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Little Mary's Essays.
By DOI-.OiHY 1X.
The ortermobile ia a kind of wagon
with a sewing machine contraption In
front and emoll behind. It a I no goes
very fast when It goes, and It mops very
still when it stops,
and you have to
nay a man five
dollars to come
and project with
It Insldes and teli
you why.
In ancient timet
there were no or
termobllea and
people used to
drive horses for
pleaaure, and It
took Ml day to go
twenty milea, but
thla was a long
tlma ago, as much
aa twenty - five
years, I expect.
My mamma says
that a ortermobile
Is the best way
to got Into aoclety. My papa says that a
ortermobile la the quickest way to got to
the poor house. I do not know which la
right. Perhapa they both are.
It uaed to be that only rich people kept
ortermoblles, but my papa aaya that now
anybody can get an ortermobile thsrfcaii
raise a second mortgage.
There ate a great many different kinds
of ortermoblles. There are red ortermo
blles and blue ortermoblles and yellow
ortermoblles. but whatever kind of a or
termobile you've got you always buy a
different make the next time you buy
one. You also brag about the kind of
ortermobile you've got while you've got
it, but when you sell It you knock it, and
aay It was nothing but a junk wagon.
The ortermobile is very useful In get
ting people from place to place quickly.
It also furnishes you something to talk
about, so if you have got an 'ortermobile
you are never silent In company, for you
sit up and toll how many miles you have
driven, and what speed you made, and
how the police liked to have caught you
for going a million milea an hour. And
folks have got to listen to you because
they want to tell how many miles they
went in their ortermobile.
My father says the ortermobile is also
most useful as a fool killer, and that
every year It rids the world of a lot of
Pin-headed idiots that would be In sensi
ble people's way If there were no orter
mobile wrecks of Joy riders.
Ortermoblles make men very fierce, like
raging Hons, and say cuss words, but
they makes ladles very patient like an
tels. When we go out in our ortermobile, and
all of a audden it says- p-s-t--ss-s, and
stops, and my papa gets out of the ma
chine, and goes peeking around at its in
nards with an expressjon, of damn all
over htm, none of us dast ask htm what
la the matter.
And when the wheel plcka up a tack
and my papa has to put In a new tube,
we sit Just as still as mice because it is
not safe to speak to a man when' he Is
pumping a tire. The reason there Is al
ways a crowd around the man who Is
putting a shoe on an ortermobile wheel
la because he always looks mad enough
eat folka alive, and they want to be
there to aoe him do it.
When my papa la at home he's good
and kind, and minds what my mamma
says to him. but when we are In the or
termobile he snapa her head off If aha
speaka to htm. I do not know why this
is so, but it Is so.
' Ortermobiles make you very popular.
Tou never know how many people love
you and want to be with you until you
havo an ortermobile.
That s all at present about ortermo
blles. Leston in Scientific '
Complexion Renewing
Everyone has a beautiful skin under
neath the one exposed to view. Bear that
In mind and It will be easier to understand
the correct principle In acquiring a lovely
complexion. Nature Is constantly shedding
the top skin in flaky particles like dan
druff, only much amallor in else. In ab
normal conditions, or In advancing age,
these particles are not shed aa rapidly aa
In robust youth. The longer they remain
th more soiled or faded they become
that's the Immediate cause of a "bad com
plexion." It has been discovered Uiat ordinary
mercollsed wax. to be had at any drug
store, will ahsorb these worn-out particles.
The absorbtion, while hastening Nature s
work, goes on gradually enough to cause
no inconvenience. In a week or two the
transformation la complete. The fresh,
heslthy-hued. youthful undersktn Is then
wholly tn evidence. You who are not sat
isfied with your complexions should got an
ounce of mercolised wax and try this treat
ment. I'se the wsx nlahtlv. like cold
cresm. wsshlng it off mornings.-Advertisement.
Folly of Hav ng
a Confidante
Hy BEATRICE PA in FAX
Women have a sad habit of discussing
their most Intimate affairs with relatives. !
friends, and even mere acquaintances. )
They tell of their worries, their home
life, their little triumphs and defeats
they discuss their finances, and In nine
canes out of ten wofully . misplace their;
confidences. If you 'carnot keep your '
own secrets, how can you suppose that
any one else will more carefully guard I
them?
