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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24
HINTS FOR SHOCKING.
How TO Do II Pretsify and Effectively on
Ynunz IadleH' (fRrrneat.

How TO Do II PretfHy and Effectively on
Young Ladies Gsrmeat-
This form Of decoration for vokes,
sleeves and general use on children's
and young ladies' garments, either Of
wooden. silk or cotton material. Is very
effective when neatly done. bat needs
special care in preparation, as uneven
shocking IS worse than none At ala
The process is very simple. First, fold
the material in lengtbvyise accordion
plaits, being careful 70 lay them very
evenly. and crease or press shem: then
fasten together the outer edges Of the
plaits. at equal distances. making these
fastenings alike IN eyerY alternate row.
After having laid and pressed tbe
plaits. tack the edges Of the first and
second pisits together az the top. VITA
three stitches always Oh the -1Eh.
sidel, and fasten the thread carefully.
Then tack ne edges Of the sane pl&its.
st regular Intervals. as far dswu - the
shocking - to b. Half way bct~een
these taczlEgs. tack the edges q TIE
second and third plaits. then tack ilse
third and fourth plzits. the sazEe zs the
frat and second. and 10 oa ACROSS tha
piece Do not fasten The plsltA On the
gsronz side. a. il - the loose andeF part
which gives elasticity 20 the knocking.
Another Ezacthesd q working - 20 b,e-
cir a. tAe righE sise a. the top. aa5
tack each succeeding tEo p,sils 20
gethe-. thai for ths next rosg. 81 the
proper intervals. 5aek The two inter
mediate p2aits together. for the third
row. tack the same pats a. in iAe frat
rovv. I'D 50 on 70 Tho desired csp;A-
Practice w.- aeTs-oo tie sasiSst meta
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Eagle
THEY WEAR DRIED HEADS.

The Napo Indians in south America and
Their Curious Taste.
"A remarxa BILE tribe of Indians, said
Mr.. Childs, who was recently in South
America, ''are the Napos, who live in
the northern part of Chill Instead OF
wearing scalps at their belts as trophies,
like the American savages, the heads OF
their enemies dangle at their girdles.
BY mysterious process known only to
themselves they remove all the facial
and Uranium bones without cutting the
skin or destroying the interior. The
head is then reduced, without manning
any of the features, to the size of a
mans fist"
Mr.. Childs brought one of these heads
with him and he intends to put it in the
museum of the Carnegie library here
In San Francisco he showed it to the
County Medical society and the doctors
offered him 81, 900 for it. He said no
sum of money would buy it. He
thinks there is one in the Smithsonian
Institution, and outside of his own he
doesn't believe there is another in the
United States The Indians discovered
they could sell the heads to the
whites at good price, and to pre-
vent them from Turing people into
the mountains and killing them or
numbering the aged of their tribe and
preparing their heads, law was passed
prohibiting their sale. Through the
kindness of Gen. Caamano and Gen.
Sorsby, the American consul-general to
Ecuador, Mr.. Childs secured the head
He says Gen. Sorsby has eight orders
for heads from museums and colleges in
the United States, and he is afraid he
will not be able to get them
The head and face that Mr.. Childs
has is not as large as baseball By
the secret process the bones were re
moved and the features reduced All
the hair on the original head is still
there. 1t is long and black, and prob
ably reached to the shoulders The
Indians put string through the lip
for every enemy they had slain. This
head has four strings in the lip, and the
mouth is drawn out of shape. The
microscope reveals the pores of the
skin, greatly crowded together.
The head was cut off even with the
shoulders, and there is a hole in the
windpipe, directly under the chin,
where the victim was evidently sta bbed
A number of people have looked at the
head, and all are puzzled how it was
prepared. Gen. Caamano thinks that
Immediately after the bones are taken
out redhot gravel is put into the head
the heat reduces the size, tans the skin,
and makes it hard and tough. Then
the gravel is removed.-Pittsburgh Dis |
patch.
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Not Quite the Same.

