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WOMEN'S WORK.
Occupations in Which Males Do
the Work of Females.
Washing, Cooking, Sewing and
Acting as Chambermaids.
While it is true that women have to
a great extent of late years taken to
doing men’s work, it is also true that
some men do women’s work. In
California Chinese men are largely
employed as domestic servants, and
wherever Chinamen go they aye
chiefly employed in laundries. In
many large laundries where now
shirts are dono up expert men are em¬
ployed who make good wages. The
reason why men are employed on new
skirts is because the new shirts requir 0
more strength to iron them properly
than shirts that have been previously
laundered, and few women havo the
strength to do the work properly.
In the State prisons men
are commonly employed at laundry
work, mainly on shirts. It is curious,
by tho way, how differently a China¬
man uses an iron from the method
employed by women. When a woman
uses an iron she begins with it at the
right heat for use, and consequently it
soon cools, and she consumes much
lime in changing her irons. The
Chinaman, on the contrary, gets his
iron very hot, much too hot for use.
When he begins to use the iron ho
plunges it quickly into cold water.
This cools the surface for a moment.
The heat from tho interior then begins
to come to the surface, and continues
to do so for some time, about as fast
as it is cooled by use, so that the neces¬
sity for the frequent changing of irons
is obviated.
Worth, the man dressmaker of
Paris, has counterparts in other coun¬
tries. The largest producer of dress pat¬
terns for women in New York is a man,
although his business lias been for
many years conducted in the name of
his wife. The most expensive jnd
best-fitting dresses that women wear
are tailor-made dresses which are
made by men. The designs for new
dresses are mostly made by men. The
most expensive ladies’ bats aro made
by men. The man milliner is pro¬
verbial.
In the department of nursing which
is considered specially women's work,
many men are employed. Where
patients are helpless and require much
lifting, it has been found necessary to
procure strong men, because women
are not equal to hard labor.
Sewing is especially women’s work,
but the very finest and best paid sew¬
ing is done by men in fancy tailoring.
Sinco the introduction of the sewing
machine the proportion of men sewers
has increased in those branches whore
the work is heavy and requires
strength for long hours of labor.
Although cookiug is regarded gen¬
erally as women’s work, the best paid
cooks are men. In the great clubs,
hotels, restaurants and private houses
where fine cooking is required, the
best cooks are men. It is the men
who havo made cooking one of the
fine arts. It is true, however, that
the great artists in food disdain to be
called cooks, and are known as chefs,
and they command salaries of which
the average lawyer would be proud.
House cleaning is looked upon as
women’s work, yet there are establish¬
ments that will clean a house from top
to bottom and put it in order, and em¬
ploy mostly men to do it.
Boarding house keeping is mostly
women’s business, but there are many
large and successful boarding houses
in New York that are managed by men.
Often they get two or three houses to¬
gether - , and the tendency of men in
that business is to enlarge it so as to
make these places approach the charac¬
ter of hotels. It is a rare thing for a
woman to keep a hotel.
There are even men chambermaids.
On steamboats and steamships most of
the chamber work is done by men.
Even in large boarding houses it has
been found expedient to have men do
the chamber work.— [New York Sun.
•
E Yes,” said the bulldog after a hard
effort to break his chain and chew up
a tramp he saw in the road; “if I
wasn’t so much attached to my home
there is nothing I should like better
than to join that poor wanderer yon¬
der.”
Making a Thief of Electricity,
Short-weight gold coins are becom¬
ing annoyingly common. The discov¬
ery a few days since of nearly $300 in
light two-and-a-hnlf dollar gold pieces
tendered in payment of custom duties
has led to the detection of numer¬
ous pieces short in weight, show¬
ing that there is in operation a
systematic scheme for robbing the
Government by stealing metal from
coins. Officers of the United States
Secret Service are now at work en¬
deavoring to trace the coins through
different hands and find the offenders.
This process of robbery, which is fa¬
miliarly known as “sweating” coins,
was formerly practised to a large ex¬
tent, but of late years few instances
of it have come to the attention of the
authorities. From a careful examina¬
tion of light pieces which are now be¬
ing found, it is evident that the thief
is not doing his work by the old hand
method of shaking the coins in a bag
and then gathering the dust by means
of quicksilver, but that he has brought
into requisition the agency of eloc
tricity.
The service of an ordinary galvanic
battery and some cheap acid is all that
is necessary to conduct the operation
by the electric process. The scheme
is similar to that employed in plating
with gold by electricity. The coin is
placed in the fluid and attached to it
aro wires from the poles of the bat¬
tery leading to another piece of metal
prepared to receive, in the form of
plating, tho metal to be removed from
the coin. The battery being set in
motion, sufficient gold to form a plat¬
ing is quickly transferred, and as it
is removed uniformly from all
parts of the coin, the liabili¬
ty of disfigurement is reduced to
a minimum. The only effect is to blur
the characters slightly. An authority
at the mint has estimated that about
fifty cents’ worth of gold can be re¬
moved in this way from a ten-dollar
gold piece, without exciting tho suspi¬
cion of the casual observer. To the
skilled eye of an expert, however, the
effect is generally apparentat a glance.
