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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

mo MAN NEED srARvE IF HE is SOBER. -
PEELED to listen to number Of doleful
stories about other fellows who had
looked just like him and then dropped
away and died in some lonely corner
If . printer died anywhere within two
hundred miles of him, it seemed to him
as il he were the first to be told the
news He took to weighing himself
regularly at the restaurant which he
used to patronize for fancy canned
goods, and in the course of three or
four weeks found that ne had lost
nearly ten pounds. This confronted
him with evidence which there could
be no denying. His friends might lie
about his appearance and condition,
but the weighing machine had no in
terest in deceiving him and couldn't il
it wanted. He became hypochondriac-
nj. No longer did the bright sunshine
of balmy July days gladden. his soul
To him the world was black and full of
WEAKNESS, and he yearned grievously
for the lost ten pounds.
One day Jack told his sorrows to q
physician and waited in an agony of
doubt for the verdict Tut, tut" said
that individual, after making brief
examination; there isn't much the
matter with you. You have simply |
been working too hard and have run |
down bit. Take trip into the coun-
try for week or two. Go anywhere, /
but get away from the office of the
Mirror" Jack hadn't lost days work I
In fvelva vears and hc hated the idaa
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

CURED is six and half yards. This
does not include ruffles. Cut by the
diagram given here a petticoat of silk
will be one over which your dress
maker will like to chang" your gown
skirt, because the silk fullness holds it
out well; and worn over it your gown
will keep it's contour-an advantage
which silk petticoats possess over
cambria, however perfectly the latter
may be cut and made.
Gore the front width with q differ.
ence of ten inches at the top, then
take four widths of your silk and fold
it over according to the first diagram,
measuring your corresponding tops
and bottoms exactly, with a difference
of seven and half inches between
them. In this manner you get two
cores out of one width. -Four of these
widths make eight cores, and these
are put together. four on either side of
the front, the bias edge, of course, al
ways going to the back. A seam will
then fall directly down the back, and
the bottom of the petticoat will lie in
flutes just as your dress skirt does.
Before you put on your ruffies and
after you have trimmed the bottom
even, face the skirt with bias facing
OF such stiffcning material as you pre-
fer, about twelve inches in width; this
keeps the skirt from dragging around
the feet. Across the four back cores
run ribbon drawstring, which holds
the fullness together in the back and
keeps the dress skirt bouffant.
In trimming silk petticoat one or
two large ruffles are better than the
small ones commonly used. If your
skirt is we'll clear of the gound you can
pink them; otherwise hem them, for |
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Fried Cucumbers. Peel nice large
cucumbers and cut them in thin slices:
| dip in beaten egg, then in cracker
crumbs and fry nice brown on both
sides in hot lard. Prairie Farmer.
do not blaclsen and begrime your
hands by polishing the stove barc-
handed. Instead utilize the paper bags
in which your groceries come by cover
ing your hands with them. Then use
the backing brush without fear Of soil
ing either skin or nails.
"A Pot Rag.-I make cloth to wash
pots and frying-pans in this manner: /
take half-worn piece of Osnaburg
eight inches square, after il is doubled.
and sew on it, securely, dozen dis
carded pants buttons It is almost as
good as wire dish cloth. Rural New
Yorker.
Baked Corn. Cover the bottom Of
q pudding dish with corn, then add q
layer of crackers rolled and add salt,
pepper Ia little cayenne also) and but
ter. Alternate layers of corn and
cracker dust until dish is half full; pour
over it q pint of cream or milk. Bake
SiOWAy ohd oHOW u. - w OluduklUO~
Stuffed Crabs.-Boil two or three
dozen crabs, remove the white meats
Take equal amount of soaked bread
crumbs, then two eggs. one tablespoon
OF butter, parsley, salt, pepper and
little -four. Mix altogether with the
fish and I'LL well cleansed shells; then
sprinkle with grated bread crumbs or
toast crumbs to keep in the moisture
and bake. Detroit Free Press.
TO make a Rich Rice Pudding
Take quart of milk, six ounces of rice
finely powdered, six eggs, half the
whites and a pound of butter, put in
the rice when the milk boils, let It boil
some time and then put in the sugar
and butter, stir it well and when cold
put in the eggs and bake it in dish; 10
must be well-balked. Put at the bot
tom of the dish some orange marma-
lade and marrow. Good Housekeeping.
Ham Toast, Take cold boiled ham,
crate it with a coarse CRATER, or mince
i very fine, mix it with cream and
beaten yolk of egg, enough for litt1A
gravy, and let it simmer until thor-
'ughly hot, or while preparing the
cast Make slices Of nice toast. butter
slightly, dip quickly into hot salted
water, or milk, and lay them on boH
lat dish. Spread the ham mince "a
he toast, and serve hot in a covcfe
lish, as it cools quickly. 81 ouseleepcr.
Pepper Mangoess Gut out the
TENS OF large green peppers with
harp knife, and pour hot brine over
hem. After standing two days, rinse
n clear water and I'LL with the follow
ng mixture: Four tablespoonfuls Of
rated horseradish root, three of white
mustard seed, one teaspoonful Of ginger
nd one of brown sugar. Replace the
TENS, tie them in with strong thread,
ack closely in q stone jar and cover
With hot vinegar, At the expiration Of
wo days drain of the vinegar and re-
eat it. Press down with plate and
Feight Mangoes of muskmelon are
lade in the same manner by cutting q
Lit from the side of the melon and re-
loving the seeds with spoon handle.
epper corns, celery seed, chopped
MON and cabbage, nutmeg, mace and
Had oil may be added to the filing il
ne chooses. IN. Y. Observer.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

