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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
FOREIGN FACTS AND FANCIFS.

Brigandage is reported to be ram
pant within two hours ride Of vi
emma on the Austro-Hungarian from
tier.
The production of tea has been so
great that 10 out of As companies in
London could not pay a dividend this
year.
Large shipbuilding companies in
Germany which had ordered the con-
struction of a number of large freight
vessels for ocean trade have counter
manded the orders on account of bust
ness depression.
India was in possession of a steel
secret once, which is lost now. This
was the inlaying with gold of steel
blades in such a manner that the
strength OF the blade was notimpaired
nor it's temper spoiled.
The souvenir postcard boom has
reached its height in Germany. The
imperial post office instituted a check
for week and discovered that the
daily average of these pictorial me-
mentos of travel reached the enormous
total of 1,446,93s. The postage paid
on these cards average $17,250 per day.
The latest English channel scheme
is to run submarine boats on cables
strung so feet below the surface of
the channel between England and
France. The speed would be 20 knots,
there would be no vibration and per-
feet safety would be secured By an
iron weight which On being dropped
would allow the boat to rise to the sur
face. There would be salon compart-
ments with electric lights and all con-
yeniences.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

dear reader, who set the styles for>the
great masses of the middle classes of
American women. The middle classes
emulate the rich in many ways, and es-
pecially in that of dress, SO far as pos
sible. And the rich enjoy the distinc-
ton thus thrust upon them. 1t was
only last month that / called the atten-
ton of wealthy acquaintance to the
fact that one of her fayorite costumes
had been reproduced by poor ac
quaintance of mine, a woman to whom
$12 or SIS gown was a luxury. She
had accomplished the emulation by the
use of paratively inexpensive ma
terials and the use of her brains and
fingers. The wealthy woman was
proud of the fact that her taste had
been considered of sufficient merit to
be worthy of copying.
And now let us take glance a t some
of these evening costumes of this same
set of American fashion models, cos
tunes the expense of which runs far
beyond the purchasing power of the
average woman of the middle classes,
but which at the same time may be re-
paratively small expense by the use of
less expensive materials.
A charming evening gown seen at
one of the theaters recently was of
black net trimmed with white blond
lace and black sequin embroidery. The
black net was made up over white glace
silk. At the foot of the skirt were two
accordion-plaited frills of black chit
fon, edged with narrow white inser-
ton. Designs of black sequin embroid-
cry, outlined with fine steel beads, run
down the skirt with white blond inser-
tion on each side. This trimming
scheme is carried out alternately all
around the skirt. The bodice is low
decollete and slightly full in front,
with a deep crushed girdle of shrimp
pink panne. Wee ruffies of black chif-
fon edged with tiny white insertion
form very short sleeves and fancy bo-
lero trimmed around the top with
crushed pink velvet and silk roses and
strappings of black velvet.
The evening blouses are quite as pop
ular as the entire gowns. One of these
was made of pale blue glace silk, yelled
with white lace which was embroid-
cred with tiny flowers in pink and blue
silk and entwined scrolls of gold
thread. There was wee double ruch-
ing of white chiffon around the low
decollete, with straps over the shout
ders of black velvet baby ribbon. Mar
ROW bands of lace about the arms, with
deep frills of lace below, formed the
sleeves. The girdle was pointed and
formed of bands of black velvet baby
ribbon with narrow lace insertion be-
tween.
Another blouse of the semievenino
order was of Irish crochet appliqued
in ecru batiste and embellished with
tiny roses of white chiffon This was
made over soft silk in eau de Nile. 1t
had round neck and elbow sleeves and
a slight fullness directly in front at
the waist line. A crushed girdle of eau
de Nile panne.
SARAH DAVIDSON.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

son, at the time the new attractions
are being offered, and every night each
will show some change in her costume.
If it is not an entirely new gown it will
be a new blouse, or a new skirt, or a
new wrap, or some smaller, though not
unimportant, detail of her costume.
These people are the fashion plates of
America, and they glory in being con-
sidered as such. Their costumes are
described for the information of thou
sands of American women, who,
though they may not be able to dress
so deliberately, find many suggestions
for making less expensive clothing
from these descriptions.
The furnishing of ideas is the true
province of the fashion writer. The
ideas may be carried out along lines
that are impossible with the great ma
jority of the readers; the materials of
which these models are constructed
may be well beyond the power of the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
WANTS MORE BIRTHS.
French Parliamentary Commission
to Devise Means to Increase
the Population.

