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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
W |MIany Troubles Man
Causes Lowly Tailor
ByI. B. CEHRINC. New York

Perfectly straight legs It's art to shape fabrics bowgs
that they will and hide the bends of knocnees
When begins take weight it shows first at the belt ne
then the shoulders and upper Later gets down to the legs
the tailor has his troubles his customer from
looking opheavy The tailor supposed take imperfect anatomy
shape garments with such nicely produce superb figure
It's trying job.
Legs that overriding Of some complaint The waist
fifty per larger than they ought knuckes of
hone that are hard
upper end than the other Men created this model ought to be
permitted to wear full-seated knickerbockers
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
BATTLE IN M|DA|R
Partridge Battles With Kidnaper
of Her Chick.
After She Had Freed Victim, Golfers
Who Had Witnessed the Combat
Go to the Rescue of
Her Brood.

OMAHA. d. Haskell, banker of
Wakefield, and Judge Eric Johnson of
Putnam, while playing a match game
of golf several days ago, witnessed
battle royal between a mother part
ridge, defending her young, and a
hawk.
The players were putting FOR the sew
enteenth hole. The banker had made
his third shot and won the hole. Civ
ing him one up and one to play. AS
the judge was putting his attention
was suddenly called to the loud cries
of mother partridge, which Mr.. Has
kell discovered nearing the eighteenth
ground. The mother bird was anx-
ious to get her four young ones away
from the golfers
She whistled frantically, shrilly and
pleadingly, prompting them as If say
ing: Hurry up, hurry up for your
lives, my children!" At the eight
eenth hole Mr.. Haskell had teed up
In readiness to drive off when this
attention was attracted by new and
louder shrek from the parent bird
Her mind had been on the golf
players and not on a large hawk
which had been lurking and lowering
near by, it's greedy eyes fastened on
the plump young birds with a fe-
rocity in no way limited or modified
by the laws governing the close sea-
son.
The hawk swooped down and grab
bed one of the chicks before the par
ent could divert attention wholly
from the players to the bird of prey.
Mr.. Hawk was rising with it, when
the mother discovered the seizure and
made what might be called flying
leap for the aerial pirate.
Then followed a duel in midair, Is
feet from the ground, which held the
golfers spellbound. They could not
have interfered at this stage of the
battle had they possessed the oppor-
tunity, SO fascinating was the strug
gle between, on the one side of the
Yearlessness, desperation and spunk
inspired by the mother love of the
partridge, and on the other side the
savagery of the hawk.
Both the combatants tumbled to the
sward, with the partridge on top, claw
ing, pecking and rolling over and
over. Feathers few. Mr.. Hawk was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Some years ago, in the district OF
Jalpaigori, Bengal, there was a sud
den epidemic of petty thefts and bur-
glaries, says the Strand. The police,
completely baffled for some time.
finally arrested an individual on sus-
picion, who, after a preliminary mag
isterial investigation, was remanded
in custody with a view to further In
Quiries as to his antecedents On be.
ing searched, police officer, suspect.
ing he had something concealed in
his mouth. ordered him to open it.
when, embedded round one Of his
back teeth, was found a hard sub.
stance. which, on being extracted,
proved to be small, semi-circular
clasp-knife. The suspect, who had
hitherto protested his innocence, now
made full confession, and eventual
ly turned out to be a member of the
notorious criminal tribe of "Burwars"
from the district of Gonda, in Oudh,
and had already been convicted Of
fourteen previous offenses! He ad-
mitted that the knife had been spe-
cially made for him, and that he used
it for cutting open bales of cloth and
also for pocket picking.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
GOOD NATURED AGAIN
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.

For many years / was constant
sufferer from indigestion and nervous
ness, amounting almost to prostra-
tion," writes a Montana man.
MY blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This was
a steady daily condition. grew III
tempered. and eventually got so nery-
Gus / could not keep my books post
ed, nor handle accounts satisfactorily.
I can't describe my sufferings.
Nothing l ate agreed with me. till
one day / happened to notice Grape
Nuts in a grocery store, and bought
a package out Of curiosity to know
what 1t was.
81 liked the food from the very
first. eating it with cream, and now
buy it by the case and use 1t daily.
soon found that Grape-Nuts food was
supplying brain and nerve force az
nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
1T wasn't long before ] was re-
stored to health, comfort and happi-
nets.
Through the use of Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
nerves are steady once more. my eye
sight is good again. my mental faculties
are clear and acute, and have become
so good-natured that my friends are
truly astonished at the change. feel
vounoar and better than l have for 90
years. No amount of money would
induce me to surrender what | have
gained through the use of Grape-Nuts
food" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. There's a rea-
son." Read the little book, THE Road
to Wellville," in pkgs."
Ever read the above lettere A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. trne. aAd full ef humav
interest. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
THE WASHBURN Times.
WASHBURN PIG. CO.
WASHBURN. WIS.
THE PERFECT WOMAN.

