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I CHINESE WOMEN'S HARD LOT
Despite Crippled Feet and Heavy Toil
They Remain Cheerful All
a : the Time
Dr. Charles K. Boys , a mission ,
al'J' at \Veihsien , China , in a letter
received in New York by the
Presbyterian board of foreign
missions , throws some light on the
, , t I condition of the middle class or
y !
, in China. lie :
r" women says
" 'Ve have been employing u
Chinese sewing wonHlu for a
couple of weeks ; , and I have been
much impressed with the cheer
E fulness and force of character
hOW11 ; by these poor creatures t .
condemned to bobble through lifer
r ou feet not much hlI'fI'e1" than a
, ' sheep's hoof. This woman can go
" _ , upstairs only with great dim
( . cultJ' ; she can't run a footlower }
sewing machine without pain , so
our little hand machine is a boon
to her .
. . , . , . . - "Althoucrh cart } ing any . burden )
. is i very painful , in their own homer :
m . ' these have to ' ' '
' women ye carry a
) ) hpuy.y child around with them
. while they do their hOlIsl'work
\ , buttoning the child into the fronT
of their clothing to keep } it warm ) ] )
through the winter. Yet many of
the women have cheerful face
and kindly , smiling eyes very
much like an old southern
m ll11-
\ my , who has seen mUl'h trouble , :
I yet remains cheerful and l'ontent.
This is especially true of the
Christian Chinese women , so
much , so that their neighbors say .
Some magic changes their faces.
, "To-daJ' 1 passed sonic women
t washing clothes iu a little stream
ill native fashion , where they
. crouch for ] yours iu the bitter cold ,
sousing the clothes back and forth
' in the ter-no soap and no
Wash board-lul'ky if they have a
mat or a stone to sit on. Another
heavy task in the fall season is the
, making of wadded garments for
ihe : whole familJ' It is no easy
matter when added to all that a
woman is expected to do. A woman -
an near us tried to commit suicide
last fall because she was asked to
make her husband's uncle's win
l tel' clothes.
, : "These wadded garments
: . . M are
, ungainly looking , but are said tn
I be very comfortable bJ mission ,
a aries who wear them. They art !
' I made of two layers : of muslin ,
; dyed blue 01' black , with a layer 01
; cotton batting between. Each in ,
dividual ears three 01' four of the !
wadded coats and usually ont
" , I pair of trousers , the latter very
loose and baggy .above and very
} tight around the ankle , wherE
, j they are secured bJ' a , strap/ '
) . " CAMPING OUT IN ROCKIES.
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Joys and Sorrows of Strenuous Life
in the wilderness of the
Famous Iountnins.
.t "About dusk you straggle in
! , with trout 01' gam . The camp ,
camp-
" i , keeper lays aside his mending or
his repairing 01' his note-book , and I
airs up the cooking fire.rIhe
smell of broiling and frying and
\ . , boiling arises in the air , " says S. E.
White , in The : Mountains. "By the
dancing flame of the camp-fire you
. eat your third dinner for the day
-in the mountains all meals are
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dinners , and forniiduble ones at
that. The curtain of blackness
draws down close. Through it
shine stars , loom mountains cold
and mistlike in the moon. You tell
stories. You smoke pipes. After
a time the pleasant chill creeps
down from the eternal sno\s.
Some one throws another han l.
rul of pine cones on the fire. Sleep ,
ily you prepare for bed. The pine
cones flare up , throwing their
light in Jour eJes. You turn over
and wrap the soft woolen blllnlwt
close about . your . chin. You wink :
drowsily and at once you are .
asleep. Late iu the nighlt you
awaken to find l Jour nose as cold
aE a. dog's. You open one eJ'c. A
, few coal marks where the fire has
been. The mist mountains have
drawn nearer , they seem to bend
over you in silent con templa tiol1 ,
The moon is sailing high in the
hmtyen. With a sighJou draw the
canvas tarpaulin over Jour head.
Instantly it is morning. "
FOND OF SUNFLOWER SEED
Enormous Amount , Consumed in
Cznr's Country Strikes Visit-
ing French Physician
A French physician , Dr. Mar-
coil , says Leslie's Weekly , statefi'
that one of , the first things which
struck him on his arrival in Rus
sin was tIle enormous quantity o
sunflower seeds consumed in that
( 'oun trJ. The seeds , which arc
oleaginous and have an agreeable -
able taste , are constantly chewed
uJ' the people. Time outer husk i:3 :
detached with the teeth and spat
out. These husks ] are seen scattered .
tered about 011 pavements and
garden walks , ill railway ; car-
I'iages , tramway cars and cabs
and on the floors of restaurants
and private rooms. On days of
public festivity the ground everywhere -
wHere is covered with them as
thickly as the streets of Paris are
strewn with confetti , during tIle
carnival At every street corner
a brisk trade is done with the
seeds ' J' old women. A striking
proof of this l'assioll-for it is
nothing less - of the Russian
peasant is the fact that the czarina -
ilia could think of nothing that
would be more welcome to the . soldiers -
diers in Manchuria , and she is said
to have spent $160 in satisfying
their craving for sunflower seeds.
As the seeds are very cheap , that
sum represents an enormous con-
signment.
