Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1906)
Every Parent who is economically inclined, and who has school boys to clothe, should by all means look over our splendid assortments in Boys' Clothing, Furnish ings and shoes, before buying elsewhere. The better judge you are of values the more anxious we are for you to critically examine and price our boys' school wearables. We are pleased to call attention to our Special School Suit of all wool ma terials, extra well made in latest stylesvariety of nobby patterns in handsome and serviceable col orings. Two pairs of Knickerbocker trousers with these special school suits. The sizes are for boys from 7 to I7 years, and the price is $4.95, and it is the best clothes value . ever offered at this price. A PRETTY SHOULDER I feCSt sLv'.' nmfmr Greatest - C550v ' ,rl"'f . I Wtoer mm l Harry Thaw, who killed Stanford White in the roof theater of Madison Square Garden, will be brought to trial for the murder In September. The insanity plea on which Thaw's lawyers had hoped to secure his ac quittal seems to have fallen flat, as Thaw, himself, will have none of it. The trial promises to be one of the most sensational in the history of the criminal cases in this country. Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit, it is said will tell the story of her life and her relations with White, to the jury In an effort to save her husband from the electric chair at ing-Sing. Society people, millionaires, chorus girls and members of New York's bohemia will contribute to the ssnsational testimony with which the "lwyers hope to secure Thaw's acquittal. A Queer Hermit Sect iri Switzerland. Eat Only Fruit and Vegetables and Wear But Few Clothes Go to Bed at Sundown "Back to Na ture" Is Their Motto. " Geneva, Switzerland. The strange colonies of hermits who have taken up their abode in the neighborhood of Locarno, Ronco and Orsulina are increasing in numbers. One group, which occupies the wooded plateau known as Monte Verita, Is 125 strong, and counts in its members six German professors, three military officers, one of whom is married to a countess who also be longs to the sect, two doctors and a priest. The majority are well-to-do, and sbine are wealthy. As these pay well for anything: they buy and do not . trouble about making converts, the Inhabitants are on friendly terms with them. They sleep in caves, are vegetari ans, and do not wear ordinary cloth ing. A linen hood and a shroud ot the same material are the only gar ments they wear. Their feet, legs, arms and neck are uncovered, and the hair Is never cut, though the men trim their beards in a patriarchal way. The women allow their tresses to ttoat in the air. The motto of all is "Back to na ture." "The height of wisdom and philoso phy," they say. "is to understand na ture; that alone brings peace and happiness." They rise at dawn and go to sleep with the setting of the sun; they eat only fruit and vegetables and drink only water. In the summer they have daily sun baths, and in the winter snow baths. Some of them have extraordinary theories, which they carry out with great perseverance. One beautiful woman of SO, who was formerly a well-known singer at the Berlin op era, refuses to touch money, which she says is the root of all evil. Her theory often lands' her In difficulties, from hich she occasionally extricates herself by singing to her debtors. Another members eats only vegeta bles that ripen underground. A third confines himself strictly to raw eggs and potatoes. A fourth spends $25 a week among the poor villagers and keeps the doc tors busy by bringing to their notice cases for which he pays. HEN MOTHERS BABY PICS. Illinois Plymouth Bock Fowl Carries Her Maternal Instinct to Unique Extreme. Areola, 111. A clucking Plymouth Rock hen mothering five little grunting red pigs really appears to be carrying the mother instinct a little beyond its legitimate bounds. The case in question may be seen at W. A. McClain's farm, two miles south west, of this city. An old hen wanted to sit in the hog shed at the time the little pigs were born, and as she was denied the eggs necessary for the ful fillment of her desires; she determined not to be outwitted, and arose to the emergency by volunteering to accept the responsibilities of motherhood witb Mrs. Hog. The offer apparently was accepted in good faith, and since the day ol their birth she has been constantly with them day and night. At evening she always, gathers two of them under her sheltering wings, where they spend the night, apparently with the greatest satisfaction. The devotion seems to be mutual. Beggars Collect Large Sum. The London Police think that the beggars of that great metropolis col lect about $15,000,000 every year. TO A LABOR LEADER. Monument to Founder of Labor Day Unveiled at Camden, N. J. One -of the most Interesting events of Labor Day was the unveiling of a Hliaft to the memory of P. J. Mc Gulre, who Is hailed as the Father of Labor Duy. The ceremony took place In Arlington cemetery, Camden, N. J., and was participated In by , trades unionists