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Household Convenience.

The convenience of a house for car
rying on the ordinary work of a house
hold is next in Importance to it's sani-
tary condition for satisfactory living.
Ii the means are moderate and the
housewife strong and ambitious, she
may choose to do her own work. Sufi-
cient closets and cupboards, properly
placed and arranged, mean a great
saving of both health and strength,
and are none the less desirable
If there are to be one or more serv-
ants. There is neither Christianity
nor economy in allowing household
work to be heavier than is necessary.
even though its execution be by hired
hands. While the mistress of a house
thinks with pride of her tasteful parlor
and cozy library, let her not forget to
see to the kitchen. The convenience
of the kitchen for it's use is but one
part of the consideration which should
be exercised. Economy in heating
must be thought of, and the require
ment of individual houses in carpets.
curtains, beds, bric-a-brac and the
thousand and one things which are in
Guided under the term furnishings"
must be carefully weighed In the scale
of choice in accordance with the mean
and tastes of those who are to make ND
the family.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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To Make English Mullins.

One quart of -four, one teaspoonful
OF salt, one-third of a cake of com
pressed yeast or one-third of a cupful
of liquid yeast, n cupful and a half
of water. Have the water blood warm.
Dissolve the yeast in one-third of a
cupful of cold water. Add it and the
salt to the warm water, and gradually
stir in the flour. Beat the dough thor
oughly, cover, and let it rise in a warm
place until it is spongy about five
hours). Sprinkle the bread board with
flour. Shape the dough into balls
about twice the size of an egg. and
drop them on the Toured board. When
all the dough has been shaped, roll the
balls into cakes about one-third of an
inch thick. Lay these on a warm grid
die which has been lightly creased,
and put the griddle on the back of the
stove, where there is not much heat.
When the cakes have risen a little.
draw the griddle forward and cook
them slowly, turning often to keep the
fiat shape. 1t will take about twenty
minutes for them to rise on the griddle
and fifteen to cook. Tear them apart,
butter them and serve.-N. Y. Ledger.
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descent lamps, with some slight i'm
provements, perhaps, on the other
style of arc light.
Something radically different from
any of these, but also called ~(perhaps
more appropriately an "incandescent-
arc" was described in a paper before
the electrical congress in Chicago last
month. 1t is the invention of Louis E.
Howard, of New York city. The
special advantage claimed for this de-
vice is that the carbon will last one
hundred hours, thus reducing the con-
sumption of pencils at least nine
tenths, and, what is a still greater
economy, not requiring a lamp trim
mer to visit it more than once every
week or ten days. In fact, in certain
test cases the positive carbon in this
lasted about twenty times as long as
with the ordinary commercial lamp,
and the negative almost a hundred.
Mr.. Howard puts his carbons in a
small closed envelope of especially
hard glass. When the arc is formed
and the pencils begin to burn, carbon
lie acid gas is developed, and that
s0PoI 0SAFCS a uOuUI purpose. IL
checks combustion and it diffuses the
light by becoming i~ncandescent from
heat. The entire contents of the
chamber glow so wildly that the arc
itself at the center is barely percept-
IDLE by contrast. To prevent explo-
sion from the expansion of the gases
a small safety valve is provided, allow
ing egress only. Around the movable
pencil-for automatic adjustment of
the burning carbon is required in this
as in other arc lights-there is a
chance for a little fresh air to leak in;
but it is assimilated too quickly to do
harm. 1t will be noticed that this
lamp is a trife more costly in it's
~mechanism; and. as a purer carbon is
needed for its successful operation,
still another slight addition to the
expense is involved. But the electrical
papers look upon this invention with
such favor that it is to be hoped that
it may o on have a thorough trial on
a commercial scale.
Nh. Louis B. Marks, who presented
this subject at Chicago, is a young
but promising electrician, who has
given much attention to the improve
ment of .electric-lamp carbons.
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The Mimicry Of Nature.

