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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE.

Miss Edith Young in the Lady's
Realm gives Englishmen an entertain
ing glimpse of the American woman
as housewives: She keeps her house
bright and beautiful; but not at the
expense of her personal appearance 4"
says Miss Young, ''she being always
prettily and neatly dressed, whatever
she does. Her house is most conven-
iently appointed for the saving of labor
ana useless drudgery-the reason
being that the prevailing stubbornness
of servants in trying new appliances
has small weight in a country where
''brainy' women have so often to do
their own homework. and who natur-
ally choose the best ways of accom-
plishing it. 1t would be a revelation
to some ardent English housewives to
know that the ladies one meets at an
afternoon whist party in America, who
have club meeting for every day in
the week, or who lounge in their piazza
hammocks as though life were one
long holiday, who are all animation
and vivacity, have now and again, per-
haps all the time been doing homework
of kind we should have two or more
servants for in this country; getting
up in the small hours to cook their
elaborate breakfasts or hot bread and
various indispensable dishes, and later
making cakes, candies and dainty
stuffs. besides the real meals of the
day"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
ENGLAND's NEW TERRITORY.
Union Jack Planted Over Fourteen
Islands and a Volcano.

News by the Australian mail tells of
the arrival at Sidney of her majesty
steamship Mohawk, after a wholesale
annexation cruise among the islands OF
Melanesia. So successful was the trim
that any decrease of the empire owins
to the oceans onslaughts on the Kent
ish cliffs in past years will be amply
recouped by our present acquisitions
in the Pacific.
In April last the Mohawk left Sydney
under orders to hoist the flag of Eng
land on the Santa Cruz, the Swallow
the Reef and other islands. These
groups of islands lie 400 to 500 miles
east of the Solomons, the home of saw
age cannibals.
Altogether in Santa Cruz and the
other islands the union jack was run
up cu fourteen islands. namely, on
anita Cruz. Utupua, Tinakula, in the
Santa Cruz group; Matema, Fenuloa,
LON LON, Nifiloli, Banguaena. Bamga,
Natapa, Pelain, Nukapu, Nalogo, MI
PAM, Tocupia, in the Reef and Swallow
groups.
One of the officers of the Mohawk ia
recounting his experiences said Our
ing the cruise we burned a couple OF
villages at Vella la Vella to avenge
the outrage on Mr.. Prat, British
subject. Commander Freeman went
ashore and had 'palaver' with the
chiefs. One notable character Belun-
81, was charged with being out head
hunting, and from the evidence 1t ap-
peared that after cruising for some
time in search of a white head (they
prefer the European) he came up with
canoe laden with eight young ma
tive women who were out for pleasure
He shot six and took two with him
The charge being proved, Belungl was
given until the rising of the court for
the production of the two missing
girls. These he refused to hand over
deceased's spirit has gone ahead and Is
waiting for the other half.
During the cruise we annexed {
volcano, on which at night, though no
very active. one could hear rumblin,
noise and see fame or glare above il
This was in the Santa Cruz group
London Mail.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

Mftie Rover gives an incomplete list
have taken to themselves American
wives. He heads the list with the Due
de Choisemil Praslin, who married
Miss Mary Elizabeth Forbes, with a
dowry of 81 100000. He states that
Miss Clara Coudert brough the Marquis
de Choiseul s2S0000 and that Zefita
Heyward-Countess de Gallatin--took
5000, 900 as dowry to the Comte Guy
de Rohn-C habot. Other Americans
who have married into the noble fau-
bourg with doweries are Duchesse
Decazes, who was born Isabelle
Blanche Singer, whose dowery was
$1,000 900; Duchesse de Dion, widow OF
Livingston Stevens, who brought her
$7,000,000; Duchesse de la Rochefou-
cauld, Matte Mitchell, who was
blessed with 100000; Marqulse de
Mores, Medorah Hoffman, presented
the marquis with 100000, and Com
Jesse Boni de Castellane, Anna Gould,
whose dowery was $15,OU0,000.
The French system of tipping the
household servants Is unique. In
the chateaux and villa strong box
with an opening in the corner is placed
by the hall door, and therein the de-
parting visitor drops such fee as he or
she wills. At the end of the season
the box is opened and the contents
divided among the servants. This, Of
course, frees the poor guest from any
embarrassment.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
JOKES FROM THE RIVAL.

