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asserts itself at once; fn others a slight cold
means death, or a protracted invalidism.
But the school room itself needs constant
looking after. If it is not properly ventil
ated, the vitiated air lowers the tone of the
physical system, and renders it very sus
ceptible to colds and other ailments. A ten
dency to colds will also bo caused by too high
a temperature, which weakens the resisting
power of the skin. On the other hand, the
weakly are sure to suffer from too low a tem
perature. This should be regulated by a
thermometer, and should not be allowed to
vary much from 70 degs. Fahrenheit—Y outh’s
Companion.
HISTORY OF A GIRL STOW
AWAY FROM SCOTLAND.
|o<l Manners at Home—School Hygiene.
Ignorance of Girls—Ventilation of Bed-
Ip,, ms — Advice
to
Mothers — Pretty
Kitchens—Helpful Hints and Items.
Eero is tho life history of a woman who is
El known to many Now York shoppers as
ft forewoman in the suit department. She
fttill quite young—on the sunny side of 35—
ftli a pleasant face, a sweet, low voice and e
liner that helps her greatly in her profes
Ei. This may not seem a very exalted po
Hon to some people, but when they considei
ft long, steep road she has climbed her pres-
ft stand may appear an enviable one. At
■ events, her work is light, though the re-
Lisibilities are heavy. She gets very
Li ly $2,500 a year, and has a cheerful,
fttty little flat of her own, where she has
Iks and bird;, and flowers, and she cousid-
Jherself an individual greatly to be envied,
riiis is tho story: Twenty-five years ago a
ftn died in a little Sipialid Scotch village by
ft sea and a fow miles from a port where
ft smaller sort of sailing vessels cleared for
ftbors all over the world. There was noth-
E uncommon concerning this man’s death;
[fact, it was the usual business, helpless
now, three crying orphans, no money and
[prospect of any. The eldest brat was an
Lsh girl with a sharp tongue that offended
hlose fisted relative who offered to take the
father into his home as housekeeper and the
ro boys to work on the farm as soon as
ley were able, but wouldn’t have the girl
[any price. She heard his proposition and
r eyes flashed. She wouldn’t stand in her
father's way or in that of the little brothers,
[the 10-year-old imp packed her one other
ess and a few childish treasures in an old
nidkerchief, kissed the three tenderly, and
pen they were asleep stole away to the
■ghboring town through tho darkness. She
pig about the wharf for two days until she
pnd a ship bound for America.
When that ship sailed she wasn’t in Scot-
pil, and yet she didn’t seem to be on the
Ip. Third day out up comes a white faced
at from the hold, ghastly with hunger,
le captain swore a little, then laughed, and
c women fed, clothed and corseted tho only
rl stowaway they had ever seen. When
B ship reached New York one of the wo-
fen took the child to mind her babies at
pie. She learned to read from the chil-
len’s blocks and picture books; she learned
write and figure from one of the older
rls, who was going to a primary school and
fed to have help ill her lessons. At 15 she
is behind a counter in a shop; at 20 she was
| the head of her department. The uncle
is dead, the boys apprenticed and the
Other alone; so she sent for her and took
ro rooms. In five years more she was the
pdwoman in the big shop, and every two
three years her salary increases. She lives
ill, saves something each year, has an ac-
unt in the savings bank and is as plucky as
er.—New York World.
Ignorance of Girls.
If a girl never hears a word about economy
from her birth, and is only conscious that to
secure the means to gratify her slightest wish
she needs only to stretch out her hands and
they will be abundantly filled, how can one
expect after marriage that she can have the
faintest knowledge of tho duties that must
belong to her in the care of her household?
She has never been called u{>on to know any
thing about her own expenses. What she
fancied she wanted she bought without a
thought that it might be well to learn
whether she could afford the money. How
money came, how it was always ready for
her when she asked, were questions she had
never been taught that she ought to ask uud
to understand the answer.
As far as any teaching she has ever re
ceived, she might imagine that money grew
in the woods, and her father had it gathered
for her as wanted—aud of course her hus
band would do the same. No education be
fore marriage ever taught her anything
more rational. With such a girlhood, free
from every thought save that of her own per
sonal gratification, what reason can there be
for surprise if she makes many mistakes—
well for her if they are not irremediable.
Duty was something never mentioned to her
when a girl. After marl age her husband
gives her uo insight into his business affairs,
no cautions as to expenses, never talks io her
or consults or advises witn her about their
mutual exi>enditures. The same cruel love
and indulgence—or it may be indifference—
surrounds her iu her new home, and thus she
continues to be left iu utter ignorance of all
practical knowledge, simply a toy, a butter
fly, seeking only sunshine and personal en
joyment.
And yet under proper training what a
noble specimen of womanhood she perhaps
was capable of being made!—Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher iu New Yc..*k Star.
Air of Sleeping Apartments.
The Needed Word of Praise.
Many a man rains the jjeace of his house
hold forever by neglecting to speak the word
of praise which his hungry hearted wife has
yiarned all day to hear, and bestowing it
upon some chance caller or stranger. The
man who fails to notice the careful toilet his
wife has made for his sake, and compliments
the good taste in dress exh bited by some
neighbor, sows the seed of jealousy in a dis
appointed heart.
