HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-06-15, Page 7NOB AJ(0 A=0Ur WO*EN.
TSE DRa*9AIARER or To p4X,
Some one has saidthat a subject for pbila,
sophiele laveatigaton is why there` should be
somuch trouble over women's clothes, The
problem was thought to be solved fora while
when we got to employing men se dressmak.
ere, and tailor-made suite undoubtedly aro t
great satisfaction to the wearer, but few
wearers can pay $40 to have a suit made, the
cloth of whioh coats only half that sum. The
high-priced dressmakers who can turn you
out a really stylish and well -made gown, have
this disadvantage to one who who is obliged
to economize, in addition to their high
charges, that they require an exorbitant
number of yards of goods, and will never
take the trouble to return what may be left,
A cheap dressmaker gives your gown a ser•
vent -girlish air that is intolerable to a lady
bred.
There is just one way in whioh a woman
of intelligence can solve this problem, and
that is by making her own gowns. You may
nob have time, but think what a lot of coarse
work you oan hire dens for the pride of a
well -made dress. If you once get a dress
that fits.you, never throw or give it away.
Rip the waist whon it is worn out, and
carefully out and keep the pattern. If you
cannot do this, have a perfect lining Wee
by the best dressmaker or tailor to whorn
you have access. After a little practice you
wilt learn to drape a gown as well as any
dressmaker, and there is an immense amount
of satisfaction in wearing a dresa that you
have made yourself. Making over a dress
. is excellent practice. If ladies in any rural
community would form themselves into
amateur dressmaking olube, and do their
sewing in concert, they would find it very
pleasant as well as profitable. They might
meet at eaoh other's bonus, or at the house
of some friend who may own the best sewing
machine, and while one of them would be
sure to have the best eye for fittj ng, another
would undoubtedly possess especial skill in
draping, and so they would prove of mutual
benefit. Four of the handsomest costumes
to be seen on the street were made in this
'way by a number of New York ladies, who,
rebelled against tyranny of their fashionable
dressmaker.
Weems's FIGURE, REAL AND IDEAL.
To get some comparison between the ideal
ef a woman's figure as the Greek sculptors
chiseled it and as the modern Chicago dreas-
maker and cloakmaker regard it, one can-
not do better than compare the proportions
of the Medieean Venus with those of the
professional models who exhibit fine goods for
the sellers at the wholesale and retail stores.:
The Venus is 5 Leet 5 inches in height,
meaaurea nearly 25 inches about the waist,
34 inches about the bust and 44 inches about
the hips, The upper arm measures 13
inches and the wrist 7. From the base of
the akull to the waist is between 14 and 15
inches, and from shoulder to shoulder is 15
inches. The approved dimensions for a
• cloak or dress model as employed in most
of the large city houses do not differ great-
ly as regards height. Short women and
tall women are needed in the retail storea
but a wholesale house exhibiting samp-
les to a buyer will require a woman
of about 5 feet 5 to display its choi-
cest) goods to advantage. Her other
measurements will be -about es follows
Waist, 23 inches, or sometimes 24; bust,
36 inches, or occasionally 37 ;' hip measure, -
-Mom 45 to 47 inches ; upper arm measure,
11 inches ; distance from base of skull to
waist, 16e inches, and from shoulder to
shoulder, 134 inches. The modern mea-
sure approximates the Greek measure much
more closely than it would have done twenty
years ago. Sixty years ago there would
have been very little comparison possible be-
tween the two. When the dress -making
model differs from the statuesque•
model the divergence can be traced occur
ately to the corset shape, which makes the
waist rather smaller, the bust and hip con-
siderably larger than they ought to be. It
is the corset also whioh makes the waist too
long. Lack of a 'efficient 'amount of mus-
cular exercise is responsible probably for
the missing two inches in arm girth and the
missing inoh and a half in shoulder width.
The professional models are, as a rule,
among the most symmetrical women seen in
the city as to measurements not specified,
and in these respects approximate the Greek
very nearly.
WHERE WOMEN Do ALL THE. WOR$.
