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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
DO MEN GO WHERE THERE'S
MONEY?

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow
Lengthens not day, nor can buy tomor-
row.
Money is trash and he that will spend it
T4et him drink merrily-Fortune will send
it.
Why is it that riches, with all their
magic power, cannot buy for woman
a lovely face, all natures own, while
the girl who knows poverty's direst
straits is given beauty, wisdom, and
genius more often than not?
If there is anything in this world
which is apt to make poor girl be-
moan her lot, it is to see young man
in whom she placed confidence and
around whom her hopes had clustered
veer suddenly from her side and COM
mence paying ardent devotion to a
woman who has come newly upon the
scene and whose only recommends
ton, aside from Ter good name, is
money, that fascinator which can
overthrow even love. l am glad to
say there are tens of thousands of
noble men who would spurn wealth if
it were the consideration of their hap
piness.
If a young man packs up his belong
ings, closes his little business that
scarcely has been paying, bids good-by
to his circle of acquaintance, heeds
not the discouraging warnings C: in
innate friends, who would have him
remain with them, goes afar, to hew
out his own way in some distant state,
they one and all say he is lured away
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
WHY YOUR WIFE WOULD LIKE
TO BE YOUR STENOGRAPHER

Oh why should love get in a stew,
Conclude with Cupid's curse!
They that do change old love for new
Pray gods they change for worse.
If you were to ask a goodly num-
Der of the wives of business men
what they would be, could they but
be touched by some good fairy's wand
and turned into what they would, it
is not a queen of fashion they would
yearn to become, nor yet glorious
star in the theatrical armament. or
silver-throated songstress' laurels
would they crave.
If their one aspiration could be
realized, it would be to become ste
nOgrapher in hubby's office. He pays
twenty per week to "the other arm in
his Office" wiley would gladly as
sumo the same duties for half that
amount-or he need pay her only
what he had a mind to if business
was dull.
The average wife wonders why hus-
bands would not jump at such an Of
hang family pictures around and
about the office, making it look for all
the world like home. He would have
someone to confide in when perpleXed
and needing advice, such as only an
interested woman could give; hold
his head when it ached dreadfully,
and whisper CHEEKY consolation when
he was most in need of it. 1t would
do away with the necessity of his
having to explain at home why he
remained in his Office so late, and al
lowed his soft heart to be touched by
Mrs. Tom, Dick and Harry, who wan
dered into his Office according to his
story to collect money for distant
heather, this, that and the other
thing to which he could not well help
contributing.
And then his business affairs. The
majority of wives are usually at sea
and in fog concerning that which is
of such vital concern to them. If
they were but his stenographers, they
could keep a bead on his income and
what the outgo was for. He wouldn't
have to send out for ice cream and
cake for luncheon for his wife-a
sandwich and cup of tea would suf-
flee her.
And then wouldn't it be delightful
to have wife coming and going with
him? Hubby then could have the
backbone to resent Indignantly the
ogling and smiles cast his way on
street and in car by designing fe-
males. He'd save temper, money,
and honor, perhaps, by such an ar
rangement.
Of course she'd have to run home
now and then to see if the baby in
nurse girls charge was all right. and
an hour or so on the day the Dun
cans or somebody else were to call.
She couldn't miss the Wednesday
matinee, and then the marketing
she'd have to slip away from the Of
fee awhile every morning to attend
to that.
One week in hubby's Office would
teach the average wife that there's
no place like dear, old, sweet home
for her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
The Anqlo-Saxons.

