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The herald., 1895-03-31
Nurseries For the Tots Of The
MiIliOnaires
SOFT SPOTS TO FALL ON
Walls Covered With Costly Mother Goose
Paintings
Infantile Dens Of Delight That Cost Small
Fortunes to Furnlsh-Toys That
Cost Thousands

| Special Correspondence to The Herald:
NEW YORK, March 25.-It is a very
! pleasant as well as very truthful
thing to say that the best portion of
| the New York millionaire's home is set
aside for the children's use. The same
attention is given to the nursery as to the
| drawing room, boudoir or dining room.
Skilled artists are hired to decorate the
walls of the play room OF the wealthy little
tots. In some of the houses the walls are
padded so that when the youngsters fall
they land in soft spots. This reduces
bruises and cuts to minimum. Some of
these nurseries have cost as much as $4,000
to tit up, and the toys and playthings
represent an annual outlay of $1,000 more.
The children have good time with them,
but it is a question II they get any more
real honest enjoyment than the tenement
house child with its So worth OF toys a
year.
Mrs. George Gould has the very best Of
nurseries, as she has most OF the good
things of life. In October every year, as
soon as the air grows the least bit frosty
the children go to Lakewood to remain
until the spring days come. and then
thev go abroad with their parents. The
air of this balmy piny wood region is
very good for the children and makes
them strong of limb and stout and rosy.
Mrs. Cleveland spent two winters there
with little Ruth before she went back to
the White House.
All of the third floor of the Gould cot
tage, Hilltop. belongs to the children.
First comes the great roomy. day nursery.
in which Ma jory and Helen Vivian play
all day long with their doll babies. They
have tea parties, and the tiny doll spoons.
as well as some of the little dishes, are of
solid silver. They have little cooking
stove which burns real coal: but Mallory
is seldom allowed the luxury OF COM
pounding wonderful Dishes because she
burns her little fingers along with her
cakes. On rainy days Kingdom and Jay
who are big boys of six and seven
share the nursery with their sisters and
then there is great fun all around.
Floods OF sunshine pour into the room
nearly all day long through the large bay
window on the south side. The walls are
covered with soft, gray cartridge paper,
with frieze of delightful Kate Green
away figures in exquisite colorng. The
border near the floor is practical as well
as ornamental, for it has the alphabet in
raised letters running around the wall
Just on a level with the little baby faces.
A fairy-like bassanette. just like the big
one in the night nursery. curtains. rib
bons and all, holds the dollies when they
have been rocked to sleep by the patient
little mothers
An immense Persian rug covers the
The herald., 1895-03-31

to rock her baby to sleep every night are
all of the furniture which this model
room. planned by a trained nurse, con-
tains.
In the grand new palace which John
Jacob Astor has built on Fifth avenue
and Sixth street the nurseries have re-
ceived the greatest amount of attention.
and are really wonderful in their beauty
and simplicity. Mrs. Astor does not like
her little lad William Vincent far from
her at any time, so one is not surprised
to find them on the second floor.
On one side of her magnificent bedroom
is her boudoir. and on the Sixty-fifth
street side, which is quieter, her room
opens into the night nursery. Beyond
that comes the day nursery, with its un-
equalled collection of every kind of toy
which boy of three can understand and
enjoy. Besides the attention which his
lovely young mother and his father find
time to give him every day, this young
mcmb ber OF the Astor family has trained
nurse and rosy checked nursery maid
to care for his we'll being. +. F.
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produce some fanciful creation symbolical

PIouuCc SOluc iouClui CIcotiOu oy IA Oo'ASoA
OF cats.
Just who will exhibit the cats 10 some
thing of question. but there are num-
Der OF fine cats owned by prominent New
Workers which will undoubtedly be shown.
Mrs. Bolton Hall has one of the best
known cats in town. II is not OF fancy
lineage. but for all that it is quite
wonderful cat. 1t is jet black in color,
and is as big as Newfoundland dog and
quite as intelligent. 1t enjoys the name
of Siegfried, and wears magnificent sill
yer collar bearing the name and address
of the West Sixteenth street home OF its
owner The cat stands almost two feet
in height, and weighs seventy pounds. 1t
roams about the house like a dog, and
when the door bell rings it is on hand to
welcome the visitor before the butler ar.
rives. Mrs. Hall says she wouldn't sell
the cat for $1,000. and at this valuation
Siegfried ought to take blue ribbon not
withstanding the fog surrounding his an.
cestry. Siegfried is II years old now, and
occasionally is laid up with an ailment re-
sembling gout.
Mrs. FREQ Vanderbilt has an Angora
cat which she prizes very highly. 1t is a
regular millionaire feline, and is as much
above the backyard species as the Fifth
avenue swell is above the tattered Bowery
tramp. This cat has the pretty name OF
Felece. 1t has the run of the Fifth ave-
The herald., 1895-03-31
THE LESSON
Adm CARNAHAN

