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aye in Santa claus.
He Sava Ho is Unfitted for the
Life of a Monk.
Tiie Lady Who Was Anxious to
See a Dow,
Which Eecalls an Incident in William's
Paris Career.
[Copyright. 1883. by Eiltfnr IV. Nyc.l
Santa Clai i, Cal., April. ,
Tho old missions of California are a
groat treat. 1 have visited a number of
i hem. At first I thought they were built
unfl operated for the entertainment of
excursionists, lint 1 now find that they
are genuine and do much good.
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The tni 1 ion at Santa Barbara is an
v building of some size, and inside
ry through f he iron I arred
s monks may bo observed en
i in “monking,” as Mr. Barnabee
might say. "
1,, ide the chapel a middle aged monk
was dusting the nave with a feather
duster and polishing the hard benches so
;:; to make it more difficult to sit on
them By and by perhaps he will make
it impossible. 1 trust so. At present
ea< h attendant supplies his own “roz
zu:n."
; everal a( tractive ladies accompanied
me. and when the mbnk heard thei"
voices he turned, looked the other way
and said something to himself. A man
can t be too careful that way if he be
connected with the monking industry.
Only two women have ever cross «! the
thn shohl of the monastery proper. They
were I rineess Louise and lies. Harrison
Ever since then the brotherhood have
been engaged in trying to overcome this
by a rigid course of devotions worthy of
a Letter cause.
Looking over the rules required of
these moults, I can see how eminently
unfitted 1 am for such a life. Nothin;.'
could bo moro widely different than 1 heir
livvs and the gay, butterlly existence I
now lead. (lilting Ido from place to
place. ] ausing only hero and there to earn
mi fotu t dollar if possible, but taking
; of course, in some instances here
on the coast.
1 > rot f;now exactly how old these
mi ;. a < are, but they m e pretty old and
. i :’i'sqno. Tl’.i re should be
■; srf. ( 11 a there for the tourist to
• ■a - ■ in the box for the aid of
y wi> '.hl not mind it.
. • . •>-m dtot he act of con-
Iri ;o most everything as they go
1 me ladv of our party is very fond of I
dogs. I- ■. ■■ found that there was n col-1
leeiion of th- so mrim.ilsntopping at Red
lands Ji v, s a troop of edwoted d. ;..s
seeking to elev.de the stage. They were I
spending the Sabbath at n livery siiblo’
there, having played toS. I! <'. (>i; i .
ing room only) at San Bernardino on
Saturday evening.
The lady was anxious to see them, and
BO asked a large man in a. white hat and
shirt sleeves who was oiling a buggy if
he could 101 l her where they were. Ho
opened a door, took down a fence and
help ‘d-her find them alter some trouble.
When she came away, she gave him a
shilling for his trouble, but he said the
do- •; were not his, and that it was no
trouble, etc. When she got to the hotel,
rhe found that ho wits one of the most
wealthy men in the .‘ fate.
Tie . reminds mo of an incident which
occuri'. .1 when I was in Franco. M
letter of credit was payable at the mai
t ,:ik of the Credit Lyonnaise, a ter
1 :ri\i . • concern with branches all over
1 urope. I used to go to this bank very
o an, as it is very kind to Americans
mid lias beautiful reading and writ in ,
parlors and a night school for wealthy
Americans who wish to learn retuling
and writing, but who have never had
time to at tend to it.
1 was always waited upon by one of
the officials, who was extremely court eous
to t; io. Hi s name was M. Trozeaulebong
When I came away one day, 1 expressed
my gratitude to him, and from force
of habit alone pressed into Ins palm a
5-franc piece. He accept edit with a Lewy
Quadroon bow, and as he placed it with
his other francs in his purse he said:
“Perhaps monsieur has no engagements
for tomorrow —Sunday—if so would he
honor me with a visit to my country
place near Versailles? I should be most
joyful to call for him at his address with
my drag in the morning, and monsieur
could remain at Versailles until Monday
if he chose.”
