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NEW ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT SURGEONS Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Suc cessfully Performed as a Matter of Course. Most Recent Is the Work of Dr. Karl Garre of Berlin, in Which Devoted Mother Gave Part of Her Own Throat to Convert Her Idiot Daughter Into a Bright Little Girl. New York.—Medical men here and abroad are awaiting with considera ble interest a report from Berlin giv ing complete details of a most daring and unusual surgical operation per formed there a few weeks ago. An idiot child, the six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Louis Wolff, a resi dent of Berlin, has been converted into an intelligent being by the proc ess of grafting part of the mother’s thyroid gland upon the child's pan creas. Reduced to plainer language, this means that part of the mother’s throat has been transferred by the grafting process to a gland, or tissue, lying directly at the back of the stom ach. By this operation the dull, in active brain of little Lena Wolff has been awakened so that it is now per -- Tny/$o/d G7//A/7? FFFF Of M/C/7 \ MS GfiffTFD 77? F/7c CW7D3 FF77C/7FS FO C//FF/F/Ocy An idiot From Birth. forming the duties for which it was intended. This, in the history of medical science, is without a parallel, not only because such an operation was never attempted before, but also because of its seeming vagueness. The idea of grafting part of the throat of a mother to the pancreas gland of her child with the expectation of convert ing tlie child from idiocy to a normal, mental condition would seem at first glance unworthy of serious consider ation. But Dr. Karl Garre, -professor of surgery in the medical faculty of Breslau university, to whom the oper ation is credited, did exactly what has been described above, and recent de spatches from Berlin declare that the operation has been pronounced a com plete success. Professor Garre is an eminent Ger man surgeon whose success in the transplanting of organs from one ani mal to another and even from the lower animals to human beings, has attracted the attention and admira tion of surgical men all over the world. When his report of how he changed Lena W'olff from an idiot into a bright and intelligent little girl is completed it will form a valuable ad dition to the list of modern miracles of surgery. . From the details of the case al ready received from Germany it ap pears that Lena Wolff was born an idiot six years ago, says the New York World. Reason never dawned for her as in other babies. She had come into the world without one ap parent spark of intelligence and seemed doomed to pass her whole life without knowing the joys and sorrows Of living. Her case was called to the attention of Professor Garre, who was inter ested from the very beginning, be cause in it he saw a possibility of be ing able to prove the correctness of a theory on which he had been at work. This involved the probable action or influence that certain substances or secretions found in the ductless glands of the human body have upon the blood. It is the blood, as everybody knows, that feeds the brain, keeping it active and clear and in good working order. If the blood is thin or sluggish the brain is first to record that fact. The great German surgeon knew that the reason Lena Wolff's brain was dull and inactive was because the blood was not feeding it as it should. One of the principal duties of the pancreas, situated just behind the stomach, is to superintend the regular feeding of the brain with good blood, according to the theory of the Ger man surgeon. In the case of Lena Wolff he believed the pancreas was minus one very important digestive essential, without which it could not do its work properly. That very im portant essential had to be supplied by grafting a portion of a ductless gland from another living person. The child's mother readily offered herself as a sacrifice. She was per pectly willing to undergo the neces sarily painful and tedious operation of having part of her throat grafted on the body of her little daughter if only it would give Lena her reason. The operation took place in one of the large hospitals in Berlin, and by the grafting process one end of the mother's thyroid gland was released and stretched over to i.he exposed pan crease of her idiot daughter. For days npither motherr nor child was permitted to mo\£. To insure a successful grafting operation they had been tightly bound together, the child's body agains-: her mother's neck, and there they remained until the severed end of