On the eventful Thursday, when Ida attired herself in the blue silk, she
quite fulfilled her little sister's expectations. The dress was made
simply, but was so becoming that Aunt Patty and Cynthia were profuse in
their expressions of admiration. But in spite of this--perhaps because
of it--Ida felt no elation, and started off to the lawn party with a
heavy heart. Mrs. Lennox had kindly sent a carriage for her, knowing
that the only vehicle Aunt Patty possessed was a light uncovered wagon,
and her only steed a heavy old horse used in the farm work.
"You are like a princess, going off in all this style," said Cynthia, as
she accompanied her sister to the gate, near which the pair of black
horses in their silver-mounted harness stood impatiently pawing the
ground, "and I hope you'll have the grandest kind of a time."
Ida's only reply was a heavy sigh.
Cynthia looked at her sister, loving anxiety in her soft brown eyes.
"Ida," she said, hesitatingly, "I'm afraid you're worrying about my not
going to the lawn party. But you needn't, for I'm all over my
disappointment now. And I expect to have a very nice time at home. Aunt
Patty says I can make some sugar jumbles, and we've asked old Mrs.
Hooper to tea."
Ida looked at her sister a moment, her face white and set, her dark eyes
full of pain; then opening the gate, she stepped into the carriage, the
footman closing the door with a slam. Another moment and the impatient
horses had started off, leaving little Cinderella to gaze after the
carriage until it disappeared around a bend in the road.
As was only natural, Ida soon forgot her troubles in her enjoyment of
the pleasures of the lawn party, though she was much embarrassed when,
on her arrival, Mrs. Lennox asked her why Cynthia had not accompanied
her. She was saved, however, from the necessity of making any reply by
the arrival of half a dozen guests at once, who immediately monopolized
their hostess, and began the most enthusiastic praises of the beautiful
decorations of the spacious grounds.
Ida, with a sense of relief, made her escape, and was at once seized
upon by Angela Leverton, who took her off to the croquet-ground, where a
game was already in progress. But in spite of all the distractions of
the occasion, Ida's mind reverted to Cynthia again and again, and she
felt a pang of remorse as she thought how ardently her little sister
would have enjoyed everything, from the music of the city band to the
frantic efforts of the special policeman, who was trying to keep the
curious villagers from sitting like blackbirds on the low stone wall
skirting the grounds.
Aunt Patty and Cynthia sat up to wait Ida's return, and listened with
eagerness to her glowing account of the events of the day.
"I am _so_ glad you had such a delightful time," Cynthia said, when at
last she and Ida were on their way up stairs to their bedrooms, each
carrying a lighted candle.
Ida paused a moment, looking down at her candle.
"I didn't deserve to have a good time," she rejoined, in a low voice;
and then, as Cynthia only kissed her with a simple "Good-night," she
sighed, and went into her room without further remark. One question from
her sister, and she would have thrown her arms around her and confessed
all.
[CONCLUDED IN NEXT NUMBER.]
THROUGH A CANDY-FACTORY.
BY BARNET PHILLIPS.
To begin at the beginning of a great candy and sugar-plum factory in New
York, there was one trait shown by its founder which established its
reputation. The man had the same characteristics as had Josiah Wedgwood.
In England one hundred years ago pottery was a rude and incomplete
business. Josiah Wedgwood made it one of the most classic and elegant of
the plastic arts. When Wedgwood went through his vast Burslem
work-shops, and noticed a piece of his ware--say a teapot--which was not
up to the mark, he took a stick, and he simply smashed it.
There was once a baker who made cakes. Occasionally there would be a
failure in his batch. The raising of the dough or the baking was
defective. That baker never would sell these poor cakes to his
customers. He might give them away. What he said was this, "These poor
cakes are not a fair equivalent for good money." In time his business
prospered because his cakes were the very best. Then he took to
candy-making in a small way--only molasses-candy. But what he made was
so super-fine that he could hardly meet the demand. Then he made other
kinds of candy, with the same success. So his business grew and grew,
until to-day this enterprise founded by this baker occupies a large
building with many stories in New York, and the motive power for making
chocolate, candy, and sugar-plums is a 300-horse steam-engine, and 350
people are employed.
To give some idea of the quantity of the prime material, sugar, used
every day in the year in this establishment, the total mass may be
fairly grasped at in this way: An acre of good ground in the West Indies
produces twenty tons of sugar-cane; the sweet juice expressed from the
cane represents some eighteen per cent. of this.
Before the sugar is turned out by evaporation the percentage of weight
is notably diminished. It takes then about three-quarters of an acre of
cane to supply this factory with the sugar necessary for its daily
consumption. It is not only candy and sugar-plums which this concern
makes, but chocolate in quantity, and sugar enters largely into the
composition of this last substance.
From top to bottom the floors of the factory are covered with tiles, and
I noticed that there were people engaged in all parts of the building
scrubbing and washing these tiled floors. For a candy-factory it was the
least sticky or smeary place I ever saw. Absolute cleanliness and
sweetness was the rule. There was a slight drift of sugar about, as in a
mill where wheat is being ground, and your coat might get a little
powdered, but there always was sweeping going on.
Chocolate-making I need not describe, only to state that everything was
done here by machinery, for the chocolate as produced enters for a large
percentage into the bonbons manufactured.
[Illustration: SUGARED ALMONDS.]
In the sugar-plum departments hand-work seemed to be constant.
Tidy-looking young women, all with caps on, were working away, each one
with a little saucepan before her full of sugar; the sugar was in a
pasty condition, the heat being derived from steam. In these saucepans
were colored sugars of all the lines of the rainbow. The work-women
would take up an almond or a pistache-nut, and drop it in the saucepan,
then fish it out with a bit of wire fashioned in loop form. The art was
to get just the proper coating. Then with a dexterous motion of the
wrist the sugar-plum would be placed in a tin pan, and with a deft
motion of the wire loop a nice finish would be given to the top of it.
