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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23
Many Inventions by Ono Woman.

Talk about women" said Richard L.
Ewing of Baltimore to a coterie in the Lin
dell who were discussing the fair sex after
dinner yesterday. We've got q woman in
our town who leads them all Her name
is Mrs Ella Nelson Gaillard. Before she
married she was one of the leading bellies OF
the state of Maryland. Pretty She was
handsome, charming, magnificent, superb
and all that sort of thing, but that is not
what was going to talk about Since her
marriage she has stepped into the first rank
of American inventors and has made
money. She invented an automatic toy.
which she called the "Irrepressible Con.
flict," which consisted of an Irishman and
negro engaged in n fierce contest. Then
she took another field altogether and in
vented the eyeless needle that is now used
by surgeons throughout the world to the
exclusion of all others.
Then she invented the musical top,
which, while spinning, plays a full operate
selection Then came her folding basin for
travellers, folding hatiron, then novel
birdcage chain. Then she got out music
al fountain that plays II tune and throws
n stream of water with such precision that
not a drop ever escapes to soil the carpet.
Then She made dress shield, next sweat
band for hats. Then she outdid herself
and invented "A carriage telephone. Finally
she drfted into mechanics and invented a
lock which enables any one, by simply
looking at the key, to tell whether the door
is locked or not, the locking being regis
tered on the key. Then she made mIr
steal paperweight with calendar attach
ment that looks for all the world like q
stem winding watch the face indicating the
day, month and year-St. Louis Globe
nnr,ocrot
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23
A Foolish Habit

If girls only knew" remarked a woman
eminent in her profession as physician,
show they disfigure themselves by contin-
ually biting their lips, think that they
would make the effort to break themselves
Of the habit.
In infancy the red line of the lower edge
of the lip is very clearly defined. Constant
irritation with the upper teeth sometimes
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23
INTERPRETED the Passage Literally.

The beautiful and peaceful picture of the
lion and the lamb lying down together is
tame and ineffective compared with the
ideal brought home from Sunday school by
a small boy last week His mother noticed
that he referred often to companionship
with the beasts of the field. Inquiry re-
vealed the interesting fact that Johnny had
learned hymn in which he thought he de
tected illusions to time when he could
play happily with all the animals which
now he sees through cage bars at the circus
The lines We're, "Ie takes the children to
his arms and to his bosom bears. New
York World
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

Don't hang your pictures with the top
extending out from the wall, but let both
pictures and furniture fall back fiat against
the wall as much as possible, leaving the
greatest possible amount of space in the
center of the room. Every apartment
should convey the feeling of use rather
than the idea that it is room for the ex-
hbition of furniture and Fur
nsher.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

The correct principle is that women are
not only justified, but exhibit the most ex-
allied virtue when they enter ON the con-
Germs of their country, Of humanity and Of
their God.-John Quincy Adams.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

If the STANDARD of morality was fixed by
women alone, then there would be common
sense in the statement that the power and
real happiness Of a community are founded
on the virtue of its women
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

The best insect destroyer known is hot
alum water Put alum into hot water apd
boil until dissolved, then apply the water
with brush to all cracks, closets, bed
steads and other places where insects may
be found. Ants, cockroaches, heas and
other creeping things are killed.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

A woman, commenting on decollete cor
sages as she saw them abroad, says that the
V shaped bodice is distinctively French,
while the round corsage, showing neck and
shoulders, is as distinctively English
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

In the almost lost art of letter writing
Octave Thanet especially excels, She is
called the wittiest letter writer among
women Her real name is Alice French,
and she lives Ia Davenport, la
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23
CflILDREN'S COLUMN.


