The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 10, 1890, Page 2

A STATELY SHOPLIFTER. Phe UCofortunite Mania of a Wealthy Woman of New York. Shoppers who frequently visit the large store on Sixth avenue, New York, often see a stately woman with an in- tellectual face hovering over the coun- ters as if unable to tear herself away. If they look sharply they may see the attendants casting uneasy and suspi- cious glances in her direction. That woman is a remarkable unit in the sum of our population. Her intellectual face does not belie her. She can put mean- ing into the rugged jumble of Brown- ing from ‘Child Harold.” to ‘‘Prospice,” and give you an amazingly interesting | interpretation of the mysteries of Ibsen, and at thesame time purloin more goods under the very noses of the salespeople than any other woman inthe world. Asa result of this ability one of our proudest families sustained an awtul shock a few years ago by letters from various mer- | chants begging them to watch and guard this stately lady to prevent further | losses to shop-keepers and to save them- selves and her a public exposure. This -- was very kind of the merchants, when the easier way would have been to send fora policeman, but merchants have a sensitive feeling for rich and high- minded families, you know, and if obliged to unearth their skeletons make haste to help conceal them again. In this case the skeleton, which had al- ways been locked in the lady's private closet, was made up of boxes of gloves, laces and ribbons, neatly labeled by her own hand. It was found that the goods once placed there were never removed, but they were always of this class, and never obtained from any but the Sixth avenue stores. Ample reparation was made to the merchants, as they had counted upon, and the affair was kept from all the world, including the guilty one herself, the highest author- ities insuch cases advising the latter measure. This, too, was very kind and considerate of the feeling of a rich family, you know. As to the subject of this excessive kindliness you would never suspect, when listening to her brilliant conversation, or seeing her dispense the hospitalities of her ele- gant home, that she is asufferer from this dreadful form of dementia. In fact, she is not; the real sufferer is quite another person. The kleptomaniac is always accom- panied by a pale, lovely girl, whose sad and hopeless expression is in marked contrast to the placid content of hor own. The young girl watches every movement of her charge, often with the sensitive blood flooding her pale cheeks, and when the morning’s work is over she steps to the cashier's desk and pays for all goods purchased or otherwise obtained. Three years ago hor approach- ing marriage was announced by all the silver trumpets of the Four Hundred. When she learned, however, of her mother's infirmity, she severed tho en- gagoment, withdrew from _ society, clothed herself in the woeds of mourn- ing, and assumed the guardianship of her who had wrecked, unconsciously, all her life. The lover nobly pleaded to share her care and risk with her the threatened disgrace, pleaded in vain, and became a wanderer in foreign lands. Society understood that the lovers quar- reled, and shook its wise head over their folly. The mother heard only society's version of the affair, and was rather proud of her daughter's strong- minded way of bearing the death of love and hope in her bosom. So she main- tains her serenity, sounds the deeps of literaturo, augments her skeleton’s di- mensions undisturbed by any rattling of bones, and is totally oblivious to the nun- like renunciation of her lovely daugh- ter.—N. Y. Letter in Boston Herald. To Keep Ice from Melting. There are three or four things that will help to keep the precious nugget of ice from melting away if the house- keeper will only remomber them. One is, that the way to keep ico warm is the way to keep ice cold. A piece of ice in a pitcher, with a pale over the pitcher and a rug overthe pail, will keep all night. , A piece of ico in a refrigerator, covered witha snug white blankeg will cheat the greedy iceman every day, and suap saucy fingers at the milk that does not dare to get sour or the beef- steak that dares net fail. These things are admirable in their way, and should be in every hatband, but the greatest trick of all is newspapers. With plenty of newspapers above, below and on every side, the way a piece of ice will keep is a joke..—N. Y. Star. Native Australian Handiwork. In an article on the aborigines of Australia W. T. Wyndham speaks of the skill with which the natives use stone implements. ‘They turn out work,” he says, ‘that you would hardly believe possible with such rough imple- ments. They show great ingenuity, particularly in making their harpoon heads for spearing dugong and fish; in- stead of shaving the wood up and down the grain, as a European workman would do, they turn the wood for a spear-head round and chip it off across the grain, working it as wooden boxes are turned on a lathe. I have often sat and watched them doing this.” ‘Our Reputation. ‘The Baron—But eef you really love me like you say, I see not of reason for that we would not marry. American Summer Girl—Yes, I know; but—it’s those other two men that I am already engaged to. Tne Baron—But they are Americans, is it not? A. S.Gi—Onh, yes. The Baron—Ah, ze good luck zen Zey are accustomed to it!—Life. He was a Penholder. “Yes,” replied Brown, “you always IT am find me with a pen in my hand. a regular penholder, my boy!” “Let's see,” said Smith, musingly—“a penholder is usually a stick, isn’t it?”