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HIE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, KErTEMBETI, 1. 1911. 8 rP1 M The ee'( azire When a Man WJARiD The BEES Junior Birthday Book" Lorctta's Looking Glass She noMa It l to U Belf-RB-thuser. -A -tM - . ; V iff - t , t f V bo v. fri Tou need no spda fountain drinks nor would champagne add to your exuberance. All that la required to make you at peace with the wjrld, satisfied with yourself and hugely entertained are a few people and a e conversational rein. Oft you s:o. You talk about your latest man episode. You describe how you learned to write poetry. You tell what promise your admiring circle of friends dis covered In your early youth. You mix In a few anecdotes about some one you know to Illustrate what distinguished Individuals have acknowledged your charm by culti vating your acquaintance. Rome one who realises that the assem blage Is not meant to serve as audience for your self-enthusing runhea In upon jour monologue and sugreets a topic for talk. You nelze It with the versatility you have cultivated In frequent w res tings of conversations to serve as means for your self-enthusing. If it's spiritualistic seances, you tell how a certain medium Informed you of your rift .for seeing the filmy denizens of an other world. You dilate upon the fact thatj for nights afterward, you were afraid to sleep alone lest some of the spooks, de slron of an acquaintance wltlt so distin guished a person, might materialize before you.i The quiet little girl with the well bred manner and the air of being able to say something Interesting If, you gave her a chance sits and stares at- you with as much fixity as her breeding will allow. The men In the party have long since suc cumbed. They know you for what you are-- a social Inebriate drinking yourself into a kind of ecstasy with your self pralse. And they are paying the price of the drafts. They know it Is no use to try . to put an end to your debauch. . So they sit around the room saving nothing with- an Industry which your uninterrupted Bleat of the Innocent Bystander XL A Chicago health department man says that flats were never Intended for human beings to live In," observed the Regular Fellow. "Lota of people are tired of It," "Flat tired, ehT" Inquired the Innocent Bystander. "Well, dear knows that nobody Is compelled to live In them when there aro willing and accommodating undertakers In every neighborhood. Also, a glance at the signboards In front of flats will show that; no great fuss Is made about the mat ter tf living In Tata. Stress Is laid on the 'front a tenant can put up by depositing his salary monthly with this or that par ticular landlord, and soma who are not particular.' : " i i "The. main.. consideration about a flat I where It's located, always selecting a neigh borhood full of architectural glaciers and frigid grandeur. The largest part of the building must be taken up by a splendid d Imposing entrance. 'Imposing' Is very goodu There is also a tradesman's en trance, although Imposture may be prac ticed there, too. But as said, the majority of space should be devoted to a lordly and a mirrored panelled, gold-pillared palace of illusion, In scenery which made an awMl dent In the gold bullion reserve. "This indoor Taj Mahal Is the only sec tion of the place with high ceHlngs and trimmings regardless. The trimmings are particularly fine because the sgent fre queh'tly collects the first month's rent In advance for the mere privilege of showing the entry to the prospective tenant. "What with stationary tubs, stationary ice boxes, satlonary dumb waiters, which shriek on frosty mornings, stationary tele- f- Which Field One of the principal achievements of th present age lias been the discovery that labor Is necessary on the part of all. No individual can lead a thoroughly sane, happy, .righteous life without toll. The nobility' of labor, performed In the proper plrtt, has been proved. In deciding upon which neia or laoor to enter, one must consider his individual powers, for no one can succeed In his work unless he Is Interested In It. Who can make a success of one task If he is con stantly longing to pursue another? To be sure, there Is good discipline In compelling One s BS1I lO prriunn., unvunirum but no one would knowingly submit him self ttf such fc extent of discipline as la involved in the wrong choice of a life work.' "The square peg In the round hole" is not a very happy individual. Many young people aspire too high In choosing a calling In life. It U sheer waste of time to Jong to' carry out high aspira tions beyond Jhe possibility of attainment. On should be willing to begin low and climb step by step the ladder of fame, al ways keeping In mind that The heights by, great men reached and kept Were not afl'alned by sudden fllKht. Bwf they while thxlr companions slept re tolling upward In the night. Never -wfeplse your -calling, humble though It ,m.toe. -I your best work in It. ;A wel) prepared meal or an . honest daya werk well, done at any .trade is as worthy, as a rat symphony -composed or a treat Ja'udocape painted. . Nothing de pends upon rtie kind of work, but .every- thing upon' tlie spirit , In which It Is 'done. s f If your cslffrig Is humble,' ennoble It by the ' . . . 