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DAKOTA CITY HERALD DAKOTA CITY, NEB. JOHN H. REAM 7 . Publisher. SOCIETY MEN AS DARING AVIATORS SOME ODD BELIEFS 3 LUCK OR MISFORTUNE ASCRIBED TO THE DIQIT8. Ainniracem SCHOOLS IN PUBLIC PARKS. Boston's finance commission baa laed itself upon record aa favoring tbo building of one of the publlo schools In one of Boston's publlo Jparks. If the suggestion should be acted upon by the Boston city govern ment It would probably Involve a unique eiperlment A schoolhnuse Is to be built In a portion of the city ' rwhere property Is high-priced, and Ten at a high prlco It Is difficult to eet a suitable elto. In Washington park the city has an area of 390,125 square feet In such location as to make an Ideal site, says tho St. Paul Dispatch. The commission argues that the school building will occupy but 18,000 square feet of this space, and that the curtailing of tho breathing area will, therefore, not bo serious. On the ether hand, the fact of having a achool In the park will attract to It a maximum number of children and promote the object of tho park. While the finance commission does jcot wish to make Its recommendation precedent, It has In it a suggestion of value. The plan might be worked both ways, locating schools where con venient In public parks so as to give the children a maximum of ground for recreation, and turning the grounds about such buildings Into breathing spota for the use of the neighbor hoods, especially In vacation times. A Brooklyn woman lately wrote to the marriage license bureau of that city to know If she could bo supplied with a good, honest, sober husband. jThe clerk In charge explained that. ;wh.lle be had a few model men on Hand, they were all married and the jupply was entirely too limited for (the demand. The fact that the matrl imonlal market la understocked with honest, sober husbands may bo one reason why the divorce courts are vercrowded. The pessimist can always find food ' for rtrtnmw (nnkt i. l i ... I o- . uiuugui, i uo lucis lutll mo census shows a big Increase In popu lation while tho death rate Is de creasing will prove to that Individual, who, like the proverbial Scotchman, Is never happy unless he Is mtsorable, that the nation Ib going to be over crowded until somebody has to be ehored off the earth to make room for the resL ' Those who have been wondering as (to whether America would produce a I new race have thoir answer. The .hobble skirt race has been Inaugura ted on Long Island. It was won la laeven falls. That marriage Is the worst kind of failure Is the opinion of a Gotham broker who Js paying hta first wife 1)40 a month aUrtony and whose sec ond wlfA wnnta nttmnn. n iKa r ----j.. w uig uuo ui -sg jf500 more. Trust science to rise to every emer gency. It says we are all going in- uib i rum living in nats, and now a lYench surgeon la going to saw open our beads and scrape away the foolish fancies. A Japanese scientist claims that he can educate oysters to produce per lect pearls. This may be glad news, now that the season Is open to the patrons et the restaurant pearl fish eries. Football this year will havo to com pete with aviation, but as there seems to be no good way to use a collego yell In connection with an airship the grid Iron sport will have somo ndvuutages. A Tnkvn rnhln Annminnnu fhn t - - 1 ' ' 1.11V U 1 1 J I f ' i toose wtll make a dash for the south pole to try and beat the American and British expeditions. Tho more the worrier. And may the boat nan win. Girls caught shoplifting in Philadel phia explained that "they wanted to stylish." In order to satisfy that rdeslre they should have confined their j unledeeda to smuggling. k A western man claims he la Insane and brings forward aa proof the fact that he was married three times In three months. "Insane" la an luade. quate word, we opine. ; , New York baa formed a league to banish French from the bill of fare. Merely to call a chef a cook would be a great gain. We gather that the Brooklyn worn ' an who named sixty-three co-respondents In her divorce suit, really de serves to win It New York bulldog turns on the gas end commits suicide. Even a dog can't stand the dog's lire a New York r leada. " Now the sultan of 8ulu says that one wife Is a plenty Thus he destroys his usefulness as a comic opera prop. Sauerkraut Is superior to beans as diet, says a Boston scientist. Bos 'tonlans will take steps to deport him tto the Fatherland. President Simon of Haiti refuses to ride In an automobile, which Is proof enough that be likes his Job and wants to bang on to It. It seems to be tbe opinion that a man can drtnk a quart of whisky all Igbt, but that be can t carry y far i'-J w I . '; ': fSJUlff 11 :?!"'y ; JUZMJTfrQK? JWZKZ, Jfc71RnZ,-g' Z2RZYFZ NEW YORK. Tbe International aviation meet at Iiclmont Park has had much