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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
3
A 19th century-tinged reflection on happiness and domestic duties urges women to simplify life, avoid drudgery, and value companionship. It contrasts cheerful, purposeful living with overemphasis on furnishings, stressing that true welfare comes from mutual care and sincere letters that convey thought and warmth. Public and private letter writing are examined as reflective arts.
Mrs. Cecil Smith in The Home Magazine advises prompt notes of thanks when gifts arrive and stresses focusing on the pleasure of the gift rather than listing other items. She argues that sincerity and spontaneity can coexist, preserving individuality as a true spiritual gift.
Dr. A B Lawrence cites Dr Coughlin findings on amateur boxers showing superb muscles but weak health. He warns against exhausting fatigue in colleges, urging balanced development, regular hours, proper food and air. Real physical culture means moderation and mind body growth.
Kate Upson Clark argues that urban youth lack nature knowledge and laments their fixation on city life. She urges early summer nature education, cites works by Miller Bailey and Burroughs, and notes how a dedicated leader can spark lasting interest in birds moths and plants among children.
A bulletin describes the Boston Museum of Fine Arts plan to build several small buildings each dedicated to different art branches, set in a harmonious cluster around a park. Twelve acres in Back Bay have been bought, with park layout underway before construction. The museum, founded in February 1870, is touted as a leading national art institution. The Art Association of Lowell has bought Whistler’s birthplace at North Street for use as a memorial museum. A Rodin monument replica proposal for Cheyne Walk Chelsea, featuring a large symbolic figure and Whistler bas-relief, is under discussion, costing about 10 000 dollars.
The Statue of the Great God Pan by George Gray Barnard, once offered by Mrs. Clark now married to Bishop Potter for Central Park and not installed, has been offered to and accepted by Columbia University.
A collection of old kitchen instructions detailing Creole and Italian chicken dishes. Recipes outline salt pork, onion, celery, peppers, tomato sauces, and fricassee methods, plus tips on browning, simmering, and finishing gravies. Includes pot roast and veal wrapped oyster diners with bacon and cream sauce steps.
C J F de Vos of Rotterdam has built a cane wicker lifeboat praised for practical, sturdy design. The boat is unsinkable, rust free, requires no paint, and lighter with more storage. In a Maas collision the wicker hull buffered damage to larger vessels. It costs less than traditional boats and offers durability and space for provisions.
Gen. O O Howard recalls a White House gathering where a senator urged divine aid to victory. Lincoln, with a clear voice, declared his faith surpassed the claim that God would simply ensure success. The exchange centered on who trusted more in God to guide the Union through the Civil War.
Walter J Wilenberg, a boy, constructs a portable wireless telegraph station. He mounts a transmitting setup on a belt and carries a battery in his pocket. A wire trails to the ground from a top house antenna as he travels a country road, sending messages eight miles to his family.
The Missouri state board of agriculture asked poultry fancier Ernest Kellerstrass for a portrait of Peg the famous S5000 hen to hang at the Missouri Agricultural College. Peg’s fame includes a failed $5000 bid from Paderewski and sales of eggs for $1500 each from five hatchlings. Magistrate Frank J Brady of Pittsburg held Julia Kain in 200 bail after she shot Joseph Johnston in the right foot following a poodle versus bulldog scuffle.
After failed tide and horse efforts to move a large washed whale near Seaside Oregon city hall Marshal Linsley used dynamite. The blast scattered the carcass across the area instead of removing it, spreading flesh over yards and destroying a cottage chimney and building rear.
Miss Nettie Parsons of Pittsburg visiting relatives near Parker's Glen Pike county Pa catches twenty trout weighing over half a pound each from a brook on her aunt's property. She drops a yellow and white cotton Easter chick into the water, and the trout bite on every imitation chick she uses, leading to a strike-filled fishing session.
A colossal New York bound clock from Waterbury Conn arrives for the Colgate building at Hudson and Grand streets. The 20 foot minute hand and 15 foot hour hand, plus a dial 40 feet across, will weigh over a ton in total. The clock weights will be suspended in an elevator shaft, and the dial far exceeds Philadelphia City Hall’s and London’s Big Ben in diameter.
The autopsy on Judge John E. Keighon of St. Louis revealed organs scattered out of normal order including a reversed heart and a horseshoe shaped kidney connection. Surgeons marveled at how he lived 66 years with such transposed internal anatomy.
West Norfolk Connecticut poultry raiser Thompson reports a trout snatch of a chick near Blackberry river. Several other disappearances this spring prompt him to erect aerial spars along the riverside border to protect broiler chicks for summer boarders arriving soon.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rail Road, part of the Van derbilt system, will lead in obeying the Interstate Commerce Commission order to publish a comprehensive rate sheet from every station to every destination in the United States. The line spans about 100 miles, with five clerks began work last week. If aided by other railroads, the task may take five years to complete, a pace railroad men say even the largest systems cannot match.
