McLoud Sunbeam. (McLoud, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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Mcl.OVD SUNBEAM
McLOUD, • • COAHOMA
A publisher says ms wife's suit for
divorce has ruined his business. Da
ought (o have been an actor.
It is not always safe to judge the
state of our prosperity by the prices
tyut on the new hats for women.
Andrew Carnegie says we will have
universal peace in the year 3000. We
don’t care what they have in 3000.
The wonder is that the Thaws
should object to anyone—even a cho-
rus girl—taking Harry off their hands.
The man who doesn't know enough
to look sober when a girl says that
she is mad with him is sadly inexpe-
rienced.
The man who says his wife deserted
him thirty-seven times in seven years
must at least have had a good many
visits from her.
Over in Spain a man who becomes
the father of a large family receives a
title. But do Spanish titles help to
pay grocery bills?
English women universally con-
demn the American short-skirt habit;
so would the American women if they
had the English feet.
A French deputy has given Gen.
Andre *’le boxe” with his unaccus-
tomed Gallic fist. And there isn't
even a campaign on!
London dispatches say Mrs. Lang-
try has fallen upon evil days. Which
is a poetic way of saying that there
are others who are younger.
The first day’s regular receipts of
the New York subway were given to
*he New York city hospitals—a sort
of advance payment, as ft were.
The Cleveland Cat dfcib has just
held its first annual meeting. Like a
good many clubs of greater age, its
primary object is to feed the kitty.
If. as a Parisian doctor says, love
may be traced to the presence of a
microbe, we must allow’ that it is a
cozy little germ to have about the
house.
I ABOUT THANKSGIVING TIME.
Along about Thanksgivln’ time, when all
the leaves are down.
An»l all the fruit’s been picked and all
the hills art* turnin' brown
There’s somethin’ In the air that eeems
to stir your blood a hit.
That makes you glad you're In the world
and that you're part of It:
The song the wind goes slngln’ In the
evergreens sublime:
There’s ginger in a man along about
Thanksgivln’ time.
There’s somethin’ wonderful about the
lee so thin and white
Across the narrow little rut that dried
up In the night;
It's criss-crossed in a hundred ways with
streaks and veins and lines.
And sparklet out like diamonds when
the sun spunks up and shines.
And when you break It with your heel
y< u couldn't hardly tell
Its rattle from the Jingle of a little sil-
ver be 11.
Along about Thanksgivln’ time it seems
somehow as though
The sky was nearer to us than it was a
wnile ago;
And when it s clear, how clear It Is—the
crisp. fr< sh air, 3 mean—
You’d almost think it blew through
sieves somehow to make It clean.
O. when it's whiskin’ strong and free.
It's nothin’ but a crime
To not got out and stir, along about
Thanksgivln’ time.
It’s almost like a miracle to see the first
snow fly.
To watch tlic million little chunks come
dartin’ from the sky.
To hear them bounce, against the pnnes,
to watch the wild thing* tamed.
Go tumblin’ down to melt ns though
they kind of felt ashamed.
And when the darkness comes and lets
the wind go murmuring.
It’s like the sweet old lullabies our moth-
ers used to sing.
Along about Thanksgivln* time there’s
somethin' In the air
That seems to make you brisk and
strong, that kind of crimps your
You feel all ready for the storms you
know you’ll have to meet.
You're not nfrnid of anything that's
walkin’ ’round on feet.
And. lookin’ at It any way, the old
earth's oulte sublime.
Although it’s bare and brown along about
Thanksgivln’ time.
-S. E. Kiser.
He had never had a home. He had
never looked in the face of a mother
or seen his father. A dim tradition
lingered in his mind that when he
was a tiny babe a young mother had
laid her white hand on his heart and
said, ‘God bless and keep my baby
soy," and had then gone away to the
angel world. And another tradition
said that his sorrow-stricken father
had left him with an aunt, and after-
ward went West to seek a fortune
among the mines, hut was thought to
have perished in a disaster.
Two men held up a North Dakota
poolroom and got away with $500. This
is the first instance on record of a
poolroom getting the worst of a day s
business.
The theory that health is contagious
may be all right enough, but most ot
us are sufficiently Inoculated by our
ordinary habtta to prevent our catch-
ing much of it.
Gen Andre, the war minister of
^France, who was assaulted in the as-,
Isembly, is Justified In feeling the
(strongest resentment against a civil-
ian trying to fight.
Mrs. Maybrick will write a hook. It
will not be worth reading, but people
-will read it because Mrs. Maybrick
Uvroto It. Notoriety Is one road to (pe-
tuniary) successful authorship.
