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loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA How to Deal with Them. It is easier to prescribe for the evils of modern life than to administer the ^prescription. Years ago, when Boston was in the midst of a heated contro versy as to means of transit, and the merits of elevated railways, subways and surface tracks were vigorously ar gued, good old Dr. Bartol—whom Phillips Brooks wittily characterized as “a moth-eaten old angel''—proposed a remedy for the municipal disease of congested traffic. It was wonderfully simple, if only the citizens would take it. “Let us hear no more,” said the confident doctor, “of the impossible and dangerous crowds, the discomfort of slow, overloaded cars, the impeding of one vehicle by another. There is too much gadding and going. Let peo ple bide at home.” But the people heeded not the admonition, and sub way and elevated railway and electric traction became accomplished facts. So with a thousand other complica tions of modern life. Our problem, declares the Youths’ Companion, is not to prevent them, for they are al ready upon us, but to alleviate them. The crowded tenement must be offset by the free, open playground; the dirt and noise of railway trains must be reduced to the minimum; the evil of the slum must be held in check by sanitary regulations and inspection. To the development of these works of alleviation women are especially called. It matters less for the next J half-century what new fields they enter than what old fields they make safer and pleasanter, says the Youths' Conn anion. It is of no use for them to raise the cry of the past, “Let peo ple bide at home.” The world will not heed that command. But when women workers for social betterment con trive to lessen noise and dirt and crowds and unproductive toil by methods suited to conditions as they are, the world will accept their serv ice gladly, and will crown it with de served praise. Nothing lias ever come of the talk of taxing bachelors in America. In Strassburg, Germany, the town coun cil has adopted a system of paying municipal employes, which puts in ef ivv.; u iu.i uui wui » yu uuLmriuio, uul u.: married men with small families. A standard schedule of salaries has been arranged, adapted to the needs of married men with three children. Single men between the ages of 20 and 25 years receive ten per cent, less than the schedule salary. When a man has more than three children he receives five per cent, more than the standard schedule, ten per cent, more for five children, and 15 per cent, more if he has seven children. A similar system has been in opera tion in Halberstadt for some time, with this difference, that the extra al lowances for children are paid direct ly to the mothers. I see that a society paper replies to the London Graphic's suggestion that the wedding present custom should be reversed and that bride and bride groom should celebrate the joyous oc casion by giving presents to their friends, by this novel proposition. One great trouble associated with wedding presents lies in their duplication. Now this difficulty might he met by the establishment of a wedding pres ent bureau, where what you do not want can be exchanged for what you do. Here is an excellent opening for an enterprising business genius. For, says the Boston Herald, while Ameri can jewelers and art deaiers often do exchange wedding presents, it would simplify the difficulty for them if such an exchange bureau was set up inde pendently of their own establish ments. Prof. Roy, the French Esperantist, is urging the establishment of an in dependent Esperanto state in Europe. The site he has selected for his ex periments is on a neutral strip of territory which lies on the frontier between Germany, Belgium and Hol land, five miles from Aix-la-Chapelle. This territory is known as Moresnet, is situated in a pleasant valley, and has a population of 3,000 inhabitants. Esperanto is to be the official lan guage of the place. The expenses of the state are to be borne by the sub scriptions of Esperantists all the world over. The scheme includes an Esperanto theater, a daily official Es peranto gazette, and a sort of Esper anto parliament, which will meet pe riodically to discuss the affairs of the little state. That Indiana court which has ruled that a nightgown is a luxury needs to have a few ounces of common sense poked into it. How does the court know when a fire is to call for an in stantaneous rescue, or a burglar to call for what valuables there may be in the upper left-hand bureau drawer? A Boston paper contains^ an article Informing us that there are no longer any pirates. Of course not! It is safer and more profitable to run a trust or water up a franchise. Few sea serpents have been seen this year. This may be due to the pro hibition movement which has been spreading across the land. An enthusiastic scientist has just got a hundred phonograph records of Indian songs in Canada. We hope he chokes. Count Zeppelin is unable to obtain life insurance. That puts him in the same class with certain European roy alties. I rwautiftti ■^Cks? Particular Hlargarctta \ firexd? EW YORK.