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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Epr SucciaIty.


The servait question, now that the Porto
Etcan tariff question is out of The way,
NAV be taken up again with renewed in
terest. A few days ago a well-known Wash
ington lady, being unexpectedly bereft OF
her kitchen assistance. adVei'iisSd for a
colored woman capable of performing gen
eIai tousework.
The first caller in response to the adEer-
tiSenent MAS a 1nulatto damsci, bedecken
with ribbon and fnery. From her airs
and gracas she might have been sra'i-
uate Of a seminary. She announced that
she had noticed the advertisement and
lvas DESTROYS of securing employment.
Are you a good cook?' inquired the
lady of tine house.
no. indeed, l don't cook" was the
reply
Are you a good washer and ironer?"
was the next query
Il wouldn't 90 washing and ironing III $
too hard On the hands declared tie
caller.
can You sweep" the housewife then
wanted to know.
No" was the answer, andNdt was a
positive enc, TN not strong enough Tor
What
..Wen. fin the name of goodness, what
can you do?'' said the lady Of the house,
cxasperated The placid reply was:
II dusts ''-Wa sh;ngton Star.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Ten Uses of Lemons.
lemon juice removes stains fro

Lemon juice removes stains from the
hands.
:, dash of lemon in plain water is an es-
celient tooth-wash. Il not only removes
tartar, but sweeteus the breath
Two or three slices OF lemon in cup
OF strong tea will cure nervous head
ache.
Lemon juice Outward application will
allay the irritation caused by the bites OF
Snaes OF flies.
No family should be without lemons.
Their uses are almost too many TO emu
meration.
A tesspoonful of the juice in a small
cup OF black coffee will certainly relieve
aa bilious headache.
Lemon peel land also oranse) should be
all saved and dried They are a. capital
substitute for kindling wood. 4 handful
VIII revive dying IRE.
The juice of a lemon. taken in hot water
on weakening in the morning. is an excel
lent liver corrective, and for stout women
is better than any anti-fat medicine ever
invented.
Glycerine and lemon juice, half and half.
on bit of absorbent cotton. is the best
thing In the world wherewith to moisIen
the lips and tongue Of fever-parched
patient.
The finest Of manicure acids Is made by
putting teaspoonful OF lemon juice in a
cuptul Of warm water. This removes
most stains from the fingers and nails.
ard soosens the cuticle more satisfactorily
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
The WiEe'S Share.

To the home woman who, in these days
of feminine activity, feels that she would
be happier If she were earning money must
come consolation in the recent statement
of DR.. Jennie Lozier that every woman
who conducts her home in practical
manner, giving her own personnel
supervision to its details, earns in
direct proportion 10 her husbands in
come. II his income is moderate-Say,
for example. fifteen hundred dollars.
which the wife distributes SO slSilfuMy
as TO supply the family wants, she, by
her effort, earns another fifteen hundred,
thus making an equivalent OF three tious-
and year. In ether words, if he or she
were to work alone, it would require the
latter sum to achieve the same result. and
even then enthusiastically, that is attain
ed with his earning half that sum COM
bined with her interest and effort in its
disbursement. The home woman who
doubts the truth of this has but 10 step
into the ranks of the workers on the out
side TO prove it TO her own satisfaction.
And this reminds me OF a New Jersey
woman who made out bill for services,
and presented it to her husband. He was
a rude man, and after disagreement he
suggested that she go home to her father.
She is said to have told him calmly that
she would not charge him for her faded
youth, but she would like to be reimbursed
for the 1,0l0 weeks Of household service
during their married life of twenty years.
Naluing her services IS cook at four dol
lars per week. as house-naid and waitress
at three dollars per week, as nurse at
three dollars per week, as seamstress at
three dollar, and as overseeing house
keeper at five dollars per week all OF
which offices she had filled faithfully dur
ing that time. she felt entitled to bust
ness settlement. The amount. according TO
primary arithmetic. is slS,720 Then he
thought ii over. and with a practical. bus
mess appreciation of her value he told
her she need not go.-Harpers Bazaar.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
n Patriotic p1adi:,g.
A Famous Recipe Handed Down. by
the Mothers of the Republic.

