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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-15, Page 3Edi Aills i`)) Nu III/ 44, '" Take a hole and put some dough around it, then fry in lard." This simple recipe has brought thousands to grief, just because of the frying in lard, which as we all know hinders digestion. In all recipes where you have used lard, try the new vegetable shortening and you will be surprised at the delightful and healthful results. It is without unpleasant odor, 'unpleasant flavor or unpleasant results. With CoT rol,r4NE in your kitchen, the young, the delicate and the dyspeptic can all enjoy the regular family bill of fare. Cottolene is sold In 3 and 6 pound pails, by all grocers. Made only by The N. K. Falrbank Company, Wellington and Ana Stay MONTREAL. MISCELLANEOUS READING tllL V1 ANI) OTHER WISE. The Mystery of Atmosphere. On dark or lifeless days the lighting of the fire works a kindred miracle in the study; it fills the room with life, color, .change. The four walls are unchanged; the books look down in the old order from the shelves; the table overflows as of old with magazines and volumes in the act of being read ; it is the same room ; and yet it not the same, for it is pervaded by a different atmosphere. Nothing is more elusive than this intangible thing we call atmosphere, but nothing holds more of the magic of beauty and the charm of life. It is, indeed, a very sub- tle and pervasive form of life; the form which finds its delicate and fadeless re- cord in art. Those transparent dawns which the lover of Corot knows so well are but marvelous impressions of atmos- phere ; the wonder is not in the earth or sky, it is in the fusion of light and air. There is no bit of nature that a man loves which has not this spell for him; rocks, trees, and running stream remain to -day as they were yesterday, but they are changed, for a different atmosphere enfolds thein. There is no symbol of per- manency on this perishing earth of ours so impressive as a mountain range ; but there is no created thing so full of the :mystery of change. Distance, height, mass, and relation arenever the same two hours together. On some mornings the hills are remote, inaccessible, immo- bile, of unbroken surface, and when the afternoon comes, behold! they are near, soft of tone, with outlines that seem al- most fluid in their mobility, and with Assures, full of golden light, opening their very heart to the day. Wasted Talents. Oh, dear ! What an. odd world this is and what queer people are living in it ! Did it ever occur to any of you, as it has to me. that if you had an opportunity to plan for some people you know, you could improve them in life amazingly ? Once upon a time I went to return a call. As f was not very well acquainted with my hostess and do not fancy drip - drip talk, I was at a loss for a good topic of conversation. It suddenly occurred to me that I had heard the neighbors speak of her beauti- ful singing. A good talk on music was just the thing. To set the ball rolling, I inquired : "Are you fond of vocal music?" "Oh, yes, I had rather sing than eat. I love music of any kind dearly." "What new songs have you had of late?" "I don't know anything about the new songs. I have no time to even think of music any more." With a feeling of pity I decided to change the subject, as it must be painful to talk of what one really loves but must give up, so 1 ventured in another direc- tion. "We have some grand books in our library. Have you read `Bitter Sweet'?" "No, niy work takes all my time. I can get no time to read." In despair I decided to let her suggest the next topic, and then follow her lead. After a short pause she arose, saying : "I will show you some of my work," and, stepping into an adjoining room, she returned with two packages. Package number one contained a calico quilt made of medium sized blocks, and around each block she was working a vine in white flos. Package number two was a large roll of crocheted lace of beautiful pattern, very wide and quite difficult to make, A shiver ran the entire length of me as I thought of the countless times that crochet hook had wriggled over the end of her finger as she made that roll of lace. Just think of it ! Time enough to work a vine around a hundred blocks, but no time to improve a Good -given talent. Time to convert spool after spool of thread into lace but no time to read the grand books to be had for the asking, and thus fit herself to lead the little ones entrusted to her ever onward and upward. There are many silver -haired women who Can read but a few moments before their eyes tire, who find enjoyment in light fancy work. I would not dream of to criticize such ones but presuming .o , would earnestly pray, "May blessings fall thick and fast upon them. But to see a woman in the prime of life, and in the full possession of her facul- ties, devoting her spare time to work that in a few years, at best, will be faded and worthless, while within her roach are the Orleans to fit herself for the noblest sphere on earth, a talented uplifting mother- hood. I fear the thoughts of such sacri- lege will soon waste zno to a shadow. TIRE BUNCO MAN. He Gives a Great Moral Lesson to an Ambitious Broker. There are few mon about town who don't know Mr. "Jimmy" McNally, the man who has made the green goods busi- ness a science, bat