HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-3, Page 3A CIRCUS EVERY DAY.
Oh, what a circus a circus life must be,
'Parading every morning for admtrieg folks to
see!
'Spangles, bangles everywhere,
Prancing, dancing ponies there,
Bands a -playing, "Boom-ba-chinkr
'Folks hurrahing --only think!
If it's such a lark to see it,
What tun it must be to be its.
•Oh, what a circus to know that every day,
You can be a circus at the ladies' matinee.
Hanging by your toes and knees
On the flying, high trapeze.
Turning somersaults and things,
Riding round the triple rings—
1t it's such a treat to see it, •
What fun it must be to be its
Oh, what a circus a circus life must bel
To have another circus in the evening after tea,
Then to travel, oh. so far!
In the "sacred heifer's" ear,
While the engine goes "Whoot•chool"
At the hop toad kangaroo,.
Aad the anthropoid grows frantic
At the ringtail's newest antic.
Oh, what a circus a circus life—hot my
It might not seem a circus it we had it every
day,
Every morning a procession,
Every afternoon a session,
Every night another show
And then have to travel so.
Ob, it may be fun to see it,
But think what a bore to be a !
—Edmund Vance Cooke in Yout;t'a Companion.
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"Well, Jess, what's it to be, will you
come or not?"
Jessie looked up from the umbrella she
was diligently mending and thought for a
moment.
"Yes, dear, I will; I'll come. It's many
a long day since I've had a holiday or
been near the country. Yes, I'll come."
Jessie stitched on and ou till the um-
brella was finished. Then she put on her
-;tat and, taking her work with her, locked,
the door and went out Tato the noisy
street. She lived alone in a small room
is Mile Lard road, London. with the pee -
pie who owned the house and worked
hard for a small umbrella shop which
was near at hand- A delicate girt, she
often had trouble to keep herself from
starvation and illness, but she was scru-
pulously neat and economical, and her lit-
tle room had an air of homelike bright-
ness, very rjre in such a neighborhood.
Her triers Clam Ridley. was at the
station to meet her and gave her a cor-
dial welcome: They walked three miles
to the rustic home. Jessie drinking in
every sight and sound, and as she laugh-
ed and talked in girlish t'reedom a lovely
color stole into her pale cheeks.
"Now, this is Barkingside. where we
• Jive. Do you see that pretty inclosed
place? It is a horse for girls. It is very
:7 .` pretty inside. You see, 'mother' was
' nay own mother's only sister, and when
she found out after a long tune that I'd
been brought up in a home she was very
• upset and would have me live with her
and I help about the farm. There's lots
to do."
Next morning at the little village
church her heart beat rapidly as the
sight of exquisite flowers and the sound
of the organa burst upon her. Glancing
across the church to look at the people,
her eyes were arrested by two candid
'blue ones shaded by long fair lashes. It
was an open, manly, yet boyish face, sun-
liurned and freckled, with a large, smil-
.ing mouth and broad forehead. He was
a sailor. She colored when his eyes again
met hers. The face be saw was an inter-
esting one, not pretty, but pure in color
and outline, and the veil of sadness and
weariness which hung over it compelled
a second glance.
When the service was over, the girls
stood at the gate waiting for friends of
'Clara's. Suddenly she touched Jessie's
arm.
"Jess, Jess, do you see that sailor com-
ing to speak to us? He is Fred Harding.
Shall I tell him who you are? He lives
in that nice house over there."
Before Jessie had time to reply the
:sailor had shaken hands with Clara and
was looking at her friend.
"Jess, this is Mr. Harding and'tlais is
'Miss Carter, Fred. a friend of mine."
They walked on together toward
,Clara's home, laughing and talking, and
before they parted at the gate had ar-
ranged to walk to Hainault forest to-
igether that afternoon. Jessie was al-
eroost brilliantly happy. She chatted and
:smiled and sang and looked very pretty
in her gladness.
It was very warm weather for April,
and the young people were glad to reach
-the shelter and coolness of the trees and
wander slowly down the grassy forest
;path till they were lost in its depths.
Jessie wandered on and on, and the
.sailor followed. They were free 'and
=happy, for the Tight of love was dawning
rat last on .lessie's lonely life.
