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MARTYRS TO GIRDLES.
A Native Protest Against Feminine
Fashions In Japan.
A caustic Japanese critic, Saito Man,
has this to say in the Tokyo Advertiser
about women’s fashions in Japan:
“Archaic costumes, especially those
universally worn by ladies, demand re-
form. The indigent world can be cloth.
ed out of the materials wasted in gor-
geous kimono sleeves. Nothing is so
absurd as the long, heavy, pendulant
sleeves attached to a girl’s holiday ki-
mono. They serve no purpose, impede
locomotion and are a pitiful spectacle.
The girdle is more cumbrous and ex-
pensive, especially those woven in one
Plece of heaviest silk,
“Formerly the latter were only worn
at weddings and state affairs; now ev-
ery geisha has one. Every wife must
have one to sport at the theater. In
price this maruobi varies from 30 to
1,000 yen ($15 to $500) and upward. To
girdle it requires all the strength of a
well built husband or father. I do not
know any Japanese woman who ever;
succeeded in putting on one herself,
“It is over three feet wide, folded into
half that width when worn, and its
length is three times ithe full height of
its wearer. In weight ‘it is terrific.
thickly embroidered as it is with gold-
en threads. It is chiefest attraction in
the whole dress scheme of Japanese
womanhood. One might as well ask a
woman to discard her hair as it. Every
well dressed Japanese lady is a martyr
to lier girdles. Her entire waist is cov-
ered with layers of belting. From the
viewpoint of health the girdle (obi) is
a most vile contrivance, as every doc-
tor asserts.”
REALISTIC STAGECRAFT.
The Electric Light Is Responsible For
Many Innovations.
The introduction of electric light was,
of course, responsible for greater inno-
vations in the art of stage decoration
than any other one thing. It was now.
possible to light up equally. well any
portion of the stage, and so the “apron”
was dispensed - with and the ‘picture
frame proscenium introduced.
The cry for realism which Ibsen’s
dramas had aroused was now taken
up by the scene builders with enthusi-
astic vigor, and “nature” was repro-
figced in every material detail, “We
must show life exactly as it is,” be-
came their motto. : :
These changes naturally also had an
effect upon the actors themselves sud
upon what they said. Formerly the
actors were continually conscious of,
the presence of the audience, and to a
oensiderable degree addressed it. di-
story on the stage, entirely ignoring,
apparently, the presence of the audi-
ence. £i
This change in the conception of the
play as a whole, as being made up not
alone of dialogue and recitation, but
also of action and pictorial representa-
tion, has had a very farreaching effect
on our present day conception of the
drama.—Review of Reviews.
Luminous Eyes.
Cats among animals and owls among
birds, says W. H. Hudson in his book.
“Idle Days In Patagonia.” are the most
highly favored of any creatures in the
matter of luminous eyes. “The feline
eyes, as of a puma or a wildcat, blaz-
ing with wrath, sometimes affect one
like an electric shock, but for intense
‘ brilliance the yellow globes of the owl
are unparalleled.” Mr. Hudson asserts
that nature has done comparatively lit-
tle for the human eye either in these
terrifying splendors or in beauty. He
says that in Brazil he was greatly im-
pressed with the magnificent appear-
ance of many of the negro women, but
that if they had only possessed the
“golden irides” of certain intensely
black tropical birds their “unique love:
liness” woul have been complete.
‘Preparedness on the Farm.
Every farmer ought to believe in pre-
paredness, says Farm and Fireside, the
kind of preparedness that provides
tested rather than guessed seed corn;
that sees that all farm machinery is
carefully looked over and the badly
worn or broken parts replaced before
the beginning of the rush season; that
makes ready a supply of bolts and
taps, extra tap rings and clevises, sin-
gletrees and at least one extra pair of
doubletrees. Man labor and horse la-
bor are too expensive and time too pre-
cious to take chances of, risks which
might easily be avoided.
A Regiment. ;
In military terms a “squad” is part of
a company.
A captain commands a company, and
be has under him a first Heutenant and
a second leutenant.
A major commands a battalion, which
is made up of four companies. A regi-
ment is commanded by a colonel, and it
comprises three battalions, so that a
regiment is made up of twelve com-
panies. :
Fresh Air as Medicine,
It bas taken centuries for us to find
out and know that fresh air is the cure
of consumption, pneumonia and colds,
end probably it will take another can-
fury to make us know and use fresh
air as a preventive of these and some
ether diseases.
Filling a Need.
“I'm doing my best to get ahead,”
asserted Cholly.
“Well, heaven knows you need one,”
asserted Dolly.—Puck,
The Crop That Is Always Short,
Knicker— What is the most needed
grain crop? Bocker—Grains of sense.
New York Sun.
I call that man idle who might be
better employed.—Socrates,
Now they could interpret the
POSTURE OF WOMEN.
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Upon It In Great Measure Depends |
Good or Bad Health.
| Miss Jessie B. Merrick, director of
| physical education for women in the
University of Washington, insists that
every woman’s home or office be a la-
boratory of health, She points out that
' there was a time when woman’s house-
hold duties were so varied that all her
muscles were brought into play. Work
has become so highly specialized, how-
| ever, and woman has taken her place so
, actively in the business world with
| man that she is deprived of the oppor-
tunity to live a rational life in which
she would exercise every part of the
body in accordance with its natural
functions.