— N. Y. Ledger. —Frederic Harrison,the English apos. tle of positivism, has frequented the Scotch moors for forty years, but has never fired a shot at one of the antlered beauties that adorn them. He thinks that deer-stalking and bird-shooting ought to be stopped by law. FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. —It is said that the onion is a great sleep inducer, and about equal to qui- nine for r stant Stirri in the thickening ingredie , creamy result. Three cups Stew, seed and mash prunes: add sugar, | lemon, and vi rather juicy and —Housekeeper. | If you wish your floor mattings to look as fresh and bright at the close of | the summer as when they were laid in | the spring, see that they are carefully | wiped off after each sweeping with a soft cloth, wrung cut of salt and water. -—Corn Souffle: One pint each of grated corn and sweet milk, two eggs beaten very light, a small teaspoonful salt and one and one-half tablespoonfuls sugar. Mix well and bake in a buttered pudding dish forty minutes. Eat as soon as done. —Orange Judd Farmer. —Creole Pudding: Beat eight eggs | with half a pound of sugar, halfa pound jof butter and the juice of one lemon. | Line a deep dish with puff paste, cover with quince preserves, pour over alittle |of the mixture, lay on more preserves, then more of the mixture and preserves. Bake and eat with sauce. —Boston Bud- get. —Cream Pie: Four tablespoonfuls of rich cream, one tablespoonful of flour, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of cold water, yelks of two eggs, flavor with lemon, line a pie plate with pastry, pour in the mixture and bake at once, make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, spread smoothly on the top and brown delicately.—Boston Herald. —There is no artistic reason why you should not have a wood-engraving hung in an unpretentious frame in your par- lor, if it is a good wood-engraving. IJf you have two crayon pictures, or two pictures in black-and-white of any kind, a wood-engraving is easily bought, at small expense, which is really a master- piece in its line. This you can make the top of your pyramid of the black- and-wiite group. Be sure to select a wood-engraving which will show across the room what it means.—Demorest’s Monthly. —Marble discolored by smoke can be cleaned by benzine liberally applied, and rubbed off with aclean flannel. If not then quite clean, apply a second time. Soap takes the polish from mar- ble. Polish with linen cloths. To take fron stains from marble, use an equal quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol and lemon juice shaken together ina bottle. Wet the spots, and in a few minutes rub with soft linen, and the spots will dis- appear. —A stoned olive stuffed with a well- flavored chicken force-meat is a delicious tid-bit at a picnic, or for any cold lunch- eon. Select the large queen olives for this purpose, cut with a penknife a slanting lengthwise cut in each olive, and continue to hold the knife next to the stone and thus remove it. It will come out easily. Stone a number, fill the opening with chicken force-meat, and if yuu wish to keep them perfectly in shape tie each one up and remove the string after a few hours and just before serving. —Pot Roast Ducklings: Putintoasnal- low crock a thin strip of bacon anda tablespoonful of mixed spices (whole); clean or truss two ducklings and add hot water or sonp stock enough to cover up half way on the birds. Add parsley and a few celery seed. Place a narrow strip of bacon over cach bird. Puton the lid and set the crock in a moderate oven, where the birds will cook slowly two hours. Remove the ducks, strain the sauce, reduce it one-third by boiling, add a gill of cider or claret, thicken with browned flour, simmer fifteen minutes, Have 2 with two | | | juice and serve with the ducks. HOPS AND INSECTS. Why English Farmers Hail the Advent of the Ladybird with Delight. It is well known that hops are an un- certain crop: they are like eels and like slippery sort of people, you nover know when you have got them. Hops may look to be thriving, and really be thriving, but that may be their ruin. The mold comes, and they are next to worthless. There isa certain little fly, too, which is very in- jurious; it preys upon the vine and young shoots, and blasts the farmer's hopes. I have seen one of these flies caught, put into a box, and posted to London to some merchant or factor; and soon the report went the round of the papers and the local markets—‘‘Fly in the hop! Fly in the hop!” But the fly has an enemy, before which fe is made to fly, or else is preyed on to his destruction. That enemy is the rather pretty insect, called in Kent the ladycow, and in most other places the ladybird. It is well known everywhere; but I never saw so many as I have seen in Kent. The farmers hail their advent with delight, for there is then an end of the fly, if it has made its appearance, and physical certainty that the ladycow will hold the garden against him. Where these ladycows, or rather ladybirds, come from I can not say, but I once wit- nessed a strange phenomenon when on the Admiralty Pier at Dover, for the ladybirds were literally rained down upon the floor of the pier, so that you could not step without crushing them. There were legions upon legions of them. Wherever theycame from, they were doubtless bound for the hop dis- tricts, where they would be hailed as a godsend, as doubtless they were. — All the Year Round. 