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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
When to Go to Mamma.

Oh mercy mel Oh, mercy my,
I feel as though I'd like to cry!
Nv doll fell from the window seat
And cracked both of her pretty feet!
But mamma is a doctor. fine.
/ know she'll mend this doll of mine.
She'll make the cracked feet look like new
BY using just little glue
Once Dolly fell and cracked her head.
And mamma came and gently said.
Now darling. do not cry, for you
Shall see your doll look just ike new"
And then she took the dolly to
The kitchen and there made some glue
And. mercy me. you should have seen
She was as good e'er she'd been,
So when things happen now to me
don't give up and cry. you see
go to mamma: that In all
she axes hurts both great and small
-CtncinnAu CommsrciAl-TrihunA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
Wor11an's Section of the Paper
TWO ECONOMY HINTS.

Net from old curtains can be used to
advantage by cutting it into the desired
size and stitching several squares to-
gether- This makes excellent wash
cloths.
In order to save your ice bills put a
piece of thickly folded newspaper I'M
der the ice and one folded not quite so
thick on top of the ice The newspaper
under the ice not only protects the ice
from the air. but catches the dirt from
the Ice The paper can be lifted from
under the ice carefully and the dirt re-
moved. thus preventing the accumula-
ton of slime on the bottom of the ice
chest. The top paper also protects the
ice from the air and makes it possible
to set dishes right on the ice without
slipping
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
HOMEMADE BREAD CHEAPER
Twice as Many Loaves at the Same
Cost as When Bought.


Bread is the staff of life, and bread
properly made is gastronomic joy.
In many households there is need of
information on the subject. and help
full suggestions should be welcome.
A bulletin issued by the Kentucky
agricultural experiment station sub
mits two recipes for making yeast
bread There is an idea among house
wives. it is asserted, that yeast bread
is difficult to make and that it is about
as cheap to buy the bakers product
The bulletin says this idea is entirely
erroneous since twice as many loaves
of bread may be made at home for the
same money that is paid for the ball
er's bread. and there is no difficulty
about baking if a few simple rules are
followed Directions are then given
in detail as to the modus operandi in
preparing and baking.
On the face of 1t breadmaking seems
to be a rather simple process. but the
makers of coed bread are in n woeful
minority. and the varieties of the prod
uct that are encountered are almost
as numerous as the households in
which they are made. The cookbooks
and the household departments of the
newspapers abound in recipes for
good bread"
The Kentucky experiment station is
doing a good service in branching out
into domestic science, says the Louis
vile Courier-Journal There is oppor-
tunity for some beneficial educational
work in that direction.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
The Children's Department. $:
MOUSE PROVED USEFUL.
Helped to String Wire Through a
Narrow Pipe.

Not long ago there was accomplished
in a western city mechanical Feat
which at first had baffied the several
electricians having the task in hand,
but which eventually was effected with
the aid of a mouse
The men We're engaged in stringing
wires in a new building. and they
wished to force certain of them through
n pipe 19T feet long. Now. this pipe
had a sharp turn in it. Il circumstance
that rendered useless the usual meth
DDS adopted to get the wires through.
First the men endeavored TO blow
tapeline through the pipe. but to no
avail. Then they tried to force the
tape through with water. This. too.
was a failure by reason of the sharp
bend in the pipe line
After a long squabble some one sug-
gested that Il mouse be employed to
carry the string through the pipe Ac
cordingly after some difficulty a mouse
was captured and put to- work
thread was tied to the little creatures
leg. 1t was placed in the mouth of
the pipe and given decided impetus
with Whit of compressed air.
1t was not more than minute or so
before the rodent appeared at the 9th
er end of the pipe with the thread
The rest of the work was easy The
thread drew the tape through the pipe,
and the tape pulled the electric wires
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18

