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Newspaper Page TextPage Eight ‘MAN’S DEBT TO THE' BIRDS Matter That Is Worth 'a Great Deal More Considenation Than It Has Been Receiving.: . Why should birds fear a human be ing? They have no fear of the horse or cow. There are birds that even light on the back of a cow and de ‘vour the flies that are troublésome. If mankind were kind and thaughtful ‘of the rights of birds what a pleasure it might be. Every small boy and girl should be taught to love all birds and -never to disturb or frighten. Their companionship and their songs more than repay the little fruit or grain that they eat. Anrd we cannot forget that but for the aid of the birds we could not have fruit or grain. “The hop aphis,” the North American tells us, “developing 13 generations in a year, at the end of the twelfth genera tion would have multiplied to the In-i conceivable number of ten sextillions of individuals.” Forbush says: “If this ‘brood were marshaled in a line ten to {the inch, it would extend to a point so 'sunk in profundity of space that light ifrom the head of the procession, trav ‘eling at the rate of 184,000 miles per isecond, would require 2,500 years to ‘reach the earth.” Think once what would be our condition if the birds ‘should fail to destroy this one kind got insect. And other kinds are in numerable. What love and protection and care we owe these birds! MUST ALWAYS GO FORWARD Economic Progress Is So Ordered That the Wheels Cannot Be Turned Backward. “We still act as if the moral iaw were indeed the order solely of a divine commandment which mankind, by its anxious effort, must be schooled un willingly to obey. We fear that ‘the sanctity of the home’ is threatened by divorce, by suffrage, by polygamy, by woman in industry, or by the new dances; and we crusade oratorically to protect it from destruction, although we must know that if the sanctity of the home depended on such protection it would long ago have gone the way of the sanctity of the temple of Ephe sus. We are distressed by license in our books and our theaters, and we or ganize extra censorships and frantic societies for the suppression of vice, as if vice and license had not always fought 2 losing battle against civiliza tion, b~' .g opposed by the economic laws that have made our morality what it is. We seem to know that by helping to better the economic condi tions we can better the moral condi tions of life, but we forget that we cannot greatly help by scolding. We bope that we can assist the sanctity of the home by not retarding the eco nomic progress that has made possible the sanctity of the average home, but we forget that mankind can no more return to its ancient immoralities than its culture can return to its angient barbarism.”—From “Current Com ment” in the Century. Typewriting While Asleep. “When I first began typewriting and stenography,” a stenographer was tell ing a girl beginner, “I found myself taking stenographic notes in my head. I've dreamed many a time of picking out letters and lines of letters on the typewriter. Next a typewriter began following me in my waking moments. When somebody talked to me or I neard someone talking I found myself taking 1t down on a typewriter in my brain as I might on a real typewriter from dictation. And when I found myself far behind, why, I stopped right there and made a fresh start on the talk from that moment. And in the same way I would take sten ographic notes in my brain.” “That is just my experience, too,” said the beginner. “Hard work, this learning to be a typewriter and stenographer, but there's fun in it; though I shall be glad when it gets through following me in my waking hours and haunting me in my dreams.” When Nations Decay. ' Disease, moral and physical, is main 1y the handiwork of a man’s perversity or folly. The symptoms of national decay are many and easily diagnosed. A nation is on the downward grade I when a large portion of its population 18 unwilling to defend or incapable of defending what, not without reason, we call the motherland against ex ternal attack. Another symptom is seen when it is unable or unwilling to provide by its own exertions for its own immediate wants or to save from the earning ot its industry a sufficiency to meet the exigencies and disabilities of old age. Another indication is seen when it is unable or unwilling to indulge in recreation except vicariously, and re gards “sport” as a pastime to be un- ‘ dertaken by others paid for the pur pose for the amusement of onlookers. ' Sumerians. The Sumerians were members of‘ ©ae of the primitive races of Baby ionia. They are believed to have been of non-Semitic origin and to have been the dominant race at the earliest time of which there are any records, it | was to them that the Assyrians | ascribed the origin of Chaldean civili- ‘ zatiou and writing. Another name tor the race 1s Accadians. The Accadian ianguage was non-Semitic and possibly Ural-Aitaic. It was spoken previously | 10 the better known Semitic dialect ! of the