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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT WOMAN’S WORLD THE WHEEL OF LIFE What every woman knows: That her Bon and daughter are different from every other son and daughter. Call ing on a neighbor, a woman was tell ing of her lovely daughter Jill, and Jiow glad he was that Jill wasn't like other girls of her age, frittering time away on boys and such foolishness. "That's what they all say,” thought the neighbor. As the mother went out by the front door in came daughter Jill by the back to ask the neignoor s advice on me latest letter from Jack, who is 20. Jill is good to look upon, nearly 15, but looks every day 01 17, well ueveloped, hair that seems as if kissed by the sun, complexion that rivals peaches and cream and laughing eyes of the deep est blue. Yes, this is the angel whose mother believes her pretty head is filled with nothing but problems tn geometry UM algebra. So it is, to be sure. The neighbor reads the letter. Such superlatives and adjectives! Such adoration! And yet, thinks the neigh bor, "there are those who say romance is dead.” And Jack tells how long the time seems when he doesn't see her and they must get married as soon as •school closes, and what an inspiration and help Jill's letters are to him. And ■Jill tells the neighbor that she copies all the famous affinity letters she can get hold of and purposely misspells them so Jack won't guess that they aren’t original. How they met for only one hour one day last summer; how they pledged undying affection in the brief space of time, and how they •decided to climb the hill of life to gether, Jill tells the neighbor. They haven't seen one another since, but they write twice a week, and Jill just knows she'll be the only girl Jack will ever so much as glance at, and the neighbor can't blame Jack a bit, but tells Jill she had better stick to lessons for a few years yet. So Jill promises she'll try and stick it out another year if Jack will only let her. and she's going home to hide the let ter with the rest of the loving batch under the paper in the bottom bureau drawer, "where mother never looks.” No, the neighbor isn't going to breathe a word to Jill’s mother, for the neighbor has been there before, many, many years ago, and remembers hid ing letters in the botttom of an old trunk, and sometimes readin' ’em over and over again. But the neighbor is going to try to fix it so her own daugh ter will tell her all about them. But the chances are she'll run to some one else. It's funny how mothers think their daughters are going to be so different from what they themselves used to be. and not for worlds would they want the "chips of the old block" to know what clippers they were as kids. Some seem to forget that they were any thing but angels, barring wings. In her youth a sedate matron was known as "a terror for the boys.” At 15 she was married, and at 16 her first child was born. At 18 this same child managed to become engaged, but even ings her mother would send her up to bed and entertain the son-in-law-to-be' herself. This sort of courtship began to pall on the youngsters, so one day they took a trip to Brooklyn, and when they returned to their respective homes next stop above Harlem they had taken each other for better or worse. Little wife goes away to her summer home and big husband goes with his folk. But one day mother found a uelltale letter. There was riietibna fe>pay. Big husbartd was «mt for. and Wild he could take his wife and keep, her in a pumpkin shell, or anywhere else he’d a mind to. He had had one year in college, and had planned to go the next’term, but in stead he had to hustle nnd make a home. Little wife's mother didn't speak for many a month She had been planning a smart wedding for the daughter when she was about 25. Funny thing, the dads on both sides were pleased as Punch and cave the blessing straight off. Now there are three little chins, all devoted nnd hanpy, and the same story will prob ably be continued In the next genera tion. THE WOMAN WHO IS AFRAID Fear is an enemy to beauty. Worry is a rapid wrinkle maker. No one can be beautiful whose face is lined with worry wrinkles. The best remedy for smooting out the wrinkles is to forget to worry, to think beautiful thoughts and to look forward to hap piness. This, with plenty of fresh air and cleanliness, will bring better re sults than all the cold creams and plasters on the market. Worry will form wrinkles faster than massage can iron them away. If you want to be beautiful, put all worry and fear away. When you have done this the first milestone has been passed, says Edith Lowry in Woman’s World. “As a man thinketh. so he is.” All your thoughts are scattered out upon the air like seeds thrown to the winds. Whatever you sow, that shall you