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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22

voILEs, SWISS FLouNc-
INGs, LANDINGS.
Voiles and Swiss Flouncings,
bandings, lace and all. overs. Re-
duced prices. d2wl
Ricketts, & Emmons D. G. Co.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22

w. Z. West has been suggested to
the Ledger as candidate for the
Legislature.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22

Earl Brown, Of the firm Of WI
kins & Brown, is I'll.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22

Q. Poisson is in st. Louis on
business this week,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22
hall a million. dollars.


half million dollars.
There are two hundred and fiftg
cigar factories in Tampa, and twen
ly thousand italian, Cuban and
Spanish cigarmakers.
Of course, we all took in the
fattories. which is really a town by
.iseif on the part west Of tha
River.
1t is a great sight to. see from
one to two thousand in tine same fac
tory making cigars. Men and wom'
Ga work side BY side in tho same
factory,
These sDagoes," as we call them
have about two or three thousand
|ihouses built in a row side by side
and rent them from their employ
ers--rents taken out OF their wages
AZ each pay day.
We then visited the wonderful
Tampa Bay HOTEL winch ls Duilt ~
a park containing seventy acres
and Is located west Of the River
Every kind OF shrub palmetto, mag
nolia and palm that can be grown,
is here produced
This park and hotel cost the orig.
inal owner about three million dol
:ars, but is now owned by the city
of Tampa.
We next visited Tampa Bay, and
boarded some OF the largest ships
and boats, some of which were
abeu. Ito SAN for Cuba. One was q
foremost schooner and was four hun
dred feet long,
Some Of our crowd went to Cuba
and In crowds Of ten they saved
themselves $4,000 on their fare.
We then took in,the city Of Tam
pa visited several parks, picture
shows. etc, went out seven miles
east to sulphur SPRINGS, where a
flowing spring comes from the
,g-cund and PRODUCES a large river
d. the start 1t is said that II
comes from under the ground for
miles from numerous large lakes
Ostrich Farm ait Jacksonville
They have made it a White City,
and have all kinds of amusements'
The car fare from Tampa Is i've
cents and no admission Gee.
Tampa is very old in history bu'
young in destiny; she looks back
on the past nearly four hundred
wears into the now dim and misty
pathway Of civilization where one
intrepid Spanish explorer was Mon
arch Of the High Sea- Now looR
at Tampa of to-day, where sunshine
floods Its streets, breezes an0
bathes its homes.
Early history of Tampa; In MAY
1888 fernando De Soto discovered
this land Of Tampa. a name giyer
to 1t by the Indians and means split
wood or Quick Fire.
Spain turned over Florida to ths
d. S. in the year 1921 at ST. Au
gustine which is the Oldest city II
the U. s.
Tampa was settled nearly foul
hundred years ago by the Span
iar6s.
Gen. Winfield Scott was station
ed at Tampa in 1885. Then Gen, ia
lor and Gen. Worth were stationed
bere in 1887 with 5000 men ant
brought the Indians to terms.
Tampa has gained more in popula
ton than any city in the Unitet
States in the same length Of time
In 1880 Tampa had population 0
72o and to-day she has popula
lion Of 10000. Her harbors are full
oC ships from all nations, and y
1 great fishing market. Thousand
Of men are kept employed at thii
business on the Bay and Ocean.
l. enjoyed reading the article il
the Ledger from Roy Gable from
thq North and was much interested
/
IN It.
With kind regards to friends a
lhome, am
Yours truly,
1 drSn n xrAflr1TfSrt
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1912-02-22

LEDGER ADVERTISEMENTS PAY.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-25
By ADA PATTERSON.

