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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
TORTURE OF TIGHT LACING
Women of Past Ages Endured Tor
ments Of the Strangled.

Janice Meredith" and other popu
lar revolutionary novels make point
OF describing the tight corset lacing
OF the heroineS, but we need not go so
far back as 1875 to recall the torture
Of tight stays. 1t was rot uncommon
for stately lady to sit in church for
two hours without touching the back
OF her pew, says a writer in the Phila-
delphia Record. The party-going class
|eS literally strained every point to re-
duce the waist measure Ball dresses
were made with two-pointed waist
one in front and one at the back OF
the corSage, and the latter was made
to close by means of strong silk laces
run through small eyelets. No human
being could have endured the pressure
had it not been that the waist was
cut very low, and the whole upper
part of the lungs had thus full play
Very short sleeves, sometimes only a
shoulder strap, also left fair norton
OF skin exposed. Both matrons and
young girls gloried in the efforts they
made after tight lacing A good story
is told of colonel's wife who was go
ing to ball in which she was to al
pear in a new pink silk dress. Both
her servants failed to make the lacing
meet. Her husband was called in. and
he, too, failed to draw the lacing to-
gether
Call in your orderly sergeant" said
the lady, which was done, and between
the colonel and his orderly sergeant
the corsage was made to meet over the
Both wiped the sweat from
their brows when they got through
however.
A more thrilling incident of tight
lacing was of young lady going to
her first ball. In the lacing of her
all the women of the house
hold had failed, and her brother was
to give his aid. After some
futile efforts he wound the silk laciDg
around bed post, while the maid
1reW the eyelets close together with a
)uttonhook. Just as a beautiful fit
lad been secured the young debutante
.ook a long breath Of relief and the
six lacing snapped with a report like
hat Of pistol It was 9 o'clock at
light, and the stores all were closed
tut the brother went forth and at last
got silk lacing a a barber shop. In
hose days some fashionable young
nen wore a short waist ''stay" to
make their shirts set smooth, and the
,arber kept a few Of the Iaces TO ac-
ommodate his dandy patrons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
SCRIBBLE ON CARD BACKS.
Habit Which Frequently Gets Society
Women into Trouble.

Women are thoughtless creatures
ana often suffer the price of their
thoughtleSs errors. Many have found
10 their cost that it is a dangerous
naDlt to write memoranda of anv kind
on the back of ones card, especially if
1t is put into the purse or cardcasa
again. a society woman called A
few days ago at the mansion of GER
tain great dame, and, finding the lat
ter out deposited her collection of
cards on the silver salvor which the
servant held for the purpose. AS she
turned to go down the steps she sud-
denly felt doubt as to whether every
thing was right, and, turning quickly
motloned the footman to reopen the
door.
Let me see my cards again" she
demanded to his surprise, and. taking
them up. she found, as she had feared
that the back of one was covered with
list for the butcher, headed For
Wednesdays dinner" a function to
which the great dame in question had
been invited.
Even worse, however, was the mis-
take OF this kind made by another
careless caller who had scrubbed a
list OF visits she intended making, not
on the back of her own card, but on
| one belonging to an acquaintance
which she picked up at random from
a collection in the receiver. One of
the names on her memorandum was
that OF an exclusive dame who, as was
we'll known, decidedly objected to en-
larging her visiting list, and of course.
such was the irony of fate that it was
precisely on that naughty parsonage
that she left the casually scrubbed
card of her friend who had not the
pleasure of the formers acquaintance
1t goes without saying that the card
was never heard from or that Mrs.
M. ever dared to confess her mistake
to the victim
How nice it is of the great Mrs.
Il. to call in person." remarked an
lmpecunious member of one of the old
families who had felt quite flattered
one day on returning home to find a
card of the well-known society leader
left on her table in ordinary fashion.
Don't flatter yourself" laughed her
friend to whom Tie remark had been
addressed; cher secretary leaves all
her cards. Mrs. y. is of the old school
and Likes to do everything in the good
old-fashioned way in contradiction, |
am told, to the new people with
whom the ancient shbboleth 'noblesse
oblige' is not recognized. | thought
like you, she made personal visits
but one day picked up on my door
steps her secretary's list, which the
footman had presumably dropped. My
name was on it, and opposite was writ
ten, Personal visit leave one card
with one corner turned down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

his hat to cheer the buffalo as they
numbered on. For twenty panels the
fence lay fiat, and we rode across it.
Along its inner side was path worn
inches deep by the feet of countless
antelope, cut off by this wire fence
from their ancient way to some I'M
known water hole. No man of our
party felt glad at this evidence of APP
preaching civilization, this fence
thrusting out into the wild land
Every man was partizan for the buffa-
10 and the antelope, and exulted al
this prostration of their enemy
though knowing with sorrow how
brief must be their little victory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
THE WEATHER AND BIRDS.