Curious resemblances in nature start
with the cocoanut, in many respects
like the human skull and almost a fac
smile of the monkeys. The meat Of the
English walnut is almost a copy of the
human brain, plums and black cherries
like the human eye, almonds like the
human nose, and an opened oyster and
she'll a perfect likeness of the human
ear. The shape of a mans body may
be traced in the mammoth squash, the
open hand in growing scrub willows
and celery, the human heart in Ger
man turnips and egg plant, and dozens
of the mechanical inventions of the
present day to patterns furnished by
nature. Thus the hog suggested the
pillow, the butterfly the door hinge, the
frog stool the umbrella, the duck the
ship, and the fungus growth on trees
the bracket.-Journal des Sciences
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NOTES.

MAPS were invented by Anaximander,
a Greek, about B. C. sos.
WEBsTEa,s dictionary wa published
in 1928; Worcester's in 1860.
SCHOOLS at Oxford were established
by Alfred the Great about S79.
The famous Rugby school was found
ed by Lawrence Sheriff in 1867.
The mathematician, Describes, APP
piled algebra to geometry in 1851.
THE oldest German university is that
of Heidelberg, founded in 1886.
THE first professorship of history was
established at Oxford in 1924.
THE charter of Oxford university was
granted by Henry II. in 124s.
THE first arithmetic using the deci-
NAL system was published in 1852.
THE first modern medical school was
at Salerno in the eighth century.
THE first teachers journal, the Edu-
cational Times, was established in 1s47.
THE first academy for the deaf and
dumb was opened in Edinburgh in
17T3.
ITALY has twenty-one universities,
with 600 professors and 5000 students.
COLLEGIATE degrees were first con-
ferred by the University of Paris in
1140.
The first published treatise on alge-
bra was issued by Luca Paciolo in
1854,
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ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
New Kind of Lamp That May Re-
quire Little Attention.
An incandescent Arc Light Which, Per.
chance, Is Destined to Revolution
ize Street Ilumination-lncan-
descent Vapor.

Most of the electric lights now in
common use belong to one of two
types, the incandescent or arc lamp.
In the former, a slender carbon fla
ment, which offers more resistance to
the current than the metallic con-
ductor, becomes heated thereby until
it glows. To prevent combustion the
small globes inclosing these flaments
are made alright, and a vacuum.is Gre
ated therein. The arc light, which is
much more intense, and is therefore
employed chiefly out of doors, is pro-
duced by making a powerful current
with eight or ten times the voltage
required for incandescent lights leap
across a short gap between two carbon
pencils. These are nearly half an inch
in diameter, and are kept about one
fourth of an inch apart by regulating
apparatus. Owing to the great heat
produced by the flame or arc which
spans the interval, the carbons slowly
consume, the positive pole about twice
as fast as the negative; so that re-
newal is necessary once every night;
perhaps oftener. Usually the pencils
are adapted to the demands of the
service, since some lamps are required
to burn later than others. Hence one
hears of "eight-hour" and ''ten-hour''
carbons. The shade used with these
lights is a globe, open at top and bot
tom, like that for gas fixtures.
What is called an ''incandescent-
are light was placed On the market
last fall. This, however, is merely an
arc lamp such as has just been de-
scribed, but operated by a weak cur
rent primarily designed for mean
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Brocades and Velyets,

Among lovely broeades are those with
satin ground on which are serpentine
lines of a contrasting color in armure
weaving, rs a Nile-green ground with
waving lines of lilac and wheat or corn
color, or else a pale rose ground with
faint tilleul green and cream stripes.
White grounds have undulatinp
threads of rose and green, or of lilac
and gold. Other serpentine damasks
have a dark ground with branching
stripes of another color almost con.
cealing the waving effect; these come
with mordore, dahlia, eminence pur-
pie and emerald green for the prevail
ing hue. Velvets are largely imported
In all the plain c~olors, and also glace
with two or three changing colors, be-
sides figured, striped, dotted and cisele
velvets of great variety. The pin-dot.
ted velvets are lovely, some having the
effect of silver or crystal impressed
amid the pile in dots smaller than the
head of a pin. The serpentine v~elvets
are very effective, the design appear
ing to be printed below the pile, and ia
many colors. -Harper's Bazaar.
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A PARENTAL DIFFICULTY.
How to Meet the Individuality of the
Childish Members OF the Household.

