Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-30

IN Saturday. 1t is a female. years old.
| ana weighs about 1900 pounds Ii is six
feet high and was in good humor.
Mrs. John L. Gardner. on her return
| 70 Boston from a visit in the country
i has complained to the police that during
her absence someone fired revolver or
| rifle bullet into her Venetian palacl
smashing hole in n large plate glass
window and damaging a valuable Iif.-
size bronze statue Mrs. Gardner is much
alarmed over the affair. and took the
| Hattened bullet along with her to nolica
headquarters as evidence of the fact ;bai
through accident or design the lives of
members of her household had been on
dangered.
Former Senator Edward Murphy. once
the political dictator of Troy. and tho
faithful ally of Richard Croker in hi.
war on David Il. Hill. is ont of politics
ms information is impaired by a friend
OF Murphy, who said the former senate.
IS content to enjoy himself in his home
| at Elberon. y. j.. without troubling hinl-
self over party issues and policies, RicL-
ard Croker's determination to deyoI.
himself entirely to his horses and MuI-
| phys retirement leave the management.
OF the Democratic organization in the
| hands of Hill.
1t was definitely announced that Viola
| Allen starring tours after this season
would be under the direction Of her broth
| er. Charles W. Allen. Iiebler < Co. have
no option on Miss Aliens services after
the present season. Frank J. Wilstach
| has been engaged as business mana GER
and many prominent players are already
under contract. Charles w, Allen is ne
! sotiating with Ben Greet the London
| manager. whose company is now present
ing "EYeryman" in this country. to stage
Miss Aliens forthcoming production OF
Twelfth Night"
Mother SommerS, the friend of the
east side poor, is dead. The wealthy wife
| of German physician. She had passed
| from atttucnCe To poverty, retaining only
| the splendid pride which in misfortune
as III prosperity made her face the world
with a smile. The mistress of an indie
! pendent fortune she might have lived in
| luxury. but she preferred To cast her lot
with the poor. She was coal angel"
in winter and a fresh air worker in the
summer. For fifteen years she let out
| lodgings to folk in poor circumstances
! like herself. Mother" Sommers made
herself one of them.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt will soon add
! find pleasure in their racing stables. He
| promises TO race under his colors as fine
| 4 string Of flyers as any in this coun-
| try. He is tired of the automobile and
| the tallyho. Mr.. Vanderbilt will own
! his own race track. There is Il half-mile
| oval ut his farm in Portsmouth and it
| will he put into readiness by the time
| its owner and his bride return from Ell
rope He will then buy a string OF the
| best animals he can find, including
number of brood mares.
Summer rates for apartments-that Is.
| 4 reduction OF between 10 and p per
cent. in rent-are not to be i'll force this
| season. Free rent for 4 month during
the May-time moving season has also
| been generally discontinued. In apart
ments that cost from $4,000 to $4,000
! year occupants are supposed to pay rent
for all the time they are in them. 1t
! costs 50 much to run them and SO much
| is expected in the way of service that the
| owners will not stand for free rent. even
| to get a desirable tenant. They would
| rather let the apartments remain idle UNI
| til October, which is gradually getting 20
be the popular moving time in New York
Charcoal baths to reduce flesh have
been introduced by Mamie Gilroy, the
actress known as Lady Bountiful -
/
simple process of bathing twice a day
| in an inky liquid made up of five pounds
| of pulverized charcoal and ten gallons
of water. She remains in the water
about five minutes, vigorously rubbing
herself with a bath glove Besides re-
ducing flesh Miss Gilroy says this treat
ment imports a marble-like hrmness and
| elabaSter Wilderness to the body. No
dieting or exercise is necessary. At first
the massage is rather gritty, but after
| vigorous manipulation the solution be-
comes Ciy, making the charcoal bath
! luxury rs well as Il tirSt-rate anti-fat
specific.
| Collector Stranahan received through
the mails an American Express company
money order for S13.15, inclosed in a
note which read as follows:
New-York, May Il, 1908.
! own OnEel Sam summe of take
wouldst I did not pay. And now l have it
saved oh and ! sent you what | ought to.
| hope You called even. And / never Will
do admitting in kind.
Your n w.
By a curious coincidence, the collector
also received SIS in cash, which came
folded in a piece of paper, inscribed
! Some customs not collected This
communication was in large envelope
of the Hamburg merican line, and was
AttlN tItu ny Il ucSSSbScl.
The long drought is causing a short
age OF vegetables in New York city. and
prices are going up by leaps and bounds
y few days more of dry weather will
/ lift them out of the sight Of the ordinary
consumer. Only certain vegetables inn
ported from the south will remain avail
able in ordinary quantities. The great
staple products grown on Long island.
Staten island and in Jersey. such as spin
ach lettuce and radisheS. are 50 scarce
that the necessity for finding substitutes
has so increased the demand for old po-
tatoeS. peas and beans that IN increase
Of - to 20 per cent. in prices has re
salted. TIE cost of living TO those who
use vegetables has increased nearly one
fourth in n few weeks. Some Of the in
creuses are: Old onions. a quart from
q to Ia cents; new onions. dozen. -
TO - cents: lettuce, a head ~ cents 10
: and 10 cents; asapargus. 20 to - cents;