Norwalk gazette, Friday, August 19, 1898 · page 10

 

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My fairest child, I
have no song to
give you.

No lark could pipe to
skies so dull and
gray:

Yet, ere we part. one
lesson 1 can leave
you
For every day.

Be good.sweet maid.and let who will be clever

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Keep the Tools ‘-.Vell Sharpenul.
Above all things a farmer should

.keep his tools, from harvester, sickle

and plowshare to scythe. and hoe.

'sharp and bright. No man can do

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long;
And so make life,death and that vast forever ~ through the 1193549515 kind 0'f grass

One grand, sweet song.
-—Cha.rles Kingsley.

 

 

When [ts Bedtime at theZoo.

It”was sunset time in summer and
the gentle animals of the zoo in one
of the great cities of the world Were
in yards and folds outside the build-
ings. When the writer reached the
enclosure belonging to mother ele-
phant there: was a large number of
men, women and children standing
along the fence. They were very qui-
et as if they were afraid of disturbing
some one. As I stopped by the fence
and looked in the yard a small girl
touched my skirt, pursed up her mouth
and, giving me a solemn look of warn-
ing, pointed to the elephants.

Mamma elephant had her trunk
around her baby’s neck and seemed
to :be whispering and encouraging him
as» he rubbed his head against her
knee. . He stood a moment. then raised
his head, fiapped' his big little ears,
gave a flirt of his little cord of a tail,
and trotted off by his mother’s side
to the center of the yard, and there
she left him and went to a pile of hay
that stood in a corner; this she took
up, bunch by bunch, with her trunk,
so nicely that she did not drop a wisp
of it. and spread it around her child,
who had not stirred from the spot
where she had left him.
; When the hay had been all spread
around the baby, the mother stepped
into: the center and began to tread it
down with her feet, the little one fol—
lowing her motions exactly until a
perfectly even spa‘ce had been trod-

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den down; then mamma elephant step- ‘

pediout again, went to the farther side
of! the yard and fumbled about the

ground'with her trunk. As she came "

back her baby flourished his small
trunk and flapped his ears, making at
the same time a soft grunting sound.
as if he knew what was coming and
liked it. -4... .

This time mamma stood outside the
baby’s bed, and, beginning with the
back of his ears, blew a cloud of fine
dust into the folds
them; then into those around his legs
and under him. till he was thoroughly
powdered for the night. This done,
she again put her trunk about his
body, the little fellow dropped to his
knees on his carefully trodden bed,
and. after a few soft pats and a few
soft grunts from his mother, he lay
as a well trained child of the elephant
family should. _

The mother’s work. however, was
not yet done; she took up delicately
the hay from the edge of the bed. and
began tossing it lightly along his sides
and up towards his back, till his
_ rides no longer showed. ,

When all was done the small girl
who had warned me not to disturb the
proceedings. heaved a great sigh and
turning to me, said:

“I would just like to know what
they do it “or!” So i told her, explain-
ing the Ihabit wild- animals have of
treading their beds, to make sure there
are no snakes in fne grass; the neces-
sity of dust powdering the young.
whose skin is tender in the folds. and
who are-troubled by insects; the, piling
up of .dry grass around them to con-
cenl them from the possible hunter.—
Northern: » Christian Advocate.

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Youngest of Hall Carriers.

Andalusia, Bucks county, Pa., has a
modern boy wonder. His name is Al-
bert Erancis Hoflmier King; he is sev-
en years old, a real letter carrier and
so fond of work that he declines to
eat his breakfast until he has seen
his mail safely to the postofiice.

Every morning at .5 o’clock the
youngster climbs out of his comforta-
ble bed and trudges down to the post-
oflice,'.a little one. not far from his
home. The postoflice is called Lower
Andalusia, and the mail has to be
taken to the larger office at Upper An-
dalusia. It is quite a tramp—more
than a mile—and the route, Uncle Sam
has decreed, must be travelled five
times every day,~beginning with the
early morning trip referred to.

