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THE DAILY LEADER
VERNOR & ABNEY, Publishers
LAMPASAS, - » - TEXAS
IMAGINE AGE GIVES FLAVOR
•That Seems the Only Explanation as
to Why Fresh Nuts Are Never
Served on Shipboard.
t “Whence do all the old nuts come,
iand where do they go?” was the ques
jtion put to a New York Times re-
jporter by a broker who had just re
turned from his semi-annul trip to
Europe.
“On my many voyages across the At
lantic and in the eastern seas,” the
jbroker went on to say, “I have never
i'seen fresh nuts on the dining tables
iwhich were laden with all the delica
jcies of the season. The only person
I ever met who had seen fresh nuts
|was a grizzled quartermaster, who
ilooked old enough to have sailed the
• raging main with Paul Jones. He
{said tersely:
j “ ‘I’ve seen ’em wunst. On the Tan
;jong Pagar pier at Singapore in
sacks, but they never come aboard
(the ship.’
“Fellow-passengers with whom i
have discussed the problem were of
•the opinion that the steamship com-
panies had some big cave where all
nuts were stored for a few decades un-
itil they had aged.
“Capt. Pritchard, the retired com-
modore of the Cunard line, once told
me that the island of Tobago, where
Robinson Crusoe lived, was the clear
ing house for nuts, and the companies
sent them there in sacks to be ex
changed after they had been afloat
for three years. This was borrobo-
rated by Capt. Arthur P. Mills of the
American liner Philadelphia, who said
that an old shipmate of his, Capt
Ben Brails, had carved his initials on
a Brazil nut and put it back on the
dish while his ship was crossing the
North sea, and got the same nut on
another vessel four years later in the
Straits of Shimenoseki, Japan. This
had such an effect on the mind of
Skipper Brails that he marked all
kinds of nuts with his initials and the
date and wrote letters to all his old
shipmates requesting them not to
crack any of his marked nuts if they
met them on their voyages.”
Veteran stewards, when asked .why
the companies do not put fresh nuts on
board their ships, say that perhaps the
companies are afraid they will dis<
agree with the passengers.
Hobble Skirt in Bible Time.
Can any one doubt, asks a writer in
a French newspaper, that the ladies of
Jerusalem in Biblical times were im-
peded in their walk, like the ladies of
today? In the latter part of the
third chapter of the Prophecy of
Isaiah, says the writer before referred
to, we get a glimpse of how these
daughters of Sion dressed on gala oc-
casions. We learn further, he says,
from a passage in the Talmud (Baby-
lonian), chapter vi. (Schabbats trans-
lation), that the robes of the ladies
were so tight that they could only
walk with short steps. -By this means
a greater opportunity was afforded to
their admirers to observe them. The
writer, quoting from the Vulgate, ob-
serves: “Nihil sub sole novium.” The
suggestion evidently is that the hob-
ble skirt was in vogue in very far-
away times.
Lady of the Robes Is Title of In-
genious Worker.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S EL DORADO
Simply Advises and Helps Rearrange
Wardrobes of Rich and Poor—Those
Who Must Economize Work Her
Wits Hardest.
Chicago.—“You say you want to
make money? I’d pay you well to
come and look over my wardrobe and
advise me how to freshen it up and
what to get. You’ve so many clever
good ideas about dress and such ideas
don’t come naturally to me.”
“That’s how my business started,”
explains a young woman who sudden-
ly round herself in reduced circum-
stances. “The friend who gave me my
first job was so enthusiastic over the
help that I was to her that she talked
me up to other women. They liked
what I did for them and passed my
name on to still others. So the ball
kept on rolling, and now I’ve a regular
clientele of women whose wardrobes
I/manage.
“I don’t know yet quite what to call
myself. ‘Lady of the Robes’ my friends
call me, but of course I’ve got to get
a more businesslike name than that
for my calling. The fact of the mat-
ter is that most women do not under-
stand how to manage their wardrobe
and I am able to help them.
"When my patrons have plenty of
money my task is not difficult. I look
over the clothes that they have, talk
■wnh them about their plans for the
coming season and tell them exactly
what they need. I suggest the styles
that I think will be becoming and
the styles that I think it would be
wiser for them to avoid.
