C0RVA1US
SEMI-WEEKLY.
ZE8ZZff2ti?LJ?rM. Consolidated Feb., 1899.
COKVALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 18, 1903.
VOL. IV. NO. 17.
NLY A FARMER'S
DAUGHTER.
By
MRS. FORRESTER.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Lady . Grace Farquhars last guests
were on the eve of departure, much to her
husband's delight. In two days time
Mrs. Clayton would be the only visitor
remaining. Mr. Hastings scarcely spoke
to Miss Eyre. When he did, he noticed
with some secret pleasure that her color
came and went, and that she seemed
restless and uneasy. Lady Grace was in
the garden, giving directions to the head
gardener, when Mr. Hastings joined her.
. "I have come to ask a favor of you.
Lady Grace," he said.
"I am sure I shall be disposed to grant
it," she answered, pleasantly.
"When your guests are gone, I want
you all to come and spend two or three
iday at the .Court-." -; --' , ; , f
Lay Grace hesitated". - '
"I should like it very much," she said,
presently;, "but Sir Clayton has the great
est dislike to leaving home "when he is
' once settled."
"If I can succeed in persuading him,
will you come? I have a particular ob
ject in. my request."
"Oh, yes, with pleasure; I am sure Ma
rion and Winifred will be delighted. But
I am afraid you will have some difficulty
with my husband."
Mr. Hastings was, however, more' suc
cessful than Lady Grace anticipated, and
won the, baronet's consent "without much
trouble.' J iThe, truth ' was, there was a
very fine library at the Court, and Sir
Clayton had for some time past been anx-
ious- to' consult some old and., valuable
works, he knew to be there. .
When everything was settled, Winifred.
heard of the arrangements with conflict
ing feelings. She was almost sorry that
she had been included in the invitation,
her presence could but awaken unpleas
ant memories in Mr. Hastings' mind.
Tuesday came, the morning was lovely,
and it was arranged that Mrs. Clayton
and Winifred should ride, and. that Sir
Clayton should drive Lady Grace over
in his phaeton. When they arrived at
the Court Mr. Hastings and his friends
were .standing on the 'steps to receive
them. This time he did not lift .Winifred,
from her horse and whisper welcome, but
went at once to Mrs. Clayton. .Winifred
felt, the difference, a little bitterly, per
haps, and yet with a quick consciousness,
"that she had no right to feel it. But
when she was shown to her room, a glad
thought blotted out the bitterness. Was
it by accident that the walls were hung
with her favorite prints, and that vases
'filled with scarlet' geraniums and ferns
her favorite -combination were disposed
all about the room? Scarcely.., It must
have been a wish to please her, and if he
still cared about giving ; her pleasure,
surely all the love had not died out.
" There was a dinner party, in the even
ing a very gay, pleasant party, that ev
eryone enjoyed. Afterward Winifred
sang, and was brighter and happier than
she had been for many weeks. Mr.
Hastings had scarcely spoken "to her, but
yet she was conscious that he was not
indifferent to her. " ' '
The next day he asked her suddenly if
she would like to see her old home once
more.
"Yes," she said, quietly; "will you take
me?". .
"If you go alone with me I will," he
answered. - . :
"I will go, if Lady Grace does "not ob
ject." ,
"ShaH I ask her?"
'"Do." . k;;.;- ; ... .
And they went - toward Lady Grace,
who was sitting reading by the open win
dow. ...
"I see no objection,", said Lady Grace,
smiling, "except that you always used to
be so terribly quarrelsome. . I " think I
r.must exact a promise first that there
"shall be no disagreement on the way."
"I promise," laughed Errol.
"And I," added Winifred, a shade more
seriously ; ; i 8 ' -
"Then I consent," smiled Lady Grace; .
,,They went away silently together,
neither speaking until they reached thei
end of the broad gravel drive. Then Mr.
Hastings broke the silence.
i "Shall we go- through the woods?" ;.
"I should like to very much," she an
swered. "I have not been there since "
And then she stopped suddenly, remem
bering on. what occasion she had been
there last.
. "Since when?" and he looked keenly at
her.
- "Oh, a long time ago more than two
years." .
"Do you remember that bank?" Errol
asked, suddenly. "It was there" I first
saw you."
