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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-13
Mrs. Henderson Hostess at
Musicale for Guests

Mrs. Marcus L. Henderson at her
beautiful home on Twenty-third street
is the hostess this afternoon from to
6 O'Clock to $50 tri-city ladies at
musicale given as a courtesy Tor heT
house guests. MIS-. rIenry Farecloueh
of Chicago and her sister. Mrs. Almoh
Kidder of Monmouth. Miss Elizaoeth
Mott of Davenport with Mrs. T. b.
Starbuck as accompanist are the en-
tertainers of the afternoon giving an
informal program of songs Mrs. Hen
derson and her guests receive and as
sisting about the rooms are Mrs. John
Henderson. Mrs. John Kenyon MIS-
Richard CHAMPION. Mrs. Alice Child
Walker. Mrs. b. r. Towndrow and
Miss Mary McPhail. Mrs Henderson
Is gowned in a dainty lowered SIN
tissue crepe with shadow lace Trim
mings and her flowers are a corsage
bouquet OF sweet peas. Mrs. rare
clough wears a beautiful gown OF
black chantily lace over white satin
Her Jewels are diamonds and she
wears a corsage bouquet OF sweet
peas. Mrs. Kidder's gown is OF taupe
charmeuse with shadow lace trim
mings. pearl ornaments and sweet
peas as a corsage bouquet
The house is beautifully trimmed in
n profusion OF spring flowers, arts
ticaIly placed and adding their beauty
TO the lovely home. In the dining
room porch where the afternoon col
Iation is served is an enormous bas-
ket filed with pink sweet peas. the
handle OF which is tied with blue rib
bon. In the dining room is a boat OF
lavender sweet peas, in the living
room pink and white sweet peas in a
crystal holder form the decorations.
and on the large. comfortable porch
baskets OF snap dragons are used. In
the upstairs rooms are Aaron Ward
roses and in the library snap dragons
lend their beauty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-13
CHARITY CONCERT BIG SUCCESS

Miss Margaret Maxwell OF this city,
who makes her home with her aunt.
Mrs. y. w. Steiner. and who took the
leading part. that of Gretel in Humper-
drinks musical comedy. 'Henzel and
Gretel," at the charity concert at the
Burtis opera house. Davenport, last
evening. won for herself the unstinted
praise OF her auditors. She has a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-13

Dear Mrs thompson: % Do vol
think it right to meet a fellow in an
other state and marry him, as 1 hav
only seen him twice?
(2) Is it proper for a young gentle
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
BULL PLUNGEs INTO BANK
In Sioux City. Is Captured After
an Hours Struggle.

Sioux City. Ia.--A ferocious bull be.
ing driven to the stock yards by H.
Fish, farmer, broke away as he
mounted the viaduct and caught first
view of the packing houses. The
frenzied animal gored Fish and his
horse, severely injuring both.
Believing and snorting In his fury.
he rushed through Fourth street,
Sioux City's principal business high
way. chasing pedestrians to cover and
spreading terror on all sides, winding
up his mad rampage by breaking into
the First National bank. Fifth and
Pierce streets, causing panic among
officials and clerks. The rampage
was ended when the bull became
wedged in the revolving doors, where
he paved and kicked In desperation,
evidently determined to clean out the
money temple.
The fire department was called out
to aid the police. The animal was las
seed and bound after an hour of
manoeuyring in the presence Of an ex-
cited crowd which would have done
credit to a Mexican bull fight assem-
blags.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
MILLINERY FOR men
The Headgear OF "Nuts" in Brit
iSh East Africa.
Natives Are Extremely Vain; and as
Hats Form Chief Article Of Attire,
They Display Great Ingenuity
in Adjoining Them.

