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
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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.
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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
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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.
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GRA35VILLE SUMMER TOURISTS.
First Mountain Climber—Come on,
fellows; we're above the timber line
and will soon be on the summit.
Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric Is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
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Satisfied.
"Look here!” grumbled the old farm
er. "This here almanac is a fraud. 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
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Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
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Withholding the Price.
“Muggsy tried ter quit boozin’. He
onct tried de gold cure, but it wasn't
no good."
“Naw, de on’y thing for him would
be de nickel cure.”
“De nickel cure?”
“Yeh; koepin' nickels away from
him.”—Philadelphia Press.
With n smooth fron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
■team laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and It will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
Mud for His.
Yeast—It is said if the real estate
of Manhattan island were divided
equally among its inhabitants, each
individual would own $220 worth, ac
cording to the assessed value.
Crimsonbeak—And I suppose it would
just be my luck to get my share all
in mud!
Would De Cheaper.
A church appointed a committ c to
get subscriptions for a chime of bells.
They had seen nearly all the congre
gation.
When they went to see a rather
roor member they told him they
would like a small amount toward it.
He promised to give as much as he
could, but he said: "Don't you think
it would be cheaper to put a whistle
in?”
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