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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11

lomat's wife in the east. Her novel,
"A Little Gray Sheep" is study of
social types in Devonshire and the
Thames Valley.
1t is said that Miss Bertha Runkle,
the author of The Helmet of Navarro,
is the youngest of the American
authors who have acquired recogni-
ton within short tine. When she
wrote the story she was but little
more than 20 years old. Miss Runkle,
who is the daughter of New York
journalist, is native of New Jersey
and, it is said, has never been to col
lege nor has she ever been in Europe,
a fact which is somewhat interesting
since the scene of her story is laid in
France.
The new book of Myrtle Reed,
author of Love Letters of a Musician.
is entitled The Spinster Book
A new girl baby down in Indiana has
been named Alice of Old Vincennes,
and the Bowen-Merrill company
promptly sent silver cup engraved
Sweet Alice. of the novel name,
In human type and covers kid
We hope when you're an ancient
dame
You'll love the book your parents
did"
Ouida's new book of five short
stories is called Street Dust and Other
Stories.
| About three years ago Miss Helen
Hay, daughter of the secretary OF
state, published her first efforts in
verse. Last autumn she finished a
collection of child rhymes, The Little
Boy Book. For the last year Miss
Hay has been diligently engaged on
the most ambitious work she has yet
attempted. 1t is entitled The Rose OF
Dawn, and is love story of the south
seas told in blank verse. Throughout
the book there are snatches of lyric
poetry, love songs and ballads of the
people. Miss Hay is one of the popu
lar bellies of the capitol. She is near
ly "a, and in manner is strikingly like
the author of Little Breaches.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
GIRLS AND MATiNEEs.
Some are Injured BY Them, Others
Renefted

DR.. Dewey of Milwaukee a special
list in nervous diseases, deplores what
he calls the ''matinee habit" of young
girls, alleging that the nervous strain
young girl undcTgoes while wit
Messing the average dramatic perform
ance is exceedingly severe and II often
repeated is likly to lead to nervous
prostratiuI" DIR. Becker, of the same
city. asserts that excessive matinee
going injuries young girls because it
plays upon the emotions and other
physicians are quoted as describing
the matinee habit as ''pernicious. IL
is not desired it appears, to work up
scare" though the doctors just
quoted are not sufficiently discrimina-
tive. Some young girls-and boys,
too, for that matter-are closely oc-
cupied all week with their school
work and need rest when Saturday
comes, not further strain and excite
ment A Saturday matinee that keeps
an overworked student indoors, at
time when he or she ought to be TAX
ing exercise in the open air, may be
"pernicious" to persons in delicate
health especially if such persons are
of an extremely nervous temperament.
There are, however, on the other
hand, plenty of young persons whom,
so to speak, nothing can kill" Vigor-
Gus, hearty, big, strong, not much
given to study-they can so to matt
nees three times week with i'm
punity. Even depressing play of the
most heartrending kind leaves them
untouched. They do not take plays
more seriously than they take their
work
There are, in fact, plays that cheer
and invigorare, appealing not to the
emotions but to ones risibilities. A
clever pantomime was never known
to produce nervous prostration. A
lively farce or a good comic opera
may be better than medicine. Even
the anaemic schoolgirl is benefited by
an hour or two of hearty laughter.
she might, it is true, be better en-
| ployed in a long walk in the country
than in listening to witty afternoon
dialogue, but surely comic opera re-
duces the evil of the matinee habit"
to a minimum There are, indeed,
plays and plays. 1t will not do to as
sert roundly that all matinees are in
furious to the young girl or boy. 1t
is nearer the mark to say that to
some young persons some matinee
plays are injurious, especially during
the school year. A distressing trag-
edy or highly wrought melodrama
or problem play" affects the nerves
of susceptible person perhaps to an
unwholesome extent, but it would be
absurd to say such an opera as Pima
fore or The Mascot does so. Hence
there is some discrimination to be
used in deciding whether in any par.
ticular case the matinee girl is acting
wisely. All depends on the girl and
the play. What may be good for one
girl may not be good for another. DIR.
Dewey exhausts his duty in calling at
tention to the fact that the matinee
habit is not equally good for all.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
Literary Women.