the thyroid gland had knit firmly to the pancreas, forming a living, pulsating link between mother and daughter. Then the link was cut, leaving a portion of the thyroid gland grafted successfully to the child's pancreas. It is believed now that both mother and child will recover. The complete success of the opera tion, cannot, however, be announced yet, as too short a time has elapsed since the operation was performed. First Dawn of Reason. But it is known that the dawn of reason came to little Lena Wolf al most immediately after the thyroid gland began to knit. For the very first time the idiotic stare gave place to a look of intelligence. She may grow up to be a very bright young woman. Dr. Swale Vincent, professor of physiology in the University of Mani toba, at Winnipeg Canada, has pre pared an extremely Interesting article on the duties of the thyroid gland, the pancreas and other ductless glands, which appeared in a recent issue of the London Lancet. “It is believed," he says, “that these ductless glands manufacture and pour directly or indirectly into the blood stream some substance or substances which are of service to the economy, either by supplying a need or by de stroying other substances which are needless or positively harmful. This last function is usually prescribed to the thyroid and parathyroid glands. “It is obvious that, in the broadest sense of the expression, all tissues and organs of the body may be said to have an internal secretion—i. e., the blood which leaves by their veins contains different chemical substances from that which enters by their ar teries. “The most usually quoted example, however, of a gland which has both an externa! and an internal secretion is the pancreas. A relation between diseases of the pancreas and diabetes has long been suspected, but Minkow ski and Mehring first definitely showed that complete removal of the pancreas in the dog, cat and pig is followed by diabetes, having the usual symptoms of that disease ’ in man. That this is caused by the absence of an internal secretion is proved by the fact that it does not occur if the gland be left in situ and the duct tied, nor does it occur if a portion of the pan creas be grafted in some situation re mote from its normal position. How the internal secretion of the pancreas normally prevents glycosuria is not clear. We can only say that it exerts some influence upon the carbohydrate metabolism, either by favoring the formation of glycogen in the liver from the dextrose taken to it by the portal vein or by furthering the oxida tion of dextrose in the tissues gener ally.” Sight Restored to Child. Equally remarkable and interesting is the operation by which sight has been restored to the blind eyes of lit tle Margaret Huber, aged ten years, of No. 524 East Eighty-fourth street, New York city. She has become the subject of widespread interest among opthalmologists by reason of her “pin hole camera” eyes. Eye surgeons who have followed the case at the German Poliklinik declare it to be. so far as their observations have gone, without an exact parallel. Nobody knows exactly how Mar garet became blind. The liquid mat ter constituting the lens of the eyes became atrophied and was entirely absorbed, leaving the l^cs a tnick apaque, fibrous can, which shut out every glimmer of light. This was three years ago, when the little girl was only seven. Several operations were tried, but with no good results. The membranes of tlie eyes were punctured, but they immediately closed again over the openings like sheet rubber when a hole is made in it. Dr. John A. Price, chief surgeon of the ophthalmic department of the German Poliklinik, took charge of the case, performing three operations in February, March and April, 1894. The third one restored the sight to the left eye. The right eye remained stone blind until two weeks ago, when he performed a most unusual and suc cessful operation upon it. He first made a peculiarly shaped pair of scissors, the under blade pointed and the upper blade blunt. This instrument he inserted through I A'Ot/ /HE REMARKABLE 0PERPT/OM MAS PER FORMER OMRERCEREr ! NuEER'S EYES TO j Restore mer 8/cat. J; W H r^Tij---My-,,, JP miL Margaret Huber Jf i PA NT OEMOWERS TNYRO/D ; GLAND WAS CRAFTED ^ A. /T1 T, A .♦_ A A iT-i A /T\ A TT\ A /Y“s A fT\ A /V. A /V. a --w\ a /V\ a <t\ a 1 A . . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ _ _ an incision in the cornea made at the top. Pushing the points down through the pupil, with the aliarp blade he punctured the opaque membrane of the lens capsule and cut it squarely in two. The task of the surgeon was to cut so delicately and precisely as to divide the obstruction and let the light into the eye again. The operation was entirely success ful. The dead lens matter remains in the eye and on either side of the pupil a speck of the opaque substance can yet be seen. This in time may be ab □erbed. Some Surgical Marvels. Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have recently contributed to the list of marvels of surgery through operations on the brains of incorrigible and men tally defective boys. A still more re cent case is that of Carl Fredericks, aged nine years, of No. 200 Clinton street, Hoboken. He is under observa tion at the Rahway Reformatory prep aratory to the practical reconstruction of his brain. The doctors say the boy’s brain is so peculiarly constructed that it pre vents him from being good for more than an hour at a time. The bead is of abnormal shape, the skull coming to a point. Tests made a few days ago showed that the boy had no sense of right or wrong. This is attributed to an ab normal brain growth. As a result of the operation, which includes the cut ting out of certain parts of the brain, it is expected to relieve the boy of his wicked tendencies and transform him into a model youth. 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At Stamford, Conn., a unique opera tion on the skull of the two-year-old son of Michael Gunther has given the boy rationality. The child was born with normal mental and physical en dowments and began to show, when a year old, signs of general deficiency in all his senses. It was finally deter mined by the surgeons interested in the case to explore the child’s skull. Dr. J. T. Higgins, of New York, as sisted by Drs. VYhitehorn and Hogan, of New- York, and Howell and Loeb, of Stamford, performed the operation at Stamford Hospital a few months ago. They removed a strip of bone from the skull three inches long and one-half inch wide, to give the brain a chance to grow. Immediately on re covering from the anaesthesia, a look of normal intelligence showed in the child’s eyes, proving the theory of the doctors that the skull had been press ing unduly on the brain. With the pressure relieved, the brain was free to exert itself. The doctors believe the boy will soon be able to talk and act as rational*- as the brightest of his little playmates. Dr. Guthrie and Dr. Carrell, of the University of Chicago, nave been mak ing a series of remarkable experi ments in surgery. Hearts of dogs have been successfully moved up into the animals’ necks and there per formed their functions. The circula tion of blood in canines has been re versed without causing the animals any apparent inconvenience. “What we have learned,” said Dr. Carrell a short time ago, “gives us hope that some day we may replace wounded and worn-out hearts in hu man beings with the healthy, youthful and strong hearty of living monkeys.’’ Sewing Up Stabbed Heart. A recent dispatch from Milan de scribed a wonderful surgical opera tion there by Dr. Meda. A workman had been murderously assaulted, a knife in the hand of an assassin actu ally piercing his heart. He was at tended by surgeons who cut a way through his breast to reach the wounded heart. Three stitches were required to close the wound, which had almost entirely healed five days after the operation. VT ” ▼ WTWTWTWTWTWTTTVTWTWTWTU PHOTOGRAPHY CAN DO MUCH. Tricks at Expert’s Hand Make It a Fine Art. It is the fashion among real artists, those who make pictures with paint, pen or pencil, to scoff at the results achieved by photography. They are unwilling to admit that a photograph Is anything but mechanical and in artistic in its expression of things, but all the same the effects that can be secured by the average photographer who knows his business are almost awe-inspiring. Disregarding all land scapes and pictures of “still life,” just consider what the photographers can accomplish, and have been accomplish ing, in the way of portrait work. Not merely in the way of removing warts and wrinkles and performing other dermatological operations calculated to increase beauty, but in giving the convincing semblance of intellect and spiritual grace to his subject, the capable camera man is a wizard. The pudgy-faced woman with pale eyes not only becomes a vision of beauty in her photograph, but there is often the Tg-JTTT-JTgTVTVTgTWTaTWTfflTVTW look of superior mentality. In real life she may look like nothing in par ticular, but judged by her picture one might think her capable of writing a dictionary, with a few novels and love poems on the side. This is a clever trick of the modern