Condon globe., January 05, 1905, Image 4

Topics of
the Times
Danger of catching "craw craw"
from kissing? Pshaw pthawt
Isn't It about time to say lee and
dig more on the Panama Canal I
Russia's losses have been terrible,
but soldiers are the cheapest raw ma
terial she has.
Begins to look as If the Russian fly
had walked Into the parlor of the
Japanese spider.
The Kaiser has a new war problem
on hand, lie Is trying to get the rival
art schools together.
Chess Is taught In the Russian
schools. Is it any wonder that the
people of that country move forward
lowly?
It sometimes happens that a girl
gets mad because a young man Is un
able to explain why he lores her more
than other glrla.
To each Wagner his own accom
plishment. One to leave us Tarsi
far and the Ring; the other to lead
the National League In batting.
Kissing is coming once more to the
fore of public discussion. But what's
the use of making such a noise about
tt? There is only one proper way to
discuss a kiss.
Another cure for dyspepsia la an
nounced. All you have to do is to eat
chalk. Thus there still is hope for
those unfortunates who bare tried the
sanu cure in vain.
' Toung Mr. Rockefeller, as we gather
from an occasional utterance of his
that finds its way Into print, is not
engaged In the acquisition of money
for its own sake.
An heiress who has succeeded In
capturing a foreigner with a title had
herself married to him by a Justice of
tie peace, by an Italian consul and by
a clergyman. She must be out for the
worth of her money.
William Rockefeller has been com
pelled to pay over $100,000 for a side
yard about forty feet wide in New
lork. At that rate even a Rockefeller
might run out of cash before he suc
ceeded in getting the earth.
John Bull wants Thibet to pay him
an indemnity of $3,750,000 for the
trouble he has had In sending his boys
to Lhassa. Thibet didn't urge the
necessity of the expedition, but Mr.
Boll, being a funny old fellow In
some respects, will not permit that to
bother him now.
It is found that the highly devel
oped sense of touch In the blind makes
them particularly successful In admin
istering massage treatment In Lon
don sanatoriums the result of employ
ing blind masseuses has been so good
tnat It is proposed to introduce the art
of massage in New York schools for
the sightless.
If the Russians who were killed In
the battle below Mookden had met
death on the Siberian railway what a
lot the American people would have
had to say about the incompetence and
graft of the Russian bureaucracy. Yet
last year, according to official statis
tics, there were 9,840 persons killed on
American railways and 70,553 others
Injured.
Many are the uses of a beard. It Is
useful to diplomatists as a mask, and
ft protects the throat in stormy weath
er; but a Kansas man has discovered
that as a bee-catcher it has merits
worthy of consideration. He was work
ing In a field when a swarm of bees
approached and began to settle In his
beard. With remarkable presence of
mind he sat down and waited until the
whole swarm had gathered; then he
rose and walked slowly home and
hived his catch.
The convention that makes the opal
the "birth stone" for October, and an
appropriate gift for persons born in
this month, seems to be getting the
better of the superstition that opals
are "unlucky." Sir Walter Scott popu
larized the notion by Introducing It to
help out a plot, and credulous persons
have based upon it more and more
dreadful tales than ever novelists In
vented. But the world grows wiser.
Nowadays, when her opal grows dull,
my lady does not languish in expec
tation of ill fortune; she takes it to the
Joweler to be repollshed.
It Is admitted and deplored by prom
lnent clergymen that religion has lost
much of Its effect as an active force
In society during recent years in Eu
rope and America. Who or what is
responsible for this apparent decline
of popularity of religion? Is It the
clergy or the laity? or does the fault
and weakness It In to ins principle of
Christianity Itself? There Is a spirit
of broad charity on all sides among
Christian people. Sect tolerates sect,
while Chrlsttan natlous bear with the
beliefs of pagan nations. This loosen
ing of the Hues may or may not ac
count for the seeming weakness of
churches now as compared with the
past, but it affords no sufficient explan
ation of the waning of the religious
spirit
Harry Lehr, leader of Newport so
ciety, has again given a Jar to the
jaded who imagine Ufa scarcely worth
the while. The fuuctlon through which
he created an oasis of gladness and
put some of his money Into circula
tion was a birthday party to his wife's
doggy. There were seven caulne pets
present and they were attended by five
liveried butlers. The mistresses of the
doggies were there too, and after the
dinner they, with Mr. Lehr, romped
with the pets until all were tired out.
