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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1912)
r LINCOLN'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE LINCOLN NEBRASKA S. W. COR. 13th a o J jmr - tic IM MMI Mf FOR WOMEN BOSTONIAN SHOE FOR MEN FAMOUS FOOTWEAR Little Wonder "Arch Form" Shoes for Children Our Shoes and Oxfords are all this season's purchase; styles are all the very best; everything the market produces in leather or materials. Ladies' Misses and Children's Men's Boys' Shoes $2.50 to $6 75c to $3.00 $3.00 to $6 $1.50 to $3.50 Peculiarities of Taste. The South Sea Islanders gazes with disgust upon an American eating rare roast beef, but he will eat a fish raw, especially if he is, an Hawaiian, with great relish. He also finds a dozen or more relatives of the oyster on th reef at low tide and thinks them highly appetizing. There is tha devil fish, for instance. The squid is regarded aa being a delicacy. What to Do With Babies. If the custom of checking babies at the department stores and leaving them there continues to grow, it may be necessarv for those establishments ftoTiold "auction sales of unclaimed ba bies, as the express companies do of parcels left on their hands. New York Tribune. 1307 O STREET, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. m o .ft " Now located in its splendid new home in the Chapin 'Block, Corner 14th and O Streets, Lincoln The Finest Business College Home in the State :.&" if 11 1 t siTi1S" -r--. mm ' ir C7. Every provision has been made for the health, comfort and convenience of our students. All modern equipment. A live progressive school, using the very latest methods. Every teacher a trained specialist. You should call and inspect this school. : tages you cannot find elsewhere. ' Both day and evening classes. Auto B4387 W. M. BRYANT, President We have advan- Bell F3566 School of Love in Germany. In order to counteract the falling oS of marriage rate a "school of love" has been started at Strasburg, Germany. The school will also glvt. advice on ob scure questions, such as how ' en courage budding attentions, how u dis courage them, how to converse with. serious men without any serious knowl edge, and how to be gay and frivolous while suffering from headache, bank ruptcy, and other ills. Appeal of the Afflicted. It was Walter's first visit to church, and he tried hard to remember all the varied Instructions he had received, such as not whispering, keeping his head bowed during the prayer, etc. But during the main petition of the service nature won a complete battle over memory and decorum. "Mother," shrilled the weary youngster, "when will it be time for me to straighten my neck? It's like to break if I dont do it soon!" Why the Passengers Kicked. A motor-bus while traveling in Bow road recently was struck in the rear by a tram car, and the impact forced it on to another bus, which was stationary-. The latter mounted the pavement and smashed some rail ings. Passengers in each bus com plained of cuts from broken glass. London Daily News. Tramp Not Wholly Lost. A tramp stealing a ride on a train jumped off as it passed a burning ho tel, aroused the sleeping lodgers and, his rescue work, done, regained his place on the bumpers before the train left the yards. A pretty full volume of comment on American human na ture is contained in the brief report of the incident. Banana a Curiosity. A peculiar fact about the banana Is that no insect will attack it, and an other Is that it is absolutely immune from the diseases that fruits are sub ject to. It is one of the curiosities ot the vegetable kingdom. Modern Finance. Knlcker "Are you cutting down ex penses?" Bocker "Yes; I am paying only half the bills." Puck, Asbestos Shingles. Asbestos shingles are now being manufactured in this country with sue cess, and the trade has grown enorm- ously. The new products are of the lightest weight and fireproof up to a temperature of two thousand and more degrees. They are proof against acids and weather and are said to last as long as a concrete building will. Painter Had No Choice. """""May I Bsk'--ijuiiiiresUheinterviewk- er, "why you paint none but nudes?" "Certainly," replies the painter. "The styles change so rapidly in clothing that a picture would be out of date almost before the paint is dry." Chi cago Post. Always. Also in the matter of a kiss, two heads are better than one. Snart Set Magazine. CLOTHES SHOULD BE CLEANED -NOW Before the spring sets in have your wearing apparel care' fully gone over and thoroughly cleaned for immediate use when the weather clears up. Call Auto 1292 or Bell 147, and let us send for your gar ments or if you live out of town We Pay Express One Way HIGBY Successor to J. C. WOOD & CO., Cleaners and Dyers 1327 N St - Lincoln, Nebr. MUCH LIKE A CONSTELLATION Fighting Prisoner Had Only Asked to Be Shown One Star, But He , Saw Several. He had been celebrating, not wisely, but too well, and getting obstreperous and noisy and looking for a fight he was tackled by a policeman who in plain clothes was on his way home. The drunken one showed fight and was indignant that an apparently pri vate citizen should try to arrest him. "Show me your star!" he demanded. Don't believe ' you're a cop at all. Won't go with you till I see your star," and he aimed a maudlin blow at the policeman. There was a scuffle and a fight, short-lived but strenuous, and the drunken man was landed in the police station, where he stayed all night. In vthe morning it was a disheveled and torn wreck that appeared before the magistrate and who listened to the po liceman relate the trouble he had in getting him to the station house. "He wanted to fight me all the way to the station, your honor. " He kept pulling back and trying to trip me and yelling, 'Show me your star! . I don't go unless you show- me your star.' " "And," asked the magistrate