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OMAN has emancipated herself In the tropical Isles of the Pacific. Once she did all the drudgery, now she makes leis of flowers for the men to wear about their heads while they do the hard work nec­ essary to support the family. At best the Polynesian jroman will only work with her husband, but never for him. The beautiful re­ sults of her industry of long ago In the South Seas, when man was master, are almost things of the past, to be found nowadays as price­ less relics in the museums of the world. In the good old days before a Hawaiian queen celebrated the death of her warrior husband by declaring nothing taboo or forbidden to her sex, the Hawaiian woman lived on a slim diet. She might make nets and catch flsh for her husband, but she could not eat them, nor could she dine ofT the same mat, made by her hands, from which her lord and master ate, nor could she even eat In the presence of her own son whom she brought Into the world. Once the "taboo" was removed, the woman be­ came the equal of the man, and the arts lan­ guished. When kings could command and kill the disobedient, rulers of Hawaii wore a robe of feathers that took many women a century to com­ plete, and thousands of men as long to gather the few feathers that each wild bird of the mountains D 0 Mm .fVl WHY THEY BOO: MaH-Order Cheap ifeflazlnet Want Parcels Post GIVES THE ̂THE UPPER HAND What Goes to Make Up Modern Cheap Magazine--What It Amounts to In Home and Why People Should Fight Bill. z> supplied for the royal robe of yellow, valued at ft million dollars, the most costly royal robe In Existence, and tbe handiwork of savage women o have long forgotten the art once was Irs, when their fingers created feather robes r their husband chiefs to wear. Today when a- royal personage dies in Hawaii, ancient kahilis, or wands of feathers, are care­ fully reconstructed by those who still preserve the art of putting them together, and after the royal interment they are again taken apart and put carefully away. In days of old even queens worked on these, and even the present ex-Queen Ltliuokalani worked with her own hands a feather wand that preceded to the grave poor Queen Emma, last descendant of the first American to make Hawaii his home. Again this kahili was carried before the funeral cortege of Prince David, and will In time precede Ltliuokalani her­ self to the last resting place of Hawaiian kings and queens, the royal mausoleum. Sometimes One may still observe a family of women in Hawaii wearing one of the old-time, all but priceless mats, but it is tedious work and the over-educated college-bred girl of Hawaii does not take toll kindly. Besides the art must be learned in childhood when the fingers are supple, and nowadays the public schools have truant of­ ficers and every family a sewing machine. Every Hawaiian girl, however, is an adept at weaving wreaths and chains of flowers. The lei women are one of the sights of Honolulu. For the man •he loves the Hawaiian girl will still weave a hat of native fibre around which she will make a band of feathers to express her "aloha" or love for the wearer. As the native arts and industries in the South 8eas are abandoned one by one before the on­ ward march of civilization, the aboriginal of the tropics are left Idle, quickly forget how to work and pass away. In the good old days It took a muscular cannibal full six months to chop out with primitive stone implements his log canoe. In New Zealand the most expert wood carvers were employed for years at a stretch fashioning with stone hatchets the headpiece for a war canoe. In every South Sea village the sound of the women beating out tapa cloth was heard from morning till night, but nowadays all these things are done in a twinkling by machinery In civilized lands, sold to the South Sea Islanders for the cocoanuts they pick up under the trees. There Is no further incentive for them to work, bo nature seems to say to them. "Then why live?" Clvlliza- tion has clothed the savage and robbed him of hi* handicrafts. but It has not yet succeeded in making him work for the white man. aa the white man wishes him to work. In the good old days of the great king Kame- hameha, some ninety odd yean ago eTery Hawaiian man was a warrior, skilled in the con­ struction of artistic war clubs and double canoes almost as large as modem ships The women woTtTurpLzzz/nf-mtfo ftaziw wove some of the most wonderful feather robes ever worn by royalty, and to this day the few old na­ tives who still preserve alive the art of beating tapa cloth, turn out de­ signs the like of which is to be found nowhere else in the Pacific, real works of art, while the few Ha­ waiian mats that are still woven rank above any made ii} the South Seas. Modern aniline dyes have lightened the labors of the Hawaiian remnant of native cloth makers, but I have many a time come across the Fijian men and women in their forests working all day long with