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WOMAN AND HOME. AN EARNEST BRUTALITY PROTEST AGAINST TO CHILDREN. "Mailed on tlia Untile" Unity's Salt Wa ter Until Cooking- Krli.M.I Itme Hcent i Jar Oiiioiia I'urlty hiiiI Mmlesty Early j to llril Nolo, Item, Klc. My earliest recollection are connected witb the rod, figuratively tanking the rod which represent the switch, tlio horsewhip, the raw I1IJ0. and tliB flat o( the bmimii hand; all the Implements of punishment used ill those day fur bringing up children. It wax a community deeply moral In its ton and exacting In I" duinandx. levity, frivolity, llceuie of any kind, were not toler ated. Solomon's teaching that "bo that mmr-1 etb the rod haUtth bit ton, but ho thut loveth lilm cbocteneth him hetiiue," wu literally Interpreted and applied by parent and teach er. It wan aa much a portion of the relig ion! training or children on the learning of tbe catechism or the partaking of the com uiuiibn. My Hint impression were influ enced by cuff, ajmiika, claim, switchings, rawhlding, heating without iiumlwr. The frightful Ua-ture Inflicted by the hardwood "ruler" of the pedagogue on my om pnlm are fresh In mr in.ud an they were at the moment of application. I mall this phase to entur into an earnest protest against thi brutality to children which yet prevail! In older communities. It doe Infinite inU'hlof; It made of me both a liar and a coward. Niiitive to pain, I would vehemently deny ime trivial offense to avert an exacted piiniliiiicut, mid thu wa guilty of bolli cowurdh-e and fuMnxid. I believe that more character buvo been warl in joulli from the prevalence of the brutality of the rod tliuu from ull other malign causes. 1 It 1 u curious fact (but my fnlhcr and mother went people possessed of Infinite t'n derm. Neither of them would Intention' 'ally Injure the feeling of any bunuiii 'It won only lii the application of the rod to .lUeirown rlillilrcn that they exhibited hru .tullty. Even Hits brutality was of a religious .origin, aim win appiien ai a matter of duty. ,Oii a slu-lf wan the lllble, read twice each duy with earnest prayer, mid over a closet door on a cnupie of nam Hung a twinted rawhide which wa u.l a toiiwicntiou.sly in was the noiy uuox. I Ano'.'.er pcoulrllyof tbnt community In n-Kiini iu nil-ireniuinui OI clllllll'CII Wll tilt iii-emu reiiiiHKiveuiw t-xiir'iwl toward mem. ii.-y were forcel rigidly Into the Urkgmuinl. "Children may bo -en but not bourd," wai a eriuancnt citation, wit tbe result that each riilld Ixicnmo (humchm) with a roiivli-llon of entire uiiwoi'thliiess, , who effect later In life wan dlxustrou. II Creutwl a poces of feur of older iooplo and stranger and a bishrulno which won in erodlculile. Fur many your after 1 bad gone ui in iuo norm i wan cmiiurrusxed by tbh timidity, and even now I (Hid myself affected ' I'y 'i awe of trugei-. "I'oliuto" to; thl wan a dish of boiled onions. Tbe little thing knew not that they were taking the Ixwt of medicine for expelling n hut iinwt children mirer from worm. Mine were kept free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled on loin fur dinner, but chive also were they encouraged t-ieat witb their bread and butter, and for till purKMt they had tuft of chive in their little garden. It win a iiiedi cul man who taught me to eat boiled onion! n a nixx'illc for a cold in the client. He did not know at (lie time, (111 I told him, that they were good for an thine else." The above having fallen under (he eye of an experienced phylciiiu of thai county, hn writ u follows: "The above ought to be published In letter! of gold and limii up besi Ic the table, so that the children could read It and remind their parent thut no family ought to I without onions the wholo year round. Plant old onions In the full and they will come up nt least three weeks earlier in the spring than by spring planting. Give children of all ages a few of them raw as soon as they are fit to be eat n. Do not miss treating them to raw onions three or four time a week. When they got too large or too strong to be eaten raw then boil or roust them. During un heal thy season, when diphtheria or like con tagious disease prevail, onions ought to be eaten In the spring of the year at least once a week. Onions are Invigorating and pro phylactic beyond description. Further, I challenge tbe mm I leu I fraternity, or any other, to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina, an- ginona, etc., where onions were freely used." Working Woinun in Cincinnati Commer cial Gazette. j tribute this Improvement to "the great In. crease of athietlo games; the greatly hi. creased proxrtion of seaside and mountain life in summer, the thicker shoes and Units of women and little girls, rmllting them to go out more freely in all weathers," and the increased habit of dining late, nhieb secure! the professional and mercantile dame more time to digest their principal meal. Henry i. ruicii m lue bpocli. in Cbii igo Time. I Milk from the Untile. ' IIow would you llko to ride in a pernmbu lator with a fancy rug put over you tho very ImtUwt day, never to have a drink of watm Iglvenloyou, nnd to be expected when you iwero t iiwty or hungry Ui take sour milk throug'i a I.ng black tulie like a