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WHAT WIFE SAYS “GOES."
But It
Sometimes Is Bad
Painting.
for the
booto/P hove in aid or mmouj cmmrn
TPrCWLDRED JLETP /IP NO/JR OUT
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SCHOLAR //y ACOLD
WEATHER BAG
TAB SCHOOL A?00/1
Open air Treatment for tuberculosis
has extender! to the public schools, at
least this is so in Boston, which city
is believed to be the first in this coun-
try to establish such open air schools.
This experiment is being carried on
jointly through the winter by the Bos-
ton Association for the Relief and
Control of Tuberculosis, which organ-
ized it, and the Boston school board.
Besides furnishing the teacher, the
board has recently issued 200 street
car tickets. These are for the children
who are too poor to pay car fare, and
for those who live a long distance
from the school.
The principal reason for starting the
school, says Walter E. Kruesi, secre-
tary of the Boston Association for j
the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, j
was that there were many tuberculous
children and nowhere to send them.
The association hasn’t money enough
to take care of all the children in the
public schools who are affected.
The school board has signified its
willingness to make an appropriation
to increase the size of the school when
assured of the permanent success of
the scheme, and so great has been the
improvement in the children in this
school that the matter has passed be-
yond the experimental stage.
Mr. Kruesi would like to see the en-
tire building, of which now only the
roof and the dining hall in the base-
ment are occupied, made over into an
open-air school, accommodating 250
pupils. This could easily be done if
the library which is maintained in the
building at present were abolished.
The progress made by the pupils in
this open-air school is the same as
that made by normal scholars in the
same grade in the public schools, but
if these same children were compelled
to remain in the ordinary school they
would not progress at all.
Since this school was started, letters
have come from Cleveland, Cincinnati
and Columbus, from men interested
in the experiment, the principal ex-
pression from those interested being
surprise that no one had thought of
starting an open air public school be-
fore.
There have been for a number of
years open air schools tor the children
of the rich, private schools, and the
one which was established in an aban-
doned schoolhouse in Providence, R. I.,
last fall, the first of its kind in Amer-
ica—which is not, however, a public
school—another at Glen Gardner, N.
.7., while in California is located the
Marienfeld school for boys.
Dr. James J. Minot made a report
to the school board in which he stated
that there were 2.000 children who
needed outdoor schooling, more than
250 of whom should have special nour-
ishment and' special attention to hy-
giene and should be allowed the maxi-
mum of fresh air.
“Mayor Hibbard will be remembered
for one thing.” declared Mr. Kruesi,
“and that is because he recommended
to the schoolhouse commission the ad-
visability of providing a fresh air
room for tuberculous children to be
built in the new Abraham Lincoln
school, and in the architect’s plans
this provision has been m&de, although
the plans have not yet been submitted
to the schoolhouse commission.”
The superintendent of public
schools. Strattou D. Brooks, heartily
indorses the experiment, but believes
the children affected by tuberculosis
should be divided into three classes,
as follows:
First, those so ill that their disease
is infectious. Such children shouldn't
he allowed in the school room any
more than a child with diphtheria or
measles or any similar disease. Sec-
ondly, those who are weak, and in
such a condition that their diseases
may become dangerous to other pu-
pils: and thirdly, those who are
slightly affected, who might never
have been in that condition if they
had not been confined in stuffy reoms.
This last class of children will be the
ones directly benefited by having an
boys and girls, and takes an individual
interest in the little pupils.
The wind was blowing at the rate
of 40 miles an hour when the visitor
recently climbed tlie four flights of
stairs leading to the airy schoolroom,
whose sides of white canvas flapped
in the wind like wings of some strange
bird. This slight protection is to pre-
vent the copy books and papers on
which th£ children write their lessons
from being whirled away over the
roofs and scattered broadcast ab^ut
Franklin park.
There is an inside school room which
is reserved for the worst days, but it
has never been pressed into service
notwithstanding the fact that one or
two blizzards have raged here this
winter. The children themselves pre-
fer the outdoor room. Possibly it
seems less like the typical lesson room
to them.
