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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
A Glove Press.

There is simply-made appliance for
the toilet-table that finds great favor
with the few who know of it. 1t con-
sists merely of couple of boards, care
fully lined, with heavy weight to set
upon them. Neckties, laces and gloves
are smoothed out after use and placed
between the boards, so that, kept fiat
by the gentle pressure, they come out
looking like new, and last much longer
than if just thrown aside in drawer
or box. To make it, you take an or
binary brick, and, having dried it
thoroughly, you paste brown paper
right over it, packing it, as it were,
neatly in piece of paper well saturated
with paste. Over this you stitch neatly
piece of brightly coored cretonne of
Indian silk, or, if preferred, piece of
white leather or satin, to be afterwards
hand-painted. Then handles of strong
ribbon are fixed. Two pieces of board
of suitable size are covered with the
same material as the brick and lined
with white silk or white muslin. The
thing is made easily but is a usefnl
present and finds ready sale at fancy
fairs, and if prettily painted may com
mand quite high price, for it is novel,
and has real use besides.-NelU York
World
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Self-LOcking Envelopes.

Doctors have inveighed again and
again against the dangerous gum which
is used on some envelopes, and mis-
haps have been fir, quent as the result
of dampening the gum on envelopes with
the tongue. All possibility of such acct
dents is removed by the automatic lock
envelopes which have just been pat
ented by Mr.. Hook. On the flap of the
envelope are two projecting flanges,
and all that it is necessary to do to
close the envelope is to fold these
f1anges by ready-stamped lines, and in
sert the end of the flap thus narrowed
in slot provided, whereupon the
folded flanges automatically lock them
selves in the slot, and the envelope
cannot be opened without tearing it.
The operation sounds much more COM
plicated than it really is in practice, for
one of these new envelopes can be
closed as readily as the better-known
gummed envelopes.-CaSSelpS Maya
zine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
A Woman's Views ON Farming.

Mrs. Clay of Kentucky is an earnest
advocate of farming enterprise for self
supporting women who have also a
family of children to support. She
says: " For on the farm she will not
have to leave her children in order to
make her support, but can give them
her personal attention. There are
neighborhood public schools to which
they can be sent. Each child can have
an interest in the farm, and take part
in making it productive. The pigs,
calves, etc., the boys can care for; the
fowls can be cared for by the girls, and
both can help in the garden and yard
and keep the flowers in order. BY a
fruit and vegetable garden, with bees
and fowls, Il woman can support her
children comfortably, and get their
clothing and groceries in exchange,
have healthy employment, pure fresh
air to breathe, keep her children free
from the polluting influences of the
street, and have no rent-gatherer call
on her when her purse is low. The ex-
penses for clothing and fuel are less,
and it is not necessary to have so much
cash on hand. She can keep cow for
milk and butter, horse and spring
wagon to carry her fruit and vegetables
to market and the family to church if
too far out to walk. The slops and
waste from garden and kitchen will
fatten hogs enough for meat and lard.
There is nothing about farming that
woman may not learn TO do, and it
seems to me thousand times prefer
able to living in tenement house, in
foul, close street, on scant income,
with stale meat and vegetables to eat.
Few persons in calculating the profits
of farm take into account the living
that a good farmer can have, and at so
small a cost. l would advise no one to
buy farm before she is able to pay for
it, or at least half of it. Better buy
less, and as you have the means add to
it. l would rather have fewer acres of
good, productive land, well situated,
than twice the number of acres of poor
land. 1t takes just so much labor to
till an acre, and good land well titled
produces twice as much as poor land
well titled. If woman is able to live
comfortably and give her children
good education in the common schools
and keep her home, she has done well.
Few persons do more than that"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Maple Cream and Calculating.


