HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-29, Page 3• FOR AND ABOUT THE LADIES.
'Things Which Every Woman Ought
to Know,
HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS,
dirrills, Fashions, Famoiee, oib1es and
Feminine Oonceite,
HOW TO BECOME HANDSOME.
Superfluous flesh troublee the minds of
'many persons in addition to its physioal
'burdensomenecie. How many women do we
'daily meet who would give all they home
and stop at no inconvenience or sacrifice
could they by doing eo retinae themselves
to the lines of grace and beauty. The
Duchess of Marlborough, who lately re-
-turned to this country, has amazed those
;f ormer Americen friends who knew her tee
Mrs. Hammersley. Then she wae f at —
.greatly to her disoomfort, not to say mom
tifization. Now she is as pretty and lithe
a figure as one ooald hope to see.
How did she work the transfornaation ?
Well, atmording to an inveetigator, who has
,given the world the benefit of hie or her
-.investigations through the medium of the
New York World, she offered an adipose
specialist a fet fee to take her in training,
.and pledged hereelf to carry out minetely
hie commands. Hero are some of them :
Not a morsel of bread, cakes, rolls or
„pastry.
No tea, ooffee, chocolate or sweet wine.
No potatoes, peas, rice, carrots, turnips,
macaroni, cheese, batter, cream, custard,
.jellies or sweets.
e Not a drop of ice -water.
M No warm bathe.
No flannel, and only enough olothing to
:keep from taking cold.
No bedroom heat.
Not a drop of any liquid food at meals.
In plaoe of bread she had fruit, a section
of apple or orange, some fresh grapes, ber-
ries, cherries or stewed fruit beim:,e' used
when ordinarily one craves a bit ofbread
tor a swallow of water. Her diet wits
limited to two meals e day—breakfast at
10 and dinner at 7—with the following bill
of fare to select frorn : Rare, lean meats,
game and poultry, soft-boiled eggs, sea
foods, toast, lettace, spinach, celery,
°mime, fruits.
She hied half a gallon of hot water to
drink every day, with lemon juice in it to
take away the flat taste. Cold water was
denied her, and ales, frappes, champagne
-and claret strictly forbidden. She was
even forced to forego the luxury of bath-
eing in weter, in place of which she had
sponge and vapor baths. Every few days
she took a fast, allowing the system to
consume the adipose tissue. While no
linait wae put upon the pleasure of driving
or riding, she was aeked to select the
roughest, rockiest roads, and to walk from
five to ten miles a day in the open sir.
This praotice of self-denial the Duchess
of Marlborough has persisted in for the
last two years, and to -day she is perhaps
the handsomest woman of her age in New
York society. She weighs about 140
pounds, her eyes are bright, her complexion
is as clear and smooth as e school girl's ;
,ehe has the carriage of a cadet and the
health of a child of nature.
Suggestion for Wives.
Here is a new wrinkle with regard to
„roasted duck that some good wife, fond and
ewe-- foolish and out of fashion enough to care
ebout pleasing her husband, may enjoy
serving up to him some night when he
comes home a little more perptexed and
annoyed with buoinese than usual. Take
the deck, which has been roasted in the
ordinary way with sage and onion dressing,
score it deeply with the carving knife,
scatter into the furrows so formed salt and
white or bleak pepper, and pour over it a
glass or two of Burgundy warmed, not
heated, so that it will not chill the duck.
Baste the bird with the wine a few mom-
ents, cover it no, and let the seasoning
soak well in, and when it is served to your
lord and master it will be as much of a
revelation to him as was the far -fanned pie
of "four and twenty blackbirds," which
was set before the king. When this last
juicy morsel is still lingering in his mouth,
making life indeed worth living, then ask
him for your new spring bonnet or tell
him that the coal is out or that "mamma "
is coming for a nice long visit or that you
must go and hear Patti, and see how he
will rustle his angel wings and tell you
that he only lives for the saxe of carrying
nut your wishes and supplying your wante,
and the only thing needful to perfect bliss
_is & visit from his mother-in-law.
The Lady Barber.
