The midland journal., January 03, 1908, Image 6

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ALONG HAWAIIAN WAYS.
—From The Motor Car.
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VENTILATES THE SHOE.
Apparatus of Levers and Tubes Ar
ranged In Interior of Heel.
It is well known that the foot,
when Incased in shoes, does not re
ceive proper ventilation —in fact,
does not receive any. This is par
ticularly so in regard to the heel and
the sole, as a small portion of air does
manage to enter the upper part of the
shoe and ventilate the ankle. It has
been said that the foot should re
ceive as much ventilation as the
hands and equally as much care and
attention. It would be impossible to
ventilate the foot except with some
such apparatus as that shown here,
the invention of an Argentine man,
and patented In the Uhited
States. Jn this apparatus for the in
terior ventilation of the foot there Is
a combination of an air .suction and
compressing device arranged Inside
the heel. A system of levers tends to
increase the mechanical effort of the
natural action of the foot in walking.
Inside the shoe are also tubes for the
circulation of air.—Washington Star.
Grape Pomace For Cattle.
A consular report states that the
refuse of wine presses, the pomace,
is being fed to cattle by French far
mers. After the wine is pressed out,
the pomace is generally used to make
a kind of brandy called “eau de vie
de marc,” and then the residue is
used as fodder for stock or as a fer
tilizer. A French farmer experiment
ing with this pomace has found a
means of converting it into an excel
lent fodder for milch cows. He makes
a compound consisting of parts of
sugar and parts of pomace, forming
a substance that the cows eat with
great relish and which can be pre
served three months. He says that
after he had fed this mixture to his
cows three days they gave twenty per
cent, more milk than before, and
that the milk was of a much better
quality. The past summer haa been
Very dry, and farmers believe the
grape food will greatly aid them. A
company has been organized at
Clermont, Ferrand, with capital of
$30,000, to build a factory to convert
WAS IT FAIR—TO FORTY?
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He —“So you persist in breaking cff the engagement?”
She—“ Most decidedly. What do you take me for?”
He—“Oh, about forty. Better think it over; V may be your last
thance."—The Sketch.
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grape pomace Into cow feed, in the
form of oil cakes, using chopped hay
or straw and molasses. —Country
Gentleman.
Human Camels.
So conveniently Is the hump
placed on the back of the camel for
the disposition cf the pack saddles
that this has not unnaturally seemed
a special design for the benefit of
the nomadic Arab. It does not there
fore seem to have struck people gen
erally that this is the actfial result
of the use to which since, at any
rate, 2000 B. C. the camel has been
put by his Asiatic masters. The cer
tainty of this is already apparent
from the fact, familiar to anyone who
has traveled In the Interior of Al
geria, that the thoroughbred mehari,
or saddle camel, which carries no
burden heavier than a slim Arab
dispatch bearer/ is losing its hump, j
But the matter is put beyond all
doubt by the intelligent researches
of Professor Lombroso, the eminent
Italian anthropologist, who identified
similar callosities—miniature humps,
In fact —upon the neck and shoulders
of Hottentot and Malagasy porters,
employed by their fellow-men in
work more appropriate to the har- I
dier camel. —London Standard.
Improved Cleaver.
With the aid of an Implement In
vented by a New Jersey man it now
becomes possible for the butcher to
chop the meat and at the same time
add to its tenderness by pounding •
with a combined cleaver and meat
tenderer. The cleaver, as shown In
the illustration below, is similar to
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those commonly used. On the corner,
opposite to the blade, a series of teeth
are arranged at an angle. These
teeth are used in tendering the meat.
The advantage of placing the teeth
, at an angle will be obvious. If they
1 were placed parallel with the upper
edge of the cleaver It would be impo3-
1 sible to manipulate the tenderer with- |
out knocking the hand on the table.
> By placing the teeth at an angle the
. handle is removed from the table
: when either the blade or teeth are
! being used, preventing injury to the
; hand. —Washington Star.
