Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1893 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.

16 THE AMERICAN HOME LOSING ITS HOLD UPON THE GIRLS?

Boolu to Read Alond to Children—Mm .TosBghutMuid'i Marketing:—Mtking I '.Dtinty looking Room—ClewiUnww Is

Very Important—Help ForTlred Brain*. That an eccentric young lady should occasionally leave her father's comfortable home and take to the woods need not cause surprise or awaken deep reflections. But •when we get accounts, as we have been getting them lately from widely separated portions of the country, of young ladies -who are impelled by some Inscrutable impulse to Abandon the protection and comforts of respectable homes with no other apparent motive than an irrepressible deslw for freedom one begins to wonder if, after all, these abandoned homes are what they ought to be to young women.

It seems hardly credible that a girl nurtured in love and tenderness, whose sense of duty has been kept equal to her sense of freedom and whose affections are grounded in wholesome objects, will abandon all that is best and most enduring in her life and character at 'the bidding of a vagrant Impulse.

It is just possible that some of our girls, whose parents are irreproachable, have had more liberty than is good for them. It is conceivable that there are reputable homes which are little better than prisons that young ladies educated out of their corsets at Vassar return home to find that a moral •traitjacket is waiting for them that a course of Rider Haggard and Zola and Bourget at school is not compatible with a course of "Timothy Titcomb" and Boyesen and watered milk at home. It Is quite comprehensive that girls who have tasted of th$ forbidden fruit of literature will be dissatisfied with the dried apples and prunes of the paternal establishment.

It is not unwarrantable to assume further, when an intelligent young lady suddenly abandons her home without obvious oauso, that there is either something wrong in the young lady or something wrong in the home. Certainly that home ought to hold her in sacred bonds until such time as phe can be handed over either to a home of her own or to some worthy ambition that will engage ail her mature Impulses. In too many cases it does not appear to be able to do so. It has either allowed the daughter to develop a mental profligacy And an emotional irresponsibility that are fatal to her, or it has crushed with narrowness and bigotry the worthy activities that have been born into anew spheroof possible usefulness.

It would bo very interesting to inquire bow far the restlessness and aimless yearning of our times have infected those sacred centers where society thought it was preserving its vestals, It is perhaps too large an inquiry for a newspaper. But the subject forces itself upon one's attention, whether he will or hot, through the irrevocable news columns. Even the casual reader has to stop and ask -himself if the American home is losing its grip on the American girl.—New York World.

Hooks to Read Alond to Children. Among the very best books to be read aloud to boys from 10 to 20 years old, besides the works of Dickens and^P^tt, lliackeray pnd Shakespeare, 'M Taurw«" Doonp," "Westward Hol'^the twoffim Brown books, "Ramona," Mrs. Jane G. Austen's "Staudish of Standish," Mr. E. A. Dix's "Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees," "Rudder Grange," "Picdola," "Heidi," Mrs. Burnett's stories for young people, "Little Women," "Little Men" and "An Old Fashioned Girl," Mr. Mabie's "Norse Stories," the "Zigzag Journeys," the "Bodley Books," "Family Flights," "In His Name" and other of Dr. Hale's books, Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," Hawthorne's "Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales," the Lewis Carroll stories, Sidney Lanier's "Froissart" and "King Arthur," Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller's and other books about birds and animals, Da Chaillu's books, Stanley's, and always the dear oldRollo and Franconia stories, which will never lose their charm.

Then there are Irving's tales and histories, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner's books, "Bimbl" and "The Province Rose Mr. Burroughs' books, Mrs, Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte," "The Children's Crusade," "Cudjo'a Cave," "The Exiles of Siberia," Mrs. J. H, Swing's stories, "Hans Brlnker" and others by the same authors or equally good ones. Do not neglect the poets in your selection. There are few long poems which will keep the interest of the ung night after night, but Scott's ringvfersea always please them.

lktnu Yott&glinitMUMl's Marketing. "How much are your red raspberries a quart?"

