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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
A BLOOMER JUBILEE.
1t is to be Held in England During the
Present Month.

The adherents of what is denomi-
mated the rational dress movement in
England propose to hold b1oomer
jubilee celebration in October. There
is to be bicycle procession, followed
by dinner. The members of the Ra-
tional Dress League intend to show
the superiority of progressive raiment,
and prizes are to be awarded for the
two most rational and womanlike cos
eclipse anything hitherto planned by
the league, for it is to be kind of
jubilee celebration of Mrs. Boomer
entrance into the arena of fame, in
1849
Every now and then dress reform
has been promulgated in America, but
as movement it has never met with
substantial success, probably because
the model costumes presented by most
Of the sgitators have been ugly, and
the majority Of women prefer the dress
of fashion which has style to the dress
OF reform which has none. Whatever
improvements have been made in wo-
1J1du I'll CuOAO ACIFO OCC1
many-have been brought about not
by the dress retormers, but by the
gradual gravitation of fashion toward
sense. Athletics, too, have had an
important influence on feminine attire.
The shoemaers tell us that women are
wearing larger shoes, and the corset
makers that women are wearing larger
stays. Witness, also the pop
ularity of the shirt waist and the
tailor-made gown. We have not at
tanned the so-called rational ideal ad-
vocated by the reformers; nevertheless
the common-sense that is the pallia-
tive of numerous evils has done much
to secure greater comfort, suitability
and convenience in the feminine ward
robes of recent years.-Philadelph
Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
THEIR LUXURIOUS STABLES.
Automobile Hasn't Killed New York
Society's Love for Fine Horses.

There is no reason to believe that
with the rise of the motor carriage So
ciety will lose one iota of it's affec-
ton for the snowy, housekeeping,
sWift-traveling horse. In proof of
this the stables of some of our met
rOpolitan Midases are yearly growing
| larger and more luxurious, and the
rivalry to possess the finest horse Of
it's class is as keen as ever. There Is
not a better instance of the grip horse
| flesh has on the New York affections
| than the establishment of Mr.. John
| T. Williams. This rich man has a
taste for fine roadsters to drive in his
dozen and one vehicles, and has coll
lected exactly "a matched bays, and
| houses them quite as sumptuously in
his Stamford stables as does Emperor
William. The finest stableful of polo
ponies, and it is a string of some 25,
is owned by the Vingut brothers, who
are the smartest gentlemen lockers of
the Long Island horse loving set. One
of these young men, Harry Vingut,
is a remarkable rider. He has carried
lIS uO10OO COOuC Qu1CC 1uuCA Il IA
hall Keen, playing polo matches in
England and India, and even Australia,
and he is quite inordinately proud Of
the fact that with the exception of his
spinal column every bone in his body
has been broken at least once in the
horsey cause.
The chief aim, however, of the
10 n
conspicuously fine pair of carriage
horses, and for carriage pair the de-
cisiOn always Wavers, on Fifth avenue
and Bellevue avenue, between the
merits Of Hooker, Hammersley's and
Mrs Ogden Mills victoria horses. Alb
solutely nobody disputes, however,
the superiority of Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt's single brougham horse over
all others. Her favorite is always a
huge buckskin, invariably harnessed to
claret-colored brougham, lined with
claret red silk inside, showing red
running gear, and her own coachman,
Charles, and the groom, in claret
liveries. Though the Cornelius Wander
bilts make little bother about it, their
stables shelter some of the costliest
and most thoroughbred equines in the
states, and it requires 16 men to do the
horses justice. Among the women
Mrs. Borden Hartman possesses the
noblest string of hunters, for she is a
perfectly fearless amazon in the
saddle. Mrs. Regis Post owns the
most faultless pair of Arabs, sired by
Co.
Virginia Coudert and Miss Lila Sloan
are the two most skillful four-in-hand
drivers of the feminine persuasion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
NEWEST FAD IN WAISTCOATS.

