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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

Consumption menacng the lives of thousands our cities The
Consumpves Eudowood the institution
Maryland that is devoted exclusively the treatment of this disease
Ia and female
en who have received the best medical attention s nursing
the wholesome food
have left the Hospital improved
port themselves and those dependent them Others who
human aid have found haven and their last
believe has proved further blessing senng the spread
the awful disease by the centres Infection and teaching
pie how properly avoid infection.
Few of those who knocked able pay
tors therefore find appeal to the benevolent for
this work OF humanity and broaden from
the the have exceeded the
desired that the be raised order
continue and extend its charity.
The Hospital is located Towson
The institution sevenyfve of land wooded
and with abundance of clear spring
The Hospital accommodates thirty patients cottage
sleeping and bath, and large sitting just
furnished Memorial Building and will be used for the
hopeful 1t hoped further will
Board the number the
Dr. Frank R. Rch of Towson the resident physician the
ing staff composed interested the of tuberculosis
The institution During the years
and State have made appropriations and friends who have recognized
value of the work the Hospital doing have aided with
but needed successfully
of caring for the sick and protecting children from
tracting dreadful
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
HANDS OF A MONEY HANDLER.

Look at my hands" said a man
as he drifted into the Office of a we'll
known business man, and as he said
it he stretched his fingers out to their
full length, exposing the palms of his
hands. The insides of his hands were
very rough. That was exactly what
he wanted to call attention to.
"Do you see those crusty forma-
tions," he continued, ''these corns
and bunions and knots and other
things of that sort? Look at 'em."
He still held his hands open for in
spection. "Do you know where, l got
'em?" he easked. "Splittin' wood?"
answered the man. "Not much, "
said the fellow with the rusty hands
"Maulin' rails?" ventured the man
again. Nope" was the short reply
of the man with heavy hands. "Pull-
in a cross cut saw" suggested the
man as a last resort, hut he was wrong
again. "Well, how on earth did you
get 'em then ?" he asked with show
of impatience. "Handlin' money"
was the mans reply and he smiled
at the look of disgust and incredulity
which spread over the face of the man
he was talking to. eyes, sir; I got
all these corns, and bunions, and
knots, and other rough things which
you see on my hands by handlin'
money. You see l work for a trac-
ton company, and have to handle and
sort all the money of the company.
A great deal of the money is in small
denominations I'D we h an d | e
it in bags and packages of various
sizes. There is so much of it that
fellows hands soon become hard on
the inside and gradually grow into
the knotty condition which you find
mine in at this time. You can bet
that handling money is not the soft
and ve1vety business it is generally
supposed to be. The association of
soft white hands with the business of
handling money is dead wrong, and
if any man doubts what 1 say about
it l simply ask him to step up and
take look at my hands"
And the money handler with the
rough hands blew out as suddenly as
he had blown in.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
HER WARNING BORE FRUIT.

A woman noted among her friends
for her punctilious devotion to house
wifely duties recently accompanied
her husband out of town on short
business trip. She keeps no servant,
and the pleasant anticipations regard
ing the journey were somewhat mar
red by the thought that during her
absence her immaculate little fiat
would be at the mercy of rollicking
young brother and bachelor friend.
Particularly grave was her anxiety
about her bathroom, which had of
late been done over, relates the New
York Herald.
After due consideration she hung
a piece of old Turkish towelling on
the knob of the bathroom door with
this inscription
"This cloth is to be used for wash
ing out the tub after you bathe.
Directly on returning home she
made tour of inspection, only to
find her pretty little fiat labelled as
follows
Over the bed in the guest cham
ber: "Life is what we make it, So
is a bed. Please make this one"
Above the stationary washstand in
the bathroom: "This bowl is not for
drinking purposes. You wash in it..
On a tag swinging from nail
brush: Beware This is no tooth
brush"
Pinned on the bath gloves "These
are not for outdoor wear"
In glaring type above the tub
"This is a bath-to be used with
water"
On a dish towel in the kitchen
"This is no bath towel. Make no
mistake in its use"
Over the washtubs: "This is not
a patent bed. Don't try to sleep
here"
From the entry gas jet, a tag:
Light this at night. The old man
may need it."
Above the gas stove: "This is to
cook with"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
AN IDEAL HOME.

