Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1910, Page 9

THE BEE OMAHA, MONDAY. APRIL 9 1910, % SIDELIGHTS ALONG e WASHINGTON BYWAYS presentative Oscar U'nderwoos f Ala bama s looming up as one of the big fig ures of th hotse i1t the event that the dem are In the major! in the Sixty second congress. He Is regarded as one the most level-hegded men on the demo " side of the house; a good counseilor what “wlow, but determined, and of great influence. M (qj;-r-(»ml ranks next to Champ c on'the ways ‘and means committee, | D for that reasom, again supposing tha : thers will be Ao democratic house. is n line for he chafrmanship of the tariff mn 't ttee. There also fs some taik na 2im chatrman of the committee on rules W Undérwood has been in the house for | early sixtéen yeard, He is 48 years o but looks ten.years younger. He is a stu- nt of the tariff, being of the school o jemocrath that belteves ifn “tarftt for rev- enve only,” It is generally aecepted that Mr. Under- wood has ddfne more t5 bring about peace | umong the demaerats of the ho [ & the #pift in the ranks more than a year | than apy other man. He is Champ | Clark's -closest. adviser, and if Clark is caker, Undérwoed undoubtedly will oc- | ‘1 move TuAY THE HousE Do now ADvounm * cupy the same position on the floor of the house‘as that now cecupied by Representa- tive Mana of Iilinois. Mr. Manp, by the way, -seems to be the real floorslesder of the repubiicans, al- though thee position: s nominally held by Serstio B! Payne of New York. For some reason, not. entirely dlear, but genérally supposed to be due to. differences between the speaker and Payne over the tariff, the chilrman of the Ways and means commit- tee 13, s.inactive at: this session of congress s the floor #sader of the majority could well be.' Mr{ Payne has not surrendered all of his privifeges to Mr. Mann, however, Suggestions . That May Help Bridesmaids in Selecting Gowns The uncertainty of the weather has to! be reckoned with where April weddings| are concerned, but when is not this the| case? However. in April one of the chief | troubles lies in-the-fact that though the| day may 160k ‘fine and warm, with bril-| liant sun and sky, it may also feel more cold than wopds can say after a night| frost, orwith a scarifying east wind! In| such a case the unfortunate bridesmaids aré really to be pitied,.if spring attive to match the poet's idea of that season has | been ’ ghpeen: And anything more unbe- coming than a, trafn of blue-nosed brides- maids walting in the draughty church| porch is not 1o be Imagined. I am always equally Borry, for candidates for confirma- tion. . | Suppostng April's lady, the bride of to-| morrow, 4% a-wise girl she will think out a seheme for her attendants, in which they will~ be ‘more or less ready te face any variation of temperature, and vet look sultably’ clad. It was my misfortune to| be piaced clese behind the bridesmaids in ® recent B wedding, and from the end of my pew I seemed to be beholding noth- ing but @ perspective of backs of red arms—showing . through transparent sleeves, Which might well have been lined I felt quite chilly and “goosefleshed” my- self from sheer sympathy. So please re nember about sleeves. After all, oniy in the hattest weather do really transparent sleeves and guimpess look appropriate, and | quite young girls, t arises at the elc each legis- ative day and remarks: “I move that the e do now adjourn,” whereupon the se usually adjourn It ¢ arrived mdreds of pounds of t. Senators are now content to sit quietly at their desks munching it. and Senator Carrol & Page of Vermont is being voted most th man in Washington, t the annual cargo of maple sugar Senator Page has a standing order with the farmers of Vermont that he is to have the first consignment of sugar his 1 1 { order 18 #o0 large that shipments to the markets are delayed until the consignmant for Washington is out of the way | h senator receives a dozen cakes. If ha a family of children with sweet teeth h member of the family is remembered. mpanying each box ,of the sugar is the senator's card and a quotation from John Godfrey, Vermont's poet, which sayst | Men, women, maple sugar and horses; The first are strong. The last are fleet, The second and third uncommonly sweet, And all exceedingly hard to beat." Soon the New Englander’s, senators, rep- | resentatives, pages, clerks, of various kinds, men, women and chil- | dren, will gather