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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-09-22
TOMMY ATKINS VANITY.


Curtis His Bnngs aud Pads His Chest. So
This Writer Ayers.
you d hardly credit the vanity of
somo soldiers. said sergeant major
of the guards THAT perfect curl which
you see On Tommy's forehead is moro
often thun not the result of an hour 4
persuasion with hair oil and pair Of
curling tenRs Nearly all soldiers arc
dandies in this way They use expen-
sivo hair ellis and pomades-very often
curriers', the same as those used by
women
''When they have oiled and brushed
and brushed and oiled. tho curling
toDgs put the final shape ON. Any sol
dier who is II clever curl makor-and
who cares To do s0-can earn u few
shillinEs extra weekly by putting his
services ut tho disposal of these fastid-
ioua younR men.
Tommy is not quito SO particular
over his boots, but very nearly SO Tho
fastidious soldier docs not demur ut Is.
Cd. a pound for fresh butter, nor an oc-
casional . billings for dcor's bone, TO
tone down the leather with.
Most Tommes wrathfully declare
that chest padding is n fabrication, but
| can assure you that it il done. Cav
alrymen IN many crack regiments are
much more vain than women. Their
mustaches are trained, many of them
use face powder, and so perfect and
beautiful do their trousers fit that they
dare not sit down or bend tho body
without extreme caution. To add II
charm to their walk the steel rowels
are taken out Of their spurs and sawed
sixpenees inserted instead. tho result Of
which is lively musical jingle. -
London Answers
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Ho entered the shop of fashionable
bootmakor, look of determination on
his face. 1t was such look as ono sees
on tho face of Il man who is firmly re-
solved to carry out, Mt all hazards, a de-
cision which will change tho whole
course Of his life.
"Hmp' ho began as the assistant
stepped forward and politely questioned
him rs to his requirements in feet
beautifers. Il want pair Of shoes for
my wife. Mrs. Brown"
Yes, sir, certainly" said tho young
man brskly Same style and size as
last week.
Same style. Size. fives-wide fives.
replied Brown decidedly.
"But--er-excuse me. Mrs Brown
only takes-that is, sho usually has
So, exclaimed the assistant who
knew the lady we'll
Are you married, young mani"
quericd Brown sternly, the look of de-
termination deepening on his careworn
features.
Er-not yet, sir, - answered the
shopman, blushing.
II thought not, returned Brown.
II ami ! am not going to suffer half
an hours purgatory every morning,
watching woman trying to squeeze a
bushel of feet into peck Of boots. I've
stood it long enough. and I'm going to
take her II pair that will fit. -
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LIFE IN MEXICO.

Housekeeping Under Difficulties ~ How
Clothes Are Washed Tho Cooks Domain,
I'm American woman would grow
gray headed in month if she attempt
ed to keep house in Mexico on tho same
plan pursued by tho native housewives.
There ara no water mains i'll the aver
age town, and water for domestic pur-
poses is drawn from the public fountains
and sold from door to door by leather
aproned vendors, who carry it in pic
turesquo vessels of hide or pottery.
Pulquo and milk arc brought to market
Ill skins of sheep, pigs and goats, which
are stripped of the animal carcass by
cutting only tho neck and legs and
turned inside out, all the openings but
one being tied up securely. Tho natives
do not object to the flavor of goat hide
and swineskin i'll the milk, but visitors
do.
Tho washorwomon have no faith in
modern methods. They get 30 cents a
day and are satisfied. This sounds inn
probable to tho Chieagoan, who is be-
ing "dono up by his lanndress and
has to endure it. The washerwomen all
do their work beside an open stream of
water in trough of stone or wood
beating the articles with round stone,
"a piece of homemade soap and their
strong hands No hot water is used.
Tho scene at the public washhouses is
an interesting ono. Tho method breaks
buttons, bends buckles and tears goods
with tho same euse as does II steam
laundry i'll the States.
Tho average Mexican cook is rs print
two as the washerwoman. No matter
how many times tho use of II modern
cook stove were explained to her, it IL
probable that she would build tho fire
III the oven and put tho bread TO bake
in tho fire box What she would use il
called the braseIo. Among tho poor this
is an urn shaped affair of pottery with
IA hollow base, where II tiny charcoal
fire may be kept alive by constant fan.
ming, the whole being not much largor
than u common howerpot. In tho
homes of the upper classes tho hrasero
Is built i'll of brick, mortar and piles,
its surface as high IA mn American
cook stove with holes foot square, I'M
der each of which charcoal fire is kept
burning Some of these stoves have 30
or 30 ovens and tho operation of cook
ing is SO lnborious that tho cook has II
relay of assistants to prepare the vege-
tables, wash the dishes and attend the
fires. Chicago Journal.
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THE SUPERNATURAL.
ontact with 1t brings out u Peculiar
Kind of Fear.

