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Ttlb DAILY LEADER
VERNOR & ABNEY, Publishers
LAMPASAS.. -
TEXAS
WOMEN IN DAYS OF PHARAOH
Marriage Contract Shows That Ladies
of Egypt Were Not Unduly
Oppressed.
Most of us make the acquaintance ot
■Egypt in the splendidly dramatic story
*of Joseph and his brethren, and so
look on Pharaoh and his people as
gloomy and malign persecutors, fit
only to be swallowed up in the Red
sea waves. Or we read of the graves
and sober monuments of the Nile val-
ley, with their perpetual reminders of
death and the kingdom of night; with
thr result that we are hardly prepared
to realize the gay and lightsome side
of the anicent Egyptian life, or to
credit the thought that those tomb-
jbuilders could ever break into a
smile. But there was a side of gayety
and of charm, and just as we are find-
ing that so many of our deeper and
more philosophical thoughts go back
to the people of the Delta, so we are
beginning to discover the originals of
all our jokes in the buried cities of
the Nile.
That ladies were not unduly op-
pressed in the land of the Pharaohs,
we may gather from this marriage
contract, from a fourth-century Demo-
tic manuscript, but dating in form to
far older times:
“I,” says the Lady Iris, “take thee as
my husband. Thou makest me thy
wife, and givest me, in token of dower,
five-tenths of silver. If I discharge
thee as my husband, hating thee and
loving another more than thee, I shall
give and return to the two and a
half tenths of silver, of what thou
gavest me as my dower, and I cede
unto thee all and everything that I
shall acquire with thee, one-third part,
as long as thou art married unto me.”
Not even Chicago or Reno can boast
of a franker marriage contract than
that; and there is something wonder-
fully naive in the idea of the good lady
ilsis “discharging” her lord, on the
ground that she hates him and loves
■another better. The sum she returns
him, as pdrt of her now canceled wod-
er, is about equal to a silver dollar.
So we have still something to learn
in marital levity and feminine imperi-
ousness.—Harper’s Weekly.
Pays Church to Advertise.
"I have drawn people to hear my
■sermons by advertising. I have at-
tracted them with moving pictures,
hot suppers, pink teas and flowers and
flags. If 1 have had any degree of
success in Spokane it is because of
the liberal use of printer’s ink,” says
Rev. Dr. James W. Kramer, pastor of
the First Baptist church, who came to
Spokane from South Carolina two
years ago.
“There is something worse than sen-
sationalism. . It is the inability of the
church to produce life. The church
that does not advertise is behind the
times and is nursing empty pews, and
he who rails against the minister for
advertising is suffering for a congre-
gation.
“I am not an advocate of ragtime
methods or vulgar preaching, but I do
plead for the church which is a hum-
ming plant of machinery, with live
coals in the firebox, smoke curling
from the stack and every belt, wheel
and pulley going.
“I believe, too, that the people need
instruction and that a minister of the
gospel is, first, last and all the time,
a teacher. There must be life.”
Diamond Toys.
Andrew Carnegie, at one of his fa-
mous dinners in New York, talked
about the prodigal and ostentatious ex-
penditure of a certain type of New
York millionaires.
He takes a Valquez,” said Mr. Car-
negie, “and cuts it into three strips so
that it will go on a screen. Paul Bour-
ge; told tie world about that. And I
heard, the other day, another thing
about him.
“A gentleman was being shown over
the $3,000,000 palace of one of those
—millionaires. The gentleman stop-
ped before an enormous mirror and
said:
“ ‘What a large and perfect glass!
Pity it’s scratched.’
“ ‘It’s rather a pity,’ said the mil-
lionaire, carelessly; and, turning to his
major domo, he said: ‘Don’t let the
children have any more diamonds to
play with, Maurice.’ ”
A Hongkong Brewery.
A. number of attempts have been
made in Hongkong to establish a
brewery, but the first successful one
is the Oriental brewery, which com-
,menced operations early in 1909. The
buildings are extensive and the brew-
ery installation is cf the most modern
American type, having a capacity of
.100,000 barrels of beer a year. Ameri-
can capital is understood to be back
of the enterprise, which is already
successfully competing with the Jap-
anese and Tsingtau beers.
