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The Delta independent., 1906-10-26
The Daily Press.
COLORADO.

Sir James Crichton- Browne the en-
ineut alienist. has just given the
newspaper press a certificate as ah
important safeguard of the general
sanity. 1T is the antidote to cor.
roding egotism and gives a worldwide
horizon to the the purblind and short
sighted" This in sense is true. nor
can it be disputed that the press also
furnishes an easily digestible intel
lectual pabulum." Sir James likewise
speaks with a specialists authority.
one must suppose, when he says that
many a man has been saved from
melancholy and faulty by his daily
papers," and concludes: Suppress
your newspapers and you will have
to enlarge your lunatic asylums. we
would gladly accept for ourselves
and our colleagues n tribute primarily
intended for the British press. and
we certainly will not venture to chal.
lenge an expert on his own ground.
But before the newspaper cure Is
widely applied in our sanitariums. we
should be glad to have the opinion OF
local alienists on a few specific points.
says the New York Post. Does. for
example. that peculiar institution. the
colored supplement, make for san
steadying effect for young girls to ven
tilate their blghted state and house
wives their MARTIAL grudges in col
umns entitled Aid for the Enamor-
ed" For the Unequally Yoked, etc?
Sir James seems to regard the press
as a bulwark against depression mere
ly: but over-elation and hysteria are
also abnormal symptoms; and it is
possible that yellow journalism con-
tributes Just little too much to the
febrile gayety OF this nation.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

Quail starved to death by thousands
in the winter of 19O4-05, but last win.
ter they had an easy time except in
February and March. From Massa.
chusetts to Indiana the quail are SO
scarce that restocking has become
necessary. The birds for this pur-
pose are hard to find. More than 1OO.-
900 have been captured in Alabama
and the southwest, where they still
occur in abundance, and have been
shipped north for breeding. Even
this supply is quite inadequate, and
may not last long. The quail, says
Country Life in America. is perhaps
our most popular game bird, and a
market will be found for all that can
be produced Complete success has
been had in raising them on a small
scale. Why should not some one go
into the business on such a scale that
he could turn out 100000 quail per
year?
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

I'm future warfare there is no doubt
that the balloon will play a greater
part, but at the same time it wants to
be steerable. Up to now we have not
arrived at that stage.
This particular aeroplane is the in
vention Of two American brothers
named Wright. | personally made
number Of experiments and conse-
quently think 1t Is sure to be adopted
by the French government, which rs
testing It now.
when ! arrive in America / shall
make some more experiments with It,
because 1t seems to me that while we
can control our balloons in the lower
strata, 1t Is simply matter of study
and. OF course. experiment, for us to
gain sufficient knowledge to guide our
passage through the air and thus guide
our course.
STILL" he continued, "baIlooninp ID
in the air."
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26
NORTHERN PACIFIC ROUTE.
New Joint Line in Oregon and Wash
inqton.

New York.-The first formal state
ment OF the plans of the Portland &
Seattle railway, which is being built
down the north bank of the Columbia
river in Washington by james J. Hill,
Is contained in the annual report Of
the Northern Pacific railway. Just is.
sued The new line will give the Hill
roads new and greatly improved line
into Portland.
In the building of this road, which
will be 423 miles long. the Northern
Pacific 10 Jointly Interested with the
Great Northern. The road will run
from Portland to Spokane and Texas
Ferry, Washington, connecting at Spo-
kane with the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern. and at Texas Ferry
with the Joint line owned by the North
ern Pacific md Union Pacific. Valu.
able terminal property has been pur.
chased In Portland and Vancouver. II
is expected the line from Portland to
Pasco and Texas Ferry will be com.
pleted by the autumn of 1907 and the
line from Pasco to Spokane early in
1908.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26
Wireless Teleqraphy.

Wireless telegraphy Is steadily
growing in Importance. and our gov
eminent has been among the foremost
in turning the method to practical ac-
count. A plan Is under way looking to
the creation Of system in the Phil
ippines by which communication may
be had along the entire coast OF those
islands through the establishment OF a
series of stations. The idea Is already
in effect in this country. where a
chain of government wireless stations
extends from Portland, Me-. to Gal
weston, Tex. The value of such a sys-
tenn in communicating official orders.
conveying news Of storms and for
other practical purposes has been
fully proved. There is need of like
arrangement in the Philippines. Wire
less telegraphy is not yet brought to
perfection. There are many Difficult.
ties to overcome before communica.
tion can be invariably swift and Ger.
tain, but the service is improving and
its extended use is justified.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26
AMERICAN AERoPLANE.
British Expert Thinks It viii Be
Adopted by France.

