The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3070, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER
VERNOR & ABNEY, Publishers
LAMPASAS. - - - TEXAS
LOSE THEIR PEARLS OFTEN
American Woman Should Have Necks
laces Restrung Frequently as Do
Their French Sisters.
The Frejnch visitor talked as if it
.were a habit of American women to
go about dropping pearl necklaces on
every corner the way they do their
hairpins, but a critic who implies that
all Americans, though carelfess, are
beautiful enough and rich enough to
wear pearl necklaces all the time may
be forgiven much and will be listened
to respectfully
“The reason why American women
lose their pearl necklaces so much
more frequently than the women of
other countries,” the visitor explained,
“is that they do not have the pearls
restrung often enough. If they fol-
lowed the custom of our country,
which is to have the jeweler come to
the house and restring them there ev-
ery two or three months, there would
be no ‘extras’ out, with big headlines,
of a $200,000 necklace lost by Mrs.
Blank on her way to market, etc. The
women of America wear their pearls,
real or otherwise, morning, noon and
night, so no wonder that the silken
thread or whatever they are on wears
out. Though the owner may occa-
sionally think she will send to have
it done over, the Jewelers take so long
to attend to what is a very simple
matter that she defers being without
this pet ornament until snap goes the
string without a sound, and the neck-
lace slides off unnoticed.
. "The reason our women prefer hav- '
ng this repair made at home is that
their rearls are heirlooms and could
not be replaced. In our shops are so |
many perfect imitation pearls that to
change a few in the string would be'
an easy matter, and one that an ex-
pert could scarcely detect. Of course,
one doesn’t expect a reputable jeweler j
to do such a thing, but French women j
take no risks with their jewels. To
an American time seems to count
more than the safety of her gems.”
For Your Boy.
If you are at a loss what to give
your boys as birthdays come around
get for them a sectional bookcase
and then encourage the ownership of
good books. Nothing insures an in-
terest like possession. Let each boy
have his own section and give each a
ifew books to form a nucleus.
Of course, all boys cannot be inter-
ested in books, but the majority are,
and frequent talks about favorite auth-
ors will stimulate a desire and make
a library the one thing of which to
be proud. Almost all of the very best
books can be purchased at amazingly
low prices and you will find that the
gradual expense you may be put to
will be fully compensated for by the !
fund of knowledge and good principles
the little men of the house will gather
from their shelves. Just implant a
desire to own good literature and
leave the rest to the boys.
Bridge With Odd Name.
Among the many works carried oui
by the late Sir John Aird is the most
oddly named bridge in the world. This
is in Peru, on the railway from Lima
to Oroya, spanning a deep and pre-
cipitous chasm over 600 feet wide and
resing on three gigantic piers. Many
of the men employed on the work
were ex-sailors, whose training en-
abled them to work at dizzy heights.
Although the work was necessarily of
a most dangerous character, there
were comparatively few accidents.
But an epidemic of bubonic plague
plague broke" out. So the bridge was
officially christened Puente de las Ver-
rugas, or Bridge of Boils—a name
which it st*ll retains.
Testing the Chronometer.
Man standing in front of a jeweler’s
store, bolding his watch in his hand
and looking in at the chronometer in
the window To him comes along a
man who slaps hi i on the shoulder
and says:
“Well, Bill, you seeing how near
right your watch is?’’ to which Bill
answers:
“Seeing how near right my watch
is? Humph! What I’m doing is see-
ing how far ok the chronometer is.”
Implacable.
“It’s remarkable that so many men
should be in favor of woman suf-
rage.”
“Not at all,” replied Mrs. Baring-
Banners. “I never yet saw a man
who wouldn’t shirk a responsibility if
there was any chance of turning it
over to his wife.”
-j*-
Informed.
Small Brother—Are you going to
tnarry Sister Ruth?
Caller—Why—er—I really don’t
know, you know!
Small Brother—That’s what J
thought Well, you are!—Life.
