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MISTAKES OK YOUNG WIVES. One thing a bride seldom remembers; her husband's duty to his friends, es pecially his man friends, and also that he owes a portion of his time and af fection to his parents and family. Re calling the uninter:-opted devotion of his evenings to her during his court ship, it seems hard to have him run away to give his mother an hour, and the proud desire to show Ills home and wife to his bachelor friends breaks into those long tete-a-tete hours in which the world was lost to both lover and sweetheart. Nothing could be more selfish than to rob your husband of the faithful friendship of his young companions, and show regret when they appear. Let a generous sense of the value of true friends fill your heart, and not only make them welcome, but delight your husband by being as attractive and lovely in their eyes as possible, says the Ledger Monthly. And to your husband’s family exer cise the uttermost limit of generosity. Urge him not to neglect or disappoint the old mother who so sadly misses his morning and evening kiss, and who has lost from her home and life all that you find dear in him. Whatever may be the merits of any disagreement, let unselfishness keep you from criticising your husband's relatives, and welcome them with open cordiality, and feel that every little at tention shown to them is indirectly shown to your best beloved. They are his family; make them yours also. The Bride Needs Patience, With a devoted lover at your side, who for the time seems to have truly forgotten father and mother, brother nnd sister and to "cleave only unto you,” it does not seem as if patience would tie required as a necessity which cannot be left out. At home, where you had to be obedient and where the brothers and sisters were a continued demand on your unselfishness. It COSTUME FOR CALLING The new princess effect, with thp odd belt that is very deeply pointed in front, ending high above the waistline at the back; camel's hair vicuna in cendre green, combined with a blousedpanne velvet bodice a shade darker , revers and cuffs of white c'iftth. embroidered in Russian design; pale blue crepe de chine tucked stock and yoke, two lines of gold at the top. bow’ and ends of the blue, ending in gold ferrets; skirt caught In fine tucks to accent shaping of the gown; straps of the cloth at the hem, with inlay be tween of the velvet. Silver fox furs. Velvet hat, in color like the blouse, with green gold buckle and glossy green leaves. << seemed indeed indispensable to hold fast to the hand of gentle patience, but now, a bride, who is to "have every thing her own way,” surely she will not be wanted here? Dear girls, believe me that you can not carry with you anything more cer tainly useful and necessary than this sober but blessed virtue, says Mrs. Clement Farley in the Ledger Month ly. Your little share of earth’s joy is made up from the same imperfect materials that you have seen in every other home. Human frailty, human error, human imperfect Judgment, all are parts of your home building; you cannot lay your foundation in peace without patience to help you. JACKET AND RUSSIAN SKIRT. Striped mines gray homespun, com bined with black velvet and marten fur; the jacket blouses at the sides and back; the belt fastens under the long tabs in front; the skirt has two box pleats In the back like the front, also on the underskirt in front; belt curves considerably on upper edge at the back; skirt very full at the hem. Gray felt hat, with shaded pink flam ingo feathers, and black velvet folded about crown. One of the tasks of Chinese children beginnning their education is that of learning the A UCat three years old. CVCI.ES of evolution. The National Academy of Sciences, which has been in session at Brow’n university for two days, has adjourned. The most interesting subject of the day from a popular point of view was Prof. Alphetis Hyatt’s discussion of cycles of evolution, says a Providence dispatch to the New York Post. He showed that after certain forms have been elaborately developed there is a return to simpler forms. His first pa per was entitled "Progressive Evolu tion of Characters in the Young Stages of Cephalopoda.” He showed that in an examination of fossil remains of cephalopods we do not find a steady progress through the successive geo logical era, but in each era from the Potsdam deposits down to the present there appears a series of forms which show the general trend of development. It is true that the simple first form in each period is much more complex than the corresponding form in the period just passed, and also that the final forms are in each case more highly specialized, but these last forms are not in direct relation