Woman was made to be loved, petted and
appreciated by man. Whatever else she may
achieve in life, she feels herself cheated out of
her birthright unless this happiness has come
to her. She is jealous of whatever and who
ever may stand between her and that desired
joy. I have known two mothers who were
jealous of their own children. Unnatural
and terrible as this may seem, I felt the
greatest sympathy for both women. In each
case the husband utterly ignored the wife for
her offspring. She was a secondary consid
eration, neglected and rebuked where the
children were caressed and appreciated.—
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Concerning Fatly Marriages.
It is, I think, an erroneous idea that early
marriages are a hindrance rather than a help
to success in life and the mental development
and happiness of the parties. That this L
sometimes the ease is true; but I believe that
more young men, and girls too, have been
saved from ruin and wretchedness by an
early marriage than have been ruined by it.
There is something inspiriting and ennobling
in the i>ossession of a home and a family to
work for and beautify, and if tho girl and
i boy are poor, I should still say, marry young
and work together tor the home and the com
! petence, which will be all the more enjoyable
because they are the result of toil and self de
nial. Don’t wait until you can afford to be
gin just where your father and mother leave
off, for then the freshness of youth will be
gone, and, although it may be morning with
you still, the shades will be stretching on
towards the noonday, and habits will have
been formed which are hard to break, while
the chances are they will never be broken at
'all.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
What of sleeping apartments? Shall they
be warmed or left cool! Perhaps, in a
Yankee way, these questions may be an
swered by another: How shall fresh air be
admitted W window’s are closed? And, since
plenty of fresh air is absolutely essential, and
warmth sufficient may readily be secured by
bedcovering, it seems better to have them
open to outside air and rooms unheated.
There are certainly fewer cases of acute
catarrh among those who adopt the open air
plan than where warm rooms are indulged iu
The Best Pct of All.
during sleep; and less liability, less sensitive
The best i>et of all is the little child old
ness to those lurking, sneezing bronchial
coughs that uro so annoying and so difficult enough to talk and to understand, with a
child’s comprehension. The child that is a
to cure.
But it is only during sleep that chambers pet is always promising to be a better pet,
should be cool. While dressing or preparing because a more appreciative one. Its recep
for bed they should bo as warm as the rest of tive and retentive mind is greedily gathering
the house—that is, 68 degs. This plunging ten thousand facts and then ten thousand
into a cold bed with skin all teuse and pro more, all with each added year the little one
testing, is a good way to insure a sleepless not only fills a larger place in your affections,
night to any one over twenty-five years of but you are becoming more to the youngster,
age, and is a relic of the unscientific past that to be treasured in fond regard through all the
looked upon a warm sleeping room as a piece years of mature life.
Every month, and week, and day is a step
of folly of unmanly coddling.
It is easy to shut a register upon opening toward manhood or womanhood, evincing
windows, find to open it again iu the moru- expanding intelligence and growing affec
ijjg when they are shut down, to let tho room tions, and cementing the bonds of friendship
get warm enough to dress comfortably. and love between the little pet and tho elder
Then a little nap extra, a leisurely toilet persons who are nourishing its absorbing
under comfortable circumstances, and one mind and are guiding its otherwise uncertain
goes down to coffee with a sense of readiness footsteps in the best path of life toward the
to meet whatever the day may bring forth.— goal of thought, love and action.—Good
Housekeeping.
Family Physician in American Magazine.
Good Manners at Home.
il know a woman who is always harping
Bout “culture” and “refinement” and “eti-
Bette,” and who does not this minute know
Ko meaning of that old fashioned term.,
Bood manners.” She is always regretting
K<< lack of culture among her neighbors, and
Bere is not one of them who is more polite
Ran she is. I have heard her actually yell
ft her servants, and storm at her children,
Bd 1 do not think her husband is the happi-
Kt man in the world. Iu society she is a
Banning woman. She knows always just
Biat to say and how to say it. I never saw’
■ woman who could excel her in gliding
Bross a room and sinking gracefully into a
Bair. Her little boys can tip their hats so
fcttily to ladies on the street; her little girls
Bn enter a room with toes properly turned
Bt and with the grace of little queens; and,
R rs ! both the little boys and the little girls
Bn be as impertinent and display the worst
Knners of any children I ever saw. And
Bey literally fight among' themselves. They
Bo not taught to bo ¡xylite to each other.
Beir mother seldom favors them with her
Bvn properly chosen words and graceful
Banners when they are alone with her. Dis-
Brd reigns until tho door bell rings and then
Ke entire household must put ou good man-
fcrs.
I “If wo don’t,” one of the children said,
rwe catch it when the company’s gone!”
Iliis is an extreme case, but do we not all
lave our “company manners?” Do we speak
bst as gently and wveetly tp our children, to
Bur husbands and vmves, when we are alone
pith them as when in the presence of the
nance caller? Do wo say to a transgressing
lohnuie or Katie, “Don’t do that, dear,” or,
[Stop that this minute, I tell you?” Which
■ it? Do we say “please” and “thank you”
» each other and to our servants at all times,
IT are these pleasing little words held in re
serve with the rest of our “company man
tel’s?” Is it only in the presence of strangers
¡hat we smilingly overlook or gently chide
the trifling faults of our children?
I Oh, these “company manners!” They are
iho ruination of a household. They cannot
ffways lx? put on and off at will. Traces of
ine every day discord and lack of harmony
B’ill manifest themselves through the affecta
tion of all the mere “company manners” one
¡an assume. Habitual j ^liteness and kind
less and gentleness should <? the unwavering
*ule in every house, even on “Blue Mou-
lays.”—Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping.
j.