Contact With 1t Brings out Peculiar
Kind of Fear.
We wish the Psyehieal society would
one day attempt an analysis of what
for want of u better word, we must call
| the dread of the supernatural Both
| those who believe and those who dishe-
! lieve i'll the notion that the veil between
this world and the other is capable of
being lifted agree in one thing. They
/ all recognize the fact that most people
fear or something akin to fear what
| they believe to be the occurrence of SUI
! pernatural phenomena. There is here
therefore, piece of ground which may
be explored without any begging of the
question rs to whether the fear is caused
by real ghosts or by trickery, by rats
aud water pipes or 10y genuine glimpses
| Of the people of another world. One
would like to know whether the fear
felt is akin to that experienced when a
man is frightened by runaway horse
or fire or any either imminent risk of
life. or whether II is something differ
ent in kind
Speaking broadly and without any
minute consideration of the facts, one
would say that ghost fright did differ
in kind from the fright which comes
from active danger. Most people have,
we imagine, at some time or other in
their lives experienced that eerio un-
canny, creepy feeling which is assoeiat
ed with the possibility of contact with
| the supernatural Yet few would de
clare that il was in any sense connected
with the dread of loss of life or limb.
| The man or woman who wakes up in
tho middle of the night and hears
strange noises-thumps, raps. clangs
and Creakings-0r sees lights or feels
| the touch of nnscca hands is probably
very frightened, bat the sense of bodily
fear IS not present There is ne dread
of being killed People in the agony of
terror caused 10y dangerous accidents
constantly call out that they ARE going
to be killed, but we doubt if that is ev.
or the case III the fright caused by
haunted houses. Possibly this differ
ence may he said to be due To the fact
that tho dread of the supernatural is
not nearly SO acute US that caused by
tho imminent Iisk of death People, it
may be nrgaed. enly imagine themselves
10 be frightened of ghosts. as women
pretend 10 be frightened cf mice In
neither case IS the fright quite genuine,
1t Is only want Of self control and could
be mastered III an instant if the will
power were i'll proper order.
Unfortunately for those who argue
thus th.fo is plenty Of evidence 10
show that occasionally the dread OF the
supernatural produces very serious re-
suits. On the whole. wa should say that
more people had been frightened cut Of
their wits by what they believed to be
supernatural phenomena than by acct
dents involving great risk of life 1t is
not often that one hears of insanity
caused even by the prolonged agony of
shipwIeck, The fear caused by what is
supposed TO be II supernatural agency
seems, then. TO have III it somo element
net found in ordinary fear If the haunt
ing phenomena cause fear, they seem to
give shock of special keenness. LON
don Spectator.
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She Misunderstood.

Many singers fail to realize tho i'm
portanco of distinct enunciation. anG
tho charm Of II beautiful voice is often
lost by tho listener who il vainly strug
CLING to catch tho meaning of tho song
A young woman who considers her
self IN admirable ballad singer ono day
received II severe shock from the crit
icism of an old lady who had formed
ono of her audience. Among other bal-
lads tho singer had rendered Rory
O'Mocu' IN her best style and had re-
ociyed much applause.
Tho old lady. who sat in tho front
seat in tho littlo hall where the enter
tainment was given. looked Mt first puz-
zled and then distressed as the familiar
song proceeded, and Mt the close of tho
concert she waited to speak to tho
young woman.
My dear " sho said in quivcring
voice, II remember when Rory
O'Moro' first came out. | have never
been singer myself, but have always
been Interested i'll music, and 1 am sure
| never heard tho words az you sang
'HNh 'DbiRHls D am Hbb ''hi' W ItuT
ing IL unusually good, but will yon tell
mo where You get your authority for
singing:
He pouticed the hook,
And she salted 1t DOWN.
For, though | cannot remember the
original words, am suro they were not
like that.
Tho young woman's face was Grim
son as she showed tho old lady her copy
of the song and pointed to tho words:
He bold ns the hawk
And sho soft IA tho dawn.
Youths Companion.
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WOMAN AND MUSIC.