of that city and Philadelphia. The eulogy of the dead labor leader was pronounced by Wesley C. Hall of Carpenters' Union No. 8 of -Philadelphia, of which Mr. McGuire was a member. That ceremony was to have been performed by President Samuel Gompers, who Is absent in Maine, con ducting a campaign against Represent ative Llttlefleld. James Ryan of the organization also spoke of the life and work of Mr. McGuire. There came near not being any cere mony at all, owing to the fact that it was discovered at the last minute that the Inscription on the shaft had been cut by non-union granite cutters. The members of the Philadelphia Granite Cutters' Union entered a protest. When It was unheeded they refused to par ticipate either In the Labor Day parade or the subsequent ceremony. The Building Trades . Council, to whom they appealed, decided that it was too late to back out. P. J. McGuire was born July 6, 1858, and died February 18 of this year. He was not only the founder of the Brotherhood of . Carpenters and Join ers, but assisted in the formation of the American Federation of Labor, of which he was for 20 years first vice-president. An Open Two Cent Rate. The Vanderbilt railroads have de clared war upon the Pennsylvania sys tem in the matter of passenger fares, taking action that meets the recent move of the Pennsylvania in issuing a 1,000 mile book for a flat charge of $20, and goes further by invading cen tral passenger association territory and giving the Vanderbilt book unlim ited life. Swallowed Peach Stone. A small son of John Rosenberg, a baker of Auburn, swallowed a peach seed, which lodged in his throat, and he could not remove it until several physicians were summoned, who suc ceeded In dislodging the seed and push ing it downward. The boy's throat was badly lacerated. ALMOST ANY WOMAN MAY HAVE THEM IF SHE LIKES. How to Acquire the Proper Slope and Plumpness and How to Dress the "Different Shapes with Best Effect. Just one woman in 20 has a pair ot shoulders the right shape. These sta tistics are gathered from a certain beauty specialist. The other 19 have shoulders that are either too high or too low. Many have round shoulders. Others have hoop shoulders. One out of three will have shoulders that ex tend too far forward. Fifty per cent, have . shoulders of unequal height. Twenty-five per cent, have shoulders that would be right if they were car ried right. And this list of defects might be carried on indefinitely, sc numerous are the faults of those Who might have and should have a good pair of shoulders. If the shoulders are thin there is a diet which will plump them out a lit. tie. To try this diet means very little self denial for it consists of food which nearly everybody likes. The basis is chocolate, and the chocolate diet will, in time, make not only the neck, but the arms and shoulders and hands plump. There Is, put away in an obscure but picturesque part of Germany, a little "cure" which is "called the chocolate cure. - Here the patients go to get stout- They study the scenery, drink chocolate and cocoa, eat It and grow just fat enough.; .- The beauty of the chocolate "cure" is that the fat settles in the right place. It does not stop at the abdo men. But it settles, rather, in the arms, the hands, the neck and the shoulders.' In a very little while the patients become beautiful. The cereals will plump out the neck, but one must not take too much cream with them. Vegetables also plump the neck, but one must be care ful to take them fresh and without too much butter. There are fats which seem to settle In the abdomen and other fats which go toward the shoul ders and hands.. It is curious to the student of beauty to observe the dif ferent direction which the flesh will take. One kind of food, namely pota toes, will make the abdomen full. An other kind of food will make the shoul ders stout, while a third kind will cause the cheeks to grow fat. It is a knowledge of these various kinds of food which makes a woman pretty or otherwise. She can really govern her fat to suit herself if she knows what to eat. If the shoulders are of the. sloping or old-fashioned type they should be dressed very plainly. A Quaker hand kerchief folded around the shoulders in such, a manner as to make them still lower and still more sloping is the prettiest thing in the work. Next comes the Priscilla scarf, which is a sort of plain muslin fichu; and third, there is the plain round low neck, with its neat finish and its delicate dge. All of these serve to bring out the old fashioned lowness of the old-fashioned low sloping shoulder. The shoulder of the matron which is the plump, round shoulder, is the shoulder that can be- dfessed showily. It can be wrapped with furs and dressed with velvets. It can be en circled with real lace and it c$n be looped and twined with jewels. This shoulder is massaged until it is very plump; bleached until it is very white; pinched until it is full of life, and spatted until it is smooth. The girlish shoulder, which is ,the slender, delicate shoulder, Is prettiest dressed in something fluffy. Tulle, gauze, chiffon