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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23

or can afford the fur. for orly good
pieces go in hats, and such hat
means handful Of money. A class
Of women wear imitation fu:, even ON
the head, where the counterfeit Is 10
marked, but we'll dressed n>men do
not incline to it.
During the last few dayH \ note Of
red has been introduced on tlack hats
for morning wear. This IL generally
In chou Of ruby, scarlet Or empire
red, and little is employes. There 10
no great variety about hats this win
ter. All the best are s. black and
white and when aot that, then in VIC
let or rich purple; they remain sim
pie and require little trimming. The
one color feature is mostly followed.
Shapes are not pretty, Tut they are
picturesque and fit the head we'll.
II color be put with purple It Is
dark blue. This combination is put
in dresses, too, and with the two for
embroidery there is often note OF
cerise and yellow. only sugg estion
Of the latter. Plumes are no longer
modest. They are long and wide, the
strands sometimes covering the whole
hat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Baseball LANGUAGE.

Baseball language, like West Point
French, is something different Like
all successful literature, it embodies
the attempt of the intellect to sur
mount obstacles. In poetry the OBJ
stacle is rhyme and rhythm; in
drama 1t is the "unities," the prin'
ciple of suspended interest, the need
to tell a complete story in less than
three hours. In baseball writing the
obstacle is the fact that there are
only two things in the game, batting
and fielding; that in each Of the two
big leagues there are about $50
games to be reported, one very like
another. and that the sapience OF
''fandom" is such that its members
by scanning the scoring tables can
visualize game as completely as the
broker can visualize scene on
change from his ticker.
The problem Of the sporting column
Is to tell the reader something he
cannot get from the score, and so to
report day after day for six months
the interplay of batting and fielding
that one days story shall be unlike
another's. Hence the fights of fancy
which turn a ball into pill" a
pitchers arm into SALARY whip
and his fast one" into his Smoke. u
Hence the conception Of an emerg'
ency pitcher as at once "the wreck
ing crew. and old doc Crandall."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
SAFETY IN BLACK AND WHITE
Matter OF CoIors May BE Eliminated
From the Minds Of Women While
Fashion Lasts,

Surely woman does not have to
worry much about colors this winter.
1t is sheer waste of time to look in
the mirror with the sunlight and the
electric light at different times to see
whether piece Of purple or green or
blue or brown, placed under the chin,
reflects becoming glow on the skin.
The stores show dozens of colors,
and the dressmakers offer them to you
In a half-hearted way, bat If you know
what's what in the world Of fashion
you will brush them all aside and go
in heavily for black and white.
There was some sense In struggling
against this edict last summer be.
cause here and there barbaric and
Byzantine colors darted their heads
up into sight like asps In IN urn, but
the urn of fashion is now given over
to the two sharply contrasting colors.
You must not wear all white, and
you must not wear all black, but you
must juggle with the two until your
skill draws applause. You may think
the wearing Of black and white is
monotonous; that it lacks variety; but
when you hear an expert talk on the
subject you feel as II you were at a
food exposition lesson where q cook
cry teacher describes one thousand
and one different ways in which eggs
can be used.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Dog Under Arrest.

A dog thief-not a dog stealer, but
a dog which had been trained to steal
has been arrested by the French po-
lice. He was caught zen fragrant de-
it," we read, when he was in the act
of stealing a pair of lady's shoes from
an establishment in Noisy-le-Sec. His
procedure was so cunning that it left
no doubt among the police that the
dogs was no "untutored mind"
Nothing could be drawn from the
animal at the police office. SO it was
decided to shut him up without food.
After some hours confinement the dog
was released and a police cyclist was
in readiness to follow the dog home.
But the best laid schemes Of mice
and men gang aft agley."
The dog when liberated instead of
rushing home deliberately walked to
the other side of the road, and there
sat down on a doorstep. and awaited
events, every now and again throw
ing suspicious glances at the police in
waiting. Finding that there was no
chance of the dog going home he was
again taken into the police Office and
sent to the foureiere, where he met
an untimely end.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Brides Love Of a Clay Pipe.

