The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-08

American housckoepers may congratu-
late them selves that they do not live IN
Paris. 1t Is the custom in most apart
ment houses there Ia hang sort OF safe
made of wire netting. for the preservation
of food, outside the kitchen windows,
which Invariably overlook courtyard
where all sorts of sweeping and carpet
hentipg are constantly gaiDg on. Nj.
Rochen, a scientist, mas n Gently published
u paper In which he states the results OF
some experiments he has made with a
view OF testing the hyRienio condition OF
those safes he calculated that IN one
hour from 260 10 400 cubic meters OF air
passed through thcIn- making total Of
from 1000 To s00J cubic meters per 81
hours. Taking for granted Nuquel's sup
uusition that one cubic meter OF air con-
tains ap average ot $50 germs, four or
tive million gtr.ns would daily find their
way into the food thus exposed. To test
this theory he washed the air which pen
etrated the food safos through spiratory
,ubes and then In njectad this water under
che skin OF large number of rabbits.
Several Of these animals died covered
with suppurations at the eud of week,
another became tuberculosis, another took
diphtheria, but IL must also DO stated in
fairness thar the larger number rema ined
IN good health.
Tie stepn o her hls found q champion
In the person or Vice Cha ncellor Gray, OF
New .jers ey. In a divorce case which was
tried before him, tho wife was charged
with extreme cruelty, tho cruelty consist
Ing in violent display of temper on
several occasions whsn the husband took
sides against her in disputes which she
had with his children by former wife.
The vice chancellor refuses &c regatd such
manifestations of temper as cruelty, but
10 does intimate that IL was bad taste on
, the part Of the man t) se'ect such terma.
CANT for wife. he declines TO grant a
divorce and presents his views Of the hus-
bana's duty in a vigorous iasiol. when
n woman marries "A man, Ea says, "sDe
does not marry his children. when man
marries he agrees to prefer his vile before
his children. This he undertakes by the
spern act of MARRIAGE. and oven II they may
le right and the wife wrong the husband
undertakes tnat he will stand by tho wife
end be hor helpmeet and adviser TO main
tain her In ber position. As her husband
he should not take sides with his children
aud condemn her TO hasty or ill-advised
speech or action. He should support her
ss the mistress Il her household. even II
she may err ard be unduiy energet' O
even violent at times" III New Jersey
ever has woman suffrage law, Vice
Chancellor Gray can count on the votes uf
tire a coud wives and stepmothers when
he comes up fer Office.
It Is not generally known that the
English royal family IS the cnly one that
has s,nrlet for its hocsehold color. Tho
Portuguese. Prussian and swedish SOW
creigns. and IN fact most of the German
princes, wear blue. Austria. like tho
Papal court, choos)i blacg ard yellow,
Russia is IN dark green. Tut Englnn1
alone has bright scarlet In a quaint
book In the British Museum there Is writ
ton On ordinance of tho tin of Queen
Elizaboth which permitted the wives OF
tho aldermen of Cambridge TO participate
In the royai privilege OF wearing red. Inc
order itself IL rather interesting. IL was
"oruaiueu that every alderman who has
b.cn made, before Christmas next shall
buy Tor his wife Gown of scarlet, and
taat every mryor before Michaollnas next
after his election shall buy for mis- wife n
scarlet o VA uron forfeiture of ten pounds
10 the use OF the town and fifty shilling.