a will digging roots and herbs from which to ex­ tract colors. The time has not yet quite come in Fiji when all the population may sit with hands folded, waiting for the end, but all over the South Seas the handicraft of tlM native workmen is becoming more and more a rarity to be snapped up for preservation in tin world's great museums. In New Zealand It Is a penal offense to attempl to export a bit of Maori carving, no living Maori may be employed upon a bit of native art wort for a foreigner, no matter what the price offered the workman may be, he must sell to the gov­ ernment. In the New Heb-ldes, wood carving ii all but a lost art. Today in the native villages, In the home of a chief where the old filigree woodwork dividing the hut in two rooms still stands, only the very oldest workers in the vil­ lages can repair it properly. Where there are no old men, clumsy patchwork is made of it, and as for the young men, they know nothing what ever of the art. Practically It has already died out. I had seen the Pandanus tree growing H Hawaii, I have even sat down and wutched th« Hawallans who, in spite of their childhood spenl in the public schools, still preserve the art of mal making, and seated upon the flooring or theit modern piazzas, their legs under them, keep theii fingers busy with the long strips of leaves thai some one else has dried and cured for them. II was not until I had spent some time among the Fljians that I met those who collect their own leaves and follow the process of mat making from start to finish. The woman's work In the South Seas Is ttf'Tielp the man. He builds the canoe, she helps to pad­ dle it; she creates pottery, he takes it to a mar­ ket; he climbs to cut down the ripened cocoanut, she weaves the baskets that carry the dried kernel or copra to tbe trader. If tapa is to be made the man helps to gather the bark. And so it goes, the South Sea island woman has nearly everywhere in the Pacific achieved her emanci­ pation, owns her o^n sewing machine and bids a cheerful "kofa" (farewell) to the industries at which her mother was an artist. She has attained equality with man, but the world has lost some thing that she might gain everything. Peace Made The Quaker Face What made the Quaker face? Not a broad brimmed hat <jr a gray bonnet, as the flippant as­ sert Costume will not make it, as you may prove for yourself at the next masquerade. In part, It was the mysticism, the reserve and the self-re- liance of the Quaker mind. These things were the very essence of the society, and they led to a subconscious command to be silent, to be calm, to hide the emotions of the too often rebellious 1 I --vi.v l_ nno UV(U I, U1V/U tu lUlU sees in the portraits and among the Friends still left who belong to the old rule. It used to be said In our Quaker town that one could tell by their manners the children who had been sent to the Friends' school, because once a week In meeting they had to sit for an hour In perfect quiet. Think of a family, of a community, where the heart was put under discipline for life! But this is not all, for I have left out the causes which were chiefly responsible for the most charm­ ing element of the features of the old Friends--an enduring peace. There have been unpeaceful Quakers and unpeaceful Quarkeresses. More than one member of our meeting, so I am told, stamped out of First Day service and slammed the door be­ hind them when the unorthodox Hicksites began their preaching. I have heard that one of our an­ cestresses was a scold, and there was Cousin Amelia, who used to shake her finger at an ob­ stinate driver when he refused to uncheck hit horse, and say: "Just wait till thee gets to the next world. Then thee'll see what will happen!" As I have remarked, the Quaker project was not always successful. But for once popular opinion Is quite right--the Quaker face, particularly the Quaker woman's face, was transfused with peace. Is it not natural? Where could be found "the world's sweet Inn from pain and wearisome tur­ moil," If not in the older communities of Friends --communities in which prudence and self-control kept away poverty; where not only war, but strife also, and civil and domestic discord, were banned so explicity that it was forbidden to decide by ma­ jorities at meeting; where rivalry in dress and in station were restrained as far as fallible human nature would permit? How could peace fall to be resident to a society which believed that God was not in his heaven, but among us, and that as long as one lived without affectation, did the daily task, kept the heart tender and the body pure, all was right with the world?--Henry Seldel Canby, In the Century Magazine. gygyyyyyygy s s 6 s s s Bad for Her Child. "I see that your husband Is taking one of your neighbor's children as a caddy when he goes on the golf links." "Yes." "But why doesn't your own son go with hlmT Doesn't he like to carry his father's clubs?" "Yes, but I put a stop to it when I found out what terrible language my husband uses When he foozles. I- made him get another boy or drop the game." Lazy Little Prue. Sue--Wouldn't you Just like to be as happy as a lark? Prue--No, Indeed. Think of the time they have to get up.