The sailor had tea With them. They
went to church together and strolled
;home in the clear moonlight. Jessie's hol-
>,iday was over, but the next morning, as
-she stepped into the train for Bow road,
'laden with flowers and some homemade
,cakes, she was the happiest girl in east
London. She had learned from Clara
>that Fred Hardiug was waiting for a
ship bound for Australia and that his
.father was a well to do farmer.
Before long Clara asked her to go to
Barkingside again, and she stinted her-
self in food to pay her train fare. She
:.and Fred timeline. met sometimes in
London too. She rooked a different girl
and in spite of occasional fasts grew
Fstronger and better and her eyes and
.cheeks beegme bright with health.
But by and by the serpent crept into
Paradise in the shape of an uneasy con -
:science. Fred Harding, like the other
members of his family, was very proud
sof his respectability. He was honorable
:and straightforward, but uncompromis-
,Ingly hard on anything or any one he
+thought underhand or mean. When Jes-
sie considered this, she thought of her
•own life and how little he knew of it,
'-and she trembled•for the love which now
'held her so closely. She consulted Clara.
"Oh, what uonse4e, Jess. :Don't tell
,him anything till yo re rnarried..If you
'take my advice, you , on't. He'd forgive
• our silence then..
e won
t now. 1
(know him!" ?
This was no comfort to Jessie, and she
• pondered an 3 pondered during the long
Ihours while' she sat alone. At last the
.dreaded day arrived, and Fred was called
. tto join his ship. He wrote to Jessie,,ask-
singg her to meet him that evening for •
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A Pathetic Story of a Girl Who
Loved a Sailor. a
last walk in Hainault forest, as he was
to sail the next morning. for Australia.
"Come, darling," he wrote, "without
fail. I am going so far away. and we
may never meet again." He inclosed a
shilling for her railway fare.
Then she decided with au aching heart
that she would tell her sweetheart every-
thing. She could not let hint go away
thinking better of her than she deserved.
She could not see those honest blue eyes
look so truly into hers and know that she
was hiding secrets deep down in her
heart.
It was a long walk from Ilford to
Hainault forest, but far too short for lov-
ers who would meet no more for months.
The clouds had parted a little at sight of
Fred's bright face, and Jessie was able to
look happy and to chatter almost as mer-
rily as usual. When they reached the
forest, they sat down, and Fred brought
out some dainties which he had bought
for his little sweetheart. But it was late
in the summer, and the rays of the set-
ting sun glinting red and gold through
the leaves warned them that they must
not linger. Fred teoked at his watch,
and Jessie's heart Stood still. She had
suddenly decided to tell hien now, before
they left the shelter of the dear forest,
where "he and she had spent so many
happy hours,
"Fred."
"Well, Jess. dear"—
"I have something to tell yon. Haiti
my hand and promese you w.sn't be an-
gry. It is hard to tell you, but I must.
because it is right and because you are
going away, Iou have neverasked
who°I m,
e
am and where I was brought •ap."
"Why, of course not. You are Clctra'd
friend, and 1 know who she is and that
her aunt wouldu't let her associate with
any one who is not respectable."
Jessie gasped.
"But don't you know that I tive all
alone in London and work very hard at
umbrella mending?"
"Oh, yes, I know you do, poor little wo-
man, My heart has often ached for you,
and 1 lone for the time when I can take
you away from all that. When we're mar-
ried you shall live in a pretty cottage
near nay mother, perhaps after this voy-
age"—
"Oh, Fred, stop! When you know all,
you will not want to marry me. Do you
know my mother is dead?'"
"Yes. Clara told me you were an or-
phan and have been cared tor by some
kind lady who set you up in your present
work, and all that."
"Is that what Clara said? She did not
tell you the truth. 1 am not an orphan.
My mother died of consumption when I
was a baby. and I was brought up iu a
home in London, because" --
"Well. why?" said Fred in a hard
voice.
"Because my father Is a ceuvlct. He
is at Dartmoor."
Jessie spoke steadily, but her face was
ghastly and her breath laborerd. Fred
Harding rose slowly from beside her. He
dropped her hand and clineh,al his own.
Ile set his teeth, and his Mee wad as
ghastly as hers.
"Jessie," he said sternly. "frim this
moment all is over between us. I don't
cure what has passed before. You have
deceived me, and I'm not going to marry
a convict's daughter."