cuneiform inscriptions I‘nol Sumerian seems {o be a kindred dia- | dect ana to have heen in use at the | same time in Babyloma. , GOT THEIR MONEY’S WORTH Landiord Was Not Equipped by Na ture 1o Get the Best of Shrewd P. T. Barnum. - In the very interesting book of reminiscence that P. T. Barnum, the famous showman, wrote 40 vears ago, there is an amusing anecdote that re calls the days when the one-ring cir cus was the chief attraction of the long, hot summer, The incident occurred when we were at Hanover Courthouse, in Vir ginia, wrote Mr. Barnum. It rained 80 heavily that we could not perform there, and Turner (manager of the show) decided to start for Richmond immediately after dinner. He was in formed ny the landlord that as our agent had engaged three meals and lodging for the whole company, the entire bill must be paid, whether we went then or the next morning No compromise could be effected with the stubborn landlord and so Turner pro ceeded to get the werth of his money as follows: He ordered dinner at twelve o'clock, which was duly prepared and eaten. The table was cleared and reset for supper at 12:30. At one o'clock we all went to bed, every man carrying a lighted candle to his room. There were 36 of us, and we all undressed and tumbled into bed as if we were going to stay all night. In half an hour we rose and went down to the hot breakfast that Turner had demanded and that we found smoking on the table. Turner was very grave, the landlord was exceed ingly angry, and the rest ot us were convulsed with laughter at ihe absurd ity of the whole proceeding. We dis posed of our breakfast as if we had eaten nothing for ten hours and then started for Richmond, satisfied that we had fairly settled with the unrea sonable landlord.—Youth's Companion. LITTLE LESSON ON MANNERS Circuit Rider Knew His Hearers and Addressed Them in Words That They Understood, There lingers yet in the caverns of memory the concinnity of a ecircuit rlde;jvin the West Virginia mountains whi ‘held forth one night lin an old schoolhouse on the high peak of Big Sewell. The building was of unhewn logs, with press-pole roof and punch eon floor; the men seated on one side, the women on the other. The aged preacher arose and addressed his con gregation somewhat as follows: “Now, brethren and sisters, before I begin the services of the night, I will offer you some advice on elegance of manners. You all wear store boots and the women wear bro gans. Now, in moving your feet on this puncheon floor it makes a loud bumping and ugly noise if you scrape your boots along, which perturbs everybody. So don’t drag your feet; lift them up straight and set them down soft, and do not drag them across the floor. Cough, spit, hawk or sneeze as little as you can, and if a man has to go ocut to see if his horse is tied, to blow his nose or to 80 to the spring, or ftor any other reason, step light on the floor in them cowhide boots and brogans. We will now sing the twenty-third hymn.” The good old preacher when he re ferred to persons going out for some undesignated purpose probably knew that ¢he backsliders present had a jug near the spring. Cotton Crops in China. In China few farmers have all their land in one plot. A farm of eighty Chinese acres may consist of from five to fifteen pieces iying in different sides of the village. “How do you manage to watch all of these all night?”’ a traveler asked. “We go from one to the other,” is the answer, When cotton is the crop few can resist the temptation to pick their neighbor’s fields as they g 0 by. The watchman sees some one at the end of the field meandering slowly along with a basket on hig arm, pick ing as he goes. “Hey! Who are you?”’ vyells the watchman. No answer. The figure basses on a little faster, bug Keeps on picking, 1f he 18 lucky, he manages to slip into the cotton patch of some body else and goes on with his suc cessful pilfering. How Do You Love? Is your love for anyone tinged with jealousy? Stop! Think' Al jealousy is selfishness, for it proves that you are but loving yoursélf through an other. If your love were wholiy for the object, the other person, nothing that could in the least add to that other’s happiness would cause you sor row. His happiness would be your happiness; his grief your grief. The truest love welcomes an opportunity to sacrifice, even though it be the giving up of the adored object to another, it it be for the loved one's highest hap piness.