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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Mattresses and Maids.

While the great question of the en-
ployment of women-the problem of pro-
viding employment for those not belong
ing to the laboring class, but reduced
from comfort to poverty-is a matter of
mere discussion with many persons, one
enterprising individual, who believes in
the practical application of her theories,
is devoting her energies to providing
school where the duties required of an
accomplished waitress can be thoroughly
taught, and where can be gained a good
connection that shall insure profitable
possibly regular, employment. And not
merely waiting will be taught, but also
the art of arranging table decorations,
of properly cleaning silver and altogether
assuming the responsibility of the serving
of the dinner. The mistress of a small
establishment often finds great difficulty
in entertaining her friends, because she
has not a servant capable of managing
the dinner without too much anxiety to
herself But if refined clever waitress
could be obtained for moderate charge,
one that thoroughly understands her bust
ness, she would be far more attractive
than the pretentious hired waiter, and
hospitality might oftener reign in the
average household. Moreover, it is pre-
dicted that wealthy American families
will soon follow the latest fad of many
stately English homes, and employ maids
in the places of buffers and footmen. 1t
has been proved that a trained waitress
is just as competent TO decide what
wines will be required and to ice or heat
them to the proper temperature, as an
experienced butler, and she is much less
likely to have a propensity for sampling
them In one aristOcratic English house
hold, where maids take the place of foot
men, they have liveries of crimson cloth
skirts and Georgian coats with square
flap pockets. white pique waistcoats and
muslin and lace stocks, the coats having
silver livery buttons. On their heads
they wear little lace caps, and for large
dinner parties they wear powdered hair.
Ordinarily, however, the uniform most
in favor for maids is silver gray alpaca.
the wide linen collar and cuffs tied with
bows of gray ribbon, and there is a great
display Of white lace and muslin in the
apron and its broad strings.-Washing-
ton Star.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
EASY WHEN THEY KNEW HOW.

The Ravages of the Big River Near Atchi-
Finally Checked.
A result has been obtained at Atchison,
Kas. by the Chicago & Atchison Bridge
company which is of national impor-
lance. After the expenditure Of vast
sums of money by the government, the
railroad companies and the bridge COM
pany i'll Intellectual efforts, in usual ways,
to check the ravages of the Missouri
river, the bridge company, for an in
significant sum, and by work that only
received the SneerS of the government
river commission, has actually changed
the channel of the river, saved its own
costly structure, and made the reclama-
ton of hundreds of acres of valuable
land certainty.
Atchison is situated at the apex of the
"Grand Detour" of the Missouri river,
and the treacherOus stream at that point
has, for many years, been a source of
great annoyance and expense to the gov
eminent, the bridge company and the
several railroad companies whose traf-
fic is over the bridge. Possibly the
money that has been expended in rip
rap dykes and mattress work will ag-
gregate a quarter of million dollars,
but not stone or pier or mattress is in
evidence today. The joint expenditure
of the government and bridge company
in 1894 was not less than $4,000. In
that years work 1900 carloads of heavy
stone and 1000 cords of willow brush
were used. 1t was the year of the great
est devastation. Four to five hundred
acres of rich Missouri bottom land were
washed away. Eighty houses. with their
gardens and orchards, being the resi-
dence part of East Atchison fell prey
to the remorseless cutting of the current.
The tracks of three of the four railroad
lines were destroyed, and the great bridge
itself was looked upon as doomed. AS
a result of the cutting of the river on
the Missouri side, which had been going
on for many years previous to 1884, an
island containing 400 to 500 acres had
formed on the Kansas side where the
current formerly flowed.
In the spring Of 1895 the bridge COM
pany conceived the idea that a canal
cut through this island would lessen the
pressure of the current on the Missouri
side, and, possibly. in time, divert it,
At an expense of $4,000 the company
constructed the canal. 1t was $500 feet
long, 60 to 80 feet wide and s feet deep.
The result was surprising. Government
engineers, old steamboat men and people
generally looked upon its construction
as foolish proceeding. But within six
months the course of the river was
through the canal. The island has been
eaten away, and the vast body of land
on the Missouri side, over which the
river flowed less than a year ago, is
have been relaid; the bridge company
has no fear of the future, and it is hard
~ possible that the government will be
called upon again in this generation for
an appropriation for river work at Atchi-
son Kansas Citv Times
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
An Eclipse of the Honeymoon.

