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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1903)
. " ' ' ' 4i- t . i V EAST INDIAN PUQRIC& if J ) ft i ImiUm la taa Boa. At least, that li the happy conclu toc drawn by Lavlnla Hart, writing In Collier's Weskly on "Social Prob lems In the Home." Moat girl about to marry, says the writer, tell neb ut their girt frlnnda. 1b strictest con fl dene, that they bar made up their minds to be "boaa." AU own about to marry await with th consciousness that tliey war bora to boai and their Uvea muat justify their birthright. The attitude of the man la a relic of prehistoric time, when man con sidered himself the choaen eex, and woman was of a different mental and moral construction from the woman of today. The attitude of the girl la more often a matter of self-defense. She make what she considers deep deduc tion from the lives of married folk around her and decides that she must boa or be bossed. She chooses the former. Sometimes she la very successful as a dobs. The man she marries Is a peace-loving Individual who would rather give hi lliHt have sceues. The peck's Is seen much abroad. He has the out-babtt and never goes home until all the other places are closed. Sometimes she ninnies a mau who also has the boss bee lu his bonnet. Tbls Is very hard on the natives with in hearing distance, and not easy for the children. With both parents bosses, one Is apt to get petted or pounded to death. Time does not ad just cases of this kind, which go on until one boss or the other expires from the wear and tear of friction. Then sometimes the girl who would le boss marries a man who never thought about being one of the chosen sex, who cares neither to boss nor be bossed, whose sole motive and every means are to make the girl he marries the happiest woman In the world. (And If such a one's skill In loving be as great as tils good Intention, his wife forgets all about wanting to boss, she obeys his unspoken wish as he fulfills hers, they mutually serve and sacrifice and yield, their house progresses with out a head, but with plenty of heart, without a master, but wholly mas tered, and In co-operation they solve the problem of domestic b-ssUm. So Longfellow solved It In "Hia watha:" As utito the 1kw the cord Is. So unto the man Is woman; Though she bends him she oleys him. Though she draws him, yet she fol lows; Useless each without the other. A Hat In Blsck and White. This smart little lint Is Intended for wear with shirt waist and tailor-made gowns, Mf bund pliihed rice straw, black velvet ribbon Is the lole trim ming. The Turn O'Shantur crown ex tends hi mo t to the lirlm and a bow of the velvet rewts on the hair. Queen Helena a Conk. Queen Hiieiui of Italy U a royal lady who hna a very practical knowledge of oooklng. At her father's curiously homely and unpretentious court Queen nelrna learned many useful things, and among tliem the art of cooking. Tho Prince of .Montenegro Insisted that all hU children should learn a trader a rule which, by the way, ob tains In the German IiiijmtIsi I family and the future Queen of Italy became not merely a good plain cook but also akllled In the preparation of the curi ous sweetmeats and patisserie of which orientals are so fond. The late King Humbert Insisted on tasting his da ugh-terln-law's cookery, and so pleased wss be with the dainty fare she set before him that he conferred on her, with mock i-eremony, the title of "lady high cook to the King of Italy." Our "polled Children, The girls of today have been petted and made much of from their cradles. Bverytblng haa been done 10 make the hard places easy and the rough mads amooth. There I s grading and level ing In the schools nowadays lu order that children may lesrn without their knowing It. A sort of "Ignorance-ex-traeted-wltbout-palii system" It Is. from kindergarten to e ll ge. At home, If not at school, American ch.liln ii .iv regularly and nnlrtusbliitly spo led; and while the effects of such while aal Injury to the cbUdlsh life often wear off with boys a soon as they go oat Into the world' to compete with tMr equals on every side, lu the rase at (Ml the tonic of mingling In the affair of Ufa and work, without flat tery or Avon' of any kind, la usually nn Wttfc tUto the petting and rnlMltit oattMM long after woman bee Ja raaeheA, and ao the daughters 4a Ml fat tba tffacta of the of spoiling ewwran aa promptly