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fortable; shooting up or shooting down
and sudden stopping gives them a
qualmish feeling; makes them sort of
seasick.
"There are women who never ride on
the elevators for this reason. They
would rather walk up and down stairs.
Other women try various ways of les-
sening or staving off the unpleasant
effects.
"Some stand on their tiptoes as
long as they are in the car, some hold
their breath. I don't understand why
they do that. Some sit down and keep
their feet off the floor--that's on the
same theory as standing on tip-
toes to lessen the shock of the start-
ing and stopping of the car.
"And now the latest thing is for
women to stand in the car and bend
their heads backward and look straight
upward at the ceiling of the car all the
time they are in it. This is said to
be a sure cure for qualmish feeling.
"I suppose the theory of this method
is that with the eyes thus steadied
fixed on something that is, relatively
to themselves, stationary the riders are
less conscious of the elevator's motion.
One of the things that aggravate sea-
sickness is the consciousness of the
vessel' motion that we get from the
sight of the sea apparently rising and
falling, as we catch sight of it through
the portholes when the vessel rolls.
"The sight of the floors appearing
and disappearing as the elevator
ascends or descends affects some
women in the same manner. With
their eyes fixed on the interior of the
top of the car the sight of these things
is avoided.
"So if you see a woman in an ele-
vator car with her eyes evidently fixed
intently on the ceiling you don't want
to jump to the conclusion that she is
just from the country and riding in
an elevator for the first time, and
now carefully and with interest sur-
veying its interior. No, she is in fact
discovering to you the very latest
wrinkle in elevator riding of women
well accustomed to elevators.
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Y, NOVEMBER 9, 1905.
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THE MYSTERY OF SCRAPPLE
How a World Famous Philadelphia
Article is Produced
"Scrapple used to be made altogether
by the Pennsylvania farmers, but it is
now made practically altogether by a
trust, the Philadelphia Scrapple Trust,
which turns out thousands of pounds dai-
ly from the first frost till the spring
thaw."
The speaker, a Philadelphia butcher,
knew his subject. He resumed:
"Our scrapple plant is uptown. Trains
of cars containing live pigs come in at
one end of it. Out at the other pass
trains of cars containing pale scrapple in
silver colored tins.
"This delectable stuff is made of pigs'
heads, livers, pork, sage, thyme and a
dozen other ingredients. The meat is
first boiled on the bone in vats as large
as swimming pools. Then it is cut up
into chunks the size of your fist by rows
of bare-armed experts with scimiters.
Then it is ground to a gray powder in
steam grinding machines.
"The gray powder is taken to a secret
room. There under the direction of the
mixer, a high salaried official, it is sea-
soned and touched up in many unknown
ways. Afterward it is boiled in enor-
mous boilers.
"Still hot and soft from the boiling, it
is put in new bright tins. It cools and
is a firm substance of a pearl gray hue
-- the world famed Philadephia scrapple
of song and story.
"Philadelphia scrapple is eaten all over
America. If it were a summer as well
as a cold weather food, it would perhaps
supplant pie as the national dish."--Chi-
cago Chronicle.
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TEA POWDER
Makes as Good if Not Better Bev-
erages Than the Whole Leaf
"History tells us that when coffee was
first brought to the cities of Western Eu-
rope the first makers of it were Turks.
They roasted and ground the berries and
served the liquor as it is served to this
day in the East, grits and all. We still
drink coffee as we drank it then, with this
difference, that we mostly omit the grits
and drink an infusion instead of a decoc-
tion. It was not so with tea. No China-
man was imported with the first pound of
tea to teach us how to make and drink
it. The consequence has been that we
have never drank tea in the Chinese
way--that is, as a simple infusion.
"At first there seems to have been great
doubt as to how to deal with the new
herb. It is even said that it was some-
times boiled, with salt and butter, and
served up as a sort of spinach. The
old phrase, 'a dish of tea,' seems to bear
out this legend. Finally it came to be
settled that the most wholesome and
pleasant way to treat the tea leaf was
to make it into a kind of sweet soup
with sugar and milk or cream. I have
personal knowledge of no country in
Europe but one where tea is used as
in China--Portugal, which got its knowl-
edge of tea-making from a province of
China, with which, at that time, no
other nation of Europe was in con-
tact.