School Hygiene in Winter*
I In summer the child is greatly favored by
ffihe free, natural ventilation of the school
froorn, the wide range of his sports, his sym
pathy with exuberant nature and the long
vacation, with its varied rambles, its fre-
fcueut bathings, its exhilarating sense of free-
Bjoni, and, perhaps, with its change of air.
pho absence of these favoring circumstances
Un winter suggest greater attention at that
Kime to the physical condition of school
(children.
I Their food should be suited to the season.
Fat is to the Ixxly what coal is to the stove. It
Ils simply fuel No sailors are allowed in
[expeditions to the North Pole who cannot di
gest an abundance of fat. The child can
bafely withstand our northern cold only as
he carries within him a copious source of
heat He not only shout. I have, but should,
if necessary, be trained to love, fat meat,
gravies and well cooked rashers.
Where oatmeal is an important part of the
daily diet the large proportion of fat it con-
(tai’.is meets the need in port, and so docs the
well buttered bread, but it is well to add
daily the fat of meat
I But while we introduce heat producing
food within the system, we must guard the
heat from too rapid loss. The child may be
Exposed to extremely low temperatures.
Good woolen flannel should be worn next
the skin all winter, while the outside cloth
ing should be thick and warm. Woolen
•torlrngw, thick boots and good rubl>ers are
indisfieusable, and the child should be taught
the danger of going with cold or with damp
feet
It is important, also, to remember the
physical difference in children. In some of
tbt iu the recuperative power is Strong, and
loses a little weight by keeping. When thii
is the intention have some of the bone trim
med off, and the fat which is not needed foi
cooking, and let these trimmings be sent
home with the day’s marketing, the bones
for the soup pot, and the fat to be tried out,
to use in the form of drippings.
These small economies are not at all des
picable; on the contrary, they are of consid
erable consequence in the aggregate. After
the meat is trimmed let it be hung in the
butcher’s refrigerator until he pronounces it
tender, but not long enough to spoil. In this
connection remember that meat which has
been kept on ice is very susceptible to
changes of temperature, and should be
cooked as soon as possible after it is taken
from the ice, and cooked at a very hot fire,
because a slow heat might taint it at the be
ginning of the cookery.—American Analyst.
Advice to Mothers.
If you say “No,” mean “No.” Unless you
have a good reason for changing u given
command, hold to it.
Take an interest in your children’s amuse
ments ; mother’s share iu what pleases thorn
is a great delight.
Be honest with them in small things, as
well as in great If you cannot tell them
what they wished to know, say so, rather
than deceive them.
As long as it "is possible kiss tho children
good night after they are in bed; they like it,
and it keeps them very close.
Make your boys ami girls study physiology;
when they are ill, try to mako them compre
hend why, aud how tho complaint apj«e, aud
the remedy, so far as you know it.
Impress upon them from early Infancy
that their actions have results, and that they
cannot escajw consequences, even by being
sorry when they have done wrong.
Respect their little secrets; if they have
concealments, fretting them will never make
them tell, and time and patience will.
Allow them, as they grow older, to have
opinions of their own, mako them individ
uals, and not mere echoes.
Mothers, whatever else you may teach your
girls, do not neglect to instruct them in the
mysteries of housekeeping. So shall you
teach them in the way of making home
bappy.—Herald of Health.
Pretty Kitchens.
I
There is no objection to a pretty kitchen,
or to a girl filling one up with bric-a-brac if
she keeps it free from dust A kitchen to
those who do the work in it is tho living
room, and why should it not be made con
venient and pretty? If the kitchen is a com
fortable, cheery room, most girls will take a
pride in keeping it so. Give them pink
colored tissue paper for the shelves, if they
wish it, and a fancy lamp shade to rest by
after the kitchen is tided up for the night
See, too, that they have convenient utensils
to cook with, a good clothe® wringer and
plenty of clothes pins and a good stovo.
It will pay you well to look after these
things in the good, wholesome dishes that will
come on to the table well cooked. Many
girls have to do with makeshifts that you
would not think possible for yourself to use
—a broken wringer, a tub without handles
or a wash boiler or teakettle, with a rag ran
through a hole to prevent leaking. No girl
likes to ask for rcj>airs, and oftentimes the
mistress h too careless to look well after the
little things of her kitchen. I would add:
Let the girl’s sleeping ro^m be a pleasant,
attractive place. Many a horse has better
quarters for rest tlian our servants have.
Look well to the comfort of the servant«. If
not appreciative at first they may learn to be
so.—Detroit Tribune.
now to Clioose Roast Beef.
Hot Fomentations.
We all know tho value of hot applications,
but the mode of making and the applying
differ in almost every house. An exchange
gives the following: “Wring several thick
nesses of flannel out of cold water, so it will
not drip ; place lietweon two folds of paper,
and lay it upon a hot register or top of a
stove. Steam will gefierate and permeate
the w hole cloth, and thus the required tem
perature will be obtained. In this way there
is no running long distances to a kitchen, no
burning of the hands, no uncomfortable
moisture in the bed and no ruffled tempers.
A hot fomentation is beneficial in almost
every acute disease accompanied by sever®
pain, and is often of great service in chronic
inflammations. It is more effectual and
more accessible than any other therapeutic
agent. By quick, prompt and thorough
use severe attacks of illness are ofteu pre
vented.”—Herald of Health.
Let Us Not Fret.
Sometimes my wife and I say on Sunday:
“Now let us agree that we will not say a
single cross word to any one this whole week.