Cleveland Leader: When ducks and
geese fly southwark very late in the
fall and linger long on the way, hunt
ers and country folk say that the
winter will be mild When the wild
fowl double backward on their track and
pass to the north again, after making
part OF the usual journey to the region
OF the Gulf of Mexico it is said that
The season of cold and snow will be
still less than the average winter of the
northern states. Many persons have
no doubt that birds which migrate in
HOOKS twice year have some wonder
ful instructive knowledge of coming
conditions Of weather.
In like manner it is believed bv not
few that the feathers of MANY birds
| grow thlcker In autumn, when a severe
winter is drawing near, than they ever
are II the season is to be mild and
open. 1t is claimed that the skin of
onions, the bark of trees, the shells of
nuts, and even the "wishbones" of GER
tam fowls are heavier than usual just
before extremely cold winters. All of
these so-called signs have their cham
plons, but the flight of the water fowl
is the indication most trusted and least
open to rldicule. We know enough of
Such marVels as the homing power of
carrier pigeons and the ordering of
lie IN bee-hives to be oversure of the
limits OF animal instinct or sensitive
ness to forces beyond human ken.
In the case of the wild fowl, how
ever, 1t seems needless to assume that
the movements of the ducks and geese
snow anything more than conditions
existing in the far north at the time
thelr flights are noted. 1t is not enough |
10 suppose that these birds merely act, |
LOT the time being, on the knowledge
which they possess of the weather far |
up toward the Arctic Ocean?
When there is little snow and less |
Ice IN the remote regions Of the north |
at time of the year when these DESC
late parts of America are usually ready |
TO breed billiards. and refrigerate great
masses OF air., it is quite safe to predict
That winter will begin late and with
less than ordinary rigor 1t takes time
TO prepare the conditions, for January
cold in the United tates. The winter
must work down from regions much
nearer to the north pole
The wild fowl journeying southwark
20 md food and open water only need
10 know that there is no immediate
hanger OF finding the lakes and rivers
u the northern parts Of the United
states frozen and the supplies Of food s
IN winch they depend while moving TO
florida cut off by ice and snow They
an easily move down ahead of the on
ward sweep of winter, provided that
hey have such a start as is obtained
Fhen they know that the weather is V
pen several hundred miles north Of il
ne point where they have halted If p
here is no sign of severe winter a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

Boston, Feb. 1S.-Colonel Thomas
Wentworth Higginson made vigorous
attack on Captain Mahan, famous as
writer on naval matters, before the
Twentieth Century club, in which he
said: Il wish no i'll to Captain Mahan,
whose books | have read with pleasure,
but rawhide in the hands Of bOer
farmer might teach him lesson in the
right of government" In an ad-
dress on Freedom he referred to Cap
tain Mahan's recent article in the In
dependent, saying: Captain Nahan's
idea is the naval board of prize money.
1t dispOses of every mans earnings.
Not a farm in New England not set
Of carpenter tools, not block of tele-
phone stock could be held by its owner
under this theory unless he used it
with propriety. How superbly Presi-
dent Eliot could provide for Harvard
if he should take possession of all that
property, even of Cambridge people,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

weather IN the vicinity of the Great
Lakes they may even fly back into Can
ada for time, ready to take up their
movement southwark as soon as condi-
tons shall require.
This theory Of the so-called bird
signs OF an open winter may not be as
Imaginary and mysterious as the more
common one which invests water fowl
with an unerring fore-knowledge of the
weather months in advance but it has
the merit of being more in accord with
other facts of nature and with human
reason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

who were using it injudiciously. The
result would be a final swallowing up
of nations until only two English
speaking nations remained, with the
necessity of one swallowing the other.
When a truth is once started it is
necessary to have the opposite side
brought out as forcibIy as possible 1t
is unfortunate that We have man,
honored in literature, science and avail
service, who should state such an alb
solute falsehood. Captain Mahan, in a
letter to the New York Independent
lays down the general principle that
neither state nor a people possesses
any rights to govern itself or to indie
pendence. The Filipinos certainly
have no right to hold and administer
the government OF the country they oc-
cupy. AS to the beers, the right they
have depends upon the use they make
Of their power, and they have forfeited
that right
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
GLITTERING POSSIBILITY

understand" said the hard
featured woman, "they are going to
sell liquors on these new buffet cars
that are TO DE put on the street rail-
roads. Perhaps it won't be so hard for
me TO get a seat in an ordinary street
car hereafter"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
CHAPTER TX.

1t was a warm, beautiful evening.
the sea-breeze swept over the pine
woods and mingled with the perfume
of the flowers; the waves broke and
spread out in great sheets of white
foam-they rose and fell like the
change in some grand harmony. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
] AUNDICED VIEW.

The Optimist-''America and Eng
land must ever stand side by side.
shoulder to shoulder"
The Pessimist-''S Shouldn't wonder.
Neither. one would trust the other out
Of sight. '-Indianapolis Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
THE COMING THING.