pointed to a huge bunch of violets faS-
tened to her gown by a dainty little
scarfpin.
I'll buy you nice terrier to make
up for the pin, but must tell you what
happened. AS soon as / was introduce
ed to the man, Mr.. Hampton, who was
to take me in to dinner, Fred Hunter
came up to me and told me an awfully
funny story. You know how loud I
laugh It's bad form, but can't help
it l was so ashamed. stopped short,
but every one was looking at me in sur
prise, and Mr.. Hampton had such a
peculiar expression that when we went
in to dinner could think of nothing to
say. and no remarks passed between US
until the soup course 1t was PURGE Of
corn, and what do you think? Ny din
ner partner said suddenly. Donse you
Ike corn roasted in bonfire best OF
any wayT thought maybe 1t was only
chance shot, and tried to look indif-
ferent, but my face betrayed me. and
then we both laughed. and 1 told him
all about our game of tramp, and he
wants to go with us next time"
But how did he knowY demanded
Bob.
"Oh, Bob. he heard me laugh when
read the note. you know, and he said
as soon as he heard me laugh in the
drawing room the identity of the thief
was revealed. Forgive me, Bob, but I
laid all the blame on you. I think
am going to like him. and had a love
lys time, and-altogether. Bob. I'd like
to keep the pin if you'd just as soon.
have the terr1sx.~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
A Boys View of Life.

Say. 1t must be awful nice
To be grOwnup mani
So I'm trying to eat a lot
An grow up fas' can
Our grandpas alters tells us
Bout boyhood's happy days.
But times have changed, an now it's paws
Have the jolly ''1arks" and plays
Ny paw goes most every night
To the lodge for a pleasant time
While must stay at home an study
An 1earnin's ladder climb.
If go in the house with muddy shoes,
oh, how ma scolds an laws,
But she never takes no notice
OF all this mud on paws.
paw takes two helps of pie
Not word is said.
But when 1 take second piece
I'm sent right straight to bed
When paws sorta cranky
Ma. cooks up sumpin' good
An says he'll be more pleasant
If he has appetizin' food.
But when I'm feelin' kind er cross
She don't cook nothin' good for mo
Paw says need more work to do
An must chop wood till tea
Evenin's when paw stays to home
He takes the easiest chair,
Finds the contest corner
An reads his paper there.
Us kids must be jes' quiet
Not make the leastest noise,
An seems 'fraid of sturbin' him
As either of US boys.
Yes. times is shoreIy changin'.
But / think the wisest plan
Is jes to keep on smilin'
For some day I'll be a man.
An then. oh. joy. the times I'll have
At club an lodge an camel
Twill make the times paws have today
Look awful dull an tame.
For I'm goin' to be jes' like my paw,
Act as If I'm some great big cheese:
Never mind what other folks say.
But do jes' as 1 please
Spokane Spokesnan-Review.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
FUTURE woMANLY BEAUTY.
individuality Will Be Keynote Of
Charm, Says This Author.

individuality Will BE Keynote Of
Charm, Says This Author.
While NJ Jules Bots is sketching for
Us the new wife confrere is examin-
ing the conditions and inquiring into
the changes that we may expect to
characterize the physical effort of the
new feminine product Under the title
of La Beaute de la Femme Nouvelle-
NJ Jean Finot contributes a striking
article to La Revue, tracing the evolu-
ton of feminine beauty. in the course
of which he fairly states his own the
DRY that we are still under the infiu-
ence of those Greek ideals and con-
ceptions which. so he asserts have Of
ten become untrue and insincere for
the modern.
The modern ideal of beauty has its
evolution. like every other element,
and after passing through various his
torical phases and running counter to
our preconceiyed views will emerge in
an increased individuality of express
SION. interpreting differences of char
acter and intellect With this indiyid-
uality there will come. according to NJ.
Finot. greater individuality of dress,
the finer personal differences and dis
tinctions being thus secentuated-
The author. so far from sharing the
belief that the outward aspect of the
woman of the future will become more
virile, insists that this personal quail
ity will mean greater fineness and dis
tinction. Woman will prefer -'une
grande anne" in place of being the ex-
pensiye animal of whom Plautus said,
1.-The two most costly things in the
world to equip are a ship and a wo-
man."-London Athenaeum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
WHAT, WHY, WHEN AND HOW.

