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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1884)
THE WEST SHORE. 218 Sliver Heels was going on a voyage to Bath the following month, hhe gave a little cry, and announced her desire to go in Lor buck to Lor old home. "But, Ethel," he protested, "I had planned a far plerisautor life for you in San Francisco with Irene. It booms all wrong that you should go away, and now of all times, when I am going to marry bo companionable a woman as Miss Summerfield." " When you are Irene's husband I shall have lost you, Kirke. She is of the great world and I am not She will not want me nor like my ways. I shall be better at homo, where I am mistress of my own little maimed life, nt least" " Why did you not Bay this before, Ethel ? If I had known you had Buch feelings I should not have asked Ircno to marry until you were reconciled." "Oil, my dear brother," cried she, giving way to a burst of tears and sobbing out. her grief upon his breast, "do not reproach mo, but I am very unhappy, and I shall le Mtor out of everybody's way." " Whom do you mean by everybody, Ethel ? Do you mean Howard Sumnierfield ? " . " lie is only one," whispered bIio, guarding her secret still. "Is there has there ever been anything between you ?" asked her brother, with sudden sternness. " Dear Kirke, how could there be anything between a man like Howard Summorfield and met Do not ask such painful questions. Let me go home, and when you are Hettled in your now life I may some time visit you." "I will think it over," he said, and went away to break tlio news to Summornold. . The next day Summorfield sought an interview with Ethol. " You must long have known, Ethel, that I loved you. I foar, nlso, that you have, m some way, learned of a most unworthy cowardice in my nature, with which you generously refrain from accusing mo. May I entreat you to let that pass, and to make me more happy than deserve by tolling mo that I may hope to win you for my wuo t "Hush I" Bhe said, with paling lips; "this is worse than all. flo, and do not tell my brother." It wna in vain he tMitreated. Her resolution taken. The .SVtVT Heels Bailed from the straits in Auuust commanded by her first officer. In Jauuary, 1801, by the arrival of a vessel from Valparaiso, the news was brought of her total loss in the South Pacific. The civil war broke out mwn afUr, and Summorfield volunteered to fight the battles of his couutry, Wing killed after being made a colonel. The school house at Port bears llus legend over lue entrance: TU Kthol RlkH Memorial Hrhuul, And if you talk with the pioneers of that neat milling town you will hoar many stories of the beautiful lame gin aiwr wuora n w.w miuoa by hor offectionato ad niro. tBANCEa Fuller Victor. EATING AT NIGHT. POPULARLY eating at night is thought injurious, but unless dinner or . supper . have boon lute, 0r tne stomach disordered, it is harmless and beneficial that is, if one be hungry. Four or five hours having elapsed since the last meal, invalids and the delicate should always eat at bedtime. This seems heretical, but it is not. Food of simple kind will induce sleep. Animals after eating instinctively sleep. Human beings become drowsy after a full meal. Why ? Because blood is solicited toward the stomach to supply the juices needed in digestion. Hence the brain receives less blood than during fasting, becomes pale,' and the powers become dormant Sleep therefore ensues. This is physiological. The sinking sensation in sleeplessness is a call for food. Wakefulness often is merely a symptom of hunger. Gratify the desire and you fall asleep. The writer re cently was called at two A. M. to a lady who assured him that, she was dying. The body wbb warm, the heart doing honest work. To her indignation he ordered but tered bread (hot milk or tea were better) to be eaten at once. Obeying, tne moribund lady was soon surprised by a return of life and desire to sleep. The feeble will be stronger at dawn if they eat on going to bed. Fom teen hours lie between supper and breakfast By that time the fuel of the body has become expended. Conse quently the morning toilet fatigues many. Let such eat at bedtime, and take a glass of warm milk or beef tea before rising. Increased vigor will result "But the stomach must rest" True. Yet when hungry we should eat Does the infant stomach rest as long as the adult's? The latter eats less often merely because his food requires more time for digestion. Seldom can one remain awake until half-past ten or eleven in the evening without hunger. Satisfy it and sleep will be sound. During the night give wakeful children food. Sleep will follow. The sick should invariably eat during the night This is imperative. All night the delicate and children nwy take warm milk, beef tea or oatmeal grueL Vigorous adults may also eat bread and milk, cold beef, mutton, chicken and bread, raw oysters, all of course in modera tion. Do not eat if not hunerrv. Eat if you are. Boxhm Physician. was Op pyrethrum Professor Cook savs: " This substance, the powdered flower heads .of plants now extensively grown in some portions of our country, is a certain Bpecifio against insects. I have found to dust it on tne cabbage with a dust bellows, even though diluted with twenty times its bulk of flour, means death to nearly all the worms. If we use a fountain pump and force it on the planta mixed with water one tablespoonful to two gallons of the liquid I find it even more efficient to destroy. I have found that ; forced, on plants already headed, in this way, it kills nearly all the. larva with! single application. It is worthy of remark that as pyw rum kills insects by contact, serving to paralyze them, is not at all poisonous to man or the higher animals. I have fed it to a dog, with no evil results to the brute."
