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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
oRAssHoPPERs ON TOAST.
Western Luxury That Beats All the
High Falutin' French Fixln's.

A Western Luxury That Beats All the
High Falutin' French FixIn's.
Ever eat any grasshoppors?
asked John Mills of the Progress man,
at the Pacific hotel in Pomona,
Cal, the other day You never
did? Then you don't know what
luxury is. Talk about your fricas-
seed frogs, pate de foie gras and all
the rest o. your high falutin' French
fixin's!
They just amt in it at all with a
big. fat Kansas hopper, done brown
in fresh country butter. | was once
travelling from St. Joe to Wichita
when the hoppers swooped down on
Kansas like horde of hungry office
holders on n president-elect When
they finished feeding and hoped up
on the barbed-wire fences to pick
their teeth and talk it over, the
country looked like the burned dis
trict in Chicago after the big fire.
81 had new green wagon with
red wheels, ana the hoppers ate
every bit of the paint off it and
gnawed the woodwork They ate all
the backing off my harness, the tails
off my horses, and / had to keep my
dog under 4 tarpaulin to prevent
them devouring him raw. You never
saw such appetites They got into
my commissary department and
made away with verything but q
stone jar of butter hao brought
from st. Joe. ] didn't have "a cent
and it was two days drive to Wich-
tia Couldn't live On butter, you
know, so l concluded to play for
even. l built fire, put my skillet
over it, and dropped in half a pound
of the dyspepsia provoker.
at was soon frying and sizzling
away at great rate, and hoppers
were hopping into it, sixty second.
let 'em fry about a minute, then I
moved 'em and sat down to give my
stomach surprise party. We'll, sir,
the hind legs were the finest meat 1
ever ate. They had an excellent
game flavor, and tasted like mountain
brook trout. l Jared sumptuously
after that, and found the journey far
too short.
Il lad always been sorry for ST
John, whose diet was locusts and
wild honey. but l tell you that no
knew his business. If locust is
anything like a Kansas hopper, the
original pathfinder had no kick COM
ing"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

sures that in every part of the -four
there shall be a few PARTICLES of the
powder. The salt and milk or water
being added, the dough is made up as
quickly as possible and moulded into
the loaves.
These are placed in the oven and
baked. But the very momest the
warmth and moisture attack the mix
ture of cream of tartar and soda, these
two ingredients chemically combine
aud carbonic acid or leavening gas is
evolved. The consequence may be
seen at a glance, the bread is raised
during the time il is baking in the
oven, and this is the most perfect OF
all conceivable methods of raising it.
Here, then, there is no chance for
germs of disease to get into the dough
and thence into the stomach, more
than that the bread is necessarily as
sweet as possible, there having been
no time during which it could sour.
This involves the fact that the bread
so made will keep longer, as it is less
likely to be contaminated by the germs
that affect the souring process.
1t will be strange if the crowds OF
visitors to the Worlds Fair do not
greatly increase the number of con-
tagious diseases which we will have to
treat. Under these circumstances is it
not folly of follies to open a single
channel through which these germs
may reach us? Is it not the part Of
wisdom to watch with the greatest
care all that we eat and drink, and to
see that none but the safest and best
methods are employed in the prepare
ton of our food? To me it seems as
though there could be but one answer
to questions like these,
have shown the danger of using
the yeast raised bread, and with this
l have shown how that danger may be
avoided. The ounce of prevention
which in this case is neither difficult
nor expensive, is certainly worth
many pounds of cure, and the best
thing about it is that it may be relied
on almost absolutely. Those who eat
bread or biscuits or rolls made at home
with Royal baking powder may be sure
they have absolutely stopped one chan
mel through which disease may reach
them.
observation-disclosures desiring informa-
ton in regard To the preparation of the
bread which, for anitary reasons DR.. Edison
so strongly urges for general use should
write 70 the Royal Baking Powder Company,
New York
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

