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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

shows it completed, and Fig. 8 shows
how the walls are built Notch the
stick logs an inch from each end, on
two sides Gig. A., and place the
sticks so the notched ends will come
over one another Gig. 81. Where
there is a window or doorway, use
shorter sticks, and bind together the
ends next to the openings with string
Gig. 81. The stick logs between the
doorway and window Gig. p are tied
at both ends with string.
There must be a windmill, and Fig.
shows one that is easily built. Make
paper pinwheel &c, Fig. g., by creas-
ing six-inch square of paper from
corner to corner Gig. y, then cutting
along the creases from the corners to
within half an inch of the center, and
then turning over one-half of each
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
Not Meant for the Public.

Two Scotch sailors retiring from the
sea purchased small pub in a coun-
try town. The place was painted in
side and out, being closed up for the
purpose.
The villagers. after few days, gath
cred outside the place, and one of
them knocked at the door. A window
above opened, and one of the former
sailors inquired the reason for the
gathering outside.
1--WE want to know when you are
going to open up" was the reply.
open up?" retorted the man at the
window. I'VE bought this place for
ourselves!" And the window closed
with bang.-London Tit-Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

French loan may have studied the
Cooke methods. The governments
~fve-twenty" loan was authorized in
February, 1862. 1t remained on the
market nearly year without success.
despite various efforts OF Secretary
Chase to negotiate it. He solicited
offers in New York, but the condition
of the money market at the time was
such that most of the bids were at a
considerable discount below par. In
fact, there was not sufficient currency
in New York to absorb the loan rapid
ly enough to supply the wants of the
government.
1t became evident that If the loan
were to be taken it would be only
through popularizing it, by seeking
purchasers among the masses of the
people in all parts of the country, and
no longer merely upon the capital ac-
cumulated in the money centers.
How was this to be done? The treas
ury department was not adapted to
the management Of business of that
charaN<er. There were no officers
who could be charged with the under
taking. All the bureaus were over
crowded with overworked employees.
Besides, the laws regulating the re-
ceipts and disbursements of public
moneys presented insupereble barriers
to direct negotiation of the loan be-
tween the treasury department and
the people.
When these difficulties became OBJ.
vious Secretary Chase decided to re-
sort to. private enterprise and selected
Jay Cooke of Philadelphia, head of
the banking house of Jay Cooke & Co.,
as special agent for the treasury de-
partment in disposing of the bonds.
Mr.. Cooke attacked the work with
yigor and enthusiasm. Under his man.
agement there was organized a vast
machinery that resulted in the enlist.
ing of every bank and banker and al.
most every newspaper in the northern
states in advocating the loan. He con.
Quoted publicity campaign which w
TO that time was probably without a
parallel.
The bonds were issued in denomina
Sions of $50. 800, $500 and $1,000, and
1t was estimated that at least three
million persons subscribed for the
loan in amounts ranging from $50 to
sums in six figures.
The Cooke advertisements were
spirited and confident. rejecting the
vigorous character of the man who
wrote them. He kept the loan before
the people constantly.
His newspaper "broadsides" were
characterized by both originality ant
ingenuity. One of his most effective
efforts in the line of publicity ap
peared as kind of farmers and me
chanics catechism. entitled 1.-THE Bes
Way to Put Money Out at Interest.
Mr.. Cooke personally called upor
the editors in Philadelphia and New
York to indoctrinate them with hi
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

piece Gig. y, and carefully mark
out the SO stars upon muslin. Locate
the eenters for the stars by ruling
lines horizontally and vertically across
the field, so the positions will be the
same as shown in Fig. 1. Then, in sew
ing the stars in place, stitch down the
edges and around the centers, as In
Dictated in Fig. 8.
A round rug-pole, nicely painted
with brass curtain-pole ball screwed
into one end makes an excellent flag
pole Gig. 81. Screw screw-eyes into it
at A and B, through which to run the
ropes for hosting the flag, another at
C to attach the supporting stays to,
and fourth at D. Screw-eye D should
be large, and two others of the same
size &c, Fig. 10) should be screwed
into the window sill or other ledge on
which the flag is to be supported, ana
a peg CD cut to fit the eyes. BY plac-
ing screw-eye D between screw-eyes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
BEST SEEN FROM A DISTANCE
Little Animals Fur Is Valuable, but
His Acquaintance Is Not Thing
to Be Desired.

