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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1878)
I Januarv fn T -n - - M WEST SHORE. 7 Tn. V n. i " O 1 IICST OHORC 1MK NKW V.ll'k- u iiiv I , ii.iiii sou H AShtan Fuse Momhl, ill,,,,., 1 ooust, oauoi, bj u SAMUEL. -"X8 ", FAUM ok sirnsciiii'Tiox On. oopj, om rwr... ' Single Numbir. . ; ; Wmii " hjf. I. tavta . 8 m Bubscn ntum miMt be mid in ., ..... i, DANG Kit IN DAMP HOUSES. A writer In the English journal, Public Health, baa the following points which should be borne in mind by all home makers: It is a common notion that the muntry is more heilU v than the town, and we rcadilv mnl tnt- :.. i. elements of pure air and quiet, the country has advantages: but it m tint. t.m.iin h: llA Tl country is always the ltoaltliiest. As I)r Bart ett says, if and old resident rebuilds his' house he does so on the old site, for the sake of L-vtl il'liit I. .11 IIP MIMA A- .... . mm mini uumves. me site may bo marshy, always saturated, or badly drained: vet it la mimMmmI ...f L . .. - --- mnuwim uy too old occupant Again, the city merchant who retires into the country selects a secluded spot surrounded by trees; it may be badly drained but being in the country, it is considered above suspicion-on sanitary grounds, at all events. If a homestead is contemplated, the farm build ings will be placed close to the bouse, and the farm-yard so near the windows that the etlluvi urn of the manure is constantly the evil to he borne, if not grumbled at. All that aftete the substratum, the drainage of the soil and the po Sltiou of the house, is too generally disregarded, in the idea of enjoying country air. The prox imity of a farm Iioubo is even, by some people imagined to be conducive to health, so singu-' iarly ignorant of sanitary laws are they. Most country cottages have pig-sties, and the floors of these are a prolific source of nuisance; but occupants are under the impression that the un pleasant and pungent smell that is engendered is not harmful. In fact, it is strange to find that a country air strongly and constantly di luted with noxious gases is believed by many to lie healthier than a town air free from these nuisances, liut land -drainage is, tierhaps, even n oro a source of uintanitariness in country dis tricts. In IHiWasanitary report was publUhod, in which certain propositions were laid down, showing that "excess of moisture, even on lands not evidently wet, is a cause of fogs and damps;" that "dampness serves as the medium of con veyance for any deeonijKising matter that may be evolved, and adds to the injurious effect of such matter in the air; in other words, the ex cess of moisture may be said to increase or If. gravate success of impurities in the atmosphere;" that "the evaporation of the surplus moisture lowers temperature, produces chills, ami creates or aggravates the sudden, injurious changes of temperature by which health is injured." Now these propositions have reference to conditions that exist more largely in rural than town dis tricts. Malarial disease, tuliereulous consump tion, typhoid fever, and various other functional diseases, are well known to spring from a high level of ground-saturation. here TOT this con dition of ground moisture has been reduced by artificial means, these tyiws of disease have been found to diminish in their intensity; and it is chiefly by the mists generated by this con stant dampness that we must account for the aggravation of the Bymptons in those maladies. It is a fact that the most fertile soils are those which give rise to zymotic diseases, while those of sand, chalk or gravel, and of a porous quality, arc the healthiest. The New VmA i i .. f "Inch there were 400 twin., trhit, .,,,1 halllo hfth avu,,,,,;, M9.S0 fioodw nenbg. ,,,S1 rcruarKaole Was its iiggtu, of wWom. At the how f i ,. iliL' the babies mm 1J- . .. . ... I k. i IT 3 ' "wane, unvexe.1 vtfr " . 