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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1888)
- THE TELEPHONE THE TELEPHONE. DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 0ns Door North of eor or Third and I fits, M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: WEST SIDE TELEPHONE (IN. ADVANCE.) )ne year........ fix mwnths □ire« months w F-’ to) . 1 to) . M WOMAN AND HOME. AN ILLUSTRATION OF CO-OPERATION IN A COUNTRY HOME. i A Physically Perfect Woman—What Chll- dren Should Learn—A I.azy Husband. | A Point on Dress—Educational Hints. I; Comfort for Wives—Items. An illustration of home co-operation has [recently come under my observation, which ! has interested me, especially since it (11 uh - [ trates the possibilities of the many homes as [ contrasted with the exceptional opportuui- | tit» of the few. In a quiet country home of which I know, | there are nine children (the four youngest, r boys). Their ages range from 1 to 21 year«, I City conveniences of sewarage, water works j and gas have not yet lightened household work, but there aro broad fields all about [ them, and the delights of woods and delis [ and sweet breathed winds and flowers. There i Is a vegetable garden to be caret! for, and a cow to be milked. The father’s business takes him from home a large part of every week, [ so that more care than is usual falls upon the mother. But what a genius is hers, indeed, for ordering the household forces! How I clear beaded and wise is she in the manage- | meat of. her home department! Several of the children are physically deli- . cate. They vary widely in temperament, and so many children must; but, so far as I know, they all cheerfully wheel into line, and the entire family w ork goes on quietly, regu larly, and apparently without friction. There is no maid in tho kitchen, but each daughter takes her turn iu the various de partments of work. She serves her appren I ticeship as cook, or chambermaid, or seam stress, and is left, after a proper start therein, to the unassisted conduct of her then depart ment, learning from occasional failure how to the better plan and execute next time. Since there are only “themselves,” all can bear with equanimity the sometime dis]>ensa- tion of an overdone roast or an underdone omelet, and if the wick of the “evening lamp” smokes ominously at one corner, Jessie or Alice or Arthur will be pretty sure to trim it straight the next morning. Even the very littlo ones feed their responsi bility in the family plans. One has in charge the sweeping of the verandas and the bring ing of the “kindlings.” Another washes all the vegetables. On Mondays the work of washing is so divided that it is not over wearisome for any. There are two clothes wringers, at which the larger boy’s officiate. One sister attends to the first washing, another to the rinsing, etc. The care of the lamp falls to one little girl, and so on. Then the mother has a sewing school, where even tho boys are enthusiastic learners. The baby constitutes a divided right. 1 susjiect that many bands have the holding of him, but as he has lieen a feeble child he has chiefly Callen his mother’s tending. In this family there are pleasant literary plans and readings. Music and art do not have the go by, either. In short, it is a well ordered re public, with no superfluous citizens.—Re becca Perley Reed in Christian Union. A Physically Perfect Woman. If any woman wishes to know whether she is a perfect specimen of her sex she has only to apply the rules lai<l down for ascertaining the fact and figure on the results. First, as to height, tastes differ, but the Medicean Venus is five feet, five inches in height, and this is held by many sculptors and artists to bo the most admirable stature for a woman. As for coloring and shape, here is a code laid down by the Arabs, who say that a woman should have these things: Black—hair, eyebrows, lashes and pupils. Wlute—Skin, teeth and globe of the eye. Red—Tongue, lips and cheeks. Round—Head, neck, arms, ankles and waist. Long—back, fingers, arms and limbs. Large—Forohead eyes ami lips. Nar row—Eyebrows, nose and feet. Small— Ears, bust and hands. For a woman of five feet five, 138 pounds is the proper weight, and if she be well formed she con stand another ten pounds without greatly showing it. When her arms are extended she should measure from tip of middle finger to to tip of middle finger just five feet ft <e, exactly her own height. The length of her hand should be just a tenth of that and her foot just a seventh, and the di ameter of her chest a fifth. From her thighs to the ground she should measure just what she measures from the thighs to the top of the head. The knee should come exactly midway between the thigh and the heel. The distance from the elbow to tho middle finger should be the same as the distance from the elbow to the middle of the chest. From the top of the head to the chin should be just the length of the foot, and there should be the same distance between the chin and the armpits. A woman of this height should measure twenty-four inches about the waist and thirty-four inches about the bust, if measured from under the arms, and forty- three if over them. The upper arm should measure thirteen inches and the wrist six. The calf of the leg should measure fourteen and one-half inches, the thigh twenty-five and the ankle eight. There is another sys tem of measurement which says that the dis tance twice arofind the thumb should go once around the wrist; twice around the wrist, once around the throat; twice around the throat, once around the waist, and so on, but the first is the measures used by sculptors, who have gained them by measurements of toe Greek statues. New York World. VOL. II MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, MARCH 16, 1888. transform a male exquisite Into a sloven, especially if the cores of poverty and an in creasing family rest upon his shoulders; or it aiay ba that he is by nature solvenly and easily relapses into that ideal destroying