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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Gray Is the Seasons
Most Popular Color

That gray is beloved by all the
great men dressmakers this season is
evident from the constant occurrences
of this color among the best models.
1t Is repeated more frequently in
trimming than in the frock materials
and successfully used in combinations
that are distinctly unusual but are
thoroughly justified by their effects.
A charming frock is chiffon broad
cloth in green that may perhaps be
best described as a reseda, though it
has hint more OF blue or gray in it
than one finds in reseda. A simple
skirt of cloth trimmed in bands of
velvet of the same shade is surmount-
ed by a bodice of cloth with velvet
sleeves and what might be called a
tucker of the velvet below a shallow
guimpe of cream net and lace. The
short velvet sleeve falls over close
fitting inner cuff of lace held by the
narrow folds of velvet. But the char
acteristic feature of the gown is the
heavy hand embroidery in son gray
which beauties the cloth OF the
bodice and whose color is echoed in
the narrowest imaginable gray ribbon
quilted along the edges of all the vel
vet bands and In the dull silver and
enamel buttons.
Browns and grays are mingled fire.
quently throughout all the province
of imported chiffons, and charming
effects are obtained in these combina-
lions because of the exquisite and
varied shadings now produced in the
two colors. Browns with a dash of
gray in them and grays with touch
of brown in them are many, and the
two colors really meet in such shades
as taupe (mole), smoke gray, ante.
lope gray, etc.
The combining of the two colors
means skillful handling and color
sense amounting to genius, but when
successful is very satisfactory thing.
One marvelously beautiful gown was
of taupe net, embroidered laVishly in
grays and browns, dull silver and dull
gold, and trimmed in taupe or mole
fur.
Gray is as much worn for evening
as for day time, more worn, indeed,
for dinner and evening gowns in gray
are the thing pre-eminently chic. Gray
paillettes of the soft silvery tones are
lavishly used upon gray tulle, and
often beautiful coiorings are obtained
by using such gray tulle, heavily en-
broidered in paillettes, over some
faint color such as pink or yellow,
or lavender, or over several veilings
of chiffon, each In different shade
of some one color.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Acted the Part.

Young Stearns, being in Boston,
looked up Brown, his old roommate
at Princeton. He found him, and after
an imprOmptu reunion, the latter bore
the former home to dinner, having
first notified Mrs. Brown that he
would do so. Stearns, after his arri-
val at the Brown home, and having
been introduced to his hostess and the
two Brown youngsters, aged five and
four, respectively, begged that the
children be allowed to have dinner
with the family. Mrs. Brown con-
sented, but took occasion to whisper
some words of warning and counsel
to her offspring regarding their con-
duct at table
Now, children she said, I'VE are
going to have ice cream for dessert,
and you must not notice it or say
anything when it is served. Act
just as if you had 1t every day."
The young Browns seemed to grasp
the idea, and the dinner progressed
beautifully until the ice cream was
brought on the table, when, with an
accompanying rataplan of fork and
spoon, the two burst into a concerted
staccato chant: "Oh, we have it
ev'ry day! We have it ey'ry day!
We have it ev'ry day!"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
BUTTER PRICES.
Some Reasons Why They Are Main
tanned at High Figure.

Much speculation is INDUCED in
about the fact that with all the sup
posed great increase in creameries
the prices of butter still hold up.
Those who speculate forget two or
three things, says Hoard's Dairyman:
ID That the cow is the source of
the butter supply, not the creamery.
CD That the more dense the COW
population becomes in any section, the
less proportion of heifer calves are
raised.
(3) That the increase in milk con-
sumption has beeen SO great that a
very large share of the cows Of the
country have been diverted from but.
ter-making to that business.
a. That the increase of cows in
this country is only about five per
cent. yearly, so it takes about 20
years to double the cow population.
(5) That the progress of dairy ideas
among farmers is teaching them to
weed out the Improbable cows, thus
reducing very perceptibly the milk
supply for improbable butter-making.
(6) That the percentage of increase
of population is much greater than the
percentage of increase in cows, while
the consumption Of milk and butter
per capita has been steadily on the
increase. All these things tend to
strengthen the dairy business in all
its parts and keep prices to a. healthy
grade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
GERMS IN MILK.
How They May Be Kept Out by Rea.
sonable Care.