and silvered stuffs are loveliest. And the shoulder, should be dressed very low so as to show its delicate curves. If the shoulders, in spite of every art persist In being uneven and ugly there are exercises that can be taken for them. One of these is the weight exercise. The victims walks up and. down for 15 minutes a day carrying a weight in her short arm the arm with the high shoulder. In time this will lower the shoulder. If both shoul ders are high she bends backward un til they are equal. The shoulder exercise, the shoulder diet, the shoulder massage and the shoulder treatment will, in time, make any pair of shoulders handsome. And in a short "while the worst pair of arms and neck will become beautiful. It takes ' about four weeks of constant care. But at the end of that time the results will be so good that the patient will not regret the time she spent upon the work of reforming her shape. Linens Are Soft and Drapy. This season linens come in much softer fabrics than ever before. They are never as stiff as in former years, and often thinner than we have had them for outdoor gowns in times past, although such gowns are never made of transparent linen. , Favorite colors in linen are pink, raspberry, gray, browns and tans, blues, greens and some manuves. This is a summer of colors, but, neverthe less, the white linen gown Is more popular than any other kind. A Disadvantage. "Do you think our orators are as eloquent as those of our early his tory?" "Quite as eloquent," answered Sen ator Sorghum. "They are at a disad vantage owing to the fact that it is no longer customary to force their re marks into esteem by putting them into the school readers." Washington Star. ' News from Washington Spelling Reform Grder of the President Causes Agitation in Offi cial Circles Destruction of the Earth Prophesied Condition of the Poor to Be Improved. WASHINGTON. There is considerable agita tion in official Washington over the recent order " by the president directing the use of phonetic, spelling in all messages and other printed docu ments issuing from the White House. In address ing the order to the public printer the president has gone as far as he can to modernize orthog raphy. He has instructed the public printer to "follow copy" and his cabinet officers will of course fall Into line. They will have all the an nual reports of division chief3 and other subor dinates as well as their own prepared with the words spelled as the president has decided they should be. . , The orthography advocated by Banker Mat thews and in part approved by the president, while phonetic, possesses the combined advantage of brevity. It will save time in writing and type setting, and will economize on the printing bill. In addition to the use of the contracted forms, "thru" and "tho," the past tense is obtained by a suffixed "t" Instead of "ed," as "dasht" instead of "dashed," and silent syllables will be dispensed with, ' "catalogue" being spelled "catalog," for example. In contemplating the introduction of the improved system in the various departments, the officials shake their heads in despair and point to the white haired clerks. They appreciate the difficulty they are certain to' encounter. There is a suggestion that the stenographers employed in the departments will find it necessary to organize a night school to master the. new system. The only encouraging part of the order is that the modernizing process is to be gradual. Should the changes in spelling be limited to easy stages of 100 words at the time, the stenographers and others who write the letters and prepare the departmental reports -have some hopes of retaining their jobs and keeping out of an insane asylum. . , jiff BKfl ijti DOOM OF CITIES PREDICTED. Prepare for shocks. . Prophet Edmund S. Stevens,' of this city, has prophesied a long series of dreadful catastrophes which will culminate in the destruction of all the cities of the earth in the year of our Lord 1982. Mother Earth is not of plumb, according to this prophet, and all the terrible earthquakes that have occurred and are yet to come are due to the fact that the earth is gradually resuming its proper position. When this stage of transi tion is reached there will be a new earth and a new heaven referred to in the scriptures. The prophecy follows: "CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES. "The earth is out of her place, or upright position. It is gradually resuming it. Whenever there Is an accelerated or faster motion then in that period earthquakes occur. We are now in one of these periods, from Mont Pelee, 1900, to 1905. Again from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1965 to 2000 A. D. "In 1982 the earthquake is of such extent that all the cities of all the nations fall. From 2035 to 3144 A. D. the earth is in continual perturbation and in the latter year settles to its upright position. This brings In the new heaven and new earth. EDMUND S. STEVENS." Prophet Stevens proves all his predictions by an elaborate collection of charts which are intelligible to him only. , WHYTE