Nebraska Newspapers

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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLU31E VIII.
HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1890.
NUMBER A7.
GOWNS AND GOWNING
WOMEN QIVI MUCH ATTENTION
TO WHAT THEY WEAR.
SUmm at Fasciae Veaalalaai
Vrtveleaa, Mayhap, aad Yet (Hhrea
la tba Bap that tha Beadla Prave
Baetfal ta Wearied WaaaaaktaaU
Qaeeia tram Oay Oothaam.
Maw York correipondeorei
r O K T U B
Awaits the devis
er of a practica
ble scheme by
which a woman
n control her
dreeama Iter, How
to manage this
functionary 1 a
really one of the
serious questions
of life. The best
of us are In her
hand. She can
ruin our moat
carefully laid
plains; ghe can
make or mar us
for given occasion, for It depend up
on her whether we triumph or are de
feated, Our mere comfort, though that
la secondary conalderatlon, Is absolute
ly under her control. The admiration
of the world, the security of our social
position, the envy of our friends, do
pond upon her, and we all know It.
Thero la the wrapper, that primary
essential. George likes you In some
thing simple, something flowing, some
thing dreamy, and you tell the dress
maker all about It She say she
o stiuiiei woot.Bjr An wiiitk cloth.
known; leave It all to her. If you are
a neophyte you do, anil behold.' home
cornea a tight tilting alTalr like tlint
shown In thl first small picture. It la
pretty, but it has revers and things, a
front of another color, a lot of at raps,
and goodness knows what nil, and It
doe not "flow" a bit. You should have
selected a picture exactly like what
you wanted. Then you should have
warily produced the picture with an air
of not thinking it very attractive after
all, and have managed to make Madam
Tyrant say It Is just the thing for you.
Then having Insisted ou leaving It to
her to modify according to her taste.
It would have been ten to one that she
would have sent you a very fair copy
of the model. Any other plan seems
absolutely certain to bring about some
awful surprise In the way of style or
material.
Generally Madam Tyrant does not
approve of the tailor-made dress. The
only method by which you can secure
her co-operation In the making of this
sort of gown is to suggest very deli
cately that you know a dressmaker
does not like to make a tailor finish
gown, and that you hope she will not
mind your going for that particular
gown to & Co., who make a special
ty of that sort of thing. She will be
come dreadful severe at once, but you
or
Ot BBOCA.DED III.K AMD BLACK SATIW.
Imuat not Iom courage. Hue will say
that gne can make as good tailor gown
as any man aver did, but don't you
weaken; pretend you don't want to
'bother ber and then go away. If you
feu) m
want to, you can try to arrange at a
tailor's and you'll discover that they
charge frightfully, and that tbey do
not, after all, seem to know so very
much more than Madam Tyrant does
when she wants to. Then go back to
her very meekly. Tell her that you hare
had to giro It up. That you canuot find
a tailor who sems to know a thing
about it Tell ber that all you wnt Is
a perfect fitting dress that will give you
room across the chest, and that will
have a skirt to clear the ground, hang
well and yet not be too full to lift. Say
plaintively that you cannot make a
tailor show you any model that you feel
like risking.
Madam Tyrant will be very offish, but
she will Imply that If she cares to do
MOllK Ct.OTIt APPt.lqttKn AND FRIXOKT).
such a gown she can do it all right and
can make a tailor dress with anybody.
It then remains to coax. If you prevail,
depend upon It the gown will be pxaclly
what you' want It will probably be
like the gown In to day's second picture
a compromise. She will put on a tnf,
a frill, or a yoke somewhere. The only
safe way is to deliberately plan for a
compromise; tell her you do not like
such a dress too stiff, and aHk her to
give you a little soft silk chemisette,
.something adjustable, Below It you
can have waistcoat Mulsh. Tills she
will probably accede to. .She does love
a soft finish at the neck. Then, you see,
you can take out tho adjustable soft
affair and substitute a shirt front. Only
don't let her catch you wearing the
gown that way or she will take It out of
you mi your next dress.