It was a young wife who made the inquiry at cue of the stores where fruit is sold In great variety and abundance. Shohad just begun to master the intricacies and difficulties of housekeeping, being recently returned frotu her wedding tour, and was therefore doing her marketing in person. She had heard and read something of the way most mm do marketing—over the telephone, without regard to price, quality and often quantity—and she had wisely concluded that if they made Henry's salary furnish the pantry, theooalbin, the cloth eaipoof

prase bet!®?

and the roof tor their heads, she had do the buying, and it was on cue of tons When dealer how much the red raspberries were quart. '"Fourteen cents, and they, are very fine ones," he replied briskly. "'How many will you have?" 'Til take a quart, please, and yon may pour them right in this measure," she replied as she took the wrapper from a Utile parol she held in her hand and which proved to be anew quart cup.

these expeditions wSiea she asked the fruit

The dealer said never a word as he put the contents of the two so called quart baskets, with the exception of a little handful, into the quart cup and rnng op 14 omtaoothecafth register. But after the wise little woman left the store the sign oa the red raspberries was changed to read *14 cents a box.**—title* Observer.

Stakta# a Daiaty Lwktuf Booak To be daietydoes not mean to be extravagant. Far from it* Some of the sweetest and freshest homes are furnished at a minimum of cost that would astonish any one whowaa not iu the secret. In thfocraof any she thefin* .collect together all thefttrnHnre of root* la the attic, ao matter how w& the array. It will all become harmedoo« with several ooata of white paint. Have ever tried painting furniture* It Is nestfiw. Pdtoaeo&seold drew that It beyond all ham and ptaeeeechailletete hepaieted oo some wuwmom* to protect tfcs&oor, mUm patotbrq& to the hearts of

pfatx,' jmtn

a neophyte is apt to spatter and drip in the most unexpected fashion.^ Jl|| Get stiff white lead and dilute only with turpentine for the first coat, putting it on as thick as possible. After this is dry put on the second coat with white "interior finish" paint, which comes already mixed in pound cans. For your third and last coat use (either the same paint, or, what is better, but a little more costly, white enamel. Nothing is prettier than white furniture for the bedroom of a

young

girl, and

it is quite delightful to see hopeless looking old desks, chairs and tables turn out most desirable articles under the magic touch of the brush. Charming muslins and other thin materials may be had for 15 cents the yard.—New York Tribune.

Cleanliness Is Very Important.

J' "There is much talk nowadays," said a trained nurse recently, "about surgical cleanliness, but it seems to be entirely confined to the hospitals. The average woman, even the average intelligent woman, does not appear to realize that she can use some of it right in her own home, and particularly in the sickroom of her home if that apartment comes into existence. "I have been nursing recently a surgical PffgA where an open woutid was under treatment. Temporarily needing a softening ointment, I asked for some and-had brought to me an uncovered box of vaseline, thick with dust, which I was told would not do any barm, as it was merely 'air dust.' The speaker meant, I suppose, by this that it was the dust that had gathered by exposure to the air rather than under the active operation of sweeping, but that it was fairly criminal to have any dust on a remedial agent she bad not the slightest idea. "It is this thoughtless ignorance that often makes the household medicine chest a direct evil, and I have thought seriously that a few lessons upon family surgery, particularly that branch of it which teaches absolute and chemical cleanliness, would not be a bad thing to include in the curriculum of girls' colleges Mid schools."—New York Times.

Help For Tired Brains.

Worried housekeepers, with more to do than you know how to accomplish, did you ever try using a helpful little list and letting that slip of paper save a lot of wear and tear on your overworked brain and bringing about many a result that you would otherwise have failed in if memory alone were to be depended upon?

You know how often you get up in the morning and think, "I must do so and so today," but when you lie down again at night you realize that in the pressure of other duties that one necessary thing to be done has been forgotten. Suppose now you have a little slate, a tablet or a bit of paper hanging In some convenient place where

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ou jot down as they occur to you the things that are so necessary to be done, yet which so easily slip out of your memory. There is a rathole to be stopped, the roofer should be notified of the small leak before another rain comes on, that spot to be cleaned off of husband's vest, and a dozen other trifles if noted on the list will be accomplished, and you will not be one whit more tired when they are done, and the sense of pleasure at having attended to the right thing at the right time Will be a continual source of gratification.—Philadelphia Times. ___________

A Message to Girls.