only for the most succo, sful produc-
ton, but also for the full apprecia ton
of the fine arts Good industrial art
includes the scientific as well as the
artistic element, science securing the
necessity of true and permanent work
manship, art contributing the quality
of attractiveness and beauty.
The industrial art schools, which
are factor of no little impo lance in
modern economics, have proceeded on
the basis that science is the true
foundation of art, and the succ"ss of
these schools strongly cen firms the
principle on which they are based
1t is certain that ~ development of
the industrial art a in America has
OPP ned up unusual helts of usefulness
to women, which they are ent"r'ng
with adaptabilty and enthusiasm,
making success sure and unque@llun-
able In the art schools exhibit,
woman's ability TO do good WORK Is so
evident that it confutes the notion so
long INDUCED in that the arr sense
was limited TO man. The woInuu'a art
school of Cooper union is full OF sug-
gestions and contains many happy
features. There are a number OF eX-
quisite designs for book covers of the
sixteenth century, stained glass win
dows, Gothic lettering, tiles and tex
tile fabr cs. Much of the designing is
based upon historic ornament, the
Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Greek and
byzantine. The flower studies for ap-
piled designs are very interest ng
and instructive part of the eNhi bit.
The pen and ink drawings are strong
and the studies in oil are treated with
great refinement and truthfulness.
Some of the best American artists are
teachers in the school, Goodyear, Van
derhoof, Wier and Clifford.
The normal class for the training
of teachers in the Prang course of
form, drawing and color has an exhibit
that gives one a very clear idea of the
logical sequence of this admirably de-
veloped plan of art instruction. The
Philade phia School Of Design for
Women, one of the oldest schools in
the country for the art education of
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

1t is well to sound a note of warning
in this direction or the change from
the Objectionable yeast TO an impure
baking powder will be case of jump
ing from the frying pan into the fire.
The best baking powder made is, as
shown by analysis, the Royal" 1t
contains absolutely nothing but cream
of tartar and soda, refined TO n chem
ical purity. which when combined UNI
der the inflaeace of heat and moisture
produce carbonic acid gas, and having
done this, disappear. It's leavening
strength has been found superior to
other baking powders, and as far as |
know, it is the only powder which will
raise large bread perfectly. It's use
avoids the long period during which
the yeast made dough must stand in
order tina. the starch may ferment and
there is also no kneading necessary.
The two materials used in the Royal.
cream of tartar and soda, are perfectly
harmless even when eaten. But they
are combined in exact compensating
weights, so that when chemical action
begins between them they practically
disappear, the substance of both hav-
ing been taken up to form the carbonic
acid gas. More than this, the proper
method of using the powder insures
the most thorough mixing with the
-four. The proper quantity being
taken, IL is mixed with the -four and
stirred around in it. The mixture Is
then sifted several times and this in
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

women has large and representative
exhibit. It's various departments of
practical designs, crayon portrait, land
scape painting, flower painting, mod
cling, drawing from antique architec-
tural, china decoration, etching and
normal art course tell the story of the
great breadth of the work, its progress
and remarkable productive power of
the students.
The Prang exhibit occupies the first
alcove in art school row. Although
not in the circumscribed sense, an art
school in Chief Peabody's Judgment,
the aims and the results accomplished
are in the end those of an art school.
The work is arranged very sys tenn
atically and one can very easily follow
it from the first year through that of
the last year in the grammar schools
and get an intelligent idea of the
progression and continuity of the
course of instruction. A lesson one
learns in looking through the art
school exhibit, is that there is in the
American temperament an intelligent
art movement which is ready to be
stimulated and developed. Art is no
longer reserved for the talented
few, but is become means
of education throughout the
land. Art in America must be
develoc ed on the basis of broad hui
mauity The putting of industrial
training into the schools is a great
step in this direction, one that will
surely give higher idea and a nobler
purpose TO the labor of common life.
The fundamental ethical principles
that hold society together must not be
lost sight of AIT education, the study
of beauty as the highest in nature and
in human life, can be directed against
a social Generalization which some
times appears to threaten us, and for
this reason the work of art education
has its value as a powerful moral
force. IDA M. CoNDIT.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