Anxiety over the depopulation of
France resulted in an interesting de-
bate in the French senate the other
day when Waldeck-Rousseau, the pre-
mier, accepted, in the name of the gov
eminent, proposal for the nominal
ton of an extra parliamentary COM
mission to seek means of increasing
the birth rate and diminishing NOR
tally. The proposal was counter
signed by 1873 senator's. Senator Ber-
nard, in proposing the inquiry, COM
pared the peopling of France with that
of other nations throughout the nine
teenth century. AT the beginning of
that century France had 10000, 900 in
habitants, Germany 100000 inhab-
itanAt' and England 100000 inhabit-
ants. Now France has $4,000, 900 inhab-
itants, Germany 56,00O,000 inhabitants
and England 100000.
He combated the theory that in pop
ulation quality is better than quantity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
THE EVENING GOWNS OF
RICH new YORK WOMEN
THEY SERVE AS MODELS FOR LESS EXPENSIVE
COSTUMES OF OTHERS.

ordinary woman to buy, but they have
long since found that expensive mate
rials is not the only thing needed to
make an attractive and fashionable
garment. There are comparatively
few of the elaborate costumes worn by
these New York models of fashion
which cannot be practically reproduced
with goods that need not cost one
tenth of that used in the originals. [
have known of many cases in which
deft home fingers have, in a compare
lively short time, duplicated at a small
cost and with inexpensive materials
some of the most elaborate gowns de-
scribed in the modern fashion letter.
The above paragraphs are offered in
the nature of an explanation. But
few days ago l received a letter from
western reader asking why [ confined
myself, as a rule, to the gowns worn
by the very rich. 1t is the very rich,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

order as the evening gowns for other
occasions, while those for more ordi-
nary wear SAVIOR very much of the aft
ernoon reception gown.
OF the distinctly swagger set in New
York there are a very few of whom it
is said they never wear the same gown
to the theater they would wear to an
evening home party or fashionable
ball; that their Wardrobes are so COM
plete as to include gowns for every
possible occasion and of such variety
as to seemingly never wear the same
one twice. / can well believe that this
is true, as 1 have occasion to see at
least a portion of this swagger set each
winter upon numerous occasions, and
I do not believe | have ever seen any
of them dressed twice alike in all de-
tails. You may see them at the theater
every night for a week, as is often the
case during the earlier part of the sea-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

The daily rail Beaumont oil ship
tnehts are 1880 barrels exclusive of
pipe shipments.
Oak lumber loses 20 per cent of it's
weight in process of seasoning, and
over 80 per cent. when perfectly dry.
A heather was originally dweller
on the German heaths, the last local
tiles in Germany to accept the Chris
tan religion.
The mountain Indians of Mexico
have different kinds of rattles, the
body bearing grotesque resemblance
TO the human form.
This year 60,o0O,0OO young fish will
be turned loose in the Columbia river,
Ore. 1t is estimated 100000 will
return to get caught after fattening
up along the ocean coast. The pres
ent annual pack there takes 100000
fish.
What is said to be one of the earliest
known maps of America has been dis
covered in the library of Wolfegg cas-
tie, which belongs to Prince Won VALID
g-Wolfegg. The map was drawn in
1907 by Martin Waldsee Muller, by
whom America is said to have been
named after the explorer Amerigo
Vespucci.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