to eat maple sugar to- gether just as they used to eat It at the maple sugar parties at home. Before each person will be placed a cake of jce and a pitcher of hot maple syrup, and the syrup will be strung out and allowed to cool be- fore being eaten. Then there will be old fashion®d soda biscuits and home made cheese from the hills of Vermont. This is the time of year when the Ver- monters in Washington make a real nolse and have no difffeuity in having accepted all their invitations to maple sugar parties. affice holders | even then they are mot pretty unless the neck and arms beneath them are white, and can be trusted not to turn red or blue, or a mixture of both! Bridesmaids are often far more nervous than the bride, and nerves play funny tricks, especlally with whose entire circulation | sometimes seems to go quite wrong under the stress of emott After all, why should our feelings affect our faces only? The little shot taffeta coats are charming for uncertain weather. Bridesmaids should be given dainty little coatees of this sort to wear in church, and then, If they like, they can remove them at the house after- ward I have seen the prettiest set maids' attire in preparation, built on the scheme of color In a single narcissus, a delicious flower of ivory petals and palest vellow center, a much more artistic scheme than that more frequently seen, where a strong daffodil yellow is contrasted with & soft white, says the queem. The frocks were of palest yellow and ivory_ shot ninon over white, the coatees the quaintest little garments of white China silk with yellow flowers and green leaves, blurred by being veiled with mars | ninon and lined with yellow satin. The had long coat tails, which were, however turned back to show thelr lining, anc caught together by simply fascinating plisse lace bows; lace ruffles completed | their short sleeves a la Marie Antoinette. on! of brides- f dls French Epigrams. Time solidifies true friendship and ! solves all -others, - i | ’ — | A coquette mistakes the need of pleasing for the fige@ of loving. “Hope s foan borrowed {rom happine How Often one is Witty only to the ex- tent’ that: tibse about one are witty too. Bverybody’s friend Is nobody's friend There are peopls who know everything— and understand nothing ite 15 phssed Th ' saxing to thos who go, uatil the day comes when one sayy §Oed-bye 10 hoss Who s -— What is the greatest qualification for the mistréss of a house? To make her Bucsts appeAr at their Dest by effacing herse £, good-bye The weight: fizst neceasity fop & woman To support what she advances to t & woman into her But how much harder to Ll of THow havd it ortieth year! out of-itt The helght of snobbing: To allow one's | self to_bal'blpded by the reflection of others. A strong sympathy Is as Qifficult to hide as & Stong asfipathy, Wo do get make Mt it is life that makes us The first.thig & Woman learns is that che [ BeMutifali e’ 'last thing she per- ‘wnven & that she I old o piense w. wet lo. gue "X Oa a wery thin woman, who aiways S man must devote | measures the very depth of the abyss! wears nigh-necked gowns: count of absence.' losed on ac How hopelessiy undeveloped women are.. | They are irritated by reason and led by sentiment. In Society=A man lives with another, himseif. marries one and woman, loves no ome but On Marriage—To make a marriage sirong and durable, mutual econcessions must turn it into a tie that attaches and not a bond that enchains. Hope would be'a 1 1%e on the ocean )t life it it were not unfortunately too »ften only @ mirage. | Make ne intimaelés qutside of your own class; In.this way you will keep your dig- nity personality and independence intact g one's self to duty means keep- | sky dver one’s hedd even if the horizon's dark f Woman is like fow: ¥ oné of Aurora® tears fall on pure alabaster. it is a pearl; If it fall on the ground. it is mud. | A woman in love will forgive even crime. When she has ccaged to love can’t even forgive s virtue. a | she Bitterness of heart marks the course the yYears, and leaves scaps on the heal like those of a’cpowa'of thorns. Nolsy grief is ke a whirlwind that car- ries everything with it and leaves no trac behind. But silent sorsgw (8 a sword that pierces the heart &nd breaks off in the wound. of fore —— The ‘path of life -aiso lias. amoig ruins. HAppy those whose confidence in the prom- | ises of faith enables them to build upon a — In & eommon sorrow & MR has & thou sand oecupations: te distract bim. X woman stands face to face with her grief. with nothing to take her away from it She | finished they | | woi for great corporations. WHAT 1S 1T THAT THE. CONSLIP LIRS ? ARE YEW TREES USED °You? DO CRABS FEED ON CRAB - APPLES ? The Tired Business Man--- Tells Friend Wife All About Taking the Census and Keeping It. — Copyright, BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. “The census man was here today,” re- ported Friend Wife. “What a nerve! He | asked me if I was white or black. | “And you were purple with anger?’