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'She was quite at home. Her trunk
was unpacked and her toilet articles al
neatly arranged She had had a cup OF
tea and some of my choice fruit cake. When
she heard my step she said. without turning
her head.
Thought I'd give you a little surprise,
my dear. You didn't expect to see Cousin
Lou so soon, did your
"She was very nearsighted, or pretended
10 be, and when ] said:
@'It certainly is a great surprise. /
think you have the advantage Of me- she
came close and peering into my face said;
Fl suppose you're a friend of Mildred's.
She's very popular
81 never heard Of Mildred either l
said.
Never heard of Mildred' Why, this
is her fiat
"A light broke on my intelligence, You
mean Mrs. Hope?'
why. Of course. That's Mildred. I'm
her Cousin Lou. You must have heard her
speak OF me- .
81 never did, | answered, wondering
why, if Mrs. Hope had a string OF country
relatives, she did not say so.
Il explained the situation. After l had
finished she asked me What l thought she
had better do, There was no train back
hat night. She very kindly left all 81.
rangements in my hands.
Naturally there was nothing to do but
to make her welcome and l said she could
stay all night-not too graciously, I'm
afraid.
Next morning she had a sick headache
- --,Il.t. -. - I..I &c.. a. .,lour
| took care of her all day and she stayed
through the next night. She was &C terri
bly, grateful that l couldn't for the life of
me avoid asking her to stay another day
so as to get thoroughly well. She stayed.
Il never had any communication except
on business with the aforesaid. Mildred
until the lease was up, and then | happened
TO express a hope that her cousin Lou was
all over her disappointment and her illness.
It was then | learned that she never had
any cousin Lou.
Il don't attempt to explain this episode.
Explanations are not in my line. l am a
simple narrator of fact
Bills" said another, when asked as to
her experience along this line.
we had just settled down TO what I had
always looked forward to all my life, a
summer in New York. We had found an
apartment all ready furnished for a very
moderate sum, had sent the children TO
grandma's farm and had come.
Preliminary arrangements necessitated
our paying everything in advance rent,
gas. telephone, but as we said philosophi-
cally, so long as we had to pay what diff
ference did il make when that transaction
took place? You see we had always lived
in New England, which accounts for our
peculiar point of view.
while we we're eating breakfast the first
morning the bell rang. 1t was the gas man
with a bill for the last two months.
Naturally we objected to paying it and
told him why. We explained the situation,
first roughly outlining it, then in detail.
"If you have over attempted 70 explain any
thing to a gas mar you have some idea of
our dilemma. Finally our Puritan blood
was aroused. We had always prided our
selves on paying promptly. We have since
then learned hat il you a prestige in
New York you must live on credit. But,
novices for the moment, we determined not
to pay it, and had no doubt when the gas
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ole chappie, I'll call you up when l think
Of it and tell you whish horsh."
Two hours later, during which interval
there have been three calls, one from "You-
certainly OH ght-to-know-my-voice." Sport
calls again:
Il shay, ole Chappie. about that horsh.
l still forgot but never min. III call you
up tomorrow"
During the next week there are mid
night calls from seventeen other friends OF
the tenant who nave apparently forgotten
not only the names of the winning horses
but everything else as well, while little
parties Of theatrical friends drop in at 8
and 4 in the morning for welsh rarebits and
lobster a la Newburg.
1t is all very exciting, and finally, as in
somnia takes possession OF them both,
each keeping awake so as to prevent the
other from being aroused by the telephone
call, they conclude that a boarding house
is good enough for them and the apartment
is hurriedly vacated.
Il shall never believe in personal appear
ance again." said the woman. neither
shall / lay great stress on that home atmos-
phere."
MY tTouDle' bdu dnotneT Wolndn' was
relatives.
Il rented the apartment in perfectly good
faith and what / especially liked about it
was the fact that it had a spare room. 1t
is so seldom that you can find ar apartment
in New York where at least one Of the family
doesn't have to sleep in the bathtub, on a
divan or the dumbwaiter. This little room
l thought would be 80 nice in case anybody
should want to come Unexpectedly.
Somebody did. l came in one after
noon. after a long and hot day downtown.
to find a strange woman standing in front
of the dresser.