Feeding hay and dry grain just be-
fore or at milking time fills the air Of
the stable with dust. This dust settles
into the milk pail carrying bacteria
with 1t, thus increasing the germ con-
tent of the milk. Feeding dry corn
slower at milking time has the same
effect as the feeding of hay and grain.
only in a more marked degree, since
corn slower usually contains more
dust and bacteria than does hay and
grain.
Wiping the flank and udder OF the
cow with damp cloth just before
milking will help reduce the number
of bacteria which fall into the milk
pail. The practice of brushing cows
at milking time is undesirable. The
hair and dust which are thus set free
into the atmosphere settle into the
milk pail during the process of milk
ing and very materially aid in making
it spoil.
Stripping COW dry. says Farm and
Home, tends to reduce the number of
bacteria found in the milk at the next
milking while leaving small amount
of strippings in the udder increases
the number of bacteria at the next
milking. This is probably due to the
fact that the greater manipulation
necessary to thoroughly strip the cow
removes many bacteria which would
otherwise remain in the udder to null
tiply during the time before the next
milking.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
UNABLE TO SEE OURSELVES.
No Man Thoroughly Familiar with His
Own Lineaments.

How curious it is" said the philos.
opher, that the person for whom you
care most on earth, the one you see
oftenest and who receives your most
constant attention is the one whose
countenance is least familiar to you.''
VINO is that?' asked the visitor.
Yourself, said the philosopher. ct
Is fact that If people could be dupli-
Gated and could meet themselves In
the street very few would recognize
themselves. We look at ourselves
many times during the 365 days of the
year. We say our eyes are blue-or
brown, or whatever other color they
may be-our hair black. our chin
peaked, our forehead high. We know
every lineament of our face from con.
slant study and attention. yet when we
turn away from the mirror we cannot
conJure up picture of ourselves.
we know just how our friends, and
even acquaintances, look. In fancy. we
can see them sitting so or standing so.
and their varying expressions under
dlHerent circumstances is clear to us
even though we may not have seen
them for years; but when it comes to
ourselves, we cannot fill in even the
outlines OF the picture. We may laugh,
we may cry, we may frown, but we do
not know how we look while we are
doing 1t. Photographs do not help us.
We have never seen ourselves In the
dcsh Mirrors and pictures are roor
aids when we sit down and try to see
ourselves with the minds eye.
That is why people are so deeply
interested in anybody who is said to
resemble them. Just say to man:
1 know somebody who is the dead
image of YOU and he will never rest
till he sees that person. Then if the
likeness is really true, he will own
that up to that time he had no concep.
ton OF how he really looked"
The visitor smiled wanly.
i wish you wouldn't talk like that"
she said. sIt makes me feel positively
uncanny."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Pleasing Idea Is the
F.ower Sleeping Room.