The lady barber has come, and the heart
eof every young gentleman who thinks that
bi mustache will come up it only the
„ground be ploughed suffigently, is glad
within him. Heppily, the lady barber is a
noun of multitude, and it is likely enough
that she will very soon add considerably to
her number. At present her operations
-are confined to the sedate and decorous
shadeof Chancery Lane; but if it be true
that to know the lady barber is to love her,
we may be sure that she will presently
ostablish herself in the gay and giddy West
End. Shaving is, at the best, an ordeal;
-but if, instead of the come and lumpy
*hands and the inane politics of the male,
we can have the pretty fingers and the art-
less prattle of the feminine praotitioner, most
•of us will hasten to Chancery Lane. The
ladies are hair -mutters as well, which is
exceedingly nice, since it is obvious that the
operation of haimoutting, which lasts oloee
emon half an hour, is full of opportunities
ler conversation.—St. James' Budget.
Sympathy in Raising a child.
How many parents there are who are
ireadier to provide playthings for their
iehildren than to share the delights of their
iohildren with those playthings; readier to
set their children at knowledge -seeking
than to have a part in their children's sur-
prises and enjoyments of knowledge -attain-
ing ; readier to make good, as far as they
oen, all losses to their ohildren than to
grieve with their children over those losses.
And what a loss of power to those parents
9,8 permits is this lack of sympathy with
their ohildren ise children. There are,
however, parents who sympathize with
their ohildreti in all thing; and, as a
result, they practicelly train and sway
their children as they will ; for when
there is entire emximathy between two per-
•riOns, the stronger one is necessarily the
,controlling force with both.—Sunday
• Sichool Times.
The Frizzy Bang Has Gone.
An entirely new etyle of hair.dressing is
threatened, flays a fashion writer. In
Petrie the ftizzy beng.has meekly subsided
tie give the Javanonas head dresses a
charm. Fashion appears to have gone
daft on those peatilier ornatnente and the
greet jewelere of the Rtie de la i'etis have
been ordered to reset diamonds of more
than One grende dame after the pattern
of those Mit metal ornaments. At the
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opera a few eveeke agcl dazzling tight id
Parleian society leOpeared with her hair
dossed perfectly fiet to leer head, ort Mee
phi°, right over the ear'en oarnment ait
large aud se flat as au individual butter
plate, conquitled of diamonds and vitae,
fend medallions ea large as an Englieh
penny, of the same genes, going aimed to
the other or, eoroos the forehead just at
the line of the hair.
A voting Princess' iraste.
• The young prineesees of Wales take efter
the princess herself -in their quiet taste in
dreue and in their liking for tailommade
gowns of tweed and ()loth for day weer.
Naveablue seems a favorite color with
them, perhaps out of compliment to their
sailor brother. Redfern ie building two
neat eireesee for the Princesses Viotorie
and Maud. They are of gray -blue tweed,
interlined with threads of navy-blue. The
skirts are very simple, depending for style
on the way they are hung and arranged.
Above the hem three narrow bands of
navy.blue cloth are stitched on. The coat.
like bodieee open on vests of navy.blue
cloth. Altogether the gowns are quiet and
unobtrusive in the extreme, and yet are
neat, trim, and very good style.—London
StarTliere was rniexvieurgintohereHfreleraom shown in
the arrangement of the hair than to -day.
More attention is paid to the contour of
the head and face, and there ie lees anxiety
to copy a set etyle. The two styles most
prevalent for everyday wear ate the full
graceful coil of braids, whioh covers the
back of the head from the crown to the
nape of the neck, and the long English
ohateleine of braids which hangs low at
the back of the neck. The front hair is
generally dressed in a very Might, light
bang, curved up a little at the sides, and
curl is sometimes carelessly arranged in
the centre, where the facie will bear it. In
the evening the hair is worn very high. in
full loope in French styles.—New York
Tribune.
To Decorate the Home.
Here is the advice of, a decorator in
making over a house: Have your library
darn and rioh, your dining -room bright in
coloring and your sleeping roome as near
white or ougard as possible, draping the
windows with lawn, banishing carpets or
upholstered furniture. If the rooms are
very high a deep frieze will lower them,
and paper on the ceiling will also bring
them down. There are few floors that can-
not be rubbed, polished and filled in fir or
hardwood effects. The cost of wood carpet
eau be eaved in dootor's fees. The cool,
clean, bright, colonial effect is to be pre.
tarred above every other period for the
drawing room or parlor. It costs money,
to be sure, to appoint a house, bat taste
goes a very long way.
A Bleach for the Rands.
There is an old•fashioned preparation
which our grandmothers made for whiten.
ing the heads, says the New York Tribune.
