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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16

entertaining. OF course; but we should
also show some Willingness to be enter
1 tanned
How did you put that, Joseph?'' muir
INJURED Mrs Fodder, musingly.
"Let me refill yopT glass, old chap"
said Fodder.
~Thank you," said I. eyes, the art Of
Conversation"
.sThat syphon is bit leaky, Pm
/ afraid . said Fodder. sWait a mo-.
zine art Of conversations" | began
aeain, rcmorselessly.
Il remember now what it was you
said cried Mrs. Fodder. starting from
la reverie. 1T had nothing to do with
the art of conversation, after ALL 1t
was about the way people behave on the
continent OF course. conversation came
| III it, But, first of al, what is the
french for eabbage?"
"La rave, | think" said Fodder.
Surely said /, 'it is la chou?"
/ Mrs. Fodder smiled pityingly. 30
seph's French was greatly admired in
Paris she informed me. "We never had
tie least difficulty in ordering things
I'VE did not always order the things
we wanted, though said Fodder. "Stiil,
as you say, we ordered them"
And some of them" she added, were
really most useful afterward.o
so they were," he agreed. Not so
useful as the money they cost, but"
II wonder if Mr.. Wroughtnight would
care to see" Mrs. Fodder was begin
ming, but | rose hastily, and said l
| must go.
.You viii come again very soon?" she
said. ANY friend of Joseph's, you
know, and such an old friend! Did you
say you were at school with him?"
Il had that privilege" said /.
a,Just Think" she murmured. pensive-
lily. And | had not even heard his name
them
Fodder accompanied me to the garden
gate.
'Pm afraid you have been awfully
bored, old chap" he said.
"On the contrary" ] replied, Il have
been much amused"
81 suppose we are rather absurd he
said, wistfuily.
Josie, DEAR cried the voice of Mrs.
Fodder from the house door: don't.
| whatever you do, catch fresh cold.
The night air is SO treacherous. Good
| bye, Mr. , Mr.. -."
She had obviously forgotten my name
already Edwin Pugh in the Manchester
Chronicle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
LOVES MISSION.

The world, as sunny as 1t seems,
With all Its pleasant places
Where bliss abounds and beauty beams
Holds many saddened faces:
And who are they, who once enjoyed
The sweets of life with others,
Ere fate their happiness Destroyer
Are they not still our brothersl
We seek, all other things above,
BY every means invented,
To see the ones we know and love
Made happy and contented:
But ah, my friends, are we aware
Meanwhile. of the relation
I hat all to one another bear?
E'ie with self-preseryationY'
Ye ministers Of love End light
Earth,s sorest wants supplying,
Blest vigil keeping day and night
Above the faint and dying.
Who scorn life's every joy, to live
For wretched mortals purely
One day the best that Heaven can give
Will be your portion surely
Some burden, greater than our own,
May we not seek to tighten?
Some path. where long no sun has shone,
1t may be ours to brighten:
Let us forget that time is wealth,
And just moment borrow
To visit those deprived of health,
Or bowed with grief and sorrow.
A friendly word. a simple deed,
A little selfdenial,
May help a stricken soul in need
To bear the bitter trial;
Small kindnesses are ne'er forgot,
And never go unbeeded
BY Him, who holds our future lot
When time shall be succeeded
Henry Reed Conant in the Los Angeles
Newg
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HoB-NoBs WITH BUS DRIVERS.
Ambassador Choate's Democratic Ways
Made Him Popular in England

Pm sure that the English people liked
my husband" says Mrs. Choate, wife Of
former Ambassador Choate, in the De-
lineator You see, he wanted TO get
at the nation! He tried TO so right down
into the people. 1t didn't satisfy him
TO see them from social heights. His
whole heart is democratic. The people
used to wonder and talk good deal be-
cause he loved going about ON the tops
OF the buses, and getting into conversa-
ton with the people he sat next TO. He
loved your 'bus-drivers. He'd go right
away down east as far as the bus
went mixing up with any one and every
one. He never bothered about his posi-
ton. Lots of drivers got TO know him
quite well. In fact, they'd ask Ameri-
can tourists sometimes. If they knew n
Teller called Choate. Indeed, we were.
both of us, very touched when he came
away. People were so wonderfully kind
To US"
The love of the British nation is diff
cult thing TO obtain. but euriously
enough in spite of the Britisher'S repu-
tation for reserve and his supposed snob-
berry, he values nothing so much as
frankness, self-cotliiaence. and the Dig
nifty which comes from big heart. And
the two Americans who have won the
heart of the British nation are Mark
Twain and Ambassador Choate.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
TREE FROM A HANpspIKE.
West Virginia Memorial of Jim Martins
Enlistment for the Mexican War.

