WOMAN AND HOME. A NEW ORLEANS WOMAN WHO IS A TALENTED CHEMIST. Mother of the Imm Ik rants Bathn For the Children—Women of the Y el Jove Land—llurr'* Lovely Daugh ter—Applied Embroidery, A finished woman chemist, one who has received degrees from two universities and who is now teaching this branch in a college in New Orleans, is Mrs. Evelyn Walton Ordway. She was horn in a small town near Boston, and it was from the Massachu setts Institute of Technology that she re ceived her lij'st degree. This was in 18S2, just after the change in the charter permitting degrees to be conferred upon MRS. EVELYN ORDWAY. women was made. Mrs. Ordway was the first woman to benefit by the change. In 1884 she accompanied her husband to New Orleans, where ho filled the posi tion as professor of industrial chemistry in Tulane university. As women were not permitted to share the advantages offered by this college to the men, Mrs. Ordway, with the assist ance of several other women of the town, added a new department to the university, which, while it was not exact ly an annex to Tulane, was on the same fqptiug with the college, and its head pos sessed the power to confer degrees. From this college this woman chemist also received a degree. She now fills the chair of chemistry at Tulane, and besides being a skilled teacher she has made several valuable discoveries which will greatly aid future chemists. Mother of the ImuitK'rnntn. Frobubly no two women in America come so close to n varied personal history as Mi's. Ucgiua Stucklen, chief inspector of the women's department of the barge office, and well known as the mother of the immigrants, and her assistant. Miss Taylor. No church in all the metropolis solemnizes so many marriages as the barge otiice, and no matrimonial agent on earth arranges so many weddings as does Mrs. Stucklen, and beneath the ma jority of these there is a saving propor tion of romance that lenveneth the whole heavy lump. Thus there nre compensa tions even in the most arduous tasks and amid surroundings that are repellent to a refined feminine mind. Personally, with great benignity and with signal absence of official fussiness, Mrs. Stucklen regards the wants of all the women. She learns not only whence each comes, but whither each wishes to go and what each purposes to do. Of the struggles with the great problems of existence in all countries and in all grades of social life Mrs. Stucklen knows enough to fill volumes. The mother of the immigrants is a woman of strong per sonality, calm, firm and sympathetic un der most trying situations, and to the would be bride, who has arrived a stran ger in a foreign land to meet her promis ed husband, she is at once counselor, witness and friend. As about 500 mar riages take place annually at the barge office or directly under its auspices—one • solemnization for bvery working day of the year—and as Mrs. Stucklen inquires into the intimate history of each matri monial affair, she has more than an or dinary opportunity to study this interest ing side of life. Whither they go and how they prosper after leaving her guard inn care the inspector has little oppor tunity of knowing—whether to found honorable and prosperous families or to fail and fill the pauper's grave. Barely 1 per cent of them ever retains enough grateful memory of her services to in form her. But there arc rewards in knowing one's duty well done, and if there is a seeming ingratitude on the part of brides and grooms alike it is be cause the government, and the barge of fice as one of its institutions, is a thing of odium to the average immigrant—the thing from which he fled when he for sook his native hills nnd valleys, and the sorrows and tribulations of the detention pens the immigrant seeks to blot from liis memory ng speedily as possible.— John Gilmer Speed iu Ainslee's. Batlin For the Children. "A young child should have a bath ev ery day. Most little ones enjoy it and show manifest signs of pleasure. Bathe the baby at a regular hour, about mid way between two meals and not later than 10 o'clock in the morning. The tub must be placed in a warm room. In win ter one heated by fire is preferable; In summer beware of currents of air. Pour enough water into the tub to cover the child to the neck when It is in a reclining position. The temperature should be nhnut 95 degrees." says The Nursery. "Before placing the baby in the tub wet the head with a sponge or soft piece of rag or npply a little water with the hand. "Use pure, unsoented enstile soap for the hath, and wash it off very thorough ly. From three to five minutes is the time nllowed for bathing. Do/not pro long the time of the bath for the pleasure the child appears to be having, but rub the body thoroughly with a soft towel nnd after a few moments' rest on the lap place fhe child in its crib to sleep. "Occasionally a young child seems to fear the water. In such cases a little strategy must ho used. Cover the top of the tub with a small blanket, place the child upon it and let it