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HOW TO BE A SCHOOL MA'M Bill Nye Eclates Reminiscences and Gives a Few Lessons to a Beginner. Sarcastic Eemarks on a Black-Board Girls Who Spat on Their Slates and Rubbed It Off with Their Aprons Thompson's Scheme. Copyright, 1859, by Edgar W. Nyo.J Hon. Wm. Nye, New York: Dear Sir Having read with much interest your instructive letters in the Journal and other papers, I thought it would be beneficial to many other readers as well as myself to gain your advice on a question which nearly concerns many of us. In a few weeks I expect to lake charge of my first school, a primary grade in the boys department. Will .you crive us the benefit of your observation, if not of your experience, in this line? In so doing you will greatly oblige, Yours respectfully, Mary Brown. 160 Church street, Knoxville, Tehn. Yon could hardly have sought out a source of richer, riper experience, Mary, if yon had hunted the whole broad Union y er. So long did I work in the great common-school vineyard, that now, after years devoted to other and varied pursuits, I can hardly drive past a cluster of straight beech gads without climbThe Old Testament Headings. ing down from my richly upholstered carriage and cutting them against the opening of school. A great many people claim to be fond of teaching. Probably some of them are. Others say so because they have heard that it was a good thing to say. I taught partly because I heard it was a good route to the presidency, and partly because I needed the money. It was iortunate that I did not need much. 1 began by teaching a district school containing all sizes of children, from the littlo cherub who seemed to regard me as a dry nurse at $18 per month, up to the large ?:iggly girl who spat on her slate and wiped t with Tier apron. It is a tough experienca for a boy of eighteen or nineteen to enter a school-room for the first time and read a chapter from the Bible, as I was expected to do. I had not been accustomed to read every morning aloud from the Scriptnres, and so I was embarrassed. Besides, 1 did not use good taste in the selection. I did not know it until it was too late. I thought that the Old Testament would be more interesting to the children than the New, and so struck some matters of history there, told In terse rugged, realistic language, which attracted more attention from the school than I had expected. I thought it would get better as I moved on, but it did not and so I tried anothor selection. Several large girls giggled, and ceased to agitate their gum, as 1 struck into the second selection. It was hardly the thing for a school reading, and so I omitted the most of it. Our curriculum ran all the way from rash and teething-rings up to trigonometry tatting and belles lettres. One thing I like about the district school is its great range and its broad and liberal scope. Sometimes while I was demonstrating a theory in goometry for a large girl just ripening into glorious womanhood, a small black-and-tan child, four years old, would get a lima bean up its nose and I would have to tako a button-hook and attend to him, thus delaying thecause of education in the interests of agriculture. The school teacher in our district was required to be also a social favorite, both at evening parties and revivals, so it was really no sinecure, though of course the salary was excellent. The first year I was my own janitor and had to build my own fires and sweep the floor, fhis gave zest to my work and made me feel that 1 was earning my money, so that at the end of the month, when I got my 818, less board and washing, I could look the school-board in the face and say I had given an equivalent for this princely sura. Sometimes I would find a chalk portrait of myself on the;black-board with the frank admission made by some scholar nndereatl lit that I w as "a fool without "ffifbent cense to teach school" and I would feel that possibly such was the case. J hen the doughnuts and cookies lost their flavor for me and tasted like the bottom of the tin dinner pail. You will have moments like these. Mary, when your heart will hang very low in your bosom, and just at that moment your

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H meanest scholar will be the meanest. Ho will be successful in entertaining the school for an hour or so and you will not. be able to find out how he does it. Largo eirls would proceed to giggle if you had any in your school and all would seem lost We all like large girls everywhere except in a district school. There they and their wavs are past finding out "But I have lived to see all the naughty big girls of my school richly punished in after years. They are all married now. Some of them were punished worse than the others. They, married self-made men who frequently allude to it. 4 You will have to encourage declamations, no doubt Mary. The parents will insist upon it Every two weeks you