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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
WATCH POINTERS.
How to Take Care of Your Times

How to Take Care of Your Time
piece.
"My watch had developed a most an
the Chicago Times Herald. 1T lost and
gained by turns until conceived the
disagreeable impression of having paid
a first class price for Il third class arti-
Gle. Full of resentment, posted off to
the dealer from whom the watch had
been purchased and accused him of
having treated me unfairly.
'He opened my timepiece and, hav-
ing examined it's internal economy very
closely, remarked, It's simply case of
unconscious cruelty to faithful but
sensitive friend
''Take, for instance, the simple proc
ess of winding a watch. There is u
right and wrong way of doing it.
Whether it be by key or stem, it
should be wound in the morning Turn
slowly and avoid all jerky movements.
The watch will then work best during
the day, as the spring will exert its
strongest traction power, whereby the
O<AlSl iell JOoliiAS5 1h4iNtSo Oh thS WdtNh
by your daily works and walks are
fairly counterbalanced. When watch
is wound at night, it has only the
weakened spring to offer as resistance
to the jerks and jolts of the daytime.
The morning winding also lessons the
danger of breaking the handspring.
which, being no longer at full tension
at night, can stand the cold better.
Cali watches keep better time as the
result of regular habits. Don't lay it
down one night and hang it up the
next. Keep it in the same position as
nearly as circumstances will permit.
In second class watches the rate differ
ence between the horizontal and verti-
cal position is often quite significant.
Nor should you hang your watch on a
nail where it can swing to and fro like
a pendulum. 1t will either gain or lose
great deal while in that position.
1.-THE difference in temperature be-
tween your breast or mans waistcoat
pocket and a wall that may be nearly
at the freezing point is about n to IS
degrees F., and watch should there
fore never be suspended or laid against
a cold surface"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
How to stnnd properly.

81 read much" says middle aged
woman, whose erect, graceful carriage,
by the way, is noticeable, "of this,
that and the other thing that should be
done in order to stand properly and
improve the figure, but | never pay
any attention to any of the sugges-
tons. have never done but one thing
in this matter, and that is to follow
the advice given to me when | was a
girl of sixteen by my grandmother,
whose stately mien was the admiration
of all her friends and which | could
not hope to better or even achieve. All
that is needed, she used to tell me, in
order to stand well is to keep the legs
straight Notice yourself a half dozen
times during the day and you will see
how useful is this advice. Constantly
the knees are too much bent. The fig
ure says in consequence, and its lines
Of elegance are lost. Straighten the
knees every time you think of it, and
the rest of the figure falls naturally in
the proper position"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

To clear a complexion apples are
fine. Eat good apple three times a
day, so that at the end of each day you
will have eaten three apples. If you
do not like raw apples, take them cook
ed at your meals. and remember that
of all foods they can be taken hot or
cold with equal impunity. Stewed rhu-
barb is good, and if you like it you can
make the best part of your breakfast
and luncheon upon it. Eat all you can
of it. Eating all you want of one thing
is good for the complexion. 1t avoids
complications in the department of the
interior. Warm feet will aid the seeker
after good complexion. Heat your
feet before going to bed. Heat them
hot, rub them with toilet cream. If you
must, and lightly sprinkle them with
red pepper.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
PlCKlNGs FROM FICTION.

A thousand times better are the men
who do than the weaklings who only
know.-"God Wills It."
I've burned out the candle o. the
Lords mercy an bowed the ashes in
his face.-"The Sign of the Prophet"
1t is as bad to slave at work as to
slave at pleasure, but God may forgive
what people cannot help.-"Lazarre."
Nature works not for mans enjoy
ment. but for her own satisfaction and
her own giory.-"Our National Parks"
Time has kindlier uses for his scythe
than cutting short human lives. His
chief use of it is to cut off the tops of
human memories.-''The Usurper."
TO really enjoy the holidays one
should have money, uncounted money,
in a coal scuttle, let US say, with a con-
venient little fire shovel close at hand.
-'The Last of the Knickerbockers."
Lovers of love are not lovers only.
They are artists in emotion, always in
quest of a still more subtle sensation, a
joy more intense, a grief more bitter,
and are unable to remain faithful to q
monotonous fidelity, a tender constan-
cy-"The Screen"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

