Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1886 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.

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A PHY8ICIAN SAY8 ABOUT CALLING ON THE SICK

'Hm Fair Sex of the TacUe Coait—W ben lamp Chimneys CrackwHow to Be BeaatlfnUXantipp« Iefended—Don't "Worry—Paragraph*.

There are many, especially In rural comjonnities, who make it a practice to call on their neighbors as soon as they are informed what they are sick. It makes no material difference whether they are intimate friends or merely casual acquaintances. No sooner is one of their neighbors stricken with disease than they call on him. The apparent object of this call is to proffer their sympathy to tbe sufferer, bnt the real motive, in too many instances, is to gratify a morbid cariosity. To those of my readers who contemplate calling on a sick acquaintance, I would first ask you to consider the probable effect of a calL Can you render any assistance? Is your friendship such that your words or even presence or© a source of pleasure to the poor sufferer! If so, then immediately niako your call. If not, there aro yet many ways in which you can show your sympathy and interest You can kindly inquire of tho family after his health: You can solid him some little delicacy which perhaps his poor appetite craves. Flowers with their l»eauty and fragrance are generally ^appreciated by tho sick. These and other little acta of kindness, prompted by aright motive, will be gratefully remembered, when an abrupt call would create disgust, and be oven an injury to the patient.

Having settled iu your own mind that it ia proper to call on your sick friend, you should carefully consider how to mako that 'call a blessing to him. To visit the sick requires common sense, united with quick sensibilities. When a porson is racked with pain, or so profoundly exhausted as to lio in bed, he dillors from what he was when in tho enjoyment of his usual good health, and must, therefore, bo approached in a different manner. No explicit rules can bo given on this point, only that your greeting should bo free and natural. Abovo all things, do not tell your friend how sick ho looks. As a general thing it is unbecoming to closely question tho patient in regard to the particular nature and symptoms of his illness. Only a few general inquiries can bo made with propriety.

If a regular physician is in attendance on tho case, it is exceedingly bad taste for tho caller to suggest medicines to bo taken in placo of those ordered by the doctor, or in connection with hU remedies. This, however, is often dono, especially by elderly ladies. They may lmvo had along and largo experience in tho earo of tho sick not only have they acted as nurses, but, in the absence of a physician, have administered remedies from their aniplo stock of roots and lierbs. It is no surprise that they have some degree of confli donee in their medicines, and yet, under tho guiso of a friendly call, it is wrong for them to attempt to usurp tho place of the attending physician, or do any thing to impair tho confidence that should be placed in him. The healing art is a science, and to unlock its •ecrets more study is required than theso •worthy ladies assume to have givon tho subject They are often keen observers of disease, and they can sometimes render valuable assistance to tho attending physician in informing him of their observations.

A call on tho sick should be briof, depending on the intimacy of tho callcr and tho severity, of the illness. Tho moro sick the patient, the shorter the call should be. To visit nervous iuvalids, demands special tact, yet thcro no class of persons more benefited by judicious cullers than this unfortunate class.—J. A. Loveland iu Brattleboro Household.

Women of the Pacific Coait. A featuro of Pacific coast life which impresses overy strangor who spends much timo thcro is tho great number of largo wornon to bo soon. I havo remarked the fact everywhere, from Los Angolas to British Columbia. A woman of immense circumference is a rare sight in tho east, but here thoy are as numerous as tho mountains. "How do I account for itf' I don't account for it. any moro than I account for the prodigious squashes produced or for tho sweet potato, four foot long, which I saw tho othor day. Clipaato may huvo some influonco, just how ono is puzzled tx» toll, unless tho bracing air induces a ravonous appetite. But hero wo must not forget that tho very task of digesting an undue amount of food sometimes keeps a porson thin. Tho free and constant partaking of fruit may tend to tho uudostrablo result. An Inert life, too little vigorous exercise, may take a hand in tho work. But I suspect that in some cases wine and beer may be held accountable for this excessive physical development

After some experience in observing women or different nationalities in a very heterogeneous population like that of San Francisco, and, indeed, of tho entire Pacific coast. one learns to rocognUe the race characteristics of each quito readily, until much intermarrying has obliterated tho natural or raco lines. The voice, accent, features and figure tho step, mien, choieo of colors and an idea of the fitness, as evidenced in dress and demeanor, with some other tokens, aid the student of human nature in making up his judgment in the case. And everywhere the conviction is forced upon him that the woman with good American blood in her veins and a fair amount of mental culture is tbe one who embraces within liersolf the completest catalogue of noblo qualities. She is the woman of ready resources, of broad outlook upon tho world. She is the woman most awake to tho world's needs, and most capable of doing a woman's part in supplying them. She is the most self-reliant, and possosms tho finest sympathies. She knows herself as women of other countries do not know themselves. She does things.—Cor. Cleveland Leader.

