Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
1XHJP CITY, - . NEBRASKA
The Woman and the Collar.
Society may assume that the sign of
woman’s emancipation from the seclu
sion of the harem or the slavery of the
savage tribe is her education, or her
domestic responsibility. Not at all. The
symbol of her freedom to do as she
pleases and to be what she pleases is
her possession of the right to wear the
masculine linen collar. Comfort, trim
ness, respectability, dignity are all en
trenched behind the spotless white of
the carefully laundered band. Safe in
its firm grasp, a woman may be active
or idle, warm or cool, calm or excited.
The history of the collar is interesting.
In its present form it is, of course, a
modern device. Those who would
trace it to the necklace of teeth col
lected by the savage mistake its real
significance. It began its existence in
civilization, not in barbarism. The ruff
invented to hide a royal scar evolved
into the lace ruche and the linen band.
The Byronic collar proclaimed laxity
of morals, as the white stock declared
for the stern virtue of the Puritan.
But the conventional modern collar
has encircled the neck of the modern
freeman for many years, and has ap
parently established its claim as a
kind of insignia of liberty. Let the
.'woman beware how the charms of
lingerie or lace beguile her from her
right in the plain linen collar, urges
the Youth's Companion. When her
role is that of princess or queen, she
may don the necklace or the ruffle.
When she claims her right to a fair
partnership, a good day’s work and a
share of the profits—be they gold or
truth or love—let her wear happily the
white linen yoke, at once buckler and
badge.
Constitution island, which the gen
erosity of Mrs. Russell Sage has pre
sented to the United States govern
ment as an addition to the West Point
reservation, was once a strategic
place. During the revolution a gigan
tic chain was stretched from it to the
mainland to prevent British warships
from making their way up and down
the river. At first, so say the records,
the chain sank so that boats could
float over it; this difficulty was at last
obviated by the use of a log boom.
Several of the links have been pre
served as curiosities, notably at the
Washington headquarters at Newburg,
ano at Trophy Point on the West
Point plateau. Constitution island
was the home of Susan Warner, who
wrote under the pseudonym, Elizabeth
Wetherell. Here “The Wide, Wide
World,” “Queechy” and a score of
books of religion and romance were
composed. Miss Warner is buried near
the Cadets’ monument in the West
Point cemetery. Her sister, Miss
Anna Warner, who also wrote many
novels, still lives on the island. In
presenting the island to the nation,
Mrs. Sage announced that Miss War
ner is a joint donor, inasmuch as she
has “steadily refused, from patriotic
motives,” to accept offers to sell from
private parties, who were willing to
give more than the government could
afford. She is to have the use of her
old home while she lives.
Convention requires that the writer
of a letter shall at the beginning and
end of his epistle express, if he does
not fee], respect for the person whom
he addresses. Sarcasm, vituperation
and virulent hostility may be intro
duced by “Dear sir,” and followed by
“Very respectfully, your obedient serv
ant.” The writers of “baboo” English
in India—some of them, at least—are
more consistent. A sympathizer with
the sedition now in progress in India
lately wrote a letter to an English of
ficial, which is printed in a London
paper, which begins, it is true, with
"Dear sir,” but concludes with this
sentence: “Hoping you are not in good
health, I am your enemy, Gemaji Tim
aji.”
Prof. Dolbeare of Tuft’s college has
found that at 60 degrees Fahr. the
rate of the chirp of crickets is 80 per
minute; at 70 degrees Fahr. the rate
is 120 per minute, a change of four
chirps per minute for each change of
one degree. Prof. Dolbeare also notes
that the individual crickets chirping
by themselves observe no great regu
larity, but in chorus they keep in time
as if led by the wand of a conductor.
Again, the professor asserts that crick
ets in adjoining fields, preserving the
same rate per minute, will follow dif
ferent beats as of their respective con
ductors, “as one may easily perceive
by listening.”
At a recent special session the Geor
gia legislature passed a law which vir
tually ends the convict-lease system.
Heretofore men convicted of penal of
fenses have been leased to contractors
for work of certain kinds. They were
forced to toil in chains, were poorly
fed and ill clothed, and in many cases
subjected to hideous cruelty. The sys
tem also tended toward corruption in
the administration of the laws, and
was altogether evil. Georgia is to be
congratulated upon having rid itself of
the system.
A pension for total disability has
been granted to a soldier who con
tracted leprosy while serving in the
army in the Philippines. It amounts
to $72 a month. The government, very
properly, takes care of those who risk
life and hea’th in its service.
