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China. glassware and odd bits of silver
were selected with all eye to the APP
praising ability of uncle's new vile. ana
-Mary's" morning was gone, her puf-
chases only half made, but the happy
smile had never faded.
From the elevator came the words.
Yes. indeed, am going to make them
double up; they said they would put
that means. No, you can't put five. IN
any bed Four is bad enough, but
mother shall not give her room up any
more. That is settled. Yes, had 10
buy a dozen new sheets ana piiio"cases
and everything You know the fire we
had before Christmas just about cleaned
out everything for me- oh, well, don
mind, only the money is a little scarce
just now. Say. have you any extra
chairs ! could borrow. SO much Obliged.
Will send Willie right over and I'll take
good care of them.
From another trio came the worried
protest, 'iOh. | just love TO have them.
but | am not fixed Up and ] hate to
change anything more. 1 am behind now
and if | get in any deeper we will have
to give up our vacation this year. oh.
nearly everything, especially dishes.
just have to get a new coffee pot ana
some more dishes | am glad il only
happens once in four years"
Say, young woman where do you
rent beds and bed clothes? The young
woman" was the naughty demonstrate
OF the newest skill peelnB complexion
balm and youth restorer, and to all in
quiries she gave an icy stare and the
stereotyped answer, whether ii was hose
or hats: Annex, center aisle
Pathos, humor. comedy and even
tragedy play hide-and-seek over bales
of table linen and through the lacy
meshes of the spareroom curtains, while
the old-fashioned ghost of the free-hand-
ed genius of household thrift hovers in
sorrowing silence over the frantic pell
nell scramble of the modern housewife
to prepare at the eleventh hour for the
guests against whose coming i'm olden
times the linen. spotless and lavender
scented, was always ready. But then
madame housewife had no clubs. no
speeches TO make, no suffrage parade
gowns to make and no legislation to look
after, J~la hhEmno(
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culation where the. advantages of sum-
mer trip is weighed against the incon-
venience of a weeks hospitality to rural
friends And just now they are all in the
stores and their shopping tells their real
feeling toward the coming visitor What
do they buy?-everythng under the sun
that goes into d house, from an extra
coffee strainer to renting a piano for a
month
Surely no greater exchange for the trad
ing of gossip ever existed than a big de-
partment store. for there human nature
runs rampant without it's social mask
of conventionality and reserve, and many
times even the thinnest pretense of ordi-
nary politeness, neighborhood scandals
and family skeletons are dragged forth
ruthlessly to rattle their shrinking bones
from counter to counter while mlady and
her friends pillow through pillows of linen
or eXcavate the maZes of pyramids of
tinware.
The thin. hatchet-faced woman expect
err company yes, indeed she did, and she
was anything but pleased over it, She
section, and If her visitors could have
heard her they surely would stay at home.
We'll. Mary, you are at it, too. | see.
just like everybody else in this fool town
that hasn't the backbone to say no when
every Tom, Dick and Harry from all over
creation takes a notion TO camp down on
you and drag You around sight seeing
and then make You freeze to death look
ing at an old parade that's just the same
year after year. Perfect outrage! that is
all it Is, anyway
Mary" knew the hatchet-faced woman
of old. SO she just smiled and said.
Growing as usual, Jane, but if you don't
want any one why do you take them?
Why? fairly snorted Jane. Because
it's Johns mother and sister and i can't
help myself; that's why John Smith
is the pig headedest man about his peo-
pie you ever saw, and he thinks | can
not do enough for them but YOU can
bet I'll fix it SO they don't stay long"
And James eyes snapped wickedly as
she kicked up the end of a rug to see
its reverse side.
"Of course, I have got to give up my
Easter trip to Boston and buy odds and
ends for the house"
You run around too much any way"
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teased Mary. 1T will do you good to
stay to home a while
'Humph, that's all | hear from John $
folks and | believe that is why they
enough of me this time; who are you eX
pecting?"
oh come over here and help me pick
out some linen sheets and some good
blankets, urged Mary. Grandma is
coming. She is eighty-two and has not
been here since the war, and we are so
glad Then there is Aunt Sallie from
Mississippi and Uncle Joe's youngest
and her husband and two babies from
Texas, which none of us has ever seen.
and the poor kids have the whooping
cough and / must get crib big enough
for two. They are bringing along the
children's nurse and 1 must get a cot
and some bedding for her, too. We are
just crazy for them all to get here,
especially the children, for you know We
are both so fond of babies enthusiast
ticaIly explained the plump matron with
the joy of anticipation beaming from
every feature.