My friend had wronged me sore. said,
Thou art foul utterly;
And God Himself, when thou art dead
The record of thy life outspread-
Can find no good in such as thee"
/ fed into the sinless field.
saw muck-heap. foul to view.
A golden bee above it wheeled
And dipt, and from some source concealed
lis tiny store OF honey drew.
passed into the sinless wood.
l saw heap of rotting leaves
stirred them idly, as ! stood,
And 10 a lovely blossom good
From evil-smiles at him who grieves.
bowed my head-"To some good end
Hast Thou ordained things ALL"
sought out and forgave my friend.
he died child's life to defend.
laid wood-fiower on his PAIL
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REASON ENOUGH
PSALM WRILEY

Oh, why so restless, Darling,
AS if you fain would tear
Yourself from out my presence?
Tell me, fairest of the fair,
Is my conversation stupid,
That you twist and turn about
Like an urchin with the collie,
Or an old man W tn the gout?
Do tire you with my stories.
Or annoy you with my jokes,
Or wear upon your patience
Criticising other folks?
Would the fact that ! should leave you
Be 20 you restful treat
Am ! altogether tedious?
Tell me, sweetest of the sweet.
Nay, nay, replied the maiden,
love to have you near;
Your presence is delightful.
And your witticisms cheer,
But for the last ten minutes
l have been on torture's rack
For san Francisco flea has been
Cavorting up my back.
The herald., 1895-03-31
Cups of Gold
HOW THE pOPpIES CAME

SADIE B. METCALFE IL LAND OF SUNSHINE
The angels saw one region where
More sunshine fingered than its share,
And came, with each a heaven-white cup
To dip the yellow surplus up.
No sooner brimmed with it-behold,
The cups themselves were turned 10 gold!
And here they lie, upiurning still
Their gold for golden skies to fill.
The herald., 1895-03-31
SOME CATS OF SOCIETY
Choice News Entered for the
Big Show
KITS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT
A Black Beauty That Is Valued al
$1,000
ITS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT
Fashionable People and Their Pets at the
Coming Canine Exhibition In New
York City

Special Correspondence to THE HERALD.
NEW YORK, March 25.-For the first
time in its history New York is to have
cat show. 1t wont be cheap backyard
The herald., 1895-03-31
ESCHSCHOLTZIAS
EsfELLE THOMPSON.

Pale, sleepy children, tucked for maps
In little slender pointed caps,
Their dainty skirts OF cream closs-rolled
In many soft and tapping TO d.
Or gay coquettes. with laughing faces
And orange gowns. in snnny places,
Flashed out and dazzling, quaint and
bold
These are eschscholtzias' cups OF gold.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
EARLY SPRING FOOD.

All will acknowledge that green
food is necessity with the person
who is raising poultry for what money
there is in it. The focks that are
laying at all we'll during this winter
are receiving liberal amount Of cab
bage, potatoes, kale, spinach, or
greens of some sort or this would
never be. Now as this source may be
nearing its end and there is no way of
replenishing it, perhaps it might be
we'll to be on the lookout for some
green food for the poultry during the
early spring. If you have small
plot of ground which will not be
needed, but is convenient to the poul-
try yard, it would be good scheme
to plough or spade it up just as soon
as the frost is out of the ground. 1t
need not be extra high in fertility, but
little fertilizing material would not
be put on at loss. When the "open-
ing" process is through with and the
manure is spread, SOW wheat on this,
and you will find that within q few
weeks you will have all the green food
the poultry will need at your disposal.
The advantage of planting wheat in
this manner is that it is not necessary
to wait until the crop natures, but it
can be cut whenever needed, which
will not hinder its growing in any
way. New York Witness.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

