Ingenious Teaching.
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" 'A mother, who could hear in the
’ next room every morning her small
son of nine talking to himself as he.
spelled out the words and added the
figures, crosswise, up and down. and
in every possible way, ofxza large cal-
endar which hung directly in front of
his bed, bethought herself of furnish-
ing him better occupation. She took
down the calendar and put in its place
a good print of Raphael’s “Madonna.
della Seggio-la,” this with no word to
him of the change. The next morn-
ing'thielittle one’s voice was stilled,
but ‘a'vnoiseless peep into the room
showed‘his eyes glued rapturously to
the picture, while about his lips the
hint of a smile betrayed that his ab-
sorbing interest was a pleased one.
Since then at intervals his morning
picture is changed, not too frequently,
for a child demands reiteration, until
the boy has become a small con-nois.
seur in famous paintings, and his oc-
casional short visits to an art gallery
are a great delight to him because of
his natin studies. The first ten min-
ntcs of a child’s day are a most valu-
able receptive period. The young
brain is refreshed by Sleep, unexcited
by any of the day’s occupations. eager
fr impressions and peculiarly rc-
iyonsive to their influence.
A writer on child-study considers
that equally important with the first
waking hours should be the last of the
day. The mother who sits at her lit-
tle one's bed as the tired, small frame
is settling into repose will almost in-
variably find that 'the mind just be.-
t’ore sleep works with unusual, if
brief, clearness; she will be wise to let
this last, strongly imprinted impres-
sion he a soothing one. A gentle
voice, a short, easily comprehended
tale with no sadness, no tragz-fly, no
sharp elements of any sort, will send
the temporarily. keen but fast suc-
cumbing faculties off into slumber-
land under the best and most health-
ful auspices. Too many mothers leax c
to servants these significant moments
oftheir children's lives, levely to the
mpthers if they will enjoy them, and
priceless to the growing character of
their receptive powers if taken advan-
tage of.——New York Evening Post.
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i 3.5. A Curious “’ill. we
V The will of Mme. Brasseux, an ec-
centric Frenchwoman who recently
died in Paris, might furnish food for
thought for some of our American mil-
lionaires. She was very rich, and had
dean a hopeless invalid for many
years, but she succeeded in extracting
iacreat deal of pleasure from life. She
filled her house with pretty young
girls. and once a Week for their enter-
tainment gave a large ball, to which
she invited any one and every one who
pleased her, irrespective of social sta-
tus. At each of these entertainments
the hostess sat in her invalid chair,
near the musicians, watching her
guests dance and. enjoy, themselves.
When she died. her will was found
to be as eccentric as her life had been.
, She had left the whole of her vast for-
tune to individuals of all sorts and
conditions, selected from time to time
it these entertainments. Two thou-
sand francs wereieft to a. young man
who danced unusually well; three
thousand to a girl with a musical
laugh; five hundred to a young woman
with beautiful hair, and so on. All
the bequests were small, but all were
made for some definite reason, in re-
turn for some definite pleasure given
by the legaiee to the eccentric old lady.
l‘hc Puritan.
Patti's Fondness for Linen.
Mme. Patti, who is a wonderful
Jousewife, has a perfect passion for
Her (‘upbcal‘ds are among the
Linen.
wonders of Craig-y-nos. With inno-
2ent cmwetry Caroline, her faithful
;ervitress for thirty yeai's standing,
'liLS tied up the beautiful sets of
sheets and pil'ow cases and. tower"; and
ablecloths and napkins in pink and
blue ribbon. with little upstanding
vows. So the cupboard, when opened,
:csembles a lower garden. Patti
might well make the same reply that
lime. Roland made when one of her
friends said, 'vronderingiy, "How your
servants love you!” She answered,
‘.\nd how I love them!" Mme. Patti,
ndeed, is literally adored by hcr serv-
lots, and is even a. heroine to her
amid—New York Journal.
