Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1897 — Page 6

\ 1 Fifty Years Ago. This is the cradle in which there grew That thought of a philanthropic brain; A remedy that would make life new For the multitudes that were racked with pain. •Twas sarsaparilla, as made, you know By Ayer, some 50 years ago. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla was in its infancy half a century ago. To-day it doth “bestride the narrow world like a colossus.’* What is the secret of its power ? Its cures! The number of them 1 The wonder of ffiiem! Imitators have followed it from the beginning of its success. They are still be, hind it. Wearing the only medal granted to sarsaparilla in the World’s Fair of 1893, it points proudly to its record. Others imitate the remedy; tkey can’t imitate the record: 5o Years of Cures. " THE HOUSEHOLD Use of Chemicals In the Laundry—The Recipe Party—Color For a Country House—Fruit Soups. One trouble in using chemicals in washing is that they are expected to do all the work, instead of being merely an aid. When using soda, ammonia or borax, it should be borne in mind that neither of these substances can be used in such quantity as to do away with the work of rubbing. The chemicals loosen the dirt, so that it yields quickly to rubbing. Following are rules for washing given by Mrs. Parloa and reported in the New York Tribune: When a chemical is used, it should be thoroughly dissolved, then mixed with water before putting the clothing in. While good laundresses are not all of the same opinion in regard to soaking clothes before washing, Miss Parloa advocates doing so in tepid suds. See that the article is looked over for staius. Water pure and simple-is a safe thing to tryfirst on r.iiy stain. If it fails, then try soinrtbirs eJ«e. Sort the clothing into three h< ans. the finest and cleanest in oue, the medium in another and the most soiled in the third. Half fill three tubs with tepid water, dissolving enough soup, to make ' a strong suds, and soak the three heaps of c'othhig in them, putting the most soiled pieces at the b->ttom. Rub a Jittl° soap on the most soiled portions of personal linen. If the water is extremely hard and sal soda midi lie use,., du,soive a tablespoouful in hot t...for a-id divide between the tbr'o tul T u the morning wring out the tub of ck:m 'st pieces, rinse the tub well and halt till with water as hot as you can lit in your baud in. Half fill the boiler with coal w„,,.r and put the

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cleanest olothin’g in the tub of hot water to wash, using soap as needed. As .the pieces are washed turn and wring, ilmn drop in second tub of hot water and wash a second time. As each garment is wrung from this water soup and drop into the cold water in the boiler. When filled. set over theflre ami let the clothes scald, pr< ssiug down into the water w ith a stick. If there is any suspicion of germs, aa in cases of illness or skin disease, let the clothes boil for a few moments to thoroughly sterilize; j otherwise bring just to a boil. In cases ' where the water is very hard and a Sbuin rises to the top in boiling it saves trouble to have several cheesecloth bags with running strings, into which the clothing may be loosely packed during tho scalding process. While the first tub of clothes is scalding rub out tho second in the same manner and continue with the third. When the first boilerful of clothing is scalded, take out and put in a tub of cold wafer. Rinse from this into a second tul), and auain into a third before bluing, in order that uo particle of so. p maybe left to combine with the blue and form iron rust. Tho Recipe Party. Parties givi n in honor of a bride elect I by her intii: it.' friends are always in ’ fuvof. and n. 't the least popular of these is the t'retm e party.’’which a writer in The Lr : ’ Home Journal tells may take the ft rn of a luncheon or an after- ; noon tea, re v. HHi a company of 30 or 40 girl fri< ibis of the coming bride may be bidden h\-.written invitation. The authority quoted says: Inclosed iu each invitation should be a request for each girl to bring her fai vorite recipe. As the guests arrive these ! recipes may lo collected by some friend of the hostess, who, at the appointed i hour,-will re:’.:l a few of the brightest I ones. A cover made of linen or water color paper, decorated with a chafing , dish or other appropriate design and previously prepared for this occasion, ■ should be presented to the bride elect as a receptacle for the recipes. How Hetty Green “Squared It.” | A year ago I called on Hetty Green to ask about the benefactions of the richest woman in the world. “Do you give to organized charities?” I questioned. i “No, young man,” the sharp old ' woman replied. ‘‘l give to private char- , ities only. Some day, when I am rich ! enough, I shall square it all with the j Lord by building a church up country where,! was born. ’■’ This church is now ! so nearly accomplished that no doubt j the Lord acknowledges the “squareness” of the accounting.—Kansas City Star. Fruit. Soups. The idea of a‘ soup of fruits is borrowed from the Swedes. Miss Anna ; Barrows furnishes a recipe for one of these soups as follow*. Take a tablespoonful of raisins, 2 table spoonfuls of j raw lice, 3 whole cloves and a cupful of dried apricots, the apricots Lei ng. thoroughly soaked. Cook the ingredients together in 3 pints of water for an hour and rub through a sieve. Add half a i teaspoonful of salt and a tablespocnful ! of sugar. The..s-asoning depends largely upon the acidity of tho fruit, apples requiring more sugar than apricots. Mint Sauce For Spring Lamb. To 2 tablespoonfrls of finely chopped mint add a little white pepper and a gul or vinegar in which 2 tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar have been dissolved and let the.sauce stand half an hour before serving. If this sauce is prepared hot. the viimgar and sugar may he heated to boiling, and just before serving sin in me chopped mint.

