THE SCBANTON TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY 1MORNJNG, APRIL 1, 189G
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THE WORLDQFWOiMNKINO
Topics of laterest to All Member of
the Getle Sti.
HEALTH AND HOUSEHOLD HINTS
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Carefall Selected Reeipea. Sinnllow
a to the Care of the' Home1 aed
Other Mature Enterlag lato
Women's Widealag Sphere.
The Chicago Times-Herald recently,
ollected the opinions of aome eminent
persons on "The Ideal Wife." Here are
aome of them: "The Ideal family."
writes M. B. Castle, president of the
Federal Suffrage association of the
United States, "la a co-partnership. In
which the 'ideal' wife la an equal part
ner; she having charge of a department,
the Ideal husband having charge of an
other, both being supreme In their de
partments, and each counseling and
advising with the other on all material
questions. She haa no desire to fill his
place and knows she cannot if he Is
properly fitted to It, and only alms to
till her own so ' !sely and fully that the
other partner has no desire to Inter
fere." I! II II
Says Judge McConnell: "A good and
lntelllgenti woman who Is fortunate
enough to love and marry a good and
Intelligent man, who loves her. Is likely
to be an Ideal wife for that man. Ideal
wives are not in stock. They are de
veloped after the honeymoon, and the
husband is the most helpful factor In
this development and must endeavor
quite persistently to make something
Ideal of himself."
II II I!
"We need," says Rev. P. W. Qunsau
lus, "a revival of the old culture that
In love affairs la willing to see that,
there is something in a man's being
comfortable. I would rather have a
wife who could sew buttons on a gar
ment, when buttons needed to be sewed
on, In one language, than a wife who
could only talk nonsense in seven lan
guages. A wife has a right to demand
the same things of her husband. The
American wife. In particular, must at
tach her children. If she be thus hon
ored, to the home, by means of those
virtues and enthusiasms which alone
may inuke American thought and im
pulse as noble as they ought to be."
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R. M. Kasley, secretary of Chicago's
Civic Federation, is of the belief that
the Ideul wife "is the complement, of
her husband, supplying ms deficiencies
only to the point of rounding and fit
ting out his character, toning down his
excesses, but not obliterating Indi
viduality. She will also see to it that
the 'toning' process is not altogether
one-sided." In Franklin H. Head's
opinion "she should be sufficiently
versed In current events to converse
intelligently with her husband. I think
domestic life should always come first
with the Ideal wife, but not to the ex
clusion .of books and outside affairs.
She should dress well, and. to a reason
able extent, take pleasure In her gowns.
She should be strong and healthy; like
bicycling and out-of-door sports. There
ore many happy marriages where the
woman is the mini's intellectual su
perior, provided she dues not find it
out." According to If. !. Sell'rldge, she
"should have above all things u sweet
and happy disposition, then her hus
band Is upt to be a contented mun. An
ideul wife should be comimnionitble,
and this would necessitate her having
many tastes In common with her hu
bund. At the same time, the ideal wo
man should have, plenty of rhuracter,
and by character I do not meun what
would be culled strong-mindedness, but
the power of Independent thought, de
veloped In feminine lines." Finally, in
C. C. Uonney'H Judgment she- "Is one
who can help her husbund In the pecu
liar work to which he has chosen to
devote his life. This Implies that he
should choose his career before he se
lects his wife. In selecting the latter
lie should especially seek one who will
be a safeguurd against his own defects
and weaknesses. Mutual dependence
and helpfulness Is the best assurance
of domestic peace and prosperity."
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TCAfnrA n.'A Hlmnlaii .Via l,1an1 ,lrirA 1
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may be well to view her from the stand
point ui Annur i. jones, or Arumore,
J"a., a correspondent of the Philadel
phia Times. "I believe," says he, "that
a woman's first and only duty lies In
being true to herself and Iter natural
woman's instinct. If that he high, pure
and noble, with love to mould her life,
she cannot fall to become an Ideal
wife and mother. Love Is a magic
wrd. and can truly be said to work
wondrous things. The true woman will
cherish her home and love her husband
above all else. Not 'wishy-washy,'
'namby-pamby' sort of love but a love
that is unselfish, ennobling and cap
able of rising above all obstacles such
love that places a woman, in the eyes
of her husband, a being sacred and su
perior to all other women. When the
wife finds the great golden jewel, her
husband's unselfish love and consider
ation other good before his own pleas
ure, then and then only can she make
him an Ideal home. No duty or obedi
ence actuates her actions. Duty and
obedience are akin to slavlshness and
sheuld never be coupled with man and
wile. When women keep well ordered
homes merely for duty's sake you may
deptad upon it there Is little real affec
' tiontanl less harmony. The word obey
I consider a blot on the marriage cere
mony when a man takes a wife he Is
not stpposed to want a servant! How
can anan be expected to love and re
spect aservlle woman, whose every ac
tion aid thought is governed by the
amountktf annoyance she would be giv
ing herthusband should she deign to
upiiuure or ner own, or go
counter V his fanclps? r nvor tho
was nevl
Intended that the husband
should
iinjiu ouna submission from
the wlfe
jiu mat. ner individuality
herge into his and he be the
iantf.p ti ha.. ...A.... i 1. .
should '
lord and
and actlonAl would have none of your
'new womln' fart uk ...i.i. V"i
bkiomers, pktforms, suffrage and such
rOl, DUt a VimanlV WAmnn ,I.U J... a,
,B,t.Pe,ith of character and In'.