Sarah Grand says that she was Ia
years old before she went to school.
She made up for lost time afterward
in most things, but never learned the
art Of penmanship.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser, who is a sister OF
Marion Crawford, is best known by
tine two volumes of her letters from
Japan, written while her husband was
serving as British minister to that
country. Mrs. Fraser has now com.
pleted a story of conditions very far
removed from those surrounding a dip.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
WHAT MARRYING MAY DO.
Somewhat Involved in Relationships Of
the Harrlsons.


At recent gathering OF a woman s
social club in indianapolis, the rela-
tionship of General Harrison and his
baby daughter, Elizabeth, furnished a
half hours interesting conversation in
the study of genealogy The subject
of Baby Harrison's pedigree was in
troduced when the vivacions wife of a
prominent young lawyer remarked
that General Harrison, by his mar
riage to Mrs. Dimmick, who was his
first wife's niece. had become his own
nephew and consequently was grand.
uncle to his baby daughter
Being his own nephew" remarked
another matron, makes him second
cousin to his famous grandson, Baby
Mckee"
THAT makes his daughter, Baby
Harrison, both the aunt and fourth
cousin TO Baby Mckee" advanced an.
other.
The curiosity and imaginative pow
ers OF the entire company was quick.
ly aroused to figure out other relation
ships of the Baby Harrison, and that
interesting little mites genealogy was
probed with fertile results.
Shes her fathers niece" exclaim-
ed one.
She's Mrs. McKee's (her half-sis-
teri second cousin" chimed in an
other.
Why, Baby Harrison is her own
cousin" declared young matron, who
was one Of last season debutantes.
All OF which was true. Baby Har-
rison is not only her own cousin, but
her second cousin as well. The inves.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11

tigation led to surprising results, Had
he not married his own daughters
cousin, the limbs of the family tree
would not have looked so awry. Here
is the result of the investigation:
As is well-known, Mrs. Harrison is
Mrs. McKee's first cousin, and Mrs.
Mckee being General Harrison's own
daughter is also the stepdaughter of
Mrs. Harrison, her cousin. According
to this the baby, who is Mrs. McKee's
half-sister, is also her second cousin.
being the daughter of Mrs Harrison
who is Mrs. McKee's first cousin.
Now Mrs. Mckee, being General
Harrison's daughter, the daughters
second cousin is naturally the fathers
first cousin, therefore Baby Harrison
was General Harrison's first cousin.
But the baby is also the Generals
daughter, and the fathers fret cousin
being always second cousin to his
children, Baby Harrison becomes her
own second cousin.
This relationship is more easily
shown by glance at the accompany
ing genealogical table, where Baby
Harrison is seen to be first cousin to
the husband of Mrs. Dimmick, or to
the nephew of General Harrison,
which in this case is himself. Hence
she is second cousin to the daughter OF
her first cousin-viz: herself.
Again General Harrison being Mrs.
Harrison's uncle by his former mar
riage, his wife is his niece, and the
daughter of his niece becomes his
grandniece, he thereby becoming
greatuncle of Baby Elizabeth. But lit
tie Miss Harrison, being the daughter
of the general, is first cousin of his
niece, thus making Baby Harrison and
mother first cousins. 1t has already
been shown that she is also her
fathers first cousin, and thus in GER
tain contingencies would inherit from
her father in several ways recognized
in law as legitimate relationships.
But this brings up still more intri-
cate relationship of Baby and General
Harrison. If Mrs. Harrison be Gen.
eral Harrison's niece and the baby and
the niece are first cousins Gas they
are), their uncle may be common to
both, thus General Harrison would be-
come uncle to his own daughter as
well as to his wife. Following this his
niece would be of course first cousin
to his daughter, and hence Baby Har-
rison becomes first cousin to herself
as well as her second cousin as shown
above. She has already been shown
to be first cousin to her half-sister.
Mrs, Mckee, and the chain of relation
ship is complete enough for all practi-
cal purposes.
But this did not relieve General Har-
rison of all his responsibilities in the
case. BY his marriage with Mrs. DIM
mick, as first shown, he became his
own nephew. and hence first cousin to
Mrs. Mckee, and all his first wife's
children, the same as TO his little
daughter.
Therefore, summing up her tangled
skein of relatiships, Baby Elizabeth
Harrison finds herself related as fol-
lows:
General Harrison-Father first cous-
In, uncle, and great uncle.
Mrs. Harrison-Mother, first cousin.
auntie, and great aunt.
Mrs. McKee-Half sister, fret and
second cousin.
Elizabeth Harrison (herself)--First
and second cousin.
Baby McKee-Nephew and fourth
cousin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11