Slight mistakes in speaking foreign
language, or in understanding it when
some one else speaks it, are commonly
nothing more than amusing, but MEM
Der of the Alpine club mentions an in
stance of more serious nature. He was
climbing one of the Alps with guide,
who,as he says, persisted in talking bad
English instead of Indifferent French.
My guide had just crossed snow bridge
over wide crevasse and turned to
await me on the farther side asked
him if it was weak; he answered: mo
strong" Naturally attempted to walk
across it instead of crawling l had al
most reached the other side when the
bridge gave way, and after delirious
scramble to save myself subsidized help
lessly into the crevasse. However, I
did not go far, and when had crawled
out with snow down my neck and up
my arms and in all my pockets dis
covered that my friend meant Not
strong" | strongly enjoined him to re-
serve his English henceforth for use in
the valleys.-Pearson's Weekly.
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Chemistry of n Tear.

A tear from the eye of represents
tive of the Caucasian races is found to
be composed Of water, salt, soda, phos-
phate Of lime, phosphate OF soda and
mucus. From the eye of an African the
elements composing the tear are found
to be the same as the above, with the
single exception of the phosphate of
soda, and with the addition of slight
trace of ammonia. The Eskimos and
the fishing Firms seldom shed tears, but
when they do chemists say they are ex-
ceedingly salty. The chemical elements
in the Caucasian tear arrange them
selves into particles that look like fish
bones; those from a Negroes tear form
a rude cross, while the same process OF
evaporation leaves the chemicals in an
Eskimo's tear in the shape of bow.
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ghe umitha nau gaele gednesdau zoro, auonst

ago, at the absence or me animals on
Fifth avenue or accompanying owners
in the parks. In no city in the country
is this fact SO noticeable, and it is. OF
course, due to the great care Gotham
dog possessors bestow on their animals
Comparatively few of the finer animals
ever see the city homes of their mas
tiers, and only get glimpse of the mar
row street on their way to kennel
show. Fine dogs need lots of ozone, and
the New York master sees that his dogs
get all required, even though he himself
must swelter between the huge stone
piles of the city.
Prices for good dogs vary. The pubs
lie was amazed when it heard some
years ago that the late j. X. Emmett had
given $1,000 for his Plinlimmon, now
dead But I doubt if Mr. Sears would
take $4,000 for his rough-coated st. Der.
nard Sir Bedivere. In Brooklyn J.:
Keevan often has his famous Patrol ac-
companying him through Prospect
park. / don't think he would sell the
animal for $1,000. Nor would half that
sum buy DIR. s. G. Dixon's Leo B., as
fine Gordon setter as ever donned a
blue ribbon at kennel show. Mr..
Sears, understand, refused $1,000 for
his Plinlimmon, Jr., recently. And his
Monarch could not be had for SIS, 900.
Talking of the money invested in fine
CANNES by New York fanciers, was
told recently that the sum easily
reached half million dollars. This
would, of course, include all the fine
breeding kennels and the magnificent
kennels Of such well-known dog fanciers
as Col Jacob Rupert, Jr., William G.
Reick, city editor of the New York Her
aid, and one of the finest judges of dogs
in the country, the owners of the New
York St Bernard kennels, Henry Schier-
lob, J. L. Winchel, James Fl. Blossom
and DIR. S. II. Dixon.
But these and the thousand other in
dividuals whose pleasure lies in the
possession of fine kennel differ to q
marvellous degree in their ikings. Col.
Ruppert's fancy leads him to the pur-
chase of st. Bernards. E. HI. Ellis
prefers good bulldog and prides
himself particularly on the ugliness
of his Pathfinder and George Jar
Wis, George W. Lowell, Charles Heath
and many of the Hampstead set take
to pointers. Harry Astor Cary, who
has just introduced public coach into
Newport life, prides himself on his
judgment of an English setter. Arthur
w. Pembeck has the finest lot of grey-
hounds in the United States and cares
little for any other breed. His Gem of
the Season, Crnatus, Pious Pembroke,
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Sleeps In the House of Lords.

