Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-06

That useful little article. the scrub
bling brush, often wears out long before
it's time because of bad usage Nine
persons out of ten lay the brush upside
down, forgetting that al. moisture
will sink into the back, often causing
the bristles to fall out and making the
brush sodden and unfit for use.
The household broom, scornfully
characterized as the woman's weapon,
is, as a rule, placed in the corner straw
upward Any water left in it sinks
into the center, rusting the wire and
rotting the straw. A broom should al
ways be hung on a nail or placed IN
one of those patent arrangements that
hold it firmly from the floor so that
any dust or water may fall from IL
when not in use.
Where do all the clothespins go?
Strewn through the grass here ana
there to be raked up by the mower,
soiled and broken when he cuts the
grass on his monthly round. Every one
lost requires new one to I'LL It's place.
And what of the clothesline left out
through all weather. notably as we
have seen from one week to another!
"Such little things are not worth mem
these little things and many more
count largely in making up the yearly
household budget, as every housekeeper
well knows. These are the unnecessary
expenditures that spoil the balancing
of accounts.-March Housekeeper.
Holman Day, whose novel, king
Spruce" the Harpers have reprinted
again, is interested in the prohibition
issue which is stirring his native STATE
of Maine. Major Day appears to be a
liberalist, with a preference for con-
sidering two sides of a question which
is not altogether agreeable to the abo-
litionists. 1t adds just another Whit
of spice to recall that he has even
been accused of being "hireling in
the paw of the rum power" Through it
all Major Day sits cheerfully, ana
writes his keen and peaceful ideas UNI
disturbed by personal remarks. His
recent magazine articles on the liquor
situation in Maine are being supple
mented with a striking series which
has just begun in Harper's Weekly.
Old customs die very hard in China,
says a writer in the March Wide World
Magazine, and in several parts of the
Celestial Empire it is still considered a
high act of virtue for a woman to COM
init suicide after the death of her hus-
band. According to the law the pro-
ceeding is actually legal in some prov
inces, and such is the state of public
opinion that in districts where it is
officially prohibited the authorities
rarely interfere. These extraordinary
voluntary sacrifices may frequently be
seen, and l myself saw one take place.
The widow herself clad in white-the
Chinese mourning color-the gallows
erected for the occasion, and the I'M
mense crowd gathered to witness the
gruesome spectacle made a picture
which I shall never forget.
In the March Strand Magazine APP
pear two pictures of what is probably
the biggest artificial horse in the world.
This is the famous White Horse of Kill
burn, near Thirsk, which was formed
by native of Kilburn fifty years ago
who cut away the turf in the correct
form and then covered it with lime
stone-the whole occupying some two
acres of the side of the hill. The figure
makes a conspicuous landmark for over
twenty miles round, and tourists come
from all parts to inspect, at close quar-
tiers, what appears so attractive when
seen from a distance. Some idea of the
size of the horse may be gathered from
the fact that twenty people can sit on
the EYE"
And interesting and timely feature OF
the March Century is a discussion by
Frederick W. Whitridge, receiver of the
Third Avenue Railway company, New
York, of Public Morality and Street
Railways" and the reflex effect OF
bribery and corruption on the public S
attitude toward the railroads. Mr..
| Whitridge relates that when the pay
as-you- enter cars, which make 1t diff
cult to avoid payment of fares, were in
stalled on Fourth avenue there was All
| Immediate increase in the travel on
Lexington avenue, supposed to be made
up of people who resented being called
| on to pay their fares as they entered,
and who desired their old opportunities
| to ride free.
When a man or a woman of this sort
| is detected the delinquent often ex-
presses great indignation, and case is
before me where a passenger COM
planned of a conductor for having de-
manded his fare. Three days afterward
the same passenger again endeavored
to beat the same conductor, and when
the conductor was firm and said for the
third time Fare. please" the paSSen-