Two cakes of old.time brown Windsor,
soap, a wineglass of German cologne
and a wineglass of lemon juice
added. In a day or two the liquid
became incorporated with the soap so that
the mixture could be molded into a cake.
Though old, this is an admirable prepara-
tion or bleach for removing stains from
the hands.
The Cut of French Underwear.
The greatest simplicity prevails in the
cut of all French undergarments. Any at-
tempt at elaboration of trimming or out ie
considered in the very worst taste.
Chemises are low and sleevelese, with a
simple band around the neck; they are
daintily trimmed with a deep fall of lace,
or lace and insertion, meeting a full front
finished with lace and insertion to the
waist line.
Girls' Schools.
In Paris there are five professional
schools for girls. These have a comae of
instruction menbracing modern languages,
domestic economy, industrial designing,
cutting and fitting garments, and accounts.
Each sehool is equipped with a kitchen and
workshops for making corsets, feathers and
other staple articles of trade. Girls are
admitted at 14 years of age and remain
three or four years.
A. Royal Wedding Dress.
The Empress of Austria has caused her
wedding dress to be out up and made into
a set of vestments for the Church of St.
Matthew, in Pesth. The dress was of
white brocade with silver threads, embroid-
ered all over with beautiful garlands of
roses in silver. Her bridal wreath en.
oirclee an embroidered picture of the vir-
gin, which is to be hung up in the Loretto
chapel of the same church, which the
Emprees seleote for her devotions. The
vestments will be used for the service in
honor of the Virgin Mary in May.
Red is a Perfect Craze.
There seems to be a craze for red this
spring, and this lurid hue is observable in
many branches of my lady's toilet. Red t
coats and jackets of box clotla are very
fashionable for walking or driving, red
cloaks are worn over evening gowns to ball
or opera. I saw a girl on Twenty.third
street the other morning in a gray gown
with bright red gloves.—Chicago Hearld's
New York, Letter.
How the Brides Dressed.
Here are the costumes of four brides at
fashionable weddings yesterday.
A gown of white corded silk and dui:th-
eme lace, and a tulle veil cauglet with a
cornet of orange bloesome. The bouquet
was of white roan and violets.
A gown of white brooade and point laae'
and tulle veil held by a half wreath of
orange blossoms. The bouquet was of white
lilacs.
A gown of white satin adorned with
feather trimming, and a tulle veil caught
with diamond pins, her mother's gift. The
bouquet was of white violets and orchids.
A gown of white satin brocade and rare
old point lace, and a long tulle veil caught
with orange blossoms. The bouquet wee
oi white roses.
Fashionable Fancies.
The fashionable fad at present is for an.
tiquitiee.
A band of ribbon tied with a bow around
the wrist is a new fashion.
Some of the flowers seen on the new bon-
nets are an impossibility in nature.
The tailommadejacket and vest all in one
has started in to be very fashionable.
In light summer alike any one can see
with half an eye that stripes will prevail.
Ornamented jewelry is having high
favor, the moat popular designs being
flowers.
About the only nautical feature of the
albatross tee gowns is the name of the
materiel.
Orchid jewelry is the latest novelty,
and ha e created an immediate and decided
sensation.
It is a 13eouliarity of the bonnets thie
season that the smallest are eaid to be the
most °spongy°.
Masculine fashione are adopted by the
women again thie ;mason, which it to be
regretted.
Straw hate and bonnets ere already seen.
There are already woMen who will get
ahead of the beam.
Among the hendricerneet of the fano now
exhibited for sale ore those of natural °oh
ored ostrich feathere.
Oruarnental hairpins now inolude bees
and butteriliee of the very natural loOleing
kind that come only from PArie.
There le a bewildering varieey in saga
ribiaon tide season and they are wide eaotegh
to come up leader the wearers' arms.
In the Scotch •tertan deem goads, the
small, inconepieuoue patterns are held by
the dresenuekere to be the mese elegent.
Old.fashioned silver pooketbooke in the
form of a shell, snob as oar grandrnotlaers
used to carry, have come back again,
The country house mud now be f ar.
Mated as near se possible in the India
style, whioh is as useful as it is cool and
ornamental.
Mouequetaire gloves ulnae in all the new
and beautiful shades, and the onee with the
greatest number of buttons eell quickest.
There are many somalled &leiter novel--
tiee in leather goods, including, the new
leather chatelaine with leather ornaments.
• Special glass jars or vases are now made
to hold violets. They are mounted in silver
and are beautiful enough to find a place on
some table in the drawing -room.
