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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Parisiennes Pay
No Heed to Papal
Scanty Attire Ban

PARIS-Parisian women's dresses
give no indication that the pope's
war on scanty attire has had any eff
feet here Superbly unperturbed by
threats of the church's ire, the Par
isienne is schooling herself to wear
less and less clothing; and what little
she does wear has for its main pur-
pose the display of her physical
charm to the best advantage.
For evening parties and the theater
women's dress today is made of the
most transparent materials, silk or
crepe de chine Underneath, from the
waist upward, little or nothing is
worn; for the modern Eve has dis
carded all the pretty, mysterious, lace
trimmed lingerie which her grand
mother, and even her mother, consid-
cred necessary. At the back the dress
is generally cut away to the waist.
The same ethereal costumes are
worn for dancing, the women of Par
is having enthusiastically Endorsed
the recent declaration by French doc
tors that the fair sex enjoys better
health than men, notably immunity
to colds, because women's scanty by
gienic clothing allows air and light
freely to penetrate the pores of the
skin.
Skirts are shorter than ever. In the
streets the fashion is responsible for
revelation of an infinite variety of
more or less shapely knees, made
quately yelled by the finest silk stock
ings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Firm That Sent Tea
to Boston Still Alive

LONDON-The firm which shipped
the tea thrown overheard in the
famous Boston tea party" of 1773
was found recently still actively en-
gagged in business here.
This fact developed from search
for a business older than the 217-year-
old Farman basket firm of North Wal
sham. The tea firm is that of David
son & Newman, which was started by
Daniel Rawlinson in 1850. Later it was
enlarged and began dealing in tea at
$50 pound.
1t was this firm which filled an or
der for tea for Boston. When it ar
rived the cargo was dumped into the
harbor by Bostonians, who believed
in mo taxation without representa-
ton" and who thus gave an impetus
to the Declaration of Independence
from England two years later.
The hunt for firm to break the
basket company's record has been
unsuccessful, but has shown num-
Der of concerns dating back to the
late 1600's and the early zoos.
1t is on uncommon thing for a
Londoner to say "My bootmaker
served by great great grandfather" or
''My halter has been at the same
stand for two centuries"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Paris Stores Up SnaiIs
For Use In Winter

PARIS-One of the queerest indus
tries in the world is that of the Paris
snail cold storage depot. Twenty mil
lion of the tough little slugs, appreci-
ated as a great delicacy by French
epicures, are yearly accommodated
alive in it and sleep away the summer
months under the impression that they
are alternating.
Snails are eaten only in autumn and
winter, but at that time of year they
are hard to obtain. Their natural
habit is to burrow into the roots of
bushes and other sheltered spots,
where they draw a tight film of skin
over the opening of their shell and go
to sleep until the cold weather is over
In the summer heat, when the
snails emerge, the snail dealers go to
work They catch the mollusks and
pack them away carefully in wooden
cases on layers of straw. The cases
are then carried to the cold storage
depots, where they are piled high,
scores on scores of them. The tenn
perature is kept as near as possible to
that of the average winter. The de-
luded snails go fast asleep and are
alive, fresh, and easily available when
appetites are ready for them.
They are of two kinds that Paris
stores away-the great white Burgun-
dy snail and the common or garden
snail. The Burgundy or Roman snail
is the monarch of it's race. 1t meas
ures two inches across and is broad
in proportion. A succulent and costly
dish.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
American Slang
Gets Big Boost

American slang does not horrify
Prof. William Craigie, one of the
two chief editors of the Oxford die
tionary. He is in Chicago helping
compile the new American dictianary.
II thoroughly approve of American
slang" he says. "It is often car
ried to excess, but on the other hand,
many of your current colloquial
phrases are extremely apt and win the
admiration of even the most strict
purist.
"In America slang gets into gem
eral conversation much more widely
than in England and is therefore
more likely to win a place in per-
manent usage.
''The real test of slang is its util-
ity. If a slang phrase fills long
felt want, it will get into the Ian
guage. There are some American ex-
pressions of comparatively recent
vintage which already have been
adopted wherever English is spoken
and they are so particularly apt and
expressive that one wonders how the
idea was expressed before they were
invented
Zone instance of this is the phrase
It's up to you There is no other
group of English words to convey so
concisely this exact shade of mean
ing.
Slang expressions of this kind
will be permanent additions to our
language and obviously must be in
cluded in the new dictionary of
American English
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Swiss Dam Produces
Artificial Niagara Falls