This little figure may be made to balance
Itself amusingly. Get piece of wood
about two inches long. Cut one end of it
into the form of "A mans head and Shout
ders and let the other end taper off to Il fine
point. Next furnish the little man with a
pair of waters shaped like oars, instead of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

Patti has weakness for Mexican span
iels, and wherever she goes carries two o.
more with her, usually wrapped up in sill
shawls.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

Allow children as they grow older to have
opinions of their own; make them individ-
lals, and not mere echoes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-23

arms, but they must be more than double
the length of his body. Stick the walters
on his shoulders Place the little man on
the point of your finger as shown in the
illustration. and gently spin it around by
twirling between the thumb nnd finger of
the dsengaged hand.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18
Public Executions.

If hangings must be, then the mob
should be shut out absolutely from see
ing them. Nothing more revolving or
demoralizing to humanity has been wit
messed recently than the behavior of the
spectators at a late hanging. Men gath
cred in numbers the night before the
hanging as if to a country circus. Whis-
ky was passed freely among them, and
they became drunk and made night hid
eous with their whooping and yelling.
They cut away fences and climbed trees
in order to get sight of the show in the
jailyard. They even Struggled whisky
to the guard who formed the watch, and
some of them became dead drunk too.
When the morning came and the pris-
oners were led to execution the mob
jeered and howled like demons. Some
of the condemned suffered horribly be-
fore life became extinct. The blood
thirsty mob laughed in fiendish glee and
cursed and sang and danced like demons
from sheol. Nothing more disgraceful
was ever witnessed in America. The
men and boys who gazed on that scene
will go through life henceforth with less
regard for human life and with more
calloused feelings toward human suffer
ing in any shape. 1t was with difficulty
they were kept from anticipating the le-
gal execution by taking the hanging into
their own hands. They will henceforth
be more dangerous members of the COM
munity for being unchecked in their con-
duct that night and for being allowed to
witness that hanging.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18
About Divorce Laws.

If you think you will ever want di-
vorce from any cause whatever, do not
go to South Carolina to live. That is
the one state of the Union in which there
is absolutely no divorce allowed. The
only way in which married people there
can get apart is to run away from each
other and hide. In all the other states
divorce is allowed for Scriptural cause.
AS one goes west divorce laws become
more liberal. In forty-one of the forty
four states divorce is permitted for ex-
treme cruelty, and in thirty three states
for intemperance. In all but nine of the
states term in the penitentiary will re-
lease the prisoners husband or wife from
the matrimonial chain, while in twenty
two states and territories gross neglect
will secure a divorce if it is proved on
the husband or wife, The term ''neg-
lect, too, is as elastic as peoples con-
science and can be stretched to cover
anything from abandonment outright to
failure to tr''e wife to an evening
party he'
Nebraska and the Dakotas are perhaps
more liberal in their divorce laws than
any other states in the time required for
residence before the suit is commenced.
A residence in Nebraska for six months
viii entitle an applicant for divorce to
commence action, while in both the Da-
kotas the applicant need only reside
within the state ninety days. For some
reason persons who wished to be united
have gravitated to Sioux Falls, S. D., in
large numbers, forming what is called
the divorce colony, thereby scandaizing
citizens of that promising young state
who do not believe in divorce.
In 1892 ninety divorces were granted
in Sioux Falls. The applicants were
mostly women. The churches and the
ladies of the w. G. 7. U. in South Da-
kota endeavored to have the divorce in
dustry stopped, at least to a great extent
Powerful pressure was brought to bear
on the legislature to lengthen the term
of residence to at least year.
The Sioux Falls lawyers, however, as
well as various other citizens, asked this
question, Why should the legislature, on
merely sentimental grounds, drive out
of South Dakota and into North Dakota
and Nebraska business which brings
20 Sioux Falls over 100000 year? So
the Legislature defeated the bill to
lengthen the term of residence to year.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

1t is to be hoped that the proposed in
vestigation of tie Nicaragua Canal com
pany viii be carried through to the end,
and the disbursing agents of the company
be required to account for the way in
which every cent they paid out was ex-
pended. This will now be necessary in
view OF the Panama scandal. The agents
of the company will doubtless welcome
as eagerly as anybody this opportunity
to show their countrymen that the bust
ness of the Nicaragua canal is in clean
hands. We shall have no Panama scan
dial in America. The public will want
to know ON exactly what kind of a basis
the Nicaragua canal stands before in
vesting money in it. and the directors of
the enterprise will of course be only too
glad to show how honestly and econom-
ically the funds have thus far been man
aged.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18
Never Mind the HowIers.