The perfect woman who has beer
found among the 400 girl students OF
Cornell university overturns many
old-fashioned notions. She is not .
farm girl, but city bred, yet she il
studying agriculture for profession,
She does not eat candy. She is feet
z inches tall and weighs III pounds.
The young lady of the fashionable
novel SO years ago had a waist that
could be spanned with the two hands,
meaning some 16 inches, wrought by
painful artifice; naturally she tainted
at least once in every chapter and
had to be restored with smelling salts
after cutting her corset strings Cor
nell's perfect woman has a SO.3-1nch
waist and chest measure 4.3 inches
larger about the proportions of the
Venus of Milo. She has never faint
is the girl who used to chew slate pen,
ellis to make her face white and was
never seen abroad without her veil
and parasol. Forgotten is the maxim
that the finest women, like the finest
flowers, are raised under glass. The
American girl of today, If gifted with
the leisure, plays tennis and golf and
courts sunlight; the chances are
about five 70 one that she cannot pos
sibly squeeze herself into her grand
mothers wedding gown, says the New
York World. In this great transfer
nation favorable environment and
plenty of food have scarcely had more
to do than active habits and the
growth of sensible ideas of physical
well-being.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
Up-to-Date Finance.

Thomas w. Lawson said the other
day of scandalous financial deal.
"These people traded on popular ig
torrance. They were like Calhoun
Clay. who opened bank in Nola
Chucky.
Cali the colored people around Nola
Chucky deposited their savings in Cal
houn's bank, and Csl soon began to
wear, instead of cowhide boots and
jeans. patent feathers and broadcloth.
"Then, one day, Wash White called
at the bank and said:
"T'd like for to draw out my
money, sah.'
"'Your money! said the banker
lighting ten-cent cigar.
eyes, sah, my $40
"'Your $10'
eyes, my $40 what posted last
summer
"'Why, man alive! shouted Banker
Calhound Clay angrily, don't you know
the interest done ct that up three
months ago?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

The death of a young college pro
lessor in Paris from an overdose OF
morphine administered hypodermical-
ly has led to a movement for the rigid
administration of the law regulating
the sale of morphine. The morphine
habit is said to be at its worst among
the young women frequenters at the
night cafes and dance halls In the
Montmartre district and in collegiate
circles in the Latin quarter. There is
a possibility of the arrest on charge
of homicide of student of the higher
Normal college who is said to have adj
ministered the drug to the dead pro-
fessor. All over the world there is a
growing use of so-called habit-forming
drugs. To fight it effectively is a
problem which seems to be every
where unsolved.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
LONG SLEEP CAUSES CRIME
Criminologist Of Cincinnati Says More
Than Seven Hours Rest 10
Weakening.

Cincinnati, O.-"Seven hours sleep
is all that Is necessary for any hui
man being and if obtained regularly
in certain hours nightly will keep the
body and mind in a healthy state IS
said Foertmeyer, coroner Of Cincin-
natl, and famed throughout the coun-
try as an authority on criminology.
Much of the disease of today is due
to too much or too little sleep. A
person who sleeps over seven hours
has had too much rest. Men and
women who commit crime are as q
rule long sleepers. Their minds grow
weak from too much sleep and they
acquire the don't care habit. which
often results in crime"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

on his back, and the mother partridge
kept shrieking and whistling to her
children to take to the tall grass. The
hawk had so much to attend to in de-
Tending itself from the attacks of the
partridge that 1t was obliged in the
early rounds of the combat to drop
the chick.
After a desperate battle on the
ground, lasting several minutes, the
partridge left the attack and fiut-
tered in the direction of her brood,
while the hawk doggedly made dive
to capture another of her young. Mr..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
When the Sun VIII Die.

It may be said unqualifiedly that
the sun, like every other thing con
nected with the present order, will
finally cease to be what 1t is today
The time will most surely come. when
the sun will have ceased to throw on
light and heat. Long before that hap
pens, however, the earth and other
planets will have become dead
worlds" like the moon-no life of any
sort upon them. 1t has been calcu
lated that the sun will cease to throw
out its heat somewhere about seven
million Of years from now.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

his coronation. He probably will, IN
Difference to Japanese etiquette, make
the trip on board one of the fine cruis-
ers of the Japanese navy, although
being a poor sailor he would prefer
to travel overland in the splendid
Russian court train which the car
has placed at his disposal.
In London it is generally said that
the mikado is a great admirer of King
George and that he is particularly
anxious to visit this country, but here
we probably are as usual t1attering
ourselves, for everybody who knows
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
RECIPE FOR SAVING

