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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
ADULTERATED BEESWAX.
Materials Which Are Used by I'm
scrupulous Dealers to Give
Increased Profit.

AS a general thing, wax shipped to
us in large or small lots is pure; but
occasionally we get hold Of shipment
that contains either tallow or paraf-
fine. All such we reject, of course.
One whole barrel came from a bee
keeper recently who had evidently
bought it believing it to be pure.
When it reached us, examination
showed that it was but little better
than ordinary sealing wax. AS nearly
as we could determine, it contained
pitch, crude oil, rosin, parafine and,
in fact, little of everything of a
waxy nature. Now, we know positive
1y that the man who sent this barrel
is absolutely honest, for he would not
knowingly send us adulterated wax,
In buying up wax, continues the editor
of Gleanings in Bee Culture, bee-keep-
ers ought always to be careful of
whom they buy, and then examine
every cake. Wax containing tallow
will smell like old grease, and it will
feel greasy on the outside. That which
contains paraffine is quite liable to es-
cape detection. It is usually OF very
bright and partly transparent color;
looks very nice-nice enough, in fact,
to pass for first grade: but II 1t be
chewed. instead of crumbling up in a
few minutes it will act like chewing
gum.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Blue and white is ever a clean, pref
ty combination in dress, and especial
" attractive for sunny-halred small
girl. The design here pictured of
child's frock is a blue and white serge,
the model suitable for a girl from six
to eight years old. The skirt is cut
circular and fulled in little at the
belt. Directly down the middle OF the
skirt runs band of white serge fin
ished at the bottom with three small
white pearl buttons. The neat white
serge vest is finished at the neck with
a band of blue silk, and the serge
waist is trimmed with bands of white
and the pearl buttons. The sleeve puff
has a box-pleat extending to the ell
bow. and shoulder straps of white
bands. The belt is Of white.
We must say word for the oft-neg-
lected misses, for nobody cares to be
well dressed more than the sensitive
young ladies' Fashions for them are
we'll decided by now, and have turned
out much as was prophesied earlier.
The plain three-quarters and longer
wraps obtain for general wear; the
short separate jacket is seldom seen
nowadays. for very dressy wear. Elton
suits lead in favor. There are num-
bers of long separate wraps, these do
duty for both utility and "best." The
colors most to the fore are gray, red
and black. For school wear there are
Peter Thompson suits in small plaids,
serges and cheviots.
A word now for the still more neg
lected boy. Boys along from seven to
Norfolk suits The sing1e-breasted
models with bloomer knickerbockers
lead. boomers feature of the present
season. Gray is favorite color; fancy
mixtures are also liked; and navy blue.
as usual, has a big following. Browns
are not so muc6 worn as formerly.
The younger lads have remained faith
full to the Russian blouse, but the sailor
has advanced very considerably, re-
gained much of its former popularity.
Fashions of the elders creep down
into the children's world, and broad
cloth has been used for the little ones
a great deal this year, as well as for
the big ones. White broadcloth coats
are warm and may be made very fetch
ing. There are broadcloth hoods for
the wee girlies, quaint affairs big in
fropt and chopped of in the rear. The
neat little silk bonnet Is by no means
banished, and forms demure contrast
to poke and bonnet and like headgear.
The picturesque Greenaway hats fol-
low much the same lines as the pic
turesque lingerie hats of last summer,
and may be trimmed with posies as
were these hats.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
THE POULTRY YARD.

There is lots of room for more and
better poultry.
Sort over the apples and feed the
specked ones to the hens.
One of the cheapest and best winter
foods is sunfower seeds.
The busiest hen is the one that gen.
orally brings in the most money.
Hens are perhaps the only creatures
that do we'll by going to sleep on full
stomachs.
If a hen sings about her work, you may
be sure that she is making money for
her master.
Fowls fed on corn during the sum-
mer and fall will not produce eggs in
early winter.
Always feed the coarse corn meal, or
cracked corn, all the chicks can eat, just
before roosting time.
Don't crowd the hens into a small
space. If the house is only large
enough for a dozen hens, keep but a
dozen hens.
Confine the market poultry in small
darkened pen and feed all they will eat
for three weeks. They will make big
and profitable gains.
Sell the cockerels and keep some Of
the old cocks and hens for breeding
stock. They give stronger and better
chicks than matings of young birds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Women Guests Objectionable.

