THE DAILY MENTAL MENU
Assimilation and Elimination of tha
Contents of the Big News
paper.
The meal Is prepared for one per
son; the menu for many persons,
v Now, the newspaper Is not a meal; It
1b a menu. It Is not edited for one per
son but for many persons.
Not for "the mass" or “the
masses;” that Is g corroding superstl
tltlon. There t» no "mass" to read
a newspaper—only Individuals. But
Into the newspaper there is put a
wide variety of things because there
Is a wide variety of persons in the
world this year
The man who wants only a bunch
of grapes and a little tea and toast
for breakfast cannot understand the
Individual next him who is of huski
ness, who demands buckwheat cakes,
sausages and pie; yet the hotel must
tafte In both.
So must the newspaper.
The art or newspaper reading may
be divided Into two parts—elimina
tion and assimilation, the St. Louis Re
public says. No one individual not
concerned In the making of newspa
pers has any business with the whole
paper. The reader should select what
concerns him in the day's news and
pass by the rest on the other side.
Failure to do that leads to the read
ing of much more than can be read
^carefully. Result: Misty impressions
and vague, purposeless thinking. The
real news of the day for any one hu
man being is contained in not more
than a dozen "stories;” choose the
dozen that concern you and concen
trate on them. Don’t try to cover
everything in the paper—not even
everything on politics or sport. There
are 20 different oyster dishes on a
good menu, but to get enough nitro
gen to keep from starvation a man
would have to eat 14 dozen a day.
SCIENCE OF SCARPOLOGY
It Is the Analyzing of Down-at-the
Heel Condition of Your
Fellows.
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Those who have hitherto been Inter
ested In analyzing the down at heel
condition of a section of their fellow
creatures may be pleased to hear that
they have been dabbling in a science
distinguished by the name of scarp
ology, of which Doctor Garrier of
Basle, Switzerland, is the chief ex
ponent. It is thte art of knowing men
and women by the examination of
their footwear.
Criminal investigators as well as
others who wish to read character ac
curately cannot afford to disregard
f scarpology, says the doctor. Given a
pair of shoes worn by their owner for
at least two months and he can tell
the character, disposition and habits
of the wearer. By careful practise
you may in a few minutes gauge a
man at his worth simply by glancing
at his feet.
Roughly speaking, the chief indica
tions of character lie In the manner
and proportion in which the soles and
the heels are worn out. Beware of
the man who wears out the toe and
the external edge of the sole simulta
neously, says Doctor Garrier. He will
always invariably turn out a crook. It
Is up to the -crooks now to disguise
their feet.
Curious Spoons.
At the present time we are familiar
with all manner and shapes of spoons
intended for divers purposes, but some
of the old-fashioned ones are certain
ly curiosities. For instance, there is
the long, marrow spoon, used a couple
decades ago for the extraction of mar
row from bones. This spoon was made
double, one end being employed for
small bones and the other for those
of larger bore.
Another odd spoon was used for
mulberries. This had a perforated
bowl, and with this a little sugar was
sprinkled on the berry, which was
then conveyed to the mouth on the
spiked end of the handle.
Very few caddie-spoons are seen
these days. Teaspoons of the old type
have long since gone their way, and
with them disappeared the caddie
spoon. The snuff, candle and pap
spoons have long since gone out of
use.
Too Literal.
"Do you ever think, George, dear,”
said she, and her voice was soft and
low, as befitted the perfect beauty of
the night—"do you ever think how
closely true happiness is allied with
tears?”
"I don't believe I ever do,” admitted
George; "but I will if you like.”
"Yes,” she went on, gazing up into
his face. "When one is truly and
wholy happy, George, dear, there is
but little to divide laughter from
tears.”
"Well, that's a fact,” assented
George dear, “but 1 never thought of
It before. After all, there's nothing
but the nose.”—Ideas.
Breakage No Loss.
A woman who keeps a restaurant in
Washington square, New York, is
turning to advantage the carelessness
of her servant girls. Whenever one
of her girls breaks a dish of figured
> china, the flat part of the dish or
plute, with a pattern showing on it, is
carefully laid aside. She has ar
ranged these old pieces in a pretty
mosaic pattern for her window, setting
them in cement, aud in a year or so
she expects to 'have enough broken
bits of plate to cover the entire floor
of the restaurant as she has done
the window.
