
HE can throw
his voice any
where"
"Pll bet he can't
throw it away or
he would have
done it long ago"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Germany has not yet entered the
peace pact proposed by the United
States. Germany has a big army and
a powerful navy, but there are
others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Alfred G. Vanderbilt will not re-
turn to this country from England
until October. Meanwhile let US try
to possess our souls in patience
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Mrs Benson, the words fairly tun-
bling out OF her eager lips. Amt it
a disgrace the way he's come home
ard not lifted his finger to tx up the
placer
Perhaps he isn't ready to do any
thing" evaded 8iiIlicent, picking over
Strawberries with slender brown I'm
gers Her dark lashes swept the
smooth oval OF her olive tinted cheek,
where q little flush came and went
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
Poor Substitute.

Poor Substitute.
"Gone on your vacation yetT
''Not exactly"
81 thought you were talking OF going
to Boston"
II was, but 1 went into a restaurant
and ordered plate Of pork and beans
instead"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

They've started an all night bank
In Chicago. But unfortunately the
only ones who can draw any money
from it are those who are not
broke"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Down IN Baltimore the water is
so scarce that people are carrying
jugs all about the streets from wells
and springs. At least they say it is
water
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

People don't seem to care how you
got your money; they are interested
only in how you spent it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
Fooled by Nature.

Fooled by Nature.
Ibid he raise any watermelons this
year,"
"No. He depended on the neighbors."
what good did that do him7"
"None at all as IL turned out The
contrary things all came ripe in the
full OF the moon"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
Be Glad To.

Be Glad To.
evil you do me favorT'
"Gladly. What is itr'
Loan me a ten"
Certainly. Where would you sug-
gest that / make the raise myself"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
WILL INTERESTS Sue
CEED IN INFLUENCE
ING TAFT'S ACTION?

Continued rom Page One,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock island. Ill I'm
tered at the postofice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Seems Doubtful.
Fish just as large are in the sea
AS ever came to light.
You sit and hold your line all day
And wonder II that's right.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Yes, improve the streets-and do
it-no
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
Own Coin.

Because he jumped around and shocked
The girls who were ahont
They took some cobblestoneS and rocked
The chap who rocked the boat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Glove will be all in ALL" he murmur-
ed softly.
Don't you think you could manage
p little salary tooP she asked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

TERMS.-Daily. 10 cents per week
weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications Of argumentative
character. political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles viii be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Telephones IN all departments: Central
Union, West 145 and 11z5; Union EIec-
trio, 5145.
NuE59Hl40e>
GIRAoEsl G CsiSef COUNCIL 20
LsEcH
Thursday, August 10, 1911.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10
pefnite.

Definite.
"Where does he liver
Just down the road a piece"
"But is it the third, fourth or fifth
houSeT'
II never counted
Come. come; how shall I know the
placer
Anybody along there win introduce
you. They are fine, obliging lot OF
people"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

ter that he promised the people be-
| fore election in order to secure their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

BY THE }. W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

Hard on the Hearing.
"How did he get on with the ma
tives?"
"He hadn't been there sixty days be-
fore the cannibal chief got his ear?'
Got his carr"
eyes; to see what kind OF a pancake
1t would make"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-10

The only way TO rest is TO get out Of
touch with the telephone tends
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
"WHY SHOULD ! USE
CUTICURA SOAP?

'There is nothing the matter with
my skin, and I thought Cuticura Soap
was only for skin troubles" True, it
Is for skin troubles, but it's great mis-
sion is to prevent skin troubles. For
more than a generation it's delicate
emollient and prophylactic properties
have rendered it the standard for this
purpose; while its extreme purity and
refreshing fragrance give to it. all the
advantages of the best of toilet soaps.
It is also invaluable in keeping the
hands soft and white, the, hair live
and glossy, and the scalp free from
dandruft and irritation.
While its first cost is few cents
more than that of ordinary toilet
soaps, it is prepared with such care
and Of such materials, that it wears
to wafer, often outlasting several
cakes of other soap, and making its
use. in practice, most economical.
Cuticura Soap is sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere, but the truth Of
these claims may be demonstrated
without cost by sending to "Cuticura,"
Dept % L, Boston, for a liberal SAM
pie cake, together with a thirty-two
page book on the skin and hair.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
Treasure From the Sea.