Il heard men tell their experiences
in here. The testimony rang true.
That appealed to me. so said, Here
goes. / quit the booze right now
That's what l did. 1t was an awful
battle, but won"
Mr.. Monroe retold the story of the
conversation of BILLY" Sunday, ma
tionally known evangelist, when the
latter was Capt Ansons fairy boy,
the most promising athlete of the old
White Sox.
Sunday and group of drunken ball
players stopped to hear the street
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Kindness is the thing, though. Most
of the men who come in here are help
less booze-fighters. The booze-fight-
er has lost his nerve. He's a dead
one. What he needs is a friend.
Chicago is the mecca of the down
and out, because they know that Chi.
cago offers more kindness than any
other city in the land. 1t is surpris-
ing how fast young chaps from the
country strike the skids and go. They
get dizzy in the big city. and fall
Kindness is the only thing that will
bring them back"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
SING ON WAY TO GRAVE
Mourners Obey Deceased's Wish as
They Go to Cemetery in
France.

Paris.-When an old man named Jo-
seph Hughes was buried recently at
Aramon, near Mines, the funeral pro-
cession, according to the terms of his
will, followed the coffin with every
one singing an old song of which
Hughes had been fond. The old man.
who met his death through falling
upon the fire while his wife was pre-
pairing his supper, was of an original
turn of mind and had kept his coffin
under his bed for twenty years, using
it as a wardrobe.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Haskell and Judge Johnson, welding
their drivers. then made for the free
booter Of the air, and drove him off.
While they were doing this the
partridge and three of her chicks
made their escape, leaving behind the
one that had been dropped from the
hawks talons. 1t had sustained a
broken wing. The golfers placed the
wounded chick in the tall grass near
by, where the hawk could not find 1t.
1t was still there when they went
back in the evening to investigate.
but it was gone in the morning.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
Had None to Spare,

There was miners picnic at Butte
on Sunday. One Of the features was
a tug-of-war between a team of Irish
miners and a team of Slovaks.
The Slovaks were winning and the
freshmen dropped the rope and began
to fight. 1t was good fight. One
brawny Irishman had an opponent
down and was pounding him at his
leisure, when friend come along.
Gimme a belt at him." said the
friend.
"Gwan," replied the other; "go and
get one for yourself"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
MIKADo TO VISIT EUROPE
New Emperor Is to Pay Series OF Wis
it's to European Courts
Soon.

London.-London is looking forward
to a visit by no less exalted per-
sonage than the new mikado. who as
the first original head of thorough
ly modern Japan, will follow the inter-
national custom of monarchs and pay
"a series of visits to the principal
courts of Europe Immediately after
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Now some reformers want legisla
ton in Massachusetts to keep women
from smoking cigarettes. One of the
favorite occupations of humanity
that of straining at gnats and swallow
ing camels-has not yet ceased to be
popular with freak legislators.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Admiral Dewey gives outdoor exer
else and abstinence from banquets az
the recipe for keeping young in ones
seventies. The conqueror of Manila
evidently knows how to conquer othei
things, and his advice is worth the
taking.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
LAUGHS AT SOLDIERS NAME

why weren't you on the Titanic? Then
we wouldn't be bothered with you
here Since then I'm called Titanic
Meyer"
The kaiser laughed unrestrainedly,
but the captain appeared not to en-
10y the incident
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Girls and young women
who live in the country or
in small villages frequently
have only the haziest no.
tions of the details Of life in
large cities. They are too
often deluded. into seeking a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

"Weii! A Man Who out of the dives
Has Been on the of Whisky Row.
Water 81 Years and most of the
Should Not Look time was drinking
Old at co." heavily. An inter
viewer remarked about his youthfully
pink cheeks and clear eye:
That's from more than twenty years
on the water wagon" laughed Harry
Monroe You think I'm 90. Wen, l
passed the go mark last year.
Thirty years ago / staggered past
this place. / was wandering aimless-
ly. / heard the singing. came In
and sat through the service. Says |
to myself. This is the game that's
right. Pm wrong I tried to drive
away that feeling, but it wouldn't go.
came back.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

the new emperor of Japan is aware OF
the fact that he is great admirer
of the kaiser and that Ne looks for
ward to a visit to Berlin with far
greater anticipations than to England.
He considers the kaiser the greatest
ruler living and desires very much to
study the German soldier and German
military institutions close by.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
OLD PALS DIE SAME HOUR
New Workers, Each 80, Long Friends,
Breathe Their Last at Fated
Time.

