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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
you BREW YOUR OWN TEA.
The Secluded and Tasteful snuggery q
Woman Has Started In Town.


Woman Has Started In Town.
From New York Sun: An enterprise
not yet a fortnight old Is a tea lunch
con room near one of the transfer,
corners of an uptown thoroughfare.
You would take it to be a florists shop
on first glance, so empowered in grow
ing vines and potted plants are the
deep window seats. The broad-striped
awning slants down over the pavement
recess as though to keep out pryihg
eyes and make a snuggery of the place,
Private n secluded looking as it is,
however, the mistress of this little tea
luncheon room is well known, and fas-
tld1ous customers enter her doors and
take comfort at the white-draped
tables. Tea rooms and eating and
drinking places there are in New York
one where the candidates for good tea
actually brew the beverage themselves,
the proprietor furnishing the fresh
drawn water, the requisite quantity of
tea for the number of cups ordered,
lighting the little alcohol lamp be-
meath the shining kettle, and then
leaving the result to the brewers, to
be STEPPED just as long or as short a
time as the individual may deem best.
Each of the little tables is furnished
with necessary equipment for tea
brewing. The customer has a choice
of oolong, English breakfast, a mix
ture of green and black tea If prefer
red, and for Is cents the pot Of fresh
tea holding enough for two can be Sc
cured. The china in use in the place
is all green and white, of graceful
shape and decoration. A slender glass
vase Of spring flowers has place in the
center of each table, the tumblers are
of thin, fine glass, the silver and nap
cry pretty and distinctive, and the
whole equipment, from the tasteful
green frigerators at n end to the
pretty menu cards, looks inviting, re-
freshing, and unshoplike.
II believe l shall do WELL" says the
proprietor, as she listens to the en-
thusiastic praises of some tired out
out-of-town shoppers who have stop
ped over on their transfers long enough
to get a cup of tea. "Of course when
men come in, and they do in the af-
ternoon, 1 make their tea for them, but
most women like to draw it for them
selves and to know just how long it
boils, and all that. The chickens for
my sandwiches and salads come all
cooked fresh from my home farm, and
I get new laid eggs in each day and
all the fruit in season. My strawberry
shortcake is a speciality with the cook
who makes it." The tea is the strong
point with the restaurant; but break
fast, consisting of coffee, rolls, and
fried, boiled or poached eggs, can be
had as early as $3.50 in the morning,
and the fernery is open to customers
all day. The fact that the only places
in town where simple refreshments
can be secured and partaken of amid
refined surroundings are both public
and expensive led to the starting of
this new venture.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
The Baby's Outfit,

Three or four flannel shawls. about
thirty inches square and bound with
ribbon, will be found very useful while
the baby is young, says Harper's Ba-
Ear. They are easy to wrap around the
paDy after a bath and when ready for
a nap. Little sacks are also needed,
and can be knitted in white with pink
and blue borders, or be made of Scotch
outing flannel or cashmere. These
can be made On a short yoke, or can
hang straight from the neck, and be
trimmed with a broad collar and tied
with a ribbon in front. TWO or three
wrappers can be simply made, prefer
ably of Scotch flannel, either on a yoke
or with a cluster of tucks across the
front. Three or four knitted blankets
are necessary, and "a be made of light
pink, blue or white. White, as a rule,
washes best. The long coat can be
made of silk, cashmere, or any soft
white goods. Il should be lined with
a thin silk, so as to slip on and off
easily, and if q winter coat, lined
throughout with lambs wool. It can
be trimmed with a wide collar or a
round shoulder cape if desired. A lit
tie cap should go with the coat, made
OF the same material and lined if for
winter, but in summer the dainty little
muslin caps are the best.
The baby's basket is a delightful lit
tie article to plan about, and can be
made in a variety of ways. The long
low shape is perhaps the most con-
venient. If it is to be trimmed at
home tuck cotton batting on to the
sides, which have been sprinkled with
orris powder, and then cover with
whatever material is desired. Rose or
light blue silk is a pretty foundation,
covered with either a fine dotted mus
lin of point d'esprit lace. The muslin
or lace should be sewed on full. but the
silk can be put on plain. A lowered
silkolene can be used in place of these.
This, of course, should be put on full,
as it does not have the lace over it. A
big satin bow at the side or on the ton
makes a pretty finish. In the tray are
kept the baby's toilet articles, and in
the underneath part OF the basket the
baby's clothes. The tray should con-
tain a pin cushion on which are the
assorted sizes Of safety pins. A little
~cup-shaped bag can be made of rubber
cloth covered with whatever material
the basket is trimmed with, and sewed
into one corner of the tray for the ba-
by's sponge, which should be small and
fine. A piece Of good soap in a little
disk, a powder box and puff. a bottle
of vaseline, a small box of borax, a
quarter of a pound roll of absorbent
cotton, a roll of old linen and a pair of
small blunt-pOinted scissors. These lit
tie things are constantly needed, and
should always he on hand.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Lettuce as "A Sedatiyc.