GENEVA-An artificial Niagara falls
in the Alps, at an altitude of more
than 5000 feet was completed when
the barrage of the River Barberine,
in the canton of Valais, was opened
with great ceremony by the Swiss au-
thorities.
The waterfall is slightly higher
than the Niagara falls. The mighty
dam took nearly three years to build,
as, owing to the height and the ex-
IRENE cold in winter, the workmen
could be employed only five months
during the year.
The dam is 818 feet in length and
will contain 117,O00,O0O cubic feet of
water-covering a surface of 268
acres when filled. The cost of the
enterprise is nearly $12,500000 but
the outlay will be recovered within
a few years, as the electrical power
supplied by the dam will be amply
sufficient to drive all the trains in
Switzerland and they will be conse-
quently Independent of foreign coal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
House of Lords Gets
Wireless for Speeches

LONDON-The almost sacred pre-
cincts of the house of lords are to be
invaded by wireless.
The VIGOROUSLY defective acoustics
of the chamber, wherein Britain's
most dignified leaders solemnly make
known their thoughts to the empire,
has long been the subject of violent
protest from press representatives
and the public who sit in the gallery
but cannot hear the speeches. By
means of microphones and concealed
amplifers speeches of distinguished
lords are to be broadcast to every
corner of the chambers. Correspon-
dents also will be provided with dou-
BILE headphones.
The lords benches will be provided
with 20 single sterling silver head
phones or phones with handles on
the order of lorgnettes.
One observer said it was hoped
that the improved facilities would
not result in the speeches being long
er as we'll as louder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Boy browns in Bath
When Mother Faints

NEW YORK-For three months,
something at intervals has been f1ut-
tering the heart Of Mrs. Charles T.
Godfrey, 80. When these disturbances
come, Mrs Godfrey faints.
After her husband went to work
Thursday Mrs. Godfrey made ready
for the daily event which has enter
tanned her vastly-bathing her son.
Warren, g. She ran the tub full of
warm water so he could stand in it
up to his neck as he liked to do. She
put celluloid duck in the water SO
he could drawn" it as much as he
wished.
AS Mrs Godfrey carried her sleep
lily squirming son to the bathroom,
she tainted, and Warren fell with a
splash into the tub. When his moth
er regained consciousness, 10 minutes
later, Warren lay dead under nearly
two feet of water and over him
fioated the celluloid duck he so often
tried to drown"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Boasts of Seven Wives,
But He is Still Cheerful

PRAGUE-Solomon Kraus has been
arrested at the request of the Bulgar-
ian authorities. Solomon is So years
DID, and boasts Of seven wives, all liv-
ing at the present time.
Two of these are in Jerusalem, two
in Egypt, one in Poland, one in
Czecho-Slovakia, and the whereabouts
of the last one is apparently not
known.
Probably she is in Bulgaria, and for
that reason this cheerful polygamist is
wanted in that country.
A newspaper comments on this story
by saying that a man who has had
adventures with so many wives can
not have much left to fear, even from
the law itself
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
DEAD WHITE MAKEUP

LONDON-The latest fashion for the
evening is to makeup" the face so
that it is a dead white, and it is a
fashion which can be followed with
success only by young women with
very fair skins.
Narrow penciled eyebrows are part
of the makeup" and a light touch
of rouge on the eyelids or the cheeks
completes a combination which is at
tractive in a certain degree in a
strong artificial light. The white eff
feet is obtained by the use of 10
ton and powder.
The girl with shingled head is
not advised to adopt this complex
ion," for it has a hard effect and is
out of keeping with buoyant youth
fulness. A low hair dressing is. ne
cessary in order to soften the con-
tour of the face.
Neither can women whose faces
show wrinkles indulge in the new
fashion, since it would make their
imperfections more noticeable.
White gowns, naturally, must be
avoided by the women with the white
complexion" and neither red nor
mauve can be worn. Soft shades of
rose or green are the most suitable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
u. S. Motor Vehicles
Now Total 17,716,7 O9