1 noticed that one great fault with
the butter exhibited at the Dubuque
convention was in the working of it,
says 2. H Kieffer in Creamery Jour
nal. The proper working of butter re-
quires great deal of experience. Most
creamerieS have a large combined
churn and worker which is the proper
size for use in summer when the milk
receipts are the heaviest of the year,
but when cold weather comes and
milk drops off a smaller churn and
worker would be found much better
unless one gives the larger machine
more revolutions when making small
batch of butter. Too much butter in
the churn is just as bad. because then
the butter becomes salyey before it is
properly worked. After washing it
and drawing off the butter | scatter
salt over it the best l can, give the
churn five revolutions without the
worker being in gear and then let it
rest for twenty minutes. l complete
the working with sixteen revolutions
with the worker in motion. | use a
No. Victor churn. This does the
work well provided have 500 pounds
of butter in batch. If one will churn
during the winter season at 80 degrees,
then wash the butter in water at 56
degrees. have the salt in good condi-
ton and work as above stated he will
have no streaks or notifies, and the
butter will bore solid
Tests of Dairy Cows.
Private tests are useful to owners of
dairy cattle and should be more gen.
orally made. according to Breeders
Gazette. No man who keeps cows.
whether grades or pure breds, can af
ford to carry on his business without
scales in the barn on which the milk
is regularly weighed and without oc-
casionally having fat tests made in
order to know definitely what every
member of his herd is doing. Thou
sands of dairymen do this and have
learned by experience its great value,
and the men who are improving our
dairy breeds cannot afford to do less.
There is no need in such work of max
ing churp tests, for when the total
amount of fat in a given quantity of
milk is known the amount of butter
which will DE produced can be calcu-
lated within reasonable limits. The
churn can show no more.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
HOW TO LAY CARPETS.
And Some Hints ON Beating, Clean
ing and Brushing Them,

And Some Hints ON Beating, Clean
Ing and Brushing Them.
The right way to treat a good carpet
is to lay it carefully on soft bedding
of thick layers of newspapers or of
brown paper. The printers ink on
newspapers is disliked by the clothes
y pth, which will avoid carpets with
ph Innings as a place unsuitable for
the laying of its eggs. Thus thick folds
of newspapers laid evenly will not only
provide a means for using up old pa
pers, give thick underfooting for the
floor, but relieve the housewife of one
source of worry-moths in her best
carpet.
The papers should be renewed each
time the carpet is taken up, says the
Boston Traveller. 1t is best to have the
carpet cleaned and relaid by profess
sional cleaners from any furniture
shop yearly, as this plan, which is
cheap enough, prevents much straining
and havoc made with the carpet in TAX
ing up, beating, cleaning and putting
down again.
In ordinary cleaning the carpet, as a
rule, is very badly treated by the usual
carpet brushes, which are far too stiff
to use on good carpets. When a carpet
is swept By vigorous hand welding
one of these brushes, quite half the
contents of the dustpan will be pure
nap, rent unsparingly from the carpet
This is very bad policy indeed, but the
usual carpet brushes are responsible
for the threadbare look of nearly all
floor coverings. A brush like clothes
brush Kept for the purpose of carpet
sweeping would be good investment.
The carpet must be brushed the way
of its nap too. This is an item seldom
considered at all by sweeper, but it
is important. Nap dragged daily the
wrong way weakens and is pulled out.
Yard by yard the carpet should be gone
over with the brush and all stains not
ed daily.
Grease marks should be scraped with
a knife to remove all loose particles;
then fuller's earth rubbed over the
place will absorb any oil left. When
the fuller's earth is swept up, sponge
dipped in ammonia water will rub out
any remaining stain.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

