The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 August 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal I ' -~-. SYRACUSE, - - IND DUTIES OF A TRUE WIFE (if She is an Intelligent Housekeeper Her. Home Will Be a Happy One. A girl should marry when she Is capable) of understanding and fulfilling th& duties of a true wife and thorough housekeeper, and never before. No matter how old she may be, if she is not capable of managing a house in every department of it she Is not old enough to get married. "When she promises to take the position of wife and homemaker the man Who holds her promise has every right to suppose that she knows herself competent to fulfill it. If she proves to be incompetent or unwilling he has good reason to consider himself cheated. No matter how plain the home may be, it is in accordance with the husband’s means, and he finds it neatly kept and the meals (no matter how simple) ‘ served from shining dishes and clean table linen, that husband will leave his home with loving words and thoughts and look ahead with eagerness to the time when he can return. ’ Let the girl acquire every accomplishment within her power, the more [ the better, for every added accomplishment will be that much more ’ power to be used in making a happy home. At the same time, if she cannot go Into the kitchen, if necessary, and cheerfully prepare as good a meal as anyone could with the same material, and serve it neatly after it is prepared, she had better defer her marriage until she learns how such household matters are performed. If girls would thoroughly fit themselves for the position of intelligent housekeepers before they marry there would be fewer discontented, unhappy wives and more happy homes. —Woman’s Life. j. - _ Dickens and Toole. An interesting story attaches to the Alexander Institute, Carter street, Walworth, which is now being advertised for sale.. It was in this hall, fornierly the Walworth Literary and Scientific Institution, that J. L. Toole scored some of his earliest successes as ah amateur actor, and it was there that; he was “discovered” by Charles Dickens in the spring of 1852. Some of Toole’s friends, Impressed by the young man’s talent, besought Charles Dickens to see him act and advise him as to his future career, and the great novelist, though then hard at work on “Bleak House,” good naturedly found time to journey to Walworth lin compliance with this request. “I i remember,” he told Forster, “what I once wanted myself in that way, and I should like to serve him.” Toole himself, writing half a cenjtury later, thus recalled this momentous event in his career. In company with Mark Lemon and John Forster, !Charles Dickens paid a kindly visit to the Walworth Literary Institution for ithe purpose of seeing him act and rejcite in the monologue “Trying a Magistrate.” Dickens was strong in his i expressed opinion that his vocation was the stage, and the stage only.— fPall Mall Gazette. I Owning Your Home. "I have always felt that upon prop* lerly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind,” said Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beacons* field). To sit in the evening’s cool 19 your comfortable armchair, to look around you and know that everything you see there is your very own and that you have obtained it all so that you practically do not feel the costj to know also that if ydu, the breadwinner, were suddenly called away, your home would still be your wife’s or your family’s—that is one of the pleasures of life, indeed. It is a pleasure which gives you new heart in your work in the world. It sends you out every morning determined to get on and to earn more money, and because of that very determination you do become worth more money. Tongues of the Mighty. Future candidates for the presidency of the French Republic will be thinned out if the demand of a French newspaper be accepted—that presidents should show fluent acquaintance (with English and German. There is (not a president on record who has reached that requirement, for presidents are made —self-made—not born. It is the business of a king to learfi (several languages, and as he is born ‘he is made to talk with many tongues. The Austrian Kaiser is perhaps the imost splendi dliving instance. But 'presidents and ministers are not nursed into multftingualism. Can we (put up a cabinet minister capable of (fluency in threeuanguages?—Westminister Gazette. A Reunion Task. The two old friends met after a separation of ten years. "I declare, you’ve kept your youthful looks to a (surprising extent,” said one. “Thank you,” said the other man, ’“You’ve done pretty well, too. You (know you expected to be absolutely {>ald long before this, like your father, nstead of which I really believe you’ve as much hair left as I have, if (not more.” "Absurd!” said his friend. “It can’t jbe. Let’s count it!” —Youth’s Companion.