Tell all. 1 know only that she,
woman. reigns, where, by the an
cient law of the land, a man should
rule; that she is not even CT the
priestly clan from which the law
says all rulers must be drawn; and
that, from what you say, she has
caused the throne to totter. The
throne was as firm as the everlast-
ing hills in the old kings day, Ia
tho"
History has moved with pace since
then, and Phorenice has spurned 1t.
You know her origin?"
81 know only the exact little 1
have told you.''
"She was a swineherd's daughter
from the mountains, though this is
never even whispered now, as she
has declared herself to be a daugh-
ter of the gods, with a miraculous
birth and upbrihging. AS she has
decreed it a sacrilege to question
this parehtage, and has ordered to
be burned all those that seem to rec
| ollect her more earthly origin, the
fable passes current for truth. You
see the faith 1 put in you, Deucal-
ion, by telling you what you wish to
| learn"
''There has always been trust be
TWEEN u.s.
81 know; but this habit of sus-
picion is hard to cast off, even with
| you. However, let me put your good
faith between me and the torture
| f11r bpT.
governor of the swineherd's prov
ince, and Zaemon's wife saw Phor-
enice and took her away to adopt
and bring up as her own. 1t is said
that the swineherd and his women
objected; perhaps they did; anyway,
[ know they died; and Phorenice was
taught the arts and graces, and
brought up as a daughter of the
Priestly clan"
''But still she was an adopted
daughter only" l objected.
"The omission of the adopted was
her will at an early age" said Ia
tho, dryly, "and she learned early to
have her wishes carried into fact.
1t was notorious that before she had
grown to Is years she ruled not only
the women of the household, but
Zaemon also, and the province that
was beyond Zaemon."
"Zaemon was learned" I said, "and
a devout follower of the gods, and
searcher into the higher mysteries;
| but, as n ruler, he was always a
fabby fellow"
81 do not say that opportunities
have not come usefully in Phoren-
ices way, but she had genius as
well. For her to have raised her
self at all from what she was, was
remarkable Not one woman out of
a thousand, placed as she was, would
have grown to be aught higher than
a mere wife of some sturdy country
man, who was sufficiently simple to
care nothing for pedigree. But look
at Phorenice: it was her within to
take exercise as man-at-arms and
practice with all the utensils of war;
and then, before anyone quite knows
how or why it happened, rebellion
had broken out in the province, and
here was she, slip of a girl, leading
Zaemon's troops"
''Zaemon, when l knew him, was
mere derision in the feld.''
"Hear me on. Phorenice put down
the rebellion in mastery fashion, and
gave the conquered choice between
sword and service. They fell into
her ranks at once, and were faithful
to her from that moment. I tell you,
| Deucalion, there is a marvellous fas-
cination about the woman.
ITO Be Continued
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

Tatho shrugged his shoulders. 81
acted only according to mine educa-
ton. At home, loose tongue makes
loose head, and there are those
whose trade it is to carry tales. Still,
what 1 say is this: The throne
shakes, and Phorenice sees the need
of sturdy props. So she has sent this
proclamation"
"But why come to me? 1t is 20
| years since / sailed to this colony,
and from that day [ have not re-
turned to Atlantis once. l know lit
tie of the old country's politics.
What small parcel of news drifts out
to us across the ocean reads with
slender interest here. Yucatan is
another world, my Tatho, as you in
the course of your government will
learn, with new interests, new peo-
pie, new everything. To us here At
lantis is only a Pigment, a shadow, far
away across the waters. 1t is for this
new world of Yucatan that 1 have
striven through all these years"
eff Deucalion has small time to
spare from his government for brood
ing over his fatherland, Atlantis, at
least, has found leisure to admire
the deeds of her brilliant son. Why
sir, over yonder at home. your name
carries magic with it. When you and
1 were lads together, it was the GUS
tom in the colleges to teach that the
men of the past were the greatest
this world has ever seen; but to-day
this teaching is changed. 1t is
Deucalion who is held up as the
model and example. Mothers name
their sons Deucalion. as the most
valuable b.rth-gift they can make.
Deucalion is a household word. In
deed, there is only one name that is
near to it in familiarity"
'You trouble me-" | said, frowning.
81 have tried to do my duty for it's
own sake, and for the country's sake,
not for the pattings and fondlings
of the vulgar. And besides, if there
are names to be in every ones
mouth, they should be the names of
the gods"
Tatho shrugged his shoulders.
''The gods? They occupy us very lit
tie these latter years. With our mod
ern science, we have grown past the
tether of the old gods, and no new
one has appeared. No, my Lord
Deucalion, if it were merely the
gods who were your competitors on
mems lips, your name would be a
thousand times the better known"
''Of mere human Names" 1 said,
''the name of this new empress
should come first in Atlantis, our
lord the old king being now dead"
''She certainly would have it So"
replied Tatho; and there was some
thing in his tone which made me see
that more was meant behind the
words. I drew him to one of the mar
BILE seats. and bent myself Familiarity
toward him. 81 am speaking" l said,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
toward him.

