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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
tG4atin for father)-CK IN
SD st. Sc Kaatskiil? No. Not road
''Bivalye drawing Of a house1.
Girls Taught Lifesayiug

y course IN bfe-saving has been insti-
Guted among the women students Of
Columbia university for the purpose Of
making them as adept as men In res
cuing drowning persons. They receive
the regular life-saving drill, including the
grips and breaks, towing to shore and
artificial respiration. A fully dressed
girl il thrown into the water at one
end Of the swimming-tank. and other
girls are obliged 70 rescue her from the
opposite end and take her back, which
Y already done in fifty-seven seconds
This new departure In co-education has
become immensely popular Popular
Mechanics
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

w. Il. Smith Of 293S North Twelfth
street, a clerk for FIVE years at the Ger
mantown postoffice, who has earned the
reputation of being able to decipher all
manner of superscriptions on letters or
other mail matter, has never been
"stumped' by a horribly written or puz-
cling address. The other day Smith was
hoored for a time while endeavoring to
simplify an address on postal card post
marked New York. which had been for
warded by person signing himself
Holmes Shylock" "Well. my dear
D. began the brief message. II don't
expect you'll ever receive this postal
card. because the clerks in Billy PENIS
postoffice are as slow as the city, The
clerk, however, who would be able to
decipher the fumbled up superscriptjon is
certainly a dandy and valued employe
of the government service. Write me at
once if 1t should so happen that the card
gets into your possession" The follow
ing are the peculiar wording and char
acters which embellished the face of the
card:
"G.atin for father)-CK IN
'5-l-3 st. Sc Kaatskiil! No Not road,
Biyalye drawing Of a house1
'Fiadeifa"
This is how Clerk Smith read the cd
dress: Patrick Donnelly. Eighth street
and Allegheny avenue, oyster house,
Philadelphia" Within a few hours after
being received at the Germantown post
Office Mr.. Donnelly received the postal
Record
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
Salary Pruning.

II costs us something TO keep up our
embassies, missions and consular estab-
lishments abroad The whole thing runs
into nearly 100000 per annum. The sal
aries were quite justifable a hundred
years ago. but now that an ambassador
is merely q government mouthpiece the
salaries could be cut down from thou
sands ~ hundreds with advantage. When
will some man Of the world take all these
pxtrayagauces IN hand and cut them
down, for eficiency's sake--Fanity Fair.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
Wearing the Leek

The custom Of wearing the leek Is fast
dying out, although at one time it was
wora even ut court, and March / 1882.
our present Queen, then Princess of
Wales, wore the leek" at a drawing
room.--Food and Cookery.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
AbsurdI

I-awyer-In my opinion your divorce
won't hold water.
entuekian-My deah sab. wouldn't
insult it by askiSg it to.-Bohernian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

band and wife disagree they sbonId
make supreme efforts to come 10 An
dren. NHiA
\ child needs both its father and its
mother The greatest happiness in mar
happiness the supreme ain.
The best happiness is that which
comes. incidentally in the pursuit of
growth and development.
The best thing that husbands and
wives can do for one another is to bring
est womanhood each in the other.
The social side of marriage and the
Individual side of it are not contradic-
tory OF each other. 1t must not be said
the tn, Individual is sacrificed TO social end.
Inc individual achieves his own highest
good here as elsewhere in serving the
social good. DIR. Felix Adler in Elk
change.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
For the Girl Gardener.


