ge = If This is all it will be like, I wish to Die,~1 don't care how, — While I am Very, Very Young: As young almost as Now They never felt what Sorrow was; They never learned their Golden Rule; They say, These sre your happiest days!" With School, School, School. When Saturday's all out of breath, With all the livelong week in sight; And Monday, coming afler you, Spoils every Sunday night. And nothing Done but Yesterday: And nothing Coming but To-morrows! Don't cheer me up.—Please let me be. — 1 have the Sorrows, —By Josephine Preston Peabody. The “Comic” Nuisance. douned the comic supplements which accom- panied ite Sanday issue was evidence of returning reason among reputable newe- Herald does nos belong in the journals which bave made the ta shing of horror to all i : g i ; 7 : il & imply that they once were comic. Asa matter of fact, they were always the oheap- est travesties of real fun. To say that they have become vulgar in design and tawdry in color is to suggest thas there was a time when they were neither vulgar nor tawdry. In point of fact, they were conceived in valgarity and born in sawdriness. They never amused an intelligent publie. They have never, as the Herald tably sug- gests, played the of the clown iu the establishment, for even the olumsiest clown bas some fun in him; and the chiel characteristic of the so-called comic supplement ie the dead monotony of ite dullness. The International Kindergarten Union sod other important associations are direot- ing attention to she evil of this adjuvcs of tke sensational newspaper and emphasizing its mischievous influence on the minds and tastes of children; and thie protest oops %0 take on National Jroportions. e sound of is ought to be of such volume as $0 penetrate every newspaper office in the United States; for there is probably at pres. ent no single infinence that is poisoning America at the fountain sources more than the #0 called comio supplement. Not nec. essarily because they bave heen eager to get rich as a matter of greed, bus hecanee bave bad to do the unescapable work laid op their bands, Americans have suffered many stupid things to go on; bus nothing must seem to a foreigner so as variance with American sagacity and good sense as the Satting fowa vt our Torte to lite wood pulp e vulgarization children of the country. That ie precisely what we have gs We ave heto exobanging our e woodlands for cheap and tawdry sheets which every Sun- day morning are spread over the United States, without one redeeming feature of wit, bomor, good sense, or wholesome entertainment. Not long ago a man in- terested in this subject secured examples of the Sunday supplement from all parts, from Boston to Sau them out on the floor of a room, ng to find in them some reason for their beiog, and “was lled as the inanity and valgarit, of illostration, text, and color wh stamped them from the Atlantic to the There bave been a few motives cleverly bandled, such as “Foxy Sti pu) and * Brown.!”” These res a glimmering of an idea behind them; but the idea wae obnoxious. Its possibilities were soon exhausted, and its effect was to call out a host of imitations io all parte of the United States. The origival idea was a thin and demoralizing one; the imitations were disgusting. The organizations which are now pro- testing againss this so-called comic supple, ment wonld do well to bave the chief figures and incidents brought out in these supplements collected and pus together in a typical +beet in order that she public may see how few they are and bow etupid. The supplement hae shown a depressing poverty of invention. Ite stock in srade— for supplements in all parts of the United States draw on a common capital, strictly limited, of jokes—ocounsists chiefly of mak- iog fun of old people, deriding parents by representing them in ridiculous attitudes, and of volgar presentations of the lowest kind of marital relations between the cheapest sort of people. One group con- stantly reappears, and has apparently ob- sessed the minds of the gentiemen who pro- duce the figures for the comico supplements: a negro hoy with a horrible mouth, huge feet, and expressionless eyes; accompan by a badly drawn mule as a kind of foil. A hideous caricature and a mole are the ‘stock in trade of a great number of the artists who furnish material for the San- day supplements. The scheme of color shows the same poverty of invention, the same absolute ignorance of or indifference 30 deseney. Ie consinte, in the use of the oradest cheapest yellows, reds, greens, blacks. It is very doubtlul if in the whole field of this cheap trash which is inundat- ing American homes the most careful ob. server can find a single sheet which shows -metistic feeling, real comic ability, or gen- ius in caricature. The ill itive work is done with a course brush in great splash- ary Tr LE von “Semps. nte t listened all his lie to the American as- e—— from the beginning bas been lawlessness. There is nothing that American children need so moch for their futore pect for law and authority. Now, the chief function of the comic sup- jleteus, 48 evidenoed Ao Plates a ts text, is to destroy respect w aod authority. Ite standard joke is the joke about the old man who either deceives the child or is deceived by him; it is the those who do not read the comio py ment is to uoe a | under an illustration which wide oir- oelation last summer: ICK 1BBITY BIBBITY GLIBBITY WOCK DOOBY IP MUGGLE ZOP OOP GULLOOP BUZAM UZZO BIP WOP KERBUMP WUGGY BOW-WOW The Outlook regards this outrage on children as one of she greatest perils in the life of the country today. We are permit- ting the valgarization of our obildren on a great scale. We are allowing their eyes to become accustomed to the oheapest and 3 | orndest use of color and form, and we are saturating their minde with volgar images. We are teaching them lawlessness; we are cultivating the ofl reverence in them; we are doing everything we cau, by cheap- ening life, to destroy the American homes of the future. Asa time when the inter: este of obildzen are attracting more and more attention, when State and National measures are being taken to protect them from overwork, is is high time that . ized effort fiould be made to protect from contamination, from base ideals of life, from mean of home and parents. Here is work in which every woman's club in the country ought to take a band; for women, even more than men, are the guardians of the purisy of children. In their hand rests the great trust of keep: ing the American: home clean and whole- some. Certain things man and woman can do at once: The door can be bolted againes the intrusion of the comio supplemens. No copy of these supple- ments ought to lie oo the table in » decent American home. Every man snd woman can register an individual id test in the office of the newspaper which sends this supplement to the house. Ev man and woman can call attention to thi National inundation of vulgarity. If the public conesience can be aroused, effective methods of dealing with this evil will be they | found on all sides.—In The Outlook. Beautiful Table Customs. Quite recently I visited a German widow living in a delightfal country seat, with a little son of eight and a daughter of five, As we eat down to the well table, the little boy, folding his bands and olos- ing his eyes, thanked our Father in heaven for the food before ue, and asked him to bless us. Then she little girl, in obildish acoents, repeated: ‘‘Lord Jesus, be our guess. Come, and this table bless, and do us good.” The listle ones were taught by their pions mother to think whom they were add At several where we visited in Scotland the youngest ohiid at the able asked the blessing, and the eos of those swees, low, reverential, childish voices haunts ue yet as the echo of some rich earol In some families there prevails the bean- tifal custom of joining in the Lord’s Pray- er at breakfast; and in ove thas we visited oft last summer this was sometimes omit- ted, and in im Han the twenty-third recited. 8 , after a Psalm Sunday Pal | Cock of plenty and joy, what oan be more snitable? Io other families the silent blessing is the custom; and very touching it is, $00, for it seers to make us realize that God is indeed near, when we can give Him tanks, though our lips move not.—[Se- Sins Against the Eyes. Reading on the porch long alter the sun has eet. Finishing the latest novel in a i To ng jomgling Sittiog on the heach with the san shin. ing on your book. Staring at the water when the sup is at ite brightest, : Sitting so the shifting light and the sha. dow of leaves from the poroh or arhor play irregularly on the page. Letting the eyes ges sunburoed. Doing fine needlework in the dim light ied | of a house shaded for coolness. Yachting or canoeing without a broad- brimmed bat or veil as a protection from the glare, Not protecting the eyes with glasses or thick veil when motoring on a dusty road or when traveling with open windows. ing, but they often lay up a store of eye strains that give trouble for years. =2 i i F E : ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. ~— Forty Years in lows, [Written especially for the Warcumax. CHAPTER VI, ““The best laid plans of mice and men alt gang aglee.”” As the closing of our last letter we intended leaviog Howard for short calls on other portions of the county and State, but ciroumstances have arisen thas make it necessary to chaoge plans somewhat, so while we tarry a week or two longer we want to digress bere, just slighs- ly. The word ‘‘knook’’ is a title applied to persons who foreome fancied or real per- sonal grievance, bas become ‘‘soured’ or disgruntled as some person, place or thing and