The Strongest Known Animal.
Some interesting results of a naturalist'
inquiries are sent us by Mr. J. Law-
rettou-Elerailton, M. C. It. S., Brigh-
ton, who iiayFi that, in proportion to its
gee, the limpet is probably the strongest of
known animals, excipting the Mediter-
ranean yenta verrucosa, a cockle like twee-
ture,which pails 2071,times its own weight
whtn out of its shell. "At Folkeetone, b y
means of accurate Appliances," items Mr,
Lewrenatt-Haneitton, " I found that the
common seambore limpet, which deprived
of its shell, weighed a minute fraction less
than half an ounce, required, which pulled
acoording to its plane of edlaesion, a force
exceeding 62 pounds to remove it from De
powerful grip upon the /fecal littoral low -
tide rock, or upward of 1,984 times it own
dead weight. The superficial area of the
base of this individual limpet measured
2.4 square inchee. Taking the atmospheric
pressure at 14 7 pounds to the equare inch,
thie would even thee only account for
35 28 pounds, or little more than half
the Mower exercised in the air by this
seamnail, which, acting upon immersed
objects in the water, would, of course, have
pulled a much greater weight than that of
62 pounds. Thus in the air a limpet pulled
up to 32 1 poundiebut subsequently, in spite
of its previous fatigue, when covered over
by the incoming tide, it then took upward
of 54 pounds to remove it. I doubt wile.
ther the limpet's adhesive force has any.
thing to do with the question of atmos-
pheric pressure. • In other experiments
even bits of each came away sticking to the
limpet's embrace. An ancient Greek
author compared this animal's adhesion to
the ardent attachment of an ugly old
woman to a hendsome youth. In oarrying
out my experiments upan the limpets I
was ably assisted by the eminent practical
scientific naturalist, the Hon. Walter
Rothschild." The same correspondent
says: " The force required to open an
oyster appears to be 1,319e times the
weight of the shell -less creature."—Lon-
don Daily News.
Why 1900 'Will Not be a Leap Year.
The question is often asked, " Will the
year 1900 be a leap year ?" It will not.
When Julius Ceeear revised the calendar
he appointed an extra day every four years,
and his oalendar lasted until A. D. 1582.
Now the ordinary year is 11 minutes and
11 seconds short of being 365e days in
length, so that there isn't ready a full
sized extra day to be added to February
every four years. Cmear didn't know this,
or didn't care about it, and for 1,600 years
we kept borrowing from the future, until
in 1582 we'd borrowed ten days. Pope
Gregory XIEL started to correct this. He
ordered Ootober 5th, 1582, to be called
October 15th, and to square things, ordered
that centurial years should not, as a rule,
be leap years.
But if leap year is omitted regularly
each hundredth year, we pay back nearly a
day too much; so Pope Gregory further
ordered that every centtnial year which
could be divided by 400 should be a leap
year after all. So we borrow eleven
minutes each year from the future ; more
than pay our borrowings back by omitting
three leap years in three centuries and
finally square matters by having it leap
year in the fourth centurial year. This
arrangement is so exact that we borrow
more than we pay back to the extent of
only one day in 3,866 years. Sixteen hun•
dred was a leap year, 2,000 will be, but
1,900 will not be. Any cantarial year that
can be divided by 400 will be a leap year.
—Hartford Times.
Spontaneous Combustion of Man.
Dickens has, been very maoh criticised
for hie appareiat acceptance of the fact
of human spontaneous combustion, but
the late Sir William Gull testified to a
surprising case before the committee of
the House of Lords on intemperance
during the summer of 1886. A large,
bloated man, who was suffering from
difficulty of breathing and great dis-
tension. of the venous system, died at
Guy's hospital. At the post mortem of
the following day there was no sign of
decomposition, but the body was dim
tended with what was thought to be gas.
" When punctures, were made into the
skin," said Sir William, " and a lighted
match applied, the gas which escaped
burned with the bine flame of (Atha.
retied hydrogen. As many as is dozen
of these little flames were burning at
one time."—St. Louis Republic.
Not a Bad Mistake.
The editor wrote it ; " While this cold
weather lasts be mindful of others poorer
than yourself. Turn not away in silence
from the appeel of charity. Give the appli-
cant eomething, if only some kindly word."
The intelligent oompositor made the last
clause " if only some kindling wood," and
he builded better than he knew.—New York
Observer.