should have Sieces spoken in the afternoon -and spell own afterward. You will probably try to teach the boys elocution and gesturing. Do not teach too much of it, however. Nothing can add to the horrors of a speech so much as the gestures generally taught by young teachers at school. Do not spoil the natural gait of a bright boy by introducing the patent, whole arm movement in declamation denoting wrath, or the Barrett guttural cut-ofFstylo of suppressed emotion. Teach them to be perfectly natural like good old Denman Thompson, who does not even make up when he acts out on the stage. He makes no gestures even in his greatest situations. He washes his face in Teal rain water and soft soap on the stage before the audience, and his piece also contains a beautiful moral. Possibly you would like to hear, Mary, how the great and good Denman Thompson succeeds so well with the "Old Homestead." It is due lamely to his human nature and his utter hatred of artifice. He used to rav in one of his nlavs. but people auuhed heartilv throueh his prayer and so he feared that he was not accomplishing that good which he thought ho should. He desired so far as possible to elevate the stage. In order to do that he must induce those to come and see him who had been taught that the play was the devil's great bee-line scenic route to hell. So Mr. Gilmore. his manager, was called in. He said he knew of a retired clergyman whose voice had given out, but whose mind was still active. He could help to bring this matter before the best people and the clergy especially. He was employed at a fair salary very fair compared with former salaries to speak to the clergymen of New York and vicinity regarding the great moral concealed in Uncle Deninatfs play. Thereupon the good man goes to his friends, Mary, and with a white tie and a suit of solemn black, along the elbows of which the bright sun was beautifully caught out and reflected back to third base, he spoke to the pastor of the nearest church casually, after asking him about the progress of his work: 'Do you know, dear brother, that the pulpit to-day is doing even less than the play? This may startle you, but it has start--Ted me. too. Oh, I sometimes think that we are ofi the track. We do not get the audience we ought to have, and how can we reach people unless we can interest them and get them out? Here is a play called the 'Old Homestead,' with a beautiful lesson running. all the way throueh it. Critics say there is really no more play about it than there is in the dictionary, but it teaches us in a simple way a great truth, and yet it is so presented that you laugh and you cry, and you go home a better man or woman, owing, of course, to which sex you may consider yourself as belonging. "I wish you could go and see It. If yon will, and then give your unbiased opinion of it, 1 will ask Mr. Gilmore. with whom I am somewhat acquainted, to send you some tickets. He will do it, I know, for he don't cat is whether he makes a cent so long as he is doing good. That's the kind of man Gilmore is." The brother says ho will go under those circumstances, and take his wife. Ho goes, and is glad to notice other clergymen in the audience. He laughs along the first act, but softly, for fear there is going to be something depraved carefully concealed in it, but finally he concludes that, even with his prejudice against a play, he need not worry here, for this is not a plav. After the first act Mr. Gilmore comes and touches him gently on the shoulder and says: "Excuse mo, but is not this the Reverend Mr. Early Chosen!" Ho knows it is because his hired man has already pointed him out Yes sir, I am he." "May I ask you if so far you are pleased with Mr. Thompson!" Oh yes, sir; very much, very much. Quite pleasing at times I assure yon." "Well, sir, the piece growa greatly in interest as we proceed. You will like the second act much better." And so, proud of the attention received from the manager and his comfortable seats, he warms up to Uncle Denman till he laughs and then cries with the rest He forgets his choir difficulties at home and gives himself up to the soothing influences of the humorous but highly moral old farmer. At the end of the second act Mr. Gilmore says: "Would you not like to go behind the scenes and meet Mr. Thompson!" Proud of the added distinction and with a little touch of curiosity he gladly assents. In his dressing gown the red-checked old farmer who ate "two plates o' beans at Springfield" is discovered reading from the lamentations of Jeremiah. Mr. Gilmore says: "Mr. Thompson." No reply. Uncle Denman wipes his ironbound spectacles on the brief tail of his hand-me-down coat, and turns to the third chapter of Romans. "He is a little deaf," says Mr. Gilmore, tenderly. "Mr. Thompson!" For answer, Uncle Denman reads, half aloud to himself. "As it is written, there is none righteous; no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seekctk after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become un