The girl who has not garden of
her own nowadays is distinctly behind
the times.
Precisely with what she fills it de-
ponds, naturally, upon individual taste,
but the majority of gardens of those
girls who might and do buy the costliest
of flowers are running over by choice
with the old fashioned blossoms dear
to the hearts of our Observation-Disclosures.
There are herb plots, sweet smelling
in the morning sun, and again when the
evening dew falls hollyhocks, larkspur,
foxglove, sweet rocket, roses, China
pinks. iris, peonies, and indeed number
less others long banished but again come
into their own. Some whose roots were
put into the ground last autumn that
they might bloom this season have al
ready put forth their first shoots, peep
ing shyiy ABOVE ground as though fear
full they are too early. Iris is up in
martial array of swordlike leaves; Iaven-
der, gray and dull in winter, is taking
on a soft green, and each of these facts
is known to the girl gardener, who finds
in them greater interest than she ever
felt for golf or tennis, and who will
refuse a morning of bridge, for the sake
of getting down on her knees in the
warm, rich earth to tend her treasures
with much the same jog she had with
her dolls when a little girl.
For the girl gardener the season be-
gins when others think that the grip of
winter still is on. When lessons and
classes will permit she gets into the most
comfortable chair in her own boudoir and
begins to study seed books with a zest
not always aroused by the novels she is
permitted to see. IL she is inexpe-
rienced in the work of gardening the list
originally prepared for seeds assumes
djspropertionate length. and she spends
spare hours for a fortnight trying to de-
eide which, for lack Of room, she can
hest give up. With knowledge of cat
alogues comes even greater interest in
them, but after a couple of seasons
girl prefers TO add a few varieties at
time. experimenting and perfecting those
before she undertakes new kinds
But the girl TO whom seed books last
February were unknown is still TO have
a garden. II is not seeds, but roots that
she will buy for this first year. because
she is told by her companion with an air
of great wisdom. 1t is too late now to
! put in perennials to bloom this year IN
! less you get roots" And this new fol-
/ lower Of the cult finds that there is yet
| time in plenty for putting in seeds Of
/ nasturtiums. mignonette, sweet alyssum
and many other ANIMALS. She is begin
/ ming TO feel extra ordinary interest in fer
I tilizers. both commercial and barnyard,
/ for she is no Theoretical workman. the
| fashionable girl gardener. On her shelves
may be found Technical, books on soil as
well as flowers, for loving 10 spend her
| time with the former, she has learned
] that as are the fundamental conditions
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

Thirty girls in night dresses routed a
burglar at the rooms Of the Pittsburg
Y. w. G. A. the other night and caused
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

Like the proverbial cat, Joseph Sc.
grast, q waiter at the Pabst cafe San
dusky, seemingly has nine lives. of
which he spent the fourth AT an early
hour the other morning. He was blown
forty feet by an explosion Of gas. and.
although the Pabst building was par
TALLY wrecked, escaped with a trivial
burn upon his right hand Segrst was
in the basement Of the building lighting
an automatic heater. Just as he turned
on the gas, William Finley, bartender
turned OH the water causing the cxpl0-
sion. Segrast WAS lifted bodily and
thrown 10 the other side Of the room. 4
policeman, upon hearing the report,
rushed into the cellar and found him
dazed. but unhurt, lying in a heap under
the stairway. This IL the third time
within month, and the fourth in his
life. that Segrast has come unscathed
through accidents that would have
killed the ordinary man. Last week,
while cleaning the front Of the saloon.
stepladdcr upou which he was work
ing slipped and threw bin through a
mammoth plate glass window. A few
I days previous to this he fell down a
| flight Of stairs headfrst, but got up
| laughing. Less than q year ago a bag
containing 800 pounds Of sand fell upon
bin. but he was uninjured.
Thirty girls in night dresses routed q
| burglar n the rnufug IF tho Ttftubftro
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

During the last six weeks Elizabeth.
the young daughter of Charles McGOni-
gal. a Lansdowne Pa, merchant, com
planned Of acute pains III the chest, Tn
til this morning it was thought that the
child suffered from Indigestion. Dr.
Dunn finally concluded 10 make an ex-
animation Of the girls throat, discover
ing that there was an obstruction in the
tubes As he drew his fingers from the
child's mouth she coughcd violently,
emitting large safety pin, which was
open. Dr. Dunn declares that it il re
markable how the child managed 10 live.
She win recover.
Rev. William J. Evans, the young In
dianapolis minister who secured a mar
rage license to wed Miss Leona Drucilla
Howell. 10 years old, Of Knoxville, Tenn,
appeared at the clerks Office and re
turned the license. explaining that the
marriage did not take place. The cere-
mnny had been set for s o'clock Thurs
day. and at that hour Rev. Mr.. Evans.
accompanied by Rev. Mr. Brannum, his
former classmate whom he had selected
70 perform the ceremony, arrived at the
home If the young woman. They were
met by her mother and sister. end were
tod thai Drucilla was not al home, tnat
she hal gone to the home Of an uncle
aud left the task Of an explanation tu
them. The message she left was that
she had decided not TO get married.
Leonard Hancock Of Alton, Mo. says
| hF has felt better in the last ten days
than he ever felt during the past sew
enty-two years Of his life. and il is all
due 10 the fact that he has quit smok-
! ing. He says it took him almost all his
| life 70 discover that smoking is plumb
| foolish. Hancock has smoked and cut
| grass ever since he was boy 10 years
| old IN Franklin village, N. II. Now he
works daily on the lawns Of Alton
/ old. If he had started out in q straight
! line with his moving and cutting he
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
EanaticaI Destrovers.