Boil down two or three quarts OF
maple syrup until it will grain; then
add one cupful of sweet cream and
boil down again; stir and pour into
cups and allow to cool. These cakes
may be favored according to taste with
vanilla, lemon, almond or wintergreen.
Chocolate frosting is improved by using
maple sugar instead of graduated. In
baking cakes line the tins with creased
paper. This is easily done by taking a
large sheet of paper and cutting out
the corners. Put it into the tin and
let the paper come up above the edge
of the dish, so the cake can be removed
by taking hold of the paper. Let the
paper remain about the cake until it is
to be cut, as it will keep the cake from
drying up and the frosling from run
ming off.
Will some one be kind enough to
give us recipe for making good
sponge cake and also roll jelly cake?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
BeIieiOus aHlistellamp.


who worked alike In frost or May
And wore his old time garments grey,
The church's laggard debt to pay?
who raised the salary one day
That caused the minister to stay,
And made the path OF duty" clear
To " labor on another year,
The deacon.
Who longed to see us wise and good
And act as proper children should2
Who oft butt for low wit stood2
Who all life's ills and loss withstood,
Like some known tree whose fruit is good,
Yet for whose branches torn and bare
The autumn wind alone must care2-
The deacon.
Who raised a daughter, good and true,
To make a wife for one of your
Who gave the dimes to help us through,
When doctors bills and rents were due?
Who helped us when the world withdrew
Its pity and its sordid pelf2
Who loved our children as himself?-
The deacon.
Who kept things straight while, glad and free
To rustic by the summer sea,
The parson went with children three?
Who took the church's company
Who went the poor and blind to see,
Unnoticed as the sunlight throws
Its radiance DER the weed OF rose2-
The deacon.
Who welcomed ministers that came?
Who helped them when they left the same?
Who early to the meetings came?
Who never thought of pay OF fame
Fer labor done in Jesus name2
Who by his skill made farming pay
Where tree and nettle thrive today
The deacon.
Who thought 1t just, perhaps, that he
Might find the land where sinners be
Accepted through Christ's merits free,
And mourned In deep humility,
That so improbable" must be
His life; and yet who wore the Savior's grace
Reflected over in his facet
The deacon.
Who sought one night his peaceful bed
AS usual; and, with silent tread
Death came with greetings all unsaid,
And when the morn her soft light spread,
The people said Alas he's deadl"
And woke to feel that he had done
Some little good beneath the sum-
The deacon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
An Easter Fancy.

In meadow, not far from a pleas
ant mountain village, many lilies grew.
One day two young girls rode down
to this meadow, and, getting out of
their carriage, began to pick some of
the half-grown lilies. After filling
their hands, they sat down on large
rock and counted their blossoms, while
planning for the Easter Sunday.
While they talked. one lily which
grew farther off than the others listened
intently, but could not understand who
it was that had risen, and, as the girls
did not know flower talk, the lily de-
cided to wait and ask the evening dew
who the kind friend was. After the
girls went away, the other lilies began
to whisper together about them and
wondered what new things their friends
who had gone with the girls would see
and hear, but the lonely lily did not
Join in their talk, for the others did not
consider her dressed brightly enough 10
associate with them.
The lily did not mind their insults,
but patiently waited for the evening
dew. AT last the dew came and gave
the flowers a cooling bath, while the
night wind gently rocked them to sleep,
all but the lonely lily, who kept awake
and asked the dew who he was that
lived in the sky and was so good to all
on EARTH But the dew could not tell
her. She was disappointed, yet, not
willing to give up the search, for the
morning dew might know, if his sister,
the evening dew, did not. So she asked
him the next day, and from his answer
decided that it was the sun that the
girls were talking about.
When the sun sent some of his rays
to warm the flowers, the lonely lily
said, ooh, good kind sun, are you the
one that so many are telling of and
who clothed us?" 80 no." replied
the sun by his messengers, " That is
God" Then he taught the lily much
that she wished to know of the good
Master, but he could not tell her why
he had died or where he was. The
lily thought over all she had heard and
sent prayer by the sun to God, for,
though he could not tell where he was,
he could carry the prayer up TO the sky
where some would know more about
the Savior. After the lily had prayed
to be shown how to do more good and
be purer, she did her best in all things.
The next time the girls came to the
meadow, they found three Easter lily
buds, but the large lily lay on the
ground broken and withered. She
had saved others; herself she could
not save-but the Father blessed her
work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Too Busy to Pray.

