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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22

FOR RENT - Seven-room house
with bath, gas, toilet; in good condi-
ton; No. 636 w. University avenue.
Apply to J. S. Strong, 25 Union Block.
House open for Inspection
tisement. -.. ~ ..,.. .--
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22

A fine building lot on Iglehart ave.,
between Milton and Victoria streets
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.

Now Is the, Time To Buy.
Eight-room house, modern, Carol!
street. Easy terms.
Six-room house, modern, near Her
shell ave., the swell new addition to
Merriam Park. This is one of the best
bargains the real estate market offers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
SAINT PAUL
. WEEKS RECORD IN MINNEso.
TA'S CAPITAL.

rhe "saintly City" and Sanity City
FoIks-Newsy Items of Social, Re.
IIeious, Political! and General Mat
tiers Among the People.
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On the sick list this week: Mrs.
e. w. Lindsay, Mrs. Cherry Hatton,
Miss Matte Ridley.
Mr.. and Mrs R. E. Pearmon have
moved from 1877 East Eleventh street
to 419 ROndO street.
The Office of the Small Loan Co.."
has been moved to rooms Is and 26
fifth floor Union Block
If you have some news you would
like to see in THE APPEAL, write it
on a postal card and send to this Of
flee.
FOR RENT-Two rooms furnished
for gentlemen or man and wife for
light housekeeping, 81 Rice street.
Advertisement.
Mr.. M. A. Boiling, who broke his
arm and collar bone a short time ago,
is able to be out again.
The So-Lit Club will hold a social
meeting at the home of Miss Harriette
Pettis on next Thursday evening.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
FLOWER LOVERS.

Send for Green's Imperial Poppy
Seed Mixture. A rare treat and de-
lightful surprise to lovers of flowers.
Ten cents per package, by mail, pre-
paid.
Fred Green,
Poppy Specialist,
962 st. Anthony Ave-, st. Paul, MINI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
Coal $3.50 per Ton

For Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces
Splint coal in full loads at this price
Holmes e. HaIIoWelI Co.
7 Corners, Phone 401.
Advertisement
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22

Phone Dale Sab, 476 w. Central ave.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
Other houses and building lots for
sale on easy terms.

See me before buying if you are
looking for bargains in real estate.
G.. T.. SMITH.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
w. r. FRANCIS

w. r. FRANCIS
WHO FOR A NUMBER OF
YEARS WAS IN THE EMPLOY
OF THE LEGAL DEPART
MENT OF THE NORTHERN
PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY,
HAS OPENED OFFICES FOR
THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF
THE LAW AT SO AND 80
UNION BLOCK, ST. PAUL,
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Avoid Architectural Freaks.

Nv last house cost $500. and renovatious
cost $1,000 1t was twenty years old and
the woodwork. which was oak and birch, had
not shrunk the sixteenth OF an inch The
carpenter who did the work offered SEQ apiece
for the great oak sliding doors. There Is
no wood like it on the market today. I cleared
a thousand on the place.
II a prospective buyer comes to look over
the house a dozen times I welcome them In
my sweetest telephone voice and do not act
offended IL they scorn the colors on the walls
I cordially say:-" Yes, indeed. your sugges-
ton would make a great change in the ap-
pearance." / accept suggestions gracefully.
and have garnered some clever ideas from
criticisms offered.
My timid beginning has been rewarded by
modest success. I keep two things clearly
In mind, economy and honesty. II a house
mas a leaking roof or basement I put it in
good shape and do not try to hide it. never
buy an architectural freak-a house that has
turrets or queer windows. A house must
have good plain lines. If a house is a sham
Jet II alone Even a false m4ntel adds dis
cordant note to & room. ] make sure that
the wood is in a good state of preservation
as many old houses are afflicted with dry rot
A run down. neglected house. il well built.
can be made attractive and Iivable with
plenty of fresh paint and paper.
When the house is finished fire your ad-
vertising gun. The resources of a well writ
ten ad are immense. Tell exactly in the ad-
vertisement what you would be interested in
knowing yourself.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
The DAYS of Real Graft.

