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Newspaper Page TextV V PERSONAL AND LITERARY. I "Palmer Noada" is what tho prima donna will henceforth cn.ll her self. Two soldiers of the Light Brigade, made famous by Tonuysou's poem, are residing in New York. General Berdan. the Anvrlean ritlo and torpe4o-makcr, is said by a corre spondent to be one of tho Czar's "most intimate friends." Ex Governor Long, nr cording to tho Boston I'o.tt, is one of the brightest after-dinner speakers in tho country, lie never drinks wine or liquors. C. M. Lewis, the Valo class poet of 1885. is a brother of J. M. Lewis, the class poet of 1S8:!, and they are the sons of C. f. Lewis, the class poet of 185H. Mis Alcott says "she has fallen in love with a great many pretty girls in her life, but neve once tin leat bit with a man." Just so with us. Chi cago Mail. A child was recently born at Moose Kiver, Me., with but one hand, and another infant was born at Augusta. Mo., with six toes on each foot. Boston Transcript. General Grant's height, as stated by Colonel Frederick D. Grant m a let ter to an inquirer In Scranton, Pa., was live feet eight inches; chest measure, about thirty-eight inches. Sarah Altliea Hill, of San Francisco. who has achieved notoriety as the plain tiff in tiio celebrated Sharon divorco suit, has resolved to adopt tho stage as a profession. Chi ago Journal. Mrs. Langtry, not satisfied with tho natural color of her hair, which was beautiful, and of which she took in cessant care, has painted it a kind of reddish color, wh'ch. it appears, is be coni'ng tho fashion in Paris, and has much injured her appearance Ar. Y. Sun. Says a Georgia newspaper: We note with regret tho deatii ot ,1. M. Bryan, of McVille. Mr. Bryan was a harmless gentleman of many peculiar ities, lie has for many years worn his hair as long as anv lady's anil done it up in an old-fashioned net. He was also a somnambulist would walk miles all through a dense swamp while asleep. The Into Governor f'oburii. of Maine, left a fortune of about 2.000, 000. lie was never married. Scores of girls woe their nets for him, hut he eluded capture. One day he saw a poor girl, and slio was so attractive and asrreeable in her manners tlia: he be came smitten with her. Subsequently he made up his mind to marry her after he found that his all'eet'on was recipro cated. This so over;oed the poor girl's family that, they babble I about tho coming mur'a re with the rich man. The babbling rcacho his ears and he was displeased. Ho broke oil the engagement and never thought more of woman and her wiles. Boston Journal. HUMOROUS. Talk'ng about dates, one ought to have them at one's linger ends," sa il he. "Why?" -aid she "Oh. hoeause their horn'- is on the palm.-' Evans villc Argus. The circus proprietor is obl'ged to keep his somer.-et performers where they can always bo seen, for there s a law against carrying concealed rovolv urn. iloston 'J'raus ripl. Profesor: " In ono evening I counted twenty-seven meteors sitting on my piazza." Class expresses great astonishment at the sociable character of the heavonly bodies. 'Joston Uud'itt. A little girl of two and a half years burned her linger for the first tinio the other day. Situ p aceil her . nger on a hot potato, and suddenly drew it back, exclaiming, "Oh. il ;r's a pin in it" Bo.-lon Courier. Little Clia ley "Papa, will you buy me a drum?"" Fond father "All, but my boy, you will distil -b mo very much 'if I do." Charley 'O, no, papa; 1 won't drum except when you're asleep. ' ' Pittsburgh ( 'hronicle. A H'gh School boy at Lawrence, Mass., went home delighted with the idea of the m 1 tary dr h uhout to be in troduced in the school. " I tell you " ia d he. piUingly. to his sister, "it jiays to ho a boy." o den ).. "Johnny, is your sister in?" "I don't know. Lemmu see what s your name?" "ilarnes Mr. Barnes." "All right, Mr. Birnes. You just sit down, ai.tl I'll ask S,s wh titer bias's homo, but 1 don't t'link that's the name." "1 s..'e," sa il Mrs. Do Wige.s to her husband, " hat tho King ol Bawtrla is in debt ab.nit 7, 0 ,''0 '.'' "Yes." "How in t ie wo -Id e in he have got so deeply in de't.J" "Dunno, unhi s he I in- . I. i I (r r' . " ' '-i ! 