Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1888 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Terre Haute stands right up iand claim* a position in the front ranks as a racing center and home of fino horses. "A thick-tongued Democrat will experience some difficulty in twisting his tongue around a "Hurrah lor Oevoland *uid Tburman!"

The chief aim of the St. Louls«onven'tion was to get a good t*4l for the ticket. The chief aim of the Chicago convention will l» to get a good head^ifrt|

A health journal says tiiaUf you wish to be healthy there is »o teetker-exercise better tb»n kicking. If tbte be true, what a healthy crowd the fcrfimb kickers must be.

Kentucky distillers+*a?ve organized to limit the output of whWky and the Prohibitionists are orgarotaefl to limit the input. Between the two sobriety ought to have a grand boom.

Ex-Gov. Porter baa 'been -aeleoted to nominate General Harrison at Chicago. He can inako a good speech for the General and at the same time put in agood •word for himself, may be, in case the Indiana stable show-Id-be searched for a dark horse at any time.

One of the New York delegations to the St. Iiouis convention curried with thorn ten cast* Piper Heldslck, ten cases Yellow Isabel, two'barrels Dog's Head Ale, three barrels Mllwaukoe lager beer iniottles, two cases Apollinarls water ten gallons Old Crow whisky, ten gat

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Cognac brandy, Ave gallons Schel dam schnaps and one case of Angostura Bitters. They had iprobably heard of the horrible Mississippi Hivcr water which the p"«pi« of that town sometimes drink ..

Ten Haute fcs* "wide op«n,r1a» ever. Indeed it Is even more sn. The saloons this week have maflo no pretense of clos ingattho

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gambling Is

unrestrained. To-morrow the saloons will be open as usaril, a wild west show will attract at the Fair Grounds, abroad sword roinbanttti Hulman Park and the band will play atCdllett Park. Likewise will the bands play through the streets. The wild west wlTltiot probable parade the streets. We are not quite wide open enough for that. ®ut at the rate we are progressing it

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be butn'llttle while

until such a parade will be possible. At the woman's suffrage festival in Boston recently a t&eautlful episode occurred. Mrs Liverwiore introduced tho venerable mother &t General I*w Wallace as the mother of "Ben-Hur" and explained the pertinency of the allusion by saying that when the famous book was written the mm flowedbie.mother's to be the first eyes that looked on it. Upon reading it the wothoneompllmented the son upon the snarvelous insight ho displayed in deputing the female character in the uwtbor of the hero, whereupon General Wsllaoe^anawered, "Mother, It is yon I have depicted there*" Tho history of literature fur nlshes no finer illustration of filial loy alty than this.

The preachers have set out early in the campaign. One of them has already officiously declared that Mrs. Cleveland's married "life is unhappy, and that the President does not treat her well. This has brought a ringing and indignant denial from Mrs. Cleveland, who says: can wish the woqien of our-eeuntry no greater blessing than that their homes and lives may be as happy and their husbands as kind, attentive, considerate and affectionate as mine." It Is disgusting that such intermeddling with the privacy of domestic life should be reported to, and worst of all that It should fee the work of a clergyman, Mrs. Cleveland will have the sympathy of all lovers of the decencies of life In this brutal Invasion of the sacred precincts nf her home.

There are getting to be great many humorous phases in the Democratic congressional race. The number of candidates Is larger than ever before went into a convention, and the contest, while spirited, is as yet conducted in good humor. Crawford Fairbanks seems to be the leading candidate from this county with Judge McNnU and Judge John T. j&ott kept well in mind by the party. At the now yesterday, Fairbanks, Glllum of Parke, Briggsol Sullivan, Bowman of Fountain, and Brookshlre of Montgomery, met and good-naturedly bantered each other tor the privilege of paying for the beer—that to, tor all except Brookshlre, who isa teetotiar. The Vigo

Democrats seem to look upon this perverse young man as a sorry spectacle in poll tier, hut he Is making a strong cantall tbesamfe

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•yjja rsi bandana handkerchief will prominent figure In the campaign

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Chicago in for Gresham. memtoered that Chicago whatit goes for.

