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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Home Topics.

LOOK TO THE CELLAR.-While a cell
lar under the house is very convenient
place for storing the family supply of
fruit and vegetables during the winter,
yet great precaution and watchful care
is necessary that this same cellar does
not become breeding-place of fevers,
diphtheria, colds and malaria" In
the average family cellar we usually
find, in addition to fruit and veget-
able supplies, barrel or two of
pork, barrel of vinegar, one of soft
soap and box or keg of soap-grease
To prevent the vegetables from freez-
ing every crevice where air or light
might enter is carefully closed. l have
even seen the windows of a cellar
covered with bank of barn-yard refuse
and manure to keep out the frost. One
does not need to go into such a cellar
TO be greeted with a mixture of odors.
1t finds its way through the cracks of
the floor and permeates the whole
house. Vegetables and fruits will de-
cay, mould and mildew and grow rank
in such place, and for all the noxious
gases arising from decay there is no
escape, except upward, into the living
rooms of the family. 1t is generally
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Yankee versus European Cookery.

DR.. William G. Prince sums up his
experiences as traveller at home and
abroad in regard to food and cooking,
that the reported excellence of En-
glish and European inns, as whole, is
all moonshine and that, after Arab
cooks, the best in the world are the
farmers wives of New England. Mrs.
Blank, who cooks the meals for her
family of four strong sons and two
healthy, hearty daughters, to condense
what DIR. Prince says, can not make a
partridge pie out of veal and chicken
bones, but she can broil and serve the
cartridges as they were never broiled
by the Frenchman, and give you veal
or chicken pot-pie which, unless your
taste has been vitiated by so-called
French cooking, will satisfy your high
est gastronomic desires. America sur
passes all parts of the world in the
abundance and excellence of its meats,
fish, game, vegetables and fruits, says
DIR. Prince, and he defies mention of
any country in the world where the
native population from house to house
have as good cooking. The notion
that France is land where good cook
ing prevails DR.. Prince ridicules.
Without discussing the merits or de-
merits of Partisan tables, he says that
the provincial towns and villages and
the little wayside inns of France are
in darkness worse than heathenish on
the subject of cookery. Furthermore,
he says that America, in the matter of
inns, is the cleanest country in the
world. The inns here are, on the
average, much superior to European
inns, either British or continental. He
asserts that the literature of the last fifty
years has great sin to answer for in
the romance which writers have at
tached to country inns in England and
some parts of the continent The ideal
old-fashioned inn " of the books is a
humbug. 1t has not existed, as a
general institution, within the past fifty
years, and probably never existed
Good Housekeeping.
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A Tap at the Door.

hand tapped at my door low down, low down
/ opened 1t and two eyes Of brown,
Two lips of cherry red
A little curly head,
A bonny, fairy sprite. in dress Of white.
Who said, with lifted face Papa goodnight
She climbed upon my knee and kneeling there,
Lisped softly, solemnly her little prayer
Her meeting finger-tips,
Her pure, sweet baby lips,
Carried my soul with hers. half unaware,
Into clearer and diviner air.
/ tried to lift again, but all In vain,
OF scientific thought the subtle chain;
SO small, so small,
My learning all;
Though could call each star and tell its place,
My child's our Father bridged the gulf of space
! sat with folded hands at rest, at rest,
Turning this solemn thought within my breasts
How faith would fade
If God had made
No children in this world-no baby age
Only the prudent man or thoughtful sage
Only the woman wise, no little arms
To clasp around our neck no baby charms,
No loving care,
No sinless prayer,
No thrill of lisping song, no pattering feet,
No infant heart against our heart to beat.
Then If tiny hand, low down,
Tap at thy heart or door, an do not frown
Bend low to meet
The little feet,
To clasp the cingng hand; the child will be
Nearer heaven than thee-nearer than thee.
Little B. Barr
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A Unique Museum.