1 To Eegulate fSjrri KAVORllK IIO.UK KE.MrDY n IS warranted not to contain a ungle par. L2J tide of Mercury or .my injurious sub vuncc, but is purely v-;etiihle. It will Cure all Diseases caused uy Derangement of the Liver, Kidneys and Stomach. If your Uvcr is out of order, then your whule system is deranged. The blood is impure, the breath offensive; you have hea '.ache, feci languid, dispirited and nervous To present a more serious con dition, take at once Simmons T f TTTlfl REGULATOR. If you lead .1 , 1.1 U P. K sedentary life, or suffer with JJA V JUJLV Kidney AilectioiiH, avoid stimulants and take Simmons Liver Regulator, Sure to relieve If you have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals or sleepless at night, take a dose and you uill feel relieved and sleep pleasantly. If you are a miserable sufferer with Constipation, Dyspepsia and ItUloumiens, soek relief at once in Simmons Liver Regulator It does not require continual dosing, and costs but a rule. It will cure you. If you wake, up in the morning with a bitter, bad taste in your mouth, HI A TTTI Simmons Liver Regulator. It cor I U H T, recti the Ililious Stomach, sweetens J..,he breath, and cleanses the Furred 1 ongue, Children often need some safe Cathar tie ad Ionic to avert approaching sickness. Mmmons Liver Regulator will relieve Colic, Head aihej Sick btomacn. Indigestion, Dysenteiy, and tlie Complaints incident to Childhood. At any time you feel your system needs cleansing, toning, regulating wftho-it violent purging, or stimulating without intoxi cating, take fans Liver Regulator. PREPARED BY J. H. ZEIUN & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 1'ItICK, 81.00. THE YEAR 1087. Some l'lill iciihlc:tl speculation a to AMt.it It May Itrlntc lorth. Another "centtMinial" date, that of the Federal Constitution. Wo have been a nation one hundred years. It is n pretty date to write; after (he still S the pen tlourihes so oailv down the i tail of the 7. The years have somehow run away very fast since 1 S.St), going down hill to the end of the century. In fourteen short years more the Drawer will be trying, in its faithfulness to the twentieth century, to keep out of its columns the facetia; of the nineteenth. The nineteenth century, of which we are proud now, will be analyzed and criticised anil condemned as we now condescend to talk about the eighteenth. On the day that 100 1 comes in, the same able writers who the day before, in the press, used the term "nineteenth century" as if it were a kind of final achievement in itself will turn on it in a patronizing manner. They will speak about the twentieth century as ifthoy had made it. anil that it must necessarily excel all the others. They seem a great many years, 1837, do they not? They are really only a little fragment of time, which has dignity only from the fact that we are adding to it. It is an old conceit we have of it. Looked at in one way, it is a respectable date, but how long shall wb be able to add to it and keep it going in the world? There have been several attempts at a contin uous date, but they have all broken down. How long shall we keep up ours? It is a pity for scientific pur poses that we could not have had uni versally, as the Hebrews have, a con tinuous date. Our breaking time in two in this way causes immense historical confusion, leads to an unjust estimate of the past, and adds to our conceit. It gives the impression that the his torical .stream is not continuous; in deed, we absurdly try to make it run both ways from what we call the year 1. Hence much of the theological dilli culty in making people feel that the New Dispensation is actually a contin uation of the Old Dispensation. We begin with our 1 and run it. up forward, with an increasing sense of power. And w turn about nd cast it up back ward for the ancient nations, endeavor ing to run the civilizations of antiquity into the ground somewhere. It gives a false impression if we may say it, a "petering out" appearance to the old nations. Take the Egyptians for ex ample. They seem to lie wasting away in time toward us, losing year after year instead of gaining. We know, in deed, but we have to learn it painfully, that the Egyptians did not live back ward in this way. It is. of course, ab surd to suppose that Menes, when he name to his throne in Memphis, dated his order to dig the first canal .500 1 , ac cording to Mariette.or :l(i2;$ according to lSiiuseu, or 2700 according to Wilkin son, or whatever it was, and that every year thereafter he dropped one year hooil, HG22, '201)1), and so on. And yet this is the way it appears to our minds, with our ueer chronology. Looked at honestly, it is not much of a date, this 1887. Nor is it new. The I'haraoh who used it and no one knows what I'haraoh it was no doubt was consci ous that it had been used before him, and he regarded it as merely the begin ning of the years that Egypt would pile up in increasing glory. The I'haraoh who wrote 11887 may have had some conceit in the figures, but it was a cheap pride. The vain attempt