The following pudding was great IA
vorite with the housekeepers OF the early
days of the Republic, and was always
served at very elegant independence Day
dinners" writes SaIlie JOY White In the
May Woman's Home Companion 1T
should be made exactly by the old-fasnion-
ed rule, disregarding all extracts or flavor
ing compounds. Tie up closely in a thin
muslin bag vanilla-bean cut IN pieces,
and a broken stick of cinnamon. Put this
bag. with half pint OF rich milk. into
the double boiler and boil it until it Is
highly favored. Then take out the bag.
and set the milk, closely covered. where il
will keep warm, but NOT cook any more.
Cut a pound Of sponge-caks into thin slices
and lay it in a deep dish: mix the vanilla
favored milk with a quart of rich cream,
and pour this over the cake. leaving IL To
dissolve. BIanch two ounces Of bitter
Almonds and pound them to a smooth
paste in mortar, pouring on each al
mond few drops of rose-water to pre-
vent their oiling When the almonds ara
all done set them away in a cold place
until wanted. Beat eight eggs until very
light and having stirred together hard
the dissolved cake and cream. add tho
eggs gradually to the mixture IN turn
with the almonds and half pound OF fina
graduated sugar. little az time OF
each. Butter a deep dish and put in ths
mixture. Set the pudding into brish
oven and bake it we'll Have ready star
nicely cut out OF large piece of candied
citron, thirteen small stars, and several
pieces of citron to represent rays; these
should be wide at the bottom and run 70
point 1t the top. AS soon as the pudding
comes out of the oven arrange thsse deco
rations. Put the large star IN the center,
then the rays SO that they will dtverst
from it, widening off toward the edges OF
the pudding. Around the edge put the
thirteen stars in a circle at an equal dis
lance apart. That IS as near 70 a genuine
II patriotic pudding you can very well
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06

unjust criticisms of expenditures and con-
sequent want of sympathy IN the family
pleasures and pursuits.
II know of a sad case which might
give emphasis TO my little sermon. No
two young people could have been more
in love or happier in their little menaSa
than the MS when, they began their mar
RED life-but he was reticent and she was
inclined to be extraTa giant. I never Knew
how much / had to spend In those days,
said Margaret M. to me tearfully after
the crash came, and her husband had
succumbed to his nlisfortunes and become
confirmed fnabriate. Jack never told
me anything about his business or ms
downtown worries-and the money! nl-
ways seemed to be Forthcoming. If he had
only trusted me / would have 50 willing
Qy helped him, not only by reducing our
rome expenses, but by making him feel
that success IN business was not so vital
q thing as me imagined 1T
eff men could only realize how sensibly
most women would meet rnisforrunes, they
would not dread it SO much. and On
many cases it might be ayerted. IN. Y.
Tribune.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
ITS Hanalcap.

He woed her when they both were poor
twas then he won her, too;
Sine cheereI him when the days were
drear and toiled to help him through;
She taught him Things from books that
he had failed to learn in youth,
She got him TO avoid the use of words
that were uucouth:
She took her jewel in the rough, she poi
ished day by day.
And with a woman's patience, ground
the worthless parts away.
She turned him from a stupid clown to
one whose meir. WIS TrCud-
She planted in his heart the wish to rise
above the crowd
1Sho planned the things he undertook, she
urged kim on TO try.
She gave him confidence TO look for splen-
did things and high.
She bore the children that ne loved and
tofled fer them and him.
And often knelt beside her bed with ach-
ing eyes and dim.
She cIcerad him When the days were dark
and wien the skies were bright
she saw him arise above The crowd ana
reach q noble height:
Her brow is marred by many a line: shs's
bsnt and wan ard old.
He has a bearing that is fine, form OF
noble mould:
And people say: Poor man. alas. He's
grown beyond his wife:
How sac that such load should be at
tached to him for IIfer'
-Cnicago Tunes Heard.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
A Queer Marriage.

In 4 Leeds Scotland journal appears
the following description of a Mohamme-
dan marriage lately celebrated, the bride
being an J5nglishwoman and the bride
groom a Nollalnre;ian barrister. practic-
ing in Hyderdbad. The Moutvile who mar
r:ed them twas a perfect Ticture, in 4
long robe of beautiful red silk, very much
embroidered, and girdled with gold His
tulban was tof white silk. There were two
bridesmaids. The brides responses We're
in English and THE brideeTom's in Eng
lish and Arabic. The marriage VOWS were
said TO be very eloquent, but transla-
lions could be obtained of but one or
two sentences spoken by the bride in
Arhbic: 81 will stand here in the presence
of God and all who are assembled here,
to Unite my heart to your heart, my des-
tiny 10 your destiny and to be called by
your name. Your sorrow shaM be my
sorrow, your happiness shall be my l,appi-
ness. Then the bridegroom made his
Impressive promises, and after the MouI-
vie had delivered an address to the happy
pair, quoting, of course. the example
of Moaanmed and Khadiia, the bride
groom placed the ring on the finger of
the bride, and tie ceremony ended much
as English marriages do, with registra-
ton and the singing of names.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
one Cause of Unhappy Marriages.

