WOMEN
HEALTH IS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL
| t Helps Woman to Win and Hold
Men's Admiration , Eespect and Love
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W < znnn's greatest gift is the power to
inspire admiration , respect , and love.
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more attractive to men than mere regu
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love and admiration of her husband ,
should he a woman's constant study.
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Dear Mrs. Pinkbam :
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Blarlc TtvalnVi "Ad. "
In his early Hartford days Mark
Twain took an active interest in base
ball in common with most of his fel
low citizens. Wbile attending an ex
citing game he lost a gold-headed um
brella , which he advertised for in the
local papers somewhat after this fash
ion :
"Lost $10 reward ; a gold-headed
umbrella was lost by the undersigned
on the grandstand at the baseball
ground on Saturday. It was probably
stolen from him while he was en
gaged In cheering tbe Hartfords for
'their victory over the Providence nine
presumably stolen by a red-headed ,
freckled-faced boy ab ut 12 years old.
For the body of the boy and the um
brella delivered at my house on Farm-
Ington avenue $10 will be paid. For
the body of the boy or the umbrella
separately $5for either. For the boy
alive , nothing under any circum
stances. " This advertisement was
-signed with his full name and address.
Bold Invaders.
\ There were some phases of country
-'life with which the little city girl had
as yet only one day's acquaintance , but
xthe rights of property-owners and prop
erty-renters were firmly fixed in her
mind.
"Mother ! " she called , in evident ex
citement , the morning after the family
liad settled for the summer in Sunset
"View Cottage , "mother ! Just come
"here and look ! There are somebody's
hens wiping their feet on our nice clean
grass ! "
Though a Nottingham baby lived for
three days , it was afterward found to
have been born with a hole right through
its heart.
NO DAWDLING.
A Man of TO After Finding : Coffee
Hnrt Him , Stopped Sliort.
When a man has lived to be 70
years old with a 40-year-old habit
t
grown to him like a knot on a tree ,
chances are he'll stick to the habit till
ihe dies.
But occasionally the spirit erf youth
find determination remains in some
men to the last day of their lives.
When such men do find any habit of li
life has been doing them harm , they
surprise the Oslerites by a degree of
will power that is supposed to belong r
to men under 40 , only. rt rT
"I had been a user of coffee until
three years ago a period of 40 years e
and am now 70 , " writes a N. Dak. t
man. "I was extremely nervous and i
debilitated , and saw plainly that I
must make a change x
"I am thankful to say I had the f
Gerve to quit coffee at once and take c
on Postum without any dawdling , and 7
experienced no ill effects. On the con 7l
trary , I commenced to gain , losing my t
nervousness wthin two months , also tt
gaining strength and health otherwise.
"For a man of my age , I am very b
* ? cll and hearty. I sometimes meet
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persons who have not made their Pos 2
tum right and don't like it But I tell 2o 2t
them to boil It long enough , and call o
Their attention to my looks now , and c
before I used It , that seems convinc a
ing.
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"Now , when I have writing to do , or t
long columns of figures to cast up , I f
feel equal to it and can get through
. my work without the fagged out fcel
ling of old. " Name given by Postum D
( Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Read the h
jbook , "The Road to Wellvllle , " In pkgs. c
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
PLAYING RELIGION ,
of the signs of the times Is the report
from Kansas City that a minister In that
city Is organizing a "children's church" In
which all the members and officers except
the pastor are to be children.
Child's play Is an admirable tiling , but
there Is danger at the present day of carryIng -
Ing It too far. The tendency Is to extend the childish
love of Imitating adults so far that It becomes no longer
play nor childish , but hurries the children prematurely
Into adult life. This practice Is to be deprecated because
It results In abolishing childhood. There Is no healthy
and successful adult life without a normal childhood.
There Is something peculiarly unwise about this chil
dren's church. It has been customary for many years to
divide up every church into as many sexes and ages as
possible and encourage each of these divisions to de
velop a separate religious life from all the rest. The re
sult has been a lopsided and malformed religion In aiof
them , and In some cases the generation of ambitions ,
Jealousies and strifes between them. The power In many
of th& sects to-day has passed into the hands of the young
people's organizations.
