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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
A Partisan Model.

A writer on "models Paris in says:
Presently the model arrived-a bright
handsome brunette ofnineteea or twenty.
There was demonstration of welcome
from the painters, the door was locked,
and she proceeded i'm business-like
fashion to prepare for work. When
ready she mounted platform about two
feet high, when she fell under lofty
broad side-light. Two of the more adj
vanced painters, who acted as commit
tee of arrangements, placed her in q
position. This being the first pose,
there was discussion about the posture to
be assumed. Several times the two
placed her and then retired few yards
to observe the effect, remarking as they
did so. Don't hold the arm so stiff
Incline the head triAe,' and what not,
accompanied with painters pantomime,
such rs slowly saving the head, shut
ting out portions with the intercepted
hand, and massing the effects with half
closed eyes. The fourth trial proved to
be a success, at which aphrase of general
satisfaction was expressed. The two,
enjoining her not to bulge, with the
Others, got behind their easels and went
to work, some taking off their coats. One
modelled in clay; with this exception
all held crayons. All the faces turned
earnestly toward the canvas, the clay,
and the model, and not sign of david
ling or frivolity was to be seen. To them
the woman was statue. Nothing was
recognized here but art it took the form
of worship, and he who looked with other
eyes than those of an artist was accounted
sacrilegious Thus the public opinion of
the atelier made them all artists, and if
the art feeling was not possessed it was
assumed. After time the silence was
broken by her requesting some one to
heat up the stove, as she was cold, which
brought out one or two calculations and
a mnrmur that we were already in the
interior of Africa, to which she retOrted
that they would not think so if they
were in her place. Another long silence
was interrupted by her asking the time,
at which one of the elders remarked :
Not yet, madomeiselle.' Again in a
few minutes she said she was sure the
time must be up. 1t is, my child an
wered the same elder; 'repose' yourself
She left the stand, drew a mantle about
her, and took seat by the stove with a
sense of relief She was obliged to look
out for herself in regard to the time of
posing, as the painters were usually so
absorbed as to forget it, The repOse of
the model brought with it contrast to
the previous silence. There was gem
eral buzz and lighting of pipes and
cigarettes. Two or three compliments
were addressed to the model for her ex-
cellent posing; native gallantry cropped
out, and two or three told her she was
an angel or a duchess to which she re-
piled in that spirit of raillery with which
these things were uttered. This was an
illustration of French character-fond of
work and equally fond of play"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Our Household Gods.

We all have ourhousehold gods, whether
or not we recognize the fact; and we all
pay them homage in a fashion of our
own-gods of association, of harmony,
of fancy, of long-expected realization.
These supernatural visitors hide unsus-
pected in many shabby place and cor
ner. Some are visible only to certain
people and at certain times; others,
again, disclose their secret to any who
have the gift to recognize their divinity ;
and l, for my part, honestly believe that
nothing exists which may not he made
more worthy by their touch, and none of
us that may not benefit by recognizing
their existence in our daily life. What
god from Pernassus has laid his hand up
on those shabby garnet walls, upon the
torn curtain hanging from the pole, the
broken jar standing in the sunshine, with
its sprOuting balsam plant? The curtain
is weather-seamed and stained by wet
the jar is cracked, the wall is smoked;
but the blue serenity of the sky outside
shows beyond the balsam pot and the
ragged curtain; some mysterious har-
mOny in those shabby russell tones is
melting to anquility upon the gray
the faded blue of the drapery is falling
into shadow, the bright eliminating flash
of the over flames a life into it. Art
seems to be sort of soul to life that
reaches us, and uplifts with strange
yet gentle might of inspiration. l could
imagine that real and mighty work OF
art might even share in that same life
which belongs to natural things--bright-
ening and changing from day to day
fading and dimming sometimes, and then
again behold it recreated for us, and
standing as in a shrine, supreme and tri-
umphant and revealed.
So, not long ago, was she of Milo re.
vealed. Suddenly, and for one instant,
she seemed to thrill with a divine and
mighty life; not life such as ours, strug-
Cling for something---it KNOWS not what.
or clinging to definite things, passionate.
ly experimenting for one moment and for.
getting the next. This was something
beyond-absolute dominant and self
sufficing---that seemed to thrill with the
sound of some faint Olympian music
stirring, not to effort, but to an existence
more complete and more supreme.
And it is no small thing to learn from,
others to like that which is to be liked
to see the golden radiance of the gods
where it falls upon the head of a GOODIES;
or the fringe of garment; nor shall we
live our own lives the less completely for
such warmth and revivification.-- COrnhH
l111zjnP
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
How He Settle d Accounts.