Hour to Polish Sea Shall*.

The surface of tho shell should bo first cleansed by rubbing it with a rag dipped in hydrochloric acid until the outer doll covering of the shell removed. It must then bo washed in warm water, dried in hot sawdust and polished with chamois leather. Those shells which are destitute of a natural polished surface Bu be c"'*:-.»r varnished or rubbed with a mixtu.t of ipoli powder and turpentine applied by means of a piece of wafch leather, attar which fine tripoii should lis used, then a little olive oil rubbed in well, and finally the surface well rubbed with tho chamois leather. Tbe hands should be protected from contact with tbe acid.—Inter Ocean. ________

MYoer Lamp Chimney** Creek. "But tbe chimney* do break so, cractisg eonwUmw# right in the daytime, when no one fti twarP Very true, bat all doe to unequal expansion, which may hs remedied in atmal waya Are you the fortunate poameor of a ^•mmI ring? make it useful as well ss ornamental, by eotting with it straight, parpsodteuiar marks at short distances aUarocmd tht bulging part of jour chimney, befort I wing ftatalL Thaas acts will give the glass tksnacsssary room tar arpanairm and on* whan toe qpfckty fcaatKl or cooM|

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and present it cracking: but If, tike myself, you have no diamonds (except those of the Roman matron) you may toughen it in this way:

Placo it in a tin pafl (for protection) and immcreo it eneirely in your cook stove reservoir tho meaning when the water hi cold let it remain throughout the entire day white the water is hottest, and the following night, during which it will slowly cool. When removed in the morning it will be found almost proof against cracking from heat or cold. Then, in cleaning, don't use soapsuds, which are apt to mako it more breakable, and in timo less clean, but if badly smoked, first remove the soot with a dry brush, or swab, then placo tho chimney upright in your sink and pour over it, briskly, boiling hot water.— Chicago News.

How to be Beautiful.

The Princess of Wales has been accused of j»nnniftlLng to preserve her beauty, and a London paper denies that her highness ever uses anything more than powder, and a milky wash for the face at night. Tho care of the complexion is a question of vital importance to every woman, olid should be but cleanliness must always como first. I havo seen at imla in this city fashionable women whoso necks were begrimed with dirt. Onopassee widow, who has long since passed the age when the majority of men and women are compelled to wear eye glasses, but who will not succumb to any such signs of age, uses her black hair dyo in such a way that portions of her neck are always more or less smeared.

Another fashionable woman of my acquaintance has never been invited a second timo to visit at several rather nice houses, because on her first visit her hair dyto and various cosmetick had ruined all the pillow cases and towels with which sho c&me into contact. If my fair readers care for an excellent wash for tho skia which will prevent wrinkles, lot them wnsh their faces every night in scalding hot water with a little bicarbonate of soda dissolved therein, and after carefully drying rnb on a little sweet oil or cold cream. This was recommended by a well-known physician to a lady de par le monde.—Town Topics.

Worrying Over Things.

Tho older I grow the less I feel like worrying pvor things. I am essentially optimistic in my tendencies. Worry makes people gray and wrinkled and bald, and I cling tenaciously to my youthful looks.

I often wonder why some men will help thqir wrinkles to deepen and increase their baldness by flying into such tantrums when their meals ore a triilo late, or the buttons are off their shirts. I know a Christian man, a "pcrfesser," a deacon in tho church, who makes his wife's lifo a burden to her because of his ceaseless, complaining and scolding about trifles. Do other readers know such husbands? Heaven forbid that one such has fallen to tho portion of any reader of this. I call such men vicious. We allow too many trifles to vox and fret us. I once saw a man famous for his mental vigor and great learning swell up and grow purple with rage because—ho couldn't find his hat. How easy it is for a man to mako a family wretched by his habit of whining, and complaining, and scolding. Life is too short to waste any of it in such useless mouthings.—Zenas Dane in Good. Housekeeping.

