davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The Mother and Her Dress.

What q contrast there is in the general
appearance of some men and their wives.
Some of them look as if they had made
mistake and gobbled up woman that
ouoht to have been some other mans wife,
and some women-a good many women
look like victims of some kind OF mis-
take. 1t is not uncommon to see women
dressed with all respect to the latest de
Signs sent out by Worth or Felix, while
the husband seems grateful that he had
enough money left to buy even insists"
This attracts no particular attention, but
ones heart will get to aching for the little
pallid faced and meek looking woman who
wears plush cloak and alpaca dress, while
the husband is radiant in fresh new suits,
tan colored gloves, silk hat and red rose in
buttonhole.
| spent an hour with the palefaced woman
and radiant husband. 1t was in steam
car There were four children with them,
the oldest about six years The wife had
on, in addition to the plush cloak, rusty
black hat and gray veil. The children
were dressed beautifully. How they loved
he,l One little fellow came back to kiss
her about once in five minutes. 1t was
ooh, mamma, isn't that lovely?'' and "HoN
long will it be before we are there
mammal" and care you glad we arr
going?" and Dear mamma" She gave
them some fruit. They would not eat i
until mamma had "bite."
The father was radiant and dignified ant
grand. He never got kiss, nor "blte,
nor glance from those four children. ID
paid their fare and looked out of the win
dow. He had his fine clothes, but tn
mother was rich in all the love that couL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Women North and South.

A Kentuckian, speaking of the northern
fashion of letting a woman hustle for her
self in public places, says that this is en-
tirely due to the demeanor of the northern
woman herself When he is south, he al
ways resigns his seat in a public vehicle to
a woman, and makes it his business to Sc
cure her comfort whenever possible, re
garding the welfare of every woman as the
special care of every man. In the south
the women are dependent, confding and
helpless. In the north they know what
they want, and they go and get it with a
rapidity that startles the average man.
The northern woman buys her own car
tickets, checks her baggage, gets aboard,
buys newspaper, looks around for seat,
and waits her turn for one with all the in
dependence and courage of any man that
can be produced. She wants no favors an
she asks for none. This is so plainly ap-
parent that, as the Kentuckian says, he is
half afraid to offer her any favors for fear
she may resent his interference; and, even
when he is sure that she will not, and
! when she looks at him longingly, he him
self is half provoked at the general swing
of the sex in the north and would not otfel
her a seat anyway.-San Francisco Argo
Daut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Sweet Seventeen.

A lady contributor to The National Re
view tells how she took an English girl,
aged seventeen, for tour on the continent.
She appears to have done this, partly at
least, to test ''the effect of foreign travel
on a young and untried mind, fresh from
the stimulating power of a high school
education" The result disappointed her.
"Sweet seventeen" enjoyed the ST. Gothard
railway but, when asked what she thought
of the Alps, observed that they didn't
look so very high" ''Is that your own COM
position?" she inquired, when her mother
quoted Lord Tennyson's lines on Monte
Rosa.
At the Brera, Milan, she wanted to know
if all the pictures were hand painted.
When Catullus' villa was pointed out to
her, it turned out that she had never heard
of him. At Venice she liked best the sham
jewelry shops, and wished to be told chow
many doges there were at once" To her
mother she wrote: Il don't like going to
churches, they feel so moldy inside. And
the sanitary system of Venice seems very
bad; there are no end of smells" In Paris
/ she had to be informed what the Louvre
was. Her companion discovered afterward
that the young lady stood high in bel
school, being FIRST" that term in history,
! literature and the Shakespeare class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Cure for Burns.

Put the part instantly in cold water, or
cover it with moistened baking powder
and then with Il wet cloth. When the skin
is destroyed the point to be attained is to
exclude the air Do this by covering the
burn with sweet oil, vaseline, inseed Oil,
cream, carron OIL lard, or with flour spread
thickly on linen cloth or on cotton bat
ting.
An excellent covering for burnt surfaces
is made by mixing common whiting (useo
in kitchens for polishing purposes) with
sweet oil, olive, cotton seed or other oil, Oh
even water, into thick paste. With this
the burn is carefully covered by means O.
feather, taking care not to break the
blister, then the whole part is covered witt
cotton cloth and kept clean and moist.
Burns of large size are always danger
Gus, often resulting in death, and shoult
receive the careful attention of skilled
| physician.-Hall's Journal of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The Cause of Homely Necks.