I have to find out the peculiarities
of each of my patrons and deal with
them. Each patron is an Individual
study. I always put myself in the
woman’s place—try to become that
woman, and considering her appear-
ance, her pocketbook and her walk in
life, advise her just what I should
wish for myself were I she.'
In some instances I have to use a
lot of patience and tact, but in most
have no trouble at all, because the
women are glad to have me help them.
My deep interest, which fortunately
is not assumed for trade’s sake,
pleases and flatters them. They’ve
confidence that I’ve taken their inter-
est to heart.
‘It is with the women who have to
economize that I have to work my wits
the hardest. My own experiences in
economy help me here. It is these
women who depend upon me most.
They say that the money that they
pay me for my pains is the best in-
vestment that they make.
One such woman when I went to
her for my first visit was in despair.
Accustomed to spend money as she
pleased, she had suddenly had her
dress allowance cut down. I begged
her not to spend another cent until we
had investigated all the clothes that
she had, and not only all the clothes
but all her boxes of ribbons, arti£cial
flowers, pieces of satin, velvet, lace,
etc.
“She had everything spread before
me. I found out exactly what she
wanted to do through the summer and
V57ESTERN Australia’s newly discovered gold district, the center of which
* * is the already famous Bullfinch mine, is attracting a great deal of at-
tention and the Western Australia parliament has sanctioned the con-
traction of a railway from Southern Cross to the mines. Mr. Doolette not
long ago refused $2,500,000 for his share in the Bullfinch. A town site
has been surveyed there and 64 blocks of this sold at public auction for
$125,QO^,
then I looked over all her things
with an eye that she could not have
for them, because she was too famil-
iar with them and too discouraged
over them.
“I stayed in the roorn..all afternoon
and came back the next day for anoth-
er long seance with her things. Then
I went home and wrote out my scheme
for her wardrobe. I took it to her the
next day. I shall never forget her
little cries of pleasure and relief.
“Many of the clothes with just the
right refreshing touch here and there
could be made as up-to-date visions
of beauty as they were when they
were bought. I explained to her just
when money must be spent at all. I
showed her where the seamstress
could help and the ‘little dressmaker,’
also the ‘little milliner,’ and just where
she would have to resort to more com-
petent help. She agreed to all I said,
and in her new courage thought of
many clever ideas herself. I watched
over the growth, of that summer ward-
robe with all the pride of an artist. It
turned out entirely satisfactory.”
FIREMAN WARNED OF WIRES
Philadelphia Lecturer Believes That
There Is Still Life After Elec-
trocution.
URBAN CENTER PLAN HAILEP
Proposal of Director Durand to Disro
gard Geographical Lines Would
Swell Gotham.
Clifton Heights, Pa.—Prof. W. C. L.
Eglen of Philadelphia addressed the
Delaware County Firemen’s associa-
tion, in session in the auditorium of
the Clifton Heights Fire Protective
association, on the transmission of
high-tension current and the dangers
during fires.
Prof. Eglen told the firemen how
to rescue persons who may perhaps
fall across live wires without the dan-
ger of self-injury.
He also said that he believed that
90 per cent, of the men who are elec-
trocuted could be saved if doctors
would resort to artificial respiration
for a long period. He also believed
that if a man has received a heavy
charge for no longer than three min-
utes that he can be restored
New York.—The proposal of the
director of the census that in future
publications on city population urban
centers shall be used as the proper
units instead of the arbitrary politi-
cal divisions indicated by city boun-
dary lines is one That appeals strong-
ly to New York, for It gives hope of
enabling the city to surpass London
and to claim first place among all
the cities of the world.
Although this city has spread out
almost evenly in all directions, .its
westward growth never has shown in
the census returns because it has
been beyond the boundary line of
New Jersey.
Under the new plan all the popula-
tion In the urban area of each large
city, as determined by the experts oi
the census bureau, would be credited
to that city. This would add about a
million to the present official popula-
tion of Greater New York, giving it
5,800,000.
While this would still be lower than
the population of Greater London,
which is now placed at nearly 7,000,-
000, the growth of New York is much
more rapid, and if the present rates
were maintained it would pass its
European rival.