XX7HEN woman said recently that
w woman is the first to fall in
love, there was a stir of sur
prise and interest in the mems camp.
Amused silence in the women's. The
women had known it all the time. But
they hadn't chosen to take the men
into their confidence in the matter.
They never will so choose. not. at least,
in the case of the men in whom they
have a special interest, those men who
are trying to win Identifying
A man wonders bindly when he will
marry. He may spare himself the
trouble Of guessing He will marry
when the girl who has made up her
mind to marry him chooses. A few
dreamy eyed persons still talk about
fate and in fancy see a grave faced
woman spinning and weaving the web
Of their future. Bosh! A mans fate
is determined by quite a different per-
son. woman not grave Of face but
merry, who weaves his future-not by a
spindle. but with perfumed fan. Some
one dimly feeling this truth long ago
voiced it by naming the girl he was to
marry a mans fate"
She is his fate because she has
resolved to marry him. What he wishes
is matter OF little moment. He must
change his wishes and she sees to it
that he does.
A woman fails in love first because
she has keener perceptions than mans.
Despite ali the ISLANDERS of all the men
Of all the ages, women know what they
want and know 1t sooner than a man
does.
When they meet the man they would
like for a husband, the fact Is quickly
apparent to them. though not to the
men. A woman has a liveier imagina-
ton than a man has. If, when a man
has twice danced with a girl, II we're
suggested to him that he picture her as
his wife, he would laugh at the per-
son who suggested it and call him an
idiot. The girl who. with such seeming
Indifference, floats about the room in his
arms, not only has a mental picture OF
herself as the mistress of their home,
but has already furnished all the down
stairs rooms and decided what flowers
shall grow on the lawn.
Therein is the explanation for what
has been falsely termed woman's
flckleness. Woman is not tickle. She
loves truly and ardently for a while,
but grows tired Of waiting for the slow
creature with cumbersome mental pro-
cesses to overtake her. In the love
race. woman Is like the hare. man like
the tabled tortoise, except that in Gu
pid's uncertain country the tortoise
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Woman Falls in Love First
But She Kn970s What She Is D0fuq and the Man Doesn't

does not always overtake the hare.
Many man loves a girl because he is
too slow witted to catch up with her
before her quickly born love for him
self has turned to scorn for his slow
wit.
Women, taught that it is immodest
to reveal their love until it is asked,
have become in that respect, mistresses
of discrimination. In the drama OF love
all women are actresses. Every girl is
a Bernhard and the man with whom
she is in love, her laundering, cumber-
some minded audience The man
watching, interested, puzzled, wonders
what all her airs and graces, her odd
little humors her alternate smiles and
gravity are about, If he finds out in
time he will become her proud and
happy husband. If she becomes impa-
tient with his dullness, and her interest
centers in another and cleverer man,
he will mourn her "fiickleness"
A girl of sixteen is grown up and has
long gowns and dresses and cupola
piled hair like her mothers. A boy of
sixteen is still shy as a rabbit, and is
wond ering at the strange pranks his
up-and-down stars voice plays him. So
rives long before him.
She meets a man and thereafter his
face floats between her and her moth
er's features. The echoes of his voice
are louder in her ears than Of her ia
theirs tones bidding her bring him the
evening paper She knows what this
means-the first age Of love. She be-
gins at once to hide it from every one
but herself. and usually succeeds, while
the man later discovers that she is "a
very nice little girl, indeed with a TAX
ing way" Taking, indeed. for she has
taken him, but he loses his appetite,
grows moon eyed and preoccupied,
talks sentiment and is poor company
until every one knows he is in love and
with whom-every one save himself
Finally the scales fall from his eyes
and he proposes and If her pride that
has grown while she hid her love, and
her disgust with his slow moving intel
lect, have not conquered his fate" be-
comes his If not, some other and
quicker man wins her.
A woman who has happily married a
man OF deliberate speech and slow con-
illusions, said she was so piqued by
his beginning a proposal one night and
leaving II unfinished for a week, that
she nearly ran away with man whom
she disliked. A tactful mother left the
college professor alone with her
daughter and told the man with the
clipping intent that her daughter was
engaged" When she went back to the
parlor she saw her words were proph-
etic. The easy going suitor had cap
tured his fate" while nearly losing it,
Women know this. all women and
Bernard Shaw. If they love at all, they
love first. II they don't love frst they
do not love They only permit them
selves to be won.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-25