There is one piece of advice which 4
would like to give to every married
couple said a woman of experience.
which, If followed, would save much con-
jugal unhappiness. 1t is TO form a BUSH
1.eSs alliance, so TO speak. as we'll as a
matrimonial one. From the beginning
they should have no reserve toward
each other in regard to resources and
expenditures The old saying that love
flies out the window when poverty enters
the door is true, inaslnuch as the causes
which beget poverty and the trials TO
temper and health which it engenders are
10 the majority of teInperamentS fatal
to dove and happiness.
This is a condition of affairs which
might, in nine cases out OF ten, have
been avoided by cutting the garment
according ito the cloth. or. in other words,
regulating expenses according to ones
means Men are naturally inclined ITO be
reserved about their business affairs, and
unless a wife in the beginning puts mat.
ters on "a confidential footing the husband
will become more and more disincEned
to discuss his affairs with her, and will
tell her practically nothing, so that she
never knows Just how much ishe is.
warranted i'm expending on the running
of her household.
S"G.I never bring business home, Ids a
common saying among, men of affairs,
and they feel certain pride in such
reserve, not considering now many results
CT their business worries they do take
with them, such as unreliable stempers.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
scovemakynq in .qpa7.
saba 3acco Tells of Social Conditions
i'll His Native Land-Nhy Japan
csc Women are so Faithful.

] am very glad TO tell the American wo-
men all l can about love in Japan. I can
not express myself as well as I could
wish. but viii tell you as well as 1 can.
There is a difference between the man
ner Of lovemaking in America and IN
Japan.
In This country men and women love
sach other; il is free custom.
In my country-JaPan-n girl is ever
allowed to declare her love as frankly as
It is done in the western countries On
account of this custom japanese women
hide their love and become love-sick.
Often they viii die of love-sickness rath-
el than confess their love.
This must seem very curious for Ame-i-
cans to hear, but the difference comes from
the fact that whereas in your country
Intercourse between men and women is
allowed entire freedom, in our country il
is not SO.
In America men and women are on such
an equal footing that there is hardly any
more difference than in the intercourse
between man and man.
In Japan there are many strictly estab-
lished TnaXims governing the conduct of
cnen and women to each other, one of
which forhids a man or a woman TO sit in
each others presence.
After a girl and a boy are seven years
old they must observe this custom rigidly.
Thus it is that men and women in Japan
have no freedom in their relations
This marked difference in the relation
ship of men and women in your country
and in mine makes more silent tragedy
and a serious people.
/ could not tell which principles are the
best YOURS or ours, but / can say that
there IS a fair distinction in the purpose
of yours and ours.
The moral laws OF Japan for our women
are different from the laws that govern
OF course. I am not very well acquaint-
ed with The social conditions Of your
country and therefore cannot discuss The
manner in which love reigns among Amer
:can women On the whole. however. l
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
ollana's Famous
6ul1p Craze.
Twelve Acres or City Property We're
Refused for q Single Bulb of
Fare Variety

I'm the year 1854 the tulip craze IL
Holland" writes Clifford Howard. in the
May Ladies Home Journal. became 81
great that the ordinary industries wers
neglected NO ona wanted 10 do anything
but raise tulips. A rare specimen offered
for sale called forth exciting bidding
Every one was on the lookout for spectn
varieties. It was rumored at one tint
thar there were bue two bulbs of ths
Semper Augustus in existence in Holland
One of them was owned by q florist In
Harlem and the other by dealer ia
Amsterdam. This rurnor was sufficient To
arouse the liveliest commos!ou in tulip cir
cles. and dealers and fanciers hurried for
ward with offers TO purchase-edcn ens
endea~oring to outbid the other. The COM
petition became so eager that finally ona
man offered twelve acres OF city property
for the Harlem bulb: but the owner re-
fused TO sell. The bulb in Amsterda4
was Knocked down to the highest bidder
Tor nineteen hundred dollars in cash. two
horses, a carriage and set OF harness-a
total OF about three thousand dollars,
which in those days Was fabulous sum-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Health First. Then Talent.

