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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
AsPHYxIATIoN FOR A CITY.
ChOked by Foul Gas Liberated
on Streets and in ONE

Mount Vernon. just over the eastern bor-
der line of the borough Of Bronx. Greater
New York. has a population of 1900. FIJI
teen thousand Of these had headaches and
something more the other day. Hundreds
of them turned faint at the sight of food,
others could not speak clearly. some had
lost their voices altogether. The brains of
all We're ~befogged. Not a few persons walk
ed in an uncertain way. Complaints of
numbness. pains in bones and choking sem
sations were so numerous that no one paid
Two hundred and seventy thousand feet
of poisonous gas was pumped into $500
houses and stores between 5 p. m. and 6
a. m. The gas was heavily. charged with
poisons We're inhaled by so per cent of
the people of the city. A couple Of hum
dred had narrow escapes from deaths by
asphyXiation.
Many citizens Of the city claimed that
the accident to the generators engine
caused the company to, run behind in the
manufacture of gas, that when night
could not supply the demand. and that
unless something extraordinary were lone
the city would be left in darkness. To
avoid this. unpurified gas was pumped In
to the mains and distributed throughout
At 9 o'clock the smell had become over
powerins. In every home the odor was
like that which emanates from twenty, or
which do not blaze. Fortunately, the smell
choked the sleeping thousands and made
them cough and sneeze violently. That
woke them up. Those who did not wake
in every house was awakened, and by OPEN
Ing doors and windows permitted the cool
air to sweep through the house, clearing it
OF the poisonous fumes.
The next day all the street lamps Of the
city were kept burning throughout the
day to exhaust the supply Of impure gas.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
BEAUTY IS POWER.
Women Know This, Therefore Let
Then Follow Rules That
Create II.


Do not fret-worry IS the indelible pencil
Father Time uses to punish weak natures.
and fretting is early death to beauty.
Exercise all the muscles every day Of
your life for ten minutes. Never overtax
the muscles or they will revenge them
selves.
Watch the soap you use as carefully as
the money you receive in change. Soap of
an inferior quality is the cause of half the
skin diseases we see. Cheap soap" Is an
expensive econom ofttimes. and dangerous
frequently when the cuticle is tender, its
origin being too vile to contemplate.
Battle every day. winter and summer,
when able to be about the house. Study
carefully the lind of bath which suits you
best. and then stick to it though the heav-
ems fall.
Hold the head as high as possible when
sitting or standing. While sleeping avoid
high pillows, unless you admire a double
or triple chin or flabby neck.
Breathe from the diaphragm, inhale deep
ly. keep the mouth closed and hold the
chest we'll up If you would secure a high
chest, a firm bust and induce longevity.
Remember that the sanitary conditions Of
the body must be literally without fault:
that good blood means that the heart, liver
Never believe that beauty such as the
ancient Greeks possessed is to be Instantly
obtained by the application Of a bottle of
lilly white or a box of rosy red" even
Know that beauty is the other fairer
name for health" that health is the SYM
onym of good blood, excellent digestion and
but a novelist's dream.
Cultivate grace. without which a Venus
were not lovely; walk from the hips. and
remember the hands are as capable of
II you love your fellow man use them
gracefully, not a la handle
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
ELECTRICITY AND BURGLARY.
Safes, Notwithstanding News
paper Stories.

From the Electrical Engineer.
A great deal has been made lately of the
facility with which the electric current
can be used to bore into bank safes. and
sensational items or the subject are now
actively on their rounds. We nave con-
troverted these ideas. and have adduced
the weighty evidence and opinion of many
well known authorities to the effect that
electricity is rather an agency that the
burglar will not resort to. We had mean
time had a lingering idea that the STORY"
was an old one. and we have at last run 1t
down. AS a matter of fact, the notion APP
pears to nave been ventilated first by a
German electrical paper in 1850 or 1891, for
we find a letter in JgsssssSX9e Boston
Commercial-BuIletin k3ea&Ssdbject from
Mr.. G. l.. Damon, as president OF the Da-
sensational points are gone over and their
ridiculous nature pointed out.
No one denies that the electric current
will melt metal: all that follows from that
p%ostulate as to the necessity of special pro-
lection against electrical safe burglary is
pretty thin air. We are told hat burglars
are shrewd and keen and never let a new
feasible plan get by them. Yet here is
proof that the idea has been in newspaper
circulation since early in 1891. nearly seven
years. while not a single burglary of the
kind has been reported in the whole civil
ICED world. Two incipient attempts have
been reported. but 1t is said that they were
not the work of genuine burglars. ANY,
how, whatever they were. they failed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
SEIZED With REMORSE.
THIEF RETURNS 5000 TO A POOP
POSTMASTER.
Walter j. Kenny COnfesses Where
He Hid the Booty So That His
Victim Might Recover It
A ROmanti Career.