| ked the Tired Business Man. “Ah, I| He also asked you if you talked Eng- | lish! He probably does not himseif and wondered if that was what you were con- versing in or it it was Ido or Esperanto. No? Well, then did he wich to know If | you had ever served time in prison? Prob- | ably he thought you were a magasine poet | who had been successfully hived away | where most people would like to see all poets instead of dragging them out be- cause they wrote weird poems in a minor key, not to say a skeleton key “It's just like & woman not to under- stand the portent and necessity of this far reaching and comprehensive plan of tak- ing the census. As explained in the proc- lamation of William Howard Taft in sev- eral languages and set to musie, the cen- sus is taken for the purpose of apportion- ing representation In the house of repre- sentatives and insurgents, according to population. To determine how many rep- resentatives a state should have it is neces- to sary to learn whether the inhabitants thereof were ever divorced, where their, parents were born, what languages they think they can speak besides English, how long they were out of Work in 1909 or since | aforesaid Taft took office and started to| travel, how many children either his, hers or theirs, whether you are an employer or a worker or a grafter, who 18 your favorite matinee hero and don't you think Maude | Adams is sweet, who do you think will win tho pennant this year, who do you | have 1910, by the New York Evening Telegram' (New York Herald Company) think discovered the pole, ‘what occupation have you and what kind of a place do you work in—all answers of ‘rotten’ barred— where do you expeet to go when you die, nice weather, good day! They need all that to distribute representatiyes. And more. “They ask if you were a veteran of the unfon or confederate army or navy and not a word about Coxey's army or the rough riders or the night riders or the Philadeiphia fencepoles or any of those prominent military organizations, and they have the country emumerators list al the hogs, sheep and cattle on the farms, although heaven only. knows what they to do with electing representa- tives lo congress, unless ft's their influ All rights reserved. ence at barbecues. districts, men are Of course, voted in some like cattle, you have read, and this may expiain some- thing. I suppose they even count the calves in the country, but not in the city, not even in the musiocal comedy theaters. “And wouldn't it be nice if our late friend | Johann Hoch was in our midst to answer how many wives he had. He'd have to answer, under penalty. Still, there's that fake baron who married so many; maybe he could be scared Into telling after he read the proclamation. But think of asking first marriage or second or subsequent of Nat—er—well, some prominent actor, or of ‘Lil—that is, a well known actorine, and having them say ‘subsequent’ because they had lost count. ] ‘The enumerators can have their 2 cents per person enumerated for all of me. Not for 2 cents could I write ‘occupation; none,’ for a wife who gets up at dawn, prepares breakfast for the family, gets the men out to work with lunch pails filled, washes the Qishes, straightens the house, dresses the children, feeds them and sends them to school, does weekly wash, prepares lunch and clears up after, irons until time to get | dinner ready and after that is out of the| way, sews and mends, and sets | to bed about midnight. after also having planned and made her own clothes and her | chiMren's. dusted. swept, tended the stove and made beds. ‘Oceupation none,’ indeed!” “I deceived him on one a " eon- | fessed Friend Wife, timidly. | “Aha, woman: I bet you told him T as the head of the famil ired business man. mixes some bread The Onlooker Man bead of Barnard college says he won’t banish romance for girls. The pro- | | fessor