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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1913)
KEEPING UP WITH BESS By ANNIE EIQERBACHER. After the Btout woman had flopped into the nearest armchair, scattering about twenty four Christmas bundles on the floor as she did ho, she heaved even a dper sigh than one would naturally have expected under the clr en instances. "What's the matter?" asked her friend. "You look as though you'd lost pounds and pounds from worry." 1 think I have." replied the stout woman, rather feebly You see, It's Bwsie. Bessie's my favorite niece, as yon know, and she's burdened with ever-Indulgent parents who give her everything she wants before she knows that she wants It. Now, how Is It possible to please such a girl whin any kind of gift? She has Jewelry by the pound and she gets enough candy every Christmas to feed an orphan asylum. Bo whenever Decem ber comes around I begin to wring my hands and say, 'What under the shining sun can I get for Bessie?' That's the way I got my first gray hairs! 1 get a fresh Installment of them every Christmas." She was calming down now. Her friend had politely assumed an air of deep attention. "After hours and hours of brain sacking effort," went on the stout wo man. "I found out that Bessie wanted a Princeton pennant. There was one Princeton pennant left in the sport ing goods section the day 1 went to bay Bessie's present and I wrestled for It with two husky youths, a middle aged woman and half dosen giggly girls I got It, too, although In the .process I lost three perfectly good Jet buttons and sprained my wrist. "That night Bessie's beau brought Ifeer an atrocious big Princeton pen aant about three tlmea the else of the one I had worked so hard for. Sweet kf him, wasn't It?" "Go on," begged her friend. "Your .thrilling recital makes a war story look as flat as a plug hat that's been est on. What happened next?" "Bessie came over to my house one day," said the stout woman, "and raved about an embroidered sblrt waist of mine that some poor soul had pent six monts making. Well, that gave me an Idea and I Immediately Started to make Bessie one like it in li days. I embroidered until 1 saw French knots dancing all over the wall and I counted stitches In my sleep, van my football playing son, who reels off signals In his dreams, became alarmed at the symptons that I dis played. My family rose in wrsth when I brought the thing to the table at dinner and embroidered between courses. And then when the waist was nearly completed Bessie casually announced that she thought embroid ered shirt waists were getting com mon and she woudn't wear one for anything." "Dear, dear!" murmured her friend, sympathetically. "I felt like telling Bessie that If she changed her mind again she wouldn't get any present from ne," said the tout woman. "But next morning I tarted out on the warpath, all spUffed up in my oldest clothes, so that 1 could grab bargains with the best of them. I ran into a sale of Jewelry women six deep fighting over lit tle 99 cent reduced from $1 coin purses, and all trying to get waited cn r.t once. It teoV me half an houi ,to get next to the counter. Iteally, It was cruel the way I climbed over peo ple, but it was for a worthy cause. Anyway, I got there, found the coin purses all gone, took another half hour getting untangled and had to pay $3 for the same thing In another store. "After I'd been patting myself ou the back for about a day for having solved the problem I met Bessie on the street. She hailed me, and then 'broke into lamentations 'What do you think, Aunt Helen?' she said 'Uncle Billy brought me another cotn purse last night, and I had three al ready!' ' When I came to I was in a drug tore and Bessie was rubbing my head and cooing. 'You shouldn't worry so over Christmas. You know you do too much, auntie ' ' " Yes, I know, Bessie,' I said. 'What do you want for Christmas?' '"Why, 1 don't know,' she replied. 'Nothing much that I can think of. I want a diamond ring, but duddy won't give me one. Must you go so soon?' "I think now that I'll go a florist's and order a couple of dozen roses for ! Bessie the stems to be at least three tgat long. I sent her some w hen she had appendicitis and she rkved over them then, but now goodness knows! j She may have developed a case of rose fever by this time. "Honestly, the thought of all the Christmuses that are yet to come Is enough to kill any one. Yes, I do feel ' is though 1 d been through a key hole. "Well. Merry Christmas! Here goes for Bessie's!" JLL Greater Farm Efficiency Choosing a Useful Draft Horse Br PROF. A. S. ALEXANDER. WUcmntin CnlUf of A r.cuf an