The method by which Chinaman
punished his wife for infdelity is calcu-
lated to strike terror to the heart of all
her erring sisterhood. The injured hus-
band had, through his employment on
steamer, been absent from home for long
periods of time, during which the cause
of evil was contracted, and, at the close
of the old year, the husband, returning
home to enjoy the usual festivities,
found his neighborhood all alive with
the story of his wife's unfaithfulness.
These live Goals of tale-bearing gave adj
ditional heat to his anger but he con-
trived to conceal his feeling from his
wife, and hurriedly left home under the
pretense of going to Hankow; but in
stead of leaving, he, with a few trusty
friends, secreted themselves in the neigh
borhood, prepared to obtain cruel re-
dress before the fire of his anger cooled
down. The unfortunate man, ignorant
of the fatal trap, entered the house ofthe
woman, and, both being surprised, were
secured by the watchers, who speedily
severed their heads from their bodies,
and carried the former to the district
magistrate, before whom the guilt of the
murdered was decided by test; both
heads were put into tub of water and
set in motion by vigorous stirring; the
heads meeting face to face decided their
guilt. Such Is the power of custom-cus-
tom more cruel than law, for it dema nds
the death of both. 1t is said that il the
man had but killed the intruder, he
would be liable to punishment for muir
der; but, having effected double muir
der, he escaped with a formal whipping,
and received reward in cash. In these
cases, the district, to purge itself of such
evils, destroys the bodies of the dead by
cremation, and the very piece of ground
rendered unclean by the evil must be
plowed up before the virtuous will ven
ture to dwell there.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
The Cost of Sham.

By and by, perhaps, we shall get it
beaten into our heads that sham, con-
sidered from a purely business point of
view, doesn't pay indeed, it is the poor
est of all investments. 1t is high time
we did. If this Mill River homicide
sets the American public thinking on the
subject, the dead will not have died in
vain. A reservoir is built on the cheap
and flimsy plan; it bursts, and kills one
hundred and fifty people, and devastates
four villages. Isn't it pretty plain fgur-
ing that, in this case sham hasn't paid ?
Aside from the lives lOst-One human
life in these days has a money value,
measurable in dollars and cents, as cor
porations are beginning to find out-a
good many hundred thousand dollars
worth of property, accumulated by the
labor and thrift of years, has been wiped
out in a very few minutes. Isn't the
failure of the reservoirs owners to see
that it was honestly and substantially
built in the first instance, pretty plain
case of penny-wisdom and pound-foolish-
ness? And this is but one case out of
hundreds and thousands. 1t is lament
able and alarming fact that sham work
of all sorts have become very common
with us of late years; so common as to
be accepted by too many of us as mat
ter of course. Every intelligent man sees
the fact; every thoughtful man deplores
it. For sham is merely shorter word
for dishonesty. 1t is at once lie and
theft. But the children have got hold
of law of the universe when they say
in their games that cheating never pros
pers. 1t may seem to prosper for a while.
Witness Jim Fisk; witness Tweed; wit
ness Cakes Ames; witness dozens and
scores of men who have fourished for
season on the street. But the prosperity
that is built on fraud is built on the sand;
one day the flood comes, there is crash,
and that is the end The sham reser-
yoir gives way; the sham house tumbles
in; the sham fire-proof city shrivels to
ashes; the sham values collapse; the
sham bank breaks; the sham statesman
ship, Christian or otherwise, is found out.
Carlyle was right "Lying is not per-
mitted in this universe" The Almighty
has set his canon against it. 1t is as
bad political economy as it is bad morals.
The worst of it is that part of the penalty
always and unavoidably falls on the inno-
cent.-,Sprinqfeld Republican.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Useful Information.

To clean paint, rub well with whiting
moistened with water, applying it with a
wooden cloth, and wash with clean water.
CAYENNE pepper will kill the worms
on cabbage plants, and Hellebore, pow
dered fine and sprinkled on the bushes
occasionally, is q sure destruction to cur
rant worms if applied in ssiSS.
nGn1Ill ~ safe and easy method of
preventing cow from kicking. Pass
small rope around her body close back
of the fore-legs; tie it twice, and twist it
up with short stick.
A BEE-KEEPER says that the purity of
Italian bees is determined by noting that
the worker bees have three distinct yell
low bands and the drones are distinctly
marked with yellow on their backs and
sides.
A BED of horse-radish may be easily
started by making the soil rich and mel
low and planting cuttings of the roots
in rows one foot apart. A bed for home
use will produce for years; the plants
renewing themselves from small roots
left in the ground.
Stove lustre, when mixed with tur-
pentine, and applied in the usual manner,
is blacker, more glossy and enduring
than when mixed with any other liquid.
The turpentine prevents rust, and when
applied to an old rusty stove, will make
it look like new.
A GOOD white cement for broken china
is very thick solution of gum arabic,
dissolved in water, stirred in with plaster
of Paris, until the mixture becomes a
sticky paste. Apply with a brush to the
broken edges, stick them together, and
in three days the article can not be
broken in the same place.
FROM six to ten drops of the concen-
trated solution of chloride of soda in a
wineglassful of pure spring water, taken
Immediately after the abulutions of the
morning are completed, will sweeten the
breath by disinfecting the stomach,
which, far from being injured, will be
benefited by the medicine.
To plant and transplant flowers, take
good, thick paper, cut three-cornered,
and double it in the shape of a funnel,
fill with dirt and planting seed in each
one, bury it in box filled with earth.
The seeds will soon terminate. When
the plants are ready to be removed to
the flower bed, lift the paper out and
plant it like roots. The paper will soon
rot, and the plants will never wilt.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Removal OF Army Headquarters.