1. T '" .""". . . ; ..vr ullJ noisiest oov had not yet opened bfa mouth or got his nreposteitius legs into the throes nf irF.,a, .KiJ Ihetlusho they,gorof morning was on the faces of all, ami the alert intellect peered out of every baby's eyes. Under the circum- uuwii ucepiy serious, silent ami absorbed, there never was such gross .lis- bJ-in i?""0!? a1"1 arr"gil in the large hal on the second rio.tr, which was trim KW Pn y American Hags. At the towards Fourteenth street were arrayed simile 11 viTL 'iiuiuuivm .in.; remurk ahle histories while bab.es of different merits sat ou the side op.-ite and were strewn casu ally through the center of the l.all. The whole number of babies entero.1 is nearly 4(H), and all these wil Ik-out doubtless by to-morrow: but Monday the show opened with Soft Then will be several sets .if triplets, and arrangements have been made and wdt probably OOtne to fruition with a phenomenal Brooklyn father for a quar tet 1 lie management requires the presence of babies and their mothers from !1 o'clock In the ......B ,,, ,,, nunc, looun wearied Itahies are dismissed or put to bed on the flo.tr "'" mhwvs Boppue.i witn uTOU ,uui j Si T wunpoa aw eupputa KJ assist and releive the motliers; also intelligent ami umnwMu wwnen eo explain and interpret to VlflltniH In (h.i ..1 . 1 : 1. --- - uHMMTa iniien is aiwavs spread tor mothers and nurses, and there are i I'll-. ..hit 1. n- ,-. fiia A I..- LLt 1 : . -j j.....t-.. iui nh B.'.iiiiiog ami remvigoratioii of sitecimens. A I t ..J.. A. . I biiwhww wum mn woe given, tlie re cipient to be determined by popular ballot. Every visitor will find attached to his ticket a A Low Vou-k IN Woman. Yes, we agree with that old poet who said that a low, soft voice was an excellent thing in woman. In deed we feel inclined tfl go much further than he has on the subject, and call it one of her crowning charms. No matter what other at tractions she may still have; she may be as fair as the Trojan Helen, and as learned as the famous Hypatia of ancient times; she may have all the accomplishments considered requisite at the present day, and every advantage that wealth can procure, ami yet if Bhe lack a low, sweet voice, she can never be really fascinat ing. How often the spell of beauty is broken by coarse, loud talking! How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming wo man, whose soft, silvery tones rentier her posi tively attractive. He-sides, wo fancy we can judge of the character by the voice; the bland, smooth, fawning tone seems to us to hetokeu deceit and hypocrisy, as invariably as the musi cal, subdued voice indicates a genuine refine ment In the social circle, how pleasant it is U hoar a woman talk in that low key which al ways characterizes the true lady I I u the xanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary hatband! How sweetly such cadences float through the siek chamber; and around the dying bad, with what solemn melody do they breathe a prayer fur a departing soul. Ladlm f'Kwion. Eahn; OftAJRim A vast number of oranges are eaten by the Spaniards, it being no uncom mon thing for the children f a family to con sume ten or a dozen oranges each lief ore break fast gathering them from the orange groves, where they hang like the veritable golden fruit which they are metaphorically supposed to Ite. Such wholesale consumption of wnat we look upon ae a luxury appears to have no ill effect The testimony of a lite eminent physician au thoriaes the use of fruit as most wholeanme im mediately upon waking in the morning; he in fact lrecribed such a regimen to a fnend as the only invigorating and permanent cure for in digestion, facetiously remarking that he gave her a piece of advice which, if it were known to his dyspeptic patients, would cost him his prao as they might prefer so simple a remedy to bis professional visita. London 0'anentri vAfwfttii HOW AMEKK AN WOMEN ABUSE inr.iu MIVNHANIKS. Dr. Theodore Ohristlieh, the Qarnaa "evan gelical ' whose sweetness and light so took cap tive the rest of the evangelicals at the alliance meeting in New York some years ago, has found a serious blot upon our civilisation in the great republic. Prof. ChrietUeh confided to a recent American visitor that he hail great fears tor tin future of our nation boeauae"tho