'eWhat is a year Of study or the loss
of standing in the class compared to
sound ihealth?" asks a physician, writing
in the May Woman's Home Companion
Of .sThe Handicap Of Ill-Health," and
further declares that during the period
of the childs growth the parents
authority should be supreme, and the
child's health should outweigh ali other
matters. When the clild begins its
studies a new factor is INTRODUCED into
its little life. Nature takes on an
additional burden. The mind IS awakened,
and the nerves begin an activity that
must be kept within certain well-defined
limits Let the child show the first
symptoms Iof nervous disorder or over
study, and the duty of the parent
suddenly overtops that of the instructor.
There is only one safe course to pursue.
The child should be taken from the
school until the physical balance has been
recovered It is better to let him grow
up without a systematic education than
to continue in his sickly course acquiring
all the accumulated wisdom of ages.
Let the child reach maturity without
breakdown and with but few days Of
sickness scored against him, and tlle will
attack the problem Of life with a zest
ana earnestness that will half win the
battle. Rear him in sickness and
indifferent health, and he will stand
fearfully handicapped in the race"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Queen yyiIhelmina,s Bath.

The youngest queen Is, at the same
time, probably the greatest individual
consumer of cologne water
Wilhelmina, of the Netherlands, uses an
entire champagne bottle of this aromantic
essence every morning, and so intent is
the little Majesty on getting her fill of her
tavorite toilet vinegar that she has the
bottle opened in her very presence, shifts
itaspires herself to its high quality by a
test.over a lamp and then pours the con-
tents into the bath with her own hand OF
course, this is not the regulation tub, but
a large marble affair, built into the floor
and reached by five steps, SO that the
room beneath is only half a story high.
If there wasn't an unusual volume OF
water to offset the plethora OF cologne.
Wilhelmina would rise with big
head for cologne is made of the
purest and, therefore, the strongest al
cohol obtainabe-in fact. its formula pre-
scribes IS to 30 per cent. alcohol mixed
with ETHEREAL oils.
Her Majesty remains seven minutes in
the both. using certain English soap,
little scented. Then she draws a water
proof cap over her hair and steps under
a shower" where the finest bay rum
takes the place of water. After that she
is rubbed down by her old, round and
big-armed nurse, and no more scents,
pertumery. pomade, vinegars or the like
for the next twenty-four hours.-EX-
change.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Origin ofU>sl;1tlnq Cards
Were First Used to- Guard Against
Mistakes of Careless Servants

1.-The use of visiting-cards dates back to
quite an antiquity explains Mrs Van
Koert Schuyler. in the May Ladies Home
Journal. Formerly the porter at the lodge
or door of great houses kept a visitors
book IN which he scraw-led his idea of the
names of those who called upon the
master and his family, and TO whose in
spection il was submitted from time TO
time. One fine gentleman. a scion OF the
nobility from the Faubourg St. German,
was shocked to find that his porter kept
so poor a register of the names of those
who had called upon him. The names.
badly written with spluttering pen and
pale or muddy ink. suggested to him the
idea of writing mis- own name up9r slips
of paper or bits !of cardboard in advance
of calling upon his neighbors, lest his
name should fare as badly at the hands OF
their porters. This custom soon became
generally established.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
sl2lle Danaellozz.

Gay little SDandelion
Lights UP the meads, ss-
Swings on her slender loot
TelIeth her beads,
Lists to the robins note
Poured from above:
Wise little Dandelion
Asks not for love.
Cold lie the daisy banks,
Clothed but IN green,
Where in the days asone,
e bright hues were seen.
Wild pinAs are slumber1ns
Eiolets delay;
True little DandeHon
Greeteth the May.
Brave little Dandelion!
Fasts falls the snow,
Bending the daffodils
Naughty heads low.
Under that feecy tent,
Careless of cold,
BEthe little Dandelion
Counteth her gold.
Meek little Dande1on
Groweth more fair.
Till dies the amber dew
Out from her hair.
High rides the thirsty sun,
Fiercely and high;
Faint little Dandeiion
| Closeth her eye.
Pale little Dandelon.
In her write shroud,
Heareth the angel breeze
Call from the cloud!
Tiny plumes lutterang
Make no delay;
Little winged Dandelion
Soaretal away
-VVTlittier'S- Child Life
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Boughta Few Stocks, Too.
Loving Wife Showed Her Husband
t he Error of His Ways.