the air of a tonal tunctioo. This Is due not only to the fact that tho fashionable set are glad of the opportunit y to enjoy new sensations, but also to the social standing of a number of the bold aeroplanlsts. Among the most prominent of these are Armstrong Drexel and Anthony Drexol. both of whom have distinguished themselves by their shlll nd daring. GIRLS LACK HOMES London has No Respectable Ref uge for Women. Sister Maggie Hat Strikingly Dis couraging Experience Ordinary Lodgings Unfit for Hon est Poor. Iondon. "Sister Maggie," a zealous and original worker connected with the Bloomsbury Social union, is en gaged In an effort to provide hotels for respectable girls who find thenv selves In Ixindon without money or friends. Sister Magglo claims that young men are amplr provided for In thlB respect, but that the contrary is tho case as to girls. "In order to test tho mntlcr for my self," said she, "I disguised myself as a young country girl out of a situation In London and, with only nine pence In my pockets, I walked the streets to find a respectable night's lodging. This Is how I fared. After calling In many places where I was refused ad mittance because I had not a shilling in my pocket I spoke to an old woman selling matches at a street corner, who directed me to a home for young women conducted by a rellglouB body. "The first question that was put to me there by tho matron was, 'Whore Is your reference?' I had to confess that I bad none, so I was told I was not the 'sort wanted there' and was turned out on tbe street. I spoke to three policemen, but not one of them could help me. No person who kept furnished apartments would let me have n room for the night under the cost of a shilling. Then I went to an ordinary lodging bouse for women where after some bargaining I was taken In for six pence. "The house was full of women, young and old, many of whom had come to London as young girls from the country. Now every one was a moral wreck; their conversation was Indescribablo and finally a quarrel broke out In the room where they were herded togethor. SWISS BRIDES BE HEALTHY Radical Action Planned by Govern ment of Switzerland In Requir ing Physical Teats. Ixmdon. That vexed question of state medical certificates of the health of brides Is now in tho region of prac tical politics. In all probability Swiss brides will in futuro be required to present a certificate of henlth to their bridegrooms, so that If any man niar rlcB a girl whoso health la not good ho will have himself to blami). Next yiar, If tho rich and influential body called tho Swiss Society of Pub lic Utility for Women, which has done much good iu Switzerland during tho last few years, has Its way, all young women, wed or unwod, will be phys ically examined, as are their brothers who enter the Swiss army. According to Ita report for 1910, the Bocloty has launched this daring eoheme, wb'.cb Is suid to bo receiving warm support. "We feel ourselves responsible fof the health, the homes and the char acters of our people," the report saya In dealing with the suggested measure. It further urges evory young woman to undergo the ordeal for tbe sake of herself, her husband and Switzerland." Dy three things we learn men love, play and wine. TO CURE BASHFUL SPEAKERS Club Is Formed In London to Train Speachmakere Afflicted With Shyneaa Hook for Bore. London. Speechmaklng In the dark la to be one of the methods to eure bashful speakera of their eelf-con-sclousnesa that will be employed by the newly founded Public Speaking club of Oreat Britain. Tbe club haa for Ita objecta the ex tinction of the after dinner "bore" and the training of efficient after dinner speakers. Amongst other curious training methods la one claimed to provide a very successful cure In the case of nervous men. On a bashful man mouutlng tbe plat form all lights will be extinguished, and he will begin bis speech In the durk. Gradually the lights will be turned on. Tha lnaugurul meeting of the club was held at Sion college hall, Victoria embankment. The president is L. W. J. Costello. while Sir V. Carrulbers . j ... . .X X H. X' J ; K ... H V vWv!;i :( : "Perhaps because I looked respect able, tbe landlady blamed me for it, and I was turned out once more. After this I wandered on through street after street, always with an awful dread In my heart and always followed by some man, until at last I was di rected to a house in a respectable street. I found at length what I thought was a haven of refuge. Here the landlady welcomed mo most kind ly. It was the only place I found even tho suggestion of human sympathy, but before I was there ten minutes women, yes and many young girls of under sixteen, brgan to come and go through the open door and, to my horror, I discovered the nature of the plueo, tho only roof to which I as a poor girl had been