davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

her equally stylish baby girl. The
sketch was made from life. The child
had on a white nainsook dress, pink
and white striped stockings and pink
shoes. The house dress of the mother
was made of fabric composed of mixed
silk and cotton, and therefore lending
itself softly to artistic draperies. The
front was embroidered India silk
Could there be a more graceful group?
l thought not as I looked at it. The
pink-legged child reminded me os WIS.
Madame Cornelba, the operate dan
seuse. said to me not long ago. "f we
mature and professional dancers could
only use our limos as gracefully as
young children do, in their artlessness,
we would accomplish more than all our
art in dancing and posing enables US
to-"
Am melting the mothers who are
reading this article to be frivolous with
the adornment of their children? Then
let me lecture wholesomely for few
inches of space. The wealthy woman
of to-day Is a creature of unrest. We
take no time for the consideration of
the domestic affairs and pursuits
which filled our grandmothers' lives.
They had only their husbands, homes
and children to occupy their thoughts
and labors, and so narrowed were their
intellects that they actually gave their
whole minds to these cares. We have
come to the conclusion that, while we
are frittering away our time over house
keeping duties or nursery details, we
are either missing our chances of ad-
vancement, social or otherwise, or los
ing ground In the race for distinction,
In which every woman of the century
has entered herself. How can we pos
sibly find time to play the part of wife
and mother as our worthy grand
mothers understood it? And the chill
dren- Well, we dress them prettilv,
and have them in to afternoon tea on
our ~at home" days. We run in and
kiss them In their cribs before we 90
out for the evening. We have them
well supplied with toys, and some
times take them for drive Beyond
this there Is no need for US to 90. for
have we not capable nurses who are
well paid to attend to their health and
comfort, and governesses to look to
their manners?
Two sisters, aged 10 and 20, were
out on the promenade few days ago.
and before giving a bit of character
istic dialogue it is decidedly worth
while to explain their exhibit of new
fashions. To begin with, they wore
Connemara cloaks, such as have come
into great vogue everywhere, and are
likely to be conspicuous throughout
the winter. Such garments may be
made OF a great variety of materials.
but the most suitable are plain WOODEN
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

She anticipates a hard winter, If we
may judge by her preference Tor fur,
and all her ideas run in the groove of
Vandykes. Skirts are simple, and
braided and embroidered half the way
up, and sleeves are comfortably long,
whatever the shape of them may be.
A new form of bodice fastens behind,
and this gives them very girlish
effect. Cloaks are very long indeed,
literally from neck to heel, and the
figures so we'll clad give no indication
of where their waist is to be found,
whether under the arm-pits or down
the hips. The new cloaks are to con-
ceal all that, so the short and thick-set
will have cause to rejoice-out of
doors, but nothing for large checks,
severely cut skirts, with long, unbroken
pleats, sleeves set high on the shoulders,
and of the gigot shape, all favor the
tall, slight, elancee figure, in whose be-
half the best efforts of the fashion
creators seem always to be made.
With little skill and management,
the long outdoor cloaks of last year
can be easily converted into dressy
tea-gowns for the very severe weather.
The clever home dressmaker can easily
add to these garments, if required,
long, accordion-pleated under-sleeves
of some bright-colored crepe or Pongee
silk, and then add to the cloak deep
founee or ruching to match the under
sleeves, and the tea-gown is complete.
We have gone back many years for
our fashions this year, and it is only
by turning to the fashion-plates of two
or three years ago that we realize how
entire has been the change. Nova
days, we may turn our last years
cloaks into tea-gowns. for they are
still permitted to express the outline of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
Food for the Boys.
Ledger.

