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The Commoner.
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VOLUME 3, NUMBBH 25,
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There fiat two glasses filled to the brim
On a rich man's table, rim to rim;
One was ruddy and red as blood,
One was clear as the crystal flood.
Said the glass of wine to tho paler
brother,
"Let ns tell the talcs of tho past to
each other:
I can tell of banquets and revel and
mirth,
And the proudest and grandest souls
on earth
Fell under my touch as though struck
by blight,
"Where I was Icing, for I ruled in
might.
From tho heights of fame I have
hurled men down;
I have blasted many an honored namo;
I have taken virtue and given shame;
I have tempted the youth with a sip,
a taste
That has made his future a barren
waste.
Far greater than any king am I,
Or than any army beneath the sky;
I have made the arm of the driver fail
And hurled tho train from the iron
rail;
I have made good ships go down at
sea,
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet
to me;
Fame, strength, wealth, genius before
mo fall,
For my strength and power are over
all.
Ho, ho, pale brother," laughed the
wine,
"Can you boast of deeds as great as
mine?"
Said tho water-glass, "I cannot boast
Of a king dethroned, or a murdered
host;
But'I can tell of a heart once sad
By my crystal drops made light and
glad;
Ot thirsts I've quenched, of brows I've
laved;
Of hands I've ccoled and souls I've
saved;
I've leaped through valleys and down
tho mountain,
Flowed in tho river and played in the
fountain;
Slept in tho sunshine and dropped
from tho sky,
Brightened the landscape and glad
dened tho eye;
I have cased hot foreheads of fever
and pain,
I have made the parched meadows
grow fertilo again;
I can toll of the powerful wheel at
the mill
That turned at my touch, ground flour
at my will;
I can tell of manhood, debased by you,
That I lifted and strengthened and
crowned anew.
I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid,
I gladden the heart of tho man and
tho maid;
I sot the chained, wine-captive free,
And the world is .better for knowing
me."
These are tho tales they told each
other1
Tho glass of wine and tho paler
brother,
As. they sat together, filled to the brim,
On tho rich man's table, rim to rim.
Anonymous.
(By request)
address before the University of Min
nesota, said:
"Women are not crowding out men;
they are only making them hustle a
little to hold their places. The strug
gle will bo productive of far-reaching
results. It is severe, interesting and
suggestive, but tho man who fails
under it should not complain. If he
respects his mother's memory he will
take off his hat and thank God for
the pluck of American womanhood. . .
The American woman is none the less
a lady because she adorns a profes
sion or becomes Interested in com
mercial affairs. I honor her all the
more for the splendid example she
sets her sister in other lands, and for
the grace, dignity, purity and faith
fulness she contributes to the daily
routine."-
O 0
In Chicago, at the present time, con
sidering all the lines of endeavor un
dertaken by men at work, only ten of
these occupations have not been
seized upon by one or luore women.
There are no women soldiers, but
there are three serving before the
mast as sailors. There are no tele
graph or tolephone line women; no1
women work as roofers and 'slaters;
no women-plasterers, though New
York has five; no women work as
boiler-makers; no fishers and oyster
ers among the women; no miners and
qi'arry-women; no coke and lime
burners, no wheelwrights and no coop
ers. Aside from these 'ten occupa
tions, every other has Us women ad
ocates working acceptably to their
employers and to their trade. There
Is at least one woman blacksmith, one
hostler, a lumberwoman, adept at
rafting logs; two brick and tile mak
ers; two potters, making stoneware;
two woodchoppers, three boatmen and
sailors; stove-makers, distillers and
rectifiers, malsters and brewers, mill
ers and cabinet-makers. In contrast
with this, in the showing which man
has made in invading the occupations
primarily belonging to women, there
are launderers, nurses and midwives,
dressmakers, milliners, seamstresses,
ccoks and housemen. This crowing is
fiom the census of 1900.
Women as Was -Workeri.
A prominent speaker, in a recent
Qutry Box.
A Reader. For making whipped
cream, see article In another column.
Aunt Allie. For a seat for a swing
for the little folks, instead of a board,
use an old chair, sawing the legs off;
it is safer, and much more comfort
able. Frankie. In purchasing a table for
your piazza, select one of bamboo,
with the top covered with matting;
it will stand all kinds of weather, and
win not need to be taken in when it
storms.
T. M. To supply tho deficiency of
shade for another season, set four
posts in the ground; let them be high
enough to admit of walking upright
when a few poles are laid across: for
a roQf; cover three sides with coarse
netting, and plant around the three
sides perennial climbing plants. Give
the plants good culture, and you will
soon have a charming summer house
A Subscriber. A good cleansing
soap, is made by slaving two pound
bars of any good white soap Into two
quarts of hot water, stirring until it
melts, and adding three ounces of
powdered borax, stir unHi fnrmo .
jelly. For use, a tablespoonful of this
jelly stirred into a gallon of water
(Eoft) will clean woodwork, remov
ing all kinds of marks without injur
ing the paint; can bo used for wash
ing blankets, lace curtains, table lin
ens, and other fabrics; is excellent for
washing oilcloths, linoleums, mattings,
etc. Is also a good toilet soap.
Hostess. For making iced tea,
mixed teas are best. A popular way is
to allow two teaspoonfula of tea
leaves to each cup of water; put .the
tea-leaves in cold water ten or twelve
hours before wanted for use, setting in
a cold place. The flavor is said to
be much finer than when made with
boiling water. Tho tea should be
quite strong, as when the ice is added
the dissolving weakens its strength.