con- iition when the vanities of youth ('ease to act is a spur. Husbands of this kind commonly et their beards grow, neglect to polish the heels of their boots, and develop an irritating tendency to affect rubbers in all weathers. Their hats, if not actually shabby, are usually Antiquated, and thoir trousers, being worn too ihort, invariably bag most ugly at the knees. They wear long overcoats, and either carry qo umbrellas (caring nothing for their dingy old clothes) or umbrellas of prodigious cir cumference, of cheap material, and war- rented to turn inside out every time the wind hap|>ens to catch them right. These men, if living out of town, are al most sure to hatch a fondness for poultry ind to spend their Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings pottering about hencoops and watching the strut of their favorite roosters. They care nothing for society, not much for the opera or the play, and are alarmingly prone to fall asleep over their newspapers in the evening. They usually prefer a pipe to a cigar, and they are mighty consumers of beer. Even to such base uses may the married man descend.—Herald of Health. Courage, Weary Mother. “What have I done to-day?” the tired mother asks at night. “Nothing but take :are of baby and plan the meals and ‘pick up.’ My life is wasted on trifles.” Take courage, weary mother! The progress of the world ie])ends on the devotion of good women to fust such “trifles.” Who can do a greater work than these—care for a child and look liter tho interests of a home. She who with patient mother love prepares a human soul lor life’s responsibilities, does valiant service for both God and man. The first years of a child’s life must, of necessity, be devoted to the care of the body, but t’ie body should bo made a fit temple for the indwelling of an immortal soul. Taking core of the baby is rarely no triflo when viewed in this light. And what are the other sei vices that go to make a home? Innumerable as the sands of tho seashore for number, and in thejnselves ilmost us insignificant in character, but the grand sum total serves, as does the sandy riiore, to sffm tho swelling tide of outside sin ind suffering that menaces with sullen war the sanctity of home and the safety of society. The husband and the children who know the comforts of a happy home are safe from many woes that prey on those outside its ihelter. Blessings on the wife and mother who “looketh well to the wiys of her house hold, and eateth not the bread of idleness.” “The heart of her husband doth safely trust In her.” “Her children arise up and call her olessed.” “Strength and honor aro her Nothing, and she shall rejoice in time to :ome.—Iowa State Register. A Point on Dress. Finally the best wino came last; the best speaker was the handsomest and most at ractivo woman* and if I could tell her nam■» you’d all recognize her as a notable social leader. She said that she had just one little itory to tell apropos of the discussion on tress. “In teaching my class at Five Points,” she laid, “I used to always try to dress plainly, ind finally one day I bail to go to a friend’s ’rom the mission, and had to put on a visit- ng toilet. 1 was troubled about it, but I did lot see any way out of the difficulty, so I de i termined'to go oil and forget about it as well is I could. Well, as I was talking to the jlass a poor woman near me kept smoothing iown the velvet of my skirt; all the time me kept it up, touching it softly. After the regular session was over I asked those that wanted to speak to me to wait, as I always io. The woman stayed, not saying any thing, but going on softly smoothing the vel vet. ‘Do you like my gown?’ I said. “ ‘Sure, ma’am, we poor folks don’t see Anything so soft down here, and touchin’ it has made me feel quieter than anything you aid? “Since that I’ve made a point of dressing handsomely when I went to Five Points. That’s my little contribution to the discus lion on dress.”—New York Graphic. How to Treat Children. A word about nervous children. Never jcold them nor “make fun” of them. They raffer enough without your threats or sar casm. Pretend not to see their awkwardness when in company nor their grimaces when ilone. A case was reported the other day of I boy of 10 years who, on being vexed, and without any apparent provocation, will flench his hands and make th© most fright ful contortions of the muscles of his face and head till his mother fears he is idiotic. By ao means. He is the brightest boy in his ?lass at school, fond of reading and of natu ral history, but he is of a highly nervous lemperament, and has not been taught to yontrol the little wires, so to speak, on which a© is strung. This is no single case. There ar© thousands 5f children who give way to their nerves in rimilar fashion. Talk to them about these mrious little fellows that should ta their »rvants, not their masters. Never whip them. The man or woman who whips a ner vous child is on a level with brute« that have io reason. Encourage them. Help them. Be patient with them. They are the making if our future successful men and women, for they will work hard at whatever they under take. Brace up your own nerves first, and then be indulgent toward the capers of your 3ver-nervous children.