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EGGS -FOUR YEARS OLD.
But Not So had as You Might suppose. BE-
cause Covered with Water Glass.

WASHINGTON. June 29.-The egg which
appears so innocently upon the breakfast
table may by reason of commercial in
genuity he anywhere from several months
TO several years old. This knowledge led
TO an investigation by the Department Of
Agriculture. and the result is favorable
to the use of egg preservatives. Said one
OF the Department. experts:
81 have examined a very large number
of eggs preserved in water glass. In gen.
eral ! found the eggs TO be Of good quality,
and they had not been preserved under
the best conditions, either, as they were
not placed in the water glass solution on
the day on which they were laid, but were
collected in the country and sent in to town
in large lots and we're two or three days old
before preservation.
AS might have been expected, some Of
these eggs were bad. but the proportion
was not large. In one instance out of
3s4 dozen eggs preserved between April
and June and sold between October and
December only five dozen, or 1.3 PER cent.
were bad, and the majority of these we're
broken or cracked.
"Thesa preserved egg are attractive
in appearance. as the shells are very clean
and fresh looking after the water glass
is wired Of. Even those which have been
several years in water glass have a fine. fresh
appearance
Another advantage Of preservation in
water glass over certain older methods
ia thst the contents Of the egg do not shrink
through evaporation. The eggs there
fore do not rattle when shaken. no matter
how old they are. The cost Of preserva-
ton is very small.
1T was found that eggs which had been
kept in water glass for n few months could
hardly he distinguished in appearance.
favor and smell. either raw or cooked.
from what are called fresh eggs, that is,
fresh eggs of the commercial sense. which
are eggs free from decomposition or faint,
but several days old A really fresh egg
only a few hours laid is easily distinguished
in flavor and appearance when cooked
from the fresh egg or preserved egg and
IL. known as n new laid egg. The eggs
which had been preserved in water glass
for about six months tasted and smelled
like we'll kept eggs a few days old.
Il found that ms the eggs get older a
distinct change occurs which can be APP
preciated both by the eye and the palate.
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MARCONI AT THE KEY.
Making Thunder aHd Lightning In His
Paris Workshop.

The asphalted floor is covered with N car.
pet of rubber. The walls and ceilings are in
hard wood. Strange instruments lie in each
corner of the room. On a platform raised
a yard above the floor, says a writer in In
R6tue, is a table with a transmitting kew
upon it and a large wooden lever also used
in transmitting. Marconi is on the plat
form, his hand grasping the lever.
Now he says, "be careful. When I
signal to the electrician $4,000 volts will
enter the room. Stand behind me and
touch nothing. DO not approach those
oils, because the current will not wait for
You TO touch them; it will leap out upon
you"
The signal given, a lever Is pulled and a
dull noise is heard. The needle Of the volt
ameter begins to move or the dial and to
attain all sorts OF high figures.
Now says Marconi, II will commune
cate with the nearest station" and he
presses the key OF the transmitter.
There is a binding blue flash and at each
pressure on the key sparks nearly two feet
in length start from between the two silvery
balls OF the induction reel. One Of these
balls is in communication with the earth
and the other with n rod. Each shark
represents an impulsion which is communi-
Gated from the battery TO the rod and f0m
this rod the electrician sets in motion the
vibrations Of the ether called Hertzian
waves.
These waves expand in space in every di.
rection at a speed Of 100000 kilomstres a
second; that is 10 say, seven times the cir
conference Of the earth. They are indie
pendent Of wind and temperature and glide
above the surface OF the earth and ~
striking on their way the wireless stations
that lie far beyond the horizon.
At each binding fash that accompanies
the movement Of the key a noise like the
report OF a nile is heard. II is an awe in
spring spectacle, the inventor calmly stand.
ing there pressing the key amid the light.
nins ana InS me ihunuer' ne operator 10
pears, however, that recently Marconi has
found means Of doing away with the noise
almost completely,
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midday meal. Supper consists Of tea,
bread and butter, with stewed prunes or
apple sauce and one boiled egg.
