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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1917)
GUPS AND SAUCERS TABLE APPURTENANCES THAT ARE COMPARATIVELY MODERN. Originally Cups We're Big, Flaring Af fairs, While Saucers Were Small, Just the Reverse of Those of Today. The cup and saucer Is a raolern In vention unkuown In the days of the sixteenth century. Bowls of various sites graced the banquet boards of Kins Hal nnd Queen Hess, but cups came In only with the Introduction of such drinks as tea and coffee. The beverages of the sixteenth cen tury were water, mead, sack and ale. In the middle of the next century came tea, and with It the Chinese or "china" teacup. Strangely enough, the men who Imported It from the Orient did not themselves understand the method of Us use, as possibly the conservative Britisher preferred to Invent a style of his own. The Chinese put a pinch of tea Into a cup filled with boiling water, and then Inverted a saucer over the re ceptacle, within whose rim It closely fitted. The object was partly to retain the heat, but chlelly to prevent the escape of the fragrance of the herb, which Chinese olfactories found most delicious. The Infusion was permitted to stand for five minutes, when It was decanted Into a secoud cup without a saucer and daintily sipped therefrom. John Bull, however, emphatically declined to take his tea in Chinese fashion. He liked the appearance of the ornamental ware upon his table, but he Insisted on placing the cup In the saucer, like a miniature flower pot and used exclusively to drink from, preparing the beverage In u common Instead of an Individual re ceptacle. In course of time England began the manufacture of cups and saucers, nnd pictures which have been preserved from the days of the Stuarts show big, flaring cups, four Inches across the top, with saucers less tlian three inches in diameter. By degrees one dwindled and the other expanded, un til in the middle of the nineteenth cen tury the opposite extreme was reached and fashionable tea services had cups only an inch and a half in diameter, accompanied by five-Inch saucers. The handle of the teacup came from Mediterranean lands. Originally It trosmade of thick and strong earth enware and applied to heavy Jars and lamps. Its decorative possibilities popularized It with Greek nnd Roman potters, who extended Its use to small amphors and flagons ; but. as the word "axnphor" Indicates, the handle was double, like that of the bouillon cup today. Single handles crept Into use by slow degrees and were probably ap plied to drinking cups about the time that coffee came Into vogue In south em Europe, the beverage being taken almost at the boiling point, so that some device for lifting the cup with out burning the fingers was found de sirable. Traveling slowly northward, the one handled coffee cup finnlly reached Creat Britain, where Its merits wert Immediately recognized. It was not lo'ig before handles were npplled to drinking utensils of every description. Sugar Cane In Arizona. Sugar cane Is being raised In Ari zona for the first time to any extent. Some J,liOO acres of the Salt Klver -valley are under cultivation, and next -season this acreage will be Increased to 5,000. This Innovation is predicted to be the beginning of an extensive In dustry, as the valley lands of both Ari zona and New Mexico are considered Well suited for the growth of cane, and the higher lands can also be cultivated where irrigation may be had. Up-to-Dste Taxidermy. A Philadelphia taxidermist, who Is a naturalist and hunter as well, has not ed the fact that hitherto little atten tion lias been given to the expression ot the eyes In the stuffed animals pre pared at great expense for the large museums. He says that the same eye la as likely to be used for a camci as for a lion. He Is now employing a skilled portrait painter to go to the Philadelphia zoo and make studies of the eyes of the various kinds of ani mals. These eyes are carefully mount ed, nnd glass eyes will be copied from them, with the certainty of securing for each nnlmul the eye having the distinct characteristics of Its species. It Is claimed that the eyes of animals differ as much in expression as those of human beings. Period of Adjustment '"Why do they say that the first year of married life is almost the most dif ficult?" "Because that's the time she has to get used to the fact that he Isn't making all tho money In the world, And "he has to adjust himself to the discovery that his little angel baa a temper and uses It at times." t Om National Botanic Somc CT TVlt FOB sovcral years congress has been urged to glvo a new lease of life to ono or the most In teresting Institutions In Wash ington tho National Botanic Garden by removing It to a 400-acro tract in Rock Creek park. Ono need only walk through the garden to appreci ate the need for such a change. The giant palms In tho conserva tories are crowding the panes ot glass out ot the roots of the buildings In which they ar,e housed. Rare