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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

long been familiar with this master
piece, for it is many years since the
Duke of Norfolk generously lent it to
the National gallery. 1t has meant 50
much to that institution that almost one
winces at the thought of its being reft
from its present home and brought to
America. perhaps to disappear into some
private collection and to remain prac-
tically inaccessible to all save the init
mates of its owner. But the National
gallery would still be in possession of
another great Holbein, The Ambassa-
DORIS and possibly, while this one
might for a time be hidden here. il
might also in due course be permanently
established in the Metropolitan museum.
1t would be fine thirg if the museum
were to concentrate a years income
from the Rogers fund on the purchase
of this painting, seeking, and, we may he
sure, quickly finding, the balance among
few private contributors.-B. G. In
New York Tribune
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
A TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND.
Manhattan Deserves That Title-Space
at a Premium.

Space on Manhattan island, which is
sure enough tight little island if ever
there was one, is distinctly ut pre-
MUM. The record price for real estate
in New York, according TO Alcom, was
$3.50 a square foot, obtained four years
ago for the southeast corner of Broad
way ana Wall street.
On March Is last the Fourth National
bank acquired the building adjoining it's
own home at the southeast corner of
Cedar and Nassau streets. plot meas
uring T3.1 feet on the latter street and
73.2 on the former,
The average price a square foot was
close on S3O7. which figure has been
beaten by only three other sales of real
estate in the city-the corner already
mentioned, and two small plots at the
southwest corner and the southeast cor
ner of Broad and Wall streets, which
sold over thirty years ago for $500 and
S3IS a square foot respectively.
\ 5O-foot lot on Fifth avenue, Mt Six
ty-ninth street, is reported aS being sold
TO Il. IL. Hartman for million dollars
and such price is by no means rare in
that section. Fifth avenue values. in
deed. have been bounding upward, and
will soon be rivaling those of the finan-
Cial section.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
The Cleveland Portrait Fund.

Some time ago the New York Tribune
started a fund for the purchase of a por-
trait of Grover Cleveland to be placed
on the walls of the executive chamber
of the state capitol at Albany, where
hang portraits Of many Of the governors
Of New York state. The fund has been
growing slowly but steadily, and now
amounts to nearly $500. About $500
that the commendable effort to provide
the modest yet appropriate memorial is
brought to a successful conclusion at an
early date by the sending in of many
small contributions. As the Tribune
says. it is manifestly uniting that Wis
itors to the executive chamber should
find there no reminder that Mr.. Cleve-
land was ever governor Of the Empire
state. while the faces of many lesser
men look down upon them from its
waIls-Rome Sentinel.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
The Bad Influence of Student Fraterni-


The influence of the fraternity in
Lawrence College does not seem condu-
Give to proper regard for authority
Prof. Charles w. Treat, acting presi-
dent Of the institution during the alb
seuce Of President Plantz, who has
gone south for his health, was confront
ed with problem not long ago when he
found that one Of the girl students,
dressed up as boy, had broken the
rules by going out of the girls dormi-
tory in that attire, and strOlling across
the campus, She and four boy students
guilty Of infraCtion Of the rules were
expelled by the acting president, and
now student organizations Of which the
expelled collegians are members have
risen in revolt against him
Most Of the members Of the Glee
ClGh refuse to sing unless the order Of
expulsion is rcscinded. But this is not
all. The acting president has been
hanged in ctIigy on the main street Of
Appleton. a placard attached to the eff
iigy bearing the insulting legend, Alb
dul Hamid Treat
Those concerned in the revolt may he
the leading spirits in the student organ
izaiipn, but it is not dcducible from
their conduct that they are bright ina
scholarship. Abdul Ilamid has never
objected TO women wearing trousers.
( Fathers and mothers of Young people
/ attending Lawrence College would be
! likely 10 feel uneasy il the management
! Of that institution were Indifferent 10 tine
maintenance o. deeorum, aud the course
| which Acting President Treat adopted
should enlist their support.
! 1t is to be hoped that there is enough
/ good sense md regard for what is seem
! ~ and right in the main student body
Of the college to fruwn down the revolt
aud sustain the acting president.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
GATHERING SEA FOWLS EGGS.
Perilous Work of Cliff Climbers on Eng
lsh Coast