THIEVES IN SOCIETY. \ I . STORIES TOLD BY NONBELIEVERS IN KLEPTOMANIA. Light Finger* In the I'reMlng Rooms of Fasliionable Entertaiiiem — Unfair Exchanges Which May Be Called Robbery. Old Thing* I'dr New. I ‘‘Oh, give it any name you like—l»or- ‘ rowing otic r pe< pie's- belongings and | failing ever to return them, mistaken identity as to special possessions or kleptomania, but I call it thieving, and something ought to be done about it. ’’ This is what the blond woman in the very smart bonnet said to her nearest neighbor in blue, whereupon every other woman near the tea table cut short her conversation and held her cup in midair to hoar what the discussion would bring | forth. I “Tliat I d/Y went on the blond eni- ' pliafiially, “and I've been stolen from repeatedly. No. my dear, I won’t take a word of it back, and I am not speaking hastily. In every instance it was a plain case oi theft, and I've not upto date recovered a single belonging. Why, of core . e if it had bet n a grimy fingen d sneak 1 Jes, or a too enterprising houscj maid, 1 most naturally would have gone ' to the j and det< cA'. rs for protection anti : mice, but >t is not quite | so easy to iiuye an individual who wear® the best French glow s, whose bonnets come from an expi t sive importer and I who sometimes asks you to share her i opera box, receive at her teas or take a j lift ho,me in her brougham, arrested and searched on suspicion.” “Well. I ever!” remarked the worn- < an in blue. ■ “Oh, that's just because you areal ' dear, un: t histieated little creature, i and out in your western town they don't i do such thii gs. The temptations are not so great, but I can assure you that here in our big cities, at regular intervals, polite kleptomania is simply ramptint, and hardly a big function breaks up I that half the women don’t come away 1 quite sat go over the loss of some pretty and especially prized belonging. ” Evidently the blend was right, for all the other women nodded assent, and the hostess was apparently breathless to tell of some personal grievance on this score, when rhe first speaker broke in again: “You see,” she elaborated, “we used to think it might have been the servants’ fault, or an honest error, when we found our possessions exchanged for others less valuable or simply disappearing, until two or three times the offenders were caught right in the act, and then came the awfully dismal consciousness that really no one could be trusted. “My first experience was with a very costly lace fan I carried to a dinner. I. held on to it most affectionately throughout the evening, until some half dozen of us vw : ;■ up to the hostess’ bedroom., for our \ /.ps. There I laid it, with my vinaigrette and fan, on the. dressing ta- i ble, and when I turned to get them! again the fan was gene. I protested, the maid, searched, ’ nothing came of it amt liokin heartedly I went down, bewailing my loss to a sympathizing feminine companion. We went out /to our respective carriages together, but'as the butler opened the ball <Tci a puff of wind blew her long cloak aside, am there I saw, snug in its p<. kef, my precious fan. Weil, tie next day I wrote h»r very-frankly, asking for its return,, suggesting, of course, she h. i taken it by mistake, and home it. came. But wi have never spoken since. “That taught me to look for higher offenders than maids in tircSsii r looms, who are usually accused of making way with all w•. ■ ■■', un.brelh.s, 'versho.si and what net t..ut iu:.y L.e missing.” “All, that. is not my trouble, ” chime-:-in a debutant) across the tea table. “Thfavorite plan is new to exchange bad for good things. 1 am growing almost philosophical over the ch picrable shab bines.