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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1900)
C'mirtlng; In Mexico. It is not until a Mexican girl has attracted the attention of a suitor that 6he realizes that she is a person of some importance. The young man is not bound by the conventionalities that surround his brother in the states. Without the formality of an introduction lie dispatches letters glowing with words of admiration and devotion and nervously awaits a re ply. In the meantime he visits the locality of her home, hoping to catch eight of the object of his admiration at the balcony or as she emerges from the house to attend church. He pa tiently hut persistently promenades backward and forward in the street, for custom forbids his entrance to the house, and is happy if favored with a glance from her lustrous eyes. No ridicule is strong enough to dampen his ardor and no objections of irate parents sufficiently powerful to sub due his passion. Mexican lovers rarely meet, for even If the young man is related to the family of the young lady and has bean a caller at the home the mere fact of his paying attention to her puts a se vere restraint on his intercourse with the family. After a time, if things have progressed favorably, he is ad mitted as an accepted suitor and is re ceived by the girl, always accompanied by her mother, who usually does all the converastion. But love finds many forms of expression, and stolen glances, never suspected, speak voU unies for the lovers. As the suit pro gresses many an evening passes with the girl at the window or balcony and her lover in the street below, wholly oblivious at the passerby or his naive or caustic remark. The duration of the courtship depends upon the for mality employed, the means at com mand of the parties and their age. Consent for marriage is demanded from the parents of the girl by the suitor’s father, who is accompanied by a priest, that the pledge may be made the more binding. KotaI Women on Admiring Ugly Men, One of the fads of the bright and beautiful queen of Portugal is a "con fession book," ip which she persuades her friends to record their answers to certain questions which she propounds therein. 0,.ie of the questions is, "Do women admire ugly men?” To this the empress of Russia answers: "Yes, I believe that some women admire ugly men—when handsome ones are out of their reach.” Queen Margherita of Italy says: ‘‘From 15 to 30 a woman loves a handsome man; from 30 to 50 she admires a handsome man, and after 50 she worships a man in any shape or form.” Princess Henry of Battenberg wrote: "Many ugly men are lovable, undoubtedly, but, then, so are many handsome men. However, handsome is as handsome does,’ and a good-looking man with only his good looks to fall back on would have a poor chance of winning any right minded girl’s affections.” In answer to another question in the book, "What quality does a woman most admire in a man?” the queen of Portugal wrote: “Purity in a man is surely as grand and ennobling as pur ity in a woman. The most contempti ble of all things is a man with a ’rick ety reputation’ sneering at the woman who is not exactly ‘comme il taut.’ ”— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A SCIIOOI. DRESS. Of navy blue cloth, checked with golden yellow. The wide collar, belt and neckband are of plain blue, trim med with gold braid; finished with gilt buttons. Creine An Citron. Blanch and chop two dozen almonds; put them in a jug with a pint of cream; in a second jug put three wineglassfuls of sherry, the rind and juice of a lemon and pounded sugar to taste. Pour rapidly from one jug to the other till the mixture is well frothed, then pour into jelly glasses, leaving out the lemon rind. Fortune is ofttlmes kindest to those on whom she frowns. I.*>\(; COAT OF TAM KROAUCLOT1I. TRIMMED WITH STITCHING AND SABLE FUR. HAT OF TAN FELT, WITH CQU>RED SCARF AND BLACK POMPONS. E ^olfnr® and Flower*. Can people dip at all deeply Into the real science of botany, and yet en joy flowers because of their beaaty, because of the delight of finding tuem in lovely spots on lovely summer days, and because of their dear associa tions? Must the scientific sense blunt the aesthetic one? Often without doubt, and even though the botanists may themselves demur, this will be the cast. Pistils and stamens, necta ries and receptacles—these things will not always go well with artless talk about sweet blooms and bright berries, or even with the simple, very English names given by the unlearned to flow ers. But on the other hand, there are many lovers of nature and field natu ralists whose affection for the flowere and plants is so great and fixed that from time to time they may safely visit this new wondrous world, to present ly emerge from it as much in love as ever with the