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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-08

sleeve in the street suit The coGSet-
fish tricorne hat is OF felt trimmed
with velvet and feathers. A glimpse
of white lingerie at the neck gives a
dainty finish to the charming costume.
Boleros are extremely short in the
back and pretty long in the front as
a rule. This is kindly trick to con-
ceal deficiencies of the figure, to soften
angularities and to conceal too great
embonpoint. 1t is style we may call
generally becoming.
A colorful season is upon US, color
full season is to succeed. The favor
tie shades a:e hard to determine; but
we may mention that peacock blue has
strong hold both in millinery and
frock materials. 1t should not be
used too generously, little is much
better than a great deal. We recent
ly had our attention called to lovely
combination, white matinee coat
worn with chinchilla furs and hat
of peacock tones. 1t was different"
wherefore one element of its attrac
tiveness. And now we have spoken of
matinee apparel, We are moved to tell
of a pretty little dress we saw the
other afternoon at the theater. 1t was
one of the old-rose cloth costumes
that have been noticeable this winter,
but this one was especially dainty and
very becoming to the dark-haired girl
who wore it. The skirt was princess
with high girdle, the upper part of
the bodice a lowered silk muslin, old
rose with Celebrations in dull browns
and greens. The muslin was fashioned
with much fluffiness, and gave dressy
look to what might have been a rather
plain costume The hat was covered
with plumes of rosy hue, shading from
pink to wine red.
A plain little shirt-waist suit of silk
or wool may be transformed by the ad-
dition Of a belt Of gold tinsel or of
Pompadour ribbon. A little Persian
trimming is very effective on a utili-
| tartan frock. 1t should be unneces-
sary to mention that trim stock and
cuffs are a dainty finish not to be
neglected, but often this important
detail is omitted. There is decided
tendency toward relieving the former
plainness Of the shirt-waist suit, and
the favorite means is by use of fit
i ted girdle on the waist, which is
worn outside Of the skirt. Many of
the new models look like fancy jacket
suits, the waist so trimmed as to simu.
late jacket.
The very latest in waists is the dyed
lace blouse, the pale pinlls and blues
! perhaps most prominent. There are
also some navy blue ones shown and
probably the fancy will grow to such
an extent the lace will be dyed to suit
individual taste. Personally we dc
not care much for the fashion.
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DEGREES of Dame Fashion

Nowhere do we see the tight fitted
garments of some years back. What Is
spoken of as close is anything but
snug, a looseness obtains. A princes
gown that has draped sash will not
have the sash confine the figure. but
will be sewn high on the skirt of the
dress.
Although stocks are higher and fit
neatly about the neck, many women
wear for afternoon and evening no
stock at all. The return of the Dutch
mech is matter for congratulation
among stout women, and unless the
throat is very scrawny indeed the half
low neck is quite attractive, although
the right point must be chosen, neither
too low nor too high.
Speaking of our stout sisters, we
would warn against the selection of
tight bodices, the bolero properly cut
and trimmed is much better. The
woman of ayordupois may be glad
for the long skirt, too, but should not
affect, il she is short as well as stout,
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Fashions from Over the Sea

equal approval you may affect the Jo'
sephine short waist. Skirts generally,
it is a comfort to say, are plain and
straight up and down, and for evening
we have returned to the small train.
Some dressmakers keep to the square
shoulders and puffed-up sleeves, others
have brought back the dropping Shout
der and dropping slee.e. Girdles are
worn as deep as ever, and also there
is no girdle or belt at all, the princess
models much used. We can affirm
nothing save that there is wide lati-
tudo in styles.
Getting to solid ground, the subject
of the ever-faithful shirt-waist, we
call attention to the neat model in the
accompanying illustration. The deep
yoke front and back is fitted by a
shoulder seams, three small tucks ex-
tend down the center of the back;
and there are three tucks either side
the front, three stitched only halfway
down. In the box-plait of the front
button holes are worked through
which a soft silk tie may be passed.
The sleeves are on the bishop order
and finished with pointed cuffs. For
this blouse it takes three and a halt
yards of material % inches wide.
Last summer the shirt-waist suit
was not quite so much in fashion as the
jacket suit, blouse of thin material
favored. 1t would now seem that the
shirt-waist suit in wash materials is
to return to favor the coming season;
and so many get ready their spring
and summer frocks during the in
clement weather of late winter and
early spring, we think it well to touch
on advance fashions. A fancy that
promises to appeal, is that of combin-
ing lingerie waist with the material
used in the skirt, thus making cos
tune and keeping to something lit
tie dressier than the plain shirt-waist
suit. And this is to be recommended,
as the fine sheer materials combine SO
effectively with heavier ones. For
house gowns dainty lawn berthas and
chemisettes will be preferred to lace
or embroidery.
ELLEN OSMONDE.
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with powerful water jets, shovels and
special tools to force the sand toward
the central tube, where it will be
pumped upward and discharged
through the outside shell of the Gals
son by electors or sand pumps. II
any solid material, wreckage: for in
stance, should be encountered in the
sand while sinking, it is purposed to
work it toward the central shaft,
where it may be removed by crap
ping dredge. Smaller distractions
may be removed by divers through the
airloclls provided for the men.
AS soon as the caisson has been
sunk to it's proper depth, about %
feet below the surface of the sand, thu
bottom being about so feet below the
surface of the water the work of fill
ing will be carried on, and a rip-rap
apron of irregular granite blocks or
powders will be deposited on the sur
face of the sand entirely around the
foundation, extending outward about
rs feet from the caisson.
After having filled the entire shell
of the caisson with concrete, and hav-
ing filled the central tube with wet
sands, excepting space for cistern to
hold $4,000 gallons of fresh water, and
for rooms in which to store the OIL
water and hosting engine for the
| lighthouse, the foundation will be com
plete and the erection OF the super
! structure will begin.
The lighthouse will be Of steel con-
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HILLSIDE.