''Alice has sent me some new things
from Paris, writes Edith Lawrence, in
the Ladies Home Journal ''Not much
this time, but still what she does send
me is always worth more than the ex-
ira postage which invariably have to
pay on her letters! Dear girl, she al
ways was SO careless! She tells me of
the swell waistcoats the women are
wearing over there. They are made
of cloth and leather, and are buttoned
up the front with small gold buttons.
She says that some of the most smart
ly dressed women had their mono
grams on the buttons, but usually the
buttons were quite small and plain.
The waistcoats, from her description,
must be tailor made-much like
mans waistcoat, with muslin or silk
backs. They are all embroidered Or
painted. The embroidered ones, she
says, are the most durable.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON.

]. j. Corley of Florence, the state
statistical agent for the United States
department of agriculture, is gather
ing samples of South Carolina cotton
to be sent to the Paris exposition.
This industry will be made one of the
features in the exhibit from the
United States, and the people of the
world who go to the great show will be
given some idea of what cotton and
cotton manufacturing is like. There
is ample space for this exhibit and the
department is anxious to make it at
tractive. The samples of cotton will
be carefully baled and marked and put
up in excellent form. Considerable
interest throughout the state is being
taken in the exhibit and it is expected
that Souh Carolina will make a hand
some show in he picture. Samples of
both ginned and unginned cotton, with
descriptions, are wanted, and due
credit will be given exhibitors
Charleston News and Courier
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

quickly clogs on the appetite, while
bacon does not. In order to steriIize
the beef it has to be ''processed" or
subjected to high temperature, say $50
degrees or more, by steam, under pres
sure. This boiling undoubtedly re-
moves so much of the stimulating eX-
tractives that we must expect canned
meat to be far less satisfactory than
fresh meat"
DR. Woodruff states that owing to the
lack of these stimulating extractives,
vegetables, etc., the canned roast beef
ration would be an utter failure in the
tropics where there is such an in
creased demand for food to restore or
repair waste. For the doctor has dis
covered that it is mistake to suppose
that the system does not require much
food in the tropics.
when a chemist wishes chemical
changes to go on more fierceIy, he
raises the temperature of the combin-
ing elements, and we do the same
thing in therapeutics. Says DR..
Woodruff: eve are officially informed
that every case of sluggish metabolism
and defective excretion of waste pro-
ducts is cured by course of hot baths
in Arkansas. Excessive atmospheric
heat does the same thing, and we can
easily understand one Of the reasons
for this excessive chemical energy
and increased waste. So the amount
of necessary food to supply unavoid-
able wastes is much larger than in
temperate climates"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
IMAGINATION PLAYS.
They Are the Greatest Amusement Of
Little Minds and Bodies.

There was once a mother with sew
eral children, who, being a poor wo-
man, had all her household work to
do. She often toiled far beyond her
strength, yet she was never too busy
to get up some little scheme for
amusing the children, and, as the
years taught her experience, she de-
vised something at the outset Of a
busy day. She took half an hour to
start the mimic housekeeping in the
playhouse, or she began the building
of a fort and got out the toy soldiers,
or she took a stick, if the morning was
in summer, and addressed it thus:
''You look like a stick, but you are
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
UNIQUE FLOORING IN LONDON

An interesting feature of the London
Coal Exchange is it's floor. It is con-
structed of inlaid wood, arranged so as
to represent the mariners compass.
Woods of many kinds went to the max
ing of the pavement, among them be-
ing black ebony, English oak of vari-
Gus hues, white holly, elm (both Eng
lish and American), red and white wal
nut and mulberry. Some of the slabs
of wood, of which there are altogether
1000, have interesting historical asso-
Citations. One piece, forming the haft
of the dagger represented in the city
corporation arms, is portion of a tree
planted by Peter the Great when he
worked as a shipwright at Deptford.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
PLAIN WRITING.

