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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 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?" I murmured fascinated by one
who certainly lets herself loose. She contln-
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 a grande passion for the woman
of forty Instinct tells him that she is the
loveiest. The thing is traditional, from harry
Esmond down to Porter Charlton. And Joseph
even; how did she get that coat? We laugh
Laughter is a sudden glory-over human mis-
chance The youth himself refuses to arrive
at charming forty beside woman or sixty
three; yet his first untroubled Judgment was
to award the apple where 1t belongs.
''The man of forty evidently. :" I 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 Inc
shadow of his own degeneracy-forgetting that
his wear and tear of ten years past have not
been hers. So the man of forty marries the
girl of twenty-three In spite of his wear ana
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 APP
near foolish For example, will cite the best
loved-man of Paris over whose elegant person
five hat-pin duels have been fought In the past
three years-the latest the Btarr1tz board
walk, between a young matron and bud or
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 unoffendng 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
to 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
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-22

the table, she called off their ages for me.
was surprised.
who thinks of their ages?" she said. Some
were not so beautiful when younger LOOK a'
this one and this mere -
lady with an almost insignificant nose anu
her eyes were never much until she had thelh
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
plain2"
She said true; yet L had passed all as charm
ing. All have beauty reputation. Wnen
woman like this gives away her sisters II Is
edifying. Otero showed me how one splenolo
creature fought for years against a double
chin and conquered; how another began bony;
how another has learned to dissimulate a
trumpet nose.
Stopi" I 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
awakenings, 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
year-old faces, heinz" laughed the subtle Span
lard "A Paris photographer has given me
partial reason why their faces are lovelier at
forty. It is because they have been photo
graphed SO much"
THE effort to resemble ones best pictafe?
unused.
"AlI that in general; but~he claims 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,"
said. "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, well then" said. ANY way to encour-
age oneself!
That's IL, Beauty is a habit! exclaimed
Otero. TT Is the habit OF those who have start
ed encouraged, Let the woman of forty mere
" ocnceel her age. ana the trick 10 half won
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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 unattainable; because
this exhausting dance-twelve minutesl-show
me danseuse of the opera who will accept a
variation of twelve minutes-contains three
roles that are unconnected: the ingenue, thu
smoureuse 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 It possible that you
are old enough to dance that third act?"
81 am forty-one." she laughed. Il had made
two trips to the United States before settled
in Paris in 1891; and was just of age when
starting out. II | am not worn like some great
hamencas. 1t is thanks to the life Of Paris.
Those who remain In Spain use themselves up.
monsieur. It is magnificent public, but It
fatigues the artistic In Paris, the good people
interest themselves much in my jewels ana
accept what | give them. So have been able
to live reasonably. Luxury is good for wom-
an of self-control. Those soft creatures VINO
lie around and overeat l have no patience
with them! I have always had unconscious
training from my work, though owe much to
the Turkish BATH
'rrhe Hammam?" asked
mo no: I have a sweat-box In my apart
ment fitted with fifty electric-light bulbs.
often take it four times a week when not
dancing. followed with tepd douche, turning
cold. There is an apparatus to brighten young
beauties, monsieuri"
Certainly remarkable woman. On the
stage. from Copenhagen to Vienna. from Lon
dom 70 Rome. she is known. always and above
ho after
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 on the great Paris stage NOW, aiso' at
forty, she continues to pose for the best sell
ing beauty photographs on the european mar
kst After her comes Lima Cavalieri, with no
third In their class. Other beauties sell as
we'll I'm certain successful poses; but otero
and Cavalieri never cease posing.
'Women of fortyl" exclaimed Otere Wnat
pathetic disdain, what proud anticipation Wnat
unhappy acquiescence. Fastening out TO meet
fate more than halfway, cause so many 10 u
gore their splendor and even wander mt sen-
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Treasure From the Sea.

