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fwr ayjgs tgaBTt:'giywygyg!ff-3fgg"t,ysst sv?g irwsnjwJBji ! w 5rsws2!csff!WBTVFp;tisrar3r 'V- "4 t - rv .-its' - x - -7 - ", 'v. ?"-r; V r is . . X. ' - r -s i '-4u vinty i r-ii v, i iii''i!iiujiriTr.i-i HAT would we have thought of that mother who 30 or even 15 years ago allowed her children to play tag and spin tops on the rail road track of a trunk line? "NVe would have called her lacking in common sense But the world moves, and al though mothers still o h j e c t to their children playing tag and spinning tops on railroad tracks, steam cars arc now allowed on "our highways and byways, and -vyheroas the railroad train runs 'on a schedule, the modern steam, '"car and its hi others the electric car and the gasoline motor run at full speed under no schedule, and they run ; wheie children most do congregate. And so used do we become to dan- gers that we mothers I speak as a ," man sit at our bedroom windows ..and ' calmly continue our sewing as .we watch Willy elude a machine run- ' ning at 20 miles an hour, and Jenny '" calmly step aside to allow the pas- " sage of a toad-devouring monster, ". painted red and "chugging" in a . manner unknown to our fathers, who j did not even know what "chugging" -was. Now, when air-ships are commor -. ;ind they begin to fall from the sky, . as they most certainly will in the " hands of inexperienced aeronauts, "'the careful, mother will at first make "- her children play in the house or in spine protected playground, but after awhile she will realize that this world is meant to be lived in, danger or no " 'Tlanger, and she will merely say: "Willy, if you hear a strange noise overhead look up and dodge or I can't let yon play out of doors." ; " And in learning to dodge a falling airship and at the same time keep out of the path or a hurtling motor- .car. the children of the future will ' "got to be so nimble that the race as a , whole will be improved. It will be ".a fast nice, in fact. It was a mellow day for such a sor- j .man. J he ear was fulfilling all of -. the promises made in early spiing. In . 'the woods there was a blaze of red, the . ripe. juices of autumn, and in the air there was that melancholy sweetness .that makes a man think, that makes him look upon his neighbor as his - 'brother. On a bench not far fiom the pulpit old Lim Jucklin sat, determined to surrender himself to the influences of the sermon. During the week just . ended human nature had not been pverstrong in him. He had told one man that the only truth about him was the truth that he was a liar, had . swapped horses with a chicken ped- dler and was glad now that he had J not succeeded in ovei taking him aft terward; he had trapped a few quails out of season, but had sent the most of them to the sick had done a few oth- er things not strictly in line, such as t halting for a few moments at a livery 'stable to see two dogs fight; but now as he sat ready to listen to the word he knew that down in his heart he ! hated no man The old minister arose and gave out j the hymn, militant verses written by some ancient fighter, and then looked 'with a scowl at the empty benches at the rear end of the room. Old Dock Hency cleared his throat and settled himself down and Sister Duckworth, repository of every neighborhood scan- dal for more than two generations, smacked her mouth, lor she felt that ( this was to be an occasion for what j the rude slangists called "hot stuff." And it was. The preacher tiptoed in . his wrath against the world. Never before had that bioad boulevard lead- m ing to destruction been so frightfully crowded. It did not seem that there "was a possible show for anyone to be saved. And it was not a figurative - helf that the preacher painted, but a . great pit roaring with flames. Into the house he so strongly brought the smell of sulphur that a boy sneezed, j and a little girl, shuddering in fright, . crept cioser to ner moiner. vjiu i-eier . - a V . J Y"l A Balch, shaver of notes and holder 'of '.mortgages on the homes of widows, cried out "Amen," and a mule that had been tied, to a swinging limb broke loose and tore off down the road. "When the sermon was done Limuel waited for an opportunity to speak to the preacher. "Just want to talk to you a few moments." he said. "No hurry. Wait till you shake hands with all these folks that are crowdin' one j another on the road to distraction." The preacher held forth his hand and Jucklin took it, holding it for a moment looking him in the eye. "1 want to talk to you privately. Would you mind goin out here and settin' on a log with me?" The minister smiled"LImuel," said he, "are you at last about to ask for terms?' Has the light fallen on you?" "Well, I don't know but I am a lit tle scorched. You women folks goon home and Til overtake yon." "Shall we have witnesses as to what 3ka iMsaBRg&C Have you an allowance? If your husband is a salaried man he ought to give you an allowance, be cause it is to be supposed that you do your share of the work that goes "to the making of home and you are there fore a partner in the concern. If your husband is an artist or a musician or a writer and is dependent on his skill in disposing of his work, that is to say, if he is without a reg ular salary, you can hardly expect him to give you an allowance; but you should make no bones of asking him for what you need, because, again, yon are partners. Your husband is not a little tin god on wheels. His money is