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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

AP robe making is new industry
for the amateur needlewoman
whose time hangs heavily on her
hands and it is one which may be
kept up the year round, since the lap
robe of summer differs in weight from
the lap robe of autumn, and the one
for winter is of still heavier degree
Each and every robe is intended to
serve the double purpose of protecting
the knees during drive or when trav-
enng on a steamer and the entire
figure during a sfesta, for it should
be remembered that no matter how
warm may be the weather or the room
the sleeper's feet should always be
protected by a coverlid of some sort
Linen finished crash in green, brown,
rose, blue or. natural color in plain
effects or in two tone broad stripes is
used for summer lap robes, and as this
material is exceedingly wide two yards
of it is quite sufficient in case there
is to be an appliqued border of the
darker shade of the color selected,
Joined beneath a gimp of dyed coarse
lace or a border Of black crash STEM
ciled in shades repeating those of the
striped fabric.
More elaborate lap robes are of lin
en- surfaced crash in natural tone or
a plain color hemmed broadly and
headed with drawn work. This would
seem like a tiresome task, but, as a
matter of fact, the threads are so
coarse that the hand work goes very
rapidly and is wonderfully effective
Linen scrim is another good material
for summer lap robe, for, while light
of weight, the dust does not sift
through it's meshes, and if the corners
of the robe are shot weighted they
will not blow away from about the
feet. The blocked designs in two
tones bordered or hem appliqued with
white are effective, and if time is not
consideration to the needlewoman
two by three yard piece of ivory toned
scrim may be ornamented with a dark
red. blue or brown soutache braid
outlined pattern and bordered with taf-
feta of a matching shade.
Solid colors in taffeta make charm
ing lap robes If they are properly fin
ished at the edges, otherwise they
will strongly resemble the silk quilts
made from the remaining breadths of
grandmother's tea party dress. The
correct way to make silk lap robe is
to get the widest taffeta obtainable so
that in the center, which is of the
overlapped sort and tailor stitched on
to a lining of shepherd checked or
clan plated serge. Having spread the
silk smoothly over the worsted lining
and stitched the center seam onto it,
the edges of the two materials must
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19
SCIENCE MADE
BRAIN NORMAL
How Girl of Impish Impulse, in Young
Womanhood a Thief, Has Been
Permanently Restored to
Moral Strength.

By the time she had grown into
early teens she was seized with a
stronger wanderlust- 1t would not let
her rest. She seemed bewitched by
the ever-moving light of some wfll-o'-
the-wisp. Powerless to control her
self, she fed one day to Long Beach,
where in boys clothes that she had
contrived to borrow, she found work
in a bowling alley. A police alarm
was sent far and wide. The girl read
it, but did not return
A woman probation officer, much
taken by the pretty child, discovered
her disguise and she was taken back
to Judge Barclays home, and with a
solicitude for her future they placed
her under the kindly tutorship of the
sisters at convent.
Her brain having been set awhirl in
some strange way, and in it's wild
working having cast her out of the
domestic orbit, she was now beyond
control. She cut out the lock of a
door that imprisoned her and, heed
less of danger, she slid down drain
pipe from a third-story window and
scaled the convent walls. Taking to
country before dawn. She found a
companion of her own years and sex
and together, dressed as boys, they
roamed through southern California.
living as tramps and learning how to
ride the slant-hipped ponies on the
ranches like vaqueros.
Again the hand of authority fell
upon the shoulders of the fyaway
child, and she was carried back under
restraint to the home which she had
abandoned.
The ingenuity of a mind keyed to
the abnormal is more than a match for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

a perfectly sane person. Even while
Judge Barclay was planning anew for
the girls welfare she was waited
away like a thistledown in the wind
This time she was carried far across
the border into the wild country of
Mexico and to the ranch beyond Tia
Juana. Her voluntary return to Los
Angeles after this wide swing in the
open was inspired as is now known,
to temporary restoration of those
faculties which guide the morals. She
went at once to Judge Barclays home.
She was calm and penitent. Mrs. Bar
clay had died while the girls last es-
capade was running its course, and
the judge was in no mood for a recon
ciliation with one given to such wild
vagaries. He did not know the girl
was irresponsible. He received her
formally, if not coldly, gave her a
letter to the manager of the canneries
down at San Jose and money for her
immediate expenses and transporta-
ton, and sent her from his door with
a good wish for her happiness some
what severely expressed.
Became a Thief.
The girls erratic path of wild child
tsh adventure at this moment diverged
into one pitifully crooked and GRIM
inal. JEANNE became a thief. She
stole things without reference to their
value or her needs. When she want
81 anything, or thought she did. her
cunning mind directed her ready fin
gers to the place where it could be
found 1t was not long before she be-
gan taking things she did not want
knlck-knacks which she threw away or
LETT in hiding places on the premises.
there to be found by others.
In San Francisco, whittier she drift
ed with light fingers, working along
the way. she was arrested. Because of
her tender years and the evidence
that her form of criminality was far
removed from the sordid she was sent
to ST GATHERINGS home In a week
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

