Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-30
Indian Epicures.

In the summer of 1875 l stood one
evening near the Q1artermaster' Office
at Fort Winga!e, New Mexico, when
two Kiowa Indians applied for per.
mission TO water their famished horses
at the Government cistefp, Offering 10
accept that boon in part payment for a
load OF brushwood which tbey pro-
posed to haul from Heiglborirg
chapparal. The fellows looked thirsty
and hungry themselves, and while tho
Quarrermas;er ratified the wood bargain
one Of the of1icers sent 10 his company
quarters for o lunch of such comesti-
b!es as the cooks might have on hand
a. that time of the day. A tray fnll of
Government grub" was deposited on
the adj icent cordwood platform, and
the indians pitched in With the peculiar
appetite Of carnivorous nomads. A
yard Of conmissary sausage WAS &C.
cepted as o tough variety Of ierked
beef, yeasied and branless bread dis
appeared in quantities that would have
| confirmed DR.. Graham's belief in
natural depraviiy; they slipped the
| cold coffee and eyed it with q CLEAN of
| suspicion, but were reconciled by the
discovery of the saccharine sediment.
and the cook was just go;nS to replen-
ish their cups when the senior Kiowa
helped hisself TO a vinegar pickle,
which lie probably mistook for some
sort of an eff color sugar-plum. He
| tasted il, rose to his feet, and dashed
| the plate down with a muttered execra.
ton, and then clutched the prop Of the
platform to master his rieiug fury.
Explanations followed, and q pound Of
brown sugar vas accepted as peace
Offering, but the children Of nature
left the post under the impression that
they Lad been the victims of heartless
practical joke. Popular Science
Monthly.
On the authority of so respectable a
journal as the Pal .NaH Gozette, " fifty
strongly built ard we'll dressed Eng
lishmen deliberately stood around
and, rather than wet their feet or
dampen thsir clothes, allowed little
girl years old to drown in two feet Of
water in the basin of Kensington Gar
dens, London. An old map, who had
already picked one child oct end was
too feeble to do it again, begged them
to help her. One Of them finally con-
descended to allow his dog to try,
and on its failing, stuck cut pole,
which was too short. This short pole
was also the epd Of their resources. and
the child was left to perish. It is hard
to believe that out of Fifty Englisbmen
forty nine would not have jumped into
two feet Of water if necessary to save
child: bat that forty nine should
deliberately refuse is incredible, or
would be bnt for the authority.
To RAISE THE PILE OF VELVET. The
common way is TO place hot fat iron.
SO the face shall be uppermost, put on
it one or two thicknesses of olotb, ,wrung
as dry as possible, On that lay the
velvet anu brush it in the direction of
the nop. prefer whiak brush. l
have found soap stone, such as is used
for foo. stone. much more convenient,
as it can lie fiat upon table and has
two sides for use. This process is
equally good for taking out marks o,
stitches in any cloth which has nap.
Care should be taken that the ':cloth
should be wrung very dry, as, if the
velvet is wet through, it does not look
SO we'll. OF course. the stone must be
made quite hot, as the steam produced
raises the pile of the velvet