London.-Hon. c. s. Rolls. who left
on his visit to America, made before
his departure a long experiment with
the Wright aeroplane at Euston sta
tion. According to Mr.. Rolls state
ment, "you can steer it as you like. 1t
is an aeroplane, not balloon. From
this aeroplane you can drop bomb
into any fort You like"
He added: "Of course, on the con-
tinent they are more interested In this
than we are, but there is no doubt that
the Wright aeroplane will play very
great part in future warfare"
After talking about probable war
fare, Mr. Rolls remarked: $50 far as
ballooning is concerned, we have still
to get a machine that you can steer
where you like. This means rather
doubtful quantity at present. Differ
ent currents of air are like tides In a
river, and you have to get into the
strata or the tide which will giTe you
the direction you want.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

A notable fact about the vision Of
insects and one which it may be sup
posed must largely influence their
view Of the external world Is the
number Of facets or lenses in com.
pound eyes. A German naturalist, K.
Linemann, has been painstaking
enough to count the number of facets
in the eyes of no fewer than $50 spe-
cies Of beetle. He finds that in the
same species and sex the number
increases with the size of the body.
There Is usually no permanent differ
ence between the sexes as to the
number Of facets. Occasionally, how.
ever. the difference is marked, as in
the case of lampyris splendidula, in
which the male has $500 and the fe-
male 800. One species, says the Phil
adelphia Record, is noted which has
the extraordinary number of $4,000
facets in its eye. The number OF
facets Is greater in the rapidly mov-
ing active forms than in the more
sluggish species.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

A citizen of Kansas City writes that
natural gas has cut down his annual
fuel and gas bill from SITS year to
$74, to say nothing of freedom from
tending a furnace. Better look over
the icemans account before announ.
cling the millennium.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

In the Arabic there are 600 words
with which to designate the camel.
Owing to the fact that "the ship of
the desert" is about the most ornery
brute In creation, some Of them are
doubtless unfit for publication.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26

Brush Is preparing big celebra.
ton on the occasion OF the formal
opening OF Its new sugar factory. Oc.
tober 9th. Special excursions will
be run and everybody Is invited.
The Delta independent., 1906-10-26
MR.. ADAMS THREAT.

Mr.. Adams has mustered to issue general
says that if he is elected this
time, by majority of only vote, all the powers can.
keep him from retaining his seat to the end of his
Who is to he the judge Of whether he is elected
not? Is he himself be the arbiter? He says he was
years that be did call upon the
the house and keep him there, because
the Republicans followed the forms of law in casting him
That is his for not following the advice of
Patterson and calling the "savages to storm the
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
By A. t. AsHsIoRE.

Paris, May Is, 1906.
The conspicuous or strongly marked
fashions that from time TO time make
their appearance have most invariably TO
20 through a period of probation, as it
were. before being universally accepted.
Although, as a rule. they receive the ap-
proval Of the wealthy class in taheir first
showing, they almost always have to be
modified to become universally popular.
There are several reasons for this SEEM
ing odd state Of affairs. To begin with.
the great majority Of women cannot buy
recklessly. and the number of gowns they
purchase in the course of a year is OF
necessity limited. Consequently they want
20 be certain that the models they. select
are going To be in style for some months.
and Il is well known that often a fashion
meets with approval when il is first ex-
hlbifed. and then suddenly goes OUT is
tsbooed- All eccentric designs are liable
70 this danger. and so the woman who
can buy without counting the cost Sc
isets any and every gown she likes.
knowing that if she gets tired of il she
can throw il aside for a new one. while
she who can buy only a few gowns in
the year does not risk the experiment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
White Cloth Umpire Gown

