Excels all
others in
Strength ,
and
Bend f-csnt stamp for pictures.
Wham" a Cans-ml. Hartford, Ct.
‘ as am
MEMMeekeridlo.
Sole Agent for
c. i l. a. BfliTillfS
Huqua HEATEr
”smiling, Steam and Gas-Fitting.
11s and than Iron Wort.
Hot Air Heating.
Plans and estimates furnished for either
M water. steam or hot air heating.
*0 SOUTH MAIN “T
(“nucleus
a; Fish and Vegetable MarkeI
have them delivered every Saturday morning.
lflorwaik Lobster:
(taught of! Norwalk Islands. Leave your orders and
«2. Norwaik. Conn.
PLACE
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WOMAN AND HOME. '
a raw vswssLs micro Fo‘s woman.
sINeLs sac memes.
. Women's Business Signatures—a we“
About llathsrsvia-lsw—Baby's Pillow.
Servant Girlsw—A Quiet Rebel—Give Ill-s
a Good Breakfast.
A hint to the woman who values her
good looks, but revels In lamp shades of all
sorts and varieties: Banish holictrope and
beware of green unless you have a muddy
skin. Rose pink is very flattering and
will take 10 years off a woman's age much
more skillfully and gently than all the
hair dyes, face bleaches and beauty balms
in existence. "
Now a word for the girl who wishes to
make a good impression on It soon to be
fiance: Don’t run down the good looks of
other girls and don’t think it necessary to
add 10 per cent to the cost of any article
in your wardrobe in order to impress the
masculine mind with the richness of your
possessions. There hate been instances of
men being scared off at such tactics, real
icing that their pocketbooks and such
prices did not see.
‘ There is such a lot of things to suggest
to the young married woman that to pick
at random will be certain to hit some par-
ticular ease anyhow. Therefore here goes,
for, you know, no wife was ever perfect.
Therefore the hint cannot come amiss, no
matter if it doesn‘t exactly fit the case
like a tailor made frock on a “Venus de
Miler"
Bo just as fussy about your appearance
after marriage as before. Your husband
admires e iltu bang. but he will not up
preciate curl papers. Look out for the first
squall. Don't let it run intoa tornado.
Give your husband plenty of well cooked
food if you want him to enthuse over the
new bureau cover—and, whisper, don’t
show the cover to him until after dinner.
How can we tell the young mother that
her darling cherub is at times a most an
ful boref She never considers her baby
ought but a thing of beauty and a joy for-
ever, and consequently monopolises all
conversation with anecdotes of his cute
ways, and whenever possible produces the
one perfect specimen of babyhood and feels
deeply offended if the entire community
does not at once bow down and worship
and go Into spasmodic ruptures of baby
talk, which, unless practiced hours before-
hand, so frightens the infant that a per-
fect babel ensues, and the unhappy would
be but ignorant adorer is set down as a
horrid, unfeeling brute, who frightened
mother's iovey dovey by his ugly bcgy
ways. Babies to be appreciated should be
kept in the nursery as much as possible
and not be foisted upon an unnpprcciative
circle of acquaintances until they are old
enough to enjoy a conversation not mucus
surily sprinkled with cooing utterances, of
which “was a lovcy sing" or “precious
darling petsy wctsy” and other similar
unintelligible sentences form a large part
--i’hiladolphlu Times.
Women's Business Signatures.
Many of the largest banks are entering
for feminine custom, and they probably
find it to their advantage to make things
pleasant for lady depositors, though the
cashier dtws (I deal of growling when out-
side of his gilded cuirc.
Said one such recently to the writer: “A
woman ncvcr learns to sign her name
properly, no matter how much money she
may have nor how much banking busi-
ness she does. Evcry business man has
what he (mils his ‘cash signature.‘ which
he never varies. and with which be for
dorscs all checks. With womcn it's differ-
ent. They all write the fashionable hand
of the hour, and they all write pretty
much ulikc. Luckily just atprcscut tho
swcli hand is big and upon and easily read.
Mrs. John .lncob'Astor writes in this way,
and while her signature is one that could
easily be copied I have ncvcr board of its
being forged. Many society women put
their crisis on their chucks just as they do
on their carriages. We like that, because
ouocnu identify the check then without
bothering about the signature.
“Mrs. Gould has not a plain handwrit—
ing. it is struggiy and has lots of loops.
licsidcs she is fond of signing herself sim-
ply 'Mrs. Gould,’ which is better from a
society than from a business standpoint.