Boys that live at Pine Brook, N j., did not
know that there was buried treasure near at
hand or they might have gone hunting for it,
Two fishermen found it. A 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 a
little and just then automobile came along
the road. The men asked the automobile man
to give them a 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 Il 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.
nized as the sflverware box belonging to q
hotel. The box had been stolen In 1904, and
no trace OF the robbers had been found
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-22

",
all her exact measurements in order to repro
duce such perfect anatomy in marble. -Four
weeks later, in verifying the measurements be-
fore an incredulous confrere, he was astonished
to discover that not a single one concorded ::
the accidentally perfect anatomy had budged
all along the line-toward the voluptuous
beauty priced by common mortalsl"
And the maniere de s. en- serviri" unused
Il accuse not only the young girls green
acidity, her forming body, sleeping tempera-
ment, and crudity of mind,' summed up Otero.
I'm 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
thirty, the average young woman, loaded down
with natural arrogance and ideas that have
been imposed upon her. tranquilzes a grow
ing disquiet by repeating to herself: I am
young thing!' Up to thirty-five the satisfac-
ton of ruling may have been her chief profit.
Now she wakes completely to the pulsing life
of things, knows herself and-dismayed by
sense of loss-plunges avidy. or else"
Or else, discouraged sinks back, MUIR
muring: I am an old thing!'" | finished the
sentence for her.
That's it," laughed Otero. "If she grows
panic stricken, she enters the terrible quaran-
tame indeed. They may be the terrible for
ties or the splendid forties,' as she makes
them, as her world permits her or as she DOM
mates it, with happy insouciance brushing
aside every obstacle and fiinging herself into
the harmonies of an instrument finally at
tuned Then she is truly terrble-terrible to
Younger undecided women whom she mocks
and bamboozes, borrowing their admirers from
them out of pure Hghtheartedness: terrible to
men, on whom she avenges the neglect OF
years to comet"
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into the river, whose waters were
nearly bank high and rising. These
men reported that we could not get
away on account of the high water
overlooking all the country, and that
the prison and town would be over
flowed If the water kept on rising
for another day or two. So the in
sure ction was a failure.
But the enemy's cannon did come
--other cannon, two guns-but not be-
fore daylight. These were pointed
at us from the opened entrance doors
with the threat that they we're going
to blow us all to eternity. We were
massed In front of the doors, solid
crowd of daring. defiant and deter
mined union soldiers Capt. Jones or
dered the guns away. but he entered
with a file of soldiers when he saw
what a quiet lot of lambs we were,
branded u. s. Ten of the supposed
ri gleaders of this instruction were
placed IN close confinement, and one
named Reggy or Regnas was tied in
front Of cannon with the threat that
he would be blown to atoms II he did
not tell who the leaders were. He
stubbornly refused and was released.
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sNs 49, CN(OsSA8
eSAe -.~AsS 80 e.
HOW PRISON RELEASE FAILED
Linneus G. Jeffrles Tells OF Attempteo
Escape at cahaba, Ala.-Hish wa
ter Caused Trouble.

An attempt to escape from the con-
federate prison at Cahaba, Ala, is told
nv Linneus @. Jeffries, of Chicago,
who was taken prisoner at the sur
render of Fort Dodge, near Athens
Ala. late in September, 1864 Inc
nrison in which he was held with
about 1000 other union soldiers was
an old cotton warehouse with the roof
partially removed for ventilation.
1--WE got tired of our cotton coop,
said Mr.. Jeffries, "and planned to es-
cape in a body. 1t was dangerous
undertaking that We soon secretly
engaged In. AS well as l now remem-
Der. Maj. Carlin of Ohio was the prin-
cipal leader. The time for action was
set for 10 o'clock one night in March,
1865. but the hour was changed to 3
o'clock that same night.
THE order to fall in was secretly
passed. The guards had been doubled
on report of probable trouble, but
the change of the hour had made them
careless, and without warning they
were all simultaneously attacked by
selected men. The struggle with the
two at the double doors of the en-
trance to the building was the fiercest.
and one of these men finally escaped
and gave the alarm.
Then the drums were beaten and
the bugles blared. Inside the leaders
were appealing for the promised help
~ -, hun
men!' Where are the hundred brave
men who promised to fall in? Fall in,
for Gods sake, fall in! Thirty form
ed line. Where are the others?
Fall in! Fall in! Fall in, for Gods
sake!
Union prisoners were now playing
guard on the dead line-beats and sing
ing, Three o'clock and all is we'll!
Corporal of the guard, more pine!
(the pine knots were burning OUT
Fall in! Fall in, hundred brave
men' Rise up' Lie down! Keep
still!' Get up!' Then everything
broke forth into noises Some men
barked and howled Ike all kinds OF
dogs, crowed like ROSTERS, meowed
and Kissed like cats, brayed like don
keys, beloved like bulls, squealed.
yelled and screeched, all at once. At
the same time the alarm drums and
cannon firing and musket shots and
voices of men and women on the out
side added to the pandemonium.
1.-THE prisoners guarding the en-
trance doors left their posts suddenly
on hearing the noise as Of troops en-
tering with cannon through the yard
gate. This news extended at once to
all those, acting as guards. The nois-
es ceased and reasonable quiet reigned
within the prison. The confederate
guards stopped calling for help. In
stead of the enemy coming. however,
1t was the returning of some of the
prisoners, who had gone outside and
spiked some cannon and dumped them
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-22
S~HE WoH4H0r fuR7y@ z0zzNJY@