Let us be studiously polite to each other and
to the children. Let us be very mindful of
the feelings of every person with whom we
may come into contact. Ix?t us not fret nor
complain nor do anything that good, decent,
well behaved Christians should not do.” And
if when the next Sunday comes, we have,
through the grace of God, kept this resolve,
it goes without saying that we have been
happy and the world has perha[>s been made
a little better for our being in it.—Zenaa
Dane in Good Housekeeping.
Advice to Young Girls.
A word of advico to Ahe young girls:
Never contract actpiainLw.ce with strange
young mon unless they come in company
with those with whom you are well ac
quainted and in whom you place confidence.
Even then be on your guard, and see that
the proprieties of life are not exceeded.
For bunions get five cents* worth of salt
peter and put it into a bottle with sufficient
olivo oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up well
and rub the inflamed joints night and morn
ing, and more frequently if painful.
When the rubber rollers of your wringer
become sticky, as they very otter do after
wringing flannel, rub with kerosene and wipe
dry, and they will bo nice and smooth.
For washing flannels use two spoonfuls of
borax to three gallons of water; use no soap,
and the flannels will be soft and clean and
will not shrink.
Never use a sharp knife in cleaning the
naila Fill under the nails with soap, and
then remove it by brushing with u nail
brush.
If pomible buy the meat of a butcher per
sonally known to be an honest mam If the
Crackers that are stale can l<e freshened by
meat has a reasonable proportion of fat heating them in the oven, but do not let them
upon the back and running in little lines
________
through the lean, and if the color is fresh stay long.
an<l not very darkened, the meat is good; if
Ceilings that have lawn smoked by a kero
the butcher has kept it properly for a week sene lamp should 1« sashíd oü by so<la
or ten days it may lie rapj<*ed to 1« reason water.
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ably tender. Most butchers are willing to
k<rp meat the right leugth of time for cu»
totuers if they taka UM Us Ural weight, it
MEXICAN LOVE MAKING.
ICE THAT NEVER MELTS.
Heat
Equal to That of Our Latitude
Without F. fleet in Alaska.
GERMS IN THE ICE.
THE SOCIAL LAW OF MEXICO WHICH
It is remarkable indued that so much of the
surface ground on the Yukon is frozen solid
SEPARATES LOVERS.
FREEZING WATER DOES NOT KILL
ALL THE BACTERIA.
1 Case of “Doing tho Bear Act*’—One ol
the Peculiar Social Customs of Out
Sister Republic Which is Sometimes
Wai ved.
Dr. Pruden*« Analysis of the Ice Con
sumed by the City of New York—Some
Alarming
Results — Suggestions for
Health Boards.
to a depth of several feet. It is all the more
so when we come to realize the fact that dur
ing the summer it gets as hot there as in tho
south. During the heat of the past season
tho miners found it a great convenience to go
iu bathing in the streams at least twice a
day, and to seek shady places in which to
rock the gold out of the gravel. At the break
ing up of winter the hours of sunshine are
rapidly increasing, and continue so until
midsummer, when the sun beams forth
twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four,
while on the high mountain ¡»oaks it is for a
period of several days in June not entirely
out of sight the twenty-four hours.
But during all this heat and long days of
continuous sunshine the sun’s rays do not
penetrate the heavy mosses that cover nearly
the entire surface of the country, and conse
quently the frozen ground uuderneath lies
in that state as if packed in an icehouse.
After it once becomes frozen, as any dump
ground will do in the winter time, it quickly
becomes covered with this moss, w hich is of
a remarkably rapid growth and attains a
depth of some two feet or more. During the
heat of summer this moss becomes dry to the
depth of several inches, and tho miners think
that by a continuous burning of it as fast as
it dries they will soon have the gravel bars
along the creeks, at least, cleared off, being
of the impression that when the gravel de
posits are exposed to the scorching rays of
the sun and rains and atmosphere they will
readily thaw out.
When winter sets in the hours of sunshine
gradually decrease until during the shortest
days the sun shines but four hours out of the
twenty-four. But at this period the aurora
is most intense, and helps very materially iu
driving d »rkness from that dreary land.
The thermometer goes down to 70 degs. in
winter, but the atmosphere is very dry, and
consequently tho cold is not so perceptible as
one would imagine.—Juneau (Alaska) Free
Press.
“ADONIS” DIXEY AND PATTI.
Trouble
Canned by the Actor’s
Irishman and Songbird.
Dog.
Mr. Henry E. Dixey is the owner of a
St. Bernard dog that weighs perhaps 800
pounds, and, after the fashion of the lamb
that was platonically attached to Mary,
this dog accompanies Mr. Dixey wherever
Mr. Dixey goes. Twice across the ocean
and all over this continent makes lh-ince
tho most extensive traveler of tho canine
kind. Mr. Dixey and his leviathan, dog
were having a romp through th§ four or live
j rooms occupied by the Clan Dixey at the
Hotel Richelieu. First Mr. Dixey would
shut
tho dog up in tho folding lxxl and
1
hide
himself in the wardrobe; then the
1
dog
would break away from the folding
! bed and
begin a hunt for Dixey, humor
( ously tipping over tables and chairs, as
humorously breaking the crockery, and
i still more humorously accompanying his
labors with volcanic vocal eruptions ex
pressive of fear, hope, anticipation, joy,
etc. This play lasted for about an hour,
Mrs. Dixey sitting in the front room mean
while smiling contentedly and thinking to
herself how much better it was for Henry
to be passing a quiet afternoon at home
than to I xj frittering away his time in the
company of frivolous men about town.