There is river birch tree on the
banks of the Pond Fork branch of the
Little Coal river in Boone county. West
Virginia" said NJ. c. Eldred of Madi-
son, W. Va. ''and it would go hard with
any man who put an axe to it. That
tree has story
When the Mexican war began, in
1876, a recruiting officer visited a lum-
Der camp in the vicinity of Madison,
seeking enlistments from the sturdy
woodsmen who were at work there.
Among them was a giant lumberman
named Jim Martin.
He was using a handspike made from
a river birch sapling recently cut and
still green. Eager to go to the front he
thrust his handspike deep into the soft
soil of the river bank and went away
with the recruiting officer.
THE handspike Jim Martin used was
too big and heavy for any of his fell
lows to handle, and it was left sticking
where he had jabbed it into the ground.
The next spring it was noticed that it
was putting forth green shoots, showing
that it had rooted in the ground.
1t. was left undisturbed, and it grew
to besa great tree, and it stands today on
the spot where the patriotic Jim Martin
thrust it into the earth as a battered
handspike sixty-one years ago. Jim Mar
tin was killed in battle, and his bones lie
somewhere on Mexican ground but lie
has his monument in this still sound and
vigorous tree, which is a revered land
mark in all that country. New York
SIM
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Combs Made of Old Shoes.

A mountain of old boots and shoes, in
describahly ugly, indescribally filthy, lay
in the factory yard.
Wen make combs out Of them" said
the chemist, combs that will pass
through the perfumed and lustrous locks
of the most beautiful girls. Seems
strange, don't itg'
Very
yet it's a fact. That is what be-
comes of all the worlds old shoes; they
are turned into combs. The leather Is
first cut into small pieces and immersed
two days in a chloride of sulphur bath,
then it is washed, dried and ground to
po,yder. then it is mixed with glue or
g.m and pressed into comb molds.
1T makes good enough combs, but l
prefer the rubber ores myself don't
like to put on my head what once may
have been ON the feet of an old tramp.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
BABY FAMINE AMONG wELL-To-Do.
In One Part of New York There Is But
One Child to Every Nine Families.

That the better classes are ayerse 70
children is my conclusion, from actual
experience in apartment hunting, writes
Lydia X. Commander in the Delineator
This search revealed to me that there
was Il famine OF babies in the wel-to-do
neighbo-l0ods OF New York In twenty
two apartment houses that | have yisif-
ed, there were four hundred and eighty
five families; yet the children numbered
just fifty -four-one child to every nine
families. In twenty-five houses in one
little section of our city, | had found
four hundred and thirty-one of Amer
lcas childless homes. Lit was not hard
TO believe that the whole great country
/ held two million more
\ short time ago an investigation of
part of Fifth Avenue, New York City,
showed one stretch OF fifteen blocks
where just fifteen children lis done
child TO block, in the richest section of
the richest city in the country. On an
other atfiuent avenue, forty out of forty
i've homes We're childless; and the re-
naming five had only ten children IL
lnong them
Only married people, without chill
dren, need apply is the rule of not few
of New York's apartment-hotels. Tow
erIng houses and hotels, so restricted,
| are multiplying rapidly; and almost be-
fore the plaster is dry, or the elevators
are running they are filed. And still
the ehildless couples come
Have you any children or dogs p
Such is the brutal question that too Of
ten meets the home seeker who ventures
into the downtown region of New YORK,
unless her quest is limited to the tene-
ments of poverty on the far east or west
| fringes of the city.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Meaning of the Term aWatt.n

