| Woman and HcrWays |
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THE SERVANT PROBLEM,
This Woman Would Solve It by Pro
viding; Pleannßt Quarter* Out
aide of the Kitehen.
"Where do I think charity and
philanthropy ought to begin?" repeat
ed the woman who was pouring the
tea. "Why, with one's servants. Serv
ants' sitting-rooms; there you have
the key to the whole servant problem.
1 mean that next in necessity to your
own drawing-room and the kitchen it
self come rooms where jour servants
may receive their friends.
"A friend of mine—a woman of >deas
as well as means—has fitted up a
room on the second floor, a pretty
room at the side of the house, and
given it to the servants in which to
receive their friends. It is not merely
carpeted and furnished with six
chairs. It was made artistic at a verv
moderate cost. A breadth of matting
was run around the wall just above
a couch covered with red denim. The
■walls were denim-covered and hung
with a good carbon copy or two. The
floor was stained and laid with cheap,
effective rugs —one ot them being
made of coarse canvas, fringed at the
ends, lined with the same and marked
with a paint brush with blotches of
old blue and dull red. Pillows were
placed on the couches; here and there
were stained pine shelves for books,
finished at the top with ordinary pic
ture molding. White dimity curtains
were at the windows, and a bit of pot
tery stood on a shelf above the door.
The room was arranged at an expense
which was hardly to be mentioned, and
it was very artistic and comfortable.
"In this room the servants took
turns, arranging their evenings to suit
« themselves. They might entertain
your milkman, the green grocer's boy
or an honest young laborer —that w T as
their lookout. The guests came up the
back stairway, and the room was
theirs.
"After a time there may begin to
be a difference in the sort of callers
who come. Well-appearing, well
trained servants, disciplined to soft
voices and silent feet, are not likely
to have very objectionable friends. But
if they do, refined surroundings will
help point out their objectionableness
eooner than anything else. Make your
home attractive to your servants and
they will put up with anything rather
than leave you."—N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
TREE TRUNK SPIRE.
St. Peter's Church, at Tueoiim, Wa»h.,
Inn Quaint and Simple
House of Worship.
Christmas bells rang at Tacoma,
Wash., from a peculiar church spire. It
is a Douglas fir tree stump. The church,
a small, primitive structure, was built
in the midst of a rough lumber camp in
the seventies by the fide of the tree, so
that the latter might be used for a
steeple. Bishop Morris, who is still
bishop of Oregon, built it.
The church was built in less than a
week, but the steeple had been growing
ST. PETER S CHURCH, TACOMA.
for over 500 years. The stump is over
seven feet in diameter at the height of
the fence. On its top is the church bell,
surmounted by a little roof and cross.
The belfry is reached by a curious lad
der formed by slats 011 a board leaning
from the roof to the tree trunk.
Over the tree grows a beautiful Eng
lish ivy. This ivy has found its way
into Ihe church through a crack in the
simple chapel. There it grows, a beau
tiful decoration for the interior of the
house. It is green even at this sea
son.
The bell was given by the Sunday
6ehool of old St. Peter's church, of Phil
adelphia, and the church is known as
6t. Peter's Episcopal church. Mr.
Cheal is the rector.
l.lttle Kliyme for HridcJV.
Married in white, you have chosen all right;
Married in gray, you will go far away;
Married in black, you will wish yourself
back;
Married in red, you will wish yourself dead;
Married in green, ashamed to be seen;
Married in blue, he will always be true;
Married in pearl, you will live in a whirl;
Married in yellow, ushamed of your fellow;
Married in bi own, you will live out of town;
Married in pink, your spirit will sink.
MRS. LOWE HONORED.
Georgia Lady Appointed to Repre
sent the Club Women of America
at the PnrU Eipixitlon.
Mrs. William Bell Lowe, of Atlanta,
Ga., president of the General l 1 ederation
of Women's Clubs, has received notice
of her appointment as honorary presi
dent for America of the woman's board
of the Paris exposition, and has notified
Mme. Pocjuard, leader of the woman's
department of the exposition, of her
acceptance.
Mrs. Lowe is one of the few southern
women who have become conspicuous
during the past few years in the wom
en's club movement, and she is now the
official leader of that movement in
America. Although it is only a short
time since she became identified with
'Mz, V
MRS. WILLIAM BELL LOWE.
(President for America of the Woman'l
Board of the Paris Exposition.)
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, of which she is the president,
Mrs. Lowe has been long known in the
south as a wealthy and philanthropic
woman. She has a handsome home in
the aristocratic quarter of Atlanta, and
there dispenses notable hospitality
amid the most luxuriant surroundings.
First attracted to club liTe during
the Cotton States and International ex
position, she became imbued with the
idea at once, and it was at her home that
the Woman's club of Atlanta was born.
From this beginning the Georgia Fed
eration grew, and Mrs. Lowe was unan
imously elected its president. In 1898
she was elected presiding oflicer'of the
general federation at the Denver con'
vention. The work of spreading the
club idea among the women of the south
fell to her lot, and few have any com
plaint to make of the success she has
made in this somewhat stubborn field.