trees and plants encroach upon ono another, pushing and struggling In their fights tor life and beauty. Exotics that have been coaxed to fruit and flower In their perfection In past years are being persuaded to do so now, under present conditions of congestion, only by tho hardest kind of labor on the part of tho gardeners. In this beautiful garden, started by George Washington, ono meets people from all over tho United States, says the Washington Star. A mecca for school children, teachers, bridal cou ples and other tourists, as well as men and women of purely scientific turn of mind, each season that passes gives It some new attraction, each year adds to its collections. Recently the garden has been par ticularly enriched by the successful growth and fruiting of the Carlca pa paya, under the loving care ot tho superintendent George W. Hess. This papaya Is something Hko the papaw ot the middle West and is also known as the melon papaw. It Is, however, a tropical fruit, known In tropical coun tries as the melon zapote. It comes from Mexico and Central America, and the two young trees in tho bo tanic garden bear witness to tho fact that the present occasion Is the first time the fruit has been produced In Washington. Superintendent Hess explained how he happened to bo ablo to produco the fruit here. "These zapote trees," he said, "were mated by me. They havo been In tho botanic garden, I suppose, about four teen or fifteen years, In separate places, but I found out that they were' male and female of the species, and put them together, and they pol linated, with the result that they fruit ed for tho first time." Too Crowded to Be Seen. Here is a garden, an exhibition of great scientific, educational and ro mantic interest to say nothing of the bits of history entwined about many of its trees and plants which Is so filled with rare specimens that tho average visitor cannot see them be cause of the way ono is hidden by tho other. Among the most beautiful cre ations of nature, the poor stunted trees and plants reach out toward the skies for their "place In tho sun," their share of the air, that they may thrive and silently teach the lesson of the beautiful. Here Is to bo found, really living and growing, a cedar of Lebanon, such as Is spoken of In the Bible, growing and thriving only on one side because It Is crowded too much on the other. Here also Is to bo found tho euphorbia splendcns, the "crown of thorns," also mentioned In tho Bible. From tho "sawdUBt" of the former is made the Incense used In Greek and Roman Catholic churches, highly pleasing to tho olfactory nerves. From tho latter comes a milky sap said to be poison ous. It obtains its narao from Its principal characteristics, which are thorns and growth In circles. Tho botanic garden Is rich In raro foreign plants. Thousands of natural ized foreigners, as well as school teachers, their pupils and scientists Interested In arborculture, botany and tho other branches of plant and tree life, constantly visit tho garden to see theso specimens. U The myrtus communis of southern Europe has recently been the cause of many trips to the garden by Jewish Garden HOT HOUSC3 rabbis of Washington. This plant Is used by them In the synagogues dur ing tho Succoth. It a plant can bo found with threo leaves, something like tho thrcc-lcaf clovor, thoy chocr fully pay ns much as five dollars for It It Is said at tho garden that a grower In tho West has found a way to produco the tbrco-lcaf variety and that he Is advertising It tor sale and doing a good business. Some Rare Foreign Plants. A walk through tho conservatories shows this and many other foreign plants. One sees the grcator palms pushing their way through tho glass window roots, at times, and tho low height of these roofs Is tho causo of great troublo to tho caretakers and attendants. Hero Is a Washington fllatera, a gi gantic California palm, tho largest In the conservatory. Hero is a wampeo tree, from China, which attracts tho Chlneso ot tho Pennsylvania avenuo colony, and which produces an edi ble fruit, used for preserving and also for a medicine. Hero Is a marlmosa alba, the sensltlvo plant, so-callod, from South America. Ono variety closes and shrivels. If touchod, an other closes at night, as a bird closes Its wings and settles down, as If to sloep. Elscwhero Is tho gamboge, which produces tho best sort of oil for artists, which Is also edible and which also produces a rocdlclno. In another place Is tho Arabian coffoo plant, In still another the Indian breadfruit, which looks something llko a grapefruit Nearby, Is a "travelers' tree" from Madagascar, which tho na tives tap and from which they obtain wator In tho desert Thero aro in censo trees from India, Jopancso plums, gorgeous, scarlet hyblscus, al ligator pears, and there aro, also, bananas, the fruit of the latter grow ing In Washington, If you plcaso. The conservatory Is rich In tho fig family, many specimens being gath ered here, some of which produco rub ber and some fruit. Tho flg of com merce belongs to the rubber family. Then there Is tho Inga .