gas plixM You wouldn't like It at all. and neither would ! Any .'iiuiie ix'ing would kick and rage, uu ii viimnj niin wouui iii any wny call up til witniilc miijity, doctors nuy t,t Female I'liyslrlans In New York. There are MO female )hyicluna In New York today, nnd theiiumlwr In Brooklyn and the surrounding cities ulxnit doubles that. Among IhoKO in New York city there are quito a number who have incomes of tlO,(XX); two or three make yeurly sums ranging from $!,() UtfM.mt, and one has averaged for tbuluNt four yeama steady Income of t'Jo, OM. Dr. Emily Uluckwell is the president of the Woman's Medical college and has besides a hu ge practice. Hlie linn ailopUid children and makes a charming home for thorn. Dr. Mary I'utnuin Jacobl has a largo clleutel) and couitilts with the llrst mule phyKiclunx o( tho city; Indeed, morn than one phyxician has a regular female confrere, to whom ho rec oumiviids some of his patient to go for spe cial courses of treatment. Hevernl of these female practitioner ure houm phy-icians to hmpKalu, and the Liicretia Mott bopital in Brooklyn is entirely ofllcered by them. Home women physician work In partner ship with each other, among whom are Dm. Eliza M. Mmher and I,ucy M. Hull, of Brook lyn, and the two sistor doctor, Surah and Julia McNuit. Dr. Hnruh ha charce of (he babies' ward of the l'ost Graduuto hospital. and Dr. Julia has founded a training school for miinc. Both aro phvmclnns in blub standing and have a large practice, exiwriuily among cuimivii. Ui. Annie Daniels nnd Jvnle I'arker aro both wnmeii of Influence and of the widest rencbiiiK ebnritv. Dr. EllzalMilh Cwdjjer i a (tlebratetl anatomist and successful oviuriotomist, and yet is a small, feminine, quiet voiced liltlo woman. Dr. Lozier, l'o-t and Fuuuce are all well known for gixsl work, Without exception thou) women aro quiet, well bred, gentleman tiered and soft voiced, One lonely young woman whose physician wax of tbe same sex said a short while ago: "When I inn homesick and miss my mother I go and talk ten mill-1 utes to my dear doctor and como homo quite happy again. "Now York World. A Woman's Conversation, What a woman should aim ut in conversa tion is not only to entertain by giving her own thoughts, hut at tho same time to draw out those of others, ciecially the Ixuhful and and particularly tbe bashful men. Nothing pleases a man so much, nothing gives bim lucb an idea of his superiority, as to allow him an opportunity of imparting Informa tion, though bo may not bave penetration enough to discern that it is the tact of the woman that entices him Into talking aliout what perhai be knows less than she. I re-memlx-r hearing It remarked of Mrs. Cleve land that she was a charming conversational 1st, because ihe always chute topic which she knew would interest others, and in this lit the whole secret of the art of convening. A celebrated French woman, who had neither wvulth, beauty nor ixwitlou to elevate Ler in soclul circles, rose to tbe highest rank anion,' the court during tbo latter days of royalty, simply by her art of pleasing in her conversation. Brilliancy in conversation not the essential characteristic. Homo of tho most charming talkers are any thing but witty oriearneii; hut tho truth is we love to hear those sjx-ak who really feel what they soy, whose words ure choice without being studied and natural and easy without being childish or slangy. Wo love to listen lo those whose purity of soul shines in their conversation, and wo feel that words ure but (he personifl tion of the beauty within. Philadelphia Times, Learning t took. Tbo New York Cooking school hm hail a reinarkublo success. It was started a few years ago by several charitable Indies, who went Into the undertaking with the idea of elevating the standard of domestic luborund of giving young girl who are compiled to earn tneir own living the practical means of learning how to do it. It has taught thou sands of pupils and has established blanche In many cities in tho eastern states. It man agers aro thoroughly interested in their work and nobly help it along. Mm. Theodore Bronson, Its president, among othem, lias given much aid, not only financially but per sonally in iis management. At the annual meeting, some tiinoajo, It was reported that 10,(kU lessons in cooking had been given by tho school. Teachers graduated from the sclnsd bail been sent to many missions, girls' scboolsnndclulnin New York anil elsewhere. A largo nuinlxT of gins rrom public schixils of New York form vacation classes that is, during tho summer vacation they give tin much of th. irtiine to j tbe study of the art of cooking. Good House keeping. THE CABLE BUSINESS. HOW CHICAGO 8EN03 MESSAGES TO EVERYBODY AND EVERYWHERE. with their milk bahle draw In the. .!. ct There I temperament they are going to have, and If I you 'noul11 Rrdso scrunulously asyourown Purity ami Modesty. There is nothing, my young friend, that mat u so, me coming inun will be a sour, . nasty, dyspeptlo creature. I have very old 'fashioned Ideas, and don't lielinvo tbo Um inbindi'd bald to lake (heir nourishment out !of a Ixiule, or else be would have nuulu some ISeclal ort of Isitllu for them and not left 'that to the ingenuity of man. Down south among the "mammies' any body w ho is referred to at having tH.m "n .bottlo Uby" ii borne with, and all bis weak nesses of bialu or beHit forgiven for thai reason. Hd Is roiirdel m tho victim of o aort of original sin or misfortune that was not Ills fault. Indued, I ivmumber very well one hearing a very wIsn old mummy, wboar kuowlulgo of babies Wui coiu-eded to Iw greator lhaii uny other In Fairfax county excuse a young man, who hud forged h futher's (lamo and married a vui fe(y actress luuuswayi -xou sea, honey, jor mustn'l Jwlgstou Imrihly obdunfortunattisoul; bp never had de advani i,;e0f de rest of do fam ily, und lacklu' do iiittinctay what can be itv lx't(l from liitnf 11 were marked from de ilay of hli birth as a creature lmhki to sin and uncertainty. Ho were refrained from the natural fountain of your, an' were given overM dat boatliet of drinkable, do Ik. tie." All the darkies alsmt bonk their biwdr knowingly und agreed with Aunt Brlggsy that "a ehl e whlcU were ralel on de bottle ooutil not do held reeouuluble," "Bub" In few iuik ritar. womaiil) delicacy. Brush the bloom off from a peueh, rudely touch the waxen jxitals of a lily and half of their beauty 1 gone. It is impoKsiblo for you or any other woman to al low yourself to l cutvxNcd by your young men acquaintances without losing somewhat "Karly to l!ed." Orowing children should have all tho sleep nature demunds. To make sure of this, the lieiitime should lie no InU-r than 7 o'clock for children under 10. This habit of early lied time will take care of it-sclf, if it be persevered In by parents at flint. Borne men and women would bo not only stronger, but cleverer, if they had had ull tho sleep thoy needed when children. llie (llirerence between children whose parents enforce obedience in (In rosieot and those liltlo old people who sit up late at night is very marked. Tho clear eyes, rosy .lu.,L-o n.,.l I . ii.. l ... . ' . - ...... , m,n,i1(r iimin oi tno former should rebuko parents who allow children to it up because they w ish to. Nothing can lie more ixM iiiclous than to allow cIMldren up lato at watering plan's. They taste then of tho highly spiced society life, none too healthy for tho strongest, nnd in tho hot house air and stimulating inilueiices, their nature are forced to results that may break Wiring the Antlpodee-The Foar Cor ners of the Karth Drought Close To-fetber-Krndliif; Cipher JH.patches-OI Interest to tbe I'ublie. "The general public ha no Idea of tbe txU-nt of the cublo business in Chicago," said Business Manager Felton, of the West ern Uuion Telegraph conqiany, In response to question put to hi in by a repoi-ter, "Nor have many people an adequate con ception of the vigorous manner In which rabli and IanX llm-a have Dcen sjirean over tho universe," he added. "There are now, I believe, eight cables between North Amer ica and Europe. They average 8, (XX) mile long, and in all the world I understand there are something like 100,000 mile of submarine telegraph line. South America I connert4sl with Euroe by a cable from IJ.bon, Portugal, to IVrnambiico, Brazil, a distance of U,:i;i:j nautical miles. This Is tho longest cable. Two cables connect Florida witb the island of Cuba, and one extends from Cula to Asplnwall on the Isthmus, and another to Rio Janeiro. From Trinidad, the moot southerly island of the West Indie, a cable follows the coast line of Brazil clear down to Montevideo In Uruguay, touching at many port. There are sixUs-n cubh crossing tbe North sea and the strait of Dover. Two cables con nect England and Portugal,, nnd one cable connects England and Kpaln. Nearly a score of cubic lie b'neath the Mediter ranean. One extends the entire length of the Bed sen, from Huez to Aden, thence under tho Arabian sea to Bombay, across India, under the Buy of Bengal to Pennng and Hingu;in) on the Mulny peninsula, thence north under the Gulf of Khun and China sea to Iiong Kon and China. This is known na tho-.Indo route in the east, and extends to Yokohama and Yddo, Japan. "A cable under tho Sea of Jnimn connects Negosukie with Yiudivostok, one of tbe most remote Joints in Kilvriun Russia. From Singaxre a cable touch" Java and Sumatra and reaches Australia. Even tbo Island of Tasmania, lying south of Aus tralia, is connected with the nst of tbe world by cable, and so is New Zealand. The great African cable, completed some years ago, etxends from Aden, Arabia, to Natal, ono of tho extreme soul hem ports of Africa. Ko, you see, the four corner of tbe earth have been brought pretty close together by j tho greut rablea which lie, some of them, neurly four miles beneath the surface of the ocean. The only thing now necessary to complete the electrical circuit of the world Is to Iny a cable under tho Pacific ocean, and I understand thut a project is on foot, under tbo able leadership of Cyrus W. DECADENCE OF THE DIAMOND. Whr It ;rw Wore Marked A lldg of Vulgarity N Lunger 1'iilifim. The decadence of the diamond daily growi more marked. It has long been a bailge ol vuk'iiritv when worn by men, and It indis criminate use by tin-it own sex ha brought it into dixieiwte with women who are really fustidlou. With un thing else except an ob ject which confer distinction on it xissessor, the greater It popularity, the