2 lViUa,llty make her Presence felt
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V2,l .5ican Journal of Soclol
tZ2? !!C-&onia1"8 an .Interesting
i 17 r ?"v" dBne Aaaams on
domestic labor rrom the standpoint of
women who areWorklng In households
JUL'.6!'.. M Addams finds that
foirnerly the donestlo servant had the
companionship o her equals; but now,
even In household comparatively hum
ble, there Is onA alien, one who is
through the chan&d industrial condi
tions, Is doomed tYot life of solitude
during her working hours. Miss Ad
dams finds that th Isolation -of the
domestic employe iS mainly responsi
ble for her discontented condition. She
ayf ,tat she has known the voice of
a girl to change so inuch during three
weeks of "service" trtt she could not
recognise It when theAglrl returned to
the bureau. It alternated between the
high falsetto- In whirl a shy. child
speaks a piece," and the husky gulp
with which the globul hystericus is
swallowed. The alertfess and bon
homie of the voice of e tenement
house child had totallvfldlsarmenrpr.
Below are some of Miss JMdams' most
psruneni ODservatrons:
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ThA hAllaKahAlfl AIMhlAlf Vn n ma
lar opportunity "-for melting other
workers of hep trade and attaining
with them the? dignity of 4 corporate
body. The Industrial IsolaAVn of the
household employe results, A isolation
in a trade must always result, In a
lack, of progress In the method and
, products of that trade and It lack of
aspiration and education In the work
mun. Whether we recognise this Iso
lation as a cause or not. t think we are
all ready to acknowledge that household-
labor haa been la some why 'be
lated: that the improvements there
have not kept up with the Improve
ments in other occupations. If an-angry
foreman reprimands a girl for
breaking a machine 20 other girls hear
him. and the culprit knows perfectly
well their opinion aa to the Justice or
Injustice of her situation. In either
case she bears it better for knowing
that, and for But thinking It over In
solitude. If a household employe
breaks a utensil or a piece of porcelain
and is reprimanded by her employer,
too often the invisible jury la the family
of the latter, who naturally uphold
her censorious position and Intensify
the feeling of loneliness in the em
ploye." II II II
"The selfishness of a modern mistress,
who. In her narrow social ethics. In
sists that those who minister to the
comforts of her family, shall minister to
it alone, that they shall not only be
celibate, but shall be cut oft more, or
less from their natural social ties, ex
cludes the best working people from
her service. A man of dignity and abil
ity is quite willing to come Into a house
to tune a piano. Another man of me
chanical skill will come tb put up win
dow shades. Another of less skill, but
perfect independence, will come to
clean and lay a carpet. ; These men
would all resent the situation and con
sider It quite Impossible if it Implied
the giving up of their family and social
ties, and living under the root of the
household requiring their services. Most
of the cooking and serving and clean
ing of a household could be done by wo
men living outside and coming into a
house as a skilled workmen does, hav
ing no 'personal service' relation to the
employer. There Is no reason why the
woman who cleans windows in a house,
should not live as full a domestic and
social life as the man who cleans win
dows in an office. If the 'servant' atti
tude were once eliminated from house
hold Industry, and the well-established
one of employer and employe substi
tuted, the first step would be taken to
ward overcoming many difficulties.
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"A fuller social and domestic life
among household employes would be
the first step toward securing their en
trance Into the larger Industrial or
ganizations by which. the needs of a
community are most successfully ad
ministered. Many a girl who com
plains of loneliness, and who relin
quishes her situation with that as her
sole excuse, feebly tries to formulate
her sense of restraint and social mal
adjustment. She sometimes says that
she 'feels so unnatural all the time.'
And when she leaves her employer her
reasons are often incoherent and total
ly Incomprehensible to that good lady,
who naturally concludes that she wish
es to get away from the work and
back to her dances and giddy life,
content to stand many hours In an un
sanitary factory. If she has these. The
charge of the employer Is only a half
truth. These dances may be the only
organized form of social life which the
disheartened employe Is able to men
tion; hut she has felt the social trend
of her times, and is trying to say what
an old Kngllsh poet said five centuries
ago: 'Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is
heaven, and lack of fellowship is' hell;
fellowship Is life,' and lack of
fellowship is death; and , the
deeds that ye do on eurth. It Is for fel
lowship's sake that ye do them.'
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HOKSKHOl.n HINTS:
I'aint upon window glass may be easily
removed by rubbing with a cloth wet In
hot strong vinegar.
Prick u nutmeg with a pin, and, If It Is
fresh und good, oil will instuntly spread
around the puncture.
A little suit uetre added to the wuter
In whliii rui Mowers are put will kesp
the flowers frexh a lung time.
To uncertain if ull egg Is fresh, put It
in u full of water. If good it will sink
liiiine.Jlutcly; it if flouts it is doubtful.
Silver spoons thiit have become dlscol
ord bv eKK may be cleuned readily by
rubbing With a soft. cloth and a liltlu dry
suit.
To remove tur. from uny kind of cloth,
saturate Hie spot and rub it well With tur
pentine, uud every truca of the tur may be
removed.
Chopped parsley and olives, one table
npoonf ul of each to a pint of chopped cel
ery, mukes a delicious salad with French
dressing.
if brooms are dipped In a pall of hot sii'ls
for a minute or two once a week it Will
make them tough and pliable, and they
lust much longer.
To extract the juice rrom an onion,' cut
the onion in half and press It against and
move It slowly over a. grater. The juice
will run utl the point of the grater. -
After squeezing the Juice out of a lemon
you run (icun your old bruss candlesticks
or hunillrons by dipping the Inside of the
skin in salt and nibbing with vlxor on the
brass. Polish with a bit' of flannel.