Each boy and each girl is provided
with a heavy blue ulster. The girls
wear gray and pink hoods tied secure-
ly under their chins. The boys have
skull caps, which they pull snugly
dowm over their ears. • The most in-
teresting articles of their attire are
the brown cloth bags into which they
crawl, hooking them around their
waists.
These bags look most complicated
with their ropes, straps and buckles,
but the children have so mastered the
When a property-owner knows noth-
ing about paint it is bad for the
property-owner, and bad for the paint-
er. It would not be so if the property-
owner would always hire a skilled
painter, and then really leave every-
thing to him. But the house-owmer so
often fools himself on one or the other
of these things.
The skilled painter in every commu-
nity lias some of the most incompetent
competitors that ever vexed a consci-
entious workman or contractor, and
the incompetents get jobs generally by
working cheap. In the next place,
when the skilled painter is hired, they
do not leave everything to him, as so
many property-owners boast they do.
They interfere most ignorantly and
most fatally. They insist sometimes
on using paint materials without in-
vestigating whether they are good or
not. Or perhaps they insist on the
painter’s hurrying the work.
“I’m not going to have that painter’s
mess around my house a month,” the
wife says, and what wife says goes—•
at the cost of a lot of wasted painting
money.
If the painter stays away a few
days to allow the paint to thoroughly
dry the owner says: “That painter’s
neglecting this work—guess he’s side-
tracking me for Jones’ work. I won’t
stand it.”
What chance does a painterhavetodo
good work for a man who is continually
nagging at him and otherwise handi-
capping him (without meaning it, of
course) ? A poor job is the inevitable
result of such interference.
Poor painting costs the houseowner
.money—don’t forget that. It might
pay you to get the practical paint
book, painting specifications and in-
strument for detecting paint adul-
terants, which National Lead Co. are
offering under the title of House
Owner’s Painting Outfit No. 49. Ad-
dress National Lead Co., 1902 Trinity
Bldg., New York City. This company
do not make paint (they leave that to
the painter to do) but they make
pure wffiite lead (“Dutch Boy Painter”
trademark kind), and they can tell
you how to save money by securing
durable painting.
Worse and Worse.
“I tell you, mamma,” cried Freddie,
“I don’t like that doctor’s medicine.”
“But this is liniment, my dear,”
coaxed his mo1 her.
“Well,” replied Freddie, very doubt-
fully, “isn’t that rubbing it in?”—Har-
| per’s Weekly.
~he Hurnar Eye.
j A marvelously constructed instru-
n**nt, delicate in the extreme, re-
j spending to the slightest influence.
What a crime against nature to drug
the eye Everyday eye troubles are
speedily cured by applying externally
Dr. Mitchell s pure, harmtes- soothing
Eye Salve. 25 cents. Ask the druggist.
Second Thought.
“It cannot be,” sighed the maid. “I
respect you highly, Mr. Hunter, but
art of getting in and out of them that ! we are Incompatible.”
it takes only until the teacher counts 1 “Well, I suppose it cannot be
four for them to discard them. helped.” the young man replied, pock-
For the benefit of the visitors Miss
Mead asked the children various ques-
tions and they gave their ideas of the
school in enthusiastic replies.
The children are given a breakfast
upon their arrival at 8:45. It consists
of fruit, hiead and butter and hot
cocoa. While one section of Ihe class
is attending to work in the kitchen,
the other section is studying in the
class room. At 11 comes a recess of
20 minutes, followed by luncheon, con-
sisting of some hot meat dish with
vegetables, a dessert of nuts and home-
made candy. Then back to the school-
room where, on different days, sketch-
ing, cutting, painting and manual work
are taught.
Not all the time is devoted to study.
The children play games in groups,
and it does one good to hear their hap-
py laughter and to watch their cheeks
flush and their eyes grow bright!
Again, before they depart for their
homes, they are given a light lunch,
consisting of hot milk and all the
bread and butter they want. They
also are given all the milk they will
drink, but at night this is always giv-
en to them hot.