welcomed." Sister Maggie holds that rescue work is often hopeless and that the thing to do is to fence olt the preci pice rather than to try to save tho pieces below. She recommends that the Churches of all Hnrmlnntlnnn bind themselves together to establish properly governed women's lodging houses or inns. She Ravs th rafhnn women of Belgium have accomplished incalculable good In this way. Her Idea Is that notice boards at the railway stations and in the prin cipal streets should be put up telling girls where such places are to be found. The police, she thinks, might be of asBUtance to girls whom they meet wandering in the streets at night. Sister Maggie pronounces ab solutely against the common lodging house for women. "It is no place," says she, ' to which any respectable woman can be sent." Discovered Big Lake. Winnipeg, Man. According to a dispatch received here from William F. Drulard of Windsor, Ont., now in Edmonton, Alberta, a lake, supposed to be as large as Lake Superior, has been discovered in the Canadian northwest. Indians arriving from the far north brought the story to Edmon ton that government surveyors made the discovery. HOBBLE SKIRT High Heels and Peach Basket Hats Proper for Christian Women Saya Boston Divine. IloBton, Rev. Herbert S. JohnBon, one of Boston's foremost divines, champions the cause of tho bobble skirt and other ultra fashions of the fair sex, and advises tho American youth in search of a helpmate for life to select a girl who is a cioso follower of the fashions. "There Is no moro potent Influence for good In tho modern community," said Doctor Johnson, "than feminine fashion. Not only aro the ever changing fashions of women one of the chief delights of civilized Com munities, but it is a safu statement to make that we have no more conclu sive key to a woman's mental and moral development than the clothes she wears. "Much has been said of the high cost of living. The Immense sums spent annually In this country on ap parently useless articles of women's personal decoration are cited as argu ments of American extravagance when, as a matter of fact, this Item Is one of our smallest national extrava gances. "No woman, however free she may consider herself from the lure of tbe Gould la one of the vlce-presldenta. It la expected that about 2G0 bar risters, clergymen, aolllctora, teachers, lecturers and business men all of whom desire to become publlo speak erswill Join the club. Amongst other novel muthoda of training will be tbe following: For very nervous speakers: Tbe men will memorize a certain passage or speech and then deliver the same from tbe platform, together with a dozen other men. Gradually the number of men will be reduced until finally the uervous man la left alone on the platform to make his ahort speech by himself. By that time be has acquired a cer tain amount of self confidence and ease. Again, a man rlsea to niako a speech. He has something d flnlio to suy and a certain time to say It but he ram bles. To cure longwlndednes: Just as he la beginning to bora bis audience X I ! I V ;r i a LOSES TROUSERS FROM TRAIN Lloyd-George, Chancellor of Ex chequer, Travels Into London In Abbreviated Attire. Ixindoti. There Is a wicked story going the rounds about an adventure of David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, the other day. He was coming to London from a little sta tion iu South Wales and snt on the platform ten minutes waiting for his train. He then took a reserved com partment, but soon found himself alive with nnts, in whose nest ho had been sitting. He first fihnoli his coat out of a win dow and then, becoming desperate, removed his nether garments and shook them the same way. Along camo an express on tbe adjoining track and the garment was whisked out of hln hnnds. The appalled cab Ineter drew all the blinds and when tha train reached the next station shouted for the station master and begged hi m to supply him with trou sers at any cost. The garments couldn't be produced on short notice, but the official tele graphed ahead and when London was ren.cheil a discreet oRlclal handed a pair of corduroyr through the window to the minister, who soon emerged In these plebeian togs and Jumped into a cab. Kills Bear at First Shot. Pendleton, t)re. Unusual marks manship was displayed when Miss Grace Bean, a recent high school grad uate and daughter of Judge and Mrs. H. J. Bean of Pendleton, shot and killed a black bear with a 32 caliber rifle. In company with her mother, Miss Bean was riding through the Blue mountains In an automobile. They found an unarmed man who bad treed a bear and having tried In vain to lasso it was awaiting developments. Miss Bean stepped from the auto mobile and, taking careful aim, brought down the bear with a shot through the head. Benefit of Work. It is impossible to be despondent when