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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Why Girls Can't Spin ions.

Did You ever see girl spin a top?
Did you ever see her carefully and
closely wind a string around the cone,
and then. with quick throw and jerk,
give it the necessary rotary motion to
send it whirling right side up? You
never did, and probably you never
will, because the ready possibility of
woman's anatomy.
A girl can twirl rope and jump
one enough times to weary her watch
ing brother. the Chicago Record-Her-
aid explains, but top in her hands
is a useless thing, and the brother
only laughs at her efforts to spin it. if
she makes them, as he laughs at all
her efforts in the direction of throw.
ing.
Observe the children playing in the
streets at top spinning seasons. You
may watch all day and not see one
girl with top in her hand. while you
will see hundreds with skipping ropes
If you see any playing with balls they
will be simply bouncing them on the
pavements, using very short
cramped motion of the arm in doing
So
The simple fact is that a girl can.
not throw, in the true sense of the
term, because of the peculiar con.
struction of her shoulder When a
boy throws ball he bends his elbow
reaches back win his forearm and
uses every joint from shoulder to
wrist His arm is relaxed. A girl
throws with rigid arm. because her
collar bone is larger and sits lower
than boys. This prevents the free
motion of the arm required for
strength and accuracy in throwing
hence she cannot spin top properly
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Science as a Certainty.

A scientist is seldom a humorist,
but he is often funny. In digging at
the base of hill near Lansing, KAN
sas, couple of weeks ago some
laborers found skeleton, 1t had
lain in the ground for some time and
crumbled easily. The skeleton was
of little use, even as a skeleton, when
information of the find" got into the
local papers. A wise reporter, who
was ION space" collected some scien-
.tific terms which bore more or less
upon skeletons and scattered them
judiciously over a column. Scientists
from Chicago, Minneapolis. st. Paul
and Kansas City saw this column and
went hot-foot to Lansing. There they
found the skull They examined il
and the spot in which it was found.
The reporter had placed the original
skeleton in the chaplain age" The
scientists did not agree with him and
said that the skull belonged to the
"'lowan stage of the glacial period.
the interglacial, or earlier" They
agreed also, that the skull is from
10000 to $4,000 years old. The re-
porter stands pat and refuses to
bulge from the "Champlain age"
though, among friends, he has ad-
mitted that the skull wore an air of
since the war The Lansing
skull has been placed in the Kansas
City museum, and the scientists who
say that it is not younger than 10000
and not older than 10000 years affirm
that nothing older in the skull line
has been found in any of the
Americas. Attempts have been made
TO induce them to be trifle more
definite as to the age of the skull,
but they have refused to be tied
down 20 conclusion that will not
give them leeway of 10000 years.
The reporter who launched the skull
is more open to conviction and saws
that he is willing to admit that the
skulfs owner may have quit" in or
even before the Civil war. Kansas is
divided upon the question, but a ma
Jority of the voters are ranged upon
the side of the reporter simply be.
cause he confesses he is willing to
stake his reputation on single
century instead of scattering it over
$4,000 years. Such scientists as have
not seen the skull are with him. The
Old settlers also line up with him or
the ground that the first authentic
Killing in Kansas did not happier
more than GO or 20 years ago, IF sc
far back as that" Meanwhile the,
are making a glass case for the
Lansing skull. The Onlooker.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Mummies Make Paint

20. many persons are aware VI the
TACT that the best brown paint used
by artists is made from human
bodies. Brown artists color is made
OF mummies taken out of the
Egyptian mausoleums. When a per-
son died in the east a century or two
b. c. he was preserved in the finest
bitumen. The remains of a body
treated thus in those times on being
unwrapped today, present an appear
ance similar to light-colored leather.
The bitumen and the leatherlike re-
mains are ground down by machinery
and turned into a beautiful brown
iiquld paint, the delight of all artists.
The big color dealers generally keep
mummy locked away in an air
tight case for use when required. A
single one will last for years ana
make a stupendous amount of color.
In the manufacture of artists
colors animal. vegetable and minera:
substances are largely used Grim.
son and purple, lakes and carmine are
all obtained from the cochincal in.
sect. Sepia is the dark fluid dis
charged by the cuttlefish to render
the water Opaque for its own conceal.
ment when attacked by larger fish.
Prussian blue is made by fusing the
hoofs of horses with impure potas.
SUM carbonate, and ultramarine is
obtained from the precious mineral
known as lapis lazli. Gamboge is
the yellow sap of tree which grows
In Siam. and raw sienna Is the
natural earth from Sienna; when
burned 1t becomes burnt sienna.
Turkey red is made from the Indian
nader plant. There is only one
color that English people do not
know how to produce. and that is
India ink. Only the Chinese can
make it, and they refuse to divulge
he secret.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Summer Deserts.

