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ARMEN IAN WOMEN.
Piety and Industry Their Principal
Characteristics. 4
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Biblical Traditions Followed in the Home
Life, Which Keeps Successive Gen-
erations Under One Roof--
Model Housekeepe‘rs.
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w The school of the Armema'n woman
is the home, and the first character-
istic of *the home, after its piety, is its
industry. The households are large,
sons bringing home their wives and
grandsons, theirs making up a family
often, of from forty to sixty persons.
In the interior villages among the
peasantry, the number is often much
larger. This condition is a relic of
Biblical times, and' 13 still necessary in
many parts of Armenia for mutual
protection and economy of living in a
country where life is often dependent
upon resistance to barbarous tribes
and money and food products are sub-
ject to the justice (‘1’) of Turkish taxa-
tion.
: With primitive utensils and incon-
venient methods of living it may be
seen that industry is a necessity in
such great establishments, and abso-
lute cleanliness goes with it. A
Frenchwoman, 'Mme. Chantre, who
- spent months in Armenia with her
husband, an oculist, and had an une
usual opportunity to study the ways of
'the people, speaks emphatically of
this element of the Armenian home.
“The, Armenian, women,” says she,
“are~ l fi'perfect. housekeepers.
houses are marvelously clean.”
The servant problem does not exist
in Armenia. All well-to-do households
‘ employ servants who come from the
peasantry, and are trained in the
service of a family and become a part
of it. They “know their place,” as is
said here, and yield all respect to their
masters and mistresses; on the other
hand, their “place” is known and re-
spected by every member of the
family
The Armenian women are expert
and skillful cooks. Aprominent for-
eigner who has traveled'much through
the country has said: “No one has
eaten a good dinner who has not
eaten one cooked by an Armenian.”
. The Chief meal of the day is eatenin
l the evening after the work of the day
is done. At this are served rich‘cereals
and vegetables cooked with sur-
passing delicacy ‘ and relish, and
fruits, preserved and in their sea-
son, Of the most luscious and tempting
varieties. Meat is used. but not so much
as here. Armenia is a land of fruit and
flowers, and the Armenian woman is
deeply skilled in the art of preserving
fruits and making confections from
flowers. The time of such compound-
ing and preparation is a sort of holi-
day. The whole household gathers for
the ceremony; the fruit is prepared
and put into great caldrons over which
presides some experienced aunt or
other relative specially secured for the
occasion. The rest of the women as-
sist according to the degree of their
expertness, down to the younger
daughters of the home, who can only
earnestly watch and admire the skill
which it is their ambition to emulate
some day. At the critical moments of
the operation, when a-drop more or
less of lemon juice or an added degree
of heat too soon or too late may be
fatal, care and watchfulness are in-
tensified to the superlative degree.
Silence reigns while tastes and tests
are taken, and t‘ 1e weight of a nation
can hardly burden its bearer more
than the responsibility of her on whom
rests the final decisive step.
For the children it is a holiday pure
and simple. Fruits and sweets abound
and saucerfuls of the confections at
various stages of the process are gen-
erously dealt out.
These preserves are offered to all
who are guests of the household.
Ceremonious visits would not be com-
plete without them. Two fine glass
bowls are set out containing each a.
choice variety of the sweetmcats, with
an ample supply of silver spoons and
an array of crystal goblets filled with
water. A spoonful of the sweet is
taken by each guest and a sip of wa-
ter, then Turkish coffee is handed
round—N. Y. Times.
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Blubber_Baths for Rheumatism.
In Australia they have a whale cure
for rheumatism which is said to be ef-
fective, though disagreeable. It was
discovered by a drunken man, who was
staggering along the beach near the
whaling station at Twofold bay, and
who, seeing a dead whale cut open,
took a header into the decomposed
blubber. It took two hours for him
to work his way out, but he was’then
not only sober but cured of his rheu-
matism. 'Now a hotel has been \built
in the neighboring town 'of Eden,
where rheumatic patients wait for the
arrival of a whale“ 1n order to take blub-
ber baths. -—Detroit Flee Press. .1:
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EEKLY-NORWALK GAZETTE.
' South florWaiIk.
Branch Offlce of GAZETTE No.12
North Main Street.
The Rev. Mr. Norris now rides a mw
Cleveland bicycle.