Many are asking questions and
writing answers to the same, as to
that that sustains our natural and
physical wants, that tend to support
this earthly tabernacle" Now, if
the kind editor will allow us space,
let us exchange a few ideas as to
what would furnish the best flood
for thought He says he is "mere-
ly machine, " but there is one that
is, to run his own machine. Truly
we may gather good from each other,
and it is fact, as has been said, that
"no man can stand alone. Yet, the
grandest privilege afforded us as
American citizens is that of thinking
and acting for ourselves. We look
at the head of this column and we see
the mother engaged, we suppose, in
some kind of fancy needle work
something, no doubt, that will afford
comfort for herself and family-while
in the background we see the interior
of the house in perfect order. This
part of the picture reminds us of the
fact that home is scarcely worthy of
the name without mother. We see
also her dear son by her side playing
with his drum; one in whom she so
much delights to please in childhood
that he may be guided in youth and
prepared for the useful spheres of
manhood.
Hence we see enough in the above
named that we could cheerfully give
it the honor of representing an ideal
home. Yes, dear girls and boys,
home is the dearest place on earth if
we could but appreciate it. We go
out to battle with the proud and busy
world, in any of the pursuits that life
affords, and we find there is compar-
atively cold response, when we
think of the tender cords that bind us
together at home. Our friends about
us are willing to share our sorrows as
well as our pleasures. But, as Ella
Wheeler Wilcox said, Laugh and
the world laughs with you. Weep
and you weep alone" l will close
by saying to Miss Sadie Walker that
as parents, while we do not expect
our fair daughters to always stay at
home, we do wish to impress upon
their minds the Importance of help
ing to make home the paradise of
earth. We love our dear girls and
boys We like to see them enjoy the
harmless pleasures the world affords,
but don't forget, young people, that
home, although its pleasure may
sometimes seem monotonous, is the
grandest place on earth.-H. Z. Pin
e,tOn, IN Globe Demo3at
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
THE BARGAIN COUNTER.

The English woman who tells the
American woman that cheap buying
is an injury to the family and to So
ciety, and that they must scorn the
allurements of the bargain counter
and search for the true, the tasteful,
and the beautiful, instead of the
cheap, is wasting her eloquence on
deaf ears. If the garden of Eden had
contained a bargain counter women
would long ago have defed the angel
and his flaming sword and broken in.
The bargain counter is not to be con-
demned so unsparingly. 1t has its
snares for the ignorant. 1t also has
;.s real bargains FOR tho eseperienced-
The woman who is first on the ground
and who knows something about the
quality of goods usually can get some
thing which is worth more than she
pays for it. 1t is the hope of getting
a prize which draws women to the
bargain counter. They have the
gambling spirit even as men have,
and it is better that they should graf
ify it in mild way at the bargain
counter, where they often buy things
which are neither true, nor beautiful,
nor really cheap, than that they
should crafty that spirit by buying
lottery tickets or pools. The bargain
counter is comparatively harmless
safety valve. 1t provides little ex-
citement for many who would other
wise lead dull and monotonous lives.
There are few delights so keen as
that enjoyed by the woman WHO sees
the material she coveted, but whose
original price put it far beyond her
reach, deposited at last on the bar
gain counter, marked down to fig
ure which suits her purse This is
one of the pleasures which wealthy
people can not enjoy. AS for the
tawdry rubbish which some people
buy on and off the bargain counter, it
is useless to tell them not to buy
it, for it seems beautiful to them, and
its ownership ministers to their hap
piness. 1t is expedient to let people
consult their own tastes even in the
buying of dry goods.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.