(not Inca, of course) of Peru, the most beautiful oak holly from southern Europe, wild dato palms which fruit In winter, rat tan palms, malacca palms, sago and tapioca. Nearby are also to bo found tho nephellum longanum, so familiarly known to our childhood as tho lycheo or lechee nut the Chinese Christmas nut. Ono finds hero, too, tho choco late plant, which has a fruit llko tho lima bean. Thero are also betols, nuts which tho East Indian troops now In Franco lighting for England, aro reported to have been furnished by the British government that thoy may chow them, too largo a doso of which Is said to produco a stupor. Thero Is hemp, from which ropo Is mado, and there Is tho Clivla, a beautiful Illy from tho Capo of Good Hope, named for Lord Clive, famous as ono of tho earlier viceroys of India. Outside the Conservatory. Outside of tho conservatory thero aro hundreds of Interesting plants and trees. Ono of these Is an acacia plant ed by General Grant. Another Is tho Hottentot poison tree. It has a for midable namo no less than toxlco phlaca spectabllls, or acocanthera. This Is the so-called "ordeal" treo of Madagascar of which suspected as well as guilty persona In tunas gone by havo been compelled to cat The "ordeal," to test whether suspicion was justly founded, always so proved, according to tho bellof of tho Hotten tots, for tho suspectod person who was obliged to cat of it alwaya died. At tho botanic gardens It Is said to bo tho most poisonous of plants. It Is said that a seed no longor than an almond suffices to kill twenty persons. - - To make good use of leisure la difficult INSURING LIVES OF OTHERS Practice That Is Largely Prevalent. Though It Is Illegal How It la Dona In tho Trenches. A recent enso boforo tho courts throw consldcrnblo light upon tho penchant sotno pcoplo hnvo for apecu lntlng In othor peoplo'a llvoa. Ono woman hold llfo Insurances on bor parentB, her chtldron, hor mother-in-law, hor brothers nnd sovoral frlonds. Ot courso that sort ot thing Is Illegal, but It Booms to bo a flourishing busi ness nevertheless. But hopo dolaycd mnkolh tho heart sick and after tho Insurers hnvo kept tho protnlums paid up to pretty well tho amount thoy would gain from tho Insurance company, thoy seo tholr profit molting away and cull tho law to frco them from tholr Investment, claiming their premiums back on all sorts of Ingenious defenses. Rather a rotton business, but wo are assured that It Is much tuoro prova lont than wo havo an Idoa of. Thero must bo a tremendous temptation to assist fato at times, and In any case, whon relatives form tho chief Invest ment on theso linos, It must bo rather exasperating to havo thom politely In form us that thoy are "qulto woll, thank you." Ono recalls that scandalous "comic"' song that had Biich a voguo a whllo back whcroln an Irritated hubby sang that ho was stony broko with a wad of dough staring him In tho face! Some ot tho storlos of tho "swoop stakos" In tho trenches aro equally disturbing. Tho namo of each man In tho roglment going Into action Is put into a hat and ovory man puts up a franc The monoy Is divided between all thoso who drow tho name of a man who Is still allvo or unwounded at tho ond of tho dayl A soldlor can nplte a chap holding his namo by de liberately courting tho attentions ot a bullet On tho othor hand. It tends to mako thom tenderly consldorato ot each othora' llvoa and urgent admoni tions to "tako carol" aro not necos sarlly disinterested. For Another Euripides. If somo poot or dramatist as great as Eurlptdos woro to rlso from the wreck ot this war and wrlto ot what he had scon ho could not bettor the denunciation In "Tho Trojan Womon" which runa, In part. "How are yo blind, yo tread era down ot cities, . . . yourselves bo soon to die." Thoso linos woro spoken when this play was presented In tho now stadium ot tho City college Thoy brought homo to all who board thom tho sickening real ization that Europo has aloughod off Its vonoer ot civilization and la back whero It was six centuries boforo tho birth of Christ when ancient Greece, too, bollovod that aha had emerged from barbarism and did not boo tho ruin then Impending. In Franco, In Bolgtum, In northern Italy and on tho windy plains ot anclont Troy Itself tho shado of Euripides mtgbt again de nounce those "that cast tomplcs to desolation nnd lay waste tombs, tho untrodden sanctuaries whero llo tho anclont dead." In morals and lust for blood Europo has rovertod to tho days of tho cavo man. Devil's Bible. Tho BO-callod DovII'b Blblo is In tho Royal Palaco library of Stockholm, Sweden. It Is a hugo copy ot tho Scriptures, wrltton upon 300 prepared asses' skins. Ono tradition doclaroa that it took flvo hundred yoars, or from tho eighth to tho thirteenth con tury, to mako tho copy, which Is so largo that It has n table to ttsolf. An other tradition affirms that tho work was dono In a slngto night by a monk, with tho asBistanco ot his Batanlc ma jesty, who, when tho