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As compared with the silly move
ment to declare a general strike
throughout the nation in protest again
st the arrest and prosecution of the
McNamaras, on the charge of dyna
miting the Los Angeles Tiroes and
killing twenty-one persons, a refreshing
sentiment comes from Fort Worth,
Tex., where the labor organizations of
the city passed the following resolu
tions: The case is in the hands of the
courts for settlement and at this dis
tance we cannot tell what the facts are.
No matter how strong our sympathy
might be for McNamara ami his
associates, any action on our part
could not and should not affect (lie
situation. Whoever is guilty of caus
ing the Times explosion should be
hanged if captured and convicted.
We see no reason why the courts can
not develop the truth of McNaiuara's
innocence or guilt and we sec no rea
son for meddling in the matter. If
the prisoners are innocent they will be
vindicated and labor unions should not
try to block the procedure of the court
in getting at the truth. It is as much
to our interests as any other class.
Norfolk News.
A STAND FOR LAW.
Cardinal Gibbons is out of sympathy
with the proposition to "boil down"
the Ten Commandments. He appears
really, to have a notion that the Crea
tor knew what he wanted to say and
alto what words to use in saying it.
The cardinal is evidently not in touch
with the new cult of selection in words
which begins by saying that all word
superfluities are an abomination. The
cult would be belter if it addressed it
self to education and culture, which
means acquired aud delicate percep
tion oi meanings in words. When it is
made to stand for ruthless excision of
everything in our etymologies but the
words needed to fill the narrower
views of things, the movement becomes
a burlesque.
The chapters of the Decalogue in
which the Ten Commandments arc
found are models of conciseness. Je
hovah seems to have wasted no lime in
talking to Moses. He went straight to
the point and laid down the law in
such a clear and sure way as to leave
no room for lawyers to raise technical
ities in its administration. In order
to do this, he found it necessary to
iljuminate shades of meaning which
were a part of the divine purpose and
which, he must have felt, might be
turned from that purpose if not so ill
uminated. Accordingly, he used just
the number of words needed to make
his meaning clear aud to tell what
would happen to anybody disobey iug
him. He did not use one word too
many or one too few. Aud his statutes
stand now as about the only ones left
in which some form of technical loop
hole can not-be fouud. If he had
used more or less than enough words
than needed to make himself under
stood, this could not be said.
"What a horrible thing it is," says
Cardinal Gibbons, "to undertake to
lay hands on God's Commandments.
We must not dare to change an iota
of God's word." One need not be
orthodox, or wholly out of sympathy
with higher criticism, in order to sub
scribe to this protest against changing,
in any way, the form of the basic law
on which civilized human institutions
rest The body of law which is the
only body of law left into which cor
poration lawyers, and criminal law
yers, can not read technical meanings
should not be attacked by the church,
or any part of it However innocent
the intent of those who have proposed
"boiling down" the Ten Command
Man, they should reflect that they
say be opening the way to dry-as dust
lawyers, in the employ of high finan
ciers, to set aride the whole moral code
ob technicalities and get a new deal
which will not be square. The world
will stand with Cardinal Gibbons for
the omly law that interpret itself. St
Lotis Globe-Democrat.
LOWER PRICES FOR THEIR -
PRODUCTS.
The current issue of the Iowa Home
stead contains a note of warning to the
farmers of Iowa and of the West to
which they ought and, we believe they
will, give, thoughtful consideration.
In a leading editorial under the cap
tion, "Farmers Should Unite Against
One-Sided Reciprocity," this great ag
ricultural journal gives a careful ana
lysis of the prop oscd reciprocity treaty,
and makes it very plain that the politico-statesmen
who are saying that
competition with the Canadian farmer
is au open market will uot injure the
Western farmer, arc taking a very
superficial view of the matter. The
Homestead states its own position in
the matter in the following paragraph:
The Homestead believes that the
farmers' interests are at stake in this
matter more seriously than they have
been for many years, for the reason
that farm products arc the only ones
placed on the Free List It believes
that the proposed agreement will bene
fit Canada and the Canadian farmer
at the expense of the United States
and the American farmer. That this
h so apparent from a number of recent
happeniugs. Hafdly had the recipro
city agreement come up for discussion
in the last Congress before the Cana
dian magazines bore large and flaring
advertisements offering land bargains
and stating that the imminence of re
ciprocity with the United Slates was
already increasing land values. Un
der date of March 21 one of the Con
servative members of the Canadian
P.numcnt from the province of Al
luiia is quoted in the daily papers as
saying: "The agreement will give the
Canadiau farmer a wiile market, there
fore, I am favorably disposed toward
the pact." The member did not add
that the marke! would be in the United
States ami at ihc expense of the Ameri
can farmer. On January 28, after
the country had had a report of the
likelihood of Congress passing the
agreement, wheat went up one and
one-half cents in Winnipeg aud went
down five cents in Minneapolis, mak
ing a difference of about six and one
half cents a bushel, resulting from the
possibility of opcuing the American
market to the Canadian wheat grower.