DRUGGISTS' charges are often a puzzle to
those who find it neoessary to buy much
medicine, a prescription at one drug store
costing more or lees than the same pre.
scription at another. The Toronto Tele-
gram put the matter to a praotical test last
week, and here is how it went about it and
the result :
It was decided to take 50 druggists throughout
the city, representing every district. There are
altogether somewhat more than 100. Ten men,
duly supplied with prescriptiona, were sent out
to have them filled. Their experiences were
very varied. The charges ran all the way from
50 cents to $1.05, but about 65, 70 and 75 cents
seemed to be the standard, Seeing that bottles,
ingredients and all emit leg than 10 cents, that
was, to say the least, a tolerably fair profit, oven
for it druggist. There was a considerable differ-
ence, too, in the way the prescriptions were put
up. Some druggists colored them slightly yel-
low,. pink or brown; others, again, put ho ewer-
ing 1h. Some had expensive labels and others
very plain ones. There was, however, one qual-
ity of bottle in 1180 by nearly all the druggists,
but two ot three apparently had a still better
miality, and others again a. little commoner.
Some used wax on the Corks Mid eoine didn't.
However, all bit 10 didn't make renal difference in
the rates charged, which were more varied than
the streaks in a many colOred rainbow.
—A man's cheeks naturally burn When
he is made light of,
IN THE OLOUVel.
The Awful. /fiXperience an Engthilt 4er0.
naut Fassed Ihrough.
Oreat exeitement was mimed at Croydon
on SiterirdaY afterimon in eonneotion with
the aseent from the old fair field of Prof,
aliggius, the paraohutiet, and for several
home doubts were entertained as to his
sanity. The balker.), whioh has been named
"The Duke's Motto," elite was of the caw.
ity of 12,000 cubic feet, vvas fully (Merged
by 5 o'clock. Higgine said the direetion of
the wind, whieh wee nethee,st, would. neoes,
sitete his travelling a considerable height,
but he hoped to return to the field in about
half an hour. When he gave the
signal to the attendants to " let
go," the machine gradually rose and
appeared to go in die direotion of
Norwood. Upon reaching an altitude of
eonaething like 4000 feet, the parachute be.
came &teethed from the net of the balloon,
which was evidently proceeding upward at
a great rate, as the parachute was fully ex-
panded, elthough inverted. It was now
evident that something was wrong with the
apparatus, and amid bree.thlese excitement,
the parachute dropped frorn the belloon and
fell into a garden iu East 'Croydon. The
bent:ion rapidly disappeared in the clouds.
When doaknees set in and no news had been
received of the parachutist mach anxiety
was evinced as to his fate. Shortly after
8 o'clock, however, all fear was dispelled by
the receipt of a telegram Aiming that Hig-
gins had lauded safely near Tunbridge.
Eliggine and his balloon arrived at East
Croydon by the 9,20 train.
In an interview with a correspondent
Higgins stated thiet he had experienced the
most wonderful of all his aerial voyages.
When he had reaolled a height of 4,000 feet
he began to get into a strong current and
the balloon twisted right arouud. The
current theu caught his parachute, causing
the wooden ring of it to catch him very
tighly nutter the arms. The teat cord which
held the paraohate then beokee Directly
that happened he saw the parachute was
hanging below him 1 ally inflated and the
pressure on hint was so great that it was
impossible for him to descend into the
middle of the town with anything like
safety. He therefore opened his penknive
with Ws teeth and cut the perm/nee away.
This ceneed the balloon to shoot up 6,000
feet higher, and on reo.ohing that altitude
he met another current, which brought
him back and he tom nothing until he
passed through some sleet and snow. He
could hear, however, the sound of trains.
All of a sudden he found himself in dark-
ness, caused, he presumed, by the snow
and the thick atmosphere. He was in this
snowstorm for at least ten minutes and
when he had paseed through it the sun was
shining beautifully. Below him he could
see what appeared to be snowy mountains
rising up and down for miles. He could
see a distance of some 40 clear miles and
was able to discern the sun glistening on
the water at Brighton. It was evident to
him that he was going towards Tunbridge
Wells. He found tlae air getting very
sharp and keen; ioiclee were hanging from
hie moaetaohe and he hada° sooner rubbed
them off than others formed. For a few
minutes he was quite deaf. He now
seerued to be descending on the mountains
of snow and he thought he was getting near
Hastings or Brighton. He could smell
toe Bea. Thinking he was coming down
he took hold of four of his guy ropes and
pulled the balloon partly over on one side
to allow the gas to escape at the mouth.