London.-it is not only in Bond
street and other haunts of fashion
that feathered millinery is the order
OF the day. 1t would almost seem as
Il the big Paris and London milliners
had taken a trip to British East At
RIGA and evolved the latest styles from
study of the native headgear.
The natives there are extremely
vain, and since hats form the chief
article of their attire. they display
great ingenuity in adjoining them. If
the results are not strictly beautiful,
they are at least striking
Some of the headdresses are made
out of gazelle skins and trimmed with
hawks feathers, others encircle the
face something after the style of a
nuns headdress. but perhaps the one
with the long, upright feather most
nearly resembles the millinery of tho
moment at home.
But whereas in England 1t is the
women who spend feverish hours and
enormous sums of money in the desire
to obtain something really chic, in
British East Africa it is the men who
take so much pains over their person
al appearance. Far from adjoining
themselves, the women are actually
compelled to make themselves as I'M
attractive as possible.
1t may be that their lords and mas
tiers can flaunt their own finery with
more effect If the other sex is unbe.
comingly CARRIED, or perhaps they fear
that the East African women may
outstrip them in appearance il allow
ed a free hand in the matter of at
tire.
One shudders to consider what con-
sternation would ensue were such a
policy suggested in England today.
Women have for so long had the
monopoly of frills and furbelows that
many of them would find their days
empty and shorn of interest were
there no pilgrimages to the Diapers
and no consultations with dressmak-
ers and milliners.
AS for deliberately making them.
selves unattractive, it is doubtful
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
HOME HOSPITAL ON TRIAL
~. Y. Society Endeavors to Treat
Whole tuberculosis Family in
Model Quarters.

New York-The Home hospital is
the way an interesting tuberculosis
experiments carried on during the past
year, is designated This is the first
of it's kind, because it provides a
home for all of the members of the
family and in addition, all the advan-
tages of hospital care for the patient
himself The hospital is located in
the East River Homes, built by Mrs.
w. K. Vanderbilt especially for tuber-
culous families. Twenty-seven fam
lilies consisting of 1876 individuals were
treated during the year. Six of the
families have been rehabilitated physi-
fcally. socially and economically, and
five have been discharged as not suit
able for experiment. Out of the 1876
sndividuals. 70 were patients. the aver
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

sert his neck preparatory to execu-
ton
Any great public occasion, says the
Times. was seized upon as an excuse
for human sacrifice. There was the
annual harvest festival. at which
large numbers of victims we're often
offered. The king also went every
three months to pay homage to the
shades of his ancestors at Bantama,
and on each occasion the death of 20
men over the great bowl was de-
manded.
King Prempeh used to watch the
sacrifices, seated In chair, with the
queen mother on stool on his left. !.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
MANY HEADS FELL INTO IT
London Museum Gets q Gruescme
Bowl From West Africa Through
Gen. 6aden-PowelI.

Loadon.-Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert
Baden-Powell has presented to the
Museum of the Royal United Service
Institution an extraordinary relic
the brass bowl used to receive the
heads of victims of King Prempeh of
Ashanti. 1t was obtained in the
course of the expedition of 1896. The
bowl, which resembles an ordinary
English bathtub in appearance and
size, is about five feet in diameter.
On the rim are four small lions, rath-
er well modelled, and number OF
knobs, evidently intended as ornamen-
tation There Is gap in the contin-
uity of the series of knobs to allow
a space in which the victim may in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
SCHOOL In MOUNTAIN