Humboldt Lodge, Sons of Hermann,
held a meeting last night.
Eureka Lodge, Daughters of Re-
, bekah, will hold a meeting this evening.
Mr. and Mrs.H. Emory Pea’se have re-
turned to their home in Grand Rapids.
Michigan.
A litge delegation from this city
heard the Hon. Thomas B. Reed’s ad-
dress in Bridgeport last night.
Attorney Honnecker has taken an
appeal from the decission of Judge Bus.
sel Frost in the Laflin-Palmer case.
City Attorney John H. Light will
deliver a short address with Senator O.
H. Plait at New Haven this evening on
the Green.
The engagement is announced oi
WaldoC. Briggs and Miss Belle Fer-
ris, daughter of Frank A. Ferris, of
Fairfield avenue. _
.Mrs. W. Shelton Stevenson, of South
Main street, leaves to- morrow lfor
Poughkepsie, N. Y., to spend a week
with friends' 1n that city.
John Hyer was arrested last night
for drunkenness. Thismorning-in the
Town Court Judge Frost fined him 85
which he paid, and was discharged.
The manager of the Trinity college
eleven has cancelled the game with
West Point for Saturday, owing to in.
juries to several players including Jack
Burchard of this city.
An effort is being made to have Hon.
Samuel Fessenden of Stamford deliver
an address in this city in the near
future. As he is a very able orator, he
will no doubt be given a hearty wel-
come.
Joseph Sexer, whose case was con-
t'nued from yesterday, appeared before
Judge Frost in the Town Court this
morning charged with drunkenness.
He was discharged as it was proved
that he was sick and under a phyecians
care.
Editor Bedemeyer of the News is ill,
and his illness may prevent the regular
meeting of the Philharmaniac bagpipers
scheduled for to-night. Should the meet-
ing be postponed a yellow flag will be
flung to the breezes from Editor Bode-
meycr’s sick room on Washington
street, and hourly bagpipe rcquiems be
played from the hotel balcony.
The South Norwafls Hat Company
will open a store, Saturday, in the
store in the Town Hall building recent-
lv occupied by E. P. Hayes. Jerry
Reardon, at present with F. T. Beeh-
ler, will have charge of the new estab-
lishment—Stamford Advocate.
An attempt was made to burglarize
the railroad depot and post office in
Rowayton, Tuesday night. ' A large
pane of glass in the bay window was
broken out, and the waiting room en-
tered. The place was thoroughly ran-
sacked but only a few cents in change
was secured. The safe showed that at-
tempts had been made to bore a holein
the door, but 1he,hits broke and the
safe was not damaged. The bits, to-
gether with chisels, etc., were stolen
from B. Arthur Griffin’s blacksmith
shOp in the rear of F. Boylslon’s cur-
riage factory.
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A CURE 'FOR IDIOCY.
It Remains to Be Seen How Successful It
Will Be.
A cure for idiocy is one of the latest
achievements of surgical science, which
has taken so many giant strides of late
years that it may be almost termed one
of the wonders of the century. Experi-
ments were made on the skulls of two
children, who had been idiotic from
birth, and the latest accounts are that
they are not only surviving the shock
of the operation, but are giving prom-
ise of a recovery of the mental facul-
ties. It would be more correct to say,
says the Washington Star, that they
are gaining those faculties, for the
idiot from birth has no development
until the obstruction on the brain is re-
moved. This is exactly the process in
the present trials. Holes are drilled in
the skull of the child, at the top of the
head where the “Fontanelle” or “soft
spot” is usually located. In the case
now under observation, these spots had
become hardened at birth, and thus
the expansion and development of the
brain had been arrested. The opera-
tion was, therefore, to make a new or
artificial fontanelle. Great care had to
he exercised, of course, to avoid in jur-
ing the brain, and there lay the main
difliculty of the operation. The scalp
is drawn anew over the apertures in
the skull thus made, and the little
brain is left to cure itself. The chil-
dren thus operated on are two years
old. .It is, of course, a question just
when the patients should be subjected
to the experiment, and the age of two
years has been chosen as the starting
point. It has been considered prob-
able that at this age the child, if it
should recover its health and gain in-
telligence, will be scarcely behind oth-
er children of its own age a dozen
years later. . By that time assisted na-
ture would have caught up with itself,
as it were. There may be some ques-
tion in the minds of ultra-sensitive peo-
ple as to whether it is right for sur-
geons to experiment in this way upon
helpless children by performing opera-
tions that may cause death. Yet there
will probably be no general outcry
against such an effort. In some sense
death is preferable to] life-long idiocy.
