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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1899)
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG. ever-youthful appearance of the members of the dramatic pro fession is a constant source of surprise to the public at large. The rea- -8on for this is not so much the grease paint necessary in making up , which obliterates to a certain extent the natu ral wrinkles of the skin , while it lubri cates and nourishes It ; but it is due to -the change in the expression of the various emotions which every part de mands. This causes the actress to bring ii.o ; play all the muscles of the face. K- ; using them equally they all main tain their firm consistency and strength , and none waste away from -disuse. The result is that the skin is kept stretched and tense over the face ud does not fall into hollows. A blow of fresh air , a glimpse of fresh scenes and fresh faces are worth -quarts of doctors' tonics to an over tired and nervous man or woman , and give a prettier glow to the cheeks than k-the finest manufactured rouge in exist ence. It is indolence and lazy habits that allow obesity to gain tbe ascendency over elasticity. One who keeps mind and body on the alert will seldom need to have recourse to science or diet to decrease size and weight. If you have n. thin face , and the flesh seems unwill ing to become plump and round in re- spouse to massage , build up the system by taking a half pint or more of sweet cream every day , eat of cereals winch have been cooked for several hours , a raw egg beaten up in milk once a day , warm drinks of milk diluted with hot water , and baked apples or ripe sweet -fruit at each meal. New York Ledger. American Girl's Success. Chicago would be proud to claim Miss Xeonora Jackson , whose success in Paris is chronicled by a special corre spondent of a Chicago cage paper. But she is not a Chicago cage girl , as re ported. The young violinist s h e i s only 19 years of age \ was born in Mud Springs , Gal. , and is the ( laughter of Charles P. Jack- sou , who was a pioneer neer merchant of that place. Mrs. ' / ' Grover Cleveland MISS JACKSON. SCut her to Berlin in order to study the violin under Joachim , and she won the famous prize tuown as the "Mendelssohn Stipen- dium. " which then first fell to an Amer ican. In 1897 she scored a success in German cities , and later repeated her triumphs in London. Her success in Paris merely confirms the belief that .she has a great future in store if the opinion of musical Europe is worth anything. Woman's Noblest Vocation. "Good" housekeeping is easy house- keping , and if a woman wears herself into shreds and tatters keping house the case is proven against her , " writes Helen Watterson Moody , in the Ladies' Home Journal. "It is precisely in her ability to guard against this contin gency that the housewife shows her self not ouly a good executive officer , but as well a woman witu ideals and 11 sense of proportion one who does not forgot that liousekeping is a means to home-making , not an end in itself that the most perfect administration of domestic matters will not make a family happy in whom the love and . .spirit of home do not dwell. Home not only a place to eat and sleep and work in , but a place to be happy in , a place to rest in and to be soothed , a place in which to love and be loved , a place for confidences , and counsel , .and strengthening words , and hope , juid heartening. It is a good thing , jind a noble thing , and a satisfying thing to be a good housekeeper ; there " Is no professiou of which and in which woman can be so proud , and when so blessed in head and heart and hand as to be able to make and keep one of those real homes which is a 'little sun ny spot of green in the great desert of the world' if there is anything better than this in life I have not yet found it. " Few Do You Sleep ? Incorrect positions during sleep cause many stooped shoulders. The big , fat , jiwful pillow of our grandmother's day is the worst kind of a horror. Xo pillow _ nt all is the best , and after one becomes accustomed to sleeping that way it will lie found much more restful and alto- Bother comfortable. The best position for sleep is to lie face downward , with the arms straight at the sides. Youua : Girls' Pompadours. The prettiest way for girls between 15 and 10 to wear their hair is to have it little pompadour in front , the side pieces t : T with a ribbon bow , and then the rest of the hair braided and tied with another bow. Use black rib- Tjon for street wear and bright ribbon for bouse wear any color that is appropriate - propriate with the frock worn. Har- per's Bazar. \ New Use for Old Wrappers. A New York woman has been treasuf- ing for some time t volummous old wrapper with the idea of one day turnIng - | ' Ing It into a bathing suit. The material | [ -was good and the pattern she thought would be both stylish and pretty for aquatic garb. It was a blue and white stripe , the white about two Inches wide and the dark blue half an Inch. She had stored It away , as it happened , with some clothes that she was to give away. The