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MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, MARCH 30, 1888.
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EARNEST
PROTEST AGAINST
RUTALITY TO CHILOREN.
«1 on the Bottle”—Baby’s Salt Wa-
Bath—Cooking School—Rose Scent
Onions— Purity and Modesty—Early
Bed—Notes, Items, Etc.
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MORNING.
earliest recollections are connected with
I, figuratively speaking—the r«xi which
juts the switch, the horsewhip, the raw­
land the fiat of the human hand; all the
meats of punishment used in those day®
Inging up children.
was a community deeply moral in its
and exacting in its demands. Levity,
ity, license of any kind, were not toler-
Solomon’s teaching that “he that spar-
e rod hateth his son, but he that loveth
[ohasteneth him betimes,” was literally
reted ami applied by parents and teach-
It was as much a portion of the res­
training of children as the learning of
itechism or tho partaking of the com-
>n. My first impressions were influ-
by cuffs, spanks, slap®, switchings,
¡dings, Ideating® with«>ut number. The
jtful torture® inflicted by the hardwood
jr” of the pedagogue on my open palm
| 4tf®as fresh in mv maid as they were at the
of application.
I recall this phase to enter into an earnest
-
against this brutality to children
which yet prevails in older communities. It
infinite mischief; it made of me both a
coward. Sensitive to pain, I
jently deny some trivial offense
expected punishment, and thus
guilty of both cowardice and falsehood,
ilieve that more characters have been
>ed in youth from the prevalence of the
^rjtemtaliry of the rod than from all other
gn causes.
It is a curious fact that my father and
er were people possessed of infinite ten-
jfw. Neither of them would intention-
gMy injure the feelings of any human being:
as only in the application of the rod to
own children that they exhibited bru-
y. Even this brutality was of a religious
in, ami was applied as a matter of duty.
On a shelf was the Bible, read twice each day
With earnest prayer,’and over a closet door
On a couple of nails Inmg a twisted rawhide,
whi<H was used as conscientiously as was the
I b®ly b«>ok.
; Anot’.er pncnliari'v of that community in
*ard to the treatment of children was the
remo repressiveness exercised toward
tn. They wejo forced rigidly into the
kgrouml. “Children may be seen but
heard,” was a permanent citation, wit)
result that each child b«?came possesse
h a conviction of entire unworthiness,
effect later in life was disastrous, it
ted a species of fear of older ¡»eople and
ngers and a bashfulness which was in-
licuble. Formany years after I bad gone
in the world I was embarrassed by this
liditv, and even now I find myself affected
times by an awe of strangers.—“Poliuto”
Chi igo Times.
Milk from t’l® Bottle.
ow would you liko to ride in a perambu
r with a fancy rug put over you the very
test day, never to huve a drink of water
given to you, and to be expected when you
thirsty or hungry to take sour milk
g i a long black tube like a gas pipet
wouldn’t like it at all. and neither would
1. 1 Any sensible being would kick and rage,
and do everything that would in any way
mil up his satanic majesty. Doctors say that
i their milk babies draw in the sort of
perament they are going to have, and if
t is so, the coming man will bo a sour,
y, dyspeptic creature. I havo very old
ioned ideas, and don’t believe the Lord
d< d babies to take their nourishment out
bottle, or else he would have made some
ial sort of bottle for them and not left
t to the ingenuity of man.
wn south among the “mammies” any-
y w ho is referred to as having been “a
le baby” is borne with, and all hi® weak-
of brain or heart forgiven for that
Ho is regarded as the victim of a
of original sin or misfortune that was not
fault. Indeed, I remember very well once
ng a very wise old mammy, whose
w ledge of babies was conceded to be
ter than any other in Fairfax county,
use a young man, who had forged his
er’s name and married a variety actress,
this way: “You see, honey, yer mustn’t
ge too harshly ob d»> unfortunate soul; he
ver had de advantages of d«i rest of de fam-
, and lackin’ de mainstay what can l>e re­
nted from him? He were marked from de
of his birth as a creature liable to sin and
rtainty. He were refrained from the
tural fountain of youf’, an’ were given
r to dat beastliest of drinkables, de bot-
.” All the darkies about shook their heads
owingly and agreed with Aunt Briggsy
t “a chi.e which were raised on de bottle
Id not bo held recountable.’'—“Bab” in
w York Star.
Baby’® Salt Water Bath.
A baby that is each morning quickly
nged with cold salt water aud then rubbed
y with a Turkish towel may lie exposed a
zen time® and not take cold, where a child,
nstomed to the usual daily warm bath,
11 continually suffer from an aggravating
Id in tho head, colic, etc.
If the children have already taken cold—
id cough—complaining of a tightness in the
lest, try this: Into a half pint of icy cold
ater dissolve two taDiespoonfuls of salt;
th® the chest with this, applying with
h, sponge or band, completing by slap-
ng vigorously and rubbing with a rough
wel. The glow that w ill appear will not
merely external, but will extend through-
t the body, giving a feeling of buoyancy
d great ease in breathing.
Every mother knows how cough remedies
most invariably “upset” the baby’s
mach. Then the wise parent will try
erything else before she uses nauseous n i ed­
in e® to ease her child’s cough and breathing.
Tn how many families there is a child more
licate than »he rest—one that does not de­
lop as well as he should, is nearly always
k, and is altogether the cause of more care
•1 anxiety than all th® others combined!
)hl, salt water baths is what the child
oul«i have. If be can be taken to tlw ocean,
muRl tlic better.
