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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Empire Coats.

Three-quarter length coaks in the
Empire shape are seen among the
wraps as much as they were in the
winter fashions. A model with straight
front, double-breasted, with yoke be-
ginning at the side and continuing
across the back. the lower part of the
coat being cut slightly flared below. is
to be in favor. Other models, declares
Harper's Bazar, have this same front
panel and yoke, with the lower part of
the coat pleated Short, square box
coats, coming only to the hips, are
made of covert cloth and also of cloth
to match the skirt of the gown. There
are very smart little covert cloth coats
of the usual single-breasted variety,
with long seam from the shoulder to
the hem. as well as those with many
cores and strapped seams.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Brains ON Tap For Beauty.

If you live in Boston and "haye the
price" advice as to just what to buy
when you go shopping may be yours.
A young woman in that town, says the
New York Press, who recently was
thrown on her own resources, decided
that her unfailing eye for color har-
monies and caste in dress was a mar
ketable commodity and opened an
office, where for a small sum she tells
women what they ought to wear.
Should her enterprise prove success,
doubtless many women in the same cir
cumstances will take the shoppers in
tow.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

In France nearly all the railroads are
owned by private corporations. OF a
total trackage of 10000 miles, the
companies own about 2G,50O miles, the
Government only 3407 miles. Those
that believe that the solution of our
troubles lies in government control
and not in government ownership can
find much to interest them In the ex-
amples of France and England. In
both countries the government. controls
but does not operate. but the methods
of control are different. In England
there is n general supervision and reg
ulation; in France the government
takes part in the actual direction. su-
perylses the working of the lines, and
can interfere at any time in any way
1t sees fit to modify rates or make
other changes II may desire. The
French railroads operate under the eye
of the national minister OF public
works; they are essentially attached
to his department, and are subject to
severe regulations and restrictions that
for very good and sufficient reason
they cannot disregard. -Eyerybody's .
Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Hard Working Americans.

The moment a singer virtuoso or
conductor returns to Europe from a
first visit to America 1t is the custom
nowadays to interview them as to their
impressions of their tour, observes the
Boston Transcript Miss Marie Hall,
the vlolinist, gave hers with the ner-
vous eagerness that is in all that she
does. and she heaped fiery Goals on our
Bostonian heads by paying us compli-
ments i'll return for our Indifference to
her. 81 was sometimes in doubt
whether there were any Americans ex-
cept in Boston and thereabout. In
New York, for instance, l fancy no.
body is quite a real American yet. If
| asked anybody met, Are you an
Americana the answer was always,
We'll. yes, but not exactly, quite, alto
gether American all the same-and
the explanation was that he or she,
or the father or mother, was born in
Germany, or Ireland, or somewhere,
not in America. All the American men
are in such hurry to become Ameri-
cans that they make themselves per-
where have | seen men have so uni
versal a passion for making money,
ana so universal a content in seeing
their wives spend it. / am sure 1t is
true that America is run by its women
&C any rate. if the men do run it, they
do so only for the women's sake. The
men go about shabblly dressed and
work from early morning till late at
night. even though they are million
aires To live in America you must
either be an American, or be buoyed up
with a sustaining, glorious hope of be-
coming one. No one, otherwise, could
live there for long without being cut
off in his bloom by premature old age.
| calculated one night that | should
run through my span and pass out q
centenarian in about two years"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Ellen Giasgov's Method.

Ellen Glasgow, the author of "The
Wheel of Life" writes her books in
what may be called three processes
The first is the rough draft, written
rapidly, which is sometimes finished in
six months. The second draft occupies
a much longer time, for in this the
story begins to develop. The third
draft is careful elaboration of the
second. Miss Glasgow writes best
when she has locked herself into her
study, and she usually devotes two
years to each book. working in the
mornings and devoting the afternoons
to recreation. She wrote the opening
chapter of THE battle-ground" four
teen times; the first chapter of The
Voice Of the People" twelve times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
When Gold Boils.