The amateur photographer will soon
be abroad in the world, overrunning
everything, high and low, in frantic
effort to photograph all that is. At
this season he is unusually sensitive,
and nervously alive to the unfolding
beauties of nature; every phase and
feature of the world attracts him,
there is nothing so commonplace but
1t has charm; and so he goes about
in a rapturous delirium, shooting at
everything, from a picturesque mud
hole to a gorgeous summer sunset
OF course the camera is not alto
gether idle through the long winter
months. There are times when, to
him who truly loves the world, the
still white brotherhood with death"
yields scenes of highest beauty, SOM
bre in sense of course, but all the
more touching for the very suggestion
of melancholy lingering about them;
and he to whom the poetry of earth is
perennial, is alive and busy at all sea-
sons of the year But, unhappily, we
are. not all thus, we, for the most part,
die with the summer; and, with the
opening of spring, are born again; and
then, at sight of the breaking up of
winter, and the bursting forth into
new life of all nature, that rapt
ecstatic state which is proper to all
rightly constituted mortals at all sea-
sons of the year,-is frightened in us
to state of widest confusion. The
lover raves; the poet sings; and the
man with the camera is everywhere.
Dealers in cameras say this season
will be an unusually busy one; and
that the prices of the instruments will
be about the same as last year. The
camera trust-or, rather, the effort
on the part of manufacturers to form
trust-it was thought for a while
would be serious impeachment to the
operations of the kodak fiend; but
since the collapse of the attempted
combine, the fear of trust prices has
given way. In the matter of cost of
supplies there has been an advance
but not sufficient to seriously modify
too strong hold on us to be baked
by the trifling tributes levied by the
trusts. One manufacturer of films
controls the entire product of that
article, and is of course in a position
to dictate prices. Films are conse-
quently rather high, but not
higher than last year. The effort to
form trust in the manufacture of
plates was not successful, but prices
nevertheless have advanced some
what. One thing particularly noticeable
about the trade this year is that the
sale of the higher grades of cameras
is considerably increased while there
has been almost a corresponding de
crease in the demand for the poorer
grades. Plates are not so popular
now as in the past and the use of
films is becoming quite general One
reason for this is that films now are
put UP in rolls of six instead of twelve
or more, as formerly, and people buy
them more freely now because they
can get them in small quantities. Dea-
lers here report increasing sales, and
indications are that both dealers and
operators will enjoy profitable and a
pleasant season
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
1t Didn't Pacify Her.