There were some very small sugar-plums, and it would take two hundred of
them to make a pound. They were all exact in form. These little things,
so the foreman told me, had gone through ten processes before they had
arrived at their present condition. Some of the sugar-plums were made in
moulds. There was pure legerdemain about these. A man took a funnel, and
dropped the sugar, just at the crystallizing point, in moulds. They were
very small things, not more than an inch long by half an inch wide, but
the confectioner never poured a drop in the wrong place. Dear me! if I
tried to do that, I should make a precious mess of it.
Here were sugar-plums of many shades, every work-woman seeming to have a
specialty. It was something not alone requiring alertness of hand, but
constant watchfulness as to the condition of the material used. If it
had been too soft, the bonbon would have run and been out of shape. If
the sugar paste had been too hard, it would have been intractable. How
they managed not to burn anything was a wonder.
Behind all this was the care necessary in the make-up of the first
materials, and in the methods employed to give the colors and the
flavors. Then there was the element of time, or a succession of
processes. As soon as one batch of sugar-plums was finished, the
saucepans had to be filled up again.
For the coloration of the sugar-plums many vegetable substances are
used, and the utmost care was taken that nothing unwholesome should
enter into the manufacture. Then it is, too, a nice question of flavors,
for it is so easy to add too much of an essence and so spoil the
bonbons. When the sugar-plum is made it must have powers of resistance.
Sugar tends in some conditions to deliquescence, and so sugar-plums
might all run together, and their appearance would be ruined.
[Illustration: WRAPPING CARAMELS.]
There were some of the smaller candies which passed through rollers,
whereby the crystallized sugar was shaped into squares or lozenges. In
many of the rooms workmen were manipulating great masses of
amber-colored melted sugar, turning and turning them on slabs of marble
or iron. Here the skill was shown in getting the mass to exactly the
proper temperature so that it could be worked. A hundred or more pounds
of sweet stuff had to be of just such a consistency so as to shape it.
If there had been a mistake, just as likely as not the whole batch would
have been spoilt, for if heated over again its character would have been
changed.
There was one room entirely devoted to nut-cracking. A nut, as a walnut
or a pecan or a filbert, had to be cracked just so, and an old man
tapped and tapped the nuts with the regularity of a machine. Then there
was a corps of nut-pickers, who removed the shells and put aside the
meats. Then there were several women who did nothing else but police
these nuts, so as to remove the least possible fragment of shell. Just
think of the horror of breaking a tooth while in the act of biting an
inviting sugar-plum!
All day long almonds were being blanched. Almonds are too delicate to be
passed through any machine, and so have to be slivered with a knife.
Here were cocoanuts in quantity. They could be run through machines, and
there were great heaps of ground cocoanut looking like snow. Figs form
the basis of many sugar-plums, but these have to be all handled and
picked before they are ground up.
Just think of not less than one hundred and fifty varieties of candies
or sugar-plums, and you can appreciate how many differences there must
be in the manufacture of these.
When the sugar-plums leave the workman's or work-woman's hands they are
not yet ready for consumption. They must be nice enough when fresh, but
they have to be hard enough or of such a consistency as to stand travel.
If chocolate enters into their composition, they would be likely to run
if preventive measures were not used. The chocolate bonbons have to be
hardened in currents of cool air. If there is no chocolate, or if it is
in small quantity, the sugar-plums are dried by heat, but not at a high
temperature. Some sugar-plums are frosted, by means of crystallized
sugar, then a rich syrup is put on them, and slow drying gives them a
silvery appearance.
There is just as little touching of the sugar-plums as possible; not
that the hands of the working-people are not clean, but to finger a
bonbon before you help yourself to it is to take away something of its
pretty bloom. I saw trays full of moulded chocolate bonbons, almond
shaped, and some of them had a little rim of chocolate around them,
which had exuded from the mould. A girl with a pair of gloves on was
breaking off the excess of chocolate. Said the foreman: "Chocolate is so
sensitive, that if the workwoman did not use gloves there would be
thumb-marks, and a sugar-plum with a finger-mark on it is a spoilt
sugar-plum. We have those gloves washed everyday."
In the make-up of the ordinary one-pound box of mixed sugar-plums there
generally are some fifteen varieties. It would take a five-pound box,
probably, to hold the one hundred and fifty different kinds this
manufactory turns out.
[Illustration: PACKING CHOCOLATE.]
In filling the boxes, some hundreds of empty ones are placed on a big
table, and two or three women lay in the sugar-plums, one sort at a time
in each box. Strange to say, you cannot hurry up this packing business.
You cannot shoot sugar-plums into a box like coal into a bin. A bonbon
refuses rough treatment. Be the least rude with a sugar-plum, and it is
mashed. Gentle management does wonders with a great many things.
If the bonbons themselves are excellent, much of their saleability
depends on the way they are put up. The utmost nicety is used in the
construction of the box, with its frill of lace paper and the bit of
silver or gold cord or the ribbon used in fastening it.
[Illustration: CREAM WALNUTS.]
Some of the departments in this manufactory are noisy. Chocolate is a
troublesome material, and it won't work well, save at certain
temperatures. It has a decided disinclination to pack itself solid. A
vast quantity of small tablets of chocolate are used. To make them the
soft chocolate is placed in small tin moulds, and these are put on a
rocking table, and the tins dance and rattle until the chocolate assumes
the proper shape and consistency. Then sugared almonds in the act of
manufacture make quite a racket. The almonds are surrounded with a
sugar paste, and then put into revolving cylinders, and they roll and
roll, making a sound like theatrical thunder.
The word bonbon is French, and really means "good-good." When we study
early language, at the very beginning we find that primitive races had a
way of reduplicating the same syllable, so it was a smart child who must
have invented the word bonbon, which has about its equivalent in our
"goodies."