work was com pleted, gavo tho monk a plcturo ot himself tor tho frontlsplcco, whero, amid Illuminated Incantations, It Is still to bo soon; honco tho namo. This marvelous manuscript was carried off by tho Swedes during tho Thirty Years' war from a convent In Prnguo. Honey Shortage In Britain. Even tho boo feels tho war. Gor many has always boon tho largost buy er ot American honoy, but this year has taken only $10,000 worth. Thoro Is a honoy shortago In England, how over, and our boos may bo happy yot. Taken altogether, according to olllclal reports coming to tho dopnrtmont ot commerce, Amorlcan boos have bo havod handsomely this year. Thoy havo mado an unusually largo crop, tho avorago yield being 3C2 ' pounds for ovory colony, as comparod with 32.2 pounds last year. Our ordinary crop Is G0.000.000 pounds, and It will bo groator than that this year. Prices aro down, how1 over, bcJcauso ot tho shitting market nnd heavy yield, and also becauso ot a vory much heavier crop In tho West Indies, which Is bandied horo. This country baa novor sent much honey to England;. Only $4,000 worth wont thoro last year. Conscience Fund Grows. Tho United States treasury con Bcience fund Is growing. It now ez ceoda $500,000, received from smug glers, tax dodgora and othora Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse It, Tut hors-aijrco that whoever may be IhTdlicaso, the, urlno seldom Mb la furnlaliltiK ua with ft eluo to tho prl nc plea upon which It ! to b and accurato knowiedRO concerning tho naiuroof dlacnsocau thus bo obtained. II bftckncho, BcnldluR urlno or frequent urination bother or dlstreaa yot;. or It urlo acid In tho blood has caused thon. mathjm, gout or sciatica or yon auwc$ kidney or bladder troublo luat wrlto Dr I'ierco at tho Surgical Institute, Hullo o, N.Y.j send n lamnlo ot urlno and do ocrlbo symptoms. You will rccelyo frco medical advlco alter Dr.Picrco 't chetn l 1ms examined tho urlno -this will bo carefully dono without olmrgP. nnd you wilt be under no obligation. Dr. Vtotca during many years of nxperlinmilatloii baa discovered a now remedy which ho lltidn la thlrtysovcti times morn power ful thon llthla In removing ff ' from tho system. If you aro warring from backache or tho pains pf the una tlsm. goto your beat dnigglst imd aic tor n Knt box of Mnurfe" put mi by Dr. Pierce. Dr. l'lcrco'a lavorlKi Prescription for weak women nml Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for the blood havo been favorably known for tho past forty years and more Thny aro standard romedlc to-doy-aa well as Doctor Plcrcu'e Pleasant Pellets for tho liver and bowels. oti can get n sample of any one of thceo remedies by wilting Dr. Plcrco. Doctor ricrco'fl Pollcta aro uncqoalcd m a Liver Pill. One tiny, Suwr-coated ZVIfct Dose. Cure Hick llradoelio, Ulllous Hcadacho, Distinct. Conetipa Uon, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all dnrangemonU of tho Liver, BUmia.cs and llowcls. BUTTERFAT GONE UP If yon r lovltlnf for Prompt K.tura.. Cod I'rt... 3qur DmmU mall your ! .klpm.nt of Crra l HAZELWOOD CO., rOHTLAND. Hie Heme of the Sa'.iifid Skipper" Learned Something. "What's tho matter with Flubdub? He used to claim that our politicians woro tho most unscrupulous In tho world." "llo has been traveling abroad. I think 11 was n great blow to his clvto prldo when he found thoy were not" Louisville Courier-Journal. Thread of Interest. "This cookbook ought to bo popu lar." "Why so?" "There's a love story mixed In with the recipes." Louisville Courier Journal. Foolish Man. "Can't say I llko that now hat of yours." "Yet you liked It In tho atoro." "Well, It did look protty when tho girl tried It on." Thon tho troublo started. Louis ville Courlor-Journal. Sticks There. Tho man who drops his nnchor In the Slough of Despond novor gets nny farther. Answers. OW MRS. BEAN MET THE CRI Carried Safely Through Chance of Life by Lydia E. Pinkham'g Vegetable Compound. NaBhvlllo.Tonn. "When I was going through tho Chango of Llfo I had u tu- imor aa largo as a child's head. Tho doctor said it was tlirco years coming and gavo mo rnedl cino for it until I was called away from tho city for somo tlmo. Of courso I could not go to him then, so mysiHtcrln-law told Imo tlint aha thought Lydin E. Pinkhum'B Vcgotablo Com- pound would euro it It helped both tho Change of Llfo and tho tumor and when I got homo I did not nted the doctor. I took tho PInkhom remedies until tho tumor was gono, the doctor said, and I havo not felt It since. I tell every ono how I was cured. If this letter will holp others you aro wolcomo to uso it" Mrs. E. H. He an, G25 Josopb Avenuo,' Nnshvlllo, Tenn. Lydia E. Plnkham'a Vcgotablo Com pound, a pure remedy containing tho cxtroctlvo pronortlea of good old fash ioned roots and horbs, moots tho nocda of woman'a system at this critical period of her llfo. Try it If there is nny symptom in your case which puzzles you. wrlto to the lo-tlia B. Plnltham Mdiclu Co, Lynn, Mass. iliillllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiin wmm