Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 April 1886 — Page 6

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WOMAN AND HOME.

WHAT BLAKELY HALL SAYS OF THE GIRLS OF GOTHAM,,

Business Training for Girls—Woman's K«gll^enco of Safety Tbe Farmer*! Wife—Silk Dresses of Former Day*-•

MIm .Vicott-)lAtiiuouy-ctej,

What has become o' soft and docile youn girl? She nourished once ana was usuaLy considered to be about the most let hia^ thing in girls extant Recently she pla -idly drifted oat of sight, leaving in her stead the dashing, widelyed and blooming girl who holds th lield to-uay. Thera is something preventive in the memory of the do. ile yoang girL fc-ha was the dude of femininity, bhe did not row, or bowl, or ride, or walk, but was content to drift modetly along, bland, serene and dove-lik?, wearing her eyes aloft, her hair in prmty curis and bor bands folded submissively in her lap. When she timidly entered the room and took her seat in a far oorner—a bit of lace handkerchief in one hand and "Lucille" in the other—and began to too in her mild and earnest way about thj hollowness of life, large, bony and robust men fell prostrate before h9r, and she meekly gathered them in. She did it mildly bat she gathered them in.

She was succeeded by the girl who was usually described as "elegant" This particular fashion in girls who was never very popular with msn, but it was immensely affected by women. The "elegant" girl was graceful ha mien, polite, refined and usua.ly immeshed in a dim and entire unfounc'ad mystery spoken of in meaning whispers by her companions as an "affair." The "ele gant" never impressed me much. I confess in a deprecatory way that after I bad left her I wat wont at times to go off In some secluded corner, where nobody but the man in thu moon could see, and indulgo in giging to a who ly indecent extent She was a deep girl. I have known her at times to surreptitiously accomplish the erection of a romance which concerned the love of a soulful girl with a tangled mass of blue-black hair for a .mbent-eyed man, whose distinguishing characteristics were a rare and brilliant smile and a fondness for talking about things ho evidently knew nothing whatever about in words ten syllables long. She called hi en Egbert, Bryce or Clare, and usually signed her romance "Marions." I don't know why she added the final "e"— neither did she.

The animated girl with a gush of artificial merrim nt came romping on the scene and the "elegant" girl stood disapprovingly aloof and stared at her. But the gaiety—iletitous or genuine—of the latest thing in girls drove ail tho others out of favor and for a time Now York would have no other girl than tho one who was porpetudly on her toos and squeaking out her rapturous dolight at everyhody and everything on earth. She ol.attd of "satiety," of "sets, "classas" and "families,"and though she may at heart havo beou artful, cunning, crafty and insincere, or simply sentimental, weakly and inane, her manner was ever that of a pure and artless young thing. Was she ever tiresome? Did her perpetual outbursts of enthusiasm and delight cause you at times to step aside and drop a hot and scalding tear of pi:y for her? It did. Of all tho fashions in girls this was by far the least lovable.

Which brings us to the Now York girl of to-day. with her red hussar jacket, smart Utile turban, eroct carriage and easy swing. She owns tho world Tho easy play of the teat urea, the superb color, and the eyes that look a man squaro in the face and achieve his maudlin sub,cv tiou at a glance are familiar to us nlL Wo forgive her affectation of the English, for when she speaks of "row-dy-dowa" it is with a quizzical smile and her boldness is nover anything but charming. 8ho is natural at least, and at her b*st, and

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man dare remind her of the

twio when she was "docile," or "elegant," or "animated"—and for that mutter, no man owes to, lor the present fadiiou in New York girls not to bo lightly tampered with or treated with anything but abject and entire admiration.—Blakely Hall in Now York Town Topica

Silk DrwuiM of Kormor Dajrs. "Yes," said the old Denver merchant whom a reporter talced to the other day, "a silk dress was a great thing for a woman when I was a boy. Ifc was what you fellows would tall an 'event in lif«' nowadays When a girl got a silk dress wt knew she was either going to be married or elso had ootue suddenly into a fortune, one of the two. Tho tirst was more likely to te the ease, because you

even in thoe days

gvrW got husbands oftoner Ibn they got fioriuaea I've boon in the dry-goods business ever since I was a boy, an 1 we always knew something wss up when a woman asked tosM a piece of silk. Of course, the wives of tho leading citizens in the place always had silk dressa*—that is, one apiece, generally made o^ blaok silk, and religiously hung away in dark closeti, to be taken down not more than twice or three Mines a year, aud then only oo state occa-

