Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1906 — Page 7

|Tns3iOLLY] ■ STAR | HB /, C bristmas Story K B? IZOLA FORRESTER ( by Iz In Forresier J BH, ,■ r >■■ • ■ < :;l forward from his Ro b.-bind tin- palm to see the K svlta was singii-g. asked Roddy flip, said Paxton. "I want tc her." M A perceptible fallen over Mrs. Dunderdale’s • . :s from the moment when finislied his crashing pre'..:,!. i:--t slow, richly vibrating ■ ■;• had tlij.it -d through rooms. . ■ mug. a tail, shmder figure silk crape, standing by Sealli'.- ■ i:-r face raised slightly as she *r eyes looking above and beI w er<> hie Christmas evergreen and I tt ilax framed the great stained glass in the hall. where Mrs. Dunderdalt Hcked Iter up?” asked Roddy when it over and the girl had disappeared. ■•Haw should 1 know?" retorted Pax ■ savagely. “It’s bad enough ths I fi <S ■ .<4l .»x \* r ■H > ''l iw it W If" f fcflM jff F j, L J "I HEARD YOU 81X0,” HE SAID. tere fact that she is here singing iu Lrs Dunderdale’s bouse like this, be >re a crowd like this. Christmas ever "Ob. 1 don't know,” commented Rody n Idly, taking a survey of the crowd irungli his eyeglasses. ' Pretty jolly, w... crowd. I think. Probably the title girl's mighty glad to be singing for and raking in a small dab of the lunderdale ready cash on her own acount. what?” Paxton did not stop to answer. Mrs. iunderdale was standing under the oily star that dangled from the archay between the two drawing rooms liking to old Wyman. She smiled hen Paxton came up and gave him er hand. “So you did come, after all? And late, 8 usual.” The old general rambled away toward the nearest tea table, and they irere alone under the holly star. “How did Viola Arnold come here?” ' Mrs. Dunderdale's eyebrows lifted irettily as she laughed. A woman may •till be pretty and charming at fiftytwo. when she is a study in soft grays Ukl delicate pinks, with brown eyes. “Now, please, don't scold me here, Paxt ju,” she said soothingly. "You always were a fussy sort of a boy. Isn’t she a dear? Come over here in the smiax bower, and I’ll tell you a little ibout her, not all, though: just enough io that you won't look at me as if I had >een stealing candy from a baby. Do you know her?” “Know her? Os course I know her,” cried Paxton. “And the last time I saw ler was in July in her father’s palace ia Florence, the old Cellini palace it is. Rhe sang then, too, but it was to please bs, her guests. And old Scalll youder w as one of Arnold’s beggar geniuses, living on his bounty. I want to know what his daughter is doing here like this.” “Like this?” Mrs. Duuderdale shook her head at him reproachfully. “Preston, that lovely child came to me only t«o weeks ago almost penniless. You know what Bruce Arnold was. He lived up to every cent of his income ®nd ran a little beyond it. Last August he died suddenly. Didn't you hear of it?” “I came back home byway of Japan ®nd stayed on in Tokyo a little while.” said Paxton. "I haven't heard a word ■of it.” ' “Well, that’s all. You can imagine the rest. There are no relatives, no one nt all for her to go to. and the old palnee was robbed, literally robbed of all her father's possessions by his credit- ( ors - She hasn’t any income at all. The Scallis brought her over here with' them. The signor had a bit of money from some accomm-4 ring deceased I relative, and she lives with them In ; ' some Impossible flat up in east Harlem ; —you know that part—whore you can, dow< nufl iipfjr the boats on the river 11 aii.l they hang their bedding out on the 1i fire escapes. Oh. my dear, it is terrible I I,, Caching L--r. I L a marvel, he says. It will be years. coaFse. She is only nineteen now., but he swears she will bo ail be hopes , for some day, and with fame there will. ' sve a Ith, of course. But In the mean I ! - I

time I shall Lave her sing and see that » oth tr engagemtjgts, and”— lior? can 1 see her now?” "But you can't," said Mrs. Dunderlale calmly, "it wouldn't do at all, Preston. The signor says she is an artiste now and must see no one.” "Mrs. Duuderdale” — Paxton's face was white and his tone desperate "1 love her to death. , We quarreled like a couple of children that last night in Florence. That’s why I came back by way of Japan ta try and forget." Mrs. Duuderdale laid her hand lightly on his arm. "Preston, my dear, you will find her in tlio little music room across the hall. You bad better go aud wish her a merry Christmas." It was very quiet across the hall. Paxton passed through the library aud the smoking den and hesitated at the half open door of the music room. She was alone, standing at the old Japanese music rack in the corner. The pale yellow light from the cluster of opalescent electric bulbs above her head shone softly on her dark hair, where the red and green of a holly sprig showed. As the door opened she raised her head. "I found the quaintest old carol, signor. 'The Holly star.’ Mrs. Duuderdale sent me to look for it. She called me that tonight, her holly starPreston!” Paxton closed the door behind him. He wished she would not look so white and scared and altogether frightened. Lt had been bis fault that night back in Florence, when she had looked at him like that and had told him to go away aud leave her forever. "I heard you sing,” he said. “Mrs. Duuderdale told me that you were here.” "Why did you come after me?” "I should never have gone away,” answered Paxton unsteadily, "it was al! my fault. Won't you say ‘Merry Christmas, sweetheart?’ ” The door opened softly, and Signor Scalli’s busby head was inserted inquiringly. After one look at the two figures it was withdrawn, and the door closed noiselessly. “Madam,” he told Mrs. Duuderdale a minute later as he wished her good night, “I must cancel those dates ahead, I fear. The operatic career of the Signorina Viola is all verra mucha gone to smash. She is wishing the young Paxton ’merry Christmas’ with a kiss.” PYTHONS AS PETS. According to Dr. Mann, They Art Perfectly Harmless*. Dr. Mann, an enthusiastic lover of snakes, contributes to a recent English volume a letter which goes to show that the larger kinds of these creatures “may have far more character and emotion than they are generally credited with. "My present boa.” he writes, “always sleeps in my bed around my feet. He is perfectly clean, lies still and very seldom disturbs me. Occasionally he crawls to my face to lick it. I frequently take a python to bed, but at present she is timid, and if she cannot find my feet crawls out of the bed and curls herself on the floor. "I do not myself believe that any python or boa is savage, but they are dreadfully timid, especially from the ill treatment they receive when first eaught and the misery and terror they endure on the voyage. There is another thing: They have no eyelids and on being suddenly uncovered aud dragged forth to the light suffer from the glare very acutely. It is best, therefore, to hide their heads in your hand or under your coat. "Handle them often aud give them water, pressing their heads gently into it. 1 feed my boas frequently from my hand, but the last time I offered a python a guinea pig the prey escaped, and the python took in the whole of my hand instead. He soon discovered his mistake and was greatly distressed, rubbed his head against my hand and seemed to fear some sort of punishment. "Since that time I have had great difficulty in persuading him to eat unless I nurse him or take him to bed, when he will lie the whole night with his head in my band.” Pets That Cannot Walk. In oriental countries it is customary to have valuable fish as household pets, in the same way as we have cats and dogs, and in almost every house in Japan one can find jars containing soini tine specimens. Japanese nobles have large acquaria. in which are to be found species of odd and curious fish that have been bred and cultivated for the last 500 years aud more. In China the paradise fish is a good example of the result of careful cultivation, for it is nowhere found in a wild state and is remarkable for its olors, which surpass in beauty those of any other fish extant. Another household pet is the Chinese comet goldfish, which is equipped with immense caudal tin' that spread out like sails when the creature is swimming. W<m«n nn<l Sniiisrcllne. Many a lady smuggles who would no more tip her ball inti tae better position at croquet than she would cut a throat or scuttle a ship.—Andrew Lang Genuine be:: .olence is not stationary. but per "■ ’'‘lie. It goes about dotaggood - x.- ■ J A person s\' . ■. .-n . kronierljeu oysters, pork v,.-j n r! tur*e'. t« ’ Elder Sister-Stoi ism is the ability te congratulate the fiancee of the man you wanted to marry without showing any disappointment—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

THE VENETIAN KITCHEN. It Would Bother an American Cook to Prepare n Meal. Any one who kw-ps house in Venice will find that the pic: nre-j jueness of surroundings is cyrried out in all the details of life. The kitchen, for instance, will lie more primitive than any kitchen you have yet seen If your apart-1 nient is anything short of a pahu-e. It is apt to be a spacious room, ar >und the top of which runs a row of shelves filled with pewter plates. There art rows of copper pots and saucepans, and there are fascinating earthen dishes and casseroles of every size, and in the inventory there is sure to be a round wooden board with a stubby handle, to turn out the steaming polenta on. Polenta is nothing in the world but an excellently made cornmeal mush —a cornmeal mush with the musidne.is left out. t or to be pel feet polenta must have consistency. Besides the exact proportions of water, salt and meal, polenta. to be good, must be stirred continually, and a long cudgel for this pur pose is another item in the kitchen