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How Ho Manage a Husband
and How Ho Manage a Wife
By Mrs. Frederick: O. Sibley.
has been so much said of late about the home life and how
Tto manage a husband In this department of your most excellent
paper as to make me wonder if it has ever occurred to you that
mmmgm the husband sometimes may feel the need of advice on “How
ffijfEgjgWSjl to manage a wife?” The question is as broad as It is long. The
essentials of a happy home would, to my mind, be fli%t, a sood,
firm foundation of common sense on the part of both husband
and Wife. They should both work together that they may know exactly what
can be afforded in the home; and as to the pocketbook question there snouia
practically be but one pocketbook. Are you and your husband not one. w*
a thorough understanding on the part of both concerning financial affairs tnere
is no need, then, of the husband hearing the numerous complaints about things
that cannot be afforded. And here I would suggest that instead of each mak
ing the other costly presents at Christmas time, let them go together and get
something new for their home —a nice chair, rug or books —anything to make
their home life as well as cheerful. If the financial Ques
tion Is discussed, let it be discussed between themselves; and let their chil
dren be taught to some extent, too, the financial standing in the home, and
that all thi3 is strictly private. Do I not know the thoughts of many a woman
when she goes to town and, looking into shop windows, views there the costly
china, bric-a-brac and many things so dear to the feminine heart. Hif
wishes for some of them in her home! Yet is it wise for her to t ?ll oun
continually of the fact when she knows he would be more than glad t> get
them for her if they could afford it?
True, it is the duty of every woman to make her home attractive; put
' above all, she should make herself so. Wh’le I believe in dressing accord.ng
to one’s work, one can nearly always be neat and clean to the cheapest
apparel. I once remember being in a home where the husband was absent,
but was to return that evening. Callers were waiting in the parlor, to the
surprise of whom the mistress of the home came down in fu'l dres3. Asked If
she was going away, she replied: “No; my husband is com ng home tonight.
“Can it be you dress up like this just for your husband?” “What other gent-e
--man would I dress up for?” she inquired with a smile.
Of course, the work upon the farm is more or less hard for both, and
things will go wrong at times in all places, even in the best of famll es; but
while we may not always be able to live up to it, it is best to cultivate as much
as possible the habit of looking on the brighter side of life. There ii no mere
healthy, independent occupation on earth than farming, and our c ty cousins
who are wont to lavish so much pity on U 3 deserve our pity ra’her than we
theirs. For us there is beauty all around —dn the fields, the wood 3, the birds
and the brooks, and to lighten our labor we need only plenty of oure whole
some love in the home. —From the New York Tribune Farmer.
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The Secret gf
i Harmony in Color
By Martha Cittler.
the colors have certain definite qualities They are not only
Alight or dark in themselves, but some colors reflect more light
than others, and are thus capable of changing the light in a
| room. They are classified according tQ their luminosity in this
! order: yellow, orange, green, red, blue and purple. Yellow and
I orange with their tints and shades will bring sunshine and
warmth into a dark room. Green and red with their t.nts and
shades, unless they are too dark, have little effect in changing the light, while
blue and purple may be used in very bright rooms. The classification accord
ing to warmth and coldness is quite similar. The warm colors are yellows,
I red-browns, reds and olive greens; the cold colors blue-green, blue, purple and
the neutral tones of the warm colors. The character and atmosphere of a
room—lts coziness or its formality—are dependent upon this decided char
acteristic of colors. A room with dark-red walls and rich hangings suggests
j the coziness of an open fire on a winter’s evening—a green room the cool
I restful shade of the forest on a warm summer’s day, while warm golden yel
low suggests sunshine itself. The cold colors recede from us and hence form
good backgrounds and make a small room appear larger. The warm colors
advance, make good bits of contrasting color against the colder tones, and make
a room appear smaller. The darker shades of all the colors draw the walls of
a room together more than the lighter tints. Light colors make an entire
houße appear large and airy. Ceilings may be made to appear higher with
light retiring colors, and lower with the advancing and dark colors.