—Exchange. Safe Spot. “So when you had two hundred feet start to escape you ran instead di rectly up to the bear when your gun failed to work? 1 don‘'t know whether You were a foolhardy hero or a rat tled fool,” declared the doctor as he sewed up Smith’s numerous wounds. “l was neither,” expiained Smith. “I used remarkable judgment at a critical moment. You see, the bear was between Jones and myself. | saw Jones was about o fire. So 1 took shelter at the safest spot—with the bear.” ; THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER JOHN SAW THE LIGHT AND THE WEDDING BELLS RANG IN DUE COURSE. : Fact That Mollie Had Much the Best of the Situation May Have Had Something to Do With His Decision. It is three years since the report of the ease with which wealth could be acquired in this country reached John Doe’s ears in Europe and lured him acress the broad Atlantic. To the questions of the immigration inspec tors at Ellis island John Doe answered that he had been twenty-three years in this world; that the blessedness of the marricd state had never appealed to him, and that he could eke out his existence by plying his trade as a cloakmaker. His first year in American John Doe devoted to earning and saving every cent he could, ®icking up English meanwhile. The second year found him starting out in business for him self and meeting with marked suc cess. The third year a general strike occurred among the cloakmakers and the manufacturers had a hard time to pull through. The strike found John with a large batch of unfilled orders contracted for at the lower rate of wages. When the workmen had won their strike for higher pay and returned to work John discovered himself facing bankruptey and he cast about him for a means to save what he could out of the wreck. Mollie was an exceedingly pretty girl. Eveu John, whose thoughts were devoted to ways and means for mak ing money, noticed this fact, and now as he racked his brain for a scheme to save something from the oncoming storm he looked reflectively at Mollie where she sat working at a sewing machine, and a plan suddenly occurred to him. Why not pretend that he was engaged to Mollie and give her valu able presents of jewelry in honor of the fictitious event, and when the bankruptcy had blown over reclaim his property and start up again with the money thus spared? When first she heard of it Mollie demurred at being a party to such a project, but upon John’s offering her a substantial consideration she con sented to undertake the role of tem porary fiancee. John then presented her with several pieces of diamond jewelry, such as a ring or two, a lavalliere and earrings, and to make the engagement seem more plausible he fitted out a flat with nice furniture. After the bankruptcy took place John was forced to testify to the various presents he had made to his fiancee, and the court thereupon or dered that all the jewelry be turned over to the receiver in bankruptcy. As to the furniture, the judge held that it was personal and household property, and as such exempt under the bankruptcy act. In the course of time John’s case was completed and he was free' to start over again. Accordingly he de termined to sell the furniture he had bought for his supposed bride-to-be, but by this time Mollie had become so attached to the furniture and so reconciled to the thought of getting married that she refused to give up the property. John was in a quan dary. “You promised to return it to me when 1 bought it and put it here,” said John, as he looked around the cozy little flat. “But all my friends think we are really and truly going to be married soon, and if I return it to you and we don't get married I may never get another young man. If you are going to break off the engagement you sheculd at least leave me the furniture sc that I will have it for a dowry when I do get married.” ' John looked at Mollie and she was' really good to look upon. “I was only fooling you,” said he with a smile. “Come, let’s get mar ried right away.” In Our New World. The immediately and directly con sequential , effects of the European war on the trade, industry and finance of the Americas are more or less ap parent to all. llts moral effect, the quickening of national and individual conscience, is likewise apparent to many thoughtful observers; but we are apt to lose sight of the fact that ancther quickening is being felt in the industrial world, throughout all the western hemisphere, and that is a bet ter realization of the verities of na tional existence, a fuller comprehen sion in each republic of just what its place is in the congeries of nations called the world, of how best to main tain this place and to secure the fullest fruition to which the resources and capabilities of each country entitle it.—New York Telegram. Sulphur in New Zealand. Sulphur deposits are found on White Island, in the Bay of Plenty on the coast of the North Island of New Zea land, about thirty miles from the main land. This island, which covers about 600 acres, attains a height of 900 feet on one side and opens to the sea on the other. Its topography indicates an old crater, and the boiling lake on the island, which is one of the awe inspiring sights of New Zealand is a further evidence of volcanism. After the New Zealand Sulphur company had spent $lOO,OOO in preparation ror mining sulphur in this locaiity. a vo! canic disturhance wrecked the camn end killed ter men ALWAYS ON BRINK OF DEATH Workers in High Explosives Realize What May Be the Result of a Mo mcnt’s Carelessness. Explosives are solids which, under certain conditions, suddenly change into heated gas