to Date Education.
II a few years ago music had been de-
clared TO be as necessary III education
MS iii mathematics or physics, the state
ment would have been received with
ama2emcnt, if not with derision. Tho
early aim of common school education
was the making of practical men and
women, and by practical was meant
IL preparation for the ordinary bread
winning affairs of life Not that tho
moral side of education was ignored,
but 1t WAS believed that the three RS
and the hard and fast sciences, together
with general Endorsement of religion
and good ethics, were sufficient factors
i'll character building and all that the
schools should supply Music, litera-
turo and drawing, If they found any
place i'll the curriculum, were merely
incidents that We're not sufficiently
practical to he requisites. nor was their
more subtle and potent influence on the
character and tho higher development
of the mind appreciated or perceived.
Ornamental they might be, but they
Were not believed to be useful. Only II
visionary sentimentality considered
these arts as necessary to public eduea-
ton. Today art, i'll u broad sense, ocou-
pies far higher place in tho regard of
every educator of note and of every
man who is alive to tho interests of
well balanced and symmetrical educa-
ton. In fact, the art influence in edu-
cation is coming TO be adequately ap-
preciated, and art is no longer considered
an incident i'll life, but rather tho real
ity itself
We are not attempting TO detract
from the nobility of labor. That educa-
tion which Pounds industries, which
adds To the comfort of mankind, which
makes possible the cultivation of tho
arts, we must recognize. uphold and adj
mire, but that education which tells
us wo arc not altogether commercial
machines; that to love something for its
innate beauty and not for its peeuniary
worth Is wise and good; that by loving
harmony of sound wo may como to
love harmony of deeds; that tones
which speak to us of others sorrows,
making as forget self. may be of more
worth i'll tho end than much positive
scienCe--such education we arc begin
ming to revere and TO see i'll it tho most
practical method of developing sweeter
women and nohler men. Philadelphia
Times
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A SMALL MANS REVENGE.
He Ruiies the Dignity of Two Women In
Cable Car.

He Runies the Dignity of Two Women In
Cable Car.
The small sized, unobtrusive mar.
gets revenge now and then, ns was ex-
emplified yesterday in Broadway
cable car bound down town. He got on
at Twenty third street and saw only
one vacant seat Other passengers who
stood up Were clinging to the straps in
q somihypnotic condition and did not
observe the vat ant place. Two women,
strangers to each other richly clad and
wearing diamond earrings, were tho
guardians of the vacant space, which
was hardly wide enough to even admit
the small man to II comfortable seat
Either of the women, by moving IA lit
tie, could have made larger space,
but they chose TO sit as impassivo as
statues while tho diminutiye man
crowded into tho place. He exhibited
but these impacable cosmopolitans
moved not AT Tenth street large
woman. weighing about 200 pounds,
boarded the car With tho air of u
Chesterfield the small man lifted his
hat and said:
Pray, take my seat.
Thank you, sir, " she replied as she
started to sit down CONSERVATION was
depicted upon the faccs of tho two rich
ly clad women as they tried to edge
away to make tho spnce wider 1t was
too late, for tho heavy woman crushed
into the seat and came in contact with
tho other women. There were the noise
of crumpling cloth and tho swish Of
skirts as the two women tried to move
from the weight pinning part of their
dresses down 1t WAS scramble to give
the heavy woman enough room, and all
dignity was lost. The passengers smiled,
and none moro 80 than tho small man,
who had had his revenge. New York
Commercial
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TURKISH CUSTOM HOUSE.
The Troubles Travellers Have. Especially
with Books and Maps.

With Books and Maps.
Many amusing stories are told of tho
trouble American travellers have had
with tho custom house authorities in
Turkey, especially with books and
maps. In the old days ones baggage
would be dumped down ON tho landing
place at Constantinople. and turbaned
old Turk, tchibouk i'll hand, would go
through pantomime of examining
ones effects, which would be abruptly
brought to an end by tho application of
an appropriate coin to tho palm of his
hand But the political troubles that
began soma years ago i'll the Ottoman
empire caused the government to insti-
tute more stringent system, and there
is now ut Constantinoplo custom
house more after tho American style,
where number of effendis, in fezes
and Stambouli coats of the regular off
clal cut, pry into ones luggage with
particular care in search of papers and
books and maps of Il revolutionary tend
oncy or III which words forbidden to
lie printed in Turkey may be found.
During tho height of the Armenian
agitation especially close search was nj
ways made for anything with the word
"Armenia" i'll it, and whatever it was
found i'll was summarily confiscated
On the occasion of my last visit to Con.
stantinople l happened to have map
of Asia Minor among my papers, the
discovery of which greatly agitated the
examining etfcndi, who spoke in Ian
gnage he thought was French. "Ah,
Azeea Meenoorl' he exclaimed as he
spread ii out, continuing i'll his Turko-
French, Show mo Erzcrum. Having
pointed out TO him the spot where that
city was to be found, he began running
his finger over the map until he struck
upon tho letter A. This seemed almost
to take his breath away, but when Il
short distance to the right of it he
found the letter II ho fairly gasped
The detection Of tho letter NJ following
it was like an electric shock, and u
bomb explosion could not have startled
him more than the discovery of tho let
ter j.. by the time he had deciphored
the remaining letters, MA, l saw that
the game was up, and as he folded up
my precious mp and III stern and
measured syllables announced TO mo
that il was "do-fon- dew, con ifs kay, "
/ knew that it was lost to me forever
A Review with an article abiding to
the disturbed condition of affairs in tho
Turkish empire followed the map, along
with some foreign newspapers. -Ilar-
pCr's Round Table
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Grant Duff has in his "reminiscences
the following story Of Lord Houghton;
Tho Cosmopolitan club was accustomed
to meet in room which had been
Watts studio, and ON the walls of which
hung an enormous picture by him Of
"Theodora and Honoria. " Some one
asked Lord Houghton what this repre-
senied 'Oh, he replied, you have
heard Of Watts hymns2 These are
Watts hers "
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THE MOB.