Have you the once-a-week backachc1
Do YOU know what causes it?
Simply long, continued bending and
strengthening over a washboard.
But you cannot afford to have wash
erwoman or send clothes to laundry.
What are you going to do?
Do your washing the Fels-Naptha way
and Fels-Naptha will loosen the dirt SO that
a few light rubs will take it out easily.
No boiling needed nly cool or lu ke-
warm water, winter or summer.
Full directions on the red and green
wrapper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-25
One Who Wooes the MUSES.
By Beatrice Fai,1aH

the woman who is waiting for it. So it
is Love, that is all she asks.
B, c. has spent many hours, no doubt,
on this poem. If he had spent less, and
written simply, Il love you will YOU
be my wife," the appeal would have
been just as eloquent and Just as con
vincing.
But | am glad he spent the time in
this way. Ii will show the girl that
time Is no object when finding favor
in her eyes is at stake.
Neither is any effort wasted that is
spent in pleasing her. He wrote that
poem by the sweat of his brow. and
picture of him hunting for words that
rhymed and pursuing that hunt labo
riously and without complaint makes
vision that will always stand out, bright
and glorifed. in her memory.
There may b. those who will take
such a poem apart and dissect it, find-
ing much that is wrong with rhyme
and meter But never among that num-
Der is there ever found the woman to
whom such a poem is addressed.
If a woman is a college graduate and
has a learning that makes Minerva en-
vious. and receives a letter which says
ii luv YOU" she sees no fault with cap
italization or spelling. She may be a
poetess, world conceded, and will find
no fault with the meter of poem Ike
that which heads this article. That is,
If il is addressed to HE.
Love is a dsarming little god, when
he cores all carpug and crtcising
end. A. b. A, who receives q love let
ter. is as oblivious to the bunders it
contains as though he, or she, were still
engaged in wrestling with the A p C's
Of the primer
So | say to this man who has put all
his heart into this poem, BY all means
send it. If the girl. in her acceptance,
makes a single criticism, complete hap
piness will never result from marrying
her.
For the girl who loves "A man as a
man should be loved to make their fu-
ture happiness secure thinks he is a
genius. II his genius finds expression
in rhyme, then neither Milton. nor
Burns, nor Longfellow, nor any others
whom the world has honored can com
pare RGtb him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-25
Initials Onl )" y By Anna katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times

AS it was here the woman fell. this
tuo naturally received the closest exam
nation. board projected from its fur
Their side, whittier it had evidently been
pushed by the weight Of her falling body:
and from Its top hung a wet cloth, mark
ing with its lugubrious drip on the boards
beneath the first heavy moments Of ST.
fence which is the natural accountant
ment of so serious survey On the
moor 10 the right lay a half used cake OF
soap just as it had slipped from her
hand' The window was closed, for the
temperature was at the freezing point. but
1t had been found up. and it was put
up now to show the height at which 1t
had then stood. AS we all took our look
at the house wall opposite, a sound of
shouting came UP from below dozen
children were sliding on barrel slaves
down slope of heaped up sonw. They
mad been engaged in this sport all the
afternoon and were our witnesses later
that no one had made a hazardous es.
cape by means of the ladder of the fire
escape, running, as l have said, at an
almost unattainable distance toward the
left
"Of her own child whose cries had
seen. The woman in the extreme rear
had carried it off to her room; but when
we came to see it later, no doubt was
felt by any of us that this child was
too young to talk connectedly. nor did |
ever hear that it ever said anything which
could in any way guide investigation.
AND that is as far az we ever got
The coroners jury brought in a verdict
OF death by means of a stab from some
unknown weapon in the hands of person
also unknown, but no weapon was ever
round nor was it ever settled how the
attack could have been made or the muir
derer escape under the conditions de-
scrlbed. The woman was poor her friends
few. and the case seemingly inexplica-
bic. SO after creating some excitement
by its peculiarites, It fell of its own
weight. But ! remembered II, and in
many spare hour have tried TO see NV
way through the o-thoroughfare it pre-
sented. But quite in vain To-day the
road is as blind as ever, but"-here
Sweetwater's face sharpened and his eyes
burned as he leaned closer and closer to the
older detective but this second case. so
unlike the first in non-essentials but so
exactly like it in Just those points which
make the mystery, has dropped thread
from its tangled skein into my hand,
which may Yet lead us to the heart Of
both. can you guess--have you guessed
what this thread is? But how could
You. without the one Clew | have not
given YOU? Mr.. Gryce, the tenement
where this occurred is the same | visited
the other night in search OF Mr. Broth
erson And the man characterized at
that time by the ianitor as the best, the
quieteSt and mast respectable tenant in
the whole building, and the one you re-
member whose window opened directly
opposite the spot where this woman Law
dead, was Mr. Dunn himself or, in other
words, our late redoubtable witness. Or
lando Brotherson
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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the world.
No Water.