Ile turned in passionate haste and left
Jessie alone in the forest. When she saw
him go, she stretched out her arms im-
ploringly.
"Fred, Fre;;, come bail:. Tf you knew
bow I love you, you would come back!"
He only hurried on the faster Then
,essie knew all was over—her dreams,
her love, her hope, everything She sat
long as he had left her till the darkness,
becoming more and more dense, warned
her to hurry from the forest, and the
lonely girl returned to her now doubly
lonely drudgery.
Fred's ship sailed the next day. That
was all she knew. She saw nothing of
Clara, and she neither wrote nor went to
Barkingside herself. The weary months
dragged on. Her cough grew worse.
She could not eat, and she could hardly
do her work.
One day about four months after Jes-
sie's parting from Fred some one knock-
ed at the door of her room. Clara opened
the door to see her friend lying on the
bed near the window,colorless, dying.
co or ass,
Her white hand loosely held a bunch of
violets, and her dark eyes, bright with
fever, were fixed ou the window, from
where she could see a peep of the sky.
"Oh. Jessie, what's the matter?"
Jessie tried to answer, but coughed in-
stead.
"I'm dying," she gasped.
Clara impulsively threw herself on her
knees by the bed and burst into tears.
Jessie laid her hand gently on her head.
"Don't cry, Clara. I'm glad now.
Fred gave me up, and I couldn't live
without him."
"Oh, I'm sorry, but you shall come to
our house now and get better."
"I shall be better, Clara. I can't live
long. I only want to live till Fred's ship
comes back. I want to hear him say he
forgives me."
"It's not for him to forgive," said
elafara angrily.
"It is, Clara. I knew him. I knew his
honesty, his passionate temper, and yet I
deceived him all that time."
"Jessie, Jessie, don't die. He'Il soon be
here, and I'll make him forgive you and
come to you, and then you'll be better."
"No, dear, he won't" forgive me. But I
want you to tell him I love him just the
same. And, Clara, will you do something
for me? Will you take this money to
your father"—drawing out a little packet
from underneath her pillow—"and ask
him if there is enough to bury me at
Barkingside. 1 want to lie there near
Fred's hone. And when he comes from
sea and hears 1 am dead, perhaps he will
forgive me and think of me as being very
near. He will perhaps sometimes put a
flower on my grave. Mrs. Merrell gave
me this to buy things to eat. She has
often been to see me since she heard ,I
was ill, and we talk over the old days at
the home.
Two months later a young sailor knelt
in deep sadness and humility beside a
little grass covered mound in Barking-
side churchyard. His chest heaved and
tears rolled unheeded down his sunburn-
ed face. Then he reverently laid some
flowers on the grass and turned toward
the road leading to Hainault forest.—Ex-
change.
Sore to Awake.
"How do you manage to wake up so
early in the mornings?"
"Oh, I make myself believe that every
morning is Sunday morning and that I
may sleep if I want to. Try the scheme,
It's great."—Chicago Times -Herald.
A Treasure.
"Is your new dressmaker a good one?"
"Splendid. Why, her last bill was only
$40 more than she said it would bel"
Harper's Bazar.
WORST OF CANNIBALS.
Australian Mothers Who Eat
Their Own Children.
CAUCASIAN MEAT NOT WANTED.
Full Grown Men Permitted to Eat
Eels and Lizards—Warriors Devour
the Eyea of Their Enemies Killed
In Battle.
Professor Carl Lurnholtz quite recently
spent several years in the wilds of Aus-
tralia, partly for the purpose of studying
the natives. He says that all of them
are cannibals and that they are excess-
ively treacherous. Ile himself would cer-
tainly have been killed and eaten had it
not been that the savages dreaded his re-
volver, imagined that he never slept and
credited him with supernatural power.
A correspondent of the Detroit News -
Tribune says that the Australians some-
times construct primitive huts by tying a
few boughs together, but they have no
settled habitations, their lives being.
spent in wandering about in search of
food and ivater. On the march the men
walk in front, carrying their weapons.
and the women and children follow with
the baggage. Every woman carries a
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flat stone rcrushing i
fo r t mg' ed ble roots; also
stones for spear heads,'knives and axes,
sinews for thread, needles of kangaroo
bone, tinder to make fire and such roots
and fruit as are gathered on the road.
