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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1917)
CUPS AND SAUCERS TABLE APPURTENANCES THAT ARE COMPARATIVELY MODERN. Originally Cups Were Big, Flaring Af fairs, White Saucers Were Small, Just the Reverse of Those of Today. Tlu cup and saucer Is n modem In vention, unknown In the days ot the sixteenth century. Bowls of various sites- graced the banquet boanls of King Hal nnil Queen Hess, but cups came In only with the Introduction of such drinks as ten and coffee. The beverages of the sixteenth cen tury were water, mend, sack and ale. In the middle of the next century came ten, mid with It the Chinese or "china" teacup. Strangely, enough, the men who Imported If" from the, Orient did not themselves understand the method of Its use, as possibly the conservative Britisher preferred to Invent a style of his own. . , The Chinese put ri pinch of tea Into n cup tilled 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 chlctly 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 second cup without a saucer and daintily sipped therefrom. John Bull, however, emphatically declined to tnke 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, prepnrlng the beverage In u common Instead of an Individual re ceptacle. In course of time England began the manufacture of cups and saucers, and pictures which have been preserved from the days of the Stuarts show big, flaring cups, four Inches across the top, with saucers less than 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 nnd fashionable tea services had cups only an Inch and n half In diameter, accompanied by five-Inch saucers. The handle of the teacup came from Mediterranean lands. Originally it was made of thick and strong earth enware and applied to heavy Jars and lamps. Its decorative possibilities popularized It with Greek and Itoman potters, who extended Its use to small junphors and tlagons ; but, as the word "amphor" 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 o no handled coffee cup finally reached Great Britain, where Its merits wert immediately recognized, it was not long before handles were applied to drinking utensils of every description. Sugar Cane in Arizona. Sugar cane is being raised In Arl zona for the first time to any extent. Some 1,200 acres of the Salt Jtiver valley are under cultivation, and next season this acreage will ho Incn-ased 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 ure considered well suited for the growth of cane, and the higher lands can also be cultivated where Irrigation may be had. Up-to.Date Taxidermy. A Philadelphia taxidermist, who Is n naturalist nnd hunter as well, lias not ed the fact that hitherto little atten tion bus been given to the expression of the eyes In the stuffed animals pre pared at great expense for the large museums. He says that the same eye Is as likely to be used for a earner as for a lion. Ho 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, and glass eyes will be copied from them, with the certainty of securing for each animal the eye having tbo distinct characteristics of Its species. It Is claimed that the eyes of animals differ as much In expression us those of human beings. Period of Adjustment "Why do they sny that the first year of married life Is almost the most dif ficult?" "Because that's the time sho has to get used to the fact that ho isn't making all tho money In the world, and he has to adjust himself to the .discovery that his little angel has a iexnper and uses It ut times." 4 Om Nayooimil w..---mr. .-v .. Some cr the. FOR soveral years congress has boon urged to give a now leaso of life to ono ot tho most In teresting institutions in Wash ingtonthe National Botanic Garden by removing It to a 400-acre tract in Rock Creek park. One need only walk through tho garden to appreci ate the need for such a change. Tho giant palms In tho conserva tories are crowding tho panes of glass out of the roofs ot tho buildings In which they are housed. Rare treea and plants encroach upon ono nnother, pushing and struggling In their tights for llfo 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 ot labor on tho 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 niccca for school children, tcachors, bridal cou ples and other tourists, as well as men and women of purely scientific turn of mind, each season that passes glvos It some new attraction, each year adds to Its collections. Recently tho garden has Deen par ticularly enriched by the successful growth and fruiting of tho Carica pa paya, under tho loving care of tho superintendent, George W. Hess. This papaya Is something llko tho pnpaw of the middle West, and