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Sometimes the procession is curved so as to form a design over the entire surface, but this depends on individual taste or fancy. One can ask her friends and neighbors to work the pairs of animals, usually giving them some choice in the matter. Some of these quilts are very amusing and really worth keeping. At a recent starting of one a lady volun­ teered to work two fleas, which she actually did with wonderful care and dexterity. In cream sheeting the animals may be all in red turkey quill, worked with red ingrained thread or in various colors. This may be an idea of many busy fingers. The baby’s crawling blanket or cot coverlids probably gave the idea of the Noah’s ark quilt and also suggested the same style of perambulator cover. The animals are generally cut in paper first and then in whatever material they are to be worked, and are copied from a child’s colored picture book. Scraps of fur and skin are used to represent the specimen as true to nature as possible. It is occasionally worked on a foundation of double width diagonal serge, with the various animals portrayed in wools, sometimes in cross stitch, first worked on pieces of ordinary canvas, afterwards drawn away or in outline stitch, in crewels or in another stitch, which is being now used a good deal for traveling rugs, bath blank­ ets, etc., which is done by laying wool in strands on the outline pattern and tacking it down by small stitches of silk or a contrast-1 ing color. In two shades of color this works well and the edges are usually widely but­ tonholed in both shades.—Mrs. Lucia Lud­ wig in Detroit Free Press. THE GROWING SCARCITY OF YOUNG WOMEN FOR HOUSEWORK. Good Health and Physical Beauty—Made Dishes—Plain Talk for Husbands—“No­ ah’s Ark” Quilt—A Fat Woman’a Com­ plaint—Hints for the Household. An elderly wife, who had advertised in rain for several months, said: “The groat evil in America, as I have (earned it from many housewives from many cities, is the growing scarcity of females for housework. The factories, mills, sewing rooms, offices of all kinds, shops, ete., are at­ tracting young women, who consider house­ work a disgrace. Very many young women would rather toil from morning until night for S3 a week and pay for their own board than do housework, which would yield them twice as much money. There is entirely too much false pride among the young women of the country. They imagine doing housework is a disgrace. They forget the honest toil of their mothers. In many instances mothers aro to blame, of coursa They don’t want to see the delicate hands of their daughters soiled. They don’t want them to be drudges in any family, for fear their chance« for suit­ able marriages will be lessened. All that is false and pernicious teaching. The ability to do housework as it should be done should be the aim and object of every young woman, rich or poor. But as long as this false idea of the humiliation of doing housework exists, so long will young women rather work and starve at doing something else. With the present custom of abstaining from house­ work, tho dearth of suitable help in the household has become an alarming annoy­ ance. We find it almost impossible to get any well trained help. Families are giving up housekeeping and going to boarding. There are too many ‘ladies’ with beautiful hands. “They want to be taught the dignity of labor. They want to be informed that hon­ est young mechanics want wives who can keep house. They want to know that sewing girls are not wanted for housewives, and the entire coihmunity must know, sooner or later, that the great underlying cause for so much unhappiness in the home circle, not to say poverty, distress and absolute crime, is tho fact that young women who marry know nothing of housekeeping. Their mothers are deserving of the most severe censure for this. They connive with their daughters to deceive prospective husbands, and when the young women become wives they disappoint their husbands, home becomes a mockery, the in­ come of the husband is frittered away,nothing is saved ami chaos comes into that home cirele. I have no pity for young women who starve at fifty cents a day and who must ‘board’ thomselves. If they would shake off their false pride, think less of the fine texture of their hands, leave the mill and factory, drop tho needle and vacate the garret, and take up respectable housework, they would be far better off. Such young women can solve this whole problem themselves. “The supply of housework girls is drained, and tho supply of needle girls with beautiful hands is flooded. Both must be adjusted, and poverty among women will disappear, but false pride must lead tho way. The best women in the land do housework of some kind, and no honest girl need be ashamed of that sort of employment. On the contrary, she should be proud of it, because every sensible man will think the more of a young woman if he is told that she is doing house­ work for a living and thus being correctly 6cliooled for the practical responsibilities of married life. Then, if she is well married and does not need to do housework, she will know how it ought to be done and her help cannot deceive her. She will be independent and thoroughly capable to care for herself. Therefore, to sum up, I would advise sewing women to drop the needle and take up house­ work.”