When I went to see the little bride the
other day and found her weeping into her
best Turkish sofa cushion, knew that
something was seriously wrong, and
drew my face down into the proper ex-
preston of sympathy.
''What is it?' | asked
TITS Tom" she said.
"And breakfast" [ amended.
''Did he tell your she demanded,
sternly, sitting up and wiping her eyes.
Surely not" [ answered; "oniy you
see. my dear Annette, you are not the
knowing in the course of my life"
II never claimed to be a good house
keeper or know anything about cooking,
she began in an explanatory fashion.
and he said that he wanted that little
hand never to do anything harder than
SWhy. how did you know he said
that?' she asked.
| smiled.
eff he was looking for a good do
nestle girl, why didn't he marry Mary
Smith," she said, recurring again to her
woes.
"Why not, indeed?" I echoed.
"Shes hideous," announced Annette,
with satisfaction.
"She would never put too much soda
in the biscuit or have the steak over
done'' I said refectively.
"She has red hair" remarked Annette
irrelevantly.
The butcher would never be able to
sell tough meat and undesirable cuts
to her," [ went on in an admiring tone
of voice.
"She has light eyes and no eyebrows to
speak of" said Annette, as if it were
matter of Importance.
''She would have made pies like his
mother used to make l continued.
"She has pale green freckles," re-
marked Annette, triumphantly.
''Of what avail | asked mournfully,
lis beauty when one has dyspepsia from
bad cooking?'
"Why didn't he ask me if I could
cook before we were married." demand
ed Annette, resentfully.
"AIy dear child.'' I said. ''men always
demand everything il 4 wife they didn't
ask for in sweetheart"
"He used to laugh when | didn't know
things and say | vas darling little
puss." she remarked. refectively
NOW he thinks you are stupid if you
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16

expression; in short, herself that makes
or unmakes her charm.
1t is the woman, then, that has the
courage to be herself who attracts. Orig
inals are SO much more desirable than
copies, no matter how accurate the copy
may be- If it be natural to wear ones
hair in careless fashion, by all means
do so. Nature is never mistaken. But
let the admiring sister, whom that auto
crat intended to be a tailor-made girl,
beware of that disorder-in her 1t would
cease to be artistic; it would be simply
untidy. Let every woman dare to be
herself develop her own individuality,
not blindly copy some other woman,
whom, it may be, her husband happens
to admire. Let her think for herself,
act for herself, and express her own
honest opinions.
Individuality, when combined with
that nameless something called manner,
is the most potent weapon in the pos
session of the sex; it is this which has
given many a homely woman reputa-
ton for beauty which bona hde beauty
with faultless face and features has
sighed in vain to attain.
Manner, magnetism-call it as we will.
and intangible, elusive as it isis yet
the secret Of the sway exercised by those
fortunate ones of the earth who belong
to the "race Of charmers," a race, let
us hope, which will never become ex-
tinct.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Many RELIGIONS.

The y races inhabiting the world COM
municate With each other i'll 1904 differ
ent tongues, and confess to about 1000
religions. The number of men and wom-
en- is very nearly equal, the average
longevity of both sexes being only IS
years, about one-third of the population
dying before the age of II. Moreover,
according to the most careful enlputa-
ton, only l person in 100000 of both
sexes attains the age of 100 years, and
only 6 to z in 100 the age of 60. The
total population of the earth is estimated
at about 1,200,O0O,000 souls, Of whom
35,214,0OO die annually. e., an average
of 9S,S4S day, 1920 an hour, and 67
minute. The annual number &c Of births tbs
1000. e., an average of 100000
day, 1900 an hour, and 20 a minute.
ried people live longer than single, and
those who have to work hard for their
living longer than those who do not,
while also the average rate of longevity
is higher among civilized than uncivilized
races. Further, people Of large physique
live longer than those of small, but those
of middle size beat both.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Very Disannointed.