1. 1 'AII. Lob. W. manner In which you 'peftorm our taskal ' ' iik l . i . -. nil m-&..dr X- S''1 you Will BKIII wi , ri'v v v. . hvbw Vjopifilon Is worth gaining nd w ill attala -Ctha't perfection of character which It Is of pure mount Importance to- secure. f The youth who Is highly educated can, ef course, command a higher position than ha wh haa not had similar advantages. Fortunate la the boy whom his parents can afford to send to high school and perhaps to collffee. Foolish. mont foolish, is that boy If he does not appreciate auch a privilege and take advntS' of It. jt No young person should ne discouraged betauKe hi parents cannot afford to give him the advantages of a good education and thus fit him for a high position In the business 'world. He should not try to re niaiu in school if he sees that It means too flow of speech cultivates. Some one mentions dreams. You have had them. And you take the opportunity to describe their unusualness. The kind you have had are just a little more unique than the dreams of the others. Or, at least, you appear to think that they are, for you elucidate their peculiarities and their premonitory significance with a thor oughness that squeezes all interest from the others. And when the party is over, you fairly overwhelm the hostess wtih your enthus iast protestations of a good time. Bit terly she reflects that she hopes the others can say as much. But an uncomfortable doubt puts her out of humor with her en tertainment. And the well bred 'girl is conventionally polite, but certainly not effusive as she murmurs her adleux and her "thank you" for an agreeable evening. Then, the host ess knows that you have spoiled her little Informal party. She meant It to be a sociable and comfortable experience. It has been an opportunity for you to be supernatural I y sociable and the others ex tremely uncomfortable. You leave with a puffed-up and well fed mental air. It shows In your beneficent smile, and the last pleasantries you call back as you separate yourself from the scene of your enthusing. You regard the party as a great success. You feel so good. You have the sense of well being which ordinarily accompanies a well filled stomach. Only yours comes from an In flation of all your organs of self-approval and the Juicy resonanoo of your brilliant remarks lingering like agreeable flavors .on your mental palate. You are the champion hypnntijjer. prac ticing your arts upon yourself and never realizing that the black magic shows its sinister color in the disagreeable thoughts you have Inspired. "HAUGHTY." phones, stationary service and everything stationary but the rent, nobody pretends there Is any room for living In the kitchen ette, parlorette, bedroomette or dining roomette, where you can't put a photo graph on the wall without crowding the apartment. But there Is a certain satis faction in strutting out from one of these gorgeous niches and drawing a full breath without bulging the walls. That's living!" '"Janltprs have to live in flats," remarked the Regular Fellow. "But are they human beings?" asked the Innocent Bystander. (Copyright, 1911, by the N. T. Herald Co.) of Labor? j biff a struggle for the tolling father and mother. He la to be admired If he foraoes the education to go out Into the world to support himself and to aid the dear ones at home. Few of our great men have come from well to do families and had the advantage of a good education - in youth. How many of those who have achieved success were poor and gained their educa tion In later years by their own efforts! Experience in the business world la in Itself a most useful kind of education and can often best be attained by entering the business world at an early age. After busi ness hours. If a young man Is ambitious, he can' acquire all the culture and booklearn- lng which he would have gained at college. The self-made man possesses sterling qual ities and' is the highest type the world pro duces. One should choose his profession, bus! neas or trade with the Idea of adhering te It. But if, after the choice has been made, one