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Show LESSON. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TAKEN ANNUALLY. THROUGH (Copyright, trick at all - z.- by Shortstory Pub. 'Co.) It isn't really a to his patient, the the dentist "though I don't understand it my. mifto tell the truth. Its a marvelous . - - i-- , - Yz , . . . -4 ...X .... . yl, . -- . 1 MAIL-ORDE- R SYSTEM Views of a Banker on the Situation the Recent Monetary During Stringency Well Worthy of Consideration. said One Farmer Finds Through Buying a Out Mail-Orde- r Something Stove. The Wayne (Neb.) Herald recites the story of a Wayne county farmer who was caugl.t hy one of the catalogue houses. He learned thp lesson and paid dearly for it. Mr. Farmer ad seen the stove picture in the catalogue and had sent on his good $29. adding $2.90 for freight. Then the stove came to the depot. The farmer came to town, loaded up the Junk and drove up onto the business streeL Then to some friends, he confided: The bartender hesitated a moment, tonholes and scalloped edge, and butand then, accepting the proffered bill, LITTLE toned down to the brims, form the replied: most practical hats, ones that are ltB the greatest ever. Ive a friend The president of a bank at Minnedurable and readily laundered. round In Twenty-thirentirely of friend a mine street whos by possessed That stove cost me $29 and $2.99 apolis, during the recent financial faculty DAINTY HATS TO SUITABLE The Inevitable eyelet embroidery what's going in in a place, a dentist. He gets a customer talking called attention to one freight, and Ill bet it Is half sheet for knowing stringency, SMALL MAIDEN. not be personally pres- about tricks with cards, and tells him appears, too, upon many hats of this source of financial drain upon the iron. 1 have been though he may waiting for It for he has a who communicatcan friend of care means tell what sort, and some models have daisies oi country towns which should be taken over two months and my wife is nearany have ent or out here on the is touched in a pack laid out face up large dots and sometimes a combina into consideration, and a remedy aper azy about it. I could have done ion You can lay of In Nothing Short in Style and Fine- tion without of the two in raised embroidery at face being by present cards, up. all, entire just pack better plied. table an by buying of the Wayne hardness to Her Elder Sister, Saya scattered all over their surfaces. of the 52. Then being called up on the phone an "In this remarkable situation," he ware dealers. The catalogue fellows and touch any one the Edict of Dame and call up my told that a card has been picked out An illustration of this is shown in said, when everybody is prosperous can go to hades in the future." atep to the telephone The customer gets excited about it Fashion. what card tell in the hat. hell There you you and is not enough currency to aie there and dainty lingerie This is a lesson that people of Nefriend, and nine times out of ten ofTers to be numerable models In similar shape, all go round, it is important that every braska and other states are being have touched. The bonnets, bats and coats of the fine it cant be done. If he doesnt make -lingerie stuff and lace and hand dollar possible should be kept at home Impossible," said the patient. "Id every day in the year and it is small the offer girl are nothing short of be- work of flouncing and ruffs of yard until the banking business Is again on taught and be friend himself, cant my it that does, a pleasure to know that they are getbed almost anything s season. The this seldom that he isnt taken up. witching prevailing embroidery or allover. worked If you did a cah basis. In the cities this is be- ting their eve teeth cut In the most done. It might be some combi- The guy lays out the pasteboards, rote of exquisite fineness and daintiin ing done with a good deal of success, One of the daintiest models artistic and approved style. They are the telephoning, and had touches one, and then calls me up, ness which is found throughout fash- sheerest lawn and certificates and ordering from the catalogues and In with a double and the clearing-houslace, nation of words, or code of signals to and I tell him what cards been ions domain is essentially appropriate frill which use in talking to your friend, from droops about the dainty cashiers checks prevent a serious return they are getting a miserable lot touched every time. We knock out been card had what could tell face like flower petals, has a embarrassment. But out in the counlittle he hich of junk, paying much higher prices hundred or more some weeks, for the I do the if But out. telephonifrill of china silk set in try, where there are no clearing than they would have to pay for first-clapinked pink picked doc has a big practice mostly among t he between the two lace and lawn frills houses, every dollar hoarded or sent ng why, Id wager a goods sold in the home stores. sporting men and other gents that away from home counts double. and, of course, is trimmed with soft couldnt tell the card." The catalogue houses live and grow think they know a good thing when At this time the patronage of the fat off just such people as the man at Done, said the dentist. pink bows. see it. I tell you, its the greatof foreign catalogue .houses is a factor Wayne. hats He