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[arriagfes
Men, More
Often Than
Women, Cause
By RUTH DOROTHY MARSH
T
HE most unfortunate marriages that are made are those be-
tween a man and woman, either one of which reverences Chris-
tianity and all the virtues pertaining to the beautiful religion,
and the other party to the contract an infidel, who knows
nothing of virtues. All our virtues; so-called, emanate strictly
from our Bible, so how can the infidel have any? Sooner or
later the imposed upon party to the sacred compact realizes
the glaring truth of the position he or she is in.
Men, more often than women, are the transgressors. This
type carefully selects a choice, clean woman of pure and lofty
mind to go through his mean walk in life with him, and the result is,
disenchantment for the woman. His sacrilege, his profanity, his lack of
all that is refined are the result of his infidel mind and grate harshly
upon the sensibilities of his wife. The sanctity of her marriage has fled,
for there is no sanctity in the man himself. He is wholly disassociated
with sacred thoughts and feelings. She finds out his principles and from
that moment he ceases to be her souks affinity, as a husband should be,
in the truest sense of the world.
All husbands and wives who are truly good, virtuous and patient are
“souls’ affinities.” That is what matrimony means. Unfortunately the
term has been perverted and adopted in all manner of illicit love affairs
by fallen men and women. “Be faithful unto death
and I will give thee the mown of life.” Life is very
short, dear young readers, so this promise is well
worth heeding to bear us up under the heavy crosses
each of have to bear to complete our life’s jour-
ney.
“Take my cross and follow” me,” do not “fall
by the wayside,” and do wrong, to evade “carrying
the cross,” as so many do who prefer to shirk and
lose their future “crown of life” thereby. A reward
is offered'us for patient virtues. Be strong therein.
Unique
Way of
Earning
Spending
Money
By Clarence George Malmrose
Disgusting
and
Disease
Breeding
Customs
By WILLIAM HELD, M. D.
FINE COLD BEEF BOUILLON TAKE-
It Is Only a Fillip for the Stomach,
But Is Delicious Served
This Way.
Put five pounds cf shank beef—not
too young—in five quarts of cold wa-
ter. Let it come to a boil slowly,
skim carefully and set the vessel on
the stove where it will simmer, gent-
ly for eight hours. Strain through
cheesecloth and set away to cool. The
next day skim off the fat and turn the
soup into a kettle, not allowing the
sediment to pass in. Add one onion,
one or more stalks of celery accord-
ing to taste, a soup bouquet, six
cloves and salt. Boil gently a half
hour, strain twice through a napkin
and after it is chilled set it on the
ice. This should be served in little
cups, without bread, for cold bouil-
lon is only a fillip to the stomach. If
the bouillon is rich and well clarified
—this can be done with eggshells—it
can be frozen to a jelly and given
the child in this form. Chicken bouil-
lon can be prepared in the same way,
and this is most delicious served as a
jelly.
SAVORY DISH FOR BREAKFAST
Craigie Toast Can Be Made Quickly
and Will Commend Itself to
the Housewife.
A woman whose only asset in the money
making way was a pleasant cottage situ-
ated in a shady yard near a summer hotel,
last year made a comfortable income for
herself through the suggestion of a friend.
The friend was at the hotel with her
small child, who was rather too old for
the extra expense of a nurse, yet who could
not be permitted to run wild.
“This vacation is no rest for me,”
moaned the mother. “I’m nothing but a
nursemaid, cannot get away from Bobby
an hour at a time. I am crazy to accept
Mrs. Blayne’s invitation for a morning
bridge, but how can I with that child tagging at my heels?”
“Let him come over and play in our yard,” was the reply.
“An imposition,” murmured the mother, her face lightening percep^
tibly. “How I wish there was a day nursery for children of the moder-
ately well off.”
“Done,” said the woman, who needed money. “I’ll start one if you’ll
be my first patron.”