—New York Sun. The Era of Woman. The present is pre-eminently the era of woman. The vast progress made by the sex toward a higher physical and intellectual plane is exerting its effect upon body and mind to produce that species of development which we term beauty. This evolution will go on until it reaches a climax, when de­ terioration will commence. Women have for ages been under restraint, like plants kept where there is deficient sunlight. The growing tendencies toward emancipation re­ move the physical restraint and illumine the intellectual atmosphere, and so improvement goes on, but finally there will come a time when there will be too much sunshine, and au excess of growth without the pruning or training which are necessary to maintain perfect development. Then the deterioration will commence. Women will become in strength, energy and physical prowess more like men, and, alas! more like men in morals, while the mne of the real old Irish families—she was au O'Grady and that was tho raison of iL* ”—English Magazine. “It’s all very well to talk of made dishes,” broke out a woman one day in a council of housekeepers, “but what is one going to do if her family won’t touch them? Now there’s my husband; he won’t eat hashes or stews or made overs of any kind. He always wants steaks or chops or veal cutlets for his break­ fast, and the boys are just like him. If I were to put a scallop on the table he’d call it baked hash or boarding house fare, and it would be just the same with croquettes or anything else of the kind. He says he want« something solid for his meals.” ♦ Undoubtedly many women have to battle with this sort of opposition in their endeavors to raise the* standard of cookery in their homes. Still there are many men who relish made dishes, and there aro others who can be brought to do so by a little iunocent diplomacy. It is not worth while to adver­ tise by blowing trumpets before it that the ragout or pate that presents such an attrac­ tive appearance is composed of scraps from yesterday’s roast, the gravy* made of the bones and a little boiled rice, or macaroni. It would be no gratification to most men to know that the whole dish cost just thirty­ seven and a half cents. With the woman, on the other hand, the knowledge of the fact causes her to thrill with mild exultation and imparts a flavor to the food that would be quite missing in a meal that was three times as expensive.—Christine Terhune Herrick in Harper’s Bazar. _________ A Fat Woman's Complaint. “There is a fortune for anybody who will start a ‘Fat Woman’s Journal,’” said a woman who weighed more than 200 pounds; “or if you want to be more euphemistic and euphonious, a fashion magazine and christen it ‘A la Jolie Emboni>ointe.’ In this there shouldn’t be a fashion or a fashion plate that did not pertain to a woman weighing at least 175 pounds—and upward, as they say in the cheap stores. At present you can’t flad a fashion plate that does not represent a slender, long waisted woman. For this sylph every­ thing is designed—gowns, wraps, bonnets. It is impossible to find anything intended for largo women. Apparently nobody gives us any consideration, and we clothe ourselves, as it were, by faith. “It is absurd,” continued the lady, “for the fact is well established that American women have lost the approach of ecrawniness. Go where you will, at least among the leisure classes, and you will find the large proportion of women broad shouldered, well developed and a generous overflow of figure. And we are worth considering. There is a fortune in avoirdupois for whoever is far enough sighted to perceive it. Send out the prospectus ‘A la Jolie Embonpointe’ or the ‘Fat Woman’s Journal’ and see how quickly we will rally to its support from every part of the land.”