A room with blue walls will appear much larger than a room with red
walls, while one with light-green walls will appear much larger than one with
! dark green or with light yellow.—Harper’s Bazar.
Individu&l Responsibility.
By President Woodrow Wilson.
El find many things done under forms of corporate organization
W which are clearly against the public welfare as well as against all
principles of private morality, and so we strike at corporations,
and striking at corporations, embarrass the business of the coun.-
try. There is no such thing as corporate morality or corporate
mmmmmimJ integrity or corporate responsibility. Every transaction that is
against the public welfare or right principle can be traced, if we
will but take the pains to trace it, to some individual or body of individuals
who are responsible for it, and those individuals should be punished without
fear or favor, without checking the courses of the country’s business. We
must analyze our new methods of business so as to rediscover the individual
| in them and hold him to his personal responsibility. This, and not methods of
' government supervision, is the task of the enlightened lawyer and legislature,
if we would bring back to America her great fame and leadership in the
world of politics and law. It is difficult; it can be accomplished only by the
most careful analysis of the facts; but it can be accomplished, and it will
set us free alike from individual crime in the field of business and from
governmental tutelage in the field of politics. Our two tasks are to break up
monopolies apd rediscover the Individual in all matters of legal responsibility.
Governmental supervision will not free us or moralize it; it will in the long
I run ensave us and demoralize us. But individual responsibility and an
impartial enforcement of the law against those who are actually responsible
will bring us alike freedom and public morals.
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Three Kinds qf Speculation I
By Charles F. Dele.
S there such a thing as honorable or useful speculation? It is j
f>L| ▼ at this point that the chief difficulty of our subject lies. There j
iff I 1 are three lines of justification of legitimate speculation. The !
original meaning cf the word speculate suggests one use to which
society puts a certain c’.as3 of its members. They are scouts or
“jgjgglj outrunners, who, by their far sight or mobility, explore new
routes by which the marching caravan behind them may pro
ceed, or discover treasures and supplies for the benefit of the rest. The
inventors and promoters are thus surely useful to the slower and cautious
multitude. No one grudges them generous return for their forethought,
patience courage and faith. The trouble with this class of speculators is that i
they have frequently failed entirely to see their relation to society. Their I
honorable business is to serve all of us. They have heretofore been suffered I
to imagine that they could appropriate for their selfish use whatever they
might lay their eyes upon. Sent forward as scouts from the main body, upon
whose approach they always reckon, and by whose continued support they are
enabled to exist, they have confidently written their own names as proprietors
upon the lands, the springs of water, the forests, the minerals and all those
natural resources which rightly belong to the body of society,—never, to a.
few of its members. —From the Atlantic.
Wheat and Timothy. |
Charles Robinson of Grand Prairie-1
took a queer method to save a crop
of timothy seed this season, but the
wheat plants were scarce and scat
tered, and Mr. Robinson was in a
quandary to know what to do with
the field until It was suggested that
he let the mixed crop stand until
the timothy got ripe enough to cut
and then harvest the wheat and grass
together. This was done as late as
August 3, the overripe wheatheads
hanging low, as the binder did its
work, and when threshing time came
the bundles were run through the
separator, with the result that Mr.
Robinson got seventy-six bushels of
wheat and twenty bushels of clean
timothy seed.
| Blankets were spread to catch the
screenings—which proved to be the
timothy—while the threshing was go
ing ?u, and the grain went out at the ,
regular place, and the scheme worked {
to perfection. Mr. Robinson got j
about SSO worth of wheat and feels j
as though he received fair pay for l
his work, if his wheat did freeze out.
—Kansas City Journal.
Watches Baked and Frozen.
“I will be with you in a moment. 1
must finish baking this batch of
watches first.”
