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The daily sentinel., 1903-08-03

Feed for all kinds of stock. Hay,
grain and chops. Valley Feed com
pany.
There is always fresh lot of pies
and others bakers supplies at the
Progress.
San Francisco and return, $40 90,
August 9th to 10Th. The Colorado
Midland.
Colorado Springs and return, $15. 90
August 9th and 10th. The Colorado
Midland.
Wanted Girl for general house
work, small family. Apply Henry
Lnhrs. 3;4 Ute
Full line of mowers. reapers. and
all farm implements at the Valley
Feed Company. East of the Fair
All kinds of buggies and wagons,
manufactured by the Racine Wagon &
Carriage company, Valley Feed COM
panys agents.
LADIES' TAILOR.
Mrs. A. N. johnson, from Denver,
will open Ladies' Tailoring room at
her her home after Aug. 10, Sth and
Rood.
Summer excursions rates east one
fare plus 50. 90 for the round trip via
the Rock Island system. For infor-
nation, address Hal. S. Ray, Gen.
Agt., Denver. Colo.
\ cattle ranch to trade for improved
Grand Junction property. 1t has
1850 acres and one of the very
best locations in the White river coun-
try. For particulars write to ". II.
Violet. White River p. o.. Colo
Wanted, A bargain in small ranch
of to 10 acres within miles of
Grand Junction, give location. descrip-
tion and lowest cash price. Prefer
to deal with owner. Address Ranch
man" Care of Sentinel.
Miss Lucy Humphries. hairdressing
and manicuring, Chiropodist and foot
specialist Treats all diseases of the
feet Removes hard or soft corns and
ingrown nails without pain, drawing
blood or causing soreness in feet. 10
acid, caustic or other injurious COM
pounds used. Charges reasonable.
52S Main street. Grand Junction. Colo.
The daily sentinel., 1903-08-03
M. o. DELAPLAlN.

The Progress is noted for its cakes,
that are just like homemade ones.
First class livery turnouts at Platt
q Kings.
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by special favor If he should fan into it, but not
otherwise; and. for the future, insistent are
these ladies upon the Tenemenfs of their functions,
firmly believe that the time is coming when prop
erly equipped household viii have maintain a dozen
Specialized cOoks-one TO fry one to barbecue
the roasts, one TO make buckWheaC cakes, one 10
scorch the cereals. 20 mash potat-s, and so on
Some day. in the not distant flute you'll hear
the head of the house say: susan ask Mary TO boil
an egg this morning VVhereupon susan will reply.
Mary only fries potatoes, Mr. JOrzins, but III ask
Norah. the Liver and Bacon maid to put you
something. Oh indeed says MI. JOrkins. Well
guess-I don't for liver and bacon Ask Henri
eta, the Picked up Goldfish Girl to r6e me couple
of fish balls.
Where on earth did you get al this informa-
ton that you ladling out copi0asly this morn
ing?' asked ar. Brief
well you mightn't believe st. brit from expert
ence" said the IuOJ. "Once when was in newspaper
work disguised myself and took lob butler
in one OF our first families for a month to get a
special story"
''You?" cried the Lawyer. You'd make unique
so my temporary employer said" returned the
Idiot. when he discharged me. He said was the
most highly original hired man he ever saw"
I'm bet you got no reference" sneered the Bblic
maniac.
reference"
"As butlsr?" demanded the Biblomaniac.
NO said the Idiot; "as shOveler. but a
I was bounced in June. II didn't 90 any good"
IAN of which is most entertaining. but I can't
how it that the Apartment Hotel has settled
the Domestic Problem" observed the Lawyer.
ct hasnt-yet." said the Idiot But it win. When
the time arrives when you can turn on spigOt in
your apartment hotel dining and or
cold meals running through pipes at hour of the
day and night. the problem viii be solved"
Brief.
Certainly" said the Idiot up at my brothers
the cold faucet small eel came out Of it.
Pm sure that If they manage that they ought to
be able to manage the rest Of the bin OF fare
Copyright, 1903, by John Russell Davidson.
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is institutional you have your establishments
below stairs to hearts content because it's the
sort of thing YOU fitted for. is duke be-
cause his fathers before him were dukes; man can
be of being leader Of the seventeenth gen
Grafton Of farmers occupying and cutvating the same
farm, ana have no doubt that 10 be Butler, with q
lineage in butering running back TO the seventeenth
century is great and glorious thing. but here
things different; and because woman is a Cook
with nfnety-seven generations back doesn't
necessarily require that shall hand her the
full control Of household affairs, and meey bend
telligence officer
u never did" said the Anglonaniac.
