Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Page 5

SOCIAL REFORM.

THE UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY’S CLUB. What the People Will Do When They are Given aa Opportunity for Social and Intellectual Improvement. Alice Chittenden gives an interesting account ot her visit to the University Settlement Society in Delancey street, New York, as follows: ‘•lt is in the heart of the Tenth Ward, that great district variously known as the “Typhus,” the “Suicide” and the “Crooked” ward, where, on a single square mile, 335,000 human beings are packed; where the population is twice as dense as that of the most crowded London district, and five times as dense as that of any great city in the United States. An area where everything tempts men to vice. All this is within a mile of a part of the city where there are thousands of vacant lots. Not only do liquor shops flaunt their signs on every one of the three corners allowed by law, but often on the fourth, with numerous smaller places between where liquor is sold. Dives of the lowest kind and “coffee saloons,” where every sort of immorality is kept up until the early hours of the morning, abound, and gambling resorts are so ingeniously disguised and so innocent appearing as to deceive the very elect. The Hebrews form a large part of the population, and where they go the “sweat shop,’’with its attendant evils springs up. Against all of these evils the Neighborhood Guild and its band of devoted adherents have to contend. What are its Weapons? I discovered two of them as I stopped in front of the four-story building of Milwaukee brick, whose bright windows and neat Holland shades offer so marked a contrast to the buildings in the vicinity, to read these placards: “Gymnasium, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from Bto 10. Class instruction Wednesday evening, 8-9.30. Five cents per week.” “Pool room open every evening from Bto 10.80. Two cents per cue. Initiation for 25 cents.” As I paused, attracted by these announcements, I was soon surrounded by a crowd of happy, eager child faces. “I go to school here, and oh, ain’t it nice!” said one. “I learn to cook and to sew,” said another. So, having learned where the Guild was, I passed in to discover what it was. The first floor covers a lot 25 x 100 feet and contains two large assembly

THE POOL ROOM.

rooms and a gymnasium. In the latter a number of little girls were practicing with such evident enthusiasm as can be felt only by those who have never known what it was to have even “elbow room” in life, not to speak of the absolutely unattainable freedom of childish gambols in fields and meadows. These children come from homes where three rooms for a large family is an almost princely abode, for many of them “home” means a single room shared by four or five. The assembly rooms, which are also used for dancing, have the walls hung with beautiful etchings loaned by the Century Company, and photographs. Many of the former are the original sketches made by their own artists of illustrations which have appeared in the magazine. Among the latter is a large and beautiful Sistine Madonna. Dancing classes are held every Saturday evening and are under the auspicies of the oldest club of the Guild, the O. I. F. (Order Improvement and Friendship). There are about 170 members, pretty equally composed of each sex. The men pay $1.75 and the women $1.25 for a course of twelve lessons, the dues paying for the dancing master at $lO per lesson and three pieces of music, Mr. James Galvin is master of ceremonies, and the circular announces that “the strictest ballroom etiquette will be observed.” The second floor contains a library and reading room and a large room used for club purposes and as a cooking school. The lavatories are also on this floor. The library contains 1,200 volumes, all of them donated. It opened in February, 1898, with twenty members, the fee being 5 cents, not a week, but for the entire year. New members were added at the rate of from 60 to 120 a month. It was suspended on the ,15 th of June, 1893, and waited to be opened until a permanent librarian could be engaged. Hundreds of applicants were also then awaiting admission. Cards of admission must be signed by some reliable person testifying to the good character of the applicant. A placard in large type advises them to “read slowly, pause frequently, keep clean and return duly with the corners of the leaves not* turned down.” The attendants made each child a special study, and instead of allowing them to choose their books at random, helped them to works on subjects specially fitted to foster the bent of each mind. It was surprising to'see tots of 10 and 11 choosing histories and biographies of statesmen. One scrap of a boy took home and read “Milman’s history of the Jews.” It is impossible to keep a United States history on the shelves. The third floor contains the rooms for clubs and classes

and pool rooms, where the three tables are all running every evening, with an average of five cues per game. If too narrow othodoxy should call this fighting the devil with his own weapons, ask yourself whether it is better that these young men, bound all the day to occupations of the most toilsome and disagreeable kind, should play a healthful, and in itself a nowise demoralizing game here or in the saloons. And why should billiards be worse for the masses than for the Four Hundred. The top floor is used exclusively by the residing workers, headed by Dr. Stanton Coit. It includes a sitting room, dining room, three bed rooms, pantry and kitchen. The halls, stairs and club room floors are bare. The top floor is covered with matting and artistic but inexpensive art rugs, and all the furniture is of the simplest description, but Ido not