Considered from safe distance. the
subject Of this sketch is a very inter-
esting animal. The closer you get to
him, the more interesting he becomes.
knowledge of his habits and appear
ance is more or less uncommon, for
the reason, perhaps, that those per-
sons best acquainted with him don't
like to talk about him. He's very in
teresting, nevertheless. He is called
the skunk
He's strictly an American animal,
although no national songs have been
written abou: him. He isn't a fighter,
and yet he could whip a lion, If a
lion ever attacked him. His weapon
of defense is an offensive odor which
natural history writer OF former
days described like fox, but ten
times stronger"
Usually he sleeps by day and prowls
about by night. His fur is a blackish
brown with yellow stripes down his
back, and he has bushy tail. The
skunk's fur is valuable, and recently
skunk farms" have been established
to propagate them for commercial
purposes.
In spite of his powerful weapon of
defense, the skunk Is clean in his
habits, and his worst damage is to the
farmers poultry yard, which he visits
to steal both eggs and chickens. The
animal is about the size of a cat.
But woe unto him who mistakes him
for a catl
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

views. His brother, Henry Cooke, was
on terms of intimacy and friendship
with the correspondents congregated
at Washington and, so we are told. in
vited them individually and in parties
to partake of the Inequalities of his
splendid home in Georgetown.
Besides the countrywide publicity
carried on in the newspapers and mag
azines Cooke literally showered the
nation with show cards, posters, cir
culars, pamphlets and handbills, a mar
velous variety of devices of the type
to catch the eyes OF the people, i'm
press their minds and draw the money
from their pockets.
All the while travelling agents
secured the country from end to end
seeking money in the remotest corners
of the country. 1t was not long be-
fore the name of Jay Cooke became
known to every village and farm and
had only to be spoken by one of his
solicitors to draw the carefully hoard
ed savings from their hidden recesses
as If by magic.
Night agencies at which mechanics,
mill workers and factory employees
could subscribe for the bonds were es-
tablished in all the large cities shortly
after Cooke received his appointment
for the "seven-thirty" loan, in Janu-
airy, 1865.
The office of a coal and wood con-
Germ, real estate shack, or even the
| front part of corner saloon, answered
the purpose. so long as it gave the
wage-earner an easy opportunity to
invest his surplus earnings in United
States bonds
Nearly a score of these night agen-
| cies were opened up in New York city,
Brooklyn and nearby New Jersey fac
tory centers, and for weeks the seven
thirty" government Juror continued at
a high pitch.
The remarkable success which at
tended the employment of these meth
DDS fully justified their adoption.
Within less than eighteen months
after Jay Cooke took charge OF the
distribution of the "five-twenty" loan
the enormous aggregate of 100000,
900 had been diverted from the ordin.
airy channels of investment and trade
and turned over to the government
without serious disturbance to the in
dustrial or commercial interests of the
country.
In all the period the popuIarizing
machine was in action there was nc
serious pressure resulting upon the
money market. no exhaustion of the
resource relied upon, no faltering Oh
unevenness in the flow from Thousand
rills which fed the constantly swell
ing current of the supply In thu:
popularizing the loan, distributing Il
among the people in all sections, oc
equations and degrees of wealth, the
foundations were laid for future loans
and the national credit was placed OF
a broader and firmer basis than 1t eve
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

short stick Co pivoted with a small
brad above the spout, for handle.
Make "paddle-wheel' boat for the
lake Gig III. A piece of thin wood,
pointed at one end. with one-inch
square notch cut in the other end,
forms the hull; the mast is a short
stick; the sail is piece of paper:
and the paddle is small piece of
wood held in the notched end of the
hull by meals of rubber bard Gig.
12).
Plant branches and twigs for trees
and shrubbery, make fences with
stick posts connected with strings
Zig. II.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
GATHERED FACTS.