We dragged him out of the Jail at night
And out of the reach of aid,
And of through the gloomy chaparral
We marched In II grim parade
GTwns not for the evil heart he had.
He was no worse than we.
But he was tempted, and we were not,
And we all We're as bad IA hel
Sowc swung his soul to another world
While the moon looked on serene,
a silhouette OF the tree and man,
With u stretch of rope between,
CTwas not for the evil heart he had.
He was tempted more than we,
And not n man In the sullen crew
Was better or worse than hc1
Town Topics
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On the covers of popular tract I
find the quotation, Hell is a city
much like London II this were so,
| would cheerfully accept sentence
which should doom me to hell and
would play my part as citizen to the
best Of my power, for it would be u city
full Of pathos and humor, where much
that is bad is mingled with all that is
lovable. where the very fiends who arc
represented as tormenting the lost are
really engaged in works of mercy and
brotherly love; city, above all, where
justice and straightforwardness and
manly effort never fail to make their
influences felt" Rich and Poor, !" by
Mrs Bosanquet.
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An Interere.tlng Decd.

The Librarian of St. Panl's. London,
has in his keeping very many interest
ing documents. among others a deed OF
gift from King Ethelbert Of farm IN
Kent, which he made over to st. Paula
at time when the cathedral was but
an insignificant structure Of wood The
rent from the land is received to this
day.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-09-22

Rupshu, district on tho north slope
Of the Himalayas, 10, 600 feet above sea
level and surrounded by mountains
from 1900 to 5000 feet higher, has a
permanent population Of 800 persons,
who live in goat hair tents
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A Brave Man.

Nicolas, Cheyalier d'Assas, French
captain III the Auvergne regiment, born
at Vigan III the Languedoc, while max
ing reconnaissance during the night
Of Oct 10, 1860, at Klostercamp in
Westphalia, met "a column of the enemy
which was advancing in silence to sur.
prise the French army. He was ordered
to keep silent or else they would kill
him. D'Assas at once cried out, "a moi
Auyergne-the enemy is herei" lie was
killed on the spot, --Bouillet's Diction-
ary Of History
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lNCONSlS TENCY.

She loved youthful minister;
Her smiling rose lips told him so,
Until they sent him forth TO preach
At Lonesome Gulch in Idaho.
Then all the fcrNor of her soul
subsidized, and she would not so.
What. Waste her life in bowling wilds
Conserving with the Squaw OF I.o2
He went-alonc. And now she's pledged
Again 10 yenng Lieutenant Grow,
Who dates his letters, Fort Remote
At Lonesome Gulch in ldahol
Paul Pastnor in Brooklyn Life.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF ANDREW l.. BIRD DECEASED.
Pursuant to the order Of o. II. sproul, Surrogate
Of the County of Hunte rdon, made on the seventh
day OF May, A. ID. one thousand eight huDdr red
and ninetyseyen. notice Is hereby given to all pc
sons having claims against the estate OF Andrew
l.. Bird, late OF the County of HuDterdOn, de-
ceased, to present the same under oath or aft r.
nation, to the subscriber. Administrator Of said
deceased, within nine months from the date of said
order and any creditor neglecting TO bring ia and
exhibit his or her claim under oath or afirma.
ton, within the time so limited, will be forever
barred Of his or her action therefor against the
said Adm Illustrator.
Dated May 7th. A. D. 1897.
GEORGE W, ARNwINE Administrator
May 2G. 1897.
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"Pray, take my seat. 4"


Noyelist-Do you like tennisf
Tho old lady gives porfunctory an
swer
Noyelist-1he only tennis | like is
Tennyson. Woman.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Pursuant TO the order Of q. H. SprOul Surrogate
of the County of HunteTdon made on the six teenth
day Of January, A. d. ore thousand eight
hundred and ninety-seyeD, notice Is hereby given
TO all persons having claim against the estate Of
Catharine McNeilly late Of the County of Hun
tetdon, deceased, TO present the same, under oath
Affirmation. to the subscriber, Executor Of
said deceased, within nine months from the dat
ofsaid order aud any creditor negectlng to bring
n and exhibit his or her claim under oath or
affirmation, within the time limited will be
forever barred of his or her action therefor
against the said Executor.
Dated January 10th, A. d. 1897.
a. u. ANDERSON.
Jan. 20, 1897. Executor
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