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tfon of the court bouse, but the idea had been abandoned. It was revived, however for this occasion, with what success Is known to all people in the city and surrounding country, as, apparently, every one was present. A few enterprising citisens took hold of the movement and Che result was a formal dedication on Thursday morning. And right royally was it done. Col. Thompson was president of the day and principal speaker. Short addresses were made by Murray Briggs,of Sullivan, Barnabas Hobbs and Judge Long. The fine display of fireworks in the evening drew out a crowd equalling that when Cleveland was here. The success of the movement was such as to mako it apparent to all that in one form or another it should be repeated several times a year. There is nothing like establishing a feeling of community of interests among the people of the city and the Wabash vailey. We can have a little empire of our own 'here if the proper effort is made.

Business so far this year has been quiet and trade sluggish and iosctive. Doubtless this has been due in part "to the unseasonable character of the weather and in part probably to the {generally prevailing idea that a Presidential -campaign necessarily causes stagnation in business. There is always talk of this kind although there would not seem to be any good foundation in fact "for the notion. People eat, drink and are mer ry in Presidential election years as well as in others. (In fact they driak rather more than otherwise.) They wear out their clothes, agree to give owe another hats, and in short do all in their power to keep things moving, inelading the campaign lie.

Why then should business be dull? It must be in the main owing to tho fact that everybody believes-it will be dull. Such a belief always kas and always will paralyze business. It makes men limit their operations, circumscribe their energies and be listless and inactive when they ought to be full of push, energy and progress. It is of the same kind of feeling that brings on panics and makes them so hard'to recover from. Business after all is little more than the confidence of men in onean-other-nnd in the future. A community that is premeated with this confidence goes ahead planning, pursuing and achieving. The work of one stimulates the rest, the whole community is alive and active. When the opposite feeling prevails everything is dead, or at best only half alive.

The races of the Terre Hau& Trotting Association were again successful. The city is fast making a reputation surpasssed by few in the country, both as tb the quality of the sport and the time made by the horses. Each year has put the record for trotting and pacing lower than the proceeding year until now tho Terre Haute track has furnished the fastost single mile beats of Iwrtb gaits and the fastest two and fastest three heats of both ever made in the State. The meeting this week added another wreath of glory In the record ef tfhe fastest half mile running team to wagon on record anywhere in the world and that too with a woman, Madam Marantette, holding the reins. It is the unvarying testimony of horsemen who here used all the famed tracks tn the country that none is better than the one here and the grounds, in the matter of shade, water and railroads facilities are not surpassed anywhere. So advantageous are the surroundings and so great the interest shown in the cultivation of the horse interest that this week the city made a splendid acquirement. Mr. Mayae, «f Omaha, president of a bank there, who had a number of horses here, was so well pleased with these things thathebought

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oa«nal conversation that Terre Haute too, for that matter but with the latter should do something unusual during it is possibly not so essential as with the race week to attract people here, because former. It has been settled beyond conthe Democratic national convention troverey that in order to do good work, would be held at the same time. There the brain must have periods of recreation had been some talk of a public dedica- and rest. So the preacher must go and

piessea wiro wiu»» Jotrnsl of Education. Happiness is the Hussey farm and will move hi»str«* onlyrriative, and some people find that farm to this place. Mr. Mayoe has now it is* distant relative Indeed.

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The period Is near at hsttd when thf activities of the churches are to some tent suspended or abated. The mi hies him away to mountains, takes seashore In search of rest and recupe: (ion, and those members of his fiodk w! can "get away from business" and able to afford It, also take a eeasoi vacation, or at least send their away for a time.