You may rest satisfied that when you are lucky enough to get a box of
these sugar-plums it is the result of an endless amount of painstaking
labor and exceeding niceness, but it is questionable whether that will
stop you for a moment in putting one of these pretty things into your
mouth. Maybe when the very last sugar-plum is eaten you may think about
the way they are made, and then you can ask for more, so as to be fully
impressed with the cleverness of the bonbon art.
SANTA CLAUS IN MOROCCO.
BY HESTER CALDWELL OAKLEY.
Queer old Santa took the steamer
Over from Gibraltar,
Mounted on a donkey-pack,
With a rope for halter.
Thought he'd do his duty by
All the little Arabs,
Fill their stockings up with coins,
Bellyunes, and scarebs.
But his jolly old face fell
When he reached a village--
Tiny huts just thatched with straw,
One yard square for tillage.
All around he gazed aghast,
Then he said, "By Jim'ny!
What a savage, heathen place.
Not a single chimney!"
Gasped again, and paler grew,
Muttered, feebly: "Shocking!
'Mong these little Moorish kids
Not a blessed stocking!"
[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB]
This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur
Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any
question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should
address Editor Camera Club Department.
PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, No. 16.
TRANSFERROTYPE BROMIDE PAPER.
Transferrotype paper is worked in the same way as bromide paper, the
difference in the papers being that prints made on this paper may be
transferred to glass, tiles, placques, lamp-shades, or made into
transparencies and lantern-slides.
Expose the paper, develop and finish in the same way directed for
bromide prints in last paper, taking care that no alum is allowed in any
of the solutions, as that prevents the picture being transferred.
After the print is washed lay it face down on the object to which it is
to be transferred, being particular that the surface is perfectly free
from any grease or dust. Squeegee the wet print into perfect contact
with the surface of the object, and see that no air blisters are left
between the print and the face of the support. When it adheres
perfectly, put over it a piece of blotting-paper, place a weight on it,
and set away to dry. When it is thoroughly dry, pour nearly boiling
water (180° Fahr.) on the back of the paper until it begins to blister,
or until one corner can be lifted with the point of a penknife, when the
paper can be pulled from the back of the picture. After the paper is
removed, rub the surface of the picture with a tuft of surgeon's cotton
dipped in warm water, as to remove any bits of paper that may be left on
the transfer, and put away to dry in a place free from dust.
If the picture has been transferred to a lamp-shade, as soon as it is
dry varnish it with a thin coat of dammar varnish, and heat in an
ordinary oven for a few minutes, when the shade may be washed without
injury to the picture.
Window-transparencies may be made with transferrotype paper, and if the
print is transferred to opal glass it will make a much more brilliant
picture than when made directly on the glass. For placques, tiles, etc.,
the paper may be bought in different sizes, according to the object for
which it is designed. Small squares of heavy plate-glass ornamented with
transferrotypes are pretty, and make timely Christmas gifts.
SIR KNIGHT W. H. TOBEY asks if animals could be included in the
prizes offered for figure studies, as there are no prizes offered
for animals this year, or if a picture of a boy and a dog would be
called a figure study. He also asks if the pictures for different
classes should be sent in separate packages, and how many figures
may be introduced into a figure study. Picture of animals alone
will not count in figure studies, but a boy and dog, a milkmaid and
cow, a boy or girl with horse, etc., etc., would come under the
head of figure studies. Pictures for different classes may all be
sent in one package, but each picture must be marked with the name
of the class to which it belongs. There in no limit to the number
of figures in a figure study, but the larger the number of persons
included the less chance of making a successful picture.
[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK]
This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.
I heard a girl say the other day, and she frowned and looked quite
cross, and puckered up her pretty face as she said it: "Dear me, I'm so
nervous! I can't help fidgeting, and swinging my feet, and knocking over
things when I'm tired, and I _wish_ the children would keep still, and
that Rob would not rattle the paper when he reads it. I hate to hear the
rattling of paper. I'm just as nervous as a witch!"
Think of all this, from a girl fifteen years old. Why, her grandmother
might have spoken in that way, and it wouldn't have been remarkable. But
Dolly! I looked at her in surprise.
If there is anything among all the things you girls should cultivate, my
dears, it is repose. Simply do not allow your feet to swing and your
brows to pucker, but compel face and feet to mind your will, and will to
be calm and tranquil on the outside if not beneath the surface. A result
of this will be that the looking quiet, and moving gently, and holding
yourself in control, will bring about a restful condition of mind. You
will feel better and be less nervous if you put down the expression of
nervousness.
* * * * *
Indigestion is at the bottom of half of our maladies. School-girls
should eat plenty of good food at the right times, and should avoid too
many sweets. Many a headache and fit of the blues can be traced back to
a pound of candy, delicious candy, but too much for the stomach to
manage. Bonbons and caramels and all such tempting confections should be
eaten after a meal as dessert, not munched all day betweentimes.
* * * * *
One of the prettiest Christmas presents sent me last year was a box of
home-made candies, sent by a dear girl friend who has great skill in
this line. The candies were laid in a dainty birch-bark box lined with
paraffine paper. This box was in its turn fitted tightly into a little
silk-lined basket--rose-colored silk was used, and quilted into its
folds was some violet-scented sachet powder. The whole was tied with a
bow of rose-tinted satin ribbon, and on the very top, fastened down by
the ribbon, was a lovely long-stemmed Jacqueminot rose. After the
candies had disappeared I took the box for hair-pins and the basket to
hold my spools and needle-book, and it still keeps the giver in my mind
from day to day.
* * * * *
There is an old proverb which tells us that "All roads lead to Rome."