Thrm- Women who write alike in the ultra
English fashion are Mrs. itainsfoni, wife
of the rector of Hi. fiixirgc‘s; i'llizulx-th Mun
bury and tho Marquise liuuzu. Maude
lluwu Elliott is mmllu‘i’ smiuty woman
who writes her name all sorts of ways.
Somcilnws it is M. ii. Elliott, another
time Mrs. Maude liliioii, and yet again she
will sign her husband‘s name. with the
Mrs. pl‘i'ilxlid.
“Miss Anthony writm in utromulous
hand that serves excellently to identify
hcr clocks, and Mario Nevins liull writes
in a peculiar hand. as if her pm were fall~
lug to r-‘ii'I'p, Mrs. Schuyler \‘Iui iivnw
savior is probably the only society wmnan
with an individual signature. Shoculls
herself M. ii. lionssclnrr in magazines and
also on checks. ii‘ushiouublu signatures
change every m'vcu yum. and l am sure
that ii the big. upon English should alter
to the tail, IlIln, annular hand or tin-
frcnky. running hand at least a dozen
cashiers would Weigh in a bunch."—~ihis-
ton Home Journal.
A Word About Mothers-iu-law.
it seems such a strange thing thatM
soon asuwoman’s child is married her
natural maternal instinct, amordlng to
the powerful notion of the world at Tango.
is swallowed up in the new and gruwsomc
title of "nmthcr-in-luw," and she is at
once regarded as a feminine ogre whose
delight is to quarrel with and nag the one
who happens to be related legally rather
than by blood to her.
it is only the outwmo of a gmnt love
that prompts many a woman to endeavor
to still go on managing for her son and
daughter, even when they have assamml
other tics, and if the new member of their
household has any tact in nine times out
of ten unpleasant controversy will be hip-
ped in the bud and little by little a per-
fect undersumdlng be (established until
the “in-law" phrase will be forgotten in
the sweeter. Murderer term, ”mother. "
if a gigantic vote upon this subject could
be taken. the result Would be tremendous-
ly in favor of that much maligned indi~
vidusi whom funny paragraphcrs have for
long years selected as the subject of their
come wit. in many homes the mother-
iudaw is the guardian angel, the pipes-
W and much beloved guest. it it
who nurses ihildrsn and 'graudchi ,
th , lillm stages of" serious illness.”
in , or she is sitting up are
her daughter or her daughter’s husband.
hssiscu ,saa's wife. Tuber
mailman whom mi: ‘ T”
stew I- mom or '
“ .
so, '“tlle "mum!" on friendly
footing, Wheresis preliidice this has been
established by people who know not where-
of they smak can. with little or he did!»
culiy, be fanned into a fund, and much
needless heartache will be the bitter con-
sequence. Mothcrs-iu-law are mothers
just the same, and if their own are treated
as they should be tin-re need be no fear of
disscnsicn with the newcomer into the
family-Philadelphia Times.
Baby‘s Pillow.
One summer day, on lifting my baby
from his cradle after a protracted nap, I
found his little head wet with profuse por-
spiration. Moreover. his small pillow...
feathers, of course—was soaked through.
This led to an investigation, for I felt
that such heat bodcd ill to the sensitive
brain. Looking into the matter. Idiscov-
cred the following advice given by an em-
inent physician. long since deceased. He
wrote: “The proximate if not the original
cause of great mortality among American
babies is some malady of the brain. When
we suppose death to result from dysentery
or cholera infantum, the immediate cause
is fmquently affection of the brain super-‘
vening upon bowel theories. The heads of
American babies are, for the nmst part, lit-
tle furnaces What mischief must then
result from keeping them buried hour
after hour in feather plilowsl It makes
me shiver to think of the deaths among
these precious little ones where i doubt
not that cool straw pillows would have
saved them. Do not fall to keep their
heads cool While sleeping."
The material which I then deemed best
for baby's pillow—for straw seemed rather
hard—was deer's hair. One woman em-
ployed hair combings, which makes a soft
cushion. Paper clipped fine is recoxmncnd-
ed as well as pine needles.
There are other ways. however, of in-
juring baby's brain—ah, how much they
must work are they arrive at maturity! It
is claimed that the brain is more heavily
taxed the first five years of existence than
during the remainder of life.
One baby who very nearly succumbed
to brain disease was taught the catechism
ere his second year. It sounded cunning
to hear him lisp "Absoum" in reply to
who was the father of the. faithful, or
“Ot’s ifs” when asked who was turned
into a pillar of salt,
Of course the family physician emn
stopped this needless cramming. giving
imperative orders that nothing should be
taught the child.-—-l)ctroit Free Press.