There are many more applications
for school attendance than can be ac-
cepted. for each case is being careful-
ly studied and a record kept of the
progress of each child" in order that
the value of this experiment may be
ascertained.
eting his chagrin and looking about
for his hat. “But it defeats all my
cherished hopes. I had planned a
house, in which I fondly imagined we
might be happy. It was to have had
a pantry twice as large as the ordi-
nary size, with a roomy c’oset in which
to stow away the new cooking uten-
sils, and things that a woman natur-
ally buys when a peddler comes
around.”
“Stay, George,” she said falteringly,
“perhaps I have been too hasty. Give
me a day or two to think it over.
It is not impossible that—that—”
ATTENUATED.
People Talked About
RELIEVED OF BUSINESS CARES
Luther Burbank, whose achievements in the
plant world are to be capitalized by a company
that will undertake on a large scale to introduce
his improved plants, vegetables, fruits and flow-
ers, is the foremost living specialist in his line.
He has originated the Burbank potato, several
varieties of stoneless plums and prunes, vari-
ous new fruits, flowers, grasses, grains and
vegetables, and the spineless cactus, which
promises to transform the deserts of the far
west and southwest into fruitful dwelling places
for man. Mr. Burbank was born in Lancaster,
Mass., in 1849 and has lived in Santa Rosa, Cal.,
since 1875. All his experiments and discoveries
have occurred on his California farm, where
for several years he has been supported by the
Carnegie fund.
In order that his wonderful discoveries may be more generally distributed
and incidentally that his work of discovery may not be hampered by busi-
ness worries, the brains and genius of Burbank, the “plant wizard,’ have been
capitalized for several million dollars.
The men who have secured the sole right to distribute to the world the
plant discoveries of the Santa Rosa naturalist are Hartland Law and his
brothei\ Herbert • E. Law, well known millionaires of San Francisco, and
Oscar E. Dinner, a wealthy eastern capitalist.
There is no limit to the rights which the men have secured except
one or two small contracts which Burbank is now filling.
Working alone, Burbank has not had time to give the results of all of his
experiments to the public, but now a systematic effort will he made to dis-
tribute both his past and future products to all the world. One of the first
things undertaken by the new company will be the fuller development of the
spineless cactus, which promises to transform desert wastes into grazing
lands for cattle. In this connection it is announced that Burbank has de-
veloped a cactus capable of producing saccharine matter which will yield
both sugar and alcohol.
Like most men of genius Burbank is decidedly averse to the worries and
routine of business affairs, and he welcomes the incorporation as the best
means of ridding him of this handicap to his experiments. The company will
be called “The Luther Burbank’s Products, Incorporated.”
Mr. Burbank, when asked regarding the formation of the new company,
made the following statement:
“It is a fact that Herbert Law and his brother and Oscar E. Dinner
have secured the sole rights to the handling of my products, with the excep-
tion of a few varieties I have already sold. 1 am glad to be rid of the
business end. It will give me so much more time for the development of
more fruits and flowers.”
THE
BEST
REMEDY
For Women-Lydia E. Pink-
barn’s Vegetable Compound
:Noah, Ivy. — “ I was passing through
the Change of Life and suffered from
■---—-- headaches, nervous
prostration, and
hemorrhages.
“Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable
Compoundmademe
well and strong, so
that I can do all my
housework, and at-
tend to the store
and post-office, and
I feel much younger
than I really am.
, ___ “Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds of
female troubles, and I feel that I can
never praise it enough.” —Mrs. Lizzie
Holland, ISToah, Kjr.
TheChangeof Life is themostcritical
period of a woman’s existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
W o menevery where shouldre member
that there is no other remedy known to
medicine that will so successfully carry
women through this trying period as
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound, made from native roots and
herbs.
For 30 years it has been curing
women from the worst forms of female
ills—inflammation, ulceration, dis-
placements, fibroid tumors, irregulari-
ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a confiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkbam, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
NEW COLORADO EXECUTIVE
Gov. John F. Shafroth, the new executive of
Colorado, has stirred up a state-wide avalanche
of comment, good and bad, by his announce-
ment that he will depart widely from the ways
of his predecessor in the matter of pardon-
granting. The former governor was a Methodist
preacher, Rev. Harry M. Buchtel, and he found
himself unable to turn a deaf ear, apparently, to
the pleas of the pardon-seekers. Men and wom-
en were released from the penitentiary in a
stream by his orders.