whipped cream is an essential ac.
compartment Of the most delicious of
summer desserts. and in preparing II
IL is important that the cream be well
chilled, otherwise it will not whip
sim. Another point to remember ;s
that II must not be too rich or n win
turn bitter during the whipping pro.
cess. II 1t SENS too heavy dilute with
MIX While whipping the cream place
the bowl in larger bowl or nan
nied with ice water or chopped ice.
Add the favoring or sweetenipe bel
lore or after the whipping process ac-
ocrdlng to fancy. To serve with
compete whipped ream prepared in
u,is way is very good. To half pint
o. rich cream allow a quarter of Gun
iui OF milk, two rounded tablespoon.
iuis OF powdered sugar and a half
glass OF sherry. Put all the ingredients
III a bowl and whip.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
BOYS AND GIRLS.

great big hat with black velvet bows
and a bunch of yiolets on it,
That old thing?" exclaimed Rosie.
She looked perfectly ridiculous in it
last year. don't think it at all suit
able for business, do you?"
mo, indeed" said Kitty. II wish,
though, that we horses didn't have to
go to business. We'd be much happier
if we could all be one of a pair, and
just draw carriage for pleasure
Carriages and pairs are all going
out" grumbled Bessie Bay-horse sour
ly. Its those old automobiles. They
shove us out of AL the pleasant places
in life, but l notice, when it comes to
the pinch, We have to help them out
And there's not one of them strong
enough to drag load of railroad
sleepers, or any other load that's any
ways heavy. They can supplant US il
they want to. the time will come when
we horses will strike, and only take
the easy positions, and then see how
they'll manage!"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Stonewall Jackson a Poet.

The following lines were written
while Jackson was an artillery officer
IN Mexico, during the war between
the United States and that country:
Ny Wife and Child.
The tatto beats. the lights are gone,
The camp around in slumber lies:
The night with solemn pace moves on
The shadows thicken DER the skies.
But sleep my weary eyes hath flown.
And sad. uneasy thoughts arise,
think of thee, oh. dearest one.
Whose love my early life hath blest,
or thee and him-our baby SON
Who slumbers on thy gentle breast.
God of the tender, frail and lone.
oh! guard the tender sleepers' rest.
And hover gently, hover near,
To her, whose watchful eye is wet.
10 mother, wife-the doubly dear.
In whose young heart have freshly
met
Two streams Of love so deep and
And cheer her dropping spirits yet.
Now. while she kneels before Thy
throne,
Oh teach her, ruler of the skies.
That while they behest alone,
Earth's mightiest powers fan or
rise,
NO tear is wept to thee alone,
No hair is lost, no sparrow dies
That Thou canst stay the ruthless
hands
or dark disease and soothe its pain
mat only by thy stern commands
The battles lost. the soldier slain.
rhat from the distant sea or land
Thou bringst the wanderer home
again.
Ana when upon her pillow lone
Her tear-wet cheeks are sadly prest
May happier visions bear uron
The Frightening current of her
breast;
NO frowning look nor angry tone
Disturb the Sabbath of her rest
Whatever fate those forms may show.
Loved with passion almost wild
by day-by night-in Joy or woe
BY fears oppressed of hopes be-
guiled.
From every danger, every foe,
OH God! protect my wife and child.
Richmond Times
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
How to Make Traps.

In Gibsons Camp Life in the
Woods and the Tricks of Trapping"
published some years ago, the follow
ing effective traps that can be easily
made are described:
A mouse trap may be made with a
bowl and knife blade. Put piece
of cheese on the end of the blade
knife. Lift one edge of the bowl and
put the knife, standing on it's edge,
under it, allowing the bait to be about
an inch and half beneath the bowl.
The odor of cheese will attract the
mouse and he will find his way under
the edge of the bowl, and very slight
nibble will tip the blade and the bowl
will fall over the prisoner
A thimble may be used in place of
the knife. Force the cheese into the
thimble and put the thimble under the
bowl with the open end inward, allow
ing about half the length of the Thin
Bile to project out of it. The mouse,
in trying to get the cheese out of the
thimble, will cause the bowl to fall
If the thimble be too small to allow
the mouse to pass under the edge of
the bowl, put piece of pastboard or
fiat chip under the thimble.
To make fly trap, take a tumbler
and half fill it with strong soapsuds
But circle of stiff paper which will
exactly fit into the top of the glass,
and in the center of the paper cut a
hole half an inch in diameter. A slice
of bread may be used in place of the
stiff paper. Smear the under side of
the disk with molasses before insert
ing. Flies viii find their way down
ward through the hole, and once below
the paper their doom is sealed In
their efforts to escape they will fall
into the soapsuds and speedily perish.
By setting a number of such traps in
a room it will soon be rid of the pests
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
HORSE MILLINERY.