Mr. Albert Dawson has been interviewing Mrs. Josephine Butler for The Young Woman. He asked her for a message for the girls of ^fteat Britain, and this is it:

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ono thing If eel is their laok of dignity. The sense of their own worth should be impressed upon girls in all ranks of life. They are too cheap. They are made cheap, and they allow themselves to become cheap. They ought to remember thafr they are queens born and that they must comport themselves as such. I always try to rnfuseinto my nieces t\js sense of their own great worth and dignity as women. Nothing can make woman worthless. The sense of womanhood and the value of the individual ought never to be lost sight of. "They should never be taught to look to marriage as a necessity. I would not discourage the romantic feeling, girl's desire to have some one all her own really to love —you can't expel that from the heart of a woman—but it must not be allowed to become morbid, and a woman ought to be able to live without it. The more independent young women are, the more will they be able to Hud real happiness in marriage."

Sewing Women.

People who are old enough to remember the advent of the sewLqg machine cannot have forgotten the fears entertained by many conservative persons that the novel invention would put seamstresses out of fashion. The first thought of inexperience on seeing the rapidity with which the machine ran up a seam was very naturally that all the seams would be easily finished, and that one time honored employment of women would be taken from them. Nobody realised at first that by the aid of the sewing machine more frills, more flounces, more ruffles and tucks than ever before would be added to our garments, and that garments would themselves be multiplied.

The sewing machine did not do away with the seamstress. It made ha instead more than ever a necessity. A house in which there is neither a machine nor a seamstress can hardly be found in town or country, and sewing remains, as much today as in any former period, woman's peculiar work. The machine is the seamstress' best friend as well as her beneficent fairy. —Harper's Basar.

EmcrgoMr XedleJaee.

"For internal use,*' says a physician, re. plying to a mother's query as to what drugs shall be kept in the house far emergency, "wine or sirup of ipeQM is given as the safest emetic for children when indigestible or hurtful things have been eaten, and castor oil has first rank among mild purgatives." Cough medicines and remedies for •ore throat taken without medical advice are not much recommended, thongh flaxseed tea and syrup of ipecac in smalt doses may be permitted for a cough, and a gargle of alum and water or tannin and water or chlorate of potash in small quantities used in cases of sore throat while waiting,fear an Intelligent diagnosis.*' ft,

And it is aided, by waydf 'warnl&g in eases of throat trouble, "the distinction between the forms that are of slight moment and those of gravity Is not easily made without pra**iee.f—Xew ¥«ek Times.

ti, Wwaea'e gating.

Women should eat regularly, mmm da Tbe$ may plead that they aits too busy to take the time and go on conquering the natural hanger that assail them when the time to eat comes around, hat every «*ch omission leave* iw mark oo the oooatitutioo. Men are never so otusopied that theycaanoft take tbe requisite time Dor lm»h*oo, and they eat mwlWy when ttwerdo sit down to their midOay meet No {rosea delicacies or Sndigwtible Wtoww tor them. TteiriBMiliCMhiiatitiM)» Jshes and sastalns them during the tiring of the day, aadttbeboowe a woman

to follow their example in order to avoid many of the ills that are the direct results of injudicious or irre#?ular eating.—St* Louis Republic.

The Paper •Weddlng^^

The paper weddiug, which may be ob

served

on the second anniversary of one's ofomage, can now be made a very charming fete. At one not long ago the bride and guests wore dresses and flowers of paper, the house was decorated with marvelous paper flowers and the plates and napkins were of paper. The guests were requested to dome without gifts, but if one wills it otherwise so many beautiful things can be fashioned out of a little crape paper that it is no grievous tax on one's friend* Lamp shades, articles for the dressii^^tble and table spreads are pretty gifts. 7|jpice photographs, etchings, books and a subscription for a magazine would give a more enduring pleasure at no very great outlay.— Exchange.