— New York Evening Sun. Care of the Complexion. businees to do this than she hast What a rumpus there would be about the family hearthstone if you were to catch her flirting with a man or following a bearded face through tho streets to see where its owner be­ longed! What particular blaze« would play about the walls of “Home, Sweet Home," if She indulged in such harmless foibles! Yet I say unto you, yea and verily, her latitude In that direction is just as wido as yours. What if the wife you married is getting faded, like a fabric that has been often washed; what if the lines have come where the smile in its dimplement was, and the ugly crow tracks, like birds’ feet on the wet and shining sands, have traced the skin that once was softer than a rose leaf; what if the graceful shoulders are bent a little and the laughter has left her eyes! If you have the I chivalry of a true man in your soul, you will revere and honor that wife with greater and increasing tenderness as she grows old and wan anil faded; for what is it that lias aged her I What lias stolen away her bloom aud robbed her glance of its sunny light I What but ministering to you, and toiling for you, and serving you I Your children have stolen the rose tint from her cheeks and lip«, and tending to their wants by night and day, ministering to them in sickness and health, if she be a fond mother, has deprived her of tho grace and bloom of youth.—“Amber” in Chicago Journal. Themselves to Blame. For many of tho sins of mankind women havo thomselves to blame. First, for their viciousnesi and coarseness, women being either too ignorant or too cowardly to exact from men the same standard of virtuo which men expect from them. Secondly, for their tyranny, liecauso the laws and customs of many generations havo placed women far too much in the power of men, and even were it not so their own warm affections make them too easy slaves. Thirdly, for the selfishness which—doubtless with rightoous reason— Is so deeply implanted in the masculine breast that a thoroughly unselfish man is al­ most a lusus naturae. And no wonder, since from his cradle his womankind have adored him. Mothers, nurses, sisters all join in sweet flattery, the perpetual acquiescence, which makes him as boy and man think far too much of himself. Then, perhaps, come« a period of innocent tyranny from his sweetheart, which he soon repays by tyrannizing over his wife. Thus, except that brief season when love has Struck the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight, there is for tho ordinary man—I do not say the ideal man, or even the specially good man—no time In his life when he was not bolstered up in his only too natural egotism by the foolish subservience or adoring love servitude of the women about him.—Corn­ hill Magazine. Education for Girls. “If I had a girl I would send her to college, but I havo put my son at work in my office,” said a prominent business man, himself a col­ lege graduate, the other day. “Why do you make such a distinctionF he was asked. “Becausea girl needs the best education she can get in order to earn a living, while a boy is often as well, and sometime« better off, without. A woman physician can got into practice more easily than a man because there is yet so little competition. A woman teacher must be fit for a position in the highest grade of school If she isn’t to starve. A woman stenographer must have that general infor­ mation that a man gets rubbing about the world, but that usually come« to a woman through books, to make her intelligent enough to make wages. That’s th« girl’« side of it; as to the boy, there are too many men in the professions, aud as a preparation for business, too many years of schooling waste a young man's timo. He might lay the foun­ dation for a fortuno while ho is fooling with the Greek particle.” —Detroit News. To prevent pie juices from running out in the oven, make a little opening in the upper crust and insert a little roll of brown paper jierpendicularly. The steam will escaj» from it as from a chimney, and all the juice will be retained in the pie. Try jhe experiment of finding out what boys know, and what they don’t know. Help them to do a little thinking for themselves, and see how quickly they will acquire mors knowledge, and use it intelligently for your benefit. To keep moths out of closets, clothes and carpets, take green tansy. It is better be­ fore it goes to seed. Put it around the edges of carpet« and hang it up in closets where woolen clothes are bung, and no moth will ever come where it is. For bunions get five cents worth of salt­ peter and put it into a bottle with sufficient olive oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up well and rub the inflamed joints night and morn­ ing, and more frequently if painful. A starch superior to gloss starch for calico and chambrey can be made of flour, by wet­ ting the flour up with very warm water a day before you need the starch; add boiling water and cook when you want to use it. It is said that in canning fruit, after the jar is filled, if the fruit is stirred with a spoon that reaches the bottom of the jar un­ til all the air bubbles rise to the top the con­ tents will never mold on top. A Boston lady says that Kate Greenaway and her pictureeque drawings in children’s books are responsible for more absurdity and discomfort in children’s clothing than any­ body is aware of._________ The best way to fry apples is to half them, remove core, put