Fresh meat should not be allowed to re
main rolled in paper, for the puper will
ubsorlM the Juices. Remove the paper
und lay the meut on an earthen plate.
An essential article that should be found
in every kitchen is a vegetable brush.
Lettuce, sulnuch. celery and many other
vegetables muy be cleaned much more
reudlly with one than with the hands.
A piece of horseradish root put Into a
Jar of pickles will ket; the vinegar from
losing Its strength, und the pickles will
not be as liable to become soft or moulily.
This is e.iuecially good for tomato pickles.
To bronce a plaster of Paris figure, cover
It with a thick coating or sneuac varnisn.
When this is dry mix some bronze powder
with the varnish and apply to the figure,
then cover -with another coat of clear
varnish.
Never permit soiled clothes to hang In
your dress closets. All, the perfumes In
the World .can't disguise. the odor on a
gown that hangs close to soiled clothes,
or in the kitchen closet, where It gathers
all the scents rrom the cooking.
Silks or ribbons that are to Backed awuv
should be rolled In brown paper, as the
chrorlde of lime In white will discolor
them. White satin should be folded In
blue paper and a brown paper put outside
and pinneu closely together at tne edges.
Kvery housewife In . the land is now
thinking1 of renovating things. A good
mixture for varnished or polished furni
ture Is made of one-third alcohol and two
thirds sweet oil. Aplly with a flannel
cloth and run DrisKty witn a piece 01 ary
chamois skin.
Pretty soon you must put away your
furs. Just beat and beat them till you
are sure that not a single egg remains
In the fur: then put the garment in a pa
per bag and paste up every tiny crack. If
the paper bag is kept-Intact the furs
will come out in good shape. - '
A hamclntt bookshelf may be rendered
more ornamental if made with the lower
shelf extending on either side so as to
form a bracket for a vase or piece of bric-a-brac.
. It is also easy to construct one
with cupboard enclosing the two lower
shelves, or wnn portions or two sneives
irregularly railed oft to hold curios.
A shelf over the door In a dining room Is
an excellent place for large and highly
colored pieces of china, which may thus
be made very ornamental to tne room.
Many of the new houses are finished with
a narrow shelf around the dining room
walls at the height of the door; It Is Intend
ed for placques. -:. ;
If you want something pretty for the
children to look at, buy a cheap sponge.
dampen It, and then sprinkle flax or grass
seed on it, and hang by a long string in
a sunny window. In a few days you will
have a beautiful green grass ball. Keep
the sponge very wet, and when the grass
oegins to u le pun it all ore and try again.
irons gather rust this damp weather.
Rub them over with coal oil before voii
set them away, then rub them off with a
clean cloth after they are slightly heated
for use. If the rust has already eatan in.
pour salt on a flannel cloth, and after they
are a nine warm ruu mem vigorously
over the salt. Rub with a lilts! wax
afterward.
Palms, - rubber plants,', and all foliage
plants used In the house, should have a
weekly washday. Tslng a soft cloth or
sponge, each leaf should receive a light
washing with lukewarm water, and the
soil should be loosened about the roots.
Plants breathe through their leaves, and
cannot, grow well unless they are kept
free from dust.
It is sometimes convenient to remember
the foViwlfig. items of cooks' measure
ment: One' pint of"! liquid equals one
pound; two gins or uquia one cupfiih
two- round, tablesuoonfuls of flour.. wiH
weigh an once; 4ialf a ipound of butter Will
make one cup;, Jour cups of flour makes
one pound; two oupi of granulated sugar
mane one' pounu, out in powoerea sugar
It will take two and one-half cups to make
one pound.
An economical mother, who has to count
the pennies, piuka up-all the kits of soup
about the house and melts them tn a cup
over a slow tire with a little borax and
iust enough water to keep the stun from
urnlnx. When melted she puts a 1aule
spoouful or more of tine clean xunil to it.
Then she pours the melted soap into
small mould to cool, alter which sho
gives it to her three restless boys to wash
their hands with. Nothing better could
oe tounu.
Don't spoil your pretty dishes by' let
ting them sizzle and aouk in the heat of
the stove with meat and eggs and things
line inat, ror It la entirely unnecessary.
Have a set of plain dishes upon which
to place the things that must be kept
warm, and use -them for no other purpose.
Always have hot things hot, and cold
things very cold, when brought to the ta
ble. To heat china, pile the plates and
dishes in the dlshpan and pour bollimt
water over them, then dry quickly and
send to the table. You will And that by
doing this you get the dishes as hot as
tnougn mey nau oeen suuungror an nour
in a Dutch oven.
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8ELECTED RECIPES:
Tenderloin a la Trianon. Baste tender
loin steaks with oil, flatten and broil
rare. Pour over a Dint of iiearnalse sauce
and garnish with truffles.
Doughnuts. One quart of flour, one cup
of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one egg
a pinch of salt, one teaspoon of salaratus
and two of cream of tartar; fry in lard.
Rice Waffles. Beat the yolks of two
eggs until light; add one pint of fresh
boiled rice, a tablespoonful of melted but
ter, a pint of flour, a little salt and milk
to make a smooth batter; lastly add tho
whites whipped stitT.
Vinegar Cundy. Three cupfuls granu
lated sugar, half a cupful of vinegar, half
a cupful of water. When It bolls so it
strings from the spoon stir In carefully a
tea.poonful of soda. Do not stir the can
dy while boiling. Flavor with either va
nilla or leuion.
Lobster a la Creme. Put two table
spoonfuls of butter In the charing dish.
