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The Washington times., 1904-08-15

There is ever a glamour over the past
as soon as II IS old enough TO have at
tanned the dignity Of being called his
tory, and it's surely uncanny to disturb
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
Feminine Reflections.

A man doesn't feel that ne has been
on a vaca ton unless his arms are too
sunbuTned to move them without groan-
ing.
II takes a girl very much in love to
marry a man after seeing him I'm bath
Ing suit.
II the women's clubs really had the
exciting times they are reported to have
according to the newspapers, there
would be a wild stampede after mem
berships by men.
The man who handles the ribbons
over the neck of a prancing steed at a
summer resort for a few weeks In tho
summer, may hand ribbons over a dry
goods counter the rest Of the year.
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An automatic crunnber which has come
10 supersede the crumb brush and tray.
as the motor car has superseded the
horse and carriage. II is a Lilliputian
carpet sweeper and does its work pretti-
IL and thoroughly.
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Balance IN ERe Bank
A Waste of Good Money

Apropos Of the penny in the slot saw
lngs bank. one OF the latest manifes-
tations Of the slot idea. an English
woman who strongly advises their use
particularly for children, claims that
economy. Women are the worst of
tenders. she says. They invariably
spend all they have which accounts
Tor the sad cases Of extreme distress
one constantly hears OF. A balance al
ones bank Is a fact only miIlIonaires
and miserz attach impoTtance to. a
woman would think It waste OF good
money"
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other times. other manners is an
old saying. and the truth of this may
be proved any day on our streets. Yes
terday / saw a very modern girl wear
ing an 1890 blouse, with shoulders well
down on her arms and whether it was
the girl or the blouse 1 knew not. but
they were not mates.
The girl walked with a stride and
swung her arms as she walked. and the
long shoulders seemed to me to rebuke
her each time she elbowed her way
along.
Someone has said It's well old times
have gene by, and that history reads TO
many OF us like a romance. for our
Illusions sake, because the men and
women Of historic times. particularly in
the Elizabethan age on which the minds
10 linger. would not be admitted into
good society TO-DAY; and il has even
been said a well regulated family would
not care 10 have good Queen Bess' as
It's housemaid.
This, OF course, sounds like heresy
but no doubt the historical heroes and
heroines of many Of us would appear
pretty poor stuff were they 20 stand IN
the flesh in the glare Of a twentieth
century day.
SO likewise the clothes Of those old
past and gone people don't fit the mod
ern man and woman. There is some
thing which we miss, doubtless the flu
sion with which we have clothed the
wearers OF those garments; at any rate
new WI e does not remain well IN Old
bottles, so the busy, energetic semi
ECyt3en OF today would better wear a
rfwaist and golf skirt. and leave her
a,ltle grandmOther's garments laid
away in their lavender and rosemary.
There is ever a glamour over the past
as soon as II IS old enough 10 have at
tanned the dignity OF being called his
tory, and it's surely uncanny to disturb
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Edward Bentley. q. and Mary J. Fur
trell. o.
George +. stadtler, %. and Eliza Y.
PoOre, -.
Harvey Sutton. q, and Daisy Mat
theWs, q
oliver F. Plummer. D. and Beatrice
Lee, 10.
James f. Williams. "a. District OF Co
lumbis. and Ella Estelle Taylor, IS.
Friendly, Md.
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Here is new use for sour MIX
Put your silver into the milk when u
Is thick; let Il stand for half an hour;
take the pieces out and wash them
IN clean hot soapsuds: wipe dry. and you
have clear bright silver. 1t would pay
a busy housekeeper who has 20 do her
own polishing 20 buy two or three quarts
Of milk and let 81 sour for the purpose
Deborah.
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Of those particular districts know any thing

Of those particular districts know any thing
about 1t.
These women belong to no political clubs
nor do they spend any time In attending
public campaign meetings. Perhaps it
would be next to impossible for any Of them
to define the different political platforms
to make stump speech or appear on a
public rostrum.
But the majority-and this is vastly
more important for the time being-are
well acquainted with the district leader
or would-be leader or Assemblyman who
gives the children May parties and, better
still, they are willing to work tooth and
nail for him. And they do.