of the l'han aohs in this direction ought to make us modest of our little achievement in the way of a date. All the people before us have doubtless Ihittered themselves that their eras would endure a long as the world lasts. We are interested in this year 1SS7, however as the Court was about to say when it interrupted itself not because it is a centennial year, or to speculate whether it will he a year of war, or earthquake, or droughts, but to see whether it is going to be a good year for "realism" in liction, or whether the "idealists" will begin to get an inning. It is such a seesaw world that one call only keep his head by taking a long historical perspective, and noting what tales they are that tho race cares lo preserve through all tho ages. We want to stick to facts, but then; are so many sorts of facts, material and im material, and human nature is double, and men are perverse. They are so unreasonably interested, even in this scientific age in the "Arabian Nights." It is absurd that a camel-driver should rise to marry the daughter of the Grand Vizier, and become Orand Vizier him self, and rule over the kingdom. In order to be true to lifts he should have continued to be a camel-driver till his camel died, and every thing went wrong with him, and he married a woman who drank, and took to luis hecsli, and ended as a beggar. It i much better for us to read about this sort of camel-driver than tho other. After all, the philosophers are merely quarrelling about a definition. It is as necessary to satisfy in fiction tho higher aspirations of the mind as its lower tendencies; "high life" is as real, all admit, as "low' life." Purity and vir tuo aro just as "real" as thnir oppositos (tliongh not so common), ami the steady contour ' 'tlon of them in liction is more likely to be ennobling than the contemplation of tho inferior and the vulgar. It is not a new notion in the world, but it is a queer one, that the base and unpleasant in life aro more "roal" than tho puroand tho agreeable Is it more necessary for the good of mankind that the former should he paraded rather than tho latter? (live us "life," by all means, O liotionists of tho year 1887. Do not oxaggoiato the had or make the good seem impossible hut let us hoitr now and thou about Jo,-opli and Abraham Lincoln and tho fortunate camul-driver, aud let us asso ciate oc is'o'i iMv, sinful ns we am, with soiii ' of the lowly woiiu n who give to this mortal life most of it grace and charm. Chnrk.i DudUy Warner, in llarjter's Magazine. HE WAS MARRIED. ' Why nn Omiilin Mini sntrrliril tiro err' Moi-p for S'ooki-il Things. Customer Have you any corned beef? Taney Grocer Heat kind, Mr. ; any thing else? "Anv canned tongue alreaih b liled?" ."Yes." "Canned chicken, already cooked?" Ye." "Let's see. They don't put up broiled beefsteaks, do thev?" "Oh, no." , "Nor roast beef?" ' "No." "By the way, what arc these; look like fried potatoes." "That's what thev are Saratoga chips." "Well, I'll take a bushel of them. Hello! What's that?" "Canned corned beef hash." "Just the thing, "(limine a lot of it. Got any baked beans?" "Yes. Boston baked beans; threo different brands." "Let's see what elso there is here. How are these used?" "Those aro soup essences, and need nothing but thinning with hot water." "Well. I'll try those, and throw in a lot of other things you think good, no matter what, only so they're cooked. I'm tired of starving." "Is your mother sick, Mr. ?" "No, .she's well, but I don't live with hernow, I'm married." Omaha World. A Disgusted Speculator. "'Cf He was a man of some means, and was usually ready for a speculative venture "Do you want to buy some real es tate?" asked a dealer of him the other day, "Not much," he said, decisively. "Why not? There hasn't been a man in Washington who has invested and lost anything on it." "Ain't there? Well, look at ine; I'm one." "How?" "Five years ago I bought a nice lot ill the cemetery, got married and set tled down to house-keeping with my wife and her mother." He stopped as if enough had been said. 'Well," inquired the dealer, "what's that got to do with losing on the invest ment? You've got the lot, haven't you?" "Yes, and that's were the bullet-hole i. Tho blamed lot has been lying idle evei's-ince. and the old lady is growing fatter and sassier every year. No more real-estate investments for mo at pres ent, thank you," and he moved on. Washington Crilir. The Population of Prussia. Concerning the large and constant increase in the population of Germany in general, and that of Prussia in par ticular, the Itoyal Statistical Bureau gives the following figures for 18K.r: The. total population on December 1, 188A. was JK,:I18, l.r8. The births dur ing the year numbered l.OJi 1. 