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A SONG TO THE MEN WHO LOSE
llervs to the men who loso
ifiacTsfc Jf
HAD finished my medical
education and was spend
ing the winter in Jamaica
with a former schoolmate
preparatory to commencing
practice as a physician
Sly friend Julia Latham
bad married a coffee plant-
er and It was during my
sojourn on the plantation
that I met with the adven
ture I am about to relate
We were driving one glo
rious afternoon through a
lane that went zigzag
Ion up a high mountain
I could not help admiring the pictur
esqueness of the tiny flower decked
cabins which dotted the hillside here
and there and noting that on every ve
randa sat or reclined groups of laugh
ing negroes I said to my friend
I feel inclined to envy these black
people when I see how lightly the trou
bles of life seem to touch them and to
-ask myself if after all they and not
we are the favored children of nature
1 think Julia I should like to be a
negress just for one week In order to
experience what It is to revel in unlim
ited sunshine and drink in the delights
of mere living
My practical friend smiled at this out
burst of sentiment
If Providence were to grant your
Avish you would return to civilization a
sadder and a wiser woman During
your transformation you would become
entangled in the trammels of such a
horribly grotesque superstition that it
is a question if you could ever after
ward entirely shake it off
To what do you allude
To the negroes belief in duppies
In what
Duppies
Pray what are they
A duppy is the shadow of a dead
person the shadow mind you of the
hody not of the soul this having fled
to bliss or woe as the case may be The
duppy is brainless it is transparent
and animated with silly malice toward
living people For some unaccounta
ble reason it does not appear till the
third day after death Then at the
hour when the death took place it
strives to enter its former home and
it has to be frightened off by the wav
ing of a white sheet at the doors and
windows of the cabin A crowd assem
bles for this purpose and some mem
bers of it are sure to see the duppy
There it is they cry Keep It out
Keep it out and then there is a vigor
ous flapping of cotton cloth and the
most awful groans you ever heard If
once the thing enters the house the lit
tle hut becomes uninhabitable hence
the many vacant shanties one comes
across jn Jamaica Just how long the
shadow haunts the earth after the body
has returned to its original dust I could
never ascertain Is it not terrible to
think that in this Christian land such
a belief can be so firmly rooted in the
native mind
It is a most ridiculous superstition
I answered I never heard of quite
such a nonsensical one
It does not seem funny for me at
all answered Julia Latham with a
very grave face but simply horrible
And there is something about it even
worse than what I have told you for
negroes with unbalanced minds some
times think they have swallowed dup
pies and endure the most excruciating
tortures under the excitement of this
idea
Here I laughed aloud
Oh Julia I exclaimed why do you
so impose on the credulity of your
-friend as to tell me this very tall
story
T assure you I am speaking the
trTftih she rejoined These darkies
tlmik the duppies are not only trans
parent but compressible and under the
form of some small insect or reptile
-they glide down a persons throat But
-since I perceive you are still incredu
lous I will take you to see a girl who
fancies she has swallowed two of these
eJhadows Here Themistocles
eifflhe to a small ebony figure that
wggiftfgndering aimlessly about under
ajMgj tree come and hold my horse
vtfof I Yisit yur mother
Jftlfeiiycame forward grinning and
stf flnginmself from the hips with
tMjtgiWous appearance of dislocation
Pure negro walks Half
ljrBi4toseth4s sinuosity of motion in a
g5t33apnre but a negro of pure
ijldod walks as If the upper part of his
body were allied only in a perfunctory
manner to the lower part The littie
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lAM 1 1 - 1 1 lt I -- - 0
uuku u uoik UK ei ho uouiy
llllliimtlve BhIrt it had once been
IMiuinni
Aid watched with zealous care
No glorious halo crowns their efforts
jrrand
Contempt is failures share
Heres to the men who lose
If triumphs easy smile our struggles
greet
Courage is easy then
The king is he who after fierce defeat
Can up and fight again
Heres to the men who lose
The ready plaudits of a fawning world
King sweet in victors ears
The vanquished banners never are un
furled
Tor them there sound no cheers
Heres to the men who lose
The touchstone of true worth is not suc
cess
There is a higher test
Though fate may darkly frown onward
to press
And bravely do ones best
Heres to the men who lose
It is the vanquisheds praises that I
sing
And this is the toast I choose
A hard fought failure is a noble thing
Heres to the men who lose
Boston Traveler
JAMAICA DUPPIES
white but was now of a nondescript