THE READING ROOM.

think I exaggerate when I say that nine out of ten housekeepers could take a lesson here in neatness and cleanliness; the housekeepers of this establishment, be it borne in mind, are men. Such shining windows, such spotless floors, such immaculate freedom from dust I do not pretend to compass in my own simple menage. Having learned where the Neighborhood Guild is and briefly what it is, the inquiring mind next asks, “What are its aims, what it has accomplished and what are its aspirations for the future? Its object, quoting from its constitution, is “to bring men and women of education into closer relations with the laboring classes for their mutual benefit.” Being debarred by this constitution from becoming “the vehicle of any creed, religious, political or socio-economic,” its efforts to do good must rest upon deep human sympathies. In telling what the Guild is I find that I have omitted a very important branch of its work, viz.: the kindergarten. The dues are 10 cents per week, which pays for the daily luncheon of bread and milk. There are fifty-two children in the class, and mothers are fast gaining faith in the school. Fifty-two children are carrying the refining and civilizing influences of this school into their homes and are being assured of a future for themselves that shall make such homes as many of them now come from impossible. A Penny Provident Fund Bank has been opened, the 450 depositors being mostly children, some of larger growth making deposits of 25 cents or more per week. Four hundred and fifty more future homes insured against want by learning lessons of thrift and economy. It has instituted a social reform club—think of it!—in the Tenth Ward and every man and woman is invited to become a member. This is divided for active work into ten sections, with such large aspirations as the establishment of a public bath, laundry, park and playground, public lavatories, co-operative stores and sick benefit societies. It has already opened a co-oper-ative store which is being successfully run and at which pure milk and honest butter can be obtained at honest prices, for besides being the victims of every sort of adulteration of their food they are obliged, buying necessarily in small quantities, to pay most exorbitant prices. Last Fall the sale of wood was added, and those who chose to avail themselves of the opportunity offered

THE KINDERGARTEN.

were enabled to purchase coal at market prices, instead of paying, as formerly, more than double. That this work, begun seven years ago, is not to be lightly dropped, the plans of the proposed building for the University Settlement Society will show. The name of Dr. Stanton Coit, the head worker of the society, whose book on “Neighborhood Guilds, an Instrument of Social Reform,” is the standard work on the subject, is a still firmer guarantee for its future. To a thorough enlightenment regarding the work it is necessary that I should mention that the only salaried workers are the matron, the secretary, the kindergarten teachers and the librarian, whom it was found necessary to employ at a salary, it having hitherto relied in its undertakings upon volunteer workers from uptown. Most of these come from the self-supporting classes. In conducting the Flower Mission this summer I was told that the most active worker was a boy of twelve. This is a pie in which every one to whose heart the good work appeals may therefore have a finger. There isademand for any numberof friendly visitors—women who will go from

house to house learning what nuisances or want of decent repairs the people have to complain of and then standing between them and the wrath of the landlord while the nuisances are removed and the repairs made, for these landlords, who get from 80 to 40 per cent, on their money, do not hesitate to set a tenant who makes an appeal for necessary repairs summarily on the street. It is time that charitable people call a halt on indiscriminate almsgiving, much of which serves only to pauperize. Free distributions of bread and soup—of anything, in fact—lead to abuses, for instances were not wanting where families took advantage of gratuitous bread distributions to collect and sell from seven to ten loaves a day. After I had gone through the Guild from the ground floor to the top story my guide said: ‘ ‘Have you ever been through this district?” Would you like an object lesson such as possibly you have never dreamed of?” Then for twenty minutes, with my heart growing heavier and heavier each moment with the weight of the world’s woe and misery, we walked through the adjacent streets, into blind alleys leading to rear yards where almost every foot of space was covered with tumbledown tenements, where God’s air and sunshine not only were not free, but where you could not purchase an inch of one or a ray of the other with love or money. There is so much to do—so many wrongs to right—the task seemed Herculean—that wondering at the buoyant hopefulness of my escort, I said, “Sir, why do you do this?” He replied, “Because I believe in the people.”—[New York Recorder.