If your mirror tells you that you
are not beautiful do not allow that to
depress you. In our liberal interpre-
tation of the meaning of the word
beauty" there are many degrees
and hopelessly homely, indeed, must
be the woman who can not be inclu-
ded within some one of them.
A pair of bright, speaking eyes,
sweet, lovable mouth-no matter
whether it be large or small-hne
hair, a good complexion or graceful
figure the possession of any one OF
these constitutes claim to certain
amount of comliness, tn e amount
being altogether dependent on the de-
termination of the possessor to make
the most of what has been given her.
A well-poised body, for instance. IS
no less essential to health than to
physical beauty. aud the woman who
desires to be physically perfect even
though she may be Indifferent to her
personal appearance, can not be too
careful in guarding against faulty po-
sitions of the body.
In standing, rest the weight of the
body principally on the balls of the
feet, letting the heels lightly touch
the ground. The chest should be
elevated and thrown forward, and the
head held erect, while the lower part
of the spine and should be thrown
backward.
In sitting, one is apt to be even
more careless and slouchy than in
standing. The body should be in an
upright position and the lower part
of the spine thrown couple of inches
back of the shoulders, bringing them
into a line PARALLEL with the hips, the
feet resting lightly on the ground.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
THE SKILL OF BIRDS.

The skill displayed by birds in
building their nests has often been re-
garded as a display of wisdom little
short of human, and there is in Cen
tral America wren whose nest is
marvel of workmanship. The bird
selects a tree with branches running
straight from the body and growing
close together. Across two of the
branches it lays sticks and fastens
them together with fiber until it has
completed a platform about six feet in
length by two feet in width. On the
end of the platform nearest the trunk
of the tree it builds a great dome
shaped nest at least IL inches in
height, the sides being formed of in
terwoven thorns. Then it builds a
crooked, unnellike passageway from
the nest to the outer end of the plat
form, and in this tunnel, at different
places, it builds little thorn hedges,
leaving just enough room for its body
to pass through. At the outer end
of the tunnel it also builds fence,
with little gateway in the middle,
and when it goes out it closes the
gateway with thorns so that its enc
mics cannot get in. Thus it pre-
serves its eggs and later on protects
its young.
There is also another bird in Cen
tral America, member of the Oriole
family, whose nest, while it is trife
less elaborate than the wren's, is,
nevertheless, just as cleverly built.
1t selects big banana leaf and with
its bill for a needle and some strong
grass for thread, il sews the two edges
together, following the grain of the
leaf, and it does the work so neatly
that the stitches cannot be seen with
out looking very closely. In the
pocket thus made the bird builds a
nest with soft grass or hair, and there
lays her eggs and raises her family
without fear of being found.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
USE OF "MADsroNEs" TO CURE RABIES.

As treatment for wounds inflicted
by rabid dogs and other animals the
application of madstones has come
to have wide scope throughout the
South. Every day or two, when we
pick up paper, we find where some
unfortunate has been attacked by a
savage animal, and often the dispatch
adds that they were given the mad
stone treatment. To the vast ma
Jority of people dispatch with such
an ending is like Greek, for very few
understand what maidstone really is.
DR.. N. G. Keirle, of Baltimore,
who is in charge of the Pasteur de-
partment of the City Hospital, was
asked to explain what is meant by
maidstone. According to him the
treatment is applied as rule only by
superstitious people, and in reality
has no effect on the wound.
"These madstones," said the doc
tor, "sell for large sum. People
Who own them regard them as ex-
t7emely valuable, and they have been
known to bring more than $Ioo at a
sale. So precious are they held to be
that very often they are put in a sill
yer or gold frame like watch, and
are handled with the greatest care.
"As rule, these stones are very
old and have been handed down from
generation to generation. There is
some mystery as to their origin.
However, some hold that they are
pieces of cartilage, around which a
hard substance forms in the stomachs
of animals and is removed after death.
"When a person is bitten by rab-
id animal the stone is applied to the
wound. 1t sticks fast to the injured
part, and is allowed to remain there
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
A POST MORTEM.