hue It was his only garment
We advanced up the narrow garden
walk to the porch of the whitewashed
shanty with its bright green shutters
Seated in a rocking chair was a portly
woman with a yellow turban wound
round her head She greeted us with
out rising being too indolent to make
the necessary effort
How are you Dinah asked Mrs
Latham
Quite well thank you maam she
answered without stopping the rock
ing
How is Berenice
Very bad maam she is walking up
and down inside there indicating
with a jerk of her thumb over her
shoulder a room in the cottage cause
Julius Caesar and Geonre Smith is a
fighting so they will allow her no
peace
We opened the door of the room indi
cated and when our eyes had become
accustomed to the darkness we saw a
young woman tramping slowly and ma
jestically up and down like a wild
beast in a cage
Berenice said Mrs Latham and
the great tall finely developed girl
halted before her and gazed mournful
ly down on her with large troubled
eyes Berenice I have brought a lady
doctor to see you
To this information the girl answered
with an indifferent intonation
I suppose maam she will be like all
the others and not believe a word I say
so whats the use of troubling her
On the contrary I believe in you
fully Berenice I said
The girl turned quickly toward me
and putting her two shapely hands on
my shoulders looked me in the face
with her dog like eyes She seemed en
deavoring to discover whether I was in
jest or in earnest It was quite a time
before she spoke at length she said
Do you believe in Julius Caesar and
George Smith missee
I am sure I shall do so when I know
who they are I answered
They are my duppies
Oh
Do you want to know how I came
to swallow them
Why of course
Let us go out on the porch and hear
the story said Mrs Latham This
room is stifling
N We went out and watched the blaz
ing sun go down in a tropical splendor
of red and gold behind the blue hill in
front of us as we listened to Bere
nices tale
At first she was too agitated to com
mence It She walked up and down in
front of us declaring that Julius Cae
sar and George Smith objected to her
sitting I drew out a little satchel that
I carried with me a certain gray pow
der and placed it on her tcigue This
had the effect of steadying her nerves
and she began talking in quite a ra
tional manner
Julius Caesar was the baby son of
Mark Antony and Cleopatra that lived
in the cabin at the foot of the hill He
died six months ago and on the third
day after his death a lot of us boys and
girls went to keep the duppy out of the
house At midnight we were very tired
We had flapped the sheet for an hour
without seeing anything It was now
agreed that each of us in turn should
act as watcher We drew lots and the
lot fell on me Soon I was the only
one awake in the whole crowd The
room was very warm and I sat by the
window There was a tree close to it
and I noticed a movement in the
branch nearest me I fixed my eyes
on the branch and saw a little gray
owl that kept hopping nearer and near
er the window Its eyes were fiery and
kind of glued themselves on to mine
and still it hopped nearer and nearer
Presently it got between the moon and
me and I saw right through it The
moon was shining through the little
gray owl Then I knew what it was
and opened my mouth to scream but
before I could do so it flew right in and
was down my throat in a jiffy
She paused in such agitation that it
was impossible to laugh at her story
absurd though it was
George Smith died soon after and I
swallowed him in the form of a cat
she went on presently They fought
right away and I have dreadful times
Oh missee here the poor girl wiped
her eyes with the corner of her apron
I do have dreadful times And if I
dont get up and walk about directly
they begin fighting I have a fit and
stay in it till they are tired out Do
you think you can cure me
Yes said I with a confidence I did
not altogether feel whereupon the poor
girl humbly kissed the hem of my dress
in token of her gratitude
Berenice despite her hue was very
beautiful She resembled an ebony
statue of Hebe It was dreadful to
think that so perfectly formed a body
should be cumbered with such a ludic
rously diseased mind
Whether rightly or not I diagnosed
the case as one of acute dyspepsia and
determined to treatit as such
Berenice said I it will take some
time to cure you as Julius Caesar and
George Smith will no doubt obstinate
ly contest my efforts to dislodge them
but in the end I think I shall succeed
A rapturous look of joy overspread
her countenance and she commenced
to slowly revolve in a kind of rhyth
mic dance down the narrow garden
path It was a weird sight to see her
graceful statuesque figure swaying in
the moonlight Her mother began to
sob hysterically whether for joy at her
daughters prospective release or grief
at her present eccentric conduct I
could not tell Probably she did not
know herself for these black people are