The Angles and Saxons were tn
chief tribes among the three principa
Teutonic conquerors of Britain; the
Jutes were the third. They were Low
Dutch tribes from the borderlands of
Germany and Scandinavia, the lands
at the mouth of the Elbe and the
Weser. Their language was an indie
pendent branch of the Teutonic fam
ily. The Saxons were the first inva-
ders, but the Angles settled more
land. AS their settlement became old
er and they themselves permanent res
idents of the island they called them
selves English" but their Celtic
neighbors called them Saxons. Their
language was, of course, established
in England at the time of the Norman
conquest in 1866, when Norman-French
words and phrases of Latin origin be-
came fused with the language of the
people. The short and homely words
of Anglo-Saxon origin remain, of
course, as an integral and basic part
of the English language. simpler, bet
ter known, less pretentious, and pref
cradle in conversation to the words of
Latin derivation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
oil Cans Save | jfe

A novel idea was responsible for
the saving of many lives from the
cruiser Hermes after the ship was
torpedoed in Dover straits. A sup
ply of the life-saving pneumatic col
lars ordered BY the admiralty had
been expected, but the Hermes had
to put to sea before these we're re-
ceived.
When the vessel was torpedoed no
assistance was at hand. She was set
ting down, and a great disaster
threatened, when someone thought of
petrol tins, of which 400 we're on
board The order was promptly given
to empty the tins and screw down the
shoppers, and on these tins scores of
men who must otherwise have been
drowned kept afloat. until help ar.
rived
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
SEDIMENT CARRIED TO SEA
Figures Show an Almost incredible
Amount Transported by Chna's
Mighty River.

Some estimates of the discharge OF
the Yangtze-kiang river and of the
amount of sediment it carries have
recently been published by Prof. Kon-
rad Keilhack of the Berlin School Of
Mines, who visited the river in Sep
TENDER, 1913, when the stage of wa
ter was unusually high. From meas
urements of depth made at Wusung.
Marking, and Hankow, and estimates
of width and velocity, this authority
concludes that the discharge below
HankOw (6S5 miles from the MOUTH.
amounts in time of flood to 100000
cubic feet per second. The annual
mean is estimated at 1,750,000 cubic
feet per second. Filtration measure
ments made at the mouth, near WI
sung, taken in conjunction with the
above figures for discharge, indicate
an annual transport Of sediment at
the average rate of 1880 pounds per
second, or a total of 5S4,000,0O0 tons
per annum.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
JUST WHAT IS BAD AIR?
Experts Prove That OVerheated Rooms
Without Proper Ventilation Produce
Serious Physiological Defects.

Air is bad when it is overheated,
when it contains an excess of mois-
ture, and when it is chemically con-
taminated. This is the conclusion Of
the New York state commission on
ventilation as summarized by Prof c..
E. A. Winslow. chairman.
The first indictment against had
air shows that an increase in tempera-
ture beyond the normal seventy de-
grees produces serious arrangement
of the vasO-motor mechanism of the
body, resulting in a rise of tempera-
ture, increased pulse, and a lowered
blood pressure, with a corresponding
decrease in efficiency, both physical
and mental. In addition to this, over
heating cOnduceS to an undesirable
congestion of the mucous membranes
of the nose, thus possibly paving the
way for colds, sore threats, and at
tacks of various germ diseases.
The work of the commission also
proves that chemi al accumulations
in the air as a result of air stagnation
bring about a decreased appetite for
food, which in turn must have an un-
favorable effect on the entire body.
In the commission experiments. the
people living in fresh air ate Az to
IS per cent more than those living
in stagnant air.
These experiments" says Profess
sor Winslow, indicate that fresh air
is needed at all times and in all places.
While we hay e changed our ideas as
to what causes bad air, ventilation is
just as essential to remove heat pro-
duced by human bodies as it was once
thought to be to remove the carbon
dioxide produced by human lungs, and
it is now proved also to be essential
for carrying away chemical products
which exert a measurable effect upon
the appetite for food. People who
live and work in overheated and I'M
ventilated rooms are reducing their
vitality and rendering themselves an
easy prey to all sorts Of diseases,
such as tuberculosis, pneumonia,
grippe, ETC."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
CURIOUS TRAP FOR SNAKES
Naturalist Tells of Seeing a Biscuit
Can Used by Natives to Cap
ture a Cobra.