Antwerp and Amsterdam lead
Europe as the most healthful munici
palities. Madrid is at the other end
of the list
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New York City.—Apparently the
over waist idea is'to extend its favor
for a long time to come, and illus
trated is one of the newest and most,
graoeful developments thereof. In
the case of the model the over por
tion is made of crepe de Chine, with
trimming of taffeta bands edged with
a little soutache braid, while the
gulmpe or blouse is made of embroid
ered net. But the incoming season
as well as the past one is prolific of
beautiful materials, and such a model
as this one could be made in various
ways. All the pretty light weight silk
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and wool stuffs will be charming for
the over portions, while the trim
ming can be either of a contrasting
or the same material as liked. Again,
the under blouse or guimpe portion
Is equally well adapted tq lace, net
and lingerie materials. In this case
the over blouse matches the skirt, hut
It can be utilized for the odd bodice
a 100.
The blouse is made with plain front
and backs and is closed invisibly at
* the back and the over waist is made
I with tucks that are stitched with
' belding silk and is trimmed with
j pointed bands and arranged over the
I blouse. It can be closed either at
front or back as liked. There are
loose narrow sleeves that give the
drooping shoulder line in the over
waist and th% blouse sleeves are gath
ered into prettily shaped cuffs.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is two and
| three-quarter yards twenty-one, two
I and one-quarter yards twenty-seven
or one and one-eighth yards forty
four inches wide for the over waist,
with one yard of silk for the trim
ming; three yards eighteen inches
wide or one and three-quarter yards
thirty-six inches wide for the blouse
or guimpe.
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Pleated Skirt Becoming.
The pleated skirt will likely remain
‘ at the head of the list, since it is gen
j erally becoming to all figures.
Cluny Lace Popular.
| Despite the great vogue of filet, one
of the latest of all the laces in pop-
J ular favor, Cluny, princess and point
d’esprit are being consumed in great
quantities for waists, gowns and trim
mings.
Shoulder Straps Stay.
Shoulder straps or suggestions of
straps are as fashionable as ever, and
bid flr to be seen all through the
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• Velvet Facings.
Collars are small and Inclined to
show- velvet facings when used on
• -street suits.
Muff, Collarette and Scarf.
Nothing gives a greater sense of
warmth and comfort than a fur
scarf or muff. This season there are
a number of styles being worn, but
among them all there are none better
liked nor more generally satisfac
tory than the collarette and scarf Il
lustrated and-the big, soft, roomy
muff. They can be made from genu
ine fur of any sort, and the making
is quite easy; they can be made from
one of the very handsome fur cloths
for which the season Is noted, or
they can be made from velvet and
trimmed with lace or fur. As illus
trated the collarette and muff are
made of brown squirrel, while the
scarf is of caracul cloth and the cloth,
let It be added, is exceptionally de
sirable this year, being handsome
and effective without meaning any
sense of imitation. The collarette has
a cape finish at the back and com
pletely covers the shoulders, but the
scarf is often preferred by women
who do not care for quite such ex
treme warmth. It can be worn
knotted about the throat, as illus
trated, or simply left free with the
ends hanging, one on either side.
The collarette is made with a little
collar that is joined to its neck edge
and which means comfortable and
snug fit, but the scarf and the pillow
muff are made in one piece each.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is for the collar
ette, one and three-eighth yards
twenty-one, forty-four or fifty inches
wide; for the scarf three-quarter
yard twenty-one, forty-four or fifty
Inches wide; for the mult seven-eighth
yard twenty-seven, one-half yard
forty-four or fifty Inches wide. For
the collarette and muff together two
and one-quarter yards forty-four or
one and three-eighth, yards fifty
inches wide will be required; for the
scarf and muff together one and one
half yards twenty-one, three-quarter
yard forty-four or fifty Inches wide.
v Lawn For Trimming.
A band of tucked lawn or linen set
on between lace insertion or narrow
ruffles is one of the least expensive
and at the same time attractive modes
of trimming underwear, tor sleeves
and neck of gown and the bottom
of skirts.
Hats Not to Match.
Little or no effort has been made
this season to match the hat with
the gown,