occupying many times the original space of the solids. Ordi nary gunpowder, when fired, turns into gas, of which the volume is 4,000 times as great as that of the powder. No wonder the bullet in front of it leaves the muzzle of the rifle in a hurry. - Today there are scores, even hun dreds, of different sorts of explosives known to science. Some, such as lyd dite, require a very considerable shock to explode them. Others, such as ni troglycerin, are fearfully dangerous to handle, for a few extra degrees of warmth or a very slight jar is suf ficient to turn them instantly into gas. Of the latter type there is nothing quite so unstable as iodide of nitro gen. It has to be made in alcphol. When allowed to dry it appears as a brown powder, and so unstable 18 this powder that a toucn with a teather will set it off. The experiment has been tried of leaving a tew graimns upon a table mixed with a tew grains of sugar. The first bluebottle that flew on the table and began to crawl among the grains caused an explosion. The mere jarring of the air by a loud shout or a heavy footstep is suf ficient to detonate iodide of nitrogen, and it need hardly be added that no one in his senses would attempt to make this terrible stuff. To do so in any quantity would be equivalent to committing suicide. Nitroglycerin is not so dangerous as this iodide, but at a temperature of only 100 degrees—that is, very littie more than the warmth of the human body—it begins to decompose. Tons of nitroglycerin are turned out every day, for it is the explosive from which guncotton is made. But all tue mixing vats are artificially cooled by coils of cold-water pipes. GREATEST OF ICE PALACES That Constructed by the Czarina Anne of Russia Is Conceded to Have Been the Finest. Ice for architectural purposes is used with wonderful results in north ern countries. Probably the most remarkable building constructed wholly of ice was the palace built on the Neva by the Czarina Anne of Rus sia. Large blocks of ice were cut and squared with great care and laid on one another by skillful masons, who cemented the joints with water, which immediately froze. The build ing, when completed, was 56 feet leng, 173 feet broad and 21 feet high. It was of but one story. The facade contained a door surmounted by an ornamental pediment, and six win dows, the frames and panes of which were all of ice. An elaborate balus trade adorned with statues ran along the top of the facade, and another bal ustrade surrounded the building at the level of the ground. The ground was further adorned with a life-size figure of an elephant, with his mahout on his back. A stream of water was thrown from the elephant’s trunk by day and a flame of naphtha by night. A tent of ice contained a hot bath, in which persons actually bathed. There were also several cannons and mortars of ice, which were loaded with bullets of ice and iron and dis: charged. Meant in Kindness. A policeman had told two old vag abonds sitting in the park to move ony and as I followed them along the street one of them said: “Jim, I think he means us kindly.” “Yes, I think he does, too.” « “He knows that we’d be apt to sit there until we got a chill and then pneumonia and death might follow.” “That'y it “Whereas, if he tells us to move on we keep our blood circulating, avoid all danger, and are spared to our friends and-the world.” “That’s correct.” “Which is very kindly of him in deed, Jim; and if it so happens that we meet him again, we’ll impress it on his mind that we know how to feel grateful, even if we bean’t high-toned nor rich!’”’—Baltimore American. Division of Races. The division of the earth’s popuia tion according to race is as follows: Indo-Germanic or Aryan race (white), occupying Europe, America, Persia, India and Austria, about 775,000,000; Mongolian or Turanian (yellow and brown), living in Asia, about 682,000,- 000, Semitic (white), living in Asia, Arabia, etc., about 65 000,000; negro and Bantu (black), found in Africa, about 150,600,000; Malay and Polyne sian (brown), inhabiting Australia, about 35,000,000; American [ndian (red), found in North and South America, number, inciuding halif breeds, about 25,000,000, Extending Charity. Shut not thy purse strings against painted aistress. Act a charity some times. When a pcor creature (out wardly and wvisibly such) comes be tore thee, do not stay to inquire whether the “seven small children,” in whose name he implores thy assist ance, have a veritable existence. Rake not mto the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a nalfpenny. It is goou o perieve nim. It he be not all he pre tendeth, give, and under a personate rather of a ramily think (if thou pleas est) cnat thou hast relieved an nqi. gent pachelor.