Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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Hundred Ybars
recreation. Bo It la certain that the
Toddy bear and the toy dog of the
coming century will be mechanical
marvels. The "Rover" dog that the
little boy gets will be life size. He
will prance about on his four furry
legs and lie down and roll over at
the bidding of his master.
Perhaps the most wonderful feat-
ure of all In our Christmas In 2009
will be the changed methods In
our dally life. The housekeeping
arrangements of that time would
seem incomprehensible to the wo-
man of to-day if she could picture
them in her mind. The lack of com-
HRISTMAS a
hundred years
from now will
be the B&me old
Christmas, no
doubt, but it
will be celebrat
ed under such
vastly different conditions that
if you should go to sleep now
and wake up a century later
you would think you were in a
different world.
The Christmas spirit will be the same.
But whether it is a hundred years from
now or a thousand we may be sure that
when the Christmas season comes the world
will be full of the Christmns spirit. Little
children and grown men and women still
will be made happy by giving and receiving,
grudges and grouches will be forgotten, ene
inies forgiven and good will will prevail.
Nothing can kill that. The golden
motto: " Peace on earth, good will
oOO<'
w
iff re
rrcn
Sir Mauice De Bunitn Spoken of u
New Ambassador to the
United 8tates.
New York.—Sir Maurice De Bunsen,
British ambassador at Madrid, who,
according to a report received in Lon-
don from the Spanish capital, may
succeed Ambassador Bryce as Great
Britain's representative, at Washing-
ton, will, If he comes to the United
States, return to the scene o€ his first
Valuable Recipe When Afflicted with
Rheumatism or Backache.
This Is a renowned doctor's very
best prescription for rheumatism.
"One ounce compound syrup Sarsa-
parilla; one ounce Toris compound;
half pint high grade whiskey. Mix
them and take a tablespoonful before
each meal and at bed time. The bot-
tle must be well shaken each time.'
Any druggist has these ingredients
<jr he will get them from his whole-
sale house.
IMPERTINENT.
Missionary—You haven't been to
Sunday school for a month. I don't
expect to meet you in heaven!
Kid—Gee! I didn't know you wuz
as bad as all dat!
Sir Maurice De Bunsen.
experience in the diplomatic service.
Sir Maurice began the career in which
he has rapidly risen as an attache at
Washington in 1878, and while of Ger-
man origin, may be said to owe the
start of the fortunes of his house to
America. His grandfather, the first
Bunsen, having served as private tu-
tor to young William B. Astor, son of
John Jacob Astor, who laid the foun-
dation of the great wealth of the pres-
ent Astor family, was given his start
in life through that connection.
Sir Maurice served as secretary of
legation at Tokyo, consul general in
Siam, secretary of the British em-
bassy at Constantinople, secretary of
embassy and minister plenipotentiary
at Paris and ambassador at Lisbon be-
fore going to Madrid as ambassador in
1906. He has an independent fortune.
CLAY STATUE IS DESIGNED
Chicagoan Makes a Shaft of the Groat
Statesman to Be Unveiled
Next April.
Chicago.—A statue of Henry Clay
for the mounment erected at Lexing-
ton, Ky., 50 years ago, has been de-
signed by Charles J. Mulligan, the Chi-
cago sculptor. It will be set in place
April 12, the birthday anniversary of
the statesman.
The original was designed by an
English architect, but a year ago light-
ning struck the statue, which was 16
feet high, surmounting a shaft of 125
feet, and the head fell to the ground.
Ancients Wore Sheath Gowns.
It need not be supposed that even
feminine fashions can evolve some-
thing new under the sun. A learned
Egyptologist discloses that the sheath
gown was popular among the ladies of
the Nile 15 centuries before the Chris-
tian era. One gown was made of fine
linen, adorned with elaborate designs.
The professor thinks that the slit in
the side was intended to display the
wearer's precious anklets. These an-
cient ladies also dressed their hair
elaborately with puffs and padding.
They painted their faces and lips, as
shown by rouge and pomade jars. All
of this is reassuring to man who may
have thought that some of the modern
developments of the dressmaker were
without precedent in their eccen-
tricity. Once more is demonstrated
the fit coupling of the words "eter-
nal" and "feminine."
lo men." will be just as
■acred and as new to
tl» hearts of men as It
was nineteen hundred
tears ago. Everybody
wlU give everybody
vise a present—but tho
Eresents will be differ
nt.
Little Johnny will
not covet a railroad
train. Heal cars on u
real track, pulled by a
real locomotive that
makes smoke will not
neem a wonderful thing
to him. as It does to tho little Johnny of today.
The lad of the uext century will want a model
of the latest airship In his Christmas stocking. He
will expect a working model, too—one that will
gall through the flat like a live bird, and perhaps
carry his own weight.