It makes no difference whether it is
sunshine or storm, the little fellow
trudges manfully over his route, as he
calls it, on schedule time, and has
never during the year he has acted as
mailr carrier, missed a single mail or
in any way caused a single letter to be
delayed—something not very many
grown up people in the government
postal service can truthfully say. In-
deed, so notable has this little boy’s
trustworthiness become that the gov~
ernment oflicials at Washington have
heard of it and think the little carrier
at Andalusia is something of a juve-
nile marvel.

In connection with the boy’s work it
is worthy of note that his teachers say
he stands very high in his studies, that
he isif anything brighter and fresher
so far as his mentality is concerned
than the majority of boys who have
no tasks to interfere with their stud-
ied, and that he is aswell stocked with
’ ambition as most boys who boast of
twice-his years.

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of skin behind '

good and effective work with a dull
tool, and every farmer should be
ashamed to have a rusty one about
his place. There are sickle grinders
on the market that will make a sickle
as sharp as a razor in a few minutes,
while they are so nearly automatic
that about all one has to do is to set
the sickle in a frame‘and turn the
handle. A light team will draw a
mower fitted with a sharp sickle

with case, while it would almost kill
a heavy team to draw a dull sickle
through it. Some farmers have the
blacksmith draw the edge of the
piowshare out very thin and then
touch it up a little every morning and
noon with a heavy file, while others
keep an anvil and beat them out ev-
ery morning. This latter operation re-
quires some skill and good eyes, as
well as a second person to hold the
plow If a man has no handy power
to turn the grindstone, it should be
set in a frame with a seat and two
treadles, so that one man can run it
with ease and grind any tool rap-
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Starting an Asparagus Bed.

Asparagus roots may be planted in
spring or fall, but unless the ground is
well drained, spring is preferable.
Good strong one year old roots are
best. The soil should be made as rich
as possible. If very stony the stones
should be removed, as they are much
in the way of cutting the stalks. In
garden culture it is best to dig tren-
ches about three or four feet apart
and 12 inches deep; then put in a lay-
er of manure to fill about half of the
trench after it has been packed down.
On this put two or three inches of soil
on which place the roots, spreading
them out in all directions, and cover
with fine soil, packing down all
around. The plants should not stand
closer than two- feet in the rows, and

. as they start to grow more soil should

be drawn into the trenches until the
surface is level again. All that is nec-
essary during the season is to keep the
ground loose and free from weeds.
To raise a first class crop the bed has
to be manured every year by scatter~
ing manure over the plants in the fall.
If white or blanched asparagus is
desired, the roots have to be set deeper
and the rows have to be billed up simi-
lar to what is done with celery—Amer-
ican Agriculturalist. -

Use for Lan ‘. A ong Hedgerowo.

A great many farmers who have
hedges around their farms complain
of the waste of ground for a few feet
on either side. Even when kept well
trimmed, corn, wheat, oats and such
crops will not thrive there, and in
consequence a strip is left uncultiva-
ted each season. ‘ ~'- tb's newli‘int is
if the farmer really desires to utilize
that ground along his hedges. Usu-

, ally the soil has become very fertile 0n

 

account of the decaying of much foli-
age, and by running a har’row over it
the ground is prepared for turnip or
rutabaga seed. A good crop of turnips
can be grown along these condemned
hedge rows and will be out -of the
way there. .'l.‘hese products will sell

in the market or will furnish food for

stock. If bees are kept then buck-
wheat may be sown along the hedge,
and its blossoms will furnish them
honey. There are always ways to
utilize these vacant or neglected bits
of land it we will stop to think—A.
H. Gibson.

 

liars as [us- or. Destroyers.

Dr. C 1’. Hodge of Clark Univer-
sity, Worcester, Mass, writes about
i"li.\‘ :35 5'
ard near his home he found nine
grabs of the codllng month in one
minute. Chancing to visit another
orchard not . l‘t‘ mu
found only four grubs in an hour’s
search. The owner of the farm said
that in an old barn near by lived sev-
enty-five to one hundred bats, and his
apples were always free from worms.
Dr. Hodge caught a. bat and offered
it some of the grubs, which were
greedily accepted. He also took a doz-
en bats imnie and kept the: l -'l
the parlor. They made their home in
the top folds of the window draper-
ies, flying about at night and some-
times in the daytime. From time to
time netfuls of night flying insects
were released in the room and never
one remained in the morning. The
bats took everything, from a spider to
a polyphemous moth. One morning the
«doctor counted while a bat devoured
sixty-eight house files.