In the electrical world one hears and
reads a great deal about watts" The
current is measured by watts; the ma
chinery is rated by watts; lamps burn by
watts. To the ordinary layman all this
talk of watts" is as mystifying as the
death of the late Akhood of Swat.
The man to whom we owe the idea of
the horsepower was a Scottish inventor,
James Watt, and when the electric unit
involving the idea of working capacity
came to be formulated the name of Watt
was chosen to indicate this unit, just as
that of Volta has given us the term volt
and Faraday the farad.
Watt considered that taking the aver
age, n London dray horse was capable of
doing the work of lifting $4,000 pounds
through one foot of distance in one min
ute of time, against gravity. The in
PRODUCTION of this time limit, the minute,
gave the unit of power or the rate of per-
forming work. This or its equivalent has
ever since been called a horsepower.
The electrical unit called the watt is
capable of being represented in terms of
the horsepower, and in that form it is
perhaps more ineligible to those who
are familiar with mechanical rather than
with electrical expressions. The electric
/ al watt is the product of volts multi
piled by amperes. where the volt is the
unit of electrical pressure and the ampere
| is the unit measuring the density or
volume of an electrical current.
Careful experiments have demonstrate
ed that I46 watts per second, are equal
to 500 foot-pounds per second. or to state
the equation in its usual form. TAG watts
equal one horsepower. The form in
which electrical power is generally sold
| is computed on the basis of kilo-
watt-hours, The prefix kilo comes
A Press Criticism.
| Lord Northcliffe. the famous English
| editor. recently settled for S250,000 a
| libel suit brought against his newspaper
| by the Lever soap firm. Lord Northcliffe
often visits America, and he admits that
| many Of his best journalistic ideas arr
| the fruit of these visits.
"At the same time" said New York
editor the other day, Lord Northcliffe
| is n severe critic of the American press
| One of his structures is about our pad.
| ding. He says that when something
| striking in the news way turns up we IN
variably print columns and columns
about it. page after page day after day.
/ though in reality half the time we may
only have enough facts for ten or TWEEN
/ ty lines.
! AT the Press club on Nassau street
| he told one night story on this head.
/ HE said that a reporter came YEARLY
| into the office and approached the city
editors desk with disconsolate air.
Well, said the city editor eagerly,
what did you find out about Senator
| Blanks alleged divorceY
Nothing, said the reporter.
No facts whateverT
Not single fact.
Denied everywhere?'
Everywhere
/ Senator deny itT
Yes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Mems Dinner Calls.

Ii is proper to cab after every invita-
tion. and it is considered discourteous
not 10 do so after dinner or luncheon.
These last visits should be made in per
son, especially the dinner call, within
one or two weeks
In New York city. with its immense
distances. it is impossible FIR many busy
men TO carry out this rule. especially
where they are much in demand as dim
ner guests. If il is first invits ton a
society man viii make a special effort
ia pav the necessary dinner call within
4 week or fortnight. When he is unable
Ia do so he win send cards and call as
Sapn as he has leisure. or he VIII per
hans send tlcwci's.
While it is becoming the custom IN the
aetrou0lis for men 20 send cards
through the slail bachelors are expected
- make personal calls upon those who
have entertained them as well as upon
their intimate friends,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Baking and Freezing Watches

Il will be with you in moment T
must finish baking this batch OF witches
first"
The speaker was jeweller. He said
as he worked:
Il suppose you are surprised at the
idea of watch baking. ! will exploin
The machinery of watch is delicata
yet it must work the same in winter as
in summer, the same in Russia as in
Cairo the same in the Sahara as in Ice
land There is only one way to accom-
plish this. The watch must be regulated
to heat and cold
Il am regulating these watches IN
heat. Afterward, in a refrigerator
will regulate them to cold Then when
they go out in the world they won't dis
grace themselves in any climate.
"Chronometers must be regulated more
carefully than watches. They are often
kept for weeks in tempera lures that are
now zero and now 100 degrees. Louis.
vile Courier-Journal.
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MAKE A CARD TRAY OF IT.
Use Found for the Engraved Copper
Plate of the Wedding Invitation.


