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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1911)
Midsummer Hats LACES use Eels »•* more generally •jm4 it tanking hats lor bM »-ttsue*- thaa lor many seasons They are Bee for remodeling •hi.tee -hat have faeen worn hot are aeaiiaTite Joe a second or third season a* . I StiwraA and iBflans if the used *ha;e is discolored or oot It periect 'epai-i. ruAoa of iace. se*ed one row fche»e —wither. may easily corer 'he rpjwr torts entirely. With a crown of net draped orer a thin silk lor the to; to part of the origins 1 shape is rtetW earept the coder tons. Sue* * tat ss shown la Fg i The lace Is a tiers ac ral pa flora and is kt:le platted making ruffle* A little less thaa 'wo Itches wide. These are sup •tar-toed to the trim r » The wreath of buds and foliage ab< -t -be crown at the base is ali that u> needed to complete the hat. A ieghorn it. Fig Z shows the under rim -. v- red to w ithin an inch and a half of the edge wttb a dotted net in paie blue A big puffed crown of the net .= draped over a wreath of by irungea*. which grows wider at the beck, where it climbs to the top ' the -rown Very little of the upper brie, is visible and the crown of this hat :s almost wholly concealed. On •be Town the net is draped over plaiD r. "on a 'rifle i.ghter in tone than Itself This is another excellent de Mgn for a bat which is to be remod eled from one that ‘hows signs oi wear JULIA BOTTCMLEY. CLEVER USES OF BASKETS •*«»« try Pretty lirg -c-es by Ui( d Cneag Water* a and Little Artistic Sa il. A woman who ike* to tare her bow*e fall of grow.ng pUnt* in win ter baa discovered the baskets which fan be bough', for 1*' rents make very pretty inrd.t-.rre* These baskets, in oM-fnshloted willow ware, coat in dark creer. deep red ard brown, and any at them are effective with the r-eer of the piii'» says the New Tork Tribute If the baskets are bought .a a lbeect store it Is meet Hfce'y t: *t fne w ill need on.'y to go U a*c*ter depart treat to boy for If* cents tie pans that will eiartfy fit then. : r-tore being filled by the fior Sat the pans should tie painted grass gn-er. or to match tbe basket Owe at these baskets may also, m "h a little m'tre max!; -iatloa. he made to fir. the more pcnagjg sphere of a work hoabe* :tned with Persian silk It. hartsonir-iig rotors. On one side Is a p» ket of s Ik drawn up by nar row e'astir, and small bows bolding In place an emery ball, a bodkin, a glove mender and a needle book make a pre'-y d«< ratio* at ng the edge The cuter edge > trimmed with a mode** ttle fancy fringe style s "be brown one. wo a ye'low added for brightness Tte e t a mat in the bertom cut from cardboard and coveted with brown » Ik. w: • iaf-ned to the under wide with g!a* The little silk eush l*a, whirl, is of tbe tomato order, n-eaeures four and a half inches * roan Both mat and cushion are t«-d a place by *wo stitches « strong * • 'tat go through tbe bottom of the basket a yard and a half of rib * t free and a quarter irrhes wide « he required to hold the spools •t-d to make tbe bow A quarter of a card of a w-tder rf.be* :a tbe came * t-nde will do far the cushion C<-*act***eS Cuff Links. Cut ■ :.k* for mash waists may be r ade *—<tt two crochet buttons, sewed •ewe*bee Ufet 'he parts of a dumbbell • * * b a frutr thread loop of the fight Wng-h which u the* button bmd e'er and aver These links win wash. t-» pretty and are not easily loot. t«- -oe* bethg eroccmlral Cnames Trimmings. Ac odd bet beuuttful event** gown la d -hennas colored tulle, with em ■ MUMhi worked oc reel chamois matter It Japanese style with floaa silks The design* are '-hryaantbe cut» la lovely shades of yellow, gray and drab, acd here and there a dra pc worked it silver thread. GRACEFUL LINGERIE DRESS. Beautifully embroidered in pale blue and white Horsehair Turban. Among the comfortable hats that have be»r. invented for summer wear, espe ally when traveling or motor :g is a turban of colored horsehair The French call This material by the name of <rin and it is woven out oi * .ch silken threads that it has prac tically no weight. Tl> form of these turbans is Eas Indian. They are wrapped or swathed around a small frame of milliner's wire and lined with white China silk They are exteient for steamer wear because they have no brim, and one <: n lean bark against the chair with entire comfort. Of course, for the woman who m ist have her eyes al ways shaded from the light these tur bans are impossible, but for the