- Presently they came to a gate; the
same gate they had stood at more than
two years ago the same, at which they
had parted, she suffering, he stung by
remorse. He had brought her here on
purpose to test the strength of her love
and forgiveness. He did not. open it for
her to pass .through, but stopped and
- leaned against it. She stood in front of
him, waiting patiently, and he looked in
tently at her.
"It is two years and two months since
we were here together last, Miss Eyre.
Yon are greatly changed since then."
"For the worse?" she asked, quickly.
"Not as the world would think."
"But as you think?"
"I scarcely know. They say we are all
the happier when we lose our impulsive
ness and warmth of heart, and become
cold and indifferent.' You have "found it
so. no doubt?" -
His tone was almost harsh, and she
looked up in his face sadly, and yet with
infinite patience. ,
"I cannot be angry at your saying so,
Mr. Hastings. You have the right to
think it." T . - - '
"And yet I would rather hear you deny
it indignantly, Miss. Eyre." ;
"If I denied it, would you believe me?"
He was silent for a moment, while
there was a struggle going on in, his
heart. He had too much chivalry of feel-!
Ing to wish her to confess herself wrong
ud plead' to him, and yet there was a
latent pride of spirit that made him feel
it would be unmanly, undignified, fer him
to make the first advance now, after all
that had gone before. He watched her,
unwilling to help her, yet feeling vividly
that she was suffering: -
"If," she faltered at last "if I thought
that in spite of all that is past, you did
not 1iate me " and she stopped.
"You know what I feel for you," he
said, quietly, "am I likely- to change?"
"Then I should like to tell you how
much I regret the past," she went on, in
a low voice. "You do not know how bit
terly I have suffered in the past months,
because my pride would not let me own
I loved you. I am ready to make my
atonement here in this very place, the
bare remembrance of which has made me
shrink and turn from you before." I for
give you the wrong you did me, and I ask
you to pardon me, too. Have I humil
iated myself enough?" and she looked
for a moment in his face and then turned
sharply away, wijh a quivering lip and
large tears in her eyes.
He caught her by the hand.
"Winifred," he said, a sudden passion
in his voice and eyes, "tell me one' thing
more. Do you in truth love me?"
She looked bravely up in his face.
"I have never left off loving you!"
He drew her toward him" in a strong
clasp, until her head rested on his breast.
"I think it is true," he whispered, "that
we love that best which is most dearly
won."
CHAPTER XIX.
It was almost dark when they returned
to the Court.
"Your idea of the length of half an
hour must be singularly vague, Mr. Hast
ings," smiled Lady Grace. "Surely you '
have been further than the Farm?"
"Not even as far, Lady Grace," he re
plied, with a glad smile; and then Wini
fred being gone, he told her his story.
"I anj very glad," she said, kindly. "1
could wiah you nothing better than to
have such a wife as Winifred."
All obstacles surmounted, and the en
gagement between them being ratified by
the consent of all parties, Mr. Hastings'
would not hear of any objection to the
marriage taking place immediately.
.'Remember,-4arling,"ie-said,"'-wJien
Winifred would have urged him to wait,
"I have loved you for more than two
years. Having made me so miserable,
surely you owe it to me to lose no time
in atoning for it. Pray get that horri
ble trousseau business over ; with all
speed, or I shall think you do not love
me eas I love you." i
Sir Howard was delighted when he was
apprised of the intended marriage, and
insisted that Winifred should be married
from Hurst Manor. She had a fancy for
being married in the little church where
she had so often sat when she was only
a farmer's daughter. She was not the
simple little country girl now, but an ele
gant young lady, accustomed to luxury
and good society. Errol would have liked
much better that she should come to him
portionless, but that was not to be as he
desired.
Sir Howard Champion gave her twenty
thousand pounds, and Sir Clayton ten
thousand, while Lady Grace provided her
with a magnificent trpusseau. Mr. Hast
ings had the family diamonds reset and
remounted for her, and would have had
her wear some of them at least at the
wedding.
"Please not, Errol," she pleaded. "I do
not like, all this grandeur. . I would rath
er not forget that my early life was sim
ple." . :.. :; f ' -'.'.I :
; Mrs. Clayton was of course to have
been at the wedding. She was looking
forward to it,, glad at heart at the part
she had taken in bringing together two
people who cared for each other. Three
weeks before the day fixed she received
a letter with a foreign postmark.