Bobby arrived about ten o’clock and had such a good time playing
under the trees, digging in a flower pot, or listening to stories that he
did not want to go back to the hotel when his mother appeared, prize in
hand.
It was a gay week at the hotel and the next day Bobby returned,
accompanied by several small friends, whose mothers were also without
nurses.
There was no elaborate preparation, no cut and dried system of
amusement. The children played by themselves in safe quarters, with
occasional suggestion and supervision from the “lovely lady” on the porch.
There were not even regular hours. It became the habit for mothers
who had engagements to leave their little ones for an hour or two while
they sailed or climbed or went to a band conocert.
Soon one or two women whose children were mere babies, too small
to be taken to the dining-room, asked permission to leave the infants
safely ensconced in their coaches on the porch or under the trees with
the fostering care of a Avoman Avho needed money.
It was a great con\rcnience to mothers who did not keep a nurse and
not a hardship to the child chaperon, as she soon came to be known. She
had as real a love of children as her want of money was real and the
combination of the tAvo needs Avorked splendidly.
Craigie toast will commend itself to
those who wish for a quickly made
savory for breakfast. Allow one egg
and one tomato for each person. The
following would be sufficient for four:
Beat up four eggs and add to them
the same number of tomatoes, free
from skin and seed and finely
chopped; also a small teaspoonful of
chopped green chill, gherkin or capers,
half a cupful of milK and a little salt
Melt one and a half tablespoonfuls of
butter in a saucepan, mix all the other
Ingredients together, pour into the
pan and stir over the fire till thor-
oughly hot. It may then be served at
once on the toast, or may be allowed
to cook gently by the side of the fire
for five or ten minutes as preferred.
Serve very hot. The above mixture
might also be baked in the oven for
twenty minutes and then garnished
with small pieces of toast.
An attempt should be made to prevent
restaurant keepers from putting before
their patrons spoons and forks which bear
the incrusted remnants of former meals.
It is a frequent occurrence to find such
(1 inly utensils.
If there is anything in the germ theory,
(hen the unclean and reissued eating uten-
sil is a source of infection.
Anotiler disgusting and disease-breed-
ing habit is a practise of some OAvners of
ice-cream parlors, Avho place their spoons
Avith the hollow end up in some receptacle
and then when they are do be used Avipe
their fingers over the spoon’s surface. I have frequently seen the clerk
in such stores adjust his hair with his fingers and then handle the spoon
in the manner described.
It is up to (he people to protect themselves by refusing to patronize
filthy stores.
Tuft’s Pills
The first dose often astonishes the invaiid,
eiving elasticity of mind, buoyancy of body,
GOOD DIGESTION, Y
regular bowels and solid flesh. Price, 25 cts- ^
HED-LYTE
The new liquid headache and
neuralgia medicine.
Safe, Pleasant and Effective.
10c, 25c and 50c bottles at all
Drug Stores. Manufactured by
THE HED-LYTE COMPANY
DALLAS TEXAS
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Cures Whiskey, Drug and Tobacco habits.
Only place in Texas using KeeleyAtemedies.
1,000 cures In Texas. Write for literature.
Chocolate Pudding.
Put a pint of milk to scald in a dou-
ble boiler. Grate two heaping table-
spoonfuls of chocolate and put on top
of milk, but do not stir through until
the chocolate is thoroughly melted."
When milk is scalding hot, stir cho-
colate through it until all is mixed
and chocolate is dissolved. Beat the
yolk of one egg with two tablespoon-
fuls of, sugar, add enough hot milk to
egg to dissolve and warm it before
putting it in hot chocolate mixture or
it will cook in strings. Next moisten
a tablespoonful' of cornstarch in a
little milk and thicken chocolate to a
creamy consistency. Remove from the
stove. When beginning to cool flavor
with vanilla. Serve pudding ice cold.
It may be eaten with rich milk, but
for extra occasions whipped cream
makes it a most delicious dessert
Men.
