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THE SCBiLNTON TBKUl-SATtJBDAT MOEKnici.7 OOTOBER 2G. 18a.
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A Ht
- . Facts ' of Interest
T6:oMetf 'Readers.
Symposium of
.Partly Gossipy
THE WIVR9 AT HOME: ' ' ' u
Not alone In Ilia's low stations,
Eoothlng poverty's red smarts
" ? Net alone In heathen missions
Are the women of 'brave hearts! .
But at home In endlea tolling,
And Immured In Ufa's humdrum.
There are (aerifies noble
Uy the little wlyea at home!
Tolling patiently with weakness
. Moaning- children's plaintive cries,
They are Dialing out the pathway .
From the earth to Paradise!
And while others laud the vot'rles
That In foreign countries roam
I will save my sweetest praises
For the little wives at home I
, - . -Will T. Halfe.
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It Is possible that there la a good deal
of shrewd philosophy In The Ameri
can's semi-humorous observation:
"Singing; Is highly recommended as a
nerve tonic, utd Justly. It Is noticeable
that 'birds are silent when they are sad,
- and unless ithey can be coaxed to sing
they pine away. . Human will and rea
son can rise superior to Inclination, and
force from the very talons of distress
that with which to conquer It. When
the world looks blebk, and affairs go
wrong, sing 'The Star-Spangled Ban
ner' at the full compass of your voice.
If you sing It every morning the neigh
ors will become used to it. Plaintive
songs are not to be encouraged unless
one has surplus vitality to get rid of,
but no matter how much or how little
voice you have, let it out In a ballad or
choral now and 'then, or Join the church
choral' society ito Improve your spirits
both by the vocal exercise and the so
cial Intercourse with healthy and ac
tive persons. All social gatherings
where early hours are kept are benefi
cial. If. as a great psychologist de
clares, 'happiness is health,' we need to
go where enjoyment is and catch some
of it wftien we feel like Immuring our
selves In solitude and nursing our mis
ery." .
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HER GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT:
She has mastered Greek and Latin,
She has read her Huxley through;.
She can sit In silk and satin
And discourse on Trilby, too;
She can argue evolution.
She can bake a luscious tart;
, She Is up In elocution.
And a connoisseur in art, .
She's the fountain-head of knowledge.
And at tennis she can play;
She came riding home from college
On a bike the other day;
. But I've heard of something better
Since with her I plighted troth;
She can draw upon her papa
For enough to keep us both!
Truth.
Mrs. Edward Fridenberg, president of
the Wednesday dab of Harlem, an or
ganization of forty women who desire
to educate themselves upon current Issues,-
tells the Sun: "It is a great pity
that the newspapers are exaggerating
the women of today as they are. The
. serious woman of today is modelled on
' old lines. She is the outgrowth of all
that was best in her grandmothers and
great-grandmothers. She has larger
' and wider and more liberal views than
her more conservative predecessors, and
she Is prepared to forego a great many
prejudices that hampered the woman
of the past. The mothers of sons and
the wives of husbands have waked up
to the fact that their career in life is
a complicated one, and so Is that of
the vast wmy of single women who are
entering the .(trades and professions.,
Mothers 'of today realize that .they
muet not only ' know what their chil
dren are studying, but must be able
to help them; wives see that they must
keep up with everything that Is going
on; that they must be versatile In argu
ment and conversant with the ques
tions of today, and one sure sign of
woman's progress Is that she has
learned that other women can have
views different from hers, and yet be
right, I am glad to see women enter
' Ing the trades and professions, and I
.j sincerely 'believe that they will raise
their status until the woman who does
' the tame work and does it as well as a
wan will receive the same pay. I think
the reason tfhey do not receive the same
pay now Is that they have neglected
their opportunities, and consequently
are not fitted to do their work so well.
I am a woman suffragist, although I
am not identified with any suffrage so
ciety. Individually I believe that wo
men will not receive the same oppor
tunities and pay that men do until they
get the franchise, and they will never
get that until they want it. When all
women want the right to vote and ask
for it, you may be sure they will get it.
The reasons urged against woman suf
frage are puerile worse than puerile,"
added this leader of women, with a
stamp of (her foot and a flash of her
eyes. . "Women can never be men's
equals until they have the same rights.
When they do demand and get the same
rights they will look on life more se
riously, and will attain a degree of
perfection which they cannot possibly
unless they are fitted to meet life In
the same way.'.'
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WHET FOLLY SMILES:
When Polly smiles the grayest skies
Take on a heavenly blue; , ,-
And O, the light In Polly's eyes
How bright it 1st How true!