"It is a peculiar fact, bat nevertheless a one, that women In the remote villages, ki the early days, seldom wore their silk drates oxcopt to church on thox* Sundays when the sacrament was administered This sonndU ^neer, but it is a bu* Why they wore silk on that day is a mystery, bti I prteumj it was ticca use their churches were so much n.or,* largely attended on such occasions, and village people are seldom rewired to drees except for religious service*, need to soeiu a gaJ.% day with me when my mother put on her silk drew, and combed her sort, brown hair down over her earn. I thought she was the prettiest woman in the world, then, and I am half toolined to think now that waw rigist I have soeu many a silk dne wrapped in Mneo, scented with lavender, laid away in a •best, ami kept at long intervals without ever being exposed to the light of day. It is very amusing to think bow rare silk dresses were in the early days wben compared with the fashions of to-day, when every servant-giri in the city has one, and perhaps more." "What w«re thj varieties of silk u*ed at that tinier "Tfcer were mostly taffetas, ery smoothly finished, and very fine and soft ia appearance In colors we had the g?*oe silks, many of which are still used. They come largely in illuminated colors, and were much ejected by brides, who always won them with white bonnets and govoa -Ieuver Tribute Republican.

NvstEcentof Her Own Safety. It is no exaggeration to say that ia one half, if not more, of the instances brought to public notice the vlciira was willfully negUgtn* of her own safety. Tbe sex thst ought to exercise the greatest amount of eauskm appear* -to frwqneatiy possess that quality in the least degree. Parent* allow young girSs to wander unprotected into the woods or other out-of-the-way plaes women take long walk* without an eecort over tondy country roods, cr go unaccompanied throat by-streets and past vacant lots after dark, apparently regardless of the tUk which they most ia variably ran from

tbe element of raHanlsm that is at large in every o:nmunity. In itself this clement is cowardly and will not break forth into crime unless the conditions are fevorable for e»aj)3 from apprehensioa and punishment

There seems to bj no means by which tho liberty of this inhuman and lawles3 element may be hedged about, so that the community in whi-h it happens to Le may not continually threatened by an ontlurst of violence should the favorable occasion present itself. But wom?n may as well reto nke the fact that such an element does exist, and at least guard lh3mselves from unnecessary danger by the precaution which it is difficult to understand how they coul:l well avoid employing. It is a spurious courage that impels women to run risks of this sort, and bsars no relation to the wi-sdom that teaches them to avoid them. The rotten bridge ma carry them safely over nine times, but on the tenth may give way and let thtm into the yawning abyss telow. The ex«rcisa of common senso precautionary measures for ber own protection is a duty she owes not only to herself but to her friends, and which it were criminal for her to neglect—Philadelphia Record.

Give the Girls a Business Training. This is a practical world, and the demand is for practical men and woman. On this account a thorough busineaj training is the best discipline which our young can have. Besides, business affairs offer better opportunities to lades at present than any other flel 1 to which they can turn their at entioo. To tboso properly trained for its duties, and possessed of a good stock of perseverence, a business life affords the most certain guarantee of suoctsa To those duly prepared and who apply themselves diligently, it is an almost certain path to prosperity. Why should not our girls, as they grow up to be women, go into some regular occupation, just as the boys do? is a question that is often asked

There is no good roason why they should not, at least, have the preparation for doing something as well as tho Loys. And what preparation can a young lady have to bri her in harmony with and make her as selfreliant as her brothers or other young men unless it be the same daily training that they receive—the familiarizing of herself with the principles and usages of business life/ In other words, if a parent wishes to give a daughter something that would initiate her into the real economies of everyday affairs—tho actualities of business life— that something would be a business education. Therefore we say most emphatically to parents: Train your daughters lor businesa—Burlington (Iowa) Gazette.

