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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
Mink Farm in Oregon.

Tom Staten has established farm for
the raising Of mink ut Rattlesnake Point.
on the upper klamath lake About a
hundred Of the animals are housed ia
cages or cabinets, and seem 10 do well
and thrive in captivity as they are an
fat and sleek looking
The animals are SO tame that they viii
take food from the hand, although one
the mink is treHcheruuS aud has very
sharp teeth, As mink in this county in
crease about five fold Mr.. Staten ex-
poets to have something over 500 in his
cage next year. The value Of their fur
alone will aggregate about $1,000, but
live featale minks sell for much higher
figure than their hide alone is worth, -
klamath Republican.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
An Introduction.

Harry was walking with another boy,
when he was joined by friend, a year
or 50 older and inclined TO manners.
Introduce me, Harry" the newcomer
whispered pompously,
Harry twisted, Redeemed and at last
turned to his companion with: Jim,
have you ever seen Gilbert ST. .ncerE'
NO" the other boy answered
We'll" Harry burted out. reddeniug
still more, and jerking one thumb over
his shoulder towards the newcomer
that's him, '-Lippincott's
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
Charming Dancers Banished.

Two Of the most charming opponents
Of the national Spanish dances are An
tauia Arrieta and Aurora Aimdros. who
have been delightng The public i'm their
country's capital. But now they are
practically banshcd The governor Of
Madrid was attacked with tit Of
morality" recently. and fearing that
their dances may corrupt the morals Of
the Madrid youth he ordered all the cafe
chautauts and daEcing saloons where
these special dances usually took place
10 he closed. Now it will he necessary
10 90 10 Seville or Granada 70 see the
national dances
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

AM. from school to serve the cause they
had at heart
At no previous election had Denver
Lad SO many scratched ballots. The
count had nor progressed far on election
night before ii became evident rba, these
very greatly OutnuInbered the str1icht
tIIchetS voted, by midnight it was known
that Judge Lindsey was elected tbnneh
1t was not till next day that tbe m3Sni-
tude OF the victory was made clear. The
peoples candidate had obtained nearly
as many votes as both the machine
s ca ands together. He had polled over
1000 votes. In addition to this. sew
eral thousand persons had tried to vote
Tor nm and had lost their ballots
through incorrect marking.
IN their attempt to discredit tbis man
whom they can neither buy nor intimi-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
The Safety Of the Modern Transatlantic
Liner

Reports in regard 20 the severity Of
81 winter storm ef.. Juntered by transit
Iantic liners which arrived at New York
and Boston on Sunday are convincing
not only as 70 the fact that terrible gales
sweep over the northern seas during
the winter months but also as 70 the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
In Love with Love.

You would be very much surprised if
YOU could peep into nay portfolio and see
how many of you are III love with love
You fancy yourselves in love with
particular friend. who has been paying
Won some pleasant attention. You think
il would be charming TO be engaged, an
engaged girl having always about her "A
pretty air of distinction.
You have had since you were child
unless YOU have been very exceptional
pirl. an ideal of the man whom you
could honor with the devotion Of a life
time.
that when she was 10 she WOrshipe"
from afar man some years ObIuT IMAM
herself. with whom she had not the
Slightest acquaintance. She was a
dreamy. imaginative girl, and she en-
dowed this parsonage with all sorts of
heroic qualities He was to her a knight
IL figure. tall, strong and brave.
She used to put on special ribbons with
a thought that if he knew her he would
ike her in those cOlors. She heightened
her dress and arranged Der hair so that
She might seem grown up if he ever
banpened to meet her. and in secret she
nle1sed herself by thinking what she
would say if he asked her to marry
him.
have said she worshiped him from
afar but afar was only square or Two
away. and she frequently passed him on
her walks to school. OF heard him singing
in the choir on Sunday in a deep boom
ing bass voice that she considered en-
chanting.
one day her castles in the air fell to
nieras with a crash when her mother
casually observed. so and So was mar
ried last evening TO Miss Frances
Blank"
So and So had never known the exist
ence Of the romantic young girl.
More than once a tenor, at the opera
with a wife and six children at home,
has been annoyed and amused and not
in the least hattered by the sentimental
attentions Of very young women, VII"
have thought themselves ia love Wlth
him.
ashamed when she remembers II. used
~ spend her pocket money on vinlets tor
tbe artist whose singing had capuTat"d
/ her aud finally she wrote him note re-
1 questing ham TO meet her at certain
/ He had noticed her rapt aud ecstatic
Z ggze and understood her foolish passion
l,atter than She DID. and being very
worthy man and the father Of daugh'
fer. he kept the appointment accompa'
3 MED bv his wife. q motherly matron.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
Should Men Talk Business at Home ,

