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By WINIFRED BLACK.
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The Chicago Tax Board of Review Is
I finding out a whole lot of Interesting
things. Have you noticed some of them?
: Here are two nice little facta that have
j come up before
that grave and
reverend body for
consideration.
The great Amer-
lean people are
I getting tired of
: pie. Salad, fruit,
'cheese these
, things are taking
j the place of pie.
jOh, yes, it's true.
I A man came from
j a big pie-making
I concern and told
j the board why he
' thought his taxes
should be reduced.
"Even the delica
tessen shops don't sell much pie any
more," said the man. "It's all made
dishes, salads and fruits, and. they are
even getting so they'll buy cheese, any
kind of cheese, home made or foreign,
instead of a good American pie."
And to support his statement he
brought to the Hall of Justice various
and sundry restaurant keepers.
No sooner had the pie man left the
members of the board gasping in amaze
ment at his revolutionary .statements
about the great American pie; than a
jeweler appeared.- He came, he said,
to explain why his taxes should be lower.
"1 don't sell solitaires to the young
fe!Io,s any . more," said the jewele.
"The girls don't want diamonds; they-
want furniture. Every time I try to
persuade a conscious .looking young man
that what he wants is a $300 solitaire he
says -no. She says; get- a' stnali stone
and pt the rest Into furniture for the
flat"- ' ' ' ' ' ' '
I wonder if what the pie man and the
jeweler said can be true? , I believe it
and I'm glad to. believe It. .
Fifteen years 'ago the boarding liouses
were full of newly weds; now the bride
who hasn't a bungalow or,, at least, a
flat of her own to experiment on Is a
poor failure, and so rated imong the
rest of the cheerful voyagers on the
troubled sea of matrimony.
Housekeeping is the thing these days
very much the thing. That's why we
don't see so many sad-eyed young hus
bands cooped up In a boarding house with
all the rest of the denellcs, as we used to
see them.
Hurrah for the American girl. She's
come to her senses, her good, plain
American senses. She'd rather have a
home of her own with some comfy fur
niture in it, a pot of laburnum In the
window, a banjo on the couch, a few
framed copies of famous masters on the
wall, a little, pigtrougli bookcase with a
few pleasant books in It, a bright kitchen
full of bright cooking things, than to
wear the biggest solitaire that ever
sparkled on the finger of a gambler or a
prize fighter, and starve to death In
genteel misery In a boarding house, with
all the world looking on to see the first
quarrel and the first make-up.
Hurrah for good little Mary United
States. She's coming to her own, and
I'm proud of Tier.
Take ths iittlo diamr.nd, Mary, and have
It big enuough in the gold part to slip off
nice and easy when you want to make the
biecuit. Put three or four little pink and
b!uj "ginghams in that trousseau. - Have -.a
dust 'cap 'slonfe'. too; and. whisper, there's
nothing on eaWh more becoming than an
npron if you know how to wear it,. Put
a cookbook in., the bc;oi,c,aJ,e--it, won't
stay; there long.', you'll nd !t in the
kitchis-and, lirten your hardest when
John .Ulla what- h4ikes beet to eat.- - - -
,T-.earn to cook and to sew and to man
ace and to order things, and 'bo the real
ruk-r. of yor real little kingdom, and
watch John grow. . .
'i j "u neeun t De "notning but a
''," thouph I'd rather he nothln? but a
took than to be just nothing at all,
wouldn't you? You can be just as sweet
and just as pretty and Just as. bright
and know how many pounds of butter it
win take to keep you nnd John supplied
w'tii all you ought to have to eat, at
you can and know nothing but the time
to lead trumps. . , v
Hcalize that home is the happiest place
on earth, if you make It so, ard the most
miserable failure In the world, if you
make it so. It's all up to you, as they
say in sporting circles, all up to 'you,
little Mary t'nited States, and I'm glad
to see that you are beginning to under
stand it.
So you're forgetting pie and eatlhg sal
ads and fruits. Hurrah for you again,
though a good "pie Is an -excellent thing.
But a cool salad is not to be sniffed at,
ither, and fresh fruit In season.
'Vliut "is sweeter than a little table
set for two? I choose a shiny tabfe with
Just a centerpiece on ft by way of linen
and a bowl of outdoor flowers in the
middle of it, a blue bowl for mine, and
a rosy Mary sitting at the bottom of the
table mixing in a large blue and white
salad bowl an orange, an apple, a hand
ful of red cherries, a scuffle of walnut
meats, maybe a slice of so or pineapple
or banana, and squeezing some cool lemon
juice and some good olive oil over it
while John pretends to read his pnper.
