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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1910)
11 ES) iOMEiMAGAlINE PAG HUMOR. Hat With DcDt-in Brim Things You Vant to Know The CioTrrnnirnt at Work IVpartinent of AKrlrulturc. urn rET!: mrATT.v. th:tnt:stay. October 12, mm. '"'.' - It l- th Blmplvit kind o( remodellns to chance a, lant yrar'tMg mushroom nhape Into a atunnlnc 1911 model. For only a dent th the brim, made .with the thumb and. forefinger, la required to secure a Dew "nickel" picture chape. f: TlnfflV-ninlnrf!1P Words- Words Everywhere, and .4 ypiUr.liaiOgUeS . Not a, Thought to. .Think!.. t BY' WALTER" A. SINCLAIR. "Can't they get out the vote campalgn lesslyT" a Wed Dottle. "No, I'm afraid the free born voter will now suffer campaigns In the head," I replied, ' after recovering' "from my dlil ness.' ' "Caused by wearing campaign hat?" she suggested. "No. Smoklnar a campaign toroh." "Ah, torture," she comprehended. "What's the meaning of your taking such a deep lnteretrt In pollUcsT" I de manded, suspiciously.' ' "I read that all the big interests were," she countered; artlessly. "But, to tell the truth. I thought I ought to. seeing the merTon't." k "You can't vote." I challenged. "Yes, I can, but the men won't let me. Mentally' and physically I'm able to vote." she asserted. "That's no argument against my being Interested, You can't make a drees- or wear one; but I notice you are Interested. I hope soma day to put my X In the circle." "You have great X-pectattons," ' I ven- tured. "There was one thing I couldn't quite understand," she admitted. "Only" oner "Yes. I thought a vice president was lected for the aame erm as a president, and yet I see that Vice President Sherman was defeated1 for election" "Oh. that was a mere device to keep the pnbllo reminded of who was vice presi dent."' I "explained. "He gets the salary right along and la allowed the privilege of paying about twice as much for houjie rant in Washington." i "And what does It mean to demand a progressive platform?" she asked. "That means a moving sidewalk," I re sponded. "And then thers ars direct primates do, prima rites T' ' i "Why,' that's r er where you go to th primaries and um they direct ou to go to another place about a mile a&y," I diagrammed. ' "I'm" so glad there was some one I could ask!" she exclaimed, pleaaed. "Oil, you can ask me anything," I as serted, recklessly. "In reason!" I added. ' "I ean ask you, but can you answer?'' she 'demanded. "This' Is so sudden," I shied. -"For whom are you going to vote for or.gress?" she Interrogated. 'Why er um the name eludes me for the moment,"' I lodged. "It doesn't have to be a very fast name tMMUN3 .A ittre knowledge is dam jWoug Ctdng." AVcll, you're aie enough." V " . Thla change, of course, providing the big hat la covered with velvet, of which all the handnome picture hats are made this year, little trimming Is required. On these big, smart shapes a towering feather, like the one In the photograph, Is all that la essential. "MOVE NEARER." to do that," she commented. "Well, who Is your choice for state senator?" "Neither are very choice," I sidestepped. turning red. "I suppose you know who are candidates for assemblyman In your district?" she grilled, remorselessly. "Fact Is, they're so bad I hate to admit It," I parried. "But why try to make me tell names? I'm no city directory." "Matter of fact you don't know a name," she accused. "How do you pick candi dutes?" "I never got near enough to one to pick trim," I eluded. "Anyhow, most of them do the picking themselves after they're elected. I usually vote the straight ticket "How can It be straight when you say part of It Is crooked ?" she persisted. "Now, Isn't that just like a woman?" declaimed. "You don't even know the assembly dis trict you live In, do you?" "Well I spend so inuih tltqe over hers in your district that hu,3i 1 was serlosly thinking "ImpoHslble!" she decided, Increduously, 'Seriously thinking," J insisted, "that would move over nearer"' "H'm! You can't move much nearer, sue observed, dryly. 'Now, If you want to talk politics" I Invited. Why, how deep your eyes are!" she exclaimed. "I never noticed before" Can you beat It? (Copyright, 1910. by the N. Y. Herald Co r Daily Health Hint J To keep comfortable In body, one of the first requisites is to be comfortable In mind. A happy frame of mind helps to drive away 111 health and keeps It away. Lite t a Or eat City. The crowd blocked the sidewalk and spread out half way across Eh street Men struggled and almost fougbt to force their way through, to find out what was going on. "What's ths trouble?" asked a dozen volets. The answers wars unsatisfactory. It was a man in a tit Somebody bad fainted. Two newsboys wers fighting. A woman bad been run over by a delivery wagon. A pickpocket had been caught in the act "Aw. I'win, here! Muv ahn!" vocif erated a policeman, who was ths last to arrive. The crowd melted away. Then the cause of the excitement was revealed. It a glasier trying to break off half sn inch Cruiu lb botium of a large pas ytkii BB-""uiigj x nouns. st'. tmij is no tuKie TtR. OOlT It TK too ncRM i m' cv i-r i ! i ( will 11 V I lh- THEPf. IS JK) MfTH 31C Tvf J r v