: "Who can it be from?" she said, turn
ing it over in her hand, and speaking to
Winifred. "I do not know the hand; it
seems crabbed and foreign, and has been
forwarded from London. It is addressed
to Milady Clayton, too!" And Fee con
tinued to look at it without, however,
breaking , the seal. "Wh? can it be
from?" she said again. '
"If you open it you will soon see, dear.'f
Winifred replied, laughing.
"I don't quite like to do it," Mrs. Clayr
ton remarked presently. "I suppose it is
because I am nervous and unwell; but f
always feel as if every letter I receiyet
contained bad news. Will you open ii
for me?" ' , . '
And she tossed it across the table. "'. -"Of
course I will. What a scrawl!'
And Miss Eyre proceeded to tear the en
velope. "I should imagine it contained
some mysterious secret, from the way itl
is gummed together. I must take a kniftJ
and slit it open from the side.
: With some trouble she got' at the con
tents a dirty scrap of foreign paper.
with a few crabbed hieroglyphics, and be
gan to read aloud:
"Milady and honored excelency I av
te profonde regrette to annonce to. you
dat te Milor Clayton monsieur yor hus
band av bin took wid de horrible maladie
of cholera an want to see you. I av sent
for the principal docteur an am at yor
orders. GODEFROI LUPIN."
A horror seized upon Mrs7 Clayton. She
had never loved her husband; lately she
had hated him; but the idea of his being
ill alone among strangers brought the
tears to her eyes.
"O, Winifred!" she exclaimed to her
friend, in whose face she read consterna
tion, "I must go to him at once."
"You cannot, Fee; weak as you are it
would be madness. The address is some
obscure village in Switzerland. Let us
go and ask Sir Clayton what had best be
done." ,
"Who do yon suppose this letter to be
written by?'.' Sir Clayton asked, when he
had read the curious missive.
: "I cannot tell. Perhaps the hotel keep
er." -
"Had he a foreign valet, do you know,
Marion?"
. "Not when he left London. Simmons
was with him then; but he may have left;
he was always threatening to leave, and
then, of course, it is most probable that
Francis would engage a foreigner."
"Something must be done at once. Yon
cannot go yourself, Marion that is quite
out of the question neither can I very
well. Perhaps Alfred Clayton is in
town; he was coming up, I know. I will
telegraph to him. Stay, I am not sure
Where he would be. I will go up to Lon
don myself at once."" :'' '' .,,
And Sir Clayton rang the bell and or
dered the carriage.
"But I feel that I ought to go myself.
Sir Clayton; the letter said he wished
to see me."
"My dea, do not think of it; he jour
ney would kill you. To cross the channel
in this cold weather and Vith these tem
pestuous winds, would be nothing short
of madness."
Sir Clayton dressed hurriedly for his
journey, jumped iato the carriage and
drove off to the station, leaving Wini
fred to explain matters to his wife. He
just caught the up train by a minute; the
horses had accomplished the five miles in
exactly twenty-two minues. Sir Clayton
had told the coachman that it was a mat
ter of life and death, and the-old man,
sorely against his will, had driven his
favorites the-whole distance at the top of
their speed. Sir Clayton reached London
and drove off to the hotel where he knew
Alfred Clayton always stayed when he
was in town. By good fortune he had
just arrived there, and was at the door
ready to depart again when Sir Clayton
drove up. The story was briefly told and
the two men looked doubtfully at each
other.
"Of course I will go at once," Mr.
Clayton said; "but cholera in one of those
foreign holes is a nasty business. I will
get a time table and see how soon I can
go off. I must get yon to telegraph down
to Mrs. Grant at Brighton I promised to
dine and sleep at. her house to-night."
"I think," said Sir Clayton, "that while
yon are making preparations, I will drive
round to the house in Piccadilly and see
if there is any further news."
" On arriving there ' he ' found another
letter, with a foreign postmark and open
ed it at once. It was written by the doc
tor in good French, and informed Mrs.
Clay ten delicately that her husband had
just breathed his last.
"This is a sad business," said Sir Clay
ton, returning to the hotel; "you must lose
no time in getting there. I fear he will
be buried long before yo reach the place,
and there will be no chance of bringing
the body to England. Of course, if- "
"Of course of course!" exclaimed Al
fred Clayton, hastily, and grasping, the
baronet's hand he hurried off. He was
the next heir to all that splendid prop
erty, but for the time he felt no exulta
tion at the thought of stepping into the
shoes of the man who lay dead and alone
in-- foreign- country.--5 On reaching the
village he found that Sir Clayton's sur
mise was correct, and that the rich man
had been interred some days before with
little ceremony. The obsequious land
lord and Lupin, the valet of the dead
man, were voluble in their information.
