THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. OLDEN TIME BAKING. ,CU8TOM OF SATURDAYS THAT HAS BEEN RUDELY BROKEN. Tb Almost Forgot tou Sunday Tom of Our .. . (fraud mothers and gotuepf Jli? llntles ft Which ttUtlngnlslieil the Viiiulesetae i Dinner of Other Pays. The Now York Post In reminiscent TOfa, says that no more rouiitrkoble cbango hns come acres tlio soelnl face of American city nutl country life es pecially In the cities autl their sub urb tlian tho gradual fading away of "bakliif? day.' Less than a genera tion ago every Saturday morning In the house of each family of standing w8 sanctified tU 1 lie use of tlio bali lug tln, 11 ml . mothers and daughters, with vliatever cousins or aunts linp pened to be visiting or within call, nsd to spend at least half the day In the depths of tlielr kitchen, arrayed In dainty print dresses and big ging ham aprons, only going up stnirs when the cupboard shelves were loaded down with de?tly browned loaves of cjike and rows of flaky pies. The "girl," which was the proper terra for housemaid, were superflu ous these mornings, except as huiu tllfj helpers and fetehers of wood, wa ter and cmieoniltnuts. "Making day" wa the supreme weekly event In the households 'that were households. Nowadays, save In the most old-fashioned of families, the kitchen maid baa her kitchen to herself on Satur days quite as much as ou any otliei day of the week. This has resulted In the almost com plete disappearance of thg rbj nluj Krtid while light env-; of many sorts that formerly every good housewife thought iu-cossary to keep up the rep lication of her establishment. It has made the once fashionable flaky pies Quit were feminine accomplishments qatte as much as Kreuch and dancing disappear completely. And the ban ishment of "linking day" is responsi ble for the ending of a function that waa at one time well nigh universal the old Sunday "tea," which was ver itably a tea, and consisted of a cold dish or two, fragrant Oolong or Sou chong and heaps of sweet goodies ga lore, oblong silver cake-baskets piled With wedges of flaky cake, preserves, Jellies, hot biscuits and pickles. There may be some towns in the country where the old-fashioned bak ing still goes on, and Sunday tea is atlll what It used to be, but these places are few. It is no longer the fashion for the mistress of a house bold to be prepnred and able to make the delightful old dishes her grand mother was an expert at. The major ity of these delicacies are beginning to be lost In oblivion nowadays. The cook-books and tons of recipes that find their way Into print do not eon corn themselves with this lost section Of America n cookery. They deal with til sauces, the dressings, the garnish togs, and the meats of European chefs, hut they leave out the rich, creamy flakiness of the old pies and cakes. ' Cakes and pies, too, have somehow come to be merely Incidentals of a meal instead of the staple features thay used to be. The old-time rules and recipes, the quantity of eggs, cream, sugar and butter they called for, would certainly shock any house keeper of today. These articles were thrown In with a lavish hnud and an Implicit faith In the lufnllibilty of the "rule." Housewives were not Infre quent In those days who made ten to fifteen pies and as many loaves of cake In a single morning. While the full glory of "baking day" was re flected Sunday night, and the richest . loaves and the finest preserves were act forth then for the visitors who were nlways there, the supply never theless was planned to last the whole week through. Especially was thin the case in the suburbs, to which city folks used frequently to journey on the first day of the week to see their relatives and friends, and when n marriageable girl of any popularity was sure to have four or five of her best young men drop In late Sunday afternoon with the full expectation of being asked to "tea." Nor did the In vitation ever fail to come, aud many a Jack proposed marriage to Jill af ter being hypnotized by her mamma's cooking. MODERN PROVERBS Merit causes envy In the base, and emulation In the noble. lie who agrees with us Is a wise fellow and well Instructed. Before you become ungry, try to find a reason for not being so. It Is the acme of good bivedltig to respect a feeling we do not share. The foolish man strives for the good opiulou of others, a wise man for his own. Learn to imitate the virtues of your enemies rather than the faults of your friends. lie who suffers without cause Is more fortunate than he who causes suffering. The woman who banishes Delicacy often becomes accomplice to the mur der of lunoceuue. Forgiveness is Heaven-sent balm that has bem known to cure eveu the wounds of self-love. Self-love, like the serpent In Cleo patra's flowers