Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03
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b2d.
Because the product of his incubator
had no feathers. Edwin Shirley of Eau
| Claire, Wis. besides splitting ND the
machine for kindiug wood. * looking
! Tor an explanation of the anomaly. our
| of 100 eggs a large percentage Matched
only with fluffy down. which refused
| to grow into feathers as the chicks grew
up. In this climate feathers are IN alb
/ Solute necessity TO keep chi.Ns from
| freezing. and large number &c the
| fowls died.
Five hundred brilliant. beautiful but
teriiies, gathered in Peru, Brazil and even
India, were turned loose over the heads
OF half that many wonderfully dressed
women at the bah given by James w.
Paul, Jr, Philadelphia, to make the de-
but OF his daughter, Mary Astor Paul.
into society
The wonderfully gorgeous insects hut-
tered aoout helplessly, rested upon the
bare shoulders of the women, perched on
the flowers and incidentally fell into the
plates. This was the star feature of an
affair that has been looked forward to
as the one real triumph of the season.
In il Mr.. Paul, who is a member of the
famous Drexel banking firm, eclipsed the
famous bali which he gave to his elder
daughter, Mrs. Paul Dencla Mills, four
years ago. and east the equally famous
Knight ball in the shade.
The bill for the flowers alone was $780,
600. one of the features being new
rose, n cross between the American
Beauty and another. The new rose re
quired nine years to develop. 1t is called
the Wynnemore and 5000 were used in
the decorations
Collectors. it is said, spent months get
ting the butterflies, many of which died
on their way to this country. Scores
dropped to the floor during the dancing
and We're crushed under the dancers
feet The cost of the bah is said. CON
servatively, to have been 100000.
A war has been in progress for some
time between two families using the
same we'll at Marion, o. The man who
built the houses occupied by the two
families drilled q well exactly on the
line between the two lots.
The purchasers ''fell out" and as a re-
suit there has been lot OF bad feeling
whenever one family trespassed on the
lot of the other TO get water.
A neighborhood solomon suggested
that the pump be so adjusted that il
would turn around, permitting the han
die and spout 70 be over the lot of the
family which wanted to use it, The sug
gestion was followed. Each family is
50 pleaStu over tue hululloH tuHi tue
contention is about ended.
Dressed In the uniform of sergeant
of the Twelfth cavalry, stationed Mt
Fort Oglethorpe, and claiming 60 be en-
listed in the regiment, Laura 0Donald.
member of well known family of East
Lake, Tenn, was arrested by the police.
charged with masquerading in mems
| clothes,
Laura is attractive both as a man
and as a woman, though in the soldier
clothes she had rather effeminate look.
| However. she made up for her looks by
| the mastery way in which she drank
whisky, and il was this failing which
led TO her undoing and discovery. Aft
or imbibing little too freely In local
saloon she attempted TO break up the
place. Then she was taken in tow by
the police authorities, along with sew
eral other soldiers.
| After being taken to the police station
| her feminine nature expressed itself and
she broken down in flood of tears.
The police matron was summoned, and
il was discovered that the supposed ser
geant was a woman. She declined to
tell under what name she was enlisted
IN the Twelfth cavalry, but her cap
showed her belonging to Co. ID.
| Officers at the post, however deny
| that any of the sergeants of Co. - are
missing, but member of the company
stated that the young woman had been
a member of the regiment for some
months, though her sex had never been
suspected owing 60 her style of drinking
and "cussing."