1t is said the duke OF Devonshire roes
to sleep il the house Of Lords. What
else is he to do should that august house
sit late, as it does three or four times a
year? Besides, it is the custom to 90 to
sleep in parliament when you have
mind to. The rules forbid the perusal
OF a newspaper, a magazine or book.
II peer or a member of commons de-
sires to read he must go to the reading
room or the library. Therefore, when
bore is on his legs about ten or eleven
o'clock, and his difJIse and uninterest-
ing commorplaces are running out in
targid verbosity, what better thing can
a statesman do. asks the San Francisco
Call, than go TO sleep? When in the
lower house as Lord Harrington the
duke was confirmed sleeper, with his
legs against the clerks table, his hat
tilted down over his eyes. his mouth
oPea and arms folded, or balancing his
body upon the seat At times his lord
ship was guilty of an approach to saor-
ing. People who 60 20 bed about three
or four o'clock in the morning must
take their sleen snrnsrvharA
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was Col. Jacob Rupert, Jr., son of one
of New York's millionaire brewers,
and the possessor of the finest bred
animals in this section. saw him in
the midst of his kennel pets and was
amazed at the marvellous intelligence
the brutes displayed, and the quick re-
sponses invariably made to kind word
or a gentle touch. That famous smooth
St. Bernard, Empress of Coontoocook,
was there.
81 take a great pride in this animal
as well as in her brother Leicester.
They are both bred in this country, and
are blue ribbon animals who seem
thoroughly to appreciate their great
ness. The heads of both dogs are finely
formed; in fact, experts agree that they
are the most beautiful-headed speci-
mems of st. Bernards in the country"
Then, turning aside from his two
rarest animals, he called up Belledarde,
another magnificent specimen of the
American bred smooth-coated st. Ber-
nard. She is still young, something
over a year old, and with age will rival
the Empress.
But it is at Hampstead, l.. l., where
the fashionable set simply dote on dogs.
Bar Harbor and Newport may revel in
fine steeds, in superb equipages, but all
honor to the Hampstead set and the
Hampstead dogs. found prize win
ner in almost every cottage. Miss Birds
bulldog, with the handsome name
she calls him Northumberland the ugliest
of faces, blinked at me from rustic
portico. Then dropped by the pretty
home of Sidney Dillon Ripley, and as
fine collie as ever graced kennel
show eyed me furtively. Up at Cauley
Havemeyer's found magnificent St.
Bernard, better guard than the man
on horseback who is now rushing about
the Vanderbilt home at Newport, fear
full of another robbery. The Belmonts
have Blempton Victor IL, prize winner,
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Cd for each Individual The thread
may be passed from one ''eateh" u the
other. bat great care must be taken
not TO draw H. Always use silk for the
lacking in shocking A pretty varis-
ton is afforded by shocking with a
contrasting color; for example, yoke
Of yellow silk fastened with white. or
white fastened with yellow, or pink
fastened with white or blue
For ginghzrn or any light material
the plaits should be one-fourth OF an
inch deep. and the tsckinxS about halt
an inch apart; but the spaces between
the tzckings may be little more than
that in heavy SILK or wool The bo1t
way is TO try = few inches. and decide
upon the size that will look bcst silk
nad wool are the best materials Cor
shocking, though IL Is effective. but not
30 durable, on washable goods
When shocking forms yoke. simply
let the skirt or waist material hang az
continuation % the shocking abd
under no circumstance hniEh with q
band OF Misunderstanding. where il
goes into the shoulder seams. sew ia
in fat taking care that the plai's are
fztteued out regularly. -Demorss-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24

