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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-05-26
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les 3 enouentran Ia siEuientes:
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rsSu iu1ataci6n mRrnl... 500
tlaclos FdnebEes, encuader-
nacI6n de piel CON relieves, 800
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dernaci6n de piel. ....... 300
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-05-26
uBROS BARATOS.

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The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
A CLASS IN BATTER.

For bad bread Is not the only article
that is able, when taken into the hui
man system, to induce the belief that
life is not worth living. There, for in
stance, is the potato. This savory es-
culent, highly nutritious when pre-
pared by hands skilled in arts culinary,
becomes a potency for evil should the
presiding genius of the range and
saucepan be inspired with the idea that
potatoes can be cooked anyhow" and
still be good. Furthermore, there is a
pet superstition that potatoes boiled or
baked and left over from one repast
can be made equally savory and nOur-
ishing by the simple process Of slicing
them, mixing them with some descrip-
ton Of grease and frying them until
they are as tough as disks of leather
and quite as digestible. The potato,
like the oyster, must be perfectly fresh
to be eatable at all; and then again,
like the oyster. must be prepared in the
simplest possible manner. All the arts
of the cook school professor can not
make potatoes fried in grease anything
but insults to the digestive apparatus,
and although there are human ostriches
who can swallow fried potatoes, and
glass, and horseshoe nails, and hot bis
cults, and marbles, and for the moment
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

the house needs no cleaning is not of the
slightest consequence; the motions must
be gone through with if for no other
reason than to teach the tyrant man
that there are times and seasons when
tie down-trodden wife, like the crushed
worm, will turn and assert her su-
premacy.
So in many directions there are fields
of usefulness open to the University OF
Housekeeping. Departments Of wash
ing, scrubbing, sweeping, ironing, linen
folding, will doubtless be as useful IN
their way as those Of the various branch
es of culinary art. Above all, there
should be an especial professorship es-
tablished in each to give instruction in
the art Of doing all these things in such
way as to cause the lord of the manor
to be not sorry that he is still living. To
him the various operations connected
with the management of the establish
ment are WEAKNESS, but that fact does
not in the least interfere with their regu.
lar order, so that his insignifcance on
high and mighty occasions such rs
use-cleaning time is painfully prom
inent. Any relief that could be fur
nished him by the housekeeping col
leges would cause millions of his kind to
shower down benedictiOns on their
roofs.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

bands linen buster loosely fitted to her
fragile form, and her husbands last
summers straw hat mounted above her
brow, with q brush in one hand, dust
pan in the other, she bustles about from
room to room, giving directions as 70
how things must be done. The spot Of
SCOT on her nose is q trifle; in vain does
her husband protest; the house "has got
to be cleaued, and that settles it" So
on she goes in her mad career, with
bitterness in her heart, with pain in
her back that makes it feel like it would
break, with a certainty that she is
destined to be ''laid up on the morrow,
and yet with grim determination that
the house shall be clean, though hus-
bands rage and imagine vain things.
She knows her business. Other women
clean house, so must she. The fact that
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
Man Always a Carver.

History does not treat of time when
carving was not apparently well
known. Tradition does not appear to
approach much nearer to its genesis.
Carvings were we'll executed during
the period of mans early occupation
of the caves of Europe, and most per-
sons who have familiarized themselves
with archaeological research knew the
figures Of fish or seal engraved on the
canine teeth of large carnivora, and the
bear, reindeer, muskox, horse, mann
moth and other animals carved on rein
deerhorn implements or on plates OF
ivory, the figures of animals being at
the time cut fully in the round and
found in the lowest strata of the caves,
under many feet Of cave earth and
stalagma, and associated with the
bones of a Quarternary and, ut times,
an arctic fauna. The similarity of much
of this cave work with much Of the
Eskimo production Of the present day
has given rise to innumerable theories
concerning q common origin for both
peoples.-The American AnthrOpOlO.
giSt.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
stead of snappish and discordant two