Xantippe Defended*-'

A "sweet girl graduate" at Pawtucket took for the subject of her essay "A Defense of Xantippe." She pictured Xantippo as a comely maiden wedded to a dusty, fusty old pedagogue who would rather sit up all night with an argument than respond to a summons to dinner. Sho was neat he was unkempt and untidy. Ho would not, like a good husband, got up and build the fire he would go to sleep in the doorway instead of on his couch, and ho was always late at meals. Instead of hooiug in his garden or rocking the cradle, he was out in tbe streets of Athens "spreading" himself over abstruse theories and vague problems.' In fact he was a classical erank. She was of the belief that Xantippe was justiflod in pouring a pail of water upon the head of her spouse as he snoozed in tho doorway at the dinner hour, and that the populace wore not without some ground for putting the cup of hemlock to his lips, and which his philosophy probably led him to demonstrate was 3 por cent. Athenian birch beer. The essayist handed a difficult theme with grace and humor.—Washington Star.

Makes an Angel of a Dyspeptic. So here is a truly delicious secret, all the way from Yorkshire, in tho way of a breakfast cake which will transform the driest dyspeptic into a smiling angel. This secret cake may also serve for lunch or tea. Roll rich puff paste into rounds the size of a breakfast plate and half an inch in thickness strew thickly over one pound of currants, with a little candied lemon, chopped, which has been most thoroughly steeped in rum or brandy over this placo another round of paste: unite it closely round. Cut it into quarters, but leave them close together, and bake immediately without separating the quarters, serving either hot or cold.—New York Evening Post.

Tho Other Side.

There are good men and there are bad men I Sisters mine, did you never reflect that there were good women and bad women? Did you never think what things men could cay about us if they really set to work to be as brutally truthful as they knew how? Did you novor think of tbe many, many phases of man-life that would show up certain phases of woman-life in no creditable light? Did you never think of the wholesale statement that thoro are three bad men to one bad woman, and not note the only possible conclusion, that one woman must have been concerned in the dspravity of at least three men f—Fanny B. Merrill in New York Graphic.

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Children and Books.

A word here as to the training of children to take care of books. Iftbay aro made to look upon them as "friends'' they will be careful in their treatment of them. No shabby volumes with broken or soiled covers and dog cared pages will be visible. Furnish cadi littlo ono with a set of book shelves. These may be bought at a trilling expense or be "homo made," or allow them to use the lower shelves in the library proper. Than require them to replace each book after using in a proper position. Let soon penalty be attached, some privilege forfaited, ahoald the order be disobeyed.—Atlanta Constitution.

Temperature of Rooms.

Pri& should yield rather than health suffer, and again wc say, confine yourself in winter to the number of rooms that yoo can afford to keep at from 65 deg. to 'TO dcg. The former temperature makes a nice steeping room ths fetter a pleasant sitting room. Where kitchen and sitting rooms are but rigidly up to TOdeg., by keeping the doors into bedroom* open, night and day, they can easily ha bept in the sixties.—Our Country Horn*

B»xto Iter OMi ard Ends.

Bases for holding slippers or odds and eadi may be ornamented «r!U -beese doth, covered with woolen iace the afcnde of the cvttriot

Massage for Women*

Massage is destined in the future to play a very important part in the treatment of chronic maladies of women. The art of applying it is simple and easy, and every person ought to know it, as it is one of tbe very best household remedies. It consists in manipulating all or apart of the body, to increase nutrition and circulation, and also to quiet tho overwrought nervous system.— Herald of Health.

Brothers' Bad Manners.

A brother iif ho iwpuld not wrong his sister of tho very least of her rights will yet inflict upon her the grave and almost irreparable wroqg of rudepess—a wrong as irreparable as it is dastardly. For rudeness hurts—hurts grievously and lastingly and what man is worthy of the name whd hurts a woman? Brothers do not realize how far a want of courteous conduct at home may go to wreck their risters future lives.—Exchange,

Ladles as Pillmakera.'

In Holland ladies are gradually assuming the occupations of the pharmaceutical, assistants. Tho periodical state examinations have just been held, and the result is highly favorable to the sex. Out of a total of fiftyfive candidates, nineteen out .of thirty-one female candidates arid only eight out of twenty-four male candidates wero success-ful.-^-Chicago Tribune.