The balloon then turned round three
times, and he felt he was descending. He
did nothing more to the balloon, merely
sitting on his trapeze watching for terra
firma, which he did not see for some time.
At length he saw plowed fields, and close
by there was what he took to be is large
park with white' roads across it. He then
travelled about five or six miles at a very
rapid pace and saw more plowed fields,
which he thought would be a suitable
place to land on. When he was about
2,000 feet from the earth he prepared to
descend by hanging by one arm to his tra-
peze rope as if he were using his parachute.
When his feet touched the ground the bal-
loon, which was in front of him, dragged
him for ten yards and then rebounded
some 60 feet in the air between two trees.
Two laborers ran from opposite directione
and, in response to his signals, they arrived
just he cattle down a second time and held
tbe balloon until he let out the gas. He
found thet he had landed on a farm in the
occupation of Mr. Nash, of Penshuret,
about 30 miles from Croydon, In reply to
queezions he said that one time he must
have been five miles above the earth, the
highest he had over been. He added that
the balloon had no escape valve.
Umbrellas in India.
The statistics of the import of nmbrellas
into India have suggested the question why
the ingenious native artificers do not turn
their hands to the manufacture of this in.
dispenseble article. In the old days, when
a bit of bamboo served for the stick, with
bamboo stripe for the ribs and varnished
paper for the covering, nothing but native -
made umbrellas or sun-shedes were ever
eeen. These, however, have now been left
far behind. In the year 1888-9 there were
actually imported by sea into Calcutta
considerably more than 2,500,000 umbrellas
of foreign make. With this is coupled the
astounding fact that the number of boots
and shoes entering India by the same port
has increased from 28,102 pairs in 1879-80
to 131,652 in 1888.9; and this in spite of
the Ca wnpore factories and the shoemaking
Chinamen of Beatinck street.—London
Daily News.
Early Rising Birds.
The thrash is audible about 4.50 in the
morning.
The quail's whistling is heard in the
woods at about 3 o'clock.
The blackcap turns up at 2.30 on a
slimmer morning.
By 4 the blackbird makes the woods
resound with his melody.
The hones sparrow and tomtit come
last in the liet of early rising birds.
At short intervals after 4.30 the voices of
the robin and wren are heard in the land.
The greenfinch iR the firet to riee, and
sings as early as 1 30 on is sanarner morning.
The lark does not rise until after the
chaffinch, linnet, and a number of other
hedgerow folk have been rnerrily piping for
a good while.
Princess 13ismarok, wife of the Iron
Chancellor, le described as the very model
of is practical methodioal German niatron
with Fen eye for every detail of household
arrangement and economy.
Hciw easy it is to figure out just how
some other person ought to aat in a con-
13151191AVEMENT.
Who has tot felt that aching in the breast
Whose voice awakes from depths of memory,
A. thousand things of beauty that were parts
Of is loved one whom Death has robbed us Of ?
And then a madness makes us reel in tears
That now like freshets from our sore despair,
Then we go straightway to tho still abode
To kisa our dead one' back again to life. ,1',S211g
Death end the grave forbid Us enter there.
—J.Ii4.
ieeThe Martmie of Londonderry has invited
Biemarek to virsit Englandi sad the invite.,
thin will probably be accepted.
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11 Shoula be Attrective and Nourisbing
1'09 tile Puma.
Time Was when newspapers., writing
paper, and wrapping eper did eervece itt
wrapping up earlobes. Then the paper
woo discerded for the snowy napkia, and
that in turn for the tin box. No the tie
box is ahnost a thine of the meet, being
supplanted by light, dainty little loo.ekets
with clooe-tiotirtg lids. To fit up such a
lunch beeket the sides end bottom should
be covered with soft white wrapping
paper, neatly cut to fit, and this ehould
be put itt fresh every day. A leather
covered flesh, with a metal screw top, will
be needed for whatever liquid is supplied.
The knife and fork should be laid blade to
tines and the napkin wrapped about them,
the spoon laid with the beck of the bowl
against them, and a rubber band slipped
over all to hold therm Some bits of oiled
paper such au confectioners furnish, and a
jelly glass with is tin lid whioh eoreves on.
So much for the basket and its outfit.
Now for the lunohes.
