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spot in troop formations and the proper
tactics to be observed in “turning the eu-
emy's-rlght" or left. 1
When all this is taken into considera-
tion, it can be readily in why the posi-
tlonof Major Reynol both in the lam.
nine and army world is unique and unlike
that of any other woman in the country.
Her rank ~ss maim- is a doubly honora-
hie one from, the fact that the commission
was given for meritorious sud volorous
conduct on the dell.
Unprecedented and astonishing us it
may seem. the fact remains that Major
Arabella Maoomber Reynolds was made a
commissioned officer by the governor of
Illinois on April 18, 1869, when she was
only 19 years old. .
Arabella Hacomberwus born in Shei-
bourne Falls, Mata. i . 1843. Although
ovasw England origin. the is more close-
ly identified with the great west, as at the
agent 14 she moved with her parents to
the state of Iowa, which was then little
more than a wilderness. After several
years of roughing it she was sent to the
east to complete her interrupted educa-
tion. and upon her return to her western
home she successfully taught school in the
first schoolhouse—~n log one—built in Cries
county, In.
On the 19th day of April. 1860, she was
married to a Mr. Reynolds of Peoria, Ills,
just one year to a dsy1hefere Fort Sumter
was fired upon, inaugurating the civil war.
Her husband, who had enlisted with the
Seventeenth Illinois~three months men—-
was ordered to the front. Three months
later, while in camp at Bird’s Point, Mu,
his wife joined him. For several months
Major Reynolds bore the rigors of camp
life like a true soldier. Her only boost
when speaking of her career in the army
is, “I never made any trouble."
Mrs. Reynolds“ first experience of real
war was at the battle of Fredericktowu.
T he bottle of Port Henry closely followed.
During both these engagements Mrs.
Reynolds found alleviation for her sicken-
ing anxiety for her husband's fate in min-
istering to the wounded and dying.
Three weeks before the butt-ls of Shiloh
found the Army of the Southwest inusaod
at that place. No soldier of the array bore
the hardships of that aimpnign with more
unflinching ohcerfulness than Mrs. Rey-
nolds. Throughout those chill March
days she shared the common lot, through
storm and stress, wind and ruin, sleeping
on the ground. On Sunday, the fith of
April. broke the bottle of t-ihilob. Mrs.
Reynolds was stationed on the quarter-
master's boat, temporarily turned intoa
hospital. In the darkness of Sunday night
the boat, already overflowing with the
wounded, became the Mecca of unhurt
strugglerlr To prevent them merrunnlng
the place, it was necessary to mount gtmrd,
which Mrs. Reynolds did, armed with n
revolver. Three times the bout mnveycd
its cargo of wounded and dead to b‘uvun-
nah, only to return for a new load, during
which time hire. Reynolds was timloss and
indefatlguhlo. On Monday night chino tho
first news of the battle and to the anxious
womou tidings of her husband's safety.
Finding that the messenger and his com-
mand were in a furnished condition, Mrs.
Reynolds winmittod her first and only
theft, breaking a locker in tho ovimmlssnry
department for supplies for the starving
men.
The next day hint Reynolds was detail
ed to the hospital which had been estab-
lished at the little log church of rihlloli.
Finding the men in agony for lack of
water and supplies, Mrs. Reynolds called
for volunteers, and, lieracthoodlng the iii
soldiers Whifl‘flfllfllldefl, rustic the trip back
to the quortermostcr's boat. The follow-
ing iinrulay. one week after the battle.
Governor Yum arrived on the salons. at»
tended by a corps of physicians. Yielding
to their solicitations, the devoted woman,
who for men of is and days had been
ubistaoobtalu bu snatches of food and
rest. consented to return with the tuber.
unwrlal party in the summer to lack-
havvh for a much needed rest.
it was during this journey that the gov-
ernor. hearing of her untirlug service and
thoroughly soldierlihe conduct generally,
gave her "the cornmlssion, of which site is
reasonably mud.
training tip-tits tinnitus.
Training up a child after the old formu-
la was so to refer more
to the menu condition of the youngster.
Bot modern methods take the little one in
hundred see to it thstevsrypcnionof
the physical. mental and moral system is
symmetrically and healthfully developed.
