Extravagant
Luxuries <* Women
of Fashion
—By Harriet Prescott Spofford p-j
Great Commercial Value cf the |
Fas'nionble Woman—Benefit of j
Wi Earners Through Purchase
of Costly Pearls and Splendid
Raiment —Tollers and Business
People in All Vocations Profit by
Supplying Her Requirements—
Believes Herself the Inspiration
of Big Enterprises.
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(Copyright, by Joseph 13. Bowles.)
When in the time of great Eliza
beth the young wife of Lord Compton
reqiH . i jd iu her allowance the sum of
■Ji 1,000 for a string of pear's, ebe
asked for le s than the grand dame of
to-day thinks 01" spending for the p'.nic
ornament. The little circlet of perrl?
that the young girl wears about her
throat may have cost, say, only $3,0 a O,
but the somewhat larger one.-, drop
ping *L3i la the w.iist, which her moth
er wears, cost 110 less than ?10,00u.
To the political economist this
means a profligate waste of money tn:u
•would support many families. But the
wearer of tho pearls claims that t ielr
prl.-o is supporting many families al
ready. Thero i 3 tho diver and his
family, she will tell you; the maker
»112 his boat, his ropes and all his par
aphernalia; the cleanser of the shells;
the polishers—all to be paid, and all
with avenues behind thora through
which the money passes. Then there
is the work of the jewelers to be satis
fled, of the architects and builJers
cf the shops in which they find them
selves, of the men and the clerks who
buy and ««;;; and after that one must
reckon with the thousand and one In
dustries pertaining to the ships which
bring the finished article over teas.
ramifying into countless families; to
Fay nothing, finally, of the customs du
ties which the pearls yield and which
assist in carrying on the work of a
great government.
* * • • •
Of course one string of pearls is
but an infinitesimal matter in the
broader view; but it is the many
Strings that tome into the commercial
value of the fashionable woman; for
ehe is by herself but a fragment of
society and is of moment only by rea
son of her numbers. Thus she claims
that these many strings and ropes of
pearls are the means of sending right
eous employment into wide and far
paths of industry; and that while she
might lock their price into a bond and
ehut it in a safe, conscious that it
represents money in active use, yet
that her string of pearls represents no
less money in no less active use. And
if the affair stops short with the pearls
which are no longer earning, while the
bond will still be at work giving her
yearly revenue, to be again put into
active use, then she claims, in response
to such suggestion, that there are oth
er wants than the purely material
ones, and the increment of beauty in
♦he pearls, the tints and lusters and
environment, are of as much use and
value in pleasuring the world as tho
equivalent in blankets and in beef
might be.
V.'hen you see the woman of society
In all her sweet bravery, a picture in
soft colors and lovely raiment, wheth
er she herself be beautiful or not, her
jewels, her lace, her flowers, her shin
ing silks, making her a vision of that
beauty which is its own excuse for be
ing, you hesitate to show her chat
there is any fallacy in her argument.
* « * * *
But it is not alone in the matter of
her jewels that the woman of society
claims commercial value; they are a
trifle in the sum total, for there is not
an article of her apparel or sur
roundings that does not merely cre
ate but stimulate trade. She knows
that as she sweeps by in her grace
and her splendor the onlooker is apt
to think of her as an idle moth Hut
tering in tho sunbeam and of no use
in the world. But without her, she
asks, where would the multitude of
milliners and modistes with all their
dependency of designers and couturiers
♦and seamstresses, the weavers of deli
cate hosiery and underwear, the
makers of fine boots, fine gloves, fine
everything, the wholesale people, the
middlemen, the retailers? The silk
worm spins for her, she thinks; for
her the gem is delved from the mine;
for her the trapper sets his snares in
the snow; for her the lacemaker
swings her bobbins and sets her wiz
ard needle; for her China sends her
crepes and India her muslins and
France her velvets; for her ships
cross the sea and caravans the des
erts and railways the continents, the
whole world tributary to her desires;
and if Tennyson's dream of airships
were to come true, "pilots of the pur
ple twilight dropping down with cost
ly bales," the costly bales would be
for her.