AS a general rule, the leading hotels
in New York rather discourage lone
women guests. No matter how Wei
recommended they come or how GER
tain the management is of their re-
spectability, they always tack about 70
per cent. on the price of apartments
when they are let to women. WOm-
en- do not patronize the bar; they do
not spend much money in the dining
room; they are inclined to make their
own coffee for the morning in their
own rooms; they tack pictures on ex-
pensive wall paper; they demand more
service than the men; they do not en-
terrain in the way that helps the no.
tel to make money; they are apt to
keep a pet dog without telling the
proprietor about it in advance. When
they wear waists that button down the
back they want the housekeeper OF
the floor to come in and button them
up or down for them. They are al
ways demanding extra service OF a
kind which costs the hotel money, but
they are not inclined to pay for 1t.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
WINTER FEED FOR HENS.
What One Successful Keeper of Hens
Does to Get Eggs During
Cold Weather.

The morning feed of my flock consists
of equal parts Of bran, corn and oats
made into a mash with warm water, ex-
plains a Monroe county (Wis.) poul-
terer. To this is added occasionally a
a little poultry food mixture. l give
lust enough Of this to create good appe'
tite. About twice week mix in the
mash some boiled potatoes, carrots and
mangel wurzels and little onion to
favor. Immediately after this mash
they are given mixture of grain, such
as wheat, oats, barley and the like,
thrown among straw or coarse litter, in
which they are made to work for it.
Their evening meal consists of corn and
occasionally buckwheat. AS these have
heating qualities, l consider this the
best time to feed them.
Plenty of fresh water, grit and oyster
shells always. In the opinion of the Or
ange Judd Farmer, one of the best grains
for the laying hens is oats. They should
be scalded the night before and fed
damp but not wet. Plenty Of grit must
be given with this food. Cabbage hung
up for them to pick at will furnish green
food, or if this is not to be had, scalded
clover hay will answer the same pur-
pose. have no trouble in getting plenty
of eggs when they bring best prices.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

hind quarters and stand on his front
feet, right by the side of a big foun-
tain, ans he reached in his trunk for
a drink, when all of us on the pagoda,
chung to pa, and we all slid right off
into the big basin of water. The
fountain played on US, and pa was
under water, with the four Circassian
beauties, and when we rolled or slid
down over the elephants head, he
looked at us and seemed to chuckle:
''What you getting off here for, the
show amt half out"
Well, the parade went on and left
the elephant and the rest of Us at the
fountain, and to show chat animals
understand each other, and can appre-
ciate joke, every animal that passed
us gave us the laugh, even the hippo
potamus, which opened his mouth as
big as tunnel, and showed his teeth.
and acted as though he would like to
exchange tanks with us.
The circus people that could be
spared from the wagons came to help
us, and the citizens helped out the
Circassian beauties who were praying
to Allah, and wringing out their
clothes, and / crawled up on the neck
of a cast-iron swan in the fountain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

when the man who plays the sheik,
and rides the elephant in the street
parade, in a howdah, with a canopy
over it, with some female houris in it,
and they called for a volunteer to do
the sheik act, at Steubenyille. and pa Of
fered to do the stunt, went along as
an Egyptian girl, cause knew there
would be something doing.
The elephant eyed pa when he got
up into the bungalow on top of him.
with the Circassian women. and me,
and winked at the other elephants, as
much as to say: Watch my smoke. "
As he went out from the lot, on
the way downtown, ahead of the
bunch, all the other animals acted pc
culiar, and seemed to say: "He will
get his before we get through this
parade"
The big elephant is one of the best
ring performers, but he has always
been steady in the street parade, with
the light of Asia on his back. We got
TO the edge of town and stopped to lei
the rear wagons close up, and were in
front of a saloon, where the bartender
had been emptying stale beer out OF
the bottoms of kegs into a washtub
which was standing on the sidewalk
ready to be sold TO people who buy II
In pals.
Well, sir, that COMPOUNDED elephant
got his trunk in that tub OF stale beer
and he never took it out till the beef
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