A correspondent who signs himself
Pedro writes to the New York Even
ing Post in great disgust with the
Venezuelans, and especially with Rich
ard Harding Davis. He has just re-
turned from a trip to the West Indies
and Venezuela, and he says: When the
Columbia on her recent trip to the West
go of some hundred and fifty sightseers
from all parts of the Union took the
afternoon train for Caracas full of eager
anticipation. They had all seen Hard
ing Davis glowing article on Ven
ezuela, with its. fiattering wood
cuts, and expected to find Caracas
''the Paris of South America" Disillu-
sion began at the railway terminus
They saw nothing but donkeys, dirt
dust, dilapidation, extreme discomfort at
the hotels and a Whitley brown, shabby
population, mostly mongrels of negro,
Indian and Spanish descent barbarians
with a yarnish of poor electric lights
tramways and North American notions.
One-third of the party returned to the
steamer the next day disguised The
others remained two days longer, and
saw a bullfight by candlelight, at which
mild-mannered oxen were put to death
sister republics, government by the peo-
pie. disguised us when applied to a state
as despotic as Turkey, in which the
President lived in daily fear of assassin
alton, and political opponents are put
down by a file of rifemen III front of a
stone wall-a method which has indeed
some advantage over ours, for the only
arguments which can reduce a lunatic to
silence is a rifle ball. At the last dim
verses written by New York lady were
road
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
parkhurst o, College Athletics.

DR.. Parkhurst in his article to young
men in Ladies' Home Journal, writes
very forcibly upon the necessity of ply
steal development as a requisite for
proper mental growth-the development
of the body and mind-and says relative
to college athletics: - 1t is, there
FORE encouraging that our schools and
colleges are making physical culture OBJ
ligatory; and the announcement lies less
in what such institutions have already
done in the way of cultivating the body
than it does in their making it part of
academic confession of faith that a man
can never altogether get over being an
animal, that there is no inconsistency
between intelligence and dust, and that
the more a man wants t0 make of him
self in the upper strata of human I,oss
bility the more careful he must be to
keep in wholesome condition of repair
the platform of tissue and blood cor
puscle, into which, as SO much bud into
so much stock, later unfoldings are in
separately knit should be sorry to
have this interpreted as an approval of
all or nearly all of what passes under
the name of college athletics. 1t is one
thing to train the body for the sake of
the body for the sake of the body. [
regret that there is so much tendency
among college authorities to shape the
physical curriculum to the end of pro-
ducing physical experts football, base
ball, roWing-match professionals. That
kind of thing is craze at present, and
it is q pity that among our college presi-
dents and professors so many have. SO
far succumbed to the mania as to be
willing to endorse it as form of adj
vertisement and as drawing card.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
A Curious Fact About the Eye.

A very curious fact is the impossibility
of moving your eye while examining the
reflection of that organ in mirror. 1t
is really the most movable part of the
face; yet, if you hold your head fixed
and try to move your eye while watch
ing it you cannot do it-even the one
thousandth of an inch.
OF course if you look at the reflection
of the nose or any other part of your
face, your eye must move to see it. But
the strange thing is that the moment you
endeavor to perceive the motion the eye
is fixed. This is one of the reasons why
a persons expression as seen by himself
in a glass is quite different from what
it is when seen by Others
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
When Extremes Touch.

On Hester street-on Hester street
The babes are born with faces old,
And hands are hard and hearts are cold,
And life limps on with tagging feet;
While morning dawns obscure and dim
To sodden eyes and faces grim,
And noon is harsh with motherless glee,
And night is foul with ribaldry.
Surrounded by that fetid air,
The mire of muck and squalor there,
The light of love we may not meet
God pity those of Hester street!
On Astor street-on Astor street
The babes are laid in laps of gold,
While hands are soft and hearts are bold
And life flows on with rhythmic beat,
For morning trips with rosy tread
Through scented sheen t0S silken bed.
And noon is decked with trappings gay,
And night is fraught with reyelry.
And yet, with all it's tinseI pride
And titled groom and dainty bride,
The light of love we may not meet
God pity those of Astor street.
Albert Bigelow Paine i'll Truth.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Nature His Sculptor