Nearly a ton Of wrist watches were
on exhibition at a recent convention
OF jewellers in New York. THE ma.
jority OF persons" said one of the ex-
hibitors, "call these sissy watches,
but this term will eventually be dis
credited-for one thing. because the
officers in the European war are de
pending a great deal on wrist
watches" The convention, however
as a whole. did not encourage the use
of the innovation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
ZZzLA
W. Va nv cLAI
W. s2s-

nau Deen on before.
Since the stirring days in which jay
Cooke achieved his financial triumphs
the processes by which the surplus
funds of the country find their way
into investment have been refined and
brought up to higher state of perfec-
ton. There exists in the economic
structure of the nation today finan-
cial department of perfect machinery
which applies to the country's develop
ment the combined energy of the ac-
cumulated savings of men and women
all over the land. Like the transmits
sion machinery of the modern indus
trial plant by which the heat units in
the coal bin are transformed to pounds
of energy in producing useful com
modities, our banking system gathers
up the savings-the five hundred and
thousand dollar nest eggs-from myr-
lad thrifty homes, unites them in pow
erful funds Of limitless energy and
puts them to work. 1t is through the
operation of this machinery that rail.
roads and public utilities are financed.
industrial enterprise is promoted and
the funds required to carry on state
and municipal improvements are
raised.
To gear this machinery up so that
large foreign loans can be arranged in
this country is the problem now be-
fore the heads of the nations great
financial institutions.
hn aP
they have realized that nations of Eu.
rope. being engaged in the waste and
destruction Of capital on a prodigious
scale, would soon or late be knocking
at our doors and asking for financial
aid. That time has come England
and France sent some of their most
gifted financiers and men of affairs to
the United States on borrowing mis-
sion.
Baron Reading, lord chief justice OF
England, man of extraordinary in
tellect and forcefulness, often spoken
of as Englands DisraeIi of the TWEEN
tieth century; Sir Edward Holden, one
of the foremost joint-stock bankers of
London; Sir Henry B. Smith, an In
ternational banker of wide expert
ence; Octave Homberg of the French
foreign office; Ernest Mallet, regent
Of the Bank Of France, and Basil B.
| Blackett, British treasury expert
| these are the men who came to ar
range for loan to be pledged Jointly
| by their respective countries.
In listening to their arguments the
American bankers constantly kept IN
mind the fact that in order to get the
people to invest in bonds of foreign ma
tions they must first make them see
the advantages to be gained by lend
ing money abroad
| Obviously their position is not the
same as that which confronted Jay
Cooke, whose appeal for funds was,
after all, largely an appeal to the peo-
pies patriotism.
Cold facts concerning foreign ex-
| changes. the movement of the crops
and other phases of the country's bus
| mess. vital as they are to general
| prosperity, cannot be expected to
awaken the same enthusiasm as the
cry, THE Union must be preserved"
Nevertheless, when the financial ma
chinery of the country is once set in
motion wonderful things can be &C
complished. Jay Cooke demonstrated
this.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

The suggestion in Fig. 1 for villa
beside lake can be elaborated upon
by adding cottages, summer houses,
paths and roadways. If you wish. First
find dishpan. washtub. or other re-
ceptacle to hold water for the lake.
Set this in hole several feet away
from a corner of the yard. Then be-
tween the lake and the corner, pile up
earth to form hills.
The log house is built of straight
sticks cut from branches. Figure 2
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
improving Human Race.

1t is becoming Increasingly neces-
sary to impress the fact that there
are two distinct lines in the improve
ment OF any race: one by favorable
environment, which brings individ.
uals up to their best possibilities: the
other-1O,0OO times more important
and effective-selection of the best
individuals through a series of gen.
erations, writes Luther Burbank in
Good Health. By this means. and bv
this only. can any race of plants. ami.
mails or man be permanently or radio
ally improved.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

The prince of Wales has taken an
oath never to marry a German prin-
cess. The heir apparent to the Brit
ish throne. who is directly of Ger,
man stock. is quoted by the Paris
press as having formally registered a
VOW that no German blood should be
added to the British throne line if he
could help it. Il intend to marry the
daughter on an English peer" said
the young prince to friends recently.
The prince has been serving with the
British headquarters force somewhere
in the region Of Dunkirk.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

