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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
How to Clean Wall Paper.

There are several ways by which wall
paper can be cleaned so that it looks
almost as good as new. The knowledge
may be of use to housekeepers.
One way is the old one, but Is it is sa-
tisfsctory, we give it with the rest.
Take loaf of bread, stale, but not
TOO hard, and cut off one crust; then
tax ng it in one hand, rub the paper
gently with the exposed surface. When
the bread looks sOiled, cut of a very
thin slice and proceed with the work.
1t is best to rub up sand down on the
paper, and clean each piece thorough
ly before leaving it.
Another way is to take q loaf of
bread ana after removing the crust
soak it in cloudy household ammonia.
1t must be so wet that one can work it
on the hands into a ball. Rub the
paper lightly with it, and as the ball
until q clear surface is exposed. This
will remove the dirt and smoke
and freshens up the paper wonder
fully.
Another plan Ia to make q soft dough
of coarse brown -four mixed with
water, It should be stiff enough to
handle easily. The paper can be rub
bed with IL as in the former method
When there are grease spots on the
paper lay coarse brown paper over and
pass q hot iron over it. Fresh paper
may be need several times ii the spot
is large.
When there are spots from which
the color has been removed, they can
be made to look as good as new by the
use of water color paints. The desl or
should be traced first and the filling
then put in with the paints.-Philadel
phia Inquirer.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Open Fires.

81 am q firm believer" writes q cor
respondent, Gin the moral and spiri-
tual influence Of an open fire. To
make home attractive there must be
somewhere in the house common
family rendezvous: and that ought to
present q more radiant attraction than
a black hole in the floor, through
which hot air pours forth from a sub
terrapeau furnace Men will fight for
tn ir affairs and tn ,ir firesides. but
what orator ever evoked burst OF pa
triotism in behalf of steam pipes and
reigste-s? 1 never cease to be thank
full hst 1 was brought up beside the
ooen fire OF Q rural farmhouse. "-Ex-
change.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Don't "ShOw Off the Baby.

One of the most important rules is
that which demands perfect quiet for
baby during the first months of its ex-
iste ce.
Babies are fused over, talked 60,
and haudled into q state which is sure
to leave the nerves of the child in q
thoroughly wrought-up condition.
needs given the tiny one during the
first year of it's sojourn here below the
better.
Allow the little frame to become
accustomed to the strain upon it SO
necessary when making the acquaint-
ance of this restless, riOting world of
ours.
1t is wise to continue this whole
some neglect through childhood,
though very many mothers imagine
that child is rend cred shy if it is not
in the nursery.
Baby is compelled to make friends
with every stranger who appears.
It is kissed when it wants to be left
alone.
II it has q cunning trick it is coaxed
and leased into exhibiting it.
AS the baby grows older the same
methods are pursued; the poor child Is
marshaled into the dining-rOOm to b'
put through its pages; play is inter.
upted and the little one frightened in.
to state OF nervousness that brings
too often, a punishment that is unde
served.
When your smiling friend asks In
dulcet tone to ''see the BABY" do no,
hesitate to say mo" especially If she
is merely q chance caller, one of many
| who think it necessary to make the
| request out of politeness. There is al
| ways some good excuse for refusing to
put the baby through a succession o.
| ''shows," and unless she is a specis
| friend the chances are that your visi
tor will simply look upon the refuss
as sparing her an iutiiction, and the
baby will be all tho better for his com
parative seclusion.-New Orleanl
States.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
THE CONTROLOF SEX.
DIR. Schenk ElabOrates his Theory as to
the Mothers Diet.