A certain knight of the quill in a
government Office once upon a time
asked for a weeks leave that he
might go to bury his father. This
was readily granted. A day or two
afterward there arrived visitor who
wished to see Mr.. A, the orphan.
Mr.. As chief explained that he
wasn't to be seen-in fact, he had
gone away to bury his father.
But" said the stranger, I ain
his father"
well" replied the official, man
of few words, II don't know any
thing about Mr.. As affairs; I
only know he has gone to bury you."
At the end of the week of mourn
ing Mr.. A returned looking very
disconsolate. When asked by his
chief how he had Jared he pulled a
very long face and said he had had
"the melancholy satisfaction of see
ing the last rites properly performed"
and so on adding that of course he
felt very deeply on the subject, but
that no doubt time would Tighten the
load of his af1iction.
"Ah," replied the other, Il can
sympathize with you. lost my
father when / was a young man.
When you lose your father you lose
your best friend. hadn't the pleas
ure of your poor father acquaintance
during his lifetime, but he called here
a few days after his death, and had'T
a short coversation with him. Now,
this was most irregular and my OBJ
ject in sending for you was this
when next the poor old gentleman
dies, do, if you possibly can, arrange
to have him buried, and be back here
to meet him in case he calls again.
That's all. Good morning"
Exit Mr.. A, not perhaps, any
outwardly sadder, but certainly
much wiser man.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
LAY UP YOUR TREASURES.

Is any one too poor to save? is an
important problem which the readers
of London daily are at present at
tempting to solve. The question is
not by any means a new one. 1t is
one which has troHbled past genera
tions, just as, in all probability, It
will affect the generations yet to.
come. We cannot say that this latest
discussion Of the subject is throwing
much, if any, fresh light upon it.
In the first place, there is divers
lty OF opinion regarding the term
poor. F." One man, who derives an
income Of 81, 1850 a year from a pri-
vate property, fancies he comes under
the category, while another does not
consider any one poor who has an in
come of $500 year, says a writer in
LeSlie'S Weekly. 1t is manifestly i'm
possible to fix any limit in matter
like this. Very much depends upon
the locality and the conditions and
surroundings of the individual. An
income that would be amply sufficient
to insure family a comfortable
home, excellent social advantages
and good living in country vii
lage would mean many privations
and sore discomforts in any large
city.
On the whole, however, we are in
clined to believe that Max O'Rells
views on the point under discussion
came nearer the safe and common
sense rule than anything we have
seen. II do not care" he says,
''how small the income of man is,
he should never spend the whole of
it, especially if he has a wife and
children. Some pleasure may be de-
rived from high living, but certainly
no happiness.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
SYMPATHY-IS ITS VALUE GREATER IN
VICTORY oR IN DEFEAT?

You ask me whether, in my opin-
ion, sympathy is more acceptable and
appreciated in defeat or in victory
that is, as l understand your ques-
tion, do those with whom we sympa
thize value our sympathy more when
disappointed, detected, defeated, in
sorrow, or when satisfied, elated, tri-
umphant, rejoicing?
l should say decidedly under the
thg 26 0E YhaR VI saag yict9r9ps
and gladuess that which makes them,
to certain extent, at least, indepen-
dent. Sympathy or no sympathy,
they can fall back upon solid and in
controvertible facts which are the
ground Of their rejoicing. Nothing
can sweep this sure foundation from
beneath them.
To be sure, if the victory or Joy
brings into relief the darkness and
sorrow Of an experience deeply en-
graved upon their memory, why then
the sympathy of today is intensified
and sweetened by the feeling that it
compasses the trial and pain of yes
terday. The friend who clasps my
hand today remembers as we'll as
and rejoices with me all the more in
remembering the dark days gone by
and contrasting them with the sun
lighted and happy today.
But beyond all question it is the
dark days, in the hour of lonely grief
and pain, when the heart is torn and
wrung, when props are swept away,
when hope grows faint and courage
is well nigh spent--ah it is then
that the tender glance, the warm
handclasp, the word of loving sympa-
thy means most and are precious and
comforting beyond power of tongue
to tell.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
DID NOAH LAND IN ALASKA!

