Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-14
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Some Peculiar Homes

Many women are compared to cats N their love of
certain surroundings but Just tenacious and
willing to undergo as many hardships, rather than
move away from the house that in every GRANNY and
corner holdS some memory or personal association In
Chicago is quaint old house built by German who
at one time was engaged to German woman of royal
birth The house was copied from the Princess's av-
oe suite OF apartments and is most interesting in an
architectural way, aside from its romantic interest
When 1t came time for the Princess to leave the Old
World for the New, the lover with photograph of the
prospective home, sailed away get his bride Poor
lover the bride when it came to the crucial point of
leaving home family and native country refused and
the lover broken hearted returned take up his abode
In the dwelling so hopefully erected He has lived in
this house since and refuses to let any woman enter
Morose and bitter, he lives alone, but rather than give
up the home built with such care and expectation
undergoes the hardship and loneliness of solitary life
and relies upon his dog for Companionshp
A New York man, of the first settlers has an
extraordinary house with front entrance The
house very large and made of granite but the only
of entrance is at the back where flight of stairs
takes one to a door the second floor There is no
other way of entering leaving this queer establish
men and IS quite safe from burglars as there are no
porches and no windows on the ground floor
Another New York man has house quite as odd.
This large and otherwise beautifully designed house
has no visible door and is quite impossible to enter
except to the initiated Where the hosptable front
door should be is huge block of granite suspended
and balanced so delicatey touch on a certain spot
causes 1t to swing inward allowing the visitor to enter
One OF the most curious of all houses is one made of
glass. The bricks made of glass and there is not
one article in the house that of glass manufacture
OF course when reads this description there is
mental picture of a shining transparent structure
where everything open the day. but such is not the
case. The glass is Colored or tinted so cIeverly it
would be impossible to recognize as glass The walls
look much like other walls except for the beautiful
effects obtained by ingenious lighting.
The greatest woman who ever lived the greatest
feminine benefaCtor of the human race according to
Wilbur Nesbit, the poet, is the woman who, all un-
honored and unSung, nameleSs even and unknown
first invented apple pie. Ask the next man YOU see
II Mr. Nesbt is right. Ten to one, he will agree
with him. All women know this and yet all women
cannot make apple pies. And that is the wonder of it.
The Madonna at Home
A certain club woman in western town is as pretty
as she IS clever This may not be surprising but it
struck another woman so forCby recent federation
meeting, that the next time she saw the lucky womans
husband, she said "Your wife is lovely She has the
face of Madonna"
Putting up the same old bluff is she" said he.
Il had her out fishing with not long ago. She
wasn't having any luck and she didn't mind telling me
so very forciby. Smith came by while [ was getting
the lunch basket to comfort the unucky fisherwoman
BY George Blank, he said Mrs Blanks looking we'll
to-day. She has the face of a Madonna
That's all right, Smith," said. "Just come over
and hear the Madonna go on, will you?'
Make friend of your husband 1t is to be noted
that in households where he is not friend he is apt TO
be very distant relative. And of all the definitions
of that precious friend" this one by the ten
old school boy the best: GA friend is feller what
knows all about you, but likes you"