Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1896, Page 23

28 —S = THE SWITCHBOARD, BATTERY AN ELECTRICAL HOME ——_+ Some of the Domestic Comforts of the Modern Science. ee PUSH BUTTONS 00 EVERYTHING Elevators, Door Openers and Lights All “Worked by Sparks. — COOKING BY A CURRENT LITTLE GIRL WHO had become heartily sick of the ordinary duties of life once wished that she might go to fairy- land,where she could dream away exist- ence and have noth- ing to do. The gnomes heard of her foolish desires and ene day while she was asleep conveyed her to the land of unshine and installed her in a tual utiful palace surrot d by gardens full of fragrant flowers. Here she found her sst wish always anticipated. If she wanted to pluck a flower, it foresialled her by dropping into her hand. If she wished to go to a distant spot, it came to her before she could make a movement n her food conveyed itself to her mouth and saved her the trouble of swallowing it. rything, in fact, was done at her slight- inclination. She, however, soon tired inactivity and was very at last she was allowed to re- workaday world. OLD FABLE. al approach to the fairy- © fable exists in New York city. home of the president of one of nges and it is situated on t. In this house it Is al- « to do a stroke of work or series of concerted actions. ng is done for you, apparently by 1gh really by electricity. It is most elaborate electrically : Jenece in the country, if not in the we It would seem as though the family of the owner must die of lassitude a servants grow so lazy as never to ork in anovher place. Most of =< are figure heads anyhow, they le to do. Electric Elevator. occupants of the house seldom or never walk stairs. An electric elevator carries them est of an giad whe turn to the The from floor to floor and even up to the private roof garden fitted out with electrical devici No attendant is ed to work this elevator. It is the perfection of automatic action. A singie mon each landing control: r if the car is above or by 5 ure of the button will call it is, of course, possibl+ because it. Ht paca oie? Triumph of iicetrie Light. of the ers an car itse been trol of and nc - action of the pole-chang- hes, which are worked by t One certain push burton has ssed the car passes under the con- he person who pressed the button how much the other buttons ney will not act until the ased. This is done by utator which throws ail of che circuit, for nt floors should at one and the fatal to and door ts ator is ighted tric lamps and telephone in the to speak to any exible tube nables one he house. Opening and Shutting Doors. Such a thing as the ordinary opening and dhut ef a door never occurs in this hor Near every decor there is a pvsh this and the door slides into versa. The pressure of button locks or unlocks the door. ft Is rot nec ry to be near n order to open or close it. Hang- Sometir the doo: ing dow ide the beds are what are known in electrical circles as “flexible” or Difurcated cords, with wooden kn or handles o: ends. buttons send rts of the hou is asle to the master 2 The bed y a long hall or entry various or mist room is approache way. I in bed, the occupant of the house can shut and lock or unlock and open the door at the end of the fifty-foot passage by merely pressing tne proper but- ng near the bed is another arrying buttons which mean all Kinds of qualified summons to the house servants. No Dark Closets. There is no such thing as groping in the dark in this house. Every room can be lighted before entering by pressing a but- ten in the hall approaching it. Further- more, you can at will light up one or a dozen or every light in the room, and there 1s also one switch which enables every lamp in the house to be lighted a* once. Dark closets are unknown in the house. The very act of opening a closet door auto- matically turns on the current and the in- terior is lighted up. All of the table lamps are electric, and in several cases they are AND ELEVATOR APPARATUS. marble statues holding incandescent lamps —small patterns, as it were, of Edison's famous statue of the Triumph of Electric Light. One of them, which stands in the front hallway, was on exhibition at the world’s fair. The roof of the house, with its electrically hghted garden, presents a beautiful sight from a distance, just as the distance is beautiful when viewed from the roof, for the palisades lie off to one side, with the Hudson in between. Here the family spends its evenings when home in the sum- mertime. The New Cookery. In the kitchen all the cooking is done by the current, and so much of it is done ac- cording to new methods that the cook would be practically useless in an old-fash- ioned kitchen. When a chicken has been prepared and placed in an electric oven it