photographer. And it is not confined to his depiction of the human counte nance; he can do much along the same line with the beasts of the field. In a recent issue of a farming maga zine there were the portraits of sev eral cows. Now, a cow is not an ani mal of particularly intelligent appear ance, despite the mellow, goo-goo ex pression in the eyes of the average cow. But in these portraits the pho tographer had managed somehow to secure a simulation of intelligence in the bovine countenance that was truly remarkable. Especially in the case of one benevolent looking, white-faced creature with ingrowing horns was there a happy result. The firm upper lip, the strong, imperious nose and the intellectuality of the calm, reflective eye combined to give this animal the look of a statesman. If a cow like this were to be encountered la real life one might expect her to say a few wise words on the tariff or engage in a discussion of the “Possible Mean ings of English," as written by Henry James. Of course, the original cow looked considerably less like a col lege president; the photographer sim ply made the effect with his little box of tricks. But when such things are possible why do real hand-painting artists persist in the assertion that there is no art in photography?—Prov idence Journal. Downfall of Biermug. A. C. Jones, the prohibition candi date for the governorship of South Carolina, upbraided in a speech in Co lumbia the unexampled cruelty of the Russian terrorists. “If it was themselves!” said Mr. Jones. “If it was their own wives and families, their own little children! Then they’d sing a different, song be fore all that blood and horror. “Whenever I think of the terrorists of Russia I am reminded of another terrorist whom I knew in my boyhood. “This man wore a red necktie and long hair. He sat day and night in a WTYV'Y^YV/YVY WT saloon smoking a huge pipe and drink ing one beer after another, and to hear him talk about what he and his gang were going to do to the kings and princes and potentates of the world was enough to curdle your blood. “One afternoon as I was hurrying home from school I saw some one be ing carried down the street on a stretcher. “ ‘Who've you got there, Peter?- I said to one of the stretcher bearers. “ ‘Biermug the anarchist,- Peter re plied. “ ‘What’s the matter with him?’ I asked. “ ‘He was making a speech on the corner,’ said Peter, ‘and just as he was offering to lead the mob till the streets ran with blood to his waist a little dog got away from a lady and bit him on the ankle and the poor fel low fainted dead away.’ ” Argentina No Home for Boers. Many of the Boers who migrated to Argentina have rturned to South Af rica. Most of those still in Argentina are saving up their money for the purchase of homeward tickets. TABLE DELICACIES. SOME NEW AND SOME OLD REC IPES OF VALUE. Plain Fruit Cake—Appetizing Celery and Nut Salad—Five-Minute Sauce Adds Vastly to Flavor of Pudding. Plain Fruit Cake.—Cream one and one-half cups of butter with two cups of sugar, add one cup of molasses, one cup of milk, four well beaten eggs and one level teaspoon of soda dis solved in the milk, one pound of seed ed raisins cut fine, one level teaspoon of mixed spice and five cups of flour. Bake In a large loaf in a moderate oven. Steamed Brown Bread.—Mix and sift together two cups of corn meal, two cups of rye meal, and one cup of flour. Mix two-thirds cup of mo lasses with three cups of milk, add a pinch of salt and a slightly rounding teaspoon of soda. Turn in the dry ingredients; beat and pour into a cov ered mold. Steam three hours. Celery and Nut Salad.—Cut the cel ery in thin slices crosswise and use only the tender white stalks. Parboil the English walnut meats five minutes and rub off the thin brown skins; break up into small pieces, but do not chop. Use equal measure of nut meats and celery and serve with a boiled dressing on the inner leaves of lettuce. For the dressing beat the yolks of two eggs, add one-half level teaspoon each of mustard and salt, beating all the time. Add four table spoons of vinegar and cook in a dou ble boiler until it thickens. Take from the fire, add the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, then cool and when well chilled add one cup of beaten cream. Sauce for Pudding.—To one cup of boiling water add a level teaspoon of corn starch mixed with one cup of sugar. Cook five minutes, add one half cup of butter and lemon or vanilla flavoring. Cottage Pudding.