,Now Shafroth announces that while he is
on the job it is going to be a pretty heavy task
to drag a pardon out of his office. He has start-
ed to prove his promise by dumping a wago
load of petitions and affidavits into the waste-
basket and declining to grant audiences to hear
arguments for the unlocking of the prison doors. As a result, he is being
bombarded with letters, some praising him for his stand and others denounc-
ing him with bitterness for his lack of human sympathy and charity.
As congressman at-large, before his election as governor, Shafroth as-
tonished the politicians by deliberately and voluntarily resigning his office be-
cause he found that some of his followers in a hot campaign had indulged in
tricks that were common in politics but not exactly up to the moral code any-
where else. “I want no office that is tainted with fraud,” he declared, when
he learned, after being seated in Washington, of some things that had helped
him win. Fraudulent votes had been cast and counted, although he had no
hand in it. After his voluntary retirement his fellow Democrats at home
scored him as a "quitter” while the Republicans sneered at his “pretensions of
virtue.” Full appreciation came later, however, and he Avas elected governor
last fall by a heavy majority, succeeding a Republican.
^^^W333SIEi^
OWNS BIG AFRICAN RANCH
He—See, Samantha, that show's how
terribly thin some folks are.
DIDN’T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.
Magpies Eat Live Pigs.
Portland, Ore.—Ike Ely, farmer of
Hover, Wash., is battling Avith a flock
of magpies to keep the birds from de-
vouring his pigs. His sty of 100 pork-
ers has been repeatedly attacked dur-
ing the past few days by the birds,
made bolder by hunger. Because of
deep snow they cannot get their usual
food. They swoop doAvn on the pigs
and peck their ears, which had been
notched by the owner and still show'ed
blood. The birds have kept the ears
of all hogs bleeding ever since, and
Ely declares that in some cases half
the ears are gone. The beasts are de-
fenseless and Ely has so far been un-
able to keep the birds away. He does
not dare use poison for fear the hogs
will eat it.
He Was Willing.
“Young man,” said the stern parent,
“I have been greatly annoyed by your
extravagant habits. Hereafter I shall
expect you to pay your own bills.”
“All right, father.” rejoined the
youth. “I don’t expect you to run
___________________ _____o about seeking my tailor, hatter, shoe-
open air room built iu every school- j maker and the rest of the bunch. Just
house. ; band me a good-sized check each
Miss Helen M. Mead is the teacher month and I’ll attend to ho minor de-
of this interesting oiass of fresh air j tails myself."
Many persons go on drinking coffee
year after year without realizing that
it is the cause of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The drug—caffeine—in coffee and
tea, is very like uric acid and is often
the cause of rheumatic attacks which,
when coffee is used habitually, become
chronic.
A Washington lady said, recently:
“I am sixty-five and have had a good
deal of experience with coffee. I con-
sider it very injurious and the cause
of many diseases. I am sure it causes
decay of teeth in children.
“When I drank coffee I had sick
spells and still did not realize that
coffee could be so harmful, till about
a year ago I had rheumatism in my
arms and fingers, got so nervous I
could not sleep, and was all run down.
“At last, after finding that medicines
did me no good, I decided to quit cof-
fee entirely and try Postum. After
using it six months I fully recovered
my health beyond all expectations, can
sleep sound and my rheumatism is all
gone.” “There’s a Reason.”
Name given by Posturn Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are geaulne, true, uud full of human
bit ere* t.
W. N. McMillan, from whose African estate
Former President Roosevelt is to make his start
into the interior wilds of the dark continent
in quest for Avhile elephants and other big game,
is a nepheAv of t He late Senator James McMil-
lan of Detroit, and the son of the late William
McMillan, whose estate holds the largest inter-
est in the American Car & Foundry Co. Mr.