and back, and the full sleeves mar
rowed into cuff of little plaits about
the wrists. The guimpe in question
has tiny ruffies of white China silk at
the throat and wrists for finish. 1t
is simple and childish, and not at all
hard to do up" The overdress is Of
delicate lemon-colored cashmere and
harmonizes wonderfully well with the
cream-white cape and the bonnie little
baby face. One can hardly imagine
how beautiful combination it is till
one sees little lassie of four summers
right in the middle of It.
Three yards of material-cashmere
lis enough, but half yard more will
not be too much, as it is always well
to have some left over for one of Mr..
Stockton's Unforeseen contingencies. +"
Two breadths and q half make the per-
fectly plain, full skirt whose only
trimming Is broad hem, with per
haps Misunderstanding Of silk that
erdctly matches the material It is not
an easy shade to match, and poor
match is far from an Improvement.
The lining of the little waist is simply
fitted, "round" waist, cut down square
~ from the shoulders, leaving just the
narrow shoulder straps, and making
the square opening for the guimpe.
The cashmere is arranged over the
lining. perfectly smooth under, the
arms, but with ample allowance in
front and on both sides of the back for
the fullness that constitutes the chief
charm of the whole dress Find the
center of the piece of goods that is |
to make the front of the waist, basic |
up a very broad plat, then cut
the outside to fit the lining.
That done, you have only to
nnbaste the plat in the middle and
gether the fullness into rufle at the
top between the shoulder-straps, put
ting in two or three shirrings, and ar
-anging the bottom of the waist after
she same fashion, but extending the
'hirrings only about as far as the little
'riH at the top extends. Under the
Irms let it be perfectly plain. The
'kirt may be gagged with three shir-
'ings as well, and then the waist and
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09
SOFT-SHELL LoBsTERS.
They Arc Such Good Eating That Tn,
Never Get to Market