The average dressmaker does not
seem able to make a nice fastening
down the front. A straight line of
buttons fastening neatly Into button
holes seems too much for her. That
Is the real secret of the popularity of
loose fronts of the sort incorporated
in tlie next pictured costume. Even
If a dressmaker has a loose front she
seems to find It next to Impossible to
mifVe a ship-shape fastening of the
lining beneath. If women told the
STRIPPED CIIAI.I.IR, WITH WHITE SII.K
BI.OL'SK.
truth how many of them would con
fess to wearing gowns that did not
come together as tbey ought under
that graceful, pretty bag front? If
you are really set on having your dress
fasten as It ought under the front you
must plan the front as If It were an
after-thought. This 'may trick mad
am. If she suspects you are lost! But
then you are probably lost anyhow.
If you want a cape you had better
leave It entirely to her. There Is noth
ing a dressmaker likes to experiment
on so much as a cape. Give ber a
general Idea of what you want, In
duce ber to promise that she will not
give you one or two things that you
really don't want, and then go home
aud pray. It was a cape of the sort
pictured here that a woman got when
she bought goods enough to make a
cape that would reach to the knee.
But the Tyrant said that all the rest
of the material was In the applique
design that was all over the cape. It
was a pretty cape, though, so tho
wise victim said that and nomlng more.
Tou want to remenibo' that a little
thing llk- a few yards does not conn
OepyrifBt. ItM.
Editor Thlf fellow Is littering the
office up with miserable poetry. Wo II
nave to put a cheek on htm. Poet (who
has heard the word check, rushing up)
I'll be obliged If you'll let me have
the check right away, sir. Philadel
phia North American.
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NOTES ON EDUCATION, j
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER.
fba Severity of Palilalias nt t hould
Mot Ba Arbitrary or Governed by
the Teacbar'a Tamper What a Bove
Mannar la Worth-Notee.
The Dearree of Punlahment,
The degree or severity of punishment
hould not be arbitrary or governed by
the teacher's temper, Every kind of
offense should not only have Its proper
kind of punishment, but every grade Of
the offense should also have Its proper
degree of penalty to be Inflicted, Tfce
teacher should be governed by tbe fol
lowing principles In determining the de
gree of punishment. "
Tbe Degree of Punishment Depends
Upon the Nature of the Offense. Slight
offenses or those of a nature not likely
to Interfere with the welfare of the
school or the teacher, need but alight
punishment, while those of a more se
rious character and likely to lead to
greater violations of tlie school disci
plliie should be met promptly with pud
nsliment of greater severity. j
The Degree of Punishment Depends
Upon tba Motive of the Offender.
Many seeming offenses are not meant
by tlie pupils as offenses at all, and
therefore need simply a caution and no
punishment whatever, Iu a school of
fifty children the teacher must expect
considerable life and no little noise, but
be must not think that every act of
thoughtlessness on tlie part of the chil
dren Is meant to Interfere with either
his discipline or bis comfort. Huch of
fenses aro without motive, and In any
well-regulated school they must lie ex
pocted as surely as we should expect
lambs to frisk or birds to sing. The
toucher who would punish them with
severity would prove himself utterly
unfit to have charge of children, and ut
terly incompetent to fill the post of
teacher.
The. Degree of Punishment Depends
Upon the Frequency of Repetition.
The teacher Is sometimes unable to de
termine the motive which actuates a
child iu committing an offense for tho
first time, but when the offense Is fre
quently repeated the question Is not so
difficult to solve. The first offense,
therefore, unless tbe motive Is clearly
understood, should not be punished so
severely as the same offense when sub
sequently repeated. The more frequent
the repetition also the more severe In
general should be the penalty.
The Degree of Punishment Depends
an the Difficulty of Detection The pun
Isbuiont In every case ought to lie gov
erned to some extent by the dlttlirulty
which tlie teacher experiences Iu detect
ing the offender. Conspiracies In school
are always more difficult to detect than
open violations of law. They are also
rnoro dangerous to school discipline,
and the punishment visited upon those
who not only commit the offense, but
who also seek to hide It and their con
nection with it, should necessarily bo
more severe than if no effort were made
to screen themselves and batllo the
tiiieher in his efforts at detection.