Stricken with remorse that he had rob-
bed a poor postmaster of 500. Walter ].
Kenny, now serving a six months term
at the house of correction. in Milwaukee,
Wis, has made a confession and has told
the postmaster where he hid the money.
The 500 was ound in a woodpile to which
the postmaster was directed by the thief.
kenny's criminal career has a tinge of
romance in it. He is about So years Of
age and last summer became engaged 10 4
well known NASSAU woman. Little is
known of his previous life, but last Juce
he went to Milwaukee and stole a bicycle.
He rode the wheel to a small hamlet in
Ozaukee county. where he disposed Of it
to 4 man for sl5. Kenny remained about
the place for several days. during wlicn
time he formed the acquaintance of Post
master Anton of that village. One after
noon 500 disappeared from the postmaster's
drawer. Kenny also vanished.
Arrested for Robbery.
Being a stranger about the neighborhood
Kenny was naturally suspected of the
theft The farmers formed a vigilance COM
mitte= and finally ran him down and land
ca Kim in Jail at Port Washington. There
he was tried about two months ago, but
the prisoner maintained his innocence and
Wa: acquitted. The defendant seemed
him and started to walk out of the court
room: a free man.
His liberty was only for a few minutes,
however. Outside the court room he was
placed under arrest for stealing the BIZ
cycle. Kenny stared at the officer for Il
few moments and then began to rave Ike
mad The court officials and the officers
thought he was ~shamming, but doctors
who were called in pronounced him de-
rareed. and he had to be placed in a
straight jacket. He was tried several
weeks ago. was convicted and sentenced
TO the house of correction for six months.
A Cb0ured N1n.
Since his conviction Kenny has become
a changed man. He realizes that he has
lost his liberty as well as the woman he
loved, and remorse seems to have seized
him. When he learned recently that the
postmaster he had robbed was a POOR man
and that the $500 he stole was all the money
he had in the world, Kenny became very
All attorney and confided to him where the
when he robbed the postoffice he proceeded
to a large woodpile in the neighborhood,
placed the money under it and escaped.
WheE he was captured he knew that tie
falmers could not prove that he stole the
money, and his plan was to get the booty
after he was free and go to Wausau and
buy his prospective bride a present with
1t Since he had lost the woman he did
not care to get the money when his term
expired, and was contented to return it
to the postmaster who he felt needed it
badly.
The lawyer went to Lake Church Satur-
day and with the postmaster recovered the
money.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
RAINBOW P%ETTICoATs.
Girls Have Found n New Way to
Utilize Their CotillOn

The idea Of using up old cotillon favors
for trimming petticoats would never nave
entered the girls heads unless they had seen
the results. 1t is done. though. and very
stunning petticoats they are. In the first
place, take an old silk lining of some CASTOR
gown and then sort out your ribbon box,
putting all the different shades of one color
together.
Then gather the ribbons and put them
on as ruffles. with the darkest shade at
the bottom: three or five ruffies are gem
orally put on, and If one does not care
to have them Of one color, blue and green
petticoats are called rainbow petticoats."
and look very smart when the dress is held
up over them. One girl has made a per-
feet beauty out of an old black satin lining
of a grenadine gown. She had a lot of diff
ferent shades Of green satin rippon. which
she got at balls and parties she had been
to through the season, and putting them on
in graduated rufles has produced a most
charming effect.
II is a splendid way to use up any old
sash ribbon you may have: plaid ones make
particularly pretty rufies. and are very
fashionable just now. The wide ribbons
should be put at the bottom and the mar
rover ones above.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
About weddinr Rfnr..