Few parents would be likely tO' object .
to the experiment upon their own un-
fortunate offspring if conducted with
the care which should attend all such
dangerous proceedings. h a“?
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HOMES OF RIVER PIRATES.
Caves in the Mountain Sides Are Watched
‘ with Awe by Longshoremen.
Along the west shore of the Hudson
river, between West Point and Esopus,
according to the New York W orld,
there are several sidehill openings that
are supposed to lead into big recesses
not yet explored. Daring men have
made the attempt to discover the inte-
rior, but have been frightened into a re-
treat by all sorts of imaginings.
At Marlborough, Highland and in the
famous Storm King mountain, at Corn-
wall, these rocky openings are w atched
by longshoremen, who have reason to
believe that valuable property' 15 con-
tained therein.
A Cornwall fisherman says he be-
lieves that one of these caves, near the
foot of Storm King, is the rendezvous
of a gang of New York thieves, who re-
ceive and dispose of their ill-gotten
stock on a strict mercantile basis. He
remembers that about the lst .of April
he and his father saw a small boat, in
which were four men, put ashore at this
point. It was an inky black night, and
it was not safe for small craft in the
wind-tossed water of Cornwall bay.
The fisherman watched the landing
and saw the company, who were dis-
tinguished by the lanterns they carried,
work their way up the mountain side.
About twenty minutes after the landing
the lights were lost sight of at a point
about one hundred feet from the
water’s edge.
The supposition is that these men
entered one of those mercantile caves
to make ready for the year’s business.
No one has ventured near the place,
althoughseveral hunters say that there
is an opening at the spot designated by ‘
the Cornwall man. It is believed that
this cave is the main resort of river
pirates and robbers, who plunder in
the Hudson river valley, and if so
there is considerable danger attending
a visitation to the locality.
Thisasite is particularly lonely and
deserted. It can be located by passen—
gers on the day boats as they are pass-
ing. It is about three hundred feet
west of the place where an attempt
has been made to quarry stone for
crushing, and to reach it one must run
the risk of being bitten by the most
poisonous snakes.
MALAGASY COOKERY.
Great Care Taken in Preparing the Sim-
ple Food.
Cooking being an art, every race has
a style of its own. The Malagasy, like
the gentle Hindu, knows how to pre-
pare his mess of rice, says the ' London
Telegraph. It is not boiled to a mash
as in England, or as our potatoes are
sometimes pulped, but, covered with a
proper sufiiciency of water, is carefully
treated until the grains are swollen fit
to burst and yet remain full, intact,
soft and rather mealy. The manioc
root is an easier dish to prepare. It is
sometimes served boiled, as yarns and
sweet -potatoes, and again as a sort of
cold porridge. Native coffee they un-
derstand how to make, and the aroma
is excellent; but tea, alas! you have to
look to the brewing of that from start
to finish if you desire a drinkable cup.
Poultry and game are eaten fresh, and
the cooks have a clever and withal
cleanly trick of dipping the dead ani-
mals in boiling water, which enables
them to pluck them easily and quickly.
The preparation for trussing comes
later. There is no lack of variety at a.
Malagasy table, but, all the same,_{you
miss the Wheaten flour bread, sugar
and condiments when cloyed with rice,
fowls, manioc and eggs. The staple
fuel is bunch grass, which when dried
burns fiercely, and settles into a glow-
ing ember that gives off a deal of heat.
All the cooking is done on earthen
hearths, and the roasting, boiling and
baking in big iron pots. The grass be-
ing slightly aromatic, the odor is as
agreeable as that of a hardwood fire.
ENTHUSIASM OVERCAME HIM.
And He Gave Away His Employer's Secret
as a Result.
