Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — MODEL HOME FOR WORKMEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MODEL HOME FOR WORKMEN.

New York Shows a Dwelling at the Fair Which Costs but SI.OOO. Down in the southeast corner of the World’s Fair grounds, near*the confusing display of wind-mills, and almost under the shadow of the intramural, stands a modest little structure which the average visitor would he apt to overlook. A sign extending half way across the front Informs the passer that the building is the New York State exhibit of a model workingman’s home. The model home is two stories h'gh, the upper rooms being cut into a trifle by the roof, but not enough

to cause any inconvenience. It covers a lot 26x28 feet. It rejoices in the luxury of a front entry and a side porch and is provided with a bath-room and plenty of closets. The walls are all painted, and they can be washed with perfect freedom. There are outside blinds, a gable roof, and a brick chimney, and all this plenitude of possession may be had for the moderate sum of SI,OOO. The ground floor contains a sittingroom and a kitchen, front hall, and a bath-room. This latter is located here for economical reasons, as the drainage can be united with that of the kitchen. The parlor has an open fire-place and an ornamental mantel. The floor is covered with pretty rugs and the furniture is tasteful and serviceable. The house is completely furnished throughout—linen, crockery, and even clothing. It is intended for a model family consisting of one father, one mother, three children, and one baby. All the drawers and closets are full of neatly folded clothing for the-model family, each piece marked with the cost; in fact, everywhere about the house are plainly written instructions giving size and use of rooms and all needful detail for workingmen to read and profit by. There is only one feature of the model home which would possibly merit any sort of criticism; that is Hie closet system. The model wife has a rather small closet allotted to her, the model children hate one a trifle larger, and the model husband has one nearly twice as large. Now, unless model workingmen’s wives are of a different species from otner men’s wives the womn would have that big closet for her dresses, if she had to render the four model children orphans in order to obtain it.

Cadi and Council. Justice is the end of government, and every nation has its own peculiar method by which this end is achieved. In “Our Future Highway to India, ” an interesting trial is described. There had been a riot and one man had been hurt. The ringleaders in the riot were now put on trial, and a curious sight it was The cadi and council were seated around a table. An officer called the “kaimacan” had, conducted us to the place where the trial was going on, and the party was accommodated on a divan. The prisoners were brought in under a strong guard, the wounded man and the doctor being at the other end of oar divan. The whole place was crowded with witnesses and spectators. A more peculiar trial was never seen; every one gesticulating, shouting and yelling. The prisoners abused kaimacan, cadi, court, and everything else, and were abused in turn. The noise went on increasing until it seemed as if the roof was about to fly off. Suddenly there came a lull, and every one, prisoners, guards and all, commenced smoking cigarettes. The ringleader in the riot coolly took a light from one of the members of the court. After a pause, and with their lungs refreshed by the soothing fumes of tobacco, they all again burst forth in chorus, and the noise was worse than before. I know not how the clerk to the court managed to keep his notes of the evidence, but perhaps he was accustomed to such scenes, and managed to take down a fair description of what occurred.

Though there was fresh blood on their clothes, and some long hairs were sticking to the sword of the one who had actually struck the blow, the prisoners swore they were innocent. Luckily the case did not rest on frail testimony, as an officer had been present and seen the man cut down. So far everything went to convict the culprits, but the question of provocation given and received bad to be debated before the punishment could be awarded. A Luminous Tree. A remarkable tree grows near some Bprings, about twelve miles north of Tuscarora, Nevada. It is about six or seven feet high, with a trunk which at its base.is three times the size of an ordinary man’s wrist. Its truly wonderful characteristic is itk luminosi Sy, which is so great that on the darkest night it can be plainly seen a mile away. A person standing near could read the finest print by its light. The luminous property is due to a gummy substance, which can be transferred to the hand by rubbing, together with the phosphorescent licrht, while that on the leaf disappears. This luminosity is thought to be due to a parasitic worm. Pennies for the Heathen. Madge, aged 7, had a list of questions and answers given her by her Sunday-school teachers to learn, the first of which was, “What is a missionary?” and the answer, “One sent to teach the heathen.” The list was duly learned, and she went to Sunday school full of importance that she had her lesson perfect. On her return she was asked if she had remembered the answers, and she replied: “Yes, mamma, I only missed the first, and in that I only made the mistake of a penny. I said. ‘Two cents to teach the heathen,' instead of 1 cent.*

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