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OLD DUTCH FARMS
Some ol the Oddities of UXe In the
Netherlands
Of the manner of life in Zealand
Netherlands an observer writes The
Dutch farmhouse is usually built after
a uniform model The living room usu
ally occupies the whole of the ground
floor and is a sitting room bedroom
and kitchen rolled into one The bed
steads are screened by green curtains
or hidden away like cupboards but
what Is cafted the show bedstead
pronk bedden always occupies a prom
inent place in the room But then it
is never used it is kept exclusively for
the purpose of proving the high re
spectability of the family by the fine
ness of its linen sheets and the rich
ness of the counterpane Kept nominal
ly In honor of the guests the most
honored guest would not be allowed to
use It In larger or more modern farm
houses a separate room Is set apart as
a show place or pronk kamer but
there is as a rule no bedstead and
the room is furnished as a parlor
This room like the bedstead is never
used by the household for general pur
poses but on the occasion of the death
of a member of the family it serves as
the bier chamber In some farmhouses
a wing has been added to the original
building and in such cases it is divid
ed into two or three small bedrooms
As a rule the stable or shed for the
cows forms part of the house and Is
separated from the living room only by
a wooden wall or partition The door
of communication is generally fitted
with glass windows so as to keep the
animals under supervision There is
also a class of open farmhouses where
there is no partition at all and the ani
mals literally live with the family No
where is the old fashioned theory more
firmly held than In Holland that the
odor of cows is beneficial to consump
tives Indeed sometimes those who are
tuberculous will go to sleep with the
cows In their manger Over the cow
sheds are the hay lofts and sometimes
these serve as sleeping places as well
In many of the older farms there is
an open fireplace without a chimney
and the smoke finds its way out as
best it can helping in its passage to
I cure the ham sausages and black
dings which depend from the beams of
the ceiling The furniture is strictly
limited to chairs tables the linen
press which Is the ornament of the
chamber and perhaps a spinning wheel
or a mangle The ornaments are prob
ably no more than some delft ware
hung round the room generally in
racks and a Dutch clock The library
consists of the family Bible
Food of the Boer class Is as simple
as the rest of their life The staple
dish is buckwheat porridge and pig
meat especially In the form of hams
and sausages represents the chief ar
ticle of the principal daily meal with
little or no variety Coffee Is the uni
versal beverage and the only Intoxi
cant taken is one of the numerous
forms of gin distilled in all parts of
the country Treacle is also largely
used while sugar is regarded as a
luxury The bread used is black or
rye but there Is also a brown loaf
made with treacle and mixed with
raisins Chicago News
Old Roman Banquets
When at its zenith the Roman em
pire laid all the barbaric countries of
the world under contribution to supply
the tables of its nobles and wealthy
citizens with the fine luxuries of life
Asia and Africa poured In the rich
spices and fruits of the tropics Ger
many and the great north countries
raised the grains and wild berries Ita
ly and the fertile land of the Franks
cultivated the vineyards to make or ex
press the wines every strip of seacoast
from the Mediterranean to the Baltic
contributed its quota of fish and the
forests of Britanny yielded the wild
game of the woods birds beasts and
fowls for the banquets of the proud
dissolute rulers of the vast empire
With the choice products of a great
world so easily obtained there were
wanton waste foolish extravagance
and a strange disregard of the value of
expensive luxuries and the historian
dwelling upon these times delights in
recapitulating the various articles of
diet arranged In tempting manner up
on the groaning tables at the great
feasts and banquets But excepting
Neros dish of peacock tongues and
Cleopatras cup of wine with the dis
solved pearls In It the menu of our
modern banquets would compare fa
vorably with those spread in the times
when gluttony and greed for luxury
were insidiously sapping the strength
of Rome
Origin of April Fool
Very curious things may be discov
ered by people who love to mouse
among old books Here is a very free
translation from a Parsee record not
accessible to many It happened in a
remote year when the inhabitants of
a land were engaged in sun worship
early on the 1st day of April that a
shining man stepped forth from the
earth proclaiming the purifying uses
of fire He called and counseled all
who had damaged household stuff such
as broken kneading troughs tattered
curtains coffeepots with holes in them