From Lupin he learned that Mr. Clayton
had engaged him in Paris six yweeks pre
viously, having parted in a quarrel with
his English servant.
At first Mrs. Clayton was shocked and
stunned at the unexpectedness . of the
blow. She had disliked her husband, but
it seemed so horrible for him to have died
in that terrible way, so far from home
and without a single friend. Her first
resolution was to leave Endon Vale, and
she sent an urgent message to her aunt
to join her. This time Lady Marion made
no delay in answering the summons.
Lady Grace begged Fee to remain.
"You are very kind," she answered. "I
can scarcely thank you enough for your
long hospitality, but I would rather go.
Under the circumstances, I could but mar
the cheerfulness that ought to reign here
d!uring the preparations for such a happy
event as dear Winifred's marriage; and
until I can realize my new position I
would rather go away quietly to some
fresh place. If you invite me later, I
shall be very glad to come to you again."
(To be continued.!
-.,1 The Over zeal of Youth.
The self-confidence of youth in busi
ness matters often receives a necessary
check. Sir. Edward Malet relates in
"Shifting Scenes" an incident wherein
he was very properly rebuked by. his
chief in the diplomatic service, Lord
Lyons. , - '
While-we were at Washington, says
Sir Edward, the iiead of the chancery
gave me a letter to which an answer
had to be written, and told me to draft
it. I dashed off what I thought would
do, trying to make It as short as possi
ble, and it went down for approval.
In due time the box 'came back, the
head of the chancery unlocked It. took
out the bundle of drafts, and presently
at.iiij-arj .mo-riiy my desk, holding my
T6iik liie part ot tne draymen on the
plea of "served him right."
Lord Lyons struck in quietly. "Do
not attempt," he said, "to find an ex
cuse for an act which was a national
disgrace." .
Volumes in the British Museum. '
The number of volumes in the Brit
ish Museum Library, according to a re
cent counting. Is" now ' over 2,000,000.
There are more than 16,000 volumes of
London newspapers, about 47,000 vol
umes of provincial newspapers, count-
elsh as well as English. 10,000
ihpapers, and 9,000
Water- Heatinx Device.
The subjoined diagram, taken from
Orange Judd Farmer, illustrated how
easily water can be warmed in a small
way where both house and barn are
furnished with running water ' and
moderate plumbing arrangements. The
pipe marked E F, running through the
house cellar,, furnishes water to the
house and barn. By means of two
short pipes, C D, the pipe from the hot
water boiler in the house is connected
with the pipe E F,s which, as before
stated, supplies the barn -with cold
water. ' -
Then all that is necessary to fill the
barn tub with warm water is to open
the valve B and shut valve A, thus let
ting the warm water from the house
boiler into the pipe which goes to the
barn and shutting off the flow of cold.
This clever little scheme has worked
successfully on an up-to-date farm in
Amherst, Mass., and has furnished
HOUSE .
PLAIT OF DEVICK.
warm water to four cows and4"twd or
three horses for several winters. The
only objection Irlttat thegdc!olrrjus6-J
wife sometimes objects to having her
supply of hot water exhausted two or
three times a day.
Relieving a Puffins: Harse.. .
Most farmers are familiar with the
horse who puffs and wheezes at ! its
work! The disease Is technically
known as "roaring," and is said to be
similar to asthma in humans. There
is really no cure for it, but the trouble
may be greatly alleviated by ' treat
ment and especially by proper feeding.
If the disease is not so deeply seated
that the animal cannot do farm work
then the work given it should be light
and the feed should consist of .little
hay and this wet each time. Feed
mainly on grains. Take one dram of
iodide of potassium and mix with: one
half dram nux vomica. Give this dose
twice a day for two or three weeks
during each, bad attack and during the
period let the work of the horse be that
which does not require much speed. The
care and treatment indicated will re
lieve the animal greatly, although it is
doubtful if it will ever amount to
much for steady . work. Indianapolis
News. ' " V:" '
King of Angoraa.
America has deyelopedan Angora
buck of the highest quality, which is a,
great victory for those who claim that
we can breed as good stock as can be
found in Turkey or South Africa. -Lazarus
was bred by D. C. Taylor of Lake
Valley, N. M., and was the champion
at the recent Kansas City show. He
was sold at auction'to Col. C. S. Rich
tAZABt-8.
ardson of Dubuque, Iowa, for $700, the
record price for an American bred An-
rora.