Rather than give up smoking her
cherished clay pipe an Irish bride
named Johanna Wood has left the
workhouse at Faversham. Kent. Her
husband, who was also an inmate Of
the workhouse, has left with her.
With a careless disregard of the
fact that they were both practically
destitute, the man and the woman,
whose ages are respectively sixty-two
and forty-nine. were married on De.
cember II. The honeymoon was spent
at the workhouse.
Mrs. Wood" stated one Of the
workhouse officials yesterday, seem
ed to find her greatest source Of pleas
ure In tobacco. She smoked a clay
pipe and would not have parted with
it for anything. On being taxed with
smoking in the workhouse she said:
I cannot do without my pipe; l have
smoked since l was a little girl She
was told that she must either give up
smoking or leave the workhouse. She
elected to take the latter course and
left With her husban ."-London Daily
Nail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23

KINGS WAR RIO BE ON VIEW ! |.
At the Museum In New York City
You May See the Feathers =. :
kamehamoha III. Wore.

AS an example Of the past royalty
Of Hawaiian kings, a remarkable
feathered war robe. once the property
Of Kamehameha Ill.,. and said to be
the equal in value of diamond orna-
ments In several Of the European re-
gala, is displayed In the hall OF South
Sea Islands at the American Museum
of Natural History. This emblem OF
Hawaiian royalty was presented by
the king OF the islands to Commodore
Lawrence Kearney, U. s. N. in 1S4$.
It is a war cape with history and,
according to DR.. Brigham, an author
ity on Hawaiian feather work. sim
liar cloak. completed in the reign OF
one of the kings of the islands, was
in process of fabrication through eight
previous eras.
The Kamehameha royal cape Is
made of 1nnumerable feathers OF the
Iwi and 90 birds, which were hunted
In the ravines and wooded slopes of
the mountains of Hawaii for the dec
Grafton of these robes OF rank. The
royal cape, which is crescent-shape.
consists entirely of small red and yell
low feathers, which are interviewer
upon a fiber network made from the
bark of the Olona plant. Contrary to
the custom of the Peruvians, who first
made the feathers fast to a cord and
then knotted the cord to q cloth, the
Hawaiians attached the feathers sep
arately to the netting.
Although fortune in labor is rep
resented, the feathered war robe only
weighs six pounds. It was presented
to the museum by George S. Bowdoin,
and is mounted fiat between two
plates of glass, as is another speci-
men, which is said to have been used
by a former owner as sleigh robe,
in ignorance of its great value.
Among the noted collections con-
tanning specimens Of this craft are
those at Windsor castle, which in
cludes examples given by Queen VIC
toria, and Lord Brassy's, whose
trophies includes a rope brought to
England by Captain Cook. In the
archives of the Hawaiian islands a
history of each cloak made has been
inscribed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
''Music" or initials can be worked
upon one side.
The small sketch at the top shows
the case completed and fastened to-
gether.
BRIGHT COlORS IN AFTERNOON
Ones Own Drawing Room 10 the
Place for Display, but hues
Must Harmonic.

The woman who dislikes display out
of doors, in her own drawing room
often wears the brightest colors. This
gives her a chance to lay aside the
sober yet attractive tailor-made emit.
Dresses are worn to harmonic or
contrast with the colorings with which
the room is decorated. Red looka we'll
where the colorings are the claset
shades and brown. Green In the soft.
dull tones blends equally as well.
An afternoon gown Of geraniu'n pink
is effective where the surrounding col
orings are of purplish hues. Bright
sapphire blue harmonises with almost
any color.
A striking combination witch Jocks
we'll for afternoon wear IL red and
purple in fuchsia shades.
Emerald green is much wc,n, some
times combined with black. Gold lace
and nets of all varieties max, effective
trimming for THU color.
Any odd attractive color, 70 matter
how vivid, may be used tyr the after
noon dress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
PRACTICAL CASE FOR MUSIC
Full Description and Illustration Of
Most Useful and Pretty Piano
Accessory.