At this season "all roads lead to Christmas." Whatever else I begin to
say, I end by finding myself talking about Christmas. It is so pleasant
an occasion, so merry a day, that we think of and plan for it long
before it comes, and remember it gladly long after it is gone. One of
the most graceful things you can do, if you have not gifts to send, is
to write to your friends, near and far, a Christmas letter. A letter
never fails to give real pleasure to the one who receives it. There is
even a beautiful charity called "The Christmas Letter Mission," which
sends letters and cards and leaflets to people who are sick in
hospitals, or shut up in prisons. You may not have time to send this
sort of letter, but you can write to grandpapa, or Aunt Gertrude, or the
girl you met and liked so well, last summer, at Bar Harbor or Put In
Bay. If you can follow your letter in thought and hear the welcome word,
"Ah! Jennie, dear child, has not forgotten me!" from grandpapa, or
"Jennie's writing! Bless her heart!" from aunty, or, in fancy, see Elsie
flying over the farm-house to find her mother, and have her share her
pleasure, you will be repaid.
* * * * *
One more hint. Never put off writing a letter of thanks the very day you
receive a gift. No matter how small the courtesy shown you, return it in
a little graceful note.
* * * * *
In taking leave thank your entertainers for the pleasure they have given
you, and as soon as you reach home write a note to your hostess again
thanking her, and assuring her of your safe return.
[Illustration: Signature]
BOBBIE'S SUGGESTION.
I've read an awful lot of tales
About those lovely folks,
The Brownies, and their funny ways,
Their jolly larks and jokes.
But now I sort of wish some one
Would take his pen and see
If he could not write something up
'Bout Blueys once for me.
Or possibly some man could write
Of Greenies and their tricks;
Of Pinkies, Reddies, Mauvies, or
Of all a lovely mix.
It isn't that I've ceased to love
The Brownies--they entrance--
But seems to me some other hue
Had ought to have a chance.
GASTON V. DRAKE.
THE IMP OF THE TELEPHONE.
BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
V.--THE CIRCUS.
The pictures that now followed one another across the canvas were better
than any circus Jimmieboy ever went to, for the reason that it was
entirely a water circus in which were the finest imaginable sea-monsters
doing all sorts of marvellous things; and then, too, the book the Imp
had turned on evidently had some reading matter in it, for as the
pictures passed before the little fellow's eyes he could hear verses
describing what was going on, repeating themselves from a shelf directly
back of him.
First of all in the circus was the grand parade. A great big gilded
band-wagon drawn by gayly caparisoned Sea-Horses went first, and then
Jimmieboy could judge how much better electric circus books were than
those he had in his nursery, for this book was able to do what his had
never done--it furnished music to go with the band--and such music as it
was! It had all the pleasant features of the hand-organ; was as soft and
sweet in parts as the music-box in the white-and-gold parlor, and once
in a while would play deliciously out of tune like a real circus band.
After the band-wagon there followed the most amusing things that
Jimmieboy ever saw, the Trick Oysters, twelve in number, and all on
foot. Next came the mounted Scallops, riding ten abreast on superbly
groomed Turtles, holding the bridle of each of which walked Lobsters
dressed as Clowns. Then came the menagerie, with great Sea-Lions
swimming in tanks on wheels; marine Giraffes standing up to their necks
in water forty feet deep; four-legged Whales, like the Oysters, on foot,
and hundreds of other queer fish, all doing things Jimmieboy had never
supposed they could do.
When the parade was over a great circus ring showed itself upon the
canvas, and as strains of lovely music came from the left of the tent
the book on the shelf began to recite:
"The Codfish walks around,
The Bass begins to sing;
The Whitebait 'round the Terrapin's cage
Would better get out of the ring.
The Gudgeon is the fish
That goes to all the shows,
He swims up to the Teredos
And tweaks him by the nose."
"That Gudgeon must have been a sort of Van Amberg," thought Jimmieboy.
"He did brave things like that."
Then the book went on again:
"The Oyster now will please come forth
And show the people here
Just how he stands upon his head
And then doth disappear."
This interested Jimmieboy very much, and he watched the canvas intently
as one of the Trick Oysters walked out into the ring, and after kissing
his hand to Jimmieboy and bowing to the rest of the audience--if there
were any to bow to, and Jimmieboy supposed there must be, for the Oyster
certainly bowed--he stood upon his head, and then without a word
vanished from sight.
"Hooray!" shouted Jimmieboy, whereupon the book resumed:
"Now watch the ring intently, for
The Sea-Giraffe now comes,
And without any effort turns
plum-cake into crumbs."
"Huh!" cried Jimmieboy, as he watched the Sea-Giraffe turn the plum-cake
into crumbs. "That isn't anything to do. I could do that myself, and
make the plum-cake and the crumbs disappear too."
The book, of course, could not reply to this criticism, and so went
right on.
"The Lobster and the Shark will now
Amuse the little folks
By making here, before their eyes,
Some rhymes and funny jokes."
When the book had said this there appeared on the canvas a really
handsome Shark clad in a dress suit and a tall hat on his head, followed
closely by a Lobster wearing a jester's coat and cap and bells, and
bearing in his hand the little stick with Punch's head on the end of it.
"How do you do?" the Lobster seemed to say, as he reached out his claw
and grabbed the Shark by his right fin.
"Sir," returned the Shark,
"If you would really like to know,
I'm very glad to say
That I am feeling pretty fine,
And think 'twill snow to-day."
[Illustration: "I'M VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU, SHARKEY," SAID THE LOBSTER.]
"I'm very glad to see you, Sharkey," said the Lobster. "It is
exceedingly pleasant to one who is always joking to meet a Fish like
you."
"I pray excuse me, Lobster dear,
If I should ask you why?
Pray come and whisper in my ear,
What your words signify."
"Certainly, my dear Shark," replied the Lobster. "It is always
exceedingly pleasant for a droll person to tell his jokes to a creature
with a mouth as large as yours, because your smile is necessarily a
tremendous one. I never like to tell my jokes to people with small
mouths, because their smiles are limited, while yours is as broad as the
boundless ocean."