A Superior Paris Green Mixture.

The main difficulty in successfully
spraying potatoes is that rain washes
the poison off the vines, frequently
within an hour after its application.
An easy and inexpensive way to spray

‘ potatoes in wet weather is to use ten

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kand save the crop.

pounds of flour to a barrel of water
and about one~half to one pound of
Paris green. Mix the flour in a bucket
or buckets to the consistency of thin
cream, mix the paris green into this
liquid then add to the water and keep
agitated while spraying. The flour
keeps the poison in suspension in the
barrel and when the liquid falls on
the vines forms a paste which holds
the poison ion the vines and will pass

through many rain storms and con-'

With this
kill all bugs

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AWomau Train Dispatcher.

Miss Edith Jarnagin has been ap
pointed train despatc-her of the Chat-
tanooga Southern Railway by Gen-
eral Manager Hoskins. She is 19. and
a Georgia girl. She was a master of
Morse and drawing a salary as tele;
grapher at (14. About a year ago she
entered the general manager‘s office
of the Chattanooga Southern, anc
General Manager Hoskins, who is
himself an old telegrapher and thor-
ough railroad man, gave her every op-
portunity to develop the talent which
has been recognized by her promo-
tion to chief train deSpatcher. The,
oflice is one of great responsibility=
and the safety of many lives depends
upbn the efficiency and faithfulness
of the person vvho holds it. The en-
gineer and conductor can manage
their own trains, but the despatghez
manages them all. Every railroad?
has its time schedule, but if there bi
many trains over the line, perhaps a
majority, and sometimes all of their
are off the schedule time. Then the
despaitcher becomes a living schedule
Not a wheel can be turned without
his special order. By the reports
from the operators along the route he
knows the position of every train, the
capacity of every engine, and of every
man; [he knows the accommodation of
every siding. the exact topography oi
the road. The train despatcher must
combine knowledge of telegraphy, in
fallible mathematical gifts, tact, nerv:
and memory. Every train is sped from
starting point to destination by the
guidance of that commanding genera.
of railroad traffic. The New Orleani
Picayune, from which these facts are
obtained, describes Miss Jarnagin a:
a beautiful and amiable girl, and a
social favorite when off duty.

 

Comfort in Tau Shoes.

Tan shoes are just one or the thing:
that makes life worth living When tilt
mercury begins to make passes at the
hundred notch in the tube. There are
always croakers about everything, and
the tan shoe comes in for its share 01
abuse. The chiropodist is the mar
who says the meanest things about it,
and this is odd, for if the tan shoes
are injurious to the feet, as he claims,
then what is another man’s misery is
his meat, and it does look as if he
ought to know enough to keep quiet
on the subject. But he doesn’t seen
to, and he says that there is something
used in preparing leather for tar
shoes that hurts tender feet. All the
same, tan boots and low shoes are
more worn today than ever.

The highest priced tan leather shoes
are always of a conspicuous coloi
when new. Some women turn away
from them for this reason and buy the
cheaper shoes of a beautiful dark tan
or rich shade of. brown. The formei
grow prettier and prettier with each
polishing, while elbow grease com
bined with shoe dressing soon make:
those of cheaper grade a sight to be
hold—New York Sun.

More License for Women in France.

Women are slowly obtaining a few
rights in France, notes the New York
Post. A short time since they wen
permitted to act as witnesses in a
legal sense and to sign wills and othei
legal documents. They are now to bs
allowed to take part in the adminis-
tration of the charities and hospitals
in Paris, being made eligible for the
higher council of the assistance pub
lique. This concession has been ex
tended to the sex who have contrib
uted most largely to the charitable
funds. and have taken part in house

 

to-house visitations, after a report by
Dr. Naples, who eulog'ized the work
of women in connection with the ad
ministration of charity in England;
and the United States. He held up a
good model to France, Miss Florence

Paris charities considered that Franc<
also could produce Florence Nightin-
gales if they gave their women a
chance in the work of organization.

