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Show FOR WOMM AND R011E ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MASDS j AND MATRONS. V Don't TeU Your Woes Sae Friends loi May Need Them Some Day What to Do When Blue--Don'ts for Girls. try It on tie dog. He'll listen with the most flattering attention and if you lay on the agony strong enough he may whimper his sympathy. At any rate, he'll stay by you and sit close until you take a more roseate view of affairs in this vale of tears. And then he'll show his glee most unmistakably. unmis-takably. How his tail will fly! Should none of these be within your reach there's still one solace left. You can surely recall some person much worse off than yourself. In conning over his or her woes you will at least find comparative comfort. At any rate, rave your friends. You may need thorn Rnmp dav. Harvest Notes. 1 Reports from crop correspondents Indicate that the dry, clear weather which has prevailed largely during the past month in the states of the middle West has been very favorable to the maturing of sugar beets and some other crops, particularly corn, which in many localities is giving a larger yield than was expected. Much of the crop was cut before frost caught It and the universal testimony is that a larger amount has been shocked and saved for feed than ever before. The dryness of the soil has prevented prevent-ed the completion of fall seeding and proved unfavorable to germination KEIF TOUR SECRETS. I When in a "state of nerves" it is best not to seek human sympathy. Likely as not our friends have troubles of their own and it's altogether too bad to risk breaking the possible weak link of the chain of friendship. And this is just what lots of us do. When everything is using us. awry we go to see Sue or Kit. If shown the pale-green pale-green silk Sue has just Lought for a waist we remind her how ghastly Louise looked in that shade of pale green and furthermore acridly admit it's a color we'd never choose for ourselves. our-selves. On the other hand, if we favor fa-vor (?) Kit with our society we probably prob-ably give her to understand that we thmv hoy ohiidron nueht to be turned and growth of early sowings, particularly particu-larly in Missouri, where little more than half the usual wheat acreage has been put in. Hessian fly and chinch j bugs are an additional cause of delay to Illinois, Ohio and Michigan farmers. farm-ers. In the state last named the area sown to wheat this fall is 20 to 40 per cent less than average. Correspondents continue to report light crops of potatoes in Ohio and central and southern Illinois. Irish potatoes in Kentucky are very poor and in Missouri the late crop is prac-ticallv prac-ticallv a failure. In northern Illinois, AUTUMN COATS. t out . during the visit, or, if she has no children, we perhaps suggest that there ought to be a law compelling people to make their maids wear felt-soled felt-soled shoe3. Or perhaps it's the dog or the sunshine. And then no doubt we go home and waste time wondering wonder-ing why friends aren't what they used to be. So take that famous piece of advice and "don't." When the blue devils get you just fly away to the park, unless you can get to the country coun-try or the seashore. There you may tell your trials to the trees, with no fear of upsetting them. Their nerves are warranted.' They'll murmur any amount of consolation and go right along with their work, caring not one whit whether or not you think their choice of autumn garb is a success. Oi go to the clouds. They'll take on all sorts of shapes for your diversion and still "roll by," none the worse for your attention, says the Daily News. t oon th Dark is out of question Wisconsin, central and southern Michigan Mich-igan and South Dakota, though the crop will be considerably below a full average, yields are much better than were expected, as tubers have made good growth during the past two months. Northern Michigan has a good crop, the yield averaging 113 bushels to the acre. There has been some improvement in the pastures of northern Illinois, Kentucky, northern and western Missouri Mis-souri and some portions of Ohio. Kansas and South Dakota pastures are generally good and In the state last named the range west of the Missouri is pronounced the best in years. As haying is still in progress in that state, live stock are likely to have an abundance of feed for the winter. Pastures in southwestern Ohio and central and southern Illinois are short and poor. Concerning tobacco, Kentucky cor- With continued shoulder seams, stitched strapping and leaf-shaped revers. The coat is half-fitting, with four seams left open for some distance from the bottom. When a girl's education is complete her diploma is a marriage license. respondents report a splendid crop in the dark tobacco districts of western counties all of which has been housed and is curing well. The Burley tobacco tobac-co of the blue grass district is nearly a full crop, but some of It was cut too green and on that account Is curing badly. Ohio tobacco was housed in good condition, but as in Kentucky some of it was cut prematurely to save It from threatened frost. The South Dakota flax crop Is light to fair, with a considerable percentage of damaged seed. J The Illinois crop of broom corn has been harvested and reports concerning it are favorable. Relative to apples, Missouri reports indicate that great improvement has been made and that the principal apple-growing counties will harvest a good crop; in Kentucky apple trees are yielding