"When needed, put two teaspoonfuls of
nice sugar into each goblet, fill half
full of shaved or cracked ice, and
pour over this the tea. A little lemon
juice added is liked by some, but
should bo left to individual taste.
Mrs. S. M. To clean your mackin
tosh, it will be necessary for you to
take into consideration the material,
and treat tho mud spots as you would
if the cloth did not have the rubber
lining. The goods in a mackintosh
is merely coated on the wrong side
with a thin film of rubber. If the
garment is made of cloth that will
not ordinarily spot, the mud may be
washed off with clear water; if not,
there is no way of cleaning it without
spotting the goods.
Mrs. J. S. For sweet cucumber
pickle3, take seven pounds of ripe cu
cumbers, two quarts of good vlnegar,
three pounds of brown sugar, one
ounce of mixed spices. Pare, quarter
and remove the seeds and let them
stand over night, well sprinkled with
salt Drain off the brine, and cook in
vinegar until just tender. Bottle and
seal. For tomato relish, scald, peel
and cut fine one dozen ripe tomatoes,
add to them six white onions chopped
fine, one cupful of vinegar, one cupful
of sugar, one cupful of raisins chopped
and seeded, with salt to taste; add
half a teaspoonful of white pepper,
an'l a very little cayenne; boil slowly
one and one-half hours, bottle and
seal.
Farmer's Wife. Trim the outer
leaves of the cauliflower, and soak
head downward in salted water; put
in the saucepan, head up; cover with
boiling water, salted to taste, and cook
gently until tender; test with a fork;
arain; break off the branches, (or
flowerettes) and put in a baking dish;
sprinkle over it salt, pepper and
grated cheese; pour over it one pint
of white sauce; cover with a thick
layer of buttered crumbs and brown
in a quick oven.
Graduate. Every "woman editor"
gets many such appeals for help from
other women, who think journalism is
easy, well paid work. As the "woman
editor" is herself but an employe, she
can only advise, and that not always
acceptably. The wages are not prince
ly, and the work is exacting. To keep
such a place, and do the work re
quired, one must do more than merely
send In neatly prepared manuscript
on subjects which interest herself
She must read broadly ,and choose
Intelligently, not even skipping the ad
vertisements, and keep in mind the
fact that she has a multitude of tastes
to please with her subject matter
she must keep In mind, too. the scope
of the department entrusted to her
and consider the financial valuo to the
publishers of the matter she prepares
One lady, employed on an eastern
perludjcal, and whose salary Is $15
per eek, tells me that ho rtt -
I oyer one hundred papers and pamph
lets per week, and has to read them
?iV w? ?ie advertisements. Do y5
think that- is easy work-every week?
Tha Contrast
Not long ago, during a visit to a
distant city I was the guest of J
Mend who lives in a handsome house
in a lashionable residence portion of
the city. There were several ser
vants, avd the furnishings of the
house, as well as the gownings of the
ladles ot the family a mother and
two adult daughters were costly and
elegant. The mother was a "club"
woman, belonged tj several societies
and was a member of several church
committees. Tho daughters' time was
also GCClinied in vnrJnim wot.o
daily, while tho father and two sons
were employed in the "down-town"
region, and were seldom seen in the
home, except in the evening. The
evening "dinner" was the only meal
shared in common by the family, and
even then usually with guests. There
seemed absolutely no time or chanco
foi the cultivation of home ties, or the
"gftting acquainted with one's own."
Somewhere in the house there were
other children, and these, the mother
declared, she could hardly distinguish
from the other children of the neigh
borhood, she saw them so seldom. Of
course, this was something of a jest,
as my friend Is as domestic as her
duties will allow her to be,' but, as she
said, she sees less of them than she
sees of her servants. She said: "I
positively envied my laundress when
I met her on the street, carrying and
kissing her baby."
My visit was delightful, as, being
an old and intimate friend, I was ad
mitted into what there was of their
home life, but my friend sighed as
she said, "I wish we could sit down to
a dinner prepared by my own hands,
the children gathered about the table,
with Tom to carve and help the little
plates, just as we did, in the- old
days." Now, you will ask, "Why, then,
does she not do so?" Because she
cannot Wealth imposes obligations,
and social life makes demands, and
the duties of one's station may not be
evaded.
The large salary of the father and
those of the sons are all spent. The
father said: "I have educated my
four adult children, and the others
are in school ;- I have as good busi
ness prospects as the times will al
low; I am good for a few more years
in the harness, but I have accumulated
nothing. Everything goes as it comes.
I do not know what I shall do when
the harness falls off; my children may,
or they may" not, care for. my old age.
One does not know, now-a-days."
And somehow my" heart ached for
"Tom and Hattie," despite their evi
dent wealth and beautiful surround
ings. Another day found me in a very
different part of L city. "Ben and
Jennie" live in r. little four-room cot
tage a "little hen-coo"," as Ben call3
it, wherein the Mother "biddio" is
shut up all day, while the rest of tho
family "scratch" outside The father
and son are mechanics; the two
daughters work "down-town," . and
there is a little five-year-old who
helps mamma keep house. The mother
li housekeeper, cdok, laundress, seam
stress, and maid of all works. The
whole family eat breakfast together,
chattering merrily, while the mother
puts up the four lunches, then thero
is a laughing scramble for street
wraps, a merry good-bye, and they aro
away to catch the street cars, leaving
mother and Lady Beljorto set things
in order and start tho business of tho
day. When the day is done, young
feet patter along the hall, there is a
babel of young voices, and the "good
dinner mother always gets up" Is eaten
hv thn ronnnftmb'oil Vmnrl WMlo imnMicr
land father enjoys the presence of th
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