aud fruit, often lies hidden among the motives of our best actions. Hi) who unites an assertion with out HUlIic'.ent data, or upon hearsay, Is apt to breed up a wolf that may some day turn upon and injure himself. Errors in religion may cause pity, bnt never excite anger in n wise man. Take a torch in your hand and try to examine ilie stars by lis light, and you will uudeiuiaud how near li.o fi nite mluil comes W pvuetrailug the in. , .. - IN THE WHIRL OF FASHION. Suggestions for Three Pretty Gowns Suit able forth lenson. (Py Special Arrangement with the N. T. Sun.) The general outline of dress to toned down to a moderate degree of fullness as to skirl nud sleeves, which Is a de cided Improvement; unlets we look Upon the new sleeve, 6 irly ttg-ht, as the Inauguration of nn ugly, uncom fortable fashion. It Is not here yet, however, for there Is ot least enough fullness nt tho top to suggest (lie nbnor ninl structure so recently discarded; and, ns old fashions are rarely ever re vived without soma modern Inniroro. uient, there Is hope for the tight slesve. t which seems so Imminent, , I The elaborate eostume In tlio picture is of flue green canvass. The plain skirt Is made over a bright rose-colored silk, giving It n pleasing tone. The bodice Is of white chlrffou, over which Is draped piuk and green silk. The gathered sleeves have small puds; the folded bolt and the collar are of silk. Tho peculiar fan draiery at the shoul der is of green satin. The fur trimmed gown is of flue blue cloth. The skirt is edged with two little frills, one of white ottomnn, and the other of blue cloth. Those are headed with a narrow band of beaver fur. The blouse bodice Is made of the blue cloth, which is pleated into the waist nt the back, where the material Is cut away to show a pointed piece of the white ottomnn. There Is a pleated rest of the same material In front, ou either side of which the blue cloth is cut out Into tabs and edged with a narrow band of fur. llelow the" waist ou either side fall two pieces of the cloth over the hips; these also have a narrow edge of tho fur. The sleeves are finished about the hands with cut-out talis like those upon the front of tho bodice, and filled out with chiffon ruches edged with lace to match the neck. The simple costume with the Bkirt kilted all around is of fine smooth cloth In one of the rich soft shades of brown. The jacket bodice has a small basque at tlio back, but Is pointed in front. It Dpcus over a vest of tucked chiffon, ycry soft nud dainty looking, nud fastened with a shaped band of the material at the waist. The band collar Is of white and fastened to the vest. The Jacket Is trimmed with velvet and silk braid of a shade of brown a trifle darker. It is lined with flanie-eolored silk which shows a very little at the oiieulng over tho vest. Wood Fibre. A new process for manufacturing paving blocks, building materials and other objects from wood fibre is re ported to have been patented in Swit zerland nud other countries. The fibre is lirst rendered antiseptic by treat ment with vitriol, corrosive sublimate, etc., and Is then mixed with a sultnblo ugglomcrnut having mortar as a base. The. plastic material so obtained Is pressed into moulds. The objects niudu are lilit, porous and tough, bad con ductors of sound aud heat, and can in! sawed, nailed, drilhri aud other wise treated like wood. WILLIAM M0RRI8, SOCIALIST. Its Inherited a Competency, nmt Mads Himself It lohbjr II la Mternry Work. Of heaven or hell I have no power to slntft I cnnn t esse the burden of your frar. Or make qiilrk-conitng dentil A little tlilnz. Or bring back the pleasure of t at, j-enrs. Nor for my words s'.nll re forget your tears, Or hopeftxnln for siigbt thnt I cun ny. The Idle ginger of an empty Any, William Morris, the English poet, called himself "The Idle singer of an empty dny," yet ho was nnythlng but Idle. His ways were1 f"U effort. Time and time ngnlu he wits' !' scr'bed ns poet, artist, socialist, nglta tor and reformer, Hut these were all "pwlons of the dominant In in his nature. In nil things tli fluence his ma ker of student literature, this singer of songs, this designer of tapestries and papers, this printer of books, this rabid socialist was a colorlst. WILLIAM MORRIS. "I was led io Socialism." he said, "by noting how ugly civilization Is, We have practically killed the beau tiful In this nineteenth century. Rail roads are ugly. Streets are ugly. Capitalism has plunged us into a morass of ugliness out of which there seems no escape. Of course this is much better expressed by liuskin. but he thinks the remedy is a return to tlio past, whereas I look to a new fu ture. My Socialism has Its origin In artistic longing." II Is own appearance exemplified Ms creed, lie was n stout, sturdy, sta' wart