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SPARE
With the Long Bow
K Nature's walks, shoot tolly as It Alts.'
A Winsome German Lad Who Tipped the Astonished
Hay Scales to the Tune of 525 PoundsStory of
the Weightiest Man in Europe Who Died Recently
at Willenberg.
WILLENBEBGm
East Prussia, is in mourning for
Herr Hans Fromm, proprietor of a hotel there.
Herr From had notjeen his own heels for
years. He had the distinction of being the heaviest
man-in Europe, for whenever he stepped on the scale it
immediately ran up to 525 pounds and remained there.
A man weighing 200 pounds is considered plump, but
you would have to double him and add twenty-five
pounds to reach Herr Fromm's embonpoint. Fromm
stood five feet eight and one-half inches in his socks,
and measured seventy-two inches across the chest, by
seventy-nine inches around the waist. He always en
joyed a magnificent appetite and was of a very happy
disposition, altho, owing to his bulk, locomotion soon
became troublesome to him and he seldom left the
house.
Physicians tells us that the human body, at lease
90 per cent of it, is made up of water, but we cannot
refrain from the suspicion in Herr Fromm's case that
there was a little beer thrown in.
Herr Fromm had no inclinations in favor of aero
planing. The solid earth was good enough for him.
It is lucky that we do not carry our bulk into the
next world, otherwise the big innkeeper's first at
tempts to use wings might have been the cause of
much innocent merriment along the celestial grand
stands.
Our talkative old friend H. H. Eogers unbosomed
himself quite freely on the Standard Oil matter after
young Garfield and the president had warmed over Ida
Tarbell's soprano thunder and served it up to a de
lighted and astonished country on a silver platter.
The Fargo Forum recently accepted the following
advertisement-
WantedBids from competent physicians for per
forming an operation for appendicitis. The patient
is a strong man, 30 years old, five feet, ten inches tall,
weighs 178 pounds, is forty-two inches around the
waist. Outside incision need not be over four to five
inches and need not be over five or six inches in depth.
Further plans and specifications furnished on applica
tion
If the laws of competition are allowed to woik,
there is no reason why the price of operations to con
sumers should not be materially reduced.
Attention has recently been called in the Open
Court to a little known Chinese book, so far untrans
lated, called
Yin Chih Wen," or "The Tract of
Heaven's Quiet Way." The word "yin" means "in
secret" either the sense of "unheeded" or "un-
ostentatious It also conveys the idea of anything
possessed with a deeper meaning, anything mysteri
ous and the two words together, yin chih, denote tho
quiet way of heaven, which 'works out the ends of
divine dispensation, invisibly yet unfailingly, to the
awe and astonishment of every sapient observer.
modern hymrf says:
"God mo\ es a mysterious way
His wonders to perform."
The edition of the Open Court says that if he had
to translate these lines into Chinese, he might render
the words a mysterious way'' very appropriately
by yin chih.
It is an old maxim of the traditional wisdom of
China that these quiet ways of heaven should be imi
tated by ran \s heaven lets its sun shine upon good
and evil, wjtnout discrimination and also without ex
pecting lewaid or advantages so man should do good
to Ins fellows, neiform acts of rectitude, of justice and
of mere y, show benevolence and kindness toward all
in an uryuii+ial sunt without cherishing ulterior mo
tives, without hope of reward, and without desire for
piaise. The man AVIIO thus imitates "Heaven's quiet
way" in urosten+at'oasly realizing the ideal of
heavenly goodness is truly virtuous, and so Yin Ch'h
has also come to denote a condition which may be
characterized as, and translated by "secret virtue,"
reminding us of the injunction not to let our right
hand know what the left hand is doing.
A commentator on Yin Chih says:
"The human soul is most intelligent and its essen
tial nature is mtiinsically good. All our moral rela
tions and daily actions have their reasons why they
should be so. When heaven above created beings it
mysteriously endowed them with something to guide
(ting) them, and this something appears when the
people practice goodness. Indeed it is the guiding
(ting) principle of creation that good men never lose
an opportunity to do what is good. If you really prac
tice it (i. e., the good) your heart "it is not neces
saty that others should know of it, for there is some
thing the unseen which fully regulates and "de-
termines (ting) your affairs."
The Chinese -Tile whose highest ideal is Heaven's
Unostentatious Yvay we do not admit to our land, tho
we are willing to sell them our goods. The Chinese
do not all live up to this Way as we do not live up
to our highest religious ideals. But there is something
in the mind of the race to give it the tremendous
vitality we see in it. The doctrine of Yin Chih may,
perhaps, explain it. A. J. R.
ribs, 10 cents a pound.