ffrlAvi 7 so 9 I TRIEP I J 3UST THIMKIN1 0T) U(C6 TO I J 36W r COKTttftCT With too ' 3UST l(Pr rNCCxJT THlJ J . IwV ul or ma , Y V-iN I UOUrVJ Avh: Hjctc" The Boss of the Establishment JBY AMERH MANN. The Boss of the Establishment was enjoying for the first time the delightful sensation of being the lord of the manor also. The October wind showered leaves from his own elm and maple trees. Ths October mosquitoes bussed In angry bafflement outside his own back porch, where on a olear, cool Sunday afternoon he was taking his ease and his demi-tasse. His wife, still a little daxed by the faot that she could actually get lost In the un accustomed spaciousness of her own home, was reading, with obvious approval, a newspaper article In praise of ths atout, or as the author phrased It, ths well-developed woman. The Boss looked out over ths slightly withered lawn where they were planning to have a tennis csurt next summer. 'This Is pretty poor. Isn't It?" he oo- served, with the customary enthusiasm of the newly made commuter. 'It's lovely," his wife softly agreed. Then her melting tone hardened suddenly to the matter of fact. 'There's but one thing I'm afraid of," he confided. "That It will be lonesome for the new cook. You sea. In an apartment house a girl knows all the other servants and she has plenty of society." "But uoUtude is ths greatest beauty of this place!" ths Boss protested. "I tell you I want to give thiee cheers every time i realize that we don't know a soul In Moun talnvllle." 'But that won't last, dear," his wife re plied. A sub-tone of optimism sounaed in her voice. "The nelglsVors next door seem to be very nice. They're a small family, just like ourselves, only their dog Is a Great Dane Instead of a collie." "I ll bet Woof-Woof can lick him!" the Boss exclaimed with sudden Interest. For the compromise between the bulldog of the Boss' desire i.nd the collie of his wife's dreams had materialised, and, as every married man has already guessed. It was a collie. . The Boss' wife had wished to christen the new arrival "Sir Uallahad.' She thought It might have a good effect on his morals and deportment; but on this point the Boss was obdurate. He said he didn't want to kill a dog hs had paid K0 for with a name like that, so he named htm Woof Woof. "Why, that dog Is twice as big as Woof Woof!" the Boss' wife protested. "I do Items of Horizontal lines ars the corrective for i extreme height and slenderness. Square yokes, ornamental cuffs and belts, trim ming that runs around ths skirt, all help to diminish ths size. Vertical lines ars trying to a slight figure unless lengthwise tucks and plaits ars used, which, extend ing to the shoulders, give width to ths chest surface, but fullness gained by. gath ers and shlrrings Is softer and adds breadth without lnourrlng the stiffness of ths up-and-down lines. Diagonal folds may, of course, be employed, only they should not be flat, but soft and In ths na ture of drapery. Sleeves for thin arms should never be plain nor have any length wis trimming. A simulation of a short sleeve by means of transparent cuffs is a good design and almost any use of horizontal lines. When as is often ths case with a tall frame, the neck Is long, Its exaggerated effect la ob viated by bringing soma fairly striking trimming doss under U chin. If, how ever, this sama ornamentation Is carried MOv-f .WHftT JO YOU UKt Tr pence.! aoiNci To ooit. fH'. M0rHlH" RWIM " J rVSLtEJP AT Tr( SWITCH. I'LL Just sprjnicle sottt TAILS'- OK HERMAN' tVxBe twnot net niN 'tir' Mr hope they won't meet unless they are going to be friends. Don't you think, dear, It might be a good plan for us to have just a formal acquaintance with those people so that the dogs will get to know eaoh oter right away and not want to fight?" "See here!" said the Boss, setting down his coffee cup, "don't you worry about our dog. He can take care of himself. But what's the use of getting rid of all your friends by moving to the country if you're going to start making a new lot right away? I've com out on the train with that fellow next door a couple of times and I tell you I don't like his looks." The Boss never did like a strange man's looks. It was only with the greatest re luctance and upon Indisputable evidence that he ever parted with the conviction that a person unknown to him was a cut throat or a confidence man. He had not lived ten years in New York for nothing. When, later in the afternoon, be started for a walk, with Woof-Woof running and wheeling ahead, they passed the unknown neighbor and his lumbering Qreat Dane both the Boss and his dog growled. Woof-Woof seemed not In the least dis mayed by the height and expansive chest of ths Scandinavian, Olaf, which was the other dog's historical name. In fact, even I JM Interest for the Yomcn Folk far down on the chest its purpose is de feated; it must serve either as a shallow yoke or as a band from shoulder to, shoul der. In designing a gown with prominent horizontal lines one must be careful not to divide the figure Into "stories." A gen eral Impression of unity must be preserved and no gown that has a cut-up effect la well planned. ' A frock must not be shapeless. With material at hand ons can build