100. the marriages ii:!0.707, and the deaths 71(i, 8.15). The natural increase, therefore, was :?I7,oI2, and the average nuinliei of births per 1,000 of population :?7.ti, of marriages, jfi.-i, and of deaths, 'J.I.K, Those ligure. high as they are, a com pared with thoseof England and Wales, show a surplus for the last-named country, whose population was '27, 1'JD, 011, with 81)1,270 hi rt lis, 15)7. 7 Jo mar riages, and .1i'2,7")0 deaths, making the actual increase per 1,000 in England (and Wales) 1 :!.., as against only 12.!! in Prussia. ltris Amcrimn Itcgistcr. 'Where He Was Great. Miss Dully -I hear that yon are en gaged to young Solder, the Plumber. Mis.s Pully It is a fact, Jane. "It always .-truck me that he was cold, callous creature." "Well, Jane. I confess .that he doe? not do very much cooing, but on billing he can not be surpassed." I'hiladcljihia Call. According to the Belgian savant, Quetelet, a man attains his maximum weight about his fortieth year, and be ;nns to lose it toward his sixtieth year. A woman, however, does not attain her maximum weight until her fiftieth year. Tho weight of persons of the .same age in different classes of society also dif fers. In the aflliieiit classes tho aver age maximum weight is 172 pounds, and it is attained tit fifty years of ago. In the artisan class it is 1,11 pounds, at tained at forty. Among farm laborers it is 171 pounds, attained at sixty. In the general classes it is 101 pounds, and reached betweun forty and lifty years of age. An absont-minded lad rushed into a telegraph olllco at Johnstown, Pa., re cently, and grabbing his hat from his head as politely as In-, hurry would permit, laid it on the counter and split through the door anil out the gate. A few minutes later ho cisino back, look ing very crestfallen, laid a telegram on the counter, picked up hid hat ami hur ried out boforo any ono could speak to him. Pittsburgh Post. A footpad near South Pr-tirio, W. T., hold up a citizen tho other evening 1 about dusk, but before ho could rule tho pockets of his victim some men enmo along. They caught tho robber, stripped him to tho waist, gavo him a sound thrashing and advised him to iemvo, otherwise ho would bo hanged ou the spot. He took the advice. THE COST OF GIRLS. Noit York Soclrty ltopliul nt riftcpn llumlrril Dollar Alrrr. "First tell me about clothes. I moan tliiw dresses that are actually required by a girl who intends to go everywhere and hMk smart?" "Well," said mamma, "I've not been extravagant with my girls, yet you know they have all been well dressed. This is 'J io outfit I allow for the first winter, and 1 find the more attractive it is the sooner the girls get married. A cloth costume for the street, tailor madc.with a toque to match, .$12.). A silk and woolen dress for church and afternoon wear, including a jacket, $110. and bon net. $18. A reception dress of dark vel vet, trimmed with fur, with hat and mull', $200. An evening costume of black silk and jet, with a mantelet and bonnet to match, $200. A tea gown, $7.1." "Good heavens! yon haven't men tioned ball gowns yet," "I'm just going to. A simplo gauze dinner or ball gown costs $90. A more elaborate one of satin and tulle, $12o. And a third for very smart oocasions. $175. Two or three pairs of walking shoes at $11, and say four pairs of slip pers for $7. Then gloves of all lengths, say costing from $1.2.1 to $.", and a va riety of handkerchiefs, silk stockings, fans ribbons, etc., which aro dear to the girl's heart," "But do you moan to say that all these things are necessary?" "I should be sorry think that one of my girls had been without tliein," was tho proud maternal reply. "But can't you have these things made at home by clever maids?" "No; I've tried that. A clever maid is very good later in the season to rafrairhir those gowns, but the mo ment one of them learns enough to be valuable she sets up in business for her self, calls herself .Mine. O'Brien and charges you Worth prices. "Can you give me any idea of what a debutante's tea costs?" 