The soporific properties of the com
mon or garden lettuce were known in
the earliest ages. Galen used to eat
the lettuce in the evening as a remedy
for wakefulness at night, and most
persons find 1t induces sleep. Lactu-
csrium is the inspissated Juice of the
garden lettuce, and has the color, and
in some measure the taste and odor Of
opium; but no morphia has yet been
obtained from it, and it's narcotic prin-
ciple is therefore still undiscovered.
Its analysis is said to prove it to con-
tain a large proportion Of caoutchouc,
as much as twenty-five parts in fifty.
It's medicinal effects are very nearly
the same as those of opium, but it is
undoubtedly much milder in it's oper-
alton, and may consequently be used
in cough and consumption and in 9th
er cases where opium from it's stimu-
lating effect cannot be borne.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCCV-
cry AND INVENTION,
Safety in Handling Cotton-Machine for
Washing Fruit-Heating Capabilities of
Wood Singing Spiders - Causes of
ContagiOn.
Safety In Handling Cotton,

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Cotton shippers are very keenly alive
to the dangers that attend the handling
OF their wares. A spark from a cigar
or the smoke stack of an engine may
tall upon a bale. 1t sinks in and in
the haste of loading is not observed.
For weeks it may eat and smolder in
the bale, then at some unexpected mo-
ment it may break out with the most
disastrous results. Heretofore it has
been impossible to pack cotton so that
this contingency might not arise at
any time. There Is, however, a new
method by which cotton is packed cy-
lindrically instead of the ordinary
square shapes. BY the new process
the packing is so close and firm that
hre might run all over the outside OF
1t and then go out, because there is
not sufficient oxygen in the interior of
the package to conduct the fire or sus-
tain it. This discovery is of great val
lie to shippers, as we'll as ship owners.
Fires in cotton bales have been OF
frequent occurrence, and when a con-
migration is once started it seems next
TO impossible to put it out. Exposure
to the air gives the fire just the sup
port 1t needs, while smothering it down
merely postpones the calamity. In ad-
dition to the greatly increased safety
of such cargoes, the new style of pack
ing puts the fiber into much smaller
compass and consequently the bestowal
is easier, n much nonre cotton ian be
carried in a given space.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Singing SDiderS,

A naturalist who has given many
years of study to some of the smaller
forms of insect life has discovered that
certain sorts of spiders are possessed
of organs, for which there seems to e
no Use save to create sound. They are
mostly used when the little creatures
are alarmed, although the opinion is
held by some that this is their means
of calling to their mates. The alarm
idea, however, has some support in the
case of the rattlesnake, which is pro-
vided with the means of making it's
presence known whenever an enemy
approaches. Whether the possession
of organs for creating sound is design
ed merely as a protection or warning is
a point to which naturalists are giving
careful and enthusiastic attention.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

NO lime IOF ITOuDles
Amt got no time fer trouble-fer Billy's
at the gate
With a little willer basket that is wrig-
Gin with the bait;
An the river looks %invitin', an it's shady
as kin be,
An fer all the fish that's bitin', thar's a
fish IL wait fer mel
Down by the river
Life is like a song,
An the yaller perch air bitin'
The rosy mornin' long!
got no time fer trouble-fer wealth
er's mighty fine,
An L see the worm wriggle on the fur
end O the line:
The mockin' birds air singin' in the bios
SONS all eroun',
But the best the weather's bringin' is
the cork a-goin' down!
Down by the river
Life is like a song,
An the yaller perch air bitin'
The rosy mornin' long!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
To Spank or Not to Spank.