New beets, 5 cents a bunch.
Rutabagas, 15 cents a peck.
Saratoga chips, 20 cents a pound.
Doughnuts, 10 cents a dozen.
Evaporated apricots, 15 cents a
pound.
Vegetable cutlets used in place of
meat in a vegetarian family are made
this way: Half a dozen carrots, a
turnip and an onion are all boiled sepa
rately until they are very tender. Then
they are mashed together and mixed
with a cupful of cooked lentils drained
as dry as possible. The mixture is sea
soned with curry powder, minced pars
ley and salt, an egg is incorporated to
bind it together, and if it is too moist
to handle a few bread crumbs are
One of the new slip patterns for the
H*| baby is shown here. The old-time skirt
[/Win* in back with pins oi buttons,
added. It is then made into croquette
shapes patted flat, dipped into beaten
eggj rolled in bread curmbs and rWed
in deep fat. Serve on a hot dish with
parsley as a garnish, and the uninitiated
will mistake them for a meat cutlet of
an unknown kind.
The new beets are delicious served
with a butter sauce. Select new beets of
upon which ie tender little back must
rest, is .now a thing of the long ago, as
it is the skirt with shirrings about the
waist. The skirt shown opens on the
shoulders, a feature to be considered,
for it not onlv affords protection to the
chest and shoulders, but is loose
enough to allow of chest expansion.
With this garment the child's body is
evenly covered and one need, not fear
draughts^nor have any use for shoulder
blankets. The skirt may be made of
flannel, cashmere, cambric or nainsook,
and requires 1% yards of 27-inch ma
terial.
No. 4752One sizeC
$
Name
WHAT LUCK?
This is the time of year when/ the big man, who
wouldn't think of going to the corner meat market for
his wife, goes over into Wisconsin for a very small fish.
Curios and Oddities
Tis Passing Straogel"
INTELLECTUAL DRINKS.
EA and coffee are drugsdrugs solely," said a
chemist. "They stimulate the brain, and the
reaction from this stimulation is not perceptible.
Hence tea and coffee are excellent brain spurs. For
a little while they do, actually, make us more intelli
gent than we naturally are. That is why they are so
popular. It is why we chemists call them intellectual
drinks.
"Alcohol, whether it be taken in the form of
champagne or beer or whisky, is not an intellectual
drink, but the opposite. From the beginning alcohol
stupefies instead enlivening the brain. But it makes
us talk! If it weie not enlivening, how should it make
us talk? Alas, alcohol makes us talk, but we say
under its influence the things we should not. Alcohol
deadens the inhibitory, the prohibitive centers of the
brain. It stupefies the brain muscle which knows what
things should not be told. And hence while drinking
we talk, but oh, how we blush in the cold gray light
of the morning after to remember what we said."
SUNDAY DYSPEPSIA.
nQtTNDAY dyspepsiathat is what you have," said
the doctor, smiling.
"Sunday dyspepsia?"
"Ye s, and it is not a rare complaint, either. It is
due to this bad habit of eating foolishly and glut
tonously on Sunday.
Thru the week you eat like a sensible mana
moderate breakfast early, a light lunch, and a good
substantial dinner at the end of the day.
"But on Sunday you eat a heavy breakfast at 10
or 11. At 1 you sit down to-an enormous dinner, stuff
ing yourself without appetite, and at half past 6, When
you are really hungry, you eat light, unsatisfactory'
food, like Saratoga chips and lettuce sandwiches
in a word, a Sunday supper.
The result of this change for the worse, made
once a week by millions of men, is Sunday dyspepsia,
an ailment for which I always prescribe a 6 o'clock
Sunday dinner."
FISH-EATING BUTTERFLIES.
HE butterfly was blue and transparent. As thru
blue glass its tiny heart could be seen beating
inside its body, and the professor read a newspaper
article thru its lovely blue wings.
"This," he said, "is the pteropoda, a Mediter
ranean butterfly. It eats fish.
"It eats fish. On its tongue are rows of pointed
hooks. They serve as teeth. This beautiful creature
would turn up its nose at a garden of roses and lilies,
but it would feast ecstatically upon, a putrid eel.
"Now and then a pteropoda is found on the Flor
ida or the California coast. It is only abundant, tho,
in the Mediterranean."
Calico print works, photographic supply factories,
wine-clearing plants, bookbinders, glove-makers and
leather furnishers are the chief consumers of eggs.
uniform size wash*and dry them, being no worker was more honored at the
careful neither to break the skin nor
to sever the tiny rootlets, which would
set free the juices, thereby robbing tho
vegetable of its wholesome properties
as well as its color. Cover with boiling
water and boil forty-five minutes
drain, remove skins, and cut into slices.