Middletown, N. Y.-At exactly the
same hour Archibald Little Vail and
Abram Wilcox, old friends and former
business men of this city, died at their
homes after years of illness. Each
was eighty-thfee years old
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

when Pacific Gar
den, at 81 West
Van Buren, street,
was one OF Chi
cago's most no.
torious free and
easies," saloon,
cafe and dance
hall, the round
ers" knew Mon
roe as a pal.
Monroe w a s
then a young
tough who fought
his way in and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

The public service towel has follow.
ed the public service drinking cup into
Punishment. 1t Is about time for some
of the sentimentalists to be raising a
voice in protest against this persecu.
ton of poor germs that are being
steadily driven from every possible
lodging place and thrown on the cruel
mercy of a strictly scientific and sani'
tary world
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

A Partisan is now trying to figure
out the age of seagull with an iron
ring dated 1869 on its leg. 1t may be
forty three years old, bat 1t smacks
OF a gull of another kind.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

A Partisan judge has decided that a
woman must not pay more for her
clothes than she does for rent. The
way in which masculine wisdom is ex-
ercising itself in deciding matters OF
dress for women is another strong
argument why such vital feminine af-
fairs should not be left to men whose
minds cannot naturally be disinter'
ested on the subject.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

DR.. Carrel, the surgeon whose ex
periments have startled the world
was held up by the custom house Of
ficials and put through a rigid inves
.tgation. He is prepared to certify
their efficiency as vivisectors.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Aeroplanes may be used at sea
for the purpose OF discovering sub
merged submarines. Submarines
have to come ashore to be safe, any.
way.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
t Young Women Seek
Career I'M Cities
BY Fannie M. E.nright. Philadelphia

career living surroundings with which they totally una
miar
they unpleasant For this
the necurch federation OF Ph
deph girls through
out the country 90 big cities unless they have been assured of
employment at than SIS a week
Country girls working farm frequently lured to the city
think good Many regret their folly
federation found that the weekly cost of
living working includes with two meals S. lunches $120
clothing and ncidentals $1.80.
statement that $50 dangers bese
supporng who has inadequate out of
poent that feel justified issuing this
ton and warning"
contemporary has discovered that the raesnae
TO
get along years the other without single dose of rattle
snake poison.
young gets lot publicity for Beginning world tour
TWO cents Many begin less than that and land in the
newspapers, either.
European surgeon has succeeded in transferring the kidney OF
20 the Of Now who's the goat?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Men tailors have trouble
with shoulders, wristbands
and legs, but legs are the
worst. There isn't one man
in ten who can make an affi-
davit that be is neither
knock-kneed nor bow-lepged.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

service on South
State street that
was being con-
Quoted by Colonel
Clarke and Mr..
Monroe. He left
his fellows. joined
the mission and,
while accompany
ing the team in
other cities. re-
fused to play on
Sunday and con-
Quoted m j s S / o n
services instead.
Mr.. Monroe was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

The writer has for many
years past made a study OF
eating and drinking to pro-
mote health. Ny expert
menting has been carried on
solely for my own benefit
and not with a view to pub
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
Head of Chicago Mission Tells
How to Rescue DereIictS.
Harry Monroe Declares He Was 9
Tough, But Was Called From Life
of Debauchery by Conviction
of Its HopeIessness.

with a Bible in one hand and a
loaf of bread in the other-that's the
only way to save the man that's
down" t..
Don't drop the bad man. the man
that's strong and wrong. That's the
man to stick to- If you win you've
got real one"
Kindness is the thing. Slap him
on the back Help him get a front.
then make him hustle"
THE helpless booze fighter has just
lost his nerve He's a dead one. Help
him materially as we'll as mentally. Ii
you don't he's goner. He can't make
a play at ALL"
Chicago. Monroe gives these
remedies for the redemption of those
who have strayed or have fallen.
The kindly little fat man with the
twinkling eye and handshake that
has given hope to thousands thus
sums up. in advice to others, the acts
that have made him successful at Pa
cific Garden Mission.
Nearly everybody has heard of Har-
ry Monroe Among the derelicts he
is known as q friend. Among church
folk he Is the genius who guides the
Pacific Garden Mission. the mother
Of American MISSIONS
Still another class of people know
Harry Monroe. Thirty-five years ago,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13
City Wants "ReaIv Policemen.

Pittsburgh, Pain order to obtain
real" policemen, Bellevue borough
will advertise for them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

"oheO "n"e IL 10 "Sone The Stuff
liza. "ine inen That Gets the
o"on " Heart and Pulls"
spect after they
have fallen. He pointed to sign on
the mission wall-"How Long Since
You Wrote to Mother?" and then, In
a clear tenor voice. sang a sympa-
thetic old song: THE Little Brown
Church"
Song" he said. that is the stuff
that gets to a mans heart, and pulls
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

When a young Eskimo
has decided to become a
family man he marches up
to the hut of the young
woman of his choice and
lies in wait for her. When
she appears he seizes her by
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

European surgeon succeeded in transferring the kidney of
goat 20 the interior Of a man. Now who's the goat?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

that wins men
back to self-re-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-13

Young man gets publicity for beginning world tour
less than that and land in the
eihe