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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
Municipal Hrt
in Gurope

No doubt American travellers who
have visited London will wear Grape
for the murdered picturesqueness al
ready done. 1t is so pleasant to ad-
mire the picturesque nastiness of the
town where you don't live to admire
the bug-ridden old houses and then 90
TO some clean hotel for dinner on
white damask, to rejoice in the stately
walters. broad expanse of polished
white shirt front. No one knows
where 1t viii all end, this boring
through the Sums.
Besides those wide avenues already
mentioned about the Strand and Char
ing Cross they are disturbing the Ola
relics beyond the house of parlia-
ment and Westminster Abbey. So the
saddened American visitors will go
into mourning and sigh over the
dissertations of historic mustiness.
Everyone has admired the Thame'
embankment, 10 the eastward of West
Minister bridge toward and near Lon
thought of the old barracks which
once made the spot interesting. Pat
Tons of the Savoy or the Cecil are not
worried over the fine view they now
have of the river. Those who once
regretted this innovation must all be
dead by this time. Each generation
has It's own regrets, but the next one
will be happy in promenading on a
new Thames embankment, to the west
of the parliament houses, as they view
the ancient abbey newly glorifed by
decent surroundings. and see the new
rows of model dwellings for the poor.
This is no dream. The model dwell
ings are now rising on every hand.
The old warehouses and rotten
wharves are actually disappearing. IA
their place will be an embankment
with wide avenue and promenade,
lawns and flowers. benches and stat,
nary. The narrow bridges over the
Thames will be pull ed down and viii r
ones built The embankments on both
the river Willow through a scene Of
beauty from the parliament houses 10
Blackfriars.
The LONDON county council fetSrm-
ines what the city Of the future shall
be by the Punishment Of mean -, <sts,
the opening Of Fairgrounds and parks,
the construction OF broad avenues
lineI with trees ami suitable buildings,
and the execution Of other works be.
fitting a metropolis The council is
providing homes for 100000 people
who have lived In novels. They are
giving children ana adults places
10 breathe; they are easing travel
through the city, and are doing It not
only On a sound financial basis. but On
remuneratve one. TIE county
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
PLURAL WIVES SACRIFICE HONOR
Mormon Women Tell Degrading I'm
truths to Shield the Men.


One of the sweetest Mormon women
nave known, showed me one Of the
endowment garments one time care
fully explaining. evidently in order to
case bor conscience for the act, which
Is forbidden that had PROBABLY seen
1t on the clothes Line. The garment
may best be described as a white union
suit, and she told me that every man
or woman who has ever been through
the temple is expected to wear such a
one for the rest OF his natural life.
Even in removing the garment TO put
On a fresh one, 1t may not be entirely
removed until it has been replaced by
the new. says Marian Bonsall in her
third article on THE Tragedy OF the
Mormon Woman" in Tho Houselteeper
1t is worn night and day, summer and
winter, Woven ones. patterned after
Jhe same style. r-2y be worn In cold
weather. These garments are seldom
seen by Genules; especially Of late,
since the Saints have been forbidden
10 send them TO public laundry, The
garment is supposed 10 be a kind Of
invujneIable shield. protection
against disease and violent death 1t is
particularly distinguished by certain
markings. which TO the Mormon mind
have a deep significance, never to be
revealed The markings are missions
of V-shape, made over one breast,
the abdomen, and one knee.
I remember my astonishmeEt at her
answer to my question before I had
seen the garment, If 1t was not the am
bition of every woman Of her faith 10
be married in the temple; and her
merry laugh so she said, Yes. OF all
good Mormon women. but don't think
so Of young girl with pretty neck and
arms" Finally she explained that the
garment reached from the -eck 10 the
elbow
4 small but Interesting incident in
connection with the endOwments 10
that each woman is given a new name
which she is never to tell to a living
soul except her husband II is by this
name that she IS SUPP "a 10 be ad-
mittcd into the glory II the hereafter.
One Mormon woman however her
mirth getting the bett, r of her secrecy,
Confded 10 a Gentle friend Of mine,
that she and her woman frienc7 who
had gone through the ceremony at the
same time, had compared notes, aud
found that they each had been called
Sarah.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