reap. No one who continually thinks poverty ever became rich. No one who allows her mind to dwell con tinually upon her lack of beauty ever became passably good looking. No one who allows her mind to dw’ell upon her ill health or her feeble strength will achieve health or Btrength. The woman who would make the most of her life, who would have hap piness. joy and contentment that should be her lot in life, should make it her aim to cast out fear and think the thoughts that will bring her that which she desires. Hold on your mind the thought of whatever you wish to be true. If you wish health, hold the thought that you are going to be bet ter. that to-day you are a little stronger than yesterday and that to morrow you will b" even more so. If you wish pleasant surroundings, picture them in your mind. Keep this mental picture always before you and db not. allow your thoughts to dwell upon the sordid things of the present. If you wish a peaceful old age. keep that picture in your mind and do not Feel Grouchy ■ It is not your fault —it is your liver. No one can be in good spirits when their system is not carrying off the waste products. Jutt’s Pills regulate the bile ducts and put you in a good humor with yourself and the world. At your druggist—sugar coated or olain. ■a 4 worry about poverty. Do your best and allow the problems of time to be worked out. Whatever you wish, do not worry, do not fear or you will draw unto yourself that which you do not wish and will lose what you might have. THE BACKTUMBER “Yes, I feel very strongly on the subject. I do not like the idea of the modern woman! I think that a wom an’s place, is in the home. She is mentally and physically unfitted to go out Into the business world! Let the men go out into the marts and work for the women who are at home. I may be old-fashioned, but that's my idea.” An the living exponent of the an tediluvian idea of economics throws out his chest, makes the most of his hight, and feels that magnanimity should be written all caps when de scribing him, says Barbara Lee in the Philadelphia North American. Oh, you back number! Climb up on a nice high dusty shelf with the other out-of-date editions and let us have no more of you! How you will be laughed at twenty years hence! How some of us are laughing at you now, only we are a little ahead of the time and consequently not understood. The world has moved terribly. To every back number it has given its stamp of disapproval. Every one who Insists upon clinging .to beliefs in busi ness or the broad scheme of social economics that where characteristic of our grandfathers’ age will be blind with cumulative dust of antiprogres sive Ideas. I personally dislike dusty, musty things. Let us briefly scan the history of woman. It's a long story, but change ful. At first woman had charge of the labor in the field and at home. Man went forth to the hunt or to war with enemies who would have dis possessed him of home and family. Woman hoed the land, reaped the grain, fashioned the rude huts, wove the clothing. She pounded the clay into vessels and it was she who drew the first crude lines of decoration on them that to her primitive mind meant the beautiful. It was woman who first mastered the medicinal properties of herbs and In many cases women were the prophets and the priestesses of the race. Besides this they gave children to the world; they reared them and train ed them. They unprotestlngly did these things while savage man basked in the sun, prepared skins and weap ons to fit himself for war or the chase. After ages, it was not necessary that all men go to war; then they began to share in woman’s labor. They cul tivated the field and gradually the tools passed from woman’s hand to his. But the domestic arts of home keeping and spinning and rearing chil dren were still enough for women and they were content. Quickly let us jump to modern con ditions. ’ Civilization has opened up hundreds of forms of remunerative la bor to man. An Infinite extension in the arts and sciences has been given to man. Interest in work has been the reward for the march of modern social institutions. The very progress has male labor at home comparatively mild for women. Electricity is far better than hand work for cleaning carpets; the sewing machine does better work than the an cient needle; bread is baked at scienti fic factories now and is as “good as mother made.” Woman's sphere is con tracting Itself. If a woman be not the head of a home, there is little for her to do. Shall she stay home to assist in the duties of the house? Must she allow her father to work in order that she shall be fed. clothed and amused? Shall the womjn of to-day, with a strong backbone, a reliable, educated mind an ndependence of character, sit in’ her home, or her “proper sphere,’ doing nothing of