"It was while traveling on horseback
with a guide in the wilder parts of
Portugal, away from the shops and inns,
where we had perforce to make experi-
ments in the most economical use of the
few ounces of tea and coffee that we
could afford to carry with us, that we
hit upon a discovery. Having no milk,
we drank our tea, as most Portuguese
drink theirs, as a simple infusion, sweet-
ened with sugar.
"I remembered to have read, I believe
in the travels of the Abbe Huc, that
when the Chinese desire to be thrifty in
th use of the finer and more expensive
teas they grind the leaf to pwder and
use less for the infusion. We found
that tea could be ground in a coffee
mill as easily as coffee; that tea made
with the powder is as good as or better
than when made with the whole leaf,
and that the powder, as it naturally
would, goes further than the tea leaf."--
London Times
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NOVEMBER 30, 1905
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New Russian Calendar
One of the reforms which are now
promised for Russia is the substitu-
tion of the Gregorian for the Julian cal-
endar. The Russian people, with the
old-fashioned calendar which Julius
Caesar established in the year 45 BC,
have been behind the times in a very
literal sense. The Julian calendar fixed
the solar year at 365days, 6 hours, every
fourth year being leap year, but as the
solar year really consists of 365 days
5 hours and 45 minutes, the calendar was
defective.
It was Pope Gregory XIII who in 1582
reformed the calendar by ordaining that
that year should consist of 365 days only
and that a year ending a century should
not be bissextile except that ending each
fourth century; thus 1700, 1800 and 1900
were common years, but 2000 will be a
leap year. Three days are retrenched by
the Gregorian calendar in 400 years, or
about 11 minutes for each year.
Old-fashioned Russia, following the
practice of the Greek church, stuck to
the false Julian calendar and rejected
the true Gregorian one, and in this way
she has fallen about 13 days behind time.
--New York World.
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Vegetable Medicines
Turnips, onions, cabbage, cauliflower,
watercress and horseradish contain sul-
phur.
Potato, salts of potash.
French beans and lentils give iron.
Water cress, oil, iodine, iron, phosphate
and other salts.
Spinach, salts of potassium and iron.
Food specialists rate this the most pre-
cious of vegetables.
Cabbage, cauliflower and spinach are
beneficial to aenemic people.
Tomatoes stimulate the healthy action
of the liver.
Asparagus benefits the kidneys.
Celery for rheumatism and neuralgia.
It is claimed the carrot forms blood and
beautifies the skin.
Beets and turnips purify the blood and
improve the appetite.
Lettuce for tired nerves.
Parsley, mustard, cowslip, horseradish,
dock, dandelion and beet tops clear the
blood, regulate the system, and remove
that tired feeling so peculiar to spring--
Philadelphia North American.
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NOVEMBER 11, 1905
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"The Jewish Specter" By George H.
Warner.
Mr. Warner evidently in searching for
something to hit, thought of a subject
which for years has been the punching
bag for the idle and ignorant. In his
book, "The Jewish Specter," he attributes
all sorts of fatal possibilities because of
the existence of this long lived and thrif-
[ty] folk. Mr. Warner says, "the Jewish
[specter] is now visible in both hemi-
[spheres]; it hovers over New York as it
[long] has done over Paris, Vienna, Berlin
[and] London." Mr. Warner goes on to say
[throughout] his book that the Jew is a
menace to the world in money getting, in
politics, in the social question, and,
above all, the fact of the existence of
the Jew today is a menace to Christian-
ity!
Mr. Warner forgets in writing his
chapeters the celebrated words of Lord
Beaconsfield when he offered the sugges-
tion to some irate creedist that the Sa-
vior was born of a Jewish mother, was
of the house of David, and having lived
the life of a Jew, died that he might
leave a heritage of immortality to them
that believed. Mr. Warner forgets that
the very fact of the existence of this
people is an evidence that they must have
some divine right to live. The stage, the
pulpid, the comic papers, the canonist and
the iconoclast have all in turn used
Judea as a punching bag. They and Mr.
Warner can but bruise their own
knuckles. Judea is the sphinx of the
religious realm. The book is an ana-
chronism.
