Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-07-06

ance at the meeting Of the National
Editorial Association in New York
City, and that he will visit Washing
ton in the course of several days.
| Rodney Howard True, who is con-
nected with the Agricultural Depart
ment, says that his father, Hon. John
True, is in fairly good health and that
he visited the city several days ago.
All members of the family expect to
enjoy a reunion in the True cottage
at Devils Lake this summer.
In the Wisconsin and Minnesota
marshes is found a vegetable growth
known to botanists as "caris stricta." "
The common term applied to this
product is wire grass" Like many
other things that nature has provided,
wire grass was formerly supposed to
be of little value; but the mistake OF
such a viewpoint has been demon
strated by the Beltox Rug company,
at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Emil H.
Steiger, prominent in political affairs
of Wisconsin, is at the head Of this
concern, and his rugs are carpeting
the Offices Of the United States gov
ernment in Washington, the big office
buildings of New York, Chicago, Mil.
waukee, and elsewhere, and besides
are being used in homes, bungalows,
and summer residences and hotels
throughout the country. The Agricul-
tural Department in Washington has
prepared some important bulletins re-
garding the use and durability of
wire-grass; from which we are to learn
that the product is a long, slender,
jointless vegetable growth, springing
from the ground in single stem,
without branches or joints, or addi-
tional leaves. The fibre is round and
incased in a hard outer casing, and
somewhat resembles broom corn,
minus the branches and seeds. 1t is
different from grass in that it con-
sists almost entirely of fibre, and
when the outside cuticle is broken or
crushed. it becomes very tough and
flexible. Ordinary grass, on the other
hand, will break, and is Of no use in
the manufacture of rugs. Now, grass
may be grass, but the official evidence
is that "wre-grass" is in class by
itself The land on which it is grown
possessed but small value until the
harvest of the rug crops was begun by
Mr.. Steiger and others. The industry
is among the very interesting new
activities of the middle west.
A news item tells that Miss Mar
garet Wilson, Justice Frederick L.
Siddons of the district supreme court
and Representative Ben Johnson,
chairman of the house district com
mittee, and others, frolicked and
danced with school children at a So
cial event closing the Grover Cleve-
land Community activities few ev-
enings ago. "Old Dan Tucker" "the
i Virginia Reel" and other vivaclous
old dances were in the improvised
program. 1t has been found that the
old folk customs of Europe and the
good old-fashioned amusements OF
old-time America, will arouse more
real interest, and put more real pep"
in a boy or girl than all the new-tan-
gled highbrow methods that can be
collected into any social event. Miss
Wilson recognizes this principle OF
improving the minds Of the young,
and in the increasing of their inter
est in present-day affairs. She is the
only unmarried child of the president,
and her whole life is given to working
in the interest of children, and to
that class of citizens who have been
unequal to the keen competition OF
the present day The death of her
mother and the marriage of her Sis
ters made her, for a time, the first
lady of the land" Evidently she did
not care for so burdensome task, for
she Immediately took the train for
the middle west, and labored there
exactly as she is doing today, for the
down-tr0dden. When her father re-
married she came back to the east,
where she has cOntinued her work
Who is there so narrow and selfish
but will gladfully lift their hats in ap-
probation of the splendid Margaret
Wilson, who is making name for
good deeds that is far greater than
being presidents daughter?
The nomination of Mr.. Brandeis has
been confirmed, and every lover OF
honesty, clean men, and square deal
is glad Of it. Months and months were
consumed in attempts to beat Brande