-I 4 . ' American Girls. The average Amorlcan is blase al most before the English girl Is ready to leave her school, says a writer in the World Magazine. The English girl never leaves her governess and home before she .is eighteen, while at the same age the American girl has een much of the world. Yet the American girl retains her ( vivacity and her interest in every thing, and it is that one quality, I think, above all others that wins for her the admiration of the English woman. The American woman never looks x to her husband as master, while the englishwoman is taught to do so XrVira her birth. The Womanly Forces. la a recent speech John Earrett fiaid to a Massachusetts school for girls that the American girl had more Influence as wife, mother and sister than any man with his vote, yet f counted nothing because she had no vote. The Ohio State Journal holds that as a wrong conclusion, saying: "The average woman can do more to-day than the average man In the promotion of any noble purpose in civic or social life. But it is largely a matter of personal influence wisely directed. In our temperance legisla tion, for instance, who are more closely Interested in good laws than the women? And when they make their demands intelligently, forcibly, personally, they will secure what they desire " Women Who Cook. Knowledge of how to cook palata ble dishes is no longer despised by women active in society. . President Grant's attractive grand-daughter, who was Miss Vivian Sartoris, now Mrs. Roosevelt Scovll, is winning fame for the American-bred girl by her delicious little dinners in her Dresden home. Mrs. Scovel rarely asks more than bIx to her feasts and usually she prepares every detail of the menu herself. Her salads are the pride of her friends, and her pastry would win praise from a French chef. Mrs. Francis King Wain wright, the daughter of Senator For aker, has a wide reputation in Phila delphia for her culinary accomplish ments. Mrs. Wainwright, as Miss Julia Foraker, could make delicious sandies and deserts. Mrs. Knox is noted for her fine preserves, and Mrs. Rooseveltsupeiintends the mak 4ng of that famous yellow pickle from a recipe which is 200 years old In the Roosevelt family. New York Press. Skill in Wcnring a Veil. Miss Edith Colford, who is a fa mous horsewoman, is also well known among the women of New port for her skill in arranging her veils, and also the envy of many who cannot achieve the effects which she gets. She always wears a long chif fon veil over her simple face veil, and the color varies to match or con trast with her costume, but they al ways float out behind her in a grace ful fashion, no matter which way the wind seems to be blowing. This is a mystery to the women whose veils float In front when they are supposed to be gracefully streaming behind. Miss Colford has caused comment by driving some days sitting on the right seat of her runabout and other days on the left, thereby showing that she can change at any time with out affecting her fine style of driving. New York Press. Y -. ' I Value of Rest. I The philosopher Herbert Spencer I used to lament, in his later years, that he had not adopted a regular system 01 recreation, tie oiten said that what he had needed was play, simple play, "useless" from every point of view excepting that of recre ating the system. This sort of hu man philosoyny, says The Independ ent, is gaining ground every year. No one, at any age, can live health ily, and be a wholesome human be ing, without play. City life particu larly demands provision for relaxa tion for those who are in mature life, fn this way only can the burdens of life be kept from wearing one out prematurely. Further, there is no doubt that the public can so provide for relaxation and recreation that the whole community shall feel the ben efit of it from a Banitary standpoint and in the reduction of crime. Pub lic playing is a feature of the life of many Norwegian and' Swiss commu nities. It works admirably in the way of keeping health and a good so cial atmosphere. Precisely so with the young, bo with the old play has a hygiene F value. It relieves the brain and the heart, the organs most likely to be broken down through hard work and worry. Play seems to have an ad mirable effect in equalizing the circu lation of the blood and in mitigating the strain placed on the different or gans. Play furnishes also a kind of mental training which is very neces sary in adult life. It takes the at- I tention from a single affair, and It f IrAnnn all the ftMifle-oreann s.lflr. Nnr can we make too much of the social element in this matter. A good play ground is the best means of counter acting the differentiation