Wearly all the laborious work, such as is
performed by men elsewhere- is done eat
Capri by women. The men are en the sea
as mariners oil fisbormen, or they have been
conscripted into the Italian army. Women
are the masons and the builders, the farmers,
and in some instances the mechanics, It
seems strange to an American from the land
of machinery to observe the awkward and
primitive fashion in whioh workof all kinds
is done here. Fields aro cultivated and
honsea.are built with implemen'a such as
were familiar to our grandfathers, but of
which we have almc st forgotten the use. The
houses of Capri, construoted now of the
same material and in the same manner as
Were the dwellings of buried Pompeii in
the first century of the Christain era, are
built of atone and plaster. Rough stones
are piled together after the manner in which
farmers build fences to divide their fields in
ont' country, and, which is also common Isere,
The crevices are filled in with sand and
coarse cement over which is laid. plaster,
and thus the walls and arched roofs of the
dwellings—the former sometimes two or
three feet in thickness—are eonstrected.
Every part of the work is done in the moat
primitive and laborious manner. The earth,
for instance, that is dug from the proposed
alta of some new wall is scratched with a
rude hoe, gathered up by the hands and
thrown into a basket, which when filled, is
carried away upon the head.—Harper's
sit agaeint.
awl, se flirtation has set le, the bones of
both mf#le have palled the windows. down.
Ilion article in the New York World, Mre,
:Henry Ward Beecher deal" severely with
slaagily.inolined girls, She appeals to the.
self-respect of young girls, and eudeavors to
show them that it is no harder to. Malta
the mannere and example of well-bred ladi
than it is that of rough, boisterous : boys:
She also urges rnothera to be more careful
with their girls, to be interested in their
amusements, and particularly to be acquaint-
ed with the character, habits and home•life
of their associates,, -
WOMEN LAWYULS.
Women lawyers are becoming a power in
the land. Michigan University has already
Ott out 24 young women holding the degree
of Lie B. 'Tie year a young woman from
tire Sandwich Islands, Miss Alma Hitohceck,
will make the 25th. In England there is
a olub of women lawyers. It is mainly a
a correspondence club, yearly lettere from
the members being printed and circulated.
Mrs, Melva Lockwood and Miss Waugh,
from the law tohool in Chicago, aro among
the Members. The motto of the club fm,
"Alt the Allies of Each."
In Kensington bon, Philadelphia, they have
two millied �en aind t°heother other.
Women
worked by
DONE IN .A MINUTE.
at is eeemplirlaed leveret sixty Seconds,.
"Well, well, don't fret;11.1 be there in*
minute,"
But, my friend, a minute means a good
f deal, notwithstanding you affect to bold it
of no oonQequence. Did youever stop to
think what may happen in a minute? No,
Well, while you are murdering a minute
for yourself and one for me, before you get
ready to sit down to the buainess we have
in hand, T will amuse you by telling you
some things that will haopen meantime.
In a minute we ehallbe whirled around on
the outside of the earth by its diurnal mo..
tion a (Esteem of "thirteen miles. At the
same time we shall have gone along with
the earth, .In its grand journey around the
sun, 1080• miles. Pretty quick travelipg,
you say? Why, that ie slow work compar-
ed with the rate of travel of that ray of
light whioh just now- reflected from that
mirror made you wink. A minute ago that
ray was 11,160,000 miles away.
In a minute, over all the world, about
eighty newborn infants have each raised a
wail of protest at the fates for thrusting ex.
istenco upon them, while as many more hu-
man b;inga, weary with the struggle of life,
have opened their lips to utter their last
sigh.
In a minute the lowest sound your ear
oan catch has been made by 990 vibrations,
while the highest tone reached you after
making 2,228,000 vibrations.
In each minute in, Canada and 'United
States, night and day,. all the year round,
twenty-four barrels of beer have to go Elwyn
12,096 throats, and '4830 bushels of grain
have come"to bin.
The telephone is used 595 times, the tele-
graph 136 times. Of •tobacco, 925 pounds is
raised, and part. of it has been used in ma-
king 6673 cigars, and some more of it has
gone up in the smoke of 229:i cigarettes.
But 1 am afraid that .you will forget that
we are talking about a minute, sixty seconds
of time. No ? 'Well,then, every minute
600 pounds of wool grow in thiel country,
and we have to dig sixty-one tons of anthra•
cite coal, and 200 tons of bituminous coal,
while of pig -iron we turn out twelve tons
and of steel rails three tons.