During 3 Thunder Storm.

Thunder and lightning, through nat
ural operations, are a cause of grea1
alarm to many. It is seldom any per
son is injured who keeps away from1
considerable metallic substances and'
avoids im ediaite contact with the
walls of the houses The middle of the
room is in general perfectly safe and
the lower rooms are safer than the}
upper. A bed removed at a slightJ
distance from the walls of the room
is in perfect security, even if the house .
were struck. When lead is used on,
the roofs of buildings particular care
should be taken that it communicates'
with the spouts, and by these means.
with the ground. To determine the
distance of the lightning, count the!
seconds between the flash and the:
thunder, and reckon less than a quar- i
ter of a mile for every second.-—Phila~
delphia Ledger.

 

 

Correct Form in Walking.

Fashionable folk say that it is bad
form now to keep step With a com-
panion with whom one is walking. It
may be bad form to keep step, but it
is certainly uncomfortable not to do
so. The thing to do .is to break step
and walk with a long, swinging stride.
Only persons with good, strong nerves
should adopt this fad. Nothing is more
irritating to the average man or wo~
man than to walk with one who con-
stantly loses step. It causes a lack of
harmony. It makes a man feel like
using words he never learned in Sun
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knows how that affects her.

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Black and White Combination. 1

A very pretty fashion this summer in
the combination of black and white
goods—fine muslins and dotted swisses
with velvet or silk trimming.

A lovely model of dotted mousseline
has the skirt made perfectly plain over
a lining of white taffeta. The corsage
is tight fitting with the exception of a.
slight fulness in the front. The yoke,

 

of embroidered Swiss extends over the
shoulder to form epaulets and is edged
with ruffles of fine pleated lace. The
sleeves are tight fitting. Black velvet
ribbon gives the distinctive charm to
this gown and is employed for belt,
collar and band across bust.

A Shrewd Surmlse.

The professor, who by the way, was
of Irish extraction, was presiding over
the class in English literature.

“What is the meaning and derivation
of the word ‘impediment’ ?”

“ ‘Impediment' from

the Latin

"pedes,' meaning ‘feet’ is something in

the way; literally ‘in the Way of the
feet.’ " ,

“Very well, someone give me a sea-
tence using the 1' word correctly."

“He had an impediment in
speech."

"That," quickly retorted the profess-
or, with the flash on his face which
always heralded his wit, “must“ have
been the man who never opened his
mouth without putting his foot. in it.”

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He Is to Be Pltled.

Among the visitors to a fine art ex-,
hibition were two old ladies from the
country. They were engaged in exam-
ining with great interest the statue of
a young Greek, underneath which were
inscribed the words: “Executed in ter.
ra-cotta."

“Where is Terra Cotta?" asked the
elder of the two, turning to her com-
panion. -

“I haven’t the least idea,” replied
the other.

“Ah, well,” observed the first speak-
er, “it doesn't much signify! The poor
man who was executed is not the less
to be pltied, wherever it may be." ‘

Sllk Grenadines.

The fancy silk grenadines are lovely
this year, as indeed are all the new
grenadines, and never was there such
a bewildering variety. The silk net
gowns from famous French ateliers all
show different treatment of this ele-
gant diaphanous textile. At one noted
house it. is black in prince'sse form,
over a. slip» of cherry-red moire. At
another it forms a. lovely black-and-
white melange—the foundation ivory.
satin, with bodice decorations of white
crepe lisse almost hidden by black
guipure lace sprays and insertion...

 

Travel in Dancing.

An average waltz takes a dancerover
about three-quarters of a mile, a
square dance makes him cover half a
mile. A girl with a well-filled. pro-
gramme travels thus in one evening:
Twelve waltzes, nine miles; four other
dances at half a. mile apiece, which is

i hardly a. fairly big estimate, two miles

more; the intermission stroll, and the
trips to the dressing-room to renovate

 

A Canary Club.