For a minute the other woman looked
at her and then at the expensive linen
sheets. the soft blankets and the dainty
down comfort and towels she had picked
out, and with a contemptuous plying look
she moved off. saying, MARY, you always
were a little bit lacking in common
sense, and now / think you are mt SUD
ject for lunatic asylum, with your nus
band just over typhoid and all the trouble
you had with his brother. to be taking In
troop of whooping young ones and
whole army of grown-ups and buying
stuff like that for them, too.
Before 1 would be imposed on IKE
that / would take to a hospital in self
defense"
Mary smiled and collected her change
and after picking up an old ladys bag
moved on 10 meet another friend,
who grabbed her excitedly and hustled
her into the chinaware department. with,
oh Mary, you are so good TO every
body. come and show me just the best
things TO get Jacks uncle and his new
wife. this is his third you know. are
coming and they have both piles Of
money and Jack wants to have them at
the fiat. and l am just worried to DEATH!
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of the member of Congress from the twen-
ty-sixth district of Pennsylvania, and at
present quite a matter OF speculation in
political circles. Mr.. Palmer was a Wilson
champion long ago, and he has talked
''Wilsonia'' all the way down the alpha
net. Naturally he has been speculated
upon from the day of Mr.. Wilson's nomi-
nation Mrs. Palmer is not at all agt-
Jated in either direction. whether her
husband Will be among the chosen or
whether she will continue among the DOM
inant figures in the congressional wing
Size possesses a serenity of mind which
would have delighted Marcus Aurelius
Il have firm belief" said Mrs. Pal
mer, that except in rare instances hap
piness is something which may be cul-
tiyated. There are scores of examples,
Of course, of those whom sorrow pursues
and who are never removed from the
shadow of tragedy and misfortune. But
take the ordinary man and woman who
get along fairly well in the world. They
can Zoe happy if they desire, and If they
are happy they add to the sum total of
human bliss and make the world. their
country and themselves all the better for
il. l call my life happy one as far as
! nave gone, and ] think | can continue
happy, Cor accidental things like great
wealth or exalted rank do not make hap
Bhess any more than being deprived of
them should cause misery Take things
calmly is a good motto and very fine
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Never were the housewives and home
makers SO exceedingly busy. for as March
4 draws nearer the mails grow heavier
and heavier with the letters from dis
tant relatives and friends who have de-
cided to take a chance on escaping the
traditional inauguration blizzardy weather
and journey thitherward to see democracy
once more installed into power.
Scarcely a home in the city, whether it
be a palatial manshion or a tiny two-by-
four fiat in the topmost corner of the
tenement, hut what is looking for it's con-
tngent of visitors to swarm in with bag
and baggage, babies, children, maids and
pet dogs. etc, to be entertained during
the all-important season of festivities, ana
likewise in the great majority of these
households of modern dimensions which
means restricted storage space. some
preparation must be made. Unlike the
overburdened attics of our grandmother
time, the average apartment house locker
diminutive house linen closet has no
space in which to contain extra beds and
bedding. and so perforce Madame House
keeper must sally forth and rent or buy
additional supplies when she is threat
ened with an invasion OF the family clan.
There be those to whom the obligations
of hospitality are as binding as sacred
Scripture to the churchmen. and to whom
visitors, related or strangers, singly or in
delegations. are source of pleasure.
even though their coming be not unmixed
with work and ill afforded expense. So
strong are the precepts of the old-fash-
Toned regard for the comfort of the stran-
ger within the gates that the best is
never too good for him. and the last crust
would be rendered with the same grace
as the bid to a feast of nectar and am
brosia.