eel in every way the labored efforts
of years
The school Of drawing an painting,
museum OF fine arts, BoS on, has an
excellent exhibit OF studies in black
and white; there are q number of
heads in oil which show BY their
strength and gracc that thorough and
honest work Is the purpose Of the
school.
In the art schools exhibit the schools
of industrial art have an equal share
with those of high art, for art means
now something more than pictures,
and the various applications OF art to
objects Of use III d nnmcnt be ng
understood and appre ciatcd by large
majority of the American pcpulace.
Industrial art has had n disagree
able association, TO many people 1t
suggests the commercial spirit, the
shop and the fnctor y, but art, if ii Is
worthy TO be called art, is based on
science and science is necessary, not
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
has SO good chance of gathering

has so good a chance Of gathering
germs.
What is meant by ''raising" bread is
worth IA few words. The introduction
of the yeast into the moist dough and
the addition of heat when the pan is
placed near the fire produces an enor-
nous growth of the yeast fungi-the
yeast germ in other words. These
fungi effect destructive fermentation
of portion of the starchy matter of
the fiour-one of the most valuable
nutrient elements in the flour. The
fermentation produces carbonic acid
gas, and this, having its origin in
every little particle of the starch
which is itself everywhere in the flour,
pushes aside the particles of the dough
to give itself room. This is what is
called raising the bread
1t needs but a glance to see that it
is, in its effects on the dough, purely
mechanical. The dough, which was
before a close-grained mass, is now
full of little holes, and when cooked
in this condition is what we ordinarily
call light. This porous quality of
bread enables the stomach to rapidly
and easily digest it, for the gastric
juices quickly soak into and attack it
from all sides. The fermentation of
the dough, however, uses up a portion
of the nutrient elements of the loaf.
If it be possible, therefore, to produce
a light porous loaf without this de-
struction and without the "kneading"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

process, which fills the dough with
germs and filth, and without the long
period during which the raising pro-
cess goes on, the gain in food and the
gain in the avoidance of the germs is
exceedingly plain.
But while we can easily see the dam
gers which attend the use of yeast it is
certain that the veslculating effect
produced by il on the dough is to the
last degree perfect. 1t is apparent that
if we are TO substitute any other sys-
tenn of bread making we must have one
which will give us, first, mechanical
results equally as good, that is, that
will produce minute bubbles of car
bonic acid gas throughout the mass of
dough. Now it is in no way difficult
TO produce carbonic acid gas chemic-
ally, but when we are working at
bread we must use such chemicals as
are perfectly healthful. Fortunately
these are not hard TO find.
The evils which attend the yeast
made bread are obviated by the use
of a properly made, pure and whole
some baking powder in lieu of yeast.
Baking powders are composed of an
acid and an alllali which, if properly
combined, should when they unite at
once destroyed themselves and produce
carbonic acid gas. A good baking
powder does its work while the loaf is
in the oven, and having done it, disap-
pears.
But care is imperative in selecting
the brand of baking powder to be GER
tain that it is composed of nOn-injuri-
Gus chemicals. Powders containing
alum or those which are compounded
from impure ingredients, or those
which are not combined in proper pro-
portion or carefully mixed and Winch
VIII leave either an acid or an alkali in
the bread, must not be used.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
SOME SANITARY ASPECTS
or Bread Making by CYRUS Edison, NJ. d.,
Health Commissioner, New York City.

Health Commissioners, New York City.
1t is necessary, If one would under
stand the sanitary aspects of bread
making, TO fully comprehend the pres
ent theory held by scientists of germs
and the part played by them in dis
ease. The theory of disease germs is
merely the name given to the
knowledge had of those germs by
medical men, a knowledge which
is the result of innumerable
experiments. Being this, the old
term of a theory has become a mis-
homer. A germ of n disease is plant,
SO small that do not know how TO eX-
press intelligibly TO the general reader
It's lack of size. When this germ is in
troduced into the blood or tissues of
the body, its action appears to be anal
ogous TO that which takes place when
yeast is added TO dough. 1t attacks
certain elements OF the blood or tissues
and destroys them, at the same time
producing new substances.
But the germs of the greater part of
the germ diseases, that is, of the infec-
tious and contagious diseases, will de-
velope or increase in number without
being in the body of a human being,
provided always you give them the
proper conditions. These conditions
are to be found in dough which is be-
ing raised with yeast. They are
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
The Chlnese Dict of FIsh.

