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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
One TippIe for Two Colonies.

"The old National hotel in Washing
ton used to be the hangout of the
best collection of colonels, said the
veteran actor.
"All of them were habitually broke
while looking for government posi-
tons. Col Calhoun and Col. Boone
scraped up Is cents somehow, this be-
ing the price of one portion of bour-
bon.
"'Have little tipple, Boone?' says
Calhoun.
ono, sir; I am abstemious,' was
the reply.
Calhoun filled his glass to the brim,
drank half of it, smacked his lips, and
spoke as follows:
THAT, sub, is suah huff the best
Kicker l have ever tasted. Now, Boone,
taste this and pass judgment. 1t will
recall to your mind the joyous feuds
of Kaintuck.'
well, if you insist said Boone,
IS he hastily gobbled up the remain
ing booze.
Thus the pair of them got drink
apiece for the price of one.
"'Can you beat it said the barkeep
to e"-New York Telegraph.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
New Ambassadors at Capital.

Two interesting new diplomats, both
from northern Europe, and both men
of affairs in the world, have been added
TO the corps in Washington. Already
they have taken prominent position in
the social and official life of the CAPT
tai. Both are accompanied by charm
ing wives, one of whom is former
Boston girl.
They are Herman de Lagererantz,
minister from Sweden, who presented
his credentials originally in the spring
of 1907, and Count Carl Won Moltke,
the newly appointed minister from
Denmark, who is a defendant Of the
famous field marshal of that name,
and whose wife was Miss Cornelia
Thayer of the Thayer family of Massa-
chusetts. He has just been Joined by
the countess.
The new ministers have taken ad-
joining homes in the double Hender-
son house, one of the most attractive
structures in the fashionable residen-
tial sections of Sixteenth street. They
have established their legations and
the flags of Denmark and Sweden fly
side by side.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
COVERS IN GLARING coLoRs.
East Indian Designs Are Just Now E>
tremeIy Popular.

Since the fashion in making East
Indian patterns and designs on many
fabrics came back into fashion there
has been a wide demanded for the
printed cotton table cover in these
COlOrS.
These are used for bedroom, library
and sitting room tables. They sell
for small prices from a dollar up. The
background is white and the figures
are brilliant green and red and vel
low.
The border is distinctly East Indian,
often in the cashmere pattern.
Large peacOcks in the brilliant blues
and greens strut over the surface, and
huge baskets of red flowers make a
circle in the center.
The woman who needs new table
covers and who does not wish to in
vest in expensive affairs could not dc
better than choose one of these.
Tn a bedroom or sitting room where
old colonial furniture is used these
table cloths are especially effective
for they were much used in the period
that gave birth to the mahogany furni
ture
One decorator has used four of the
smaller covers, with baskets of roses
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
A MAGICIAN Mystifies.

Two men sat in the hotel lobby
glowering at the smoke which they
blew toward the ceiling. At intervals
they broke into argument, which in
volved personality.
whats the matter with them?''
asked a salesman.
Zone is the proprietor OF this
hotel" answered the accommodating
clerk, "the other owns the only news
paper in town.
Last night both went to the theater,
where a magician asked for handker-
chief. A man jokingly handed him a
big square Of muslin.
"The magician studied the cloth for
a few minutes, and then said, dramatic
ally:
"'Thank Heaven, there is at least
one clean sheet in this town.
"And now the publisher says the
hotel bedclothes were alluded to, and
the other insists that it was the towns
newspaper"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
FOR NEW FORM OF MEMORIAL.
Washington Star Protests Against
Further Erection of Statues.