the world's great work’ Is her one object in life to look pretty until a man asks her to let him support her for the rest of her days? . . The questions have been answered as anvone with intelligent foresight might have seen. Our modern woman has become tired of being a social parasite. She has refused to accept the first offer of marriage; the stigma of “old maid” has lost Its power. She has, in a great spirit of evolutionary un rest. looked around her, beyond the front windows, and the world s work has beckoned. A strange, new world is shaping it self Women are demanding a just share in th ’ work. They are grasping out for a little portion of honored:and useful toil. There are about 8,000,000 of us I believe in this country. A back number is one who refuses to see these conditions. He will not accept the change. He cries futilely against new ways, for he cannot stem the tide. Women have clamored at the university gates and when admitted have made good. They have invaded the professions and are decidedly not failures Thev have shown a com mendable amount of business acumen and have brought intuition to make up the deficit in exiierience. They have chiseled some worth while statues, painted some good pictures, written some noteworthy books and have en tertained in their truly womanly realm of dramatic art. No mv dear back number, the game is up You are protesting against the inevitable. Conditions have arisen that cannot be met with rules of other centuries. It is 1912. It is a year that will witness greater strides of women who are demanding their rights to enter into the scheme of the world. Here is no place for back numbers. And if you wish to prove how utterly ridiculous, fatuous, inane and imper tinent are back-numbered ideas, go up to the cubbyhole of a deserted, gar ret and drag out a magazine or paper of fifty years ago. The laugh w ill be loud and long! MANNERISMS THAT SPOIL BEAUTY Did you ever notice how few people there are with smooth foreheads? About nine out of ten have very dis tinct horizontal lines across the fore head—and not only middle-aged and elderly people, by any means. I have seen girls of 12 with these disfiguring lines plainly marked, says Mme. La- Place in Woman’s World. Now, these lines are caused by the almost universal habit of raising the evebrows and wrinkling up the fore head when one is surprised, puzzled, or worried, and there isn’t a bit of Then there is the deep wrinkle be tween the eyes, known as the “frown ing line.” You know how you got that line all right, don’t you? Well, if anything, it's more disfiguring than the horizontal lines, because it gives the face a sour, unpleasant expression that is absolutely fatal to beauty. Another bad facial habit is allowing the corners of the mouth to droop. The result is a look of fretfulness, self pity, weakness and irritability, that would spoil the appearance of a Venus, in long enough thia hnhit THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912. 1 Children Cry for Fletcher’s f AV b! Jil The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of— and has been made under his per z sonal supervision since its infancy. 1 KCCC+i&Zi Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and *‘Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. will cause deep, unsightly telltale wrin kles at the corners of the mouth. Someone has said that it is abso lutely Impossible to feel depressed or low-spirited so long as you keep the corners of the mouth curved upwafd. And, do you know, there’s a great deal of truth in it? Try it next time you get the blues. “But," you protest. "I have these habits, and at this day it is too late to get rid of them.” Well, that’s just where you and I differ—you can get rid of them. In the first place, of course, you must banish the bad mental habits that lie baek of them. A wrinkled forehead shows a wrinkled mentality, and a drooping mouth is the evidence of dropping sp'rits. Cultivate a sane, healthy, calm, courageous way of looking at life. Don't stew and fret and worry over small perplexities and problems and troubles. Don’t ever, ever, EVER allow yourself to pity yourself. Then when you find yourself me chanically droppping back into the old bad mannerisms, just simply stop it. Keep it In mind, pay attention to it. If you find your forehead twisted into knots, your brows drawn together in a forbidding scowl, or your mouth drooping to touch tbe point of your chin. drop everything else and straighten your face out. Bring your eyebrows back where they belong— raise the corners of your mouth—there now, smile. Look pleasant, please! THE POLICEWOMAN OF LOS ANGELES The lone policewoman of Los An geles. Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, is justifying her appointment and stands as a unique figure in the profession by reason of her emphasis upon pre ventive measures. Who ever heard of a policeman advocating a “wide and fearless system of education in social hygiene among both men and women?” This is but one of the mo tives which actuates Mrs. Wells in her work, in a recent article in the Tederation Courier entitled “Are Po licewomen Needed?” Mrs. Wells says: "I mean that as a part of a sincere and scientific age we must go to the b ttom of the whole question, ele ments of which are living wages, con genial companions, safe, comfortable abodes, proper intellectual and moral stimulants, with a little mothering 'or the homeless, bottf boys and girls. "The police department has always been the place where the effect of social ills piles up in the shape of human wreckage. From this vantage point, what department of organized society should be better able to help discern the causes? “Now that the tide everywhere has set in toward prevention. It seems but reasonable to feel that sympathetic, intelligent policewomen working in all of our cities should increase the effi ciency of the police departments and help work out some of the cities' Vex ing questions. One other factor should not be underestimated; women inevi tably will take a constant and large interest and part in municipal affairs. The presence of the woman police officer gives the public spirited club woman and others a natural, usable channel through which to study causes and help apply remedies.” BOTHERED BY PLURALS The Norwegian waitress who was learning English had more trouble with her plurals than with any other diffi culty. says the New York Press. It seemed impossible tor her to acquire the trick of putting on the letter "s” at the right time and leaving it off at others. She would invariably inquire on seeing a first, helping disposed of: “Will you have more lambs?" or “Will you eat more chickens?” When cor rected for this she would take pains to ask: “Will you have one bean?" and "Will you eat one huckleberry?” Finally the constant explanations of an over-zealous mistress confused her past straightening out. There were guests staying over the week-end, and Inga took the ladv's order for a soft boiled egg. then the husband's for an other. The girl, after a moment's hes itation, walked to the dumbwaiter and said to the kitchen below: “One soft boiled egg for two!” SUFFRAGISTS AND CLOTHES It used to be good form to be a tramp if you were “Ut’ry.” It is not any more. At the Howells dinner this spring there were vyomen writers who were admirably gowned, and their hair was not the ieast bit queer. Indeed, some women writers havp come to have two distinct reputations—as writers and as dressers, says the New York Post. And just as you can’t tell any more whether a woman is literary from the cut of her clothes, by the same token yem can't’ tell to-dav whether sh° is pro or .anti-suffrage. It is comprehens ible that anybody, man or woman, consumed by some large ambition or artistic inspiration, or under the Im pulsion of some big movement—lead ing it, perhaps working for it day and night, going to jail for it —might for get to put his tie on straight or curl her bangs dally, particularly in the absorbing first stages of such a cen traligation of life and effort. But, taken by and large, people with ideas seem 'ess and legs disposed to subject the id?as to unnecessary reproach by eccentricity in externals. “Oh, well,” they seem to have concluded, "dress ing is not such a high and mighty achievement but that one can if one will.” So aesthetics wins the day, and the women who come to you to pin a votes-for-women button on your label come tastefully garbed. Not suffrage but individual taste decides the garb. Mrs. Pankhurst affects soft clinging gowns of heliotropes or grays. Mrs. William Force Scott, representing the national anti-suffrage association, looks businesslike in severe tailored suits. “Stunning” is the word that ripples around the audience when Miss Inez Mllholland or Mrs. Clarence Mackay steps out on the platform, ahd "stun ning” is Uie JjJfgmont passed pn the gown of Mrs. Dodge of the antis. You And, in short, al! sorts and conditions of clothes among pros and antis alike, just as you And all sorts of tempera ments and types on both sides of the question. WILL WOMEN DOMINATE THIS COUNTRY? Will women dominate this century? Their fitness for the task, their sad past, their promising present, their brilliant future, when they snail be queens of the world, with man grate fully aeknoldging their supremacy and rejoiced to receive favors from their bounty—all these and more of a de lightfully flattering argument are the topics of a profound study in the prob lem of the sexes from the pen of the distinguished French writer, Jean Finot. If he Is to be believed—and what woman wouldn't be convinced, when she