FLIPPANCY IN GIRLS By BARBARA BOYD. J I fro ;j TH HkjjfcjBfHKji JEsbxsb&I ss r jam k ' bbwSss 4eb , Tr h k jFB& Wr&tiB k VwHgpP 5 MM al H B Jsaa SH 'aw MagEBHiBw-w- . JBBSB - 'flanay esssjs I Stallion of Good Form. Don't Shoot. "Here's au Item," observed Rivers, s-ho was looking over the exchanges, 'to the effect that the king of Sweden alses prUe dogs on his farm." "I suppose he uses theiu," suggest ed Brook, "to drive his Stockholm." After which the rattle of the type writer broke out afresh with great rtolence. Victim of Noise. did the elopement fall "Why through?" "We had a signal arranged. She told xe to come to her window and make t noise like a robin. I did so ' "Year Then bar father popped oat tade a noise like a shotgun. " fUJ Courier Journal A horse's height la measured in "hands" (4 Inches) from the summit of the withers to the ground. A typi cal, ideal draft horse stands over 16 hands (6 feet 4 Inches) and under 18 hands high. Tall, leggy horses. If de hcient in weight, width and quality, are undesirable. Such horses orten are found affected with St. Vitus' dance. Exceptionally tall horses (over 17.2 hands) are difficult to match In pairs and therefore may not meet with ready sale on the market. Such horses are chiefly used for single work or as the middle horses of three horse teams. A draft horse should weigh 1,600 pounds, or more. In ordinary flesh. Weight In a draft horse is absolutely necessary for the hauling of heavy loads. It enables the horse to derive full benefit from the strength of his muscles, adds to the effect of his mo tions and gives him a firm grip upon the ground. Heavy weight is a use less burden when not associated with adequately developed frame and mus cle. It should he accompanied by vigor and energy. The form of the draft horse should be htoud, deep, massive, evenly pro portioned and symmetrical, the en1 Ire makeup suggesting great strength and weight. The body should be blocky, and compact, with short, broad, clean, well set legs showing fine skin, large joints and prominent tendons. The entire appearance of the dratt horse rhould be Indicative of strength for heavy hauling. A massive body, set squarely on sturdy legs Is re quired. Good quality Is shown by tine, bright, silky hair; soft, pliable skin; i lean, well dt lined tendons; smooth well developed muscles; strong, smooth boues. It usually is associated with style, spirit and Intelligence in dicative ot ' breeding." A draft hoi e doe.t most of his hard work at the walking gait. B Is there fore Important tlu t he should be able to walk fast without tiring He should be able to walk four miles an hour with a load. To do this the action must be perfectly regular, straight and level. Joints must be quickly and fully flexed; feet must be advanced and ret down without deviation from a straight line. Soles of the reet should turn up unci show the shoes plainly as the horse moves away from the observer, at both walk and trot. The feet should be lilted quick ly, evenly and bo uet down squarely and firmly. There should be no "paddling, "dlahiiig," or "winging" In or out, cut ting or Interfering, nor should the fore legs swing out or "roll," or the hind legs be carried too close together or too tr.r tfStt In fudging ol the ac tion the o'..sirvtr must note the move ments of each leg and loot, the handling of each joint and the car riage of the entire body, as the horse walks and trots. Watch closely for lameness. The b :'.: f'.iou'd !e car ried veil together wh-n In uotlon. Rolling, or wuuu: tg Bit is due to too great width . 1 Jt. Knee an. I hock action sliou'd both be free and oomparntlvely high. Perl ect ten of ac tion at the wa k Is of highest impor tance lu the draft hcrte. The draft horse should show a vig orous, lively, energetic di.-uosltion. yet be docile, tract ible and intelli gent. He should . a neither sluggish, uor irritable, nor excessively nervous. Noticeable vices, as cribbing, wind sucking, weaving, tail switching, shy lug, biting, kicking, head shaking, etc., are undesirable. Sluggishness associated w ith 1st should be avoided, as it induces disease. Stupidity, clum siness, meanness or excessive nerv ousness are objectionable and should discount the animal. The head should be large, propor tionate In size to the body and well formed, clean, free from coarseness and Irregularities. Strength may be shown in the head s well as the rest of the body. It should be carried well up and balanced properly upon the neck. The shoulder of a draft horse should be moderately sloping, smooth and extending well back. A majority of poorly formed draft horses have shoulders which are too steep. Occa sionally