1.-The scrawny necks on American
women" said man dressma!er, ARE due
as much to the high and tight collars
which they have been wearing during the
past six years as to anything else. The
fashion was started by the princess of
Wales, who has scar on her neck, and it
was eagerly taken up here, Street gowns
and jackets were fitted with tight velvet,
cloth or braided collars, and these pressed
the neck so closely that when women took
thera off after having been in hot room
they not infrequently found them satu-
rated with perspiration.
There is no better way of reducing the
flesh than this. A man can put worsted
or flannel band around his waist, take VIC
lent exercise and reduce his girth under
the band rapidly and surely. The high
collars which women wore had precisely
this effect Now that they have become
distinctly questionable, | look for an i'm
provement in the necks of New Yorl
women. New York Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
GROWERS STRIKE YEAR
A Comparison of Industrial Troubles
Odfous to Democrats.

Odious to Democrats.
Two or three dozen strikes since Janu-
arv have been enumerated by democratic
philosophers, and called "a strike epidemic
due to the Mckinley BILL" Undoubtedly
a larger number than above mentioned
have taken place, caused chiefly by the
eight-hour agitation. In order to under
stand how much more or less numerous
strikes have been since the Mckinley bill
went into effect, let US compare the strike
record of the past six months with that of
the six months, say, of tie second year of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration.
1t is reported that since January l there
has been a strike in Maine and a wage-cut
of 3 per cent, Between January and June
In Grover Cleveland's second year, there
were in Maine 10 strikes; besides 2 lock-
outs which shut 1915 men out of SO
establishments II II
In Connecticut, since the Mckinley bill
went into effect. 2 strikes are mentioned In
the textile industries. But during the first
half of Mr.. Cleveland's secoDd year, Con
necticut suffered 4 strikes in the clothing
industry, strikes in the cotton mills, and
80 strikes in the foundries.
Two strikes re charged to Mckinley IN
the New Jersey silk works. But during
the first six months of Clegeland's second
year, there were II strikes at the silk
works, besides l l in the building trades,
9 in leather and in machinery and
metals.
New York is credited with one strike
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Women and Tobacco.

I have heard men remark complacently
that they were glad their wives did not dis
like tobacco, as they did enjoy pipe by
their own fireside Their wives would not
deny this statement, but afterward would
tell me that they invariably left the room
for a breath of pure air." There are two
sides to all questions, and am very sure
if many men fully comprehended thewom
ems side of the tobacco question, the dis
gust and contempt so many of them feel
for tobacco worm" they would at least
cease to putrify the air of their homes and
the floors of the buildings they frequent.
But were men to ask these selfsame WON,
en- if tobacco is offensive to them, the reply
would very probably be, ooh, not particu-
Iarlyr'-Mrs. Irene G. Adams
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The ChiIdren's Teeth,

1t becomes mothers, from the moment
that their children begin to eat solid food,
20 see that they have meat and vegetables
and milk, eggs, fruit, bread and porridges
of the unbolted grains, and as little pastry,
fine -four bread, and confectionery as pos
sible, in order that they may at once begin
secreting the material for sound second
teeth-which come under any circum-
stances, to be sure, but which under hostile
circumstances go without long waiting ON
the order of their going. 1t is equally
necessary to see that the food agrees with
the child; for if it is not of kind easily
digested, then the gases of its fermentation
will rise and inj ure the teeth, and the
heated blood occasiOned by indigestion will
make diseases of the gums, also hurtful to
the teeth, and create more sensibility in the
nerves to pain and to heat and cold.
Alterations of heat and cold, by the
WY, are quite as bad for the teeth as indi-
g-Jible food the delicate enamel being
obedient, rs every other substance is, to the
laws of contraction and expansion, crush
ing and splitting under the process, and
affording opportunity for the beginning of
decay by Judgment of food, or even by the
entrance Of The common air. Thus it is
hardly a matter of doubt whether ice
water and ice cream are not of great detri
ment to the teeth, whether good or bad fol
the stG7>ach, and if hot tea and coffee, OF
even plain hot water, are not equally pc
tent for harm.
Nor must the mother, if it can be helped
allow the first teeth to be drawn. Rea
pain that cannot be allayed-for there was
never yet philosopher that could endure
the toothache patiently, says Leonato-is
the only thing that should make her yielc
on this point; and it is right that the fangS
of the first milk teeth should be absorbed
in their place, and not extracted, atte
which absorption the little crowns vii
drop away of themselves Harper's Bazaar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
IOWA, MINNIE 1OTk@ DAKOTA.
|, s. ST. P. SUP.
These Letters are the initials OF the
New Line through Wyoming nd
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed Of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis q
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
HALEY, Boise City, Lewiston.
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah. -,
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished IN
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders OF
econd-class tickets going TO
Washington, Oregon and Callfor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents Of C., St: F.
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the "Lake Superior, St. Paul q
Union Pacific Linc' and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
GenlPasengerAgent, St Paul,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