WASTE OF CHILD LIFE.

Frightful Slaughter of Neglected Little Ones in the Cities. Dr. H. W. Chapin has an article in the Forum which forcibly brings to our comprehension the waste of child life in great centres of population. He shows that the bodies of 8,042 children under five years of age were taken to the Morgue in this city last year, and that 2,851 of them were buried in Potters’ Field. These children were victims of poverty and ignorance, and they represent but a small proportion of last year’s or any other year’s victims of these causes. Dr. Chapin has made a study of 600 child cases in the New York Post Graduate Hospital. The condition at birth in 508 instances was good, bad in twenty, fair in twelve and unknown in sixty. This showing demonstrates that even among those who are forced to resort to public hospitals when sickness appears in their families, most of the sickness of infants is not due to inherited causes, but that it is acquired—presumably from faulty conditions of life, neglect and bad surroundings. That environment is stronger than hereditary has been proven in the cases of twenty children received at St. Christopher’s home some years ago. They were taken from tenement houses, and like most neglected children had a low degree of physical development. Many were scrofulous with a continuous tendency to skin eruptions. For two or three years they required constant medical oversight. Every year, however, has shown an improvement in their condition, and now, eight years after they were taken from the tenements and given proper care, they are apparently well. Good food and intelligent care have made them healthy. It having been established that poverty and ignorance kill more children than inherited disease the duty of the community becomes obvious. First the work of education is necessary. Parents should be lifted out of ignorance and taught to properly care for their children. The kindred curse of poverty is largely the result of another form of ignorance that we call improvidence. The fearful waste of child life must be checked by lifting up the parents, by teaching them to care for their offspring properly, and by bringing them to a plane of industry and provident forethought. —[New York Mail and Express.

Relation of the Ears.

Dr. Urbantschitsch, of Vienna, remarks that although the relations between the two eyes, especially the so-called sympathetic affections of the eye, have long been known, those between the ears have hitherto attracted little attention. It seems, from the studies of the author, that these relations are of diverse nature, that they may often be demonstrated, and that they are sometimes of much practical importance. In bi-auricular audition it has been already observed that an ear in which the hearing is notably diminished may exercise a stimulant influence upon the other organ. The treatment of one ear augments the therapeutic effect obtained in the other, even when the treatment has no beneficial effect upon the hearing of the first. One fact, especially, possesses great interest, viz., by an operative procedure upon the transmitting apparatus of one ear we may not only arrest the diminution of hearing upon the other side, but obtain a decided amelioration and sometimes a return to the normal condition. These reciprocal relations between the two ears, and especially the synergistic effects of accommodation, deserve attention and permit the hope that we may some times intervene with success—at least, in one of the ears—in certain cases of progressive deafness.—[Revue de Laryngologie.

An Advantage of Twin Screws.

The great value of the twin screws, apart from the increased speed which they give, was shown in the case of the steamship Paris, belonging to the American Navigation Co. Although the rudder of the Paris was broken, she remained under control and, by the use of her twin screws, was turned about and returned to port. Such accidents are relatively I rare, but when they occur it is usually in rough weather, when steering gear is most needed. The ships with twin screws have in effect a duplicate rudder, ahd are thereby rendered that much, safer.—[Philadelphia Ledger.

TAILOB-CLAD WOMEN.

