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TOXOPAn DAILY BONANZA, TOXOPAH. NEVADA. SEPT. 22, ICT.
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WEALTHY WOMAN AN ARTIST.
Mm. Harry I'syne Whitarjr Han Tal
ent of High Order. .
Mr. Harry Payne Whitney In a
real artiHt. There U not any doubt
of that. Tbo fact that she U Ger
trude Vandcrbilt Whitney rests light
ly upon her mind. She does not con
sume: ber time talking About it. Mrs.
Whitney has artistic talent of a high
order. She can really do things; not
merely dabble In them, as have some
of her own set. When August Bel
mont decided to erect the highest
hotel in New York, Gertrude Vander
bllt "struck, him for a job." ,
. She aBptred to do something that
was worth while. She wanted to see
her creation actually doing duty in
every-day life. So up in her little
studio at Newport, a small fisherman-
like hut on the rocks of Ochre Point,
and down at Westbury, L. I.; she de
-signed some very beautiful and prac
tical things.-' One of them was for
the steel portico to shelter the en
trance of the Belmont hotel. She
submitted the design and tit was ac
cepted. And a most impressive and
massive piece of structural work It ia.
The heroic figures of the caryatides
that support the girders around the
great lobby of the same hotel are
lso the conception and work of this
young society matron. They, are the
wonder and admiration of everyone
who sees them. The four seasons are
each typified by a head and torso.
Fruit, flowers, corn husks, ears of
grain, tassels and leaves ornament
the figures, though almost gross, be
witching In their Imagery. The faces
are eager and full of spirit and lrag--inatlon.
,
: The male and female Spring typify
youth and gaiety. ' Garlands of buds
and flowers decorate their locks and
torsos. Summer is laden with a chap-
let of fruits, apples, pears, 1 "grapes
aid peaches. Autumn Is replendent
! wlth ripened grain and corn husks.
Winter Is represented by age, and his
beard is festooned with holly. Sal
iere, a Parisian sculptor, was Import
ed to execute the designs.
And now it Is announced that she
will establish herself in business just
as any other ambitious young sculp
tress, who did not Inherit $10,000,
000 from her father and marry a
multi-millionaire, would have to do.
She has taken an old brick stable in
McDougal Alley, back of the north
row of old-time mansions in Wash
ington square, and will carry .out her
long cherished plans of having n
studio In the atmosphere of real ar
tists and sculptors,, for McDougal
Alley Is suis generis In New York,
and is as haughty and aristocratic as
Millionaire's Row, on Fifth avenue.
One must have done something to
get spoken to down there. No "Bo
hemians" need apply. During the
past year Mrs. Whitney has spent
much time at the historic estate, Hoi
wick hall, long known as the Whlt-
'. ney "hunting box" in England. A
half a million dollars has been spent
upon the place by Harry Payne Whit
ney and his artistic wife, ; who has
had the opportunity to beautify the
castle, and restore many of the an
cient designs. At Aiken, S. C, at Oc
tober Mountain, at Newport and in
New York, the Whltneys have splen
did establishments. "'
SHE REMOVES HER SHOES.
Mrs. Iselin, Newport Belie, Takes Off
Footwear at Luncheon. .
NEWPORT. Sept. 21. Mrs. Iselin,
who is putting up at a small Dresser
street boarding house, takes lunch
eon and frequently dinner at the
Cliffs Hotel. Upon all occasions she
makes herself comfortable. Should
a dainty shoe pinch a dainty foot, It
is promptly removed. She Is one of
the best types of young matrons at
Newport. 'She Is always tastefully
yet simply gowned, never permits a
hairdresser to touch her hair, never
makes a vulgar display of jewels,
never fails to notice the people she
"has met, " or speak to them, never
permits herself to be carried away
to Bailey's .by the other woman's
husband,' never fusses over foreign
ers as though they were better than
"'Americans, never falls to devote aa
much time to her two-year-old baby
"and her husband as to her social en
' gagements. never says an unkind
'word of anyone, and, above all, never
tries to impress one with the fact
that she is Mrs Iselin. Since she is
a daughter of the WUlie Jays, these
charming traits ara all the more sur
prising. ' Mrs. Jay is all right, but
she isn't exactly like her daughter.