A Washington dispatch gives the cor
respondence between General Sherman
and Secretary Belknap in relation to the
removal of army headquarters from
Washington to st. Louis. The General,
in short letter asking to make the change
i'm the same manner and to the same ex-
tent granted General Scott, shortly after
the Mexican war, says: "Strong rea-
sons, official and personal, impel me to
this step, and make this request at this
early date, because six months notice is
required of me in certain preliminaries
in st. Louis" The Secretary of War, in
his reply giving consent to the proposed
change, incloses a copy of the general
order to be issued on the subject, adding:
"You will perceive it does not change
the present order of business with this
department. 1t is only deemed best
here to add TO its provisions the sugges-
ton which was made and Cal ried out in
the case of General Scott, that no ma
terial change shall be made in the sta
tions of troops or commanders, without
previous approval ofthis department"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Remarkable Memories.

Instances of remarkable memory, gen.
orally supposed to be assisted by mne-
motechny, have been given from the
time of Cicero, who concludes that men,
DRY is not therefore of the heart, blood,
brain or atoms whether of air or fire
he is not, like the rest, ashamed to say
he is ignorant; he undertakes, however,
to swear that it is divine, having regard
to such men as Cineas, the ambassador OF
Pyrrhus, who saluted the senate and all
the people by their names the second
day after his arrival at Rome; of Theo-
dectes, the disciple of Aristotle; and of
Hortensius, a man of his own time. We
have most of us heard of Joseph Scaliger,
who learned the twice twenty-four books
of the Hiad and Odyssey in three weeks
of Avicenna, who repeated by heart the
whole of the Koran at the age of ten OF
Lipsius, who was willing to recite the
histories of Tacitus word for word, Civ
ing any one leave to plunge dagger
into his body if he made mistake; OF
the youth of Corsica of good appearance,
mentioned by Muretus, who recited all
the barbarous words the latter had writ
ten till he was tired of writing, and
stOppeu III liiSt, as ~ WAS ucCcSSsIy w
stop somewhere; of Frances Suarez, who,
after the witness of Strada, could quote
the whole of Augustine.
We might extend this paper far be-
yond its moral dimensions by mention OF
such names as Jedediah Buxton, who
could by some strange mnemotechny OF
his own, multiply thirty-nine figures by
thirty-nine without paper, and. amused
himself when at the theatre by a compila-
ton of the words used by Garrick,
and at another time by that of the pots
of beer drank during twelve years of his
life; of Zerah Bolburn, mere child,
who could tell the number of seconds in
fifty-eight years in less time than the
question could be written down or for
that prodigy of parts, Pascal, who is said
to have forgotten nothing thought, read
or done during his rational age.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Sunlight.

Almost every one has read that sun
light is very fountain of life; that there
is no apartment thrown open to the free
visitation of this wonderful agent, but
will be made more wholesome and CHEEKY
thereby. Patients kept in sunless rooms
have fewer chances for recovery than
those who bask in the life-giving ray. The
shady side of any street is the sickly side.
And yet, much as the facts have been en-
larged md dwelt upon, how many peo-
pie there ARE in the city and country who
persist in keeping their shutters closed,
their shades drawn down, and excluding
by all possible aid of Venetian blinds, OF
linen, of lace, and of damask, the search
ing gaze of this great purifier Most
housekeepers are afraid of flies and there
fore keep their rooms dark; others, un-
aware of the sanitary powers of sunlight,
are fully alive to its bleaching properties,
and to keep their carpets, and reps, and
brocateles unfaded, permit their faces to
be blanched, their blood to be sluggish
and thin and cold, and their nervous sys-
TENS to go without the powerful magnet
ism of sunshine. At certainly not great
err expenditure than invalids often recon-
Gle themselves to in order to regain
health may flies be kept out and bleaching
prevented, and yet the sunlight be per-
mitted to enter the house. Fly nets are
not very expensive. If frames are fitted
to the windows, any housekeeper may
tack netting on them, and so be rid of all
the insect-brood that infest the summer
months Wire nets once made are per-
need no renewal. Furniture
covers may be made of American cretonne
which cDsts twelve cents yard. Carpets
may be replaced with mattings or COW
cred with linen crumb-cloths. All this
will not cost as much as trip to Sarato-
ga, or even the attendance of physician
in long Illness If it did, the results
would trebly make good all expenditures.
Health and vigor can not be valued in
dollars and cents.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
Chicago Women.