Add one cupful of milk, season well with
pepper and salt. Add two pounds of lob
ster, well chopped; lt It boil a few min
utes and then udd two tabluspoonfuls of
cracker crumbs.
Popcorn Bulls One quart of molasses,
two cupfuls granulated sugar;- let It hod
fifteen minutes; then add butter the size
of an egg. . When It crisps in water add
one 'teaspoonful soda mads very fine,
Tuke from the tire and stir In corn whlcn
hus been popped out white as you can.
Grease the lingers and make up into balls.
Kgg Salad. Cut In very thin slices six
hardboiled eggs; place In salad bowl with
one-fourth of a cabbage shredded tine;
mix well together, then pour over It the
following dressing. Three tablespoonfuls
melted butter, one tablespoonful pepper,
salt to season, one tablespoonful made
mustard, one-hulf teaspoonful sharp vine
gar. Mix well through salad and serve at
once.
. Calf's Bruins au Beurre Nolr. Boll the
calf's brains with a bay leaf, two sprigs
of thyme and a llttlc salt In the lower pun
of a chafing dish. When they are done
take them out, cut the brains In thick
slices and pour over them a sauce mado
by cooking In the blazer until brown
two tablespoonfuls of butter. When it
reaches this point add four drops of vine
gar and pour it at once over the liralns.
Scalloped Halibut. Boil two pounds nnd
a hulf of fish for one-half hour, shred it,
then make a sauce of one pint of milk
with one egg beaten tip, let It boll, then
add two tublespoonfuls of corn staivh
mixed with cold milk; when boiled add a
tnblespocnful of butler; mix this through
the Hsh. Put In small shells, spreailiug
cracker crumbs on top, with little pieces
of butter, and. then brown it In the oven.
Sweet Potato Croquettes. Take three
cupfuls Of mashed, buked sweet putatoes;
be sure they are meally, and while beating
with a four-pronged fork add slowly u ta
blespoonful. of melted butter, a little
minced parsley, a teaspoonful of lemon
Hilce. salt and pepper und a gill of cream.
Mould Into small, cork-shuped croquettes,
dip In egg and breud crumbs, and fry in
hot butter. Serve them in a dish gar
nished with pursley.
Savory Custard. Take a quart of good
meat soup, nicely tluvored with vegeta
bles; beut six eggs; mix with the soup and
siuson with suit and popper; pour this
custurd mixture Into a deep dish; butter
very thickly three or four slices of very
thin bread (the slices should not be thick
er than a dollur) and only lay viiuugh to
cover the tup of the custurd (do not put
one slice on the oilier); bulte all firm In
the center und the surfuce Is a pule brown.
This Is u verynlce dish.
Stuffed Apples. Take the cores from
eight apples. Put the apples In u steamer
to steam long enough to soften, chop a
quarter of a pound of candled cherries.
Put one-half cupful of sugar In a cup
ful of water to boll, and add the cheni -s.
When the apples are done, pluce them In
a dish, tilling the place from which the
cores were tuken with the cherries. Boll
Hie syrup until thick; drop In a little vanil
la, pour the syrup over the apples, an 1
put them uwuy to cool. Serve with
whipped cream.
Sweetbreads a la Soublse. Braised
sweetbreads are the foundation of this
dish. Blanch hulf a dozen, lard the up
per parts and put them In a saucepan with
a slice of pork orsomc trimmings of bacon
EX-PREMIER FRANCESCO CRISPI, ITALY'S GRAND OLD MAN.
(From tbe Chicago Tlmes-Hirald. By the Courtesy of H. H. Koulsiat )
Francesco Crlspl, whose resignation as premier of Italy has just been accepted
by King Humbert, and whose ministry haa fallen with him, has -had a remarkable
career. More than once lias he saved his country from ruin by his masterly
statesmanship.. He is distinctively a statesman of crises, and smaller men natur
ally hesitate to accept tho premiership when this political giant has failed. Slg
nor Crlspi is now 77 years old. He began his life as a lawyer at tho bar of Naples.
Early did ho ally his powers with the liberals and revolutionists and took a promi
nent part in the conspiracies which ended In the overthrow of the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies in 1818. Had It not been for Crlspi the campaign of Garibaldi In Sicily
would tiave been a failure. For tho thirty years following Crirpl was a conspicu
ous member of the liberal party' In parliament. He was one of the few men to
whose councils Garibaldi would listen, tie became the most skillful debater in the
chamber and the nws.t astute 'political manager. In 18S7 Crltpl was made prime
minister and learned to rapidly becomo a conservative. It was believed that
the radical element would dictate his policy, but never was mistake so erring. Ha
maintained order with an utter indifference to the radical opinion. He strength
ened the bond of the 'triple nlHnnre. He dominated the chamber with a will ro
Imperious as to find no parallel except In that of the old Oet mun -chancellor. In
1891 his ministry was defeated and he reigned. After that 'ho announced his in.
tv,.ni of retiring from politics. Rudlnl succeeded him end distinguished him
self by almost precipitating a war between the United States and Italy on ac
count of the work of a mob at. New Orleans that lynched a number of tho Matin.