The effect on the price of barley was
even more noticeable. Owing to the
very light crop raistd last years bar
lev, up until the announcement of the
proposed reciprocity treaty, advanced
steadily, selling at 1 per bushel in
Milwaukee, Chicago and Buffalo and
1)5 cents in MiiiiieaoKi. Today there
is practically no hurley market and
barley is almost unsalable, at a decline
of anywhere from twelve to twenty
cents per bushel. The president of
one of the leading commission com
panies of Milwaukee calls attention to
the fact that "barley is in no sense a
food product a:id there can lie no ex
cusc for putting this on the Free List
if the only objects in this reciprocity
treaty arc to cheapen the cost of liv
ing aud to broaden our trade with
Canada." The key to the situation is
this: This barley imported is used in
the manufacturing of malted liquors
and not in the manufacture of food
products, so that the removal of the
duty is simply to the benefit of the
brewery interests of the country and
not in any maimer to the interests of
the food consumers.
For at least a dozen years the farm
ers of Iowa have been seeing or hear
ing assaults upon the Protective Tariff
system. In the high tide of their own
prosperity, good markets, vanishing
farm mortgages, growing bauk ac
counts and increased comforts and
conveniences of rural farm life, they
have listened to the glib tougucd re
former who ha3 told them about the
markets of Ihc world and of how "the
interests" have been robbing them
forgetting that all the while an insidi
ous effort was being made to under
mine the foundation of their own
prosperity.
Indications arc that the farmers of
the West may see a few beautiful
theories given practical illustration.
With a Democratic Congress brought
into being as the result of the noisy
dissemination of this kind of sentiment,
about the only thing left for the most
effective means which they cau think
of in letting Washington know where
they stand.
The Homestead, however, is not a
political newspaper. It seeks to dis
cuss all economic questions from the
viewpoint of the agricultural interest
It is able to see very clearly that the
one sided reciprocity agreement now
proposed means lower prices for the
products of the Western farm. Des
Moines Capital.
IT'S A MARVEL OF TODAY.
An article in the American Review
of Review;, says the foreign commerce
of South American is indeed one of
marvels of the century just opening.
Since the construction of the first rail
way in Chile, and from the time the
first steamer touched at k port in
Argentina, there has been a steady
expsnejon in the shipmeut vf natural
products and the coaensajkiom of for
eign goods. Within the last tea
years, however, this growth has ia
some instances increased over 100 per
cent, and is limited only by the capa
city of vessels to carry it The world
could not today advance a step with
out the rubber of Brazil, the nitrate of
Chile, the tin of Bolivia, the coca of
Ecuador, the copper of Peru, the
quebracho of Paraguay, the chilled
meats of the River Platte, or the wheat,
the corn or the wool of Argentina.
Europe is practically dependent upon
these stables for the material well be
ing of her people. Brazil delivers
annually 60 million dollars and more
of rubber to the manufacturers of the
world; the 50 million dollars of nitra
tes of Chile fertilizes half a continent,
and the people of Texas, without know
ing it, are wearing some of the export
of Argentina wool in their clothing or
of her hides in their boots and shoes.
FIFTY YEARS SINCE SUMTER.
The half century that has elapsed
since the firing on Fort Sumter has
given perspective to that great tragedy
of the Nineteenth Century, the war
between the states. With the efflux
of years passions have cooled, and it
has become increasingly apparent that
the conflict was the outcome of the
clash between two civilizations whose
form was fixed by conditions of soil
and climate.
The sentiment of nationality devel
oped only slowly. The colonies had
always acted independently of each
other. They made war on the Indians
when they pleased. Each governed
itself without reference to the others.