What are you going to dc this
summer"
Well, my women folks are rather
insisting on our taking houseboat ex-
cursion on the Chicago River"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

Henry A. Holcomb, a New Bedford
yarn manufacturer, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. The liabilities are
placed at 1851 ,43S, and there are no
assets
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Evening capital., 1900-01-26
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Evening capital., 1900-01-26
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can-
not he cured ny Halls CAtarrh Cure.
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estimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
Gov. Smiths Secretary caugh,

Gov. Smiths Secretary Caught.
Word has been sent the Washington
authorities from New York city that
William N. Miles. alias Ruckle, alias
Wyle, who is said to have victimized
local hotel pioprietors by posing as pri-
vate secretary to Governor Smith, oi
Maryland, was arrested there yesterday
afternoon. He is charged with false pre-
tense and is said TO have obtained $40
from Ralph L. Walber, guest at the
Regent Hotel, on representation that he
was Governor Smiths confidential clerk.
1t is believed that Miles in the man who
lived at the Regent. the National and
the Raleigh. in Washington for several
weeks without paying his bills. He
represents himself as Mr.. Smiths private
secretary.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
To Abolish The Office Of Immigration
Commissioner.

The members from the counties are
surprised that bin should be introduced
in the Legislature to abolish the cffice OF
immigration Commissioner. Col. Oswald
Tilghman. the author of the bill that
created this office. was here today in the
interest of his candidacy He has been
the means of inducing large number OF
.emigiants to settle in Maryland. and
takes an intelligent interest in the cause
of immigr alton in Maryland, and is thor
oughiy acquainted with the needs Of the
rural districts in this respect. Having
been the original mover in this direction.
and. therefore. acquainted with the OBJ
iects of the measure, Col. Tilghman adds
to this the intelligence that comes from
a practice OF many years in the legal pro-
fession and service in the legislative halls
of the Stale.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, that the SUBJ
IN scriber, of Anne Arundel County, has OBJ
tanned from the Orphans Court of Anne
Arundel County. In Maryland. letters testa-
mentary on the personal estate of JOSEPH
8. NJ BASIL late of Anne Arundel Coun-
ty, deceased. All persons having claims
against the deceased, are hereby warned 10
exhibit the same, with the vouchers, there
of, to the subscriber. on or before the
FIRST DAY OF APRIL, 1900.
They may otherwise, by law, be excluded
from all benefits of the said estate. All per
sons indebted to said estate are requested co
make Immediate payment.
September. 1899.
JOHN BASIL.
sci Executor of Joseph s. NJ. Basil.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That the
IN subscriber, of Anne Arundel County
Anne Arundel County. In Maryland. letters
testamentary on the personal estate of HENRY
w. +. SEEB0HN. late of Anne Arun-
del County, deceased. All persons having
claim against the said deceased. are hereby
warned TO exhibit the same with the
vouchers thereof, to the subscribers, on or
hefore the
10th DAY oFFEBRUARY. 1900.
They may otherwise by law. be excluded
from all benefits Of the said estate. All per
sons indebted TO said estate are requested TO
make Immediate payment.
Given under our hands this Sth day OF
August 1899.
AUGUsTE NJ. E. SEEBOHN.
SO Executrix, Eastport. Md.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
Paraded At Noon.

The company producing Uncle Tom $
Cabin at the Opera House paraded the
streets at noon today, with a band OF
music. .Uncle Tom, Little Eva
and others rode on ponies. and hoat
with the log cabin was an object OF inter-
est in the parade. The meat market ad-
vertised itself with an improvised vehei-
Gle at the end of the parade.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
PERSONAL MENTION.
In the Social Whirl-Those Who &C
and Those Who Come.


and Those Who Come.
Z Mrs. Tisfale. wife Of Lieut.. Tisdale,
and her family are visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Robert Bowie. Prince George
street.
Miss Emily jenkins. Of Baltimore. is
visiting Miss Lucy Claude.
Mrs. J.. w. Valiant. of Baltimore, is
visiting her mother. Mrs. w. w. Fay.
Prince George street.
Miss Mary McKim Marriott. OF Balti-
more. is visiting the Misses Walton.
Francis street.
Mr.. w. H. Hudddles,on, travelling
agent for the Adams Express Company
was here yesterday on business.
Mrs. Harry Hindes, OF Govanstown.
who has been visiting her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Vansant, West street.
has returned home.
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
annapolis to Have House Registration.

A,"..' "a''ns 'r'ed the system OF house-,o.
ri,'.S ,.S .SNer registration in the s. larges,
80 80 'ae Posiothce Department has ex.
s. .,.D'o i TO include the 2I cities next in
IA c .n's later list includes Annapolis,
r. A., cumberland. Md; Norfolk, Va,
n. B'.ag en- D>L; and Richmond, Va.
: S'''cs IS 20 begin February 2I
Evening capital., 1900-01-26
= Frightful slunder.

cq Or T,,Sa R,',!l Cause horrible Burn. Scald.
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,ad p,so,.i -, 70 the world. will kill the main
Fever Ssr.s "eai II. Cures old Sores,
Cons sT'eS' ~ s. Ulcers. Boils. Felons'
cure on e,,,s sA'n Eruptions. Best Pile
cqre ~ ru,TaI earn. Only 2s cents, a boz. X
Bios, CiM ea, ns'' Sold by Feldmeyer,