When

Discard Low Cat Gowns.

The tvoman who has passed middle age Rhould appreciate the fact that her day for low necked gowns has goAe by. Possibly she will tell you with pride that she was always noted for the plumpness and beauty of her neck and. arms. Undoubtedly that was true, but it was true 10 or 15 years ago. Now. even if she has gained in adipose tissue, the flesh seems to have shrunk away from under the skin, leaving this to lie in loose folds that are only ugly. Still more unattractive is the thin woman who still insists upon displaying her thin shoulders, her pinched throat. One would think that ordinary common sense would move her to change her style of dress.—Mrs. C. T. Herrick in Harper's Bazar.

Praise For a County Officer.

"Mrs. Hepirarn is making an ideal county auditor, conducting the business of the office with excellent method and true business principles. She possesses to a marked degree executive talent of a high order and presides over the affairs of the office with a pleasing grace and delightful urbanity that makes fast friends of every man and woman who comes in business contact with her. Women of her fiber and sterling worth are fast dissipating the prejudice that exists in the mind of the average man that women are not competent to discharge the onerous duties of a public station.—Des Moines Leader. a* 'Iks? ps Wear Old Gloves When traveling. "Some persons prefer to go barehanded in the drawing-room-like luxury of a parlor car," remarked a woman recently. "Others, regardless of the wear and tear incident to any travel, don the daintiest and freshest gloves when starting on a trip. Now, I believe in keeping cleanhanded, but not at the expense of good gloves. Therefore I carefully save all my shabby old things" no longer fit for anything else for my journeys. Then,* as the gloves reach the impossible condition that comes soon to new and old alike in railway wear, I throw them awajr~witboufc any .compunction whatever." i|fl

Law and Mother Love

Law is law and must be respected always, but there's a deal of human nature in the

frantic fight for her 4-year-old girl. The average human heart looks on the kidnaping of a baby girl by the mother who bore it as a very natural offense, even if the court is thereby brought into contempt. The law concerning thecustody of children needs revision, we think, in the direction of a "broader recognition of the great eternal force of motherlove.—Ne£V Yo?k Recorder.

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Whyisiie last Har Hair.

A physician who was asked to prescribe something for his patient's rapid loss of hair asked her, "Aren't you in the habit of wearing olose, tight hats?" She considered the matter for a moment and then answered: "Now that I think of it, I am rather apt to choose a turban shape. They are more becoming to me." That, she was told, was the main trouble. Theeffectwas similar to that produced by a man's stiff derby or silk hat. And everybody knows that men become bald much oftener than women. :, An Bventful Day Tor Texas Women.

The 10th of May will be remembered as a great day for the women of Texas. On that day at Dallas sprang into oative existence and organized form the Texas Equal Suffrage association and the Texas Woman's Press association. The first named will battle for the right to vote the second will oompel attention from the voters. With the pen and ballot in hand, the women of Texas would be in the front rank of industrial and political reform.—Texas Advance.

Frenchwomen Decorated.

About 40 Frenchwomen have been decorated at different times by the government. The first was Sergeant Virginia Ghesquiere, who fought in the wars of the empire until she received a wound which led to the betrayal of her sex. Rosa Bonheur also wears the cross of the Legion of Honor, and Mme. Dieulafor, the traveler, who affects masculine attire, wears her rosette in the buttonhole of her coat. Sceur Rosalie was decorated by Napoleon HI in 18BS.

A Work of Years.

An English w^manhas employed 85 poor makinga pi* and silk were woven and dyed especially

Irish women since 2885 in an old piece of Bayeux tapestry.