with the series just before or just following. After a time, however, that is, in the trias sic era( just succeeding the carboni ferous, the final form in the series be gins to show signs of degeneration. This is continued until we find forms suggesting very strongly forms be longing to the earliest era, and the first stages of development. As the characteristics of the lower forms, retained through heredity, have accumulated, they have at length be come so numerous as to crowd one an other, and we find the most essential ones disappearing, until at length the form stands stripped of what it had taken millions of years to produce. This period is called a cycle, and it may seem remarkable to find that in the development of an individual of the more complex forms we find repre sented all the stages in the cycle of the race. At this point Prof. Hyatt presented his second paper, “Descriptive Method of Presenting the Phenomena of the Cycle of Evolution Among Cephalo poda." With the faith of science in the certainty of nature’s laws, he de veloped a mathematical theory of rela tion between individuals of different stages of development and in the dif ferent eras. Of course, gaps occur in the series of forms as arranged ac cording to the theory, but these are found to be consistent relatioift, be tween the stages represented upon either side of the gap. According to Prof. Hyatt, then, we may anticipate the time when biology shall be called an exact science, through the applica tion of mathematical formula. HOLDS MILK STOOL FIRM LV. It is a somewhat difficult task to hold a mint pail between the knees while filling it with the lacteal fluid, and it is not always a wise plan to set the pail on the floor beneath the animal’s udder, both for sanitary rea sons and because of the danger of an accidental upset. An Iowa inventor has recently patented the combined A COMBINATION PAIL-HOLDEK. stool and pail holder illustrated below, with the Idea of providing a secure place for the pall and yet permitting it to be instantly removed when desired. The front edge of the stool is cut out in a semicircle, and at one side are secured metallic straps which fasten with a latch and form with the stool a circular well into which the pail is lowered. The milkman may now seat himself on the stool and draw the lat ter forward until the pail is catching the streams of milk. This invention should prove useful when the pall is nearly full, if at no other time, as the weight is then much increased and tilting the pail must also be avoided. From Star to Nebula. Some of the astronomical photog raphs made at the Harvard observa tory reveal the fact that in April, 1899, a new star appeared in the constella tion Aquila. At first Its spectrum re sembled the spectra of other new stars but in October a photograph showed that the character of the light had changed, and now Its spectrum was thaA of a gaseous nebula. Last sum mer a telescopic observation of this curious object was made by Professor Wendell at Cambridge, and he con firmed the evidence of the photograph showing that It had become a nebula. Such occurrences are rare, and one ex planation of them is that they are the result of collisions in space, the heat developed being sufficient to turn solid matter into gas and vapor. poms WITHOUT SPILLING. The improvement in measuring ves sels illustrated below is intended for use on vessels which as at present con structed cannot be filled to the brim with a thin liquid without spilling a portion of the contents when the at tempt is made to pour them into the receiving vessel. As both customer and salesman want accurate measure ment and the latter dislikes to have the measure dripping on the floor, the invention may prove of practical value to the storekeeper. The invention is cheap, adding but little to the cost of the plain measure, and consists of a metallic lip attached to the upper edge of the vessel. The peculiarity of the device is that it tips downward in stead of up, and only a slight tilt ft necessary to start the liquid running into the receiver. As the lip extends out from the measure the liquid will LIP FOR MEASURING VESSELS, not run down the outside either at the beginning or end ot the pouring, and. the lip being perfectly plain, it is an easy matter to wipe it dry. Why Steel Kails llrtak. In 1895 a steel rail on the Great Northern railway in England broke into 17 pieces, causing a serious acci dent. A committee of the board of trade, appointed to investigate the cause of the breakage, has only recent ly made its report, after four years of work on the subject. The committee ascertained that the particular rail | which broke on the occasion described ! possessed certain abnormal features the precise origin of