is only necessary to press a button and watch the clock. As the heat is obtained from overcharged wires, it is distributed evenly all around the bird. Basting is, therefore, not necessary, and the expert- ness of cooking becomes a mere question of time allowance. A leg of lamb, for instance, Electric Clonet. will require just one hour and ten minutes to cook. Left in the oven three minutes longer than this, and it would ‘be overdone. It is not necessary to look at it in the mean- time. The dining room of this house is exquisite in tone, the lights shedding a gentle radi- ance down from the ceiling. It is said that the owner even contemplated an electric table, which would sink out of sight and its place be taken by another after each course had been eaten, much after the Ro- man fashion of table removal. The nearest approach in this case, however, is an elec- trie dumb-waiter, large enough to carry a whole dinner course. The dining table abounds in call bells. The master of the house can give a private signal through the floor by means of a foot push button. The Current. The current used in this plant is all gen- erated on the premises. The house is not situated along the line of a street current and the owner had, therefore, to install his own plant. Storage batteries supply the current to the house. The cells themselves are stored by dynamo, which is worked in its turn by a gas engine. This entails no trouble, however, because the switches on the elaborate switchboard are worked au- tomatically by a side current from the cells. A colored man servant keeps a su- pervising eye over the machinery and an exgerienced electrician pays the house a visit at intervals of one or two months. The owner has tried to enjoy some of the delights of ordinary activity by becoming a photograph fiend, but here the modern destiny of the marsion has pursued him and his private studio is “electric.” Are concentrating lamps enable the owner to take pictures day and night, and there are electric developing processes on which he experiments. He has even had wires run underground from his cellar plant to the houses of his business partners and for his father-in-law on the next street. He sup- plies them with lighting current. It 1s hot apparent that there are any electric hair curlers cr electric cigar lighters in the house, but there is no reason why they should not have been concealed in some out of the way corner. In short, if there is a gent! of domestic electricity stalking abroad {t would probably select this house for its city residence. i To the Bicyclist Bending Forward. From Harper's Weekly. : Qh. youth, who; bending forward, rides apace, inh ra picture book re pwinful sight than thou, of the bent back and the anxious brow. Ob, sit up straight end try to wear a swile! Be less tntent to pile vp infle on anil wy the prospect ax you glide trees, the sunshine, and the To us who view you scorching day Bent on your bar in such an awkwa You are the h —ROBERT G —-+2 + Comparative Sight. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Human beings have six muscles to each eye, that they may with facility move it on either side; but horses, cows, sheep and other quadrupeds, which habitually incline their heads to the earth in search of food, have a muscle by which the eyelids are suspended and supported, and which we do not need. This is a wonderful adapta- tion to the circumstances in which the creature is placed. For example, the eyes of amphibious animals partly agree with those of the fish and the quadruped. The cat and the tiger, which prowl by night, nave a peculiar power of expanding the pupil. The eyes of fish have no apparatus to moisten them, and it would be obviously unnecessary. The eye is adapted to the Properties of light, so that it refracts the light and brings it to a focus on the retina. Our best and most perfect glasses are by no means equal to the human eye. Gnats and flies have a great number of eyes: they can see on every side without any move- ment of the organs of vision. Fish have a crystalline, almost round, to fit the eyes to the strong refraction of light in the ele- ment in which they live, and though they have no eyelids, their corner is horny to defend their sight. The mole has two very small eyes hid under its velvet coat: these are admirably suited to his mode of living, chiefly under the ground. The new cook arrives.