-, ci wardrobe from this constant swap] .g. Lust week, on coming up late to :he .'dressing room from a dance, I found in place, of my brand new green suede carriage overshoes two ovorlarge, badly worn ones of. rusty black velvet liud my la.ce head scarf ex changed for a frayed one of soiled white chiffon. Naturally’ cross and sleepy, I fell on the tired maid;-who wept and denied, but looked as if she could tell a W e - . . ■ “Only to make a test case of itlrclh d my new French galcches.iu my mack.': tosh, laid my card on top and put them in a safe corner of the dressing rooifl of a house where I went to lunchhon the other day But il was of no avail. The -galcchcs had been metamorphosed into a pair of muddy rubbers with holes in them when i went back, and I didn i grumble, sineb my pretty umbrella was left. The work of the spoiler goes on .in tho cloakrooms when big wedding receptions, teas, musicales and private balls are in progress. “At one of the big dances of the season tho hostess simply ordered her maid to issue checks for every woman’s wrap, and, charming to relate, not so much as a hairpin was lost, for at her daughter’s wedding reception, only a week before, three muffs got away somehow without the rightful owners, and the possessor of a S3OO. sable hand warmer found a scrubby old astrakhan one iu its place. “That is where the fashionable kleptomaniacs salve their consciences by an exchange, yoii see, for rarely is any thing taken that some inferior article is not put in its place, and very rarely arc they caught With them: Their position in society is one of protection, and their victims too timid or proud to trace a clew, which too often leads right to the door of their best friends or some woman who is aiding materially in helping them along in society. ”—Millicent Arrowpoint in Chicago Record. After the Honeymoon. He—You’ll be accusing me next of leading a double life. She—You do lead a double life—you’re twice as mean a man as I, thought you were tivhen I married you.—Chicago Tribune.

BETTING ON THE RAIN. The Queerest Gambling; Game In the World Im Played at Calcutta. j Ono of the most curious forms of gambling in tlm world is “rain gambling, "which in tho winter season of the year is at its height in Calcutta. The principal rain gambling den is in Cotton stri -t, Burra bazaar. • - No one v, ho has not visited tho place can hrivft’ any conception of the vast crowds which at every hour of tho day and far into night pass in and out. The great majority are Mawaris, who 1 are born speculators, but there are as I well plenty of well to do Europeans, Eurasians, Jews, Armenians and Greeks ami women too. All Swarm into the small courtyard where this strange form of gami'iiug is carried on, through a narrow entrance barely a feet wide. The courtyard is about 200 feet square, j The far famed tank with a spout falling in io the courtyard is the one spot where all eyes are fixed. The tank stands at the edge of a second floor roof. It is about 0 feet long by 4 feet wide 1 and 9 inches deep, with tho snout opening inward, some 3 or 4 inches from the bottom. From this it will be seen that it requires a pretty heavy downpour for at least toy minutes to cause the spout to flow. Intermittent drizzles, which partly fill this tank, do not count, as the shower to fill it must pour down uninterruptedly, and then tho bets are won or lost. Chattel s are taken either for or against the spout running. A gray Haired, wizened old man is tho owner of the den, and thero is another similar place across the road, only smaller. On tho roof, over the fifth floor, thero is a ! small, square watch tower, in which ' are stationed . five or six men, whose ■ duty is to scan the horizon closely and report on the formation of rainclouds. On these reports the odds rise or full. A bet made and won one day is always paid the following morning. Everything seems to be “on the square, ’ ’ ; aud indeed there is little chance for I cheating. 1 The odds range as high as 1 ! to 75 on some days, even in the rainy season. Many have made a fortune in a single day. One person won over £5,000 in the course of a few weeks. But he worked the system on scientific methods.—New York Herald. Senator and Soldiers. The days when senators and representatives in congress were exp-cted to frank letters for private soldiers, recounted by Mr. J. A. Watrous of Chicago in some army reminiscences, were dangerous ones for congressional visits to the military camps! Mr. Watrous says that Senator Timothy O. Howe of Wisconsin once visited the headquarters of his friend, General Rufus King, and was at the first tfpportuunity besieged by the soldiers with packages of envelopes to be franked. Senator Howe was one of the most good natured of men, and immediately sat down in the tent of or.