Childish Members of the Household.
The home-circle is a unit of love and
harmony, composed of varying dis
positions. No two faces are exactly
alike. No two spirits perfectly resem-
BILE each other. The parents have
doubtless felt this difficulty many
times: How can we best adapt our
training and government to agree with
n develop our children's diversified
%natures?"
The problem, as stated above, is not
easy Of solution. Some children need
very little correction, but any amount
of stimulus. Others overflow with
Astounding vigor, but the vigor some
times takes wrong directions and mars
their prospects. The grand-father's
temper will assert itself in John, need
ing strong restraint; while Mary, low
ing and patient, is too easy-going and
must be urged forward. The more
gifted and original the family is, the
more probable is it hat these marked
contrasts will be found. One child's
mental and moral food will prove an
others poison. And wise, loving care
OF our little ones and growing boys
and girls is much exercised as to how
it must best adapt itself to changing
needs.
The easiest way to do this is to make
a study OF every member of your fami-
ly circle. ke~en-sighted love is intui-
tive and a easily discern the
hidden depths of Johns or Mary's
heart than onu 0+ho, r,o+lol C.L-
study OF your boy and girl will lead
to the understanding of them; and
when this much is accomplished, the
greater part of the problem is solved.
Ii Is safe to assert that where training
is at fault the parents lack, not love,
but knowledge. They love well, but
not wisely. For it should be remem-
bered what a gulf there is between the
love of be%nevolence, which ever seeks
the highest good of the object it loves,
and the mere impulse of passionate
affection.
A parents heart often sacrifices itself
in teaching the child that it must obey,
but the lesson is necessary for the ad-
vance OF character in the child. This
is the love of benevolence.
Another fond mother, ardent but
mistaken, will say: 'Oh, let him have
this, or do that, for l can not bear to
hear him cry" This is the impulse,
unguarded and ~unsalutary, of passion
ate affection. 1t is really a selfish feel
ing, since it prefers present comfort to
the child's future good.
Gently, yet firmly, must the child be
taught the great lesson Of obedient
service, that its highest liberty is to
surrender to the loving mastery of the
father and the mother. This process
is the work of years, not days; when
guided by good-natured common sense
it can not easily fail; and the law of
love ever being supreme, our children
shall grow up as trees rightly planted,
out of their very diversity producing a
rich harmony of concord, unity and
affection.-N. Y. Ledger.
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HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Fruit Puffs: Make a puff pastry
and roll into pieces the size of a saucer,
and into each piece put a spoonful of
stewed and sweetened fruit which has
been favored with grated nutmeg. Put
the fruit on one-half the pastry and
turn the other half over and pinch the
edges together; then put in the oven
and bake a nice brown.-Detroit Free
Press.
brooklyn Cookies: Three eve cups
OF powdered sugar and one full cup of
butter mixed to a cream; add four eggs
well beaten, one level teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in a third of a cup of
milk, and -four enough for a stiff bat
ter. Roll out thin, cut in rounds,
sprinkle with graduated sugar and
bake. Caraway seeds al be added if
1iked.-Boston Budget.
For Invalids; A tempting dish for
an invalid is made by taking one large
tablespoonful of arrowroot mixed with
half IA teacupful of cold water. Put
one pound of sugar, the juice of four
lemons and the rind of one lemon into
a bow and pour over it one quart of
boiling water and the arrowroot. Stir
until all ~dissolves, strain, 'cool and
freeze.-Farm and Fireside.
Drop Biscuit: Warm the mixing
bowl, then put in one pound of DOW
dered white sugar and eight eggs; beat
with a whisk for twenty minutes; stir
in n pound and two ounces of finely
sifted flour, with about half an ounce
OF caraway seeds: drop the mixture on
buttered paper in pieces about the size
of a nutmeg, sift sugar over them and
bake in a quick observation-disclosures.
Quick Soup: Into one quart of
boiling water put one cup of cracker
crumbs, one-half cup of Irish potatoes
chopped fine, one tablespoon of rice,
butter the size of an egg, onion enough
to flavor and salt and pepper to taste.
Let this boil until done, then add a
teaspoon of extract of beef and a raw
egg. Beat the egg all together for a
few minutes, then pour slowly into the
boiling soup and stir constantly. The
soup is now ready to serve.-Detroit
Free Press.
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W. C. Kernot, of the Melbourne uni
versity, Australia, in a recent paper
before the Victorian Institute of En-
gineers. In an actual trial a class Of
students averaging 1888 pounds each
in weight was crowded in a lobby con-
tanning 1928 square feet, making an
average floor load of 134.7 pounds.
There was still room to have placed
another man, which would have
brought up the loading to 1881 pounds
per square foot.
Prof. Kernot also quoted from
Stoney, who placed ~ffty-eight Irish Ia
borers, averaging 145 pounds each in
weight, in an empty ship dockhouse
measuring 81 square feet floor area.
This vas a load of 147.4 pounds per
square foot. In another test, with
seventy-three laborers crowded into a
hut 9 feet by s feet s inches, Stoney
produced a load Of 143 pounds per
square foot, and estimated that two or
three more lei could have been
squeezed in. Itappears from these ex-
periments that while the figures ordi-
narily assumed of so to 100 pounds are
sufficiently correct on spaces on which
there is no cause to induce the collec-
ton of great crowds, larger figures,
say $40 to $50 pounds per square foot,
should be used for railway stations
and platforms, entrances and exits to
places of public assemblies or of office
buildings, bridge sidewalks, pave
ments over vaults and other places
where dense crowds are likely to
gather.
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-Wopthington's Magazine says the
oldest rose bush in the world is at
Hildersheim, in Hanover. 1t was
planted more than 1000 years ago by
Charlemagne in commemoration of a
visit made to him by the ambassador
of the caliph Haroun-a1- Raschid. After
it had become a 1ourishing vine a
cathedral was built over it. 1t is
known, however, that a cofhn-shaped
vault was built around its sacred roots
in the year SIS, the vault and bush
surviving a fire which destroyed the
cathedral in 1146. The bush is now 26
feet high and covers 80 feet of the wall.
The stem, after 1000 years growth, is
only 2 inches in diameter.
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HOPES WRECKED BY A BONE,
He Would Have Proposed, But for an Ac-
cident.