Jesus appears to have devoted him
self specially to prayer at times when
his life was unusually full of work and
excitement His was a very busy life;
there were nearly always "many com
ing and going" about him. Some
times, however, there was such con-
gestion of thronging objects that he
had scarcely time to eat. But even
then he found time to pray. Indeed
these appear to have been with him
seasons of more prolonged prayer than
usual. Thus we read: $50 much the
more went there fame abroad of him,
and great multitudes came together to
hear and be healed by him of their in
firmities, but he withdrew himself into
the wilderness and prayed" Many in
our day know what this congestion of
occupations is-they are swept off their
feet with their engagements and can
scarcely find time to eat. We make
this reason for not praying. Jesus
made it reason for praying Is there
any doubt which is the better courseP
Many of the wisest have in this respect
done as Jesus did When Luther had
specially busy and exciting day, he
allowed himself longer time than usual
for prayer beforehand A wise man
once said that he was too busy to be in
hurry; he meant that if he allowed
himself to become hurried he could not
do all he had TO do. There is nothing
like prayer for producing this calm self
possession. When the dust of business
so fills your room that it threatens to
choke you, sprinkle it with the water of
prayer, and then you can cleanse it out
with comfort and expedition. james
| Stalker
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Easter Morning.

Jesus is risen! The words afoat,
In the voice of the wind, in the robins clear note
And the brook that wanders the meadow along
Holds this ripple of music in its song;
There is Joy the earth there is light the wave
For risen Christ and an empty grave;
On the lifted face Of springs first flower
The sunshine falls and the soft rains shower,
And over and over, all sweet things say,
Jesus is risen is risen to-day.
Jesus is risen; though snow.guarded yet
Is the wood-shadowed grave of the violet,
Yet tender green robes the sunniest hills
And the frost into gentle dew distills;
From the tomb of nature is rolled away
The heavy stone that upon 1t lay;
To the sweet new faith that the Easter brings,
The waiting flower and the brown bud cngs;
And in faith sweeter than hope can be
We sing, Jesus has risen. o earth for thee.
Mrs. r. g. Sudine, in Morning Star
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Cleaning Fine Old Lace.

Clean very fine lace with benzine.
If it is old and crazy, pin it smooth on
flannel. covered board, saturate it with
benzine and press it out with soft nap
kin. Put made-up laces, collars, hand
kerchiefs, caps and so on, into glass or
earthenware, and pour benzine over
rapidly about in it, squeeze gently, drop
into clean vessel, and put on fresh
fluid. 1t will remove every particle of
dirt, without in any way altering the
yellow, antique hue or shrinking the
mesh, as water will do, no matter how
carefully applied. The Decorator and
Furnisher, which gives the foregoing
directions, explains that point lace is
never washed betwixt maker and
wearer. If it gets soiled in working,
white lead in powder is put on to whiten
it. Gas, sea air or dozen other things
would make the lead turn dark, or ruin
a costly bit of cobweb in which the
owner takes delight. Benzine will re-
move it without harm. After the lace
comes out of it, pin it as smoothly as
possible upon linen-covered board
and put it in the sunshine for six hours.
If you wish to whiten it, let dew fall on
it and be dried away by the sun for a
week or two. If pressed for time, the
bleaching may be accomplished in a
day by wetting the cloth with veal
soap suds every two hours and pinnine
the lace over it. If you are careful tC
draw it tight, it will hardly show that i
has been dampened. If you are not
tn meshes will contract perceptibly
1t is something to be handled daintily
from first to last. In wearing never
pull or drag roughly into place. Sew
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
LITTLE GIRLS EXPERIENCE IN