Doubleday, Page & Co. [and company] N.Y. Lowman
& [and] Hanford, Seattle.
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How To Cut Glass
Glass can be cut without a diamond,
and the way is very simple.
Dip a piece of common tring in alcohol
and squeeze it reasonably dry. Then tie
the string tightly around the glass on the
line of cutting.
Touch a match to the string and let it
burn off. The heat of the burning string
will weaken the glass in this particular
place.
While it is hot plunge the glass under
water, letting the arm go under well to
the elbow so there will be no vibration
when the glass is struck.
With the free hand strike the glass out-
side the line of cutting, giving a quick
sharp stroke with any long flat instru-
ment such as a stick of wood or a long
bladed knife, and the cut will be as clean
and straight as if made by a regular
glass cutter. Large bottles can thus be
readily utilized for jelly glasses.--Phila-
delphia Press.
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Cement for Glass News
Melt a little isinglass in spirits of wine
and add a small quantity of water; warm
the mixture over the fire; when thoroly
mixed and melted it will form an almost
transparent glue and will join glass al-
most invisibly.--Philadelphia Press.
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Tonnage
J. L. G.-- The tonnage of a ship de-
pends upon the cubic space it con-
tains. A "register ton" is simply 100
cubic feet of space, and has only very
indirect relation to a "dead-weight
ton" of 20 cwt [hundredweight]. If the entire internal
capacity of a ship expressed in cubic
feet be divided by 100 the result will
be the ship's "gross register" ton-
nage. What is known as "net regis-
ter" tonnage is the figure remaining
after certain deductions have been
made for the gross. It is intended to
represent the space actually in a ship
for remunerative service such as the
[allowage] of cargo or the accomoda-
tion of passengers. In sailing vessels
the deduciton is very small indeed,
repressenting from four to five per
cent of the gross. In steamers the
case is very different for not only the
crew space but that occupied by the
engines, boilers, coal, etc., it deducted
Speaking generally, in case of the ma-
jority of ocean going steamers the
net tonnage is reduced from the gross
by as much as about 25 per cent. The
meaning of the word displacement
when applied to a ship, is the weight
of water displaced by the vessel, this
weight being equal to the weight of
the ship. The displacement of a ship
expressed in tons means the weight of
the ship when immersed to her maxi-
mum or load-line.
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NEGRO NUNS
One of the Picturesque Sights of the
City of New Orleans
One of the most picturesque sights of
the Vieux Carre of New Orleans is the
negro nun. Come upon her where you
will, and as often as you man, she is
ever a fresh delight. Her demure, down-
cast face, her severe garb, and above all
that snowy bonnet, in striking contrast
with that black face, make something so
vastly different from what we are ac-
customed to in the women of her race.
But this cloistered simulacrum is sister
to her only in color. She goes softer, is
even more subdued than the white nun,
while her outward presentment is the
very quintessence of holiness. Good
women, too, they are, these negro nuns.
The most of them have some education,
and the mothers superior of the different
orders are women of much intelligence
and marked administrative ability.
One of the negro sisterhoods is that of
the Holy Family, domiciled in Orleans
street, in a great gray brick building, not
a stone's throw from the Blossomy Close
of the St. Louis Cathedral. This building
used to be the Orleans theatre. In its
great rooms were held the famous quad-
roon balls. Over its floors have glided in
voluptusous dances many seductively
beautiful amber sirens, fleurs du mal,
who occasioned their white sisters many
a jealous heartache.
But ring the bell of that door now, and
it is opened by a black sister, and as at
her invitation you walk across that tesse-
lated hallway it is impossible to so
wrench the mind as to realize that van-
ished past--so sharrply drawn is the dif-
ference between it and the present.
This particular order was founded be-
fore the war by three rich, intelligent
free women of color. Its work is alto-
gether good. Its first care is that of
orphaned children, then of those whose
natural guardians are neglectful or cruel.
This latter field of labor is a wide one,
as the average negro parent makes a
fetich of the rod and punishes his children
brutally.
Very sensibly these sisters do not pay
overmuch attention to book education.