A New York paper has a department
in its evening edition headed, "To
Spank or Not to Spank" and under
that heading many wise and nan
worried mothers air their views, and
seek for advice on the subject of the
need or good of spanking wayward
children. One woman writes:
Il have always believed in parking
children who were o~bstreperous, but
my little daughter, Minnie, aged 9,
does not seem to mind. She says to
her little brother, Harry, aged 6: oh,
come along, Harry. Mamma'll beat
us, but thatll last only a few minutes,
and we can do this for an hour What
can l do with a child who reasons in
this fashion,"
In reply to the inquiring mother the
paper answers:
This letter shows that when it is a
child that confronts us and not a
theory it is well to study the child, and
not to insist too strongly upon the the
DRY. If this small damsel fears no
spanking because she is p~hilosophic
enough to weigh it's grief sting with
the long enjoyment of her naughtiness,
devise some long punishment for her.
Deprive her of her opportunities to en-
JOY life. Keep her indoors and at some
task for a punishment"
Devise for her some long punish
ment." Poor thing! she'd find long
pnn1JUb ono IF fho ,,nioh,oo ,t1 Jo1y;,
ed for me when l was "obstreperous''
by my AUNT Lizzie" who brought me
up" and was a perfect genius for in
venting long" and, I nov think, cruel
punishment. Pointing to an extra
high chair, from which my feet could
not reach the floor, she would say,
sternly: Emily, get up in that chair
and shut your eyes, and keep them
shut for ten minutes" 1t seems a slight
punishment-but, Ola spanking was
fun beside it. My eyes wouldn't be
hut two minutes before it would seem
that ten minutes and more had passed
How the long punishment" dragged,
and long before it ended l resolved that
1t would be long, indeed, before l again
gave that woman" as l used to men,
tally call my exacting aunt, who was
not my own aunt, but an uncle's wife,
another chance to so torture me. But
Aunt Lizzie did not allow her punish
ments to lose their terror by too fire.
quent an infection. She had a large
and exasperating variety, and it wa,
a long time between turns,
She was not really a cruel woman,
was not a very naughty child;
yet the punishments were actually as
u as if l had been a wicked sprite
and she a witch. Many a good,
Christian mother, in her eagerness to
wisely correct her children, torturei
them, even as did my p"uritanical guar
dian. l guess a good spanking, after
all, is the best, and it is the only
punishment recommended by Holy
Writ.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Girls In Corea,

When a girl is born in Corea she is
not even dignified by a name. Several
names are written on slips of paper and
placed in an urn before some ~favorite
deity and when it is necessary her god
father selects without seeing it and
she is known by it until she reaches
womanhood among the members of her
own family. Strangers designate her
as the wife, mother, sister or daughter
of such or such a man. This is not
merely the result of custom. The laws
are strict in this matter and htold a
woman in little more consequence than
a domestic animal. In the higher
classes of society the girls are separat-
ed from the boys of the family at the
age Of 7 years. They occupy the apart
ments of women and are forbidden to
communicate with anyone outside,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

One of the most fruitful sources of
the illness of children is the habit
which some parents have of allowing
them to stay up unduly late at night.
1t is n of the greatest INTAKES of
those who have charge of them to LET
them have too little sleep. 1t is ON
fessedly a difficult matter always to
get little ones to bed at the time thew
ought to go; they, of course, plead for
only a little longer to stay up; but if
parents would realize the extreme i'm
portance of plenty of rest they would
remain obdurate to all such ~entreaties.
1t should not be forgotten that chill
dren are naturally wakeful in the
morning, and in consequence of having
to be off to school betimes are fire.
quently called before they have finished
their morning nap. Children as a rule
ought to sleep ten or eleven hours, and
to do this they ought to be put to bed
early enough at night so that they NAV
have this amount of uninterruptped
sleep. If children do not get the need
ed amount of rest it is no wonder that
they become nervous, fretful and diff
cult to manage. Their nerves, inherit
ed in many cases from dyspeptic par
ents, are keenly alive to every sound,
and their tennpers are irritated by be-
ing called out Of bed when they are so
much inclined to sleep. During the
earlier years of childhood. whatever
else may be done, there should be am
pie provision for long and undisturbed
sleep.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Machine for Washing Fruit.