Aside from the prestige of being the
first city in the world, however, there
is little to be gained by additions to
the size of the city. Popular senti-
ment, in fact, seems to be against
any considerable additions to the pres-
ent administrative area.
For the present, most persons hold,
the problems of giving the greater
city proper government are difficult
enough without further complications,
but the plan of the census authori-
ties, which would give the city credit
for the population logically belonging
to it without adding to its actual
area, is regarded with favor.
She Knew.
A New York physician recently told
fne this story of a precocious little girl
of ten. She is the daughter of an at
tractive lady of society whom the fam
ily doctor—a young man—was attend-
ing for influenza. He felt her pulse
gravely and tenderly, holding her wrist
after the orthodox manner of a ladies’
doctor, as he sat beside her- in the
drawing room. As he did so he be
came aware that the child had her
great grave eyes, full of inquiry, fixed
upon him.
“You don’t know what I am doing,
my little lady?* said the medical man
lightly to the interested little miss.
Yes I do,” was the prompt and
positive reply.
“And what may that be, pray?” con-
tinued the doctor.
“Well, if you want me to tell you,
you are making love to mamma.”
Metropolitan Magazine.
CADGING IS COMMON
Each to His Own Game.
“That was a pretty good trick you
turned with that Easterner, Jim,” says
the Nevada boomer. “Sellin’ him ten
totwn lots in the middle o’ Death Val-
ley was sure scientific work!”
“Mebbe so,” growls Jim. ' “Didn’t
hear the rest o’ thaat, did ye? Say
that feller got me so convinced he
was a nice little piece o’ open faced
honesty that he got me to go back
East with him an’ interduced me to
his brother ,an’ his brother sold me
some choice city lots within easy
walkin’ distance o’ the Noo York city
hall.”
■ “What about that?”
What about it? Easy walkin’ dis-
tance, all right—if you want to walk
<or ten days!”—Judge.
Even Wealthy English Peers Bor-
row Little Things.
Number of Remittance Men Is on In-
crease as They Are Being Ship-
ped to Colonies to Get Rid
of Their Presence.
London.—Is the “cadging” spirit—
the desire to get something for noth-
ing from somebody else—becoming in-
creasingly common among English-
men of all classes?
A case at the West London police
court, in which a housemaid was
charged with stealing money (in or-
der, it was ascertained, to give it to
her sweetheart, a Scots guardsman)
gives rise to this question.
Mr. Fordham, the magistrate, ad-
dressed some stern remarks to the
Scots guardsman, who was in court,
cn the meanness of this form of cadg-
ing.
This is a dirty, mean, scurvy
thing,” he said. “A meaner, more
scurvy thing could not be. . . .
How a man, a creature, an animal call-
ing himself man could take money
from a poor girl working as a house-
maid I cannot understand. . . .
“In my view, you are simply a para-
site animal creeping about and get-
ting money anywhere you can. It is
perfectly disgraceful, and if I saw my
way to give you six months’ hard la-
bor I would be pleased to do it.”
According to opinions gathered
from prominent business men, social
reformers and others, the “cadging I
creature” Is to be found in all walks '
of life, particularly amongst the upper
classes.
“The case of the guardsman who
would borrow money from a woman
has its parallel in higher circles of
society,” said a well known city man.
“The young* lazy, ne’er-do-well who
Is well educated, but lives on his
friends and relations, practises just
the same kind of meanness as this
particular Scots guardsman.
“His acts, however, are gilded over
by good manners and polish. He
cadges money from his friends—he
calls It a loan—but never intends to
pay it back.
The ultimate end of this cadging
creature is that he is packed off to
the colonies by his people, where he
becomes a remittance man—a gentle-
man of leisure, who is paid by remit-
tances sent out from home to keep
away from home.
In South Africa, Australia and
Canada the number of remittance
men is always increasing.
“Where does the fault He? What
Is wrong with our system of education
that it breeds such men?
“In my opinion, there is too much
softness and kindness in the public
schools and home life of the present
day.
Men who live on somebody else
and complain that they ‘do not know
what to do with themselves’ are the
products of this gentle system of edu-
cation.”
There are various forms of cadg-
ing, said a West End clubman who is
keenly interested in all social prob-
lems. "Men nowadays do not hesi-
tate to accept presents in the form of
wine from mere acquain-
cigars or
tances.