drawing rather tnan spend all his eff
forts in trying to Ssdrn to draw. Slim
ulate and train the expression, and the
desire for technical facility will follow
soon enough.
Easy as Forming Letters.
Now there are certain qualities that
lie within the reach of those who can
not draw, and by drawing is meant
the ability to reproduce an object Or
copy with accuracy. These qualities
can be expressed by anyone who can
learn to form the letters of the alpha
bet. They are the same qualities that
govern all expressions in poetry, music
or painting-simplicity Cor clearness OF
intention), proportion Tor the relation
in size of one object or mass to an
other object or massl, balance Cor the
relation in placement of an object or
mass to another object or mass), and
such other qualities in beauty of ey-
preston as the child can be taught by
comparison.
Of this the child knows much by in
stinct that it is taught later by rule and
| precept. 1t expresses itself well and
clearly as the primitive races did, by
an instinct that makes the drawing OF
the Zuni Indian and the child much
alike. They symbolic. That is the
natural method, and in the case of the
child it is capable of all the refinement
that centuries of art development have
given us. 1t is this instructive drawing
that should be bettered and made a
means of agreeable expression. 1t may
| be brought to perfection where abili-
| ty is apparent that makes the tedium
of practice reasonable pains for the
end to be gained. Let the child draw
the man and tree. or his symbols Of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-08

best importations from Paris are
marked by the indescribable cline, y
and are almost severe in their plain
ness. The dressmaker must labor I'M
til she has got for her patron such
hang and fit that both can be pro-
nounced becoming, graceful-which
will mean the desirable attainment of
Zine"
But again Zines" are new-fashioned
and old-fashioned, and to tell the truth
it is bit hard to assert just what are
modish, for there exists considerable
dissension in the ranks of the good
gown makers. When doctors disagree
there is trouble enough-but when the
gownmakersi You may appear long
WASTED and svelte, or with almost
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one abnormally long for her height.
We yet remember with amusement
the appearance of lady whose train
seemed to measure more inches than
her height This is ridiculous.
Everybody wants one good cloth cos
tune, and the design given here is
an admirable one, costume of wine
red cloth trimmed with velvet of
darker shade; just touches of the vel
vet, no broad trimming. The skirt
is very long, the coat one Of the loose
close ones referred to above. Notice
that the sleeves, too, are long, and we
would mention that the latest i'm
portations from a Paris house suggest
an abatement Of the craze for ths short
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Supremacy of Man.

CIVILIZATION that makes institutions
superior to men is civilization to be
destroyed" according to Prof. Smaller
Mathews, of the University of Chicago.
In an article in the current issue of
the Biblical World, published at the
University of Chicago, the divinity
dean thus concludes an article on MEN
or Institutions" While on the whole
the professor believes that man must
be superior to institutions. yet he de-
clares the individual must sometimes
be sacrificed to the interests of So
ciety.' The glory of our race" says
Dr.. Mathews, lis that it can produce
heroes and martyrs There even come
times when men must deliberately
cause suffering to their fellows in be-
half of some institution which prom
ises vast ultimate good. The patriot
gives himself for his country. The
father voluntarily foregoes his own adj
vantage for his children. The citizen
is forced TO pay taxes even against his
will. The employer is certainly justi-
lied in discharging the employee whose
SetA O1CSoACSS CuQduS0TS the safety OIL
others or whose wastefulness destroys
the dividends af the company He
must be wise man who can lay down
rules that would apply to all cases or
even to single case. 1t calls for prin-
ciples and conscience. The welfare of
all is the supreme consideration, and
that not material welfare only, but the
highest good to the community from
every point of view Yet no mere in
tellectual application of this principle
will suffice to guide ones conduct
Alright. To such apprehension there
must be added a genuine regard for
men, a sense of the value of the in
diyidual and real brotherly love. Thus
we return to the need of intelligence
and religion. Civilization that makes
institutions superior to men IS a civ
ilization to be destroyed, for it runs
amuck of that true Christian principle
that man is the universal unit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-08
WOMEN WHO MAKE NIPPERS

