tah,
ON DU
Under the cornice, a hundred feet
Over the pave of the murmuring street,
Belch the masses of turgid smokey
To spread afar ke a giant's cloak
And close by thz curb, at the building's
base,
Btationed here in a vantage-place,
Fighting the march of the treacherous
The engine stays till the chief says: “Go!”
Puffing away in its vibrant rhyme;
Pelted by fire-brands time on time;
Fed and coaxed by its master’s hand
It steadily answers each demand:
Steadily -gives at the 1.ozzle’s need,
Holding fast to the constant creed
That, She a tho’ the peril, the stream must
flo
And the” “engine stays till the chief says:
Torrents of flame from cranny &na crack!
fiises the warning: “Back! Back! Back
Back from your footing! *Ware the w all!
ck, for vour lives, ere the ruin fall’
Flee to a distance those who can
But true to his charge is the engine-
nan; .
True to his charge, 'spite blaze and blow —
For the engine stays till the chief says:
“Go!”
Death in the withering tongues of fire
Outward leaping in vengeful ire.
Death in the ramparts threatening o'er,
Tottering, leaning, more and more
Death in the burst of a force long pent—
A seething crater, by lightning rent.
Death in the fore, above, below
But the engine stays till the chief says:
“Got
—The Criterion.
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By ELLIOT WALKER.
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The supply of ‘bewitching curves
must have been temporarily exhaust-
ed when it came Rosemary's turn to
be fitted out. Possibly, in her case,
Nature had decided that Icngth and
angularity would be more useful for
the performance of such duties as ac-
companied her daily walk.
Not to attempt the humorous at the
expense of a pathetic subjeet, but to
point to a fact, it was two miles to
the schoolhouse and Rosemary’s
stride covered that distance in just
thirty minutes under favorable con-
ditions of weather.
If she had been short of limb and
round of body, three-quarters of an
hour would have been consumed in
making the trip, so it may be seen
that a saving of time was effected as
some compensation for Iss graceful
locomotion.
A thrifty soul, impregnated with
the ancient sunerstition that “time is
money,” may be competent to figure
out Rosemary's financial gain from
this economical method of procedure,
but, beyond compliment from the
school committee for habits of punc-
tuality it had not been reckoned in
practically augmenting her resources,
which, like her frame, were of an at-
tenuated character. The casual ob-
server would have remarked Rose-
mary as simply a tall, thin, brown
country girl of a lankness to excite
amusement. A more critical eye
might have gathered interest from a
perusal of her features, which, while
frregular, were distinctly pleasing and
indicative of intelligent and wary
faculties. .
Her flock at the district school
minded. ¢ Rosemary was a disci-
plinarian. The reach of her arm was
remarkable, and she possessed that
strength and celerity of action when
roused which frequently accompanies
the gaunt.
Within the boundaries of her ex-
tended contour dwelt a pent-up spir-
it. It manifested itself with equal
facility in foot, hand, and tongue
movement; and the combination
when applied to the insubordinate
pupil was a lesson in reduction, as-
cending or descending, according to
the manner in which said pupil was
elevated or depressed. Consequently,
after the first week of a term, which
Rosemary conscientiously gave up to
the suppression of warlike natures,
the dove of peace was gladly wel-
comed by her scholars with a full
and haunting knowledge of the black
ruler reposing in her desk.
The first indication of Wilton Pep-
per’s disposition to cultivate the so-
ciety of Rosemary was shown in an
evident effort to make the most of
his physical proportions, that is in
regard to height. He essayed a tall
hat and a pair of excessively high-
heeled shoes (made to order). The
erectness of his body carriage was
like unto a vertical yardstick. Upon
the removal of his headgear, Mr. Pep-
per’s hair showed an exaggeration of
the pompadour. He emphatically
disproved the truth of that well-
knowl adage, “For who by taking
thought can add one cubit to his sta-
ture,” i. e., heels, hat, and spinal
straightening fairly covered Mr. Pep-
per's cubit, which for the benefit of
those who have not just loked in the
dictionary, would be the length of
his forearm.
Rosemary, unused to male atten-
tion of a sentimental sort, gladly re-
ceived the advent of an admirer with
a series of thrills which almost in-
capacitated her for the occupation of
teaching; a wandering wit being the
direct result of Mr. Pepper’s very first
advances.