Season melted butter with salt, pepper
and vinegar. Pour hot over the beets
and serve at once.
PATTERN ND. 4752.
UPON RECEIPT OF 10c. THE PATTERN
DEPT. OP THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL
Will send the above-mentioned pattern, as
per directions given below. ^Write the
name carefully.)
No Street.
"J"
Town State.
MeasurementWaist Bnst. i.
Age (if child's or miss' pattern)
CAUTIONBe careful to givis correct
rfumber aad size of pattern wanted. When"
the pattern is bust measure you need only
mark 32, 34 or whatever it. may be. When
in waist measure, 22, 24, 26 or whatever
it may be. When miss' or child's pattern
write only the figure representing the age.
It is not necessary to write "Inches" or
I "years."
A
MRS. BOOKER WASHINGTON
There are few colored women of
greater worth and ability than Mrs.
Margaret Murray Washington, wife of
Dr. Booker T. Washington, the well
known head of Tuskegee Institute. Tus*
kegee celebrated its quarter centennial
with brilliant exercises' this week and
event than the well trained woman who
for more than fifteen years has devoted
her best efforts to the work, regardless
of self. Mrs. Washington is a native
of Mississippi and a graduate of Fisk
university, Nashville, Tenn. She had
taught for several years at Tuskegee
and was occupying the position of lady
principal of the girls' department in
1893, when she became the wife of Dr.
Washington, who was then a widower
with three children.
Not only is she completely in har
mony with all her husband's plans and
purposes in his life work, relieving him
of many minor cares and details of
responsibilities, but she carries on a
broad effort of hjer own in social settle
ment work mothers' meetings -and
similar enterprises! in Tuskegee villkge.
In addition to these, Mr||yVashingfon
has found time toifironlofiSfce work^of
colored women 's^ubs^
1
ers in their chosen line.
president
of the Federation of Southern Colored
Women's clubs and chairman of the
executive committee of the National
Federation. -M^i
The object oi 'the girll|? department
of Tuskegee Institute ijf^E combine
handiwork with mental gaining in a
way that will fit the fpvkg colored
women students to become1
skilled teach-
rAbout thirty-
six different occupations are taught at
Tuskegee. Of the 500 girl students
abftutx' one-half are from country dis
tricts and desire, chiefly to learn the
dressmaking and millinery trades. Re
garding her students Mrs. Washington
says: "Some excel in embroidery,
crocheting, making ties and other-fancy
articles who have no aptitude for shap
ing or trimming hats. /*flj|eyi plod *lott
and on and win at last* TheBt,tlBris
An Artistic Husband
LEAST one New York woman has solved
the problem of domestic felicity. One day a
caller was taking ^tea with her wljen the bell
rang. The maid appeared at the door of the little
parlor where they were taking tea.
"It is Mr. 8 she said, with an apologetic
smile.
Mr. S is the woman's husband. They have been
married a little more than two months.
"Show him into the library," said his wife po
litely, and tell him I will see him presently.''
While the husband cooled his heels in the library
the wife explained the situation.
I am very fond of Oliver," she began. "Awfully
fond of him. I want to live with him all my life if I
can. I don't want ever to be separated from him.
But he is an artist. You know what that means.,
To say the least, it means a peculiar nature, accom
panied by many vagaries." At first I thought I couldn't
live with him at all. He would wake up at 6 o'clock
of mornings and wake me. Think of that! Wake me!
"'Let's get up, Dolly, and see the sunrise,' he
would say. 'You don't know how beautiful the colors
are!'
"Now, what did I care for the sunrise and the
beautiful colors, particularly when we had been ojit
the night before until all hours. That was one of his
most exasperating habitsearly .rising. That in itself
was enough to break up our happy home.
Another was the fact that he had no regular place
of business to go and stay all day. He worked when
he felt like it, and half the time he didn't feel like it.
That left him on my hands the livelong day.
"It is absolutely necessary for a married couple
to be separated thru the day. Twenty-four hours!
It is enough to cripple the stanchest affection in* six
weeks or less. At any rate, it takes more affection
than I had to have my husband around from dawn
till sunset. He got on my nerves. Every trait that
had seemed beautiful in him got ugly to me. What
was worse, he began to nag. Having nothing else to
occupy him he occupied himsel with me. I don't
really believe he meant to naghe is too sweet tem
pered for thatbut the effect was the same. He took,
to gently criticizing my wearing apparel.
"He began to give me advice in regard to my
hats, boots, gloves, gown, skirts. A little of that
sort of thing goes a long way with most women. They
like a man to notice what they wear at times, but not
at all times. They wish to be admired, not criticized.