A mother of six children «aid to me last
itumn:
“I cannot imagine what makes the children
windie and weaken so immediately when I
turn from tho ocean. There, at the seaside,
never have a thought of them, and they are
t/eetly well; but, a® soon aqyl return home
ain, I hav® to lend for the doctor, and all
inter it is a remarkable week, indeel, when
isn’t called to see one of them. Pneumo-
ia, bronchitis, croup, the sniffles—overy-
ing! O, dear! I do get ®o worn out!”
1 «ympatliaUrally a«ked her why «he didn't
tinu® the ocean bath at home.—France®
. Johnson in Good Housekeeping.
Medical Virtue® of Onion®.
A mother writes: “Once a week invariably,
It was generally when w® had cold meat
seed, I gave the children a dinner which
haded with delight and looked forward
to; this Wits a dish of boiled onions,
little things knew not that they were taking
the liest of medicines for expelling what most
children suffer from—worms. Mine were
kept free by this remedy alone. Not only
boiled onions for dinner, but chives also were
they encouraged to eat with their bread and
butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of
chives in their little gardens. It was u medi­
cal man who taught me to eat boiled onions
as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did
not know at the time, till I told him, that
they were good for anything else.”
The above having fallen under the eye of
an experienced physician of that county, ho
writes as follows:
“The above ought to lie published in letters
of gQld and hung up best ie the table, so that
the children could read it and remind their
parents that no family ought to be without
onions the whole year round. Plant old
onions in the fall and they will come up at
least three weeks earlier in the spring than
by spring planting. Give children of all ages
a few of them raw as soon as they are fit to be
eat n. Dp not miss treating them to raw
onions three or four times a woek. When
they get too large or too strong to be eaten
raw then boil or roast them. During un­
healthy seasons, when diphtheria or like con­
tagious diseases prevail, onions ought to be
eaten in the spring of the year at least once
a week. Onions are invigorating and pro­
phylactic beyond description. Further, 1
challenge the medical fraternity, or any
other, to point out a place where children
have died from diphtheria or scarlatina, an-
ginosa, etc., where onions were freely used.”
—Working Woman in Cincinnati Commer­
cial Gazette.
Female Physicians in New York.
There are 150 female physicians in New
York today, and the number in Brooklyn and
tho surrounding cities about doubles that.
Among those in Now York city there are
quit© a number who have incomes of $10,0<M);
two or three make yearly sums ranging from
$15,000 to $20,000, and one has averaged for
tho last four years a steady income of $25,-
000. Dr. Emily Blackwell is the president of
the Woman’s Medical college and has besides
a large practice. She has adopted children
and makes a charming home for them. Dr.
Mary Putnam Jacobi has a large clientel«
and consults with the first male physicians o!
the city; indeed, more than one physician has
a regular female confrere, to whom he rec­
ommends some of bis patients to go for spe­
cial courses of treatment. Several of these
female practitioners are house physicians to
hospitals, and the Lucretia Mott hospital in
Brooklyn is entirely officered by them.
Some women physicians work in partner­
ship with each other, among whom are Dr®.
Eliza M. Mosher and Lucy M. Hall, of Brook­
lyn, and the two sister doctor®, Sarah and
Julia McNutt. Dr. Sarah has charge of the
babies’ ward of the Post Graduate hospital,
and Dr. Julia has founded a training school
for nurses. Both are physicians in high
standing and have a large practice, especially
among children. Drs. Annie Daniels and
Kate Parker are both women of influence
and of tho widest reaching charity. Dr.
Elizabeth Cushier is a celebrated anatomist
and successful oviariotomist, and yet is a
small, feminine, quiet voiced little woman.
Dr®. Lozier, Post and Faunce are all well
known for g«Mxi work. Without exception
these women are quiet, well bred, gentle man­
nered and soft voiced. One lonely young
woman whose physician was of the same sex
said a short while ago: “When I am homesick
and miss my mother I go and talk ten min­
utes to my dear doctor and.come homo quite
happy again.”—New York World.
Purity and Modesty.
There is nothing, my young friend, that
you should guard so scrupulously as your own
womanly delicacy. Brush the bloom off from
a peach, rudely touch tire waxen petals of a
lily and half of their beauty is gone. It is
impossible for you or any other woman to al­
low yourself to be can*ssed by your young
men acquaintances without losing somewhat
of that purity and modesty that you should
wear always as a queen her robes of royalty.
You will bo sure then to preservo not only
their respect, but what is of far more impor­
tance, that of self.
Nor need this preservation of personal dig­
nity savor one whit of prudery. You can bo
just as bright, as merry and friendly while
saying by your manner should it bo neces­
sary, “hands off,” as you can possibly be by
permitting those sentimental demonstrations.
They are not necessary to tho good comrade­
ship, which is all that should exist or appear
to exist between you and any masculino
friend until you are sure that you possess tho
true and tender lovo of the one man who has
made himself your heart’s king, a lovo which
holds you sacred, as every true man holds the
weman he would make his wife and the
mother of his children. And believe me, even
if you are not yet certain that this prince
love9 you as you desire to bo loved by him, he
will not l»e any easier won should you yield to
caresses prompted by a passing mood, but
rather repelled from you, for it is human na
ture not to value what is easily or cheaply
obtained.—Emily Bouton in Toledo Blade.
tributes this improvement to “the great in­
crease of athletic games; the greatly in­
creased proportion of seaside and mountain
life in summer, the thicker shoes and boots
of women and little girls, permitting them to
go out more freely in all weatbei*®,” and the
increased habit of dining late, which secures
the professional and mercantile classes more
time to digest their principal meal.—Henry
T. Finck in The Epoch.
A Woman’s Conversation,
What a woman should aim at in conversa­
tion is not only to entertain by giving her
own thoughts, but ut the same time to draw
out those of others, especially the bashful and
and particularly the bashful men. Nothing
pleases a man so much, nothing gives him
Buch an idea of his superiority, as to allow
him an opportunity of imparting informa­
tion, though he may not have penetration
enough to discern that it is the tact of the
woman that entices him into talking about
what perhaps he knows less than she. I re­
member hearing it remarked of Mrs. Cleve­
land that she was a charming conversational
ist, because she always chose topics which she
knew would interest others, and in this lies
tho whole secret of the art of conversing.