—Boston Globe. What Children Should Learn. Wives and Husbands. Teach young girls and boys less about eti Tliey were discussing the awful problem quette forms and more about the spirit of love. Teach them not so much to dance and of the inefficiency of so many men. There pose and receive gracefully, as to ta quick to were three of them—all ladies who had known do a service for any one in trouble or be plenty and now were their own breed win wilderment, alert to lend a helping hand, ners inconsequence of the failure of husbands •ven if it ta to the girl in the kitchen or the to even keep the wolf from the door. “I l>e- homeless and hated tramp on the street, and i lieve in setting out the slippers and all that more mindful of othfiK’ comfort than their old time nonsense about a wife's duties,” said own. Teach them to despise vulgarity and one, “if the husband provides the home and low habits and uncleanline« of body or of , its necessities. But when I am obliged to go mind: but teach them also that poverty is no | out into the world and earn the money to buy disgrace and that the measure of a man's or a his bread as well as my own, as I do now, I woman's worth lies never in the pocket or tta give up the practice of setting out the slip attire. Anybody can wear fine clothes, but pers.” Another remarked that a married not so many can earn them honestly or go woman made the mistake of her life when without them if beyond their means. The she began to do anything to earn money. The man or the woman in a shabby coat ar cloak third said she also believed that the efficiency is more royal in the sight of honest men than of woman was creating a race of inefficient, the dude who never pays bis tailor's bill, or Irresponsible men. After talking it over in plain language, in the girl who D?ver lifts her lazy hand to earn which wai found for tremendous em her living. If I had the teaching of 100 blessed girls phasis, they all agree* 1 that, as women were today, I would drop the languages, and the so frequently obliged to earn their bread, classics nud tta accomplishments fn»m the everything should be made as easy as poa- list; I would close up the text books and turn sibla for them , but the old way of the bus the black I xxi rd«' Ethiopian face« to the wall band earning and the wife expending the •nd give a solid year’s lesson in human nature. money for their mutual comfort was the best, How they averagod in tat in should taof not and any departure therefrom showed that •o much « v unt as how they averaged in there was something radically wrong some honor «nd !•:> and heaven bora purity. where.—New York Preee “Every Day Talk.” What marks tney made in algebra should What Do Girl« Know! matter little pared to what sweet deeds . Most of our boyi assume the responsibili of courtesy «.id helpful love they scored from day to «lay. lhe«r standing in «chnlarxhip ties of the citizen, and our girls enter upon should pede into mrignifh’ance before their the duties of the wife and the mother with •landing 1« th« ability to make home happy. only the knowledge acquired iu the public —“Anitar* | q Chicago Journal. schools. Now, what do they knew! How many of the girls understand the He.b.nd. a. Nuisances. ■Uipimt ruks of liet. ventilation or Uaulb- Knmtoii.i« Us. effect of marrtog. to U i A HOSTESS’ CORDIAL GREETING. ful dressing? How many know hdw to treat Novel Reception of a Strangar^Unique a person suffering from sunstroke? How Hospitality—A Suggestion. many could bind up a wound so as to cfieeli tho flow of blood? How many could taka Mrs. Y. is a brilliant Boston woman of FAM- HOW THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN prompt and efficieut action iu those momenta abundant executive ability, shrawd wit, and ILY PREPARE FOR WINTER. when it is so imperatively required, those delightful hospitality. The exigencies of her fearfully imi>ortant moments, “before the busband’s business led to the keeping up of doctor comes?” In olden days the house an establishment in the west, where Mrs. Y. mother had learned in her girlhood “tho use An Old Gray back Tugging Away st a | passes some months of the year, and where Maple Log—The Family to the Ket I «be entertains a great many people. One day of simples and the most noble art of chirur- gery.” If, with our far greater knowledge vue—Au Uullntahed Hut—Habits of there was brought to Mi*s. Y. the card of an of the human body and its laws, we adopted English gentleman, accompanied by a letter Beavers. the same plan in teaching our daughters, jf introduction from friends of the Y’s abroad. how muny precious lives would besuvcdl— “You would be surprised at the intelligence The hostess went down stairs and greeted the E. M. Harding© in The Epoch. shown by these animals. Some of them seem fuest cordially. to be almost human, they are so clover.” I “We are so accustomed to travelers here,” Education of Women. “And industrious?” ■ ibe said, “that we know just what to do with “ More industrious than many people. Just them. We expect everybody to arrive travel A woman who cannot cook a dinner as well as eat it, inak£ a dress as well as wear now they ore lagging away day and night. i rtained and exhausted; and we let everybody it, a woman who cannot turn her hand to ! Usually they work at night only, but this is . take a bath the first thing. I spoke to the anything when occasion requires, who is not I building time, and as there seems to be snow I lervant before I camo down, and everything able to train her servants practically, and in the air they are hustling double time co » all ready.” “But,” stammered tho stranger, “I cannot teach them the value of economy of timn as get their winter quartdhi in order. Just well as money, is not, in my opinion, edu look at that fellow trying to roll down that chink of putting you to so much trouble. I”—— “Oh, I know just how you feel,” interrupted cated at all, though she may be very much i big log there.” cultivated, and even have been to college ! And Head keeper Byrne, of the Zoological tfi*s. Y. “A bath is the only thing that re- garden, leaned over the iron railing round and taken a degree. itores me to my normal condition when I’ve Look at Hester in her dairy, now* Would the beaver pond, his fine face lighted up with )een traveling, and you have come right she look any fresher, healthier, happier in a interest, as he watched the quaint, hairy lirough from Boston.” The guest demurred, but Mrp. Y. was too cap and gown, or be more usefully employed creatures so hard at work. The log was a in poring over conic sections or reading heavy limb of a maple tree. It lay ujk > u the »xecutive and too truly hospitable to allow questionable Greek plays? Take my word bank a yard or two from the water. It was lis scruples to prevent the carrying out of for it, girls