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tempting manner. The commendation of her company justifies 

 her effort and brings into use household articles that would 

 otherwise be unused and makes her a more efficient cook and 

 a better housekeeper. 



At a Royal reception the Queen was asked to exhibit her 

 jewels and she withdrew and came back with two interesting 

 children, and with her hands on their heads she said to that 

 distinguished assembly of Royalty, "These are my jewels." 



Mr. Roosevelt might talk about race suicide until aviators 

 were used to deliver milk, and until the extension of the Chicago 

 & Northwestern Railroad had reached the North Pole, and the 

 effect would not compare with that produced by this illustrious 

 queen. When children become the most popular jewels, dia- 

 monds will be at a discount, and race suicide will stop. When the 

 minister arranges to call, the most conspicuous thing on the 

 center table is a bible, and if nobody calls but preachers, the 

 bible would stay there, but when club members call, you will 

 find in its place a cribbage board, some poker chips and a deck 

 of cards. 



When the politician calls, you take him around and intro- 

 duce him to the most prominent men to impress him with the 

 number and kind of acquaintances you have. When a dairyman 

 calls you visit with him in your office with the door closed and 

 the blinds down. The politician is careful of his record and his 

 reward is a position of trust ; the dairyman is careful of his 

 reputation and his punishment is solitary confinement and etern- 

 al ostracism. You visit the country and examine the horse barn 

 and admire the horses. You go to the hog pen and are pleased 

 with the hogs. You flatter the farmer on his fine growth of 

 alfalfa, and you go wild over a field of corn that will make sixty 

 to seventy-five bushels to the acre when it ought to be made to 

 produce two hundred bushels, and after looking over his entire 

 farm and all his stock except his milk cows you go away with- 

 out saying a word about his nice clean cow barn, his well-ap- 

 pointed milk house or anything in connection with his little 