Servant Girls.
My impression is that the freer growing
air of the last half century—tho tendency
toward human freedom. not only here, but
in Europe—which has infected and influ-
enced the laboring class (very justly, I
think) will render it forever impossible
hon-after to obtain the thoroughly obscqui‘
ens servant of all classes that our fathers
and grandfathers know. The house sort"
nuts are doing our work now because they
must. Ilnnliy one of them, except tho.
densely ignorant and stupid (IIIos, expect
to stay in service long. Marriage chiefly
and something different from houscwmk
~if marriage does not arrive—arc looked
forward to as a means of cscapv. it is not
that this scrvicodocs not have some ud-
vaniugos. even to the servants, for it dmx-z.
It secures a home at once. it is It place
which even a woman who has lost wealth
and is partly destitute might, under some
circumstances“! her business be a sort of
vice housekeeper), find practically better
than teaching or shopwnrk or any of the
so wllod more respected subh-rfugus from
loss of mate. YI-t lush of costs; hero—
timugh not like that of indie—45 really a
potent obstacle, Where there is no caste
to lose, Ihc house serving 1msition, of
course, is not felt, if it were not for this,
there are huudrmlsund thousands of Wonk
on of fine social origin who Would be will-
ing, too willing, to make a profession of
hmui housekeeper. with pvrmnai work
added, for tho wrmiuly of a comfortable
homo and euro support; but, as it is, they
Would rather starve and PM" in n gum-t.
'l‘hu moral of the M'n'uut girl question
is that it is shv. and not iwr employer,
who regulates most coIIIplI-iviy tho Mirn-
liou. it is she who mu, ilw otherwise
peril-cf, nfl'ord Iosr-vvr the connection of
employed undcmployi-r. Shohus her trluis
that are little noticed. She is not neme-
sm'lly without numy virtues. Those of
lwr class who lack tin-In on! in the minor-
lty.~—.ioI-l “onion in iionw and Country.
A Quiet liebuii’.
About II your ago, as whim of n wom-
an‘s department in il h-udiug magazine, I
wrulv the following line»: “'i‘hvri- on-
Immy inquiries from ladies who are naiu»
rally stout or ill uwd of irmpornry abdomi-
Imi support whuask if there are cum-in
[but will lii‘i‘ulllpllhli ilu' Ila-sln'd purpose
and yet not harm the wcurvr. There are
wmm-u in whom i-nrsvis uro an absolute
m-cvssliy. and who cannot sit up if ilwy
donut fool the comet's [Ii‘i'Nnili‘I‘ or at least
The mppori of a corset waist. For such
ihvrc has lIm-n rquIIfm'lurml uII abdomi—
nal supportiugcorsvt with bonds of ribbon
inserted on f'lii'll Hide of the front to pro-
vvut olnvslly from becoming too apparent.
'i‘hvy cmss the abdomen and fusion at
one side. Straps support the weight from
ilII- Hliullllli‘i‘n’, and aid“ luring.» allow this
abdominal supporting corset to adopt it-
HI'iT in any lllf'l‘l'ltnt' of also."
lnmuino my Hill‘pi‘ih'v when this answer
was published to mid below it iiw foilow~
lug Imtv. mlili‘fl by the editor of the mono
zinc:
“Nature has given a very bountiful and
useful curs-vi. vuuqumcdof u vnrivtyuf unt-
und hours, The flexible V’I'rir'lii‘li! in the
bmrklmiw, the movable wall home or ribs.
and the sicrnum. or breast bone. afford all
flli' support any man or wonum mpiims.
Nature has shown no favors as to sex, but
lwqucnths to each alike this skeleton cor-
set. Therefore value it, prowet it from in.
jury and refrain from using any instnr
Iucntof torture. (tom-ts ncwr improved
untlm', but are responsible for much of
the misery, sickness and death that wom-
en suffer. "
I don't know whose inforumtinn was
the most acceptable to my maulcrsmtho
Miller’s. in his quiet rebuff, or my own.—
lrisb World.
(liva- lIim Is flood Breakfast.
if there is our right a man has. it istoa
good hrmkfust. Many men take nothing
but wit-meal and II cup of coffee or abolled
egg for breakfast and then rush into
wwn. Long before noon the breakfast has
vanished. The man doesn’t understand
that it in fnodho maids, Imam men only
t at certain stated hours and wouldn't
heafd‘bf listing at ll o’clock in them-e
, aimless mermaid say it was bleak»
list. So this man goes into a neighboring
mfe and takes a drink.