In this minute you have kept me waiting
fifteen kegs of nails have been made, twelve
bales of cotton should have come from the
fields and thirty-six bushels of grain gone
into 149 gallons of spirits, while $66 in gold
should have been dug out of the earth. In
the same time the United States Mint turn-
ed out gold and silver coin to the value of
$121, and forty. two acres of the public do-
main have been sold or given away.
A New York Dinner.
A dinner has just been envois by a New
York lady whioh is reported to have cost
more per head than any previous entertain.
meat of any kind, The contract price was a
hundred and seventy-five dollars for each
plate. The caterer sent to Florida and to
Central and South America for ferns, palms,
ivy, mandarin trees, and other decoration.
For truffles he sent to France, and straw-
berries, arranged in bouquets of five berries
eaoh, costs seven dollars and fifty cents per
bunch. The table was arranged about a
miniature lake, in whioh palma, lilies, and
ferns appeared to be growing, while tropical
trees rose from the banks amid miniature
parterres of flowers. Small electric -lights
with vari-coloured globes were arranged
about the lake, and electricity was introduc-
ed under the water of the 'improvised
lake and caused to dance about in imita,
tion of varicoloured' fish. There wee a
fountain in the centre of the lake, and a
coloured glass ball, lighted by electricity,
spurted up and down a jet of crystal' water.
There was no cloth on the table, and eaoh of
the twenty courses served at the dinner was
plaoed before the guests on a natural palm
leaf. The wall and room decorations were
of smilax, "ferns, ivy and palm, mandarin,
banana, orange and other trees, Hanging
among them were hundreds of very small
coloured eleotric lights. The individual
decorations of each plate cost thirty dollars,
the favours as much more, and the menus
were painted to order at ten dollars each.
Roman punch was served in oranges hanging
on the natural trees, the pulp of the fruit
having been deftly removed, so that the
guests pinked their own fruit from the
branches for the first time.
The Change in the Frog.
Nowhere in the animal kingdom is there
so favorable an opportunity for peeping into
nature's workshop as in the metamorphoses
of the frog. This animal is a worm when it
comes from the, erg, and remains such the
firat four days of its life, having neither eyes,
nor ears, nostrils nor respiratory organs. It
crawls. It breathes through its skin. After
awhile a neck is grooved into the ileeh. Its
soft lips are hardened into a horny beak.
The different organs one after another bud
out; then a pair of branching gills, and last
a long and limber tail. The worm has be-
come a fish. Three or four days more elapse,
and the gills aink back into the body, while
in their place others come, much more com-
plex, arranged in vascular tufts one hundred
and twelve in eaoh. But they, too, have
their day, and are absorbed together with
their framework of bone and cartilage, to be
succeeded by an entirely different breathing
apparatus, the initial of a,@econd oartilated
group of radical changes. Lunge aro de-
veloped, the mouth widened, the horny beak
converted into rows of teeth, the stomach,
the abdomen, the intestines prepared for
the reception of animal food in place of vege-
table ; four limbs, fully equipped with hip
and shoulder bones. with nerves and blood
vessels, push outthrough the skin, while the
tail, being now supplanted by them as a
means of locomotion, is carried away piece-
meal by the absorbents, and the animal
passes the balance of its days as an air -
breathing and flesh -feeding batrachian,
Mind Beached Through the Body
That mental disorders may in many in-
stances be cured by corporeal measures all
known, Some sudden shook to the body
has often proved the only means by which a
long standing mania has been removed. It
is wonderful, for instance, what a marvelous
effect the submersion of the would be sui-
cide in the cold depths of the dark river has
upon his mind. No sooner is he rescued
and brought to his senses than all thought
of putting an end to his existence has van-
ished, and he once more braces himself up to
fight the battle of life. The disappointed
lover who -especially if she be a woman—
is temporarily deranged, finds a plunge into
the •nearest pond quickly alters her views
as to her miserable condition. The fires of
love are often as effectually quenched by
one rash dip and the troubled mind as speed-
ilyrestored to ahealthy condition, as though
the false one had never betrayed her, or the
treacherous vow had never been spoken.—
[London Standard.
A Chicago Traveller.
"What have you seen today?" I asked,
" Waal we've seen a palace," was the
really. "Which palace?" 1 enquired, as
"Venice boasts rather ,a long liet."
