Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 August 1893 — Page 7

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THE USEFUL BAMBOO.

YANKEE MACHINERY COMPETES WITH JAPANESE FINGERS.

Mann facta rod Products of aFonipiWood Are Popular, bat Contrary to General Belief Tbey Arc MRtle In Thl* Country.

Japanetc Curtain*. The light bamboo curtain la giving the same privacy to suburban New Yorkers tbia year that the Venetian blind has long given to West Indians and other dweller* in warm climates. Several years ago these rolling curtains of split bamboo made their 1 appearance in this city under the name of sidarris, and they were found so useful that they soon became popular favorites, particularly in the suburban towns. The ^suburban New Yorker had fallen into the habit of living much In public when outside the walla of his house.

Fashion decreed long ago that the front fence must come down, and the piazza, •usually not far from the street, was so exposed that it was useless for comfortable lounging and demanded the same dress that must be worn for walking orcalling. The bamboo curtain came to remedy this •evil and to give to the American piazza greater privacy and comfort. It is cheap -enough for the smallest cottage, pretty •enough for the most expensive and useful for everybody who has'a piazza. Like most things that are cheap, pretty and useful, it has made a place for itself.

Possibly there may be some remote hamlet in the United States where the bamboo •curtain has not yet appeared, and for the benefit of that hamlet it may be necessary to describe it. It is simply a rolling shade made of thin strips of split bamboo, with a round bamboo .rod at .top and bottom to give it strength and ropes running through two small pulleys to raise it or let it down. ?It is so loosely mads? that the wind whistles through it r.* ul»!y, yet it has enough solidity to make a shield from the sun. It may be'ruu up or down as easily as any shade, and it is not only a protection against the sun, but a valuable screen to shield the summer lounger from the gaze of every passerby. It is used only upon the piazza. Y*

The bamboo curtain is too ffiniiliftr hereabouts to need any description for the New Yorker, urban or suburban, but there are some curious things about it that must attract the idle notice of the summer loung•er. It has a foreign look throughout and seems to bear the delicate odors of lacquer •and flne cabinet work that we associate with Japan. The slats are tiny things, perhaps a quarter of an inch wide and a sixteenth of an iuch thick. Wherever the marks of a joint appear, they are not in one slat or two, but in enough of the slats to •cover afoot or moro in height, and each •one exactly over the one below it, showing that all those Slats have been deftly cut from one stalk of bamboo. neatly and •evenly is this cutting dene mat the summer lounger is likely to ^wonder at the pa.'•tlence and dexterity of the Japanese workmen who make these things.

But the patient Japanese workmen who make these" screens are usually good American citizens, and all the foreign look Is |^manufactured to order and by machinery.

It is not in Toklo or Yokohama that the bamboo curtains are made, but in Ne\^ York or Brooklyn. Stdarrls is a good name for them because it has afar away sound, '"and few people know what it means. The •bamboo Is a genuine product of the tropics, ibiit the manufacturing is all done on one •side or other of the Kast river—largely in •Brooklyn, atul not far from the navy yard. This applies, however, only to the bamboo shades and other bamboo work used in and .about this city. Nearly every large city in I the country has at least one factory where

Iwmiboo goods are made. Some of tin* largest of these factories, after those of New York and Brooklyn, are in Phllndelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco. In all Z' of these factories, although the price of lalor is20 times higher than in Japan, the -goods are madoas cheaply na tliey can be made In the east because the work is done with machinery.

Beyond a few ornamental chairs and.ta* bles, the bamboo curtain is the ilrst popuJar use to which bamboo has been putin this country. It probably will not bo the last, for bamboo has a habit of making itself so useful wherever it goes that its acqunintanee Is cultivated. The raw material has to bo imported, for bamboo hasnot yet been successfully raised in this country. The Chines© in California have tried it,' but without any great success. Some lonely-trees grow in St. Augustine in Florida, but they are mere travesties upon the real bamboo of the tropics.