Tho Degree of Punishment IVepends
on the Age and the Sex of the Offender.
A moderate degree of punishment to
a hardy, well-developed youth might
prove a great cruelty If Indicted upon
a small child or a tender girl. In gen
eral It will be found that mild corporal
punishment is much more effective with
small children thau with older pupils;
to the latter an appeal to their sense of
honor, a reproof, deprivation of privi
leges, or placing them where they can
not com municafe with their associates,
is the most effective punishment. I
doubt If gills, particularly those be
yond tlie age of 12, ever should be sub
jected to corporal punishment. They
may be corrected In other ways much
less dangerous, and the wise teacher
will refrain from administering to them
any bodily punishment, the result of
which may be lifelong Injury.
The Degree of Punishment Depends
on the Temperament, of the offender. -The
temperament of children differ as
widely as their physical organization,
and no teacher can reach all by the
same method of procedure. The chol
eric and the sanguine cannot be gov
erned In the same manner as we would
govern the lethargic and the phleg
matic. A nervous, sensitive child re
quires different discipline from that
which we would apply to one of a dull,
plodding, lethargic disposition. The
degree of punishment as well as the
kind, must vary according to the vary
ing temperaments. To one whose sense
of honor Is keen, and who Is character
,lxd by great nervous energy, a word of
reproof Is of more consequence than a
sound administering of corporal pun
Itbmcnt to one of an opposite tempera
ment It Is the dull, plodding work
horse that needs the spur as an Incen
tive, and not the llthe-llmbed, keen
eyed Arabian courser. Raub's School
Management.
A Bov'a Manner.
"His manner Is worth a hundred
thousand dollars to him." That Is
what one of tbe chief men of the na
tion said lately about a boy. "It
wouldn't be worth so much to one
who meant to be a farmer, or had no
opportunities, but to a young college
student with ambitions It Is worth at
least a hundred."
The boy was a distant relative ol
the man, and kad been brought up bj
careful parents In a far off city. Among
other things be had been taught to be
friendly and to think of other persons
before himself. The boy was on a
visit In the town where the man lived.
They met on the street, and the young
er recognized the elder, promptly went
to his side and spoke to blm In bis
cordial, happy, yet respectful way. Of
course, the man was pleased, and knew
that anybody would have been pleased.
The sentence above was the outcome
of It, A little later the boy came Into
the room just as tbe man was strug
gling into his overcoat. The boy hur
ried to him, pulled It up by the collar,
and drew down the wrinkled coat un
derneath. He would have done It for
any man, the haughtiest or the poor
est, The boy has not been In society a
great deal. He has not learned ortho
dox selfishness. He positively can't
be easy at the table until his neigh
bors are waited on; a chair is a tor
ture if he thinks anybody else is less
comfortably seated. He wouldn't In
terrupt to let loose the wittiest or most
timely remark ever thought of. He
may learn to do so gome day after
he has earned his hundred thousand,
but It Is doubtful, The expression of
his kindness may become conformed
to popular usage, modified, refined, but
tlie spirit which prompts the expres
sion will only grow with his years.
Do not misunderstand, boys. You
may be truly unselfish and yet not
have this boy's prize, you may wish
to do things for others and yet feel
that you do not know how. The ouly
way to learn Is to try; to hesitate for
no feeling of bashfulness or awkward
ness, but to put Into direct and In
stantaneous practice whatever kind,
helpful thoughts occur to you. Con
gregationalism Make Geography Interesting;.
In teaching your little girl geography
try to ninke It something more than a
dry list of names to be learned by rote.