To Cleanse Fire Gilt Articles. Fire gilt or galvanized articles may be cleansed by a solution of Ono part of borax in sixteen parts of water, which is rubbed on with a brush or sponge. Afterward .wash with clear water, and dry with a linen cjoth. If the articles are warmed before rubbing their brilliancy will be greatly enhanced.— Our Country Home. ,«

Drinking Too Much Tea.

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black tea, that tends to make women wakeful, nervous and irritable, try beef tea. Take lean meat, cut it up small and boil several hours Skim off the grease and serve hot and well seasoned in cups. —1- tv

Application for a Boll.

The skin of a boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy that can be applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet, and'apply to the part affected. It will draw off the matter and relieve tho soreness in a few hours.

For Soiled Kitchen Walls.

Dissolve a lump of extract of logwood the size of a grain of corn in hot water, and put it in four or five quarts of lune that is ready to uso. Ofio application will be as good as two without the logwood.

His Mother's Boy.

His mother's boy, the boy, whose mother appreciates her son's prowess on the skating pond or his success in catching suckers, ia likely to grow into the courteous^ man that every one likes.

Ventilation of a Closet.

Unless a closet is ventilated so that there is some circulation of air through it it is no place to bang away night gowns, unless they have previously been aired, so that the perspiration, perhaps, has been dried.

.* Golden Niche, There is a golden niche in the next world for the hubby who sits on an ash barrel on washing day and eats bread and cheese.

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TERRE TT A UTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

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To scour knives easily, mix a small quantity of baking soda with your brickdust, and see if your knives do not polish better.

Rubbing warts with lemon juice three or four times a day will, it is said, cause them to disappear within a month.

A little milk and, water rubbed over oilcloths after thoy have been scrubbed and dried will freshen them.

Grease spots may be removed from a oold stove by covering them entirely with hot wood ashes.

Glaze tho bottom crust of fruit pies wit! white of an egg and they will not get soggy.

Good manners must be founded on simplo, sincere purposes else their polish vanishes.

Whon sponge cake becomes dry it is nict to cut in thin slices and toast.

Equal parts of sulphur and pitch make good stono and iron coment.

To remove' ink stains, soak in sour milk overnight. ...

Literary Pork In a Poke.

A lady of some literary distinction, residing in Boston, was engaged to write a serial story,

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was to appear in instalments in a certain publication every month. The publisher bought a pig in a poke, but, knowing tbe lady's talent and experience as a writer of stories, he ran the risk. The story ran along for several numbers, and fully satisfied the publisher's and the editor's expectations. But

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some twenty instalments had appeared the publisher came to the conclusion that bo was getting rather too much of a good thing, and so the lady was requested to cut the story short, and print it in one more number. This the lady resolutely declined to da

So what were the publisher and his' editor to do? They put their beads together a::d an outsider was employed to disposo of aii the characters in the book, marry them, day or y»nri them into oblivion, as the exigencies seemed to require, but all in a single chapter. The indignation of tbe lady who had written all but tho last chapter of the story can bo better imagined than described when the instalment appeared in tho publication. She brought suit for damages against the publisher, naturally enough, but it never came to trial, as it was satisfactorily settled out of court I think Dr. Holmes will confoss that this rather outdoes the effort* of his pirates.—Boston HerakL V=

How Teas Come to New York. Tho tea drinker who comfortably sips her cup of Oooioog seldom ponders upon the groat maritime struggle which has long been going on and the overland competition which is just now in its infancy to supply her with this soothing beverage at reduced rates. Time was when "tea made greater inroads on tho poeketbook than now, and competition in carrying it from China and Japaoto eastern ports in this country is one of the important factors in the reduction. The sailing vessel, technically known as tbe sailer, was once tbe aole wditym of transportation. Now the the Union, Northern and Canadian Pacific railways almost annihilate the slow coming going of the white wings of the ocean as tea carriers. Tea, like other thing?, is rushing across continents now !c ti* mad competition of modern traffics—New York Tribone.

There are 561,900 pensioners now oo the rolls, and the government has paid on that account nearly $1,000,000,000 since tbe dose of the war.

Tbe kmeUnees which oooae over a dade he* tired of hhmrif is too profound

STAGE IMMORALITY.