Mrs. Lowe has crossed the meridian
of life, but she is still youthful in ap
pearance, and though not a large wom
an has an imposing appearance and is
an excellent and impressive speaker.
She is of rather slight stature, her eyes
are blue, and her brown hair is tinged
with gray. sdie wears eyeglasses,
dresses with elegance and taste and has
the charming, easy manners that per-
I tain to the ladies of the south. How she
is held in estimation of the members
of the general federation may be gath
ered from the fact that she—a south
erner—could find friends enough to
elect her the executive head of this tre
mendously large body of American
women, the vast majority of whom live
in the north.
Before her marriage Mrs. Lowe was
one of the most beautiful and popular
belles in the south. She has a son and a
married daughter.
FOR THE BRIDE-ELECT.
Linen, Hook nml KoMe Slioivepfi Are
llecomins Popular AH Over
the Country.
The bride of to-day is being made the
recipient of many social honors. All
her girl friends pay her tribute by
these pretty entertainments, and the
popular maid must be ready for her
wedding several weeks before the event
transpires, for at each of the func
tions she is supposed to wear one of her
trousseau gowns. Most of these af
fairs are luncheons or breakfasts, each
with a special feature. A "linen
shower," for instance, consists of each
guest bringing a piece of linen, a doiley,
centerpiece or bureau scarf, whatever
one chooses, and as the party leaves
)tie table the pieces are thrown at the
bride-to-be.
For a "book shower" each guest
brings a book appropriately inscribed
to her friend, with a sentiment which
the giver fancies. Of course, each hos
tess can use her own ideas in planning
her entertainment, and in her invita
tions puts in one corner what each
guest is to bring for the honored one.
"Teaspoons," "cups and saucers,"
"plates" and "sofa pillows" are all ac
ceptable. These contributions go to
ward furnishing the bride's new home
1 with memories of her girlhood days and
friends. The "rose shower" should be
left for the last affair before the wed
ding, and as the bride departs an im
mense bag filled with rose petals is
burst over her head, and each maid
throws a handful of the fragrant blos
soms, signifying the hope that her fu
' ture may be rose-strewn. The bag is
made of tissue paper, and the girls will
: all have been saving their rose petals
; for weeks for this occasion.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH i, 1900.
CRUELTY IN RUSSIA.
Czar Rules His Big Realm with a
Red-Hot Iron.
Demoniacal l'nnlihment Inflicted
I'pon Men ami Women— Savagfrr
That Han Ileen Tabooed Even
by Cannibal Tribe*.
From the reports which are constant
ly brought- by travelers and others
from Siberia and other parts of the
Russian empire there is no attempt be
ing made by the czar to live up to his
promise to prevent the sending of fur
ther political exiles to his Asiatic em
pire.
On the contrary, the treatment of
these prisoners has become even more
rigorous than at any period lately, and
they are being shipped in increased
numbers to that inferno, which is a
curse to modern civilization.
To add to the horrors of the situa
tion, the government grant of 300,000
roubles per year set aside for the main
tenance of the political prisoners has
been cut down to 100,000 roubles* while
the number of these unfortunates
grows bigger and bigger, and this
means, of course, that many of them
literally starve to death in the pitiless
deserts of the north. Particularly is
this the case in the provinces of Verk
hoyansk and Kolimsk, where there is
no possible means of earning a penny
by any means whatever. Under tlio
regulations these exiles receive no al
lowance until proof has been received
that they have no relatives in Russia
who are capable of being made to sup
port them. The period occupied in secur
ing this information usually occupies
12 months, and in the interim there is
nothing but. starvation ahead for the
exile, who goes to his fate unprovided
with funds.
The practice of branding those
among these poor wretches who, ac
cording to the estimation of the czar's
BRANDED BY THE CZAR.
(Demoniacal Punishment Inflicted on Crim
inals In Russia.)
officials, are the most dangerous is one
of the most brutal and revolting that
the mind can devise.
Men and women alike, says the Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune, are sub
jected to this demoniacal punishment,
which is accomplished by means of hot
Irons, the work being executed with
an amount of savagery not even met
with to-day among the fiercest can
nibal tribes.
In the presence of his fellow crim
inals, who have the same horrible or
deal awaiting them, the shrinking-vic
tim is dragged forward and pinioned
securely by brutal keepers and held
tightly whilst the manipulator of the
burning iron proceeds to mark the de
grading brand upon his forehead. This
is often done in the presence of other
members of the family, and the dis
torted features of the unfortunate
creature, the smell of burning flesh'and
the heart-rending shrieks of himself
and others combine to produce a scene
which is so nauseating as to defy de
scription. A traveler who h_s been
present at one of these scenes of tor
ture says that he never saw a more
frightful instance of barbarity even
at the orgies of the devil worshipers
of the East Indies. Civilization is dis
graced and discredited by such inhu
man practices conducted under its
name, and one shrinks with horror at
the thought of the sway of such a gov
ernment being extended amoug civil
ized peoples.