In the year 1876, the city of Antwerp,
aided by subvention from the state,
purchased the Hotel Plantin, with its
entire contents and dependencies, for
| 100000 francs. Large as was the
price, it can not be deemed excessive !;
for the Musee Plantin- Moretus, as it is
now called, is unique among European
museums. The building forms large
quadrangle, and the visitor on entering
finds himself carried back to the days Of
Alva and Farnese. Through the ample
but not eXtravagant apartments of a
wealthy merchants dwelling he passes
into the offices and workshops requisite
for the business of royal printer,
bookseller and publisher. Pictures and
portraits by Rubens and other Flemish
artists decorate the walls. Engrav-
ings of singular merit and rarity hang
in profusion and fill quaint oaken
presses. Copper plates and wooden
blocks-head and tail pieces; initial let
tiers of giant size and dainty device;
countless store of type-Hebrew Greek,
Gothic, Italian, Roman-cast in the days
when type-founding was an art which,
like so many of its sisters, sprang into
pSliSStlou rum lto plltu, III Oohtoih
petuous disregard for modern theories
of gradual development; matrices and
punches and printing-presses, all oc-
cupy the places they filled three CEN
teries ago. The corrector's tables sug-
gest the memory of the painstaking ac-
curacy with which not only learned
men but young girls poured over
proofs of sacred and classic literature
in the original Latin, Greek and He
brew. The library contains very
large and valuable collection of impress
sions from the famous presses whose
issues were of high, in some cases of
unparalleled, artistic merit, and many
of whose slight brochures have become
rarities. The shop recalls the days
when passing student could purchase
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Awnings.

If you haven't any blinds on your
windows and want something to keep
the glazing sunshine out of the south
and west windows during the cheated
term " that will be along soon make
some awnings for those windows. 1t
is very easy after you know how. Get
some bed-ticking little wider than the
window and allow yard and half in
length for each window; cut one end
in deep scallops and bind with red
braid. Then take two narrow strips of
wood about twenty inches long and nail
on each side of the window about half
way down, or perhaps little below the
middle. Then nail cross-piece to the
projecting ends of the strips. Now
tack the plain end of the ticking across
the top of the window, bring the other
end down over the cross-piece and tack
in place. The scalloped edge should
hang down about a quarter of yard
over the cross-piece. A friend sent
me these directions some half-a-dozen
years ago, and | made some for our
windows, and l didn't pound my fin
gers but once in putting them up; so
you needn't give up discouraged if
your husband is too busy to put up the
frames. -EGchdnge
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Norwegian Beds.

