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Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
Ragbag Economy
BY wINIFRED BLACK.

without spending the money to buy
thread 10 sew them into fingers
The sunbonnet? Why bother with the
mating? You might save that mating
and use II for breakfast food at a pinch.
Why not tie an old rag around your head
and let it go at that?
Oh, these fine articles that I read on
How l bring up my fIourlshing family
of six on two dollars a week and enjoy
life at the prlce!' No, they don't annoy
me or vex me, they make mo mad; just
plain, old-fashioned American mad.
II l had wit enough and patience
enough and industry enough to turn and
twist the universe inside out to save a
decent penny ia use some of Il making
a couple of cents an hour more-and
call 1t square
No, It isn't womanly, and It isn't wise,
and it isn't fine, this glorying in mean,
small makeshifts and humiliating schem-
ing. It's mean and it's small and it's
degrading.
If ! ever get to the point where have
to use somebody's old ragbag for a ward
robe I'll do the best I can with II, and
be thankful to get It, but I shan't pre-
tend to be proud of what am forced to
do.
There's enough real economy and real
pinching and saving in the little world
OF conscientious, Woodworking women
let's not allow these magazine people
TO manufacture a new standard of eco
nomical living, IL we can help it.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
.How to Keep Young and Pretty
by GARY DEsLYs.

If / had to choose between an ugly
gown and an unbecoming hat. and II some
dreadful fate forced me to wear one or
the other 1 should wear the ugly gown,
and insist on having the prettiest hat
could get.
For with a good looking hat on my
head feel that can carry off even an
unbecoming frock. Blu, G wrong hat is
like an eclipse-it extins shes your face;
this season it literally does that, and
then where are you?
am appalled, at the way some women
buy their hats. They go into a shop, put
on something that IS already made.
never look at themselves earthly to get
back view, and walk out with II. or
course, here I'll admit you have such a
tremendous variety. and the stores even
the small shops, carry such quantity of
stock that naturally every woman can
find something that satisfiesl her. But,
even so, l do not think she gives as much
attention to this very important matter
as she should do. for choosing a hat is
momentous affair, and, no matter how
many hats you have, each one ought 10
be sought and bought as IL Il were the
most important event of ones life No
matter how pretty you are, If you are
wearing an unbecoming hat you might
just as wen have no looks at all.
/ have few rules that I so by when
buy hats, and / will pass them ON 10
you.
Before | try on a new hat rumple up
my hair, so that II does not look well
and is. in fact quite unbecoming. I try
to choose a day, one of my off DAYS,
when am feeling bored or annoyed with
something, and I look that way when
try on the new hat. / argue, IL the hat
Is becoming when my hair IS tousled
and my face none too pleasant in ex-
preston, It should be truly rayishing
when ! am feeling well and gay. Would
you believe that little Gaby was such a
wise person?
Whatever the color of the hat is,
Insist that the facing shall make q con-
trast 20 my hair, or that II shall be ex-
actly the same color and melt into the
blonde OF the hair. The hat must be a
sort Of background, and for big evening
hats 1t is well TO choose a hat faced with
the color against which your hair and
skin come out most effectively.
| A great deal OF green. is worn this
winter ard it's a stunning color, 1 think.
but why, oh, why, viii the very pale
blondes whose complexion Is yelIowish
ana whose hair lacks a brilliant color,
why viii she put this green hat upon
/ her head and so ext.nguish any preteuse
/ 20 beauty? For the same reason, l sup-
pose, that the Girl who looks Ike
little mouse, with drab colored hair and.
a complexion with grayish tnts In It, in
s!sts on wearing a drab bonnet without
redeeming touch OF color or else some
thing IN purple.
There ere all kinds OF beautiful blue
shades for the girl VINO Is sallow. and
there are pinks and reds 20 give color q
the drab toned little mouse. The greens
are fog the pure blondes with pink cheeks
or the dusky brunettes. and both OF
them can wear all black hats effectively
/ but unless a womans comriexion Is clear
or her color good she should not wear
heavy black hats. I think. FOR have
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