The catechism, of course, but after that
a little learning, in their opinion, goes a
long way. They strive to give the chil-
dren a good industrial training, and it is
a matter of common report that the Cath-
olic-bred negro is generally the most
trustworthy of all servants. Unless
though, a housekeeper happens to be a
Catholic in good repute, as a strict fol-
lower of her relition, let her not hope to
lure one of these black birds out of the
convent nest.
The sisters care for as many children as
they can house and feed and a comical
looking set these children are. In color
they range from coal black through all
the lighter shades up to a dirty, freckled
red-haired white, all cleanly dressed, all
well-behaved, all quiet as mice--at least
when the visitors are present. There are
children from Mexico, the West Indies
and South America, these latter the chil-
dren of well-to-do parents, who pay gen-
erously for their keep, and insist upon
those seductive accomplishments--fancy
work and piano music.
The sisters dwell with great pride upon
the wonders they have done by faith in
God and begging from friends. As re-
gards the last, one of the sights in the
New Orleans custom house are the sis-
ters, white and black, who on each pay
day mutely stand on either side of the
corridor through which the employes
must pass on their way from the cashier's
office. With outstretched hand each sis-
ter silently charms a coin out of some
man's pocket. Few are brave enough to
withstand that appeal. The negro em-
ployes stick to their color and give their
doles to the black sisters, while not a few
of the whites give also to the blacks.
The convent of the Holy Family has been
lucky enough to have several bequests in-
creast its revenues. There is no doubt
the sisters are useful members of society.
--Washington Star
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To remove pitch, wheel grease, tar
stains, soften the stains with lard,
then soak in turpentine. Scrape off the
loose surface dirt; sponge clean with
turpentine and rub dry.
If you upset hot fat on the kitchen
table or floor, pous cold water over it
at once. This cools the fat and pre-
vents it from spreading and sinking
into the wood. To remove the greasy
spot, scrub thoroughly with hot soda-
water and sand.
Rust may be removed from nickel-
plating by covering the spots with
mutton tallow and letting it stand for
several days. If this treatment is fol-
lowed by a rubbing with powdered
rottenstone and then by a thorough
washing with strong ammonia, suc-
ceeded by clear water, and a final pol-
ishing with dry whiting, stubborn cases
will yield.
It is said that a small piece of gum
camphor dropped into the bowl of a
kerosene lamp will make the flame
brighter.
Steep a new broom before using it
in warm water for a few minutes. The
dry fibres of a broom are brittle and
likely to snap. For this reason it is
advisable to repeat the process about
once a week. Always keep brushes
and brooms hanging up; they soon
spoil if left standing on the floor.
If you wish to shut off any view
you can do it cheaply in the following
manner: Dissolve in a little water as
much Epsom salts as the water will
absorb, and paint this over the inside
of the window panes. You will then
have a fair imitation of ground glass.
Tea leaves are invaluable as a
means of cleaning varnished paint.
When sufficient have been laid aside,
they should be placed in a tin basin
full of water, and soaked for half an
hour. The tea, when strained, should
be used instead of soap and water to
clean varnished surfaces.
A roomy bag, its mouth kept open
by a ring of wire, is a convenience to
hang on the frame of the sewing ma-
chine. In to this receptacle all snips
and scraps may be dropped while at
work, and much picking up of litter
thereby saved.
Never wash cups, plates, spoons, and
knives that have been used in the
sick-room with those used by the
family. Infectious diseases, as scarlet
fever, etc., have been known to spread
in that way. Do not eat in the sick-
room or partake of anything that has
stood there.
In making jellies, dip the straining
bag in boiling water and wring out as
dry as possible before use. This saves
fruit-juice from soaking into the cloth.
A pinch of borax in cooked starch
will make the clothes stiffer and
whiter.
Shelves and woodwork where insects
are found, should be washed with a
weak solution of carbolic acid. Care
should be taken to neglect no cracks
or joinings. Shake all clothing thor-
oughly, and saturate with naphtha.
Furniture that has become infested
should be taken outsed, beaten well
and naphtha poured over it until the
liquid has penetrated every part. Care
must be takent to have no fire or ar-
tificial light in the room as naphtha
is very inflammable.
If the course salt and crushed ice
needed to freeze ice cream is mixed
together in a separate vessel, the mix-
ture then packed around the freezer
can, the contents of the latter will
freeze much more evenly. The pro-
portions should be one third salt to
two thirds ice.