stead of snappish and discordant two.
Blessed; therefore, forever blessed,
lie the memory of him or her, as the
case may be, who invented housekeep-
ing and cooking schools; that Is, OF
curse, provided they teach people to
housekeep and cook; if otherwise, they
ere worse than receptions, leading con-
fiding men to yield gracefully to the
wiles of the charmer in confident an
ticipation that, as she has been to an
establishment where housekeeping and
cooking are taught, she must neces-
sarily understand how house is to be
kept and cooking to be done. There are
those who say that there is no better
school of instruction in such matters
than the young lady's own home and
10 better professor than her mother,
tut such ideas as this are necessarily
Old-fashiOned, for, as the adept Will
prove to your entire satisfaction, moth
els do not know everything, even II
they do sedulously cultivate that idea
in the minds of their offspring, and the
best appointed kitchens in the most
luxurious homes lack many things
which the cooking school professor will
prove to be absolutely indispensable in
the pursuit of her calling as chief cook.
No cook who does not prepare food for
a restaurant or hotel can expect to keep
in her kitchen the impedimenta which
constitute the stock in trade Of the pro-
fessional trainer of cooks, and it is with
reason therefore that not few of these
instructors in the art Of catering to the
wants of the inner man have discarded
tie array of implements which, to the
beginner, is as terrifying as the display
of a dentists case of tools, and have re-
stricted their efforts to showing what
can he done with frying pan, an egg
beatcr, bake oven and a coffee pot The
move is in the right direction, for If a
ycung wife can be trained in the correct
we of these and a few more equally
simple pieces of kitchen mechanism,
there are good hopes that her husband
will escape being driven to drink In the
hope of finding relief from the miser-
les of her cooking.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
Webster's Boy Daniel.

"Famer" echoed Mr.. WattersOn.
II never hear the word that do not
think of Daniel Webster's story Of the
time he met an old gentleman in a
railway car, and learning that he was
from New Hampshire, thought he
would draw him out little about the
old home State. A little more CONVEX
sation showed that the stranger came
from Mr.. Webster's native town.
Here was an opportunity not to be
lost.
"sDid you ever hear Of the Webster
family there:' asked the statesman.
"'Oh, yes; 1 know them very well.
The old man and l were great friends
".Ah! then you can probably tell me
what became Of the boys"
"'Well, Ezekiel became a big lawyer
the biggest lawyer, I guess. in all
New Hampshire. The girls, too, turn
ed out we'll
.eYou don't say so; and wasn't there
q boy named Daniel!
.sThe old man pondered a minute be-
fore he answered.
"sNow I come to think. there was a
how named Dan', but he went down
to Boston years ago, and no one amt
hoard of him since Kate Fields
Washington.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
BIRDS SCARCE IN FARMLAND.

A Reasonable Explanation of the Fact
that Sportsnen Have Bagxed Few
This years bird shooting season in
Maryland was keen disappointment te
sportsmen, and their greatest chagrin
was caused by their failure to find
cartridges or quail where they had been
represented to be in abundance before
the season opened. Two reasons may
be alleged for the latter. The frequent
whistling of the birds in the spring
when they are about to II ate is not
always a safe guide to the number Of
coveys that will be found in November,
and not sufficient importance is at
tached to the disposition Of the birds
to migrate. The weather, the tempera-
ture, and other conditions may multi
ply the calls Of the birds to each other
in the spring and make them seem to
be more numerous than they really are.
The partridge, or quail, is more of
migratory bird than many imagine,
says the Baltimore Sun, and this will
account for the mysterious disappear
ance of number of coveys in Novem-
Der which had been seen in the latter
part of August or early in September
They often follow q river, moving down
one side or the other, so that a covey
may be in November many miles from
where it was seen in September. This
is verified both by actual observation
and by the fact that large numbers Of
birds turned out by clubs in the spring
will raise families and disappear alto
gether from the spot where they were
released. 1t is supposed that they have
moved south Of the point where they
were released, for they seldom go north,
and it has been suggested as a remedy
that those who take the trouble to pre-
serve them during the winter should
release them some miles north of the
spot where they would like to have
them locate.
The main cause of the scarcity of
birds during the season just closed was
the severe winter of 1928. Not only
was there an immense amount of snow
but the cold was intense and frOze the
small water-cOurses tight. The birds,
IL tuCy SdA ScI WutcI, Cstu ududSc "
scratch precarious living in the fields,
but they are unable to make fight
against starvation and thirst at the
same time. After such winter several
moderate seasons are needed to bring
back the normal supply Of birds. The
discontinuance Of wheat or small grain
crops has had the effect of driving quite
number Of birds from their usual
haunts in search Of stubble fields, and
this cause for their disappearance is
more likely to increase than to dimin-
ish.
There is one consolation to sports
men. The birds have been quite as
scarce in former years, and have grad.
ually multiplied under favorable con.
ditiOns. By bringing birds from abroad
and feeding them during the winter
and turning them out in the spring il
may be possible to facilitate the mul.
tiplication.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