The Philadelphia Medical Journal
thinks the blacklist of words made up
by the poet-editor Bryant was not a
bad thing, after all. Bryant
insisted that persons writing for his
paper should not be permitted to use
artistic, for artist; casket, for coffin;
cortege, for procession; darby, for
negro; devouring element, for fire;
gents, for gentlemen; inaugurate, for
begin; lady, for wife; lengthy, for
long; Mrs. Governor, Mrs. President,
etc.; pants, for trousers; party or
parties, for person, persons; state, for
say; would seem, for seems; settle,
for pay; locate, for settle; in our
midst, for among us, etc. The Jour-
nal distinguishes between the slang
word which may some day be well re-
ceived on account of it's indisputable
utility and words incorrectly used by
reason of ignorance or pretentious-
ness. "The one," it says, lis the lusty
living brat of properly married in
teIligence and recklessness, the other
the bastard of stupidity and vanity.
Many slang words make excellent citi-
zens when they grow up and find their
place in the worlds work; but the
cant of idealess conceit never gets into
better literary society than that Of
the knights of the QuIll." Good taste
urges the use of plain, single and I'M
ambitious words-when these best
suit the subject.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

really a little shepherd boy, with long
brown hair hanging down your back.
You are dressed in goatskins, and you
have a little pipe in your hand, on
which you can play most beautiful
tunes. Over yonder are wild and saw
age mountains, pointing to the wood
pile and the hillocks by the orchard,
but there are no recesses in them so
wild that you do not know them.
There are no caves which you cannot
find, and we shall probably need these
caves very much, when we are chased
by robbers or by hungry wolves. AL
so you know where the kind and good
people live who will give us goat milk
to drink and cakes of brown -four to
eat. Perhaps you know the peasant S
hut where the fairy princess is hid
den, and may help me to return her 10
her mother, the Queen, who weeps for
her in a gorgeous palace of pink
glass;" With that the mother would
hand over the stout little stick she
had cut to the child, who, wide eyed
and smiling, stood waiting to receive
it, and who ran with it toward the
wood pile to begin the ascent.
The child, entranced with the story,
and at her own Celebrations of it,
would not return until the hour for
dinner, and then she would come in,
glowing and with an appetite, while
the mother, who had been without the
vexatious Interruptions of an uneasy
little girl, was eager to greet her.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
SUGAR FOR MUSCLE.
1t Aids in Supplying Strength for an
Emergency.

For those not accustomed to severe
muscular exertion, who are suddenly
called upon for much more than the
usual exercise, as in camping and
hunting trips, the value of sugar as an
accessory food is not generally ap-
have shown that dogs to whom sugar
is fed in addition to other food bear
up much longer under severe con-
tinuous muscular work, as in a tread
mill, than those not so fed. Sugar
is more promptly taken up and utilized
under such conditions than anything
else.
To one whose digestive organs are
in proper training for digesting and
absorbing the requisite quantity of
food for severe work, the extra sugar
is not necessary. But to the profes-
sional man, who breaks off sharply
from his Office work and begins to
climb mountains daily, distressing
muscular fatigue soon comes. Ex-
perience has shown that sugar is pecu-
liarly acceptable at such times. This
is in line with the known fact that the
working power of those on low diet
increases greatly in regions where the
sugar cane grows, at the seasons when
the cane ripens sufficiently to be
eaten.
Many a sportsman would return to
camp much less exhausted if he would
adopt the plan of carrying few cubes
of sugar in his pocket to be eaten as
needed when muscular fatigue de-
ve1Ops.
We have all experienced the ire
mendously increased ability of the
digestive organs at the end of week
in the woods, for they rise quickly to
the emergency. We eat with avidity
bacon and other quickly transformable
foods. After this ability to keep up
with the waste has developed, we are
no more than normally tired by the
days exertion. During the stage OF
adjustment, the sugar is of especial
value, and is more urgently called for
than at other times.
In a paper read before the section OF
physiology and dietetics at the Amer1-
can Medical Association meeting in
Columbus, DR.. C. E. Woodruff, captain
and assistant surgeon, U. S. A, who re-
Gently returned from Manila, said In
favor of bacon as ration:
For many years it Canned roast
beef has been used as makeshift
when fresh meat cannot be procured
1t has been supplied to armies and
ships in such great quantities that
the trade in it is very important. The
board of officers, of which the writer
was a member, investigated this article
quite thoroughly in Chicago a few
years ago, visiting the stock yards and
witnessing the process Of manufacture
Though we recognized its excellence
as makeshift, we rejected it as an
emergency ration, because it was in
ferior to bacon for the following rea-
sons: It is nothing more than boiled
or steamed beef and tastes like soup
meat and, though it is quite palatable
when mixed with vegetables and
made into a stew, it has to be eaten
as it is, because in an emergency veg
etables are rarely, if ever, on hand. II
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