A LITTLE GIRLS EXPERIENCE IN A
LIeHTHoUsE.-Mr and Mrs. Loren
Prescott are keepers of the government
lighthouse at Sand Beach, Mich, and
are blessed with daughter four years
old. Last April she was taken down
with measles, followed with a dreadful
cough and turning into fever. Doc
tors at home and at Detroit treated her,
but in vain. She grew worse rapidly,
until she was mere handful of
bones" Then she tried DIR. Kings
New Discovery, and after the use of
two and half bottles, was completely
cured. They say DIR. Kings New Dis
covery is worth its weight in gold, yet
you may get trial bottle free at C.
Blakely's drugstore, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn eHectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and Tes habtual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro.
duced, pleasing to tie taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
10 all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. kY NEW YORK. NY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
Gbe 4oussboIo.
The Sweetest Of the Year.

BY MISS II. II. T.
oh, the months of March and April
Are the sweetest of the years;
March, with ice and frosted network,
April, with its smiles and tears.
SO with frost and sun and shower
They WOO Nature all along,
Till we hear the sugar makers
Jubilant and happy song.
And we listen to the music
OF the drip, drip, drop,
From the stately naples standing
In the old sugar lot.
We see the smoky sugar house,
With stream out-pouring wide
From every crack and crevice
From top and end and side,
Till it seems to me thing alive,
That might start on the trot,
And go steaming down the highway
with the entire sugar lot.
Yet we dare to venture in,
Mid smoke and crock and steam,
For there the sugar bubbles sweet,
Sweet as maiden's dream.
IT'S now we thankful are,
For the sweetest of the year,
For the months of March and April,
And all their welcome cheer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25
advertisements.

=. Hcp youTSCE
if. you're a suffering woman, will
the medicine that's been prepared
especially to help you-Dr. Pierce
Favorite Prescription. 1t will do il
where others fail. For all the dis.
eases peculiar to the sex-dragging-
down pains, displacements, and other
weaknesses, it's a positive remedy.
1t means a new life, and longer
one, for every delicate woman. In
every case for which it's recon-
mended, it gives satisfaction. It's
guaranteed to do SO, or the money
is refunded.
1t improves digestion, invigorates
the system, enriches the blood, dis
pcls aches and pains, produces re-
frcshing sleep, dispels melancholy
and nervousness, and builds up both
flesh and strength. 1t is a legiti-
mate medicine not a beverage.
Contains no alcohol to inebriate {;
no syrup or sugar to sour or
Torment in the stomach and cause
diatress. AS peculiar in its mar
Vicious, remedial results as in it's
composition. Therefore, don't be
put off with some worthless com
poGld easily, but dishonesty, rec
commended to be "just as good"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

"Though the Lord slay me, yet will
l trust in him." was the grand utter
ance of one who had no light as to the
reasons for the divine dealing, but
who knew that "beyond these voices
there was peace that the Lord
reigned in righteousness, and that all
his ways were good. But if our Lord
explains to us how there must be many
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

PERHAPS you have great mind !;
perhaps you have an eloquent tongue;
can glorify God and bless mankind with
that. Perhaps you have nothing in
the world but kind, sweet smile;
then let that fall upon some poor life
that has no smiles in it. Remember
that dew-drop glistening in the sun is
Just as beautiful as a rainbow Rev.
G. II. Parkhurst, DID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

If he that ruleth his spirit is better
than he that taketh city, every soldier
of Christ should strive to deserve an
epitaph such as that which was once
placed over soldiers grave:
Here lies a soldier whom all mast applaud,
Who tonight many battles at home and abroad;
But the hottest engagement he ever was in, s
Was the conquest OF self in the battle of sim"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

it only with fine thread and needles.
Above all, pin it with small sharp pins,
if pin it you must. Crushed flower
stalks often leave ugly stains well nigh
indeible; therefore beware how you
wear them against your lace.-EG-
chnn1e
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-25