We'll. you ought some day. said the Idiot cit
in the United States You are right in with the
leisure class, and while you may be disappointed in
the quality Of the intelligence you VIII find there, 1
think you will be interested by the prevailing at
mosphere Of the place You viii find naughty ladies
clad in plush feathers resisting the Establishments
ing right away and has ventured to request one Of
the imposing figures in plush and feathers to do her
$50 month. 'Hav yez had Cook befOre?' de-
mands the naughty Moo stamners the little
bride I'm only just married Now, what dye think
OF that cries the Cook The Idea OF me ta1in on
lady with experience at all-me that has served
with the foinest families OF Newport. Harlem and
Long Island. Go long wild yez- take no mistress
without reference Next mother OF family comes
in, and like the bride, audience with Queen
Plush. How many kids is there2 demands the Cook.
-Four boys and little girl replies the mother meek
~. III cook for three and more, the bratsr says
the Cook. Send two the byes TO boarcn' school,
and I'll consider your application. Ne terms is svinty
five month and Tuesdays. Thursdays ard Sundays
off. kitchen maid TO clean ND after me, q to
mesef with hot and cold water runnin. years sub
scrtptOn TO the leadn maggyzlznes, the refusal or all
Oud dresses an questions asked if the cook
in sherry low unexpectedly And so it goes.
There's nothing underhand about il. The lady is in
when finally she does deign 10 accept employment all
the smiles and articles Of leader of salon are re-
win nothing that is in the remOtest degree out
side Of it. She might rescue the baby from the well
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The Genial Idiot Discusses the Domestic Problem.

called the Superintendent People who once dweIt in
little houses Of their own have been driven to
while there IS not the same sense OF comfort IN bed
room so small that when the head Of the house goes
TO bed his feet stick out in the hall nor in dining
room where the sideboard must either be omitted or
suspended like hanging lamp from the ceiling be-
Of the floor space for its ccor0datan, in
a azrlor limited in acreage require that two
be permitted to sit in il simultaneously, that
used &c find in the comparatively conmodioas dwell
iDEs inhabited. there is the less COM
pensation in the freedom from that nervous tension
which the exactiOns of the Domestic Servant of the
hour have made Inevitable"
'Jee-rlsalemi" Grief Mr.. Brief What sentence!
Capital punishment is nerciful alongside OF such
sentence that"
Runs along like brief, doesn't t?' suggested the
idiot. only IL means something eh2"
Tt is really a dreadful problem this domestic ques-
ton" sighed Mrs Pedagog. Il, who have to deal
with it first hand least testify that.
really don't know what coming to-"
ANY problem is dreadful one which breaks up
the home" said the Idiot "As for what
ing that is perfectly obvious, Mrs. Pedagog. It is
either the Family Hotel or the Chatting Dish"
Il not aware that outside Of the comic papers
this Domestic Problem was really serious, said the
BbliOmaniac-
You've never had to wrestIe with it, that's why
observed the Idiot. las matter Of fact that prob
lem has half-Neson grip every home in the land
where the cooking IS wholly family affair. In
France long ago they stated the actual condition that
now confronts the housekeeper Of today when they
named the Cook the Chef Chef is French for Chief
and from Maine to California the national hymn has
become Hail to the Chef who in glory advances The
swords that used TO be beaten into pOughshares
now made into frying pans; the gridiron is
mightier than the pen, and outside Of few million
aires the wealth Of the land rs IN the hands Of the
Cooks. The average housekeeper reads with langud
Indifference of the doings Of congress. smiles indif
ferently the utterances OF the president and cab
net and is not vitality interested in the higher crti-
cisu Of theoOgians but when the Cook lays down
the law she wakes pale; when the Kitchen Maid pro-
claims she trembles and before the pTOnOunCements
OF the butler she is mute. Even 7, Who don't my
soul much with what other people thnl Of me, never
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The familiar toys with which chill
dren play have a long and honorable
ancestry. In past ages these play
things were regarded as seriously as
the tools and weapons and other ap-
purtenances Of man. More than that,
obey We're often his most cherished
possessions: they were symbols Of his
religious aspirations, factors in his
worship, sometimes the very images
Of the gods themselves" So says
Stewart Cuin, curator Of the ATchaeo-
logical museum Of the University Of
Pennsylvania, in the Woman's Home
Companion. He writes:
What a very ordinary and anus
ing toy is a jumping jack! Almost eX-
actly like Il is an idol which was made
by the MaOris of New Zealand They
used this idol IN their religious dances,
swaying it 10 and fro. We find the
same curious object among the In
dams of the northwest; it closely re-
sembles our toys. but fl employed as
an instrument in ceremonies to pro-
pitiate the gods.