and as thoroughly aa do the sous. These spoiled children will have to lore very earnestly a id ten derly If they are to be really suc cessful home-makers. The ability they have; the training needed, they often hare, and car etways get If they aee their need of It, even If the Illu mination cornea after marriage. It la the disciplined nature which will be moat needed: the habit of doing dis tasteful tilings, and dolug them cheer fully and continually; the power to give up cherished plans; to devise ways of helpfulness about things of small Interest in themselves, and the regular practice of forgetfulness of self and remembrance of others In the recurring trifles of dally life. Wo man's Home Companion. Uinta Concerning Yonr Cnnarv. ut slippery elm bark In the drink ing vessels. For colds give a canary one drop of sweet oil at a dose. A bit of fig or apple, and for one of the larger birds a live worm, will prove a tnlc. Taste the bird seed yourself to be sure It Is pure. Never nee hemp seed. Be careful to dry thoroughly the perches after cleaning the cage. Damp perches are the chief cause of rheuma tism. Never hang the bird out of doors. Some one Is sure to forget to bring him In when it grows too hot or too cool Thoroughly wash out all the vessels with hot water every day. The aphac, the parasite that forms In water left standing In a cage, la the deadliest enemy of a bird life. If the bird snowa signs of general debility, as moulting out of season, give him Iron In much greater strength than he can get from a rusty nail In the water, and counteract the one bad effect of Iron with sulphur. Keep the bird out of draughts. It Is best to hang his cage about five feet from the floor. If hung higher than that he will be too warm, for heat rises, and the hottest place In a room Is near the celling. Philadelphia In quirer. Old Maids and Bachelor Oirls. The Old Maid was a woman who couldn't marry. The Bachelor Girl is one who won't. The Old Maid whs a creature of tea and toast and tabby cats, and a fringe on the edge of somebody else's family. The Bachelor Girl Is up on fashions and sport, football and polo, and the backbone of the community in which she lives. The Old Maid was an object of pity. The Independent, Joyous lot of the Bachelor Girl makes her an object of envy. All of which goes to show the change In the attitude uf the public toward the status of woman. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Venezuelan Women. Venezuelan women are Indeed beau tiful. Descended from Spanish and Indian ancestors, they combine In their persons the beauty of th? two races and with their lovely faces and grace ful figures make a typo of feminine loveliness that is unsurpassed. The Venezuelan wmnan's complexion Is clear olive, but her rounded cheeks are painted by nature with the loveliest crimson and her beautiful dark eyes seem to express all the emotions of her heart. When she smiles her cheery lips reveal the most perfect of teeth and she looks so absolutely bewitching that you long to see her smile again. Whj Bhe Left. Mistress Wlwtt! going to leave al ready? Why, you have not been here u week! Maldl know It, mum; but I can't stand It here. Things run too smooth like, mum. Mistress Why, wiiat can you mean? Maid You si"e, mum, I has always been In place where they keep three servants. ' Mistress Oh, you are lonenoine, then? Maid No, mum, not lonesome; but, you see, I uiMses the confusion. Kffert of IllaU flee la. The picture shows the bones of the foot according to nature and as they are deformed by wearing high-heeled shoes.' No Elapsing; Tears. Claude Mlsa Tblrtyodd seems to hold her age well. Maude Hold her age! Why she hasn't 1H go of a single year since che's been twenty-five! Baltimore Herald. , The Halaht of Bhrewdaesa, Mrs. Muggins Mrs. HJono la a pretty shrewd "hopper, lan't aba? Mrs. Bugglns Yea, indeed. Why, I have actually known that woman to get a bargain at a chorch fair. Se attle Time. If They Lire. Mr. Cawker (quoting) Boyi will be boys. Mr. Cawker (oerrectlng) Ne. boyi will ta m. x j DacoratiTe Use to Which They Ara Fat la New York Houaaa. The officers' wives who live In Ha ina have discovered a decorative use for the picturesque palm-grass braided sombreros. Tbey make beautiful waste-paper baskets of them. Thus the artistic headgear of the don Is given lowly but useful place in the household. A large importation of them as