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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1901-01-23
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The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20

TO SAVE TIME.
Many Big Business Concerns Serve Mid
day Lunches 70 Employees.

Ii is becoming more and more the
custom with large concerns to have
employees eat lunch in the building.
The idea started at some of the fac
tories, but it has spread to different
kinds Of business, and now in New
York, says the World, il is practioed
by dry goods shops, insurance com
panies, dressmaking establishments
and industries of every description.
In some cases a light lunch, con.
sisting of a sandwich and cup Of tea
or coffee, is furnished free, but in most
instances these are furnished at about
cost price.
In some Of the department stores
there is large lunchroom, and all
employees bring their own lunch and
eat it there. Hot drinks are served
by an attendant for three or four
cents.
One firm inaugurated the plan Of
serving hygienic lunches at small
cost. Soups, cereals, milk, eornstarch
or rice pudding took the place Of The
popular sandwich, beans or pie. The
new menu was not a success. The
girls rebelled so violently against eat
ing food from the standpoint OF
hygiene, rather than the personal one
of likes and dislikes, that the man
agement was forced to return to the
old diet. Even health food disciple
who was engaged to come and give
them a talk On the value OF nourish-
ing food, and to dwell especially on its
vast benefit to the complexion, failed
to convince them OF the error Of their
way.
Some large concerns employing
many men have large and we'll
equipped restaurants where anything
wished may be procured at regular
prices. II is the rule Of many of these
firms that no employe shall leave the
building at lunch hour. These restau-
rants are sometimes leased to an out
slider; again they are run by the firm.
In either case they are supposedlyrun
for convenience rather than for profit.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
HAVE YOU TALENT7
Not Difficult to Discover for What 0rs
Has a Natural Aptitude.

zone good way, think, to Judge
whether we have a talent for any
thing or not is to watch the motive
that draws us toward doing a thing" !"
writes Helen Watterson Moody in the
Ladies' Home Journal. "If we do it
because it is the fashion, or because
other girls are doing it, or because we
have to do it for some useful purpose,
it is not probable that We have real
talent for it; but if we find ourselves
doing it just because we really love it,
and would rather do it than not; if il
is doing the thing itself that attracts
us, and not the eclat it is going to
give us in the eyes of others-why
then, l think we may reasonably con-
clude that God has given us rcal
talent for that particular sort Of
thing"
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
THE LITERARY ADVISER.
Curious Change That Has Occurred in
the Publishing Business.
The fnncfionarY once known as

The funetionary once known as q
publishers reader is now spoken Of
as ''literary adviser" says the
Sketch. Il has been said, reasonably
enough SO far, that the old name is
good enough for him. But the fact
is that the change of name points to
a change of function. In old days
authors went TO publishers. Nova
days publishers go to authors. The
publisher once depended for his books
mainly on the manuscripts that were
sent in, and it was natural that he
should employ a literary man TO ex.
anime and report on them. Nowadays
the literary adviser discusses with the
publisher the books that are wanted,
and endeavors to secure the help Of
well-known authors. Or, il he does
not suggest plans for series and sub
jects for books, he at least keeps an
eye upon rising genius, and helps his
employers to estimate the offers that
may fairly be made.
Manuscripts sent in by unknown
writers are, of course, still examined,
but no publisher who knows his busi-
ness would venture on more than a
few books every year by new authors.
The difficulty of making new name
familiar to the public increases year
by year. For the staple of his list the
publisher must look TO those who are
more or less well known. To esti-
mate the pecuniary value Of book
is no easy task. You cannot take the
sales of previous books by the same
author as an infallible guide. There
are many cases where sales have un-
expectedly gone up, but these are less
numerous. Upon the whole, then, l
think, the change of designation is
justified, for the simple reason that
the reading Of manuscripts is now the
least part of literary advisers du-
ties. Formerly it was by far the most
| important.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
LITTLE pERRY.s AWFUL THREAT

/ won't ever live in this house no more.
And I'm goin' away. way of somewhere
In the dark woods. And mebby a bear
or something nobody ever saw before
Might come and eat me up. And then.
l bet you. when
Ny pa has no little boy. he'll be
Sorry he punished me.
And I'm gofn' to starve and not
Ever eat anything again at all.
And when I'm up with God and got
Wings and can look at my pa, and he
Comes home and sees my coat In the hall
And looks all around everywhere,
And ] amt there,
/ bet he'll be sorry he punished mel
And when I'm far away
And nearly starved and can hardly stand.
They might be big, bad man come along
and say
He'd take me off to some strange land,
And then, when the people told my pa
How cruel he was, bet he'd be
The saddest person you ever saw,
And sorry he punished me!
And when they had no little boy no more
Mamma would cry all day,
And when no little boy would open the door
For pa, at night, and say:
Hello" bet
That's when he'd be
The ssddest yet
And I'll stay this time, but he
B-b-b-b-befter quit punishin' me!
IS. Z. Kiser In Chicago Times-Herald.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20

RHODESIAN WHITE ANTS,
Destroy Articles Of Apparel and All Per-
ishable Articles.

