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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

mixed into a paste with water to the
stoves, or hot chambers, in which 1t is
dried, three dishes of the lead, each
weighing twenty-four pounds, or
seventy-two pounds in all. These
are carried on the head, and the work
is continuous twelve hours day
When she had been at this work four
months the girl fell down on the floor
Of the factory one morning foaming at
the mouth and tearing her hair. She
was carried to the workhouse, and the
only entry made in the register was
Elizabeth Ryan-lead poisoning" On
The second day there was another en-
try elizabeth Ryan, very bad" and
on the third day another: Elizabeth
Ryan died today" No investigation
was made; nothing was done. 1t was
simply a case of lead poisoning, and
these are so common that not even a
note of the death was printed in the
local paper, The body of the girl
was terribly distorted, as If she had
died OF strychnine poisoning.
Some time ago a distinguished Eng
lish physician made an investigation of
the Newcastle lead factories, and
among other things said: THE fact
remains that every now and then girl
of from eighteen 20 twenty-three years
Of ago works only few weeks or
months in lead factory when symp-
toms of acute lead poisoning are no.
ticed- namely, collie, constipation
vomiting, headache, pains in the limbs
and incomplete blindness. In a few
days, with or without treatment she
becomes convulsed and dies In state
of coma, the death being so sudden
that we cannot but regard 1t as due
to acute toxaemia.
"For example, a girl works, it may
be. only few weeks or months in a
lead factory, when, after having been
noticed by her friends to have been
rapidly becoming anaemic, she COM
plains of collie, constipation, headache
dimness Of vision, and in a few days
Develops commissions or becomes de-
lirious and dies comatose. AS the
symptoms are so rapidly developed and
as no organic change Is found post
norton the death can only be at
tributed to toxaemia. Death in these
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

Considerable attention Is being given
In England now to investigating the
varlous traces and occupations which
are said to jcopardize the health and
lives of the workers. And some appall-
Ing facts have been discovered, but It
Is doubtful IL these will lead to
remedial Legislation, for the victims
are the poor and the ignorant, who are
quite as much opposed to the investiga.
tors as are the oppressors themselves
Living always upon the verge of star
walton, as their fOrefathers did for gen
erations before them, these unfortu
mates regard the Investigators as med
ding monsters who would destroy their
only means Of earning bread for them
selves and their children They are
content to work and die, rs their
fathers and mothers did, and as their
children will do.
But while England certainly heads the
list as n nation with killing occupa-
lions, the same conditions exist here,
DHl III " llN'll ltbN hBbluNdlt iVl Ill
In round figures there are 100000
wage earners In England employed IN
killing or health destroying occupa.
tions, and quite AS many In this coun.
try, owing TO the similarity Of the In.
dustries.
II would seem that the making or
dynamite should be n more hazardous
calling than the making Of hats, but
carefully gathered statistics show that
for one death Of dynamite worker
there arc ten of hat-makers. In fact
the dynamite trade Is not classed
among deadly occupations. In tho
making Of hats fine lint Is thrown
off which works It's way day by day in
to the lungs of the workman, produc.
ing In time a variety of maladies, and
each one of them life shortener.
Hat making is trivial, however, to
the trade of manufacturing chlorine
gas. II has been shown that II per.
fcctly healthy man follows this occupa.
tton for nine years he will be u corpse
Nine years Is the maximum, the mini.
mum thre Cmcnths This gas Is eNten.
sively used for bleaching and dyeing,
and In the making emits heavy
greenish vapor, This poison, entering
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