But Mme. Patti, whose apartments at tlw
Richelieu are located directly under thv
Dixey rooms, must have thought different,
for while Mr. Dixey and Ills dog were in
tho midst of their genial sport—or, we
might say, while the festivities were at
their height, there came a knock at the
door and Mme. Patti’s maid Hortense,
looking like one of the “Two Orphans,”
presented this message: “Mme. Patti
complemongs Mme. Dix-see, and will
Mme. Dix-see have ze goodness to make
her little boy stop to play wiz ze dog?”
Mr. Dixey was highly indignant; he did
not care so much for himself, but tho in
sult to the dog was one that ho could
scarcely brook. Next morning, as he lay
in his bed, he became cognizant of an an
gelic voice soaring in song—a voice so
heavenly that it stayed not in the porches
of his ear but penetrated ro the imiermost
recesses of Mr. Dixey’s very soul and
filled his whole being with an ecstacy of
ineffable delight.
“Ida, my dear,” called Mr. Dixey to his
wife, who was sewing in an adjoining
room.
“What is it, Henry?” she answered. ’
“You’re in unusually good voice this
morning, my dear,” said Mr. Dixey. “I
don’t know when I’ve heard you sing so
pleasantly.”
“Why. Henry,” exclaimed Mrs. Dixey,
“I’ve not been singing; that was Mme.
Patti you heard—she is practicing Proch’»
variations, aud isn’t it just too lovely 1”
But there was a cold, meaningless glit
ter in Mr. Dixey’s eye as he straightway
arose from his bed, donned trousers, and
put on one of his red Hibernian wigs. A
few moments later, when, in answer to a
brutal knock, Mme. Patti opened the door
of her parlor, the incomparable songbird’s
sloe like orbs beheld what seemed to be a
gaunt, raw Irishman standing in the por
tal. “Misther Dixey’s compliments to
yees, mum,” said this hulking appari
tion, “and wad yeez lnolnd stliopping tho
tra-la-lu-loo, mum, till Mist her Dixey
have a bit av olapeP”—Chicago Nows.
An American, just arrived in the city of
It is popularly supposed that water in
Mexico, made, as ho thought, a sensational
freezing becomes purified, and that the in
discovery. He was going out of his hotel
jurious elements that there may be in it are
one afternoon, when the actions of a Mexican
eliminated by the action of the frost. For a
in an upper window across tho street attract
long time it was considered that even though
ed him. The Mexican was well dressed. Hit
ice was frozen over water known to be filthy
silk hat was glossy. His little high heeled
boots were polished, and he carried an orna
the ice was nevertheless pure, and the ap
mental walking stick. He was keeping back
parent sanction of science was given to this
from the window with the evident design of
theory. Recent investigations by learned
concealing himself from general view, and
microscopists have, however, thrown new
at the same time? was trying to get somebody
light upon this question, and while it is still
in the upper jiart of the hotel to look his
admitted that a large percentage of the in
way.
jurious elements of impure water become
“A masher!” the American said to himself.
lost when it is frozen it has also been shown
“And a mighty bold one,” he added, after
that enough impurities remain in the frozen
watching the antics for ten minutes and fail
water to make it possible to spread to fen
ing to discover that any response was made
alarming extent any disease tho infectious
to them.
elements of which we«e contained iu the
Tho next day about the samo hour tho
water in its liquid state.
American repeated his discovery, Mr. Mexi-
One of tho persons who Las made an ex
can, in all his glory, was at the upper whi
haustive study of this subject is Dr. T. Mitch
dow, and ttle one sided pantomime for the
ell Pradden, the director of tho laUwatory
benefit of somebody in the hotel was still
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
going on. This hotel was tho one most
this city. In the early part of the year he
patronized by visitors from the states. The
contributed a long article to Tho Medical
American minister was living there. So
Record, in which he showed the result of
were the representatives of a big American
very careful analyst's of different samples of
syndicate engaged iu consummating a land
ice taken from all the sources of supply
deal. Altogether there were probably as
around New York. He camo to the conclu
many American as Mexican guests. What
sion that typhoid fever and possibly cholera
if this persistent gallant was trying to force
might easily be spread among the consumers
his unwelcome attentions upon an American
of tho ice which is formed on the Hudson.
lady? The thought was enough to start a
“This river,’’ ho says, “is at the best rather
throb of patriotic indignation. The Ameri
shallow, and largo quantities of detritus an
can went on about his business, but ho said
nually brought down the stream cause con
to himself, with a menacing look toward tho
stant and considerable change in the bottom.
supposed masher, “Somebody will be kicked
The islands in the river from Coxsackie to
down stairs before he is much older.”
Albany are gradually formed from tho sedi
That night Mr. Fresh, the American, got
mentary deposit. At the upper part of this
An English Quack Doctor's Trick.
together two or throe of his fellow country
A short time ago a quack exfierimented in section, Troy, a city of over 50,000 inhabit
men at tho hotel, told what he had seen and
Lambeth with considerable success upon tho ants, empties daily 8,000,000 gallons of sew
invited suggestions as to tho projier remedy. pockets
of an awe stricken crowd. After a age into tho river, which is already charged
The Americans listened, looked at each other preliminary
and a terse little lect with contributions from Cohoes and Lansing-
and grinned. There was one in the ¡»arty a ure on the harangue
viscera,
which tlw charlatan burg, to say nothing of the impurities
six footer from West Point. In his mind’s
iu with colored crayons upon a I brought by the Mohawk from tho west. A
eye the discoverer of the masher had already sketched
on which tho human skeleton few nub's lielow Trey Albany, with over
seen tho big lieutenant administering pun« blackboard
was outlined in white paint, the fellow came 00,(XX) inhabitants, has also an efficient sew
ishment to th » impudent Mexican. But the to
business. “I am going to demonstrate to age system, which it pours directly into the
widest grin of all was that which spread over you,
” said he, “by a startling experiment river.”
the army man’s face.