would be all the tatter and almost as thick and tbree times as long as the Jer kindly intent. The Englishman was homes all the happier if more time and at beuver that was endeavoring to move it. The ihown upstairs to the bathroom, where it is tention were given to domestic affairs, and if animal pushed with all his strength, but to be presumed be combined with the progress every woman knew how to be her own cook, ! vainly. He stopixxl, half hopelessly, walked >f his toilet reflections upon the originality housekeeixjr and dressmuker. Such things . round and round the log, then squatting i*e- uid practicality of American hospitality. In due time the guest descended again to aro far more easily learned than dead lan signeclly on his haunches uttered a low cry. guages or mathematics, and aro of infinitely Instantly another creature poked its snout ¡he parlor, where Mra Y. awaited him. “I hope you found everything to your moro use to a woman in going through life.— just above the water’s surface and waited. Theory was repeated and the animal in the nind,” she said. Mrs. Boyle in Cassell’s Magazine. pond st nick out for the shore, reached it, “Ob, yes,” he replied, “1 have had a delight- and scrambled on the bank. *ul bath, and now I must bid you good after- A Habit to Avoid. “That’s old grayback's mate,” said Mr. iooh , as I have to catch a train.” It is a coarse habit of some people to sneer “WhatI” cried the hostess aghast. “You at “mothers-in-law,” and we often notice Byrne. “The two of them will work the log together.” And they tried it. But it was a tre ue not going!” such sneers in tho papers. “Unfortunately, I must. I only stopped Your own mothers, if you have sisters who mendous job. An auimal got on each side are married, is a mother-in-law, and so also and shoved with their noses and fore feet for >ver a train to call on you. ” all they were worth. But the log didn ’ t “Mercy!” she exclaimed in dismay. “I( is your wife’s mother. Your daughter, when she is married, will have a husband to budge an inch. Still they pushed and tugged bought you had come to remain, You cer- ainly can’t go away now when 1 haven’t seen/ whom your wife is mother-in-law. Every I and tussled. “I imagine they’ll givo it up,” said the re rou at all. ” man's mother who has ever had a married porter. “I really must,” was the reply.“but I assure daughter is a mother-in-law. “It looks like it,” replied Mr. Byrne. “But, rou I have bad a most refreshing bath, and F Tho vast majority of tho well beloved mothers of families are, or will be, mothers- ’egad, not now; for hero comes their two lit ilways shall remember with sincere pleasyre four unique hospitality.” in-law, and nearly tlie whole of these lovely tle ones. ” TIIE WHOLE FAMILY OUT. The story was too good to keep, and Mrs. Y. daughters upon whom thoir parents look ¡old it at her own expense, greatly to the en-> As he sjxjke two young beavers that had with-ffrido will some day bo mother -in-law. lertainment of her friends, who declared thatj When you think of these things you will see been swimming rapidly across the pond how ill becoming is the habit of sneering at clambered out eti the bank and each took a tiis fashion of entertaining callers was one turn at the end of the maple bough. All which deserved to be widely introduced, as it tho mother-in-law. Do not, therofore, fall into tho baneful cus four, taking a sort of bark from., old gray would solve many a perplexing question of, tom of speaking slightingly of mothers-in- buck as a signal, started in simultaneously. he proper method of disposing of gueets who' law if you honor tho mother who bore you, Just the least litile bit did the log move, but were not easy fo amuse.—Boston Cor. Provi-( or tho sisters and daughters in whom you de enough to encourage the beavers to dash at leuce Journal. it with a will. A little more it gave; then light—Now York Evening Sun. A Fatal Habit of Speech. more and more. Presently it struck a deep I heard on State street the other day an' decline in the bank and began to roll down. Advice to Overworked Women. Mrs. Abby Diaz recommends overworked The beavers were on it, tugging and push iu then tic story of detective acuteness. Every- women to let a good many unstarched arti ing. In a moment or two more it was at the xxiy is familiar with the trick that many: cles go rough dried, with only a little pulling bottom and lying on the narrow, flat surface nen have of capping whatever they hear1 and smoothing, to put plainer clothes on round tho edge of the pond. Before tho mo aid, when they do not dissent, with some children, and to quit baking so much cake mentum had altogether left it the beavers favorite expression. Thus one man says and pie. The great point is to gain time. were on it again, making their last big spurt. ‘precisely,” another “exactly,” and there is a “Let them give up doing those things for And in another second—splash! it tumbled considerable faction for whom the words their children, in order that they may do over into tho water. The deli ditcd beavers ‘just so” or “to be sure” seem to fill the re better things for those children, such as read sprang on it all at once. For the rest it was tired need. Not long ago a Boston man ing, talking, walking with them, especially as smooth as soap, and with Graybeard lead tole a large sum of money from his employ walking the woods and fields, such as getting ing on one side and liis mate on the other and ers and fled to the west. A description of him light on matters connected with their proper tho two littlo ones pushing at the other ond, vos sent to detectives and police superintend- training. 