There seems a tendency lately, crop
ping out in the monthly magazines, to
lament the degeneracy of the time that
is on us now. Women writers especially
have taken up the thankless role of Jere-
miah end chant in melancholy measure
that all the world is going to the dogs.
The dear old ladiesl One grieves because
servants" so called, have not the loyal
ty to their employers that they used to
have in the good old days when Mrs.
Pepys, for instance, used to beat her
maid Mary for staying out over night
without permission. The odd thing about
this good old dame who writes is that it
does not occur to her at all to blame the
mistresses themselves for any part of the
change, but throws it on all the maids,
although naturally they are expected to
have less brains and intelligence than the
women who hire them.
Another Mrs. jeremiah is especially
concerned for the morals Of flirting
wives in our time. You might suppose
from her lamentation that there was not
left in fashionable society a good wife or
mother any more, or any married woman
who attended to her domestic duties.
Yet another writer thinks there never
was time when labor was oppressed as
it is now, forgetful altogether of the fact
that in many of the manual trades boy
apprentices had to work sixteen hours a
day even in England within the memory
of living men and get almost nothing
for it.
Don't believe any of the croaking old
ravens. The very fact that so much fuss
is made about the deficiencies of domes-
tic service and the wrongs of labor is ev-
idence that these evils never were so near
being righted as they are now. Remem-
! Der just this: If we do wrong, no matter
what kind Of a wrong, we must pay the
penalty in full. Other people must dc
the same, and we do not have to punish
them. Our business is to keep our OWL
lives high and pure, minding our own
affairs. The fact is, society was never
so bright or kindly or charitable or clean
as it is now, and one of the best indica.
tions of it is the increased liberty that
women enjoy. Liberty never hurt any
body, and woman can be trusted to take
care of herself and her children. The
mother heart of the sex can never go fan
astray.
Pure morality and human brotherhood
were never inculcated practically and
theoretically as they are now. There
never was so much effort on the part Of
the rich and intelligent to help pool
people 70 lives of comfort, The genera
tendency is IN that direstion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

If weight of brain was everything,
then Benjamin Butler would have been
greater man than Daniel Webster.
Webster's brain was one of the heaviest
ON record. That of Baron Cuvier, the
naturalist, exceeded it in weight some
what. Buffers thinking apparatus, how
ever, weighed four ounces more than
that of Webster. We have great heads
in America.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

That is an excellent plan for relieving
the poor that was devised by the Gin
cinnati chief of police. Instead of open
ing souphouses to feed both the just and
the unjust, this shrewd chief had all the
needy apply to the city department for
help. The worthy poor were sent to the
city infrmary, the unworthy to the city
workhouse. By that means the tramps
were enabled to earn their living in the
workhOuse.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

Hayes had some distinguished men in
his cabinet during his term Of the presi-
dency and was not jealous of them.
Among them were William M. Evarts,
secretary Of state; Carl Schurz, secre-
tary of the interior, and John Sherman,
secretary of the treasury. Carl Schurz
supports Mr. Cleveland now, but he was
a stanch Republican in 1876 John
Sherman distinguished himself by the
return to specie payments throughout
the country Jan. /, 1879. Six months
before that date he had accumulated in
the United States treasury $40, 900
in the expectation that there would be a
demand for it in exchange for legal ten
der notes. But there was little or no
demand, and thus, quietly, without
shock or disturbance, United States
money passed from paper to a specie
basis
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

A joint resolution for a constitutional
amendment calling for the election of
United States senators by popular vote
instead of by the legislatures of the states
has already passed the national house
Of representatives. This is one of the
changes that the Twentieth century will
probably witness. Then different polit-
ical parties in legislature can no longer
lock horns and stay locked till warm
weather thaws them out.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

One Of Blaine's sayings: Il do not
know why this man should be my enemy.
| never did him favor"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18
Save Expense!