EXTRACTS FROM A MAGAZINE ARTICLE BY FANNY DAVENPORT.

The Conscientious Actress Has No Time She Says, for Silly Nothings, Dlssipapatlori or Nonsense—Advice to the Publlo—Kachel's Letter.

All arts, all professions are more generously treated (perhaps I should say have been) than the stage. Its detractors aro legion. Few seem to havo thought for themselves upon the subject all appear cramped and enveloped in the opinions of others Daily wo hear the question, "Is the stage immoral?" and upon this subject havo I been tempted to fly to tho ink bottle and put upon paper my humble,opinions. Js the stage immoral? Nol Are those upon tho stage immoral? Somo are, perhaps, as in every other calling or art. under thebun biit are fell to be cohdfemned for the sins' of the few? That' the stage breeds immorality I most emphatically deny. That a vicious person will develop vice as quietly in other professions I am not prepared to say, but that there is less real immorality upon the stage than in many other callings I have no hesitation in saying.

Certain it is that if an. actress v.orks, conscientiously duripg the time sl)o is i:i IhG theatre she has no timo cither for silly nothings, dissipation or nonsense. No one who has won name and' fame honestly and possesses talent could retain dither if her nights were passed in dissipation and her days in bed. We have living instances of the youth and enduring .talent in good, pure lives before us today. People ray: "How wonderfully young she looks for her years!" "Isn't she a marvel!" "Why, she is not a»day over 201n Whon you hear theso remarks, believe me, they imply true praise, and bespeak a pure, gpodTife. ..

I believe that why the stage is called immoral is because those that call it so are ignorant Of it If tho foundation, progression and gradual development of the stage and drama were taught in our' schools, as other branches of history are. taught—teaching, all tbe good that has boen in it—to tho pupils, and showing how its light has been a steady one, shining forth through all these years, enlightening, amusing and cultivating—if this were dono timo would soon effaco bigotry, and the habit of condemnation would grow less and less, and tho stago would be judged as other arts and callings arc judged

ADVICE TO TIDE PUBLIC.

Let tho drama second tho efforts of tho pulpit, and it will bo found an active and powerful ally in tho causa of virtue.

It is the public who can do this. Let those who are all-powerful

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vice and drive

from tho stage. As in your churches you would not entertain guilt, so in the theatre condemn.it, not by sluuder and talk, but by acts, whichever spopk tho loudest. That the stago has defects, crying ones, I frankly admit but they are not irremediable they disgrace, but cannot destroy tho trunk.

How few to-day know of Rachel savo as the great actress 1 All think her to have been selfish, miserly, anil immoral 1 Selfish? Listen to the last few lines of a letter written by her, and now before me. "Unfortunate man! IIo leaves four children, and had the courage or the' cowardice to die. Find out where tho children are. I wish to send thom 600 francs, tho products of last night's performance. I feel sad and depressed over it all." Again when she felt that all hope was over, she says at the end of almost her last letter: "But no, I will find my two guardian angels, my blessed sons. I hear their dear voices calling inc. I have been too long away from their caresses, their kisses, their love. I do not regret tho money lost, tho fatigue I have undergone I have carried ray name as far as I could, and I bring my heart to thoso I lovo dearly." She said of the stage: "My calumniators did not succeed in making me immoral. God loved me, sincc He gave me children. Tho justice of God is greater toward weak mortals than the justice of men. I do not fear Him!" Again: "God protects the brave, and He seems to have created forme expressly a littlo corner unnamed on any map, whore 'I can forget troubles and fatigues—my fiome in my children's hearts." Theso letters show us the woman, loving, and true.

There is as much, If not moro, real honor, purity, domestic happiness, and cluirity in the dramatic profession than even its best friends in their most genorous moments give it credit for. Were the good in it cited oftencr, tho littlo bad would soon sink into oblivion. Believo mc, no living soul is as bad as it is reported, and when an unjust, cruel thing is said of an artist, let us not repeat it, but remember that the penalty of a public life is to be traduccd. Let us seek for some good thing tho person has done or said, and by ventilating that, the memory of tbe blow will bo forgotten, leaving not the faintest bruise behind it.—Fanny Davonport, in Brooklyn Magazine.

