1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
743 
teeth require no work in mastication. 
Hence the blood is not drawn in large 
quantities to the teeth so that it can 
give up its building materials to them. 
Try giving him something that is hard 
to chew.*’ With this advice the disap¬ 
pointed mother went home to meditate 
and experiment. The result was a mod¬ 
ification in the home diet. The morning 
mush was largely, not wholly, replaced 
by a hard bread which could not be swal¬ 
lowed till the teeth had had their full 
share of exercise. Graham crackers 
were no longer purchased, but made at 
home after a recipe which insured equal 
fun for the teeth, and these were often 
used with sauce or fruit for dessert and 
always for lunches. The flour should 
first be sifted, then the bran, after hav¬ 
ing been carefully picked over to remove 
anything unfit for use, should be added 
to the sifted flour. The whole-wheat 
loaf bread which had always had a place 
on the table came more frequently and 
often unaccompanied by white bread. 
We would have to wait several years 
to know whether this change in diet 
will help make those precious teeth. 
Hut believing the dentist touched on a 
phase of the problem too often over¬ 
looked, we append the recipes which 
produced food so eagerly eaten by this 
child that the mother recognized he had 
needed it. 
Hard Tack.—2>g cupfuls whole wheat 
flour, one-half cupful white flour, one 
tablespoonful butter well rubbed into 
flour, one tablespoonful sugar, one- 
fourth teaspoonful salt, one scant 
teaspoonful saleratus, two scant tea¬ 
spoonfuls cream tartar, one-half cup¬ 
ful milk, one-half cupful water, white of 
one egg, beaten stiff. Mix as for biscuit, 
roll thin, cut into large squares and 
bake in a medium hot oven. To be eaten 
hot or cold, with or without butter, 
honey or jam. 
Graham Crackers.—One cupful sugar, 
one-half cupful butter, white of one egg, 
one-half cupful warm water, one tea¬ 
spoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of 
tartar, one - quarter teaspoonful salt, 
whole wheat flour or meal to mix very 
stiff. Cream sugar and butter together 
first. Beef drippings may be used in 
place of butter. The white of the egg 
is to be beaten stiff and added last. Use 
white flour to handle with on the board. 
Roll thin and cut with a cake cutter and 
bake in hot oven. 
On the Wing. 
THE WORLD IN WAX. 
PEOPLE AND PATRIOTS AT THE EDEN MU8EE. 
rEDITORIAL CORKE9PONDENCE.] 
Mrs. Jarley Up to Date. —Ever since 
Dickens described the immortal Mrs. 
Jarley, with her collection of waxworks, 
including figures of Oliver Cromwell and 
the man who murdered five wives suc¬ 
cessively by tickling the soles of their 
feet, people smile at this class of enter¬ 
tainment, yet it is not without interest 
to adults, as well as to children. Perhaps 
the most famous exhibition of this sort 
in the world is Madame Tussaud’s, in 
London. It is the joy of British juve¬ 
niles, and I think their first impressions 
are quite accurately described by the 
little girl pictured in Punch, who says 
earnestly, as she gazes at the figures of 
the celebrities, “ Grandpa, do they kill 
them before they stuff them ? ” 
The Eden Mus6e is New York’s proto¬ 
type of Mme. Tussaud’s. New-Yorkers 
sometimes assert that they go there only 
when they have out-of-town visitors; 
but honestly, I think that they are rather 
glad of this excuse. They look at what 
the late Artemus Ward described as 
“moral wax statoots,” listen to the 
music of a Hungarian Gypsy band, and 
view the cinematograph, one of the won¬ 
ders of modern science. 
Our Hero Crop. —It is asserted that 
the fact of a man’s celebrity may be set¬ 
tled by a visit to the Eden Mus6e. If he 
is really a personage in the public eye, 
his wax counterfeit may be found there. 
At the present time, there are so many 
real live heroes walking the streets of 
New York that one can't throw a stone 
anywhere without hitting one. The 
Mus6e realizes the public taste, so many 
of the familiar figures have been dis¬ 
placed to make room for military and 
naval subjects. Gen. Miles is seen in con¬ 
sultation with Gen. Shatter. Col. Roose¬ 
velt is displayed, wearing the brown 
kharkee uniform with yellow facings 
which has been familiarized by the 
Rough Riders. Lieut. Hobson is dis¬ 
played as a very good-looking young 
man wearing exceedingly tight shoes, 
and while willing to admit the first part 
of the description, I cannot imagine that 
the hero of the Merrimac would be guilty 
of those aggressive patent leathers. Hob¬ 
son is shaking hands with a waxen Cer- 
vera, resplendent in the gold lace of a 
Spanish admiral. A great group, ar¬ 
ranged after a famous painting, depicts 
the return of Columbus to the court of 
Ferdinand and Isabella. The discoverer 
does not seem to be getting a very en¬ 
thusiastic reception ; perhaps some of 
the courtiers had a presentiment that his 
discovery of America was rather a mis¬ 
take. 