A Story with a Pertinent Moral. Once there was an old country woman who had toiled on by her husband's side, and had given him many a lilt ou the uphill, stony path of life she had been humble and patient and psrserrering and rnojk till she h&d grown rheumatic and wrinkled and gray and one day, in a moment of emotional insanity, perhaps, he gave her 25 cent*. This unexpected, magnanimous demonstration of generosity, attection, and confidence startled her in no mild dsgree, caused no light rippla in her feminine breast, as she bethought herself of tho thousand and one* things she needed—some oni of which was now 'within her independent rea.h: sho pondered earnestly prayerfully and constantly, nocturnally and diurnally for five days, and then she gave it back to him "Here, take it husband," she said, "and give me once more peaoe of mind I've had neither rest by day nor sleop by night, for thinking what I shall buy with it"

Soma groat writer objeots to pointing out the moral on tho ground that uhe few who would notico it at all would notice it the same if their attention was not called to it Tho case of this moral is a varied one, and depends entirely on tho way you look at it Few women there are who can break through and rise above the mighty throng of littlenesses that make the sum total of daily domostio diversion*—rHaryot Holt in Chicago Herald

The Kenp^nslblllttes of Matrimony. Marriage, nowadays, especially in big cities, depends for its comfort and well-being on a certain amount of money. Poverty has, doubtless destroyed more matrimonial happinoas than has lack of sympathy. One hears much of young women, notably in New York, who won't accept men unless they are rich. Young women generally are

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too ready to accept uua who have never shown any capacity to get anything. Romantic allian.es, without any prospect of bread-winning, need to be discouraged Young men desirous to take wives should not Le lured by Qnano'al hope, whioh is singularly perfldioua Thej should wait until they have t.ste.1 their earning capaoity. Is to seldom too late to marry after marriage it is too late to repent Perfect safety lies outside of wedlock. It to far better to be able to say "I wish I had married" titan to say "i wish I had not"

Wedlock brings awful responsibilities, more than most tenons seem able to b.ar. The maai of wedded couples eoem to get on surprisingly well, all things ooneidtirod But they alone know at what cost Unnatural, repellent as Preach marriages avpear to us, they are not more unhappy than our own rotuaatio unions To wed or not te wed is still the question. "Shall I marry or remain single7" tequirei the Athenian youth of Soaratea "De either," replied the sage, "and yoa wift repeat it"—Jeaias Beoci Brewao

X* the todit of

Wmbss.

Per a wtmdm, it to now the fashion for woman to be as health/as she oea. Fresh air is admitted te be a good thing toe the comptadoa no oae disputes that a girl who is not aa invalid aaa walk five miles a day without dying of tttigua, and aa hour's canter on a goed horse is recommended a* more helpful pastime than lyiag abed or reading Frenoh nevela

The new style ia women has not arrived a bit too naa. American women were getting to be a worthless lot sprightly enough in intellect perhaps too sprightly—but painfully deflo'.ent in bodily development and health. But tiuy wars not entirely to blame Degenerate man seemed to like th»m that way—poeribly beoause he was in the same fix Kimolf 1V the aredit of woman be it said that she would rather be round-limbed, strong at chest, fair of choek and bright of eye and it is a notabie fact that as soon as the rising male generation took to athletic* and to bracing up generally tbe girts promptly to lowed toe good •uamph-D«STir lYibune-Republican.

Odors of Arwby lb*

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For years peat tbe French and Rngttsh perfumers have had a recognized monopoly of tbe trade in elegant toilel articles, especially extracts and manufactured parfemas: but tbe nceot introduction of "Bdonia" into tbe boudoir of fashion has brought about an entire different state of affairs This delicate perfume, which may be called the extract of the Garden of Eden, to ooe of tho most refined odors thai can tie used In the toilet, f"T the reason that, while it is so disnct and »a:isfying to the senses, it is wholly unobtrusive and only elsgantiy suggestive. Th~rs to ncthin? more vulgar than a strong, penetrating perfume, and yet it is a difficult thing to serore cs? that to foth delicate and lasting. Edenia possesses these qeahttee in a rsrs degree, It to a perfume