If that Georgia heiress had been
worth five dollars instead of $500,000,
there would have been nothing more
serious than neighborhood gossip over
he- marriage with her father's chauf
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OT many cobblers of the
present day know that they
have a patron saint, but
they have. Saint Crispin
was his name and he held
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preaching Christianity in the day
time and making shoes at night.
Some said he stole the leather, while
others declared that he got it. from
heaven. The former assertion was
probably instigated by the less
saintly cobblers, for St. Crispin sold
his shoes very cheap.
The shoe trade had quite a high
station in the old days. George
Fox, the first of the Quakers, was
a cuunuaner. Hans sacns, tne most eminent poet
of Germany, was a cobbler. So was William Gif
ford, the famous editor of the Quarterly.
Shoes, as we know them, are purely a western
institution. But there is a reason and incidentally
a queer juxtaposition. A Christian takes his hat
off when he enters a church or a house; an Asiatic
shows his reverence by taking his shoes off. Ob
viously it would be quite a nuisance to stoop down
and unlace your shoes every time you called on a
friend or went to church. So the Asiatics wear
shoes that can be kicked off as easily as we can
remove our hats.
Some are made with straw soles and sell for
about ten cents a pair; others are made of wood;
while still others are made of leather of various
kinds. When shoes are reduced to such simple
proportions, it is but natural to expect some rather
crude effects. Peasants often cut strips of wood,
fasten a thong about the big toe and the board
and trudge along as comfortably as the man who
buys the ready-made shoes of America, and in some
cases even more so. Another scheme is to use a
block of wood and stick a knob in it so it will rise
between the big toe and its neighbor and by a
dexterous and practiced use of the toe muscles, it
answers very well indeed.
In Brittany the making of shoes is a village oc
cupation. The whole family chips in on the work,
from the six year old child to the great grand
father, and between them they make the most
of the wooden shoes that are on the market. An
American boy would probably fall down and skin
his knees if he were to try to play in wooden shoes,
but the I'ttle Dutch and Belgian boys romp about
the streets to their heart's content in them and
never even drop them off.
We have been wearing practically the same kind
of shoes for so many years that we are liable to
forget that they varied in styles as radically as
women’s hats do now. During the time of Edward
IV. in England, the parliament had to pass a law
regulating the length of shoes. Some of them
were made so long as to be dangerous. Princes
sometimes wore them even two feet in length,
with the ends stuffed out with straw. One worthy
I Scotch king doubled his back and attached the
points to his belt. But of course that style was in
vogue before the days of trolley cars.
Then, in the next generation when the law pre
! vented long, pointed shoes, they began to broaden
1 and this continued until they had to pass another
law' to stop the broadening. It was at about this
time and later that choppines came in. These
were high supports under the soles, lifting the
wearers some six or eight inches nearer the clouds.
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it was from this queer style that the high Imel
developed, only in those days the heel was sever
al inches higher than those now worn.
Of course, the smallest shoes of all are worn by
Chinese women. Some of these are only two
inches long. The present empress is trying to
break up the cruel custom of misshapening the
feet. Probably in another generation these di
minutive sines will be a curiosity, but up to a
few years ago, a Chinese girl whose feet were
four inches long found it a difficult proposition to
get married, while the parents of the girl with the
two-inch foot was overrun with applicants. As
a compensation to these Chinese women for the
tortures they underwent during the time their
feet were being maltreated they took great pride
in embroidering beautiful designs upon their
shoes. Very few shoes for women are on sale
in China, as nearly all women make their own.
In the northern countries, coarse leather boots
are the customary footwear, partly on account of
the cold, but principally because a low shoe is of
too shallow draft to navigate the poor roads. A
large percentage of these boots are of home man
ufacture, roughly stitched and crude in appear
ance.
Just why shoes for poor persons came into
vogue is a question that remains unanswered.
They originated in the Grecian sandal and have
developed with the increasing tenderness of feet to
the heavy leather affair we all know. Yet an
Irish lassie' who goes about barefooted all her
days has a natural sole upon her foot from a
quarter to a half inch thick. And she does not
have corns, either.
But Americans need not complain of the in
stitution. We made 242,110,035 pairs of shoes
in 1905, or a pair for every inhabitant of America,
France, Germany, Austria, and a few of the small
er countries. The value of the industry.was $320,
170,458. All that was for one year’s output, or
more money than there was in the world when
the first sandal was made. The American shoe
is now walking the streets of every capital of
the world; it is in the shops in every center of
trade; and even on the thresholds of far eastern
temples, the American shoe lies beside the crude
wooden sandals, and late comers stop a moment
to examine it and try it on, if no one is looking.