Painfully aware of the difference in
inches, she adopted his cue with
blind enthusiasm. The crown of her
new’ hat seemed welded to the crown
of her head; the heels of her shoes
resembled a shaving for thinness,
and appearing before the public gaze
in Wilton’s company, she assumed a
settled attitude of figure, suggestive
of rheumatism and decrepitude.
If Rosemary’s knees sufféred from
this bending strain her young heart
exulted in the triumphant thougnt of
a becoming adjustment of differences,
and Mr. Pepper viewed her shy clum-
siness with appreciative sympathy,
being himself extremely uncomforta.
ble.
The little man, youthful in years,
in spite of many wrinkles wrought
by shrewd dickering with the world
from early boyhood, was now pos-
sessed of the one general store at
Pinney Corners, and doing a paying
trade.
He had worked up, alone and
friendless, saving and doubling, to in-
dependence. Women, to him, had
been but buyers of goods, and the
counter was his only introduction to
feminine society until’ now, settled at
“Pinney’s,” the tall daughter of Dud-
ley’s stopping every day for the news-
paper on her way home from school
had most wunaccountably attracted
him.
When Mr. Pepper, in the past, felt
a strong desire for the possession of
any article, it had been his habit to
strenuously exert his powers in the
direction of acquisition, and his wits
being as bright as his blue eyes, he
was quite invariably successful.
But Rosemary was outside ordinary
methods of acquirement, and but for
the inspiration of that young gentle-
man ‘‘whoe laughs at locksmiths,” the
storekeeper would have been in de-
spair. .
Many times had the object of his
adoration visited the store, but words,
so ready with others, failed him be-
fore the steady gray eyes gazing
down into his own with a half won-
dering look as if in astonishment at
his diminutiveness. Pepper had
never felt so small. His size was
no drawback in dealing with men; he
considered himself, by the equalizing
power of Nature, as big’'as anyone.
The new sensation worried him, and
worry to Mr. Pepper was a prelimi-
nary to achievement.
Therefore, he resolved
stroke of boldness, and when next
Rosemary peered through the mail
window (for the store accommodat-
ed the post-office), Mr. Pepper, first
making sure of no listening ears,
mounted a concealed soap-box and
brought his blue orbs on an exact
line with those of his startled vis-
a-vis.
“I'm bound to be on vour level for
once,” stammered he with a tremen-
dous effort. “Miss Dudley, I never
cared to be a tall feller, til I see you.
I don’t s’'pose you'd care to go any-
wheres with a runt like me? Lots
of times I've thought if I was only
bigger—you—you’d be the young lady
I'd like to Enow—on an see ”
Here the box slipped, as Mr. Pepper
made a convulsive Pr to finish his
speech, and he slid down with a gasp
of consternation.
The girl had shot an angry look in
the anxious face at the first words
Ther she checked a laugh. Now her
cheeks were crimson and her lashes
drooped. Behind the grotesque
burned the sincere. Something pitiful
and far away, yet near and sweet,
had confronted her in that forlorn
visage staring through the window.
For a second she felt like crying. But
she smiled instead—a wide, gracious
upon a
smile, and stepped around to the
counter.
“I'd like father’s paper,” she whis-
pered. “I—I don’t think size ought
to make any difference with folks if
they want to be friends. I've always
liked you, Mr. Pepper—I mean——"'
Rosemary grabbed the daily print
and fled with a blazing countenance
as Mrs. Deacon Raggett Qpensg the
"back door with a squeak.
Mr. Pepper eyed the fleeing vision
in rapturous silence and filled Mrs.
Raggett's pail with butter instead of
lard. The deacon’s wife fixed a gaze
of piety upon the ceiling and said
nothing. If Mr. Pepper wished to do
business in that way she had no ob-
jection.
This began it, and of all the fools
ever known within the precincts of
Pinney Corners, Rosemary and Wil-
ton Pepper soon acquired the reputa-
tion of leading lights.
Little cared they. Independent souls
both, and completely absorbed in this
new: and agitating experience, public
opinion, mirthful and tinctured with
sarcastic criticism, was an oblivious
quantity. Together they walked,
drove and attended festivities, with
one mutual idea, ‘“‘the elimination of
physical disparity by artifice.”
However, Mr. Dudley, a small agri-
culturist, heartily approved. So did
his wife. They immediately ran up
a bill at the store and purchased
freely.
Then came the day when chastise-
ment fell upon “Tony” Shillaber.
