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IP Af ID HANDY RULER TOR PAINTERS Of Much Assistance In Keeping Straight Line While Workins on Edge of Wood. One. of the most difficult parts rf tho bonne painter's wink is to pilnt tho edge of woodwork abutting wall paper, w indowpano or floor. Hereto fore they have had to work carefully Ruler for Painters. along the edge and fill tn later. A New York man has Invented a device which he calls the painter's tlme aaver, and which la in reality a ruler to guide the brush and prevent the smearing of auytblng over the line to be followed. The device la a piece of metal with a wide, straight edge mid legs at the other end. The elevation affords room to hold It In the hand. The ruling edge Is held along the edge ef window gash or door Jamb and tho workman can paint along It rapidly without fear of consoquences. The implement must be pressed down tight, so no paint works Its way be neath. For people who like to do their own painting one of these rulers 1a almost indispensable. USE WOODEN STEAM BOILERS Assertion Seems Incredible, Yet They Were Made and Used as Recent as 1817 on Boat. Steam boilers made of wood! It eounds incredible, and yet such botl rs were formerly made and used. Even as recently as 1817, a steamboat flying between Norwich end Now Wooden Steam Boiler. London, Conn., was equipped with wooden boilers, and the renson that they burst under "extreme" pressure was attributed principally to the fact that they had no "condensers, safety valves, or balance wheels." From 1801 to 1S04 there was a woode.i boiler in eervlce at tho Center Square water works, Philadelphia. A partial Tlew of this boiler is shown herewith. The ash pit, fire box and fluej were made of iron, but the inclosing box, in which the water was contained and the steam generated, was of wood. The eteam pressure usod was very llttlo above that of the atmosphere, but the difficulty of prc-entlng leaks even with this email pressure led to tho early abandonment of wood as material for steam boilers. Ticket Printing Machine. Railway ticket printing machines are shortly to be installed at a Birm ingham (Eng.) station. The booking clerk, when requiring to lasue a ticket to any statlun, takes a blank card, places it In a slot in the sliding car riage, and moves it along until the pointer is cppoalto the alphabetically arranged name of the required station, lie then depresses a handle, and the ticket drops out, printed with the names of the issuing and destination stations, price, date, consecutive num ber, class, tc, while on Butomutlc re gister of the operation is made at the lume time. Coating With Metal. A new method of coating various ubstences with metals, tho Invention of a Swiss engineer, conblats in re ducing molten tin, fine, copper, lead, aluminum, or other metal or alloy to a Etato of pulverization by pressure of an inert gas nitrogen or hydrogen and iu that state driving It against the surface to bo covered from a flex ible tulo with a tip like that of a large vaporizer for liquids. Paper Mills In India. I'apor mills In India Lave not been very profitable, ns tho raw material 1ms to Ve brought from lung distance and the cost of freights eat up the pruflta. India's import of paper and pasteboard In 1910 fiscal year was cf the value of $:!.2S4.C00. Mamboo for paper making there is suggested. v M POOL ANDJ5ILLIARD TACLE Frame is Adjustable to Different Dl menalone and Has Provision for Side Pockets. A Pennsylvania man has Invented a combination pool and billiard tabt thnt Is nothing less than startling In lis mutability. The same article can bo ued not only fur bothpr.ol and btl Hards, but It can bo used on floor or table and, finally, ran i0 f0i,(t up and stood In a closet when not wanted. All th.!,o thlnga are made posslbl by the fact that the bed of the table Is a Mnglo strip of heavy rubber that when stretched taut along tho bottom of tho frame provides a firm, lovel surface. The frame Is adjustable to dlffereut dlineithlonn and has cornet pieces that are inserted for billiards and removed for pool, when pockets are adjusted at the corners. There is niso provision for side pockets. Fur thermore, the cue Is adjustable to dif ferent lengths. Thi table can bf used in the house or out of doors, on lain! or on water, anl when not In uko can bo. stood up nit or the way. For floor playing a ball attachment Is fastened to tho end of the cun. COMBINED CROWBAR-TRUCK Used In Sets of Three for Moving Heavy Loads About Quite Useful In Factories. A combination crowbar and truck has been Invented for moving heavy articles about in workshops, factories and warehouses. While the artlclei can be used separately, they are us ually employed In sets of three, at they thus preserve a better bslanc for the load and expedite its handling At the end of a long, strong handl are two 6tout Iron rollers, covered with an Iron casing, with a spike