1 accept ’d more out of curiosity than
anything else and found an establish
ment that threw my North Carolina
bungalow entirely in the shade. He was
an excellent host and pressed me so hard
to remain that the creases in my trousers
could be seen for two weeks.
1 was pained last week to read his
name in the reports of the Panama affair
and can hardly believe that he is the
man. It must be some other M. Tro
zcaulebong, I think.
Yesterday 1 ate a tomale.
The tomale, if well made, is said to be
very toothsome, but unprincipled Portu
guese and Greasers sometimes make
them of inferior material. They are
made of chicken and hot things chopped
v.p together mid rolled in a corn husk,
'then tliev are heated in an alcohpl stove
and kept hot by men who son inentui
the credulous throng.
When chickens are scarce, the sea gull
is used. That w. i. the kind I got. lam
not enough of »iu ornithologist to select
tamales.
Designing people might make them out
of weathercocks <.r other deciduous fowls
and fool me :::;<ily. A man who is not
an ornithologi t otild shun the tomah
unless lie has faith and a stomach which
will not turn when trodden upon.
California has more attractions than
any other state in the Union, but the cli
mate was about a month later than
usual this year, and several people pol
ished from exposure. Living here is
cheap. Workingmen can get good board
nt the large hot bi at $0 to $lB per day.
with coal at :'U p r hod. Horse hire is
extra. Dogs uro not allowed to play in
the halls or to eat at the regular table
with guests.
Monterey probably has the best hotel
in the state < xcept Saugus. Saugus is
an eating joint where vour meals are pre
pared while yon wait—while you wait
four hours for the Los Angeles train for
San Franc i co.
There is nothing at Saugus but the
eating house and a few cases of colic
under the same management. The pas
sengers in ou rent ire car, excepting a man
from New Haven, ate lunch there and
were poisoned Uy something they ate
there. Probably it was the canned vege
tables which are used at that place and
are obtain? I f rom the east, I judge, in
exchange for oranges and lemons.
Our car was the scene of the wildest
commotion all night, and several of the
passengers wore iil for 10 days afterward.
I do not know how the employees at
Saugus live. Probably their meals aro
brought to them from Los Angeles.
Thero aro many pleasant hotels in
California, but when crowded, as they are
nt this s’vison, of course they have to
Work' hard io please people, and they
tannot always succeed. It would bo
well toengagoroo is: "vend week's ahead
if the reader is co; ing to the coast.
I nov' ■ ’.'such a rush in search of
health in i y life. It takes a pretty
healthy , ’ ■:i to go in search of his
he., 1! ,i. ; o i I
The trs: . . he:. I of ours had 15 sleep
ing cars . ■ I 3 engines, besides the
coaches, 'i •> sleeping cars were so full,
too, that ia car. filled almost entirely
by ladies. 11 ’. r: • dressing for over 350
miles in th" t r h'ig. One lady had to
brush her lr- r on the Oakland ferry.
She said th.'it when she comes on earth
again . lie is ; . -i she will be a Chinaman.
One fin:!.; Iho Chinese here quite fre
quently. They are divided by natural
ists i ■ two ch.-..-e —viz. male and fe
ma 1 ■ ' ‘ . 'male Chinaman goes bare-
he.i ' . ■ male w- irs a bat. Lately
th < e>e h. ve hi n pretty busy as-i
. ■ "'i h <>'. a r and th.is endear-'
i,i , i ; to ilie people of San
i h Uli . o.
II in . i ■■■ t‘:i < 1 at a table in
the i ■ ■ x - lof l! hotel, and a man
with "i v . learm movement” is writ
ing: • ' . "of the table. 1 judge
th.u ; l .1 to write on the side of a
I , 1 . 1 . rn t! it hail been s eared
bye i.i king, so that it could
not > i ii. ■ I, while ho was writing.
Tin' t :h! ■is . i.. ly bowlegged trying to
follow .he thread of bis remarks.)