Boys that live at Pine Brook, N. j.. did not
know that there was buried treasure near al
hand or they might have gone hunting for it.
TWO fishermen found 1t. strong line, much
larger than you have ever used unless you have
gone. fishing for whale or something of that
sort, was caught In the bottom OF the river
The men tugged on 1t and found that it gave q
little, and just then an automobile camo along
the road. The men asked the automobile man
to give them little assistance, and they tied
the line to the rear axle and let the car pull
on it. The line strained and slowly moved out
of the water, drawing with it a wrecked canoe
full of mud and stones. In the canoe was found
a heavy chest, which was removed by the men
and loaded into the car, and then the driver
and fishermen went on to town. There they
displayed the find, and the chest was recog
n1zed as the stlverware box belonging to a
hotel. The box had been stolen in 1904 and
no trace of the robbers had been found
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
WHERE vvlGGINs FELL DOWN
Employer Now Realizes That Thsrs
Ace Such Things 40 Grand
mothers OF Office Boys. -

Outside his own cleverness there is
nothing that SO delights Mr.. Virgins
a. game Of baseball, and when he
gets q chance to exploit the two at the
same time he may be said to be
the happiest man in the world. Hence
it was that the other day, when little
red.headed Willie Mulligan, his office
boy, came smiling into his presence
to ask for the afternoon of that he
might attend his grandmother's fu-
neral, Virgins deemed 1t a mastery
stroke to answer:
why, certainly, Willie. What's
more, my boy. If you'll wait for me I'll
go with you"
'All right, SIR" shifted Willie, as he
returned to his desk and waited pa
tiently.
And 10 and behold, poor little Willie
had told the truth, and when he and
Virgins started out together, the lat
ter not only lost one Of the best
games Of the season, but had to at
tend the obsequies Of an old lady in
whom he had no interest whatever
Harper's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

the table, she called of their ages for me. !
surprised.
who thinks of their ages?" she said some
were not so beautiful when younger LOOK at
this one and this Here Is a
lady with an almost insignificant nose; ana
her eyes were never much until she had them
tattooed where actresses pencil Here Is one
with not perfect feature. yet her physique
and temperament are delightful. And TINS
other, without the noble spirit breathing
through her look, would she not be almost
plain?'
She said true; yet had passed all as charm
Ing. All have beauty reputation. When
woman like this gives away her sisters 1t Is
ed1fying. Otero showed me how one splendid
creature fought for years against double
chin and conquered; how another began bony;
how another has learned to dissimulate
trumpet nose.
Stop" exclaimed. You will make me
think that all young women are full Of de-
fects!"
They are" said Otero. What is time for
but to correct them? Scatter the photographs
and look again. You will find them beauties
now in any case! They are radiant. They
have learned their power!"
1t was even so. There were flashes Of &C.
stasy, CLEANS of delight, eyes that spoke soul
awakenngs, lips parted in mystery. There
were coy faces, faces that asked battling ques-
tons, confidential faces, high, courageous faces,
faces that breathed sweet, sad reverie.
All kinds of faces, except wooden twenty
yearold faces, heinz" laughed the subtle Span
lard. "A Paris photographer has given me
partial reason why their faces are lovelier at
forty. 1t is because they have been photo
graphed 50 much.
The effort to resemble ones best picture?"
! unused. :
'All that, in general; but he claims a par
ticular influence Of self-suggestion. We come
TO resemble our best photographs by gentle de-
grees, unconsciously, when they follow each
other in long, changing SERIES"
Living up to last weeks photograph makes
next weeks photograph still handsomer."
laid. "A hundred photographs completes the
cure
He was photographer, of course, and gave
the entire credit to his art" replied Otero
perhaps the secret is encouragement. How
often we have seen plain women bloom out
We women guess the secret cause.-the trans
figured one is happy In love. She has been en-
couraged."
"Oh. we'll them" said, any way to encour-
age oneself! :"
That's 1t! Beauty is a habit" exclaimed
Otero 1T is the habit of those who have start
ed encouraged! Let the woman CT forty mere
ly conceal her age and the trick is half won.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
His Future Expenditures.

Among the most frequent requests
that go to the United States senate
are those asking some prominent
member to give money to charity or
ganizations, hospitals and other phil
anthropic undertakings. One day
charity worker asked Senator Fin
Of California, who is not a wealthy
man, to give large sum of mo1ey
for free ward in one Of the has
pitfalls
II am sorry that I cannot comply
with your request" said the senator
gravely; "but, Judging from the num-
Der Of similar demands that have been
made upon NE in the past, I have de-
charity. The vast amount Of money
spent on hospitals in this town con-
vinces me that thousands Of people
are going to die and be buried with
out flowers. Hereafter, shall devote
my spare money exclusively to send
ing flowers to the dead."-The Sun
day Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