The Japanese minister Is recover-
ing from his recent surgical opera-
tion. and is able to joke about it. The
supposition is that he and his vermi-
form appendix parted in a friendly
spirit.
To his Bible class, Sunday, Mr. John
iP. Rockefeller, Jr., decried the rush
Ifor sudden wealth and upheld the dig-
nity of the little things of life. How
easy it is to scorn wealth when you
have it!
The Manchester Mirror and Ameri-
can has a cartoon under which runs
the line, “In times of storm, don't you
want a man at the helm?" We certain-
ly do. but not the man who conjure*
up the wind.
A London paper says a wife ceases
to be a bride six weeks after mar-
riage. Whether this is inherent in
the constitution of things or the aver-
aging up of the results of observation
the paper doesn't say.
Japan is suffering from the stress'
Ot war. In Tokio a cigar that usually
costs two cents now fetches fifteen,
and beer is twenty-five cents a bottle.
This is enough to drive the wayfarer
to the national teapot.
The man who lived with a woman
Several years and introduced her to
(hts acquaintances as Ills wife, has
tasked the law to make her quit cla'.m-i
lug to be his wife. What will people
next ask the law to do?
After three days of unbounded joy
over the new subway, New York is
now beginning to find fault with it. A
‘New Yorker wouldn't be satisfied
•with heaven—but perhaps, after all.
that won't make much difference.
“O solitude, where are the charms
that sages have sought in thy face?”
Thomas Murchic, a Utah prospector,
was driven insane by a solitary exist-
ence of eight years in the mountains
and had to be pursued and captured
like a wild beast.
A man who was run over by a re-
gardless automobllist fortunately
wasn't seriously injured. Picking him-
self up, and without stopping to brush
oft the dust, he screamed after the
vanishing chauffeur, with scathing
sarcasm: “Rojestvensky!"
But he had no strong recollection
of anything before the night on which
he slipped out of the window of a
house where there was no love for a
homeless boy, and with a little bundle
of old clothes under his arm trudged
through the dark to the nearest town.
He had worked his way through a
hard experience to a fair education,
and to good success for a man who
had not been long in the thirties.
Everybody thought him a fine fellow-,
headed toward a larger place among
men, but strongly tinged with a
bachelor’s independence, not to say
indifference.
But one morning when the “L”
train stopped nt a downtown station
a young lady swished by, and King-
don glanced up from his paper. She
nearly took his breath way. He had
never seen so beautiful a girl in all
his life. He looked through the win-
dow until she disappeared from the
platform. Then he sat dazed.
The next morning he looked lip
from his paper often, but only a big
fat man and a lean-faced girl were in
front of him. The next morning he
looked again, but she was not there,
and the next, and the next, and the
next. But at last, there she was, sit-
ting half way down the car. He held
his paper higher and glanced around
the edges. He wanted to punch holes
in it, or make a telescope of It. After
that he saw her nearly every morning
for a week. And about that time
Goodby said to him: "Kingdon,
whore did you get that beautiful neck-
tie?"
"Oh, that tie is all right. I read the
other day that a man's dress is more
Judged by his tie and shirt front than
Glanced up from his paper.
; bv anything else, and I’m just putting
| on a front for business. That Is all.
| But, say Goodby, do you know who
j that tall girl Is, the girl with the
| brown eyes and the dark hair?”
"This is my station, and I must get
I off,” was the hurried reply.
That evening Goodby said to his
J wife: "I do believe that Kingdon
j has got his eye on your friend Estelle.
' I have seen her going downtown sev-
eral times since she came home, and
she is stunningly handsome. Think
she mu». have made an tmpressio:.
I'll have some fun out of him, see If 1
don't."
For the next five mornings Kingdon i
locked so hard at his paper that he
almost burnt holes in It. Then he |
glanced up, and there she was, look-
ing straight nt him, with an lnquisi- I
tlve expression on her face. He tried j
to look cold and hard, but his cheeks I
warmed up painfully. ■
Another morning brought a real i
episode. When the young lady was j
“Goodby, I’ve bought a house.”
leaving the car it stopped so sudden-
ly as to pitch her plump into King-
don's lap. She apologized in much
distress, but he wanted to tell her
that he did not care how long she
stayed and to ask her to come again.
“I have been watching Kingdon,”
said Goodby to his wife. "He is clear
gone. Can't you invite Estelle to din-
ner some evening, and I’ll bring him
home with me? Won't say anything
to him about her. We ll just have a
sudden collision."
