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f iyi W HIJyillr1lluMi mii UiJ s 7 HIE MCOOK TRIBUNE F M KIMMELL Publisher McCOOK NEBRASKA Earning a Plaid Cloak At colleges and boarding schools all over the country girls are trying to re plenish their slender purses by sham pooing darning boot blacking tutor ing and other services In one co educational college a conspicuous sign announces Dogs valeted The Strange entrances by which girls force a way Into the wage earning world are not novelties any more than their warm hearts and large ambitions are A charming and characteristic story Is told by Mrs Sarah Stuart Robblns in her recent book Old Andover Days The tale dates back to the first quar ter of the nineteenth century Its hero was a certain flute playing German theoldgue afterward a famous mis sionary He was poor but fascinating and four little glrl3 loved him dearly They wanted to buy him a cloak for he had no protection against the keen t Andover winter They racked their brains for ways and means They sold lamplighters They made a patchwork quilt which brought them three dol lars One day a pious and peculiar Andover matron offered them 25 cents apiece If they could come every holi day afternoon for many weeks and read aloud to her Mason on Self Knowledge Moreover if they would agree to let her make remarks to them on the book she would increase their pay to 50 cents So the four lit tle maidens spent their long precious afternoons with Mrs Porter and Self Knowledge and earned by their sac rifice money for a long red plaid cloak with a voluminous cape fastened with a large gilt clasp and this gay mage decked out a theological student in Puritan Andover The girlish de vices for earning wages a hundred years ago at least had the advantage declares the Youths Companion of leaving their Inventors no poorer in self respect One wonders if as much can be said for some of the modern schemes Dollars may come too high when they are sought greedily or sen sationally The awakening of China must now be accepted as an assured and indeed a partially accomplished fact It dif fers widely in many respects from the awakening of Japan partly because of the difference in the manner and cir cumstances of its achievement and partly because of the radical difference in the genius of the people But it is no less real and is likely to prove no less significant to the world We may date it from the time of the war be tween Russia and Japan and may credit it largely to that war as one of its unintended and perhaps unexpect ed results There had been sporadic symptoms of unrest and uprising in China before that but since then the movement has proceeded at a rate really startling to those who have ima gined the Orient to be necessarily and invariably conservative and slow Chicago contains at least twelve women who believe that they have model husbands and they do not use the term model as meaning a small imitation of the real thing They had an exhibition the other day at which the husbands proved their right to the title The final and supreme test was given when the men were called upon to fasten a 24 button embroidered shirt waist the waist was decorously put on a wooden dummy so that the men might in no way be embarrassed Two of the husbands fastened Jhe waist in two minutes and seven sec onds without pulling off a single but ton or tearing any of the embroidery They will have to enter into a subse quent contest to discover who is the modelest model husband of the lot President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to address the Royal Geo graphical society in London on his re turn from his African hunting trip He is one of the nine honorary members of the society and the only one of them who is not royal Probably when he makes his address there will be more popular curiosity and interest In the ex president and American citi zen than in all his other honorary and royal co members put together Mme Calve the great singer ad vises young women not to be ambi tious for stage fame but to marry and be happy But thewise advice of those who have tried all ways and know life and the futility of its ambitions to sat isfy generally falls flat on youthful ears Each one claims the right to find out what is unhappiness in his or her own way The present strained relations be tween England and Germany show how weak are family ties when na tional passions are inflamed And if the quarrel is finally precipitated it will he worse on account of those ties for everybody knows that the worst and most irreconcilable of all conflicts are family quarrels A New York woman sued for a di Torce because she found a milliners hill against her husband for two hats for a lady She was not the lady rf - luiinotjmxXW sin jimii in iii i ri costume at the left is violet satin finished cloth The blouse is trimmed THE an odd way with bands of the material buttons and straps of cord The plastron and sash are of black liberty the latter knotted low in front with fringed ends The wrist ruffles and those on the blouse are of lace as is also the little gulmpe The plain skirt is simply finished at the bottom with rows of stitch ing Green velvet is used for the other costume The blouse with lapped tailor seams crossed slightly in front where it is ornamented with passemen terie buttons The wide revers are also ornamented with these buttons and with motifs of passementerie The crossed waistcoat is of tan colored satin trimmed with cord and embroidered dots The chemisette is of dotted tulle the girdle is of green liberty The long sleeves and the skirt are trimmed to correspond with the blouse PARTY DRESS OF VELVETEEN Rich Costume Designed for Girl of from Fourteen to Sixteen Years There are so many beautiful shades in velveteen that it is difficult to know which to select the skirt of this is quite plain it is a circular shape The velveteen is arranged in one deep fold over each shoulder and smaller folds form the sleeve The jHt m JHB BFpHHSE vDlu vest is of finely tucked