HAD A FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL
Little Girl's Cheery “Goodby" That
Called Forth Sympathetic Re
sponse From Fellow Passenger*.
Her mother said: "Oh, dear! Isn't
that awful? What will people think?"
But the people themselves seemed
to think It the prettiest scene they
had witnessed that day.
She was a very little girl, white
frocked, pink ribboned, brown curled.
With her mother 6he left the subway
train at the Grand Central station,
New York. The usual confusion pre
vailed. Timid travelers grabbed suit
eases and bundles and exclaimed: "Oh,
do we change here?" Trainmen on
the platform shouted out directions
for local and express trains, and the
guards of that particular car adjured
the passengers frequently and vehe
j mently to "Step lively” and to “Watch
the step." Then all of a sudden there
' was a lull In the uproar. The little
girl was leaving the car. She stopped
at the door, looked back and waved
her hand.
"Good-by, everybody,” she said.
The words carried to the far end of
the ear. They made every one sit up.
Two or three persons called out a re
sponsive “Good-by,” tw'o or three said
"Bless the child!” and all smiled.
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LOVE A TREMENDOUS POWER
Is the Incalculable and Universally
Recognized Impetus of All Suc
cessful Social Machinery.
Love is the wind, the tide, the wave,
the sunshine, its power is incalcula
ble; it is many horse power. It never
ceases, it never slacks; it can move
with the globe without a resting place;
It can warm without lire; it can feed
without meat; it can clothe without
garments; it can shelter without roof;
it can make a paradise within, which
will dispense with a paradise without.
But, though the wisest men in all ages
have labored to publish this force, and
every human heart 1b, sooner or later,
more or less made to feel it, yet how
little is actually applied to social ends.
True, it is the power of all successful
social machinery; but as in physics
we have made the elements do only
a little drudgery for us, steam to take
the place of a few horses, wind of a
few oars, water of a few cranks and
handmills; as the mechanical forces
have not yet been generally applied to
make the physical world answer to
the ideal, so the power of love has
been but meanly and sparingly ap
plied, as yet.—Henry D. Thoreau.
Hongkong the Luxurious.
Hongkong with its luxurious hotels,
its princely clubs, its rich and influen
tial banks, housed in splendidly con
structed and beautifully designed
buildings; its shipyards and graving
docks able to care for the largest ves
sels; its miles of warehouses bursting
with wealth; its yellow-sailed fleets
laden with silks, tea, sugar and pre
cious porcelains; its commerce almost
as great as that of New .York; its
Botanic gardens hung amid delightful
villas overlooking a harbor that is a
city in itself, and that floats ten thou
sand sail; Hongkong with its wonder
ful temples of ornate teak roofs; its
idols of a hundred sects, its French
cathedral, its forts, garrison and naval
life; its Happy Valley race course
all at the end of white man's civiliza
tion. Supreme from the peak on
which it rests, in well-bred aloofness it
looks askance at sordid Asia whence
it sprung—W. J. Aylward in Harper's
Magazine.
Telegraph Chinese in Code,
j- Difficulties of the Chinese language
were ably demonstrated when the
problem arose of adapting it to teleg
raphy. How was It possible to apply
the Morse alphabet to a language
which has no alphabet at all,
but consists of nearly 44,000
characters? Then, it was Impos
sible to treat Chinese phonetic
ally, writing down the sound
of the Chinese words in European let
ters and translating them into Morse
dots and dashes; because no such
system could deal with the Chinese
niceties of Intonation. The ingenious
solution came from a Danish profes
sor. He simply codified the 7,000 com
monest Chinese characters, represent
I ing each by numerals. Thus the C hi
nese word for "cash” became 6030 in
the code and the operator had only to
send the code signal for that.
Let the Painter Go.
The captain of a small ship had
need to go ashore in one of the boats
belonging to the ship. As it hap
pened, the ship was being painted at
the time, the painters using staging
supported by ropes.
The captain ordered the ship's boy
to “let go the painter” belonging to
the boat. After waiting some minutes
the captain roared again. “Let go
the painter!” The boy replied: “He’s
gone, sir, pots and all.”
At the First Try.
"What do you think of my dough
nuts. George?”
"Dear, you are a wonder!”
"Do you think so really, darling?”
"I certainly do! Scientists have been
trying for years to produce artificial
rubber and here you do It the first
rattle out of the box!"