man who looked at the world frankly with bright blue eyes that il lumined his ruddy face. lie wore a black slouch hat. His massive head was covered with a shock of rumpled gray hair, while a tempestuous beurd adorned his face. Ills father was a rich merchant, and from him was Inherited a business sa gacity, but even thnt was ralnbow hued. It was ns nnturnl that he should place his factory on n co-operative basis as it was that he should Blng. LIVE INSECTS AS JEWELRY. - New York Women Are Wearing Crawling uapHiieae Terrapin a llroorhea. Women have taken to wearing Jew elry that Is alive and crawls, a fact which requires some explanation. There Is a little animal known as tho Jnpauese terrapin, which for many years has been allowed to mako Its humble way unnoticed. Then of a sudden some fickle Parisian ladles be gan to tire of their brilliant chnme- leU8, which they had formerly been toua or wearing ns a substitute for Jewelry, and the pretty little terrapin wns attached to a gold chain and be-' came the very newest fad. Then New Vork women took up the Idea, aud a New York Jeweller, Jn respouse to tho demnud, has just ordered some hnu- dreds of these living oruameuts. Wo- men are so quick to adopt nu idea of "'is sort that It will not be very long before the bodices of every fashion able woman will be adorned with a crawling specimen, and the enterpris ing dealer's supply will be more than exhausted. The terrapin Is a harmless little creature, most unliable nud unobtru sive In disposition and modest like wise In appetite. Wheu one Is tired of him ns an ornament he may safely be kept In n box, nud will subsist con tentedly ou a little water aud a fly or two every night, lie has a pretty mot tled shell, to which a gold chain Is easily attached. This In turu Is fas tened to a stickpin, which may be elaborate or otherwise. A gold heart Is the simplest design, and a gold dag ger Is likewise popular. The terra pin Is often worn with evening gowus, wheu he astonishes the public by crawling over his owner's fair neck. Oue has to conquer a little squcnuilsh ness to keep up with modem fads, i and the terrapin permits no exception i to this. Viikuowu anil Known, Charles Sumner once had an expe rience which taught hlin that he was both known nud unknown, eveu in Boston. He was on his way, riding in a street enr, to attend n social meet ing of the Church of the Disciples, to which he had been invited by the pas tor, Ir. James Ereemnn Clarke, when two suggestive lucldeuts happened. ( While In the cur he asked a gentle man the exact locality of the church Tho gentleman told him, and then said: "Are you a stranger, sir?" show ing that there was a ltostoulan who did not know Mr. Sumner by sight. I But a boy In the car jumped out ; when Mr. Simmer reached his desll ' nation, and said: "Mr. Sumner, will you please write your name In my al bum V" They stopped under a street lamp, uud Mr. Sumner wrote his 11 a me. j A Ci' Iti-Kiti'd lor 1 qulty. Messrs. W, E. Booth and Charles W. Fielder own a cow hi common, and divide the milk aud cost of keeping. -The cow with decent sense of her re sponsibility, became the mother of , twin calves the oilier morning, uotliat I the owner of each moiety of her might I have one. Geueseo (.N. Y.) Kopubll 1 can. TESLA'S LATEST INVENTION. i m A Matter that Will Frove of Interest IS Ilie SrlenlMo World. Nikola Tesla has made another dis covery that will Interest the entire scientific world. The latest Invention of tlw great electrician Is a device that demonstrates tho scientific possibility of creating brilliant Illumination by means of vacuum tubes which arc not In mechanical contact with the electric source. The device U constructed to innke 100,oK),ooo vibration a second. No such results as those u(alucd by air. Tenia hav er 0(1(Ml 0,iiM.d lie fore. The Invention will prove of grent value for the production of Itontgen rays, making ozone and nrgon and for electro-therapeutic treatment. The light pro duced by Mr. Tesla 's new method Is of greater brilliancy t'h.in are Illumina tion. This fact Was demonstrated by photography. KTKOLA TESLA. By his new method Mr. Trslo, inter rupt a current of electricity fio.ooo.ono or S0.000.000 times a second. The re sult is a brJUiant white light, although the vacuum tubes are disconnected and away from rho exciting colls. Mr. Tesla, while making his experiments, sat In a i-ha'lr between the tubes aud the coll and was photographed by the light. Heretofore tlra mctlrad of Interrupt ing electric currents for the purpose of producing vibrations has been mostly by t'he commutator or vibrating arma ture of the Itnhinokorff induction coil. Hy this method the vibrations had to be confined to a narrow limit compared with the waves made by tire new method. They