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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1903)
ASTORIA, 1 ORKGON, THUfiSOAY.; DECEMBER 17, J.'lHW. ? ,1 i A GOOD INVESTMENT, '( ; Eeal Estate values may fall, BtookB of any kind irny , decline, banks may suspend, and so, also, may In- , Insurance companies, but If you i want to make a safe . vestment and be sure of converting your cash Into something that is bound to appreciate la value, Buy Diamonds. , j And now that the rainy season Is at hand, remember : . ' that we can furnish, at reasonable ooat a handsome ... Silk Umrella for youraels, vour wife or your sweet ' heart ;'.' I 14 CDVIMAI Til 4 Commercial Street , I. ale 4Jl I 1 IVvJlYi M Mil 11 'M"I III! V HII 1 ! 1 1 i IN A. G." SPEXARTH'S j i I SHOW WINDOW You will find every morning during the months of November and December 150 Solid Gold and Gold-filled watches, with the finest Walthaa, Elgin and Hampden movements, all away below eastern prices. Change of entire display daily. Come and see. Count them. : : HH""H-Wi'M"I-H-M BLACKSH ITHING. Carriage and Wagon Building. First Class Horse Shoeing Logging Camp Work. All kinds of wagon materials in stock for sale. We guarantee the best work done in the city. Prices right. ANDREW ASP. Corner Twelfth and Duane Sts. Plumbing and Tinning 8 est Work est Prices est Material Prompt Attention Given to All Orders w. N.smiM Commercial Street HOME COOKING We are prepared to furnish good table board at the most reason able rates. Home cooking and wholesome food, and courteous treatment to our patrons.- The Central Hotel K. M. HANSEN & CO., N OT HI NG so well as nicely laundried linen. We have the neatest and most sanitary laundry in the state and do the best 4 work.-Alr White help.,,. - , , ,., . : ; .. i'j The Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Wcrhs . manufacturers of ; Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Foundrymen and Patternmakers. - ' Absolutely firstclass work. Prices lowest. ei . - ... ' ,m m mm m mm Phone 2451. Comer iianteentn ana i-ramum. ' ' " " " (ELATERITE Is Miscrri Ksbber) voSi&& LStoSffli woBur boo ELATEPITE ROOFI NG Take the place of shingles, tin, iron, tar and gravel, and all prepared roofing '.T ' -.,.n.. fn V.mt tn av. Tern De red lor all irur nai ana steep sarioun, kuhc.o, ..i, .. .i T-in t, Nimates. Reasonable in cost. Sold on merit. Guaranteed. It mil pay to ask for J prices and information. ,. , - , ' mi ELATER1TE ROOFING CO., Worcester Bui'ding, Portland Astoria, Oregon 1 II 1WH4W4WWW X 'Phone 921. Astoria, Ur. Proprietors I PLEASE S Troy Laundry lino hlnrtmne to tbt ? rider w bo wean SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND POMMEL SLICKERS Kan or saddle can not gt wot. excelsior Bttnma OILED CLOTHING For all kinds of woifc. aQp. WarraMMl Waterproof. Vi- Ta Look for trade-mark. It ar A iiDUb,Luean vnH rrll a. a. twpt h 8a lokKra, Xut taakrUft, Mam. KITCHEN SUPERSTITIONS. Why Moat Cooks Alwara Stir Their Batter On War Only. "Take a good lump of fresh butter and roll It In flour, place It In a lined taucepan with a half pint of good, rich warn, stir It gently over a low fire, al ways the game way, till It begins to simmer." ' This recipe for the making of melted butter Is quoted from an old fashioned cookery book ef a century ago, but the direction to stir "always the same way" is observed as religiously today is it was then, and probably will be for I thousand years to come. ; All cooks of all nations stir not only the same way, but also from east to west, a sure indication that the prac tice originated wltb su worshipers Speaking of stirring brings to mind that in most English households coun try ones at least the practice of the whole family joining to stir the Christ mas plum pudding is still In vogue. . There are many peculiar, old fash ioned superstitions , connected with cooking. For instance, in Scotland, when oat cakes are being baked, it is still cus tomary to break off a little piece and throw It Into the Are. . At one time, whenever a baking was made which was perhaps once a month only a cake was made with nine knobs on it Each of the company broke one off, and, throwing It behind him, said, "This I give to thee; preserve thou my sheep," mentioning the name Df a noxious animal fox, wolf or eagle. A roast pheasant is usually sent up with the tail feathers. This practice is a memorial of the days when a pea cock was skinned before roasting and when cooked was sewed into Its plum age again, its beak gilded and so served. Tossing the pancake Is another inter esting food superstition. Formerly the master of the house Was always called npon to toss the Shrove Tuesday pan cake. Usually he did it so clumsily that the contents of the pan found their way to the floor, when a fine was de manded by the cook. The custom is still kept up at Westminster school, where a pancake is tossed over the bar and scrambled for. The one who se cures it is rewarded with a guinea. The origin of the cross on hot cross buns is a matter of dispute. There is little