ordi nary mortal they are both stylish and comfortable. CARE Of THE GIRL'S ROOM Tr.ce ef Ha* in* Apa-*mef»t Beautiful. Attractive aid Clean la Simple and Easily Learned A *cr! rsa iewrc noth lag more use ful Lap -he simple trick of bavin* her own roam beautiful, attractive aed clean. It is not sissy* possible to Lave the furniture, but oae can Lave a "fcomey lookin*" room. One Tfcua* it absolutely nec«-eesry. a room maat be dean, bedspreads, pretty lltaen dresser pieces and chair cush gn arrrsiTT Cover the trunk (It kept la the room! with a « r-tonne rover, and have a scrap basket to toed little adds and ends which must be burned On tbs table Lave well selected and ma*azlnea Keep *ay rascal cards ts a neat postal card book. Do not decorate the nails with them, for pretty as they are they soon > -rooked and make a room look untidy Hare a place lor shorn, lor tf any tt®* makes a room upset It is n pair at tan shoes lytn*. p!«oea toed. under the bed and another pair of black ones under the dresser Keep the closet in order so that when the door Is opened you will net be ashamed to have anyone see how you keep your clothes If you put things away aa you use them you. can have a room like this Have ?|ie palm or fern grace your room, and if it dies get a new one. Combinations Quick Sellers. Combination garments have taken so well with the trade that they are now made In the cheapest grade, as w«il as the highest priced numbers, says the Dry Gocds Economist. Ef fective corset-cover and drawer com binations are made of wide embroid ery. the corset-cover being made of one piece. The embroidery being wide enough to form the leg of the drawer, a narrow yoke joins the cor set cover and drawer section. So lit tle workmanshipis required on these numbers that the quality is exception ally good In the cheap grades, as the extra cost Is put Into the material. Railroad Caruso With a Cyclone in Either Lung. Clyde Haye«, Who Calls the Trains ir Chicago's Big Northwestern Sta tion, Has a Voice Like a Foghorn. Chicago.—Clyde B. Hayes is the rail road Caruso. Every day from 3:30 p. a. to 11 he proclaims the departure of more trams than any other station caller. His concert platform is of ail steel construction and it is located way up near the splendid ceiling of ;he new Northwestern railroad Sta tion. Thirty thousand people each day lend appreciative ears as he skylarks he suburban schedule on the Milwau tee and Galena divisions, plus enough overland trains to keep Chicago and the Pacific coast bound in close fei owship. Presidents of the L'cited States, fcov orators. world| lamou ivangelists, divinities of grand opera, oasebull umpires—none of these ever lad the constant opportunities of Train Announcer Hayes to enlighten and tlectrify a listening multitude. Passing swiftly over the poor boy and burning ambition section of his •ife. we find Hayes in full charge of a night accommodation train in Nebras ka. Yes, until recently he was a rail oad conductor, and was treading the threadbare aisle of a Nebraska ac xmmodation, occasionally unhooking a brightly nickled lantern trom bis ieft elbow and dropping off into the night to wigwag the engineer One day the division superintendent of the Northwestern line at Omaha summoned young Conductor Hayes in to his grim presence. "Are you aware. Mr. Hayes, that you have been ’turned in' a number of I--1 i1' 'U Caller Hayes. times lately?" said tiie superintendent to the conductor after the latter had nervously placed his cap on the edge of the glass topped table. Hayes trembled and his heart sank To be “turned in,” in railroad patois means to be the object of complaint? by passengers. “\Vhat have I done, sir?" he mur mured anxiously. "You have disturbed the sleep of s large number of passengers on this line,” said the superintendent. "Let ters bave come to me from traveling men who ride on your train, and they say that when you announce a station at night your voice not only wakes them, but scares them and knocks them out oi a proper frame of mind to do business the next day. Here after, Mr. Hayes, when calling out sta tions I wish you would not try to dis place the window panes or experiment with sound vibrations on the bell rope But it seems that Mr. Hayes is e walking library for volumes and vol umes of stentorian noise. It couldnl be suppressed, and as he had no time to attend a ball game and let out steam on the bleachers, he had to re sume his old habit of standing at one end of a yellow car and closing