Civil Service Examinations Made Easy. "Civil service examinations, ton conts, book stores," were the words in flaming letters painted on white oil cloth and swung over an antiquated colored man's back who paraded tho sidewalks throughout tho city. The reappearance of the civil service examination sign was somewhat of a surprise, however, as it was supposed that that scheme had failed. "You must not think for a moment that our pointers to applicants under the civil servico commission aro a failure," said the professor, when questioned on the subject. The book store* sell moro of my books than ever before, and I give many icen and women instructions. I have twenty persons in the course of coaching now. A great many men are appointed to the higher positions nowadays after special examinations by the commissioners. They are generally not well educated, and could not get through without such assistance as I give them. I know tho general style and bent of the questions, and do much for them in an afternoon or night."—Baltimore American.

Five Thousand Mistakes la Wrbotc#. This incidsnt may not bo generally known to our readers, and wo venture to reprint it When tin unabridged edition of Webster's Dictionary first appeared (without a definition of tho word "unabridged*}, that great scholar, Caleb Cashing, wrMe a criticism on tho stupendous vprk, saying that, (or its size, it had as few emu*, as couM be expected. This puzzled the editors, who asked an explanation of Mr. Cushing^i Information on the subject of those crrnk In reply Mr. f*mhtnr marked 5,000 mistakes in the volume which bad been presented to hi and mot it bock.—Boston Gazette.

A Train for Dranmert.

The latest railroad novelty is a Canadian Pacific "commercial train," in which "half* car spaces aro sold to drummers, who may spread oat their wares there. The train will be side-tracked at all places along tbe line, •nd astora will be optoed."—'The Argonaut

OManaptlra off Pretsefs.

It is estimated that 200,000 pretzels are d*» toured to this city daily, or 730,000,000a jtar, costing the saloons and stands over ft«0,000 and tbe pobUetwios that York Tribnaa

ILLILEO.

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Illileo! The moonlight seemed lost across the vales The stars bestrewed the azure like an armor's scattered scales Tbe airs of night were quiet as tbe breath of silken sails. And all your words were sweeter than the notes of nightingales.

Illileo Legard: In the garden thera alone With your figure carved of fervor as the Esycne carved of stone, There came to me no murmur of the fountain's undertone So mystically, musically mellow as your own. You whispered low, lUileo—so low tho leaves were mute. And the echoes faltered breathlessly in your voice's vain pursuit. And there died the distant dalliance of the sere leader's lute, And 1 held you in my bosom as the husk miy hold the fruit.

Iliileo, I listen I believes youl Inmy bliss What were all tho worlds above me, since round you thus in this? Let them, reeling, reach to win roe—even heaven 1 would iniss Grasping earthward—I would cling here, though I clung by just a kiss!

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And I said the stars should slacken in their paces through the vast ... That blossoms should grow odorless and lilies all aghast, Ero yet my loyalty should fail enduring to the last— So vowed 1. It is written. It is changeless as tho pa

Illileo Legard! in tho shade your palace throws Like the cowl about the singer at your gilded porticoes,. W A moan goes with the music that may vex tho high repose Qf£ heart that fades and crumbles as the crimson of a rose. -- James Whitcomb Riley.

*4" INFANT LIFE IN PARIS. X" -j •. Insufficient Caro Bestowed Upon the Iilttle Onos—Parin* Becky Sharps.

There is no doubt that the, want of spaco from .which tho poor tonapt suffers in Paris is a seriou3 drawback to the jaropor rearing of an infant tfhere is, further, no doubt that sufficient caro cannot be bestowed upon tho infant, even if there be sufficient space, where the woman, as is tho case nine hundred times out of a thousand, among the working population of Paris, helps to win the bread. Among tho lower middle classes tho wife keeps tho accounts. A wet nurse at home is expensive and irksome*. Those peasant matrons havo been spoiled by the upper classes, where they are indulged to an extent that defies description. They are decked out as for a feast thoy rule tho household, in return for which they givo what the mother is apparently unwilling or unablo to give, and what old-fashioned folks still persist in considering the sweetest joys of maternity. Thackeray made Becky Sharp French by the mother's side. It proved his acumen had he done otherwise, English readers would havo been inclined to tax him with exaggeration i'i depict in)» L:! hcroino as utterly indifferent, r.y, si.! nil timi, of her, pretty son beeaau ho interrered with her enjoyment of society.