—Harper’s Basar. WAITING TO MEET JOHNSON. The “Dawgs” Always Stood in the Way of a Reconciliation. Written for The Evening Star by M. Quad. I got to know that the old man, Robin- son, at vhose cabin I was staying for a week, had had a feud with the Johnsons for abcut twenty years, and one afternoon, when we were over at the moonshine still and alone, I brought the matter up and asked how it began. “I can’t skassly remember,” he replied, “but I reckon dawgs had sunthin’ to do with it. Reckon our dawgs had a fout.” “And each of you stood up for his dog?” “Of co'ze.” “And did you have a fight with John- son?” “Reckon I did.” “Well, why can’t the matter be fixed up? I'm told that four or five people have been killed, and the war still goes on. Can't you and Johnson come together and make Peace?” “How?” he asked. “Suppose I go and talk to-Johnson and tell him you are willing to let the matter drop if he is.” “Yes.” “Then you can meet, shake hands, take a drink and let the news go out that you are friends.” “That would ve nice,” he replied, while shaking his head in a doubtful way. “Of course it would. If you agree to it T'll go ana see Johnson today. “It wouldn't do—wouldn’t do, sah. We've dun tried i( three times over. “Then you've been brought together?” “Yes, sah—three times. He was willin’ and I was willin’, but when we cums to- gether he sez to me if them dawgs had bin left alone his dawg would hev licked.” “And you denied it?” “Of co'se. My dawg was on top and bound to lick. Yes, sah; allus denied, and dun called Johnson a liar, and then the wah broke out again. ‘But couldn't the dogs be left out?” ‘Yes; I reckon they might, but if they was he'd begin braggin’ ‘bout his ole mewl, and I'd hev to brag about mine, and thar’d be a row to end up with. Better let the matter drop, sah. I shall Mkely meet Johnson at the ‘leckshun next week, and one or ‘tother will be popped over, and that will be the last of it!” It Aided the Colonies. From the New York World. King George took off his crown and let the cool air play with his fevered brow. “You say,” he remarked, musingly, ‘that Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Han- cock are the four leaders in this rebellion.” Lord North bowed his head and again re- ferred to the dispatches from America. ‘They are, sire,” he replied. George III puffed out his cheeks. “A set of adventurers,” he cried, con- temptuously; “I’ll crush them with a single hand.” 4 North slowly shook his head. ou forget one thing, sire,” he gravely remarked. George III scratched his nose reflectively with his scepter. ‘What is 1t?”” he asked, abruptly. “You forget, sire,” returned the minister fastening his majesty with a glittering eye, “that it is absolutely impossible for one king to get away with two pair.” And from that moment it was felt in ccurt circles that the royalist cause was hopeless. ————+e+_____ A Satisfactory Belt. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. A leather belt has been devised which makes “both ends meet,” the ends being the shirt waist and the skirt. Of course it is a man’s belt and is of not very general use for women, since, being of leather, it canrot be worn on any but the most outing of outing costumes. It is hard to describe accurately, but men’s furnishings stores will show you the belt—called the “Cant- slip'’—and you will catch the idea at once. The same device could be readily applied to silk belting, and then women could be sure of tidy looking waists and skirts. A portion of the belt is lined, and between this and the outside is fastened bcth the ends of two wires, shaped something like the under side of a dress hook and form- ing a slot on the inside of the belt. One end is open, the other closed. A button in the skirt band is slipped through the open end until it is firmly held by the wires, and there it {s immovable, for the skirt and belt are practically one gar- ment. SOS ‘Wasting Good Material. From the Chicago Post. “I don't think very much of him,” said the girl in blue. “Why, I thought I saw him throwing kisses to you on the beach,” expostulated the girl in white. “You did,” answered the girl in blue. “That is why I say I don’t think very much of him. He isn’t as strong mentally as I should like a man to be.” “I don’t believe I quite follow you.” “Why, think of the absurdity and the vaste of throwing from a distance what ought to have been delivered in person?” ee In the Interests of Accuracy. From the Chicago Tribune. “In your paper this mornin’,” said the caller, a tall, raw-boned pilgrim with a faded chin beard, “you printed in great, big letters: ‘It looks like Bland,’ didn’t you’ “I think we did,” replied the editor. “And you printed a picture of him?” “You ure right; we did. “Well, it didn’t look a durned bit like Bland. Them head lines was wrong. You made him wearin’ a clean collar an’ neck- tle. Bland ain’t no dude. I know him. Just dropped in to tell vou they hain’t no scollops on Bland, an’ he don’t put goose Srease on his hair. That's all I cum fur. Mornin’.”” Whereupon he turned about and clumped heavily out of the office. ———_+-e-____ Electric Souvenirs, Electric novelties