1 don’t mean to say that we never the big log went tlirough the water like a mte generally, and ataut a month aftor his »capo a Minnesota officer telegraphed that have a bit of cake or pudding in the house; | fast yacht before the wind. Tho beavers got it over to a hut made of le thought he had his eye upon the person in fact, we do often have plain cake and gin ranted. His appearance, however, was very boughs and mud in the middlo of the stream. gerbread, and occasionally, to help out, a pudding. But they are not counted in among They laboriously pushed it up half out of the lifferent from that described in the circular. the must haves. I have escaped from that water, and satisfied that it was safe set off in The situation was a pressing one; if tho sup- tyranny. If there’s no cake in the house, I quest of other material. The hut was nearly xised criminal was such in fact he might at don’t feel myself to be a shamed and sinful tho size of an Indian wigwam and much the my moment fly to Canada; on the other same in shape. It was made of many layers »and, to arrest an innocent person would creature, as I used to.”—New York Post. of sticks, logs and inud. The flooring was of »use a good deal of trouble. The object was to identify the man if pos logs, mifiported just above the water on other Charm of Little Dinners. The sincerest form of hospitality, and by logs and stones. The boughs of trees and sible within a few hours. In this emergency ¡he Boston detective in charge of the case ex- far the most enjoyable left to us, is “little” broken sticks were showing through tho dinners Showy banquets and display feeds mud. But that is liecause the house was not unined and cross examined the thief’s em may possess some interest as spectacles, and (*omplete. When i< reaches a *#e great ployers as to his peculiarities. They could hit various forms of glorification, private and enough to satisfy the animals they will take ipon nothing distinctive till finally the de public, individual or collective; but the real one good day and night to give it a finishing fective inquired in a moment of inspiration if soul of good fellowship is in a gathering of touch, and walking over it will smooth out is had any particular way of expressing hint-. six to a dozen persons—intelligent, congenial the nu^l with their broad, flat tails as nicely »If. “Yes,” was the reply; “I never knev/ ¡he fellow to talk three minutes without say- —round the table of a discriminating, ex as if the work was done with a trowel. And what is greatly to the credit of the ng. ‘I believe you.’” In half an hour the in- perienced host or hostess (or both), who in vite their friends, not to show the extent of animals, while all the beavers in tho pond 'orination was telegraphed to the west; their wealth and the luxury of their plate— work upon the but, the house is really in within four hours the Minnesota detective though there is no objection to tho use of tended to be the quarters only of the grand lad a long chat with his man, and before beautiful things, if one possesses them—but father and grandmother beavers in the col light the thief was arrested.—Boston Post. whose first thought is comfort, and a little ony. All the young ones have their own Emerion aa a Lecturer. season of unclouded, and, therefore, rational i abodes, and the ground all atxmt the pond is His lecturing was forced upon him mor*, enjoyment, on such a basis as can be repeated ■ burrowed deep with subterranean private ind more. His family was increasing. He and made a part, indeed, of the daily life— residences. Kept open house. He had to buy more land AN ENTERPRISING COUPUC. its milestones and happy occasions.—Jennie Two beavers on on© occasion burrowed a X) protect his view. J une in American Magazine. For the filling of his purse the only means home for themselves thirty-four feet under the pathway round tho pond. When the Zoo io could invent was lecturing. As bls name A Word Concerning Wrinkle*. p-ow more widely known to the managers of A word now on wrinkles. Tho skin people discovered the fact they had a hard ihe country lyceums in New England and has a natural tendency to firm wrinkles, I time coaxing tho beavers out of their Jien at tho west, lie could, with much travel even in youth, this tendency naturally in quarters, and a still harder one filling the tig, collect fees enough to fill the ever yawn- creasing with age. Every influence which place up. Now there is a stone coping under ng gap betwixt ificome and outgo, though distends the skin for any time must lead to ground all round the pond nt some distance lever much more than fill it. His fees in wrinkles, ami as a weak or imperfect circula : from tho water, and when the beavers have ¡hose days were small; not so large, perhaps, tion of the blood will make certain parts of 1 worked their way as far as the stone they m more skilful management might have the body swell, it is of the greatest import are forced to be satisfied with the extent of node them. He writes to Mr. Alexander ance to keep tho blood pure, and thus prevent their dwelling. AJ1 afternoon younger beavers, each with Ireland in 1847 that the most he >ver re bloating, which is sure to be followed by vived was $570 for ten lectures; in Boston, wrinkles. Ladies should take regular exer his mate, taking such time as they could >50; in the country lyceums, $10 and travel- cise in the open air, and keep early hours, from work on the hut, were busy at work on ng expenses. Then, from the liberal style of deliberately setting their face against excesses their own residences, hunting sticks, digging lib housekeeping, he passed with his nvigb- in diet, if they wish to keep them free from up and carrying mud and placing each ele x>rs for a well to do man, and paid, his wrinkles, for when they once come they are ment in its proper place. Some of them triends thought, more than a fair pruporti n most difficult to rid one's self of.—New York showed almost a mathematical nicety in their calculation. One busy fellow who wanted to if the town taxes. Bo it came about that all Press "Every Day Talk.” cut a large stick iiT two would nibble a little ;hese years in the forties were years of un- here and there, then walk around the stick, •e in it ted watchfulness and sometimes anxiety For the Whooping Cough. to keep out of debt.