Rec'- r.ly i met Mr. Hatch, the biggest,
fruit i " ■■ rou the coast, I am told, lie
began to h< rt about 18 years ago and
was w p te l to have at that time about
:\iO,ou:i. but 'airing mi' by the arm and
leading me < ti to the Cliff House, where
the sou. .1 oi' the breakers drowned his
voice, 1: . d to me that ho did not
have ..... mai J.
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HE ACCEPTED.
Now he is getting an income of $3C5.-
000 per year —$1,000 per day fortlie year,
including Sundays. Every four years,
when thero is an extra day with no in
come. the I'. or man eats an orange.
This proves that any young man with
persever.'.'i'.ec and SIO,OOO may in 18 years
by industry and economy, and by know
ing as much as Mr. Hatch, provided the
rod scale docs not. break out on a large
scale in his orchards, be far beyond the
reach of waAt.
It was thought for many years that
Mr. Hat ch was the author of the piece
entitled “Monuments of Human Gran
deur Perish.” but afterward it was <lis
covered that ho copied it from n Fourth
Reader.
During the busy season Mr. Hatch is
compelled to hire help in picking the
fruit, while lie attends to the packing
and arrang -ntof the large, juicy fruit
which one notices on the t op of the basket.
All kinds of trbi s grow in this state,
especially tropical and subtropical trees.
The date tree grows here, and at the
right season busy men may be Seen stand
ing on a stepladder in the rich foliage
canceling their dates. The pepper tree,
the camphor tree, the banana tree, the
breadfruit tree and the oyster cracker
tree all grow here in abundance and are
pointed out to one by.the driver, who is
generally a pretty fertile man himself.
Some think that all the great liars go
to perdition. This is a mistake. They
go to Yosemite and drive teams there.
One of them said that down the road a
little “furder” he would showus a strange
sight. It was a big hole in a tree. The
.was one of the Miamosa trifoliatum
giganticum, if my memory serves me at
all creditably. This tree during a con
tinued rain, which sometimes occurs in
the Yosemite, expands, the cells filling
with water rapidly and enlarging.
Daniel Walton, a low and vulgar man,
was hunting through the valley in the
spring of 1878 with ill success, hav
ing killed nathiikg but .grizzly bears,
THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 2G. 1893
all of which w< re too large to tote wine.
As he camo up thi) valley a heav ■ rain
set in, and it came on to rain, as it some
thin i docs in the rainh ; s region o: Cali
• fornia. Seeing that it was gr >wing
worse, Walton topped into this J le in
the tree, and unbuckling a large thermal
b it which lie wore and which conltnined
cartridges he laid it aside and soqp went
to sleep. When ho awoke, he wits sur
prised to seo that the hole was almost
closed up by the swelling of theiwood
Ci'llsof the tree. He was greatly at Jrmed,
for ho had no means whatever
tocscape fropi the tree and did notknow
when the storm would cease. Tie li ared
that he would become a part of tie tree
possibly and . m.. day bo put iritoA, side
board or i !:e t.ip of a bar counter j/>rhaps.
Ho lii'i il his i !i!e several times oiA. of the
hole, but diil n- kill anything. As ilark
ness came on a I 1m felt the/pangs of
hunger f maw; eg nt bis vitals Ihe heard
foot ; ■ pas. 1. .' I y mid rightnj' judged
that the author of them could pot be far
away. Looking out through true aperture,
he saw a inan ami: poke to him in a glad
tone. The voici , coming out) of a knot
hole not wholly cl .ed up Ait, startled
the man, for he feared it wnw something
SiiperiHitural. The man's iamo was
Rodgers—L<.a Itodgirn, they < ailed him.
He ran at first, but Walton l/'gged him
so all piteously that he paused and went
back.
“What is the matter?” he esclainied.
“Matter cnoumi,” rctortejl Walton,
trj'ing to gi.-t a piece of bark! out of his
eye. “The tree is during ill upon me,
man. C.tu yon not me that I am lost
tinl" yon ei'l me, yon g ily, yon?”