she was out and roaming to the south
in boys clothes.
Then, as medico-criminal records
have shown in other cases, the switch
controlling the nerve wires of this
girls brain became set for a brief re-
turn to the normal She changed alb
solutely. Those who did not know at
tributed it to the influence of tracts
and such moral teachings as is given
collectively to inmates of institutions,
including jails. They were not aware
that it was periodic, and quite Incl
dental
During this mental lull much of her
gentleness and girlhood sweetness and
charm for the time returned Mr..
Thurnherr, a young Berkeley business
man, met and fell in love with her
and made her his wife Before they
had returned from a brief honeymoon
the switch was on again, intensifying
her cunning and making her boldly
criminal where before she had been
cautious.
AS kIeptomaniac.
One evening as he sat reading and
she embroidered, he fell asleep; quick
as a cat she slipped out of the house
and into a neighbor's, where she stole
some pretty articles of no use to
herself
Where have you been, my dear?"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19
Sufficient Evidence.

Having vouched for the honesty OF
the woman who wished a situation a.
scrub woman the good natured man
was subjected to a severe exanina-
ton by the superintendent Of the
building.
There are degrees of honesty
said the superintendent. How hon
est is she?"
The good-natured man reflected
Well" said he, I'll tell you She
is SO honest that if you throw any
thing that looks to be worth q COP
per into the waste basket you have
to tag it Destroy this or she viii
fish 1t out and put it back on your
desk night after night, no matter how
badly you want to get rid of 1t.
don't know that I can say anything
more"
mo more is necessary" said the
hire the woman.
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When Cinders Fly.

A woman who is travelling much of
her time always keeps in her bag
few lawn or o:gandie covers, made in
the form of large squares, to protect
any garment that she particularly
cherishes from dust during the hours
of the night. Is her blouse fresh and
pretty? Then she folds the dainty
lawn square tenderly round it. Are
her corsets both new and expensive?
Another square of lawn covers them
from the insidious dust that "seeps"
in through the little screen of her
berth window. "Why lawn?' may be
asked. Only because it takes up so
much less room than linen
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19
DYING by Oroans.

1t has been discovered that If q
human being dies after an ordinary
Illness, and not a violent death, he
does not die all over and all at once
He may have diseased liver, heart
or lung, and this may be the cause
of his death; but 1t has been found
that If the diseased organ could have
been replaced by a healthy one life
might have been maintained fnden-
nitely. This is no imagination or
speculation. 1t has been confirmed
by the most careful experiments by
the ablest medical scientists In the
country-Leslie's Weekly
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be basted together and then pressed
with a warm iron.
The pressing will show whether the
outer side is smaller than the lining.
and If it does this fault must be
promptly corrected lest the strain up-
on the silk cause it to pull away from
tho center seam. When assured that
both sides are of equal size the edges
should be run together with a fine
thread and then bound with half inch
strips of suede or glace kid
Covert cloth, striped worsteds and
fancy mohair make really serviceable
lap robes for moderate weather, and
as all of these fabrics are very wide
three yards will be enough for the
outer side, which should be tackled to
a lining of natural or colored linen,
and the edges of the two layers turned
in and stitched evenly together Some
of the coverts and fancy worsted robes
are leather bound. but as it is impos-
sfble to do this work with an ordinary
sewing machine the binding would
better be of tailor's silk or of kid.
Perambulator lap robes are the
daintiest affairs imaginable, and in the
process of construction are a delight
to the worker A yard of extra width
ioHSH pique 10 qultS SuHSieHl ioi
one of the wide hemmed robes, head
ed with a border of hand embroidery
or soutache, centered with small
monogram and trimmed with large
bows of satin ribbon attached to the
top corners. Then there are the lap
robes of. allover embroidered batiste
in English eyelet or solid work, with
wide plain hemstitched borders in lieu
of the ruff1es which of yore made the
front of the infant carriage resemble
a huge pin cushion, and newer still
are the lap robes of white French ser
pentine silk and linen crepe. These
latter are usually decorated with the
finest of hand embroidered forget-me-
nots if the perambulators occupant is
a boy and with tiny pink rosebuds IL
a girl is being wheeled about.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