'And from his perch, on her sedate
Toung shoulders, you can see
Love shoots his arrows swift and straight,
When Polly smiles at me.
But O, my soul! when Polly frowns, '
How black and fierce the skies I
And,, oftentimes, a raindrop drowns
The light in Polly's eyes.
But when I kiss her all the rain
And storm clouds quickly flee
. And happy skies are blue again,
For Polly smiles at me!
Anna Toiler, in Truth.
' 'II II II -bThese
women, who affect mannish
clothes and mannish ways, who walk
, with a swagger, and smoke cigarettes,
these women that the newspaper are so
fond of talking about." added Mrs.
Vridenberg, "are not representative of
woman's progress. They may make
a scratch as they pass through the
wcrld, but they won't make any mark
that will influence the generations to
come. The serious woman of today who
Is leading womankind has a wide hori
zon. She perceives the needs of her
sex and comprehends the relative im
portance of events. She thinks as well
as fuels, and acts from reason and In
telligence. She lives for something
higher than mere .personal concerns,
and the path of advancement should be
made easy for her, ut it Is not. For
Instance, If she wishes to get into a
medical society, she cannot, because
there are -societies In this state so nar
row that they will not admit women. I
mention this merely as an example be
cause young woman recently told me
ef her experience along this line. But
the doctors are not the only narrow
minded ones. - It is to in all professions
and trades. I repeat most emphatlcal
; Ijr. that there la no such thing as the
, new woman. The creature that exists
..In the minds of newspaper men and
' ca lost urlsts no more exists in actual
life than do the wonderful mermaids
that some of the magaalnes and weekly
papers print as representations- of the
girls who go In bathing at the sea
shore." When staked what she thought
-,' of bloomers. Mrs. Fridenberg replied)
-I do not aprove of them, even for cy
elmg, and think them sU together unheo
,i fcry and ungraceful. I do approve of
Women rldlns; the bicycle, however; and
; fl sre.that .It Is one of the most
- I. aiai sports In the world, destined
t t L..4 up stronger race of men and
-
Information, Partly Qrave,
and Partly Qay.
women, but as for bloomers, I detest
them." . ,
' Mrs. E. B. Grailnis, of New York, has
done a clever thing. She has discov
ered a New Man. 'His newness con
sists of the fact that he is palpaibly dif
ferent . from the conventional male
homo, as this Incident, told by iMrs.
Orannls in the Sun, will illustrate: " 'I
went to call on H. the other evening,
and what do you suppose I found him
doing? a young man said to me last
week, in reference to this New Man. I
Inquired what, and learned that B.
was discovered with a big white apron
pinned about his neck, wiping the din
ner dishes, while his wife washed them.
'He didn't seem one whit disconcerted,'
explained the Invader of this domestic
scene. -He simply said that the hired
girl had not shown up and he was help
ing Jessie get through with the work.'
Now I am quite convinced," Mrs. Oran
nls went on, "that the Old Man would
have taken himself off Into the sitting
room, where the noise of the clattering
dishes ;ould not reach him, and there
would have read and smoked while his
wlf performed the irksome task r.f
cleaning up. Ten chances to one he
ml gM even have gone off to the club or
theater ana lert nor aitogetner in tne
lurch. 'I art-, not any more fond of that
kind of thing than other men,' this New
Man told me once, "but If there's any
sweeping to toe done, and it lies be
tween me and Jessie as to which shall
do It, I think I am much more able to
sweep than she Is. Sweeping is hard
work.' In justice to the New Man In
this case, I must state that he Is a like
ly young fellow, six feet tall, and that
he Is possessed of more than the aver
age amount of brains and mental ac
quirements." .
"CHARITY" AS SOMe"sEE IT! ' '
"What a charitable woman Mrs. Gabber
ly Is."
"Isn't she? Why when the Hlnkley fail
ure came on she sent for Miss Hlnkley and
gave her all her summer sewing to do and
paid her SO cents a day for It. It was very
nice of her, I think."
"Very; she'll get her reward some time."
"Yes; she's had some reward already.
She caved 76 cents a day on all the work
Miss Hlnkley dld.j'-Harpefs Bazaar.
Mrs. Orannls, by way of rubbing it In
on 'the Old Man, of whom it Is plain to
be seen that she Is by no means over
fond, asks us to consider, for a mo
ment, the other side of the question.