- Dairy Education.
A. W. Trow, the prominent farmer,
Icreamery man and agricultural writer,
of Glenyille, Minnv has recently been
made a member of the educational
staff of the dairy and food depart
ment in his State. His work will be
very largely of an educational nature
and among the farmers 'and dairymen.
The $30,000 annual appropriation re
cently voted-by the Legislature, to
gether with the improved and amencf
ed dairy laws just secured, give Min
nesota splendid facilities, for aiding in
the most effective way her great dairy
and creamery interests. - :
r Fowl Out of Condition.
-During very warm weather bowel
disease puts in an appearance, and de
.-MrJj.vSy. ..:"V4V '--
n Mat "," '.'.;: '-
bilitates the members of the flock. The
first thing to do is to allow no food
whateyer unless it is a teaspoonful of
powdered cinnamon in a pint of milk
tor twenty fowls.. Be sure to secure
the pure article, as cinnamon is often
adulterated. A teaspoonful of tincture
of nux vomica In a quart of drinking
water ,may also be allowed, but . be
careful to give no food. ' When the
hens cease laying and get out of con
dition, resort is sometimes had to egg
foods and condition powders, whick
may be just the things to be avoided.
Egg foods and condition powders have
their places; they may be beneficial
where the flock, "is lacking ' in hardi
ness and health, but the best course to
pursue is to eiv$ no medicine or stimu
lants to healthy fowls, as they do not
require them.
1
Rights of Sheep Owners.
On the trial of an action brought by
Agnes Smith against George Wetherill
in the Oneida County, New York, court,
to recover damages for the alleged un
lawful killing by the defendant of her
dog, the evidence showed that the ani
mal was shot on premises adjoining
those owned by Wetherill, after he had
been chasing sheep. The defendant as
serted that he was Justified In shoot
ing the dog under a statute which pro
vided that any person may kill any
dog which he shall see chasing, "wor
rying or wounding ' any sheep. 1 The
trial justice charged the jury? ' as a
matter of law, that the statute was not
a defense, because the dog -was-not
chasing or worrying or wounding any
sheep at the time he was .shot. The
fourth appellate division, on an appeal
for a verdict against Wetherill, has de
cided that the charge was erroneous.
"At. common law," said Justice Nash,
for the court, "a dog might be killed
In defense, of or when necessity for
the protection or preservation of prop
erty. The statute goes further. It pro
vides for the killing of a dog that
wrongfully chases, worries or wounds
sheep. If it does these things, it must
be killed." American Cultivator;' -' '
A Desirable Door Lock.. ;; '
""Large barn doors" are. often "fastened
to a perpendicular bar, one end of
which enters ,a. mortise in a beam, or
block overhead
and the other a
mortise in the t
floor. 1 T h e!
strength , : of a
man is usually
required to take
out the bar, or
put it up." The
illustra tion
shows a more
convenient " 'way
to manage - the
crossbar.. A""
round iron ; bolt"
holds the bar to
the middle ; rail sscube cross bar lock.
of the door, allowing it to turn freely
either way. Two long gains, one in the
floor and one - in the beam overhead,
receivel:the ends (of the bar when the
door is closed. In place of . a gain -in
the beam,, a strip, of scantling may be
nailed firmly, to the under side of the
beam. The upper, end of the crossbar,
when set erect, comes on the inside of
the strip. D. H. Shepard in Farm and
Home. ' '' '' '.';
' ;. ' Gond i at. "-p-r.
. Good oats are ..clean, .hard, dry-,
sweet, heavy, puimp, full of flour, and
rattle like shot. They have a clean
and almost metallic, luster. , Each oat
in a well-grown sample is nearly of
the same size. There are but few small
or imperfect grains. The hard pres
sure of the nail on an oat should leave
little" or no mark.r 1 The kernel, ' when
pressed between the teeth, should clip
rather than tear.--The skin should be
thin. The size of the kernel will be
less in proportion than the skin Is
thick., The color of the oat is not very
material, but white oats are generally
thinner in the skin .than black. Again,
black oats will grow on inferior soil.
Short, plump are preferable to large,
long grains. Bearded oats must have
an excess of husk.' Oats are not nec
essarily bad because they are thick
skinned or bearded, but they must con
tain a less -amount of flour per bushel
than the thin-skinned oats not bearded.