Is also known as tho melon papaw. It Is, however, a tropical fruit, known In tropical coun tries as tbo melon zapote. It comes from Moxlco and Central America, and tho 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 bo happened to bo ablo to produco tho fruit hero. "Theso zapote trees," ho said, "were mated by mo. They have been In tho botanic garden, I suppose, about four teen or fifteen years, In seporato places, but I found out that thoy were male and female of the species, and put them together, and they pol linated, with tho result that thoy fruit ed for tho first time." Too Crowded to Be Seen. Hero Is a garden, an exhibition ot great scientific, educational and ro mantic interest to say nothing of tho blta of history entwined about many of Its trees and plants which Is so filled with raro specimens that tho average visitor cannot see them be cause of the way one is hidden by tbo other. Among the most beautiful cre ations of nature, the poor stunted troes and plants reach out toward tho skies for their "placo In tho sun," their share of the air, that thoy may thrive and silently teach tbo lesson ot the beautiful. Here is to bo found, really living and growing, a cedar of Lebanon, such as is spoken of In tho Bible, growing and thriving only on ono sldo becauso It Is crowded too much on tho othor. Hero also Is to bo found tho euphorbia splendons, tho "crown of thorns," also mentioned In tho Bible. From tho "sawdust" of tho formor Is made tho Incense used In Greek and Roman Catholic churches, highly pleasing to tho olfactory nerves. From tho Jattor comes a milky sap said to bo poison ous. It obtains Its namo from its principal characteristics, which are thorns and growth In circles. Tho botanic garden is rich Jn raro foreign plants. Thousands of natural ized foreigners, as woll as school teachers, their pupils and scientists Interested in arborculturo, botany and tho other branches of plant and tree llfo, constantly visit tho gardon to boo these spoclmens. i, Tho myrtus communis of southorn Europo has recently boon tho cause of many trips to tho gardon by Jewish 5rH)?&i: hot houses rabbis of Washington, This plant Is used by them In the synagogues dur ing tho Succoth. If a plant con bo found with three leaves, something llko tbo throo-Ienf clover, thoy cheer fully pay ns much as live dollars for It. It Is said at the gardon that a grower In tho West has found a way to produce tho throo-leaf variety and that he Is advertising It for sale and doing a good business. Some Rare Foreign Plants. A walk through the conservatories sIiowb this and many other foreign plants. Ono sees the greater palms pushing tholr way through tho glass window roof3, at times, and tho low height of those roofs Is tho causa of great troublo to tho caretakers and attendants. Hero Is a Washington fllafcra, a gi gantic California palm, tho largest In tho conservatory. Hero Is a warn poo tree, from China, which attracts tho Chinese of tho Pennsylvania avenue colony, nnd which produces an edl bio fruit, used for preserving and also for a modlclne. Hero Is a marlmosa alba, the scnsltlvo plant, so-called, from South America. Ono variety cloaca and shrivels, If touched, an other closes at night, as a bird cloaca Its wings and settles down, as It to sleep. Elscwhero Is tho gambogo, which producos tho best sort of oil for artists, which Is also edible and which also producos a medicine. In another placo Is tho Arabian coffoo plant. In still anothor tho Indian breadfruit, which looks something like a grapefruit. Nearby, Is a "travolors" tree" from Madagascar, which tho na tives tap and from which they obtain water in tho desert. Thoro aro In censo trees from India, Japanoso plums, gorgeous, scarlet hyblscus, al ligator pears, and there aro, also, bnnanns, thc fruit of tho latter grow ing In Washington, If you pleaso. Tho conservatory Is rich In tho fig family, many specimens being gath ered hero, some of which produco rub ber and somo fruit. Tho fig of com raorco bolongs to tho rubbor family. Then thoro Is tho inga (not Iuca, of course) of Peru, tho most beautiful oak holly from southorn Europo, wild date palms which fruit In winter, rat tan palms, malacca palms, sago and tapioca. Nearby are also to bo found tho nophellum longanum, no familiarly known to our childhood as tho lychco or lechco nut tho Chlnoso Christmas nut. Ono finds hero, too, tho choco lato plant, which has a fruit llko tho lima bean. There aro also hotels, nuts which tho East Indian troops now In Franco fighting for England, aro roported to havo beon furnished by tho British government that thoy may chew them, too largo a Mono of which Is said to produco a stupor: Thoro Is hemp, from