so emotional that they are stirred up
by erery breath of feeling as the bos
iigfeter
om of the sea Is ruffled by the slightest
breeze
Come let us go home cried Julia
suddenly There is something hyp
notic in Berenices movements my
brain begins to reel if I stay here much
longer I believe I shaU be compelled to
join in the dance
It took me several months to effect
the cure of Berenice and even when
she was convalescent she refused to
believe in the fact until she had ocujsr
demonstration that the uncanny crea
tures which tormented her had been
evicted Therefore Julia and I con
structed two images in the form of an
owl and a cat out of cotton batting
soaked in kerosene oil I gave Bere
nice a sleeping powder and hnd her
carried into the kitchen of Julias
house A bright fire was kindled in
the fireplace and I then awoke the girl
See I cried holding up theimages
Here are the mischief makers
She at first shrank back in terror
then wanted to handle them but to this
I objected
No Berenice it would not be safe
Maybe they are not really dead but
only shamming See I will put an end
to them once for all And I threw them
dramatically into the fire
As they went in a blaze up the chim
ney Berenice uttered a cry of joy She
was now perfectly restored to sanity
and good health and in her gratitude
was ready to become my slave for life
But this I would not permit
I left the island soon after and never
saw my patient again but Julia assures
me however that she has not relapsed
into her former condition and her euro
seems complete Pennsylvania Grit
THE STORY OF A RING
By the Merest Chance It Was Restored
to Its Owner
This is the story of a wedding ring
that was stolen during the carnival
Made in this city nineteen years ago
it was placed on the fair finger of a
rustic maiden and worn there until at
one point it was as tenuous as a ray of
sunlight Then it was carefully pack
ed in cotton and laid away in a bureau
drawer It was not forgotten but It
remained untouched for many seasons
When the week of the carnival came
Mr and Mrs Douglas Smith of Coff
man Station placed their children in
the comfortable spring wagon and
drove into town That night the wed
ding ring was stolen from their house
but they did not know it
Two days later Jack Dougherty was
arrested He was held as a suspicious
character for several days On his
finger was found an old ring of fine
gold At one point it was very thin
and all In all it looked as though it
might be nearly as old as Dougherty
Where did you get that ring ask
ed Capt Haze
Me mudder give it to me when she
died said Jack in a broken voice that
simulated the deepest grief
Next day Dougherty was set free
He came to the captain and asked that
the ring be given back to him
If no one calls for it Ill send it to
you in a week replied the captain
and Jack was compelled to be content
with these terms When he had gone
the captain examined the ring closely
and discerned these words which had
grown quite faint From Douglas to
Emellne
Two weeks ago Douglas Smith came
in his spring wagon to serve as a petit
juror At the court house some one
chanced to speak of the ring and told
of the inscription
Why that is what is in my wifea
wedding ring This is a strange sort o
thing said Douglas
When he returned home he asked hla
wife where the ring was
Why in the bureau drawer to b
sure answered she
But when she looked in the bureau U
was not there nor was it to be found
anywhere in the house So Douglad
Smith got into the spring wagon again
and drove back to town He went
straight to the police station and told
of his loss and how he had come to
hear of the ring the police had taken
from a prisoner He described the ring
quite accurately and it was given to
him
Jack Dougherty with hie comrades
had evidently come by way of Coff man
Station to see the carnival and pick
pockets Finding no one in the farm
house they had raided it and carried
off the old wedding ring Omaha
World Herald
Ancient Historical Document
A New Haven man is the owner of a
valuable historical document the deed
for forty acres of land in Portland
which was conveyed in 1733 to Rev
Moses Bartlett for a consideration of
100 This paper is intact save where
it has been folded At the conclusion
are affixed twenty seals of twenty In
dians The seals are of red wax and
a coin was evidently used in stamping
the seals as slight traces of a crown
can be found in several of them An
other peculiar feature of the deed was
the record of the appearance of each
member of the band before a notary
public and all on different dates ex
tending from Nov 20 1733 to June 11
1734
Mines Abandoned 3000 Years At
The most ancient copper mines in ti
world are those of the Sinai peniusull
near the gulf of Suez They wej
abandoned 3000 years ago afiter h
ing been worked for some hundreds
years The process used in the redi
tion of the ore is said to be similar
principle to that used at the pres
time
Depends Upon the Length
