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Oct. 34 , 1909
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bo long as men praise that type; but
it is a cheering sign of the timesth'at
women are becoming more and more
self-reliant, and that men are more
and more learning to respect them be
cause they respect themselves.
Letter Writing.
There are few thing's which more
completely "give away" a woman than
the letters she sends out of her home.
Every letter bears upon its face the
impress of the one who has written it
Let it always say of you, then, "She is
a lady a woman of refinement"
Smooth white paper, of whatever
size you like best Of course, there
are "fads" in letter paper, as in evr
erything elsoj but wo are considering
plain common sense now. Let it bo
ruled, or unruled; as you prefer; all
the sheets of one size; neatly written
upon, with good black or blue-black
ink; free from ink blots, interlinings,
or erasures; carefully folded; and
showing no "finger-marks." Always
write your name and address very
legibly and complete.
When closing your letter, avoid af
fectation. Sign your full name, thus,
Mary Ellen Lane; if writing, to a
stranger, one should place before her
name, in parenthesis, Miss, or Mrs., as
the case may require. It is also per
fectly proper to place below your sig
nature, enclosed in parenthesis, your
"married"' namethus, (Mrs. John
Lane"). If not enclosed fn paren
thesis, then place it below, and to the
left of your signature.
In closing business letters, a formal
phrase should be used "Very truly,"
"Very sincerely," or something of such
character. In social correspondence,
more cordial, or even affectionate, clos
ings may be used. Some ladles strong
ly object to the phrase "Your obedient
servant," or "Yours respectfully," as
placing the writer in a position of in
feriority. Many women who are, in. some way,
prominently before the public, while
their husbands are not, sign themselves
thus: Helen Howard-Lane, with the
"Mrs." or "Miss" in parenthesis,
though that is hardly necessary, as
the hyphenated name will usually be
taken as belonging to a married lady.
If Helen Howard-Lane should sign
herself simply "Mrs. John Lane," her
identity would be lost, and the ques
tion would arise as to which particular
John Lane's wife she was.
A letter should not only be neatly
NO DRUGS
Jait Proper Food and. Beat
The regular user of drugs to relieve
Ke pain is on tne wrong tracK inna tho
v, cause; and remedy it by proper food
ahdquit drugs for temporary relief
or you will never get well.
A minister's wife writes: "Three
yaars ago, while living at Rochester,
N. Y., where my husband was pastor
one oE the city churches, I was
tly reduced from nervous prostra
iand anaemia and was compelled
to a well-known eastern sanitar-
for my health. My stomach was
shape from badly selected food;
an habitual user of Corbonate
agnesla and my physicians made
endeavor to break up this most
laging habit, but all to no pur-
1
the sanitarium Iwas given Grape-
its and learned the value of the
)d. I used it continuously, eating
at nearly every meal and my re-
Bovery was rapid. Its use enabled me
ftp eat and digest food and to give up
'the drug hault and I am now com
pletely restored to good health,
At the present time I am ahle to at
tend to my household and family du
ties, pursue music which was former
ly my profession, besides reading and
studying, all of which Lwas totally
unable to do at the time referred to."
Name given "by Postum Co., Battle
Creek,Mich,
written, but care should be taken that
all words are spelled correctly, all
sentences finishedno "left outs' and,
as nearly as possible correctly punc
tuated, so that there may be no ques
tion as to the meaning of your phrases
and sentences. There is really v6ry
little excuse now-a-days for poor
spelling or crippled punctuation.
Remember, letters "tell tales," and
they bear a strong, though silent wit
ness for, or against you, your intelli
gence, montal and moral culture and
capacity, habits of order and neatness,
or lack of them, reliability, good tem
per, unselfishness or the reverse, and
in fact, your letters represent your
self, unmistakably, and an ordinarily
sharp critic can "size you up" at once
by looking over one of your letters.
H. W. McV.
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A Cate ol Nerves.