GlolHtl- succeeded - Rudlnl and he' resigned In 1893 In tho midst of a Sicilian revo
lution and when the nation was on the verge of bankruptcy. This was In Novem
ber and one month later Crlspi, the man of crises, was again called to take charge
of the government. Resigning again in 1894, he r.rprared on the tr-ene a few days
later vested with almost dictatorial power by tho king. Since that time the cham
ber 'has had very little to do with the government. ' Bigtior Crtstit has ruled the
country to suit 4ils own fancy and the
rind; add sliced carrots, onion and soup
herbs; salt slightly, cover with butter
paper, and when of a golden color udd a
pint of white broth and cook for forty
minutes In the oven, lifting the paper and
blustlng from time to time. Cooked in
this way they are now ready to be served
with any kind of sauce. A soubise gar
nishing is mude by cooking white onions
In broth or water, pressing through a
sieve and mixing with a bechamel sauce.
'Maryland Corn Bread. The good old
fashioned way of making corn bread
seems to have gone out of style; -people,
are In too great a hurry nowadays to wait
the proper length of time for "sweeten
ing," so called. In Maryland and Vir
ginia, the home of corn bread, the batter
is made over night, ao as to assist in the
sweetening. Take a pint of white meal,
sirt well and add two or three pinches
of salt. Take two eggs, best them for a
few minutes until well mixed. Then take
a halt -pint of sweet milk, add a Utile
warm water, pour the milk Into the meal
and stir the mixture well until all the
lumps are well dissolved, add the eggs
and beat the batter for some time. Cover
the bowl well and put In a cool place, for
the night. In the morning stir the batter,
pour in a little more milk so as to thin it,
take a teaspoonful of melted butter, st li
lt well In. Urease your pan with butter
and bake in a quick oven. Serve hot.
Philadelphia Record.
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HEALTH HINTS: ' '
When you travel carry flaxseed In your
pockelbook. They will find a cinder or
speck or dirt in your eye in a moment ul
most, and save you a world of pain.
Solera tils wetted and applied Immediate
ly is the best thing In the world for a
burn. It will prevent blistering and is
a mugkal "painkiller."
An excellent cure for hoarseness Is to
roast a lemon until It is soft ull throuKh;
do not allow It to burst. While still hot
cut a piece from I he end and till the lemon
with as much granulated sugar as it will
hold. Then eat It while hot.
Never est a hearty meal when very
tired unless you want to Invite Indiges
tion. ' Take a cup of not very strong but
very hot tea, freshly made, and eat a
cracker or two. ten minutes before stttlnK
down to the table. It will rest and refresh
you wonderfully.
A simple disinfectant to use In a sick
room is mude by putting some ground coi
fe In a saucer and In the center a small
piece of camphor gum. Light the gum
with a match. Aa the gum burns alio
the coffee, to burn with it. The perfume
is refreshing and healthful as well as in
expensive. -Make your own cough medicine after
this recipe, and you will know Just exactly
what the baby Is swallowing: Slice half
a dozen, good-sized onions and stew till
tender In a quart of vinegar, and when
done strain the Juice and pulp through
a cloi'.h rts for Jolly. To tho liquid add a
coffee eUp of sugar and boll down one
half. Bottle and keep In a cool place. A
few drops will cure the baby of the snif
fles, and a teaspoonful will loosen the
cough of an older child. An adult may
take two teaspoonsful.
Hot water is always recommended for
people with weak dlgeP'Jon, but there are
people who cannot drink hot water at all.
Try this, In that case: Have the cup hot,
ami Into It put one teaspoonful of sliif.tr
and a tablespoonful of milk just plain
milk then pour over this the boiling
water, it tultes away the insipid taste
of the water, and does net Injure the dl-geKlo-.i
either. The quantity of sugar
might be lessened Just enough to muks
It slightly sweet. Very delicate diges
tions have found this to be beneficial.
ROMANCE OF THE II ILL FAMILY.
Tho Wlfo of tho Telephone Inventor Is
Totally Deaf.
There Is a curious rorqance Interwov
en Into the life of the Bell family, best
known for their connection with the
telephone. Mrs. Bell Is totally deaf,
and was, consequently, for many years
a mute. . Her father was a very wealthy
man, who sent her finally to a school
fur such afflicted folk. There she be
came acquainted with her future hus
band, nt that time one of the Instruc
tors under whose tuition she came.
Ttv.-y fell In love -and were eventuully
married, and the money which Mrs. Bell
brought with her enabled the Inven
tor to estubllsh'hliiiHiif In the world.
They now have u chui ining home and
a summer residence on the hikes, which
Is almost perfect in IU situation anil
Its appointments. It Is presided oyer
by a lovely woman, who gives ittraug
ers no hint of her Infirmity. Klin takes
a ready part In ull conversation, hav
ing been taught to speuk, ami having
leurned to reud the sp?ch of others
from the motion of their lips.
A Talo of Woo.
From Puck.
Touillnson Blame the luck! I lost a
valuable silk umbrella yesterday.
Hanklns How so?
Touillnson Maddox came along and rec
ognized It!
king's desire.
THREE SCORE YEARS OLD
Changes Called to Mind of a Newspa
per's Anniversary.
EARLY HISTOK OP THE LEDGER
How It First Startled ItaCoateraporariea
by Radical Methods and Taea Mado
Namo fur Conselonttons and
Painstaking Conservsiism.
"Penn," in Philadelphia. Bulletin.
The Publlo Ledger's sixtieth birth
day this morning calls up the fact that
It was the first of the chief dallies of the
country to establish success on a penny
basis probably the first outside of New
York, where the Pun had been em
barked a year or two before on- the
same plan. For upwards of twenty
seven years It was the great example
of penny journalism In Philadelphia,
and It Is well known that William M.
Swain, who had run up the circula
tion to fully 60.000 before George W.
Childs came upon the scene, lost $100.
000 In resisting the onslaught of the
war prices. In its very early days the
experiment of a penny paper was so
popular that it had, according to the
late Joseph Sailer, a circulation of 15.