A naturalist tells US of an odd
kind of snake trap that caught its
victim securely. 1t was biscuit can,
and in the bottom of it were some
macaroons.
A cobra spied the can, but mouse
was ahead of the cobra. The little
thief was having a good time regal
ing himself on the macaroons, all un-
conscious that a snake was preparing
to regale itself on mouse. Into the
can went the head of the snake, but
the head that went in was destined to
come out less easily. The rough edges
of the can irritated the cobra, and in
voluntarily it dilated its hood. That
made it a prisoner With the hood
dilated the head could not be with
drawn, and the cobra remained in its
tin prison until morning, when it was
easily captured and killed.
Stradling, who knows the natives
of India as we'll as he knows the
snakes of that land, tells of an in
teresting theory held by these peo-
PAO' 1u6y are Iluily SOAFlACSu IAdI
for every human being a snake bites
it loses one joint. When the number
of deaths the snake has caused equals
the number of it's joints, the venomous
head alone remains The snake has
now reached the height of its wicked
desires, and at this point it develops
wings and triumphantly disappears.
An exception to this rule is found
On the other side of the world, in
the case of the rattlesnake, for the
natives of many parts of this country
are said to believe that this snake
gains a thimble for every man it kills.
By counting these some folks pretend
to an ability to calculate with pre-
cision how many persons a particular
rattlesnake has bitten. But this IS,
of course, as great a superstition as
that held by the Hindus.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
rom the home of his childhood by a

from the home of his childhood by a
prospect of getting more money.
If he settles in the new country
for good, and has not left behind a
sweetheart to whom he writes assur-
ing letters of hope and affection, they
jump at the conclusion that he cared
for none well enough to leave his
heart in her keeping. They do not
hesitate to affirm that he is to marry
money instead of yearning for the re-
fined girl companion he was wont to
go with. Wiseacres had nodded that
he would make a match with this old
flame or that lively favorite; that
he was only waiting to have the knot
tied until he was able to get a coy
cottage, furnished, for their occupan-'
cy, just large enough for two, to COM
mence with
These rumOrs are dispelled when
one from their home town takes
long Journey and accidentally runs
across the young man who has settled
far and away from his friends of other
days. Although they had been init
mate friends, and but a few years
had gone by since they had been sep
arated, they scarcely recognized one
another in the changes that had taken
place.
1t has been truly said that man is
most always nodded in accordance
with his environment. The surround
ings of the stranger in far-off place
cause him ofttimes to change his
habits; to become less careful of his
personality, which is more in keeping
with those he is brought in contact
with
He tries to shake off his loneliness.
1t is then that the face of buxom,
ight-hearted young woman with whom
he is thrown in contact appeals to
him irresistibly. She is plain; has no
particular charm, but that of kindly,
sweet disposition. He does not stop
to think if she is in every respect
the same fascinating girl as those he
once liked. He throws comparisons
to the winds. There's no money match
about this wooing and wedding; just
pure, simple love on his part. She
has won a mans heart and he will
work for riches and happiness glad
ly for her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Up to Them.

Little James, aged six years, had
been taught to pray each night for all
his relatives and friends, and conse-
quently the list had grown quite large.
So one night when it came time for
the customary prayers he refused to
say them.
well, we'll, james," said his moth
err. why won't you say them? All
good little boys say their prayers"
Yes, but I'm too tired"
ooh, my, that's no excuse. Come
now that's a good boy
WELL" relented James, Il guess I'll
have to. But, anyhow, I'm not going
to pray for everybody. I'm going to
cut a lot of 'em out. Some of 'em
will have to save themselves. "-Har'
per's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Genuine Heroism.

The characteristic of genuine hero
ism is its persistency. All men have
wandering impulses, fits and starts of
generosity. But when you have re-
solved to be great, abide by yourself,
and do not weakly try to reconcile
yourself with the world The heroic
cannot be the common, nor the COM
mon the heroic. If you would serve
your brother, because it is fit for you
to serve him, do not take back your
words when you fine that prudent peo-
pie do not commend you. Be true
to your own act, and congratulate
yourself if you have done something
strange and extraordinary, and broken
the monotony of a decorous age. 1t
was high counsel that l once heard
given to young person: Always
do what you are afraid to o."-Em-
erSOn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Jealous Youth.