"Thank you," returned the Shark. "That reminds me of a little song, and
as I see you have a bass-drum in your pocket, I will sing it, if you
will accompany me."
Here Jimmieboy had the wonderful experience of seeing a Lobster take a
bass-drum out of his pocket. I shall not attempt to describe how he did
it, because I know you are anxious to hear the Shark's song--as also was
Jimmieboy--which went as follows:--that is, the words did; the time I
cannot here reproduce, but any reader desirous of hearing it can do so
if he will purchase a bass-drum set in G-flat, and beat it forty times
to the second as hard as he knows how.
"I find it most convenient to
Possess a mouth like this,
Why, twenty babes at one fell swoop
I easily can kiss;
And sixty pounds of apple pie,
Plus ten of orange pulp,
And forty thousand macaroons
I swallow at a gulp.
"It's big enough for me without
Appearing like a dunce
To stand upon a platform and
Say forty things at once.
So large it is I have to wear
Of teeth a dozen sets,
And I can sing all in a bunch
Some twenty-nine duets.
"Once I was captured by some men,
Who put me in a lake,
Where sadly I did weep all day--
All night I kept awake:
And when the morning came at last,
So weary, sir, was I,
I yawned and swallowed up that pond,
Which left me high and dry.
"Then when my captors came to me,
I opened both my jaws,
And snapped each one of them right up
Without a moment's pause;
I swallowed every single man
In all that country round,
And as I had the lake inside,
They every one were drowned."
Here the Shark stopped, and Jimmieboy applauded.
"And what became of you?" asked the Lobster. "Did you die then?"
"Well," returned the Shark, with a puzzled expression on his face. "The
song stops there, and I don't know whether I died or not. I presume I
did, unless I swallowed myself and got into the lake again in that way.
But, see here, Lobby, you haven't got off any jokes for the children
yet."
"No, but I'm ready," returned Lobby. "What's the difference between me
and Christmas?"
"Perhaps I'm very stupid,
Sometimes I'm rather slow--
But why you're unlike Christmas
I'm sure I do not know,"
replied the Shark.
"Oh no, you aren't stupid," said the Lobster. "It would be far stupider
of you to guess the answer when it is my turn to make the little ones
laugh. The reason I am different from Christmas is just this--now don't
lose this, children--with Christmas comes Santa Claus, and with me comes
lobster claws. Now let me give you another. What is it that's brown like
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cent?"
"Perhaps I do not know enough
To spell C-A-T, cat--
And yet I really must confess
I cannot answer that,"
returned the Shark.
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badly if you could, because, you know, I want these children here to
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Then the Lobster bowed, the Shark and he locked fin and arm again, and
'mid the strains of music from the band marched out of the ring, and
Jimmieboy looking up from the canvas for a moment saw that the Imp had
returned.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
The number of important games crowded into the last few weeks of the
season has delayed me in making as prompt comment as I could wish on
many interesting matches. Readers of this Department, however, may
always feel that sooner or later the whole field of sports will be
covered, and that eventually every branch that each one is interested in
will get its fair share of attention. And although the football season
of the Boston schools will be closed by the time this number of the
Round Table is published, I want to go back a few weeks and speak of the
games that have been played during the past month.
Boston Latin School lost its first championship game to Cambridge High
and Latin on the 11th. The score was 4-0, and is a just indication of
the closeness of the game. Cambridge excelled in offensive work, and
kept the ball in Boston's territory throughout the game; but Boston's
defense was so good that they held Cambridge for downs three times, with
Cambridge only five yards from a touch-down, and it was only with the
greatest difficulty that Watson managed to get through tackle for the
score. Boston's offense, however, was lamentably weak. The interference
rarely cut any figure, and the guard and tackle plays generally went
wrong. This made it appear that Cambridge's defense was strong; but it
was really weaker than in the Hopkinson game, although it prevented
Boston from advancing further than Cambridge's thirty-yard line.
Boston's best work was done by Captain Maguire and the ends. Maguire's
punting and rushing, which were entirely individual, were the only good
offensive work done by Boston. The whole eleven are to be commended for
the pluck they showed. They must have realized early in the game that
their offense was too weak to earn a victory, but nevertheless they
fought a beautiful losing battle to the last. Cambridge's best work was
done by Saul. He ran his team better than before, though he did not get
the most out of it by any means, and his defensive work was almost above
criticism. Beardsell played a strong defense at end. He let one
criss-cross go by him for twenty-five yards, but the next time it was
tried he nailed it for ten-yards loss. Watson excelled in rushing, and
Parker's punting was strong and reliable.
On the following day Hopkinson met its second defeat, at the hands of
English High. It was a hard-fought contest, and the better team won.
English High set a hot pace at the start, and played a steady, snappy
game throughout, while Hopkinson was decidedly sleepy at times.
Hopkinson scored first. A kick was blocked, and Hallowell picked up the
ball and scored. Then English High made two touch-downs and goals in
short order. In the second half, a third touch-down was added, from
which a goal was kicked. They were all made by plunges through the
centre, although English High's strongest play was around their right
end. For the last fifteen minutes Hopkinson tried desperately to score
again, but the English High's line was too strong, and although
Hopkinson forced the playing, and played in the High-School's territory,
they came no nearer than the fifteen-yard line.
For English High, Wittemore played the most brilliant game. His long
rushes around Hopkinson's left were responsible for the victory more
than anything else. He is, by a big margin, the best back of the year.
Eaton, at guard, was the best man in the line. He did some brilliant
work carrying the ball, and on defense he was impregnable. For
Hopkinson, Carleton and Hallowell seemed to be the whole defense.
Carleton stopped Whittemore in a clear field time after time, when he
had cleared the end. Hallowell is playing end in a way that has not been
seen for years. He is absolutely sure to head off any play coming his
way, and he follows the ball in a most aggressive manner. Martin at
right tackle was Hopkinson's surest ground-gainer, running from his
position with great effect.