feet order, although to others 1t may
seem In hopeless confusion, they will
confer q favor Of no little magnitude on
q host of men who keep desks and like
to have them remain undisturbed.
The relation Of house cleaning to do
nestle comfort Is q subject which might
probably find q place In the list Of do
mestico- studies. There are
probably few boys In the land but who,
when In gladstone spring they behel1
an array Of buckets and scrubbin.:
brushes on the back porch, have hidden
their csps under their jackets and sur.
reptitiously HE'D them away for . days
h6hins counting tie thrashIng upou
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of the man who all day long sits at his
desk, but also of him who wears out his
shoe leather in the effort to collect bills
during q bad season. Nor should the
pastry be forgotten. The pie, like the
hoopskirt, and the roller skate, and the
ladies' sewing society. is a product Of
the highest civilization, for the mon
strous messes dignified in ancient
culinary art with the name Of pies bear
no more resemblance to the delicate
dream of the kitchen which now ap-
propriates the name than a wash boiler
bears to a steam engine. But there are
pies and pies, and the flaky pasty cir
Gle which covers but does not quite con-
ceal the fruit beneath is quite a differ
ent thing from that nightmare with
crust of caoutchouc, an underlying
stratum Of half raw dried apples and
a foundation of soft dough. The pie,
however, like woman suffrage and
diphtheria, has come to stay, and the
best that can be done is to manage
that as little harm as possible will re-
suit from 1t. The cooking schools can
do this if the professors will direct
their attention to the solution Of the
problem, and when they do the gener-
atoms of men who have suffered anx-
ious days and sleepless nights, who
have become convinced that they had
heart disease and pleurisy and con-
sumption, who have fancied that they
were going to lose their positions and
their money, all on account of indiges-
ton chargeable to pie, will rise up and
call them blessed.
But there are other miseries Of dOmes-
tic life that the cooking and housekeeD-
ing schools should be able to mitigate If
not entirely to abolish. There, for ill.,
stance, is the sweeping, to say nothing
of the busting. Humanity is progress
ing so rapidly along the lines of solid
improvement that it is possible to con-
ceive of a time in the not distant future
when house can be swept from cellar
to garrett without sitting the inmates
with the dust; when a doorway can be
cleaned without broomfuls of rubbish
being fired from ambush on the unsus-
picious passer-by; when rug or hoor
cloth can be cleansed without shaking
it out of an upper window and allowing
its accumulated treasures to fly into
the open rooms beneath; but humanity
has not as yet apparently, gone so far.
Nor, up to the present time, has the
average feminine mind been able to
conceive that on a mans desk there
may be order in. the midst Of apparent
confusion. The zeal for putting things
straight in not a few cases amounts to
a mania, and when a woman turns her
self loose in the presence Of table or
desk covered with books, papers, man.
uscripts and memoranda, she IS in her
element. It is true that the proprietor
of the desk may be compelled q little
later to search an hour for q paper he
needs Immediately, but that Is nothing
to her; the desk has been strengthened
I'D so as to look decent" and this, Of
course, is the main object for which 9
desk was created. A schedule Of stud
les for a housekeeping school should
contain a special course on this line,
and by impressing on the minds Of stu
dents the fact that when man can find
what he wants to him his desk Is in per
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

seem to take np hurt, their fate II but
deferred, for Aature, though long sur
feying. neither forgets nor forgives.
There can be no denial. therefore. OF
the fact that the limits Of the cooking
schools usefulness are practically
boundless, for besides bread and potA-
toes there is coffee, which can be made
q drink At for the gods. but In the or
binary household Il simply q hot black,
bitter liquid, which bites the tongue
and scalds the throat, and In 90 doing
confers . benefit, a. thus the sense OF
taste II blunted 70 that extent that the
drinker can not ten what the potat1on
resemksA And there = beeeseeak
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

n manv women owe their beauty to Dr..
Piercc's Favorite Prescription? Because
beauty of form and face Iadiate from the
common center-health. The best bodily
condition results from good food, fresh air
and exercise coupled with the judicious use
of the Prescription"
If there be headache, pain in the back,
bearing down sensations, or general de-
biiitv or If there be nervous disturbance,
nervous prostration, and sleeplessness. the
Prescription reaches the origin OF the
trouble and corrects it. 1t dispels aches
and pains, corrects displacements and cures
catarrhal Inflammation of the lining MEM
branes. falling of the womb, liberation, ir-
Irregularities and kindred maladies.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
He Outbid the Aged Widow.