rarely exceeded a few hundred a second, ulrhoug'h Improved by a rotating Interrupter that broke and connected the current, nud until Mr. Tesla made his discovery 100,000, 000 vibrations a second was believed to be beyond human Invention. Mr. Tesla has tnken out a patent on his new de vice, and It will be introduced at once where it can be used to advantage. MAKING OF PINS. One of the Modern Machine! Will Tarn Out 8,000 an Hour. There Is scarcely a woman living who does not use the common and everyday pin every day, more or less, but few, however, ever think how It Is mnde. To complete a pin it has to go through mauy hands before it Is ready for the consumer. It Is a very delicate article to handle, and the cost of building the machines to make It Is the greatest outlay. The wire from which these plus are manufactured is specially prepared and comes to the factory ou large reels much like gl gnnttc cotton spools. The wire Is first turned on eight or ten lit tie copper rollers. This Is to get all the bend nud kink out of It; in other words, to straighten It perfectly. Af ter this preliminary operation Is com pleted It is once more wound ou a very large reel, which Is attached to the machine thnt makes the pins. Oue of these machines makes on an aver age 8,000 pins nn hour, and some large factories will often have thirty or forty machines nt work nt one time. After the pins are relensed from the grip of this machine they are given a bath of sulphuric acid. This removes all the grease uud dirt from them. They are then placed In a tub or bar rel of sawdust. Pins and sawdust are next taken together from the bar rel and allowed to fall In a steady stream through a strong air blast, which separates the sawdust from tho plus. But ns yet they are pointless, and plus without points would not be of much use. In order to point them they are carried on an endless grooved bolt which passes a set of rapidly mov ing files. This points them roughly, and after being passed between two grinding wheels and forced against a rapidly moving baud faced with emery cloth they are dipped in a polishing tub of oil. This hitter is a large, slowly revolving copper-lined tub, which Is tilted at an angle of 4 5 degrees. As this revolves the points keep sliding down the smooth copper to the lower side, and owing to tho constant friction against the copper and each other receive a brilliant pol ish nud tluish. They go next to tho sticker, where they fall from a hopper ou an Inclined plane, in which are a number of stilts. The pins catch In these stilts, and, hanging by their hends, slide down to ! nu apparatus which Inserts them in the paper. This machine is perhaps, the most ingenious of nil the beautiful and complicated contrivances that help to make aud manipulate the pin. It does nil thin nt the rate of loo.oiK) pins au hour, and yet a single bent or damaged pin will cause It to stop feed lug until the attachment removes the offender. The plus ure then stuck Into the papers by tho machine, which Is usually operated by a skillful girl, nud then they are ready for shipment to ull parts of the clvlllssed world where the common but necessary pin Is a factor. Dry Goods Economist. 1 . it' I IIP B OTTO Mil I AN ELEGANT with each SWEET CAPOIML CIGARETTES AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A COLLECTION OF BUTTONS WITHOUT "A handful of dirt may be a house ful of shame." Keep your house clean with SAP LOVJ, AT A GREAT ALTITUDE. A Faiuou Mountain Guide to bo Married 011 the Top of Mount Tacoiun. Henry Carter, the famous Mount Ta florai g-u'.de, has fallen In love under re nmnix circumstances, and will be mar ried ly Rev. William M. Jeffries, the first j-rea"hf-r who delivered a sermon on the ton of the mountain. There is a pos slbil'.t: that Carter will be married on top of the mountain, the place where he f-il !n love one n!ht recently, with the tli.tir:(..Tetcr rtrlftf ring 20 decrees be law Sfro. He is to marry Cora Beach man. 1 puhool teacher, and the belle of Lake Park, a suburb of Tacoma. Miss Heachman, accumpaniod by Ikfr. and Mr. R M. (iroe, of Kdtcjnvllle, set out Tu.sJ.y with Carter, the most trust ed of all the mountain guides, to ascend M.iunt Taeoma. At Olbraltar Rock, which corresponds to the "shoulder" of the Matterhirn. 