Speaking OF % bell hopping in general.
one Of the bell boys at a large hotel says:
The belIboy is one OF the few individuals
who can stand prosperity and the boy who
pockets the dime offered him for ice water
may have a larger bank account than the man
who gives it TO him. But hopping bells is
getting to be a lost art owing to progress
and new departures in hotel service. When
1 first got in the game at the old Parker
house in Boston in 1897 the bellboy did all the
work now done by service walters. Wallets.
doormen. wine boys. and house messengers.
He took clothes to be pressed 10 the tailor
who would give him the biggest rakeoff and
called the cab driver who would allow him
a percentage from every fare. He went to the
drug store, haberdasher. and for theater
tickets for the guest and carried notes and
bundles within q reasonable distance from
the hotel.
Those were the days Of real and legiti-
mate graft, II 1t could be called graft, and
the wise bellboys Of those days are now
managers or proprietors or in business for
themselves. Those who were foolish and
blew all they made are still on the bellboys'
bench of some hotel or waiting on table
somewhere.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Treasures In the Yard.

found Il would cost $1a0 to paint Il and
$3.50 to have II cemented outside. I had il
cemented in a cream tint. It was great
success and looked exactly like a new stucco
house. I had the partitions taken out be-
tween the parlor and big kitchen. II made a
spacious old-timey looking room This cost
S110 turned the hall bedroom into a con-
venient little kitchen at a cost OF SO. The
three upper chambers were freshly papered
and the woodwork enameled white The
stairway. which was rather crooked and
primitive, looked quite pretty and quaint
when long window was cut at the landing.
had the fireplace. a hideoUs green tile. faced
with stone from the old stone wall pol
ished formal fireplace never seems hospfta-
BILE to me. It cost S25 to screen the little
side porch and with a French window cut
through II gave me charming breakfast
room. My living room was papered in a Gull
golden yellow with a narrow border OF daffo-
dlls-T wish I could remember how many of
my friends quoted wordsworth's lines when
they saw it:
A host Of golden dsffodils-
And then my heart with pleasure alls
And dances with hAdafrodils.
The cost of remodeling and redecoration
vas S45s.
Ny nephew cleaned the yard for me and
was surprised TO discover so many treasures
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Don't Let Boss Confuse You;
Presence of Mind Essential.
By DONALD SCOTT.

I thought It to be entirely a mental problem;
and right here wasted couple of years be-
fore realized that the way a man takes care
Of himself physically has much to do with his
nerves. cut out the late hours and began
to get couple OF hours Of outdoor exercise
each day and eight or nine hours OF sleep in
the open air each night.
Consequently. got to eating up the work
at the ofice. was not able to do really
creditable thinking during conferences in
the presidents Office. always looked upon
the boss as a man different from the average
man. He seemed to me to be some super
human being.
lone day the thought came to me that in
spite Of outward appearances all men down
deep are human. I began to look for the
human side OF the boss. Gradually he be-
came more like a real man. That attitude
towards him and the other big men in our
organization was my salvation.
when I at last convinced myself that
the boss was an ordinary mortal like myself,
I began to exercise a normal mind in his
presence. He and I are now the best of
friends. yet never familiar. To talk and act
naturally in the presence OF the man that
has authority to hire and fire employees does
not at all mean to act Familiarity.
"A great many young men say to them
selves. I'm as good as the next man. That
sort OF uncompromising, bull-headed in
dependence only keeps a man down. II a
man wa nts to learn something from another
man. he must first admit that the other fel-
low knows more than he on the subject"
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Patrons Pronunciation Stands
By GEORGE H. MANLovE.

sale right there, and it might have hap
pened long line OF subsequent sales, as far
as he knew.
1 inquired of hotel clerk the location Of
the Carnegie Steel companys works. put
ting the accent on the first syllable of the
laird Of Skibo's name
You mean the Carnegie works. re-
turned the young man. putting the accent
on the second syllable. and probably the cor
rect pronunciation But 1 never stopped at
that hotel again.
Most of us are more or less ignorant Of
pronunciation and the use Of terms outside
our own immediate business or location. and
to be corrected by some one who probably is
less ee-:catec generally than ourselves
leaves bad impression. Psychologfcally it
is slap in the face and reacts.
II the clerk can know what Is wanted from
the customers inquiry. be it ever so wrongly
pronounced or used. that is sufficient, and II
the customer afterward finds he was wrong
he will appreciate the delicaey Of the sales
man in passing 1t over.
This is a hunch worth dollars to those who
meet the public and sell to them. whether Il
be the service Of hotel or drug store or
any other line
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