McMillan’s legal residence is in St. Louis, but
being a millionaire with the ability to satisfy
bis craving for adventure in the untamed sec-
tions of the globe, he is as much at home in
Africa, India ard a dozen other parts, as he is
in the United Stales. As a hunter of big game,
he is a notabh figure and Mrs. McMillan, his
wife, has killed her lion as well.
On Ju-Ja ram h. 20,000 acres of land 23 miles
from the seat of government of British Fas: Africa, the McMillans are ex-
perimenting ■ in the domestication of wild animals, an experiment that is be-
ing watched with great interest by zoologists .and naturalists ever} wlieie.
Here Roosevelt is to remain for several we< ks discussing with his host the
final plans for his plunge into the wilderness. Like the president, McMillan
did his first hunting in the American west. He is 36 years old.
TOILET ANTISEPTIC
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TU*? TETETy ^>axt‘lle excels any dentifrice
I Bite I tete I II in cleansing, whitening and
removing tartar from the teeth, besides destroying
all germs of decay and disease which ordinary
tooth preparations cannot do.
T’llir sy§f&l ITU Paxtine used as a mouth-
1 fflte iwlUU I n wash disinfects the mouth
and throat, purifies the breath, and kills the germs
which collect in the mouth, causing sore throat,
bad teeth, bad breath, grippe, and much sickness.
Tyg> PVPA when inflamed, tired, ache
I If La te I EaSrf and bum, may be instantly
relieved and strengthened by Paxtine.
^axt'ne Avill destroy the germs
wn I Mil Si fa that cause catarrh, heal the in-
flammation and stop the d:scharge. It is a sure
remedy for uterine catarrh.
Paxtine is a harmless yet powerful
germicide,disinfectant and deodorizer.
Used in bathing it destroys odors and
leaves the body antiseptically clean.
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ictnrer
&o $3.50 Shoes Than Any Other Manufac
la because I give the wearer the benefit of the moat
complete organization of trained experts and skilled
shoemakers In the country.
The selection of the leathers for each part of the shoe,
,nd every detail of the making in every department, la
are made, y.ou would then understand why they ho
shape, fit better, and wear longer than any othir make
My Method of Tanning the Soles makes them Mom
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Shoes for Every Member of the Family,
Men, Iloya, Women, M iases and Children..
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PAIITifiW I None genuine without L. Doruxtaa
tlnUllUli > name and pr>ce stamped on bottom,
fait Color Eyelets Used Exclusively. Catalog mailed fre*.
W. L. DOUGLAS, 167 Spark St., Brockton. Mass.
a
WORKING TO AVERT CLASH
lo retire Horn Us position
diplomatic service in China in some cupa
lion at Dubiiu 37 years ago, wiih the exe
Sir John X. Jordan. British minister to
China, is one of the little group of diplomats at
Pekin who are just now bending every effort to
ward off the small funnel-shaped cloud, no larger
lhan a roan's hand, which may turn out to be
a war tornado.
Russia, oi erating a railroad line in Manchu-
ria under a le se granted by the Chinese govern-
ment, claims Hie right thereunder to levy cer-
tain taxes. Upon the failure of the Chinese mer-
chants to pay, their stores and warehouses are
closed by the Russian officials and placed under
the Russian seal. Here are the ingredients of
a fine international mix up. The British and
American re; :—sentatives have lodged protests
against the atitude of Russia and they are fear-
ful that unless the Russian government sees fit
trouble may be ahead. Sir John has been in the
ty or other ever since his gradua-
tion of a few years at Korea.
Type writers Rebuilt
all makes, at one-haif mar.-.i-
faeturers’ price. Good as ne w.
We sell them on In monthly
payments, or rent them at 43,
»tul allow credit for rental
if bought within a year.
Second-hand typewriter*
from Five Dollar*, up.
HOUSTON TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE
Pbone 1917 1010 Prairie Avenue. ticualon. Texas
TO INTRODUCE OUR
CHOICE SEEDS
to those who have never used them, we will
send 12 packages of choice vegetable or
flower seeds for present planting postpaid
for 25c. Special prices on bulk seed to mar-
ket gardeners. Write for free Garden Guide.
Tbe Bollwinkle Seed Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La.
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