Regarding the latest addition to the
capitops outdoor art the Kansas City
Times says;
"Borglum's equestrian statue of
Gen. Sheridan seems to be a distinct
addition to the sculpture of the cap
ital. Now If the city could only get
rid of Andrew Jackson on the rocking
horse"
The Andrew Jackson statue is in
some eyes merely the most objection
able example of a school of public
sculpture which is strongly in evidence
in Washington and which offends the
artistic taste. The man on horse
back" looms large on the horizon here
There are so many such sculptures
that a visitor who knows nothing of
the protests which have been voiced
during late years might with reason
represent the highest American ideal.
1t is now believed, however, that a
new era has opened. The Sheridan
statue, satisfactory as 1t is viewed as
an example Of it's type will, perhaps,
be the last of its kind erected here.
Most Washingtonians sincerely hope
so, at all events. The Grant memorial
will establish a new standard of out
door art, the only regret aroused being
that 1t has been so improperly located.
The Columbus memorial, the design
for which is about to be selected, will
presumably carry out the later
thought on the subject of the COM
memOration of men by artistic sculp
ture. The fact is we have been too
meager in our provisions for the per-
petuation of memories of great men
by means of sculptures. The dollars
have been doled out sparingly and the
insignificant equestrian and pedes-
trian figures represent this national
parsimOny. A more liberal spirit now
prevails. The fact is recognized that
if the country is to acquire intellectual
growth it must encourage the fine
arts, and it is the duty of the United
States government to take the lead in
this direction. Congress has begun to
appreciate this fact so that it's appro-
priations during the past few years
for such purposes have been sufficient
to enlist the services of the greatest
sculptors in the evolution of artistic
memorial designs. 1t is now conf
IDENTIFY expected that this winter con-
gress will provide appropriately for a
Lincoln memorial This creation,
whatever form it may assume, should
symbolic the evolution of the national
taste and render forever impossible
any more isolated men on horseback
in the national capital-Washingt
Star
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
POSSIBILITIES OF
ALFALFA BREEDING
Beginning . Attention OF


leafy. This is so for two reasons. In
the first place, the greater the leaf sur
face spread out to the light the greater
the assimilating power of the plant,
and hence the more rapid and vigor-
GUS growth. In the second place, the
leaf forms more palatable and diges-
tible food than do the stems. Hence
quality of hay would be secured from
plants having high percentage of leaf
to the total weight.
In selecting plants for breeding,
habit of growth must be considered.
This should be as nearly upright as
possible in order that all Of the stems
may be cut by the mower.
While relatively a small number OF
alfalfa growers produce this plant for
the purpose of harvesting the seed
still the question of seed production is
one of prime Importance. No better
emphasis on this point could be made
than to call attention to the present
high price of alfalfa seed. The high
probability of easy improvement along
this line is suggested by extreme vari
atoms with respect to the seeding abil
ity Of different individuals found in
any ordinary alfalfa field. For instance
in one experiment at the Kansas ex
pertinent station bulletin 151) some
plants produced only 0.4 seeds per ten
gram weight of stem and leaf, whereas
from other plants in the same field as
high as 1877 seeds per ten-gram weight
were harvested. That these charac
ters are strongly heritable is shown by
the following, quoted from Bulletin 101
Of the South Dakota experiment sta
ton:
I'm the pedigree rows of 1906 a gen
eral tendency toward uniformity was
observed in the plants from the same
selection. For example, all the plants
in pedigree row No. 1928 exhibited
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
Oriuin of "Blue Stockinc."

Boswell, in his Life of DR.. John
son." states that in his day there were
certain meetings held by the ladies
to afford them opportunity of holding
converse with eminent literary men
The most distinguished talker of these
gatherings was Mr.. Stillingleet
who always wore blue stockings
When away his absence was so felt
that the remark became common
1--WE can do nothing without the blue
stockings" Hence, the meetings at
which he figured began to be called
BLUE Stocking clubs" and those who
frequented them Blue Stockings.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

exceptional forage qualities as com
pared with the plants Of other rows
grown, whatever the source, and all
the plants of pedigree row No. 65-74
bore heavily of seed pods, while others
from the same original source were
light bearers of the pods"
However, in the breeding of alfalfa,
the fact must not be lost sight of that
it must be prominently forage plant,
and that if the productivity of seed be
increased it must not be done at the
expense of the forage value.
Productivity is, of course, the most
important of the qualities to be sought
in the improvement of alfalfa, and may
be said to include all the others de-
scribed. Thus, in order to be produc-
tive of the largest quantity of the best
quality of hay, the plant must be
hardy, vigorous, disease and drought
resistant, very leafy, and Of such habit
Of growth as to be harvested with
ease and without great loss from low
lying and PROSTATE stems.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

