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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
INDUCING FRUITFULNESS.
Judicious Pruning Will Increase the
Fruit Buds.

Horticulturists have for many years
practiced various methods to induce
fruitfulness and with some degree of
success. All these methods, as grid
ling the trunk, root pruning and sum-
mer pruning of the branches tempo
rarily check the growth of the tree,
and the consequent slow growth in.
duces the formation of fruit buds,
says w. Paddock. 1t is we'll known that
the buds which produce fruit in any
particular season were formed the
season before, and their formation is
believed to begin early in the grow
ing season. This being true, the time
is now at hand for such work; if put
off much later in the season, 1t will be
too late, as the time for the forma-
ton of fruit buds for next years crop
will soon be passed.
BY root pruning is meant that a
small portion of the roots are cut off,
and the operation may be performed
with spade or in any way which is
best suited to individual needs.
Summer pruning takes the place of
the annual winter pruning, and is the
same in most respects except that il
is done in June instead Of winter OF
early spring.
Girdling or ringing consists in re-
moving a ring of bark from the trunk
or larger limbs This ring is some
times two inches or more in width;
all the bark within this space is re-
moved, thus exposing the wood. This
method of checking growth, though
often employed, is rather drastic, and
should be used with caution. A more
rational method is to girdle the branch
or trunk by cutting through to the
wood by making one continuous cut
and not removing any of the bark.
Some authorities state that the prop
er time to check the growth of tree
in order to induce the formation of
fruit buds is at the time when the
bark begins to set on the new growth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23

Of making remarks about one? Note
these same women when q man is
seen approaching, pretending to be in
different if they are unmarried, and
if married leveling opera glasses to
see if it may possibly be husband
giving them a surprise.
IF you have not had this experience
you know nothing about the happy
moments of a hotel proprietors life,
who is confident from past knowledge
that when the cloud of dust resolves
itself into a human figure it will be
the henpecked swain of the most un-
interesting woman in the bunch and
who suffers from the thousand and one
complaints which can all be traced to
that source.
"Unless the sheath skirt gets too
common / am inclined to believe that
it might do a great deal to relieve
this situation, but mind, I say might,
not will. Id be willing to furnish some
skirts on spec if | could get the wom-
en- to do their part"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
SOME WILD ANIMAL TRAGEDIES.
Hunters Find Proof of Savage Doings
in the Woods.

When we laid hands upon Huffman's
prize and examined it a strange and in
teresting story of wild animal life was
revealed, says w. T. H. Hornaday in
Scribner's. About three months pre-
viously, that is to say about August
1, that deer had been leaped upon,
from above, by a mountain lion. It's
right ear was fearfully torn and there
was big wound on the top of the
neck where the skin and flesh had
been torn open. The main beam of the
right antler had been broken off half
way up. while the antlers were still in
the velvet The ends of the broken
antler had healed over in way that
enabled it to fix the date of the en-
counter with fair degree of accuracy.
Both the hind legs had been either
clawed or bitten, but we could not
surely determine which.
A few days later we found about two
miles above our camp, close beside the
dry bed of He'll creek, the story of an
other wild animal tragedy. On tiny
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
RIGID DISCIPLINE IN BERLIN.
Germans Not Only Obey Rules, but
Are Unhappy Without Them.

The Berliners, and the rest or the
Germans, are the most governed peo-
ple on earth, says Everybody's. They
like it and howl for more. They have
restrictions of all kinds placed on the
order of their daily lives, but they are
used to it. Indeed, they have arrived
at a sort of mental state in which they
look to the authorities to tell them
what to do, and how to do it, in every
contingency. "Verboten!" is the Ger
man word that has the greatest
vogue. so far as was able to see.
"Forbidden!" stares them in the face
everywhere. They are regulated in
all sorts of ways, down to the manner
they shall conduct themselves in their
houses. There is a certain time for
beating rugs, certain time for every
thing else. You can move your house
kold goods only in certain way. You
cannot shake dust rag out of the win
dow. You cannot do this and you can
rot do that, and, they told me, after
you once get accustomed to it. 1t is a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
GARMENT CAUSES CONTROVERSY
Many Varieties and Shades of Opin=
ion Offered==Managers of Noun
tain Resorts Welcome Innovation
Expert Denies There Is Psy=
Chology in Dress.

