em ment 1 ——_. S——— Alas! | am not beautiful, 1 have not time to be, *Tis all a thing of hours and rules Authorities agree; I've read up all the beauty books, And gone to specialists, But still—because of lack of time— My homeliness persists. The rules of beauty recommend Deep breathing when I rise, And many times throughout the day, With two hours’ exercise, Hot bath of half an hour at least, Cold baths and rubs galore, And then my hands, my eyes, my hair, Each claim an hour and more. My skin, of course, must be massaged Moming and night each day An hour or so, with ten strokes down, Then twelve the other way; Also I need nine hours for sleep, Life is too short, and art too long For homely girls like me. Alas! 1am not beautiful— 1 have not time to be! —By Priscilla Leonard. RIDING INTO THE SUNRISE. Un g 4 [ji § ; tf ] | fig Biss = il ged F iH splashed and u| bound. jit 5 Ff i —- ~ —- ~~ i 228 They LH Ii i i 26 Hse fl i : J g g : £ i ia gH ilk § | “If 2 £1 BRE Ef: i Edy i ; I 1 : ¥ 2 ] 3 i g Q “gi : 1 il TH i ! =f kl igs gsi 3 i : Hi i i v ® g 5 _§E8 263 i it ie : i and felt a thrill ing. hand to him. dear!" he said “Good-by, then." time, sha’'n’t we?” Hubert glanced up at the sun you only had your bow and arrow you, could go out and shoot some- and Ty and nod- cook it,” Helen said : 5 Eg & He helped her down at the horse-block, of ecstacy at holding her, if only for an instant, in his arms. thered up her riding-skirt care- fully and hung the loop over the bu tton, that it might not drag, and stood hesitat- She held out her He bent down and kissed it. “Good-by, | So the first phonograph reached | fenders for a few hours only and then or- : | Shiprock, a few years ago, a doctor, a But O! there were so many, At last the carriage broke, And to the ground came tumbling Those frightened little folk. Among the moss and grasses They were compelled to roam, Until a brooklet found them, And carried them all home. Little Known Things About the Na- vajos. The Navajos occupy a big reservation, part of which has never been white mea in northwestern New Mexico. The government maintains a sort of headquarters for the tribe at a place call- ed Shiprock, on the San Juan river. The civilizing plant includes some magnificent schools w! the Indian young idea is taught not to shoot. The adult Indians, unfortunately, have taught the to shoot, the San Juan river is parti- ceps criminis to a wholesale very eccentric river is the school light. When a youngster loses interestin the white man’s learning he wades across the San Juan; then the river rises—some- times ten feet in two the young idea is cut off from educational advantages. A n statement of some facts about the Navajos may astonish many white Americans. The Navajo tribe, which comprises about 5000 persons, has abso lutely no rel: but a sort of patriotism that is more like tribal loyalty than “love of land." Their wonderful sand paint- ngs, concerning which so much has been written, are historical (traditional,) rath- than religious. They have no word | i i - - i they understand idea of “worship.” They decline to be Christianized, and refuse to be civilized, but they are excellent stockmen, ingen- ious manufacturers of rugs, jewelry, and pottery. fair gardeners,unequalled hunters, and know something of mining. The { boy in their employ to say grace before i Sequeti was ling. “Me ti (ran the abbreviated petition, | Joung savage began his repast. ' tess discreetly said nothing, though she had taught him a much more elaborate i 1 children | Dette,” the § a. de. | tall and | i i i i i i i : pol, worki now serving a life sentence. Helmet,” deprived of her admirer thirsting for fresh conquests, decided engagement, but the police objected, and the Apache Queen did not appear. Of even greater notoriety female Apache of 1908, who in the title of “Queen of the Courtille.” A girl of twenty-three, she handsome, except for the loss one eye; she is also tattooed like a red- skin, and exhibits received in rol scuffles. She it was who, strolling in the street at three o'clock one morning last New Year, happened she disliked, and female hooligans, engaged her in a battle which she came out _ victor, having succeeded in stabbing her antagonist to death with a stiletto. Next day the hiding-place of “Chiffonnette” | SE i police, and she is now an inmate of the women's prison of rh He Fi) the dea epe, present ng beauty, BO = q or hs Such are the types of female highway- women who infest some thor- oughfares. In La Villette, Mont martre, and on the Boulevard de Sebasto- i are held up constantly content work. In consequence willing to overcrowd the ra aid or lockup, hold of- der their release. and is of with pride the scars of pride t | taken were not of the highest respecta- | billy in point of morals. he week was originally venient quarter of