Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31

N%o5A to the mark Of
MN@~ study or gardening
Y& tits pleasant to take
Y the train less than
an hours ride to the factory, where one is
permitted to lounge unmolesting and unmo-
| Tested in its dainty precincts
1t sounds odd to speak Of dainty work
shops, yet not few of these New England
manufactories-not cotton mills or foundries
vie with private houses in the fresh clean
illness demanded by their work and in their
| setting of shorn turf and vine hung walls.
The fresh, unpainted woodwork is sweet as
ceiling of cedar, the outlook is shallow
valley, with an old road outlined by elms
and blue hills for distance; nearer the glad
| sparkle of waters in the spring sun. One
broad southern window seat I specially
like when the sun is off, for it looks down
into little nook of cedars and birches that
crowd to the edge of the enclosure, while
on the other hand the head of the concern
has its work table, ranged with still, filters
and boilers bright with nickel and brass, fit
for parlor table.
A Very Paradise Of Odors.
Along the wall are ranged queer bottles,
cans of perfumery extracts and pomades of
price. 1t is grateful to uncork these vials
and breathe spirit of Cannes violets, tube
roses, jasmine, cassie, lemon verbena and
the stronger oils which form bases of rich
and tantalizing odors. There is mountain
of origanum and thyme, lavender from
Provence and stimulating mountain herbs
from the Grand Chartreuse, pungent and
pleasing, with the lighter essences of flowers
from redolent bouquets, of Marchale and
La Refine, des Indies, des Alpes and dozen
other titles of elegance.
They have a new pharmacien at the works,
the proprietor breaking down last March be-
tween la grippe and the struggle to carry on
business and make up for the deficiencies of
ordinary employees. How many men have
seen try to do the same thing in other work,
pervading every department, with their own
ability making up for the deficiencies of a
score of half-rate people, finally to discover
they were not gods, but men, and only one
man at that. How many business enterprises
this wretched grip has upset.
What a Missing Man Accounts For.
Old establishments where everything used
to go like clockwork got sadly out of joint
in all departments; orders not attended to-
goods sent on approval uncalled for, ac-
counts muddled, all arrangements unsatisfac-
tory, and when the difference forced itself
upon one it was discovered that one quiet,
decided man who used to be seen about the
great house at times was missed and Law
battling with undermining disease. His
oversight, his will, his clear judicial sense
had kept that great business together, and
when his activity was expended there was
no more soul or unity in the affairs of the
great house.
A good business man deserves as much
credit as any other genius, and how much
he is worth can only be told when it is
question of finding some one to fill his
place. One after another well recommended
person is tried, only 30 be discarded for
blunders. Men do well enough under an
efficient head who go to pieces the moment
they are left to their own direction. The
spring has seen much of this demoralization
of business, though care is taken to say
little about it.
The Man With Original Ideas.
My friend is refurnishing her house this
season. The orders were feady, it was sup
posed, seven weeks ago, but first one fore
man was sick and then another, and lastly
the head of the department went down and
nothing is right. The carpet went the
wrong way the curtains did not match, the
furniture was bright finish when dull one
had been ordered, and nothing could be set
right till that poor man got off his sick bed
stricken with imbecility. They could go
right with sharp eye on every half days
work, but originate or comprehend an orig
inal idea or correct a mistake they could
not. And the lingering of that dreadful
disease battles all calculation.
The man with the care of large business
upon him was sure he would be down at the
office "the first of next week, and the
Saturday came and he had not gained enough
to leave his own house. He felt as if he
certainly should be out of doors when a
sunny day came, but it found him too weak
to get out of bed. That is the way of this
heather disorder. You only want to lie
abed warmly and doze all day. Conver-
sation exhausts you,. a grasshopper OF care
weighs down your shoulders.
Worse Than a Railroad Accident.
1t is too much struggle to get ones wants
properly attended to-; you want what you
want without much speaking; above all you
want your three or four delicate nourishing
meals day, and if you don't get them to
with the dusk, and it is cruelty when friends
keep you awake one minute longer, for a
half hours chat then may cost sleep for
most of the night. You need gentle care
and tender letting alone, and this state of
infant weakness lasts weeks and months,
during which you must move at the same
careful rate. 1t is hard that sufferers can
not exact damages from the city or the
house whose negligence deprives them of SO
much vitality. A railway accident is no
harder to bear, no more destructive or de-
pressing.
As was saying, they have a new phar-
macien at the works The dark, serious
face of the owner is sadly missing, but the
new man is interesting, with keen, sharp
glitter about him in his sharp black eyes,
crisp, shining hair and quick hands, which
show dash of French blood. He is not
speculative or original, but what he knows
he knows, and his certificate of pharmacy,
which hangs on the wall, is well deserved.
A good pharmacien has to know good deal
of many. sciences-of mathematics, to calcu-
late analysis; of chemistry, to understand
the relation of substances; of botany and
minerals, besides nice manipulations.
A Man Worth While Watching.
A careless or stupid boy has no right to
attempt the art. Pierre, which call him
because it isn't his name or anything like it,
is brisk, knowing, decided, and if others do
not know their part they are apt to learn
from him. like to lounge in the window
seat and watch him as he dives first at one
thing, then at another, over his enamelled
nanS and fine norcelain fireproof dishes his