There are several different ways in
which music cases can be made, but
perhaps one of the most simple and
practical is shown in our sketch. 1t
can be carried out in any art serge.
silk or American cloth, and lined
with soft silk and bound at the edge
with narrow ribbon.
The sides are stiffened with two
pieces of cardboard, and between
these two pieces in the center q
space of about an inch should be al
lowed so that the case may fold to.
gether easily.
The diagram on the right hand
side explains this, B and c being stiff
fened with cardboard. and A shows
the space between.
Inside the case two bands of elas-
tic are sewn, under which the music
may be slipped and held in it's place.
and the case is secured when closed
by small tab that bends over and
fastens on to a button sewn on tho
reverse side of the case. The ham
dies by which it may be carried are
made of silk cord. and the word
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
American Airs.

A woman recently back from for
eign parts has a grievance against the
way in which military bands there
play American airs, states the New
York Press. To begin with. says this
woman, two-thirds of the bands and
orchestras of Europe think Dixie" is
the national air, and this mistake is
not difficult to comprehend, as ap-
plause generally greets this tune.
Next in popularity comes columbia,
Gem Of the Ocean," and, strange to
say, then comes "Old Dan Tucker"
No amount of expostulation avails
to change this notion. The Star
Spangled Banner" is reserved for SOL
emn occasions, and it must be con-
fessed Americans are not wildly en-
thusiastic over it. Not one in a thou
sand remembers three lines OF tho
verses, not even the school children
who shout them every day. Mary
land" is popular, but the tune is that
of the old Presbyterian hymn, "Beulah
Land" and may be heard wherever
Scotch and English folks gather.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
DAINTINESS IN THE BEDROOM
Little Touches That Prove the Occu-
pant to ee Woman Of True
Refinement,

A slab Of clear glass, exactly the
size of the bureau top and beveled at
the edges is often laid over the hand
some lace or embroidered bureau COW
er, needlework and dainty color effect
showing clearly through the glass, and
cover being protected from dust and
soil. The most faithful maid cannot
be trusted to dust a bureau. She will
whisk dust cloth or feather buster over
the bottles, jars, photographs and toll.
ct belongings rather than lift each one
Of them from its place in the process
Of busting, and by and b. the dainty
bureau spread becomes 20 grimy that
only a laundering that win scrub ont
it, beauty viii render It clean. The
slab Of glass may, Of course. b. wiped
,cleens and clear n any time without
disturbing the spread beneath.
a careful housekeeper protects also
her handsome. silk down bedquilts by
&ugsadinx thsm over tho bed and COW
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
AN UNUSUAL REQUEST

Among the most eccentric OF tesla
tors are those who make requests OF
their bodies. In 1871 a Mr.. Sanborn
of Medford, Mass, bequeathed his
body to Professor Agassiz and Oliver
Wendell Holmes, representing that it
should be prepared in the most SCI
ent1fic manner known to anatomic
science" and placed In the museum
at Harvard. He also directed that bis
skin should be made into two drum
heads. to be presented to his friend
and patriotic fellow citizen, Warren
Simpson," on condition that he beat
on them the national air of Yankee
Doodle" at the foot of the monume nt
on Bunker Hill at sunrise every 17tn
Of June. On the drumhead was to be
inscribed Pope's Universal Prayer"
and on the other the Declaration of
Independence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
BIRDS AND GRASSHOPPERS

A strong protest Is being made In
South Australia against the continual
slaughter of such birds as the ibis,
the egret, cranes and spoonbills to
supply the demands of milliners. The
slaughter is Objectionable not only as
destroying some OF the most beautiful
and interesting creatures OF nature,
but, according to the Journal OF Agrt-
culture, also as rendering South Aus
tralia ever more prone to plaques OF
grasshoppers, and Is prime cause of
the decline of it's fish resources. AS
the wading birds disappear the crus-
taceans that destroy fish spawn in
crease In multitude.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
THE IDEAL ARCHITECT

LAS I understand it," said the archi-
tect, you want me to build typical
modern apartment building" That's
It," said the builder. Hardwood
floors, mahogany finishing, gas crates,
tiled bathrooms and all that-you
know, make it SWELL" Sure, see.
Good appearance. Big living room
Yes Plate rail in the dining room.
and alcove for sideboard? get it..
Spacious front hall? Uh-huh."
You've got the idea exactly" And
about half the entire space is to be
given to the living room and library.
Three-fourths of what is left goes to
the dining room and kitchen. What's
left over is to be divided up into bed
rooms?" Zine! You are the ideal
architect-the one I've been looking
Plain Dealer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Flower 1urbans.