who, though having eyes, desire to see nos, exoept through their own unsatisfac- tory bifooles. The Des Moines City Kail- way owns a quarter blook on the North- west corner of Fifth and Mulberry streets, Is is one of the most valuable locations in the city. A building was erected some four years ago especially for the company’s use. A two story structure of brick, with a frontage of 132 feet on each of the two streets—264 fees. A drug, jewelry and oi- gar store and restaurant occupy B58 feet, leaving 66x110 feet used almost eosirely for a waiting room, being well seated, lighted and made comfortable by its own heating plant. It is kept clean, so that even our Governor, hoth U. 8. Senators and their ladies avail themselves of its hospital- ity. The upper story is used by the com- pany for local aud general offices. If there is any ‘“‘rbamsbackle’’ about it it muss be the steel awning surrounding its outside, covering the sidewalk and permitted by special act of the oity council for the com- fort and convenience of the public; it is treated $0 a coat of fresh pains each yearly housecleaning time, looks well io our peo- ple whom we presume wear home pride glasses ; and the entire structure we think, would not he an objectionable feature to a Bellefonte Diamond frontage. Ii is, bow- ever, overshadowed by a recently comples- ed eleven story store and office bailding,just across the alley north ; fire-prool, wodern aod up to date in every respect. The Polk county court house just com. pleted, covers almost an entire equare, built of massive Bedford stone, fire-proof throughout, four stories high with base- ment and surmounted with a sensible dome. Its extreme height is 179 feet from the sidewalk, its outside dimensions 150x 250 fees. It provides six court rooms, all of the offices of the county, a grand jury room, a pettis jury room for each court, private offices for the judges and county of- ficers, an abundance of fireproof vauls space built from the basement up, well furnish- ed sleeping apartments for contrary jurors, heated throughout by a separately buils heating plant, the latter ‘‘out of sighs,” both to the eye and to the idea, of some- thing complete. Two elevators raise and lower she weary, while others can travel the two 20-feet wide stairways, or the oth- er two wide, winding stairs at the main en. trance. The inside finish ie marble. It is equipped throughout with steel desk farni- ture ; in fact in all its appointments it is up-to-date, substantial and complete, and the best that business ability, common sense and $800,000 cash could buy. We are proud of it,andloballenge any county in the State to near approach it, or any county in the U. 8. of equal populasion and financial ability, to overshadow. The floors throughout are Mosaio ile. The supporting columns on the ground floor are of the best Vermont marble, and those on the three upper are Scagliola. The winding stairways on either side of the fronts entrance are artistio and simply beautiful ; rivers and treadways of double marble, the newels and winding balus- trades are massive, solid martile. The cours rooms are of sufficient floor space and bave 27 feet ceilings. The seating is iv oironlar form with stationary opera obairs, the cironlar balustrade with settee attach- ed inside, separating the court officials, at- torneys, eto. Tables, circular swinging leather upholstered chairs, reporters’ desk, the raised desk or bench of the judge, the enclosed jury box with twelve ohairs, are all of modern make, and mahogany mate- rial. We are ashamed of nothing in con- nection with the entire structure. We mail with this article a photograph of this building to the editor of the WATCHMAN and invite any for whom it may be convenient to call at his office and fuspect a very fair and not overdrawn pio- tare of “‘the squatty thing called the cours house’ and il there may be any who “won- der what they took for a pattern,” write us, for we have the information to farnish. We are pleased to know that Bellefonte’s court hoase is good and we would not for a moment attemps to cast reflections on a single building belonging to our native home connty of forty years ago, and we bave nanghs but good words for the land of our adoption. As our hotels seem to have been placed under & bao, it is just and proper to say that any city of our class will have to go some $0 eclipse them. The Savery, Kirk. wood, Chamberlain, Elliott, Wellington and Viotoria, all first class hostleries are capable of entertaining the moss fastidious or exaocting,and not so ‘‘far below what they should be’’ but that Iowa's only Demo- cratic Governor—Horace Boise, and later, Governor Leslie M. Shaw, since then SBec- retary of she U. 8. Treasury, could endure the hospitality of the firat named, daring their inonmbenoy of four years each, For the last fifteen years: our