Professor Henri MoiJsal has been
trying some interesting experiments in
vaporlzing gold in the electric furnace.
He finds that it boils at 24O0 degrees
centigrade, and that 100 to $50 grains
can be evaporated in two or three min
utes. BY condensing the gold vapor on
cool surface. either fillifcrm masses
or cubical crystals can be obtained.
1t is found .hal gold, like copper and
iron, dissOlves certain amount of
carbon when in the liquid state, but
this separates out as graphite on cool
ing. Gold Is found to be less volatile
than copper. The properties of dis
TILED gold are the same as those of
hammered gold, or the melted metal re-
duced to fine powder. Professor
Molssan has found no indications of an
allotropic modification of gold. When
an alloy of copper and gold is distilled
the vapor OF copper comes over first,
showing that there is no definite com.
pound. In the case of alloys of gold
and tin the latter metal burns In con-
tact with the air. This tin oxide Is
found to be of purple color, due
to deposit of fine gold on its sur
| face.--London Globe
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

The very newest way of arranging
the hair Is to weave 1t prettily. draw it
up on top of the head. with side locks,
out soft and fluffy. but not over the
eyes at all, the entire arrangement be-
ing topped off with crownlike braid.
Simplicity is the present rule in hair
dressing.
The big, horrible pompadour is left
to chorus girls, and its place is not off
the stage. There was never anything
more truly hideous than the pompadour
rated up by an amateur hair dresser.
The straight lines brought out every
defect of the complexion, says the Phil
adelphia Press.
Just how you should dress your hair
is a question that you must settle for
yourself. Your neighbor may look very
pretty with her hair done a certain way
but the style may not be acceptable for
you. Experiment until you find the
secret. If you can afford 1t go to a
hair dresser and let her give you ideas.
The expense of such an experiment is
triiing and it may set you on the right
track.
The clever woman who discovers a
becoming way of doing her hair seldom
changes her style, but cottons to it as
long as she can.
The girl with a high forehead must
bring her hair down little. The girl
with fine temples and lovely forehead
should arrange her hair so that these
beauties are displayed.
Beautlfying is but bringing out the
good points and CLOSING over the poor
ones.
An invisible net will keep all the fly
ing shreds of hirsute decorations with
the rest of the hair. BY brushing them
the way they should go they will soon
take the hint.
Back combs have been the salvation
of the woman who always tagged
around with fringe Of hair hanging
down the back of her neck.
If modern beautifying has done no
more than teach women to pin up those
shaggy ends it has certainly been
worth while.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

Whenever an oil painting becomes
dusty and discolored, it may be
cleansed by the use Of white raw po-
tato, for artists frequently make use
of this method. Commence at one cor
ner of the picture and rub the surface
with raw potato which has been
fiattened by removing slice; as fast
as the potato becomes discolored re-
move thin slice with a sharp knife
and continue to rub the picture until
the entire surface has been cleansed.
Then wipe the picture off with a soft
cloth, and it will be found quite clean,
and the paints will not be injured or
faded, but simply cleaned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

Japanese swords are the finest"
said swordmaker. "They are finer
than the blades Of Ferrara. of Toledo
or OF Damascus. The blades of Fer
rara, of Toledo and of Damascus must
bend into perfect circle without
breaking. and pillow OF down being
thrown In the air they must cut II
in two with the clean stroke.
But the Japanese blade must do
all that and more. The final 'est of q
japanese blade Us its suspension, edge
upward, beneath tree. 1t must hang
beneath the tree for twenty-fou. hours,
and every l'ghtest leaf that falls up
on its edge must be seTered neatly,
One failure. and back to the forca
goes lie Japanese blade again. Den
ver Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Sewing Tnble. neeone the Vogue. 1.