The meals are brought around on wheeled
trays by patients who receive a little pay
for working in the kitchen and. bucket
brigade fashion. are passed along the tables
from one patient to the other.
Every second Sunday the patients are
treated TO a chicken dinner. The chicken
is generally Of ancient vintage, but it is
enjoyed as a relief from the ordinary
routine.
There is a little store on the island where
patients may purchase some little addi-
tions to the regular diet, and they are al
lowed such little dainties as their friends
may bring them in. All liquors are for
hidden.
Visitors are admitted from 10 A. NJ. to
4 M. every day in the week. They must
procure a permit from the Office at the
foot Of East T~wenty-sixth street, which
is readily granted. and entities the holder
TO free transport on the city's ferryboats
to and from the island for one month.
As the great object is to keep oonsump-
tives in the open air and in the sunlight as
much as possible. a large playhouse occu-
pies a prominent place in the grounds,
commanding a fine view of the river. This
is the solarium. 1t is about $50 feet long
by 30 feet wide. In it is located the small
library, from which the patients draw
books. the tables at which they play cards,
a Switchboard and plenty Of easy chairs.
The course Of phthisis, except in what is
commonly called galloping consumption,
is protracted, spreading in many cases
over a term Of years. There are patients
in the tuberculosis infrmary who have
been there three or four years.
Patients are discharged when the disease
seems to be arrested. The stay in the prog
ress Of phthisis is evidenced in an increase
in weight and an approach tn normal phys-
iosl conditions. Every week the patients
in all the wards. with the exception Of Q,
are weighed.
When the patient continues 10 gain in
weight il is plain that the disease has been
arrested, II not cured, and he can return
TO the city once more. He may live on for
years and eventually die by being run over
10y an ambulance,
What the city does over on Blaokwell's
Island for its wards is the cure for con-
sumption which every one can have at
.home-pure air, plenty Of milk, all the
eggs you can cot and moderate exercise.
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days, : In the adjoining grounds are twelve
tents, or rather wooden shacks, with beds
for a dozen patients in each.
On leaving the boat the patient Is taken
up 10 the infirmsry in a kind OF broken
down patrol wagon, unless ne Is a bed
patient. when a regular hospital ambulance
is sent for him. On arrival he has a bath,
his clothes are taken from him and hos
pital clothes are gwen him.
II he Is in an advanced stage Of the dis
ease, or requires To be put to bed, he is,
after an examination by the house physician,
assigned TO Ward Q. This ward is on the
third story Of the Building. which is cruel
form. He is provided with pajamas, a
hair brush and comb and is assigned to
one Of the rooms
These rooms. when the building was
first constructed, were cells, but now the
iron doors have been taken away and the
bars removed from the windows. They
are furnished with s~potless beds. a small
table for each patient and chairs for visitors.
The cells offer more comfort. free OF charge.
to the inmates than could be had for a
price in many hospitals. In this ward,
as in the others, there are accommodations
for 100 patients,
The flTet ana second Stories are WARDS
NJ and y. Here the patients are able to
be up and around, and were it not for the
peculiar forms Of consImptive cough one
hears you would not think they were cases
for hospital Treatment. These patients
dress in a uniform which differs little from
the one worn by the inmates Of the nearby
penitentiary, but it is warm and service
able in winter, and, provided. as he is with
a good army overcoat, a man can take
exercise on any cold day when snow is
not flying or rain falling.
Ward Q is the one feared by the oon-
sumptives. The death rate at times is large,
from three 10 six a night.
Tossing on his bed. one hears in the corri-
dor outside a nurse hurry by, followed by
an orderly, bound for some other room.
Then comes the young doctor on night duty
and the listener knows all is over for the
patient.
The norgue awaits sharp upon the agony.
Two mon. patients themselves, put the
corpse in a box, place II on a stretoher,
and cart il Of to await the legal time for
some one to claim il ere It goes TO potter's
field.
Tho q pitient% arc usually upon light
diet. which consists OF milk, boiled eggs,
coffee, butnred toast, cereals, &c, tea
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being SO cute, and the looks of that peace
full little apartment almost brought tears
to my eyes.