“Ah,” mid Rodgers, “the i-ood, being
porous, admit > moisture,: ml th s ex
pands i: ro tli.it, tho apertui >by which
you i .lu red is b coming nJ loss as an
exit. Am.l right?” /
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ri'. mt Ip . libel ; hilcyo" pre-
j .'co an e:."" '-'is «.n capilli. attraction
ami ponioli . , ; y? Oh, ma i, man, in
L avei.' nn::iii git a moveor yon, I beg!” i
Il ~.1. .1 down his dit ner pail and
b. ■. ~i work at the knothole, butbotween
win! ■: h ■ got a better vim ■ of Walton
ami ; . M, “Arc you not Dan Valton, who
lives down ti; 1 gorge where t tie branch is .
where we wa' r tho teams at?”
“1 ma,sir, i.ideed,” exclaifaed Walton I
now cr\ lt:g piteously, "but, do not lose
all you have e; rine.l now by four accur: e '.
delay and loqn.ieiiy. lloTj* me, man, oh,
hi Ip i ; .or I si).JI die here mid po ibly
annoy vl-iiOrs wiiocome this way! Help
me ...it, i. in 1 sir, whoever you maybe,
and 1 will p.it up a petZ ion to heaven
each night lor your well, re and signed
by all the pr< q> Tty owners in California.”
“Ah. but i member you,” said Rod
gers; "you . :o i o 'liian if ho whipped his
wifol.i ' iin nidi a disgric i l'ul
way:. I;.. i.;r t-.l b dly. I tuow
w . i'n you ar'.’ 110 then began to bo
r:: " dton .< i all his great command
of bur. 1 l:i ;i and wentaway.
Aiti .i: i u.ie \.. in i gave up ;.il
hope and bn down utterly, crying
li. mi <■!..’l - ’. I making it very wet iu
diidasoi. h.t r after another cliusi 1
it. *' f ilow ii; • nzed cheek. Thea Iris
pa-t life ro up before him, and he imw
how tri t< mi' mpi iblo ho was in the
sight, of his fe • ,ws. Meaner and meaner,
smaller ami. i ..11 rin his. own estimation
he became until he was able to crawl out
of the knothole, which he then done.
This is th 1 1 ■ ;end of tho knothole.
This kiioi yet staijda
with .1 im'.re ir -i', aTI have described it,
near th'.' ei ir., ice to tho park and outlie
left hand side going in.
The I nknown.
A fresh story of alarming adventure in
a newly set tled country comes from a
Weil known Indian painter. Some years
ago ho was traveling in Montana. Ho
went to tho Lri t table in a moun
tain hotel and sat waiting for someone
to take his order.
Suddenly he felt a jar and then a
heavy weight resting on his shoulders.
He looked around and found leaning
upon and over him a huge, bearded man,
in a bri'iid brimmed hat and with two
revolvers sticking in Iris belt.
“Well, old feller, wlia’ll ye have?’ said .
the man.
“Wl>o are you?” asked tho artist in dis-;
may.
"Me?” said the man. “I'm the waiter.” i
—Youth's Companion.
.Evolution.
Watts—l wonder what becomes of <
these messenger boys after they grow
up?
Potts—Some of them develop into os-1
sified men, I imagine.—lndianapolis i
Journal.
No Friend.
Ethel—W ':o v.: ■ the friend I saw you
with a moment m o?
Ellen—He's not a friend. I'm engaged ;
to him.—Tit-Bits.
A Sign of Intelligence*
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Chappie—Her dog is one of those
blawsted eweatnres that never lets go.
She —How do you manage it now?
Chappie—l send my man in ahead.—
Life.
An Oversight.
A certain popular lecturer gave evi
dence of great longevity on one occasion,
according to an old lady iu a New Eng
land town.
At the close of his last lecture in that
place, as the audience was leaving the
hall, a gentleman remarked that it was a
funny slip of the tongue which made
the lecturer say that the Pilgrim Fathers
reached the bleak New England shores
170 years ago.