Notwithstanding the objections I have been urged toft, the pastoral liou has been steadily growing In laiity and prevalence. It is frond /hai the praaehcr needs a rest and iltf he does better work by having it. Alllnds

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he will go, even if the church doors be closed and the pulpit vacant for a time. And this brings up one of the troublesome questions in the case. There is strong opposition to having the churches closed and religious services suspended during the heated term. Nor is it much better to have the pulpit filled by some superannuated or retired minister Who preaches simply to fill in the time. For, easy, pleasant and practical solution of the difficulty would be to have two to three congregations unite for service. Let the ministers take their outings at different Usees, so that there shall always be-enough-of them left to keep some of the churches going. Then by several congregations, of different denominations, joining together an encouraging aodienoe can be made for the speaker and the members will have the pleasure of additional variety, by hearing others than their own pastor for a few

Sundays.

Then when the vacation season closes and they get back into their own church home again it will seem all the pleasanter and cosier for the temporary vidtto sister -churches.

Mpjor Powell, iu his recent lecture be fore the Anthropological Sodlety of Washington on "The Course of Human Progress," sums upinacompact way "The age of savagery is the age of stone the age of barbarism is the age of clay the age of civilization is that of iron. The savage propels his canoe with a paddle the barbarian propels his boat with oars the civilized man propels his ships by sails. In savagery law 'is designed to secure peace in barbarism to sedbre peace aud authority in civilazation to secure peace, authority and justice.. In savagery a wolf is a god in barbarism a howling beast in civilisation a connecting link in zoology. In savagery men only count in barbarism they have arithmetic iu civilization they understand geometry. In savagery vision limited by opinion in barbarism by tHe horizon: in civilization by the power .of microscope and telescope."

Nothing like having something thattpf worth cursingr In 1822, to show hti& fast people could travel, Theodore Faxton drove a party from Albany to I'tica and back in about eighteen h^irs. The avorage travel was five milesvlBfcour by stage. One writer speaks of the astound ingly fast trip lrom Cleveland to Chica go and back in 1836—done in about two weeks. Harriot Marti neau chartered a special ifrom Albany to Buffalo in 1819 for $80. Strangely, there was grumbling both at roads, and conveniences. One writer complained that the roads were full of holes—"first the right wheel, and anon the left, making a sudden plump, did all but spill us out on the highway." Another wrote of the corduroy roads, then plentiful in all parts of the country: "The driver, if merciful, drives so as to give us the feeling of being on the way to a funeral—sobs at each jolt but if he is in a hurry he shakes us like pills in a box." But now it is the railroads that catch the spleen of unhealthy travelers.

SA UCK FROM OTHER SANCTUMS. The Judge: The man who hesitates is the man wfco sits on bis own coat-tails.

Puck: It seems to us there ought to be a brand of cigars called "The First Baby." I

Life: is said that no one can arrest the tlightof time, but who is there who is not abfe to stop a minute?

Yonkers Statesman: Some one says: "It is sometimes dangerous to think." This lsprobably when a person speculates.

Bos&h Herald: After all, the old fash ioned meter by moonlight is about the only «ne that£has stood the test of time and t6e experts.

HOoerville Journal: A woman never

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here only the cream of his large owner- sb«d«es when she sees how becoming a ship.

Is such acquirements as this, ridug habit is to woman she doesn't with the steady growth of Terre Haute's HI?* re natation as a center for fine horses that p« will soon bring the citv alongside of picnics a hundred years ago it Lextnston and other famous breeding for the girls to stand up and racing localities. Without doubt this development has been worth many thoussad dollars to us and will continue to increase in benefits to the city in genend.

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Truth: When you reflect jicnics a hundred years ago it vstom for the girls to stand up and let the men kiss them all all the enthusiasm about naprogress seems to b« a grave mis-

LITTLE SERMONS.

Success isa delicate fruit, and loses Its flavor if it falls and to scrambled for. Love cannot enter the heart without bringing with it a train of other virtues.

Many a man has been shown the pathway to heaven by his wife's ocactieeof piety-

Self-love to atone® the most delicate and the most tenacious of our sentiments a mere nothing will wound pt, but nothing on earth will kill U.

Kansas City to spoken of bys Iocs publication ss "being in the heart of the gnat religious belt of the West.**

TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9,1888. Eighteenth Yean

A Woman's Chat.