SOMETHING LIKE IT.
5 Bride and Orooni Showered With
1 Coin of the Realm.
DES MOINES, Sept, 21. Instead
f of linen and china and such frivolous
I sorts of wedding gifts, Raymond W.
Spencer and Miss Emma Tranberg,
J who -were married here the other
J night, got something substantial from
their friends. The bridegroom is a
for Feminine Fancy
iwpular member of the Eagles, and
they all attended his wedding.
The ceremony was performed at
the home of Rev. It. E. Van Horn,
and when the happy words were
spoken the guests rained a shower
of greenbacks upon them. Ones, two
and fives fluttered at the feet of the
couple In profusion. They received
about $500.
HIPS MUST GO.
IlrcKHntukers Ilule Men Shall Be Iro
tectcd. NEW YORK. Sept. 21. "Hips
must go" Is the edict of the Dress
makers' Protective association, com
posed of judges of feminine fashions
from many cities of the United
States, which is holding its sixty-first
annual session at Masonic Temple
here,' to pass on and adopt styles.
The decree of this association is that
curves must be done away with as
much as possible, and straight lines
be encouraged.
Miss Elizabeth A. C. White, presi
dent of the association, who goes
abroad annually to study fashions
and who generally is very frank In
her comments, said today the reason
for abolishing curves was to stop the
temptation presented to men by the
sensuous, figures which women make
of themselves.
"Do you really think curves have
a demoralizing effect on men?" Bho
was asked.
"Do 1? Of course I do," Miss
White replied. "I am a woman of ex
perience. I have been all over the
world, and I know. Young men are
led to fall from grace by the figures
of women have been affecting for the
last few years. It Is only human na
ture, and the women are to blame."
"Do you think the new style of
straight 'gowns will . be as beautiful
as those with graceful curves?"5 ''
t'Qh, yes.! They may seem funny
at; first; but, they will he modest and
decent, and a thing can't be beauti
ful, in my opinion, if It is indecent.
The great trouble'-will be to get ull
women to adopt the new style. But
when they see the moral reason tw
it, they will look' at it as I do.
"Pads will be a thing of the past.
The busts will be as straight and
compressed at the hips. We are go
ing back to the years of the past
when people had some modesty and
respect for themselves. The' new
dresses will much resemble the col
onial costumes."
IS SOON DESERTED.
Lonely Wife Has Sounded Every Note
in the Gamut.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 17. Ten
days of wedded life as the result or
an advertisement in a 'New York
newspaper resulted in Mrs. Charles
Fleming, formerly of Butte, appear
ing in the probate court of Shoshone
county, Idaho, east of Spokane, with
a complaint in which it appears she
sounded every note in the matrimon
ial gamut. Love,, marriage, widow
hood, divorce, desertion and robbery
figure in her life story.
Mrs. Fleming recited her first mar
riage was when she had passed her
sixteenth birthday. It was followed
by a divorce three years later, her
husband being accused of attacking
her with a knife and with cruelty and
desertion. . . -
In this case she had changed her
maiden name of Mary Stewart for
that of Mrs. Eugene Struthers. Then
she married Frank Preston, a busi
ness man of Butte, and for several
years her happiness was v all that
could be desired. Preston was; at
tacked by thugs on the way home,
was shot and died in the hospital a
few days afterward.
.Mrs. Preston recently answered the
advertisements of two bachelors in
a New York newspaper, and a corre
spondence in which photographs were
exchanged,' resulted In appointments
with William Battel of New York
and Charles Fleming of Kansas City.
; Mrs.' Preston married Fleming,
who had been engaged in the min
ing business, and on the day that the
ceremony took place Battel arrived
on tfie scene. The newly made bride
and Battel had a lively interview,' in
the course of. which the man said
that he had resigned his position in
New York and had been put to con
siderable expense on the trip to
Butte.
Mrs. Fleming claims that his rep
resentations of himself as being tall
and handsome were not strictly in
accordance with the truth. The pho
tograph which he Had sent her was
...
an excellent wont or art, out, beingri
In profile, it had failed to show that
one of his -eyes took a northwesterly
direction, while the other searched
the southeasterly horizon.