sees it all proved by such a charm ing authority to the extent of 500 pages and more—man, the resentful, will be tamed to eat out of her hand. As we know him now—objecting to his broken windows, grudging woman her vote even in town meetings, growling over extravagance- and wrathful be cause she hasn't more children' than her respected grandmother—he will disappear; the new .woman will trans form him. So gloriously will her virtues shine, so sweely will her seductive glamour inthrall him, that he will behold in her the ideal he has sought through out the ages and, by his own selfish deeds, barred front becoming a real ity. M. Finot reviews conditions of the past, when woman was man's slave ami toy; and he dissects the condi tions of the present, when forces that are irresistible are driving women Into industrial competition with man. Any hope of diverting that Industrial ten dency he stigmatizes as simple folly. He points out the fact that intelli gence, even genius, is not a matter of sex. The very history of distin guished women needs to be revised. It is lying tradition which avers that great women have been only imita tors, only pale reflections, of the men whose intellect inspired them. In poetry, in letters, in science. In states einanship—yes, and in war—there have always been women who, considering the overpowering handicaps that have weighed upon them, displayed mental ity of the highest order and developed creative ability that owed nothing to the inspiration of man. The woman of to-morrow will, he says, without doubt forfeit some traits that have been identified with her nature in the past: bi t she must gain, others, like candor and truth, of wh’ich her position, socially and politically, robbed her in the past. The transfor mation will be for the better, and it will be accompanied by a transfor mation in man of eaual importance. The eternal feminine is no fixed quan tity. It will change, and change, and never cease its modifications. We are destined to behold a new eternal fem inine. altered by man's sympathy and delight in woman. “The coming woman.” M. Finot pro phesies. “with her widened sphere of action, with her expanded duties her profound thought, her high aspirations, must land'to man’s existence qualities that are more attractive, more beauti ful. more noble and more dignified.” HER CLEVER RUSE Close observers looking in the right direction might have noticed a tall i zjv ffow to Entertain gg* F KJ And Riddles. 73Towts, «7 Parfoe Tricks. • Fortune-tailing Secret*. 52 Mooey-Makin Secret*. 22 Funny Reading*. All l®ePo«t». J. C. Dorn. 705 S- Dearborn street. Dept 12. Chicago. IU. Kiss Only a Clean Shaven Man If Any Should a girl kiss a clean-shaven or a whiskered man, if any? This very delicate yet vitally im portant question has been answered scientifically and definitely by a dis tinguished professor of the Paris Academy of Medicine, in an article in the New York American. His experiment proves that It is just one hundred times as dangerous from a pathological point of view to kiss a mustached or whiskered man as a clean-shaven one. Prof. Durand decided that this ques tion, which has been much discussed in a loose way, ought to be settled scientifically. -He secured the services of a young and healthy woman, who was w’llling to submit to the experi ment for the sake of science, and a couple of doctors of his staff. The young woman was first thor oughly sterilized. All the billions and billions of germs that lurked in her lips, eyes, hair and other external parts of her organism w’ere completely de stroyed. She was then locked up in a germ proof room, in the professor s laboratory, used in bacteriological ex periments. Elaborate precautions were taken to guard the feminine culture medium against contamination during the absence of the professor. Os the tw’o doctors one was clean shaven, while the other wore the round, fuzzy beard and mustache which have become traditional among French medical men. The professor took his two assistants out for a walk among the microbes and bacteria of Faris. He took them for a walk along the grand ooulevards, the resort of tho gavest Parisian butterflies of both sexes. He led them through a great department store near the Louvre, which was filled with women repre senting every class of Parisian society. Then he took them through the Louvre Itself, which happened to contain at the moment a fine assortment of art ists. He steered them through Halles Centrales, the markets which feed practically the whole of Paris. He allowed them to jostle a crowd of fac tory girls coming out for lunch. Finally he led them back, microbe laden. to his laboratory. First he or dered the clean-shaven doctor to go in and kiss the culture-medium firmly and closely for two minutes. The pro fessor held his stop-watch to