--Char!es Lamb. dATR MAKES DEFENSE OF RAGTIME Writer Points Out How It May Be Ex ceedingly Useful to Those Who Are Mentally Depressed. The effects of music upon the health —well known ever since David harped to Saul but hitherto illy understood— are being looked into more deeply by the physicians who formed the Nation al Society of Musical Therapeutics. “No matter to what extent music may restore a person to the normal,” says the New York Medical Journal, “there can be no question that it may help other influences to incline the person from the normal. There are many compositions, notably among those by Chopin, which are the outcome of more or less melancholy moods, and while they are beautiful and harmless to the healthy, when made a steady diet and source of self-consolation by those suf fering from depression from mental or bodily causes their effect is undoubt edly pernicious, just as a too exclusive diet of olives or meringues would de press the general bodily condition and mental atmcsphere of a person so in dulging a sickly appetite.” On the other hand, ragtime musie, “being in no wise serious,” is the re verse of depressing. “The African jingles of the present day create an emotional atmosphere of restlessness and excitement which is typically American, and which is opposed to health only so far as our national rest lessness and lack of poise tend to make us a people whose national disease is nervous exhaustion.” Roughly speaking, lively music, such as ragtime, is likely to rouse depressed persons from their melancholy; sad and pathetic music will soothe the ex citable and hypernervous. FALLEN FROM HIGH ESTATE Church Edifices in Britain That Have for Many Years Been Utilized : for Baser Purposes. American visitors always make a point of visiting St. Bartholomew’s —not the hospital, but the church— one of the very few that escaped the great fire, remarks London Answers. Yet probably few know that for a long reriod it fell into such shocking repair that the north transept was used as a blacksmith’s shop. A building in Skegness probably takes the cake for transformations akin to this notable one. It was origi nally a Wesleyan chapel, but subse quently was, as the poet says, “Every thing by turns, and nothing long.” In rapid sequence it was a concert hall, a restaurant, a gymnasium, a Salvation Army barracks, an auction mart, a public hall, and a school. Last ly, as far as our information goes, it became a political club. Glasgow holds the record for thase transmogrifications. The old Wynd church is now a leather warehouse; West Campbell was lately a lard ware house, but may now be housing mar garine; Cathedral Street church re sounds to the making of boxes and packing cases; St. Andrew's is the re sort of tha remnants hunter; Stock well strcet is an emporium for sugar, tea and other groceries; while even the offices of ti:e North British rail way were once a church. “The Good News From Ghent.” The exploit described by Browning in his poem. “How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix,” is a purely imaginary one. Archdeacon Farrar tells of a conversation he once had with Browning, in which the lat ter related ‘the circumstances under which Le wrote the poem. “I asked him,” says Canon Farrar, “about the steed which brought ‘Good News From Ghent,” and whether the incident had any historic basis; for I told him that a friend of mine had taken very con siderable trouble to search various histories and discover whether it was true or not. ‘No,” he said, ‘the whole poem was purely imaginary. I had had a lcng* voyage in a sailing vessel (I think it was from Messina to Na ples), and, being rather tired of the monotony, thought of a good horse of mine, and how much I should enjoy a ride. As I could not ride in reality, I thought that I would enjoy a ride in imagination’; and he then and there wrote that most pobular of his lyrics.” His Elaborate Efforts. “One should beware of beginning his speech in too loud a voice,” said Grout P. Smith. “If you start off with a yell, when the time comes to roar de nunciations or shout hosannas you will have no wind left with which to be emphatic. I once knew a man whose wife exhibited more than three hundred love letters in court, which he had written her during a brief court s Lip of eleven weeks. He often wrote her six or more in one day, and his shortest epistle contained four pages. And yet, before they had been mar ried two months he nad slapped ner Jaws so far around that when she wanted to talk into the telephone she had tc back up to it. His excuse was that he had exhausted his affection in the course of the correspondence.”’