The gardener whowouid train a tree by
pruning and shaping one side of it. allow‘
my the Mill? to goits own wild way, could
utterly out n abstain from an intelligent
stapler“. lint the world is full of parents
am fwhe are doing what
dolomite fill this “in. thing with till
children under lustrous. They overlook
the feet tint s of all the
lssslttss at ascend . puts the to "st
* osmium iii-salty is slim
humbli- thumb tin/till” upper front“
tssth are entirely out of shops and in
.mtbiuitds snort-than national .
The thumb is n eruptions lump. aunt
be remedhd. try as can my.
Children should be tang it to walk. be.
mainly to take steps, not alone to get over
the ground in any way they chorus. but
with one . grace ‘ and dignity. A
professor of oportrneut once said that oi
all things that tlisvvoaieu of luv-acquaint:
once did badly the very worst was walk
lug. Not 1 woman in 1,000 had a proper
carriage or. understood what walking
meant, save that it was the notion of put?
ting one foot before the other. Curtain.
muscles are brought into play in proper
pedestrianism. It is important to thr
child to know what time ore, why they
are used and the best means of utilizing
the force that is necessary for this exercise.
Walking, when one understands it then
oughly, but great pleasure. ~- 'i'o shamblv
along any way regardless of appearances ii
an indication of faulty training and a dis
credit to those who had charge of the chili.
during its early yours.——New York Ledger
The filrl With a Brother.
"Even in the days of piuuforcs and shorl
frocks the hrotheriess girl is to be pitted.
Life for little girls alone under nurses and
governcsses is apt to be somewhat monot'
courts and who, and little girls, llkooli
other young things, want freedom. The"
is no reason why they should not have the
seine games and the some pleusures or
their boy contemporaries up to is certain
age, and the little damsel who'hus a broth-
er with whom to play to collect wild birds'
eggs and butterflies and to learn the user
of hummer, saw and nails, is infinitely
happier than the hrothcrless child it.
whom all these pleasures are unknown.
It is, however, not only in childhood
that the want of a brother is most felt.
Unless the girl just launched into society
happens to be very attractive she will miss
very many goyeties and pleasures if she
has no brother to take her about with him.
Then very likely she is a little priggish
and conceited—hmtheriess girls so often
are—«just because she has never had any
fraternal criticisms which have been so
useful to her more fortunate girl friends.
It may not be exactly pleasant to hear the
home truths boys often tell their sisters.
but it is very salutary, and one may he
sure that when schoolboy Jack tells his
sister, "i can't think why you make such
a guy of yourself, and you Won’t catch me
felting you out in that but," after all,
he is only expressing the unspoken senti-
ments of other girls’ brothers.
The brotherloss girl rarely traits men in
the some easy, pleasant fashion as the girl
docs who has grown up in masculine so.
clety. Sometimes she treats them with a
smibblug, (’Illllliflllllllflllfl manner. Soma-
timcs she seems afraid to speak in their
presence, and sometimcse—thls is most
common—she is too anxious to please
them and shown it.
A girl with brothers, as a rule, takes
men naturally. She ncithcr flutters and
makes over-much of them nor does she
treat. them coldly. Instead. she is thor-
oughiy friendly, and yet she does not scorn
to fancy that any little attentions she may
receive front lior men acquaintances menu
anything beyond ordinary courtesy and
good MIL—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Wives Have Many Duties.
In their everyday existence wives ave
to be the superiors of men. A man
can do several things well is looked upo
as a wonder, yet the average liouscltecpc
has n dozen—oh, more—a score of a bun-
dred duties of radically different natures.
and if she falls in one she falls short of the
Mrs. Do Juruottc well expressed this id
before the San Jose institute when she
said:
“if a man goes into business, does he as-
sume the duties of head clerk, bookkeeper,
mshboy, collector and janitor? And if he
could do WP—Wlllllll he cannot and would
not own consider—would he look his best,
, m-t nrost agreeable, keep a perpetual smile
' and have his place of business spotless?
Let us look at woman. She enters busi-
ness—marriage, l'loes slicussuruo duties of
head lumscltccpcr, cook, seamstress, hum.
dross, nurse, tutor and outside man?