It Is not to be wondered at that this has led at last to
a. desire for a more complete separation and that the
children , encouraged by their foolish adult friends , are
now seeking to organize children's churches. That is
exactly what might have been expected from the class re
ligion which has been encouraged for many years In the
churches.
It should never be forgotten that the unit of society
Is the family and that society Is never normal unless
most of Its activities , pleasures and duties are taken up
In the family relation. Anything which encourages the
dissolution of the family Invites social disorganization
and corruption , whether It Is done In churches or any
where else. Chicago Chronicle.
RUSSELL SAGE.
T was his misfortune that he learned so thor
oughly to save money that he had not left
In him the power to learn to spend It That
is one of the risks of forming early habits
of thrift If a young person begins early
to spend money , as most of us do , he never
forgets how , but he may learn to save. Con
versely , If he learns first to save , be may never learn to
spend , and so It was with Uncle Russell. He liked money
better than most other things , and would rather keep It
than swap It for them. He did not care for good clothes
nor for feasting. He wore indifferent clothes , and used
his digestion so considerately that it lasted him ninety
years. But he was willing enough to buy what he want
ed. He lived on Fifth avenue , which IB not a cheap
street ; he had a house by the sea ( rather a plain one ) ,
and he had good horses. Moreover , he was twice mar
ried. Both his wives were excellent women , and he re
ceived , and probably merited , from both of them the
kindest treatment He did the thing he liked best to do ,
lived simply , soberly and long , and certainly got a great
deal of enjoyment out of life , so that though it may seem
a pity that he never learned to spend money to good pur
pose , he must be rated , even by moralists , as a pretty suc
cessful man.
Though folks laughed at the saving ways of Mr. Sage ,
s.nd his Insistent adherence to the simple life , there was
very little Jealousy or dislike of him because he was rich.
No doubt that was because he never spent any money
WHAT THE CLOWNS DID. ' . ' .
Whe nthe circus goes to Boston It
pitches Its tent In a field not far from
the Children's Hospital. The children
In their cots are within ear-shot of the
wonderful bands and the bustle of people
ple and the magical cries of the circus.
This year one of the children wrote a
letter to the manager of this circus ,
asking that a clown be sent to the hos
pital. He had never seen a clown.
The manager , a large-hearted , busy
man , read it to the employes of the
circus , and asked for volunteers. The
natural thing happened the thing one
would expect who believes that all hu
man folk are pretty much alike In being
human. All the clowns volunteered ,
1S
all the absurd complexity of clowns
that keep the crowd at a three-ring
circus In a roar asked the privilege of
responding to the Invitation from the
Children's Hospital. The band volun
teered , until it seemed that the mana
ger would have to move the entire
flc
circus down Into the street
The managers of the hospital were
Informed ; the balconies were hung with
treamers and toy balloons. Children
who could walk crowded against the
railing ; those who could not walk were
wheeled out so that they could turn
their little white faces toward the
street Expectation raised many a lit
tle heart that the doctors had tried In
rain to stimulate.
First came a hundred bags of pea
nuts from the manager of the circus
for those who could eat ; those who
could not eat were not envious. They
were soon to feast their eyes. Motherly -
ly : nurses , moving from cot to stretcher ,
told them that the circus was com-
ing.
Presently there was the music of a
band. Down the street came the clowns
end the acrobats and the trained dogs.
And before them marched a squad of
policemen , not to keep the clowns in
order the appointed business of a
clown Is to be out of order but to keep
adult well-bodied citizens out of the
way , and to see that none got between
the eyes in the balconies and the per
formance In the street
The children were ready. At a sig
nal from the nurses , those wlio had
lungs to spare blew upon tin horns. The
clowns looked up and smiled. One
clowi ? who had lived a hard life , drew <
his hand across his white paint and <
worth mentioning for his own pleasure. But the fact also
emphasizes a point to which we called attention some
time ago , that the rich men who are most criticised are
those who give the most money away. No doubt It should
be set down to the credit of Mr. Sage's discretion that he
never.tried to pauperize anybody or anything. Har
per's Weekly.