one OF the real reasons of divorce of
INTEREST between men and women of this
country Is that women do not fake an
interest IN their husbands business Busi-
ness pores most American women We
are too ldealiStic and too intellectual IN
care for its sordid details. Business docs
more imam bore us; sooner or later the
average woman grows to dislike business.
ana Tor good reason. it is her rival in
hef husbands interest and affections. saws
the writer of an article entitled The In
consequential American Woman" i'm fine
January Appleton's.
America is full of sad-eyed and we'll
dressed women who complain that their
husbands are so absorbed by business"
that they have no interest left for any
thlng else. Ii you were to suggest to
these women that they had once been
given chance to share in their hus-
bands lives they would stare at YOU in
surprise. 1t would be useless to tell such
a woman that she might have been a
consulting partner in ler husbands bust
ness had she wished. To this she has
the reply, Man ought to leave his bust
ness cares in his office" This is, a
mans brain should be neatly divided
into two parts; he should be able to
switch off the thoughts which have occGI-
pied his business hours the way in
which one eXtinguishes an electric light.
de should at the same moment switch
on the other half of his brain where
should burn brightly with affection for
his wife, love of amusement and desire
for that kind Of relaxation which his
wife enjoys. The great majority of
men have been made to believe that they
should mot bring business home" so
great is the power of a reiterated sugges-
ton. They actually think that it would
not please them to have had their wives
taken an intelligent interest in their
pressing affairs.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

Advertise in this paper, and make youR
wants known 20 your home people.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
Entertaining the Guest.

Living up to reputation is no easy
work, as a hostess discovered who had
heralded a guest as a great bridge
player, only to have the guest lose stead
lily through a fortnight's visit.
If you want to make a success of a
stranger do not herald her charms. Many
good looking debutante has had her
winter ruined by friends who proclaimed
her a beauty or a winner before her
debut.
Even inanimate things seem to share
the perversity that makes living up to a
reputation difficult. What noted cook has
not had her cake turn heavy or her char
lotte russo grow buttery at the time she
most wished to make an impression?
There are times when living up to a
reputation is good discipline. The woman
who has a name for a sweet disposition
cannot cut loose and rage under prOvoca-
ton for fear of puDnc opinion.
Sometimes the fact that we are sup
posed to have certain characteristics is a
handicap on our good times. a young
woman wondered at her lack of social
success, until finally she discovered that
the men thought her a literary shark be
cause she had carried off honors in col
lege of which her doting mother had
boosted.
Another woman is slow in making
friends because near-sighted eyes and a
tip-tilted chin have given her an unde-
served reputation for haughtiness.
Often it is as hard to live up to our
reputation as to live it down. 1t is per
haps easier TO make the world forget a
shortening than to beat into it the idea
that one is not so clever or witty OF
| lavish as she is credited
If you get a name for being great
reader no one thinks of offering you the
! latest novel, though your brain is hct-
ton hungry. The sorry jokes we are
forced to endure from the professed wit
are half of them due to his feeling that
he must not fall short of his reputation
! The woman who is considered gener-
Gus often finds the bills are left for her
! to foot Often she meets with criticism
| when she does a nice thing because it
! does not come up to the recipients idea
| of the donors lavishness.
/ Worst of all is it to live up to repu-
tation of superiority. No matter how
much we may want to come down tC
earth, our friends will not permit.
-O-.-C~
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

Knitted silk scarfs in pepper and salt
effects are unusually handsome and look
Extremely well when worn with a white
shirt and a dark blue or black suit Gray
j gloves should always be worn with gray
scarfs. While tan gloves are perfectly
| permissible" for wear with gray scarfs
! il is always better not TO put on any
more col0rs than necessary at the same
Itimc-Fairchild'g Magazine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

Among the recent offerings in fancy
socks are some unusually handsome ones
made of silk over Isle. They come IN
various colors and are rich in appear
ance, but are less costly than those
made Of pure silk.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