The New Woman ma \Vife.
it is the man who marries the new
wonniu who is going to get the most
mi of this lite, for even in living there
is everythir- .' in knowing how. And.
:"a‘r from leaving man out of her prob-
em of life, her philosophy is teaching
lzcr to'look for his possibilities with
'tie same anxiety that she employs in
studying her own; that to adopt her-
icli’ to his individuality need not nec-
wsarily imperii her own; that the first
:lement in the forming of this perfect
Eliilllilt, which it is her ambition to es-
.ziblish,- is pi rfect congeniallty of spir-,
is. L.,’.,v».-en her elf and her husband.—
Wonzan's flora. Companion.
The K‘tohen Apron.
Make your kitchen aprons with a full
rni’z‘iu across the bottom. This will
stand out from yo‘." dress skirt and
catch urbane-veer you may drop or spill,
thus protecting the dress skirt. The
ant cf a dose skirt is often soiled
~1er the bottom because the apron
mes not quite cover it, or is drawn too
i ."litly'across it, but this ruffle will
intact—gully prevent any soiling of. the
truss.
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FORBOYS AND GIRLS
BEAR RAISED’BY A GOAT.
He Grew Up to be a. Fine Herder, and HI
“'ill not be Assisted by Dogs.
The bear that figures in the story
was known as Jack, and he belongec
to Lewis Ford, who formerly ownieda
goat ranch up on the Cerro Ooloradt
Mountain, overlooking the lovely valley
of thc San Joaquin. ‘
Ford found the bear when it was a
cub, soTt, roun’d, shining and black
Being wifeless, childless and alone, he
adopted the tiny cub, and carried it
home. Once there, Ford soon found
that a foster; mother must be provided
for the infant, and so a frightened,
trembling, bleating she-goat was
of the parents he so missed. It was
only after much combined force and
persuasion the goat could be induced
plian placed in her care. But the time
came when foster mother and foster
child were as happy and content in
their relations to each other as if the
sight of a n-imblefiooted blue—haired
"nanny” suckling a clumsy black bear
cub was of the most ordinary condition
of affairs.
The bear, which was named Jack,
waxed fat on goat‘s milk, and a more
docile, tractable beast never grew up
under the guardianship of a humane
and loving master. In -’the earlier
days of his adoption the baby was a
baby in truth. He would not be left
alone. And it would have been a hard-
er heart than Ford’s that could have
resisted the pitiful whimper of the lit-
tle fellow whenever he thought that he
was to be left alone in the house. Had
there been any to see it in those days
they would have witnessed a strange
sight. The great, broad-shouldered
man following his flock as they grazed
on the bunch grass-sometimes five or
six miles from home—and as he Walked
the steep mountain side, where it was
so almost perpendicular that it
seemed that only the goats themselves
could gain a foothold on the rocks, he
carried the cub in his arms.
\_V1’i.:-ll Jack grew older he was
trained to herd goats. Previously a
number of dogs had helped Ford, but
the bear and the dogs could not agree,
and so the dogs had to go. Jack took
their place well, and they were never
missed. For several years the bear
continued to help Ford, until the lat-
tor sold his ranch and prepared to go
to his home in Europe. Then a num-
ber of his neighbors tried to buy the
Lear. Ford refusedto sell him, and
said that if he could not take Jack
with him he would not go. The dif-
ficulty about shipping the bear was
overcome, and now he and his master
are living contentedly in the old coun-
try. enjoying the fruits of their long,
lonesome stay in the California mount-
ains—San Francisco Call.
Egg Collecting in Greenland.
Greenland boys.~.,are expert egg col-
lectors, perhaps the best in the world.
As soon as the gulls and other birds
'hat nest in the far North appear in
the spring the work begins. No boy
who has not practiced a great deal at
climbing the rough mountain sides
and creeping over the glaciers is al-
lowed to Venture on the perilous task.
But at fifteen, and even before, a
Greenland boy is as strong of limb, as
fearless of heart, and as cool of head
as any steeple-climber. Early some
mornings he takes a bag made of seal-
skin, and, with a lunch. of dried fish
or blubber, he starts out for the day
in the mountains.