WASHINGTON-M Motor vehicles reg
istered in the United States for the
first half of 1925 totaled 17,716,709, an
increase of 1879 per cent over the
same period last year.
The figures, made public by the
bureau of public works, showed that
Alabama led in the registration gain,
with 536 per cent Florida was sec
ond with II per cent; Oklahoma,
third, with $50, and Mississippi fourth
with 1915 per cent. The total regis
tration represented 15,519,647 passen-
ger cars, 2,114,750 trucks and S2,312
taxis
Gasoline taxes collected by the va
rious states during the first half of
1925, the bureau reported, totaled
$50 ,10S,734, of which S53,S14,240 was
applicable to road work. These taxes
are imposed by all but four states,
Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and
New Jersey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Effort to Find Regicide
GOffe's Grave Is Futile

HARTFORD. Conn.-Efforts in Con-
necticut recently to discoved the grave
of Col. William COTE, one of the regi-
eide judges, recalls one of the roman
tic chapters of early American his
tory.
1t was not many years after the
Mayfiower landed that the scattered
colonies of Massachusetts,, Connect
cut and New Haven were stirred by
the arrival of two of the regicide
judges, one of whom was COTE, flee
ing the vengeance of the restored
monarchy of England.
For twenty years the presence of
the two in the colonies was a source
of friction with the mother country,
and their whereabouts to all save a
few favored ones in the secret was a
mystery of never ending interest. An
occasional news letter kept them in
touch with the outside world; they
had a few books and few close
friends. But they could take no part
in the social life of the communities
in which they resided.
Goffe carried on a correspondence
with his wife in England under an
assumed name, his letters passing
through the hands of DR.. Increase
Mather of Boston He kept a journal
in which he recorded the Wanderings
of his exile.
In the fall of 1875 occurred King
Philips war, which was so disastrous
to the infant colonies of New England.
Hadley, being one of the frontier
towns, was greatly exposed. On a
public fast day, while the inhabitants
were assembled in church, the Indians
attacked.
At the time the custom was for all
men to go to the meeting house armed,
but the attack was so sudden and fur
ious that the men of Hadley were
thrown into combustion and little was
being done to drive off the invaders.
At this point there appeared among
them a stranger of commanding pres
ence, and in garb unlike that usually
worn, who assumed command. He
, formed the men and at their head
charged on the Indians. The sayages
were routed, and then the mysterious
leader disappeared as suddenly as he
came.
Who he was nobody seemed to know.
The townsmen were so much inn
pressed with the occurrence that they
came to the conclusion that an angel
had been sent from heaven for their
deliverance Some years later they
learned that their unknown leader was
Col COTE, whose military skill, gain
ed under Cromwell, had been the
means of their salvation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
California Japanese
Keen Land TiIlers

Out of 3,S93,5OO acres of land I'M
der irrigation in California, the Jap
anese occupy 623,752 acres. In other
words, a population of a little over
100000 Japanese in a total California
population of over 100000 has own
ership or control of one-sixth of it's
land under irrigation.
On this sixth of land the Japanese
produced one-third of the total crop
value. In other words, the value of
their crops is double, acre for acre,
that of the whites.
What we really reproach the Japa
nese for is not his inferiority, but his
superiority.
We reproach him for his ability to
produce more on given area of land
than any other man.
We reproach him for his sensi-
tiveness. We reproach him for be-
ing marvelously prolific. We re-
proach him for his thrift
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Electric Signs Used
Tracing Berlin Crooks

BERLIN-Berlin police are giving
publicity to crimes with descriptions
of criminals through electric adver-
Using signs with moving letters as a
means of notifying policemen on the
beat and enlisting the aid of the pub
lie in running down lawbreakers.
The German capital has nine of
these boards with which the police
department made arrangements for
aiding the department of justice. The
first use by the police did not con-
Germ crime, however, but announced
loss of pearl necklace by Frau
Breitenstraeter, who is the wife of
Germany's champion boxer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
2O,OOO.OOO Gallons
Whiskey in Storage