Among the hundred or more persons
in attendance at the annual clearing
sale of unclaimed and seized merchan-
disc at the government warehouse at
Chicago recently, was Mrs. Nelson, an
old and poorly clad Norwegian woman,
who scanned closely every small parcel
Of goods that came under AuctiOneer
Whites hammer. None of the larger
packages were of interest to her, but
when q small box which was numbered
among the GIG various lots Of goods and
catalogue as effects was handed up
she pushed eagerly to the front and in q
trembling voice bid 81.
She could not hide her anxiety, and
West Side dealers, suspicious that the
rox might contain valuables, began to
bid against her. The contents of the
box invoiced SIG, and after that price
had been reached all bidders against
the aged woman dropped out with the
exception of D. D. Davis, of ia West
18th street. He ran the price up to S21.
At that Mrs. Nelson paused, and, over
come with grief, was led from the room
by her daughter. The box was after
ward found to contain picture of her
dead husband, lock of his hair, and
lot of worn wooden clothing that had
been sent from Norway. The duty on
the woolens was more than Mrs. Mel
son was able to pay when it arrived,
and she has been waiting almost year,
hoping that the box and contents would
60 at q low price on the day Of sale.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

GOD loves to have II;o1 become r1cn
by finding out that He will not disap-
point their trust.
WE cannot enjoy communion with
Christ until we are willing to be alto
gether like Him.
IF we "walk in the light as He is in
the light" we shall be seen by somebody
who sits in darkness.
PUTTING a screen in the saloon door,
is the devils confession that he is
ashamed of the business.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08
A Big Pillow.

The largest pillow in the world, per-
haps, is owned by Richard Grid, Of San
Bernardino County, California. This
immense sod turner stands eighteen
feet high and weighs $4,000 pounds.
1t runs by steam, is provided with
twelve II inch plow shares, and Is cap
able of blowing fifty acres Of land per
day. 1t consumes from one to one and
a half tons Of coal per day, and usually
travels at the rate of four miles an hour.
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-08

hap-hazard. This opinion once thor
oughly understood, fully accounts for
the immense number of institutions
which propose to teach anything that
the human mind is capable Of grasping.
The principle is, if anything Is worth
knowing, it is worth learning In a man.
ler 1t once business-like and as thor
oughly systematic as BELTS the spirit OF
the age. For this is the age Of system,
and whether the knocker at the gate OF
wisdom proposes to teach the young
3dea how to shoot or designs to prepare
the food that gives the young idea
strength to do the shooting, 1t Is all one'
Q course Of preliminary training must
be undergone before the thing can be
understood to have been done In conso-
nance with the eternal canOns OF art,
o., to put the matter more familiarity,
according to Gunter." At bottom the
idea is not bad, for If a thing is capable
Of being learned at all, it is best learned
under the instruction of those who know
an about it, and there is no earthly rea-
non why there should not be education
n establishments where young women
can be instructed in the duties that they
are expected to perform when engaged
IN the various occupations incidental to
Aousework, and the St Louis Globe
Democrat is of the opinion that II no
Young woman were allowed to be mar
ned until she had been through course
ef training preparatory to housekeep-
hs, particularly Of cooking, the amount
Ct domestic misery would be lessened
. per cent. in q single generation.
In the matter of bread, for instance,
the possibilities Of the stan OF life In
breeding domestic strife are innumer-
able. A young wife, ignorant Of the
mysteries Of bread manufacture, may
make ND her mind to a married life OF
misery, for the reason that no husband.
10 matter how devoted he may believe
himself, can retain his devotion for
any considerable length Of time II reg
ularly furnished with heavy bread. He
may try. For time he may succeed.
Morning after morning he may worry
down the soggy mass In the hope that
U2IUke Will We SOUO " uAAu OuO " SA1e
Kindly operations Of her mysterious Ia
I.oratory remedy the deficiencies Of his
Wife's knowledge. Nature, thus ad
1med, falls to and does the best she
san, but sooner or later, generally the
Iosmer, throws up the job in despair
-ond admonishes him that there must b
q change. Often he does not know
what Is the matter with him. He be
comes cross, surly; Is guilty of tha'
most grievous and unf0rgivable OF al
e0enses In married life, talking back
70 his wife. and she, poor thing, think
Ae has ceased to love her: and goes t.
her room and cries about the change
when 1t Is only In accordance with tn
srder of nature. She thinks his love 1
vanishing, when, In fact 1t Ii only hi
Ever out Of order, and prompt changeo
Aiet would soon speedily remove ever.
sloua from the domestic horizon an
49, the twain ~ harmonious Qle b
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suits, not the least singular among the
1umber being the fact that so general
= the respect for mental training, ap-
paIently no matter of what nature or
degree of efficiency, that not a few
people have the idea that a
little knowledge, if acquired by the reg
ulation method, is preferable to no end
q learning picked up helter-skelter; or,
- other words, it is better to be a
A3ockhead by rule than a wise man by