Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-24
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It is to he regretted that so few peo-. sle recognize the value of pure olive il, not only incidentally, but as food. It is the common supposition that il saa be used only In salads and dress pg. when as a matter of fact 1t should be used in all forms of cooking, says me who has tried it. It can be said hat yqry few people have ever tasted alive oil in an absolutely pure condi- don. The oil with q foreign label rare y comes to us free from some form Of ldnlteratiop. As food olive oil Is an excellent Substitute for lard or butteh b cooking. and as it Is most easily di- geSted and the most wholesome form sf fat it should be more extensively used in the frying of croquettes, loughnuts, fish and oysters.
 The newspapers are telling story of Governor Douglas of Massa- chusetts, who got mad at foreman In one of his shops for discharging an old man, and in order to put stop to the business made it known that the old fellows name was to be kept on the pay roll whether he, did anything or not. This sounds like, a ghost story, especially here in the east where the longer man is in a factory the less he is thought of, but 1t is well sub- Etantiated and there can be no doubt about 1t. And then you'll hear people asking how Douglas made such g run and beat Bates. Why, he would have g DutstTipped Roosevelt if such thing were among the possibilities.
 Speaking of the custom of giving Christmas presents, one who has prob. ably been there says that a great deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in the construction of things that cumber life. The civilized world is so full of these objects that we sometimes envy the savage who wears all his simple wardrobe without being covered, and tees all his simple possessions in corr her of his empty hut. What pleasant spaces must meet the savage eyei What admirable vacancies must soothe the savage soul! No embroidered bag la needed to hold his sponge and wash rag. No painted box is destined foa his postal cards. No decorated tablet waits for his washing lists. No ornate wall pocket yawns for his unpaid bills. He smokes without cigarette cases. He dances without cotillion favors. He entoys all reasonable diversions, unen@ numbered by the superhuities with which we have weighted themF lATe s endurable to him, even with its pleasures thrown in.
 Does anybody know the origin of 70. K2'' Here is Trip" of the New York Press. repeating the story that < John Jacob .Astor, who was very shrewd and very illiterate, thought the right way of spelling '.all correct" was horl korrect," and used the initials 70, K to signify his approval of docu ment or proposition. To this the Brooklyn Eagle replies: As the, archives of the United States govern ment contain papers indorsed 70. K.' by Major-GeneYal Israel Putnam in his reports to his Superiors, we may believe that the Press writer has been trying an old shirt on new man." Presumably, "Tip'' got his version from Phyfe's "Five Thousand Facts and Pbrases.'' If the Eagles informa- lion is correct, Mir Astor, who was born in 1T63, must have been a mers gouth when he developed the business Eagacity of which his 70. K.'' was a token. But probably the symbol dates further back than that. Who can dig ID its origin2