In b-eaca u promise exc. THE fsa--
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beauty arranged that rs far e!leaa
should he 80 placs5 tfi2. Der eharzs
should be veil EzGes tbs ear.er5atsos. 81
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tears The eoaassl for the 6efenesaSss
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compliment II admitting TIA. IL va
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that nsTertbeirsa b. feI: bouEd 20 az
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plaintiff = eoanaes eAs gazSnre. ~as
presently es:abllsAssss and the tury,
feeling rather shesplsA a. their te&rA,
assessed damages - tse s1azliess
amount
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though z mix, and the Ladenburgs,
the Hoyts and the Winthrops all have
a number of interesting and valuable
CANNES who follow masters and mis-
tresses wherever they go. In fact, at
Hampstead it is an unwritten law that
no equipage is as 1t should be, without
dog of some kind either inside or out
side the vehicle.
I was talking with Jenkins Van
Schaick about New York's fashion
able" dogs the, other day, and he aired
the grievances'of the owners in very
practical argument: There are many
New Workers who, while they have the
greatest admiration for fine dogs, find
it simply impossible to keep them in the
close city. Ex-President Cleveland in
his recent letter declining the offer of
ment which explains the situation ex-
actly. A real lover of fine dogs can en-
Joy the company of the animal only
during the summer months when at his
country home For the remainder of
the year the dog must be placed
IN the care of keepers and so beco mes
estranged. Of course, when the man of
fashion lives at his country home the
greater part of the year there is no OBJ
stable to the keeping of fine kennel.
John d. Rockefeller's mastiff follows
him the greater part of the time. Gould
has number of cocker spaniels. large
~ for the amusement of his grandchil-
dren. At Tuxedo the LoriIarls have
two splendid St. Bernards."
John E. Thayer, of Massachusetts,,
who is reputed To have the finest ken
mel of deer hounds in the world, was
amazed, when In New York some time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24
A DISA0REEABlE JOB.
Owners OF Libraries VIII Not Perform
the Necessary Wedding.

1t is fact which every owner of O
library will confirm that the reluctance
to weed one is the greatest of all OBJ
stacles to it's collection. A private man
who loves books, unless he is ex-
ceptionally rich. is always, as he ad-
yances in life, torInented by the diff
Guilty of finding room for them. They
grow and grow, and the wall space
does not grow, and the shelves do not
grow either, and unless he resorts to
the unspeakably detestable expedient
of reduplicating the books on each
shelf-a device which not only destroys
the back rows but imperils their own
er's chances of Heaven, the book want
ed being invariably lost for the time
being, with results in evil wishes and
language-there comes time wheE he
is at his wits end. Not one room in
ten will allow OF shelves being set at
right angles to the walls instead of
along them, though that quadruples
book space; and the collector, with
weary signs. either heaps books above
each other or leaves them in packing
cases, or, in desperate emergencies,
puts them on the floor.
All this while, if ne would only weed
them there would be plenty of room,
and the opportunity of wedding is al
most limitless. We venture 70 say there
are not FIVE men in England possessed
OF three thousand books apiece who do
not know that half their books are lum-
Der, books which they will never read
or consult or open for any purpose
whatsoever. They are the books of for
gotten periods of life, the books Of
whin, the books of abandoned studies,
or, more numerous than all. the books
about which their owners only thought
Is wonder how the devil they ever got
there, books he can no more account for
than he could account for the foolish
ness Of early day dreams, or for the
morsels Of absolutely useless knowI-
edge packed away in his memory. De
knows perfectly well the lumber ought
to go TO the auctioneer, bat he never
sends It, unless, indeed, he changes his
house; nor, il he IS rich enough 70 keep
a librarian" Or library clerk, viii that
Invaluable person send il; he Is, indeed.
insulted or made lachrymose By the
very suggestion
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various devices were resorted TO ror the
I'LL Il 10. IL IL 4.

various devices were resorted TO ror the
purpose Of banishing sleep from the
church. Among these was not the
modern one of making the services
short and interesting. Our English
fathers tried several methods of break
ing up the offensive practice. One
method was that known as "bobbing,"
term thus explained by writer in
Notes and Queries:
my mother can remember Betty
Finch, very masculine sort of woman,
being the 'bobbcr' at Holy Trinity
church in the year 1910. She walked
very majestically along the aisles dur
ing Divine service, armed with great
long stick like fishing rod, which had
a bob fastened to the end of it, and
when she caught any sleeping or talk
ing, they got nudge"
DIR. Thirlwan. bishop of st. David's,
gives in one of his Letters" an anus
ing account of a Kerry custom for
awakening sleepers in church:
sit is by ancient custom a part Of the
sections duty to perambulate the
church during service time with bell
in his hand, to look carefully into every
pew, and wherever he fEds anyone
doing to ring the bell.
''He discharges this duty, il is said,
with great vigilance, intrepidity and
impartialitv. and consequently with
the hapPiest effect on. the congregation:
for as every Woody is certain that If he or
she gives way TO drowsiness the fact
VIII be forthwith made known through
the church By peal which viii direct
all eyes to the sleeper. the fear Of such
visitation IS almost always sufficient
10 I-aar, ar-a-x-,,-,s -, Oh. .loy4
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II. =. NARTIS,