who read that article thought about It?
I didn't believe one word of it my
self-not one word. couldn't.
II the woman had hold how she did
these things when she was cast away
on a desert island somewhere, or once
when she was spending a couple of win
tiers on Polar expedition where the
only underwear for sale belonged to the
polar bears. might have laughed with
her over the expedient OF a surprising
adventure, and admired her for her
cleverness.
We like we'll enough to read of Rob
inson Crusoe and his makeshift clothes,
and his goatskin umbrella, but what
would you think of same man who
dressed like that on Broadway, just to
save money.
But these women who tell us how TO
live pleasantly and profitably on nothing
a year just for the fun of it--I'm afraid
they make me bit impatient.
1t is all very well to beg your way
around the world for a wager, or be-
cause there's some one on the other side
that you really must see and you haven't
the money to pay your fare, but to take
up begging as a profession and write
articles urging other women to follow
your shining example-isn't that trifle
too much?
Make your underwear out of flour
sacks? why. certainly. I'd make mine
out OF coal sacks if ! had to, but 1
wouldn't say word about it, and,
whisper, IL It came right down to that,
why wear underwear at all? You could
save quite a bit by freezing to death.
And those gloves made of socks; why
not rip up the bed tick and make a
pair OF opera gloves out of that? Or,
better stlll, wrap your hands up in rags
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
Gentle Cynicisms.

Hope is a great factor IN the fisht for
success. but It is Just as well TO remeTn
her that two pairs pat will beat a busted
flush.
Sometimes fellow doesn't marry be-
cause he is lacking in Will, and some
times because the girl has a supera5und-
ancs Of won't
A woman may only kiss her husband
when she wants money, and sun not be
stingy with her k.sses. Philadelphia
Public Ledgegs
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

HANHAa
There-what IS
that patch OF white
on the grass over
there In the shady
corner7 Yes, It's
frost, sure enough.
See how the child
dren hurry along TO
school and mf-m-f-
ph-what's that /
smell, buokwheats?
I wonder IL
there's any real
maple syrup left In
the world7 How
far would you tray
eli TO get some2
The man at the
corner downtown is
very cheerful. lie
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
Nubs OF Knowledge.

From Great Britains obsolete cruiser
Retnbuton. built in 1883, at a cost OF
ssS0OOo' the sum Of $4,000 was recently
realized by auction az Portsmouth.
The sheep OF the world are reckoned at
4S0ocoOoo. OF which Australia Is credited
with s5'Oooooo England ranks next with
one-third that number.
The production Of oil fields between
Tampico and ruxpan, Mexico. is 10000 10
10000 barrels daily, Of which about lO.ooo
are being lost for want OF storage "a
ointles.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
To Pu vi
By CHESTER FIRK1Ns.

The baby emperor OF China IN .,h5..
name constitutional Eoyernment ~,
been granted to the people, ~
Poor little royal baby,
Chief OF the Manchu clan
Sired OF fearful Genghis
And splendid Kubla Khan.
Hohed In the sacred garments
OF silk and silver ana COLA
Ruling five hundred millions
And only five years old.
Why are you gium. old fellow?
DO they keep you ali alone
There in the holy palace.
Perched on a golden throne
Hearing the mystic mummlng
OF those who bow before
Your tiny feet in the sandals
That cannot touch the floor?
Seeing the common children
AS you ride in your guarded car.
Have you wondered why you are never
AS happy as they areg
rhat sad little brow and the pouting
or lips that ought to sing
They tell us the whole sad story
or being a baby king.
But say. have you heard what's han.
pened?
You haven't? Well twas this way:
Good fairies came and carried
That stupid old throne away!
And they made your people love you:
And when you have grown a man.
They will say that you reigned NOR
nobly
Than Genghis or I6ubla Khan.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

has sold me dozen bags OF hot chest
nuts already-and was that a sweet po-
tato rooster l saw trudlng along back
street just now2 IIurrah, frost is here!
Summers fine for moonlight and sea-
foam and new friends and sweet nothings
and a strain Of expensive music under
the starlight and the memory OF some
half forgotten dream, but for real,
hearty, know-wh happi.
ness give me the winter and the fall.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

time she was doing
it she sang a hap
by, care-free, little,
trilIing song, and
she wrote to q
great and popular
magazine for wo-
men and told all
about how she did
it and how glorl-
ously she enjoyed
it all the time.
L read all about
it in the great and
popular maya zine,
and SO, y have no
doubt, did many
other readers. 1
wonder what the
rest of the women
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