early recognizes the futility of un- | | While he is salling back to America I am dertaking the impossible. | Speaker Wadsworth, urging voting re- form, wants fewer names on the ballot Good ides. Too many officeho'ders alto- gether. { Judge Grosscup says it looks like Mayor | Gaynor In 1912 And right on top of this President Taft declares one term {s enough tor him. A Swiss who during a domestic broil threw $240 Into the fire was arrested, found | guilty of prodigality and deprived of his | civil rights. There’s no money to burn over there We are now brought face to face with some excavated works that are either unm sculptures by Michael Angelo or the colossal art fakes of the country Here's where we start out again to stem | the tide of pessimism and obiiterate from | memory a1 recollection of the Cardiff | Giant. | | | | England seems to be torn up over | the coming election. But, patience, good people; Colonel Roosevelt, the human cur- | ative plaster and potent pill of the universe, is on the way. Visitor from 'the other side says she i convineed the suffragettes hefe are mak- ing enormous strides. Wouldn't go as far as to say that, for while our women, being | athictio. have & freer walk than others, are not ungracefui. That a lovely idea of somebody's, | “Photograph of a Noted Artist at Work In His Drawing Room," showing the poor wretch making comies while sitting on the cdge of the bed with his feet on the wash- stand Warship is experimenting with a device to stop a vessel going at full speed Within its length, by means of a brake It oy work. but all efforts to apply a brake to the buflding of warships seem to have failed. George W. Perkins forsees national con- Um! That How does Mr. Perkins' idea of tional control of great corporations com- pare with the federal incorporation of a great foundatien that {s just now simmer- ing? 507 na- A sensation? Yes. T have caused a scn- sation; why, it's me and Roosevelt now. sailing over to Berlin.—Willlam Voigt, ‘the Captain of Koepenick.” The cobbling | jokeemith of Berlin, who played at soldier for a few brief hours and raised heaps of trouble, should Lave written a book enti- ted “Alone in Koepenick.” High atmospheric pressure in the case of persons not doing manual labor has been | found to act as @ mental stimillus, increas- ing the impulse to talk. Have an idea careful investigation will indicate that some individuals are so constityted as to acquire the same mental stimulus in altitudes. low The Gloomy Person. The blossoming tree, the bird song clear. But move his soul to new dismay. He murmurs:—"We are drawing near Housecleaning time or moving day'" T. B M 0'd Engiisl The pitcher threw the ball, The batter made & hit Because the second baseman *Could not connect with it -T. B M. She—Oh, Santa, I hope vou've brought me what I wanted—some thing to wear in my ears. Janta—Yes, indeed—1I brought you @ nice bundle of cotton wool. i Little Prescriptions. | I you reei sort of run down go immedi- lately to one of the big skyscrapers in | your town and ask the elevator boy to run you up. | 1f your eyelids are red and in a bad con- | dition generally, walk down Fifth avenue | and look at the pretty girls that pass you | by. Some of them are good for sore eyes | 1f your spirit is worn out and you find yourself discouraged, because you are down on your uppers, §o at once and have your- self resouled Tf you have & bad headache, go out upon the highway and get Into a row with a cleverer man than yourself. In the excite- ment of the fracas you may lose your head If you lack confidence in yourself, take a run over into Egypt and loiter about the Sahara until you have acquired all the sand | you need. | 1f some dainty maid has thrown you down 50 hard as to break your heart,. gather up the pieces and ask some other mald to put them together again. It you suffer from insomnia, light your |lamp and read Wifam James on Prag- matism backward forty times without stop- ping. You will find it heipful i 1f you suffer from a fightful toothaehe, g0 to your dentist and your leg. This will lower the very materially. If your ears are frogen in an April snow storm, do mot be downeast. May will be hers shortly and they will surely thaw. It you stomach goes back on you, turn around and walk the other way five miles let him pull seat of it again If your eyes get out of focus so that you see everything doubie, call upon the gir! of your heart and comfort yourself with the thought that they are both yours.