English High expected that the game with Cambridge High and Latin would
be the hardest game of the year. Instead, it was the easiest. Cambridge
played a loose, discouraging game throughout. Only once did they brace
up. Then they took the ball half the length of the field on four rushes,
only to lose it on a fumble. English High scored two touch-downs in the
first five minutes, and two more in the last five. No goals were kicked.
Cambridge did not threaten their opponents' goal once. Parker's punting
and the fine defense of Saul, Warren, and Beardsell kept the score down
to sixteen points. Saul did the best tackling of the year. His passing
and interference were as near perfection as one could wish for. Warren
was the most valuable man in the line. He had opposite him, Eaton,
English High's best guard; it was a hard struggle, but Warren's
experience told. He prevented Eaton from running with the ball from his
position (English High's surest play) by giving him a hard push just as
he started. For English High, Whittemore showed a fine game in running
and dodging. He marred his reputation, however, by missing four easy
goals. Murphy, at end, showed up better than before. Calahan and Eaton
were impassable; and Purtell is developing into the best tackle of the
League. Sherlock, at quarter, passed and ran his team well, but he seems
to think that on the defense his only duty is to punch the other
fellows' heads.
Boston Latin scored a victory over Cambridge Manual Thursday, November
14th. Although they won by the small score of 6-0, they pushed Cambridge
all over the field, outplaying them everywhere. The umpire alone
prevented a large score. The game was thoroughly clean--a marked
contrast to the last game of Boston Latin. They won because they played
harder, faster, and surer football than Cambridge. Their defense was
again their strongest point, but their offense was much better than
before. The best work for them was done by Maguire. Both in rushing and
tackling he was the star of the game. The trick of hurdling an opponent
bent to tackle him he has learnt to perfection. He captains his team in
the most sportsmanlike manner. The Boston centre held extremely well,
and almost no gains were made there. For Cambridge, White did the best
work in carrying the ball, and Marshall at end played a reliable game.
On the whole, however, Cambridge played a loose, discouraging game. Her
defense was erratic, and her offense, though at times brilliant, and
productive of a few long gains, was generally unsteady. The men played
and acted as though they were badly overworked. As a team they lacked
the spirit and energy that characterized them last year.
Boston Latin had hard luck in their game with Hopkinson, Thursday. They
outplayed their opponents throughout, except in variety of plays. They
were beaten by the small score of 6-2, after having fairly earned a
touch-down, which was not allowed by the referee. They kept the ball in
Hopkinson's territory by far the greater part of the time, and Hopkinson
never once threatened their goal. Hopkinson scored from the centre of
the field, on a lucky break of Martin through a hole made by Jaynes.
This was in the middle of the second half. After it, Boston took a
wonderful brace, and had the ball inside of Hopkinson's thirty-yard line
until the end. They forced it to Hopkinson's one-yard line, but lost it
there for holding. Hopkinson tried to kick on the first down, but was
prevented, and was given ten yards for off-side play. Then Bartlett
kicked weakly, and Boston worked the ball down again to the one-yard
line. On the last play of the game they forced it over. Hallowell
snatched it away from the Boston man after he had called down. Most
officials would have ruled that a touch-down, but the referee declared
it a safety for Hopkinson. Just how it was a safety is hard to see, as
the impetus that sent the ball over the line was given by Boston.
Hopkinson's best work was done by Captain Heard. He played quarter-back,
and filled the position much better than he has filled his old place at
end. He backed up his centre in fine style, and ran his team better than
any team has been run this year. But he left his end very weak. It was
there that Boston made their surest gains. Besides Heard, Martin did
invaluable work for Hopkinson. He not only played his position
acceptably, but his running with the ball was Hopkinson's surest play.
Hallowell at end was again impassable. The watchful, earnest game he
plays is bound to earn him a place on the Harvard 'Varsity some day.
Maguire played Boston's best game, though he lost two good chances of
scoring in the first half by miserable fumbles. But his work for the
rest of the game was faultless. Daly played a good game at quarter, and
Teevens at full-back made steady gains through the centre. Boston's
interference got started more quickly than it ever did before, and the
whole team played with more vim.
Boston Latin surprised the other schools by defeating Brookline on the
21st. The score was 6-0. Boston played its best game of the season, and
Brookline its poorest. It was Brookline's first game for two weeks, and
in consequence they played carelessly and loosely, only getting together
in the last few minutes. Brookline's centre was lighter than Boston's,
and it was there that Boston made its steadiest gains. Brookline's ends
were very strong. Only once in a while did Boston force them for any
distance. On the offense, Cook, Aechtler, and Seaver did the most
effective work. Aechtler runs hard and low, and is a most difficult man
to stop. Seaver ran from his position for repeated gains. For once,
Boston Latin got together and started in to win when the game began. It
has been a favorite trick of theirs to wait until the game was lost
before showing any good offense work. But they beat Brookline in the
first five minutes by the aggressiveness they showed. They realized that
they might yet win the championship, for the game they lost to Cambridge
has been given to Boston on a protest.
[Illustration: Underwood. Schoenhut. White. Flavel. Pearson. Miles.
Tomison.
Patton. Brockie. Reany. Hurst. Hamilton.
Lear. McCarty. Wiseman (Capt.). Perkins. Newhall.
GERMANTOWN ACADEMY FOOTBALL TEAM.
Champions of the Inter-Academic League of Philadelphia, 1895.]
The championship of the Inter-Academic League of Philadelphia was
decided at Stenton a week ago Friday. As an exhibition of football the
game was a poor performance, although at times the players gathered
themselves together and showed signs of having been coached at some time
during the fall in the science of the game. I had been led to expect
better things of Penn Charter and Germantown, and was disappointed in
the slow and at times bungling way that they went about their business.