"A minister, lawyer or physician," she
said, by wiay of Illustration, "marries
a well-educated country girl, and they
start out on an even footing. As time
goes on he spends' the major part of his
time In his study, deep In books and
absorbed in everything that tends to
broaden his ideas and elevate him ment
ally, and she looks after the house and
the servants, if they have any; makes
the children's clothes, which means un
remitting labor; worries and contrives
to make a .small Income lit a large de
mand, and dally gets further and fur
ther away from him in ideas and senti
ments. The age of forty or fifty finds
him seeking Intellectual companionship
among other women, and finds her old
before her time, still grovelling In the
commonplace, making the boys' trous
ers, which a seamstress of no particular
mental ability could as easily do, plan
ning for the girls' winter jackets, and
otherwise pursuing 'the unrelieved mo
notony of 'her way. The children of a
woman so cramped and sordid are not
overd bright, one may have a harelip,
another a defective palate. The New
Man would, 'In this husband's place,
have thought occasionally that his wife
needed recreation, change of Ideas, and,
last but not least, some money in her
pocket. There is always an attitude of
embarrassment between husband and
wife when the husband is the exclusive
guairdlan of the exchequer and the wife
a petitioner. If the husband's salary is
not sufftolenit to comfortably supply his
wife with raiment and appurtenances
such as she desires, he should have no
objections to her making money on her
own account with which to supplement
the family purse. The old-time chival
rous Idea that a man should support
his wife entirely Is all nonsense. Men
and women are equal In ability and re
sponeiJblHty, and I see no reason why
the burden of rife should not be shared
equally between them when they agree
to live together after God's ordinance."
JUST A FIT: " " "
Jagsley Why are you In such a rush to
get your bathing suit out of your trunk?
You can't us It this fail.
Jagsley's Wife I want to send it up to
Maud she's just putting her baby In short
clothes. Truth. '
"The New 'Man," adds Mrs. Orannls,
"Is, first and last, far more generous
In heart and sentiment, toward the wo
men of his own family, and to his femi
nine acquaintances as well, than the
chivalrous gentleman of the past, who
placed all women on a pedestal, .to be
the ornaments and playthings of the
home, and to be supported and provided
for by the head of the household. The
New Man desires that every avenue to
progress should be thrown wide to wo
men and every line of employment be
opened to them.' A real conservative
Democrat from the south, an ultra-exponent
of bld-tlmo chivalry, who
brought up his family in New York,
has given evidence of this 1n his own
household. One of his daughters was
recently graduated at the Normal col
lege, a bright, spirited girl, alive to all
the questions of the day. She was
speaking of woman's rights one day a't
the table, when her brother, two years
older than she, said enthusiastically:
Well! Why shouldn't Ida vote? She
Is better fitted to do so than I am. She
has devoted more time to the subject
and gone .Into its Whys and wherefores
more thoroughly, has been regulariy
trained for It. This Is my first time
to cast a ballot, and I would be glad Jf
she had the same privilege.' -The Old
Man under the same circumstances
would say i 'It makes no difference
what she knows, or how studious she Is,
or how thoughtful and capable of judg
ing wisely; she to a woman, and con
sequently It is highly improper that she
Should vote. As It Is In politics and
public affairs, so Is the New Man's atti
tude1 toward' women In religion. He
recognizes her power and her Influence
for good; and Is ready to welcome het
to all ecclesiastical councils and eon
ventlons, realising that she Is a po
tent factor. As an offset to him Is the
narrow-minded individual, ever ready
to prate about woman's true sphero
and assert that when she, according to
Ms Interpretations, steps outside of
that sphere he will no longer take off
his hat to her, or give up his car seat
to her, or rise when she enters the room,
or make any concessions of that sort.
The New iMan will bow to the New
Woman with additional reverence be
cause he will recognize her Increased
capacity for usefulness to the race."
ACCEPTED:- " '! '! '.' ".
She (coldly) I hardly know how to re
ceive your proposal. You know I am worth
a million, of course.
, He (dlplomatlcally)-Yes, worth a mil
lion other girls.
i She (rapturously) Oh, Jack I Truth, '
ELECTED ft EC
I Chopped Potatoes Fried. Chop cold
boiled potatoes end 'season thsm with a
little pepper. - Fry a slice or two cf pork
erlsp in a spider, than take out and put
In the potato and brown it.
i Vcvset Pudding. Five eas. beiten Sera
rately, one coffee cup of white sugar, four
tablespoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved In
a little cold milk, added to the yolks. Boll
In three pints of milk, and-pour In the
yolks while boiling. Remove from the fire
when It has become quite thick and flavor
to taste. Pour Into a' baking dUh, beat
the whites of the eggs to asuu torexa wall
a half-cup of while sugar, than pour over
the top of the pudding. Keturn r;th
oven until it is slightly crown.