The dinner to the doggies and dog
gesses was served in courses and was
supplemented by a birthday cake.
There is but one Harry Lehr. No oth
er example of splendid endeavor aud
unmistakable genius approaches him.
He has money and puts It to the noble
use of making a fool of himself and
his associates. Seven dogs attended by
five butlers, and the function presided
over by a near relative dressed In a
man's clothes. What a spectacle!
There died recently In Chicago a
successful merchant, who In the long
course of a busy life never forgot that
he bad ben a boy. "In the whole
world," be often said, "there is no cue
else equal to a fine, strong, clean
young man except a fine, strong,
clean young woman." He not only be
lieved that, but he acted on his belief.
So it happened that no business was
VeI iicasiu Uit L !I but iiluu,
when he found a youth of the kind
described, to seek employment for him
in his own office or with some ac
quaintance. "Business Is a little slack
Just now," the acquaintance would
sometimes say. "I'm afraid I cannot
find room for another man one who
has no experience." "Don't tell me you
are going to let this opportunity iro
by," the other would Interrupt. "Why,
you can't afford to. Room for him?
Who asked yon to 'make room for
him? Give him a chance. He'll make
his own room. Here's a young man
do you realize what that means? Ono
of the noblest creatures In the world.
Not only a man like you and roe, but
young, with all the work! before him.
He offers to give you his whole power,
to come Into your business and use
bis God-given intelligence in mastering
and Improving it You are asked to
accept a favor and if you don't some
more enterprising rival will. Take blni
while you can get him; yon may not
have another chance." Boys who de
serve such Introductions are not so
rare as is sometimes thought Thlt
man had a faculty for finding them
and for bringing out by stimulating
words the very best in them. And he
brought home to many employers be
sides himself the fact that a boy seek
ing work, if he be the right kind of a
boy. is offering In his manly ambition
something for which the money paid
is In no sense a return.
Happy is the woman who has an
innate sense of harmony, who knows
not only one tint from another, but
knows what colors will blend and
what colors will quarrel. Happy the
woman who does not spend her
strength and her money trying to have
an attractive home or pleasing ward
robe and all to no purpose. The
woman who has an eye for color can
work the happiest effects and often
with very small means. Her home Is
restful and inviting, with an Indefin
able charm which money alone can
never buy. She would no more think
of compelling purple to stand with
blue or scarlet with crimson than she
would think of inviting into her par
lor two persons who were sworn ene
mies to each other. She would avoid
loud colors in her furnishings as she
would a loud-mouthed individual full
of self-assertion and overbearing ways.
Instead of envying and aping the rich,
the woman who will study the nature
of colors and the laws of harmony
and mnke her selections in accordance
with them will be gratified with a
beautiful home, simple, perhaps, nut
wonderfully pleasing in its air of
cheerful comfort and expression of re
fined feeling. The woman who has a
sense of harmony, either native or ac
quired, will not make the mistake of
overloading her rooms or her gar
ments. True art demands the absence
of whatever is superfluous, meaning
less or contradictory and fretting. It
may not be easy to give up what vul
garity and coarseness have so long
exacted, but refined taste once ac
quired has no use for the tawdry, the
worthless and the oppressive weight
of decoration. Simplicity does not sig
nify any form of purltanlsm, but it
does mean a harmony that produces
peace ou all who come under Its In
fluence. No man ever loved his family to
much that he claimed he prefers the
backbone of the chicken.
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stopper for Receptacle.
