The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 748, Ed. 1 Monday, August 6, 1906 Page: 3 of 4
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PURELY FEMININE
DF AID TO HOSTESS
THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS
MAY PROVE A BIT OF HELP.
Here Is a Bright Little Game of Na-
tions for a Half-Hour’s Pastime
—Something New in a Bri-
dal Shower.
The Game of Nations.
Here is a bright little game to get
one’s thinking cap to working and will
furnish a half hour’s amusement. On
slips of paper to be given each guest
write the questions, and when returned
to the hostess the correct answers
should be:
The Nation from which we start?
Germination.
The Nation for teachers? Explana-
tion.
The Nation for actors? Impersona-
tion.
The Nation for pupils? Subordina-
tion.
The Nation for theological students?
Ordination.
The Nation for a political candidate?
Nomination.
The Nation for an unpopular official?
Resignation.
The Nation for pests? Extermina-
tion.
The Nation for evil doers? Condem-
nation.
The Nation desired by monopolies?
Combination.
The Nation which indicates a class?
Denomination.
The Nation on a crusade? Carrie
Nation.
A New Bridal Shower.
Quite the newest thing in bridal
showers is for the friends to pool their
money and give one nice gift instead
of a number of small articles. If it is
a luncheon the present is brought in
on a tray by the maid; if it is an af-
ternoon or evening party, a box con-
taining the offering is delivered by spe-
cial messenger. A brass candlestick,
copper bowl, a dainty luncheon cloth,
or bit of oriental stuff for a pillow or
table cover are all most acceptable to
a prospective bride.
MADAME MERR1.
-ONG AND CROSS STITCH.
Che Design Simple and Suitable to
Work on Canvas, Where It Is
Very Effective.
This is a simple design worked with
mercerized cotton on canvas, of which
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A NEAT DESIGN.
there are many pretty varieties; it is
suitable to be worked on canvas of
any size for Duchess toilet covers,
mats, cushion covers, table centers,
etc. The pattern is worked in long,
cross, and knot-stitches.
Sagging Lines of the Face.
Facial massage, even the very best
kind, will not remove the sagging
lines of the face under the eyes—that
look of fatigue which we often see in
girls of 18 as well as in women of
50. This tired look is often due to
nervous exhaustion or weakness of
the muscles of the abdomen and back.
The woman with the tired eyes had
much better spend all her spare mo-
ments in loose clothing, going through
a course of physical culture exercises
for the special purpose of strengthen-
ing or resting and relaxing the mus-
cles than toying with massage creams,
which can have only a superficial and
momentary effect. The cause of these
haggard lines lies too deep to be
reached even by the most skillful op-
erator’s fingers. Constitutional rem-
edies and bodily care and exercise will
remove these lines in the face.
ON THE CARE OF THE HAIR
An Expert on the Subject Preaches a
Little Sermon It Were Well
to Heed.
“The hair is like the complexion. It
is apt to fade. It needs lots of care
to make it nice. Hair grows old be-
fore it should, and it is the fault of its
owner, generally.
“The woman who goes to bed at
night with her hair done up as she
wore it during the day invites head-
ache, gray hair, baldness and all sorts
of ills.
“Curling the hair with a hot iron is
very bad for the hair, in that it takes
out the color pigments. Take the hair
and do it up on curlers for an hour,
or put it up in curlers and pinch it
with a warm iron.
“Sometimes, if time is precious, we
twist it over a warm iron, but we never
burn or break it. There is no way of
ruining the texture of the hair like
scorching it.
“We sometimes brighten the hair by
sunning it; but it must be put in good
condition first.
“We occasionally give a head a
shampoo in the old-fashioned mixture
of soda and water. We rinse out the
soda afterward and dry the hair in
the sun.
“It will bloom very brightly after
doing this; but there is danger that
the hair may turn too red under this
treatment.
“Don’t have ugly hair is my advice
to every woman.”
CRADLES OF MANY LANDS.
How the Various Mothers of the Many
Races of Earth Care for
Their Offspring.
When a baby is born in Guinea a\.
sorts of funny things happen to it. Its
mother buries it in the sand up to
its waist, so that it cannot get into
mischief, and this is the only cradle
it knows anything about, says the New
York Times.
The little Lapp infant is cradled in
a shoe—his mother’s. This is big af-
fair covered with skin and stuffed
with soft moss. This can be hung on
a tree or covered up with snow while
mamma goes to church or any place
where babies are not invited.
The baby of India rides in a basket
which hangs on its mother’s head, or
from her hips, or in a hammock. In
some parts the baby’s nose is adorned
with a nosering and in others its face
is wrapped in a veil like its mother.