“Oh, well,” said a little old lady, quick
to furnish an excuse for her favorite lec
turer, “I dare say it's one of his old lec
tures. and he forgot to change the date!"
-•■Youth’s Companion,
WOMAN’S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Small Account Taken of Daughters
Among Millionaires.
The will of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard
calls attention anew to the little value
placed on daughters by many rich men.
Colonel Shepard's anxiety was for his
son, a youth of 18. For this boy The
Mail and Express newspaper, tho colo
nel's pet, must lie fostered and kept,
so that in due course tho Shepard name
will again stand ns that of the individual
owning and bossing the concern. Nut
not » word about the Shepard daughters.
One of them is married, but what about
the others? They may marry, stay sin
gle, eat their h< arts out for want <>i occu
pation, or take to church and b icvolent
work, which rooms to lx ..hi ■ i'!y r ur e
left to rich won :i who never i: r.-v.
Tne Shepard daiffi.te'-. j.,-r . arc
; as utterly igm i' d in tin ir fat ■ ’ > ex
pressed hop' . and ami .ti uses if
had never hoi :i I Ti.is is in line
with Vauderiiilt trr '.itFii.,. W eu W.
11. died, he left hiscliildnu sll. ''.■.'i 1
apiece. After that mid v.iri other
bequests had been paid W. H.‘Vatffi' r
bilt divided the r idue of his ■ stalo I. -
tweon his sons, William K. and Corne
lius. This residue a r"< ■'-r 4 .writ' ;• de-j
Clares he knows for certain to have been
about $100,000,1; it). The Astors portion
off daughters in the same way and leave i
the real fortune to their sons. Jay I
Gould is a notable and praiseworthy ex
ception to tiie usual
Whatever his failings and sins were, he
at least gave credit to woman for hav
ing brains ami tt nse. He divided his i
property equally among his children, |
making to his son George suitable ,!
reconijien e fob the fidelity with which
he had s. rved his father’s fortum s, but
he also li ft the homestead and its con-1
tents to Helen in her own right, and ini
the inanageiirnt of the million.- aflerhisl
death Helen Gould was to bo consulted
as well as George and Edwin. With the ;
care of the younger Gould children and i
the equal management of the Gould cs-1
fate, Helen will have something to fill
her hearbnnd brain, even if she shoul l
not marry. For’this provision of his will
I honor Jay Gould. It is a piece f mis
erable, pitiable vanity, the ignoring of
daughters in millionaires’ wills. If
daughters marry, they will chan:?' their
names and thus cannot jicrpetuato the
old man’s millions in connection with his '
name, and he wants bis name attache: 1 ,
to his even after he is dead and
turn:';! to dust a thousand years.
Another instance of tho sad conso- i
queni " i of cultivating emotions instead
of b: ns among our sex is eiiown in the
loss of life at tli,. 1 burning of Mr. J.
Jefferson's beautiful home a Buzzard
buy. TI “ Bian in charge of the pla ■ •
knew that t :n'mom nt t ie 1 . ',i ;gga o
■fine vapor t -urhed the iuniace there:
would b" a ti i rlitful e .pli! ion. “Run.
run fur ; ..ur livi he cri to the thr
women n rv;ants. Buttle ydid not mow .
They stood root ed in their trucks wi’ ii
terror. Ew ry atom of sense in them
was paralyz; 1 by the sen wli. s fright
they had never been trained to control. |
The explm ion v’-i.iTe.l. Al the risk of
his life the one man drag;.; d two of the
women away scorched and bleeding.
The other he could not get at, and she
was burned to ashes, all because she was
too scared to get out of the way. The !
tWi.ntiuLla.xrw>uurv woman will control
her silly, stupid fears and keep her head '
on. Wl’.atrver danger confri e I:< r, she
will face it and use her brains to g. l out -
of it.
Women have much before them in tjie
way of working for their best an 1 higlu-it
development. But men have something
todo.too, nndo’ieof the fir: ' -mgs they
should do is to rid themselves of the tra
ditional prejudices of their sex in regard
to women.