Then there are others whose little
world, with it's ever contracting circle,
has nothing to share.
mr. = Air.
entertainment Of the visitor Is a prob
lem. To some II is a matter OF fine CAL
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occurred in the public shows during the
days of Caigua and Nero on the banks
of the 'Tiber. and. nevertheless, the young
girls waved their handkerchiefs and
clapped just as the Roman girls turned
down their thumbs and thus consigned
their heroes to the teeth of the lions.
Some of the worst features were the
torturing of the bull into killing the
horses. The picadors or gayly dressed
men upon horseback rode in with great
lances which they thrust at the bull. and
now and then drove into his shoulders
They rode scrawny street car Steeds. and
these were actually ripped to shreds by
the horns of the bull. At times the
horses would be wounded almost to
death. They had been gored again and
again. but they would be spurred and
whipped to their feet and made to con-
tinue until they We're finally killed.
These poor horses were blindfoded as
To one eye with band of red flannel
the other eye being kept turned away
from the bull SO that it could not see the
enraged beast which came with head
down on the run and thrust in its horns
to the roots. At one time the bull gored
picador. thrusting horn into soft
but uncomfortable part of his body. and
il was only by throwing a red blanket
over the animals eyes that the man could
be dragged out
But take a seat beside me in the bull
ring. and let us once for all see this
amusement which is the favorite of all
among the Mexican people. / have de-
scribed the amphitheater. We are sitting
close to the officials. between the ranks
of the armed soldiers. and about a half
dozen rows above the arena. The band is
over there at the right. 1t has just burst
forth in a triumphal march. The bull
fighters are coming. Some are on foot
and some are on horseback. The algui-
elias. or police officers of the ring. are on
capering stations. and the plumes of their
hats wave as they prance around the
arena. Those horses are different from
the ones the picadors will ride during the
fighting. Behind come the matadors. or
bullfghters proper. three walking abreast.
They are gorgeous in gold lace, gold braid
and silk tights. They have cloaks over
their shoulders. and make one think of
the knights of the stage. They are the
stars. and the audience clap their hands
in salute.
And then come the banderilleros. with
their barbed arrows, and finally the plea
doris in their broad-brimmed hats short
velvet Jackets and breeches of light vel
low leather. They have gay scarfs about
their waists. frilled shirt fronts and gold
waistcoats.
This procession is ended by the ring
servants. sometimes called the wise mon
keys. who attend to the horses and clean
up the ring after the fight, and after
them are the mule teams, gayly capari-
soned, which. three abreast. drag the
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read and up to the highest mark of po-
litical acumen.
In word. Mrs. Palmer will be among
those who will follow the safe middle
course. conspicuous neither by the num-
Der and splendor of her fetes nor by their
restricted quality or quantity Just now
she is among those frequently consulted,
for. though she has been here but two
congressional terms, she has listened at
tentively and thought a great deal about
what needs reform and what needs adop-
ton. 1t will mean reorganiZa ton from
the ground upward but delcately accom-
plshed.
There is one small girl in the Palmer
family, Miss Mary Dixon Palmer. a pretty
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writer found religious consolation and
promise in the Fruits of Solitude and
cuttings from it adorn many of his pages.
Representative and Mrs. Palmer live
in hotel, and though they give few form
al entertainments. they are hospitable
in their circle of intimate friends Nat
urally, their religious tenets forbid a
great display of any sort, even if their
natural inclinations were not opposed to
it. But Mrs. Palmer fills every obligation
with scrupulous exactitude. and she may
be counted upon to uphold every tradi-
ton which makes for the pleasure and
benefit of those concerned. She gives the
usual receptions and accepts all that GUS
tom implies. She Is cultured and well
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Iish pioneers. who came to Pennsylvania
or to New York, then New Amsterdam.
in the latter part of the seventeenth CEN
fury. Her father who resided in Easton.
Nd served as senator in the state legis-
lature and was highly respected ciil-
zen. In appearance Mrs. Palmer is typl-
cal of her, training and her convictions.
She is always gowned quietly, though
with excellent taste, with expert atten-
ton to details and to richness of fabric.
Her home presents the same aspect OF
comfort and richness without the least
obtrusiveness. She is frank in manner
and speech. and has the habit of speak
ing from conviction as she believes.
rather than for motives of policy.