4.000 feet from the sum mit. Air. Groe bme exhausted. Miss lli-'uchnun do Ured her intention to retch the summit at ail haxards. Carter l. il tii- v.ty, but soon Ion his Ice ax, and in foiling difficult pa.'stg they were com-r-l-t to rely solely on their alpenstocks. They fi'A not reach the Fummlt until 6 p 111., too late to artempt the descent that r.lrrht. They hnd lift Paradise Valley, below the snow line, without wraps, and only a l'rnon and one sandwich ea?h In til ? way of provisions. Carter selected a shertcrcd Ice cave formed by Jets of steam from tho crater, and thwe they passed a sleeping night, discussing; all soru ut topics, and before they left the summit at 8 a. m., Wednesday, Miss Peaehman had promised to marry the CMide. The instant thtfy left the eteam of the ice cave thIr clothes were fronen stiff, nnd they suffered great hardships In de soendmgr. A rescue party organized dur ing the day came to their relief late in tlv afternoon, after they had been with out rood over St hours. Tacoma (Wash.) Correspondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A War Time Joke. Forrest, the great Confederate cavalry commander, was not without a sense of humor, although a stern man In the sad dle at the head of his troopers. Here- Is a story which was current In his corps ann always brought a smile to his hand some dark face: ' One day after his raid toward Memphis some of his cavalrymen overtook a Jew with a one-horse wagon full of all sorts of goods, which he wag peddling. They halted him. "Hello, Sheeny; what have you got In that wagon?" "Oh, gentlemens, gentiemens, T svear by my father's grave I have nothint-s but soma little threads and needles and dings fur de ladies." The cavalrymen proceedad to go through that wagon and fit themselves ou; with boots, shoes, shirts, hats, blan ket, tin cups, pipes, tobacco, and Ten-mfr-ea whiskey. The pcddlr begged, wept and pleaded to no purpose. Then tin worm turned: "I report you every t,iu. The general will make business mlt you for dls." Tne cavalrymen role off. loaded with foelr plunder, laughinn and Joking. The Jew-followed on up to headquarters. "General," slid he, choking wlih wrath and cut down to the bone by his logs, "iloca jojer mens vas slitop my vagln on Co rote and one sojer man, he sas, BUTTON FREE package of COST. OLIO 'Moses, dot hat on your hed vaa too b( for you. We will swap even," and he takes off my bran new hat, vat I va pay, t'i In greenbacks for, wholesale, and he Jam down on my head his old gray wool hat, full of holes. And dm another soJc man he ride up and he say, 'Moses, dot coat don't fit you In the back, and dent boots is too tight for you; Ie afraid they plve you corns.' And he pull 'em 01 and den they takes everything occept da mule and de vagiu. I vos ax dent tojer mns vat dey vas." " 'Guerrillas, Mokes, guerrillas,' anj den dey winked at me and laughed fit to kll! theyself. "Pouf! Dey call demselves guerrillas, but I f.nks dy acts more like robbsrs." Washington Post. , . Now Mormon Krltlemeiit In Melro. Four miles from the litt'.e village of Fan Horfc-ia, 100 miles west of the city of Chihuahua, Is a new Mormon settle ment, as yet without a name. So far tho settlers only number thirty younf men from Salt Lake, who are acting as pioneers to the colony that U to fol low. Tho Uth ealn;s have purchased the hacienda of Mr. Marshall and can boast of owning land ten miles square; land as mountainous, rocky and steep as anything In their own loved Wasatch range. Tho range here, however, I covered by pine timber as fine as any In Wisconsin, and to the very mountain tops It is carpeted with tall .nutriilouJ grasses. The valleys are deep a-nd narrow, mere canons rather than valleys, af fording very little g-round capable of cultivation; but that little yields tw abundant cropa each year. Clear, cod water Is abundant everywhere. It looks like a. queer place for a colony, but It Is a magnificent place for a large stock farm. The few houses so far created 1 more like" thoae of a thrifty stockman than the nucleus of a future city. greot deal has been said about Mormos possessions, embryo Salt Lake Cities I" Mexico, and this cattle ranch has bB pictured as the center from which the fthmvfa n-lll rbmA Aav milA 'his land S they once did Utah. We went out of our way to see the new settlement and do not believe It to be Intended for any thing more thaji a large company cattle ranch. This and the little town ol As cension. 100 miles west of El Paso. r the only footholds the Mormons have In Mexico, Raiilroads are developing country too fast for any outside ckur. syndicate or organization of any klIJ'! to do more than control the local affair of small communities. It will be Im possible under the present nfttion" policy for the Mormons, as euoli, te gain any noticeable power or Influence. New York Post. I Wns Ills Brulii Anliep, AUof Just as circulation was about to ee t-'lm Impulsively nestled upon the otn knee. j "Kdw.ird!" ! "IXuVing!" '., 1 "Tell me the oil, old story, Pdwart , For a moment he was silent, lie was rapidly reviewing the 1,uilA' find trying to deolde which was the 01 tno small-boy-and-green-apple story the story of the triinp and the nJIU wade plo. Detroit Trlbuu. -
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