There is still an occasional demand
for full dress waistcoats made of white
linen, the entire surface of the garment
of pleats an eighth Of an inch
wide. These are wonderfully effective he
fore their first trip to the laundry, but
it cannot be said that they do up very
successfully
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

silk socks and scarfs to match are
now being made in somewhat cheaper
grades than formeri~. It is now possible
to get these SEES in many Of the finer
wcaves without being obliged to pay de-
cidedly fancy prices for them
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

A rumber of the shops are playing up
the pastel toned scarfs in heavy winter
silks. One sees very. pale yellows. In
describable shades in pink, light tans ard
Secessionist green's are being shown and
make an attractive note. for a change,
amidst the rich, low toned brocades Of
The moment They look especially well
when worn with the white knitted waist
coats of the moment
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

New handkerehefs have initials en-
hrodered on them i'll high colors anC
nearly three inches high--long slim
monographs that look exceedingly effec
these necessary articles Of dress ara
made.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15
MEMS FASHION NEWS.

a new overcoat for outing wear is
made of rich wooden material of the
cheyiot family. rather light in weight
and has a detachable lining of green
leather. This may be taken out on warm
days, making the coat entirely suitable
for wear during one of the sudden
changes in temperature for which we arr
becoming famous in this country
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-15

Silk and linen shirts with French cuffs
have an elaborate monogram emhroid-
cred in the corner of the left-hand cuff
instead of on the sleeve, as hitherto.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28

children. is no puzzle at all to them. 1t
was thus their own kings lived when
they were in their glory. In the same
way the agricultural figures of speech
in the parallels of Christ fit right into
their own speech. Their favorite books
in the Bible are those that abound in
picturesque imagery such as the
Apocalypse, the Book of Job and
best of all-The Song of Solomon.
1t is a very different thing when 1t
comes to learning a foreign language
and mastering the intricacies of gram
mar, arithmetic and geography. Gram
mar might as well be relegated to the
outer darkness at once. When you
have taught an African native the diff
ference between a verb and a noun
you have taught him about as much as
his mind can grasp. On the other
hand, the children learn easily foreign
words and expressions in parrot-like
way. A young native who has worked
for white man for month or two
has no difficulty in calling his breth
rem BLACK devil" and damn niger"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28

They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and variations" is an amuse-
ment that never pals on them.
1t gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fall asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how ii would seem
to talk to man of his own kind or to
hear good music or merely TO see cleo
trio lights, to feel hard pavements un'
der his feet and hear the changing OF
street cars. Or he may wonder how
In all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness OF
mind that will enable him TO present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to savage people. But in this re
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and NitroeIycerine.

The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw 1t into
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolving of the
saltpeter. If no suitable stream Is
available the gunpowder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out on the
ground in long thin line and ignited
with fuse at one end.
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappings should be carefully
removed, the bare cartridges laid in
a row with their ends in contact and
the first cartridge ignited with fuse
without q cap. Even with these pre-.
cautions a simultaneous explosion OF
the entire mass may occur, so that II
Is wise to retire to a safe distance.
The row of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeward end so that the flame will
/ be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
with special care, as its combustion is
peculiarly liable to assume an explo
sive character. A small quantity OF
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire, or the cartridges may be ex
ploded one by one in the open all
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which 1t contains remains undissolvet
and capable of doing mischief Other
| explosives which contain nitroglycer
inc should be treated in the same way
as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into al
open fiIs, or if they do not contain
nitroglycerine may be destroyed b,
means of water. Explosive cap.
should be exploded singly with pieces
of fuse.-Scientific American.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
Must Build His Own House.