see that the period was not exceeded. When young woman, with pinkish hair, come out of the family hotel and walk rapid ly toward the nearest par stop. On her way she dropped a good sized package that she had been carrying under her arm. It seemed strange that a woman could lose so large a package and not notice It, but she was preoc cupied with shopping lists or some thing and kept right on going, says the Philadelphia Ledger. A man walking behind rushed to the rescue, however. He jfrabbed the package off the sidewalk and quickened his pace to overtake her. But she was hurrying to catch her car. which was approaching, and he didn t gain much. So he decider to call after her. “I hep your pardon,” he shouted. She didn’t seem to hear. „ *‘l sav. 1 beer your pardon, lady.” ne repeated, “but you dropped this pack- Still she didn’t hear him. or, at least, didn’t assume that his words were ad dressed at her. The man broke into a run. She was climbing on the car. and there was no time to lose. The conductor signaled to the motorman, tbe car started just as the panting rescuer of the package reached the corner. He was too late “Well, she can do without her old package!” he growled to himself. Ho decided to open the thing up and see what was in it. The chances wore good that there was something val uable. he figured, for a fool of a wom an like that would drop a valuable package even more readily than one of no conseouenc’. He untied the cord, removed the pa per wrapping, and found the cold, still remains of a lunch—throe banana peel ings the bone out of a sirloin steak, and 'two or throe dry crusts of bread The woman had boon doing llgnt housekeeping In a non-housekeeping hotel suite and had neatly disposed of her cooking debris. HOW TO GROW OLD GRACEFULLY Make up your mind not to be a giddy loking old woman. You can have your attire up to date and at the same lime dignified. For instance, you need not affect habit skirts. In their stead have inverted box pleats, Directolre postilions and straight back widths gathered on to a waistband. Coming into fashion with the pannier is the eighteenth century sacque of the type worn by the late Mrs. George Washington. Study her portraits and notice how well she carried it, con scious probably that It was eminently well suited to the hip development of an elderly gentlewoman, advises a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. Have a variety of long shawls or scarfs of lace and the various finely embroidered fabrics. Correctly draped, thev fall into graceful long lines about the figure and disguise all too full curves. And don't affect exceedingly decollete evening gowns; on an elderly lady they look even more Immodest than on a young matron or a girl. Wear the palest of pinks and blues if you wish to and make white a stand by' for frocks of all kinds. The light shades will become you better than the darker ones, and there is no rea son why you should be restricted to lavenders or grays as a relief for black costumes. That delicate tints are only for the youthful is a fallacy long since exploded. Be especially careful about your hats. Don't let your favorite milliner per suade you to wear a shape that tilts over one eye or covers the forehead, and when she shows you the marked down ticket on a picture hat shame her by showing her the date of your birth. An elderly woman, fat or thin, under a wide brimmed chapeau is one of the seven wondrously ridiculous spectacles which this world affords. So soon as you've celebrated your fiftieth birth anniversary don't begin to wear square-toed shoes. Your feet will be equally comfortable and look younger if you put them in very long shoes that are moderately pointed. Turn your back determinedly upon white hosiery. It isn't really a mark of eminent respectability, as so many elderly ladies seem to Imagine, and in a few hours' time it begins to look grimy. Moreover. white stockings thicken the appearance of the ankles, and ffiuge ankles —they must show themselves occasionally in public—are unspeakably ugly. And. in addition to being ugly, they're vulgar. Wear gloves and corsets and collars that are comfortably loose. If you squeeze your hands, your hips or your throat, you’ll be worried into irritabil ity, and that state of mind makes for a forbidding expression. Beyond all else the elderly lady's face must ex press serenity of mind. When first you adopt eyeglasses have those with gold rims. They're smart est of all. and if you start with them the kissing had been completed, the professor brushed off the young cul ture-medium’s Ups and allowed the in visible flora that hung there to drop into a Petri dish designed to hold mi crobes. Then he thoroughly sterilized the culture-medium’s lips. Now it was the turn of the whis kered doctor. He was ordered to go in and kiss the