rinds he has erred in the matter, it U wise to make a change. One may be a mis erable failure In one calling and a huge success in another. Miles of Offenders J If all the people convicted last year of offenses, great and small, in England Scotland and Ireland were placed side by side, they would form a rank more than J00 miles long, or from London to some distance beyond Paris, according to . writer In e Ixmdon paper, There would be seven miles' of men and women who committed assaults, eleven miles of beggars, thlrty-thre miles of tb levee and robbers, forty-three miles of drunkards. ' The offenders sent to prison would ex tend to eighty-three miles, and those sen tencea to pay a One would form a rank about S30 miles long. me cost or an these Is so enormous In police, Judges and magistrates, court of flclala, prisons, and all the locks, bolts, safes, burglar alarms tad eiher defenses. that if the workers necessary to earn the total amount of money required were placed side by side tbey would measure a Use from fifty to sixty miles looy. ma'mA trfHE. I ARE. Vbo Sotwft TO I aT,ND5 S I lNPUOT g ,-TWe AN vTTrt V J I A ME . SMVTHTL ? Wmc. KX&y " jj . - V wcaco rr. on 7. HiMrtLF tACM - . . f - J J I ' . I BEG" r The Seminole is the ohly Indian today who is as free as were his ancestors In the pre-Columbian days. If all the world but the Everglades In Florida were to be blotted out of existence the latter would still be enough of a world for the Semi nole's wants and happiness. He is peace able and honest and was never worthy of the terrible things done him 100 years ago by the white man, when nearly everybody believed that the "only good Indian was a dead Indian." The tribal religion of the Beminolea is far above that of the other native Indian tribes. It is lacking in their revolting and harsher features. Some of them have re cently become Christians and as such God Is known to them as E-schock-e-tom- TBI BUMBLE 3KB. A. STINGER Editor Communications weloomed, and neither signature nor re turn postage required. Ad dress the Editor. NO ADS AT ANT PRICE. NO BAD HONEY TAKEN. Uaaalsalty. Just now we are asked to contemplate the spectacle of an Individual cltlsen opposing the expenditure of a state ap propriation because he dees not fancy the particular pur pose for which the money was set aside. It Is not enough for him that a majority of the people, through the action of their accredited represen tatives, favor the expenditure of the money: It does not mat ter, apparently, that the ob ject to be achieved Is the In creasing of human knowledge, and the consequent gain to humanity therefrom. He holds with a different school, and so he is opposing the appropria tion. If his contention Is sup ported by the courts It means that we have moved just one step nearer the time when all action must be unanimous and therefore thht much nearer the time when all human progress will stop. Cirowth. The growth of the city of Omaha U une of the most perplex tux of all problems. it is especially annoying to Colonel Bill Musgrave of the street railway company. The but not memory. this time, lact Is, there are too many people in town who want to ride on street ears, and until such there la a thinning out the cars will be crowded. Or else someoooy will have to walk Of course, more cars mlht be put on, but whst's the use? i ne town win lust grow oreax it has. and In a very little wnue the cars will be crowded again. Maybe far as able to Opportunity. Wouldn't It have been great If the public could have had or just a chance te watch that meet ing between the Omaha fire department and the slfmal corps of rncle 8arus army? Why can't Samson get the boys to repeat It as a part of the Ak-Sar-Hen festivities? The only thing not eay to believe ahout the story Is that the soldiers kept still about It so long. Oaloaa. Just about the time a Ne braska wiseacre has decided that onions are a necessity, along comes a Le Molnee judge with an injunction against them. Did either of them ever sit down to a dish of steaed red 8panih or bruited Bermudas T at the semblages , gTOE WEEKUT BPMBIIE 3ttJ&? I VOL. I. OMAHA, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911. ' No. 262. .