The waters OF China abound in
fish, and it is estimated by high au-
thority that one-tenth of the people
of that empire derive their food from
the water. The coasts arc crowded
with enterprising and Industrious
fishermen, and besides the net ana
hook great number of ingenis3s
expedients are used to capture Ono
fish. In the eastern provinces cor
morants are trained in great num-
bers to catch fish, which they bring
to their master, who sits in a boat
from which he watches at thu same
time fifteen or twenty OF the birds
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
HUMOROUS.

Eyes, was to meet her 1T clock,
but got there at 7:45." "Well, what
about it?" ut was a quarter to wait,
you know"
please, ma'am, give some money to
a orphan?" Here's a quarter. Is
your father dead, little boy?" mo,
ma'am, the moneys for me fodder;
he's orphan"
Mr.. Union Club never get relig-
ious except at twilight, when have
time to sit before the fire and smoke.
Mrs. Union Club suppose the fire
and smoke make you dwell upon your
future, dear
Mrs. Upton-You will have to in.
crease my allowance for servants
wages, my dear. MIR. Upton-What
for? Mrs. Upton-Our butler wants a
valet and my waiting maid wants n
waiting maid.
Tailor-If any one calls on me, say
! will be back in an hour Clerk
Very well, sir. Shall l tell them
where you have gone? Tailor-My
gracious, no; I'm going out TO buy me
a ready made suit
"Howdy do" said the traveller 20
the Kansas farmer. "Howdy do. Z"
"How's pork?' Forks gone up"
"You don't say SOP yep. Eff ye'd
been round here in time fur the
cyclone, ye'd have seen it 60"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

and an intelligent and sympathetic
understanding of this branch OF art.
The classes in composition send some
excellent work. as do also the sltet n
classes, the results of fifteen minutes
and two hours sketching are remark
able for their bold and truthful
effects. This work shows how science
comes to the aid of art, how system
atized knowledge of technique, cou-
pied with the genuine art feeling can,
with few rapid, bold, earnest strokes
produce effects that are bound TO ex-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

A large meteor, which fell about n
year ago, was unearthed near Table
mountain, in California, recently.
Photography has now reached the
point where an object travelling at the
rate of 5000 mi es an hour can be
photographed by means of the electric
fash.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
THE SCHOOLS OF ART.
A DAY IN THE LIBERAL ARTS
BUILDING.

American Art Institutes Make y splcn-
did Showing Mt Chicag
Artists Arc sincere Portrayers OF Ma
ture-The Different schools.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18


schools, in the south I'm section of the
gallery of the liberal arts building.
The exhibit is not very large one,
but it is representative and character
istic of every feature that is certainly
evolving an American school of art
We have waited long and patiently for
the birth of American art, and ut last
we are being rewarded by n white
star of promise that has appear ed in
the western sky, whose radiance
Gains and charms and fills the heart
with hopes of great gifts for the
future.
The work of the art schools grouped
in a section divided into small apart
ments, extending along the eastern
aisles. The art institute eNhib I,
which is regarded with much interest,
occupies the last space in the row.
This school, thou Il one of the yo ng-
est, ranks with the first at sch OILS in
the country. Its position is due to
the genius of its instructors, among
whom are dorado Taft and Frank
Millet, whose rare gifts and unconven-
tional grasp Cf the knowledge of true
art have contributed so much to the
artistic beauty of the Exposition.
The exhibit represents very fully
the work OF the school; it includes the
Saturday juvenile class, decorative de-
signs from orig ma designs, architect
ure, modelling, studies in oil and in
charcoal. Breadth and originality
are characteristic of the art institute
and there are some special features
that mark its superiority. The still
life studies in oil, of metal work are
strong and brilliant, and there is re-
markable truthfulness in the glisten-
ing sheen of the polished and orna-
mented surfaces. In the modelling
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

He that calls man ungrateful sums
up all the evil that q man can be
guilty Of.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18