WILLING TO

5 a copy of The linen

for it. It is £27 inches long and 90 inches 800 horses, 905 other wide, contains 628 men, 908 animals, besides innumerable birds, trees and flowers. The original was also made by women, Matilda of Flanders and her court having worked a long time on it.— New York San. woman like* delicate compliment, but she doesn't like a compliment soc!tmr aily put as to sho# that the oomplimeater was too confoundedly sore his compliment would please. Such a complimenter gets snubbed. ,,S,,

At best no amount of care can makes Cupid's how from a straight, thin lipped month, but certain little precautions can he taken by which if a mouth cannot he beantifai it can at least be prafteatabto.

Mme. Adelina Patti has established a role not to kiss any but her most intimate frfeada. It is said that after kcr last cwnoert Isdles insisted on embracing hear.

A considerable number of Siamese worn* en are engaged in the taanufafftqra o? jewelry and make handsome articles of beaten gold.

Miwt the best of English women tennhi ptayers,woathe westof Stagisad championship when she was only !& years old.

There a predominance of females over males in Spain, tte number o£ the former being (Mum and the letter 8,e0T,Wi

Pour diluted csrbdlcacid at oocenpae etwy psrt of* pafeaaoas wouu&i afterward ntiTauhfta»

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OVER A HUNDRED MEN OFFER TO DIE FOR $5,000.

Answers to a Singular Advertisement In a New York Newspaper—A Hundred anil Forty-two Men Who Volunteered For the

Surgeou's "Knifo. «v 'S js? In hard times even human life is cheap. Witness the fact that no less than 142 answers were received to the following ad vertisement, which appeared in the New ork World of July SO:

Wanted—A man who will be willing for a consideration of $5,000 to submit to an experimental surgical operation that may possibly prove fatal. Address Surgeon, Uptown World Office.

This advertisement was inserted by Professor Edwin T. Osbaldeston, surgeon and instructor in massage at 78 West Fortysixth street. He did not insert it for himself, but on behalf of Wo physicians living in Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America. One is an American, formerly a resident of Boston the other a native Ecuadorean and •graduate of the Lima university. "Twice before," Baid the professor to a reporter, "have I been called upon to furnish a Bubjecfc on whom these doctors could experiment. The first occasion was some time in the latter part of 1888, when only 83 applied. The second Was in 1880, when 127 letters were received from people willing to sacrifice themselves- in the interests of science and their own financial advance ment." "And how did these experiments turn out?" "The first men survived the second died. It was at the time when the bacillus craze was at its height. He was inoculated with the germs of some twoscore diseases, and he died a frightful death." "And what is the nature of the present experiment?" "It is simply to cut a hole in the stomach of the subject, through which the action of the gastric juices and the processes of digestion may be watched." "Why, that is the Alexis St. Martin case all over again," interjected the reporter. "Precisely. But that happened considerably more than half a century ago, and since then.the advance in our knowledge of dietetics has been enormous. With the growth in our knowledge, as must always happen, comes an increased recognition of our ignorance. A hundred and one questions, that would never have occurred to Dr. Beaumont when he was experimenting on St. Martin clamor today for an answer. That answer can only be obtained by experiments on the living subject. In the interests of medical advancement the doctors of whom I speak have collected a fund, and $5,000 of this fund is to be given to any man who will agree to submit to the necessary operation." "Any did you get many answers?" "Yes, sir I waited four days, and then I walked to the uptown office of The World and found 143 answers awaiting me. They were from all parts of the country and from all classes of men—merchants, tradesm en, artiBts, mechanics, professional men, nurses and laborers. Many of the applicants were evidently men of good edacation and social standing. For the comparatively trifling sum of $5,000 these men were willing to submit to a terrible surgical operation that must cause great bodily suffering and possibly be followed by a crippled body or even death itself. Indeed, I think the i)iii»niw of the patient surviving only about even." "And did you makoa satisfactory selection?" "Entirely. I wanted a strong, healthy man, with a constitution that would give him a fighting chance for his life. I paid no attention to the married men, for I did not want a man with the responsibility of a family upon his shoulders. I wanted him to have as few relatives as possible. I succeeded in finding a man who had no relations whatever and who otherwise fulfilled all the requirements." "Who was he?' "I do not care to give his name, for one of the conditions he made was that absolute secrecy should be maintained. But I may say this much: He was a fighting man, a pugilist by profession, 25 years of age. He is 5 feet inches high. He is all muscle and can easily lift 204 pounds without bending his knees. He has a fierce bulldog expression. He is well known in newspaper circles, for he furnishes sporting news every now and then to the papers. In •ammer he tends bar at a popular resort. His ambition is to have a lager beer saloon in connection with a boxing gymnasium. I asked him how it was that a man of such varied accomplishments was not able to raise so trifling a sum as $5,000. •Why, professor,' he said,'our way of living is very expensive. If we earn $1, we have to spend 75 cents among bur chummies, or we would be unpopular." 'Have yon ho fear?' I next asked. •Fear! Whatdo you mean? I am no religions man. I don't mind death if it comes easy, and I guess those doctor fellows know how to let you down easy if they find you must go.' 'Yes,'said I, 'but suppose you oome out of the ordeal with a rained constitution?' 'Well,* replied be, 1 am willing to take the risk. Five thousand dollars will set me np nicely in business, and I can get somebody else to tend to the hard part of tiie work evien if I am disabled.' "Well, the long and short of it is," continned the professor, "I accepted the man and shipped him off to South America. If the operation were performed in New York, he would not be the only person who would run a risk in the matter. Heret if the man were to die under the surgeon's knife, there is little doubt that the doctors would be indicted for manslaughter in the second degree. The laws of Ecuador, however, do not seem to take cognizance of the offense." -r#few York World. ml Ill ill II