plank nailed to two sticks and set
against the wall.
Into this school last spring came
Miss Angelina Barker. as teacher,
and nine pupils, representing four diff
ferent families Although the wealth
er was damp, for the first three weeks
they had no fire. Most of the pupils
had no books. But teacher and pupils
went to work to do the best they
could with what they had and to get
better equipment as fast as they
could
One day a premium list of the Mon
tana State fair, which is held at Hell
ena each year, came to this little
school. Both teacher and pupils be-
gan to read to see what there was
they could do BEST kindergarten
work." they knew they could not do
that. BEST shop work." that sound
ed even more hopeless. Best collec-
ton of wild flowers, pressed and
mounted, with description of f1ve;"
everybody shouted: "Of course we
CAM" and the race was on.
The Mexican children who lived far
up on the mountain rsucKed the flow
ers belonging to the higher attitudes,
while the rest brought in those pc
culiar to the lowlands and meadows.
At school the flowers we're placed in
textbooks and magazines, and in the
absence OF a flower press the boys
and girls would sit on them. At home
the flowers were put in books under
the heaviest weights that could be
found. One boy placed two sacks OF
-four on the books; another a tool
chest, while a third said the heavi-
est thing he could find was the large
bucket" in which his father carried
the feed to the pigs. The girls re-
sorted to just as ingenious expedi-
ents, utilizing trunks, bureaus, and
even one leg of bed in which adults
were sleeping, IN order that the nee
essary amount of PRESSURE might be
obtained
When the days of collecting and
pressing the flowers were over, all
of the specimens were brought to-
gether, and after the very best ones
had been selected, each was carefully
mounted on white cardboard, and the
entire collection of 6S wild flowers
was sent to the state department of
education to be entered at the fair.
When the judges gave their decision
1t was found that the Crazy Mountain
school had won the first prize, the
blue ribbon and the five dollars. for
the best collection of wild flowers
from any school in the state.
On the day of the prize award the
rural inspector stood In the little
booth and called the attention of the
bankers and business men to the
splendid exhibit and to the pictures
| of the little school. When one of the
| leading merchants saw it, he said:
60 and tell the people of Park coun-
ty that boys and girls who will do
work like that are entitled to better
schoolhouse and better equipment,
and tell them that as soon as they get
/ the house they can come to my store
and get anything In it without money
or without price; for the best bust
/ ness men as well as the best school
men realize that boys and girls who
| do faithful work with what they have
will make men and women who will
do good work when the tine of larger
| opportunity comes to them"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
Montana Inspector Tells of Tu-
toring in a Shack.
Methods Employed to Teach Boys and
Girls In Section What They Could
Do Best - Win competi-
tive Prize.

Washington.--Ho boys and girls
In a little mountain schoolhouse In
Montana found what it was they
could do best, and did it SO well that
they won first prize in a statewide
competition and attracted the atten-
ton of the whole state is told by
c. w. Tenny,. state school inspector
of Montana. in a rural school circular
just issued by the U. S. bureau of ed
ucation. Here is Mr.. Tenny's story
of how Crazy Mountain school did its
part in rural betterment.
The Crazy Mountain schoolhouse is
a 10 by IL shack, with roof which
slants but one way and is covered
with black tar paper. Cracks in the
floor were SO big that pencils easily
fell through them. The only light
that came in was from three tiny win
dows, two in the rear and one on the
left. The hole cut through the -oof
to accommodate the stovepipe was SO
Sarge that when it rained the water
ran into the stove and put the fire
out. Rain also beat in at the door,
which was held shut by a chain
hooked over q nail. The desks were
borrowed from a neighboring school,
which had thrown them away as use
less. The seats we're held up by
sticks of wood, unless pupil was for
tunate enough to find box of the
chair. and the teachers desk was q
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

whether any civilized woman could be
induced even to attempt it, and it is
quite certain that no civilized man
would be courageous enough to pro-
pose it.
Some of these dusky nuts" are
quite imposing-looking men, and can
carry off even a rather overpowering
head-dress with a certain amount of
distinction, whereas a woman, unless
she is tall, is often quite overwhelmed
by the gigantic feathers and enormous
wings so popular in modern millinery.
Whether fashions change. In East
Africa as frequently as they do in Eu-
rope we are not told. 1t is probable.
however, that feathers are always pop.
ular, since they are the ornaments
most easily procurable by the young
bloods who indulge in elaborate mil
linery. Flowers would be rather In
congruous, and it is probable that the
tying of really fetching bow would
be quite beyond them.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
WEARS A S5oo,ooo NECKLACE
Mrs. Ira Morris and Mrs. Hammond at
Royal italian Ball outshIne
All Others.

Rome.-Most notable among the
American women at the court ball in
the Quirinal palace were Mrs. Ira
Morris, wearing diamond necklace
said to be valued at 100000, pur-
chased from an Indian rajah, and Mrs.
John Hays Hammond, In an old vene-
tian brocade, and the jewels she wore
at King Georges coronation.
Her gems included a diamond and
emerald necklace, bracelets, stomach
er, and earrings, formerly belonging
to Catherine, of Russia.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
WESTERN CANADA
CAME INTO EVIDENCE
AT THE CRUCIAL PERIOD FOR
SUPPLY OF WORLDS FOOD
STuFFS.

