Show I 1 judging from the enormity of 0 apace space utilized 19 T in the dally daily piper pipers it Is I 1 more of a task for a beautiful woman to keep beautiful than tor for a miser to collect hie his usury without losses time was as when a winsome country maiden could chuck a piece of sassafras into her calico gown pocket wain ash her face comb her hair and be the belle of the ball alas I 1 alack how flow we have civilize civilized when hen one sees the wonderful makeup make mako up upa on the fashion able boulevards 0 american cities he ie in with the word of the wonderful one hoes floss shay and la Is willing to believe that woman aa as well as some other thing things Is fearfully and wonderfully made her ifer cheek cheeks are as rosy as the first blush of morn her hair is built in wondrous way ways and her clothing even to the dainty boot and the silken hosiery inadvertently displayed Is symbolic of royalty she walks not riot like our mother mothers walked but with a springing and poised grace that often suggests a patent appliance eo so daintily madu abed and regularly paced is ts it iland and her head Is to high no girl on earth haa has a right to hoi hot I 1 her head higher than the american girl and none is so witty and pretty and fasci fasel mating but ye guus and little fishes at what a sacrifice if it one la Js to believe that the american miss does what the dally pipers ay lay she doea does or should do at night she takes a warm bath and goes through a process of acrobatic that would cripple an ath leto 11 then she Is massaged to a pulp has her hair scrubbed her nail nails man mani cured and her teeth purified after another rubdown with alcohol she he Is allowed tn to go to bed and sleep just eo so and just so long she must arlee to a cold bath with ice fee clinkers in it and a few more athletic manipulations hat that round out her figure put gush in her neck mock and moderation on her plethoric her ifer beyns are arr d to make them bright her eye broe bros are ar doctored to make them long and lasting her nose Is manipulated la in a mad search for blackheads black heade her teeth are groomed to a pearly whiteness her check are massaged and rolled with an electric roller and at f lat last her physical excellency Is pronounced fair to 0 o middling then como come all the details of a modern costuming to eay say nothing of what the bite must do and when sho she roust must do it all thin this if one Is to believe the beauty doctors Is quite necea gary and yet many a man has a neat little wife at home who ho look looks after the details of the household pays her social debts with beening g altitude atI tude smiles similes at her bet friends coddles I 1 the old man when he comes homo home ugly a hi id in many oth er ways and duties exemplifies the falsity of the beainy fixers and their erroneous orron eoy system of keeping beautt fut full there are a lot of old fashioned people even at this day and age who believe that a young woman who keeps her mind find and body clean and vigo vigorous roas js with pure thoughts lutty ideal ideals and plenty of outdoor exercise will not fall to attract her share of honorable attention lention at from tha passerby on the boulevard boulevards the gay plugged plu aged ged bird which get gota tho the most ogling Is not al ways the noblest woman even though ehe she does follow the absolute directions of the man who advertises to inah make you truly beautiful 5 1 I 1 I A country editor tells ot the joy joys ol 01 ine meeting eting the trains that par pass through his tillage village the th custom Is quite honored in the rural districts where old settlers take a pride la in the record that they have not missed a train or failed to make a mental note of alt ail arrivals and depart departures dres for nigh onto forty year they have refereed all good bye bra kisses tempered all parting hugs and frowned down each flirtation between the town girls and ard the traveling men for a period of many many years no sooner Is the toot of the oncoming train heard in the distance than they climb down from the barrels and the three ahr legged tools stools of the country grocery and make a beeline bee line kne for the depot accent lecent on the pot soon she he arlot i around the curve under full head of steam dashes into the sta ta con and slogs with a snort the old timer is there like the steady beau ou on sunday ee eie fully prepared to accept every opportunity if a new engagement fa ga haa has been made the night before and one of th parties to the amorous arrangement goes go away on tho the train the news Is published when 01 they sneak down to the end of the 6 platform and kisa kiss each other awkward r ly hr when nobody 7 Is looking it john smith gets a demijohn or a cas case of distilled water from the express car it I 1 Is town talk in oven seven minute minutes by the watch tom grown brown a arrival Is aa as good as heralded with gustt guttersnipes r snipes old uncle dodge gos goos to Norton vUle to see get a new widow and the town go goe sips 1 are kept as busy as the owner ct of a Water bu buT y watch in prickly heat beat time thus it at Is as good aj as reading a dally to go to the train la in a country town and a man who live lives there and neglects this important duty long will soon lose caste in the corn cam rat ralty yes it I 1 Is good w le there it rest and excites you at the same time john henry smith wa was a poor boy but full of ginger the neighbor neighbors were unanimous in heralding him as a coming success accordingly nhen a but eighteen years of age he tied a