there are very few who ever heard the tale of his undoing by a plain broker. When Jimmy and the broker met on Broadway one sun- shiny days the broker was broke, but his head was all right and he started in with : " Say, Jimmy, Mexico has never been `worked.' There's a great field for you. Now, why can't you and I do some busi- nese in that direction?" " Good idea," responded Jimmy, "but that's a deuced hard field. You see, there's no one to get names and statistics and all that sort of thing. Now, if 1 could only find a man who as up in those things I'd—well, it would be a good thing for both of us." "I'm your man," said the broker tap- ping himself on the chest. "I can got a list of 10,000 names and all the data you want." " Good, good. Come around to the flat and we'll have a drink and talk it over." They went around to McNally's flat. They wined and dined and wined again. They talked business until 4 o'clock in the morning, and when the broker laid his trousers over a chair in the elegant room to which he had been assigned he heard the only two nickels he had clink mournfully. He was called next morning and sat down with "Jiminy" to a perfect break- fast. " Well, old man, I've got to get down town," he said when they had finished. "I forgot to get some money yesterday. Can you let me have some?" " Certainly," answered Jimmy. "How much do you want?" " Oh, $20 will do." A fresh, crisp double X was pulled off a large roll in a moment, and as the broker rolled down town in a hansom he regretted he had not asked for more. At the next interview he asked for $50 and got it without a murmur. " Who do you suppose is my angel?" he asked one night at Delmonico's. "Can't guess in 100 years. `Jimmy' Mc- Nally ! To -morrow I go for $100 cold, and I'll get it, too." Things came pretty easy for the broker for about two weeks, until it struck him that he might just as well get $500 at once. So he called at the flat. " This business of yours is taking all my time, Jimmy,' " he began, "and if you want me to keep at it you'll have to let me have some more money. My wife wants to go away, and I'm aboutbroke." "How much do you want this time?" " I think about $500 will do." " You're coming pretty fast, old man. How are the names getting along? I'd like to get a look at them when you get a chance and see how you're doing. When can I see them ?" ' ` To -night, if you get down town." So the $500 came off of the apearently inexhaustible roll of bills. That day the jubilant broker was very much in evi- dence around the Tenderloin. " I've got a perfect dream," he said, "a vision. All I've got to do is ask for what I want." The more he talked the worse he felt because he had not asked for $1,000, and when night came he was in a condition to do anything. He jumped in a cab and drove to the flat. He had worked himself into a highly indignant mood. He rang the bell and went in. "Look here, Jimmy," he burst out, "this infernal thing of yours has about ruined me. I haven't attended to busi- ness for a week. I've got to have some more money or Pll quit right here." "How much do you want?" asked the green goods man. " Oh, about $1,000 will suit me," he answered airily. " Look here, boy," said McNally, ser- iously. "I'm a bunco man myself." The angel had vanished. Don't Laugh at Your Dog. An extremely human characteristic of our canine friends is shown in suscepti- bility to ridicule. Faint traces of this quality are to be found in monkeys, and perhaps even in the more intelligent horses, but nowhere else save in man, and hardly there, except in the more sensitive natures, do we find contempt, expressed in laughter of the kind which conveys that emotion, so keenly and painfully appreciated. With those dogs which are endowed with a large human quality, such as our various breeds of hounds, it is possible by laughing in their faces not only to quell their rage, but to drive them to a distance. They seem in a way to be put to shame. and at the same time hopelessly puzzled as to the nature of their predicament. In this connection we may note the very hu- man feature that after you have cowed a dog by insistent laughter you can never hope to make friends with him. A Novel Restaurant. In one of the big downtown buildings is a restaurant whose walls and ceiling are composed entirely of mirrors. The effect is startling to the person who looks into the dining -room from the street or hallways. The curtains prevent his see- ing anything except the ceiling and upper walls. In these, however, we can see mirrored all that the room contains. Of course, everything appears inverted, and it is astonishing enough to see a man eating his soup with his head down and his feet in the air. The sight is suf- ficiently novel to attract crowds at times. MASA A G1R (URE$. Sprains and Braises Treated Effectual- ly by Rubbing Injured Parts. A professional friend surprised me by saying he wondered why men wore black oyes when there was no necessity for it. Half an hour of massage, judiciously applied after the injury, he added, would prevent any such ugly condition. Mas- sage, he continued, is a restful cure for many ills folk know, but to how many uses it can be put remains an unknown quantity to the laity. "But about the eye, doctor?" I asked. "As soon as the injury is received the hands should go to work at once. No scientific passes are