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Show 1 CHANGE IN BGISl'lKS PIGRESSIini . WOMAN'S LIFE Fierce Battles of Boyhood With Steps In Its Development Yellow Jackets. Ancient Times. ' Wasp ! asts Lets Vicious Than the Her That Mads Famous the Ride of tut Llvlngood to Chuich. ffe Safe by Lydla E PInkhcm'i mbe Cotnwund. CranltfTinr. V- t- "I wu print rom nerTouwifss rnflantl other annoying . ? V la IK 3 J- 17 uf ft, i 1 ur run truly that l.vdla - IlnLhnu't Vegetable Coin, pound hat prored worth mountains of ffol.l to ra, as it restored mj health wwl I neverstrength. rorjm to tell my friends what Lydla 11 llnkham's Compound has done for ma irinf this tryinjr period. Complete t,,ntli)n to health means so nmrh t, pethst for the sake of other suffer. women i am wining 10 make my .nLla public so you may nubllhh s letter." sunn, e n as. uahclat. -- a other medicine for woman's ills received such wide-spreaand tin. uUlled endorsement So other med. ne we know or nas such a record cures as has Lydla . llnkham's rotable Compound. for more than SO years it has been ring woman s ins suen as innamma n. ulceration, uuroia lumors. irree. fro-- d Wtt Pre, i ( Cr MM en !i dritles. nerindlo rains and nervous titration, and It is unequalled for irrylnjr women aareiv through tha rloa oi cnangw oi me. Plntlmm. at Lynn. Mam all sick women to write rites I r for advice. Jler advlco Lsfrco. Mrs. Ml b a r w m 1 IQi rt m itSi r. lXriZ00' r'Tor ZZfrer 1 to remember you need a remedy COUCH 8 and COLDS Pi.7 N. U, Salt Lake City, No. 42-19- 11. NATURALLY The Rooster Our young friend, r. Fig. Is making a lilt on tne stage. The Duck What is he playing? The Rooster Ham-le- t ir you were a jountry boy you will recall the fierce delight you expert, enccd In fighting that came little in. sect, the yellow Jacket, and We tie- tory. It you were triumphant, was, perhaps, all the sweeter if the golden I.. .J enemy naa left In your jamvivu youoR sain a sharp taste of his oual Ity. You never thought of calling this little fighter a wasp, and perhaps the -f rae, vespa arensns; never came your way. iiut that did not disturb you. Tou found him out In the old orchard, coming upon him some times quite unexpectedly, ambushed on the under side of an overripe, early appie mat bad fallen to the ground iioiy aiosesl but never mind what you said and what a Up you had even after a pint of cream had been used as an embrocation! While it was not exactly tbe Hp for a flute, It was a very rnucn or a fluted lip. Hut tbe yellow Jacket, as compared with that fully developed athletic In sect, tbe hornet, was as a toothpick to a iwoaged sword. Hut one can say some good things even for tbe hornet. for it Is often seen on trees Infested with plant lice, which It devours, or it may carry to Its young tbe honey dew exuded by these Insects, which some Jocular entomologist has called "wasp cowi." me yellow Jacket Is classed with the social wasps which live In com munities of 300 to 400 Individuals and have a life history similar to that of me bumblebees. As In the case of bumblebees, all tbe members of the wssp community, with the exception of a few fertilized females, die In tbe autumn, and these fertilized females or queens found new colonies In tbe spring.. Wasps are strong and swtrt flyers and are fond of attacking honey bees in flight, one wasp considering himself a match for three bees. Tbe rude forefathers of tbe hamlet here In tbe west used to tell some wonder ful stories of wasps and hornets, but It was In tbe south that the hornet fonnd a permanent place In tbat rich depository of southern humor, ."Geor gia Scenes." The humor was rather broad, but there was never any covert One of these sketches suggestion. tells tbe story of Sut Lovingood, who undertook to change his shirt en route while riding to church. When he was pulling the old garment over his shoulders he chanced to butt Into a hornet s nest overhanging the road. It was like that description by Robert Burns, in "Tam o Shanter," only more so of "when bees blzz out wi angry fyke" as the horse and rider, goaded with pain, dashed by the country meeting house, the rider not dressed for company, under the eyes of half a hundred observers. What fun It was In those old days books as "Georgia to read Scenes" and "The Arkansaw Travel er, where tbe narratives were so vivid that the Illustrations were .... -- . , Clipped Words. ' An official of one of the London libraries has produced a dictionary of abbreviations after a labor of thirty task. Tbe years on his unique work, as may be well Imagined, has been a very difficult one to exe cute, as the habit of clipping tbe writ ten English words extends In every social and scientific direction, and each clipper attached his own mean ing to bis clipping. Thus, the compiler has discovered tbat tbe simple letter A may have no fewer than 4tS It may different interpretations. stand, for Instance, for "The Egyptian era" in one circle and for "Codex , To Mend an