The Chinese baby is tied to the back
of an older child.
The Mongolian infants travel about
in bags slung on a cemel’s back.
In some countries the mothers lay
their babies where a stream of water
falls on their heads. This is to make
them tough, which it does, unless the
babies die as a result of this treat-
ment. Another mother covers her
baby’s head with paste, while the Tar-
tar baby is covered with butter.
The Turkish baby is salted—perhaps
to keep it sweet—while the worst fate
of all falls to the lot of the newly-born
children in Bulgaria. Their mothers
put a hot omelette on the little ones’
heads to make them solid and protect
them from sunstroke. The Bulgarian
baby does not like it any better than
you would. He makes a great howl
about it, but it is not a bit of use.
His mother thinks she knows better
about some things than he does, so he
has to submit, which he does with a
very bad grace indeed.
Two Classes of Atoms.
Are there two sorts of atoms?
Prof. J. J. Thomson begs the world
to be slow about coming to the con-
clusion that all matter must be elec-
trical. There may be one type of
molecule, says he, wherein the atoms
are held together because they are
charged with electricity and another
in which the forces were due to elec-
trostatic induction. On the whole he
thinks the evidence is in favor of
there being two classes of atoms. One
fundamental point to be considered if
atoms are built up of corpuscles is,
how many corpuscles there are in
any particular atom. There are
three lines of argument that lead to
an answer of this query. Each may
be criticised, but they lead to the
same result, and so he thinks they are
entitled to credit in the aggregate.
The number of corpuscles is about 25
times the number of atoms in a mole-
cule of air, and the number of corpus-
cles in an atom of another element
is not any great multiple of the
atomic weight. All the lines of argu-
ment lead to +his same conclusion.
GARBAGE TO LIGHT TOWN.?
Alcohol Made from It ‘Will Be Used ^
as Fuel at Sioux City,
Iowa.
Sioux City, la.—At a meeting of the
city council recently a resolution was
carried requesting City Chemist W.
Lee Lewis to make an investigation
into the possibility of making dena-
tured alcohol from the garbage collect-
ed in Sioux City, the alcohol to be used
as fuel to operate light engines in the
city buildings.
Alderman Maxiener subsequently de-
clared that with Chemist W. Lee
Lewis he took two buckets of garbage
from his bakery kitchen, and they
made a quantity of alcohol, fully equal
and to all appearances as good alcohol
as was ever made from any kind of
“wood.” As soon as inventions are
completed to make it possible to use
alcohol to run the light plant in the
city building and library building, the
city of Sioux City proposes to dispose
of the garbage of the entire city by
cenverting it into fuel fluid.
The potato peelings and biscuits,
chicken bones and apple cores, old
rags and cherry seeds, will all be
boiled up together and converted into
power for thousands of electric lights.
Mr. Lewis, who is professor of chem-
istry in Morningside college labora-
tory, said regarding the plan: “I am
Sire it is practical. Garbage, when
properly treated, makes the best kind
of wood alcohol. I believe the garbage
of Sioux City would run the municipal
plants and the plant necessary to
make the alcohol. It is certainly an
economical proposition, rivaling the
idea of Victor Hugo that France loses
$50,000,000 every year by allowing the
sewage to drain into the ocean when
it should be put in the vinyards.
“I shall prepare the plans for the
Sioux City plant, and we will be, in all
probability, the first city in the United
States to have such a plant.”
Industry
DENTS IN GUN BARRELS.
CATS ABLE TO STOP TRAINS
Engineers Say Eyes of Feline Family
Are Like Signal Lamps
at Night.
Brookfield, Mo.—“Did you ever see
a black cat’s eyes when they were in
the line of an electric light?” asked
Ben Woodlief, traveling engineer for
the Missouri division of the Burling-
ton road. “If one steps on the rail-
road track ahead of the engine and
looks up the engineer sees two vivid
lights ahead of him as large and
clearly defined as any signal service
lights on the road. Sometimes they
are red, but most generally green or
white. In the night time, of course,
the engineer can’t see the cat, and
all he can do is to run in obedience
to the cat-eye signals. If they are
white he goes ahead, without slack-
ing; if green he is cautious: if red
he applies the air to make a stop.
Sometimes a train is brought to a
dead halt before the engineer learns
what’s up against him. The running
men tell me that the eyes of polecat’s
and rabbits are almost as perfect sig-
nals as cat’s eyes. No, there’s been
no talk of training cats to act as sig-
nalmen. Engineers would stand for i
it, because they hate cats on general
principles, and if they had their way
would be happy to lay the universal
feline on the rails in front of their
locomotives and crowd on all steam.”