are being introduced in all the millionaires’ homes, and often at an expense of $10,000 or $12,000. At one very swell house in New York,where electricity is everywhere, the mistress gave a luncheon party, at which her guests were placed around tables, arranged in a long, double curve. Wires led up to a number of little frosted lights, mounted on stands, and one of them was placed by each cover. After the luncheon the circuits were cut, and each guest was presented with a lamp as a souvenir of the occasion. In the drawing room of this fairy palace every wire is an insulated tube, which can be put here or there, as it pleases the owner. For in- stance, a wire may be run up the side of an arm chair, and with the light in a fine tulip cup at one side, reading is possible without drawing up to a table. —--e0e—______ ‘Women’s Private Secretaries, Private secretaries are becoming almost as necessary to the woman of society as to the man of business. Miss Helen Gould's vast correspondence, averaging forty letters daily, three-quarters of which are begging letters, necessitates a helping hand, in the office of secretary. Mrs. Astor, during the winter, employs an amanuensis, who visits the house daily to attend to the answering of business and social letters. Mrs. Potter Palmer, woman of affairs that she is, is always accompanied by her private sécre- tary. Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan also finds the services of an amanuensis an absolute necessity, as well as Mrs, Phelps-Stokes, Mrs. Havemeyer and Miss Grace Dodge. —————_+e+___. The Best of Advice. From the Chicago Tribune. At a certain high school it is the custom to discuss briefly the morning’s news before taking up the regular work of the day, One morning, not long ago, paper in hand, the teacher ascended to her desk. Before her were the bright young faces of those intrusted to her care. She spread the pa- per upon the desk, and glanced over the first page. “First of all,” she said, “I see this heading, ‘Pool Room Raided.’” She raised her head, and a note of deep feeling came into her voice. “Boys,” she contin- ued, “never touch a cu There was not @ dry eye in the house. ———+ee____ A Bourbon Party. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, “And you really have such a thing as a Prohibition party in Kentucky, colonel?” “Yes, sah. It is an organization, sab, de- signed to stop the manufacture and sale of rye whisky, sah.” VICEROY LI BUYS DIAMONDS. Rare Jewels for Hi Law: From the Petersburgsky Listok, . Our special correspondent in Berlin writes that during his visit to the industrial exhi- bition the Chinese ambassador and viceroy was specially struck by the jewelry depart- ment. P : + Li Hung Chang stopped at the showcase of the firnrof Haufensttin, and before ten minutes were over the sepresentative of the celestial empire had managed to select vari- ous articles to the tune of a quarter of a million marks. i The secretary of the embassy, who has charge of its finances, fifformed his lordship with low obeisance that*there was no such sum of money in the tueasury. Li Hung Chang did not find the news to his liking. His face agsumed a sour ex- pression. But suddenly @ joyous smile tr- radiated the features of the oriental Bis- marck. “Send the things on to Essen,” he said. “You will receive the money there.” “To Essen?” repeated the secretary,some- what nonplussed. “Yes. I am going to Essen. works must be inspected.” Histoty does not say who paid for the dia- monds, but the fact remains that the jewel- er got his money. But, it will be asked, who were the dia- monds for? ‘The viceroy's son, Lord Li, is accompanied by his young wife, who 1s a special favorite of her father-in-law. Following Asiatic custom, strangers are not shown the fair bride. She goes out seldom, and then only for a drive in a closed carriage, with the curtains down. It was for the young daughter-in-law that the great diplomatist intended this “little” surprise, which, as those attached to the embassy relate, gave enormous satisfaction. The young lady refuses to be parted from her jewels, and will intrust them to no one. Even on the journey Lord Li's wife keeps near her in her room the casket which.con- tains all these precious “‘souvenirs” of Ger- many. Daughter-in- Krupp's —_—__+e+_____ WHY HE APOLOGIZED, The Tramp Barber's Slight Oversight That He Regretted. Written for The Evening Star by M. Quad. There were five of us hunting and fishing in the Puma range, and one rainy day, | when we were sticking close to the shanty, @ stranger appeared. He said he was a tramp barber, on his way to Dobbs City, and as none of us had been shaved for a fortnight we gave him half a day’s work, He had a steady hand with the razor, and was an expert with the shears, and