waste-paper baskets Is at the present time flattening the pocket books of New York women. ' It ia not only the Hpanlsh-American whose headgear is misused for art's sake, says the New York Post. The turban or pugrl of the East Indian now furnishes many a cozy corner, Turkish room or oriental nook. "We imported these head draperies Just a few at a time, thinking that only a collector or a crank would want them," said the head decorator of a New oTrk concern; "but the women conceived the Idea of making them Into tidies, receptacles, covers and divers things, and the result is we can't get enough of them. Wc have a big consignment at present and an Kirst Indian to explain what they arc There's the putteedar pugrl, a turban In general use by the Hindus and Mo hummedans; the Joorl-dar pugrl. noted for Its complicated knot on the crown; lite khrldee-dar pugrl, or full-dress affair, worn by native coin-tiers, with Its magnificent baud of brocade The Hyderabad mustallk, a muslin affair, and the chnkveodar from Mysore make boudoir covers and cologne-bottle hold ers, while the mundeel with gold stripes and the sbumlar or shawl tur ban find their way to the top of the Ida no or the back of the divan. "Our demonstrator does not approve of the way the pugrl is used and preaches the wearing of It upon the head lu graceful folds. lie snys that everything depends upon the folding and wearing of the turban or pugrl. One can display good or bad taste. In its unfolded condition the pug-rl Is a ."trip of material varying in breadth from nine to twelve Inches nnd in length from fifteen to twenty-five yards. In the process of making up attention should be paid to the shape of the hmid. If the person need height, then the folds should be piled up high; If width, the rounding plaits should he employed. Iyoops and ends are fantastic and In highly tinted materials add piquancy to n youthful face. "In the every day pugrl of Hindus tan one Umg end Is wound around the head until It fits like a wreath, then the other end is brought toward the front and folded back, leaving the leces to hang down like a scarf." Envelopes were first used in 18.19. Air guns were first made In Ger many in J050 by Guhr. 3. Watson Taylor, of Cambridge, owns a watch that has been in his family for two hundred years. The natives of India never nllow a fakir of whom there ore three mil lion who live by begging to starve. Malta is the most thickly populated Island lu the world. It haH 1.1 ri) people to the square mile. Bnrbadoes has lli.'il people to the square mile. The flint lallway in Ktigiaiiil was begun In 1K2.1; In Austria and France In ISiS; the I'nlted States, W2H; Bel gium and Germany, IS.'!."; Russia, 1S.1S and Italy in ISIIi, There was on Indoor suuwstorm on a very clear, cold evening recently at a party given In Stockholm. Sweden. Many people were gathered In single room, which became so warm as to be Insufferable. The window sashes were found frozen anil a pane of glass was smashed out. A cold-air current nmhed In, and at the name Instant flakes of snow were seen to full to the floor In all parts of the room. The at mosphere was so saturated with mois ture that the sudden fall In tempera ture produced a snowfall Indoors. The stories of dead t'mli thrown out by volcanoes have been revived bv (he recent West India catastrophes. In particular, great quantities of them are reported to have been cast Into the sea from the Island of Kt. Vincent. It Is pointed out by a French expert, M. Girardln, that ihese fish are simply the denizens of the lakes formed in the craters during their long periods of In activity. A crater first becomes clog ged, then fills with water, and the water Is In time peopled with fish that find access to It through subterranean channels. When volcanic activity Is resumed, the first thing that occurs Is nn explosion that blows the lake water, fish and nil Into the nlr, nnd ilsirlhutes It over the neighboring 'and nnd water surface. Her Definition. Little Kdlth went to the kindergar ten. One day the teacher gave her a list of words, telling the little in Iks to find out their moaning and then write a sentence containing each word. The first word on the list was "ulche," and little Miss Bright Kyes dlsc-tvers that It means a recess, so she very careful ly nnd precisely wrote on her slate; "The children ste their lunch nt llche." And the teacher wondered nt tho Jexlhllity of the English Iniigunge. Ituay German Telephones. In Germany last year the telephone was used ?57,ftOO,000 time, making an average of nearly eight calls a day by each subscriber. English Paper In Rjuala. Printed In RngUah and Urtant to commerce, a now dally now an per It about to ba laausd la St. Petersburg. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Luxury and Degeneration. STUDENTS of sociology have dwelt on the Anglo Saxon habit, of luxury. as if It were aa Anglo-Saxon habit and not an implant from the Latin. They do not call it luxury, they name it comfort, and between me one and the other no line can be drawn, for what was extravagance In the last century Is the common property of all classes In this. In bousing, food, drink, clothing, transportation, ornament, domestic properties, the acces sories of travel and hotel life, the every day citizen expects aud obtains more than did the nobleman and merchant three centuries ago. The effect of comfort, or luxury. Is to draw men to the cities where It is most easily bought; to add to the congestion already existing there; by fliat con gestion to Induce Insanitary modes of life; through luxury to induce, also, a softness, a weakness, that make us the readier prey of disease, euuul, melancholy and eventual de generation physical, mental, moral. Such, at least, is the theory, but an instinct, not merely of self-preservation, but of race preservation, begets In us n longing to return to the soil, to live In the county, or on the shore, for some weeks or months In the year, to travel, to go abroad In ships, aud yachts, to climb, hunt, fish, play golf, to take walking, horseback, bicycling or automobile tours, to fill the eye with light and pleasing Images and the lungs with unbreathed air, to regain the sense of beauty, to live more simply, and so to bring back the vital ity thnt Is sapped by artificial living In the cities. Hard conditions make hardy men, if they are not too hard, aud In the brief lapses from those conditions the natural rest and upsprlng there is greater happiness than In acquiring new luxuries, or the forgetting of one pleasure In a newer. The barefoot boy, fishing wittl a pin and whistling In his freedom, is not only healthier, stronger, and of a sturdier moral fiber, but Is really happier than the pale, over-dressed city boy who has a hundred wants unknown to the rustic. Still, the country people are anx ious for their share lu the distribution of luxuries, and rightly so, for In their environment they are less injurious ly affected by thein, If affected at all. Brooklyn Eagle. Protection Against Fire. TUE town of Kalem, N. C, offers a useful object les ion iu tho system of protection from tbc dangers of fire. The town Is 137 years old, and in all that time not only has had no conflagration but no disastrous fire. It has never In all its history had a fire where the loss was over S7r0. There was only one dwelling burned In loo years, dating from 1771!, and there never was but one fire which got beyond the building In which it orig inated. Ou that occasion two buildings were burned, each worth ?2r0. During the first 127 years of the town's history the total loss of property by fire was less than $2,000. And Salem Is a town of between 4,000 and ,",000 people. The explanation of this remarkable Immunity from fire Is Salem's fire ordinance, which provides for Inspection of all buildings In order to remove dangerous heating appli ances. The Inspectors hunt out till defective flues, unsafe stoves and furnaces, insecure stovepipes and chimneys, and unsafe receptacles for ashes. They also give special atten tion to the construction of buildings. No property owner is allowed to put up un insecure building. What Is even more to the purpose, the people themselves co-operate cheerfully with the Inspectors, and from long experience have become themselves well acquainted with all the methods of protec tion against fire. Thus they have minimized the danger with the results already stated. It Is the old story, "aa ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Fires cannot be absolutely stopped, but they can be largely prevented by thorough Inspection. The cauSos of danger being removed or provided against, there is little chance of fire - Chicago Tribune. Grain Trade on the Lakes. THE development of the grain trade In the Northwest will be wonderfully advanced when the plans of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Transportation Com pany are fully realized. This concern, which has Its headquarters lu Iuluth, has launched of ten steamers designed to carry grain other lake ports down through the Canadian canals nnd the SI. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec, where cargoes will be transferred to larger vessels for transportation across the Atlantic. This Is the nearest we are likely to get In I HIS LAST PRATCICAL JOKE. C. M. I larger tells in a Western pa per the story of the way in which u lawyer came to abandon practical Jok ing. The senior lawyer of the bar lu a certain county was a courteous gen tleman of the old school, of whom ills Juniors were fond. This old lawyer was very near-sighted, but had a hab it, when addressing a Jury, of taking oil' his glasses. (ne day when he was thus speak ing, and his spectacles were lying on the table. Ills back was turned to the otln r members of the bar. The lawyer to whom allusion has beeu made no ticed on the table a piece of tissue paper, and saw in this a chance to play u Joke on the older man. With a penknife he cut out pieces of the tlssui' paper Just large enough to i-over the lenses of the spectacles, and with a little mucilage fastened them to the glasses. The paper was scarcely uotlceublc, but it was enough to prevent vision through the glasses. Presently the old lawyer had occa sion to read some paper In the course of his address. He came back to the taiilc, put ou the glasses, and attempt ed to read. He strained his eyes, re iidJnsiiHl Hie glasses, and tried again. Then a deadly pallor overspread his I f.iee, which wns not In the least amus ing to see. He staggered to a chair. The young lawyers gathered around him.' "My God, gentlemen," he said, "I ii m blind! I have feared It for years!" Then he dropped tils face In his hands. The court room wag hushed. Be fore nny one could speak, however, he had lifted his bead and perceived tbnt lie could see again. He examined his glasses, nnd ns he rubbed the tls-KUc-pniMT, lie flushed with Indignation. Not a person In the room found In 'tie iiuiiluut anything to smile it, not even the one wbo had perpetrated the uieui seems m a the first of a Meet from that citv and AN OREGON In the typical Oregon rabbit drive herewith pictured nearly a thousand persons took part and more thai, .'i.r.oo rabbits were slain. The modus oper and! was that adopted In nil battues of the sort, consisting In driving the animals from the outskirts of a V t-hupod line three miles long Into a corral Inclosed by netting, which wns a literal deathtrap. As the converging army of rabbits entered tho corral they made frantic efforts to escape, and many did succeed In leaping the eight foot fence, but the most of them perutfaed. victims to the cruel but necessary measures taken by the farmers to pre-" serve their crops. "Joke,"-and this man ou the spot for swore practical Joking forever. VouUfs Companion. Not n Hit Surprised. "Sny, Ixiys," he broke In, "poor Jim my Turner's dend." .11 ni my Turner was a Jockey nnd trainer well known on Western tracks, and each member of the party heaved a preliminary sigh of regret ut his tak ing off. Hut. not one of them was sw ptised. Not at all. Quito to the con trary. Every one of them had fore seen and predicted It time after time. "Well, I'm not a bit surprised," said the first man. "The last time 1 snw Jimmy he looked mighty bad to mn Kind of peaked about the eyes" ' "Tea," said the cecond man, break ing In, "and he's had (hat beetle flush on his cheeks for I he Inat two months." "I waa telling my wife yesterday," this generation to direct steamship connection between the inland seas of the North and the ocean. If vessels were built big enough to make them profitable ss freighters be tween Duiuth and Liverpool, they could not get through the Canadian canals, and there is no prospect of the Do-j minion government enlarging those waterways. They naye' already cost a lot of money for improvements, and being now adequate for all ordinary purposes, they will be main tained in their present condition for some time to come. They can be used to advantage, however, by ships of mod est tonnage, which are still large enough to encounter suc cessfully the perils of navigation in the lakes. Such are the steamers planned for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrencs Company. They will