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TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

agreeable to the meet fastidious taste, and has been highly favored by tbe prince of Wales, and his critical clique of fo.lowera Tho*3 who dosira to add to the eieg&nje of tbeir person and toil should try Edenia by all Having.—Godsy's Lady Book.

the Courage of New Beginner*. It is common to say that adversity comes peculiarly hard on thosa who are new to it, bat the truth is that such sufferers often feel it less than those who have been ground down by it all th9 time. The courage of the new beginners is better their spirits are better. I have known yojng girls who pronounced it

lark" to hive their fathers

lose all their possessions, so that they them selves could have the new excitement of self-support A ain, they have usually more friends and more zealous counsellors than those who have been poor ail their lives.

In our easy American society a sudden loss of property does not, as in older countries, at once transfer ap .'rson to a different social grade we sea too many ups and downs for that and toward a young woman especially, who is obliged to shift tor herself, .ere is usual a oordial and generous sentiment among the friends of more prosperous hours. It is usually more easy fo* her to obtain work, or instruction, or capital, than if she had always been poor. The things essential are energy, a cheerful spirit and a quick discovery of the gift, whatever it is, that will be her strongest hold—1"T. W. H." in Harper's Bazar.

The Meaneet Man at Last. The New York Woman's Club Sorosis has been dis ussing tbe quetion whether or not a wife ought to receive regular pay for her services as housekeeper. Women who have to implore taeir husbands regularly fomoney for current house expenses will be interested in the outcome of the debate, A country lady tells the folio wing story, which seems to prove that the meanest man has been found last: "On& day I was shopping in our village stora A nervous, hesitant little woman who was buying a few things, with nusband at her eljow ready to pay for them, so that she might not even touch 'his' money turned shyly to her liege loru and said: 'There's one thing I must have that I didn't put down on the list I forgot it' 'Forgot it Umphl' growled the man 'what is it#* 'A paper of pins.' "Another paper of pins! Well, I swan! Where's the paper I bought for yoy last summer?" -1 ,V,.

This story is absolutely trua—Evening Record pi A Hint to the Farmer's Wlfe^

No matter how humble your room may be, there are eight things it should contain, viz.: a mirror, woshstand, soap, tow.il, comb, hair and tooth brushes. These are just as essential as your breakfast, before which you should make good and free us3 of them. Parents who fail to provide their children with such appliances, not only make a great mistake but commit a sin o. omission. Look tidy in the morning, and after your dinner work is over improve your toilet Make it a rule of your daily life to "dress up" for the afternoon. Your dress may, or need not be anything better than calico but you have an air of self-re-spect and satisfaction thnt invariably comes of being neatly and cleanly dressed A girl with fine sensibilities can not help fee.i ig embarrassed and awkward in a ragged, dirty dress, with her hair uncombed, if a stranger or neighbor comes in. Moreover your self-res poet should demand the decent appareling of your body.—Farmers' Advocate. 7 '. How MIm Louisa M. Aloott Lives. e-

Speaking of Miss Louisa M. Alcott, a Boston correspondent says that "she is a woman of power, but with littld poush or style, who fought manfully to get a hearing, which was grant her at last but she has only written one important book, 'Little Women,' which touched the popular ohord and coined her .money and fame. To-day Miaa Alcott support* her family comfortably on what has resulted directly and indirectly from that singularly successful 'Little Women.' Miss Aloott is living in a spaoious, old-fashioned house in Loulsburg square^ S^e goes but little into society, her energies and time outside her literary work being devoted to her father, who is a paralytic. No woman recei\e* better prices for her stories than Mies Alcott She is emphatically a woman's woman. She does not object to men, but they don't interest her as women, for whom she has always been a warm champion. Miss Alcott to always well and tastefuLy dressed" «V,

The Way to Clarify Soup.