your money, and you may depend upon it that if you were earning and he was housekeeping he would cheerfully and promptly ask you for money as he needed it. I have known wives, who asked as a favor what was theirs by right Of course if you are merely the fine lady with no responsibilities; if you are a member of this and of that club and spend your time in writing papers on the bringing up of other people's children while your own are brought up with a round turn (eventually), you have no right to ask your husband for money. You are no longer a partner in the concern. He is the whole thing and he may do as he pleases with his hard earned money. Or if you are extravagant and for ycur sins your husband has kept a tight hand on the purse, I have noth ing to say. Rut if you know that you are health ily economical, and if your husband is doing well, why, ask him this even-1 ing when he conies home. Wait until he has dined (and see that the dinner is a good one). Then when he is smok ing his cigar jiist tell him how you were admitted into the partnership when you were married to him, qnd that hereafter he will please see to it that you have a decent allowance. Of course you must dress up your request in what diplomatic robes are at your command. Don't use a "stand and deliver" attitude or he may call in the constabulary. But if he allows the allowance don't thank me, rather laugh at yourself for not having had spirit enough to ask it before. It's yours by right. you are going to say?" the preacher incjuired. "Xo, I'd rather talk to you alone out there where the wild grapes are purple in the sun." "Limuel, I thank you for this long sought opportunity. Come." They went out into the woods and sat down on a log. A gray squirrel peeped at them. "Limuel, is it about my sermon that you wish to talk?" "Yes," said the old man, cutting off n chew of his twist "I am glad that it struck home." "Ah. hah. Glad, I reckon, that it scared that little girl. Wait a mo ment I have listened to you, so now you !sten to me a whne." He slowly wiped his knife on his trousers, snapped it and put it into his pocket "As I sat in yonder just now, brother. I could hardly believe that I wa'nt away back where the world was when I found it just ripe for destruction. The first picture that was drawed for me was of little children in torment, and I went to bed and cried nearly all niuht because I felt that nothin' was of any use. My poor mother was scared and my father was afraid to say much, for there was the preacher ready to snatch away any encourage ment We had all of us been con demned from the first and unless we did an impossible task there was no hone. But as I grew older the world appeared to get better. The rocks in tno graveyards said that the dead f0rKS v.cre all right Humanity had (i0De away wita imprisonment for debt. The slave shins were all sunk. People we-e better fed and better clothed. Dooks filled up the empty shelves in the country. Newspapers with their white wings flew every where. And all this time hell was a coolin off. It, seemed to me that it was almost .ready for irrigation till ou turned loose to-day. What made you do it? Don't answer me now jest Jet me talk but what made you do it? Dcn't you know that God is eettin so good that some of the churches have to meet every once in a while to acknowledge it? Don't you know that after all it is love and not fear that moves this- old world? You sing: Oh, for a closer walk with God. and you make such a thing impossible. You make Him a destroyer instead of a builder. You would take away the softness and the holy sweetness of the Saviour, and when that's done, all is done that can1' bo done for cv I. Instead of a great book of wisdom jou make the Bible a threat backed up by the devil. You would have the people read it with frightened eyes, and I want to tell you that when a man's scared he can't learn anything to speak of. The people are growin' all the time, and so is the church, but some of you preachers want" to pull back.. Do you know why all over the country there is a disposition to put out the old preachers and to take in the new ozes? It is because the ycung men r ttell Loomis RE you socially your husband's inferior or his su perior? . If you are his inferior he is probably too much of a gentleman to have told you so, but if you are his superior I am very much afraid that you have let him know it. But if you are and if you have, don't let it rest at that. Try by all the means in ?' Py-TC - A hun up to your social level. If your table man ners are better than his; if you cannot eat a dinner without the use of fiom two to three forks, while he is prone to get along without any, try to educate him. If he won't use three compromise on one. That will be a beginning. It will be a great pity if you let him drag you down to his level. It is always a pity when a man or a woman coasts from birth instead of climbing from birth. Let s-our mot to be: "Ever upward." Don't you want to be superior socially to any one on earth? How can you become so if you do not climb and drag your husband along too? Lift him up and teach your chil dren to be a little better than either of you. This will not be hard, as they already feel they arc that is, if they are good Americans. If they are Chinese they are becomingly humble and think that the sun rises and sets in you and your husband. But it is safe to say that your chil dren are not Chinese. They want to move on a higher social plane than you