I the lungs of the workman, soon brings
on a racking cough, intlaning the lung
cells and eating away the tissues and
generally ending in death.
Ice factories are common enough
| throughout the country, but 1t Is not
generally known that ten years is the
Unit set by physicians for man who
works In one of these places. In the
hot summer days when the tempera,
ture Is among the nineties, the men in
an ice factory are working in a place
as cold as the polar regions, muffled up
in ovorcoats and ear muffs, and wear
ing heavily padded gloves. Even then
they suffer from cold, yet when the
days work Is over they swelter like
the rest Of humanity. These extreme
changes soon weaken the system, and
pneumonia or consumption is the ulti.
mate end.
Much publicity was recently given to
the fact that the Gould brothers had
insisted upon the girls employed in
their match making factories having
their teeth filled. The girls objected,
or some of them did, but If they had
appreciated the full danger of their
calling they would have done other
wise. After three years of continu.
Gus labor the average match maker,
from the poison given off, contracts a
lothsome disease which takes hold of
the bones of the body. The bones most
quickly affected are those of the Jaw
and face, and In time these crumble
away, leaving the worker a hideous
spectacle.
The lead workers of Newcastle, Eng
land, are the most to be pitied. They
are genuine white slaves, and the fact
that so per cent of them are women
makes their lives the harder. Death
Is a common occurrence among these
women, and the death Is due directly
to the effects of working over the lead.
A recent case was one which hap
poncd on the day member of the In
vestigatng committee reached New.
castle. The victim was nineteen.
ear.old girl named Elizabeth Ryan.
She had worked as a white lead" wo-
man only four months. Her duty
was to carr from the tanks
in which the white lead is
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
CHILDREN WRONGLY BLAMED.
Physical Defects often Responsible for
Apparent stupidity

Often the physician meets with chill.
dren who are looked upon as stupid
and backward, when the trouble is de,
feetive hearing, enlarged tonsils or a
nasal catarrh and adenoid growth in
the nose, causing mouth breathing and
dulling the emntal perceptions. Al
must have experienced the mental
disturbance due to severe cold IN the
head. The mouth-broather is in this
partially daged state all tho time 4
visit to some specialist and proper
treatment to improve the hearing and
remove the ENLARGED tonsils and nasal
distractions often means life success
instead of failure, says DR. Kate Lind.
shy IN tho Housckoepor IL the partial,
~ deaf child's case Is beyond improve.
ment, MS Is often tho condition in
chronic eases Of ear disorder, tnen spC,
cial pains must lie taken In address
Ing the child, both by parents and
teachers. Sometimes only one car is
defective, and then the child should
always be spoken to one the sound side
an required to look ut the speaker
when addressed in any way. Often
such unfortunate children are mis-
judged an punished for inatten,Ion BY
parents and teachers, because It Il
found that at times they seem to heal
and understand readily, while at othe'
times they ignore entirely what Ia be
Ing said 10 them, the speaker not know
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
OUR PROXIES.
Women Who Toll That Their Sisters
May Enjoy Life.

q strikingly significant motto has
been adopted by an organization which
has for its OBJECT the betterment of
conditions under which women anG
children labor in factories. 1t IS:
Take care of your proxy" The ad-
monition is addressed especially to
those women who do not have to work.
Labor of those employed in the fac
tories making garments the women
who now live in their own quiet homes
would have to do this work. The fac
tories have supplanted the spinning
wheel, leaving modern wives and
mothers with more leisure than their
grandmotherS possessed for culture
The thought is, that were 1t not for the
and recreation. These factory work
ers," says a western woman to her sis
tiers. ARE your proxies, and you are
responsible for the manner in which
they do your task. You may delegate
the task to them if you will. but YOU
should see TO it that they are not com
PEELED to work in unclean places which
you would not visit or Kill themselves
by long hours Of labor over YOUR
clothes"
There Is a decided personal response
bility here which must not be shirked.
says Robert Webster Jones in the
Housekeeper. The women OF this
country have it within their power to
effect a trans formation IN the condi
/ tons which surround the employees of
/ so many of the large manufacturing
/ establishments II is not difficult to
! learn the conditions in ones own CON-
munity. and there are means, which
I will readily suggest themselves, for
bringing offending employers to see
| the evil of their ways. Let US all see
what We can Go toward taking care of
our proxies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

remote locality with which he was
and asked for an advance upon the
crops they were then cutting. The
men appeared 10 have met by acct
dent at the elevator, and claimed to
know each other only casually, say.
ing that their farms were some five or
six miles apart. As these men were
dressed in overalls and hickory shirts.
their faces and arms being we'll
Drowned by the sun the grain buyer
naturally concluded that they were
genuine farmers, and after asking
them few questions as to their aver
age. gave them the cash advance on
their crops which they asked. Later,
the elevator man learned. 10 his sor'
row. that they were pair OF clever
confidence men carefully made up
in farmer style. They had consistent.
y worked the grain buyers Of that
region, being very careful. however, TO
keep out OF the territory covered by
the organization. This campaign al
swindling could not have been success,
fully prosecuted among buyers who
belonged to an association. as their
first swindle would have been prompt
ly reported to every member of the
organization and efforts for the ar
rest and prosecution o. the confidence
men would have been made AT once
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
Greatest Things Are the Simplest.