BETTOTG WANTED HT BASS BALL.
HAT p. member of the national baseball com
mission who Is also the owner of a league
T
baseball club has made wagers on the result
of the race in the National League is one
of the developments of tbe baseball season
that are likely to bring the national game
into disrepute.
One of the duties of the national commission la to
pass on the eligibility of players whose services may be
in dispute. In the case of tbe wager making baseball
"magnate , " it so occurred that he was called upon to
pass on a player who has been a leading factor in the
success of one of the clubs that the "magnate" is betting
against
The player was awarded to another club , thus , It IB
claimed , working Injury to the club that he had been
playing with. The "magnate" naively explains that his
decision had nothing to do with his bets , but was based
on indisputable evidence that the player had previously
been awarded to another club. It Is worthy of note that
the "magnate's" wagers were not made on the success
of his own club , which might be excused on the ground
of enthusiasm.
With the peanut politics of baseball which Is usually
laughable the public is not greatly concerned. But in
baseball scandal it Is deeply interested , Anything that
tends to show that the national game is not a fair and
open game , anything that savors of uncleanllness , is sure
to injure it
Baseball has never prospered as a betting game and it
never will. With the public itself the betting mania
seldom goes further than a hat , a pair of gloves , or a
bor of cigars. When , therefore , an official of organized
baseball and a club manager risks sevral thousand dollars
lars in betting on the outcome of a league race , as In this
case , baseball passes under a cloud.
Such a scandal simply means a return to the days
before baseball was made clean to the days when
charges of "bought and sold" games placed It In disre
pute throughout the country. Chicago Inter Ocean.
LOWER PARES , MORE TRAFFIC.
HERE Is , however , scarcely anything moro
certain than that , except perhaps at the
start , the road will not lose by the reduc
tion. As the Railroad Gazette has often
stated editorially , It is most desirable that
fares should be as low and simple as pos
sible. Such action not only brings about an
Increase of travel , which , in every Important case which
has been brought to our notice , soon makes up for the
lowering of the rate received ; but , what Is of the largest
value to a railroad company , even though not reducible
to dollars and cents , Is that low and simple fares en
gender a spirit of confidence and good feeling toward the
railroad company on the part of the traveler which
means , pretty generally , on the part of the communities
through which the road runs , on whose public opinion the
railroad Is In the last analysis BO entirely dependent
Railroad Gazette.
said , "God bless the little himps ! My
boy isi n the hospital In Lunnon. " And
another clown heard him and said , gruf
fly , "Shut up ! Do you .want to spoil
this show ? "
Presently the circus began In the
street The fat clown with a pneu
matic stomach was tackled by the lit
tle dog , Pete , and rolled over and over
In the dirt The acrobats did wonder
ful balancing acts on the ends of their
noses and their toes. The giant clown ,
who was nine feet high , but was really
a short man with an artificial body ,
broke Into two parts , and his legs went
running up the street A preposterous
clown tried to sell a dog that was only
stuffed. A mother clown washed a
baby clown that was really a burly , big
man , and when she scrubbed his ears
out with a scrubbing brush , the chil
dren In the balcony laughed loudest ,
for they knew that trick.
So the performance went on , until It
was all over , and the clowns went back
to their work better for what they had
done ; and the children went back to
their wards better for what they had
seen.
HIM Tribal Descent.
Congressman Llewellyn Power * of
Maine , beside being a millionaire , is a
man of striking appearance. Being tall ,
lean , with high cheek bones and wear
ing his coarse , black hair long , he bears
some resemblance to the aborigines of
the continent One day while travel
ing on a Maine railroad , where "In
dians and ministers' ride for half fare ,
Mr. Powers met a member of the Pas-
samaquoddy tribe in the smoking car
and started in to question his copper
colored constituent as to his manner
of living and how he liked the tribal
relations ; in Maine. After some min
utes i of talk Mr. Powers asked : "By
the , way , which of the two tribes do
you belong to ? " "Myself bin all Passa-
maquoddy i , " replied the Indian. "Wat
tribe i was you bin ? "
Before the Boston drummers who sat
in 1 adjoining seats had finished laugh
ing j Mr. Powers discovered that he had
urgent i business which called him to
the \ Pullman. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Few Exceptions.