Did 1t ever occur to the public, asks
a Chicago paper, that women are getting
entirely too healthy? It's amazing what
a little lecturing ridicule, and consequent
exercise and sensible clothing have ac-
complished. The danger now is that the
women will become so entirely robust,
and live to such astonishing ages, that
they will gradually drive puny men out
of existence. Go through any of the
streets Of Chicago and look at the faces
and figures of the two sexes. Observe
the sharp, thin visages, the spindling
limbs and the dyspeptic countenances Of
three-fourths of the men. They seem to
have yearning desire to lean up against
something and think, and would, were
they not driven by the demands of bus
mess to drag themselves on. The women,
on the contrary, are the pictures of
good health and contentment. They
have not yet thought 10 scold and eau
ton their husbands and sweethearts
against a ruinous state of living; but
the danger of dearth Of men will soon
excite the fair sex 10 bold words upon the
subject.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16

We assert, as rule, the whole tone of
home depends upon the woman at the
head of 1.-THE average home; not the
poverty-stricken home, nor the wealthy
home. In this average home, whether
sunshine shall enter the rooms, whether
the table shall be invitingly spread,
whether bright lights and bright fires
shall give warmth and cheer on winter
nights--whether, in brief, the home shall
be an agreeable or disagreeable place, is
usually what the woman determines.
Men are powerless in the matter. Some
find solace for dismal home in study,
some occupation in business; some sub
nit with what patience they can; others
are attracted by the cheer of the public
house, and 1t is especially young men
who are apt, in consequence, to drift into
bad company and bad habits.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-16
tins with pie crust, put in your pumpkin,
and bake in the ordinary way.

anu pake III the ordinary way.
BLANC NANCE. Put one ounce of
Cooper's isinglass in little water over
the fire until II is dissolved then sweeten
one quart of cream or milk; favor with
vanilla; strain the isinglass on the milk,
fill the egg shells, and set away to cool.
CHEAP LEMON PIE.-One lemon, one
teaoupful of sugar, one tablespoonful Of
corn starch rubbed smooth in a little
water; pour on this one teacupful of
boiling water, stirring it the while then
add salt, one egg, and butter the size of a
walnut.
STRENGTHENING JELLY. Boil in two
quarts of water, one ounce of rice, one
ounce of sage, and one ounce of pearl
barley, until reduced One-half. Strain
into mould take a teacupful, morning,
noon and night. 1t can be sweetened
and favored to taste.
A NICE WAY TO BAKE APPLEs.-Take
sour apples, dig out the cores, place the
apples in deep dish or tin, fill the cav
tiles where the cores came out with
sugar, pour cup of hot water in the tin,
bake in quick oven, and you will have
healthful and palatable dish.
CURING BEEF AND HAM.-For every
one hundred pounds of beef, seven pounds
of salt; two ounces of saltpetre one
and half pounds of brown sugar; four
gallons of water. The hams and beef for
drying may be taken out after four weeks.
To keep the meat after warm weather,
the pickle will have to be boiled.
CANNED FRUIr.-Nearly, if not quite
all, canned fruit is better if scalded and
sweetened when necessary and the
sugar cooked in before using, and in doing
this the more delicate fruits should be
cooked as little as possible. No fruits
should remain open long, for they will
spoil as quick as fresh fruit under the
same circumstances.
COTTAGE CHEEsE-Warm two gallons
of sour milk until the curd begins tt
separate from the whey; put it in 9
coarse bag and hang in the sun -four
hours; then press out the whey, and ado
one pint of sweet cream, one tablespoon
full of salt and one-half teacupful o.
butter; mix thoroughly and mold into
small cakes. When served, surround
with thick, sweet cream.
PIE-PLANT PIES. - Never stew YOU
pie-plant before making your pies. Pee
the stems of rhubarb and slice them in
halfinch lengths, holding several stems il
the hand at one time. With these fill
the pie, sweeten it generously, about the
same as for lemon pie, a small teacupfu
of sugar for medium-sized pie, moister
with great spoonful of water, dust ovel
this little dry -four, to thicken the juice
a little, cover it with the upper crust
and bake it slowly and thoroughly.