"And when she does—for she usually
does—-can she keep her house clean, licr
temper serene, buttons sowed on, romovc
all thoughts of carp from her husband's
hcurt, hoop her pretticst clothes on and
scented with violet and lavender, her
sweetest smile on and hor mouth puckered
up for a kins-4m“ they only more when
least cxpccmi, for when we youru for thorn
we usually hoop on yearning. No! Of course
she mn't. i'ould the angels timnsclvcs‘r
”Hie can't fill! all the lilltilillll depart-
ments of a complex marriage with a men
ugerle of childhood annex. and a husband
5 to come homo when twilight falls to claim
ovary iota of arsenic vitality loft.
“I tell you she will either have to call in
some sptnrialist domi.mril-rmmsioualiy or
else have more simple food, do away with
kitchen fads, let the husband help with
the little 0mm and fuel a burden of respon-
siblllty."—-Now York Press.
Tho Truth About Mani-go.
“Our life study of each other, our life
responsibility for curb other, is just this
tender watchfuluess to learn and to be
each other's need and its fulfillment,"
writes bin. A. l). '1'. Whitney iii The La-
dies' Home Journal.divcusslug "The Truth
About Marriage." "And against all but
willful arr-or at the start there is, I think,
an instinct of ptmiblllty or impossibility
in tho personal duty and relation. Would
you desire or revolt from heevvinlng what
the man with whom you are chasing tarry
this truncations experiment would most
appreciate. would best be satisfied with. in
you? Would you delight to shape your
life. to mold your spirit, to his ideal? is be
what you feel God would really malts to
you the immediate giver of the lost he
has for you? And would you he lifted
nearer toilrsl and to the life of houses by
striving to give this man his own best im-
agining of good!
“is it real. best grant you are both want-
ing or only some mums. circumstantial
umtout rind enjoyment? Will wed~
ding day be a show and a fast vity, soon
mm and kept sit-mud in more anoint.
artistry-of wood and tin and glanced sil.
var and the thing!» of Wwiil it
be all the long. fsithful or '
shared and m ill d the
cm
in
you will most in nday’s‘twtvti, and ol-
htr and plow lluesaoross hsrfaos.
rultehhfathstis hasnulo infamous new ones.
requirements of society and her family J
, fills“-
ilaantm sturb
‘ . Am , mus.
,. In til-first .
oughiy chassis and lisppy lackluswouiuu
though she is to years old, she doesn't
lookillu. This is because she never allows.
the petty cares of housekeeping to '05:?
, I
does one thing at a time. new making
the error of undertaking a desert duties at
This model housewife keeps s mph:
lcusly nest limos. but in no room is com-
fort sacrificed for the suited up nee.
She has neither too much furn tore nor
too much brie-whine. tihe dresses htu
children neatly, but plainly.
This very seasihln woman is a loving
wife and agreeable coinpsnion to her but
hand. She lmows- bow to save time and
thus finds opportunity to road, and is able
to discuss topics of interest with her hus-
band in the evening by the fireside. She
isa gentle mother tuber little ones, but
when she says “No" she keeps her word.
She is never impatient with the bubywhen
he is sleepy sud clings to her skirts. lu-
steud of smoking him, she takes the tired
little form in her arms and rocks it to
sleep.
Her husband is not wealthy, and she
docs not strain the last nerve to dress as
well as her more wealthy neighbors, but
but taste is so correct that these same
neighbors envy her her stylish appearance.
She is also a good neighbor, and she does
not gossip. if there is sickness, she is
willing to old the suffering, and she does
not forget the old and poor in the neigh-
borhoml.-—Annle Smith in Housewife.
Poor Fiction For the Young.
I had recently in my service a pretty lit-
tle housemoid barely 19 years old, neat,
mpahle and good tempered, but so perpetw
ally dtiwnrast that she threw a cloud over
our unreasonably cheerful household. I
grew melancholy watching her at work.
One day on going into the kitchen I new
open on her ohulrn book the bad just been
reading. It purported to be the experience
of a missionary in one of our large cities
and was divided into nine separate stories.
These wore their titles. copied verbatim
on the spot: “The Infidel,” “The Dying
Bunker,” "The Drunkard‘s Death,” “The
Miner's Death," “The Hospital,” “The
Wilmiercr‘s Death,” "The Dying Shirt
maker," "The Broken Heart," “The Des-
titute Poor. "
What wonder that my little mold was
and and solcum when she recreated herself
with such chronicles us these! What won-
der that, like the Scotchmun's famous
dog. “lilo was full 0’ suiriousness" for her,
when religion and literature, the two
things which should make up the sun) of
our happiness, had conspired under the
guise of Sunday school fiction to destroy
her gnyety of heurti—Agnos Reppiier in
Scribner's.