sei near tho tip. This spike prevents th Crowbar Also Truck. load from slipping, and yet Is to short to do any damage. The truck-crow bars are inserted under the object to be moved and by bearing down on the handles the load Is lifted clear ol the floor and can be wheeled to any point desired. Articles weighing three or four tons can be trundled about on those trucks as easily as an ordinary packing case. Even in shops equipped with traveling cranes these linple ments will be useful. Dirty Windows Exclude Light. A German professor has ascertained that in industrial cities windows which have not been washed for ten days ex elude from 35 to 48 per cent, of th light. If not washed for four weeks, they may exclude as much as 80 per cent, of tho light MECHANICAL 58 NOTES El Uuenos Aires is the largest hide and W"ool market in the world. Ninety-seven American manufactur ers have agencies In Madrid. Toklo, Japan, intends to spend near ly 16,000,000 on drainage works. Stoves burning alcohol uro being introduced Into Canada by Germans. Sandstone will absorb a gallon or more of water to tho cubic foot of rock. A large Hamburg restaurant It housed in a building of compressed paper. A file may be kept from filling in with load by applying a coat of thin oil Just before Cling. At a recent gem exhibition In Ion don there wero shown blue, pink auf? aquamarine diamonds. Sheet aluminum makes better vIh Jaws for handling soft metals thae either brass of coppor. So-called burglar proof glass, mads In France, withstauds revolver bulletf and blows from a roallot. Approximately one-third of the, world's supply of copra now Is be ing produced in the Philippines. Lime was one of the earliest ma, terials used to Improve the soil, bo leg mentioned by Fluto and Pliny. For tho first times In the history A the industry in that state Ohio mlnoo more than 30,000.000 tons of coal las! year. Iu a stone arch bridge recently buill in France molten xino was used ta bind thj uonos together instead of c meet. IJght but strong waterproof pnpet that successfully Imitates leather unu rubber Is made iu Japan from vege table libera. London requires taximeters to b connected to the front wheels of taxi cabs because tho rear wheels do tu mbttt slipping. KJ1IC He ttie MdM Watche Ky MAREL (Cuttriigbt, iuii, br AitrK.iaiod Latum i'is.) Mr. Jimmy Lanning stepped out of bis friend's studio and called back a Jovial goodnight to the group of choice spirits there congregated and turned homeward. It was midnight when he rrached his house and as he carefully Inserted the key in the lock he breathed a hopeful prayer that this time bis wife of a year had not wait ed up for htm. Of late he had formed n unregenerate habtt of spending two or three evenings a week away from home, though Ina never re proRched him. and invariably met him with the cheerful smile. As he entered the darkened hallway he heaved a sigh of thankfulness. All was still. For the first time in their year together there was no soft little rush from the den upstairs, no dim pled face thrust over the banister to greet him. Yet such Is the Incon sistency of man that once an oddly neglected feeling aelied htm. The knowledge that Ina could have at last grown so indifferent aa to go peace-' fully to bed and to Bleep while ho was till straying happily In the outer darkness of the night came to him with something of a shock. He opened the bedroom door softly. The bed had not been disturbed. He passed into the dressing room. On the bureau lay a note. He seized it In something of a panic "I have gone out." he read. "I may be late. Don't wait up." "The deuce!" he muttered, even aa he breathed a gusty sigh of relief. At any rate it wasn't a tragedy or a tcandal. But what the dickens Gone where? At that moment the hall door, Closed sharply. Light footsteps mounted the stairs. A moment later Ina swept into the room, neck and shoulders gleaming in her prettiest gown, eyes sparkling, cheeks flushed like a rose. "Where have you been?" demand ed Ina'a lord. "Out amusing myself," returned Ina flippantly. She came over and kissed him. "Poor boy," she cooed, "have you been waiting; long? I told you to go to bed." "I want to know where you've been," persisted Jimmy doggedly. "Do I ever ask where you've been?" "No, but that's different" "Yes, that's different," mimicked Ina. Jimmy eat still, morosely regarding ber. "I haven't done anything to bring discredit to the sacred name of Lan cing," she informed him, "If that's what you're afraid of. But I'm not going to sit around here like a silly dummy while you go off and have fun. I'm going to have some myself." In the days that followed curiosity and suspicion tortured Jimmy. The thing happened twice again In the next week, but never could he force from Ina the latest inkling of where she had been. The third time he found the explan atory note on his dressing table be turned and went swiftly downstairs