sink very slowly into the water. Do not remove the blanket. "In very hot weather, besides the morning bath, sponge the body at night with water at 90 degrees, Water at this temperature is more cooling than one would suppose. "After the tenth year a cooler bath is advised; the water can be from 72 de grees to 75 degrees. "The hot bath (95 degrees to 100 de grees) is advised for different purposes— to cause sweating, to relieve irritability and sometimes to induce sleep or to allay nervousness. Its action is soothing. Five minutes is a sufflcient duration of time for a hot bath. "If you desire sweating, do not dry the body, but wrap the child in a blanket and place it in bed. To render a hot bath more stimulating, a tablespoonful of mus tard flour may he added to the water. I)o not continue a hot bath too long or you will have a depressing effect. "Cold baths are not advised as a daily routine until youth is well advanced. They have a tonic action and give force to the entire system, but they are not udvlsable in ensos of feeble health." Women of the Yellow Land, It is a mistake to think that Chinese women have small feet naturally; their feet, as a matter of fact, are enormous. Having made up their minds that a small foot is a great beauty, the Chinese go to work with great thoroughness, and in stead of resorting to the western shams for making things seem other than they are, they bandage the feet of their chil dren until they are women, bending back the four toes and leaving the big one alone to do duty as a miniature foot, so that a lady's shoe measures at most be tween four and five inches. We need not waste our pity on these forced cripples because they cannot walk or indulge in healthy exercise, for idleness is the Chi nese woman's ideal of happiness, and she regards work or exercise of any kind as a dire necessity. Therefore among the poorest it is not uncommon to find the beauty of the family with artificially small feet; she is allowed to do only light work and fetches a higher price in conse quence in the marriage market. Chinese women cannot read; they know nothing of what is going on in the world, and as a consequence they have no general topics of conversation. When visiting one another, they chatter con stantly of money, the principal god of their race. "What did that cost?" "How much is it worth?" and "How much money did she pay for this?" are the ever recurring questions. Among the lower classes the women lead a life indescribably wretched. Their homes are either filthy houseboats or miserable hovels on land. No attempt at cleanliness or sanitary conditions is made, and ten persons are crowded into the space which one should have. The results can better be imagined than de scribed. Underfed and overworked, the women are slaves to the men. The head of the house works in the fields or acts as cooly, and when he fails to earn his 4 or 5 cents a day the women have starvation added to blows and kicks.— Chicago News. Burr's Lovely Daughter. When Theodosia was 14, she took her place at the head of her father's house hold and became his inseparable compan ion, her playful wit illuminating his hours of relaxation, her steadfast cour age, her strength, her very presence, con stituting the most powerful bulwark of defense in the darkest hours of his life. She had much of her mother's self poise and elegance of manner, together with her father's dignity and wit. When she reached maturity, though short in stature, like her father's family, she carried herself with a noble dignity which, with a certain lofty benevolence of countenance, the refinement of her fea tures, the frank intelligence of her brow, the healthful bloom of her complexion, made her singularly beautiful. She in spired in her father tin? most absolute confidence in her. "Many are surprised that I could repose in you so great a trust as that of yourself," ho wrote to her when she was 17, "but I knew you were equal to it. and I am not deceived." lie sent Brant, the Indian chief, to her from Philadelphia with a letter of intro duction. She was but 14 at the time and mistress of Richmond Ilill, where she en tertained him with an case which gave her father much gratification. She gave a dinner in his honor, inviting to meet him some of her father's friends, among them Volney, Bishop Moore, Dr. Bard and Dr. Ilosnck. She was nlrendy a belle when Edward Livingston, then mayor of New York, taking her aboard a French frignte lying in the harbor of the city, thus warned her; "You must bring none of your sparks on board, The odosia. We have a magazine here, and we shall all he blown up."