know of nothing eloquent superior loneliness"
The other will give her thrtysix prn
cpe And all the suspicious of their frankness
matters, will delicious
possibly thiryfour grand of unusual tact pose
quot? all kinds unknown but obviously
perior surroundings"
every day." said Fine have the age
they look"
NO. the of forty is positively lovelest replied
the lovely specialist I'VE must distinguish. Physical lowell
thing academcal perfection of form another. Paris
painters Of vouptuous subjects rolling lawns
sprawng in pagan festivals Neptune
golden sandhave always their
compromising brethren for doing chic they wfuy
rotundes exaggerate tend toward the
purss and delight
arrive unearhy charm by giving the nymph of eighteen
outlines that she ought have fifteen
this but clarifying by chic the beauty
these seldom obi model
to prevent it,"
Also" sad they pretend their nymphs eighteen
for he of forty"
Beses!" laughed Otero. In times overweenng plump
ness been danger to the lazy and sendulgent
even at eighteen but the modern fine changes
and ortytve.
limo none uncompromising painters sculpors
40 sentiment;
yenyour The episode of Eberen is classical by
ho nnre beauty of twenyhveyearo model, famous
nIrln40r Inuyn
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doubt! Love
illness is a liv-
ing thing made
of b e a u t y,
charm, grace
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sional beauty Of the gay French capital.
She explained herself:
81 refer to fine women. In health and
the enjoyment Of rational luxurfes, they
need only two things to triumph In the
charm of their full fowering-Will to
keep In condition, and mastery of that
pathetic disdain which tempts them to
stand back In the shadow"
She rose and paced the room with cat
like grace. She snatched a mans hat
from the table, cooked 1t over her eye,
flung the end of a cloak over her Shout
der, and struck an attitude,
II have our value impressed on me
ever In the Spanish dance" she said.
1.-THE grand dance of the flamenco!
What a dance, monsieur, what a drama!
1t Is the whole of woman's life in three
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11
GOOD ROADS.
So Important In Some States That People
Voluntarily help.

In Green county, South
Carolina, all who are liable for
road duty pay a tax of S1.00 to
be used for road Improvement,
and laWbreakers who are senten-
ced for short terms are put to
work on the public roads. The
County Supervisor has the Super
vision of the work. It is only
within recent years that the roads
have been worked with any sys-
TEN, and there has been SO much
work to do-cutting down steep
hills, filling in low places, repair
ing bridges, replacing bridges
after the yearly overfows of
streams that it will take time to
make the roads what they should
be. In some sections farmers are
doing work on the roads that run
by their farms, just to help make
good roads.
Between our neighborhood and
town is a creek swamp, and at
some times about 125 yards would
be ruts, holes, mud and slush.
The country force improved the
condition from time to time, but
after the creek overfiowed, or
during a rainy spell, it soon got
in the same condition.
More than two years ago it
was almost impossible. a n d
there was so much in the COUNTY
needed immediate work
that they could not give us the
time that this road required.
One farmer went around and got
farmers to send their
wagons, teams and hands. The
county furnished four four-horse
cams and 20 hands. The farm
ers furnished 10 wagons and
cams and 20 teams to haul rock
md sand. A sand bank was
lear and rock plentiful on adj
accent farms. The county force
sounded the rock and built the
Dad. They raised the road-bed
5 inches, and after two days
york we had a hard road that we
haul over at any season.
Some farmers have agreed to
down the roads that pass
" their farms, after heavy rains;
We use a split-log drag and hitch
pair of mules to it. The road
$ leveled and packed by the drag,
md the next rain will run off,
instead of soaking in and settling
o make mudhsles. Idrag a mile
md a half. A man came along
md inquired what / was doing,
md wanted to know what | would
ret for the work. when | told
lin he said that | was putting
money iato the County Super
hands. | told him that
he Supervisor did not get a cent
or it, and | did not get a cent;
tut | had the satisfaction of ira
'eling on a firm, smooth road, and
adds very much to the appear
nee Of the farm. George Z. Hoi-
and, in The Progressive Farmer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11
POOR SERVICE.