New York-Mixed in with all the
other burning questions of the hour is
the problem, to sheathe or not to
sheathe? You can get as many diff
ferent opinions as there are people to
consult. 1t does not seem to affect the
seaside hotels so much. As long as
there are beaches and bathing the i'm
portance of the feminine costume with
regard to the success of the season is
small.
But with the managers of the noun
tain resorts It is different. TO quote
one of them:
ITS all very well to talk scenery
and sanitation, the lovely views and
the good food-that used to go, but
when man can take boat or an auto
and get all these in an hour or two
from Broadway he isn't going to take
hot, dusty ride for the same result.
If we could sprinkle a few of these
sheath skirts along the mountain
verandas there is no doubt that the
extremely painful sight, SO familiar to
the managers at present, of an Adam
less Eden without even serpent
would pass away"
One Of them with imagination pic
lures the scene as he has witnessed
it and as it might be:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
sinnlv swina of Pendulum.


paris showed the same tendencies
right after the simplicity enforced by
the French revolution, and every crisis
of history there has had similar eff
feet. The prevalent fashions of to-day
are the fashions of the boudoir, CT the
drawing room, of the auto, not of the
business or the professional world
"a few years ago business and pro-
fessional women saw in the adoption
of the tailor mades, the short walking
skirt and various other unitarian
modes a disappearance of the lines Of
demarcation between classes. To-day
they are looking with dismay at the
chasm that is opening.
take the sheath skirt as example
A working woman must eliminate that
from her wardrobe. She could not ap-
pear in court, at her business desk in
it, not only because it would be
physically impossible for her to do her
work so swathed, but also because it
would bring into business and profess
sional life the very feminine element
she is trying to keep away.
'The sheath skirt woman is opposed
body and soul to her sex's freedom.
The gowning of to-day is challenge.
Use all the arguments you have at
your disposal, one woman says to her
sister of the other world, and we will
destroy them with the waving of a
scarf and the curve of figure in a
clinging gown"
An expert on woman's dress who
has given 81 years of his life to its
study poohpoohs the idea that there is
any such psychology in dress.
Nothing of the kind he says, firm
ly. He says it as one who knows. Il
do not think it is necessary to find
occult explanations for such obvious
facts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
POINTERS FOR THE FARMER.

Shorten the row by grinding the
hoe.
A farmer is known by the crops he
reaps.
Open your heart to the sorrow OF
every man who comes to talk to you
about his troubles.
Error is a great deal worse than
ignorance 1t is better to know moth
ing than to know what isn't true.
a rainless harvest is a rare event in
all but the dry regions of this coun-
try, but farmers by the use of gump-
ton and foresight can usually secure
their crops uninjured By rains.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
Passengers Through the simpion.

The passenger traffic through the
Simplon tunnel has fiuctuated greatly
and was largest in August, 1906, the
third month of its operation. In that
month 42,622 passengers were carried
through the tunnel. The number fell
to 14,545 in November of that year,
and to 10,106 in the following January.
The largest number in any month
since has been $4,000. The freight
traffic has grown rapidly, but is still
small. The largest, in 1906, was 1858
tons in October. For the first five
months of 1907 it was about $4,000,
swelled by blockade of the Mont
Gems route. In the first year the gross
earnings were $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
When It Strikes the Kitchen.

The woman of the domestic variety,
whom magazine editors study closely
to find out what to give the world to
read. asks with a deep wrinkle be
tween the eyes that denotes unaccus-
toned thought: What will happen
when the style strikes the kitchen?'
1T always does,' she says. Get
something new and next week Aggie
or Nora or Mary has it in an exag-
gerated form.
Our maid at present wears striped
stockings, not stripes running up and
down but round and round. These she
varies with large plaids and her visible
means of support look like dropsical
barber poles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
/ WHAT IS /
| p OW z r :? |
By REV. A. C. DIXON, D. D.,
u Pastor Of the Chicago Ave. tMoody'a)
II Church. Chicago.

Jesus s q / d I:
"Tarry We in the
city of Jerusa-
lem, until We be
endued with pow
er from on high.
luke 24:2.) What
was that power?
Certainly not an
increase of knowl-
e d g e, numbers,
money, social po-
sition or organiZa-
ton. These are
m ere influences
a nd important.
They should all
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
PuritanicaI Ideas Criticised.

"The very people who will sit on a
beach and watch the short skirted
swimmers, standing, sitting and run
ming about, displaying lines and curves
with generous abandon, are the very
people who have these Puritanical out
bursts at the mere idea of showing the
same amount OF figure on the street.
Why is it?" she asked.
The pulpit has denounced the sheath
skirt, which ought to encourage the
makers, and one of the leading lights
in the suffrage cause has come boldly
forward in it's favor. The stage backs
and fills.
A club woman interviewed on the
subject says that she considers the
new style to have a distinctly psyche
logic significance, as all fashions have.
"All along the line you will notice a
frantic effort on the part of the wom-
en- to show the world that they are
clinging fast to the womanly charms
of seductive dress, to the frills and
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CHINA CLOSET.
Convenient Article of Furniture That
Can Be Made at Home.