a supper of bread and cheese and beer
The bill of fare for the royal refresh
ment of actors is traditional, and, like
all matters OF red tape. cannot be
changed TO suit improvement in the
state of the modern stage. It is known
TO her majesty as well as 10 her subjects
that actors of the style of Henry Irving.
Wyndhan and Ellen Terry fare as rich
~ as the residents Of Belgravia- But
hospitality in the queens household Is
governed by ancient formula, and now.
as in times gone by, the actor is re
called merely on bread and cheese and
beer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24
SCOTTISH LEADER.

Eastwood, Daisy and Lily of Gainsboro
are said to be the finest animals of their
kind ever seen in kennel show.
There is something interesting, too,
in the odd liking of great men for fine,
big dogs. Bismarck and his great
brutes are known to everybody who
has ever made a pilgrimage to the
home of the iron chancellor. Ex-Secre-
tary Bayard is often accompanied by a
fine St Bernard. Secretary Blaine has
a mastiff at his Augusta home and
President Harrison owns a number of
magnificent pointers, which are kept
by friend in Maryland, with whom
the nations executive often goes hunt
ing. ALBERT EDWARD TYRRELL.
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THE MAN OF FASHION.
His Penchant for Dogs Leads Him
Into Big OUTLAWS.
Jacob Rupert, Dr., Discusses the Fine
Points of His Great st. Bernardo
The Hampstead Set and Their
Rlue Ribbon Animals.
rcoPYRIGHT, 1927

COPYRIGHT, 1892.
s'Come herel Come, come, my dog Bru-
no! my good dogw
And the light of a silent intelligence
beams into the face Of the master And
the gentle touch meets with rapt and
pleading response from the head of the
fine animal. And there is that in the
makeup of the brute which would
drive him through fire or water, into
danger on land or sea, to the rescue of
human life.
So the man of fashion who has pen
chant for dogs can only be envied of his
brute friendships" was chatting
with one of these fashionable dog fam
ciers the other day and found him re-
markably well versed on all the good
points of the various breeds, aside from
those he had special fondness for. 1t
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New Nurse goin' 70 ieave when
me week Is up. fnuss7
Miktress-Dear mel what's the nat
teri
New Surse-Plesse. mum. your chill.
drsn u inst gettin the Insslalrs. an az
the other nurses ests ne des6--S. L.
Weekly
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A RUDE AWAKENING.

II Generally Came to the Nodde-s Darir z
the Gid-Tine Church Service.
In the ol6en tine church services
were 50 lo1g-prayers, hymns and ser
mons-thas it Is no wonder that many
Of the hGrd-xorked people in the con-
greEations could not keep awake
Both IN tho old world and IN the new
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QUEEN VIC AS a HOST.
She Treats Her Actors "a n Very Scan;
Meal Of Cheese and Bread

SGe treats f1cF AEGoFs 20 very S(AEt
Neal Of Cheese and Bread
Queen Victoria ad1ires the drama. ae-
cor3ing TO the Buffalo Express Unlike
her SOD, she never goes TO the theafer.
she has the power and she brings the
the2ter to her. Any play that she do
sires 70 see is presented a. Windsor AZ
her request The production must be
identical with tha: az the thezser. and
the audience Is the queen and her court
The play IS generally received IL
naughty silence. bat the manager Is
paid 81 the rate 81 once and half
the average nights receipts for .
week
The stTaugest part of the affair e TIE
supper her majesty provides FOR the
players The condition Of TIE actor. &C
strongly evidenced in the Hamlet IL
terludc. comes with painful memory 70
both comedians and trzgedians when
taeT ST. down after the performance To