Misleading Title.
“Here’s a collection of facts that
are of no " anybody,”
said the assist *
• ■•vj , . t.’ ’" I the editor.
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WOMEN AS POULTRY RAISERS
Attention lc Drawn to Pleasure and
Profit In This Industry on
Any Farm.
I like to draw the attention of farm
girls to poultry culture, says a writer i
In Michigan Farmer. While many girls I
are called, 1 have no doubt, to be
teachers, 1 am sure that if some other
girls knew the pleasure and protit de- j
rived from poultry culture, they might j
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Brown Leghorn ■Cockerel.
remain with their mothers; the life of
the mother on the farm, with all her
children away, is rather lonely.
The Leghorns are the best laying
breed, as the Jersey cows are the be8t
dairy breed. You will find more good
layers among Leghorns, just as you
will find more good milkers among
Jerseys. For years 1 have kept an ac
count with my hens, and I can board
them for 60 cents a year apiece. I was
much delighted when the Utah Experi
ment station brought out a report in
which it was stated that they were
hoarding hens for 60*4 cents. The
New York Experiment station boards
the smaller breeds for 84 cents and
the larger ones for 98 to 103 cents.
I do not doubt the stories of the
hen reaching 200 eggs a year. I did
personally know of one flock of hens,
fed almost entirely on table scrape,
that laid about 190 eggs apiece. Hut
those were pets. Those large records
belong to the people who have a few
pete or those who are running poultry
farms and making a very extensive
Btudy of the business. I have always
had housekeeping or something else
to do, and never had more than 200
to 600 hens. I hftve got from them 90
eggs each per year to 145.
Hens suffer from overeating a«
much as from half starving.
Charcoal pounded fine and kept in
the drinking pans will keep the young
and old birds in good condition.
Take care of all the chicks when
they come. They will be valuable
later this summer and next fall and
winter.
Corn is a good feed, the year
around, provided the birds have plenty
of green stuff during the warm
months.
A tablespoonful of baking soda
placed in the drinking water two or
three times a week will prevent bowel
trouble.
Never close the door of the poultry
house during the summer. Use wire
screens to keep skunks out and to let
the air and sunshine in.
Anyone knows that an old horse
can’t as a rule, do as much as a young
one. Then why expect an old ben to
lay as well as one in her prime?
Give all the spare skim milk to
young and old chickens. It Is just the
kind of food to make young chickens
grow and the kind to make hens lay.
Tests made at the agricultural ex
periment station at Geneva, N. Y.,
show beyond a doubt that hens lay
better^ when kept away from the
males.
v\ nen me mue chicks negm 10 ap
pear drowsy and refuse to eat, look
out for head lice. Kerosene, and sweet
oil in equal parts applied dally two
or three times will kill lice.
Many people say turkeys should be
restricted in their range, but we do
not believe it. We have raised many
turkeys and have always found that
the wider the range the better they
| thrive.
Filthy drinking vessels are the |
cause of many serious ailments of j
I fowls; continued drinking of impure
water will produce what is commonly 1
! termed cholera and the Hock is soon
wiped out.
With poultry, as with other ani- ;
I mals, the faster they are made to
gTow while they are young the more
| profit there Is in the business. Kush
i the cockerels for market and the pul- '
| lets for laying..
It is not possible for all to give
their chicks unlimited range and In
| such cases the feeder will have to
i make up the deficiency by feeding
i bone forming elements. The best of
these is green cut bone.
A small spray pump at this season
will soon pay for itself for whitewash
ing and disinfecting the henhouse
' and coops. With a small sprayer vou
can go over the surface ten times as
last as you can with a brush.
if many chicks are raised, it is a
good [ilan to !:<*(, a large kettle near
the poultry lan , ia vbicb the drink
ing v* s'.a Is ... * '•' led at least once
a week. A i . comm n soda
thrown iu ii '•••-» ~v-,
i nit n il ..
Grand Opening
The New Zimmerman Music
House has thrown its doors
wide open, and in the fullest
sense are now ready to serve
y the public in their line.
/ A full line of all kinds of
Musical Instruments will be
i carried, together with exten
sive assortment of Sheet Mu
sic and musical supplies.
TWO CARLOADS High Grade Pianos just re
ceived and now ready for inspection.
Zimmerman ffoifsi
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