the only pecullarity any of us noticed about his work was that he let his razor lovingly linger on the throat. We gave him his din- ner and $2 in cash, and he went away well Pleased. About four hours later a band of six men rode up and the leader inquired if we had seen a tall roughly dressed man pass that way. We told him of the barber and he looked from man to man and e&claimed: “Good heavens, but you are all freshly shaved!” “Yes, we gave the barber a job.” “And he shaved each one of you?” “He did, and did it well.” “Bo do you hear that?” shouted. the he turned to his companions. “What of it?” asked one of our party. “Why, he went insane yesterday and cut a man’s throat in his barber chair over at Unadilla, and we're after him to put him in an asylum!” : They rode away at’ a, gallop, and next morning returned to our camp with the man, who had been canuied after a hard fight and was tied on HtS'Horse. He seemed to remember us as he was’ given a drink of water, and as he hanged the cup back he quietly observed: ae “Say, gentlemen, pléast! excuse me. I meant to finish off thé ltt man who got shaved, but I got to thinking of something else and ft slipped my'pina!” ——+0 9 How She Accepjed Him, From Life. “I longed to kiss you,’* he softly said, “Ax we passed the tumplke, dear.” “Oh, that was the place,”and she tossed her head, “Where'my saddle was out of gear.” “How muck I loved you I longed to tell, When we stopped at the inn, you kno “Oh, that was the place,”” avd her gla “Where my front wheel wobbled 80.’ “And then, when we reached ‘the clover farms, Unde: the old oak tree, I wanted to clasp you, sweet, in my arms, And ask you to marry me. And the matd, with Ler rapt gaze turned away, Blushed deep at his words of fi “To think,”’ she sald, “that I rode that day ‘Ten miles on # punctured tire! And so, with pleasure and real delight I note what ycur words rev For I've longed some time,” and she clasped bim “To ride on a brand new whe tight, —TOM MASSON. ————-+ Importauce of Noonday Appetite. From the Chicago Chronicle, Persons who keep close watch on them- selves are of the opinidn that the hour of noon is the most citical period of life. At that time the human frame undergoes se- rious changes. The stomach has dispatched the morning meal and sends scouting par- tles out in search of another. The eyes and brain are on the alert, and there i3 a sort of all-goneness pervading the anatomy that sharpens the faculties and puts a new edge on the teeth. It is nature's dining time, and everything about the healthy man or woman is attuned to the dentolition of enjoyment of what is called a ‘good square meal,"” Those who pay heed to the prompting of nature at this divine hour have their reward in good appetite, good temper and excellent digestion, which is conducive to all the good that fieshis heir to. But those who, following the imperious dictates of fashion, defer: the hour ef din- ner until all natural longings are dead, and have to be resurrected by adventitious aids, lay a trein of evils and discdmforts which sooner or later become the plague of their lives. It is a well-known fact that the noon diners are healthjer and stronger and have better chances,fgr long. life than cthers. ——-e. 5 —_ Tiger Catch am3Java. From the Flegebde Blatt&® COMFORTS FOR SUMMER HOMES. Conventent Conmtrivameces That Are Eastly Carried About. From the London Queen. Having satisfactorily solved the annual problem of where to go the next difficulty which inevitably presents Itself at this sea- son is what to take, and, as by far the larger number of travelers are doubtless destined for furnished apartments, this means not only what to take in the way of clothing, but in little extra comforts for one’s rooms. Most of us have at some time or another made the acquaint- ance of the “furnished apartment.” with its unsympathetic chairs and sofa, its startling wall paper and its anything but beautiful ornaments. We have also had cause to sigh over the scanty supply of linen, while another even worse trial awaits us when we iearn the extent of the bed room towels. We are all very much influenced by our surroundings, and, how- ever much we may enjoy to talk of rough- ing it, the actual reality is by no means so pleasant, and when there is no abso- lute necessity for putting up with discom- fort we agree with Mark Tapley, “There is ro credit in it,” and those who are wise will take account of the little comforts and necessaries which go so far toward making happiness. Accordingly, when the furnished apartment fs in view, it 1s well to supplement the ordinary luggage with a few extra things which will help to make the rooms pretty and comfortable. It is not necessary to go to any extravagance, only very simple additions are required to