Klce and Cheese Croquettes.-Twe ups
of oomI, soft-boiled Hoe, one oup of grated
cheese, pepper and salt, form Into lltus
cakes, Oip in beaten egg, roll In cracker
crumbs and fry net butter to a light
brown.
Mock Cream Toast. Melt two ounces of
butter' and' rub In one large teaspoonful
of flour. Pour one and one-half pints of
hot milk over the butter and flour. Re
turn to the stove. Beat two ggs light and
turn the hot milk over the eggs and beat
a few mnlutes; strain the cream through
a fine hair sieve. Dip the toast and send
hot to the table In a gravy-bowl, the cream
not taken up by the toast
Roll Coffee Cake. Two cups of bread
dough when ready for the baking pans,
four scant tablespoonsful of butter, two
of sugar, the white of one egg beaten, a
saltapoonful of soda, dissolved In a little
water, and one-halt teaspoonful of ground
cinnamon. Mix and roll out one-quarter
of an Inch thick and spread with a paste
made by stirring two-thirds of a cup of
sugar into one well-beaten egg. Roll up
like Jelly-cake, cut transversely Into
pieces one inch thick. Sot on end close
together in shallow tins. When very light
bake In a rather quick oven. They are
excellent warm or cold.
Nut Cream. Put one pint of milk In a
saucepan over the fire. - Moisten two table
spoonfuls of of oornstaroh In a little cold
milk; add to hot milk; cook until thick;
add four tablespoonfuls sugar and a tea
spoonful of rose water and pour It Into
the center of six breakfast plates. Cover
the top with chopped almonds, and put one
drop of orange blossom water on each.
When cold serve.
Molded Farlna.-u?ut one pint of boiling
water In a saucepan, add half-teaapoonful
salt, then stir In sufficient dry farina to
make a thin gruel. Cook slowly twenty
minutes. Turn Into small molds and stand
out to cool. Serve cold with fruit and
milk or cream. Very nice garnished with
strawberries and whipped ' cream, and
served with powdered sugar.
Frlzsled Beef with Horseradish. Take
half a pound of smoked beef, cut it in
thin shavings. If you buy the beef shaved
remove all the tat and stringy parts and
pick up the beef in small pieces. Put one
tablespoon ful of butter Into a small frying
pan when hot, add the beef and cook four
or five minutes, stirring constantly with a
knife. Sot the beef over the teakettle,
where it will keep warm, while you make
the following sauce: Put one tablespoon
ful of butter Into a small saucepan; when
hot add one tablespoonful of flour and stir
quickly until It Is well mixed. Be careful
not to brown It. Add gradually, a cup of
warm milk, 'stirring it constantly until
smooth and free from lumps. Then add a
teaspoonful of pickled horseradish, thor
oughly drained from the vinegar, half a
saltspoc-nful of sugar and a dash of ca
yenne pepper, and, If you like, half a salt
spoonful of made mustard. Let the sauce
cook slowly ten minutes, add the beef and
serve at once. The beef ought, to make It
suit enough, but It Is better to taste it af
ter adding the beef, when more salt can be
added If desired.
A Veal Pot-pie with Dumplings. Take
a scrag of breast neck of veal and cut it
into thin slices ,an inch thick. Fry out
several slices of salt pork In a kettle. Re
move the pork, flour the veal and brown it
on both sides In the fat. Add hot water
Just enough to cover the meat. Let It
simmer about half an hour,, then season
It with pepper and salt and dredge in a
little flour. Let It cook gently till tender.
Dumplings Ona cup of flour, one even tea
spoonul of baking powder,' half a tea
spoonful of salt and sweet milk to make
a batter stiff enough to drop from a spoon.
Drop by the spoonfuilnto tlie boiling stew.
Cover closely to keep in the steam, and
cook fifteen minutes without lifting the
cover. Take out the dumplings, put the
meat Into the center of a hot platter and
the dumplings around the edge. -Cradled
Eggs. For cradled eggs mln?e
very fine soma cold chicken, turkey or
duck, and add some melted butter, pep
per, salt, chopped parsley and two beatun
eggs; moisten with some stock put In a
saucepan, and place over a Are and cook
about eight minutes; turn on a hot platter
and make It smooth across the top, form a
ridge all around, and build a fence of tri
angular pieces of toast on the outside;
have ready and place in this meat bed is
many poached or drotDed eggs as it will
hold; garnish with parsley at each end of
tne platter.