POPE PIUS RECOVERS HIS HEALTH
tsosjrc? 2*0& ji r^Jpjp/J[G£-
'p IIS photograph of His Holiness Pope Piux X arrived the other day from Rome. It shows him leaving the
1 Vatican in order to take the first carriage ride of his convalescence. To the left is a group of high eccles-
iastics; to the right the footman, in the act of opening the carriage door and making an obesience meanwhile.
Added interest attaches to this photograph by reason of the fact that the Pope said of it and others that were
taken at the same time: “Give them as large a circulation as possible, thus showing to the world my complete
recovery.”
SPELL HOLDING WIFE
Woman’s Heart is Breaking Be-
cause Friends Forsake Her.
Mrs. Charlie Song Endures Seven
Years of Torture, but Cannot Break
Oriental's Charm—Was His Sun-
day School Teacher.
New York.—A contrast of religion
and hideous vice, of the utmost com
mon place and the fantastic was the
story told by Mrs Charlie Song, who
had been seized in Newark, N. J.t in
a federal, raid on Chinese opium smug
glers in her rooms in the Newark
Chinatown the other afternoon.
Mrs Song is an American woman
and graduated to her present position
as wife of a Chinese from being his
preceptor in a Sunday school. /
“Seven years of hell,” is the way
she characterizes her sojourn among
the yellow men. She says her life
there has been one long fight against
slavery for herself, yet she has been
unable to leave because of some subtle
spell that her association with them
has cast over her. She is not an opium
user nor a drinking woman, she says,
and in spite of her troubles she has
kept her religious enthusiasm At first
she was afraid to admit a reporter to
her room, as she was afraid of the
vengeance of the Chinese whose se-
crets she holds and who may be im
plicated at the hearing She probably
will be called as a witness.
“I was a country girl,” she said. “I
married and moved to Newark. My
husband and my two children died,
and for two years I was very lonely I
had always been religious and inter-
ested in missionary work, so to bury
my trouble I began to teach a class in
the Chinese Sunday school of the Cen-
tenary Methodist Episcopal church
Charlie Song being among my pupils.
“On New Year’s in 1905, he asked
me to go to New York with him and
see the time celebrated among his
own people Other teachers went on
such excursions with their pupils, so
I saw nothing wrong in it
“I refused to have any wine, because
I had never drunk any, but he told
me the rice wine was harmless, i
drank two tiny cups. I could scarcely
see the table, the wine went to my
bead so. Then he said, ‘I love you. 1
will never let you go away now. You
marry me. We go to China, be mis-
sionaries together’
“We went to the home of Rev
George Dowkart at 90 Madison ave-
nue, and he married us. Then we went
right home, J-to my home and Charlie
to his. Next day, when I realized
what I had done, it seemed to me that
I would die with shame. That has
been my hell ever since—to be
ashamed, to be cut off from my people,
to have everybody think I am an out-
cast. something unspeakable, the wife
of a Chinaman.
“Finally we went to living together
The first few months he was a won-
derful lover. Then he changed.
“I have been praying and praying
this last year that some way would
open for me to get away. I have tried
to leave, but there is something, a
sort of hypnotism that draws a woman
back. A Chinaman never loses his in
fluence over a woman Vyhen he has
once had it You have/no idea how
many white women are here in New-
ark living with Chinese. Some are
girls in their early teens."
ANOTHER LONDON RELIC LOST
Apothecaries’ Hall, Quaint Old Build-
ing, to Be Supplanted by a More
Modern Structure.
London.—Old London, which is dis-
appearing rapidly before the march of
improvement, is about to lost one of
its most interesting buildings, the
Apothecaries company having an
nounced that it is about to let on
building lease the greater part of its
land in Water Lane, just round the
corner from Printing House square,
where the London Times is published
This land is the site of Apothecaries
hall, a quaint old building now almost
bidden from sight by the tall business
structures that surround It.
Apothecaries’ hall was first built in
1633 on the site of Lady Howard of
Effingham’s town house. This build-
ing was destroyed in the great tire of
London and the present hall was erect-
ed in 1670. It doesn’t amount to much
architecturally, but it is packed full of
fine carvings, splendid old furniture
and Interesting relics of the develop-
ment of medicine.