Turbans Of flowers are mixed with
braid, with nacre silk and velvet: the
piece goods are usually employed in
the way Of giving light. Flower
crowns, with small nacrs tsnets
brims. are a feature Also. The shapes
Of many Of the turbans incline toward
those employed by the Russians.
Turks and Persians. 40 we'll 40 mor1
snusly fitting frames on the ancient
Egyptian order. All Of them look
soft az well 40 snug. XII. . 5.S .....=
i In quits some medium size hats tle
br1ms are Of straw. and the crowns
are tams q nscre ta6ets. Some AZ
the tams aro fuller and turned IN e
one stds, says Millinery Trade H,
view. Nacre taaeta II also used To-
.facing. Hard Ssweds braid hats aSo.f
foaturs w0ll liked fo1 pliabiity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
witch STICK" FOUND WATER

August Grosenbaugh, an aged resi-
cent Of Fort Dodge. Ia, by the aid Of
witch STICK" found place he
thought should be site for city
well. The well was drilled 2l5 feet
and now six hundred gallons OF water
are pouring forth each minute. The
council rewarded Mr.. Grosen baugh by
commencing his efforts and by paying
him $40.
Now this payment Of $40 for the use
OF the witch stick raised the ire OF
several men. including DR.. j. w. Kline,
state lecturer on tuberculosis to the
medical profession. Frank Paige. a
retired scientist, and Captain George
Riggland. one Of the wealthiest men
here. They declare the council was
foolish ever to have had the witch
stick" used, as belief in its efficacy is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
KEEP TRIBAL CUSTOMS 1 :
0ARcEE INDIANS DISREGARD
MARCH OF TIME.
History, Intended for Poster'ty, SIN
10 Recorded In Crude Fashion on
the Hides Of eteers-0ld Men
Tell Of Adventures.

Within twelve miles Of Calgary, 4
city Of $4,000 people, and with tele-
phone communication with that city,
the Sarcee Indians pursue their lives
and observe exactly as their forefa-
theirs did the ancient habits and Gus
toms of their tribe, says the Toronto
Globe.
Two years ago there was a great
festival at which seven OF the Oldest
chiefs related the stories CT their ex-
ploits, which the painter of the tribe
preserved for posterity on two i'm
mense steer hides. These hides are
now carefully preserved at the office
of the agent on the Sarcee reserve.
Tn Indian lad relies for his history
on campfire stories and a well-tanned
steer hide covered with queer char
acters, painted crudely with a sort of
ink made of the juices Of plants.
These records are not haphaZard.
but they are not altogether regular.
When several chiefs and medicine
men of the tribe are growing old an
assembly is arranged where the IA
nous Indian interpreter and painter
meets the aged men. One by one the
old men stand forth before the people
and recount the stories of their lives.
They tell thrilling tales Of the bat
ties in which they have fought, of the
scalps taken, and the horses they
have stolen. These three achieve
ments are regarded as the three most
honorable and valorous exploits Of
the great men. Compared with these
the white mans election to parlia-
ment, his appointment to high Office,
and his great commercial achieve
ments are as nothing.
Sometimes their meetings last sew.
eral days. The old men are enthusi-
astic in their descriptions OF by.
gone days; thep recite rapidly and
gesticulate much. The members OF
the tribe, sitting about them, listen
eagerly, storing the details to be told
over and over again to their sons
sons, until they are tribal traditions
of the long past. AS they talk the
painter sits upon the ground with his
steer hide spread before him and
paints with his rude dyes pictures to
illustrate the incidents.
A circle represents barricade or
encampmeht; awkwardly drawn pic
lures of animals stand for the horses
he has stolen: galloping horse, with
man on his back, suggests the story
Of wild flight across the prairie be
fore pursuing enemies; flag may
mean a bloody battle won; tadpole'
like mark, a scalped Indian. The
figures are very crude, the drawings
no better than those four-yearold
child makes on it's slate. But some in
genuity is exercised in the grouping
and each sketch is, in way, key
to the thrilling tales which in time
become history.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
TURNS LIFE UPSIDE DOWN