The woolen do all the work. on which
account they are valuable property, and
a man is rich In proportion to the num-
ber of wives he has. It is exceptional,
however, for a "black fellow" to have
more than one wife, owing to poverty.
Girls are costly to bring up, and as wives
are obtainable only by purchase they are
slaves pure and simple. Professor Lum-
holtz noticed that many of them were
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KARONDEL TRIBESMAN.
badly scarred with hatchet blows admin-
istered in the way of discipline by their
husbands. When a girl becomes a bride
before reaching maturity, her husband
rubs her with fat to make her grow.
The doctrines of Malthus are practiced
by these savages in a very effective way
—namely, by killing a large proportion of
the infants born. Sometimes a blow of
the club does the business, but the usual
mode is to thrust a stick through the
ears into the skull of the newborn child
immediately after birth. If, however, a
child is permitted to survive, the utmost
care and affection are lavished upon it.
Water being so scarce, it is never bathed,
but is rubbed with dry sand to keep it
clean.
There are no more confirmed cannibals
than these Australians. It is quite cus-
tomary for mothers to eat their own
children. The dead are devoured to avoid
the necessity of prolonged mourning, and
the heart and kidney fat of a slain ene-
my are eaten in order to acquire his
courage. In the north a warrior takes
the head of his foe and eats the eyes, alt-
er which the skull is tossed about in a
frenzied dance. There is a priesthood of
mystery men or magicians, who pretend
that they require a diet of human flesh.
Black men's flesh is always preferred, the
natives declaring that the meat of white
people is salt and nauseating.
When a boy arrives at manhood, he is
permitted to eat eels and lizards. Also,
he may then be ornamented with a series
of attractive scars across his breast and
stomach. The cuts are made with a sharp
stone or with the edge of a shell, and
these are prevented from healing proper-
ly by putting ashes in them or by allow-
ing ants to walk around in them. Conse-
quently, they heal at length in beautiful
ridges. The body is further adorned with
red, white and black paints, and on fes-
tive occasions the hair twisted up with a
string and painted red. the coiffure being
further helped out with cockatoo feathers
and the tail of a dog. White, with some
tribes is the war color, while with others
it is for mourning, but red is always the
hue of gayety.
Making Him Comfortable.
A gentleman about to take apartments
at Clifton hot wells remarked that the
stucco was broken upon the staircase.
"It is very true," replied Mrs.
"but I have bad the places in question
repaired so often that I am tired of the
trouble, expense and dirt. The mischief,
you see, is occasioned by conveying cof-
fins up and down stairs, and this circum-
stance occurs so often and the under-
taker's men are so careless that I really
thought it labor in vain to have it re-
paired when perhaps I might have it to
do again in a fortnight."—Misros.
KADIAK BEARS.
Carnivorous Animals the Sifre of the
Largest Oxen.
The liarriman expedition, which has
just sailed from Seattle .for Alaska, will
hunt for the great Kadiak bear, the lar-
gest carnivorous animal in the world.
This gigantic animal is about the size of
a big ex and is therefore much larger
than the grizzly bear. The most striking
characteristic of his physical appearance
is a very high, narrow forehead. He
leads a lazy, pleasant life, feeding on the
TUI! 1CADIATi. BEAR 4 t C(»(I'AREP WITli A
salmon whieh abound in the rivers of
Iia link island. Ile shows considerable
skill in catching them, Although he pre-
fers salmon, he is tapable of feeding on
all animals that come within his reach.
It seems not improbable that the Ka-
diak hear is a survivor of the race of gi-
gantic prehistorie eave bears who flour-
ished late in the tertiary period.
For a century or more he baa been re-
garded as an animal surrounded with
mystery, and not so very long ago he was
supposed to be quasimythieal. To this
very day but little is known about him,
and only very recently has he been listed
seientifieally by Dr. Merriam, the famous
government naturalist, milder the name
of Vrsus Middendoril, who bad some
most perilous adventures with giant bears
in Alaska in earlier timer,
MAGIC GHOSTS.
Bow to Call Co Specters That Can Be
Photographed.