one is kept busy. AIDS MORALS latest thing in clothes, shoes, hats and gloves can afford to bo otherwise than well dressed; and to begin at the be ginning, every argument to the con trary Ik a fallacy. "The man or woman who dresses tha best, whoso personal habits are tin; n:oM Irreproachable, Is the man or woman uiioso mental and moral do velopipent is tho highest advanced. The hobHo ililrt, the peach basket hut, lit.::i heeled shoes nn.I all tho thousand and ono foibles of tho feml nine sex are entertaining and products of good. A nirl who does not care about dr-.ss iu:'l the latest fashions ie not n Hernial girl. "The young man who contemplate! marriage may light shy of the girl ol fashion, hut ho makes a mistake. He may be a gainer at first financially, but in the end ho pays a terrible price for his shortsightedness. The girl who Is lux about personal appearance is lax mentally and morally. "Sho is not made of the stuff that turns out self respecting children. She Is either a visionary and, as such, an unreliable element in the community or she Is downright lax and shift less. "In either case she Is not a safe proposition for the ordinary younf man." clang! The hook Is wrapped round hli neck. Ban on Klaaing. St. Paul, Minn. "Osculate? Oscu lateT Well, not this term there's too much danger in the kissing germ." The above la said to be the official "yell ' of tbe A. K. A. society that has been formed among the co-eds of the University of Minnesota. Mystery en velopa the club, and tbe member! have been trying to explain the little blue badge they wear aa meaning American Kant Assembly, whatever that Is. But the girls not members say it means Antl-Klsstng associu Hon. The club was started, the mem bers say, to protect babies from promiscuous kissing and the transmla slon of germs from the lips of elders Mutt Keep Busy. In France there are 6,000,000 tin ok era. Of every 16 there are right wh smoke cigars, five who Ubu pipes, inn only two addicted to cigarettes. SUV theae comparatively few einoke 800, 000.000 clgarettea a year RADFORD Ed Mr. William A. I tad ford will nnswrr questions nnd Rive advino FllEB OP COST on all auhjncts pertaining to the subject of 'building tor the readera of this papCT-. On account of litn wlilo expe rience as FAlltor, Author and Manufac turer, he la, without doubt, tho highest authority on all these mbjorts. Address all lnqiilrlon to William A. Karlford, No. 104 Fifth Ave., CTtiloaRo, III., end only en eloao two-cent stamp fur reply. You have often heard of "the cot tago built for two." There Is some thing romautlc about such little houses, for the reason that they usu all are owned and occupied by the newly married. No young man who Is thinking of getting married can do a wiser thing than to have his own home at the start, even if It Is a very modest one. This article Is addressed, therefore, to the young clerk who does not get moro than $15 a week v,-ho has saved up possibly $500 and has found the right girl. She will have to be one of those sensible girls who Is thor oughly In love with tho young man and willing to start out In "a cottage built for two." Usually, you may have noticed, young couples who pull to gether and begin life that way soon havo a more pretentious house as a re sult of their team work. There la something touching and pathetic about the llttlo house. It appeals to the i v V ' 5 passerby as tbe abode of sincere peo ple who have disdained to live in a rented house and who, despite their meager means, have an independent spirit. It Is this spirit of Indepen dence that wins tho way to greater things and even to wealth later on In life. Some of the greatest men In American life have come from "a cot tage built for two." The struggle pos sibly to pay even for the little modest house and the discipline resulting from It have led to greater endeavors and consequent success. Home does not consist In gilded walls and Imported marble. The house, after all. Is a mere framework of the home, and the home Itself lies in the affection that dwells inside the walls. Never forget that. The aspiration to own a home is a natural result of that nesting In stinct inherent In all animals. It Is more highly developed In human be ings in many beautiful forms. So, if you are a struggling clerk and the one of all others who you think was in tended for you Is of the same mind yon are thinking of the new home. Maybo you havo hesitated about en gaging tho minister because you could not provide "her" with a house aa elaborate aa somo others In your town. Well, it all depends on tho stuff you two nro made of. If you want to be gin there fa no reason why you should not start in "a cottnse built for two." ITter on there will bo moro In tho family and then you can add another room, but no matter how poor you are, if you havo enough to Justify you