—Cabot’s Memoir of A ready experiment for the relief of the examining it critically, then nibble aguiu Emerson. distressing cough occasioned in children in and walk around once more. At last, wn* n cases of whooping cough's this: Drop oil of apparently satisfied with his calculations/ he Prosperity of the Hebrews. turpentine on the pillow where the fume, set to work with a will, and in the twinkling “Nothing has imprewed me ao much,” said of an eye,"as it seemed, he had gnawed the will lie inhaled while sleeping nnd during th. me of tlie prominent dry goods merchant, convulsive cough, bold a handkerchief before stick through. he other day, “as th. way in which th. He AH the wood used in building Is stripped of the child's face with fifteen or twenty drop, its bark, which forms the principal food of brews have multiplied and pro.[>ercd in thl. on It.—Herald of Health. the Animals. Now and again a braver, com »untry. Not further back than 1845 there iag on a particularly fresh and juicy w’llow »ere only 50,000 Hebrew, here Today there The “Cake” We All Sigh For. ire nearly 750,000. Ho you will ms that while “Mamma,” said little Willie, after return twig, would stop work long enough to rep ale lie population of the country has increaaed ing from a dinner to which he had been in himself with the bark, first, by the wav, ihreefohl in forty year.—it was 20,000,000 in vited, “I alius kinder thought that cake wai washing the twig well in the pond. Tney 1845—the Hebrew population has Increased in just cake; but I see there’s a difference in it. treat all their food in tho same way, «nd t very much larger proportion. Of course Aunt Susan's cake is cake an’ pie an' puddin' when some one threw a big fellow an apt le there are more Hebrew, in Russia, Austria an’ peaches an’ icecream an’ everything good yeeterelay he spun it round and round in tta ind Germany than there are in America, but together, but yours is nothin’ but cake.”— water before eating it. They lay up hraj« we como next. If the figure, which I liar, of bark for winter use, and now and again Elmira Tidings. when they find a fine, big log they bury *t, {iven mny lie taken iw a liasi. for e*timatiii( People who suffer a bad odor in tta breath bark and all, in the mud, nibbling off a sup the future growth of the race, it will not be should use, as a ^ash, a mixture made by ply as they require it during the winter day«. ong before this country is in the lead.” I adding a teaspoonful of the tincture of myrrh They take plenty of rest, however, a« Well uked my frieml to what be attributed the to a tumblerful of water. This remedy b as work hard, and along about feeding time iu<w» nt the Hebrew, and he said: “Hi. thought to retard decay of the teeth. several of them came out und lounged in the I thrift i. proverbial, but I have yet to meet a sunshine on the grassy hank, waiting for the Bian who will deny that ba 1. public spirited Take a bucket of fresh water into your bed keeper to come. They know him f»erf«jctly. tud generous in the support of benevolent .nd room every night, and let it remain uncov The oldest and biggest of th© colony rhe worthy institution, generally. Certainly he ered. It will absorb all poisonous gases. Cutrtarch—is stone blind. But someho * I.«, to law abiding.”—“Rambler” in Brooklyn to, knows th«« keeper at feeding ume.— Eagle. A toothbrush, kept for the purpose, ail Philadelphia Times. Ancient Climate of America. aid greatly in cleaning cut or pressed glass Goldsmith's Geography, published in 1824, The I'nrut Magazine. ware. I know of no gr^at/r pleasure for a Inscribing tta U lited States, aays: “People The water in which codfish has been aoakrt man who is fond of reading than to ’ak» becoin« old In America oxmer than in Eu is very good for washing the nine under tin home with him a new nurnluT of one of our rope Upon female« the influence of the cli atova. _________ ■xxlern magazine» with th«' k*avee all uncut, mate is still more sensible. When young tta The oftener flour is sifted for sponge caki and sit down to it with his mind free from w »tnen are generally lieautiful, particularly rare while the stormy winds do blow outside in Philadelphia, but after 20 they begin to the lighter tlie cake will be. and the Are bum« brightly within. Then ia lose their fresh color and teeth, and at tta Keep a separate «lucepau for boiling po the time for the easiest chair and a good tge of 25 many of them would paw for Euro paper knife. The old lady fond of whist pean* at 40.” What funny thing« those old tatoea in if possible. that Charles Lamb tells about like*! a go*xi geographies were, to be sure.—New York Bathrooms should not open into sleeping fir»- and a clean hearth and the rigor of th* Tribune. game. I don’t play whist, but I like the first apartments. _________ Kansas min« ytold annually about 0,000,000 two ingredients and for tl«e rigor of the game, The sur» pre venti ve for cloîtra is clean!* the rustle of the magazme Uav«a —Luke lone of coal bharp ia iMtruil Free ¡T«m BEAVERS AT WORK. I I NO. 47 GREELEY’S DISCOVERY. HOW THE TRIBUNE PHILOSOPHER FOUND AMOS J. CUMMINGS. The Typesetter's First Interview with the Famous Editor — Something The Tribune Had to Take Back—Reading Dana's Choice Obituaries. The cleverest newspaper men, when pushed into the walks of statesmanship, have rarely fulfilled the promises of their journalistic ca reers. But I look for a different result in Amos J. Cummings’ case. He has an abund ance of that rare mental commodity known as horse sense. There is nothing of the the orist about hint. He is eminently practical, earnest, energetic, courageous and honest. I know of no young man who ever entered congress with brighter prospects. He was offered $5,000 a year—as much as his con gressional salary—to write over his own sig nature one letter a week for a newspaper about the doings of the house. Cummings’ name brings to my mind his in direct connection with the newspapei* killing of a numtar of American statesmen for whom the last trump had not been blown—or played, whichever you prefer. When Horace Greeley, one of the best and profanes! of men, was editor of The Tribune, Ainos Cum mings entered the employ of that newspai>er as a typesetter. He then lived in Newark. One afternoon The Evening Telegram pub lished a report of the death of William Wright, United States senator from New Jersey. It was an event in the political world, and Greeley wrote an editorial ufton it. It fell to Cummings’ lot to place a i>oi> tion of the article in type. Having just come from his New Jersey home, he knew that the report of Senator Wright’s death was un true, and so informed the foreman of the composing room, who told him that heshould go down stairs and “tell the old man.” INTERVIEWING HIS CHIEF. One square or less, one insertion............... $1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.. . 