Up, up he climbs along the dizzy
edge of some deep inlet of the sea until
he comes to the rocky ridges where the
gulls make their homes.
An ordinary American boy-and
some of them are pretty good climbers,
too—would not dream that the steep
mountain sides could possibly be
crossed; but the Greenland boy knows
just where to step, just how to hold
his stout staff. and he will walk quite
coolly along a- jagged. ridge hundreds
. or feet above the water, where one lit-
tle misstep, a loose stone or a bit of
crumbling ice would hurl him down to
his death.
But it is only on those wild ledges
that he can find the nests he seeks.
Here every crevice is filled with eggs,
laid almost without protection on the
rocks.
tering out and circling around his head.
He must not look at them lest he be-
come. dizzy. - When he reaches a nest,
he places the big blue and White eggs
in his bag, and thus he proceeds until
he has a_loa d.
Happy is be if he sees a falcon ris-
ing on the air among the gulls, fora
falco-n's egg are very valuable. But
its nest is hard to find, and often a
whole day is expended by the brave
hunter before he reaches the spot
where the. eggs are laid; and if his
bag is already filled with eggs, he slips
his new find into his roomy sleeves.—
Golden Days.
Tho Favorites of the Nursery.
Most of the favorite rhymes of child-
hood are very old, .
“Sing a Song of Sixpence" was sung
by little folks at least two hundred
years ago.
“Three Blind Mice’j is found in a mu-
sic book dated 1609. '
“The Frog and the Mouse” was li-
censed in London in 1580.
“Lucky Locket Lost Her Pocket,” to
the turn of which “Yankee Doodle”
was written, is several hundred years
old.
' “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have
You Been?" was written in the time of
Queen Elizabeth, three hundred years
ago.
“Little Jack Homer” is older than
the seventeenth century—Harper‘s
Round Table. ,
brought to the house to take the place
to adopt as her own the unkidlike olr- .
As he approaches, the gulls .go chat- ,
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‘lANY iN . ROYAL 'FAMILIES ANI
A FEW IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Ali English 'Duchess, a'Half-Dozen Rus
sian Princess‘es and a Number of ”the
,TitledIVVom'en Among the List, Al.“
the Earl of Derby.
, Rumors that there is a klepton ania.
in fashionable New York SOCieiy ap
pear to have received some confirms:
tion because at a recent noted weddin.
one of the guests was robbed of a valu
able diamond tiara which was take:
from her head. She did notvknow 0
her loss until she was about to taki
her departure. Both the host and tin
hostess are pOSitive that no‘ strangen
were present at the function, nor an]
person not on their visiting list. Th:
consequence is that suspicion point:
once more at that. wealthy individua
to whom society has for some timi
past ascribed a sort of diseased inabil
ity to distinguish between meum am
tuum.
This person, who is, perhaps, mom
to be pitied than blamed, because hi!
dishonesty is the result of a meuta
malady rather than of mere vice, cai
console himself _or herself with th(
knowledge that'there are in Euro-pl
many distinguished personages af
flictcd in the same way.
According to theannual police reports
published by the French Government
there were arrested in Paris not long
ago as shoplifters and kleptomaniacs
an English Duchess, the daughter 0:
a reigning sovw-eign. and at least hah
a dozen Russian Princesses, as well as
a number of other titled women.