In the majority of the large cities
stringent laws have been enacted In
relation to the storage of Inflammable
liquids, the many
accidents due to
carelessness in
handling them
making this an
absolute neces
sity. In a great
many factories
and tores, where
oils of all kinds
are used In great
quantities, proper
care Is not al
ways exercised,
and the recepta
cles In which they
are kept generally
SEALS TUB CAW,
are left with the spout open or, per
haps, an old cork, which should have
beeu discarded long before, serves as
a stopper. Besides being uncleanly, It
is through such carelessness that fires
start. A New Orleans man has pat
ented a very good stopper that can be
attached to either metallic or wooden
receptacles used for the storage of
oils and aiher fluids, the use of which
would overcome both of the objections
stated above. It Is tapered to a point
at Its lower end. with a flange of rub
ber or other yielding material fastened
ou the outside, so that when it is in
serted In the spout It will fit as tight
as possible ana prevent evaporation oi
the contents of the receptacle. The
stopper is pivoted on the cud of a
rod, tills rod being attached to a bar
fastened to the receptacle, as shown
In the illustration. A spring made of
wire Is wound around the bar, one end
resting against a small handle designed
to pull open the stopper, while the oth
er end Is secured to the top of the re
ceptacle, this spring keeping the stop
per In place In case the receptacle la
tilted or upset. Projecting from the
lower end of the stopper Is a guide
rod, which extends Into the spout but
Is only partis lly withdrawn when the
stopper is pulled out This guide rod
insures the stopper being seated in the
spout, the weight of the stopper, aug
mented by the action of the spring
causing the whole to fall Into place af
ter the spout has been opened and the
quantity of liquid poured out
The patentee is Emll C. Staudlnger,
of New Orleans, La.
Adjustable Bracket for Mirrors.
Oue mirror is seldom deemed
enough by the average woman for ar
ranging her dress and also for comb
ing the hair, and that Is where the lit
tle hand mirror is convenient and use
ful. Its one drawback is the fact that
as it takes one hand to bold it It al
lows only the use of the other to work
with. In the Illustration Is shown a
simple adjustable attachment for a
small mirror, in conjunction with the
larger ono on the bureau, enabling the
former to be adjusted to any desired
position and also to compactly fold It
out of the way when not in use. The
upright supporting arm, made of tubu
lar metal, is fastened to the edge of the
bureau dresser or other support In
the center of this rod Is a sleeve of an
arm extending outward, which arm is
attached to an outer arm and an inter
mediate arm. The sleeve is adapted to
slide In the support and provided with
a clamping screw for securing it in its
adjusted position. All the arms are
hinged together to permit them to
swing horizontally, while the outer
arm is provided with resilient Jaws to
hold the mirror. By the use of this
contrivance the small mirror can be
secured in various positions and the
user can stand between It and the mir
ror of the bureau or dresser, dispens
ing with a hand glass and leaving both
hands free for dressing or other pur
poses. Frederick Eble and Garland E. Mar
tin, of Norfolk, Va., are the patentees.
Novel Fire Escape.
Everybody Is more or less familiar
with fire escapes and their uses, but
it has been demonstrated that fire es
capes art absolutely useless In case of
. , ADJUSTABLE BRACKET.
panic. Tower fireproof fire escapes
are supposed to be entirely safe, but
when a crowd striving to get out of a
burning building lose their bends, a
panic follows, and many Uvea are lost
by persons being knocked down aud
trampled on. Hope and chain fir es
capes are useful to a certain extent, as
are also outside frame steps. A novel
Improvement in (Ire escapee, the Inven
tion of a South Dakota man, Is shown
here, it comprises a car In the form
of a veranda, which Is held normally
In a position to be entered from a
If it
mm
D KSCT!IDS WHIH LOADED.
window of a building. Thla car slides
ou uprights, so that when a sufficient
weight Is placed on the car It de
scends, being operated by counter bsl
ance weights attached to a sprocket
chain. The weights can be so madt
as to not only overbalance the car oi
balcony, but also the weight of a man
thereon, so that when the car la In a
lowered position a fireman may entet
It and when released It will aacend wltb
its single psssenger. - When two oi
more passengers are on the car It will
aescend, and after Its load has been re
moved It will asceud again. By the in
troduction of a brake mechanism the
car can be arrested at any point
Silas J. GUmore and William 8. Ter
ry, of Buckmere, S. D., are the paten
tees. A New Lock for Poor.
One of the hardest problems of th
household Is to keep track of all the
keys to the different rooms. This Is
especially true of the keys to the bed
room or bathroom doors, as children
will remove them to play with, and
the consequence is they are easily lost.