This is a story told by a Plttsburger
just returned from the east to the
Pittsburg Dispatch:
I was visiting a friend whose homo
is In the suburbs of Philadelphia. I
was one of many guests. I arrived so
late in the evening that I failed to
meet them all.
In the early morning I was awak
ened by a cry of fire. I got out with
out going through the formality of
dressing. There were others like me.
There are some invitations to get out
that do not permit of ceremony.
The flames were eating their way
rapidly through the lower part of the
house and the whole place was filled
with smoke.
A telephone message was sent to tho
city and the department arrived in
time to save the house from utter ruin.
Nobody was hurt and the financial
loss was fully covered by insurance.
But this is the incident that will
live longest in my memory: Some
score of guests were scattered over the
lawn in various stages of undress uni
form. It was after I had tried to an
swer a dozen or more excited ques
tions that a woman said suddenly:
"And who are you?"
"I'm John Blank, and I've just come
from Pittsburg," said 1.
She looked at my night shirt and at
my bare feet "Like that?" she asked.
And the fun of it is that she hadn't
the slightest intention of making a
joke, It was simply a case of nerves.
Bat Soon to be.
Miss Ascum "Wasn't that Mr.
Bonds I saw you walking with last
night?"
Miss Coy "Yes."
Miss Ascum "He's a landed free
holder of the country, isn't he?"
Miss Coy "Well er he isn't quite
landed yet" Philadelphia Press.
Teo Clever for the Lawyer.
- At a recent trial at Auburn, Pa,,
one of the-witnesses was a country
man, unused to the ways of law,
but quick, as it proved, to under
stand its principles. After a severe
cross-examination, the counsel for the
governor paused, and then, putting on
a lool? of severity, exclaimed.
"Mr. Wilidns, has not an effort been
made to induce you to tell a different
story?"
"A different story from what I told,
sir?"
"That Is what I mean."
"Yes, sir; several persons have tried
to get me to tell a different story
from what I have fold, but they
couldn't"
"Now, sir, upon your- oath, I wish
to know who those persons are."
"Well, I guess you've tried as hard
as any of them."
Items of Interest.
Ohio has a trolley line which has. in
troduced sleeping cars' on its long
runs. ,
The price of western farm land has J
risen In a markdd degree within two
years.
A cow's hide produces 35 pounds of
-leather, and that of a horse about 18
pounds.
The king of England who could not
speak tho language of his Kingdom was
Qeorgo I.
'ino first meerschaum pipe was
smoked at Pest in 1723. It is still In
tho museum of that town.
In California alfalfa sends Its roots
20 feet Into tho soil and produces throe
crops of hay a season.
Canada has most holidays of any
British colony. Including Sundays
Canadians havo 95 holidays yearly.
Tho motto, "DJou ct Mon Droit," was
first assumed by Edward III. of Eng
land when ho took tho tltlo of King
of France.
"Robinson Crusoe" was tho first
novel with illustrations over published
in England. This was in August, 1719.
The illustration was a map of tho
world.
General Burgoyne's headquarters in
tho Saratoga' campaign in 1777 at San
dy Hill, Washington county, N. Y., is
about to be razed to make way for
factories.
William IV. was at tho time when
he succeeded to the throne the first
William of Hanover, the second Will
iam of Iroland and the third William
of Scotland.
Signor Gallmbert, minister of posts
of Italy, Is projecting an interesting in
ternational envelope, for uso through
out the postal union, permitting a post
paid reply.
"Your Majesty" as a royal tltlo was
assumed in England in 1527 by Henry
VIII. Tho title before that was "Your
Grace" or "Your Highness" for the
king or queen.
In return for a monopoly of the
preparation of opium In China a Ger
man firm at Shanghai has offered the
Chinese government an annual pay
ment of over $5,000,000. ,
There still flourishes at Dundee.
Scotland, a tree which was dedicated
as a "tree of liberty" moro thaa a
century ago during the ferment caused
by tho French revolution.
