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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1897)
i J w Iff I 3k M Ventilated Drcs Shield The new fluted dress shield is the first ventilated shield ever invented which has proved practical By every i m o v e m out the 02 5S DKISS SHIELD vfc V J moist air is forced out of the flutings and fresh dry air drawn in keeping 1 the body cool and free from perspira tion It is as light as other gossamer shields also imper vious and soft as well as odorless It can be washed and will nliviv2 rofii j the flutings The shield is quite an in- novation and will be appreciated as the mercury ascends in the bulb Newest Collars The newest collars have a white standard surmounted by an exceed ingly full knife plaited frill which is also box plaited as well of colored organdies in the richest patterns and most delicate shades of the popular i colors heliotrope red green and blue the hem of the ruffle being edged with Valenciennes lace The cuffs are trimmed in a similar style to match These are worn with cloth suits and can be laundered successfully taking the place of the chiffon ruche of the same general effect A Beautiful Woman Popular opinion and expert judgment unite in pronouncing the Princess of Naples the most beautiful of the many PBKJCESS OF 1TAPIES - - f fc handsome women who represented the different courts of Europe at the Queens jubilee Women in Kentucky Politics The fact that ten public school super intendents in Kentucky are women 2and that there are forty women uaLjwMttaasinaaama i imeminman mSSJ rnjpwn iiihiiaaiTiiiiiiir CODE FOR A WIFE y ADY Burton has been ing a codo of rules to em a wife The husband should find In his wife in her opinion and she is a woman of ex perience and observation a compan ion friend confidante and so much of everything pleasing that he will have nothing to seek out of his home The wife must be a careful nurse when he is sick and at all times make the home superlatively attractive to liim letting him smoke everywhere and have at home the society that suits him at all times and the wife should study to keep an fait as to his pursuits and be prepa red to go with him at an hours notice and rough it like a man The wife moreover must let him see her affection for him and never refuse him anything he asks and withal keep up the honeymoon romance and dress to please his taste always The wife should be always pushing his interests wherever she is If the husband is only interested in planting turnips the wife must learn to plant turnips She must never tell a female friend about her domestic affairs and must shade her husbands faults from everyone She must never allow anyone to speak disrespectfully of him before her and never hurt his feelings even by a jest She must never ask him not to visit other women and she must trust him and must not bother him with religious talk but set him a good religious ex ample The wife should however try to say a little prayer with him every night before going to sleep Perhaps Lady Burton has lived upon the precepts she has laid lown for oth ers If she has her husband is a man greatly to be despised for no man of spirit no man capable of winning and retaining the respect or love of a wom an whose respect and love are worth having would exact such tilings from the woman he calls wife There is not a suspicion of irony in Lady Burtons words She will have little success in converting American women to her way of thinking anl all manly men will rejoice in the fact dates running for similar offices in that State indicates that Kentucky women have gained greater ground in politics than in any other of the Southern States and that as to progress and ad vancement in that line they rank with their most progressive sisters in the North and West In Kentucky they seem to aspire to the higher education al offices and as ten school superin tendents are already giving satisfac tion in their offices and forty more as piring it will not be long before a ques tion may arise in the blue grass regions as to whether men are really eligible to the office of school superintendents Gown for a Girl The beauty and reform dress lectur ers all claim that the highest point in dressing will come when Ave discard the scissors and use the material as dra pery In a childs frock this is not yet reached where beauty is wanted but from a point of usefulness a very nice little dress is made without cutting the DKESS IX GSE PIECE goods into more than one piece for the gown and one for each of the sleeves The body of this little dress is cut all in one section a piece of gingham five yards long will make it provided the little maid is not taller than the width of the goods Sew together so that you have the opening in the back and or the neck upon a broad band of cam bric to match the principal color in the gingham Garher again around the waist The sleeves are straight pieces of the goods shirred at the armhole and again at the elbow m S3SP i rfiUlV V v rTIi WF SurtoWSl1 mmm WEi S SU A bathtub that serves the purpose of amusing the baby as well as being a necessary part of the outfit of a well ordered home is made of rubber To give it shape you blow it up with a hi--cycle pump through a tiny valve It stands on the floor and holds water equal to the strongest wooden tub This tub can stand upon its side