For commercial purposes bamboo comes to this country in the hold# of sailing veasels, tied up in long cylindrical bundles, and the packages of it that one may frequently see unloading in South street are not good samples of the bamboo of the East Indies, except for business uses. The invmouse stalks, sometimes a foot thick and CO feet long, seldom come here, because they are not needed. Our bamboo goods are better made from small growths, and it is not much matter whether the stalks are straight •or crooked. They are often crooked, but they are easily straightened. "Our raw material," says a maker of bamboo goods, "come* principally from China, Japau and India, In these three countries we find more than 00 varieties, ranging between 3 feet and $6 feet in height and half an Inch and 8,10,12 inches in •diameter. livery oue of thosoirto-ietleH is noted for lu* durability, it# great tendency to bend when stealued, its uuique property of ftpHtting into pieces of any thickness desired, and the high polish it will take. For auy of these qualities no other wood compares with it. In some varieties the joints are only from five to eight Inches apart and In others they are upward of five fe«t apart, 11»es« larger kind* are rare and ar« used only In the manufacture of U»c more costly furniture. "What bamboo articles do we make? A great many, and still not nearly as many as we might, nor as many as we probably shall when Americans come to know bamboo better. We make Sidarris or Japanese curtains, scrwns, fretwork, basket and hampers, faucy boxts* paraj»ol*, chairs |f stools, Ktaods* «ett««, hatrack, table** eta, brackets, «#sefe, portiere®, scrolls and fancy woodwork of every de«erip(i. .V of these things, you will notice, -re cy article*. Plainer and ator* Cul thiui?# wUl cow hi sisue. A* aathern tuewa we mm th_ :.,..„^Ung||cd fit* wiv*»»boo.

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r* The Specter of the Broeken, The "specter of the Brocken" belongs to a class of beautiful and deceptive atmospheric phenomena known as "mirages." The particular mirage referred to is to be seen at only one known pjace on the earth's surface—on top of the Brocken, the highest summit of the Hans mountains in Hongary. In "the Hungarian language it is referred to as the "Brockengespenst" (meaning "Brocken ghost" or "ghost of the Brocken"), and those who have been fortunate enough to get a good view of it declare that the apparition is very specterlike indeed.

There is aa observatory near the point where the "specter" is to be seen to the best advantage, and you nc sooner step out npon the little platform to the south of the tower than your shadow, grim and gigantic, is projected out against the eastern sky, where with unlimited space for a playground it flits swiftly from place to place accurately following your every motion. It is only in the evening just before sunset that the phenomenon may be seen at alt This being the case, the shadow is doubly exaggerated—first, by the distance and level of the sun, and, secondly, by the remoteness of the background upon which the shadow is projected.

The explanation of this extraordinary atmospheric curiosity is very simple. To the east of the Harz monn tains there is always a very dense mid hazy atmosphere— so dense, in fact, that it presents a surface capable of rwjelvin the impression of an object and rtftec its shadow just as a wall does. AVhc-u, t.iurefore, the sun gets around to the west, the shadows of all objects which r.r« near enough to the wall of atmospheric particles urc projected upon it. —St. Louis Republic.

A Marriage In Cairo.

There was a young girl married while 1 was in Cairo. The streets around the palace of her father were hung with flags for a week. The garden about his houbo was inclosed with a tent, which was worth in money $20,000 and which was as beautiful to the eye as the interior of a mosque. For a week the sheiks who rented the estates of the high contracting parties were fed at their expense. For a week men sang, anil bands played, and the whole neighborhood feasted, and on the last night everybody went to the wedding and drank coffee and smoked cigarcttcs and listened to a young man singing Arabian love songs.

I naturally did not see the bride. The women who did see her described her as very beautiful, barely 10 years old and covered with pearls and diamonds. She was weeping, bitterly. Her mother, it appeared, had arranged the match. I did not see her, but I saw the bridegroom. He was fat and stupid and over 60, and he had white hair and a white beard. A priest recited the Koran before him at the door of the house, and a band played, and the people cheered the khedlve three times, and then the crowd parted, and the bridegroom was marched to the door which led to the stairs, at the top of which the girl awaited him. Two grinning eunuchs crouched on this dark staircase with lamps held high above thefr heads and closed the door behind hli^

His 10-year-oTd bride has him to herself now—him and his eunuchs—until he or she dies. We could show similitudes between this wedding and some others in civilized lands, but it is much too serious a matter to be cynical about.-—Harper's Weekly.

A Fool Kingfisher.

One day, as 1 was walking across the river bridge with two friends and happened to look down in the water (which, by the way, is about 40 feet distant from the bridge), I saw a pickerel about 3 feet long lying there in tho clear water near the shore, I told my friends to stay there and I would get my rod and line and alive minnow and catch the fteh. -I did so and put a nice little shiner on the hook. I bad an automatic reel with 00 feet of line on it. I let tho minnow down in the water, and it hard}y reached there before a kingfisher came down from tinder tho bridge, seized iny minnow and started down the river. When he got the line straightened out, he let the minnow drop, and I supposed he went on down the river, so I started once more to catch the pickerel, but had hardly got my line in shape again when down came Mr. Kingfisher and took tho minnow again.