Undoubtedly. so far. the best. most
systematic work has been done in the
Fifteenth Assembly district. for the reason
that the big May parties originated there.
and that there the children's mothers have
been in training longest. Indeed, district
leaders elsewhere are inclined to be luke
warm In admitting that they crave woman's 8
heap or that they owe much II anything to
her help.
Not 30, Mr.. McManus.
The McManus is shy about talking poll
tics for publication, but when It comes to
dscussin q the women Of his district he wakes
eloquent. Said he:
.if ever politician got help from women
am the man. The women Of this district
are my standbys.'
What is more. he made no attempt to
heat about the bush whom asked whether
the May parties we're not a means to an
end-a political end.
sDo a woman favor or her child favor
and she'll not forget It. he replied. 1T was
nav mothers idea, though. in the first place
TO eive the children . May party. eays
she: You give a picnic to the big folks
once A year and smoker to the boys. and
nothing a sll to TIE little folks
so I started In. save the hrst May
party in iss7 to about 80 children. At the
one rave last month 10000 were In line.
AN from this district? OF course.
why, this is one Of tie most thickiy
settlsd md populassd tsnsmsnt dstricts
in New York. We are not worrying about
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.Our greatest trouble Ia trying to read
the future and find out what flower VIII pc
popular, The agents come back from
Paris with the samples, and we make them
up: but you can't tell until the season
opens, and the very flower you We works ed
hardest on may not be liked at all Ihls
last season June roses were the favorltes,
and the year before poppies, but we don't
know about next year
Perhaps the compelling difference De-
tween the girls who work on the movers
and those who work on the feathers these
summer days lies in age and appearance.
The flower workers are mostly young
and there is a certain daintiness In ,ap-
pearance a careful attention to detail, as
Il in some unconscious way the flowers
Influenced them to live up to a standard OF
fhe ostrich feather workers are older
women. There Is little Of the beautiful or
uplifting in their environment. The feathers
come to them in bits to be sewed together
and they are Compelled to sit before heaps
of stuffy fuzz. which must get into the
nose, eyes and mouth. The compensation
is that they are better paid.
Where a flower worker gets 80 week,
the feather worker will get 90 or $40, for
there is skill required in manipulating TIE
material to prevent waste and to get the
most and the best effect from the cuttings
bought up from the shops which work
only in the more expensive plumes.
These cheaper feathers are made from
material which requires the utmost dex-
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the great hear, Of loose petals just the one
requisite to mako the harmonious gradataon
OF tint.
the end Of the long stem and hsngsh oyer oyer
bit Of rope alongside another flower. AFTER
a while there IL q row OF down dropping
roses which look like an inverted garden.
"Oh, no. never have any flower TO work
from" she answers. AT first, you know
when the work is new flower IA put pc
time you don't need any sample; you just
work from your head.
At another table buxom looking woman
OF perhaps forty, with an Irish face, tip
tilted nose and CHEEKY eyes s NV wo,sibGs ,sbss On IN
front Of her is piled with the mourning
flowers, while at her side, with gas stove
and crimpers, another girl curls the petals
In bunches Of half dozen at time.
DO mind working on the mourning now
enoe whether you work on poppies, or
chrysanthemums? It's all in the day.
anyhow, amt it? Last week ! worked
on June roses. but don't care.
This ls all I mind about tins work.
1t will black your fingers, but then and and
the natural temperament conquers, al
YOU need is q little soap and water and don
be afraid OF the soap Soap and water 's
She exhaled wholesomeness from every
pore.
you're not bothering about husband
and coming back when he gets out OF work.,
The pink rose girl WAS far away and could
not hear
Husbands, honey Bless your heart,
why I've had two and am look ing for
third. But they cost money these days;
they amt what they we're. Mike was the
worst; he swallowed up roses and poppies
and violets in the dhrink
"Well," and again the CHEEKY smile ira
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then ssoesally they ooins back with largo
families to support. II they cannot leave
thsss additions to their pleasures and cares
N the daytime, they take the work home.
II u . nioe work to do at homo and the
proprietors are willing.
The Irish girl. who tells the same story
In the next shop visited, has big blue eyes
and her hair suggests perhaps q slight
tinge OF Latin blood. a. do her manner
and voice.