The photograph only showed his
head, and while the tallness was all
that he had represented he had fail
ed to state that he was round-shoul.i-ered
almost to deformity. The resuk
of it all is that Battel is said to be
about tp file an action for damacek;
for the loss of bis Job in New York
and for tho recovery of his expenses
from New York and return.
This appears to have been the least
of Mrs. Fleming's troubles. Fleming
came up to the standard of msrhly
appearance required; physically he
appears to have been a regular Apol
lo, but his moral ,and mental charae
tersltics, she declares, would have
graced Mepblstopheles.
Tea days after their marriage,
Fleming borrowed $1000 to start in
business, and since that time there
has been a missing bridegroom. He
was traced as far as Wallace and
from there it Is believed by the bride
be went to Spokane or is somewhere
In the Puget Sound country.
ONLY GETTING UP NERVE.
Guests at the table nearest the
fountain lobkgd with some astonish
ment upon the young man at the cor
ner table, who seemed to be deliver
ing a spirited oration for the benefit
of his two women companions. The
head waiter told them not to be
alarmed. ,
"He Is only practicing an after-
dinner speech," he explained. "A lot
of young chaps who are not used to
after-dinner speaking, and who ex
pect to be put down for a speech at
some banquet soon, learn to stand on
their speaking legs, as you might say,
by practicing before their friends who
dine with them in a public place of
this kind. I have seen men perform
their little stunt before halt a dozen
different sets of friendly critics be
fore venturing to face a roomful of
banqueters. They, seem to prefer to
do their , practicing In a restaurant
rather than in their own homes.
Maybe that gets them used to a
crowd and helps create confidence.'
AMERICAN STARTS FAD.
Gay Girl Has Everyone at Maricnbail
Wearing Sprig. ,
' LONDON, Sept. 21. Every other
person at Marienbad is. just now
wearing a tiny Alpine blossom In his
or her coat. Few people seem to
know how edelweiss acquired this
vogue. It seems the first morning
the king arrived at Marienbad, i
beautiful American girl came for
ward and, as he was having his glass
of water, presented him with a small
bunch of edelweiss, which she ex
plained would "bring him good
luck." King Edward has courtly
manners for all women. Moreover,
he is peculiarly susceptible to
beauty. He raised bis hat, bowed
low and ' accepted the flowers, re
questing the donor to pin a blossom
into hia coat .
Ever since his majesty may be
seen with a bloom from the Alps in
his buttonhole. It goes without say
ing that all Marienbad Is following
suit. k . .
His. majesty has been anxious to
discover the identity of the American
well-wisher, but so far without sue--cess.
Some think it Is Gladys Van
derttllt, who Is now a bright particu
lar star at Carlsbad and a constant
visitor at Marienbad. Why the girl
should continue to remain Incognito
It is difficult to say, unless It to add
greater mystery to a picturesque
event before eventually disclosing
her identity.
It is quite clear the American girl
who presented the flowers knew
something of King Edward's weak
ness in regard to courtesies of the
kind, or she would scarcely have
risked making the presentation. The
king glories in romantic attentions
of this kind, particularly when a
touch of mystery is added to them.
LILY DROPS NAME.
LONDON, Sept. 21. Lady de
Eathe, best known as Mrs. Langtry,
has dropped the name of "Mrs. Jer
sey," under which she used to run
horses on various race tracks. At
Goodwood she appeared as Lady de
Bathe and was photographed as such
on the race course.
: m ' WHAT FELL. ..'ty
"John, what was that awful noise
in the bathroom just now?"
. "Don't, wory, 'my; dear," replied
jonn sieepiiy. it was merely a
crash towel falling." Milwaukee
Sentinel.
GIRLS! GIRLS!
"He thinks I'm the sweetest of girls
In town,
Says my beauty has fairly upset
him.
He thinks I'm as airy as peach-blown
down.
j '
And he now wants to call; shall
I let him?"
"Well, dear," said her friend, "if
you're really wise,"
. Her arm In her bosom chum's
linking,
"And would- still remain such in his
.fervent eyes,
I would let him continue his think
ing." Town Topics.