BT BKBKITDA BUH7KT.

Is not a beautiful young widow a charming sight? A shadowy face, with dove's eyes and a sorrowful mouth, a smooth forehead under a black crape bonnet, and a dear little way of moving about and looking up at you that says, "I am so unhappy won't you pity me?"

You know the most dangerous thing in all the world is sympathy. It is also one of the most delicious things, both to give and receive. I have just heard a remarkable story of a girl in San Francisco. An orphan, twenty years old, wealthy and beautiful. Also very tired o! the world, of herself, of everything, and longing for a new divertissement. She had been in the whirl ol society for three seasons, had traveled everywhere, bad rejected countless offers of marriage, among thom several from titled foreigners, and had at last come to the conclusion that the earth was a very stupid place and not capable of amusing her further.

At last a brilliant idea struck her. What fun to be a young widow! How interesting it would be and how rarely lovely she would look in mourning Straight she went to the hospital. One of the surgeons was an old friend of hers. She was a vision of grace in a white flannel street suit.

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"O Doctor, I have come to hunt a husband! Haven't you some nice young fellow who won't last very long?" And she went ou to unfold her scheme. After much coaxing he consented to take her through the wards and let her chose among the dying men. The beautiful face, that could look so tender when it chose, passed up and down the ward and won the hearts of all who saw it. She paused by the side of a slender youug fellow and asked his name. He was so weak he could scarctly answer her. When they reached the outer room she said, "That one suits me, Doctor. How long will he live?" •'Not more than weeks. Perhaps not so long." She was charmed. The arrangements were all made by the surgeon, and tho next day she came and was married to the young man. She 'went away after the ceremony, after thanking the poor fellow for bis favor.

The six weeks passed. Every day she ^•Nspected to hear of the death of her husband. But at the fend of two months he was still alive. To her Infinite disgust he grew better, and one fine day the servant ushered into her drawing room a gentleman who had asked to see "my wife." Life was not very dull and stupid just then. What should she do?

How should she act? How get rid of him? She decided she would try to buy himotf. And she succeeded. Her husband went away with a check for a thousand dollars in his trousers pocket, having left a promise behind not to molest her peace again. Six months, a year, two years passed, and one day her fond hopes were realized. A telegram came announcing her husband's death. It was a weary waiting time, and she made the most of her release. She Is now one of the most brilliant and dashing young widows in San Francisco, and wears the mournful seriousness of receut grief perfection. _____

Thegs are so many unpleasant questions of life that are. never ^discussed, and to which so little attention is paid, it seems to me. One thing that has Tuined many a life is the lack of care about the futurd of one's children. The mother Is very busy with her household duties while they are growing up. The father is hard at work making a living for them and has no time to worry about ttaem individually. And so, the first thing anybody knows they are full grown, with strong young hands, undaunted courage and daring, eager fluttering of the unfledged wings folded close away in their fresh and happy souls. You do not like to think them "grown up" and ready for work. They an still your children, your babies, to you at least.

But they are not children any more, and what work are tbey ready for? Here la your son, educated in books, and your daughter the same, with perhaps a few accomplishments added. Are they ready for any work? If not, pity them, every man and woman who lives life in earnest.

If not, your boys will go to drinking, to doing "odd jobs" and at last drift into some ambltionless life that will not call forth half their energies. Your girls will help with the house, work for awhile, losing gradually the bright dreams of youth, vague though they were, yet they portended a possibility of happiness in some real life work. At last, weary and disheartened, they will marry—just for a change, and to get some one to make them a living. Only one 11 to to live, and then to let It grow up like a weed, anywhere, anyhow, aimless and well nigh worthless.

