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Id THE cou ; - : Fashions of the Day. My Dear X. Y. Z. : Dms a letter on beauty come under the head of fashions? Yes. I believe it does. To ..nbwer your inquiry t have to turn bnclc in the Hie to see what I aid about physical cul turo and "opteopathy exerciseF." I find that 1 niado u dash at ruined throats and a bold conr s!on cf what I was doing for my own co k to restore it to it prietiro plumpntss and fairness. Perhaps in this connection I should not haue used tin word "osteopathy." 1 hat is reiily another branch and not exactly what I was doing for that part of my anatomy whirh is the vic'im or fashion's high choke ry. It is really a sight o! weppieg isn't it? And 1 supose it will continue to bo because wo are suci a lazy lot. We fuEs and Tumo with dressmakers, mil liners, hairdressers and I might tdd masseur and manicurists to make themselves presentable, and we neglect the lirtt priccipals at health, youth and beauty, beciuse we aie lazy. It is a practical tuzt that forty-tivo minute3 in the morning and the 6ame at night devoted to oureelvee, pe1-830"'1'. will do more that all your columns of recipes of How To Be Beautiful' and "How To Bo Pretty." I am a long while getting at your throat, ray dear, but there ib so much to be said in this connection. However, I will answer jour question iiret and branch out afterwards. In the first place, for the yellow and discolored skin a camel's hair face brush should bo used with hot water and a pure soap white castile is always good. This will open the poree and start into activity the tissues that have been compressed by the fashionable stocks. For the die colorathn you must try different things. It will take a little time, but lemon juice and peroxide will assist ou. If you use lemon juice, mic it with water; if you use peroxide, mix that with water also. In les6 than a week you will see the dif feicnce. The peroxide niustbe tho kind that comes in blue paper covered bot tles and is marked Marchand's. It is medicated and is imported, and used by all physicians. Tho bottles come in two sizes, with wired rubber corks, and you must not be imposed upon by your druggiEt when he tells you that any other kind is just as good. It is not. Peroxide of Hj drcgen, of courEe, is a bleach, and is aUo a disinfectant. It is used to bleach hair, but is just as effect ive for the skin. It will not hurt either hair or skin if it is reduced in strength to one-half water. To get tne resu'.t on the skin it must be left to dry without being absorbed by the towel. Sa much for tho skin of the neck. Now about the thinnes?, and the ex posed cords aad muscles. The thinners is cauEed by the collars, and tho rest is flabbiness of muscles. Ten minute?, nishtand morning, devoted to simple exercieing of the neck muscles will de velopo the thioat into ts former plump ness, as common sense will tell you if you but stop to consider. For the first movement ithrow the head backward and forward twenty times not rapidly nor violently just easily, but as far back and as far front as it will go. Then in the same way from eide to side twen ty times. After this twist tho head around in its soeket as far as it will go, each way twenty times. You will be dizzy, you will be sleepy, you will, per haps, be nauseated until you get accus tomed to it, but in the slang of the day don't you care. You will in three months have again h beautiful throat. I hear you ejaculate: "Thrca months'." Sure. You have negle:ted it all your life. When nature could not do any more for you it succumbed, and vou must work diligently to make up or catch up what you have lost, and then afterward attend to it as regularly a3 you do to your bathing. That brings me back to tho peisonal attention night and mtrnicp. Every cirl and every woman every man for that matter should bring all the mus cles of the body into action with a few simple exei cists cg regularly as thoy awaken in the morning and retire for tho night. This should bo dore before the bath. To devota forty-five minutes to yourself in the mrrning U a small part or the day, and then you are ready for anything and everything and glad you are alive. Hero are some simple exercise;: First in importance is the liver. Destroy its sluggishness by raising first one arm and then tho other above the head, as if you were trying to press the palm of our hand against the ceilirg: Do this twenty time and press with all your strength against the imaginary barrier. Then with your toes in a line and jour knees firmly together, turn jour body fro the waist up, from 6ide to side, as far as it will go, twenty times. By this time jour heart will be galloping, and it is better to take a quick cold spocgo bath, and