mometor Ia inserted in the water
through the lid of the bucket. Suffi-
cient water must be used to reach o
little above the milk in the bottles,
but no higher. When the apparatus
is ready, heat IL on stove or range
until temperature of l55 degrees
Fahrenheit is reached. Then remove
from the stove, and keep tightly cov-
cred for one-half hour. At the end Of
this time the bottles are removed from
the water and kept in n cold place.
The milk can be used at any time. A
hole must be punched in tho covering
of the bucket to allow the steam to
escape. An ordinary dairy thermom-
eter will answer for determining the
temperature. Do not heat higher than
155 degrees or the milk will be in
iured. American Agriculturist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
Electricity to Light Carriages.

As common as is the use of the elec-
trio light in the United States, We
have as yet neglected to uvail ourselves
of one application which has been ex-
tensively employed in Europe and es.
pecially in France, namely, its use for
the illumination of carriages, street
cars and other public conveyances.
An interesting repert on this subject
has been submitted to the Department
of State by United States Consul
Chancellor et Havre. He shows that
within the last five years electrically
lit private carriages have been extern
sively used by the affluent classes in
Europe.
The Prince of Wales was the first to
adopt the idea in London, and the
German emperor has had the court
carriages lit by electricity, not only
the outside lanterns but also the in
terror being illuminated by means of
n series of accummulators carried un.
der the boot, and all over the harness
are placed what the Germans call
Gluhlampo, or small colored lights,
which glow like frehies and conquer
the thickest fogs. The accumulator
for carriage is carried in a box only
eight inches long by seven high and
four wide. 1t furnishes n good seven
and half candle power reading light
for eighteen hours, enough to last
the owner for from one or two
mont @.
1t cools from fifty cents to one dol.
lar to renew the charge less than the
cost of smoky, unreliable and ill-smel
ing oil-lamps. The consul says tha
in few years all public conveyancei
will thus be lighted, as a fifty ecu
plant is sufficient for each. He give
a detailed description of the various
appurtenances necessary. Washing
ron Star
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

North Carolina's strange people of
the swamps have counterparts in the
mysterious race of so-called Indians in
southern Delaware. They are a
swarthy people, with strong traits Of
the redmen, though there are contra
dictory stories as to their origin. They
are fully civilized, however, and fol-
low the ordinary occupations of the
region to which they are native, though
according to the New York Sun, they
mingle little with the whites and the
colored people.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
THE KrYp OF COWS TO KEee7.

Every farmer keeps one or moro
cows. Why not keep good ones when
one such will furnish as much milk
and butter Gs two poor ones, and eat
only half ns much? A good COW
should give milk eleven months in the
year. 1t does not pay TO feed n COW
two or three months for nothing. Get
rid Of any that does not hold. out her
milk until at least six weeks before
calving. Grades are many of them as
good as thoroughbred cows for milk
and butter. A few years of grading
up by means OF using thoroughbred
male will give any farmer a herd OF
COWS which will be great improve.
ment upon those OF their mothers and
grandmothers. II is we'll to test cows
and know just what they are doing.
The churn is perhaps the most salts
factory way Of doing this. Keep q
cows milk separate for one or more
days, being careful to get out all the
cream. When it is sour, churn it.
The scales will tell, both with milk and
butter, whether a COW is kept at a
profit or not. Remember that
it costs at least S35 to keep q COW
for year. If she does not return
this in milk and butter she is kept at
loss. If all such COWS we're discov.
cred and slaughtered, the number Of
cows at the present time would be
considerably reduced, and at n great
benefit to their owners. Hardly one
man in twenty knows whether he is
keeping his cows at a profit or loss.
They do not realize the importance
of the subject. 1t means dollars and
cents, but they do not realize it, and
go on wondering where the profits
goes. Home and Farm.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