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HATS AND CAP Wo had an enormous run on 'em during the past two weeks. No wonder, a't the price we are selling them. They go like a house a-fire. School Caps for the hand some, bright-eyed school lad dies of Indianapolis, at 15 cts. and upward. AJSTD D02ST5T YOU FOEGET IT profitable. There is none that doeth good; no, not one." 9 On the walls the pastor sees Scripture maxims and texts almost covering the little room. In a little corner is a bouquet of Caraway seed. All is pure and delicious. The orchestra is playing something soft Thorn psorx Drowned in the Scriptures. and touch fuL Uncle Denman sheds a tear, or two into a big red o tton handkerchief, and reads another verse through his nose. "I hate to disturb him," says Mr. Gilmore, "for he is attached to the Scriptures. But you must meet him. I will go around on the other side. He can hear a little on that side. Mr. Thompson!" Uncle Denman reluctantly puts the book down, with his spectacles in it. so that he will not lose the place. He is introduced, and the pastor is evidently the apologetic party, not the actor. The pastor goes home and puts a sixtyline reading notice in his next sermon. So do several other clergymen present. Uncle Denman reverses one of the maxims on his wall, which reads: ................ ...... ............. , : The Lord is My Shepherd; : : I Shall Not Want. : and, behold, it reads: : The Fool and His Money : : Are Soon Parted. : . .......... But I have made this letter too long, Mary, and I will apologize. I wish yon great good fortune with your school, and hope tnat some future President may, in years to come, say that yon first aroused his ambitions and gave him a boom in your little primary school. Good luck to you. Keep the room well ventilated, and do not sacrifice true advancement at the shrine of diabolical discipline. That was -my motto, and that is why my scholars learned faster and had more fun than those of any other school in our country. Bill Nye. NAPOLEON AS AN EDITOR. His Leading Article Not Printed and a Tremendous Row Ensues. Courier dea Ztats-TJnls. It was in 1813, tho period when the nerves of Napoleon were most irritable. Tormented by the frequent visits of the embassador of Austria to Marie Louise, the hostile inspiration of which he suspected, the master.who did not consider it beneath his dignity to take the pen sometimes, wrote with anger a violent article against his father-in-law and sent it to Etienne by an aid-de-camp, with an order to publish it the next dav as a leader in tho Journal de l'Empire. The next day Napoleon ooened the paper with a trembling hand. Hie article wasn't there! White with rage he called an orderly and shouted in a voice of thunder. "Go and say to M. Etienne that if the article does not appear to-morrow morning I will have him sabered with a pandour." Then he awaited with impatience the twenty-four hours' grace. The next day, like the day before, no article. Napoleon could contain himself no longer. His anger burst forth in formidable accents, and he shouted to his officers. "Bring Etienne here, dead or alive!" With flashing eyes he paced up and down the room. Etienne arrived with a pale face, and stood erect in silence. As if he had not seen him. Napoleon continued to pace up and down, while the specta tors of the scene wondered in terror what was going to happen. Suddenly the Emperor darted straight over to the man like a bullet, seized him by the arm and shook him with force. "1 toank you, sir," said he, hoarsely, and quitted the apartment leaving Etienne stupefied. Napoleon understood that snch resistance to his autocratic power could only come from sheer madness or from the absolute certainty of saving him from a great blun der. But what a scene and what a lesson! The Beam In the Northern Eye. Detroit Tribune. True, there are no violent outrages com mitted here upon the blacks for political purposes; no disfranchisement or anything of that sort but are clean, intelligent and cultivated black people welcomed at our hotels! If not, why not! It certainly is not because the proprietors are not willing to take a black roan's money just as soon as they would a white man's. It is lust as good, and they are desirous of getting all they can. The fact is only explainable on the ground that they are afraid of losing white men's money by reason of their ob jecting to even so remote and inoflensive an association. A Prescription That lias Never Falle d. Los Angeles Tribune. If they really want a jury in the Cronin caao wny uouv mey auvcf uaci