1 ventured to remark. "Easily. First, 2.000 cards at $1.,10 a hundred. Johnson charges $;j a hun dred to deliver them. Ho charges $2.1 an afternoon for calling carriages and other son ices at tho door, which sum also includes the use of an awning and drugget on the sidewalk. The confec tioner's bill for cakes, ices and so on is not much, say $.10, although some peo ple attempt to serve an elaborate menu." During all this talk I had been jotting down items, and now found myself con fronted with a pretty array of figures, thus: Cloth oostumo $ 125 Silk unil wonlrn costume mid honnuts IftS Velvet reception ilross complete '-I' Kvt'tiliiR costume SOi) Ten gown r A simple Kfiure iltmier dress Ml A nitfii iiiul tulle hull dress A still hotter one 1TT Sealskin siiciiue VPO (Stoves, stockings, shoes, eto KM Sortie lie hat Ilia Ten, every thliiK tnelmleil INI Grand total Ji.tiiW "This is what I make it," said I, hand ing over the slip of paper. "Is that what it actually costs to bring out a girl?" "Bather under than over the rule. And, mind you, Ibis is only it beginning the cost of tiio first stop. If your girl develops a voice, or waut.s to jilay on the violin, or has sporting tastos, then come the teachers, tho habits, the covert coats, ulsters, and I have usually given my girls sealskin sacques, $200, and a sortie de but costs $100. "Well, good-day, Mrs. Bountiful. So' sorry your daughter is not at home. I had no idea she was so expensive." Had you'r'-Ar. V. Mar. GREEN BUT SMART. IIor ;i Yankee Mnv Secured u I'oftltlon In n Neu York Store. Years ago, into a wholesale grocery store in this city, walked a tall, muscular-looking man, evidently a fresh comer from some backwoods toyn in Maine or New Hampshire. Accost if; the first person he met, who happened to be the merchant himself, ho asked: "You don't want to hire a man in your store, do you?" "Well," said the merchant, "I don't know. What can you do?" "Do?" said the man. "I rather guess I can turn my hantl to almost anything. What do you want done?" "Well, if I were to hire a man. it would be one who could lift well a strong, wiry follow; one, for instance, that could shoulder a sack of coll'ee like that yonder, and carry it across the store, and never lay it down." "There now, Cap'n," said tho coun tryman, "that's just mo, I can lift any thing 1 can hitch to. You can't suit me hotter. What will you give a man that can-suit you?" "I'll tell you," said tho merchant. "If you shoulder that sack of cofl'ee,. and carry it across tho store twice, and never lay it down, I will hiro you for a year at a hundred dollars a month." "Done!" said the stranger. And by this time every clerk in the store had gathered around, and was waiting to join in tho laugh against the man, who, walking up to the sack, throw it across his shoulder with perfect ease as it was not extremely heavy, .and, walking with it twice across tht lloor, wont quietly to a largo Hook which was fastened to the wall, and hanging it up, turned to tho merchant and said: "There, now! it may hang thero til' doomsday, I shall novor lay it dowc Whatshall I go about, mister? Just git a mo plenty to tlo, aud a hundred dollars a mouth, and it's all right." The clerks broke into a lauirhi hut tho merchant, discomfited yot satis lied, kept his agreement; ami io-uay me greon countryman is tho senior partner in tho firm, and worth a million dollars. -JJuIIqu' MonUtli. BOLIVIA'S PRESIDENT. A Talk With nn Inti lllKcnt South Viiierl run I rlciiil ol the I lilted Stntc. General Givgoriu Pai-hei o, the Prei dent of Bolivia, may truly be called n public benefactor. Ho maintains tw public free schools at Sucre at his per sonal expense He has made gift. t the University. He has built at an ex pense of $1 10,000 the lirst insane asy lun ever established in the country anil donated it to the State. What are most wanted in this country are lines of rail way. 1 had the pleasure of having tw t interviews with the President. He re ceived me most ntl'ably. We touched on the Autofogasta mil way scheme He expressed himself against that on account of Chile, and 1 asked why hi was afraid of Chile. "You have," I continued powerful means at hand to protect yourselves, pour own people I moan the ljuichoas. In the last war they took no part. They have no interest because they have no voice in the Government. Educate your Qui choas, multiply your public schools, ami you will build up a fortification un seen, but of the strongest kind, because founded on the advanced intelligence of your people" President Pacheco coincided with this wav of looking at the subject, and said: "Any person or persons coining to us from your country with, or representing capital, or with the project to establish colonies of immigrants, shall receive from Us not only protection, but land free and the most liberal concessions. Wo love the foiled States, and are anxious to be more closely connected with our big brother." Then I continued: "Why not pick out a number of your most intelligent Quichoas, scud them to the United States, let them acquire a practical school education and return lo form