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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1904)
A Child's Letter from a Castle on the Sea .V. V' , v T 5 - - ... i , -. - , V' I i VK I VI. V 1 1 '1 ?-v": V ri ' a.. ait .rA TRIP ON A nxATINQ CASTLE 13 A REAL HOLIDAY. j 1AST DAT OF THE KNIGHTS ON THE FLOATING CARTLK. IFTH DAY Out-My Dear Sir Launcelot: My letter will havo to ba shorter tonight because I spent my quiet time watching the water and the flylng-flshes and the porpoises and we saw a fountain out In the ccean and all the grown-up people Bald, "There she blows," and mother bald it was a whale. Mother says you wer never so far out In the ocean as I am now. Z am sorry you were not. It Is fine. It Is Very big and I like the moon and stars, and the water is blue and green in the day time and very black at night, and sometimes there is white on top. There is a great deal of It. More than 1,000,000,000 gallons. Today mother told me that when boy were learning how to be knights they played games that taught them how t throw very straight so they would always bit the mark. Bo today the Knights of th ."White Star played games ring-toss, tether ball and shuflle-board. They are great and awfully Jolly. Wt are going to play all day tomorrow and the next day and every day until we have to leave this castle. I almost wish we would never have to leave It, only I do want to see your country, of course, and get a picture of Joan of Aro . for Isobel and go home to see Tom and Isobel and father aguln and tell them all the good times we have had. I think Aunt Caroline will be glad to get home. She has cried every day since we left and when I asked mother what was the matter she said Aunt Caroline was just feeling badly because she did not have Tom and Isobol along. I am glad she la, eorry, because perhaps she will bring them next time. Good-night. Written by th band of RICHARD WORTHINGTON. Sixth Day Out My Dear Sir Launcelot; Hooray! Tom and Isobel are coming toot Mother says there are ever so many of these floating castles and you can get one very week In America and Tom and Isobel are coming on one of them. Aunt Caroline wants to see them so much, and to have them have the trip, that she Is going to Bend a message clear across the water for Uncle William to bring them over right away and before two more weeks have gone they will be here, and then wo can all see your country together after all, and aw.ja-iiiiiiniiin'i i i i - " f - -1 nSOBKL."" Isobel can see Joan's ntntue herself and Liindun brlilK" and London tower and rast!es und kings and everything. Good night. RICHARD WORTHINGTON. Seventh Day Out My Dear Sir Launcelott This is the last day the Knights of the Whlto Star will have on (his sea castle. I would like to go back lo get Tom and Isobel and then porno over again with them In another castle, but mother says I can't. I hope when we do go back all the Knights of the While Star will bo on the s:mo boat. If they are all there I will write you and let you know. Good-by, Sir Laun celot I am glad I wrote to you. RICHARD WORTH rNGTON. ' GOING HOMR-My Dear Sir Ijiunenlot: We aro going back home again, Tom and Isobel and I, nnd some of the Knights of the Whlto Star, and some other children. And there are some other children still on the third-class deck. Somo of them nre like tlio littlo children we saw In Europe, and some wear littlo red raps nnd nre Turks, and thoy are going over to America to live. They are having a good time, too. They don't play knights, but they play hide-and-seek, and follow my leader, nnd all sorts of games, nnd the little girls knit and play dolls. Mother says they can't un derstand eneh other when they talk because they all talk different languages. Hut they can play games Juxt the same, and mother Bays this trip In the floating castle Is a real holiday for them and she wishes they could tako It often; nnd no do I wish Z could, and so do Tom nnd Isobel. Wo had a lovely time seeing real castles and towers nnd everything. Wo . saw a ral king nnd a real queen, and a real prince und a real princess. And wo have jilcturcs of everything. And Isobel saw Joan of Arc's statuo nnd has her picture. Rut most of all wo all like tho floating castle and wish we might always be Knights of tho Whlto Star. And Aunt Caroline does not cry any mor and Is very glad she sent for Uncle Wil liam and Tom and Isobel, and so am L Good-bye, Sir Ijiuncelot. RICHARD WOrtTHINOTON, Knight of the Whlto Star. Devices to Reduce Ice Bills HE question of the hour with the average housekeeper is, "How to keep down tho Ice bill?" After re laxing from tho demands of tho gas and the coal companies, she finds herself face to face with tho problem Of keeping down the consumption of leu, and here she finds that carelessness on the part of her servant will add materially to ber account with the