London Daily News: Vienna Dispatch,
Professor Leopold Schenk's book
will be published in German by the
Vienna firm OF Schallehn & Boilbruck
tomorrow, and 1 owe 1t to their cOur-
tesy that l am able to send you TO-
night some account of the authors now
famous theory. The work begins with
resume of the history of past theories
of sex. The latest, that in which the
resu of all DR.. Schepk's observation
and experiments is concentrated-is,
as ia k lown, that the nour shment of
the mother tn is to be is of the high
est and foremost Importance. WO'k
and experience extended over a periO0
of many wears convinced him, he SAYS,
first, that he must devote his whole
attention to the quantity OF sugar Sc
GREETED by the mOtner's system 10 nor
NAL conditions. When there is no
sugar secreted, not even the smallest
quantity, then male child will be
produced.
1t is very important that, before
there is any prop ct of maternity, the
future mother should have been re-
ceiving the proper nOurishment best
suited to obtain this result, and that
afterward she should continue the
same diet. The question is: Wha
kind of food is that which will so act as
to prevent the secretion of sugar?
Professor Schenk observed dur
ing many years that the presence or
absence of sugar has q decided in
Huence upon the sex of the child in
course Of development. He says that
to insure the birth of . male child IL
should be first ascertained whett or
there is the normal quantity Of sugar.
Should sugar be traced, it will b.
necessary to make experiments with
different kinds of nourishmeut. aud
obs -rvation must be continued until
the disappe srance of sugar is ascer
tanned. But the choice of nourishment
must be directed to yet another end.
1t must be such as to reduce the wo-
mans weight.
AS to the general nature of the food
to be chosen, Professor Schenk says
he mother should be given nourish-
ment containing nitrogen and fat in
sufficient quantities. and only SO muct
carbohydrates as not to let her suffer
from the lack of them. Best to begin
with the treatment two or three
months beforehand. and continue l.
for three months afterward. Some
women cannot bear this treatment
with nitrogen in concentrated form.
Women in the country who have been
fed on vegetable food all their lives
will he among these,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Observation-Disclosures.
USDREKERGESTEL
The Flemish Name for Bicycle.

Both the velocipede and bicycle have
given the French q lot of trouble to sa-
tisfsctory christen either machine
Beginning with celerifere and velosi-
fere, there has been q progressive move
ment in the direction of "bicycle,"
"bicyclet:e." "veloce" and ssvelo.n
The popular vehicle is also known un-
der the name of "becane." In Spain
it is the .velocifers, velocipedo and BIZ
cyc'ets. In 'EoRland it is ..wheel"; in
Germany, sfarrad" or "rsd". In Chi
ma it is 'gsugma," meaning ''foreign
horse," or fled chsi,.' Flying ma
chine" In the same country it is also
called ''tzu tzun," or carriage that
oes-without-horse." With respect
to names. however, the Flemings dis
lance all the rest. Beginning by call
ing the bicycle the ''snelwiel' or ''vo-
etwiel," they have developed the name
into the INDUSTRIOUS "Rewielsoelriju
oetrappeudueusdrek Those
contem plating a bicvole tour in Euro
pc had better skip Flanders or else ride
around the country.-Exchang
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
CHEER UP.

What's the use Of looking glum:
Cheer up!
Brighter days will surely come.
Cheer upl
Tho the storm king holds full sway.
Tho the torrents pour today,
Every cloud will clear away:
Cheer upl
No use shedding idle tears,
Cheer up.
Don't give way to foolish fears.
Cheer up!
Amt no use of feeling blue
If the sun don't shine on you:
Sobs and signs will never do.
Cheer up.
II misfortune be your share,
Cheer up,
Time will tighten every care;
Cheer up.
With the springtine's gentle rain
Buds the falrest flower again,
Song birds sing sweeter strain:
Cheer up.
p. L. McCarty in Boston Traveller
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
GIRLHOOD.
Every Girl Should be Allowed to Spend
it Contentedly.

Every Girl Should be Allowed to Spend
it Contentedly.
Illustrated London News.
There is much talk in the press o.
Europe about the marriage OF the
young Queen of Holland. 1t ia saio
that she does not wish to change her
condition, but purposes to rule alone,
like Elisabeth of England and Gather
inc of Russia: and for this decision
there is excellent reason in the ar
rangement made for her, that If she
should become the mother of q son che
shall vacate the throne in bis favor g.
soon as he comes OF age! Ii the little
girl has sufficient sense OF the charms
of s'career" to foresee in her teens
how it must feel to b come discrown
ed sovereign in the prime of her year,,
she must take pattern from the early
6rmness of Elizabeth, who, both in her
teens and her early Juveniles" refused
several good offers on the ground that
'.by her faith and truth, and as Goo
heard her, she best liked the state she
was then in and was persuaded there
was no other comparable to it, and 80
intended to continue"
But why should q poor child be
teased about marrying when she is op-
ly II? Queen Victoria, the type for all
time of q mat on monarch, did not
make her choice till she was nearly FL.
Too early marriages are the greatest
possible mistake for girls. An apple
is no more ready to pluck as soon as II
is fully rounded on the tree than is a
girl to marry because che is woman y
in figure; q period of ripening aud mel
lowing is yet needed. DR.. Matthews
Duncan proved years ago by elaborat+
statistics that from % to % was the
best age for the safe aud prosperous
entry into womsn's kingdom of moth
erhood; and, as to the mind, every
mother and teacher of growing girls
knows that there Is period, some
where in the teens, when the sweetest
natured child has q period of sea :
tsnkerousness. time when she wants
20 60 her own way, add fails to sppre-
ciate life's benefits in actual possession
a period out of which the right-na-
tured and we'll trained girl will pass
into ripened and sweet wOmanliness ii
patience be exercised towards her, but
which should not be in the hands OF
an inexperienced young husband to
deal with. In one royal family clOaely
associ sted with our own the expert
ment of very early marriages has been
tried with VIGOROUSLY unsatisfactory
results. Let girls have their girl
hood.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
WHEN WOMEN VOTED.
Privilege of Unmarried Owners of
PROPERTY.