The great Elasticity of the genus Of
plants to which alfalfa belongs in its
adaptability to soil and climate is
strongly emphasized when we compare
the extremes Of the types. The wiry
stems, the low-spreading, much
branched habit and extreme hardness
of Turkestan alfalfa present such a
contrast to the large, rather stiff, tall,
upright and little-branched stems of
the sub-tropical Peruvian alfalfa, that
one would little suspect that he was
dealing with plants of the same origin.
This adaptability, or in other words
ability to become acclimatized, has al
ready been explained by the fact that
within any one Of the given types
many variations as to form, habit, Wig
Or, drought and cold-resistance occur
which need only to be selected by soil
and climatic factors killing out the less
suited individuals in order that type
may be established What, therefore,
has been done by the slow process of
natural selection may be fastened and
emphasized by the conscious selection
and propagation of the best plants
There is thus opened, in this wonder
fully plastic and variable group, field
for the breeder, pregnant with the
probability Of the most profound sue.
cess.
The breeding of this forage plant is
just beginning to receive the serious at
tention of the experiment stations and
the United States department Of agri-
culture in the alfalfa-growing states of
the west and southwest. By a compar-
alive study of the adaptability of re-
gional varieties it is clear that the
work of the agricultural explorer must
now give place largely to that of the
plant-breeder, and that we must in the
future look to the improvement of our
own rather than the introduction of
new varieties for the amelioration of
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
BRETON TWo-sToRY BEDS.
Many in Peasants Huts, Richly
Carved and Ornamented.

Many in Peasants Huts, Richly
Carved and Ornamented.
The Breton peasant has some
charming qualities, courtesy, good hui
NOR detachment from the prosaic side
of life, but the virtue of cleanliness
is not for him.
The cottages are frequently very
dirty, and the approach to them is
sometimes over pile of refuse.
There is nothing Of luxury in cot
tage interior, but you may generally
count on two things to beautify even
the poorest One is the white Golf of
it's mistress always spOtless, however
dirty anything else may be), and the
other is the brass trimmings of the
armoire, usually polished to a degree
Of brightness that is positively daz-
Zling. Some of these armoires are
really beautiful, with deliberately
carved panels, and in many cases are
heirlooms that have been in the fam
lily for generations. Then there are
the beds-one of them, of which the
mistress is very proud, will be mod
ern, with very coarse Nottingham lace
curtains draped over it.
You give it a few complimentary
words in order to satisfy it's owner,
but what you really want to see is the
'lit-clos' in the far corner, and if it
is a "lit-clos a deux etages" you are
more than content. Some of these
lit-clos" are things of great beauty,
like the armoires, and the carvings
on the sitting panels are enough to
make. collector green with envy.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

In massaging wrinkles use the tips
of the fingers and thumb, always
working across the line; never follow
the lines of creases.
Washing the eyes morning and night
in water as hot as it can be borne is
a wonderful tonic for those useful
servants which are so easily injured.
To reduce the hips stand up straight
and by bending forward make the
fingertips touch the floor Do not
wear tight clothing and do not bend
the knees. This is an old exercise,
known as the 'setting-up" exercise,
and is much used in the army for this
purpose.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
HOME COUGH CURE,

Go to your druggist and get one-half
ounce Concentrated pine compound,
two ounces of glycerine, half a pint of
good whiskey; mix it up, and use it
in doses of a teaspoonful to a table
spoonful every four hours, shaking the
bottle each time. Any druggist can
supply ingredients.
The Concentrated pine is pine prod
uct refined for medical use and comes
only in half ounce bottles, each en-
closed in a round case which is air
tight and preserves the fluid in it's full
strength, but be sure it is labeled Con
centrated." A prominent local druggist
says he has filled this prescription hun
dreds of times and has seen it work
wonders.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
JEWELRY OF ALL KINDS.
Real or False, the "Stones" Must Be
Much in Evidence.