The Apothecaries company Is one of
the great London companies whose
members elect tbe alderman and tne
lord mayor. It is the only one tnat
has retained control of the trade
whose name it bears. Originally tna
apothecaries belonged to the Grovers*
company, but in 1617 they obtained a
separate charter from King James L
on the ground that “the ignorance and
rashness of promiscuous empirics and
inexpert men may be restrained,
whereby many discommodities, incon-
veniences and perils do arise to the
rude and credulous people." This char-
ter gave the members of the company
the sole right of “exercising the art
faculty or mystery of an apothecary
within the city of London oi a radius
of seven miles.” Among other priv-
ileges it granted the company the
right to burn before the offender's
door ail impure drugs.
Even In those days the prescribing
druggist was a problem, and in 1687
the College of Physicians denounced
the Apothecaries company for selling
advice as well as medicine. The com-
pany retaliated by setting up a medi-
cal school, and in 1721 the house of
lords confirmed the right of its mem-
bers to prescribe as well as to sell
drugs Many a father of medicine in
the American colonies undoubtedly
learned bis profession in this school,
Diver Makes Record.
Los Angeles, CaL—Ford Traville, a
professional diver at Avalon, Catalina
island, has made what is claimed to
be a world’s record for diving. Clad
in a common botbing suit, Traville
dragged a half-inch rope down 65 feet
below the surface and made it fast to
an anchor lying on the bottom. Tra-
ville was down two minutes.
Sometimes an officeholder has more
of a pull than a dentist.
MAKE CHEAP LUMBER PAPER
BEAUTY BILLS
ARE MODEST
Manufacturers Can Turn Out Fiber
Board, Largely From Waste Mate-
rials. Conservationist Says.
Kansas City, Mo.—So nearly perfect
is artificial lumber made from paper
there is no longer cause for great
worry over forest conservation, said J
B. White, chairman of the executive
committee of the National Conserva-
tion congress, here the other night.
He had Just returned from a trip
through the eastern states Much of
his time there was spent investigating
the manufacture of “lumber” from pa
per
“A superior quality of artificial lum-
ber can be manufactured cheaper than
natural lumber can be grown,” he
said “Taking 57 per cent, waste paper.
22 per cent, straw, 5 per cent, jute and
16 per cent wood fiber, a ton of fiber
board, one-fourth inch thick, or 1,100
feet of inch lumber can be produced.”
Dog Swallows Hatpin.
St. Louis.—Mrs Pauline Nessleln
has a dog with prize-winning digestive
organs. Her Boston terrier Fudge sur-
vived carrying a ten-inch hatpin in his
Interior for ten days A veterinary
then removed the offending fastener
trom the dog’s anatomy. Fudge Is 20
Inches long
London Specialist Says $1,425 Is
Small Sum to Spend for Toilet Ac-
cesorles—Men Pay Well.
London.—Foreign visitors to Eng-
land are sometimes heard to remark
upon the bloom of the Englishwoman s
cheeks, and to inquire if it Is derived
so entirely from an open air life as it
is frequently said to be.
The beauty specialists of London
are able to throw some light on tne
subject. They say the London woman
may be as beautiful as she may wisn
for $500 a year, but that $2,500 to
$5,000 may be spent for more luxuri-
ous treatment and more expensive ac-
cessories.
The revived interest in this subjest
is due to a Chicago woman, who is
quoted as having said that her bill of
$1,875 a year lor beauty culture is a
modest expenditure.
“The average Englishwoman spends
considerably less on making herself
beautiful than the American, French
or Viennese.” said a Lord street
beauty specialist, who has clients from
both sides of the Atlantic, “because
she uses more hygienic means and dis-
penses with artificial helps, such as
rouges, chin straps, face masks and
other devices to develop her figure by
unnatural means. 1 think the $450
which the Chicago woman says she
pays for face powders is an impossi-
ble sum to spend on powder—over
here, at any rate. The Englishwoman's
greatest expenditure Is in obtaining
water softeners.