(Copyrighted, mi, by the New York Herald Seminoles the Only Free Indian's e-see, while the tribal god Is called Hls-a klll-nuasl. They like to stand by the latter better than by the former. Marriage by wife capture still appertains among the Seminoles. After the parents of the girl have consented to the marriage the young suitor sets a roasted wild tur key or a ham of venison at the door of the maiden's home, if this be acceptable to her the young brave is sure of his wife, provided be can capture her in a fair race at the July corn dance or on some other festive occasion. . After capturing his Intended preparations are then made for the wedding. The very simple ceremony Involves the bridegroom proceeding in gala- attire to the girl's home, there to remain through life as a NO TWENTY BUCKS NOW "HE'S COMINO President May Meet His Fellowsaea Wken He Visits Omaha. When President Taft comes to Omaha this time It will be on a Sunday, and Te Editor wonders just whloh one of several causes may have had most to do with the great traveler 'reaching this con clusion. Mr. Taft Is a mixer. If he's nothing else; he's as famous for bis glad hand and bis smile as his predecessor was, and his willingness to meet and mlngla with his fellow cltixens Is one of his most marked characteristics. But. when the meeting and ming ling Is done on the basis of t'JO per plate. It doesn't give a great many of the elector ate a chance to associate with the man who ia glad te meet the masses, whether they vote for him or net. Twenty buoks In one chunk looks pretty big to Hoi Poltoi, and he looks at It some time before he tets it go for the glad privilege of getting near to the president. Then there was that fa mous auto tide around the village; thousands of - school Children and others gathered for the purpose of greeting the president, and all they saw of him was a rloud of dust raised after the last machine of the whiulng parade had passed. Oar Pet Little City Enjoys Life la Little Old New York. Our pet little city editor has been revelliui in the delights of Broadway and Coney for the last fortnight, ana naa been making the routine of the office at home much lighter by the happy messages he haa sent back. Programs from roof gardens and where the very latest of artis try Is paraded for the de lectation of visitors to Gotham; score cards from ball games, bills of fare from Coney Island restaurants and similar souvenirs have bur dened the orfloe msll tor sev eral days, intended to cheer the heart and oomfort the soul of the stay-at-homes who never set to go nowhere. One postcard brings a pic ture of a meal he consumed on Coney. It shows one-half chicken, supposed to be fried; one lobster, roiled ; one heap ing dish of clams, steamed; two big roasting ears, boiled; a nloe fat flab, a dish of yams, a stack of brown bread, a bunk of cheese, a slice of watermelon and a glass, which doubtless contained water. He's probably singing all the time. "Home ain't nothing lias this!" But, he's coming back. PERSONAL. ., Colonel ,- Norria Brown of Kearney Wednesdayed and Thursdayed with us this week. Colonel If y ran ' Learned came home Monday; he had All in all, that la.it visit of the president to Omaha was marked by several little Inci dents that will linger long. pleasantly. In the Bo. when he comes It will be under conditions as will en able him to largely arrange his own program, and it's a safe bet that no one will be asked to ante one double eagle for the prlvllefto of seeing him heard that the job to colonel Ben Baiter baiur-day. bread. Colonel Ed Bur, postmaster at Lincoln, was In- our midst for a few mo Jwy. if the matter gets as ths jury, we msy be get a definite notion ments on Tuesday. Biser says one thins joys about Omaha Is how much ioy there can always set paca coin. waa In that ride in which one was killed, several others were hurt and some were scared to death for fear their talet. . Notice how "silence names would get Into ths pa pers. Pretsntse. poultice came to blows of sound" after the Jacks bad issued their ulti matum T Even the -peerless If President Taft will speak hasn't had a word Hope. Auditorium on the arternuon or the Sunday he is here we will promise him one of the biggest and best dretived and beat behsved as We trust Hon. won t take It too we very much fear people of Omaha are he ever faced. Half. aiSMgree with him Pa Rourke s boys seem to have become possessed of the notion that It will rx all rhrht if they win half thu game they play. Perhaps that will serve to offset argument. Practical. If Un. Sinclair la earnest In her search for a "soulmate," she Is setting I about In a very practical way I to find one. I Co.) member of her family. So the Seminoles still live out their happy life, marrying and giving in marriage, cul tivating their crops on tha hummocks of the Everglades, dwelling beneath, the shade ft tha pine trees, selling alligators and other skins to the whites, and In' return buying bright calicoes and other merchan dise brought to the trading post from Fort Myer. The Seminoles now number about 600 souls and appear to be graduu ally increasing. San Francisco Chronicle. Near Chart res, France, in tS3, a