There Is a distinct reminder Of the
hard riding and hard praying adher-
ents of Cromwell in this Kentucky
night riding element. The Kentucky
riders do not hesitate to gallop over
law and order to carry out their de-
structive purpose, and now we are
told that they pray as we'll as destroy.
If the story told by young couple
who were returning from a party and
fell into the hands of night riding
band is true, the marauders are shown
in a new and interesting light. The
band at a signal from the leader Is
said to have knelt in the roadway, the
moonlight flooding the bowed heads,
while one of the party offered up
fervent petition. Then when the amen
was spoken the destroyers sprang to
saddle and were away on their law
defying mission. Before the crime
was committed the young couple were
led down the roadway and told to go
home. But with the recklessness ana
curiosity of youth, they fingered until
the torch was applied to huge ware
house barn. AS the Flames arose
high in air the watchers turned home.
ward, the strains of popular hymn
coming to their ears as they passed
down the hillside.
1t is quite possible that these barn
burners and sheriff defiers have con-
vinced themselves that they are JUS
titled in the raids that have made
night rider a term Of terror. If there
is fanatical taint in their minds
which is altogether 1ikely-they can
easily believe that a divine providence
favors their scheme of reprisals and
looks with approval upon the smok-
ing embers that mark their ruthless
way.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
Astronomy in japan.

So rapid has been the advance OF
the Japanese in western civilization
that the party Of Japanese merchants
now in London are perhaps much less
astonished at what they see than the
man in the street imagines. The Wis
1t to Greenwich observatory may pos
sibly have been a novel experience
as 1t would be to most Englishmen-
but not because modern astronomy Is
unknown in Japan. There are sever
al well-equipped observatories in the
Land of the Rising Sun, and the re-
built Naval observatory at Toxic, un-
der the dictatorship of s. Hirayama,
F. r. A. s., is doing work as admira-
bly, performed and as permanent In
value as is being done at any similar
Institution in the world.-Westmins-
ter Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
"WRITE A LETTER HOME TO.
NIGHT."

Don't 20 to the theatre, concert or ball,
But stay in your room tonight,
Deny yourself to the friends that call,
And a good long letter write.
Write to the sad, sad folks at home
Who sit, when. the day is done,
With folded hands and tear-wet eye,
And think of the absent one.
Don't selfshly scribble, Excuse my haste,
I've scarcely time to wrte!"
Lest their dropping thoughts go wandering
back
To many bygone night,
When they lost their needed sleep and
rest,
And every breath was a prayer
That God would leave their darling one
To their tender, loving care.
Don't let them feel you have no need
Of their love and counsel wise,
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When sorrow has dimmed the eyes.
It might be well to let them think
You've never forgotten them quite;
That you deem it a pleasure wien far
away
Long letters home to write.
Don't think the young and giddy friends
Who make your pastime gay.
Have half the anxious thoughts of you
That the home hearts have to-day.
The duty of writing do not put off.
Let sleep and pleasure wait,
Lest the letter for which they look and
long,
Be day or even an hour too late.
For the sad, loving hearts at home
With cheeks tear-washed and white,
Are longing to hear from the absent one,
So write them long letter tonight
-Contributed by H. w. Smith to The
Sample Case.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
Cinematograph in Medicine.