can to himself and left home in a alley for a chance at a fortune of great dimensions for many weary day days and nights he walked without food and shelter and at last wound up in the klondike with a job lot of slightly warped ashira tlona and a package of 0 Eat anutta these were his eole sole earthly posses alons aside from the clothes on his hi back and from fifty to seventy alve cents worth of extra hair on his head which ho he had bad not had time to market it qt the mattress factory as he drilled past there was plenty of work to be had at good wages however and he soon managed to cave save enough to buy himself a tooth brush and a bottle of 0 eau de cologne with these evidences of culture he set out for the interior where in less time than it takes to miss a fly on a bald man a head john henry bad had traded bis his bottle of sweet amel shellum lurn to old man klan dirt in the ear for a repeating rine rifle and 0 tame goose with his cow now possessions carefully guarded he again set met out for the ex tra interior at last he came upon a veritable utopia in the forest primeval and decided to drive stakes with a mammoth clam shell and a hickory stick for a handle he chopped down sufficient fent first growth timber from which to build a log house 1621 91 with a bay window and a billiard pailor at the end of the six days he rested and on the beginning of the next work day erected a goose house and fur dished jt throughout with chippendale furniture tarp tb rf was also hot and coll colt water and und a telephone in the hallway of both edifices when nhen all was finished john henry sat at down to 1 and in no tiet had a long line on the goose which he turned loose without breakfast the goose wan derod dered far into tho the innermost recesses of the wood and when wound in at night waa was full of grub worms and tickle grass again was as the goose sent out to browse and yet again and on the fifth day along about thirteen min utes before sundown back aho she wad died at tho the end of the winding string with her crop full to bursting of 0 GREAT YELLOW NUGGETS OF GOLD and john henry lived happily ever afterward t are we to believe that the humane societies are less attentive to bu business sineas in the winter months last eummer summer when A hen the thermometer was hanging at dizzy heights the cumare insisted instated on straw hats with a damp sponge in the crown for horses with boreas growl ing around tho the corners and find the bulb so low it makei old settles reminiscent no rt Is paid the equina it dobbins needs a straw hat in immer simmer s does doeche he not suffer for lack of ear laps in the frigid weather to be sure datre tiit re Is the warm marin blanket but that protects only the more central anatomical regions while the nose and legs logo are left to the mercy of the stinging wind 1 why by cot not put a old overall overalls on the nag they could he easily buckled over the back one of 0 those grain sacks used by the cabbies tabbies cab bies la in the city would make a good nose protect or thus with s mittens on the ears overalls on the legs and sacks on the proboscis a horse ought to be comfortable the truly philan might add two pairs of old felt boots to the feet but this Is 3 scarcely necessary the society horses could bo be attired in tailor tador made suits appealing ppe aling to the aesthetic nest hetle taste of tl four hundred then too there Is in the opportunity of costuming the equine in gala colors for instance red carlaus ear laps of outing flannel trousers of scotch goods and a silken nose protector in royal purple this would be a worthy of the aristocratic families it it Is good to keep the horse cool in summer why not keep him warm in winter farmers who have ducks geese and turkeys might be somewhat embarrassed by this new order of things but it should be an easy matter to slip a pig ensile a sack on exceptionally cold nights now when the holiday at of kindness la Is upon us u we should be practical and see that comfort and happi ness reign supreme 1 3 3 A into startling facts makes the astonishing element statement thit it cost costs as a much yearly to keep a dog log as a it does to keep sixty hen heno and sixty hens will lay jay 6 WO clfo gs while a dog will not lav any very true but there are extenuating circumstances in favor of the dog and against the hens to begin with a hen doesn doean t wag her when she sees ou coming home frum trum a hard bard days work instead of scampering to i welcome you she the ducks her bead head with a cry of remonstrance remont trance and takes to the tall grass A dog cannot lay eggs but neither daes he ho creep through the fence and eat all the estly tomatoes what good Is a hen as a watch dog i no good at all tilt and you will admit it it did a hen ever go and fetch it bite a burglar romp wita the boys rescia a a drowning baby or warn warm of calamitous danger true a dog has fleas but a hen has coop lice true also that a hen ben may be eaten alter after she has served her time la in the egg bit bil gade but who wants to eat a dog nobody except john naman wa we think too much of the dog for that about every winter the cholera breaks out among the hens and they die egg eggs and all the dog Is a hardy animal and given to health and joyousness A hen his hits to be fed from the mill but a good dog will forage his own living with enough to start a bone yard A hen may be all sill right as a a hen but by hei we prefer the dog every time we need sympathy la to this world and can sometimes get it of a dog when our wife elves gives us u the cell coil and placid |