000, which. It mny hardly be doubted,
was tho highest In the country at that
time excepting only the New York Her
ald. The cider Bennett was then very
proud of a circulation of about 18.000
or 19,000 In n career only a year longer
than that of the Ledger, and It Is not
venturing too much fo say that sixty
years ago all the other papers of all
kinds In Philadelphia, dally and week
ly, did not print over 50,000 copies.
In that period and. Indeed, long af
terwards, the Ledger was a good deal
of a "sensational" paper. It had the
same kind of Journalistic temper as the
New York World has had in recent
years. It delighted in the function of
"stirring up the animals." Its reputa
tion was largely made through the
vigor of its editorial page, as well as
through its cleverness In getting new.
It had libel suits on Its hands; It de
nounced judges, juries nnd counsel for
miscarriages of justice: it harried the
cabinet-makers who abused their ap
prentices: it denounced the native
Americans without mercy; It displayed
magnificent courage In holding up the
ruffians who burned Pennsylvania hall
to spite the abolitionists and lashed the
rioters of 1844 who terrorised the Irish
and Catholics; its office was more than
once sacked by mobs, nnd it opened the
war which finally ended the orgies and
Intimidations of the medical college stu
dents who were In the habit of roaming
nocturnally the streets like the sons of
Belial flown with wine. Then It had
part In many superb news triuinphs.
such as the famous Pony Expresses
which met the English steamers at
Halifax and thundered down from
Nova Scotia to Philadelphia and Balti
more, nearly a thousand miles, in fifty
hours; tho great "beat" of announcing
first here the death of the elder Har
rison In the White House; its Mexican
war expresses and the hits In the
prompt use which Swain mude of the
magnetic telegraph after Morse had
shown Its news value at the Clay and
the Polk conventions in 1844. It even
"spiced up" Its police reports to tickle
the fancies of the crowd.
ITS FIRST EDITOR.
The editor of the Ledger In those
days was n New Yorker named Rus
sell Jnrvls, with a belligerent pen anil
with a faculty of turning out 'Vopy"
by the yard at short notice, and al.'io.
seemingly with the other faculty, rare
In such fecundity, of concise state
ment and ltii-id judgments of men and
things. Much of his work was done
ill New York; he frequently alternated
between the two cities on the Camden
and Amboy railroad a round -trip then
being u matter of nine or ten hours
and his own personality seems rarely
to have been obstrued on the public
notice, and generally sunk In Swuin's.
The Ledger, as It has been known In
the larger part of its past thirty years,
was the creation of George W. Childs
nnd William V. McKean; of the latter,
indeed, at least quite as much ns of the
former. In proprietorship and In edit
orship each represented phases of Jour
nalism which have seen their day. Mr.
McKean. who is still living at the age
of seventy-live, probably understood ,
Philadelphia its temper and Its tem
perament, its pride and its prejudices,
and its "institutions" and Its tradi
tions and Its weaknesses and Its con
ceitsbetter than any other writer for
the press, nnd eventually came himself
to bo a part and parcel of them all. In
his work there was conscience and com
mon sense and clean hands. He Illus
trated the best spirit of what may be
called the editorial publicist busying
himself with not alone the task of ob
servation but of participation as well,
and regarding himself in time as a
special guardian of town affairs, and as
a trustee for the Ledger's constituency
in the tens of thousands of households
which it entered with something of the
respect for an oracle.
RESPECT FOR TRUTH.
Mr. McKean's sense of accuracy to a
misstatement among the Ledger's staff
was like that of Theodore Thomas's to
a false note in his orchestra. lie abom
inated the arts of the fakir; he had a
scrupulous regard for fucts, on Intol
erance of carelessness or conjectures
or assumptions, and he edited the Led
ger with ns much precision and care
as If he had a historical work or an en
cyclopedia on his hands, and with an
apparent regard for the day when some
one might want to go to the shelves
of the Historical society or the Phila
delphia library, and hunt up a file of
the paper for reference. His favorite
maxims were: "It Is bad to be late;
but worse to be wrong," nnd "Have a
sure voucher for every statement, es
pecially for censure." He used to Im
press on every man under him that
there Is a wide difference between ac
cusation and guilt, and the best thing
he ever said of his calling and Its re
sponsibilities was something pretty
nearly this: "Before making up Judg
ment, take care to understand both
sides, always remembering that there
are at least two sides, and that if you
attempt to decide, you ore bound to
know both." It was the rigid practice
of the exactitude which came from
such professional ethics that made the
Ledger for a score of years absolutely
unique In daily journalism, and gave It
a surplus of $330,000 to $450,000 every
yenr.
Eighteen years ago, In profit, circula
tion nnd power, it was the equal of all
Its morning contemporaries combined,
but from about that time on It gradual
ly and, Indeed, nlmost unconsciously
began to lose this position relatively.
If not actually, in the new rivalries and
expansions of the time. Mr. Childs was
apparently the last man In the local
press to see what was going on around
him, or, at least, the last to act prompt
ly In facing tho Inevitable. He hesitat
ed to accept the conditions which one
after one of the morning papers as they
followed the Record In Its career as a
penny paper for the million had brought
about. He did not appreciate the
change which had been going on In the
tastes nnd idens of newspaper readers
concerning news. Moreover, there hap
pened some extraordinarily queer
breaks In the policy of the paper on
vital public questions toward tho close
of his career, one or two of them hand
led with great Indiscretion and weaken
ing confidence In the paper's Impartial
ity. Ho had, too, the exploded notion
that a paper cannot bo sold at a cent
without a sacrifice of character nnd dig
nity, and yet In. the end he found him
self forced to accept most of the condi
tions of news gathering which penny
jouranllsm had enforced to some de
gree In every publication office, big or
small. He at last saw Klngerly do what
the younger Swain had tried In vain to
do twenty. years before meet him on
equal terms In his own province, and
push him to the task of rejuvenation.
