The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-18
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Important Invention for the Care the Baby at Night
Electric Babistat that Supplies the Infants
Wants Without Extracting Father from His Couch.
That old champion of downtrodden humanity, Mr.
Moses of the Eighth ward has had his brow all pursed
of Late and the midnight gas faring an inven-
ton tending reduce the in the care of young
children and infants
The idea was obtained from watching the operations
of the thermostat applied to the small hot air fur
mace The duties of the thermosat are to watch the
temperature When it becomes lower the thermostat
gets busy opening the furnace
With important notifications Mr.. Moses has applied
this idea to the baby The invention has monographs
features, and is called the babstat Suspended over
the crib, cradle bed need may be- is sensitive
disk tuned to respond to certain amount Of noise
When the vibrations reach certain pitch the disk
closes an electric circuit, and bottle of warm milk
or baby food drops slowly within reach of the oecu
pant of the cradle
The sensitive electric disk is tuned that it re-
spends to rettng refuses to respond to anything
short OF midnight yell just the character of the
baby in question demands
Incidentally the babistat warns the milk by the
same electric current that releases the bottle The
venton promises to fill want Of modern lfe and is
ilKey TO make It's ingenious inventor small fortune
Uncle Pease in a vision of the NIGHT has seen the
spiritualized and glorifed Anoka In language that
recalls Isaiah S rapt seraphc fire he says:
Perchance 1 may not live to it. The time Is
coming when Anoka will be the prettest loveliest little
city IN all the northwest With two running rivers
constantly flowing past her very DOORS the floating Of
logs nearly thing of the past there is every reason
to believe that the banks will be dotted with
handsome homes, power launches and rowboats will
multiply, and nature will assert it's bounty and make
these rivers thing of beauty and joy forever The
natural advantages of the city of both sides are vet
to be appreciated, and taken hold Of you IL see
better things than dreamed Of your phiIos
ophy. Have patience and it will be reality
Mr.. Pease is right Too long Anoka has served as
butt Of the cheap wit Of the ham actor We have
seen the vision:
=. = "Anoka the golden,
e. With milk and honey blest''
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Speaking Of breeds of COWS, Doc Bixby who is an
authority and able to tell at sight the difference be-
tween and heifer, bites his thumb at our cow
philosophy The doc is opposed to the dual purpose
COW and says regarding advocacy of the same:
This dual philosophy is irridescent dream
commended for with most vehemence by who know
about the breeding business. A. J. Russell couldn't
tell the difference between Shorthorn and Galloway
We know from personal investigation and observation
that where find the swimming bucket of tactical fluid
containing the largest per cent of fine old yellow butter
fat such is not apt to be the mother of broad
beefy cattle, who run heavily to porterhouse.'' :
Dr. Bixby was brought up the farm and is not in
touch with modern methods. Two Iowa boys recently
came from the agricultural school and started out to
raise corn scientifically. The good old timers who
made Iowa what she is had good time pokng fun at
the dude farmers. The corner grocery heard vol
umes of sarcasm regarding the young fellows who
thought to improve upon the ways of their fathers
Meanwhile the boys raised corn-seventytwo bushels
every acre, while the country round about pro.
duced from thirty five to foryfve. We would like to
have Bixby our herd of Shorthorns
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The deepseated and regretable rivalry between the
two finest canaries in the city, Welcome and Brownie
has been brought to end by the sad death of the
former bird due to pneumonia contracted from draft
during the late cold spell.
Welcome of the sunniest birds that it has
ever been our privilege to meet Always cheerful and
busy at the seed-box when not in full song conserva-
tive and careful in the selection of friends vet of the
sturdest friendship where his affections were once
given, Welcome always had place in the hearts
of all who knew him. His cheerful chirp preceding
the morning always heralded burst of melody
that made the glass globes the chandeliers ring
again.
The day before he died the bird was downeast and
his little chirp tinged with melancholy. He spoke
of the tender he had received of his
confidence that the universe always had place in It
for good canary. In the morning he was found in
the bottom of his cage with his little feet sticking
straight up into the air. 3D.. :
Sadly we gathered him up and laid him away in
little tin box. Canary seed placed by his side
and leaf of his favorite lettuce. The remains are
now hanging to rafter in the catproof shed pending
interment in the spring When the door of the shed
is opened at early morning shaft of sunlight glints
his little tin caske just he would love see it.
AS look back his little life see that it was
good and believe that it has been reabsorbed into
the great Life of the universe. Taken all in all no
higher praise be bestowed upon him than to say
that Welcome was bird "A. J. r.