from each ther which we undergo in the strug gle for life. But have we really any time for games? Who can leave his business to spend an hour at sport every day of his life? We have seen this tested. In a small way, very suc cessfully, by a communal bowling al ley. Business men of all sorts and bankers did find it possible to get away from work and enjoy them selves in a very simple, frets and easy way. They threw oft their burdens, laughed and shouted and recreated. Golf has proved a useful game for many, and croquet and tennis have done a great deal of direct good. They do not quite fill the bill, how ever, as family games. What we want Is a public recognition of the value of play, and opportunities for gathering together precisely as we would group our children. American Dress. Writing on the interchange of Ideas and ideals between America and Japan, in the Housekeeper, Marian Bonsnll Illustrates her point by an amusing and Instructive anec dote. A Japanese girl and an American girl were having an amusing time at a Japanese home in Tokio one even ing, dressing in one another's clothes, the Japanese girl arraying herself In an American evening gown and the American girl in a ceremonial ki mona. The first instinct of the Ja panese girl wa3 to pull up the low neck of the gown and pull down the sleeves: and the American girl's im pulse was to pull the klmona smooth ly around the waist and hips, just exactly where it should have been folded ever. Then they started to assist each other, each one protest ing firmly against certain principles the other demanded as essential to correct dressing. But even when fin ished there was something radically wrong with the ensemble; -and the girls, after hypocritically insisting that the ether looked beautiful, sat on the matting and laughed. "I feel very strange," said O-Take-San. "I feel funny," said the American girl. "I think you are very tight where we are loose." s.-.id O-Take-San again. "The idea of making your waist the broadest part of you," laughed the American girl. "I feel," said O-Take-San, solemn ly, "as though my kimona were fall ing oft," as she indicated the cut of her waist and the fulness of her skirt. "Do you always feel cold when you wear such dress?" she queried, as she ran away to the mirror again, giggling in a very feminine way. When she came back to be helped out of the imprisoning hooks and eyes, she gave her ultimatum on the subject of American clothes. "I think," she said, reflectively, "that the American dress is good to have no heavy obi; but I think it not good to be cold and to be tight. And I should not like to feel stiff like board and wear such many skirts." t-ASr110N "Pierrot" boas in black and white net are revived. White linen is, of course, always liked for coat and skirt suits, as are the soft dull blues. String color linens and linens la the creamy biscuit shadings are par ticularly popular this season. Nowadays motor clothes are charming if the wearer studies ap pearance as well as comfort. Now and then a jabot of lace held in place by a pearl buckle falls from the lower point of the lace chemis ette. Women who drive a great deal are of the opinion that a coat that reaches to the feet is burdensome and always in the way. White collars and cuffs may be added or not, but some of the best tailors advise tailored collars aud cuffs faced with white French pique. The tiniest of lace boleroB, so small, lndee I, as to be scarcely more than a yoke, with sleeve caps is a very attractive garniture for a sheer gown. Nothing is better for any sport, be it yachting, automoblling, golfing, riding or hunting, than the Panama garnished simply with a band or flat chou of taffeta. ' White linen coats and skirts trimmed with narrow Irish crochet insertion and hand embroidery are made up upon very simple lines and loose, collarless, short-sleeved coats and plainly gored skirts. Linen collars have returned to prominence and designers are, turn ing out many tasteful ideas in these dreBS accessories. Turn-over collars' remain first in popularity not the little turn-over muslin bands or dress protectors, which seem to be rather going out of style, but starched lined turn-over collars. Antics of Our "Yellow Rich" By the Editor of The Argonaut. A well known writer has been trav- ing on the steamship Amerika, which may be said to be the last word In naval architecture and ocean splefr dor. He finds plenty to admire In a floating hotel that can accommodate about 4000 people, and that la fitted up with the same magnificence as may be found In the most luxurious hotel. But even magnificence is open to criticism and the appointments of the Amerika are the