There have been many departures
from the McKean standard in the pat
five years. Some necessary and for the
better, and some ior the worse. The
city department Is stronger than It has
ever boon, faithful to the Ledger's best
traditions, and yet In close touch with
the activities of the town; the financial
column holds Its own as well as it
did under the sway of the venerable
Sailer, who toward the close, of his
career said that he had never missed a
day in preparing it during at least
twenty-nine years; the critical depart
ment. In which the appearance of a
distinguished actor used to be chroni
cled not many years ago In such ex
erotica 1 commentary aa this: "Mr.
John McCullough appeared last night
tn William Shakespeare's famous and
popular tragedy in Ave acts, called
'Hamlet,' " have been reformed, and
some of the choicest and best written
criticisms of the current drama has late
ly appeared there; the editorial page,
too, has broadened its range, and has
been marked by more freedom and ex
urberance of expression and an occa
sional enterprising disposition to try
offenders on short notice or pronounce
a verdict before all the evidence Is In
hand. The Ledger Is. In short, today
a sort of compromise between the
Ledger of Swain and the Ledger of
Childs It has the penny enterprise of
the one under modern conditions and
the two-cent decorum of the other un
der conditions largely passing away
from year to year.
No two men could be more unlike In
habits of mind, professional alma and
range of Information than the Led
ger's present chief editor, L Clarke
Davis, and his predecessor, Mr. Mc
Kean the one elegant in taste, impa
tient of details, affluent of rhetoric, fond
of the gentlo walks of literature, quick
in his sensibilities, broad In hla sym
pathies and impatient to smite guilt;
the other In his best days, with a mind
like an almanac In its precision, with
the reasoning of a judge, with the de
tails of the town at his Angers' end, and
with his scales on the desk poised to
weigh to the scruple every word that
entered into an editorial before "O. K."
was put on the final proof. Conscience,
probity, and a fine sense of professional
honor are the characteristics of both,
and it Is In the popular realization that
these things are still essentials In the
Ledger's confession of faith that It Is
enabled to obtain speedier remission
for Its errors than some of its contem
poraries. Sixty years back to March 25, 1836!
It is a long, long stretch tn the history
of journalism. Only the Inquirer which
dates back to 1829, and the Methusaleh
record of the North American and Unit
ed States Gazette exceed it. Jackson
was president and John Swift mayor of
Philadelphia, and the whole dally press
of Philadelphia probably didn't print
more than 8,000 copies, mostly at six
cents a piece. And yet It was the Ledg
erhard as it may be now to realise
It at a penny which broke among them
like a young setter among a flock of fat
old sheep and completely upset the local
journalism of the day.
HOW IIF. SCORED.
This Man Didn't Make Much br Disliking
a Clgoretto.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The cigarette smoker has scored once,
at any rate.
He was in an "L" road smoking car,
and next to him was one of the men
who object to cigarettes and have no
objection to making their objections ap
parent upon all occasions. The latter
was smoking a pipe, nnd anyone who
knows anything ubout a pipe knows
that when properly primed with sure
death tobacco it can outsmell any cig
arette that was ever made. However,
that has nothing to do with the story.
The pipe-smoker sniffed rather con
temptuously two or three times and
edged away from the man with the cig
arette. Then he turned half around so
as to present his back to the man with
the paper weed.
"I beg your pardon," said the latter;
"don't you like this cigarette?"
"No, I don't" returned the man with
the pipe. "There ought to be a law
against smoking them In public places."
"You object to the odor, I presume,"
persisted the man with the cigarette.
"Most decidedly."
"And that Is why you have turned
your back, sniffed, growled and tried to
make things as uncomfortable as pos
sible?" "That's It. I can't stand It."
The man with the cigarette puffed It
meditatively for a few minutes.
"Well, I'm glad of It." he said at last.
"Glad of it! What do you mean by
that?"
"Now please don't get excited," said
the man with the cigarette pleasantly.
We all have our likes and dislikes, you
know, and at present 1 regard cigarette
smoking purely as a matter of self
protection." "I don't see how It"
"Oh, It's easily explained. It keeps
you at a respectful distance, and even
then I can tell that you have been ra
gallng yourself with beer and onions."
A DOl'BLE MISTAKE.
How the .Mayor and His Private Seorotary
Met by Chance.
From the Detroit Free Press.
On the Staten Island ferry boat the
other day a young man kept following
me about and acting so suspiciously
that I tlnnllv said to him:
"I think you have made a mistake In
sizing me up.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Why, I haven't anything worth your
time. This old watch wouldn't bring
you $2 if you succuded in getting it,
and I only paid SO cents for the chain
on the Bowery. All the money I have
about me Is 45 cents, and this pin Is
only a rhinestone. Even if you got all
I had it would hardly pay your fare
back and forth. Why not go for that
fat man over there, who certalnlv has
a valuable ticker If nothing else?"
"Sir!" he replied with great loftiness,
"do you take me for a pickpocket?''
"Rather that way, though if I am
mistaken I beg your pardon."
"You have made a bis mistake, sir. I
am the mayor's private secretary!"
"Oh! I see. And what do you take
me for?"
"For the district attorney, of course."