A MODERN SPARTAN. . Senator Whyte, Maryland's picturesque "grand old man,'' who Is occupying ' the seat of the late Arthur Gorman, had a birthday recently, and he is now in his eighty-third year. Whyte is probably the most remarkable man in Maryland to-day. He has never tasted a drop of liquor nor smoked and has .never been inside of a saloon. He is not a member of any club. He defended 60 alleged murderers and all were acquitted. He always- rides in an ordinary day car on a passenger train and on the street cars in a city. . " . , He - framed the instruments on which the unique government of the District of Columbia is founded. He lives outside of Baltimore, yet is able fo appear at a frial in Baltimore in the morning and be in Washington in time- to answer -to the noon roll call of the senate". . , Twice chosen United States senator, he has also been governor, mayor, state senator, state representative, city solicitor, attorney general and state controller. v He was defeated for the United States senate by Gorman and then suc ceeded him. Ho was a member of the Maryland legislature when Gorman was a lad in Howard county. He began the study of law while a boy, sitting on bags of burlap in a com-' mercial house, where he worked from seven o'clock in the morning until tea o'clock at night. He has argued cases before courts in Annapolis, Md.; New York and Boston, within a period of two days. . . . He will never talk politics on Sunday. He is unquestionably a gentleman of the old school. :'. ": "'; TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF POOR. v Resident of few cities in the country are more proud of their town than are Washington's; but they have been deeply humiliated by the dis coveries that have been made recently by inspec tors authorized by law. Within two or three blocks of the Capitol building there are slums , where human beings, old and young, exist in great numbers in habita tions so small and vile as to stagger belief. It has been stated that these buildings are worse and more overcrowded than any to be found in New York or Chicago. Since the agitation of the question of housing the poor it has been found that the old army barracks, which did duty away back in 1861, '62 '63, '64 and '65, have been con stantly occupied by hordes of the colored popula tion. Without any sanitary provision whatever, it is needless to argue that such sections of the capital Jity are hotbeds tor the breeding of pestilential . disease and moral depravity. ' . But recently there has been an awakening io these conditions, and laws' have been passed which authorize the destruction of dens of infamy and degradation in the nation's capital. The work has already been begun by the cleaning out of the alleys and the removal of the tottering domiciles, mis called houses. Their present occupants are to be scattered in different direct tions, and helped to secure sanitary abodes in localities better suited to theis spheres in life. The commissioners are now armed with authority by law, and it- is not likely that they will be dilatory under the pressure of the press for imme diate action. Therefore, doubtless, the days of "Queen's court," "Chinch," Row," "Nave's Row" and "O Street alleys" are numbered. ' OUR BLUEJACKETS BEST SHOOTERS. ,- ,..'. American sailors are th best target shoot- ' ers in the "world according to our naval officers. While admitting that the record of the British ship Bruizer's six pounders, said to have made 46 hits out of 64 shots, shows excellent work, naval officers here are not inclined to give the palm to the British navy for accurate shooting. . The record of the American navy shows that at least in one instance 22 hits out of 25 shots were made by a six pounder. In discussing the work of the Bruizer naval .officers say that before they can make any accurate or valuable comparison., between British and American marksmanship it will be necessary to know the size of the target, the rate of speed at which it was moving, and the actual time in which the 64 shots were de livered. The targets used by the British navy are considerably larger than, those used on this side of the water. The latest official statement regarding target practice, which covers the navy's work of last year, shows that since 1898 the size of the target has -been reduced, the rapidity of firing has been increased, and the percentage of hits to shots risen from 40 to between 75 and 90 per cent, in main battery guns. The target has been reduced from 100 by 25 feet to 21 by 8 feet, and while a 12-inch gun was given five minutes for each shot it has this year made a record of three shots and three hits within one minute. Naval officers point raut that with the great improvement in the rapidity with which guns on American warships are loaded and discharged there has come a proportionate accuracy in shooting, so that 12 and 13-inch guns are not only fired 15 times as rapidly as formerly, but the percentage of hits has risen proportionately, making the efficiency of the individual gun at least SO times what It was before. . ', '... . --A