To begin with then, l never use water
on my face al all. That is because
have to travel a good deal-or rather.
did have to before | was in this play
and the water in the different cities,
and even in the different hotels. varies
so much, and is often so hard and bad
for the skin, that | gave up using it on
my face. | get a good, soft and almost
Huld cold cream and use a very simple
lotion that | make myself. This is made
or the great, big cucumbers that one
can get just now for almost nothing.
Peel the cucumber, being very careful
that you get all the green and yellow
parts off. Take out the seeds as well
and then mash the pulp up and add a
niue water, just enough to cover. Put
TINS in saucepan on the stove and
after II has come to a boil set it back
on the stove to simmer until the water
Is all absorbed. Take the mixture off
the stove and strain it through a fine
piece of muslin. Add about four times
the amount of rose water, or if Won
want to have chea per prepa ra ton use
Just plain boiled water.
This is the foundation of the best
bleach and lotion for the face. In win
ter time l add few drops of glycerine.
but l prefer it without in summer as
the glycerine is so sticky.
But must go back to my treatment.
Having cleaned off my face thoroughly.
! wash II with this cucumber lotion,
using just little on a dab of cotton.
Then apply some more cream, as a,n
sure my face is quite cream now, and
that all the impurities are washed
away.
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copyright, 1911, Street & smith.)
,-,,vright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead &, Coz
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

1.-THE first fact to startle us as we made
arr way up through the crowd which
g,,ge5 halls and staircases was this:
5o,ror had been found and, though he had
n.,r forbidden to make more than a cur
cory examination of the body till the
.cr,rar came he had not hesitated to de-
or,ra after his first look that the wound
had not been made by a bullet but by
some sharp and slender weapon thrust
home by a powerful hand. (You mark
that Mr. GryceD AS this seemed impos-
sible in face of the fact that the door had
bser found buttoned on the inside, we did
MT give much credit to his opinion and
began our work under the obvious theory
of an accidental discharge of some gun
from one of the windows across the court.
PIT the doctor was nearer right than we
sapposed When the coroner came to look
into the matter, he discovered that the
wound was not only too small to have
beer made by the ordinary bullet, but
that there was no bullet to be found in
the woman's body or anywhere else Her
heart had been reached by a thrust and
not by a shot from a gun. Mr.. Gryce,
have YOU not heard a startling repeti-
ron of this report in a case nearer at
hand?
But to go back, This discovery, so
important if true, was as yet-that is at
the time of our entering the room-lim-
red to the off hand declaration of an IT.
RESPONSIBLE physician, but the possibility
!, involved was of so astonishing a ma
t,,re that it Influenced us unconsciousIy
IN our investigation and led US almost
Immediately into consideration of the
well as an escape from, a room situated
as this was.
Up three flights from the court. with
no communication with the adjoining
rooms save through a door guarded on
both sides by heavy pieces Of furniture
M one person could handle the hall door
buttcned on the inside, and the fire es-
cape some IS feet to the left, this room
Of death appeared to be as removed from
the approach Of a murderous outsider as
the spot in the writing room of the Cler-
mont where Miss Chaloner fell
"U'herwise the place presented the
greatest contrast possible to that scene
Of SpIendor and comfort. ] had not en-
tered the Clermont at that time, and no
such comparison could have struck my
mind But l have thought of it since.
and You. with your experience. will not
find II difficult to picture the room where
this poor woman lived and worked Bare
walls with just a newspaper illustration
pinned up here and there, a bed-tragi-
CslIy occupied a. this moment-a kitchen
stove on which a boiler, half-flled with
Seaming clothes still dubbed and foamed
an old bureau, a large pine wardrobe
against an inner door which we later
found To have been locked for months and
the key lost-some chairs-and most pro-
nounced Of all, because of its position df
rectlv before the window, a pine bench
supporting wash tub of the old sort
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cup rapidly over the face or neck, and
you will have the same sensation as
we'll as the same results as you would
get from regular massage. | don't say
that hand massage is not better still,
but one can not always get it, and
next to that my method is the best.
always work my little suction cup up
ward. no matter on what part of the
face | am working, and | am especially
careful when | work around the eyes
Every girls eyes get tired looking
no matter what her age is, and there is
nothing that annoys the would be
beauty as those dark rings under the
eyes I find that in a few minutes with
the cup will make the blood circulate
and, of course, that is the cause of the
trOublp
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Treating the Eyes.