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little miss in her third year
Mr.. Palmer is connected with every
public-spirited movement in StroudSburg,
and his wife is arrayed on the side of all
that means civic betterment and more
hopeful conditions for every class of
working people. But they are as reserved
and conservative there as here. and,
though they are social powers, they are
not conspicuous in social affairs. nor
what are called leaders of society even
in a restricted sense Mrs Palmer is
not club woman. though she is allied
with many useful patriotic and civic
societies. Shesis a member of the Arun-
del Club of Baltimore From both sides
of her house she is descended from Eng
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the servant of the people, and that he
should return in courtesy all the obiga-
tons which his selection means. Mr.. VIII
son has proclaimed his intention of being
a democratic President in all the name
implies, every one concerned is pre-
pared for radical changes.
Mrs. Palmer is among the progressive
women regarding modern movements and
she has figured in everything which per-
tains to what is designated congressional
society.
In the Congressional Club Mrs. Palmer
has been a quiet dominating force and
this coming season will find that or
ganiZation on plane of social power
which ii has not yet reached. Under the
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president NadeTo has his, summer home,
and within an equal distance OF the
mighty cathedral of Mexico City. the
largest house of worship on the North
American continent This bull ring is the
biggest of its kind and with its seats
rising in concentric circles from the arena
IN which the lighting goes on it reminds
one of the amphitheaters of old Rome.
NItoCether il covers, acres. and its seat
ing capacity is Just about one-fourth that
OF the Coliseum and 1000 greater than
that 1t the largest bull circus of Spain.
The buu ring is built of American steel
AND il cost $T0i.no0. 1t is the best patron
lied of all the places of amusement OF
the Mexican capital. and today it's box
receipts must have been at least SZ1,ooo.
/ am told that the holiday fights often
net p.utn. and that the city levies a tax
Of - per cent upon all that comes in
Vt the night this afternoon there were
M least fifteen thousand spectators. The
amphitheater was filled from the ring TO
the roof and that with a more enthusiast
tic audience than YOU VIII lind at
championship American base ball game.
The people went wild and almost every
man woman and child acted the part of
4 fan.
took good note of the audience Ii
consisted of people of all ages and sexes.
l saw boys of six and girls of ten beau
tifuly dressed who shreked their APP
plause the horns of the bull gored
deep into the horses. / saw delicate
Young ladies i'm new gowns from Paris.
who broke their white kid gloves in their
clapping. and gaNly dressed dudes who
fairly burst their spat-covered patent
leather shoes as they strapped in response
10 the death stroke of the ,ms,tador There
were also Thousands OF the common
masses of Mexico. ranging from the In
dian i'm his sandals and blanket to the
Wei dressed member of the chamber of
deputies and from wrinklesi old women i'm
black ShdwlS to juicy Young maids i'm
nant,llas. all forming, il We're. a great
buman flower garden rising from the
arena to the toI, seats near the skies.
In addition to the spectators were the
city officials, on hand 10 direct the fight
ing and give the signals to start. There
was brass band which burst forth i'm
triumphal marches from time to time as
the fighting went ON, and there was a
company of soldiers with rifles and BAY
onetS really 10 shoot AT signal il any
sign of revolution or disorder broke out
J SAT i'm the shade and my place on the
steps cost me 81. The fights always take
place in the afternoon when the sun is
declining. that one-half of the
seats are i'm the shade and the others I'm
the full glare of the tropical sun The
shady seats are reserved and the sunny
ones correspond to the beachers of our
base ball stands. Some of the box seats
are equal in price to those of our grand
opera.
Further on ] give YOU some notes of the
bun fighting as ! whispered them into the
ear OF my stenographer as the scenes
Went on In the arena below me- The
snow was horrible one but T give il as
an evidence of one phase of the charac-
Ter OF this Mexican people. 1t was as
disgusting aS any of the massacpes which
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leadership of Mrs Roberts of Massa-
chusetts it acquired prestige of a graft
flying nature. but the social leaders of the
republican party did not gleefully join
the sturdy band of official hostesses who
wished to bring back their set to past
triumphs Mrs. Palmer was also active
in making the Dolly Madison breakfast
successful. and she favors the permanent,
organization which before every presi-
Dental nomination will bring the women
OF the democracy together with view OF
ignoring personal ambitions and private
grievances to work for the cause In
other questions-suffrage and the various
movements 10 improve civic and indus
trial conditions-Mrs. Palmer is sympa-
thetically and in some cases actively in
terested. She is. however, content to play
passive role on all public questions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer are among the
young contingent in the House and the
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CHE Presents a New Phi
- losophy. That of Being
Happy, and Says This Should
Be Cultivated as Much as
Our Minds or Our Gardens
She Comes of Distinguished
Quaker Ancestry, Her Fore
fathers Coming Originally
From England to Pennsyl-
vania, Going Later to Mary
land, Where She Was Born.