other day she went to take it out to have it ready for work. But the professional dress slashers in the streets never made such work of a gown as had been made with this. Only the yoke and sleeves and a few frag ments of the body remained , for it was such a nice , soft piece of goods that the boys of the family had cut it all up for bicycle rags. She Is a Mayor. Mrs. Marie Totten , wife of Charles Totten , a prominent merchant , was elected Mayor of Beattie , a town of 500 i n li a b i tants , In Northern Kansas , at a recent city election. Beattie has been overrun with wickedness. The women felt keenly the dis grace , and not long ago held a convention to de vise some means to change the MKS. TOTTEN. town's ways. They planned to put a ticket in the field in the next election. That was ten months ago. Every night , when the husbands and grown sons came home from their work , the housewives would bring up the subject. As a result , sev eral hundred men cast votes for the woman's ticket. There were numerous rows at the polls between men and women , but when the votes were count ed itvas found that tbe women were elected by majorities ranging from 50 to 100. The clerk , treasurer and three councilwomen were elected. Good Advice for Girls. Don't hang around the depot , unless you are going away or meeting friends. Don't go to church and take a back seat with your escort , and then whis per and giggle during the service. Don't be loud , boisterous and slangy. Stand on your dignity ; don't form ac quaintances quickly. Don't carry your heart on your sleeve , and don't throw yourself into the arms of every good-looking drummer or well- dressed stranger who comes to town. Be womanly , be modest , be thought ful and serious at times ; don't unses yourselves , and thus lose woman's sweetest charm. Don't regard yoin long-legged , awkward brother as .1 nuisance ; don't turn up your nose at your old-fashioned father and his pool grammar , and , above all , don't play ? "hot time" on the piano when your good old mother is having a "hot time" on the wash tub. It is too suggestive. Things Worth Notinc. Tight clothes and indigestion cause rod noses. Tooth brushes should be washed IE strong salt and water. Ink spilt on the carpet is removable by milk. Take a light meal only before setting out on a bicycle trip. Powdered rice applied on lint will stop a bleeding wound. Thin , nervous women require ten hours' sleep every night. After eating onions munch a sprig of parsley dipped in vinegar. Ammonia and water cleans mud off an umbrella. Philadelphia Record. The girl who has taken the trouble to rejuvenate her cloth dress with a more or less ornamental mull collar and rovers , especially if a white waist shows underneath , looks delightfully refreshing. Xot only have the tunic overskirt and the bolero succumbed to the fascina tions of the scallop finish , but the here tofore conventional sheet and pillow ease are not deemed up to date unless they , too , boast this modish tpuch. It goes without saying that the stout woman always admires the styles cre ated for her taller and more slender sisters. That's all right , but worship at a distance. Don't pass the suitable long coat and purchase the short jack et , which is bound by the laws of dress to make you look infinitely shorter. Trim our gowns , both waists and skirts , in perpendicular effect. Avoid anything in the way of frilly or pouched effects that add breadth. You may affect all pointed and Y-shaped ar rangements with good results. In blouses , bodices or coats the more ob scure the waist-line the more height is given. Yokes are not intended for the bodice of the short , stout woman , but rather an unbroken line from waist to shoulders , which gives length. WEAPS FOE SUMMEK. LACE SHAWLS AND CUTAWAY ULSTERS IN VOGUE. ome New Ideas as to the Manajre- ment of Colors in Dresses and Over- sklrta-Odd Effects in Bodices Whose Sides Are Trimmed Unlike. New York correspondence : PRING is a diffi cult season consid ered from the wrap point of view. The design er's task is made especially trying because the more fashionable women object to appear ing on the street , no matter how warm the weather , without something in the way of a wrap over them. In answer to this demand some very : pretty little loose capes and mantles I are shown. These ? are usually made of mousseline or or tue Deautiful cloths that drape so gracefully and have a luster almost like that of silk. These capes are planned on the fichu pattern , are built up prettily about the neck with out being close , they may really or appar ently tie under the chin and loose scarf ends hang as far as the knee , and in some cases to the foot of the dress. The one sketched here was black surah , lined with rose pink satin and finished with jet pas sementerie , a large bow of the satin ap pearing at the throat. A lace shawl can be utilized almost without injury in one of the new shawl- shaped wraps for carriage wear. These are made of all delicate shades of silk and cloth , and are trimmed with either blacker or white lace. If a shawl is used it drapes from the shroulders , the cape being set