make the difference between dreary sur- roundings and pleasant ones. Naturally we must exercise a little discrimination in the selection. There must be nothing that will easily break or come to grief with the journey, nothing pretentious, and roth- ing so very heavy as to make us respon- sible for a large sum for excess of lug- gage. Perhaps the very best way of proceeding is to go to a good furnisher’s and have all our purchases packed together. These ought not to exceed in price the sum of $25 or thereabouts. In the first place, there must be a comfortable chair, not a large, upholstered “‘grannie” chair, or any- thing of that description, but a cane re- cliring armchair, with ‘adjustable back and a pull-out foot rest. This must have locse cushions to fit it, covered in some Pretty, bright-toned cretonne, and it will Prove itself a boon and a blessing, not only as a seat, but as a lounge, folding up. too, into the least possible compass, and costing only $8 complete. Then another simple contrivance will supply a delightful couch, and that is a folding camp bedstead, without a high back, the kind generally used in servants’ bed rooms. The mattress and pillovs must be covered in plain white calico or anything else equally suitable which we may happen to have at hand, and an out- side cover may be made in a pretty cre- tonne or muslin. This outer cover must be made to fit all over the bed, coming down at each side and the end, and re- quires finishing all the way round with a wide frill of the cretonne or muslin, which- ever may have been used. For pillows the two down cushions which must go with our order (such things being un- known in apartments generally) can be used, and we should, for preference, have them in washable covers, the colors har- monizing with the couch cover. This primitive construction has a much better appearance than its description leads one to expect, and will add greatly to the coziness of. the sitting room. The next purchase can be a small fold- ing tea table, which will not cost more than a few shillings, 1f we are content with siraple painted wood, and do not hanker after mahogany or walnut. Then an Austrian striped blanket, a few yards of plain art serge, and some pretty musiin, with which we may do wonders in the way of decoration, must be added to the store, with a small stock of linen and a few fine bed room towels. Another Most necessary item is a folding bath, while a small reading lamp will prove itself rlso a valuable possession. One of the best one can get is the Little Jewel, an American safety lamp, in nickel silver, which can be stowed away into quite a small wooden box, and only means the small outlay of $1.35. “To return to mor2 ornamental things, do not omit a few inexpensive flower classes, which, when filled with flowers, will be a pretty substitute for the hidéous orna- ments. Last, but not least, in importance, an item out of which we may get an infinite amount of comfort, is a bright art square {for the floor, which we can lay over the ‘finevitable shabby Brussels with rapidly Vdisappearing pattern, and, being so easy to pack, it can be included in our return luggage, and will do duty on some floor at home later on. With these few things we ought to be able to convert our rooms into homelike apartments, if we do not succeed in making them absolutely pretty, and the increase of comfort which we are sure to get out of them will amply repay us for the trouble of selecting them, and the drawback of having an addition to the usual amount of luggage. coe + For Those Who Camp. From the New York Sun. ‘The novice camper has a good many things to learn which even the old-timer cannot impart to him. He must learn what to take into the woods, and what not to take, and he will change about a good deal in trying to find out what is best. One of the things apt to be forgotten on the first trip is a spool of coarse black nen thread to sew up rents in his clothes. He may take the thread and then have to punch holes along the rent with his jack- knife because he had but one needle, and that wa@@§nislaid or lost. Some novices pre- fer fishline or string as thread, while oth- ers use long wooden splinters finely whit- tled down. The novice, too, does not take a pair of slippers, tennis or carpet ones, because he does not know what a comfort they are af- ter a hard or wet day’s tramp in the woods on the soles of heavy shoes; but sooner or later his pack basket will contain a pair. He also usually forgets a couple of extra pairs of stockings. Sometimes he thinks to make the oilcloth cover for his pack long enough and of a shape to serve as a cape to go around his shoulders when he wants to fish or hunt on a wet day, but not very often, because he dees not understand a cape’s