I am no exception to this rule.
"Well, when had been married about four
weeks I concluded I had stood it as long as was nec
essary, so I went Out, found a little flat and rented it
MRS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
the girl whose parents wish her to open
a millinery establishment in their town.
"She tries but finally agrees with her
long-sliffering instructor that she would
succeed, at mattress making and uphol
stering instead." Housekeeping and
cooking are major courses at Tuskegee.
Gardening and greenhouse work are in
creasingly popular. Broommaking is a
new industry. Basket making, launder
ing^ nursing and dining room work are
all leading occupations in which the
girl students become expert, while get
ting in the schoolroom the solid founda
tions of good common school educatiou
to fit them for intelligent, useful work.
Mrs. Washington accompanied her
husband on his four months' European
trip in 1899, when they were receive 1
by the leading people in Great Britain
and on the continent. She also goes
with him on many of his journeys, ad
dressing^ gatherings of women in
ctmrches and halls, while he speaks to
the larger' audiences, on the great sub
ject of industrial ^education for the
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAKfE-W^
TOQH TO CRITIC! Slfje
for him. I also found & maid servant who would
attend to his wants, whft would wait on him. She
cooks his mealsthose meals he doesn't take with me
and she takes good care of him. He lives in his Hat
and I live in,mine and we are very happy together,"
she finished, complacently, smoothing out a wrinkle
in her tea gownf
But isn 't it rather Expensive keeping up separate
establishments?" the caller asked.
'"It- seems so at first blush," admitted the woman,
but really it isn't. The only way to get Oliver to
work is to shut him up all by himself, lock the door
and throw away the key. He works much better in
his own flat with nobody to bother him and nobody
there for him to bother. That evens up the expense.
It makes it more pleasant all around. When he comes
to see me now he is my guest, and guests are expected
to be very polite, you know, if they expect to get
invited again. They must: confine their conversation
largely to the weather, and when that gives out to
pleasant subjects that are not 'calculated to offend.
Above all, they must not feel called upon to criticize
Where Feminine Fancy Lights
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Defective Page
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Children ofA-the smart setor,-rather,
in polite circjSsj since the termywe-axo
told, are not necessarily synonymous
are using the curtsy instead of the
handshake alone, as the proper-method,
of greeting.
Many of the1
private schoolsv
exclusive dancing, ~JHi
teach it, in -J:act, it^ is.
now becoming i quite hiniversal. It 6ef-'
tainly it very pretty, and lends a bit of
dignity to our, rather too free a od easy
twentieth-centtofy manners that is goodJ
to see. x!)
It is strongly^ rumored tha^this same
curtsy will become the fa'Stiion for
grown people^hNot, perhapsjrttte^deep
exaggerated s^st of the original} hut
just a modified *form.
The curtsy a good exercise in "the
development ^g grace, as it requires
ease, precision, poise and flexibility to
properly mak^t, and brings muscles (fir
all parts of the,Ybody
into play.
A repetition' of curtsies taken suc
cessively to m\isic makes a pleasing
drill, and is productive of excellent re
sults for gracfe seekers. r~
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THE &EEN'S COLOR"
Queen Alexandra's favorite color is
mauve, but X% will be news to many
that the color4 was discover
the fifties by & young chemist of 18
named Perkin/who was trying-to -evolve
artificial quinine.
He was experimenting with sulphate'
of aniline when he stumbled across the
beautiful hue^fhat appeals to the a-rtis--
tic eye of England's queen. He straight
way took out -a patent for aniline dyes
and was soon manufacturing all the
colors of the "rainbow and many more
at a factory hev
established at Harrow.
Dr. PerkinHs still engaged in scien-l
tific researclrlthJo^^3^'^w"a^fe
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the wearing apparel of their hostess. That is a snag
they must be exceedingly careful to avoid. Must you
go? You must come back again some time when you
have longer to stay. Won't you! Goodby. Goodby.
"Roxanna, you may tell Mr. that I will see
him now. He may come in."New York Press.
THE MUCK-RAKERS.''
"What are the bugles blowing for?" said Lawson
on-Parade.
"To turn us out, to turn us out," D. Graham Phillips
said.
"What makes you look so white, so white?" said
Lawson-on-Parade*
"I'm dreadin' what I've got to hear," J. Lincoln
Steffens said.
They're exposin' the exposers it would make your
hair turn gray
To reflect on what will come when they expose each
expos-e.
When they find a newer frenzy or a treason every
day
They're exposin' the exposers in the mornin'.
"What makes Charles Russell breathe so 'ard?" asked
Lawson-on-Parade.