Chancey NJ. Depew advocates 'the
Greater New York." and in q recent
speech said: "With the Greater New
York an accomplished fact, tho metro
politan center of this republic and of
these two hemispheres is fixed forever.
In the future, as in the past, only in
larger degree, the banking houses of
the world will have their agencies in
New York the thrift and the energies
Of the country will concentrate in
New York. In twenty years the Office
next to the President of the United
States in the eyes of the world will be
Mayor of Greater New York
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Hold on to your Aocks. Don't give
up the ship when she is sailing haven
ward.
Where care and cleanliness is OBJ
served in brooders, chicks will thrive
wonderfully.
Alfalfa is strictly perennial, and is,
therefore, adapted to both permanent
meadows and pastures.
One decided advantage in hauling
out and scattering the manure MS fast
as made is the great saving OF time.
Many people who hatch with incu-
bators blame brooders ior weaknesses
in chicks which have been inherited.
Good clean food and water and
warm comfortable place to brood is
all chick desires or requires to en-
sure rapid growth.
Where n number of poultry is kept
the owner should give a little gran
ulated meal. Pour boiling water on
it, let soak for about ten minutes, then
mix with the other food.
The evils of the brooder are weak
legs, dcformed backs, and bowel COM
plants, the two former are caused
by rapid growth and an inefficiency
of proper diet for forming bone and
muscle, and the latter is caused by
neglect, IN sour food, water and dirt.
The fortunate stockmen who will
be the special envy of their less for
tunate neighbors, two or three years
hence, will be the owners of good
sized fiocks of wool and mutton sheep,
and from present indications they
will be none too numerous to detract
from the high and honorable distinc-
ton.
The shepherd who is also farmer
and has a wheat or rye field, may do
this good service by turning in the
sheep to nibble the young grain. They
will not do much of this, but much
more good to it by trampling it into
the ground and setting in the roots
that hive been thrown out by the
frost.
During the winter is the best time
to make manure and to a considerable
extent is the best time to haul it out
One good plan of managing is to haul
out on land that that has been plowed
in the tall or early winter, and that is
to be planted TO some crop in the
spring, The soluble portions will all
be taken up aud retained by the soil
ready for the u'eof the growing plants
next season.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
STERILIzED MILK.

An Indiana reader wants to know
how to starilize milk and il there is
any patent on the process. The pro-
cess is not patented. Sterilization of
milk is carried on quite extensively in
order to destroy injurious germs
which it may contain. A very simple
way of sterilizing milk in small guam
titles for young children was recently
described by the United States depart
ment of agriculture. The apparatus
consists of an ordinary tin bucket in
which is placed an inverted pie pan
with perforated bottom. This bucket
is partially filed with water. Vessels
containing the milk are placed in this
water, resting on the inverted pie pan,
These may be glass bottles or small
fruit jars, the mouths OF which are
closed with clean cotton. A ther,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

The spirit of socialism is pervading
all the middle class and lower walks of
life in Germany. 1t is not n silly as
piration for Utopia that has taken
hold of the Germans, or a desire to
upset society as it now exists, explains
the San Francisco Chronicle. The
Germans have too much sense to lend
themselves to such leveling ideas as
those contained in the symmetrical
conception of socialism. The term
socialistic does not really designate
the movement now in progress. 1t is
rather revolt against autocracy and
struggle for recognition of the
theory that all just government must
derive its consent from the governed.
The growth of militarism is stimulat-
ing this feeling and making it so gen.
eral that autocracy must bend before
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

Locomotive building is shown to
have fallen off tremendously in the
past year, according to reports in the
New York Railroad Gazette of the
output of the various contracting
WI yks. The decrease in tho number
built is fully two.thirds, as compared
with the previous year. Reports from
l3 companies make the total 695
locomotives for 1894, against 2,011
locomotives built in 1898. The record
of the car-builders is even worse than
that of the locomotive builders. In
1894, only 81 companies have reported
as having built any freight cars, the
output being II, ,029 cars. In 1893,
81, 2l6 freight cars were built by 43
companies. There were 45 important
car-building companies which did not
turn out single car in 1894, ten of
these having built about 5000 freight
cars and over 800 passenger cars in
IS93.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
Where Butter Is Margarine.

A deputy of the Reichstag, while on
his journey from Frankfort to Berlin,
bought at each of the principle sta.
tions he passed some bread and but.
ter. When he arrived at Berlin he
found himself in possession of twenty
three pieces of ''Butterbrod. The
honorable member was not laying in
this large stock in anticipation of an
"all-night" sitting in the Reichstag.
but with very different object. On
leaving the train he proceeded straight.
way to the Imperial Analytical Bu.
reau" to have the "Butterbrod" anal
yzed. 1t was proved that out of the
tweuty-three pieces of the Bntterbrod
purchased Mt the railway refreshment
bullets no fewer than seventeen were
spread with margarine Manner
Ncuestep Nachrichten.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
DFLIcACY OF SHEEP.