Little Mary United States, you've come
home now at last, haven't you; coim
home from Europe, and from college,
and from all the foolish light-headed-ness
we liked In extreme youth and ab
hor In a real woman, and you're fresh
and rosy and full of cheer and comfort.
and you are just the dearest, sweetest,
best mortal on earth. Look at John, he's
thinking to this very minute as you pour
his coffee.
No wonder he can work like a beaver
all day with you and your little dinner
waiting for him at home, not In the
boarding house.
Good for you, Mary, and good for
your new plan of life. I'm with you
every step of the way, heart and soul,
and so Is John, depend upon it
Smaller engagement rings and less pie.
With such news as that ringing round
the world, who shall dare say the Ameri
can republic is tottering to iits fall?
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The Dog Nuisance
A Great Danger as Wall at a Great Nuisance, and in France They .
Have Learned How to Suppress It.
A RCEA V, Krance
has severa' times recently called attention
to the perils incurred from wandering
dogs In the streets. That strange sur-
p i
PHONE BUSINESS SIZED UP
The Making of a Pretty Girl
How to Prevent and Fight Wrinkles
A circular diagram, two-thirds of which
is a cloud of dot? as numerous as sands
on a seashore, graphically pictures the
development of the telephone business in
the world, as detailed in the annual re
port of the American Telephone and Tel
egraph company. The remaining one
third of the diagram approximates tele
phone development In Europe, with a lit
tle slice for Canada and another tor "ail
other countries."
The pamphlet report of the company's
statistician is fattened with statistical
tables and comparative diagrams
Illuminating and emphasizing an amazing
record of progress. Consider the figures
for a moment: No less than 13,453,000
telephones and 29,566,000 miles of telephons
wire were In use in all parts of the
world on January 1, 1912, a gain of 10 per
cent In 'phones and 9 per cent in wira
over 1911. This represents an investment
of $1,8CO,000,000, and an annua", talkfest of
22,OCO,O0O,O0O conversations.
The use of the telephone by a given
country seems to be on a par with the
prosperity of that country. Thus on
January 1, 1912, Belgium had 47,600 tele
phones in use; Holland, 64,000; Italy, 70,
000; Denmark, 94,500; Hungary, 08,500;
Norway, 63,000; Switzerland, 78,700; AuBtrla,
112,600 ; 8weden, 187,400; Russia and Fin
land, 181,000; Canada, 2S4.0CO; France, 232,
700; Great Britain, 648,800; the German
empire, 1,069,000, and the United States,
7,596,000.
An analysis of these figures shows that
the German empire has about 36 per cent
and Great Britain about 22 per cent of
all European' phones. Of the remaining
European countries, only France exceeds
the 200,00) mark. The combined tele
phones of Belgium, Norway, Denmark,
Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands are
less than those of New York City. Chi-,
cago has more 'phones than all France
and Boston has more than Austria.
The increase in telephone installed
since January, 1911, is as follows:
By MARGARET HUBBARD AYER.
. Every woman gets worried when the
first wrinkle makes its appearance. Slie
may be quite heroic about it, and say
that she likes lines in th face; because
they give so much character to the ap
pearance, and all that. But you and I
know that she has had an awful fight
with herself before she comes out with
that beautiful fairy tale about character.
It's the same fight that will be repeated
again when a little tuft of gray hairs
can no longer be covered up from view.
There are all kinds of wrinkles, some
of them really do denote character, .and
they often appear on the face of file' girl
of 20 years Just between her brows as a
sign of thoughtful concentration. That
kind of. a girl never knows she has them
for years to come, for jfte Is not the kind
of girl who looks very closely at the
mirror.
Every wrinkle in the face is formed
from muscular contraction and is an in
dication of temperament and the habitual
expression of the Individual. Every wrin
kle tells its special story and there are
many, of them that speak of fine and
beautiful attributes.
The girl with the horizontal lines across
her forehead tries hard to do right and
is over-eoncientlous. Short lines at the
corner of the mouth running upward ap.
pear in the face of the woman who has
borne her sorrows cheerfully and who has
been helped by faith and a resigned
spirit.
Lines around the eyes, when fhey point
upward, tell the story of a mirthful,
happy disposition. Just as those that
droop the other way tell of concentrated
effort when accomplished by deep lines
in the brow.