overcoats; here, too, we see the Rus
sian blouse pushed back little by a
rival. The youngsters want clothes
that look like fathers, and the box
overcoat makes them supremely happy.
Boys from five to 16 are wearing coats
of about the same cut. Gray is a ia
vorite color in these, and the black
velvet color is often seen. Cord Bran
denbergs are liked for fastenings, and
give a good touch to the otherwise very
plain garments. Caps that can be pulled
down over the ears are preferred for
the very small boy and affected by tie
larger ones when the weather is pretty
cold. There is something very attrac-
tive about a little black-coated laddie
with a soft white Shetland toboggan
cap on his head; such a suggestive
mixture of man and baby.
In hand coverings, there is a wide
variety to select from and the little
double mittens are as good as any
thing. Probably girl will ike ore
pair Of kid gloves for 'sbest," but the
standby with children is the warm
mitten. In furs we think there is moth
ing prettier or more becoming than
snowy wnlte; and one can get very
nice white sets at a moderate price.
ELLEN OSMONDR
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Walking along the avenue Of an aft
ernoon, one might easily think he had
exchanged his everyday clear spectacles
for rose-colored glasses, so many rose
broadcloth CARRIED maidens does he
meet
Usually for street wear the pinks and
corals are toned down a little by Access
series, dark furs lessen the evening
dress aspect, and are affected by the
lady that has chosen for her tailor suit
anything as delicate as one of these
rose-colored cloths. If winter gives
true promise of spring fashions, the
coming season will asSuredly be a col
orful one.
The very latest wrinkle is the plaid
skirt and plain coat, this affected by
young girls. 1t is jaunty style, and
when good materials are employed ,--e
effect is excellent for a walking suit.
Combinations are very much the thing,
the use of different fabrics; velvet and
net we have spoken OF several times,
and may have mentioned the use OF
chiffon with broadcloth.
Midwinter styles are sumptuous, rich
materials, voluminOus cloaks, furs and
feathers of a magnificence. Our illus
tration shows a trio of gowns designed
in Paris, and Enthusiastically Frencny.
But the American women wear them,
and know how to wear them. For aft
ernoon and evening the long skirt holds
sway, and though skirts continue TO
outline the figure about the hips it
takes yards and yards to make the
gown of the day. Note the marked fea-
lures of the pictured models; the long
lines of the gown, the short sleeves,
the plume hats, the rich quality but
plain disposal of the trimming. Furs
of the day are extremely handsome, the
great fiat muffs most picturesque. We
recently had attention called to
broadcloth muff arranged in loose
pleats but keeping to the form now IA
vored, and thought how easily and with
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

ed to swear, although she was a sacred
COW She bumped herself, and shiv
cred. and then beloved like calf
who has been left in the barn to be
weaned while it's mother goes out to
pasture, and the sacred bull, her hus-
band he came and put his nose up
to her nose, as much as to say: What
is the matter, dearie?" and she talked
sacred cattle talk to him for min
ute. and then the bull turned to me
and chased me out of the tent Now.
as sure as you live that cow told the
bull that / had given her something
hot All the animals within hearing
were on to me, and they would snarl,
and make noises when | came along,
and act as though they wanted to
make me understand that they knew
I gave that COW a hot box, and they all
wanted to get a chance at me.
They don't like pa any better than
they do me. and the big elephant seems
to have been laying for pa ever since
he run the sharp iron into him, the
time he got on tear and tried to run
q town. When the elephants are per-
forming in the ring, they all have an
eye on pa, SO everybody notices it. |
knew something would happen to pa, so
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Motoring Makes Fat.