A NEW PERIL:" " "
"Yes," sold . little Jim to his juvenile
menu, "i in goin ter run away from
home.'. '
"And fight Indians?" -"I
don't know about ' that. But I'm
goln' to get away from wbot's comln'. I've
had paw s trousers cut down to fit me. an'
never found fault. But since maw got a
wneei anu is wearin -bloomers, i n takln
no more chances." Washington Star,
HEALTH HINTS1:' " "
For the cure of catarrhal affections there
Is no medicine equal to salt 'water and
salt water baths.
To prevent the hair from falling out It
Is a good plan to comb It dry. Wash It
twice a month with warm water and oas-
tile soap. Brush It carefully twice a day,
at least fifty strokes each time.
Many doctors now prescribe creosote, or
oil of smoke, made by burning the wood
of the eucalptus tree, as a preventive of
disease. In the forest of resinous trees
the air Is filled with the odors which Come
from decomposition of slow burning. Thus
the great Dismal swamp of North Caro
lina, though filled with stagnant water, Is
remarkably free from diseases that owe
their origin to miasma and malaria. In
cases of sickness It Is a help, .to guard
against Infection, to burn small pieces of
resinous wood and allow Its smoke to mix
with the atmosphere in the house.
Dr. H. M. Biggs says In the Journal of
Hygiene: "A person suffering from pul
monary consumption may be absolutely
free of danger to his most Intimate asso
ciates or his Immediate surroundings, If
oniy tne sputum is (imposed or with scru
pulous care. The sputum, and the sputum
alone. In some way Is the source of dan
ger, and common sense, good sanitation.
humanity and even tho requirements of
simple cleanlinets demand that this should
be destroyed or rendered harmless."
An English army surgeon has found that
the best way to treat blisters on the feet
Is to Insert the point of a needle or other
puncturing Instrument In the sound skin
about an eighth of an Inch beyond the
edge of the blister. Then pass the needle
horizontally into tne Diister ana ir raised
the Mould will run out beneath. When the
raised outer skin qnly Is pricked It is apt
to be sore and troublesome. After the
liquid has disappeared flatten the blister
and cover it. with absorbent cotton or
something equally soft. Persons who have
to be on their feet much of the time or
those obliged to walk great deal will
find It a relief to change shoes every other
qay and stockings each morning, . . ,
CHANGED CONDITIONS:
Wlllle-'Paw, what does the paper mean
by talking of the "softer sex?"
Mr Mllligan When- I was your age It
meant the women, but thev have changed
so nowadays that I guess It means the
dudes. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS: '
' To remove the odor of parafflne from
sf tin vessel wash it ' thoroughly with
vinegar.
' An almost Invisible cement for medlng
glass Is mado'of Isinglass boiled In spirits
of wine. -To
preserve old furniture that Is becom
ing worm eaten pour a little carbolic oil
on to It, and rub well In. This will Im
prove Its appearance. .'
Chloroform will remove grease or paint
from the carpet. When a material has
Deen stainea ana ammonia is used to clean
It the color sometimes appears destroyed.
The application of chloroform will restore
mis.
Bread destroys the smell of onions and
if water with a piece of bread In It be
boiled In a nan smelling of onions It will
thoroughly clean It. The water should be
allowed to noil tor about an hour, then be
emptied out, and the pan well dried.
To-cleanse glass bottles from oil put a
few ashes In each bottle and stand them
In cold water, which bring gradually to
the boll; let them boll for one hour, and
then stand In the water until oold. Wash
the bottles with soapsuds and rinse with
.Insn WBtt.
To destroy mice Oil a bucket With water
ana scatter; oaia over tne top so mat tne
water la quite hidden. Then put the
bucket near a table or chslr. from which
the mice can Jump Into It.. They will be
attracted py tne oats, jump into tne water
and be drowned. -
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ONE OBJECTION: , . ,
"Why don't you marry -that girl? (she
Is a' real pearl.'.' "Ah; ye: but I don't
Ilk the mother of pearl. -Chicago Inter
V il IMI
LEAKS IN THE KITCHEN: .
- Scraps of meat are thrown away.' ' ''
' Brooms and mops are not-hung dp. '
: Cold potatoes, are left to sour and spoil.
Lights are left burning whetr not In use.
Vinegar and sauce are left (Standing in
Dish towels art used j-t ilih cloths,
'; - - 'V';-', ''..f ;" 'v'
napkins for dish -towels, and towels for
noiqers.