A sour man may make a living, but
a polite man may make a fortune.—*
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JUST A NATURAL MISTAKE
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Pickled Peaches.
Take five pounds brown sugar to
one gallon erf pure cider vinegar, boil
hard for 30 minutes, skimming off the
scum till clear; rub off peaches in
the meantime out of boiling water
(quickly) with a flannel cloth, sticking
four cloves In each peach; put bag of
cinnamon into the boiling sirup for fif-
teen or tAventy minutes. If freestones,
lay in jar in layers, pour sirup over
while hot; put a small plate over
them to keep them from rising.
About Jelly.
To prevent jams and jellies from
graining add a teaspoonful of cream
of tartar to every gallon. When ma-
king jelly, if it should become like
sirup, add the juice of one large
lemon to every quart and boil until it
jellies on a spoon. This has proved
successful ill many instances, even
after the jelly has been boiled too
long.
Apple Sauce as Dessert.
Prepared in the German way, apple
sauce becomes a dinner dessert rather
than as with us, a breakfast or lunch-
eon relish.
One would not care for the Teutonic
version as a perpetual thing to the ex-
clusion of our own excellent Yankee
dish, but once in a while it is extreme-
ly tasty, especially when no other idea
lor the family dessert presents itself.
After preparing the sauce as usual
sprinkle with cinnamon, decorate with
halves of blanched almonds and serve
Avith cre»m.
Rockefeller's Hard Shot.
John D. Rockefeller tried a game of
golf on the links near Augusta. On a
rather difficult shot Mr. Rockefeller
struck too low with his iron, and as
the dust flew up he asked his caddy:
“What have I hit?” .
The boy laughed and answered:
“Jaw-jah, boss.”
Spiced Prunes.
One pound prunes, one-half pound
sugar, one-half cup vinegar, one-fourth
tablespoon cloves, the same of cinna-
mon and a pinch of ginger. Soak
prunes over night and simmer two
hours. Boil the prune juice, sugar, vin-
egar and since together ten minutes;
add the prunes and cook slowly five
. minutes.
Her Rest.
“How do you expect to spend your
summer vacation, Mrs. Brown?”
“Frying fish for the men as usual.
I suppose.”
Right food is a basis
For right living.
“ There’s only one disease,”
Says an eminent writer—
“Wrong living
“And but one cure—
“Right living.”
Right food is supplied by
Grape=Nuts
It contains the vital
Body and brain-building
Elements of wheat and barley—
Most important of which is
The Potassium Phosphate,
Grown in the grain
For rebuilding tissues
Broken down by daily use.
Folks who use Grape-Nuts
Know this—-they feel it
“There’s a Reason”
Read “The Road to Wellville,”
Found in packages.
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Gussle, in Fancy Costume, Astonished
the Doorkeeper for a
Moment.
Gussle Avas knock-kneed, angular
and round-shouldered. He had a ter-
rible squint, and a mouth like a steam,
roller. All the same, he reckoned on
making something of a hit at the
fancy dress ball, and his costume was
as elegant as his figure was unlovely..
With fast-beating heart he stepped
Jauntily from his automobile outside
the town hall, where the ball was be-
ing held. The hall porter stepped back-
ward at the unsightly apparition.
“Great Christopher Columbus!” h&
gasped as he regarded Gussie.
“No, no, my good man V1' chirped.
Gussie, as he tripped through the por-
tals. “Chawles the First, my dear fel-
low—Chawles the First!”—London An-
swers.
Mrs. Wiggin’s Idea of London.
During the recent visit of Mrs. Wig-
gin, the American author, in London,
an interviewer called on her. With
pencil poised, the interviewer asked:
“And what do you think of London,
Mrs. Wiggin?”
“You remind me,” answered the au-
thor cheerfully, “of the young lady
who sat beside Dr. Gibbon at dinner.
She turned .to him after the soup.
“ ‘Do, dear Dr. Gibbon,’ she said,,
‘tell me about the decline and fall of
the Roman empire.’ ”
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2017, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 7, 1910, newspaper, September 7, 1910; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905800/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.