English women didn't always wear a
plain gold circlet for a wedding ring. At
one time the custom was for the ring to
cost as much as the bridegroom could af-
ford to pay. Rings of bone and hard
wood have been used: an ivory wedding
ring was recently found on the finger of an
Egyptian mummy-it is In the shane of two
clasped hands. An iron ring, with the de-
sign Of a hand closing over a heart. was
discovered on the skeleton finger of a
Roman lady dug up in Pompeii.
In France. wedding rings used to be
made of three or more links of quaint
design. and in Germany at the same time
they were engraved with queer ASTROLOGICAL
characters. Roman Catholic peoples-par-
ticularly Italians-had a fashion of i'm
bedding in the ring a fragment of some
relic, such as a morsel of the true cross.
The Greek church has two rings. one of
gold and one of silver. In Spain. wedding
rings made of the hoofs of asses are sup
posed to be possessed of peculiar virtue,
and insure their wcarers against epilepsy.
Fashion has determined not only the
style Of the wedding ring. but the finger
on which 1t shall be worn. and so capri
ciously has custom altered that every single
finger, including the thumb. has been used
in turn. Often in portraits of the time Of
Elizabeth rings may be seen on the thumbs
Of married ladies.
In many parts of Great Britain 1t Is still
supposed that Il marriage without Il ring
is not binding. and when the gold hoop has
been lost or forgotten. such substitute as
the church key. a curtain ring. even a
ring cut from the finger OF the brides
glove, has been used.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
OF Fun.

Darling" he cried. II cannot live with
out you" But" she replied, my father
is bankrupt" I'm that case" he despond-
emily replied. II guess I'll go and shoot
myself."-Chicago News
Had the Facts.-Wickwire-"Really. now,
You don't believe the poor are growing
poorer" Mudge-"I know they are. Look
at me. I haven't half the money I had on
pay day."-Indianapolis Journal.
'Of course" remarked the political boss.
"a man in this business can't be absolutely
perfect No" And the next best thing
in my opinion is for him to be perfectly abb
solute."-W3shington Star.
Yeast-"A mans judged by the company
he keeps, j believer" Crimsonbeak-"Cer-
tainly.' .And also by the cigars he keeps.
l presume?" "Oh. no: by the cigars he gives
away.'-Yonkers Statesman.
Papa" said Tommy. little brother is a
week old Tomorrow, isn't hep yes"
Lets you and me give him a birthday
present" Very we'll. What shall 1t be?''
than anything lse."-Tit-Bit5
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
THE VINEYARDS on THE RHINE.
The Great Care and Expense Neces-
sary to Keep the Ground In
Proper Condition.

q Proper Condition.
Correspondence of the New York Times.
There Is a railroad on each side OF the
river. but on neither side does the traveller
by rail get an adequate idea of the vine
that. or better still. a small boat that can
skirt the shores. Then re sees what an
immense amount Of labor has been eSpend-
sides that may roughly be at
$40 to $40 feet high. with the river flowing
between them, and broken here and there
by rocky cliffs. Not hills rising abruptly
from the water. but sloping gently to the
summit. In most places the ascent is not
steep enough to prevent a man from climb
descent is rapid enough to make cultivation
next to impossible II they We're left in a
the hills on both sides ave been terraced.
Beginning at the bottom, they build a stone
wall six feet to ten feet high. and dig
enough earth out of the side of the hill
to fill in behind it and make a smooth
patch. say. twenty feet wide. just on a
level with the top of the wall. That makes
as you like. Then at the inner side they
build another wall and repeat the process.
When they. are done there are perhaps
twenty of these narrow fields between the
river and the summit, each eight or ten
feet higher than the one below 1t. And
these terraces do not run straight across
go zig-zagg!ng here and ziS-zagging there,
SO that the workmen can step sometimes
from the highest point oil one wall 10 the
owest point of the wall next above it..
These thousands of miles of stone walled
terraces make it wholly unnecessary to ask
whether the hillside land is valuable. Only
land that produces the very best grapes
would be worth spending so much money
upon. And naturally in such a place the
cultivation Is kept up to the very highest
point. You may walk through mile after
mile of the Rhine vineyards without see
ing a weed. The owners do not even waste
enough of their vineland to build their
dwellings among the vineyards. There are
no dwellings on the hillsides; only here
and there a lettering old castle. generally
with a closed %up>tunnel at the foot of the
ground ndH1 passa re- d sIsse owoers o and ph iSeir
men live either on top of the hill or at its
foot, on the river bank.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
THE SECRET OF BEAUTY.
Hints That VIII Delight the Feminine
Heart, They Tell Her
Howsto Look Well.