Just before the soup boils the soum that has risen to the top during the process of hating should b# carefully removed a little told watsr poured in will assi.t tha particlas that compose the scum to risa After the soup has boiled it should be strained this may be repeated, then if the soup is not as clear as you would like te have it, mix one *£g and its broken shoU with a teacupful of cold water, then to this add about a teacupful ef the hot soap, then stir it all in the boiling soup let it bail up well, th»n bet the settle upon tUs back part of the stove, and when sasuwhat ooei strain it— Philadelphia OelL

IHefce mTomsh Vewl laaiten

The Preaoh have away at ntWtg a tough towl ia tbe masting whioh to worth following it shoald be seaeensd and tied up sacurety ia two thiniaw of eeft white ar pals brown paper and pat iute tha oven a half an hoar earlier than tbe time ana woul 1 te assure its being daaa It will steam slowly in this Way, and if delicately dredged with fiour whaa the paper to taken off at the end of the hiif hoar ia a hat oven it will come out brown and easily omved.

Dostoa Record Bow "Iff Soetabtee" Are Maaagod. "Egg sociable" are now prevalent in inn£*tnmi Y. Bvery yonng lady brings an egg a'ong, writing her name ou it Eaoh young ism draws one of thses eggs out of a bag, and must act as aa oort for the young htdy whooe name is insoribed on the tha egg he draws Particular car* is t&kea to hav« tbe egg boiled hard —Ohioa^o Jour-

A Girl Oradaate a* Civil Hastaeer. Grace Hubbard, a gradu to of the Iowa university, has adopted the profassioa of civil espsetr and is

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Charles A. Daaa gallantly says in Tbe New York Hun: "Men sod women are equal, except where woman to superior."

The widow of Santa Ana is said to be calmly awaiting tbe end of ber life enveloped in clouds of cigarette smoke.

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Anew journal devoted to tbe intsrests of —has appeared in Rome. This to an*her proof that Italy to growing.

Tbe Wisconsin Stats Medioel —orlotfcm has decided to admit woman to momhsr-

A tfaa ftohkmsMo yam* (M* tsrm of a dsinl lioln.

A PLUCKY BRAHMIN LADY.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE FOR WOMAN'S

EDUCATION IN INDIA.

Account of an Unparalleld Occurrence

Among the Brahmin Women—Pundlta,

Kamabai haascrlU's Address—A Trip to England and to America.

Pundita Raznabai, the distinguished Brahmin lady who, with her littlo daughter, 5 years of age, arrived here in the British Princess to witness the graduation in medicine (at the Wo.Tian'3 Medical collide, Philadelphia) of har relative, Mrs. Anandebai Joihee, is a remarkable character, fche is the daughter of the famous pan-tit of Poont, Bombay presidency, India, who sacrificed his worldly prospects and eventually his life to the cause of emancipating the women of India. He gave this daughter the same education that he gave his only son, and both the •ister and the brother be.amo famed for their learning and traveled together throughout India. Tin brother dying suddenly, the sLter married (as few Hindu ladies are permitted to marry) the man of her choice, a graduate of the Cal utta university, a Sanskrit scholar and pleader at law. About a year and a half after this marriage, whiih was a happy one, tha hasband diad of Asiatic oholera.

NATIVE SCHOOLS FOR QIBL3.

Stricken to the earth by this bereavement, parents and brother a so dead, .rkneas for a time encompassed the widow. Then she raided to devote her life to improve the degraded condition of her countrywomen. For this purpose she returned to her native city Poona, and formed a society of ladies known as the Arya Mehila abba, whose object wa3 the establishment of mtivd schools for girls. She then went from city to city throughout Bombay presidency, esta. lUhng branch so.iedes and arousing the p^op by her a.o^uent appeals,

She is chiefly kn6wn in the United State3 through a remarkable scene in which she was a prominent actor, in Poona, in September, ltS2. At that time the English education commission visited this conservative and wealthy city to inspect the educational institutions, whereupon the leading Brahmin ladies, membare of the newly formed soc.ety and others, to the number of about "00, notwithstanding a heavy rainstorm, assembled with their children in the wn hall to welcome the educational commission and to show them that a.though the municipality had not encouraged girls' schools, a real movement was being male by the best families of the Maharatta countrv. This was quite an unparalleled occasion among Brahmin women, who are kept iu such strict seclusioa

Pundita Ramabai Samrrita was the orator of the occasion. Uho read an address in English to the commission, and made an eloquent speech in Merathi. She dwelt upon tha ditiicu ties which, as worn o' good family, they had to enconnter from the abnced of trained femala t.ajhers and the absence of school books fit to be placed in the girls' handa ,-

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.