The Canary Club of Vienna have
opened a. canary exhibition in that. city.
The club is trying to foster canary
raising among working peeple as an
easy method of increasing the income
of the poor. The exhibition numbers
about 1,500 native canaries, and more
than 500 of the Dutch variety, togeth-
er with a large number of other foreign
and domestic song birds.

A Curiou- Faet About Trees.

It is a. curious fact. that the roots
and branches of“ a tree are so alike
in their nature that, if a tree be up-
rooted and turned upside down, the un-
derground branches will take to them-
selves the functions of roots, and the
exposed roots will in time bud and be-
come veritable branches.

 

Natty Short Jackets.
Little satin jackets in black, green,
gray, and other colors are just now in
great request. They are short, natty,

and effective en suite, with a stylish

gown, and in every instance they have
the tailor finish and a silk lining of.
contrasting color.

 

Mental Arithmetic In Indian Schools.

In East India schools mental arith-
metic is a. vastly more serious matter
than it. is in the schools of this coun-
try. Catch questions are numerous,
and pupils of ten years are taught to
wry the multiplication table up ‘to
forty times forty. -

Creamed Flnh.

To splice out. a chafing-dish service
of creamed fish, some left-over aspara-
gus will be found particularly useful.
A cream dressing is made far the fish,
and the cold asparagus cut in two-inch
lengths and added with the cold fish.
The two can be heated through and
ucrvcd on oblonzs of toast. .

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._ THE WEKLY MENU “'3’;
MONDAY. "

Breakfast. — Strawberries. Grann-
lated Barley, Sugar, Cream. Broiled

Ham. Bread. Coffee.

Luncheon—Cold Roast Beef, Sliced.
Cream Potatoes. Biscuits. Rhubarb.
Iced Tea. .

Dinner.-—Loin of Veal, Stuffed and
Roasted. Mashed Potatoes. Green
Peas. Lettuce and Tomato Salad.
Blah-c Mange, with Cooked Cherries.
Cafe Noir. were."

TUESDAY. NM

Breakfast—Hominy Cakes. Bacon

and Eggs. Lyonnaise Potatoes. Rolls.
Coffee.

Luncheon—Cold Lamb Sliced. Pota~
ta Cakes. Brown Bread and Butter.
Raspberries. Cocoa.

Dinner.—Cream of Spinach. Sirloin
Steak, Broiled. Potatoes. Butter Beans.
Tomato and Lettuce Salad. Crackers.
Cheese. Cherry Pie. Cafe-Noire.

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WEDNESDAY.

Breakfast—Oatmeal, Sugar and
Cream. Oranges. Meat Balls. Bread.
Coffee.

Luncheon. - Creamed Sweetbreads.
Biscuits. Gooseberry Tarts. Chocolate.

Dinner.—Roast Beef. Mashed Pota-
toes. Spinach. Caulifiower, with But-
ter Sauce. Watercress Salad. Peaches
and Cream. Cofee.

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THURSDAY.

Breakfast—Blackberries. Shredded
Wheat, Sugar and Cream. Bread Ome-
let. Rolls. Coffee.

Luncheon—Cold Roast Beef. To-
mato Ketchup. Creamed Potatoes.
Cake. Cherries. Tea.

Dinner.—Vegetable Soup. Mutton
Chops, Broiled. Asparagus on Toast.
String Beans. Cucumber and Lettuce
Salad. Raspberries. Cream. Wafers.
Coffee.

 

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FRIDAY.

Breakfast. — Blueberries. Oatmeal,
Sugar and Cream. Hashed- Potatoes
Baked in Milk. Mumns. Coffee.

Luncheon—Picked Codfish. Lettuce
and Egg Salad. Biscuits. Pineapple Pie.
Cocoa.

Dinner.-Bisque of Clam. Broiled
Bluefish. Mashed Potatoes. Tomatoes
Stuffed with Green Peas. French Dress-
ing. Wafers. Raspberry Shortcake.
Coffee.