Kentucky, which in 1S45 made voters
of widows and spinsters who were
holders of real estate, only followed
the footsteps of Maryland, which had
done the same thing 30 years before.
/ have not the authorities At hand
which would enable me to give exact
dates, writes q correspondent OF the
Boston Transcript. but about the year
1920 unmarried women who were hold
ers Of real estate to q given amount
were entitled to vote, and did very gen.
orally exercise the right OF franchise.
In Colonial days the States of the
South generally made the ownership
of properly a requisite to the exercise
of the right of franchise, while the
New England colonies generally made
church mem bersbip necessary qua
LITIGATION of the voter. Following the
idea that only property holders should
vote, Maryland, therefore, decided
that where the ownership OF property
was vested in a woman who had not q
bus band to represent her, she should
be q voter.
have many times heard my grand
mother tell of voting during the dsys
of her widowhood, and describe the
manner OF exercising the frsnchie in
those days. There was but .one voting
place in the county, aud al electors
were reQulVcQ UO RO W tuc COuDty tOWu
to cast their votes. She lived in the
county of Talbot, and the voting place
for theientire county swas Easton, the
county seat.
There was no casting of q ballot, nor
was the system like the viva voce vote
which prevailed in Kentucky until q
few years ago. But the candidates for
office eat in the election room, and
each voter was expected to look them
over and select the one for whom be
or che d sired to vote, and the clerks
made q record of the decision. Candi-
dates for state offices were expected
to have representatives in each county.
These were leading people of the par
ty to which the candidate belonged,
and each one was expected to be well
qualified to discuss the merit of the
candidate he represented. In those
days the elections lasted four days, in
order to give ample time for everyone
to get to the voting place. Some time
late in the 40's the spirit OF progress
required sweeping away of the bar
riers which the property qualification
had set up, and q constitutional conven
ton decided in favor of giving the bal
lot to every white male voter who had
reached the age of q. AS the right of
q woman to vote was based on the idea
of property qualification, when that
was swept away she lost the ballot.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Reflections of q Bache lOr.

From the New York Press.
Then they married and pretended
they lived happy ever after.
Every man who has been married
over five years has sneaking kind of
hatred for the word honeymoon"
If the Lord had created all female
hair curly the women would have in
vented some machine to make it stay
straight in wet weather.
Every man loses bis dearest ideals
several times before he finds them.
To live, q woman has first to love; to
love, q man has fret to have lived.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Texas E Pacific
EXCURSIONS.
mo Trouble to Answer Questions"

Ell Paso to New Orleans and return, $500.
Tickets on sale May 16-17-1S good until June
4. Account General Assembly Presbyterian
Church.
Ell Paso to Cisco and return, May - and g.
So Good until May 81. Account District
Conference NJ. E Church.
Tourist Cars from FL Paso to St. Louis, via
Texarkana to St. Louis, every "Wednesday,
and via FIT. Worth and Kansas City to Chi
cago, every Thursday.
These cars are Clean, Well Furnished and
Cool; especially ADAPTED to Summer Travel
Look out for rates IN this paper, account
American Medical Association. Denver, Col;
Confederate Reunion, Atlanta, Ca, in j ly;
National Educational Association, Washing
ton, d. c., in July; Christian Endeavor, Nash
willie, Tenn, in July: Knights Templars, Dali
las, in June.
Tickets are now on sale from Ell Paso to
Mineral We'ls-the Great Texas Health Re-
sort-at 24.6O good for sixty days from date
of sale. For other Information inquire OF
A. W. MONTAGUE. Depot Ticket Agt;, Or
b. +. DARBYSHIRE,
Southwestern Freight and Passenger Agent.
No III Ell Paso Street. Ell Paso. Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
Engagement Rings.