ice man. A simple device for protecting the ice supply is, to all appearances, a pad of felt between sheets of coarsely woven wire. It Should measure an inch less than the re frigerator, all the way round, to permit Circulation. Before laying it under the ice It is dipped in cold water. Directly the pad becomes damp from con tact with the Ice it throws out a blast of cold air, whloh completely envelops the ico and reduces the rate of melting. It should be cleaned and aired every time the re frigerator is cleaned. For keeping the refrigerator Bweet-smell-tng, employ charcoal in lumps. Nothing is So efficacious. A littlo bit goes a long way. The daily cleaning of the refrigerator Is ften done in a slovenly manner and Is dis astrous to the supply of ice. Some servants tnlx this task in with their dish-washing and morning work, prolonging It unneces sarily. In reality it should be done with dispatch and system. Tbeso directions from the buyer of a department store are worth considering: 'Xore oleanlnf the refrigerator re move all articles of food to a table or shelf within easy rcuch. Have ready in tho stationary tubs or an ordinary wu-nh'tub plenty of hot water, softened with a dash ol household ammonia and good white soap which is free from odor, l'luiige into this all tho shelves and movable fixture!', Including tho tray on which the lee rests. The lee should be wrapped in newspaper and set in tho coolest spot available. When the fixtures are washed, set thum out in the sun to nil' and sweeten. "With the same suds wash the walls of the refrigerator, rinsing thoroughly the last few times with cold water, lirlng In tho fixtures, dip them In cold water, !lt them into tho refrigerator, remove the paper from the ice, return It to tho proper compartment, lay a newspaper over it and shut the door. Then, as quickly as pos sible, return all food to Its proper place and shut up tho refrigerator. "If food Is put away carefully In clean receptacles a refrigerator should nut be cleaned more than twice a week." Medium priced refrigerators aro In ash or oak, the dark woods no longer finding favor. The newest fittings do not show sine or galvanized Iron, but even the broad Shelves for holding heavy food supplies ure made from stout, wire, criss-crossed. For the refrigerator which is not con nected with a sower or outdoor drainage one may buy a new and cleanly trap for currying the water into the waale pan. This trap Is attached to tho wastepipo from tho Ice compartment, and Is cone shaped. Inside the cone-shaped piece Is a corrugated center of metal, not unlike a half-open umbrella, which comes to a sharp closed point Tho water from the Ice runs into this corrugated piece and, finding no outlet at the point, Is forced upward again ami pushes Its way through tiny openings with a pressure first downward and then upward. All odors pass out through the little win dows and not upward Into the Ice chest proper. The trap c-un be removed and cleaned daily. Many families who tako a summer cot tage for a month or so do not wish to move out good furniture, Including a well made refrigerator. For the short stay a galvanized Iron tub can be made to serve ull pur)ses and It will not waste the ice if properly eared for. It should be lined with newspapers, nnd the Ice, placed in the center of the tub, should be wrapjied first In newspaper and then In a heavy piece of old blanket, lie tweeu the Ice und the wall of tie- tub tiers such as are seen In egg cases should stand, so that the food will be raised above the water which will naturally accumulate. It Is a mistake to think that milk bottles, butter Jars, etc., must sit directly atTalnst the ice. Between the wrupped ice and the lined walls of the tub there will be a cur rent of air sufficient to keep the perishable food In good condition; and If over all !s laid more newspaper and a heavy piece of wool or carpet, less ice will be consumed than in the average refrigerator. Found Wanting "I've had so much bad luck," suld the gloomy man, "that I Ho awake hulf the night thinking about my troubles." "Tho cure for that," they told him, "is to quit thinking of your own troubles. Think of oilier people's." "Ml try it," he said. Three months later they met him again. "Well, how did It work?" they asked him. "Didn't do any good," he replied. "I He awake ull night now, thinking of other peo ple's troubles." Chicago Tribune. His Week Off "Hill," said the Hillville postmaster to a citizen who was lounging about, "here's a letter from yer uunt, 'nuther one from yer undo, hii' I reckon here's one with the bill fer that lumber you bought; an' now I want to axe you air you a'lookin' fer any mo"e this week? Kaze ef you air, you won't git 'em, not out o' this office!" "An' why not?" "Kaze I close tonight fer one week. In plain English, mil I'm a-goln' a-flstilu'l' Atlanta Constitution.