Flag-making is within the ab,rtu
any girl handy with the needle
medium-sized flag requires but i.,1A
more work than a small one ana go
this reason I have shown in M W
diagram for flag six feet in Iaro..
1t will be easy to alter these dr. III
sions If you want flag of differon,
length. "'
Red. white and blue bunting for tba
stripes and field can be purchased =.
any dry goods store. ~
After cutting the stripes three incbe.
wide, by the lengths shown in Fig
sew them together. turning in their
edges slightly, as shown in Figs 2 ana
3, and sewing with a double row 40
stitching. The top and bottom rod
stripes should be cut from the salv
edge of the cloth, so their onte-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10
FADING financiers Of Great
Britain and France recent
ly negotiated a loan in the
United States for five hum
dred million dollars.

dred million dollars.
No attempt to raise such vast
amount of money has been made in
this country since the days Of the
Civil war. Older heads in Wall street
recall the furore which attended the
successful distribution of two large
loans put out by this government
one for FIVE hundred millions Of dol
lars and another for eight hundred and
thirty nillions-to pay the expenses
incurred in the struggle to preserve
the Union.
Jay Cooke, the great financier OF
that period, engineered the flotation
of both loans and the machinery he or
ganized and set In motion for gather
ing up the savings of people and ex-
changing them for the governments
''five-twenty" and "seven-thirty"
bonds. while perhaps crude alongside
the highly perfected system of con-
Quoting banking and investment bust
ness which exists today, was marvel
GUS from the viewpoint of results
achieved. He succeeded in speeding
up his system to the point where sub
scriptions for the bonds came in faster
than the treasury department could
supply the engraved certificates.
1t has been suggested that the bank
ers who have negotiated the Anglo
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

the Great Con-
. fHcf BefsOeen the States,
the Federal GoUern menf
OaS in Dire Need o Funds.
After Others Had Failed 10
Raise the Sum, Jay Cooke,
Note Findncier, Sue
ceeded BY a .NesO Method.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

E, and slipping peg F through the
three, the end OF the pole will be heiu
securely. But before this enc -
fastened, the stays Zig. 81 must %
tied to screw-eye c and to scre"-el 9
screwed into the sides of the ~indo"'
as shown in Fig. II, to carry all CT ln'
weight of the pole.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-10

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND CHRIS
A. Nicely HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS
~ = =
A roy VILLA.
4 HOMEMADE AMERICAN FLAG

Copyright by A Nelly SSGaRRI
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-25
Ole Gown Grier|

meeting Of Plate Printers' Local
Union, No. .. will be held tonight in
Typographical Temple. 1t is expected
there will be a full attendance OF
members, as many important matters
are to be considered
1t In expected that 5000 children
will participate in the annual exhi-
bition of the physical training de-
partment of the colored public schools
to take place at the American League
Baseball Park Friday. The manage
ment has just announced that the
girls of Miner Normal School will ap-
pear on the program with several
games and dances.
Within = day or two the contribu-
tors to the fund being raised to defray
the expenses of the annual encamp-
ment of the G. A. R.. to be held here
in the fall, will be notified that the
second half Of their donations will
be payable June /. The notices are
being prepared by Col. Robert N
Harper chairman of the committee
of citizens arranging for the encamp-
ment.
Board of Education, and DR.. kimball
principal in the schools,
were the principal speakers at a re-
cent meeting of the Carbery Parent
Teacher Association. Mrs. w: B.
Bayles presided and Miss Young, prin-
cipal of the school. gave a short talk.
Rev. John T. Huddle read from James
Riley.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-25
Stagnant Blood Given
A Quick Impulse
Wonderful Activity I'm,
parted by a Famous
Remedy.

The appearance Of pimples. boils. skin
eruptions and all evidence Of impure blood,
calls for s. s. S., the famous blood purifier
Cathartics. purses, bowel movers and lax
atives won't do.
No amount Of bile will destroy certain
germs which cause blood and skin eruptions.
They are away down deep in the tissues,
perhaps in the very marrow Of the bones
And such a condition calls for the searching
influence Of s. 8. 8. 1t Is indeed a remark
able remedy, since 1t Is taken up by the blood
stream and never loses its medicinal infu-
ence. On and on 1t goes, through and
through the entire system and always with
the same definite action to dislodge germs,
destroy their activity and stimulate the liver.
lungs. kidneys, bowels and skin to throw
them out completely.
1t stimulates stagnant blood. provides a
rational exhilaration to the nerve centers and
thereby the natural functions of the body are
aroused to cast out intruders. no matter how
strongly intrenched they may be. 1t refutes
the ancient theory that to destroy within US
the germs that eat into our vitals calls for
drugs that destroy our very existence Get
I bottle Of 9. s. s. today Of any druggist and
for special advice on severe blood disorders
write atsonce to the Medical Adviser. The
swift Specific Co.. 103 Swift Bldg, Atlanta.
Ga. Do not accept q substitute. Insist
apon what you ask for.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-25
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