councillors expect to erect their own
building. opposite the houses of parlia-
ment, to cost e2,0OO.00O. When they
get it how proud London Will be!
The point of all this is that the i'm.
provements pay for themselves, cost
ing the people nothing. Our own far.
seeing advocates OF the lake front
avenue. from Park row to Jackson
Park. declare that it can be construct
ed at a profit. The N -icipal Art
League is raising voice in favor OF
it. Srin no movement is made toward
the accomplishment of this needed
Identification. For how many more
years must we enjoy the view of those
ragged bulk-heads symbolic of oppor-
tunlties grown threadbare? A million
of dollars has been committed to the
care cf the Art Institute, to be useo
for the construction or monuments to
historic personages. Blrt we have no
place near the city's center for these
monuments except Grant Park. That
new boulevard on the lake front must
be made at once in order to aceommc
date the products of the Ferguson
fund We have the new andirons ana
must perforee rebuild the house to be
in proper keeping with them.
james William Pattison,
Secretary Of London Municipal art
League.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

Boston, September 1.-THE beauty
doctor" has come to stay, but perhaps
you would hardly recognize the scien-
tifically trained member Of this new
calling. He is the orthodontist, the
specialist in dentistry who straightens
crooked teeth and repairs broken
jaws and restores the pristine lowell
ness of the countenance marred by &C.
cident or disease. The dentist who is
also beauty doctor is the product or
the last two decades. During these
20 years In which the dentists have
been changing the shape or the faces
of many of their patients they have
given the lie to the old saying that
beauty is only skin deep. The scien-
tifically trained bea uty doctor accom-
plishes his wonders by changing the
position of teeth and jaws and his
work has money value hard to esti-
mate. 1t often greatly increases the
patients opportunity for earning liv-
ing.
For example: A boy comes to the
orthodontia specialist-or, If he is a
poor boy, to some free orthodontia
clinic like that conducted in this city
by the Harvard dental school. The
boys appearance would practically pre-
vent him from obtaining employment
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

tia treatment. In other fords, a light
metal spring based against two SOUND
teeth at the back, which holds the
teeth under treatment and subjects
them to slow backward pressure. was
put in operation, with the result or
gradually forcing the projecting teeth
into normal position. The difference
is already so noticeable that the pen
Gil experiment can now be tried sue
cessfully; and when the operation is
finished she will have teeth that for
evenness and alignment might make
the toothpowder people eager to use
her photograph for an advertisement.
In another chair is a law student
who has found that the shape of the
upper part of his mouth interferes
with the clearness of his speech and
is slowly having the arch widenei I'M
til the top OF his mouth, at Nature In
tended. shall become perfect sound
ing board. In a third chair one sees
a school girl. studying her French les
son between the moments when the
student dentist, in his Immaculate
white coat, tests and rearranges his
apparatus and compares present condi.
tons with the plaster model that
shows what shape the teetn were IN
when he began treatment. For the
teeth must not only be kept constantly
moving, but constantly moving in the
right direction. till the final moment
when the upper and lower jaw shall
come neatly and firmly together. Each
chair contains a different problem and
different future life history, and the
scene Is all the more dramatic on ac-
count of the fact that the older men in
white coats, who go from chair to chair
criticising and assisting the students,
are specialists whom millionaires or
crowned heads might employ for sim.
liar service
The actual pain Of the treatment is
very little. 1t is much less kuestion
Of enduring pain than of getting used
to the constant pressure OF wires
grasping the teeth. The apparatus, OF
course. must be worn night and day
during the long period Of treatment
and the person who is having lis or
her face changed sits once or twice a
week in the dentists chair while the
orthodontist studies the progress OF
affairs and makes the various minor
changes in the apparatus necessary to
keep things going in the right direc-
ton.
/ The work of the specialist with the
| long name is in the line with other de-
velopmen+s in dentistry that have CIV
en- the modern dentist practically the
whole lower face, from the eyes down,
as his especial field Of operations.
Cases Of fractured jaw go nowadays 70
the dentist rather than to the surgeon.
This is a distinct gair- g the patient,
for the surgeon used to mend the jaw
through an incisfon made in the cheek
while the dentist works through the
louth And not only IS the process
( less painful but 1t is much letter in It's
final results. Fractured Jaw are also
much more numerous than the reader
might suppose. The Harvard clinic,
FOR example. averages che or more
I cases a day straig Il. through the sea
son. Besides. faces seriously injured
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
FORCING the Youthful Mind.