Sewing tables are quite a fad among
many bellies, and the girl who has not
a mahogany receptacle for clothes in
need OF repairs is no longer up to date.
The faYorite style is of dark. brown
mahogany, with glass or brass knobs,
as one pleases, and with strips Of brass
along the edges. 1t must have Il deep
basket-like appendage lined with silk
which harmonizes with the shade of
ones room. These pretty trifes cost
anything one may wish to pay, but
the least expensive cost about $25.
There are sewing tables in cherry but
antique mahogany is the thing. Many
tables have wonderful accessories in
the shape Of gold-handled scissors and
gold thimbles. One girl is the FORUM
ate possessor of half dozen gold cases
for spools of cotton.-New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

Mrs. Rorer, in the course of a lee
ture, gave the following directions for
cooking fish:
Fish like meat must be put either
into hot oven OF into boiling water
to coagulate the juices on the out
side and keep the flavoring in. A fish
may be planked wholly on the board.
The time of cooking does not depend
upon the weight of the fish A roast
of beef, for instance, the heavier-the
greater the time Of cooking. A fish
takes its weight in length rather than
in thickness, so we do not increase ma
terially the time of cooking. Cold
cooked fish may be made into num-
Der of dainty entrees. ike outlets,
cusk la creme, croquettes. scalloped
fish. or mixed with mashed potatoes
and made into cakes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

The making and moulding Of ice
cream, according to Mrs. Rorer, is as
follows: ITO make perfect ice cream
it is wise to scald half the cream and
allow it to get perfectly cold before
freezing. Fruit ice cream may have
a portion of the sugar added to the
fruit and a portion added to the hot
cream. \ good rule is to scald half the
cream and add to it the sugar. When
this is cold add the remaining half of
the cream, allowing seven ounces Of
sugar to each quart of cream.
THE fruit should be added after the
cream is frozen. and If the ice cream is
to stand any length of time the fruits
must be thoroughly mashed or you will
find little frozen bulle.s throughout
the cream. Fruit juices freeze at
higher temperature than sweetened
cream. In making fruit ice cream al.
low to eacn quart of cream eight
ounces of sugar and pint of mashed
fruit. Scald tie sugar and half the
cream; when cold add the remaining
cream: freeze, and when frozen stir in
the fruit; repack and stand aside to
ripen. If you are to mould tine ice
cream, after the fruit is stirred in is a
very good time for moulding. The
moulds must be dipped in cold water.
You must have the salt md ice for
repacking ready at hand. The seams
of the moulcs-that is, where the lid
is placed Oh the mould-should be
covered with strips of muslin dipped in
paraffin. The moment the muslin
touches the cold mould it harden and
so covers the seam that :. prevents
the salt water from entering the
oraaY,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
uNseLrusHMsss.

pris commonly asserted,
We're all a selfish run,
That every blessed fellow
Looks out for number one.
land sakes, just look around you
To see tits not the case;
The world is overhowing
with charity and grace.
One chap has information.
What figure stocks will be;
Tie does not mean to use it,
So sells the tip to me.
A bachelor mas knowledge
OF how to win a maid;
lie does not mean to use it,
So tells me for my aid.
Wen all succeed by taking
Advice on what to do;
n don't intend to try it,
So tell this plan to you).
-McLandburgh Wilson, in The Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
italian women Pack Heavy Loads.

In Italy the people take 1t for grant
ed that women should carry heavy
loads. Horses and wagons are scarce,
and 1t is common for women to carry
heavy loads of wood from the dock to
the market place. Often they are so
heavy the women look as If they would
stagger underneath. They carry this
wood all day for less than fifty cents,
though the lumber is disposed of in the
market at a good price.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
IVORY Heada For Reada.

To patch up an old string of beads,
which needs something to give it dis
tlnctlon, there are the prettiest of
carved ivory beads. These vary in
size and color, and can be bought for
fifty cents apiece. Some are ivory
white, others shade from deep cream
to soft brown, while others are very
dark, from being touched up with lac
quer. Little ivory heads and other de-
signs (small animals anG the like can
be used as pendants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
Embroidered Albums.