50 Notices of appointment and final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements. 75 cents for first insertion and 10 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business columns, 10 vents per line. Regular business nodosa. 5 cents per liue. Professional cards, $12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads.” FANCIES IN FURNITURE. Mahogany is the popular wood for thia oew- •on. A carved footstool has its sides in embossed brass. Fourteenth century chairs are returning to favor. Cabinets and toilet tables of papier mache are once more iu use. Parlor suits of six pieces, no two alike, are in fashion and in favor. Furniture carvers should be careful not to make their cutting too deep. Desks for office« and rooms are made to contain a concealed washstand. A hat rack is provided with protruding erect ovals of nickel plated wire for silk hate. Dwarf book cases, elaborately carved and gilded, are to ta seen in the most fashionable houses. Table tads are new. They are converted from one to the other readily, and may be used as either. Brass cabinets are quite pretty and quite stylish; pillars have floriated capitals, panels of antique design, etc. A dressing table has a double top, the up per divided in the middle and opening to right and left on hinges. Furniture may ta painted the most ef fectively by rubbing down each coat, as is done in carriage ¡minting. Fauteuils of the toniest quality aro made from locust wood and upholstered in pink and blue, with golden fringe. Jewel caskets of tortoise shell, with four drawers, are neat and expensive. They make excellent Christmas presents. Drawing room table« of unique appearance are mad© from coarse Irish stalks of light greenish yellow and bound by withes of red. A now color to stain wood is a rich violet, and the stain is thus mode: The wood is heated with a bath of four and one-half ounces of olive oil, muuo of soda ash and two and one-half pints of boiling water. It is then dyed with magenta. Folding beds aro selling well about the holiday season. There is considerable me chanical ingenuity displayed in their con- jtruction. One house, well known as the •esidence of a wealthy gentleman, has a fold- ng tad in every apartmont, thus making meh room a parlor.—New York Mail and Express. Cummings, with his sleeves rolled up, and still wearing his ink smeared apron, walked into the sanctum of the Sage of Chappa qua, and in his blunt way said: “Senator Billy Wright is not dead.” Looking up, Greeley, in his peculiar fal setto voice, exclaimed: “Who in ----- are you?” “I work upstairs in the composing room,” was the quiet answer. “Young man,” squeaked out Greeley, “you’re a----- fool. Go read The Telegram.” WHAT THEY WEAR. The young printer said not another word, Watered velvet is the thing in millinery. but walked upstairs and finished putting in type the editorial sermon over the living sen Rejoice, O womankind; sable is not so ator’s body. Two days afterward The Trib ligh this year. une was obliged to correct its false state Cloth princesae gowns demand trimming ment of Wright’s death. tf fur, as their make up forbids drapery. It did not take Greeley long to find that The largo pouf at the back, so long disfig Cummings was not a fool, and it was not very long before the typesetter was city uring draperies, is now pronouncedly bad editor of the great journal. At that time style. The very newest seal coats are short at the there were two New York congressmen bear ing the name of Janies M. Humphreys. One back, with the long fronts deeply bordered was from Buffalo, and a Democrat; the other with fox fur. was from Brooklyn, and a Republican, and For very little folk, hoods of chinchilla, was at one time j>ostmaster of that city. Tho with lining and loops of shell pink, are the news editor, Otterson, in recording in the highest fushion. columns of The Tribune their votes on im Diamond pins jeweled both at point and portant public measures almost invariably head aro now fashionable, worn thrust care mixed them up in one way or another and lessly in the hair. J led Mr. Greeley into mistaken criticism that Half low shoes of bronze, patent leather, filled him with agony. French kid or suede, ore preferred to slippery GLAD TO HEAR IT. for evening wear. One night the dear old man walked into The merry thought and peacocks’ feather« the editorial room and asked is there any neWs on which he could make editorial com- in diamonds and emeralds, are among new . ment. “Congressman Humphreys is dead,” designs for brooches. answered Cummings. A wido front panel, or one at each side, is “Is he?” squeaked Greeley, “I’m ----- glad newer and better style than the single on« to hear it. Now The Tribune can be right that has tacomo chronic. about his vote. What have you got about In front draperies, a go-as-you-please cen* him?” he continued, turning to Otterson. ter, with some pleats, either hand, is the cor-« The news editor promptly reeled off what rect thing for silk or woolen. be had before him ataut the Brooklyn Re A new banglo is elastic—opening for the publican. Greeley went down stairs and wrote a strong editorial on the subject. The next hand, then springing to the arm—yet war ranted not to get out of order. morning all tho other newsiiapers contained