"It's bitter cold, it's bitter cold," TJ. Jungle Sinclair
said/
"What makes Miss Tarbell look so faint?" said
Lawson-on-Parade.
A touch of sun, a touch of sun," S. Hopkins Adams
said.
They 'rer exposin' the exposers, they are callin' of 'em
down,
They are huntin' of 'em hotly from New York to
Packin 'town.
They will chuck 'em in a lake o' ink an' let 'em swim
or drown
They're exposin' the exposers in the mornin'.
I started all this bloomin', row,'' said Lawson-on
Parade.
I think Miss Tarbell saw it first," Rex Beach rose
up and said.
"What's all that noise that shakes the ground?" said
Lawson-on-Parade.
"It's Teddy Roosevelt's muck-rake speech," a pale
reformer said.
They're exposin' the exposers, there is trouble in
the air.
There are Folks and Hadleys coming from conceal
ment everywhere,
And they'll all write stuff, and talk, too, when they've
gn.^ the tybae tp^spare-^.
^aX^e'jexp^sin^ttfe^exposers in the mornin'.
Ai WTD. "Nesbltt"in New ^Tork Times.
BETURN.QF THE COURTESY.
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By ta Mcelusive arrangement with "Life,'* and at great cost,
The Journal is able to give to its own reader* some superb repro-
duction* of Charles Dana Gibson's best drawings, practically free.
Out out tho coupon that appeared in pa|pe IQ^Drardatic Seo-
ttton, of last Sunday's Journal, and present it at The Journal
counter with 7 cents. Out-of-town subscribers should send 3
cents extra to corer postage.
These pictures are reproduced on heavy enamel paper and are
fitted With thick gray mats, and should not be confused with the
inferior Gibson pictures that newspapers in many sections of the
country arefloodingtheir districts with as supplements.
Tba Gibson pictures from the "Life" originals are too heavy
tad valuable&&n4 out in a Sunday newspaper.
PtaGibwW.jPicture"t0nc2
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GOGGLES
A large stock on hand and more
of those fine Aluminum Auto
Goggles coming which we sold* at
less than half others seH them for.
Watch the price later.
c, A. norfMAW,
The Optician,
^624 Nicollet Avenue.
Pine Spectacles, Eye Glasses,
-Kodaks, etc.
TALKING
MACHINES
H Buy Payment*'
Minnesota Phonograph Co.
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so much fame-tftatf he-is~F. !rV S.^YhV-p
D., LL. D., D. Sc. and vicepresident i
of the Chemical "Society. His labors
are new to be recognized by ,a mem?
orial which will hand down hfs&ame ai
the father of a great industry.! J--*
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THE MAKING OF A JUROR.
HE judge had his patience sorely tried by lawyen
who wished to talk, and by men who tried tc
evade jury service. Between hypothetical questions
and excuses it seemed as if they never would get to
the actual trial of the case. So when the puzzled
little German who had been accepted by both sides
jumped up the judge was exasperated.
"Shudge!" cried the German.
"What is it?" demanded the judge.
I tink I like to go home to my wife," said the
German.
"You can't," retorted the judge. "Sit down."
"But, shudge," persisted the German, I don't
tink I make a good shuror."
You 're the best in the box,'' said the. judge.
"Sit down."
"What box?" said the German.
"Jury box," said the judge.
"Oh, I thought I vas a bad box that peoples gets
in somedimes.''
"No," said the judge, "the bad box is the pris
oners' box."
"But, shudge," persisted the little German, I
don't speak good English."
"You don't have to speak at all," said the judges
"Sit down."
The little German pointed at the lawyers to make
his last desperate plea.
"Shudge," he said, I can't make noddings of
what these fellers say."
It was the judge's chance to get even for many
annoyances.
"Neither can anyone else,'' be said. "Sit down."
With a sigh the little German sat down.
THE APPROVED TYPE.
HAND how are the children doing?" asked the min
ister.
"All well but Johnny. I can't make him out. Do
you know," said the anxious mother, "he is continu
ally getting his brothers into rows, and then running
away and leaving them to fight it out alone."
The minister looked relieved.
"Have no fear for John," said he. "It is clear
the boy is destined to become a great diplomat."
THE COURT CIRCULAR.
tVES, my world is civilized," said the missionary.
1 "At the same time
He sighed.
I must admit that now and then among us
men have been burned."
"When that happens here," chuckled the dusky
cannibal chieftain, "we behead the cook."
.The majority of criminals can draw and paint.
That "is why artists can rarely get credit.
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rugs, draperies, etc, a richer appear
ance than when new. We are ex
clusive users of this process
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Eest of the new methods/'
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