greater its triumph, but the diamond once the mosc princely of gem, and the possession of which was almost tbe unique privilege of royalty ha lost IU ascendency through Its very poj ularityasan article of adornment. In our day it u in no sense unique, nor ure its assii elates such a to give it diitinciioii. It thrust It glitter on (bo eye in the street, ill the railroad car, in every publio and unsuit able place, und u-ually with a background of fatness and ugliness w hich it only serve to bring Into uupleasunt prominence. When a hiiuiau being makes one thing an ambition and turns every effort to the real ization of that ambition it is pretty certain of accomplishment. With many women the possewion of a pair of solitaire diamonds is the one thing in hfddi sired and to lie secured. Tbe realization of the ambition may come late, but young or old, the woman who ho compassed her object is so proud in that fact that she dix not propose to bide the light of her diamond under a bushel witb the result that she brings discredit on herself and oil what she considen her molt valuable pos session. The love of the gem itself, although savor ing of childishness and of the barbarous tastes which still survive In civilized human ity, I one thing; the lov of displaying the diamond in public, another, There are wo men, aii'l men, too, h ho have a 1110111.1 for diamonds almost like that of the miser for gold. They lovo the glitter ami sparkle and delight to feast their sigut and touch on the precious baulilc. But these are not the people who II tuut their treasure ill the gnza of the public. It is the better half of the lucky iecuhitor, the matrimonially pro moted shop girl, the gambler's 'lady'' anil the oliexe wife of the retired pawnbroker, who never feel entirely clothed unless somewhere on their person scintillate the ever present diamond. The nearer may bo soniuwhat down at the bH and out nteloow, and a thorough acquaintance with soap and water may never have been included in her experi ence, but the diamond atone for all In our time the burden of vulgarity is tixj great for the queen of gems, und in cultured estima Hon she links Ixmentu the weight. New York Commercial Advertiser. GEORGE M. PULLMAJT. J THE STORY OF THE MODERN PAL ACE CAR RETOLD. First Experiments Hade on the Altoa Itoad llegliining of the Palace Car. IlullJIng of the "Pioneer" Kallroatl Man Laugh Cutting Platforms. Soup In a I'ulillo Itnataurant. One day some years ogo I tried to tip a waiter. I failed. He declined to accept (he tip with an 11 ir so courteous and so dignified that I feared I had unintentionally nucr-ceded rield, 10 connect Japan and San rranclsco in wounding the feelings of a foreign noble via the Sandwich Islunds." : man in disguise, lie may not have borne a MKHHAOKS flKNT EVERYWHERE. - title, but I waa not at all surprised when lie "Are ull of these cables which you have tol(i me a f,'w lu,'- lat bo no about mentioned used bv Chicago people!" j to 'taTe tle restaurant foivver, as be had re- "Yes, indivd. There is not a cable in the Mive1 "me y from abroad. One day world that is not frequently burdened with , '"' ww'k 1 0K"' met my old friend. Of messages from this city. It is probable j col"'sa 1 remembered bim. No ono could for that there is not one telegraph office in the Brt 11,6 fft,'e "f "niter who would not stoop of that purity and modesty that vou shonhl 1 wear aiway u a queen her roixj of royalty, ""w" lllt, own uealth, and tho hearts of You will bo sui 0 then to pi-esvrve not only ; luuir parent also. Demoivst' Monthly. their respect, but what is of far more iiiijxjr tunce, that of self. Nor need this preservation of jiersomd dig nity savor one whit of prudery. You can U just a bright, at merry mid frlendlv while saying by your manner should it boneces- A Working tilrl's Letter. "There is a good deal of gossip goes on bo tween the girls about tbo people, they live with. All their affiilis ure pretty well known. You see irirls don't. ry, "imnd off," a you can pmsihly be by I terest them, and bo (hey sort of tukennin! leivsi in 1110 concerns peliiiittiiig theeo fc'iitiniental deiuoiutrniliiiw They are not necessary to the good comrade ship, which is all that should exist or upxar to exist between you and unv iimscnlii... friend until you are sure thut you (xwsetis tho true and tender love of the one man who has nuule himself your heart's king, a lovo which hold you ucred, a every true man holds tbo woman ho would make bis wife mid the mother of bUehildren. And believe me. even of the fumilv tln.v livu with. That is, vhtblo irirl do. ftmu.w.s cure a bras button about the Kople so long as they get their money all right. German and Swede girl are like that. Irish girls ure more warm hearted, und if xoplo are kind to them they liko them and. will do a great deal for them. I don't mwui to mv ti,r it i right to talk about tho fnmllj outside, but sometimes a cirl .l.m'i n,i..i- ..,.1 1, If ...... .1... , '.