A celebrated French woman, who had
neither wealth, beauty nor position to elevate
her in social circles, rose to the highest rank
among the court during the latter days of
royalty, simply by her art of pleasing in her
conversation. Brilliancy in conversation is
not the essential characteristic. Some of the
most charming talkers ure anything but witty
or learned; but the truth is we love to bear
those speak who really feel what they say,
whose words are choice without being studied
and natural and easy without being childish
or slangy. Wo love to listen to those whose
purity of soul shines in their conversation,
and we feel that words are but the personifi­
cation of the beauty within.—Philadelphia
Times.
Learning to C«»olc.
The New York Cooking school has boil a
remarkable success. It was started a few
years ago by several charitable ladies, who
went into the undertaking with the idea of
elevating the standard of domestic labor and
of giving young girls who are compelled to
earn their own living the practical means of
learning how to do it. It has taught thou­
sands of pupils and has established branches
in many cities in the eastern states. Its man­
agel's are thoroughly interested in their work
and nobly help it along. Mrs. Theodore
Bronson, its president, among others, has
given much aid, not only financially but per­
sonally in its management.
At the annual meeting, some time ago, it
was reported that 10,604 lessons in cooking
had been given by the school. Teachers
graduated from the school had been sent to
many missions, girls’ schools and clubs in New
York and elsewhere. A large number of
girls from public schools of New York form
vacation classes—that is, during the summer
vacation they give up much of their time to
the study of the art of cooking.—Good House­
keeping.
“Early to Bed.”
Growing children should have all the sleep
nature demands To make sure of this, the
bedtime should be no later than 7 o’clock for
children under 10. This habit of early l>ed-
time will take care of itself, if it be persevered
in by parents at first. Some men and women
would be not only stronger, but cleverer, if
they had had all the sleep they needed when
children.
The difference between children whose
parents enforce obedience in this resjiect and
those little old people who sit up late at
night is very marked. The clear eyes, rosy
cheeks and round strong limbs of tho former
should rebuke parents who allow children to
sit up because they wish to. Nothing can be
more pernicious than to allow children up
late at watering places. They taste then of
the highly spiced society life, none too
healthy for the strongest, and in the hot
house air and stimulating influences, their
natures are forced to results that may break
down their own health, and tlie hearts of
their parents also.—Demorest’s Monthly.
A Working Girl’s Letter.
“There is a good deal of gossip goes on be­
tween the girls about the people they live
with. All their affairs are pretty well
known. You see girls don’t have much to in­
terest them, and so they sort of take an in­
terest in the concerns of the family they live
with. That is, sociable girls do. Some don’t
care a brass button about the people so long
as they get their money all right. German
and Swede girls aro like that. Irish girls are
more warm hearted, and if people are kind to
them they like them awl will do a great «leal
for them. I don’t mean to say that it is
right to talk about the family outside, but
sometimes a girl don't think, and it comes out
before she knows it. She don’t mean any
harm. It is very hard for people to keep
things from girls. They are around all the
time and see and hear everything almost.
They generally like the gentleman of the
house best because lie don’t interfere with
them.”—Delia Gillon in The Epoch.
Delights of a Rose Sceot Jar.
How to bo Healthy.
Gather tho rose petals iu the morning, let
them stand in a cool place, to-ee<l up lightly
for one hour to dry off, then put them in lay­
ers with salt sprinkled over each layer into a
large covered dish—a glass berry dish is a
convenient recoptacle. You can add to this
for several mornings till you have enough
stock—from one pint to a quart, according to
the size of the jar—stir eve y morning and
let the whole stand for ten days. Then trans­
fer it to a glass fruit jar, in the bottom of
which you have placed two ounces of allspice,
coarsely ground, and as much stick cinna­
mon, broken coarsely. This may stand now
tor six weeks, closely covered, when it is
ready for the permanent jar, which may be
as pretty as your ingenuity can devise or
your means purchase.
Have ready one ounce each of cloves, all­
spice, cinnamon and mace, all ground (not
flue), one ounce of orris root bruised and
shreddesi, two ounce, of lavender flowers and
a small quantity of any other sweet scented
dried flowers or herb*, mix together and put
into the jar in alternate layers with the roes
stock; and a few drops of oil of rose geranium
or violet, and j>our over the whole one-quarter
pint of good cologne.
This will last for years, though from time
to time you may add a little lavender or
orange flower water, or any nice perfume,
and some seasons a few fresh rose petals.
You will derive a satisfaction from tho labor
only to le est,mated by the happy owners of
liuiilar jar».—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke says that if Ameri
can women wish to I m » healthy they must
learn to live in fresh air. She advise® them
to open their windows, wear flannel night­
gowns, and take a jug of hot w ater to bed if
they aYe cold, but never to sleep with closed
windows, air all their clothes and their room
daily, eat simple, wholesome food, wear
boneless waists, and button their skirts on
them, and take the heels off their boots.—
New York Sun.
Physique of American Women.