mot of the new yiceroy of Yucatan,
but to my old friend Tatho, a mem
Der of the priests clan, like myself,
with whom | worked side by side in
score of the smaller home gov
ernments, in hamlets, in villages, in
smaller towns, in greater towns, as
we gained experience in war and
knowledge in the art of ruling peo-
pie, and so tedlously won our promo
ton. l am speaking in Tatho's pri-
vate abode, that was mine own not
two hours since, and | would have an
answer with that piainness which we
always then used to one another"
The new viceroy sighed whimsic-
ally. Il almost forget how to speak
in plain words now" he said. "We
have grown so polished in these lat
be Kissed as indicate. But for the
memory of those early years, when
we expended as much law and
thought over the ownership of a hay
byre as we should now over the fate
of rebellious city, l will try and
speak plain to you even now, Deucal-
ion. Tell me, old friend, what is it %
what of this new empress?"
He frowned. Il might have guessed
your subject" he said.
"Then speak upon it. Tell me of all
the changes that have been made.
What has this Phorenice done to
make her throne unstable in Allan
tis?"
Tatho frowned still. eff [ did not
know you to be as honest as our
Lord the Sun, your questions would
carry mischief with them. Phor-
enice has a short way with those
who are, daring enough to discuss
her politics for other purposes than
politely to praise them"
you can leave me ignorant if you
wish," l said, with a touch of chill.
This Tatho seemed to be different
from the Tatho 1 had known at home
-Tatho my workmate, Tatho who
had read with me in the college of
priests, who had run with me in many
furious charge, who had labored
with me so heavily that the peoples
under us might prosper. But he was
quick enough to see my change of
tone.
You force me back to my old
SELF he said, with a half-smile,
though it is hard enough to forget
the caution one has learned during
this last 20 years, even when speak
ing with you. Still, whatever may
have happened to the rest of US, it
is clear to see that you at least have
not changed. and, old friend, I am
ready to trust you with my life if
you ask it. In fact, you do ask me
that very thing when you tell me to
speak all l know of Phorenice"
| nodded. This was more like the
old times, when there was full con-
fidence between us. "The gods will
it now that [ return to Atlantis" |
said, land what happens after that
the gods alone know. But it would
be of service to me if | could land on
her shores with some knowledge of
this Phorenice. for at present | am
as ignorant concerning her as some
savage from Europe or mid-Africa."
What would you have me tel?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
Fourth of July Celebrated in Los
Angeles in an Unusual
Manner