Good posture is to be thought about.
It depends upon the maintenace of nat-
ural conditions of life. Some health
specielists. attribute all abnormalities
of h:alth to bad posture. Depressed
mental condition, ill fitting clothing
and poorly adapted furniture all con-
tribute to a slouchy sitting or standing
Bad posture is blamed for such dis-
i eases as sciatica and lumbago.
Good posture represents initiative,
. courage, responsibility, self control and
| self direction. .
| A strong nervous system is to be
! gained by physical activity in games,
dances and exercises involving rhythm.
HE INVENTS WORDS.
This Man Finds Terms to Fit Emergen-
cies For the Dictionaries.
There are in the world many un-
usual and unique occupations, but per-
haps the strangest of all which pays »
newspaper man who earns, in addition
to his regular salary from the paper,
rather regular amounts from the pub-
lishers of dictionaries,
and other such volumes. His occupa-
tion is the inventing of new words.
The casual observer would be in-
clined to remark that the English lan-
guage already possesses enough words
any new ones, and probably his state-
ment would be fact. Nevertheless it is
true that this man is paid substantial
sums for inventing new words to fit
special phases, situations, occupations
and occurrences, and that the publish-
ers of dictionaries will incorporate into
them any new word based on substan
tial derivatives for the existence of
which a plausible reason can be made.
The progress of modern business, and
especially the discoveries that have
been made in the fields of electricity
and medicine inthe last decade, have
been responsible for the incorporation
into the language of many new words.
—8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Abandon Food Prejudices.
Don’t be finicky. Be willing to try
new foods. Certain plentiful and nour-
ishing foods widely used and enjoyed
in one section are practically unknown
in other sections of the country. Learn
to know gll the good things, not a few
only.
People too easily get into food ruts:
insist on eating only the foed they are
: used to and refuse to give a fair trial
to others. This causes undue demand
for certain staples. with resulting
scarcity or high prices when crops are
short. At the same time other valuable
i foods may be relatively cheap and
| available. A striking instance of this
is failure fully to appreciate rice—a
valuable source of starch—when pota-
toes are scarce and high. Another ex-
-ample is refusal in certain sections te
use anything but wheat as a bread-
' stuff, when corn—a valuable ~ereal
widely used elsewhere as a breadstuff
—is plentiful and relatively cheap.—
Los Angeles Times.
Wonderful Memories.
Michelangelo had on his lips the
greater part of the poetry of Dante
and Petrarch, and Galilei could repeat
most of Ariosto, Petrarch and Berai.
Justus Leipsius knew Tacitus by heart
and could repeat any passage called
for. Locke states that Pascal knew
the whole of the Bible by heart. Lieb-
nitz, even in old age, could repeat near-
ly all the poetry of Vergil, word for
word. Saunderson knew by heart
Horace’s odes, Cicero’s *‘Offices” and a
large part of Juvenal and Persius.
Porson, the great English scholar, de-
clared that he could repeat ‘Roderick
Randem” from beginning to end.
As to Eating.
It is a good plan not to eat when you
are hurried.
When you are troubled.
When you have no appetite,
When you are laboring under any
strain of mind.
When you cannot lay aside every
care and give yourself up to leisure by
enjoyment of the meal.
How They Kept Her.
“Our last cook stayed with us six
months.”
“What! Really?’
“Yes. She broke her leg in three
places an hour after she arrived, and
the doctor wouldn’t let her be moved.”
—Buffalo Express.
A Rule of Conduct,
So live that your former sweethearts
will point you out to their husbands as
the man they might have married. -
Kansas City Star.
Expert Advice.
Give your potatoes time to grow.
Don’t send for the oculist to see if their
eyes are open.—Memphis Commercial-
Appeal.
A vigorous plant cannot be raised
without sunshine, nor can any nature
be truly strong and helpful without
cheerfulness,
EL AER
encyclopedias
for all uses without the invention of’
MAKE YoUR MONEY WORK.
Set It Out Earning For You, tut Be a
Careful Investor.
Money is a workman. Ii works for
its owner while the owner sleeps, and
it will work for anybody who bas it if
he-will only put it to work. for there
is always somebody ready to hire mon-
ey and pay for ils use.
Let every rcader who has a few hun
dred dollars to spare put it in a good |
$500 or $1,000 bond on the partial pay-
ment plan and let it earn something.
Five hundred dollars invested in a 6 |
per cent bond (with the income depos-
ited in a ‘savings bank at 4 per cent)
will double itself in twelve years—that
is, the $500 will have become $1,000 in
that time. This $1,000 at 6 per cent
will earn $60 a year, or over $1 'a week,
for its possessor. Even at 5 per cent
it will double in fifteen years and at 4
per cent in eighteen years.
The lesson the small vestér wants
to learn is that his money is just as
good as that of the larger investor.
The former has greater need of being
careful because he has less to spare.