Marie writes me as follows: "I had a
dear friend a woman almost old enough
to be my mother. And aa 1 have no
mother, I told her all my seorets. And
now my cousin, with whom I live. Is
very sngry because I did not make her
my confidante. I don't like to tell her
about my affairs, because I know she
tells her husband. And although I have
nothing to hide, 1 don't like to have
every one know all about my plans and
smhlt(ons. How shall 1 find a safe con
fidante?'' . .
My dear Marie, aince your m&ther is
not at your side to share your thoughts
and plans, there is no safe confidante
for you.' It ts a feminine falling to want
to talk things over. Don't yield to the
destre to hear your own Voice discussing
your most sacred and secret affairs.
For if they are of any Interest at all. the
woman to whom you tell them, will prob
ably feel the same desire that la actuat
ing you and will give them a little more
publicity. Nor will you flnil men much
safer confidants.
If you tell In the hope of getting ad-j
vice from your confidante that depend
ance will give you a certain guarantee
of safety. For there Is something lit the
appeal, for help that calls out the sense
of honor which all humans have in
greater or lesa degree. But that ia a
different matter. If you want advice go
to the most sympathetic and sensible per
son you know and tell her whatever she
needs to know In order to help you ad
Just your affairs.
But if your deem in merely a con
fidante" a sort of safety valve believe
me 'when I tell you that there Is no
safety there. If you tell under promise
of secrecy your confidante la likely to
tell some one else under the same mis
leading and mlsgutdfd premise, and so on
and on your little secret will go until It
is fairly public property.
If you are not sufficiently wise to keep
your rtffslrs to yourself, why should you
expect to be sufficiently wise to so Judge
human nature aa to select a reliable
confidante?
If you find your affaire so interesting
that you have to hear your story told,
why . should you not expect your con
fidante to have as much literary sense
M you have? A good story secures In
teresting Isteners. Why then ahould your
confidante npt yield to the desire to pub
lish the circumstance of which you have
made her aware?
Even If you are not directly betrayed
by your falae confidant the story Is
likely to be toUI without names and so
presently It will circle to some one who
can "put two and two together," and
tell to whom It applies.
A secret seldom concerns one person
alone. The affairs of , which you tell In
all probability concern at least one other
person beside yourself. So In the process
of telling you are Violating a confidence
aud relating a secret that Is not all yours
to tell and your own standard of honor
will afford your confidante an excuse not
to keep faith with ytui.
There are aame perfectly honorable
people In the world. Vou may find one
and safely confide our affaire to her
Or you may come across a rhatterbox
who simply cannot keep a eeret, or
aome ene with a bit 0r malice who will
uee your own worda agalnat you. Tou
may Inspire a lack of faith In aome one
whoe good opinion you long to p.ese
Vou may trust since you cannot keep
your own affairs to yourself.
aiaho iriends with yourself. Think
your affairs over sansly and calmly j
nut unless you have a mother or a de
voted sister or some one who has a
right to know your affairs, keep them
to yourself. Don't be a chatterbox.
Keep a few things to yourself. Tou will
be heartily glad some day if you have
cultivated the habit of keeping- your own
confidence. Be true to yourself and you !
will be able to be loyal to friendship and I
love as well.
.Net Ksactly Ktraage.
Iw Payson Tou sure got swindled on
thst suter! I told you not to buy any
thing from a atranger.
.Kl? I?.dd H stranger. seen
thst feller somewhere about sen lears
ago -Judge. .
Waere. Igaeraaea Is Blisa.
Waa that "our Intended that you erel
a kins with?" ' I
Yes, D-il he hasn t ct rai.glil on."
Ufa.
THK HEK: OMAHA, WKDXKSDAY. KEPTKMBKR 2, l!U.
.May Ncrlch of the Woman National
Life Having lea no. ia i twlmmer In a.
family of nlmimm. Cup collectlnx al
modal winning havo dofccnded as an art
from a an-yoar-oWl brother to IS-veat-old
May, ami im Catharine, aged 14 year,
and France, a wee sir of S yeais. sre
beginning to distinguish themselves by
feats in the water.
Practically th? only form of exercise
May Nerlch takes is swimming and Its
sister art oivlng. She Is a wiry, alender
girl who is never sick or compelled to
ehrink work or wrap up her throat
against the winds of winter; and sum
mer' 'greatest humidity does not wear
out her nerves and energy.
Thla is the way the girl champion
discusses her favor I to diversion:
"When I was about 7 years old I began
to do a little more, than wade around the
shallow end of the tank where I went to
keep cool In summer. 1 would hold on
to the steps and (isildle a stroke or two,
and before long I could swim several
btrokes. I have been swimming for ton
years now. Tlist is the only form of
atMtlcs I know and It keeps me In
splendid condition.