Within the last hundred years steam and elec-
tricity have been developed and it 1b entirely rea-
sonable to imagine that within the coming century
men will travel through the air as commonly as
they now travel over the land. The automobile,
the trolley car. the railroad train, and the horse as
m draft animal—all will be gone. Men will use
the earth, as the birds, do. for a resting place for
their homes and the principal source of food sup-
ply; but when they want to move from one place
to another, they will mount Into the ether, oven
us the birds do, and flay swiftly and safely to
their dcHnatiou.
yi Is piobable that there will not be a wheeled
wehi<*t of any kind tin the streets of a great city
• an Christmas day. in the year 2009. Our tunnel
^system will have developed until the vast subter-
.. aneaa net work of bores, chutes and pneumatic
lube* Will Carry on tho heavy traffic of the city
vvHtaoul noise Or confusion. The streets will be
jtlven up to pedestrians—to those who walk for
pleasure or wish to travel short distances. The
sidewalk as It is now will be no more, but the en-
tire width of the street will he given up to foot
passengers There will be neither car tracks nor
moving vehicles to annoy.
The suburbanite who does not fly to work In
1009 will be shot through a pneumatic tube, trav-
eling the five. ten. or fifty miles of distance in a
.pace of time that may be only a few seconds, and
certainly cannot be more than a few minutes It
may be that few people will walk anywhere In
the year 200i» When man learps to fly he will
scorn walking as t6o slow a means of progress.
Perhaps our great-great-grsTidchildren who no
doubt will lire in Immense apartment buildings
towering a ball mile from the ground, may go
for weeks at s time without setting foot to the
«artti
W ith the passing of the Christmas slei*b there
will toe no longer any need for reindee rs for Han's
tiaus. He. too. will travel by airship, and while
(he old Santa Clans will be a myth, the new Santa
Clans will l»e as real as the bowhisken-d and b«-
furred boyx who wow entertain the children In the
department stores
It Is not hard to imagln. that the big stores
—HI develop the Santa Claus idea to the point that
Christmas purchases wlU be delivered on Christ
ere by an airship driver mad* up to unn*r
VISITING G PAH DMA CHRISTMAS
SfOJf/YIMG AIT HER HOME 245 STORIES
ABOVE THE GROUND
- THE SfECHA/YJCAL
. jyj OF -2009 WILL BE
Marvels or perfect/oh
sonate Santa Claus. A hun-
dred years from now, If
you want to avoid the
rush and do your Christ-
mas shopping In your own
apartments, the scientists
probably will have provided for you a comblna-
tion of telescope and moving picture machine by
means of which you can connect your room with
the toy department and see the display by wire
or perhaps by wireless—and at the same time you
get prices and leave your order with the clerk by
telephone.
But perhaps the woman of 2009 will enjoy the
mad rush of the shops as much as she does to-
dav during the holiday season, and then she will
go to the big store and order her toys and pres-
ents. The store could deliver them through the
pneumatic package tubes which will go to all
parts of the city, but It will be more poetic to
have them delivered by Santa Claus.
Christmas eve a score or a hundred Santa
Clauses will set out from the various shops with
their airships laden with Christmas gifts to be de-
livered at the various addresses. It will no longer
be necessary to ' deliver all goods In the rear" of
the bis apartment building, but whether you live
on the twentieth or two hundred and twentieth
utorv of the big house you will have your own
private airship landing, and while the family Is
gathered at the door to receive Santa Claus the
airship will settle on the landing and the cheerful
Merry Christmas" of the aeronaut will greet you
as he hands in the packages.
The Christmas tree of a hundred years from
now will be an electrical marvel. Festoons and
wreaths of rainbow colored lights and "chasers
will scintillate from Its green branches. But the
presents that hang on It will be even more won-
derful.
There will be dolls as large as the little girls
who will receive them. There will be dolls that
can walk and with the Improved phonographic ar
rangements of another century there will be dolls
that can talk and others that can sing beautiful
songs Some of them, no doubt, will be able to
dance gracefully and to do tricks that would seem
miraculous if performed by an automaton to^lay.
The mechanical toys of 200* will be marvels of
perfection Th»- moxt Imaginative man cannot
possible conceive of the new things that will be
Invented In the wny of machinery, but It Is safe
to assume that the wireless transmission of power
will be perfected Wheels will spin without any
visible motive power Power may be taken from
the sul s rays or wireless power stations may be
operated by the wares, the waterfalls, or even the
winds Hoforr the coal supply Is exhausted the
need for coal, either for warmth or power, will
havo passed away.