soft silk and Insertion and the under sleeves are the same the waist band is shaped and cut in scallops in the front but toning over Materials required 10 yards velve teen 6 yards insertion 1 yard silk 36 inches wide The Smart Scarfs Just at the present moment the silks being used for the manufacture of the smartest scarfs have patterns which would seem to owe their in spiration to various phases of nature Puits and flowers figure very largely In the designs now as do all sorts of flowering plants and vines The new est scarfs of this type show another phase of nature in their design They have round balls of color suggesting suns crossed by fleecy clouds As the majority of these scarfs are made of gray brocade the cloud effect is per fectly apparent One had red suns while dark blues and browns also ap pear in some of the patterns The Little Bertha All sorts of berthas are used for trimming the draped bodies of crepe voile and chiffon cloth gowns Some times these berthas are of broadcloth In a matching tone and embroidered in self colored silks Again they are of coarse net soutached embroidered or appliqued in self or contrasting colors but in nearly every instance they are shaped like the erstwhile popular jumper the shoulder straps terminat ing just below the bust line and at the top extending out over the sleeve To accompany these berthas there are bandings to finish the sleeve and nar row edges to finish the collar ROSES ON ALL WINTER HATS Of Every Color and Hue and the Larger the Better Roses of every color and hue big as cabbages are smart on winter hats I is the color that takes Of course a luxuriant big rose though of satin and silk and in the shades of pink never to be seen on a real flower helps to en liven the feelings A rose hat makes one feel positively young and young faces more than ever like flowers themselves The ribbon roses which adorn a dressy hat just from Paris are made of many shades of pink satin ribbon in one instance and in another of curious shades of dead white and greeny white to look like a bride rose It may seem folly to pay four dollars for a single artificial rose yet that is what fashion is doing and the ribbon roses cost as much if not more The keynote of the year is simnle elegance said the milliner as she carefully extricated a large hat to fit on my head for the reception Simple elegance Truly it looked so It was a turban rather large and over the maline finished frame was folded a point lace scarf with little ermine and sable tails rounding the crown A narrow twist of vieux bleu supple ribbon gave the color note that was all Other tur bans the coming hats were as su perb in scarfs of ottoman silk in rich colors Cretonne Bed Spreads The renewal of things Colonial has brought about the fashion for bed spreads of old world chintz These substitute the spreads of Marseilles They hang nearly to the floor are slashed to fit the two lower posts and are edged with three inch linen lace There is an oblong piece made to match for the pillows It is always better to use what is known as dayv pillows under this They are stuffec with a hard substance and made to stand firm and full Fancy Muffs Fancy muffs will be a fad of the season and in them there is a chance fdr employing all the cleverness in design and needlework that a woman possesses In a muff brocade and feathers may be most charmingly combined and a neckpiece to match may be evolved Black velvet with black ostrich tips can be worked to gether with astonishingly artistic re sults while artificial flowers either as a substitute or in combination are lovely The Turnover Back The very stiff linen collar has fallen into disrepute except for business wear Softer neck effects are consid ered desirable and the sheer embroid ered turnovers are being worn again in combination with fluffy jabots rabat ties and tasseled silk or velvet cra vats Worn thus the turnover of course fastens in front like a linen collar and the edges are held neatly together by a fancy brooch Silk Skirt Cloth Coat Among the best of the new cos tumes is seen the combination of Ottoman silk and liberty broadcloth The skirt is of silk long flowing and untrimmed The coat is also long is of the cloth and usually has revers of silk -- BUILD A CALF BARN AND BUILD IT RIGHT Some of the Essential Points in Its Construction By W D Hoard We have recently received several inquiries asking for the plan of the calf stable on Hoards Dairyman farm We herewith present a floor plan of our calf barn and state briefly some - n n a z o r r n s Ki - 0 k i h Pi t ing paper on the inside and cover with matched flooring Pure air Is provided by the King system of ventilation This will remove the air which the animals have breathed but to keep the stable sweet it must be cleaned often and kept well supplied with bedding 3 The calf barn should have plenty of windows There is nothing more beneficial to the calf and more in jurious to disease producing pacterla than an abundance of light There is nothing any cheaper than light why not use it 4 The calf barn should be made handy As is indicated in the plan on this page a feeding alley four feet wide extends on three sides of the calf pen When the calves are fed with milk they are fastened In stanchions and CALFPEN - 3 STAACffOAfS FEEDING ALLEY 6 FEE T i I I -1 - I H SO -FEET Ground Plan of the Barn of the essentials to be considered in constructing a place for keeping calves 1 A calf should always be kept dry In order to do this a good floor should be put in the barn and thickly cov ered with fresh dry bedding It is im possible to raise a strong healthy calf unless it is kept dry and clean 2 A warm pure atmosphere is re quired for growing calves A warm sta ble is made by constructing a wall of at least one dead air space Sheet on the outside of the 2x4s with drop ELECTION OF NEEDING HOGS Taken as a whole theYe is no marked difference between the early maturing qualities of the Poland China Duroc Jersey Chester White or Berkshire breeds of hogs Neither