-it...... . . iimam out , J ',""u lua prince! wlu " Knows it. SI10 don't menu anv lovesyoayoud.H,lretoU.love,lby,i,,1(. ; harm. It is very hard for people to k,"p llaby'a Halt Water llalh. A baby that i each morning quickly ponged with cohl salt water and then rubbed my wiin lurklsu towel may lie exposed iloien time and not tiU cold, where a child, awnstoined to the usual daily warm bath,' will coutliiually ufTer from a'u aggravating t win 111 mv uemi, i-oiic, ew, K tlio children have already taken old end eough-svniplaluing of a tlghlues in the cues(, u y tin: into a half pint of Icy cold water dintdve two tatilesMxuful of salt; iwuio me cihvii wiin mi, applying wtu cloth, iKuige or hand, completing by sln ping vigorously and rubbing with a rough towel, The glow that will apKar will not lie merely external, but will extend through out the body, giving a feeling 0f buoyancy and greut ee in breathing. Every mother know bow cough remedies almost Invariably "uet" tbe Imbys atomaih. Then the wise jmrent will try everything fU tiefore she ue nr.ueom med icine to ease her child' cough and breathing. In how many families there Is a chil.l delicate than the nt-on that doe not de velop a well a he should, is nearly always ick, and i altogether the cause of more care and anxiety than alt the other combined! 101,1, tan water oatln Is what the child auiHiiu nave, ir lie can beUken to the ocean, wv niucu me iK'iior, A mother of six children said to m last autumn: "I cannot Imagine what make the children dwindle and weaken so Inmiedinlely when I re(urn fixim the ocean. There, at the seaside, I never have a thought of them, and they are psifectly well; but, aa soon a I tvturn home again, I bave to send for the doctor, and all winter it I a remarkable wtvk, Indeed, when be Uut called to ace one of them. Pneumo nia, broMcliltis, croup, the anilmvry. tbiugl O, dearl I do get so worn out I" I ynuathelically asked her why sue didn't continue the ocean balh at bourn. Fiance W. Johiisou in Uood lIouM-keeping. will not lie any easier won should vou vield to caresses prompUxl by a Jasing iuoihI, but rather replied from you, for it ia human na ture not to value what I easily or cheirily obulned. Emily IhmUm in Tolelo Bludo.' Mmllral Virtue of Union. A mother writes: "Once a w.vk invariably, and it was generally wbea w had cold meat mlneed, I gave Ihe children a dinner which was balled with delight and looked forwaixl Delight of a Hose Sceet Jar. (lather the rose ix.tnl In the morning, let them stand In a cool place, tossed up lightly for one hour to dry oir, then put them in lay ers with salt sprinkled over each layer into a large covered disha glass berry dish Is a convenient receptacle. You can add tothi for several mornings till you have enough stock from one pint to a quart, according to the uw of tho jar stir every morning and let tbe whole stand for ten days. Then trans fer it to a glaas fruit jar, in tho Ixittoni of which you bave placed two ounce of allsni.v.. coarsely ground, and a much stick china- j 111011, broken coarsely. This mv tn.i 1 for ilx weeks, closely covered, when it I j ready for the permanent jar, which may be I u pretty as your ingenuity cau devise or your mean purchase. I Have ready one ounce each of clove nil. 1 iplce, cinnamon and mace, all ground (not j y ffct a cuiv.-Boeton Budget Hue), one ounce of orri root bruised and . inreuneu, iwo ounce of lavender flower and 1 small quantity of any other sweet dried flowers or herb; mix together and put Into tbo Jar in Mtertmte layer wi(h tbe rose lock; ami a few drop of oil of rose cranium or violet, and xiurovr tbe whole one-quarter Pint of gixnl cologne, Thi will last for year, though from time to time you may add a bttlo lavender or orange flower water, or any nice perfume, and some season a few fresh rose petal. Vou will derive satisfaction from the labor only to 1st estimated by the happy owner of uuiilar jank-Milwaukee Sentinel. things from girls. They are around all 11... tune mm s. and hear everything almost They generally like the gentleim of the nui.su ix-si, ueriiuse ne ilon't InteiTore with mem.- vvna union in The Epoch. How to be Ileallbr. Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke says that if Ameri can women wish to bo healthy they must icaiu 10 live in rresu air. She advises them toox'ii their windows, wear flannel ni,i,i. gowns, and take a jug of hot water to bed if vuey are coin, nut never to sleep with closed tu mows, air an itieir cloth nnd their room rlllllv Aut al.....!.. ...I...1.. . : ""i'i "iioiesome 101x1, wear ooneies waists, and button their skirts on them and take tbe heels off their boots. New ork Sun. Ivy and Dogwood Poisoning. For Ivy and dogwood jxiisniiliig boil wood ashes enough to make a atrong Ivo; wash thu poionl part with this, and let it remain a few minute; then wash olf in soft, lukewarm -i , ami, wneu ury, anoint with givae. 