Taking tho results of all his analyses of ice
upon one of you bystanders, that my
“My friend,” said the American lieutenant, miraculous remedy can cure all diseases of from the various sources, he finds that the
“you’ve run up against a caso of hacer el oso. tho lungs ami chest. Now, whoever’® got a average number of living bacteria contained
In other words, you now know what ‘doiug bad cough or cold on tho chost let stand for in one cubic centimeter of the melted ice is
tho beAr act’ means in Mexico.”
” There was somo little hesitation and 2,033, or, to put it in more common terms, a
One of the curious social customs of tho a ward.
go<xl
dml of giggling. “Don’t be afraid, pint of melted ice would harbor about «500,000
sister republic bars the door when two young my friends,
” said the quack; “it’s all free, living bacteria of various kinds. He who,
people become engaged to bo married. gratis, for nothing. Let any afflicted person impressed with tho importance of a pure
Thenceforward the lover visits his beloved come forward and I’ll show him the nature drinking water, should perfectly filter half a
only tn the presence of tho rest of her family of his disorder, and give him a packet of my glass of average winter Croton water and
and at formal intervals. In lieu of “sitting lung healers for nothing.” At last a man then add to it an equal quantity of average
up” with his girl he “docs the bear act.” with a violent cold and cough came forward. ico, would have tho satisfaction of replacing
This consists in finding an advantageous Tho quack doctor pretended to sound hi» the bacteria removed with more than eight
position which commands a view of the sen-
with a stethoscope of almost pantomi times as many from more uncertain and
orita’s window, and taking possession of it chest
mic proportions and informed tho staring questionable sources.
during leisure liours. Long loving looks are crowd that tho patient was in a galloping
One reason, Dr. Pruden says, why it was
exchanged, also pantomime, and occasion consumption.
never before known by scientific men that
ally when the street is deserted tho maiden
“My friend,” said tho quack to tho unfortu ice might contain tho germs of disease was
will como from behind tho lattice, and stand nate victim, “so terrible is this disease that that the only method of research was by
Superstition of the Fortieth Year.
ing on the balcony carry on a rather re you can actually see it.” Ho hamksl a glass chemical examination. These could not, ex
When I was traveling in Germany I
strained conversation with the wooer on the tube to tho patient and then poured a pint cept inferentially, determine the presi'nee of
pavement below or perhaps across the street. of clear water into a largo tumbler. “Just I bacteria. It is no longer necessary to infer learned that there was a superstition in
This is what is called “doing tho bear act.” you blow into that water, my friend,” he I their presence. These living germs may now regard to tho fortieth year of each century
Tho young Mexican whose queer conduct cried. The man obeyed, and the water grew be actually counted, and their species and that was held by all Prussians and that
opposite tho hotel had excited indignation discolored, turbid, and at last as white as if actions on tho animal body definitely deter has its foundation iu the history of the
was not a masher, but an exemplary young it had been mixed with milk. The patient mined. The new method by which this in empire. Tho fortieth year of each century
gentleman of most honorable intentions. He became as pale as ashes. “This unhappy formation is obtained is called tho biological is regarded by them as marking the begin
ning of a new era, and in substantiation
was the accepted lover of a high born señ man, my friends,” said the quack, as ho held analysis.
orita, whose father had apartments in the the glass on high, “if he had’t had the good
In tho experiments made by Dr. Pruden of their belief they go back to the fifteenth
hotel, and bo was pursuing his courtship a< - fortune to come across mo to-night wouldn’t samples of ice which contained evident gross century. Frederick HohonzoUern was a
simple burgravo of Nuremberg, who rose
cording to tho customs of his country.
have been long for this world. I should have impurities, such as grass and straw, were in to a great distinction and acquired large
would havo been a sad mistake to have given him alxjut a fortnight; that’s all.
fl eases rejected as not fairly representative. wealth. In tho early part of the fifteenth
kicked him down stairs, and mighc have led Now a packet of my lung healers will euro It has been shown that bacteria may exist in
century tho old electoral houso of Bran
to international complications.
him. What you see in tho glass of water oro auormous numbers without impairing the denburg died out and tho right to name a
Sometimes engagements are protracted in his vitiated humors, the products of corrup clearness and transparency of the ice.
successor fell to the emperor of Germany.
this country by circumstances over which tion. My magic lung healers destroy these
Dr. Pruden made biological analyses of 153
the lovers have no control. I/i these cases humors in tho body or out of the Ixxiy. Ob samplss taken from blocks of ice from the Frederick HohenzoHorn bought tho title,
“the bear act” goes on season after season serve, my friends, watch me carefully, there j Hudson river at various points from West but the nobility opposed his purchase, and,
until everybody for blocks around gets in the is no deception here.” Tho quack dropped a | I Park to the vicinity of Troy. These em after tho fashion of thoso days, some hot
way of expecting to see tho faithful swain pinch from one of a packet of powders into a braced samples froTn all the prominent i<* fighting ensued which resulted in a decis
put in his appearance at a certain hour of glass, and directed tho pationt to stir it with fields and many of the small ones. In all of ive victory for Frederick in tho year 1440.