Take ber imaginary voyages and jour
neys from one country to another. Tell
her something of the manners and cus
toms of the people and anything you
can learn yourself about the lives of the
children. Describe to her how the SwIbs
boys herd their cattle under the shad
ow of the Alps and the Esquimaux
are made daring by being thrown Into
the icy water In their strange fur gar
ments. Tell her of the stunted lives of
the pit boys In the coal mines and of
the (iermnn girls who learn to use their
five knitting needles almost as soon as
they can hold them. Hooks of travel
will furnish you with many Interesting
Incidents which you can turn to ac
count. Geography will not be a weari
some task to her. Her mother's wis
dom enn make the first steps attrac
tive Ladies' Home Journal.
How Teachers Should Talk.
It Is necessary for a teacher to talk a
great deal, and to talk so as to be
heard and understood. But In order to
be heard and understood It is not nec
essary to talk loudly, much less to
snap and scream, as Is the custom with
too many teachers, especially those
who are Impatient, nervous, or irritable,
who are obliged to work In a noisy
room, or with a rebellious class of chil
dren. The secret of talking easily and intel
ligibly In a large or noisy room Is to fill
the lung fully, and to refill them at
every pause; to speak slowly; to speak
wjth careful articulations, and to make
all effort at the waist. This last Is tho
important, matter, and can be accom
plished only by those who can fill the
lower part of the lung's and use the
muscles of the diaphragm.
Notes.
University College has appointed a
lecturer In English language and liter
ature. There are 451 universities and col
legos Iu tbe United States, of which
310 are co-educational.
Harvard lias the largest attendance
of any college In America, and the
University of Paris of any college In
the world.
The Yale faculty state that some
time will elapse before the new Bil
lings professorship of $70,000 In En
glish literature Is filled.
The ladies of Fort Worth, Texas,
have organized a kindergarten asso
ciation with Miss Eliza Whltmore as
president and Mrs. William Capps, sec
retary. Tbe school board of Omaha hag sued
Henry Bolln, late treasurer of the city,
and his bondsmen for $32,533, which
It Is alleged the school department lost
through him.
The State normal school of Ken
tucky for colored persons asked of the
Legislature an additional grant of
$3,000, for the purposeof enlarging Its
agricultural department
The senate of Cambridge University,
by a vote of 18 to 171, has re-elected
the proposition to appoint a commit
tee to consider the question of con
ferring degrees upon women.
Superintendent Skinner of the New
York State Department of Instruction
has prepared and had Introduced In
the legislature of that State a bill re
pealing the law of 180 which com
pelled the public schools to give In
struction on the nature and effects of
alcoholic drinks and narcotics.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING JTEMS.
Mteaad Criticiasae Baaed Dan
tba Baaaaarlage af tba Iay Ble
tarlcal and Newa Netea.
A New York woman lost $40,000
gambling at Monaco. Of course, being
a woman, she could not keep still
about It
We are pleased by the overthrow of
tbe Wall street gold syndicate. J. Pler
pont Morgan uses the word "whilst,"
and no man who does that can be
trusted.
It Is true Great Britain owns a little
less than one-fourth of tbe land surface
of the globe, but it exercises a sort of
suzerainty over the watery portion
thereof, which, as the maps show, is
not only deep but vasty.
Thirteen hundred British authors ask
the American people to keep the peace.
The American people do not Intend
breaking It. The nation that refuses
to arbitrate a question is the nation
that contemplates breaking the peace.
It is reported that a gold reef "of re
markable thickness" has been discov
ered in the Chota Nagpur district in
Bengal, India, and an order issued by
the government for the erection of
stamps for the making of trial crush
ing by which the value of the find will
be estimated.
Russia promises to build a new war
ship every time England builds one.
England orders a new warship or two
every time the navies of any other na
tion are enlarged. Some time, perhaps,
In the. Interests of universal peace, this
process will be reversed, so that each
nation shall transform a warship into
a merchant vessel every time any other
nation does so.
While 102 American vessels were con
structed In 1805 for the ocean oaaujt
trade, sixty-five vesnels were construct
ed for the lake trade. The smaller
number of lake vessels, however, la
offset by the greater average tonnage.