Said the big man: You're q little
scoundrell" Said the little man:
Don't brag on your size!"
II hear he refused to take chloro-
form when he was operated on" Yes;
said he'd rather take 1t when he paid
his bill"
"Fitz-Cooper is a close-fsted land
lord" Close-fisted? II he owned a
haunted house he would get a spiritual
medium to collect the rent from the
ghost"
When my wife started In to give me
a lecture, just tell her to keep quiet.
| do" "And does she?" Look here,
you are getting altogether too in
quisitive."
Little Tommie: PA, what's the
retort courteous?'" Pa: TITS the re-
tort one always has to make to the
cook IL he expects her to stay more
than a week"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02

stature OF a given person, apart from
inc development of waist, chest, lungs.
arms and so on. Thus, by taking
thought any girl can be taller than
she is.
nevertheless there still remains
something inexplicable in the fact
that the race changes to meet the ideal.
HOW long is ii since the small, soft.
clinging creature was celebrated as the
type of womanhood? Read the novels
of forty or fifty years ago, and see
what bundle of affectations the her
grimes were. Tney sacrificed every
thing to their conception of female
delicacy,' and fancied that men would
despise them if they acted like reason
as completely as the new woman has
run to the other. Perhaps the new
woman is more or less confined to fic-
ton; she is not to be confounded with
the athletic girl, at any rate, but she
is not further from the normal ideal
of wchanhood than her weak sister Of
half century ago. Doubtless then, as
now, the ordinary woman ran into no
extreme at all. Doubtless many of the
traits from which we are wont to gem
eralize are superficial and do not at
feet in the least the essential nature
of the sex. But still we should be con-
scious OF living in very different at
mosphere If we were transferred sud-
denly from the presence of the girl of
1898 to that of the girl of 1S4S.
Those skilled in such matters have
often noted that other changes than
those in manners seem to have a fash
ion of their own. A well-known wo-
man in society or or popular actress
is initiated ad nauseam, until dark
hair or thin lips or pale complexion
site things were six months before.
Whatever type" happens to strike the
fancy is multiplied hundred times
over. The sarcastic say that it is all
art but there are certainly authentic
cases where the beauty was genuine
enough-be it blonde or dark, Titan
red or Vatican blue, that at the time
was regnant. All this only shows the
adaptability of the woman to her en-
vironment, in which respect she is
two or three centuries ahead of that
wretched creature-man. For our
own part we are glad that just now
the healthy, tall, athletic girl has the
field, even thought the result may be
that at fashionable weddings, as we
are told, it is no unusual occurrence
to see the bride several inches above
the bridegroom. This is no argument
for women to stop growing, but rather
a warning to men to forswear sack
and live clearly ana so keep up with
their partners in the game of life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
THE RULING PASSION.

They had all been swapping stories
about the shopping proclivities of their
wives and finally Footer Bill said:
We'll, my wife was always most in
veterate shopper and there never was q
time when she wasn't eager to go
shopping. / remember that once we
were on sea voyage and the vessel
was wrecked on Desolation island. The
captain, my wife and myself were the
only ones who reached shore alive and
the ship went right to. pieces on the
rocks. Well, It was a wild, lonely ISL
and, as its name implies. and there was
nothing of an edible nature upon It.
The captain and bore up as well as
we could, but my wife was struck all OF
heap and saw nothing but death for
US all. We went to sleep hungry, but
at daybreak the captain rose and
reused us with the glad cry. The stores
are drifting in; the stores are drifting
in! Well, to us men that meant that
We could live many days, but my wife,
she looked kind of wild and she put on
her bonnet and asked me for car fare
and started down the beach. Where
are you going?' we both asked. Why,
IL the stores are in I'm going shop
ping"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
THE OBSERVER.