Brown I am satisfied judging
my own experience that married
is the only happy one
Myers How long have you
married
Brown Since last Wednesday
Myers I thought so
Q
lill iff
The song of the nightingale can be
heard at the distance of a mile
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham
England will hold 100000 people
Little alligators are kept as drawing
room pets in some of the fashionable
houses abroad
A bicycle is supplied to every police
station in the suburbs of Paris for the
use of the force
More than 1250000 acres of the
earths surface are devoted to the cul
tivation of tobacco
If a snails head is cut off and the
enimal placed in a cool moist place
another head will grow
Some of the screws that are used in
a watch are so small that to the unaid
ed eye they appear like steel filings
The largest bee keeper in the world is
a California gentleman who has G000
hives producing 200000 pounds of
honey yearly
A shower of toads recently fell on the
railway track in Topeka Kansas so
Impeding the progress of a train that It
had to stop
It is estimated that the light of a full
moon Is at least three hundred thou
pand times weaker than sunlight when
the great orb of day is standing at
meridian
Familiarity breeds contempt is a
proverb found in one form or another
in every European or Asiatic language
having a literature Its earliest form
is believed to be in the Sanskrit
The lowest annual salary paid any
one in the Consular service of this gov
ernment is one dollar This is received
by the consular agents at Kalamata
Greece and Dardanelles Turkey
The human hair is absolutely the
most profitable crop that grows Five
tons of it are annually imported The
Parisians harvest upwards of 200000
pounds equal in value to 400000 per
annum
Pay weddings are not uncommon
in some of the rural districts of Ger
many All the guests pay a fixed sum
for the entertainment and the receipts
are used to furnish a home for the
bridal couple
Barrels casks pails etc are now
jnade by molding wood pulp in the de
sired shape subjecting it to heat in the
form of hot air or water steam or other
vapor and compressing it by hydraulic
pressure
Many railroad corporations here are
following the foreign custom of plant
ing fruit trees along the sides of their
lines There are a few districts where
apple and cherry have for some years
been the common road trees
The Court Theater In Munich has a
revolving stage the part in view of the
audience representing one quarter of
a circle A change of scene can be ef
fected in eleven seconds by bringing to
the front the next quarter of the circle
According to an official estimate
made in the Treasury Department the
present population of the United States
slightly exceeds 77000000 This indi
cates an annual increase of more than
2000000 since the last Federal census
taken In 1890
An experimental race was recently
made between a skillful typist and an
expert penman the test being the num
ber of times a phrase of eight words
could be reproduced in five minutes
The typist scores thirty seven and the
penman twenty three
If the many disputes which have re
cently arisen in connection with cy
cling keep on Increasing our courts will
soon be so overrun with bicycling cases
that it may be necessary to establish
a special court to deal with this new
and enormous field of jurisprudence
According to statistics the number of
yearly telephone conversations in the
United States is 75000000 of tele
graphic messages 05000000 of arc
lights 1000000 of incandescent 15
000000 and several hundred thousand
electric motors There are 1000 elec
tric railways It is estimated that to
2500000 persons In this country elec
tricity contributes a means of liveli
hood
In the neighborhood of the Bermu
das the sea Is extremely transparent
so that the fishermen can readily see
the horns of J6bsters protruding from
their hiding jlaces In the rocks at con
siderable depth To entice these crusta
ceans from these crannies they tie sev
eral snails together to form a ball and
dangle them in front of the lobster
When he swallows the ball they haul
him up
There is in Milan a covered street
of circular shape roofed with glass and
surmounted by a large dome round the
inside of which runs a row of gas burn
ers The lighting of these at such a
height was difficult and dangerous un
it electricity was maae to oo ine worK
miniature railway has been built
close to the lights on which runs a tiny
electric locomotive carrying a wick
steeped in spirits of wine When the
time comes for lighting this wick is set
on fire and the engine flies around
Vlndling the circle of lamps
Efssa as a Daily Diet
vqserirq Hke milk contain In nroner
proportion all the elements needed to
support life writes Mrs S T Rorer
on The Cooking of Eggs in the La
dies Home Journal Being highly
concentrated however they lack the
bulk necessary to keep the excretory
prgans in perfect condition Serve with