the Hence it began on Monday, or moon day. The Italians still call Monday the first and Sunday the seventh day of the week. Norse Tew, who corresponded to Mars, the god of war. Thursday was Thor's day, Thor being a warrior. Wednesday again beta, day, Woden being the god only a con- th. Ee a Pa Bo up thestepsto porch. Att top she turned again and looked down on him. She, too, had been thinking during their homeward ride,and curiously enough, while for him the brightness of Virginia had departed, for her New York had lost its allurement—the allurement for which she had refused to share his life. i irninuts inv | For this condition of things the prac- EO Is pass. ! tical abolition of the death penalty is, in der. The first record played was in a | a measure, no doubt responsible, as an feminine voice, and the lady soundly be- ! Apache does not hesitate to kill his vic- rated her husband—it was a sort of cur- | tim and thus suppress a witness to the tain lecture—while the little doctor stood Crime. Whether the revival of the guil- near the machine. Just as the record was | lotine in France will terrify the Paris Am- concluded a local celebrity, noted for his | 32on or not is a current social question. enorm i entered the room |: of battle rage. lie Romans called this y Mercury's. iday was supposed to be the luckiest day of the week-—for women. It was called after the Norse Frija, the goodness of love, and is the best day for weddings. For the Jagan Romans it was also the day of Venus, fhough the Christian Romans called it y of ill-luck because Christ had you At the op they snorted with joy “I wanted our last ride to be from any other.” Hubert’s tone caressed her, as his words might not. “I thought this time of day only existed in books or at the tail-end of the day be- fore." Helen spoke with a flippancy in- tended to keep the conversation on a safe : gE 3 key. The sun had not yet horizon and the delicate lows covered the sky. Hubert them, the estheticside of hisnature quick- the presence of the girl beside e ignored her flippant speech, dis- cordant with the morning. “Come! Let's meet the day half-way!” ened him. he cried. They spoke to their horses and started off to the east. on toward the advancing day they gal- loped. For twenty minutes they rode hard; through stretches of bronze broom- , across creeks with their treacher- ous banks, around the steeper hills and and down stony valleys where it seem- to Helen that no horse could keep his above the ae nks It was open country, and within her. ward him a 2k | | | 3 China’s { : ii g stamp out the | and insignificant in cam] 2% . At sight of his de woman's tenderness for The efforts made by the man rose She held out her hands to- “Hubert,” s reds : not the storm."—By Kenneth Brown, in | « ” : the Wi rs Home C A”. evolution,” but many of them ‘say that “it was you— War on Opium. rohibitionists to throughout the th of this coun look the face of the inese against opium. Not long ago m interest was aroused lation of a govarnment edict by the circu- ing { and taunted, but the squaw was heap fraid in | The Navajos have no equivalent for man developed upward from the animals, | and that the wicked (nations) will evolve | downward toward insect forms. But there | is no form of worship based upon such belief. If the race grows more and more evil, as some assert, then the birds will eat our remote descendants—that’s all. The Stubborn Python. Park, in New York ex- Hubert was still standing and watching | and stood before the instrument. The | all her | warrior assumed an exultant attitude. | “Now, squaw, talk! talk!” he urged i i 1 ‘ i | 1 i i i { i | 1 | i Fifty-one snakes from the Zoological | combs, which are Canned Bees for Eating. It has remained for the Japanese to in- troduce canned bees to the market—that is to say, the larvae and young bees of a certain wild species known as “‘jibachi” which dwell in holes in the They are esteemed a delicacy, are put up in tins like canned meat, the price asked being about sixty-five cents a pound. The method whereby this kind of in- sect food is gathered consists in setting fire to small quantities of gunpowder at the entrance to the subterranean hives, in autumn—the fumes spreading thro the underground chambers occupi the bees and stupefying them. no ime is lost in digging up the brood- promptly covered with a cotton cloth and placed for a moment the been crucified on that day. Saturday was called after Saturn and Sunday was known to the Christians as resurrection or sunday. The week of seven days was imported from Alexandria into Greece, into Italy about the time of Christ. The Greeks had previously divided their month into sets of ten days, the Romans into sets of eight days, three and a half sets being equal to one month. Hunting Wild Cattle. If any one should declar: there were