M are coo-rs acoua‘e‘nsewssaias
sum of the house. and thsnwstchhowhs
will eat it. Have the chops just tosuit
him, and if necessary look after it your-
self. because a man who starts out with a
good breakfast is going to do a good day'|
work. He will be good natured at the div
flee. liis brain will Work more quickly
for the food, and he may make some lucky
deal on account of all this that will mean
several new frocks or an extra week’s va-
cation for you—New York Journal.
Eulogy on the Blue Grass Girl.
Every few days some apology for man-
hood with more brass that brains jumps
up with an essay on girls. This abomina-
ble class of literature always begins with
a sneer and ends with a kick. A distinct
flavor of sourncss permeates it. The genu-
ine girl isabsolutely unossayablc. Nobody
understands her. She doesn’t understand
herself. She is 'a delightful bundle of
contradictions. As wise as a serpent, she
is as innocent as any sucking dove. She
is as modest as a violet and sweet asa bar-
rel of molasses. She is as may as a winter
apple and as plump as an Indian summer
partridge. She knows something about
the piano and lots about making biscuit.
She is tender with her sweetheart and sets
the dog on the other fellow. She is an
armfui of delights, and blessed is the
youth she takes into partnership in wearing
out the sofa. She is a daisy and a dump-
ling, and in all God's created creation
there is nothing worthy to be named in
the same breath with her. Thcm's our
sentiments, and the man who differs with
us has treason in his sunk—Glasgow
(Ky.) Times.
Heroic Miss McLean.
Miss Virginia McLean illustrates the
heroism of the trained nurse of today. She
distinguished herself in the College of
Trained Nurses and loft Bollovue hospital
at the end of the term, in 1892, with the
highest honors the faculty could bestow.
But she left it blind. In an operation at
which she assisted, or while otherwise at-
tending a little child in the ward where
she loved to work, Miss McLean got a par—
ticle of virus in one of her eyes. To the
intense grief of the staff and of all who
had known of the value of her Work, the
sight slowly withered away, and the vital-
ity of the remaining orb began soon to be
aflcctod. Specialists hero and in Paris
and London were consulted in vain. Her
own courage and devotion to her calling
did not falter in this hour of extremity.
She prepared to transfer the scene (If her
activity to the blind asylum.--I\'cw York
Commercial.
Crossing the Logo.
Women who sit with their logs crossed
to sew or road or to hold the baby are
warned that they are inviting serious phys-
icaiailmwus. When a man crosscs his
legs. lli' places the anklcof one iimbucross
the knm of ilu- other and route it lightly
there. A woman, more modest and re-
sirirmi in her mowmuuts. rest-a the on-
tiru weight of «mo limb on the upper part
of theoilwr, and this pr-un'suru upon the
r-‘vnailiw- turn-s nnd cords, if indulgcd in
fur I’llilillilli‘il lciigfllri of (limb, ml is often
diam» luv Lilli »; who sow or embroider. will
pmluvc filonol‘. Sciatica. neuralgia and
min-r ~i~ri..-.I.- troubles frequently result
from This . implv cause. The muscles and
in I we in tho Izppi-r portion of u woman's
iii: lil‘l‘ i‘Xii‘l'llli‘ly fillllalllvi', and much of
in r win-h- physirnl structure can lh‘f'iiilil.‘
dcruuuv'd if ilu-yurc overrun-d in tin-man
nor rcfi rrod Tl_l,-'.\Ti'lll('fll Ago.
lie-oping \Voodwork Clean.
(if all the wmulwnrk ihut with the high
varnish polish is the most difficult is) keep
looking well—4t is so easy to mar it and so
dlilicuit to repair, writes .lunuvs Thomson
iu 'i‘bo liudivs' iimuc Journal. Whom
dents and scratches do not go enfin-ly
through the polish, they may somoliinrs
be ri'lllfn'f‘fl by rubbing over with linseed
m1 and rotten stone, usinga small piece
I' ilut felt to do iiw rubbing. (‘anu how"
m'vr, should be usrd so us not to rui‘ too
Lord.
Hard Wood floors. if pullshrd with shcl»
law or varnish. may he first washed with
soup and wnior and tlwn thoroughly
rubbed with a cloth wvi with oil and fur
pvnilnv or horns-luv and wafer. This will
maln- ihvm look as well as win-n new.