RENCH Drawers and Pretty
Camisole-These drawers are
= very cool and comfortable for
summer wear when made in lawn,
they are trimmed with wide frilis
edged with lace and headed by inser-
ton. The upper part of the camisole
is in all-over embroidery, cut in one;
1t is outliped with beading threaded
with ribbon; the lower part is of lawn.
The neck and sleeves are finished with
lace. Materials required for the draw
ers: yards Sc inches wide, tx yard
Insertion, 2k yards lace For the
camisole, q yard % inches wide, "a
yards beading, 3 yards ribbon
Alpaca Dress.-For useful, yet smart
dresses, alpaca is an exceedingly nice
material; cream Is chosen here. The
overskirt has a panel front and is
trimmed at edge and a few inches
above by bands of material, braided in
p Greek key design A pleating forms
The underskirt, this is well pressed
and tapped to keep the pleats flat The
Magyar bodice has fine tucks on each
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

aSlant the red mesa land
The copper faced cowboys, sitting at
the door of their shack, looked up
with establishment at the haggard lit
tie stranger They saw bare five
feet of frailty in sadly worn shoes and
trousers, with wrists no bigger than
two fingers, hands of a child and a
face that didn't seem to belong to the
rest of the shadow.
Long way from home, sonny, amt
yuh?" asked one of the men, who had
left a real name in the east and be-
come Poker Chip Charley" for cow
punching purposes, "and a bit hungry,
too, guess; eh?"
And without waiting for an answer
they took the shadow in and seated it
at table and fed it all it could eat,
which is a hospitality denied none in
the land of longhorns
A week thereafter the shadow lay
upon a cot in the big ranch house,
with bandage about the temples and
the delicate heart pumping so feebly
that only the trained ear of nurse,
who had been brought up from Tia
Jauna, could hear it.
How did it happen?" she asked.
why, MISS" said Poker Chip
Charley" the youngster called his
self the kid cowboy. and he wanted to
hook a leg on the friskiest horse on
the ranch just to show US what he
could do. So, miss, we give in and
put him aboard Dulcfe, which amt no
horse for a kid to ride, but he did
ride him, the kid did. Never saw any
thing like it, but the kid want beefy
enough to stick, Dulcie bucked and
the kid landed on the head"
Kid Cowboy" a Girl.
That night the boss of Sanchez
ranch went out to the cowboys shack
with bit of news. The kid cowboy
was a girl, an innocent little runaway
from the states. Her name was Jean
ME Gordon.
Right here, as well as anywhere,
the opening chapter of this girls
strange life may be told. 1t may be
called the chapter of her moral sleep,
as the other chapter is properly called
that of her awakening.
JEANNE Vivien Claire Gordon-story-
booky sort of name, but rightfully
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

- CIENCE has reclaimed another
y person from the crime world,
closed a chapter of WiIdness and
converted an irresponsible into hui
man being of moral strength In the
awakening of JEANNE Gordon, through
the professional ministrations of Or.
ii. NJ. RoweIl, girl who was run
away and later q thief has been re-
stored to society. Her disturbed brain
for years whirIed her out of the do
mestic orbit and she was heading for
state prison when the surgeons knife
and the mental healer saved her from
herself.
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asked the husband, waking as she re-
turned
81 just ran over to Mrs. rs to
show her my embroidery" was the
quick reply. "She is anxious to work
a pattern like it,
1t was about this time when some
silverware which she had stolen and
buried was found. and the young wife
was under arrest, that DIR. H. N. Row.
ell, who long had watched her career
from a distance, slipped actively into
her life. All the stories he had heard
concerning her pointed to tendencies
and gave confirmation to his suspi-
cions that her abnormality was an in
cident that could be corrected.
Surgery Put to Work
He made plea for her probation
and became her bondsman. With the
consent of the authorities, as well as
that of herself and her husband, he
took the young woman-she is now
only % years old-under his profess
siona1 care.
DR.. Rowelrs theory was that after
the pressure on the brain was relieved,
a systematic daily hypnotizing of his
patient would cure her. Her sensitive
subconscious mind was to be instruct
ed to forget the past that had now
ceased to be vital and turn toward the
perfectly new future and all its pos
sibilities.
Victory for Science.
The young woman recovered from
the nervous shock of the operation in
darkened room, being vigorously
treated for weeks along the lines of
mental suggestion in which DIR. Rowell
so firmly believed. She was afterward
transferred to the country, where the
same mental training was continued.
The result seems to be a totally new
personality. Old friends of Mrs. Thurn-
herr, who knew the girl when she was
a very handsome, slim, brown-eyed
tomboy, hardly recognize this gentle,
large-eyed, delicate young woman as
the hoydenish girl they used to know.
At first it seemed as If the strenu-
Gus surgical and mental trial she had
been through was to influence her but
temporarily. But it is beginning to be
evident that the old JEANNE Gordon
is as dead as the little Barclay girl
who ran away so many years ago in
a ruff1ed apron and became boy.
Mrs. Thrunherr is interested in
Things Sn0 never CareQ ABOUT before,
never thought of or appeared to no
tice. Always strikingly pretty in
boyish way, and with unusually beau
tiful, pleading hazel eyes, the young
woman has an. expression like that of
child taken to see the ocean for the
first time-a sort of rapt wonder.
And now that the awakening has
come after all these years, and the
child of impish impulse and the girl
whose brain reeled her always toward
the vortex have ceased to exist, she
remembers it as one recalls an ugly
dream phantom
Ct am not the same girl at all" she
says, with eyes that look straight into
yours-eyes that are soft, honest, sim
cere. 1T used to be SO strange. /
lived a nightmare wild, uncertain
existence which was as bereft of or
derby sequence as the tumble of impos-
sible things through which we drift
in unhappy dreams. Oh, how differ
emit 1t is since the change came The
world seems SO much quieter, and now
1 can rest Without half trying. can
be good like other people-"-NeW
York World
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hers by birth and neutrality-suspicious.
an orphan in her infancy Her par
ents were West Virginians. They left
the child in the care of a kind heart
ed nurse, who took her to California
When JEANNE had grown into knee
length pinafores Judge and Mrs. Lii
Ian Barclay of Los Angeles took
liking to the bright-eyed little one and
adopted her. They rechristened her
Bessie Barclay and she took her place
An their home as q daughter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