In the London Lancet DR.. H. Camp
bell Thomson, M. d., has an interest,"
ing note on the use of the cinemato-
graph, which he has successfully used
for recording and illustrating the
movements of patients suffering from
various nervous complaints. The pho
tographs, which were taken at the
rate of sixteen per second, clearly
show the nervous movements, and are
used for the instruction of students.
DR.. Thomson considers that, given a
suitable light, it is possible to take
the finest movements and he hopes
shortly to be able to demonstrate this
by showing the movements which oc-
cur during the electrical reactions of
muscles.
No doubt ideas will occur to read
ers in which a record of many med
ical cases other than those of nervous
diseases will be useful, for the whole
aspect of case is often different ac-
cording to whether it can be seen in
life-like movements or only in sta
tionary illustrations. The practice of
surgery would also seem to offer great
facilities for demonstration by cine
matograph, but hitherto little or no
serious work has been undertaken
for purposes of teaching.
For the general purposes of class
teaching in medical and other forms
of education, there can be no doubt
that the cinematograph will prove to
be very useful and its management
is but little more trouble than that
Of the ordinary lantern. Moreover,
with the most modern types of ma
chine 1t will be possible to stop at
any one picture and thus to combine
with the cinematograph all the ad-
vantages of an ordinary lantern with
out any danger of firing the films.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
!sssssssssssss . . . essse {
, THE GUlLELESS AND CRED :
UL0US GE0GRAPHERS. 9
sesso sees eseee zee sess sssss

BY far the neatest tale of Cana
dian mountaineering concerns Mts.
Brown and Hooker-myths now rele-
gated to the limbo of Mt. Iseram. In
its palmy days alchemy fostered no
such credulity as sways some scien-
tlfic mapmakers. Unexisting Mt.
Tillman, Alaska, which had decorated
maps for fifteen years, where the
writer in 1900 first found nat plain,
or the rubbery height Of st. Elias.
which has bobbed between $4,000
and 10000 feet (even Russell cheat
ed 1t by sheer half mile), are not
even good jokes beside the 1900
and 10000 foot mountains, which
from 1927 on have been engraved
on each side of the pass at the head
of Athabasca River, with the Com
mittee's Punch Bowl" between. A
map might omit Great Slave Lake,
but never the punch bowl" A kid
at school might pass for not locating
Fort Garry, but to the Ounce stool
he went for not knowing the colonial
boast that these peaks mark the
apex of the Rocky Mountain system.
Now, as fact, the walls of this pass
are only few thousand feet high,
and the punch bowl" is twenty
yards wide!
Neither the railway surveys, spend
ing three million dollars, nor George
Dawson himself nailed the lie. That
was done in library by Collie, after
two seasons expeditions and year
Of worry. Except the maps, and
hunt in Palliser's journal linking
Brown and Hooker with one
Douglass, botanist. of Douglass fir
(Oregon pine) fame. no mention of
them could be found in print, until
Collie struck Bancroft's History of
British Columbia. There the botan-
lists diary was cited. Collie dug IL
out. Douglass had crossed Atha-
basca Pass from Vancouver in 1927,
camping in the eye Of the pass on
May 1. On the north lay noun
tain, he wrote, (which does not ap-
pear to be less tnan 10000 or
1900 feet high" But this three
mile-sheer peak, he climbed in a
single which," as Collie
naively observes, was naturally alb
surd." The chance say-so of a
botanist, but geographers ate 1t
alive! Surely one was with Douglass
and named the punch bowl"-after
mixing his keg in it. A Professor
Coleman had been in the pass five
years before Collie, but finding no
Brown and Hooker, and seeing high
er peaks to the west, imagined they
had been mislocated. But these peaks
then had names, the Brown and
Hooker business is no error, but a
hoax. During the Klondike rush,
when the writer was just north of
this region, trappers smiled and
shook their heads when you asked
about Brown and Hooker. They
knew. Geographers are more guile
less.-From Mountaineering in
North America" by Robert Dunn, in
i'e Outing Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
Four Gored Skirt.


The skirt that allows of effective
treatment for striped material is one
much in demand just now, for stripes
are in the height of style and chevron
effects are much in vogue. This one
can be so treated with singular sue
cess, yet need not be confined to
striped fabrics, as 1t is a simple gored
skirt which can be cut from any sea-
sonable material and either left plain
or trimmed, as liked. In this instance
the stripes are made to form sue
cession of chevrons at the front and
at the sides, but even IL striped ma
terial is used 1t can be cut on the
straight, if preferred. Indeed, the
stripes allowed to take the perpendic-
ular line and the skirt trimmed with
bias band above the hem make
combination much in vogue and alto
gether satisfactory.
The skirt is cut In four cores and
there is consequently a seam at the
centre front and one at the centre
back. The fulness is laid in inverted
pleats.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is nine yards
twenty-four, five and one-fourth yards
thirty-two, or four and one-fourth
yards forty-four inches wide, If cut
from striped material, as illustrated;
six and one-half yards twenty-four,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17