is owned by Carothers & Son, editors
and proprietors of Our Paper, publish
ed at Lampasas, Tex. This heifer was
imported Tormentor, A. p. Anderson
30145. She has heifer calf by D. w.
Phillips combination bull, Kings
Landseers Pogis 505S1. This heifer is
two years and eight months old, and
her udder measures fifty-three inches
around when flush. She bids fair to
break the Texas record as a mixer.
Right Kind of Dairyman.
I like the calves because l like good
cows and realize the fact that the foun-
dation of good cow is good calf.
Sometimes l come across a good COW
that can be bought at reasonable
price, but the surest way to get good
COW is to raise her from a calf of
known good parentage. There are peo-
pie who yet believe they can feed but
ter fat into milk.
My experience, however. is that when
you have COW that gives blue milk,
blue milk she will make even on the
richest kind of food and when it is
given to her in fullest supply. and
when you have a COW that gives rich,
creamy milk that butter makers and
milk consumers like. rich milk she will
give even if she has nothing but corn
stalks or poor hay to eat Feed deter
mines the quantity of milk, while the
blood of the animal determines the
milk's richness. For that reason it
does not pay to bother with calves of
blue milk stock unless for selling milk.
and hardly then. nor does it pay to
fuss with calf that for any reason is
lacking in individual vigor.-T. Green
er in Farm and Fireside.
That Horrid Bog Hole.
1t is an awful sight to see dairy
cows come wading into the barn
tea coming up to the udder and wet
ting and bedaubing the teats so soon
to be stripped of their fluids. Say,
there is little poetry about the cows
coming home in the cleaning when
they wade through this horrid bog
no need of such slough of despond.
Take team and draw in some old
stock bottom or other trash if you can
do no better and fill up the hole. Next
summer you can draw it out for ma
nure and fill up with dirt. Get rid Of
the nuisance in some way 1t is rob-
bling you of money and your cows of
health.
A Difference That Makes the Profit.
If my whole herd did no better than
the poorer half. my business would be
a dead loss. If. on the other hand. the
entire herd did as well as the better
half. there would be big profit in the
business. The education that comes
from keeping track of the production
of each cow is more than sentiment or
gratifying idle curiosity. said Massa-
chusetts' largest dairyman. G. II. FL
lis. at recent grange meeting.
Practice Economy.
Milk producers should practice more
economy in production and produce
more feed on their farms There are
not enough silos among dairymen, not
enough accounts kept with the individ-
ual cows, TO make dairying profitable
at present rates.
A Pearl of Great Price.
Some farmers wives can make good
butter once a week. 1t is the one that
can make good butter every time she
tries that is Il pearl of great price and
worth her weight in gold or gilt edged
butter.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

One Of my clocks began to give
jerky ticks and then refused to go al
together. says a writer in Good House
keeping. | placed cloth saturated
with kerosene in the bottom of the
clock, and the fumes arising loosened
the dirt, oil and grit from the works,
precipitating them to the bottom.
used a clean white bit of old muslin,
so when the dirt began to drop knew
it by the dirty color of the rag. l re-
moved it and in day or two placed
another saturated rag in the bottom of
the clock. The fumes this time, as the
dirt had all dropped, fabricated the
works. and my clock has licked along
right merrily ever since.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
TO TELL GOOD CIGARS.
Judges of Their Fine Points Few
and Far Retxyeeu &

Judges of Their Fine Points Few
and Far Between.
The judges of good cigars in this
country are few and far between, says
an expert The great difficulty with
the people who think they know cigars
is that they lay too much stress on the
color of the weed. The color makes not
the slightest difference, and you are
just as likely to find one of the rankest
kind of cigars with the deep black col
or of the genuine Havana as you are
to find bad one among those that are
yellow as straw.
The best way to tell a cigar is BY
the feel of 1t. Take a cigar in your
hands and give it a gentle pressure,
holding it close to the ear If the cigar
is good one, it will be just the least
little bit flexible. and the fingers will
sink into the wrapper. 1t gives forth
no perceptible sound. If the cigar is
hard and close rolled and when placed
to the ear sounds as though you were
pressing straw together, beware. The
best cigars are made Of the same leaf
as the wrapper and are closely rolled.
The common cigars are what is known
as filed and contain ali kinds of refuse
from the tables where the good cigars
are made. There are some filled cigars
that are good smokes, but you seldom
find a Havana or a Manila or good Gu
ban or Key West smoke that is not
rolled. Many people who go into CT
gar store to get an imported smoke do
not follow up the salesman when he
takes the cigars from the case and are
consequently often fooled They are
given domestic brands and are charg-
ed imported prices for them.
These good cigar judges" cannot
tell the difference when there is all
the difference in the world. If you must
have an imported smoke make the
clerk hand you the box and look close
ly at the revenue stamp. The stamps
on domestic goods are green and white,
while those on the imported boxes are
all yellow and white. Look into the
next cigar cases you see before pur-
chasing an imported cigar. If they
have no boxes in the case to which is
attached yellow and white stamp,
don't attempt to make a purchase. The
clerk will sell you cigar he calls i'm
ported, but it will not be the real ar
ticle.- Washington Post
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