More than 1000 women in eastern
Hancock county earn money for
Christmas presents and winter cloth
ing by knitting wooden nippers which
are used by the winter fishermen who
sail out from Gloucester, Mass.
A fishefman's nipper is a heavy
wool mitt with a short wrist and with
a thick protection for the thumb and
forefinger and a padded palm. 1t was
designed for protecting the hands of
fishermen who haul wet lines in cold
weather.
Fully $4,000 pairs of nippers are
worn out every year, of which more
than rs per cent. are knitted by women
who live IN the shore towns east of
Penobscot river As a rule, a wom-
an with active fingers can knit four
pairs of nippers day in addition to
doing her housework.
The pay for making set of nip
pers is four cents, which is taken up
in store trade from the agents. In
actual cash value, no more than three
cents pair is given for the work.
The knitters begin their labors late
in November and continue until Feb
ruary, or later. The rushing season
is from December Is until the New
Year. 1t is lot uncommon to see
aged women walking along the streets
Knitting slippers in quick-step time.
and holding balls of yarn in their
apron pockets.
A smart knitter can use up great
er length OF yarn than she can cover
In walking along a good road, her
fingers outstripping her feet in ratio
of seven to five. She is counted a
poor knitter who cannot knit pp
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proper, a plate steel cylinder sup
porting light of the first order at
$50 feet above tide level.
The caisson will be 1OS feet in diam
eter at the bottom, 80 feet high and so
feet in diameter at the top. 1t will
have a double shell of steel plates,
parallel to each other and about six
feet apart, attached to "a upright in
clined plate Orders, which will di-
vide the space between the shells into
"a watertight compartments. 1t will
have a double bottom, about seven
feet above the outer bottom edge of
the caisson. This space between the
two floors IS divided into "a sections
by "a frames, or trusses, extending
from near the bottom of the "a outer
inclined Orders horizontally on the
radial lines, within eight feet of the
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-
but they have questioned the older
methods, and the old copybooks of grad
ed plates, from sets of parallel lines and
cubes to castles on the Rhine and much
shaded dogs heads, have given place
to object drawing and designing of vari-
Gus kinds.
If the question were one of the in
dividual child it could easily be decided
the amount of its artistic tempera-
ment would settle that. The public
school, however, is made up of children
of all degrees of artistic instincts and
from all walks of life. Some of them
draw by natural desire better than 9TH
ers could draw by careful training.
Drawing, therefore, ought not to be con-
sidered for the talented few, but for
the untalented many.
Children love to express themselves.
One child may express itself better
in mechanics than in written compost
ton, another's utterance is music and
another's the plastic arts, but all love
to give themselves some outlet for their
teeming thoughts. This desire for ut
terance ought to be given a chance, if
not for the value of the expression itself,
at least for the effect it has upon the
other studies.
Drawing in the Schools.
On this ground drawing has place
in public school education; as means
of expression alone and not as an art
whose proper training is in the school
of fine arts. From this standpoint the
teaching of drawing may be relieved of
many Of its objections in the public
schools and its teaching and study may
be placed within the grasp of the av-
erage teacher and pupil. Would not a
system that does not require the
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draughtsman's knowledge on the part
of the teacher or the ability to draw
on the part of the pupil meet the COM
mon need? In most methods the child
is left to reproduce the copy or object
as best it may, and it's effort is success
full or not according as it has an eye
capable of measurement.
Object drawing has its value, and
should be in the proper correlation to
inventive drawing, but its use alone
is unjust to the unequal ability of a
number Of pupils. Most of the systems
that now obtain fail through this, that
they suppose most all school-teachers
and children can draw, whereas most
cannot.
Public schools are not the places for
the training of artists. Drawing, how
ever, can have a place in the chilS's
education; at the same time apprecM-
ton and taste can be cultivated. Let
the child seek to express himself by
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FOR LIGHTHOUSE
struction and will consist of an out
side steel shell with an inner cen
trail steel tube, to contain the spiral
stairway, chimneys and ventilators,
all of which are well braced by steel
Orders, frames and partitions. The
outer shell of this structure is to be
lined with layer Of about four inches
of concrete or plaster placed upon
wire mesh OF expanded metal.
The lighthouse has eight different
floors, besides the lantern gallery and
watchrOom. The first will be equipped
with three lifeboats, with crane for
hosting Or lowering on the outside.
The second floor is divided into four
rooms, and contains the fog signaling
apparatus and two oil engines. The
third floor will contain the hosting
engine for operating the crane, two
large provision rooms and bedroom.
The fourth and fifth floors each will
have two bedrooms, writing-room
and a bathroom. One-half of the sixth
floor will be devoted to the dining
room, the other half to the kitchen,
pantry and refrigerators. The sew
enth floor will have a double sitting
room or library and laundry. On
this floor, also, will be placed a tank
holding 1000 gallons of fresh water.
The eighth floor will be equipped for
the lighthouse service room. The
ninth floor will contain the watch
room, and will have a gallery extend
ing all the way around it. The floor
above this will contain the light it
self, visible in storm or calm for
about 20 miles.
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Memorial to Gen Gansevoor+

