The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-14


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THE LETTER.
To the Editor of the Post.
Washington, d. c., July 4, 1902.--so much
has been written about the money ladies
can make with Battenberg and other fancy
work that will give my experience, hoping
to benefit some one who can not do fancy
work. Last March read the following
article and as it interested me | cut it out:
Dear Editor.-We farmers in Nebraska
have been having pretty good crops, but
everything we have to buy Is so high that
we have TO rustic II we pay off any mort
cages and ! think my experience may help
some that are anxious to get out OF debt.
Seven years ago | had some spoons replnted
IN pmahn ana they are stu good. last Sep
tcmher ] took In some more spoons ana
n watch case, but ;he old man had quit
work, but told ME I COLD plate them my
Sef: he said 10 get IN ounce OF formate
Of silver and dissolve 1t in n quart Of soft
water for silver plating, and for gold
plating TO get sixty grains urate of gold
and dissolve 1t In pint Of soft water.
Then I" clean and polish whatever want
ed u plate For silver plating put the
silver solution in an earthcn dish and put
the articles to be plated in the silver solu-
ton FOR ten minutes, then take out and
rub dry and bright; this makes q single
plate; put In another ten minutes Tor
double plate and third time for triple
pate. For plating with gold do the same
way; only use the gold solution instead
or silver, but got It from wholesale house
for me. In less than a month ! plated for
| helghDors thirty-eight dozen teaspoons.
twcuty-six dozen tablespoons. thirty-one
dozen forks, thirty dozen knives. seven
watch cases and four castors charged
Sl.5o dozen for teaspoons, 50 FOR knives.
forks and tablespoons, 81 for n castor aud
! fnr a Rh rs gn VXstt oil nj 60
dozen spoons an hour easily. rhc I'd
! of October | started out to solicit work;
! / plate some article ut every house for
them to sec and ! generally get n job. In
| october cleared S33l; In November S3fO;
| In December S346; in January S261: bnt
| part OF January was so cold did not work.
| My sister IL working In small towns and
makes from So to 81 n day. There Is work
TO do mt nearly every house and | think
| any one can make money that will try
The plating gives the best OF satisfaction.
am stenographcr in a law office and
a0 my employer is a man OF experience
| | asked him II he would advise me to try
plating, and 70 whom | could sell the
articles l plated. He advised me to plate
some watch chains and II the work was
! done good, thought the pawnbroker next
door would buy them. got sixty grains
urnte Of gold and some brass chains and
plated dozen that evening. Next morn
Ing ! took them to the broker and asked
| what they We're worth; he said he would
test them and tell me what he could pay
| me. | stopped rs ! went home and he
said he would give me So dozen for ali
| ! could plate as good as those. You may
Imagine felt pretty nice, as | had beer
working FOR 50 week, paying Si.5O for
my board. and here was a chance for me
to make as much evenings as days.
For the past five weeks | have averaged
slN dozen chains a week. so | have made
Sslo week In my room by working two
hours and half each evening. | know
| there are lots of boys and girls who need
the money as badly as | did so Ii YOU
think this worth printing all right, but
please do not give my name,
THE POST INVESTIGATES.
Leading chemists OF Houston were asked
In regard TO the genuineness Of the state
mcnts in the correspondence which was
shown to them. The unvarylng reply was
that there are no such chemicals known to
the profession as 'formate OF silver and
'urate OF gold" and If they exist 1t must
be some proprietary preparation that the
manufacturers choose to advertise In this
manner.
The correspondent says the material was
obtained through a Wholesale house II
there are such chemicals and they will
perform the work accredited by this CORE
Spondcnce 1t Is somewhat singular that
pNNupIphers ana repairing jewelers. are
not "on They are a pretty shrewd and
wide awake class and generally know what
Is going on In the world, and as no skill
ls required In the application IL would be
an easy matter to establish n gold and
silver plating annex with office boys an.
a motif"
The Nebraska farmer either struck a
bonanza that beats agriculture all hollow,
or ne got his arithmetic confused and his
decimal points misplaced. pretty fair
article or new ware can he bought at the
prices he says he got for replating the
Ola goods A horny handed corn.husker who
can earn Sl2o1 In less than four months In
sueh easy fashion Is going TO chuck the
blows and harrows Of uncertain agrleul-
ture on 10 the scrap pile, and IL does seem
strange ne should be willing to give the
snap away IL IL had been a printer man
or newspaper scribe that had struck such
bonanza he would have carefully hut
toned his upper Lip down tight and worked
overtime for few brief years until he
coNld own leading daily and push his own
congressional BOOM
me philanthropy OF giving away such "A
sotl snap ana encouraging the recruiting
OF an army OF formaters and uraters OF
dlpgy table ware and innocuous oroIde
watch cases Is certainly us commendable
rs II Is incomprehenslhle, and more light
VIII be needed before Texans give up cot.
lon growing, oil boring and other fairly
Prohtabie Jobs to join the battalion OF sell