Care of a Polished Floor.
Excessive soupnml water are bad. Soup
or soda should not touch the floor. (iold
tea leaves are good for varnished surfaces,
and a little household ammonia in the wa-
ter is cleansing. A dingy waxed floor may
be rewuxed curl polished—and a bud spot
can be built up again with varnish or wax
frbm the bare wood. Stains are sometimes
caused by water acting on tho mimic acid
of the wood through it \vorn Spill: in the
varnish. Apply hot oxalic acid, diluted
to the strength of good cider vinegar, and
leave on for three hours. Remove careful-
ly with clean water, coat thinly with shel-
inc varnish, sandpaper, clean off and put
on good elastic varnish or wax. Oxullc
acid is better and safer than touristic acid
and vinegar.
Floors, unless very bad, may be treated
with a mixture of row linseed oil and tur-
pentine, equal parts, rubbed on with n
chumols or soft woolen rag. An oil finish
is the most durable, most economical and
gist easily kept clean.
A Comfortable Sort of Woman.
Said it homely, bent little man pathetic-
ally. when speaking of the mother of his
children, who had done her iifo work: “It
comforts me awfully to know that Sully
would nllus lie down every afternoon on
slocpnblt. Some folks thought 'twus a
dreadful lazy linblt nu ’twns no wonder
we didn't got rich faster, but she suited
me just as she was. Sully was a comfort-
able sort of woman to have around, nev—
er frottin at is follow or faultln him when
things didn't go right. When feelln
troubled she’d often say, ‘Father, i believe
1'“ lludown for n fcwruinutcs;' then back
she'd come spry an chipper as a canary
bird. Holly didn't drivo on scold, but
she wasn't lazy, no she brought up the
youngsters to do their part. lrion’tsee
that driviu women get on one mile bottcr
than she did. it does comfort mo to know
that Sully would take her rcst.”-—.~5elocwd.
A Handsome Fireside float.
A handsome library or ilrosido seat is of
unit stained an olive green and ornamented
in a large conventional design on the high
back with brass tracks, with brass heads
out in umny facets. 'l‘ho popular ironing
table that can be transformed into a high
llill‘ktlll mil would Iuitko an urtlstio bit of
furniture if stained in the seine color and
ornamented with brass. ’l‘ho cushions or
covers laid on such seats should be of
grew, dark blue and yellow. These were
the colors noticed on the window seat of a
handsome library. The window under
which the amt was placed was of pole
water green, with designs of old blue.
Almrbcnt gauze is recouuncudcd by
those who have used it for such household
useas drying gloss and for towels and
wash cloths in traveling, as it dries very
quickly and is very cheap. ltis sold at
wimlssale drug stores.
We cannot begin too early to teach our
children the little courtesios of life, and,
although it may be trying toourselves and
them at slum. there will surely come a
time when they will be very grateful for
our care.
“our Im in barrels needs no other
care than putting it in a cool, dry place.
where it is well protected from rats.
nineties and other vermin. A tightly tit—
ting oover to the barrel is indispensable.
Doormats should be always as wide as
the door and deep once h to stand a good
deal of treading on. f this is not tbd
raise. the edges are woutontly rubbed with
dirty boots and tho carpets suffer.
Women who trim their Wit hats should
hoop on hand the needles that are used for
millinsry. Themes crest frequently used-
sd in these long ussdlesm the sevens sud
a data.
The times are millions. old landmarks
have been everywhere disturbed. old
habits hivve been shortlisted; ”ind the
shibboleths are changed. , The charm, , of
quietness has gone, and lb, our in! of
life now consists in moment and
rapid movement. Nothing is tools-t
for modern requirements, and nothing
can stay toosho‘rt a time; Fashions of
every kind are as hosting as clouds
driven byt wind. sud-the emjurer’s
“Presto. p i” emblemstines the in-
cessant transformations of the hour. All
sedentary employments are ' banished
from the homes of the well to do, and
oven music and painting, which once
used to beguile the weary hours and
amuse the lengthened leisure of the
sheltered maid and wife, are new absu-
doned for the greater attractions of
“hiking." cricket, the platform or any
other scmimusoulino diversion that in-
cludes movement and out of door free-
dom. with a spice of-uotoriety to incite
it the more attractive. With very many
the frank confession is—homc happh
nets is a myth. Home has no happiness
to give, and “Anywhere but homol’ is
the cry of the modern sister, and daugh~
for.