again, determined to watch for her return and discover what he could, but just as he he turned the corner of the stairway Ina closed the hall door. He thought that she looked distinctly startled nnd somewhat confused. He strode to the door and threw it open. No one w-as in sight. Where have you been?" he de manded, angrily, "and with whom? I insist on knowing." "Really? Well. If you must know where I am in the evenings, Jimmy dear, you'd better stay at home and find out." Stay at home and find out. That gave him an idea. To tell the truth his convivial evenings abroad were beginning to lose their xeet now that his subconsciousness was robbed of the peaceful picture of his wife sitting at home In dreamy adoration, eagerly waiting bis return. He was apt to grow morose and depart early For Jimmy loved, his wife sincerely In h's man's way. Relations began to grow strained between him and Ina, A few nights later he announced that some of his old classmates were having a reunion and that he would be late getting back, kissed Ina tramped down the stairs and banged the hall door. A moment latr ho slipped Into the darkened reception room on the right, drew a chair to the window facing the street and eat down "Low down trick to spy on her," ho muttered, "but. by Jove! I've got to know where she goes." The minutes passed. Nine o'clock enme ten ten-thirty. No sound came from upstairs. "Confound it!" muttered Jimmy. "Got fooled that time. Well, she won't go out this lute. Might as well go to Bleep till midnight and then let on 1 Just got back." Ho threw hlmseir on a couch and promptly slept. In the meantime Ina, lounging com fortably in an easy chair upstairs, pe rused her novel till the clock struck eleven. Then she rose, slipped into her dressing room and commenced an elaborate evening toilet. About a quarter to twelve, fully arrayed, she drew a graceful evening wrap about her. slipped softly down the back stairs, then down another flight to the basement, drew a comfortable wooden rocker to one of the windows., which, aa in so many New York houses, were on a level with tho street, ensconced himself with a good view of the a trance, and waited, C. ENGLAND "To think," she giggled, "that he hal nsver once suspected. And iff waking him up with a vengeance." It was half pnst one when Mr. Lnn ning awoke. He crept to the window and examined bis watch by the light of a street lamp. "Holy smoke!" he muttered, "shell be all up In the air. Let's hope to goodness she's asleep!" He crept softly Into the ball, still more softly up the stairs, turned the handle of the bedroom door and Bllpped in. All was silent, the bed undisturbed, and on his dressing table he saw the note. Dismay gripped him. Then she had gone out after all! What a fool ha had been to go to sleep. And where could she be at this hour? He opened the window and leaned far out. No sign of life anywhere. He paced up and down in a fury, leaned from the window at about every fourth turn. His mind was chaos. Visions of acci dents haunted him. All sorts of im possible explanations surged through bis brain. The minutes passed. Two o'clock came two-thirty. He mopped the perspiration from his face. Jovel If this was what it nt to wait for people the Lord forgive him for the many times be had made Ina do it. At three o'clock be strode down the stairs, a delirious determination to find her dominating every other emo tion. To his amazement the hall door stood wide open. On the top step waa Ina, ber back to him gazing wildly up and down the street. As he stepped out she turned with a little shriek and thrsTr her arms around his neck. "Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy," she sobbed, "where have you been? I've been waiting for you for hours!" "Waiting!" he gasped, "I've been waiting for you. Where " "You didn't come in. I was watch ing. I never took my eyes off the door for a minute. You didn't come in!" she persisted. "How did" "I didn't go out," he interrupted. "I wanted to find out Ina, come inside. I nearly went crazy upstairs, waiting." The door shut, ina sunk down on a chair. "You you were watching upstaira," she giggled hysterically, "and I was watching in the basement, and " "The basement!" exclaimed Jimmy, blankly. "Yee, that's where I went every night. Then when I heard you come in I stole up, banged the door and " Jimmy bad her in his arms. "You blessed little schemer!" he whispered, kissing her frantically in his relief, "I'll never leave you alone again a minute, now that I know what It feels like." TRAIT OF AN IRISHMAN Man Wouldn't Leave the Home Where He Was Born Because He Loved It The love of the Irishman for his home is one of his well-known traits, and in "Ireland Yesterday and Today," Mr. Hugh Sutherland gives a pleasant and yet pathetic instance of that de votion. He wan traveling in the west of Ireland, and was rather astonished to find the third-class compartments crowded