on a shaped yoke. The picture shown of one was an especially graceful design in dull red taffeta mounted with black lace , a shawl and a flounce to match. The cos tume was en suite , the skirt being dull red cloth finished with lace to match that on the cloak. Such a cloak , however , will go handsomely with , many other gowns. It is not fair to insinuate' that the wear ers of such garments have poor figures , but there can be little doubt that the fashion was first started in behalf of such women. You see , the cutaway ulster coat is very fashionable , and will be seized up on by a majority of women to whom it is suited. But scrawniness and over plump ness are not kindly treated by it. Hence the shawl capes , which are about equally suited to all sorts of figures. There is no denying that a pretty figure shows off well in one of the new ulsterettes. These are made of light cloth in gray , oyster , tan , blue or black. Now and then a white one appears. They are any length at the hack , rounding up as short as you like to wards the front. As a rule they are fin ished with a shaped flounce , and may eith- xMr * , ' \ Av ' * ' & \\\\4V TO SEKVE AS SUMMEU WKAPS. cr fasten snugly to the throat or fall open to display the frown beneath and : i hand somely finished pair of rovers. Such a coat may be slightly horsey and at tin- same time essentially feminine. Though it is cut in many different lengths and ways , all the garments have in common the most marked characteristics. These are the familiar ones of the coat in to day's second picture , which was found in blue cloth. When overdresses came in women de cided not to admit to favor the draped overdress , or the overdress that did not appear to be one , at least in color , with the bodice. Yet tbe costume presenting an underskirt that matches the bodice or jacket is topped by an overdress- that does not match anything. At best it matches the yoke or the bodice worn un der the jacket. Such rigs are brand new and fail to look as ugly and ungraceful as well , as they ought. This will he apparent from examination of the left hand gown of the three sketch ed side by side. Its material was gray cloth and underskirt and jacket were braided closely with black. The over dress was the plain cloth and the bodice front under the jacket was white muslin KELIEVED FKOM PLAINNESS BY ITS FASTENING. topped by a stock to match. The lines of braiding are managed very carefully on the jacket. Nothing is more important than the arrangement of line in this sort of trimming. Even scrolls , garlands and spray work should be planned especially according to the lines of the woman who is to wear them. Opposite this gown in the picture is a representative of an extravagant fashion. It is , perhaps , more of a fad than a fash ion , but as it almost invariably results in A ONE-SIDED BODICE AND TWO UNUSUAL SKIRTS. a strikingly pretty dress , it is likely to spread. It consists in topping a bodice with a yoke of some material lighter in color than the gown , and in making the underskirt , or the shaped flounce of the skirt , match the yoke. This gown was pansy blue cloth and had a yoke of white cloth with all over braiding in blue. The shaped foot of the skirt matched the yoke. The gown will need constant care. Light material next the ground may be pretty , but , like the height of the society season , it's very wearing. There is some demand for variation from the bodice that opens in front to show a yoke , and one result of this is a lot of pretty and odd effects in bodices whose sides are trimmed unlike. One pretty variation of this idea is displayed by the middle figure of these three. The gown was tobacco brown cloth , the yoke of white corded silk appearing only on * the right side. This costume showed also the rounded-down neck. To those who have grown rather tired of light colored cloths , it is pleasant to think that dark stuffs are still stylish , all the more desirable because the grays and fawns have come near to the point of be ing overdone. As it stands now , the method of making is of more importance than that of color or goods , granting that the latter are not unfashionable. The gown of the concluding picture was sig nificant of this because it was of blue serge of a quality not extraordinarily fine ; that is , a common material of an al most work-a-day shade. Yet by the un usual and skillful in manner which it was made tip , the gown was turned into a com plete success. Its bodice was a very nat ty example of the short-hip , straight-front jacket , and the fastening of cord loops and buttons was managed charmingly. If one doesn't have an overdress or a shaped flounce to her skirt , she positively must have an.odd fastening to it. The perfect ly plain skirt is gone by. Copyrlglit , 1S09. Otters Trained to Catch Fish. Chinese and Indian fishermen have an ingenious way of training the otter. They catch the small cub and put a collar round the throat. The little crea ture , finding itself unable for days to- retber to swallow anything it catches , gives up trying to do so. and firmly be lieves for the rest of its life that an otter can only