He was business man making a nice
little sum every year for nest egg pur-
poses, besides extending his business and
slowly but surely moving along toward
Easy street. Yet he was not content, and
in the hope offorcing the hand of Fortune
was doing some trading in the stock mar
ket His wife said it was gambling,
pleaded with him to stop. He insisted
that it was perfectly legitimate and regu-
lar, and she finally admitted that he was
right and gave up the contest.
His wife gave him no further trouble
until one Sunday morning she appeared
ready for church in a handsome new
it, and she told him that ne would learn
by and by He went to ctlurch with her
feeling uncomfortable. He kept his peace,
however, and said no more until the next
Sunday, When she appeared in rich black
silk gown. He asked questions, but got
no answers that were satisfying. All
that week he worried so over that cloak
and the silk that me lost his grip on the
market and fell short seriously. Sunday
came again. and this time she had a pair
of diamonds in her ears that fairly dazzIed
mis- eyes.
He hadn't a spark of Jealousy in his
nature and he believed implicitly in his
wife, but this was really TOO much.
She calmly took from her desk a lot of
Blanks with which he was quite familiar,
and handed them to him.
They are the records Of my transac-
tons in stocks recently" she said, with
an air of triumph. Il borrowed $50 on the
diamond ring you gave me when we were
married, and handed it over to brother
Charlie TO invest for me. i told him
you said it was all right. and he did as
told MIN TO do. I didn't know a thing
in the world about it, of course, but was
lucky and I have made $3.50, and if the
luck doesn't go against me I'll make an
other thousand next week It is too easy
for anything, and you know, dear, you
showed me so clearly that there was
nothing wrong in it. l have paid our
share of the preachers salary, too, for
the next year, and I'm thinking of or
ganizing Daughters of the Stock Market
in the church. Won't it be lovely?"
MARY, my dear" he said. solemnly, '.if
you'll quit I Will and Mary, after the
manner of women, began TO cry, she was
so glad that it turned out just as it did
Detroit Free Press
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Bubbles.


I stood on the brink in childhood,
And watched the bubbles go
From the rock-fretted, sunny ripple
TO the smoother tide below.
And over the white creek bottom,
Under them every one,
Went golden stars in the water,
All luminous with the sun.
But the bubbles broke on the surface,
And under the stars of gold
Broke, and the hurrying waters
Flowed onward, swift and cold.
I stood on the brink in manhood,
And it came to my weary brain,
And my heart SO dull and heavy
After the years of pain
That every hollowest bubble
Which over my life had passed
Still in its deeper current
Some heav emily glea1n had cast;
That, however 1 Knocked it gayly.
And guessed It its hoflowness,
Still siione with each bursting bubble,
One star in my soul the less.
William Dean Howells
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Parental Relations.

One of the teachers in the Sunday-school
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Germantown. was endeavoring to instill
into. the little girls of her class recently
a due appreciation Of parental affection.
She spoke of the mothers love for her
children and of the respect which the chill
dren should show to the mother For some
reason she rather omitted to lay as much
stress upon the father Finally one OF the
little girls remarked that she thought chill
dren should love their mothers much more
than their fathers. why do You think
that asked the teacher. "Oh, we'll" said
the little tot, your fathers are only re-
lated to you by marriage, but your moth
ers are related to you by bornation."-
Philadelphia Record:
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06
Force of Habit

The young woman who mad called on
the Rev: DR.. Fourthly in mis- study was
in some distress OF mind.
Il know this is not confessional, doc
tor she said, but 1 want to tell you of
one of my troubles. / am a stenographer
and typewriter and when 1 attend service
in your church [ always find myself IN
consciously taking down your prayers in
shorthand That. it seems to me. shows
shocking lack of devotional spirit, but
don't seem to be able to help it. Does it
appear TO you to be sinful, and if so what
ought I to do to break myself of t?''
my dear young friend" said the good
pastor, so long as there is nothing inten-
tional in your apparent irreverence, if
you are really striving to fix your mind
you doing, if / may ask2'
II beg your pardon, doctor, was taking
down your remarks in shorthand without
knowing it.''-Chicago Tribune.