Shelter must be provided for teach.
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
favorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily The minister fresh
from theological seminary may find
that building brick kiln with moth
ing but African labor is quite as diff
cult as to construct Greek sentences.
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think of the masonry, the put
ting in of doors and windows and the
matching of the roof. At least he does
not led tc worry about the floors.
The native girls take that part of the
building into their own hands. They
simply fill 1t up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub 1t and pound 1t and sprinkle it.
and rub II again till 1t shines like
black polished marble. and there is
the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but it
is cheap. When night comes the ma
tives gather around the fire In the
kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
DUST EXPERT IN A WAY.
One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence of Dust in the Air.

mo matter where you live and how.
ever high in the air you always find
dust settling on everything every
where, but" said the near-sighted
man. IF you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want tc
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
Fourteen times day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
ticles of dust. Maybe you don't look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speck that is by comparison a
veritable bowlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where 1t may not obstruct your sight
but where ii cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
off to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust in
finer particles. as you would find
them, indeed, however often you
might look.
over such an area as that of New
York, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air, as though,
perhaps without figuring out its
weight, many people. such as house
wives and storekeepers, are aware;
but perhaps nobody is reminded OF
this so constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends over
at mis- work, and on whose glasses,
where 1t is ever before him, dust is
constantly settling"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
The True Missionary.

There is third figure, very different
from either. Kipling has written with
sympathetic insight the story of the
officer in his struggle to beat civiliza-
ton into the savage half devil and
llalf child" The Sergeant Whats is
Name" of the mission field has yet to
find his interpreter-or her interpreter,
for the sergeant is just as often a
woman.
Life at an African mission station is
very much the same throughout the
continent. The day begins usually
with the call of the bell at sunrise in
the summer and an hour or two before
that time in the winter, for in the mat
ter of early rising 1t Is the white man
who must adapt himself to the native
habit. After brief sunrise prayer the
boys and girls of the school are mus
tered in the courtyard; they shoulder
their hoes, and it is away to the corn
field or the sweet potato patch. Stand
ing in a row at the bottom of the field,
they lift their heavy hoes far above
their heads and bring them down with
force that sends the iron blade far
into the ground, lift them again and
let them fall with rhythmic regularity.
AS they do so they chant in slow,
heavy monotone, which is their near
est approach to singing, any incidents
in their life that may be uppermost
in their minds-the ripening of the
corn, the marriage of the chief
daughter or any of the happenings of
the day. Sometimes the work lags and
needs the constant impatient "She-
shani' (hurry) of the white teacher.
| The African holds a theory quite the
opposite of Darwin's; he believes that
monkeys were evolved from race of
lazy people that loafed leaning on the
handles of their hoes, until the useful
| implements grew into tails, to the
everlasting shame of the loafers
Breakfast consists of one of the three
staples, sweet potatoes, squash or corn
either as mush or on the cob. 1t is
! eaten from platters at bare table
with Rquick lunch effect, rather test
of discipline, for the native loves to
squat on a straw mat and take his
time about chewing. No greater dis
courtesy can be offered a native than
| to interrupt his meal. But the school
bell is memorable.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
Great Aid to Missionaries.

Even IL the president should not
take an active part in the work, he I'M
doubtedly will visit the mission sta
tons, and the mere fact that chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
the African imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits Familiarity with
the missionaries will give very help
full prestige to them in the eyes of the
natives. Respect for his own chief Is
the bone and sinew of the Africans
code of morals and is, in fact, one with
his religion. Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the who's
who" of other nations. 1t takes an
African native something less than
five minutes to know who is the real
thing" and who merely masquerades
in the borrowed feathers of authority.
The hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done incalcul-
able harm to the work of the mission
ary, because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives of the great
white chiefs "pesheya" Con the other
side-meaning of the ocean,. The
coming in person of one of the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own "umfundisi' (teacher) will neu-
tralize the unfriendliness of any resi-
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose-
welt in his writings certainly will
h. NJ tool cid IF un rl
of such Significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question oil
the capacity of the African native fol
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations If 1t is answered al
all
Missionaries have opened the coun
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African cont
nenI still are called missionary
roads" When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered TO the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of the natives against
the aggressions of the border ruffians
this disaster was the impetus tina
drove him to his real work as an ex
plorer. No one ever has accomplished
more with fewer resources. 20 thu
last he remained always the mission
airy. travelling among the natives al
one who sought only their good ant
had nothing to fear from them. AL
the world knows how Livingstone
work became the inspiration of Stan
ley's career and resulted ultimately II
the real opening of the dark continent
Even before Llvingstone's time hi
fatherin.law, Robert Moffat. Travelled
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
Bible Images Familiar.

Glasses and recitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared Of
fer more whence to the native preju
diees. He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories OF other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters in.
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
of the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him. The idea of the patriarchs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
is such puzzle to city bred white