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SATURDAY.

Breakfast—Hominy and Milk. Blue-
berries, Sugar and Cream. Boiled Eggs.
Toast. Coffee.

Luncheon—Sliced Tongue. Potato
Salad. Biscuit. Huckleberry Pie. Tea.

Dinner.——R.ice Soup. Roast Lamb,
with Mint Sauce. Mashed Potatoes.
Green Peas. Lettuce Salad. Currant
Ice. Coffee.

 

Strange Divorce Cuntomn.

Easy are the methods of settling do-
mestic difficulties in Upper Burma.
When a. husband finds that his better
half is not the unalloyed blessing he
had been led to think, he calls into
his house all the old men and. women
of his village and expresses his desire
to divorce her, and a trial by candle
is prosecuted.

The husband and the wife are each
given a candle, which they light sim-
ultaneously at the order of the eldest
person present and place in the middle

.of the. floor. Then every one in the

house. sits around and watches to see
which candle burns out first. If the
wife’s does so the husband has a right
to divorce her, even against her will,
and turn her andher relations out. of
his house without more ado. '

If, on the other hand, the husband's
candle burns out first, the wife has the
option and right of either refusing a
divorce or agreeing to it, and turning

'her husband and his relations out of

the house, which, with all goods and
chattels it contains, becomes her per-
sonal property. '

In Cochin-China, when husband and
wife find they can no longer agree they
give a dinner, to. which'they invite
their relations and the patriarch 9f the
village. The latter, during the meal,
takes the chopsticks of the pair and
breaks them, and by his action they
are legally divorced. _

With a. certain tribe of African sav-
ages, when a. husband desires to be rid
of his spouse—a. fairly common occur-
rence—he takes her to the door of his
but or tent and strikes her across the
back with three rushes three times,
crying, in his savage tongue at each
blow, “Wicked, naughty, bad,” which
constitutes the tribal form of divorce.

A husband in Madagascar may di-
vorce his wife for the most absurdly
trivial offence. All he has to do is .to
call his friends and relations to the
door of his house, and in their pres-
ence give his wife a small coin and
push her out, saying, “Madam, I thank
you; go." An underdone dinner will
amply justify him.

When divorce is mutually agreed
upon by a Japanese pair, they wend
their way to the temple where they
with a
large scarf tying them together by the
arms. Kneeling before the altar they
bow three times, and having undone
the scarf, they rise and depart by dif-
ferent doors, and by this formality be-

come divorced.
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Lovely Summer Model.
Transparent linen batlstes in pale
tan, fawn, biscuit, and almond shades
are used by fashionable modistes, who
make them up over mauve, golden
green, or cherry red silk, trimming
them either with insertions and nets
of Irish guipure lace or with narrow
ruches of silk in rows. The sleeves on
some of these gowns are very close to
the arm its entire length, banded eith-
er with diagonal rows of insertion or
ribbon the color of the foundation silk,
and at the wrists and on the shoulders
are pleated ruches of silk to match.
Some of the round waists have tucked
plastrons and epaulets beyond made
of the batiste and bordered with inser-
tion, rmbon in rows, or one narrow

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The Cult of Unconventiounlity. ..
J The careful cult of unconventionaki.
ity began among the smart set in Lon; ,
don some years ago, and it has been?
taken up and propagated by the smart ‘

Set here. The most superficial signs
9f it are: teases winters- To Wear
bicycle clothes at formal dinner par; ‘-
ties, to drive about Newport without
a hat, to smoke in a lady's drawing
room, to garnish one’s speech at all
times with blackguand slang, to de-
scribe everything, from the weather to
a social function, ‘as fl’i"'o'tten”—these
are the silly, though none the less rep-
rehensible signs of the truly uncon-.
ventional person. A far more seri'!
ous phase of it is seen in the change
that has been introduced in the sphere
of social intercourse between the
sexes. . ~~.t,.........~:.a.sa'r-2\
The finest of all the old conventions
was that which imposed upon a man
and upon a woman a certain reticence
with regard to various themes and m.
rious facts of life. This reticence
sprang from the respect which every
man was supposed to feel for every,‘
woman and from the respect which
every woman was supposed to cherish
for herself. It was a part of the
slight but very real barrier Which ex-
perience had shown to be essential to
protect the woman, and to prevent a.
brutalizing tendency in the man. And
it is the undermining of this conven-
tion that is today a cause for a very
serious reprehension.—New York Post.