—Who is to be the lucky man? London matrons with eligi ble sons, earls, barons and plain sirs, are asking each other this important ques j tion every day. Who is to be the fairy prince who is going to carry off the prize of the 1908 season, beautiful Miss Margaretta Drexel, only daugh ter of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., of New York. Philadelphia and London. Today Miss Drexel, clever, viva vious, rich, is regarded as the star "catch” of London society. She is called the best-looking girl in London and since the marriage of Miss Jean Reid, her chum, daughter of the American ambassador, Whitelaw Reid. ' she takes precedence among all the i American girls now in the British N 3 9 9 It may be added right here that her grandfather, the late Anthony J. ; Drexel, Sr., the Philadelphia banker, ; left an estate of $30,000,000. Fifteen years after his death it has much en hanced. Miss Drexel stands to divide it with her two brothers. Her father, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., inherited the bulk of the great for tune. Since then he has made his per manent residence abroad. He and Mrs. Drexel, together with their daughter, Miss Margare-tta, occasion ally run over to this country. They i were here last winter, coming over in j the Mauretania. But to Jliss Drexel—the envy of j every other London girl to-day. Her's is the beauty of the exquisite patrician type. She has great, limpid eyes of gray-blue, with long curling , Pshes and a complexion of ivory j \*nite, just touched with the roses of youth. Two little dimples make their homes in her cheeks and there is a tiny red mouth like Cupid's bow. She lias the broad, low brow’ that artists delight in, all crow’ned with a mass of wavy chestnut hair. She is tall and slender; her perfect figure makes her the admiration of everybody wherever she goes. Miss Drexel is not of the butterfly type. She is devoted to music; she plays the 'cello with distinct feeling. She sings with admirable technique and poisti—she shows a voice that has been wondrously trained, though it has only the strength for the drawing room. Perhaps she is at her best in her own home accompanying herself on her guitar, which she plays with ail the fervor and grace of the Spaniard. More than this—the Drexels have always been devoted to the church. It was whispered when Miss Drexel was getting ready to leave the con vent where she spent so many years that she would eventually take the veil. However, her parents prevailed upon her to leave this for later years —they insisted upon her seeing some thing of life before leaving it forever And now’—so it is said—Miss Drexel has decided that she will not forsake the world forever, but devote herself to doing her charities w’here she is better fitted to bestow them. Mrs. Drexel, who was Miss Margar ita Armstrong of Philadelphia, herself a beautiful matron, apreciates clothes and spends a fortune annually upon her raiment and as much more upon her daughter's. “She would look lovely in anything,” laughs London, “but when she comes out in something from Worth or Dou cet or Paquin, it is little wonder that she creates a sensation.” During the London season which has now ended Miss Drexel has been the admiration of all London society. Few girls in the smartest set have HAVE EGG-SHAPED HEAD. Queer Fashions Among the Natives of the New Hebrides. The egg-shaped heads of some of the natives of Malekula, in the New Hebrides, were once thought to be naturally conical. For that reason scientific men decided that the Male kulans were in the lowest rung of the human ladder, says the National Geo graphical Magazine. Later it was found that the conical heads were produced as the Chinese women distorted their feet, by binding them in infancy. The egg shaped head is still fashionable in Malekula, where some extraordinary results are achieved. The conical shape is produced by winding strong sennit cord spirally about the heads of young babies and tightening the coils from time to time. A piece of plaited mat is first put on the head and the cord is coiled over this, so as to give it a good purchase. The crown of the head is left to de velop in the upward and backward fashion that is so much admired. Me& flmo/ty d4 d? ever enjoyed the buzz of admiration that has greeted her entrance into a drawing room. Few have met his majesty, the king, on such cordial terms. Of course, Miss Drexel has had more than one eligible suitor, most of them with titles, but she remains fancy free and heart whole. She is en joying the delights of life close to the throne with all the ardor of a young girl just out of her teens. She knows perfectly well that she mustn't be car ried off with it—she has the discrim inating eye of a woman much older than she is herself. A few nights ago her mother gave a grand ball at their home in Carlton House Terrace, closing the London season there. Miss Drexel set a new fashion—she wore no jewels of any kind, though possessed of enough to i duouui a iviug. She was in palest blue shimmering silk. Her hair was simply parted and she looked the beautiful young girl that she was. More than one who has been in London society for years re marked that her entire costume was most befitting and appropriate to her delicate, refined beauty. Some hinted that it would be a good thing if other young girls out for their first season or