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With the Long Bow.
Professor Barker of New York has out a booklet on
"How to Improve Your Face." He also tells how to
strengthen the muscles of the jaw and "develop the neck."
If your face troubles you, now is the time to have it im
proved before it gets set.
A hypnotic magazine states that a man, if he wishes to
live to a good old age, should flood himself to the neck with
distilled water. The best time to drink it is before break
fast. Possibly hypnotism might save even an iron constitu
tion from rusting out under so much moisture.
After reading Miss Tarbell's cold analysis of his char
acter, Mr. Rookefeller is likely to turn gratefully to the
blessed life and writings of Jane Ann Stamper.
The Eldorado (Kan.) Republican disapproves of the
United States senate. Thomas Benton Murdock, the editor,
refers to the members of that august body as "whisky
drinking, poker-playing political old reprobates" also,
"roped and branded old barnacles" furthermore, "bald
headed, gravy-eyed old guzzlers" and again, "that inani
mate aggregation of bought-and-paicl-for old codgers who
blink their eyes in imbecile stupidity." A senate made up
of Kansas editors would slap the oil trust on the wrist and
have our vested interests doing a ghost dance in the lobbies
before the second week of the session.
Unless Ida Tarbell is mistaken, and Ida is particular
about her facts, young Mr. Rockefeller ought to get his
grandpa to go into his Sunday school class.
Vesuvius has her back arched and is throwing sparks.
Nobody but Americans want to climb the volcano today,
and they, like drunken men, seem to be providentially cared
for.
Mr. Edison says that it is not working many hours a
day that kills you, provided your work is as enjoyable as
play. It is the kicking yourself thru a hurried day of mean,
objectionable work that makes you nervous and restless.
"Altho I work a good many hours a day," Mr. Edison says,
"my life is a very quiet and restful one. I do not worry,
I am fond of fun, and. I like good fello-ws I as clear
that Mr. Edison while he is working is having fun.
The pioneer 16-inch, breach loading, coast defense gun
which cost $200,000 is lying in a ditch at Sandy Hook, and
may not be used again. The weight of the gun is so great
as to make it almost impossible for its builders to construct
a carriage strong enough. Another objection is that too
many men are required to handle it. More than half a ton
of powder, costing $285, is needed to fire the gun's projec
tile, which costs $600 and is about as tall as an ordinary
man. In case of a foreign war, it is likely that the gun
would be raised from the ditch and some attempt made to
use it for the pebble it throws -would go thru, any warship
like a hungry tramp thru a cherry pie.
Mr. Durr of New Rochelle, N. Y., is a carpenter. He is
35 years old, single, and the picture of health. The other
day he inserted the following advertisement in a Stew York
paper:
I agree to sell my two hearts, the buyer being entitled to
sanie after my death. (Signed) A. Durr.
Care of the Central Hotel, New Eochelle, N. Y.
Up to a few years ago Durr did not know that he pos
sessed two hearts. This was discovered when he called a
physician to treat him for a slight attack of sickness. Since
then he nas submitted to examinations by many of the most
celebrated heart specialists in the country.
Recently a prominent specialist, tout 9. heartless one, ac-
tually offered Durr $10,000 if he would allow him to per
form an operation and remove one of the hearts. This the
carpenter declined to do, as he feared he might die and not
be able to enjoy the money. If Durr .succeeds in getting
his price for his body, the money will have to be paid over
immediately, and he will give the purchaser a deed, good
after death. It would seem that a man with two hearts, if
he could lay off one for a rest and pump blood with the
other, might be able to live so long a time that he would
wear the waiting heart specialists all out.
Durr's relations with the other sex, too, are likely to be
complicated by misunderstandings. He might sing to one
girl the old song: Thou hast* this heart of mine
So firmly bound to thine
None other\ can I love
6 Save thee alone.
And while^he was speaking the exact truth regarding
perhaps his principal working heart, yet he would have an
other aortal organ pumping away that might pick out an
auburn-haired girl to become attached to. Then where would
Durr be? There are disadvantages in having a bunch of*
hearts working for you. A. J. R.
What Women Want to Know*
FLUIDS.What is the volatile oil used in mak
ing liquid gilding fluids, gold paint, etc., popularly
sold on the market?Subscriber.
Bronzing liquid is usually sold or mixed with the gold.
There are two kinds of this liquid, but the one mixed with
turpentine is most commonly used.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW.
BIRDS' NESTS.Please tell me what would prevent moths\
from getting into birds' nests which are used for orna
ments ?Inquirer.
A THREAD 1,000 MILES LONG.
