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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
HOTEL EMFLCT-GS.
Wages Of Women workers In tho
Rin New York EhIn bl ln u ments.

WaRes Of Women Workers In tho
Biz New York Establlshm ments.
Employees in the linen room receive
$40 d month, with room and board, ana
their hours are well regulated, in most
of the large hotels. The parlor maid
or maids come next on the salary list
with SIS, room and board, and the tips
often bring this sum up to $50 or even
$50. The maids duties are to keep the
parlor swept and busted and herself
tidy and ready to attend the women
guests who desire her services. The
chambermaids, bathroom girls, paint
cleaners and scrub women, of whom
every hotel employs a small army, re-
ceive $12 each. The work OF the last two
named is distinctly different. A scrub
woman would not think Of cleaning
paint, and a paint cleaner would feel
that she was demeaning herself In
scrubbing the floor. Throughout the
house the question Of social distinction
is argued, the maids feeling above the
bathroom girls, the parlor maid above
the other maids and the linen room
girls above the parlor maid, and so on.
Human nature is much the same the
world over. In the parlance OF hotel
employees, scrub women are known as
"soubrettes," the chambermaids as "the
chorus" while the parlor maids are call
ed "shOw girls" The ''soubrettes" be-
gin their work at o'clock in the morn
ing and do not finish until about 8.
They scrub the floors and go through
out the house with soap and hot water.
In one big New York hotel the en-
ployees are permitted to enter the helps
dining hall ut any time Of the morning
or afternoon between regular meals
and have cup Of tea and light lunch
"a system which has much to do with
the contentment reigning among the
employees Of this establishment. The
cost is only trifle, and. although the
plan has been In operation for some
time, those who enjoy its advantages
do not abuse it.-Leslie's Weekly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

navy, understand. You couldn't git
in the navy, anyway; you're too young.
But s'pose you could, what theni
You'd never git any higher'n a petty
officer, cause you don't know enough.
The only way to git into the navy Is
to go through Annapolis and git an
education. tell you, education counts.
Me and Perez would have been some
thin more'n cheap fishin' and coastin'
shippers IL we'd had an education.
Don't forgit that"
II guess l don't want to be sailor,
anyway, sir. This one trip Is enough
for me, thank you"
Cant help that You shipped long
with me for two months, and you'll
sail with me for two months, every
time I 60 out. You won't run away
again neither. I'll look out for that.
You'll sail with me, and you'll help clean
fish, and you'll mind me, and you'll say
sir You needn't smoke IL you don't
want to-" with q smile. II amt
p'tic'lar about that.
"Then," went on the captain, when
the two months is up you'll be your
own master again. You can 60 back
to Web Saunders and Squealer Wixon
and lily Tucker and their tribe, II
you want to, and be town nuisance
and a good-for-nuthin', or you can do
this: You can 90 to school for a few
years more and behave yourself, and
then, II I've got any influence with the
congressman from this district-and
I sort Of b'lleve have, secondhanded,
at any rate-you can 60 to Annapolis
and learn to be a navy officer. That's
my offer. You've got couple Of
months to think it over in"
The catboat swung about on her dnal
tack and stood in for the narrows, the
route which the captain had spoken Of
as the "short cut" From where Jo-
siah sat the way seemed choked with
lines of roaring, frothing breakers that
nothing could approach and keep above
water. But Captain Fri steered the
Mary Ellen through them as easily as
q New York cab driver guides his We
hicle through jam on Broadway, pick
ing out the smooth places and avoid
ing the rough ones until the last bar
was crossed and the boat entered the
sheltered waters Of the bay.
by gumw exclaimed the enthusi-
astic liable seaman" "That was
great-er-sir"
That's part Of what I'll rarn you in
the next two months" said the captain.
"'Twont do you any harm to know 1t
when you're in the navy neither. Stand
by to let 60 anchor"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
tcuNTINUED.l

But the stubbornness remained, and
the next day Perez sought Captain Eri
in troubled frame of mind.
"Eri," he said dejectedly, II don't
know what I'm goin' to do with that
boy. He's too many for me, that boy
is. Seems he's been plannin' this run
min away business for more'n month;
been doin' errands and odd jobs round
town and savin' up his money on pur-
pose. Says he won't 60 back to school
again no matter what we do to him
and that he's goin' to git into the navy
il it takes ten years"
"Humph" exclaimed his friend.
"Stuffy as all that, is he? You don't
say! He amt bad boy-that is. q
reel bad boy, either"
mo. that's jest it. He amt reel bad
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
Among the Heathen.

Helen, aged four. was spending
night away from home At bedtime she
knelt at her hostess knees to say her
prayers, expecting the usual prompting.
Finding Mrs. l. unable to help her out,
she concluded thus: please, God,
scuse me. can't member my prayers.
and Pm staying with lady that don't
know any"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
Mere Maintenance.