Mr. Higginson, in Lis “Common Sen»
about Women," is very angry with the “phys­
iological rrsken" who represent tlie Ameri­
can woman of today as baring lost the
plump form anJ robust constitntion of h^r
grand mother. He quotes a French tourtst in
America, the Abbe RoLin, who wrote In 17S3,
that “at 20 years of age tlie women have
BO longer the freshnew of youth;” and
snotLer, I. F. de Besujoor, who wrote
khat “at the age of 25 their form changes,
sim I at 30 the whole of their charms have dis­
appeared." Mr Higginson h convinced that
di |>hy .ique of American men uml a.anen
>»iav is belter than wa« that of their grand-
nututa who lived in Hus country, and be aV
Ivy and I)ogwoo<l Poisoning.
For ivy and dogw<xxl poisoning boil wood
ashes enough to make a strong lye; wash the
poisoned parts with this, an«l let it remain a
few minutes; then wash off in soft, lukewarm
water, and, when dry, anoint with grew®.
Two or three applications of this will gener­
ally effect a cure.—Boston Budget.
Two Venetian ladies named Silvestri have
formed nt Vienna ajcbonl for young giiLs to
learn the art of mosaic, and have given them
the Palazzo Bceriman in which to work.
They execute orders of all kinds, sending the
work in sections to any part of the world.
Butter may lie rendered less troublesome in
summer by being covered with a huge flower
pot large enough to inclose the plate and rest
in a tray in wbi«-h there is ion» void water.
Leaving butter in water »¡«oils it.
The 300 young women of Wellesley college
do the housework of the coll go on tlw co­
operative plan. It take® each one of them
forty-fiv® minute® a day to do her share.
Knitted underclothing should never be
ironed, but stretched to the proper sba(« and
pinned on a bed or other Arm, clean surface
until entirely dry.
A teasqv^nful of carbolic ari«l in a quar«. of
pure soft water is a g«®l wash for musquito
bi tea
Glaze th® liottom c u* of fruit ¡4®s with
the whit® of egg and they will not be soggy.
A poultice of rranberrie. la said to bs an
I excellent thing tor erywpelaa.
THE CABLE BUSINESS.
HOW CHICAGO SENDS MESSAGES TO
EVERYBODY AND EVERYWHERE.
Wiring the Antipodes—The Four Cor­
ners of the Earth Brought Close To­
gether—Sending Cipher Dispatches— Of
Interest to the Public.
“The general public has no idea of the
extent of the cable business in Chicago,”
said Business Manager Felton, of the West­
ern Union Telegraph company, in response
to questions put to him by a reporter.
“Nor have many people an adequate con­
ception of the vigorous manner in which
cables and land lines have been spread over
the universe,” he added. “There are now,
I believe, eight cables between North Amer­
ica and Europe. They average 3,000 miles
long, and in all tho world I understand
there are something like 100,000 miles of
submarine telegraph lines. South America
is connected with Europe by a cable from
Lisbon, Portugal, to Pernambuco, Brazil, a
distance of 3,333 nautical miles. This
‘ is
tho longest cable.
Two cables connect
Florida with the island of Cuba, and one
extends from Cuba to Aspinwall on the
Isthmus, aud another to Rio Janeiro. From
Trinidad, the most southerly island of tho
West Indies, a cable follows the coast line
of Brazil clear down to Montevideo in
Uruguay, touching at many jiorts. There
are sixteen cable's crossing the North sea
and the straits of Dover. Two cables con­
nect England and Portugal, and ono cable
connects England and Spain. Nearly a
score of cables lie beneath tho Mediter­
ranean.
One extends the entire length
of the Red sea, from Suez to Aden, thence
under the Arabian sea to Bombay, across
India, under the Bay of Bengal to Penang
and Singapore on tho Malay peninsula,
thence north under the Gulf of Siam and
China sea to Hong Kong and China. This
is known as tho Indo route in the east, aud
extends to Yokohama and Yoddo, Japan.
“A cable under the Sea of Jajian connect®
Nagasakie with Vladivostok, one of tho
most remote points in Siberian Russia.
From Singapore a cable touches Java and
Sumatra and reaches Australia.
Even
the Island of Tasmania, lying south of Aus­
tralia, is connected w’ith the rest of the
world by cable, and so is New Zealand. Tho
great African cable, completed some years
ago, etxends from Aden, Arabia, to Natal,
one of the extreme southern ports of Africa.
So, you see, the four corners of the earth
have been brought pretty close together by
the groat cables which lie, some of them,
nearly four miles beneath the surface of tho
ocean. The only thing now necessary to
complete the electrical circuit of the world
is to lay a cable under the Pacific ocean,
and I understand that a project is on foot,
under the able leadership of Cyrus W.
Field, to connect Japan and San Francisco
via the Sandwich Islands.”
MESSAGES SENT EVERYWHERE.
“Are all of these cables which you have
mentioned used by Chicago people!”
“Yes, indeed. There is not a cable in tho
world that is not frequently burdened with
messages from this city. It is probable
that there is not one telegraph office in the
world to which we have not transmitted
messages, either for residents of Chicago or
for persons living in our territory. I some­
times wonder where all tho cable message®
come from. If an office were to bo opened
on tho coast of Kamschatka, or in lower
Patagonia, or up some place near the north
pole, it is probable that in less than tw’enty-
four hours some Chicago mail would want
to send a message there. The cable busi­
ness of the office is something enormous,
and just now it is increasing at tho rate of
700 or 800 messages weekly. This is due to
the fact that the rates have been so much
reduced on messages to England, Franco,
and Germany, it bring with these coun­
tries, of course, that the bulk of our business
is transacted. Cable messages are carried
very cheap nowadays—only 15 cents a word
to Germany, nnfl only 12 to France and
Enlgand. See how cheap that is.