To Dislodge «IMi Bone, 'j, "Jl It sometimes happens that a fishbone accidentally swallowed will remain in the esophagus and be troublesome. In fact, death has been occasioned by the gfeat irritation of a iish booe. In such cases ae xocm as possible take four grains of tartar emetic dissolved in one-half pint of warm water, and Immediately after the whites of six eggs This will not remain in the stomach more than two or three zninntea, and profr ably the bone will be ejected with tbecoagnlatM mass. If tartar emetic ht cot convenient, a Kpoonfal of miuMUud dissolved in milk warm water and swallowed will answer tntty purpose of the «taefcfe--Hei*M of Health.

A K«*tocky Daniel*

A Daniel come to judgment H*es in Har roasfeng. BLy., and Is a J. P. Two boys *ere honied infio his stem presence, S^bsdbc^btusisrs bold, and be knew to

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'em to j&il «r«nM be their

niln- So he sentenced them to a good rawhiding in coort at the hands of their motbAnd tbey got it, not exactiy in the asdt, bet la mote UwrYfltk

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The wonderful cures of thousands of people—they tell the story of the merit of Hood'S Sarsaparilia. Hoqt's Cvrks.

The Anglo-SaxonCrank.

Of all cranks the Anglo-Saxon crank is the most entertaining, because he has an idea that he can revolutionize the English language by throwing out a number of words that everybody uses and introducing in their stead a number that nobody knows anything about. The Anglo-Saxon maniac has a strong antipathy to all Words that are of Latin or Greek derivation, or indeed of any derivation at all except Saxon and proposes to throw them, neck and crop, out of the English language and substitute English words in their stead. One of the tribe has recently published a little handbook of the proposed changes, which is the most amusing tissue of absurdity ever seen. According to this reformer electricity should be fireghost, superannuated, should be overyeary, democracy ought to be folkdom criticism, deemsterhood, and horizon, skyedge. For telegram he would have us say wirespell, and for omnibus, folktrain. A row of houses ought to be housetwins, a quadrangle should be fourwinkle and an appendix, hankmatter. For the word magnificent he would substitute highdeeds and a perambulator should be a pushwainling. Enthusiasm should be'faithheat, and epidemio a manqualm and an embassador of state, spellman.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Those9 who believe that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will care them are more liable to get well than those who don'u

If,you happen to be one of those who don't believe, there's a matter of $500 to help your faith. It's for you if the makers of Dr. Sage's remedy can't oure you, no matter how bad or how longstanding your catarrh in the head may be.