be embroidered, or covered with ap-
plique, or banded with soutache, or
treated in any way that fancy may
suggest. The yoke also allows of
variation and can be made from all
over lace, from embroidery, from
lingerie mater...., from tucked net or
from any material of the sort.
The blouse is made with a fitted
lining and consists Of the front and
the backs. The fronts are tucked to
yoke depth and both the front and
the backs are arranged in wide tucks
over the shoulders, while the lining
is faced to form the yoke. The shaped
trimming band trims the neck edges
of the front, and the closing is made
invisibly at the back. The moder-
ately full sleeves are gathered into
straight cuffs.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen year size is three and
one-half yards twenty-one or twenty
four, two and one-half yards thirty
two, or one and three-fourth yards
forty-four inches wide, with one-half
yard eighteen inches wide for the
yoke, two and one-half yards of ap-
plique. ten buttons to trim as Illus
trated.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
BUILT UP
Right Food Gives Strength and Brain
Power.

The natural elements Of wheat and
barley, including the phosphate OF
potash, are found in Grape-Nuts, and
that is why persons who are run
down from improper food pick up
rapidly on Grape-Nuts.
my system was run down by ex-
cessive night work." writes N. Y.
man, "in spite of liberal supply OF
ordinary food.
After using Grape-Nuts I noticed
improvements at once In strength and
nerve and brain power.
This food seemed to lift me up
and stay with me for better exertion,
with less fatigue. My weight In
creased 20 lbs. with vigor and COM
fort In proportion.
when travelling always carry tho
food with me to insure having 1t.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to
Wellville," In pkgs.
Ever read theabove letter. A new
cne appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
Bees swifter Than Pigeons.

A pigeon grower in Germany had a
trial of speed between bees and pig
cons. At the same time he liberated
a dozen bees three miles from their
hives, and dozen pigeons the same
distance from their cots. The first
bee reached the goal quarter of a
minute ahead of the first pigeon. The
other bees came in ahead of the sec
ond pigeon. The bees had been
rolled in -four before starting, that
they might be known from other bees,
and that made their flight somewhat
slower than it otherwise would have
been. OF course the pigeons would
win in long distance race. but bees
fly faster for short distance.-Th
Junior Christian Endeavor World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
Winds and Fish.

A singular correspondence has late
ly been brought to light between the
prevailing direction of the wind on
the coast of New South Wales and the
average catch Of fish. These influences
have periods of three or four years.
Thus in 1898 there was a general
scarcity of fish, but afterward they
became more and more abundant up
to 1901. In 1906 there was another
scarcity Of FISH. but the next year they
began to return in increasing num-
bers. The cause of these variations
was mystery until the coincidence
with the prevailing direction of the
coastal winds was noticed. Now it is
thought that by the study Of the
winds the prospects Of the fishermen
may be predicted two or three years
in advance.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-06-17
WAR AGAINST MOSQUITOES
Ninety Separate Species Of the In
sects Discovered on the 18TH
mus Of Panama.

mus of Panama.
A government bug hunter has been
down on the Isthmus of Panama col
lecting mosquitoes in the Canal Zone.
He secured larvae of eighty-three spe-
cies, of which thirty species were new
to science. With seven additional
species already known, this constitu-
tes the largest number recorded from
any one locality on earth, says the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Evening Post. Anybody who Is
interested may see the mosquitoes for
himself In the National Museum,
where they have been deposited. Au-
gust Busck is the name of this scien-
tif1c collector who now holds the mos
quito record. He spent three months
on the 1sthmus during the mosquito
breeding time, covering the end of
the dry season and the early part Of
the rainy season.
1t has cost, and is costing, lot of
money to protect the lives Of the men
working in the Canal Zone from the
80 separate species of mosquitoes
now known to exist along the route
of the waterway. Mosquitoes do not
fly very far from the place where
they are born. They keep close to
their food supply. Those that affect
the inhabitants of town or camp
normally do not come from distance
greater than two hundred yards.