terrible storm fell on the army of Edward III. The large hailstones caused so much suffering among the soldiers and horses that Ed ward was obliged to conclude peace. BACK!" OUE POETS' CORNER. Mlcblsjasi Kapreaa. Dear Mister Stinger, whlsxtng thro' Cinders and sunshine to Kalamasoo X find myself enroute once more To that dear old town on the Mlzsoo shore; And tomorrow. Just think, I'll be getting a sup From the sparkling depths of the old quart cup. The reason I mention Kala masoo It's a Michigan town we're passing thro'. "Tis here they attach the car with the "eats" And charge high prices for taters and meats. But all the same, what they serve a la carte, Appeals to a very big spot in my heart; There's an aching void it must fill ahem Left there by a breakfast at T a. m. And now, by the sun, It Is way past noon, I hope they'll announce) din ner served right soon. Just now the train, with a rush and a roar, Make some words hit the cell ing and some hit the floor; So, If any are mlnatng when this reaches hum. Just fill the blank spaces with tumray-turn-turn And if 'mong your readers there haps to he some 'un Who might poBHlbly care, just say I'm acomln Back from that Michigan farm where I wus To old Omaha town, where the Bumble Bees bnss. J. REE OSSITT. P. 8.- Please excuse. Mister Btlnger, this lead-penciled rhyme, For my poor fountain pen has been dry a long time. , Of the two I have sent you I'd very much ruther Tou'd put thle one thro' and just sidetrack the other. Q. R. O. Kdltor Island theaters waa given which is Colonel he en that you to un Ceoks. It begins to' look aa if Mr. Taft would have a right busy time in Omaha if he only meetk all the committees that are setting ready to give him the glad hand. Once too many cooks spoied the broth. like a heal the to say Csavletloa. It doesn't take much of a train for a Seventh Day Adventist to advocate the opening of barber shops on Sunday. Saturday Is tlie dsy he 1 chiefly interested Sr.. Airy Iewis hard, but that the going to again. raallv in Proof. If you don't believe It. ju.it lo k at "pages 12. 14 and IT of the constitution. L Y SI HKT.KN M. LOFTMAN, toeo Stone Avenue. Name and Addrem. Philip L. ADderson, S636 Seward St Carl R. Anderson, 723 North Forty-first Roy Alexander, 602 Hickory St Paul Briardy, 2616 Parker St Dorothy Clark, 4244 Harney St Madge Burchard, 2526 Lake St Lawrence tiurgeson, 3338 Bedford Ave George Barna, 1110 Izard St Lawrence Brennan, 1738 South Seventeenth St. .... . St. Joseph 1899 Eugene Cooper, 614 North Twentyscond gt ..Central 1904 Elmer Campbell, 718 South Thirty-sixth St ..Columbian 1896 George Cohen, 1C28 North Eighteenth George Chapman, 2626 Emmet St Hiram Corenman, 805 South Seventh St Tagia Christiansen, 410 Center St.. Freda C. Chrlstensen. 3316 Meredith Mary Catania, 920 South Thirteenth St Mabel Cain. 1917 Grace St Stephen Egan, 1902 South Sixth St Goode Elwood. 324 North Thirty-fifth Elna Eckman, 2633 Chicago St Theresia Feller, 1421 Bancroft St Sarah Harvity, 1110 North Seventeenth William Hiland, 3343 Grand Ave... Gladys Helniar, 1921 Chicago St.... Gordon Harrow, 3034 Evans St Robert Jamieson, 2627 Decatur St Mildred Johnson, 2036 North Eighteenth Hilda Johnson, 22 6 Cedar St A. D. Jackson, 2562 Cuming St Webster 1902 Mary Kluza, 2920 South Thirtieth St 1m. Conceptiou. . . .1899 James Krupecka, 305 Walnut St Train 1897 Alan B. Kuke, 1603 Locust St , . . Lake 1906 Helen M. Loftman, 8030 Stone Ave Lothrop ........ .1897 William Larsen, .3112 South Thirty-second Ave Windsor ........1900 Henry Lotz. 2413 South Twentieth St Castellar ,. ..19.04 Lawrence Larson, 2608 Rees St Mason ...1904 Edward Lincoln, 719 South Thirty-fifth St Columbian ......1901 Ruth Lumry, 4736 North Thirty-ninth Joe Mittleman, 2606 Hamilton St Jules E. Merle, 1313 Georgia Ave...., Lorette Mahoney, 4160 Chicago St... Ila Mesklmen, 1667 Castellar St Margaret McAvoy, 1812 Corby St Helen Monroe, 2301 Fowler Ave Mable Nelson, 1701 South Twenty-seventh St Park . . 1901 Florence T. Nastor, 821 South Thirty-eighth Ave ..... Columbian ........1905 Irene Ostrom. 1408 South Thirteenth St Lincoln 1906 George Perkins, 2023 Manderson St... Gertrude C. Parker, 813 South Thirty-eighth Blanche 1. Peterson, 4532 Hamilton Gertrude Rodman, 8325 Pratt St Charles E. Russell, 1618 North Thirty-third Leona D. Saukop, 1709 South Eleventh Rachel Steruhell, 1410 South Eleventh Lena Smith, 1718 Jackson St....;... Clarence Swan, 4018 Cuming St...... Rose Segal, 1017 Farnam St , Archie Screlber, 616 Center St Mabel Staines, 2218 Leavenworth St........ Mason .., 1902 Joe Sacco, 3402 Parker St Milton Vasak, 1238 South Thirteenth Paul Wlllfson, 3112 California St Catherine Wilcox, 202 South Twenty-ninth Rena Wakenight, Forty-second and D Sts .. .Windsor 1993 Robert A. Wilson, 2810 North Fifteenth St. .Lake ........... 1902 Clara Wilkinson, 2308 North Twenty-first St. ... . . . , .Kelloin 1895 Men Who Helped Although the early Norse navigators probably were the first visitors to the new world, it was the daring voyages and dis coveries of ths Italian explorer Christopher Columbus which led explorers and settlers to America. Columbus was born In Genoa In 143S, the son of a wool comber of moderate means. The Italian form of his name was Colombo, the Spanish Colon, while Its significance In English in dove. He was the dove who went out over a waste of water and brought back more than an olive branch. He believed the world to be a sphere. lie remembered that pilots had found in the ocean Strang bints of an undiscovered world long hollow canes with a capacity for holding four quarts or wine between joint and point, curiously carved bits of wood and even the drowned bodies of men washed up by the sea "very broad faced and different In aspect from Christians." Only after great discouragement and the refusal of aid from several European monarcha did he obtain assistance from Isabella, queen of Spain, who helped him to fit up an expedition. He set sail from Paloa In Andalusia with a fleet of three vessels. Ten weeks of weary voyaging, made des perate by mutinous sailors and other dis couragements, resulted In a momentous discovery. At 10 o'clock on the night of Thursday, October H, 141, Columbus saw Peculiarities of the Gir Is of Japan - A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub lic, writing of a trip through Japan, says: Little Japanese girls have very pretty names. Each on means something, ' like bird brightness, silver butterfly, . purple Wisteria and others similar. The 'pictur esque little women w see on Japanes fans never seem quits natural to you, do theyf But that Is just ths way the plump, almond-eyed Japanese girls really look. They walk with a shuffling gait on wooden clogs, never lifting them off the ground, for they would drop off their feet. Their hair Is black and extremely coarse and th put a stiff mixture on It so that It will stay dressed. One never sees a Japa nese girl with her hair flying la her eyes. These little women would be a great deal prettier If they did not powder so This is fhe Day We (elebrate September 1, 1911 School. Year. Franklin ..1897 Ave.. ..... Saunders ........ 1895 Train 1901 Long 1904 .Columbian 1&011 Howard Kennedy .. 1897 Howard Kennedy .. 1898 .Holy Family 1901 St Kcllom 1896 ..Lothrop ..1896 '...Pacific..- ....1902 Train .....1905 Ave..... Monmouth Park. ..1891 Pacifio 1908 ..: Lake'.v ...1900 8t. Patrick ...1895 St Saunders 1896 I ..... . Farnam 1899 ...St. Joseph 1897 ...Cass 1904 . . . Monmouth Park. . .1905 ...Central ..1897 . i . Druid Hill .1899 ...Long ....1898 ...Lake 1904 ...Train ....1899 St St... St Central Park. ... .1898 .......Long . : . .1896 Park ....... .'. ..1899 Saunders ..1908 Castellar ,..1897 Sacred Heart.... .1897 High 1895 Lothrop 1898 St.. ... Columbian 1899 St Walnut Hill. 1906 ....Lothrop 1898 St Franklin 1898 St Lincoln ...1905 St Lincoln 1898 Leavenworth 1900 ..Saunders' 1899 Pacific ..,.1904 Train i ....... .1898 .Franklin 1899 St , Comeniu 1801 Central .1906 St.. . . .High .1894 to Make America J COUI22BU3. a light ahead. At 2 o'clock Friday momln the cry of "Land! Land!" went up from his ships. At duydawn Columbus, in his richest robes, carrying the Spanish flag, landed on one of the Bahama Islands. He made three later voyages, discovering the main land on the third, and on the fourth ex plorlng the coast of Darlen. When he died at Valladolid May 80. IMS, he believed he had only discovered the eastern shores of Asia. The Utter part of his life was. shadowed by "the ingratitude of princes," disappointment and injustice." (Copyright, 1811. by the N. Y. Herald Co.) much. Their skin is naturally quit yel low, but they look party whit with tb thick coat of rice powder they think It necessary to spread all over their faces and necks.' Formerly the Japanese did not think girls Important enough to be edu cated. They wer not nearly so desirable as boy babies and sometimes ths parents wer almost glad If the girl babies died. The only object In the life of ths Japanes women then was to keep house in a dainty way, arrange flowers and look as sanoft Ilk a flower herself as possible. Now the little girls ar being educated, with the boys. Bome ef them ar even sent to this country ta the big woaaea's colleges In ths east. They ar besjtnnihjr to realise that the Japanes girl Is as ls telllgsnt aa the boy U sh Is just (lrsa chano.