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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1899)
4 BOY BABIES WANTED. PRINCIPAL REASON WHY THEY ARE PREFERRED. RcnsoiiB Offered by Hcmlcra T)o Not Seem to lie the Heal One An Old Oriental Sentiment that Still Bur yIvbb Annum Modern l'arentu. We have lately received a number of letters from readers discussing this Question which the Intense Interest In Dr. Sehenk's discovery suggests Why are bov-bables preferred? The writers offer these reasons: 1. That It Is more expensive to bring xip a girl thau a boy. 2. That when they are reared boys ean earn more, and hence that they Booner become self-supporting and able to give a helping hand to their parents. 3. That girls, after they reach their teens, are a greater source of caro and anxiety than boys simply and solely because of their sex. In our judgment, however, none of these explanations, nor all of them to gether, completely accounts for the strong deslro of thu average father nnd mother to have more male than female children. It Is only the mature parent, with the experience gained In raising a family, who Is seriously impressed with the fact that daughters are more expensive to bring up than sons. Young married people are, as a rule, far too sentiment &L sanguine and buoyant In their out look upon life to figure closely on the comparative cost of rearing boys and girls. Yet the desire to have more hoys born to them than girls Is manifested, as a rule, more strongly by young 'parents than by parents of riper years. Why? The true explanation Is a sentimental, not a mercenary one. I1Ms the modern survival of an ancient idea the Idea so strongly prevalent In the East even to this day that a son represents the strength of the family, Its defense, its protection, Its hope of perpetuation, the carrying on of Its name and fame to future generations You will find this idea in all the old Hebrew writing. A traveler In modern Syria relates how he talked with the head of a large family on this subject, "How many children have you?" he was asked. "Three," he replied. "But 3 see seven standing around you now," said the traveler. "Ah, but four of them are daughters only." The feudal lord was eager for sons lelrs to succeed him, to go to the tour ney and the wars with him, to bear his name, wear his coat-of-arms, to help him hold his castle and his landsagalnst his foes. He loved his daughters, but his prjde, his glory and his hopes were In his sons. Unacknowledged, and unconsciously, tbo average American man and woman are still thinking this old -Oriental and feudal thought, and that Is why, as a rule, they would rather be the parents of fopr boys and one girl than four girls ana one boy. New York Evenln World! TRIGHT IN DREAMS ery One Appears to Have . 'Private Nlghtmnre. never been able to i nnt experience, but yet I've bad It and that I'm able to toll the story Is due to nothing more nor less than n bottle of ammonia. Factl It happened years ago In India. I was attached to a troop of Punjab light horse, on police duty nbout Chawnld, and my littlo experi ence was the result of a day's leave of absence. With several companions I was on my way to visit some native friends In a neighboring village, and as the Jungle paths were the shortest route we mnde the trip In chairs slung on carriers' shoulders. 1 was nbout half asleep from the swinging motion, when I was rudely pitched out by the natives dropping the poles and scam pering off. That's how I met my tiger. With a bound bo was on me and had taken n mouthful of my coat. Intend ing, no doubt, to enrry mo Into the dense undergrowth. Fortunately for me. I bad a big Kottle of ammonia In my coat pocket, carried It for snake bites, you know, nnd when the brute took tbo mouthful he broke the bottle. The whiff ho got made his whiskers curl nnd one was enough. He rolled over a couple of times gasnlng nnd waving ills paws, and then made off as quickly ns he lied appeared. Hurt? No, only a few bruise from the fall, but the close shave took my nerve for some months." Philadelphia Record. One great disadvantage of smokeless gunpowder, tending to offset Its many advantages, Is Its corroding action on the Interior of a gun. Prof. Uoberts Austin recently made a report on the subject, showing that fine weapons are liable thus to be quickly ruined. A paper recently read before the Lln neau Society in London describes a spe cies of seal, attaining enormous dimen sions, to wh eh the name of sea elephant has been given on account of a trunk like appendage on the fore part of the head. A specimen killed In the Falk land Islands was nearly nineteen feet In leng.h. The trunk Is only a foot long. These seals are peculiar to the southern hemisphere. An Ital'au court recently, after a trial, ordered the removal of some wooden yachts, whose bottoms were sheathed with copper, from the neighborhood of Iron warships anchored In the harbor of Legho:n. It was alleged th it an elec tric connection was established through the ships' cables whereby the copper- bottomed warships were turned Into the poles of a galvanic battery, the result being a rapid corrosion of the Iron in contact with the sea water. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, Inven tor of thejelephone, Is now dovotlnc ITIi Htglioit Orltlent 1'rnlto. Edward Terry tolls of a pretty Inci dent wliloh ooourtod during n tour in Australia. "Do yon know what I con sider the most glowing trlbuto I over rocolved? The compliment camo-from a child. Thoro was a orowdod house, an intent nudlence, and humor had for tho instant glvon placo to pathos. You might have heard a pin drop :nul I felt tho tension of the house was at break ing point. Tho intonso silonoo was brokon by a childish voico a girl's who, turning to her parent, asked in a broken voico: 'Mothor, is It real?' " San Francisco Bulletin. Perhaps tho most trying oxporlonco In tho career of a maiden who has passed tho first blush of romantic girl hood is whon she braces herself to meet tho shock of a proposal of niarriano A T.llornry Vrojrot. Stern Tarout No, Murcolln, I posi tively forbid you to rocolvo George Gay boy. IIo'h taken to bad wayB lately; does nothing but froquont rnoo traoks and poolrooms. MarcoUiiOh, but, pa, ho lias a good object in going there. Ho'h a literary man, you know, and he told mo ho was making a book on tho races. llarlom Life. 1'rosporlty for ltlOO. Indications point to grout prosporty for the coming vonr. This Ik tho nlgn of u lienlthv imiuru. Tho migcukm ofa country, ns welf as of an individual, depends upon health. If von Imveanv stomach trouble trv Hosteller's glotnach Hitlers which cures dyspepslii, Indigestion and bilious nuhs. In Germany, botwoon DuHsoldorf and Crofold, a distance of M miles, an ox "Take Time fa The Forelockk 'Don t ivs.it until sickness o-ucrtakesv, men that tired feeling, the first ,,, mAtlc pain, the first warnings of impi ihwu .ire m.uuc3i, tane Hood s Sarsa rtlh And you mill rescue vour heilih ' probably save a serious sickness. & ,, J 1 IT l f 1,1 iv yci iiooa s, Because n jiuiHH mooiing now In St l,.l It was decided to establish a uniM -..A.. ..t (IK 1. ... ruiu ui u uuiim lor nair CUUiliir. ( cf 100 shops in Ht. Paul all but m, from somo man, and tho shock doiwu't press train is run by electricity ai it wore ropresonteu at the mooting iin, como. Cincinnati hnnuiror. maximum speed of !I7 miles an hour. . present slgued tho agreement. nearly to. .of his time, according ixperlments with fly f is confident that ho it track, but within Success. He Is iarlmentl 5e generT the ma- ... nunary ngut pn securing sta- ! in weight 16 ostrich farms le point of hatch u-a cnrlouf lay be heard. Icall "telephoning." by the chicks In Ivorlng to break out. it easily emerge are Iher bird, whlnh will Vppulse, yet mil in a loBraSPiy halhv bo in some huge, squall a cheap tenement. Th parently dcsoite J, nnd I wJ polled by an Irresistible feeling that 1 am certainly approaching Eometuing rrigntrui. At thet.eud of the hall I go down a steep, dirty, flight of stairs, my fears growing and swelling at every step, ana pause before a door that opens upon a little, square landlnir, I know perfectly well that what I dread la behind that door, but something makes mo open it, and I look Into a plain, bare room, perfectly common place, with a small white kitten lying in the corner. What there is about it to throw me Into such a panic I am unable to say, but I rush out filled with blind, Inhuman terror, and always wake when I am stumbling up tho stairs. I think this Is a fair sample of the foolish things that are so appalling in dreams. why is it, I wonder? I have talked with a great many others, and find that their own nightmares aro generally of tho same inconsequential nature. Of course, tho whole subject of dreams is hopelessly cryptic, but this seems to me Its most puzzling and Incomprehen sible feature." Now Orleans Times-Democrat. bl wl E the it ick to Pasadena farm, the uu.-kikl" v"t"i v "uj uuiun; mi uatneu as no ce is ap- isould a pony may sdmetimes be seen. k along, im- I' A method of producing anesthesia oyitiie direct application of an electrical current without the use of drugs was recently described by Dr. E. W. Serin ture, of Yale, before the American As soclatlon for tho Advancement of Sci ence," says the Scientific American. "An alternating current with equal pos itive anu negative phases was made to traverse the nerve. At a proper fre quency of about 5,000 complete periods in a second, It can be made to cut off all sonsatory communication by this nerve. Needles can be run Into tho part of tho body supplied by this nerve without any pain being felt." Escape of the Nowly Wedded. A newly married couple in New Brunswick, N. J., circumvented their mischievous friends by starting on their wedding Journey by way of tho roof. The friends, well-supplied with rice and old slippers, stood at tho foot of the stairs. Tho pair nscended to tho roof, walked to the adjoining house, then down and through the renr doir to a back street, where they entered a waiting carriage nnd wcro driven to the railway station. Saved by Ammonia. "Pretty fierce brutes, eh?" remarked & soldierly looking man who was ouo of a little group watching tho threo big tigers at tho zoo restlessly pacing their dens In auflelpatlon of fecd.ng time. "Yes," agreed tho person addressed. "I don't think I'd enre about meetiug one at largo." "No, It wouldn't bo a jjleas- 5l A horrible, slimy monster that makes man's life a misery. After eating: a bloated belly, belching of gas from the stomach, a foul, ill-smelling scurf on the tongue, dizziness, headache, a sour rising and spitting up of half-digest- j r.i ,f t- 1 rf , When the bowels stop working they become filled with putrid, rotting matter, forming poisonous gases that go through the whole body. 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