1 wll Mr ill w nt,i, i.tu.i,,... .1.!. ..... ,. "iT'"'"" "i mis win toner- Two Venetian lutlie naiiml Silvi-i 1 1 forme! at Vienna a school for young girls to , i, .. ,un ui 1 01 moKHics, ami have given thei 7 rHTriiuaii m which to work. 1 lue.T execute oniers or all kinds, sending the I - iu an mm vo any 1 stri 01 the world. j Butter may tie rendered less troublesome in 1 summer oy Doing covere.1 with a liute flower r, iiSi cuougu 10 inclose the late and rest hi a iisj 111 wmcu mere is tome cold water. uuner 111 water sjxiils it. riiyslque of Aiuerlran Women. Mr. Higglnson. In hi "Common liout Womeu," is very anirrv with th 'nhn. lologlcal croakers" who repreaent tlie Ameri ean woman of bxlay aa hiivhur l,t ih plump form and robust constitution of her irandmother. lie quobsj a French tourist in America, the Abbe Hobin, who wrote in 17KJ, that at iW year of ace the w,un.n 1,... o longer tbe frndme of youth; and mother, U F. do Beau I. 4ir. Who vrmt ttiat "at the age of 8S their fonn changes, Hid at 30 th whole of their charm have dis ipixre.L' Mr. Hituson 1 civiiu.l ti.. he physique of Americau men ami women fcday is lielter than was that of their irraml. r-JvuU who bvnd iu this cvuutry; and he at- The SM young women of Wellesloy collece ffatli lm .1.. - ,. . r u.-u-..,.i i, u iiio con ge 011 the co- ..peiwuve pian. it taktt each one of them lorijr-uvB imuuie a uay to do her share. Knitted underclothing shoulil never b Ironed, but stretched to tbe proer shape and piuned on a lied or other firm, clean aurfeca uutil eutirely dry. A teaspoonful of carbolic tu'id In water I a gixxl wash for nuisquito Glaze the IxXtom crust of fruit pie with tbe white of egg and tlwy will not lie soggy. A poultice of rranberrie is said to be an axcelleut thing fur erysipelas. world to which we bavo not transmitted messages, either for residents of Chicago or for persons living in our territory. I some time wonder where all tlio cable messages como from. If an ofllce were to bo opened on tho count of Kamwhatka, or in lower Patagonia, or up some place near the north polo, it is probable that in less tbun twenty four hour some Chicago man would want to send a message there. The cable busi ness of the ollico is something enormous, and just now it ia increasing at the rate of 700 or 800 messages weekly. This is due to the fact that the rates bavo been so much reduced on messages to F.nghinil, France, ami iierinany, It being with these coun tries, of course, tbnt the bulk of our business is transacted. Cable messages are carried very cheap nowaday only 1,'icents a word to Uormnny, nnd only Vi to France and Enlguiid. See how cheap that is. "If you are a business mnn, often using the cabhs to communicate with other busi ness people, you use a cipher. Besides, your name nnd addrotis, and tho name and address of your correspondent ulso. are recr- istered.at tho cable ollico, so that in the mes sages one word sufliccs for the address, and 0110 for the siguuture. Ono cipher word may carry your whole inessnge for In stance, the word 'orange' may mean, 'ad vise you to sell January wheat and buy pork.' For tho word in tho address you pay Vi cents Addresses and signatures all count 111 ciidio work for the signature 13 cents, and for (ho cipher word or tho mcssairo it self 12 cents more. That makes only 80 cents for a messugo from Chicago to Lon don or Paris. A by, a message to Ashland, Ohio, or Anoka, Minn., or Baral 00, Wis., or Now Orleans would cost you more money . A very Inrgo xirt iou of our cable business la dono in cipher." OF I.VTEREHT TO TUB PUBLIC. "Are there any other cable regulations of interest to the public?" "Yes. Any word containing more than ten letters counts as two wonls. No punc tuation marks aro sent, unless requested and paid for. Ch is counted ono letter. Ci pher word must bo in ono or all of these languages: English, French, German, Ital ian. Dutch, Portuguese. Spanish or Latin. Of course, wo cannot handle messages in Chinese or Japanese. Tho Chinese residents or uneago send many message to China, nut they are all iu Enelish. Wo semi nil 01 our cable in English characters, or, ratner, m their telegraphic symbols. Tim iruiuutions aro made, if nt all. in thn for. aj.m I".:..!. .(, ...in, v. nmor message a. often a conglomerate or three or four languages. "Iu one day you micht see manv m sngos to England, Frane and Crermauy neim provisions, metal, toys, silks, wines, millinerv. chemical, m.. chinery, everything; to Cuba alx.ut tobacco and cigars; to tho Caoe of Goo.1 tin. about Ivory, barks and Arabia about dates and pnlm oil, to Java about sugar; to Switzerland about watches to Siam ubout furs and liiilos to all porta' of the world, concerning almost every arti cle known to commerce. Commercial use of cables is developing rapidly because of the reduced rates, and also on account of tbe growth of Chicago's business interests. The Atlantic cable could not begin to handle the transatlantic business were it not for th fact that some of the wires aro worked by the duplex method and others bv the rmn.i. ruplex. Quedmplexing a wire, vou bnn. to take a t:p. Ho had the dress and bcariiui of a well lire.1 mail of the world. Ho had been In Europe, he said, mid wai now iu this country 011 a visit. Beyond that be vouch uifed no information concerning himself, but iu thecourse of ourtulk he did sny something which imt only Interested but startled me. "My dear sir," be said, "take the advice of a mun who knows, and never eat soup in n public restaurant. There is not a hotel or restaurint iu ail Brooklyn where I could be induced to ent soup. If you but knew what I was compelled to carry to you in the old days w:ien you ordered soup from mo you would never wi-b to look upon my face I KH"." I'ht was said quietly and mourn fully. I have enough confidence iu tho man who (mid it to lielieve it was said honeitly.i