—Sift one and one half cups of flour with three level tea spoons of baking powder. Beat two eggs, add one cup of sugar and beat again; add one cup of milk and the flour. Bake in a shallow pan .and cut in squares or in a deep pan and cut in slices or in muffin tins. Serve with a sauce. Small Sponge Cake.—Sift, together one cup of flour, one cup of sugar and two level teaspoons of baking powder. Put in three unbeaten eggs and beat all five minutes. Stir in one table spoon of hot water and bake. Caramel Cake.—Beat to a cream one cup of sugar and one-quarter cup grated chocolate melted over the tea kettle, one-half cup flour sifted with one and one-half level teaspoonfuls baking pow'der, ar.d a teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in layers. For the frosting cook together one and one half cups pulverized sugar, one-half cup milk, and a piece of b Aer the size of an egg, boil from five to eight minutes. Take from the fire and stir until cold, then add a teaspoonful of vanilla, beat, and spread between the layers. If preferred bake in a loaf and simply frost with the caramel. Jellied Chicken. Select for this a fowl rather than a chicken, as the long cooking will make it tender. Singe, clean, and cut it up as for a fricasse, put in a kettle with one-half of a small onion, stuck with a clove, and one stalk of celery, cover with boiling water and simmer until the meat falls from the bones, adding one teaspoonful of salt when half done. Take out the chicken and cook down the liquor to three-quarters of a cupful, then strain it and skim off the fat. Lightly butter a mold and deco rate the bottom and sides with slic'-3 of hard boiled eggs and stoned olives. Free the meat from the skin, bone and fat, and pack it in the mold, sprinkling with salt, add the liquor and set aside to cool. Curtain Styles. Lace curtains will he used this fail but the artistic printed linens and light-weight materials are going to be more popular. These fabrics cost less than lace and harmonize more with the furnishings, especially in the small apartment. The new printed linens have cream-colored back grounds, with bright floral designs in both large and smal figures. Among these artistic materials are the print ed and plain linens, madras and light weight grass cloths. This style of ma terial looks particularly well with mis sion furniture. Coffee Makes Curtains Ecru Shade. After washing the net curtains carefully in hike warm water, with pure white or castile soap, rinse them in clear, cool water, and, after wring ing them as dry as is possible, put through liquid coffee, and carefully at tach to regulation stretchers and put out in the air to dry. Do not make the mistake of rubbing the net on a washing board or even between the hands; instead just pull it up and down in tile water until the dirt is out. Do not starch. The curtains look better without any stiffening. Novel Way of Mending. A good way to mend a round hole in a silk or woolen dress, and where otherwise only a patch could remedy matters, is the following: The frayed portions around the tear should .be carefully smoothed, and a piece of the material moistened vith very thin mucilage, placed under the hole. A heavy weight should then be put upon it until dry,'when it is only possible to discover the mended place by care ful observation. Keeping Cake from Breaking. To prevent fresh cakes from break ing when the cake is taken from the oven, set the pan on a cloth which has been dipped in lukewarm water £tnd then wrung out as dry as possible. After standing on the cloth for five minutes the cake can easily be taken from the pan without breaking. To Clean Horsehair Furniture. Horsehair furniture can be quickly cleaned by firat beating it and brush ing all the dust from it, then wipe off with a cloth wrung out of hot water, to which has been added a tablespoon ful of ammonia to each quart. Be sure to wipe with the grain of the cloth. PhTwooTng" j (A STORY OF THI BY STANLI (Copyright, 1906, b This is a society love story of thi time of the Cave Men, a story of thi prime of the Paleolithic age. Jewels appeal wonderfully to somi women of the present and the sann instinct for adornment was possesse< by the charming Little Toes, bell< undisputed of the clan of Cave Met who lived among the rocks by th< White Tarn. Tarns are not usually white, it ii true; in fact we commonly think o' a tarn as some dismal body of water lonesome and fearful, but this one though really a tarn, isolated anc alone, was light because it had a sandy bottom, and its waters were clear because it was doubtless con nected by some underground channel with the not very distant sea. A happy lot of cave people, as cavt people went, were those making up the clan which lived