Employer-If my wife calls up, say
that l have just gone out.
Office Boy-Yes, sir; I'll say it every
time she calls up.
Employer-You mustn't do that. My
wife would have a poor opinion of
your truthfulness.
Office Boy-Yes, sir; she has it now.
Employer-What do you mean?
Office Boy-Why, she called me up
this morning and asked me if l was
the new boy. And l said, Eyes,
ma am" And she said it was no place
for a truthful boy. She said you had
no use for a truthful boy. Then she
said Did you ever tell lie?' And
said mo, ma'am."
Employer-And what did she say?
Office Boy-She said You'll dol"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08

cannot agree with those who believe,
or say they believe, that all the good
fortune which comes to one is the re-
suit of luck, for have seen so many
girls who sit and wait idly for luck to
come to them brushed aside by the
girls who had ambition and pushed.
One girl takes pains to make herself
as attractive to the eye as her limita-
tons of dress will permit. 1t costs
nothing to do her hair up in curl pa
pers at night, brush her street hat
and cloak ere she hangs them up; sew
a rent in her dress or patch her gloves.
Another young woman will fling down
her hat and coat, trusting to find them
somewhere in her mad rush to locate
them on the morrow She doesn't
bother with her hair. mo one sees.
No one cares. What's the user she
philosophers
There she IS in error. The manager
sees and notes her slipshod appear
ance. Customers are not attracted to
her. She looks what she is-despond-
OAI cue OuI OD luC oI1CCbs
She has nothing to wear, so she does
not go out of an evening. A little in
genuity might transform her extra
black waist into thing of beauty with
but little cost, if her fingers were
nimble She will not make the at
tempt. She's tired enough without
sewing, she declares. She sits lost in
day dreams, hugging to her bosom the
notion that if luck is to be hers it will
come to her somehow, sometime, and
if a lover is for her he will walk right
up to her door on some business, she
does not know what.
One girl has the ambition to dress
herself tastefully and go out to visit
her woman friends of an evening
banishing from her mind how hard she
has worked during the day, She is not
on the sharp lookout for loves APP
proach, believing that love and mar
riage are the aim of every woman's
hopes. If she meets nice men while
out in company she treats them well,
but doesn't lose her beauty sleep in
allowing her mind to dwell upon those
who have shown no particular prefer
ence for her
But when Mr.. Right comes along,
she recognizes his congeniality, and is
pleased to accept what the gods have
provided-an she has helped to dis
cover-by visiting at her friends
home, looking so sweet, dainty and
lovable. Their meeting was not luck,
but resulted from the fact she helped
to make other girls evenings bright
and CHEEKY by visiting them, regard
less of whom she might meet by so
doing
Half of the worlds mischief and sor-
rows are caused by young women
awaiting luck to come to them, to lift
them out of their dark, sordid sur
roundings into the sunshine of pros
perity, and last, but no means least,
matrimony, giving themselves up, body
and soul, as it were, to this mistaken
notion. It is we'll enough for artists
to dream of their art and students to
coddle their theories. Their day
dreaming may be of wonderful benefit
to mankind. The girl who is an idle
dreamer of love has no such good rea-
son to offer for the wasting of hpr
time
In every line of endeavor all achieve
ments are worked out through endeav-
or, earnest, hard work and push. Luck
has no hand in it. Luck is a reed
which no one can lean upon with
safety.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
o. Xcs. Quite Often,

After some skillful maneuvering
about to get a seat at the picture
show where a post would not intrude,
the Crouch settled down to at least
a half hour of unobstructed view.
AT last" he told himself, Il shall
get something for my money"
Then came a pleasant demand from
one of the ushers: Please move
over one to mats two seats for these
ladies'"
The crouch, being helpless. did so
Perhaps you know how it is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
See Battle of Whales

Capt. ]. P. Taylor. Doctor By k
man and H. W. Cousins are authority
for the truthfulness of a whale story
the like of which has never before
been listened to in Long Branch.
While fishing a mile from shore
their attention was attracted to a
seward. With marine glasses the fish
ermen say they witnessed for more
than hour q battle to the death be-
tween two California gray whales and
q thrasher whale. The thrasher was
victorious, they say-Long Beach Dis
patch to Los Angeles Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
The Pineapple in England.