After they had thrown off the Brit
ish allegiance they regarded them
selves as independent states. Virginia,
for instance, adopted a constitution,
created a currency and ratified the
treaty with France. The "articles of
confederation and perpetual union"
were only a working agreement be
tween sovereign powers. When the
constitution was adopted it went into
effect after nine states had ratified it
What was the position of the other
four at that time? North Carolina
was not a member of the Union for a
year, Rhode Island not for two years,
after it had become effective. They
were independent states.
So strong was the feeling for state
sovereignty in the country that it is
doubtful whether the constitution
could have been ratified if its nation
alistic possibilities had been foreseen.
The first draft of the preamble began:
"We, the people of the United States
of "and named the thirteen states.
The names were left out later because
of doubt whether all would ratify.
In the early years of the new gov
ernment it was New England that
threatened secession, ihreats were
made because of unsatisfactory condi
tions in the Western country, because
of the election of Jefferson as Presi
dent, because of the purchase of Lou
isiana. Josiah Quiocv asserted in
Congress that if Louisiana were acquir
ed the bond of the Union would be
dissolved, and it would be the duly of
some of the slates to secede, "amicably
if they can,' violently if they mast"
In the War of 1812 the Hartford con
vention was separatist in tone.
But industrial development, with
steam and electricity, obliterated state
lines in the North and created the
sense of nationality. The settlers who
peopled the Central and Western
states owed their first allegiance to the
Nation. The state was a minor con
sideration. ' .
Meanwhile, the accident of climate
had made slavery unprofitable in the
North, but an institution of growing
importance in the South. As a result
the South specialized in cotton and
escaped in large measure the indus
trialism of the North. Agricultural
life under those conditions fostered the
traditions of the previous century, and
in 1860 the South still reflected the
views of independent sovereignty of
colonial times, while the North had
become nationalized.
A wiser statesmanship on both sides
through the early half of the century
might have provided for the gradual
harmonizing of the two civilizations
through compensatory emancipation,
as Lincoln urged later, until steam and
electricity could have done their work
in the South as well as in the North.
But such statesmanship was lacking,
the fireaters of both parties held the
center of the stage, and the constitu
tional conflict between nationality and
state sovereignty was left to the arbi
trament of arms. Kansas City Star.
His Contribution.
"A college has just made me a doe
tor of literature."
"What-did you ever write?"
"Well, I wrote 'em a very urn
check.
Fruitless fttnigaic
"I understand that -after waiting SO
years she married strufgljnf nil
"Yes; joot chap. He sfeofsjled taw
nest ne anew bowhut ee
A SHIP THAT NEVER SAILS.
A case in the law courts of England
calls attention to a yacht with steam
always up which has not budged for
twenty-two years. Moored fore and
aft ia the river at Brightlingsea, two
hundred yards off the- Essex shore and
flying the American flag, the yacht
Valfrayia has kept her steam up for
almost the fourth part of a century,
and yet never moved one instant in all
that time. She has a crew of eighteen
and her equipment is perfect through
out, and yet in twenty-two years it is
said her master, Mr. M. Bayard Brown
has never left the yacht, though he
was former! a leader in the most
fashionable set in New York. His
grandfather was the late Robert Bay
rad aid his father the late Alexander
a Brown, both of New York state.
At the time the master of the Valfra
yia turned his back upon fashionable
New York society late in the '80s he
was a handsome man under 40 years
of see. The case came into court
through the contention that Mr.Brown
is now a resident of England and as
such liable for taxes upon var
ious grounds, among the rest
being the large income which he
receives from America through his
bankers. Mr. Brown's answer is that
the income tax is for land lubbers, and
that a sea rover is not a residence
though it never goes to sea. All this
while the address of this wealthy .ml
eccentric American has been Nassau
Street, New York. At Brightlingsea
his yacht is a source of revenue, be
cause as a great curiosity it is constant
ly visited by people from far and near,
though its master is never seen when
the ship is visited. The decision of the
judge upholds the contention of the
government solicitor regarding the
income tax and is viewed by the
natives as a calamity, fearing the loss
of so great an attraction.
A RIDE WITH GENERAL LEE.
During his last years at Lexington,
Virginia, although General Lee was a
world famous commander and the
dignified president of a college, the
children of the little town were his
greatest friends, and found no cause to
stand in awe of their loving and sym
pathetic companion. His son, in his
"Recollections," tells a story which
illustrates perfectly the 'terms of inti
macy and comradeship which existed
between General Lee aud the little
folks.