“ of the captains and began to frank envelopes by the hundred. Gent ral King had made special preparations for a dinner in honor of his guest. It.was to eclipse all the camp dinners tha* had been given for a long time. St nator Howe hud been franking envelopes about half an hour when the call came for dinner. He went on writing, and General King came to get him. “Go on, King; I’ll be there directly,” said the senator. Dinner was served. The guests had arrived. No one ate, but after awhile ti e colored cook was sent to tell the senator that the meal was getting cold. “Oh, tell them to go ahead,” said the senator, still writing madly on soldiers’ envelopes. “I’ll be with them as soon as I can. ” He fiinshed the pile and rose to go, but just then two more soldiers came in with frosh parcels, and he seated himself aguin. After he had signed them all he joined the impatient company at a cold dinner. “Fni sorry, ” he said, “but it mnd<> the’boys happy. They will make their friends happy with all the letters they will send in those ■ franked—envelopes, and it made me happy to do it.” The Daffodil. It is now many centuries since, according to Ovid, the young man Narcissus was changed into a daffodil because of his piiiiiig away from seeing his lovely shadow in the water. But it can hardly be from sympathy with the unfortunate youth that the flower has continued to be so popular during all these long ages. Certain it is that it has as high a value today in the gardens of persons of taste as in the flower plot of the humblest cottager. , No garden is considered to be quite complete without its little patch of daffodils. ■ Os late years florists have given attention to raising varieties from them, and tho record of their many forms is a feature of title catalogue of all seedsmen. Double ones formerly carried off - the palm for popularity, but in recent times the single variety is regarded as quite as desirable. —Meehan’s Monthly. Unavoidable. “That was a very queer poem on ‘The Three Ages of Man’ you published in your paper this morning, ” said the man who happened in. “The general understanding is that there are seven ages of man.” “It was written ‘The Seven Ages of Man,’ ” explained the worried Sunday editor, “but I had to cut it down to three on account of a lack of space. ” — Chicago Tribune. How the Japanese Brew Tea. The Japanese are said to adopt a different method from Chinese and East Indians in brewing their native tea. They do not infuse it with boiling water, but with that which is only hot.. Even then they usually discard the first infusion as too bitter to drink. The finer the quality of Japanese tea the less quantity of hot water is used.

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Erie Hines z 3 J IRI \ Schedule in effect May / 2 ' 18971 Xvz' Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. I No.'T>. vestibule limit ‘d. dally for I Chicago C 12:23 p. m No. 3, Pacific express, daily fori Chicago f 1:48 a. tn No. 1, express, dally except Sun-I day for Chicago f 11:06 a. m No. 31. local, daily except Sun-I (la v ...... f 10:10 a. m No 13. M eibr'FiU’go Limited Ex- I press, daily except Monday f 6:17 p. tn. anti day after legal holiday I EAST No. B,'vesl Ibule limited, daily for I New York and Boston. f 7:57 No. 2, expruss. daily except Sun-I day for New York , f 2:00 p. m No. 12. express, dally for New I York f 1:30 a. m No. 30, local, daily except. Sun- 1 day f 10:10 a. m Through couches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston Trains 1 and 2 stop at.all stations on the C D E. I vision. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circleville. Chillicothe, Waverly. Portsmouth, Ironton, apd Renova, via Columbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk Western lines. J. W. DeLong, Agent W. G. MacEdwahds. T P.A.. Huntington. NORTHERN OHIO RAILWAY Niagara Falls EXCURSION. MAKE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS TO CO ON THE OLD RELIABLE ...NORTHERN 0H10... NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION ' During: the First Week iu Augawt. Exact date later, C. F. DALY, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.