Economical management of live stock
implies more than mere maintenance.
Stock fed only to the extent of keeping
il in poor condition is Improbable hus-
bandry. Too many farmers are stingy
young cattle through the winter, and
provide an amount of roughage only
sufficient for mere maintenance without
stimulating thrifty growth. 1t Is an
established fact that only generous
treatment of young farm animals during
the winter will promote continuous i'm
provement. Sound young farm animals
of any class require extra rations to sus-
tain continuous growth. If animals are
fed only sufficient to maintain ex-
istence the food is wasted. If young
stock are turned to pasture in the spring
at the same weight as when they went
into winter quarters, then the farmer
has sacrificed his feed for mere main
tenance. In contravention to this fact
many husbandmen practice this par
simoniOus system of livestock industry.
A ton of coal can be consumed In the
firebox of boiler and the indicator not
register a pound Of steam. The coal
was not judiciously used and no power
was generated. The same is true with
wintering stock; inefficient rations are
fed, and the animals fail to make visible
gains. Stock are living machines and
require rations in excess of mere main
tenance to insure profitable thriftiness.
| The young stock affords a medium to
convert into cash the grain and rough
ACE produc0d on the farm,
Farmers cannot afford to take young
stock off the pasture In the fall and carry
them through the winter without their
making conservative gain. Such man.
agement is prodigal, and would never
lift the mortgage from the farm. 1t
would be like burning coal so inefficient
| ly that it would never generate working
power.
Working animals and dairy cows need
| to be fed only for maintenance. It
might be positively injurious to feed
above maintenance q dry COW destined
to perform dairy functions. Young
stock, however, can only return profit
on their growth above maintenance, and
liberal regime 10 necessary at all sea
sons until the animals are at maturity
and in condition for market. It is q
pleasure to inspect thrifty young stock
and watch their steady increase in
weight in response to liberal and sys-
tematic rotation Of feeding. The high
valuation OF lands In the corn belt and
principal livestock producing states
prompts the husbandman to follow such
la course of management ~ shall insure
consistent growth and reasonable profit
ON the cost Of production. Stenson In
Farm and Fireside.
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EVIL Enough.

There is evil enough in man, God
knows. But it is not the mission of
every young man and woman to detail
and report it ALL Keep the atmosphere
as pure as possible and fragrant with
gentleness and charity.-Dr. John Hall.
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CAP'N ERI
By JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
Copyright A. Publishers 5e Fifth Avenue
New York. Reserved
By JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
..You bet. old manw said Josiah.

"You bet, old manw said Josiah.
Captain Perez met his friend as they
came out Of the parlor.
"Now, En," he whispered, "be easy
as you can with him, won't you?"
The captain answered in the very
words of his crew.
"You bet! he said fervently and
went away whistling. Captain Perez
slept better that night.
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VUW 4 70 ''tes Uo'
Now" lie said in conclusion, Il car-
late you think was pretty hard on
you this mornin', but what do you fig
ger that you'd have got II you talked to
Il mate the way you done to me-"
Don't know. S'pose I'd have been
killed, SIR
well, you would, mighty nigh, and
that's ii fact. Now, I'll tell you some
thin else. You wanted to enlist In the
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
Rheumatism

b one Of the constitutional
diseases. h manifests itself
IN local aches and palms,
infIamed joints and stiff
museles.-but & cannot Be
cured By local applications:
i requires constitution
treatment acting through
the blood, and the best 5 .
course Of the great medicine
Hood'sSal.saparila
which has permanently
cured Thousands Of cases.
rce tsslimc1iab Of rsm@kabje ewss
~ ecr Book On khssmatism, No. z.
CT Hood Co, Lowso. Mo-.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

Sheik Saadi, the Persian philosopher
and poet. said. "Ten dervishes can
dwell in peace on one rug. but two
princes cannot live In one empire"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

The son Of . sheepdog ID sheepdog
from birth. Training IL - superf1uous
a. to teach . duck to swim.-Alfred
OIlivant In Farm and Fireside.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

His Place In Natural History.
"Were you bull or bear" asked
an acquaintance Of speculator.
Neither" he replied. II was an
ass"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE PLow."

on practical agricultural topics
is solicited Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY D.
HAMMOND. Agricultural Editor Oxfori Dem
ocrat. Paris, Ne.
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A Positive
CURE
Ely's Cream Balm
Is quickly absorbed.
Gives Relief Al Once.

Gives Relief al Once.
1t cleanses, soothes
heals and protects
the diseased men,
brane. 1t cures Ca
tarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

Taste and Smell. Full size so cts, at Drug
gists or by mail Trial Size 10 cts. by mail
Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York.
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CHAPTER XIV.