eighteen inches apart and on them lay
two thicknesses of best odorless build
ing paper, and on these strips nail the
flooring. Turn the floor over, so naked
strips will be uppermost Ghe strips
are three inches shorter all round than
the fiooring). Now put ON two more
thiclnesses of paper and lay on flooring
flush with strips. Cut another set of
strips three inches shorter than the
floor you now have; lay on these two
more thicknesses of paper and put on
last course of flooring.
You now have two perfect dead air
spaces, which are better nonconduc-
tors than any filling and will always be
sweet. Inside of room sides are put on
same as bottom except at the corners,
where, as a matter of precaution, / al
ways put an extra thickness of paper
as l add the flooring. In height of
building leave enough room overhead
for ice chamber @ feet 6 inches is about
right. Now comes the principal fea-
ture of the room-namely, the ice racks.
Four inches below where the two
foot six inch line is from the ceiling
of the cooler nail securely 2 by 4
scantling on long way of cooler, up,
and three inches apart. These drip
boards rest just over drain; four inches
is room enough. Directly under the
three inch space and two or three
inches lower down place concave two
by skies, one end resting on drain and
other end a little higher. You now
have an open pan, can see ice every
six inches, but no water can drop on
floor. The drip boards are not fasten-
ed, but can be taken down and washed
readily. The rack for ice is not
fastened. but can be removed at
any time. Make doors on same plan as
sides and bottom. This room, built as
above, will bold the same degree of
temperature at all times and is very
inexpensive. Outside can be finished
with cornice and panel work if one so
desires. Put on two or three coats of
paint, anyway.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
GOOD, BUT CHEAP.

euff Jerseys Description of the Re-.
frigerator He Made.
In 1892 put small room in South
Dakota creamery that would hold 600
pounds of butter, writes Buff Jersey
In Hoard's Dairyman. The creamery,
soom was so small that the refrigerator
stood only four feet from boiler, very,
trying position, but for all that the
temperature was at AZ degrees. We
hre using a chest that 1 built that
holds 400 pounds of one pound prints
md 300 pounds of ice. I have often
weighed the drip, and when the room
was up to 90 or 100 degrees the waste
was but one pound per hour. This
cooler costs just $11.05 for material.
] will give as brief description of the
manner of making as possible. For a
room of any size make bottom first of
four or six inch flooring. To start, cut
flooring enough for first course, the
width the room is to be and length;
take by inch strips, lay them down
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
POOR FARM BUTTER.
10 Generally Results From doors
Which Taint the Milk.

Which Taint the MIX.
There are very few women who IN
derstand how to make good, sweet but
ter, and some of them do not even
know when their butter is of a poor
quality, says Mrs. Cordelia Hutchin in
Farm and Home. Then, again, there
are others who know they are not
success at the business and are care
less as to detail. Mrs. A. will wash
and scald her pans or crooks and air
her churn thoroughly each time she
uses it and bring her cream to the
right temperature by using thermom-
eter; but, after all, her butter lacks
the right flavor. She does not under
stand why her butter is not as good as
Mrs. Stones. Another housewife, Mrs.
| B., takes pride in keeping her milk
utensils in perfect order and cleanli-
ness, and yet her butter does not bring
as good a price as that of her neigh
Dor, Mrs. Stone.
If Mrs. A. and Mrs. B. would just
stand five minutes in the doorway
leading to their cellars, where they
keep their milk pans, as well as the
winter vegetables, they would soon
realize the cause of their troubles
rotting apples, potatoes, cabbages, on
ions, turnips, each throwing off its
own peculiar odor, together with per
Eaps several cans of fruit, with their
contents oozing out. Is it any wonder
the butter made from the milk has all
Ii, of a
should have?
! SO many people in the country keep
their milk in the cellar along with
their supply of fruits and vegetables.
1t is a very bad practice, for it is inn
possible to keep milk from becoming
tainted by the foul atmosphere where
vegetables are kept. All cellars are
more or less damp, causing a musty
smell that will affect milk in an I'M
pleasant manner. Milk and butter are
among the easiest things in the world
to be tainted The only way to pre-
vent their becoming tainted is to keep
the air where they are kept pure by
good ventilation and cleanliness.
Keeping milk in the kitchen is not
good thing TO Go, as the milk aDSofDS
the odor arising from cooking, and
there is always more or less smell
about a kitchen no matter how clearly
it may be. The very walls become
filed with the steam arising from the
cooking of cabbage, onions, etc. In
these days. when so much is said about
bacteria, who knows but that disease
and death may be carried in the butter
we put upon the table?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
How to Make the Hair Fluffy,