Is considered the beginning of the
tho day and misses him almost as much as the tube. Tho water Ixx'amo immediately these lie foulid a large number of bacteria of This
political and military power of tho houso
the girl does if he stays away. Instances clear. Then he reaped his harvest. The different kinds.
Snow ice, Dr. Pruden
HohenzoHorn. In 1540 tho elector of
where lovers have kept up this wooing at a water was lime water, and the carbonic acid found, contained many times the number of of
Brandenburg embraced the Protestant
distance for three and four years are told of. in tho man’s breath naturally threw down bactei ia found in transparent ice taken from religion.
1640 the great elector, as he
The custom is not often waived. But bluff the carbonate of lime at once, and rendered the same blocks. Bubbly ice was also im was called, In ascended
the throne, and by
old Gen. Mier y Teran set society at defiance tho water turbid. And tho miraculous lung pregnated to a much larger extent than skillful diplomacy and power of arms
not long ago. His adopted daughter had be healer was simply a little citric acid and transparent ice with these organisms, but he acquired tho kingdom of Pruasia, which
come engaged to a worthy young gentleman. • sugar which instantly redissolved it.—Sutur- found that this rule as to bubldy ice and snow he added to Brandenburg, thus doubling
Tho latter had hired the use of a room in a <lay Review.
Ice holds good only when the water from and trebling the strength of his prin
house across the street and luul begun to carry
which the ice is formed contains a consider cipality. In 1740 Frederick the Great
ou the usual pantomime.
able number of lwwteria.
A Lowly Refreshment Stand.
ascended the throne, and in 18-10 Freder
“Tell him to quit that,” said Gen. Teran to
Hudson river ice contained a much larger ick William IV ascended the throne, and
At the foot of the Fifty-ninth street elo
the ladies of his family, “and to come here vated station, between a stout telegraph pole number of bacterial impurities than the ice was succeeded by his br<Uher, the present
and see tho girl whenever and as much as he and one of the iron pillars, there sits a buxom taken from the other watera near New York, emperor.
During Frederick William
likes. They aro going to be married in a colored woman attired in the proverbial blue and, while some of these luicteria may be IV’s reign began tho movement which
couple of months and there needn’t be any calico dress, an immaculate white apron, and considered harmless, others, he said, were un culminated in tho Insurrection of 18-18,
nonsense about it.”
a fantastical headdress of bandanna handker doubtedly injurious. The fact that two com and guve Prussia its constitutional govern
The young man came. Everylxxly talked, chief. An ironing board does duty in front mon and very important bacterial forms of ment,—Globe Democrat.
but the comments didn’t bother the old gen of her as a counter. Upon this is placed at disease, typhoid fever and diseases associated
eral half as much as the buzzing of so many one end a huge coffee urn with an oil stove with blood jxnsoning, are almost constantly
In nil scenes requiring a blush, modern
flies would during his siesta.
underneath. Next to this is an immense present in large towns like Troy and Albany, actresses put the emotion on with a brush
An American railroad engineer on th® waiter of deviled crabs. The woman usually and frequently in villages along tho upper before the curtain rise*, and produce it nt
Mexican National, who married a Mexican takes up her stand about 11 o’clock at night, Hudson, confirms the statement made by him the projier moment by rubbing oil the
lady, told how ho put his foot down against and there she remains until it is nearly morn that Hudson river water is impure for drink complexion powder.—Burlington Free
the idea that an engaged couple must lx) al ing. During the few minute intervals on ing pui’iMJses. He says he does not know Press.
lowed no privacy. After it had been ar the elevated trains she indulges in cat naps. whether the bacteria of typhoid fever may
ranged that there was to lx? a wedding ho As each train deixisits its load of passengers retain life indefinitely or not in ice, as tho
went to see his betrothed. The members of she suddenly enthuses with the thought of a longest period in which they have l>een kept
her family, one and all, came into the room possible customer. The voice that has been frozen to his knowledge is 103 days.
immediately and endeavored to make things ’ trained in the old plantation school of music
He sugg»?sts that the state board of health,
agreeable for him. They sat him out and he raises its notes and utters the refrain of *Hot or somo other authorized body, should have
8IMM0NS
went away disappointed. Tho second visit | coffee and debbled crabs.” If no one sto)#« to full control over tho ice harvesting fields,
was no different. Mother, sisters, brother» ' purchase, and the rapidly dispersing crowd and by a system of inspection not less strict
and even the father remained iu the room. < warns her to infuse more life into her cry, than that which should exist in the care of
all the time.
she sings in a higher key, “Hero’s nice hot the ordinary water supply, determine which,
“The third time I called," said the engi corphy and debbel crabs. Oh,.won’t you buy if any, of the sources of ice supply are so
For all DiMAM. of the
neer, “I took the old gentleman one side and d»*e debliel crabs f*
situated ns to imperil the health of the con
Llvtr,
Kidneys,
Stomach and Splttn.
reasoned with him. lie said it was the cus
The belated ¡»asHenger who does try a cup sumers of tho ice. In tho case of tho Hudson
This purely vegetable pre
tom of the country not to leave engaged peo of her coffee generally adds a nickel to her river it would be necessary to establish by
paration. now so celebrated as a
ple by themselves. I told him it wasn’t the- price, and, if his digestion be good, a deviled most thorough scientific* examination tho
Family Medicine, originated in
custom of my country, and I didn’t like it. crab prepared in the old southern style of distances from all existing sources of sewage
the South in 182N.