ORIGIN OF THE
OLD SWASTIKA
I'RIMITIYK MAN WORSHIPED IT,
AM) NOW THE SUMMER
GIRL WEARS IT.
The swastika is just now having
remarkable vogue, as an ornament for
woman's dress. As a brooch, belt
buckle, stick pin, collar fastener, or
hat pin, this upright cross, with each
of its four arms bent to a right angle
at the end, meets everywhere the
eye. -
Nearly every woman who buys one
knows that it is . in some sense a
"good luck pin," but how It came to
be considered such and where the pe
culiar and curiously attractive sym
bol originated not so many know.
What is the swastika?
It is one of the great religious sym
bols of the world. It has been recog
nized as a religious emblem by more
people, very likely, than has the
cross itself. As such symbol it Is
very many hundreds of years older
than the Christian, era; in fact, it, Is
perhaps the very earliest of religious
signs or characters. It has been rev
ered all over Europe and Asia, and
long .before the dawn of Christianity
our pagan ancestors looked up to it
as the emblem of what they wor
shiped. It is one of the oldest things
In history, and there is scarcely a
land In whose ruined temples It Is noc
found, w ';; ... ' !,
"Swastika," the name given it by
the Brahmins and Buddhists of India,
is a Sancrit word signifying "of good
fortune." In the Pall tongue it is
sutL" which means "It Is well, or
'.'so be It," which Is much the same
meaning as the Sancrit word. The
Japanese call it "manjl" 'and the Chi
nese know It as "ouan" or "wan."
The French call it "le erolx pattee,'
the footed cross, while the ancient
English name is "fylfot," meaning
either four-footed or mauy-footed.
The most puzzling and most in
teresting thing about the swastika is
that it is found, in nearly all parts of
the world, In this country as well as
In Europe and Asia, wherever arch
aeologists dig up the buried cities of
the remote past. Drawn, painted,
cut, woven, scratched or otherwise
designed, not only upon burial uns
and sacrlfied stone, but also upon
utensils and objects of everyday use,
the curious symbol appears.
It has been found among relics
that mark the bronce ages in Euror.
and some antiquarians believe they
have discovered the fact of Its ex
istence in the so-called polished stone
age of man. . .' ''
Prof. Schliemann found it at His-
sarltk in the burled cities that under
lay the ancleut Troy, of which Homer
sang, which indicates Its existence at
a period from 3000 to 3500 years
ago. . , ; .
By those who- look upon the region
to the northwest of India as the
primal home of the blonde races of
the world, that ancient land is also
looked upon as the birthplace of tli-3
swastika. R. P. Greg, an eminent
English authority, argues that "It
was a much ' used and favorite ro
llglous symbol among the earlle:
Aryan races, and was intended by
them, in the first instance to repre
f sent in a cruciform form an Ideo
graph or symbol suggested by the
forked lightning." bur primal white
forbears worships Dyausoltar (Jupi
ter), the sky father, and the jagged
lightning was the natural emblem ot
this awful power.
So with the successive emigrations
of the Aryans from northern India all
over Europe, the swastika spread
and, adopted as a symbol of Buddha
In the seventh century before Christ,
It was . later carried Into China and
Japan. The Arabs and Jews knew it
not, ' nor did the ancient Egyptians,
but they were not of Aryan blood.
Thus the hammer of Thor, the
Scandinavin deity for whom Thurs
day Is named, was this very swastika
which the maiden of today Is using
to ornament a summer shirt waist.
It was with his mighty hammer
Miollner, that Thor is fabled to have
crushed the head of the Midgard ser
pent, destroyed the giants, restore!
to life the dead goats which drew his
car, and consecrated the pyre of Bal
diir the beautiful. And so it was the
great religious emblem of all the
Scandinavian peoples. Longfellow,
describing in his verse how the newly
converted King Olaf kept Yuletide it
Drontheim says:
O'er his. drinking horn the sign
He made of the cross divine,
As he drank and muttered his
prayers;
But the Berserks evermore
Made the sign of the-hammer of Thor
Over theirs.