value till he has worn one on a nasty day. A vaseline bottle, perfectly dry, with an absolutely tight cork, so that it won't leak if held under water for a month, filled full of matches, is another thing a novice learns the value of after he has been lost, and has walked around a tree all night’ to keep warm. The one thing the novice and the old- timer remember is a small flask of a size to fit nicely in the hip pocket, and filled with the very best of whisky. Both appre- ciate the comfort of lying back on the bed of boughs in camp, and after a fond look taking a long pull. A lemon sucked a little at each resting place the novice learns, af- ter a while, is better than a taste from the flask, or a long drink from the trailside spring. +o+—___ Managing the Refrigerator. From the New York Times, In arranging for the supply of ice it is better to have the box filled to its utmost twice or three times a week rather than a smaller piece every day. When the box is thoroughly chilled it keeps not only the meat and vegetables, but the ice itself. Put in 15 pounds if possible, and on the morning of the fourth day it will be found that a piece will still remain. Another caution is to open the portion where the ice is kept as rarely as possible. The cold ehamber is the place to put everything, even bottles of water and butter; the gust of heated air that strikes directly upon the ice when the refrigerator door is opened is the deadly effusive agent to make it disap- pear. —__-e+—____ His Reputation at Stake. From Tid-Bits. ‘I want to take gas.” ‘It is not usual to administer gas for such a small tooth, my boy. It won’t hurt you for an instant.” “You've got to give me gas or I won't have it out.” “You shouldn't be so afraid of being hurt; now sit up here like a little man.” “I ain't afraid of being hurt, but I expect I shall screech when it comes out.” “That won't matter.” “Yes, it will. All the boys I’ve ever lick- ed are waiting under the window to hear me holler.” ——__—ee___ A Defect in Manners. From the Buffalo Times. _ Lafayotte Parke—“So Measurer lost his situation at that dry goods store?” Ellicott Squeers—“Yes; he was too prusdue,, ‘They looked om him as a counter cere eeeeeemenasocepinipasaeinaneneenen' HUNYAD JANOS, The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water. 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation ali Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature of the firm “Andreas Saxlehner, On the Label. GehoeordosdoedordoedoeSosSoedeedos nooo eae aaa eden mh2i-sat,26t YOUNG. Royalty Doen Not Walt for the Age of Judgment. From the Philadelphia Press. The members of royal families usually marry at an early age. The Emperor of Austria married when he was twenty-four a bride of sixteen years and four months; one of his two daughters married at the age of sixteen years and nine months, and his son's bride was only seventeen. The King of Belgium was a youth of eightcen when he married a girl of sev- enteen, and h's two daughters were mar- ried while mere school girls in age (seven- teen years). King Christian of Denmark prudently waited until he was twenty-four, and then took for a wife a princess six months older than himself. His two sons followed their father’s example and did not mate until the age of twenty-six and twenty-seven, re- spectively; his daughter, the Princess Thy- Ya, was twenty-five when she married the Duke of Cumberland, but the Princess Alexandria was married to the Prince of Wales at the age of eighteen. The German emperor was twenty-two, aud his bride only three months younger. When the King of Greece married he was only twenty-two, and his Russian wife had only just passed her sixteenth birthday. The King of Italy did not marry until he was twenty-four, which is mature for the sunny south, and his wife not quite six- teen and a half. The King of Portugal was twenty-two and a half and his wife almost twenty-one. The King of Roumania, at twenty, mar- ried a young girl rising sixteen. The Czar of Russia was twenty-six and his wife twenty-two when they were married. The King of Sweden and Norway was twenty- @ight and his wife twenty-one. Every one knows that Queen Victoria was a few months under twenty-one and the prince consort three months younger When the royal wedding took place; the Prince of Wales was twenty-one years, tour months; the Duke of Edinburgh a few months short of thirty; the Duke of Con- naught very nearly twenty-nine; Prince Leopold just over twenty-nine; the Duchess of Fife a little over twenty-two; Princess Alice, nineteen; Princess Helena, twenty- two; Princess Louise, twenty-one, and Princess Beatrice, twenty-eight and a half years. THEY MARRY oe A Clerical Beggar. From the London Telegraph. By the demise of the Rev. Joseph