Tony was the star artist of the
school and his well known touch was
apprehended without a moment's de-
lay.
It was well dome, that ridiculous
caricature upon the blackboard. The
flogging administered to the reckless
and ambitious author of the sketch
was very well done, also—albeit
Anthony was one of the larger boys
and a fighter.
His aspect, when Rosemary's final
hold relaxed, was not indicative alone
of bruises and rent apparel. There
were more than suggestions of gore.
There was also a tomb-like hush over
the entire school.
Rosemary dismissed it
voice; glaring at the
quarter past two of the afternoon,
but much had been crowded into fif-
teen minutes—sufficient to render the
rest of the session an pducational
in an awtul
clock. Only
farce. The teacher knew. it. The
children knew it.
All but Tony, who , stamped and SWOre
vengeance through his’ ‘teas, at a sdfe
distance. «
Alone, Rosemary
ror at the representation on the
blackboard. The chalky eyes stared
back in mockery. Wilton and she
—Wilton and she—in all the exagger-
ation of their innocent efforts for a
mutual height. If the children so
viewed them, what must their elders
think? She was making him a butt
for ridicule-and scorn. It could not
£0 on. It must not.
The girl sank her head on her tired
arms ang sobbed, weeping bitterly and
long. That very afternoon he was
to call for her at the school. The
drive they had planned. It was to
have been so happy.
With sudden determination Rose-
mary sat up. She would wait. At
four o’clock he would come. There,
with that hideous object lesson before
them, they must decide to go in sepa-
rate ways—he would see—oh! he
could not help seeing that it must
be best.
A long agony, those crawling min-
utes, while the purr of the drowsy
insect voices, floating from the fields,
brought painful visions of loved
nooks where they had sauntered hand
in hand.
His step at last. No! It was a
heavier tread—Ichabod Shillaber—the
neighborhood terror, the father of
Tony. Mr. Shillaber was exceeding-
ly irate, and worse—in a state ot
savage stimulation. This condition
was habitual of late to Ichabod.
There had been talk of confining him
recently, as a matter of precaution.
The drawing caught his attention
as he stumbled - in. He laughed
coarsely. “Jest like yer!” came his
snarl. ‘Say! will ye lick my boy
nigh ter death fer a little thing like
that—say, will yer? Come here!
I'll pinch them claws of yourn fer
what ye done. A-ah! ye would, hey?”
Exhausted and wild with fear the
girl endeavored to dart under the out-
stretched arms. The brute seized
her roughly and she screamed, just
as a shadow darkened the doorway.
It was Mr. Pepper in full regalia.
He paused one second to wrench at
his foot. Another moment, with a
leap like a hunting spider, he pounced
on the burly shoulders of the startled
Ichabod, and his arm flew up.
Something very exciting was oc-
curring in the tiny schoolroom. A
perfect rattle of clips and thuds from
a unique weapon cut and battered
the head of Mr. Shillaber, while he
vainly tried to shake off his adver-
sary.
At last he sank down, groaning for
mercy. Mr. Pepper was not in a mer-
citul mood. Poising himself on one
stockinged foot, he leliberately and
with violence kicked Ichabod square-
ly in the point of the jaw with a very
hard, pointed and well-polished boot-
tip. Mr. Shillaber lay still.
Mr. Pepper picked up his tall hat.
It was a ruin. Then he put on his
shoe. “Come, Rosemary,” he said
coolly. “I’ll drag this rascal out snd
lay him on the grass. Then, if you're
ready we’ll take our drive. Scared
you, didn’t he? Well, you're all right
now. Bless me! Who drew that
picture?”
Stepping to the board, he erased
the direful tracings with an angry
scowl, kicked his dilapitated tile un-
der a desk, grabbed the unconscious
Ichabod by the collar and hauled him
ruthlessly outside with an amazing
display of streagth.
“My team is down by the corner,”
he announced. “I'll have to drive
bareheaded. I—I guess I won’t wear
that style of hat any more, and I'm
sick of these shoes. Come on!”
But Rosemary stood still, with her
hands over her eyes.
Mr. Pepper pulled them down, ele-
vated himself on his toes and kissed
away her tears.
“~an’t I big enough for you as I am,
Rosemary?” he murmured with a
quiver in his voice. “let's quit
these improvements and be natural.”
The girl held him close. “You're
big enough for any woman, and I
wouldn’t have you an inch taller.”
she whispered.