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THE return of Colonel Roosevelt and party from Africa, with the cargo of animal specimens; which had been killed during their invasion of the jungle, caused a New York dealdr in wild beasts to tajlk Interestingly of the business in which his firm Is engaged. There are nearly a dozen firms in New York city that carry on an immense business in the transportation of animals fresh from

the jungle. And this number, of course, does not include such immense foreign animal firms as the Hagenbacks. It is a paying business, as indeed, are all businesses where the demand exceeds the supply. The demand for wild beasts is far greater than the supply, and as a consequence prices are good, and the dealers men of wealth. The extent of this demand may be appreciated when one considers that most of the great cities in- the United States have zoological parks or menageries, and that the animals are constantly being purchased by them. Then there are private collectors and circuses and the like, that are ever ready to pay the highest prices for desirable animals. The animal dealer who could secure and bring to this country three or four gorillas would make a small fortune. But no dealer has ever succeeded in doing this. The gorillas die in a few weeks in captivity; they could not stand an ocean trip for a day. A rusty old German liner lumbers noisily into Quarantine, and then Iles motionless on the tide. An officer, with broad, red, bewhiskered face, stands at the head of the companion ladder, and he smjies a peculiar smile, as a husky screaming ululatlon rises from below. “The animals are get- r , ting hungry,” he -explains; “you know we have several hundred of them on the ’tween decks. Want to see them? All right.” In another minute probably the most competent animal man in the world is at our side. He is not a trainer, or even a tamer; he is more. He is a sort of animal cook, and his special business is the personal management of wild animal tours. He receives them Hons, tigers, leopards, elephants, everything else —at Hamburg, where they have been brought fresh from their native wilds, and not only superintends their shipment aboard a vessel bound for New York, but he sails with them to make sure that they arrive safely and in good health. And be sure that if the tiger gets off on his diet and needs a nice fresh live rabbit to tone up his system, this man will be aware of the fact almost before the tiger is—and, erg®, a nice big jumping bunny is sacrificed in accordance with the precepts of wild beast materia medlca. Then, too, one can never tell just when the big boa is going to rouse from his last gorge; when he does he wants a toothsome young goat, and he wants it quick. It is a part of the animal man’s duties to anticipate the boa’s appetite with all possible expedition. He Is a quiet, unassuming man, with stoop shoulders and bushy whiskers, and he leads the way to the ’tween decks without a word. Perhaps the uninitiated may believe that a tour through the animal section of a freight-carrying vessel is an unimpressive experience. Well, let them try it and see! This can be the outset—lt Is somewhat different from a menagerie. It means something to come Into close proximity to a hundred and odd wild animals that have been ruthlessly snatched from their lairs in Africa or Asia, or elsewhere, and clapped into little barred boxes, not as large as dry goods cases; slammed in and out of dark holes In the vessels of several seas on the way to Hamburg; then finally placed In the stygian ’tween decks of a German hooker. The swinging cross seas of the North Atlantic have not improved their tempers, or their nervous systems, and the visitor at Quarantine Is quickly Impressed with that fact. The howls and whines and the barks cease abruptly as the strangers enter. For they bring the smell of land, and the * great beasts sniff inquiringly, and hungrily, too. The cages lined both sides of the gloomy space, with a little passageway between the boxes. Perhaps this passageway was three feet wide, not more. The cages were plied two and sometimes three deep. In the bottom cage, for Instance, would be a tiger; in the next above a smaller animal, say, a leopard or a lynx, and above that a parrot, or a bunch of neerkats. Think of it! A three-foot passageway, with ferocious animals, stretching along for 100 feet on all sides. Talk about nightmares! The reporter’s hair stiffened out like so many pieces of wire, and he wished most fervently that he had not come. It was more agreeable, he felt, to see these animals in a menagerie where the cages are ample and' the bars an Inch thick. n “Better keep In the middle of the aisle,” says one of the animal men; “these fellows sometimes reach out for you.” Words such as these, of course, hardly tended to reassure. It really was too dark to see much. One caught a view of the cages stretching away In gloomy perspective until lost In the darkness, of