so would take their hint from the American girl who had everything, and drop their tendency to vie with their mothers in their display of mar velous jewels. At another dance given by Mrs. Drexel at which royalty was present. Miss Drexel was equally simple in her attire. She wore soft pink tulle. Scat tered over it were tiny pink rosebuds; in the petals of each lay a tiny dia rnond dewdrop. A wreath of the same rosebuds nesfled in her fair hair and in her hand she carried a bunch of little pink rosebuds. Prince Francis nf Teck was her devoted admirer and Miss Drexel accepted his attentions with easy aplomb, as she did those of a full dozen of other titled eligibles. Miss Drexel has two devoted at tendants in the persons of her bro thers. They have taught her to sail a boat, to golf and tennis, to bowl and keep a wicket at cricket, and to swim. \\ ere it not for her mother’s wise interference she would have taken an aerial expedition with them. They made a balloon ascension some months ago and Miss Drexel wanted to go along, but Mrs. Drexel put her foot down and that ended the matter. The Drexels entertain lavishly on their great yacht. It is really an ocean steamer—the Margarita—and the king and queen have visited them there at Cowes and at other yachting centers. Miss Drexel has the prettiest cabin on the yacht, and its chief dec oration is a signed photograph of Queen Alexandra which she gave Miss Drexel herself. Cut the yacht is nothing to the great town house they has just taken for the next season in London, No. 22 Grosvenor square, in Mayfair. The Drexels have secured a seven years’ lease at a rental of $20,000 a year, and move in within three months. The lease of the house of Lord Cale don, which they have occupied for sev One fears the poor babies suffer very much from the process. The child I saw was fretful and crying and looked as if it were constantly in pain; but the mother, forgetting for the moment her fear of the strange white woman, showed it to me quite proudly, pointing out the cords with a smile. She had a normally shaped head herself and it seemed that she had suffered by her parents' neglect of this important matter, for she was married to a man who was of no particular account. A young girl who was stand ing beside her had evidently had a more careful mother, for her head was almost sugar-loaf shaped. It is interesting to know that this well brought up young woman has married a chief. How He Took It. “Every bit of food on this table,” said the serving lady to Lamson. as he sat down to eat at the church sup per, "was cooked by your wife!” “Oh, I don’t mind,” rejoined Lam son faintly; “I’m not r L^ hungry, anyway! ” MINIATURE SPIRIT TREE, eral years in London, has now ex pired. It is here that the Drexels, with il limitable wealth at their command, will do their most notable entertain ing—chiefly for Miss Drexel. King Edward and Queen Alexandra will be there next season, and some of the affairs there will rival anything in Europe—paid for out of the great for tune made by the grandfather of Miss Drexel in the banking business. No. 22 Grosvenor square is taken unfurnished and it is estimated that the new tenants will require to spend $500,000 to furnish it. Mr. Drexel's ten Empire wardrobes are the pride of his home at the pres ent time. lie has one apartment filled with sixteenth century Italian chests, and one of these has etched panels attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. The new house is to bo a marvel of tasie. The 22 bedrooms are to be furnished Unique Curiosity from the Depths of Old Ocean. Visitors to Mayor Wing’s office dur ing the past few days have been in terested in a curious marine growth which occupies a prominent position on the upper ledge of the mayor’s desk. The thing is a curiosity in its way, having a base of fine coral, cov-’’ : ering a space about equal to a square foot. On one side of this growth of coral are attached two specimens of sheep’s wool sponge, which had grown to the rock. But the most curious thing about the object is a tree-like growth which shoots up from the cen ter of the coral base to a height of about 18 inches. This object is a marine plant, with a trunk like a tree, symmetrical in its proportions and with numerous branches reaching in every direction. The plant is black Louis XV. style; tapestries of rarest value are to be sought out for the halls and staircase, to hang against the white marble walls. The drawing room is of a peculiar L shape and will require a vast quantity of fine things to fill it. As it now stands the walls are undecorated, but Mr. Drexel in tends to cover them with old French brocades and Italian silk tapestries in accordance with the style chosen l lor each room. All this is to provide a temporary home for Miss Drexel, his only daugh ter. He proposes to give some great entertainments for her next year, as his Carlton House Terrace home could only permit parties of limited size. Across the square, at No. 41, Mrs. Drexel will have her sister, Mrs. James H. Smith, widow of “Silent” Smith, which house she took from Lord Winburnholme some time ago. No. 22, however, stands alone at the junction of North Audley and Upper Brook streets. The Italian embassy is opposite, on the other corner. It is the largest