The postcard album has reached the
fancy work stage, and that means 1t is
very popular indeed. Square albums,
with plain stiff board covers, are
bought. to be recovered with silk or
linen and needlework. Some of the
handsomest are of silk, with the words
Postcard Album" embroidered in solid
work, and floral design-forget-me
nots are naturally the most appropriate
is done in ribbon embroidery.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
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Matter.s!!
Delicious Mustard Dressing

Delicious mustard Is made by first
slicing an onion in bowl and covering
1t with vinegar. Let this stand forty
eight hours, when pour of the vinegar
into another bowl. add a little red
pepper. salt, sugar, and enough dry
mustard to thlcken to cream. The
proportions should be teaspoonful
of the pepper and salt and twice that
of sugar, but tastes differ somewhat
as to the quantity OF sweet used.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

Society, after all. is the most ardu-
Gus profession a woman can adopt,
laments the Ladies' Field. since it alb
serbs the greater part of her nights as
we'll as her entire days. and allows OF
no repose save that periodically
sna:ched in "rest cure"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16

Buttons.
They're in favor.
Small ones are first.
Metal ones stand high.
Crochet buttons are very smart.
Buttons are covered with silk or sill.
yer.
Bone buttons, IL carefully chosen,
are very smart.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
The Cost of MIX Production.

The New Jersey experiment station
demonstrates that with cows yielding
$500 pounds of milk per head per year
the cost per quart is about "a cents.
What must be the cost of the quart in
the case of the 5000 pound COW, the
1000 pound COW, the 5000 pound COW
and the $500 pound COW? Will not
the cost range higher as the yield
ranges lower?
II the $500 pound cows put "a cents
into a quart of milk the 5000 pound
cows will put 81 cents, the 1000 pound
cow over cents, the 5000 pound COW
close to 3.5 cents and the $500 pound
COW nearly 4 cents into the quart.
On the other hand, if the $500 pound
COW makes milk at a cost of "a cents
quart 1900 pound COW will put
only about cents into the quart, the
5000 pound COW only 10 cents, and the
1900 pound and 10000 pound cows
would put proportionately less cost in
to the quart.-New York Farmer.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
when the Cow Freshen..

1t is generally advisable to have a
COW go dry before she freshens. From
four to six weeks Is none too long a
rest. Many good cows have their milk
ing habits so firmly established that
they must be forced dry. The simplest
and safest way to stop the milk flow
Is to cut the feed down to a small al
lowance of hay and milk but once a
day, or empty but half the udder at
one milking and the other half at the
next, thus alternating till the milk flow
ceases. Then more generous feeding
should be resumed, but the feeds used
should be or a laxative character. A
freshening cow is a sick COW and
should be treated as such. She should
not be exposed to violence, to cold or
to storms. Her feed should be limited
In quantity and be easily digested. As
abe fully RECEIVERS gradually increase
her feed to full varied ration.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
Butter Eaters.

Nothing eats up butter faster than
discomfort and fear, because they
shrink the butter fat and so make their
milk. which is steering the butter into
the manure pile instead of into the
churn, says J. V. Van Mott in Rural
New Yorker. Therefore have warm
floors and warm stables. A COW cannot
run a furnace and Il churn with the
one feed. Another butter eater is the
stanchion. Farmers are very careful
to have for themselves warm floors
and feather beds, but leave their duti-
full cows hanging by the necks in the
cruel stocks named stanchions and TO
get what sleep they can on a frost car
peted floor. Both should be abolished
by law as cruelty t. animals.
We can also class the horns with but
ter eaters, and the boss COW eats more
butter than the farmers family, for
every time she spears the other cow
Shrink" goes the butter fat. Her ally
Is the dog
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
MILKING THE COW.
Things to Think About-The Mixer
I'm the White Suit.