One of the greatest problems which modern
civilization has had to face is the clothing of
feet. In the days centuries upon centuries ago.
when man was only a wild beast of the jungle,
he wore no shoes and therefore was not bothered
with corns. But to-day when every part of the
body is covered except the hands and head, man's
wearing of shoes has become a necessity.
Thus some of the functions of modern civiliza
tions’ “pedes” are disflppearing. Toenails, no
longer being an actual need among tribes which
wear shoes, are disappearing and a scientist a
few years ago declared that within 100 years
there will be no toenails.
Even the American Indian who, a hundred years
ago, wore moccasins, to-day clothes his feet in
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brogans and he would laugh at his brother red
skin w-ho took to wearing animals’ skins on his
feet. There are few tribes in the world to-day, ex
cept in the darkest portions of Africa, who still
spurn the wearing of shoes in some form or other.
Of course, every nation has its own special kind
of shoes, some of which consist of nothing more
than a flat piece of board and a strap. That
sort are classed under the general caption of
“sandals.”
Hundreds of years ago, when people wore no
shoes they never complained of rheumatism; they
never had ingrowing toenails, neither did they
cultivate corns and seldom could they boast of an
attack of gout. They called it “evil spirit” then.
But the advance of civilization had its drawbacks.
The feet were clothed, but at the same time the
wearing of the shoes brought on disease of these
supports and some authorities doubt 'whether
civilization's feet are any better off to-day than
they were a thousand years ago when they were
filled with slivers, brambles and the like, but
were not nearly as wide a topic for discussion as
they are to-day, for then people didn’t mind the
little inconveniences. To-day, great progress hav
ing been made in that line, smaller ailments of
the feet are a source of complaint.
The most civilized poriions of the world have
developed a tenderness of the feet which has be
come a tradition in the circles which have made
the greatest progress. People who wear pointed
shoes are compelled to suffer the same agonies
that would come if their toes were bound together
with adhesive tape and they were compelled to
walk about thus conditioned. Others who wear
shoes too small have swelling of the feet when
they take off their shoes. Shoes too large produce
corns, just as do small shoes.
Young ladies and some older ones who follow
the fashions w-ith good intent, equip themselves
with French-heeled shoes, which raise the heels
into the air from three to six inches. This of
course gives them a beautiful instep, they claim,
and it also keeps them walking on their toes. It
twists the spine and exerts pressure upon the
base of the brain which brings on fearful head
aches if the practice is kept up for any length of
time each day. Skeptical persons with set ideas
on shoes are talking of asking the next session
of congress to put a tariff on l*rench heels which
will effectively bar them from this country. But
there are so many wives of congressmen and sen
ators who declare that French heels are far more
comfortable than half-inch heels, that the bill has
about t-s much show as the traditional snowball.
Morning Tonic.
The duty of the young man toward his future
self is the greatest duty that he has. It is greater
than his duty to parents, friends or society, for
it includes all these. We should so live that our
future selves :shall have nothing to reproach us
for. Keep clean, keep the body clean from vice,
from drink, from drugs. Keep the mind clean.
SOLICITOUS IN THE EXTREME
Scotch Barrister’s Remarkable Care
for Friend's Safety.
A wet and witty Scotch barrister
ane Saturday encountered an equally
bacchanalian judicial friend in the
I bourse of a walk to Leith. Remem
' oering that he had a good leg of mut
I ton roasting for dinner, he invited his
1 friend to accompany him home, and
1 they accordingly dined together. After
dinner was over, wine and cards com
menced; and as the two friends were
alike fond of each of these recrea
tions, neither ever thought of remind
ing the other of the advance of time
till the next day, as it happened, about
a quarter before 11 o’clock. The judge
then rising to depart, the host walked
behind hijn to the outer door, with a
candle in each hand, by way of show
ing him out. “Tak’ care, my lord,
tak’ care,” cried the kind host, most
anxiously holding the candles out of
the door into the sunny street, along
which the people were pouring to
church, ‘tak’ care; there’s twa steps.”
A Night in a Strong-Room.
On one occasion a locksmith was re
pairing an interior safe in a strong
room of a New York bank when the
cashier closed the vault door. As it
was worked by a time lock it meant
that the door would remain closed un
til the following morning. Fortunate
ly the man knew the secrets of his
stronghold, and by opening a man
hole was able to obtain a sufficient
supply of air. He then made a pillow
of a bag of dollar bills and composed |
himself to sleep until the door was
opened next morning.—The Strand
Magazine.