You can easily tell the woman who loves
to gossip by the drooping lines of the
mouth, and if she is a' great talker there
will be lines near the lower c'herk which
run down under the chin.
A forehead that Is criss-crossed bv
jmany little lines in the middle of the
I brow shows that small frets and wor-
Unlted States. 9 per cent: Canada. 11
per cent; Europe, 8 per cent; other : riM take "P much of that person's time,
countries. 32 rr cent. The last item in- No matter what the lines indicate, no
eludes some South 'American republics,
China and Japan. The increase In tele
phone Wire was nonetheless remarkable.
able.
There Is a movement among practically
all European countries, except Germany
and Great Britain, to adopt charges that
justly approximate service rendered.
Heretofore the charges among various
classes of custotrer-, lastd on a rate sys
tem, has checked the popularity of the
telephone In thone countries.
."outh and Ctntral' America, with a pop
ulation of about 54,000,000, which is nearly
IO.OiO.OOO less than that of the German
empire, has but one telephone to every
500 persons, as compared with one to
evety sixty-two persons In Germany.
Persistent Advertising Is tne Road .to
Big Returns.
A Bachelor's Reflections.
A woman is so Innocent that if she
makes up her complexion she never
dreams It.
It's better for a girl to' kiss a man
against her will than for him never to
have kissed her at all.
The strongest thing in an argument Is
to let the other fellow prove vour case
by talking against It.
Hietory telle us what foolish things all
people- once did. not what foolish things
we are all going to do.
The devil Is a silent partner willing to
do most of the work while all the rest
of the firm (s out havlne a. nv tim
(New York Press.
woman likes to . see a wrinkle in her
face, and I have heard tell that men
are not exactly crazy about them, either.
Probably you have noticed that the
average mans face doesn't wrinkle as
quickly as a woman's does; that is be
cause the man who shaves gives his
face a dally sort of massage treatment
which stimulates the circulation and
keeps wrinkles away, while the woman
I does nothing but bathe her face in a
nair-neartea way, or treat it with cream
when she happens -to think about it.
Friction will keep the face free of
wrinkles better than anything else and
will eradicate the first hairline wrinkles
when they come.
The woman who knows she has a
tendency to .frown all the time may
possibly need eyeglasses, for eyestrain
of any kind Is bound to create wrinkles
around the eyes. If the eyes are not
strained, the should make a determined
effort to break her habit of frowilng.
and -'he will aid in the work by -wearing
a little piece of court plaster over
her brow whenever she can conveniently
no so.
Get the stiff kind of court piaster, and
if this Is not possible sew a small piece
of court plaster or stick It on to a piece
of cardboard, gluing the cardboard to
the back of the plaster, not to the sticky
side. Stretch the skin over the wrinkle
with the fingers to that It is perfectly
smooth, paste on your plaster, which
t wv t-iy
di y fi't&f i j
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A pretty face allows no disfiguring wrinkles.
should hold the skin stretched. This
treatment is only a reminder to stop
frowning. It can also be used at the
side of the eyes to keep crowsfect away.
Where there are many wrinkles on
the brow, stretch the skin smooth and
paste adhesive plaster over It, and keep
it on all night If possihle. Adhesive
piaster may also be used over the
wrinkles from nose to mouth. Bffore
taking the plaster off, wet It thoroughly
with very warm water, or steam It, and
It will come off easily.
Where there are many very fine lines,
a good thing to do is to treat wrinkles
In the following manner:
First, bathe the face very thoroughly
then cover It with cream and massage
quickly, using the tapping movement
that Is to say. slap your face In very
gentle, quick taps. Rub the cream all;
off with a damp cloth, dry the face and
apply a mixture made of equal parts
wnue or eggs ana cologne spirits. Put It
1'ly liiraiiBf It if allowed tn droop; that
Is because the spirit bohind It Is not
buoyant, brave and cheerful. And many
wrinkles can never be tjken (V.it at all,
even with the mot heroic treatment, un
less the spirit changes, and the Individual
resolve that life Is not as dolefi.1 and
miserable an experience as she appears
to think it.
The mouth that droops, for Instance,
will droop right on, though the most ex
pensive wrinkle eradlcatnr is usfd upon
it. But without resorting to any treat
ment at all, you can make tho corners
Of your mouth turn up by willing them
to do so, and by taking a more cheerful
and optimistic point of view.