Oh I don't know the name of it, " said
the Western citizen ; then, addressing his
wife, "My dear, tell this gentleman which
palace it was we saw today.
"Oh, I don't knew," exclaimed his wife.
" Auntie, do yon remember the name of the
palace we taw this forenoon ? "
"Decd 1 don't, " said Auntie, in turn, re-
ferring the question to an equally oblivious
child, t who, with characteristic precocity,
offered to bet her bottom dollar upon the
impossibility of remembering the name in
snob an old ourlosity shop as Venice, where
everything Was out of repair, and one place
looked exactly like another. " Waal,"
said the imperturbable father, " it don't
matter much, anyhow ; I guess wo have
checked it off. "
My dear madam," maid the chairman
of the committee of the Maine benovo.
lent fraternity calling on the Widow Guth.
ington, (according to the Lewiston Journal),
" allow us to intrude on your great sorrow
so far ad to say that your lamented hus-
band "-[llurst of tears from Mrs. Gushing -
ton, She has an attack of faintness. Ono
of the committee supports her.] --",That
your lamented husband was insured in our
association for $2,000, and "—[Mrs. Gush.
ington exclaims, ',Poor, poor Charles," and
buret/ into tears again. The committee
greatly affected]--" and that thomoney will
be prompptly paid to you in sixty dyaye,"
Mfrs, Guslrington, in another burst of tears,
"Gracious goodness, I thought you'd brought
it with yen l"
Hints on Health.
It is a mistake to labor when you are not
in a fit condition to do so. To think the
more a person eats the healthier and strong-
er he will become. To go to bed late at
night and risejat daybreak, and imagine that
every hour taken from sleep is an hour gain-
ed. To imagine that if a little work or exer-
cise is good, violent or prolonged exercise is
better. To conclude that the smallest room
in the house is large enoughto sleep in. To
eat as if you had only a minute to finish the
meal in, or to eat without an appetite, or
continue after it has been satisfied, merely
to satisfy the taste., a o believe that chil-
dren can do as much work as grown people,
and that the more hours they study the
more they learn. To, imagine that what•
ever remedy causes one to feel immediately
better (as alcoholic stimulants)jis good for the
system without regard to the atter effects.
To take off proper clothing out of season be
cause you have become heated. To sleep
exposed to a direct draft in any season. To
think any nostrum or patent medicine is a
tpeoific for all the diseases the flesh is heir
eo.
Artielessof Faith.
It is said that the prominent members of
the Presbyterian Church in England and
Scotland have nearly completed the prepare
tion of new " Articles of Faith" to supersede
the Westminster Confession. The new
" Articles" are 23 in number and are said to
be of a less exclusive character than those of
the old " Confession" A New York paper
gives the following statement of the sub-
stance of the new "Articles :"—While they
mention the election or choice by God of "a
people unto Himself," they do not say that
He has made a portion of tho human race on
purpose to condemn them to everlasting
misery. On the contrary, they say that
Jesus Christ was sent to be the Savioar of
the world. In the terms of salvation they
declare, not that some men are born to be
damned, but that "God willeth that all
mon should be saved and come to a know.
ledge of the truth, and that the gospel of
forgiveness and eternal life is freely offered
o all men." ' - -
The Light of, the Future,
The primary fault of all our lights, electric
lip'ht included, is that there is so great a
waste of energy in the form of heat, The
glowworm, the firefly, and a multitudo of
other animals show that light may be obtain-
ed Without any more heat than that of the
animal body, and without any such danger
as that so terribly displayed in the burning
of theatres. Radziszewski found that an-
imal light isduo to theoxidation of,two kinds
of organic matter, ono containing hydrocar-
bon and the other aldehydes, or something
yielding aldehydes when treated with alkalis.
The isolation of these compounds is but
another step, and their application, both of
them being stops that are but small compar.
ed with many that have been made in the
ohemistry of, the generation. All bur exist•
ing artificial lights have another common
fault. They are concentrated foci of glare.
tut for its cost the best of all is the wax
or paraffin candle. A room lighted with 20
candles, well distributed, is incomparably
better lighted than by one 20•candle gas
ligntor eleotriolight ; with the luminous up-
holstery 1 euggceted the diffusion would be
still more complete than with the candles,
it would correspond as nearly as possible to
diffused daylight, and might be made to
produce most charming artistic effects.