There seems no end to the jewelry
women will wear this season. The
workers in gems are having the bust
est wear of the last decade. Jewelry
is as important as clothes. One has
ever so many sets to match costumes,
regardless of the fact that the stones
used may be only of glass or compo-
Sition.
No one pretends to wear real gems
ali the time. Why should they?
When the extra rich put their real
Jewels in safety deposit boxes and
wear paste imitation to the opera and
balls, why shouldn't every one wear
the paste ones without the expense of
buying the real ones?
One doesn't go around with a GER
tificate to prove that the real gems are
deposited.
So in this day of fancy jewelry there
are many kinds of earrings. Those
who can wear pendant ones have dis.
covered a brand-new method of max
ing them. Seed pearls are used in
tassels that drop an inch or two low
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
with Every Frock Flower.

The fad for wearing artificial posies
with the evening frock has returned
with a vengeance, and all the shops
are showing naturallooking roses
lily-of-the-valley sprays, gardenias, or
chids and violet clusters, ready to pin
to the bodice. These made-to-Order
flowers are, however, not an economy
FOR in most cases the price runs far
above that of an ordinary blossom OF
the same kind. The artificial flower
of course, has the advantage of keep
ing its usefulness far beyond the
brief beauty of the real blossom.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.

A young woman out in Ia found
wise, good friend in her mother-in-law,
jokes notwithstanding. She writes:
1T is two years since we began u.s.
ing Postum in our house. | was great
ly troubled with my stomach, complex
ion was blotchy and yellow. After
meals l often suffered sharp pains and
would have to lie down. My mother
often told me it was the coffee drank
at meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd
have a severe headache.
"While visiting my motherin-law l
remarked that she always made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how. She laughed and told me it was
easy to make good coffee when you
use Postum.
II began to use Postum as soon as I
got home and now we have the same
good coffee (Postum) every day, and
I have no more trouble. Indigestion is
a thing Of the past, and my complex
ion has cleared up beautifully.
my grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her to leave off coffee She then
took tea but that was just as bad
"She finally was induced to try
Postum which she has used for over
year. She travelled during the winter
over the greater part of Iowa, visiting,
something she had not been able to do
for years. She says she owes her
present good health to Postum
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter: A new
one appears from time to time. They
interest.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
Washinuton AWAITING "Bud."

Everybody in Washington is more
or less openly on the qui vive con-
corning the presentation of Miss Will
liams, who, rumor has it, will have a
tremendous advantage over her sis
ter buds by reason of the valiant
backing she will get from Mrs. "Joe"
Letter, who comes before the world
this year as dashing and attractive
young matron and the chatelaine OF
the old Letter homestead, made ia
nous by its record Of titled mar
iageS.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
What the DoIIies Had.

Little Mary was really very i'll. Moth
er said she was sure it was an attack
of appendicitis, but grandma was
equally sure the little one was threat
ened with commissions.
The argument waxed warm in
Mary's presence, and appropriate
remedies were used, and the next day
she was better
Coming into her mothers room dur
ing her play, she said:
Mamma, two of my dollies are
very sick this morning"
Indeed, dear, I am very sorry. What
is the matter with them?"
well I don't really know, mamma,
but | think Gwendolyn has a pint O.
spiders and Marguerite is going to
have 'envulsions.'
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
RAGS BRIDAL GIFT
ACCEPTABLE PRESENT FOR THE
YOUNG MATRON.
Scrapbag for Emergencies Was the
Idea of a Wise Enthusiastically
Good Sense Marks Such
an Offering.