fractions, yes-and also the maniere de sen
servir! The way to use them! Here is the tri-
umph of the woman Of forty-when she gladly
let's herself loose!"
why not?" murmured, fascinated by one
who certainly lets herself loose. She contin-
ued gaily:
why, the intuitions OF the very young man
are unerring in this matter. The youth Of sew
enteen, with senses painfully fresh and keen.
begins with grande passion for the woman
of forty Instinct tells him that she Is the
loveliest. The thing is traditional, from Harry
Esmond down to Porter Charlton And Joseph
even; how did she get that coat? We laugh
Laughter Is sudden glory-over human mis-
chance. The youth himself refuses to arrive
at charming forty beside woman of sixty
three; yet his first untroubled Judgment was
to award the apple where 1t belongs"
THE man Of forty evidently. :" began
The worst enemy of the woman Of forty Is
the man Of forty" persisted Otero. she is
the mirror In which he breads to see the
shadow of his own degeneracy-forgettlng that
his wear and tear of ten years past have not
been hers. So the man of forty marrles the
girl of twenty-three. In spite of his wear and
tear, she finds in the charm Of the full man her
profound atisfaction-without looking ahead.
Why look ahead? In Paris we see daily men OF
forty making inexperienced young fellows ap-
0O~~
loved-man of Paris over whose elegant person
five hat-pin due!s have been fought in the past
three years-the latest on the Biarritz board
walk, between a young matron and bud OF
society. He will be forty-two years old next
February"
Otero did not cite his name, so will initiate
her wise discretion
The man of forty is vain and suspicious
said Otero. Even when in full possession OF
his physical and mental PROJECTIONS, he must
punish unoffending loneliness that walks be.
side him in the path of years. Oh, yes, he
makes the woman of forty suffer- The fair
creature would be more than human not to re-
sent It. Unspoken malice in her laughing eye
causes the fatuous fellow to grit his teeth with
hate. And SO two perfect creatures, at the
flood of all that is best in them, too often turn
their backs upon each other leaving opportu-
nifty open to less prejudiced hearts and heads
Ito girls with their intuitions, and to men OF
fifty purged of petty vanity"
Even so, women OF forty rule Paris. Madame
Otero collects portrait photographs. Scatter
ing a package Of foremost Paris beauties on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

sculptor noted down infinitely, numerously.
all her exact measurements in order to repro
duce such perfect anatomy in marble. -Four
weeks later In verifying the measurements be-
lore an lncreduous confrere, he was astonished
10 discover that not single one concorded:
the accidentally perfect anatomy had budged
all along the line-toward the voluptuous
beauty priced by common mortals!"
And the maniere de s. en- servir!" unused.
I accuse not only the young girls green
acid1ty, her forming body, sleeping tempera.
ment, and crudity of mind" summed up Otero
IN northern lands, the sleeping parts may get
the SAND out OF their eyes by twenty. five: but.
even then years pass In looking round and
wondering what this world may mean So, at
tnlrty' the average young woman, loaded down
with natural arrogance and ideas that have
been imposed upon her, tranquil1zes a grow
Ing d1squ1et by repeating to Herself: I am a
young thing!' Up to thirty-hve the satisfac-
ton OF ruling may have been her chief profit.
NOW she wakes completely to the pulsing life
or things, knows herself and-dismayed by
sense of loss-plunges avidly, or else"
Or else, discouraged, sinks back muir
muring: I am an old thing!'" I finished the
sentence for her
That's It," laughed Otero III she grows
pan1c-stricken, she enters the terrible quaran-
tame indeed. They may be the terrible for
ties or the splendid Fortress as she makes
them, as her world permits her, or as she DOM
mates it, with happy insouciance brushing
aside every obstacle and finging herself into
the harmonies Of an instrument finally at
tuned. Then she IS truly terrible-terrible to
younger. undecided women whom she mocks
and bamboozles, borrowing their admirers from
them out of pure lightheartedness; terrible to
men, on whom she ayenges the neglect Of
years to comet"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
Mrs. .8toyvrtne.

Nfs. Browning s. 80.
Apropos Of the jubilee of tho death
Of Mrs. Browning, e q not generally
known that the event occasioned# ono
o: the tenderest things her husband
ever wrote. He tended her alone the
night before she died, and wrots q
her passing In q letter Of infinite pa
thos addressed to their mutual friend.
Mrs. Blagdon: Then came what my
heart will keep till I see her again.
and longer-the most perfect express
sion Of her love to me within my
knowledge Of her. Always smiling and
with face like a girls; and In .
few minutes she died in my arms. her
head on my cheek. There was
no lingering or acute pain, nor con-
seriousness Of separation. God took
her to himself as you would lift .
sleeping child from a dark, uneasy bed
into your arms and the light"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

