The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-02
MINOR TOPICS.

A correspondent wants to know how to
make maple sugar. First, get your sap.
This involves the ownership of a farm con-
tanning the requisite number of sugar
maple trees. the more the better. Next,
watch the weather. The sap has its times
AID seasons. 1t declines to respond in mid
winter, but after several months of cold
weather a spring thaw and the earliest
mild days in February March start it
running. Then bore holes in your sugar
trees and insert small spigots in such
way that the sap in ascending the tree
will run into them. Place a wooden trough
or other vessel under each spigot to collect
the sap. To avoid waste see that the
troughs are not permitted to overflow. This
be prevented by having men. women.
boys and girls enough to collect and empty
them just in time. The sap must be emp
tied into huge kettles over a steady hot
fire. The fire should be replenished from
time to time by branches of trees and
chunks from the forest. BY steady boiling
and evaporation the sap is reduced to the
consistency of syrup, when it should be
strained and poured into molds to crys-
tallize into sugar. Then it may be eaten.
This is the entelechy of the whole pro-
cedure. Although there is a great deal of
recreation and hilarity connected with the
making of maple syrup it is not made for
this reason. 1t is made to be eaten. The
process of making is simply preparatory
The eating is the entelechy. The starting
point of the whole business is to get your
sap. This is sugar weather and now is the
time to begin.
The faculty Of Northwestern University
will take steps to prevent the students
from "spooning'' between lectures Those
professors must think they can have all
the advantages Of co-education with none of
it's annoyances. If they succeed in putting
a stop to the counting they will do some
thing which the united wisdom of guard
ians, chaperons and duennas for ages has
failed in accomplishing.
Down in Florida those who can afford it
are enjoying the sunshine and the sea
breezes and all the delights of a balmy
summer. Those who can afford it-for
these things come high in America The
hotel charges in Florida are double what
they are at European winter resorts A
visitor can live at Monte Carlo, Nice or
Cannes for half the money he pays in Flor
ida.
The London Female" has done Just as
was prophesied, and changed it's form and
appeal That is. though il still processes
to be women's paper. 1t no longer differs
from the ordinary daily. There is an added
evidence that a women's newspaper is a
mems newspaper: A success in Journalism
cannot be made with an exclusive appeal to
either sex.
A Chicago coffin maker has won $50. 900
in lottery. Truly Ito him that hath shall
be given. There is man whose business
is never dull; the demand for collins never
fails and there are no hard times in that
trade And blind fate swoops down on
him with $4,000. It's awfully discouraging.
France alone bought 100000 bushels of
American apples last year. This, thinks
the Washington Post. practically assures
! the champagne crop. However, for the
sake of the reputation OF American apples
it is to be hoped that not more than one OF
| two barrels were Ben Davises.
The War Department will increase the
number of frogs on the uniform over
| coats of army officers. The orders do not
state whether these frogs are the same
which have recently been declared birds by
| the Treasury Department.
| New York man has been discovered
who has moved 10 times in seven years
| IL almost seems as if it would be easier tc
pay rent than to keep on the go like that
The day will come when all these tales q,
! fights with ships already sunk and sucl
like legends from the Orient will be known
as THE Port Arthurian Cycle"
lis there no law compelling servants I,
be decently polite to their employers p
groans a householder in New York paper
| We'll there's the civil-service law
MANY people think the Japanese and tn,
| Chinese are very much alike" saws ;
Japanese student in an American univer
sity. but that is not so. They are al