the Joor at the opposite end by sheer force of his low register. Also he would cough when impelled by the platfortr draft, and the stovepipe would col lapse with a jangling noise. For a time the gentle patter of cinders would be stilled and the volatile dents in the water cooler would take up tht echoes. At least, that was the descrip tion given by the sleep-eager passen gers who signed a petition which was sent to the big chief at Omaha err another month had passed. The railroad officials were deeply puzzled by the case of Conductoi Hayes, who had proved himself relia ble and efficient in every other way Some one suggested putting him cn i day run, where people sleep at theli own risk, or at the mercy of the trait butcher. in the meantime the hilarious story of Conductor Hayes and the sleepy drummers found its way to Chicajrc and Conductor Hayes was ordered u report here. He came wondering ant promptly be was set to work learn ing the list of train departures. Ther when the new station was opened like an admiral on the porch of a bat tlesbip, be stood in his high balcony and began his interminable recita tions in earnest. For a day or so h« wrestled with echoes and acousti: snares, but now he has mastered the problem of resonance in the great sta tion. Speed* With Horsp Car. New York.—John Scott was fine* $1 for speeding his horses attached t« : a crosstown car. Magistrate Corrigan warned the oh driver that only his gray hairs save< him. "Hundreds," said Corrigan, "migh have been shocked to death at th> sight." Breaks Wrist Swatting Fly. Dubuque, la.—Willard Steiner, a mu sic teacher, while following the injum tion to “swat the fly,” broke hi wrist. MANY ADVANTAGES OF USING CONCRETE FOR FEEDING FLOOR Material Is Ideal As It Not Only Effects Saving In Feed Shortening In Time of Fattening and Decrease in Labor, But Also Affords Protection to Health of Animal—Keeps Out Rats. y j. 1/ Merely Several Sidewalks Side by Side. Every stockman and farmer knows the advantages of some sort of feed tag floor, writes Percy H. Wilson in the Prairie Fanner. Wooden floors are all right for <- short time, but they soon become rotten and infested with disease germs. In concrete the farmer has found an ideal floor material. Such floors not only affect a saving in feed, a shortening in the time of fattening and a decrease in labor, but also afford j perfect protection to the health of the animal. Concrete floors do not soak up water and therefore cannot be come infested with disease germs. Their surfaces can be easily cleaned and thoroughly disinfected with oils and dips. Kats cannot nest under them. Careful tests have shown that j concrete floors, through the saving of i (train and manure alone, pay for them- i selves in the short period of one ■ rear. Feeding floors are merely several 1 sidewalks laid side by side, and the same general rules of construction ap ply to them. Choose a site in the lot where the ground is slightly sloping, well drained and wind-protected and convenient to feed and water. Excavate to a depth of 12 inches for the drainage foundation. and around the outside edges of the entire floor iig a trench 12 inches wide and 15 inches deep. (This trench, filled with concrete, prevents hog wallows from undermining the floor and keeps the rats from nesting under it) Fill all of this space (except the trench) to ;he natural ground level with well tamped coarse gravel, crushed rock. ■ :he tile culls of brickbats. This fill j forms the drainage foundation as for sidewalks. The floor must be graded or sloped so that water will not collect on it in j the winter and so that the manure : washings may be caught by the gutters ind run to the water-tight manure pit. (To shape the gutter, make a mold or ■ temple by rounding the corners on the flat side of a six-foot length of four by six-incb timber.) A gentie slope, to ward the lower comer, of one-eighth to one-fourth inch for each foot of length or width is sufficient. This is secured by the use of & heavy grade stake at each comer c: the floor, a straight edge or a grade line, and a spirit , levet It is an advantage to have a feed ing floor Its full thickness above ground. Make light floors four inches and floors subject to heavy loads six inches thick For the forms use two inch lumber of a width equal to the floor thickness. Begin on the icw side of the floor. Mark the grade height of each corner stake and set the forms to a grade cord stretched from stake to stake. Use only good materials