Walking shoes of Angora kid, made over particulars of the death of the Buffalo Demo crat. The Brooklyn Congressman was still lasts delightfully big and square toed, are de- alive. When Greeley discovered the error riguer—“for which relief much thanks.” he had been led into, the azure hue in which Hats are segregating themselves into two distance robes the mountain is pale, indeed, distinct sfiecies—low, with wide brims, and beside the sapphire atmosphere of The Tri steeple like, with a bat e suspicion of pro bune office. After he had become a valued jection. attache of The Hun and one of its stockhold Smart looking fur capes are either plas ers, Cummings had the privilege of reading trons across the chest or in the shape of a editorial obituaries of Daniel Manning and habit skirt, with eqpulets and loops of cord Henry Watterson, written by the nervous, passementeries. forceful pen of Charles A. Dana. They were Red riding habits are the latest elegant put in type—at various times, of course—but were not published because the outstretched economy of Parisian equestriennes, who wings of the angel of death were again (dosed must otherwise sjiort the color of the enter » in each instan<*evand the shadow passed away. tainer of the hour. But Cummings thought it a monstrous shame that men in memory of whom Charles A. RULES FOR GETTING RICH. Dana had poured forth his choicest utter Tho lx»t merchant is ho whose business ances should not hear them while, favored above all others, they were alive to enjoy talent is of the highest order and improved them. Accordingly he had proofs of both to the highest pitch. Of all quarrels, tho most senseless, the articles struck and actually read to .Manning , «nd Watterson what The Bun had proposed most bootless, the most worrying, is a quarrel saying over their biers. A man who could with your circumstances. ' do that will be able to hold his own, 1 think, Every man has three characters — that even in the American congress.—Cor. Phila which he exhibits, that which he has and delphia Press. thut which he thinks he has. Half of the heavy hearts and broken spirits They Weren't Diamonds. and sleepless eyes among our merchants Every cheap jewelry “fakir” regard, the might be si>ared were they only willing to south aa hto special territory, and theilarkie«, conform their appearances to their substance. when they have money, will buy of him any Many merchants object too much, consult thing that does not cost more than fifty cents. I met a queer character in Georgia. He told too long, advertise too little, and seldom mo that he had been peddling cheap jewelry, drive business home to the full period, but either singly or In combination envelope, content themseivee with a mediocrity of for nearly fifteen years. Evidently the busi success. Some mon seem to take failure quite com ness paid, too, because he put up at one of ths liest hotel, and lived pretty high when fortably ; they stop and go on again, without he wasn't out "trailing," M he called it Bo changing their style of living or lowering much “jowslry” used to go in his |iackag<w their heads. That is a feat that no honest that I often wondered how on earth he could business man can admire. gi vs evsn so much brass for twenty-five cents. In business there are many who cannot In one pared, which a darkey Isiugbt one rise, many who cannot help descending, night, I saw him put a watch, six colored many who of necessity fail, many who earn stone rings, two plain band rings, six culY their bread, and many who only waste it buttons, a watch chain, half a dozen collar when once in their own hands. buttons, and two ring, with enormous white Great merit or great failings will make it«« When the last two articles dropped you respected or despised, but trifle«, little into the bag the buyer, who had Imn watch attentions, mere nothings, either done or ing every tnovo, posseil up his quarter ami neglected, will make you either Likod or «H»- left the crowd with protruding eyre. likud in the general run of tho world. Half an hour later, while I was still watch The true merchant is not the man who best ing the fakir's ofierandi, his customer came buck with a look of scorn on hto face and de understands his bosftnsM and contrives to manded his money liack, because "dem stun, targain others out of their reasonable profits, but he who best understands his business wa'nt dirnun. at all.”—Jewders’ W> ekly. and never takes advantage of any man's ig norance or any man’s necessity. Celnddenee. nt Nomenclature. “Leading article«” in commerce, like lead One of the st range rofncldencre of nomen clature 1. that the daughter of Gen. Ixigan ing articles in journalism, are meant to make marriwl a Mr. Tucker, while the daughter of a character for th« whole. But it is ques ex-Repmentativn Randolph Tucker married tionable whether a merchant is justified in a Mr. Ixigan. Each couple have a son The taking sih'h ni<Mles of attracting tho atten name of one to Tucker Ixigan and the other tion of the public unices he has actural ad is Ixigan Tucker. The boys are about the vantage to offer.—New York Mail and Ex- __________________ same age, but I am told they have never men X» each other. Something very similar occurred POLITICAL PICKINGS. here a number of years ago. Senators Dor- sny and Clayton, of Arkansas, h.nl sons born Prohibitionist St John1, «ilo I. making to them aliout the same time. They were in timate then and christened their children ac trototal »(»eclM. in Kentucky. An active <ain|«ign in North CamliMt cordingly, one lidng named Clayton Dorsey and the other Dorsey Clayton. This wm very next >ear to what ilepubjii-an National Com nice, and the boy. were as loving as brothers. mitteeman Harris, from that state, promima. 1 here was no fence between the Dorsey ami Elijah M. Ilainea, whose career In the Il Clayton mansions, ami the two families were linois legislature attracted some attention as intimate as any ever were. -New York two yea-, ago, to in tlie Geld aa a eaudidat« Tribuna. for goraruor. *