lame furniture worthless books and all
such things that might be considered
the dry refuse of life to make a pyre
on the plain outside of the city and to
celebrate this burning the first day of
every April after which the ashes
might be used to fertilize the ground
So the householders began to carry
forth But their wives did seize on
each miserable article saying Do not
so Behold let us hide it In the attic
seven years more It may come handy
Then the angel or messenger was wroth
with humanity that would not purify
Itself by fire and he said From this
day you shall call one another and be
called April fools
MlXfiffigaaiajfea
He Had Proof of His
Skill as a Polisher
F
RANK MILES DAY the well
known architect and essayist of
Philadelphia stepped carefully
from a Persian rug of dull green and
old rose to another rug of rich blue for
the polished floor beneath was dark
and smooth and slippery like ice
Bather a good polish there I think
said Mr Days host a resident of Itlt
tenhouse square
Remarkably good Indeed said Mr
Day
The host just then slipped and nearly
fell and the architect with a laugh
went on
A friend of mine has beautiful
floors and the other day he sent for a
floor polisher
I want these floors polished he
said to the man as he led him about
the house They are you perceive
flue ones They ought to come out as
lustrous as rosewood Do you think
youre capable of doing them justice
Give me some proof of your thorough
competence
Thats easily done sir the polisher
replied You just go and ask Colonel
Snow next door but one about my
work Hell tell ye Why governor on
the polished floor of Colonel Snows
dining room alone five persons got bro
ken limbs last winter while two ladies
slipped down the grand staircase dur
ing the Easter week ball and one dis
located her hip while the other frac
tured three ribs You ask Colonel Snow
sir I polished that floor and that there
staircase of hisn Philadelphia Bul
letin
He Itnn For Lniryer
A man from Pennsylvania went to
Yineland on a busings errand The
town was strange to him and he was
unacquainted with the man a lawyer
he had gone to see The directions he
received were so indefinite that he
found himself on the edge of the town
without having come to the house he
sought Then he met an old negro
and asked the way of him and learned
that the house lay about a quarter of a
mile farther down the road
The man I want to see Is a law
yer he said to the old man Is this
Mr Dash down the road a lawyer
He aint no lawyer that I ever
heard tell of answered the negro
Youre sure
The old negro scratched his head in
deep thought Then a gleam of re
membrance lighted his eye
Now I think of It boss he said
pears like I do recollect he ran
for lawyer one time Philadelphia
Ledger
The Invitation Declined
Come and dine with me tonight
dear boy
No thanks old chappie That
would mean I should have to wire to
ray wife and it Isnt worth it Tatler
A Fish Story
Brown had returned from a fishing
expedition and after partaking of a
most welcome dinner was relating some
of his fishing experiences says the Buf
falo Times
Last year said he while fishing
for pike I dropped half a sovereign I
went to the same place this year and
after my line had been cast a few min
utes I felt a terrific pull Eventually I
landed a fine pike which had swal
lowed the hook and on cutting It open
to release the hook to my amaze
ment
Ah said his friends you found a
half sovereign
Oh no replied Brown I found
9s Gd In silver and 3 pence in copper
Well what became of the other 3
pence queried his friends
I suppose the pike paid to go
through the lock with It answered
Brown Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune
The Date
When does one cease to be a bride
and become a married woman
The day the postman brings her
husband the first bill from the dress
maker v York Life
Satisfactory Ansvrer
Museum Visitor Why do you
eat
that looking glass
Human Ostrich Oh its food for re
flection Pueblo Chieftain
Making Money
He wa3 a counterfeiter
And was clever at the game
He tried to make a living-
But they stopped him just the same
The secret service agents
Gave attention to his tale
But they said it wouldnt answer
So they clapped him into Jail
But when he got his freedom
He wrote a stirring play
About some counterfeiters
And the thins began to pay
Hes making lots of money
For his drama Is the rage
Now they really cannot stop him
Making money on the stage
Yonkers Statesman
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OPERATION WOUNDS
A Serious Danger to Which SnrgeoM
Are Exposed
By tho term operation wound Is
meant a poisoned wound received acci
dentally by the surgeon while operat
ing upon a patient suffering from
blood poisoning but It differs In no way
from an accidentally poisoned wound
which any one is likely to receive It
Is simply the beginning of blood poison
ing
This term blood poisoning Is employ