beside the tarn fishing in its depths and hunting in the Green Forest, and the society was really very fine. So delectable a creature as Little Toes must, neces sarily, have rival admirers, and among them, and altogether leading the oth ers, were Big Bow and Cross Eyes. Big Bow was easily the most success ful fisherman and hunter in the tribe, and a somewhat goodly man to look upon. Cross Eyes was but moderate ly successful in the pursuit of food, either on land or water, and he squinted prodigiously. somewhat untortunateiy tor cross Eyes had thus far progressed this ar dent wooing. Big Bow, mighty fish erman and hunter, brought daily spoil to the feet of Little Toes; spoil some thing more than appreciated, not only by the young lady, who had a healthy appetite, but by her father and moth er, who chanced to be people not overstrenuous to grapple with the problem of existence. Cross Eyes did the best he could, but he brought less sustenance to his inamorata, and, as has been intimated, Big Bow was the more presentable man of the two. But the case of Cross Eyes was not altogether hopeless. He could talk far better than Big Bow in the odd, chuck ling way of the cave men, and was never sullen. Little Toes had become used to him and did not object to hav ing him around. Yet, the star of Big Bow was decidedly in the ascendant. The rules of dress of the cave men and women of the time were becom ing rather severe. For instance, it was considered desirable that both gentlemen and ladies always wear something in public. This, as a rule, consisted of a single skin gar ment worn over one shoulder and un der the other, and, in case of the more rigidly conventional, belted at the waist. This admirable garb, of course, left the neck bare. It afforded a mag nificent opportunity for the display of jewelry, but the only jewelry ever worn by a cave belle- up to this par ticular 'me had consisted of a neck late of red berries strung v.pon some grassy fiber. Such a necklace could last for but the passing hour. It was a transient thing. Such as t was, though, it was much affected by the flirtatious Little Toes, as she d.d love to adorn herself. It fell upon a day that Cross Eyes was wandering, ill-mooded, far from the madding crowd, along the banks of a turbulent creek which came tum bling down from the hills to enter the enticing depths of the White Tarn. This was his meditative afternoon with a vengeance.. He recognized the fact that Big Bow was far ahead of him in the race for permanent posses sion of Little Toes. He realized that the other man was decidedly the bet ter hunter and better fisherman, and the additional fact that the qualities of purveyor and provider were then considered in a wooer of the first im portance. He strode up and down the little beach where the creek hurled Itself laughingly over a wonderful bed of shells and pebbles into the broad waters it was seeking, and, finally, sat himself down upon a rock and thought most dismally. He thought of Little Toes as he had seen her that morning, graceful as the slim wood leopard, gliding merrily about, the temporary necklace of red berries showing a line of contrasting color about her smooth, brown neck. He would like, he thought, to see a neck lace always there, though what did it matter! It seemed that Little Toes could never be for him. His eyes rested, at first unseeing, upon the creek’s margin, where was a blaze of coloring, a glittering irides cence, as the sun’s rays struck upon the tossed-up shells of a brightly pink hued moliusk, and the many pebbles of clear white, brought down from the chalky heights above. He thought vaguely of the resemblance, save in glitter, of the bright objects in the water and the red berries about the throat of Little Toes. Then, dimly at first, and then more definitely, there came to him a suggestion which grew into au inspiration. His face brightened: he leaned from his rock and into the water. Up and down the shore he ran, gathering pink shells and snowy pebbles. He filled his wolfskin pouch with them. Then, as strenuously as if upon the hunt, he ran toward the village m the rocks and into his own particular cave. Itks was possessed of a very g.