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-08

There is the well worn and now almost
worn out tradition that Chinese female
babies have their feet tortured bv tight
baudaging 10 make and keep them small.
That practice, let US say at once, was never
prevalent. except in very high society
like really tight lacing in England-aud
even there it is now gradually becoming
obsolete. But among the sweltering mil
lions Of China there Is a practice which
seems to have a curious result. The moth
er carries her infant in kind of bag or
pannier on her back. and not-as in other
countries where the dorSal carriage Is af-
feCted-with the face turned outward. but
AS, probably, we ought to expect in
China, where everything seems TO go and
come by the rule of contTaries-with the
face turned inward.
The result of that is that the bahy's nose
Is of necessity pressed against its mothers
back, whence, no doubt, say the learned in
these matters, has been evolved. in the
course of ages. the peculiarly hattened or
blunted nose characteristic OF the China
man. Furthermore, Chinese girls, even
when allowed TO live, are little thought Of
In the family generally they bear no names;
they are known as No. or No. ?. like con-
victs, and they are no more reckoned mem
bers Of the family than the cat or the dog.
So when Chinamsu is asked what fam
ily he has, be counts only his boys. And .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-08
THE COTTON BLOSSOM CLUB.
A Few Points as to Racing and Prize
Fighting.

The secretary announced a communica-
ton from Buffalo, asking the club to de-
fine its position on horse racing and prize
fighting The writer added that there
was a lively dispute over the attitude OF
the club. and he hoped for an explicit
avowal.
GAS TO boss racin'," said Brother Gard
ner, as he removed his spectacles and
looked around the hall, Il nebber could
see no pertcler harm in it. You simply
bet dat sartin boss kin run de fastest.
He comes in first You win your bet. You
take de money and pay up de back rent,
buy a new ca'pet fur de parlor, order g
bar'l of flour an Git de ole woman Chiny
silk dress. Is dar anythin' wicked bout
dat? OF co'se if you took de money an
bought burglar tools an robbed bank an
shot two policemen it would be wicked, but
you doan do it. As to prize fightin', it's
about de same. If you tied one man TO a
post an let de odder man kick an bite an
pound him, dat would be wicked, but you
doan do it. De boss isn't obleeged to run.
He kin bolt de track or hang back. So wild
de man. II he doau want to go dar an
fight ne kin stay home wild his wife an
chillen an eat apples an popco'n. De
posishun OF dis club, darfore, is dat we
propose to let bosses an folks do jist a.
dey wish TO in SIGH cases"
4 communication from the Corn Cobb
School of Philosophy" located at Indian
apolis, wanted 20 know if the Cotton Bios
SONS had theory regarding eclpses, and
if so would it be asking too much TO ask
that it be given to the public.
80 fur as know, dis club has no theory
an no speshul interest in 'clipSes," re-
piled Brother Gardner. "Of CO Sc we now
an den h'ar dat eclipse has dun arrove in
town an am gwine to show of at a sartin
hour. but we keep right on spreadin' de
whitewash jist de same rs muffin TO Us
whether dey hey 'clipse every day In de
week or only once a var. All sich things
was planned fur when de heavens was cre-
ated. an it wouldn't DO US no good 10 gal
lop around an git excited. If any member
present has a theory l should like 70 hear
from him"
Elder Penstock arose and replied that
he had one, and he was about 10 state i
when an accident occurred 70 prevent
The elder used 10 own = parrot when he
lived in Detroit, One day he was running
his tongue out at the bird when he ne
ceived peck" which almost disabled that
organ. Since then, whenever be gets ready
TO speak in public, he slips a vest buckle
into his mouth. He had just done SO On
this occasion when Samuel Shin gave him
q kick as hint that two big waterme!ons
were ID the anteroom waiting for adjourn
ment The elder was startled, and tbs
buckle was sucked back into his throat, and
- members had 20 rush hin ouL When