HOSTS OF THEM APPEAR WITH THE EARLY SPRING. *he Coctumes Dtoplay Many a Masoullne Touch and the Vtmoat Severity of Flntoh Throughout—Draped Ulp* and Extended Shoulder*—Blonde* In Blue. Gotham Fa*hlon Goastp. Naw York correspondence-

HOSTS of tailor-clad women appeared with the early warm days of spring, and their costumes displayed i many a masculine ’j\ touch and the utmost severity o f finish throughout * Waistcoats abounded which differed \ little from those id worn by men, but Nu as warm weather wX comes their seVI verity will relax. Then we shall see

the soft, loose silk ones, with insertions of lace set in horizontal rows across the breast These waistcoats or shirt fronts, as they are more correctly called, can be' bought ready made, and they open at the side or In the back. The back is “sham, " a high stiff collar goes all around, and there is a wide, stiff belt, but the rest of the back is of lining stuff. Some of the better made fronts are like a sleeveless bodice of lining fastening in front, the silk front without dart crossing over the foundation and fastening down the side seam. Light blue silk, with horizontal insertions of black lace, the collar having its row, and the belt, too, is a favorite design. White with black lace and black with cream lace are still to be stylish; so, too, are scarlet and black lace and purple and black or white. These fronts will be worn with the tailor-made style of dress late into the summer. The wide belt passing entirely about the figure admits of use with the always pretty bobbed eton. The tailor-made gowns, of course, show no signs of overskirt or pannier

A BLONDE IN SKY-BLUE

effects, but an occasional costume is seen which combines considerable severity of cut with drapery effects, as a compromise between the out-and-out tailor rig and the elaborated gown of the other sort. Such a one is depicted in the initial. Made of a small check cheviot with little adornment, it has a polonaise which fastens with large velvet buttons at the side, and the skirt is pleated at the side. The draped bodice has pockets at each side, and opens over a plain silk plastron. The balloon sleeves are finished with pique cuffs. It is noticeable that all skirts for the street clear the ground, and they appear to be carefully hooked to the * waist line of the bodice both at the back and at the sides, for there is no sagging to be seen.. It is pleasant to report a great gain in the general shipshape trimness of effect in the dressing of the average woman this season. English severity and French care of detail seem to have combined with American dash and individuality, and the result is the best dressed woman the sun ever shone upon, ae you will see over and over again on the street. The rule for stripes now is that they shall be horizontal, and though it is not long since perpendicular ones were permitted, the new style seems at once pretty and correct. In the dress of the second sketch, which is made of skyblue satin liberty, and trimmed with black satin, the ample skirt is laid in pleats in front, through which pass three bias folds of the satin. In back the fullness is simply box-pleated. The bodice goes inside the skirt and opens

BOLERO OF MOIRE ANTIQUE.

over a plain plastron, garnished at the top to correspond with the skirt's trimming. The sleeve cuffs, collar and belt are made of the black satin. Moire continues in popularity, notwithstanding that in the silk ft is as unreliable as patent leather. In the ribbon it can be depended on a little better, so when you decide to have one of those little moire shoulder capes, make it of piece moire, if you have already a skirt of the piece silk which you can make over. But if you are going to buy the material for the cape, then select extra wide sash moire. There will be no wrong side, which will be one advantage, and it will probably wear as long as it ought to without cracking. The cape should be cut on the circle plan, and be made either with no seam or with only one. It may be single or double, and it will be quite a job to turn it out a little cape and not a little botch. On the other hand. the ribbon moire will go full on to the edge of a yoke, and that is all there is to it, but there are a few necessary directions. You cannot gel real thick sash moire on full

enough to the yoke to hang really well. If you try having three rows or bo of shirring, the silk will hang full, to be sure, but it will be stiff, cocxy and illtempered, and do your best you can only get rid of a little more than the usual ‘once and a half round,* no matter how you try to full it more to the edge of the yoke. But if you attach the edge of the ribbon to a double strip of net. a strip that comes above the edges of the ribbon only a half inch or so and that Is turned in firmly bo it won't pull loose, then you may allow even as much as four times around the edge of the yoke. The net is much less heavy to “full" than the edge of the moire itself, and no matter how deep and heavy you make the fullness of the cape, it will hang soft from its heading of net and no one be the wiser. This same trick will make the fulling on of stiff satin and moire about the shoulders of elaborate gowns an