very lightly and in some counties there is no crop; in only a few counties in Ohio will there be a fair crop of winter fruit; Illinois reports re-ports continue unfavorable, as fruit is still falling; the crop of eastern and middle Kansas is reported good. Neatness in Batter Packages. The careful packing of butter has a good deal to do with the fostering of the butter trade whether that trade be with a few private families or with large commission houses. This matter mat-ter has been frequently referred to in these columns, and without doubt some improvement is being made. The commission men report that the manner man-ner in which butter is put up helps or WOMEN'S INCOMES. It is generally said that in respect of tipping women are not generous. They are always credited with narrow dealings with cabmen, and they do not fee waiters on the same scale as the other sex. On this subject man always al-ways waxes facetious, but he is entirely entire-ly forgetful of the fact which has been pointed out in a recent letter to a aaily: contemporary on an entirely different dif-ferent subject that women's incomes are generally controlled by the more "generous" sex. Women's allowances afe more often than not cut down to the slenderest proportions; and it is . astonishing what they are expected to do with their money. THB BASIS OF MANNERS. To be in touch with the finest etiquette eti-quette is to have kindness of heart. Lack this quality and no rules of behavior be-havior will do any good. They will be followed while you are thinking of them and departed from in emergen-ices, emergen-ices, says the Chicago Record-Herald. Politeness after all is only a matter of common sense. It is not a blind chasing after some one who does not know any more than any one else. Because Be-cause the French and English never have asparagus any thinner than a heavy walking stick, eat it from their fingers, is no reason why . Americans, whose food products vary with the divers climates in the country, should oat thPirs from a fork, ftn- hinders them in making sales, a creamery that has a reputation of neatness in, packing finds itself sought not only by the commission men, but by large grocers that wan an article that looks well. This matter mat-ter of looks is especially important in butter that goes to the homes of the wealthy. They will form opinions on the looks of things. Two packages of butter may be similar in quality, but if one is put up in better style than -the other the buyers are prejudiced in favor of that package, and the eaters, if they have seen the package, will actually imagine that the butter is of better flavor. This helps sales. agine Europeans if they could get our corn on the cob, picking it out, grain by grain, with a fork. It is senseless sense-less to follow any style in eating, entertainment en-tertainment or cress that has not for its basis a good, sound stratum of common com-mon sense. Frills of behavior are all right, but, like carvings in architecture architec-ture they should have something solid beneath them. If they don't have they will soon fall off, and then what a revelation. CHARACTER LINES. The woman who thinks only of the disappointments of the day or the inconveniences in-conveniences of the weather usually Men, on the other hand, contro! own purses; they have no account to give of the way they spend, and if rtey kept an account of the money they so "generously" give way. the, would find that tlfey spend sums which They would account appalling were they on the debit side of wives and sisters. It is a favorite formula o man that woman is reckless and extrava-gant; extrava-gant; but if one comes to go into details, de-tails, instead of looking at totals it will generally be found that the tat , ea can be easily turned, says the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Inquirer. In nine cases out of ten nay, in ninety-nine cases out of a Jnrorf onuld the truth be known, a Exports to China are beginning to resume their normal proportions. The July figures of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show the total exports to China from the United States as $2,-622 $2,-622 475, against $1,349,697 in July. 1900 In the 7 months ending with Julv 1901. the total exports to China are $9,703,787, against $9,100,132 in the corresponding 7 months of the preceding pre-ceding fiscal year. Taking the exports ex-ports to the British and Russian possessions pos-sessions in China also, the total for the 7 months is $10,090,816, as against $9 294 930 in the corresponding period of' last year. Our exports to China in July 1901, are larger than In any preceding pre-ceding July, a fact which seems to indicate in-dicate that the commercial relation witn China are not likely to permanently perma-nently suffer as a result of the evenU of the past year. shows her temperamental fallings m her face. The petuiant fret lines, the drooping chin muscles, the washboard wash-board corrugation in her forehead-all forehead-all these are pointed fingers and glaring glar-ing sign boards saying and shrieking to the world, "Look at me! I am Missus Pessy-Mlst. Nothing suits me, and the things that do I am unable to ee." Chicago Record-Herald. , man tips, and tips generously to save himself trouble, and in order to keep up appearances. A woman, as a rule has Httle margin from which to give extras, but when she does, she toflot actuated by the same motives. In money mon-ey matters man is rarely Just to woman, and it Is for this reason, perhaps, per-haps, that she has shown symptoms of a revolt. |