An important thing in connection
with milking is the condition of the
hands and clothes of the mixer. /. The
mixer should be clean personally and
should be required to go about his work
In clean clothes. The milking should
be done with dry hands. The habit of
some mixers of wetting their hands
with milk just as they begin is a filthy
practice and the cause of much bad
milk and poor butter There is some
thing in the presence of n mixer in a
white suit that calls for clean work.
particularly if he is required to keep
the suit clean while about his work.
Many dairymen require their mixers to
be dressed in white.
The same principle is true in regard
to whtewash on the interior of the
barn. \ carefully whitewashed wall
shows off cobwebs to their disadvan-
tage, and they will usually be removed.
There is something out of place IL part
of building Is kept clean and fresh
as a whitewashed wall, for instance
and other parts are a mlre of filth.
Whitewashed walls go with clean floors,
and the two with a white clad mixer.
Edwin H. Webster.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02

The Cow = source Of Health and
strength to ManRind.

At a recent meeting of city organ
ization an instructor In bacteriology
delivered an address on tuberculosis. by
which the impression was left that
milk is dangerous food. though he
declared that germs of tuberculosis are
everywhere and that probably every
man In the audience had them In his
body, perhaps in sufficient quantity to
say that he had tuberculosis In passive
form. And here is the danger that lies
In the discussion OF this question from
one side only. The public gets wrong
impressions because II has not complete
information. Bovine and human tuber-
culosis may be identical. and an occa-
sional COW may put some germs Of itu-
berculosis In milk, but there is far less
danger from milk than from air, not
only because there are fewer such
germs In milk than In air, but because
In milk they do not directly reach the
part of the human body. most liable to
Infection, as they do In air. Besides,
city milk is very largely sterilized and
so made safer than air. But supposing
things were even between milk and air
two parallel questions would arise: Are
we to stop breathing? Are we to stop
using milk? We may state as a gen
eral truth that the COW is great
source of health and strength to hui
mainly and minor source Of trouble.
The public should be impressed with
the fact that dairy products are gener-
ally health giving and always so when
properly handled.-National Stockman.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
COLD FRAME LETTUCE.
Sow Now For Succession and Trans
plant In March.


Sow lettuce seed now and for sue
cession about every two weeks. Excel
lent varieties are: Market Gardeners.
Private Stock, Immensity and Trianon
Cos. Trianon Cos Is usually sown
about the 1st of April and from that
date ON till August Is continued with all
the varieties at intervals of seven to
ten days. From that time lettuce is in
clined to bolt" or run to seed.
These are three good lettuce for all
purposes. They stand the summer well
and make exceedingly fine heads.
Trlanon Cos when properly grown is
one of the best favored In cultivation.
and immensely is one of the largest
AS soon as they are ready pot off
into two inch pots, and as soon as they
have filled these well with roots trans
fer to cold frames, which will be about
the first week In March
Provided the frames have been idle
all winter take Off about two inches of
the old soil. and then throw 1t up well
with fork or spade and give it good
sprinkling of air Stacked lime to sweet
en- the soil. II the days are mild take the
sash off. putting them on again at night.
The ground should be kept constantly
stirred to mellow the soil and keep
down weeds. giving copious supplies of
water when needed. but when heading
keep the water from the heart
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02

The points In the operation OF a
cream separator by the farm dairyman.
given in their order of Importance as
bearing on the quality of the work. are
summarized as follows by an authority
on buttermaklng:
First.-The speed of the separator
must be uniform and up to the stand
ard required by the makers of that
particular machine.
Second.-The temperature OF the milk
should be such as will make II flow
readily; the warmer it is the more per
feet will be the separation.
Third.-The amount of milk that il
run through the machine should re-
main constant and should not be in
creased over that which is intended for
the machine.
Fourth.-The machine should be set
on solid base or foundation, so that
there will be no Jar or shaking about
as 1t is turned, such as would tend to
interfere with the even flow of the milk
through the bowl and thus destroy its
efficiency In Swimming.
Fifth-The separator must be kept
thoroughly and scrupulously clean.
particular care being taken that none
of the tubes through which the milk
fiow becomes INSTRUCTED in any way.
Sixth.-The test of the cream can be
readily changed by changing either the
cream outlet or the skim milk outlet.