Sapphires still hold their own as fret
favorites for the decoration of engage
ment rings, diamond, running them
very closely; but the widespread belief
that the pure white stones signify tears
prevents them from being universally
used at such an important time as the
betrotbal. A few months ago emeralds
were very popular, but the great
beauty OF the sapphire, combined with
it's quality of making white flesh look
whittier has brought it back to popular
favor.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
MOrs,~-- Line.
I"SUNSk, ROUTE III

|I1"SUNSk, ROUTE" II
The Morgan au.'set Southern
Pacific steam~rs will continue
to run betwa." New York and
New Orleans. and war risk
will be assumad until further
notice, by the steamship COM
pany, at no expense to ship
pers.
Should hosmities make it
necessary to discontinue the
steamship line.arrangements
have been perte cted with the
I ouisviIIe & Nashville and
Pennsylvania companies to
handle by special service,
east and west bound freight
between originating points
west of New Orleans and New
York and seaboard points,
and the service will be un-
broken, cars running through
without transfer where prac-
ticabIe, thus insuring fast
time.
The Mallory steamship line
has discontinued for present
plying between New York and
Galveston. Shippers will
please instruct c. H. Mallory
& Co., New York, to deliver
to Sunset Morgan line any
freight in their possession,o or
subsequently received. Also,
route future shipments via
| Morgan line.
T. +. HUNT,
Commercial Agent.
SUNSET ROUTE"
Morgan Line, Ell Paso. Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21

Chicago Tribune: Uncle Sam bent
over the chart of the Atlantic ocean
and studied it closely.
"Puzzle PICTURE" he muttered.
Find the Spanish fleet"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
WANTS GUM-CHEWING STOPPED
Bishop Vincent Urges Crusade
Against the HaIpit.

Bishop John II. Vincent. of the
Methodist Episcopal church, appearing
before the State Temperance union, at
Topeka, Kan, the other day, appealed
to his hearers to take up tine c ;. ewing
gum habit and TO persevere uH;.. it is
crushed out of Kansas.
He asserted that the chewi . gum
vice had made millonaires out of a few
men in few years, and instead of doing
any good whatever, was encouraging
dangerous habits among the people.
He argued that the foundation of tenn
pcrance reform should be laid at the
chewing gum age of childhood, as the
habit was a sort of self-indulgence that
should be restrained. If the child's
will was educated to resist this habit
it could be easier trained to resist 9TH
er habits.
The bishop was particular in his crit
icism of the chewing gum girl, and
urged that she should be given to un-
derstand that the indulgence of the
habit was to her discredit.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
MEMORIES OF LONG AGO.

Come here, my lady in the satin dress,
And let me tell you of maid knew
Her hair, like yours, was golden, confess,
Her eyes were just the shade of speed
we'll blue
AS these you raise so sweetly to my own,
And you seem speaking with her very tone.
She wore a dress like yours-a blue brocade
With silver threads inwoven. and her
shoe
Was much the same-I think you could not
trade
without twas even-yes, a buckle. too,
Flashed on her dainty instep as she came
Adown the stairs in answer to her name
Grandmother's slippers. say you? Yes. I
Grandmother's gown refashioned, dear.
for you?
If but one hour young again could be
I'd lend myself to dance measure, too.
AS on a Christmas eve long years ago
] led the ball with one used to know.
What pretty smiles and bushes! Ay, he's
Think you he cannot wait-this lover
true?
Nor was pleased at any waiting, dear,
When was young and grandmother like
you
Go. get such greeting as my heart still
gives
To her who ever in my memory lives.
Mary Clarke Huntington, in Ladies
Home Journal.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
Pictures Tell The Story

OF how everything looks in South Da.
kota as the.result.of the great crops of
the last three years. The Chicago, Mil.
waukee & st. Paul Railway..company has
had photographs taken of actual farm
scenes in South Dakota and has had
them reproduced in an attractive eight.
page illustrated circular, which it is dis.
tributing tree of cost to all who are look.
ing for new homes in the most fertile
section of the Middle Northwest.
Send your address to H. F. Hunter,
immigration Agent for South Dakota,
29l Dearborn street, Chicago. ILL.,, or to
W. E. Powell, General Immigration
Agent, 4l0 Old Colony Building, Obi.
cago, H.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
OIL FOR NAVAL VESSELS,
Successful Experiments That Ma!
Work a Revolution.