cident.
Eyes" meditatively said the bachelor
to the other man, Il would have been
a prosy old married man like you by
this time if it had not been for the med
dlesome Intervention of a soup bone.
Some months ago l was very much
impressed with a little typewriter girl
in u Office. She was bright, pretty,
had a dainty figure, and wore such neat
toilets that half the men in the place
were daft about her.
II was too bashful to ask her if |
might call on her, and one night over
my late cigar l evolved a business
method of settling my fate. I would
go early to the Office next morning-sile
was usually the first clerk down.
would send the porter out upon an err
rand, and then dictate a letter to her
asking her to marry me.
Wasn't that a brilliant scheme?
But she was not there, and did not
come in until nine o'clock. Late in
the day l ] heard her tell another girl
what had detained her.
THE cook at her clearinghouse
had gone out to buy meat for break
fast; she entered the butcher shop just
as the butcher, in anger, threw a soup
bone at his assistant; the cook inter
cepted the soup-bone, was felled insen-
sible, and being unknown to the
butcher was carried off to the hospital.
1.-The boarders waited for their
breakfast, and my romantic intentions
were chilled beyond resuscitation-so
here am, a dismal bachelor, the vic
tim Of a contemplate, mean, little
fve-cent soup-bone.'-N. Y. Journal.
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THE MAGIC o
An Amusing Experiment. Which Produces
a Curious Phenomenon.