moved, and on a much high er plane than their father moves. And when they have reached what they have striven for, just use them to pull you and your husband up and the end of your family will be some Blue Book. v It's a great ambition. (Copyright, by James Pott & Co.) are more libera!. They are not so set in creed and therefore they are kind er hearted." "Jucklin, it is not for you to talk like this. You would have me tried for heresy." "Brother, wh"re one man is tried for heresy 20 are dropped for nar rowness. Put that in your pipe and smoke it a while." "I don't smoke, sir." "But you would have everybody else smoke. Did you see that little girl clinging to her mother? It will take a long time to get that awful picture out of her mind. And maybe by the time that one is wiped out jou'll be ready with another one; and when she grows up and glances about her in the light of pure truth she will look back and pity your ignorance." "Jucklin. I know one man whom the devil is waiting for." "Accordin' to your story he's wait in' for every man." "But he is waiting for one in par ticular." "If you mean me let me correct you a little. He can't get me, for I be lieve the Saviour when he said he died to save sinners." "You do not believe the Saviour; you have denied him." "No. brother, I have denied you and the devil. Now let me tell you what to do: Come over to my house and get some of the books that my son has sent to me. They'll do you good." "Tracts issued by Satan, and you'll find it out one of these days. Juck lin, I thought you wanted to talk about the welfare of your soul, and here you are scofiing at the Gospel." "Oh, no, I'm not scoffin' at love; and the Gospel is love the sweetest mes sage of love that was ever breathed upon a helpless world. And it seems strange that at this late day some of you haven't found it out I believe I hearn you say once that the printing press was keepin folks from goin' to church, and you called it the agent of the devil. You didn't stop to recollect that unless the Bible had been printed you never would have had one. But go ahead, preachin' your doctrine of hate and the first thing you know you'll be out of a job. You can't con vince a thinkin' man that the world which Is just as much God's now as it ever was Is worse off than it used to, be. There are more flowers today than the world ever saw before. There are more human hearts and therefore more human love. God wisdom is comin' closer; and the devi! igno rance is gci further away. You frown at empty benches, but after a while you won't have even a bench. And about that time you'll see happy people comin' 'out cf a new church. That's about all I've got to say." "Jucklin, you are going to hell." "Well, not before I get a bite to cat, I hope. Good-day." (Copyright, by Opie Read.) Wejnil rkhiom in WHEN a young girl reaches that milestone in her career which is marked by the lengthening of her frocks and the turning up of her braids she is so deeply concerned about the fashion of doing her hair as any debutante is over the question of puffs or no puffs. Candidly, the subject of hairdressing means more to the girl who wears her braids up for the first time than it does to her older sister, declares a writer in the New York Herald. She has nothing to guide her in the way of former ex perience, and she does not always get that sympathetic help older sisters might render if they remembered how important the coiffure is to the school girl. Because it is an arrangement new to her and to her friends she can learn what becomes her only by trying the various styles which are approved by fashion. She must devote a good deal of study to her head and her face. She must consider carefully the poise and shape of her neck; then after she has studied herself due thought should be given to the styles of hairdressing themselves, and she must choose just that one out of the many, ranging from the jaunty to the classic, which becomes her best And, above all, it should always be remembered that simplicity is the keynote of girlish hairdressing. Elaborate, and imposing effects are not only bad taste, but they make a young girl look ridiculous in stead of sweet, charming and simple. Doing the hair up does not mean that the hair is actually arranged on the top of the head. The "up" is used comparatively in contrast to the hanging braids or curls w.orn by girls under 14. In a general way the young girl's coiffure is following in the lead of the one adopted by fashio.nablc women. It suggests ever so slightly a Grecian effect by reason of its full ness at the back of the head. Wheth er the hair is done in one or two coils or is braided and then pinned up. prominence is given to it at a point midway between .the crown of the head and the nape of the neck. This slight change -distinguishes it from the low coil which, was worn last season, and it also makes it more difficult to wear becomingly. A well-shaped head is required to set it off. advantageous ly and give it a smartness that is not characterized by a lumplike arrange ment at the back of the head. A simple way to manage this style of dressing is to roll the sides of the hair back from the face, either from a middle part or, straight back from the forehead, and twist it all together FOR THE Suit for Boy from 4 to 5 Years. The knickers arc in dark brown vel veteen, lined with sateen, the blouse is in white washing silk, trimmed with frills of the same, it fastens quite up to the throat, under a