'^Thursday Evening,
"E%e nature'm walk*, shoot tolly aa It tlha.
of a city have to act. The grafter is not going
retire of his own 'accord any more than a violent
colored man is going to carry a safety razor.
A Chicago magazine advertises what it calls the "New
Thought Corset," a "corset that breathes." We trust that
this corset will not breathe on us after eating the succulent
Bermuda vegetable.
ISLAND cotton is the best kind," said a south-
J- O erner. "It is finer and silkier than any other cotton
in the world. A pound of it can be spun into 4,770 miles
of thread.
"For an experiment, once, in the English town of Man
chester, a skilled spinner spun a pound of Sea Island cotton
into a single thread 1,000 miles long.
"Then, for another experiment, he took another pound
of cotton, and spun it into as many hanks as he could get.
He got 10,000 hanks in all, and the yarn in each of them
measured 840 yards. Thus, out of a pound of cotton, 4,770
I miles of yarn was produced. This yarn, tho, was too fine
to be pi any practical utility.
Jt Those two experiments made a superb advertisement
for the cotton of the south.'''
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HE WANTS TO BE IN IT.
The Lake DwellerHi, there. Don't leave us out!
count, even if we are at the lake\ 4iC
A String of Good Stories.
"I caaaot tell how the truth may be
I say the tale as 'twas said to me."
SELF-CONVTCTED.
GROUP of brokers were discussing the new California
law which makes eavesdropping over the telephone a
crime punishable by imprisonment. A number of stories
of telephone eavesdropping were narrated. Henry Clews
said:
There is a woman who used to have a party-wire phone
a phone whose wire she shared with three other persons.
Each of these four always heard the ring that called any one
of the other three up, and each, by taking down her re-
ceiver gently and putting it to her ear, could hear anything
that might be said.
"One of the womenMrs. Greenwas suspected of
eavesdropping in this way. She was known to have repeated
scandalous and yet true things about her three telephone
partners, and she could only have learned these things by
listening to what went on over the wire.
Well, one day,, a ring summoned the youngest of the
four to the phone. She said, 'Hello, who is it? and a
familiar voice told her that it was a friend in the suburbs.
'Look here,' said this friend I admired immensely
that white gown you wore at our luncheon. Do you mind
telling me where you got it?
'No, indeed,' replied the lady of the par ty wire. I
got it at So-and-so's.'
'Would you mind if I got some white serge like \tV
'"Why, not at all.'
'How much does that serge cost a yard?'
'Oh,' said the party wire lady, 'you are coming down
town tomorrow. I'll tell you then.',
'But why can't you tell me now?'
'Because,' was the reply, 'there's a Mrs. Green who
shares this wire with me, and she listens to everything
I say.'
'Oh, very well,' said the other. 'Goodby.'
"'Good began the first lady, but/she was'inter
rupted.
'Wait one minute,' said a new voice, a venomous
voice. I -want vou~to understand that what you have just
said is a lie-, and if you are not very careful you'll be ar-
rested for slander.'
THE RIGHT PLACE.
^""PHE late Judge Albion W. Tourgee," said a Chicagoan,
1 "wa very fond of children, and innumerable were
the stories of children that he had at his tongue's end.
I dmed with him in Bordeaux one night last fall, and
with the coming of^the coffee the talk turned to the little
ones.
"Judge Tourgee told a hundred children's anecdotes, but
the one I best remember concerned a tiny relative of his.
"He said he found this relative, a little girl, in a sorrow
ful mood one day, and he said to her:
'What is the matter with little Mary?'
'Papa gave me whacky-whacla,' Mary replied.
'Bad papa! And where did he whacky-whack Mary?'
'On the back of my turn,' replied the little girl."
What the Market Affords:
AM LOAF, 13 cents.
Veal loaf, 25 cents.
Chicken loaf, 25 cents.
Truffled grouse ox wild duck (small eans), 25 cents.
Salmon, a la Russe, 40 cents.
Potted and deviled ham, 5 to 25 cents.
Carrots, beets and turnips, two bunches for cents.
Cucumbers, 5 to 10 cents.
Telephone peas, 50 cents a peck.
Tidbits for the picnic basket are now much sought, and
all kinds of canned and potted meats and fish are having
a large sale in consequence. The various kinds of meat
loaves are an agreeable change from the better-known potted
and deviled meats. A novelty of a table delicacy shop is
an Italian importation, Saumon a la Russe, salmon put up
in oil with several varieties of "vegetables about it as a
garnish. It is an attractive looking and tasty morsel. Truf
fled grouse and wild duck are savory bits for the epicure.