“If you are a business man, often using
the cables to communicate with other busi­
ness people, you use a cipher. Besides,
your name and address, and the name and
address of your correspondent also, aro reg­
istered at tho cable office, so that in tho mes­
sages ono word suffices for the address, and
one for the signature. One cipher word
may carry your whole message—for in­
stance, the word ‘orange’ may mean, ‘ad­
vise you to sell January wheat and buy
pork.’ For tho word in tho address you pay
12 cents—addresses and signatures all count
in cable work—for the signature 12 cents,
and for the cipher word or tho message it­
self 12 cents more. That makes only 36
cents for a message from Chicago to I ^on-
don or Paris. Why, a message to Ashland,
Ohio, or Anoka, Minn., or Bara) oo, Wis.,
or New Orleans would cost you more
money. A very large portion of our cable
business is done in cipher.”
OF INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC.
“Are there any other cable regulations of
interest to the public?”
“Ye®. Any word containing more than
ten letters counts as two word®. No punc­
tuation marks aro sent, unle»« requested
on«l paid for. Ch is countetl ono letter. Ci­
pher words must be in one or all of these
languages: English, French, German, Ital­
ian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish or Latin.
Of course, we cannot handle message® in
Chinese or Japanese. Tho Chinese residents
of Chicago send many message® to China,
but they are all in English. We send all
of our cables in English character®, or,
rather, in their telegraphic symbols. The
tranlations are made, if at all, in tho for­
eign offlees. Cipher messages a 'e often a
conglomerate of three or four languages.
“In one day you might see many mes­
sages to England, France and Germany
al »out com, wheat , provisions, metal, toys,
silks, wines, millinery, chemicals, ma­
chinery, everything; to Cuba about tobacco
and cigars; to tho Capo of Good Hope
about ivory, barks and diamonds; to
Arabia about dates and palm oil, to Java
about sugar; to Switzerland about watches;
to Siam about furs and hides—to all parts
of the world, concerning almost every arti­
cle known to commerce. Commercial use of
cables is developing rapi«lly Ijecause of th®
reduced rates, and also on account of the
growth of Chicago’s business interests. The
Atlantic cable® could not begin to handle
tho transatlantic business were it rot for th®
fart that some of the wires ar«» worked by
the duplex method and others by the quad-
mplex. Quadruplexing a wire, you taiow,
quadruples its rapacity, two men sending
each way simultaneously.”—Chicago Her-
aid.
An Unfinished Play. *
James FL Murdoch says that on th®
night that Prattdeat Lincoln issued his first
call for troops he was playing in Mil-
waukee. when a noise in the audience caused
him to stop rendering “Hamlet's” gloomy
lines. A man sprang upon th® stage and
rmd Ur coin's call. The play was never
finished, but Mr. Murdoch, In the garb of
Hamlet, stood by tL : side of Matt. Carpen­
ter and made a speech for the Union. Next
day he [adt«l up bj wardrobe, and never
reopen*-1 tho trunks until the war was
ov«r.—Frank Lattea.
DECADENCE OF THE DIAMOND.
Why It Grows More Marked—A Badge
of Vulgarity—No Longer Unique.
The decadence of the diamond daily grows
more marked. It has long been a badge of
vulgarity when worn by men, and its indis­
criminate use by their own sex has brought
it into disrepute with women who are really
fastidious. With ain thing else except an ob­
ject which confers distinction on its possessor,
the greater its |>opularity, the greater its
triumph, but the diamond—once the most
princely of gems, and the possession of which
was almost the unique privilege of royalty—
lias lost its ascendency through its very pop­
ularity as an article of adornment. In our
day it is m no sense unique, nor are its asso­
ciates such as *to give it distinction. It
thrusts its glitter on the eye in the street, iu
the railroad car, in every public and unsuit­
able place, ami usually with a background of
fatness ami ugliness which it only serves to
bring into unpleasant prominence.
When a human being makes one thing an
ambition and turns every effort to the real­
ization of that ambition it is pretty certain of
accomplishment. With many women the
possession of a pair of solitaire diamonds is
the one thing in life desired and to l>e secured.
The realization of the ambition may come
late, but young or old, the woman who has
compassed her object is so proud in that fact
that she does not propose to bide the light of
her diamonds under a bushel with the result
that she brings discredit on herself and on
what she considers her most valuable pos­
session.
The love of the gem itself, although savor­
ing of childishness and of the barbarous
tastes which still survive in civilized human­
ity, is one thing; the love of displaying tho
diamond in public, another. There are wo­
men, and men, too, who have a mania for
diamonds almost like that of tho miser for
gold. They love the glitter and sparkle and
delight to feast their sight and touch on the
precious baubles. But these ar® not the
people who flaunt their treasures in the gaze
of the public. It is the I letter half of the
lucky speculator, the matrimonially pro­
moted shop girl, the gambler’s ’‘lady ” and the
obese wife of the retired pawnbroker, who
never feel entirely clothed unless somewhere
on their person scintillates the ever present
diamond. The wearer may bo somewhat
down at tho heel and out at elbow, and a
thorough acquaintance with soap and water
may never have been included in her experi­
ence, but the diamond atones for ail. In eur
time the burden of vulgarity is too great for
the queen of gems, and in cultured estima
tion she sinks l>eneath the weight.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
NO. 49
GEORGE M. PULLMAX.
THE STORY OF THE MODERN PAL­
ACE CAR RETOLD.