the shoulders are too sloping. Either extreme in a draft horse Is ob jectionable. Trouble with collars comes from these causes when the horse is doing heavy pulling. The cor rectly laid shoulder should form a smooth, comfortable bed for the col lar. Straight or upright shoulders de tract from easy, free action of the forelegs and generally are found asso ciated with upright pasterns. The shoulders should be smoothly and deeply covered with muscles and be free from coarseness, roughness, sores and tumors. The withers should be- well covered and moderately high. The forearm, extending from the el bow to the knee, should be long, wide, heavily muscled and free from coarse ness. This portion of the body of the draft horse, together with the lower thigh (gaskin) of the hind leg, cannot be fattened, but is composed chiefly of lean muscle and bone. The muscles should be prominent in front and above and the entire part clean and free from pufflness and coarseness. The Knees should be straight, wide, deep, strongly formed and smooth. So long as these and other joints are free from puffs, bony growth and meatlness, they cannot well be too large or too strongly developed. Knees should be straight and so set as to perfectly carry the weight of the body. Sprung knet s, or "buck knees, ' bent in the forward direction are as objectionable as those of the rever. e type which are known as "call kneeP." Examine the knees for blem ishes and the cannons for splints close up to the knees. Splints will be an HP; jB saw ; y ,. j L. Crooked or "Sickle- Hock. likely to cause lameness . Blemishes may indicate tendency to fulling. The hoofs should be umple in size, sound, smooth and symmetrical In shaj:e. The che.-t encloses the heart and lungs; It shouM be roomy In eve.?' resiict. A narrow, shallow chest de notes poor constitution, lack of endur ance and dcttcteat breathing organs If too wide the action tends to wad dling or rolling. A narrow chest and huh knee action otten go together An ample, wide, deep chest denotes vigor, power, strong constitution and easy ket ping qualities. Poor hocks are a common fault In draft horses. It Is Important to Im prove this deficiency. To that end breeding animals should have good hocks and for work horses this sIbo is Imperative. The hock tnot "hind knee") is commonly the aeat of some one of such diseases as bone and bog (not "blood") spavin, thoiougbpiu and curb. These should be avoided. The joint should look and feel Arm, hard and with each bone well defined, free from meatlness and of great site. The point of the hock should be prominent clean and sharp and the tendons un der it straight, distinct, but free from bulgina. "K'e all very well," the quiet girl was laying to the little group of in timate friends, "for mother and aunt and grandmother to Insist on a girl's being ladylike and retiring and mod est and all that. But If she does, she gets left." "What's the trouble, Phoebe?" chorused the group. "No particular trouble." blithely re turned Phoebe. "But I was JuBt think ing such advice Is out of date. If a girl takes it nowadays, it'll make her a wallflower and eventually an old maid, or. I suppose 1 should say, bach elor girl." "Something has gone wrong," said one of the girls sagely. "Did you know Sue Dickinson is married again?" asked Phoebe. "No!" ejaculated the others. "Who to?" "Kenneth Ijeavcrett." "You don't mean It!" "Yes, 1 do. And that's what set me to thinking upon old-time advice. In spite of everything her parents Bald, she ran away, you remember, and mar ried Ned Willoughby. Then she quar reled with him and Anally got a divorce. And now in less than a year she is married again. And here are all of us, quiet, ladylike, well-bred girls, hanging yet on the parental stem." "Huh!" said one Indignantly. "I wouldn't want to marry either Ned Willoughby or Kenneth Ieaverett." "That may be," replied Phoebe But even If you had, you wouldn't have had the chance. You're not for ward enough. I don't want to get Into personalities," she said hastily, as she saw a gleam in the other girl s eye. "I'm just drawing deductions. As you know, 1 was invited to a bouse party last week, out at Whitney's per fectly superb home. And who do you think was the most popular girl there, quiet, well-bred little me or charming Alice Markham? Not a bit of it. It was a loud, giggling individual who talked constantly, laughed constantly, played jokes on the men, kept herself in every way possible In the center of the stage. The men simply flocked around her. They hovered over her like bees over a flower. And the rest of us aat off in well-bred and ladylike quiet and talked to each