In Paris, however—and irt the large provincial ccnters, whoso chief delight it seems is to ape Paris—tho Becky. Sharps aro in a majority. I have before mo the statistics of last year's births for the city of Paris (tho twenty arrondissemonts within tlio fortifications). They amount to 02,1)00. Cut, of theso 17,000 were dispatched to the country. I may safely defy anyono curious in these mattera to take a six hours' stroll through ono or two of tho best or second best quarters ot Paris, and to find more tlmn ono well dressed mother out of every thirty unflanked by a wet nurse. He can easily try tho exl*»riraent for himself, seeing that there is a difference In tho eostumpjQf th^jnerc nmid and tho wot nurso.

Tho latter is got up vtfry theatrically and prettily, with a wroath of beautiful riblxns round her exquisitely embroidered cap, two long stremners of the sumo ribbon floating in the wind a handsomo dress and ample cloak, often lined'with silt, and a lace apron. Kho is part of tho show of a fashionable entertainment in Paris. If my observer has dono this, if ho calculates tho 17,000 infanta gone to the provinces, and jots down a computation Iwiscd upon tho fraction of tho remaining 45,009, ho will arrive at tlie Conclusion that probably about one of every ten mothers nurses her own baby.—Pari Coi. London Globe.

Politeneft* of the Frehcli.

Says M. Milland: "Any recommended Frenchman, and particularly a Parisian, is sure of a good reception abroad, oven in tho most egotistical countries, Mich «s England and America. 'Ho is welcomed as a member of the family. It is true ho may regarded as a gossip, an amuscr but hisgayoty to liked and his papriccs ore satisfied. Thi? is, jwrhaps, why ho ha3 becomo vain. But tho foreigner who comes to us, even with the Lest recommendations, always appears to Us importunate. Wo get rid of him as soon on possible. We tell liim where to go and what to see, but we do not accompany him. We ask htm if he has amused himself, but we never try to amuse him. There aro not three Parisians capable of showing Paris to a foreigner. How different abroad I Go to London, Vienna, St. Petersburg or elsewhere, and you will bo surprised c::d finally embarrassed by the politeness and gallantry bestowed on you."

M. Milland thinks that this want of real politeness is owing in a great measure to the Frenchman's ignorance of foreign languages. It may bo also doe to bis vanity, for the Frenchman invariably considers himself vastly superior to his neighbor*. In any case it is an inglorious fact, and it is to be hoped M. Milland's lecture will tend to remove itParis Letter. 11

Wolff, the Parisian, as a Wit. Albert Wolff is at present traveling in Scandinavia, and when he was hard pressed the other day by a curious throng of Swedes in one of the prominent capitals of tbe northern peninsula for information about Gen. Boulanger, "whose name," said a northman, "is in everybody's mouth." "Boulanger 7" answered Wolff. "Have you not heard of tho joke about tbatf With ono voice every one answered.* "No." "Well," said the wag of Tho Figaro, "there is no Boulanger. He is simply a personage or fantasie invented by the journals during tho dull season. So do not think be ever existed, tor it would be a great mistake." This was received by tbe northerners with absolute confidence, and Boulanger is no longer anything but a phantom in tbeir estimation.—Paris Cor. Boston Journal.

The Conntry Photographer. Tbe peripatetic photographer has made hia appearance in this county. At present be confines hi* labors to taking views of schools and private residences, or an occasional hotsogiaph or jackotype, for some proud owner of the one or the other extraordinary airmal. The itinerant artist bkles his time. Aran be will haant the county convention an the mass meeting and transfix the am* bfr km* candidate with his traveling camera and band him down to unborn generations as "four father who ran for county judge," or "your ande who came near being recordv of Ml about l£8-."-8t. Louis RspnNinan

MOLASSES NOT PUREJ

EVERY BARREL SOLD ADULTERATE! LARGELY WITH GLUCOSE.

The LatUr Not Specially Injurious, bat: Very Cheap—Sorghum Threatening toUsurp tho Place of Molasses—Process, of Manufacture, ni.* ••. A

A prominent dealer in molasses recently stated that there were very few if any barrels, of straight molasses in this market. Every barrel is adulterated with fiO br 75 per cent, of glucose. Glucoae is not injurious in itself —in fact, some people prefer the straight glucose to the straight molasses—but thafraud perpetrated on the public in adulterating the pi'.re goods may be classed in the same category with spurious butter, and should be sold on ita merits. Consumers know that molasses is being adulterated, and tboconsequence is that they do, not buy one-fifth as much of it as th®y did a year ago. It is noVclaimed that any injurious drags aroused in adulterating tho pure article any more thai* chicory is injurious when added to coffee, but. wh*u'7.1 per of a barrel of so-called pure molasses is glucose, doesn't it begin to look naif the goods were .approaching adulteration from tho other end—i. e., glucost is being: adulterated with molasses?