First Dentistry work is SO pain
less that my patients often fall asleep
while 1 am at their teeth.
Second Dentist - That's nothing
Mine all want to have their pictures
taken to catch the expression Of de-
light ON their faces.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

shoulder, both back and front A
braided strap outlines the neck and
Is also taken down outside of arm and
round elbow. Hat of Tagel, trimmed
with cream satin ribbon, completes a
costume that has been much admired
Material required for dress: yards A
inches wide
Walking Costume.-Faintly striped
grey tweed makes up most success
fully in this style. The front panel
of skirt Is wide and is cut into two
Disappointed tabs each side the lower
part, a button being sewn in each tab.
The pattern measures just under two
yards round. The coat fastens invis-
ibly down front; the tab at the lower
part is ornamental with a button and
is hooked over to the left side The
collar is faced with grey silk lightly
braided at edge Fancy straw hat in
royal blue. trimmed with ribbon. Ma
terials required for costume: 511
yards 46 inches wide, 8 yards skirt
lining, yards silk for lining coat.
buttons.
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He'd Get IL.

Howell want to get all that's COM
ing to me.
Powell-Well, stand right where you
are: there'l be an automobile along In
q minute or two.
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SLIM shadow with a
shock of tumbled brown
hair and eyes that were
lighted with a fever fire
came up from out the
parched grass at San
chez cattle ranch, near
Tia Jauna, Mexico, one
afternoon as the yellow
suns burning rays lay
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-19

Happiness, at least, is not solitary
it joys to communicate; it love others.
for it depends on them for its exist
ence-Stevenson.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-29
A GOOD SUGGESTION

1T would be a good idea for every
city, town, village and hamlet along
the line Of any railroad to put up
a sign or two somewhere in proximi-
ty to the railroad station, setting
forth the name of the town, and
whaever claim it hhs for hisoric,
residential and Industrial interest.
Travellers often wonder, when a train
comes to stop, what the town is
that spreads out before them, and
wherein lies its excuse for being.
True the railroads are doing a great
deal TO exploit and advertise the at
fractions. scenic and commercial
of most Of the more important plac-
es, but it woul1nt be an altogether
bad idea for the towns to do a little
something themselves, if only to set
up bulletin of facts for the enlight-
eminent Of the passing traveller.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-29
WHY SOME TOWNS GROW

The reason why some towns grow
IS because there are men Of push and
energy in them who are not afraid
to spend their time and nancy to
boom their towns. Wherever they go
they tell of the advantages Of their
city. they write about hem in every
letter. they send circulars and news
papers o all whom they think they
can get to visit the city. and when
anyone visits them treat him so kind
" that he falls in love with them
and their city at once 1t is enter
prise and everyone pulling together
that makes a progressive town and
don't let the fact escape your mem
DRY.
To hear every person say some
thing pleasant about its people and
its interest is the surest, quickest
and easiest way to make town at
tractive to a stranger. One OF the
best ways in which to make a town
attractive that will draw other peo-
pie to it is for every man and every
woman to have a pleasant word for
the people and the town generally.
Talk up your town If you would have
others come to you Talk up your
town If you would feel an interest in
At and have its people feel and in
ferest in you. There is no better way
to da it. And many a time one lit
tie word Of unpleasant reference tC
something that does not Just exact
ly suit you and not particularly con
Germs you as to that matter will turr
a good mans influence away from
your own town and may ever drive
him away At yorr own fireside tall
up your town. When you come II
contact with strangers talk up the
most potent agency ever set in mo
tion for helping your town North
field News.