IN Az INFERIOR
DECORATOR NoW-VEA 30
GA 10 WORK ATs JWEEP
Up eLEhrI n+E pAiNT
ANo GLUE pop GET
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Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25
Frost Time-Home Time
by wINIFRED BLACK.

B-r-r-r there's frost in the air; good
friendly, 'glad.to-seo-you" frost that
sends the blood TO tinglng In the veins
and makes the slowest feet walk with
some semblance OF youth and sprightll-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

she makes her underwear out of old
flour sacks and her sunbonnets out of an
old piece of mating, and she makes her
gloves out of old socks that some one
gave her for carpet rags, and all the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

Our OF M Ho0SE"
NO CHILD OF NINE WILL ee
4 MOVING PICTURE HERO me
Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-25

noticed that they look funeral aad do
pressing, and, Oh, so melancholy. when
they droop over a sallow, dlsconsoiato
yiEago beneath
You can cheer yourself up wonderfully
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
THE SILKWORM.
But For Mans Aid the DomestIcated
Insect Would Be Extinct.

But For Mans Aid the DomestIcated
Insect Would Be Extinct.
A peculiar fact about the silkWorm
Is that 1t is actually domesticated In
sect. Neither the animals nor the fowls
of the barnyard. remote as they are
from the wild types, need so little re-
straint as this bombyx mort. which.
prodigiously industrious though 1t be.
has never been able to meet the worlds
demand for It's spun product.
AS q matter of fact, the silkworrn
has been so domesticated through the
ages that 1t would become extinct now
were 1t not for the aid Of man. Born
into slavery, the caterpillars crawl con
tentedly over the narrow territory OF
their feeding trays. and, though the
moths have wings. they have lost all
desire to fly. This slavery began In
China more than 4.500 years ago.
Nevertheless all the worlds silk does
not come from the domesticated insect
Not a little of the supply is "wild SILK
This is the product of various insects
belonging to the larger family of sat
urniidae. Chief among them industrial,
" is the Indian moth called Antheroea
mylitta, the source of tussah silk.-Har
per's Weekly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
A SHIP IN A STORM.
The Peril When Wind and Water Rage
In Opposite Directions.

The Peril When Wind and Water Rage
In Opposite Directions.
In a storm at sea, with a gale blow
ing In one direction and the sea rum
ming in the opposite direction, 1t takes
a stanch ship to stand the water pres
sure on one side and the contrary wind
pressure on the other.
Stability is one Of the greatest prob
lens to the constructor of steamship.
Naturally the center of gravity should
be low. The hull must be Of such a
form that when the vessel rolls to one
side the center of buoyancy shall move
sufficiently far to that same side for
the forces of buoyance acting upward
to right the vessel.
A badly designed ship is liable to
many dangers. If light In the stern the
screw may come out Of the water. race
and be snapped off. If too low in the
stern when running before a storm
breaking waves may fall on board and
so tend to swamp the vessel A ship
may be topheavy; there comes mo-
ment when the upward force Of buoy
ancy no longer tends to right the ship,
but instead eyerts its force In pushing
the ship still farther out of perpendlcu'
lar, with the result that she capsizes.-
New York World.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
SOUND WAVES.
They Can Be Focused With a Lens
Just as Light Can.