gently, "did you show him your star?" "Your honor," interrupted the pris oner, "he clouted me on the head and I saw the star I saw several of them, enough to go around the entire force." At Least a Movement for Health. In the Paddington borough of Lon don, if you operate a tenement or apartment house, you must sweep tha floors of all rooms once a day, wash;; them once a week and open the win dows of all sleeping rooms for at least one hour In each day or pay a line of $25. It may not bo possible to make) -the people moral by law, but the borough council of Padjlington believes much can be done to make them ,, healthy. ; At Lasf. The London Gazette, after an ex istence of nearly two; and a half cen-" turies, has adopted the J)ian of print ing a table of contends. This should dispose of the libel that we Britishers are slow to adopt nef ideas. London ' Punch. - f ; - Try 8cissors Next Time. f '. "She meant to chop off the chick en's head with a hatchet," says a Mis- souri 'editor, "but only succeeded ' In '( cutting off her forefinger. The next ' time she has designs; against the life of a chicken we recommend the nse. of a pair of scissors'." Atlanta Can- . stitution. . WORSE THAN JOB'S TROUBLES Surely Mark Twain, in Flight of Imag ination, Had Described Worst Com : bination of Ills. John McLaughlin, who. has started a new magazine known as "Catholio Youth," has had trouble enough to dis courage a less cheerful person, since he abandoned daily newspaper work. McLaughlin started to work on his first issue three weeks ago, and every thing went along swimmingly until a week ago when he woke up in the mid dle of the night with severe pains in his hip. "Rheumatism, and you'll be lucky it you're out in a month," said the doc tor next morning. . All last week McLaughlin lay in bed while the "big magazine," as he calls it, awaited his coming. Yesterday Mc Laughlin appeared at his office and "dug into" his accumulated work with savage energy. "I Y ' only one consolation," he said at the -ress club, yesterday. "One ol the magazines has a story of Mark Twain this month. It seems a friend of Twain was suffering from a tooth ache and an earache at th6 same time. " "Can you imagine a worse com bination than that, earache and tooth ache?' asked the friend. "'I can,' said Twain. "There are rheulnaTJsm' and" St.'vllus'iSanct;!'' Milwaukee Free Press. Working in the Dark. Secretary MacVeagh, at a dinner In Washington, was urging the need of scientific financial laws. ' "But let us make these laws scien tifically," he said. "V" ! must let in the light We must work in the light. If we work in the dark, you know, we will go wrong like young Cornelius Husk. "Cornelius Husk was called one win ter "morning before dawn, and told to go and harness the mule to the dear born. "The lad was too lazy to light a lan tern, and in the dark he didn't notice that one of the cows was in the stable with the mule. "As he tried to harness the cow his father, impatient at the long delay, shouted from the house: " 'Corney! Corney! what ye doin'?' " I can't get the collar over the mule's head,' the boy replied. 'His ears are frozen.' " Great Plague of London. Medical authorities agree that the epidemic which prevailed in London in 1665 was what we now caU bu bonic plague. It is well known that this "Black Death" was prevalent in various parts of the world in ancient times. : The outbreaks were peculiarly violent then by reason of the condi tions of poverty and the almost total absence of sanitation. It was the an cient medical writers who gave it the name of the plague. ' The mortality in London in 16G5 was appalling. Thousands were swept away by the dread malady, and there was a great exodus from the stricken city. Some of the medical authorities thought it had been brought into Lon don in bales of merchandise coming from Holland, which originally came from the Levant; others contended that it was brought in by Dutch pris oners of war. Boy Has Right to Be Proud. The proudest boy in France, today Is Raymond Marmiesse, who is six teen years old. He is at present a patient in the Pasteur institute in Paris, and has received a silver medal with his name on it and a letter from the minister of public instruction. One Sunday afternoon a mad dog raced through the streets of Cahors. It had bitten several other dogs, a horse, and two children. Marmiesse, who was passing, threw himself head long on the dog, and tried to strangle it. People shouted to him that he would "be bitten ; and he was bitten terribly. His father begged him to come away from the dog, but "Better one than half a dosen more children be bitten! "shouted the boy, and he stuck to the dog till a man managed to slip a noose over its head and draw it tight. - Smart bet in. Danger. From one of the 'fashion Journals) we learn that "stripes will be worn by tie smart set next spring." Has tbm rmart been combinin'g in restraint of trade? Danger Long Appreciated. , ' The danger of infection from drink-' ing cups was noted at least 350 years ago and probably before that time. 4-horse power, 4-cylinder CUSHMAN ENGINE Manufactured by CUSHMAN MOTOR' WORKS 2001 N St. LINCOLN, NEB. & DANA '; CASH BUYERS OF Poultry and Eg&s "strictly fresh eggs WANTED WANTED, TURKEYS, GEESE AND DUCKS 216-218 South 7th St. LINCOLN PHONES: '1 Bell 140 Auto 1407 BUSTED HARNESS For thirty years have made the best harness in Lincoln and sold It the cheapest. My new location is 1703 O Street, where I have a complete line of harness and equip ment THE BEST. It Will Fsy (Ton to Exssnas My Stock t Repairing Done W. E. McFALL - 1703 0 St. PIANO SNAP! We have just taken in trade on a Knobe Grand, a good, slightly -used upright piano in a quartered oak case, which we offer at the "quick sale price" of ON EASY PAYMENTS A handsome duet compart ment bench and scarf furn ished free. ' G.A. CRANCERCO. ' 1124 0 St, Nortk Siie $165