carry grain for a longer distance with- ' out breaking bulk than any other vessels ever built for Northwestern trade, and will facilitate export by reducing charges. Brooklyn Eagle. Vanity Fair. THE "smart Ret" Is early at Its refined diversions, which annually grow more novel In conceit and ex quisite In humor. The genius whose original and hap py doings are the particular delight of society, recol lecting the glory he won last year by dining a monkey among other guests at his table, the other day, on the deck of the Newport-Wlckford ferryboat, brought Joy to one and all by barking like a dog and Jumping about on all fours while he picked up the ladies' handkerchiefs with his teeth. The diverting idea of the host who recently dined a party on horseback in Sherry's ballroom, from little tables fastened on the pommels of tbirty-two saddles, won too splendid a triumph to go long unrivaled. M. Santos-; Uumont has given bis friends the exhilarating experience of; a dinner In midair from stilted tables and chairs, with miniature airships circling round their heads; while, for another candidate for social glory, Sherry's ballroom was' transformed from a stable Into a barnyard, where live chickens, geese and pigs furnished a delightful sense of reality, and in the middle of which a colossal egg inclosed a table, at which an elaborate luncheon was served by wait ers clad as farm hands The Ingenuity displayed in these enterprises, the in ventive power, the taste and thought exercised In bringing details to perfection, the lavish disregard to the cost of outre settings, and the spirit of vaunting idleness ami in souciance how refreshing a contrast all this affords to the plain and unimaginative labors of those whose lesser talents are absorbed in earning daily bread, carrying on the world's work, teaching its children, healing its sick, striving tai solve the problems cf science, alleviating human misery; ministering to elementary human needs and spreading mod est tables of hospitality for simple-hearted friends! Phila delphia Public Ledger, On wasting Time. TIME flics. This is a trite saying. We do not alway realize Its truth. A young man starts out iu life with high hopes and strong ambition. The years ahead of him look long years to him. The day of his achieve-' iar oisiant ruture. Hut tne years pass. I I,,.,, ou. ..j:uui6 uut- uiuit; swimy mau us preaeeessor.' Soon he finds the time becoming short in which he may ao' compllsh his plans. In work or pleasure changes come, and; the time has fldwn so fast that account of it cannot bn taken. When one comes to middle life a year is scarce bi gun before It is gone. It Is now that one begins to ba impressed with the truth, time flies. The old world, tho sun and moon and stars go on evenly in their courses; their pace Is not changed. Yet how different to the ona,' who, instead of seeing a summit to attain, looks down rather than up, and sees in the near distance the brink of a dark river to which be Is rapidly nearlng. Youth cannot too highly value the years, the months, the days-even the hours as they pass. Each day is a step towasd age. Do not waste time. Do not fritter yours dayg away In folly that Is worse thun purposeless. One cannot lie working or engaged upon serious matters all the time. Recreations aud amusements have their place. Vitb many people there are hours each day Just frittered away; going for neither work, study nor amusement. It Is an Idle noon ing between doing things; a drawling out the processes of work. Instead of doing things hfcirtlly, whether It ba study, work or play, they Idle along. The old adage of school day fame Is good long after school days are past. St. Paul Pioneer Press. RABBIT DRIVE. went on the third member of the wlf men's association, "that poor Jimmy wasn't long for thlg world. Urw long wns he sick?" "About a minute," said the newcon er. "He wns run over and killed by pnssengiT train." Chicago Tribune-. ' All Falae. Cprrespondent You saw whnt tb papurs said about yon tbls morning, 1 presume? Ketlied Millionaire (pldmt of a great corporation) No; I don't know whut they said about me, but you may nny for me, Blr, that there wasn't a word of truth In It. Chicago Ti-Jhtinai We wonder if In the next worH women stand next to aaen other Ib tha heavenly choir for a thonsand years, but don't speak beennaa they hav nor been Introduced. f -4 4' k i - - r v.. 1 J- 'J vs 1 .'...