I feel confident now that if the proposed match between Penn Charter and
Berkeley is played on Saturday, the New-Yorkers ought to win easily, and
ought to score from 20 to 30 points. Berkeley will line up and be
half-way down the field before Penn Charter knows the ball is in play. I
have seldom seen such slow lining up, and such centre-labor to get the
leather started. In this respect the two teams were about equally bad,
but once the ball was started Germantown followed it closer, more
strongly, and with better system than the Philadelphia's did.
[Illustration: GERMANTOWN _VS._ PENN CHARTER,
Lear, Germantown, going around right end.]
Penn Charter was suffering slightly from the too frequent malady known
as "big head," and looked at the contest in slightly too rosy a light.
When they got on the field they found Germantown's line a little harder
to get through than they had anticipated. As for their own line, there
was a great big hole in it all the time, and Germantown showed they were
aware of the fact. Mott was responsible for this hole. He was
practically useless to his team, and often did not even try to follow
the ball. Captain Branson was so badly injured that he never should have
tried to go into the game. He did good work while he played, but had to
retire at the end of the first half. Marshall was a tower of strength
for Penn Charter. He plunged through the Germantown line, tackled hard,
and was in every play. He is a first-rate player, and will be heard from
when he gets to college.
Germantown's score was made by taking advantage of a fumble that might
have resulted disastrously for them otherwise. The fumble was made by
Hunsberger, the Penn Charter end, in a scrimmage. The leather sailed
straight up into the air out of the centre of the pile. It was anybody's
ball as it came down. Brockie saw his chance, jumped for it, got it, and
made for the goal-posts with good interference, and the two teams
straggling behind him. He was downed on the three-yard line, and the
next play resulted in a touch-down, from which an easy goal was kicked.
Penn Charter's touch-down was made by hard rushing, but the goal was
badly missed.
On several occasions, especially in the second half, Penn Charter had
the ball on Germantown's ten-yard line, but repeatedly lost it on four
downs. The worst possible judgment was used at these times in the choice
of plays. Penn Charter has not been taught how to score. Their
interference, most of the time, was bad too. The forwards interfered
with the runner a good deal more than they did for him. The play in the
second half was mostly in Germantown's territory, but as the ball was so
consistently lost on four downs this did not seem to make much
difference to Germantown, who remained consistently on the defensive.
Wllliston Academy closed a very successful football season two weeks ago
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During six seasons she has lost but twice, and in number of points has
scored 138 against 36. For this season Williston's points stand 213 to
her opponents' 16. This is an enviable record for eight games played.
_Comment on the Lawrenceville-High-School game, the Berkeley-Pratt
Institute game, the St. Mark's-Groton game, and the third contest
between Bridgeport and Hartford is deferred until next week._
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the official maps and road-books of the League of American
Wheelmen. Recognizing the value of the work being done by the
L. A. W. the Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with
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continuing to Webster Avenue, there turn to left, and keep straight road
to Somerville. Turn to the right onto Prospect Street, go up small hill,
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and take second turn on left. Then turn to left on to Main Street, and
follow direct way to Melrose. (Small hills, but good macadam road.) Keep
to right at Green Street, to the right at Franklin Street, bearing to
right into Saugus by Main Street. Turn to right, cross tracks of B. & M.,
then keep to left into East Saugus. At watering-trough, beyond which
keep to left out Boston Street over Tower Hill, and at horse-car station
turn to right to Common Street, there turn to left, and to right onto
Market Street. Turn to left at Broad Street, and to right at New
Washington Street, and cross the long narrow isthmus, with Lynn Beach on
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[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.]
A $50 Prize Puzzle.
There are twenty seven questions in the following. $50 in money will be
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A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
There were three wise men of Gotham
Who went to sea in a bowl.
What did they find the earth around
Before they reached their goal?
They found a good many things. To enumerate a few:
A nail in North American land; (1)
A meat in the isles of the sea; (2)
A gale of wind in a city of Maine,
As you may plainly see; (3)
A yellow man in Asian heights; (4)
Delicious fruit in a bay; (5)
A friend to man in a Russian lake; (6)
A measure of oil in Cathay. (7)
At a hotel in France they were given a queer dish of food. Here is the
receipt for it:
Take poetry, music, and painting,
Already well combined,
And to make the dish we are wanting,
Add the first person you find.
Then stifle my first by my second,
And let all stand until cold,
When you have a delightful pickle
That our grandmothers made of old. (8)
Proceeding, they found
A town of Maine in a Floridian bay, (9)
A bit of wood in a sea; (10)
A little friend in an Alpine pass,
As travellers all agree; (11)
Convenient coin in a Russian mart; (12)
Bright light in an African isle; (13)
A part of a ship in a British town, (14)
A stag in a town of the Nile. (15)
In Egypt a landlord presented them with a bill that read:
When first you know that I am near,
You turn from me and flee;
Yet if I harm you, what seems queer
Is that you send for me;
And when my bad effects are gone,
You make me pay for what I've done. (16)
Their time getting short, the wise men left their bowl for a balloon,
and found
A writer's tool in a Danish port, (17)
French coin in a State of the West; (18)
A rodent fierce in a Grecian plain,
A dreaded household pest. (19)
A favorite toy in a burning mount, (20)
With a cutting tool they see; (21)
A statesman famed in a town of Maine; (22)
A snake in an inland sea. (23)
Being up in the air, they had to exist on light dinners. Here is the
receipt for one of their meals:
Take a conjunction and lay it near
Something that's fully equal.
The smallest article you can find
Follows this as a common sequel.
Add a substance of nature aerial,
And so make a food fit for palate imperial. (24)
Going back to their bowl again, they saw
An American stream in a city famed. (25)
French coin in an Italian town; (26)
A head of hair in an English isle,
A place of great renown.
All these they saw as they sailed afar,
Where'er their course they bent;
But never found 'neath the farthest star
The secret of content. (27)
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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondent should address
Editor Stamp Department.