furnishing. Our polenta was cooked In a copper pot hung on a crane over a wood tire, ami this brings me to the cooking arrangements. There is no stove iu this Venetian kitchen; there is nothing to cook on by moans of which an American cook could turn out a square meal. There is a wide soapstone hearth, the site of the ordinary range, surmounted by an imposing hood. On this hearth, without aid of andirons, is built a wood tire. The sticks are long, and only one end is lighted. The other end . extends out on the edge of the hearth and as the lighted ends burn down the stick is pushed back into the flame. Ou . either side of this fire stands a foruello, an earthenware vessel something like a large square flowerpot. . In these are made charcoal tires quite ! large enough to heat two flatirons at the same time. This Is all the cooking arrangement. There is no place for . roasting or baking. No bread, cake or biscuit is ever ma le in an Italian ! house, (f you wish to roast a turkey , or ala ge bird you send it in its pan, with tile butter for its basting, to the baker who roasts it to a beautiful browi for from 3 to 5 cents. The smaller fowls are roasted in one of , the large copper casseroles, and by turning and twisting and basting in cessantly the bint is perfectly roasted as one would wish. There is no place for keeping anything hot on this embryonic range, and with only three places for cooking something must be cooked first and set aside to make way , for other dishes. On the other hand there could not be a more economical ■ way of cooking. In a very feu moments the charcoal tire burns at full , pitch, and if one wishes for just enough , and no more to broil a chop one may have it without having to light a lire sufficient to cook an entire dinner, as one would have to do with us. for the fuel for an American kitchen range costs anywhere between 25 and 35 cents a day. In Italy fuel, including . both wood and charcoal, costs 10 cents a day for a family of moderate size.Pilgrim. Danton and the ( look. The clock in the anteroom of the ministry of justice in Paris having stop- ! ped. a watchmaker took it to pieces ■ and was surprised to find engraved on one of the wheels this inscription: "J Jean Blanchet, this 22d Aug.. H'.rJ saw tlie Sieur Danton profane the emblem of divine kingship by breaking a fleur-de-lis, which so rightly adorned i the hand of the clock." The inscription ' had been hitherto undiscovered. Dan ’ ton at the time mentioned was ministei of justice, and it is known that the clock stood for more than a century in ' the minister’s private room. Presum - ably he was irritated by watching the fleur-de-lis, which finished off the mln ute hand, as in many clocks of the eighteenth century, slowly mark fleet ing time as he sat at his desk, and on the day ki question he suddenly started up in a temper and broke the emblem off. The hand still shows a mark where it was mended and the fleur-de-lis readjusted. The Jean Blanchet who in his respect for dethroned royalty recorded his indignation at Danton’s act is unknown, but he may be supposed to have been the watchmaker whe mended the broken hand. Advice to Smokers. “More smokers contract consumption from neglecting an ordinary precaution than from inhaling smoke,” declared a physician. "None of us cares to infect the lungs with ordinary street I dust, yet every consumer of cigars in- [ hales a more detrimental kind of dust every time he lights a fresh specimen. The majority of cigars have short inteI rior fillings which contain lots of small particles of tobacco dust. Especially is , this so of cigars that are handled a great deal and of those that become . very dry from age. The ordinary . smoker bites or cuts off the end and draws this dust into his lungs with the , first puff. Often it only lodges in the throat and produces irritation or hoarseness, with which most smokers are afflicted. A safe precaution against such danger is very simple. Before , lighting the cigar merely blow through [ it, and you will see issuing from the large end the dust particles I refer to.” —Philadelphia Telegraph. The Chinewe Ideal Wife. If you .x ant a place where really valuable feminine accomplishments are, held in esteem, you should go to Can-, ton. Ti e Chinese there annually cole-1 , | brute the festival of the spinning maid-1 I en and tiie cowherd. It sounds gay. At the last festival a girl of sixteen, with | I a need, • iu me hand and thread in the | other, knelt before the sbtino of the | F ’ J behind her h- ml. She was nt once in-i J undated with offers of marriage So | ’ | easily pleased is the simple Chinaman ,