or be fold ed up Its great advantage is that after baby has had its bath the water can be emptied out the valve unscrew ed and the air released from the pneu matic interior The tube can then be rolled or folded up and put upon the shelf until next bathing time The rub ber tub is considerably lighter than a wooden one and can be taken away for the summer when baby goes to the country If need be it can be used for a family foot tub in summer districts where personal comforts are scarce A mother who is watchful of babys com fort makes the little ones bed at night in its soft depths when visiting in re gions where babys bed cannot be car ried Facts About SleSvcs A sheath sleeve with one two and three ruffles at the top is the best one for wash gowns as they launder so easily The latest mousquetaire sleeve has the heading or tuck at the back of the arm or on top of it graduated begin ning at a quarter of an inch at the hand and ending two inches and a half wide at the top Sleeves with tucked uppers ai much affected for fancy thin gowns and the sleeves are considered handsomer when the tucks are graduated These gradu ated tucks have created a furore They are used for everything Wing drapery on sleeves is very much in vogue The top is fulled and the fullness is drawn tight and tacked down across the middle then allowed to stand out in a wide frill from the back of the arm like a wing as its name denotes A swagger shape for the bottom of a sleeve is to have it flare out in bell shape and come well down over th hand but this necessitates some stiff interlining so that it will stand out It is usually lined with silk or thv trim ming material This style is especially adapted to cloth gowns wsMssssflssawsa ifer 1 yjygcaiBt S- A TONGUE OF FLAME Peace pcact smiled the rose in her garden And peace sang the bird on his tree But a bale smoke shadowed the valleys Where the rivers run to the sea And the smell of battle was on the winds Of the summer of Sixty three In the lap of its mother mountain Virginia City lay And wet iu a rolling rain cloud Of glimmering gold-and-gray Behind the Sierras slowly sank The sun of Liberty- Day The mammoth flag on the summit In the ti emulous rainbow -glow fluttered far like a scarlet ribbon To the eyes that watched below But flashed in the sky of a nation The glory of long ago Then a frown on the cheek of the twilight Where the smile of the west was warm And climbing in dusky billows Mount Davidsons awful form A wonder of darkness swept the height Like the rush of a silent storm Thro the murk of the muffled city With its mystery untold While the people dizzily gazing Stood dumb in the streets behold In the blackening west oer the moun tains crest A twinkle of fiery gold Every ey caught the heaven hung vision Every heart felt its wizard spell It flared like a spirit candle It streamed like a star that fell It waved command like a signal hand It swung like a voiceless bell Did they hear it White faces listened Wild thoughts guessed its meaning di vine There is news of the war from the east ward The palm tree has bowed to the pine And the Lord of Hosts is uplifting His torch n the hills for a sign fwss a dream but not all On the shadow The light that quivered and curled Was the flag by patriot fingers That birthday morning unfurled And it blazed in the unseen sunset Like a beam from another world Alone in its daylight of glory Above where the run But the glad city read on the morrow Its token of deeds that were done And the steeples sang Vicksburg is taken And Gettysburgs field is won Theron Brown in Youths Companion MANS MISSION It was generally acknowledged by those who knew them that Jack New lyn and his pretty wife had solved the much discussed problem of how to be happy though married True they had only been united six months and per haps it was a little premature to speak definitely on the subject but to all ap pearances it did not seem possible that the sunshine of their lives could ever be darkened by a cloud Their affec tion for each other disgusted the cynic al and delighted the romantic It was as ardent and enduring now as it had been the day they were made man and wife and their intimate friends were wont to declare that exist ence for them was one long continual honeymoon Old philosophers however shook their heads and sad it was not to be expected that such a state of unalloy ed bliss could continue forever and these philosophers were right Oue da j a hawk swooped down on the New lyn dovecote and put an end to the bill ing and cooing It was in this way Tack Newlyn who was a barrister of some repute left his home in St Johns Wood one fine morning leaving his little wife in her usual state of happiness returning a few minutes after 5 to find her al most as solemn as the great judge in whose presence he had been propound ing the intricacies of an entangled will suit all the afternoon Anything wrong dearest he in quired as they sat down to dinner Mrs Newly n gave a start O no she murmured only only I have had a visit from Miss Blake this afternoon Whos Miss Blake the embryo Q C asked carelessly O you must have heard of her Jack shes the President of the Mod ern Womans Pioneer Rescue League Mr Newlyn gasped And and what did she want a sub scription X o Ill tell you I dont think I ever mentioned it but before I met you I was a Pioneer Now one of