County Division will reduce the heavy mage bills for attending
courts will reduce the heavy personal expense occasond by
taxpayers having the county great distance
1t will lead to better and government and avoid
the dangers of corruption often large counties
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

Mexico now takes by far the larger
part of her imported goods from the
Cnited States.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

There are some yet living who can re-
call the thrilling Shakespearean recita-
tons of Fanny Kemble, and these per-
haps will be surprised that she died only
lately, so completely had she dropped
out of notice in her last days. She was
a month older than Gladstone. Since
Mrs. Siddons no woman has possessed
her dramatic greatness. She not only
had the power Of expression, but had
masterful intellectually of her own.
More than sixty years ago she began her
stage career in London and won fame
and success at a bound. For her there
was no grievous toiling by slow steps up
the hill. She occupies a place in Ameri-
can social and dramatic history because
she lived long among us and because of
her South Carolina husband, Colonel
Pierce Butler, whose home ON the plan
tation she left because she could not toll
crate slavery. After abandoning the
regular life of the actress she continued
giving Shakespearean recitations till she
was sixty years old; then she followed
authorship. Her last book was pub
lished so late as 1882 This gifted wom-
an had extraordinary grace of figure and
carriage, which she said was largely ow-
ing to the fact that in her girlhood her
mother had required her to be drilled in
military exercises by the regular drill
master of one Of the regiments stationed
in her native town in England.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-02-18

The death Of Hayes leaves not one ex-
president living. Cleveland is out of the
list, being president elect.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-08
c FOR M

1T is said that pyrethrum powder will
destroy the green cabbage worm. Mix
a tablespoonful to a gallon of water
and try the solution.
ORDINARILY the man with a small
farm makes just az good a living as the
man with several times as many acres,
and with much less worry.
RUT for the expense of cooking the
food there would he a greater gain. and
with less food, by feeding all grains to
stock in a cooked condition.
For a center flower in a circle, use
the Gamma, and surround it with dwarf
~nasturtiums, selecting mixed varieties.
The bed will soon be covered with flow
ers and it will be very attractive.
ALL farmers consider the pasture a.,
an essential feature of their farms, vet
if tho land devoted to pasture was cul-
tivated to crops it would permit of
keeping more cattle by the soiling sys-
tenn.
CARRIAGES will thrive on nearly all
soils, and they feed on the coarsest of
u The plants cannot be culti-
waited toe frequently. The late crop
may go on ground now occupied by
peas.
THE Indiana experiment station CON
cludes that deep breaking and shallow
cultivation is best; also that stable
produces better and more last
ing effects on soil than commercial fer
filters.
The simple operation of throwing cut
grain to n flock of poultry may be done
in a wrong The whole flock
should be given fair play" by scatter
ing the grain widely and on clean
ground.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-08
THE o FAULT.
He Was Guided by the Almanac and Not
by tho Weather.

He Was Guided by the Almanac and Not
by tho Weather.
In a small Vermont town the street
lamps, which are few and far be-
tween, are under the charge of ono OF
the oldest residents of the place. why
in the world weren't the lamps lighted
tonight. Mr.. Jacobs?" inquired a sum.
mer resident. who had stumbled down
to the post Office ono July evening in
the pitchy darkness of a heavy rain.
storm.
They Amt evcr lighted on moonlight
nights" responded the old man calmly.
That's the rule, and the moon fulled
last night, an this is one of the best
nights in the hull month";"
BEST nights echoed the other. in
considerable irritation. What good
does the moon do in a pouring rain like
this?'
81 can't help that said Mr.. Jacobs.
''Accordin' To the almanac this is a
moonshine night an the lamps have no
call to be lit I recon the almanac's a
good thing to go by.
Why continued the old lamplight-
er. surveying his critic with sudden
awakened surprise and disgust, where
d'you s'spose I sh'd fetch up eff | was
t'go by the weather std o. the almanac?
l persume t'say likely I might hcv t'go
my round ev'ry night fer a month in dog
days. don't c~al'late to hcv no sech
works as that, Ell the moon don't do
her duty it's unfort'nit, but it amt eny
o my lookout"
The by-standcrs murmurcd assent,
and the summer resident was silcnced.
Youths Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-08