The venerable Robert G. Winthrop,
who, everything considered, is the
most distinguished citizen of Massa-
chusetts, is one of the summer cottag-
ers at Nahant. Commenting on the
fins old mans sprigh&liness at 81, q
Boston journal says: THE man who
takes the hand of Mr.. Winthrop to.
day takes the hand that William
Wordsw orth grasped, that was shak-
en- by Samuel Rogers, and that found
its way with acceptance into the hand
of the duke of Wellington. OF what
other American can the same be said?"
The letters in the various alphabets
of the orld vary from twelve to 2o2
in number. The Sandwich islanders
alphabet has the srst number named,
the Tartarian the LASH
One species of beetl. is known as
the sexton" or grave digger" be-
cause they bury, or attempt to bury,
all dead animals, large or small, With
which they come in contact.
After travelling the globe for twenty
years letter has been returned to its
sender, Fred G. Anderson, at New
London, Conn. The letter was prop
erly addressed, but had not been
claimed by the person to whom IL yas
inscribed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
Worlds Fair Letter ]
N EXHIBIT OF

n EXHIBIT OF
great value as one
of the most inn
POI tant factors in
the remark Il b ] y
rapid development
of American art,
and the unfolding
of this wonderful
flower, the " orlu S
Columbian EXposi-
ton, is that of the
A m, A n 4. N nrt
The morning call., 1893-07-23
GOSSIP OF LONDON.
Movements in the Literary World
of England.


LONDON, July %. - Lord Randolph
Churchill is going for an immediate holi-
day to Kissingen and Gastien to take the
waters.
Lord Dufferin is preparing for publica-
tion volume of poems written by his
mother, Lady Clifford.
George Meredith is to write new novel
for the Pail Mall Budget.
Emile Zola will come to England to at
tend the conference OF the journalists at
the Crystal Palace September %.
Chief Justice Coleridge is writing the
memoirs of his late father. Henry James
Coleridge.
Lord Salisbury Is sitting for his portrait
to Hubert Herkomer.
The Worshipful Company Of Musicians
of Wales in recognition Of his interest in
art and music.
The Duke Of Edin bnrgh becomes presi-
dent Of the Royal Academy of Music.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is busily at work on
new opera for the Savoy in the style Of
"The Mikado."
Carl Rosa's Opera Company Is able for
the first time In several seasons to declare
a small dividend. He declares the new
opera OF Amy Rotsart" proves poor WORK.
despite the excellent libretto, which is by
a Frsnchman. M. Milliet, an amateur.
whose wealth Is probably partly account
able for its production.
Italian musicians are preparing to sur
prise Verdi on his eightieth birthday, Oc-
tober 10. They intend to present him
with an album Of the sign atures of CON-
posers and musicians throughout the
world.
Henry IrvinE's season closes tonight,
when the profession will entertain him
with a farewell supper prior to his depar-
ture for America.
The morning call., 1893-07-23
ALAMEDA.

The contract for constructing sewer
from Agnews to the bay Of San Francisco,
a distance of $1,000 feet. for S11.150 has
been awarded to A. Kynock, one of Ala
meda's leading contractors.
He Went Security.
Another attachment has been issued
against the A. M. Prosser drug con-
Germ in the sum Of S533S. A few days
ago on attachment for S4101 II was issued.
The business has been conducted by A.
M. Prosser about two wears. He purchased
the stor e from n. j. Younge, who in CON-
pany with j. II. Hubacheck established it
about three years ago. The failure is not
attributed to lack of patronage. but is re-
garded as one of the consequences of the
financial stringency Of S. s. Prosssr, VINO
conducts similar business on Grant
avenue, San Francisco, and for whom A.
M. Prosser had gone security on several
notes aggregatinR some $1,000. Then again
some five months ago A. NJ. Prosser set
his brother-in-law. G. Holt, up in the dry.
goods business. and that proved a bad
venture, and he is supposed to have lost
heavily. Unless other attachments follow
tho feeling prevails that it may be possible
for Prosser TO tide over his financial diff.
culties.
Webster-Street Bridge.
The Webster-street bridge is to receive
some attention-at Feast in the near future.
The Supervisors have set day august y