the rules of the society orders that when a member becomes engaged or married she forfeits her place in fact she is compelled to resign Mr Newlyn muttered something about a good job Well it seems his wife went on that quite a lot of the members have left lately owing to this cause Theres Lucy Johnson shes engaged to Mr Stone and last week Kate Brown was married and now there are several more on the point of leaving Quite an epidemic the barrister remarked irreverently So his wife continued with a slight frown Miss Blake fears that soon she will be the only one who has remained true to the ship Why doesnt she get spliced Jack asked and then the ship avouUI sink She has no desire to get spliced as you call it She is a woman of firm principles and she has devoted her life to doing good But to return to what I was saying As the society had suffer ed such losses she has decided to strike out the rule which declares engaged girls and married women ineligible and she is now going round to all the old members asking them to rejoin The young husbands face bore a Aook of the liveliest consternation And his wife resumed J have iVnttwniseci to do so r j i Mr Newlyns consternation deepen ed to direst dismay But but what does she want you to do he asked And what arc the Pioneers They are a little band of women who are engaged in the noble work of rescuing their unhappy fellow-creatures from sin and wickedness But what are they required to do Not not to dive into filthy dens in the East End visiting housebreakers N o not exactly that We hold meetings for cabdrivers sandwich men and matchboys Social evenings they are with light refreshment such as coffee and buns Mr Newlyn murmured blankly Yes and a little music and we take them aside and talk seriously to them and try to bring them to a better frame of mind It is a noble work Jack Miss Blake says it is wicked for us to lead a life of luxury and ease when there are thousands going to perdition She sa3rs it is womans mission to re form man Quite so he young barrister re sponded readily and you are fulfilling that mission admirably i Yes you are reforming me O 3tou dont need reforming dear And cabdrivers and sandwichmen do Yes indeed But my dear evening is the only time that I have 3 011 to ni3self I know and she sighed It is awkward but quite unavoidable And I am to mope at home by my self while 3 0U are talking serious to cabmen and matchboys Now darling you mustnt bo self ish Selfish Yes 3011 must learn to give up something for your unfortunate fellow men Well what with subscribing to or phanages and homes for destitute chil dren I give up close on a hundred a 3ear as it is Yes but that is no proper sacrifice his little wife said quickly You are rich and a hundred pounds doesnt mean any real giving up on jour part You dont deprive yourself of any pleasure 3011 know Mr Newlyn knitted his brow His wifes logic was unanswerable And if 3ou spared me for three or four evenings a week you would be doing so and 3011 would know that your dear little wife was perhaps per suading some poor sinner to lead a bet ter life And what am I to do with myself while you are persuading Well 3011 can read and smoke or go and see your old bachelor friends occa sionally And so those delightful evenings when 3ou used to play and sing to me are at an end Im afraid so They were selfish evenings I see it now We thought of no ones happiness but our own Hence forth Jack dear we live for others Now I must go and dress Miss Blake calls for me at 8 There is a meeting of sandwichmen at half past It was half past 10 when Mrs New 1311 came home She found her husband sitting over his cigar aud a novel Well how did the meeting go off he asked Splendidly splendidly his wife ex claimed her charming face aglow with enthusiasm 0 Jack when I see what a great deal of noble work I can accomplish I am filled with J03 Miss Blake says I shall be of immense use But tell me what have 3011 been doing with yourself while I have been away I O I dropped in on Barnes one of my old cronies 3ou know and very thankful I am I did so Very thankful Why Because curiously enough I found him deep in a scheme of rescue work of a most novel and original kind and he invited me to join the movement and I have done so Our lives now Eth el shall be devoted to this work 0 Jack I am so glad You will be able to do such a lot of good Well I hope so I hope so Now tell me all about it dear I am most anxious to learn in what way Mr Barnes scheme differs from ours What class of people are 3011 goiug to reform the scavengers the dockers O no those we leave to 3011 ladies Barnes says that the influence of wom an upon man applies to this sort of work just as it does in other wajs and that the influence of man upon woman is the same Mrs Newl3n looked slightly puzzled The influence of man upon woman she repeated Just so But I dont understand Why its this way Our work will be among women Barmaids Barmaids And her face turned pale Ballet girls and nurses We shall hold meetings social meetings with light refreshment such as coffee and buns and we shall take them aside and talk seriously to them Mrs Newlyn gave a gasp Barnes says it is mans mission Mans mission O how dare 3011 talk to me of such a thing Eh what Dont say a word not a word Do yi want to insult me 0 I wonder how you cau come to me with such an infamous