out the figure to any size and shape and with grotesque results; to be succewtful In treat ing ths slight figure one must keep a sense of proportion and maintain the right rela tions of ons part of the body to another. And one must not forget either to keep in graceful outline ths contour of the figure, which Is almost mora of an art In build ing out a figure than In treating one where natural curves, while ample at. leant, serve as a baala and Indication. To the Blender who would be otharwlas: Do away with dark colors and Cat sur- 1CK0W ftDoUT TMnT? Such is lipe. ik fnryvw 5H'UL (7 V vyi ft v&fc y. foy how I LovtN He Refuses to Allow His Neighbors to Become Too Familiar. Tthe Boss admitted that, In the sanguinary proceedings which followed, the young and frisky collie was distinctly the aggrensor. Woof-Woof looked at the rather aged gladiator and uttered a snarl to the effect that "they never come back." The Great Dane halted and showed a set of rather ancient teeth, which seemed only to encourage the younger dog. The next moment ths Boss, Woof-Woof, Olaf and his unknown master were tangled up in a whirling, snapping, growling cloud of dust. Each man, with praiseworthy self-re stralnt, pounded, coaxed and yelled at his own dog. A crowd of boys playing base ball on a vacant lot quit their game and crowded in a shrieking circle about the combatants. In less than five minutes the dogs were separated, but there had been time enough for the two men to become very formally acquainted. Neither dog had been conquered so de cisively as to rouse resentment In the breawt of his master. But, though the spirit of battle still rumbled in the canine throats, a bond had been created between ths two men. As soon as active hostilities had oeased the Boss invited his new acquaintance to have a drink, and by the time that func tion was over had quite decided that the young man was neither an escaped convict nor a bank embezzler, but a most estimable and entertaining member of society, and who had a dog that Woof-Woof could "lick." Later, when the Boss, with the still pant ing collie behind him. Joined his wife on the front lawn, that highly perceptive person remarked at once: "What's the matter with Woof-yVoof? He's ail warm and mussed up! Why he looks exactly as If he bad been in a fight!" "So he has!" the Boss exclaimed, and with great detail and not without visible enjoy ment related the story of Woof-Woofs escapade. "I don't wonder you said those people next door are not nice! What a brute he must be to let his dog attack Woof-Woof! I don't ever want to know any of them!" The Boss hesitated a moment. "But you'll have to know them!" he said finally. "He's a fine young fellow, I asked him to bring his wife over to call after tea." The Bass' wife smiled softly to herself. while Woof-Woof merely yawned. (Copyright, 1910, by ths N. Y. Herald Co.) fsces. Learn to manage fullness without clumsiness; cultivate a sense for beauty of Una and beauty of motion and stand straight If you would look smart In the trying styles of this season! Among the unusual towels is a dainty huckaback finished with a scalloped edge, above which appears a band of embroid ery in a simple but very artistic design, enclosed with rows of fancy stitching. The size Is twenty-nine by forty-three Inches and the price Is $1. A similar towel, but smaller, costs &0 cents. The price of an Imported Turkish bath towel Is 60 cents, size twenty-one by forty Inches, and a most luxurious towel of the same kind, but larger, costs 8S cents. Turkish bath sheets are a luxury. They are hemstitched ail around and coma in sizes fifty by seventy, two Inches at $160, and siity-two by eighty-two inches at $1. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Big Returns. The Department of Agriculture has mmle Itnelf one of the most Important of the activities of the federal government. The annual production of asrlcnltural Interests of the Vn'ted States amounts to neRrly St.OOn.OTO.iiCO. Assuming that the depart ment has been able dur nv all the yeiirs of Its work to Increase the efficiency of farm operations only 1 per cent. Its total anni'al value to the nation would amount to $'.'0,000,000. It Is well recounted that the campaign of education waged by the de partment has resulted In a much lartrer Increase In crop production than that. He tween Its work of advising the farmer how to grow the food supply of the nat on most successfully, and Its labor to guar antee the quality of that food to all the people, the department Is a busv institu tion. Its activities cost the government at nit J1.000,000 a year. The secretary of agriculture has many assistants. An assistant secretary aids him In the general supervision of the work of the department, a chief clerk suervlses the working force, nnd a solici tor acts as the legal adviser of the de partment. The division of publications Is sues about 1.200 different publications dur ing a year. These contain more than 4'V OiW pares and 17.000.000 copies are circulated. During twenty years the department has circulated more than "0.000.000 farmer bul letins. The weather bureau's main purpose la to forecast the weather and Issue warnlnirs as to storms, cold waves, frosts