and mix the concrete one part Portland cement to two and one-half parts sand to five parts screened gravel or crush ed rock, or ore part Portland cement to five parts band-run gravel. Measure the materials exactly; count one sack of cement equal to one cubic foot Always begin placing the concrete on the low side of the floor, so that the rain from sudden showers will not run from the hard onto the newly placed concrete. Fill the trench and the slab section of the forms with con Crete. Bring the surface to grade by drawing over it a straight edge with its ends on the opposite forms or with one end on the form and the other on the finished concrete. Four inches in from the edge, on each of the low sides, temporarily imbed the rounded four by six-inch gutter mold acd tamp it down until its square top is even with the surface of the slab section of the floor. Remove the mold and finish the surface with a wooden float. The day after the concrete in each section is placed, carefully throw on a cover ing of hay or straw and keep it thor oughly, wet for a week. Connect the gutters with the manure pit by means of a trough, another gutter, or by large drain tile laid underground. If con crete feeding troughs and racks are tc be built at some future time, make the necessary mortises by temporarily im bedding blocks or wooden frames k the soft concrete. Growing Berries. One cf tfce difficulties presented in growing raspberries, blackberries and ■ particularly grapes is to keep up tfce supply of fcumus and available plant food. GOOD QUALITIES I OF PURE-BREDS Voice of Hogs Depends Largely on Care and Attention Given Them—More Uniform In Color Style and Finish. 'Ey E. E. AXLINE. Missouri.) "rhe value of pure-bred hogs de pends largely on the care and atten tion given them. Care and attention pay well when given to any kind of live stock, and if we have pure-breds we naturally feel more interest in j them an- will take better care of them than if they were grades of Inferior j quality. Pure-breds breed evener. are more I uniform in color, have more style and finish. They feed quicker, mature or develop earlier with less fat than most grades. This makes them more profit able for the farmer and feeder to grow and feed and of course they are better sellers. As a breeder for more than twenty years, I have found that it pays to i breed pure-breds and as a farmer and feeder for over thirty years I know it pays well to raise the best for feed ing purposes. A car load .of pure-breds of any breed of a uniform style and color will always command a premium on the market Pure-bred dams are generally of a quiet and gentle dis position and can be easily handled at farrowing time, which is a great help in saving litters, especially when farrowed in bad weather, in win'er or early spring, when it is very essen tial that the young pigs be looked utt er. ' Pure-breds of the best quality are ready for market at any age. A pure bred of from 100 to 150 pounds will often sell for more per pound than a heavier and older hog. If disease should get In your feed lot or even in your immediate neigh borhood your pure-breds are ready to go to market at any age and they will always sell higher than grades ol any breed of same weight j It pays well to breed, feed and set pure-breds of the very best quality of any ;reed in preference to grades SUPERIOR FIVE ! HORSE EVENER Animals Work Two Against On* and Three Against Two, Which Is Better Than Four Against One. The illustration given berewitl shows an excellent Eve-horse evener As will be seen the horses are work ing two against one and three agains two, which is much better than fou’ it Five Horse Evener. . i against one. In the latter case th« single aorse has a snap unless it ii docketl several inches. This evene: works well on a sulky. Feed for Cow*. While there Is a difference in the value of feed consumed by different cows In the same herd, this difference in most herds will be less than $5, and will rarely exceed $10. yet the returns from the different cows in the herd will vary from $30 to $S0, or. to state it another way. $i worth of feed will produce less than $1 worth of milk from one cow. while in the same herd another will produce more than $2 worth of milk. Buffalo Grass. Farmers are not using much feed, but stock are doing well on buffalo grass, which cures up like hay. It does not come up new each year like other grass, but all the dry blades become green again. Russian thistles cured like hay are