Shape of Tools Which Will Make the
Task of Removing an
Easy One.
HUMAN FLIGHT POSSIBLE.
Progress Made in Flying-Ship Con-
struction Prophetic of Early and
Complete Solution of Problem.
A good tool for removing dents in
gun barrels is made of two pieces of
three-fourths-inch half-round iron, one
piece (A) five inches long. Put the
pieces together and file them down un-
til they are slack at the muzzle of a
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DENTED
. GUN BARREL.
12-ounce gun barrel. Put a 3-lG-inch
rivet in the longer piece one-half inch
from the end, and in the short piece
drill a hole in which the rivet will fit
loosely to keep the pieces together in
the barrel.
File the 314-inch piece oval, as in
the sketch, and make a short taper
wedge so as not to stick too tight in
the spreader. Now place tool in the
barrel opposite the dent (short piece
next to dent), warm the barrel on a hot
iron at the dent, put oil on the wedge
and drive with a light hammer. The
dent will come out very easily. A good
size for the wedge is about 18 inches
long and made of a suitable stock.
With a little care and good judg-
ment, writes a correspondent of the
American Blacksmith, very bad dents
can be removed with this tool.
A HANDY LEVELING DEVICE
Method by Which One Can Ascertain
the Proper Height of Posts
in Fencing.
To level up two or more points
which are far apart, as posts, etc.,
without a level, straight edge or
DIG UP HISTORIC CANNON.
Famous Gun Was Thrown Overboard
from British Ship During the
Revolution.
Palermo, N. J.—There has just been
dug up here and removed to Ocean City
a cannon with a revolutionary his-
tory. For more than a century it had
done duty as a fender on the Marshall
property, on what is known as the
Cannon and Shore road, where it had
been placed by Uriah Smith, an early
settler of the county, and who owned
the property at that time. While the
cannon had long been famous in that
section, little was known of its history,
and H. L. Stafford, of this place,
looked it up.
From Barber’s history of Cape May
county he learned that the cannon was
one of the 12 thrown overboard from
the British brigantine Delight, which
went ashore in a fog on Peck’s Beach,
on June 2, 1779. The local militia took
possession of the vessel and sent its
crew under guard to Philadelphia. The
cannon, cast off to lighten the ship in
an effort to get off the beach, was
found by Smith and placed at the
corner of his land for a fender.
Must Behave Five Years.
Oroville, Cal.—The last will and
testament of John Dudley Meng, a cap-
italist who resided at Chico and who
was known all over the northern part
of California, has been file dfor pro-
bate in this country. The approximate
value of the estate is $60,000. Under
the will the estate is to go to an only
son, Charles Anderson Meng. The
will, however, recites that the son
shall receive only $30 a month for a
period of five years. After that time
if young Meng quits his reckless ways
and acquires, a fixed purpose in life
the trust shall expire. If not the al-
lowance shall continue.
THE LEVELING DEVICE.
square, all that is required is a few
nails, three pieces of old board, a piece
,of cord and a small weight, to be used
as a plumb bob, says Thos. McIntyre
in Popular Mechanics. Nail the boards
together as shown in the illustration
at any angle, place the two points of
the boards on top of the posts and
mark where the line crosses the base-
board. Turn the device about, end
for end, and mara the baseboard
Again. Then raise or lower one of
the posts until the plumb line hangs
half way between the two marked
lines and the posts will be level.
THE SOUND OF AN ANVIL.
How It May Be Deadened by the Use
of Five-Eighth Inch
Bolts.
If the anvil block is wider than the
base of the anvil, hew it down to fit,
then bore a three-
quarter inch hole
through the block
10 or 12 inches
from the top. Make
four five-eighths
inch bolts with
three-quarter inch eyes and a three-
quarter inch bolt long enough to go
through the block and take two eye-
bolts on each side. Make yokes of
five-eighths by one-inch stock and
punch or drill five-eighths inch holes
in each end. Measure the anvil so as
to have the bolts hug it closely; put
the three-quarter inch bolt through the
blocks, slip on the eyebolts, put on the
;clamps and nuts and tighten up. A
correspondent of the American Black-
smith who devised this method, says
that it will both hold the anvil secure-
ly and effectually deaden its ring.
Stone Guide Posts.
* Stone guide-posts are being placed
in the deserts of California to direct lost
travelers to springs, wells and small
streams,” says Popular Mechanics
(April.) "Every year large numbers of
prospeotors risk the dangers of the
desert in their eager search for gold.