When tho mixing bf glucose with molasses: was first attempted the dealers' here did all their mixing on their own promises* and only to an extent sufficient to cator, tr tho traJo requiring it Now it is all mixed before it reaches here. There is, no doubt, plenty of pure molasses in Louisiana,' but as long as dealers there c'au make more ntoney out of it by using their stocks to mix with glucosotheyareaot likely to sell any of tunicas at a. very high price, aud tho trad) here cannot useit at the figures wanted. The crop reportsthis season have boen enlarged by reporting: an increase bf 80,000 barrels, this increasol^ing glucoso or sorghum which is added to tho pure molaises and the output increased in proportion.

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There seems to be a disposition now on the part of thoso who at first wore so anxious to got hold of tho mixed godds to return to their first love, the simon-pure article. They are getting tired of the fraud, and unless molassea gets back into its former channel straight sorghums will fill tho demand, and! molasses will bo a thing of tho past. Therearea good many dealers who state that they decidedly prefer using pure sorghum to ftiola&es mixed with 75 per cent, of glucose, and as sorghum is mado absolutely pure thereseems to bo a desire to uso it instead of tho. molasses as it is now being made.

Of course tho reason for mixing the goods is apparent enough to any ordinary observer. When the practice first commenced mixers would toko a barrel of ordinary molasses, worth 40 cents per gullon, and mix it with a barrel of glucoso, worth 20 cents per gallon. The effect of tho glucose upon tho molasses was to givo it a fine light color* making it appear as a sujxn-ior grade of molasses, and it would sell for -15 cents ]or gallon but as soon as other dealers found it out and resorted to the name practice tho profit was reduced

fast to a reasonable

margin only that now there is a question w.hetlier the process is profitable at all or not. There is, however, a reason for mixing th«molisses and glucose together, even if tho result would only sell at K0 cents per gallontaking 40-eent molusses and A)-oent glucose n» tho Irnsis to work on—and that is that moro* mixed goods can be sold at 5M) cents tlian straight goals at 40 cents.

METHODS OF MA?fUKACTUnK.

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manufacture of molasses up to a certain stage "is really tho nmnufactui of sugar. Somo of the methods or inauui t''turo an* very simple. In tho simplest form thosugat* cane is crushed in a mortar. The juia Uiu* extracted is boiled in common ojen pans. After boiling a certain length of time it bocomes a dark-colored, soft, viscid mass. The uncrystalized syrup is expressed by putting tho whole into cloth bags and subjecting them to pressure. This is molassc« in a crudo state. It is further purified by reboiliug it with an addition of a:i ulkalbio solution and a quantity of milk. When this has continued until scum no longer rises, it is evaporated and then transferred to earthen jars. After it lias been left for a few days to granulate, holes in tho bottoms of the jars are unstopped and the molasses is drawn off into vessels placed to receive it

Another process of extracting molasses fa as follows: By various processes of boiling

straining the juice is brought to a state where it to a soft mass of crystals imbedded in a thick but uncrystalized fluid. Tho separation of the fluid is the next process, and is pcrfcctcd in tho curing house, so-called. This is a large building with a cellar which forms the molasses reservoir. Over this reservoir is an open framework of joiirts, upon which gtund a number of empty potting casks. Each of these bas eight or ten boles bored through the bottom, and in each hole is placed the stock of a plantain leaf. The soft concrete mass of sugar is removed from tho cooling 'pans in which it has been brought from the boilers and placed in tho casks. The molasses then gradually drains from tbe crystalized portion into tho reservoir below, percolating through the spongy plantain stalks. These are tho simpler methods the larger plantations uso elaborate and costly machinery, the principle, however, being about tho same.

The hogsheads in which tho molasses is brought to this country are manufactured principally in Philadelphia and taken to 'th® West Indies. They are placed in the hold of the venel and tbe molasses pumped into them.—Chicago Tribune.

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