swallow such food as it receives direct from its master's hands , and. accordingly , it faithfully brings to the bank ajl the fish it captures. She Obeyed the .Letter. Little Sadie ( who has been told she must thank God for everything , wheth er it seemed good or not ) "Thank God again , mamma , I've broken your rose jar. " N DEWgY'S PORTRAIT. The One the Public Knows Looks but Little Like Him. Someone remarked the other day It was strange that of all the pictures of Admiral Dewey with which this coun try is so liberally supplied , every one Is alike. It is the same three-quarter face , with the dark upturned mustache and thin hair. All the pictures show him in uniform and with standing col lar. The fact that there is only one picture of Dewey , while there are nu merous and different likenesses of Schley , Sampson , Shafter , Hobson , Miles , Otis and even Kautz , does seem strange. It happened this way : Ad miral Dewey always was a modest man and he never cared to have his picture taken. Some years ago , how ever , when he was in Washington , a friend induced him to go to Bell's gal lery and sit for a picture. He was on duty and wore his uniform as captain. This was many years ago , and the pho tographer put the negative away among those he thought he would have little call for. On that Sunday night , May 1 , nearly a year ago , when the news came of Dewey's great victory , the newspapers all over the country began telegraphing for pictures of the hero. Every photographer in the town was aroused to find a photograph of Dewey , and just by chance Miss Owen , at Bell's , remembered the old negative. It was found and men were put to work printing pictures from it. It was too late to copyright the picture , but the photographer made a great deal of money In a few days selling the copies on hand. In less than a week that pic ture Avent all over the country and be came the accepted likeness of the great Admiral in fact , it is doubtful if many people would recognize any other. The Mail and Express correspondent had an experience in this line only the other day. There is a game called "portraits" which is quite the fad in Washington now. It consists in col lecting a large number of pictures of prominent men and women and pasting them on boards , numbering them and then hanging the boards about the room , give a certain length of time to the guests to guess who they are. In this particular collection of portraits was one of Admiral Dewey taken a few months ago at Manila. The pic ture showed the .Admiral in his white uniform , with his mustache gray and his hair thin and white. It was very unlike the Bell photograph , so unlike , indeed , that out of the party guessing the pictures , only one recognized it aa that of Admiral Dewey. There's nothing on earth so mysteri ously funny as an advertisement. The prime , first and'last , all-the-time ob ject of an ad is to draw custom. It was not , and never will be , designed for any other purpose. So the merchant waits till the busy season comes , and his store is so full of customers that he can't get his hat off , and then he rushes off to the printer and goes in for adver tising. When the dull season gets along and there is no bu.ving , and h ? wants to sell his goods so bad he can not pay his rent , he stops advertising. That is , some of them do ; but occa sionally a level-headed merchant des more of it and scoops in the business , while his neighbors are making mort gages to pay tbe gas bills. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if you planted a cannon be hind the door , and that's the time when the ad is sent on its holy mission. It makes light work for advertising , for a chalk sign on the sidewalk would do all that was needed , and have a half- holiday every day in tbe week. But who wants to favor an ad ? It is built to do bard work , and should be sent out on the dull days , when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts , and kicked insensible with bank rupt reductions , and dragged in with irresistible slaughter of prices , before he will spend a cent. That's the aim and end of advertising , and if you ever open a store don't try to get them to come when they are sticking out of the windows , but give them your ad right between the eyes in the dull season , and you will wax rich , and own a fast horse , and perhaps be able to smoke a cigar once or twice a year. Write this down where you'll fall over it every day. The time to draw business is when you want businss , and not when you have more business than you can attend to. Exchange. Gate of Tears and Bridge of Sighs. The Straits of Babelmandeb , the passage from the Persian Gulf into the Red Sea , are called tbe Gate of Tears by the Arabs. The channel is ouly about twenty miles wide , rocky and very dangerous for passage in rough weather. It received its melancholy name from the number of shipwrecks that occurred there. The Bridge of Sighs is the bridge of Venice which connects the palace of the Doge with the State prison , and was so called because over it prisoners were conveyed from the judgment hall to the place of execution. Oldest City in