MOVED UPSTAIRS. A Flat Dweller’** < hangre That Wa» Not Born of lleuuoiuy. Within tw li’s if: tlh> second floor family n.oved 1 >-tlie fourth floor their acquaintune ; were circulating the report that the head of the family hud liis salary Mln - I and had moved up two flights to cut down expenses. After that it didn't take long for the man'' wife to hear what other people had heard. She indignantly denied the rumor. "John is al! right." she said. “It isn’t bis f.iuit tiiat we moved upstairs; it’s mine. My motive was not at ail creditable. I badn t intended to tell anybody about it. but since John’s reputation as a business man is at stake I see I’ve got to own up. We moved to get even with the family on the third floor. During all those months that we lived below them they tormented the life out of me aud my girls by cleaning house on my wash day. They took particular pains with their rugs. The appearance of my newly washed clothes on the line was the signal for them to hang their rugs out of their own back windows aud give them a good beating. By the time those rugs were renovated my clothes were ready for the tubs again. Week after week I protested. The janitor’s sympathy was finally enlisted in my behalf, but not even he could change the programme for beating those rugs. After suffering at the hands of my enemies for a whole year 1 determined upon revenge. The only way to get it was to move upstairs. We moved, and now I have the satisfaction of giving their clothes a ease of spotted measles by shaking my rugs over them.”—New York Press. A GRISLY SIGHT. SlaoKbter of tht* Baby Seals on the GlltterlnK Ice Floew. Never shall a man who has once watched the slaughter of a fur seal herd forget the ghastly sight. From the deck of the blunt nosed sealing steamer you can count thousands upon thousands of seal families stretched out on the glistening ice floes, the dark mottled bodies of the adults standing out in high relief against the blue whiteness of their floating homes while the snow white fur of the babj -eal blends almost imperceptibly imo the background. Out from the ship, hurrying over Ihe ice. rush nearly 200 men of the crew, each armed with an iron tipped chili. From near and far go up the agonized cries of the terrified seals. Flopping along over the ice, the adults rush frantically for the water, doing their best to hurry their young with them. In most cases their way of escape is cut off by the sealers. With a blow of the iron bound club the skull of the seal pti]» is crushed, its blood staining the whiteness of the floe, while its parents are allowed to get away in safety.—Technical World Magazine. Xo Time to Sort Her Mail. “The ways of women are beyond the comprehension of mere man,” said her companion as after purchasing her stamps at the general postoffice she carried her mail to the nearest post box. "Will you kindly explain why you did that’.'” "Simply because I hadn't time to sort my mail into ’Letters, Newspapers and Packages, Foreign. Domestic, New York City’ and a few dozen other subdivisions and then walk around that monstrous building to find the proper drops for the various articles,” she replied. "It takes time, patience and ingenuity to post anything in the general postoffice, and I don't possess any of those tilings. Give me the plain, uncomplicated letter box for practical pur] loses!" And of course he remarked that that was just like a woman.— NvW YorkPress. The Fule of Fiir«. Some light on the fate of flies was thrown by H. Hill iu a lecture at tht Royal Victoria hall. London, on "Flies, and How They Disappear.” In England alone there are 3,000 dift’eren kinds of Hies, and Mr. Hill mentioned the following principal ways in which flies perish: They are drowned in milk at the breakfast table; they get suirounded by a white fungus, which sap' their strength: they are eaten by spi ders, wasps, frogs, chameleons, lizards, field mice or fish. With so many enemies it might be wondered how tiles have continued tc exist, but Mr. Hill said that lie bad himself witnessed a d.nldy longlcgs whose front half was being devoured by a spider continuing calmly to laj eggs with the other half, as though nothing were happening. Why Men Wear H.i.«taehes. The GauJois of Paris lias been investigating that grave question. "Why do men wear mustaches’.'" About 100 men answered the question. Six replied that it was too much trouble to shave, one declared that it was to hide ' his teeth, another that his long nose, without it, gave him a bad appearance, and three that it avoided colds. Three others maintained that it improved the air they breathed, and seven were of the opinion that a mustache was necessary to health. Seventeen men were content to state that they did it to please themselves, while only two said it was to please their wives. About sixty gave the reason that women do not like clean shaven men. Ilfs tap. “Dow late do you usually sleep on Sunday morning?” “Well, it all denends.” “Depends on what?" “The length of l!:e semtHk’* Time’* Driver. Binks—Time runs on, eh? Noxv, what makes time run on? Bunks—The spur of the moment, I suppose.

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