The Homestead gives a description
of homemade china closet. The base
shelf, or. table part, is 80 inches high
and should be from 3S to 60 inches
long, depending on the size of the
room in which it will be placed when
finished The width of the table top
should be from 20 to "A inches, and
the cabinet, or top part, is II inches
wide and from as to so inches high.
The back of the cabinet is of three
eighths beaded ceiling, and, with the
exception of the crown mold and the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
Paris Needed the Money.

1.-The truth of the matter is that
Paris is hard up. She has suffered
severely from our little panic. Russia
too, one of her wealthy patrons, has
also fallen off in her orders. Paris
hasn't known what to do and has put
her wits to work to evolve something
to appeal to a faded taste and above
all to the American market
Whether we will prove gullible !
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Enuinment.

Dashaway-Fm going to house
party. Wonder what l need to take
along?
Clevert on-About a quart of FIVE
dollar gold pieces to tip the servants
with, flannel shirt, dress suit, pa
jamas, and a half-dozen engagement
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
Think on This,

When you sell $1,000 worth of
wheat, you send $24O worth of fertility
off the farm; in beef, $85 worth; pork,
$50; horses, s35; milk, $110, while
81 900 worth of butter sends away only
s1.25 worth Of fertility. Isn't this a
powerful argument against selling
milk and in favor of butter dairying?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
nnk Out for the Bull.

This is the season of the year that
we hear of attacks from perfectly
quiet" bulls. If it is thought desirable
to let the bull have a run in pasture
lot, see to it that he is given no 90
portunity to injure anybody.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
Invention of Pauuin.

when Paquin died" she explains,
"he told his wife on his deathbed that
the sheath skirt, already known in the
trade as the Paquin skirt, would be
popular, and Paquin made few mis-
takes. But the sheath skirt of which
he spoke did not have the latest i'm
provement-if you call it that. 1t was
simply a sheath, not a directoire
sheath, and was not slit
The first skirts made at his estab-
lishment had an unusual effect in the
front, just slight looseness of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23

comfortable way to live. 1t absolves
you from thought if you know what
hours there are for doing your work
and how you must do it. If cab
knocks you down in the street, you
are arrested for obstructing the traffic.
Your place is on the sidewalk.
Every Berliner does exactly what he
is expected to do, and you must do the
same. AS an example of how we'll
trained they are: They are not obliged
TO have guards on the underground
trains in Berlin. The Berlin folks know
they are expected to shut the doors,
and they shut them. If you observe
their regulations you are not dis
turbed, but if you violate one of them
you instantly get into more kinds of
trouble than you had imagined could
exist. All you are expected to do fl to
walk chalk line, and you can be hap
py, if the regulations allow the kind of
happiness that agrees with you.
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Az Affecting Women.

Did you ever watch a lot Of WON
en- trying to make out that they are
perfectly happy, sewing and playing
bridge and gossiping on the hotel bal
cony, every one mad as a halter be-
cause she has been beguiled there in
the belief either that she would have
a Irritation herself or the opportunity
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
cattily.

middle aged woman says cattily.
What did she expect?"
In this same store buyer, a woman
of many years experience, is in the
same uncertainty as to the sheath
skirt as every one else, but she has
some information to give about il.
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fancies and fads that woman has been
taught to believe are the symbols of
her power, and that she has little real
sympathy with the republican SIM
plicity that would be foisted upon her
by a minority of her sex. She eschews
everything that is severe, rigid, mas
culine, and riots in the distinction
drawn between her goWning and that
of women who are trying to waken
their sex to something more important
than chiffons.
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The Girl and the Norman

There is this difference between the
girl and the woman: The first knows
nothing and tells everything, the
other knows everything and tells
nothing.-Exchanga
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the necessary result of the bands and
shot
Another buyer thought there had
been unnecessary fuss over the sheath
skirt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
From, an EnoIish ceoorapbv.

I'm that part of America which is
known as New Jersey the mosquitoes
are so thick that a herd of them,
crossing a railroad track, will ire
quently hold up train. Puck
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Not Pessimistic.
"Is he a pessimist 2"

Is he peSS1mlSt!
II should say not. Why, man, he
positively believes he can grow let
tuce as nice and tender as the kind
you buy."-Detroit Free press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23