“Well to do men make a habit of
cadging cigars and dinners, leaving
you to pay the taxicab and perform-
ing other little acts of meanness.
“Twenty years ago the spirit of Eng-
lish society was one of sturdy inde-
pendence and insularity; today a lord
will cadge cigarettes from another
man.
The only method of exterminating
the ‘cadging creature’ is a more rigor-
ous, disciplined education for our
British youth.”
FIND GEMS IN LUMBER PILE
Rich Chicagoan Buys Sunlaws House,
Near Kelso-on-Tweed—Discovers
Jewels in Tin Box.
Edinburgh. A lumber heap scarce-
ly Is the place one would look for jew-
els, yet such a discovery has been
made at Sunlaws House, near Kelso-
on-Tweed, a) present occupied by John
Clay, the Chicago cattleman.
A dii ty, old tin box buried under a
lot of rubbish has been unearthed and
found to contain a dazzling assortment
of jewelry, including valuable rings,
watches and necklaces. The find might
never have been found had not a deal-
er In old iron offered to purchase the
box for a trifling sum.
About 25 years ago Sunlaws House
was partly destroyed by fire, and it ia
supposed the box was taken from the
building and afterwards overlooked.
A GOOD DOCTOR.
“Boone The Healer”
Is now permanently located at 100#
Olive St., in Texarkana, Texas. Seem-
ingly miraculous cures of consump-
tion, cancer, paralysis, epilepsy, dis-
eases peculiar to women and other
chronic diseases have been made. The
best of results follow treatments with
his medicines. And some strange pow-
er he possesses never fails to produce
immediate results. This strange power
Is not faith, electricity, or magnetism,
but an actual force, and so far as
known, “Boone” is the only one that
possesses it. No fees are exacted
and correspondence is invited.
To finish the moment; to find the
Journeys’ end in each step of the
road; to live the greatest number of
•rood hours is wisdom.—Emerson.
Di\ Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy.
He is a dangerous man who spends
much time drawing fine lines between
shrewdness and sin.
Your Appetite
Easily Restored
and regulated if you will
only begin your meals
with a dose of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters. Loss
of appetite is a sure sign
of some disturbance of
the stomach and bowels,
wl ich the Bitters will
quickly correct. There-
fore, try it this very day.
For over 57 years it has
been assisting those who
suffered from Indiges-
tion, Dyspepsia, Costive-
ness, Colds, Grippe and
Malaria, and it will do
you good, too. Insist
on having Hostetter’s.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times In ten when the liver is right the
stomach and bowels are right.
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
gently but firmly com-^
pel a lazy liveX to
do its duty.
I Cures Co
etipation,
Indigos- ‘
tion,
Side - „ .
Headache, and Distress after Eatings
Small PU1, Small Dose, Sm»ll Price
. Genuine must bear Signature,
CURED COW’S CAKED UDDER.
Use it for ailments of your chickens
and turkeys also those of your cattle
hqrses.and mules and you will find it
saves loss of livestock. It is so pow-
erful that it cures almost immediately.
Mrs. Daisy Drawe, New Orleans, La. writes!
“I have used Mexican Mustang Liniment
for several years on my chicks for the Roup
and round it a sure cure ; have also used it
in our barn with satisfactory results. Our
cow has recently been cured of a severe milk
cake iormed m her udder. Mexican Mustang
Liniment effected a complete cure.”
25c. 50c. $1 a bottle at Drug & Gen’I Stores.
Nothing
Like
Relics of Dickens Sold.
London.—Three relics of Charles
Dickens, a lock of hair, a prayer book
and an autograph letter, were sold at
Sotheby’s rooms the other day for $50
them in the world, CASCARETS the
biggest seller—why? Because it’s the best
medicine for the liver and bowels. It’s
what they will do for you—not what
we say they will do—that makes
CASCARETS famous. Millions use
CASCARETS and it is all the medicine
that they ever need to take. 90$
CASCARET3 ioc a box for a week’s
treatment, all druggists. Biggest seller
in the world.
boxes a month.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2139, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 31, 1911, newspaper, January 31, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth911024/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.