With the advent of spring the York.
shire cliff climbers are making prepara-
tions for gathering the eggs of the
myriads of sea fowl that build their
nests in the dizzy precipices Of the north
eastern coast.
At Bempton, a few miles from Brfti-
ington, the favorte resort of these egg
hunters the chalk cliffs tower 400 feet
above the sea. They are the home Of
thousands Of gulls, cormorants, kitti-
wakes and other sea birds that have Just
begun to build their rough nests in tho
chaiky crevices. William Wilkinson.
many years, is know locally as 1.-THE king
Of the egg hunters" lie is hlnff.
weather SCARED man Of the sea. with
as much nerve and agility as is possessed
by the most daring steeplejack
Wilkinson wears an old hemlct to pro-
tpct his head from the pieces Of rock
dislodgcd by the rope by which he is
he buckles a kind Of leather hammock,
in which he IS able to sit. On his arms
he wears leather protectors.
Lower away, boys he cries as he
swings himself over the brink in an al
most horizontal position and presses each
foot firmly against the chalk surface.
Three Of the mcu seize the rope, and foot
By foot the intrepid climber is lowered
till his CHEEKY voice is lost amid the flut-
terjng sounds Of the disturbed birds. He
swings from nest to ue5t, putting each
egg carefully in a bag slung over his
shoulder As soon as his bag Is full he
gives the hoist up signal on the guide
rope and the men maui MN up.
Wilkinson makes several dusccnts, aud
IT the end Of the day shares the spoil
with bis assistants. who sell them fyg
eating purposes TO the inhabitants Of thu
uegAbyr!ug villages. - London Daily
/ News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
Salmon at s1.25 a Pound.

The salmon season on the Penobsc9t
river has now been open a week, and it
is legal 10 take FISH from the waters
until July u. For days veteran anglers
have been getting their tackle ready fsr
the Atlantic sea salmon fishing. The
first salmon taken is worth $l-2J q
pound. This has been the STANDARD price
for years John MacGregpr. the spoo,
manufacturer. who died at Lincoln %
short time ago. had a standing offer az
that price for q fish which be sent
friend in Newark. and his son ha-
announced that he will continue the
practice.-k ennehec journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

A Remodeled Attic.

"When the children began % grow
up John and | thought we'd have to
move to a bigger house." said the WON
an who lives in the suburbs. But we
find. TO our joy, that We wont. ! had
an idea one day. j was up in the attic
putting away some blankets, and it 0c-
CURED to me. Why not make some use
If all this spaceT It's a roomy attic,
extending over the whole house, and all
We had in it vas a little lumber-trunks,
boxes Of clothing. etc, things that could
De put in one small stOrerJom ! had
the carpenters there the very next day.
and. within a fortnight We had the attic
divided into four rooms.
"One. in the southwest corner. with
quaint little windows mp under the roof.
] decided 70 give to Ethel for her own.
She's getting 10 the age where she wants
place away from the other children a.
read and dream and draw. We papcred
%, walls and The slOping ceiling with
burlap Of a soft dull yellow, and / sten-
ciled a conventi0nalized tulip border
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

FAINT racks her nerves with its fretful-
Eess, finds ample reward in its lnfre-
duent moments of mirth Its smile and
the caresses of its small hands repay her
Tor the infinite outlay of care il puts her
TO, The man, unSa tished with his
achievements, must still find in life-in
his home. in his friendships, in the en-
largement of his charities as he notes
the weakness of his fellows. in the
things he has escaped rs well rs those
which he has made his own. his reward.
lie must have the disposition of Bladder
stom. that favorite old butler Of VOLTS
Crag Tower, who always pretended that
he had fat Capon in the larder. though
1t was only the hinder end of a mutton
ham that had already been on the table
three times"
And when we feel like asking ourselves
this question of the despairing answer,
we must consider life as a great
panoramic picture so full of beauties that
we may discern that, even though our
share in them is small, the mere looking
upon them Is not without reward.
The love of today becomes too often
the memory, the regret, of tomorrow.
Happy the person who can say "rrhe
future for which | Strove has become
the present in which ! exult."-Cooking
Club Magazine,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
He Knew Whereof He Spoke.