doubt that cakes partly divided into four quarters were made long be fore the Christian era. At one time it was believed that bread baked on Good Friday would never grow moldy, and a piece of it grated was kept in every house, being supposed to be a sover eign remedy for almost any kind of ailment to which man is subject In many parts of England it is con sidered unlucky to offer a mince pie to a guest It must be asked for. Boston Journal. ' Ancient Bed. In ancient times the beds we read about were simply rugs, skins or thin mattresses which could be rolled up and carried away In the morning. At night they were spread on the floor, which, in the better class of houses was of tile or plaster, and as the shoes were not worn in the house and the feet were washed before entering a room the floors were cleaner than ours. After a time a sort of bench, three feet wide, was built around two or three sides of the room about a foot above the floor and, covered with a soft cushion, was used during the day to sit or lounge on and as a sleep In.? place at night. The bench was KOinetluies made like a settee, movable and of carved wood or ivory. Loudon ,,.., ,.,1 mm mm These tiny Capsule are superior to balsam or iopaiDay-, Cubebs or Injections andymw CURE IN 48 HOURSvniDlT the same diseases wuVm' out inconvenience. Sold fa all DrurHsts. S I G. S I CH m 10 For Sale Everywhere. THE TYPHOON. A Cnlneoa Legend ( the Origin. f . This rier Storm. ; This very odd bit Is by a Chinaman: "A little schoolboy while on his way to school one day picked up what seemed to him a small white pebble. He put It into his pocket It proved to be a snake egg, and in time through the beat of his pocket it batched out yonng reptile, s,. . "The boy fell in love with it and car ried it from day to day to school with him and fed it with a part of bis own lunch until It became too big to be car rled, when be made a nest for It at home. . i "But one day It suddenly grew to enormous size, and upon the boy's ar rival home he was frightened to death. : "When the monster saw what he had done be was sorely afflicted and re fused to be fed, but Immediately put on mourning by turning his color from brown to pure black. He crawled be side the grave of his departed friend and lay there for seven: days and nights. .,. ,, . .. . . , , , "At the completion of the seventh night he came back to his late home, but the boy's old mother was so en raged at him for killing her only son that she picked up an ax and chopped his tail off. ' "With a fearful scream and a lash oi his bleeding tall he felled the houte and made bis way to the Moo Soon San mountains, where be never snows him self but once a year, just about the time when be lost his tail, to come out and make trouble for the people by cre ating storms called the typhoon. This he does to square himself for losing his valuable tail." Lounge Anatomy. The modern Interest in science through "observation" has become more or less of a mania. Even the chil dren are bitten by It The Little Chron icle says that Georgle, aged Ave, taks a great interest in physiology and anat omy. ' One day some members of the familj had been studying a dissected porcu pine and making drawings of the bones. Not long after his sisters took an old lounge apart, and Georgle watched them. Presently he came running to another member of the family, his eyes on fire, his cheeks flushed and his locks flying behind him.' "Come! Come!" he cried. "If you want to study physerology now's your chance. The girls have got the lounge all to pieces!" I - She Waa Anhamed. Mistress (angrily) Bridget I find that you wore one of my evening gowns at the bus drivers' ball last evening. It's the' worst piece of Im pudence I ever heard of! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Bridget (meekly) 01 wui, mum, 01 wuz. An' me young man said as if 01 Ivir wore sich a frock in public ag'in he'd break our engagemint London Telegraph. '"' Would Look It. Photographer Beg pardon,, sir, but can't you look a little less stern and severe? Sitter Never mind how stern I look. This photograph is for campaign use. 1 am a candidate for judge. Go ahead. Chicago Tribune. Th Phyalclan'i Affront. "So you have decided to get another physician." I "I have," answered Mrs. Cumrox. "The idea of his prescribing flaxseed tea and mustard plasters, for people at rich as we are!" Washington Star. Proof Poattlva. "I wonder if all men are , foolsr snapped Mrs. Enpeck during a little domestic tiff the other morning. "N, indeed, my dear," replied her husband. "I know a number of men who are bachelors!" Profeaalonal Confidence. The Broker Don't you find it easier to shave some men than others? ' The Barber Yes j don't you? Yoav kers Statesman. ' . ; Quite Impartial. Mrs. Hiram Offen I understand you to say you're a .gdbd, all round cook, but of course you must have some fa vorite dislien? Applicant -Xo. ma'am. They're all wan to me. Ol'tn not the koind to be couslderin' whether a dish is chape or o::pInsIve wU'a Oi'm breakin'. it. Washinirtou Poe " . EL, (Q. CO. HIS PRIZE-ROSES. A Little lean That Waa Confided M i the Wrong Man,. An amusing Incident la reported in connection with a small flower show In the north of England. One of the classes cut roses was' open only to cottage gardeners within a certain ra dius, and the winner turned up in a laborer whom we will call Sandy. The lucky Individual was In high feather and hung about near his exhibit all the afternoon receiving the congratulations of his friends.. ' ,." s "Beautiful roses," remarked a well dressed stranger te Sandy. "They tell me, however, that if Briggs had been qualified to enter he would have beat en you." . . Now, Briggs was the rose grower par excellence in the neighborhood; but unfortunately for him, he was Just outside the radius. . "Briggs be hanged!" ejaculated San dy. "He ain't got no better roses than them!" "That's nonsense r. retorted the stranger. "Briggs' roses are the talk of the district." i Sandy still stuck to his point and be came quite confidential. "Between you and me," be whispered eventually, "Briggs ain't got no better roses than them, 'cos them's his! He couldn't en ter himself, so he gate me the pick of bis garden." The stranger was satisfied, and It was only afterward that Sandy dis covered to his cost that he had con fided his secret to a member of the show committee.-i-London Tit-Bits. A Woodland Echo. . ' As became the idle man having the time of his life in the primeval forests of the Temagamie reserve in Canada, the clerk of the New York court of special sessions was graciously inclined to instruct the workers in camp. These, says the New York Tribune, were two young, unknown men who, With a canoe and a camping, outfit were like wise seeking backwood experience. He came upon one of them baking bread in a portable aluminium oven before a smoldering log Are. "Ah," said the clerk, assuming a re clining position of graceful ease, "bak ing bread, I see." i "Yes. It doesn't come up for a cent" "You see," continued the clerk, with rising wisdom, "the baking powder, which contains cream of tartar, liber ates when heated a certain amount of carbonic acid gas, which" "Oh, don't talk. shop!" Interrupted the cook. "I hate it out here!" "Oh, you dor' the clerk observed, as tonished. "What business are yon in, may I ask?" " : ' .. "I'm an assistant professor of chem istry at Yale." Throwing; Rice at Wedding:. Like roast pig, the origin of throwing rice at weddings is Chinese, and the legend is scarcely less worthy of Charles Lamb: "A famous sorcerer named Chao became jealous of the power of another sorcerer, a woman, and, conceiving a plan to destroy her, he persuaded her parents to bestow her upon his supposed son. The crafty Chao chose the most unlucky day for the wedding, the day when the 'Golden Pheasant' was in the ascendant so that when the bride entered the red chair the spirit bird would destroy her with his powerful beak. But Peachblossom gave directions to have rice thrown out at the door, and she passed out un harmed while the spirit bird was de vouring it" Crnahlng a Bore. John G. Whlttier, the Quaker poet once in describing 'the usages of the Quakers in regard to "speaking in meetings" said that sometimes the vol untary remarks were not quite to the edification of the meeting. It once hap pened that a certain George C. grew rather wearisome in his exhortations, and bis prudent brethren, after solemn consultation, passed the following reso lution: "It is the sense of this meeting that George 0. be advised to remain silent until such time as the Lord shall speak through him more to our satis faction and profit." Treea of Europe and Worth America. Forest vegetation is much richer In North America than In Europe and com prises 412 species, of which 170 are native to the Atlantic region, 100 to the Pacific, 10 are common to both, 46 to the Bocky mountain region, and 74 are tropical species near the coast of Florida as against 158 species In Europe, Six North .American species of forest trees the Judas tree, per Simmon, hackberry, plane tree, bop hornbeam and chestnut are also in digenous In Europe, alf now growing there naturally south of the Alps. - Vv,. vi Xatara'a Toilet.'': ' The West Indian negro need not bay soap. He picks a bulb from the "soap tree" in the jungle, which makes a beautiful lather. , , . If be wants a Shave, he uses a piece of sharp cocoanut shell or broken glass and it answers as well as t razor. - To clean his teeth be picks a twig of "chewstlck," which U better than the best camel's hair brush and dentifrice. The Correct Reply. At an examination held at the ag rieultural college the question was pnt "When is the best time to sow bar ley?" The "examinate," a sharp conn try lad from the district of Altcnburg promptly replied: - "Three days before a gentle rain sir." From the German.' A Lender, Ho Loexer. ; "Never lend Kurronsi; any n'oey? "Never did." "But you bare." ?No: used to tWvx I ft'd. bu' fonts I 'was nmUtng gift every tee."