"ily ambition la to get to be the cham
pion of the league. Speed ought to help
me to be a real life-saver.
"What awlmming has done for my lire
has boon to make me calm and not a bit
nervous. I can eat anything. Y am al
wass ready to do a day'a work and enjoy
"I don't think awlmming makes you
either fat. or thin. It keeps you normal.
Tour musoles develop and your chest gets
broad and deep, with room for healthy
lungs and deep breathing.
"I never get out of breath running up
stairs or dancing. I don't tire easily at
work. I don't catch colds, and I am
seldom sick at all. I never have Indiges
tion, and I think swimming has done It
all. It Just makes you -perfectly nor
mal, so you can do the work and play
you ought to do. and enjoy them both.
"No one needs any lessons In swim
ming. My mother has just decided to
learn to swim.- aa father and six of us
children all but the baby-swim, and
mother simply got some water wlnga to
hold her up till she got confidence and
learned the aimple breast stroke. The
younger you begin the more self-confidence
you have, and girls and boys who
grow up ss regulsr water babies sre gen
erally well and strong.
"Swimming la a great exercise for the
poor. It costs very little, and every one
can reach beachca or tanka and Indulge
In thla sport."
Bring a champion and winner of throe
medals In the T,lf Saving league has not
Interfered with Miss Nert'h's simplicity
or her ability to do feminine tanks. Hie
Is In the employ of a fsshlonahle dress
maker In season and still finds time tn
make all her own pretty, simple clothes
and her hats as well. And she Is fully aa
proud of her pretty little dresses aa she
' ,,le array of ellver cups on the piano,
The force and vigor with which this
slip of a girl saya she la going to be
champion of the league make you feel
aure aha will accomplish what she has
set out to d. 1'erhsps the smooth exer
cise of swimming has given he- poise and
force of character, and perhapa her
,"M"tth of character has made her forge
ta ,h fron.t ln ,"r1mmln PW: But
little May Nelch la bound to be a ueesas
at whatever she does.
Use is. Roil life.
Why Is It thit a hanker on the stage
always hss muttoiK h wiiiskers?"
Why docs the stage lawyer alttsys
jtstry his paper In I' is hat'.' A real law
' er never does right.
, J . 1
tli.gulshed bj
Why Is tho oisge reporter al) dis-
notebook? A rea
1 reporter never airle one. -I'iti bui gh
j rust
Gowns
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J J -: i ,: M Y - lite:
v life jBW'f-. 3
This Hklrt, with its lines of utuall box
plaits, is a forerunner of the unrest that Is
going to give tig something totally new in
fall models. With thin plaited skirt the
pretty, French woman who Is spongor for it
wears a modified sailor . blouse. Collar and
cuffs are of white broadcloth, piped In the
sage green taffeta of which the dress is
fashioned.
A flat tie of the broadcloth slips through
a band of the taffeta and breaks the line of
the waist In front.
By GARRETT P. SKUVIafs.
Ilfe in an old American village! If you
sre of New Kngland or Middle Hiate an
cestry and have passed the noon mark,
seeing your sun begin to bow to the lon;
afternoon descent,
then, probably, you
know what - that
life and Its scenes
and characters
were.
It Is something
which we shall not
behold again, but
the memory of
which should be
enshrined in every
American heart be
cause It was typi
cal of the spirit
mm -A
1 '-i!
j that made this
great country.
Those who saw imd shsred that life pos
sess a vividness of acquaintance with Ita
peculiarities that cannot be conveyed tu
a younger generation which never aaw It.
Novels fall to reproduce the IniprecsUm
because they have to many sophisticated
I and fictitious elements In their romposl
i lion.
! The nearest approach that 1 have seen
( to a true rendering of the attriosuliere and
; the characteristic incidents of lite In an
old American village, of the Middle Mate
I type, is an unpretending work of my old
erhonlmate, Ionald McMartln. eaq., of
the Johnston n X. V.i bsr. I ius.-lf
(knew something of the things, the
j thoughts, the humors and the people thnt
I he describes, or, lather, that lie allows
to picture MieniMelves In his nsrrstlve,
and 1 feel the foice of truth In the riepli'.
tion.
There la nothing "literary" aboul the
story, yet it Is a tery useful kind of liter
aturo for those who know how to read
and appraise It.