produced a pack of cards and they These men are constantly leghorn Picturesque floppy est thing ever. Easy money is no and various pliable fancy straws are that ought to be considered seriously. handed them to the drummer, who for the big end of the bargain. looking name for it. shuffled them thoroughly, and laid for girls a trifle older, and here, too, By their own reports two of these The catalogue houses are doing the But, said the credit man, 1 dont the wonderfully 6ort, lustrous ribbons catalogue houses, which deal in almost same thing it would look as though them out, face up, in four rows of 13 see it yet. How can you tell from of the season are an important feature every commodity of use to the home cars each. At the dentistB request the would be "When Greek tneeta here what cards been touched? and are handled in some cases with or farm, do a business of $90,000,000 Greek," but Its nothing of the kind. drunnupr touched one, that chanced I have a Easy, was the reply. a year. This is $300,000 for each of the The catalogue concerns have ail the t of diamonds. consummate skill. to be the little book here can see it hangyou six business days of the week. This advantage. s Now, said the dentist, "step to the roses, They have gotten the bluets, Poppies, the by if ing and been phone, for 309 ask money comes largely out of the coun- money of the individual and then they youd call my trimCortlandt, are the flowers most favored for phone, me, you would have noticed towns. These catalogue houses do send him out friend, tell him that youre at my of- watching any kind of an old lot of ming the straw picture hats, and on try that I looked In it before telling him sell to people In the cities where not a ask and touched and have card, fice or the burnt straws black that he has no recourse. the unk, knowing leghorn what the card was. The doctor has him what card you touched. velvet ribbon is frequently used in- they are located. It Is from the farm- These catalogue houses have been dothe same thing pasted in the middle of The drummer did as directed, and stead of silk or satin ribbon in con- ers and residents of towns of less ing this thing for years and find his engagement Dook. than 5,000 population that 95 per cent, plenty of suckers, for you know there Its a list of with flewers. after a moments pause, the words nection 52 cards In the pack, and the of their business comes and at least a is opposite was ten That the came over the wire: Of attractive coats for little girls something recorded about a sucker the name of each card is the name of And nf diamonds you picked out. born every second. Perhapa It to one finds and The no children's clothes, end. daintiest are, third of it is from the northwest. being there are some person the same names in his remember, too, that tnere are other they do not get the same sucker a The money was the dentists. stuff in close of childish from sheer those baby lingerie headwear, perhaps, list as In mine, in the same order. combut The loser pressed him for an explasecond catch some that bonnet to wide hat of lingerie mate- and embroidery or lace, with a loose catalogue houses, and that the at came time, in they is the them the business done "Suppose touches bined by guy benew In the nation of the trick, for trick he or rial or straw. china silk of along crop. blue; pink lining of hearts. Doc looks in the least $200,000,000 annually. scalbuttonlieved It to be, hut the dentist Insisted queen Plain of brims the coats, hut scalloped, pique, pique flapping book thats easy, because I am informed that all through the HANDLING FARM PRODUCTS. he has the holed and embroidered in English that he was as much In the dark as It a moment before maybe to loped and buttonholed round of of Minnesota state this opened competition left the butwho the drummer, and little crowns also with thereupon work, are extremely smart. put down another engagement for the edges, the foreign catalogue houses has been Improved Methods Practiced In Many office. for all he knows. patient, Agricultural Towna. very seriously felt by the merchants Opposite a said There's catch somewhere, the words SERGE. FINE IN BLUE an extent to of that writSEWER. HOME is small Hearts of such HINT FOR Queen towns, he to his friend, the credit man, to ten the name Jackson. Doc says: Every farming community turns Borne have been driven out of business and whom he related his experience, Call up 309 Cortlandt, and ask for Mr Best Ways of Dealing with Materials Useful and Attractive Dress Designed entirely. to the town where best prices trade bill to know I'd give another are paid for the minor products which Jackson. anThe for fellow case so. does I has been If the Delicate. this Are That Schoolgirl. during Just where. swer the 'phone, look for Jackson in the great prosperity of recent years, the farmers have to dispose of. The Well, said the credit man, I'm not maA pretty shade of medium blue fine when money was circulated freely, list the my to sewn thin theres When of lace to hearts is be prices paid for butter and eggs, quite queen averse to making a tenner or two mycosdecide the business life of S unuseful little used for this You Is or often, now touched ol when the effect be as must the such opposite. the muslin terials what dresses serge queen self, and being forewarned, I think I town. The