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes a Short Essay on Social Weaknesses and Defects, Immoralities of City and Country Life ComparedThe Worst 3Ian the Poetess Ever . Knew Bad Tempers Productiye of Eyfl. Copyrignt, 1S89.1 It is only the rustic, the dyspeptio or the declasse man or woman who is forever talking of the "corruption" of society. Many excellent people, whose lives have been passed entirely in rural places, imagine the society of large towns to be a hotbed of immorality and godlessness. People who have striven vainly for social place and failed to find the open sesame, are often loud in their denunciations of the successful, and are wont to comparo society to a whited seplnchre. But the cosmopolitan, observant being, with a good circulation, knows that human nature is the same the world oyer, and that everywhere is the same mixture of good and evil. During a month I once passed in & remote and sparsely settled country place, I heard of more immoral actions among the quiet denizens than I had heard in two years in the largest city of America. Yet should one take the trouble to select at random, in the most respectable part of the city, the same number of human beings, it is wholly probable that an equal number of equally immoral, if less vulgar actions could be recounted. The whirl and rush of city life seems alike unconducive to great thoughts and small gossip, but the morals of people are very much the same mixture of good and bad in all civilized communities. I think the repression of country life as often brings latent propensities for evil to the aufface as the temptations of city life. yne oi our smaller towns has ueen proline in the production of adventurous women, who have achieved notoriety in the divorce courts: and it is a curious fact that few of the great adventuresses of the world's his tory were born or bred in large cities. But, whether in town or country place, he who seeks shall find that which he soaks. The man or woman who sets forth on a quest of evil is sure to lind it Early in life I realized that there was more pleasure to be derived from observing good than evil, and consequently sought and found it existing in abunbance about me. It is the crude idea of the youthful mind that the world is divided into two armies the good and the bad one clothed in darkness upon tho left one in garments of light upon the right and in deadly opposition to each other. As we mix with the world this illusion vanishes, for we find the two armies clothed in the same habili ments, mixing together amicably, and the deadly battles are fought silently and out of sight in each human heart between right and wrong. A great native virtue, planted too generously in a human heart and deprived of careful cultivation, often degenerates into a rank vice, and the world not infrequently mistakes a sterile and inactive nature for one of great chastity and self-denial. The summer sunlight is beautiful and benefleient but it is as prone to produce bugs as y a.a. a' i i i it ;a ouiieraies, weeas as xerns, wane uie winter sun produces neither. Yet the suminer sunlight is of more use to us than winter's chill rays, despite the bugs and weeds. A. wise gardener uproots the one and kills the miscnievous insects. There is no more godliness in negative f;oodness than there is heat in winter sunight, which does not produce bugs or weeds stmply because it has not power enough to warm anything into being, and not from an inherent objection to weeds tjt bugs. Absolute virtue is that which seetnes with active-impulses and is forced by will and reason into unselfish channels. The worst man I ever knew had no vice. He attended church and broke no commandments and indulged in no excesses, let he nagged . his wile and children to the grave, and destroyed everjr flower of pleasure which sprang up by his hearth-stono. and ruined the tender young lives about him with the unceasing tempers or a nousehold tyrant and petty demon. Disagreeable tempers and uncontrolled nervous dispositions ruin more homes than drink or vice. A fault-finding or sarcastic tongue in a family circle drives more men and women to evil than original sin. A lady said to me once: T demand good manners before good morals from my acquaintances. Bad morals can be hiadon; bad manners cannot" I think I would demand good motives first of all, since good morals would of necessity ensue; and he whose motives wero truly good must, too, desire not to give offense by bad manners, and so all three virtues would be his. Were I to select the one good quality which is most indispensable to me in an intimate friend, I would without hesitation say sincerity. No matter if she be bright, gifted, refined, amiable and witty, full of appreciation and affection, yet an insurmountable wall stands between my heart and hers if she is not sincere in small matters and in great. "Come and see me soon," I said to a friend one day, who stepped off a car as I stepped on. "Yes. to-morrow or next dav." she renlierlIn consequence I stayed indoors durinc both days, missing a drive and a luncheon, which 1 oeo lined because l xeit my share in the engagement necessitated my remaining at home during the specified forty-eight hours. She did not come, nor did she