Giving away what they cannot use
is some peoples idea of charity.
Men condone so much more in a
pretty woman than in plain one.
Many men wear out their gloves just
carrying them in their pockets.
To be slangy, "any old thing" APP
parently, is deemed correct in milli-
merry.
The ability to read aloud without
fatigue is rare joy to the possessor.
To realize how little peoples pro-
testations of friendship mean try to
borrow money from them.
Your home may consist of only two
rooms, Jnt II 1t is the spot where love
abides what more can you desire?
Gaping pockets are the most un-
lovely sight, but women are very
careless over this portion of their cos
tune.
The sensible woman would rather
have a dozen men friends than one
lover. But how many women are
sensible?
The gown that doesn't show a
buckle or ornament of jeweled design
is dubbed very plain by the up-to-date
woman.
1t Is rash man who says he would
like to see his lady love angry. She
may get SO at him and then the charm
is broken.
A bit Of braiding on street gowns
and sash on evening ones seem to be
the distinctive mark of the winter
modes.
A man Is never apt to underestimate
his own value excepting when he goes
to have his life insured for his wife's
benefit.
The harsh sound OF plain muslin
lining after the frou-frou OF silk is
like a veritable knell OF doom In the
ears of some women.
Bracelets are returning to favor and
we will soon see the big and little
bangles that every lady used to crowd
upon her pretty wrists.
Some people who pride themselves
upon thir frankness would be quite
shocked II they knew that their
hearers called such plain speaking
rudeness.
Dear, dear! Why doesn't some one
| try to convince certain well-meaning
men that a white satin bow tie Is not
the correst neckwear they appear to
think It Is.
We are so much more apt to be care
full in measuring to the exact drop
the nasty medicine we have to take
than when there is a pleasant taste
to it, Extra doses of both are equally
dangerous, however.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
A CARAVAN OF BIRDS.

In sugar grove not far from the
Franconia Inn, found myself all at
once In the midst Of one OF those
travelling fiocks that make so delight
full break in birdlover's day, says
Bradford Torrey In the Atlantic. 1
was in the midst OF 1t, say; but the
real fact was that the birds were pass
ing through the grove between me ana
the sky. For the time being the
branches were astir with wings. Such
minutes are exciting. Now or never"
a man says to himself. Every second
Is precious. At the present moment
a warbler is above your head, far up in
the topmost Dough perhaps, half hid
den by leaf. II you miss him, he is
gone forever II you make him out,
we'll and good; he may be rarity, a
prize long waited for; or, quite as
likely, while you we're busy with him
you may have let ten times rarer
one pass along unnoticed In this
game, as in any other, man must run
his chances; though there is skill as
well as luck in it. without doubt. and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
AFTERNOON TEA.

The present prevailing tea makes no
pretense at the old-time extravaganza
and outlay. 1t is most informal, in
the routine of social life, unimportant
and frequently no more than a sub
stitute for day on which visitors
will find their friends at home. 1t is
so difficult a matter for New York
people to stay in the house that wo-
men who formerly we're to be seen on
one day every week have now limited
their days of reception to three in a
month, and sometimes to two. Wo-
men have almost ceased to send cards
of this kind to men because they
know that men are not likely to come
and would bore themselves if they did
It used to be hard enough to attract
men during the days of the elaborate
old-fashioned teas, when there might
be champagne and there was GER
tainty of punch. Nowadays the punch
comes rarely. Even the added line of
ITO meet Nine. X" or any other cell
,ebrity has lost much of its old Cime
force. The tea has become so infor-
NAL an affair that nobody will treat
it seriously nowadays Women have
even ceased to complain when the men
invited do not come and neglect to
send cards. Every vestige of for
mality surrounding the tea, you see,
has been lost in the gradual decline
from the quails and chicken salads
down to the tea, lemonade and sailed
almonds, which constitute the refresh
ments at the tea today, with possible
stuffed prune or branded cherry.
This is the style of tea which to-
day justifies the assertions OF those
who say that the thing is increasing
every day in numbers and popularity.
The old-fashioned tea with its music
and low cut corsages has passed ir-
reyocably away. It's passing shows a
great advance in social matters, be-
cause it was an anomaly that always
astounded foreigners. The sight of a
woman in ball toilet shaking hands
with men and women in afternoon
street dress was alwa. a marvel TO
them, and they attributed it to one of
the eccentricities of a new civiliza-
ton. Whatever the causes may be
the old-fashroned tea and its success
sor are very different. The disap-
uearance of one and the way the other
prosoers makes both sides of the dis
cussion tenable.
The nearest approach to the for
mer kind is to be found today in the
musical party given in the afternoon.
That today makes the most elaborate
daytime dressing possible and allows
a greater latitude in the matter OF
food and drink than any other social
entertainment confined to the day
time hours. But even that in its most
reckless form does not bear COMPARE
son with the old-time tea of twelve
years ago, when it comes. to mis-
placed liberality in food, drink and
Adressing. New York Sun.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
THE FIRE FIEND.