And when the wave of Christianity
rolled over' western Europe, Yuletide
and the hammer of Thor and many
another pagan idea became, assimil
ated with the new religion and ap
peared in gentler guise. The swastika
is embroidered In the miter of
Thomas a Becket, and is often intro
duced in religious decoration In the
middle ages.
"Bells were often marked with the
fylfot, or cross of Thor," says S. Baring-Gould,
"especially where the
Norse settled."
A most striking illustration of the
adoration paid the swastika is to be
seen in the Boston museum of Che
arts. This is a huge painting on silk.
used in a temple decoration in Japan
600 year ago. It pictures the Buddha
enthroned, surrounded by hosts of
adoring saints and deities, and above
him, on either side, an angelic form.
But between, these and directly above
his head, in the center of concentric
circles cushioned on a cloud, is a
splendid swastika. Glittering in sli
ver white against the dull brown
tones of the background, it seems the
motif of the whole picture, and domi
nates the figures below as might the
cross of Constantlne when first It
filled the sight, t ; ,
It is one of the signs ' by which
Buddha is to be recognized when he
comes upon earth; and Sir Edwin Ar
nold In "The Light of Asia" makes
Aslta, the aged saint who examined
the Sakya Buddha at his birth, ' find
upon his baby foot sole the soft
curled tendrils of the swastika.
ft And . so the tiny images, and the
gigantic statues of Buddha show in
many a case the swastika upon his
feet, while in others it appears in
the center of his forehead.
eum at Washington discovered it em
broidered on the silk robes of attache
Chung of the Chinese legation at
Washington and was told that it was
an ancient Chinese device signifying
"many years" or "long life" and in
general an emblem of good fortune.
Major General Gordon found it oi
the breech chasing of a Chinese can
non captured at the Taku forts.
., Rev. F. G. Chalfant, missionary at
Shantung, writes in Science that "it
is among the mystic Chinese charac
ters, is called 'wan,' and Is a favorite
with the Chinese."
. , And not only in, the orient, but In
the most remote corners of Europe is
the swastika to be found. It is
among the remains of the early lake
villages of the Swiss. The Finns and
the Lapps know it. It is on the early
Grecian pottery and vases. Germanic
museums show It as an ornament on
early , bronze celntures and the Scan
dinavians stamped it deep in their
weapons of war. It began before his
tory. . . ' .- : ' '
The puzzle of the archaeologists.
however, is its appearance ' In - this
country many hundred and perhaps
thousands of years ago. It has been
discovered carved on shells in pre
historic burial mounds In Tennessee
silhouetted on copper plates In Ohio
tumuli, carved on a stone metate
from Nicaragua, and at the present
day the Kansas Indians draw it on
their song charts. It is woven in the
bead necklace ot the Sac women,
painted on the ground rattle ot the
Pueblos, figures In the dry sand
painting of the Navajos, ornaments
the beadwork of the Kickapoos and
decorates the bullhlde war shields of
the Pimas of Arizona. ,
But where did the ancient mound
builders and the modern Indians get
it? .
Did they think it up themselves
and it certainly Is a rather compli
cated thing to think up; or Is It that
the primal Inhabitants of the new
world came from the old and brought
swastika with them?
; But In the sculptured ruins at
Palenque In Central America appear
not only the cross but also three
other gi;eat religious symbols, the
"triskeles," the "ylnyang" and the
Egyptian "crux ansata." And wheth
er this proves that the western con
tinent was peopled from the old
world, or whether It indicates that
primitative man's Ideas ' were the
same everywhere, archaeologists are
not agreed.
But when the twentieth century
girl sticks her swastika In her, shirt
waist she should know that knees
bent before It and eyes were uplifted
to It In the dawn of the world, when
man first sought to make the sign of
that which he worshiped. .
ROBBED IN CHICAGO.
California Bounty Is Victim or Well
- Dressed Man. '
CHICAGO, Sept. 21. Mrs. Viva
Kemker, former artist's model and
"belle of the golden west," reported
to the polico to day that while she
was writing a telegram In the office
04 the Postal Telegraph company she
was robbed of a gold watch valued at
$500.. She was waiting In the office,
the clerks being busy at . the time,
when she was accosted by a stranger.