Before working on the eye, you should
be very careful that the eyelids are
covered with cold cream and then, of
course. you must be sure that none of
this is allowed to get into the eye.
Close the eye and with your smallest
cup, which shouldn't be larger than a
ten-cent piece, massage very gently
over the eyeld and then under it, Work
from the inner corner of the eyelid out
toward the corner of the eye and then
up to the temples.
1t will DO no harm if you try this way
of beautifying every day Is long as you
don't pull the skin. If your cups are
small enough, this is impossible. The
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than a quarter
Anything that will make the blood
circulate right under the skin OF the
face will make the cheeks rosy, and
with my treatment there is no need for
rouge or any of the other substitutes
for natural color that are so ca silly de-
teCtable.
My secret of beauty, l am thankful
to say, is not a very firing one, be-
cause | have neither time nor patience
to waste Indeed, I am short on both.
But l do like to look Well-who
doesn't?
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n OST women admit that there is
wi nothing quite so good as mas
sage for keepinR the face vouns
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Don't Poison Baby.
FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mothe

FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
PAREGORIC audanum make sleep These drugs will produce
Sleep and FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH
THERE Is NO WAKING Many the children who have been killed
whose health has been ruined for life by pago audanum and morphine each
which is narcotic product opium Druggists prohibited from selling
either of the narcotics named children ALL anybody without labelling
them poison The definition of narcotic" is
n6podcs Sleep t1hch in
s0ns and deo" Thetaste smell ofmedn containing opium disguised
and sold under the Of Drops COrdia" Soothing Syrups" You
should not permit medicine to be given your children without you
physician know of what composed OAST0RA DOES NOT CON-
TAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Cha e. Fletcher
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Listen, darling. to loves refrain;
Don't let my pleading be In vain.
How I long to caress, and call you dear,
And am happy only when you are near.
Think of my sad and lonely life;
How | miss the care of a loving wife.
No one to watch for my coming home,
When night draws near and work is
done;
No little babies to romp on the floor
And laugh with delight as | enter the
door;
No one to greet me with heart and
hand
A lonely life has the bachelor man.
Listen, darling to Loves refrain
Don't let my pleading be in vain.
That some day you will cheer this life,
And promise to be my own sweet wife"
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TN these words B. c. tries to express
his love for a girl he wants to mar
. ry. Il have been sponding with
her for some time" he writes and
want to marry her. but am too bashful
to propose. Would she say Yes after
reading that poem?"
Now, that is a question that only
the girl herself can answer, Love comes
in many DISCUSSES, and If it comes in
its familiar form. or dressed like a
harlequin it makes little difference to
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=: Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favontes ::
4 Simple Method Of Caring For the Complexion
BY PEGGY DANA.

n HOST women admit that there is
WI nothing quite so good as mas
sage for keeping the face young.
the complexion clear and the skin in
good condition.
But the trouble is, who has time to
nave regular massage treatment? Ger
tainly no girl who has her living to
make, whether she is on the stage or in
an office. Then there is the constant
question of expense. A good massage
treatment costs from 81 to 49, accord
ing to the time and amount and quality
of the creams and lotions used Few of
US have that to spend on beauty culture
and so we have to try other and less
expensive ways of retaining our looks
The woman on the stage thinks more
of her appearance because it is a real
asset The girl who makes a good.
pretty stage picture is sure of job, and
the one who looks ugly must search for
another position. That is why even
very young actresses begin to take care
of their looks, and also why it is worth
while finding out how they do it.
Five minutes daily massage keeps my
complexion in good condition, and am
perfectly willing to tell you how do it.
though, after you have found out. YOU
will think it the most simple thing in
the world.