due to MeKinleyism. The New York rec
ord during the first half of Growers strike
wear is as follows: Bakers. "a strikes;
building trades, 40 strikes, 1863 men; fur
niture, IS strikes, IA, 507 men; clothing, As
strikes, AS establishments, 0,766 oper-
atives. In all 129, 563 employees were on
strike in 1883 establishments during the
six months.
Mckinley measure is said to have caus-
ed 3 strikes in Ohio. In the like SIX
months OF the Cleveland epidemic, there
were 81 strikes.
1t has been discovered that an underwear
establishment somewhere in Illinois has
struck ''all on account of Mex inley. J"
| Well, Growers six months of spring cpl
demic ran up strikes this wise: in ag-
ricultural implement works, 4 in
brick works, 5 IN pork packing,
each in clothing and wagon mauufac-
ture, II each in mining and building, %
in machine shops, 80 in transportation, 80
in furniture, 50 in planning mills and box
factories, and So IN the metal industries.
! There were strikes in 1.060 establishments
by 80, 675 men.
Massachusetts is listed with Mckinley
strikes in establishments. During like
half year in 1886, Massachusetts, was visit
ed with 55 strikes covering IA establish
ments.
Anumber of Philadelphia carpet mills
are said to have been shut down because
Mckinley raised their protective duties;
also eight iron and steel works are said to
be enjoying strikes, because Mckinley re-
duced their protection. During the no.
torious six months of Grover Cleveland, 80
carpet establishments and q iron and
steel works were under strike, when the
tariff was not changed up or down. In
those six months there were also strikes In
149 coal mines, in which 5000 miners
took part; and the coal was mostly on the
free list. In the unprotected gas and
coke industry, 5000 men were on strike.
During the six months $4,000 laborers
were on strike in some thirty industries.
The labor disturbances of that year
were not all confined to strikes. In Hill
nois 10000 men lost their jobs by lock
outs, and in New York 10000. During
the first two years of Garfeld's admins
tration there were 81 lockouts in which
4,786 men lost positions. During the frs
two years of Cleveland's Administered ol
there. were l ,692 lockouts in which III 40
: were thrown out of employment. Unde,
the high sugar tariff, which democracy ex
troIled the New York sugar trust, in the
second year of Grover Cleveland, executed
FIVE lockouts on its employees. Under the
Mckinley free sugar regime, the suga
trusts are so busy making sugar that the,
have no time for lockouts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
NEW INDUSTRY.
silk Velvet Soon to BE Made in This Coup
try
The Manufacturers Gazette.

Inc Man uIdCIuFeG OdASIIo'
The direct benefits TO this country as
result of the tariff bill, as enacted by the
last congress, are beginning to be realized
in many directions, all arguments and
free trade TRADES to the contrary notwith,
standing.
Several valuable industries have been
added to the list during the past year, and
others are sure to follow, while those al,
ready established have shown new signs
of life and vigor under the influence of a
protective tariff. Of these new industries,
none are perhaps of more Importance than
the one about to be mentioned, and It's
development here will be great help to
American workingmen and American In
dustry.
Silk velvet is line of textile products
which has never as yet been successfully
established in this country. The trade has
almost wholly been confined to France, Ger
many and England, but there now APP
pear to be good reasons for believing that
before very long it will be made In this
country, company with ample capital
have been formed for the purpose of
establishing plant in New Jersey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

the abdomen is pressed down and the
bosom up, the result being to cause both
to billow out to an unusual size. Ii the
natural shape of woman is not deteri-
grated by tight lacing her abdomen, when
she stands straight, should protrude ve-y
little, if any, beyond the front line of her
thighs. The abdomen should never be
larger than the bust, which should meas
ure at least five inches more. The hips
should measure one-third more than the
shoulders. The old idea that plummet
line dropped from the nose should just
Craze the abdomen is hardly correct. 1t
should fall free of it.-Boston Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
A Pail to Fill Long Felt Want.

A Schenectady woman has invented a
household utensil that will fill a want that
must have been in existence for long
time, even if it hasn't been felt. The in
vention is so simple that the wonder is that
nobody has ever thought of it before. tits
simply pail for cleaning purposes which
is divided into two compartments, one of
which is designed to hold suds water, while
the other is filled with clean water for
rinsing There is also partition for hold
ing soap in one of the compartments.-Al-
bany Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers Dining Cars and Coaches OF latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
ST. PauI and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vesubuled drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman VestibuIed Drawing
Room and Tourist Sleepers via the Northern
Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Pore-
land, Ore, and Tacoma, Wash
Convenient Trains to and from Easterns
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
affording unequaled service to and from Waukes
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neepah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis., and IronwOod and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, time
tables and other information, apply to agents o.
the Line or to Ticket Agents anywhere In tho
United States or Canada.
s. R. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
J. N. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, St
Paul, MINI.
II. G. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, e.
louis ECKSTEIN, Genl .Pass'r and Tkt Ayt
Chicago, IL go
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Covers for Earrings.