Tho United States inspector of furni
ture for tho trea. ury d- par. n nt gets
$3,000 a year and traveling expenses. It
is his duty to travel fr, m place t . pl",
and inspect and purchase fnrnititre sup- -
plies for government bnil iings through
out thecountry. Air. A. ('arlisl ■>has ju.-.
been appointed to this office. Some
brainy, businesslike, Denim-ratio woman
ought to have applied for tne place anil
got it.
The Ohio legislature has passed a bill
approuriating SOO,OOO for monuments at
Chii-kaiuauga. ’Tis well. The members
of the Ohio legislature aro monuments
themselves—monuments of a ruined,
broken old fogyism which has lost all on
the battleflel I of progressand now .shelt
ers its shat: red romnants in th. • Ohio
legislature. I shall never again fi 1 proud
to toll the name of my native-i.iti'tiilher
lawmakers rescind that vote by which
they have refused to grant school su c'rage
to women. Monuments! Gnat Scott!
If you have grit and p 'rsever.ineo. yon
cannot f.'il. (.’hoe.-e y r i.iiu'
according to your L... c 1 mon se;:.~e
and stick Io it. '. at i»o:::id lo v 1.
More than 20.000 women voted at the
municipal elections in Kansas City th’
spring. But women don't want to vote!
Oh, no!
Two hundred women are practicing
dentistry iu this country. A southern
young lady. Miss Anna Y’okum, was
graduated from the Alabama College of I
Dentistry at its late commencement and
was valedictorian of her class.
Mrs. C. 11. Grei n is secretary of the
Society of Cliff Dweller Archaeology of
America and has proved her right to
her office by the discovery of an ancient
piece of cliff pottery designed after the
pattern of a Maltese cross.
No wonder there is trouble in France.
A people so benighted that they allow
no wonum to witness a legal document
and no wife to pe.-st'ss her own earnings
cannot be expected to maintain a stable
republic. They have not intelligence
enough.
Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, daugh
ter of the silver tongued orator of Ken
tucky, will practice law. She''has al
ready been admitted to the bar with the
approval of her distinguished father. Iti
this matter Congressman Breckinridge
affords a shining contrast to some of the
fathers who are in official life iu Wash
ington. Eliza Akchard Conner.
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, Many Hail to Suffer.
It is said of an eminent oculist that lie
spoiled a hatful of eyes in learning how to
perform the operation for removing cat
aract. It is sad to think, of tho scores who
suffered that thousands might be benefited.
but the knowledge could be obtained in no
other way.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
ART IN POKER WORK.
Beautiful Decorative Effects in Burnt
Wood Etching:.
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tion.]
Poker work or burnt wood etching is
productive of tho most fascinating re
sults in decorative effects and is being en
thusiastically seized upon by the woman
who believed in the “house beautiful."
While one of tho best artists in New
York is giving his entire time to demon
strating what artistic effect c.'in lie got
from [,okcr work, it is still within reach
of the au'iiteur who has tho smallest
grain of artistic abiHty. Tho difference
is that the nr. Ist makes his own designs
and draws them on tho wood with a free
hand. Tlte amateur who is not an ex
perienced draftsm.u should never do
that. But he c ..i easily find charming
dt signs everywhere in the art magazines
and ju -mils, and t;:e.,e can bo trans
t -rred to the piece of wood he wishes to
decorite. Often ; xiternsfor woodcarv
ing, china painting, water colors or even
embroil, ry can be used iu this way.
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A BOX COVER.
Bold fi cires or conventionalized de
signs having simple outlines and very
Jittie sb;, ling :;r b , ■ for beginners.
Such b. uiiful things as I have seen
done in this poker work! Some of the
pie. 1 !. 1 like rare old carved ivory
and otf. s 1; : > fine sepia pictures. It
is cliarmii'g :->r panels over chimney |
pieci s and u s and h-uds itself equally ;
well for cabin.-is, bexet, antique chairs,
book covers, letter cases, portfolio cov- ,
ers. gl;>v" i .s and picture frames.