No woman is a genuine feminine at
heart who has not a prediction for beau
ty-beauty in everything. Soft and sus-
gestive colors are pleasing to the cultured
woman; SO is the subtle art of music, the
charm of rhythm in the world. %splendorS
OF Il sunset sky, the witchins of moonlight.
The crowning loneliness of creation is Il
beautiful woman, and daughters of Eve
should never forget that ii is part OF d
woman's business to look as well as pos
sible. Recipes and hints" for inducing
beauty are as the sands of the Sea for
numbers, and are as varied in range and
result as the coiors that rest uGon the
leaves of autumn.
One of the first requisites of beauty
has a rather cynical sound. but modified.
IS really good and sensible: No heart and
"a good digestion! This does not mean that
oEc must be absolutely indifferent to hu-
should not prolong needless regret and
grief over inevitable sorrows. A smile is
often more acceptable sympathy and cheer
to Il hurdened heart than a tear, for smiles
are beauty inducers.
Proper attention TO food will guard
against indigestion.
Absolute Cleanliness of body is another
requisite to beauty. Bathing night and
morning should be religiously adhered to-.
no matter the state of the weather. Ill
ness alone should postpone ones accustom-
ed bath.
To the constitution that can stand it.
4 COLI. bath on rising Ill the morning SnOOlO
be taken. 1t is a superb tonic. and clears
the brain as well as il invigorates the body.
Correct bathing. diet and exercise will
GO much in the way of making woman
beautiful. and not one of these three I'M
port;.nt means should be neglected.
Sleeping rooms should be well ventilated.
and as much fresh air taken into the
lungs as possible.
The following is recommended as an ex-
ccllent skin food: Melt together n drachm
of sEermaceti. a drachm of white wax,
three ounces of sweet oil of almonds, two
ounces of laEoline. and one ounce of cocoa
butter. Remove from the fire and beat uE-
til cold. Add while you are beating twenty
drops of tincture of benzoin and ten drops
OF ell of rose.
Eating apples Is said to assist in cleans
ing the system and clearing the complex
io.. An apple before breakfast and one
just before going to bed is recommended
for this purpose.
An even. calm temper is a wonderful
heautifier. 1t keeps frowns from the brow.
wrinkles from the face, and hard lines
from around the mouth.
Eat meats that are cooked rare: beef
especially; this makes good firm tissue and
rich blood. Mutton and veal should be
cooked thoroughly. though not with the
substance burned out.
Fure. sweet cream is excellent for the
skin: drinking tea. coffee or chocolate to
excess Injuries 1t.
Beauty sleep is absolutely essential. Try
to get at Leaf eight hours sleep every
night,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
Other Deaths and Funerals.

Mrs. Jessie Peterson. aged %. died yes
terday at chr home. 1908 MERCER street.
Mrs. Susanna Stolte, aged 16. died yester-
day at her home. 32i Fillmore avenue. of
paralysis. The funeral will be held to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will
be in Union cemetery.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ellen Love
will be held from the West Side Christian
church, Twentieth and Penn streets. this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. Burial will be in
Robert S. Grant. 3-year-old son Of W.
II. Grant. died yesterday at the family
home. 81 Park avenue, of peritonitis. The
afternoon at . o'clock. The body will be
taken to Columbia, No., for burial.
Mrs. Elizabeth ]. Blackwell. aged Co,
wife Of II; J; BLACKWELL; died yesterday
Bright's disease; The remains were taken
to Jopiin. Mo-. for burial last evening.
The funeral services of William Still. who
died Wednesday. will he held this after
! noon at l:D o'clock from the First Baptist
church. Rev. DIR. S. A. Northrop will Off
ate.
Mrs. Josephine C. Hamilton. aged &c.
died yesterday. morning at her home. 1922
| Penn street. OF old age. The funeral sery-
| Ices will be held this afternoon at 2 O'Clock
| from Wagner's undertaking rooms, and
burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
A Burglar Alarm.