has it been proven that one has any marked superiority over the other as to the rate at which flesh may be laid on or the cheapness of gains The characteristics of these breeds are well marked and there are special points of excellence that one breed may possers to a greater degree than the others still considering the fac tors which determine almost entirely the profit or loss in hog raising name ly fecundity rate and cheapness of gains a more marked difference will be found between individuals of the same breed than between any of the above breeds taken collectively It is therefore necessary whether breeding pure bred hogs or grades to consider the individual carefully when select ing breeding animals The fecundity of sows always ap peals to hog raisers The size of lit ters varies with breeds to some ex tent but still more with individuals Statistics compiled by the Indiana ex periment station show that the aver age size of several hundred Poland China Berkshire and Chester White litters were Poland China 65 pigs to the litter Berkshire seven pigs to the litter and Chester White 75 pigs to the litter However litters of these breeds will vary from three or four to ten or more pigs to the litter Con finement and overfattening tend to re duce fecundity Again sows that are sluggish or overrefined in type are usually indifferent breeders So far as known the sow controls the size of litters and since fecundity is largely an individual or family characteristic it is good policy to select brood sows only from litters of which at least seven pigs have been successfully raised In selecting breeding hogs either male or female the following points should receive consideration Form size for age quality and feet and legs To thoroughly inspect a hog it is necessary to view it from the side front and rear both standing and in motion From the side the hog should the feeder has no trouble with them Each one is held in his place The wide alley makes it easy to give each calf its milk and other feeds 5 The calf pen should be made so that it can be divided into several apartments A calf when but two or three weeks old when turned into a pen with others two or three months old is more or less handicapped espe cially if the younger calf is not strong and rugged A pen with several divi sions permits the grouping of calves according to size and strength show a rather short head full jowl and neck a strong rather arched back without any depression back of the shoulders or at the loin a deep body of good length and a deep well rounded ham From front and rear the side lines of the body should be straight and parallel and this will be true if the development of shoulder spring of rib and ham are uniform Good quality is indicated by fine hair medium bone absence of wrin kles and general coarseness Hogs coarse in type mature slowly and fat ten indifferently Those possessing harsh hair and skin and showing wrin kles will produce inferior pork Breeding hogs should have short strong legs and strong upright pas terns Lack of sufficient bone as shown by weak broken down pasterns is a common defect noticeable in brood sows especially those that have been fed largely on corn In fact feed has much to do with development and strength of bone A low weak back indicates weakness and no young sow showing such a defect should be saved for breeding These two defects weak pasterns and backs may be readily noticed when the pig is moved and often when standing Other com mon faults are coarse shoulders open on top poorly sprung short ribs and narrow loin None but pure bred boars of good form should be used and only those possessing early maturing qualities By selecting vigorous well formed sows of prolific families and pure bred early maturing boars of good quality the best combination is se cured This combination of good qualities may be secured in one breed but more often hog raisers attempt to secure them by selecting sows of one breed and boars of another There is nothing radically wrong with this plan if market stock is the object still equally good or better results can be obtained by sticking to one breed and making a careful selection of all breeding stock Feed for Eggs At noon give some cut up vegetables and twice a week give some cut green bone The grain food at night should be an equal part each of wheat and corn cracked corn is preferred Are They Laying The early hatched pullets should have settled in for steady laying Make a Sectional Floor for Hog Pen A large pen with space for both sleeping and feeding can be arranged with a floor on one half to insure a dry bed The size of the whole pen is 8 feet by 16 feet so that the floored section of the pen is 8 feet square It is made of strong materials usual ly 2 inch by 4 inch stuff and rests on cleats in the bottom of the pen Feminine Inconsistency her hus Tho woman who resents band working overtime rest she be de prived of a pleasure is the sort that in later years decries his poverty in contemptuous tones Chicago Record Herald Great Actions Endure He judges well who accepts unpop ularity in a great cause Hatred does not last long and besides tho imme diate splendor of great actions tho renown of them endures forever in mens memories Pericles Change Easily Made Five-year-old Helen was Industrious ly hemming a square of pink gingham for a dolls table cover She held it up and examined It critically Mother she said I dont think this is a very stylish tablecoth I guess Ill put a pair o sleeves in it and call it a corset cover The Deineator How He Does It Notice the man of whom it is gen erally said He Is successful he is getting along Notice that he attends to his work he is polite ho doesnt drink he Is honest and pays his debts No man over succeeded with out these qualities Atchison Kan Globe Paying the Fare Annette was attending her first service At church When the offertory began she watched the performance with interest and as the alms basin was handed 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