First Experiments Made on the Alton
lload—Beginning of the Palace Car.
Building of the “Pioneer”—Railroad
Men Laugh—Cutting Platforms.
One square or less, one insertion.
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Special rates for large display “ads."
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Volapuk.
Take a teaspoonful of EnglUb«
A modicum of Dutch,
Of Italian just a tri lie.
And of Gaelic not too much;
bom« Russian and Egyptian
Add then unto the whole.
With just enough to fiavor.
Of the lingo of the Pole,
Some Cingalese and Hottentot,
A sou peon, too, of French,
Of native Scandinavian
A pretty thorough drench:
Hungarian and Syriac,
A pinch of Japanese,
With just as mdeh Ojibbeway
And Turkish as you please.
Now stir it gently, boil U well.
And if you've decent luck.
The ultimate residuum
You'll find is Valapuk!
—Buffalo Courier.
George M. Pullman was lx>rn in Brocton,
Chautauqua county, and his birth year 1831.
He lived in Brocton fourteen year® and then
moved to Albion, where he also resided four­
teen years. At Albion he became acquainted
with Senator Ben Field, a member of the
state senate in 1854-6. Mr. Field was inter­
ested in legislation concerning sleeping car
fare®, and the Woodruff Sleeping Car com-
pany, in acknowledgment of hi® interest in
their behalf, had given him the right to run
A Brilliant Actress.
their sleeiMM*® on a couple of western roads.
Ho (to Miss Breezy of Chicago)—Your
While Mr. Pullman was in Chicago in 1859
he was called upon by Senator Field with a friend Miss Wabash has made quite a success
request for several loans, and out of these ac­ on the stage, has she not, Miss Breezy?
She—Oh, yes, she is very jiopular. Clara
commodations an arrangement grew between
them to run sleoping car® on the Alton road, posst»ss<«8 an innate refinement of manner,
Pullman to ¡wiy tho senator, who had secured an a er-graciousnes® of demeanor, as it were,
the right to run the ears, half of the prospec­ rarely seen even among those eminent in the
tive earning®. Mattei’s went on in this way profession.
He—Where is she playing now?
for a short time, and meanwhile Field, who
She—Nowhere at present. The last time I
had no business tact, lost his sleeping car ser­
vice on the other two western roads which Bii.w Clai'a she said that she was ou her
uppers.
—The Ejiocb.
had bwn given him. One day he came to
Mr. Pullman and told him that ho had an op­
Retribution.
portunity to buy back tho privileges on the
other roads, and that he would like to sell his The shades of night were falling fast,
half interest iu the copartnership line to Mr. When through our sinetuin sanctum passed
Pullman. A bargain was struck, and Mr. A youth half clad iu snow and ice,
Pullman paid his partner $2,500. This was at W’Ho mxirued the placard's bold tie vice:—
SHUT THE DOOR!
the opening of tho war, when the night trains
on the Alton road had been taken off by The pressman in the collar dim
tho superintendent, who was a sympathizer At midnight dark d:seov«*red him»
with the couth, and who thought that before Our chief the elevator shaft
the war was over grass would grow in tho Himself had opened to the draft,
there the legend trim:—
street® of tho north. The outlook for the Al­ Nor heeded
S hut tue D oor !
ton road was very dubious. It is a singular
illustration of Mr. Pullman’s good fortune There in the gloom all cold and gray,
that he had hardly concluded the purchase of Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay;
his partner’s half interest before business be­ While far above the legend shone,
by the sanctum telephone:—
came so good that the night trains were Close Shut
the door!
stai’ted again and the sleeping car business
—Uueou Telegraph.
began at once to make returns. These sleep­
ing cars on the Alton road, with which Mr.
I'liderntood Ills B uh I ii ®®®.
Pullman’s first exiieriments were tried, were
Fair Customer—I thought j’ou had servants
simply two ordinary passenger coaches, waiting for places.
which he had changed into the commonest
Employment Agent—Plenty of them,
kind of sleeping cai*® at slight expense. Fifty madam,
but we do not keep them here in the
cents was charged for a berth, and the first reception room; thoy aro iu the waiting room
night, four berths were sold. About this up stairs.
time the Pike's peak fever set in, and Mr.
F. C.—Oh! Well, I keep a boarding house,
Pullman gravitated west anil spent two or and I want a dish washer.
three years at Pike’s peak. He returned in
E* A.—Yes, ma’am. George, go upstairs
Soup In a 1’ubl io KeHtnurnti t.
1864 and again took up his sleeping car pro­ and toll the girls that there is a place vacant
Ono day some year® ago I tried to tip a ject
for a lady renovator of betel china.—Tid Bite.
BEGINNING OF THE PALACE CAR.
waiter. I failed. He declined to accept the
In 1864 Mr. Pullman, who had been giving
tip with an air so courteous and so «lignified
Tho Family Man.
that I feared I had unintentionally succeeded the sleeping car business close attention, and
lie walk® the str«-et with jaunty pace,
in wounding tho feelings of a foreign noblo- who had become deeply interested in the
Salute® each friend he sues;
man in disguise. He may not have borne a thought that there was a wide field for in­
His cheerful mien, his smiling face.
title, but I was not at all surprised when he ventive genius in that direction, met a master
Denote a mind at euse.
told me a few weeks later that he wo® about car builder of the Alton railroad, who was
What’s caused this change? A week ago
to leave the restaurant forever, ns he had re­ an old friend, and paid him $100 a month to
We saw him coming down
ceived some money from abroad. One day take in charge the construction of a model
With mien dejected, footstep slow,
lost week I again met my old ft-iend. Of car. He obtained the privilege of using a
And on bis face a frown.
course I remembered him. No one could for­ shed of the Alton railroad in its yard at Chi­
get the face of a waiter who would not stoop cago, and told the builder what sort of a car
Th«» frown has fled, his step is light—
Behold him swing his cane!
to take a tip. He bad I he dress and bearii^ he wanted. The great question with him
Hi® head's erect, his ej e is bright;
of a wi‘11 bred man of the world. He iiau was how to have an upper and lower berth
He's
happy; that is plaiu.
that
would
be
comfortable.