—Lipplncott's Magazine. Applied Rmliroldery. Ever since it has been* wisely recog nized that the right position for a cottage piano is not to he pushed back against the wall, hut to stand well out Into the loom, the question of how to turn its somewhat uncompromising expanse of back to decorative account has been one for careful consideration. Sometimes the solution Is productive of extremely pleas ing results, sometimes very much the re verse. Flimsy "dust trap" draperies and unaccountable devices in Japanese fans are, happily, for the most part obsolete expedients nowadays, and it has coinc to be pretty generally acknowledged that the back of a piano is a feature In the decoration of a room to be treated seri ously. When It serves the purpose of a screen, breaking up the formal arrange ment of the chairs and sofas and creating a pleasant little alcove or fireside corner, no method is more satisfactory than to cover it. screen wise, with an effective panel of embroidery. The needlework should harmonize in character with the pretty, flowered and berihboued chintzes which now lend their charm tc many a drawing room or boudoir. When a pin no is constantly left open, it is a capital plan to protect the keys by covering them with narrow strip of silk. This gives an opportunity for charming needlework decoration after the manner indicated in the group of sketches. Suppose the keyboard cover to be of white or pale tinted satin, the branches, of almond blossom should be in fine rib bon work and the scroll, with its motto, "Music. When Soft Voices Die, Vibrates In the Memory," outlined In gold or silver thread. There should be a lining of thinly quilted silk, pink or green, which may be delicately perfumed with violets, lemon verbena or any other favorite sachet powder. A Minister's Wife's Dutlen. "The duty of a minister's wife, it might properly he considered, is to keep herself informed concerning the work of the mission hoards of her denomination," writes "A Minister's Wife" iu The La dies' Home Journal. "The wife of the minister may be a valuable and yet not au overburdened member of the mission ary society If she quietly holds her so cieties in league with denominational work. No one else can do this so well, because the minister will supply the needed information. On occasions where it is necessary for the church to be rep resented in the women's councils it is fitting that the minister's wife should go, if she feels inclined. If she is timid and shrinking, such' publicity is torture, and there is no reason why she should force herself to submit to it. She can, in the society, suggest and, if need be, insist upon delegates to do this work. If she has a wise head and a kind heart, she will not do more than is right, and she will do whatever is necessary, but the parish must realize that there are many demands socially and that her life is to be planned out in accordance with her own idcns of right. She needs her strength, her brightness, her reposeful home. She should give to the church only such service as every other Christian woman ought to give, and no more, for we are saying today, with a new and sensible emphasis, 'The church engaged my husband, not me!' " Horse Radish Snuee. One of the best of sauces for cold moat is horse radish sauce. It may be made quite simply, using only the liorse radish, vinegar and cream besides the indispensa ble salt and pepper. In that case mix well together three tablospoonfuls of grated horse radish, one tablespoonfnl of vinegar, quarter of a tablespoonful of salt and either cayenne or paprika. Whip half a cupful of cream until it is stiff and mix it with the other ingredients just be fore serving. A more elaborate sauce deninnds horse radish flour. Use the same amount as of the grated horse rad ish in the former case, putting it into a bowl with half a cupful of cold water and allowing it to stand for 80 minutes. At the end of that time add a scant tea spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, salt and a dash of cayenne. Stir thoroughly and add two tablespoonfuls of rich cream gradually. The cream in both these recipes should be added at the last moment, before taking the sauce to the table, as the result is not altogether happy otherwise. To Cure Insomnia. An English physician of distinction gives these suggestions for euro of in somnia: In cases where the patient sleeps for an hour or two, then awakes with a start and cannot go to sleep again the physician recommends that a hot water compress be laid on the abdomen. Where one cannot go to sleep on retiring and Is unable to dismiss thoughts that have oc cupied the day, it is advised that the pa tient kebp his feet in water as hot as he can bear comfortably for ten minutes be fore going to bed. He should then put 011 a pair of thin cotton hose wrung out of cold water and over those a pair of woolen ones. A more powerful remedy is a mustard sitz hath, with the propor tion of a tencupful of mustard to a gal lon of hot water. lie should remain seated in the bath 10 to 20 minutes. In many cases a reclining hath in tepid wa ter is useful as a sedative. Cnpld In Art's Enemy, There are thousands of ambitious young women art students in the United States. Every summer, at graduating time, a small army of them goes forth from the special schools of New York and other cities. They are fully deter mined to devote their lives to art and during