The present demand for foodstuffs
In all parts of the world, and the ex-
pense Of producing it on high-priced
lands, would make it seem that west
ern Canada came into evidence at the
crucial period. There is 10 be found
the opportunity that win be a large
factor In meeting this demand, With
its millions of acres of land, easily
cultivatable. highly productive, access
sible to railways, and with nnexcelled
climatic conditions, the opportunities
that are offered and afforded are too
great to be overlooked.
There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such, and in the course
Of time the bubble was prieked and
was burst. But In no country has the
development been as great nor as
rapid. whether in city or in country,
as in western Canada.
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta have the larg-
est area of desirable lands on the
North American continent, and their
cultivation has Just begun,
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop. less than eight
per cent. of the land is under the
ploughs, four per cent. being in wheat.
Less than five years ago the wheat
crop was only 100000 bushels. 1t
Is simple calculation to estimate
that IL four per cent of the available
cultivatable area produces something
over 200,000,000 bushels, what will AZ
per cent produce? And then look at
the immigration that is coming into
the country. In 1901 Il was 49,149,
1900 being from the United States
in 1906 1t was 1s9,064, OF which $1,000
were Americans, and in 1913 1t was
about 100000, of which about 100000
were Americans. But why have they
gone to Canada? The American farm.
er is man of shrewd business in,
stincts, Just like his Canadian brother
and when he finds that he can sell his
own farm at from 800 to 5000 pei
| acre and move i@to Canada and home
stead and pre-empt half a section fol
himself. and similarly for all his sons
who are adult and of age upon lands
as rich and fertile as those he left
| and producing indeed sevaral bushels
to the acre in excess of anything h,
has ever known, 1t VIII take NOR,
than an ordinary effort to prevent hin
from making the change.
And then, too, there is the American
capital following the capital of brawr
muscle and sinew, following 1t so a
to keep in touch with the industriou
farmer with which 1t has had dealing
for years back. This capital and tn
capital of farming experience is n
small matter in the building UP OF
country.
Nothing is said OF the great mineri
and forest wealth, OF which but llttl
has been touched.
No country in tine worlds histor
has attracted to its borders a large
number of settlers in so short a tins
or has attracted so much wealth in
period of equal length. as have tn
Canadian prairies. Never before ha
pioneering been accomplished unde
conditions so favorable as those tina
exist in western Canada today.--At
vertisement.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
MEETS DEATH IN ODD WAY
High School Boy straneIes to Death
on Trapeze In Attic Of His
Home.

Erie, Pa.-Chester Childs, seventeen,
an Erie high school senior and men,
of the last seasons football team, was
strangled to death on trapeze which
he had put up in the attic of the fam
lily home. Young Childs went to the
attic alone to try the trapeze.
An hour later his mother found his
unconscious form hanging by the neck
from the trapeze. He died before the
family physician reached the home.
It is believed he fell and in falling his
head caught in loop OF the trapeze
rope.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

age number of patients being 2,92 to
a family. The report shows that the
average residence at the hospital was
1888 days and that the average gain
In weight of each adult patient was
SO pounds. or this group 81 per cent.
were apparently cured, p per cent.
had their disease arrested, and IL per
cent. were much improved. OF the
s. children under care, is We're con-
sumptiFe. 10 we're suspicious cases,
and 81 were excellent candidates for
the disease. Without exception every
child gained In weight and in resist
anee to tuberculosis. An open air
school and roof playground is proyid-
Cd Tor the children.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
Removal d corr CAUSED suIt.

La Crosse, wis.,. l.. Brown was
denied $4,000 damages which he sought
because he was dissatisfied with the
removal Of a pet corn by which had
been his constant companion for years,
by a local chiropodist-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
Policeman in Court In sections.

Chicago Policeman Joseph Deva-
ney appeared in court in two pieces.
The smaller piece was in his hand.
1t was a section of his skull which
was dislodged by three thugs, whom
he appeared to identif,t.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
Hot Water Comes From Town Well.