She has worked In the flower shops?
Oh. ever since she was little girl. Like It?
Yes; she thinks 1t Ia pretty work and when
you arc used to it, 1t is not at all hard
The hours are from to Q. with an hour
for luncheon and, In the very busy season
the girls take work home to do at night
They are paid extra for night work, and
IN this way make quite a tidy sum each week
With - in the shsp and payment by the
piece at home. well, 1t is not 80 bad.
Flowers seem the natural hat adornment
Of tho girls in this particular locality, and
she says with another sly glance from
the childish eyes:
oh, yes, we make our own flowers:
often they give US the material. My choice?
Well. think like red roses or violets.'
II is natural choice, and we rather wish
we could see her dressed in her Sunday
frock with big hat covered with red roses
She responds to the good-by with soft
accents and a surprised look. She cannot
understand. apparently. why girls who
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race suicide over here. Late Of an after
noon one fairly tumbles over the children
on the sidewalk.
ut ie not so very big. either. 1t runs in
q triangular shape from Forty-third to
Fifty third street and Eighth to Ninth
avenue: from Forty third to Fiftieth street
and Ninth to Tenth avenue; from Forty
sixth to Forty-n street and Tenth
avenue to the river.
Germans and German Americans. Irish
and Irish-Americans. about half and half +.
make up the population, and we have some
grand women among them can tell you
.Of course. men are influenced. as we'll
as women. by their children. Hayoungster
likes person. that generally settles it with
the parents. At least. they are not going
to be that PERSONS enemy.
-The children In this neighborhood go to
plenty OF picnics every summer, but those
picnics don't take the place OF the Ma y
party l give them. For instance, a few
days before the last one came of little
fellow of who lives across the street fell
out OF Ave story window on the stone
flags Of the yard. His fall was broken by
pulley lines and he escaped with broken
7He was in great terror though of being
taken of in the ambulance, but as soon as
he saw me and told him he would be all
right In time to march in the May party
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his full name-is one Of a family Of ten
brothers, and a contractor by occupation,
an occupation which in his case has been
profitable. else giving outings to 10000 at
one swoop might not be so easy
A friend good naturedly asked on the
occasion of the last May outing:
Look here, McManus, what fun do you
get out Of being an Assemblyman, anyway!
Why do you care for the job?'
McManus closed one eye and said re-
hectively:
well, you know the Irish have the repu-
tation Of being born politicians and 80 long
a. me name IL such give-away l may as
we'll have try at the game
One thing is certain that Mr.. McManus's
electioneering methods show that he is
blessed with originality, and they prove,
too, that women, even those in humble
circumstances. are no longer counted as
ciphers In political campaigns least not
by Tammany district leaders.
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just make flowers should excite any in
terest.
In the interregnum. passed in transit
from the little unoccupied shops with their
touch OF hopelessness to the buster ones
which keep large corps Of summer work ers
attention is attracted by the pounding Of
iron hammers, red hot anvils and the look
Of brawny men in a cellar.
The shop sign announces that 1t makes
tools for flower workers. A look inside
reveals the fact that complete equipment
for Howermaking takes about 1 500 tools
at Q cost of about $4,000. There are all
kinde OF scissors, crimpers, curriers', great
presses where each petal is stamped into
some required shape; machine for cuttin g
and for shaping. stoves for heating the
diee and vats for dyeing the material.
Even the modest daisy. or the little hluet
blossomng joyously on some debutante's s
picture hat Is wrought only by the Use OF
complicated machinery as well as great
deal OF hand work.
In one of the largest establishments,
where the fall season is in full swing. are
proprietors trying to read the enigmatc
future OF woman's fashions, and expert
menting with flowers. hoping that one or
another may make a hit and that the sum-
mer work will not result in failure entirely
And here one finds the real flower girl.
familiar in the romances,
Many Of the girls sitting about these long
tables, with deft fingers and equally deft
tongues, chatting together, might have
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water Frozen and Stored In Reservoirs.
From ne Philadelphia Record

From he Philadelphia Record
A travelling man recently returned from
a tip through Montana tells of curious
method he saw there for storing water needed
for irrisating purposes. This consists of
nothing more or less than freezing the water
until It Is wanted.