1 The French Cook. Young Mrs. Henley (to visitor)—“I | have just engaged a very efficient and high priced French cook. She is a per fect jewel. Mr. Henley says hecouldn’t get along without her.” The visitor—‘‘How nice!” The French cook (looking in through the door)—“‘Shure, missus, an’ shall I pale the praties or bile em wid their jackets on?”—Munsey’s Weekly. adding then a tablespoonful of lemon | ~ & CONVICT’S ESCAPE. | Subterfuge by Which He Contrived to Get i | Away from @ Prison Colony. ; Mr. F. Ordinaire recently returned from a long sojournin New Caledonia, the big islandin the Pacific to which | | several thousand French criminals have | | been transpor country’s ‘good. Itisa T, to sup- victs spend ind prison mitted tuenjoy a good deal of liberty,live in cottages of their own outside the pris- | ‘ons, marry female convicts, and acquire | more or less property. While in New | Caledonia Mr. Ordinaire met a beautiful young French woman and her husband. They lived in good style, entertained him handsomely, and, as they were not | convicts, their guest was curious to know how it happ d they were living in such an out of the way part of the world. and later he heard the story they told him from the French authorities on the island. About twenty Frenchman n to life impris It had heen d cessively p years ago a wealthy d Lamy was condemned satin New Caledonia. t he had suc- two legitimate wives, and the public sentiment was that he was very lucky to save his head. His sentence was that he should be kept at hard labor. It happened, however, that in his new home, being far away from the French cou at tried him, he was not confined v long in the prison gang, and gradu gained many privil- eges. Mr. Ord ints that Lamy’s money was in al in making con- viet life easy and comfortable for him. At the end of ten years the wife poisoner was as free as any one could be who was not permitted to go anywhere he pleased. He wandered at will among the settlements of New Caledonia, bought property in Noumea, the chief town of the island, and started a ranch on which before long he had two thou- sand head of catt!e. He had other busi- ness irons inthe fire, and enjoyed all the privileges of a free colonist, except that he could not quit the island, where he had been condemned to perpetual exile. But, of course, the thing he most de- was denied him. In spite of his fortune and the comparative comfort be enjoyed, Lamy made up his mind to go back to Europe if he could get there. One day he went to Noumea, wearing @ very lugubrious face, and told the Governor of the Penitentiary Adminis- tration that the climate was simply kil- ling him; if he did not have a change of air he would die. He begged for per- mission to spend six months in Sydney on account of his shattered health. Itis hinted that sympathy did not move the penitentiary authorities half so much as the gold which is capable of working miracles. A privilege that had never been extended to a prisoner on the island before was accorded to Lamy. He obtained permission to seek a change of air, and openly embarked for Austra- lia on a French steamer, buying the best accomodations the vessel provided. Lamy was now really a fugitive, for he had not the slightest intention of m- turning again to New Caledonia. It did not take him long to discover that tie Sydney air was not sufficiently curatiw, and he accordingly took passage upm one of the San Francisco steames, crossed North America, and embark:d from New York for Europe. A few monthsafter Lamy should hae reappeared in New Caledonia his son aid daughter-in-law, the young people wo so handsomely entertained Mr. Oni- naire, appeared on the scene. They wee equipped with full powers to dispse of his property on the island, and tky settled in one of their father’s houes and proceeded leisurely to realize upn the lands, houses, forests and herdsof @eir parent. At last accounts he ‘as still reposing from his adventures ia country berdering upon France. —N-Y. Sun. MILLIONS OF STOCKINGS. Twelve Hundred Thousand Pairs Mde Each Day. told recently by one of he prominent hesiery merchants that he production of amless hose in ais country was about 100,000 dozen pirs daily, says the New York correspondnt of the Washington Star. This sems incredible, and yet my informant}a man of wide and accurate knowledgtof the trade. A daily production of 1,200,000 ph of stockings would mean 7,000,000 pirs | each working week or 350,000,000 pirs a year, an average of five pairs to ech man, woman, child, bedridden inviid and pickaninny in the land. And tis covers only one class of stockigs, h probably the most numerus Of course, the bulk is of he I was s one. abouts. But how are they used, nd where do they go? It is almost as oep a problem as the death and the fuare life of the pin. These statistics thow sions of. the clothing trades. scarcely put hosiery and undervar among the important divisions ofiry goods, and yet the transactions arebe- yond the scope of an ordinary imagna- | tion. A few weeks ago a company of dewrs representing the importing side of:he trade alone gathered to confer on ow best to protect their interests beore Congress, and a rough computatio1 of the capital represented by the hoses that then joined in action gavethe stupendous total of $600,000,000. How to Smoke a Cigar. An old smoker says: Never cu off the end of the cigar norchew it off wile smoking. Itisa vulgar habit, besies being mischievous. holes made half an inch from the ed of the cigar will allow the exit ofthe smoke, while at the same time thetub of the cigar catches and holds the ico- tine, which is the injurious produi of the smoke, especially to nervous peple. Acigar should be smoked slowlyand should be lighted evenly. 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