other." "That sort of thing doesn't last," observed one. "She had a good time while it did last, though. And that's more than the rest of us did." "I wouldn't care for the attentions of men like that," said another. "Oh, they were good enough, as men go," replied Phoebe. "You have to take them as they are. You can't make them to orden." "It seems to me, then," said a fourth, "that the men are to blame for all the forwardness and flippancy in girls, and tin way they dreBS and all the other things they do that they shouldn't. It would be sort of com fortable to blame the men for It all, wouldn't it?" "They won't care," quoth Phoebe. "They'll go right on showering all their attentions on the girl with the most false hair and the biggest hats and the tightest skirts and the readiest laugh, whether there is any thing to laugh at or not." "Let them," Interrupted another. "There's something more to life than merely pleasing the men. If 1 prefer refinement and good breeding and good taste, or think they are right and their opposites wrong, I am not going to throw them over merely to win masculine favor. I think we ought to get down to the bedrock fact of what Is right and worth while, not merely to whether our conduct will win fleeting popular favor. We want those things in our character that are going to give us lasting satisfaction. And, believe me, none of us here would find lasting satisfaction In the regard of men who like vulgarity In dress and manner. And, believe me, too, the nicest men don't. And even If they seem to for a little while, it is either out of idle curiosity, or to put in time, or a mere passing fancy. I'll stick to the advices of mothers and aunts and grandmothers. They have been observing human nature a much longer time than we have, and they know how It wears." "Well," said Phoebe, '"I suppose the girl with high standards of conduct Is of more value to society than tho girl without them. And I suppose it is worth while to be of some value aomew here." And I'd rather have my self- respect," said another, "titan the atten- ! tion of a dozen men for doing some- j thing that I thought beneath me." F IMS TIME mtonight I W I THURSDAY, MARCH 27 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF THE DeVere Stock Co. PRESENTING R "A Runaway Match" A one-act comedy direct from the STAIR and MAVI LAND Circuit. Also introducing three Vaudeville numbers, featuring Miss Agnes Devere, Carl and Geraldine Wright, Laurance Bryan and George Varnum A laugh from start to finish, and some good music THREE REELS OF FILMS BETWEEN ACTS ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY Commencing 7:45 p. m. Prices: Children, 15c; Adults, 25c FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRAM Presenting "LENA RIVERS," a three-act drama, in troducing specialties, and three reels of films Public Sale Horses and "Cattle Saturday, March 29, 1913 10 head registered Hereford Bulls. 5 head register ed Durham Bulls. These are all good individuals and well grown. 10 head milch cows. 15 cows and heifers. 10 head yearling and 2-year-old steers. 32 head of horses BALE BEGIN8 l P. M. sharp Spry's Sale Barn Alliance, Nebraska r5 1 AGAINST GERMS! KEEP YOUR SINK TRAPS CLEAN nullum i iirc in- i oiasn cuts it. arwl 1 1 - f tritv - . . - I ul I I ' . 1 "m un i infill am n ! mt. -, . iii I'liiiuni'i h niuw, i little Lye and a Lot ot Wafer for generftl Hounehokl Cleaning and Disinfectinff. Banish Dirl mid Germs oreat l.ahor anJ for the lahcls. : Writ fur booUct "r'tiab! e:.f v.: hits ial i:: B. T. BABBITT MEW VOR :itv Sergeant Didn't "Sabby." Strgl. Mike Drew wan at one time i (luarierinasier sergeant in tlie ftjll- ippines. He believed he had a work ing knowledge of the language of the islands, which the eoldiera call "Bam boo Suauleh." One day a party of tourists were tryiiS to get two Filipinos to under stand that they warned some trunks taken down to the station. The tour ists did everything they knew to get this instruction Into the heads of the brown brothers, but It was useless. Sergeant Drew then offered his serv ices. "Say. you." he said, turning to the natives, "when the whistle blows on the railroad train, too hoo, you get your bull cart, moo moo. and take these trunks down to the station be tore the engine starts, ding ding. Sab by?" "Yo no savez," the natives replied. "What!" roared Sergeant Drew. "Don't you understand your own lan Mr. Man: Before You Build or Repair, Let Earnest Rosenbereer FIGURE OX ALL WITH YOU KINDS OF Carpentering and Contracting Jobs taken, large or small. Jobbing a Specialty. Estimates and Plans h'urnished Free. Rates Reasonable. Work Guaranteed. HEMINGFORD, NK MR ASK A