AZ soon as the weather becomes such as TO
melt this ice it is ft for the operations reouir-
ing the water. The plan. which so far Is In
the nature Of an experiment, consist Of max
ing a series OF shallow basins on the slope
Of a h!ll in such locations that. when water ls
Below the highest receiving successfully the
overflow from the one above.
Once frozen the ice in the shallow reser-
voire Is there until the thaw sets In, when
it melts so slowly as to keep up supply Of
moisture eufficient for the termination and
growth Of the early crope. This UNIQUE
ity Of Dillon but II appears 70 be successful
and To- TO be given q trial In several other
favorable looalitiea-
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With an inquiring mind and a certain

With an inquiring mind and certain
inperviotlsness to heat and discomfort,
you can discover not only the flowers
which are to adorn next winters bon nets.
but the pretty flower makers as we'll
All along the south side Of Washington
kguare and tapping over into Third and
Fourth streets, West. down to Bleecker
street and West Broadway, are workrooms.
big and little, where this interesting and
picturesque trade is quietly carried on .
Some Of the workrooms are reached only
by dusty stairways through i'll smelling
Railways. Occasionally duly painted
sign. Wanted Rose and Piquet Makers"
tells you that you are locating one Of the
places desired. Sometimes it Is a little
Italian girl with hair falling into her eyes
end shy smile who tells you to 60 up three
fights and you'll find plenty Of the flower
makers.
But the smaller shops, reached by these
Egzag methods. are now in the hands OF
caretakers who are sweeping up accumu-
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Little eirh Of eleven and twelve work
here in the summer, picking up little ten,
drills from the big piles OF cuttings ard
tying them to a stem ready In turn 70 %
sewed in long pieces for the made feathers.
After the flower shop. the place seems
dreary and unattraotive. But here. too.
cheertulness reigns and the long hours
and close atmosphere do not seem to have
any external marks OF inanition OF mel
ancholy.
Partftioned of from the feather room
Is another industry. Seated opposite each
other, across the width Of a table, two OF
the older women are making tho Giass
fr1Iit-grapee. pmms and cherries.
Long glass tubes furnish the stock In trade
and small gas lamps with flames OF cons
densed heat supply the motive power: The
woman holds the tube in the flame until ie
Ia soft. Then she blows through ono end
until she has red hot globe OF molten
glass the shape she desires, elongated.
round, small or large, the material at that
temperature requiring but dexterous
blow and twist to assume the necessary
shape. Then another twist to the glaas
and it Is broken off at the required length
OF stem. The two ends are welded together
and another bulb blown in q moment.
1t looks more like play than work and
reminds one of the soap bubble days.
Then the glass bulb is dipped in a small
vat Of dye and sometimes rolled after that
process in silken down, and the glass fruit
is finished. All that is left to do Is the
rolling together in punches.
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stepped from the pages OF such q story.
There Ia one In particular, n true daughter
Of sunny Italy She. looks Us II she might
be IS. She has a clear olive complexion.
ranged and blue ribbon about her throat.
She Ia seated at the big open window,
through which one sees Washington Square
encircled by its feathery trees and the
soft toned facade OF the arch rising ma
jestically against the brilliant blue OF the
summer sky. II is an effective background
for Miss Italy, but she is unconscious of IL.
She IL seated In mass OF pink flowers,
which rise about her like rose colored foam.
Her white fingers select a petal and stem
is started on Il long spray where but second
before there was only a pile OF butterfly
looking bits Of pink muslin. She Is really
distractingly. pretty when she answers
questions with flush the tint Of her flowers.
How many Of these sprays'" She lifts
@Oh, l should think, perhaps ten dozen a
day." Then she glances at. the speakers q
hat. u could do spray like that in two
And you like the work-of course?'
The dof course" is natural under the
circumstances: The work is so delicately
pretty. She hestates moment. 1t Is
evident that the question has not occurred
to her before. She is a unit Of the class
which does not spend much time in intro
spection.
"Yes, suppose SO. 1t is not hard. Some
times we get tired OF sitting, but we can
walk around little. and You soon get used
to it,.
"You have been here long time?'