The spic and spanness of the aver
age trousseau leaves no place for a
piece bag. Everything is new, and
in house otherwise we'll supplied the
young matron is often at a loss to
find a piece of linen to staunch a
wound or a scrap of muslin to stay his
buttons.
The sisters of a recent bride were
amused to find their mother collecting
old rolls of muslin, odd bits of linen
remnants of calico, and even ends of
old stockings to send across the con-
tinent to a newly married pair.
The family remonstrances as to
waste of expressage on rags" had no
effect. The older housekeeper knew
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

from the ears. They begin in a fat
or round stone which covers the edge
of the ear.
1t is rather ridiculous to hear the
diatribes of the uniformed talk about
the barbarism of women boring holes
in their ears in this age of sense. No
one does it. The earrings have a
patent clamp that catches behind the
lobe OF the ear and does no more harm
to the skin than ring on the finger.
The girl who can wear a Greek
gown of messaline satin with tunic
bordered with gold, sandal slippers of
gold, filigree filet in her hair and a
pair of tassel earrings is the girl Of
the moment
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
Sardou's Quip.

"Victorien Sardou hated shams, -
said a Cincinnati theatrical manager.
eff you tried to impose on him, he
would call you down.
cat the Ambigu, during rehearsal,
he said he doubted an actors state
ment that he had given forty hours
of study to his lines.
"'You doubt me?" said the actor,
hotly. I assure you, Monsieur Sardou,
l have never lied but twice in my
life.'
"Sardou smiled dryly.
"'Then this makes thrice, eh?' said
he
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
Supper Favors.

Confectionery and fancy cakes are
being used for supper novelties now in
stead of the favorite crackers, al
though these latter are not banished
entirely from parties. There are
cellars, lady fingers, tartlets, fruit
and even fish and small game made of
paper or'papier mache and looking for
all the world like real sweets But in
side tsese dainties are tucked paper
caps after the style of the better
known supper party CONNECTIONS.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
A WOMAN'S LOGIC.
Of Course She Couldn't Pay the Bet
if the Horse Lost.

Some women" said John w. Gates,
mot all women, but some of them,
are very poor spectators, very poor
gamblers. A young friend of mine has
a pretty cousin. He was going to the
races the otter day, and she called him
up on the telephone and asked him to
put SO on Forest King for her.
VERY WELL he said, I'll do it if
you pay me back.
"'Of course, I'll pay you back you
horrid thing!" exclaimed his cosin.
"'All right, said he. You didn't the
last time
"'Oh, WE'LL she said, last time the
horse didn't win, you know"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
Rritain's Lost florists.

en- navy we have been a singularly
supine people in the matter of tree
planting while it would seem that we
have never learned the lesson that
the most solidly prosperous land is
that which makes the utmost use of
every acre.-English Estates Gazette.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21
The Width of the Skirt

The dressmakers have decided that
about the best width for the modern
clinging skirt is two yards Or few
inches over. Street skirts cut above
the ankles, made of rough fabrics, are
not always this wide, but the two
yards in unstiffened satin or tulle give
enough fullness at footline.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

MIR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1879
lVl Third Ave-, Moline, H., writes:
''Ihave been suffering from catarrh
in the head for the past two months
and tried innumerable so-called RENE
dies without avail. No one knows how
have suffered not only from the dis
ease itself, but from mortifcat ion when
in company of friends or strangers.
81 have used two bottles of your med
icine for a short time only, and 1T
effected a complete medical cure, and
what is better yet, the disease has not
returned.
81 can most emphatically recommend
Peruna to all sufferers from this dis
ease"
Read This Experience,
Mr.. A. Thompson, Box IS, r. r, 1.
Martel, Ohio, writes: when l began
your treatment my eyes were inflamed,
nose was stopped up half of the time,
and was sore and scabby. / could not
rest at night on account of continual
hawking and splitting.
81 had tried several remedies and was
about to give up, but thought would
try Peruna.
''After had taken bout one-third of
a bottle | noticed difference. J. am
now completely cured, after suffering
with catarrh for eighteen years.
Il think if those who are afflicted
with catarrh would try Peruna they
would never regret it.
Peruna is manufactured by the
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Ask your Druggist for Free Peruna
Almanac for 1909.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-21

When woman goes away from
home the first thing she talks about
on returning is not her trip, but the
awful condition in which she found
the house.