spirit of Uhrist ' was not here. Pressed to explain his meaning, he did not cite any of those financial or social scandals that make us uneasy, bnt "seriously declared that on more than one occasion he had heard an American married woman say to her husband, Dear, will you bring me my shawl t and the hoaband had brought it!" And further, that hr hnd en a man come home aud find hit wife sitting in the ball chair in the parlor, and not only did she not rise to get his dressiug-g ami slipers, but she did not rise at nil, hut let mm una nis own chair as well as other comforts! These were the things that this profound I'ro feiisor found to evidence a dancer in the Uniltsl States. It is hard to over-estimate the value of this well-weighed criticism from so eminent a source, Itascd as it is. on undeniable facts. The female woman in this country has unquestion ably arrived at a degree of individualism which places her in many things on a level with man. she cannot be depended upon to get out of bad at 4 o'clock of a wiuter morning to make a fire and get breakfast, while her lord and master takes a tieautv nap, with anything like the cer tainty that she once could. " She won't eat the chicken's gizzard tthflo there's any breast left, no, nor afterward, either. She objects to fill her husband's pipe ami "Btart" it with a few gentle pulls, as any 1 rofessor s spouse ought to. She utifiis her luiHbaiid s letters on the same crouiid that he Optni here. A man has no right here to wnip nis who, or to harness her to a p low, as the Ionian farmers do. In fact it's getting so in our country that a wife has almostas many rights as a husband, aud the conviction is slowly gaining ground that marriage is a matter of mutual ser vice and attention. We owe Professor ('hristlieb THE OORKKLIA OOOK TEA lEOSE. coupon with printed instructions as to what qualities arc to be voted for, thuB: "Hand Bomest mother," "prettiest lby," "finest triplets," "prettiest twins," "greatest novelty," aud the four liabies in order who are uoxt pret tiest Each child anil mother has a print. .1 card with a number, which the visitor, having made his selections, ascertains ami writes iiioii his coupon, depositing the same in a box after wards. The handsomest mother iB to have a prize of a gold watch and chain, anil money prizes raniiim; from SHHl down, are to DO to the elected hahies. As for other qualities not mentioned on the coupon, they are to le de cided by a selected committee. Nkw Thkhai'ki ITM Usk of EiTAi.vm s. In his work, "Clinical Studies," Sir John Hose Cormack makes tome remarks upon a therapeutical agent, the eucalyptus globulus. In simple uterine t-atarrh. Sir John Itoac Cor mack says that he does not know of auv remedy equal in value to prejiaratioiis of tins plant " In such cases." he continues. "I have sev oral times, with mt satisfactory results, sim ultaneously adininistcreti them ry the stomach and in the form of injections. As (iuhlcr has shown, the anti-catarrhal virtues of eucalyptus are most remarkable. With increasing exjieri ence of its power, I more and more employ in hron. hial, vesical and uterine catarrh, in gu-orrho-a and in gleet" An infusion lone-half oz. to two pintsi, or a tincture tone 00, t.. one pint of rectified spirits) of the leaves, or the essential oil given in capsules, are the pretara tions ordinary employed. As a gargle.tr vag inal injection, ami for external application, the infusion or the tincture diluted (one drachm t-. six or eight ounces of cold or tepid water) may he used. Betides these therapeutic usee of the eucalyptus, the author adds his very favorable experience of iU remarkable power of destroy ing the fetid odor of morbid discharges without the substitution nf another unpleasant smell. He speaks from an extensive trial of eucalyp tus lotions in horrible offensive discharges in cases of oxs-na, cancer of the tongue and throat cancer of the uterus, gangrene, and other af fections attended by fetor. something for bringing this to our notice. He may nave stopel us on the brink of a precipice, as it were. .VrinnVi HtpuUimn. A POPULAR TEA HOSE, Our engraving on this iage shows the Cor nelia Cook tea rose, which is now regarded as air rxfrlt'urt by the florists of New York city. It sells at stsiut live times the price of the ordi nary tea rose or alsmt 8,r0 per lX) cut buils (not plants) during the holiday season. One grower at Madison, N. J., has no less than quant feet of grecn-hoUBe devoted to the grow ing of this rose alone, for buds to bo sold to the florists ol New York and other large cities, who make them up into luuktts, lioquetB, etc. The flowar is white, sometimes tinged with a shade of straw .