From Harper's Bazaar.
Well" said Miss Twitters. II think 1 am
safe now"
Safe from what?" asked Miss Kittish.
Burglars"
Were you in danger from burglars?"
less. but more especially an unprotected
woman in a big house: I've been afraid Of
West and left me by myself"
What have you done to insure safety
II have bought four mems hats. of diff
ferent styles and sizes, and / have hung
them on the hat-rack in the hall. Whei.
Mr.. Burglar surveys the array. he will de
eide that there are too many men in that
might wish. and he will go on to some
other house. / rather flatter myself tina,
this is a pretty good plan Don't you
think SOP"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
THE VALET De PLACE.
He Is Supplanting the Courier as n
Travelling COM
DQnfOn.

Americans now seldom travel abroad
with a regular courier. To a great extent
he has been %supplanted by the "valet-de-
place." a useful combination of the guide
and companion. He has his recognized
place in the economy Of travel on the Con-
tinent. He can be engaged to meet you
upon arrival in a foreign city; he takes
the dazed traveller to the hotel or pension,
arranges the programme of sightseeing to
suit individual taste: takes upon himself the
of seeing that fees are not demanded with
out cause. He is the especial joy of the
British or American tourist who is intent
on doing" a venerable city in the Short
est time compatible with human endurance.
In a word. he puts them through Brus-
sells or Client in the quarter or halliday
which the traveller on rapid transit bent
considers sufficient for these beautiful old
cities.
The valet-de-place cannot do justice to
everything. but he does his best. and most
satisfactory 1t is. He accompanies his pa
of departure draws nigh: he takes their
tickets for them. wraps them up in rugs.
provides them with newspapers and part
ing instructions in well meant dialect. and
so performs his full duty to these birds of
passage.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28

A merchant in the city of Calcutta writes
that the Bombay prosecution for sedition
does not seem to have struck terror into
the native papers of Calcutta. In fact. the
natives themselves are surprised at the
lengths to which their editors go in their
unabated license, and the merchant sup
poses that the government officials of
Bengal are evidently not so sensitive to
abuse as those of Bombay. unless. perhaps,
they are somewhat wiser in estimating the
true value of the opinions of the native
press regarding their official acts.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
FUNERAL OF REV. JOHN PRICE.
1t Will Take Place From st. Mary's
Episcopal Church Mt 2:3O
To-day.

The funeral services of Rev. Mr.. John
Price. of Independence, Mo-, who died
Thursday in st. Louis. will be held from
st. Mary's Episcopal church this afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Elm
WOOD cemetery.
Rev. Mr.. Price was born in Birmingham,
England. Inc was 50 years old at the timo
of his death. He came to Kansas City in
$50, and had lived here and at Independ-
ence since that time. He was a jealous
Christian worker. and since 1885 conducted
services at the various Episcopal churches
in this diocese. A widow, two daughters
and five sons survive him
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
Attacked by spiders.

John Held,ja st. Louis clerk, had an ex-
citing adventure with three. gigantic spid-
ers and as a result his face Is swollen to
nearly twice its natural size.
Held repaired to a wash basin in the
cellar of his store to perform his morning
additions. While busily engaged %scrubbing
his face three large spiders made their app
pearance from an aperture in the wall just
insects, but thought nothing about them. as
spiders were common in the cellar.
Suddenly n of the insects sprang di.
recover the other two followed the leader.
Held fought the insects of. but not until
he was severely bitten a number Of times.
escaped
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
Pockets.
nm Notes and Queries.

From NOteJ ana VuVTIeS.
Ladies fifty years ago. when going on n
Journey by stage coach, carried their cash
in their under pockets. There were no
railways opened into Wales then. and peo-
pie who had not a close carriage either
went In the mail coach or In a post chaise.
Farmers wives and market women wore
these large underpockets. I remember my
Welsh nurse had one. wherein. If she took
me out cowslip picking. or nutting, or
blackberry gathering. she carried n bottle
of milk and a lot of biscuits or a parcel of
sandwiches, often a clean pinafore as well.
Her pocket on those occasions was like a
big bag. I was very proud when she
stitched up Il wee pocket for me to wear
under my frock, out Of some stun like bed
ticking, similar to that Of which she made
her own big pockets.