Surprising it is that shells or little GOV
erings for diamond earrings are not more
worn in this country. The safest place to
carry the precious gems is in the ears, but
during the day, particularly in the
morning. these little shells, either in black
or subdued colors, look well. They con-
ceal the brilliancy of the diamonds, that
should really be shown only when lady
is in full dress or very elegantly attired.
One could go shopping, ETC., and these
modest shell earrings would attract no at
tention Observation-Disclosures Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
NJaSSachuSettS' Constitution.

1t is significant fact that not single
New England state has adopted more than
one complete constitution since the forma-
ton of the federal government. Indeed,
the present constitution of Massachusetts
antedates the constitution of the United
States, having been adopted in $780, Since
then it has been amended in several re
spects, the new sections being necessitated
by increase of population, the great Euro
pean immigration of the middle of the
century and the war for the Union.-H. L.
Nelson in Harper's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
RECIPROCITY.
Negotiations for its Extension Progressing
AuSpicjouslY.

Negotiations are progressing favorably
for reciprocity arrangements under the
Mckinley bill with San Domingo, Vene-
zuea and Peru The absence of Secretary
Blaine may cause some delay, Tut he has
already had a number of conferences with
Senior Galvan, the special envoy of San
Domingo, and he is merely waiting to
hear from Venezuela whether the PROPOSE
lions which were submitted some time ago
have been accepted. Private reports have
been received here indicating that the
Venezuelan congress would probably az
cept the convention submitted by the
president Of the republic, but no official
information has been received that the
congress has taken action. The negotia-
lions with Peru have only recently begun
to be talked about, and the final PROPOSE
lions have been formulated. The Spanish
convention regarding Cuba will doubtless
be proclaimed first, and the other three
will follow at intervals,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

R. NJ. Dufield, aged seventy, mail car
rier in Jackson county West ' a., claims
to have walked 10000 miles in the last ten
years. He thinks no other man has done
such an amount of walking. He is also a
sort of expressman. A few weeks ago he
carried pow ten miles and on the next
trip carried small cook stove twenty
five miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Total 81. 81

The moral with which TINS STORY OF
cheap prices, is pointed is that in no other
country could a lad be fitted out for so lit
tie money, and the low prices is one of
the results of competition among manu-
facturers originally encouraged and al
ways fostered by protection in the tariff
laws
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
WOman,S Physical PrOpOrtionS,

Celia Logan, speaking of woman's phys
ical proportions, says that the bust should
measure ten inches more than the waist.
If the waist is laced in SID Aller than this.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Who WCarria CareIessO Is.

Mrs. Augusta Prescott, who is known to
the newspaper readers as Carrie Care
iess," is widow of prominent scientist
and professor of natural history at an edu-
cational institution in Albany. She has a
department in Harper's Young People and
also edits the woman's department in the
New York World.-Current Literature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Lillie-Oh Minnie, have such dear
unique headrest. have stuffed a pillow
full of Cholly's love letters.
Minnie-What soft pillow it must
make.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

1t appears that Eleanor Kirk. the well
known Brooklyn writer, must have waste
basket of most extraordinary capacity,
for the story GOES that she receives a bushel
Of letters day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
A:BOY CLOTHED FOR $1.51.
In No Other Country is Such a Thing Pc

sible.
The New York Evening Sun relates. that
one of its newsboys, a lad of IA years of
age, was taken to a Bowery'' clothing store
by a gentleman who wanted to see how
eheapIy boy could be clothed, and was
fitted out from head to foot for S1.51.
Here is the schedule for items given:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Fast Nan Line with vestibuled frAas u
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, 81 Fass ans
Minneapolis.
Trans-ContinentaI Route between Chicago
Council Bluffs, Omaha and the PaeaAe CeAsH
Great National Route between Chicago Kan
sas City and ST. Joseph, No.
ETO0 Miles of Road reaching al prfnedpA
points IN II inois Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa
Missouri and Dakota.
For maps, time tables, rates OF passage Ahs
freight etc. apply t. the ne Arrest station agent o.
the CHICAGO MILWAUKEE & 81. PAUL RALWAx
or to any Railroad Agent anywhere In tho Wsr~
ROSWELL MILLER, A.V.H CARPENTER,
General Manager. Genl Pass. and Tit Agt
~For information in reference 70 Lands -
Towns owned by the CBIoAeo, MuwAUKH 81
PIUI, RAnvAY ConPANY, write 70 r. g. HAuaAR
Land Commissioner. MnwaukeA WiscoKdH-