She Ignored his advances and was
about to turn and leave the building
when the man grasped her diamond
studded watch and ran.
Mrs. Kemper, who is known as the
handsomest woman in California,
screamed and started in pursuit, but
her assailant was soon lost. Aside
from the actual value of the watch
the owner feels the loss greatly, ns
it was a gift from artists for whom
she posed before her marriage to a
scion of one of the leading familifjs
of Los Angeles. Her friends assert
that she is the most beautiful woman
In California.
The police are investigating and an
arrest is expected soon which may
shock the classic suburb of Evanston.'
WOMEN WORK ABOUT MIXES.
South African women are em
ployed in' large numbers about the
famous mines. ; They are useful in
carrying In loads, especially of fire
wood. For women .labor la cheap,
and along as they are left alone to
take as much time as they like, they
are all right. On the west coast also
an. investigator found that native wo
men had been tried against ' native
men, and were found to be by far the
best and cheapest. There they were
on piecework. Their task was to
carry In about a cord of wood a day.
They would start about 4:30 p.-m.,
and carried for three, four or . five
hours. Then, If they wanted to get
off, -they would carry another cord of
wood In the afternoon, or a part of
It. Chicago Tribune. :
TOO BUSY.
"I suppose you visited all the
points of Interest while you were
abroad?" said one young woman.
"No," answered thev other, "we
were so busy addressing post cards
to our friends that we hadn't time
to do much sight-seeing." Washing
ton Star.
ON THE OTHER HAND.
"Anyway," said the young widow
of a year's standing, surveying her
comely features in the mirror, "there
seems to be no public prejudice
against a woman marrying her de
ceased husband's brother." Chicago
Tribune. i
HER LAST HOPE GONE.
"I Bimply can't help telling you
again that I love you," said Percy
Vere. "Can you. not hold out any
hope?" ' .
"I did hold out one hope," replied
Miss Bute wearily, "but that's gone
now." -
"Wha was it? I'm sure I"
"I had hoped you wouldn't men
tion the subject again." Exchange.
AFTER THE SHOW.
Sweet Singer The leading
does not get so many curtain
since lie has been married. -
Comedian No; I think he
man
calls
gets
more
News.
curtain lectures. Chicago
BENEATH THE CHANDELIER,
I saw her at the dinner table 'neath
the chandelier; .,
I caught my heart with anguish and
I looked at her with fear,
For I knew my fate was near at
hand, I saw my finish near;
But I wish I hadn't seen her In the
, morning.
Beneath the chandelier with ita
shades of rosy red,
Beneath thechandelier right above
her -
Beneath the chandelier
I saw my finish near;
But 1 wish I hadn't seen her In
the morning.
Her face was like a garden where
the rose and Illy grew,
The diamond in her raven tresses
sparkled like the dew.
And the lovellght fairly melted in her
lovely eyes of blue; ; ,
But I wish I hadn't seen her in
the morning.
Beneath the chandelier, with Its ruby
colored glow,
Where Cupid tuned his music to a
pitch almighty low,
Beneath the chandelier
I saw my finish near;
But I wish I hadn't seen ber in
the morning.
Ah, how I loved and worshiped her
no tongue can ever tell,
Nor how I felt to hear her speak in'
tonals like a bell; ' '- .
Nor how I dared to watch her s her
bosom rose and fell;V
But I wish I hadn't seen her In
the morning.
Beneath the chandelier, right above
her pretty head,
It was there I nearly fainted when
she asked me for the bread.
Beneath the chandelier
I saw my finish near;
But I wish I hadn't seen her in
, the morning. .
In the morn she looked as homely aB
a scraggly woman can, ,
I felt my heart come back to me she
had an awful pan
And I stumped off to the Elevated
feeling like a man;
ut i wish I hadn't
seen her in
the morning.
Beneath the chandelier ae
as it hung
above her head.
My love was born last evening.
but
mis morning it lies dead.
Beneath the chandelier
No longer feel I fear;
But I wish I hadn't seen her In
the morning. '
N. Y. Evening Sun.
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