Year: 1875

That element OF curiosity which prevails
in the minds of the ladies as heritage
from Mrs. Adam, still gets them into
trouble occasionally. Notably was the
fact illustrated the other day in West
moreland county, Penn. There is mill
in Westmoreland county, where the ma
chinery Is of n very fine class indeed, and
visitors of practical turn of mind find
themselves amply repaid for an examna-
ton of the works. Among the recent
visitors to the mill was lady who had
just as much curiosity as the men CON
corning the great wheels and hoppers and
the appliances for Transforming wheat in
to flour and feed. 1t made no difference
to her that she probably couldn't under
stand the thing, she wanted to make just
as close an examination as the men did,
and form an acquaintance with ali the
mysteries of milling. SO thoy showed
her through the mill, and she was very
much delighted and evnced just as lively
an interest in the machinery as if she had
been Robert Fulton or George Stephen
son or any of the great inventors. She
was not satisfied with any cursory view OF
things, either, but went up close to the
wheels, Notwithstanding the repeated
warnings of the miller. Finally she ap-
preached the boiling machine and began
to inspect it with critics eye. Very
close to the machine she stepped and then
two cogwheels took little nip ut her
dress. Tho wheels appeared delighted
with the flavor, and took in more and
more, having mouthful before the lady
noted her predicament, Then she gave
u scream and tried to get away, but tho
rapacious cogs were not 10 be cheated OF
meal and kept on chewing, every
mouthful drawing the iated woman near
er to the works. The miller saw tho
danger, and sprang TO the rescue OF tho
frightened victim. There was bnt one
course to pursue. lie was huge, brawny
man, and clasping the woman in his arms
he braced his feet against an upright post
and pulled. 1t was contest between tho
man and the boiling machine mind and
muscle on one side, hungry iron and steel
on the other. Mind and muscle won, but
not without a catastrophe. There was
long pull and n strong pull and pull al
together, and then by one gigantic effort
the miller bore the woman clear and that
was all. He saved the statue; tho ma
chine got all the drapcry. The lady was
unhurt, but also unclothed. Sho stood
there like tho Greek Slave unshackled,
and the lookers-on ran out for feelings
sake. There was any amount Of bustlo
about the woman-the boiling machine
had that. Had there been three or four
more ladies present similarly showing,
one might have sworn it had been raining
angels. The rescued lady stood shuddor-
ing and blushing, and her resCuer stood
painting and blushing, There was n mo
ment or two Of awful embarrassment.
Then the miller solved the problem. lie
! fled from the mill and sought his wife and
sent her back with bundle OF clothing
She soon arrived upon the scene, and tho
dismantled woman was arrayed again,
though perhaps not quito SO grandly as
previons to her little affair with the bolt
ing machine. She has dropped the study
of mechanics, and tho miller now passes
his time between dreaming of vision,
and wondering whom his customers will
begin to complain Of white-lnen taste
in their -four.