--Llppincott's. Explained. Ascum---Tell me, which Is proper? Would you say, 'It is possible for two to live on $10 a week" or "on $10 weekly?" Wise--Well, I'd say: "It is possible for two to live on $10 a week weakly."--Catholic Standard and Times. Warning Off. Impecunious Nobleman--Sir, I understand you have a peerless daughter. Old Moneybags--Yes, and you might as well un­ derstand first as last, that she Is going to stay peerless as far as you fortune hunters are con­ cerned. Compensation. Tailor--The last suit I made for you was a little tight, so I am making this one loose. 1 give every one a square deal.--Pele Mele. A Roland for An Oliver. "Mr. Stint, I want to marry your daughter." "Would you promise me, sir, to support hef In the way to which she has been accus­ tomed?" "Oh, no, sir. I wouldn't be that mean to her.** RAJAH'S THEFT-PROOF SAFE Ian Ruler's Shrewd Idea Which .Taxed the Ingenuity of the First of Experts. years ago a famous firm of British lockmakers received an order that taxed all the Ingenuity of their experts. It being a point of honor with the firm that no order, however >lessly ingenious, shall baffle the In- ' .7$ ventlve faculty of their designers, or the technical skill of their workmen, it was determined that tbe customer Bhould have what he wanted. Now this order came from an In­ dian rajah. After the manner of dusky potentates, he Buffered from the dual possession of dishonest servants and magnificent gems. The gems had been disappearing at an alarming rate, and although only seven servantk had ac­ cess to the box containing them, it had been found impossible to discover tbe culprit. Whether the rajah dismissed his retinue or put them to death on suspicion, the thefts continued with unbroken regularity. In his perplexity and distress the rajah thought af the famous firm In liondon. He wanted to catch the thief besides preserving his Jewels. The rajah's order was for an ex­ ceedingly complicated lock. He want­ ed a safe fitted with eight different keys, one for each of his servants and one for himself. A piece ot glass about eight Inches square was to be let into the front of the safe. To carry out his wishes the lock must be so constructed that upon the opening of the Safe by any particular key the photograph of the opener should appear immediately In front of the glass, to remain there until an­ other key had been Inserted. Thjis it would always be poslble to tell who had opened the safe. Whether this unique lock answered Ws purpose is not a matter oi his­ tory, but it waB a clever device.-- Sunday Illustrated Magazine. I wonder If the country people realize that it is up to them to defeat the infamous parcels post bill? Do they realize that the city news­ papers and the cheap magazines will be on the other side of the fight, be­ cause they will be benefited by the passage of a bill that centers more buying power In the cities and hence affords more advertising for publica­ tions emanating from the metropolis? Do the country newspaper men realize that this parcels post bill spells ruin for them? Do the country people know of the dangers that threaten them or are they being allowed to sleep while the monster of greed fastens its tentacles upon country prosperity? Have you noticed how tlie majority of great city dailies are standing for parcels -post--and have you noted the editorial utterances of the cheap monthly, that scavenger of business that builds up an enormous circula­ tion by giving away Its magazine for a few cents a year that it may secure big advertising rates? The cheap magazine with its thou­ sands and thousands of subscribers is out for parcels post in every issue, telling the public what a fine thing it will be and how the cost of living will be reduced and so on, ad nausem. Have you ever stopped to think that whatever this sort of a magazine is for, you, on general principles, should be against? How many of yOu have been bitten by answering ad­ vertisements in these cheap* maga­ zines? How many of you are getting them without having renewed your subscription? What do they need you for except to swell their lists and lead you to sending your money to their advertisers and away from your home town? Have you thought of this? How many of you hold stock now in one or more of these cheap maga­ zines--and what would you take for It? Did you ever buy anything adver­ tised in your home paper, froqa your home merchants, and get the same un­ desirable treatment acocrded you as when you were duped by the advertis­ ers in cheap magazines? Did the money you sent away "4n answer to advertisements in maga­ zines of this class ever help to edu­ cate your children in the home schools or pay for home improver ments of any character whatever? And