Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-14

! "a AouF weeks.
Not every one, of course. has sueb
3"NoeSs' out every one can have fv-iUS
l or feet long on a window sill SS5
~ ne give You few pointers that viii
4 aug greatly TO your endowment
ne quickest and surest are the for
/ sythlas or golden bells. which will one,,
~ tMo weeks. The catkin bearing trees
/ are very lovely. 1t is joy TO see fbsm
ITS.isLliSh ana shake out their pollen.
livery Uody knows the common oussv
willow but there is a cultivotra tinS
Nun pnssles two or three tines rs hig
Inc poplars are even pretsiar. for their
catklns are or inches lonp-at Iaas+
those OF the aspen are.
Inc earliest blooming shade trees are
Tue silver maple, red maple and elm
hey are not very SNOWY. hut tbci,. ~.
/ yelopment is very intere sting The easia,t
OF the SNOWY tlewered trees 10 force are
the frult trees-peach2s. plulns cherries
appIeS, pears, ounces and crab aDDleS
1heX are also easy to get and YOU can
hardly make any mistake about keeping
/ the Kinds separate.
Don't crowd whole lot of different
KINDS into one vase. Ii makes a mess
which 4 housekeeper objects to and Won
VIII lose interest in it. Then the water
Will smell bad and you will throw the
whole thing out. 1t is better to have a
single vaseful of tender pink peach bios,
SONS than sample of a dozen different
things.
There's no use in trying to force two
foot twigs of the very snowy things like
dogW0od. magnolia, rhododendron, horse
chestnut and lilac The only way to
succeed with those is to cut six-foot
branches anu put chem i'm an unused
room by themselves. and even then | do
not believe any one can succeed with
magnolia.
TJarore l;t+lo s.>,pot ,-C,, l.
to know. Nearly all the good things
mentioned in this article have two kinds
of buds. and if you get the wrong kind
you won't get any flowers. But il is
very easy to tell leaf buds from flower
buds The former are thin and pointed.
the latter plump and blunt. Pick out
the sprays that are thickly set with fat
buds and you win get good show Of
flowers.-EXchange.
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A Bath Party in Turkey
Most American women think that they
know how to take bath, and most
well-to-do Americans and many less
Well-to-do consider that they have the
conveniences for doing it. But they
should read an account by Demetra
NaKa Kenneth Brown, in The Grand
Magazine" of a bath party given in Tur-
key in her honor. There wa grooming.
notwithstanding such as American
women do not approach the outskirts of
TO prepare for the bath party the
writer was most deliberately dressed by
her little Turkish slave who put yell
low silk gown on her and a string of red
beads and golden powder in her hair.
When the women of the household were
all ready they went down to the hall,
preceded by the valide, the head of the
household. One by one the guests ar
"a boX in Il, ,s,.l.
and African eunuch boys threw flower
petals over them. When the salutations
very graceful and very deep--were
over and the company had partaken of
coffee a bevE Of slaves appeared and ac-
companied them to the bathhouse to the
sound of music.
A beautiful little building was the
bathhouse, built by Selim Pacha, out of
his love for his first wife, and for her
Each bather in her dressing room, was
prepared for the bath by her slave-a
lovely pestemal or soft white towel
with stripes Of silk running through it,
thrown over shoulders when undressed
her hair braided and coiled and fas-
tened in a handkerchief of embroidered
silk, and a chain of gold placed about
! her forehead Then the women emerged
from their dressing yo0ms, salaamed
profoundly to one another and went
downstairs, where slaves put takouns of
carved oak on their feet. Then into the
marble bathing rooms, which were blaZ-
ing with flowers, the women passed
/ through a double line Of slaves, who re-
! heved them Of their pestemals and TIA
! kouns. and into the water they went
+ leaving outside all self-consciousness, the
writer says. Each bather was in the
hands Of her slave, VINO kept repeating
! "Mashallah Mashallah" by way of
warding off any djinn who might be
/ tempted to cast an evil eye on her body.
! In the bathing room they stayed for
hours, not feeling the heat, though the
temperature was at 40 degrees, and the
! flowers of the decorations withered in
/ it. By and by the withered flowers
were removed and light refreshments
brought in. Toward the end of the
I stay in the bathrooms a cold luncheon
was brought in, and each dish, says the
writer, was "a poem" They sat on
not by one slave but by tw0-one to pass
| the new dishes and the other to take
| those no longer wanted.
| Luncheon over, the bathers passed
/ into the cooling rooms, where they were
made comfortable on low couches and
covered by their slaves with heavy
| burnouses. Under arches of flowers
| they lay, while the slaves took down
| their hair and rubbed it with rose petals
| and tied it up in absorbent towels, dyed
! the eyebrows and lashes black and the
| ingernails crimson, and, finally, gave
them a flower bath, rubbing them from
head to foot with the petals of roses.
| Then the light was shut out, and to the
sound of low singing by the slaves the
| bathers fell asleep and rested till late
afternoon. when they woke. dressed,
and went out to a nearby hill to watch
the setting sun.
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Men Resent Being Bossed by Women.
1 Capt ]. Walter Mitchell, commander Of
/ the Spanish war veterans, who have re
Inewed with some determination the fight
so unsuccessfully pursued before Con
/ gress at its previous session for the res
! toration of the army canteen, largely
/ on the lines laid down by Congressman
| Richard Bartho,dt Of Missouri, in his
recent bill, has just transmitted to me
4 the following remarkable letter on the
I subjects of the canteen and lack of en-
/ listment in our army, The writer, il
/ should be added, is a well known Cali
( fornia lady who has publicly manifested
on various occasions her desire for the
restoration of the army canteen. Her
views Of the situation are amusing to a
certain extent. but whilst they may cause
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