Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-30
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people have no absolute assurance OF their
right to the names they bear and many oth-
ers select such names as from their eu-
phony appeal TO their poetic natures ana
ears. Sometimes 1t chances that mothers
select na mes for their children which, when
the offspring grows Older. do not SUIT the
critical car of the one who has had no voice
in the decision. The fact that the Daptism
may nave been an incident OF the endoW-
1aent Of the name does not enter into the
calculations of the young man or woman
who feels that injustice has been done.
With them 1t Is merely d matter OF euphohS.
A case of this kind caused some amuse-
ment few days ago. A girl OF nineteen
was about to be married. to young coloreo
man whose name. she supposed was. lei US
saw. Walter Jenkins When he procured the
! license he evidently thought that Jenkins
was not 6ignified enough for the occasion,
so he rave to the clerk. to again ulinze
fiction, tie name OF Bertrand .ol. -, ane
liked that and paid his dollar with JOY when
he read the new rame. Later. the lady from
whom the bride-to-be was In the napit oi
taking money for alleged work performed.
saw the name of her servant In the coluinn rs
of the evening paper, among the marriages
Ucenses but the name of the .fntehdihs
groom Gid not seem familiar, so she asked
the girl. ,.s vuaI-
ter Jenkins" she replied: but MAYBE 1t 10
that other name you jess read me-"
"Wen Susan" she said what are your
friends eoing to call you after you are mar
ried? They won't know what your nanie
"weu" size replied. after attempt at
thinking and with a grin. "ah guess some
of 'em Il call me Miss Jenkins and some oi
ZEN, III call me that other name
She was perfectly satisfied either way.
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.srhare Ia one article OF mauufacture
that IA used so extensively In the United
States that no one has an idea OF the
annual quantity consumed. namely, WOODEN
toothn,eks." said travelling salesman OF
New York to a Star man recently. MIL
Hon. upon millions of the tiny WOODEN
sliyers are turned out every year from
American factories alone ana on top Oh
this tremendous output come importations
from Portugal, Japan and other countries
nearly as large as the domestic product.
Most of the American toothpicks come
from Franklin county. Maine, near the
forest home Of the white BIRCH out OF
which e5 per cent OF the domestic tooth
hicks are made. This wood Is soft ana
nliable and of admirable resistance for the
purpose for which 1t is used. Whole mills
in Maine are devoted to supplying the
country with toothpicks. and In the IN.
dustry Is to be found some of the finest
and most intricate machinery. So tremen-
dous is the output Of these machines that
toothpicks can be made to supply the
markets for the entire year to come
"a further idea of the capacity of the
machine can be had from the fact that
only 100 men are necessary to operate and
run all the mills in Franklin county.
Other mills of this kind are scattered
throughout Pennsylvania and Massachu-
sets and western New York but the real
home of the toothpick Is Maine.
l., 4t tln only nd
for the domestic toothpick. Maple and pop
lar are employed as well, but birch has
the property of retaining It's forest odor
and sweetness.
incidental to the regular lumber work OF
the Maine foresters No special men are
sent out to hunt up suitable trees. But
whenever the foreman of a gang of woods
men comes across tree especially adapted
to toothpicks he orders 1t felled and laid
aside. The branches of the tree are then
trimmed and only the trunk itself is trans
ported to the mills. There the bark is
skinned and the naked trunk itself Is run
through a machine which sewers 1T into
vereers. "Veneers'' IS the technical ex-
preston for thin strips Of wood not thicker
than a piece of blotting paper and no
wider than the length of a toothpick Once
the trunk has been cut into these sheets
of wood only one process remains to turn
out the toothpicks fit for packing and
shipping to the market. The veneers are
sharp rotary knives that whirl at tremen-
dous high speed. shipping the veneers into
| toothpicks at the rate of hundreds of thou
sands an hour.
| TT is only the so-called fancy toothpick
| that is not made in this country. In Por.
| tugal, where most of the orange wood
| toothpicks are made. the sticks are sharp
ened by young girls. who in turn for turn
| ing out picks as sharp as needles and as
smooth as ivory are paid cents day.
THE Japanese toothpicks are made of
| fine reeds, and are distinct from those
| sent to this country by the Portuguese
| manufacturers. Japanese toothpick Ia
| delicate and thin as tissue paper and new
ertheless strong and pliable. The Japan
csc toothpick maker earns even less than
his Portuguese fellow-craftsmen, his re-
Enumeration being but fraction more than
cents day. In short. a thousand tooth
picks may be bought in Japan for as much
as 1t costs only to pack and box 5000 Of
American make"