Umbrella. To mend an umbrella that tears me from the rib at the point, when pu are on the street and needle and a head are not available, close theand bringing the cloth in po- ftlon. Insert a small balrpin In tne tie of the rib, and wind securely und cloth. This "first aid to the In- red" is so efficient you will be tempt- to leave it permanently. National agazine. - uin-fell- self-impos- Peculiar Industry. important industry and one pe culiar to Spain Is the manufacture of in another. AA, again, ute and hemp sandals. may represent either "all angels" or the Automobile association;" but " FROM TEXAS here some may say there are no risks ome Coffee Facts From the Lone of misinterpretation. We fear, howStar State. ever, that the compiler, despite hts stupendous Industry, has not exhaustFrom a beautiful farm down in Tex-- , ed all the meanings attached to the where gushing springs unite to letters of the alphabet. There used, km babbling brooks that wind their for example, to be a nursery rhyme Iwirkling way through flowery meads, beginning: A is an arch through which umes a note of gratitude for delivery the stream ran, B is the butter that is om the coffee habit. kept In a can. "When my baby boy came to me The task, indeed, suggests endless pe years ago, I began to drink possibilities. feostum, having a feeling that it would Corporation With a Heart. better for him and me than the old An Illinois electric light company Is 'id of coffee. I was not P'sappoinled in It, for it enabled me, a making an effort to show its patrons small, delicate woman, to nurse a that corporations are not without heart, and during tbe past summer it ounclng, healthy baby 14 months. "I have ulncA r.nntlnneil tha use of hr8 been supplying free, on the recpstum for I have grown fond of it, ommendation of physicians, electric current to pnd have tllflpnvnrorl tn mv Inv that it fans and the necessary rooms sick in of perthe them ias drive "me of a bilious entirely relieved 'allt which used to prostrate me two sons who are unable to pay for the x three times a be benefited year, causing much service and whoof wouldfans. In many discomfort to mv family and suffering br the presence the po myself. cases where houses were not wired 'My brother-in-lawas cured of the company did the necessary work wonlc constiDatlon bv leavlne Off without cost ., pffee and uslne Fostuni. He has be- - 1 Kome even more fond of No Cradles for Babies. it than he Caroline of Dr. Htdger of Chicago, and ? the old coffee. m fact, the entire family, from the officials of the health department con'ateat arrival cradles that who always demn the (a rus ror his 'potie first thing in th have come into use. They say they morning), Up to the head of the nous, give tbe baby a nausea equivalent to nerv'nk there is no drink so good or so seasickness and j rbolesome as PoBtum." Name given ous diseases in tbe babies rocked in them. Rocking the baby is not recjDr Fostura Co., Battle Creek, Mich. ommended at all by modern physithe t0 Road llttle D00k' "The m a cot la the best bed pilvllie, in pkgs. "There's a reason" cians. They say the above letter? A nvn for the baby, and If it must be rocked it should be while lying on tbe motn-ar'i'T '"'erut"''"' ""' mni fuI o( ba""" . j breast. An ' drug-lade- n - . - self-rockin- g produce-beside- s n from Romans Used Tablets and StylusCursive Writing Cams Into General Use In the Tenth Century. Wax-Covere- d Writing Is an art with a history as complete as that of the arts of sculpture and painting. Tbe matertal used by the early Romans wss was spread upon tablets. Tbe letters were formed on tbe soft, smooth surface with the pointed end of a stylus. Tbe other end of tbe Instrument wss flat, and this wss used to smooth over tbe surface where errors were found and prepare It for correct writing. From ibis use the stylus has given the name "style" to the writer's manner of composing. The word manuscript means handwritten. Inscriptions upon stone and metal wax were, of course, "made by hand" as directly as words are written on paper, but none of these records appears ever to have been called manuscript This word wss restricted to copies made on parchment, vellum, paper and similar material which could be folded or rolled. The type of letters In early manuscripts wss tbe same as that of those used on the earlier metal plates and wax tablets. All letters were cspltals. Minuscule, or small lettering, s opposed to tbe majuscule, was Invented In the seventh century. Defore Its Invention there was no spacing between words. There was no punctuation, unless possibly somo mark between sen- MISS SUSAN IGLASPELL'S DOQ Volts the Original of the Puppies In Her Story The Vlslonlng. Miss 8usan Claspell, the author, has a dog, which fact is of more Importance than might at first appesr. For Bohemian beset, that Inspired the (reintroduced two frolicsome puppies named I'ourquol and N'est-cpaa. And there are no two more real characters la the whole book