boards is only appreciated after one
has had experience of their usefulness.
The shelves, inside, should be shaped
in front; some, for instance, being cut
well in, so that tall articles, such as
cruets and decanters, can be stored in
front and the small articles in the rear.
Hanging cupboards for corners of
rooms are equally useful, and in the
dining room they can be made to re-
lieve the often er-burdened side
board of some of it's lighter objects.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

"- There is an Industry in this country
that but little is known about. II is
the alligator hide business. During
the season from June to September 1
Mr.. o. A. Worley, of this place,
bought 757 hides, for which he paid
the sum of $467. Doubtless our most
timid citizen never thought that 757
alligators ciuld be found in this lovely
county's creek, sWamps and mudhOles
in the short space of three months
time.-Jasper (Fla) News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

coat; again, if done in crochet cotton,
it makes a desirable finish to night
dresses or children's pinafores, while
enough to trim pretty blouse
or edge a pocket handkerchief First
row-Make chain of six stitches and
fasten in a circle. In this circle work
three trebles, one chain. three trebles,
three chain, turn. Second row-Slx
trebles under last three chains Of first
row, treble into one chain of first row.
one chain, three treble into same chain,
one treble into first long chain of first
row, turn. Third roW-Two chain,
three trebles into first chain of last
row, one chain, three more trebles in
to same chain, one treble into first
treble of the shell of second row, one
trebles of second row, or until there are
seven loops, turn. Fourth row-One
single crochet, three trebles. one single
crochet into the last loop just made
which forms little scallOp. Repeat
until there are six small scallops; then
three trebles into one chain of last
row, one chain, three more trebles
into same chain (this forms the head
ing), one treble into first one of second
chain of last row, turn. Fifth row
Begin by working as in first row, but
of course not making the primary cir
Gle, the first chain Of last row forms
the loop for three treble, one chain,
three treble going into, fastening the
last three chain into the last single
crochet Of last small scallop.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
SEEN AT A GLANCE.

This pretty lace edging may be
used for quite number Of purposes.
When worked with Berlin or Shetland
wool it may be adapted with equal eff
feet TO border a shaw or flannel petit
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

is II feet high. Her majesty is rep
resented in royal robes, holding the orb
in her left hand and the scepter in her
right. Across her breast she wears the
Ribbon of the Garter, and the skirt Of
her dress is richly embroidered with
the rose, shamrock and thistle. The
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

In st. Petersburg is the largest
bronze statue in existence-that Of
Peter the Great-which weighs 1000
tons.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
WAR OVER TREASURE
FORTUNE SLOWED ON ISLAND
BROUGHT INTO COURT.
STORY OF SEA VENTURES

Tale of a Smuggler's Mate Who Re
covers the Money Long Hidden
Alleged Son of Captain Makes
Claim for a Division and Now the
Courts Take Turn.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

The illustration given herewith is
that of the statue erected in Belfast as
a memorial of the record reign Of her
majesty the queen. The statue, exc
cuted in the finest Sicilian marble,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

pedestal is IA feet high, and is execut-
ed in Irish limestone. 1t is richly
moulded and carved. The front is en-
riched with a large bronze cartouch,
bearing the dates 1837-1897, and sus-
tanning sprays of leaves and olive
branches. On each side is a large
bronze figure, representing the spin
ming and shipbuilding industries, and
at the back in bronze, is child read
ing, typical Of education. The panel
in front bears the inscription of her
majesty's diamond jubilee message
"From my heart | thank my beloved
people. May God bless them.-Victo-
ria r. and l."
For small and lightly furnished
dining room such piece of furniture as
this would be found most convenient.
1t occupies so little space-space, too,
that is often unoccupied even in crowd
ed rooms. The value of hanging cup
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
Odd Ways of Making Money.