- MAN named Statler is conducting a
~ couple Of most successful hotels in
~ eastern cities and he is using a little
psychology to aid in their success.
A sentence from his code of rules for
employees might be taken to heart with profit
by many salesmen. and might be called to
the attention Of employees by many employ
ers.
His rule is that no Statler employe ever
is to correct the pronunciation or use OF
words by a guest. II It is necessary to use
the same term in the conversation the guests
pronunciation is the one to use. Thus an
assumption OF superiority is avoided, and
the guest is not Inundated or peeved by
being corrected. Success of his hotels is a
proof of the soundness Of his position on
various matters and not the least is this rule.
Try the other way round. went to drug
store to get something for hoarseness and
asked for throat tablets" which is good
enough term for all practical purposes and
fully descriptive.
You mean throat lozenges," returned the
clerk airily, wherein he was all wrong as
there is no difference and the box he offered
me was labeled tablets" but he lost
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Gained Self Reliance.

With $500 Of my savings had bought q
little house and half an acre OF ground It
was nearly, mile from the nearest car line
and Just at the edge OF the golf greens. The
deed was carefully hid away in my desk.
looked at II often-I began 10 feel rich-my
chains began to drop away and gained
self-relIance.
For the last ten years had been interested
in houses. One day when / drove out to
bring my brother home from the golf club
I saw this little ramshackle house. A giant
oak was sentinel at the gate. lilac bushes
were trying TO peep into the second story
window, and birds nests hung from the
porch. Summer heat and winter storms had
peeled the paint. The weeds were rank but
I braved the snakes and brfars and climbed
over the old stone wall and went in. The
weakened porch creaked like a lost soul
and the rooms had the peace and quiet OF a
cemetery. Every time passed 1 went in.
thought what a time mellowed garden I
could make Of it. The hollyhocks should
blaze out in their old time glory and 1 would
dig round the honeysuckle roots till IL linked
hands with the crimson rambler on the side
window. I walked out in e pouring rain to
see II the cellar was dry. II was. My brother.
taught me that when skating on thin ice it's
safer to skate quickly-so bought it and
bought II quick.
do what you are, afraid to do "-Emer-
sons advice. I told the clan: they were
deeply hurt and perpJexed by my inErati-
tude. Called It a wild speculation: said il
would cost too much to make it habita BILE: too
far from markets and too lonely. accepted
tkeir protests as a challenge and went to
work
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
&C

j cent in the last two years, " my
progress in business was greatly
handicapped because I could not
think clearly when called into the presence
OF my superior officers.
Time and again would be called into the
boss office to be consulted. and every time.
when came out. l had the awful feeling that
l had bungled-and usually had, because
my presence of mind seemed to leave me the
minute 1 was called for.
"often when I got back to my desk solu-
ton Of the problem about which had been
consulted would come TO me. Then would
reopen the interview and give the boss my
real ideas on the subject-often via written
memorandum.
My lack OF self-possession in the presence
Of my superior officers robbed me Of great
deal of credit. Naturally my boss thought I
should have been bright enough to think Of
certain things without first going away and
spending a great deal of time thinking about
them.
have talked with other men in the same
boat-men who say they lack elf-possession
under certain conditions when there is really
no cause for any excitement at all. Most Of
these men have nervous temperaments. They
find It easy to jump from one subject TO an
other
How can such a man rid himself OF this
burden? put that question to myself about
seven years ago, and It took me two or three
years to find an answer In the first place
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