Then, again, the most eccentric fashions
require TO be well made and are often far
too intrica+e for the average dressmaker
TO undert" e with any possibility of sue
cess. The dressmaker who goes abroad
twice a year and has the advantage Of
seeing all the latest fashions IL not so
easily daunted by what looks to the
dressmaker who does not go away from
her own city an impossible rendering of
color and style.
But women who love dress for dress
sake-and there are hundreds of them
among dressmakers as we'll IS custom
ers-ztudy all fashions, watch the trend
of public opinion, and not such long time
after all passes before the most &C.
centric style. provided it is accepted
at all. is generally accepted and made
possible for the multitude At the pres
ent moment the question OF the Empire
gown is uppermost, and great is the
excitement appertaining thereto. 1t is
doubtful if there were ever a fash
ion that possessed so many pitt
falls for the unwary as this one, that
in its perfect rendering is so attractive.
The princess style has of late lost much
Of its terrors for the amateur and yet
in many respects has similar difficulties
to be overcome.
The tall, slender woman, blessed by ma
ture with good lines, has not so much to
dread in undertaking to have her gowns
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

hey seem to be especially suitable for
sed chambers, dressing rooms, etc.
The cretonne shades are highly popular
They are made in empire shape round
and very spreading. square or many sided.
They are all trimmed with gimp, cord or
fringe, and often with all three. Four
sided shades are quite attractive Tapes
try wall paper is also used most success
fully for making the empire shades And
plain paper is also used on white and pale
tints, and is decorated with bowknots,
garlands, baskets and stiff bouquets In
ribbon work. Paper shades also are dec
GRATED with hand painted medallions made
on satin and the shades made of tapestry
wall paper have medallions of French en-
cravings, small court scenes, rural fan
tastes and the like.
Plain green shades for Libraries. ETC..
are also not permitted to escape the en-
pire craze. although in truth many periods
OF french decorative art are intermingled
with the empire. The green shades are
made of plated satin, silk or paper of a
dark tone and finished with heavy gold
fringe. For decoration they have two or
three uny gold eagles, set midway be-
tween the top and bottom of the shade
and the same modest Offering of tiny gold
empire wreaths
Handsome drawing room shades are of
shaded flowered silk heavy in quality and
many eolored, These shades are trimmed
at the top and around the bottom with
gold lace in bands, on which are tiny gar
lands of ribbon work flowers which carry
out the design and color OF the silk. An
other innovation is the trimming of the
paneled shades with shirred white gauze
ribbon. This is used to outline all the
panels and around the top and bottom
One fiowered shade made over q pink
lining had his ribbon outlining the panels
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
WOMAN'S TRIBUTE TO PUSSY

The person who lately denounced the
cat as menace to health and happiness
has reused chorus of defense for poor
pussy.
During the past thirty years" one in
dignant woman writes to Good House
keeping. II have owned 15s cats l have
not kept a cattery nor ever owned a
pussy that. as far as I know. had trace
of aristocratic blood. They were Just
common every day cats.
'Twenty-three years of this time was
! spent on an orange grove in Florida,
where we had as many as sixteen cats
at q time. Yet the birds made them
selves perfectly at home in our grove
and on our porches--in spite of the cats.
ION our porcnes alone more than one
hundred martins-by actual count-made
their homes one summer. Just below
| thm the family and the cats were
constantly passing. I viii not say that
in ali those years no cat of ours ever
caught a bird but | do say that no cat OF
mine ever caught anything like fifty
birds year, with which average the cat
critic discredits them.
zone of my best cats. Zoe, was noted
for her skill in catching sort of mole
which was very injurious to the roots
of orange trees. People would come
miles to beg for one Of Zoe's kittens
hoping to find the same ability in the
young creature.
"She used to bring In to her babies
these moles< or small rabbit: some
times mouse or a little snake: some
times monstrous grasshopper; / never
saw her bring In a bird.
"One season we used an incubator and
raised 200 little chickens. One cat, Polly,
who had strain of wildcat blood in her.
proved a persistent chicken thief and
had to be shot; I had no trouble what
ever with the other dozen or so.
You have heard of the plume hunters
of Florida and how every year they
shoot thousands oil mother birds. leaving
tens OF thousands of young birds to die
of slow starvation. An old cattleman
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