An in : t trious little woman I know of
is busy i: ..ffing panels wherewith to
decorat" the living room of a new cot
tage which is being built among the !
mountain . This is tho Way she is do
ing it:
O . . the mantel is to lie a long panel.
On t ids has traced a procession of |
cupids, r ;>i, ••: nting "Spring,” which she ;
foil: lin a.-, ol'l. "t jounial. At one side '
of tile n.'.citel . .. .c;ll cabinet, the door I
of w! i 'll 1;.. a < , ,n ... g female figure
from o.r- ■ V, ill H. Lewis' designs in
an art maaa’inThe figure was large
enough to t. . i “ without any trouble.
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Over the two low front windows are to
bo panels, one in a straggling brier rose
pati. ?:i. :1 the other in grape leaves,
fruit and tendrils.
Now, let me tell yon how she does it. ■
She g-: -a nice, smoothly .plar.. d board ■
of basswood if it is to be a panel. On !
this she fastens with artist 's tacks a sheet
of tracing paper. Over the pajxT is laid
the desi -ii, also fa- .oned securely. Then
with a tracing tool she goes carefully
over the entire design, being particular
not to slight a line or a dot anywhere.
She removes th" {cittern and paper, and
the wood is ready for burning.
You can use the old fashioned poker, i
or t’ne iron points made for the purpose
if you wish, but there is much delay in.
cooling and reheating, and the work is
apt to be uneven in tone, so this young I
woman who is decorating her cottage
uses the platinum point and the small
machine which keeps it all the time at
red heat.
Into the glass bottle she pours benzine
fluid, malting it about half full. To the
stopper of this bottle is attached two
flexible tubes, one ending iu the plati
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DOOR OF A CABINET.
num point, the other in a rubber bulb.
She lights a small spirit lamp, holds -the
point to the flame and with the left hand
compresses the bulb and works it to send
the benzine vapor through the tube. In
a minute the point is redhot. She ex
tinguishes her lamp and keeps the point
redhot by continually compressing the
bulb in her left hand, while she traces
the design with her right.
It is at first no easy matter to do two
different things at the same time, but a
little practice soon reduces this to a me
chanical movement, just as -one may
learn to use the two hands in playing a
musical instrument.
Practice first making the strokes on a
piece of board before trying to do a de
sign. If you can draw, you will find
this an easier matter than if you have
had no training with the pencil. Try to
make quick, light, even strokes. The
moment you hesitate or bear heavily on
your tool your line will be broader and
darker than the rest of your work, and
its harmony will be hopelessly marred.
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COVER FOR HANDKERCHIEF BOX.
One of tbu west trials of beginners
are the nnsight y dots at the ends
lines. This? come from allowing tho
jioint to rot tat t : ■ finish of a stroke, A
. -Jliotiri'i Lun hub' instantly, and/"
you mn-it r<.'. 'i.iXr to lift it the instant
; you get to the end. , z • '
Sl».cling is ■ by running th videos
the a- kit. li., -!y : long the ffirfate'mf
the wo -I. It you wi-ha very ligt>t shtideS
do nor touch the wood at alk but just/
skim lightly over it. The slight scorch-1
ing will produce a lovely brown tint. [
<>nd t ."ul are the possibilities of
poker work! Alice E. Ives.
THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN.
A Di Jicult Problcm Which Culls For Care
ful Consideration.
There are as theories upon this
subject as there are children upon whom
<o jiruciico them. Nor is this to be won
' dered at when each little one differs
from anotl .-r, so that each careful moth
er has to fall back upon her own judg
ment or expt neo and finds she cannot
rely on that us the wisest of her contem
poraries. V>: y few children never re
j quire to be puu: ffied stall. The dispo
sition has to I • altogether taken into ac
countin con.- i leriug tho method of that
punishment.