The dinner and Estelle and King-
don came in due time. And so did
the sudden collision. When Kinrdon
walked straight into her presence in
the parlor he could not have told for
the next three minutes what city he
lived In, or the name of the street, or
his own name, or anything else that
he had ever known. He was shaking
in every beam and cross timber of his
being. He had just wit enough, left
to know that Goodby had sprung
something on him, and that a vision
as beautiful as that which he had of-
ten tried to fashion of his dead moth-
er was before him in blushing love-
liness. But young ladies have more
poise then men, and she soon con-
trolled the situation.
When the dinner party was over
Kingdon saw Estelle home, and for
the next month he did little else but
see her home, or see her at home, or
see her in his dreams. He was dead
in love, and so was Estelle.
In the meantime the Goodbys heard
nothing more about fatty degenera-
tion or blighted health. Kingdon was
walking around on air, and the neck-
ties flamed out finer than ever.
"Goodby,” he said one morning
when they were going downtown. "I
have bought a house over on Grand
boulevard.”
"Bought a house? What are you
going to do with it? Speculate on it?"
"No."
"Rent it?”
“No, live in it.”
“Going to keep bach over there?”
“No, going to keep house.”
“Aha, old fellow, you have conclud-
ed to hang yourself, have you?”
“Yes; come around three weeks
from Wednesday evening and take
my dying confession and see a bach-
elor's exit.”
The next Thanksgiving morning,
while bustling preparations were go-
ing on for a big dinner in the new
home on Grand boulevard, the bell
rang and Kingdon's wife went to the
door. An old man with a well-fed
look and an easy, master-of-the-world
air asked for the gentleman of the
house.
"Will you kindly give me your
name and state your business?” said
Estelle, with one of her radiant
smiles.
"Please don’t mind about the
name,” said the old man—and his eye
twinkled—“but tell him that I have
spent $10,000 during the last few
years trying to find him, and I’d give
$10,000 more this minute to see him.”
When she got her breath she told
Kingdon that a man who talked like
a bonanza king wanted to see him
in the parlor. "He wants to see yoe
$10,000 worth," she added.
“He can see me this minute for
half that."
"But, my dear, the strangest thing
about it all is that he Is the image
of you, or j’ou of him."
A sudden thought surged through
Kingdon's mind with the force of a
staggering blow. "Can he be my long
lost father?” he gasped.
"No it Is my long lost boy,” shout-
ed the old man, who had rushed up-
stairs and burst through the door.
And then, like a giant out of the
West, he caught him up In his arms
and swung him around the room.
If mothers In heaven look down
upon things on earth, there was a
great throb of joy in the heart that
had asked God to keep her baby boy.
But, at all events, there never was
such a Thanksgiving feast on the
boulevard as the one which the King-
dons celebrated that day.
At last two men had a home!—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Take Care of the Widows.
There is yet time to see that the
poor widow living in the little cot-
tage Just around the corner has *
Thanksgiving turkey.—Lowell Citizen.
Wrinkle About Portieres.
To prevent portieres catching under-
neath the door when opened quickly,
3crew a small ring (such as are used
for picture frames) into the center
Df the door frame, to this fasten a
blind cord sufficient to reach to bot-
tom of curtain. Put another ring in
the center of the door at the top,
thread the cord through and tasten to
the bottom of the curtain, and as the
door is opened so the curtain rises.
WHIL& TH&
T6A
Bolero lines, to be at all modish,
must cling close to the figure.
One handsome black velvet gown
had applique of white kid for trim-
ming.
Moleskin will certainly be worn by
those who purchased garments thereof
last winter.
Broad bows of pink and blue velvet,
covered with glittering sequins, are
shown for the hair.
A questionable fad is a slender
watch chain encircling the waist and
suspending the watch in front.
Silk belts that match the gown are
draped tight without buckle, delineat-
ing the suppleness of the waist.
There was never a more favorable
time to get out odd bits of old trim-
ming and use them to good advan-
tage.
Narrow toes have broadened and
wide toes have narrowed and the com-
promise is a sensible and pleasing
width.
lessly as to appear to have dropped
on the crown accidental ly.
On a slim, fair trial that hat would
have been attractive, but topping a
figure inclined to embonpoint and face
fat and good-natured, as was its un-
happy destiny, it was—well, out ot
place.
Corday Hat Stylish.