them then such food as bread rice or
cereals but do not serve eggs in any
way at the same meaL vith beef mut
ton or fowl Pork such as bacon may
In winter be served with eggs While
j one pound of eggs is equal in nourish 1
ment to one pound of beef the latter
would be borne for a longer time and
would In the end be a much better food
The mineral matter of the egg is small
m quantity but rich in quality and the
albumen is in a form most easily digest
ed We must bear in mind however
that the egg albumen coagulates at a
lower temperature than that in meat
which teaches us at once that to be
easily digested eggs must be lightly
cooked A hard boiled egg one in
which the white is rendered hard may
be digested by a man laboring in the
open air but it is unfit for food for the
man who works in an office or shop or
for the person whose digestion is weak
or for children of any age
Was a Curio in Sweden
After an absence of two years in Eu
rope Rev W S Brooks has returned
to America to take charge of St Peters
tiincuu luemouisc cpiscopai uuurcn at
Minneapolis Mr Brooks visited Eng
lang and Finland in turn It is a ques
tion whether he was more interested
than Interesting while traveling in
Scandinavia and Finland He certain
ly saw much that pleased and instruct
ed him but his feelings were probahly
not to be compared with those of the
peasants when they gazed upon the
American visitor Mr Brooks it must
be understood is black and distinctly
African in his features Now many of
the natives of the interior parishes of
Sweden Norway and Finland have not
been twenty miles from home in their
liyes and the colored man is known to
them only through books Even the
statement in the books relative to men
with black skins have been accepted
with grains of allowance by the most
skeptical When they heard that a
black man would lecture in their neigh
borhood there was a great outpouring
of the whole countryside to see this
most extraordinary of human beings
Some walked as much as ten miles to
be present
Mr Brooks has a slight knowledge of
Swedish which he gained through a
friend in Baltimore and though he did
not lecture In this language he was
able tp carry on a conversation with
the awe struck peasants He was a
great curiosity unparalleled In many a
life They were a little diffident about
shaking hands much to the amusement
or Mr Brooks and when they did many
of them cast surreptitious glances at
their palms to see if any color had come
off
In his public addresses he spoke
through an interpreter He was very
much pleased with the attention shown
him and commends the dwellers of
Sweden and Norway for their hospital
ity and courtesy
Panned 14 to ihe Cuspidor
There is a total disregard of the value
of the precious metal in Dawson Ev
ery one has so much gold dust that the
sight of big sacks and cans of It has
ceased to attract attention
For instance said Mr Thompson
you will see a wooden shack covered
with canvas a bar across one end of it
This Is a saloon about as unlikely a
place for riches as a man would find on
earth and yet at any time of the day
and night the aggregate wealth of the
men in there at any one time would
reach Into the millions
Why one day I was in a place of
Mils description and in front of the bar
was a long box filled with sawdust
This sawdust owing to frequent ex
pectorations from the tobacco chewing
custom gets soiled As I say I was
in one of these places one day and
some boys came along and said to the
proprietor If you will give up this
old box we will bring you another filled
with clean sawdust Take it along
was the rejoinder The boys Imme
diately put a clean one in its place and
took away the old one I was so inter
ested to see what they Intended to do
that I followed them and to my sur
prise they commenced to pan out the
sawdust and In a little while they re
covered 14 In gold Alaska Miner
Cat of the Commonwealth
No cats are brought into the State
House but they come of their own
sweet will and stay a great deal longer
than their presence is desired When
the guide gathers his tourists about him
in the House lobby and lifts his umbrel
la to point to the honored names In the
skylight above the visitors are sure to
see the form of a cat stretched at full
length on the glass The cat is not dead
however as the whole force of the
can testify but is simply
taking a snooze in the genial sunlight
She came in through the Bulfinch front
and sought the roof She feeds on
mice and nobody can get within a hun
dred feet of her If she is surrounded
at the Derne street end she soon makes
a break through the line of her pur
suers and adjourns to the vicinity of
the gilded dome At present she spends
most of her time over the skylight in
the state library Boston Transcript
Lynched by Swallows
A successful lynching took place on
the farm of Jerome Butler south of
Marlette Mich the other day In the
barn a swallows nest was seen cling
ing to the side of a beam from which