not tiro jourself with other exercises until you get Lccustomed to it. There is so much to be said about personal attention, but try thes9 liver exercises with tho throat and neck exer cises, and I will tell j'ou more at another time. First publication June 2 3 NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL. In the County Court o? Lancaster Countj, Nebraska: The State of Nebraska, to Wilhelmine .Miller and to others interested in said matter: You are hereby notifieJ, that an in strument perporting to be the last will and testament of Samuel Brandt, de ceased, is on tile in said court, and also a petition praying for the probate of said instrument, and for the appointment of Wilhelmine Miller as administratrix, with will annexed. That on the 18th day ot July, 1SUS, at 9 o'clock a. m., said petition and the proof of the execution of said instrument will be heard, and that if j'ou do not then appear and con test, 6aid court may probate and record the same, and grant administration of the estite to Wilhelmine Miller. This notice shall be published for three weeks successi-elj in The Courif.i: prior to said hearing. Witness mj hand and official seal this 23J day of June, 1S93. S. T. Cochran, County Judge. Bj Dudley Cochran, Clerk. Had Debts fur Charity. The merchants of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, have conceived an ingenious method of combining benevolence with revenge. They have turned ovei their bad debts to the Woman's Mis sionary society o.' their city, thus re lieving themselves ot further responsi bility for tho prosecution of missions and subjecting their delinquent debt ors to a series of runs from the eternal feminine. 1'esslinUin. The pessimist is a freak. Pessimism is the child of a day or a moo J, optimism Is the great under current of human life. Pessimism is abnormal. It 's a disease of the mind. new D. H. Over ton. Sure of III Facts. "It's a great story." ald the visitor to the city editor, to whom he was sell ing information about a coming divorce case. "McSwigger found the co-respondent In his wife's room, and shot at him four times, but missed, and now he Is going to sue for divorce." "But how did you get your Informa tion," asked the editor. "Couldn't help it," was the reply; "I'm the co-respondent." Ex. Sensible Constance. Mr. Crimsonbeak When Constance was younger she used to ride a wheel and I tell yeu she'd take nobody's dust Mrs. Crimsonbeak You don't sa BO? "Yes, but now she has reached thi marrying age she's willing io take al most anybody's." Voukcrs Statesman J S. K. Crockett J W. D. Howellf daring; 1898 wfll present to its reader a faithfol pictorial repre sentation of the world's most interesting and important news. THE NEWS THAT BECOMES HISTORY National and InterjTheWEEKLYwillcontinuetoparticipate national Politics Social and Economic Questionr Industrial Enterprise Art and Literature in the great political events of our coun. try. It will tieat cf the social and eco nomic questions, and of the development of the middle west. Its special corre spondent in the Klondike region will trace the story of the great gold discoveries. LONG SERIALS AND SHORT STORIES THE BED IK B, S. R. CROCKETT Tw o long serials will appear during the I ,r. mntriKti,1 lw .inline . t.. f ?.', - . J . .... "ici THE ifiuu-u!-, ifrillTV national lame, ana will tie illustrated. Bf tiuXKJLsrvCKTdx 2w'nJf"'er JThese and a score of equally prominent Howard P)le (writers will contributeshortstoriestothe John K end rick Bangs (Weekly in 1 S98, making the paper espe Mary E. Wilkins dally rich in Bclion. Other features are the DEPARTMENTS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES THIS BUSY WORLD FOREIGN NOTES B, E S. JfAKTl.V Bf roCLT.VEr EIGELOH LETTERS FROM LONDON AMATEUR SPORT B, ABSOLD WHITE B,CJSPJRUUlTXEr A SPORTING PILGRIMAGE AROUND THE WORLD In the interest of the WEEKLv,Caspar Whitney is on his w ay around 1 the world. He will visit Siam in search of hi? game, making his principal hunt from Bangkok. He will visit India and then proceed iu r.uiuj-c 10 prepare articles on me sports 01 uermany and t ranee. 