Floors flni>lu d by tho wuxvn Incihodof
our llllf'l‘nflii‘n may be n'viwd by the use of
turaniimn
hunger In Stockings.
him-b dumzrr live in a stocking that is
fun fight. that bring as bad an un ill fit:
ling slow. sin-rating don-hupiucnt, making
corps and musing ingrowmg nulls, own
a lInh-iuflw Nim'klilfl muuwtlmcs doing
that. .\ stocking should fit own more
can-fully fililli the shoe, allowing cvvry
Iuovruwul of the foot fro-v play. it cannot
be too muonih and line in manufacture,
and it. should haw as few scams as [musi-
blv. th'nvl'r, lit-l color should be cousid
cred, us lllf'f‘ll up quite injurious dymi.
causing: bud eruptive Iroublcsmul own
blood poisoning. especially in the shades of
green.
This (iiri “’Iss flight.
”va, tell me. don't you think a pretty
girl going In TIilSiiII‘I-m' is apt to ho insult-
ed?" a bright fund young struogmplu-i‘
was asked. llvr reply was curt IIud ('Uii~
temptuous. “Ycawby such questions as
that."
After which she turned to me and won-
rlly inquired, “lfyou wroiosimdilyou the
cabinet for in years, do you suppose you
could convince people that business men
(m'minuuily do snuwthing fil'Hlfll‘fi flirt
with their fUiimlf‘t‘lliiilli)’l‘t‘b?"-—-NUW York
Advertiser.
liuieh lhmrs.
it is a good thing to have the entrance
door to a house of what is known as the
Dutch variety—that is. in halves. so that
the upper part may be swung back while
the lower still remains shut. This imparts
ventilation to the hall, which generally
nerds for mom than it gets, gives a cheer-
ful look to what is guru-rally the gimmiost
part of a house and even turns the hall.
way law a possible sitting room.
For looks that are inclined to hang hclp‘
less and forlorn when 4319090“ to dampness
an excellent bandollnc is made from pow-
dered gum arable, 8 ounces dissolved in
half a pint of msowatcr.
A lady who has mm] the Atlantic
many times says an old black silk skirt is
best for strainer Wcm‘, as it draws not gath-
er lint or dust from furniture musings.
Spanish women used to keep lumps of
rock crystal on their toilet tables for cord
ing the hands, as the moperature of these
ooadufallbaiis isssidnsverwvsry.
strait
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FINE HOTEL,
Trolley tats Every Twenty
Baton Point
Owners and
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”some“ South "Norwaik and New York.
FARE—SINGLE, 400.; EXCURSION, 700.
have South Norwalk. 7:30 a. m. Leave New York. Beekmsn street. 2:15 p. numbn-
duyu 2-00 D. in. Leave East Thirty-first street. 2:40 p. m.; Saturday. 2:5) p. m. ,
Freight steamer. City of Norwalk. leaves New York, Monday. Wednesdaytandflkiday st
5:00 D. m. Leaves Norwalk Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5:00 p. lm. Freight received
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POINT,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
The Most charming Summer Resort on long Island Sound.
FINE BATHING Hausa,
GENERAL mucnnus.
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
DANCING DAILY,
Every Afternoon and :Evemng in the Pavilion.
Minutes llmil Illzllll p. In.
Company,
Proprietors.
J . ”Fl N KEN STEl N , General Manager
-——-ABK
FOR——
BROWN’S $3.00 Slilli.
And you will see not only a
Neat and Perfect Fitting Shoe.
But one in which the
Best Material is Used. CombiningDurabilin and 81er
Making it the best $3.00 Seamless Shoe in the market.
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED.
Call and examine them before purchasing any other shoe. ai‘
H. S. BROWN’S,
South Main Street. So. Norwaik.
prices.
Raymond
Bissmshlp snIi ilsllwsy Tickets
to all parts of the world f r sale by
H. D. SMITH.
lies- 1 lssosie Building. Norwslk.
tPElilll. ism Til
Florida. California.
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Jusr’REoéIvéoh LARGE LINE OF
Baby Carriages,
FROM $5 UP.
Largo assortment of Oak Bed-room Suits, Sideboards, Ex-
tension Tables, Fancy Chairs and Parlor Furniture at bottom
& Sons.
Old Well Hand Laundry.
ll tisslllsgicn sum.
South Momsli
All. “OBI 90!. ll! [IAIN
,so some case rs wasarso.
“muons: sums-nan. ,
sooos cause res arm ems.
so use or cams. on m
JOHN WARREN. Proprietor.
B chefiico—GcorgsLCookJisia street.
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