— Kansas City Star. Military Necessities. There are five things that a sol dier should never be without—his gun, his cartridges, his Knapsack, ra tions for tour days and his pioneer toots. I'he knapsack should be re ducea to the smaliest possiple weight and size, ana contain only a shirt, a pair ur snoes a couar, a handkerchiet and a fint ot steel. ‘['his 1s not much, but he shoula never part from them, tor when once iosu they cannot pe recovered. - -Napoleon. Frday, December, 2, 195 GROWTH OF MODERN NAVIES Ironclads and Submarines May Be Said to Be the Result of Evolution, / Ironciad 1s the name given to gz naval vessel wholly or partly cased with iren plates. It was given betore the days of modern steel battleshipg, The experience of the British ang Frercn fdeet before Sebastopol, during the Crimean war, demonstrated the need of armor for battleships. The French at once began to builg five armor-plated vessels, and the Britigh followed soon after. In 1859 a belt of armor was fitted to a wooden vessel, renamed La Gloire, and she was the Qrst armor-clad warship. In June, 1859, the British government began the construction of the armor-plated alliron frigate Warrior, She was the first iron warship, and was completed in 1861. Converted into a floating workshop, she was still in use in 1910, under the name of Vernon 111. The Nemesis, an iron vessel, not a battie ship, had been engaged in 1842 in the Chinese war, but great objection was felt to iron as a material for battle ships before the Crimean war on ac count of the supposed danger from the ecemy’s shot. The introduction of iron aB a reeognized material for ships in general is often dated 1818, when the lighter Vulean was built near Glas gow. The very first iron boat built was launched on the River Foss, in Yorkshire, in 1777. The earliest attempts at a subma. rine craft began early in the seven teenth century. The earliest success which has been chronicled was that of 1620, when a Dutch natural phi logopher, Cornelis van Drebbel, buiit a boat which could be submerged. The first undoubted success was ge cured by the American engineer Bush nell in 1775, with a turtle-like craft, worked by one man. During the war of Independence a boat of this kind was submerged below the British war ship Eagle, and the operator tried to attach a magazine containing fifteen pounds of gunpowder to her bottoimn planking. He failed in his object, but the magazine later exploded some dis tance from the ship One of the first submarines of me chanical power was the French Plon geur, built in 1863 from designs by Brun. During the Civil war the Con federates .built a number of cigar shaped boats, some worked by hand and some by steam, which were armed with torpedoes. They were known as Davids on the account of their size as compared with battleships. In 1864 a hand-worked one attacked the Federal ship Housatonic and sank her by means of a spar torpedo, though the submarine herself was sunk in the operation. Many other inventors, of course, besides those mentioned have succeeded in the construction of sub mersibles. The Best You Have Got. City people are very fond of dilatng on the greenness of people from the country, but there is no malice in it. Everybody knows that the city is built up from the country, and that nine out of every ten of our great men first drew breath amid green fields. It is hoped, however, that there are not many countrymen who are quite so far behind the times as the young man who recently applied for a room at a leading New York hotel. Said he, “I expect prices to be pretty steep. Pa was here 40 years ago, and paid one dollar a day for nearly a week, and he told me that I'd most likely find that rates hadn’t dropped much. But I want a first class room—the best you've got. Be sure there’s a light and a fire and everything comfortable in it. Oh, yes, and a place to wash. No going to the pump to wash for me’ I'm willing to pay for comfort.” The story doesn’t say what happened when he heard that “the best you've got” was five dollars a day.—Exchange Boat Has Wings. The latest development in racing mo torboats is a craft capable of making from 60 to 80 miles an hour and equipped with wings that are designed to catch the water just as the wings of an aeroplane catch the air. This boat is 19 teet 9 inches long and 12 feet wide over all, each of the wings being 3 feet wide and the hull 6 feet wide. It is equipped with a 250 horse power racing engine which ordinarily runs at 1,500 revolutions a minute and drives the propeller at 2,250 revolu tions a minute, or one and a half times its own speed. One of the novel fea tures of the boat is that the rudder is at the bow, while the helmsman sits at the stern. With this arrangement the boat is easily handied at any speed. one effect of the bow rudder being that the boat, in making a turn, has a tendency to pivot around the rudder. A picture of this unusual craft is pub lished in the October Popular Mechan ics Magazine. Electricity in the Kitchen. A recently published book on do mestic engineering represents the findings of a group of women who formed a household experiment station to ascertain how far it was possible to go in eliminating servants and vet be free from drudgery. Labor-saving devices were installed and tested. “The first purchase,” says the Edi son Monthly, “was a general utility motor. Next on the.list Mrs. Pattison ranks a vacuum cleaner, a mangle and an electric flatiron. Perhaps the most interesting piece of household equip ment that has come to my knowledge, she writes, ‘is the electric dish-wash ing machine. The wonder is that women have so long been slaves to dishpans, cloths, mops, towels and alf other unsanitary and unhygienic means.’”