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STREETS OF TEHERAN. I
Scenes to be Witnessed in a
Persian Thoroughfare.
Bow the Tradesmen Ply Their Various
Occupations in the Open Air.
g G. W. Benjamin, recently United
States minister at the court of Persia, de
scribes his impressions of that country in
the Century. He says: “In such a climate
as that < f Teheran life is naturally passed
chiefly the open air. The chill of win
ter. rarely severe, seems to make little
difference in the habits of the people.
The shops are all open to the streets; the
customers stand outside, and even the
shop-keeper attends to most of his busi
mess from the exterior of the shop. If
he is a baker, grocer, or costermonger, in
all probability he and the customer both
Stand in the street, retreating into the
shop only when a string of camels or a
dashing cortege forces them to move out
of the. way. A carpenter may frequently
be seen arranging a piece of joinery on
the pavement in front of his shop. The
schools often in no-wise differ from the
shops; in the midst of a crowded• thor
oughfare one may see twenty or thirty
lads seated on their heels repeating the
lesson together in monotonous tone.
“Another common sight in the streets
of Teheran is the itinerant barber. The
Koran enjoins the masculine Mohamme
dan to shave his crown. The Sunnecs
shave the entire head excepting a long
lock in the center whereby, it is said, the
archangel may pluck them out of the
grave. But the Sheahs or Persian Mus
sulmans shave from the forehead to the
nape of the neck, leaving a highly prized
lock on each side. It is, therefore, com
mon to see a man of the lower classes
seated on the pavement, going through
the operation of having his head shaved.
The remaining hair and the beard arc
dyed, and it is rare that one sees gray
hairs in Teheran. The first tint applied
is henna, an orange-yellow vegetable dye.
Many consider this so handsortie as to
prefer it without the further
application of indigo which most select.
The last tint, combined with the henna,
imparts- a durable and rather agreeable
dark-brown color to the hair. The wom
en also have their hair dyed and join the
eyebrows with the pencil. All classes
make use of the bath at least once a week,
the wealthy having steam-baths attached
to their dwellings. No Christain is ever
permitted admittance to the baths of the
Persians. The public baths answer the
purpose of clubs and sewing circles; the
women go in the morning, take their
sewing with them, and, after being thor
ougly steamed and scrubbed, devote sev
eral hours to smoking the “kalian,” em
broidering, and discussing the scandal of
the neighborhood, which they assiduously
circulate on their return home.
“Another street sight of Teheran is the
tea-house, equivalent to the coffee-house
of Constantinople or the beer-garden of
Munich. These establishments are gen
erally thronged towards the close of the
day.
“Both wine-drinking and card-plaving
are forbidden to true believers; and there
fore, neither is seen in these places of pub
lic resort. But both are freely indulged in
at home. The card-players of Persia use a
set of twenty cards in five suits of four
each.
“It is an interesting fact that America
must relinquish the claim of having in
vented the gambler’s favorite game of
poker, for it was known in Persia centur
ies ago. The game played by the Per
sians is in principle poker or brag pure
and simple, and betting often runs high
with them.
“Another characteristic sight in the
streets of Teheran is the bread. Persian
bread is made in sheets the thickness of
sole leather; the best quality is somewhat
thinner. It is formed in the shape and
size of a side of leather. The baker with
bare arms dexterously raises a sheet of
this dough from the counter where it is
rolled out, tosses and rolls it over his left
arm until reduced to the proper tenuity.
With a rapid fling of both arms he then
spreads it over the hot floor of the oven.
In a few moments it is baked and spread
out to cool. If there is a convenient
ledge in the street near the shop, one
may see it covered with layers of bread.
This bread is cheap, one cent a sheet, and
what is more it is sweet and nourishing,
and, with curds, cheese, and fruit, forms
a staple article of diet with a large part
of the population. Consequently, one
constantly meets with people carrying
sheets of bread home with them, the
women holding them in front like leather
aprons. ”
Why Ladies are Called Ducks.
Because they are not all tame. Because
there is a good deal of sport to be got
out of the wild ones. Because they may
b< captured. Because they may be sold.
-cause, as proved by the results of pub
ho examinations, they may be plucked.
L< cause, as we can see in the illustrated
wspap rs, they may be drawn. Be
cause they may be beautifully done, a
-ooel deal of butter being usually em-
•o'<t in the process. Because they are
•-t. ,1 wei. basted. Because they arc
> -un ssed in some fashion for din-
n B- cause they have long bills. Bc
*!* l-< re are always plenty of them in
Took Him For a llnnco Stoerer.