There is very general cry that
children are becoming every day less
childlike, that they are being pressed
far beyond tacir strength. OF course,
the fanatics tell us that it is not so,
that all this outcry is the outcome of
misplaccd sentiment and OF Ignorance
of the true inwar6ness of educational
methods. But thus we know. that
forced minds are very like forced
ulants-curiosides, perhaps, but not
snch as the experienced cultivator
keeps as stock" Nature is very
Jealous for her musings. You may
fool considerably with adult specimens,
even to the degree OF making them
hiieous you may experiment almost
indefinitely with his, that and the
other kind Of feeding, pruning, graft
ing. Int let a cold wave or hot wave
bnt once blow upon your tender nursl-
ines AID the are gone without hone OF
resurrection. philadelphia Ledger.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
Eortv-Pie Power.

A Pittsburg man has invented pie
machine that will turn out forty pies
a minute. 1t rolls Sm out, doubles
'em over. bakes 'em, scallops the
edges, and slaps on the label. Then
it growls for more. OF course these
are not the pies that mother used to
make Mothers were handmade and
fussy. The Pittsburg pie is the prod
uct of fingers of steel. and endless
bands, and corrugated rollers.
Mothers pie bore the thumb mark Of
loving proprietorship. The Plttsburg
pie wears the blue label of a soulless
corporation. Of course there is money
in this forty-pie power device. That
was the prime intention. The effect
on the hardened Pittsburger is quite
an immaterial mattl-.-Cleveland
Dealer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

nance,
AT this writing it is still impossible
to say what tde situation created by
Admiral Togo's extraordinary naval
victory means to the worlds finance
.It is certain that financial Europe had
for weeks been asserting tina. the ar
rival OF Roiestyensly in the China
.seas-with the possibility of Japanese
defeat which would open the coasts OF
japan to the enemy and isolate the
Manchurian army-was the main de-
pressing influence on the markets. 1t
was so regarded because Of the general
conviction that such defeat would
prolong the war and widen the oppor.
tunity FOR European complications.
The battle was fought and the Rus.
sian sea power was annihilated with a
completeness surprising the epoch.
making achievements of Themistocles.
Don Juan Of Austria, Sir Francis Drake
and Lord Nelson. But the Russian
court still rcfuse3 TO treat for peace,
notwithstanding that its ally. France,
had refused II further money accom-
notation, that Germany was grudg-
ingly lending or harsh terms, and that
its last recourse a domestic loan, was
foated only by virtual compuIsion OF
the Russian banks How this deadlock
was finally broken through President
Boosevelt's bold and adroit move OF
mediation and how. on th4 10th of June
Japan and Russia consented TO nego-
tate for peace, is story that need not
/ here be retold. The question. for the
/ longer future. concerns the results that
the return of peace win have on the
financial situation.
Recent experience has rather shaken
the differences commonly drawn, how.
ever, from the buoyant prosperity
which followed the settlement of our
Spanish war. That the United States
was then on the eve of real indus.
trial "hoom," unconnected with the
war, AMI IL at the treaty of Paris meant
to the defeated power, release from q
burGensome colonial ENHANCEMENT and
$50 900 Geo cash, had been forgotten
Tie real meaning oI tae aftermath Of
war was not realized uatil the pacifi
cation Of the Transvaal in zq02 was
! followed by two years of fnancia, ex
haustion for the victorious state
The strain of the Eastern war has been
as severe as that of the South African
lcondict 1t remains to be seen how its
consequences will be felt by the sue
cessful and the defeated powers, and
III particular what is going to harper
to the huge political derelict. Russia
as well as to the European market, Il
which that country owes $2,00000O, 900
and to which it must owe mucn NOR,
Il japan imposes an indemnity.--Fo
rum.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
CARRIES PHONE IN HIS POCKET