TAree-year-old Jack had % little tex
rsrieUoc" with a hornet and upon gee.
ing ouc on the window next day. cy-
claimed 20, mamma, here is another
one Of those sharp-shootcr flies in the
! house" The DeliueatOr.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
Hardy Perpetual Roses.

The hardest rose of all are those with
the name hybrid perpetual roses. This
name they have always had. though it
is missioner, as they are not per-
petual boomers, but June roses only.
But their flowers are of the largest kind,
and being of the hardest nature, they
may be planted with safety wherever
roses will thrive at all. In most all
parts of Pennsylvania they need no pro-
lection at all, enduring zero weather
without harm. Folks sometimes place
straw around them in winter, ana while
this may help them in severe climates,
il is not necessary where zero weather
or a little below this is all they viii be
called on TO meet. New kinds are con
tinually being added to the old lists. and
altogether there il n large lot TO choose
from. Here is a list Of a dozen assorted
kinds, not one Of which would disappoint
anyone: Anne de Diesbach, bright car
mine; Baroness ROthsChld, satiny pink:
Duke of Edinburgh, bright vermilion:
Fisher Holmes, dark scarlet; Frau Karl
Druschki, white; Gen. Jacqueminot, vel
yety crimson; John Hopper, rose pink:
Margaret Dickson, white flesh center;
Magma Charta, rosy pink; Mrs. John
Laing. soft pink; Paul Neyrun, dark
pink Prince Camille de ROhan, crimson.
Roses Of all kinds are best planted in
spring If in pots, the kinds named wiz
need little or no pruning, but if dug from
the open ground they should he pruned
back Mt least one-half. as they usually
lift from the ground with but poor roots.
After a seasons growth in their pcrma
nent positions there should be an annual
pruning in spring The shoots made the
previous summer are the ones that will
bear the flowers, therefore but little of
this should be cut back. Should "A Shoot
be four feet tall, as they often are. cut
away one foot OF il, leaving three feet.
There would be flowers come to the very
top of the shoot if not pruned, but when
cut back a little the flowers that come
on the remainder are the finer because or
the pruHing.-Exchange
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

around the upper edge of the walls. The
windows, which are high, jutting out
under the roof | hung with soft null
curtains of yellow silk, and had window
seats built under them. The seats are
boxes. convenient to store things in, and,
stained dull brown and piled with soft
CUSHIONS, make comfortable seats
enough. Like all attics, these rooms
are irregular in shape, but | think that
makes them more charming. In one bit
OF EtheIs room that juts out from the
rest we put skylight in the sloping
roof. and there she has her drawing ia
bic. On dry summer nights, too, she
can open the skylight and draw her
couch under it, and sleep there under
the stars. In every corner where there's
an inch for them the carpenters built
book shelves, which | stained brown like
the window seats, The walls Ethel has
liked up herself with the college colors
and other stuff a girl collects. and from
the way. her friends exclaim over 1t |
fancy IT'S as pretty room as any of
the girls have.
"One of the other rooms | fixed M
for John. lie does q good deal of his
writing ut home, and the only place he's
had was the dining room, which, with
the children running in and out, and the
maid working about, wasn't exactly "A
peaceful place to grind out articles. He
|
papered the walls with green, aud the
rafter-rough, dark wood left them
Just as they We're. There's nothing IN
the room but Johns typewriter, a biz
writing table, shelves for his books of
reference, chair to work in. Il chair
to lounge in, and rack for Johns
pipes.
"One room had to reserve for 81
trunk room, but the fourth | finished as
a sort of refuge in time of need. The
children call 1t mothers room Ii is
done in the most reStful coorS. faWus
and browns, with touches of dim hlue
and there are two wide soft touches i'm
1t, and easy chairs, footStools, tables
with magazines aud game or two. If
| want nap or quiet talk with a
friend | fly To this room. If nurse wants
to put baby to sleep and the rest of the
house is noisy, she comes here. Jack
and Marion use ii for study room
after school. There's plenty of light.
for l had one Of the dormer windows
cut down to the floor.
How do we heat these rooms? With
Franklin stoves, There's a chimney run
ming mp through the center of the house
and we found we could cut into that
without too much expense. The stairway
was my chief difficulty, it was so
straight and ugly, but / relieved that
with hurlap on the walls aud few
prints, hand rail on either side and a
pretty stair carpet. In the landing at
the head of the stairs have II rug, ana
a swinging hammock seat depending
from the rafters. That's where the
children love to sit and tell secrets. The
window in this landing, by the way,
looks out on ms 1eighbor's maids win
dow. so / had stained glass put in here.
Some stained glass is lovely, and if /
were treating an attic with an ugly out
lFss.I - L.
stained glass in all the windows
"Where does the maid sleep? We
threw out a room for her on the ground
tloor. next to the kitchen. She likes it
better, and we have our attic.-New
York Tribune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
WOMEN'S COLUMN.
May Song.