What is the difference between a
kiss and a sewing machine? One
seems so nice. and the other sews
seams nice
When is it proper to eat vinegar
with fork? When it is a little tart
What is the best material for aero
planes? Fly paper
How do locomotives hear? Through
their engineers
What makes pair Of shoes7 Two
shoeA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18

What does stone become in the wa
ter? Wet
What is that which has a mouth. but
never speaks. and bed. but never lies
in it? A river.
What is the longest five lettered
word in the English language? Smile.
because it extends mile after the first
letter
Why isn't your nose twelve inches
long7 Because if it was it would then
b Q foot-St Louis Post Dispatch
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
Milk Bath.

To test the virtues of a milk bath
you will only require a pint of milk.
Sponge the face, throat. neck. hands
and arms with warm or hot milk. Do
not dry the skin with n towel but let
Ii dry by evaporation. In the morning
little dry powder can then be used.
If the milk is used before retiring omit
the powder.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
REkAkING THE PILLOWS.

A good quality of linen tick should
be made to the required size, then rub
bed thoroughly all over the inside
with beeSwaX. which prevents the
feathers coming through. Make an
opening at one end of the old pillow
slip the pillow we'll inside the fresh
case and shake it gently until all the
feathers are securely settled.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
Rnubarb Removes Rust.

Stew rhubarb in the usual way. max
ing it thinner. however, than usual
and adding no sugar to it. Soak your
rusted white clothes in it for three
quarters of an hour. then take out
and rinse in cold water to take out
the purple stain of the rhubarb. This
will remove rust stains when every
thing else fails.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
Black In Summers STYLES.

The black toilet of summer will be
relieved with white, ecru. straw color
and biscuit. Black and white lace will
be worn in combination. Gowns of
black ninon and silk embroidery in
black. slightly veined or worked with
tinsel threads, are among the fashion
able gowns of summer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18

ct ET'S play tramp. Aunt Lou
'.All right, Bob Wait until
1 change my slippers for
shoes and find my oldest
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-05-18
Good For eurns and scaIds-

In case of burns and scalds cover
the injured part with cooking soda
and lay wet cloths over it, whites of
eggs and olive oil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

one sentence: The laundry workers of
New York are working for about the
same wages that prevailed in their trade
mere twenty years ago. I have some fig
ures but figures confuse and they are all
disputed. The employees said mine were
not as bad as the truth, the employers
that they were worse. Nobody disputes
the statement based upon my figures,
however, that while the cost of living and
the price for laundry work have gone
up, wages have stayed about where they
We're. Whether the hours are the same
or not is harder to determine. There is
no doubt that they are much too long on
the first two or three days of the week,
and none too short on the last three days.
you'd think to hear the strikers talk
that this arrangement was due to the evil
character of their bosses. 1t isn't. Like
so many other evils of our day, it is due
to the virtues of our ancestors. The hal\
OF our grandfatherS of taking q bath
SATURDAY night and putting on clean
clothes for Sunday and of our we'll
meaning grandmothers of changing every
thing at the end of the week for the
wash Monday and Tuesday has come
down upon these largely foreign laundry
workers in the form of a sixteen to
eighteen hour work day Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. The rest of the week
they wash. iron, starch, sort, mark and
deliver only from twelve to fourteen
hours a day. And as for their pay they
get about what our forebears got, I
guess: From s3 a week for apprentices
up to $50 for skilled starchers The
average wage for some 10000 workers
seems to be about S. week, $312 a year.
1t is too bad to give even these figures.
No one will agree with them, and I'll
not insist upon them. 1t is enough that
some of the employers said frankly at
the hearings before the state board OF
arbitration that the condition of the
laundry workers was bad and should be
jYnnrnVad S0nehoW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
BY LINCOLN STEFFENs.