State bas laid no olaim to a very great inorease in Going back to a little more than half that period the writer's family dinner ta- ble covered eight pairs of leet. Three sons aod two daughters have ‘swarmed ;'’ some to assist in populating two other western | she deplore the departure of a portion of her young, =tous avd healthy sous and dangbters to assist in promoting such Com- monwealths as the two Dakotas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, etc., a large propor- tion of the population of which are native Hawkeyes. Some of her sons sent west a few years ago, are foremost in councils of administra. tion ; Governors and other Swate officials, and one former Des Moines boy in the U. 8. Senate, so that being ‘noted for the slow growth in population” is amply offsetted by the success and personal worth of our wandering offepring. We have three railroad depots. The Chicago and Northwestern covers in length a block of city ground, 284 fees, built of red pressed brick, two stories high, cover- ed with slate roof. The raised space from the building to the track is paved with vit. rified brick the entire length of the block and covered with an artistically arranged shed, also slate roofed. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific covers in length two squares of ground, roofed the entire distance with a steel arch soross the intervening street. It is built of red pressed brick, two stories, and tile roofed, and the approach to the tracks the entire length is paved with briok. The Union Station provides terminal privileges to all ol the other lines entering the oity. The building covers in length a square of ground. It is constructed of gray mottled pressed brick, two stories high, with steel frame train sheds which afford protection in rain or storm, in going to and from the trains to she waiting rooms. The three depots are all practically new, modern and up-to-date, complete in all re- quirements fcr the comfort and accommo: dation of the traveling publio. The writer has made four tripe to the Pacific coast, over all the lines, including the Canadian Pacific from Vancouver to Winnipeg, and can say, thas for its require. ments, Des Moines is behind none others seen, in depot facilities for the traveling pablie. The baggage transfer business wo far an pertains to the railroads amounts to listle as the two larger stations are but a half block apart and she other a half mile away. Baggage to and from hotels, theaters and private houses, make up the business of the Jesse Wells Co. The Twenty-fourth General Assembly appropriated $150,000.00 for the erection of a monument to the memory of Iowa sol- diers. The writer was present as an officer of the Iowa Grand Lodge of Masons at she laying of the corner stone. The program was directed by State offi- ocials,the principal addresses made by Hon. D. B. Henderson, Speaker of the U. 8, House of Representatives and ex-United States Senator James Harlan and the “women of Iowa” had nothing whatever to do with it. The grounds on which is stands is juss morose: Walnut street, from the capitol grounds, while jnst across Tenth street stande one of the largest and most influential churches of the city. The ground on which this work of art stande was the site of the first capitol huildiog and was donated by Alex Scott, a one time prominent citizen of this cisy. It is sepa- rated from the present capitol! grounds by ‘Walnut strees, one of the most prominent paved thoroughfares. We would not know where to look for ‘‘commons’ in that lo- cality. The Y. M. C. A. rents a large building from F. M. Hubbell, which they now oo- cupy and have no “‘fine large brick build- ing nearing completion’’ and it is with re- gret that we say that they do not even have the ground on which to erect a building. We alec bave some ‘‘plug” railroads that operate from Kansas City to St. Paul and Chicago. Another from Des Moines to Minneapolis. Another from Des Moines to Keokuk. Des Moines to St. Louis. Des- Moines to Sioux City. Des Moines to Cains. ville, Mo., and—well, as Billie ssid to the small chap that was blamed for everything “Now just look what yon wens and done.” The Iowa law legalizing the liguor traffic is generally considered by the people who are opposed to the saloon, to be about ae good legislation as can ba made for ite regu- lation. Is is objectionable to a certain class for the reason that on all election days, some dozen or more holidays and Sandays, the doors must be kept locked avd not even a Janitor is permitted to enter. No back dours or soreens as the windows, no cbairs nor tables nor lunches inside are permit- ted. At 10 p. m., promptly the doors must close until 5 next morning. All employees must be registered in the county recorders office. For violations, heavy fiues ate imposed, which not only attach to the proprietor, but