WASHINGTON-In several Ken
lucky warehouses are stored about
20,000,000 gallons of real whiskey,
made before prohibition, say the en-
forcement officers. 1t is owned by
big wholesalers, who cannot dispose
of it except as the government sees
fit.
Commissioner Haynes thinks the
government should purchase this
whiskey. This supply is now being
maintained under guard.
About 1928, four years before the
present whiskey stock is exhausted,
the government will authorize the
manufacture of whiskey, so that four
year spirits may be available for me-
dicinal purposes at the time the sup
ply is exhausted No whiskey has been
legally manufactured since January 1,
1922.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Bank of England Will
Have History Complied

LONDON - The "Old Lady of
Thread-needle-st," as the Bank of
England is affectionately called by the
English, is to have the human side of
her history written for the first time.
Directors of the bank commissioned
w Marston Acres, long in the en-
ploy, to delve into the dusty records
and compile a story, particularly
stressing the points of human inter-
est in the history of the worlds most
famous bank. Some of the musty re-
cords go back to 1894. 1t is expected
he will require six months to go
through them all and two years to
write his book
The directors are undecided yet
whether they will have the book pub
lished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Thinks Traffic Checker
Beggar and Donates Csc

ST. PAUL, Minn-Engaged to check
automobile traffic in ST. Paul for a
public commission, Patrick Gallagher
seated himself on his folding camp
stool and removed his hat before set
thing down to the days task. Carefully
he placed it on the sidewalk beside
him and began his count of the steady
stream of motor vehicles. A passerby
paused He looked over the sharpened
pencils protruding from Gallagher's
Goa pocket, smiled sadly and Tipped
a quarter into the hat. Before Gala
CHER could recover from his surprise
two more contributions were added to
the hat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Scientists to Unearth
Ruins of ArmageddOn

CHICAGO-Dr. James Henry Breas-
ted, head of the oriental Institutes of
the University of Chicago, is leaving
soon for London and the orient to
start excavating Armageddon and to
supervise other archaeological work.
Armageddon is to be searched for
records and other relics in this most
ancient of historic battlef1elds.
DR.. Breasted has another surprise
in store for scientific men and stu
dents of Bible history. He has what
the foremost authority in archaeol-
ogy believes is an exact and anthem
tic picture of the tower of Babel.
One gathered, although DR.. Breasted
would not make definite statement,
that he had found among the hundreds
of ruined cities of the Euphrates val
ley a clay tablet in some unearthed
library bearing picture of the tower.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Pacific Sect Leaves
Canada for Mexico

WINNIPEG = After migrating to
Canada from Germany because their
religion opposes military service, 5000
German Mennonites will soon have
moved on again, this time to Mexico.
The exodus began in 1921, and the
last few members of the colony are
now ready to leave.
The colony in Mexico comprise 30O,-
900 acres, where the sect has been
permitted by the Mexican government
to establish it's own schools, speak
German, and manage its own internal
affairs. The Mennonites were also eX-
empted from military service. Mennon-
ties from Russia are taking the lands
which the Germans are leaving IN
Canada.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Gradual Prohibition
Is Adopted for India

LONDON-Undisturbed by the bad
impression Europe has of American
prohibition, the legislative assembly
of India has gone on record as IA
voring ultimate complete dryness for
the country. Against the combined
forces of the government and a
strong lobby of European interests"
the assembly adopted the motion of
a Moslem member recommending
that the government accept a policy
of eventual prohibition of the liquor
traffic, save for medicinal and scien-
tific purposes. Under the scheme
Just approved India would be brought
gradually but surely to complete dry
ness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21

Keith Olson, 5, son of Stanley Oh
son, Fairchild, fell into a saudpit
while playing near his father who was
taking out sand. The child dropped
into hole and the rushing sand
smothered him. The body was taken
to Wyoming, Iowa county, for burial.
Three men held in Jail at Aledo, ILL.,,
are suspected of being part of the
gang who held up and robbed the
Shullsburg State bank of $4,000 on
June 23d. The Shullsburg authorities
will ask for eXtradition papers if
facts bear out that the men held are
the ones who did the job.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Federal Trappers
Get Wolf Blamed
for $4,000 Loss