Women who are afraid of growing
fat and adding adipose tissue should not
motor much. Nothing increases the
appetite like rushing through fresh
air. while the fact of sitting all day
prevents the taking of ordinary exer-
elsie. Few people walk after they ac-
ouire a motor. Progression seems too
slow and too tiresome, so that, like hens
shut up in a coop, they only stir to eat.
IL it is desired to retain the figure, a
woman should not motor every day, or
at least not all day, and should take care
to indulge in brisk walk, ride, or a
bicycle run as we'll, in order to exercise
the muscles and keep them supple and
strong. 1t is extremely easy to getfat AMI
shapeless in very short time, and as
difficult to return to ones normal con-
dition of slimness. The average motor
list is fat and blessed with an admirable
appetite.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
A FARM lcEHoUsE.
Any Farmer with Ratchet and Saw
Building Sense Can Provide
Himself with One.


Whoever milks cows or makes but
ter or likes ice cream or anybody else
living on an American farm should
have an ice house. In winter you can
burn wood and coal and keep COM
Portable in zero weather. In summer,
with the mercury sizzling in the SOS
ice is not always luxury; it may be
a necessity. AS to that, many luxuries
are necessary, and some needs might
be dispensed with as unnecessary lux
uries.
However, this is to tell how an eff
Gent ice house may be built. The
time-honored method is 10 nail sheath
ing on both sides of 2x6 studding, fill
ing in the space with sawdust. 1t is
expensive; it gets wet from melting
ice and it is not as good a non-conduct-
or as still air. Use matched stuff, and
the alright space enclosing body of
dead air is the best non-conductor yet
devised. The air costs nothing and
the outer wall never gets wet.
There is no need for extended illus
tration on ice-house construction. Any
and saw building sense can put up
any kind of building that suits him.
All he needs is a knowledge of few
fundamental principles. These are
protection from heat, drainage and
ventilation.
The Farmers Voice contends that
builders make a mistake in venti-
lot Tcr ho OF tn 20
let's warm summer air in over the ice,
which is palpably wrong. II the Their
mometer shows warmer air inside
than outside, it is proper to open the
door at night a few moments for in
terror ventilation.
Ventilate on the outside! Provide
an air space outside the dead-air nom
conducting wall by mailing 2x2 strips
vertically on the outside and putting
on layer of thin stuff, say half inch
weather boarding. This air space
must be open top and bottom. The air
constantly circulating through it keeps
the suns heat from penetrating the
building, and this is the only kind Of
ventilation an ice house needs.
Put an ice house in the shade of
trees or other buildings. Build it on
hillside where drainage is easy.
Don't put it underground. Use saw
dust, chopped straw or hay or planer
shavings next to walls, and at bottom
and top, but pack ice solid. 1t pays
to cut ice in rectangular blocks and
pack without cracks or loose joints
and corners.
Ice can't stand wet feet. Without
proper drainage the accommodating
water melts the ice very fast. If pos
sible the drain pipe should have a
trap or double elbow so that water
will flow out, but air cannot get in.
A half-inch galvanized iron pipe is
best. Have it properly connected so
that water will run out as fast as it
melts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Pa yelled and talked profane, and told
'em to bring a cannon and kill the ele-
plant, which kept ducking him with
his trunk, and swabbing out the bot
tom of the fountain basin with pa. 1t
seemed as though he never would get
through using pa for a mop, but finally
the people got rope around pa, and a
keeper got an iron hook in the ele-
plants ear, and they pulled pa out
on one side. and got the elephant away
on the other side, and just then the
calliope, that ends the parade, came
by us and played the Blue Danube
and the elephant got on his hind feet
and waltzed on the pavement. They
put pa and the Circassian beauties in q
patrol wagon and took them to the
show lot, and / sat by the driver, and
he let me drive the team.
Pa had his sheik clothes rolled Ut
around his waist, and was wringins
them out, and talking awful sassy, and
when we got to the lot it took a lone
time to convince the policemen that
we were not guilty of disorderly con-
duct, and just then the elephant came
tearing by US, with the keeper on
horseback behind him, prodding him IN
the ham every jump with sharp iron
and he went through the side of the
tent as though he was mighty sorry he
didn't kill us all.
They made him get down on his
knees and below in token Of surren
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Care in Experiments.