The bedrooms in all the Norwegian
inns are the same small boxes, not
large enough to swing cherry in.
Throughout Norway the beds are the
same little narrow collins, no wider
than steamer berth, with the same
high sides, presumably to keep one
from falling out if he should incau-
tiously move or turn during the night.
To add to the torment of these berths,
the pillow is flat feather thing that
you could put in your pocket, and be-
meath it turks broad, wedge-shaped
bolster arrangement that keeps one
sliding down to the foot-board, unless
he can retain his place by bracng at
full length at an angle and attitude that
the human frame only assumes on an
undertaker's or dissectng table. In
one Norwegian inn where the dusting-
maid wanted to do her kindest she put
wedge at the head and foot of my berth,
and dreamed that / lay in hammock
that touched the ground. The white
spread that covers the bed in the day
time like pail, or sheet on sweeping
day, is carefully put away at night, and
one struggles with quilts and blankets
that are always too short and too wide
for the narrow bunk, and can never be
made fast at the foot-board. These are
minor things, however, that one con-
tends with everywhere in the towns,
villages and on frequented roads, and
he must 60 off the beaten track to find
the true Norwegian bed, that is only
four feet long, very narrow and built
into the side of The room, where it can
be shut up like cupboard all day
long AT Nystuen there was an exact
ing Englishman, six feet in stature, who
insisted on seeing the beds before he
would take his traps off his carriole.
He found them many inches too short
for his gaunt frame and drove on to
the next place for the night.-NOrWay
Cor. 81. Louis Globe DemOcrt.
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conceded that a dry, well ventilated
cellar under house adds to its health
fulness, but very few houses have Gel
lars of this kind 1t would always be
much better if vegetables could be
stored outside the house, but if they are
kept in the cellar, instead of hermeti-
cally sealing every crevice at the first
approach of cold weather, and leaving
it so far into the spring, take advantage
of every pleasant day during the winter
to throw open doors and windows and
insure thorough airing. If there is
danger of frost getting into the cellar
it is far better to put little stove in ii
than to keep it entirely closed. This
will also serve to ventilate, in meas
ure. If the chimneys start from the
bottom of the cellar an opening in
them will serve as ventilator. If
there is no chimney in the cellar, let a
pipe for ventilation start near the
bottom and go up through the kitchen
floor and connect with the kitchen flue.
Watch carefully for decay of fruits or
vegetables and leave none to poison the
air of the house. Don't leave the
cleaning of the cellar until the last
thing in the spring. Rather begin
housekeeping there, and just as early
good coat of whitewash applied to all
parts of the cellar and let the sweet,
pure air have free entrance.
sunny RooMs.-In cities where
houses are built in compact rows those
fronting either north or south must of
necessity have some rooms into which
the sun never penetrates. If one must
live in such house they ought to plan
to live as much as possible in the sunny
rooms. Flood them with sunlight and
keep the doors open through to the
unsunned rooms, which should be kept
dry, by artificial heat, if necessary.
Yesterday, in talking with an old lady
upon this subject, she told me that two
years ago her son, then just married
moved into house which fronted
north. 1t was small, basement house,
with only about six feet of space at the
back between the house and a high
brick wall. Into only one room in this
house did the sun ever shine. This
was the upper back room, and that only
had a meager supply for short time
in the middle of the day, The young
wife was in good health when they
went into the house and did not notice
any change during the first summer, as
she went out much and the windows
were kept open, but when winter came
she kept quite closely in the house and
the next summer the added care of
baby and an already weakened vitality
kept her much at home, so that she
spent nearly all her time in this I'M
summed house. The baby did not
thrive, the mother grew more debil-
itated, in spite of "tonics," etc. AT
last good physician was consulted,
who at once prescribed a removal to
sunny rooms. The move was made
and now both mother and babe are the
picture of health, and one family, at
least, will never again attempt to live
in house from which Gods free sun
shine is shut out.-Maida Mel II,
Farm and Garden.
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Mistellamp.
The Stream In the Woods.

Bright stream, that wanders here and there,
Laughing the whole day long,
Your voice across the woodland calls
Like remembered song.
Here, as of yore, the beeches spread;
And grass and flowers are sweet,
Where oft your hasting waters ran
Across my childish feet.
golden timel knew 1t not
In those far days of old;
But left the field and left the stream
To seek for other gold,
Oh, dear to me your sunlit wave
And dear the leafy shore;
But you have borne upon your tide
That which returns no more. The Critic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

VERY SENSIBLE "JAPs. In Japan
the old-school physicians are per-
mitted to wear only wooden swords.
This is gently sarcastic way of ex-
pressing the opinion that they kill
enough people without using weapons.
But the druggist who introduced DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
into the empire carries a fine steel
blade, 1t was found that all who tried
this wonderful remedy for coughs,
colds, consumptive tendencies, blood,
skin and liver troubles, were, without
exception, greatly benefited. The
Mikado himself is said to have toned
up" his system by its use, and the
importer was therefore permitted the
exceptional honor of wearing the sword
of nobility.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
We are offering special inducements to
buyers of
Clothing, Hats and furnishings.

we marked our goods dowm early in
the season. For instance, the same
Sawyer Suit that we have been sell
ing regularly for $1,000 you will find
advertised in the city papers as being
marked down from $500. Twenty
styles of light-colored Cheviot and Cas-
simere Suits, from $3.50 to $500
Call and see our New Store in the
Blanchard Block. A. d. FARWELL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Rest and Advancement.