And whatever triumphs men make In the In
dust rial world they Impart to their games and
forts and the inconvenience of life In
a cottage, it is possible, will drive j
most of the city dwellers into the j
apartment buildings, which will grow
bigger and taller as the years pasB un-1
til they will be literally "skyscrapers" within a cen-1
tUln one of these big buildings, while the machin-,
ery will be out of eight, domestic affairs will be so ,
mechanical, even automatic, that you can get al-
most anything the family needs simply by turning i
on a switch or pressing a button. j
The flat dweller of that distant day will not be
bothered with servants or the servant problem. By
pressing a button the Christmas dinner will come
up noiselessly from the kitchen on the mechanical
waiter or perhaps in a pneumatic tube.
After your Christmas dinner is over the dishes
will disappear as silently and swiftly as you could
wish. Some sort of mechanical dish washer in the
kitchen will take caro of them—or, what is more
likely they will be made of a cheap composition j
and will be destroyed by burning after they are j
used once. The antiseptic precautions of the mod- j
ern surgeon will be common to the kitchens of the
next century and hygiene will be a real science.
When you have eaten your Christmas dinner. If
you want to go out for the evening you can press
a button and an aerocab will come to the landing at j
your door. Or, if you prefer it, you may drop down This was not greatly damaged, and It j
the pneumatic elevator to some point 50 or 100 feet 1 wa8 use<j as a measurement for the ,
below the surface of the earth and be whirled new statue, which Sir. Mulligan has j
through the pneumatic subway at a dizzy rate of recentiy made
.1 ... Onlv thf» Sinppri will not a ..
Is Prayer Geographical?
Not long ago, in an important coun-
ty in Ohio, the women and others
prayed that it would go "dry" and it
did. A few days later, the people in
Nassau and Suffolk counties, Long Is-
land, prayed that these counties would
become desiccated and a count of
the votes showed that there was noth-
ing doing. In both cases only those
people prayed who were accustomed
to that form of weapon. Accordingly
there is a strong suggestion that
prayer, like the tariff, is a local issue.
Disapproval.
"What makes those two women turn
up their noses at each other so super-
ciliously?"
"Possibly," replied Miss Cayenne,
"each got a glimpse of the current
novel the other was reading."
"More life to that flavor than any
gum I have ever tasted."
WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT.
Did anybody ever ask the weeping
willow why it does it?
The Clay Statue
An appropriation of $10,000 was made
by the state of Kentucky for the new
statue.
speed"to your destination. Only the speed will not
make you dizzy. You will not be able to feel It.
You may sit In your cushioned car. well lighted and
warmed and ventilated by some process yet to be
discovered, and before you realize it the miles will Tact.
speed away and you step out to the opera or the "Dear me, Mrs. Smithers, what is
play. \ : that noise 1 heard yesterday over your
If you prefer to remain at your apartments the way? Was that howling your dog
telautoscope attached to your telephone may be , in a fit?"
connected to any theater you desire, snd you can "No, Mrs. Queerit, that was my
sit in your easv chair and smoke while you see the daughter taking her singing lesson
play projected on the wall like the most perfect , from Signor Yelerlno."
moving picture. All the stage settings will be there i "No, no. Mrs. Smithers. 1 was told
to make the play seem real, and the improved tele-1 it was your daughter singing when I
phone will bring every shade and subtle Inflection i asked what bird you had there trill-
of the actor's voice to your ear. ) ing more beautifully than 1 knew your
ft seems certain that this telautoscope arrange-, canary could.
ment—the exact word to describe It will be coined
after the process Is discovered—will be one of the
triumphs of the coming century. It will enable you
to see the person you are talking to over a tele-
phone
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
carter's little
liver pills.
Purely vegetable^
—act surely and
gently on the
Brer. Cur.
Bilioum
Head.
Dim* — mm.*
mem, and Indigestion. They do their dmy.
Sad Pin. SmU D«m. Sum! Mm.
GENUINE nwt bear denature:
CARTERS
The Little Darling.
Little Willie was missed by hla
mother one day for some time, and
when be reappeared she asked.
JU"r- "Where have you been, my pet?"
The flight of the coming airship probably wW he -pjaying postman." replied her
so rapid that the business man and even the sal- ..| RaVe a letter to all the
aried worker, if he loves the country, can hare a |U our bloclL
villa or a cottage at a great distance from the dty, Joo ..
Real letter*.
and go to work in his own airship at slight coat.
On Christmas day in the good century to com*
this flight in the air will be the masns of many
family reunions that are impossible now. A few
hours will take one to the most distant part c€ the
country, and the practical cessation of bus
during the holiday week will leave all free to
"Where on earth did you get them?'*
questioned his mother, in amazement.
"They were thoee old ones in your
wardrobe drawer, tied up with rib-
bon." was the innocent reply.
during the noiiaay ween wm ieava an tree 10 iwrw i Many a bachelor has had a narrow
gather Sflfch the loved ones aad pay deferred vtatU. escape from Cupid's bow.
A DOSE OF
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