They Arc Such Good Eating That They
Never Get to Market.
'Never seed soft-shell lobster?
Well, that's not surprisin'. You see,
they never get to market They're SO
good that they always get ate first"
The grizzled old fisherman wrung the
salt water out of his whiskers as he
talked, having just landed through the
surf in his boat with fine cargo of
fresh-caught Holsters.
"a soft-shelled lobster does not turn
up every day, even at this season. he
went on. when catch one my wife
cooks it for our own dinner. Good2
Well, you can bet Fried in boiling
lard, just like newly shed crab, it's
the finest thing on earth in the way of
provinder. Something like crab, you
know, but great deal more delicious.
Delmonico would give $40 dozen for
EN-, only that they can't be got for any
price.
You SEQ, when the Holsters ere she'd
ding they hunt for holes AMONG the
rocks to hide in. Until they get their
new coats they don't usually walk
abroad, but stay quietly in dark cram
MES where no enemy is likely to find
them At such times they are not ant
to be looking for food, and they don't
get into the pots on that account
There isn't any animal that is Drawer
than q lobster when he is in flghtipr
trim, but without his armor he is fab
by and helpless, and it can't be ex-
pected that he should take any extra
risk. It's only foolish one now and
then that strays into one of the traps
Suppose you had to take off your
skin every now and then and wait for
new one to grow. P'r'aps you'd feel
trifie sensitive and retirin'. That's
Just the way with a lobster. His coat
g OF plate mail It doesn't expand as
Ne develops. So the time comes when
ne must swell or bust. He bu'sts. and
when he comes out of his shell he is |
bigger by q considerable than he was
before. The process is q great strain
N his health; sometimes he dies in get
ing through it. He has to do the
anne thing good many times before
le gets his growth. but after that he
Doesn't shed any more.
This 10 the season when HOLSTERS
he'd Most Of those we catch are bus.
era That il. what We call those that
re on the point Of changing their
oats To do it they 90 away out to
e., 80 that just now we have to 20
wenty miles from land 70 catch them.
I doesn't take much skill. You see
e find them wherever there is rocky /
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

u know where they's an eleean,
swimmin' place." said Meanderina
Mike
Flooding Pete stopped chewing q
straw long enough to say: 'sG,won.
What yer given me?"
I'm givin' dead straight steer. ]
know where they's an elegant swim
min pool, an faint very fur off neither. .
well, don't you know that eft they's
anthing wus'n tal<in' bath it's goin'
in swimmin? What do you want wit
q swimmin' placer"
Meandering Mike looked at him in
silence for minute. There were tears
in his voice when he said:
Pete, yer disgrace ter our perfes-
sion, You are. Amt ye got NO business
instincts at all? Don't yer know dat
where dere's good swimmin' place
dere's billed shirts CROWN on de bushes
les' dyin' ter be swiped? Washington
Star,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

The dressmaker's device of balloon
shoulders was denounced as long ago
as the time of Ezekiel, that prophet
having uttered the solemn warning:
"Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the
women that sew pillows to all ARM
holes" The doubling can verify this
curse by turning to Ezekiel 1878. The
old Hebrew prophets, by the way. were
severe critics of women's fashionA
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

GA uays IN the week, he used to worl
seven rel1giously-well, not exactly re
ligiously, because he necessarily ignored
the seventh day, set apart sabbatically
Tor rest-but, at all events, he worked
with faithful assiduity. When the six.
nay rule was passed over his vote, he
grew soured and disconnected: full of
dismal prophecies about the trade 90
Ing to the dogs for the sake of a few
vargrant bum printers, and bitterly
retrospective about the good old times
when man, If he chose, might put in
one hundred hours week, if he could
possibly accomplish such miracle.
JACK Rule was not of the drinking
order of printers-at least not in pub
hc-and this popularity gave him an
excellent excuse for CURLY refusing to
give assistance to any wandering
printer whom circumstances had tenn
porarily embarrassed. mo man." he
used to say, need to starve if he is
sober and works as hard as do" To
tell the truth, Jack was miserly--so
misery that it almost seemed to be
music In his ears when it was broadly
limited by some poor fellow that he was
a hog" or when it was suggested by
MS fellow worlxmen that he would
make first-class "Shylochr for the
composing-room of the famous Mari
gold Mirror
Jacks fellow workmen on the Mari
gold Mirror did not like him much.
They therefore made him chairman of
the chapel Itso happened that in the
hrst few months of his incum bency of
office some important subjects demand
ed the attention of the chapel. There
were rumors that the proprietors of the
Mirror intended to substitute type-set-
ting machines for men, and the ques-
tlon, whether or not this action should
not be opposed as being distinctively
destructive to the trade of the compos- |
itor. led to many warm discussions in |
which minority who held that the in
production OF machines could only in
Jure bad printers, whom the trade |
could well afford to drop off the roll,
were bitterly opposed by majority
VINO felt by uomeans sure of their DO
sition if it ever happened that their
brains and hands had to be pitted
against senseless automatic type-set-
ting machine. This and a number of
other matters worried Jack Rule as
chairman of the Mirror chapel. He
tried his best not to lose any time over
Them. but, do what he might, he found
ms mind distracted and his string
,otably shortened week by week.
June ended and July commenced with
Jack Rule in bad state of mind and
body. He was worried, first. because
lis weekly bills had fallen off in spite
II his extra exertions to work better
han ever. Then he was worried. next.
because he had begun to notice dis :
met failure in his appetite. His gem ,
raj condition was by no means inn .
'roved when one after another of his
riends exclaimed: Holy Moses, Jack. |
nut you're looking i'll What's the mat !
er? You had better look out for your I
elf before it's too late" He was COM |
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09
WISE WORDS ABOUT Wrinkles.


