Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-04-02

ers already feel gratifed with the outlook.
because the ballroom has been engaged
for nearly every night up TO june. and
no less than fourteen weddings will be
celebrated there in the next fortnight.
Replying to articles published recently
in London raising n question as to the
success of the ministers of the world in
spreading the gospel, Rabbi Silyerman OF
the Temple Emanu-El declares that athe-
ism and agnosticism are now generally
looked upon as evidences of intellectual
weakness. THE Ingersollian type" he
asserted "has almost disappeared from
polite society. There is tacit under
standing that religion is an evidence Of
culture and refinement, and that it has
wholesome effect upon the development
of man. There never was Il time when
men of all shades of belief were as inter
ested in religious study, in worship aud
practice as today"
One of the latest attractions in Fifth
avenue is 1.-The man with the mask" who
is engaged cleaning the stone front of
the knckerbocker Trust company build
ing, just across the way from the Wall
! dorf Astoria. This worker wears a suit
of blue, ovcrais and mask of heavy
white duck that covers his head and
shoulders as completely as does that of
Il uiheI. III IEouI pI the U1dSk Is IL MIR
row sheet Of glass, set in a copper frame,
through which he watches the effect of
the spray % some powerful liquid with
which he washes down the surface to be
cleaned The spray is applied through
the nozzle of rubber hose from an en-
CINE mounted on a covered truck standing
AT the curb.
The winter Of 1903-4. with its long ron
"A Il Goa ~ al h
ord of having been the coolest in the am
mails of the New York weather bureau
The mean temperature has been % l-3
degrees. Billiards. and heavy snowstorms
were responsible for a snowfall of IS
inches, which cost the street cleaning de-
partment more than 100000. There
have been nearly 2O00 fires since Decem-
Der |, and with the high cost OF meat
ana provisions and the raising of rents.
the Suiferings and privations of the poor
have kept pace with the record breaking
winter. Statistics of the United States
bureau show that the mean temperature
was l-5 degrees lower than in any pre-
vlous winter for thirty-three years. The
changeahle weather caused much illness.
Prof. l.. u. Gardner of the Massachu-
Setts Institute of Technology lectured on
radlum at the \. NJ. c. A. HAN. The best
radium, he said. was made from Aus
TRAN pltchblende. and it took n ton oe
TINS TO make one-tenth Of a grain OF
iadlum. The value of the radium Is
likely 20 become S25.000000 pound,
he said, Prof, Gardner told "liouiI
sunshine story. \ rural physician. ha
said, visited pr. Morton Of New York
and was enlightened on LIQUID sunshine
ana the dittercHt modes OF its applica-
non. some time after the country doe
ioc mad returned to his native heath, =
sand lpr. Gardner DIR. Morton received
q letter from him stating he had applied
nqnld sunshine To patient suffering
from eitrhoSJS &c the liver and was star
Tied to find. few days later. that his pa
tlent was suffering from Sunstroke Of the
liver"
Grillroom loaferS and lobby idlers in
dress suits have lately become an intOler-
ahte pest 10 some of the big uptown he.
Tel managers. While there is no nartie-
MAR complaint against them ut the Wal
uort ID Is nevertheless fact that fully
one half of this outfit are outsiders whose
names do not appear on the register OF
course many Of them earn the warmth
anu hight and music they get by spending
a uttle money. and many of them have
Leon known 10 actually buy dinners for
htt.C parties, For the most part how
ever. they are mere four-tlushers. Sncl,
places rs the Imperial and the Manhaf.
ia<l are happily free irom them. but the
E"tttS WITH home atmosphere seem To
attI@c, them. Thus. many placeS in tba
Entel belt nh at Fifty-ninth street had ~,
HhoieS and the c0zy corners fairly ,v.4-
run every night after o'clock. ANY
man with clean shave. dinner iackgt
dhe Goou manners can mix on terms of
cQualty with the guests, and frequently
t"e sFiIiroom loafer is able TO set an in