The makers are the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y. They are known- to every newspaper publisher and every diugglst in the land, and you can easily ascertain that their word's as good as their bond.

You wind your watch once a day. Your liver and bowels should act as regularly. If thev do not, use a key.

The key is—Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellet*. One a dose.

MOTHER'S VISION.

Pahy lie« on mother's arnt, Warm and happy, safe from hi»m. Half asleep and half awake. As the light and shadow shake Down upon them through the tree's, What is it that mother sees? A tiny white frocked child that runs to meet her

With eager stumbling feet

A little voice that rises clear to greet her In accents ewc-et. A sturdy bine eyed boy, the child grown older.

Who, tired at jbst with play,

Still comes to rest his heaft on mother's shoulder At close of day. Alaughing schoolboy, light qf heart and devor,

An athlete bold and rash

The college, and its years of strong endeavor— A dim mustache] Look no farther, mother, pray,

Ycsterday was once today—. Present will too soon be past— Kiss him, clasp him, hold him fast, As a miser guards his goldBaby is but three months old! M' —Vogue.

Both lounge* obd Wardrobes. Some wise women are having box lounges made for them. They are in the shape of a Turkish couch in all respects except that they have no curving '"arm"1 at either end. The top is raised by hinges and is covered with a mattress and with chintz which falls in a valance around the sides. This forms the very thing to hold in its recesses madam's best gowns, whioh can be spread out to their full length without fear of rumpling oir crushing them. No housewife ever had closet room enough, but this addition to the furniture of a cramped "apart* ment" would be particularly acceptable.— Chicago Tribunl.

His Excuse Color Blindness*

"Sir," said a man scrambling down from a high stool ill the rotunda of the Astor House and running after a Btranger recently—"sir, you've got my umbrella."

At the same time he extended to the person addressed a faded, tawny alpaca umbrella and extended his band to receive in return one which was new, evidently expensive and of jet black silk. **Ah, to be sore," blandly replied the person addressed. "It was a great mistake. You really must excuse me, for 1 am color blind."—New York Herald.

Ely's Cresm Balm is especially adapted a remedy for catarrh which is aggravated by alkaline dost aod dry winds.—W: A. Hover, Druggist, Denver.

My catarrh was very bed. For thirty years I have been troubled with ithave tried a number of remedies without relief. A druggist advised Ely's Cream Balm. I have used only one bottle and I can ssy I fell like a new man. I make this voluntary statement that others may know of the Balm.—J. W, Mathewson, {Lawyer). Pawtacket, R. I. X*ne'« Stonily Medicine Moves the Bowels Jtach" day. Most people need to use it.

PHENYO-CAFFEIN.

If yon Have Headache or Neuralgia, Take Phenyo-Caffein Pills.

They are eflfecttial in relieving Pain, and in caring Headache or Neuralgia. Tbey are not a cathartic and contain nothing that stupefies. They tone up the nerves and tend to prevent returns of Headache and Neuralgia. Tbey are guaranteed to do all that Is claimed for them.

TESTIMONIALS.

I have never seen anything act so promptly as Pbenyo-Caflein in sick and nervous Headache. Many castes bav© been cured and not any fsilares reported. H. L. Farrer, Belle Voir. N. C.

For years I have been' a terrible sufferer from headache some six months ago ray physician prescribed PbeoyoCaflela, and since then, by their «sef I bare not bad a severe headache, being

I0H OillOtTOuvn IUVBWUWUWU put Phenyo-Caffein on the market. Tbey are the best thing oat for headache E. P. Jones, M. Bu Orleans, Man.

One year ago was one of the greatest sufferers from »lek and nervous headache I ever knew. I no more have trouble with sick bepdanbe «nd seldom have even a slight headache. I attribute tbe great change to your Phenyo Canein, a remedy I ocold not do without if it eoet & a box. I hare tried down or more /medicines (warranted to cure) without tbeir even helping me. I can not praise yonr valuable preparation enoogti. Frank. S. tfebmitt, Seymoor, *iuta.

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