The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-12

There is tragedy in every such pair o
SCISSORS" answered Jack, instantly. "T'
give those scissors that half-round shap,
hundreds of men are laying down thei
lives every year"
What do you mean Z"
''Just this: to grind scissors like that
or razors, or steel forks, they must be grount
on a dry grindstOne, hung in a frame, or
which the grinder sits. As he holds the
steel, and the stone turns, his mouth and
steel, and his eyes with the sparks. His
lungs are. filed with the stone and steel
dust, by which they are constantly irri-
tated, till, after death, they look as if they
had been dipped in ink. And these men
live, on an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., twenty
scissors, thirty-two years, and so on. The
more water used on the stone, the longer
the life.'
"Dear mev' murmured Jacks mother,
astonished and sympathizing.
There is more tragedy in the box of
toward them. z they are dipped , R in pSosss
phorous, and the dipper, who inhales it, is
apt to acquire a disease of the jaw, in which,
finally, the bone dies and comes away !;
while the silverer of our looking glasses is
equally unfortunate. Sooner OF later his
curry. He loses all control over his muscles,
his teeth drop out, he grows brown and
shriveled-n
Dear met" interrupted his mother,
more energetically than before. 81 am sure
l will never buy another glass! At least,
Somebody else would, you know! ]. am
glad we have no such horrid things at
home!n
eve have some horrid things near
home," answered Jack, fixing his eyes on q
package which she took out for a moment
kepoA ~ hi n,
liar aromatic OdOr.
What do you mean by that, and by
looking at the coffee sol 1t has chickory in
it, we all know; but there is nothing bad
about that"
Nothing bad! Do you know what
tlcles- and q very pretty list it is: roasted
wheat, ground acorns, finely sifted coal
ashes, red earth, baked horses and bull
locks ivers, mahogany and walnut saw
dust, and ground horse-leathers :"
Jack, If you are not telling me the
truth" said his mother, turning pale and
tossing the package of pure ground cof-
lee :" on one side, with look of horror.
:" have every reason to believe what
say is true, J" returned Jack, earnestly; and
The case of chickOry is no worse than that
IT tea. In green tea there are Prussian blue,
DID tea leaves, leaves of trees dried, and
,opperas. In black tea, gum, black lead, |
used tea leaves, etc. In sugar"
Now, Jack, you do not mean that you
are going to say a word about the sugar ~
am going to say that brown sugar
swarms with the sugar insect, and is helped
lines prepared with suIphuric acid, old
PAPER, and rags. That is all.''
"All!"
And do not know that it is worse than
ed pepper, which is adulterated with
'rick-dust, salt, deal saw-dust, red-lead,
md nthop oor,ooof,1a cOmnOnn1at
"WhO found it outf" demanded his
mother, suddenly.
The microscope"
More of your modern science! 1t strikes
ne people were more comfortable when they
Knew little less"
"Why, mother, that is"
"See here, jack" she interrupted, pc
"not another word. I shall
lever be the woman I was. L have found
tut that am a stove, and want oxygen to
'urn. Now how much draught shall get
n the Westinghouse, and in the neighbors'
,arlors, shut up tight and dark! And how
AN 1 attend to sermon, and make neighbor-
y calls, when shall all the time be worry
ng about my draughtf And my Maggie is
. stove, too! Where is her draught when
he is at schools About as much she will
get as a stove set to draw with fifty others
90, and the starch, and the oils How are
We to get the juices of plants and animals
f we have meat cooked as hard as leather,
md vegetables kept on n furious boil till
hey are hardf And that is what we get in
he most Of houses. Why just think of your
Aunt Etheridge! 1 used to 60 there, and
hink what hot, dark rooms! What cross,
hin, fabby women, sitting around that hot
tovc! But now when 60 there shall be
in my mind how many pounds of
poison they are taking in to burn and send
'ver their bodies thinking how their fires
must shoulder and burn low and blue
sitting for draught; aching to pull up the
With wondering how their chemistry is to
De DONE"
Nonsense, mother" said Jack.
"No, it is not nonsense" insisted the ag-
yrieved lady. 81 shall never look at that
lock that l shall not think how. l am