Poison for some animals is food for others.
Hogs can eat henbane or hyooyatnus, which
is fatal to dogs and moat other animals.
Doge and horses are not easily poisoned with
arsenic.. Goats eat water hemlock with
impunity; pheasants, stramonium; rabbits,
belladonna ; and morphia is said to be into -
ewes to pigeons. There is; tome truth in
the old baying that " what is one Man'hi
meat is another man't pofeon." This le due
to habits and idio*yncraalee.
JLL$CELLANEOIl3.
Small boys in Phillipe, Me„ make circus
money by digging bait for trout fishermen.
The latest quotations were 25 dente a r(ttart
offered by one of the leading grocers, said
eighteen quarts were brought an at those
figures.
The workmen on the great Eiffel tower in
Paris have struck on the ground that the
higher they go, the greater the danger be
There are 200 of them earning on an aver-
age 80 cents a day, 1f their engem are to
ripe with the tower, it will not go very much
further.
Mrs. Charles E, Williams of Westfield,
Mass,, arose in her sleep the other night,
went to the window of her room on the
second floor, raised it and stepped out.
When she struck the area below she awoke,
and was considerably frightened, but that
was all the harm her fall occasioned.
The bodies of Edward Whitehouaeand Liz-
zie Webb were found on May 21 in the river
Lea, tied together with a handkerchief, and
looked in each other's arms. A letter was
found in the young woman's pocket address.
ed to her mother, desiring her not to "fret,"
and asking that she and her lover might be
buried in the same grave.
The largest umbrella in the worldhas been
made in Glasgow. for a King of East Africa.
It can be opened and shut in the usual way,
and whon open; is 21 feet in diameter; the
staff is also 21 feet long. It is lined, with
cardinal red and white, hes a lot of straw
tassels, and a border of crimson satin. The
canopy itself is made :pf Italian straw, and
the top terminates ina gilded cone.
•,When the United States Fisk Commission
steamer Albatross was fu the • Straits of
Magellan, where she spent a month making
collections, she ran out of roe. So she
steamed into Eyre Sound, where icebergs
are otten found floating, made fast to a nice
berg, cut off big blocks of the ice, which
was clear and solid, and took on board six
tons, which lasted until she reached Panama.,
According to Prof. Sargent, the strongest
wood in the United States is that of the
nutmeg hickory of the Arkansas region, and
the weakest she West Indian birch. The
moat elastic is the tamarack, the white or
shell -bark hickory standing far below it.
The least elastio, and the lowest in specific
gravity, is the wood of the ficus aurea, The
highest specific gravity, upon which in gen-
eral depends value as fuel, is attained by
the bluewood of Texas.
Eugene Hopkins, of Plymouth, has a five-
year-old Jersey cow that is peculiar. The
other day she shed one of her horns, leaving
in its place a smaller, better -shaped, and
glossy horn that had apparently grown up
within the old one. The horn upon the
other side of the head shows signs of coming
off in the same way. Down in those parts
it's unusual for cows to shed their horns
unless assisted by the hired man with a club
or a heavy milking steel. Mr. Hopkins says
that he would as soon expect to ace a man
shed his kneepana.
Three-year-old Robbie De Forrest, a Con-
necticut boy, fell head first into a big post
hole the other day. There were several
inches of water atthe bottom of the hole,
but Robbie held himself up by the arms, so
that he didn't get his face in the water, and
the earth he loosened in his struggles ab-
sorbed it soon ; so danger front that source
was taken away. There the young man re-
mained, upside down, for three-quarters
of an hour, when his aunt saw bis feet
sticking out of the hole and promptly yank;
ed him out. He was nearly exhausted.
"Aunty," he said. "I heard you every
time you called, but I could not make you
hear me."
George Potts of Head county, Ga., had
reason to think that the revenue dfiioers
would be glad to find him, and he determin-
ed to circuinvent them. One morning sever-
al monthaago his bed was found empty, and.
pinned to the wall was this note: " When n
rade this this I will be ded. Under the
river will be my home." His friends search-
ed for him. They found tracks leading to
the river and then disappearing. A mile
down the stream they'got Potts's coat caught
by an everhanging branch. They decided
that he was dead, and his family mourned
duly. Three months later Potts appeared,
and said that he wasn't dead : 'but his friends
won't believe him. They say that the or-
iginal Potts is indeed dead ; and now Potts
is trying to find proof to show that he is
really alive.