wild cattle roaming at will through a small wooded track of one of the eastern States of the Union and savagely attacking any who chanced to meet them, he provid for the gradual extinction of poppy exit: | person : vation, the graduated cessation of smok- would probably be disbelieved, but un- ing those addicted to the drug, doubtedly such a condition of affairsdoes and the ualification for office of opium exist in North Carolina, not farther than devotees. memorial the ten miles from the town of Fayetteville. A number of years ago a certain Major Broadfoot, who resided near Fayette- ville, turned at liberty several of his cat- tleon a narrow strip of land that he g City, have been footing at the pace they were going. |The i ity Hubert knew that Helen, on his Loudon, was safe. He devoted himself to his own inexperienced filly and to picking out, with the practiced eye of the fox-hunter, the best way over the rough going. At last as they gal over the crest of a hill they saw the big red-gold sun before them dazaling their eves. Hubert pulled inhis mare. “See! We have caught _theday! I knew we should if we rode hard enough.” . “How we did ride for it, though!” Helen “It was worth while. It isn't often you can catch the day, usually it catches you. Now it is our own, yours and mine, to do with just as we choose. Shall we leave it together, or would you rather keep your half for yourself?” “Youknow I've t to use my half of it replied in going back to New York," she , she did not draw it away. “Then half is all mine?" “We might be Helen peer- “And you won't share ita little with | ed forth. “You t have to goout and { shoot our next after it stops.” asked it asif she had not | Hubert drew her still nearer him. him the right to share all for | in hot water, to kill the insects. Zoo Not only in Japan, but also in China | and India, the larvae of bees have | | been considered a delicacy, the combs containing the young grubs being greatly relished. In own country rer: ported to England to varieties of snakes at the 8 E ; : gE and contain curious reading. “All high officials in the capital of the second rank and upward, all high of- provinces above the rank of ih gi! Probably the serpent that caused the test trouble for the keepers was the fteen-foot pyehon, “Yellow Face.” He positively to leave his old home, all coaxing and enticing being in vain. Finally it was decided to employ strategy. tegy Along bag extended in the cage, its propped ttendan withdrew 538 who are jon dollars a year. Yet it is reckon- ed by trustworthy authorities that be worth at least ten times sum if a sufficient number of bees kept. A vast amount of honey and unfortunately, is annually wasted for lack of bees to gather them. The bee-k ing industry, indeed, would easily yield iis $0 words might be heard in the tumult the tempest. “Yes,” He took her hand in his, and of falsely repor.ed himself, uiry will be instituted against offender will be severely pun- “In the capital the inspectors are to prepare a list, within one month after re- ceipt of the order, of all the opium-smok- ers, while in the various provinces the viceroys, governors, etc., are to find out, within two months after receipt of the or- | dgr, the number of opium-smokers and also of those who have given up the hab- it, which lists are to be seut to min- isters. Whoever is suspected of smoking be called to undergo a test necessary. - immense gain th tion of ts whi (in fulfilling their office a pollen-carriers) these useful in- ect. } I 5 F fats H ER would 22 2 : g ing Hos of people” S jaws. One of its most important employ- ments is in the manufacture of i beeswax Even. i i How Ostriches Fight. Ostriches battle for Supremacy With as much ferocity as stags, bulls, oes, | a and other animals. An ostrich fight is amusing, inasmuch as it amounts practic ally to a boxing-match with the wherein the combatants Tightly dance around each other. There human boxer those—" n a sportsman-like way, on in “When a day A offer it to § if 3% fi Eg ti irl." A New Rat Two Feet Long. In 1873 a great rat-like rodent, which alcohol was named dinomys, was discovered in Peruvian Andes. But a single speci- 8 i g i if He 5 5 Beggs : { i : Fi il 2 § g g i 2 g H i3t —*“Nice dog, that,” tomer. “He is, sir,” said the barber. “He seems very fond of watching you a that, “sir,” explained the bar ber, smiling. “Sometimes I make a mis- fake'and tie Attia Piece off a custom- 's ear.” —s it 50, that you used to call regu- larl on tat gil o es; always sang a song to me I loved.” “Why didn't marry her?” a nt To buy the song for 50 cents.” 25% : 3 i i p &E nearness and her apparent yielding to him had evoked. “But your husband is still alive!” She shook her head, and went to look youl “Yes, but his hair is all gone.”
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