In her home she farther claims, the
decorator finds his affairs, after build
ers and their people have had their
percentages; the painter hangs his pic
tures on her walls, the sculptor br'ngs
her his marbles and his bronzes, Eu
rope gives her tapestries and silken
draperies, the orient gives her rugs,
flax fields are sown and open their blue
flowers for hrr napery, silver and gold
tire wrought for her table, the work
men in the factories of Sevres and
Drtsden and other gre; t e*i.iblish
- men to compete for her lavor. Tlie i
violets on her breast are but one
bunch, the roses in her vase b\it a
single cluster, it may be; but the
across the land arise at her order, as
leagues of greenhouses that stretch
tho palace arose at the word of the
afrite, and those who find work there
find it because of be*.
She is surf: that the shopkeeper*,
the girls behind th; counters, the man
icures, the hairdressers know her lor
their best friend. And it is still iur
ther her contention, that when she
?'oes abroad the carriagem iker.tho har-
n. : s maker, the breeder and breaker of
horses and all those who serve in her
stables, or In any way upon her equip
age and equipment, find their account
in hni existence, and exist, indeed,
with all their own households, because
she docs; and that the more dwellings
she has in town or country the more
people are tho better off by mean's of
it.
• a • • •
She wiy tell you, too, that, she is the
support of the finishing schools, for
hi- children, with their teachers of
science and art and languages and
manners, and that even the toys of
these curled darlings of fortune give
food and clothing to whole companies
of folk 111 Swiss valleys, in French
workshops and in the hidden places
of our own cities. And whether
en lUfh Is paid for any of these pos
sessions of hers, whether wages should
be higher and costs lower, is a ques
tion she demurs as something alto
gether on one side of the value to so
ciety of the society woman.
And rot only to the toilers, to hard
labor, d' s 'he insist that ohe is a
chief source of income, but that she is
of financial importance from another
point of view. She contends that t'rt
great opera, the symphony, in which
tlie musician has scaled the strains of
heaven, is heard by those of lesser
means only by reason of her and
her numbers; that she affords a theme
to the novelist and buys his book; to
the playwright, an 1 is his patron, anJ
that the newspaper which has the bos*,
record of her daily doings lias the
best circulation and in consequence is
able, through its larger receipts, to
give the latest intelligence and the
fullest reading—for to most other
women this successful one, so called,
is an object of interest, and they fol
low her movements as they do these
of a heroine of romance.
That the fashionable woman carries
on and endows various great benevo
lences ehe does not mention as show
ing her value, sin e she does not do
such things because she is a fashion
able woman, but because she has the
purse of one; but, nevertheless, she
holds that the entertainments which
she organizes in "sweet charity's"
name, require services which spread
money broadcast, and if she does not
spend her days among the poor r.nd
her income in gifts to them, she has
learned from the political economist
himself that the wages which are paid
for her comforts and pleasures are
more beneficial in the receipt than any
charity. Whether or not she leads thfl
life that is best for herself, in so far
as it has no other aim than enjoyment
of the passing hour or the obtaining
of social supremacy, it is a life that
she believes good for myriad others,
and if she loses her soul in social friv
olity, losing it, others find their ad
vantage. It may be, it doubtless is,
a poor and vicious state of society that
makes her life possible, but society be
ing as It is the fashionable woman
looks upon herself as an unmistak
able benefactress.
The bonnet rouge at work upon the
streets, who sees the carriage or auto
mobile of the fine lady roll by and
hurls a curse after it, does not realize
anything of this claim of hers or De
thinks himself that the wear and tear
of her wheels gives him work to do
and bread to eat. The tired pedestrian
who looks after her with envy, the
poor woman who draws her skirts
closer from the dust of her move
ment, do not consider that the fash
ionable woman has nothing on or
about her which aoes not represent
work done and wages paid and their
share of comfort to those receiving
the>n. But the fashionable woman her
self, feeling all she claims in her jus
tification to be true, declares that be
she even so much a butterfly flitting
from pleasure to pleasure, she is none
tho less a factor in the business of the
world and a distinct addition to its
wealth, and, with her financial itnpor
tance hardly second to that of the
wheat farmer or the ironmonger, she
drags commerce in her train.
• » » » •
It is not to be expected that she
should take the political economist's
view of herself and her expenditure.
He may call her a luxury; she believes
that she is a necessity. He may com
pare her to the incubus of a standing
ai my, whose sole excuse is that un
der the safety it guarantees enterpr'ses
can be undertaken and prospered. She
will answer that the desire on the part
of her husband or father to give her
all that becomes her arouses those en
ergies that make enterprise, business,
success and big fcrtunes. And al
though one may bitterly deprecate that
condition of society which diverts so
much capital and labor from that dif
ferent order of production which ohall
cheapen food and clothing and make
complete the birthright of all, yet
while society is what it is, with all
the selfish abuses of altruism, her com
merical value is a feature of first im
portance.