l was recently so fortunate as to en-
JOY ride through Mad River valley on
the way to not far distant town, and
at this, the most beautiful time in all
the year, it was indeed a treat, restful
and invigorating. The grass-our most
important crop-was looking splendidly,
and every apple-tree in every orchard,
garden or by the roadside was in full
bloom. 1t was interesting to note the
difference in gardens and door-yards.
Some were well-tilled and well filled
with thrifty plants, shrubs and trees;
others were all neglected and over
grown yet with the weeds, but almost
all had a rose-bush or pansy blossom, or
some flower to indicate the taste of the
people that owned them. l often wish
weeds might be eXterminated and
flowers forever bloom. That can not
be, but it is well to enjoy all that is pos
sible of beautiful things and rest from
busy care. A friend not long ago re-
lated to me the pleasure he had in TAX
ing his wife, the mother of his three
bright young children, on a pleasure
trip-the only one perhaps for months;
"and l think it did her good" he said,
as if he had found new way for them
to enjoy life. He had learned truth,
old but new, that a change was rest
and rest great gain to the care. taking,
faithful mother. A ride, a concert or
lecture, or visit to friend, is often
better than medicine to one who is not
strong or not quite equal to all the de-
mands of home duties. No doubt too
many overwork, but very many think
they do, when all would change if days
pleasure could relieve the monotony.
The pain and WEAKNESS slip away with
the restful hours, and with renewed
vigor the work is pushed forward. In
the evening of my day had the rare
treat of listening to a grand lecture by
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, who is doing
so much good work for temperance and
the uplifting of the human family.
Her subject was GA Dream of To-
morrow" and while listening one truly
could believe that the world is indeed
growing better; that even the liquor
curse will sometime in some way be re-
moved from this fair earth and then,
with its consequent evils, done away
and to it large per cent of the evil in
the world must be attributed. Then will
this indeed be happy abode for the
children of men. There is now no Or
gained or apparent evil but there is
also some society organized to counter
act it. The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, Young Mems and
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tons, homes for the orphans, homes
for the aged, schools for the deaf and
dumb, for the blind and for higher
culture for all, and many other designs
for better day for the generations to
come, were enumerated. Let no one
fail to hear her speak if there is a
chance possible, and, as lady said,
one loses great deal unless they en-
gage in certain amount of public work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY
cured my little girl of severe attack of
whooping-cough when her life was
given over by the physician and all
other remedies had failed.-Josidh
Hot, Keyport, N. j.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

"WHEN | look at the congrega-
ton" said a London preacher, 81 say
8 Where are the poor?' When l count
the offertory in the vestry l say
Where are the rich?'n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

DISTRESS after eating, heartburn,
sick headache and indigestion are cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t also creates
a good appetite.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
The First SYMPTOMS

OF all Lung diseases are much the same
teverishness, loss of appetite, sore
throat, pains in the chest and back,
headache, etc. In few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or "galloping
Consumption" Run no risks, but begin
Immediately to take Ayers Cherry
Pectoral.
Several years ago, James Birchard, OF
Darien, Conn, was severely i'll. The
doctors said he was in Consumption,
and that they could do nothing for him,
but advised him, as a last resort, to try
Ayers Cherry Pectoral After taking
this medicine, two or three months, he
was pronounced well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
j. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass, writes
"Three winters ago l took a severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. l was SO weak that
could not sit up, was much emaciated,
and coughed necessarily. l consulted
several doctors, but they were power
less and all agreed that ! was in Con-
sumption. At last, friend brought me
bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, l found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect"
Ayers Cherry PeCtoral,
PREPARED BY
DR.. J. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81 six bottles, $5.
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Gbe 4Ousebulo.

Contributions to this department should be sent to
the agricultural editor, North Pomfret, Vt.
The evening world., 1888-06-25
DARING.