"A baby's rattle looks innocent and
simple enough; it seems made just to
quiet children; in reality il is one Of
The Oldest and most sacred implements
Of worship that the world knows!
When you shake a tin rattle before a
babys eyes to make him stop cry
ing you ara doing just what priests
200 years ago did when they wor-
SHIPPED their gods.
up on the great plateau Of Tibet
Buddhist priests in strange garments
stiu shake a gruesome rattle, made
Of two human skulls covered with
parchment, when they want to drive
out evil spirits or TO call attention 70
their prayers. The well known child S
/ 'bobby-horse' is an almost exact inn
itation of a toy horse used by the
Sioux Indians in their war dances
and invested with sanctity by their
medicine men
The scissors toy, made of jointed
stats. is sold on the streets everywhere
and when it has a clowns head which
suddenly grows into a longjacketed
man II is very funny. But how diff
ferent the first use Of this toy Would
I you believe il, and isn't it very strange
that the ancestor Of this toy was once
actually an appurtenance in Christian
worship? But it's true, nevertheless
such queer things the Whirligig OF
/ time brings about! Over in England
a thousand years ago, wnen the monks
wanted to help the people understand
/ the birth Of Christ and its signif-
1 canoe, they acted it all out for them
B I'm a little play. These We're called
/ miracles, and out Of them grew ouI
4 scissors toy was used by the star
! bearer to carry the star Of the East
The Zuni Indians have precisely the
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Toys and Religion.

same instrument to initiate lightning
and project the great 'cOsmical worm
in their religious rites.
Certain toys, as everybody knows. are
associated with certain times Of the
year. Top time" and "narble-time"
are quite definite seasons. In China,
Japan and other eastern countries the
use Of toys at particular seasons can
be traced back. in many cases. to re-
hgiOus festivals. In Korea there is a
childTen's festival on the eighth day of
the fourth month, and the chief play
thing at that time is an image made Of
paper, weighted with clay in such a
way rs TO enable it immediately 10 re-
sumo an upright position if laid on its
side. This image, which is called the
"O-tOk-i." or Upright Standing one"
is a survival Of an ancient deity, wor-
shipped in the days before Buddhism
came into being. Passing on to a con-
sideration Of our own Christmas season
and Of the Christmas tree, which is its
most spectacular feature, Mr.. Culin
says
Most of us know that the tree comes
to US direct from Germany. And we
know of the tree-worship of the Druids
which obtained in England and France,
and which probably had some influence
on the later use Of the tree in the Chris
tan festival. But we do not all know
that a similar festival with the tree as
a GROWING feature is observed among
many heather nations, and that it
comes from sun-wOrship, which is older
than history The revival Of the sun
after the winter solstice has ever been
the subject Of rejoicing, and Of celebra-
ton by ceremonies which represent the
new light brought back to the world.
Traces of it exist in Iceland where
the service tree" is found adorned
with burning lights during Christmas
night. The English yule-lOg is a faint
survival of this festival But il is be
yond these that I wish to draw your
attention, back further even than the
Druid mysteries of the Gallo forests.
IT is 10 China, that home Of all wonders
! and Of all history. 1t has been shown
that as long ago as 247 p. c. a tree
/ with leo lamps and flowers was placed
on the steps Of the audience hall This
appears again in the records Of Princess
Yang, who lived 1875 A. D., and who
caused a 100-lamp tree eighty feet high
TO be erected on a mountain. 1T was
lighted during New Years night and
The illumination was seen for hundreds
Of miles, eclipsing the light OF the moon.
This candle tree is no longer lighted ia
China, being replaced by an unusual
number 0f lanterns, which are hung ev-
erywhere. A suggestion Of the tree,
however, stilI survives in Japan. At
the New Year two evergreen trees are
I placed without, on either side of the
J door. Their tops are tied together with
+ the sacred band Of straw. and various
/ objects, dried Holsters and oranges, are
! fastened to their branches.
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IT HAVE been very much interested Of late" said
Mr. whitechoker, Ito observe in all parts OF
the city the large number of hotels that be-
ing erected It hardly seems possible that they can
ali be successful and yet the who are building
mem must have assurances that they win be else
they would not invest such large sums OF money In
thsm."