10c. a cojr (tend for free frosfectus). Subscription $i.00a year. Postage free in tie United States, Canada, and Mexico. Address HAHPKB A BROTHERS, I'ablishers, New Tork City Cail Schurz . F. R. Stockton , mmt w J Henry James The pessimist is a person who does not expect to get what he wants, but ex pects to be d eappointed in it if he should. AFRICA, ENQLAND, GERMANY. Latter Wants the Foret io the Itaala of the Cppe. Conxo- The object of Germany at the present moment is to connect her eastern and southwestern African possessions, says the Quarterly Review. To do this she desires to possess the forest in the basin of the Upper Congo a region which is rich In copper. If she could obtain this territory from the Congo state and a narrow strip of land from Portugal she would realize her aim, and if she gets possession of the forests on the Lualaba and the Katanga cop per mines her colonies may become to her a great source of wealth. England should definitely make up her mind as to the attitude she will assume toward this policy. If she opposes It Germany vill become a persistent enemy. On V!ie other hand, if she supports it Ger many should agree not in any way to interfere with England south of tho Zambesi and support her heaitily In Egypt. The increase of German pros perity at home is also an advantage to us. As Germany becomes richer she will become a better customer and less jealous of the political position. Tho wages cf German artisans must go up" and consequently Germany will bo les3 able to undersell us in thu open mar kets of the world. We have now come to a state of things as regards the German empire when we must either come to terms with it or drift intti a position which will certainly lead tfl danger. The Germans, if they are t maintain their r-ossesisons beyond the sea, must either be sure of the friend ship and good will of England or else they will endeavor to break down her power on the ocean. Since the begin ning of this year every corner of the empire has rung with the most violent denunciations of this country. The newspapers, with the almost solitary exception of the Weser Zeitung, have given expression to feelings of bitter hostility. Organ of opinion usually the most opposed have vied with each other m their violence of lan guage. This ill feeling to Great Brit ain, as we have eaid, has not been growth of recent times. It is now strengthened by a growing conviction, that the. position of England in the world is undeserved, artificial and cannot be maintained if it is seriously menaced. This view has been fostered by distinguished historians and men of letters, who exercise a powerful influ ence on the youth of the country, on the guides of public opinion, on writer In the principal periodicals and jour nals who indirectly shape the policy of the cheap newspaper, which is the gos pel of the village Inn. A ROMANCE FROM AFRICA. The htory of a Treasure Ingenious aad Mar He Trap. Englishmen are pedatory creatures, and the London papers do not hesitate to express annoyance because the expe ditionary force recently sent against King Prempeh found at Coomassie only a meager number of gold orna ments, and holiow ones at that, says the New York Times. The value of the loot taken from the royal "palace" was only about 2,000 and made a poor showing when exhibited In London, as compared with the results of ore ous raids. Now a correspondent writing from Accra tells a story which if true a very large "If will make tho British officers wish they had not left the Ashanti capital quite so soon. He says: "Some years ago a slave girl of surpassing beauty of the Ashanti type bein entendu had the misfortune to attract the fickle fancy of a chief, whose head wife tolerated no rivalry. To reproach a husband is generally useless; in Coomassie it is dangerous. The lady, wise in her generation, fore bore to risk her-head, but sent for the executioner and caused the ears and lips of the too fascinating maiden to be removed, rendering her such an object as can only be seen in savage king doms. History does not say if the ex pedient answered the purpose Of re storing the chief's wandering affections to their rightful owner, but the slave girl developed, not unnaturally, into a woman with an undying thirst for revenge. Lately she sought an audience with the governor, and she informed him that the real treasure of the Ashantis lies buried come fifty feet below the soil, in a dis used shaft of a mine near Coomassie, and readily undertook to point out the spot, Digging is being vigorously car ried on, already more than a fourth of the depth has been cleared, and should the treasure amount to anything like the rumored value, the cost of the ex pedition will he fully defrayed, making the Ashanti war a record one, as not only bloodless, but free of cost" A Barjcin In Sightseeing. "What did you Rive that stranger money fur?" said Aunt Eliza as she and Uncle Hiram waited In the station after getting off the train from Hay vllle. "That's all right. Liza," said Uncle Hiram triumphantly. "That's a nice feller. I give him J2, and he's goln' to fix it so we can go out and see the sky scrapers without extra charge." Chi cago Record. An Important TOiUtle. Mother (severely) Why didn't yon come when I called you? Small Boy Why, just as you was calling me Tommy Traddles, down Btreet, whistled for me. I couldn't go to both, could I?