Carved by nature in the rough stone of
Marblehead Neck, Mass, the calm face
of George Washington gazes out over
the waste of waters. In this quiet, Sc
cluded corner of Massachusetts this re-
markable monument remained for ages
undiscovered until Albert Chapman of
Marblehead cropped the bushes and
weeds which grew about its base in rank
luxuriance, disclosing the stone features
which bear most striking resemblance
to the father of his country.
Some call it the "Old Man of the Sea, :"
but the majority of Marblehead citizens
trace in it's lines and curves counterfeit
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Lucca. the Singer.

Pauline Lucca, the opera singer, who
dropped out of public notice since her
retirement from the stage seven years
ago, now lives at Vienna, and is said
to be as handsome as ever. There is
no probability that she will ever return
to the stage, as she has taken up an &C.
cupation that greatly interests her--that
of schooling young girls for operate
work. She confines herself to twelve
pupils year, and devotes but thee
hours day to the work. She exercises
great care in selecting them, and she
hopes to make Of each a famous singer
and actress Philadelphia Enquirer
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Serious Thought.

Il hope, Jennie, that you have given
the matter serious consideration said
the lady to a servant girl who had ''given
notice" because she was to be married
that day two weeks"
"Oh! I have ma'am," was the earnest
reply. I've been to two fortune telers
and clairvoyant and looked in sign
book, and dreamed on lock of his hair,
and been to one of those astrologers,
and to a medium, and they all tell me
to go ahead, ma am. | amt one to marry
reckless like, ma'am. Daily Eastern
4 r0lS
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Take No Chances.

TIE New York correspondent Of the
Pittsburg Dispatch has discovered that
at the Waldorf the walters do not take
any chances with gourmets who are
strangers. A couple Of gentlemen, one
a merchant and the other a lawyer, made
a wager that called for dinner at that
hotel Here's the sequel, from the lips
Of the lawyer: I'VE selected a com,
Portable corner in the cafe and placed our
overeoats on a large armchair near our
table. We ordered oysters. soup and en-
tree, with appropriate wines, and the
waiter brought each in turn with Un-
rufled serenity. Next we ordered a
roast, with vegetables, and rather ex-
pensive wine Our waters face wore a
troubled look as he took the order, and
we noticed that he gathered up our over
coats and carried them away with him
when he left u.s. We thought it a bit
strange. but said nothing. At the end
of our dinner the waiter presented the
check We paid it. his face cleared UP.
and then he said: Gentlemen, [ will
get your coats He brought them to
rs and was most effusiye in his polite
ness. But [ cannot help admire the sys-
TEN in vogue at the Waldorf for the pro-
tection of its treasury department."
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
Wishes.
aid Birch little boy

A Reginald Birch little boy
Met the sweetest of Greenaway girls;
She, dressed all in Puritan brown,
He, with cavalier rutfies and curls.
Her eyes were of solemnest brown,
Her hair was cropped close to her head.
His curls were a riot of gold,
His cheeks were of healthiest red.
They looked at each other while,
Gay gallant and Puritan maid:
Then the Reginald Birch little boy
Slowly and solemnly said:
81 wish you wore ruffIety clothes.
I wish that my hair was cut short.
Cause the boys call me missy and girl,
And it interferes so with my sport"
Said she, ''Oh, I like pretty clothes,
And | do wish they'd let my hair curl.
/ wish you were a Greenaway boy,
And l was a Fauntleroy girl!
Florence Il. Pratt in February st. Mich
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Boy. Bad Habits. speckled Apple.