- Boston Pout SERVANTS IN ECUADOR, Vke Traveler la reread te Hire . Many te Serve plan. If you were living in Ecuador and wished to hire a servant you could hardly get one by himself or herself, but would be compelled to take up with a drove of them, probably far outnum bering your own family. For example, ' with a cook you would hav to receive , her husband and children, and perhaps ' also her father and mother, into youi house to bed and board, and each wouli bring along all his or ber portable pro erty, consisting mainly of domest! pets, such as pigs, chickens, rabbits dogs and other "live stock." The hus band may have some trade which b follows during the day, but at meal-i times and when night comes he return; to the bosom of his family and yours. It would be considered downright in- j humanity to refuse them food and shel- ter, and not a servant In Ecuador ) would work for so mean a master or ' mistress. The children of your cook , may be utilized for light services, such j as tunning errands, weeding the gar , den and tending the baby, but the nn- ' merous brood is apt to be "light finger I ed", and certain to be lousy, dirty and I probably diseased. 'There is no help ' for it, however, because "el costumbre" i has decreed that for every servant you i hire yon must expect at least a dozen '. extra mouths to feed. ' ! Not is this the worst of it Occasion-, " ally the cook's relatives from another village come to pay her a visit of a fort night or two lasting as long as yon will tolerate It men, women and chll dren, bringing more dogs, pigs, chick ens, etc., to be housed and fed. Fortu nately, they are not accustomed tol "downy beds of ease" or sumptuous living, but consider : themselves In clover i if plentifully ' supplied with beans, corn meal and potato soup, and will sleep contentedly on the stones op the .patio or the straw of the stable. , The danger is that some of the stranger hangers on may not be as honest as the cook herself is supposed to be, and cases are known where thieves and : even murderers thus gained admission to the inside of the casa-with disas trous results. Philadelphia Record. , PICKINGS FROM FICTION, Most of us look best at a little dls tance from one another. "Paul Kel ver., It is only in higher circles that wom en can lose their husbands and yet re- , main bewitching, "The Gray Wig." , , No man who la not an egotist or' worse is ever sure of a woman's lore 1 till she has told it with her own lips. "His Daughter First", ' ' When in doubt go to church, for there's nothing that lets a man think better than a long prayer and a slow : sermon. "Adam Rush." . There are sixteen - ounces to the pound still, but two of them are wrap ping paper in a good many stores. ; "Letters of a Self Made Merchant" I used to think that marriage made , men old, sour and suspicious. I find I was mistaken. It is not the wife; it - is the money market. "Love and the Soul Hunters." ( . 'f I b'lieve in bavin' a good time when . you start out to have it If you git knocked out of one plan you want to ; git yourself another right quick, be-: fore your sperrlts has a chance to fall. "Lovey Mary." . ' ; , Row Climate Raa Chance'. In Switzerland a mean temperature , equal to that of north Africa at the present time is shown by its fossil flora to have prevailed during the nilo- cene or middle tertiary epoch. An- : tbropold apes lived in Germany and ' France; fig and cinnamon trees flour ished at Dantzic; in Greenland, up to 70 degrees of latitude, magnolias -bloomed and vines ripened their fruit, while in Spitsbergen and even in Grin nell Land, within little more than 8 ; degrees of the pole, swamp cypresses and walnuts, cedars, limes, planes aud . poplars grew freely, water lilies cov ered over standing pools and irises r lifted their tall heads by the margins of streams and rivers. Edinburgh Bs f view. ,f When the Barber Waa a wit. In original literature the barber is a great figure, and Arabian tales are full of him. In Italy and Spain he was often the brightest man in town, and his shop was headquarters for wit ind intrigue. Jasaujin became famous as a poet in southern France and re cited his verses with razor, scissors, brush and comical gestures as be dress ed the hair and beard of fine ladles and gentlemen in his shop. Ho bad a great, run, made money, blved fame, and Smiles made a book about him. , Her Advantage. "Oh, dear!" said little Harold's mother, who was somewhat rheumatic.1 "I seem to ache all over." , '''Well," said her sweet child, "I'm sorry, but not as sorry as I'd be for fathe if he felt that way." "Why would you feel more sorry for your father, love?" " 'Cause they'd be such a lot more of Mm to ache." Chicago Reoord-lTernlfl. No Dessert More Attractive 'Why use gelatine and spend bouts soaking, sweetening, flavoring and coloring when .. JcH-Q ir-vuuww mmvwm tvouim a4a iwv UliU Ul3r Everything in the package. Simply add hot ' water and set to ool. It's perfection. A son. prine to the housewife. Ho trouble, leas es perue. Try it to-day. ; la Fonr FruK Fit, t , torn lemon, Orange, Strawberry, Bsrm : berry. At grocer. 10c, 1 i 1 :