Money Makes Egotists.
Money is a sort of creation, and
ives the acquirer even more than the
assessor an imagination of his own
ower, and tends to make him idolize
elf.—Cardinal Newman.
FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE.
A Monster Tuberculosis Exhibit for
New York City.
New York—By November 15th the
greatest exhibition on tuberculosis
that has ever been gathered will be
opened to the public in New York
City. The exhibit, which formed part
of the recent International Congress
on Tuberculosis, will be shown under
the auspices of the Tuberculosis Com
mittee of the Charity Organization
Society, and the Department of
Health.
The exhibition consists of charts,
photographs, maps, models, diagrams,
and all sorts of paraphernalia that
have to do with the prevention, study,
or treatment of tuberculosis. Exhi
bits are shown from 15 different coun
ties, and from 200 associations and
individuals. All in all, the exhibition
includes nearly 5,000 units. It will
take 50,000 square feet of floor space
and 110,000 square feet of wall space
for the display of the exhibition. Ten
special cars and over 1,200 packing
cases are required to transport it.
During its three weeks’ stay in
Washington, this exhibit was viewed
by fully 200.0 > people. The exhibit
of the Charity Organization Society,
which forms but one small unit of
this entire exhibition, has been view
ed by over a half million people in
New York City. From these figures,
and a comparison with the attendance
of similar exhibitions, it is estimated
by the authorities in charge of the
present exhibit that probably over a
million people will see this educa
tional display while it is in New York
City.
The exhibit, as it will be shown in
New York City, is unique, not only
in the fact that it is the greatest of
its kind ever gathered together, but
also because this demonstration, col
lected for a purely educational pur
pose, is used to illustrate the dangers
of only one disease. The entire exhi
bition publishes and carries but one
message, that consumption can bo
cured, and that the eure for the dis
ease is fresh air, rest and wholesome
food. These simple facts are empha
sized in every conceivable way.
Charts and diagrams show the fear
ful ravages of tuberculosis in various
parts of the world. In the German
exhibit a series of small painted
wooden pillars and blocks of differ
ent heights demonstrate the com
parative mortality from consumption
in various groups of the people. The
I nited States Census Bureau shows
the deaths from tuberculosis in a
unique way. indicating by a flash of
electric light that some one is dying
from tuberculosis in the United
States every two minutes and thirty,
six seconds.; 23 every hour, and 548
every day.
Some of the most interesting ex
hibits are those showing the treat
ment of tuberculosis. One fact is
emphasized, however, in every sana
torium, “shack’’ or dwelling house of
fered as a means of treating con
sumption, and that is that the patient
must have an abundance of fresh air.
Every model of buildings shown is
designed to give a maximum amount
of fresh air to the patient both day
rnd night. Balconies, houses, tents,
and groups of buildings of every sort
show this phase of the campaign
against tuberculosis.
The numerous means employed to
spread the “gcspel of fresh air. rest
and wholesome food” are shown in
pamphlets, books, phonographs, and
small exhibits. Hundreds of tons of
literature are being prepared for free
distribution at the coming exhibition.
Everyone who attends will be able to
receive information on any side of
the tuberculosis problem in any of
the American or European languages.
Among the individual exhibits
which will be shown in New York are
eight, which recently received from
the International Congress on Tuber
culosis prizes ranging in value from
81,000 to $100. Besides these, 44 of
the exhibits to be shown were recipi
ents of gold meda’s, and 43 of silver
ones.
The exhibition will remain in New
York City for one month. At the
end of that time it will be broken up
into several units, the various states,
countries and individuals who have
contributed to it taking their respec
tive parts with them. It is probable,
however, that part of the exhibition
will be shown in several other large
cities of the country.
Nebraska Association for Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, 408 City
Hall, Omaha.
The Ti'bercu'esis Exhibit.
The tuberculosis exhibit created
great interest among the teachers as
sembled here. About 9,000 people vis
ited the exhibit and attended the
daily lectures. People crowded the
hall each evening to attend the ilus
trated lecture and the speeches by
prominent men of Lincoln and other
"ities of the state which immediately
followed the pictures. Among those
who contributed lectures were Chan
cellor E. Beniamin Andrews, Dr. A. S
Von Mansfelde of Ashland, A. R. Tal
bot, Dr. R. C. McDonald of Fremont.
SERMON SENTENCES.