An interesting description of the
ravages of white ants, or termites, in
Rhodesia is furnished by Rev. A. Le-
bouef to the Zambesi Mission Record.
The special interest Of the contribu-
tion centers in the account of the
damage done to property by white
ants in Rhodesia, which seems to be
even greater than in India. 1t is no
uncommon thing, says the writer, for
the colonist, on returning from his
days labor, to find the coat he left
hanging ON nail of his cottage wall
and the books ON the table absolutely
destroyed by these tiny marauders.
Nor is this all. "On awakening next
morning" writes Mr.. Leboeuf. "you
are astonished TO see in the dim light
a cone-shaped object rising from the
brick floor short distance from your
bed, with two holes on the top like
the crater of miniature volcano.
Upon closer examination you discover
that the holes have just the size and
shape of the inside Of your boots,
which you incautiously left on the
brick floor the night before. They
have given form and proportion TO an
ant heap, and nothing is left Of them
except the nails, eyelets, and, maybe,
part of the heels" And as the same
dismal story-with variations-has
to be told about every other article Of
apparel and all perishable objects, it
must be admitted that there are draw
backs TO the lot of the settler in
Rhodpsia
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
BREvITIES OF FUN.

Weary-"What kind o Shawn
soap does yer useY" Dreary-"Don't
speak o soap; yer jar est. Paul
Globe.
Ward-"Come, now, do Yen think
it possible for a politician 10 be hon
ests" Statesman--"oh, yes, sup
pose it is possible; but why the neces-
sityy"-Boston Transcript.
Direct Ratio.-Razzle-"Going TO
the show tonight Dazzle
"Guesso." Razzle-"Where you 60.
ing to sitp" Dazzle-"Depends on
the prices. The higher they 60 the
higher III 60. milwaukee Sentinel.
An Exceptional Case.--Towne--
"Is he so very POPULAR Browne
Il should say. Why, when his sci
was getting up private theatrieals he
was given the principal part, and not
a soul questioned his right to II,
Philadelphia Press.
Force of Habit.-Mrs. Nags-"1fl
should hear a burglar getting in the
house / don't know what | should
do Nags (eonfdently)-"oh, you
would probably scream out: Don't
forget to wipe your feetf my dear
and scare him of. brooklyn Eagle.
Res Antiquae. -"Auntie, dear
where do these fossil shells come
from?" "0h, my dear child, greai
many years ago they were washed up
here by the sea-" "How long ago
auntic, dear?" Ever SO long ago.
dear child" "Whatl Even before
you were born, auntie"-Punch.
A Bargain.-"lIere, Abrahams
look at this suit Of clothes you sold ms
yesterday. / look like an exploded
frecracker." "What's de matter oi
EN-? ] sold 'om to you at half off fun
cash, didn't ~" Eyes" "vell, Pyt
got der cash, ant dc close is half Off
amt it? What more do you yantY'-
Harlem Life.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
A Lead Pencil Scare.

The doctors are constantly adding
to the terrors of life by discovering
sources of disease in common things
and general practices. Lead pencils
are the latest subject for condemna-
ton, or rather the method Of using
lead pencils in schools. There have
been outbreaks of skin and other all
ments in a number of schools lately
which have puzzled the doctors, and
the school medical inspectors, after
considerable inquiry, now assert that
the school pencils are to blame. The
practice, it appears, is that pencils
are provided for the whole school, and
are collected at the end of each day
and redistributed next morning. In
this way single pencil makes tour
IF the class and is sucked in turn BY
most of the children. The moral Of
The discovery is: "0ns child, one PEN
sll london Tit-Bits,
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
THIS AND TRAT.