general practice in many I and the moneys ours, derwear of any kind it should be care- tume, the skirt is gathered into the currency is needed at home? hearts, says Money can detect hl little game for it must Cinch? Well, I should rather say fully and properly done to produce waistband, and Is trimmed at the foot spent with the local merchant is dls pluces is for Individual merchants to be a game, as you say. Suppose I drop take produce in exchange for goods. ala almost to shame Its at least the almost the bursed in Lace take the results. locality, edging good around to see your dentist friend this selvbusiness the of his in are, but money The lowest market price is the rule in ways has a stout thread profits afternoon? I have a little filling that money. Should one merchant It a said as local clrcula these towns. from is lost sent which gathserves is, indeed, age away credit, looking admirably might Just as well be done now as any a a more for butter, cent pay pound and at drummer. tion. ering thread. Pull this thread other time. Hell likely get talking sadly or a cent more a dozen for eggs, th home-tradShame isnt the word, said drum stroke the gathers to make them even. into the Without going cards with me Ill steer him on to it mer to conclude that the difference credit. Roll the edge of the material, and, question it seems plain to me that farmers if he doesnt. Ill make a little wager Is made up in the quality of goods or Have one on the house, gents? holding the lace nearest to you, lightly cataa who from those buy foreign with him myself, and watch him closelthe quantity they receive in exchange, said the bartender. hold the lace and edge together with logue house at this time are directly y, and perhaps Ill see the game beTo overcome the annoyances occar left for of the this and the thumb themselveB, question forefinger injuring fore it is really worked, and be able to CRITIC OF AMERICAN sioned HUSTLE. through unwholesome competiof keeping money in home circulation hand and overcast the two together catch him in .the act. You said it was in the buying of farmers prodtion of all conditions. involves even firm with stitches. and people worth ten to you to know how it was l ucts, the business men of many English Writer Regards It in the Light To let in lace insertion to form done. If I meet you here at six and few the towns, Market Ideas for past of a Huge Blufr. during Days. on insertion a the design first baste , tell you how, is that tenner mine? That the market day idea is be years, have undertaken the operation the right side of the material In the It is, exclaimed the drummer, proof establishproduce It happens to be true that there is a desired design and hem it down on coming decidedly popular in the counments. vided, of course, you do not get the se- tendency in America to talk at such These establishments the is indicated the fact that generah by try both its edges. Cut the material from cret by persuading the doctor to tell length about doing things merchants of dozens of western towns ly consist of a commodious warehouse quickly that underneath the lace, leaving a narrow ReThe with cold stornge appliances. you and as for that, Ill trust to your much of the time which have adopted the plan lately. might be hem or seam on each side of the lace. honor. ports from these places, which have merchants of the town are the stockspent In getting the things done is Crease the seam back from the lace holders in the concern. A manager is Done, was the reply, and they spent instead in boasting about how been giving the market day plan toward the material, and turn as for went their several ways. trial, indicate that it is giving satis employed on salary and Is Intrusted quickly they are going to be done. It a hem and overhand It, taking stitches Six oclock came, and thye met in to dealers and to their with the buying and marketing of aU faction happens to he true, also, that while close to the line of the hemming. the dining room. Like any other innovation produce. The storekeepers refer all patrons. and slow conservative peoordinary Beading often is used In undera of of farmers who have produce for sale to the success establishment the Well, credit the man, began ple are pushing steadily forward and clothes for running ribbon through to the almost market produce house and the 'highest youre stung and so am I. I went reaching entirely depends day Inch Inch, certainly, by make gathers and thus form the neceswhich it evokes and market price is paid and due bills Interest the through practically the same experi- toward the end of their work, Ameriupon Roll the edge of the sary fullness. ence that you did picked out the ace cans will the sustained energy that Is cm given which are payable in gooda at very likely be explaining material and then roll the muslin edge of spades, and the dentists friend ployed in giving it a distinctive value the stores in the town. loudly to everybody the advantages of of the beading close to the embroidery This method has proved highly satto producers. The merchants will get promptly told me what card I had some Invention which does the work and overhand the two together. no less than more nor of out the everywhere it has been tried. touched. I watched them an carefully so isfactory plan badly and so quickly that it all has Beading is often