One of the very latest fads among
women who take pride in the dainti-
ness of their homes, especially their
sleeping rooms, is the flower garden
| room. It is now a flower garden; it
may not have single real bloom in
1t, but it Is none the less attractive
for that.
| Suppose it is to be violet bed,
the walls are tinted in pale lavender
and the curtains are either white or
lavender, preferably the former, with
violet ribbons to hold them back.
The bed is covered with a spread
made from figured lawn or other dain-
ty material, the figures to be moth
ing more than clusters of violets. The
bolster roll is of the same material,
and at each end are tied clusters of
artificial violets, with ribbons to tone
with them.
The soft silk, or silkoline coverlet,
which is rolled up at the foot of the
he'd, must be made by the girl her.
self, for they cannot be purchased.
1t Is made from cotton sachet and
the silk, and it need not be very
large. In between the layers of cot
ton spread generous quantity of vio-
let sachet, being careful to see that
1t is placed so that it won't sift
through Then catch the cotton here
and there before the covering is put
on. Tuft the comforter with deep
er shade of violet and bind it in vio-
let satin ribbon.
On the dressing table there is vio-
let colored cover and a hatpin hold
er made from test tube, and violet
ribbon, with tassel or two to match.
A hairpin holder is made to CORE
spond: it consists of nothing but a
small glass jar purchased at any de-
partment store, and covered with vio-
let ribbon. The handle is loop of
ribbon. The pin cushion and odds
and ends, even to the chamois skin
for powder, are all in the same color
scheme. The latter is heart-shaped
piece of chamios edged in beading
and tiny bit of lace. A baby ribbon
is drawn through the beading.
The floor may be covered in mat
ting to match the other tints, and
rug in harmonizing tone placed here
and there.
When the girl enters the room she
is not only greeted by the sight of
the NOTES.-THE whole pretty color
scheme-but delicate aroma OF vio-
lets pleases her sense OF smell.
This same idea may be carried out
Will, carnations or roses in red or
pink room, or with any other flower
for which there is sachet powder
made
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
THE JERSEY COW.
tsow TO Judge a Good Animal When
Buying.

Appearance comes first, as being
most readily judged Of Solid colored.
or almost solid colored, animals are
very generally preferred. as a matter
of taste, but white markings of great
er or lesser extent are no indication
either of admixture of the blood Of
another breed or of dairy inferiority.
The general health and apparent con
.stitution of the cows are matters OF
prime Importance to be looked into.
She should show good depth through
the body when viewed from front or
rear, with capacious barrel. indicat-
ing good feeder. The udder should
be large and we'll rounded out. both in
front and rear, with large and evenly
placed teats. The milk veins should
be prominent, the back level, the eye
large and placid, the hide soft and
pliable and of yellow color. The
scale of points drawn up and adopt
ed by the American Jersey cattle club
VIII prove an excellent and instructive
guide in judging Jersey cow
The best way, however, Of determin-
ing the merits of any dairy COW, says
Farm and Home, is to use a pair OF
scales to ascertain the quantity of the
milk and Babcock tester to ascer-
tain its quality, or percentage of fat
The ancestry of the COW is also we'll
worthy of some attention; for If she
comes OF good dairy strains of blood,
similar qualities are to be expected
In her. As to the particular family
to which she may belong, 1t is we'll to
remember that there are good Jerseys
to be found in all families.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Pretty Things Are Not
for Street Wear Alone.

So many girls spend all their avail
able money for street and party
clothes, quite content to look shabby
and ungroomed while about their own
home. Any cast-off piece of finery
or an antediluvian walking skirt is
sufficiently good for around the
house."
Now this idea is indicative of a
frivolous nature and slovenliness, and
should be avoided by all self-respect-
ing young women. An attractive ap-
pearance when about the house is
greatly to be desired. and it is real
saving of money, too, to have a
decided change of clothes for indoor
wear.
The real economy is to provide one
self with house dress of some sort.
Tt is worth the effort and the few min
utes to change ones dress as soon as
one comes into the house. Street
boots are exchangeable for light sliD-
pers-a great saving on feet, stock
ings, shoes, carpet and nerves-and
the boots are put away with trees.
Boot trees are necessary indulg-
ence in the economical girls scheme
Boots will last tSice as long with
their help.
Any girl who can hold needle can
make herself .negligee," more or
less elaborate, but always dainty. She
should also be able to make her
self a shirt waist suit of some light
weight, durable stuff-pongee. foul
ard. cashmere-that with the aid of
fresh collars and cuffs will always
look attractive in the house.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
NEW MILKING MACHINE.
Device That Is Winning Favor in
New Zealond.