The copper plates from which wedding
invitations are printed are no longer con-
signed to the category of things that
were. The very newest wrinkle for the
bride is TO have the plate saved for her
and converted into an article that COM
hines sentiment and a degree of utility.
And why not? The copper plate costs
anywhere from $40 to $15, and heretofore
it has been discarded-considered just
about as useful as an empty champag ne
bottle or check for seat at last
nights theatrical performance. Not I'M
til some ingenious soul discovered that
the bride was being defrauded of her
rights to certain square OF copper did
it ever occur to any one to inquire as
to its whereabouts.
Having realized that it is hers for the
asking the up-to-date bride proceeds to
take possession of it. And there isn't
hnything~ much prettier. by the way, than
a piece of carefully FURNISHED copper.
She doesn't put it away with the rest
Of her wedding treasures, her white sat
In slippers, bit of orange blossoms or
a prayer book bound in white velum, as
her mother or grandmother would have
done.
She HES her to a jeweler and has Il
card tray made of it. The only thing
necessary in the transformation is to
round off the corners, bend up the
edges just a bit with an extra dent
on either side of each corner, and she
has a little tray ON which all who run
may read--if they take the trouble to
hold it before mirror-her wedding
invitation or her announcement.
Or she may be a bride with a certain
amount of old fashioned sentiment in
her makeup and ideas not so far re-
moved from the orange blossom satin
slipper period. If so, she has a frame
made from her copper plate, so that it
is all ready for the photograph Of her
self in her wedding gown.
The center of the plate is cut out,
leaving border about one inch wide.
This forms the frame proper. The part
that has been cut out, on which is
the engraving, forms the supporting
back and fastened to the frame with
hinges. the engraved side turned so that
| it is visible when one looks at the re-
verse side of the frame.
A border of orange blossoms is en-
graved on the surface of the frame and
pretty idea, one that brings out to the
very best advantage every point of this
| little conceit, is to place it directly in
front of mirror. Then not only the
picture of the bride with its orange
blossom frame is visible but the engray-
ing ON the back is reversed and there
fore is plainly to be read.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Queer Names.

We Chinese" said the law student,
helping himself to oysters. give our
children queer names. Our girls, for
instance, are not called Mabel, Jenny or
Matilda. but Cloudy Moon, Celestial
Happiness, Spring Peach, or Casket of
Perfumes.
Our boys get less delicious names.
Boys are made for work and wisdom
rather than fer dancing and pleasure,
and their names show this, as-Praetieal
Industry, Ancestral knowledge. Com
plete Virtue. Ancestral Piety, Discrt ct
Ealor
To our slaves we give still another
set Of names. Yes, those dear pathetic
i'ttie slaves Of ours, some girls. some
boys. who do a hundred various tasks
about the house-these lowly creatures
have names like Not for Me. Icy, So
Serve. Your Happiness, and Humble De
votion"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16

big octopus body the size of your baoa
feelers about yard long-but il donc
for that maj. 1t held him there rim ,he
tide come up and he drownded. An tpe
tune his wife was watchin' and shriekin'
on the lonely shore. Aih
Them critters is so fearless. W..
they don't know fear. They come 10y,
up into a boat, starin' straight NJ ' Ta..
with their cold eyes. and if Won ajn ~
got an axe or some sort of weapon. Won re
done for.
Its common thing, fshin off R5t
tany, to hear tap-tappin' behind w..
and TO turn and see the drab arms ~ -,
octopus, like u half-dozen snakes. crnenl
in over the gunnel, feelin' their W.,
towards you. Then the body. like =
squashed and Shiny football, apnearS
The cold, terrible eyes fix themselves on
yours.
Wen, sir, YOU want your fish ala
then"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Alaska Dog Teams.

The average Alaskan would be Ioatb
to go back on his dog team as means
of transportation in the winter time
Travel by this method was the first ever
INDUCED in in Alaska. and it promises TO
endure so long as there are new fields
from the Green chilioi, one thou-
sand. A kilowatt, written also XIV. is
therefore 1000 watts. The kilowatt hour
is the performance or work at such a
rate that 1000 watts per second shall be
delivered continuously for one hour
The kilowatt-hour has special interest
for the man who has his office or house
lighted by electric lamps, because the
kilowatt-hour is the unit upon which the
power and light companies base their
charges.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Facts About City Names.

There are ~ towns and cities named
Troy in the United States, 10 named
Athens, II Utica, 16 Alexandria. Is
Rome, u Carthage, { Athica and SYRIA
cuse. Only 2 states. Indiana and New
York contain towns bearing all s of the
names. Ohio and Missouri have each.
The same name for different places of
ten causes delay in the transmission of
mail, and imposes extra care on the
postal clerks The postoffice department
requires every postofIice in state to
have a name different from any other,
and the rule should be extended to cover
the United States. Names can be in
vented that will supply every town and
city with one of its own that cannot be
mistaken for any other.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Irrelevant.