There are now about 20 crematories
in Europe and the United States.
The United States imported 81
100000 more silver from Mexico il
1000 than in 1899.
The greatest cape in the world is
Cape Horn, precipitous mountain
over a,0o0 feet high
Last year the farmers Of the United
States received Sls5,O00,00O more
for their products than in 1899.
Many plants long elasscd among
the worst and most useless Of weeds
have been found in recent years TO
possess considerable feeding value.
The assessed valuation Of taxable
property in Wisconsin is S630,000,-
900. On this sum a total tax Of 81
s23,4Io.0i was levied by the state in
1900.
The key to the Bastile is now hang
ing on the wall in the hall at the old
homo of Washington at Mount Yer
non. Il was given to Washington by
Lafayette.
The experiment Of substituting
Italian for negro labor in Louisiana
is meeting with success Last fall the
colored roustabouts in New Orleans
struck for higher wages and were re-
placed by Italians. Now nearly every
steamboat plying al New Orleans has
an Italian crew, at least in part.
Richard IIarcourt, minister Of edu-
cation for Ontario, has announced
that he will ask the legislature at the
coming session TO make a grant TO cs-
tablish travelling libraries through.
out the rural sections Of the province.
Boxes of books containing % TO 80
volumes will be put on the road, the
only cost to the locality being that Of
transportation.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
The TwinkIInz Of the Eye.

When we speak Of thing happen
ing in the twinkling Of an eye we
mean to convey that the action was
practically instantaneous. That this
is not the case has recently been dem
onstrated by a capable investigator.
He used a specially-arranged photo
graphic apparatus and affixed piece
Of white paper to the edge of the eye
lid for mark. He found that the lid
descends quickly and rests little at
the bottom Of its movement, after
which it rises, but more slowly than
it fell. The average duration OF the
downward movement was from seven
ty-fve to ninety-onc thousandths Of a
second; the rest with eye shut lasted
variously, the shortest duraiions be-
ing ffteen-hundredths Of second
with one subject and seyenteen-hun-
dredths with another; and the third
phase Of the Sink, the rising Of the
lid, took seyenteen-hundredths of a
second more, making the entire dura-
tion Of the wink about forty-hun-
dTedths, Of four-tenths, of ssecrd.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
SOARING THE LIONS.
King of Beasts Afraid Of Pack OF
African Wolves.

M. Foa, the French explorer, says,
according to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune, that lions have whole
some fear of African wolves, which
hunt in packs and do not scrurle to
attack even the lion. There are ter
rible battles, in which the lion sue
cumbs to numbers, and dies fighting.
In connection with the lions fear of
wolves, NJ. Foa tells story from his
own experience.
1t was a very dark night, so dark
that trees could not be distinguished
until the travellers were close upon
them. Lions prowled about the par
ty, one of them roaring from a point
SO close as to have an alarming effect
on the nerves. The animals could
not be seen, but they could be heard
on all sides.
Reaching tree, the men found one
of their comrades, with rife cooked,
peering into the darkness, trying to
discover the whereabouts Of the ami
mails, which could be plainly heard
walking among the leaves. A second
man was trying to relight half-ex-
tinguished torch. Still the lions could
be heard coming and going in the
darkness.
AT this point the native servant
whispered the advice to initiate the
cry Of wolves in the distance. The
party at once began barking and cry
ing "Hul hui hup' in an undertone,
as if the pack were still at distance,
while the man at the camp made the
same well-imitatcd cry.
The effect was instantaneous.
There was the sound Of a rapid stam-
pede across the dry leaves. The lions
decamped in a panic, driven off by
the supposed approach Of pack Of
wolves. For the rest of the night the
party was undisturbed.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
WHY THEY ARE AT OUTS.
Eortherner and Southerner coulda't Agree
on Ventilation Question.