But thla is not a book review that I
am writing:. It Is mtrelv a g"nipse into
the receding pas that hss flashed upon
my mind's eve In perusing Mr. M Mar
tin's pages. There must still be tlioun.wuis
of rsadera who remember Central New
Tork as It was when the charm of tl:e
simple old days et rested upon It That
charm did not begin to dissolve swsy
until' after the civil wsr bad brought a
flood of change upon the whole c ountry.
I No more typical and i o more romantic
old American village thana Johnstown,
i N". T., could have been Imagiwed ft was
j founded by "!r William Johnson, that big.
isouled Irish baronet, who did so much to
shape the destinies of New York before
the Revolution; charmed the hearts of
the fierce Mohswic chiefs like a msster
eoniuror. fsmilisrly held pow-wos with
them, entertained Ihem In his bsronlal
of Artistic Taste and Effective Style
Nothing more charming for the week end
could be designed than this Paris creation of
midnight blue charnietipe. The long, fitted
sleeves are set Into stitched buttonholes and
trimmed by false buttonholes and silk but
tons in exactly the fashion used on either
side of the deep V-shaped cut of tho simple
blouse.
The waist Is filled In by a waistcoat of
white charmeuse following the V In Us cut.
A draped girdle falls at the right side in
long tftSHi'liul ends.
Old American Villages
residence. sllov-d them when they wora
In a fire water humor to hack the rose
wood banisters of his broad slslrwsy
with their toinshawks 'the murks romaln
there today), then married an Indian
maiden, In a repentant mood, and finally,
tradition avers, died of a broken heart
he auso he foresaw the awlft coming war
for the Independence of tho Colonica.,
In touch with I he Adirondack wilder
nesa, Johnstown, when I knew It, In th'i
late alxtlea, KIM had a kind of leather
atocklng air about It that wn Infinitely
fascinating to a boy's mind. It wus fa
mous for Its Judges, its lawyers. Its pub
llii characters. It court trials, ita acad
emy, it huntera and flsharment and its
buckskin gloves. Its great popular re
creation waa a tr'o. with title and canoe,
into tho nrtr'.r "North Wooda." Ita fa-
The Heavens
My VIIJ,1AM K. ItK.tiK.
Aa Ouial a narrowly nuxseil gelling
even a glimpse, of the solar e iu.!e of the i
?1st of August, It will he .lust as unfor-!
tunate In regai d to the lunar eclipse on
the morning of the 4th of the present
month, when W rr cent of the moon'a
dlamotor will enter the esrlh's thsdow.
The moon enters unuriilia that morn
ing at ( id and sets ;or us ni b 40. before
It ten begin to enter (lie shadow ut : 1 1.
We must theefoie. atrllie this nilure
also off our list. j
The sun rises on the let, l.'tli. Aiih at
5 51, ).((,. t; y, und sets st i:57, i 'M, ii (U,
thus making the day'a length 13 hours tl .
minutes. IS hours 2 minutes. 11 hours 4J
minutes, a decrease of 1 hour IT milium
during the month. The sun is on time on ,
tho 1st, according to a sun dial, t minute
fast on the 1Mb and lit minutes fast on
the Hh. On stands id time It In 2. lit, II
minutes slow on thes datos. On the rl
at 3.83 p.- m. the sun Is ot the autumnal
equinox and enters Libra, the rtcsles,
when It rises duo cast snd sets d ie west.
According to the sun dial, It ii.-s and
seta st o'clock exactly. According to
standard time, however, and le suse It Is
then sbuut 7 minutes fssl. It rises on that
riav at f ' and ar-ta at 71 Thla ir.skes
that day I minutes longer than 1- hours
on account of refraction, which acceler
ates sunrise and retards sunset.
Venus and Jupiter, the must brilliant of
the planets, are botti our evening slsr
during the month, A'enus in the south
west and Jupiter in the soutliesst. Venus
sets nu the IKh at :r, p in. On the lMh
I', is farthest from the sum-1, degrees.
' vorite heroes were stump speaker, Jury
spell binders snd - riflemen, who could
I mske a hsnd-molded bullet stop a hear at
1 forty rods.
, In sll old American vllfsges that had
I the honor of being "county sata" the
center of interest waa the court house
and" the trials thst periodically occurred
' there.
Mr. McMsrtli. gives a picture of the In-
terlor of the old Johnstown lourt house
I that, ia like a moving photograph:'
"Oo In with me for a moment. We are
boya together. A burglnr Is being 4rtd.