So much trouble has been made by
the appearance of black spots on Or
anges and lemons that all sorts Of
plans have Deer devised to rid the fruit
of this unsightly blemish. One of the
most practical appliances is a scrub
ping machine supplied with water, car
riers and brushes. The fruit is put
into a tank and allowed to remain for
a few minutes to permit the specks to
soften a little; then it is taken up by
the carriers and conveyed to a large
wheel, which has arranged around it's
periphery movable automatic acting
brushes, which form a portion of the
carrier around it's rim. AS the orange
or lemon proceeds on its journey the
brushes attack it from all quarters,
scrubbtng it very thoroughly, and in
almost all cases completely cleansing
it from the unsightly specks. After a
given time it is automatically dropped
into a trough, from which it is con
veyed to the receiving baskets or boxes.
The brushes, while firm, are not suffi-
GENTLY sc to injure the rind of the fruit
In the least. If this device works as
well as it promises 1t is a boon to the
orange and lemon grower, and a for
tune to the inventor.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

son that the youngsters play In the
streets, where they pick up all sorts
of germs. A boy hurts his fingers, and
sticks them in his mouth, and mayhap
ticks them to get a better hold of his
top or whatever he may be handling.
Diphtheria and typhoid fever especial
ly, he says, are more likely to be con-
tracted by boys on this account. In
addition to this, boys roam about ev-
erywhere, and are, so to speak, in ev-
cry kind of mischief. A lad may con-
tract a disease by picking up some
stick OIL article previously handled by
an infected person. He advises that
when boys come in from play they
should give their hands and faces a
thorough washing, not forgetting to
clean the teeth with the utmost care.
Excellent advice, no doubt, but what
an amount of moral persuasion"
would be required to get the average
boy to take these precautions! Wash
ing is very often looked upon as a very
unnecessary operation, and a sad waste
of time.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
In Childish Ewes.

The vagueness of the young with re,
spect to the age of their elders is pleas
antly illustrated by the early history OF
a nobleman who once represented a
division of Manchester in the English
parliament. His mother had a maid
who seemed to childish eyes extremely
old. The children of the family longed
to know her age, but were much too
well-bred to ask a question which they
felt would be painful; so they sought
to attain the desired end by a system
of ingenious traps. The boy CHANGED
in a lucky hour to find in his Book of
Useful knowledge" the tradition that
the aloe flowers Powered only once in
a hundred years. He instantly saw his
opportunity, and, accosting the maid,
with winning air and ~wheedling ac-
cent, asked, insinuatingly: Susan,
have you often seen the aloe fiower?"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

One day recently Dick Heuer, a Sau-
gatuck, Michigan, fisherman, caught
siXty-four ducks in his nets in Lake
Michigan. The nets were set in four
teen fathoms of water, and the ques-
tion naturally arose, How deep can
ducks and other fowl swim?" The Sau-
gatuck Commercial says it is not I'M
common for fishermen to catch ducks
in nets set 200 feet deep, and that once
Shriver brothers, of that town, took
two barrels of ducks from their nets
in eighty fathoms of water.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
A Submarine Warship.