—Harper's Weekly. = Daily Health Hint Among the many kinds and classes of wholesome foods, few should rank higher in importance and value than the common fruits from orchards and gardens. In satis- fying our natural appetite for fruit that is well matured, juicy, and fine f.avored, we probably reach the highest | palate gratification with the leass, possible | digestive etfort. . it for an early rising and gets | accused the | the pain | each day and you will soon eateh up with | torm ot | | Things You Want to Know —— | Already thousands of American are on their way to Bavaria tha® they may Join with the 2,000 peasants of the little vil- lage of Oberammergau in witnessing first presentation of the Passion Pla 1910. The first performance will be given |on May 16 and it will be seen by the larg- est crowd ever gathered for that purpose. The last series of presentations was in the | summer of 1900 and the crowds then taxsd the resources not only of Oberammergau, |but of all the neighboring country. Tt | year the fravel will be much heavier. Prob- ably thres-fourths of the people who jour ney to Oberammergau will tourists the be Americans The Passion Play of Oberammergau is the most remarkable of all the religiou dramas. Its performance dates back to 163 since which time it has been given regu |larly every ten years. The performances were originaily given every tenth summer on Sundays only, but In 10 the crowds | which flocked to the village were so great that it was impossible for all to ses the [p’rrnrmlnt‘n as given only once a wi | and it was found necessary to repeat them |on week days. Whether the peasants w be anle to give performances as often as might be desired !s a mooted question, fo | the play, beginning at 8 o'clock in the | morning and continuing until nearly § in | the evening, with an hour's intermission at noon. is a great physical strain upon the participants. The origin of the Oberammergau Passion Play, according to the story handed down from father to son among the peasants, grew out of a great deliverance of the vil- lagers from a plague in 1683 A pestilenc prevalled in the Bavarfan Alps and one of the peasants working In an infected district | came to Oberammergau to visit his family. He sickened and dled, after which the,| scourge spread rapidly. Among the stricken | familles was that of a peasant whose hut | nestied beneath the shadow of the Kopfel- | spitze. The mother and all the children | were borne to the churchyard, and on the night of his final bereavement the father and husband, kneling in darkness and de spair, prayed that he, too, might be taken Tmmediately there appeared to him in a | vision the face of the Saviour. In a few | moments he saw the outline of the cross [and then, in a gentle votce, Christ seemed to say to the humble suppliant: “My son, are you weary? Are you hea hearted? Do you wéep? Remember my agony; I | have endured more than thou.” Immedi- ately the peasant rose and dashed from his | house to the church, where he found ail In | darkness. No lights burned on the altar Only the faint red fire that never goes out | filckered overhead. The peasant seized the bell rope and began to ring. Soon all the villagers came trooping to the church When they had gathered about the bell ringer he related the story of his vision and urged them to make a vow that they would enact the Passion of the Redeemer every ten years. Tradition relates that from that hour the pestilence was stayed. From that day until this the | Play has been the chief thought in the minds of the villagers. Of course, they do |.not spend the intervening nine vears doing nothing. Most of them are wood carvers | and potters, and they find a ready market | tor their wares among the hundreds and | thousands of visitors who flock to the town even in years when the Passion Play is not being enacted. Anton Lang, the peasant {who played the Christus in 190 and who is | appearing In the same role this year, is him- | seif a wood carver, and other members of {his family are skilled with knife and at {the potter's wheel. Naturally his work in great demand, as every visitor wishes to take away as a souvenir something mad by the chief figure in this great symbolic drama. | For three years the peasants of |ammergau have been preparing for this summer's work." They look upon the play as a religlous rite and none is allowed to take part whose