" 'Most every man has a rival In
his wife's affections , " remarked the sage
of Phllosophervllle. "If It hain't a
poodle , it's a rubber plant" Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
How good things sound when wom
en talk about how they should be cook
ed and served 1
JOHNNY KNEW HOI.
Little Johnny Sykes has been brought
up carefully. Mrs. Parinenter Sykes
feels that she is responsible for the rec
titude of his conduct and plans to de
liver aJll that the order calls for. She
rescued Mm one day from a situation
too complicated for her , with her near
sighted eyes , to analyze , and sent him
to the bath tub to be improved. While
she awaited his return she described
the affray to his father. j
"It was perfectly terrible ! " she said.
"There were at least half a dozea boys
all In a mess , fighting each other like
little animals. I couldn't be sure John
ny was there , but I knew Archibald
Gray was , for I saw his red suit He
was down on his back in the road , and
some other boy was clawing and pound
ing him. Why , Richard , you wouldn't
believe a human being could be so bru
tal as that other boy waa. When John
ny comes down perhaps he can tell us
who It was , and we can have him ar
rested. I am so glad Johnny Is not
such a brute as that ! " |
Just then Johnny entered the room , I
sweet and fresh from his bath and new
ly clad In his latest finery. His mother *
turned to him.
"Johnny , " she cried , "tell us who it
was that was pounding Archibald. "
Johnny looked up in delight
"Aw , now , ma , " he said , "did you see
that ? I was afraid you come too late.
Say , didn't I do 'im fine ? That was
me potmdlng ' 1m. He said I was a
sissy , BO I punched him , and all the
other fellers sailed into each other fear
fun. We wouldn't 'a quit only w *
thought you was the police. "
Monarch *
The King of Italy Is one of the most
energetic of monarchs ; he was taught
by his tutor never to be idle for a mo
ment and was always punished If
caught doing nothing.
You often hear people claiming credit
because they do not hear gossip : Per
haps they "talk" so much their friends
are afraid to repeat gossip to them.
When you run yourself down and
your listeners say nothing it Is a slgnj
they agree with you. If they stand upj
for you it is a sign they are beings
polite.
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Mothers are wonderfully patient considering - }
sidering there Is BO price up-
LINCOLN'S WEAPON.
He Employed Ridicule fa ? Hl
Client' * BencJlt.
Wit and ridicule were Lincoln * weap
ons of ffence and defense , and he
probably laughed more jury cases out
At court than any other man who ever
practiced at the bar.
"I once heard Mr. Lincoln defend a
man in Bloomington against a charge
of passing counterfeit money , " Vice
President Stevenson told the writer.
"There was a pretty clear case against
the accused , but when the chief witness
for the people took the stand he stated
that his name was J. Parker Green ,
nnd Lincoln reverted to this the mo
ment he rose to cross-examine. 'Why
J. Parker Greene ? What did that J.
stand for ? John ? Well , why didn't
the witness call himself John'P. Green ?
That was his name , wasn't it ? Well ,
what was the reason he didn't wisn to
be known by his right name ? Did J.
Parker Green have anything to conceal ,
and If not , why did J. Parker Green
part his name in that way ? ' And so
on. Of course , the whole examination
was farcical , " Mr. Stevenson continued ,
"but there was something irresistibly
funny in the varying tones and inflec
tions of Mr. Lincoln's voice as he rang
the changes upon the man's name ; and
at the recess the very boys in the street
took up the slogan and shouted 'J. Par
ker Green ! ' all over the town. More
over , there was something in Lincoln's
way of intoning his questions which
made me suspicious of the witness , and
to this day I have never been able to
rid ray mind of the absurd impression
that there was something not quite
jright about J. Parker Green. It was
all nonsense , of course , but the Jury
must have been affected as I was. for
Green was discredited and the defend
ant went free. "
Belief nnd Understanding : .
"Does that man really believe all he
says ? "
"Believe it ! " echoed Senator Sor-
.ghum , "why he doesn't even understand
It" Washington Star.
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