put in with a Into it. If the arrangements Not alone have the merchants found While to be done over again. put they during the whole proceedings. French seam. The first seam should I was made afford the assurance that pa- it advantageous, but the fanners as getting 309 oCrtlandt he paid no The speed of America is also very be taken on the right side and far trons will find Improved facilities for well. Another feature worth considnattention to me at all, but continued largely a matter of external appearenough from the edge of the embroito read in a hook he had picked up but ances and of show. It is like the the disposal of their products it is cer eration Is the fact that farmers are hurrydery so that when the second seam is not compelled to trade at any particutain to prove a drawing feature, a moment before I selected the card. ing and scurrying of those mysterious taken it will bring It close to the em- with fancy galloon forming a band and lar store, but can make their purfor as a is it plan simply afemployed Its certainly a most mysterious waiters whom we have all of us seen edge. This may be done by upstanding tabs. of farmers to town chases In any store in the town. Then a crowd drawing fair all the way through, was the racing about in crowded restaurants. broidery The blouse Jacket is cut square in to hand or on the sewing machine. spend their money, It is equally again much trade is saved to the comdrummers reply, and Id give any They rush here, they rush there, these the neck, and fastens down the left that the ultimate result will munity that might go to the mailorcertain thing to know just how it was wonderful waiters; they knock over side of front, where it is trimmed Heliotrope Sachet. be unsatisfactory, if not seriously der houses of the larger cities, worked. with galloon, the wrists of the sleeveB this table and upset that chair; they This sachet requires to future business rela detrimental The two did not meet again for near- drop things, and fall and stumble pound of dried rose leaves ground to a being trimmed to match. During the Summer Months. Is good policy not to go Into tlons. It ly a year, when they ran across one about. And meanwhile Blue straw hat trimmed with silk summer time is the lime the reThe nobody gets powder, one-hal- f pound of powdered satisfied until of kind this a scheme another on lower Fifth avenue one day served, nothing gets done, and the orris root, two ounces of powdered the same color. must keep things movtail merchant that conditions are right for its sue and stopped to chat, and the credit hungry guests look up and are not tonquln ban, one ounce of vanilla bean, Four and one Materials required: a at lively pace in his store. Gening It to once undertaken, push cess, and man remarked: A little work, they think, would and two drops of attar of almond. Mix half yards 46 Inches wide, four yards warm fed. the weather season is erally for all it is worth. Make it worth By the way, do you remember how be better than so much hurry. Lonand with the powders by sifting them together. sateen, and about ten yards galloon. the period from dull retailers to from come customers while for we two got fooled on that card game don (England) Daily Mirror. for the day, so that they will June to September is generally regarddistance of your dentists last year? That Ran ed as a time when there is little doing. arms, but let them hang with muscles be ready to assist in the perpetuation Why They Would Be Missed. some, who worked with him, must be Here is where the retail merchant on A deal of the depends great plan. relaxed. I know what you'll miss most a pretty slick one. Id like to look the not allow himself to take a must once having pop starting right, and, Sleeplessness is often caused by the doctor up and ask him to Introduce me about us, said her neighbor, who was view of things. The fact that wrong to sustained idea the ularlzed up keep telehead being exposed to the cold while to the fellow. moving from the building, our of three months has been stretch this the rest of the body is warm. In nine enthusiasm by providing Improve phone, that you have been using. I as a pdod of inRansome? excltlmed the other, generally regarded for for the increase facilities caring cases out of ten, if the head is covered dont remember that the name was shall never forget that night you r a on why he the is Just It activity veiy which develops. with a silk handkerchief it will induce trade Ransome. My memory Isnt very good called us up from somewhere where cannot afford to allow it to bo one. the sleep. as to that part of the occurrence, but you had concluded to spend the night, Manners. There can be no peilods of inactivity that you bad left your flat unlocked it &t; ikes me it was more like Ram Manners are not like clothes. It for the merchant of today, lie must of Novel Method Trimming. and were afraid there was a burglar a bad thing to have two suits of them loop a full head of steam up all the say. If there A novel method of trimming hats one for iiet and one for everyday. time, and it is evi n more important Ran in it. Would we go and see No, Im pretty sure it was In It? aid of Hatpins is one of the mo-- t a was by burglar Wear yonr best manners all the time. that lie should do this on the up grade, some, wag the reply, but of course Wasnt that a nice