There in rare natures, brutal from
their infancy, t 1 demand.stem, strict
accounting. M ny others are so mor
bidly sensitive that a word of condemna
tion yvill go all the necessary lengths.
, And most small people belong to a happy,
I normal condition midway between these
two, which requires a firm, light ha: fi
. upon the reins. 1-
To all children justice appeals vAv-)
irr ■ is! blu force, and injustice is on<W>'
their blackest crimes. This is
I the reason they aro absolutely at tß’k
i.i -rcy of th'ir elders, and they
- the keen com iousness of that fact niit-V
i urnl to a slave placed under the unlim
ited power of his master. It certainly
\ behooves parents to remember that this
is not an agreeable situation. Tobcsure,
the tiny sliivet by no means seldom re- *
volt in their turn and become the tyrants,
but that is so entirely the master’s fault
that it is not worth considering here.
The question now is what just and right
eous punishments may be meted out. Bc-
I yond peradventure not those barbarous
! onslaughts of sheer brute force of which
1 have heard human beings (with pre
sumable human souls inside their bodies) «
say “I never should, have given i* I
hadn’t been angry. I couldn't strike ( a
child in cold blood.” There is no reason
ing with such people, or one might ask/1
Why do it, then, in hot blood? Forthel.
child's good, or for your own
{.'ratification? If the former, jiow is that ■
purpose served by an act of flagrant in- I
justice? And you admit that it is un- ■
just, because you “caji’t strike a child”
when just and calm. A decently admin
istered whipping, with ti moral to adorn
the sting, is one thing; culfmg and slap
ing. m angry beating, is quite another
matter.
Thero are other 'punishments quite as
hard to bear, but more dignified and seem
ly, which teach the world’s great lesson of
cause and effect. Such is a sort of game
in these families which have a pound
wherein all articles are put which are
found lying about out of place and must
lie afterward redeemed. Such is the
method adopted by one young mother.
Every Monday morning she gives to each
of her children a row of pins. Every
Saturday night she gives each one a cent
for every pin left in the row. Sometimes
the debt is t;pon the other side and has
tu be paid off in another week, for every
time any one needs a correction during
those seven days ho has to present his
mother will: one of his pans. There is
strict justice, and fine object teaching,
all swci tened like a sugar coated pill.
A middle ag' -I woman told me once
with tears in her c/es: “I never shall
forget one lesson that I learned when I
was nothing but a baby. It was the ir
revocable consequences of a broken law.
I was in the habit of straying off after
school, and to break me of it my mother
forbade my going outside the gate for a
week. In that week came a party, and
parties wore so rare in those days! She
told ute afterward that she never was so
tempted to break her word. I bless her
memory now that she did not break it.
Yet, yon see, I cry over my lost gayety
to tin’s day.” S-uth Hall.
Society Girls Ir. Business. ,
Two of the society girls of New York
are said to be starting a milliner shop. ’
It is probably not the fact, but why
should they not? English noblemen run
cab companies; English ladies of title
are reported to be the financial backers
of milliner and dressmaking establish
ments. The difference would be that,
while it is clear business with the Brit
ish noble cabmen and milliners, the
- American scciety girls would take up
employment as a mere fad.
Miss Ellen E. Kenyon, doctor of pedi>
gogy, is assist::':, editor of the New York
! School Journal. Dr. Kenyon is a bril
liant little w< inan who made a distin-
- guished success as teacher and education
' al writer and lecturer before she became
»n editor.
Encouragement.
Strawber—Old man, I'm going to take
the fatal step tonight. I propose to Miss j
: Quillcutter.
Singerly—Are you going to do it in |
j that n cktie?
Strawber—Why, yes, of course.
Singerly—Then if she says yes, old fel-'
low, you may be sure if is a case of true
love.—Clothier and Furnisher.
Just the Name.
Clerk—Have you a' name for this new
flannel?
Manager—Yes; we’ll call ir boys’ flan
nel.
“Why. that doesn’t sound quite right.”
“Well, it will v. hen they see how it
shrinks from washing.”—Chicago Inter
Ocean.