Charles Edwards, rector of Ingoldmells, near Skeg- ness, the Church of England has lost the most notorious begging-letter writer with- in its ranks, and his parish not an incum- bent, but an incumbrance. He was a Welsh- man, eighty-two years of age, whose con- Sregation loved him so much that they scrupulously stayed away from his minis- trations. In his requests for alms from the charitable he laid stress on the fact that he had himself to clean the lamps in the edifice, lead the singing, play the harmo- nium and preach the sermon. He forgot to add that he was also the congregation. This eccentric rector knew as much of the bankruptcy acts as of the prayer book. Mr. Edwards was afflicted with a wooden leg,which, after his tithes, formed his prin- cipal source of income, for with it he play- ed upon the sympathies of the benevolent with remorkable dexterity. Latterly, how- ever, his begging letters lost their efficacy, and the reverend gentleman fell into very poor circumstances. “His last epistle was to the Surgical Aid Society in London, beg- ging for a new limb.-In it he said “My ‘living’ thirty years ago was £ a year, but now it is only £98 or about. My break- fast consists always of oatmeal porridge, which I make myself. Never drank a glass of ale in -ny life. I am in my eightieth year. Single. No servant. Too poor. Help now and then. Often a week without any one. Make my own bed. Prepare my own meals and ‘wash up.’ Teetotaler from childhood. 1t will te the last artificial leg I shall require. Am going—the border land is in view.” ———__+-. A Sacred Confidence. From the Detroit Free Press. “O, Kitty, I've something awful to tell you.” ‘What is it’ ‘You'll never breathe it to a living soul?” “Never!” “If you do!” “Oh, but I won’ “I'm so mortified over it! You see, Gussie Liliypad came around on his wheel the other afternoon and I got out my bike and we started off for a spin together.” “Well?” “I had on my new bicycle suit and cap, and we were spinning along in great shape away out in the country when Gussie’s wheel struck a stone in the road and he took a header and nearly broke his neck. He fainted, mind you, and while I was bathing his head with some water I fetched in his cap a stupid old farmer came along and aske: ‘What's the matter of her?” ‘0, Maude!” “And before I could reply he says: «Is she much hurt?” “Why, Maude!” “I was so mortified. And Gussie came to in time to hear the old simpleton say: “ “Better cut her corset strings an’ fan her a little.” I thought I should die! And when Gussie sat up and said coldly, ‘I am a gen- tleman, sir,’ the awful old coot capped the climax by pointing to me and saying coolly, “Why, ye don’t say! I thought this one was the gent!’ ” “O, Maude, Maude. Tee, hee, hee: “Kitty! If you don’t stop laughing I'll never speak to you again. It was just aw- ful!” “O, it was too, too funny!” “Funny? I thought—it’s real mean of you to laugh so, Kit. But, mind, you've solemn- ly promised never to tell!” “No, I never will!” “If you do: “Tee, hee, hee, hee!” “Tee hee: Gobang—“I do not know why folks com- plain about mothers-in-law. Mine tried to cide?” Gobang—‘No; she refused her consent to my marrying her daughter. But 1 was suspicious and we eloped.” Dyspepsia Proot. From Popular Science News, Much is said abcut American dyspepsia, but there is one native race of America that is certainly not greatly troubled by the modern curse. The sturdy little Eskl- mos defy all the laws of hygiene and thrive. The Eskimo, like the ordinary dweller in America, eats until he is satisfied, but there is this difference, that he never is satisfied while a shred of the feast remains uncon- sumed. His capacity is limited by the sup- ply, and by that only. He cannot make any mistake about the manner of cooking his food, tor as a rule he does not cook it, nor so far az the blub- ber or fat of the arctic animal is concerned, about his method of eating it, for he simpl, does not eat it, he cuts it into long strips an inch wide and an inch thick, and then lowers the strips down his throat #s one might lower a rope into a weil. And after all that he does not suffer from indigestion. He can make a good meal oif the flesh and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that im cutting up the animal the knife must be continually sharp- ened The teeth of a little Eskimo child will meet in a bit of walrus skin as the teeth of an American child would meet in the flesh of an apple. And that when the hide of the walrns is from one-half to one and one- half inches in thickness and bears consid- erable resemblance to the skin of an ele- phant. The Eskimo child will bite it and digest it, too, and never know what dyspep- sia means. oe In Chicago. 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