The Corday hat is pre-eminently
stylish, but a thing of horror unless
worn by the right woman. A hat of
this kind recently noted was of pale
blue chenille, with ruffles of pale blue
taffeta. In the chenille crown large
squares were wrought by means of
white strands woven in. Besides the
ruffles turning downward outside, what
ought to have been the brim, the hat
boasted for its sole decoration a few
pale blue roses—a creation of the mil-
liner's art, which was set on so care-
Blouse or Shirt Waist.
This shirt waist will be found most
excellent for all the waistings of the
season, cotton, linen, silk and wool,
and Is as smart as it is simple, besides
suiting stout figures well, there being
no greater mistake extant than the
theory that such are at their best in
plain waists. The wide tucks at the
front that give ample fullness below
the stitchings, and the broad box plait
at tho center, are both new and desir-
able, and combine most satisfactorily
with the plain back. The model is
made of cheviot, white with lines of
blue, and is worn with a blue linen
stock. But this last can be anything
one may prefer, or can oe omitted al-
together in favor of ribbon tied in a
big bow, although it really i3 admir-
able both for this special waist and as
a model for the odd ones of which
there can never be too many.
The waist Is made with fronts and
back that are fitted by means of
shoulder and under-arm seams, and is
gathered at the waist line, the back
being drawn down smoothly, the fronts
made to blouse over the belt. The
sleeves are the accepted ones of the
season, and are finished with straight
cufTs, and the shaped stock finishes
tho neck.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is 4>4 yards 21
inches wide, 4 yards 2,7 inches -vide,
or 2 yards 44 inches wide, with M
yard of any width for stock.
Worn at Chicago Horse Show.
An effective and elaborate white
gowu In India lawn and lace Insertion,
seen at the Chicago horse show, had a
narrow pointed bodice girdle and
above the girdle were puffs of lace
and the material, which fitted the
tight-fitting lining perfectly. This ex-
tended to the line of a yoke, where a
lace bertha was set about the shoul-
ders. Tho sleeves were made of puffs
of the lawn and lace and ended at the
elbow. Tho hats worn at the horse
■how were verj' elaborate, the Gatns-
borough. Reynolds and Victorian styles
predominating. Black hats with col-
ored plumes are much in evidence.
Velvets are the rage for evening
coats. There are several kinds, and
liberty and chiffon velvets are deemed
the most desirable.—Chicago Record-
Weapon for Policeman.
A Chicago man has combined a po-
liceman’s club and revolver in one
weapon, and the combination is to ar-
ranged that in his peaceful moments
close scrutiny alone would show the
officer to be armed with anything
other than the old-fashioned nace.
The club, which is of ordinary appear-
ance, comprises a handle portion and
a club portion, screwed together. The
handle carries a hammer or trigger
mechanism, and when desired the han-
dle and club may be separated and a
revolver cylinder applied between
them, thus converting the mace into
a revolver.
Misses' Skirt with Shirred or Plain
Yoke.
Full skirts that fall in soft, graceful
folds appear to gain in favor day by
day and are' peculiarly becoming to
young girls. This one can be gath-
ered at the upper edge to form puff
shirrings, or once only and joined to
a contrasting yoke, but in either case
the fullness is made to form box
Millinery.
The hat scarf differs from the veil
In that it is wound about the hat,
never over the face. New scarfs are
of lace in black, white and colors,
with embroidery in self color and
contrasting colors.
Ribbons of all descriptions are to
be used upon the new hats. Among
the new ribbons are the plaids, the
floral, the moire and double-faced col-
orings, satin and taffeta.
The high crowns will lead in the
large hats, the Directoire and the
Gainesborough being the most popu-
lar
The English round hat will be a
favored hat this season.
plaits at the lower edge. The model
is made of embroidered batiste, with a
band of heavy lace applique, but all
the pretty soft stuffs—silk, wool, cot-
ton and linen—are equally appropri-
ate. The shirred yoke is much liked
and is always pretty when the figuro
is slender, but when, as often is the
case in young girls, additional bulk
at the belt is to be avoided, the plain
yoke made of lace or of other fancy
material is to be preferred.
The skirt is cut in one circular
piece, straight lengths of the material
being sewed together to give the nec-
essary width, and when shirred is ar-
ranged over the foundation that also
serves for the plain joke when shir-
rings are not used.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is 6(4 yards 21
inches wide, 5 yards 27 inches wide,
or 3% yards 44 inches wide, with 4%
yards of applique and % yard of all-
over lace when yoke is used.
To remove rust from steel cover the
article with sweet oil and leave it for
two or three days, then dust it thick-
ly with finely powdered, unslaked
lime and rub till the rust disappears.