rows of glowing green eyes and great teeth with the flash of red tongue writhing between. A zebra switched the reporter with his tail and he turned, only to jump almost out of his skin as an elephant touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk. He was hardly over his scare when, zip! a leopard •eached out after his coat tall. In one way this lower deck section was a good place to visit; the joy and relief in being able to leave It furnished the biggest and most absorbing sensations that this monotonous world has held for the reporter in the last few months at least. Bartels & Co., are the largest dealers in wild beasts in this country. “A large wild animal dealer,” said our informant, “imports considerably more than a hundred large wild animals each yean For instance, our record for one year which I happen to have at hand, shows that we imported in that period 20 elephants, 35 camels, 20 tigers, 5 lions, 45 leopards, 20 pumas, 18 panthers and hundreds of birds and monkeys and small things. Cubs —lion and tiger and bear cubs—are in special demand by wealthy families. They are reared and petted like kittens, but in the end they outgrow their playfulness and the families who bought them from us are only too willing to pay us to come and take them away when they attain any sort of growth. We have received many orders for hippopotami, but the beasts are hard to capture and ninety-nine times out of a hundred they do not live through the voyage. In fact, menageries throughout the country have to depend of late years upon the progeny of the hippopotami in Central Park, New York, for specimens. “Like all animal dealers, we maintain expert animal catchers in all parts of the world, and it is these men who fill the ships which arrive here. The Hagenbecks have two collecting stations, one in Calcutta and the other in Aden, Arabia. From this point the animal catchers go forth and spend months in the wilds; returning to the stations with their catch. We ourselves send catchers direct from this country—at present we <Mave men in South America., on the hot sands of Africa, in the Himalayas, and elsewhere, filling our orders. One of them way recently In Arabia on a ctnnel hunt, two are now In the East Indies trapping tigers, and so they are spread about in places where wild beasts abide. “Sometimes we receive an order for a large number of elephants. We telegraph this order to our catchers in the elephant country, who, after organizing the natives into a hunting band, proceed to collect the desired number. A huge inclosure is built in one of the main elephant paths, and at night when the big animals come to feed they are driven into the inclosure or keddah by means of fires and shoots and the firing of guns. Beaters on tame elephants then ride into the inclosure and rope the beasts, and in a short time they become accustomed to being led about Elephants are naturally mild, and were this not the case they never could be captured, because of their great, hulking strength. “The natives also captured elephants in pits, a barbarously cruel method in which more than 50 per cent, are killed by the fall. The animal catchers take tigers and lions in pits also. They dig a hole, cover it with matting and place on this matting a dead goat. At night the Hon or tiger steals from his lair, sees the goat and springs upon it. The matting, of course, gives way and down into the pit goes the roaring beast. Then the catchers run up and throw nets into the pit and the struggling animal soon becomes hopelessly entangled • Nooses are then lowered into the pit and the beast is dragged out to the cage. Six out of every ten are kilted in this process. Leopards and jaguars and the smaller animals are caught in

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traps just as mice are caught, and monkeys are also trapped. Such great beasts as the rhinoceros and the like are not captured by the animal men, but are secured from native potentates, who give them away as a mark of special esteem or barter them for brass and other trifling but showy gewgaws. “We take comparatively few lions from the wilds now.- It Is cheaper to buy them in captivity. Polar, grizzly and Russian bears also are mainly bought and sold in captivity; but other wild beasts are taken in - their lairs.” FOOD IN LONDON IS CHEAPER. “For many years,” said a man who came back from a European tour the other day, according to an exchange, “I have been in the habit of getting into an argument with friends after my return about the prices of food In the best restaurants in New York and London. I have been contending that New York restaurants were putting