“Say that again,” cried Mr. Pepner
delightedly. “Say that again, Rose-
mary.”—The Criterion.
That Little Motor Bill.
The bill of $157,598.80 for automobile
hire during the first two weeks after
the earthquake is so grossly exorbitant
that it is comical. Only 129 claims are
included in this total, so that the aver-
{ age charge for each automobile is
$1,221, which is pretty near the full
retail price of a good automobile. For
the amount of this fortnight’s bill for
automobile hire the municipality could
have purchased about eighty-seven au-
tomobiles at $1,800 each, and a manu-
facturer would make a large reduc-
tion in price on an order for eighty-
seven machines.
Of course the committee will not pay
these bills to the full amount. A num-
ber of the claimants have very decently
signified their willingness to waive
their claims as a donation to the relief
fund. Except in cases of peculiar
hardship, the other claimants cught to
do the same.—San Francisco Bulletin.
History.
“Here,” cried Tommy’s father,
“what are you doing in that book
case?”
“Why,” . replied Tommy, “I just
want to see that United States his-
tory.”
“What for?”
“Why Johnny Jones sez Christie
Mathewson pitched fur de Chicagos
last year, an’ I want ter see if he
did.”—XKansas City Independexnt.
They, filed out}
into the soft August day'zon tingoe. J
glowered in Tor -
Inventions Pay
Even with a Really Good Device, Inefficient
or Ouverhasty Management May
Bring Failure.
:
HE process of putting an invention on the market is not so
simple as an inexperienced person is apt to suppose. It is
usually necessary to create a public demand before the in-
vention can be sold on any considerable scale, and it is
necessary to follow up this demand by supplying the arti-
cles, otherwise the fruit of the labor in creating it will be
lost.
Of course the manner of procedure will depend largely
on the nature of the invention, but I here speak of article§
of public consumption, which have a more or less general and distributed sale,
and which are dealt with by the manufacturer in wholesale lots.
After figuring out carefully the net cost of manufacture, and fixing a rea-
sonable wholesale price which leaves a margin of profit, the manufacturer
next secures trial orders from various concerns.
If the article is to be sold to manufacturing firms, it will be found that,
however good the device may be, the firms will not take it up unless they can
be assured of a reasonable certainty in the supply, for to do so would not. only
occasion expense in changing over their former system of manufacture, but
would also subject them to disastrous losses in case they create a new des
mand with their customers which they subsequently find it impossible to fili.
The manufacturer, therefore, of the patented article, must, if he wishes
to make it a success, not seek for more orders than he can fill for the time
being, and he must seek to obtain a steady continuance and enlarging of
those orders. This is done sometimes by sending out solicitors on the road,
sometimes by advertising in trade papers; in either case, it requires time
and a considerable outlay before there is any certainty of returns.
« An invention does not always succeed in proportion to its merits. One
of great merit may fail absoPutely for want, of proper management, while an-
other of very little merit may bring its promoter a rich reward.
In fact, the case often arises where an unpatented device involving little
inventive novelty, has been pushed to such good advantage and given results
so much in excess of the manufacturer's expectations that it becomes neces-
sary to obtain some sort of patent covering it, even though that patent cov-
ers very little worth covering, and acts rather to frighten off imitators than
to actually restrain them from entering the same field.
Even where a patent cannot be obtained, it can be applied for, and the
words, “patent applied for” have, as is well known, a restraining effect in
practice, if not in law.—Cassier’s Magazine.
By George Wetmore Colles.
The New
Aristocracy
By Gertrude Atherton. i;
HERE is no doubt that new fortunes, with their unaccus-
tomed temptations, their magnetism for parasites, toadies
and flatterers, the barricade they raise against the ordinary
trials of life, develop abnormally three qualities that are
latent, at least, in every nature; frivolity, selfishness and
pride; and the constant exercise of these qualities hardens
what, for convenience, we call the heart, and breeds indif-
ference for the feeling and rights of others.