subject of caus tic comment directed against those vulgar ones who are irresistibly at tracted, not so much by comfort and luxury as by the simple opportunity to spend money lavishly and to sum mon all the world and his wife as witnesses thereto. The special occasion for animad version is the Ritz-Carleton restau rant, which is to be found on the Amerika. There Is no objection to the gymnasium, the children's nurs ery, the conservatory, the brass band, the two string orchestras, or the half dozen pianos. Ail these things can be defended on the ground of sub stantial comfort, but there can be no palliation for the restaurant, which is simply a tawdry excuse for spend ing money. This Is what he says: "This wonderful cafe, which la ser vice Is equal to anything on either side of the Atlantic, Is ostensibly for the purpose of supplying a la carte meals to passengers who do not find it convenient to eat at regular meals. In reality it is a remunerative conces sion to that class of Americans termed by Owen Wister the 'Yellow Rich,' who wander up and down the earth consumed with a burning de sire to exhibit to the public tangible evidence of their riches. All of the big modern flyers that preceded the Amerika in the past ten years were amply provided with private dining rooms, where, if the traveler had the price, he could have meals served at most any hour In the twenty-four, but as these private dining rooms of fered no opportunity for a public dis play of wealth the Ritz-Carleton res taurant became in a degree a neces sity. Within its elegant glass walls the 'yellow rich' not only enjoy the privileges of paying four prices for a meal, but they are also permitted to show the common herd, which, for reasons economical and otherwise, must worry along on eight and ten course meals In the main dining sa loon, that they actually have the price and glory in the opportunity for spending it. The cafe is, of course, a convenience for others who desire to sleep late or retire late and who drop in occasionally and order a meal to vary the regular saloon fare, but this class of patronage would be insuffi cient to remunerate the orchestra, which is a good one, and it is only through the hepvy expenditure of the 'yellow rich' that the Ritz-Carleton pays even." The trouble of this sort of thing is that it gives foreigners a false idea of Americans. We are told that on this particular voyage there was a baron, a count and "some minor sprigs of royalty," but they had not a valet be tween them. The Americans, on the other hand, had retinues of valets, gentlemen's gentlemen, man-servants, maid-servants and all the other rep resentatives of the parasite tribe. There is certainly room for the mor artzings that follow: "There may appear In these notes evidence of a personal grievance and, to a degree, I plead guilty. But the grievance Is not specific, and It did not have its origin on th9 Amerika. Neither is it altogether my grievance, for it is one that U murmured by thousands of other Americans who, annually, on business or pleasure, visit the Old World. Our 'yellow rich' have set a paceafloat and ashore that it is very difficult for the plain, everyday Americans to maintain. Some of the ex-puddlers in the Penn sylvania Steel Works never seem to have anything smaller than a sover eign for a tip, and the ostentatious manner in which they bestow it daz zles the eyes of the cringing minions to such an extent that the shilling of the 'American'. American is over looked or treated with haughty dis dain. It is the effect of this osten tatious distribution of wealth of which we of the ranks complain, as it renders it very difficult for us to secure what is coming to M3." It would seem that smart society afloat is Bomewhat worse than smart society ashore. WORDS OP WISDOM. Poor excuses we have always with us. Anything that is almost right is wrong. Criticise yourself to-day and others to-morrow. The man who looks for trouble ii seldom disappointed. Silent watches of the night art those we neglect to wind. An Indian scalps his enemy; s white man skins his friend. It's well to remember that it is mistake to forget a favor. A confidence man has very little confidence in other people. Savage dogs have caused many I man to travel for his health. And the man who sells parasols li engaged in a shady business. You can't dodge the worst by sit ting down and hoping for the best. Kisses that are to be had for th asking are seldom worth taking. A fool can answer questions that a wise man would be ashamed to ask. If a woman is willing to let a man talk it Is because she has nothing to tell. To Create Good Roads. An enterprise Is being organized In Chicago that