*eat ide*, an idea which, in the crowding ce » turies since, has won many a soft hand and shaken many an oriental kingdom. For many days therij was little seen of Cross Byes in the chase or at the fishing. Food enough to sustain him self was all he sought. Inside his cave he was at work, with flint and drill and sandstone polisher, engaged more earnestly than he had ever been when forming spear or arrowhead. With infinite labor and patience unex ampled hitherto, he wrought dogged ly, but happily, and wonderful things began fashioning themselves in his strong hands. He bored each white chalk pebble, each rose pink shell, un til there were many of them thus pierced, and then he shaped them and rounded them and polished them un OF LITTLE TOFSI ■ PALEOUTHIC AGE) \ IT WATERLOO f irwwwiirwfHfuirv f Joseph B. Bowles.) ■ til they glittered wondrously when he ) brought them to the light. He mar veled at them himself. They were > splendid beads. s An eye for contrast had the worker. I A long tendon from the leg of the f great elk he took, a tendon such as i made his bowstring, something that i could not break, and which would last a lifetime, and upon this he strung i the beads, first a white and next a pink one, and so on, alternately, until all were thus secured. He kuoi'ed the ends of the tendon together, in a knot that could not become untied, ami then held up before him, some thing magnificent, the most glorious, shining bauble the world had ever known—the First Necklace' And during all the weeks while Cross Eyes was hidden in his cave. Big Bow had wooed most vigorously. He would make a last great effort and she must yield. So, as darkness fell, Big Bow went to the cave of Little Toes, where she chanced to be alone. Tossed over one of his shoulders was the body of a fawn he had killed that day, and over the other hung down to the cave man’s feet a great, dark, glossy mass which was something to demand at tention. It was the skin of the great cave bear, the only one ever slain by the tribe, and had come to Big Bow as being foremost in the famous chase and fight. It was a magnificent thing. • Few words had Big Bow. He laid the fawn at the feet of Little Toes and then he spread out upon the ground before her the great bear skin. Drew Forth Something That Flashed and Fascinated. “It is yours," he said. “To-morrow night I am coming to take you to my cave.” Little Toes did not answer at first, but threw herself down upon the furry skin delightedly It suited her. Finally she sat up. “It is good,” she said. Big Bow went away. There was a slight sound, and C~oss Eyes stood beside her. The fire in the cave blazed up and he called her to it. Then from his wolfskin pounch he drew forth something that flashed and fascinated. He hung it about her neck. The girl looked down upon it in silent amazement. She lifted the glittering beads in her fingers trem blingly, but could not speak. Her ecstasy was indescribable. “Come with me to my cave and be my wife,” said Cross Eves. She did not answer, even then. She only put her hand in his and they went out into the night. They took the bearskin with them. WARDROBE OF KING EDWARD Costs About $6,000 Annually, Accord ing to His Tailor. London.—The king’s tailor has been giving sonic details of the wardrobe of Edward VII. His majesty buys about a hundred pairs of trousers every year, and pays from $10.50 to $13 a pair for them. He orders about a dozen dress suits annually at $80 each, and for his sack suits he pays $32. Twelve or 15 frock coats and 15 overcoats are also included in the King’s yearly renewal of his ward robe. The king has at least 100 naval and military uniforms, which repre sent a large sum in value: but, apart from the cost of these, his tailoring bill amounts to from $5,000 to $6,000 annually. From the necessity imposed on roy alty King Edward has acquired the celerity of a quick-change artist in dressing. He can change from one suit into another with marvelous ra pidity. His taste, which, when younger, was inclined to somewhat loud pat terns, is now all in favor of simplic ity. A plain navy blue serge is his majesty's favorite cloth. A Bull on a Pedestal. An extraordinary monument has been recently erected at By near Fontainebleau, by M. Gambert, to the memory of Rosa Bonheur, the great French painter of animal life. The memorial is located not far from the forme;.’ home of the great artist, which was respected during the Franco j Prussian war by special order of the • crown prince of Prussia. The monu ment consists of a granite pedestal of heavy proportions on top of w.’.ich is placed the effigy of a splendid bull, of the type so frequently seen in the lady’s pictures. On front of the pedes tal is a bronze bas-relief of Rosa Bon huer. Looking Forward. The young man had just screwed up his courage to the point of asking the old man for the hand of his daugh ter in marriage. “Have you given any thought to the future?” asked the old man. “Oh, yes,” answered the young mea, “I joined the church last winter."— Chicago Dally News.