under the tangled grass. All kinGs Of herbs
sprang up. Flowering currant sweetened
the morning air. / sold two Of the great hlac
bushes to 1norist for s15 each and he said
he would get s25 apiece. Persian lIlacs are
cheap but the old fashioned purple are
prize
Brother VIII gave me fathers old cherry
desk, which had been made from wood cut
from the old farm. Ny sfster-in-law sent me
many bid pieces of furniture they had tIred
Of accepted them with thanks, polished
and revarnished and sold them for few
good things TO harmonize with the fine old
desk
That summer sold $50 worth Of vegetables
and made 200 glasses Of plain and crabappIe
jelly and canned two dozen quarts Of cher
res from my own fruit trees Ny profits
from the place. including the chickens and
eggs, were $50.
The next spring an acquaintance and his
w5fe, both ' golf fiends" made me an offer
for the place. He told me that he must be
in Chicago in the summer and to keep his
business poise he must have recreation and
outdoor Efe. He gave me $500 cash
cleared nearly 5000 on the deal. but shed
tears when gave it up.
3 +
Acts as Agent.
Immediately put the money into another
place. 1t was decidedly down at the heel
but the location was good. I made it look
spick and span. and in six months resoId it.
making profit OF $500. made hundred on
the thirG house 1 bought, besides my rent
After had sold my third house and was
on the quest for another a friend Of ours
appealed to me to try and sell his home for
him. 1t had been In an agents hands for
over a year. and he was asking Just what it
cost him. took the exclusive agency for
a year. The house was modern and had a
hundred feet OF ground with fine shrubs
The perfect taste in the living room was
evident. but IL had a dreary. gloomy look
The fireplace. built in the middle OF the east
wall, was fanked by two small stained glass
windows 50 high in the wall that one must
tiptoe to look out. had these windows cut
down iato French windows almost reaching
the floor and small panes Of clear glass set in.
The cloisterIike gloom Of the room was gone.
and the outside OF the house was enriched as
well as the inside, and a view Of the green
lawn was obtained, which was one Of the
chief charms Of the place. I had the heavy
brown paper removed and a golden yellow
The house was cleaned. my sparse furli-
ture moved in, and began Housekeeping l
gave two school teachers rent free with the
understanding that one Of them was to be at
home when was away. 50 the house would
always be open to house seekers. Ny few
bits Of furniture were the perfection of bait
Prospective buyers Immediately thought
:" How much better it would look with all
my furniture" I kept an attractive adver-
tisement running in the daily and Sunday
papers. o. those advertising columns; they
draw like a magnet and are full Of fate and
genius / sold the house in less than -four
months The total expense OF remodeling
and advertising came to ST5 and my clear
commission was $500
Most agents would not care to assume the
burden Of repairs and decorations. but that
is where I won out.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Grist Goes the Other Way Now.

In this house a man pays a large sum
yearly for the privilege of checking hats and
coats at the entrance to the dining room
doors and at banquets, parties, and recep-
tions. In the old days boy was paid sal
airy TO run the coat rack and kept all his tips
This alone in a strictly first class hotel was
good for SIS. TO so a day. sometimes more.
One hotel pays a valet SIS month for press
ing clothes for guests and the receipts from
that nets the hotel over $500 month.
Hotels do business with taxicab COM
panies on a percentage basis, making good
bit out Of that. They pay house messengers
ss5 a month and charge guests the regular
standard rates for delivering bundles and let
ters and doing errands in general. That is
good for $50 a month net for the hotel.
These are only few Of the things ho-
tells have turned into money making PROPOSE
tions. All were In the hands of the beIlboy
wears ago, so you can readily see what
clever boy could save II he was so minded.
with nearly everything taken from him
that produced money-even page boys to find
guests when wanted at the telephone-the
average bell boy in first class hotel can
make from 50 to So day II he knows his
business He could not make that much IL
n were not for the fact that the hotel guest
is getting more liberal every day and there
are more quarter and half dollar tips and
fewer dimes than of old"
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Products of Inventors Genius.

tionary and water is forced through them
with paddles. thereby preventing risk of
breakage.
With four horse power engine motor
driven plow invented in England cuts a six
inch furrow at speed in excess OF three
miles an hour.
A telephone system american throughout
in every particular has been installed at
Bahia, Brazil.
A roughened rubber pad for cleansing che
tongue has been attached to the handle Of
toothbrush patented by an Englishman.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

An ingenious machine which cuts the heads
from Kafir corn and drops them into wagon
is the invention Of an Oklahoma man.
For slicing bread evenly Massachusetts
man has patented a board carrying slotted
guide for knife, which may be folded out
Of the way to save space.
An Oklahoma inventors corn planter is
light enough to be carried in the hand, yet
will SOW the grains evenly and cover each
with soil.
In a hand operated dish washing machine
invented by New Yoryer the dishes are ste
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
SAYS There'Il Always Be Tips.