the summer voyages in the coun try till their sketchbooks with material for the serious work which is to begin in the autumn. But in a good many cases this serious work never begins at all, for it often happens that the girl with the sketchbook is herself the most attractive part of the landscape she may he depict ing, with the result that Cupid busies himself with her affairs, and an artistic career is practically ended at its outset. From this fact the conclusion may be drawn that Cupid is an enemy to art. A Simple Rolen. No lady would turn and look behind her in the street. The girl who does so directly courts unpleasant attentions from men who are passing. Unless she is a hostess or n member of the family a lady need not rise when a gentleman is introduced to her. When visiting, conform to the rules of the house in which you are staying. A visitor should always bear this in mind. When shopping, do not order as sistants about. A lady never forgets to be thoughtful fur those who serve her. "A man is known I 4' the company he keeps." This npplics equally to a wo man.—-Womun's Life. SnilloM and Laaghii, An American professor has boon scien tifically studying the smile and laugh, which he finds the same all over the world. In every race smiling and laugh iug express the same thing, the one sig nifying pleasure and friendliness, the other a sense of humor. One may smile and smile and be n villain, however, but the hearty laugh can never be assumed. As an indication of character to women, therefore, the laugh is of considerable value. Smiles are obviously not worth much, for Professor Dearborn declares that those which are purest are those of infants, imbeciles uud savages. Absolute In Her Household. The position of tho Chinese woman In her own household is that which is or ought to be occupied by her sisters in every clime. She is left in absolute con trol of all domestic concerns and is given far more to say in the expenditure of the family income than is generally the case among our lower classes. It is true she owes obedience to her husband, but it <t be recollected that this is equally ■in our own country. The obligation is probably as much respected in China as it is here.—-Washington Star. Mme. Jane Hading, the French ac tress, believes that when nu actress ap pears before the public the clothes she wears should be the keynote of the char acter she has assumed, just as the head ing of a chapter in a hook gives an in sight into the matter treated in it. Gilt picture frames may be brightened by taking sufficient flower of sulphur to give n golden tinge to a pint of water, and in this boil three bruised onions. Strnin off this liquid nnd with it, when cold, wash the gilding with a soft brush. Persons of weak digestion should re member that whipped cream can be used with a dish where plain cream would be too rich. Making a porous froth of the cream by the whipping process makes it ! xuuch easier of digestion. MEN OF MARK. Pol Plancon, the opera singer, sings a whole opera in admirable German with out understanding a word of that lan guage. Sir Donald Currie, head of the Castle line of steamers, was discharged from the line during his younger duys because he refused to work 011 Sunday. Sir Thomas Lipton has started a new enterprise. He is trying to organize the Australian wine trade with a view to pressing the colonial wines on the Brit ish public as he did the Ceylon teas. President McKinley is a lover of chesß, a game with which he frequently amuses himself. lie is an expert at all chess problems nnd believes firmly iu the value of the game us a training for logicul thought. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, was interviewed the other day on vacations in the abstract. "The only way for a rich man to enjoy one," he said, "is for him to forget completely that he is rich." Newport, 0., has furnished tho cham pion eater. He is Jack Itarre, nnd ut a recent sitting lie ate and drank six bowls of chicken soup, two spring chickens, two loaves of bread, six raw onions, four quarts of beer and three pounds of fish. General Strjelbinzky, the greatest of Russian geographers, died recently at the age of 7(1 years. His "Measurements of the Surface of the Russian Empire" is not only the standard for all maps of Russia, but has been a model for other works in that department of geography. Gould I'. Dietz of Omaha and the late C. P. Huntington began regular busi ness together in 1845, when the latter had saved $ 1,500 from his earnings as a ped dler. Huntington was then a man of wonderful strength and would often lift into a wagon a barrel of suit weighing 3<X) pounds. Lord Roberts never learned the art of dictating Lis dispatches and always has to Write them out with his own hand. His writing is, moreover, so very bad that it can be read only by his aid, to whose lot it consequently falls to "trans late" the orders into characters more readily decipherable. Senator Morgan says that ho is in bet ter health now than he bus been for ten