sterilized subject in the same manner for the same period as the other man. Once more the pro fessor brushed off the culture-medium's lips and collected the bacterial harvest in a second Petri dish. Then the professor made a careful study of the two dishes. He estimated, that the space kissed amounted to two square inches. FTom the dish used to collect the offsprings of the clean-shav en man’s kiss, he counted 80,000 mi crobes, which is practically nothing, when 'we consider the enormous preva lence of microbes in our common sur roundings. The few dangerous mi crobes among them were present in such small quantities that they would hardly have hurt any One. Next he examined the crop, collected after the whiskered.man's kiss. In this he found upwards of 80,000.000 microbes of all kinds, or about one hundred times as much as the clean-shaven man's kiss yielded. Among them were about 20,000,000 germs of tuberculosis, 10,000.000 germs of typhoid. 5,000,000 germs of diphtheria, 1.000,000 germs of whooping cough, 1,000,000 germs of measles and 500,000 germs of scarlet fever. It is well recognized that a heavy load of bacterial Infection is usually needed to convey a disease. The in fection of the whiskered man’s dis ease was dangerous to a point that under predisposing conditions would lie likely to result fatally. The clean-shaven man’s kiss, on the other hand, was so lightly charged with infection that it was practically innocuous. The. bacterial crop from the whis kered man’s kiss, after it had been al lowed to grow- for four days in a high ly nutritious culture-medium, had in creased to a mass of deadly germs, which if let loose might have destroyed the entire population of Paris. The result of cultivating the bac terial crop from the clean-shaven man's kiss was very different. From the starting point the harmless mi crobes predominated so greatly over the harmful ones that during the pro cess of intensive cultivation they en tirely crowded the deadly ones out of existence. you'll always have them so rimmed. Otherwise the convenient time for get ting the golden framed glasses may never arrive. If you can possibly avoid infliction, do not have artificial teeth on a plate. Have crowns put on each disintegrat ing tooth by the best dentist you can hear of. Hundreds of dollars expended for expert dentistry are not wasted dollars, and they’ll save you twice the amount in doctors’ bills, for the food that isn’t well masticated can't be thoroughly digested. Don't say “If I’m alive,” “If I’m well enough,” or "If I have the strength” when accepting an Invita tion. Accept enthusiastically, and if at the last moment “you're engaged In dying” send word to that effect. Your would-be hostess will understand. Beware of cultivating cranky no tions. People always speak of "old cranks" never of “young cranks.” Also avoid referring to the customs and Ideals of "my time.” The pres ent is your time just as much as a portion of the past belonged to you, and as part of the future ..will be Iden tified with your interests. Don’t grow old at all. Grow less young by slow degrees. It's perfectly easy. Hit Bright Boy. “I want to tell you a bright thing that my little boy said this morning.” “AU right, go ahead.” “His grandmother caught her heel on one of the stairs when she was com ing down to breakfast, and had a nar row escape from falling. When she told us about it, Willie spoke up, say ing: ’lt’s a lucky thing that grand ma is well-heeled.’ Pretty good, eh? My wife's mother has a considerable fortune, you know.” “But where is the connection?" "Why, well-heeled, you know. Pret ty bright for a 10-year-old, wasn’t it?” "I don’t get the significance of it.” "My dear fellow, you certainly un derstand that people who have plenty of money are often said to be well heeled, don’t you?” “Yes, I’ve frequently heard that ex pression used in connection with them, but what had that to do with your wife’s mother’s escape from a tum ble?” "Can't you see the point? She would have fallen downstairs if she had not been well-heeled—that is if her heel had not been a good one. You see the connection now. don’t you?” “No. As I understand "it. she had a poor heel. If it had been a good one she wouldn’t have caught it on the step, would she? How old did you say your boy was?” “Oh. never mind. Confound it. what’s the use wasting time on people who have no sense of humor!” “But wait a minute. Let us reason this thing out. If your boy’s grand mother has a bad heel and is worth “Go to the deuce! I'm in a hurry.” An Exaggeration. 