send an apology. She had spoken from the lips only, and she had supposed my invitation was a purely polite one, which would bo satisfied with a speedy promise and tardv fulfillment. But a fine code of honor in these small matters permits no carelessness of invitation or reply. If I say to a friend in passing, "Como around and see me to-morrow." it is mv duty to remaiu at home during that dav, or to send word if obliged to co out We havo no right to say these things on impulse, and tnen waive me respousiDiiuy mey incur. it savors oi moral wortniesiness and irre sponsibility. I once knew a gentleman who was prone to make cordial speeches to people in whom he really felt no interest In a public conveyance, one Saturday morning, he en countered an acquaintance from a neighboring city, who was journeying to another State, in company with his wife. Now, my friend had but slight acquaint ance with the couple, and really felt no especial regard tor them; but with an eflusive air ne smiiea, ana saia: "i wisnyou were not obligedto hasten on your way, we should be delighted to have you stay over Sunday with us." To his utter amaze ment the couple conferred together and ac cepted his invitation with thanks. When he arrived home with his encumbrances he found that his wife had given the servant a holiday, and that the presence of these almost strangers would utterly spoil the pleasure oi tne can nay dinner to which she had invited a few intimate friends on the day before. "What on earth made you ask those people to come home with you!" cried the wife, in despairing tones. "Because I never dreamed they would accept," explained the husband. Alas, too many invitations are given because the people are not expected to accent I wish the expanding minds of children could be inoculated with the vast importance of sincerity in speech and action. I wish they could be indelibly impressed with the idea that to make ever so small a promise, or to give ever so casual an invita tion tor tne sake oi creating a pleasant impression upon the recipient, is as reprehensible as passing spurious coin. Morals are matters requiring several ven erations to rectify, and human beings grow . 11 J more moral mienaency wun every century. Ihe passions ot men and women are vast emotions, which only the Creator and time can control and improve. The most strictly educated and carefully trained men and women sometimes become the most immoral in after life, and in our search for good, whether in our own hearts or our neighbor!, we are constantly surprised by

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eviL We are all working out to warn something higher. But as we go. we might help the growing generation by teaching it to be sincere above all things, and strictly accurate in keeping its word. rJLLA WHEELKli 4Y1U-UA. "Written for the Sunday Journal. Ode to September. Tho calumet of peace the Summer lteht. And by the sallow Autumn, in iae ucor Of dunky wicwam. sits conversinc low, About the recent treaty pondered o'er. Amid the woods and where the rivers Cow, The peaceful smoke Is circling, veinnir ail 'ibo slumb ring world in a mysterious umc, Vnv 4ri ttia cnn'l Anfophled taVS. Upon the field and river faintly fall. With air despondent, as of one forlorn. xn weary Bummer at me sunounn icrk Of Autumn lajs her trorhles with a sign. And then departs; alone In his retreat. With rounded cheeks uprai&ed unto the sky, Old Autumn fills his horn With Joyful echoes, and tho busy jay Ulves back the summons rrom uie mniuc-wj And from hi tree the lone woodpecker drops Thro golden splendors of the drowsy dar. The world is dreaming, and with half-shut eye xne way is lingering on iue msmui uui. And with his purple angers paints the vines Upon the drooping bourbJ. and by the rius The msple blushes with the crimson wines, Hishalf-dralned cup: a thousand nnknown flowers uoia up their mue nana aiong iuo niuc. auu sweeny cry, u wwuji'u j In robes as beautiful as these of ours!" The swamps are bright with sedjes and the shrine Of Phcebus opens wide the yellow eye Of his devoted lover, down the glade Hi saffron flambeau, o'er the grasses high. The golden-rod Is waving, half afraid, Into the Tear's decline. Unnoticed he will fall; gay gleams the rld?e. And from the sides the grassy vaie runs aowa To kiss the sleenine stream In starry gown. And clasp the sandals of the tried bridge. In russet stole the dusky autumn strays. Like ome dejected lover, uy the rms And sunny heights, and muses all alone Amid the fading splendors; on tho hills The wind is rising with a feeble moan, And ns to Ah&b s eaze. 0r Camel's height, up rose the'cloudy hand, The warning comet h; on the saaaenea iea The crickets cease then sontr. and swallows flee On startled pinions for another land. This is thy time of sadness; yet will come a - A. . w . si k Vk aU Va(aSi oweei, sunny uckvcus, uuu mo uuh d uivk? Will cheer the wain along the harvest land; Within the woods the