years past nnd indignantly resents any intimation that he is getting feeble, though he is indeed slowly losing weight, and his voice is weak. lie is now 7<> years old, but bis friends say he will stay in the senate until he is 83. Field Marshal Count Blumenthal, the distinguished chief of the late Emperor Frederick's general staff during the Aus trian and French wars, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on July 20. lie and the king of Saxony are the only olficers of the Germany army of exalted rank still alive of those who took part in the Frunco-Gerrann war. Mr. Yamnda, n young judge of Japan and a friend of the Japanese minister at Washington, is making his home tempo rarily at Philadelphia. lie was the first native Japanese to join the Society of Friends in Tokyo, where a number of Philadelphia Quakers opened a school some years ago. While in Philadelphia Judge Yatnadn will study American legal methods In the Philadelphia courts and the University of Pennsylvania. CHICAGO AND THE CENSUS. Chicago wants to he "consused" again. Would a ratio of about 10 to 1 satisfy her—ten counts to one inhabitant?— Bo ston Traveler. It will now be in order for Chicago to adjust its much advertised mortality rate to its new population figures.—Milwau kee Sentinel. In bitter disgust Chicago admits that at tho present rate of growth it will take her 30 years to pass Greater New York. —Detroit Tribune. By the late federal census Chicago ranks fifth among the cities of the world in point of population. In energy it is the first. —Springfield News. Chicago ought to he well satisfied with the census returns in her own case. A growth of 54.44 per cent is not to be snoozed at.—New York Sun. Tho World's fair city should have pre pared for tho enumerator by annexing St. Louis and Milwaukee before the count was made.—Omulm Bee. So far Chicago is the banner city of tho country regarding increase in popu lation. Before the Chicago figures were given out Buffalo led, with 4!) per cent increase in population. It seems the cit ies by the great lakes are drawing on the rest of the country rather heavily.— Nashville American, ANIMAL ODDITIES. The so called shipworm, which bores holes in the wood of ships, is in reality a form of shellfish. Ants can stand extremes of heat nnd cold. Forty-eight hours' exposure to frost will not kill them, and one sort has been observed to build its nest iu chinks in a blacksmith's forge. A horse will live 25 days without solid food, merely drinking water. A bear will go for six months, while a viper can e.v ist for ten months without food. A ser pent in confinement lias been known to refuse food for 21 months, An ostrich seldom jumps over any ob struction of some height, as a well or mound, perhaps fearing for Its frail bones, the usual way of clearing the obstacle be ing to breast the wall or mound and then to roll over it somehow. THE COOKBOOK. Dip slices of stale bread in milk, then in beaten egg; fry in hot lard till well browned, and after buttering sprinkle with sugar and n little cinnamon. Nice for tea or breakfast. Molds in which blancmanges are to be put should be wet to insure their easy turning out. On the other hand, in those to be used for jelly no water should go, us it will crack the jelly. Jelly keeps better if hot paraffin poured over each tumblerful after it has "set" than if paper covered. The par affin can be washed when removed and kept to be melted over again next year. WAVES OF WATEF^ The river Obi, in Siberia, is navigable for more than iO,UOO miles. Round the coast of England the sea is warmest in August and September and coldest in April, Lake Mornt, in Switzerland, has the curious property of turning red every ten years owing to the presence of cer tain aquatic plants which are not known In any other luke In the world. THE FATE OF LAN DM ARKS Charles IJomstreet, whoso "Nooks and Corners of Old New York," has at tracted attention, met with some odd experiences while lie was collecting material for his book. One dny during his rambles through the byways lie came to the head of Cocnties slip, where once stood the Stadt Huys, the first city hall of the New Netherlands. A memorial tablet bad been placed 011 the building which occupied the site, but at this time the bouse was being remodeled, and the tablet, a brass slab two feet square, had been removed. Mr. Hemstreet, who regards such things as memorial tablets as sacred, was anxious to know whether this one was being properly cared for. After an hour of search he found the precious tablet in the gutter under a mass of brick. Then he sought the foreman of the workers. "See here," lie said, pointing to the tablet; "what' is that doing there?" The foreman answered quietly, "Why, it's holdin up them bricks so the wa ter can run through the gutter." More than ever excited, the nutlior researcher exclaimed: "Vandalism! Vandalism! Do you know what ancient building once stood 011 this land?" "Sure," replied the foreman; "a sa loon." "A saloon? Why, man, 200 