“Many of my clients spend $1.50 a
day on water softeners, and I have
men customers who spend as much as
$2.50 a day In this way."
A year’s beauty bill of a reasonable
amount spent by wealthy women in
London is about as follows:
Water softeners ........................$ 500
Perfumes ................................. 125
Powders, creams and face lotions.. 125
Mouth washes and tooth powders... 25
Manicure and polish of the nails,
chiropody and polish.................. 250
Electrolysis .............................. 250
Face cleaning, one treatment week-
ly ........................................ 150
Total ..................................$1,425
The above figures, however, do not
include operations; and, according to
a fashionable west end hairdresser,
wealthy Englishwomen often spend
from $250 to $500 a year on their hair
and hair dressing.
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAK?
- .
There are two ways to tell if yo«
have weak kidneys. Th-e first ii
through pains in the hack. The seo*
ond by examining tho kidney secre-
tions. If you sus-
pect your kidneys,
begin using Doan's
Kidney Pills at
once.
E. R. Wilson,
Emmett&burg, Io-
wa, says: “I was
completely laid up
with kidney com-
plaint and inflam-
matory rheuma-
tism. My limbs and feet were terri-
bly swollen and so inflamed I «ould
not walk for days. After doetors had
failed to help me, I began using Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Three boxes' cured m©
so completely that I have net bad th©
slightest trouble since.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Re-
member the Name—DOAN’S.” 50c a
box at all stores. Foster-Milbura Co,*
Buffalo, N. Y.
Maine Blueberries.
Washington county’s blueberry erop
has netted this year a revenue of
more than $1,000,000, according to
State Horticulturist Albert K. Gardner
of Rocklan. This industry was start-
ed but a few years ago in that county
and the yield this year is the largest
yet obtained there. One grower real-
ized $75 from a few bushels which he
set out in his orchard as a "side is-
sue.” A man near Cherryfield is said
to have raked blueberries from the
vines just as cranberries are gathered.
It is stated that fabulous priees are
paid for rental of blueberry lands and
blueberry factories and the canning
factories are still running.—Kennebec
Journal.
Modern Morals.
“William Dean Howells, at a tea at
his apartment in Half Moon street,”
said a magazine editor who had just
returned from London, "amused us al3
with reminiscences of New York cele-
brities.
Mr. Howells hit off rather neatly a
notorious celebrity of Wall street.
“ ‘When that man came in- New
York in ‘69,’ he said, ‘everything h®
possessed was tied up in a bandana
handkerchief. Today—•’
“Mr. H. smiled and stroked his
close-clipped mustache.
“ “Today everything he possesses ie
tied up in his wife’s name.’ ”
UNKIND.
Barnes Storme—Ah! me boy, but we>
had the run of our life in Oskaloosa.
Friend—H’m, ain’t it lucky they
couldn’t catch you?
FROM TEXAS
Some Coffee Facts From the Lor
Star State.
From a beautiful farm down in
as, where gushing springs unite
form babbling brooks that wind t
sparkling way through flowery me
comes a note of gratitude for deliv
from the coffee habit.
“When my baby hoy came to me
five years ago, I began to drink
Postum, having a feeling that it would
be better for him and me than the old
kind of drug-laden coffee. I was not
disappointed in it, for it enabled me, a
small, delicate woman, to nurse a
bouncing, healthy baby 14 months.
“I have since continued the use of
Postum for I have grown fond of it,
and have discovered to my joy that it
has entirely relieved me of a bilious
habit which used to prostrate me two
or three times a year, causing much
discomfort to my family and suffering
to myself.
“My brother-in-law was cured of
chronic constipation by leaving off
coffee and using Postum. He has be-
come even more fond of it than h©
was of the old coffee.
“In fact, the entire family, from th©
latest arrival (a 2-year-old who always
calls for his ‘potie’ first thing in th©
morning), up to the head of the house,
think there is no drink so good or so
wholesome as Postum.” Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appenra from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full at human
Interest.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3070, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911, newspaper, October 27, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910610/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.