"Then you have also made a big mis
take. I am the mayor himself! How
do you do, Prlve Secretary!"
"Quite well, thank your honor."
"Then he shook hands nnd smiled
and he lounged away. I know he didn't
believe I was mayor of New York, and
I seriously doubt that he was the may
or's private secretary. I doubt It be
cause the fat man referred to 'lost his
watch In the crush as we landed, and
he remembered that a young man
pushed and elbowed him." '
MR. STEWART OBJECTED.
The Great Silver Champion Opposed the
Gulden Hnlo.
It Is snid that dining- a recent ex
ecutive session of the United States
senate a minor appointment was up for
confirmation, and, s some objection
thereto having been urged, the senator
who represented the appointee pleaded
for fair piny an,d Reneroslty, says the
New York Tribune. "In confirmation
of minor appointments like this one,"
he said, "I think the senators should
npply the golden "rule."
Senator Stewart had not been paying
very close attention to the debate, but
at these works he pricked up his eats
and lifted up his voice. "Mr. Presi
dent." he exclaimed, "I don't know
what this gold rule Is, but I object to
It. The money power has run this
country long enough. Ever since the
crime of '73 was committed" but here
some one Interjected an explanation,
and amid laughter the Nevada states
man subsided.
Theodore Bromley Is to continue next
season ns the manager for Julia Marlowe
Tabor and Roberi TSaiior.
MACHINERY RUN BY AIR
Eatire ftllmai I'lait Kill Uc Of-
crated by This Power.
ALL DANGER TO LIFE REMOVED ,
ItaSareiiority Orer Steam aadEJcetrielfw
Clalmed-Caa Also Be Applied to
Saadpaperinf Cara-Reaalts
la Other Places.
Chicago, March 31. Compressed air
as a power has displaced steam In three
departments of the Pullman Palace Car
company'a works, and the results have
so far satisfied the officials that in all
probability the new force will be in us
shortly In all the great shops of tho
corporation. The change Is radical and
marks a revolution In the manufactur
ing system or tne great ruiiman piui.
The argument advanced at Pullman
In favor of a change from steam to
compressed air Is, In short, great sav
ing in manual labor, economy, ability .
to transmit power long distances with
out loss of force, simplicity, safety and
convenience. An official of the Pull
man company was sent to Omaha and
Topeka to go through the shops of tho
Union Pacific and Santa Fe railroads
and to make a report on the general ef
ficiency and economy of compressed air
as apnlled there In the department of
carmaking. He has Just returned and
his report strongly favors the adoption
of the system throughout all the car
shops at Pullman.
The Introduction of compressed air
means the doing away with tho great
Iron wheela which revolve near the cell
ing In all the shops. The belts which
run from these wheels to the work
benches and which not Infrequently
pick up a workman and whirl hit life
out will soon be things of the past. To
take their places a pipe will run along
each wall Just back of the benchea. In
front of each workman a amall tub wlU
connect with the main pipe and with
whatever bit of machinery he has to do.
When the workman wishes to shut oft
his machine he simply has to close a
stopcock. To start the machine he r- .
verses the operation. Under the ateam
system the belt has to be slipped to one .
side, but it goes on running ceaseless
ly and noisily. With the air system It
Is claimed that the speed or tne ma
chine In use may be graded, something
that Is impossible when a belt Is used.
Compressed air Is already In use at
Pullman for lifting purposes, lor tho
testing of air brakea and for the clean
Ing of carpets and upholstery. The lift
ing of enormous weights is accomplished
by the air process at a great distance
rrom the source or power, n was saia
at the shops yesterday that If the same
lifting were done by steam at the same
distance from the source of supply a
much greater Initial energy would be
needed, because steam loses its power
greatly by condensation during Its
transmittal. The same to a greater de
gree was said to be true of electricity.
NEXT USE OF AIR SYSTEM.
The probabilities are that the next
department at Pullman to be Invaded
by the compressed air force will be that
In which the cars are sandpapered.
This work is now done by hand. One
machine will dp the work of sta men.
A disk to which the sandpaper Is at
tached Is fixed on the end of the air
motor's shaft. The supply hose Is on
the tight of the operator, while to the
left Is a large duck hose extending al
most to the floor. This carries off the
dust. The floor is kept damp and the
greater part of the dust adheres to It.
The maximum air pressure on the pis
ton Just balances the weight of the .ma
chine, and it can be raised or lowered,
with little effort on the part of the op
erator. The work done by the machine
is said to be far superior to that done
by hand. In that it makes an absolutely
uniform surface all over the side of the
car.
There are ten engines to supply steam
for the running of the machinery In the
different departments at Pullman. The
engines are so placed that the work
which each has to do Is In Its lmmedl-
ate neighborhood. An officer of the
company says that with compressed air
as a motive power probably not more
than one centrally located large engine
would be necessary because the air lost
so little of Its force when being trans-
mllful ... a (1 tut a ni-o It t'aa aalrl that
at Topeka, at a distance of half a mile
from the source of supply, compressed
air lost less than 20 per cent, of Its
power. Steam at the same distance
loses more than u0 per cent, of its force.
"Fully 30 per cent, of our steam power
here at Pullman," continued the official,
"is taken up by the belting. This loss Is
saved by the compressed air system.
Add to the 30 per cent, lost to the belts
the amount lost in transmission and
you will see the Immense advantage In
economy of force that compressed air
has over steam. Compressed air has
an advantage over electricity in that it
is not dangerous and because It cannot
start fires. In riveting, In breaking
Btay bolts and In general boiler work
the use of compressed air saves one
half the manual labor necessary under
other systems."
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