old; they will still care for the flower because of its beauty, because it grows in the best places at the best time of year, because it vivid ly recalls to them the glad, sorrowful days of childhood or the tender pass age of true love. Flowers indeed, apart altogether from the science of botany, are inextricably woven about human life. When will the artist be tired of painting the children in the meadows with their laps full of cowslip or celandine? Let the botanist classify and name for his own purposes in his own way, but let him be careful not to do any thing to bring into contempt the love of flowers apart altogether from science, lost we rightly call him dry as-dtist and blincl to beauty. Finally let him help to keep up the old names as well as the new. We must always have our sweet william, kingseup, sweet cicely, loosestrife, heartsease codlins and cream, and feverfew, names writh stories and meanings whose loss would be a loss to the language; their very mention turns our thoughts to the garden and the pasture lands of summer gone but coming again.—London Saturday Re view. SKATES DETACHED UV THE TOE. A genius of Red Bank, N. J., has patented a very handy and simple ar rangement for adjusting the skates on the feet and removing them automati cally. As will be seen by a glance at the accompanying picture, the foot plate is pivoted to the toe of the skate, with a locking spring catch at the heel. The skate is also provided with the usual clamps, which are in this case operated by the movement of the foot plate in conjunction with the runner, the operating lever being at tached to the runner in proximity to the pivot pin of the foot plate, in order that the action of tilting the plate in either direction will open or close the clamps. To place the skates on the feet when the clamps are once properly adjusted the foot plate is fitted to the shoe and the skater then rests his weight on the runner, which causes the spring catch to engage the plate and lock it securely. To de tach the skate the toe of the shoe is AUTOMATIC DETACHING DEVICE, pressed against the catch and the foot is lifted, which tilts the foot plate and loosense the clamps. The Tennessee Klver's Great Change. Several years ago, members of tha Geological survey suggested that in former times the Tennessee river, in stead of joining the Ohio, as at pres ent, flowed into the Gulf of Mexico through the channels of the Coosa and Alabama rivers. This conclusion has recently been corroborated in a singu lar manner by Mr. Charles T. Simpson of the Smithsonian institute. The orig inal suggestion was based on the ap pearances of the land, but Mr. Simp son's confirmation depends upon the distribution of a particular form of fresh-water mussel which, although it is peculiar to the Tennessee river, is also found in the Coosa and the Ala bama. As these creatures cannot traverse the land, the inference is that formerly the waters of the Tennessee flowed southward into tha streams above named. The Flight of a (treat Nebula. One of the most striking spectacles revealsd by telescopes is that of the Great Nebula in Orion. In the com plexity of its glowing streams, spirals and strangely shaped masses, inter cepted by yawning black gaps and sprinkled over with stars arranged in suggestive groups and lines, it has few rivals in the heavens. The im pression of astonishment made by the sight of this nebula is heightened by knowledge of its enormous size. The entire solar system would appear as a tiny speck beside it. Yet this tre mendous aggregation of nebulous clouds and starry swarms has been proved by the researches of the late Professor Keeler of the Lick observa tory to be flying away from the earth and the sun at the rate of 11 miles in every second! But so vast is its dis tance that 100 years reveal no visual effects of the great nebula’s swift re treat. If it were near by it would seem to become rapidly smaller. R*g»t««rlnje Million* of » Second. In a recent lecture at the Royal in stitute, London, Sir Andrew Noble mentioned that in experiments with high power explosives used in guns a chronoscope had been employed which registered the velocity of the projectile at 16 successive points be fore it left the bore. It was pos sible with this apparatus to register time to the millionth of a second. In the older experiments, where the ve locity did not exceed 1,500 or 1,600 feet per second, the projectile recorded its time by knocking down a series of steel triggers projecting into the bore. But with velocities of 2,500 feet and more per second, the trigger, in stead of dropping, frequently plowed a groove in the projectile, and another device was necessary. IMPRmKD COAT HANOI-:R The numerous coat-hangers already on the market would lead one to think that no room for improvement was left, but the contrary is true, as