Not a single sea-going vessel was built
of the size and capacity of a dozen large
lake vessels. The commerce of the
lakes aud rivers Is now as valuable as
the coastwise commerce on the Atlan
tic. The law carefully regards the secrecy
of the relations between a physician
and his patients. Not only ta he protect
ed in a refusal to disclose facts thus
obtained, but when be tells them for
any purpose be Is liable to a severe pen
alty. In sucti a case Just decided In
England a complaining patient has
been awarded $60,000 damage against
a physician, and the Court ruled that
It did not make any difference whether
the story was true or false, so far as
the question of the defendant's culpa
bility was concerned.
The newest antiseptic is one discov
ered in Germany, and called potasslum
orthodiuitrocrcsolate. To those who
may be dissatisfied with the require
ment to use so long a name it Is pro
posed that they may employ the alter
native antlnoumln. It Is said that one
part of the substance in 1,500 to 2,000
parts of soapsuds is death to all the
common parasites of plants, and that
It destroys all bacteria, preserves for a
long time yeast that is treated with It,
and Is very cheap, besides having the
desirable property of being odorless.
If you lose your hat in 'tlie street,
don't run after It. The wisest 'filing to
do Is to tu.2.5J.lgw t'he Jjreje$lcnjjt
mas in Ken in a calm and dignified man
uer. The reason Is a veTy simple one
'The average man the moment he sees
fit) neighbor's headgear scurrying along
with bumpa and iboundis is Immediate
ly excited to give chase. He prods at
the hat wiitii his umbrella, jumps at it
with botlli feet, spreads out both amis
to ttairture It, and, In fact, works very
hard. Why deprive the public of a lit
tle amusement by running after 'tihe
thing yourself? Of course, after your
ndghOwr tias captured tihe hat it nuiy
be In a dilapidated condition. But you
I nave preanrved your dignity, a result
worth more than tho price of a new
hat.
Affter much Indecision and frequent
changes of unhid tbe ruler of England
picked upon Alfred Austin as pout
laureate to succeed Tennyson, The or
iginal Intention to give the honor to
IjowIs Morris was altered, and Morris
was aocommodated with Mtle'by way
of consolation. Alfred Austin, the new
Incumbent, Is but little known t read
ers on tills side of the Atlantic, although
In England he baa won mucn adnHlra
tion for the manly perseverance with
Which he has continued to write poems
on the royal family. Some of bis
other themes are lackadaisical, but he
has bean everlastingly 1n.p4red by
('lw nges In the weatfher, mucHi of tils
verse handling thta subject exclusively.
One feels throughout hla writing that
here la an hones man who baa sat out
to (be a poet and who means to bold fact
to the Intention. He mlgtvt bave been
hwppleriln tils selection of a profession,
but nothing could exceed tbe patience
With whch he Ihis applied blnmelf to
Uio task of hi choice. It la hoped that
the English public will cppradaRie Oils'
SLKJceaaor of Tennyson. One can never
read tbe poema of Alfred Austin wtrb
oijt fe'liug confident hat he Is a very
bice gentleman. He may be relied upon
to give oat a good atrtliing's worrh of
poetry every time a ui ember of the
royal family its born or burled. .And
this Is the cthlef end and aim of a poet
laureate.
It wax set up In defense of b Head
owcrofJt brothers, of OhBcago, w4io m
bankens ihad MUilen the money of their
clients, that tbey ougtft oott to be crlm
InaJly prosecuted, though the ttstute
gadd so, because the statute wm uocon
atiMutlonal In Hint it warn dlscrxminat
lng against a iclasa. No apeutai pun.
ishment ought to ibe provided iby a crim
inal statute for tbe tranagreassona of
a banker more tihan for the trHnMgres
sions of a buttciher or a baker. The
Supreme Court tore that pretense to
shreds. A banker stands In tbe rela
tion of a trustee for tbe money of the
people. He receives money from a part
of flue people and loans it to another
pant. He sots hdnnself up as a captltialiet
and makes a reputation as a safe man
wit)h whom to deposit. The State stops
In and lnsiwts that his pretense shall be
made good at Ms peril. If It did not
flhus guard the people as far as it can
the business oif banking imiig'hit fail Into
Che hawks xf scoundrels. There 1s no
element of trade In the depositing of
money. Tlie banker is ft custodian.