George W. Cable, the novelist, came to
town the other day, as he often does,
from his New England home, says a New
YOrk letter o the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He wished to meet Mr. Rushton, the Tex
as cattle rancher, and went to a Broad
way hotel where the man was a guest.
Cable had never seen Rushton. “He is
about the corridor somewhere,” said the
clerk; and so Cable looked about for a
somewhat unfashionable and rustic figure,
such as he guessed the stranger might be.
“Ah,” he said affably to the first indi
vidual of that sort who came along, “are
you Mr. Rushton?”
The accosted man gazed impudently
into the enquirer’s face and then shortly'
answered “No.” Cable is a polite little
fellow, and he was hurt by the lack of
that quality in the other; but he passed
quietly along until he encountered a sec
ond apparent prairie denizen.
“This is Mr. Rushton?” he said affably.
“No, sir,” and the tone as positively
insulting, “this is not Mr. Rushton.”
Cable went to a big mirrior and looked
at himself to see if any thing in his per
sonal appearance had become offensive.
The reflection was that of an unobtrusive
man clothed soberly, and with nothing in
his aspect to rouse antipathy. He saunt
ered away, and soon met an ideal Texar
ranch-owner.
“I am not mistaken this time,” he ex
claimed, extending his hand; “you are
Mr. Rushton, from Texas. I’ve been-—”
“Yes, you are mistaken,” was the
brusque response, and there was fire in
the eyes of the speaker; “a big mistake if
you take me for a greenhorn. I ain’t
Rushton, and I shan’t be fool enough to
give you my name, neither. O, I’ve read
of you rascals. If I was to tell you who I
am, it wouldn’t be ten minutes afore your
pal’d get at me, pretending to be a son
of somebody that lives in my town. I’ve
a notion to hand you over to the police.”
Cable was dumbfounded, and then
amused, for he had merely learned a fact
that any curious experimenter can sub
stantiate on trial—that the feats of the
bunko swindlers have become so widely
known that the simple question whether
a tourist is somebody whom he isn’t
arouses suspicion and resentment.
The Pencock Not Vain.
“It seems like a pity to shatter a belief
that has existed for years,” said a dealer
in pug dogs, pigeons and peacocks this
morning to a news gatherer, “but the
old, old story about the vanity of the
peacock is a miserable myth. I cannot
understand why people have believed if
so long. Why, sir, are you aware that
the peacock has less brains than the
chicken? Do you know that the pea
cock is practically' the idiot of the feath
ered tribe, the same as the pug is of the
canine race? A peacock, sir, hasn’t
sense enough to go in when it rains. No,
sir. What I say is literally and actually
true. I have seen ’em stand out in a
storm and pick up corn, while every sen
sible turkey, goose »r duck would be
under shelter. It is simply the gaudy
plumage of the peacock that has led to
the story of its vanity.
“It is true that when the peacock
hoists his tail and struts around it looks
as if he was trying to show off, and all
the women folks say: ‘Just look at the
vain thing!’ The truth is that the pea
cock rarely, if ever, exhibits his magnifi
cent tail except when courting. A male
pigeon swells out his chest and raises his
neck-feathers, while a barnyard rooster
seeks for dainty morsels for the hens and
clucks complimentary clucks. The pea
cock takes a different style, that’s all.
“I don’t suppose that a peacock has
sense enough to know that his feathers
are gaudy or his feet ugly. It’s a dead
sure fact that he has a smaller head and
less in it than any bird you can mention
that is half his size in body. Vanity be
blowed I”— Philadelphia News.
The Useful Porpoise.
“Yes, that’s a porpoise,” said a fish
dealer in the Quincy market to a reporter;
“yes, it’s a porpoise. Cape Codders call
them puffing pigs, and I suppose nothing
short of phocaena communis would satisfy
you newspaper fellows.”
“Are porpoises good for anything?”
“Good for anything? Why, bless you
yes. Their meat is splendid eating, and
makes just as good mincemeat as any bit
of beef you ever saw. Then their blub
ber dried out makes a fine penetrating
oil, which is great for rheumatism. Take
some of the oil and put it on your hand
and it’ll soak right in to the bones.”
“You said porpoises were called
‘puffing pigs.’ Why it that?”
“Well, thev root around for their grub,
and then when they’re swimming very
fast they look around like a fat old hog.
Some folks say they can swim a hundred
miles an hour, but I’m willing to cut it
down to about eighteen and call it
square.”— Boston Herald.
No Novelty to Her,
“Here is a curious case, ma’am,” said
the superintendent of the insane asylum.