once told me that IL was heartbreaking
to hear their agonizing cries, growing
each day fainter.
.It is for the decoration of our ten
der-hearted(D women that this DEVILS
work is done; and yet Mr.. Thornton
would have US believe that cats are
greater sinners. So. evidently. does Mr..
Hodge. whose quoted criticisms l brand
as unfair.
He says. Most cats have mango
With all my 1856 / never had one case OF
mango. All have eatarrh, and most
New England cats are continually sneez-
ing I lived in Boston several years and
never had a sneezing New England cat,
nor one with catarrh. except in epidemics
of grip. when my cat would sometimes
show symptoms Ike my own
TT is true 1 have taken many NANCY
and diseased cats to the Animal Rescue
League in Boston, but they were unfor-
tunate strays which found in the
streets.
".All cats are alive with heas,' says
DIR. Hodge Neglected cats are. but a
good flea powder will keep these pests in
abeyance; and the dog as flea producer
and mango disseminator will distance a
dozen cats any day.
"The common household rat (which
gets into our food supplies so constantly
carries as much or more contagion than
the cat"
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

and border also of braid and fringe in
white silk
Many of these shades, whether of silk,
lace. cretonne or paper, have two scant
fiounces of liberty silk which has been
fringed out along the edge hanging down
beneath the fringe to its very end. These
are used to make the light softer than II
would be falling through the fringe alone.
Ine chiffon and very elaborate lace or
silk shades are also made with as MANY
fluffy underskirts as ballet dancer: but
II is always a question whether an over
elaboration of chiffon is really beautiful
on q lamp. After all, it is as niece
of furniture that lamp must more or
less be considered. 1t needs a certain
rigidity of line.
All of these shades are used for cleo
tric, gas and oil lamps, and in small de-
signs for candle shades. Just at nresent
the most popular lamps among the fash
ionable class of buyers are the tall glass
lamps. such as were in fashion aho,,t
thirty years ago. and the plain porcelain
lamps in very beautiful shades of white
yellow, blue and green. For candles and
electric candelabra nothing is lust now
1 considered SO enective as the Dresden
figures, some of them for three and Others
only for one light. With these the sma n
filet shades are especially delicate
There are also to be seen new crystal
shades In colors and white Some of
these are made of small crystal balls
strung in strands and have a deep crystal
fringe. Others are made of glass tubes.
very thin, which form the shade hen ea ~
which there is -eep fringe of sparkling
glass strands and balls. These crvxtai
shades are almost all shown on small
lamps, electric or oil, and on candles.
They are very brilliant, too much so for
large lamp. The lamps used with them
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Empire amp Shades Trimmed with ednons, Garnds and Lace

Lamp shades Of antique hlet lace are
the newest and most correct additions to
a drawing-room and boundoir. The fash
Ion comes direct from Paris, where it has
been in favor for several weeks, indeed
since the beginning Of the spring re-
adjustment of household decorations as
well as wardrobe furnishings The filet
lamp shades are very handsome indeed
and are particularly suitable for rooms in
which the shades OF the windows are
made Of the same lace.
The empire shape is the most fashion
able for these lace shades, as it has been
Tor those of paper and brocade. They are
made over a colored foundation in many
Instances. but many are also shown made
fYer white
They are as yet only shown in the most
Kclusive Of the American shops.
One most remarkable shade was ellipti-
al in shape, much longer horizontally
nan vertically. 1t was made of two lone
)vals Of the filet lace made over a plair
white foundation. These ovals were bor.
iered with duh gold galloon of a very
seavy quality put on in two rows about
m inch apart and going all around the
oval Where these two pieces were
were decorated with heavy gold cord
n ide into loops and hanging down on
,ither side in heavy gold tassels. Another
hade made Of hlet was of the round en-
lire shape, made over a foundation of
Iale blue silk, which was laid in plaits.
This shade was quite simple and with
put any adornment but a fiounce OF the
ace. II was used on very beautiful
White lamp.
The filet lace is also used with the Gre
-onBe lamp shades. Pompadour and en-
ire patterns in the cretonne are most
i5ed. A paneled lamp shade had V
.'aped panels OF flet, alternating with
aight bands of cretonne. Gold galloon
sed as birding. The lace Is also used
IS a band around the top of cretonne
iades- Another very remarkable looking
let shade was four sided, each side being
most a circle. Waite gaiiOon bOrdered
-e shade.
Next 10 tie ..scl sllades the lingerie
IMP shades ere the most distinguished.
hese have all the delicate grace and
ainty charm Of the more exquisite lin
erie or the thin shirt waist They also
snonstrate the linitless nature of this
'eason's passion for fine handwork On
e -lese shades exactly the same devices
hat are employed on the fine handmade
wash dresses, waists. etc, are used for
decoration. There are tuc1s, shirring, en-
Dnoidery, lace insertions and edgings and
designs worked out with both lace and
embroidery. These shades are exquisitely
attractive. but only suitable for very deli
cate drawing-roons and boudoirs. Indeed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
PRETTY HAMPERS FOR BABY'S CLOTHES.