The transaction Is on faith. Nor can
it be pleaded itlhat no criminal charges
can be ibrouglht unbil a final winding up
of t(he Insolvency of a bank, wiiecher
or not a dcjKxsitor has loelt through tho
dishonesty of a banker. Tlie court ptrop
erly olwerves that when the 'bank closes
Its doors upon the depositor not'Jhdng la
left Mm but the obligation of Mie bank
er. If .tlie prosecution were delayed
until Dhe .time of final windilng up of
affairs it would 'be barred by Hhe stat
ute of Mmkablon. Bankers, more than
any other inen iu the community, have
apoofflally a trust. If they fadl therein
criminally Itthey oug'ht to be punlsvied
with centailnty and eelemity, for ttiey
have been guilty of a most outrageous
breawth of fai'Uh If they have taken mon
ey with the knowledge that tlie affairs
are so involved that it is doubtful
whefiher or not tliey can go on. A bank
er asks credit and getis it, someitimes
deservedly, sometimes otherwise. If
he flails In 'his trust let h'l'm not (hope foT
mercy. His breach Is greater than any
other. It includes the nobbing of ths
widow and tihe orphan.
The Inside family reasons for the res
ignation of Ballington Booth and his
wife from the regular army, and for
their refusal to obey the orders of Gen.
Booth the senior, have never been di
vulged, but there is little doubt that
tbe cause of their defection was their
Americanism. They have become
American citizens. Under their admin
istration the Salvation ariiiy In this
country has become prosperous and has
done a great and successful work In the
slums. Much of this was due to Bal
lington Booth, but most of It to his
wife. Apparently envious of this suc
cess, and finding his own name under
an eclipse, the general of the army, a
typical John Bull in aggressiveness,
discipline, and personal authority,
sought to reinstate himself In the Unit
ed States and set up a personal sal
vation machine of which he would be.
the boss. He ordered his son and
daughter-in-law to give up their places
and go to England. When they re
fused he sent commissioners 6ver to
remonstrate jvlth them and Induce
flienTto obeyor3ers. They were per-'
slstent, however, in this decision. Then
the old man indirectly pronounced the
anathema Marauatha and called upon
?r-t: Tt- rt: -t r:r- - -r:--? -
me iaus ana lassies oi tue army to pray
for Balbngtojj a.rad Mau afjjjnnerji
"who have fallen beneath analmost
Unparalleled weighf of temptation and
flattery," thus seeking to humiliate
them In the eyes of their followers;1
The prayer policy, however, has not
worked as he expected. Large num
bers of tiiern, instead of praying, have
deserted and gone over to the new
standard of their old commander. Sen
timentally the new army wJ have thjj
sympathy oF Aiuerieans. Religiously
there should be room for both organiza
tions. There Is work enough to ac
complish In the slums, to admit of any
amount of competition. Practically
the issue must depend upon the execu
tive ability of Ballington Booth as com- '
pared with that of his father. In any
event, one organization will be con
ducted upon tbe broad general princi
ples of religious societies and worked
for the general good, while tbe other
will remain at the exponent of the one
man Idea that Idea Including personal
ambition and lore of power as well as
foreign military control, which la not
Just now popular In this country.
Duke Is Disappointed.
The Insurance on the lift of tbe now
Dnchsas of Marlborough for tar bu
band benefit has had to be abandoned,
owing t fke tsWhnatal 4U8cnMea In Iks
way. Mr Dfot Punk-wwiHj, wh weal
to Rwom n Waif of tbe syndicate el
Lontten cbbMb etmoeriwd In the nau
a nee to make an examination of thi .
candliale, mode a satWrfactory report,
and as k was practically a cave of Ir
surlng tbe Dudhpsa' life sgainat thai
of her fattier, no difficulties arose oa
that scone. The dlfflcuRlfa were thoav
of ofntiaktom and red tape.
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