The electric process of stealing from
coins is not altogether a new scheme.
The Government officials a few years
ago captured in northern New York a
band of Italians who were operating
extensively on this plan. — [Boston
Transcript.
Removing Children’s Teeth.
The sixth year molar is the first of
the permanent set of teeth, and where
at the age of eleven, or before the ap¬
pearance of the twelfth year molar,
it is found so badly decayed that the
pulp must be or is destroyed, it is fre¬
quently wiser to remove it (and its
follow in the same jaw if that is de¬
cayed), hoping that the erupting
twelfth year molar will then appear
further forward, and eventually the
space be obliterated. Thus the wis¬
dom tooth lias plenty of space and be¬
comes more useful than usual.
"Where the same condition prevails
after the appearance of the twelfth
year molar, it is not so easily divided,
though in many cases even then it is
more beneficial to remove than to re¬
tain the pulpless tooth
Abscessed teeth, especially in the
back of the mouth, aud more especial¬
ly in the lower jaw, should not be left
in the mouth after a reasonable amount
of skillful treatment has failed to con¬
trol the discharge of pus. Chronic
abscesses discharge pus, which if
swallowed with the saliva, are too
frequently allowed to pass unnoticed,
and serious derangements may arise
from this constant assimilation of a
septic poison. If the abscess cannot
be cured, extract the tooth. — [Now
York Herald.
A Great Electric Railroad.
M. Baross, the Hungarian minister
of commerce, is not satisfied with the
renown which the introduction of the
zone tariff has gained for him, but is
coming forward with another plan by
which he proposes to give us the fast¬
est trains in the world. This plan is for
an electric railway, for passeugers
only,between Vienna and Buda-Pesth.
The distance of 156 miles would be
achieved in two hours and a half. One
railway carriage would start every ten
minutes between 6 in the morning and
midnight. The only difficulty is the
capital required for the execution of the
project, which is no less than 38,000,
000 florins. The fare from Vienna to
Fcsth would be 10 florins.—[London
News.
Royalti**
The king of Holland got a divorce from
his first wife because she used musk for a
perfume.
Queen Victoria has five maids to assist
at her toilet—three dressers aud two
wardrobe women.
The Archduchess Elizabeth, mothei of
the queen of Spain, celebrated the 00th
anniversary of her birtbbay in Madrid.
Ex-King Milan is ahouse now a resident the of
Paris, having taken He on is avenue
of the Bois du Boulogne. ven un¬
popular in Paris society.
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the
heir to the throne of Austria, is a tall and
very distinguished looking man. He has
been very carefully educated, has consid¬
erable talent for art and music and is a
tiue soldier.
The presents which the sultan of
Turkey has sent to the imperial the family of
Germany since the accession of young
emperor are almost endless in number.
He recently sent three Arabian horses to
the three oldest sons of his majesty.
The king of Italy has three separate
studs of his own on his beautiful estate
of San Rossore, near Pisa, which is fam¬
ous in Tuscany for its miles of splendid
primeval pine forests, and these studs
contain upward of 2,000 horses and also
a large herd of pure bred camels.
Ex-Queen Isabella’s daughter, married the
Princess of Paz, is happily Bavaria. The to
Prince Ferdinand of
prince is distinguished as a medical stu¬
dent, and his own and his wife’s charities
have made them noted throughout A5er
many for their philanthropy.
Things to Remember.
Wash mirrors with warm suds, dust
with whiting in a muslin bag, and polish
with chamois skin.
Cut a piece from the top of an old kid
shoe and insert it inside tho ironing
holder you are going to make.
Two apples kept in the cake box will
cause moderately rich cake to remain
moist for a great length of time if the
apples are removed when withered.
Boys, never forget that you stand as a
protector of every girl into whose society
rou may be thrown, Remember that as
you treat her, so may your nearest and
ilearest be treated. Hold her as sacred
n thought and actions as you would
Lave your mother and sisters held by
others. Remember, too, that reason and
right make it incumbent upon you to
bring as clear a record of your life to the
woman you would marry as you demand
of ber. —Ex.
Malaria cared and eradicated from the
system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en¬
riches the blood, tones the nerves, aids diges¬
tion. Aots like a charm on persons and strength. in general
ill health, giving new energy
Tubs will not warp or crack if a pail¬
ful of water is put into each directly after
using.
Dearness Can’t be Cared
By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
tional way to remedies. cure deafness, Deafness and that is by constitu¬
is caused by an in¬
flamed condition of tho mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets In.
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper¬
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬
mation can be taken out and this tube re¬
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed caused by forever; nine cases out of ten are
flamed condition catarrh, which is nothing but an in
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness (caused by catarrh! that we
Send cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh C Curo.
for circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggist*, 75 cents.
FITS stopped free by Du. Kline’s Great
Nerve Marvelous Restorer. No Treatise Fits after ami first day’s trial
use. cures. l’hila.. Pa.