In the making of farm experiments
great care needs to be exercised to
have all possibility of error eradicated.
Many of the so-called experiments car
ried on on farms are really not expert
ments at all. They are SO carelessly
conducted that no scientist would ac-
cept their conclusions. Such an expert
ment is that in which the farmer, to
test his land or manure, puts the fer
tilizer on field but has no check plot
with mo treatment" He makes a
comparison with what the field did
when the fertilizer was not used. It
should be evident to him that any in
crease of harvest may be due to some
thing else than the fertilizer. Such ex-
periments mean little or nothing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

what good results it might BIO repro
duced by the home needleWOman.
Colder and colder grows the weather
thinner and filmier grow the fashion
able lingerie waists. AS these waists
will continue to be worn next summer,
many women are adding considerably
to their stock now; and for these we
would mention that short sleeves are
fashionable as ever, and that sleeves
generally are less full than last sea-
son. The finest of materials are liked
one better economic on quantity OF
trimming and get beautiful goods.
When the long sleeve is made, have it
fit close to the elbow, all the fulness
come between elbow and shoulder.
Gowns for dressy occasions are trim
med with lace picked out in gold
thread, the effect often very beautiful.
The Louis coats of brocade silk not in
frequently show tracery Of gold thread,
and we may say here that these
basqued coats of brocade worn with
plain petticoat are the latest style. A
beautiful costume was seen the other
petticoat of white net embroidered in
gold thread, the Louis coat OF white
velvet, the hat a large white velvet.
In connection with this beautiful even
ing gown, we would refer to an equally
charming creation of peach colored
chiffon broadcloth made princess style
and worn with bolero Of Irish crochet
lace.
The Louis coats of rich brocade are
worn by the older women, young girls
go in for short-waisted empire styles.
The latter are particularly girlish,
more becoming. Liberty satin and
crepe de chine are appropriate mate
rails, and the fashionable pink a very
appropriate color for the debutante.
Net over silk is well liked, and sheer
nets trimmed with ribbon are again in
vogue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

roof. They are set four feet in the
ground and Is feet apart, as that Is a
convenient size to make barrack.
The plates are four by six inches,
made of white pine or some other light
wood, as is all the material Of the
roof. Lightness is important and the
roof boards are made Of one-half inch
material The brace across the corner
is made of two-inch plank spiked
strongly to the plates. 1t is Of such
a height that the rafter which rests
on ii if projected through the corner
post, would meet the frame at inter-
section Of the plates. The roof boards
are cut around the corners, leaving
hole few inches larger than the cor
ner posts. A little rain that gets in
at the corners or through the roof does
practically no harm as the open condi-
ton of the barrack favors quick dry
ing. Barracks are much to be pre-
ferred to stacking; are convenient and
cheaply built.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Worse Than the Rioters,

The Metz (Mo.) Times evolves this:
Allan Jamison had trying expert
ence while cutting corn for Rev. NJ A.
Wolf in the Usage bottoms the other
day. He was working away when sud
denly something struck him, knocking
him to the ground, where he remained
for some time in an unconscious state.
He finally recovered, ahs although
badly bruised up was able to get home.
The next day he went back to the field
in the hopes of finding out what struck
him and was rewarded. There were
two ears of corn that had fallen from
the stalk he was cutting on. The torn
I'D condition of the ground indicated
that he had struggled hard to get from
under the big nubbins that held him
down. The above incident was not
reported by Rev. MIR. Wolf. but comes
from a more reliable source namely.
Allan himself.