some butter in frying pan and put in the halves, tho cut side down; then add a little water and let them boil dry, then fry. To take grease spots out of clothing wet thoroughly in ammonia water, then lay white soft paper over it and iron with a hot iron. _________ In closing my talk with the ladies on this subject I would classify and sum up my ad­ Heating by Electricity. One can save all the bread scrap« by dry­ something like this: Profeesor Thomson tays that when the vice Train your feature« to composure, and ing them in the stove, then with the rolling means of utilising the power of creating pin they can be crushed for puddings, toma­ quick beating by electricity shall be better avoid all grimacing habits. toes and soup. _________ Exercise much in the open air. «nderstood if. will be used in every workshop Use oils, creams and fruit freely in your Galvanized iron pails for drinking water tor welding, forging and other purposes. diet. should not be used. The zinc coating is read­ Drink simple, blood purifying herb teas ily acted upon by water, forming a poisonous 4eia>h Than Mn. frequently. Recorder McCord, of the probate court in Do not wash yonr faces oftener than once a oxide of zinc. Cincinnati, says that as a rule women are day, but apply some harmless cream or meal Do not allow the spice boxes to become dis- less selfish than men. He comes to this con­ at least twice in twenty-four hours. orderly. Have each division carefully la­ clusion after rmding 100 old wills, in which If niggardly Nature or jealous Time on a beled and permit no mixing of the content«. he found many cases where the husband hot summer day necessitates the addition of made provision to cut off the widow’s sup­ a powder puff to your toi let articles, use it Put dried sweet corn in a coffee mill and plies in case she remarried, and in his whole with discretion and moderation. grind, and see what a quick and nice dish of experience he has read but one will of a mar- And in addition to all this yon must keep soup you will have with seasoning. rieil woman wherein any such stipulation your minds busy, your thoughts cheerful was made respecting her husband.—New and your souls free from bitlernem if you According to Joaquin Miller the California would preserve a fresh, attractive exterior woman talks less than any other woman in York San._________ beyond the Ac ting springtime of youth. - the world. _________ ▲ ”Naah‘s Ark” Qnllt. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. One of the fashionable things in fancy If pomible, keep one utenMl sacred to oniom work i* a Noah's ark quilt Th. qailt can ba Plala Talk for H a. hand a alone. ________ _ of »nr. Hoth. «atia «berting or plain cream Then there is another thing, sir! Often and A much worn broom is very hard on U m •haetinz. and 1» deaigned and commencad by often have I marked you turning to watch r _____ tbe lady wbo undertake it If »he i. an .x- pretty face, or commenting with your men carpet. peri«n<-»’d worker *he embroiders or applique, companions upon the outlines of a handsome There are said to bo only four the Noah s ark, which is near the center of Alaska, throe at J thaqailt, but placod hieh ub . TUauunal. form «r • Mud* tool M*v. rou mty mor. CIIAT ABOUT DRUGS. A FEW OF THE MEDICINES THAT PATIENTS HAVE TO SHALLOW. What a Physician Has to Say—Appli­ cations of the Most Important Drugs. Watching for the Leading Symptoms. ▲ Professional Secret. “What are some of the most important drugs and their applications said a leading physician as he repeated the reporter’s inter­ rogatory. “Why, you will be surprised,” he said, “when I uia|e tho statement that not over a dozen of the hundred and odd drugs upon the shelves of any city prescription stere are in general use among the profession or considered important in combating disease. No need for astonishment, it is a fact; and my experience from day to day, based upon observations in an extended practice, leads me to the conclusion that there is only one drug—quinine—which can be relied on to produce uniform results. Quinine approaches a specific more closely than any other remedy known to medical practice. All other drugs vary, and at times to an alarmiug extent, in the results produced by their administration, but quiniue is very nearly infalliblo in the treatment of that class of disease popularly termed malarial, and about one-half the mor­ tality of the world may be traced to those diseases. In fact in all cases of blood poison­ ing this drug is the favorite. In the valley of the Loire, in France; along certain por­ tions of the Thames river, in England; the ftoman Campagna and the Pontine marshes, in Italy, the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and the mangrove swamps of the tropical regions, 1 where malaria is endemic, the continued use of quinine is an absolute necessity, and from these regions no dire