With the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade and mid
summer sun beating down upon the
semi-tropical land, the boys and girls
and many of the grown people of Los
Angeles celebrated the Fourth coast
ing on sleds down long hill slopes
where, not a flake of snow ever has
fallen, says the Chicago Tribune. 1t
probably was the first time on record
that children with bare feet and sun.
bonnets ever enjoyed "sleighing,"
and there can be no doubt that it is
the most unique shedding ever at
tempted.
1t all came about through a disco6-
cry by boy with penchant for in
vestigating and experimenting, who
found that snow isn't the only thing
that makes the hills slippery, and
the result is that the people can and
do now enjoy winter sport where
winter never comes, and without the
necessity of wrapping up their heads
to keep biting frost from nipping off
their precious ears and noses.
After the spring rains the southern
California mountains and hills be-
come thickly covered with weeds and
grasses, which lie and dry in the sum-
mer heat, leaving a brown coating so
thick that it remains until the fol-
lowing season. While playing on
hill an inquisitive lad found the dead
wild mustard so slick that he could
scarcely walk over it. Instinct sug-
gested that he get board and take
a slide, and he did. Other boys saw
him and took hand, and everything
was lovely! Evolution brought sleds
and by common consent the Fourth
was chosen as the time for a sort of
grand opening" A smooth slope
quarter of a mile long was selected,
and everybody who had anything to
coast on, as well as many who hadn't,
was there to enter into the eXhilarat-
ing sport. It was winter carnival
in summer and a remarkable affair.
And hereafter coasting will be a COM
mon pleasure sin southern California.
The spectacle of half q hundred
yelling boys and shrieking girls
shooting down the hill at lightning
express speed, landing in heaps at
the end of the run, and trudging and
pulling their sleds up the long slope
was as strange as it was interesting,
and a crowd stood in the sweltering
heat and watched the unusual per-
Torrance. There were exciting races,
thrilling tumbles when distractions
CHANGED in the way, and hairbreadth
escapes, just like those where snow
and ice afford a smooth but chilly
glideway. At the sleeper places the
sleds go so fast that it did not take
the youngsters long to discover it
would require a brake to keep them
from flying into kingdom come, and
one was improvised. Now they are
in use on all the sleds. A young lady
who took the trip pulled the lever
too far at the wrong moment and
went through a performance that
would shame an acrobat. Before she
was through standing on her head
dozen other sleds and their occu-
pants were piled on top of her.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
The Dietetfc and Hygienic
GnZaffo

says: "Walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester.
Mass, .. S: A, have given years of study
to the skillful preparation of cocoa and
chocolate, and have devised machinery and
systems peculiar to their methods of treat
ment, whereby the purity, palatability, and
highest nutrient characteristics are re-
tanned.
''Their preparations are known the world
over and have received the highest indorse-
ments from the medical practitioner, the
nurse, and the intelligent housekeeper and
caLerer.N
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
Mythology In Kansas.

statue of Ceres be placed on the dome of the
new statehouse, but now he wishes he
hadn't made the proposition" remarked the
exchange editor, as he laid down a Kansas
paper
What's the objection?" asked the tels-
graph editor.
ct is urged that no one in Kansas knows
the lady, and that she probably was an ac-
tress, anyhow 1t is the opinion that the
figure of Chief Fewclothes, an Indian, would
be more appropriate as an ornament to the
dome of the Kansas statehouse"
We'll, l should think that statue of
Chief Fewclothes would be a nude depar-
ture, at any te."-Pittsburg Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
Had Him Th ere

"How crazy you women act over the
''Woman's page!' " said Mr.. Pozenby, in a
tone of whitening sarcasm. II wonder why
the papers don't have Mans page too?"
"They do" Mrs. Pozenby replied
I've never seen one"
ooh, yes, you have. It's the page devoted
to prize fighting and horse racing and other
occupations of that sort. ~ ouths Com
panion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

His remedies were the adoption of fis-
cal measures in favor of large fam
lilies, and, above all, of legislation to
check the terrible mortality among in
fants. In the latter regard another
speaker declared that it was well
known that the baby farming system
in France resulted in the death of
about so per cent. of the infants So
reared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
What He Would Do,

"My poor, hungry man, if 1 were to
give you a nickel, what would you
do with it?'' inquired the lady with
the angular smeller and the uncer-
tain spectacles.
"I'll tell yer, num-" replied the gen
tleman with the struggling whiskers
and yearning bread pouch; It'll git
Turkish bath an buy ottymubble
wild tn change. Where's tie ten.
mum ?"-Denver Times,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

given to social pleasures. Of course
with the evening gown must be includ=
ed the afternoon reception gown also,
as it has place throughout the entire
winter season, though it becomes of
greater importance after Lent than 1t
does before Lent. Afternoon recep-
tions have within the past two or three
years become popular diversion with
society in New York during the days
of sackcloth and ashes.
The theater gown is another of the
garments that must be given place in
the winter wardrobe, though the elab-
crate affair designed for this purpose,
the ones worn upon the occasion of
theater box parties of some moment,
are quite as elaborate and of the same
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14
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