HAKRIE* PHESCOTT SPOFFOHD.
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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST I, 1907.
CROP CONDITIONS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Lateness of Spring Overcome by Ex
cellent Growing Summer Season.
Once more the farmers of Western
Canada rest at ease and grow rich
while they slumber. Their season of
anxiety is over. For a time it looked
as though a backward season was for
once going to prevent the western
country from maintaining its preemi
nent position as leader of the grain
growing countries of the world. The
unusual lateness of tho spring coupled
v/itli the rapid advance in the price of
food-stuffs gave the pessimists some
reason for their gloomy forebodings,
and among even the optimistic West
erners imbued as they usually are
with a spirit of buoyancy and hope,
there commenced to glimmer a fear
Hint perhaps this year their sanguine
expectations were not to bo realized.
On May day when a large proportion
of wheat had usually been sown there
was this year very little seeding dene.
Finally, however, winter which had
tarried so late in the lap of spring in
all parts of the Continent vanished
before the vertical rays of the sun,
and tho hurry and bustle of spring
work commenced on the western prai
ries.
By the 20th of May 85% of the
spring wheat was sown and the fall
wheat in the districts devoted to its
cultivation was covering tho fields
with a mantle of green. Wheat sow
ing finished on May 30 and by Juna
10 tho coarser grains wero also in
the ground. The heavy snowfall dur
ing the winter left the ground in excel
lent shape when once seeding opera
tions commenced and from the time
weather conditions permitted the com
mencement of work until planting was
completed, the farmers were a busy
class. Tho area in wheat is not
much larger than last year, but oats,
barley and flax are much in excess of
past records, the farmers deeming it
wiser on account of the lateness of
the season to putin a heavier propor
tion of the coarser grains. From the
most reliable reports to hand it ap
pears that the acreage as compared
with 1906 will show an increase of 12%
in oats, 197 c in barley and 13% in
flax.
Around Akotoks, High River, Nan
ton, Claresholm and other winter
wheat centers, if the present weather
conditions continue, the winter wheat
will be in head by the middle of July.
The backward weather in the early
part of May allowed the newly sown
grain to get a firm root in the ground,
and now with an abundance of moist
ure and warm weather the growth is
remarkable. All danger of injury
from droughts is practically over as
the green crop covers the ground re
taining the moisture required for its
growth and preventing the too rapid
evaporation which might otherwise
take place.
Crops in Western Canada mature in
one hundred days of good weather,
and as the weather conditions have
been ideal since seeding, and with
spring wheat now from 14 to 18 inches
above the ground, a full average crop
is confidently expected.
In addition to the cheering pros
pects of this year's yield the farmers
are to bo congratulated on the fact
that they still have in their possession
five million bushels of wheat from last
year's crop which they are now dis
posing of at high prices.
The splendid yield of 90,000,000
bushels of wheat raised in 1906 in
the three provinces of Manitoba, Sas
katchewan and Alberta, together with
the almost certain assurance that this
year will see a considerable increase,
is, as in the past, calling the atten
tion of the world of the "Last Best
West," and thousands from the United
States and the agricultural districts
of Europe are each month securing
free grant lands or purchasing farms
in the land which has proved itself
peerless among the grain growing
countries of the world.
Courage.
Three tired citizens—a lawyer, a
doctor and a newspaper man—sat in
a back room recently in the gray light
of the early dawn. On the table were
many empty bottles and a couple of
packs of cards. As they sat in silence
a rat scurried across the hearth into
the darkness beyond. The three men
shifted their feet and looked at each
other uneasily. After a long pause the
lawyer spoke:
"I know what you fellows are think
ing," he said; "you think I thought I
saw a rat, but I didn't."
People Tell Each Other About Good
Things.
Twelve years ago few people in the
world knew of such a preparation as a
I'owder for the Feet. To-day alter the
genuine merits of Allen's foot-Ease has
been told year after year by grateful per
sons, it is indispensable to millions, it is
cleanly, wholesome, healing and antiseptic
and gives rest and comfort to tired aching
feet.
It cures while you walk. Over 30,000
testimonials. Imitations pay the dealer
a larger prolit otherwise you would never
be offered a substitute /or Allen's Koot-
the original foot powder. Ask for
Allen's Foot-Ease, and see that you get it.