results have ever been recorded against it. Is there a quinine habit? I have never met but one case. The effect of the drug is not speedy enough to have its use deteriorate into a habit. “Next to quinine iodide and bromide of potassium lay tribute on the profession, al­ though their action at times is sadly erratic. The former with iron constitutes the basis of blood purifiers, so called, although such a thing as a blood purifier, in the popular ac­ ceptation of the term, is unknown in medi­ cine. It exists only on the cure all placards of the patent medicine compounder, and in the materia medica of the quack. Iodide of potassium acts as an absorbent in the blood, and its efficacy as a remover of impurities is brought about in that way. “Bromide of potassium and with it chloral are used principally in the treatment of ner­ vous diseases. They lessen the flow of blood to the brain, moderate nervous activity, and calm exciting emotions, producing a state of mental rest. Thus they are used largely in the treatment of the insane, and in cases of mental exhaustion. Digitalis is probably en­ titled to the next place from its importance i as a heart tonic. We appeal to it in cases 1 of weakness of the heart, and in most cases of diseases affecting that organ, although its use does not cover every species of heart dis­ ease. Bismuth and pepsin are the remedies the profession considers the most efficacious in the treatment of the internal organs of digestion. The former is used in disturbances of the stomach and bowels, while the latter is supposed to supply the lack of acid, which is one of the instruments by which food is digested in the stomach. In surgery car­ bolic acid and iodoform aro the principal drugs used. The acid acts as a disinfectant, the other has important properties in heal­ ing. “Drugs,” the doctor continued, “and their administration is the leact arduous part of a physician’s business; the great field that exer­ cises skill and acknowledges ability in the profession and out of it lies in the determin­ ing of disease or the study of it« symptoms. Here is where tn« physician pauses. We only I know disease by its symptoms, and when we are called to the bedside of the sick person our energies are bent to discover the most prominent existing symptoms, and, knowing these, the great traditions of the science aud our own experiences point out the remedies that are applicable. And here let me say that there is scarcely such a thing as wrong treatment, so often heard assailing members of the profession when they fail to effect a speedy cure. As I have said, we always treat the leading symptoms first. This is the invariable and only rule that can guide us, but frequently the drugs that have done most efficacious work before in combating exactly the same symptoms appear perfectly useless in the present case; this is owing, of course, to the existence of the latent symptoms which will determine the nature of the dis­ ease, and for which wo are compelled to wait —unless dismissed in the meantime as incom­ petent in the opinion of the patient or his friends, and a new man called.” “Do many people consult you, doctor, whose ills are imaginary f’interrogated the scribe. The doctor smiled and relighted Ids cigar. “In answering your inquiry,” he said, “it will be necessary for me to unload a profes­ sional secret, but I guess it lias leaked out be­ fore this. Many of our office consultations are with people who are laboring under the apprehension that they are about to become invalids. Why, a case of that character loft my office not an hour ago. He is a railroad engineer, and thought his kidneys were affected, an idea produced, I suppose, by an occasional pain in the muscles of the back caused by the continued position which those men are compelled to assume. I gave him a prescription and told him he would be all right, although ho didn’t need it any more tljan you or L I’ll guarantee, though, that that prescription, which will fill a large bottle, will not hurt him, for it’s nothing but a little syrup and water, with sufficient sarsa­ parilla added to color it. Why did I give it to him? Because if I told him that he needed no medicine he would in all probability go to some other physician ‘who knew his business’ and get the worth of his money, as he would term it By giving him that prescription I have saved him another fee. I used to tell such people when 1 first l>egan practice that I they needed no medicine, but I found that | my honest advice was attributed to ignorance on my part of their hypothetical disease. Strange, isn’t it, but it is a fact, that the majority of persons who visit a physician want something for their money, and gener­ ally the more medicine they can get and, as a consequence, the larger their druggist’s bill become« tho letter you please them.” The King’s Head. Tbe king's bead wse first um «1 ae on« of the ball marks on English silver in 1784. Tbe story is that George III, having attended a dinner at Goldsmith's ball, wee greatly im­ pressed with tbe rich display of plate used on that occasion. His majesty was in need of money, it being just after tbe close of the American war, and the idea was snggroKwl that silver plat, was a good article for taxa­ tion. Roon after the duty act wee [ smw .1, which impe-l a tax of si xpence f.r ounce ody but Osman. Osman ran scarcely be called imperturbable, for he has his daily and hourly moods and is of varying temper, but he carries himself al­ ways as though conscious of being an outcast whom nothing can either elevate or defllo. When his fellow Mussulmans aro piously prostrating themselves and uttering religious jighs sincere as fanaticism can make them Osman is either curled up beneath a pome­ granate bush asleep, feeding the horst» or at­ tending to the peewit.—Thomas Stevens in Outing. Her One Request. Priscilla Jane Matilda Jones Walked in the avenoo, She wore a Scottish shaggy dog, ▲nd a costums of dark blue. LITTLE ONES WITH MERRY HEARTS AND WITHERED LIMBS. Up tn her stepped a burgaleer. Skin Larry was his name, * Jork over them ere rings,” saysbK “For that's my little game.” Sunshine and Shadow, Mirth and Pathoa in a Hospital for Unfortunate Children. How They Forget Pain in Play—Scenes Priscilla trembled o'er with fear; The man he smelt of grog; “Oh, take,” she said, "my purse and aXk But spare, oh, spare my dog.” —New York Morning Journal. in the Wards. I Only a crippled newsboy, swinging himself along with the aid of a crutch. Ah! It’s hard line« for such a lad! But there is a place in this city where there are scores of such children even more helpless than ha It is tho Crippled Children’s hospital on Forty- second street. They look bright and happy enough at first glance, as you see them at play in the big hall at the top of the building, with its four great wide windowed towers. Happy enough 1 As they swing high in the air in high backed chairs suspended from strong ropes or play hido and seek around the pillars, in the depths of the big windows and t>ehind the screens. And they aro very happy and bright when, for awhilo, they forget their pain and quivering nerves, and shout with laughter quite as gleeful as if many of the little heads and crooked backs were not bound up in hideous iron frame«. And they trudge around tho room after a runaway twill with as much zest as though the halting, tedious step and clanking braces did not hold them back at every turn. Hark! What a rumble 1 Look down to the end of the hall. There is a great chatter­ ing going on, and out from the crowd fly half a dozen tricycle« abreast, each manned by a girl of ten or thereabouts. With swiftly working feet and hands and shining eyes they roll down the long hall side by sida Evidently they are running a race. At the further end they wheel round and roll back again moro slowly, guiding with dex­ terity their wheels through the score or more of advancing riders who had followed in their wako. Never Had Been There. Brown — Where have you been lately, Robinson I I haven't seen you for two months. Robinson (carelessly)—Oh, off on a little trip—London and Paris and that sort of thing, you know. Paris is a flne place, Brown. Havo you over been tberel Brown—No; I’ve lieen in Louisville and Lexington and Paducah, but I was never in Paris.—New York Run. Friendly Amenities. Miss Clara—I think young Mr. Waldo is sa original, and so pleasant, too. He paid ma some very pretty compliments. Miss Ethel—Did he, indeed! Why, he must be original.—New York Sun. PAIN AFTER PLEASURE. I All is not play, however, much as they enjoy it, and pretty soon some pale faced girl draws out to the side, and unfastening the straps that hold her foot in the step, she raises it on her knee and chafes it with her hands, while she moans with pain. Every afternoon the children come up here, and tho paralyzed and lame remove one or both shoe« and go through these exercises to strengthen their diseased limbs. It is all dono undor the eye of a skillful professor, who tempers every oxercise to tho condition of the little one. Sometimes when he fastens the strap« of the tricycle the child utters a quick ory, and oftentimes must be lifted off the machine, being too tender to endure the exercise for that day. There are the bars for paralytics at one end, whero tho child seat« herself and with her hands on tho opposite bar works herself with a swinging motion back and forth. This is to try to bring life back into the withered muscles, and after weeks of practice it some­ times succeeds. After play hour comes the hard part of the day, when tho little ones gathor in their wards, each in his or her own little chair, and wait for the surgeon to come and band­ age them. Four o’clock is their dark hour, and it is with fearful