Telephone peas are about the finest thing afforded by
the vegetable market, and coming along with them are tiny
little carrots that make a delicious and very pretty dish
cooked with the peas. These go especially well with either
lamb or boiled salmon.
"The following salad is seasonable and will be very ac
ceptable in the warm weather which July should bring:
Pineapple Salad in Tomato Cups.Skin small, perfect,
yose-red tomatoes, and with a pointed spoon remove the
centers. Pare and shred with a silver fork a ripe pineapple,
adding a teaspoon of lemon juice, two tablespoons of pow
dered sugar, twelve radishes (peeled and cut in dice) and
a cup of mayonnaise dressing. Fill into the prepared to-
matoes, setting on ice to chill and ripen. Garnish each with
a plume of crisp parsley and serve on a bed of heart lettuce
leaves.
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AMES," said Mrs. Shumaker, "th^tele-
phone men have come to see about put
ting in the telephone."
"Very well," said Shumaker with that
exasperating indifference to domestic cri
ses that has driven many a woman to an
early* grave. And he returned to his
newspaper.
"-But where shall we have it put?"
"Any old place, my dear."
"But, James," said Mrs. Shumaker, with an intonation
that her husband knew, I have asked you for days where
to have that telephone put and it isn't decided yet."
"Well, isn't that just a little your fault, my dear?"
asked Shumaker. "Every time you have asked me I have
said that it should be put in the rear of the hall. That spot
really does, in spite of constant and unexplained objection,
appeal to me as the very place where it might best hang to
suit your convenienceeverybody's convenience."
Mrs. Shumaker sniffed contemptuously. "What if bur
glars were to come? How could we possibly get down there
in the night? One of
the chief reasons for
having the thing put in
is for burglar protec
tion. Suppose a fire
started in the cellar
and our escape from
upstairs was cut off,
how could we get
downstairs to summon
the fire department ?"$
"Well," said Shu
maker- wearily,
you.
piefer upstairs, for
goodness sake have it
placed upstairs and let
the matter drop. The
thing is for your con
venience, and if you
feel it is for your con
venience to trot up a
flight of stairs when- "For goodness',
evdr the telephone bell
tinkles, far be it from me to suggest the rear of the down
stairs hall again."
"Of course," said Mrs. Shumaker thoughtfully, I would
have to run upstairs every time the bell rang if I have it
put upstairs, and that might grow tiresome. But, then, it
ought to be there if burglars ever
"My dear," said Shumaker, "w have been keeping
house about fifteen years now, haven't we?"
"Yes said Mrs. Shumaker, with some doubt in her
voicedoubt of his ultimate purpose in asking the question.
"And in all that tune has anyone ever rattled our front
doorknob even with a view of getting unless that person
had a legitimate right
"Nonsense!" said Mrs. Shumaker. "They may get in
tonight and take everything we've managed to accumulate
during those fifteen years you speak of. Well, if upstairs
won't do, why don't you suggest somewhere else?"
"That's easy. I suggest the rear of the downstairs
hall."
sake, have it placed upstairs
and let the matter drop."
"Jam'es, I shall scream if you continue to talk about
that perfectly impossible
place. Why will you be so
provoking?"
I have no other place to
suggest I arot willing, even
anxious, that you should suit
yourself about it, anyway."
"But you won't help me
a bit!
"Now, you just choose a
spot yourself and hang that
blamed thing on it for orna
ment or use, just as you de
cide. Consider the roof, the
bathtub, under the kitchen
sink
"James, you are perfect
ly useless. I had to work
like a mad woman to get
your consent to have that
modern convenience here and
I have all the trouble of get-j
ting it placed, and when I
"James' I shall scream if you continue
to talk about that perfectly lmpos- come to you lo help all you
sible place." ga i r&
Shumaker whistled softly. "Becausee yoo asked mLe the
best place as I view the situation and I tell you what I
consider the best place. Here comes the telephone man.
Now you let him settle the matter for you, and then in the
future you blame him if things don't suit you."
Shumaker was still whistling softly when his wife asked
and the man answered the crucial question. But he stopped
in time to hear his wife's reply.
"Cestainly," she said, "that's what we have decided on.
It will be hidden by the stairs, and it would be very incon
venient to have it upstairs. In the rear of the hall then."
Shumaker began to whistle again, softly and slowly, but
meeting his wife's steely eye, he got up quietly and started
downtown.Chicago News.
A NEW LINE IN INSURANCE.
4 HAVE struck out a new line for myself," said an in
1 "surance agent. "Instead of soliciting insurance in the
old and noted companies, I am now going about organizing
mutual insurance societies among church congregations,
school teachers, telegraph operators, grocers, and the like.