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D„ of Cincinnati, 0., r well and favorably known in that city as a learned physician —a gradu ate of the Cincinnati Pulte Medical College, and after ward received Clin ical Instructions abroad, and • has since 1890 been a. Specialist for the treatment of kid ney diseases, be lieves that he has discovered a rem i edy to successfully 1 treat Bright’s Dis ease, Diabetes and other kidney troubles, either in first, intermediate or last stages. I.w Mott says: “My method alms to ar rest the disease, eve nthough it* has destroyed most of the kidneys, and thereby preserves intact that portion not yet destroyed. The medicines I use are intended to neutralize the poisons that form a toxin that de stroys the cells in the tubes in the kidneys.” The Evening Post, one of the'lead ing daily papers of Cincinnati, O„ hearing of Dr. Mott’s success, asked if he would be willing to give a public test to demonstrate his faith in his treatment, and prove its merits by treating five persons suffering from Bright’s Disease and Diabetes, free of charge, the Post to select the cases. Dr. Mott accepted the conditions and twelve persons were selected. After a most critical chemical anal ysis and microscopic examination had been made, five out of the twelve were decided upon. These cases were placed under Dr. Mott’s care and re ports published each week ip the Post. Tn three months all were discharged by’ Dr. Mott as cured. The persons treated gained their normal weight, strength and appetite and were able to resume their usual work. Anyone desiring to read the details of this public test can obtain copies by send ing to Dr. Mott for them. This public demonstration gave Dr. Mott an international reputation that has brought him into correspondence with people all over the world, and several noted Europeans are num bered among those who have taken his treatment and been cured, as treatment can be administered effec tively by mail. The Doctor will correspond with those who are suffering with Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or any kidney' trouble whatever, and will he pleased to give his opinion free to those who will send him a description of their symptoms. An essay which the Doc tor has prepared about kidney trouble and describing his new meth od of treatment will also be mailed by him. Coraespondence for this for this purpose should be addressed to IRVINE K. MOTT, M. D„ 902 Mitchell Building. Cincinnati, O. ernments have carried on for years. “Our opponents exaggerate the dif ficulties. They are like the man from Canada. "A man from Canada sat in the lob by of a New York hotel listening to cold weather yarns. These yarns gave very convincing examples of the suf fering and hardship occasioned by last, winter's excessive cold. . Finally the Canadian coughed and said: "Your cold weather yarns, gentle men, make a Canadian smile. You z think you've had a cold winter dowrp * Eaet here, but jvay. dfcft’, last November clean through t* ~ March —” . "He paused, struck his arm with his fist and said: “From last November clean through to March our hot water oottles froze in our beds every blessed night.” Road Salesman’t Auto. From the New York Sun. There are nowadays men combining the work of advertising and selling goods yvlio in going about in the city and in covering a territory within a radius of a hundred miles of town use an automobile, having a machine built and equipped for the work. An outfit of this character lately encountered on a North river ferry boat consists of a trim looking ma chine with plenty of power and with a folding* carriage top and other ac cessories to make traveling comforta ble in any sort of weather, while built up at the back in place of a tonneau is a boxed-in, weather-proof body of the capacity of about two good-sized trunks and having doors opening at the rear end. In this boxed-in body may be carried a supply of samples of the one line of goods that this salesman advertises and sells, and also display cards and materials for window’ displays. On all his trips the salesman takes with him a chauffeur to drive and look after the machine while he at tends to business. With such an out fit he never has to wait for trains, as he would have to do if he were traveling by rail. He can roll into a town and put out samples and dis play material and take orders for goods and move right along whenever he’s ready and in any direction. In this manner he can get to a lot of places in the city in the course of a day, and he can cover half a dozen towns in Jersey and get back to the city the same day, or with goods for replenishing his stock shipped to him by rail to some convenient interme diate point he can, for instance, cover 1-ong Island from end to end in four days, a trip that made by rail would take ten. —Miss Freda Lorraine Walker has been awarded the first prize for her es say on municipal government by the Woman’s Club of Woburn. Mass. The second prize was won by a boy, Waldo H. Shattuck. Both prizes were open to the students of the Woburn publla schools.