The honeymoon was over and they
were comfortably settled in their
snug little home in Swanlinbar. The
husband, returning from business,
was grieved to find his little wife cry.
ing bitterly.
"Oh, GEORGE" she sobbed, a dread.
full thing has happened; | had made
you a beautiful pie, all by myself, and
Fido went and a.
Wei, never mind, my dear" he
said cheerfully, I'VE can easily affo.
another dog. Answers.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
FAME AND THE BREAD TREE.
story With a Moral for the Common.
place Man.

once upon time--so the story
goes-three young men, having com
pleted their college course. decided
that they would devote their lives TO
STRIVING to reach the Temple of
Fame. Each laid out plan by which
he deemed II might in time be ~.
tanned. Each longed to hear the
world ring with praise OF his endeayor
and success The first man bent all
his energies in the direction OF
science. He plodded and delyed and
finally died without having seen 40
much as the pinnacle of the great
Temple OF Fame. The second man
shut himself up with the muses. and
toiled day and night without ceasing.
He, too, died, having achieved moth.
ing, unknown and unmourned.
me third man, busted with the
tasks OF each day, almost forgot about
the Temple of Fame in the absorbing
interests of life; and one day he loved
woman and married her and, in his
happiness and the completeness of his
life, entirely forgot the plan to seek
the Temple OF Fame. He toiled early
and late for his loved ones, who were
the spur of his best endeavor. One
day, as he was out on the highway in
quest OF bread for his wife and his lit
tie ones, he discovered, at some dis
TANGO, a magnificent edifce. Filled
with surprise that he had never
noticed it before. he placed his we'll
filled basket under the bread tree for
a few moments and turned his foot.
steps in the direction OF the beautiful,
building. He explored 1t thoroughly
from the grand portal to the lofty
dome ard then,- emerging therefrom.
once more took up his basket and
turned homeward, filed with ioy az
what he had seen. Soon he met an
aged pilgrim journeying In the direc.
ton of the magnificent structure; ana
him he questioned as to what IL might
De. That building is the Temple of
Fame" replied the old man. The
bread-gatherer had passed through the
Temple OF Fame and knew it not
Harvot Holt Cahoon in Success.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
Well Heeled.

Your medicine has helped me won
derfully," she wrote to the patent
medicine house. Three weeks ago |
could not spank the baby. and now |
am able to thrash my husband. God
bless u"-Smart Set.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
KODAK SEASON NEAR
CAMERA FlEND WILL SHORTLY
BE ABROAD.
SHOOTING AT EVERYTHING

Arrival of Spring Awakens Interest in
Pleasant Form of Diversion-Dea-
iers in Photographers Supplies
Expect Busy Season - Films
Popular.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
The ROYAL Residences.

ut is not to be supposed" says a
writer in London Sketches, that be-
cause the king and queen have enter
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-04-11
A Final Ethical Distinction.

What are you here for, my man ?"
inquired the benevolent visitor at the
jail
why, you see, sir" answered the
prisoner, Il tuck something that
didn't belong to me by right, an
az ut do it according to law."-wash-
ington Star,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-05
COW PEAS AND CHICKENS.

In the Eastern States the growing OF
COW peas as food for chickens Is not
uncommon and the fowls fed upon them
are said to do well. Cow peas for other
purposes are being imported here but
there is no good reason why they should
not be used as chicken feed and many
reasons why the poultryman should be
glad of the chance to try them.
Experts in chicken culture here say
that fowls soon exhaust an ordinary
acreage of lawn or pasture land. They
do well when they pioneer II, the second
generation does tolerably well and the
third generation has hard luck in the
effort to keep alive. The remedy is to
diversity the growths of the soil and
nothing Is better for that than crops
which supply acceptable chicken food
Given four acres for fowls and tive
acres might be set apart for COW peas
the fowls being kept while the crop Is
growing, on the other two. Then wher
the peas are ready set out the frs
tract to something else, wheat II is pre-
| ferred, thus preparing for secont
semi-annual rotation Of crops. AS
subsidiary crop there can be nothinl
better than red-peppers of which al
fowls are very fond. or course al
chicken runways should have plenty o.
fresh water-not water set out in pans
but either running in n stream or drip
ping into a shallow concrete basin un
der a tap.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-05
CROKER'S CANDIDATE.