1t was very early in the morning and
all the horses in the boarding-stable
were getting ready to go to business.
How do you like my new hat?"
asked Kitty Gray-horse, as she placed
a straw hat on her shapely head, and
cleverly drew her ears through the
ear-holes.
Very stylish and becoming" said
Rosie Red-horse Pull it a little
more over your forehead. There! How
very becoming the scarlet trimming is
to YOU. Now can't wear scarlet at
all. | look like a fright in ii"
You look like fright in anything,
mumbled Bessie Bay-horse, ill-natured-
". half under her breath.
What's that?" asked Rosie sharply.
Some people haven't any more man
ners than TO MUNICH their words"
Did you happen TO meet the dark
complexioned horse that draws the
candy wagon?" asked Kitty pleasant
by.
No, what kind of hat is she wear
ling this summer" asked Rosie.
The same one she wore last year. A
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
THE STRENGTH OF ROME.
Empire More Limited In Extent Than
Generally Supposed.


Rome was much more limited in ex-
tent and powe. than is generally sup
posed. The city which holds sway
over every land and sea" is a mere
hyperbole, nothing more. Three
thousand miles by 1000 was the ut
most extent to which it ever attained.
The most cool-headed and astute of
emperors was rot slow TO recognize
that extent of territory did not make
for the strength and stability of the
empire. The real strength of Rome
was confined to the fringe of the
Mediterranean. AS matter of fact.
neither Greek nor Rome civilization
ever did penetrate much beyond those
fertile shores.
From the day that Hanno, the Car
thaginian, defieG the Romans to as
much as wash their hands in the sea
to that on which the empire of the
east engaged Genoese ships and sea-
men to chase the Turks out OF the
Bosporus the Romans proved con-
temptible sailc.s. And universal sway
in the domain either of politics or
commerce has never yet been held by
a race which shrank from the perils
and hardships of the sea It is only
the master of the sea, runs the ancient
maxim, who will acquire the dominion
of the land
Deprived of all rights and privi-
leges, hampered and restricted i'm
every way which malice and jealousy
could devise, the Carthaginians proved
more than match in trade and com.
merce for their relentless Roman mas
tiers, and continued so to i'll the
Romans annihilated them. Not with
out cause was it that Cato declared
Carthage must be RACED and the plow-
share run over its site. The CONNER
cial supremacy of Corinth, too, dete:.
mined the Romans to wreak destruc-
ton on that brilliant center of light
and leading; while it was observed
with grim humor that many of the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
REASONS.

The reason raspberries are white
And rocking chairs are pink,
Is just because / took a bite
OF sponge-cake dipt in ink.
The reason tables always run
While every doormat hops.
Is just because | filed the gun
With pepperminute drops.
The reason watermelons weep
AS if their hearts would break.
Is just because had to keep
A ribbon on the rake.
The reason humming-bIrds will noS
Wear buttons on their shoes,
Is just because | built the cot
For crooked cockatoos.
Carolyn Wells
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
POOR OLD BullER.
He Remains Personally Popular De-
spite Errors in Front of ladysmith.

he Remains Personally Popular De-
spite Errors in Front of ladysmith.
Next to General Butler in point of
popularity comes, strange to say, that
taciturn, relentless, cold-eyed man.
Kitchener. He is popular with all
classes because he represents force.
which is thing that human nature
bows down to all the world over.
Kitchener personally, he who is
known to his would-be intimates as
*" is unknown to the masses.
They are familiar with his photo
graphs, which abound in the shop
windows and the illustrated papers.
but of the man himself they know
nothing. The little anecdotes that
are told about popular generals, which
are calculated to hold them up to the
admiration of mankind, are missing in
the case of Kitchener There have
not been more than half a dozen OF
these stories with "K'' as a central
figure since the war began, and most
of >these are apocryphal. He is
merely the man who ended the
war" and that is sufficient for the
British public: which is also qull,
enough reason for making him q
popular figure. =
The war Office is desirous OF SEM
ing him to India as, COMMANDMENTS
chief. He does not want to go. for
he knows that India is enervating:
that 1t is an idle mans billet. where
the tedium of routine service is mere
~ broken by the gossip of society
soldiers and their wives. Kitchener
is a working soldier with ideas of
his own about the duties demanded of
man in his place, and he. with
laudabie ambition has his eye Cd the
war office. The public wants him
there. The newspapers, for once rep.
resents factor which is strong
enough to override public opinion. II
means that Lord Roberts clings to
ms pots with the tenacity OF fight
ing bulldog. He is in for FIVE years
and he knows that only the king can
remove him from the exalted post
which he now holds and of. which he
now knows no more than he did ON
the day he took charge in Pail Mall.
The king is DESTROYS of meeting the
public wishes to give Lord Roberts
his final retirement from active con
nection with the army. and would like
to succeed him with the Duke of Con-
naught, who is keen soldier and n
hard working one, but if Lord Roberts
chooses to hold on he may be allowed
to remain. for there is no desire to
create another army scandal. II the
duke goes to the war Office he will
undoubtedly talSe Kitchener with him
as adjutant general That post has
lately been reduced to one of minor
Importance, and the executive work.
which was formerly attended to Dy
this official. is now performed by a
council composed of lot of anti
quated generals. They are about as
useful in the war office as parcel of
old women in the engine room OF on
Atlantic liner. In the meantime. how
ever. Kitchener's luggage is la0cled
for India. Brooklyn Eagle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
When Children Should Go Barefoc