HERE'S WIDTH FOR YOU

easy matter, and heading is secured as well if you make your strip of net an insertion and sew along it. After all is done, only the ribbon on either side of the net will show, and your best friend will wonder how you ever got that stiff silk to set so full. The artist's third offering is a princess costume for a young woman, made of Scotch tweed. The bodice 1b draped and fastens along the shoulder and under the arm. It is accompanied by an Independent bolero of moire antique. The sleeves have cuffs of the moire antique, and the moderately wide skirt opens at the side to show a pleated panel of the same. Any desirable suiting may be used for the gown of picture No. 4. Its bolero has a ripplea collar in back and simulates a large bow in front. The bodice is perfectly plain, has point in front and back and fastens at the side, and its sleeves are trimmed with chiffon frills. At the top of the skirt basques are attached and it further has a panel front and pleated sides. Beneatn the fullness produced by the basques at the back there is a double boxpleat of the stuff. In the free use of horizontal stripes it is seen that the method of diminishing the apparent size of the waist is combined now with attempt to make the shoulders broader. Tne slender line, formerly much prized, of the upward curve from waist to bust and from waist to under the arms is ignored. One of the prettiest effects shown among many notions in fancy waists is one furnished with bretelles," that start well out on the top of the arm and slant from there to the center of the waist line, concealing entirely the curve of the figure, and in full front view making the figure as nearly a tri-

DRAPED HIPS, EXTENDED SHOULDERS

angle as possible. The apex is the point made at the belt line by the converging of the sides of the bretelles, the base line is across and upon the almost squarely extended shoulders to the tips of the bretelles, and the sides are represented by the bretelles. The latter are so planned that on their inside edge they melt without an intervening line into the loose front of the waist. Thus all curve of the figure across the bust to the sides and under the army is disguised, breadth and upward curve from waist to throat being correspondingly emphasized. A toilet of ailk crepon is the last one shown. The short bodice is garnished in back and front with wide guipure insertion, and by a satin fichu whose ends hang down to the bottom of the skirt and from double pleats at the shoulders. Deep guipure cuffs accompany the large ample sleeves. The skirt is draped in pannier folds about the hips. Fancy waists are very abundant, and their most satisfactory adaptation to theater use is one element of their popularity, for every woman knows how trying it is on a handsome skirt to crush through crowded aisles. After all, the skirt hardly shows, yet, before waists became the fashion we had felt it undignified to only half dress, as it were, and so nobly and uncomfortably sacrificed our skirt. Charming bodices of the fancy waist kind are made of Dresden figured India silks of delicately tinted ground, s’eeves being provided with bishop tops to the elbow of accordion-pleated chiffon of a shade to match either the ground or the figure of the silk. There is also a fancy for employing black chiffon for this part of the waist, though black may not apjpear elsewhere in the waist. This, of course, makes the use of a black skirt entirely harmonious, and further simplifies the question Of suitable and convenient theater party rig. Moir© is to be used on linen dresses for summer use. It is already used on wash materials, but it seems out of place. The beauty of a wash gown is that it looks as if it can go to the tub and be a? good as ever. Accessories in the way of bows and so on are all right, but moire made permanently a part of a wash gown is not really pretty. However, if you want to do it, there is precedent. Copyright, 1894.

Total number of books in the Bible, 66; chapters, 1,189; verses, 31,173; words, 773,746; letters. 3,566,480.

THE JOKER’S BUDGET.

JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Not So Wonderful After All--Absent Mindedness--Out of Seeson--A Danger Removed--Eto., Eto. NOT SO WONDERFUL AFTER ALL. Howson Lott—Talk of horses! A bicycle is the thing. Why, I’ve ridden one for two years and it hasn’t cost me a cent, even for repairs. Lon Mower (inquiring as to the make)—Whose. Howson Lott—Well, to tell the truth, it’d my brother-in-law’s.— [Puck. ABSENT MINDEDNESS. He was the clerk of a millionaire And was loved by his "boss’s” daughter. The old man raved in a manner rare And did all he could to thwart her. When he found they’d been wed in the civil courts He felt his heart grow bigger, And he wrote out a check with lots of noughts, But forgot to put in a figure. —[Raymond’s Monthly. OUT OF SEASON. She—’Who’s that fellow over in the corner of the room? No one pays him any attention, and three months ago I saw him fairly lionized by all the girls. He—Oh, that’s Halfbacke,the football player.—[Chicago Record. A DANGER REMOVED. Cora Vah Salleigh.—l believe Mr. Fitz Toppinann is anxious to call on me. Clara Giltinann—Have you given him any encouragement? Cora—Certainly not, but I incidentally remarked the other evening that the gout in poor papa’s feet prevents him from wearing anything but slippers just now. [Raymond’s Monthly. SAFE. "And do you ever invite your poor relations to visit you?” "Oh, yes, indeed! You see, they are all too poor to get here.”—[Truth. INCREDIBLE. Willi Wilt—Do you. know—aw— Miss Perte, since the pink tea at Mrs. Codde-Ffehe’s yesterday afternoon my mind has—aw—been quite blank? Miss Perte What, Mr. Wilt! Only since yesterday!—[Raymond’s Monthly. SORRY HE SPOKE. " Well, why don’t you say that you wish you were a man? ” asked Mr. Potts during the little discussion he was having with his spouse about some matters of domestic management. " Because I don’t wish anything of the sort,” she retorted. "I only wish you were one.—[lndianapolis Journal.

IN A LONDON FOG. Cholly—lt’s deucedly perplexing, don’t you know! Wegie—What is, deah boy? Cholly—Why, now that Lawd Wosebewy is at the head of the Libwals and Lawd Sallsbewy of the Towies, don’t you know, I don’t know whetheh I’m aTowy or Libwal. —[Puck. NOT STRONG ENOUGH. Mrs. X.—Why don’t you get a servant girl? Mrs. Y.—Oh, dear me, it’s all I can do to do my own work without doing a servant girl’s work.—[Truth. GOOD AT GUESSING. Uncle George—Are you good at guessing? Little Dick.—Yes, indeed. I’m head In the spelling class.—[Good News. THE POLITE EDITOR. Poet—l have here, sir, a poem which I wish to have printed in your paper. Editor (looking it over; —We can’t print it to-day or to-morrow. Would it suit you as well at some later date? Poet (gratefully)—Oh! any time would be perfectly satisfactory. Use your own pleasure about that. Editor—Very well. We’ll try to get it in sometime in the Spring of 1994.—[Detroit Free Press.

THE INDIAN QUESTION. First Cowboy—l don’t mind an Injun havin’ his rights. Second Cowboy—Them’s my sentiments, too. He ought to have his rights. “ But if he undertakes to assert his rights then he ought er be scalped.” “That’s what I say, pertickerlarly if he has any good ridin’ ponies.— [Texas Siftings. THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS. Mrs. Smarte—Oh, you needn’t make any excuses, I can read you like a book. Mr. Smarte—Precisely. When you read a book, you skip all the noble, soul-inspiring passages and read only the trasn. —[Boston Transcript. THEIR TASTES DIFFERED. Mr. Smythe (of Boston, across the table) —Which do you prefer, Lamb or Bacon? My own tastes regarding them are very mixed. Miss Jones (of Chicago)—Oh, I reckon I like bacon a little the best. (Aside to the waiter) —And put some liver in the pan with it.—[Truth. AFTER THE HONEYMOON. He (angrily)—You are the biggest fool I ever saw. She—Hush, dear; you are forgetting yourself.—[Raymond’s Monthly. NOT TO BE CONCEALED. Beth—The position of woman from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries was particularly unenviable. May—Yes; they were Middle Age ladies, and everybody kndw it.— [Truth. SLIGHTLY DELAYED. Customer—ls the proprietor in? Waiter—Yes, sir. Customer—Take this steak back and ask him to jump oh it. Waiter—You’ll have to wait a little while, sir. There are two othbr orders ahead of you.—[Life.