will do much to ad vance the movement for good roads In all parts of the country. The agi tation of the question in the past has been almost entirely of a public character, and so general in it3 nature that necessarily It has not been pos sible to make much specific advance ment. In consequence the engineer ing firm of Layman & Layman, of Chicago, has perfected plans for im proved roads and highways. The Commercial Highway Com pany purposes to undertake the con struction of public highways In vari ous parts of the country in a busi nesslike and commercial way. The principles which will underlie the operations of the company will re sult in the roads being turned over to the public after they have been paid for and a fair return made upon the capital invested. The plans of the Commercial Highway Company do not contemplate that the districts through which the roads run shall be taxed to pay for them, but, on the contrary, the company purposes ta make them pay for themselves. The essential fjatun? in t!us pn ia that tho company sitall acquire by purchase not only :ta right of "ay, but, in addition, such i al c itatu as may adjoin or be ofigcted in any way by the construction of the roai. Tuh company will he empowered to irs-io bonds basd upon its real estate and other holdings. The increased value of the real estate after the construc tion of the road will, It Is expected, not ortly pay for the road itself, but leave' a fair profit for the stockhold ers of the company. In addition to this the roads are expected to earn considerable themselves In the way of tolls for traffic over them. The plans under which the com pany will built Its roads offer many novel features. They are designed to be 120 feet in width, divided into eight sections. On four of these sec tions traffic will run In one direction and on the other four In the opposite direction. On the outer edge of the road there is to be a four-foot path for pedestriar.3; next conies a fifteen foot roadway open daily to vehicles drawn by animals; then comes a twenty-four-foot roadway for gen eral automobile trafllo, and then a sixteen-foot roadway for commercial automobiles. The different parts of the road are curbed from one another and a fence is sst above the curb. No traffic will be allowed both ways In the same section, nor will animals be allowed in the automobile nr power sections. Necessarily the vari ous kinds of traffic will have to cross the different sections in running to the proper roadway and In leaving it, but protection in this respect is provided for by gateways at the en trances and exits, which will be mad3 at cross roads or other suitable points. Overhead crossings of all existing thoroughfares will be a fea ture. The construction of the roads will be along the latest and most ap proved specifications under the su pervision of trustworthy builders, and the character will be largely de termined by the nature of the traffic to be catered to and the climate con ditions in the territory through which tho roads run. The finishing of the roads Is designed to be ornamental In character, and In addition to their strictly commercial uses and the beneficial effects they will have upon tho districts through which they run they will be neat boulevards in ap pearance. The footpath will be paved, the free public road section open to ani mal traffic finished with a first-class hard surface and the automobile sec tions in the best form to meet the requirements of traffic. The curbs in the automobile sections will be used-as conduits for electrical power, which will afford a means for re charging electrical machines. The company will seek to associate with its work the leading good roads advocates of the country and promi nent citizens in the regions in which It operates as officers, directors and trustees to represent the bondholders and advisory committees. When a highway has been finished in any part of the country and earnings from tolls and the sale of real estate have been sufficient to meet all obligations. It is purposed to pay oft the bonds issued against the roadway, liquidate all obligations of the company and turn the roadway over to the State, with no other obligation on the part of the commonwealth than an agree ment to maintain the road in first- class condition for public use at all times and at reasonable figures in the toll sections. The bylaws of the company pro vide for complete monthly, quarterly, lemi-annual and annual reports from all agents and officers, the same to be published quarterly for the benefit of stockholders and bondholders and the public generally in the districts through which the roads may run. Of the real estate