For the spring and early summer baby
much that is beautiful is offered in the
way of hampers. Hampers for babies
are always attractive, for they are in
variably decorated with the daintiness
that appertains 20 infants. But this sea-
son they seem prettier than ever, for
added to the RIBBON bows and beading
and the fluffy ruffies which usually deco
rate them there arc handmade embroid-
cry decorations that are surprisingly
fine and delicate. The hamper made of
wicker or palm leaf is lined with pale
blue, pale pink or white silk which has
been made into six pads for the four
sides. the top and the bottom, and one
for the tray Thes pads are dellcately
scented with sachet powder In selecting
powder for this purpose care should be
taken to get the freshest and purest.
Certain scents, too, are preferable to 9TH
ers A fresh fragrance is preferable to a
heavy, sweet odor
The very sheer linen batiste or nain-
sock of the sheerest quality is used for
the covers of these pads il they are to be
embroidered. An embroidery design is
used around the ruff1e which trims the
inside of the hamper lid and around the
ruf1ie of the tray. The bady's name is en-
brodered on the cover of the inside of
the lid in the center or on the corner
The embroidery around the ruff1es is a
flowing leaf and vine design. or the edges
may simply be butonholed in shallow
scallops. The white covers are made to
button on the pads so that they can be
readily removed and washed
Another way to decorate the wash COW
ers for the hamper is with rows of
hemstitching. The lid and tray cover
may be hernstitched all the way around,
and the cover for the bottom of the
hamper as well.
The monogram may be embroidered in
the middle of the lid cover or on one
side. When sheer handkerchief linen is
used with satin ribbon bows at the cor
ners and in the middle off the lide cover
the hemstitching will be found suffi-
cient decoration. The embroidery OF the
monogram or name may, of course be as
elaborate as one wishes and will In itself
furnish sufficient decoration for the ham,
per with the ribbon bows
Narrow lace Is also used to decorate the
hamper. 1t may be put on in entire duck
around the lid cover. in the center of the
tray and around the little ruffies which
are used for border to the tray and lid
covers. Or it may be used as an edging
around the ruffies or to supplement the
embroidery Of the monogram in the CEN
ter of the lid.
1t is perhaps most useful and most
beautiful to have all this embroidery done
in white. But light pink and blue silk is
also used and is certainly very charming.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

little border OF tiny ping rosebuds
around the lid cover with the monogram
worked in the tiny buds around the bot
tom of the tray. is most attractive. "A
little green vine is pretty used in the
same way. Tiny daisies in pink, pale blue
or white are charming.
When embroidery is not TO be used dot
ted swiss or point .d'esprit is user to up
holster the inside of the hamper. Bands
of insertion in lace or embroidery beading
and ribbon are used for trimming. When
hand embroidery is used the tray is
usually covered smoothly, so that the
embroidery will show to advantage. But
when embroidery is not to be used the
bottom of the tray is covered plain, but
the sides are full, the material being
shirred around the top and bottom. Sew
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

eral rows of beading around the top OF
the tray are run with narrow ribbon and
frill is used to finish the tray, the
frill or ruffie not being large enough to
interfere with closing the hamper The
tray is usually fitted with pockets, which
may contain small things for the baby's
toiiet-pins, powder, spOnges, soft old
towels for the bath. a box Of soap. pun
and powder, brush and comb and other
small necessities. The lower part of the
hamper will contain al that a baby needs
for IT'S first wardrobe. Many mothers.
however. prefer to have a baby basket
for the toilet things and to devote this
hamper entirely to clothes. In this case
the tray is used for the bady's smaller
belongings-littIe ribbons. sets OF buttons,
bibs, flannel bands. bootees. etc.