A CULPRIT. Bobble—Didn’t you say yesterday that it was wrong to strike another? Bobbie’s Father—Yes, Bobbie. Bobbie—Well, I wish you’d teQ my teacher so.—[New York World. FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT. Mr. Browne—Half a dozen men told me that my new gown was a dream and you haven’t expressed a bit of admiration for it. Browne—But I have to pay your dressmaker, my dear.—[Raymond’s Monthly. AFTER A TIP. Waiter—l think you’ve forgotten something, sir. Guest (hurrying away)—Well, you can have it, my good man.—[Raymond’s Monthly. ANYTHING TO MAKE A LIVING. Bouttown—This is the first night of a new play, I see. Manager—Yes. Bouttown—l’ll go in and be one of the audience for a dollar.—[Life. MERELY A GUEBS. The Spectacled Girl—Have you read "Ships that Pass in the Night?’* The Auburn - Haired Girl—Nou What kind are they—courtships?— [lndianapolis Journal. * AB ADVERTIBED. Sufferer—You advertfee to pull teeth without pain. Is that true or false?” Dentist—lt’s true—if the teeth am false 1” ANOTHER MATTER. "Jones has skipped with 120,000.** " He’s a genius! ” "And he took your umbrella along, too.” “ He’s an infernal scoundrel!”— [Hallo. PROPOSING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. " What was the greatest disappointment of your life?” asked her dear friend. " When adeaf anddumb man tried to tell me he loved me in a dark hallway,” she responded.—[Hallo. FITTED IT. " What do you generally take after a full dinner at the club?” "An ambulance.” [New York. World. HAS GOOD REASONS. Viola—But, papa, the Marquis iM charming; and he is certainly generous to a fault. Papa—Well, he ought to be; he’e got more of them than anybody I know of. THE TRUTHFUL EPITAPH. A man lies here who was too wise (Or so he thought) to advertise. He’s very dead, as you may see; But his business is more dead than • he. —[Washington Star. NATURAL CURIOSITY. He—One half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. She—No; but it would give a good deal to find out. —[Detroit Free Press. EXCHANGE OF CONFIDENCE. Maude—l’m engaged to four men. Eleanor—Yes, three of them told me about It when they proposed tome.—[Chicago Record. NO IMPROVEMENT. Mr. Porkingham—You pay Mary’snew singing teacher twice as much ae you did the other one, don’t you? Mrs. Yes; he’s the most celebrated teacher in the city. Mr. Porkingham (in disgust)—Well, he’s a beat! Mary don’t sing a bit louder now than sne did when that cheap man was learning her.— [Puck. A SUPERFLUITY. " May I offer you my arm, Mite Jakersen?” ‘ "Thanks—l’ve got two of my own I” NEW ARITHMETIC. "Can you lend me |60?” " I was just going to ask you for ten.” "Oh, all right! Then you only owe me forty.”

Protect the Welle.

A scientific experiment has beeir made in Europe to demonstrate from what distance impurities can be carried by percolation through the soil from a distant point upon its surface to a well from which a family’s supply of water was obtained. A salt of lithium, which cait readily be detected in water, was spread upon a plot of ground 450 feet away. The water was daily examined, and on the eighteenth day the presence of lithium was apparent in the water. Il it had been the excrement from a typhoid patient, as happened in anothei case, when the nurse threw the discharges into an open wheat field somehundreds of feet from the spring we should no doubt have had, as happened in that case, an epidemic of typhoid fever—for this is the way it is often communicated in countrydistricts. The above statement ought to lead to an examination of. every well, for well water in the country is often seriously injured by the draining into it of kitchen waste, or by being too near the privy or barn yard. Professor Henry Hartshorne, in. Our Homes, says that of the danger of injury to health from polluted wells it is hardly possible to say too much. The water may be clear and. bright in appearance and agreeable in. its taste, yet dangerous to health. He gives, also, certain fact's concerning lead pipes which ought to be known. Distilled water, rain water and soft well water will dissolve enough lead from pipes to make them poisonous. It requires but one-tenth, of a grain of lead per gallon to affect very susceptible people with lead colie or even lead palsy. A wise precaution is always to allow the water to run for a while and empty the pipes before using for drinking or cooking. Every kitchen drain should have a trap, for sanitarians aver that kitchen drainage may become almost as bad. as sewage from house and street waste, so also must every kitchen sink and si op sink have the same protection, if you desire health in your family. An old law of Paris forbids kissing in public places.