Generous Mr. Kraft.
"Mr, Kraft, the merchant," said the
college president, "has offered to do
nate $5,000 for a new building to be
known as 'Kraft hall.' "
"But," said the dean of the facul
ty. $"$">,000 won't pay for the build
ing we want."
"Oh! no. You see, Mr. Kraft's gen
erous offer is contingent upon otir se
curing donations of SIO,OOO each from
ten other public-spirited citizens."—
Philadelphia Press.
Imitative "Mesiah" Bird.
The "mesiah" bird of India excels
all others in its imitative powers.
PROUD IN HER POVERTY.
Young Woman's Brave Answer to In
sulting Landlord.
Frank P. Sargent, the United States
commissioner of immigration, said
one day in Washington:
"There is fino stuff in some of these
poor people who come to uor shores.
I heard recently of a young Swedish
woman. Brave, witty and honorable,
she could bring splendid young
Americans into the world. A short
time after she arrived among us, her
husband got out of work. Naturally,
then, the rent fell behind. The land
lord called for it one day in her hus
band's absence, lie listened to the
young woman's tale of misfortune, re
garding the while her yellow hair,
her clear blue eyes, her red mouth
and white teeth. Suddenly, bending
toward her, he said:
Give U3 a kiss!'
"She drew back, and her blue eyes,
as cold as ice, dwelt on him disdain
fully.
" 'No,* she said, 'my husband and I
may be too poor to pay our rent, but
we aro not so poor that we can't do
our own kissing.'"
AWFUL EFFECT OF ECZEMA.
Covered with Yellow Sores—Grew
Worse—Parents Discouraged—Cu
ticura Drove Sores Away.
"Our little girl, one year and a half
old, was taken with eczema or that
was what tho doctor called it. Wo
took Ik r to throe doctors but by this
time t'i'.a was nothing but a yellow,
fc'reenish sore. One morning we dis
covered a little yellow pimple on one
of her eyes. Doctor No. 3 said that we
had better take her to some eye spe
cialist, since it was an ulcer. So we
went to Oswego to doctor No. 4, and
he said the eyesight was gone. We
were nearly discouraged, but I thought
we would try the Cuticura Treatment,
so I purchased a set of Cuticura Rem
edies, which cost me ?1, and in three
days our daughter, who had been sick
about eight months, showed great im
provement, and in one week all sores
had disappeared. Of course it could
not restore the eyesight, but if we had
used Cuticura in time I am confident
that it would have saved the eye.
Mrs. Frank Abbott, R. F. D. No. 9, Ful-.
ton, Oswego Co., N. Y., Aug. 17, 1906.
Two Advertising Truths.
A soap millionaire and an actor
manager were talking business.
"I," said the actor manager, "have
discontinued the use of posters. My
announcements appear in the news
papers exclusively. I have learned
that those who don't read the papers
don't goto the theater."
"You are wise," said the soap mil
lionaire. "And I do like you. Long
since I discarded every form of ad
vertisement save that of the press,
finding that they who didn't read a
daily paper had no use for soap."
Very Handy.
"Among the people who greeted the
President upon his arrival at Oyster
Bay," says an exchange, "none at- j
traded so much attention as a woman j
who carried two children in her arms
and led another by the hand:" It (
strikes us that a capable woman like
that would attract attention anywhere.
—Washington Post.
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All of the languages we Know of j
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Europe's Extinct Aurochs.
Professor A. Martens of Magdeburg
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and documents relating to tho famous
wild ox of Europe, the aurochs, or
urus, and shows that it was not iden
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animal also lived in Europe in the
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that a herd of thirty auroclises were
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a few half-domesticated aurochses
were still in existence, but the race
has since become extinct. The typ
ical color of the aurochs was black,
but there was a gray variety in Po
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"I suppose you realize the danger of
firewater?" said the man who tries to
benefit people.
"I do," answered the Indian,
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palefaco puts in his automobile."
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FOR SOLDIERS' HOMESTEAD RIGHT 9
All soldiers who served ninety days or more
In the federal army or navy between 1801-1865,.
and who made homestead entries for less than
100 acres on or before June 22, 1874, means thai
an Additional right is due someone and that
it can be sold to me for spot cash, no matter
whether patent issued or not. if soldier is
dead, ais heirs are entitled. The right descends
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