a leaven among their people. Thus you would in a few years strengthen yourselves in a marvelous manner." Wo also spoke about the silver question. A peculiar idea was advanced that, the United States. Mexico and Bolivia, being the throe countries which produced the bulk of the sih or. should form a pool, all the silver to be sent to the United States, and in order to encourage this that tho export duly should bo remitted on all such bullion; that each country ap point, commissioners to superintend the handling of the metal; that the proceeds of the sale bo divided pro rata according to the amount sent by each country. The object of this plan would be the control of the silver market in America, in place of in London, and to maintain (lie price so that Europe would have to come to us to purchase Itolivia Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. HONEST WRITERS. The IIIrIi Scone of Honor Cnlllillti il liy the Modern Neiiiiier Correspondent. There is much more honor now among newspaper correspondents than there has boon in the past, and the most prominent correspondents of the country have, weekly, intrusted to I hem secrets which would have a large money value as news, hut which they, in honor, do not sell. They hear daily expressions of opinions which would ruin men who utter them if they wore published, but are given in confidence and such confidence is seldom violated. No one understands tho effect of a statement upon the character of the man interviewed better than the inter viewer, ami good correspondents often w ithhold sentiments expressed for pub lication out of regard for the future of the man interviewed. This, however, is a matter of mere friendship. If a per on talks for publication, the correspondent has a right to report him just as he talks, whether the words he says bo his political death-warrant or the inagie sesame which opens the dooi s of the Presidential mansion. In re porting a private conversation, how ever, the correspondent has no right to use mutter which he does not, know will be acceptable to the man of whom ho talks. If the correspondent is a well known newspaper man tho supposition is that every coin ersalion he has is in the line of his business, is intended for publication, aud the public man should i vpoot to see such a conversation re p rteil in print without lie makes a spt i ial request to the contrary. Frank Ci. Curicutcr, in A'. V. Journalist. CHANCES IN LIFE. All Optimistic View 11T the Opportunities ol the Hoy of To-ilny, Tlis is a good age to bo bom in ; the infant of to-day whoso life is prolonged to tlie allotted term will see more won ders than any of his predecessors have soon, and if the world continues to pro gress as fast ns it has been progressing during the past seventy y oars the op portunities will be before him of a for tunate career. He will be in a larger sphere and under greater responsibili ties, but the more that is required of him the stronger will bo his power of achievement. Men always rise to the occasion. If any work is to be accom plished, .somebody Is sure to coiuo for ward and lake it in hand. No matter how arduous the undertaking, if it is within the scope of human prowess its completion will not bo suH'orcil to fall. It may bo hindered, thwarted, misdi rected, but in the cud it will be suc cessful. Rivalry Is the powerful motor by which great enterprises aro im polled, ami the zeal with which men are competing with others for tlie foremost places in tho domain of industry and of art inakos tho contest for superiority intensely exciting. Every body wants to bo in it; to stay out is to bo lost sight of, Ami so year by year multi tudes of now aspirants aro entering tho lists; the strife for position is increas ing, and tho results of tho honorable emulation are exceedingly beneficial. Shoe and Leather Jlejorter. TRAINING CHILDREN. The llest Tliliur lor Mnklnj; llio T.lttla )nc lluppy und Contented. The hning instruction of a mother may seem to have boon thrown away, but it uill appear after many days. With children you must mix gentleness with firmness. "A man who is learn ing to play on a trumpet and a pettod child are two ory disagreeable com panions." If a mother never has head aches through rebuking her little chil dren, she hall have plenty of heart aches when they grow up. At tho same time a mother should not hamper her children with unneces sary, foolish restrictions. It is a great mistake to fancy that y our boy is made of glass, and to be always telling him not lo do this, and not to do that, for fear of his breaking himself. On tho principle never to give pain unless it is