faces and many a sigh that they wait the coming of the house doctor. The nurses go from one to the other, loosen­ ing braces and straps and unwrapping band­ ages, and then with a quick step and business like air, albeit with a kindly touch in his skillful fingers, the surgeon come« in and be­ gins his work. And then there are pallid < heeks and lips, clenched fingers and brave struggle« to hold back the cries that seem as if they would come out, and there are tears and moans from the little ones, whose baby hearts cannot understand the suffering they 1 liave come into. WAITING FOR BREAD AND MILK. After an hour or so he finishes, the last bandage is fastened, the last brace firmly I set in place and the last strap buckled * down, and then tho children move about I a little while, putting away the doctor’s utensils, picking up the scrap« he has left f and getting the room ready for their evening meal. They take their chairs again and, i placing them in a row, one directly behind ; the other, sit down to wait until tho waitress brings in their bowls of milk and heaping i trays of broad. I The ward is divided into two sections, with a double row of tables in each. The children Tobacco In Venezuela. An impression seems to prevail abroad that are stretched out in two rows in the rear of the ladies of Venezuela, being direct descend­ the tables. At the tap of the nurse’s l»ell, the ants of the Spaniards, aro great smokers. I , first row rises and proceeds in an orderly have made particular inquiries, but have manner up the side of the table till each child found the contrary to be the case. How oould is opposite her place. They go pushing their it be different ? The caraquennas show such chairs in front of them, for but few of the excellent taste and so much refinement that little ones could walk without this support. they could not possibly stoop to such vices. i When these were all in places the nurse It seems, however, that certain elderly ladies tapped tho bell again as a signal to those in occasionally enjoy a good cigar when among I tho other section. There was a rush of wheels themselves, but never in the society of gentle­ i and a shrill, scraping sound. And then the men. Probably they would indulge in it a boll tapped again, and instantly each tiny little more if cigars and tobacco were better uand was folded and each head bowed, and in Venezuela. But there are no good cigars in low, reverent voices these words sounded through the room: to be had. Tbo native tobacco^ although grown In I “Our heavenly Father, we thank thee for large quantity, is far below the average, and ¿iving to us this food, and we humbly ask Havana cigars are very expensive. Of ciga­ thee to bless our strength to thy service. rettes, American or Turkish are almost un­ Amen.” And then there was a rattling of spoons, known, and but those of Havana make are used. Among the women of tho lower classes and each child fell to eating with as much cigarette smoking is far more common, and enjoyment as though there were no such women of a certain, or, to express it more things as disease and braces and surgeons in plainly, of an uncertain, ago indulge a great the world. When the meal was over and the deal in cigar smoking. A curious and very dishes removed the tables pushed back out of general habit among them is smoking cigars the way, and the girls brought out the laind- inverted, with the burning end inside the age boxes and proceeded to roll lamdages for mouth. I have seen this frequently in the the next twenty minutes, till every one was West India Islands, at Curacao, and among ready anil packed away for the next day’s tho women of Venezuela, but I never noticed dressing. At 7 o’clock the little ones went to bed. men indulging in this risky practice. They say cigars taste much better if smoked in thia There was much bothering over inconvenient way, but I must leave it to tho reader* to de­ back buttons on aprons end dresses, a sudden cide for themselves.—E. De Hesse Wartogg gleam of baby arms, so thin and wasted, un­ lacing of shoes and adjusting of braces and in New York Bun. straps by the nurses, and then cool white night dresses obscured tho bright heads for a FountainleM London. moment ere they were buttoned into their London is a fountain leas city. It is not for places. want of urging; we have before now pointed Ah! three children have grown old In suffer­ out that there are many nooks and <*orneni in ing, till out of the little feature« the light of London which would be almost beau tilled by careless childhood seems to have faded, and the addition of a little water in an ornamen­ even their gayety seems pitiful.