Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06

to be shipped to Thuringia, Germany, to be
tanned before they can be used by the
manufacturers of piano actions.
THE German tanners have agents In the
west who collect the deerskinS from the
Indians and half-breed hunters. When the
skins are returned to the United States as
finished piano leather they cost the piano
manufacturers from $15 to $40 per pound.
The worlds supply of this valuable and
very necessary material is monopolized by
a family of tanners who own and operate
six or seven establishments in Germany,
the largest of which are located at Thur
ingia."
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When asked by Star reporter where
one-legged people buy their shoes shoe
dealer replied: THE one-legged man or wo-
man who does not patronize the custom
shoemaker buys his or her shoes precisely
like the two-legged person, at the ready
made shoe store. the proprietor Of which,
with an eye to business is usually willing
to break a pair to sell the single right or
left shoe that the one-legged customer re-
quires. The single shoe remaining Is sent
back to the factory to be matched up, and
this is done with perfect accuracy. Every
pair of shoes Is numbered, and 1t could
easily, if it were desired be traced back to
the stock from which it is made. There Is
no guess work about it. The shoe required
to mate the shoe remaining may not be
made on the identical last upon which the
original shoe was made, but it is made
upon a last of mathematically the same
proportions, and the pair thus restored is
as perfectly mated as the original pair.
THE ene-legged man or woman who buys
in this way a single shoe pays slightly
more than half the price of a pair. For
instance, if he or she selects the right or
left of pair of shoes that sell for -
pair the cost of a single shoe will be 80,
the extra 10 cents being charged to defray
the expense of sending the odd shoe back
a tO
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Here is something 1 wish to inquire
about said a gentleman to a dealer in
artists materials. as he held out a tiny
booklet for the 1atter's inspection. II
bought this book of English gold leaf of
you a few days ago. and on turning the
Stats of paper between the leaves / dis
covered that they contained portions Of the
Scripture. and seemed to have been cut
from various parts of the Bible"
80 they were" answered the dealer, 'but
there Is nothing extraordinary about that
fact when you understand 1t. All English
gold leaf, as a regular matter of business,
is packed in little books made up of pages
of Bible cut to the requisite size and
stitched together.
mo preparation is intended. but tie
practice of packing the material in this
way is a well-established custom. The
Bible is selected for the purpose because
as a general thing the type is more evenly
set and the printing finer and better exc
cuted than in other books.
Printed paper has always been in gen.
eral use for packing the sheets of gold
leaf. The slight indentations made by the
type serve to keep them more firmly in
place. They slip when packed between
plain sheets. The Book of Common Prayer
is also employed for the same purpose and
the same reason.
Gold leaf books are made up from the
N which no
before they are folded"
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'Sleepwalking is somewhat better under
stood now than formerly, but psychologists
are not thoroughly agreed in regard to
many of it's phases, observed a we'll
known physician to a Star reporter. zone
of the recent cases, that of young man
out west walking zen miles to visit his
father, and of even moro recent case
that of a young lady walking three miles
on a cold night in her night gown, without
awakening, upsets many of the previously
accepted theories 1t had been thought
that exposure to intense cold as well as
intense heat would awaken the sleepwalk-
er, but in these cases, which are well au-
thenticated. it appears that this opinion,
while correct possibly in the main, Is not
always so. In my early days when attend
ing lectures at a medical college in Balti-
l. 8,
witnessed one of the famous sleepwalking
cases that is quoted in many of the stand
ard books. One night We We're passing
along Lexington street, where the Licking
ton street market is located. One of our
party called attention to a moving figure
| clad in white on the roof of the market
building. 1t proved to be that of a girl
| about seventeen years of age She had
| lost a canary bird the afternoon before,
which was last seen on the caves of the
roof of the market house. Darkness came
on. however, before thorough search for
| the bird could be made, and It was given
up. The girl went to bed and during the
| night left her bed and returned to the
| market house and climbed to it's roof
This in itself was not very difficult task
! for there were a series of sheds leading to
| it She walked the entire length of one
| side of the market, along the extreme edge
| of the roof. At every step it seemed she
would step over the edge, and had she done
| so she would likely have been killed. Our
| party divided UP, and one, now the leading
| physician of Charleston, S. c., climbed to
| the roof and seized the girl. She woke
/ the instant he touched her, and it was with
| the greatest difficulty that he could keen
| her from falling. for While in her sleep she
| appeared to be an expert she was a very
| poor climber when awake. 1t was a clear
| case of sleepwalking, and had she gone ten
| feet further she would have found the bird
| which had roasted for the night in the rain
| gutter which ran along the roof, and where
| 1t was found a few minutes afterward
Sieepwalking is much more frequent than
Is generally understood, though as a rule
| 1t is confined to children l have known
| of several cases of adults who would take
/ walks in their sleep as often as once in q
| week"
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