One afternoon two little girls, the
daughters of two of his professors,
were riding on a gentle old horse up
and down one of the back streets of the
town, fearing to go far from home.
The general, starting out on his after
noon ride, came up with them, and
knowing them well, said gaily, "Come
with me, little girls, and I will show
you a beautiful ride."
Only too delighted, they consented
to go. He took them out beyond the
fair grounds, from which point there is
one of the grandest stretches of moun
tain scenery in the world.
One of the little maidens had her
face tied up, as she was just recovering
from the mumps. He pretended that
he was much alarmed lest his horse
should catch them from her, and kept
saying!
"1 hope you won't give Traveller
the mumps!" and "What shall I do if
Traveller gets the mumps?"
An hour later the party was seen
returning, the two little girls in sun
bonnets on the old sleepy horse, and
General Lee by their side ou Traveller
who was stepping very proudly, as if
in scorn of his lowly companion. My
father took the children to their homes,
helped them to dismount took a kiss
from each, and waving a parting salute,
rode away. Youth's Companion.
APPLYING OLD LAW.
It is still the contention of corpora
tion managers of the old school that
the amount of money they make is of
no consequence so long as they do not
charge an "unreasonable price" for
their service. But what is a reason
able price? The price usually paid for
such service, they answer.
But the supreme court of the United
States has ruled otherwise. For near
ly forty years the court decisions have
made the value of the property of the
corporation and not the capitalization
the measure of proper rates. Success
Magazine believes that a very small
decision recently made by the inter
state commerce commission will lead
to very big results. The case involved
the rate of fare over only eighteen
miles of road, between Washington
and Alexandria. The road was earn
ing returns upon its capitalization of
more than $200,000 per mile. The
commission found the value of the
road to be only $52,000 per mile, and
ordered rates reduced one-third.
"The precedent is about as big as
could possibly be established," says the
magazine. Not necessarily. It is only
another recognition of the law as it wag
decided long ago by the supreme
court The principle was employed
J7 tfcf tfffcfffiF FSiJlW wnijf5ion.
in a Lincoln case several years ago.
The large capitalization of public ser
vice corporations is a source of embar
rassment to the public and to investors,
no doubt but it will hot be allowed to
stand in the way of a readjustment of
rates on a valuation basis. In this
Washington case the interstate com
merce commission is not laying down
new law, but merely applying to the
question the old rulings of the supreme
authority of the nation. Lincoln
Journal.
WHEN SWIFT BEAT STICKNEY
Fear ef Appearing Unwilling to
Right Gives Swift Control of
Stock Yards Plant
De
1 was forty-six yean old when I
took hold of the stock yards and-alant
at South St Paul." said A. B. Stick
ney. former president of the Chicago
Great Western railroad, "and It re
quired a great deal of scheming and
hard work to get the business moving.
It was 12 years later when "Old Man'
Swift put In an appearance. I call
aim 'Old Van' Swift because he was
six weeks my senior. He was truly a
great merchant
"While I was in charge Fowler Bros,
made aa Investment of $40,000, and we
ran the plant together. The first year
the losa was $26,000. the second year
It was $10,000 and the third year f 10.
000. and then we went Into the hands
of a receiver, and he ran the plant
with our help until we had 'busted'
the court
"Then 'Old Man' Swift took a hand.
The first year he sold. $250,000 worth
of meats. Then he said he had a
proposition to make to us, and I told
him to make It We were ready to lis
ten to propositions.
" 1 want you to give me this plant'
he. said.
"It bad cost us $600,000 to build, but
we gave It to him.
" 'Now said Mr. Swift, 'I want you
to give half of the sjock of the stock
yards company.'
"We gave him that
" 'I want you to give mo a rebate
laws were not so strict on those points
then on every head of cattle and oth
er stock I buy here said Mr. Swift.
"We gave him that We did not
want it to seem as though we were
unwilling to do the right thing." St
Paul Pioneer Press.
SOME DANGER IN F0IE GRAS
Geese From Which tlvers Are Taken
Are Now Fattened With
Poison.
"Nothing Is better," said Cordon
Bleu, "than foie gras, or fat goose
liver. A foie gras is the size of a two
nound steak, it is as white as milk
and It tastes rather like ground pea
nut butter. Yet so light and ethereal
la a foie gras greenhorns would take
It for something powdered up and
whipped, like cream.