They Can Be Focused With a Lens
Just as Light Can.
Few people are aware that sound
ran be focused just as light can. All
are familiar with the burning glass or
reading lens which, if placed in a
beam Of sunlight will focus the rays
into small! point which Is so hot as
to be able to set fire to a piece of
paper. Light is wave In the ether,
but sound Is a wave in q material
medium, generally the air.
If we make a convex lens out of
rubber or collodion and ill it with gas
heavier than air, say carbon dioxid.
we shall have sound lens analogous
in nearly all respects to glass lens
for light 1t will be found that we can
focus sound waves In the following
manner:
Take a watch and place 1t some feet
away from one side Of the lens and
put your ear on line with the watch
and the center Of the lens. but on the
other side. and move outward from the
lens. While moving out you cannot
hear the watch until you get to GER
tain point where the waves are TO-
cused, at which place you will hear 1t
plainly. This Is called the conjugate
focus of the watch.-New York Trib-
unp
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
ICELAND IN SUMMER.
When the Sheen of Sunset Greets the
Golden Glow of Sunrise.


Golden Glow of Sunrise.
Iceland. The name itself is a barrier
to tourist travel. But let the tourist
ignore prejudice and embark at Copen-
hagen or Leith and he will find de-
hghtful voyage over a smiling summer
sea If he should go during June, July
or August. He will be hardly more
than two days out of sight Of land
the farreaching rockbound coast Of
Scotland or the snow crowned peaks Of
1ceiaGd-but the journey across will
occupy about four days. For his
amusement the dolphins will tumble,
the whales will spout. the seal will
swim and the sea birds will fly, and
there will be glorious sunrises and sun
sets, with hardly more than two hours
of night intervening. When he finally
reaches Iceland he will see the sun set
about lao o'clock and rise again
shortly after II o'clock. the golden
glow of the sunset mingling with the
golden glow of the sunrise.
All these delights cannot be assured
to the winter traveller to IcMhm' In
fact, he will be obliged to Keep his
lamp burning until 1920 in the morn
ing and then light it again at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon.-Mrs.W w. +. Crafts in
Christian Herald.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
Wonderful Hats.

On one occasion Lincoln was pre-
sented with two fine hats. each by Il
different hatmaker. neither knowing
that the other had made such q con-
tribution. In the course of events
they called upon the president. and it
so happened that both called at the
same time. When both found them
selves in the presence Of the executive
they asked how he had liked the hats
they had sent him. and. taking advan-
tage of the opportunity of securing q
statement of superiority of one or the
other make. the president was asked
TO state his preference. TO many men
such n question would be very embar'
RAISING. but to Lincoln not at all He
took the hat. one In each hand. and
then replied gravely, but with a mis-
chievous twinkle in his keen eyes:
"Gentlemen. your hats do mutually
surpass each other." .,e
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
Coneuering a Critic.

William Simpson, British artist.
who accompanied the army during the
Crimean war. said that Lord Cardigan
the commander, examined his early
sketches of Balaklava with "a vacant
stare" curtly remarking. 1T Is all
wrong" Still Simpson persevered and
was rewarded in the end with the
expression of Lord Cardigan's highest
admiration"
1.-THE real truth was," Simpson ADDS
in his simple way. that in the last
sketch / had taken greater care than
in the first two TO make his lordshiF
conspicuous in the front of the Dri'
gade."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
CAIN STILL SURVIVES.
Ono Historic Villain Who Has No
Been Placed Upon a Pedestal.

Sno f1ISIOTiC NllldiH WIN iNo
Been Placed Upon a Pedestal.
1t Is the fashion now to pull down
the idols of the past and set up new
and hitherto comparatively unknown
ones In their places. to rehabilttate the
degraded and to reverse the decisions
and the DEGREES of history. Speculation
and criticism seek out dark spots and
drag new heroes into light, while
those who stand in the light Of fame
are scrutiniZed so closely that they
seem but common things after all. If
we 60 on at this rate much further we
shall not have villain left. nor q
beauty, nor hero.
Helen was an old hag past sixty at
the beginning of the Trojan war. Ju-
das Is already on his feet. Nero is alb
solved from his murders. Henry VIII
has become noble. free hearted spirit.
and. as for his wives. the new version
is, Served them right" William Tell
has vanished into the darkness OF
myths Eugene Aram is sentimental
list who could not help himself. No
one but maniacs In their fits of mad.
ness is now guilty of murder.
Almost no villain is left US except
Cain, and let us grapple him with
hooks of steel Let no man try to take
Cain from us.-Story's Conversations
In Studio"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
THE COLT IN WINTER.