"Since | was H." She looks about
the long rows of tables. Some Of them
have been here longer than that. Some Of
them are married After a while, they
come back, if the husband gets out OF work
or they need more money I've seen that
happen lots of times."
"And yor-would you like thatif you
were married?"
She looks out at the square and glances
furtively at the next girl, whose face is
turned away.
Il should not mind-f he were sick or
out of work"
The flush outrivalled the petals of the
flower spray which she held up then for
inspection. 1t had taken her only the
moment she had been talking
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sPE4RING FOR BULLFROGS.
Good Sport and Profitable for the Boys
and Girls In Maine.


PORTAGE. Me. June 25.-Sinoe Secretary
Shaw has decided that Canadian frogs
legs imported to the United States must
be classed as poultry and made to pay duty.
the children OF the French Canadian niil
operatives have been earning money rapidly
by going out evenings and spearing the
fat bullfrogs which sit among the lily pads
on Portage Lake.
A boy and girl, OF two boys, take q small
dory, or punt, and placing lantern
with a reflector attachment in the bow,
paddle to the shoal water at the foot OF
the lake. Then one goes forward with q
spear fastened to short and buoyant
sits on the after athwart and propels the
craft as directed. II requires sharp eyes
to detect a green frog sitting upon a green
lily leaf, but as the intense light dazzles
the frogs, they may be approached within
short range, when the spearman impales
the victim on the iron prong and pulls it
on bos rd.
In case the spear misses the light wood
of the handle prevents it from sinking, so
it can be recovered without delay.
The frogs are taken home and skinned,
after manner learned in Montreal markets,
and then the hind legs are removed, and
having been washed in salted water, the
meat is packed in tight barrels between
alternate layers OF cool and clean sphagnum
moss which is very long and so light that
during the long journey by rail to Boston.
The children receive about ten cents a
pound clear OF all expenses for the legs
which they may ship. AS they have nothing
else to do in the evenings. the income de-
rived from the business seems very large
one, and the outlook for great Fourth OF
July celebration among the young folks
at Portage rs very bright.
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In politics don't want the enmity OF
any woman. like TO nave the "oinen
back Of me.
Thus spoke The McManus, Tamrany
leader in the Fifteenth Assembly district.
and deputy in chief to the goddess Of the
month of May, whose particular province
is to provide chidren's May day parties
in Central Park.
In all probability the name OF McManus
will endure for generations as the originator
and giver of the biggest. grandest. jolliest
May parties ever held in New York. and II
Mr.. McManus ever occupies the Mayors
chair the tsllest Of his stepping stones will
have been these very May parties. Not
that Mr.. Mchanus has any aspirations
toward the mayoralty. at least any that
he is airing. But the children and the
mothers of his dist rict think he ought to be
filling that office right now.
While McManus himself admits that tho
ofioe OF Assemblyman often leads to higher
political honors, he is careful to add grimly
that oftener than not it leads to being
kicked into political obscurity at the end
of the first term. That man owes It to
himself to use any legitimate strategy to
avert such fate he firmly believes. What
is more. he puts his belief into practice
Hence the aforementioned May parties
which men associated with him declare
have done more to make him solid in his
district than anything else. A proof Of
this Is the fact that other Tammany dis
trict leaders have paid McMan,is the sincere
fatery Of imitation. They have taken
10 giving May parties too, and the tactics
which have helped reflect the pioneer May
party giver over and over again in the
same district are getting to be popular.
Primarily these tactics mean gaining
the good will Of the women relatives OF the
May party cohorts and melting them TO
root for votes. Surprising to relate, they
have succeeded 20 well, that in populous
tenement districts. busy mothers Of big
families. hard working women OF small
means ana unmarried girls alike enter
into this sort OF campaign work. with a
hosrtiness and reel oil the moro e6sctivs
perhaps, because very few persons outside
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It wouldn't do, you know, for me to say
nor to give the names Of those who have
done the hardest work. might leave out
some name which ought to 60 In and then
there would be trouble right away.
Married women with big families find
time to 60 after votes as we'll as single
women One OF the hardest workers is
a German American with five children.
Another, an Irish woman has three. One
woman is old enough to have a married
daughter, and one Of the hardest workers
on the arrangement COMMITTEES is public
school teacher.
.Yes, those 200 women worked for me