"You know how they get these liv
ers? They shut up the goose, and
they stuff him with food forced
through a hose. He must eat, whether
he wants to or not. He is exactly like
the suffragette hunger strikers in
London, whom the home office fed
through stomach pumps.
"It takes years to fatten a goose
to the point where his great white
liver is as big as a football, but lately
a genius has arisen in France who
will fatten him in a few months.
"This quick, cheap fattening Is ac
complished by the addition of salts of
sorrel, or binoxalate of potash, to the
goose's food. The blnoxalate of potash
works like a charm. The only trouble
with the superb livers it produces is
that these livers, containing oxalate
of potassium, occasionally kill those
who eat them."
Cordon Bleu smiled Ironically.
"But In these days of industrialism."
he said, "when property Is sacred and
life cheap, cane fait rein that doesn't
matter."
His Witty Reply.
An English lady of title, while visit
ing Washington after (he Gould-Decies
wedding, which she had come over to
attend, was greatly surprised at the
public discussion over the smoking
of a cigarette by Lady Decles at the
window of her private car.
"I hear," said this lady, "that for
some time to come, on account of this
Incident. Lady Decles will be bothered
with letters of criticism from stran
gers and anti-cigarette leagues. The
American prejudice against women
smokers Is extraordinary.
"I suppose, however," continued tho
speaker, "that there are anti-tobacco
faddists everywhere. I remember a
clever answer to one of these faddists
made by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, the
great preacher.
"A gentleman wrote to Mr. Spur
geon, saying that he had heard he
smoked, and could not believe it to
be true. Would Mr. Spurgeon write
and tell 'him If It really wns so? The
reply was:
"'Dear Sir: I cultivate my flowers
and burn my weeds. Yours truly, C.
H. Spurgeon.' "
An Official Anecdote.
Waldeck-Rousseau's reminiscences
are being published serially in
France; and the first instalment re
lates how he informed M. Loubet of
his intention to retire from office. It
was at a dinner of intimate friends,
and he explained that fatigue and fail
ing health seemed to make his resig
nation inevitable. ".Who will succeed
you?" he was asked. "M. Combes,"
be replied. But the name of M
Combes was, in those days, hardly
known. The guests wondered who he
was, and Mme. Waldeck-Rousscau
asked. There was a pause, and then:
"M. Combes," answered the prime
minister. "M. Combes, my dear. Is
no one in particular."
Made a Good Record.
The sympathizing neighbor was con
doling with Unc' Gabe.
"Your wife, uncle, was a wonderful
nltllll. "
"She were indeed, sun. See dat 111 I
chap pUyin' Jes' outside de gate? Well 1
jnbut'fl our BlxjeentV' '
SPENT (500 REFUSED 43,000
Two years ago o tie of Uncle HamV soldiers filed on a 40 acre homestead
adjoining the town of Powell. Wyoming By applying bis lime servrd in
the Army, this homesteader has now made final prcof. He tins paid out
only $5011 00 on the tun payment plan, towards. water rights and improve
ment 0. and lias just refused a $3000.00 offer for his 40-acre farm.
This illustrates the value of irrigated farms under Govern tneBt Canals
ia the Big Horn Basin.
YOUR CHANCE SOON
Mot of this same kind of. land will be opened soon to entry. The
Ralston Unit is already platted and 12 miles more of the main canal is
more than half finished by the contractors. If yon want to get one of
these rich Government prizes send me your name and address for my
mailing list 'and I will notify you as fast as new tracts will be supplied
with water. The next one will be announced very soon
NEW FOLDER: The new Shoshone Project folder contains a map of
the Big Horn Basin, plats of the Garland, Powell and Ralston irrigated
lands, several farm scenes and two beautifal pictures of the Shoshoae
Dam. It ia yours for the asking. Write today for particnlara about oar
personally conducted excursions to these lands first and third Tuesdays.
BoStons
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BEST WAY TO GET GOOD REST
Wsar Clothing as Loose as Possible
and Lie Flat on the Back
With Feet Up.
Too much is preached about exer
cising, and too little about resting.