A heavy draft horse cannot be
made from an underfed colt. No
matter if his dam weighed 1890
lis. and his sire a ton the colt
that dosen't have enough to eat the
first winter is not likely to make a
big horse. Oats, bran, and oilmeal,
a little corn too, in addition to
plenty of hay and exercise or a win
ter pasture, will grow out a colt
and make him as big as a two. year
old that had been neglected and
underfed. Don't forget that it
takes feed to make real draft horses
out of draft-bred colts. Nothing
else will do it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
THE scRAPPY OSTRICH.
His Is Full of Treaehery and Dearly
Loves to Fight.

His Is Full of Treachery and Dearly
| Loves to Fight.
Those who manage ostrich farms de.
clare that much diplomacy is required
IN the handling of the ostrich, which
IN more respects than one is decidedly
queer bird.
The ostrich requires, aside from
other necessary qualifications. mas
ter's hand, a strict hand, tempered by
Justice and mercy. Not that the ostrich
;s ot all appreciative of kindness. In
doed he never becomes thoroughly
domesticated. say those who know
him in captivity.
On the contrary, the ostrich Is
haughtily and stolldly irresponsive to
kindness, and so treacherous Is he
when full grown that even bis daily
attendants never approach him unless
eouipped with the necessary appli-
ances to bring him to terms when In
an ugly or dangerous mood.
The ostrich's chief object in life
seems to be to fight on every possible
occasion. Indeed. fight to him Is
the very spice of things.
The male ostrich Is not without COM
mendable qualities, however. For In
stance, he mates but once and forever.
Should he. az often happens in the
course of II domestic complication. kick
his mate to death he remains true and
constant to her memory, never seeking
successor. In the ordinary phases of
domesticity be Is attentive and help
full. He digs the whole In the ground
that is to serve as nest, and during
the process of incubation. which con-
tinues for forty days, be relieves the
mother bird Of her duties from early
evening till late the next morning.
A curious habit Of the male ostrich
Is his constitutional" At sunrise and
lust before twilight the male birds line
up in single file and race around the
inclosure at whirlwind speed until
thoroughly limbered up. Then. sud
denly arranging themselves In sets.
they execute a grotesque minuet with
udicrous gravity.-Harper's Weekly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
Felt Safer In the Mine.

In an article in the Atlantic Monthly
Joseph Husband describes a thorough
examination of q coal mine in the mid
die west. Work was discontinued for
the time, and the miners were obliged
to stay ION top" for a number of days
So great was the interest taken by the
men in this work Of examination that
there was little complaining. One
morning, however, as | walked back
from the power house to the town
met Luke Davis. an old miner Of about
sixty, who came limping down the
street toward the mine. and from him
| heard the first complaint of the kind.
and many like it followed, that l had
yet encountered.
"The air on top amt fit to live in
be said. "One day it's cold; next day
it's hot. I've had rheumatism ever
since the mine shut down. The only
place man keeps his health Is under
ground" There were many others
who shared his views.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-04-07
A Seeding Dress.

Before | take off this Dress" said
the woman to the home dressmaker.
who was fitting party gown, Il want
to go into the kitchen and read the
riot act to Maria"
."Oh. not with this dress on" the
dressmaker protested. ''She is cooking
and the grease might pop
Cant help It." the woman interrupt
ed. maria needs a lecture. She has
been needing 1t for some time. but |
didn't dare deliver 1t because | hadn't
good enough clothes to make 1t efec-
tive. Maria is black and lately from
the south. She judges people by the
clothes they wear. If had scolded In
shirt waist and skirt or even in my
old blue afternoon dress Maria would
have scorned me, but with all this
finery on can speak my piece and
Maria will be properly impressed and
maybe she will reform. New York
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