There was conflagration in the new
Syndicate building on Park Row last
wednesday afternoon. Somebody saw
smoke coming out of an upper window
and set up yell of fire that brought
out everybody in lower town. Several
men ran over and rang the court.
house bell, while lot more hurried
over to the fire-engine house. but it
was locked and Jack Scannell had the
key in his pocket. Nobody knew where
Jack was. Luckily Fireman Hugh
Bonner happened to hear the bell and
came running down from the Harlem
as fast as his legs could carry him
On the way he borrowed bucket 1T
Park Tilford's corner grocery and
filled 1t at the river When he reached
the building he rushed upstairs, two
steps at time, and got to the top
story just In time to souse the bucket
OF water over burning waste basket
ana quench the devouring clement
ne contents OF the waste basket were
nearly all destroyed, and II Hugh had
been ten minutes later the basket itself
would have been a mass of shoulder
ing ruins. 1t is lucky for this town
that We have such fireman as Hugh
Bonner. who knows just what to do
and never loses his head even under
the most exciting circumstances. We
suggest that Jack Scanned might
leave the key to the ire-engine house
in Perrys drugstore or Tim Flynn's
place when he goes off to play pea
knuckle up In Yonkers. Weekly AM
| sterdamer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
TREES IN FOREST FIRES.

Forest fires differ greatly in inten-
sity and in the amount of resultant
damage. The great majority merely
run along the ground, licking up the
grass, underbrush, and forest litter,
doing no damage to trees other than
scorching the outer bark. Some de-
velop sufficient heat to destroy the
young saplings and to burn through
the bark of the mature trees. In the
latter case, fire scars are produced,
which may develop disease and even
tually destroy the trees. Others, still
fiercer and more destructive, make a
more or less clean sweep of the forest.
Fires of the last mentioned kind are
not common, but, on the other hand,
they are naturally the most extensive.
Among them may be instanced the
"big burn" in Western Oregon, near
the Pacific coast, which extended from
Tillamook southwark to the neighbor-
hood of Coos bay,-a distance of $50
miles, with an average of 20 to 25
miles,-and the burns in Whatcom,
Skamania and Cowlitz counties, Wash,
which swept the timber for hundreds
of square miles.
Different species of trees suffer from
fire in different degrees. Resinous
trees, especially those with thin bark,
such as the pines, and particularly
the yellow pine, are very combustible,
and fall an easy prey to the flames.
The red fir, the most valuable tree OF
the northwest, is much less comusti-
BILE, as it possesses thick bark and
contains comparatively little resin
while the California redwood is so wet
that no fire can sustain itself among
them. There have never been fires
among the redwoods. In burnt areas
1t is common for fires to make selec-
tons among the trees, limiting the de-
struction to certain species.
Although forest fires were long rec
ognized as an evil of the first magni-
tude, no concerted attempt was made
until recent years to abate' them. It
was everybody's business: therefore It
concerned no one In particular. The
federal government being the largest
owner of timber-land. was naturally
expected to take the lead in the mat
ter. Until very recently, however, II
did nothing; and it was long before
any Of the states took action. New
York was the first to take up the mat
ter in earnest. In 1885 a law was
passed by the legislature providing
fines and imprisonment for setting
fires, whether by intention or care
lessness; and an organization of fire.
wardens was made This organization
has proved efficient and we now hear
little of forest firse in New York state.
Henry. Gannett in the Forum.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02

"He seems to prize his fiancee very
highly" said the first sweet thing.
Naturally" replied the other sweet
thing. she's hand-painted, yen
know."-Chicago Evening Post
Hoax-So young Goldrox has taken
a wife. What was her maiden name ?
Joax-Her maiden aim seems to have
been to marry Goldrox, and she proved
an unusually good shot for a woman.
Philadelphia Record.
Isabel-So they are married, Are
they still two souls with but sing
thought? May-Yes-how to be
disagreeable as possible. -Broolklt
Life.
Miss Sowerby-You mean to say Il
the man actually persisted in his
tentions after you told him they
not wanted? II a man treated
that way Pd-well, I'd do some.
dreadful to him. Miss Sweets
You don't mean to say you'd ms
him ?-Boston Transcript
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
my MA, SHE KNOWS. !"