There's been a strike lately in New
York city-an unimportant, uninteresting
strike. The laundry workers went out,
making the same old demandS-mOre
wages and less work-and they behaved
pretty well. They are boys and girls,
men and women of some twenty different
natiOnalities. But they didn't fight.
There were no breaches of law and order;
no call for the police or the militia. The
day l was at the big hall, which was
the strikers headquarters, the young peo-
pie were playing kissing games and the
older folk were at chess, checkers or
cards. 1t was a pretty scene. but not
very exciting. Some of the leaders talked
of getting the society women, who helped
the shirt waist makers, to appear, but
nothing came of that. There were no
features to distinguish this strike from
any other, SO the local newspapers sim
ply covered the news. and that public
opinion which, you hear, finally decides
all such conflicts was hardly aware this
one was going on. 1t was just "a strike"
And that's just what l was looking for
at this stage of this series of articIes-"a"
strike. One Of the editors wanted me to
go up to the mill strike in Massachusetts,
but there were features" there, excep-
tional circumstances. The militia was
out, for example, and the governor of
the state was taking a hand in settling
the matter. Public attention had been
fixed on that strike; public opinion was
on it's job, and no doubt some of my
readers would have made up their minds
which side was right, which wrong, and
my view would have been prejudiced
We are looking for light at present, not
trouble. and we don't want to be blinded
by passions and other human interests.
The jolly boys and girls and the queer,
old, sodden foreign folk who work in the
New York laundries have neither friends
nor enemies. and their poor. little, OBJ
SQUIRE strike is just one more case of a
part of the human race trying all by
itself to better its condition.
Wages Are Small.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
OF STRIKE
Laundry Workers See 1t Pays
to Unite.
ARCHAIC LABOR CONDITIONS
Forty Thousand Persons Receive
Average Pay Of Sc Week.
NO CHANGE IN TWENTY YEARS
Employees Tell Stories of Abuse of
Power by Bosses in
New York.

Lincoln Steffens. the sociologist,
who suggested the golden rule
solution of the Los Angeles dyna-
hitting cases, has undertaken the
writing of a series of articles on
the labor situation in this country
which are to appear Simultaneous
ly In The Star and tWenty-one
other newspapers published in diff
ferent cities.
1t has been agreed between the
newspapers and Mr.. Steffens that
he is to go wherever the facts call
him, and to report them freely as
he sees them and feels them. Mr..
Steffens is not to be biased by the
policies of the newspapers in which
his articles appear, nor are the
newspapers to be considered bound
by the opinions he advances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
Called Absurd Battle.

They didn't know how to improve them,
the employers didn't. Neither did the en-
ployes. Hence the strike-a fight, bat
tie, an absurdity really. The future will
probably look back at this method Of
| settling differences between employers
and employees with the same sense Of
humor and amaZement that it will upon
war and all other forms of force. A
strike is an Inconvenience to the public,
and an economic waste. 1t is a costly
hardship to the employers of labor and
to the employees it is cause often Of
great suffering. Moreover, the attitudes
and the spirit of fighting develop that
hate which l am trying to show is un-
necessary. There is almost always a
reason for a readjustment of wages.
There is never any reason for fighting
The laundry strike is good illustra-
ton. Both sides agree that there should
be change of terms. and that wages
should be increased and hours decreased.
Not knowing any other way to achieve
what they agree should be, they night
and. being in the fight, they say and do
fighting things. The strikers tell stories
of the outrageous abuse of power by the
bosses. They say that some OF the en-
ployers walk into the dressing rooms OF
the girls when they are changing their
clothes, and that two or three others
tempt or force pretty young women into
personal relations with them. On the
Otnef SIDE You near or incompetence,
carelessness. neglect and boisterous
breaches of discipline.
No doubt these mutual charges have
truth in them, and they are told to us re-
porters to stimulate our personal interest
in one side or the other, or in the hope
of getting to put them in the papers
and excite public interest and preju-
dice public opinion their way. But at
bottom they are uncalculated expressions
of hatred and the fighting spirit, which
will last on after the strike ia settled and
affect the atmosphere in which this bust
ness is carried on. And all of this comes
out Of the feeling, which we all share
more or less. that ii there's trouble in
the world it is somebody's fault: If
there's &. strike we must first find the
person or persons to blame. In other
words, II there's fight there must be
somebody that deserves a licking, else
it's not fight worth fighting.
No One to Blame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

ties are exactly repeated by the employ
ers in their unwilling association.
All men resist organization We don't
want to be bound together. But some
thing is forcing the organization of all of
us. Capital and labor feel it. Trusts and
unions are growing everywhere So. in
this laundry business We have only the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

crude and troublesome beginnings of that
universal movement toward coordination.
organization and the instructive effort
to regulate or get somehow free from the
worst consequences of that hard law o.
supply and demand which is one of the
things that are hurting US. We shall look
for the others later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