which ropo Is made, and thero Is tho Cllvla, a beautiful Illy from tho Capo of Good Hope, named for Lord Cllvo, famous as ono of tho earlier viceroys of India. Outside the Conservatory. Outside of tho, conservatory thoro aro hundreds of Interesting plants and trees. Ono of theso Is an acacia plant ed by General Grant. Anothor Is tho Hottentot poison tree. ' It has a for midable namo no less than toxlco phlaca spcctabills, or acocanthora. This Is tho so-callod "ordeal"- treo of Madagascar of which suspected as well as guilty persona In times gono by havo been compellod to ont. Tho "ordeal," to tost whether suspicion was Justly founded, always so proved, according to tho bollof of tho Hotten tots, for tho suspoctod person who was obliged to cot of it "always died. At tho botanic gardons it is said to bo tho most poisonous of plants. It Is said that a seed no longer than an almond suffices to kill twenty portions. To mako good use of loisuro Is difficult. INSURING LIVES OF OTHERS Practice That It Largely Prevalent Though It Is Illegal How It li Done In the Trenohat. A recent case beforo tho court throw counldurnblo light upon tho penchant somo peoplo hnvo for spocu latlng In othor people's lives. Ono woman hold llfo Insurances on her parents, her children, hor mother-In law, hor brothers and several frlundn Of course that sort ot thing Is Illegal hut It nonius to bo a nourishing bus! noss nevertheless. But hopo delayed mnketh tho heart sick and nftor tho Insure havo kopt tho premiums paid up to pretty well tho amount thoy would gain from tho Insurance company, thoy nee tholr profit melting away nnd call tho law to froo thorn from their Investment claiming tholr premiums back on all sortn of Ingenious defenses. Rather n rotten buHlnosH, but wo are assured that It In much more prova lent thnn wo have an Idoa of. Thorn must bo n tremendous temptation to assist fato at Union, and In any ense, when relatives form tho chlof Invest ment on theso lines, It must bo rather oxnsperatlng to have them politely In form us that thoy are "qulto woll, thank you. Ono recalls that scandalous "comic" song that had such a voguo a whllo back whoreln un Irritated hubby sang that he was stony broke with n wad of dough staring lilm In tho facet Somo ot tho stories ot tho "swoop stakes" in the trenchoa aro equally disturbing. Tho namo of each man In tho regiment going Into action Is put Into a hat and evory man puts up a franc. Tho money Is divided botweon all those who drew tho namo of n man who Is still alive or unwoundod at tho end of the day I A noldlor can splto n chap holding his namo by de liberately courting tho attentions ot a bullet On tho other hand. It tonds to mako thorn tenderly consldorato of each others lives and urgent ndmonl tlcns to "tnko carol" aro not uocos sarlly dtsluterestod. For Anothor Euripides. If some poet or dramatist as groat as Euripides woro to rlsa from tho wreck ot this war and write ot what bo had seen ho could not buttor tho denunciation In "Tho Trojan Women' which runs, In part, "How aro yo blind, yo troadors down of cities, . , yoursolvos so soon to dlo." Thoso linos woro spoken whon this play wan prosented In tbo now stadium ot tho City collogo. Thoy brought homo to all who heard them tho slckonlng real Izatlon that Europo has Bloughod off Its vonoor of civilization and Is back where It was six centurion boforo tho birth of Christ when anclaut Grooco, too, bollovcd that sho had omorgod from barbarlam and did not boo tho ruin then Impending. In Franco, In Belgium, In northern Italy and on tho windy plains of ancient Troy Itsolt tho shado ot Euripides might ngaln do nounco thoso "that cast tomplos to desolation and lay wasto tombs, tho untrodden sanctuaries whoro llo tho anclont dead." In morals and lust for blood Europo has rovortod to tho days of tho cavo man. Devil's Dlble. Tho so-called Devil's Bible In In tho Royal Palace library of Stockholm, Sweden. It Is n huge copy of tho Scriptures, wrltton upon 300 preparod asBcs' skins. Ono tradition doclnros that It took flvo hundred years, or from tho olghth to tho thlrtoonth cen tury, to mako tho copy, which la so largo that It has n tahlo to Itself. An othor tradition nllirma thnt tho work was dono In a slnglo night by n monk, with tho asslstauco of hlu satnnio ma Josty, who, when the work was com pleted, gavo tho monk n picturo ot himself for tho frontlspleco, whoro, amid Illuminated Incantations, It In still to bo soon ; honco tho namo. This marvelous manuscript was carried off by tho Swedes during tho Thirty Years' war from a convont In Prague Honey Shortage In Britain. Even tho boo fools tho war. Gor many has always boon tho largoat buy er of American