years ago the Stadt Iluys stood here. That brass tablet Is the link which binds the pres ent with the past. That must be pre served; that must be treated as tender ly as"— "Say," Interrupted the foreman, "do you own this 'ere house we're puttin up?" "No," exclaimed the historian, "but the feeling of patriotism makes uie hold this historic spot sacred." "Well," he replied, "if you come around here liollerin and interruptin my work and claimln property that don't belong to you I'll have you arrest ed. That piece of brass Is lioldin up them bricks all right, and it's goin to keep ou lioldin them up. If you don't want to get into trouble, you better chase yourself." And the excited historian, noting the gathering crowd, decided the advice was good and went 011 his way iu si lence.—Saturday Evening Post. Mosqultoe* Pouter Canary IHrds. Owners of canary birds will receive a valuable tip by reading this story: A well known educator of youths in this city has for years had as a pet one or more of the songsters hung In cages about Ills house. In the summer it is one of his chief delights to sit 011 his front porch and listen to them. Recently he noticed that two of his birds were becoming droopy, Irritable and very restless and tlint little spots of blood mysteriously made their ap pearance 011 the bottom of the cage. He watched the cauaries closely for the next few nights and made the as tounding discovery that they were be ing nearly bitten to death by mosqui toes. 111 speaking of the affair he said; "I watched one of the birds narrow ly for a long while and wondered why it kept hopping from one foot to the other. I saw the mosquitoes Iu the cage, but it never entered my mind that they were attacking the canary until I saw a tiny spot of blood 011 the bird's leg. I picked the bird up and saw that it had Just received a well developed mosquito bite. "The only vulnerable part of the ca nary Is the leg, where the skin is very thin ami tender and almost unprotect ed by feathers. The mosquitoes ap pear to know the tenderness of the skin and attack in such numbers that, in the course of time they could seri ously injure the health of the bird by draining if of blood. I blocked the game by draping each cage with mos quito netting. My canaries are now well protected and happy. I suffer so much myself from mosquitoes that It Is astonishing I did not think of them In connection with the birds before."— Baltimore Sun. The Legation <iunrter. As one enters Peking by the arched eastern gate he comes at once upon Legation street, where are all the for eign compounds strung along "an un paved slum of a thoroughfare" for nearly a mile. Miss Scidmore says of this quarter in her book on China: "The street is all gutter save where there are fragmentary attempts at a raised mudbaak footwalk beside the house walls for use when the cartway between is too deep a mud slough. 'We are here on sufferance, under protest, you know,' say the meek and lowly diplomats. 'We must not offend Chi nese prejudices.' Moreover, all the le gations would not subscribe to an at tempted improvement fund nor all unite in demanding that the Chinese should eloun, light, pave and drain Le gation street. That jealousy of the great powers so Ironically termed the 'concert of Europe' Is as much to blame for this sanitary corner of Peking as for uffqirs in Crete and Armenia." Humbert's Truly Royal Stalls. Our Rome correspondent writes: "Tho late king kept In Rome 300 horses in two immense stnbles, each horse having an average value of f jt*> It Is estimated that they cost their "roy al owner 4 shillings each a dJ\ or £21,- B.SO a j car. They make a line show 111 their splendid gml beautifully kept stnbles, but It must be said tlmt that Is about u 'i they were kept for, as the Mug did not rldo more than seven or eight favorites and the queen as many '"ore. King Humbert was devoted to Ills stud and pnld tho stables a dnily visit. Each stall used to ho Inspected nnd each horse petted nnd fed with sugar. King Humbert was very fond of driving nbout the city of Rome, and as his servants wore a dark livery in no way distinctive It is said that the only way strangers could distinguish the king was by lils nmgnlllcent horses."—London Telegraph. The Tribune Is The Leading Newspaper In Freeland! At the subscrip tion price of $1.50 per yeartheTribune costs its readers less than one cent a copy. Think of that! Less than one cent a copy I And for that you get all the local news, truthfully reported and carefully written up. Besides all the local news, the Tri bune gives the news of the world in a con densed form. Thus the busy workman can keep in formed as to what is going on in the world without buying any other paper. The Tribune is essentially a newspa per for the home cir cle. You can read it yourself and then turn it over to your chil dren without fear of putting anything ob jectionable into their hands. Order It from The Carriers or from The Office.
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