Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-19
Items of Interest

On one of the Thousand Islands an en-
terprising American has started pleas
ant farm. He expects in time to have
four thousand to five thousand English
golden pheasants on his island. As the
nearest land is half mile away, he
thinks he'll be able to keep them al
home.
In the Victorian Era a young English
woman was in the fashion if she at
tended half dozen balls in the season.
By degrees her ambitions increased until
now dance every night is not consid-
cred too much. Thus the number of
dances during the season has vastly in
creased
Provincial England is smiling in a
superior way at Americas belated dis
cOvery that the country ought to cele-
brate mothers day. In the villages of
Cornwall, Devonshire and Lancashire
mothers day has been recognized in
stitution for generations. 1t is cele-
brated on mid-Lent Sunday.
In three years San Diego, CAL, has
erected three large school buildings at a
cost of S1S2 200, one of them, building
of twenty rooms, being the finest gram
mar school building in California
There is also high school costing $780,
900, besides additions to two other build
ings, doubling their capacity.
A new social experiment has been
made by the authorities of Charlotton-
burg, Berlln's fashionable suburb. They
have appointed to their elementary
schools women officials under the title of
'Schulschwester," or school sisters,
whose function it is specially to- look
after the health Of the children.
There are five hundred inhabitants on
the TOnawanda Indian reservation in
western New York. Though divided by
clearly defined party lines into Chris
tianS and pagans they retain in common
many of their ancestors primitive Gus
toms. a very conspicuous custom being
the annual corn drying.
The first Turkish airShip, the Osmanli
has just undergone its trial flights near
Paris. The airship was ordered by the
Ottoman government that has just van
ished, and it's arrival in the sultan's do
min1ons is awaited with much specula-
tive interest by the natives, as aerOnaut-
les has hitherto been forbidden sport
in that country.
The automobile demand in Mexico is
shown to be on steady increase. That
the ia 2icab system has proved success
is shown by the fact that number OF
new taxicabs fef Me--ie0 City are now en-
voyage, and it is the intention of the
company operating them there to in.
crease the number until they will form
formidable competition with the blue.
hand coaches.
A potentate who glOries in string OF
grandilOquent titles is the Shah of Per,
sia. He is not only "The Shadow of
God,' but also THE FOOtpath Of Heaven
In addition he is described as "The Cen
ter Of the Universe, Exalted Like the
Planet Saturn, Well of Science, Sublime
Sovereign Whose Standard is the Sun
and Monarch of Armies Numerous as the
Stars
In spite of his ninety years, Lord
Wemyss is still keen golfer. He was
instrumental in starting the golf club a.
Wimbledon common, about 1862, but
when it was made obligatory by a bylaw
of the Wimbledon conservators for the
golfers to wear q red coat Lord Wemyss
rebelled and his set Of clubs still stands
in mute resignation in his locker, tied
with piece OF tWine.
1t is believed by at least one writer
that it is because badness ih women has
nearly always been studious!y concealed
that no gentle way of evading the blunt
word "bald' has been evolved, in con
trast with the many ways lodging fiat. >
STOUT" (Which really means sturdy,
"portIy," comfortable" and "embon-
point" are instances of this evasion
But "balj" always remains ''bald,"
Once again England has shown herself
liberal in granting refuse to alien exiles
One evening last month eight women
from the eX-sultan of Turkeys harem ar
rived in London, and they are now tenn
porariIy living at boarding house in
the fashionable neighborhood Of Port
land place. The authorities are fully
aware of their presence, but say they
have no reasonable grounds on which tC
interfere.
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