Coiffeurs are testifying to the value
Of air as beautifier and drier by in
Producing new method into the sham
poo process. The new method of dry
ing renders the hair fluffy, quality es-
sential to the newest low coiffures.
After the hair is washed the sham
pooer turns on what he calls "com-
pressed air." which is either hot or
cold, at his customers will. The air
he blows through the tresses by means
of silver tube, keeping the latter con-
stantly in motion. The result is excel
lent, for not only is the hair blown dry
in. few moments, but there is no tan
Cling of the locks and none of the dis
agreeable features which the system
of drying by gas or other methods often
produces, while the saving in time is
quite consideration in this busy age,
when every woman has more to do, or
at least thinks she has. than she can
possibly accomplish.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12

AA NEWSPAPER of recent date
IA contains contribution head
* ~ ed Luck of Women as Min
ers; They Never Fail" Now,
that is a sweeping statement which
is much more a lie than the truth.
Women who attempt mining and pros
pecting on their own account fail Of
tener than they succeed, exactly as
men do. Certainly three out of four
of the many who, full of hope. have
invaded the mining camps of the west
and northwest return home broken and
weary, with a worn look in their faces
and hungry, unsatis1ed look in their
eyes which they will never in this life
lose till they either so back and try it
again or become financially successful
at something else.
Once caught by the fascination of
prospecting for gold, women, like men,
return to 1t again and again.
Miss Emma Steiner Of New York is
a well known and successful mining
prospector In Nome fields. II has been
said that no man at Cape Nome Is her
superior in this branch OF the business.
She says that her system OF pros
pecting Is very simple. She merely
observes kcenly everything about her
when she goes out with pick and shov-
ell, and in the most forlorn and uninvit-
ing looking spots where it seems least
likely valuable minerals could be
found there she digs and at times the
System" has worked TO charm.
In connection with the discovery of
the great Rat Hole mine In the Santa
Clara mountains of Arizona story Is
told so strange and romantic that it
sounds like fiction, yet it is declared to
be true. Mrs. A. Il. Ingolsby and her
husband were tenting i'll the Santa
Claras for their annual outing. They
were entirely alone, they felt sure,
yet constantly they missed small arti-
cles from their outfits.
At last they found the guilty one, and
discovery of the thief was the diseov-
cry of the famous Rat Hole mine. One
day Mrs. Ingolsby sat in the tent alone
and quiet. Suddenly she observed
something moving and. looking up. saw
a small rat dragging silver spoon out
the tent door. She started to follow it.
but it drew the spoon a little distance
outside. then ran for it's life. Mrs. IN
golsby got her property and was CON-
ing back to her sewing when again she
observed something unusual on the
tent floor. She picked that up, too, and
saw it was a little piece of quartz rock
of great richness, the free gold glitter
ing in plain sight. The tiny thief was
that queer animal called the trading
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
How to Make Apple Butter.

Boil cider down to two-th1rds of its
original quantity. Into this turn as
many peeled and sliced apples as the
liquid will cover, and simmer, stirring
often until very tender. When the first
supply of apples is tender, strain them
out and add more and cook in the same
fashion until all the cider is absorbed.
Take from the fire and put all into a
stone crock and set aside for twelve
hours, then return to the fire and boil
until you have soft brown mass
Remove and pack in stone jars.