My pa, he scolds me jes' becuz
He says I'm gittin' tough"
lays my face is never clean.
MY hands is always rough:
I'm pot behavin' like / should,
An goin' wrong, / 'spose,
But Ma, she takes an pats nv hand
An smiles becuz she knowsb
My Pa haint got no use for boyaf
He wants EN- always men,
wonder if he's clean forgot
The boy he must a been;
FER Ma, she says they're all alike
Bout face an hands an clothes,
An says I'll learn to be a man;
An Ma, guess, she knows!
My Pa, he says amt no good
AT doin' anything;
Ia ruther fool away the time
An whistle, play, an sing;
But Ma, she smiles an says I'm young,
An then she up an goes
An kisses me an shows me how;
For Ma, you bet, she knows.
My Pa, he says I'll never be
business man like him,
Becuz | hain't got any drive"
An get up" pluck" and vim"
But Ma, she says, so solemn like,
A mans boy that grows,
An boys must have their playin'
spells;
An Mas trump, an knows
My Pa, he shakes his head an signs
An says he doesn't see
Where | get all the careless ways
That seem jes' born in me;
An Ma, she laughs, an laughs, an
laughs
Till Pas face crimson grows,
An then she says "'ris very queer; y
But somehow, Ma, she knows!
My Ma, she knows most everything
Bout boys an what they like;
She's never scoldin' bout the muss
l make with kites an bike;
She says she wants me to be good
An conquer all my foes,
An you jes bet I'm goin' to be,
'Cuz my sweet Ma, she knows!
Birch Arnold in Detroit Journal
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
TALL GIRLS THE FASHION.

II Is certainly the day OF the stately
Juno. The statement is made that
American girls are taller and larger
than they used to be, and figures are
given to prove it. Nor is there any
thing improbable in this. The in
creased attention 70 athletics in late
years would account for 1t easily
enough. There are few sports now IN
which women cannot and DO not take
an active part. The healthy girl OF
today walks, rides, rows, swims, plays
golf and sails a boat as freely ana
naturally as her brother does, and is
an entirely different being from her
predecessor of generation ago. That
this should have Its effect upon the fu-
ture of the race goes without saying,
perhaps, but the figures to which IL
have referred prove that physical e 4
ture will add an actual inch. to the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
QUESTION OF AMUSEMENT.
Man Desires Rest and Woman Pre-
fers Excitement.

One OF the problems that develops
out of that trying first year of married
existence is the equal adjustment of
the amusement question. To the
average man, worn out with the work
and worry of the day, tired Of the
babel of voices and confusion in which
he has toiled and weary of trying to
make himself agreeable to those he
must please for business purposes,
there seems nothing else on earth as
desirable as the quiet and peace of his
own Preside. He doesn't want to
talk or be talked to. He doesn't want
to have to force himself to smile or to
think and least of all does he want to
forsake his slippers for his dress suit.
The woman, on the other hand, has
been shut up all day In the walls OF
her house. going through the deadly
dull round Of domestic duties without
the distraction of seeing a fresh face
or hearing a new idea. She has toiled
in her way just as hard as her hus-
band and when night comes she too
feels the need of a change to rest and
refresh herself. She is also worn out
in body and mind and tired-tlred OF
the servants incompetence and the
children's fretting and nagging and
perpetual demands. and Of turning and
twisting and patching and mending
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02
A WATER TANK.

He was a Kentucky "coloIol" and
he strolled up into the stand at Tark
& Pilford's, whereon were displayed
bottles of Spring water" at 81 dozen.
TON, Tom; oh, Toni" he called
out, and young counterpart OF his
long, lank frame came up
Thomas" he said. impressively as
the clerk was wrapping up a dozen
bottles of the water which he had Just
sold to dyspeptic-looklng man.
81 Aomas, never expected to see what
a terrible hold the. water habit will
take on it's victims. That man, Thorn
as, is buying water to drink, and there
are thousands OF people tonight who
would be glad OF the money to get
whiskey with" &C. b. L.