Alaskan Learned Much About Tele-
phony in Sweden.
America is wonderfully progressive
In the development and adoption of all
usrts Of mechanical devices and mod
ern methods. and takes the lead in
most things, but when it comes to tel
ephones, Sweden sets the pace for
progressive America and the entire
world" ,Iys Orvar Gerle, the Alaskan
mineowner, who has just returned
from an eight-months' tour of the old
world.
Swedish life in city, village and
country is bound up in the telephone.
All over the rural districts the tele-
phone is met with, not only at the
large estates, but on the very smallest
farms. Every household in the cities
has Il phone, every room in the hotels,
even those of the cheaper class, and
every table in the dining rooms. On
! the city streets there are telephone
booths as thick as mail boxes in Ameri-
| can cities. and at these booths instant
communication is obtainable with any
| part of the country 1t is impossible
to explain how thoroughly the tele-
phone has become a fixture in the daily
life Of the Swede, and stranger could
hardly understand it without 4 person
al visit
THE result Of this devotion - the
telephone has been an evolution of
system so perfect that it leads the
world, and the adoption of a series of
telephone devices which, for simplicity,
strength, beauty and general utility,
are unexcellej. The land OF the tele-
pltene would not be an inappropriate
name for Sweden in the present gener-
alton.
Il am taking with me to Alaska
several devices which will be used at
the mines on Prince of Wales island.
| have never seen their equal for
practical purposes. handsome appear
ance, and, above all, for cheapness.
One device is combination of tele-
phone and micropnone 1t is unique
in that it has ~ speaking tube for
transmitting. The sound is transmit
ted to hollow tube in the handle of
the receiver, which is held TO the ear
in the ordinary way. The speaker
talks freely into the air. The mi
crophone is much more sensitive than
the ordinary telephone transmitter,
and the device in itself is entirely
hygienic, as there is no danger of in
lection from mouthpieces. 1t is
operated by batteries and is intended
for business houses. factories. hotels,
steamboats,. etc.
There is also in my outfit field
telephone and telegraph apparatus.
, which is so compact that the combined
receiver and transmitter can be car
ried in ones coat pocket / have
been told that this telephone, which Is
converted into telegraph by press
| ing push button in place of a key,
has been adopted 10y the Austrian and
! Belgian armies TO the exclusion of
other systems. / am inclined to take
the apparatus down to Fort Smelling
= for experiments. and if l thought that
it would interest the officers. l would
gladly make the trip"
Mr.. Gerle and mis- companion, Mr.
Nordstrom, will leave in few days
for Alaska, visiting, while en- route.
the new gold fields in Nevada.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
The Size of an Atom.

How large is an atom? Perhaps the
simplest, though not the most exact,
way of arriving at a rough estimate or
the size of atoms. is by measuring the
thickness of a soap bubble film, where
1t is as thin as possible, just before it
bursts, says awriter quoted by scieene
Such film, if composed of atoms,
must be something like pebble wall.
Now, a pebble wall would not stand II
it were not several pebbles thick, and
If we had reason to suppose that II
was about a dozen pebbI~s thick we
could easily make an estimate of the
size of the pebble by measuring the
thickness of the wall.
THAT is the case with the thinnest
region of a soap film. 1t is found to
have a very definite and uniform thick
ness. 1t is the thinnest thing known,
and by refined optical means its thick.
mess can be accurately measured. 1t
must contain not less than something
like dozen atoms in its thickness, and
yet it is only about the twentieth mil
lionth of an inch in thickness by direct.
measure mt. So that the diameter
of an atom comes between the two
hundreth-milliontn and one three-hun-
dreth-millionth Of an inch. In other
words, from about 2O0,O0O,000 to 300
100000 of atoms can lie edge to edge
in a linear incn-Philadelphi Record.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
A Plea no rhE sponER

Fate If you must come robbing me
OF all the treasures have won,
Pray listen to my humble plea,
Ere yet the wrong you plan is done
Take. if you please, the hope that fame
And honor may be mine some day,
The rest from toll that | would claim,
Take that, too, if you Will away.
The few poorp leasures that ere mine
The little gifts Of praise and cheer,
These to your keeping l resign,
Though they are much to me and
dear.
But let me keep the faith to still
Believe that Virtue guards each door
To think men innocent until
Their guilt can be concealed nc
more.
= It IEizer
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

trust simply raises the price, but 7:eeDs
the output stationary. Culiously
enough, old diamonds remaining IN
dealers hands-that is, diamonds pur-
chased by them before the prices were
raised-are generally held for sale at
the old price. and it Is not an unusual
thing to see Two stones which are alike
in size. color and quality held at dir.
ferent prices by the same dealer
Philadelphia Record.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
RIVAL TO PRECIOUS STONES.
Beautiful semigems Cause Slump in
Diamonds.