Sheep breeders will do we'll to rec
ollect that the improved breeds Of
sheep owe their present high position
chiefly to the care and feed given them.
These must be continued IL tho pres
ent excellence of tho flock is TO be
maintained. English sheep accus-
toned to shelter from storms and to
succulent food are unable to hustle
for living as the common sheep of
this country are made to do. The i'm
provement has been made Mt the ex.
pense of hardness. All the mutton
breeds ore more prone to colds or CO.
tarrhal trouble and housing from
storms is imperative. - New York
World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

Official reports to the Bureau of
Roads show that increased interest is
being taken in the good roads move-
ment. General Roy Stone. in charge
of the bureau, said: "Nearly all of
the Southern States are taking some
steps in road building, either by in
creased use Of convict labor or by
county bonding. Michigan will take
some important steps this winter to
make its county road law more sue
-cessful. A very energetic movement
is in progress in Wisconsin. In New
Jersey state aid probably will be
doubled in amount this year. The
Massachusetts, state commission has
asked for 81, 900, 900 to expend in the
construction of state roads. There is
some opposition to this, but the ap-
preparation will be granted. General
opinion favors convict and tramp labor
for. road improvement. The main idea
is to use state prison convicts in quar-.
ries where they can be guarded and to
uso tramps. county prisoners, and
short term convicts in macadamizipg
xoads. -
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27

make an Arcadia out of the worn
down old farm. And IL she shed q
few tears on her pillow when she went
to rest, Under the caves of the roof,
Uncle Zen never mistrusted it.
There was buggy at the door when
Rachel rose from her breakfast of rye
bread aad corn coffee the next morn
ing.
"Come, my lass" said the old gen.
tleman, 81 want to show you place
further up the road which has been
leased by friend of mine"
The drive and the delicious air we're
like an invigorating tonic to the
wearied little bride; and picture
after the style of Vatican awaited
them, In the exquisite cottage, with
its deep piazzas, bay-windows and
picturesquely-sloping roof. Rustic
chairs stood under the branches of
the Gins on the lawn, and n marble
Cupid, holding up a carved shell,
scattered bright rain into tiny basin
directly in front of the gates.
ooh, how beautiful |" cried Rachel.
"Come in, my dear, and see how
you like the INTERIOR" said the old
man, serenely.
1t was perfect, from the drawing
rooms to the chambers, all in white
and pink, like the inside of roses
heart, and the fairy conservatory.
at is like fairylandl" cried Rachel,
enthusiastically. Do tell me, Uncle
Ben, who is to live here?"
Uncle Ben turned round and faced
her.
"You, my dear"
wr"
"And Hugh, of coursei"
''But," gasped r ,chel, quite over
whelmed, "the other house"
"That's only a little joke of mine |
This is the real home, and I give it to
you with all the more pleasure that
you were disposed to make the best
of the bad bargain you thought you
were in for"
And Rachel felt something warm
and wet upon her cheek, like tear,
as the old gentleman stopped to kiss
her.
When Hugh came home, to find his
little wife upon the verandah, all well
coming smiles to greet him, he ex'
claimed:
"Why, Uncle Ben, this is q perfect
cnske. !"
"But none too good for the little
jewel that inhabits it," Uncle Ben
answered.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-27
rood FOR A YOUNG COLT.

There is no other grain so good for
a young colt as oats. Four quarts q
day will be sufficient to begin with.
The oats are best crushed, or coarsely
ground in n mill with the stones we'll
raised. Only the best hay should be
given, and the dry feed will be better
for an animal of this age than wet cut
feed. An occasional bran mash will
be useful. As the colt grows, the
grain ration will have to be increased
gradually until eight quarts day are
fed, at the end of the winter. 1t will
be very desirable to begin training
the colt at once, the first thing done
being to use it to the halter and to be
tied. Then it is used to harness and
then to draw light loads, such as can
be walked off With easily at fret.
Every horse should be broken to the
saddle, as occasions will be sure to
come when it will be found useful. In
the use of harness, care is to be taken
to have it fit easily, and not be tight,
or gall in any part. New York Times.