ROM n. Y, is to have a fine statue
of Gen. Peter Gansevoort, who was
in command of Fort StanWix at its
siege during the early and troublous
days in the Mohawk valley. The
statue is to be placed in East PARK,
because the site of that old fort which
never surrendered is now private
ground. 1t is the gift Of Mrs. Abram
Lansing, of Albany, who is d grand
daughter of Gen. Gansevoort.
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Usually.

What is the difference between rep
artee and insult?"
"If the other fellow is smaller than
you are, it is repartee; if he is larger
it is nsult."-HousLon Post.
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A gown we once would have spoken
of as "Frenchy" would have been
artfully complex, had difficult trim
mings introduced here and there, just
saved from business by the skill OF
it's creator; but to-day all this is
changed, the distinctly Partisan gown
is noted for simplicity, a beautiful
simplicity that means most intelligent
knowledge Of Zine" To-day the
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During the Spanking.

The Parent-Tommy, this hurts me
more than it does you.
The Child-No it don't, neither!
You've got glove on, durn it ALL
Cleveland Leader
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Economical.

Mrs. Dearborn-Did you say she was
economical?
Mrs. Wabash-My, yes! Why, she's
worn the same wedding dress at every
one OF her weddings!- States.
man.
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So Different.

She-Can you understand the parrot
next door to us?
He-Oh, yes; it never talks with Its
mouth filled with hairpins.-Yonkers
Statesman.
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mile of yarn while she is walking a
mile, though when person keeps her
eyes upon the flying needles all the
time walking is more from feeling
than from sight, and consequently
slow.
The women carry their knitting
work about them, no matter what they
are doing. At evening prayer-meet-
ings it is not unusual for woman to
knit across nipper before she can
rise to give her testimony when called
upon by tho class leader. Cases are
known in which women have taken
their knitting to funerals, though near
relatives OF the deceased are barred
from this privilege. As the commu-
mites are strictly orthodox, no knit
ting is done on Sundays.
The pipper business furnishes good
revenues ID railroads, steamboats, and
stages and involves an expenditure Of
about $10.0G0 a year.
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Turned About.

Redd-How your friend Shipton has
changed He used to be so COM
municative, you know.
Greene-Isn't he yet?
NO; why he draws himself right
into his shell, now, when you're trying
to question him."
Hes turned turtle, has he?"-
Yonkers Statesman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-08
EASY LESSONS IN
DRAWING
BY FREDERICK RICHARDSON
Instructor in Composition and in Charge Of
Illustration Glasses fn ART Institute,
Chicago.l
THE NATURAL PLAN ALL CAN
LEARN.
Copyright, B. Joseph B. Bow

This article and the one to appear next
are intended for the teacher or parent as
preparatory to taking up the teaching Of
the children.l
Much attention has been given Of
late to the method of teaching drawing
in the public schools.
Nearly all educators have favored
drawing as a part of child education,
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The Artist-Father, | have just sold
that painting for $4,000.
The Fatner-Fine! Now youth be
able to quit painting and go into some
kind of business. philadelphia Dulles
tin.
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Mr.. Night Owl.

That he's given to sir,
There can't be q doubt.
For he never turns in
Till it's time to turn out.
Town Topics.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-08-10
For Town Improvement,

Numerous cities and towns in
Kansas are organizing clubs for
Town Improvement" Great Bend
should not be behind her neigh
bors. The thing which struck the
writer more forcibly than any
other thing, on our return to
Great Bend, was the difference in
the appearance of Great Bends
streets especially in the resi-
dence portion-from the streets in
the Colorado towns we visited.
Our streets look 'tacky," ragged,
unkept. A few dollars expended
in cutting weeds, grading up the
lawns, planting shrubbery. paint
ing the houses and cleaning the
rubbish out of the back yards,
W ould add many attractions that
are now lacking
Why not a Town Improvement
Club for Great Bend9