II Il Much Easier to Avoid Having Them
Than It IL to Cure Them.
Don't try to cure wrinkles-avoid
them, was the practical bit of advice
that dropped from the lips of woman.
The speaker passed on with her friend,
but left behind one who meditated long
and thoughtfully upon what she had
just heard. 1t is true wrinkles are in
themselves incurable save by the gentle
process of nature known as 'sfattening
up" which SO often comes at the age
when wrinkles commence. As long as
matter is supreme wrinkles will be
subjugated. But there is a good deal
in avoiding the telltale lines. Care of
the eyes and facial repose are the two
things which count. Chewing-gum is
responsible for many wrinkles in
American faces, as is emotion. People
who make faces for living, such as
clowns and comedians; people who
squint and people who laugh and chat
ter perpetually. all have prematurcly
worn and haggard faces Therefore
the great preventive is rest
As for the eyes, just notice how much
earlier In life the weak-eyed woman
wrinkles than does her keen-vis
Toned sister. Trying to face the in
tensity of the sunlight or to sew or
read by artificial light strains the eyes
until the facial muscles as well as the
optic nerves are taxed to the utmost.
In winter the refracted sunlight from
the snow or ice under foot, and in sum-
mer the binding glare from the sun
shine on the sea and the beach, are In
fiucnces as prolific as the unrelenting
hand of time. Society women are the
only class of weak-eyed people who
take proper care of their faces. They
save their eyes. II they are too vain to
wear glasses they don't try to read un-
der trying circumstance In public
places the fashionables make little use
Df opera-glasses and no use Of librettos
catalogues and prayer
books You will never catch the soci-
sty beauty burning holes in her eyes
10 study q stage artist But the staple
article is fan, and women who know
is real value aside from the decorative
,at, sleep, read and live with it in hand.
Il is this sort of protection for the eyes
hat retards the accumulation of
wrinkles and preserves the sight The
'arly adoption and continuous use of
hats for weak-eyed girls
J timely preventive OF untimely crows
oes and wrinkles Chicago Post
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

skirt Joined. There is no bell at all,
only as the shirring in waist and skirt
may resemble belt.
The shoulder-puffs are straight pieces
Of cashmere followed under the arm
and gathered at top and bottom. First,
make little coat-sleeve Innings, cut off
very short indeed-much shorter than
the outside sleeves of the cashmere,
as that will add greatly to the pufiness
and then arrange the full puffs over
them with little rufae and three shir-
rings ut the bottom
The illustrations really speak for
themselves. and the at of q costume,
when once under way, almost makes
itself, and once accomplished is worth
all the making many times over.-An-
ME Hamilton Donnell, in Country GEN.
tIemau
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

She Gust after accepting him)-f
don't see why you were. 20 sure would
have you.
he thappily)-It was because 1 heard
you tell one OF your friends that NV
last necktie was unbecoming to me-
Truth. -,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09
SILK PETTicoATs.


Make Her Own.
Women who like TO wear silk petit
coats are making new ones The old
ones are nearly useless under the new
gown skirt; they Top about the ankles,
while the gown skirt is standing ont in
flutes around the bottom. Few of the
old petticoats are over two and .
quarter or two and half yards wide.
and they have no lining in them, but
their RULES and lace hang in = soft.
mass about the feet.
Our own strong American silks make
excellent petticoatA The quantity 70
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09
JACK RULES VACATION.
= Tale Of the Wonderful Transfer.
nation Of SHARK"

HAN Jack Rule
there was prob
ably no harder
worker in tn e
business. Before
the rul g w a s
passed by tn e
union, that, in
orde r to give
as many men as
possible a chance
to make a living,
no man should
be allowed to
work more than
Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
ncelaimine oid Rubber.