life has not been without reproach. The three years preceding the | performance are looked upon as a perfod |ot consecration. The play consists of a number of tableaux, explained and intro- duced by & chorus of eighteen, eight men #nd ten women. These tableaux precede each of the ecighteen acts into which the play is divided and each tableau !s scene from the Old Testament, upon the events of the New. For example, the first tableau shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with the serpent | twined about the tree of life. Before Christ | |18 haled before the Sanhedrin the tableau | of Joseph's brothers seiling him to the | Egyptians is shown. | The selection of the peasants to enact the | various roles !s made on December th | celebration of the feast of St. Nicholas | No, higher honor does life hold for these peasants than to be chosen to enact the |role of the Christus or the Virgin Mary Passion Ober- a bearing | The role of Judas, which offers the finest acting opportunities in the who'e play, Is always a source of the deepest grief to the person chosen for the part. It Is al- ,Ways accepted. however, with the spirit | that the actor will endeavor to make the scene of remorse so poignant that it will be a never-to-be-forgotten object lesson to all who see It. | The profits of the play are divided | | 2 into | given to the worla fou tirst parts, the part going to the poor. the second to defraying the expenses ot the play, th rd for the hospital, the school of design and ot nstitutions of he village. The foufth is as an honorarium for the actor A small surplus is also put aside for equal distribAtion among the villagers, so that all may share in the al benefits of the celebration. the actors have not overpaid n the past Is shown by the fact that Joseph Mayr, who was the Christus In 1570 niy $10 and in 1850 only $167.50, regor Lechnor, whose Judas was the masterplece of both performances had only $3. Undoubtedly the actors will re- celve vastly more than these syme this vear. And then, too, there will be thous- ands of dollars left in the town by tourists who will wish to stay there for seveal days to study the life of the peasants and to make the journey up t | Koptel, tamilarly termed “Christus Kopf" or “Christ Head The peasants go up this mountain the day after the perform- a as pilgrims to touch the metal cov- ered cross perched on the topmost point. There is & belief among the natives that if this cross falfs it will be a visible symbol that the Passion drama shall be discon- tinued. Until 1830 the performances ware given in the village churchyard and it was not until 1850 that the first theater was erected. It was a barn-like structure of boards, un- roofed, except for the stage and boxes; but in recent years an fron structure cap- able of seating about 6,000 people has been built. In the intermissions between the cighteen acts, the epilogue and the pro- logue, and in explanation of the tableaux the chorus sings nearly fifty hymns. the music is Bavarian and classical, low. All is pure and soft and sweet, chiefly in the minor key and with a refrain of lament running through the whole, sug- gestive of the sad story. In the crucifixion scene the peasant taking the part of the Christus undergoes a terrible physical strain, for he is suspended in the air by [ the bandages around his wrists for twenty minutes. ome of the world's greatest actors and actresses have pald tribute to the remark- ably graphic power with which this won- derful story is enacted by these untutored peasants. Edwin Booth, after witnessing the performance in 1880, sald: “Never on the stage have [ seen better acting nor finer conception of character.” The great success of the Oberammergau Passion play has naturally given rife to a number of imitations. One s given In the city of Mexico. In the village of Selwach, in witzerland, the peasants have been very successful in reproducing a passion play to Muller's “Passion Oratorio,”” which was in 1892, The idea of giving a passion play at Scizach was con- ceived by a party of enthusiastic cftigens after seeing the Oberammergau performe ance in 18%. With proverbial Swiss cour- age they said: “What others can do we can do,” and they set to work. The first per formance was given in 13 and achieved an immediate success. Another interesting reilgious festival re- sembling the Oberammergau perform- ance, but antedating it, Is the Span- ish play, “The