wide boxplait edged with a narrow frill. The wide collar is frilled at the edge, then feather stitched with embroidery silk. Elastic is threaded in the hem at the waist Materials required: 1 yards velveteen and 2 yards silk. Dress for Girl from 15 to 17 Years. Checked material in two shades of blue is employed for this dress, the skirt is trimmed three inches from the foot with a band of blue velvet. The bodice has a round yoke and under sleeves of tucked blue silk, the material is gathered to the yoke under a plait ing of silk, and a shaped band, in which incisions are made, through which soft ribbon is threaded and tied in a bow in front. Materials required: 5 yards 46 inches wide, 2 yards silk, 5 yards sateen for lining. Dress for Girl freni 8 to 10 Years. This dress is in sage green cashmere; it has a long-waisted bodice, lined with sateen, the round yoke is of creani lace, the material is tucked each side the front, and stitchej three parts down; four velvet-covered buttons ornament the center, the epaulettes are trimmed with velvet, they are fixed to the edge of yoke under a stitched strap of cash mere. The skirt is a circular shape, tucked at the foot, it is joined to the bodice under a folded band of velvet. Materials required: C" yards 44 inches wide, yard velvet, 4 yard lace, and 1 yard lining. CURE FOR DOUBLE CHIN. Persistent Exercise Will Do Away with This Regrettable Dcfsct. A double chinv that bugbear of so many women, is caused by lack of ex ercise or eating an abundance of fat making foods, or by indulgence in al coholic beverages. It eas'ly can be gotten rid of by exercising persist ently. The best way to exercise is in a nightgown, as this leaves the body in a. free and comfortable position and leaves the neck. free. First thrust the jaw out so that the pull of the throat muscles is felt Then before the feel ing of this pull is gone draw the neck back as far 33 possible. Tilt the head up and down until, the muscles begin to feel tired, but not until they ache, for this willtresult in a stiff and sore neck. This exercise should not be done too violently, or a headache or dizzy head will be the result Now, with the chin thrust out, tip the head, over to one side, always feel tag conscious of the play of tho dUTer- w Sirl Hair Dro i in a double loop, pinning the coils across the head in a horizontal line instead of having them follow a verti cal axis. With .a hat this dressing looks particularly well. Girls will find it a little trying at other times, how ever, on account of the sudden projec tion it makes just under the crown of, the head. When this is not becoming it can 'be made by leaving the hair fluffy over the top of the head and with a softness again in the arrange ment of the hair low in the neck. Next to the turned-up braids, in point of simplicity and gradual change fh the coiffure evolution, is the loose coil or twist which is generally de scribed as a figure 8. The coil starts at the back of the head just below the crown after the front has been brushed back in a soft youthful pompa dour, then it twists up and down, cov ering the head from the crown to the nape of the neck. The loops are fastened securely with shell hairpins, and a wide black ribbon bow may be tied through the qenter to bring the loops and ends just back of the ears. For girls who have very little hair this ribbon dressing will be found becom ing and graceful. No matter how beautiful and lux uriant the hair may be in its' infancy, unless it is well cared for it soon loses its softness and beauty of tone. Moth ers understand the importance of be stowing attention .regularly and sys tematically upon their youthful daugh ters' hedds, and they insist upon the maid following the most careful pro cess to promote the growth and beau ty of the hair. Every night, despite protests from the tired young chaige, her hair is given a vigorous and fresh ening brushing. There are some hair experts who insist that brushing is injurious to the hair, yet nothing re sponds so quickly and satisfactoiily to regular treatment as the hair. Fifty or 100 brisk strokes of the brush are given at night, with the result ..that the hair is polished and cleansed, the scalp is invigorated and the weariness is dissipated to some de gree, while the hair is given a new lease of life. Again in the morning more brushing is bestowed upon it and the hair enjoys a liUle exercise and an air bath, that mean as much to it as such things do to the system. Much washing is injurious to the hair, and when it is brushed regularly and thoroughly the dust is removed, thus making shampooing less necessary. Once in three or four weeks is con sidered often enough to shampoo the head if the scalp and hair are kept fresh and clean by constant brushings. CHILDREN ent sets of muscles about the neck. Finish the exercises with a dash cf cold water on the neck, threat and shoulders, and the benefits will be dis tinctly noticeable in a week. Fancy stockings are prophesied. There is a craze for a -touch of color in all summer shoes. An innovation is the wearing of tan sJk gloves to match the tsn stock ings. In mllMncry the two most insistent sfkring shades are taupe and pome granate. One of the touches characteristic of some of the French millinery is the presence of huge loops of lawn rib bon. The latest in gloves is the long chamois with the buttoned strap across the w't j v z T MtW- j J &9-iL wnaiisfe Is Ha Catarrh. 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