In some cases latches are attached
to the doors, and are Invariably found
more practical than keys, but, of
course, they are only useful in locking
the door on the Inside. An Improve
ment in this kind of lock Is shown in
the Illustration, but Instead of insert
ing the key in a keyhole in the door to
unlock it, the keyhole, is plnced In the
knob of the door. The mechanism of
the lock Is so constructed that a per
son on the inside of the door can, by
turning the knob in one direction, lock
the door so that It cannot be opened,
even by a key on the outside. By
turning the knob In the opposite dl
rection the door Is locked, but can be
opened on the outside by the use of a
key designed to fit in the lock. On
bathroom and bedroom doors this lock
would be especially valuable, as the
person on the Inside could be snfe from
intrusion, and there would be no neces
sity of looking for lost keys.
Byron Phelps, of Seattle, Wash., Is
the patentee.
Reward of Endurance.
"How many bottloa o' this will I
have to take?" asked Farmer Corn-
toasel.
"Before you're cured?" said the
medicine man.
"No. Before I get my picture In
the paper." Washington Star.
Every one likes the man who, hav
ing his choice of three or four seats
In the parlor, takes one beside hit
wife.
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Another club woman. Mrs.
Ilaulc, of Edgcrton, Wis., tells
how she was cured of Irregulari
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache, by the use
of Lydia C Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
'Pea Mrs. mmum A whlla
ago my health began to fall because of
female troubles. The doctor did not
help me. I rememltered that my mother
bad used LydU IS. rinkhitiu'
Vegetable Compound on many oo
easlons for Irregularities and uterine
troubles, and I felt sure that It could
not harm ma al any rata to give It a
trial.
" I waa certainly glad to find thai
within a week I fe't much better, tha
terrible pains la the back aud side
were beginning to eesae, and at tha
time of menstruation I did not have
nearly aa serious a time aa heretofore,
so I continued tu use for two months,
and at the end of that time I waa Ilk
a new woman. I really have never
felt better In my life, have not had a
alclc headache sisc-. and weigh SO
J?CII5?is 2?r Bn I aver did. ao I no
nesiUUngiy recommend your medi
cine." Mrs, Mat Hauls, Kdgerton,
Wis., Pres. Household Koonom ire Club.
$5000 farftH If tfll" t toller
fMtlMWN imnI e ersea
A Qneer Marriage Ceremony.
Among the Kherrlas of India tha
marriage ceremony Is very funny.
Taking a small portion of the hair of
the bride aud groom In turn from the
center of the forehead, the priest
draws It down on to the bridge of tha
nose. Then, pouring oil on the head,
be watcbea It carefully as It tticklea
down tha portion of hair. If the oil
runs straight oo to the tip of their
nose their future will be fortunate,
but If it spreads over the forehead or
trickles off on either side of the nose,
bad luck Is sura to follow. Their for
tunes told, generally to their own sat
isfaction, the essential and Irrevocable
part of the ceremony takes place.
Standing up aide by side, but with)
faces strictly averted, the bride and
groom mark each other's forehead
wltb with "slndur" (vcrmllllon).
Wanted a Pleasant Eipresalon.
Mr. Grumps Good morning. Do too
take pictures by the instantaneous pro
cess? riiotogrspher Yes, sir.
Mr. Grumps Well, this Is Mrs.
Grumps. my wife, you know. I wsnt
her picture taken.
Photographer Certainly. But are you
particular about having It Instantaneous?
Mr. Grumps Of course. When Ton
get things ready, tell her to look pleas
snt snd then snap off the mschlne be
fore the expression fsdee away. You've
gotter be quleker'n lightning.
Music, Heavenly Maid.
Hostess Won't you play something
for us, Miss Keynote?
Gifted Amateur Certainly, If it la
your desire. W'iSt would you prefer?
Hostess Oh, aoythlug, only so it Isn't
loud enough to 'interfere with the conver
sation. Wooed an' Married and A.
Mrs. (3 add Oh, have you heard the
news? Miss De Ledger aud her father's
bookkeeper were secretly married six
months ago.
Mrs. Gabb Dearie mel now did It
leak out?
Mrs. Gadd Some one overheard them
quarreling.
How It Happened.
Washington, Sr. What, you young
rascal, do you mean to stand up there
and say that you cut that cherry tree?
Washington, Jr. Yes, dad. I didn't
mean to tell the truth, but you didn't
give ma time to hatch out a suitable
yarn.
Sir Michael Ulcks-Ueach, who has
been a member of the British House of
Commons more tlinn forty years, will
leave public life and may be offered a
peerage.
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