proposal You must be mad to think I should ever consent to it But I consented to you That is very different I fail to see it You are taking cab men aside and talking seriously to them I am taking ballet girls You shant I wont stand it O do you want to break my heart Now darling you mustnt be selfish You must learn to give up something We must live for others You sha shant 1 live for barmaids or ballet girls the horrid things Mrs Newlyn sobbed from behind her hand- pjerchief i Lti But you are living for sandwichmen and matchbo3s Mrs Newlyn bit her lip Jack she murmured after a pause My dear Pro promise me yon wont I cant I gave my word to Barnes His wife twisted her lace fringed handkerchief in desperation I Ill give up the sandwichmen if you will she murmured at length And the matchboys and cabdrivers V Ye es Then on that condition O 3ou dear fellow And we shall go back to the old life Yes O yes Thats right And he bent his head and kissed her Newlyn said his friend Barnes as the sat at lunch the following day youre a genius The idea was splen did only Im afraid youve ruined my character with your wife O Ill make it all right the young barrister rejoined Ill tell her 3ouve given up the scheme And then they looked at each other and laughed bois terously as if at some hidden joke St Pauls SALADS AS A DAILY DIET Most Wholesome Food and Should Be Katen Every Day The beauty and wholesomeness or the salad should commend it to every American housekeeper writes Mrs S T Borer in her cooking lesson on The Making of Salads in the La dies Home Journal I do not refer to those highly seasoned combinations of hard boiled eggs and mustard but to dainty dinner or luncheon salads made with a dressing of olive oil a few drops of lemon juice and a light seasoning of salt garlic and pepper The salts necessar for the well-being of our blood are bountifully given in these green vegetables then too it is a pleasant of taking fatty food All machinery must be well oiled to prevent friction and the wonderf ul hu man engine is not an exception to the rule Look carefully to it that you take sufficient fatty food The Americans do not use enough oil to keep them in perfect health While butter is served in some families three times a da and is better than no fat its composition is rather against it as compared to a sweet vegetable oil Fats well digested are the salva tion of consumptives or those suffering from any form of tuberculosis For these reasons a simple salad composed of an green vegetable and a French dressing should be seen on every well regulated table 3G5 times a year Those who live out of town can obtain from the fields sorrel long docks dandelions and lambs quarters for the cost of picking Where desserts are not used and I wish for healths sake they might be abolished a salad with a bit of cheese and bread or water or cracker with a small cup of coffee ma3 close the meal Where a dessert is nsed the salad cheese and water are served just before it to prick up the appetite that it may enjoy more fully the sweet At a large dinner the salad is usually served with the game course Found Health and Wealth As showing the possibilities of in telligent farming in California the fol lowing from the Santa Cruz Sentinel is interesting The piece of ground six acres is a little larger than two San Francisco city blocks When E N Stocking came to California he was in search of health and a living but discouragement stared him and his family in the face To find employ ment seemed impossible so he bought on the Branciforte Creek six acres of land He put the land out in vegeta bles berries and tree fruit and a chicken yard With the combination of thrift industry and economy those barren six acres of a few ears ago now fairly bud blossom and ripen Last year three hundred and sixty five dollars were harvested from a patch of strawberries of one quarter of an acre and two rods Just think of it ye men who let the pennies slip away and who cry hard times In the winter he con fines himself to raising chickens Ev ery inch of ground is utilized and a happ contented family is the re suit Fire Engine Signals The exp crimen till use of signals by the Berlin fire department for its ap paratus while on the way to a fire has been found to work so well that the system has now been definitely accept ed It consists in the use of an appara tus looking much like a small sema phore now in use on the railroads The appliance is rigged up on the drivers seat and is visible for quite a distance When the vehicle is to go Straight out the arm of the semaphore is placed straight up it to go to the r4ght or left into another street the arm of the semaphore is inclined in that direction As the signals are al ways set for the next corner drivers of other vehicles know at once what they have to do in order to get out of the road of the fire engine or other apparatus Philadelphia Record Meant What He Paid I propose to wipe out the saloon The determined manner of the speak er showed him to be intensely in ear nest and his listeners realized the full import of his words when he savagely reached for his pail and mop and start ed into do it New York World Amontr the Animals I fear said the elephant that the alligator is a little of a blackmailer Really asked the giraffe He only seems willing to keep his mouth shut when theres something in it