They
were
at
been in Europe, he said, ff»id was now in this
country on a visit. Beyond that he vouch­ that time the merest makeshifts to afford a
You'd like to know the reason?
safe« I no information concerning himself, but night’s rest. Mr. Pullman determined that
And I will give you one:
The price of coal's about to drop
in the course of our talk he did say something the new car should be the handsomest ever
A dollar on the ton.
made. Heretofore a sleeping car had cost
which n«»t only interested but startled me.
_______ —Boston Courier.
“My dear sir,” he said, “take the advice of not more than $4,000 or $4,500. Looking the
a man who knows, and never eat soup in a matter over and wondering how he could ar-
An UiiNolirlted ToNtlin«»ny.
public restaurant. Tliere is not a hotel or range two berths that would be roomy, com­
Particular Customer—I am afraid that but­
restaurant in all Brooklyn where I could be fortable and convenient, he was perplexed as ter you speak of is too cheap to be good.
induce«!! to eat soup. If you but knew what to the disposition of the mattresses. At that
Grocer—It’s regular dairy butter, madam,
I was oompelled to carry to you in the old time all the mattresses were put away in one we’ll have another lot in to-morrow. Let me
days when you ordered soup from me you section during the <|aytiine. , In fact, the send you some.
i
would never wi h to look upon my face early sleeping cars were simply used for
“Has it good kcoping qualities?”
again.” This was said quietly and mourn­ night cars and not run in the daytime.
“Keeping qualities! Why, madam, the
Mr. Pullman’s idea was to have a car that
fully. I have enough confidence in the mail
lady that runs tho big boarding house next
w ho said it to believe it was said honestly/ •ould be run on long trq>s either as a day or door told me she never had butter that lasted
The place in w hich he served was a restaurant a night «sar. With this object in view ha so long as this does.”—Omaha World.
of considerable pretension, where stiff price® started to build the “Pioneer.” He found
and goo«i service were the rule, and I now the mattresses could not be put on the floor
An Exceptional Instance.
look back to the dainty soujis they served because of the dust and discomfort. There
What though the sky is dull and gray.
there with anything but a pleasant feeling. was no place between the windows, and he
My heart is glad.
Hereafter soup to me shall rank with the finally said to his car builder, “Why not
Let others worry as they may,
“weal fie,” which the younger Mr. Weller I hinge an upper berth near the roof and put
I'll not be sad.
immortalized when he said, “it is werry good I the mattresses in it when the berth is closed
Though
life
seem dull and friend® b«j few.
during
tho
daytime?
”
The
car
builder
re
­
wen you know the lady a® makes it.”—
I'll not repine;
plied at once that tho car was not high enough
'Buinbler” ill Brooklyn Eagle.
For me the world is fresh and new,
and that tho space would be too small. This
Why ®hould I wine?
was before cars were built with raised “deck®”
Didn’t Object at All.
Glad, bright, and joyous I will bo.
or
roof®.
“
Then,
”
said
Mr.
Pullman,
“
why
But there’s an old man in Mexico who very
My care's allayed,
genially deplores the decadence of the age in not raise the car?” The outcome of this con­
For Fortum« has just smiled on me,
versation
was
a
direction
that
plans
should
matters generally considered reprehensible.
My jiills are paid.
He is 1(0 years old, lie says. This is probably be drawn for a car as wide and as high as
—Somerville Journal.
t lie, but he is old enough to l>e excused for would lie necessary to get in two berths, in­
lying about his age. He speaks of the good cluding one hinged to the upper side of the
Specliil Term».
Md times of his youth, and relates with lively car. The plan was accurately drawn for a
New Member (to Washington hotel clerk)—
latisfaction Ins part in several exciting mur­ car one foot wider and two and one-half feet What are your regular rate*/
ders, for which it does not seem to occur to higher than any car that had heretofore been
Clerk—Four dollars a day, sir; payable
him he ought to have l>een hung. But the built in this country.
weekly.
RAILROAD MEN LAUGH.
adventure he is fondest of relating is how he
New Member—You have different rate® for
Of course railroad men who heard of Mr. members,
dbtained his wife. He may, ¡»erbaps, b®
of course!
Pullman
’
s
plans
smiled,
and
said
that
if
Mr.
believed when he states that the mother of
Clerk—Yea, sir. Four dollars a day in ad­
Pullman
was
a
railroad
man
he
would
know
the señorita he love«! objected to him as a son-
vance.—New York Sun.
in-law. It was natural if his metho Is of better than to pursue his impracticable propo-
imusin>{ himself were truly stated. She ab­ litions; that he he would only meet disaster
Mimical.
and lose all that he had. But his conviction
solutely forbade the marriage.
AFTKH LONUFELIXIW.
“But,” said the old man genially, "we re­ was strong an«l clear, and with that plu«?k
“I hear the wind among the trees
snd audacity which have always charac­
moved her objections.”
Playing celestial symphonies,"
terized his clear sighted business policy, lie
Ho® r
And out upon the moonlit bay
“Very simply. She was taking a siesta on® went ahead and the car wa® built. The next
The breeze® sound the “Boulanger;”
question
was
the
decoration
of
it.