Girard Kan-Hot water is flowing
from this towns water well. The town
authorities have. removed the pumps
and the 5000 inhabitants are without
a water supply. The heat has
reached 100 degrees. The change can
not be accounted for
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

New York-When thief grabbed
the purse OF Lillian Savage, he over
looked a bet She ran him down. slit
skirt did it
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

New York.-John Schenck and John
Belford, fishermen. captured live seal
in Gravesend Bay. 1t is the first time
in years a seal las been caught in this
vicinity.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

Boston. Dakota Dan" Russell, who
fought unsuccessfully for seven years
to establish his identity as heir to the
Russell estate, will take boarderA
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

Richfeld. N. while dancing the
tango on a frozen lake. three couples
went through the ice, but were res
cued.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27
AdvertIsea for PoIIoeman.

Montclair, N. J.-Harry Gallagher.
:hief Of police, has advertised for
He seeks brave young
nan who can win gold medals"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

1t takes philosopher, II he doesn't
get the best of 1t, to make the best
of 1t.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-02-27

The art of pretending is not confined
to regular actors.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-10
Lewis Cline OUT
FOR A new OFFICE
| POPULAR OFFICIAL HAS TEN
REASONS WHY HE SHOULD
! BE ELECTED.

Lewis Cline, than whom there has
been no more honest and capable
county official, is a candidate for
county clerk and eX-officio register Of
deeds. these two offices having been
combined through the provisions Of
an act Of the last legislature.
Two years ago, it will be remem-
bered, Lewis Cline gave nine reasons
in the pictures Of nine childrea why
he should be nominated and elected.
and those nine reasons overcame all
the arguments which could be made
fer the fathers and the mothers just
got together and he had walkaway.
He has fully and amply justified the
confidence reposed in him anG now he
stands again with ten reasons for his
nomination and election. He has the
original nine but this time he says
his wife makes up the tenth reason,
and he advances these as unansW err
able, irrrfutable, irrcfrsgible arsu-
,ncnts why the DemocreHs all over
the county should come right TO his
support.
Lewis Cline is one Of the pioneers
around here. Everybody knows him
and nobody knows anythingJll of him.
He is a good man and he has made
good In office.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-10
c,nnries Colored by Pepper.

Till recently the dinner tahle was
the only place pepper was to be found
in use. But Il has been discovered
that there is nothing To- compare with
it for giving a brilliant color TO
canaries.
II has almost magical effect in
making a canary golden as a butter
cup or saffron as a crocus. The pep
per should be given when the bird Is
moulung.
The exhibitor who first discovered
accidentally the wonderful effect Of
pepper on the color Of canaries'
feathers raked In first prizes by the
score. and there was good deal Of
suspicion that his results we're due TO
shlllful dyeing, TIL h. snade his secret
public.
Now. practically every owner OF
show birds knows the magic virtues Of
the pepper pot.-Baltimore News.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-10

needing of tho Froecrs ana butchers
wan bee held next month, some time
aiitr the annual meeting
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-10

] Shields Dierkes, teacher OF voice
and piona. studio First Baptist
church. Adv.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-08-26
SUDDEN DEATH OF
WELL KNOWN MINER
(From Fridays Daily.)

NfrOm frlOdy OdllyJ
Joe Ballargeon, one of the best
known miners OF this county, and
for over a quarter of a century a
resident. passed away yesterday at
noon. from heart disease, while at
work in the Senator tunnel, 3,4O0
feet in.
With him at the time was a fell
low miner. Both had stopped work
to eat their MONDAY meal Ballar-
geon then stated he did not feel
hungry, and without the slightest
warning of being i'll, his head fell
to one side and he was dead in a
few minutes.
Deceased had been an employee OF
the Commercial Company for many
years. and had worked in the Sena-
tor mine for over twelve years. He
was aged about 90 years, and was a
native of Switzerland, being natural
lied over thirty years ago. He has
mining interests. as well does he
own valuable real estate in this city.
His only known relative in this
State is a brother.
Judge Breed of Mt Union precinct
held an inquest, and heart failure
was the verdict of the jury The
remains were brought to Ruffner's
yesterday and burial will take place
in this city later.