Growing boys, who are, it is need
less to say, always hungry, should not
be allowed to cram themselves with all
sorts of sweets and rich things, but
neither is a meager fare at all advisa-
BILE. The following is the dietary of
one of our better boarding schools
Breakfast-Oa Oatmeal, with an abun-
dance of pure milk, bread and butter.
a little meat or eggs, but not both.
Lunch-Fruit, rolls, buns, Albert bis
cults, milk, PANIED oysters in season,
or sardines. Dinner-This meal should
be served after study hours, and should
consist of at least four courses. A
light soup, two kinds of meat, potatoes
and another vegetable, salad with
crackers and cheese, and plain .nour-
ishing pudding. If the dinner Is
served earlier than five o'clock, We
would suggest wafer with tumbler-
full of milk at eight. As all boys re-
auire fat, and universally dislike fat
meat, leaving it on their plates I'M
touched, it is well to give them light
suet buildings or similar dishes, with
fats nicely blended throughout.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

fahz;cs. and indeed many rich womea
have them made with exterior plain
ness, and then for luxurious costliness
line them extravagantly with satin or
fur. The older girls gown was made
of brown cloth with q velvet girdle,
and her hat was velvet, with ostrich
tips and gold passementerie. The
child wore q dress of old rose cash
mere, and the same color was In her
cloak and hat, the shade being matched
exactly in all three articles. But her
stockings were contrastingly black,
and singularly conspicuous, too, by
contrast with the bright hue OF the
rest of the toilet. But high colors are
permissible to juvenile bellies.
The hats and outer garments to be
worn by little girls this winter are par
ticularly picturesque and novel. Inc
Tam O'Shanter cap, with a stuff
feather, worn by one of the children IN
the engraving is rivalled in becoming
prettiness by the others felt hat with
its black feathers. The Scotch plaid
ulster, with its front of faille fran
caise, represents a general revival OF
Highland plsids in the current fash
ions. The coat worn by the companion
girl. with its rows of velvet-covered
buttons and its small side pieces, also
of velvet, is a good model for that kind
of winter garment.
Fashion does not offer anything very
novel to her adult votaries at present.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

back, an him lookin like he'd been il
sumbuddys CHECKING cupe.
81 beg your parding, sir, but viii
YOU be so kind es to fetch me in a buck
ct water" ses the widder, es plesent
es basket chips.
An he TUX the pale like it wus red
hot grid iron or q snake, and he made
tracts fur the well, an he sot the pale
down an sturted fur the barn bubble
quick.
But the wilder he'd follered arfter
him, an she tux him by the arm an ses,
EFF you'll draw the bucket full up I'll
help kerry it into the house."
An he wus tibet skeered he dun it.
An then she tole him to sot down in
the ktching and put his butes on, an
he dun it. By breakfast time thay wus
purity well acquainted, an the widder
tole me tibet his name wus Chales
Ratlin, an she didn't see how she ever
Good hev fancied the long laiged wild
over. co." ses she, isn't he a little
darlinl" and she put her hans together
like she'd seen EN- do In a play.
He wus dredfully afeerd of her, and
IL
marry him without his consent.
Smanthy's man tole him he expected
she wood, fur she wus lookin fur
number 5.
We he'd ben thare 4 days when VIII
lam Henery and Smanthy's man sed
thay wus goin to ween the calves; ses
Smanthy's man:
"You Jest put this muzzle into thare
noses, an then you kin turn EN- rite
with the COW an they haint no trubble
at all"
the idee. Hester Ann" ses he, Il
swow eff I don't take hum a hull
] dozen of en-"
well, don't sware about it," ses I,
improvingly. An then we all went
out to seem EN- put the muzzles in, sose
we'd know how when we got home
"Here, Cholly, les muzzle this spot
ted stear fust," ses Smantby's man.
"You he'd him up this way"
An Cholly heded rite fur Smanthys
man, an when he got up there why he
cot him by the years (the stear 1 meen,
not Choll y.
"Here, fetch on the muzzle. Paw, :"
ses he to William Henery, "an you
holp hole i'm, Cholly. I tell you this
is the way we do biz in the wild an
woolly west-ow!" he ses, es the crit
ter straitened out an kicked i'm on
laig.
An then it begin to kick an founder,
an first 1 knowed it butted William
Henery in the stummik an then run off.
"Grate Govener! Hester Ann, he
busted my diagram" ses he, holding
his hands over his pants band.
20, I'm so skeered," screached the
wilder, Save me, Cholly, save me, or
1 parishp An she throwed her arms
aroun him, but he wriggled loose an
TUX to the woods and we didn't see him
no more fur days, when he kim back
an brung his wife with him.
The wilder he'd skeered him so bad
he went an married another gal.
When he kim back they finished
muzzlin the calves, on the wilder sed
she he'd never keer much fur him emmy
ways, he he'd kindly cast in to one
eye, and the next day we tuck the
keers fur Mary Tabithys. Good bye.
HESTER ANN SCooPER.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

