Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — The Sexes in a Russian Province. [ARTICLE]

The Sexes in a Russian Province.

In the Russian province of Courland etiquette is excessively rigorous. Stiff bows form the nearest approach to cordiality here permitted between young unmarried people of opposite sexes. Very few opportunities are afforded them of being better acquainted. Even at dancing parties the gentleman is supposed to quit his partner immediately on the conclusion of a polka or waltz. Girls are kept under constant supervision from the moment of birth to that of betrothal. Unmarried ladies are not supposed to occupy the seat of honor on the sofa. Betrothal entirely changes all this formality into a really objectionable exhibition of sentiment. Billing and oooing, caresses, and endearments are indulged in in public without the least regard to delicacy and good taste. Sir Joseph Fayrer, President of the British Medical Society, says that in every Himalayan village.the native babies are kept asleep for hours, while their mothers are at work, by placing them in a trough and causing a stream of water to trickle on their heads. But the good old custom of smearing babies’ lingers with molasses and then giving them a few hen’s feathers to pick from one hand to another is not to be given up for any such Hindoo-heathen method as the above. If you will talk out of but one corner of your mouth at once, somebody may suspect you of having ordinary intelligence. “lie who is false to present duty,” says Henry Ward Beecher, breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the Haw when he may have forgotten Its cause.” A case In point occurs to us. Mr. Wm. Ryder, of »7 Jefferson street, Buffalo, N. Y., recently told a reporter that, 44 1 bad a large abscess on each lei, that kept continually discharging for twenty years. Nothing did me any good except Dr. Pierce's ‘Golden Medical Di covery.’ It cured mo.” Hero Is a volume expressed in a few words. Mr. Ryder's experience is entitled to our readers’ careful attention. — The Sun. Yount, lovers don't mind addition, but they despise the rule of three. —Texas Siftings. i%o lengthy e dvertisemont Is necessary to bolster up Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. What is the rate of intorest when distance lends enchantment to the View? —liostan Bu letln.

The foiimlntionK of disease are often laid by the Irregularities of eating, sleeping and movement of tho bowels experienced during traveling. To prevent an irregular action and e torpid condit.on of the digestive apparatus, use Du. Walker’s California Vinkoaii Bitteks. No traveler by sea or land should fail to take it with him. It may save his life. In the bright lexicon of the district messenger youth there is such a word as snail.