The trouble with us is, that We look
too high and too far away for our
chances. We forget that the greatest
things are the simplest. In hunting
for roses, we trample the daisies under
our feet We are blind to the chances
and blessings near us because we are
looking 50 far away for them. Every
thing depends upon the power of the
mind to see opportunities. 1t is the
eye that can see the chance, the pluck
and determination to lay hold of it
and wiring from it every possibility
that we lack, rather than the chance
"to make good. "-Orison SWEET
Marden in Success.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

ing that one car is defective, and the
child, intently engaged in some absorb
ing occupation, not aware that anyone
Is talking to IL,
Truly for want OF knowledge the
people perish. Many times children,
apparently healthy when at home, suf.
fer from headache, nervousness ana
stomach diseases, become weak and
lose flesh, whenever they go to scnool,
All that many of these children need
TO get on well with their studies with
out injury TO health Is 70 be fitted with
proper glasses to correct short sight or
other defect of vision
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
PERI EcTloN.

hold this is fixed truth, for me;
Only those things exist tnat | Dc.
clare.
All else Is false seeming. Let me.
then,
Claim only what is clean and good
and fair;
So shall stand before by fellow mer
A type of the new race that yet shall
be.
Susie NJ Best In Success.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

For moment the government was
inclined to listen to the Liberal repre-.
sensations, but 1t turned a deaf ear to
Liberalism as soon as the revolution
airy movement was stihed. No won
der that now, when the revolutionary
lordism, and quite unacceptable, In
than over before, Russian Liberalism
is no hurry TO play the part of q
mediator, 1t Is now in moderate
third stage, in the sense that 1t does
not wish revolution. but il is uncom.
promising in its demands that autoc
racy shall be abolished as this seems
to be the only peaceful Issue possible
Paul Milyoukoy in Atlantic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
THE AMERICAN HEN.
Lay in Prose Concerning Farmer VIII
sons Count Of the EGGS.

son Oount OF the Eggs.
The honorable secretary CT Agricul-
ture has finished his count of the
eggs laid by the American hen during
the last year. The result entities
every rooster to crow just as loud and
Justify as he cares to. Like most
other families that of the chicken is
one in which the female works ami
/ the male boasts. But in this instance
! the sequel is reversed, and instead OF
| laying low for her mate, the hen has
| laid high! For the honorable secre,
tary's count came out even 20,0oO,U00-
600. Think of it!
Passing over Farmer Wilson's task,
which has cooped him up for some
time, let us do a little figuring on our
own book. Placed end to end-well
that is a little hackneyed, but it's
according to the Hoyle of statistics
these eggs would form an endless
chain almost that would reach from
the earth to the moon and back again.
and there would still be enough of
them to circle this big egg on which
the hens and we live.
A limited train running fifty miles
an hour and making no stops would
have TO run one year and one month
to take a passenger from the first egg
| to the last one, and it's ten to one the
! passenger wouldn't want to get out
of the car at the finish-unless the
last egg was in cold storage! II the
first egg in the lire were to burst
with enthusiasm something mor~
common to eggs-and some one at
the last one was possessed of abso-
lutely perfect hearing and sound
could travel that far ii would be
thirty hours before the ecno of the
explosion became audible. And this
is straight even though it is a shell
game!
Placed in the balance and not
found wanting, the combined weight
of this layout would equal three,
fourths of the total tonnage of the
whole British navy, though, of course.
all t1e eggs would not float Made
into one omelet, the dish on when n
was served would have to have
minimum area Of at least 5000 square
| LiiASp, anu every AuHldu DSIuS awe
could have one generous helping.
Made into eggnog, they would accord.
ing tC the most reliable authority at
hand, set $3.50, 999,999 gentiement
hunting keyholes, allowing, of course.
for the number who would never gee
/ to the place where the keyhole was.
If Adam and the Apple Woman had
begun soft-bolling these eggs the very
minute after they reached Eden, ana
had taken them one at a time the
job would still be in its Infancy, and
would have 100000 years to run. I'M
less the Egg Boilers Union stepped in
and enforced an eight-hour day. IN.
der which circumstances multiply by
three.
| Valued at 20 cents a dozen, which
is probably a fair average the coun
1 try over, seaso in and season out,
these oblong spheres would about
represent the nest egg of our esteem
ed fellow citizen, John D. Rockefeller
or in round figures $333,3SS,33S.
Truly, the American egg is a great
institution. The eagle may scream,
but the hen lays it all over him in
good form, except when it's bad,-
Leigh Hodges IN the Philadelphia
North America.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16
TRUE TEST or THE POSTAL
SERVICE