“This man imagines he is the motive
power that runs the world. He’s per
fectly harmless, though, but he thinks
the world wouldn’t move without him.
Very queer notion, isn’t it?”
“I don’t know about that; my husband
has got the same notion in his head.”—
Materiel.
FOR THE FARSy AND HOME. ?
Culture of Cabbage,. >
The culture of ciiAbage is one that pay*
a large profit whenever it is well done.
An instance of a profitable crop of this
vegetable growth ni Michigan, a State
which is taking a leading position in re
gard to vegetable culture, is given as fol
lows: It was Mr. Wilson, of Tecumseh,
who planted 10 acres, for which the Len"
awee County Agricultural Society award
ed a special prize. The method of Mr.
Wilson was as follows: He manured the
10 acres of stony, sandy, loamy, three
year-old sod with 150 loads of barn-yard
manure, 2,000 pounds of superphosphate,
and 3,000 pounds of salt. The land was
thoroughly plowed and harrowed and
planted July 1 and 2 with 50,000 flat
Dutch plants, trimmed to a single leaf,
and puddled with mud. The land was
cultivated six times and kept mellow and
clean. No pests or diseases troubled the
plants, which bid fair to head well when
the examiners visited the field about the
Ist of October. Perhaps some reason for
this success may lie in the fact that Len
awee County boasts one of the livest
Farmers’ Clubs in that State or in the
United States.— New York Times.
Berries on the Farm.
Many of those who own farms or gar
dens and might, by a little care, and at
small expense, have a continuous supply
of berries of different kinds on their
tables, during the summer and fall, and
thus add much to the comfort and health
of their families, too often have none,
except the meagre supply which are found
growing wild. In fact, many such do
not fare as well in this respect as the fam
ilies of many laboring men in our towns
and villages. A family supply of straw
berries, especially, may be grown on so (
small a plot of ground, that any land- i
owner, certainly. cannot have any excuse i
for not being supplied with them in their !
season, for want of room. Planted in i
the spring, in rows three feet apart, with I
plants one foot in the row, and then left i
to form a matted row fifteen to eighteen j
inches in width, and given clean culture, ,
a good crop may reasonably be expected
the following year. .'twr/7'O fforn/
Home.
Sew sona ble Unties of larnuTit.
Those who have families of children
should interest themselves in the district
school, and see that it is well taught and
sustained. No farmer who is a parent
can afford to neglect his duty in this mat
ter, and should manifest a lively interest
in the school where his own and neigh
bors’ children receive their rudimentary,
if not principal, education. Able school
trustees and commissioners, with capable
and efficient teachers, are important
requisites, and it is the incumbent duty
of every parent to aid in securing these
desirable auxiliaries to public and home
educaiion. To this end, attend the
school meeting, vote for the best men for
school trustees, and aid in making lib
eral provision for a first-class school in
your district. And do not fail to visit
the same occasionally, and encourage the
teacher. In this and other ways you can
do much to improve the school, and
every judicious effort in that direction
will redound to the benefit of all inter
ested—parents, pupils and teachers.
Good officers and teachers can best be se
cured through the personal attention and
influence of parents who manifest lively
interest in their selection and manage
ment. Furthermore, provide your family
with pure and useful books and periodi
cals. Money invested in reading matter j
of the right quality pays large dividends. !
The rule should be to “get the best,"
only such publications as are instructive,
useful and elevating. Avoid all trashy .
story papers, and other reading of a
senseless and sensational character—of
the nickel novel and love-and-murder
genera. They are demoralizing, and
worse than poison for young people. In
stead of such useless trash, secure stand
ard works pertaining to rural ami domes
tic affairs, as well as history, science and
literature. — Agriculturist.
Farm anti <«ardei>
A fair supply of meat for the hens will
add to the yield of eggs and will prevent
feather eating.
No breed of hens is “everlasting
layers.” A hen that will lay 180 to 200
eggs a year is first-class.
In sowing timothy with wheat and
other grains the best results are obtained
by having the ground dragged and rolled i
first.
Don’t forget that all fowls are without
teeth and must be supplied with sand
and gravel in order to carry on the work
of grinding the food.
A putrid carcass polluting the air of a
pasture will spoil not only the milk of
the cows running there, but also the en
tire contents of the vat into which the
tainted milk is poured at the factory.
True potato seed is raised by planting
the seed from the balls or fruit. Each ;
plant will produce a dozen or more tiny
potatoes, which may be selected from |
and the specimens be developed by !
culture.