Learn to be a careful investor. The
first thing the careful buyer does if he
wants to bur a horse, a cow, a house
or a farm, a bond or a share of stock
is to make a careful investigation.
Schoolboys may swap the jackknives
they hold in their closed hands, but
grown up men ought to know better.
The humblest investor can buy with
as great safety as the proudest, fot
both can deal with the same bankers
or brokers in these days when smal
i lots are popular with firms of estab
good income is that of a New York
lished character.—Jasper in Leslie's,
SOLDIERS ON THE MARCH.
Distances That Trained, Hardened Men
Can Cover In a Day.
The Army Drill Book tells that train-
ed and hdrdened. infantry can cover
from twenty to twenty-five miles a day’
when in small bodies. As the size of
the. command increases the distance
covered becomes less, as the rate is
lowered and time is needed to get all
the units into and out of camp.
With a regiment or less of average
troops—regulars—marching over aver-
age roads, the rate should be from two
and three-quarters to three miles an
hour, while a division cannot be ex-
pected to accomplish more than twelve
and a half miles a day.
Of course, all these figures will vary
with different conditions of roads and
weather. Untrained troops could not
approach them until hardened. Though
they might do better for a day or two,
they could not keep up the steady pace
-of the seasoned regulars for a long dis-
tance.
Marching with full equipment is hard
physical work, and, like every other
form of labor, requires a proper period
of training. The seasoned force will
keep up a steady pace, with ten minute |
halts every hour, a fifteen minnte stop
being made at the end of the first half
or three-quarters of an hour. Green
troops are apt to straggle badly.—Out-
ing Magazine.
Holland and Flowers.
It was only after the fall of Con-
stantinople in 1472 1hat Holland be-
came such a gay land of flowers as it
now is. Many Dutchmen went to the
east during The vears of the great cru
sades, and those of tiie who loved
beautiful things brougit many home
again with them. Not only did they
carry away with them silks and em-
broideries, jewels. spices and fruits.
but in the bottoms of their ships they
brought seeds. When these seeds were
planted in the rich soil of Holland such
wondrous flowers appeared as had
never before been seen in that north-
ern country. The peojple became wild-
ly enthusiastic over the new colors and
scents and foliage brought to them
from the east, and in Holland there
sprang up a great love for gardening.
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Origin of the Jury System.’
A jury is a body of laymen sum-
moned and sworn to ascertain the truth
as to facts raised in legal proceedings.
The jury system of the United States
developed from that of England.; This
in turn bad its origin in Frankish in-
quest, which was translated into Eng-
land by Norman kings. In these in-
quests a body of neighbors was sum-
moned by a public officer to give an-
swer upon oath on some question of
fact or law or of mixed fact and law.
In the beginning the object of the in-
quiry was usually to obtain informa-
tion for the king to ascertain facts
needed for assessing taxes.
Couldn’t Stand Defeat.
Dr. Grenfell tells an amusing story
of the introduction of football in Lab
rador, when defeat was considered so
unendurable a mortification that it had
to be mutually agreed beforehand that
neither side should win. “We saw,”
he says, “the unusual spectacle of the
side that had been scored against sol-
emnly alloyed to walk across the field
and kick a goal to save them the feel-
ing of being beaten.”
Good Scheme.
Husband — Why do you scold the
butcher? It isn’t his fault that the
meat comes to the table all dried up.
Scold the cook. Wife—I don’t dare to,
but I'm in hopes that if I keep on
scolding the butcher he’ll get mad and
come around and scold the cook.
The Tambourine.
The ftimbrel of the Bible was the in-
strument known today as the tambou-
rine. It was used in early times by the
Syrians of Padan-aram at their mersy-
makings {Genesis xxxi, 27). *
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On
Reur in the midst of everything—a sudden thought:
“Wonder how the fire is?”
sweeping, run downstairs, rake and shake, shovel coal and
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Marines.
Marines—soldiers serving on ship- |
board—date back to the year 1664, |
when an order in council, dated Oct.
16, authorized 1,200 soldiers to be rais-
ed and formed into a regiment. More
regiments were later on formed, and
in the latter years of the French wars,
they numbered 32.000. The marine:
are today a feature of every navy, and
in most countries officers of the ma-#
rines are equal in rank with those in
the army and navy.—London Chron-
icle.
Slaves of the Gown.
Some women live in a state of per-
petual preparation of wardrobe. They
never seein to acquire one in any ap-
proach to completion, and they are al-
ways in the act of either planning or
of obtaining some separate portion of
one in such a way that it would seem
ag if they lived to and for no other end
or purpose. The materials of which
their gowns are made must be of the
nature of Penelope’s web.—Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Womanly Retort.
“Women are terribly inconsistent,”
protested Mr. Kwibbles.
“John,” replied his wife, “you know
the poet says, ‘Consistency’s a jewel’
And you told me yourself that much
Jewelry is not good form.”—Washing-
ton Star.
The First Question.
“Opportunity is at your door. Wants
you to go with him.”
“Has he a car ?’—Louisville Courler-
Journal.
Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquism was first described in
72 B. O. Greeks ascribed i to the
operation of demons.
J. T. Yoder
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