Speaking Of the anti-tlpping crusade Of the
last few years a well known legislator says:
There will always be tips as long as
there are hotels and restaurants. The ad-
vocates of law prohibiting the-giving or
receiving of fees where a salary is paid have
little support from the public in general and
none at all from the hotel men, If employees
were forbidden by law to accept tips it would
mean a loss OF thousands of dollars every
year to the hotel men. They would imme-
diately have to almost double the salaries
Of their walters and bell boys, who could
not exist on the wage now paid If there was
no side money.
Companies operating larger hotels would
lose amounts now paid to them for the
privilege of running wash rooms, bootblack
stands, cloak rooms, and hat racks. whep
You give boy a quarter for caring for your
hat and coat in a hotel nowadays he does not
get It himself. He turns If over to his
employer. an Individual who has bought the
concession from the hotel. He invariably
has several other hotels on the same basis
and derives a large income"
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Run by Air and Water.

Seeking for a low fuel cost motor, an in
ventor of Los Angeles, Cal. has invented a
motor which he claims actually runs by a
heated combination OF air and water, the
principle being. according to the inventor.
that air. heated under pressure together with
water. will produce a powerful oxygen and
hydrogen explosive gas. In his experimental
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Buying Up Rundown Places
Good Line for Practical Woman.
By JEAN FANCHER.
By JEAN FANCHER.

EFT an orphan at IA. my hve brothers
insisted that make my home with
them. They had comfortable homes,
- good wives, and sweet children. and
was warmly welcomed
In a few years longed 10 be financially
independent. but when I talked OF leaving
they argued and coaxed. and the children
cried, and confess with shame 1 gave in
I more than paid my way, for looked after
the housecleaning. brokedn the new maids.
tended the babies. and did a hundred odd bits
Of work, like orphan Annie" This living
to please others made me mechanical apol-
ogetic Even the furnishings Of my own
room were foreign to my taste and the friends
Of the house were not of'my choosing. Twas
Just an indispensable wheel of the household
I might have achieved home by marriage,
but never had the chance. True, I might
have married missionary to India, but who
wants a home where unexpected guests like
tigers and boa constructors are always drop
ping IN for meals? An accident sunk my
other matrimonial boat. When driving with
a young man who steadily chanted undying
love the horse SHE'D and the new buggy was
crushed to sp1inters. Alone / crept out OF
the wreck Instead Of giving thanks for my
miraculous escape, the lover said: Every
d. spoke is broke"
Ny share OF the income from the family
estate was $3.50 a year. and for the last ten
years I had miserly saved $500 a year. It
would have been impossible to have saved
so much II the brothers had not generously
remembered me at Christmas. When my
sisters-in-law entertained they presented me
with a new dress IL I looked particularly
shabby. When / wished for the exquisite
simplicity Of a little gray hat suitable for
a spinster 1 often emerged like a butterfly
in a hat bought for a niece who. finding II too
large, presented II TO me.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Air Driven Canoe.

Seeking for propelling device or system
for his canoe that would work in shallow
water and IN weeds without interference, a
genius Of Mamaroneck, n. Y, has built an
air propeller system driven by a motorcycle
motor which seems 10 meet all requirements
The motor is set forward Of the craft, and
above 1t is built up a frame OF wood and steel
tubing, bracsd with piano wire. This sup
ports a shaft projecting out forward, at the
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

machine the air Is heated in a seamless steel
tube like an auto gas tank. and connected to
a boiler injector. Water dropped into the
heated air produces the gas which is used in
the motor. the heat of the explosions heating
the air. so that all that need be used for fuel
after the motor is started is water and air
This sounds fine. but just how much Of the
reported idea is air and how much water will
be told by future experiments
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

lower side OF the basket ring. The basket is
woven from cord, like butterfly net From
the handle above the net frame runs down
with a scoop so that when the blade is pressed
into the ground this scoops whatever is be-
tween the blade and scoop into the basket
part A shake then sifts the dirt and small
potatoes through, and leaves only the good
ones. The article is light and handy and
prevents the necessity for STOPPING