A postal expert says that our postal
system Is twenty-five years behind the
times. All our hills arrive promptly
enough, however Washington Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-16

Smith-Old Skinner wanted to be
cremated, but | see they buried him.
Jones-Yes. but | wouldn't be sur.
prised he didn't fool EN- after all
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
The Woman With Nerves.

She may have her ills immensely
ameliOrated by following proper
diet. She should eat plenty Of fruit,
nuts. brown bread and butter, drink
cream. eschew tea and coffee, taking
hot milk for her breakfast and cocoa
for her luncheon and diner. Tven
the social afternoon tea should be
stunned, or if this is too great piece
of self-denal it should be more hot
water than tea. Celery should be
eaten every day in the year by the
nervous woman. Sometimes this veg
etable is not as well maSticated as
it should be. and if taken for health
or beauty it is better to be stewed
in Il little. slightly salted water and
served with a sauce made from the
liquor i'm which it was cooked, thick
ened with flour, enriched with cream
or milk and butter. Eaten freely,
celery is a wonderful blood purifier,
and nerve restOrer. If the complexion
is muddy. spinach is a well known
remedy spinach and leek, lily fair
in week. the old adage tells us,
and it is a saying, which with little
more time given has been proved
true innumerable times. 1t is quite
as valuable as celery, having been
proved of such remarkable virtue as
n blood enricher that it is the chief
ingredient of many of the patent medi-
cines sold for this purpose. Too much
vinegar and high seasoning are in
lcorpOrated with this vegetable as it
is usually served. Highly seasoned,
the juice of a lemon squeezed over 1t
and mixed through it, and served
with plain cream sauce, it is equally
as palatable, and altogether more
ealthful-WOman's Home COmpan-
| ion.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
The Girl Who Has Been My Guest.

The girls | have entertained in my
home have been many. They have
been girls who have been unknown,
and girls who have won fame, work
ing girls and girls with no business
more arduOus than drawing upon
fathers check-bOOk. They have been
pretty girls and plain girls; some of
them talented, some of them dull;
some were IOvable. Some were not.
TO certain of them our home offers
the most loving welcome, whenever
they choose to come, to others L
leave my girls to yOu-SOme of them
may have been entertained in your
own home. Some of them, too, may
be-yOurselves!
One girl with the most refreshing
frankness. suggested various changes
II the daily menu. She asked if
nei er used mushrooms with beef
steak. she wondered if strawberries
we're rot in the market they We're at
-eventy-five cents quartz. She
Iuiried in her ingenious way if 1
knew how to make angel cake.
lid. but just then eggs were sixty
cents Il dozen-and eleven are required
for an angel cake, After she had
gone found in her waste basket
empty olive and pickle bottles, cans
which had held fancy waters, a pre-
served ginger jar and various small
jelIy-pots. But, sacred to her memory
remains her farewell: 81 have had
such nice time" She assured me,
You wouldn't guess how much bet
ter | feel than when l came. | real
ly believe low fare agrees with me, |
havn't had one splitting headache
since | left home. One eats altogether
too much at a hotel, where everything
may be had for the ordering
! She was one of the loveliest girls l
had ever seen, and homage seemed
to offer itself to her everywhere, but
! oh, the trial of her carelessness. In
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
Fancy Housekeeping.