At a term of the circuit court in Ohio
not so long ago a ''horse case was on
trial. and a well known ''horseman" was
called as a witness.
Wen, sir, you saw this horse?" asked
counsel for the defendant
Yes, sir. IT,
What did you do e
Il just opened his mouth to find out
how old he was; an | says to him, |
says, Old sport, | guess you're pretty
good yet =
At this juncture counsel for the OPP
posing side entered a violent objection.
Stop he cried Your Honor, | object
to any conversation carried on between
the witness and the horse when the plain
tiff was not present. -Harper's Weekly.
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The Fish Axe.

when you go fshin' off the roeky
coast Of Brittany, you carry. by crinus,
fish axe. = said the sailor
What fory"
For octopus. Octopus is terrible fire.
Quent on them Shiny Breton sea rocks.
They drowned swimmers sometimes
climb aboard. THEN you hack of their
art.as with your fish axe.
Il knOwed a man was drowndfzl hv
an octopus off Port Mauceh.' He swun
out 10 the rocks. and an octopus. three al
its feelers coiled round a ledge. took ho,t
Of his arm with the others. 'Twan't 4
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
A Sugar lag.

When a cargo of sugar reaches port,
the matches are always lifted and the
hold aired two hours before the steve
dores are allowed to enter" said a W. g..
L. u. woman.
This is right" she went ON stern!y.
Otherwise these men would get on a
jag, sugar jag. The air of the hold,
filled with gases rising from the sugar,
would glaze their eyes, cause them to
stagger, cause them to sing and shout
to want to fight, to smoke, and to make
love.
Il have seen stevedores, riotousy I'M
loading cargo of sugar, as drunk from
the fumes as though they had each put
away nineteen glasses of dark beer
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
The Bishops One Regret.

Ripley Hitchcock. the noted critic Of
New York, was talking at the Century
club about harsh criticisms.
As harsh criticism as ! know OF.
he said. was compactly and neatly ut
tered by bishop iast spring.
"A minister wrote a commentary On
the Lamentations of Jeremiah. and sent
It to the bishop. along with note ASK
ing for few critical words
The bishop sent the book back aft r
he had read it with this judgment:
There is but one thing that | ra-
greet about this work-namely. that jer.-
miah is not living now 70 compose q
fresh book OF lamentations on your com
melItary. "\ew York Sun
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
A Football Enthusiast.

w. j. Clothier, the tennis champion Of
America, said at dinner in Philadel-
phia:
Tennis is all very well in its way, but
what is the excitement, what is the en-
thusiasm of tennis, compared to that of
football?
Perhaps you have heard of that Penn
sylyania guard who. coming to at the
end of football game, whispered to the
physician bending over him:
Did we win, DOCTOR?
Yes, hands down, the physician an
swered
Never mind that fractured thigh,
then. doe, he said Just take these
broken teeth out of my mouth SOS | can
holler. Philadelphia Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
what surgery Has Done for a Boy.

Much seeming wiCkedness is really lis
ease. and can be cured. DR.. Bernard Hot
lander. in recent lecture, tells Of boy
10 years old. who was a liar. thief, q
bully without sense of deeency, and q
mlschievous destroyer of property. ne
grew continuously more dangerous p4', d
he was brought up in court Dr.. tt1r
lander suggested an Operation. \ ST
Of bone was removed from his skull. aL1
the patients bad tendencies vanished lie
has become 4 normal and aniable BOY.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
Immune.

Mr.. Winks solemnly)-A noted ply
stefan says that deadly bacteria Turk in
bank notes, and many diseases, especial
~ smallpox. are spread that way
Mrs. Winl.s-Mercy ON u.s. Give me
all you have. I've been vaccinated, you
know Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
A Necessary Prov:so.

tor, that a good big dose of salt water
will often cure seasickness
DIR. Wise-That's possible.
Miss Ascum-Indeed?
DR.. Wise-Yes, if the quantity of salt
water is sufficient to drown you.-Phila-
delphia Press.
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Cnnsnlinql

Poor John!-He was 4 kind and for
bearing husband sobbed the widow on
her return from the funeral. Yes said
a sympathizing neighbor: but it's all for
the best You must try and comfort
yourself my dear, with the thought that
your husband is at peace at t.
Sketchy Bits.
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Eauinned for Rurnlng De.

on fuel is coming into general l's
among the railroads in Mexico, accorJ-- Z
20 the United States consul at Monteg
The Mexican Central railway is now = +
ing 1000 barrels of fuel oil daily il4'
the Mexican Petroleum company. A-
new engines purchased by the NeHje-''
Central are equipped for hnrning Oh