Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-27

cnOpS WOOD Wulle III OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
state is in a trance. Many wives who
find it difficult to get their husbands to
chop the kindling will agree with the doc
tors.
High school fraternities will probably
go out Of existence in Minnesota, follow
ing the district court decision affirming
the validity of the law which prohibits
their existence. The frat" should be
barred from all educational Institutions
supported by the tax-paying public.
a man who when asked what profess
sion or business he followed gave his oc-
cupation as q bookworm was sentenced
at Chicago yesterday to six months i'm
prisonment for stealing volumes from
the public library. And yet there are
librarians who argue for the open shelf.
The bridge which collapsed at Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, carrying eight
ironworkers to death, was wrecked by
high water which washed away the
false work that supported it. Were the
accident due to structural weakness there
would be fresh alarm as to the safety
of the cantilever type, of which the
bridge recently wrecked at Quebec was
an extreme example.
The statement of Sir Thomas Snther-
land, president of the. Peninsula g.
Oriental Steamship Company, that the
entire traffic of the company's steamers
between Bombay and Japan has been OBJ
sorbed by japanese competitors, confirms
the predictions that were made in re-
gard to Oriental marine traffic when
Japan determined to become factor in
the worlds shipping industry.
News of a successful preliminary test
of Prof. Alexander Graham Bells te-
trahedral aeroplane near Baddeck, Cape
Breton, will increase popular interest in
the Professors experiments. Lieut..
Selfridge of the United States Navy.
assembled in the kite, and was able to
maintain its equilibrium. The next step
will be the installation Of an engine in
the promising contrivance, and fight
without tie aid of leading strings.
Congressman Burton's reservation in
endorsing the platform of the waterways
convention declaring for $50,G00,000
year for the improvement Of inland navi-
CATION doubtless reflects the popular
view. The people of the United States
favor propositions for the Improvement
OF waterways that are not visionary
projects" With big appropriations III
sight, there is always rush for shares
to squander on unimportant waterways.
New Hampshire has had her first open
season for deer in twenty-seven years,
and as result everybody is eating ven
ison. Thousands Of deer have been slain
without a corresponding slaughter of
hunters, because the lawmakers of the
state took the precaGtion to prohibit the
use of rifles and compel the hunters
TO use shotguns. The experiment in
introducing the shotgun for big game is
worthy of study in the deer states of the
Northwest.
The wife Of Nansen the explorer and
diplomat died at his home in Norway
while he was representing his country's
interests in London. The mother of
Secretary Taft died at her home in Ohio
while he was absent from the United
States on tour unexampied in dfplo
matte history, because it will involve the
decentralization of the globe There
will be wide sympathy for the two well
known men thus hereaved while exna-
triated by reason of public duties.
The fact that the Mauretania beat the
Lusitania's best run for single day, all
though she could not lower the record
for the westward run, taken in connec-
ton with the former steamers breaking
of the record for the eastward passage,
will make opinion general that the latest
Cunarder is the faster ship Of the two.
There will now be greater interest than
ever in the westward passages of the
Mauretania, whenever the hint is thrown
cat that she is to try to do things.''
Fhe discovery has been made that the
section of the Presidents message relat.
ing to taxation of incomes and inherit.
address which he delivered last June
to a gathering of editors at jamestown.
Yet in the message the matter is intro.
duced without quotation marks and with
no allusion to tie circumstance that it
had been used before. The fact is
worthy Of note for the information of
people who, like the elder D'Israeli, are
interested in the curiosties Of literature.
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President Eliot OF Harvard has been
the foremost advocate or football reform
among the college presidents of the
United States, but in reply to an in
quiry from the Swarthmore trustees as
to whether he would advise their accent
anee for that college Of the Jeanes he
quest of a million dollars, which IS con
ditoned upon an undertaking 90 ahan.
don for all time athletic contests with
other colleges, President Eliot said; 1T
is ineXpedient for the present trustees 10
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