The place iu which he served was a restaurant of cons' derublo pretension, where stiir prices' Jiid good service were the rule, nnd I now lixik buck to the duinty sotqis they served there with anything but a pleasant feeling. Hereaitier soup to me shall rank with (he "weal tie," which the younger Mr. Weller Immortalized when ho said, "It is worry good wen, y.jU know the ludy as makes it." -suimoiui- 111 brooklyn Eagle. Didn't Ohject at All. But there's an old man in Mexico w ho very jeniully deplores tho decadence of the ago in matter generally considered reprehensible lie is 110 years old, he say. This is probably he, but be is old enough to be excused for lying aixiut his age. He speaks of the good Jld liin-f of his youth, and relates with lively satisfaction Ins part in several exciting mur levs, for which it doe not seem to occur to him he ought to have lawn hung. But the idveutiire he is fondest of relating is how he obtained his wife, lie may, perhaps, be believed when he states that the mother of the seimritu he loved objected to him as a son-in-law. It was nnturiil if his methods of iimisinrr himself were truly stated. She ub wlutely forbade the marriage. "lllll. " CM. 1 n... u . 1 ,, ...... ... , , geniuny, we re moved her objections," "Howf" "Very simply. She was taking a siesta one Jay and I siolo up behind her and dropped a big reels on her bead, and she never objected if ull I I should say not. She was too lute to ob- jeci, I fuppnse." "Ah, It wus fun. We bad the wedding and mucin! mi iiiu same uay. mm me wicuci old man chuckled. The story was continued by other ieoplo, too. San Francisco Chronicle "Undertone." The Most favored Mortal. Of all classes of musicians the singer 1 the mow, ioici,ann the mortal who is gifted with a flue voice is a luckier individual than the one who possesses the higher faculties of intelligence. Tho composer who has labored on muimis. peruana years, to conmle oiera hi not paid as much for his whole b as the prima donna who ling tbe principal : -";"" epreseiiiuiion. itossmi, for example, received onlv 11.200 for .!, oira of the "Barlier of Seville," while the prima donna receive often fabulous sum for singing it once. Music ami Drama. quadruples it canity, two men sending each way simultaneously." Chicago Uer- An fnflniahed Tlay. Jame E, Murdoch aan night that lYesident Lincoln Icn. Ki. call for troop he was playing in Mil waukee, when a noise in theaudienr caused hiin to stop r.:a,kring "Hamlet's" gloomy line. A man sriranr uin th. .... wad Lircoln' call The play waTnevc Onisbed. but Mr. MunWt. .1 t , ,' . r . "w koto 01 Ilamlet, .Uxxl by U-3 sido of Matt. Carpen ter and made a nxwh for th r. v-... day be packwl up hj wanlrobe, and never "l" mo trur.iu until ts ovor. Fraoi UraUa'a. waa Our Colleg Tresblent. An aninent writer, show! lent thing is a college education, cites tbe fact that there have been seventeen iii.u..- of tbe United State, and eleven of the seven teen were college men, sixty-live per cent. Well, that's so. But let's weigh these presi dent on the finer scales a long a were going into statistics, W ho were the presidents who never went to college at all, ami previous little to any schooll Washington, Jackson, Lincoln oh, well; the collete niav hava H, .i fourteen; if hardly worth while countine any further. New York Star. An Oil City, Pa., man claims the prlxe for sunfliiaers, having one iu hi garden that measures lifty-four inches in circumference. All that was bid for a Uon and four at a sale iu Ianiiugvoii u ioU The show buaUico is poor. George M. Pullman was born In Brocton Chautauqua county, and his birth year lH,n' He lived in Brocton fourteen years and then movent to Albion, where be also resided four teen years. At Albion be became acquainted with Senator Beu Field, a member of the state senate In 1S.VJ-0. Mr. Field was inter. ested In legislation concerning sleeping car fores, and the Woodruff Sleeping Cor com pany, in acknowledgment of bis interest in their behalf, had given bim the right to run their slecKrs on a couple of western roads. t bile Mr. Pullman was in Chicago in 1850 be was called upon by Senator Field with a request for several loans, and out of theee ac commodations an arrangement grew between them to run sleeping car on the Alton road, Pullman to pay the senator, who had secured the right to run the cars, half of tbe prospec tive earnings. Matters went on in this way for a short time, and meanwhile Field, who bad no business tact, lost bis sleeping car ser vice 011 tho other two western roads which had Ixf.'ti given him. One day he came to Mr. rullmiin and told him Clint ho had an op portunity to buy back the privileges on the other roads, and that be would like to sell his half interest in the copartnership line to Mr. Pullman. A bargain was struck, and Mr. Pullman paid his partner (2,500. This was at tbe oxming of tho war, when the night trains on the Alton road had been taken off by tho BuiKrintendont, who was a sympathizer witn the south, and who thought that lxforo the war was over grass would grow in tbe streets of tho north. The outlook for the Al ton road was very d'ibious. It Is a singular illustration of Mr. Pullman' good fortune that be bod hardly concluded the purchase