It has been given out that the use of
the knout as a mode of punishment has
been forbidden by the authorities, but
that is one of the many specious pre
tenses with which the Russian govern
ment seeks to impose upon the credul
ity of outraged humanity. The knout
is as much in use to-day as it ever was.
Only a few years ago a peasant at
Vitebsk who had been driven from the
district because of being suspected of
belonging to a heterodox religious sect,
was discovered by the police, who ap
plied the knout so severely to him that
he expired from the effects of his beat
ing.
It was reported by the police that
the man had compassed his own de
struction in prison, but his fellow work
men learned the truth and set fire to the
barracks in which the police were
lodged. In consequence of this act
some 50 men and women were at once
hurried off to Siberia.
The slightest suspicion or accusation
against a person is sufficient to secure
liis immediate transportation to Siberia
without even the pretense of a trial.
A student accused of propagating rev
olutionary views was arrested in Mos
cow last September, and as there was
no evidence against him he was sub
sequently discharged. Then he was
rearrested and thrown into a dungeon,
where he went stark mad, ending his
miserable existence by igniting his
clothes and burning himself alive.
A{<! of lirltlnh Soldier*.
The average age of the British soldier
cow at the front Is nearly two years
higher than that of the soldier who
fought at Waterloo.
YIELDS FAIR FORAGE.
Uerman Millet HON Found ('ounltler
u-ble In \ or with Southern und
Western Ka ritiem.
This millet is called, also, southern
millet, American millet, golden millet,
mammoth millet, Bengal grass, Da
kota millet. It grows to a height of
four or five feet, and has heads that
are six to eight inches long and an inch
wide. This variety has been in general
cultivation in the south since the early
seventies, but was introduced into the
United States many years earlier, i'rof.
Crozier regards the East Indies as the
most probable source of its introduc
tion into the United States, and re-
GERMAN MILLET.
A and B, Two Views of the Spikelet wltli
Its Cluster of Three Beards; C, Seed.
marks that the name "Hengnl grass,"
by which it was tirst known in this
country, suggests such an origin.
Flint, on the contrary, makes the state
ment that it was tirst brought to the
United States from Europe. However
this may be, it seems that the seed used
in Tennessee, where this variety first
came into real prominence, was brought
from France in the early sixties, and
since that time has been the leading
millet sown in the south. German mil
let makes a heavy yield of forage un
der favorable conditions, but does not
stand drought as well as the smaller
varieties, such as common millet and
Hungarian. The hay is coarser and
less highly valued than that from the
smaller millets, but when the forage
can be fed in the green state this will
be found to be an excellent variety to
grow, on account of the heavy yield.
German millet is the latest of the va
rieties commonly grown here, and his
exceedingly variable in its appearance
and habit of growth. Il is very sel
dom that one sees a field that is uni
form in character. Many, perhaps
most, of the heads may be typical of
the variety, but usually there will be
many others scarcely to be distin
guished from common millet or other
standard varieties.
PREPARING SOD GROUND.
Why II Should He Plowed ill llie f'lml
Fuvorable Opportunity Dur
ing the Winter.
In most cases when a piece of sod
ground is to be prepared for planting
to corn in the spring, it will be a good
plan to plow at the first favorable op
portunity during the winter.
The thawing and freezing to which
it will usually be subjected will aid in
loosening and disintegrating the sod,
and making it an easier task to work
into a proper tilth for planting. It is
important in plowing sod to turn the
top sod completely over. It is best for
corn especially to plow reasonably
deep. Deep plowing and shallow culti
vation w ill give the best results. It will
also make it easier work to prepare the
soil in a good tilth if care is taken to
plow thoroughly at the start.
Freshly plowed old sod requires con
siderable work to prepare it in good
tilth, and if the plowing is delayed un
til spring, after grass has made a start
to grow, even more work is required.
Sod groucd can be plowed in many
cases when old ground would be entire
ly too wet. After plowing, it is usually
not advisable to disturb it again until
ready to prepare for planting. At this
time there is no better implement to
[ use than a good disc harrow. Unless
the sod is old und tough one good go
ing over with the harrow, lapping well,
will be sufficient, but with old sod it
may be necessary togo over twice, the
first time the way the land was plowed,
and the second time crosswise. It is
best to lap well, and to cut reasonably
deep. The disc harrow will eut thor
oughly, and then the smoothing har
fow will fine and level down and put
the soil in good condition for the seed,
it pays with all crops, and especially
we like corn, that is to be cultivated,
to prepare the soil thoroughly before
the seed is planted, and it will be best
togo over with the disc and smoothing
harrows several times in order to se
cure this condition, rather than to
plant with the soil in rough condition.
In a system of rotation corn after
grysr is one of the best plans, but in
securing a good growth and yield, it is
essential that the soil be well prepared.
—Sv. Louis Republic.
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