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up their prices all the time and some of my friends have tried to convince me that you could get a meal cheaper at the higher priced restaurants in New York than in London. “I determined this time to collect some real data for comparison and as a result I have kept the bills of many meals I had in London. It is my intention to duplicate the meals I had over there at some of the restaurants here, item for item. I did this with one of them the other day and demonstrated that for such a,meal London is a lot cheaper than New York. “Here is the bill for a luncheon I had at one of the most expensive hotels in London: s. d. Hors d’oeuvres varies 0 9 Pilaffe of sweetbreads 2 0 Asparagus 2 0 Cheese (Neufchatel) 0 6 Coffee 0 6 Beer 1 0 Totals 6 9 “Now, six shillings ninepence at $4,885 to the pound is $1.65. As for the dishes themselves they could not have been surpassed anywhere. For the hors d’oeuvres I had a dozen different dishes to select from. “Did you ever find hors d’oeuvres varies on the bill of fare of a New York restaurant? Try it. Os course you may get them at a table d’hote, but I mean on the carte du jour of a restaurant where you pay separately for each thing you eat. “In Paris there is a restaurant in the Avenue de I’Opera, where you can have about twenty different varieties of little fish and cold salads and appetizers for about 15 or 16 cents. It took me a long time to find this in a first-class house here, and thqn when I did so it was in a restaurant which Is not usually considered among the most expensive in the city. Here hors d’ocuvres varies masqueraded under the title of ‘buffet russe.’ They charged me 50 cents for it, as against the 18 charged In the London restaurant. “My pilaffe of sweetbreads tasted exactly like that I had in London and cost exactly the same, 50 cents. I ordered some asparagus. On the bill of fare they had asparagus with Hollandaise sauce for 40 cents, but I wanted it cold, with French dressing. They did not tell me it would be any more, but for it they charged me 70 cents. For the Neufchatel cheese they charged 20 cents and for the coffee 15. The robbery came on the beer. “In London if you want a little pitcher of beer they serve you an excellent brew of Pilsener or Wurzburger in a little sealed vessel holding a pint for a shilling. I asked the waiter to bring me a small pitcher of beer on draught, knowing they did not serve the beer as in London. He brought me a pitcher and charged me 70 cents for it. “Now my bill came to $2.65, or exactly $1 more than the same food and drink had cost me In London. I gave the New York waiter a quarter and he scarcely nodded. I gave the London waiter sixpence and he thanked me so that I could hear him.” CONDITION PRECEDEiNT. “The religion of some people is too lenient,” said Bishop Heslin In a recent address in Nantucket. “Some people suggest to me, in their view of religion, a little girl whose teacher said to her: “ ‘Mary, what must we do first before we can expect forgiveness for our sins?’ » ‘•"We must sin first,’ the little girl answered.— Nashville Banner. UNFASHIONABLE EVENT. Among other events, we shall have a sack race for ladles. Professionals barred. “What do you mean by professionals?” “Those who have been wearing tube gowns.’’— Answers. - I

CAP and BELLS SUMMER GIRL HAD VISIONS. She Was Thinking of Matrimony, While He Could Imagine Nothing but Mosquitoes. It was not leap year, but she had visions of becoming a summer bride and she was not backward by any means. “George,” she whispered, nestling closer on the moss-grown log, “this is summer.” “What of it?” asked George, somewhat mystified. “Well, er—what does summer bring that begins with an M?” Now, she was thinking of matrimony, but George was not. He sat in puzzled silence for a long while and then his face brightened. “Oh, I know what summer brings that begins with an M.” Ah, at last! Her heart throbbed with expectancy. “I knew you would catch on, dear. Now, what is it summer brings that begins with an M?” j “Why, mosquitoes! < Ha, ha!” And the Ipok she gave him would 'have frozen radium. Always Praises. Gyer—That fellow Merriam reminds (me of a tombstone. Myer—Because he is dead set In his rways, eh? I , Gyer—No; because he always has a good word for a man when he’s down. I The Scapegoat. Limpy Bill—l had to I split up twice as much wood as usual afore th’ old lady would gimme a hand-out. Blinky Bob—What’s th’ cause of it, Limpy? » Limpy—Th’ increased cost of livin', I s’pose. e A Man of Sense. Mrs. Naggs—My husband is a man of sense, anyway. Mrs. Waggs—Oh, Is he? Mrs. Naggs—Yes. Every time I let him have his own way he sees afterward how he could have improved upon it . Domestic. Hubby—We must be economical. Wife—Why? Hubby—ls I should die I wouldn’t be able to leave you much. Wifle —That’s right. Whereas, while you’re alive you leave me most of the time. HE KNEW HER. Hix—We are in love with the samfe girl. Nix—How shall we end the matter? Hix—Suppose you propose to her. A Sense of Superiority. “How many times have you been arrested?” asked the court. “A good many,” replied Plodding Pete, “but only for small offenses. I never git pinched for violatin’ de speed laws or failin’ to blow a horn.” The Sageville Sage. “What is the secret of happiness?” asked the young person. “The secret of happiness,” replied the sage of Sageville, “consists of being perfectly satisfied with what you < haven’t got!” Can They Display the Givers? At a class dinner fifteen graduates of a woman’s college exhibited engagement rings, thus proving that a higher education Is no bar against a < quick start toward the matrimonial goal. A Come-Back. “Hello, old man!” "Pardon me, sir; I don’t know you. ! Yon have the advantage of me.” 1 *Not at all. I know you. The disadvantage is all" mine.”