children will rejoice. And gather nuts by thy soft heavens tanned. The forest birds will drum Upon their habitations: then the day Will lead thee like a pilgrim o'er tne plains Upon thy Journey, and thy sweet domains Will echo to the call of crow and Jay. Alonzo I IUce. Written for the Sunday journal. The Iron Weed. Bomber and till like a rave plumed knight, On the sunnv hillside standing. Marshalled in line for a stately raid. On the upland meadows banding; And by the brooks in shady nooks At the warm Drown water eiancinjr. A straggling line wave purple plumes At the distant host aavancintr: Ho, Iron Weed! Ho, Iron Weed! Keep your place in the van, and make good speed. Gracious and strong, like the knights of old, The hands of the weak upholding. You ehield the prnsne at your feet W ith the Ptreneth or your close enfolding: And with allies of friendly bloom, On the barren hillside crouplnsr. Yon draw your lines to hide the waste, to the distance on stui trooping; Ho. Iron Weed! Ho, Iron Weed! Keep your place in the van and make good speed. Brown with the conflict of wind and sun, Btill your tarnished plumes are lifted All up and down on the autumn ways. Whence the summer clow has drifted: And by the edge of the brown beech woods. here ver tne line needs guarding, With purpose true, endurance brave. i our advance Knows not retarding; Ho, Iron Weed! JIo, Iron Weed! Who keeps in tho t an must make good speed. Kate if, Caolinger. MlDISOX, Ind. .Jim. So Jim is deadt I don't know why It should be so, but. do you know. It seems a most unnatural thing That Jim should die. He seemed so sure to win; in all he tried He came out best: he beat tho rest As sportsmen say, "hands down," And yet he died. When we were chums I don't suppose There ever were a wanner pair We used to speculate on death. And now he knows. He used to say: "You never can Convince my mind that I shall flnil . A better world beyond than this. How now, old mant It seems so weak of Jim. But stop! I comprehend my dear old friend, In this, as oft before, you have Come out on top. Laurens Bayard Freeman. Ilalf Way Through, September. Now cooler winds betfn to blow, Tho solar fires less fiercely glow. The heated term is nearly o'er. The paper collar wilts no more. The girl puts up her bathing suit The hats of straw the wealthy shoot The fat man lauzhs aloud with glee, Xo more like melted lard is ho. Tho yachts are fast at wharves and docks, We're near the autumnal equinox. And people who regard their health For autumn clothing spend their wealth. And every merchant who is wise Doth hump himself and advertise. Boston Courier. The Plaint of the Itose. f Said the budding Roe, "All nlprht Have I dreamed of the Joyous light: How long doth my lord delay! Come, Dawn, and kiss from mine eyes away The dewdrops cold and the shadows gray. That hide thee from my right:" Said the full-blown Rose, "O IJghtf (do fair to the dreamer's sight.) How long doth the dew delay! Como back, sweet sister shadow pray. And lead me home from the world away, To the calm of the cloister Xlght. John B. Tabb, in the Atlantio Monthly. Enormous Ropes Made of Women's IlaJr. Minneapolis Journal. Speaking before a meeting of the Methodist ministers, yesterday. Bishop Fowler told of a new heathen temple in the north ern part of Japan. It was of enormous size, and the timbers for the temple, lrora their mountain homes, were hauled up to the temple and put in place by ropes mado from the hair of the women of the province. An edict went forth callinc for the longhair of the women of the province, and two ropes were made from these tresses one seventeen inches in circumference, and 1,400 feet long, and the other ten to eleven inches around and 2,000 feet long. Want the "Jim Crow" Car Made Legal. Philadelphia Telegraph. The people of Arkansas are trying to intensify race prejudice. They again propose to separate tho white sheep from the black floats, and to apply to the Legislature for a aw obliging railroads to furnish special coaches for the negroes. Of course this law, as applied to passengers traveling between States, would be wholly inoperative, and in local passenger travel there could not be a single good result, tne separation being the cause for endless race feeling. Candidates Their Own Friends. Omaha Republican. Another candidate for district judge has anneared in the held "at the urgent solidtatiou of his friends." It's a pity about that 'urctnt solicitation." Ihe probabil ity is that he is putting in eighteen hours a day urging ms menus to sign a petition for his appointment. The Ghost or Socialism. Atlanta Constitution. It i Va fnnrtA 4hf iht State- Tintr trr. will lind when it is too late that they are in the quicKsanas oi socialism, ana tuey win be lucky if they get out in peace and honor. Kentucky Throwing H tones. TnnlarlUe Ccnrtr Journal. If the Eldorado mob is a sample of what Kansas civilization has produced, a little baibaxism would not be baa.

