St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THERE are more men than women In
South Dakota and several other Western
States. the melancholy result of which Is
that lots of the bachelors there are unable
to get wives; and there are more women
than men in Connecticut and sundry
other New England States, the sad con
sequence of which is that some OF the
marriageable women there are without
husbands. Yet. comments tie New York
Sun, it is not the business Of the Federal
Government to establish an lnter-Staty
Matrimonial Bureau for the Purpose OF
Properly Regulating the Proportion OF
Men and Women in the Respective States
of the American Union. In the long run
the law of supply and demand, if allowed
to operate freely and fairly under tho
accordant principles of competition and
solidarity, will surely determine ana
adjust the concurrent or mutual interests
of all the men and women of our country
who desire to enter iuto the holy bonds
of wedlock.
CHARLES CURTIS, Representative elect
from the Fourth District of Kansas. IS
the son of quarter-blood kaw Indian
and Captain Q. A. Curtis Of the Kansas
Volunteers, Fifteenth Regiment. Ills
grandmother still lives on the reservation
in the Indian Territory. He was born
in North Topeka January ., 1850. His
mother died when he was three years OF
age. He was a Jockey until his sixteenth
year. and. commencing us soon as he
could, rode horses summers in Texas,
Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana. Iowa, and
Missouri, attending school winters, thus
securing an education. In 1876 and 1877
he drove a hack to support himself,
going to school laytimes. In 1879 he
entered a law office and in 1891 was
elected county attorney. lie received
the Republican nomination for Congress
last June, and was elected by majority
of 5000 over fusion candidate.
THERE are probably one hundred and
fifty schools for cooking in Germany and
Austria. the best of which are at Vienna,
Berlin and Leipsic A man who wishes
to become chef must begin at the very
bottom Of the ladder-at peeling pota-
toes-and work up round by round to
the top. A course of schooling as strict
as any polytechnic school in this country
must be followed for four years before
the student can get a diploma. Every
wear competitive exhibitions are given in
which as many as two hundred chefs
take part The chef who was employed
at the White House by Grover Cleve-
land, and who, it is rumored, may be
again, has q gold medal which was pre-
sented to him by the Empress Frederick
for excellence in cooking, a silver medal
given BY the King of Saxony, a diploma
from the Queen of Austria and numerous
other marks of appreciation and honor
won in competitive contests in cooking.
It is not to be wondered at that European
cooks command extraordinary salaries IN
this country.
HENRY CABOT LODGE is the thirty
sixth man who has been honored by the
State of Massachusetts with a seat in the
United States Senate since Congress was
organized in 1880. 1t is an interesting
coincidence, by the way, that the great
grandfather of Mr.. Lodge, George Cabot,
was United States Senator from Mass
achusetts just century ago, he having
been elected in 1871 to serve until 1856.
His grand sons term will expire in 1899,
so that there will be three years in the
two centuries when the great grand
father and the great grandson Will have
been wearing the same toys, with a CEN
fury between them.
NINE MARIA DERAIsMEs, President OF
~ cooi,t,- fpr tha oil ronppnlpDt of
women, has founded an annual scholar
ship to enable young girls of good con
duct and slender means to go before the
authorities for examination to qualify
them to dispense medicines and com
pound prescriptions Nine. Deraismes
is of the opinion that the best means of
amleorating tie condition of women is
to increase the number of careers open
to those who are obliged to earn their
living, and also that the work of drug
gists is suited to women.
A MODEL of husbandly virtue, patience,
and tolerance is his imperial Majesty the
Emperor of Austria His melancholy
Empress wife is left to follow her own
way and will in making sudden and
strange journeys, and to indulge in
eccentricities which must puzzle even
this amiable spouse Last year it was
for a house in Corfu with magnificent
environment, where she paced the garden
walks conversing in Greek with her
Grccian tutor. This year it is a sojourn
in Spain with a large and expensive suite
and apparently indefinite purpose. Mean
while her royal consort patiently bides
at home, attending to the numerous
court functions, through which he en-
dears himself to his people, and enter
tains the company his restless wife re-
fuses to stay at home to receive.
A COMPANY has organized in New
Jersey to utilize the accidental discovery
of student in chemistry-the discovery
that tile can be made of common beach
sand mixed with water and some chem
icals the nature of which is kept secret.
All that it is necessary to do is to empty
the wet sand into tile-shaped moulds,
and in the morning there is your tile,
glazed and hard, without the application
of either heat or pressure. 1t is said
that tile, drains, tubs, imitation terra
Gotta, statuettcs, and so forth, become
as firm as baked pottery and are much
cheaper. Coloring matter can be stirred
into the sand with the effect of perma-
ncntly tinting it, and marble can be fairly
initiated by pouring the color unevenly
through it.
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