During the summer two young
men, one from Minnesota and one
from Georgia, took couple of rooms
together in this city. They were both
young man, just starting into bust
ness, and so, in order to economic,
they doubled up" as they express it,
in this fashion, using one room for
den, or smoking-room, and the other
as sleeping apartment.
During the warm months, says the
Baltimore News, all went merry as
marriage bell, and the two became
friends somewhat of the David and
Jonathan order. There wasn't hitch,
indeed, until November. Then there
came cold night. The man from
Minnesota retired earlier than his
chum that night, closing the register
and leaving it for his roommate to
open the window.
When he awakened at seven the
next morning his first thought was
that he was taking Turkish bath,
the next that the house was on fire.
When he became fully aroused he
found that the man from Georgia be-
fore he retired had carefully closed
all the windows, including the inch
or two usually left open at the top
for ventilation, had opened the reg
lister, left the gas lighted, and, in a
spirit of greatest kindness, had piled
the entire wardrobe of the Minnesota
man on its owners recumbent and un-
conscious form. He was himself
equally protected, but he was sleeping
peacefully and calmly, entirely un-
mindful Of the remark his well-nigh
suffocated chum was breathing over
his head.
The next night the man from
Georgia went to bed and to sleep first,
and the man from Minnesota, coming
in late, opened the windows and
closed the register before he retired.
The next morning the man from
Georgia awakened him to say that he
hadn't been born in barn, nor yet in
the arctic regions, and that he didn't
propose to freeze to death to suit any
one.
Relations were strained after this,
for the Georgia man put weather
strips around the windows and doors
and insisted that the two should de-
pend upon the cold air that comes
through the register at night for ven-
tilation.- He also aGectionately called
the Minnesota man Eskimo" to all
their women friends until that
youth rebelled and moved his lares
and penates to another house, where
he said, contemptuously, ''there
were no old women to get cold when
bit of fresh air struck them"
Thus ended friendship that had
firmly withstood the Scylla Of religion
and politics, only to be wrecked on
this Charybdis of ventilation.
1t is said that the lowering and
raising of windows has caused more
divorces than any other one thing.
However that may be, it is certain that
"air-its advantages and disadvan-
tages"-leads to many violent family
discussions that are not always con-
Guided in amitY.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20

There has lately been caught in the
Thames, a member of an up-river pis-
catorial society writes, remarkable
fish Of the roach variety. 1t was or
namented with an eyeglass. How it
got hold Of it is a mystery, but, sure
enough, the black cord was stuck in
its fins, with the monQcIe dangling 2t
the end Of it.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20
AN EASIER THING.
Preferred His Teeth Pulled to His Picture
Taken.

m-I think / must have made a
mistake" said the man who stood in
the door of the dental parlors and
looked about him.
Perhaps So" replied the dentist,
who was sharpening a gum-cutting
lancet.
"My wife, you know, has been teas
ing me for the last five years to get
my photograph taken, and this morn
ing | finally set out to have it done"
"And got in the wrong shop" said
the dentist.
81 see this is no photograph gal
lery."
sNo."
"But a dental parlor."
"Yes."
"WelI, I've made a mistake, but
I'm glad Of it. Here, let me sit down
and have three teeth yanked out, and
I'll put the old photo off for another
five years. s."-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-04-20

president. The conductor had pre-
pared quite well turned and witty
little speech of introduction, for he
realized, of course, that the million
aire wouldn't know him from Adams
house cat, but the splendor of the sur
roundings and the cold blue eyes of
the man himself knocked it all out
of his head, and the only thing he
could do was to spread the newspaper
clipping on the big table and blurt
out: Pm the fellow that put you
OFF, TndeedP said the president,
looking at him keenly. How do you
know? he conductor stumbled over
his story, and before he concluded the
magnate jumped up, smiling warmly.
This is great pleasure he said,
"a very great pleasure-something l
have been looking forward to for
yearsp It's mutual said the con-
ductor, grinning. Thanks, said the
manufacturer. You noticed, per-
haps, in my little speech that | glad
ly scribed my starr in life to the
fact that you kicked me of the cars
instead of carrying me to Dayton on
that winter night which you recall
with such remarkable precision?
Yes, / noticed that. said the con-
ductor, who, without knowing why,
suddenly began to feel curious sense
of apprehension. Exactly pursued
the president, rubbing his palms, and
as far. as results are concerned you
were, of course, merely an instrument
in the hands of Providence. | have
returned thanks to Providence in
various ways, and think Providence
and / are about even. But the kick
ing,' he went on, in the same silky
voice which the conductor says made
cold chills crawl all through the roots
of his hair, the kicking was per-
sonal touch of your own-a sort of
humorous establishment, without
which the throwing off of a half-sick,
half-clad, penniless wretch might
have been bit too somber. Let me
see,' he added, musingly, it seems to
me you were good deal heavier them
Il used to weigh 1S0,' said the con-
ductor, swallowing in his throat, but
Eve run down since 'Yes?' said the
president, politely, my own expert
ence was just the reverse; I was
greatly run down that night and have
since gained considerable in weight,
which makes things about even at
present. With that he suddenly
grabbed the conductor by the collar,
whirled him around like lightning
and kicked him all the way down.
stairs. He landed on the pavement
all in heap" said the railroad man
in conclusion, "and spent day de-
batting whether he would bring a
damage suit or go cunning for his
cruel assailant. AT last he decided
that he was up against it and had bet
ter come home before anything else
struck him. He is a hot anarchist
now, and says that millionaires have
no souls." IN. 0. Times-Democrat.