WnCH SIftQtCIf Su0ut0 NJ 6dIC loOh.
"A Virginia Mother would know
whether ''the southern custom of
children running barefoot from the LIST
of May until the LIST of October is
conducive to health or the contrary"
She adds: You may not know that
boys belonging to the best families
do this
| do know how prevalent in the
southland is practice, which at the
north is confined almost exclusively
to the poorer classes. A southern
physician maintains that for boy to
run barefooted for several months is
more clearly and more healthful than
for him to wear shoes and stockings.
More clearly, because stockings and
shoes confine perspiration, which is
the natural outflow of impure humors.
and force the system to absorb effete
matter, not to mention the fact that
the average lad is more likely to wash
his feet by wading through pool and
brook than by bathing at home.
This same average boy, says our
doctor, if he wear shoes and stock
ings, has wet feet during most of the
day. He soaks them in dew, he
tramps ankle deep through marshes.
he fords streams, and stands, with
never a conjunction, over his boot
tops in water while fishing. 1t is too
much trouble to go home to change his
footwear. and he is too accustomed
to the discomfort to speak of it 90 his
mother. She never suspects the i'm
prudence until he is seized by Sum
meT cold" that strengthens into pneu-
monia.
There is something-there may be
much-in the opinion that merits re-
spectful consideration.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25

of achievement had never been seen
before, and probably will never agaih
be witnessed. In variety and extent
it may be surpassed in India: in rich
ness and coloring and in brilliancy of
effect it may be exceeded in China;
but for artistic quality of coloring,
for appropriateness of effect. for
originality of design, for observation
of natural objects, for perfection OF
handiwork in metal, in wood, IN
ivory. in lacquer. it remains as yet
unequal in the world.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Little Jack Hornet.

No more I'll prod hornets nest.
really do not think it best.
The creatures don't know how to play
Though sharp in ev'ry other way.
l merely took little goad
And merely tickled their abode,
When out they came like anything,
And made me feel like one large sting.
And though l truly am not slow
They showed me points do not know
| really do not think it best
To NEEDLE with hornets nest.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Cheerfulrcss.

grave not that | ma. possess
Command, or worldwide praise,
Or gold; but only cheerfulness
To last me all my days.
So that no matter what the drain
That comes from while to while
Through grief, adversely or pain,
l meet, it with a smile.
And still l ask little more
Than this to round my need;
| fam would have. from out my store
To give to these who need.
Edwin L. Sabin in New idea
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Heavy Downpour Expected.

1T isn't raining, is it?" asked Sniff
fins OF snaggs. who had just come In
NO, but IL has notion to-"
Then there will be a food"
Now so?"
You say it has an ocean to rain -
Pittsburs Chronicle Telegraph.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Art in japan.

Japan had long been, and still was
In 1900. fit nurse for artistic, II
not poetic, children. Though lie
most famous sculptors and pairtai Z
lived before 1850, yet from that daL
to 1900 there elided on the gol Ic,l
time. the acme and zenith of Japanese
slt. The like of ii in the sum total
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
Good Little Girl.

The story is told OF little girl in
England who, when rain water was
scarce, saved up as much of it as she
could and then sold it for a cent a
bucket, says the Detroit Free Press.
In this way she earned nearly IS,
which she brought to the missionary
society. She was modest little girl,
and when the secretary of the mis-
sionary society asked for her name
she hesitated and failed to answer
But | must put down where the
money came FROM said the secre-
tary. Call it rain from heaven" re-
piled the little girl.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25

Greek cities prospered apace in vir-
tue of the fact that they produced
wealth more rapidly than theirs Roman
masters could consume it.-Contem-
porary Review.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-25
ThUght II Was Serious.

Big strike up in Milwaukee"
What, the brewers
mo: the school teachers"
ooh. the school teachers. Saw. Won
startled me at frst"-Cleveland pla,.,
Dealer.