of his partner's half Interest before business be came so good that the night trains were started again and the sleeping car business begun at once to mate returns. These sleep ing cars on tho Alton road, with which Mr. Pullman's first exx3rimonts were tried, were imply two ordinury passenger coaches, which he had changed into the commonest kind of sleeping cars at slight expense. Fifty cents was charged for a berth, and tbe first night, four berths were sold. About this time tho Pike's, peak (over set in, and Mr. Pullman gravitated west and spent two or three yeani at Pike's peak. He returned in ISM and again took up bis sleepiue car Dro- ject " BEOIN.VfNO OP TT1E PALACE CAR In 18T4 Mr. Pullman, who had been eivine the sleeping car business close attention, and who had becoino deeply interested In tho thought that there was a wide field for in ventive genius in that direction, met a master car builder of the Alton railroad, who was an old friend, and paid hira $100 a month to take In charge the construction of a model car. He obtained tbe privilege of using a bed of the Alton railroad in its yard at Chi cago, and told the builder what sort of a car he wanted. The groat question with him was how to have an upper and lower berth that would be comfortable. They were at that time the merest makeshifts to afford a night's rest. Mr. Pullman determined that the new car should be the handsomest ever made. Heretofore a sleeping car had cost not more than 1-1,000 or 4,500. Looking tha matter over and wondering how be could ar range two berths that would be roomy, com fortable and convenient, he was perplexed as to the disposition of the mattresses. At that time all tbe mattresses were put away in one section during tbe daytime. In fact, the early sleeping cars were simply used for night cars and not run in the daytime. Mr. Pullman's idea was to have a car that ould be ruu on long trips either as a day or a night car. With this object in view he started to build the "Pioneer." He found tho muttresses could not be put on the floor because of tho dust and discomfort. There was no placo between the windows, and he finally said to his car builder, "Why not hinge an upper berth near the roof and put the mattresses in it when tho berth is closed during the daytime?" The car builder ro- pnwi at once that the car was not high enough and that the space would be too small. This was before cars were built with raised "decks" or roofs. "Then," said Mr. Pullman, "why uot raise tbe carf" The outcome of this con versation was a direction that plans should bo drawn for a car as wide and as high as would bo necessary to get in two berths, in cluding one hinged to tho upper side of the car. The plan was accurately drawn for a car ono foot wider and two and one-half feet higher than any car that had heretofore been built in this couutry. RAILROAD HEX LAUOH. Of course railroad men who heard of Mr. Pullman's plans smiled, and said that if Mr. Pullman was a railroad man he would know better than to pursue his impracticable nrooo. itions; that he be would only meet disaster nd lose all that he had. But his conviction was strong and clear, and with that pluck nd audacity which have always charac terized his clear sighted business nnl ICV tlA went ahead and the car was built. The next luestion was the decoration of it. Mr. PulT aian determine.! that it should be the 'hand omeet car in all respects that fiVfir hf.fl hum made in the country. He camo on to New York and there happened to meet the artist e no nau just decorated the house of Samuel ' Tildcn. He at onoe closed with thi artist, took him west and set him at work decorating: the car. When the Pioneer was finished it had cost the extraordinary sura of 118,000, a large price even now. for a sleeping car. It was a wonder to everybody. It was just as Mr. Pullman had expected. The beauty of the finish and the marvelous innovation he had made were advertised far and near byth newspapers and by railroad men, and soma w the latter began to believe that the idea 9f the inventor after all were practicable, rhe Pioneer was in process of building for 4 whole year. The assassination of Lincoln oc curring at this time, it waa mitrc.! th.t the Pioneer be used in tho funeral train, and it was run from Springfield to Chicago on the Alton road. As had been nrlintH .-kan the car was built, it was too wide to run on the roails as then constructed. It was necea ary for the Alton road to snH ir.n u. nn. ud cut off the platforms that projected, and to make numerous change at stations so that the car, witb its width of an x,l,titi,,ni could pass. Thus the railroads had tn m air a wra r t a f h a Improvements tliat the convenience of th traveling publio demanded. Everywhere the beauty of the Pioneer was talked of, and It was not strance that soon aftr wh an rian Grant came home, the use of the car wai asked to convey the great hero from rvtmit to Galena. The Michigan Central railroad was compelled to do precisely what the Alton road did-cut its platforms, and in other ways makowayfor the car-and from thi time on the railroads prepared themselves for the new palace car. "J. A. 8." in Albany Journal. It "pear like de meanes' men has de mo EiMuce obor de be' women.