O, mother, father, tbink*of this duty to your children. I knew two parents oooe who had missed the best in their own lives in jost this way. They determined their children should fare differently. Sacrificing themselves In •very way, they sent the hoy and two girls to college. The father wore his old boots with holes in them, and the mother staid in the house all winter for the

want of warm wraps. Those children knew that every day was a sacrifice to the dear old father and mother at home. And how they worked! How proud they were of their high per cents how proud they were of the love that did so much for them. They were taught to believe in a noble destiny for each of them, and that is what they have all attained. They are filling positions of trust, skilled in their several kinds of labor, and doing a thousand times the good that they should do were their lives aimless and drifting. Blessed be the pareuts who shape the lives of their children for high destiny from babyhood up—and God pity the boys and girls who are allowed to "jes grow up."

WOMEN'S WAYS1

The wife of Senator Palmer has set the pleasaut fashion at Washington of holding Sunday evening parties which are entertained with sacred music by artists from church choirs.

Maggie Hughey, a Pittsburg woman of furly, was married last week to her third husband just five hours after her lamented No. 2 had joined the silent majority—an unusual intermingling of crape and orange blossoms.

Emma Abbott is growing old but not rusty. She know-how to catch on even after the wrinkles come and tfce voice cfticks. She will have a corps de ballet attachment to her company next season. There are no mosquitos on Emma.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell, who now lives in Elizabeth, N. J., was the first woman preacher iu the country. She was the minister of an Ohio Congregational church thirty-five years ago. She is now a unitarian.

Whether nice women smoke or not is debatable, because so few men will agree as to what the word nico means but certainly women who think highly of their own social rank in New York city are rapidly acquiring the tobacco habit.

Hawkinsville, Oa., is remarkably proud of Miss Aunie McCormick, because she can play two tuues on the piano and singa third, all at once. -It is said "that she can sit with her back to the instrument and play most beautifully."

A remarkable case is reported from Michigan. Thre^ years ago Miss Hattie Cotton, of Constantine,* lost her. voice and surgical treatment for its restoration was of no avail. She went to western Iowa and her voice returned. This experienco has been repeated three times, Miss Cotton's voice failing at home, but coming out strong in Iowa.

If this is true it will strike a blow at the cooking schools: Miss Parloa was asked at a dinner why she did not eat of a certain'salad. She replied: "Because it is made after a recipe of my own. I tell people how to make a good many things it would give me the night-mare to eat.'.'

Senator Fair recently attended a Catholic fair in San Francisco, and asked the price of some rosebuds at the flowerstands. Before the young lady in attendance had time to reply an older one came forward and answered: "Five hundred dollars, Mr. Fair." The Senator instantly drew his check for the money and passed it over without a look of surprise or annoyance. The woman who took the check was his divorced wife.

Women as physicians we are becoming reasonably familiar with. That is, we no longer consider it out of taste for a lady to be a doctor. But women as surgeons are more rare. In Switzerland they are pronounced to be the most proficient in the medical schools and hospitals. One professor says: "The women are particularly dexterous In handling muscles. Their small, taper fingers give them an advantage over the males, and their eyes are quicker to detect details and minutiie." These two points are strong ones. Does not all the education and training of woman tend to make her abler to observe small details, whereas the training of men works to encourage the summing up of items that is, they argue better, when the woman sees more exactly.

CHANGE IN THE NEQRO. Atlanta Constitution. The negro to cbsnging in appearance and losing some of the birthmarks peculiar to the African race. The new generation to showing the effects of a higher culture. Especially to this noticeable in the towns where contact with the whites shows its effect. The flatnosed, kinky-haired negro to passing sway and becoming an unknown race. All the colored children, no matter how dusky in hue, show the change. A rnong the females, long hair of that peculiar woolly appearance hangs In long braids or curls down their becks. Aquiline noses and smaller months with tfcii lips are the rule.

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EMPTY PEWS.

Chicago Saturday Herald.

The Congregatlonaltats have been in convention at Evanston this week. They seem a little worried about Sunday evening services—they complain of empty pews. Then seems but one way to meet the difficulty. See that the pulpit to well filled, and there won't be many empty pews.

,, Horstord's Add Phosphate. III Kffset* of Tobacco relieved by its use.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A western editor refers to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll as "the (great anti-sheol-

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v. V" Talmage says the routiue prayers of a' clergyman in ohurcli shouldn't be anwe red.