we show in our illustration. The great majority of hangers are made of wire forms, which fit the garments only in outline, tending to stretch the coat and crease it along the line of the wire. This fault is remedied in the hanger here shown, which has recent ly been patented, it is formed of me tallic sheets, preferably of aluminum, although any light sheet metal will answer the purpose, it is intended to manufacture the hangers in a sufficient SHAPED HANGER FOR CLOTHING, number of 6izes and shapes to con form to nearly every pair of shoulders. When the coat is placed on the hanger it will fit smoothly from the collar down to the lower edge of the form, thus aiding greatly in maintaining the shape of the shoulders, which general ly show a need of pressing to remove the traces of the old-style hanger. In addition to supporting the coat and vest, hooks are provided by which the trousers may be attached. New Form of Phonograph. Among the exhibits at the Paris ex position was a phonograph, invented by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish en gineer, which uses a wire-wound in stead of a wax-covered cylinder. The wire is of steel and over it, in place of the usual stylus, passes a small elec tromagnet connected with a telephone transmitter and battery. The sound waves cause a variation in the inten sity of the electromagnet, and the mag net. acting upon the wirt passing be neath it, leaves a permanent impres sion upon the latter. Upon reversing the action, the wire reac ts on the mag net and corresponding sounds are transmitted by the telephone. In or der to obliterate the magnetic trace on the cylinder, it is only necessary to revolve it under the magnet while this is subjected to a continuous cur rent. Antiquity of Anntomiral Study. 91r Norman Lockyer points out that the statues and plaques carved in stone and wood to be seen in the Gizeh mu seum prove that th" prlest-mummiflers of Memphis, 6,000 years ago, had a profound knowledge of anatomy. Science, he therefore thinks, is as old as art, and they have advanced to gether. Another remarkable fact is that the excavations in Italy have brought to light scores of finely fin ished surgical instruments for certain operations, which are, in almost every particular of form, precisely like those reinvented in modern times and used by the most advanced surgeons gf to day. Ma*toclnnn In I>eatli Valley. The bones of three mastodons have been discovered In Death Valley, Cali fornia, and their discoverer, a miner, has taken out a claim for the purpose of excavating them. Another Indica tion of the popular appreciation of the money value of the remains of pre historic animals is the fact that a mining claim has been filed In South ern California to cover the excavation of a fossil whale of the Pliocene epoch. Why lie Follows. "If Todd whistles any dog will fol low him.” “And if Waller sings any dog will follow him.” “How far?” “Oh, until it gets a good grip on him.”—Philadelphia Record. r /• I A FUU Story. From the Washington Star: "The yiggest 1 ever taught," began the 1 story-teller, a scholarly looking party, vho evidently knew more about ichoolbooks than liybooks "Got away,” interrupted a thin-faced tittle man with a nose like a shingle. "I'm uo liar,” the story-teller flared up. "This is a true story, and I'm pre pared to swear to it. It was in tho year '89, when we hud the hottest sum mer—” "I didn't know the summer of '89 was so very hot," said a man in a weatherbeaten straw hat. "If all you didn't know,” said the story-teller, "was piled on top of you you'd be flatter than a flounder and deader than a mackerel. As I was saying, in the summer of '89 a party of us went to upper Canada on a fish ing expedition. It wasu’t hot up there a little bit. On the contrary, it was so cold that the ice froze the first night we got there." “Gosh:” exclaimed the little man with a shingle nose. “As I was saying.” said the story teller, showing genuine gamoness, “it froze the first night we got to our fishing ground, but we went out the next morning just the same, and I hadn't been fishing more than fifteen minutes when I got a bite that i thought was going to pull the boat under. Let go of my rod and it went scooting through the water, but I soon got it again, and the fight over the water and under it began in earnest. I hadn't been fishing for a long time and was nervous as the dickens, but I had some sense left, and I didn’t intend to let that fish get away if 1 could help it. I was so excited that I never did know how long I tussled with it, but in time I landed him in the boat, and he was the biggest one I ever caught in my life. I was so ex-” "How much did he weigh?” eagerly inquired the man in the straw hat as he drew up close to the story-teller. "Exactly half a pound.” said the story-teller, as serious as a sermon. "You think you arc dern smart, don’t you?” sniffed the little man with the shingle nose, as he got up and walked outside where ho could get more breathing room. He Struck Them. O. Ormandizer struggling to carve the first turkey his wife has ever cooked)—Say, Mary, the hones in this bird are thicker than a shad's—just hear the knife grit. Mrs. G. Ormanidzer (almost crying with anxiety)—You must be against the shells, John. '■Shells?'’ "Yes, John; don't you remember that you asked me to stuff the turkey with oysters?''—Brooklyn Life. Kind of lliiu Her mother (sternly)—Mary com plains that you won't help her at all; that you never even hold the baby. Her husband—That's not so. Why, I held him last night for a while. Her mother—Oh! you did! How long, pray? Her husband — Well — er — long enough for Mary to bring up a scuttle of coal.—Philadelphia Press (JuIIp Cornfortalvle. Dwelley—I say, Dombey, why don’t you join our club? You'll find all the comforts of homo there. Dombey—Homo’s good enough for me—at my house I enjoy all the com forts of a club.—Boston Transcript. With Alteration.. They hunted low, they hunted high To find his peculations; Some say that figures do not lie— They do with alterations. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. rAK.YOOXIC.1U “You have had nearly a week to think of Jack’s proposal.’’ “Yes, and the more I think of It the less I think of It." Horrors! She (after reading of the shipwreck) —Oh, my! They say it was the most awful disaster of recent years. Only one man survived to tell the story. Isn’t that terrible? Frightful! What a horrible bore that man will be.—Philadelphia Press. Relaxation. Business men are said to find much relaxation in putting a golf ball In the the hole after working hard all day putting each other in the hole.—De troit Journal I Story of n Now Coplietua. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The heir of the gilded household had just proposed to the pretty kitchen maid. She regarded him with a steady glance as she polished off her rounded arms with a coarse towel. “I must have every Thursday out,” she said. "Yes,” he murmured. "And every Sunday afternoon.” "Yes.” "And every night as soon as the dinner things are done up.” "Ye-es.” "How many in the family?” “Only you and I.” “Any children?” “N-n-no.“ "Much company?” “Very little.” “Any furnace to tend?” “No.” “Hired man to do all the outside work?” “Yes.” “What make? of piano do you use?” “The Bangaway.” “Bet me think. Ah. yes, I shall in sist upon having the breakfast room to receive my beaux in.” "Well, by thunder, you don't got it!” cried the gilded heir as he turned and stalked away. So the maid haughtily rolled up her sleeves and went back to her work. ISeguliir Tiling. Orogan—I suppose you know it is the proper caper now not to serve but ter at dinner. Hogan—That’s always been the rule at our boarding house. They serve oleo instead, you know.—Boston Transcript. AMONGST THE ICK. ' \\\\»" “Was there anything cool about th« place where you were this summer?” "Yes; they had in the parlor a pic ture of Washington Crossing the Dela ware.’ ” Let Her Wait. Jeames—Did you ring, mem? Madam—Yes. If .Mrs. De Smytht calls ask her to wait. Jeamts—I thought you wasn’t com ing back till late, mem. Madam—Of course I’m not. Bui Mrs. De Smythe can wait till she geti tired. It'll do her good. She wasn’l at home to me last week and I’ll gel even that way.—Pick Me Up. Hold on to It* In Brooklyn. "Do you want a trans fer?" asked the conductor. "What for?" asked the man with th* alligator bag. ' So that you can take another car." "No, sir; I have waited twenty min utes for this one and I propose to hang on to it.”—Washington Star. Level Hedded. “The lady missionary declines to g« to Kentucky.” “Why?” “She says she’d feel just as safe i| China and get more bric-a-brac.”—In dianapolis Journal. No Good tit All. “Well, Daisy, shall we pay the houss rent or give a dinner?” "Why, give the dinner, of course! What good will paid-up house rent do us if we lose our social position?"— Life. Thoroughbred. “Mamma, I’ve found out my dog’i pedigree." “What is it, dear?” “Uncle Jim's hired man says he’s a fullblooded mongrel!”—Harper’s Ba zar. Mich I Do Thera. “Maude thinks of applying for a position as soprano in a church choir." “Well, there’s a church for the deaf up on Seventh street.’’—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Climatic Extremes. These autumn days are days of woe Of which man must be* wary; It’s August for an hour or so And then it’s January. —Washington Star. Not. Alone. Miss Withers—I believe Arthur la afraid to propose to me. Belle—Of course he is, and there are thousands of others Just like him.— Smart Set. Might Try It. Young lady patient—Doctor, what do you do when you burn your mouth with hot cofree? Doctor—Swear! —Pick Me Up.