Lottie free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.,
Motto of the bald-licadod man—There is al¬
ways room at the top.
Beechham’s Pills cure Sick-Headach.
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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is and pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, acts
gently Liver yet promptly on the Kidneys, the
and Bowels, cleanses sys¬
tem effectually, dispels colds, head¬
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only duced, remedy pleasing of its the kind taste ever and pro¬
to ac¬
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial ta its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy ana agreeable substances, its
man y excellent qualities commend it
to a ill and have made it the most
popular Syrup remedy of Figs known. is for sale in 50c
and $1 bottles by all leading drug¬ who
gists. Any reliable hand druggist will
may not hare it on pro¬
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. NY. NEW YORK. S.t.
In Early Spring
Many people are troubled with dizziness, dullness, un
pleasant taste in the morning, and That Tired Feeling,
while there may also appear Pimples, Boils, and other
manifestations of
Impure Blood
To all such sufferers we earnestly urge a trial of Hood's
Sarsaparilla. No preparation ever received such unani¬
mous praise for its success as a general Spring Medicine.
It cures scrofula, salt rheum and every other evidence of
impure blood. It overcomes
That Tired Feeling
and gives the whole system strength.
If you decide to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, do not be in¬
duced to buy some substitute in its place. Insist on having
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all drogsrista. »1; six for *5. Prepared only | Sold by all druggists. « 1 ; six for 13 Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD * CO, Lowell, Mm | by C. L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass .
(OO Doses One Dollar I IOO Doses One Dollar
SEVEN StVENTttN ys: I SEVENTY CURE Biliousness*
iSbiQSi Sick Headache,
This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 cents. Malaria.
J. F. SMITH & CO ■» BILE BEANS.
Malcere of “ Bile Beans,”
255 & 257 Greenwich St., N. Y. City.
—ELY’S Allays CREAM BALM— Cleanses the Nasal Heals^Vf.WAC rWVP
Passages, Restore Fain and Inflammation, Cures■v'ATARt'Vrv fen
the Sores, s Taste and Smell, and
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Gives Relief nt once for Cold In Head. |
150c. Apply Druggists into the by Nostrils. mail. ELY - BltOS., It it Quickly Absorbed. Y.|
or 56 Warren St, N.
Have You a Cough?
Have You a Cold?
Or Consumption?
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein
WILL CURE YOU I
Ask your Druggist or Merchant for it. Take nothing else.
pisp A Cheapest. s REMEDY Relief FOlt is immediate. CATARKH.—Best. A cure is Easiest certain. to use. For
Cold iu the Head it lias no equal.
CAT A R R H
nostrils” to the
Address. E. T. Hazkltixe, Warren. Pa.
Diamond Brand
JO box,. ,e»le4 with Woe ribbon. Take n. .tiler bind. Rr/n.e SuiuHtulion. and Imitations. V
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VASELINE
FOK A ONK-DOLUR BIliLmiit os by mat:
We will deliver, free of of all charges, following t» any articles, per&aata
tke United States, ail the oare
fullj packed i
One two-ounoe bottle of Pure Vaseline, * . 10 ct*
One two-ounce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, - 15 “
One Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, - - - - - 15 -
One Ua&e of VaseJlne Camphor Ice, - • • - 10 «*
One Cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented, - • 1®
One One Cake of Vaseline bottie Soap, of White exquisitely Vaseline, scented,^ 23 “ *•
two-ounce - ■
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Or for postage stamps any single arttole at the price
named. On no account be persuaded to aooep t from
your druggist any Vaseline or preparation there fr m
unless labelled with our name, Oeoause you will car
tainty receive an imitation which has Httle or no value
Cheeebrouch ittlK. Co,, State St., N. Xe.
DROPSY
TREATED FREE.
Positively Cured with Vegetable Remedies
Hare cured thousands of cases. Cure patients dose pro¬
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manufacturers! Send us $10 and the following measure* refund
and we will guarantee to lit and please you or
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over vest, close up under arms, waist measure ovei
pants at waist, and inside leg measure from crotch to
heel. Send Six Cents for 12 samples of our $10 Men’*
Suits, Children’s fashion Sui piato and taye mease ’
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SIXTY STYLES FOR
CEMETERY & LAWN
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About diamond studs. Every yountr man
knows that ho must havo one, if he is “in the
swim;’’ and instead of putting this article
upon the list of expenses, it is really a good
investment, especially prices when you offering. can get them You
at such low as we are
can’t lose much in buying from the diamonds, importers. that Call is,
if you buy directly J. P. Stevens
and examine our assortment.
& Bro., 47 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Send
for catalogue. ______
The universal favor «o
corded Tillinghast’s Puomt
Sound Cabbage Seeds leads
me to offer a P S. Grown
O nion, the finest Ytiliow Globe
inexistence. To Introduce it
and show its capabilities I
will pay $100 for tho best
yield obtained from 1 ounce
of seed which I will mall for
30 Isaac CIS. ^catttofpie free.^
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Great
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