necessary, just the primitive knowledge of how to rapidly and firmly move the finers over a given spot. In ten minutes the 'blueness' is fading and at the end of thirty minutes no 'blackness' is visible. "Itis better and surer treatment, far, than any amount of raw beef, salves or poultices. "This method does not only apply to the eye, but is good for any blow or fall whieri produces 'blue marks.' `Should a child tumble down and limbs or back be hurt, nothing one can apply will as quickly prevent coagulation of blood or soreness as instant massage," The why and wherefore is quite simple, yet wise. The blood in congested as the skin is struck, especially in the soft, boneless places of the body, The clots prevent newer and better blood passing into the bruised veins, and the transpar- ent skin reveals the dark condition. Manipulation of this skin by the fingers presses the fresh blood into the bruised place; it loosens the elotted blood and carries ib off, thus restoring a normal cir- culation. This remedy is so simple that it will possibly bo forgotten, but it is a rather good bit of wisdom to keep stored away for time of emergency. Many physicians are applying massage for fractures, and especially for sprains. I saw a woman who hada bony growth between the joints of the wrists and who had to submit to its being broken, under- going frequent massage for its cure. It was the only medicine applied. Also nothing is so effective for a sprained ankle. The patient should, if possible, rub the joint of the ankle all the time, and have massage delivered by others four or six times a day. Not only is the cure as speedy as under other doc- toring, but also the constant relief af- forded to the soreness reacts on the nervous system. The same method ap- plies to a sprained wrist, or shoulderand it is excellent in case of a sprained Lek. In the case of fractures massage is be- ing applied in place of splints. True, all patients do not prefer it, for the constant friction of the hand on a sore spot is not always soothing. It creates frequently intense pain for awhile, but the sensation is not lasting. However, some physicians claim that splints, as mechanical appar- atus for perverted bones, are disadvan- tageous, because they weaken. The muscles are "shelved" for the time be- ing, and the blood is not in good circula- tion ; whereas, in the instance of mas- sage, all functions are stimulated by the quick circulation into which the blood is put. When Paper Was Scarce. In these days of cheap paper but few know of the costliness of that useful article when newspapers were first pub- lished, and equally few are acquainted with the difficulty experienced by old- time paper manufacturers in obtaining sufficient raw material. An evidence of this difficulty may be seen in the following notice published in the Boston News Letter in 1769: "The bell cart will go through Boston before the end of next month, to collect rags for the paper mill at Milton, and all people that encourage the paper manufactory may dispose of their rags " ABOUT RATTLESNAKES. They Are Very Easy to Tame When Yon Know Row. "Rattlesnakes are very easy to tame. Let me handle them for about four days and they know me and make no effort whatever to bite. I don't take the fangs out, for what's the use? In two weeks they grow out again big enough to kill you, and in six weeks are as big as they ever were. I have heard people say that a rattlesnake gets its poison from a plant but it's all nonsense. It's in them, for I find those a year in captivity are just as deadly as when fresh from the woods, "The biggest rattlesnake I ever saw I caught up here by Palatka. He was 10 feet 11 inches long, weighed 38 pounds, and had 56 rattles. I had him in a pit there in the yard for a long time. A heavy rain came once and filled the pit up with water and he drowned. I made a vest out of his skin. I'm afraid I'll neder get another snake like that," and Si sighed to think what he had lost. "Si, how far does a rattlesnake strike?" "Some people say he strikes his length and others declare that he can jump more than his length, but I've watched them closely and 1 know they are wrong. A rattlesnake can't get further than the length of two coils. That's about half his length." "Where do you find most of the rat- tlers?" "Fort George is a great place for them. Pablo is another good field, while all down the coast, in the scrub, there are thousands. Then in the hummocks and swamps you will find plenty, and in the pine woods, where there are gopher holes. A rattlesnake likes a gopher hole. It's a nice, snug place, and he lives there, like the coachwhip, the gopher and the gopher snake in perfect harmony." The Dead Wife. The hour set for the funeral had come. The hearse, with its black plumes, stood at the farmhouse door. It seemed a strange and foreign thing among the bright -colored hollyhocks, the common- place sunshine, the lowing of cows in the barnyard, and the chickens that moved about on the green lawn before the house. The Jersey wagons of the neigh- boring farmers filled the road, for the Garretts were much respected Mrs. Garrett, who had just died, was a "homely body," and saw but little of her neighbors, but her husband had grown rich by great industry and close saving, and had pushed his children on in the world. John, his only son, had been to college, and the