This time, however, he went back under the bridge, and after a moment or two let the minnow fall back in the river, and 1 then went after the pickerel again, and for the third time down came Mr. Kingfisher, but he got the hook along with ne minnow, and I had him fast. He flew right straight up in the air, and I let him have the whole 90 feet of line. Then I reeled him in from the sky, and you never heart! such a noise as he made, but I landed him all right. I then took him and showed him to all the fishermen in town and then let him go, and he went back to the bridge,—American Angler.

The Bottom of the Atlantic Oceiutfv Proceeding westward from tho Irish coast the ocean bed deepens very gradually —In fact, for the first 9S0 miles the gradient la but six feet to the mile. In the next SO miles, however, the fall is over 9,000 feet, and so precipitous is the sudden descent that in many places depths of 1,300 to 1,600 fathoms are encountered in very close proximity to the 100 fathom line. With the depth of 1,800 to 2,000 fathoms, the sea bed In this part of he Atlantic becomes a slightly undulating plain, whoscugradients are so light that they show but little alteration of depth for 1,200 miles. The extraordinary flatness of these submarine prairies mtdvrs the fmnlUar" simile of the basin rather inappropriate.

The hollow of the Atlantic is not strictly a basin whose depth Increases regularly toward the .enter, It is rather a saucer or dishlike one, so even is the ontour of its bed. The greatest depth In the Atlantic has been found some 100 miles to the northward of the island of St. Thomas, where soundings of 8,873 fathoms were obtained. The seas round Great Britain can hardly be regarded as forming part of the Atlantic hollow. They are rather apart of the platform banks of th« European continent which the ooean has overflowed.—Nautical Magazine.

An Effective Threat*

The queen of Italy is an excellent musician, where** King Humbert displays but little artistic taste and has certainly no ear for music. Of late the queec has be«B compelled to use spectacles when reading. The first time her husband, who detests them, caw tar wearing a pair be exclaimed: "M&rgherita, take those glasses off?"

But as the qttmi was in no hurry to obey, the kins, having exhausted his power* of peraa* -», at la*t s»Wh "MaraberHa. if yea don't pnt away tKbwe glasses I shall stagte®.*'

The effect t!,:-. '.t.r- ?r kseL Bather :um sobta «-.las mattyv St to the Of her *, :-isetbeiit2e«tkiEax «*y u»d %t spectac&esk—Coi'ticsis di JJa*

TERRE HAfeff lATURDir EVENING MAIL. AUGUST. 5,1893.

HOW TO CARE FOR THE EYES.

The Cause of Nearsightedness anil How to Avoid It. Probably no part of the body is so little thought of as the eyes, and no part is bo deserving of attention. What may be remedied by a little attention is very apt to be neglected until permanent injury is done. Children's eyes especially should be protected from strong sunlight Continued looking at bright objects so fatigues the muscles of the eye that squintbig has been known to result by reason of the weakening of the muscles. The gam a thing is enconraged by tne habit with some people of bringing tho finger or some other object gradually closer and closer to the eyes trntil the eyes will be seen to draw closer together. These things should be carefully avoided.

Nearsightedness is caused by prolonged reading in a sitting "posture, the head gradually falling on the chest a^d the eyes thus getting* too dose to the book or paper brings on a short focus defect and makes necessary the use of glasses for seeing far objects.

The sleeping room of children should not have alight glaring into the eyes of a child. A screen is very easily made of tin, or a piece of cardboard securely fastened so that it will not get near the light will leave enough light to see with and enable the child to sleep without scowling or squinting or being restless from too much light.

When children have what is called a cold in the eyes, it is because they have caught cold in the body, and the remedy is to cure the cold, when the eyes will recover likewise.

In case of accidents the best things to use are cold water and very soft linen, bathing the eye very gently.

It is good to bathe the eyes with lukewarm water, but it is very bad to do so immediately before going out into a cold atmosphere, as the warm water makes the skin tender and produces a drawn appearance around the eyes.

Witch hazel is a very good thing to bathe tho eyes with. It should be diluted with water for children's eyes.

Indications of trouble with the eyes such as squinting or nearsightedness, should be at once heeded and the child taken to an oculist to be fitted with suitable glasses.

An eminert New York oculist says one of the greatest secrets of healthful eyes and good eyesight in children is keeping them clean.