Soldiers and Sailors. — The Eden 
Mus6e has a great attraction for the army 
and navy, and one always sees some of 
their representatives wandering among 
the waxworks, or listening to the Gypsy 
fiddlers. The regulars are usually thin, 
brown, sinewy and silent; soldiering is 
their trade, and they do not display the 
youthful swagger often seen in the vol¬ 
unteers. Not that we object to the vol¬ 
unteers’ exuberance, for many of those 
brown-skinned boys whom we see play¬ 
ing schoolboy tricks upon one another 
on the ferryboats, or wandering among 
the sights of New York, have an over¬ 
seas record of which we may be proud. 
It is very amusing to hear their com¬ 
ments at the MusGe ; they fight their bat¬ 
tles over again, and point out the accu¬ 
racy or inaccuracy of the waxen copies 
of their leaders, with much spirit and 
fluency. 
The Cinematograph. —A majority of 
the visitors, however, pay little atten¬ 
tion to the waxworks; they come in to 
see the cinematograph. We are used to 
such exhibits now; the vitascope, kineto- 
scope, biograph and cinematograph are 
all variations of the one principle. It is 
a marvel, even to those who know the 
manner in which these moving pictures 
are produced. No matter how familiar 
one may be with these pictures, in which 
men march, and shoot, and fight, before 
one’s eyes, they still remain wonderful, 
and the war pictures are often terrible in 
their impressiveness. The people ap¬ 
plaud tumultuously when New York's 
favorite regiment marches off the cars 
at Tampa, to the tune of “The Girl I 
Left Behind Me”; every movement is 
reproduced, the dust rising in slow clouds 
as they plod through it, while small col¬ 
ored boys rush around the outskirts with 
an energy which makes one wonder 
whether they will fall out of the pic¬ 
ture. The mule train is another real¬ 
istic scene; pack-mules plod wearily 
along through the dust, and heavy army 
wagons, drawn by six mules, shake and 
jolt over the rough roads until one won¬ 
ders that it is impossible to hear the 
creak and rattle, and the remarks of the 
drivers, which are, judging from their 
expression, chiefly of an objurgatory 
nature. The landing of ah attacking 
party is another picture which always 
evokes tumultuous applause. As the 
boat reaches shallow water, blue-clad 
Jackies jump out with a series of great 
splashes, shooting at the invisible foe, 
who respond by a shower of bullets, 
each showing in a sudden little spurt on 
the surface of the water. Some of our 
men fall, making a salty fountain of 
splashes as they go backward among 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
their fellows ; they are lifted into the 
boat, and the men charge up the hill out 
of sight, while the audience redoubles 
its enthusiasm. 
How Ark the Pictures Produced?— 
These pictures are from a series of pho¬ 
tographs, projected upon a screen as in 
the case of a stereopticon. The work¬ 
ing principle of the apparatus is the per¬ 
sistence of luminous impressions upon 
the retina of the eye. When we observe 
an object, the image in the eye is trans¬ 
mitted to the nervous membrane called 
the retina. If the light is suddenly re¬ 
moved from the object, the image in the 
retina is progressively removed ; so long 
as it is not entirely gone, the optic nerve 
continues to be impressed, and the eye 
continues to see the object. For exam¬ 
ple, look steadily at some object, close 
the eyes suddenly, and for an infinitesi¬ 
mal period, the object is still before the 
closed eyes. The duration of the lumin¬ 
ous impression varies with the amount 
of light on the object. For a normal 
illumination, the duration is about 2-45 
of a second, and it is prolonged further 
for 2-45 of a second if the light is sud¬ 
denly withdrawn. Consequently, if an 
illuminated object is presented to the 
eye during 1-45 of a second, and masked 
by an opaque screen during 1-45 second, 
we do not notice its eclipse. 
Nine Hundred a Minute —A number 
of photographs on a film, showing the 
successive movements of an object, are 
each like the other so far as fixed objects 
are concerned, but the objects in motion 
represent successive attitudes. These 
pictures, to the number of 900 a minute, 
are projected upon a screen. Each suc¬ 
cessive image is eclipsed during 1-45 of a 
second, but as the eye continues to see 
the same image changing from one at¬ 
titude to another, it appears to be 
actually in motion. An electric lantern 
is used to project the image upon the 
screen and, in Lumiere’s apparatus, a 
glass globe filled with distilled water is 
used as a condensing lens, which, in ad¬ 
dition to other advantages, has that of 
absorbing the intense heat of the electric 
light. It will be remembered that the 
disastrous fire in the Paris charity bazar 
last year was started through some care¬ 
lessness in using the cinematograph. It 
is not strange that these wonderful 
pictures attract more attention than in¬ 
animate waxworks. Every one has a 
chance to see the heroes of the war and 
the men who fill the public eye walking, 
riding and fighting ; they do everything 
but speak, and even their voices are pre¬ 
served by the graphophone ! Perhaps, 
in another generation, these appliances 
will be so cheap that no well-regulated 
home will be without them, and instead 
of sending Johnny off to a corner to 
study his history lesson, we will project 
Manila Bay on the screen, put an Ad¬ 
miral Dewey cylinder on the grapho¬ 
phone, and permit History to repeat it¬ 
self. e. T. R. 
B.&B. 
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