girls to ,a boarding -school, and they were so improved that they seemed to belong to quite another class from their mother. They had stood with their father at the coffin to look for the last time at the woman who lay there. "Your mother was a pretty woman when she was young," the farmer had said. It had startled him to see how thin and withered the face was under the white hair. "Sarah's only fifty," he continued. "She hadn't ought to look so old " he said. He had not thought of her looks when she was alive. There was a certain sullen resentment under the grief that she was dead. How was he to do without her ? She was a master hand at cooking and butter -mak- ing and laundry work and sewing. He had never thought to ask her if she needed help. She had never complained, and, to complete her work, she had risen at four and had gong to bed late at night. Things always ran smoothly. She never spoke of being ill. It stunned him when she took this cold and sank under it in two days. The doctor said that all her strength was gone. "Sarah had the strength o' ten women," the husband said. "Where had it gone?" He was amazed and indignant. Was this the justice of God, to take away a woman of usefulness in the world? It was not just! Her daughters sobbed vehemently. She had always been so tender ! She had done so mueh for them ! They did not, it is true, feel well acquainted with her since they grew up. But between their music and their studies and their young companions and pthe^soeial occupations, their lives had been filled ! They smooth- ed the folds of her merino gown, a little ashamed that her neighbors should see that she had no silk dress. She had in- sisted that each of them should have silk gowns, and helped to make them herself. Jack, her son, like his father, was shocked to see how tired and worn his mother looked. He had talked a year or two of taking her for a week to New York. She never seen a groat city. But he always had some engagement. He remembered now that she had made enough in the dairy to keep him in his spending money at college. He wished ho had contrived that little holiday for her! They all felt now how good and unselfish she had been and how dear to them: "Why should she be taken from us?" the old man moaned bitterly. "It is cruel. Why has God done this thing?" And the dead woman lying there, her lips closed forever, could make no an swer, save that which toil had stamped upon the thin worn face that seemed pleading for rest. Clothes Helped Ser Recovery. ...."One of the things that helped my re- covery," said a woman recently, who has just regained 1. r health after a serious illness, 'was a pretty bed jacket which my sister brought me one day in lieu of jellies and fruit. It was becoming and I enjoyed it. `The doctor, when he first saw me in it, said I looked 20 per cent. better than the day before ; man like he didn't ap- preciate the reason, and my spirits, and, consequently, nay condition bettered in proportion. "Too often invalids are wrapped in any old thing that is handy. I remem- ber laughing once when a friend in robust health showed me a dainty, lace - trimmed sick gown, 'for me,' she ex- plained, 'if I ever need it.' "The notion struck me as absurd, when she was never ill, but after my ex- perience with that bed jacket I appreciate better the value of attractive environ- ment under depressing circumstances." A Conscientious Parson. A wedding took place a short time ago in a largo town in the north of England, the service being conducted by a rather eccentric vicar. Two days after the cere- mony he called at the house of the bride- groom's mother, but she happened to be out, so he said he would call again,which he did later on in the day, carrying two large bags under his arm. This time he found her in, So he be- gan by asking them to clear the table a little; then he opened the green bags, from which he took the registers. These he opened and in a most solemn tone said : "Mrs. Williams, you have forgotten to dot the 'i' in Elizabeth." The family breathed once more. Caught a Bird. "A strange thing happened to me when I was trout fishing last year up in northern New York," said Andrew Bishop, of Bridgeport, Ct. "The fish were very wary, as the stream was nar- row and the pools were but lightly bor- dered with bushes or cover of any kind. Consequently when I would reach a promising -looking spot, I would get as far from the bank as possible, and at the same time time be able to drop my fly over in the water. I had followed this plan with poor success, getting only one or two strikes in as many hours, when suddenly my line began to run out with a whirr. No trout had ever carried off a fly for me in such a way before, and I was nonplussed, but in a moment I saw that it was not a fish that was making my reel sing. Rising from the surface of the stream and flying above it was a bee marten, which had gobbled my fly as I cast it over the bank, and he was making away with it. The bird had nearly all my line out, and not caring to lose it, I began to play him as I would play a fish. He struggled gamely, I tell you, but the hook had caught in his beak and held him firmly. At last, after a full hour of fighting, the bird fluttered helplessly to the ground, and I released him. You may think this a fish story, but it's true. 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