"a MOTEL is a good thing to put your money into,
guess" observed the idiot. Whether It pays or not,
If you've got your money in hotel, you know where
IS You know the name hotel II is stopping
whereas. If you put ft into Amalgamated Lobster
the United States Baled hay company, there's no
telling what has become Of IL. One day Amalgannated
Lobster viii sell at a.. and then somebody VIII start
a rumor that Mr.. Morgan has had his hair cut. and
sell today at g. and is still on the rise, when all or
sudden some conscienceless bear Wall street viii
start story that John d. Rockefeller, Jr, is about
TO preach sermon denying that Nebuchadnezzar ate
grass. and bump down tumbles Baled Hay preferred
AZ asked 2as bid. and your little fortune IN Hay
has ufthered so much dry straw. I tell you Mr..
put your money into than hotel If worst comes
to the worst you go and live in IT yourself
Possibly you right on that score, said the
clergyman "but II is that point Of view that
IT is the sociological aspect
Of the situation, not the commercial that appeals
The growth Of the hotel habit must mean something
and the question thab arises in mind IS not, Have
we an overproductiOn hotels? but the serious
one, Is the home going out?
.'I should say most emphatically not said the
Idiot The home is staying home, but it IS the only
thing that is Everything else is going out and, as
FAR 7 see, intends TO stay out
cit is a great pity" observed Mr.. Whitechoker.
1.-THE home the bulWarl1 Of the nation
1T was before the invasion" said the Idiot IT
r. the battle-ground OF the republic
Invasion" asked Mr. WhitechOker-
Yes answered the Idiot 1T has been invaded
by the Domestic Problem. and the defenders have
driven into the bitches of despair by the onward
march Of the Cohorts of the Kitchen. Once Trium-
plant Democracy has capituated to the Autocrat OF
the Range and result. the Family Hotel has
sprung into being. where the contract to manage the
internal affairs Of the household is sublet to Buffer
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get people to play It. All you've got to
do is 10 get the cards an chips an a
few feebie-minded thatu put up with the
proposition, an you can have the time
Of your life.
They wanted me to sit into a game in
the Windy City, an 1 says don't mind
IL they amt playin' the Indiana game.
So they asked me what that was, an 1
told 'em, but they only laughed That
was all well enough for countrymen. they
said-fancy Chicago man talking about
countrymen-but they had game that
made the other one sound like progress
sive' euchre for dOylies.
Then 1 thought that what the doctor
bad been telling me about a stimulant
for my heart, an I told 'em I guessed I'd
take a little of Il If they'd put me wise
first an not hold out anything 1 ought
+" Because L said, its a long way
home
nothing but stud poker and the hands
were all regular poker hands and count
ed exactly the same as In any other game
Of poker. The only difference was that
you got two buried cards instead Of one.
an five cards showing And you didn't
discard any, but, Of course, when the
showdown came you could only count
five cards out Of the seven.
1T was very simple. they said. and Oh.
yes. there was another thing about il
that was a little different from ordinary
stud. You could call deuce anything
well I told 'em I didn't mind taking
whirl at it, just to see what II was like.
You see / hadn't thought about il enough
TO see the awful hellishness Of that idea
Of not discarding. Tt leaves you alto
geLher in the dark about the other fell
lows hand, even after the cards are ali
dealt.
II did suggest that as long as they
made the deuces count as 5olSers I
thought it might be a good scheme 10
call all the rest of the cards jOkers. but
they seemed 20 think 7 was making fun
Of them. an I took 1t back for fear they
might Ieel hurt.
We'll PLAYED that game all night till
7 was about six hundred ahead, having
good run Of luck an then I got three
aces, two Of 'eIp buried an a deuce,
which. of course. counted as another ace.
THE pirate that beat me out had two
deuces, the five Of spades the ten OF
hearts and the four Of diamonds shown.
"Of course il was his bet. Everybody
else had passed out. He bet a hundred
an 7 studied his hand a long time. 1t
didn't look to me like he could have bet
ter than four tens. so I histed him two
hundred an he grinned an bet his pile.
We'll, o. course, I had to call, or
thought I had. not KNOWN the game an
havin' four aces. An, then he showed up
another deuce an the seven o diamonds
Even then ] didn't catch on for a min
ute, an 1 was goin' to rake the pot, but
That's an eight-high straight flush
An seen I was beat
My hearts all right now, but I'm goin'
20 stay here In the Tenderloin Tor
awhile. Chicago Inter-Ocean-
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Hot Sport Tells of His Western Invasion.