—New York tal form. We have, of course, the Trafalgar Herald. square squirts, but they are only apologies for fountains. We want something realiy Vnlneky Daye for Weddings. beautiful and refreshing to the eye, not that It is well to recall one or two interesting miserable sort of thing which has given the superstitions that were religiously noted in nickname of “Squirt square” to the spate be­ the time of our grandmothers. In the first hind the Town hall in Birmingham. Foun­ place, according to an ancient and reliable tains can be made per se attractive by the chronicle, there are thirty-two days in the mere arrangement of water. — London Globe. year that are especially unlucky for mar­ riages anil journeys. They are as follows: Keen at Night. Jan. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 and 15; Feb. fl, 7 and 18; It is surprising to bo told, as we are by a Marchl.fi and 8; April « and 11; May 5, fl writer who is an experienced yachtsman, that and 7; June 7 and 15; July 5 and 10; Aug. 15 dark tanned sails are much more easily dis­ and 19; Hept. 5 and 7; Oct 7; Nov. 15 and 18, tinguished at night than ars white one«. The and Dec. 15, 10 and 17. Everybody knows same remark hold, true of buoys, which are that Friday is the most unlucky day for a seen against the water and not against the wedding, while Wednesday ami Tliurmlay sky. In their caae, black can be seen farther are the luckiest Our grandmothers believed and more distinctly than white in the uight that it was a most unfortunate thing if the time.—Youth’s Companion. bride, after finishing her toilet and leaving her looking glass, should turn around again for a last glance at herself. It was also Iwl tor her to see the man she was about to marry after dressing and before the time had lor toe New York Btor. Force of Habit. Silenced the din of the busy day. Only the night wind's sighing Felt on the car of the comrade near The street car driver dying. Slowly the eye« of the dying man Parted—he gasped, he started— The comrade bent with ear intent O'er the Ups that speech had parted. An angel had beckoned the dying man Down by the stream so shady, ▲nd this was the word that comrade heard, “The other crossing, lady.” —(’liicago Tribunal Cause and Effect. First Omaha Youth—What’s the matter; got a day off! Second Omaha Youth—No; I’ve resigned. “What for!” “Nearly worked to death. The stere was always crammed full of customers, and it just kept me on the jump all day. Couldn’t stand it.” •‘But what are you going to do now!" “I shall try to get a place in some store that don’t advertise.”—Omaha World. Bridget's Philosophy. Bridget—Enjoy slape, is it) How could 1, I’d like yez to tell mo. The minit I lay down I’m aslai>e, an’ tho minit I’m awake I have to git up. Where's the time for enjoyin’ it to come in!—Philadelphia Call. A Sweet Picture. In these December ntehta true love le bar». Conceive a tweeter licture U you can; Fair Chloe at the flreifcli le pops the corn And Stephen pope the ie question, like a mta. —Boston Courier. Glorious l’osslbilitiee Ahead. De Leese]«—Yes, wo are still working on the Panama canal md have got hopes. By the way, you have the advantage of ma. American Tourist—My namo is Keely. “Ahl The Keely who is inventing a new motor F ‘•The same.” “How fortunate we have met When my canal is completed I will use your motors to run our towboats.”—Omaha World. A Kind They Didn't Have. “You have all kinds of rings, I supposeP observed McCorkle to a jeweler. “Ye«, sir,*1 was the reply. “What kind shall I show you—diamond, ruby, amethyst!" “No; you may let me examine a good wsl- kin ring, please.Philadelphia Times. An tnuiual Occasion. Omaha Wife—What under the sun ar« you doing! Husband—Trying to tie this string around my finger. “Why, I did not ask you to do any errand.” “No. This string is to remind me that I have nothing to remember today”.—Omaha World. Oh, a man may gain a deathless renown. And all fame that the world can give. But if caught in a woman's dry goods crowd He feels too mean to live. —Yankee Blade. Evidently a Crank. Young Man (getting off street rar)— Here is my fare, conductor; you forgot to ask me for it.” Passenger—Who is that young man who just got off, conductor! Conductor—I never saw him before some crank, I guess. It takes all sorts of people, sir, to make up the world.—The Epoch. Story and Moral. Man, ass, Smeli. ras. Strikes match. ^JJaoo^ll Ia an affection of tho ITver, and oan be thoroughly cured by that Grand Regulator of the Liver and Biliary Organs, »■■ON* UVER RESULT MsavrsCTVSXO BT J. H. XEILOI ft 00., PUteMyhta, P*. I was aflilvteil for several yean with disordered liver, which resulted in severe sttack or Jaundloe. I bad good medical attendarwe as our s lion affords, who billed utterly to store me tn the enjoyment of i •wiser good health. I then Med I favorite preecriptlon of one of I moot renowned physicians of Louie- rille, Ky.. but to no purpose; Where­ upon I wfas Induced to try Mnnmswme LIv.r Rswmlatav. I found Imme tilaie twneBt from Its use, mltely restored ms to ths ment of health. A H. 8HIRLKT. R letamai HEADACHE