The strong family feeling that was
nourished‘ the concentration of the
quieter life has gone the same way as
that quietness, and one of the first on-
deavors of uglrl. after she has returned
from her "collegiate career,” is to'flnd
employment that shall take her from
homo—remove from her the restraints
of family life, give her "workl’nmong
strangers and personal liberty as the
taproot of all. Her happiness is tube as
like a young man as is possible—t0 copy
his dress so far as the police will al-
low, to imitate his manners. adopt his
slang and to have his "experiences,” so
far as this is possible, considering the
difference of sex. Of the old fashioned
notions of home seclusion and home
happiness she has not a truce. Home is
to her synonymous with deadly dullness,
and she cannot understand how any one
ever found it otherwise. Her mother's
advice the despises as ridiculously out
of date. Her father knows nothing of
the world. Her brothers, if they would
check her, uroprigs or jealous and “just
like men.” Her one grand aim is to get
away from home as soon as may be and
to find her happiness anywhere but un-
der the paternal roof.
it is true that some homes are deadly
dull. Where the parents are unsympa-
thetic and self indulgent and have sofa
fered themselves to fall into the very
lethargy of selfishness the young peoplo
are often {it a loss for outlets proper to
the vigor of their age and unworn ener-
gies. No longer able to participate in
tho livelier things of life, many parents
of this selfish kind are prone to forbid
all that they themselves cannot enjoy.
They dislike the very contemplation of
activities once delightful-and now either
irksome or impossible, and would reduce
to their own low level of decayed vital-
ity oil that abounding spring, all that
superb freshness and vigor of the younger
generation; hence the children are over-
siricliy kept, and there is not sufficient
allowance made for the difference be-
tween youth and the other side of mu-
turity—betwccn the natural desire of
the unworn young for amusements. ex-
pcricnco and “something to do” and
that wcuriness of tho womout flesh
which makes pleasure pain, desires to
have no more experience and finds in
“something to do” unmitigated bore-
dom and fatigue. Such a home is not
happy in good sooth, and the more rest
less spirits run away, while the less on-
ergetic content themselves with peevish-
ncss, tours, lamentations and grum-
biiugs that have no end and do no good.
Nor is the home happy where idle‘
ness is the presiding genius. The idle
as well as the overrestrictcd long for
that “Hornethiug to do” without which
the uncrgios of youth food on themselves
and turn to poison in the process. An
idle household is necessarily discontent-
cd and uncomfortable, and when timo
bangs houvy the chances are that tern-
pcrs turn sour. It is tho way of humun
uoturo in gcncraictho law of lilo being
one of active doing, never reeling from
some form of energy. Else are there the
docuy and corruption of the organic and
the granitic immobility—the unfruit-
fulness of the inorganic. And here we
touch on one of the main points of
homo happiness—tho converse being
home misery whcrovor found. For we
may take it as a truth, four mourn to
all the winds of erecontrio doctrine that
blow. that the main foundations of
home happiness are laid in occupation
and order. By occupation we do not
mean an everlasting round of serious
and arduous labor. but a continuity of
"something to do"~—-be it work for one
hour and play for another. 1610 lives
and disorderly habits destroy real peace
as surely all rats will destroy the farm.
yard population in tho egg and the
chick; as sparrows will pick of! the
toudor heads of the budding blrwsotus.
Who can be happy who has neither
method nor occupation. whose times are
noticed and whose hours are unfilled?
That old adngo abtmt salsa finding
"some mischief still for idle baudsto
do" is as true now as when it was first
spoken. But we may add to this mis-
ohiof of the hands the acid blood and
sour burnout of the heart sud temper.
in idleness all manner of evil thoughts
take root and spring up like tater among
the wheat orweeds in the garden-u
Mrs. Lynn Linton.
The expressions "Baiiolelsh" and
”Aaron" are said to have beam intro-
dnood into Christian ivmhip by St.
, u1m._W/O« .W
Jerome about A. D. 890 .
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