Silver spoons are used for scraping ket
tles. ,.-.",,'..
The tec canister and coffee box are left
pen.-' ' " '
-Soap it left to dissolve add waste in
water.
Apples -are left. to decay for want of
sorting. -
Good new brooms are used In scrubbing
bare floors. . .
Woodenware Is left unscalded and' left
to' warp and crack.
Dried fruits -are not looked after and
they become wormy.
Pickles are left to spoil by the leaking
out or evaporation of the vinegar.
Pork spoils for-want-of salt, and beef
because the brine needs scalding.
More coal la 'used than necessary by not
closing dampers when the fire Is not used.
'Bones of meat and 'the carcasses of tur-'
key are left to be thrown out when they
could be used In making good soup. '
In cooking- meats the water is thrown
out without removing the grease, or the
grease from the dripping pan is thrown
away. .. , ;. . ..
These may seem small leaks, but in the
aggregate their loss is considerable. Hang
the list up near tan 1'. tchen sink and look
at It every now and again so you won't
forgot It. Plttsbu-g limes.
ONLY-A SERVAN
There are occasional displays of blissful
Ignorance even on the part of dwellers In
the Harlem district, as the following Inci
dent witnesseth: A happy pair at leost,
If beaming countenances went for any
thingwere having the nuptial knot tied
at church In the working class part of the
district, when the officiating clergyman,
addressing the bride asked her If she was
a spinster. The young woman was some
what mystified by the question, and dis
cretely observed silence. A blushing
bridesmaid at hor elbow, more ready of
speech, volunteered the Information readi
ly, remarking: "Oh, dear no, sir; she's a
domestic servant." New York Journal.
PRAIRIE FARMING.
Mr. Richmond Describes the agriculture
Methods Which Are in Voguo on the
Gront Plains of the Far West.
Written for The Tribune. . .'
The cultivation of the soil In prairie
country la In some of Its processes very
different from the methods pursued
elsewhere. The farmers use two tech
nical terms, known as breaking and
back-setting. The virgin -oil Is usual
ly free from roots, vines or other ob
structions, and Is turned over like a
roll of ribbon from one end of a field
of several miles to the other, , a fact,
which we Eastern people, who are ac
oostumed - to plow among etones,
stumps and roots, can scarcely grasp.
The sod 'thus turned is so knit together
by the sturdy rootlets of the rank
prairie grass that a clod of large. size
will not fall apart even when suspend
ed In midair. To break or plow this
mat they-use a peculiarly constructed
machine called "breakers," as no . or
dinary plow could endure the strain.
They cut the mat at the width of the
furrow, and. also underneath the sod
at tbe thickness desired.
. Usually three horaes abreast are em
ployed with -a-tihln steel circular 'coult
er, called "rolling coulter." This is
sharpened a few inches above the point
of the plough. . A furrow Is broken
sixteen "Inches wide by three' inches
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of cod, sixteen Inches wide and say
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a 'half acVes at a cost of $1.50 per
aore Seeding machines will sow
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of clean, "Scotch Fyfe" seed wheat,
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cents for mowing. - Following
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each eeedor, going over tihe ground
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cover the teed evenly. '
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two shockers, Is required. The work
on a wheat - field only occupies a few
weeks In a year. After . the plowing
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comes, and by 'the end of August the
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around the panture lot to secwe the
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country Is open and ready for the
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first year, and. Is tolerably Independent
from thetftartl. .
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raised from he hardy Scotch Fyfe
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cents per bushel over the soft varieties.
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of the western half. ''The rich lands
of he Red -River valley of the north,
and the vast rolling plains' of Dakota
and the. Pacific Northwest must ulti
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Queen of the
London Stage Her Charming Home Life.
London,' Oct. . The most talked-of
woman on the English stage today Is
Mrs. Patrick Campbell. She Is known
to her calleagues as "Mrs. Pat," but
this familiar appellation Is by no means
Indicative, that they feel for-her the
smallest degree of that - familiarity
which breeds contempt On the contra
ry, the secret ' of her .Influence In the
theatrical profession and outside of It
lies largely In the reserve, the aloof
ness, of her social methods. She - Is
rarely seen In fashionable . drawing
rooms or driving In Rotten Row. She
does not stoop to any of the vulgar
tricks, by which the common herd of
public entertainers seek to distend
reputation.'
She lives two lives the life of the
footlights and the life of her home.