thing to ask us otiginal fashions tills season. The hat- They suffer more by being put nwav when he is working against the forces I may he mistaken. Ramsay or Ran Here I had to get out of bed, do? to pins used for trimming can he bought than bv constant use. If you keep yonr of gravitation than on the level, when some, however, he was a pretty clever hired girl and the elevain a variety of designs. the Birds, wake bo-- t up manners for comp,my they will the biihirnss rushes almost of Its own both fellow, and we were neatly done, Take exercise In the open air daily; and flowers can be attached by fit you III, and your visitor will suspect moment urn. tor man and the janitor and go look f us. Lunch with me on the strength And air i3 the aid of these artistic skewers. The they were put on for him. Feccmd best for that burglar in jour flat! of it. The live tnenhant will make up his trouble he wasnt there. and sleeves the all first step is to purchase an untrimmed clot ties mav he worn at home, hut mind that there will be no after rings tight finger Tight to periods of Accordingly they adjourned are a frequent source of red hands, hai in a nondescript shape which will not second best manners. To whom No, you'll never get such neighbors nearby cafe, and were selecting from as we are again, such obliging, burglar- and the only remedy for this Is to re- tone with any gown such as black, is it worth while to be courteous if not Inactivity in his store. He keeps the dinner card when the telephone things moving all the tirup; there is white or string color. A judicious se- to the people you love b, st? Home neighbors. Never in the move the irritating cause. hell ou the bar behind them rang. Yes, -hunting something doing every day and be The secret of standing and walking lection of the most suitable hatpins Chat. doebnt give people a chance to forget This is 309 Cortlandt, they heard the world!" of a In In the chin follows. erect consists morning flight keeping the for a single day that he is selling the bartender, say. Decrease in English Shipbuilding. Immense Food Receptacles. from the treast; this throws tbe birds and black velvet bow can be away best merchandise at the lowest posthe on In the celeti-atlo- n In They pricked up their ears The decrease in shipbuilding a rerent At crown. municipal This trim head upward and backward, and the pierced through the instant. That was the very number United Kingdom is the greatest, ac- shoulders will naturally settle back- ming will be discarded in the after Covina. Cal., In uldr-- a bai heeue was sible prices. It is these periods of inactivity on the demist had used in his card game cording to the London Financial noon and replaced by roses, violets given to mark the advent of an elecward in their true position. the The bartender waited a minute Times, in a quarter of a century. The parts of retail merchants which was coffee served from The skin taken out of an egg shell or lilies, whichever flower tones with tric railwav, have given the retail mail ordr Yes, this is Mr. Roberts talking to tonnage now under construction is 250 or urn 5,000 an gallons, holding combination The is a simple but good remedy for sore the frock. prettiest houses their opportunity to make inyou now, he said. 101,000 less than at the end of last eyes. Just put on top of lid and band- of blossoms can be contrived by mix cups; beans were cooked in a pot roads on their trade. With the mall of Then came another pause, and then quarter, and 459,000 less than that 200 gallons. age over it, and you will be surprised ing red roses and lilies or violets and holding r houses there are no periods of ordi That card you touched was the king 12 months ago. how soon the swelling will go down pale pink rosebuds. Home Chat. und during the summer f clubs. of Foodstuffs. Imports inactivity, Heavy Yes, the king. Good-band the pain will leave the eye. Of Woman. 1306 the imiorts of wheat and months they will hustle harder than In and he hung up the receiver. A Simple Salad, Walking is an ideal exercise. Hold Crush the soul of a woman, and you flour into the United Kingdom ever for trade, because they need the Excuse me, said the drummer, as one apple cut into small pieces, wheat with Use chin head erect, slightly the darkness shed and life 78 per cent, of the total supply, her monev." The retail merchant must were extinguish n the but an the from turned , phone, which will throw the muscles one orange cut In the same way, in 1905 the imports were 35 per cent, prepare to meet aggressive competithats a queer conversation to have on all who surround her. She cannot lifted, one-haseedless of cup raisins, rt the back and of the shoulders into and in France three per cent. In the tion on the pait of the catalogue merover a telephone. Heres the price of rally from pain or labor, or misfortune. the chest with cup of sugar, one cup of milk. United a good dinner for you, if you will tell If her higher nature is ignored. JohD proper line; expand Kingdom in 1906 the Imported chants and it is up to him to hustle a half hour. stand Mix let and deep breaths, and do not swing the 47 per cent. Lord. and rp well to hts local ad' ?rtllng jumuHes of meat hs the game, -- FOR THE GIRL d e ss ten-spo- ten-spo- forget-me-not- ten-doll- e agrt-cultura- one-quart- much-desire- r.b-bon- s one-quart- lf i 4 i |