what do you find in these cheap magazines that are published as feeders to out-of-town mail order houses, that elevates and helps you In the fight fbr existence? Charles William Burrows of Cleve­ land, Ohio, describes one of these magazines as "a small body of litera­ ture entirely surrounded by advertis­ ing." In this respect it resembles a railroad ham sandwich with the ad­ vertising bread cut very thick and the literary meat In especially thin slices. The situation is well summarized by Mr. Dunne, who makes his genial Dooley tell his friend Henesey: "Hen- esey, man, last night I bought a maga­ zine intending to go home and after supper, light my pipe and 6it down for ! a quiet avenln's enjoyment of the ad­ vertisements, and do you know, man, twenty-five per cent of the dommed thing was Just nothing but. 'litera-1 choor'!" And you, reader, did you ever stop to think how you are aiding a system that is tearing down the home mer­ chant? You are helping the mail or­ der houses by accepting $uch a shod­ dy bit of literature! What's in the average magazine of this character? ' . On the first page is a cheap, two- color picture of a woman's head, with a nude bust. Maybe the head was used on a candy box and bought cheap by the magazine publisher. And it should be, for it usually Is cheap at any price. On the bottom of the page is a strong-arm announce­ ment that the publication has so many subscribers it makes the pub­ lishers' head ache, and on the inside of the cover page is an advertisement for Spinkum & Spanks, dollar down and dollar a month furniture with a coupon in the corner for a chromo by return mail. This is where you get something for nothing and the city mall order house gets your name so they can bombard t^»e ever­ lasting daylights out of your mail box. Then follows a half dozen pages of "bargain advertisements" that you may search from Alpha to Omega without discovering the bargain, and the title page of the magazine, oppo­ site which Is an offer to sell you as many shares of stock as you can ,pay for, at ten cents a share down and ten cents a month for a million years. If you buy, you hold the sack. And a lot of you do buy--as witnessed by the fact the magazines of this ilk live and prosper In a mediocre kind of a way. Well, the lead story is by William Peppersause, who Is so suggestive with his tabasco that he Is nasty, or so Inane with his slap-you-on-the-wrist love story, that It makes a grown per­ son peevish Just to read the first page. My, the rot put out by these magazines! Sometimes I have sat in front of a bushel .or so of such manu­ scripts of a morning and quit wonder­ ing at crime! No wonder the people sometimes wabble. Look what their Intellectual food Is! And along with this food goes the yourself, your family and your home town. Stick to the standard maga­ zines, though they cost a little more, •tick to your home merchant and your home town! And as for the rest of the magazine, It Is filled with pictures of actresses and a few "Who's Who" portraits of Qen of affairs who may be needed to pull the wool over somebody's eyes down at Washington. There's an article on "Pink Pajamas and the Moral Situation," written by a dub reporter and signed by a man who is big enough to want to get his picture and his name In the magazines pro­ vided he gets the advertising without having to write the article. There's a story by an advertising representa­ tive who can give the magazine some business if the magazine will buy his stories, which are usually punk. There is a household department cribbed from the Lord knows where by a woman who couldn't hold a can­ dle to the cooking your mother did. There's a puzzle department and a millinery department with a catch in it that makes you buy your plumes somewhere in the city. There's a health department with hifalutin* medicines mentioned and sold by the fellow who writes, the dope, and a pat­ tern department with an address at­ tached where you can buy your pat­ terns at so much a pat. Oh, It's a great game--and the fun­ ny part of it is that you are failing for it as surely as the leaves in au­ tumn--falling, falling, everywhere! You are falling for this game and get­ ting trimmed regularly, and by so do­ ing you are helping the great powers that be tear down your home mer­ chant, your home town, your home schools, your home churches, your home everything. Why do you do It? Why do you buy hundreds and hun­ dreds of bottles of dope and yards and yards of shoddy sold in the city and recommended by the cheap mall order publications? What good did one of these "watch free" advertisements ever do you? Did you ever get anything worth while for nothing, or did you pay the fiddler every time you trifled with a city sharper on the other end of one of these alluring advertisements? If your home merchant hasn't what you want in stock, why don't you go to him and let him get the desired article from a reputable Jobbing house at a reputable price? That's