A few years ago a prominent oil pro-
ducer of Pittsburgh was putting down
a well in a territory that had never
been tested for oil. He was keeping
the fact a profound secret, says the San
Francisco Argonaut, in order that in'
case he got a good well he might with-
out difliculty secure all the leases he
desired in the vicinity. He was on the
ground himself, watching with great
interest the indications. Everything
pointed to success. Two days before
the well was expected to‘ ‘come in” he
was called home. Anxious about the
result, he arranged with his contractor
to telegraph him as soon as the drill
reached the sand. He knew, however,
that secrets will sometimes leak out of
atelegraph office and so he told the
driller that the sentence: “Pine trees
grow tall,” would mean that he
had struck oil. The driller promised to
do as he was ordered. The mingled
satisfaction andvexation of the pro-
ducer may be imagined when two days
later he received the following tele-
gram: “Pine trees grow tall. She’s
squirting clean over the derrick. ” His
hope that he shouid have no competi.
tors for leases was disappointed.
Very Tender-Hearted.
Mlle. Augustine Brohan, the cele-
brated French comedienne, who Was so
humane to all animals, one day at table
foundafly caught on her plate. She
took it up'tenderly with her thumb
and finger and called her maid.
“Marie,” she said, “take this fly—bc
careful, now, don’t hurt himl—and put
him outdoors.” The girl took the fly
and went away, but presently Mlle.
Brohan saw her standing near with‘a
troubled expression on her face. “Well,
Marie,” she said, “did you do as I told
you?” “N o, mademoiSelle, I’ve got the
fly still, I couldn’t venture to put him
outdoox s—it was raining, and he might
have taken cold.”
‘ Bullet-Proof Floss Silk.
Japan’s small losses in men in the
battles with the Chinese were due in
part to the accidental use of a bullet-
proof material. Owiug to the severe
cold the J apancsc soldiers were a quan-
tity of floss silk under their clothes;
this, when they were hit, was feund in
many cases to have stopped the bullets.
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THE .USEFUL BICYCLE. fig
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An Occasion on Which It Replaced Turp-
in’s Bonnie Black Bees. W. ,
In these days when so many means
of earning a livelihood are closed, save
to the working classes, it is interesting
to hear of the revival of so old a pro-
fession as that of the road. - This be-
ing the age of machinery, says the Pall
Mall Gazette, one need not be sur-
prised to learn that the bicycle has
been substituted for the Bonnie Black
Bosses of a. century ago. The original
formula: “Your money or your life,” is,
however, maintained intact, and the
old York road is once again the scene
of the highwayman’s operations. The
pistol, too, is still the proper weapon,
and in other respects the traditions of
the craft are carefully preserved.
“The Doncaster police are communi-
cated with, but have not made any
arrests,” is a sentence that reminds one
of the days when watchmen were over-
turned in their boxes. Throughout the
account is picturesque. The cyclist-
cuthroats’ bicycles were “on the road-
side,” while their riders disputed the
passage of Mr. Lovely. The latter
shook up his gallant “safety” (hence-
forth
tempted to run the gauntlet, but a
bullet took him in the back of the
thigh. He, however, escaped to “his
native city” of York, preserving his
purse virgin.
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The “Born-Tired" Man.
The fellow who was born very tired
grew more and more weary as he went
through the haps and mishaps of child-
hood, the adolescence of youth and the
early period of manhood. At middle
age he was the tiredest man then liv-
ing. At fifty he was so utterly worn
out with the simple process of existing
that it occurred to him to calculate
how many breaths he must draw if he
went on living for twenty years more,
and, being a man in fair preservation,
there was a good prospect of his reach-
ing the allotted threescore and ten
years of average mankind. Well, the
tired citizen figured it out on the basis
of eighteen breaths a minute, 1, 080 to
the hour, 25, 920 to the day, 9 ,462,280 for
a year and 189, 342, 800 for twenty
years. The figures appalled him, and
he died in disgust and discouragement.
HERE’S YOUR DHAHDE.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave
nue; ‘ If you intend to build, look at-
this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
W. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and Insurance
Room 1. Gazette B’l’d'.
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25 envelopes for 3 cents.
24 sheets writing paper for
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Miss Baird is at home to visitors on Thurs-
day and Friday of each week until 5 p. m. .
The Fall and Winterlterm of this School
opens on Thursday the 24th inst.
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3 WATER STREET.
Opening of
Fall and, Winter? Hillinery
On THURSDAY, FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, Oct.‘ l, 2, 3.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Everyone making a purchase or leaving an
order will be presented with a souvenir.
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