VALUABLE COSMETIC HINTS

Shirley Dare Gives Good Advice to aLon ef List of Lady Correspondents. Value cf Baths What to Do for Paleness and Pimples Can Hair Be Kestored Preventing Gray Hair Kenedies for Corpulence Correspondence of tlie Indianspc!! Journal. New York, Sept. 27. C. W. You say you are a water-cure people, to whom sitzbaths, douches, etc, are every-day words; but with all these your 6kin is greasy, and a piece of butter eaten on your bread today will give tho oily look to-morrow, and. of course, blackheads. Baths' alone will not take the place of diet, and both together sometimes have hard work to undo the neglect of former generations. The need of acids is clearly indicated in your case. A large lemon to a goblet of water makes a drink of the proper strength to bo taken three or four times a day, alternat ing with new tart cider, grape juice and fruit juices, as you can get them. In ordinary diet, people do not study variety enough. It is little good to forco tho same thing on the tired appetite of a system ready for fresh material to work with Tho mineral acids, sulphuric, hydrochloric or nitric, a few drops in a goblet of water. just to acidulate pleasantly, are also of value, and the saline aperients, Hochelle, Epsom and Carlsbad salts, provided coarso food is used to complete their eiTect You are quite right about the uselessness of "rubbing and scrubbing" the face. Instead bathe it with weak alcohol, or soft soap and hot water. Druggists 6ell a fine soft 6oap for the purpose, or you may dissolve castilo soap in alcohol and nso that. For "lazy liver" take taraxacum and exercise, also eat freely of tomatoes, in any shape. The toilet preparations you ask about aro harmless and desirable; but yoa want tne motn and freckle lotion, not the cream. I find it very nice for keeping the faco smooth and free from sunburn or irritation, as well as freckles and tan. The second make I know nothing about. Masks have no purifying eliect on the skin, but only protect it. Tie up n cut finger and tho skin under the linen becomes soft simply by Doing kept from the air and dust, which irritate it; draw the blood to irritated points, where it sets up inflammation, and pimples result, or in sluggish anemic states the oily secretion separates in nnduo quantity. I hope to find a still more convenient toilet appliance than the mask, which, however, is excellent for erasing wrinkles and tan. Glycerine itworso than useless in cases of oily skin. Mona A. The hives certain! v do not nnso from pure blood. Take salts or scidlitz powders daily, using coarse food and batho nightly, changing all the clothes worn by day. To rcliove the irritation, as often ai it comes on sponge with tepid water, with one teaspooniul of common carbolic acid to the quart. Acid varies in strength, so if this smarts on tho skin dilute still more. till it is agreeable, bpenge till the irritation passes away. Iowa Coquette if you are pale, and pimples come on your face you roust im prove your habits, batbe of tener, and put coarse bread beauty bread and wheaten grits on your daily bill. Using these con stantly, you need never have a pimple. To bamsu those which aro already out, tawo compound licorice powder three nights, and a seidlitz powder mornings. Bathe or rather scrub yourself with hot water and plenty of soap. Open the pimples with a needle, and touch them with camphor spirit a dozen times a day. it is a good plan to wet an old kerchief in camphor and keen it on the face when lvinsrdownto rest. The camphor should be weak, as do mestic camphor usually is. An Admirer Can hardly improve her nose if it has tho tip tilted shape drawn in the letter, a very wise idea, by the way. Nor does she need to troub'e about it, for wide, good-humored png-noses really givo attraction to a face, by the sagacity, humor and friendliness they Impart, vith open, shady eyes, decent complexion and linn mouth, your nose will do very well, and very charming women have had no better noses. Five years more will probably work improvements naturally, in features and size. The person rou ask about is hardly .small, five feet five inches in height. 