A thousand buds stir in the brake,
A myriad twinkling blooms
Across the dreaming valley shake
Their spears and jeweled plumes-
Oh, buds of love within my heart,
Oh starry sprays of song,
Fling wide your cilnging leaves apart,
And join the kindred throng!
Redeem the winters wilderness
With showers Of silver sound;
With myriad arms of tenderness
Enfold the world around!
Margaret Ridgley Partridge in The Cen
fury.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21
Marriage and Divorce.

Recently judge and a college professor
the latter also a state and national sta
tIstician-bave lent the weight Of their
Influence against the movement for di-
Yorce restriction, both agreeing that I'M
pleasant conditions, rather than the de-
sire to marry again, are responsible for
all but small percentage of divorces,
and that it would he uuwise to make
marriage more difficult. When, however,
the statistician goes on 10 state that at
the present time one OUT of every twelve
marriages ends in divorce, and that by
the close of the century unless the rate
decreases, one out of every two VIII
so end it is quite impossible for any
one vitality interested in his fellow men
to take the cheerful view of the pros
pect that he apparently entertains.
Wholesale divorce proceedings, eco
nomically considered, would undoubtedly
represent a great waste of substance.
BY involving not only the principals, bur
family connections on both sides, they
would certainly result in much loss OF
service of one kind and another, and,
since stability is a fundamental require
ment of both society and business. their
effect in keeping the worlds work, as
well as social life Of every grade in a
state Of more or less upheaval, could not
fail TO be demoralizing. Indeed, if the
Christian nations continue in the dlrec-
ton of facilitating divorce which we are
told ever since the Protestant Ref0rma-
ton, all the countries Of Christendom
have shown a tendency to do, they are
likely to bring up in social chaos. Since
it seems that the churches are pOWerless
to stem the current of disruption, and
that regulation of what promises to de-
velop an intolerahle condition Of social
anarchy must ne iefr TO public opinion, is
it not about time that deliberate effort Of
a thoroughgoing kind were made to find
out why so many who undertake matri-
mony, sooner or later, seek to loose It's
bondsf 1t is not merely an alarmist
statement that the institution is on trial
today and is being found wanting by an
eyer-increasing number of persons; the
deluge of loosened and loOsening ties is
upon us, and in Justice 10 those who are
worthy, as well as for the best good Of
society Mt large its defects should be
scientifically studied and reform meas
ures formulated.
This would be an eminently fit nyesti-
cation for the Sage Foundation, which
has already done such excellent service
in behalf Of social bctterment, because it
has q prestige shared by very few re-
search agencies. and. in consequence. its
findings would be given wide publicity
and It's recommendations become an i'm
portant factor in fostering a sound public
opinion. Even by its severest critics,
homogeneous marriage is conceded 10 be
Infinitely superior - any rsher form OF
such relation between the sexes. and its
stability should not he permitted 10 be
jeopardizcd by the Irregular actions of
those who regard their individual fan
cies as matters Of paramount Importance,
Patriotism demands that we lind % cure
for this habit Of wholesale divorce
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