holdings that will remain the property of the company after a roadway has been turned over to the public, it is provided that Beventy-flve per cent, thereof shall constitute a fund with which to estab lish and maintain Industrial schools in the neighborhood of the highway. The proposed roadways are de signed to create broader channels for com pet. ion in transportation, loco motion and public conveyance; to link more closely the country with the city, and to aid In the permanent improvement, prosperity and pleasure of the people by providing a system of highways best suited to advanced civilization. New York Tribune 75 HI 1ST GS gWORTH KffOWINCM Bleeding for certain ills 13 return ing to favor. As late as May 2 the mall service to Davos, Switzerland, required sleighs. Sunday-schools were born 104 years ago (1803) in a little old round building in London, which Is now used as a wagon shop, but which was known In those days as the Sur rey Chapel. Place twelve onions in a row on Christmas Day, name each after a month and put salt on their tops. Those on which the salt Is melted in side of twelve days will be wet months, according to Long Island weather science. The cotton plant did not originate In America. Its original habitat is unknown, but the culture and manu facture of cotton were known In In dia and other Eastern lands for ages before America was discovered. Vrz. Charles G. Holdcraft. of B:W.? -poi t. Conn., has a double pink per.ny that Is fifty years old. It has bloomed every year, but this year fee'ud to make extra effort to cele brate Its golden anniversary by an citra heavy bloom. "Kangaroo" is a queer word. It mea:i3 "I don't understand" In the tongue of the Australian aborigines. When this strange animal was first beheld by the Europeans they In quired of the aborigines, "What is Its nnme?" And the puzzled reply gave the animal Its name. According to a Washington photo grapher, who has taken pictures of all the Presidents from Grant to the present occupant of theWhite House, President Roosevelt is the hardest of the lot to pose. It seems to be a pos itive misery for him to sit In one po sition for more than five seconds. The amount of money which the Government is called upon to redeem In the course of the year'reaches an almost fabulous amount. In 1904, for instance, it totaled $912,000,000. This redemption is either for the pifrpose of securing clean, fresh notes or to get change of some other de nomination. Japnneso preferential rates on the Manchurian Railway, as the New chwnnjr returns Indicate, are effect ively diverting the trade of the northern provinces from that port to Dalny. It costs more to have goods transported 330 miles from New chvvang than it does for 465 miles from Dalny. MISLED RY PARROTS. How Columbus Missed the Honor of Discovering This Continent. A flight of birds, coupled with a sailor's superstition, robbed Colum bus of the honor of discovering the continent. When Columbus sailed westward over the unknown Atlantic he expected to reach Zlpangu (Ja pan). After several days' sail from Gomers, one of the Canary Islands, he became uneasy at not discovering Zipangu, which, according to his reckonings, should have been 216 nautical miles more to the east. After a long discussion he yielded to the opinion of Martin Alonzo Pin zon, the commander of the PInta, and steered to the southwest. PInzon was guided in his opinion solely by a flight of parrots which took wing in that direction. It was good luck to follow In the wake of a flock of birds when engaged upon a voyage of discovery, according to widespread superstition among Spanish seamen of that day. If Columbus had kept to his course he would have entered the Gulf Stream, have reached Florida, and then probably have been 'carried to Cape Hatteras and Virginia. Pitts burg Press. Fiction Stranger Than Truth. A magazine editor was talking about W. W. Jacobs, the famous hu morist. "I went abroad this summer," he said, "to try and get Mr. Jacobs to write for me; but I found that he had all he could do for six or seven years to come. "He is a quiet, modest chap. When I praised his wonderful skill in the writing of short stories, he said that It was only their surprises that made his stories take. "Then, to illuBtrate what he meant, he told me a Btory wherein the sur prises came fast and furious. "He said that a lawyer, defending a man of housebreaking, spoke like this: " 'Your honor, I submit that my client did not break into the house at all. He found the parlor window open and merely Inserted his right arm and removed a few trifling ar ticles. Now, my client's arm is not himself, and I fall to see how you can punish the whole Individual for an offense committed by only one of his limbs.' " 'That argument,' said the Judge, ' is yery well put. Following it logic ally, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's Imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses.' "The defendant smiled, and with his lawyer's assistance unscrewed his cork arm, and, leaving It in the dock, walked out" Detroit Free Press. BUSINESS CARDS. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Pension Attorney and Itoal Estate Agent. RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Broo&ville, Pa. (j. m. Mcdonald, ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, (Real estate agent, patenM secured, eol ectlons mii'le promptly. OMce In Syndicate lulldlng, lteynoldsville, Pa. SMITH M. McCREiGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. Collection-! will rece ve prjmpt attention. OIBea In the Reyuoldsville Hardware Co. building, umu airwi Eieyuoiusvuie, ra. , QR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. Gentleness In operating. I)R. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST, OITlce on second floor of the First National bank building, Main street. DR. U. DeVEREKING, DENTIST, o!no on si-cond floor of the Syndicate build ttiK, Main street, Kuypoldsvllle, fa. IJENUY PRI ESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeralcars. Main street. Reynoldsvllle, Pa. HUGHES & FLEMING. ' UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMINO. The U. 8. tin rial Leairue has been tested and found all rlnut. Cheapest form of In surance. (Secure a contract. Near Public Fountain. Reynoldsvllle Pa. I), H. YOUNG, ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Flftn its., Reynolds Tllle, Pa. JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER, Surveyor and Draughtsman. Office In Syn dlcate building, Main street. WINDSOR HOTEL, ' Philadelphia, Pa. Between 12th and 13th 8te on Filbert St. Three minutes walk from the Reading Ter minal. Five minutes walk from the Penn'a It. K. Depot. European planSI.UOper day an4 upward. American plan 13 (JO ner dav. Leech's Planing Mill West Reynoldsville Window Sash, Doors, Frames. Flooring, STAIR WORK Rough and Dressed Lumber, Etc., Eto. Contract and repair worktgtyen prompt attention. Give us your order. My prices are reasonable. W. A. LEECH, Proprietor. FEMIX1XK NEWS NOTES. Edna May (Mrs. Oscar Lewlsohn) will never return to the stage. Beagle raising Is the profitable oc cupation of a young lady, a Miss Asch, near Aiken, S. C. Ex-Senator McComas, of Maryland, secretly married Mrs. Hebe Harrison Muir, of Kentucky, at Atlantic City. Miss Louise Cheatam makes her living by raising nnd training native song birds near the popular winter resort of Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Russell Sage gave $250,000 to the Association for the Relief of Ilespectable Aged, Indigent Females In the city of New York. Miss Kerstln Hesaelgren has been appointed by the Swedish Govern ment to the post of sanitary inspect or in Stockholm This Is a new de parture for Sweden. One of the largest typewriting con cerns in the world Is In New York City and conducted by two sisters. Women writ servers are a success in many of our large cities. In Texas a woman has the contract to carry the mail from Kiffe to Sier nal Hill, and Georgia has a woman mall carrier who travels a forty-mil route trl-weekly, besides managing a large farm. Certain society women in Wash ington have engaged in a movement to make the use of wine at dinner and punch at receptions unfashion able. Their leader is Mrs. J. B. Hen derson, wife of the ez-Senator from Missouri. Some of the best sugar beet raisers In California have been women. One woman In Nevada raises pampas plumes for a support, while some ladies of Pasadena, Cal., make a spe cialty of preparing ostrich feathers (or the market. Mrs. John V. Rockefeller, who has been in poor health, has recovered, and is again receiving her friends at Forest Hill, Cleveland, Ohio. The Fruit cf Close Study. She was only a substitute teachci', says the New York Tribune. Still, she should have nown better. "Suf pose," said she In the mental arith metic lessen, "suppose Mary has five) oranges and Gladys gives her 11 more. Then, 4f Mary gave Winifred six, how many would she have left?'.' Theret was a long pause. "Well?" she prompted, Impatiently, "it's easy enou-rh." "Please, teacher," spoke up ths smallest girl, "we always do our sums, in aDDles." ' Real courtesy is oae of the finest flowers of humanity, poetically sug gests the Duluth Evening Herald, sjmJ it scatters sunuhine and makes Ms easier, pleasanter and more vrootabl.
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