Friendship cannot live save in free
dom.
liberality is the saving grace of
'rugality.
It is better to be gracious than to
be graceful.
You can get fine work only from
free hearts.
Makers of criticism are never good
takers thereof.
No man can long be a bigot who
tries to be a brother.
He co”nts for most in prayer who
counts himself last of all
REFLECTIONS.
When a man loves, he tells it; when
a worran entertains the little god, she
immediately scoffs at the grand pas
sion.
Reason is a man’s stock in trade;
a woman keeps it on a back shelf to
pull out occasionally in case com
plaint is made as to its lack.
When a woman arrives at the stage
where she has positively nothing to 1
worry about she will nay some fortune
teller a sma’l fortune to supply the
need.—Grace G. Bostwick, in The Sun
day Magazine.
The
General Demand
of the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its com
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex
cellent combination of Syrup of Fig3 and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-Informed
I To get its beneficial effects always buy
! the genuine—manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cent*
per bottie.
SEEMED A TRIFLE PERSONAL.
Clergyman’s Particular Reason for
Omitting the Fifth Verse.
A clergyman in an interior town
( married a woman from whom he re
ceived a dowry of $10,000 and a pros
I pect of more. Shortly afterwards,
while occupying the pulpit, he gave
out a hymn, read the first verse and
proceeded to read the fifth, com
I mencing:
“Forever let my grateful heart.'”
then he hesitated and exclaimed:
i “The choir will omit the fifth verse.'’
Some of the congregation read the
verse for themselves and smiled aa
they read:
Forever let my grateful heart
| His boundless grace adore,
Which gives ten thousand blessings now
And bids me hope for more.
FOR THE LADY OR THE AUTO.
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Expressman—I don’t know whether
this comes here. The address is in
distinct.
Housemaid—I guess it's all right
it's either a new tire for the auto, or
a new hat for the missus!
Tune Kermit Whistled.
Mr. W. VV. Miller, a well-known law
yer, tells an anecdote of Kermit Roose
velt, the president's son.
"I was acting as steward,” says Mr.
Miller, “in some gymkhana races at
Oyster Ray a few weeks ago, and one
of the events was a race in which the
contestants had ta ride a given dis
tance to a certain spot where an equal
number of young ladies stood with
pencil, paper and envelope. Each
rider had to dismount here and whis
tie a tune, the lady writing its name
down on the paper. She then had tc
seal it up in the envelope and hand
it to the rider, who remounted and
finished the race, delivering the en
velope to the judges’ stand. The first
ane in with a correct answer won the
event.
“As steward, I was deputized before
the race to write down the name of
the tune each entrant would whistle
“What are you going to whistle?" I
tsked young Kermit.
“I'm going to whistle ‘Everybody
Works but Father,’ ” said the presi
dent’s son.
Real Self-Possession.
Not long ago a young couple entered
a railway carriage at Sheffield and
were immediately put down as a bridal
pair. But they were remarkably self
possessed and behaved with such
sang-froid that the other passengers
oegan to doubt if their first surmise
was correct after all.
As the train moved out, however,
the young man rose to remove his
overcoat, and a shower of rice fell out.
while the passengers smiled broadly.
But even that did not affect the
youth, who also smiled, and. turning
to his partner, remarked audibly:
“By Jove, May! I’ve stolen the bride
groom's overcoat!”—Tatler.
EAGER TO WORK
Health Regained by Right Food.
The average healthy man or woman
is usually eager to be busy at some
useful task or employment.
But let dyspepsia or indigestion get
hold of one, and all endeavor becomes
a burden.
“A year ago, after recovering from
an operation,” writes a Mich, lady, "nr
stomach and nerves began to give me
much trouble.
"At times my appetite was vora
cious, but when indulged, indigestion
followed. Other times I had no appetite
whatever. The food I took did not
nourish me, and I grew weaker than
ever.
“I lost interest in everything, and
wanted to be alone. I had always had
good nerves, but now the merest trifle
would upset me and bring on a vio
lent headache. Walking across the
room was an effort and prescribed ex
ercise was out of the question.
“I had seen Grape-Nuts advertised,
but did not believe what I read, at
the time. At last when it seemed as
if I were literally starving, I began to
eat Grape-Nuts.
“I had not been able to work for
a year, but now after two months on
Grape-Nuts I am eager to be at work
again. My stomach gives me no trou
ble now, my nerves are steady as
eyer, and intsrest in life and ambition
have came back with the return to
health.”
“There's a Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs.
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