enough to put up s. on? Well they didn't.
Livery mothers son Of EN- traiied-
That put me studyiu' again I says
10 myself that these guys prob'ly iCnOWed
What they was at. haVin played the game
before, an there must be something in
il that ] wasn't wise TO. The only way
could size II up was that they was all
hopin 10 fll sOmethin' in the draw. But
j says to myself if / can see the draw
that everybody makes L can size it up
all right
ION the next round the buccaneer
across the way got an ace an / caught
a deuce That gave him first bet and he
passed 1t. The next two men passed, an
just 10 be in the fashion i passed, too.
Then the others trailed along and the
dealer gave out the next cards.
This time there was a secOnd-stOry
man away off 10 the left made a pair o
sevens, an he bet $40. The next Two men
laid down, an 1 says TO myself If a pair
O sevens scares EN- like that, three kings
must be pretty good. 1 hadn't bettered
EN- but I made IL ten more an the 9TH
ers passed out, only him an me made
good
There was one more card comm an
caught q four spot an he got a six.
had another four In my first five cards,
so when they told me the next thing 10
90 was 10 throw away four cards, kept
my three kings an two fOurs an threw
the others i'm the discard. That left me
with one card shown.
The other fellow he thrOWed away
three cards Of his first five an kept his
pair O. sevens an a jack shown. An
under the rules it was his bet.
he looked over at my pile an he says
I tap you
&" Well 7 says. L don't want to make
any mistake about this. Do we get any
more draw o. course a draw wouldn't
have helped me any but felt like sound
I'm him before calm.
But they said no. They used to play
81 with a draw. but it made fl bad when
there was SO many in the game.
so I called an he had three sevens an
the joker. an jumped the game One
hand was enough for me on that sort of
@ proposition
"I 1On't wonder" said Jim. Don't
they have any insane asVlums out there2'
They used to. but lately they found
out that there were not enough sane peO-
pie an the state TO fill EN-, so they turned
'em into homes for broken down poker
players
The Game In Chicago.
cit must be n hot game" said Jim.
so I thought till I got to Chicago.
Say. there's more possibilities I'm freak
poker than I ever dreamed Of if you can
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{ Cure wasting Weakness.

You cannot hide the marks of indis-
cretions and eXcesses-the. pimples and
blotches. the dim and failing vision, the
furtive eye, the weak back. bashfulness
and aversion to society More dangerous
still are the decaying weakness, nightly
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BY John Kendrick Bangs.


with my friend BiIins because the haSghty
deeanor of his Butler utterly destroys my appetite.
He's grand that break out into a cold persipra-
ratified when feel his eyes resting upon the back OF
my head that don't know whether my oysters
with tablespoon or the asparagus tweezers.
Possibly you not used 10 eating in polite
ciety." sneered the Anglomaniac.
Maybe not" said the Idiot. You and have
breakfasted here every morning for nearly a dozen
years. sim, I'm not used to naughty Buffers"
What I nEan' said the AnglOTnaniac, flushing
up lis that the trouble of which you complain is with
you. not with the Butler we who have lived in
England"
Are used to being looked down upon by somebody
interrupted the Idiot In this country, not.
We are supposed every Jack of us TO be equals.
and I'm hanged If to be waited upon by a male
waitress who because accident Of birth has placed
in different spheres Of endeavor chooses to deny
that ] as good he is"
''Tusht' CALCULATED the AnglOmaniac.
English for tutt. Tetnrted the Idiot a strong
argument in syllable which have heard many
times When say that four years in college is
great waste Of time for who is going into
Wall street somebody rises up and says Tutti' I
Of course overwhelmed. When I say that Jonah never
swallowed even little a whalebOne. much less
the whole whale. somebody cOnfrOnts with 'Tutti
and senced. If 1 observe casually that I think
that Shakespeare a syndicate and not an ndi-
nothingness. but when it to the Ques-
ton. shall not be silenced by any tutterance
The Home is Queendom, not Cookocracy-'
"A what?' queried the Poet.
"A Queendom-which is better than a Kingdom"
said the idiot. ''It should be ruled by wife or a
mother and not by Cook or a Kitchen Maid or a
Butler But the QueendOm is passing and will
tinue pass until wives and mothers have been
trained meet the exactOns OF the strenuous life
over in England Mr.. Anglomaniac, where everything