on the real estate, regardless as to the owner. A fax of $300 to the county ; and another of $300 to the city, and a license of $600, to the city, a total of $12000 must be paid annually, by the proprietor of each saloon, before he can launch his business. No sales are permitted to drunkards, women or minors and the two latter are not per- mitsed to enter suoh places. The law is well enforced in Des Moines and where violations bave occurred, pevalties were enforced and in some instances the business olosed up. The popular designation of this statute is “The Mulct Law.” Webster defines the word Mulct, as “‘pecuniary punishment or penalty.” The same authority defines the word to preserve moisture. The use of these two words, as applied to the Iowa law, are in use among two ! States. Towa is uot ashamed, neither does | lasses of people and we leave it to tbe | | reader to make the distinetion, { A Penedo Germas friend of *‘Kernell’} | Harter, of Centre county, known as Gottlieb | Boonastie! who with his frau Polly, at tempted to entertain what he later styled a tall, fiat ribbed, long eared, Yankee, who #0 far forgot his good manvers as to make | use of the epithet *D—mn the Dateh” in their presence and was soon after com- pelled to listen to a severe arraignment of | the relative gualities of the Yankee as com- | pared with the German. {In the portion of car city and ahouns the i inferior hotels and boarding bouses, where | the loafer is want to while away the bour | thas is bardensome, the same epithet can | be heard in she expression, ‘‘D—mn the | Mulch law.”’ | Weare pleased 10 know that our parks | are not weed patches and cow pastures, our | libraries of many thousand volnmes seem | to bave a better covering than the pro- verbial Atkansaw Traveler's bome which could not be mended during a rain etorm and did not need it iv slear weather ; that we do not have to cross our rivers on foot boards and pontoon bridges and that Uncle Sam has listened to the importunities of bis son, our neighbor and Congressman, John A. T. Hull, and is now finishing such a magnificent structure to furnish postal facilities for our ordinary passive 100,000 population. Old friends and acquaintavces | bave nos been so lethargic in blundering on to us in this ‘‘commercial and politica) centre.”’ Gen. Beaver has been to see us ; the Farst’s from Flemidgton and Bellefonte aod many that we could name from Look Haven, Bellefonte, Jacksonville, Beech Creek, Centre Hall, Altoona, Snow Shoe, Howard, Curtin, Ms. Eagle and other points. Away ont on the ‘‘Commons’’ and just across the street from another por- tion of the main capitol grounds, ssands the historical building recently completed, 100x264 tees, covering a fall ball block of ground, a stone and fire proof etructure throughout, modern up-to-date, well equip- ped for the purpose for which is is intend. ed, owing its existence to the State Histor- ical Society. It is teeming with authentic information of “‘noted events which attended the set. slement’’ of the State. We cite one. Lake Okoboji and Spirit Lake, twin bodies of water in Dickinson county, lie near the Mionesota line, 175 miles northwest of the capital city. It is a noted summer re- sort ‘for Jowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and other States. Almost the entire border of} these lakes are lined with enmmer homes and with sents in . season. On Sondays during the heated term, spe- cial traine from three directions deliver thousands at this popular resort. A “‘noted historical event attended its settle. The Spirit Lake Indian Massacre. 8. W. BAgER, Des Moines, Iowa, March 10sh, 1909. {To be continued.) Attack on fowa Resented. Beocaunse of the open attack npon Iowa and Des Moines that io the ool- umns recently of The DEMOCRATIC WATCH- MAN of Bellefonte, Pa., one of the oldest blications in the state, by Daniel Mo- ide of Fort Dodge, the state historical department bas risen to arms and will re- mens,” no place in she national union history and uietly inte the Union. The hie- will show that Iowa suffered man toward the civil Mr. MoBride is | i f : MCBRIDE'S ATTACK. “Des Moines, the tal, is the largest cil Dee Motoch: Sopa, ab lures Fort Sumter. The capitol is a rights nice listle building, far short of what is should be for such a state. It is no comparison to some I have seen. Off quitea distance stands a lone, forsaken looking but magnif- ioent movument hy the women of Iowa to the memory of the state’s heroes. A PrssivisTic VIEW. “No noted historical event ever attended the settlements of Iowa. It became a state very quietly. The state is noted for many mediam sized cities and a total absence of any large cities, unlese you could call Des. Moines a city. It is also noted for its slow growth ir population—in fact, some say is in deoreasing.””