It acts
gently on the Bowels and
If I was to lx? trusted with the girl after i cooking makes him wonder that such things pollution, nt which it might be safely as
Kidneys and corrects the
marriage I could be trusted with her before. can be found at that time of night. The wo sumed that tho water had freed itself from
action of the Liver, and is, there
If I couldn’t visit tho bouse and see her by man who keeps the stand is said to make I m > l>acteria and other impurities sufficiently to
fore, the '»eat preparatory
medicine, whatever the sick«
hei*self I would stay away for good. That tween <2 and |3 per night.—New York Even form safe ice. It might in this way l>e jx»-
ne-.s may prov« to be.
In all
brought tho old gentleman to terms. Ho« ing Hun.
sible to remove any chance of danger by
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common diseases it will, wn-
consulted the rest of the family and then an »
permitting the questionable or bad ice to be
aaalated by any «uher medi
cine, effect • speedy cure.
nounced the decision—that I was to be per !
Gems in Brown Paper.
sold only for non-drinking purpos«*», if such
The Regulator is safe to administer In say
mitted to do my courting the American way.
I heard a curious story about Mrs. Paran a classification is practicable, and thus not
condition of ths system, and under no circum
After that when I went to call the other Stevens, the other day, which wax extremely essentially interfere with the interests of the
stances can N da harm. It will invigorate
memlx?rs of the family would greet me all characteristic. A friend calling was shown ice comiMiiiics.
like a glass of wine, but is no intoxicating bever
age to lead to intemperance; will promote <14-
round and then get up ami file out of th©’ up into her boudoir and took the first chair.
Dr. Walter De F. Day, the sanitary super
gestlon. dissipate headache, and geti«r>
room, formally and solemnly, as if they were« They conversed for a while, or rather he intendent of this city, said that tho l>oard of
ally tone up the system. The dose is small,
doing something very serioua When I got> listened with interest to her caustic comments health does not have any supervision over
not unpleasant, and its virtues undoubted.
ready to leave, the whole family, under the on men and things, until she said suddtenljr:
the ice brought into the city at present. It
No loss of time, no Inter
ruption or stoppage of
lead «»f the old gentleman, would march in
“Ob, you're sitting on my diamonds; get has not y< t born demonstrated that any dan
business
while taking ths
and bid me good night The programme was up this minute.”
ger exists, or that any infection has Ix’en
Regulator.
a little emliarrasHing at first. It was carried
On examination ho found that a little caused in this way, and the question has
Children complaining of
out in mich a way as to make me feel that a. crumpled brown paper parcel on the seat of therefore not linen seriously considored. The
Colle, Headache, or Midi
great deal was being conceded to me.”
Stomach, a tea spoonful oe
the chair, which he had not noticed when he theoretical |xwwiLility of infection from thin
more will give relief.
The engineer, who is an intelligent man,, sat down, let slip when he picked It up a |ier- sounhe admitted. Professor (’handler, of
If taken ossaslonally by pa-
went on to talk alxxit his relations with hi» fuct river of the most splendid gems.
| Oolurnbin college, who is one of the most eni-
*
tients exposed to MALARIA,
wife’s family after marriage. He said they
“I keep them in brown paper," she ex i inent microscopists in tho city, lias also made
will expel the poisoaand protect
always made him feel at home when he vis claimed, “to deceive the burg kirn. They’d 1 some examination into the existent e of dis*
them from attack.
ited there, and he gave it as his conclusion, never think of looking in a brown paper Ixig ! eostNl germs in ico, and has published I pam
A PHTBICfAVS •PINIBN.
from personal rxjx»ricnc« and general ob lying alxxit anywhere on a shelf or in a phlet on tho subject, which ¡mints out ths
1 have been practicing medicine for twenty years,
•nd have never been able to put up a vegetable
servation, that the Mexican mother-in law is drawer for somo 175,600 worth of jewels. possibility of infection through the use of ice.
compound that would, like Simmons Liver Regu
a model. When the señorita becomes the There have been two attempts to steal them —Now York Hun.
lator, promptly and effectively move the Liver to
señora she is expt*cted to cleave to her hus within a year, and I hit on this as a good way
a< tion. and at the saaee time aid (lastoad of weak-
ening) the digestive and assimilative powevt of the
band, ami she gets no encouragement or sym to keep them.’’—Brooklyn Citizen.
Home folks has er tietter way o’ showtn
system. L. M Harrow, M D .Waatungtaa, Ark.
pathy from the mother fur her marital griev
dat <la 'presherates yer kiii’ness den udden
ances. —Globe-DenrocraL
SEB THAT TffflFeBT THB hENTlNB.
! Darwin wiw a dunce at school and a rake docs, lie long tail houn’ ken '¡mar ter Iw e>
Mtsraae» av
at college, so says bis life, recently pub heap gladd- r den de 'tump tail dog, Wen <1>
Renatorw Edmunds, Hoar, Sherman and- lished.
truf U dot be m nt nut be ha'f eo glad.—Ac
J.
H.
Z»iHn
• Ce.. FhiMtlphla, Pa.
ftueüi read French Uka naUva Parisiana
Kuuaw TraveMr.
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