acts: DESIRE seduction, tragic triumph. Never
has dramatic work expressed femininity with the
grace. mystery and intensity Of those three
scenes. Now, look you, in the south Of Spain
they say 1t takes eight years to form
flamenco. Perfection is unattainabe; because
this exhausting dance-twelve minutes!-show
me danseuse of the opera who will accept a
variation Of twelve minutes-contans three
roles that are unconnected: the ingenue, thu
amoureuse, and the tragedienne. One ought
to be sixteen years old to dance the first
and forty to dance the end of the drama. In
which Rubia magnificent at fifty fixed the
tradition"
MADAME" asked. rs 1t possible that you
old enough to dance that third act?"
Il am forty-one," she laughed Il had made
two trips to the United States before l settled
in Paris in 1891: and was just of age when
starting out. If am not worn like some great
flamencas, 1t is thanks to the life OF Paris.
Those who remain in Spain use themselves up
monsieur. 1t IS a magnificent public but it
fatigues the artistic. In Paris, the good people
interest themselves as much In my jewels and
accept what give them. So have been able
to live reasonably. Luxury is good for a
an Of self-cOntrol. Those soft creatures who
lie around and overeat, | have no patience
with them! I have always had unconscious
training from my work, though owe much to
the Turkish bath :"
The Hammam?" asked
mo. no; l have sweat-box in my apart
ment fitted with fifty electric-light bulbs. I
often take 1t four times week when not
dancing. followed with tepd douche, turning
cold. There is an apparatus to brighten young
beauties monsieur"
Certainly a remarkable woman. On the
stage. from Copenhagen to Vienna, from Lon
don to Rome she is known, always and above
ALL as beauty. She sings after fashion.
She has made successful ventures into pan
tomime And now. at forty she has made her
self an actress Of merit, appearing in emotional
roles the great Paris stage. Now, also, at
forty. she continues to pose for the best SELL
ing beauty photographs the European mar
ket After her comes Lima Cavalieri, with no
third in their class. Other beauties sell as
we'll in certain successful poses; but Otero
and Cavalieri never cease posing.
Women of forty" exclaimed Otero. What
pathetic disdain what proud anticipation, what
unhappy acquiescence, Fastening out to meet
fate more than halfway, cause so many to ig-
more their splendor and even wander into SELF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
advised by her family medico to try

advised by her family medico to try
travelling for time; there was a
chance that such change would i'm
prove her state of health. The hus-
band readily fell in with this advice,
as he wanted his wife to be painted
by a distinguished foreign artist. Dur
ing her absence from home the lady's
portrait was painted and to the en-
tire satisfaction OF the husband. On
Their return home, reception was ar
ranged to give their numerous friends
an opportunity of seeing the great art
lists work. To that reception the lady's
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
Subtleties of Portraits

they have been trying all their lives
to hide He thinks the painter some
times does this unconsciously. The
following instance is more or less ia
miliar, but he cites it as having come
under his personal direction.
"A strange case of the revealing
power of the portraitist's art came
under my notice some time back. A
lady who was suffering from some all
ment that baffled all the doctors. was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

know OF nothing SO eloquent of her superior
Let ner arrive unknown in community thirty
one years. Inc other women will give her thirtysix
cpe And all the suspicious their
In such matters Will be that creature
possibly grand maximum tact pose
penes Quo? all kinds of obviously
perior surroundings"
1--WE 1t day." Fine women have the age
they look"
mo. the OF forty positively loveliest replied
the lovely specialist I'VE must distinguish
thing academica perfection
painters Of volupuous subectsnymphs
bacchantes spraying In festivals Neptune
ming golden sandshave always reproached
compromising brethren for doing they wfuy
their models To attain the beauty they
enlarge otunditfes
wabete noire of purists and delight of
unearthly charm eighteen
Of outlines that
this but clarifying by chic
painters seldom obi ain model
some prevent it,"
ALSO" said they must pretend their nynphs eighteen
for the Of forty"
Betises" laughed Otero In times
ness have been danger to the seffndulgent-
even eighteen; but the modern changes little
tween thryhve and foryhve academcal purity Of
line but uncompromng painters scuptors want It.
purity of sentiment lost not at forty but at
The episode Of Eberen Struck nv
the pure beauty Of twentyveyearold model famous
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
After Studying Painting, Doctor Tells
Man His Wife Is Afflicted With
insanity.

In his volume OF personal reminis-
cences, "The Herkomers," Sir Hubert
Won Herkomer refers to the aversion
many people feel toward sitting for
their portraits. He attributes It in
part to their fear that the painting
will bring to light some trait that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22
New Idea in judicial Lore.

The suggestion Of French judge,
who presided at breach of promise
suit, has aroused the interest OF Amer
lean men and women. The suggestion
is that when young people become en-
gagged an agreement to marry should
be drawn up with a clause providing
damages II It Is broken.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-22

that were colored by millenniums of
tropical sunshine, but in the course
of time the japanese will be as white
as any European. Even now there are
vast numbers Of Japanese who cannot
be distinguished In complexion from
the so-called white races.-Japan
Times.