with boards, laid closely, and these are
covered with tarred roofing felt. A
second covering of boards is laid on
this and a water-tight dam is made. II
is necessary to make the front OF
the dam quite close at the bot
tom by cementing the joint, if a
supply of clay for pudding is not
handy. This part of the dam should be
placed in the stream, and the sides Of II
where the water is the deepest. 1t is
best to carry these frames the whole
length of the dam, but not necessary,
as the water may be kept back by driv-
ing short planks in the ground rs .
sheet piling, and covering the spaces
between these with the roofing felt,
and this with boards. The outside of
this BART of the dam should be heapcd
with earth, to resist the pressure of
the water against il Us well as the out
side. which sustains the boarding in
the center. But that part of the dam
which is in contact with the running
water should be of plank only, and
there should be plank or brush where
the water falls, to prevent the under
mining of the dam.-American Agri-
c%ulturiSt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-08
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-isparagIs on Toast: Cook the a.
parrgus in punches, and when tender,
dran and place. on slices of nicely.
Drowned toast moistened in the aspar-
agus liquor. Pour W. all n cream
sauce.@Scieuce In the Kitchen.
Indian Pudding: Pour enough boil.
ing water or two cups Indian meal Ia
wet, add one-half cup of butter, one
cup Of sugar. a pinch of salt, two cups
IF milk, one-half cup of moiasses and
ono cup Of seeded raisins. Flavor with
cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake three
hours and serve with cream. -Boston
Budget.
Corn MeaICakes: One pint Of milk,
half a pint of corn meal, two eggs, half
an ounce OF butter, a teaspoopful OF
sugar. and half n teaspoonful of salt
Pour the milk boiling hot on the meal,
and when cold add the butter, which
should he melted. the sugar, salt. the
yolks of eggs, and lastly the whites
beaten separately. These are also
very nice when baked in gem pans or
muffin rings.-Farm, Field and Fire
side.
White Mountain Cake: Beat well
n ~half-cupful of butter and three Of
sugar; add half a cup of sweet milk
and three and one-half cIpfuls OF
sifted flour; then two tcaspoonfuls Of
baking powder, and last of all the
beaten whites of ten eggs. Flavor
with lemon juiccand bake in three lay
ers in a moderate oven. Put between
and over the cakes an icing made by
beating into the whites Of three eggs a
pound of powdered sugar: flavor with
extract of vanilla.-N. Y. Observer.
Asparagus with Cream Sauce:
Thoroughly wash, tie in small punches
and put into boiling water; boil till
perfectly tender. Drain thoroughly,
unite the lunches: place the stalks all
the same way upon 4 hot plate, with a
dressing prepared as follows: Let a
pint of sweet cream (about six hours
old is best come to the boiling point.
and stir into it salt to taste and a level
tablespoonful of -four rubbed smooth
with Il little cold cream. Boil till the
flour is perfectly cooked. and then pass
through a fine wire strainer. food
Health.
Plain Apple Pudding: One pound
of the mashed apples, a quarter of a
pound of butter. sugar to the taste, six
eggs, n t~caspoonful of cinnamon,
half a nutmeg, brandy or rose water to
the taste. Peel the apples, cut them
in slices. and stew them in a very little
water till they are tender. Mash them
fine. and while they are hot add the
butter. Set them away to cool. Beat
the eggs. and when the apples are cold
add the eggs and sugar. liquor and
spice. Cover your pie plates with plain
paste. fill them and bake in a moderate
ovcn.-Boston Budget.