In black art the entire stage is lined
with black cloth, while all around the
front of it, at top. bottom and sides, are
brilliant electric. lights. These lights daz-
zle the eyes of than speetators and throw
into intense gloom the stage behind,
whereon the magician appeals clad in a
snow white soil. Ile waves his band,
and there comes floating in the air a
white wand, which he clutches. A wave
of the wand and a table appears on his
right; another were. and another table
on his left. Again, and two large vases
are seen upon the tables. They are shown
to be empty. The ntagleian drops into
one of the vases a few orange seeds. A
wave of the wand, and the receptacle is
filled with oranges, which, on being pour-
ed into the second vase, disappear.
A human skeleton suddenly arrives and
begins to dance. It beeomes dismember-
ed, the separated parts floating about, but
presently they join. and the deuce is re-
newed. Next a white rabbit is taken by
the performer, and iu his hands It be-
comes two rabbits, which are tossed into
the air and disappear. An unseen assist-
ant is on the stage all the time. Being
dressed in blaek, with black gloves and a
black velvet mask, he is invisible to the
audience. The oranges are poured into
the vase froni a black velvet bag by the
assistant. and they vanish when he emp-
ties them again into the sack. It is the
same way with the rabbits, which are
caught in the open mouth of the bag
when they are tossed up. The skeleton is
of papier mache, painted white and fas-
tened upon thin board. sawed to shape
and covered with black velvet, one arm
and one leg being joined so as to be easily
removed.
The tables and vases are white, and,
like the skeleton, are made to appear by
removing their black coverings.
There is another way of producing
spectral effects, says the New York
Press. On the stage is seen a man seat-
ed at a table, dining composedly. The
stage suddenly is darkened, causing the
man to disappear from view, but at the
same moment a skeleton appears sitting
on the opposite side of the table. The
skeleton is painted with zinc sulphide,
which has the property of becoming lu-
minous under the Roentgen rays. The
apparatus for producing the latter is
concealed, and the rays are communi-
cated to Brudder Bones through the
body actually of the living man at the
table. By the same means the decanter
and dishes on the table are caused to
glow brilliantly. The skeleton is con-
cealed by a black velvet cloth at first,
while the stage is illuminated.
"Pepper's ghost" depended chiefly upon
the well known reflecting power of plain
glass. People walking on the street of-
ten pause to look at themselves in the
windows of the shops, and it was by the
ase of the same property of ordinary
glass that Pepper's amazing results were
obtaiined. For example, a figure clad in
a white robe, but concealed from the di-
rect view of the audience, was brilliantly
illuminated and so placed that a bright
reflection of it was thrown upon a large
sheet of glass. The glass was not ob-
served by the spectators, and from their
viewpoint the ghost, for such it seemed,
appeared In obedience to a familiar law
of optics to be as far in the rear of the
glass as the real figure was distant from
the latter. Thus the specter stood ap-
parently well back on the stage, and its
immateriality was made evident by Pro-
feasor Pepper walking through it repeat-
edly.
If one looks out at night into the dark-
ness through the glass of a window of a
lighted room, there will be seen the re-
flected images of objects in the room,
which seem to be exactly as far beyond
the window pane as the objects them-
selves are distant from the glass on the
Inside. One's own face, for instance, if
a foot away from the pane, will be repro-
duced by another face a foot beyond the
glass. It is upon this optical principle
that Pepper's ghost depends.
SOUND OF THUNDER.
Dl.taaoe at Which It May Be Ileard
Barely Exceeds Too Miler.
In connection with the proposal to
establish a number of Government,
stations for reporting the phenomena of
thunderstorms it is stated that while
lightning. may he seen and its illumina-
tion of clouds and mist may be recogniz-
ed when it is even 200 miles distant,
thunder is rarely audible ten miles. The
thunder from very distant storms, there -
tore, seldom reaches the ear, Ilene, if
every thunderstorm las to be recorded a
iarge number of stations will be needed;
probably one for ever 25 square miles
would not be too many. A few stations
would suflice, at least for the niaht time,
for the reporting of the direction and
movement of every case of distant lightn-
ing.
'1'he reason of the great uncertainty'
in the audibility of thunder is not bard
ro understand. It depends not merely on
the initial intensity of the crash, but
quite as much on the suroundings of the
observer, even as in .the quiet country-
ono
ountryono will observe feeble sounds that
escape the ear in a noisy city. Perhaps
the most curious and important condi-
tions of audibility is that the thunder
wave of sound shall not be refracted or
refleeted by the layers of warm or cold
air between the observer and the lightn-
ing or by the layers of wind, swift above
and slow below, so as to entirely pass
over or around the observer.
sound in its wavelike progress oblique-
ly through layers of air of different
densities is subject to refraction, and
this refraction may occur at any time
and place. Thus observers at the topmast
of a ship frequently hear fog whistles
!hitt are Inaudible at sea level; those on
hilltops bear thunder that cannot be
heard in the valley; those in front of an
obstacle hear sounds inaudible to thoso
behind it.