SAVED IRO-* lITIOROP110
The Maidstone aneeesetelly ,rolled N as
Aep.Itltteit Cowbiy.
Tom Harris, a cowboy from the Staked
Pfeins, Texas, ie lying at Kansas O14
,recovering from an attack of hydrophobl1.
Oise Saturday night he was bitten by e.
"hydrophobia cat" while away from the
reach gathering up etre cattle in the Indian
Territory. Ae the Intel result of ,gob a bite
is well known in those parts of the oountry
the man left the herd ail once and rode to
Fort Elliott, Tex., in search of a maditeaes
but falling to find one, he started for Kan-
sas City, where be arrived Wednesday
morning, with his left bandana arm swollen*
suffering intense pain. Dr. J. M, Dtakson,
of that pity, who pommies a pair of mad'
stones whioh hie grand -father brought with
him from Ireland was. at once sent for
and began treatment. The wound 1s
very small and harmless-bookiug on'e, con -
hating of three tiny teeth remake onthe inside of the third fioger of thee left
hand. The madames have drawn more or
less pus from the wound Since they were
first applied yesterday .moxniog-as; much
as half an eggsbellful at one time. The
swelling has decreased in proportion, and
the doctor thinks now that the ease is under
control.
Harris. ie. a very intelligent and well•behav-
ed cow -boy. He now feels a great deal better
bat admits that he was badly seared aver
the increasing pain and the. constant swelling
of his arm. He thinks he .has had ,a pretty
serious experience, and refers frequently en
his conversat tion to that contemptible little
animal that came to) near pending him off
" unprepared„'as he confesses.
Dicksonhastwostuffedspeof;Hans.
of the pat athis residence, 1307 Drippestreet.
He says it is an entirely distinct species, dif-
ferent from the skunk or polecat; with which
it is often confounded. The animal is no logg-
ers than an ordinary gray squirrel, with red'
eyeballs, and its long, shaggy hair send feel-
er standing upward and forward. Its bite
is always poisonous, and fatal if not attended
to. The doctor attribdtes the frequency of
hydrophobia in this Western country to
the prevalence of this animal. It ie- found
in Texas, India Territory, Arkansas, Kansas
and Weateru Missouri. Often, and es-
pecially i>g severe weather, the "hydro
phobia oat" will make its way into hones,
dugouts and stables, 'biting people and ani-.
mals it may come in contact with, and many
cases of hydrophobia in domestic and wild.
animals are due to its bite. Very frequently
hydrophobia patients come in from the Stak-
ed Plains in Texas and Indian Territory'
to be treated with the madstone; Among
Dr. Dickson's former pontoons tae Chief
Keoknkowa, of the Sac and' Fox tribe,; in
the Indian Territory, who was a grandson
of the old Chief Keokuk, of ter'whom Keokuk,
ra., was named.
Brunswick, Ile., is getting ready to cele-
brate its 150th anniversary, and already
stories of the early days of the town are be-
ing set afloat. Here's one : Mr. William
Walker, of Falmouth, and Miss Sibyl
Staples, of Topsham, were to be mtrried.
They were on the Topsham side of the
river, and on the Brunswick aide was the
Rev. John Miller, the minister who was to
perform the ceremony, and between thein
rolled the raging waters swollen by the sud-
den spring thaw. The minister couldn't get
to the anxious couple and they couldn't get
to him. But he was equal to the emergency.
Standing on the edge of the bank, he sent
bis powerful voice across the stream, and
William and Sibyl joined hands and made
the proper responses, and were duly pro-
nounced man and wife.
What London and Paris Eat.
In London and Paris the annual average
consamptioa a head of population ie stated
to be as follows, the greater quantity in eaoh
being credited to the Parisian : Apples, 65
pounds and 6 ounces -145 pounds pears, 39
pounds and 5 ounces -170 pounds and 13
ounces; peas, 3 pounds 8 ounces -6 pounds
and 15 ounces ; carrots, 7 pounds and 3
ounces -37 pounds; celery, 11 ouaces-6
pounds 13 ounce*; cherries, 2 pounds and
13 ounces -20 pounds and 14 ounces ; plums
and damsons, 17 pounds and 12 ounces -183
rounds and 4 ounces ; raspberries, 4 ounces
2 pounds ; strawberries, 3 pounds and 10
ounces -13 pounds and 12 ounces; aspara-
gus, 1 pound and 3 ounces -5 pounds and
4 ounces,
On the other hand, while the Londoners
eat 173 pounds 4 entices of potatoes, the
Parisian oats only 49 pound! and 4 ounces.