the World. Though Rome is called "the eternal city , " the name by right belongs to the city of Damascus , in Syria , which is the oldest city in the world. As long as man has written records the city of Da mascus has been known. Every man who calls a doctor finds him "rough. " The cinchona Is robbed of Irs baric for the sake of the quinine which It contains. Resins , rubbers , barks , Bbers , tans , dyes , lacquers , seeds and fruits the list has no end. Many oC these are due to modern enterprise ; It Is curious to note , however , that wood tar Is prepared just as it was In the fourth century before Christ. A bank Is chosen and a hole dug. into which the wood is placed covered with turf. A fire Is lighted underneath uml the tar slowly drips into the barrels placed to receive it. The Artless Japanese Way. During meals In Japan adults as well as children are admonished to be "seen and not heard , " for silence Is the sign of good breeding ; and to be really well- mannered one there must not speak at table , or even move more than the tak ing of the food absolutely requires. * The god who Is supposed to preside over the meals Is offended by noise of any sort. When our General Grant dined with the Emperor of Japan and spoke during the meal he was not con sidered ill-bred , for allowance was made for him as a foreigner. His be ing invited to break bread with the royalty of Japan was a tremendous concession , such as had never been known. After the door was opened to him and a precedent established the bars were not put up as tightly. The Emperor of Japan never admits a native commoner to his presence. If it became necessary for tailors or tink ers to come before him a title would be conferred upon them as they en tered , of which they would be deprived when they made their exit. What a chance for a comic opera librettist ! The Japanese celebrate the anni versaries of the death of great persons , not their birthdays. He Couldn t SpeuK. i-reach. Of the many amusing experiences Englishmen have in France the one oC a provincial alderman who recently crossed the channel is most novelHe could speak only English , and describes his troubles thus : . "I went to Paris and put up at the Hotel de Lille et d'Albion. I lost my way and could not get back to my ho tel , because I did not speak or under stand French. I asked several stran gers , in English , to direct me , but met with no success. So I bought a large card and wrote on it : 'Please tell me the way to the Hotel de Lille et d'Al bion. ' "I walked along the street and show ed my card to a dozen or more men. Finally a man read it and beckoned mete to follow him. I did so silently for about a mile. He pointed to the sign on my hotel , and I broke the silence by thanking him. " 'What ! ' he exclaimed , in apparent surprise , 'are you an Englishman ? Seam am I , but I took you to be deaf and ' " Press. dumb. New York Farmers and Binders * Twine. The offer made elsewhere In this pa per by the John M. Smyth Company , of Chicago , to furnish farmers with Binder Twine is certainly something unprecedented In these days. The prices are named on the different grades of Twine and the privilege of ! examination and comparison with other qualities and values offered each pur chaser. The firm making these offers is one of the most reliable and ex tensive In the United States. Another Difficulty. "I'm sorry for our president , " said the French official. "He has an ordeal before him in which he will not getohalf the sympathy he deserves. He owes It to the public to have some pictures taken. " "That Is simple enough. " "It seems so. But think of a man IV his position being told to look pleas- ant. " Washington Star. " The Prudent Man Setteth His House in Order.f r Your human tenement should be given even more careful attention than the house you live in. Set it in order by thoroughly purifying your blood by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Erysipelas "My little girl is now fat and healthy on account of Hood'3 Sarsapa rilla curing her of erysipelas and eczema. " MRS. H. O. WHEATLEY , Port Chester , N. Y. Hood's Pills cnre liver JUa ; the non-Irritating and OLly cathartic to take with Hood's Saraapartlla. A Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forever. . T. FEMX GOCKAUI 'S ORIENTAL DK. CREAM , OK .MAGICAL BEAUTIFIEK. Hemores Tan. Pimples. Freckle * Moth Patches , Ra b , and Ski ) diseases , and ererj- blemish 01 beauty , and defld detection. It hat StOOd OW test ot U rmless we taste il to be sure It Js prop erly made. Accept no counterfeit ol similar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady of the haul-ton ( a patient ) : "As yea ladies will u e them , I recommend 'Gour- aud's Cream' as the least harmful of all the Skin prepara tions. " For sale by all Drnpslsts and fancy-Goods Dealers In the CS. . , Canadas , and Europo. FERD. T. HOPKIXS. ITop'r , 37 Great Jones St. , N'.Y. A Hatural Black by Price 50 cents of all drngjiata or B. P. Hall & Co. . Nashua. N.H. LADIES ! The Periodical Monthly Regulator sever tails ; waled bos by mall , $1.00. NEW YOKK CHE1UCAL , CO. , Box 70. Milwaukee , Wisconsin.