ium rsmvravp Floor In getting maniod you can have a house and not pay rent. And no man should get married unless he can do this. There U a spirit about a house owned by the oooupanta that Is en tirely different from that which per vades the rented house. No matter how modest tbe house may be the owner has a little bit better standing In tho community than the man who lives in a rented house. His nelgbbora regard him aa a fixture. In the flrBt place, and If he Is paying for It on Installments he has got to stay or loso what he has In it. It is healthy to get Into debt for a homo If you do not overreach your Income. Look out for that The mayor of a large town told the writer that he never would have been worth a cent if he had not bought some real estate on time with a small payment down. He had to struggle to meet the payments and often did not know where the money waa coming from, but It came some way and be finally had his property clear. You see, he bad to make his payments to protect what he already bad In. If you wait tUl you have the noney in bank to pay for a home j GEO OOAT U ... . - . . . .s.r.) rin-v I - i ... t r-. : complete the chances are you nevei will have one, for the money will go some other way. Get Into debt rea sonable debt for a home, and you will bo surprised how easy the strug gle will be. Now, this house can be built foi $400. Though it Is small It has a neat appearance, and we will venture to say there will be happiness In It. The house Is sixteen feet six inches wido and twenty-eight feet six inches long, exclusive of porches. It would be well if possible in choos ing a site for this llttlo houso to place It on a lot of fair slzo and at one side to allow for a lawn and flower beds which will add much to the attractive ness. Chairs for the Hobbled. "You know those rubber rings that are fastened to tho bottom of chair legs, sometimes half a dozen one on top of the other, to raise the chair high enough for a child to sit at the table," said the restaurateur. "Well, we are using them by the dozen, not to boost children, but to give the women with tled-ln skirts a chance to sit down. High chair, so the well in formed tell me. prevent their knees from poking through the material; therefore high chairs are necessary equipment in every restaurant that caters to well dressed crowds. The style Is too ephemeral to warrant buying a lot of long-legged chairs, so we simply elevate a part of those we j already have by means of rings nnd reserve them for the hobbled women." Great Britain's New Coinage. With reference to the suggestion that the inscription of Britain's new coinage should be In English Instead of Latin, one may recall a precedent During the Commonwealth, most of tho coins minted bore English inscrip tions, and an Irish half-penny Issued by Charles II. bore the English words "God Save the King." It was Charles II., by the way, who first provided copper coinage, while Henry III. was responsible for the introduction of gold into the mint. As early as the reign of Edward HI. the coinage was stamped with a ship to celebrate the victory of Slugs in 1340, a point to be remembered by those who advocate the restoration of Britannia's ship to the new coppers. Infallible People. John Corbln of Boston, author and playwright, said recently that he had resigned tho post of literarv director of tho New theater because he dta liked the superior air that such of fices carry with them. "You decline play after play," ho said. "You make enemy after en emy. You pretend to be infallible, Plan. and the pose of your- Infallibility is an ugly and unpopular one. "Nobody, you know, wanta to be like Blynn's wife. " "That wife of yours,' said a friend of Blynn's sympathetically, 'never ad mits having made a mistake, does sheT "'Oh,' said Blynn, with a bitter smile, 'she occasionally allows that she made one mistake when she mar ried me, but she won't admit even that outside tbe family circle.' " Ha Fell. Bacon Have you spent all of tb morning seeing that aviator going ue In the air? Egbert Not all the morning. The last ten seconds I've been watching htm come down. Undoubtedly. Dad, what Is a self-made man?" Well, that young woman who waa arrested In New York the other day for going on the street In man's attire waa one." Si ' I. HIT VS V . Second Numeral Acquired an Eril Rep utation Among Early Christian Because the Second Day Hell Waa Created. The number 1 Is esteemed aa ver; lucky by tho Japanese, who allot but one day to each of the several opera tions of husbandry, leaving that por-' tlon of the ctop that could nut be gathered In one day, an exchange says. Tbe second digit acquired an espe cially evil reputation among the early Christians, becauuu the socond day hell was created, along with heaven and earth. It also seems to have been a number unlucky In English