Very frequently wrinkles are the result
of 111 health and a run down condition
of the system and anaemia. Thiu is espe
cially so of girls between 18 and ?G, who . dead, lusterless skin, of inflexible quality,
,.iu.u uui Hive any wrmnieK ai an unoer i wnicn lines very easily,
ordinary clr-umstances. It is useless to j Many unpleasant wrinkles -are dii3 stm-
vlval of troglydlte
days, the love of
dogs, Is as strong
In Franca as In
America, but here
they have appar
ently learned bet
ter than we have
done how to dimin
ish the nuisance
and the dunger
of It.
There is In Paris
and Its suburbs one
dog for every fif
teen human beings
or a total of about 20,000,000 dogs; and
yet they have managed, by strict enforce
ment of the law that protects the pubJIo
against wandering dogs, to diminish the
can'ne peril almost to the vanishing
point New York may here learn a lesson.
To begin with, the French authorities
have recognized the fact not only that
the crowning danger from dogs is hydro
phobia, but also that the place Where
hydrophobia Is contracted by dogs Is in
the street Under the French law, which
Is enforced in the country as well as lr
the city, If you will have a dog you must
pay a good round tax for It, and you
must keep It out of other people's way.
You have no right, In gratifying yout
caprice for living In Intimate association
with a lower animal, to put your fellow
men and women, and still worse, children,
to Inconvenience and danger. If you let
your dog out In a Paris street It Is very
likely that, within an hour, It will
taking an official ride in one of tht
huge automobiles., furnished with cages
which the Department of Veterinary and
Sanitary Service keeps In c'rculatlon. If
the Parisians no longer have the spec
tacle of carts full of aristocrats going to
prison, or to the guillotine, they have the
more cheering sight of useless dogs mak
Ing a similar "promenade." The conse
quence Is that, notwithstanding th.i sin
gular fact that the canine populut'on of
Paris Is Increasing.' the number ;of casen
of dog bite has bceomo almost negligible.
Hero are a few interesting facts which
I take from official records.: In 1901
16,298 wandering dogs In Paris were cup.
tured, and In the same year there were
346 cases of hydrophobia. From that
time until 1W8 the annual .capture of
dogs in Pitrlslan streets varied from
10.000 to 16 OCO. and the number of cases
of ' hydrophobia diminished from 346 to
!W. Since 19f8 the number of captures
has a vers (red only r.,000 per year (because
people hnve learned that the law Is to he
strictly enforced all the time, and not
capriciously), onrt last yenr the number
of cases of hydrophobia 'was reduced to
14. In 1901 222 persons ' were bitten by
dogs In Paris; In 1904, 87; In 1911, only ?.
The fact that a persistent enforcement
of the law, by the capture of every
vagrant dog, is the cause of tHis immense
reduction of the danger is clearly proved
by the experlenre of some other French
towns where the authorities have beon
negligent, for it Is not everywhere In
France that they do these things better
then elsewhere. In places where the law
Is not strictly enforced there has been
an Increase of hydrophobia, and, Hrtce
the danger is reflected upon the capital
through the contracting of hydrophobia
by tho dotfg which the Parisian lovers of
canine companions take into the country
with them, the authorities In Paris are
willing upon the other municipalities
everywhere to enforce the law as rigor
ously as they do. If this Is done, and
J it is not unlikely to be done. It seems
certain that the dog danger throughout
all France will be reduced to a minimum.
The extent of the evil to be combated
Is
registered canine population or Kraneo 19
no less than 3,800. jOO' That means about
one dog for every ten men, women and
children.
I do not know the dog population of the
T'nited Wates, but at least 1 hope it Is
less that that of France. If, unfortun
ately, It Is projKirtionately as great, then
we must have 9,000.000 dogs!
But, at any rate, the French author
ities, and particularly those of Paris,
By UARRKTT P. 8ER1S.
Aug. 20. The Bee have shown us how the nuisance and
danger may be effectually dealt with. i ?
remember that many years ago. when,.,
there was much public excitement about ,.
hydrophobia, a dog-catching ervlca wap,
organized in New York which produced -,
a rapid decrease In the number of street .'
wandering dogs as long as It was en-
forced. But who sees any capturing of ,
dogs In New York now? When I left.',
the city a few weeks ago I know that
Brooklyn, at least, was overrun with,',,
dogs. Again and again I saw men and
women making a pretense of leading out"
their dogs with leashes, but releasing
them and letting them run as soon as )
they turned. the corner. Unmuzzled dogs
In the street were a common sight. ,
Have our wise aldermen abrogated the
dog ordinances, or is the trouble simply
that t no official takes the pains to en
force them? Hero Is a good , subject!'1
for a letter by Mr. Gaynor. In the mean-'
time children are bitten and torn by'
dogs, and the danger from hydrophobia"
Is allowed to Increase.