Succese1ul experiments That May
Work a Revolution.
The report of the board of engineers
which has been conducting expert
ments with oil as fuel on the torpedo
boat Stiletto, at New York, has been
made to the secretary Of the navy and
If its recommendations which are
strongly fortified, meet with the execu.
tive approval, revolution in firing
naval vessels will be fairly begun. The
board found that the oil fuel was in
comparably superior to coal in every
way, particularly for small vessels,
chief among the advantages being econ
omy, ease of handling, reduced fireroom
force, absence of waste and higher
catorific capacity. 1t was found in
actual practice that the Stiletto ran 2S
miles on one ton of coal and Sc miles on
one ton of oil. The oil runs from the
dock into the bunkers and thence to the
fire by gravity alone, needing no han
ding. A distinct advantage lies in the
ready removal of the oil burning appli-
ance where oil is unobtainable, permit
ting the use of coal at any time. The
board recommends that the apparatus
already installed in the Stilette De con-
tinued in use, and that similar pro-
visions be made for utilizing the i'm
proved system in all the other torpedo
boats. Additional experiments are
needed to demonstrate the practical use
of the liquid fuel on larger vessels.
where arrangements must be made to
carry enormous quantities of crude
petroleum..
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
LOT OF QUEER LETTERS.
Amusing Communications Re-
ceived by Pension Departm ent
Alleged Doctors write Letters to
Secure Pensions for Their ia.
tients That Would Make
n Horse Laugh.

Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Davis frequently receives remarkable
letters from country physicians in re-
gard to some pension claims. One was
from a mountain doctor in one of the
southern states. who thus graphically
described The pathological condition of
one of his patients:
"Snkay Mills-February 30, 1S97.-Sur: I
surtify treted the sed sojer fun 1SSSS to
Date-foarmerly his stumik tub was jined
to his nervous sistem but now it air rotted
off cosing crate expectoring and hard of
breth-Your Obt servent.
''DR. ]. HAsKENs, M. D."
It will be noted that the "Dr." is mixed
in his dates as well as in his pathology.
Here is another doctor. whose treat
nent could we'll be confined to horses:
"Ambdlers, June s, 1s96.-Dear Sir: Yours
received treted VIM. Akens after he cum
Hoam from the surfis for polypup in his
nosee and Running soar in his pastur. The
polypup from the mite are and exposure
the wounde cum from the click of a hoars-
JAMES WEvER, NJ. D."
And here is one on the root doctor:
Stratin-Martch 20, 1S96.-Presedent of
Penseners.-i let you no wor treted by a
root and erb docter he give me running milk
week for running soar and no avale
iff my clam is loude I can voate weth free
conchents. ]. s."
But here is one from an old fellow
who had no faith in doctors and cured
himself:
"Barbersville-Sep IA, 1S95.-Sr:-
At Bermuda Hundred had a great deal
trouble with my bowels. The Dr. he gave
me quinine-no good. One day a member
of our band-the base drummer-gave me
boxes of Pills. / was helped. At Red River
I was again attacked with dyspepsia and
bowels. / went and got bottle of French
Red Wine and a pound of cheese which
good. While in Tennessee ! got sunstroks
and now I have cold air resting on my
lungs and Angelina Pictorials which the
Dr. says is result of sunstroke.
-. H. S.
81 think" said the secretary, zone
could stand the bottle of French red
wine and the pound of cheese, but the
Angelina Pictorials are to be dreaded
"a week or so ago." he continued.
81 had letter from German who
claimed pension because 'on the 10Th
of Sep 1889 lifted hog over fence
and have suffered from asthma ever
SINCE"
While letters like these would pro-
woke the risibilities of anyone, Assist
ant Secretary Davis gives the most
careful attention to every communica-
tion he receives.