BeduttIui SeWi9SHIS cause S'uHiP lH
Diamonds.
Talk about a yellow peril! jewelers.
face enemies that are green, brown,
pink and blue, in the form of necklaces
of semlprecious stones, which have be
come so popular they have caused a
slump in the sale of diamonds. Many
women who would scorn to wear imi-
tation gems, no matter how attractive
they were, are ready TO adorn them
selves with chains of kunzite, onyx and
Jade, for those minerals make no pre-
tense of being other than they are and
are wonderfully effective. Mrs. George
Gould mas necklace of the water
stones ofUruguay which she sometimes
wears with white gowns. They are
semitransparent, and every one holds
a drop of water in its center which
moves with every motion. With simple
attire such ornaments are much more
suitable than pearls.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13

rom nine out of dozen prospective
employers. His front teeth prominent
ly overhang those of his lower jaw ani
his chin retreats until it can hardly be
said that Nature has provided him with
one. His complexion is muddy and IL
nourished. To the prospective en-
ployer, who knows little of medicine,
he is strikingly suggestive of the
criminal type of humanity-a fal-
lacious argument. for while the weak
ness that leads to crime under temptar
ton is frequently enough written in
the lower face, the inherent criminal
tendency flies its signals from the eye
sockets. And this same boy leaves the
orthodontia clinic, after perhaps
months of patient treatment, an alto
gether differen yyoungster. His chin
is normal. His teeth bite together as
teeth ought to bite. Improved diges'
ton has given him improved health
and complexion; and improved health
Strengthened his shoulders and given
him a new mental as we'll as anatomi-
cal face with which to meet the task Of
making living.
During the past season the Harvard
dental school, which was the first to
establish free clinic of this kind, has
treated about a hundred patients In
orthodontia. These cases, of course,
are only a small fraction oft he num-
Der treated by the various dental
schools in the Is years since the first
clinic was established-to say nothing
of the unrecorded cases that have
been handled by the increasing host NJ
specialists in private practice. The
total number of faces thus made over
would undoubtedly run up to a sur
prisingly large number and the amount
of individual good already accom-
plished by this remarkable develop
ment of dentistry is literally incalcul-
able.
When it is explained the work of the
dentist who is also a beauty doctor
seems simple. He makes over face
simply by slow pressure, scientifically
applied. day after day, until the teeth
and jaw of a patient are literally
moved into their normally proper re-
lations. On small scale 1t is like
moving a house from one part OF lot
to another, or lifting it up to nave an.
other story put under it at the base
ment level The process is inevitably
slow, for nature must aid each in
finftesimal change by absorbing the
waste tissue and accommodating the
moving tooth to it's new conditions.
When it is finished the result is there
fore as permanent as ii nature had
originally placed the jaws in normal
relation. But simple as the process
seems in theory each case in practice
is a separate problem. Primarily the
orthodontist is not aiming at facial
beauty; he is simply working to make
the teeth as they ought to be, ana
when that is done the improveTe nt in
facial expression is an inevitable re-
suit
How this improvement enters into
the working efficiency OF practically
every profession and va Of life is
something TO be realized only after q
visit to one Of these free Harvard
clinics, and an examination Of the dir
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-13
Rullnn Prices for Diamonds.

Diamonds acco ding TO a Chestnut
street dealer, VIII never be as cheap
as they have been nor cheaper than
they are today. when the prices arc
about 40 per cent. in advance Of those
Of five years ago. The cause Of the
rise is increased demand. The pres
ent limit made by the trust TO the an
nua1 output is 10000, 900, and it has
been maintained at that for several
years As the demand increases She