-ol.tr, aud of the richest tea fragrance. The engraving, which was taken from sjiecimens from the green-houses of 1'oter Henderson, .Jersey City flights, N. J,, is not quite half of the natural size. felmncai sounds have been transmitted by means of a telephone to Columbus, O. from Chicago, a circuit of T,: miles. The longest distance yet tried. Roam Tkaiumi an MnpnUBrf to Mat- KIMonv. Never swap horses when you are crossing the stream that scaraten the high table land of single blessedness from tho low levels of married life. Tho wedding guests had gathered at a stately mansion in Itti)ert, Vt.. and the bride had descended from her chamlier to the parlor, when up rose the constable of Windham county, and arrested the bridegroom on a warrant charging him with trading h.irse under false pretense. The bridegptotn s father had quarrelled with a neighbor, ami malice hail promoted the prosecution. "There is no mA tool lor a workman p-issessed of the devil," says the provt-rh, and the constable was a blunt but useful instrument. He had arrived in the town on the night lmfnre the wedding, but did not serve the warrant, preferring to wait until the guests hail assembled, and he could drag the tmdegroom from the altar in their presence. The bride's father and other friends offered ts go baton a ju.lge and give 1100,1100 hail, if ueeesaary, and the bridegroom lagged the con stable to wait a few minutes until the cere mouy could tie jierfornied; but the officer was inexorable and carried off his man. The gunsts went home, anil the bnde took ') her wedding garments, (m the next morning the bride groom gave bail in fJOU, and last Monday there was a private wedding. LETTERS TO BOYS AND 0IR1A 1ieak Limn Onm I wandnr if anyone has had some paper dolls to play with lately, just as 1 used to have when I was a little girt T I told you about them, and I rU) tell you of other playthings that you can make, because 1 want you to learn to amuse yourselves. 1 think it is so much nicer to see children playing peaceably together than to see them with discontent in every line of their faces, moaning and groaning and wishing for something to do or soinethinii to piny with. If you -succeed in getting some paper dolls, do not forget to have a W to put them in when ma get through playing with them. If you leave them lying around loot, they wil) he likely to get swept up and put in the' fire. If they escape that sad fate, they will be apt to ert bant and anOod, ami whan roM4yoi family together again, Susie may have a broken arm, of JoBtO a cracked head; Sam will limp along (when you help him) on one foot, and John will le minus a hand. Suppose wo make them some furniture T Sofas, chairs, beds, etc., can bo made of cards or still paMr. Wo Will take a can! that is one and a half inches wide, ami as long, or longer (there is no matter about the length). Take tho scissors and cut it twice at either and, a half, inchfrqin the edge, and a hall-inch from that having these cuts a half-inch long. Now turn up one side for the Itaek of the sofa, and turn the other side down for the lower juirt on which it stands, and arenas than a little to make them stay in place. This leaves the middle for the dolls to sit upon. It also leaves the three sliits at either end. Band the slips of the upper part, or bnck, forward, for arms, those of the middle lart, down, aud those of the lower, luck ward over the center ones, where they can lie tacked with a threat!, ami a stitch may also W taken in the arms to keep all in