The Woods County News. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1899 Page: 4 of 8
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IS A REALISTIC ACTRESS
STYLES IN WHISKERS'
JAN VAN BEERS' PIANO.
An Actress Who Is Not Afraid to Hide
Her Beauty.
When a pretty girl goe* on ;he stage
•be ruTuiijr regards her beauty a* a
valuable stock is trade, and proceed*
to make the moat of her facial charms.
Miss Ida Gertrude Banning is a re-
markable exception to the rale. Hor
ambition is to send her prettincss as
far into eclipse as possible behind a
character make-up. Vanity hasn't a
feather's weight of importance with
liist Banning, and that is why this
rierer young actress is succeeding so
gaidman was overflowing with grati-
. tade, and expressed himself thos:
Thank je. ma lad. If ye happen tae
be passin' oor farmhouse step in an'
All gie ye a gaid drink & boot milk."
ting the tube iermetically should be j
* from tie government potto®:* !
:o Eustoa. 4jEeiett allowance had
i not been ma4 for air leakage and
other disadvantages, and after increas-
ing the engine power from 100 to 800
hors* power tie scheme failed, and
1 £175.000 lay wut*d underground. By
means of electrical traction It is in-
tended to accomplish what air failed
to do. and cary the mails to Eos ton
in tinder fire n inures.
FOR MEN WHO ASPIRE TO THE
PRESIDENCY. O
Mail TmdH
London has disgorged another of its
long-kepc secrets. A tnnnei lost for
nearly forty years has b«n discovered
I under the Hoi born and Tottenham
"Trmmp Caws**
A tramp stcie a two-inch valve,
worth a few pennies, from the main
supply pipe through which the water
for Jersey City is supplied. The conse-
quence was that a geyser shot up into
£
Sg'
well in all the character roles she un-
dertakes.
Miss Banning intends to become a
second May Robson. The more ec-
centric the role assigned her, the bet-
ter pleased she is. Fancy a young
woman taking actual pride in trans-
forming her pretty face into that of
a ridiculous, withered old maid! Yet
this is precisely what Miss Banninr
does in the role of Alvira. in "What
Happened to Jones."
. Miss Banning belongs to one of the
oldest and besVlAown families of so-
cial prominence in- Los Angeles, Cal.
She has had experience in the stock
companies of* Modjeskp. Nance O'Neil,
Lewis Morrison and others. Her abil-
ity as a "quick study" is such that she
once*played a part in "Camille" on a
few hours' notice. She is here pictured
before and after the process of "mak-
ing up."
1U ToUl Coat WUI Xot
•2S.OOO.
A wonderful piano has been made by
Jan Van Beers, the Belgian artist,
whose portraits of beautiful women
are famous. The painter owns one of
the most remarkable houses in Paris,
and has given years to the study of
interior decoration, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. He admits that
v „ . „ ■ It,„.rin the exquisite instrument which he is
lo the time of G~rga Warthuu.il the „^Uon „,t
1 deanly .haven fiu* ! sum£er „ protabl, the moIt b^UMI
cepted type of the political man. There j ^ # #lmM n,
have been a few exceptions to the
X«*rl? All tW 8 t««if«l
Were Cleanly lb m—Sonrthlaj About
the Cotiom of Professional Maa—
E*ch Bju a Hirsute Style of IU Own.
'NETTING QUA'ILSJN EGYPT.
Traps by Which the Native* Catch the
Ilirds bjr Thousands.
There has been much said lately of
the capture of quails in Egypt In re-
gard to the protest made by French-
men about carrying the birds across
French territory for English use. The
passage of bands of quails over the
coast of the delta of the Nile, from
Port Said to Alexandria, begins in
September and lasts a month and a
half, the birds arriving in little groups,
says the Sun. Generally they are
taken by means of nets five metres
high, which the natives extend on
cords fastened *to poles in the fashion
of curtains gliding pn their rods. In
reality the net is double. The first
near the side of the sea is of meshes
very large and loose, but at the back
U another net where the bird will
really come and perch, itself on the
folds formed by this net of small
meshes. There is another method of
capture which is more picturesque.
Rows of dried branches are placed on
the shore. At the foot of each branch
Is disposed a tuft of fresh herbs in the
middle of which is arranged an open-
ing which ends in a snare. The quail,
tired by its journey, takes refuge in
the branch, then in the bunch of herbs
naturally, without figuring to itself
that it is going to put itself into a trap
where a native will surprise and kill
it. With these means of destruction,
it is not astonishing that'each year
more than a million of these birds
are taken.
He Had Hi* Reward.