The decorative side of home making
is the one Oftenest intrusted to the
daughter of the family. She may dust
Il room. arrange a vase of flowers,
concOct a salad an ice cream or a
cake. or embrOider center-piece.
Such accomplishments are anXiOusly
acquired in the vacation or in the
vacant hours of the wOrking-d day
which may be snatched from school
books.
Mother and daughter have an I'M
easy sense that something ought to be
done to fit the girl for her probable
duties as wife and mother, and fancy
housekeeping is the tribute they paw
to the demand of conscience for an
education outside of textbook and
laboratory.
In the change, inevitable unrOlllng
of life, the gay school girl may be
called on in a few months to be cook,
seamstress, laundress, general house
keeper, each in turn, perhaps all at
once But there is no magic by which
she may acquire these arts. She must
then. choose among them-with such
wisdom as she may.
Fancy housekeeping is of less i'm
pOrtance to the embryo hOme-maker
than any other branch of her profess
sion. The ordinary experience or the
sudden emergency of the future is
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08

into some sort of black garments, has
to cook the meal, and also serve it.
as if she were second girl instead
of general housewOrk." Is it any
wonder that company is not consider
ed an unmiXed blessing in that kit
chen? 1t is delightful to have our meals
nicely served by a well trained wait
ress, but if we are not accustomed
to so doing every day, any departure
from our usual methods is sure to
prove unsatisfactory. 1t is largely
our own fault if we make hospitality
a burden to ourselves and others. 1t
ought to be the source of the purest
plea Cooking School.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
Sisters.

sisters inconvenient when you want
to play a trick;
She always stops your fun but then
she's splendid when you're sick;
She always knows just how to bathe
YOUR head and fix your pillows cool;
YOu lie and toss and long for her
until she comes from school.
A sisters incOnvenient when you play
game of ball;
She cannot throw it very far, she
cannot 'catch' at all.
But when you want a story read, she's
lust the one to ask;
she's always ready too, to help with
any tiresome task.
A sisters inconvenient when she bos-
SeS you about,
And says. put on your rubber Doots,
or else you can't go out.
But when you don't know what TO
do. and everything seems tame,
She's ready to amuSe you and to have
pleasant game.
And so, hurrah for sisters, though
they try to make you mind,
They're ready too, to help you and
they're generally kind.
And lately I've been thinking land
I'm almost sure its true)
That sometimes having brothers may
be incOnvenient too.
-Harper'S Magazine.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
Concerning Company.

As rule. the CHIEF anxiety OF
hostess seems to be how she shall
feed her guest. Now, while food is
necessary and good. it is not the most
important thing i'm life and visitor
ought TO care more for the society
of her hostess than for an elaborate
dessert or complicated dish. 1t is
of course. only natural, to wish TO
give our friends the best, but let 1t
be the best of ourselves rather than
of our material things.
The most perfect hospitality
| ever experienced was that OF a
college chum who. some years after
graduating, managed to get three
classmates together for couple of
DAYS at her summer home. On her
way up from the station she said:
saThe market here is not very good,
and Hannah is the plainest of plain
cooks: but we will just eat what she
provides. for | am not going to waste
any time on food while you are here
I want to spend every minute enjoy
ing you. for we may never be all TO-
gether again." So we had an abun-
dance of simple food, and were perfect
Iy happy i'm seeing each other. we
four have never been together since,
and it is probable that we shall never
have such another opportunity. but
we look back Oh that two days, and
feel that we have had one perfect
visit. The guest who is worthy of
being entertained at all comes TO see
you, not to eat your food or to upset
your ordinary ways of life. The ten
dency is to make it all too much a
matter of show rather than of friend
ship.
1t is no wonder that our maids do
not receive the announcement OF ap-
preaching company with enthusiasm.
Why indeed should they? All the
trouble falls to their share and none
of the enjoyment Moreover, much
of the trouble is quite unnecessary.
| know family where all the wait
ing OH table, ordinarily required of
the one maid is to remove the dishes
between the roast and dessert, with
no more uniform than clean apron
over her calico dress: but when there
is company. hehOld Il startling change!
The usual plain dinner of two courses
is expanded by the addition of soup,
salad, coffee, and the maid hustled