Persons who have not kept in touch
with modern educational methods would
not recognize the metropolitan school
house of today. Even the student who
graduated ten years ago would he at a
loss TO explain where he was. if he should
pe suddenly placed in the corridor of a
modern high school in one of the large
cities of the country. Not many years
ago the prevailing idea was that four
walls and roof. with the necessary
blackboardS and desks, constituted a
schoolhouse and its equipment. Today.
a thoroughly modern schoolhouse has
nearly all of the conveniences of Al home,
with more practical working apparatus.
in addition. than will be found in many
business establishments. The high school
student of today does not go through a
door into n long, bare ball; he enters
parlor He finds the hall artistiCally dec
GRATED with plants, large and small, and
with copies of the work of the most fa-
NOUS sculptors. The walls are partly of
burlap and partly tinted; fine paintings
adorn them. There is an air of refine
ment throughout the SchOolhouse that is
not to be found anywhere else in the
world, except in the homes Of refined peo-
pie, The plan followed in furnishing the
schoolhouse of today is designed to give
pupils the most healthy environment
The very halls of such a school cry out
against muddy shoes. dirty hands and
faces and unkempt hair. No untidy boy
or girl can go into our modern city
schools without being conscious of untidi-
ness. There is no need for instruction in
such matters, the lesson is taught every
time the child enters the building.
Environment is coming TO be one of
the most important words in the lam
guage, though as yet we are only be-
ginning tc understand how it influences
manhood and womanhood We logical
" begin providing better environment
in our school houses, and we shall learn
from the success that will attend this
experiment the equal necessity for ex-
tending our study to our penal insttu-
tons. The warden of the penitentiary
who desired to provide his charges with
trock suits was an extremist, perhaps,
but he had fast hold of an idea that is
worthy of thoughtful and prayerful con
sideration. You can not tame n rat with
out removing it from its old haunts.-
Woman's National Daily.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-09
WORLDS INDUSTRIAL CENTER
Busiest Manufacturing Region on Earth
Due to England'S Coal

About the busiest Industrial region on
earth is the lowland of England from
Lancashire and the Mersey river on thte
west TO Newcastle-on-the-Tyn iii the
northeast. Here are scores of cities and
towns, the home of the textile industries
the potteries, the great shops busy with
iron and steel and other raw materials
manufacturing goods of high value for
a market as wide as the earth.
Over all this lowland hangs Il black
pail Of soft coal smoke. the landscape
studded with the tall spouting chimneys
For all this endless activity in manufac-
ture, says The World Today, is wholly
due to the location in these lowlandS of
tabulously rich deposits of coal.
Coal for a century and a half has
been magical bank account in Great
Britain, bringing into existence these
great artisan population, making de-
mands on every continent for the metals
and timber and textile tibers for the busy
mills, and then calling on the farms and
ranges of America, the Argentine and
other new lands, for the bread and meat
to feed these industrial millions.
OF all this textile territory Manchester
IS the central market and clearing house
In the Manchester exchange III towns
are represented, eleven of them having
each a population of 100000 or over.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-09
Cultivation of Corn,

When corn is planted after the first
week in June the land needs more at
tention than when prepared earlier.
If plowed early the weeds will have
made an appearance, which is an ad-
vantage, as they can be destroyed be-
fore the corn is planted; but the late
corn will be more easily injured by
drought than that which has made an
earlier start. The crop should be cul-
ttvated after every rain, so as to pre-
vent loss of moisture Another point
is to thin out the plants if they are
too thick. 1t would be difficult to in
duce many farmers to thin out" their
corn, as they would claim that the
land, having been MANFRED, was capa-
BILE of providing for as many stalks
in the hills as made their appear
ance; it is not a matter Of plant food
with late corn, however, but moisture
When too many stalks are close to-
gether there Is a struggle for exist
ence; some become weeds to the 9TH
ers, and in the end only the most Wig
orous make growth, and yield grain