An old farmer coming home from the
Paisley ma.V.et lost his pocketbook,
containing a considerable sum of
money, in the station, relates the Scot-
tish American. He looked for it, but
could not find it, and had given up all
Court road. This tunnel extends for .
two miles and a half, from St. Mar-
tin's Le Grand to the Northwestern
railway station at Euston, and after
lying lost for so long is now to bea
utilized. The scheme is due to George
Threlfall, consulting engineer of Fen- !
church Street, who for nearly five yea"rs ;
has been engaged on the task. The
tunnel is built of cast-iron sections in
the shape of a "d" lying on its back. :
The thirty-seven years' burial ifi the j
earth appears to have had only the
slightest detrimental effect on the
njetal. It w s in 1859 that the Pneu- j
matic Dispatch company was formed I
for the purpose of carrying mails and
parcels from the government postoffice
to Euston by an underground tube. !
The idea was that a train of cars fit- !
the air som^ 125 feet and the watea
flooded the Kearny meadows, while
hcuselftepers in Jersey Qty wondered
what was? the matter with the water-
works. "fhe authorities found out the
trouble very %oon and remedied that,
but not until the meadows had been
converted into a vast lake over a large
part of their expans*;. If that tr&mp
should be caught, thcr'e is no knowing <
what will be«done with him. "Jail is
too gocftl for him," remarked one indig-
nant'Jerseyite as he reached New York
unwashed and mad.
• Factory Inspector in Disguise.
A factory inspector at Paterson,
N. J., has been investigating the mills
of that city in the guise of a ^aborer,
wheeling a barrow.
WAY DOWN EAST/
MISS /ANNIE FLIPI'E.
_ ___ Miss Fannie Flippe (in front of the
hopes, when a newsboy said to him: I Hoffman House)—"I've just run in
"Here, man, A've fun* yer book." The | from Newark, where I'm playing with
The Frenchy Flirts.' I must see dear
old Broadway again before we start for
Dead Dog, Arizona."
rule since then, but a review of our
presidents shows that the majority of
them have had smooth faces. Martin
Van Buren wore whiskers. Zachary
Taylor. John Adams and John Quincy
Adams bad small "siders." But to off-
set these exceptions there appear
among them the smooth faces of
Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan,
Andrew Johnson,James K. Polk, James
Madison, James Monroe, John Tyler,
W. H. Harrison, Millard Fillmore,
Franklin Pierce and Andrew Jackson.
Then, after Abraham Lincoln, U. S.
Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James A.
Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleve-
land and Benjamin Harrison, all of
whom wore beards or mustaches,
comes William McKinley, who, with
his smoothly shaven face., brings back
the old custom. Bryan also has a
smooth face, and Thomas B. Reed has
shaved off the mustache which He wore
for many years. Former Senator Ar-
thur P. Gorman is smoothly shaven,
also ex-Gov. William J. Stone of Mis-
souri. On the othe? hand, there are
a number of possible candidates for
the presidency who have not yet adopt-
ed the custom of Webster, Clay and*
Calhoun. Gen. Funston wears a full
beard. Dewey'and Rosevelt still cling
to the nSu3tkche. It is a curious fact
that the different professions seem to
have distinctive customs in wearing or
not wearing beards or mustaches. The
actor necessarily is smoothly shaven.
Lawyers «iry somewhat as to their
hirsute adornment, but the majority
wear mustaches. Military men adopt
a sharply pointed beard or# goatee or
simply a mustache. Musicians are
prone to cultivate a mustache with
long, pointed ends. Physicians, strange
as it #may appear, as a rule wear a
beard of'some description. It woqjd
seem that the beard might be a means
of carrying germs from bedside to
bedside, but the doctors apparently for-
get the gerqj theory in "reference .to
their whiskers. In the case of young
doctors the beard is<often the sole dis-
tinguishing mark of wisdom which
piano of ancient or modern times. Of
course, only the shell or case is his
work; whose make the instrument
shall be will be determined by its pur-
chaser. The body, of the piano is of
natural wood, tinted green; the legs,
garlands, cupids, and all the ornamen-
tations are of bronze, gilded and chis-
eled by the ablest sculptor of Louis
Quinze bronzes in Paris. The fine
sketches which appear on the sides and
in the front of the piano are paintings
by the artist himself and represent the
four seasons, and a minuet danced in
the park in the days of Louis XV.. all
after the manner of Watteau. The de-
signer has tried as far as possible to
convert those parts of the piano which
are ordinarily ungraceful and awkward
into something decorative and har-
monious. The pedals, which generally
represent a l£re, are replaced by the
owners initials. One. bronze Cupid,
at the touch of a spring, offers his lo- '
loncello as a suport for the cover when
open. The cover is lined with small
plaques of ivory, each surrounded by*a
Louis Quinze frame of bronze.* where
some day distinguished musiciaps wsjl
write their names, using for this pur-
pose the sheath and arrow of a Cupid
at the left, which have been ingenious-*
ly converted into in&tand and pen.
The music, resting upon a small frame
of bronze, which glides forward upon
a spring, is lighted by two delicate
electric flowers, and the musician is
thus reft in an agreeable half-light.
The total cost of the piano will nit
be less than $25,000.