the way to do business! Why, I wouldn't any more think of buying through a mail order publica­ tion than I woftld think of sending a convict to the bank with a t*oll of bills to deposit. Do you realize that the city mer­ chants of a certain caliber are able to give you the worst of it about half the time when you are right on the ground, in their store? How much show do you expect to have, then, In dealing with a bunch of small-bore, fly-by-night advertising concerns that are looking for "good things" from country towns? Taking chances! Well, I should smile! What you should do is to get up a crusade and hunt down all the people In your town who permit these nox­ ious distributors of fake advertise­ ments to send them their magazines, and get them to sign a pledge to make a public bonfire once a week and burn every cheap rag magazine that comes into town. And right on top^ef this aggregation of inflammable material, throw the catalogs that drift in from the mall order houses. Make a good hot fire and go home happy--and safe! You wouldn't stand It to have a burglar sfculking around town and en­ tering every house once or twice a month, would you? And yet you al­ low magazines that are backed by thieves to come into your home circle and cheat the eye-teeth from your head. Maybe jrou lik$ It! Jt ijot, why don't you do something' and make it hot for this character of publication? There Is nobody that will do any more tor you than your home editor if you treat him right, and when you see an advertisement, In his newspa­ per, you may depend on it, the firm is reliable. There may be exceptions, but the editor Is • willing; to know about the exceptions and will stop taking money from the exceptions. Try dictating to the mail order pub­ lication anent the advertisers and see how far you get for you are but one In a million subscribers! You don't amount to much from his stand­ point--but you do cut some figure in your home editor's affairs. He will treat you right--and you should treat him the same way. Your interests are the same. You help him and he will help you--and that's all there Is to life, anyhow. But, don't take any stock in th*.. selfish cry of the mall order Journal- for a parcels post. Remember you are on the other side of this fight! And being on the other side, why not show the stuff that's in you?^ Do some active work for home and( edu­ cation and the little old country town you love! BYRON WILLIAMS. WASN'T A FIVE O'CLOCK TEJ Class One of Chess Fanatics Properly Objected to Qarrulousnsia of His Opponent. Two elderly chess fanatics were ab­ sorbed in a game at the Merchants' Institute in San Francisco recently. Both were experts and rigid follow­ ers of all the rules "of the game, writ ten and otherwise. For nearly five tours neither had spoken a word. Backward and forward, morinfe and eountermovlng, the fame swung, with no perceptible advantage to either player. Finally one of the old fel­ lows made a fatal break. Quick as a flash his opponent moved his knight Into position, and softly murmured, "Check!" The other player, making no effort to conceal his displeasure, rose from the game. "Whafcs the matter?" demanded his friend, "Going to quit?" "I certainly am. I'll be hanged If 1 can play chess with a darned old chat­ terbox!"--Saturday Evening Post. One Way to Make Country Level. The Newly Weds were driving along a very hilly road in Northern Missouri. "Such hcrrled hills!" she exclaim­ ed. "I think there are entirely top many of them." "Either that," replied the man, "or there are only half enough." No Wife's Cooking for Them. Mrs. Crimsonbeak--This paper says that r# |ly Indeed Ig a wealthy Turk seen Ct his wife's dinner table. Mr. Crimsonbeak -- Yes, I under­ stand the Turks live a long time. 8top the Pain. hurt.of a burn or a cut stops when Cole • Carbollaalve la applied. It heals quickly and prevents scars. 25o and 50c by •ruggists. 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Miss Monte Qrayce of "The Ros# j Maid" picked up one of the BIX little girls In the production and offered to tell her a story. The youngster, Miss Madeline Ball, was eager to hear It. So MIBS Grayce began: "Once upon a time a little girl named Helen hurt her thumb. She ran home and showed her sore toe to her mother. Her mother immediately got a piece of cloth and bound up the Injured wrist. 'Does you ear hurt you now?' asked her mother. 'Oh, no, mamma,' replied Helen. '1 feel no pain in my nose at all.' Her mother thought it best that Helen see a phy­ sician; so one was called to examine her injured eye. Helen bore up brave­ ly, although he squeezed the sore cheek " At that point little Miss Ball Inter­ rupted her. "Wait a minute, Misa You didn't tell Shoe Polishes Qwitf 1 , ° roor.f Jj - Dues5|NG *| jj • r»ML >HI>LS -] i i;ltT * v "French Gion," 10c. 25.. ••STAR"' combir.»tioo for ""•"HJj1 » ,.v poUhf iB kkidL'afruiset or Ua tboe*. iOe. "Daady* ux«25e. 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