To make soap for washing blankets,
shave fine two pounds of good white
soap and put into a saucepan with
two quarts of boiling water. Keep on
the fire until the soap is dissolved,
stirring occasionally. Add four ounces
of borax, stir well, and the soap is
ready for use. Never use brown soap
when washing wollen goods.
To revive limp celery get a pail of
biling water, douche the celery into
it for a second or two, then put it into
a bowl of cold water and let the water
run on it for some time. It will b e
quite fresh and crisp for the table.
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The unsightly yellow spots left by
machine oil on white goods can be re-
moved by rubbing them with a cloth
dipped in ammonia, then washing with
soap and water. Kerosene will remove
the gummy substance which forms on
sewing machines.
Before wetting any sort of bric-a-
brac, and especially bronzes, remove all
the dust possible. The less tudt water
finds about the lines and crannies, the
less it can leave there. After dusting,
wash well in strong white soapsuds
and ammonia, rinse clean, polish with
just a suspicion of oil and rotten stone
and rub off afterward every trace of
the oil. Never let acid touch a bronze
surfaceunless to eat and pit it for anti-
que effects.
When ice is not at hand, and the
food suffers for the want of it, a com-
mon clay flower-pot may be made good
use of in keeping the butter cool and
firm. Place the pot over the plate
of butter and wrap around it a cloth
wet in cold water, sprinkling water
over the outside of the cloth as it be-
comes dry. Milk will remain cool and
sweet if itreated in the same manner.
To remove mildew, rub common yel-
low soap on the damages spot and sift
starch on that; rub it in well and lay
out in the sun.
A quick and easy way to slip a rod
thorugh curtains is to pare the end of
the rod, put a thimble on the end, and
the rod will slip thorugh quite easily
without tearing the curtain.
To clean bathtubs, use whiting and
ammonia, rubbed on thoroughly; for
brass use a combination of rotten-stone
and oil; for sink and bathtub pipes,
use one-half pint of washing soda dis-
solved in six quarts of boiling water.
A new lamp wick should be soaked
in vinegar. If this is done there will
be neither smell nor smoke and a much
brighter light will be given.
Do not throw old incandescent man-
tles away. They make a splendid
polish for silver. Put a little on a soft
duster and rub on the article to be
cleaned. It will polish beautifully
without scratching or marking the sil-
ver.
To prevent windows from steaming,
clean them thoroughly and apply a
small quantity of glycerine over the
polish with a soft cloth. Rub briskly
and lightly until the glycerine is well
rubbed in.
To prevent portieres catching under-
neath the door when opened quickly,
screw a small ring, such as is used [for]
picture frames into the centre of door-
frame; to this fasten a length of blind-
cord sufficient to reach to bottom of
curtain. Put another ring in centre of
door at top, thread cord through and
fasten to bottom of curtain, and as the
door is opened so the curtain rises.
To Clean Gloves--Maud-- Glove-
forms for use in cleaning gloves can
be easily purchased and are much
better than the hand to stretch the
glove upon. If gasoline is used for
the cleaning fluid, it should be diluted
in the proportion of a cup of gasoline
to two quarts of water. Success with
either this or naphtha needs that the
ring or other trace left by the fluid
should be carefully rubbed away with
a clean cloth, otherwise a fresh stain
replaces the original one. Always, too,
bear in mind that these explosive
fluids need the greatest care in hand-
ling. Use them in the daytime, and
never in a sharply cold room. Rubbing
silk against silk on a cold day produces
a spark that would easily explode these
highly infammable fluids.
Sticky Fly Paper--B.B. Sticky fly
paper is made by coating stout writing
paer with one of the following mix-
tures (1) To 1 point of resin add 2 fluid
drachms of linseed oil. Dissolve by
the aid of gentle heat and while warm
spread on the paper. (2) Resin, 9 parts;
rapeseed oil, 4 parts. (3) Resin, 8 parts;
turpentine 4 parts; rapeseed oil, 4
parts; honey 1-2 part; (4) Resin, 1
pound; molasses 3 1/2 ounces; linseed
oil, 2 1/2 ounces. Boil until thick
enough.
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