From New Zealand comes the re.
port of new milking machine that Is
being installed In one Of the dairies.
The new machine does not follow the
pulsating method at all, but milks by
the pressure of air bags on the teats.
The process of milking is silent one,
and the milk is drawn thoroughly, ac-
eording to witnesses of the operation
of the new machine. 1t is planned to
milk 10 cows at time with this ma
chine and with it little power is re-
quired. The owners of the new in
Wention claim for it the following
points:
(a) AS compared with all suction
machines:
1. The teat is not congested by the
unnatural action of vacuum as milk
extractor Hence the COW ''lets down"
freely instead of resisting, and there
fore (a) there is no need for hand
stripping; (b) the COW is not dried
off," and (c) no harm whatever is
done If the machine is left on longer
than needed
2. Cleanliness-the milk does not
pass through rubber tubing.
(b) As compared with all known
attempts at non-suction machines:
1. Absolute softness of fluid pres.
sure as contrasted with pressure OF
anything solid.
2. Absence of wheels, pistons or
other mechanism in region of teat.
3. No Harvesting around the cows
body is included in the attachment
gear.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
were Sympathy.


Augustus latter the ordeaD --Now
that we are engaged, want to ask
you a question. Why did you rush
out of the room when began to pro-
pose?
Elvira-It-it made me feel sorry
for the two girls down in the kitchen,
whose lovers are too bashful and too
awkward to propose, so hurried down
and invited the two couples up into
the back parlor where the men could
hear how the thing is done.
'Eh? Then they must have heard
every word?'
"That doesn't matter, dear. There
is no danger of any breach of promise
suit between us, you known. Y
Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
The Liar on Wheels.

speaking of the cost of his machine,
its speed and what it has accom-.
plished in the way of hill climbing.
Men who wouldn't lie about anything
else on earth will lie about these
things and expect to be believed. If
they strike a twenty-mile clip they
will make it forty in telling each
other, and if it is thirty-mile gait
they will go into court and swear that
Il was only fifteen
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Shows Evolutionary Process.

Most curious of all living birds in
their way, are the 'hoatzins" OF
South America, which, as nestlings,
are more like quadrupeds than feath.
cred creatures In their mode of get
ting about. They have hand like
claws on their wings and climb about
in the trees by the aid of these
appendages and their strong little
beakS.
Later in life the claws, remarkably
enough, disappear, and the hoatzins
become much like ordinary birds But
their development, to the eye OF the
naturalist, tells a most interesting
story, showing as it does how the mod
ern bird has been evolved. In the
space of a few brief weeks it repre-
sents the passage of millions of years,
for the adult hoatzin is in all respects
an up-to-date fowl, whereas the nest
ling bears a close resemblance to the
long-extinct archaeopteryx-the most
primitive and reptilian of known birds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
The Race for Sky Meadow
BY BAILEY WILLARD
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph b. Bowles.)


what do / think o. women ranch
bosses?" was the wrathful fash of
Zeke Stubs, 81 think they ought to
keep to the kitchen an not go snoop-
In aroun' tellin' growed-up men how
TO take the shoes off'n horses. An
she 19-year-old gal! Did she larn
about horses feet at that Salt Lake
seminary? I'd like to know! If her
NAV and paw only was aliyei Wal.
It's them there heightened boardin'
schools that spiles gals every time. "
ooh, don't take on, Zeke," said Uri
Wiggin, coming around corner OF
the barn MAY Window got few
extra friIls at the seminary, but she
amt spilled An she knows all about
horses"
Uri was the hired man on the Win
dom ranch, and zeke was his helper.
AN she amt so dreadful stuck
up," added Uri. IF she was she
wouldn't be a-goin' out with the
sheep"
Coin out with tina sheepi Great
snakes! An all alone among them
men? Guess you can count me out
this time. / don't want no woman
boss on the range The idee! A wom-
an sheepherder!"
"She amt a-goin alone" said Uri.
"How them"
oval, you know Sandy Bafin's Ger
tie, that married Russ Bricker? She's
a-goin' along, too. Mays got Russ to
look to fer things fer her, an Ger
ties a-goin' to do the cookin'."
Russ Bricker had told May Win
dom that 1t would be race for the
Sky-Meadow country-the best range
in the Wasatch mountains-and she
was intensely eager to get in first
with her band.
She had been out on the range sew
eraI times before her father died
once as long as a month. She loved
the wild life and she loved the sheep
Above sill things, she was eager to
get to the range ahead of Lew Mad
den, who drove large herd of his
own shearing up that way every
spring as soon as the season opened
Lew was Objectionable to her in no
other way than that he had tried
to make himself particularly agree
able to her, with the result that she
had sent him about his business She
could hardly have told why she had
done this, for Lew was big and strong,
and looked finer in his saddle than
any other man in Juab county. Prob
ably she had refused him because
he had taken her for granted.
An hour after noon the next day
they were all up on the top of the
divide where watts of fresh, heady
air swept their faces and the sheep
browsed greedily about.
But while the mules were being
fed and everybody was eating hasty,
Bcrappy luncheon, the handsome Lew
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Kings Edict Quickly obeyed.