1-0 Sounds weight, and gets around pretty riskly. Face variable, sometimes very gay, very sad, quiet, or imperious; hair a sort of amber, so people say who have seen her. M. R. Cocoanut oil, or, still better, cocoa butter, or almond oil, rubbed on the face, will nourish the skin and leave the cheeks fuller. But really, to make the facs plumper, the physical developers 6ay nothing assists more than to chew gum. or tho India-rubber in which children delight. The exercise of tho facial muscles in this way half an Lour daily will give fullness to cheeks and throat. Chew with tho mouth shut, working the jaws pretty strongly. It is needless to say this exerci&o should be strictly private. 2. There aro several harmless hair-dyes. S. No better specific for the growth of the hair can be mentioned than brushinc, fifty strokes at morning and at night, with oil of lavender applied toward the close of the late brushing. 4. The same lotion cannot remove discolorations of the skin and prevent wrinkles, but separate lotions eliect theso objects. SlcD, The yellowish or sulphur colored blotches on the face are a disorder called chloasma, not nnnsual in those who hava had a nervous shock. It diflers from tho "liver spots." Try a lotion, one to fivo grains corrosive sublimate to the ounce of alcohol, applied with an old linen cloth, wet and leit on the spots live minutes at a time, three times daily. Begin with one grain of sublimate in the lotionr in a week add another and so on till it slightly irritates the skin. Use the taraxacum a fortnight and then take tho well-known tonio preparation of iron, quinine and strychnia or use grape juice to restore tone to the nerves. A Martyr Yon are very foolish nevei to have tned remedies for the loss of hair, as it can always be arrested if taken in time. Strict cleanliness of tho scalp, first of all, is necessary, washing with castile soap and warm water at least weekly, and drying by holding the head in strong sunlight, or by the tire, so that the heat reddens the skin. This, in your case, when the few fparso hairs left come out when dressed, is preferable to brushing much. At night apply oil of lavender pretty freely, or lime juice and glycerine, which is one-half pint of good sweet oil and six fluid ounces of lime water shaken together in a bottle till they are a creamy , dressing. Or try half a pint of sweet oil with half as much common ammonia water. Apply a teatpoonful ot either dressing at night, first heating the scalp; steaming it is good. Then wear-a night-cap of thin flannel to keep the oil from evaporating. As the loss of hair attends a poor nervous condition, every care should be given to restore strength, especially by hypophosphites or phospatee. V. A. L. The best remedy lor previatun gray bairis achangeof habits and thorough restoration of general health. At the same time use the hair brush freely night and morning, exposing the head to the sun daily an hour or more. Try this for a year. If the hair does not improve, then use vegetable tinctures for coloriug it. 2. Turkish baths ought to do a great deal toward removing black-heads. 3. The best diet for thin persons is cracked wheat, juicy meats, starchy vegetables, like potatoes, artichokes, rice and corn; sweets, if they do not turn acid after eating, and especially rich salads, chocolate, cocoa and bread of unbolted flour. 4. The least injurious faco powder is that of rice, very finely ground and sifted. M. L. M. I do not know anything of tho physician you mention. As a rule the feeling is against doctors who advertise beyond their names and addresses. There is a training-school for professional nurses connected with Bellevne Hospital. "Aro taraxacum and mandrake to be in eoual proportions!" Good heavens, no! The dose would be deadly. One tablespoonful extract of mandrake to a pint of fluid extract of taraxacum is plenty. Mix in the bottle. A Western Girl The raetallio hair brushes ax very good, if tho hair 13

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