Those who have read much of Dickens
are struck by some of the peculiar and
unique industries and occupations de-
scribed In some of his novels. But in real
life odd and curious occupations for earn
ing a livelihood are continually springing
into being.
A woman Of New York city, well dress
ed and attractive in appearance, daily ex-
plores the dust bins of milliners and dress
makers, carefully extracting therefrom
all bits of lace, feathers and silk. She con-
tracts for doll dressing, and has a large
number of assistants. She buys up all dis
carded scraps of the costly silks and
satins used by dressmakers. Between
these and the dust bin she collects enough
material for very effective creations. de-
irving from their sale a comfortable in
come.
Another New York woman earns 81, SOC
a year by buying for wealthy men, who
are too busy in the daytime and too tired
at night to go shopping. During the year
she buys on commission thousands of dol
lars worth of jewelry, flowers dress
laces, furs and knickknacks, which
chiefly go as presents from generous men
to attractive women. She is busy the yeal
round and has many assistants.
A number of Boston ladies are gaining
a comfortable livelihood by teaching and
playing whist.
A woman in England has become what
may be known as a professional baby
manner" She proclaims in the newspapers
her Willingness to select for the modest
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
Dewey a Frequent Name.
ron, the New York. Journal,

From the New 1Ork JOufHdl.
Since Admiral Dewey swept Monto-
Jos fleet into the sea at Manila a per-
feet epidemic of Dewey babies has APP
peared in every quarter of the globe
where Americans are to be found. The
percentage is almost beyond computa-
ton, but the admiral himself estimates
that at least 900 written notifications
have rea ched him on the flagship Olym-
pia. To many of these he has replied
in writing, thanking the proud parents
as modestly as possible. Just as soon
as the news reached America that he
had achieved the greatest victory of
modssn times in marine war, the chris
Jennings with his name began. East,
West, North. South, George Dewey
r-it-happened-to began to
bob up serenely, and the name is SO
scattered that it will never perish from
the face of the earth.
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Uses of Lime Water.
ew York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune
Few housekeepers realize the usefulness
of lime water in the economy of the
house. While it can be bought already
prepared at any drug store, it can easily
be made at home if one is SO situated as
to get lime. Put piece of fresh I'M
Stacked lime-about half a peck-into a
large stone jar and pour over it slowly
$50 as not to allow it to slacken too rap
idly) four gallons of hot water. Stir until
thoroughly dissolved and then allow it to
settle. Repeat this process several times
during the day and then carefully pour
off into bottles all that comes clear and
limpid.
Many people who find that milk dis
tresses them will feel no i'll effects if a
teaspoonful of lime water is added to
each glass they drink. If put into milk
that is liable to curdle when heated it will
prevent its doing so. For burns and
scalds it will be found most effectual
when mixed with an equal part of linseed
oil. This, in fact, IS the "carrou' oil
which the Welsh farmers always keep
ready for use in case of accidents in the
mines.
1t will also be found useful in cleaning
babies nursing bottles or small cream
jugs, purifying and sweetening them with
out leaving any unpleasant taste be.
hind.
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Indian Factions Fight.

Vancouver, B. c., June 24.-Three
rival factions of the Indian community
at Port Essington had a bloody fight
last Saturday. The steamer Princess
Louise brought the news here, and
many of the Indians who took part
in the fight came with her 1t appears
that a few weeks ago the Indians en-
oamped at Essington went on strike in
the salmon fishing business. corps of
the Salvation army arrived shortly
afterwards and commenced to hold re-
Vival services. These were very popu-
lar for some time, and the Methodist
and Church of England missionaries
decided to emulate the example of the
Salvationists, SO that soon they had the
camp about equally divided among
them. This condition of affairs result
ed in serious riot on Saturday, in
which many Indians We're injured, but
none killed.