AN experiment in ocean time-saving
has just been tried by having the
steamship City of Rome discharge her
passengers at Milford Haven instead of
at Liverpool on her last voyage out.
Milford Haven is the extreme western
point of England, and it is believed
that sailing direct from New York to
that point will save from eighteen to
twenty-four hours in the passage. It
is likely to become the great point of
sailing between the two countries.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
GEORGE Cove, of Leach's Flats, Pa,

GEORGE COVE, of Leach's Flats, Pa,
routed rabbit out of fallow on his
place the other day, intending to fire
at it after it had run a short distance
Just as he was about to pull the trig-
ger an enormous hawk darted down,
capturing the rabbit, and attempted to
rise. The rabbit squealed and strug-
gled to free itself, while the hawk
frightened its claws and got a good
hold. When the hawk had got about
fifteen feet from the ground with its
prey Mr.. Gova banged away at it. It
dropped like stone and died in a mo-
ment. The rabbit was dead, too, al
though none of the shot had hit it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

GENERAL CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, the late
Colonel Goodies great uncle, has a
record with the knife which is note
worthy even for Kentuckian. He had
three personal encounters before the
war in which knives were used, and in
each case he succeeded in killing his
opponent. A fourth victim he cut al
most to pieces, but the man was
stitched up and recovered. A few years
ago he killed a negro who had insulted
him, again using the knife. Governor
Warmoth, of Louisiana, saved his life
in New Orleans few years ago by
vivisecting with knife man who at
tempted to assassinate him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

AMONG Senator Edmunds' many wit
tY speeches and crushing repartees
hardly one can have been wittier or
more crushing than his answer to some
speech of Senator from Texas. The
Texas Senator had just sat down hot,
exhausted and convinced. Senator
Edmunds got up and in his driest man
ner sent this rustling across the aisle:
Now, if my friend from Texas has any
good reasons for his proposition, L wish
he would kindly state them, instead of
giving US the poor reasons and keeping
the good ones to himself"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

NINETEEN HUNDRED will not be leap
year, because the length of the year is
not exactly three hundred and sixty
five and quarter days. It is really a
little less eleven minutes and fourteen
seconds), and as the difference keeps
increasing from year to year, it is nee
essary to drop out the extra day every
hundred years or SO, to bring the calen-
dar right, Even this correction is not
quite exact, but it will serve for a
great many centuries. so there is no
pressing need of reform.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

The first white settler in the city of
st. Paul came in the year 1882. To-
day the population of the capital of
Minnesota is 100000. The first log
cabin was erected in 1888; to-day the
city boasts of some of the finest bust
ness and residence buildings on the
American continent. The town site
was located in 1917; the capital in
1851. The first survey of the city was
made in 1851; the chamber of COM
merce organized in 1867. The original
st. Paul proper, plated in 1847, con-
tanned about eighty acres. The pres
ent area of the city contains 80, 482
acres.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
He is on a Vacation Now.

Helena (Montana) Journal. November a.
Mr.. NJ. Nyberg, the gentleman who drew
one-twentieth part of the second capital
prize of 100000 in the Louisiana State Lot
terry last month, leaves the city to-day TO
visit his mother in Mich gan, The money
Mr.. Nyberg drew from the lottery came in
very handy to him; he has been striving
very industriOu>ly, and managed to get
along by using considerable economy. It
has been part of his custom for some time
Last to invest dollar every month in the
louisiana State Lottery, and his Judgment
pas been well rewarded. AS soon as the
lucky numbers were announced, Mr.. Nybefg
deposited his ticket in the Thomas Cruise
Savings Bank, and they advanced him the
money on the same. The bank forwarded
the ticket to New Orleans and received $6,-
900 cash few days later. Mr.. Nyberg has
invested his money in Montana real estate
which will double in value before the spring,
and will continue to invest few dollars
every month in the lottery which has enabled
him to take a much needed vacation without
minding the expense.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