than Why and Ain't It, to use their names In Engllth form. It wss Miss GlsspeU's own dog, a nohemlan beast, that Inspired the ere atlon of The Vlslonlng's twin puppy clowns. The real dog also has a French name, Volla. When its owner bought It, over In Paris, she wanted at first to name It Raspsli, both In memory of the boulevard on which she lived and as a sympathetic cognomen for a sensitive soulfd Parisian dog. But her family objected. They could not see their wsy clear to shouting, "Come Raspallt Rafpail.i Raspall!" So e Miss Glaspcll compromised on Volla. Volla has vagaries. It is a wanderer. It is a coolie, end a coolie, It evidently thinks, outfit to be afield. Whenever It feels that way, away Volla goes. Fortunately It wears a collar with Miss Glaspell's name and address. She has come to think nothing of such a phone messnge as this: "Hello! Is dls Miss Glaspcll! Veil, dls Is dcr bartender bel Hans saloon. No, no, valt! 1 dldnt got der wrong phone number. I choost vant to say I got here your tog. VIII you come for him!" Then the author of The Vlslonlng has to drop chapter plans and seek out Herr Bum melransen's plsce with sorrow and a dollar. But were It not so there might never have been a N'est-ce-pa- s and a I'ourquol. The Limit car rushed merrily along through the country wilderness. The soft summer breezes tossed tbe clinging curls of the lovely maiden on tbe outside seat Suddenly she bent her queenly bead and ber eyes fell for an Instant on some passing object She sat up, partly turned, and remarked, with decided emphasis: "Well, that's the limit!" At her words the young man seated . On his close by looked about handsomely chiseled features there was a distinct expression of annoyance. Never had he beard his beauti ful fiancee use any form of slang beTbe PIMPLES ON FACE 3 YEARS troubled with acne for three long years. My face was the only part affected, but It caused great disfigure, ment, also suffering and loss of sleep. At first there appeared red, hard pimples which later contained white matter. I suffered a great deal caused by tbe Itching. 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Who could ever have thought tbat a circumstance so trifling as that of Miss Anna P. Morgan tying with a running string her skirt around her ankles prefatory to an aviation flight could be to the great Industry Roubalx as the ill wind that blows nobody goodT Some snobesses who saw. this oontrlvance devised by the daughter of a foremost New York banker took the notion as an elegent novelty to the Rue de la Palx, where was at once adopted. In a few days e belles came tha leading- out at Auteull In "Jupes entravees." This mode is now out. but tbe very narrow skirt derived from it still re mains in, with, however, "qualles" to render motion easier at lateral open ings from the knee down. Truth. Ccjema All Over Baby's Body. "When mr baby wae four months oli' tils (tee Woke otit wiib towm and atuievtl munim ui a n nre, wanna The anna were in a dreadful ecartii apread all over aw laxly. We kvt to put a niak or cloth uvvr but fare tie urt liia han.U. Finally we gave lum HotHl NtraatwnlU and tn a faw monlUe he waa rntiirly rured. Today be w brail by boy." Mrs. lues Lewis, Haritax,. 's tences. When cursive writing came Into general use. about tbe beginning of the tenth century, the art was practiced by only a few highly trained scribes. This continued all through tbe middle ages. Tbe scribes were artists and they carried their art to a high degree of perfection. Many of tbe manuscripts of that period are very beautiful specimens of handiwork and as perfect as print As ttsj use of correspondence became more and more frequent the practice of writing passed out of tne hands of tbe few professional scribes and became tbe employment of tbe many. This change Involved tbe decline of the art and a few highly embellished specimens of handwriting Copyists were succeeded appeared. by handicraftsmen. Various' types of writing have succeeded one another at different ep ochs. Tbe character of tbe handwrit ing done In one century is readily distinguishable from that of the century preceding or following. Tee change la In the direction of greater freedom and facility. It is since the adoption of ' cheap postal rates that the most rapid change has occurred. Another point to be noted Is that within the last 20 years the handwriting of women has come to resemble closely tbat of men. Formerly a woman's writing was rarely mistaken for that of .a man; now it often puzzles tbe reader to tell tbem apart This has resulted largely from coeducation. Harper's Weekly. Torrlblo Suffering The Angler's Bait sngler st Peterborough having obtained a w saps' neat containing a large Dumber of grubs, placed tbe neat In the kitchen oven to kill the grubs so that he could uae them for bait. The next morning he went to get the grubs, but on opening the oven door a swarm of wasps flew out. 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