"We want," she said, "education for our girls as well as for our boys, but the English government has supplied trustworthy teachers and suitable books for boys and none for the girls." The president of the commission, Dr. W. W. Hunt r, in replying to the address, expressed his pleasure at meeting such on assemblage, which was altogether a new experience to him In India. If the women of India," ho said, have really made up their' minds that their girls ou^ht to be educated all minor difficulties will quickly disappear."

As an immediate consequenos the members of the Poona municipality intimated to the commission the next day their willingness to take up tha cause of girls' schools and to provide the necessary funds. Now, four y«uu*s later, not only are thiso elementary schools, but a native high school is in successful operation in Poona. la 1883 Pundita Ramabia went to England to acquaint herself more fully with the method* oi teaching, and with educational work in general. Her scholarship was tested by Professor Max Mull or and others, both in Cambridge and Oxford, and pronounoed sound, and on the recommendation of these distinguished friends, she wa« appointed profeajor of Sanscrit in a woman's college in Cheltenham. This position she has held for two years, in the meantime improving the rich opportunities on every hand for special courses of study.

Her purpose In Rngland accomplished, she is now about to return to India to refcume her educational work. But tho great event fraught with significance to India, about to occur in Philadelphia, led her to decide to vi&it the United States, "that holy land called America," as she style* it in a recent letter, to witness the graduation as a doctor of medicine of Mra Joshee, a Hindu Brahmin Lady.—Philadelphia Ledger.

:Sup«*stlU»n of Sporting Man. "Yoa want to know what I call a lucky tm*Br eh? That's just as tha idea strikes ma When I was ia New York last summer I used to count white horsea Say I would be at the corner of Pulton street and Broadway, I'd take oat my watoh —when I had one -end time myself, and count the number of white horses that turned from Broadway into Fulton stoeet during five minutes' time. I sometimes would go on the odd number^ and sometimes en tbe even. Like tbto: If I made up my mind on even horses, and an even number went by during the five minutes, then I weald be luoky, and vice vorsa." "Did it always tarn out lucky tor you in oose these horses passed as yon desired r* "Nine times out of ten it dii Here in 'Frtoce during the blooded boras meeting I Mma eat ooe day. While I was eating my n«n» I made ap my mind to eount the nnmV of passengers on tbe own, and if they cause .out odd I would be luoky. It out evsot I made np my mind not to bot, bat a friend came to me with a sure thing, and I plunged oo it Coming under the wire, another horse stuck out his tongue and won tbe raea I lost $1,400. So yoa see I would have bean right in heeding what you call superstition. The next day I did the thing over again. Called it odd and odd It waa Then I was sore of luck and I had luck. Thu day I won t2,30a"— San Francisco Alto

They Sheuted la Oae Breath. Bishop 8etwyn, who iatere»ted bims?lf greatly in tbe poor, oae day coming on a company of miners, beard them talking in a very »n*m way so loudly that he said to them: "M Mends, something seem* to interest you all very much I beard your voices quite in tbe distance may I inquire what it

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To which they replied:. -Yoa

see that copper tea-kettle there! We found it and we were jest saying that the one who could tell tbe biggest lie should have tt" "Ohl" said the bishop, "I am sorry far that: I bops yoa will never again Ml tba Tto a fearful bad habit, and so unmanly. Why, I never Md a lie in my Ufa" Whereupon tbe four miners shouted in one breath *Hv» tbe governor tbe kei.

UIow to Make a Dart.