Seeds for Chicks. v; ,
' Seeds are 1 better, f or ".. young chicks
than too much soft food.. There are
many seeds that can be utilized, but
wnich are . almost unknown to some:
For very young chicks the seeds of
millet, rape and hemp ' are excellent,'
and as the chicks . become larger . sor
ghum seed and - buckwheat' will .'be
found better than wheat; but a ration
of wheat and cracked corn will serve
well for them as soon as they are large
enough to eat such. If the small seeds
are given the chicks they will feather
with less difficulty and thrive better
than when the foods are restricted to
grains. '' ' "' ' -' '. ; ..
- In Fly Time.
A gallon of kerosene,' a quart of fish
oil and an Vunce of carbolic acid is
one - of the cheapest and "best home
made mixtures for keeping flies tront
cattle. It should - be -y applied -4 every
morning after milking, using a good
slxed hand sprayer,- paying especial
attention . to . the head, shoulders and
fore legs. Spraying !f or gies .is .abso
lutely necessary t- keep up the full
flow of milk in hot. weather. '
Grandmother's Garden.
I've 'been back to grandmother's garden
'.i. , -s where the dear old flowers grow r
That she placed there, and tended in the
summers long ago
The sweet, old-fashioned flowers that
used to delight her so.. - 3
There are lilacs by gate and doorway,
and lilies, all in a row,
Whose blossoms -we fancied were trum-
. pets for fairy bands to blow.
And southernwood, spicily fragrant, by
the door-stone worn and low.
Pinks that are rich with odors of clove
and myrrh are there,
And I seem, as I catch their fragrance,
to be in the house of prayer, ,
la grandmother's pew, on Sunday, close
by the pulpit stair. t
I can see hep there with her hymn-book
open at "Wells" or "Mear,"
With a bunch of her garden posies be
tween its leaves, and hear
The Voice that has sung in Heaven for
many and many a year.
Grandmother gave her flowers to crown
the maiden's head - -
When she stood at the- marriage altar
and a wife's "I will", is said,
And , they came to her for blossoms to
" put in the bands of the dead. '
I remember the summer morning when
..; T grandmother heard the call .
Of the augel of death, whose summons
1 will some day" come to us all. . "
The firsts of June roses ; were blowing
f : down by the garden wall. -
"How sweet they are," she whispered.
. "What dear things God has made..
I am going to dwell in a country where
the flowers -never fadei.": .
Then she folded her hands on her bosom,
and it seemed as if she prayed. .
She looked so peaceful, so happy,' with
her hands clasped on her breast,
Holding the flowers we brought her, the
blossoms she loved the best, .
That we thought the 1 Heaven she had
.-'; gone to was aiplace bf sweetest
rest. -v.;.';. : -"':'
Over her grave in the churchyard' her
dear old flowers grow, - " ? :
But I think of her out in .the garden of
: GjDdhere Hfe, lilies growV'f. .
And I fancy she tends 'His flowers as she
: used to these below. '
Eben E. Rexford in Home and Flow
ers. -. , , . , . . . ;.-.';
New Style of Corset. Cover, :'.
' Here is a cut showing a new ' style
of corset cover In white lawn and lace
Insertion. Lace beading, through which
blue satin ribbon runs, borders the bust
and is drawn to fit.- The petticoat is
the favorite cut, closely gored and fit
ted into a smooth hip yoke. ?, It is trim
med . to . . match the cosset coyer, with
laee,. pin tucks and ribbon. , . ; ,
' Moxt Women Misshapen.
A prominent American physician is
responsible for the startling statement
that every woman has either crooked
arms or crooked legs. Ki Inquiry among
the different professors of ; gymnastics
has brought .forth much the same opin
ion. Women are knock-kneed, bow
legged, too lean, too fat or only par
tially developed, and. a straight arm is
very rare; Worse than all, they at
tribute these' deformities to our man
ner of dressing. Tight sleeves, tight
waists and. tight corsets are to be
blamed. A man: rarely has deformed
arms, because his clothing is made to
allow him - an opportunity' to reach
anywhere, and fashion does not forbid
him to swing his arms when he takes
his daily walk. Besides being tight,
a woman's sleeves are put into a waist
in such a manner as to prevent -her
from lifting her arms to any height.