with sturdy-looking men. At a Junction station a broad-shouldered, bearded man cheerfully enlightened hlra as to the reason why so many were traveling. "Sure, tir, we've all been over la England workln'," ho said. "I've been away since April myself, and there's 20 good pounds In me pocket this blessed minute to pay the rent an' buy a bit of bacon an' that for the win ter." "Hut what do you go to England for? Why not stay ou your own farm and work that?" "God save you. sir, an' do you think" we go to England because we like it? Ia it likely we'd leave our own farms If so be we'd get food an' clothes an' rent by stay in'? Bad luck to it, we go because we have to, to get the money we need." "Then why not go to England alto gether?" The big man turned and looked over the desolate country. The winter dusk was falling swiftly, and tbo outlines of the hills were indistinct, but we could still see the empty land and feel its rugged uukindnesa. Yet the man's voice was very tender as he spoke. "Twenty miles on," he said, "there's a bit of ft cabin and a bit of land, in that cabin I was born and on that land my father worked. U it like, now, that I'd leavo it to live In England or anywhere else? it's a rough place at tho best, and not all the muscles I've got can dig a living out of It But. God be good to me. I love It, kir." Youth's Companion. Gourmet's Idea. The French statesman, M. Monia, Is tho proprietor of a brandy of which he is very proud. The story goes that once when King Edward and the late General Gulliffet were dining togeth er. Monis brandy was served, and King Edward drank his portion off ot one gulp, Galllffet. connoisseur, urd. "Sire." be exclulmed, "you have com mitted a crime!" Kin Edward laugh ed. "Why?" h asked. "Brandy like that." wns the reply, "should bo sav ored. You should lift It gently, pass It under your uose, cJoy th aroma, snd then put it back on the table" "And after that?" the ilog laid -After that, aire, talk about it" CARE OF LEATHER FURNITURE Mixture of Vlnegsi-, vyhlte f Cgga and Turpentine Makes Good Cleaning Compound. The closnirg of leather tipholwtered furniture U a question that concerns almost every housewife, for tboxe who do not possens one or more pieces of the padded leather kind have at least the leather seated din ers, that require refurbishing three or four times a year. In preparing to clean such n piece It Is best to have the necessary mate rials at hand, so that the work cun he finished at once and without r!?,k of Injuring the furniture, b there would be a liability if the different opera lions of the work were not done In rapid sequence. Procure three large Mze cheese cloths, a basinful of tepid or nearly warm water, to whkh has been add ed a little vinegar, say a tablespoon ful. and a mixture of the whites of two egKS and a half pint of turpen tine. The mixture la best made by first be-.t!r.g the eggs to a froth and placing it In a bottle before the tur pentine, and then before each applica tion It is well shaken In the bottle. Large pieces of leather furniture are gone over In sections, first with the chesecloth, which hag been dip ped In the warm water to which hag been added the vinegar, and then after being carefully wiped with a dry cheesecloth. It Is polished with a cheesecloth or chamois lightly sat urated with the egg white and turpen tine mixture, after this the aitlcie Is carefully wiped dry with otber cloths. Seats of the dining chairs can be done one at a time with ease. Any leather covered article, such aa seat pads and even go-carts, not leav ing out the dull calf or gunmetal shoe, can be renovated after a fash Ion by the same process, and shiny leather thus treated will admit of a polish more readily than before it ta applied. USE OF RICE AS VEGETABLE Flavor May Be Constantly Varied by Cooking Cereal In Essence of Vegetables. Wash the rice thoroughly, rubbing the grains between the hands and using many waters, until all starchl nesg disappears. Then let the rice soak in cold water for at least 15 minutes longer if possible. Cut three or four large carrots in long, thin strips, as for soup, and boll them in one quart of water until it is reduced to a pint Then throw away the car rots and use the water, which will contain their essence, to cook the rice. Melt one tablespoonful butter In a double" cooker, placing it. for the time being, directly over the fire, and let the rice fry in it for a few min utes until it shows a tendency to brown, stirring constantly. Then add the water in which the carrots were cooked, one teaspoonful of curry pow der, and salt and cayenne pepper to suit the taste. Place the rice cooker in Its proper vessel and let it cook un'il all the liquid is absorbed and the rice is well done. Test the rice by pressing a grain of it between the thumb and finger. If it crushes read ily, it is sufficiently cooked. The essence of any vegetable, se cured in the same way