Hopkins, who wrecked the Fidelity Bank, of Cincinnati, and got a sentence of seven yeors, is very hopeful. He says he will serve his term out and then prove to the world that he is an honest man.

A man at Petersburg, Va., dreamed of a treasure buried under a tree in North Carolina, and he made the journey and unearthed a tin box with $8,000 of Confederate money inside. No one dares joke him. i#/#- rtx^

Some politicians seem to think that a candidate must be a magnetic man to win. Others say: "Give us a feller with, a cider bar'l full of 95 bills and you can have the chap with the magnetism. Money beats it every timo."

A correspondent writes in the Hartford Times: "Think of a man who in thepulpit, when he wishes to speak of the moving of angels' wings, illustrates by putting his hands under his coat-tails and flapping them!" Talmage is that

man

Rev. Dr. Rainsford, of New York, has. proposed to the rich congregation to give the use of their houses while they are at the sea-shore to poor families, Dr. Rainsford undertaking to be responsible for any damago that may be done to the residences and for the honesty of the occupants

The fact that Thomas A. Edison, tho inventor, is for the first time a father may have important results so far as the public is concerned. Mr. Edison uow has a personal motive for adapting electricity to the needs of the nursery. An, electrical device which will enable every baby to do its own walking at night and rocking by day may yet be perfected.

Maj, E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, one of the best known newspaper men in the South, expects, it is said to realize something like $10,000,0tK) from his land speculations in Bessemer, Ala. If he does,, it will represent an enormous profit on an investment he made there hardly two years ago, when a small frame was the chief building in the town.

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George Sigourney and wife of BuflfhlO' have just completed the longest bridal tour on record. They were married in 7^^' 1882 and have been traveling ever since. They spent about 176,000 and three child- tt' ren were born to them while on their travels. They have seen every civilized country on the globe and a good many •"f"**""': that were not civilized. ,2 .'"v"

timore can boast, of quite an original lamplighter in the shape of a boy not.,^^ over 10 years old. Tho llttlo follow rides along the road on a big, brown horso.. I Whenever he comes to a lamp-post ho drives his horse alongside of it, stands upon the saddle, opens the lamp and lights it with a match. He is so quick that he is able to keep up with a horse car going at a rapid rate.

A down East church of the first water sent a committee to examino a very ehquent and pious divine—that is, to look htm over as to his fitness to receives,' call to Its pulpit. The committee wentas ordered, attended divine service,. heard a grand sermon, and then telegraphed laconically, "Won't do! has red hair!" A young minister of rare elo- vl quence lost a city pulpit because his.1 clothes were ready-made, "store clothes'.*' you know! Another In the same city failed to pass because he thought a few heathen would reach eternal glory, liairt store clothes! and theology! but where* was the religion?

'U NEW METAPHOR. S Letter In New York Sun. If the Bepubllcan party will put cm clean shirt, and bury the bloody one tbey have been waving so long, it will be as impossible to elect Cleveland as. for a gnat to hatch a goose egg in a. snowbank.

—A PLAIN1IVE "KICK? Manchester Blgnal. ,• We are getting tired of having two* dollars' worth of advertising for two twenty-five cent tickets, and then be classed as deadhead. That game is. "nixy" with us hereafter.

POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, AS ONE PAPKR ITT* ITS. Hie Indianapolis News says of itself The News to independent in politics not neutral, however. It to not the organ of any party, but exorcises the righL to criticize the men and measures of either party advocating what it believesto be right, and for the interest of thewhole people, regardless of who it may help or hurt. Hie News strives to^please only bv giving all the news, snd telling the troth as It sees It. In editorial opinion It makes no effort to please any but itself. The editor reserves the same

scriber wants is tbe news without partisian bias and then he will form his. own opinion.

Tfrsd sad Worses* Xotkstp.

Whose dedicate constitution does not admit of giving healthy and sufficient nurse to their babies, should use I dictated Food. This to Identical In effect, with healthy mother's milk.

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