Vienna can boast of a curious &C.
centric. who turns life upside down, a
rich young Pole, who lives In sump-
tuous style, but always summons his
servants by bugle call. His favortte
pastime is driving an omnibus, atttred
like an ordinary busman, and though
he is said to spend fortune each
year in clothes, he wears no garment
until it has been worn by his valet.
lie has astonished the guests at a
ball by appearing In costume OF pure
white, save for the shirt and tie,
which were black. To complete his
oddities, when dining, which he In
variably does alone at table d'hote.
he reverses the usual order, beginning
his meal with the sweets and ending
with the soup.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23

f1ounces of the same; this is fixed on
by press studs set closely together on
the hem of pett1coat and under the
band of f1ounce. At the left another
f1ounce of gray silk is shown; this is
set in sets of three fiat pleats with
spaces between, and has a 3-inch
pleating at edge; the upper founce at
right side is of the silk. just seal
loped and buttonholed at edge; the
lower one is of black satin closely
pleated.
Materials required for gray alpaca
petticoat: yards 46 inches wide. For
gray silk founce, about ~ yards %
inches wide: for the blue silk, about
III yard % inches wide would be
needed; and for the black satin. 21k
yards % inches wide.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
Night and Day Work on Farm.

Farming at night is the innovation
just introduced by E. w. Fowler, who
lives twelve miles west of Lodi, Cal.
Fowler has two crews Of six men
each and has been blowing night and
day. Immense searchlights are at
tached to the plows and the laborers
declare that they can sec at night al
most as well as during the day. An
incongruous feature of the work Is
that when the night crew is eating
breakfast at six o'clock at night the
day shift is eating supper from the
same table. Fowler is planting 1000
acres of barley and has resorted to
the novel scheme of working twenty
four hours a day in order that he may
get the grain in before the heavy
rains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
First PAPER Collars and Cuffs.

In no other country are anniver-
saries and jubilees of all kinds so in
sistently remembered as in Germany.
One German newspaper reminds it's
readers that it is fifty years this
month since paper collars and cuffs
were first worn.
1t was in January, 1862, when a
Leipsic firm began manufacturing
these articles, which at once obtained
a great vogue on account of their
cheapness. A newspaper of that time
gives a serious account of the new
fashion, which now strikes one az
amusing.
It tells how the American (sic) idea
Of time is money" was conquerinE
Europe, and it illustrates q phase of
the aesthetic craze which then ruled
by stating that persons of literary
taste used to have quotations from
their favorita pUets printed On tho
heart side 2 THAR paper shirt
front0.. zs:.: i 4. -5@...~: a.. ~ :gs ;
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
THE WAY IN GERMANY

Last year Russian traveller asked
a Berlin railway official on which plat.
form a train to a particular city would
arrive. The official nodded to one
side. The Russian interpreted this as
permission to cross the rails In the
direction OF the nod. A shunted en-.
CINE went over him and cut on his
arm. A week later in hospital he re-
ceived a Strafmandat requiring him
to pay As marks for ''unauthor1zediy;
and to the state railway regulations
contrary1ngly, crossing the line"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23
TWO EGGS IN TWO MINUTES

Chicken experts say thing hap
pened at the poultry show of the Ma.
tional Fanciers' club In Indianapolis
which they have never known to hap
pen before. A Butt Orpington hen
laid two eggs In less than two min.
utes. There was no room for doubt
that this actually happened as a fan.
cier Of reputation was standing by and
saw the thing done with his own eyes.
The first egg was perfectly formed
with hard shell. The second egg
was large as the first, but had a soft
shell. The chicken men believe this
hen understood that she was on ex.
hibition and must make a record
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-02-23

shape OF the beautiful member whose
merits they were discussing. A gen.
tleman friend presented himself, and
by common consent the question was
referred to him. 1t was a delicate
matter He thought OF Paris and the
three goddesses. CHANGING from one
to the other OF the beautiful white
aands presented for his examination,
he replied at last: Il give it up; the
question is too hard for me. But ask
the poor, and they will tell you the
most beautiful hand in the world Is
the hand that gives