WASHINGTON-Old Three Toes. a
wolf stock killer, is dead. A govern
ment expert with a trap caught him
last July, and report of his demise
has just reached the department of
agriculture.
The biological survey estimates that
it killed $4,000 worth of cattle and
sheep in the counties of Harding and
Butte, South Dakota; Bowman, North
Dakota, and Carter, Montana.
This wolf, the department reports,
seldom killed for food alone, but al
most invariably destroyed 10 to 80
head on each visit. The largest single
kill he made was so head of range
sheep, breeding ewes, with their
lambs and yearlings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Two Killed in Wreck
Laid to Time Change

PARIS-Two persons were killed
and several injured in a railroad ac-
cident recently due to forgetfulness
during the midnight hour when a re-
version was made from daylight saw
ing to normal time throughout France
The -Strasbourg express. travel
ing so miles an hour, crashed into a
freight train which had been forgot
ten during the change in time The
freight train was running on daylight
saving schedule and the express on
standard time. A brakeman and en-
gineer were killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
SERVANTS FOX
TROT WITH QUEEN
MARY AT PARTY

LONDON-Queen Mary dancing fox
trots with her servants, is the picture
presented in the story of the party
which the kind and queen gave re-
Gently at Balmoral castle, the Scot
fish home where majesties go for the
shooting season. The dance was given
for the servants, tenants and Ghillies
shooting attendants) of Balmoral
The queens ability as a dancer is
not reported, but it is understood that
she succumbed to the charms of fox
trotting recently.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Ten Commandments
Taken by Burglars

BERLIN Thieves who have made
speciality of robbing synagogues in
Berlin added insult to injury by steal
ing the Ten Commandments.
On account of the numerous rob
berries in Jewish houses of worship,
all vaIuables had been removed ex-
cept for the silver tablet on which
the laws of Moses are inscribed. After
pillaging through the entire building
without finding any valuables the
crooks took the "Thou Shalt Not
Steal tablet from the wall as their
only booty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
A CHILD OF BOSTON

The little boy sat disconsolately on
the curb and sobbed as though his
heart was breaking. The kind old lady
stopped and asked sweetly:
us itta boy cwTin? Tum, tella
nice wady wassa matter"
IF you are inquiring as to the cause
of my lachrymOse condition" he
answered, looking up at her plying
ly, sit is because | have been unable
to find any suitably intelligent play
mate whose eugenic constitutions are
in harmony with my pathological ten
denotes and whose hereditary affilia-
lions meet with the approval of my
parental relations since we moved to
this damn place from Boston"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
ClairvOyant of Royalty
Arrested i'm London

years as a clairvoyant and being con-
suited by the most prominent Eng
lish men and women, including. it is
said, members Of the royal family
and a prime minister, woman
known as "Estelle" was arresred here
Saturday on a charge of fortune tel
ling. In court her real name came
out for the first time-Frances Burg
ma. The arrest followed visits to
her studio in the fashionable West
End by women detectives pretending
to be clients DESTROYS of having their
fortunes told.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Huge Supply of Silk
Coming From Japan

SEATTLE-Raw silk shipments to
the United States from Japan which
have been increasing since the World
war, reached 100000 bales through
Pacific coast ports the first six
months of this year. Seventy-nine YES
sells carried the cargoes, which were
valued at $240,000,000.
The silk, upon arriving at Pacific
coast ports, was loaded Immediately
on special trains and rushed east, 95
per cent going to New York to be
manufactured into silk goods.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Scotland Yard After
Musical Comedy Plot

LONDON-Scotland Yard detectives
are adding to their activities search
for lost manuscript Of musical
comedy. Arthur Wimperis, we'll known
English librettist, lost it atop Lon
don bus. AS it is the only manuscript
of the play in England, he may have
to cable to America for another. He
is appealing through newspapers here
to the finder, pointing out the man
uscript is of no value to anybody ex
cept himself and the man who intends
to write music for the play.