An Englishwoman who had entertained at her country
home a number of wealthy American women once confided to me that the
maids invariably complained to her maid of the refined brutality of their em-
ployers. The English woman, who was large minded, added that she made
allowances for these ladies, as she believed them to be merely the victims
of the traditions of slavery. She was very much astonished when I told her
that the black slaves had been far better treated by the genuine American
aristocracy of fifty years ago than are the highly paid servants of the pam-
pered women whose grandfathers got their intellectual equipment at a night
school, or kept a shop. on the Bowery. Those we have of ancient lineage—
who have framed their family tree and proved their seven generations, whose
fortunes have kept pace with the times, and who form the somewhat attenu-
ated backbone of society, in New York, for instance—are more objectionable
in some respects ‘than the new-rich. While they ought to know better, they
are so uneasily conscious of their position as real aristocrats in a country
too large to give them a universal recognition that anxious pride has bleached
their very blood, attenuated their features, narrowed their lips, and practically
deprived them of any distinctive personalities. The best thing that can be
said of them is that they are not, with one notorious exception, vulgar, in the
common use of the word. :
I have particularized the society of New York because it is the cynosure
and envy of all the social aspirants in the Union; its influence is the most
extensive and detrimental; it is indubitably the most heartless, extravagant
and arrogant; and because, small as it is in numbers, it has come to be the
objective point in the somewhat vague term “American society.” As a mat-
ter of fact, it not only represents an abnormal development of the most ob-
jectionable traits in the American character, but in many respects it is quite
different from the fashionable life of other cities in the United States. In
Boston there is an immense amount of wealth and luxury; but there are tra-
ditions behind—a great deal of genuine cultivation, pursuit of art and liter-
ature, high American ideals, and that simplicity that characterizes well-bred
people everywhere. There are millions enough to excite the envy of the work-
ing classes, but they are kept in the background by the good taste of their
owners. In the classic language of one of the cleverest men in America,
“Money in Boston does not stink,” and this it certainly does in New York.
Sermon in San Francisco's ¢
Stones
By H. H. Suplee-
Qo
mE
Commies
HE ruins of San Francisco mark the failure of ordinary brick,
set with ordinary care, in ordinary lime mortar. Trim-
mings of fancy tile, of moulded terra-cotta, of marble, gran-
ite, or other stone, all went down in the fire after having
been shattered by the tremor. Such work at its very best is
almost inelastic and cannot be expected to stand heavy vi-
bration, and it is not often at its best. San Francisco should
grasp the occasion so to revise its building laws as to check
the use of any such dangerous construction, and open wide
the opportunity to encourage the use of the one appropriate system of con-
struction for such purposes, that of reinforced concrete. While many and va-
ried systems, so called, of reinforced-concrete construction are in service in
all parts of the world, the principle is open to all, and proprietary interests
cover only special modifications, so that there is no reason why this most ap-
propriate, safe, and rapid method of construction should not be applied.
By using light skeletons of rod, small structural material, etc.,, wrapped
with wire, and stretched with netting, the whole imbedded in first-class con-
crete, a method at once earthquake-proof, fireproof, and capable of effective
artistic development, is found, and it is to this method that San Francisco
should turn to rebuild her shops, town residences and moderate buildings. This
method of construction also has the great advantage .that much of the work,
under proper supervision, can be readily and rapidly done by unskilled labor,
s0 that the labor cost, otherwise certain to be a heavy item in the rebuilding
of the city, may be kept at a minimum. The experiments of Considere, al-
though at first questioned, appear to have demonstrated the fact that properly
imbedded metallic rods increase the elastic limit of concrete to a great extent,
probably by distributing the stresses throughout the mass and preventing such
localization of strains as would otherwise cause the formation of cracks, and
this fact alone shows the immediate applicability of reinforced concrete to
the reconstruction of the shattered and burned buildings to which the large
steel-cage system cannot be applied.—Harper's Weekly.
T
ONLY A POOR MILLIONAIRE.
The millionaire sat in his chair,
And madly tore his store Dougie hair,
And groaned i Blter p ain.
Ah, woe was his 1oP%: ou know it is
An awful thing, this Croesus biz—
And sang this’ Sed refrain: *
“TI am only a poor millionaire;
No friends have 1;
The people all hate me, the papers be=
rate me,
I wonder why?
1 have put a million—they say it's a bil-
And that "all my wealth has a taint
at I am inhuman and don’t
what's due mean,
I know I am not—and it ain't!
know
od
“If IT don’t own an auto car,
They say that I am shorty
I trot out a ‘wagon,’ ti
dragon
And run over people for sport,
If my money in bank I keep I'm &
‘crank,’
A miser, a gold hoarding boor,
But if I invest it, they say, or suggest it,
That I am _an oppressing the poor.
y say I'm &
“If I attempt to give away
My wealth I'm Pluto’s minion
My Ele fhey describe as etenipting te
Throveh Charity public opinion.