How to Cure Colic In Horses. A sure and speedy cure for colic in horses is made of 8 ounces spirits of turpentine and an ounce of laudanum. Put this mixture into a bottle containing half a pint of warm water and pour it down the animal's throat. This is said to be an excellent remedy also for human beings, the dose for an adult being one to two teaspoonsfuls, according to the exigencies of the case. For children or invalids the dose should be reduced. Take in warm water.

How Things Are Misnamed. The mica in the doors of stoves and heaters is erroneously called isinglass from the genuine isinglass is made a very superior jelly. German silver was not invented in Germany and does not contain a particle of silver. The battle of Hastings, England, was not fought within five miles of that place the battle of North Point was fought six miles away and much nearer Baltimore, and the battle of Bennington, Vermont, was fought in New York state. Whalebone does not possess a single property of bone. Burgundy pitch is not pitch and does not come from Burgundy it is principally rosin and palm oil. The tuberose is not a rose, but a species of olyanth. Black lead is not lead at all, but a compound of carbon and a small quantity of iron. Cleopatra's needle was not erected by nor in honor of the Egyptian queen. Sealing wax does not contain a particle of wax, being composed of turpentine, shellac and cinnabar. Steel pens are not made of steeL Turkish baths did not originate in Turkey and properly are not baths. Brazilian grass is not grass and never grow in Brazil it is only strips of palm leaf. Pompey's pillar hasn't the slightest historical connection with Pompey. The Mont Cenis tunnel is cut through Mont Susa.

low to Clean Kid Gloves.

While the gloves are on the hands scrape upon them dry fuller's earth or French. Rub together thent as if washing the hands. This operation should be repeated several times, and the rubbing must be vigorous. If the glovtes be of light color, put them on the hands and then wash them in spirits of hartshorn. .-'j.. Y.-

How to Remove Anything From the Ear. Under no consideration use anything to poke in the ear. Ptrtir a little sweet oil in the ear and hold it there. Should the foreign body be an insect, it will float to the top and can easily be removed: Should it be a hard substance, a stream of warm water from a syringe will soon drive it out, always holding the affected side toward tiie floor. Should these methods fail, consult a physician. Never probe the ear. It injures the ear and causes deafness.

How to Make Cream Beet

Scrape perfectly lean beef to a palp, mince, put in a pan with salt, pepper, tablaspoonful of water, 2 tablepoonfuls of rich cream, batter the size of an egg. Cook two minutes, atirring constantly.

How to Relieve Choking.

A sound slap on the back with the flat of the hand will often relieve the windpipe when obstructed. If not relieved after several slaps, send for a physician. A chM should be taken tip by its feet and reversed. This seems heroic treatment bat it Is nearly always effective.

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THE OLIVE ON THE HEIGHTS.

Come, listen, O love, to the olive hned dove, The dove and the olive of oldl ^Companioned still In their world above lfc As when the delnge rolled.

Hark! hearken, O love, to the voice of the dove, Hark! hearken and hear him. say, "There axe many tomorrows, my love, my love

There's only one today." And thi« is his wooing you hear him say, "This day in purple is rolled, ||f And the baby stars erf the milky wajPI f: Are cradled in cradles of gold."

Now, what is thy secret, berene gray dove. Escaping death's delude alway? "There are many tomorrows, my love, my love

There's only, one today." —Joaquin Miller.

A Dream Picture of Ancient Borne. We may still stand on the tower of the capitol and survey that glorious panorama bounded by Tuscan, Sabine and Alban hills and dream what that scene was some 1,700 or 1,800 years ago, The forum below was one radiant avenue of temples, triumphal arches, triumphal columns, colossal statues, monuments and votive shrines—the senate house, the rostra, the sacred way on the one side the circular temple of Testa, the temple of Castor and the basilica of Julius on the other, above on the right the temple of Jove on the left that of Juno and the towering palaces' of the Palatine and the Circus Maximus beyorid the valley. Far as the eye can reach would be vast theaters, enormous baths, colossal sepulchers, obelisks,. columns, fountains, equestrian statues in marble or in bronze,

The walls of these sumptuous edifices are all of dazzling brilliance in oriental marbles bright with mosaics and with frescoes, and their roofs are covered with plates of hammered gold. In the far distance across terraces and gardens shady with the dark foliage of cypress and stone pine might be seen the aqueducts which bring from the mountains whole rivers into the city to fill its thousand baths and its hundred fountains. And between the aqueducts and the porticoes, far as the eye can reach to the hills beyond, villas gleam in the sun with their terraces, gardens, statues and shrines, each a little city in itself. .The earth has never seen before Or since so prodigious an accumulation of all that is beautiful anil rare.—-Nineteenth Century.