In Grenoble a factory uses water from a reservoir 1600 feet up the mountain. A vertical pipe powers a turbine, and a side jet can be hacked at with a sword yet remains uncut. The jet, about a thumb’s width, travels around 100 yards per second, roughly a tenth of cannonball speed.
Theodore Petersen Stole, a 25 year old Norwegian inmate in a Brooklyn sailors home, attempted to swim from Battery Park to Norway after declaring dissatisfaction with the United States. Police officer Joseph Mary restrained him and he was taken to Bellevue for sanity evaluation. In New Haven a dove with a wooden leg, rebuilt by a depot worker, hops on one leg at the station.
While loading a wagon J Franklin Miller of Bedminster Pennsylvania found himself riding on a barrel as the load peaked. His frightened horses dashed the barrel from under him causing a 50 foot roll along the road. He escaped with minor bruises and was not seriously hurt.
The Montville home of Patrick Henry’s descendants in Virginia faces destruction by fire after bats overwhelm the mansion. Bats swarm in grand parlors and bedrooms, hanging from furniture, ceilings, and walls. poison and clubs failed to curb the infestation.
A small dog owned by A. E. Case of Dayton, Wyoming, was pulled into Tongue River by a 4 pound trout and drowned while the dog accompanied Case’s young son on a fishing excursion. The boy hooked the fish, sent the dog after it, and the trout dragged both dog and pole into rapids before the dog perished, while the boy recovered the pole and landed the fish after a hard fight.
W. J. Riggins of Columbia declares his wife worth $10 after par value set. The judge orders a bond twice the value. Riggins swiftly pays a $20 bill to the judge, without consulting attorneys.
Census takers discover a half mile road settlement in Wolcott Conn home to grangers aged 72 to 83. Among residents are Thomas Fairclough 77 and wife, Linsley Austin 58 and 83, M Robinson 74, Mary Daniela 72, Timothy Root 75 and 77, A J Slater 7 and 70, Ford Upson 74, Albert Hitchcock 74, Lucean White 77.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Horton of Whitestone Queens Borough testifies before Surrogate Daniel Noble as executrix of her father William H. Wilkins estate about discovering seven thousand dollars in a secret slide behind his bedroom door. Wilkins died January 1, 1907. Horton is his eldest daughter.
A widow knelt by a bedroom door and heard hollow sound. She tapped again and found a secret pinel in the door edge. Opening it revealed an envelope with seven thousand dollars in cash. The late Mr Wilkins left substantial real estate divided in friendly partitions after his death.
A letter from Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell settles the long standing question of whether he wore whiskers at his first inauguration. Lincoln recounts that he had not worn a beard, but during a trip to Washington he met Bedell, who urged him to grow one, and he decided to follow her advice after she called on him. The debate intensified with a local statue of Lincoln lacking a beard, funded by public school children.
Sixty female students at Grove City College in Sharon Pennsylvania wore oversized Merry Widow hats during chapel blocking the view of those behind them. A male student wrote a line in a hymn book about wanting to see the minister which the pastors read with little effect. The men retaliated by donning similar large hats to simulate the same sight line disruption.
An investigation by the bureau of manufactures shows mohair plush production in the United States has grown, aided by Angora goats. From 1901 to 1905 plush output surged faster than goat hair, boosting Mohair imports from 739,419 to 2,625,000 pounds. Recently Angora hair supply nearly meets demand, with Bradford, England losing lead as Providence, Rhode Island gains a large new mill to serve American trade.
The Maryland colonists under Leonard Calvert declared possession of Maryland on March 25 1634 after sailing from the Isle of Wight on the Ark and the Dove. They landed at St Clement’s Island and made a brief halt before bargaining with local Indians along St Marys River. Historians mark March 27 1684 as the settlement date by some accounts, but March 25 remains valid. The piece notes the calm start of Maryland’s history, contrasting with harsh New England beginnings, and reflects on Maryland’s later enduring progress and settled character.
Andrew Carnegie, honored at a New York dinner, recounted a tale at his expense about a smoking carriage on an English train. A man insisted on finishing a pipe despite warnings, and after Carnegie threatened to report him, the guard returned with a card revealing the offender as Mr. Andrew Carnegie.
The honey guide of Africa lures a man to a honey nest by fluttering and chirping cherr cherr. The bird leads the hunter to the nest and remains while the native raids the comb, then feeds after the man departs.
A Baltimore American quote contrasts the saying that eyes are the windows of the soul with the observation that many people’s eyes look glassy. The witty exchange hints at how outward appearance can mislead, suggesting a physiological basis for eye clarity or lack thereof.
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