The- fashionable sleeve of the last
twenty years has been ' crooked, and
woman's arms have grown as crooked
as the sleeve. Bow legs and knock
knees often begin in childhood, but
they are finished by the high , heels
and narrow-pointed ; toes which distin
guish the every -day footwear of wom
ankind. ..; :,:-'.. ;'l;;jiiK -a; :-.
Our own deformities may be reme
died by a thorough course of physical
exercise with ' dumb-bells and Indian
clubs or any one of the excellent exer
cisers now on the market. Our children
tan be saved from deformity by care
and attention. 5 The mother is careless
often allows her , baby to stand upon
tender little legs, whose cartilages, are
too soft to bear the weight of the body,
and so bend one way or' the other. If
outward, the baby will have bow legs,
and if in the other . direction knock
knees will be the result. .The legs
should be allowed to gain strength to
bear the weight of the body. Massage
for both arms and legs of a baby
should accompany the daily bath.
Health Culture. , ' i
Society Woman Turns' to Law.
Mrs. James R. Branch is a graduate
of -the woman's law class, of the New
York university. She is a Southerner
and has lately taken up a residence in
MBS. JAMES B. BRANCH.
New York. Mrs. Branch is one of'ths
Daughters of the American Revolution
and a member of Eclectic ' She ; is
fond of outdoor sports and belongs to
the Richmond County Golf Club. '
Women Are Wearing Men's Hosiery.
, .What won't fair woman do next?
The latest novelty - is . half -hose, for
women,. says ,the New , York Evening
Post.""They" are to be haoTat present
In only a few exclusive shops,' 1 and
they are rather expensive, the cheapest
being $1, These stockings; wWcifcare
designed fcr coolness,, end Just. ;below
the knee in a close ribbing, Which
keeps them in place. For greater se
curity, nothing being worse form than
a wrinkled stocking on a woman, there
is sold a garter exactly like those worn
by men. French women "have worn
these short stockings for some time,
and ' one ' New York shop imported, a
few last year. The proprietor tells an
amusing story to account for his first
purchase. A young woman . from i a
fashionable private school, making her
summer purchases of hosiery ,' added a
few pairs of boy's socks which she de
clared she intended ' to wear on hot
days. She displayed her . novel pur
chase to" her schoolmates and the next
day they flocked down to the store and
bought every boy's -sock in' the -place.
The proprietor sent out an. N bought
more small socks," all he could get of
the required quality, and the school
took the' lot. Philadelphia Evening
Telegram. . . . . .' :
Health and Beauty.
, For bee and wasp stings Ause car
bolic acid, soda or ammonia: - '
Never neglect to bathe the eyes oc
casionally in salt water. , A weak, solu
tion is bep-t. . , , , ,
For bums use a dressing of saturat
ed soda or equal parts of Unseed oil
and lime'' water, vaseline, sweet oil,
butter--iny bland oil but on no ac
Count, glycerin, Which is irritating. ,
. In a case-of poison ivy try a solution
of baking soda or a weak solution tf
sugar of lead. Mackerel brine from
the kit in the farm cellar or a tomato
from the vines will also be found ef
Cectual. f h j ' ' :-..-iy
..,,In walking don't hold the : leg stiffj
although it must be held straight, ii
this way.one walks .with the; least phy?
sical expense and with ' the'' greatest
ease, ! comfort,' healthfulness " and
beauty. ''' '' "' 10 "'' - -' :
The best treatment for a bruise is an
immediate application of. hot fomenta
tions. After that witch hazel, vinegar
and hot water, or alcohol and water,
put on with a bandage and often moist
ened. ' :" ' ' ' ; "
During the summer weather give the
children a good bath every night, but.
turn them loose in the day to make ac
quaintance with growing things and
babbling brooks and all the sweet se-'
erets that nature stands ready to re
veal to the little child. .
When you go to the country take
plenty of bandages, neatly rolled, a
case of court plaster, your family doc
tor's prescription for any special at-;
tack that any of the family, are sub-;
ject to, a small bottle of Jamaica gin
ger or paregoric, a package of mustard
plasters, then hope you will fin'd occa-3
sion for none of them. . ''s
; Double Cblns Cored.
A double chin is a hard thing to re
move by home treatment, but it can '
certainly. , be modified by persistent ;
dally application of the following treat-
paent: Grasp as much "of the chin as'
can be held between the thumb and
forefinger, and twist until it slips out.'
Do this many times on botSi sides o ;
the chin. One can form the habit of
doing it when reading.