"There is a church in Pennsylvania that has run its own
fire insurance company for five years. A year's protection
in this church company only costs 25 cents per $1,000, and
at this incredibly low rate the company is steadily building
up a surplus. It was founded by the pastor, a kind of social
reformer. He says that the big insurance concerns are con
ducted extravagantly, and charge extravagant rates. He
&\yz that all churches ought to estblish mutual insurance
societies for fire and life. -Paying no rent and no salaries,
these societies could give the very best protection at rates
unheard of in the past.
I took this minister's hint, and I resigned my job as
a solicitor with one of the richest companies in the world,
ond I began to go about from church to church, and from
society to society, giving little, simple lectures on the ad
vantage of mutual societies, and the method of establish
ing them.
"What has been the result? The result has been most
encouraging. In three churches, and among six trade
societies, in the past month, I have been hired to form
mutual societies, five for fire, three for life, and oe for
fiie and life both,
I am paid for forming these societies, and there is a
contract that makes me the general auditor of each of them
at a reasonable salary. Altogether, I hope to do very well.
I hope to establish mutuals all over the east, and to be kept
busy going from one to another of them, auditing the
bookj^ 1,
"Well,'goodby. I must be off now. I address a min
isters' meeting at 2 on 'Churches That InsureA3 Proved
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MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS.
Room 64, Loan and Trust building. 313 Nicol
let avenue, Minneapolis. Telephone, N. W. Main
1225
All Sunshine news for publication in the Sun
shine department of The Minneapolis Journal
should be addressed to Miss Eva Blanchard, 138
E Fifteenth street
Not In Vain.
Did yoo ever hear of a man who had
striven all his life faithfully and singly
toward an object and in no measure at
tained it
They do not toil
Content with their allotted task
They i but grow they do not aslc,
A richer 1p* a higher sphere.
But In their loveliness appear,
And grow and smile, and do their best.
And unto God they leave the rest
Farnlngham.
Definite Work.
Definite work is not always that which
is cut and squared for us, but that which
comes as a claim upon the conscience,
whether ft is nursing in a hospital, or
hemming a handkerchief.B. M. Sewell.
The Design of God.
"We do not always percetve that even
the writing of a note of congratulations,
the fabrication of something intended as
an offering of affection, our necessary in
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IKTSBKATIOK AL HEADaTJAKTEES. STATE OFFICERS.
President, Mrs Noble Darrow, 816 Twenty-Bee
Now York, Cynthia West- ond avenue S, Minneapolis Telephone T.
1402
First Vice PresidentMrs Grace W. Tubb*.
If a man constantly aspires- 9
is he not elevated' Did a man ever try
heroism, magnanimity, truth, ^sincerity,
and find that there was no advantage in
themthat it was a vain endeavor.
H D. Thoreau.
The Lilies.
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Second Vice PresidentMrs. J. A Brant.
Third Vice PresidentMrs N A Sprong.
Fourth Vice PresidentMrs 3 Wilson.
Fifth Vice PresidentMrs E W Kingsley. f
Sixth Vice President-Mrs H. Heming. I
SecretaryMiss Corlnne De Laittre.
TreasurerMiss Eva Blanchard.
Corresponding SecretaryMrs A. A Selser.
OrganizerMiss Lillian/M Ellis.
July 1st to July 4.
CHICAGO and Return.. $12.00
ST. L0UES and Return..$l6.50
DUBUQUE andReturn ...$7.80
ROCK ISLAND and Ret..$9.65
DAVENPORT and Ret....$9.65
Also to many other Burlington
Koute Points. Inquire for res
ervations and particulars at
New City Ticket Office:
tercourse with characters which have no
congeniality with our own, or hours ap- I
parently trifled away in the domestic cir
cle, may be made oy us the performance
of a most sacred and blessed 'work, even
carrying out, in our feeble measure, the
design of God for the increase of happi
ness. S W. Stephens.
Borrowing Trouble.
I saw a delicate flower that had grown
up two feet high between the path and
the wheel track. An Inch more to the
right or left had sealed its fate, or an inch
higher, and yet it lived, to aounsh as
much as if it had a thousand acres of
untrodden space around it, and never
knew the danger it incurred It did not
borrow trouble, nor invite an evil fate by
apprehending it Henry Thoreau.
Hope.
Every day is a fresh beginning
Every morn is the world made new
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning,
Here is a beautiful hope for you,
A hops for me and a hope for you
Susan Coohdge.
God's Will.
Ev'ery hour comes with some litf fagot
of God's will festened upon its back
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