These existences never overlap when
she can prevent lt. I have often heard
1t said that Mrs. Patrick Campbell, at
home In Ashley Gardens. Is as unlike
the Mrs. Patrick Campbell of the stage
as one could weH .Imagine. A recent op
portunity was given me to make a per
sonal tesfof the difference.
'. She Is Strikingly Unconventional.
' What struck me most forcibly about
her is her unconventionally. This
trait for Mrs. Campbell's unconven
tlonallty ls something more than a
mannerism Is as pronounced in her as
In -Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, or Ellen
Terry. It Is this, more than any other
trait, which piques the curiosity of the
student of her character. The first
question asked as to .an actress is the
one George Elliot asked as to Gwendo
len Harleth In "Daniel-Deron'da": - "Is
she or Is Bhe not 'beautiful, and what Is
the secret of the dynamite power of "her
glance?" If we are to take the opinion
of women newspaper writers as final,
'Mrs. Campbell Is not beautiful. Every
body knows that a plain woman Is In
variably flattered' In a photograph,
while a pretty woman la belied. Some
such odd perversity controls the repu
tation of actresses for personal beauty.
When Mrs, Campbell burst upon Lon
don as Paula In "The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray" the critics referred to her
as "gifted," "fascinating," "bewilder
ing," but never as beautlful. .
lias a Pistnresquo Beauty.
Yet- beautiful, she undoubtedly is
in the picturesque sense. . 'How old is
she? Well as Paula Tanqueray or Ag
ness Ebbsmlth, you might give her 30
years, as Kate Cloud 20, as Juliet Capu
let 17 from the last row In the Lyce
um pit. But her exact age is 28 years
and 7 months. You would think her
ten years younger than that could you
see her tearing around her rooms In
chase of a pup that rejoices in the name
of "Humperdincka" or romping like a
child 'herself with . her two children,
"Beo" and Stella, Interesting young
sters, who regard her as their big sis
ter, or rallying in her own gay fash
Ion the somewhat grave gentleman of
perhaps 35, whom she calls "Pat" and
acknowlegdea as lord and master.
Lips red with vigorous health, coal
black eyes and hair as dark as ebony,
complexion pale and smooth as polished
Ivory, figure tall, lithe and slender, with
long clinging arms, a throat that Marie
Antoinette might have envied and a
hand which literally speaks these are
some of the physical characteristics of
a woman whose remarkable Individual
ity has been for three years the talk of
London, .- '. ' .
She Affects Aesthetic Draperies.
She affects aesthetic draperleH a'bout
the house and on her person. With an
innate love of beautiful things, she does
not neglect old laces. A piece of Vene
tian point, more often than not, Is
wound about her neck or worn straight
across her' bodice. Of Jewelry she Is
very fond not with the usual mania of
aft actress or society datne,. however,
for diamonds, for thebr flash and dis
play. Her tarte runs to turquoises and
emeralds. She dotes' on a certain clus
ter of greenyrblue. turquoises In a green
antique setting. On slender chain
around her neck she wears a huge uncut
emerald night and day. ;'At home or at
the thea ter, there Is one chain she wears
as an amulet a row of strange looking
stones, of various colors, strung on a
cord of gold.
I do not know whether she Is the vic
tim of any of the. traditional super
stitions of the stage, but this particular
amulet 1s worn "for luck." She has a
faddist's weakness for clasps. Several
In her collection are of wonderfully In
tricate workmanship. Her intimate
friends who know her fondness for an
tique patterns, keep her well supplied.
As to her style of dressing It needs a
woman to deal with that .but even to
the rr.'ascullne comprehension - this at
least la plarn. IMrs. Campbell's private
gowns are as unconventional as her
stage costumes. The""so-caIIed tailor
made dress amd the fashionable skirts
of the period are not to be found In her
wardrobe. They would not be becoming-
to her fourteenth century person
ality. . 1
In an Atmosphere of Art and Letters.
Mrs. Campbell's home In Ashley Oar
dens is exactly what such a woman
would make it. - She lives in an atmos
phere of 'art and letters, with her hus
band and children, her books and pic
tures and mucflc, her birds and dogs.
Mr. Campbell Is his wife's most ardent
admirer which means something in
these d'ays In the artistic world of Lon
don and thiy "Indulge llri. the felicity
of unbounded domesticity." He super
intends. her business arrangements and
derives am adequate Income on his own
account from a salaried position In the
city atxl from literary work.
"Show me a woman's room." said
some one, "and I will tell you what she
Is." There Is force In the observation.