Mr.
Pulf-
I hear the cyclone on the sea
•
lay and I s¡ole up behind her and dropped a
Waftin ; “Sweet Violets” to me.
big rock on her head, and she never objected aian determined that it should be the hand-
And
I
alwoys
drop
a
silent
tear
lomest
car
in
all
respect®
that
ever
had
Iwen
it all."
To note that /Eolu® play® by ear.
“I should say not. She was too late to ob- made in the country. He carae on to New
________
-Life.
York and there happened to meet the artist
j«M't, 1 fUppOM».”-
“Ab, It wax fun. We had the wedding and who had just decorate«i the house of Harnuel
An Easy Matter.
J. Tilden. He at once closed with thia artist,
Mie funeral on the same day."
Mr. Porcine (of Chicago)—That’® a fine pic$>
And tl>o wick.d old runn chuckled. The took him west and set him at work decorating ure, mister!
«lory wa. confli'ined by other |*ople, too.— the car.
Picture Dealer—Yl®, sir; it’s a Raphael.
When the Pioneer was finished it had cost
Han FmnciacoChronicl. -Undertones."
Mr. Porcine—How much might it lie worth?
tho extraordinary sum of $18,000, a large
Pictare Dealer—It is already sold, sir.
price even now for a sleeping car. It was a
The Mont Favored Mortal.
Mr. Porcine—Soldi Well, you see this mau
Of all classes of musicians the singer is th® wonder to everybody. It was ju«t as Mr. Raphael and if be want® to get one like it up
Pullman
ha«l
expecte«!.
The
beauty
of
th®
most favored, and the mortal who is gifted
for me be can namo his price.—The E i > oc 1 a .
with a tine voice is a luckier individual than Onish and the marvelous innovation he had
mad®
were
advertised
far
and
near
by
the
the one who pr»swsse® the higher faculties of
Mr. Sullivan’® Philosophy.
intelligence. The coinpo&r who has labored newspapers an<l by railroad men, an«i somn
“I've heard,” said J«»hn L Sullivan,
jf
th®
latter
began
to
believe
that
the
ideas
for months, ¡>erbap® years, to complete an
As hi® masHive right he hurled,
opera in not paid as much for his whole work jf the inventor after all were practicable
“That *the hand that rock® the cradle
as the prima donna w o sings the principal The Pioneer was in proem® of building for a
1® the hand tliat rules the world.’
role daring a single representation. Ibmsml, whole year. The assassinatifin of Lincoln oc­
“
But
wlnre I struck tkis foreign land—
for example, receive«! only $1,200 for the curring at this time, it was suggested that
Aud its princ«* aU of a heap,
opera of the “Barber of Revin®,” while the the Pioneer tie use«l in th«« funeral train, and
I'm inclined to think I've got the band
prima donnas receive of tan fabulous sums for it was run from Springfield to Chicago on
That put® 'em ail to sleep!”
the Alton road. A h had l>een predicted when
tinging it once.—Music and Drama.
—New York World
the «car was built, it was too wi«le to run on
the
r<M«ls
as
then
constructed.
It
was
necee-
Our College Presidents.
A Bmy Day.
An «.niiient writer, showing what an excel­ wry for the Alton road to «end along it® line
Hotel Waiter—You are late for lunch, sir.
sn«l
cut
off
the
platform®
that
projected,
and
lent thing is a óollege education, cite® th®
Eminent Physician—Ye®, I had to finish
fact that tb«*re have been seventeen presi«lent® to make nunitrous r-hange® at stations so that tnv magazine article on “The Law® of Hea’th”
the
car,
with
ite
width
of
an
additional
foot,
of the Unite«! States, and eleven of the seven­
■o a® to get it into the next malt W but have
teen were college men, sixty five per cent. could pas®.
you today ?
Thu®
the
railronil«
had
to
make
way
for
the
Well, that’s an. But let’s weigh the*® presi­
“Hot roll®, clams, plum pudding, appla
dents oil the fin« r wales as long as we’re going improvement® that the convenience of the dumpling®, minco pie and fruit cak-.”
into ststisti«*®. Who were th«» presidenta who traveling public demanded. Everywhere
“Bring ’em all.”—Omaha World
never w«*nt to college stall, ami precious little the beauty of the Pioneer wa® talked of, and
to any school! Washington, Jackson, Un coin It was not strange that soon after, when Gen.
Di (Terence Iu Taut®.
—oh, well; the college may have th® other Grant came home, the use of the car was
Coal Dealer—Good morning.' Fine, brac­
fourteen; it’s hardly worth while counting ®sk*«l to convey th«* great hero from D*-troit ing weather.
to Galena. The Michigan (Central railroad
any farther.—New York Star.
Ice Cream Man—Beastly weather.—Til
was compelled to d«> precisely what the Alton
An (Hl City, Pa, man claims the prize for road di ’ -cut it® platform®, and in other
The Unfailing Meter.
sunflower®, having on® In his gar«ien that way® make way for the car and from this
on the raiiromls pr«>i>areri themselves f r
measure® fifty-four inches in circumference. time
Oh. gas may escape and gas may burst
the new ’<la/*e car.—“J. A. H” in Albany
And vanish in moine an« I flame.
Journal.
But tin* meter a band. In its quiet way.
All that was bid fora lion and four lionesMt
Goes
travefijug euward day by day
at a sale in L» ainington was ¿ÒUU. The show
Aud gets there just Ite) same.
•
buaUiObe u poor.
-Omaha War«