Lemon juice will remove most stains
from the hands and grease from kitch-
en tables. This being the case, it is
well to save the squeezed-out lemons
used in cooking for cleansing pur-
poses.
Flatirons should be washed every
week and always kept In a clean, dry
place. Few housekeepers use suffi-
cient wax in ironing. Do not allow
your irons to become red hot, as they
will never again retain the heat.
To remove iron stains on marble ap-
ply to them a mixture of oxalic acid
and methylated spirits, leave it on a
short time and then rub dry with a
soft cloth. Lemon juice will some-
times remove the stains.
When winds blow and there is frost
in the air put handkerchiefs, collars,
cuffs and all small articles in the wash
to di^y in a pillow case. The fabric is
spared whipping by the wind, they will
freeze dry and be quickly gathered for
ironing.
Velvet Ribbon Trimming.
A most modish trimming for taffeta
dresses is supplied by narrow velvet
ribbon. A chameleon silk, sheening
blue and crimson and beruffled from
head to foot, has each ruffle trimmed
with four rows of crimson velvet rib-
bon, the widest stripe half an inch
wide and the narrowest scarcely an
I eighth. It Is not permitted to put
these ribbon trimmings on by ma-
| chine, either; they must be painstak-
ingly put on by hand.
Mastic Taffeta and Lace.
Coats of light-colored as well as
black taffeta are among the smartest
I of all wraps for little girls and are
I most charming. The model shown is
j in the lovely shade known as mastic,
! trimmed with applique of heavy ecru
lace and large dull gold buttons, but
Popular Separate Blouses.
Again and again it has been prophe-
sied that the separate blouses must be
put one side, but as yet practical wom-
en will not give them up. The inbe-
tween blouses, dressy enough for the-
ater or luncheons, but high-necked and
long sleeved, seem to get prettier and
prettier. The loveliest of them all
are made of those exquisite flowered
silks—with shadowy flowers that fade
in out of the background in so artistic
a way. Those exquisite soft crepes
with flower prints are charming
draped and trimmed with tiny hand-
run tucks, or pufflgs, or lace. Soft
drapy silks are very good—but so are
stiff silks, and a combination of both.
The soft chiffon failles, in exquisite-
ly soft shades of pink, or blue, or vio-
let, make up into beautiful blouses.
But, besides silk, soft fine woolen
stuffs—mostly white, are being used a
great deal. Albatross, silk-and-wool
stuffs, soft wool crepes and a dozen
others are made up into as attractive
blouses, In their way, as the silks are
in theirs.
2&&.X
Magnificent Evening Coats.
One of the novelties ot the season
tn the way of an evening coat Is cut
on the lines of a mandarin's coat, rich-
ly embroidered In colors and gold
thiead and lined throughout with Chi-
nese sable. This sable is even rarer
than the Russian fur and is less ex-
pensive. It has a very long nap and
Is In two distinct colors, a rich mouso
gray near the pelt and cinnamon
brown at the tip. Among the newest
evening coats are those made of flow-
ered satins and silks. They are quite
full around the skirts and profusely
decorated with lace and touches of
fur.
A Pretty Fall Fashion.
A pretty fashion which has boon
started of late is that of wearing cock-
ades of colored velvet or ribbon, one
on the left side of the corsage rather
high up, and the other on the right
side at the waist line. They are large
and are generally of a contrasting
color to that of the gown with which
they are worn. Rosettes of burnt or
ange velvet make an exceedingly pret-
ty accompaniment to a smart after-
noon gown of brown plisse chiffon.
there are manj' bandings that are
equally good In style. Fancy braids
are many and oriental embroideries
are exceedingly handsome in quiet
tones. The coat is eminently simple
and is loose and ample, with a big be-
coming collar at the neck. To make
it for a girl 10 years of age will be
required 5 yards of material 27, 314
yards 44, or 2% yards 52 inches wide.
About Veils.
In black and white there are many
arrangements.
In colors the dot invariably matches
lli“ tint of the veil.
Chenilles are the favorite, though
embroidered and velvet dots are seen.
Aiilotnohllo veils are not now so
oft ('ii pii iui gathered on a small circu-
lar frame.
For Ceremonious Occasions.
For ceremonious gowns the most
popular colors are white, wine, mast'c,
putty and chalk, and all of the new
silk* and vollIngB may be found in
these shades.
Smart Skirts.
Circular shaped Hktrts, cut bins, with
matched edges at the center of the
front, are quite smart for striped plaid
or checked materials. Checked rno-
! hair looks particularly well when so
developed.
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