A Business Woman In Franklin's Bay. An interesting instance' of a woman's business ability is given in Franklin's autobiography. In 1778 he founded a printing office in Charleston, S. C., under charge of 'One of his journeymen, and was to receive one-third of the profits. Franklin says: "He was a man of learning, but ignorant in matters of account, and though he sometimes made me remittances I could get no account from him nor Shy satisfactory state of our partnership while he lived. "On his decease the business was continued by his widow, Who, being bora and bred in Holland, where, as I have been informed, the knowledge of accounts makes apart of female education, she not only sent me as clear a statement as she could And of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterward and managed the business with such success that she not only, reputably brought up a family of children^ but at the expiration of the term was able to purchase of me the printing house and establish her son in it. I mention this affair chiefly for the sake of recommending that branch of eduoation for our young women as likely to be of more use to them and their children, in case of widowhood, than either music or dancing."

:l England's Oldest Industry. The oldest industry in Great Britainolder it could hardly be, for its existence has been traced back to the prehistoric stone age—is still being carried on at the village of Brandon, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, and is reported to be in a flourishing condition. It is a manufactory of gun and tinder box flints. The work is done in little sheds, often at the back of townsfolks' cottages. It will naturally be asked, Who wants tinder box flints and gun flints in these days of phosphorous matches and Martlnl-Henrgg?

The answer to the first question is that there is a good trade in tinder box flints with Spain and Italy, where the tinder box still keeps its ground in very rural districts. Travelers in uncivilized regions, moreover, find flint and steel more trustworthy than matches, which are useless after they have absorbed moisture. Gun flints, on the other hand, go mostly to the wild parts of Africa, where our old friend, "Brown Bess," sold by auction long ago for what flint muskets would fetch, has found, it seems, her last refuge.—London News.

A Delicate Hint.

Sir Henry Hawkins was once presiding over a tedious and uninteresting trial and was listening, apparently with absorbed attention, to a tedious and uninteresting speech from a counsel learned in the law. Presently he made a pencil memorandum, folded it and sent it by the usher to the oounsel in question. This gentleman, on unfolding the paper, found these words: "Patience Competition—Gold medal, Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable mention, Job." His peroratlqn was wound up with as little delay as possible.—San Francisco Argonaut.

Intense Heat.

In 17& the heat of Bologna was so great that numbers of people were stifled. In July, 1W8, the heat again became intolerable, Vegetables were burned up, and fruit dried on the trees. The furniture and woodwork in dwelling houses cracked and split, and meat went bad in an hour.—Yankee Blade _____

We have 00 divisions on the dials of our docks and watches because the old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus, who lived in the second centnry before Christ, used the Babylonian system of dividing time, and that system was sexagesimaL

Impartial writers are quoted with saying that the gold contained In the medals, vessels, chains and other objects preserved in the Vatican would make more gold coin than the whole of the present European circulation.

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How to .Perfume the Hair.

Girls with perfumed Hair are now the "correct thing." It is difficult to do. Of course the hair must be combed carefully every day. That gives the glossy effect which is so much in vogue, but this is only the start in the perfuming of it. A young lady who has tried it successfully says: "There are ways and ways of perfuming hair, but I found the best way was to have a mob cap of soft thin silk made and lined with cotton that had been thickly sprinkled with sachet powder. Now, after weekly shampoos, I wear the cap for an hour, and a delicate, indistinct fragrance is imparted to the locks that is the epitome of daintiness."

How to Prevent Feathers From Working Vi Through Ticks. If not possible to get new, stouter ticking, empty out the feathers, turn the tick wrong side out and lay it on a table, rubing it with slightly warmed beeswax until it is well coated,

How to Get Rid of Rats.

Dissolve by heat an ounce of phosphorus in 2 ounces of butter. Mix this thoroughly with a thick paste made of 3 pounds of flour and a little water. Make t.bia into balls, which should then be rolled in granulated sugar until heavily coated. Leave these balls about the house and put a few pans of water where the rats can get to them. -The only objection to this plan is that the rodents frequently die in the house. 7

How to Make Cork Airtight. Cover it with cement made by mixing litharge, finely powdered, with pure glycerin. This an economical way of sealing bottles or jars in which specimens are preserved in aloohol.

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Steam Dye Works

nrmrat* opwrea a-nu i^piMnw^ a»i ww* iuwhuww wkmiiumi yr Practical Dyer and Kenovater, «S6 Wabash avenuue