as that of the carrots described in this recipe, may be used for cooking rice as a vege table, and thus the flavor may be constantly varied. ANTI-DRIP STRAINER A tea or coffee strainer that will aot drip has been Invented by a Wis- consin man. The jvi-f '7 device consist of t- ' small metal cup r with a siout that. normally. Is some what higher than that of the coffee or tea pot. ' Tho cup is attached to the pot by l strong wire clamp. Inside of the :up and shaped to fit it Is the strr.intr proper of fine wire mesh. The device is attached to the pot by means of a itrong wire clamp and when the cof fee or tea is roured the drippings fall luto the cup of the strainer. Popular Mechanics. Cocoa Cake. Cream one-half cup butter and one cup sugar, add beaten yolks of two eggs and beat well; mix one and one half cups flour, one and one-half tea spoons baklr.g powder and two tea spoons of cocoa thoroughly. Beat whites of epgs stiff, measure one half cup milk and then add a little milk and flour mixture alternately to the egg mixture. lastly add whites of eggs and one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in shallow pan about 20 minutes and frost with the following: rialu Cocoa Frosting. Mix one-half teaspoon cocoa with one cup pow dered migar, add one tablespoon lem on Juice and one tablespoon boiling water, or enough to mix the sugar Into a paste. That settles to a levef the moment you stop stirring. Spread at ouce on hot cake. The Use of the Broom. Few peoplo handle a brootu proper ly, although accustomed to its use every day of their lives. Always draw your broom by leuulug It forward, be cause this allows the dirt to be moved along mora geut!y and will not raise much dust Meet sweepers thrust the broom ahead of them Iu a ort of d'.gglug way, with the baud!i toward the sweeper. This breaks the broom, wears out the carpet, tilrts up dust and makes the swepln tuucU Uijrr' laborious. it i By Lydla E. PInkham'a OUnrow, Tow. Tor Tears Iwi fclrnrmt a cwUnt sufferer rora femals urouMo In all Ita dreadful forms; Hhootlna1 pains ail over w.j body, slclc headache, spinal weakness, dizziness i-ieprension. ana jeYerythir.jr that was ioctor in di'ferer.i Jirts of tha Unltei -tates, but I-raiaiA. iiakham's Veg-ela-Mo Cornponnd has cone mors lor mo than, all th doctors. I feel It my duty to tell yon thea facts. My heart ia full of gratitude M you for my cure," Airs. IIaretft E Wauc, tsA 8. liauaom &treut. Jttumwa, Iow&. Consider This Advice TTo woman should submit to a sairf cal operation, which may mean death, until sh has tfi ven Lydia E. Ilnkh&in' Vegetable Compotuia ft fair trUL Tula fatnona medMn. made only from roots ami herbs, U for thirty years proTed to be the most Taluabla tonlo and lnvigorator of th female ryanism. "Woaon residic la almost every city and town in ina United Btates bear wllllmj testimony to th wonderful Tirtvw of Lydia . Ilcfc fcam's Vegetable Compound. IT to. PinlkliRTn, at Lynn, I.Xas Invites all sick women to vrita her for ad vice. Her advlw is fro coniiiicntial. and always helpful. r i lev n v t'? i rr , xt.cjp. iX I jus's a, atiuut ' ' -ft -rr, wiU a ac 'jartaYjiiur lar' , : aUauW4 cfie " VK (M all VlnB r"i-pai hf , UrtXjm. J. I. HAIH BALSAM tad fct. '"Us ti. Wfe n GREAT TEMPTATION. Aunt Dinah Ephrum, dat oie Cunnel Leigh U got some of de fines', moa' iubly young turkeys I eber sot my blessed eyes on. Dat am a fac'i Uncle Epbralm Vaas, honey, dla chile knows it. An" I on'y got 'llgion two weeks ago! An" Jes' two days befo' Thauksglbbin! Dinah, I'se mighty 'fraid I's goin' to be a backslider, shuah aa youah bohn! Grandfather's Fault. Father Why, when I was your age I didn't have as much money in a month as you spend in a day. SonWell, pa, don't sixjld me about it. Why don't yea go for grand father? Silent Fnrtner. A SPOON SHAKER. Straight From Coffeedom. Cuffeo can marshall a good squadron of enemies and somo very hard ones to overcome. A lady in Florida writes: "1 have always been very fond of good coffee, and for years drank It at least three times a day.. At last, how ever, I found that it was injuring me. "I became bilious, subject to fre quent and violent headaches, and so very nervous, that I could not lift a spoon to my mouth without spilling a part of its contents. "My heart got "rickety" and beat so fast and so hard that 1 could scarcely brcvatke, while my skin got thick and dingy, wih yellow blotches on my face, caused by the condition of iy liver and bltxid. "I made up my mind that all these afflictions came from the coffee, and I determined to experiment and sea. "S I quit coffee and got a p:ckas of Fostuui which furnished my morning beveragu. After a littt I was rewarded by a complete tlon of my health In every, "I do not suffer from blj' more, my headaches ly' my nerves ar as ty' . desired, my heart-' my complexion,' fully the by and it Is train.' . 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