Few women know the value of rest
ing or how to get the most out of a
free half-hour. Jt can do wonders
toward "pulling up" a tired body and
mind, but it must be thorough. While
lying flat on the back with the feet
up, and, most important of all loose
clothing, blood Is being manufactured
t'.vico as rapidly as in any other posi
tion, and the process of "restoration"
is going on in the body with the great
est possible speed. Boots should be
removed, and loose slippers donned,
and it Is a great help if fresh stock
ings are put on. There is a tendency
to feel chilly when a tired person first
lies down, and if the body is called
upon to make extra effort toward heat
ing Itself (which It very obligingly
will do), tho "resting" 13 not complete.
Hence the necessity for throwing a
covering over you, even if resting In a
warm room. The words of a man,
curiously enough, recur to me on this
subject. Mr. Seymour Hicks, whose
youthful appearance Is one of his
causes for fame, says he likes to de
vote tho time between five and six
o'clock to resting. "When he can do
that, no matter how tired ho is, or
how trying has been the day, he goes
to his evening's work quite refreshed.
"But," says this Jolly actor, "it must
be really rest. I take off my clothing,
don pyjamas, pull down the blinds,
get Into bed, and Imagine I am retir
ing for the night. A half-hour of rest
under these conditions Is worth more
than half-a-day's less thorough sies
ta." Negligee garments aro restful In
themselves, and no woman who values
her good looks will fail to form the
habit of exchanging street clothes for
dainty and attractive house gowns,
when she is at home for tho evening.
An Honor to Allison.
"Do you know," inquired Wilbur
Reaser. the New York portrait painter
"that when my painting of Senator Al
lison was hung in the lobby of the sen
ate, the precedent of 40 years was bro
ken?" Surprised being expressed Mr. Rea
ser explained.
"It Is a fact that since the beginning
of the constitutional government the J
senate had bought only nine portraits
for the lobby. The first was Washing
ton's and the eighth was Charles Sum
ner's. For almost 40 years nobody was
considered worthy to follow In the dis
tinguished line.
"It was generally thought that no
other portrait would ever be added to
the group; but when Senator Allison
ilied, after serving longer in the senate
than any other man in the history of
the government the rule was broken,
and his picture became the ninth."
Washington Times.
amrftaUrS
Magazine
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WAS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
One "Jiff led the Scales" and the Other
Faired to Deduct Hsr "Wet
Hair."
They met. duly sheeted, at the Turk
ish bath scales, and the thin woman
drew back in horror.
"Let's make a compact" she sug
gested. "Don't you look at the scales
When I'm weighed and I won't look
while you're weighed. Because It's
pretty certain that I've lost and you've
gained."
"All right," said the stout woman,
with resignation, "but it doesn't really
matter, because we'll be sare to tell
each other anyway while we're at
luncheon. Eating together, if you no
tice, is almost as destructive to fem
inine secrecy as spending the night to
gether haven't you told things you'd
vowed not to, hundreds and hundreds
of times, just as soon as you and the
other woman had your .back hair
down? And, even if we don't tell each
other today the attendants will tell us
next time. So let's not look at the
scales, if you like, but let's promise
to be honest if we say anything at
all."
"All right," agreed the thin woman,
blinding her eyes, child fashion while
the other stepped to the platform.
Then the stout woman conscientiously
regarded the ceiling while the thin
woman took her turn.
"One hundred and twelve pounds!"
proudly proclaimed the thin woman at
luncheon.
"One hundred and seventy!" coun
tered tho stout woman. The two ex
changed keen and dubious glances.
"Honest?" they said in unison.
"Well," admitted tho thin woman,
blushing. "I I did jiggle the scales a
little, because I remembered that my
sheet wasn't as big as yours and I felt
that I ought to be allowed something
on that account. -How about yourself,
since you're so mighty particular?"
The stout woman colored.
"Well. I I forgofto have the at
tendant hold up my hair while I was
weighed." she admitted, "and you
know wet hair weighs awful heavy.
So I I took off a couple of pounds for
that"
Women Then and Now.
Mrs. Lucy Chase Glover of Ruther
ford. N. J., has been looking into the
matter and finds that it was as hard
to make a living in colonial days as It
is now. and yet the mothers of those
days brought up big families and en
tertained better with all their other
cares than women with small families
do today. She says that touching a
match to a gas log and lighting a
wood fire were entirely different kinds
of work, and that under the present
labor-saving housekeeping there
should bo less wear and tear on the
nerves. But the modern woman does
not keep her temper any better than
the colonial dame.
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