"The owner OF the apartment told me
that she had never seen a child in the es-
Establishment and that | could make my
mind perfectly easy on that point. |
moved in, of course, paying everything
in advance and spent a few days fixing up.
Then | settled down for a season of un-
paralleled bliss, plying my friends who
were at seashore resorts and in crowded
mountain inns.
Just one week after my arrival | met
a hooked nose person or the stairs, with a
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being substituted for coffee at supper. In
the night time, and especially toward morn
ing, when vitality is at a low ebb, milk is
brought to every patient who asks for it,
hot or cold.
As a matter Of fact the patient may be
kept waiting and left to call for more i'm
portant things than milk. as in each ward
there are only two night orderlies for fifty
patients. and they are kept on the jump.
This Q ward does up an orderly in short
order. The city pays the orderly, who has
TO attend on the bed patients and do the
work generally of trained nurses, $l2. so a
month. They seldom last more than a
month.
The medical routine OF the tuberculosis
infrmary would restore to health many
now in the early stages Of consumption il
they only adopted il in their daily lives. All
patients are made to keep in the open air as
much as possible. They eat three or more
Eggs every day and drink about half a pint
of milk four times a day where the case is
not serious. The patients in Q ward are en-
oouraged to ask for milk night or day when
their stomachs can stand it.
The city's consumptives receive very
little medicine. Drugs are used chiefly in
easing the cough and afording sleep and
surcease of pain. The Metropolitan Hos
pital is homeopathic in its system. but it's
practice is more or less Of the old school.
There is a general idea that the death by
consumption is ar easy one. II is not. Pa
TENTS in Q ward often die in suffering, their
cries arousing the patients around them.
In the infrmary in addition to the rooms
there are three alcoves In each ward, where
beds are arranged as in ordinary wards.
The overflow goes to the tents. These tents
are as a rule dreaded by the patients,
especially in winter. They are cold and
damp, while the ventilation is that OF
draughts from the gas works and dumps
which lie along the shores on both sides Of
the river. Robert w. Hebbard. the Charities
Commissioner has announced his intention
to do away with these shacks.
All the patients except bed patients
dine in common in a large dining hall on
the first floor Of the infrmary. The morn
ing meal for those on full diet consists Of
oatmeal and milk, two boiled eggs, a bowl
Of coffee and all the bread and butter they
can put away.
For dinner there Is soup, beef stew on
Mondays and roast and boiled beef and
mutton on other week days. Vegetables.
bread and pudding are given with the
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in the door to a party of six convivial ones
that he is not responsible for any contracts
for champagne suppers that may have
been left over by the late occupant.
The next morning the bell rings blithely
at 2 O'Clock, and husband, reused from a
sound %slumber, thinks it is a fire and shakes
wife out Of her sleep. Persistent ringing
OF the phone bell shows them after awhile
their mistake, and husband, with a curse
on his lips directed toward Mamie, takes
the receiver down.
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parrot In a cage. a dog tied to a string
depending from her fat wrist and q trail
Of children OF assorted sizes. each carry
ing a bundle. Investigation revealed the
fact that she also had sublet an apartment,
the one right over mine. and as il that
were not enough, two more tenants vacated.
each renting to large families composed Of
l went to see the landlord, wrote to the
original tenant. all to no purpose"
MY trouble was good nature" said
another. when ! sublet the woman
from whom / took the fat wanted to know
IL / would mind II she Kept one little closet
and slowed some things in it that she didn't
want TO take with her and that would be
entirely out of my way? or course l said
Yes and as there was plenty Of closet
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give an apartment a reason for existing
had gone.
There were no books, pictures, table or
bed linen. silver or bnc-A-bfac. The bed
was as hard as a rock. the nice mattress
having been removed, and wen the sofa
cushions were missing.
Il spent more money putting that place
into some sort Of livable appearance than l
would II l had gone to a fashionable hotel.
Redress9 Well. l suppose l could have
sued and got a verdict in ten years or so.
after had forgotten all about it and the
woman was dead"
What l liked about the apartment we
sublet,' was the next addition to this human
document, was the quiet. We had been
living around in places where children
we're not excluded, but were spoken Of as
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CITY'S CONSUMPTTVE WARDS
SOME 500 MEN PATIENTS ON
BL4CKWELL'S ISLAND.