And what Is the use of a dog anyhow?
When men lived by hunting they had
some general usefulness. In the country,
and In the hunting field, they still serve '
a certain purpose. But their' supposed1 1
usefulness as guardians has' been vastly-'
exaggerated, for every thief knows' 100'
ways to still a dog. In the city they are
neither useful nor ornamental. ' Idle rich '
people may find some amusement for
empty brains by dressing up dogs in "
silks and ribbons, or teaching them to -
sit at the table. But Is a richly dressed
woman leading a couple of combed, "
blanketed and waddling dogs by strings -that
get entagled with the legs of passers-by,
who have - something better to .
do. an encouraging spectacle for those '
who believe In the upward progress of i
mankind? Are her charms Increased by.
her barking companions?
IT-
I New Type of Street
1
The New York Railway company's sue-
cessful experiment with the center en--:
trance steplcss car has led the company ,
to try a new venture, a double-deck carv-
The first car of this model will beatf .
the number 6.0CO and will be tried out on",
a Broadway line. The new tenter en-X
trance douhle-decker etepless car will coer
7,O00. If the' public gives It a cordM.i
reception 150 cars of that type, will be
ordered. ' - ,-s:
Car No. 6,000 is now awaiting Us trial -trip
In the company's yards at Thirds,
avenue and Ninety-eighth street. It Is
a center entrance stepless car with two
decks. Tho new car's ground floor plan
Is like that of the stepless. At each end
of the Interior there are two branch! j
stairways at right angles to the car'ij;
length lending to the second story.' - r.C
On the upper deck the seats are ar
ranged In two long back-to-back rowa
In the center of the floor space so that
the passengers will sit facing out. Thlh"
plan allows the first story ceiling at the
middle to be made higher by curving it
up undtr the seats on the second floor.
Both compartments, as J. S. Doyle. thJ
company's superintendent of car equips'
nunt, calls the two stories, are convert"
ble for summer use, especially the upper,
deck, which Is to be merely railed ifi"
during the hot months. This and theT
fact that It Is well above the street level,
will make the second floor a fine strategic
cat point for sightseers. Smokers, too..'
will be confined to the floor above. Tha
Cooke exhaust ventilating system has
been Installed to draw off the smoke from
this all-year smoker's second heaven. , .
The douljle-deck car will have a seat
Ing capacity of eighty-eight passengers
and a maximum capacity of 171. The
ordinary MtF-nlffla car ran spat nnlv flftv.
Hhown by the simple fact that the onP, a ,ong cloMd car haa room fof onl-
thirty-six seated passengers and a long
open car has fifty seats. r The weight of
the new car a .seated passenger will be
less than 50 pounds. New York Sum
ventilated rooms show the effect in
nnlv U-rlnkla f n.,H u unlan ismi nA vnln. nlu . . i . ,
on the tare outt thirl. o,i t , 1 ' e hicrb ana mannerisms, for grown-
" ine.raff q . tnlck and lPt !t remain to build up the body, give It -rood fj.id. uDa mak fn..
I so wiuiuieu 1(J.
M 1 1 M
n lor naii an nour; men wash off with
warm water, massage again quickly and
finish off with a bath In very cold water.
Many lines are formed In the face elm-
exercise and plenty of fresh air.
The fikln of a woman who doe aot get
plenty of good air wrinkle quickly and at
an early age. Women who sleep In badly
caaacnes also cause wrinkles, and
naturally the cause of these wrinkles
must be removed before anything Is done
to the skin itself.
Pointed Paragraph. ,
Self-mane men sometimes need a lot of
alterations. .
Uneasy lies the head that wears no'
hair In flv time.
The gas meter has more feet than sny -other
animate object. . ..
You may have noticed 'that "high fly:
ers" never display wings. . . ,;;
The target Is never lacking if a man.
has money to throw at the birds.
Dancing would be awfully tiresome !t
it came under the head of work.
By falling to do things you don't Bb
to do you will never accomplish much.
It sometimes happens that when '
man's wife die he loses his only visible
means of support.
Everything on earth has its use. hut
It Is probably just as well that we
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