Two men have agreed to race in boats from
the Maid Of the Mist landing at Niagara to
Lewiston. 1t is talked about as a daring
feat" illustrating the courage of man. When
q six DAYS walking match is announced we
are told it is an interesting exhibition of
mans power of endurance.
In both instances the object is to make
money out of foolish people. The one
Nfeat" is about as useful as the other. II
such shows prove anything, they prove mans
%gullibility. Mans daring and endurance are
written in the history of the world. They
are told In noble and self sacrificing acts.
What nonsense to suppose that the spectacle
Of two idiots racing through the boiling
Niagara rapids, or of q dozen tramps ~trotting
around Q circular track in the sawdust for
six DAYS, can add to the glorious record or be
OF any service to mankind.
The evening world., 1888-06-25
THE NEWARK CALAMITY.

The sad accident ON Newark Bay last Sat-
urdsy night carries sorrow into many be-
reaved families. Five young girls, ranging
in age from fifteen to twenty years, and .
young man were drowned by the upsetting
Of an open launch. caused by a sudden panic
and a rush of all the pleasure-seekers, twenty
in number, TO one side of the boat. The
calamity brought out many noble acts.
Looms GRAFT. the young man who was
drowned, sacrificed his life in the effort to
save one of the girls. A girl was saved by
CHARLES SoNdER, at great risk to himself,
just as she was being swept away by the tide.
How many lessons there are of the folly of
allowing a crowd of young people to venture
on the water without such guardianship as
would prevent q panic such as caused this
deplorablo accident.
The evening world., 1888-06-25
INSPECTING THE TENEMENTs.

A Board of Health Movement 20 Lesson the
Dangers of Overcrowded Districts.
Forty uniformed policemen of the Sanitary
Squad paid q visit to the populous tenement
houses in lower Mulberry. Mott and East
One Hundred and Eighth, One Hundred and
Tenth. One Hundred and Eleventh and One
Hundred and Twelfth streets last night to
find out the number. age, sex, nationality
and occupation of the tenants in the houses
visited the facilities for ventilation. sizes of
the bedrooms and number of persons occu-
plying them. and. in fact, all about the sani-
tary arrangements of these places.
This investigation was instigated by Major
Billiard, Chief Sanitary Inspector, and may
be the worse for such landlords of the houses
visited as have violated the Sanitary Code.
The policemen assembled at Headquarters
last night at 10 O'Clock, received Instructions
from Sergt. Coughlin and then divided into
squads of two each and started out.
How they found the districts which they
These places, overorowded with people
who seldom give their sanitary arrangements
a passing thought, have come to be regarded
as cradles for disease of all kinds. and such
many of them were found indeed to. be-
People crowd themselves into reyoltingly
small rooms to sleep. and manytdo not pro-
vide their sleeping apartments with any VEN
tilation whatever. .
The Board of Health will take immediate
action in the matter and see that these dan.
gers, which, once incurred may not be con-
fined to the districts where they originated,
are averted as fare possibility goes. r'.'
The evening world., 1888-06-25
Ocean spray.


The child OF the seattle harbor buoy.
All knotted up-The m speed.
Hard tack-Beating against the wind.
A bowling swell-The sea In q storm.
Marine art-Steamers drawing water.
Foolish recreation-Betting on pilot boats.
A night signal" Steward, q whiskey toddy.p
Song ofthe oficer on watch-"I stood on the
bridge at Midnight"
Belong In the trough OF the sea-Passengers who
have vulgar table manners.
Ocean steamers may not be athletic, yet they all
60 - over the bar"
Why are sailors egoiistical3 Because they are
always saying. AYE, aye, sir !"
Does the dog watch account for the barks a,
scar"
Between the larboard watch and O Waterbury
there Ia q distinction with a difference.
II the transatlantic captain makes every trim.
how can he DO called a skipper 2"
Young Mr.. Guy, always interested in the study
OF owls, tried TO 20 below, but found the COM
paniou door locked. "My goodness" he ex-
claimed, I'm decked out tonight, for sure"
Many people on their initial ocean voyage are
disappointed at not being able 70 catch q glimpse Of
Victoria at Queenstown.
Are you the captains boy ," asked the old
lady on deck.
"'Yes'um. |" he replied bravely.
'Well, you don't look like him at all, - she said.
- and l never would have believed IT"