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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
3
Harriet Monroe reflects on the seventh sense of equilibrium gained with age. She argues letting go of fixed grips and embracing simpler living reduces worry, clarifies thought, and helps parents balance duties with growth.
A 17 year old girl arrives in New York seeking work with no funds or friends. She is directed to the Margaret Louisa home run as a transient hotel for self supporting women. She learns the rates and is told the home is not for working girls. She is referred to real homes and decides the Y W C A is for self supporting women only.
A reader cites an old English statute from Queen Elizabeth's reign that punishes women who deceive men with cosmetics or body alterations. The writer argues the law is irrelevant to modern society, praising natural appearance and condemning artificial adornments as deceptive and hollow.
A guide to keeping a girl's room neat and inviting. Emphasizes cleanliness, simple decor, and avoiding trashy books. Recommends clean bedspreads linen dresser pieces silk cover for the trunk and a scrap basket to store odds and ends. Encourages well chosen pictures books and magazines.
Advice on arranging a tidy personal room with shoes stored, walls free of clutter, and a single pretty plant. Keep the clothes press closed, hang only tasteful cards, and maintain home contentment even in small spaces.
A New England girl invents jig saw puzzles that sweep hotels ships and resorts. Boston leads the trend with puzzles sold at low prices and ships carry them by the dozen. Many make their own puzzles while shops profit from the craze. Popular pictures include The Field Officer The Wild West Mohammedan Scouts and The Christy Girl.
The article argues hot water heating provides more uniform warmth than steam or hot air and lasts as long as the house if cared for, though initial cost is higher. It notes radiators near windows prevent cold drafts, rapid circulating water helps during fires and after, and stresses easy cleaning to avoid soot blocking gas flow.
The review notes Caroline French Benton’s Living on a Little from Dana Estes & Co offering useful guidance for frugal housekeeping. It highlights chapters on maintaining niceties, solving dress questions with simple, washable garments, and turning a simple day into a presentable, pleasant routine.
In a New York Tribune piece, Mrs. Korne argues evening dinners ease work and preserve dignity. She contrasts noon dinners with night meals, describing table setup, course changes, and a moving two-shelved cart for dishes to reduce movement. She promotes leisurely shopping and cooking routines.
Consul Brittain reports European press claims a Hungarian inventor has developed a telecommunication system with a perforator transmitter and receiver. Messages are punched on ribbon and translated to plain text at the distant end. The device uses electricity and photography over a telephone line and even ties light to electricity for long distance transmission.
The London Standard outlines central Africa rituals where youths pass through initiations led by the rat tler of the tails. Boys gain new names and moral lessons on sharing and etiquette while girls undergo the unyago with practical tasks and symbolic drills for future domestic roles.
Notes discuss the new Torrens land title act in California, its slow adoption, and required amendments, including the McEnerney act’s limited proof rules and the issue of registering titles after the San Francisco fire. It also recalls unrelated local incidents and curiosities involving Washington’s diamond, Dr. Cook near the pole, a corn-eating court scene, and a Harrisburg drowning tragedy.
A Maltese cat belonging to John R. McLean was saved after falling into a sewer and riding the conduit to railroad tracks in Washington DC. A housekeeper identified the animal and a wrecking crew recovered it, delivering the pet back to the McLean home. In other notes a Cincinnati woman absolved a man of theft to aid Taft votes, a bald eagle snatched a large bass from a fisherman on Highland Lake, Connecticut, prompting the man to carry a gun on future trips.
A Michigan man, Covert, takes his rooster and worm bait to a summer home where a hooked bird is found with fish line in its bill. In Richmond Hill, L. L., a cow named Brindle kicks Koch while milking in an apron, injuring him. Nearby, Sherman Kime plans divorce after learning his wife ran off with another man, seeking a fresh start.
Posing as a stock buyer, Kime tracked his wife to her sister’s Arkansas home where she confessed fleeing his home for love of John McArnold. She admitted plans to kill McArnold after learning his tale of hard luck, while another note describes self‑operating revolving hotel doors powered by an electric bulb system at the Hotel Astor.
The text recalls Marienbad’s centenary after Abbot Pfrogar aided by Dr. Nehr established the Kreuzbrunnen spa. King Edward visits yearly, walking to the spring at 8 each morning with escorts, enjoying golf, croquet, meals, and theater, surrounded by attendants and his dog Caesar.
The Chicago Tribune notes Bolivia used adobe telegraph poles from La Paz to Oruru during the Chile Bolivia conflict. Poles stood five feet square at the base, about 15 feet high, 361 feet apart, on stone foundations to clear donkeys and ha mice.
Ellen Terry recounts leaving the Lyceum theatre amid changes and a syndicate takeover. She notes Irving’s shift from producer to faithful actor, his reviving Faust and Dante, and her inability to continue with either play. She emphasizes they never quarreled and that their partnership dissolved naturally.
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