dynasties. Harold II. was slain In battle; William II. and Edward 11. were murdered; Ethelred II., Richard II., nnd James 11. were forced to abdicate, and Henry II. Charles II. and George II. were unfor tunate in many ways. The number 3 has an abundance of superstitions connected with K. It was the perfect number of the Py thagoreans, who said It represented tho beginning, middle and end. Llttlo mystery was attached to the numbers 4 and 5. In folklore the four leaved clover Is considered especially lucky. The caliallsts asserted that tho num ber 6 waa potent In mystical proper ties. The world was created In six days, the Jewish servant served six years. The number 7 has been invested with more mystery than all the other digits together, and to it were ascribed magic and mystical qualities possessed by no other number. Several learned treatises have licon written on this number, and septenary combinations have been sought everywhere. The seven days of creation led to a sep tenary division of time to all ages. Sev eral of the Jewish feasts lasted seven days. Ellsha sent Naaman to wash In the Jordan seven times, and Elijah sent his servant from Mount Carmel seven times to look for rain. For sev en days seven priests with seven trumpets Invested Jericho, and on the seventh day they encompassed it seven times. There were nine earths, according to medieval cosmogony; nine heavens, nine rivers of hell and nine orders or angels. The number being perfection, since it represented divinity, was often used to signify a great quantity, aa In tho phrases, "A nine days won der," "A cat has nine lives" and "Nine tailors make a man." In Sootler.d a distempered cow was cured by wash ing her in nine surfs. To see nine magpies Is considered extremely lucky. Nine knots mad) in a black woolen thread served as a charm In the cast of a sprain. It wastalso believed and is still by some, that If a servant girl finds nine green peas In one pod and lays them on tho window sill, the first man that entr-s will be her beau. Nine grains of wheat laid on a four leaved clover enables one, it ie said, 'o see the fairies. Discovering Woman's age. We wonder what death the man will lie, or what tortured life he will be caused to lead, who has Just discov ered the little "trick" by which a wom an's age can be ascertained beyond a doubt that Is to say, while her health Is normal. The only instrument re quired is an ordinary watch. The wrist of the lady whoBe age ifl in question Is the tell-tale. For when you count her pulse, and tt register C9 beats per minute, you know that she Is between twenty and twenty-flve-years old. During the next five years 71 beats go to the minute, and the "femme de trente ans" and over fe on titled to 70 throbs. It Is a pity the man of science who has established! these facts is not moro exact when dealing with the women of riper age, for, according to rumor nnd tradition, it is only after Eho is thirty that a woman begins to leave off having birthdays. Clothespin Saves Life. With a clothespin kept constantly between hid teeth for 13 days, to pre vent the jaws from locking while suf fering from lockjaw, Iienaido Capiiane, IS years old, Is now on tho road to recovery at Plains, Pa., soeressfully responding to antitoxin treatment. Capllano Is a miner. Recently in a mine accident he had both arms crush ed, necessitating the ampntatlon of one. Subsequently ho contracted lock jaw. As soon as signs of the malady were apparent Dr. A. A. Barton administer ed tetanus antitoxin and persisted In the treatment for a period of 15 daya before success was guaranteed. Now the swelling In the arm Is reduced and the tension of the muscles in the jaw nd other affected places has relaxed. Uncrackable Glaaa. Glass that can bo heated white hot and then plunged into cold water without breaking, while an aparent im possibility, has yet been made an ac complished fact. This glass is derived from Brazil ian quartz pebblea heated red hot and then thrown into distilled water. The purest pieces are selected and welded with the oxyhydrogen blowpipe into long stems like straws, from which glass vessels of any shape can be man ufactured. Thus far this quart glass has been employed chiefly for making laboratory apparatus. A test tuba made In this way will not break whti i white-hot coal Is dropped Into It. Something In a Name. "Pretty smart girl, eh?" "You bet she's smart Why, las' tprlng that gal trapped a half-dozen ikunka down here In Poppinton'a woods an' sent th' skins to Noo York: to bo made up. Now she's got one of th' finest sets of Alaskan sables you ever laid eyes on!" Mining. "I have ouie filigree work on the handle of my umbrella." "I wleh I had ou the handle of my umbrella what 1 hud on It the last time I saw it." "What did you have on yonr umbibl la handle the last time you saw H?" "My bund."