~ 0ROMPTLY ut quarter to 4
the next morning Captain Eri
EHr1 raped on the parlor door.
k:siSsiSU Josiah, who had been dressed
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
THE ADULT INSECT.

The moths are pure white, with the
exception of the abdomen which is of a
brownish shade. The characteristic
tuft of golden brown hair on the end Of
the abdomen of the female gives 1t the
name, "the brown-tail moth" The un-
der anterior edge of the fore wings in
the male is dark brown. Expanse of
wings, from 1.S to 1-2 inc hes.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09
LIFE HISTORY OF THE BROwN-TAIL MOI
IEuproctis chrysorrh@a.]

The data given were taken from Speci-
mems raised in our breeding cages at the
office, so that the dates will not cOrre-
spond with those taken from field Obser-
vation. Allowances must be made for
quite difference in climatic conditions.
The eggs are laid usually on the under
side of the leaf. These are cream white
in color, almost spherical in outline,
and about One-thirty-second OF an inch
in diameter. The female remains quiet
while laying her eggs excepting a slight
onward movement as the cluster is de-
posted. Her pure white wings which
act as roof covering offer quite con-
trast to the golden colOred egg mass.
The cluster varies from "a to one inch
in length by about IA of an inch In
width, and is half round in cross section
with each end rounded, the whole being
covered with the golden brown hairs
removed from the abdominal tuft In the
process of laying. This cluster contains
on the average about 800 eggs. The
eggs hatch in about three weeks into
very small caterpillars, about one-six-
teenth Of an inch in length. The head Is
black, the second segment is bordered
with yellow, with an oval brown patch
on the dorsal portion. General color,
greenish yellow, darker near the head
and growing lighter from the seventh to
the eleventh segments. The fifth and
sixth and last segments are OF . brown
ish color on the back. The body is
covered with fine hairs.
Tho caterpillars or larvs moult In
about q week. They are then about
one-eighth Of an inch in length, dark
brown In color, with indistinct slate
colored markings. The tnberolss on
each segment ere aiming black, from
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-09

MYF Josiah expected any relaxa-
I8l ton in Captain Eri's stern
lS4ss1 discipline he was disappoint-
(SsH&J ed, for he was held to the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
KING WINTERS SONG

Oh, I am the friend of the boys and
girIsi
/ am the fellow they love
When there's plenty OF frost on the
earth below,
And plenty of sunshine above.
To me they look for the frozen pond,
All ready for skate and slide;
To me they turn with their sleds so
swift
For coasting hill so wide.
deck the trees with a fringe so
bright
That they glisten in sun or shade;
And scatter my snowflakes In the
air
Till they fill each valley and glade;
Ard, climbing up the mountain top,
Each shrub and tree l crown,
And I spread the whitest of covers
DER
The ground so barren and brown.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
cIGARETs IN THE SCHOOLS.
Personal Observations and Conclusions
OF Principal John Lynch.


Principal John j. Lynch Of the
Weststreet grammar school, one of the
large Holyoke, Mon, grammar school
buildings, read paper on the evils Of
cigaret smoking in the schools at the
meeting of the mems class of the First
Congregational church in Holyoke re-
Gently that created surprised interest
on the part of many of those in the
class, who had no idea of the extent
of the cigaret evil The discussion
that followed favored equivocally some
measure of state or municipal restric-
ton. Mr.. Lynch's paper in part was
as follows:
This problem presume is not new
to you. The majority, especially those
who were boys, those who have had
and have boys have discussed this
troublesome problem with consider
able boyish reticence as accused and
fatherly aggressivenesse as accusers
Boys are naturally reluctant to sane
ton all parental restraints passively
They regard many of them as trans
gressions of and obstacles to their
natural personal and inherent rights.
In order, therefore, to destroy the cul-
tivation of boys disregard of parental
jurisdiction, parents should handle
their boys with considerable judicious-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