Queen of Eilche.” This is enacted annually instead of dec nially and deals more with the Vir- gin Mary than with the life of Christ. The tradition of its origin s that on December 20, 1310, the statue of a beau- tiful woman was washed ashore with the sheets of a cantata of music unimpaired by the water. It was belleved to be of miraculous origin and its fame spread. The sick came to be healed, the biind and halt to bow before it. Flpally tt was placed in the cathedral of Elche. When the music is played and sung the church is transformed into a theater and those who receive the sacrament are presented with an azure blue lace fan with golden sticks. The virgin is represented by a girl of 10 years, rabed in a long biue silken gar- ment, with an aurecie about her head. While the cholr sings, Mary kneels and there descends a massive blue globe, Mangrana which opens and from the C@:l- ter there appears an angel who scatters coin among the assembled populace. The angel presents ry with a galden palm leaf and the virgin, now about to dle, asks to see the apostles, and they pass near her ecouch in adoration. The blue globe de- scends once m e and Mary's soul, repre- sented quisite doll robed in silk and incrusted with gems, is taken by the angel to heavén. For two days the recurm. bent form, with a death mask, lles In state while the people with torches and candles pass around it. Finally the clergy file out of the vestry and the aposties Jift the cushion with the figure clc thed in brocade and with jeweled ornaments. They wrap by an it in grave cloth and then entomb it be- neath the altar, which represents the sepul- chre. The heavens now apparently open and through the iltusion is seen the Trinjty slowly descends in ¢ and and a crown lghts upon thy head. The cho sings an inspiring an- them and the festival is at an end BY FREDERIC J. MASKIN, Tomorrow—"Under Twenty-one Flags.” f a'goldes shower The miraculous mirage Ty ot its brocades jewels | 1 | [ | A pretty gitt and desirable articie for) |the house is a little blazer in which pow. ders of Qifferent odors can b burnt. The latter can be prepared at | home, and will serve to fume a room and act as deoderants In cases of These scents are usually small squares | or cubes which burn slowly, and are com- bined with charcoal and some sort of gum {to hold them together. Sometimes rose |water is made o a paste with these ingredients: Onme ounce each of gum ben zbin and nitrate of potassium, one-half an ounce each of cascarilla and liquid styra: three-eights of an ounce of gum traga- eanth, three-quarters of am ounce of offbanum (liguid), and ten ounces of char coal. The'powders should be mixed evenly and the gims reduced to dust. Hose water is then added untji & paste is formed stiff onough to mouid the mass into balls. This | ¢ompound s put away tw dry Another odor, alsg sweet and spicy, is |made from two ounees each of olibanum | and bengofn, one-balf dvam cach of oils caraway, ssadal, riodium and geranium | one-nait ounce of nitrate of potassium and one pound of powdered charcoal The tragacanth and mitrate are dissolved | together, before the other Ingredients are added. This must dry before using. | fliness. | Simple Ways of Preparing Scents to Burn in Rooms Extremely simple. deodorant, is a combination of consisting of haif ounce each barum, cascarilla, cloves, zoin and thyme. These mixed and kept in & tightly but more sultable as & powders of ol ben- to be well closed jar. To an ise, the powder is thrown on hot metal, a shovel answering the purpose. Sweet scented sticks, which are not diffi- cult to make, take an ounce each of san dal wood and gum benzoln, three-quarters of an ounee of oiibanum and half an ounce each of cascarilla, cinnamon, cloves and niter, as well as three and one-half ounces of powdered charcoal and one ounee of gum tragacanth. All the ingredients are powdered and mixed, then made Into a paste with rose water, They are shaped n little sticks and will burn slowly, when dried Few persons know that & room may be deliciously scented by putting a féw drops of any perfumed ofl In a basin of boiling water. For example, three drops of lav- ender ofl to a pint of water Is & good pro- portion. The water must be boiling in order to make steam and the ofl must be dropped in slowly, then perfume is thrown off. Any scent one be used in this way. Too great a quantity of ofl will create a rank flaver. ARGARET MIXTER chooses a cun