was suspended an English sparrow
hung by the neck with a hair from a
torses tail While Franklin Butler
and Orla Albertson were sitting In the
barn they noticed a sparrow go Into the
swallows nest from which it began
pitching the young birds Three swal
lows attracted by their outcry imme
diately pounced upon the intruder Af
ter confining him to the nest for a few
minutes they threw him out He drop
ped about a foot there was a jerk and
Mr Sparrow was hanged as nicely as
though an expert hangman had been in
charge The hair was wound around
his neck several times nd after a fewt
ineffectual struggles he kicked hislast
Grand Rapids Herald
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Plum Pudding
In the best plum pudding beef mar
row Is used not suet Remove thf
strings from three quarters of a pound
of the nicest beefs marrow and chop
it fine adding a teaspoonful of salt
add also a pound of Malaga raisins a
pound of sultanas and a pound of cur
rants with three quarters of a pound
of fine grated breadcrumbs Mix to
gether half a teaspoonful each of all
spice ground cloves and cinnamon and
half a grated nutmeg and add to the
pudding Mix thoroughly all these dry
Ingredients grate in the yellow peel of
a lemon and add two ounces each of
candied citron orange and lemon peel
cut in thin slices and a quarter of a
pound of granulated sugar Add final
ly ten eggs half a gill each of rum and
brandy and a gill of sherry Mix the
pudding and if it is too stiff add a little
hot milk if too thin a few more bread
crumbs A quarter of a pound of
sweet almonds blanched and chopped
fine is sometimes added When the
spices are omitted a teaspoonful of bit
ter almonds is added for seasoning
To Protect the Cooks Hands
The detachable handle principle has
been very conveniently applied to the
kitchen boiler kettle as is herewith
shown The pot illustrated has a de
tachable handle so that when the boil
ing is accomplished the pot can easily
J
pot with detachable iiaxdle
be removed without burning ones
hands Another striking feature of this
pot of English invention and design it
may be added is the strainer in the lid
the many advantages of which it is
needless to point out
Things to Know
Mix stove blacking with vinegar this
will make it stick better and also give
a better polish
To cool a hot dish quickly set it In
cold water and salt this will cool it
far more rapidly than if it were stood
in cold water only
After washing lamp chimneys rub
them with dry salt which will give a
brilliant polish to the glass
Frosted green vegetables may be re
stored bj steeping in cold water twelve
hours before boiling
A few grains of salt sprinkled on cof
fee before adding the water brings out
and improves the flavor
To keep parsley a good color for
parsley sauce tie it in a bunch throw
into boiling water and boil five min
utes chop finely and add to the sauco
in the usual manner
Filling for Fig Cake
For the cake any good white cake re
ceipt will serve For the filling the
figs must be cut into pieces the size of
Lima beans covered with water and
stewed slowly for two hours then one
half of a pound of sugar for each pound
of figs must be added and the gentle
simmering continued until you have a
soft well blended thick preserve This
should be prepare before hand that it
may be cold and ready to spread on
the cake layers when the3 are half
cold
Celery Salud
Take half a head of cabbage and
three bunches of celery chopped fine
Mix well one cupful of vinegar a lump
of butter the size of an egg the yelks
of three eggs a teaspoonful of caus1
tard one of salt the same of pepper
and two of sugar Heat this mixture
on the stove until it thickens stirring
constantly When cold add two table
spoonfuls of sweet cream or olive oil
and pour over the celery and cabbage
Renovating Fabrics
Prints if rinsed in salt and water
look brighter
For scorches in linen spread ovei
them the juice of an onion and a quar
ter ounce of white soap
Silk handkerchiefs and ribbons
should be washed in salt and water and
ironed wet to look well
Yellow spots on the linen or cotton
produced by the iron may be removed
by setting them in the broiling sun
Velvets should be held over the
steam of boiling water and kept well
stretched until the moisture has evap
orated
Wash black stockings in weak suds
to which is added a tablespoonful of ox
gall Rinse until no color runs Iron
on the wrong side
An excellent starch for dark clothes
blue calicoes etc is made by using cold
coffee left from breakfast instead oJ
pure water Make the starch as usual
Colored muslins should be washed in
a lather of cold water If the muslin be
I green add a little vinegar to the water
if lilac a little ammonia if black a lit
tle salt
A heaped up teaspoonful of chloride
of lime mixed with one quart of watei
will remove mildew Rinse the cloth
j in clear water as soon as all the spots
have disappeared
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