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BY MARGaRErrB. DOWNING.

n this complexity
of woman move
ments, OF missions
and higher vOca-
lions, It is some
thing Of real joy to
find one who be-
lieves in the SIM
pie creed of being
happy as the uni
verSal panacea.
Such a woman is
Mrs. Palmer, wife
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recipe for keeping happy and in fair
terms with yourself and the rest of the
world"
Mrs. Palmers judicial attitude toward
rank and social supremacy is significant
since. whether or not her husband is
called to a higher position, she will re-
main a dominant figure in the new adj
ministraton. Though she possesses an in
come which could easily rank with many
of the social leaders, she has always
been reserved and transformations, and
her conduct fits in well with the prognos.
tications of what the new presidential
ladies Will do The serious aspects of life
will assuredly be more before the public
mind than hitherto, but such women as
Mrs. Palmer will lend a rosy hue to
strict performance of duty.
Those who presume to outline the
policy of the administration from the
social viewpoint say that Mrs. Wilson
and her daughters will restore the old
way of stately functions without that
admixture of private and intimate
gatherings which have leavened both
the Roosevelt and Taft regimes Mrs.
Wilson Is considering the old method
of the first lady of the land giving a
public reception certain afternoons In
each month. when any respectable per-
son may bow before her Mrs Cleveland
was the last mistress of the White
House to observe custom Inaugural ted
by the most famous mistress of the
White House-Dolfy Madison Mrs
Cleveland held levees every Saturday
afternoon in January and February,
and she bestowed the same radiant
smile on the turbanned negro nanny
walking with rheumatic joints that
she did on the fur-clad woman of fash
ion
Mrs. Mckinley was an invalid and
the custom was changed because of her
inability to follow il. After the assas
sination of MIR. Mckinley all public re-
ceptionS were froWned upon as a mat
ter of safeguarding the chief magis-
trate and his family.
Ii Is understood that those charged
with the personal safety of the new Pres
ident do not listen kindly to the rumor
that the Wilson's are to restore the old
way, and many influences are at work to
persuade the President-elect not to permit
mass of people unknown and unlimited
to invade the White House. But those in
whom Mrs. Wilson and her daughters
will find congenial companionship are in
favor of the old way. Mrs. Mitchell
Palmer, for instance, has tremendous
confidence in the innate goodness of the
American people. and she frowns upon
the party lines set up between smart So
ciety and mere official rank. With many
of the democratic hostesses who will be
powerful factors for the next four years
she holds that the highest official IL only
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LOW Bulls Are Brutally
i i Killed and Horses Gored
to Death in the Worlds
Biggest Bull Ring-Fifteen
Thousand Mexicans Who Pay
Big Money for the Show
Pen Pictures of the Scenes
Terrible Torture.Giving the
Death Thrust-Bull Batting
in Spain and Some Famous
Fighters-Cock Fighting and
the Festive Game Chicken
Sidelights on a Peculiar Phase
of Mexican Character.
copyrighted 1913 by Frank C. Carpenter
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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+" OW many people are you ex-
pecting for Inauguration is
the leading question of the
hour wherever Washington
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VI EAlto II L i.
SAW five magnifl-
cent bulls and
eight horses tor
tured To death this
afternoon amid the
clappin & and shout
ing of 1J.U0O MeXi-
can sp e ctators.
The bull night was
held III the Plaza
de ToroS. within a
rifle shot of Cha
Dultepec, W n e 7 I
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copyrighted. 1913. by Frank g. Carpenter
Special Correspondence of The Star.