The nomination of Mr. Shepard as
the Tammany candidate for Mayor of
New York simply meant that Mr..
Croker preferred to have Democrat
in Office who was opposed to him than
to see the Democratic organization
broken by the triumph of the Repub-
leans.
Croker knew that no out-and out
Tammany man could be elected this
year. The next thing was to get a
Democrat elected, no matter what his
views on Tammany might be, and take
the chances Of binding him afterwards
to the interests of the only coherent
party he could look to for support and
promotion. Even II he should prove
irreconcilable to the Hall he could not
do much harm. The Hall would survive
him and perhaps keep him from being
renominated, and in the meanwhile all
Tammany men would not be turned out
of office. In dealing with a Repub-
lican Mayor things would not go so
well. Tammany would lose its hold; its
methods in the past would be thor
oughly and relentlessly exposed: its
chances of political return materially
cut down. As choice of evils Mr.
Croker prefers n moderately anti-Tam-
many Democrat to strenuously anti
Tammany Republican.
The situation seems TO be well enough
understood by the voters OF New York
to make the prospects of Mr.. Low
election very good indeed
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-05
BOER RECONCENTRADOS.

While yellow journals howl down the
policy of the British South African
concentration camps, alleging a parallel
between them and the Weyler prisons
which made Spanish rule in Cuba i'm
possible, Gen. Kitchener goes on caring
Tor the n-combatants In a way which
is inspiring the respect of the world.
That there is nothing to fear from the
complete knowledge of the methods
which govern in these camps, the gen
cral commanding the forces in South
Africa now has on his hands n COM
mission of six ladies, engaged in pre-
pairing a report for the government up
on the conditions which exist all over
the conquered territory.
There Is 40 question but war brings
in its train suffering. The women and
children who stay at home and look
after the little fields and less stock,
finding their protectors gone and the
state of the country such that they may
not continue their feeble attempts to
raise crops for their own maintenance,
are ready subjects for the camp. The
reconcentrado Is fed and humanely
treated, or the commission which is on
tour never would have gotten past Cape
| Town. That General Kitchener has
given to these unfortunates everything
| that he could, and has maintained his
reputation for humanity. is taken fol
| granted and that he has given every
opportunity to the commission to visi
the camps and personally inspect tn,
people there, is what might have beer
expected.
Just so long as the country is filled
with scouting bands of the Boer guer
rillas. just so long will it be necessary
to hold the aged and feeble in the town.
in camps. The end is not in sight in 81
far as the hopelessness of the struggl,
goes, yet none but admit that there car
be one ending only. How great damag,
may be done to the country befor,
the beaten Beers will admit 1t is
question which time only may answer
Until such time there will be more o
less trouble as to the non-fig htng ele
ment but as to the actual condition o
. the people who have been collected Il
; the towns, the forthcoming Blue Boo
must be awaited, though no one wi
, think there Is any possible compariso
, between the Cubans driven from thei
, homes and the Beers cared for In we
kept camps.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-05

sionsi may be figured. The feeling Of
the majority of the people OF the East
probably is that the greatest latitude
should be given to the people Of the
islands. How far this feeling will go
is a question, but II may be safe to as
sumo that the business men of the
Senate will look first to the purely trade
features. 1t IL something for some
thing, not something for nothing that
rules in the national councils as well
as in private life. No common stage
saying was so popular as that of Sis
Hopkins: My nav says you can't
make nothin' doin' nothin' for nobody
for nothin'." So 1t Is that the treaty
making power and the concurring body
will both be on guard for American
interests. ..f
There Is a coveting spirit growing in
the East. The idea of annexing Cuba
finds great favor, and the decease of
the Anti-Imperialis.ic league takes
from the field one OF the elements which
has combatted the sentiment. There
can be however no success attending
such a fight for some time. for the
Cubans are too proud of their new
found power to permit the merging of
the island into the great country which
made their own rule possible. The an
nexation of Cuba should 1t come viii
be long delayed.