WIFE’S PET DOG WAS USEFUL. In Order to Secure New Silk Dress She Gives Beast to Sister—Can Get Him Back. “I haven’t seen your pet dog for several days,” said a devoted, husband to his wife. “No,” she replied; “the fact is, I have given him away.” “Why, you needn’t have done that. I had not particular objection to him.” “Oh, I know that! But I thought! that it was not right for me to have a pet dog about the house when I have such a good, kind husband to lavish my affections upon.” The husband sank into a chair with a deep sigh. “How much do you want, Mary?” he asked, as he drew his purse from his pocket; “it can’t be a sealskin jacket, for the winter is over.” “No,” she said, “it is not a sealskin jacket, darling; but I would really like a new silk dress this summer, and you know it has to be bought and made and all that.” “Now,” he said, as he handed her the money, “what proof of your affections will you give me when you want another dress, since you have given away your dog?” “Oh,” she sweetly replied, “I've given the dog to my sister, and I can get him back again!" Then We'd Hear Things. “It's in the world- of politics,” said the talkative man, “that the truth of the old saying, ‘Money talks,’ is most frequently proven,” “Yes,” replied the wise citizen, “but if hush money would only talk, what sensations we would have.”—Catholic Standard and Times. AGREED. Fudge—Troublesh never comsh shingly. Thash my 'sperience. Smudge—Mine, too. I’m smarried m’shelf, ol’ man. Proof at Hand. Magistrate- Who Is the prisoner? Policeman —He says he’s a foreign nobleman, your honor. Magistrate—Did you search him? . Policeman —Yes, and all I found was a pawn ticket and 3 cents. Magistrate—Then he evidently told the truth. Instinct. Sick magnate (feebly)—What is that on the table there? Secretary—That? That is the doctor’s medicine case. Sick magnate (relieved)—Thanks. I —er —thought it whs a camera. Two. Seymour—I didn’t know that Breffums had two automobiles. Ashley—He hasn’t. Seymour—But I heard him say he had two runabouts. Ashley—One of them wife’s. A Soft Snap. “The new secretary will be a sort of assistant presideht.” “He’ll have plenty to do.” “I don’t doubt it. But, say, how’d you like to be an assistant vice-presi-dent?” Dry Cleaned Them. “Why is your grandpa’s face bandaged?” asks, the lady next door. “He was sleeping in his big chair,” explains the little girl, “and Willie turned the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner against his whiskers.” At the Opera. Usher— Ladies, the audience wishes you to keep still during the performance. Ladies—Heavens! Is it possible thaat the audience hasn’t heard this old opera before? Mutually Agreeable. Bells —But do you think you and! he are suited to each other? Nell - Oh, perfectly! Our tastes are quite similar. I don’t care very much for him, and he doesn’t care very much for me. Literary Success. “Well, how’s things?” ‘ “Fine,” replied the author. “The critics pronounced my last novel so worthless that I have six publishers bidding for my next book.” His Habit Miss Gushit —Harry is so particular He waited till I consented to go out rawing with him before he proposed. Miss Cute— Oh, any girl about here could have told you that