Crude rubber is worth from 40 to D cents per pound, and yet pound of hose or packing costs very much less. This would be hardly practical if it were not for the advances that have been made in the art of retaining or recovering rub Der, which can be done at the total cost of about 3 cents per pound. There are several large factories in tho country de- voted solely to this purpose, and a great many manufacturers do recovering on a small scale at the seat of the production of new goods.
 These old goods are placed in large tanks at the place of roclanning A so. lution of muriatic or sulphpric acid and water is poured upon the waste, and the whole set to boiling by system of steam pipes passing through the tank. After 10 or 12 hours boiling the cotton fiber, which is found in all rubber inanufac- lures and which is the serious drawback in the reclaiming process, disintegrates and falls into powder, and there is no difficulty then in the use of the waste.- New York Telegram.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
The lyeman nnd lhe no.e.

A traveller stopped at little cabin in tho Georgia woods Ho wore white rose on his coat-oEe that a little girl had plucked and pinned there as he was leaving home.
 A woman entered the cabin. She stood and gazed at the rose a moment. Then, darting forward, she tore it from the strangers co2t and stamped it on the rude floor.
 Why did you do thatf' asked tho stranger leaping to his feet.
 "Hush" said a man who was sitting near. That's my wife, an--an-she ain't right here"-tapping his forehead. We had a little girl once, with blue eyes an hair like sunset. She wan dered of among the roses one day--lost, lost!-an when we found her she was where the roses grow, an they was creep il over her. An the wife there went mad, an now she says the roses stole the child an hid her away from us forever, an she goes about an tramples them just like she did the rose there on the Hoorf'--New ! ork Recorder
Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
Kept His wifo In a Trunk.

The offense known in this country as sequestraton, CT private Imprisonment, is far from uncommon. Only the other day whole family was brought up for trial on a charge of keeping an idiot youth in an iron cage until he had lost all his physical as well as his mental faculties, and similar case Is now reported from Evreux, in Normandy, The authorities of the village of Neu- bourg were advised recently by anony- nous letter that Q peasant named Le- huby was ''sequestrating" his wife.
 The gendarmes presented themselves at Lehuby's house and asked to see his wife. This request being refused, they proceeded to search the place from the cellar to the granaTy, and having found no trace of the woman were about to withdraw when One of them discovered a large trunk and asked for the key. On the case being opened the figure of Mime Lehuby suddenly jumped up like jack in the box, and she explained to the gendarmes that her husband would not allow her to go out and that whenever ne left the house ho left her locked up in the box, ,wheresh coull scarcely breathe Lehuby was at once arrested and will be tried for amateur Imprisonment" ."- Paris Cor. London Telegraph.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
nls Igeddlnc Nlght In JaI1.

That amusing scene in the "Chapeau de Paille d'Italie," in which the members of wedding party arc ignominiously locked up, is frequently repeated here in real life. A journeyman painter and dec orator, who lad married ayoung woman employed as fruit vender in the Rue Clignancourt, was returning homo with his bride and friends when a band of noc- turnal providers delivered a determined attack on the party. The bridegroom was knocked down by the aggressors, and the bride slipped and fell. The battle ragged furiously in the dark for several minutes, and the arrival of the police, in- stead of settling matters in the proper manner, only made them worse. In tue general scufile the real culprits escaped, and the police, exasperated by the blows received by them, and not knowing who struck them in the obscurity, arrested the bridegroom, and despite his protests carried him off to the lookup. There he had to pass the night and was only re- stored to his disconsolate better half the next morning Paris Letter,
Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
A weleomo neaar ror ncrmndn.

We confess that the proposal of The Sun that Bermuda join us is fascinat- ing one. Why, indeed, should we not annex Bermuda? 1t i5 scarcely farther from New York than is Detroit or Hali- fax. The people are desirable. Less than half of them are white, to be sure, but three-fourths of Che whole population are worthy Episcopaliaus. An annual bndget of sij0,OO0 provides government for these people now, and their dobt is q mere bagatelle. Already most of Der. muda's business is with tho United States, and our people mako up the bulk of the winter pleasure travel. We are frank 10 concede that if Bermuda suggests annex ation a great many of us will tako off our hats and cheer.-New York Com mercial Advertiser