available mansion In Mayfair. It has more sleeping ac commodations than Dorchester House, the home of the Reids. Thirty servants are needed for it. The mansion was In such request for great entertain ments this year that the owners were obliged to refuse it to anyone until after Reginald McKenna's wedding, which was held there. At the wedding Lady Jekvll was able to entertain 800 guests with ease In its spacious rooms. The wide mar ble staircase and minstrels' gallery on ihe mezzanine floor are special fea tures. SALUTING A CAT. Unusual Custom Observed by Indian Government. In Poona, at the government house, for more than a quarter of a century, every cat which passed out of the front door at dark was saluted by the sentry, who presented arms to the terrified pussy. It seems that in 1838 Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, died in the government house, Poona, and on the evening of the day of his death a cat was seen to leave the house by the front door, and to walk up and down a particular path, precisely as the late governor had been used to do after sunset. A Hindu sentry observed and reported this to the Sepoys of his faith, and they laid the matter before a priest, who explained to them the mystery of the dogma of the transmi gration of souls. "In this cat,” he said, “was reincar nated the soul of the deceased Gov. Grant, and it should, therefore, be treated with the military honors due to Lis excellency.” famoNrd Bfcm.dz and looks like a tree that had been blasted by some poisonous exhalation. The branches are very long and reach upward and upward, then droop until they touch the coral base, re I minding one of the mythical spirit ; tree of the Polynesias, which, accord j ing to tradition, grows somewhere in i the interior of the larger islands. This tree has a series of branches, covered with flowers which invite the trav elers' admiration, and as the unwary victim approaches they are discov ered to be tentacles which reach downward and draw him into their horrible grasp. Once thus caught, no man has ever escaped the crushing power of these alleged horrible freaks of nature, say the natives. The onlooker familiar with the tale of this mythical tree cannot help won dering if the plant which once grew on a coral reef at the bottom of the gulf and now ornaments the desk of the mayor of Tampa is some miniature of a marine monstrosity with habits like those of the spirit tree.—Tampa Times. Quite Consistent. “But,” protested the manager, “don't you think it looks odd for you to wear your diamonds in the character of the poor deserted wife?” “Oh, no,” replied the actress, “you must have observed that. I have se lected for that purpose the very small est and plainest diamonds I own.”— Philadelphia Press. Too Much for Man. A Kansas gas man who has spent years in the business makes the state ment that natural gas is capricious and that men who have studied it all their lives give up in despair when it comes to explaining the whys and wherefores of some of its ways. The Big Noise. Bill—Why is it the under dog in a fight should get most of the atten tion ? Jill—Because he’s doing all the yelping!—Yonkers Statesman. As, however, the original sentry could not identify the particular cat lie had seen on the evening or the day of Sir Robert’s death, it was decided that every cat which passed out of the main entrance after dark should be saluted as the avatar of his excel lency. Thus for over a quarter of a century every cat that passed out after sunset had military honors paid to it not by Hindu sentinels only, but —such is the infection of a supersti tion—by Mahometan, native, Chris tian and even Jewish soldiers.—Phila delphia Telegraph. Temperature Causes Trouble. The electric locomotives used in the Simplon tunnel are troubled with excessive condensation, affecting tho insulation, due to the difference in temperature in the tunnel and out side. Few and Far Between. An employe of a matrimonial bu reau in Chicago testified on the stand that only ten photographs of men and women out. of 10,000 are of suiliclent merit to attract. Pianos Pianos Pianos Do you want one in your home? If you’re contem plating the purchase of a piano now or in the future, don’t fail to write or call on HAYDEN’S Tlie West’s Greatest Piano House. We carry the largest and most complete stock of high-grade pianos in the country. 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It predicted snow for yesterday and, by gum, it was hot as blazes all day.” “But my dear sir,” responded the bland almanac peddler, “it snowed up at the north pole yesterday.” The old farmer's jaw fell. “It did?” he drawled slowly. “Wal, I reckon the almanac is all right then. It did tell the truth, didn't it?” No Social Standing. "What do you think, Marla?” ex claimed the steel magnate. "Our son Reginald writes that he is on his wed ding trip and his wife is a paragon.” "A Paragon?” echoed his wife. “Dear me! I can’t recall the name of Paragon in the social register. You must look her up at once. John, and see if Reginald has disgraced himself by marrying into an inferior family.” Starch, like everytmng else, is be ing constantly improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. 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