None of these women was driven t(
dishonesty by want, for. in every in
stance either they or their relatives
were able to show that they had ample
means wherewith to pay for the ob
jccts stolen. The consequence was that
none of them was prosecuted criminal
13'. They were. released after the pay
ment of heavy fines‘, which went tc
the Society for the Relief of the Poor
The English Duchess, for finance
was compelled to pay a fine of $15,000
Her identity is as well known In Paris
as in London, although the Parisiar
police were gallant to abstain from
mentioning the name of Her Grace it
their report. -
One of the strangest ills‘inl'tg'tls r".
klcptomaniu was that of Hi“ l‘H“ liar
of Derby, who repeatedly held offir-o ir
the Tory Cabinet. on several no a
sinus as Minister of Foreign -.\.ft‘a?r:'~:
llc poswswod from land alone a r:-‘:'~.‘.
rail of R:‘.iH\-’i,ml<’) irm’ auni'm. rm h;
was expelled from l'Tion for the ili'i‘i
of a watch. {lllhi'lll'il his f:\.‘.‘-n" was
Prime Minister zll' llic- i‘liw. in alto:
lii‘c wheitcvi-r lli' :~‘.:"'\‘('ii at :!"v viz-:1:
try homo ihu'el was rilmozi i:"':ir‘i~ibl)
the (T-tr! march «21' some lilt‘Ct‘ oi
jcv'ch'” of Nate to deplore—Nev.
York ‘v'l'vuhl. ‘
The Suluui’s 'bluncy in AIIII'YHPH.
The Sultan is reputed to be ()H€“ of
the richest men lil Europe He re—
ceives something short of a million a
year from the country, and half a mil-
lion from his private estates. He has
saved a large amount, but keeps a
small portion only in Turkey. ‘He
used to have five millions invested in
England, but since the relations be
tween England and Turkey became
strained the bulk of that amount has
been transferred to Americaf where
His Majesty has already three mil-
lions invested.
The Fastéstt-Woman Bicyclist.
Seventeen thousand miles of wheel-_
ing in a year! The remarkable feat
accomplished by Mrs. A. E. Reinhart,
of Denver, “the champion lady cen-
tury rider of the country?“ gives her
not only the satisfaction of [mowing
that she has outdone all her sister bi-
cyclists. but also that-she has accom-
plished a record few men could do.
She closed her year’s riding with no
less than 116 centuries and three
double centuries to her credit, 6. total
of 17.000 miles.
Housekeeper: “And now,- Bridg-et, is
more anything more that you require
ocforc you become my cook?"
Brid. ct: “VP-s. mum; there’s wan
thing Pratt-i, mum. I'll expect the
use of y. .. bicycle on me afternoons
Jut. I’Ve a pair ev 'knickerbockors ev
me own."
'- Aunt 'l‘ 'c (aghast)~Bro,ther Bil-
dad. that is the finger-bowl you are
drinking from.
Uncle Bildad Comcon (between
gulps)—Peart name fer it. sister. I
wow, it does take ev'ry finger a fel-
.er's got ter hold ther thlng while he‘s
rittin‘ a drink...b'zosh.——Judze.
L. “.343.— .
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A brilliant complexion is a beauty in it-
oelf. It pleases the eyes of thoughtless
eople and the minds of thinking people.
They know that a, really good complexron
is a sign of health, and created by Nature.
There are difi'erent ways of imitating a fine
complexion : cosmetics, which deceive no-
body, but ruin the skin and make_the user
look silly and prematurely old ; stimulant!
which only give a. temporary flush; danger-
ous drugs which drive ' pimply disorders
from the face back into the blood. All
these “counterfeit” complexions are .111!-
safe and easily detected. But the genuine,
unmistakeable, much-admired color .and
clearness of health can only be obtained
by clearing all ‘bilious matters and humors
out of the blood. .‘
The first step towards creating a good
complexion by Nature’s own method is to
get the blood clear, and the Circulation free
and active. There is no complexmn so sal-
low, muddy or pimply but it.w1ll be cleared
and brightened by- Dr. Pierce’s Golden
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the digestion and regulates the bowels 1n
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to the blood. and not only beautifies the
complexion but makes the eyes brighter
and the breath sweeter. _
If the bowels be very much constipated,
it will be advisable to take small doses of
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, conjomtly
with the use of the “Golden Medical DIS-
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ficient to get their laxaureand alterative,
or blood cleansing, efi'ect Will: be suflicxent.
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