honoy, but thin yoar has takon only $10,000 worth, Thoro is a honoy shortngo In England, how ovor, and our boot mny bo happy yet Takon altogether, according to official reports coming to tho department ot commorco, Amorlcnn boos havo bo haYod handsomoly this year. Thoy havo mado an unusually largo crop, tho avorago ylold bolng 30,2 pounds for ovory colony, as comparod with 32.2 pounds last year. Our ordinary crop Is fiO.OOO.OOO pounds, and it will bo grontor than that this year. Prices aro down, how ovor, bocauso ot tho shifting market and heavy ylold, and also bocauso of a vory much hoavlor crop In tho West Indies, which Is bandlod hero. Thin country has novor Bont much honoy to England. Only $4,000 worth wont thoro last year, Conscience Fund Qrowt. The United States treasury con science fund Is growing. It now ox coodn 1600,000, received from smug glers, tax dodgers and others Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse It, Dr. liberie- nnd Dr. lirftlthirnlto m well ns Dr. Kltnon all dlntlitRulshed nulhors agree thai whatever may bo thn disease, tho urine seldom falls In furnishing un with n duo to tho princl pics upon which It In to bo treated, and accurate knowledge concerning tha natttro of dlacnoe can twin bo obtulnnd. H backache, scalding urluo or frequent urination bother or dlntrrs you, or if urlo nolil In the blood ban caused rhmi. matlsm, gout or nolntloa or you Mmpecl kidney or bladder troublo lust write Dr. Pierce at tho Burulcnl Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.j koihI n miiiinte of urluo ami do ccrlbo symptoms. You will receive frou medical advice nftor Dr.Plcrco'n chem at bus oxnmlnod the urine tills will bo carefully done without charge, nnd you will bo under no obllRiitlon. Dr. l'lerco during ninny vearn of experimentation ban discovered t now remedy which ha finds Is thhty-itovoii timed more power ful thnn llthln In removing urlo nclil from tho uyntosn. If you nro rulfrrln from bnckaohour the pains of rhrtium Usui, goto your best dniKcUt and ink for n MJ-cent box of "Anuria" put up by Dr. Pierce. Dr. Plerco'n Favorlt.i Prescription for weak women and Dr. Plerco'n (lolden Medical Discovery for the blood lmvo been favorably known for the past forty years nnd more. They are standard remedies to-day as well as Doctor Pierce's l'lenmint Pellvtn for tho liver nnd bowoln. You can get n lampln of any one of theso remedies by wiltluu Dr. Picrco. Doctor rierco'ti Pellets aro nnoquoled mi a Liver Pill. One liny, Huqar-coiiKd I'tllrt n Am. Cure Sick Headache, Ililiouo Headache, Dltxlncnn, Couitlpn lion, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of tho Liver, Btomaci and Bowels. BUTTERFAT GONE UP If fti oro looking for Prompt Kalurnt, Good TrlcM nl 53uar Dl, mako your noil aklprnvnl of Crm to HAZELWOOD CO., I'OUTLAND. The Home of ihe SilbfieJ Shipper Learned Something. "What's the matter with Flubdub? Ho uned to claim that our politicians were the mont unscrupulous In tho world. "Ho has been traveling abroad. I think It was n great blow to hln clvlo pride when he found they were not" Louisville Courier-Journal. Thread of Interest. "Thin cookbook ought to bo popu lar," "Why noT" "There's a lovo story mixed In with the recipes." Louisville Courier- Journal. Foolish Man. "Can't nay I llko that now hat ot yourn. "Yol you liked It In the ntore." "Well, It did look pretty when tho girl tried It on." Then tho troublo ntartcd. Louis ville Courier-Journal. 8tlcks There. Tho man who drops hln anchor In the Slough of Don pond novor getn any farther Answern, HOW MRS. BEAN MET THE GRISI Carried Safely Through Chnnrro I :r k I ..J:- I? d:m .r Vegetable Compound. Nnshvillo.Tcnn. -"When I wan Rolnjr through tho Change of Llfo I had u tu mor as largo as a child 'b licad. The doctor said It was Uireo yours comlnfr nnd cavo mo modl clne for it until I was called away from tbo city for soma time. Of course I could not go to him Uion, so my sinter In-law told Jme that sho thought Lydia E. Pinkhnm'B Vcgetablo Com pound would cure it It iiolped both tho Change of Life nnd the tumor and when I p;ot homo I did not ne ed Mc doctor. I took tho I'inkharn remedies until tho tumor was pono, tho doctor sold, and I hnvo not felt it since. I tell every ono how I was cured. If UiIb Jotter will holp others you aro wolcomo to use it" Mrs. E. II. Bean, C25 Joseph Avenue, wnsnvino, Tcnn. Lydia E. Pinkhnm'B Vetretablo Com- pound, a puro remedy containing tho extractive properties of rood old fash- loned roots nnd horbs, meets the needs of woman's system at this critical period of her llfo. Try it If thoro iNnnv nvmntom In vonr enso trlilch puzzles you, vrrito to the liTdia IS. Plnkham Mdinlii Co Lynn, Muss.