Howard" is the white-haired boy who
answers the telephone in the office of the
Metropolitan Steamship company, a
bright, polite yOungster, who goes to
night school, and whose reasoning is
equal to many mems.
Mr.. Walker, the veteran executive Of
the office, wheeled around in his chair
the other day and gravely listened.
DO you knox, Mr. Walker, my grand
father says that boy forms all his
habits according to the company he
keeps. If it is bad company, he forms
bad habits. If it is good company, he is
sound and good"
Yes" said Mr.. Walker, thoughtfully,
Il guess grandfather is about right"
We had a dish of apples on the table
when grandfather told me this, and
there was a speck on one of them.
Grandfather says: Now, Howard, put
that dish of apples in the closet and
Sunday we will look at them.
YES" responded the veteran, won
deringly.
Nov, Mr.. Walker, what do you sup
pose? Why, when we took the apples
out next Sunday, the apple with the
speck on it was very rotten, and all the
other apples right around it had specks
on them, too. You see, Howard, says
grandfather, how bad company has hurt
the other good apples. Just so bad COM
pany causes bad habits, I'm going to
grow up with good company"
Fright, my son, and you won't tend
telephone all your life if you do" was
the veterans rejoinder, as he turned
away and laughed quietly to himself
New York Sun.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
EulaIla Wants Peace.

In reply to a request for an expression
from Princess Eulalia. infanta of Spain,
she said:
Sweet remembrance of the affection
ate reception given to me by the people
of the United States when l went to
their country, representing my own, at
the festivities in honor of Columbus,
lives and ever will live in my heart. Dur,
ing those festivities strong proofs OF
mutual esteem were given by both coun-
persuaded. that never, never should that
traditional friendship be broken, much
less should peace be disturbed. Being
apart from the affairs of state, can
only pray God fervently that cordial re
lations between the two countries may
,o1-on ooa so -
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
An Engineer Mouse.

Mice are good engineers In digging
holes for telegraph poles one of the work
men became greatly interested in watch
ing the ingenuity and perseverance of a
mouse which had fallen into one of the
holes. 1t was four and one-half feet in
depth and twenty inches in diameter. The
first day the little prisoner spent in run
ming round the bottom of the hole try
ing to find a means of escape.
The second day he had got over his
Mysteries and settled down to steady
business. He began Systematically to
dig spiral groove round and round
the inner surface Of the hole with uni
forr4 ascending grade. He worked night
and day. AS he got further from the
bottom he dug little pockets where he
could lie and rest. The interested wit
ness kept it supplied with food. After
while the mouse struck a rock; he
tried to get under, around and over the
obstacle, but without success. He there
fore reversed the spiral and finally
reached the top.-London Invention.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
A Merry Dance.

This is a form of quadrille called
"Ninepins." The music is that used for
the ordinary quadrille, any marked move
ment in two or four time. -Four couples
take their places as for the ordinary
square dance; the rest OF the company
remain seated and are the odd pins. Top
and bottom and the side couples gallop
across simultaneously; then follows the
ladies' chain, as in the lancers: then the
gallop again. An odd man now comes
forward and turns the four women III
rotation, then joining hands with the
other four men they dance round in q
circle till the music suddenly ceases,
when a rush is made to secure partners.
AS there are five men and only four wom-
en-, one must be left out. The same
programme is repeated. except that q
woman pin joins the circle instead of
man, and SO the fun goes on until all the
odd pins have had their chance.
lyn Eagle
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16

of the loved face of the first President.
Mr.. Chapman is undoubtedly the discov-
erer of this strange sculpture of nature,
as "the Oldest inhabitant'' fails to recall
ever having heard of it.
The face is formed of three rocks, one
forming the forehead, one the chin and
the other the nose. The face rests upon
a slightly elevated knoll, at an angle, as
if the great general in effigy were taking
his repose aid languidly gazing out to
sea.
The George Washington stone will
henceforth be one of the many objects of
patriotic pilgrimage on the coast of the
Bay state.-New York Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-16
Gave Her a Tip.

A lady, in town lying under the shad-
ows of the Rockies, was much distressed
(says Life at hearing small clique in
her town refer to themselves as the
smart set She appealed to an ex
United States senator, and asked him
what be understood was meant by the
term the ''smart set He replied II
think I can give you an linking. In the
eastern part of Colorado and in the
western part IF Nebraska, there is a
large tract of land known as the Rain
Pplf' Tt never rains there"