place. Chairs can lie made in the same way, only from smaller pieces of paper. rbt bedsteads, larger pieces must lo taken, the slips cut as far from the edge as you want the bad high. Turn the sides and ends down, lap aud stitch tho corners. Make boiiip quilts ofnapari they will bo nice and warm. I used to keep some of my taper children for months, but my little nephew, yonder, makes them by the dozen, then has a big liattle, ami kills them oil', kings, queens ami all. Hut he will leave his armies in the field (that is, on the tvble) if he hears his sister teasing niu to tell her nbottt when 1 was i "little girl,' and thinks I am about to commence. I tell them that 1 do not rcmetnlier that 1 yar hail any trouble about finding something to play. I used to have to walk over a mile to school, hut what grand times 1 used to have with other little girls when we played "house keep" under the maple trees near the school house. Our houses wore built by laying strijis of board upon the ground, or nropjbu them up Wtwecu stones. In the comer of the kitchen we would have a OUpboard, made by laying two Utiles upon tho ground, putting a tsiard or shingle iimii them, laying a stone ujHin either end of that, and another board BD0U thorn, and bo on until we had as many shelves as wo thought we should need. Our dishes were broken OUpB. platm ami saucers, which WO carried from our hollies. At noon we at' our dinners there, ami they tasted io much better when taken from those broken dUuW After dinner wo woubl "go visiting," awing and play games until the bell rang. At recess we wnuld run to our playground, but where were our houses The innocent looking cows, feeding near by, might have threwii some liKht on the subject if they could have "talked Yankee," but, though they never suiil a Word, we knew that they had Won eating the green caritet from our sitting nmu, parlor and kitchen, and had knocked the walls all alsnit with their feet Wo did not like this at all, and always drove the rows away when we eoulri. Jtnnit K. JamrAtm, in i'ariftc Uural A TEMI'EIIANCE BKRafON, Uss than a year ago, says the i'mirir. Fanner, a quiet wedding occurred at St Stephen's church, New York, followed by a brilliant re Oaptton at a Fifth avenue mansion. Thopartioa were Mr. Bobart Stuart, son of Lieutenant Itoliert Stuart, U. H. N., and Evelina Terry Marks. There was wealth mi both aides, and until within month OfO their lile was happy as a story. About that time dipsomania, in herited from his father, WHO dietl a drunkard took nnmanloil of the young man. His posi tion as Assistant Cashier of tho Oallatin Na ti.utsl Hank was lost, and of laU) he was oon tantly under the tnthii 'lice of liquor. His wife, unablo to cope with the constant shocks offered her blfh strung, seiiNitivo nature, determined npon suicide. Ahoatlil P, w, onSunday, Mr. Stuart entered his apsrtmeiit intoxicated. He OPOnad the door Of thu bedroom, ami seeing his wile lyini dressed on the bid, he. imagined she i. .el kit) down to take a nap. He nld down on til.- lanugo in the parlor ami slept till nil o'clock the neit morning, when, feeling cold, he de teriiniied on going to lied, Ubeving thst Ins wife had nndraUrad. When he oie!ied the bed. room door ami saw tnathk Wifi still lay dressed on the led, he vaguely apprehended thst all was not rudit, and, tei.niou to Usa ai.l. f .i... Iwd, shook his wife's arm. This failed U utmmm her, and, lifting her head, ho found that she wm in-o-iiKihle. ),-. .,! hre.-uhuor I,,,-., .i. u. endeavored to seat her on the pude of the lied but he was still under the iiilluunee of liquorj and her inert form slipped from his grasp and slid heavily to the floor. Or. Hubbard, who wmn summ'.iieti, RUUM the patient too forgone (nun narcotic i-.uoinng to rally. Mrs. Stuart died about emht o'clock. Her lut wre inexpressibly sail, rfouoof her friends or lamuy i.imi i me it .uuiinoiiwi, an,) her husband Iwcatne hysterical, wrung his hands, cried bit-t-rly, incoliereutlv charged himself with hav ing caused his wife's death, and heaped cr.rsee ou his own head. Mrs. Stuart was oi.lv '! years of age.