 

The German Emneror's Fad.

The kaiser has issued the most amaz-
ing sartorial decree to his officers, and
despair has seized upon hapless lieu-
tenants with limited incomes. Fdr the
flat has gone forth that all officers are
henceforth—or until it shall please the
emperor to say otherwise—to wear
surcoats of palest gray, lined with
satin to match. The coats are beau:—
tifnl to look upon. but they av» ruin—
ously delicate and costly. With their
moustaches turned around to their
noses, a l’Empereur and in their pig—
eon-breast colored overcoats, the gay
omcers look like pretty comic opera
soldiers. ,

Clothes have become quite a fad
with the German imperial couple. The
emperor dresses gorgeously and adopts
the most resplendent uniforms on the
oddest occasions. while he has t'nrther
undertaken the supervision of his con-
sort’s wardrobe, she in turn demanding
that all her ladies shall be dressed
elaborately a la mode. Formerly the
German empress took very little heed
wherewithal she was clothed. She
liked tailor made gowns and rich eve-
ning dresses, but paid little attention
to details. Now all is changed. The
emperor will have his empress in the
height of fashion, and, it is said—but
rumor is not always reliable in mat-
ters concerning the kaiser-that be de-
signs many of her costumes himself.—
l’hlla'delphia Ledger.

How to Lacquer Bran.

“If your brass bedstead tarnishes,”
said a dealer in beds and bedding,
“you can send it to a repair shop and
have it newly lacquered for anywhere
from $2.50 to $5. It will look as well
as new and last as long,"

He said it in all gravity, but there
was a sort of expression in his eye
which suggested a hidden meaning
and roused curiosity.

“How do they do it?"

“Why should I tell you a trade se-
cret?” 'he replied. “But, after all, this
is hardly a trade secret. It is common

0 so many trades; all those which use
brass fittings, in fact. The gas fitter
and the picture frame maker, as well
as the furniture man, the dealer in
grates, the candle stick maker as well,
all make use of it. Nearly all brass
work, except that on ship board, is
icquered to prevent corrosion and
avoid the labor of frequent polishing.
The lacquer is simply gum shellac dis
solved in alcohol. This makes a thin
varnish, which is applied with a small '
paint brush. Ten cents’ wor‘fh of ma-
terials will lacquer your brass bed-
stead, and an ordinary workman will
do the job inside of an hour at a total

cost of from 35 to 60 cents.”

A Fove‘ Employment.

Miss Anna Estell Wilson of New
York has found a decidedly novel oc-
cupation. She prepares music for in-
valids. She says that although the
healing péiwer of music is as yet‘dim-
ly perceived, nevertheless physicians
icknowledge that its proper use pro-
.luces Thigh beneficial results. Under
the influence of certain kinds of mu-
sicthe nerve cells, if depleted or too
relaxed, may be stimulated to more
vigorous action. Music of an oppo-
site character will diminish too great
nervous activity and tend to produce a
ondition of peace and restfulness.
Several physicians commend Miss
“filson’s system. She does not say
anything about *how many different
diseases of the nerves one piano in a ;
flat house is capable of producing in a
very short time.—-—New YorkSun.

 

Form for a “'iduw’s Card.

The question of the proper form for
a widows card is one often discussed,
A'uthorities on card etiquette usually
concede that a widow may retain hel-
liusband’s name upon her cards if she
desires, though the maiden name is
more generally used. Ifxflie widow has
a married son of the same name she

ay add senior, after her name. if
she uses her husband’s. The English
custom of designating the widow as
“doweger” is One that has manifest
advantages. ' .