to prevent a greater pain, you should, grant every request which is at all rea sonable, and lot him see that your de nial of a thing is for his own good, and not simply to save trouble; but onco having duly settled o. thing, hold to it. Unless a child learns from the lirst that his mother's yea is yer., and her nay nay, it will get into the habit of whin ing and endeavoring to coax her out of her refusal, anil her authority will soon be gone. Happiness is the natural condition of every normal child, ami if tho small boy or girl has a peculiar facility for any one thing, it is for self-entertainment; with certain granted conditions, of course. One of these is physical free dom, and a few rude and simple play things. Agreeable occupation is as great a necessity for .children as for adults, and beyond this almost nothing can bo contributed to the real happiness of a child. "1 try so hard to make my children happy!" said a mother, with a sigh, ono day in despair at her efforts. "Stop trying," exclaimed a practical friend at her elbow, "and do as a neighbor of initio does." "And how is that?" sho asked, dolefully. " Why, she simply lets her children grow and develop naturally, only directing their growth properly. She has always thrown them, as far as practicable, upon their own, resources, taught them to wait upon themselves no matter how many ser vants she had and to construct their own playthings. When she returns homo from an absence they await but one thing-their mother's kiss. What ever lias been bought for them is be stowed when the needed time comes. Nothing exciting is allowed to them at night, and they go to bed and to sleep in a wholesome mental state, that in sures restful slumber. They are taught to love nature, and to feel that there is nothing arrayed so finely as the lily of the Held, the bees and the butterllics, that there is nothing so moan as a lie, nor any thing so miserable as disobedi ence, that it is . a disgrace to be sick, aud that good health, good teeth and good temper come from plain food, plenty of sloop and being good." In order to thrive, children require a certain amount of "lotting alone" Supreme faith in the mother, few toys, no finery, plain food, no drugs and early to bed aro thu best things for making them happy.-r Quiver. OLD-TIME HEAD-GEAR. A CniKiide At,"iilnt IVuilnlno Toilet Va. triiviiKitnccrt In the Year 1AS1. The present denunciation of tho head-gear of women recalls ono of tho stories of tho Huguenots in 1.181. A distinguished Huguenot preacher of Moufuubaii, Michel Berault, denounced from his pulpit tho fantastic and con spicuous head-dross of women, which was made of a frame wire in order to produce a greater effect. The ladies would not give up the fashion, and wcro excluded from the Lord's supper in consequence In the midst of the trouble the family of Duplessis Mornay arrived at Montauban. Mine Monay was fashionable, pious ami obstinate. Berault refused to receive her at tho communion service, and demanded that she should "remove her hair." Sho refused. She had worn tho sumo stylo of heail-ilress for fifteen years, and in the chief churches of Germany, Eng land and the Netherlands, and sho would not change it. 'I'he Biblt! said nothing against wire, and moreover, it was dangerous for the pastor to teach the commandments of men for doc trines. The minister was also obsti nate, ami would not have her at tho communion, so tho lady went to a town throe miles oil", and kept her Easter where the Huguenot minister did not think tho fashion of head-gear was an essential of religion. In another ease, M. tie Hagier had a controversy with the high-born, pious Mino.de La my, on tho subject of tlio farthingale or hoop skirt. The lady valiantly defondedher rights, but was forced at last to yield, ami the farthingale disappeared for a time. These anecdotes aro told in Prof. Baird's "Tho Huguenots and Henry of Navarre." Boston Post. A Sensible Suggestion. London Truth says tho business of sending Christmas cards has assumed such proportions ns to become n nuisance, and asks, "Why doesn't some onthusiastio newspaper proprietor start a special column in which people could wish theit' friends at Christmas tho compliments of tho season? It would ho a source of profit to him, a saving of great expenso to tho adver tisers, ami a real blessing to their friends and tho unfortunate postman. This would ho tho sort of thing: Mr. aud Mrs. Smith, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. Tom Smith, Mr. William Smith, Miss Smith, Miss Sarah Smith and Miss Jane Smith wish their friends the com pliu'ionts of the season. No curds."