Both men of science and officers OF
the navy have been greatly interested
in the successful experiments with the
Holland submarine boat in New York
harbor. The boat is able to run on
the surface at a speed of sixteen knots,
and when completely submerged at a
speed of ten knots. A gas engine is
used to drive her on the surface, and
an electric motor, driven by a storage
battery, propels her when she is sub
merged. She stays on an even keel,
and automatic mechanism keeps her at
a constant depth. When diving, with
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

When liquid air is exposed in an
open vessel, it gradually vaporizes, and
the vapor thus formed looks like steam,
except that, as Prof. w. C. Peckham
remarks in an illustrated article in
the Scientific American, it does not
rise In the air, but flows down over the
edges of the dish or cup on all sides.
This falling of the vapor is due to the
fact that it is heavier than air at or
binary pressures. The hand, placed
near the steamy cloud, feels the power
full chill of it's presence.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
-~Es@TE4@=sE5 H LSTA
GBE7Ta9S S

ders, she goes down at an angle Of
about fifteen degrees, and in rising to
the surface m up again at the same
angle. She carries tubes for launching
Whitehead torpedoes when under wat
er, and for firing g%uncotton projectiles
when not submerged. The boat is CT
gar shaped. The one with which the
experiments have been made is So feet
long. Another, IS feet long, is being
constructed.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
How He ESCAPED.

Does your wife eVer ask you TO do
shopping for herr" Not since last
week. Then she asked me to match a
piece of ribbon at Lacey's and 1 inquir-
ed II she had bought it of that pretty
little curly headed girl near the
Steenth street entrance; and she said
l needn't bother-she'd go herself
Puck.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

cdriosities b. the recipients. They are
baked very hard, and are admirably
adapted to give work to dentists by
breaking the molars by those who at
tempt to penetrate their mysteries. The
poor OF the parish, as distinguished
from necessltous strangers, are supplied
with ordinary quartern loaves and
cheese.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

From time immemorial soft wood
has been regarded as comparatively
valueless for heating purposes. Hard
wood has brought high prices and has
been in much greater demand than
soft, on account of this generally pre-
vailing notion. Experiments with
woods Of various sorts have demon
strated that the linden, which is one Of
the softest of woods, gives the great
est amount of heat. The value of other
woods in their order, as ascertained, is
as follows: Fir with 0.99 heating
power; next follow the elm and pine
with 0.98; willow, chestnut and larch
with 0.97; maple and spruce fir with
0.96; black poplar with OBS; alder and
white birch with 0.94 only; then comes
the hard oak with 0.92; the locust and
the white beech with 0.91, and the red
beech with 0.90. Hence hard wood
heats the least" 1t is n of the re-
markable facts of the day that so many
thoorisa that have been held for many
years are fast giving way before the
critical analyses of science.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
A Wise Man

Flossie Flickers (of the Jollity Girls
company)-Did you ever run for office?
MI. Tuegood-Yes. Flossie Flickers-
What office? Mr.. Tuegood-The post
Office, when l found I had been carry
ing n of my wife's letters around a
week.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Speed of the Gulf Stream,

Three miles an hour is about the
average speed of the gulf stream. At
certain places, however, it attains a
speed of fifty-one miles an hour, the
rapidity of the current giving the sur
face, when the sun is shining, the ap-
pearance of a sheet of fire.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
A Chance to Gain Practice.

Atchison Globe: When a woman re.
solves to be more economical. she
imagines she has to go right down
town and buy something to prove her
resolution to buy economically.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

n Baby's Outft-Children's Hour of
SIeep-In Childish Eyes-The Origin
81 siamese Twins-Their Memory Still
Revered.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

An eminent physician is the authori-
ty for the statement that boys are
much more likely to contract many
diseases than girls, and gives the rea-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
In Doubt.

A Chicago young woman has reserv.
ed her opinion of Admiral Dewey's
victory until she learns what make of
wheel he rides.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
For Earlety's Sake.

lnquirer-Don't you ever get tired
tearing down that building
Laborer-Yes. When we do we tear
1t up.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

To give an appetizing flavor to a
broiled beefsteak, rub a cut onion over
the hot platter with the butter.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Iron Mining hY Steam shovel.

On the Mesabi range, in the Lake Su-
perior iron ore region, a steam shovel
and digger is ued to mine the ore,
which is worked in an open quarry.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30

The ore rises along the side OF the quar-
ry in a face fifty feet in height. The
steam shovel is capable of loading five
hundred tons of ore per hour upon the
cars, whose track run along the face
OF the quarry. The cost Of mining by
this method is said to be about fifteen
cents per ton.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-30
Good Reason Why.

I'll never ask another woman to
marry me so long as / live" "Refrs-
ed?" mo; accepted"