The rolling of thunder, like tbat of a
distant cannonade, may he largely due
to speoial reflections and, refractions of
sound. Again. the greater velocity of the
air at considerable altitudes above the
ground distorts the sound wave and
shortens the limit of audibility to the
leeward while increasing it to the -wind-
ward.—Pittsburg Dispatoh.
JAPANESE' PACKETS.
The Advat,ee et Civilization Marked by
tate Adoption of Them.
Perhaps the best proof of the advance
of the Japanese in civilization is to be
found in their use of pockets, says The
New York .Evening Past. The people of
that country have usually six or eight
pockets cunningly inserted in the cuffs of
their wide sleeves. These pockets are
always allied with a curious miscellany.
As common as the twine in the pockets
of young Americans is the prayer amulet,
written on sheets of rice paper and com-
posed by the bonzes. In accordance with
their faaith, these amulets are swallowed
like a pill 1n cases of mental or physical
distress. Another essontlal seldom mis-
sing is it number of small squares of
silky paper. These are put to unexpected
uses, such as to hold the stem of a lily
or lotus, to dry a teacup or to wipe away
a tear. Among the Chinese and other
nations a pouch Is used, instead of a
pocket. This was also the ease in western
Europe in the :lilddle Ages, and for
some time afterward. Tho pouch was
ttttaeltott to the girdle, along with e
da,iger ant/ rosary. It was called an
aulmonlere or glpalere. It was often
ornamented with curious patterns, gold
and silk threads, coats of arms and relig-
ious sentences. A dramatist of the time
of Henry VIII. wrote:
From my girdle be plunked my poach;
By your leave he left ine never a penny.
Breeohes, however, had pockets at an
early date. In an old play, written about
1611, it is mentioned that a man bad
his breeches plaited as if they had 20
pookots. But pockets did not attain their
proper position until the adoption of the
modern style of men's garments With
waistcoats, a great opportunity for
pockets presented itself. Later they were
made very broad and deep, and were cov-
ered
ith
w embroidery and buttons. Ia
the reign of George III. waistcoat pock-
ets reahed such a size in England that
they became objects of ridicule, so that
they soon began to resume more moder-
ate proportions.
Tina Weinen of Thibet.
Miss Taylor, a young Englishwoman
who recently returned from Thibet, and
is now gathering missionary reoruits for
that mysterious country, says that men
and women who understand medicine
will be most successful in that field. The
knowledge of drugs, she adds, among
the natives is almost equal to that of the
English themselves, The position of
women. according to Miss Taylor, ii
higher in Thibet than in any other coun-
try of the Orient, save perhaps in Mon-
golia. In place of polygamy, so common
among the Mahometans, polyandry rules
in Thibet, a woman being married as a
rule to all the brothers of a family. In
consequence of the nomadic character of
the people, usually one of the husbands
is at home at a time, the others being
absent in more or loss distant parts. sell-
ing the products of their lands. Women
in Thibet. Miss Taylor asserts. are Bever
punished—a fact to which she attributes
the saving of her life on several oeca-
cions.
Einar. Are Early ltiaer..
Most of the European sovereigns are
early risers. The Emperor of .Austria
rises at 4.30 a.m. in summer and 5 a,m.
in the winter. The German Emperor gets
to work at 5 o'clock, and often starts out
for his morning ride at 6.
The Kings of Italy, Roumania and
Sweden and Norway rise at 6 o'clock.
The Queen and Queen Regent of Holland
are also early risers, but the late Dom
Pedro of Brazil broke all records in
early rising, being in the habit of get-
ting up for the day at 3 a.m. and visit-
ing his friends between 4 and 5.
Hebrews i„ Jeruaal.m.
During the lastfew years nearly 150,-
000 Hebrews have entered Jerusalem,
and the arrival of another host is said to
be imminent. Already the railways are
opening the country between the ooast
and Jerusalem and Damaeoas. and a
Hebrew migration on a large scale may
cause Syria to beoon:e once more or vast
Importance in the east.