Many of these wander about until they
become bewildered, and after searching
for water for hours and days perish
miserably of thirst. The legislature of
California has appropriated $5,000 for
placing the guide-posts and several
counties have already undertaken the
work. Thousands of posts will be erect-
ed during the spring, and it is expected
that the number of deaths will be
greatly decreased by this means.”
BY HENRY HELEN CLAYTON,
Of the Blue Hill Observatory.
But little more than 100 years ago
the first successful trip of man Into
the blue sky was made by Montgolfier
in France, and our own Benjamin
Franklin, who witnessed this first
flight, or one immediately succeeding
it, said: “It is art infant to-day, but
it may become a giant.”
How soon the brain of men became
busy with this thought is shown by
a letter to Franklin on May 24, 1784,
from Francis Hopkinson, in which he
suggested that the balloon be made
not spherical, but oblong or spindle
shaped and driven by a wheel at the
stern.
The first elongated balloon was
built by Rufus Porter (of the United
States) about 1833. Successive im-
provements along this line were made
by the French engineer Gaffard, by
Tissandier, by Renard and Krebs, and
finally by Santos Dumont, and by Le-
baudie, who have brought the speed
to 12 or 14 miles an hour. But even
at these speeds the balloon is but the
plaything of the wind, which at a
height of 500 to 1,000 feet has an av-
erage speed of 15 or more miles an
hour, so that the air could only be
navigated by this means in quiet
weather.
Calculation showed that it would
not be possible to increase the speed
greatly, without bursting the flimsy
materials of which the balloons are
built, and it is not possible to make
these stronger without losing the
needed lifting power. Hence, thought-
ful men had ceased to look forward
with any great hope to success along
this line.
On the other hand, an army of eager
workers was endeavoring to solve the
problem of imitating the bird and
driving themselves through the air on
lifting planes or wings. Volumes
have been written to describe the
many attempts along this line. Hun-
dreds of experimenters since the days
of Daedalus have attempted flight and
failed, but “hope springs eternal” and
men “rise on stepping stones of their
dead selves to higher things.”
Finally amid universal failure signs
of success began to appear. Lilien-
thal showed that it was possible to
glide down hill on outstretched wings
or planes for many hundreds of feet
and land safely. Langley succeeded
in flying a model earning a steam
engine for about a mile in free flight.
Hiram Maxim built a large flying
machine, driven by a wonderfully,
light engine of 300-horse power, which
actually rose into the air for a brief
interval lifting a weight of 7,000
pounds, but was speedily wrecked.
Langley built a man-lifting machine,
which was caught at the moment of
launching and wrecked. A wave of
skepticicm and ridicule swept through
the country and many thought that
man-flight was an impossible dream.
But already quietly at work were
two young manufacturers, the Wright
brothers of Ohio, who, following in
the footsteps of Lilienthal of Ger-
many and Chanute and Herring of our
own country, were learning to glide
down hill in a properly constructed
machine, to balance in the air and to
land safely. Ingenious improvements
were devised and introduced and the
machine was ready for the trial of a
motor. Profiting by the accumulated
experience of those who had previous-
ly tried and by the very light motors
which have been developed for auto-
mobiles and boats, an engine for
driving their machine was built and
a successful but brief preliminary
flight was made in December, 1903.
Brief though it was, the possibility
of human flight had been demonstrat-
ed, and they set about perfecting the
machine. By the autumn of 1905 the
machine was so far perfected that
there began over the prairies near
Dayton, O., a remarkable series of
flights. On September 26 one of the
Wrights made a flight of a little over
11 miles. On September 30 this was
increased to 12 1-5 miles, on October
3 to 15 1-5 miles, and on the 5th to
24% miles, during which flights the
operator remained in the air 38 min-
utes. The flights were made in cir-
cles or figure eights, returning to the
starting point, and were at a speed of
about 38 miles an hour.
After centuries of effort, successful
flight is at last accomplished. After
hundreds of failures, the loss of many
lives and of many thousands of dol-
lars, one of the greatest achievements
in history, the conquest of the air,
has auspiciously begun.
Autos on Warships.
Automobiles will be carried on Brit-
ish battleships and cruisers hereafter.
The cars can be handled by the boat
derrick easily, and motoring is popular
in the service.
A Healthy Business.
Dye-making from coal tar is the
healthiest trade in the world, as the
tar is a tonic and a tissue builder. The
average life of the tar worker is 86
years.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 748, Ed. 1 Monday, August 6, 1906, newspaper, August 6, 1906; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth894316/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.