For the District Of Columbia-Partly CLOUDY
Tuesday. "Wednesday increasing cloudinesa and
warmer: gentle to moderate northerly winds, BE-
coming variable
For Maryland-Partly cloudy. "Wednesday in
creasins cloudiness and warmer in east showers in
west portion; gentle to moderate northerly winds,
becomin. variable.
For Nirginia-Far Tuesday. cooler in south DOT
ton. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer; mod
crate northerly winds. becoming variable
Unsettled showery weather will continue Tues-
day and Wednesday the western PORTION Of
the country. and will extend during Tuesday nigh.
and Wednesday into the central valleys and the
Upper Lake and Western Lower Lake region
There will also be local thundershovers in Florida
Elsewhere in the South. in tho Southwest and the
Northeast the weather will be generally fair Tues
day and Wednesday.
II will be cooler Tuesday in Virginia North
Carolina. the extreme Northwest and the central
and southern Rocky Mountain region. and warmer
"Wednesday in the Middle Atlantic States and the
interior Of Southern New England.
Local Observation-Disclosures. 81: q. m, Is; 4
a. m. s.; 6 a. m. e.: a. m. 81: 10 .. m. "a :
u noon. 20; p. m, 3; p. m. ~: p. m, S.;
s p. m. 60; 10 p m, S. Highest, IS
Relative humidty-s q. m. g: p. m- s: 3
p. m. 81. Rainfall Is p. m. to 8 n M, co...
Hours n Sunshine. sc. Per cent Of possible sun
shine. %
Temperaeur. same date last y..r-Hishest, %;
lowest, s.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-25
Wellesley Girls Contribute Less
Than One Child Each to Race.
on Average. say Professors.

Separate colleges for women in the
United States should be abolished and
coeducation substituted. according to
Prof. Roswell johnson and Bertha j.
Stutzmann. of the University Of Pitts
burg. This conclusion is based on the
charge that women's colleges contrib
ute largely to race suicide among the
best elements of the American popu-
lation.
In support Of this contention the
records of Wellesley College have
been analysed and the results pub
lished in the June number of the
Journal of Heredity. organ of the
American Genetic Association of this
city. The writers find that twenty
years after graduation less than one
half of the girls have married. These
children each. Taking all the stu
dents into account, and allowing
enough time to elapse so that 1t is
probable they will bear no more chill
dren. 1t is found that the Wellesley
girls contribute less than one child
each to the race-that Is, they do not
even reproduce their own number.
And the honor scholars, who from a
eugenic point of view are assumed to
be the pick of the lot, do only about
a third as we'll as this.
III OTueT 10 a
popula alton, the writers say that every
married woman should bear four chill
dren. From this point of view they
believe the women's colleges are
fastening the extinction of the old
American stock.
The colleges are blamed for failure to
give girls an opportunity to meet young
men and for failure to make them de-
sirous or competent to be wives and
mothers. 1t is shown statistically that
the marriage rate of goods is consider
ably better and it is remarked that at
Wellesley the students are forbidden to
receive men callers even on Sunday.
their only free day. Viewed as to mar
riage ability, the writer's consider
woman most attractive during her col
lege years, and they declare 1t of vital
Importance that young men should be
allowed to meet her in that period.
Women's colleges are a historic blum
der. it is stated.
THE separation of sexes in different
colleges and the failure to teach girls
domestic science are contrary to the in
forests Of society and the race" and
parents are urged to send their daugh-
tiers to co-educational universities, or at
least to semico-educational ones, such as
Harvard and Columbia, where they will
have some opportunity to meet superior
young men," pending the time when
colleges will be recognized on
lines more likely to safeguard the future
Of the race. the writers say.