—The Des Moines Evening thing to do is to eak, and then to stop it. Is is the leakage of health which rains a splendid woman. It’s no good in a case to take tonics and stim. ulants, The first thi to do is to locate the leak, the next th is to it. There is a constant leakage of in every woman who suffers from disease or derangements of the delicate womanly o:- gans, such as unbealtby draive, inflamma. Toke — by the use of oan Linge ci Presoription. Over balf a million women bave testified to she curative power of this medicine. wonderful Sick women oan consult Dr. Piers free. All oor ence confidential. Dr. RV. Buffalo, N. Y. tf] saw a boblet today made of “Mulob” as trash thrown on the ground | bone. “Pebaw! I waw a tumbler made of flesh and blood last night.” “Where?” AL the circus ” rercod¥ sens Ardross splot 7; y Indias | 2 — re or e— FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN, DAILY THOUGET. By the street of By-and-By one arrives at (he house of Never.—~Cervantes, Newest of the new is the white cotton crepe thas Paris bas taken to her heart. Years ago, perhaps it was worn, but the present generation knoweth it not, and to them is bas all she charm of newness. Sols, fine, “‘orinkly,”” is is being used to make both waists and dresses. For trimming is takes preferably a lace of the vature of Cluny rather than filmier kinds. Another esluishe white goods is the embroidered French pique. Vanieh all former ideas of pigne w one sees it. With ite tiny ribbed cords of a wonderful softness and fineness, with delicate, almost lacy, stripes and scattered tiny embroidered deuigus, it bas a style individoal and fasoi- nasiog. pr eR toi is e chevron diagonal weaves “ the Winter time fabrics. Very smart they are, too, in this snowy material. Stripes and Plaide.—Stripes seem to pre- ponderate in the new styles, 3ongh, Sf course, figured effects in this favored are always popular. The new embroidered swisees are daintier and lovelier than ever. Designs are smaller. There is a tendency to stripe snd block effects and conventional and geometrical figures. Fine sheer linen embroidered daintily ie always useful in the Summer wardrote. Designs are small this season, are {requent- ly with a note of eyelet. The dainty plaid muslin are ever jovels in their fine sheer prettiness, oross- and striped in shadowy beauty. Then there is the whole army of plain white the Parise muslios, ohiffonettes, and such old-time favorites. The white goods counters just now are bappy huntiog grounds for the woman in or of snowy prettiness for Summer wearing. With shoes and stockings and gioves to match the gown fe it any wonder thas the same rigalistieny should be made for the bat? Notonly isthe same color used, but the same materials as well. W one, two and three-piece gowns silk we bave hats of the same stuff. When buying the material for the gown get from two to three yarde more, d ing on how the bat is to be made. instead of making it all of one tone, the under side of the brim is made ola slightly lighter or darker shade, or even of a contrasting color. For trimming bands of the material may be used, or flowers, the latter being newer, The flowers should be of the $wo tones used for the bas if possible. Where only one tone is used they may give the contrasting note. Among the folk fashions borrowed from Poland is that curious one of the dangling carla at the sides of the face. Some of the daring women in Paris are trying the little curls which fall over the temples and account for the stray locks about the ear. No matter how bandsome the drees, a color combination that ie the least shade ‘off’ will utterly spoil is. When two colors do nos look Juite right wgsiber, separate them with wh ‘‘tones’’ some colors, but not all. The effect is sometimes merely to dull the colors and iteelf, without remedying the difficnlsy. Gray may be combined with pale pink, rose color, lemon, pale yellow or burnt p blue and dark red are a safe oboioe i tbe 08 predomisates. good sogeth- e blues ellows are er, but again she wisi predominate. Tao looks weil with almost any shade of blue, and gray bloes are very good with Genuine sbades of belitrope are charming with pale, dull yellow. Pale pastel blue is beautiful with the ints ok pai wit * with coppery brown and is very effective in brightening olive green. The new hats, almost without exception show crowns, and the bride of the bin’ nest oo are i n ence, many prettiest models bave r crowns covered com- pletely with small flowers, The inbabitants of the Green ter bestows ber upon the most diver—be who can stay longest water and bring up the biggest load of put them io cold water. When to parboil free them from fat, cover with . ing water and let them simmer 20 minutes. To Make Cream Whip.—Maoy keepers who like whi Oream as an ao- oumpasimen for chocolate or des- ER BE
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