A South Carolinian last summer bag
ged 20,000 bunches of grapes in paper
covers. The fruit was perfectly pro
tected from rot, and ripened perfectly,
but it was too tender to be shipped long
distances.
A Connecticut farmer has several bush
els of apples picked last fall in as sound
and good condition as if just plucked.
The fruit had been carefully rolled in
paper. For choice varieties the hint may
be worthy of attention.
When pigs are allowed to sleep in
damp places the result will often be stiff
ness of the joints, rheumatism and dis
eases of the spine, due to taking cold.
Dryness ami warmth are essential to the
thrift of young pigs, especially on the
approach of'cold w eather.
The only truly economical manner of
feeding stock, and from which the very
best and most profitable returns an 1 to
be expected, is to convert the grains into
meal and feed only in such quantities (at
regular intervals) as each animal has ca
pacity to consume and digest.
Butter is largely an oil, which is so well
fixed that it is hardly susceptible to
chemical change; therefore, the principal
parts not being subject to decomposition,
w e must look to the watery fluids which
are contained in the milk, which, when
not completely extracted, spoil the butter
and render it worthless, or to be branded
only as grease.
To young stock, growing fast, feed
good, strengthening food, which will
produce muscle and help in forming a
large, strong frame. While the chicks
are still growing they should be fed often
and with a variety of food. They are
often fed on fattening food to keep them
in good order, but this is not what they
want, and such treatment will often pro
duce ill-fonued, weak-limbed fowls.
Os the several remedies for the cabbage
maggots tried at the New York experi
ment station, the kerosene emulsion, pre
pared as follows, has been found most
effective: One pound of common soap is
boiled in four quarts of warm water;
when all is dissolved and while the suds
arc boiling they are removed from the
fire. One quart of kerosene oil is then
added and thoroughly mixed by stirring
vigorously until the mixture is cold. One
pint of this emulsion is dissolved in ten
gallons of hot water and applied to the
roots of the plants.
Iloliaebold Hints.
Mats, tablespoons, salt cellars and pep
per cruets may be arranged to suit one’s
taste.
Let the table when no one is present
but the home circle, be the model of
what it should be when surrounded by
guests.
To take mildew out of linen, rub the
linen with line soap; then scrape some
flue chalk, and rub it also on the linen.
Lay it on the grass as it dries, wet it a
little, and it will come out in twice
doing.
Uncooked meats should not be placed
directly on ice, as the juices arc with
drawn in this way. Neither should they
be kept in wrapping paper, but put, un
covered, in a dish or pan and then placed
on the ice.
Recipes.
Southern Batter-bread.— Two cups of
white corn meal, one cup cold boiled
rice, three eggs well beaten, one table
spoonful of melted butter, two and one
half cups of milk or enough for a soft
batter, one teaspoonful of soda. Beat
well for three minutes and bake quickly
in sludlow pans. Very nice for break
fast.
Egg Sauce. — One cup of chicken broth,
heated and thickened, with tablespoon
ful of butter rolled thickly in flour;
poured over two beaten eggs; boiled one
minute, with tablespoonful parsley stirred
in; then seasoned and poured upon
pounded yolkes of two boiled eggs placed
in bottom of bowl. Stir up and it is
ready.
Baked Custards.—One quart of milk,
four eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sugar
beaten with the, eggs, nutmeg and two
tablespoonfuls flavoring extract. Scald
the milk, pour upon the other ingre
dients, stir together well, flavor and
pour into stone-china cups. Set these in
a pan of hot water, grate nutmeg upon
each and bake until firm. Eat cold from
the cups.
Potato Bath. One pint hot, mashed
potatoes, highly seasoned with salt, pep
per, celery salt, chopped parsley and
butter. Moisten, if needed, with a little
hot milk or cream. Beat one egg light
and add part of it to the potatoes.
Shape into round, smooth balls. Brush
over with the remainder of the egg and
bake on a buttered tin until brown. Be
careful not to get them too moist.— 7'Ad
Home.
Wasted Eloquence.
A paragrapher remarks that conversa
tion is “the idle man’s business and the
business man’s recreation.” This reminds
us of the commercial traveler who “talks
to live and lives to talk.” He said the
greatest disappointment he ever met with
was when he entered a grocery store and
talked ten minutes incessantly to the
proprietor, expatiating upon the merits
of a new brand of goods; the grocer at
last took from his pocket a slate upon
which he wrote the cabalistic words—
“l’m deaf.” The c. t. says he retreated
in dismay from the store, not waiting to
“punch the heads” of the giggling clerks
who shouted after him—“ Call again and
bring an ear trumpet with you.”— Neu
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