mostly fed here, and what threatened to be a pest has been a blessing. Early Maturity. Early maturity is a good thing, but it may be carried too far. Calf beef should not be called champion beef until we have a new definition at beef excellence. Coal Ashes on Stiff Clay. Coal ashes have no particular fei til**ing value, yet they are good foi stiff clay garden soil, making it light 1 er «nd easier to work. Wood ashes are an excellent general fertilizer foi both the vegetable and flower garden as is also soot from stoves and pipes Market Veal Calves Early. Calves that are fit only for vea should be marketed early as the price is then higher than it is a few weeks' later, and this, with the feed saved by early marketing, insures consider ably more profits than to hold the calves till they are larger. Three Things in Pruning. If you prune an orchard, * you dc three things; you grow more and bet ter apples; your apples are easier to pick, and your orchard ia easier to cultivate. When Not to Plow. Do not plow when the ground ia wet When this is done the soil is compacted into hard lamps. SHE WANTED FULL WEIGHT. Butcher—Haven't seen you in my shcp lately, ma'am. I hope you haven’t stopped trading with me entirely. Mrs. Blunt—Yes, entirely, sir. I’m E woman that doesn't believe in hal£ weigh measures. BABY’S HA!R ALL CAME OUT "When my first baby was six months old he broke out on his head with little tumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break cut again and it spread all over his head. All the hair came out and his head was scaly all ever. Then his face broke out all ever in red humps and it kept spreading until it was on his hands and arms. I bought several boxes of ointment, gave him blood medicine, and had two doctors to treat him. but he get worse all the time. He had it about six months when a friend told me about Cuticura. I sent and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. In three days after using them he began to Im prove. He began to take long naps and to stop scratching his head. After taking two bottles of Resolvent, two noxes of Ointment and three cakes of Soap he was sound and well, and never had any breaking out of any kind. His hair came out in little curls all over his head. I don't think anything else would have cured him except Cuti cura. I have bought Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap several times since to use for cuts and sores and have never known them to fail to cure what I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the best that I have ever used for toilet purposes.” (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Har mon, R. F. D. 2. Atoka. Tenn. Sept. 10. 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam ple of each, with 32-page took, will be mailed free on application to "Cuti cura,” Dept. 16 L, Boston. Generous. “Was he generous when a boy at school T "Yes; he always let his school mates take his share of the punish ment.”—Judge. Cole's Carbolisalve quickly relieves and cures burning, itching and torturing sttir diseases. It instantly stops the pain of burns. Cures without scars. 25c and 50c by druggists. For free sample write to J. W. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls. Wis. When the bill collector comes in at the door the dead beat hikes for the cellar. ^^ Laundry work at home would b* much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used, la order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces . sarv to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness or the fabric is . hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear j quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. His Prescription. A young doctor wishing to engage 1 the company of a young lady for a , buggy ride, sent the following pre scription: One buggy, one horse, one good road, one doctor. Take from 3 p. m. on.—Judge. DISTEMPER In all its forms among all ages of hordes, as v,ell as dogs, cured and others in same stahie prevented from having the disease with. SPOHX’S DISTEMPER CURE. Every bottle guaranteed Over 600.000 bottles sold last year *.50 and $1.00. Any good druggist, or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted. Spokn Medical Co., bpec. Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind. As Willie Saw It. Ma—Is the,clock running, Willie? Willie—No. ma; it's just standing still and wagging its tail.—Judge. Beaut.ful rest Cards Free. 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