New Orleans is a quaint, beau
tiful city, thriving with business
and smiling with prosperity.
It's people are the most hospi-
table in the world, its women
pictures of loveliness and its men
ISamsons in stature and health.
The people there are happy.
They are of a sunny DISPOSE
ton, there is no doubt, or they
would not stand the present tele-
phone system ten minutes.
Small country towns seem to
have better telephone facilities.
One here gains time to walk
three blocks, rather than wait
for a telephone answer, when
you can get that at all.
This is not hearsay.
It is actual experience.
One who uses a telephone in
New Orleans is certain to wear
white wings when Judgment Day
comes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11
Card.

To NV Friends and the Public:
| have been informed that it
has been circulated in certain
portions of the 1st Justice of the
Peace Ward, especially on the
Little Teche, that | had with
drawn from the race for City
Judge. | now use this method
to tell my friends and the public
that there is no foundation to
this rumor, and that | am in the
race to stay.
CHS. r. DJJpRE.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11
WHAT rs a WARD BoSSt

exalted office?
Ii we had access to the CIariol
files just now, a fuller and NOR
comprehensive answer could b
given by quoting an article circu
lated IN pamphlet form, and pub
lished in the Opelousas papers
during the race for Governor be
tween Gov. NC. Blanchard an,
Gen. Leon Jastremski.
The treatise on Ward Bose
emenated from ST. Landry, ant
was signed by several good Dem
ocrats. supporters of Governo-
Blanchard, for the Ward Bosses
were at that time at the back 0:
Gov. Blanchard, among the sign
ers, If we remember right, were
Hon. Thos. III. Lewis, Hon. E.B
Dubuisson, Hon. H. E. Estorge
and others.
According to this circular,
which could not be improved upor
as a defence of the Ward Bosses,
it is said that a Ward Boss is 8
leader of the people; that in Poll.
tics, like in war, people need lead,
ers, need men among them tc
Alom they can look to for advice,
because these men make a study
of these questions, while the or
binary man does not. Without
Ward Bosses, this circular says
(if we remember right, things
would 90 cofiumick, Just like an
army without a leader would go
to certain defeat. These Bosses
are necessary, both in the cities
and the country, and the people
who have not the time to study
politics should hail with delight
the existence Of these men who
sacrifice their life-Work to study
ing politics.
We know We can not remember
the exact language of this circu-
lar, but the above is the substance
of 1t.
With few exceptions these
same Bosses who were leaders
when Blanchard was a candidate
for Governor and had their sup
port, are now still at the head Of
affairs, in New Orleans. One of
the erstwhile leaders" is a can
didate for the office of Governor
the State,
But 10! the leaders are not
now aligned with t h e faction
represented Governor
Blanchard at that time.
They would still be leaders
if they were supporting the same
lot Of gentlemen who elected
Blanchard through these lead
ders.' but who went down in
defeat at the hands of Jared 7.
But these leaders are now
opposed to the Blanchard folks,
and with their desertion of Blan-
chard and his people they have
become Ward Bosses!
That is what the Leaders of
the men who helped Blanchard
are now called, ~Ward Bosses.
They have ceased to be neces-
sary to lead the people, to save
the Democracy-an and they just
go with the flesh hunters;
therefore they are vile, enemies
of the country and of the party.
The Goo-Goos, the erstwhile
consorts Of the leaders" are
the ones to do wonders.
The insincerity of the Good
Government League is nothing
short of q burlesque.
Il is not a first-class patent
show even.
Leaders when they are with
them.
Ward Bosses now that they
are against them.
f f
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11
Sold By
Shute'S Drug Store

! will be in Opelousas between
the 10th and 18th Of Nov. with
car of good horses and mares.
This stuff will be sold under
q guarantee to be as / represent.
3. !. smith. oct4-1t
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-11-11

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La. as second class matter.