PRONOUNCING "U,> AS "OO."
Is the Practice an Americanism or an
Anglicism?
Apropos of Dewey, our English cops-
ins are speculating on the American
pronunciation of Jus name. Mrs. Mfcy-
nell writes that Americans invariably
pronounce "u" as "oo." She says: "An
An^erican wo^elist who is one. of the
most vigilant of writers and of mei£
mimics the speech of an Englishwom-
an by printing ier n^anner of pronoun
they possess. Aid j= cing •styoupid.' JPew English hear;
vated. • • - ^erg-aetect tnefaet TSaF all AjmerfiSns
Angling for Anchors.
There are many extraordiflary way§
of gaining a livelihood practiced in
New York, but the queerelk of all is
the occupation of dragging for lost an-
chors. At least six sloops and schoon-
ers are engaged almost exclusively in
tljis trade«&£d the anchor hunters are
as familiar with the ground where
anchors are likely to be found in the
bays ^snd rivers along the coast, anu
even in the open sea. as the fisherman
is with the favorite haunts of tie liv-
ing inhabitants of the sea. The meth-
od pursued in fishing for anchors is
very simple. A chain is let "down in a
loop long eaough to drag along the
bottom, and the vessel continues «on
her wav,with all hands on board eager-
ly alert for a • bite," and the "bite'*
generally results in a catch. The re-
covered anchors pre usually sold again
at five or six cents a pound. Five cents
is now the prevailing price, as that is
just one cent under the market price
for new anchors. A big anchor will
weigh 5,000 or 6,000 pounds; thus the
anchor fisherman makes a gfcas profit
on his haul of from $250 to $300. But
more often the anchor recovered
weighs from 1,000 to 2.000 pounds.
Nevertheless, thefe is said to be a good
profit in the business even at that.
Stajce Hounds Visit Royal Box.
The leader of the pack of hotinds
that appears In "Going the Pace" at
the Princess's theater,in London.found
his way one night to the royal box.
where he was regaled with chocolate
and biscuits. The next evening, at
the close of the hunting scene, the
whole, pack broke "away. and. running
up the back staircase leading to the
royal box, to the great consternation
of the occupants, burst open the door
and rushed in. The spectacle aroused
the audience, who saw a hitherto se-
date compartment the scene of a can-
ine raid, and, taking it to be part of
the performance, greeted it with a
round of applause, to which the dogs
responded with frantic barks. After
an interval of confusion, during which
the orchestra struggled in vain to
make itself heard, while the hounas
with their forepaws in front of the
box yelped approval, the huntsmen ar-
rived. and eventually order was re-
stored.
of whatever part of 'the continent call
their chief city 'Noo York.' Not that
they mak^ the double V long or con-
spicuous. The word 'is spoken quite
quickly and makes an iaftnbic foot,
whereas we generally take it as a spon-
dee. But the absence of the English
slight preliminary scTmd seems to be
inevitable in America. Commenting
on this the Manchester Guardian ob-
serves: "As a matter of fact this pro-
nunciation Is quite English, as Lowel
showed in the case of many Ifabits
of speech that we call distinctively
American. 'There is a very offensive
vulgarism," wrote Dean Alford in his
'Plea for the Qneen's English,' 'most
common in the Midland counties, but
found more of less almost everywhere,
giving what should be the Sound of
the '"u" in certain words as if it were
"oo;" calling duty 'ddoty^' Tuesday
"Toosday;" reading to us that the
clouds drop down the "doo;" exhorting
us " dooly* to do the dooties" that
are 'doo' frem us;" asking to be al-
lowed to see the "noospaper." And
this is not from incapacity to utter the
sound, for, though many of these peo-
ple call new "noo," no one ever yet
called few "f~o;" but it arises# from
• defective education or from gross
carelessness.' " After all this learning
Wt- seems almost wicked to deny the
premise—that all Americans do say
"Noo York."—New York Evening
Post.
Hi rd.
Cobble—You seem to feel it very
much to think that she jilted you.
Stone—I do. It will now take me
years to get out of debt—Life.
The Study of Tropical Disease.
Mr. Chamberlain has transmitted to
the Royal society a memorandum from
the governor of the Straits Settlements
inviting fellows and scholars who are
engaged in original medical research to
the study of the tropical disease of
beri-beri. It is stated that this disease
caused 730 deaths in the hospitals of
the colony in 1896 and fe 2 iu 1897. The
governor will provide the investigator
with furnished quarters, rent free, will
give him free access to all the hospi-
tals and facilities for studying the
cases therein, and will defray the cost
of his passage to the colony. Nature
adds that Dr. Wright, late of Montreal,
has an adequate laboratory, so that the
opportunities for pathological research
will be extremely good.
Ages of Trees.
A well-known scientist furnishes
some information in regard to the ages
of trees. He assigns to the pine tree
500 to 700 years as the maximum, 425
years to the silver fir, and 170 to the
ash.
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