Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-09

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A portrait bust of Robert Browning By
his son, r. Barrett Browning, was UNI
yelled recently in Browning hall, Lon
don. The sculptor is a pupil of Rodin.
His first work in the art field was as a
painter.
George Bruce Cortelyou is the mu-
stefan of the cabinet. He seeks relief
and refreshment from the worries and
cares of politics and office at the piano.
At the close of a busy and harassing
day he will go home and seek peace
playing rondos, sonatas and rhapsodies.
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The football rules committees of the
intercollegiate Athletic Association and
the old University Athletic Club met in
New York and amalgamated for future
control. This is progress toward reforms
in football that will insure a general OBJ
servance of whatever the combination
dictates.
The memory of Mrs. Jacob a. Riis IS
very appropriately and tenderly recalled
in the New York settlement house by
tablet bearing an open book containing
a favorite quotation of hers I'VE will
strive together for all that is good and
noble" and signifying that Mrs. Riis'
life was like an open book
An the justices of the United States
supreme court, except William II.
Moody, the youngest member, are gray
haired. Mr.. Moody is blonde and his
hair is OF that pale straw color which
turns gray only very late in life His
ruddy complexion gives an additional
touch of youthfumess. SO that the con
trast between Mr. Moody ard other
members Of the court is striking
The sad accident TO the young woman
who fell from fire escape on one of
the frat" buildings of the University
of Wisconsin draws attention to the fact
that the average fire escape is not safe
means of ingress or egress. and that it
merely gives an imperiled person a
choice between dangers-between the
risk of fall and the risk of death by |
fire.
Joseph NJ. Dixon, who month after
next will succeed Clark of Butte and |
the copper mines as senator from Mon |
tana. Is a lawyer of about 40 winters. |
Like Uncle Joe Cannon he's Il North |
Carolinian by nativity and Guilford col |
lege (Uncle Joe was born in Guilford) is |
his alma mater. He began the practice |
of law in Montana fifteen years ago,
and is now serving his second term in
the house.
Hunters will be interested in scheme
which involves the stocking of the hot |
deserts of the Southwest with antelope
from South Africa which thrive under !
such climatic conditions. Hunting ON a |
desert is not as attractive as hunting in !
the forests, but there are sportsmen in |
every line, and if antelope can be Sc
cured in the middle of Il barren country
there will always be hunters willing to
undergo any privation in order to get Il
shot at them.
The suggested necessity of propagating
fresh water CLAIMS to supply raw material
for the button industry recalls the recent
pearl craze, which caused eager fortune,
hunters to dig out everything that looked
like a clam and throw it upon the river
bank. This recklessness as to the future
of the clam increased the supply of shells
Tor the button makers and stimulated
their business. but it has had its natural
result in relation to the future supply.
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The announcement has been made in
Paris that a wealthy man, impressed by
reading Paul and Virginia." has be-
queathed $4,000 to the state for the
erection of statue of Bernardin de
Saint Pierre. The commission has been
given to the sculptor Holworth and the
pedestal will contain high relefs of Paul
and Virginia, with Bernardin seated on
a hillock apparently listening to the
songs Of nature.
Yachtsmen will be pleased to note that
the differences concerning the dates for
the next races between German and
American boats of the sender class have
been adjudicated, and that the boats will
race in German waters in August. These
races between small boats are strength.
ening the ties between foreign and
American yachtsmen and thus making
the outlook for international yachting
far more promising than it has been fol
some years.
BY order of the President. one of III,
very few medals struck by Congress il
oommemoration of the 200th anniversary
of Franklin's birth was sent BY Secre
tary Root to the Boston Latin school
and Mr.. Fiske, the headmaster, received