An old gentleman tells how his grandfather taught him to make a dart when he was a boy. It is made like this, the old gentleman tells us: You first get a piece of shingle, say two inches wide, and cut oul each side, leaving tbe thin end (A) the fall width of the piece, catting a notch or other

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ornament in it, and pointing the thick end (B). You next balance it on the edge of your knifb and cut a notch at the point, whore it balances (C). You next (D) a stick with a string to it and a knot in the end (B), •ery much like a small whip. Patting the knot in the notch of the dart you take the sender (D) in your right hand, the head of the dart (A) lightly in your left, you then fling tba nftnitw forward with a quick movement of the ight hand, letting go of the dart at the same moment with the left It is a handy and harmless toy, and yet with a little practice you can Are it very straight Try it, but be sure, and not shoot at birds or animals. Put ap an applo or an old hat and you can soon learn to nit it every time.

A Pusslo.

Here is a puzzle over which many people who are wiser than children have craoked their brains:

Ten woary, footsore travelers, All in a woful plight, Sought shelter at a wayside inn

One dark and stormy night

"Nine rooms, no more," the landlord said, "Have I to offer you. To each of eight a single bed,

But the ninth must serve for two."

A din arose. The troubled host Could only scratch his head, For of those tired men no two

Would occupy one bed

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The puzzled host was soon at easeHe was a clever man— And so to ploase his guests devised

This most ingenious plan:

A jB |D E j'G |H |I

In room mirked A two men were placed, Tho third was lodged in B, The fourth to was then assigned

The fifth retired to D.

In E the sixth he tucked away, In tho seventh man, The eighth and ninth in O and H,

And then to A he ran,

Wherein the host, as I have said, Had laid two travelers by Then taking one—the tenth and last-

He lodged him safe in

Nine single rooms—a room for each— Were made to serve tor ton

And this it is that pussies me And many wiser men.

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A Natural Ooroslty.

Little Bess (who is so much accustomed to seeing baby creep that she thinks it his natural modo of traveling)—Oh, mamma, come quick! Baby is standing on hto hind legs.—Harper's Young l^ople.

Heaven for Half Prleet

A little girl was very ill. She iuud never Kim! wtmliw and cake and oranges to eat, or pretty dollies to play with, in ber Ufe. She had never had pretty drosses •bright red woolen dresses or shining blue silks, or soft white cloaks trimmed with swan's down, cr any of tha lovely things most little girta are so fond of. She had never had any pony, •ynH never ridden ia a carriage in her life.

Now she would never have any ef tl nloe things in this world, for poor BacM was dying. 8he had never had mnoh of say fun, tor her mother was so poor she ecnldnst even got enough food far her children. knew she would die, and it was very pitiful te see her. She had i,lf|ihtfcoria, and could not talk maoh, but bar wide btoe eyas followed every motion of bar maaana. Shs looked as

if

she was trying to Oat every

feature of that mnnm»a en her iiiemsiy be fore she left her forever. This peer mother had bean her only friend

Rachel's mind wssrisred New sbe thought of heaven. Now she roamed ef the great show pictures shs had seen upon toe walls ef the city. The great yellow and red sirens posters with their flaming colors, their daaoing ponies and beautiful boys and girls ia spangled elothing were the nearest her idea of heaven of anything sbe had ever seen. She thought a real circus must be semeChiag very much like paradise. Alas I it had been, to her almost as far off as paradise ifcwtf, tor sbe was too poor to get a peep inside the monstrous tent where the show went on.

Somehow heaven and the beautiful circus were strangely blended in her flighty dreamt. She remembered bow tbe circus posters said always: "Children, half price. A bright dram came into ber fading eyes. "Mother," said sbe, "I am so very little. Dent vou think God would let me into heaves for half price

After that *he never spoke any more, and when ber eyes were next opened theyaawindeed the beautiful heaven which the kind God opens free to all sinless children, whether they ever had any gooi timas here on earth or not.

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TfrK* of the following sentences contains In proper order tbe letters of a town in England: 1. Eva lost bar glove, so we walked over tbe hills to find it 2. He may cry or kick, but he will be punished 8. Briag your ball and fast, Henry we will play cricket 4. The wind sorely hart oar faoea i. We rode ever tbe moor and ever fee mountain

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W. W. Heed, druggist, of Winchester, Ind., writes: "One of ray customers, Mrs. Louisa Pike, Bnrtonia, Randolph Co., Ind., was a long sufferer with Coii\sumption, and was given up to dioby her physicians. She heard of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and began baying it of me. In six months' time she walked to this city, »distance of six miles, and is now so much improved she hns quit using it. She feols she owes her life to it."

