Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-23

| them. tor pretty as many are they soon
hang crooked and make the room look
| like Dickens curiosity shop.
| Have "A place for shoes for if any
| thing makes a room untidy it is pair
lot tan shoes lying pigecp-toed under
| the bed, n pair of back slippers eud-
/ dled under the dresser. while the CEN
ter stand is decorated with red wooden
.ones-a common sight in more girls
Irooms. Keep the clothes press in or
| der SO that when the door is opened
| you viii not be ashamed for any wo-
man 10 see how you keep your clothes.
II you put things away as you use
them, you can have room like this.
And whatever you have let one pretty
Hover grace your room. 1t can be a
palm, fern or blooming plant. and if it
does die IN the room, get a new one. A
room Is tile only home some girls have:
then make it n ''homy" home and find
bone contentment in it.-Selected.
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The Observation-Disclosures Pastime.
A girl who doesn't spend half her
playtime in matching jig-saw puzzles
this autumn Is certainly out of touch
with the times. There are few fashions
IN games which have taken such grip
upon the public.
Bridge is the only rival of the iig-saw
puzzles, and it has lost it's place daily
since the new game came in.
Aou all know about it, of course? 1t is
an elaboration Of the old-fashioned puz-
Zle blocks of childhood days. The match
ing of them is as hard to the grown-up
girl as the simple little blocks were to
her baby intellect
Instead of being cut in squares and
easy angles they are cut cut by a Jig
saw into tiny pieces that take on every
curve known TO geometry.
II, &
wood in one puzzle. and these must be
perfectly matched to complete one pict-
ure.
Everywhere YOU so, to a dinner. for
an afternoon in the country, to a hotel,
on steamer, it matters MOI where. if
you don't play puzzles you are behind
the times and you are quickly counted
out.
1t makes little difference how well you
may talk O. sing, play the piano or
dance. You are not wanted for those
amusements. The rest of the world is
matching blocks, and you must either do
it or sit alone.
How any one can help doing it is a
question. 1t is the most fascinating, irri-
tating, time-compelling pastime of the
day. At summer hotels you could see
little tables all around the secluded cor
nerS over which were bent the heads of
five or six people, or the tables when
deserted, bore the placard in capital let
tiers. UNDERSIGNED: please don't touch"
None there were so unkind or SO Curl
Gus who would blow a breath on these
little blocks of wood or jar the table by
as much as a finger touch They knew
the secret. That puzzle was not finished
On the steamers coming home from Eu-
rope the passengers were at the work
most of the time. All the tables avail
able were used for puzzles, and the most
careless steward learned not to dust tn
bles on which lay unfinished puzzles.
These jig-sawed puzzles We're invented
by New England girl some time before
Christmas. She cut out the tiny blocks
with a jig saw. and that gave the name
TO the origina. puzzles First the block
of wood was painted exactly after a IA
nous picture, but to make the game more
difficult no copy of the picture is sold
with the puzzle.
At once Boston took up the pastime
and made it the fashionable indoor sport
of New England. As soon as summer
began the resorts from Bar Harbor TO
Atlantic Beach caught the enthusiasm.
BY this time four firms were making
this girls ig-saw puzzles in an eighth
Of the time and therefore sold them at a
much smaller price.
By August the thing was in full swing,
and even the ocean liners had to buy
them by the dozens to satisfy the de-
mand. Outgoing and incoming passengers
carried Il jig-saw puzzle in every grip.
Those who have been bitten by the
madness have gone in for making their
own puzzles. Clever men and women
have bought jig saws and are turning
out these puzzles slowly for the amuse-
ment of their own crowd. 1t is said
this part of the game is as fascinating
as the matching of the pieces, but there
are not many who can do it.
The shops are delighted with this sud
den and spreading craze for the puzzles,
for they sell them at excellent prices
anywhere from so cents to 3d.
Among the most popular pictures that
are being matched together by pieces of
wood are The Field Officer" which
most people are familiar with. as it IS
the well known picture by Detaille. the
war correspondent; the wild West"
"Mohammedan Scouts" Girl With APP
pies" in Holland" 1.-The Pilots"
Hans" ''The Fruit Girl Love Let.
tiers" and the "Christy Girl"
$3.50
Hot Water Heating.
Hot water heat is more uniform than
that from either steam or hot air. The
first cost of hot water heater, however,
is about double that of a hot air furnace,
but the heater has the advantage of be.
ing almost indestructible; it will last as
proper care, while the life of q hot air
furnace is about fifteen TO eighteen
years.
A house heated by radiators which are
in front of the windows never has cold
drafts and the floors are always warm
The wCter in a hot water heater com
mences To circulate almost as soon as