The floor is Vovered with sawdust four
Inches deep, and peach (Its, pesnut shells
and old tobacco quids are found In It,
We find other boya thnre about our age
peddling molassea candy and apples and
in September
It Is then a perfect half moon .n the
telescope. After thi dale It will take on
the crescent form.
Huturn Is the morning slsr. rising onj
the h'th at 1 : a. in. . 1
Mars Is invisible In the evenin? tw
light.
The moon is full on the th at S ol a. m.,
In last quarter on the 12th at li t a. m.. !
new on the 11th at 3.31 u. m . and in thei
fliat quarter on the UMi al :M p. m. On
the Id and 2'Hh It It In injunction wlthj
Jupiter, on the lr.tli with ."aturn. and onj
the !'! with Venus. I
Oeighton I'nHeiMly.
Advice to Lovelorn
ATnn! ruanx ;
Olll'' 44111,
Dear Alissj Kalrfax: I am IV years of
age and am In this country about eight
nontha. I left a young lady behind me
in the old country, and I am deeply in
l.e with her. I have written to her ones
a tortrilglit sines 1 carne here, and re
ceived lepllea to every letter no to a
moi.th ago. Hinee then I have not heard
from her. AXMOl 8
(live her the benefit of the doubt. jhe
may be sick or away. Write axaln and
again until you do hear.
I t'anaut.
Dear Miss Kalrfax: I have sum hul tor
Tile which I have caught and killed bv
"slug camphoi. t'ould you give me ah
a (.drew where f could sell them'.'
A CONHTANT KEADKII.
I cannot, but you might find on by
writing to Prof. Keaeey at the University
of Ncbraaka.
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Marine blue taffeta la uaed for this after
noon frock that Is produced by a French
dressmaker who makes a (polnt of conform
ing to modest American taste, it has tho
welcome feature of fullneua at the feet, so
It does very well for the practical service
needed from a week-end frock. The waUt
Is a Jumper, with plain, narrow revers of
bayadere satin, striped In sulphur, dark
blue, taupe and cream. The underskirt Is a
wide envelope rrpsising widely at the front
and edged In a bias fold.-r-OLIVETTE.
peal and m.U And tho constablca have
long Muck oles that every little whlin
thy pound on tho floor to make every
body hut the Judgea and lawyers behave
thmiiHclvea. And thnre are three Judges,
one of them, the principal Judge, a ape
dully educated Judge, and two specially
uneducated ' Judges, sometimes called
baaswood. or block, . judges, being old
country Justices of the peace. These bass
wood JuJkcs, as we understand It, are
to help the muln, principal Judge out
when he gets stuck on a big question of
law. We see a box for the prisoner. He
Is In Irons, to distinguish him from the
lawyers. Another box ia for tha witness.
The court room Is crowded. One of the
lawyers in the ense comes late and finds
it difficult, to get inside the bar. It is
James M. riudley, a leading lawyerp
tho Cay unU r, large, portly man. Vtfu,,1,
the crowd lilt ll in up, and ne la thrown
oct? the bur.
"We bovs have often noard about
'throwing a lawyer over the bar.' but we
didn't know what it meant. We know
now, becauf " we eee It done."
Ono of the greatest Judges that NW
York -.tuts vrr-Itad, Daniel Cady, thj
falher of K.trulicth fady Stanton, the
orlglnnl Amerlcun champion of women's
rights, pr-xldeil In thnt aame court which
has Just In on pictured and amid Juat the
same runoumllngs ard Incidents.
Is It not worth while to preserve the
memory of these tilings? The old Atner
Icsn viMaae baa passed awsy. together ,
wilh the old red-.a luted American coun
try .vlico! house, but both will live; tn
their progeny, a long as the republic en
dures.
An Easily Prepared Hot
Weather Meal
Vou needn't atund over a hot stove
thla weather cooking long-drawn-out
meat dishes. Try Faust (Spaghetti fre
quently and take things eusier.
The change will benefit you and your
family' health. In the first place. Fauac
r-'paKhrttl Is far more nutritious than
meat. Jt is rich ln gluten. It has an ad
ditional advantage over meat ln that it
la net heating.
8o easily prepared, alao. Try a lpa
clietti dinner once In a while. Cook a
whole package of f'auat Spaghetti with
scuiit rd ripe tomatoea. 8ei ve with pow
u red cheese and bread and butter. 'I' ll
for a king."' the folks will say when
they're through. Vend for new recipe
book. Buy Kaust Spaghetti from yuur
grocer 4e and lie packages.
MAO.L BROS. 1 1
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