WHEN Charles Dudley Warner was
the editor of the Hartford Conn.
Press, back in the Sixties" arousing
the patriotism of the State with his
vigorous appeals, one of the type-set
tiers came in from the composing-room
and, planting himself before the ed
itor, said: well, Mr.. Warner, I've
decided to enlist in the army" With
mingled sensations of pride and re-
sponsibility, Mr.. Warner replied en-
couragingly that he was glad to see
the man felt the call of duty. %Oh, it
isn't that" said the truthful compost
tor, ~but I'd rather be shot than try to
set any more of your blanked copy"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

A MINISTER of the gospel, son of a
prominent minister of Lexington, KY,
is attempting the extraordinary task
of committing the entire New Tesla
ment to memory. He has been work
ing on it for years, and, as he has a
wonderfully retentive brain, the work
is in fair way to early completion.
As he argues, the plan is an exceeding
" good one, because he can refer to
his mind at any time much more easily
than to the pages of any book ever
printed. If, for instance, he wants to
quote any passage, he can do so at viii
and at the very moment, an accom-
plishment which should make him one
of the most fluent preachers in the
country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

Noznis scnOOn snons.-maas IL osF
large shoe factory at Omaha, Nebraska
Ask your dealer for them. Refuse % taks
any others. If not kept in your town. vrits
us asking where to get them They wear
longer and fit better than any other shoes.
Shoes have always been made too narrow.
We make them wide. A reward OF Fifty
Dollars in gold paid for every pair of oar
own make of shoes that contain particls
of shoddy, or anything but solid leather.
We make one hundred and fifty styles Of
women's, Misses and Child-en's Sewed and
Standard Screw, Grain, Glove, Kid and
Dongola. Elegant styles, wide and good
fitting. We also carry one hundred and fifty
styles of Mems Goods, Rubbers, &c.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

JOHN W. McCLELLAND,o of Linganore,
Frederick County, Nd, has succeeded
in carving a wagon out of a walnut
block % inches long and Sx 10 square.
He cut the running-gear, tongue,
chains, single-trees, double-tree, stay
chains, rubbers and wheels all COM
plete, and the whole works as any other
wagon and cannot be taken apart. He
SAYS he values it at 81, 900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
COrnfleld Philosophy.

SG SSS& the young one, but
2 81 he avoids lots OF
& ZHI i mistakes by having
y ZAE@NsHa a fund of experience
M to draw on.
G= A rolling stone
gathers no moss,
perhaps, but what use has a stone for
moss anyway?
While you are abusing the dude,
just remember that he will go to all
sorts of trouble to keep himself clean.
The ground that is capable of rails
ing the best crops will raise the biggest
weeds If allowed to go without cultiva-
ton. The smart child will become
either an honored man or particular
ly dangers thief.
Some folks seem to think that when
they are married they are out of this
troublesome world and have nothing
more to strive for.
The old hen does very little scratch
ing where there is no prospect of find.
ing bugs.
The culture and refinement that en-
able one to appreciate the higher
pleasures of life also render one more
susceptible to the annoyances and in
conveniences attendant on human ex.
istence. The world is pretty evenly
balanced, and while the civilized man
has various pleasures that are denied
to the savage, he also is compelled to
bear miseries of which the savage
knows nothing.
The working horse needs no clock to
tell him when dinner time comes.
The hooking bird is sweet singer,
but when that is said all is said. He
is not big enough to make it worth
while to eat him.
Things balance all right in this
world. The young man who is In love
Is put to some expense to treat hi girl
nicely, but he usually saves something
In the way of food during the continu-
ance of the attack.-ChicGgO Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

A cAsT-sTEEL gun, weighing 235 tons,
has just been shipped by Messrs.
Krupp from Hamburg for Cronstadt.
The caliber of the gun Is 134 inches,
the barrel is 40 feet In length, its
greatest diameter being 81 feet. The
range of the gun Is over eleven miles,
and it viii fire two shots per minute.
each shot costing between 925C and
s300.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