Washington Star Bluing Unnecessary A French chemist has invented a blue soap which renders unnecessary the use of bluing in laundry work rT - SIX MONTHS FOR AN ALIBI A Sample of Justice as It Was Once Administered in the West Dont question anything you hear about the administration of justice JH the early days of the West advised the man who had dug and prospected over a large part of it in search of a fortune Ive seen men out there act ing as magistrates that could neither read write nor talk with an approach to correctness in any language I recall one instance up near the head of Bitter creek While a miner was down at the saloon one night en joying himself after the manner of such men some one stole into his tent and dug up the bags of dust he had buried there Upon discovery of the theft there was a great hue and cry raised a sheriffs posse was called in and a young fellow from the East lit tle better than a tenderfoot was ar rested for the crime He didnt look guilty or act guilty and there was a good deal of sympathy for him among the boys Otherwise the regular for mula of justice might not have been observed When the trial came on the young man had a lawyer that he had sent for and who made it interesting for the prosecution who relied largely upon lung power and sledge hammer blows Inside of two hours it was proved by evidence that could not be questioned that the accused had spent the entire night with a friend at his shanty three miles from the camp Outside of what the friend swore to a number had seen the prisoner going out in the evenjtfg and returning in the morning Evan the prosecution Avas gracious enough to admit at last that a perfect alibi had been proved Thars no mistake about it roared the court in order to emphasize his in dignation it has been proved that thi3 sneakin slick tongued hypercrit has committed a aleibi I sentence him to six months hard labor And it took half a day to get tho sentence annulled Had No Use for Anthracite Edmund Carey of Benton is in this city this week attending court He was one of the early residents of Wilkesbarre and was born Aug 12 1S22 on a farm at the lower end of town now known as Carey avenue which has been named after the fam ily His father George Carey was one of the settlers who had the hand ling of the first anthracite coal in Wy oming valley He helped open a strip ping in Pittston township now known as Plains township in 1815 and in the spring of that year loaded a raft with several others and took it down the Susquehanna to Harrisburg where they sold the raftload of forty tons of anthracite for 10 They were discour aged at such remuneration and left the transportation of coal dormant un til 1820 when they took another raft load down and failed to find a buyer They were so discouraged that they dumped their load of black diamonds into the Susquehanna at Harrisburg and as far as these early pioneer ship- 1 pers were concerned the opening npoJv a coal market was ended Wilkesbarre Record Sound Blindness We have all heard often enough of color blindness Many people although they possess perfect eyesight for read ing or seeing long distances yet cant for the life of them distinguish green and red and many other pairs of colors Lately it has been found that some suf fer from an exactly similar affection of the hearing powers that is an inabil v ity to distinguish particular shades of x sound arising from some obscure af fection of the ear yet quite distinct from deafness One boy in doing dic tation always spelt -very voght He could not distinguish at all between the sounds of very perry and polly and yet he could hear at aa great a distance as anybody Anotbez youngster would spell different drif ent He said that was how it sound ed And several others ran the lettera r n and 1 together in a hopeless way J The Extent of His Superstition To a little extent I am superstitious says a Virginian I moved into a new house a couple of years ago and some how things seemed to grow worse con stantly First it was one thing and then it was another I mentioned the matter to an old colored auntie who did our laundry work and she told me it was because there was no toad frog in the cellar She said it was good luck for a new house to have a toad in the cellar and that many builders always left a frog in the cellar when they fin ished a house As it was such a sim ple matter to set things right I caught a toad and put it in the cellar and strangely enough things began run ning all right immediately Since then my cellar has never been without a toad frog and to that extent I am su perstitious The Tiger Snake There is no known antidote for tha bite of the tiger snake of Australia Persons bitten die almost instantly and the Government nas a standing offer of 1000 for any one who will discover 3 remedy Some few years ago a man actually discovered an efficacious anti dote To prove its value he allowed himself to be bitten repeatedly by snakes in full possession of the power to kill One day he gave an exhibition before some Government officials but being much under the influence of liquor he did not recollect what be had done with his antidote and he died shortly after the snake bite his secreJ perishing with him His Idea Isnt the Emperor of Germany the grandson of the Emperor William tha I Yes but he thinks he is the grea grandson Puck 4 j1