ness. Men usually become sound NOR
alists in their preaching, and il they
persist on enforcing their precepts
by reasonable methods they readily
overcome boys rebllious spirit and
determine the boys social practices.
But, IL the boy is master and succeeds
in asserting his unrighful claims
self-defned,-he dominates the father
and detrmines his own relationship
to all social influences. What is the
condition today in reference to this
among boys? Do the fathers or
mothers dominate and to what extent2
contend that the domination is is
exclusively with the boys. Ny evil
dence is the general persistency of the
habit among boys. You, who have OBJ
served with any degree of attention
the habit of cigaret smoking practised
by our boys, cannot but agree as to
the general preyalency of the habit,
and noticeably among the younger boys
of our city. In my opinion it has be-
come so fragrant and is so menacing
to true healthy boyhood that its re-
striction and elimination demand inn
mediate action by this and every COM
munity similarly affected.
1t has become almost as dangerous
to the body polite as cancer to the
human body, and unless speedily
checked, will leave it's vicious traces
indelibly written in the moral, physi-
cal and mental capabilities of ouI
boys. Those are the future young
men, upon whom must rest the respon-
sibility of successfully assuming, trans
acting and operating all our great en-
terprizes, public and private, and their
capabilities to handle those great pub
lie and private concerns will deter
mine the progressiveness or determin-
alton of our city and it's every inter-
ests. To preserve those capabilities
and enrich them for the highest civic
usefulness and economic success are
the primary duty of government and
highest obligation of parent, and must
be secured by wise governmental safe
guards and dutiful parental supervis-
sion
The destructive influences of cigaret
smoking ON mental faculties, scholas-
tic efficiency and the morl tendencies
of boys are easily discerned. The
first appears in the gradual weakening
of the centers of mental power and re-
suit in a decrease of mental keenness,
responsiveness and growth. This
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
A BREACH OF FAITH.

There is no honor whatever among
land-grabbers, however much may
exist traditionally among other
thieves. Look at their conduct in re-
lation to the Minnesota forest reserve.
A large body of the friends of forestry
and river improvement desired, some
years ago, that this reserve should be
made to include at least 100000 acres
But the lumbermen and land specu-
lators joining forces against this wise
proposition, compromise was agreed
upon wherein all but 225,000 acres
were surrendered, to be first devasta-
ted by the lumbermen and then turned
over for speculative purposes to men
who are not above advertising and
selling as good agricultural land"
tracts which had been the home OF the
jack and Norway pine-tracts which
any amount of experiment has shown
to be utterly unfit for permanently
successful farming All parties agreed
that the 225,000 acres should be re-
served in perpetuity for forestry. Now,
after the government has devoted sew
eral years to replanting and otherwise
improving the reserve, the spectators
are clamoring at the doors of con-
gress for its abolition.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
CHINESE WoMEN,s FEET.

China's custom of binding the feet
of its women is not as ancient as has
been supposed. A correspondent of
one of the native Chinese papers
quotes from the letters of Yuan Mel,
who lived in the eighteenth century.
IN one of his letters Yuan Mel wrote
to friend: You ask me to get you
handsome wife and ardently desire,
as your first requisite, that she shall
have small feet. Surely you cannot
be one who aGmires true beauty. An
admirer of true beauty has his own in
dividual tastes, disdaining to follow
the dictates OF others Our ancient
literature. in both prose and poetry
has many illusions in praise OF
beautiful women, but in no instance
touches upon small feet.
"A work treating of the customs OF
the Sung dynasty by Shen 70 says a
mans well-made shoes are said to be
square. and a woman's round lat the
toe). In the Tang dynasty, the first
allusion to the feet of Yang Kwei Fei
the court beauty, was about her sill
stockings. In one of Han Tuns
Langs poems, referring to woman's
! feet. he says: Her six-inch feet 81
bright and sleek These allusion!
clearly point TO unbound feet"
Yuan Mefs letter concludes by say
ing that the taste of those who ignor,
the beauty of face and form is de
paved. He laments that sensibl,
men should be so led away by a fool
ish fashion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
THE DEN.

VI late years our people have come
70 realize the fact that a mans NJ.
boys room is as necessary to the iron.
erly conducted household as the lady's
boudoir, These rooms, by common
consent, are known as sdens."
A den usually consists of a small
space, sometimes nothing more than
an alcove, where the men and bows of
the mouse may retreat, and the den is
usually decorated with an abundant
display OF yachting flags, college col
ors' trophies of the hunt and athletic
neld, fishing-rods, guns, etc., with prob
ably desk and an easy chair. But
as the wealth OF the country increases
and Injuries multiply, the den grad
ualy assumes a more and more prim-
itive condition. Thus the natural re-
suit OF the reaction against the sur
rounding effete luxury of the house
hold.
me surprise den is designed to sun
ply want suggested by many letters
requesting ideas on how to decorate
ana NIX up the den in ones house.
Inc surprise den is constructed so
tnat one may open the door from tina
the library. as the case may be and
usher the guests into a primitive nj.
oneer cabin.-Dan Beard in Outing
Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

faithful waiter might be the only man
in the field of action, so Indifferent is
he TO everything outside his own par
ticular sphere. Close to the Astor's
banquet hall are several "bases of de-
livery from the kitchen, where long
rows of walters stand as each course
is served, watching for the signal to
pass the steaming dishes to other
walters who in turn put them on the
tables. The signal is given by an
electric light which the head waiter
flashes by pressing button in any
part of the banquet room. 1t shows
simultaneously in the kitchen and at
the slides just outside the dining
room doors, so that there shall not
be an instant's delay, but each success
sive course shall appear and vanish
as il at the waving of a magic wand.