My wealth’s a disgrace, and 1 have ro
place
On earth; and I can't get in heaven,
For—it’s no use to try—through the nee=-
dle, its eye,
The camel cannot be driven.”
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The cranks of one age
prophets of the next, provided they die
in the meanwhile.—Puck.
She—“I suppose you read a great
are the
deal.” He—*“No; I haven't time. You
see, I'm a book reviewer.”—Philadel;
phia Record.
“I see that trials by ’phone have
been pronounced illegal.”
it. I've been severely tried by mine.”
—Philadlphia Ledger.
Biggs— ‘There goes a politician who
has paid the price of success.” Diggs
—“I’ll bet he didn’t receive as much
change as he expected.”—Chicago
Daily News.
First Politician’s Wife—“‘My hus-
band gives me every cent he earns.’”
Second Politician’s Wife—“Is that
all? Why my husband gives me every
cent he gets.”’—Judge.
“That man is so honest he wouldn't
steal a pin,” said the admiring friend.
“I never thought much of the pin
test,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Try
him with an umbrella.”—Washington
Star.
“He introduced the bill in theleg-
islature, you know.” “The bill.
What bill?” “Why, the bill. Be-
fore his time the grafters were most-
ly reckless fellows and used checks.”—
Puck.
‘What, my friends,” volcanically
demanded the Hon. Thomas Rott,
“does the Old Party stand for? “Well,
you, for one thing!” replied a pessi-
mistic voice from the back
hall.—Puck.
“I say, old chappie, how on earth
do these astronomer fellows ever man-
age to predict eclipses, y° know?”
“They buy an almanac and look ‘em
up, you silly ahss!” “Bah Jove!”—
Cleveland Leader.
“What do you consider the princi-
pal features of corrupt legislation?”
“The ayes and nces, for those fea-
tures enable corrupt legislation first
to scent jebs and then to wink at
them:’—Baltimore American.
“Do you think your constituents in-
dorse your opinion on this bill?” “I
hope not,” answered Senator Sorg-
hum. “I have done my best to keep
them from finding out what my opin-
ions are.”—Washington Star.
“A Prominent oculist says he never
saw a pair of perfect eyes,” said the
woman who reads the newspapers.
“That,” replied Miss Cayenne, ‘‘mere-
ly proves that the prominent oculist
was never in love.”’—Washington
Star.
Towne— “Whenever you hear a poli-
tician declare that ‘every man has his
price’ you may rest assured that he’s
one of them.” Browne—“Not neces-
sarily. He may simply be calling at-
tention to the fact that he hasn’t got
his yet. —Philadelphia Press.
“Are you all in favor of free alco-
hol for use in the arts?” : “Yes,” an-
swered Col. Stillwell of Kentucky.
“But to be perfectly candid and not
mislead you, I ought to add that I
consider a competent mixer of bever-
ages an artist.”’—Washington Star.
“Why is it,” queried the American
globe-trotter, “that our American girls
are so much more attractive to for-
eigners with titles than you Emglish
girls?” “I don’t know,” snapped the
English beauty, “unless it’s because
they have more money and less
sense.” —Chicago Daily News.
“lI want to know,” said the irate
matron, “how much money my hus-
band drew ,out of the bank last week.”
“I can’t give: you that information,
ma’am,” answered the man in the
cage. “You're the paying teller,
aren’t you?’ “Yes, but I'm not the
telling payer.”—Chicago Tribune.
Kind of Him.
“No, dear,” said he, “I don’t intend
to have you do your own work after
we are married.”
“Yes,” he went on. “I have just
been looking up your business affairs,
and I find that you are perfectly able
to keep a hired girl.”—Detroit Free
Press.
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try 2500 years ago.
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of the ;
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way i
which
sewing
househ
plaid
pretty
by the
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or em]
pretty.
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health
hour's
of we
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and tl]
smoot!
breath
do th
proved
cellent
The
“before
begun
with
rubbin
motio:
the fi:
the ea
in 1litt
Iy anc
flesh
ways
bathe
with
~ towel.
The
on a
dreads
seam.
and «
board.
the g:
and la
of ski
gathe
then
to th
two i
board
drawr
in th
ing is
and
tried
wher
on tl