The averege consumption of onions, tomo.
toes, cabbages, cucumbers and turnips is also
greater in London than in Paris - but with
[SUMMER SMILES.
Small comfort—A toady.A gentleman of color—A painter.
The tin can d es 7iotepoint a moral, but
it very frequently adornt a. tail.
It doesn't take a very long for me risen
to pull the feathers out of a whis y` cook -
tail.
Some men are"good because good
best, and .then, agai , some a e
nothing.
Kathleen Mavourry�en Mans" are `those:.
of an uncertain kids, that "may be for
years and may be forever."
A girl attehed a cooking school end' be-
came so infatuated with culinary art that
she married a supe.
Charles—" She's pretty, but she doesn't
know anything." . Evelyn—' -Oh, yes she
does ; she knows she's pretty."
When a burglar breaks into a house he
generally steals up stairs -and everything
else he can lay his hands on.
Soulful Youth (languidly)-" Do yon sing
" Forever and Forever ?" She (practically)
—" No, I stop for meals."
" Milke, • did you ever catch frogs 1"
Yea, .sorr." " What did you bait with?"
"Bate 'em with 1. Shtick, soar." '
Visitor (to little girl)—" Where' are your'
sisterand brothers, little ;one?" " I ain't
got none. I'm all the family we've got "
Laundry women are the most humble and
forgiving. beings on earth. The. Wore • cuffs
you give them the (more they will do for
you.,
The times are so hard that an.Irishman
says. he has parted with all his elegant ward.
robe except the armholes of an old'we.ist
coat.
Clara (to Ethel, who is discribing he -
hairbreadth escape from the bull)--" Bat hr
didn't gore you?" 's Oh, no, ma ()here ; he
cat by us!"
Mother—" And the serpent, ae'a punish -
anent for tempting Eve, as made to crawl
all the rest of his life." . obbie—" Well,
mamma, how did he get aeon before;"
spys
Tlusband—" I tell you, my
have any kind of success m b
afraid I have a Nemesis." Wife`, .
Why don't you see a doctor about it?"
Mr. Bill Simmonds—" 1 wonder ef ghosee
ee ebber gets sick ?" Mrs. Janata Grow--" Ii
course deygeba t3ek ; didn'tyer nobber heap
of cholera in phantom."
What does menu mean, my dear?"
Food for ire an' you, 'tis Cleary
"What does meander Vogul/ Who knows?"
"When me and her out walking goes."
Customer (to Mr. Isaaestein)—" The coat
is about three sizes too big." Mr. Isaaostein
"
(impressively)—Mine frent, fiat coat make
you mo proud you will grow into---
nto ft"
Young Wife-" Horrors't. See here, airs,
your dog has rnu off with a whole sponge
cake I left outside to cool." Tramp -" ,i3on't
worry, mum. That dog's tougher'n he looks.
Hoskin eat anything.
No man knows how much he really levee
a woman until she has preaented. him With
the work ed canvas for the sides 01 a natty
traveling bag, and he has, paid seven or
eight dollars for laving 10 made up.
A New York store advortieee as the new-
est thing outs its "patent children's knee
pads." The histor .of the pads is interest -
in A northern New Hampshire waken,
with boys who would go trough the hoiden!
ar, I don't
I'•in
these evocations the French are by fat the j their knickerbocker" and atwokiligs fa+
largest consumers of fruit and vegetables . than she could mend them, in a iagafmVole
Good Housekeeping.
Of all human pensions, pride most seldom
obtain* its end for aiming at honour and
reputation, it generally reaps oontempt and
derieloa.
of fntpleetion, fitted tome soot siefehdr
smoothly over the knees of two Of her
boys. A summer visitor tom the whom
and adopted it for her boys, and to the nil
Went out Into the world, pard no
ha* patented the Ne
idesie, aid It Wain