Another great find has been made. A philatelist in a town in Illinois
applied to the postmaster for a 90c. stamp, expecting to receive the
current issue. Imagine his surprise when the postmaster handed him a
90c. 1869 issue (portrait of Lincoln) in fine condition. Of course he
immediately bought all the postmaster had, twenty-eight copies. One of
these is now in his collection, the other twenty-seven have been sold at
$30 each.
Doubtless there are many thousands of old issues still on sale in
country post-offices, and I would advise the purchase of any or all U.S.
stamps issued before 1887. Of the later issues dealers have a good
supply. Plate-number collecting is growing every day. As time goes on
the scarce plate numbers advance in price, and the commoner numbers
decrease. No. 89 2c. is still the scarcest, although some of the first
numbers are now almost unobtainable. All the unwatermarked sheets are
growing scarce; the $1 has already advanced fifty per cent. since the
change to watermark. The $2 and $5 will doubtless soon do the same.
M. HESS.--The stamps mentioned are sold by dealers at 1c. or 2c.
each.
WATROUS.--I do not recognize the coin by your description.
N. D. HENDERSON, 135 West Eighty-ninth Street, New York, wants to
exchange stamps with ROUND TABLE collectors.--As the same rare
stamp may be cheap or dear according to its condition, the only
absolute test of its value is to sell it at auction.
E. FRANCE.--No addresses of dealers are given in this column.
LESTER HICKS.--The 1858 flying-eagle cent is quoted by dealers at
5c.
H. E. P.--The half-cent 1809 is worth 10c.
L. E. S.--The _ore_ coin is Swedish. The other coins are worth face
only.
E. RING.--Half-dollars of any date from 1817 to 1836 can be bought
of dealers at 75c. each.
S. B. N. AND A. C. H.--See answer to R. Baker in No. 837.
F. JAMES.--The Antoninus Pius is an old Roman coin. The cent and
gold piece have no premium value.
O. FURHMAN.--All the stamps are revenues, not postage.
PHILATUS.
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NOT THAT KIND OF A RUDDER.
Although a sailor can "jockey" a yard-arm gracefully, he is anything but
impressive in that sense on horseback. Yet one of the first things that
a man-o'-war Jack steers for when he gets on shore with liberty-money in
his pocket is a livery-stable, where he can mount the hurricane deck of
an animal.
During the time that one of our vessels was at anchor off Newport
liberty was given, and two of the seamen agreed to spend their limited
amount of money on horse-flesh. One of them negotiated with the
liveryman, and soon appeared on the street perched in the saddle. When
out of sight of the stable-keeper, Jack's companion hove alongside and
mounted behind his mate. In this fashion they sailed down Main Street
until the square was reached where Commodore Perry's statue is placed.
"I say, Bill," cried the sailor in the saddle, "put your helm aport, and
let's go up and have a look at the stattoo."
"All right, my boy," answered Bill. Then he reached back of him, caught
the horse's tail, pulled it hard around on his left, and awaited
developments. After a minute he sung out:
"Something's the matter with the steering-gear, Jack; she won't mind her
helm!"
* * * * *
TWO OF THEM.
FRED. "Did you know that Captain Thribble had two left legs?"
UNCLE NED. "Nonsense!"
FRED. "But it's not nonsense. His right leg was left at Gettysburg,
wasn't it? And he has a left leg still, hasn't he?"
* * * * *
LONG MEASURE.
PROFESSOR PROBLEM. "It takes a yard and a half of muslin to make a boy's
shirt. How many shirts can be got out of six yards?"
TOBY TOOQUICK. "Four, sir; but I know of a man that got more than that
out of _one_. He got five of my big brother's and three of mine from our
back yard one night last week."
* * * * *
A DILIGENT STUDENT.
"Come out and play," cried Willie, from the yard.
"Can't. I'm studying," shouted Robbie.
"Whatcher studying?" called Willie.
"Reading," returned Robbie. "I want to learn it, so's I can read the
telephone book and find out what Santa Claus's number is. I've got
something to say to him about some things for somebody some time."
* * * * *
HE SPELT IT T-E-A-S-E.
MAMMA. "Bobby, stop making your little brother scream! What are you
doing? We have this same noise about every afternoon at this time, and I
want it stopped."
BOBBY. "Well, mamma, you have your afternoon teas, and I don't see why
we can't have ours."
* * * * *
ACCOUNTED FOR.
"I know why girls likes dolls," observed Wilbur, sagely, to his aunt.
"It's because dolls don't say a woyd, and lets the girls do all the
talkin'."
* * * * *
INTO THE HOLE IN ONE SHOT.
"I made a great golf shot the other day," said Harold. "It was in the
house, and I drove one of papa's golf balls right into a hole it made in
the looking-glass."
* * * * *
WHAT WAS NEEDED.
"Mamma, can I play ogre?"
"Yes, my dear, if you wish."
"All right. Give me a piece of cake."
"Cake?"
"Yes; you have to have a piece of cake to play ogre. You see, I'm to be
the ogre, and the cake is the boy that gets ate up."
* * * * *
PROOF TO THE CONTRARY.
"I don't believe the world is going round all the time," said Jack.
"Fact, I know it isn't. If it was, when I jumped up in the air it would
have slid right away from under me."
* * * * *
A WONDERFUL ANIMAL.
"Willie Robbins has got an invisible monkey," said Tommy.
"How do you know?" asked his mamma.
"I went home with him to see it, and when he brought it out you couldn't
see it at all," said Tommy.
* * * * *
ALL HE NEEDED.
"Are you head of your class, Hal?" asked the visitor.
"No, sir," replied Hal. "I would be if we had a big earthquake that'd
turn everything upside down, though."
* * * * *
FREDDY. "What is Mr. Slippens running so fast for?"
JAMES. "Why, don't you know? He's trying to catch his breath."
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 3, 1895, by Various