Last July w. A. Reid, secretary of
the Skagway Y. M. c. A., returned
from the interior of Alaska, where he
talked with the Indians, whose earn
est statements, he believes, confirm
previous reports that the Indians of
the lower Yukon have discovered an
immense petrifed ship on Porcupine
river, near the Arctic circle, and north
of Pampart, Alaska. When asked re-
garding its size, the Indians traced its
dimensions on the ground, indicating
a lenght of I 200 feet. Such Indians
as are familiar with the Bible are con-
vinced that the ship is none other
than Noah's ark. Reid intends to
return to the interior of Alaska this
summer, when he will take some In
dians and request army officers to de-
tail soldiers to accompany him. The
ship lies on a mountain, thousands of
feet above the sea level.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
SAME OLD STORIES.

When Adam courted Eve, they say
With certain jests they whiled the hours
OF blissfull Incidence away
Amid the zephyrs and the flowers.
And Noah would those stories tell
Unto his sons. when it grew dark,
The gloomy tedium to dispel,
Which sometimes settled DER the ark.
And round full many a campfire bright
Those yarns have sent merry thrill;
They were recited with delight
At Troy and likewise Bunker Hill.
And now the Congressman comes out
And cons them DER with guileless glee,
And scatters them around about
And all is blythe as blythe can be.
-Wdsttn0t0n Star.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

One of the first endeavors of a wo-
man who wishes to improve her per-
sonal appearance should be to acquire
a graceful carriage.
Have you ever noticed how an ad-
mittedly beautiful woman carries her
self? How erect she holds her head
How daintily she steps along, not
setting her heel down first, as SO
many heavy-footed, ungainly looking
women do, but springing lightly,
placing the ball of the toe first to the
ground and the heel afterward.
A graceful carriage gives an air of
distinction and high breeding that
nothing else can. 1t enhances a good
figure and lends to an imperfect one
an ease and dignity.
Look to your walk, then. Don't
wabble from side to side. Hold your
head up. Taking in deep breaths
will give your chest breadth and full
ness. Don't put your feet down fiat
as you move along. Practice putting
the balls of your toes down first in
stead of your heels, and see what a
difference it will make in your ap-
pearance.
Smooth skin, clear, healthy COM
plexion and bright eyes, no matter
whether they be round or almond
shaped, small or large, blue, black,
green, gray or brown, go long way
toward making woman good to look
upon. Every woman, provided she
is not troubled with some affection of
the skin Gin which case she should
consult reliable physician, } can have
these, if she will take even the most
ordinary care of her health. h.-Mar-
oue1lke Brooks.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

THE ocULIsT would starve to death
if he had to depend upon the people
who are blind to the faults of others.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

SOME MEN get up with the lark,
while others want a swallow the first
thing in the morning.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

SOME PEOPLE complain that they
never get chance to do anything ex-
cept the things they can't do.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

WELL-Did Christian Science cure
you of rheumatism? % Syckley-
"No; but rheumatism cured me of
Christian Science"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

WHAT PROFESSION do you fol-
low?" II follow the medical profess
sion I'm an undertaken.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

THE MAN who raises hogs realizes
that the pen is mightier than the
sword.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

LoTs OF people acquire regulations
for charity by giving away the things
they no longer have any use for.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

''YoU SAY the evening wore on.
What did it wear?" "Why, the
close of day, of course"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

THE Low-cUT bail gown is open to
criticism.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

"WHAT BECAME of Jones?" "Fail-
ed He's a has been" "a d
Smith ?" erich. He's coal bin. F"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

SOME PEOPLE seem to be SO busy
that they haven't time to mind their
own business.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

Perhaps in time she may learn the
sweet forgiveness of her Saviour.
1t is her lesson. His he has already
learned.-7He Animaks' DEFENDER.