The Treatment There One That Car BE
Followed at Home Most OF the Pa
tIents From the East Side Ward @,
Where the Advanced Cases Are Sent,
The Department OF Health is gradually
but surely reducing the deaths from tuber-
culosis in New York. The death rate has
been decreased from 4.27 in every 1000 of
population in 1881 to 2.16 in 1905, or about
30 per cent.
The decrease would be still greater If
the lower East Side could be put under
thorough sanitary regulation and the army
Of consumptives it furnishes subjected to
surveillance.
Tn city cares for about 500 male con-
slmptives in the tuberculosis infrmary
on Blackwell's Island. There il also a de-
partrnant for women. The general routine
and treatment are alike for both.
The patients sent 10 the tuberculosis
inirmary. which is a branch Of the Metro
politan Hospital. are with a few exceptions
from the East Side. Sometimes they are
sent there on report Of a private physician.
in accordance with the rules OF the De-
partment Of Health. but much oftener
they s'agger into Bellevue, not knowing
what IL their trouble, and are sent down
20 the foot of East Twenty-sixth street,
70 the ofice Of George W. Weeks, Superin:
tendent Of the Department of Public Chart
ties. where each ratient ia examined by
one Of he departments physicians.
The last Side. with it's lung blocks"
10 the storm centre OF the tuberculosis
pla que. Poor and overcrowded lodgings.
insufficient food. bad air and overindulgence
IN five cent whiskey are among the causes
bringing about this condition.
The average Fast Slider found suffering
from phthisis at tho foot Of East Twenty
sixth street exhibits Il pronounced case
Of the disease. The examination does
not last long The stethoscope tells the
story, and tn" man who thought he had
only q ad'cough IL soon on his way TO
Black well + Island.
The tuberculosis infirmary occupies the
old building al the north end OF the island.
which WIS the insane asylum In former
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through trying to explain who she was,
heard a grosn and a curse from the inner
room. She hung up the receiver and went
in TO tell husband all about It..
He Wa pretty angry, he was angry
enough 10 intimate that she ought to have
had sense enough to know that she should
not ave taken a mans telephone that way.
just then the bell rang with the persistence
II is liable to show in the still hours. This
time husband took a turn.
Il thought I'd get you the voice said.
This is Mamie. VINO is that visiting you2
Sister, l suppose. No, you needn't try
and disguise your voice Wen be right
over in ten minutes"
Ten minutes later husband explains
in a very severe voice through q crack
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From tht London Siandatd

FTOW M IOVdUN NT0N1dFdT
4 striking illustration Of the superstitous beliefs
Of Cornish country folk may bt seen In one Of the
villages OF the Duchy, a death recently occurred
In the family OF a bee keeper, who heTeupon-bo-
lcving that II he failed 10 do 20 the whole OF his
bees would also die -drAped each Of his i've hives
with a piece Of black crepe.
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TALES OF THOSE WHO SUBLET
SUMNER PEEPS INTO FLAT LIFE
IN NEW YORK.

Mlsnt Tenants In . Sporting Mans FLA
Mystery OF Cousin T1u-The Unpaid
Bills Where No Children We're Tax en-
-The Ex.Husband n the cat"
This is the season when tales Of the sub
let apartment are told. The first woman
with an experience had read a carefully
worded advertisement which depicted an
apartment whose miniature size was more
than compensated for by all the possible
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"Hullo, old SPORT comes a thick, mascu-
line voice over the wire. @Just thought
I'd call you UP and tell you I went. Got
soaked. Great day, Horsh got In two
lengths ahead
Husband is mad, but just from force OF
habit asks, (which horse?"
"Whish horsh9 l forgot. Never min,
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man went back to the Office or directors
meeting or wherever he might wander and
told them what nice people we were that 1t
would be all right; the account would be
fled for the return Of the recreants.
About a quarter to Q the cook came in
and announced that the gas was turned of.
We had to get our dinner out and our
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The Treatment There One That a BE
Followed at Home Most OF the Pa
tIents From the East Side Ward q,
Where the Advanced Gases Are Sent.