In a well-known gamblng-house in
New York two hands are nailed up
over the mantels. They are the six,
seven, eight, nine, and ten of dia-
monds and the same in spades. These
two hands came together, and caused
the division of small fortune between
the holders.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

are accounted as lucky" stones), and
shortly sfterward she made her first
success in the field of literature, where
she had formerly labored in vain. She
laughingly attributes her success to the
moonstone, and since then the ring has
never left her finger, and she declares
never will.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

That fierce Apache, Geronimo, who
is confined at Mount Vernon Barracks,
Alabama, has learned to play the ban
10. His guard has less trouble in pre-
venting his running away than in keep
ing him from getting drunk. The saw
age vagabond browns his grief in rum
at every opportunity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

An American orator, at dinner at
the Grand Hotel in London, recently
made use of the following metaphor In
his speech: @Let the Russian bear
put his paw upon the fair land of Aus
tralia and the British lion, the Ameri-
can eagle, and the Australian kangaroo
viii rise up as one man and drive him
ignominiously to his lair. This is al
most equal to Sir Boyle Roche's best.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

FROM the tabulated returns just
compiled in the Office of the State Su-
perintendent of Public instruction it
has been ascertained that the total
number of trees planted on Arbor Day
in the school districts throughout Mas
sachusetts, outside of the cities, was
"a, 166. These were all planted on
school grounds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

A WILD hog was shot recently at
Oak Hill, Cal, which weighed $50
pounds. 1t was snow-white and had
tusks six inches long. A pound of
lead was found in his carcass, the result
of efforts of former hunters to kill him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

The chief thoroughfares and public
places of Rome are to be illuminated
with electric lights, the power for gen.
Grating which is to be obtained from
the famous Tivoi Falls.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

The London ightermen helped the
dockmen, when the latter were on the
strike adjusted but few weeks ago.
Now the ightermen propose to strike,
and the dockmen will probably go out.
That is the way it goes, and women
and children must go hungry because
of this wretched sense of obligation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

KING LUIS of Portugal did not in all
his reign sign a single order for capital
punishment. He had conscientious
scruples against inficting the death
penalty, and so succeeded in making it
practically obsolete in his dominions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
MOTHER AND CHILDREN.
HIGH COLoRs NOW PERMISSIBLE TO
JUVENILE BELLIES.

Novelties in Boys and Girls Clothing
Pretty COnnemara C1Oaks- They Are
Made OF Variety OF Materials, but
Plain Wooden Fabrics Are the Most
Suitable.
IspEcnLr ME- zourr cnpp-nno.-nu,rru1
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

A NEW use has been found for the
coal dust formerly gone to waste
around mines. The dust is sprinkled
with pitch and pressed into brickets
that will burn like coal except that
there will be no clinkers and the
brickets will burn to ashes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES COM
manded a torpedo boat during the re-
cent British naval maneuvers. When
at last the pennant was hauled down,
he personally thanked and shook hands
with every member of the crew, and
gave to each his photograph and SOW
oreiO0
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

In certain districts of Washington
the street numbers are badly mixed
up. It is said that when the colored
people move, as they frequently do,
they generally take the door number
with them and pat it on their new
house
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

BOY m ay b Q
dressed about as
picturesquely as q
girl, and that is a
fact which fash
ionable mothe r s
have found out.
So the manufac-
lures of juvenile
clothing, and the
suits for urchins
displayed in the
s torres, are no
longer in clumsy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

The attention of landladies is called
to the fact that whole family in an
Eastern State has been poisoned by
eating oatmeal and milk for breakfast,
and that people who furnish food that
is poisonous to unsuspecting boarders
are liable to be indicted for murder.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04

A FRESNO (Cal.) woman threw a
celluloid cuff into the stove Her hus-
band will have to pay $3.50 to repair
damage to the kitchen and to get
new stove.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-04
TOPICS OF THE TINES.
A Choice Selection Of Inter-
esting Items.

EIGHT THOUSAND pounds of lead ore
N one chunk was taken from the De
Graft mine at Zincite, Mo-, the other
5o-