An Amusing Experiment Whfch Produces
a Curious Phenomenon.
Take a common wine glass and fill it
nearly to the rim with water. Then
cut two strips of paper and place them
on the glass in the form shown in this
illustration. Let them assume the
shape of a cross. and bend the ends
downward along the outside edge of
the glass. Before doing this, however,
it is advisable to paste the two pieces
at the point where they meet and pass
each other. This will keep them in
their proper places. Now wet your
fingers slightly and run the glass any
where between the ends of the cross.
As you do so you will see the cross
move by some invisible agency. The
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1t Had That Look.

This note from the editor" said
Spaceryt, clocks to me very much like
a freeze-out."
What does he say?' asked the office
boy.
Hereafter he wants me to do yacht
ing in winter, and skating contests in
summer. Puck.
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THE MAGIC o

o will keep moving until one end
of the paper is Immediately over the
spot where your finger is. Afterwards
run your finger slowly around the
glass, and the will mysteriously
move in the same direction. This
curious phenomenon is due to vibra-
tions occasioned by the friction of the
finger against the glass.-London Mil
lion.
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Still Booming.

Eastern Man How are things in
Dugout City now?
Western Man 80 Booming, Just a.
booming. Why, ! happened to want a
little spending money last week, and
it didn't take me half an hour to get a
third mortgage on my house.-N. Y.
Weekly.
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He Wouldn't Kick.

Don't your dancing classes disturb
the mar down-stairs?"
II suppose o." replied the professor.
But he isn't going to kick"
How do you know?"
He runs a shoe store."-Wash ington
Star.
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Will Not Hold Water.-Justice-
why did you steal hat waterproof
cloak?" Prisoner-'I didn't think il
was wrong to try and lay up some
thing for a rainy day."-Texas Sift-
ings.
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Not Sentiment but Sense.

Miss Walfiour is much more senti.
mental than I thought. She keeps
every letter that old lover of hers
writes her." THAT isn't sentiment.
my dear; it is good, hard, 'breach.of-
promise sense."-Boston Post.
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The total number of white males
In the United States from five to TWEEN
ty years inclusive is 1855, 372; colored.
l'5S7,S2S. Total number of white fe-
males OF same ages, 9,595, 1913; colored.
1,600, 499.
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WEIGHT OF A CROWD.
1t Is Said to Be from 40 to $50 Pounds
per Square Foot.

per Square Foot.
The load which is produced by a
dense crowd of persons is generally
taken at so to 100 pounds per square
foot. and is considered to be the great
est uniformly distributed load for
which a floor need be proportioned.
says the Engineering News. That this
value may be largely exceeded in an
actual crowd was pointed out by Prot.
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How Many Words DO You User

1t is astonishing how few words are really
needed to transact the business OF life and
how often these are called into requisition
Some expert in such matters computes that
with 600 words an ordinary man can trans
act all the business Of life, and of these he
commonly uses only 400 or 800, reserving
the remainder for extraordinary OCCASIONS
when some idea out Of the usual line of his
thinking occurs to him, compelling an un-
common strain Of his verbal resources.
In just such emergencies the blessings of
slang are manifest, one slang or cant word
being made TO do duty for a dozen. When
he wishes to convey the idea that the
weather is extremely cold, he says it is aw
fully cold, "A few months later he discovers
that it is awfully hot; at dinner his pie is
awfully nice; the young lady on whom he
called last evening was awfully pretty, and
80 on he goes, making one word answer the
purpose Of whole vocabulary.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.