New Zealan4 Peusaen System.,
The New Zealand old age pensions bill
provides that persons of good character
attaining 65 and having resided for 20
years in the colony shall be entitled, to a
pension annual/T.
HOMEMADE ICE BOX.
SIMPLE MAKESHIFTS FOR COMFORT
IN THE HEATED TERM.
Two Easily Acquired Food Coolers.
Which Do Very Good Work—One Ta
Evolved From a Dry Goods Bo='. tike
Other Front an Old Bureau.
Many families in the country have a
supply of ice for dairy or other pars
poses, and would be glad to make use.
of this ice in keeping the food cool and
fresh were it not for the expense of
FIG. i—EOM :MADE. itEFEIGaitATOE.
purchasing a refrigerator, while many
city and village residents would be glad
to take ice from the ice men during
the hot weather were it not for tbia
same expense. In view of these facte
The Ladies' World d o m ke
a sa timely sug-
gestion
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gestion of two simple makeshifts that
are easy of acquisition, and that, while
not "keeping" the ice as well as the.
regular refrigerators, will still do very
good work,
The ordinary homemade refrigerator
or ice chest is depicted usually as made
of two cases, one within the other,
with a packing of sawdnst between. It
is a tedious job to et up a"cooler" in
thin way, while nearly se good result..
can be secured much more easily. The
ordinary ice chest is inconvenient,
since all the food and the racks or
shelves mast be removed every time ice
is put in or a lump of ice sought for the
water pitcher.
For the refrigerator illustrated by
Fig, I select a dry goods box of the size
desired and remove the lower part of
one end, hinging the board or boards
thus removed. A galvanized iron or
zine pan, in which the cake of ica is
placed, is set in on the bottom through
this door, the food racks being undis-
turbed. Itut "fisting" about the edges.
of the hinged door and hinge the cover
of the box to the top. Instead of having
two boxes with packing between. the
beat is kept out of the interior by cov-
ering the whole box with a thick wool-
en blanket, this being easily rolled back
when the cover is to be raised. The in-
terior racks for food can be arranged to
suit one's needs.
About many a borne is an old, un-
used bureau. This will make a very
convenient makeshift refrigerator. CO
openings in the bottoms of thedrawers,
as shown in the diagrams. Fig. 2, and
set in the pan of ica in the upper drawer.
The food is placed in the other drawers
below. A thick woolen blanket does
duty here also in keeping out the beat.
The pan in both these devices has an
outlet tube in,the rer:r, for which holes
must be bored in the back: of the box
and the bureau, so that when in place
the outer ends of the tubes will be
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FIG. II—DOMEMADB REFRIGERATOR.
without the box and bureau. In the
case of the latter a hole will have to be
bored in the back of the upper drawer
and in the back of the bureau arso.
Oil Stains.
Women who travel much not infre-
quently find their skirts spotted with
train oil, and bicyclists suffer similarly
from a too generous lubricating of their
wheels. Cold water and soap is said to
be much more effectual in removing
traces of this sort of accident than the
more usual application of hot water, at
that is quite likely to "set" the grease.
Cucumbers a la Parisienne.
Pare the cucumbers rather thick and
let them lie in ice water. Shortly be-
fore serving cut lengthwise into four or
six portions, according to the size of
the cucumber. Arrange upon an oblong
dish and cover with French dressing.
Pass with the fish coarse, says Good
Housekeeping.
Notes From The Jewelers' Circular,
A fad from Paris has appeared among
the jewelers. It is the tie chain to
which hearts, balls and various otber
devices are suspended. This new article
in jewelry is known as "La Valliere''
and will prove a great suminer novelty.
Many novelties are presented in shirt
waist sets, consisting of sleeve links,
three studs and a collar button. Quite
unique is the representation of an or-
dinary flat button with four boles, each
bole, however, being set with a bril-
liant.
Some women are ,fastening their silk
shirt waists with small stickpins of
different precious or semiprecious
stones. Three or four of these make a
very pretty color effect on a whitr.'
waist.
Exceedingly attractive among plae-
gnet pins are those of gold wire support- ,
lug a single rosebud carved from ex -
plaits pink coral J .'
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