Free Trial Bottles at Cook, Bell & Lowry's Drug Store. (6)

Saved His I.lfo.

Mr. D. I. WUcoson, of Horso Cnvo, Ky., says iio wns, for many years, badly aftllctod with Phthisic, also Diabetes the palng wore almost unendurable and would sometimes almost throw him Into convulsions. He tried Electric Bitters and got relief from first bottle and after taking six bottles, was entirely cured and had gained in flesh eighteen pou nds. Says he positively believes he would have died, had it not been for the relief afforded by Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Cook, Bell Lowry. (6)

Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

Tho Best Salveln theworldforCuts,Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Totter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. 25c. per box. For sale by Cook «& Bell. (tf.)

A Little Sufferer

Cleansed, Purified, and Beautified by the Cuticura Remedies.

It affords mo great pleasure to give you this report of tho cure of our little grandchild by your Cuticura Remedies. When six months old his loft hand began to swell and had every appearance of a large boll. We poulticed It, but all to no purpose. About tlvo months, after It became a running sore. Soon other sores formed. And then had two of them on each hand, and as his blood Iwcame more and more Impure it took less tirno for them to break out. A sore came on the clitn, beneath the under lip, which wns very oll'ensive. His head wns one solid scab, dlscharg-. Ing a great deal. This was his condition at twenty-two months old, when 1 undertook tho cure of hint, his mother having died when he was a little more than a year old, of consumption (scrofula of course}. Ho could walk a little, but could not move when in bed, having no use of his hands. I Immediately commenced with the Cuticura Remedies, using the Cuticura and Cuticura Soap freely, and when he bad taken one bottle of the Cuticura Resolvent., his head wns completely cured, and he was improved in every way. We were very much encouraged, and continued tho use of tho Remedies for a year and a half. One sore after another healed, a bony matter forming in each one of those tlv» deep ones Just oeforo healing, which would finally grow looso and were taken out then they would heal rapidly. One of these ugly bono formations I preserved. After taking a dozen and a half bottles he wns completely cured, and is now nt the age of six years, a strong and healthy child. Tho scars on his hands must always remain his hands aro strong, though we once feared he would nover be able to use them. All that physicians did for him did him no good. All who saw tho child boforo using the Cuticura Reinedlcsand see tho child now consider It a wonderful cure. If tho above facts are of any use to you, you are at liberty to uso them.

MRS. E. S. DRIGOS,

May 0, 1885. 612 K. Clay St., Blootnlngton, ill. The child wns really lti a worse condition than ho appeared to his grandmother, who, being with him ovory day, became accustomed to the diseuso. MAGGIE HOPPING.

Cuticura Remedies aro sold everywhere. Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, CO cts. Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Heuutlflor, 25 cts. Cuticura Resolvent, the new Hlood Purifier, 81.00. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston. 8end for "Howjto Ciire2Skln|l)lHuases." TrT^1TTINO'Scaly, Pimply and Oily Skin JL JL vli beautified by Cuticura Soap.

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To be freed from the dangers of sufi'ocutlot while lying down to breathe freely, sleop^ soundly aud undisturbed to rlso refreshed, head clear, brnlu active And free from pain or aclio to know that no poisonous, putrid matter defiles tho breath and rots away the delicate machinery of smell, tnsto and hearing to feol that the system does not, through Its veins and arteries, suck up the poison that Is sure to undermlno and destroy, is in-^ deed a blosslng beyond all other humnn-eU Joyments. To purchuso Immunity frol such a fate should be the object of all afill ted. But thoso who have tried mapyl remedies and physicians despair of relief or| euro. 4

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Han ford's Radical Cure consists of one boU tlo of tho Radical Cure, one box of Catarrhal Solvent, aud one Improved Inhaler, all wrap* pod In one package, with treutlse and diroc-i lions, and sold by all druggists for 91.00.

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