Father Johns Medicine is physicians prescrip-
tlOn
Prescribed for the Rev. Father John OBrien of
Lowell, Mass, by eminent specialist in 1855.
Father John recommended this prescription to his
parshoners and friends and in this way it became
known as Father Johns Medicine.
This story is true and we guarantee to give
s. 100000 to any charitable institution if shown
otherwise.
Father Johns Medicine will coughs colds and all
and lung troubles consumption and make flesh and
strength taken faithfully 1t is nf patent medicine
not contain alcohol or poisonous drugs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
No One to Blame.

There's nobody to blame for the condi-
ton of the laundry workers. Something,
not somebody. is at fault here as in most
trades, or most cities, and in most sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
LaCeS and ErnbrOideneies

45-inch Crystal Spot Chiffons; all
colors; used for tunics and
yelling evening dresses. $1.00 Roe
value
Narrow Cotton Cluhy and Cotton
and Linen Torchon; lace edges and
Insertions; up to inches wide. Sc
1Oc values.
Chiffon Cloth; embroidered and
braided shirt waist patterns; SD OR
all colors $500 Values.
Beaded Chiffon Cloth kimono Waist
Patterns; white with black S1 E0h
and all black. Some were SIS
Swiss, NainSook and Cambria Cor
set Cover Embroidery; Is inches
wide, with beading at top for rib
bon; also s to II inch Cambria
fiouncings for petticoats; heavy, blind
and eyelet patterns. $50 Csc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

Their condition may be summed up in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

Swiss and Nainsook Embroidery
Medallions; large and small, round
and square,: eyelet and blind Sc
patterns. Worth up to 1Sc. 80. wv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

Style No. 1-Palais Royal Raven"
Black Silk Covered. Absolutely guar
anteed fast black; &c to-. .3Sc
Style No. 2-Palais Royal High
Point Light weight; 24c to........ SIC
Style No. 3-Palais Royal Shirt
Waist" Light Weight; all sizes. .1Sc
Style No. 4-Palais Royal Myrtle
Double Covered; 23c to................35c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01

Swiss Embroidery Flouncings: 81
inches wide; in eyelet and
blind patterns. Some were 2dD~
$1.00 yard. ..................
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
Greater Palais Royal Dress Shie
OF Best Para Rubber-Fully Guaranteed.

The Greater Palais Royal imprinted dress shield
is be the of reliability Made by the leading maker
of best shields and sold with the that holds this
abishmen fully responsible all harm gown the
Greater Paa Royal give feeling of greater security
than that of a firm outside of Washington
Prices No More Than for the Best
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-02-03

The back view Of coio9e1 Hoos~-a~
bears suggestions of the tireless activ-
1ty which has marked the ex-rough
rider all his life. It is oblong in it's
outlines. square in the shoulders, mar
rowing in slightly at the waist. 1t Is
an energetic back, one with muscular
ity and strength and pose, and it, has
served it's owner we'll in Wyoming and
Cuba and Washington and Africa and
Oyster Bay and elsewhere.
A few months ago at the coronation
festivities the camera man in search of
backs was fortunate enough to SNAP"
two Of the worlds celebrities when
their faces were turned from him.
That is why two Of the greatest fight
ing men Of the age are shown in the
illustration. They are Field Marshal
Lord Kitchener, one of Great Britain's
most famous generals, and Vice Ad-
miral Togo. the Japanese sea fighter.
whose diminutive but strong figure was
the center of cheering American