The New York Central employs 50,-
600 men and between 100000 and
$500, 900 is paid in monthly wages.
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material below the waist, known to-
day as the Paquin cut. The success
of the sheath, then as now, depended
on it's clinging to the figure, showing
every line and curve, and ending at
the feet with a fad of drapery suggest
ed by the sculptured draperies of the
Greek statues. If you note carefully
made sheath skirt turned out at the
Paquin establishment, or at any other
of the Partisan houses, you will easily
trace the Hellenic resemblance, and in
fact, in some places the sheath is
known as the Ionian skirt on this ac-
count.
ITO make the sheath a success
great attention must be given to the
undergarments. Paquin designed for
it a new style of boomers. so that
petticoats need not be worn and the
waist and hip lines should not
be destroyed by lot of I'M
necessary material. These bloom
ers fit closely to the figure
and are fulled slightly above the knee
not too much, mind-and have few
rows of lace put on without very much
surplus, just sufficient to give the
dainty and feminine touch to a gar
ment which is not essentially attrac.
tive.
"All the models in his place wore
these boomers at first with the sheath
skirts. Now silk tights or fieshings
are worn if required, as many women
who wear the sheaths prefer them,
just as many prefer to spoil their
shape with the intrusion of the old
style petticoat or drop, which should
never be worn with them.
Producing the Soft Fall.
"The soft fall about the feet which
is so much admired by the aesthetical-
ly inclined is produced by various de-
vices, usually small shot which are
sewed to band of tape, which in turn
is fastened to the edge of the skirt or
a few inches from the edge, as pre-
ferred. Paquin used a rubber band at
the knee which went around the skirt
and drew it in to give the required eff
feet when walking, and some of the
sheath skirts have two rubber loops
through which the foot passes, but
this style, although it gives the sheath
walk all right, is very trying to an ac-
tive minded woman, as she must never
forget them, and while she may not
mind the self-consciousness she does
mind the discomfort.
81 remember one of my first views
of the new sheath skirt was at the
Paquin establishment, and model
one of those lovely girls they have
there-began joking and laughing and
insisted that she could step just as
far in a sheath skirt as in other kind.
She tried it and tore the costume all
to pieces along the sides. After that
the sheath walk was adopted, which is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
Made a Sensation.

Made Sensation.
To one of the conservative stores
downtown young woman came the
other day. quietly appareled as to color
and cut of her dress, but with her
navy blue gown coquettishly slit to
the knee, displaying a dark blue silk
stocking and Louis Quinze slipper of
small proportions. She began to buy
some yelling with nonchalant ease,
and the girl behind the counter wait.
ed upon her, ignorant of the distinc-
ton conferred
Not for long. First a cash girl
makes the discovery and brings a
twin to see that she has not made a
mistake. The news flies about the
shop; it reaches the bargain counter
and other places.
There is sudden stampede, and in
the midst of it the patron, with a
scorching look at the crushing crowd
which will hardly allow her to move
makes her way to the entrance and
thence with a flying leap enters taxi
whose driver looks down open mouthe6
and eyed to get her directions. Disap-
pointed faces frame the door, and one
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23
FACTS FOR SICK WOEVEN.

For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinlxham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to-
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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Il agree with my husband, who says
that there is nothing more attractive
than the sight of charming Le-m-b-g
costumed in silk openwork through a
side opening, but not the cooks
l-e-m-b-g, if you please. 1 look forward
with horror to the time when she will
pass the soft shell crabs and the char
lotte russo in a costume of that de.
scription. No split skirts in my house
hold, if you please"
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

bit of level bottom land, which was
well planted with thick clumps of tall
sagebrush, there lay the wellgnawed
remains of a male deer. Close beside
the skeleton was round hole in the
earth, like a post-hole, made by the
waters of the creek, about two feet in
diameter and five feet deep. This hole
contained about two-thirds of the hair
that once had covered the deer.
AS sure as fate that yawning hole,
which lay like a hidden trap under
the long grass and the dropping
branches of the sage brush, had been
the undoing of the luckless deer. IT
seemed to us that while being chased
by wolves the deer had landed heavily
on that spot, with both its fore legs
in the hole. and before it could scram-
BILE out a wolf, or several wolves, had
bounced upon it, cut its throat in
quick time and afterward devoured the
animal as it lay across the opening.
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cannot say, for it is as difficult to
prognosticate here as in the publish
ing or the theatrical world. When
The Old Homestead runs thousand
nights you are surprised when the
people suddenly demand The Soul
Kiss; when the romantic drama
seems to be absorbing the literary
world and writer's are busy studying
history, the taste veers and nothing
but Dolly Dialogues will sell; when
you think women are at last cutting
out the futile and adhering more close
ly to utilitarian standards they shrek
for sheath skirts with rubber bands to
hamper their walk, as Chinese wom-
ans shoes bind her feet.
zone thing we do know. Fashions
never really present anything new.
There is only a continual turning of
the wheel. The sheath skirt is not any
newer than a gray hair or wrinkle.
During the Directory it was one of a
thousand styles. Paris was mad,
crazy at that time License reigned in
everything, especially in dress and
manners, but even Paris did not care
for the style any longer than the three
months, and if dear old naughty Paris
drew the line it would seem that we
ought to cut it out.