Henry VIII. was the first to assume
the title of king of Ireland. The title
king of Great Britain was assumed by
James VI. of Scotland when he became
James. I. of England.
In 1890 the United States had 106
button factories; in 1900, 238, with a
capital of $4,210,000, using annually
material worth $2,803,000, turning out
a product worth $7,695,000.
In the lower depths of tho ocean
some of the fishes go blind, while oth
ers develop huge eyes. Some are so
constructed that they can swallow
fishes much larger than themselves.
The purity of Japanese copper ob
tains for it a market all over the
world, It having the highest known
electrical conductivity of any speci
mens of this metal procurable. The
value of the copper exported in 1900
was $6,499,525. Pittsburg Dispatch.
"Colonel" Roosevelt of England.
The London Chronicle prints a ru
mpr that a movement is under way
to make President Roosevelt a colonel
in a British regiment
Precedents, we are told, are being
searched. Of a sort they'are numerous.
King Edward is a "colonel" in Berlin,
Emperor William In St Petersburg,
the czar in Berlin. Even queens are
made honorary colonels the dutlef of
command being assumed by competent
I Will Cure You of
Rheumatism
Elie No AWsey !i Wwtkd.
After 2,000 experiments, 'I havo
learned how to euro Rheumatism. Not
to turn bony joints into llcsh again;
that is impossible. But I can cure tho
disease always, at any stage, and for
ever. I ask for ro money. Simply write
mo a postal and I will sond you an or
der on your nearest druggist ror six
bottles Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Curo,
for every druggist keeps it Uso it
for a month and, if It succeeds, tho
cost Is only $5.50. If it fails, I will
pay tho druggist mysolf.
I havo no samples, because any med
icine that can affect Rheumatism
quickly must bo druggod to tho vergo
of danger. I use no such drugs, and
it is folly to take them. You must
get the disease out of the blood.
My remedy does that, evon In the
most difficult obstinato cases. No
matter how impossible this seems to
you, I know it and take tho risk. I
havo cured tens of thousands of cases
in this way, and ray records show that
39 out of 40 who got six bottles pay
gladly. I havo learned that peoplo in
general aro honest with a physician
who cures them. That is all I ask.
If I fall I don't expect a penny from
you.
Simply write mo a postal card or a
letter. I will send you my book about
Rheumatism, and an order for the
medicine. Tako it for a month, as It
won't harm you anyway. If it fails,
it is free, and I leave tho decision
with you. Address Dr. Shoop, Box 515,
Racine, Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, aro often
cured by one or two bottles. At all
druggists.
deputies. "The president's own" is
therefore theoretically conceivable.
But such "honors" aro not for tho
head of the republic. Tho wonder is
that British journalists can, with all
their recent study of American policies,
so utterly mlstako the American spir
it as to suppose such an appointment
remotely possible. It could never bo
conferred unless the president and the
entire British cabinet had become sud
denly simultaneously daft. New York
World.
Judge Shlras' Story.
Justice Shiras has a collar button
story which ho tells with a great deal
of gusto, says the Chicago Record- '
Herald. A man in Pittsburg, where
ho "used to live, had a wife who was
complaining of dyspepsia, and she
heard of a certain remedy that was
put up In capsules. Her husband
bought a dozen at a drug store, and
brought them home in a pill box. At
1-9 same time he bought a dozen col
lar buttons, made of a metallic compo
sition that looked very much like
pearl, and tho druggist gave him a pill
box similar, to that In which the cap
sules were put up to carry them in.
He' took both boxes homo, handed
them to his wife, and the same day
she began to take the medicine. After
she had taken twelve doses she was
entirely cured, and advertised the won
derful remedy all over the. neighbor
hood. About this time her husband
lost his collar button, and, opening his
pill box, found it empty. A brief in- '
vestlgation .showed that the capsules
in the other pill box were still there,
.and that his wife had swallowed
twelve composition collar buttons, two
a day for six days, and been entirely
.cured of dyspepsia.
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