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Living RapiaIy
"I tell you , Singleton , you don't
know the joys and felicities of a
contented married life , the happy
flight of years , the long restful
calm of- " ,
"How long have you been mar-
ried ! "
' Jnst a month" - Chicago
tl0Urllal.
Feminine View
He-Doll't ' think Miss \
- you Up-
son carries her head - rather high ! :
She-Yes , poor girl ! I can'T !
help fef ( ling sorry for her. : .
"Feeling sorry for her ! "
"Yes. She has such an awfully
long neck : , you know.-Chicago
Daily News
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A WORD TO THE WISE
Use Climax Chicken reed for little chicks / and you ; will say "I
Iff wonder why I never found ! out about this feed sooncr. ' Send for a . .
book , ilGive thc Little Chicks a Chance. " Corn meal and water arc
V back numbers with this fccd. Put up , sold ruin ! guaranteed by , W
O. P. HECK FALLS CITY ERASKA. .
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" . Sold hy J. H. Miller & son , Merrill ff
" I. . E. Hal'ling , Hamlin , . .
, iI Shildncck 13ros. , Salcm.
I " C. W. Allen , llarada l
" H. U. LalHlolt , huhcrt.
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SOME EPIGRAMS ON WOMEN
Collection of Quaint Sayings from
11Mollentrnve , " a Popular
London PIny.
The woman who knows Greek :
will spend all ] lour and a half in
dressing her hair for a party. I
calcula that if women wore their
hair short a million ullemploJed
hours would be thrown daily upon
the wodd.
Time young couple with the
grains of rice st ill upon them start
blithely across the marriage links
lnl'h depends ! O1 the way the .y m : :
gotiate the first disill \1IiOIl-OI' : ;
bunker !
Passion WillS maids and perseverance -
verance widows.
The rejected lover should never
lose hope. In addressing the lady
his tone should be soft , mellifluous
-a outh wind rustling over
orange trees. Orange trees-not
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cypresses
.A woman acquires logic when
she has a checkbook of her own.
Man is fidde and woman capri-
cious 01' vice versa.
The man who stuns women up in
a sentence is the man whom wonm- '
en can fool with a phrase.
It is a woman's most delightful
quality that she is not interested
in politics.
'Vhat is love ? An electric
spark that flies at irregular I
tangents and ricochets wildly .
from heart to heart. Now it
soars upward and finds a
lodging in the superior brain , then
it descends , boomerang fashion ,
and leaps at the smile of a girl :
Time poets have babbled of love
since the first introduction of
rhyme , philosophers look through
heir i glasses , chemists dissect and
grauuualians parse-but all that
we know 01' need know is that
Cupid is-young.
The woman who is attracted bJ'
the man of the massive brain will
do wisely ! ) to marry his good-look.
ing brother.
THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN
Little Ones Make Remarks That No
GrownUp Person Would
Think Of
What could be mOre simple 01'
more splendidly direct as a compliment .
pliment to a pretty girl than the
small boy's admiring question :
l'Are your eyes new ones ? " No
"grown-up" person could have
thought of that. uA ruminating
animal is one that chews her
cubs"-there might surely be less
thoughtful definitions , says the
Spectator. As for definitions , no
dictionary has ever given anything -
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thing better than "a movable
'ast-a nienic"
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With Cleanly Persons H Soap
Desirable
and Water are
Pompeian Massage Cream
is Essential
You do not wear fresh underwear .
wear for "the looks of [ it , " but to
enjoy the sense of cleanliness.
Clean outer garments answer for
appearances.
Soap and water will take the
surface grime off the face [ , but Pom-
peian Cream alone will take the
hidden dirt from the pores--the
dirt that makes the complexion
sallow , muddy and oily.
Pompeian Mass ge Cream can-
not improve nature but it permits
nature to do its perfect work-
it makes the pores throw off the
dirt and impurities , and it gives a
I Sense of cleanliness unknown'before
its use. Does not-cannot-pro-
mote the growth of hair on the
face.
For ) arc ut Killg- Pharmacy.
There is a delightful note of the
night nursery in the beginning of
a girl's essay on hOrs : "The boy
is not an animal , hut they can bp
heard to a considerable distance ; "
equaled , perhaps , in its splendid
simplicity by the bOJ"s written
criticism to the effect ( that "most
' ' and ' " It
girls are very shy : ( angry"
is the directness of the description -
Lion which compels attention in
\'ivd comments such as : "lTust
before it killed me the tooth
came ont ; " and nothing surely
could be more Johnsonian in its
absolute truth than the answer
given to the painstaking schoolmaster .
master trying to make the class
understand what might be meant
hJ' the subversive word "antipo
des. " "If I bored a hole right
through the earth till I came out
at the other side , where should J
be ? " "Off Jer 'ead ! You can : t
do it ! "
Unpleasant Reminder.
Mrs \ lank-1'ha girl in the
next flat keeps drumming the
tune I was playing the night you
proposed to me.
1\11' \ Blallk-I know it ! As I'ye
said fifty times before , I wish
8l1e'd move ! -Detl'oit Free Prcss.
Wilkins-You've never worked ]
a day ill your life , have you !
BilIdns-X ; but I've worked
lots of people.-Detroit Free
Press. - j.