ed to express a disease resulting from
the entrance Into the blood of the germs
of putrefaction or of pus formation or
the absorption of the poisons elaborat
ed by these germs existing on the out
side of the body It is a much less
common affection now than it was be
fore the Introduction of antiseptic sur
gery
In those days hospital wards even
the cleanest harbored millions of septic
bacteria The knives and other instru
ments used In operating although care
fully washed in soap and hot water
were In effect no different from the
poisoned arrows of the savage bow
man The lint used to pack the
wounds the bandages employed to keep
the lint in place the sponge with which
the wound was washed at each dress
ing were Jill impregnated with living
germs of disease and finally the very
hands of the surgeon scrupulously
clean as they seemed to be were coat
ed with the microbes of suppuration
and putrefaction
It is no wonder that certain opera
tions now performed daily In every hos
pital in the country with perfect re
sults were so uniformly followed by
blood poisoning that the surgeon who
dared to perform them except when
death would otherwise be inevitable
would have been guilty of malpractice
Today it Is not the patient who is in
danger of blood poisoning but the sur
geon who may accidentally Inoculato
himself through a scratch or a hang
nail
The first signs of this are a feeling
of soreness In the arm for a finger is
usually the site of inoculation and
redness and a slight swelling at the
point where the poison entered This
redness soon extends up the inner side
of the arm In streaks which mark the
lymphatic vessels The bacteria are
passing through them to gain entrance
finally Into the general circulation
The glands in the armpit through
which the lymphatics pass also be
come hard and swollen
Soon the patient begins to have
fever alternating perhaps with chills
and then the symptoms of general
blood poisoning appear
The treatment of this infection Is
purely surgical The wound should be
frooly cut open and disinfected so as
to remove the source of the poison If
tLN is done in time and with sufficient
thoroughness blood poisoning may be
averted Youths Companion
His AVnltintr lluce
There was a stub railroad that
ran from Anaconda Marcus Dalys
winter home to the main line of the
Northern Pacific at Garrison where it
connected with those splendidly
equipped trains serpentine voyagers
upon the prairie sea that leave St
Paul and swing across the continent
through canyon forest and plain drop
ping headlong down the west slope
of the Cascade range Into Seattle the
third day out These trains went west
by way of Missoula near Dalys ranch
home In winter storms in Dakota
delayed these fliers In spring the
freshets In summer heavy passenger
travel and in fall the cumbrous move
ment of the harvests Daly was once
on the witness stand and under cross
examining fire by a legal representa
tive of the Northern Pacific railroad
Where do you live the first question
was sharply asked I have a resi
dence at Anaconda and one at Hamil
ton replied Daly Well immediate
ly queried the lawyer where do you
spend most of your time Quick as
the flash of a quails wing came tho
answer At Garrison waiting for
Northern Pacific trains
Buttons According to Rank
Buttons play an important part in the
dress of the Chinese mandarins Those
of the first and second class wear a
button of coral red suggested per
haps by a cocks comb since the cock
is the bird that adorns their breast
The third class are gorgeous with a
robe on which a peacock Is emblazon
ed while from the center of the red
fringe of silk upon the hat rises a
sapphire button The button of the
fourth class Is an opaque dark purple
stone and the bird depicted on the
robe is the pelican A silver pheasant
on the robe and a clear crystal button
on the hat are the rank of the fifth
class The sixth class are entitled to
weac an embroidered stork and a jade
stone button the seventh a partridge
and an embossed gold button In the
eighth the partridge is reduced to a
quail and the gold button becomes
plain while the ninth class mandarin
has to be content with a common spar
row for his emblem with silver for
his button
Cooking Accounts
The word cook used in the sense of
cook up accounts is generally put
in quotation marks but the phrase ha3
been almost long enough in use to give
It Indisputable standing Smollett
wrote of cooking accounts in 1751
and proofs were cooked a century
earlier but somehow cook remains
what the dictionaries sniff at as col
loquial in this sense while concoct
which means to cook or boil together
has the status of a fully accepted
word The Romans used coneoquo
and the simple coquo alike In the
metaphorical sense of pondering and
devising but the obvious metaphor of
cooking accounts never occurred to
them Chicago News
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