and floods, for the benefit of agriculture, com merce and navigation. The nation spends nearly 2.000.000 a year on this bureau, lie sides forecasting weather conditions, the bureau Is engaged in a scientific Investiga tion of the eurth's atmosphere. At Mount Weather. Va., It has an observatory far removed from the disturbing conditions of surrounding civilization. Here most of Its atmospheric Investigations are made. One of the buildings at this observatory is without windows, and another without the presence of Iron. Even the horses cannot wear Iron shoes while certain delicate magnetic experiments are being carried on. The live stock Interest of the nation are looked after by the bureau of animal In dustry. It has charge of meat Inspection, national quarantine regulations for live stock, and the study of the relations of animal diseases to the human race.- Each year in the meat Inspection service M.000,000 live animals are Inspected before their slaughter, and 7,000,000,000 pounds of meat after slaughter. This bureau also furnishes the farmers of the country black leg vac cine, free of charge, for the Inosculation of young calves. Over 1,000,000 doses were given away lat year, and 230,000 doses of tuberculin, which is using In determining the presence of tuberculosis In milk cows. The country is indebted to the bureau of plant Industry for Its services In helping the farmer grow his grain, forage, truck and fruit crops. It ransacks the whole world for plants which may bo grown with proflOn the United States. It has brought dates from Palestine, durum wheat from UuHsia, millet from Siberia, wild peaches from China, . agd -many other promising plants from every region of the world. The bureau has charge of the investigation of drug plants, seed distribution, cotton standardization, farm management and many other problems which bear an impor tant relation to the operations of the farm. The forest service has charge of the na tional forests of the country. It Is en gaged In scientific Investigation of forest problems, tree diseases, and all questions which will aid in the perpetuation of the forest resources of the country, at the same time permitting the present genera tion to use such timber supplies as it may need. It costs 2 cents an acre to maintain the national forests of the United States, as compared with from' 11 to 12 an acre In France, Germany and Switzerland. The forest service Is almost self-supporting. Its expenditures amount to about $3,000,00) a year, and Its receipts from the sale of lumber, grazing privileges and other re sources amount to approximately $1,800,000. The corps of forest rangers, whoBe duty it is to patrol the national forests, Is made up of highly intelligent young men, and thousands of serious forest fires have been averted by their vigilance and, timely e forts. One bureau In the Department of Agri culture Is more widely known through the man at Its head than through Its own reputation the bureau of chemistry, pre sided over by that eminent humanitarian Plenty of Exercise, Water and Oranges Two women who had not met since the beginning of the summer encountered each other In a shop the other day, and one frankly exclaimed: "What have you been doing? You've a figure like a boy! You can wear ft hobble skirt and not look like a barrel!" "That was the object of my life this summer, and I've succeeded, haven't I?" the second returned complacently. "I think hobble skirts are homely, but If every other woman Is going to wear them this winter then I must, and I don't mean to look like a guy. either. How did I do It? Exercise, water and oranges, mostly. Want to know?" They adjourned to luncheon, and over a small omelet, some toaBt without butter and a final glass of orange Juice, the slim woman expounded her treatment. "As soon as I wake In the morning," she said, "1 drink a glafcs of spring water that has been standing covered, In the room all night. It Is cool, but not cold. That quantity of liquid on an empty stomach acts to flush the system, but the drink must not be cold. My breakfast, half an hour later. Is a cup of black coffee without erAAtn or auarar. and the Juice of two oranges. Through the morning I drink orange lulce freely and also two full glasses of water. 1 found ths easiest way of making sure to have water the right tern perature and convenient was to keep a large bottls of it in the room.- Luncheon Is a slight meal of non-fattening food fol lowed by mere orange Juice in the after noon and two more glasses of water. don't starve at dinner, but I eat with dis cretion, and I never take liquid with it During the evening I drink two more glasses of water, and a third as I am going to bed. "My special exercises come morning and night; the former before I dress. I stand with my hands high sbove my head and bring them down straight till the finger tips touch ths floor without bending my knees. I couldn't make the tips touch at first, but I pegged sway. Increasing the number of trials every three days, till could. It was two weeks before I did chemist. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. In addi tion to supervising the enforcement of the pure food law, the bureau has many other duties. Recently It examined 110 samples of American nines, with a view of ascer taining what might be done In the direc tion of Improving th American product. Careful studies are made for the solution of the problem of Impure milk. In the en forcement of the pure food law thousands of samples of food products are examined every year, and many of these examina tions require the most exacting chemical experiments. T'sw drugs formerly wsr brought Into the United Slates In a pura state, but through the activities of the bureau of chemistry drug adulteration has almost ceased. It was Dr. Wiley who csuiillslietl the now famous "poison squad," composed of young volunteers from the various department. They wers) given free board, agreeing to rat only such food as was prescribed by Dr. Wiley, His studies In this direction covered ft number of years and in a large measure were responsible for the pure food law now on the federal statute books. It Is the province of the bureau of solp to make surveys of noils In given Coizfc ii. unities, upon the i crommendatlon of members of congress. These surveys re veal hal fertilizers are needed on each farm and what crops ran he grown most advantageously. More than 270.0CH) square miles of agricultural land has been sur veyed In this way since the InaguKuration of the work In Iki.1. Seven hundred kinds of soils have been found on the farms surveyed. There is little danger of the farming lands of the nation becoming ex hausted. This Is shown by the experience of European countries. In the middle of the sixteenth century European farms were producing about as much grain and buy to the acre as the American farm pioduces today. Today the European pro duction is more than twice us great to the acre as ours. Minute Investigations show that after a thousand years of crop yield ing the mlnei alogical composition of the soils of Europe Is not perceptibly different from that of similar soils In virgin parts of the United States. The bureau of entomology deals with the, economic relations of the bug creation to the farm. It has been wrestling with the gypsy moth and other pests which threaten to do vast damage. Last year the bureau cleaned 300 miles of roadway In New Eng land to make it Imposlble for the moth caterpillars to fall upon passing vehicles and thus travel to new fields. It has de veloped a spraying formula In which ar senic Is used. It Imports parasites from other countries for the purpose of preying upon the pests of various kinds. In ex change for the parasites which are Im ported from other countries, the bureau sends some of ours to those countries. Lately It hc.s sent lady bug beetles to Spain to eat the Kpanlsh mealy bug, dog tick parasites of South Africa, and bum ble bees to the 1'hllipplnes. The bureau, works for the subjugation of every harm ful Insect, and has succeeded largely In Its efforts. The relations of man and the animal kingdom occupy the attention of the bureau of the biological survey, It strives to as certain what birds and animals are harm ful to agriculture and to learn what spe cies assist the farmer. The bureau Is wag ing a crusade against rats, mice, ground sqlrrels, prairie dogs and other rodents. It has made exhaustive experiments with traps, baits and poisons. It estimates that the ground squirrels of California alone de stroy $lo,000.uoo worth of farm products In the course of a year, besides being car riers of the bubonic plague. The bureau Is encouraging the raising of musk rat and pronounces their flesh highly edible.' It has Issued bulletins on such subjects as deer farming and fox farming. It super vises the Importation of birds and mam mals, and has oversight over the fifty-one bird sanctuaries of the country, Into which no hunter may go. It also has charge of the 10,000 acre national bison range. The bureau of statistics gathers and publishes the crop statistics of the country- It has a corps of 135,000 crop re porters. Their reports are summarised monthly by a board and carefully guarded so that the information may not get out ahead of time. There Is also an office In charge of the experiment station work of the country and another which handles the national phases of good road Improve ment In the United States. BT rEDElO J. KAC-XIX. Tomorrow The Government at Work. X. Department of Commsros and Labor, is Her Banting Recipe Then I straighten up and bend my body from the hips, sidewlse, Just as far over as I can. This pulls fat oft the hips, but you mustn't bend below the hips or It won't do you any good. Finally I sit astride a chair, hold the back, which I face, firmly, and twist around, one way and then the other, Just as far as I can without moving on the chair. That thin the hips. 'It has been a good treatment for me. and I do It regularly fifteen minutes, morn ing and night. Nothing Is permitted to In terfere, and I've taken off twenty-five pounds this summer, slowly, too, so I don't feel weak from It." MARGARET MIXTEM. WORST Or' ALL. When oratory fiercely files, Of tales you have a lot; And some of them are campaign lies. And some, alas, are not! T. E. M, Airvrui I wmnt to itody Esperanto. Hre you ny lde where I can "They .peas It la iSobokoa, fcelkvtr 1 WW