which remains undetermined, but the investigation led to several discoveries of scientific and practical importance. Among these is the surprising effect of cracks in the upper surfaces of rails. It was found by experiment that a rail nicked with the chisel to a depth of a 64th of an inch broke under a weight of 600 pounds falling from a height of 12 feet, while the same rail not nicked resisted the fall of a ton weight from a height of 20 feet. IliKh-l'Irlng Clouds. The science of clouds has attracted many devotees within the past few years, and photograph has greatly as sisted in advancing It. Clouds, like stars, become far more interesting to the non-scientiflr observer of nature when he knows the names attached to them. While the grandest and most imposing form of cloud is the domed and pinnacled cumulus which frequent ly accompanies thunderstorms, the most beautiful is the feathery cirrus. Cirrus clouds sometimes exist at enormous elevations. While their mean height is about 29,000 feet,—the height of Mount Everest,— they have been measured at an elevation of 49, 0u0 feet, or more than nine miles. They move with great velocity, about ninety miles an hour on the average, and ia winter sometimes more than 200 miles an hour. A TflMcopIc nml » Microscopic Man. Dr. A. A. Common, the English as tronomer, in illustrating recently what the telescope and the microscope have done in extending the powers of vision, employed the following figures: Im agine the size of an eye, and therefore of a man capable of seeing in a natu ral way what the ordinary eye sees with the aid of a large telescope, and also the size of a man who could plain ly see with his natural eye what we see with a powerful microscope. The first man would be a giant several miles tall, and the second a midget a very small fraction of an inch in height. Living I.lsllt. A Frenchman, Ruphael Dubois, re ports to the Academy of Sciences the results of experiments with phosphor escent anlmalculae in producing an il lumination useful to man. By cultl- 1 vating. in suitable media, a large num ber of micro-organisms capable of emitting light. Monsieur Dubois suc ceeded in illuminating a room with a dt’gree of intensity about equal to that * moonlight. No radiation of heat appears to attend the production of this physiological light. Hlrtti of the Vellonstone Klver. Recent studies of the geology of Yellowstone Park have led to the opinion that the waters of Yellow stone lake, now the head of the Yel lowstone river, once flowed off south ward Into the Snake river. At that time a comparatively small stream fol lowed the course of the magnificent Yellowstone canyon, which had not then been excavated to its present great depth. The head of this stream gradu ally gnawed its way back until it cut the divide enclosing the basin of the lake, and by thus diverting the waters of the lake formed the Yellowstone river. BKILUANCT AND ACCURACY. From the New York News: "I'll tell you a good story, boys," said the host, as there was a pause In the conversa tion. “It’s about a lady, too.” Instantly there was a craning of necks. "That story about Mrs. Archibald, love?" interrupted his wife. “Yes, my dear; the one I told you about the other day. It. happened this way. I was going down Fifth ave nue-” “You told me Broadway, my love.” “Yes, I think it was Broadway, but it doesn't matter much. At all events. I was going downtown when a lady, dressed in a blue waist-” “I think you’re mistaken, hubby. You certainly said pink’ when you told me the story." “Well, let it go at that—It was either blue or pink—and a white dress-” “No; she w’as dressed all in blue. Bon't you remember?" The host gave his wife a look that came from a marble heart. "She kept looking at me-” “No, dear, you did at her." “Well, confound it, we both looked at each other. Her face seemed fa miliar to me. She was tripping along, looking as fresh as a peach when sud denly she slipped ou a banana skin and broke her leg-" “No, no, Reginald; her ankle.'' “Bless my soul, Mrs. B., would you like to tell the rest of the story?” “Now, don't get mad. dear, but do be accurate.” “Well, she broke her blessed ankle, or twisted it. and 1 had the satisfac tion of carrying her into the nearest drug store. She smiled a sweet smile at me-” “I think you are mistaken again, darling. You told me she was uncon scious.” “Yes, I know, but that was before—1 mean afterward—1 mean—Mrs. H., you get me rattled. Please don't interrupt. She smiled at me sometime, anyhow, and seemed to thank me in a mute manner.” "One moment, dear. You certainly told me she was voluble in her thanks afterward.” “Yes, yes. Say, am I telling this story or are you? I asked her if I should call an ambulance. She whis pered No. get me a cab.’ I got her a hansom-” “No. don't you remember, darling?— an automobile.” "Great Scott: madam—I—here, boys.i lef's go to the club.” He Tald the Freight. “Boss,” said an old negro, looking in through the postoffice stamp win dow yesterday, “how much does hit tek ter sen' to' letters?" “Eight cents,” said the gentleman within. “Hush!” “Fact!” The old man studied awhile, got out his leather book, vintage of 1855, and worried eight coppers out of tire lin ing. Laying these on the counter he drew a long breath and said: “Well, you c'n let 'cm go ’long!” “But where are the letters?” “Whar its day? Why, I done drapt 'em in de hole 'roun' yonder!” The letters were fished out, stamped and allowed to “go long. ’—Macon Telegraph. WOl'LD iioi.n moiu:. Sister—When do yon want mamma to put you tn long trousers? Bobby—Not till after Christmas. Not That Kind. Angry politician—Look here. I'vi* a mind to have you arrested for libel! What do you mean by picturing me as you have? Cartoonist—But the picture looks like you. Angry politician—I know it does! 1 know it does! But do I look like a man who likes to look like himself?— Modern Society. One Note Within K.ech. ‘ Speaking of singing.” exclaimed the nightingale sneerlngly, "of what earth ly use are you? Yon couldn't touch a high note in a thousand years.” “Oh. I don't know." replied (he bird of paradise, “I’m likely to he embalm ed on a bonnet some day, and then I’ll make a $.">0 note look like 30 cent*.”— Standard and Times. <iot HU Pony. Boy—Grandpa, 1 wish you'd buy me a pony. Grandpa (a philanthropist)—My son. think of the poor hoys who can't even get bread to eat. Boy I was thinking of them—the I poor little boys whose papas have po I nies to sell that e.obody will buy. I trli offli the dee Qui in n™ to t"ore the lllninc. ndon Tld-Bits: The young •eturned from hie wedding i: as again at his desk in the 3 |(i. day after his return that partner called him to his aid: :mt you're married, Mr. •ust you will be considerate atment of me.” juite understand you, sir!’* he young man in surprise, a little early, I know," nd unior partner; "but there's _ J8 taking time by the fore lock. Pose you haven't been out at yet?" ■.y not, air! ’* oxc a mitb late “d “.4 none of my business If you have when you do stay out some night usiderate. Remember that I ha vPutatlon for fairness and hunt; tatment. of everybody in this i-ttat I would like to retain. Don’! our wite that you’re sorry you'r ,U1 that the slave driver at the o’ ed work upon you to such an ei >at you had to work right into ht; don't tell her that the tyran work under told you that you * iave to post all the books in tl !* before leaving for the night invent come other excuse, you 1 Thf : man thought the matter over miDutc? or two and then asked isly: "W should be lat» what shall I say "Ot on the senior partner, as I do. > stand it ” HOOT KOMKTillNC.. Sir tke—Waiter, bring me some ( They must not be too small, o large, nor too fat or salty; >ove all things, must be cold, b x) cold; and 1 want them quick! Ham vigs (waiter)—Yas, sah; but yo tone specify yet whether yo’ wt wif or wlfout pearls, sah. DIAMl II.L IN TIIK FAMILY. Fron /ashington Post: Here's a little dialogue that was over heard . L!4-a-month Capitol Hill mansto evening last week: She- : oh, why did I every marry He— [ vvas a good thing. e becoming postlvely coarse. He— ion. She- y no attention whatever 10 my shes. He— the use of chasing a car after y mght it? She- e you have been drink ing agi He— k luck. She- rags. He—’ ,.’il do a sketch—so’m I. She— -i't been to the theater for twt i He— a sad story. She— He < t peareful home. She— ( going downtown to night? He—i swing you for care fare. She— only $3 jn my purse. He—1 een! She— ... a pa|r Qf high-heeled patent today—reduced to $8 — that I l j sj,aii have. He 1 any men’s brogans for SI.39? alie~ m't you get shaved? He t j • ■. yor pay day. She— a- ou know the rent and the gas i , (lue thi8 pay day? He cut out the shave. She dad never left mamma, so I do ithers. °“e i good notion to go right back to •tiB minute. He * • , got an umbrella? She ' y0u—g-g-govorument c-c-clerl arg curtain.) Owned Ur. N w, my dear. I shall bfl with you. I am going > tonight to play poker high old time. Mrs. t^rhy—That’H just like a man! ^ to eupp< lyn Life Withe 'fcy p.-rfectl: „. down to !t and hav‘H aiiiiit at least have led me were innocent..—Brook Wr » *'Wll« ,,ut A"“"' .Jackson—Whad gwlne m m, ;a| LaureI|a? . ;„a8__ s" :i—Anyflng yoh . ^ Alias. Ise noticed boys o t a Da®* af.vaj1 romes to no good. Br'2*3. ! ,n lhe ,,0|“'S yoh laikes t h' H<* Knlueil Cain. , ,;i Eve, "you can stay at ,i;riss now and take care , .* ♦ > 'inead of staying out so Then i “Uan club' ' =_ '-'hat Adam began rais ,ng Cft r Hi rated Bits.