Pineapples. which Londoners can
now buy at the cheapest rate within
living memory. first reached England
in the latter part of the seventeenth
century. The fruit was thus a novelty
to Sir Christopher Wren's generation;
but he soon recognized its value as an
architectural ornament, and copper
pineauples about FIVE feet high figure
prominently on the towers of ST
Paurs. SO highly did Wren esteem
the fne proportions and enriched sur
face of this fruit that his original de
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08

foot, as it were,
dependent u Pc n
luck to better her
fortunes - bring
her love and mar
riage-or with
hold from her all
that makes life
worth living and
& e tin 6 W b i l e
youth and good
looks are hers ?"
L Ii l , L > INC
query which two
women, one two
and-twenty, t b e
other thirty-eight
both workers In
a d e par t m e n t
store-ask me to
help them solve.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
DON'T MIND PIMPLES
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Will Ban
ish Them. Trial Free.

These fragrant supercreamy emol-
lients do so much to cleanse, purify
and beautify the skin, scalp, hair and
hands that you cannot afford to be
without them. Besides they meet
every want in toilet preparations and
are most economical.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08

had no appetite. Since l have taken
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
and I feel like a new woman. I cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mrs.
AUGUSTUS LYON, Terre Hill, Pa.
It is true that nature and woman's
work mas produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to womankind
a remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more eficacious than any
other combination of drugs ever COM
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recognize ID
from coast to coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds of
thousands of letters from women seek
ing health many of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08

sign for St. Pauls shows an enormous
pineapple in the place of the dome
Happily his maturer thoughts saved
US from that appalling spectacle. Since
Wren the pineapple has been as much
at home in our architecture as on our
dinner tables. 1t has descended even
TO cast iron, and is frequently found in
old-fashioned streets. Queen Victoria
treasured a seal given by her husband
on which a pineapple was engraved
together with the motto. Sa gloire
nest pas sa couTonne. Pail Mall ca
zette.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Alphabetical.

Willis-Won't you dine with me?
Gillis-Thank you, l just dined. l
was home and had my regular meal of
apples, apricots and asparagus.
Willis-Isn't that rather odd COM
bination?
Gillis-Well, you see, my wife went
to a domestic science school and had
to leave after the first week.-Life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Immunity Expected.

Have you any mosquitoes here in
summer"
Well" replied Farmer Corntossel.
I'VE had a few last year. But after
they tackled the compilations some Of
those city girls wore, / don't believe
anv OF 'em will have the nerve to
come back"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Soft-Hearted Parent.

81 don't spank my children. con-
slider that cruel and inhuman."
But how do you manage them"
when they disobey me l shut them
up in dark room for day or two
and feed them on bread and water"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
AS Times Change.

It's harder to attract attention
than it used to be" remarked the
town clown.
What makes you think so?"
Il remember when / could get all
kinds of a laugh simply by wearing
q straw hat before the first OF May.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Rubber.

You like to look after the passing
girls So" grumbled his wife, that it's
pity nature didn't give you eyes in
the back of your head"
"Oh. l don't know" responded the
hardened wretch. "a flexible neck
answers all purposes" - Louisville
Courier-Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
No Case for Svmpathv.

You didn't award any damages
worth mentioning in that breach Of
promise case"
NO." explained the foreman of the
jury. 1--WE decided that the plaintiff
was lucky to get rid of man who
would write the fool letters her law
yer read to u.s."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
A Serious Doubt.

what is that noise Maude is max
ing out there?
u didn't know whether she is try
ing her wagnerian solo or pracueing
her new class yell.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Not a MonopolN.

"A soft, low voice is an excellent
thing in a woman"
And a speak-easy is often very
popular with a man"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-08
Drink Denison's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.

The rolling stone never takes a
straight course.