Judge IMrs Ompbell by her rooms and
you will pronounce her In. advance a
cultivated and Interesting woman. The
pictures on her walls are 'for the most
part photographs of Burne-Jones and
Watts' paintings. For both these cele
brated artists she feels the liveliest ad
miration. Her eye flashes with enthus
iasm as H resits upon ."The Golden Stair
case" or "Love Among the Ruins" or
"Ganymede." Watts' mournful,, mys
tical "Ophelia!" i her favorite. It stands
upon the piano, an Instrument, by the
way, which she plays with no little skill
and at whloh she sometimes accompan
ies herself when alofie or with her fam
ily, In singing the simply old English
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ballads to the soul of a woman with an
Introspective tempeiiament. Her voice
Is a contralto.
Among -her treasures are a fantastic
portrait of herself by Phil Burne-Jones
and a ca'iUcature of Mr. Flnero hi col
ored chalks, the work of Max Beerbohm,
the clever, brother of Beerbohm Tree,
who accompanied the actor on his re
cent tour In the United State.
An Inveterate Keador of Emerson.
Her book shelves tell the same story
of good taste and good Judgment. "Do
you And much time to read, (Mrs. Camp
bell r "Oh, yes," was the reply, "or
I make it. You see I suffer greatly, per
sistently, from Insomnia. So I am apt
to do most of my reading at night. I
turn on the electric light and read,
read, read for hours, books of every
sort, plays, novels, poetry and Emer
son. Emerson Is my favorite prose au
thor. I have read everything he has
left In published form again and again,
and could repeat you whole, pages. I
never tire of Emerson."
A closer glance at the library showed
the owner's fondness for editions. Her
favorite poems and prose authors ap
peared there In all sorts of bindings.
Here, too, was the first copy of "The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray," which Plnero
gave her; It Is literally covered with
notes 'In her own handwriting. Another
tone of curious interest was gift from
Cobden Senderson a volume In white
vellum, etenclled In gold, oound by him
self. ' -
. It Is while she talks of these things
and others near her heart that one
realizes the peculiarly caressing quality
in her voice,, which charms the. auditor
In her gentler moods upon the stage.
She has then the light, spontaneous
laugh of a child.
Her Theatrical Career, --
Her theatrical career has not been a
long one. Pour years ago she was an
amateur. Her appearance In private
theatricals at Wilton In the. role of
Rosalind, was the flrBt occasion, on
which she attracted attention. London
saw her first in Adelphlan melodrama,
about ifour years ago. It was her im
personation of Paula, In "The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray," in the spring of 1893,
which placed her 4n the front rank of
modern actresses. . Her conception dif
fered radically .from Mrs. Kendal's
she made (Paula Tanqueray a thorough
ly lovable womam, refined and seductive
In every movement and tone. The mor
alists took sharp exception to this in
teirpretatilon; they charged the actress
with painting a "woman with & past"
In too attractive colors. ' It was Mrs.
Kendal's ,deslre to avoid a elmllar criti
cism which led her to padnt Paula as
essentially coarse.
IMrs. Campbell has since "created"
the roles of Kate Cloud In "John-a-
Dreams" and Agnes Ebbsmlth In "Tha
Notorious Mrs, Ebbrmlth." Her latest
impersonation is of Juliet, which she Is
now playing to Forbes Robertson's
Romeo at the Lyceum. With her dusky
hair and '.moonlight eyes, eyes that
haunt the spectator, and. withal, with
YuiT thoroughly Italian "feeling," she
looks the part of the . daughter of the
Capulets. however much oplnlonsmay
dilff er as to the merit of her reading of
Shakespeare.
Sho Will Play Tcss.
Later on she will play the heroine
of Thomas Hardy's "Tcss of the d'Ur
bervllles," a, raft peculiarly suited to
her. Just now her fancy is much taken
by "The Pelleas t Mellsande" of Maet
erlinck, which Is being translated for
her by that accomplished scholar, John
Mackall. She ought to 'be a success In
the role of 'the mystic heroine.
Mrs Campbell has had extraordinary
praise and extraordinary oensure. By
some cil.tics rhe Is regarded, like Irv
ing, as a.bove criticism; 'by others as,
like Irving, open to it at every move.
She seems quite unaffected by the
blame or commiseration of critics. Bhe
appears satisfied with the fact that she
magnetizes the public;
If she has a mental weakness it is
perhaps that she takes herself too se
riously. Time will probably, remove
this, end ,with it a - certain youthful
austerity arising from tt. In the field
of her art sha betrays occasionally a
giant of prejudice. But it is impossible
not to admire her devotion to her Ideals,
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