In all the German papers of August,
1888, appeared an ordinance signed
by the king of Bavaria, forbidding
civilians, on any pretext whatever, to
wear moustaches, and commanding
the police authorities to arrest the
offenders and shave them by force.
Apparently this was not necessary,
for, according to French account
of the time, "moustaches disappeared
Immediately, like leaves from the
trees in autumn; everybody mad,
haste to obey the royal order, and
not one person was arrested" The
ancient Anglo-Saxon. was not SO obe-
dent; he wore long hair and nous
tache, though no beard, and when
he was conquered by the clean-shaven
Norman he wore his hair longer than
ever, to exaggerate the difference be-
tween the two races.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
keeplna the COWS clean.

Cows can be kept clean in the
stables by little attention to the
length of the standing doors and the
height of same. If the place on which
COW stands is too long she will be.
come dirty and it will be practically
impossible to keep her clean. If the
length of the platform Is just great
enough so that the droppings will fall
beyond it, the COW will be kept clean
with ease. Cows differ in length, and
this difference may be made up for by
adjusting the tying arrangements Of
the cows to suit each case. 1t is a
great thing to be able to keep the
cows clean, through the entire win.
ter, but this can easily be done.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
Economy in Possession
of Fine NelUet Gown.

A handsome velvet gown is sure to
be one of the most serviceable cos
tunes in the entire outfit. Velvet is
suitable for so many different occa-
sions, and if not worn in the rain will
stand an immense amount of constant
usage.
Velvet, too, is an excellent invest
ment, many women contending that 1t
wears too long, and while they hate to
discard gown that is still in good
condition, they dislike still more to
wear the one gown into third sea-
son; in fact, a good silk velvet will
last decade were it not for the con.
slant changes of fashion, which rem
der it impossible to alter a gown be.
yond a certain point.
This year velvet gowns are made up
in much the same models as the cloth
costumes. They are the long direc-
toire coats, short jackets, and the en-
pire gowns with little embroidered
bolero. This last makes an effective
costume for which the front of the
dress is fitted to the figure, in back the
velvet falls in full plat from under
meath the bolero.
If not embroidered all over there
may be unusually wide and deep collar
and revers ON the jacket that are en-
broidered or braided--or perhaps both
and of course the cuffs on the
sleeves are of the same design. All
velvet needs to be relieved by con-
siderable white lace or net, so that
there should be good-sized opening
at the throat in order to show the lace
on the waist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
DAIRY NOTES.

The quality of feed for farm ami
mails is as important as quantity.
Under sailing butter Is poor econ
omy. Nothing is so apparent as the
lack OF salt in dairy products.
Never closely cover milk still warm
with animal heat. This will cause 1t
to hold a fetid, cowy odor, and pro.
notes the growth of bacteria that
hasten souring.
The average size Of the farm dairy
herd is three or four cows. These
can be made source Of great profit
Roots and silage are about equal in
value for fattening wether lambs. If
any difference it is in favor OF the
roots.
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NOTES.

Ornamental trees should not be
planted in long lines, as this destroys
the artistic effects. Only along the
highway is this arrangement justified.
The arranging of shrubs, trees and
plants in way to give the most pleas
ure to the eye is science that many
are now studying.
There are many native shrubs grow
ing in our woods that are very hardy
and would be ornamental if properly
pruned.
Cut out and burn the old berry canes
and thereby destroy many insects
which would winter on them.