On Monday, some cold sliced chicken,
fresh buttered rolls, a stalk of celery, some
chocolate in the flask, claovamhow in the
jelly,glase, and an orange for dessert. Tues.
day's lunch may be ham -sandwiches, the
heat to be chopped very fine; a little gela-
tine or jelly and a cream puff. Wednee-
day, bieouit, with dried beef out thin,
oyster soup and cake. Thursday, baker's
twit, herd -boiled eggs, pickle, beef tea and
a square of gingerbread. Friday, sardines,
olives, brown bread, clam soup and a tart
or fresh fruit. '
The school girl should be well nourished
while the mental strain is going on physi-
cal strength should be kept up. Headache
is a attestant complaint with eohoot girls.
This is generally owing not so much to
over-preesure in study as to lack of gener-
ous nourishment and variety in the food
given School lunches should be as varied
as possible. Fruits as they appear in suc-
cession should be freely used. A. salad of
some cold vegetable is not only appetizing
but heelthful, just giving sufficient stimu-
lant. And for the same reasons broths
of different kinds, which can be safely
carried in the above mentioned flask, are
valuable.
When water cress is in market nothing is
more dainty, delioate and nourishing. For
the mime reason is meat or fish salad laid
upon is couple of lettuce leaves is very de-
sirable. Stewed fruits of all kinds are
better than preserved or canned fruits.
Cheese should be used but seldom, and then
it is best grated. Pastry, also, should be
used sparingly, and never when it is stale.
Stale oake, too, is not to be thought of.
Crackers should be used sparingly. Cold
tea, not too much sweetened, and without
milk, is a stimulating drink, and where the
lunch is of a nature to agree with it, lemon-
ade will prove grateful.—Chicago Inter -
Ocean.
One Square Meal.
Sir George Bowen tells to Galignani s
Messenger a weird story whittle he heard
when he was Governor of New Zealand.
Among the loyal Maori chiefs invited to
meet the Duke of Edinburg was one of the
original signers of the treaty of Waitangi,
ia 1840, and who had ever since been a firm
friend of the English. One of the Anglican
bishops afterwards said to the Governor:
" Do you khow, sir, the anteodents of that
old heathen ? " " No, my dear Bishop,"
was the reply, "but I do know that he
brought 500 of hie clansmen into the field
to fight for the Qaeen, so I invited him to
meet the Queen's son."
" Well," continued the Bishop, " when I
firet arrived in New Zealand that chief came
to me and said that he wished to be
baptized. I knew that he had two wives,
so I told him that he must first persuade
one cif them to return to her family. He
said he feared that would be difficult but
that he would see what could be done and
mime beck to me in about two months.
When he returned he exclaimed :
" Now, missionary, you may baptize
me, for I only have one wife.'
"I asked : What have you done with
our dear sister, your first wife ? '
"Rio replied, smacking hie lips I have
eaten her.'"
Don't Toy With Your Eyes.
Many people are troubled with itching
eyes and try all sorts of washes. The eye
is one of the most valuable organs of the
body. Unfortunately for careless humanity,
it is also one of the most delicete. It does
not pay to trifle with it. The best way to
treat itching is to ase a cool, weak salt
water wash every few hours. If this does
no good, go to a physician who makes a
specialty of eye diseases.--Ncio York
Journal.
Female Doctor in a ilurry.
Excited messenger — Mrs. Sawbones,
come quick 1 A man lute fallen from the
roof of his house and is bleeding to death 1
Female doctor—All right. I'll be there
as soon as I've got on my new dress and
have done up my hair. Let me see ; hadn't
better wear my dark blue dress or that
light violet colored one The blue dress is
more becoming to my complexion; but the
other is so stylish.
Box -Office Receipts Not Mentioned.
First Theatrical Manager—Well, you
ought to have seen our audience last night;
we hardly needed to turn on the electric
lights, such a brilliant audience, you know.
Ha! Ha
Second Theatrical Manager—Yes, I
understood that it was is very light house
Ho 1 Ho 1
An Authority.
Stranger (in western newspaper office)
—Beg pardon, sir, but myself and friends
need help to decide is bet. Have you is
copy of Hoyle?
Old reporter—No ; don't need any. If
the dispute is anything about cards, go
into that room aoross the hall and ask for
the religious editor.—New York Weekly.
More people are worried to death by kind.
nese than by abuse.
Tommy—Papa, what is a crank? Papa
—Oh, we call a peculiar eccentric person a
crank. Toranly—And is baseball crank is
. Papa—A baimball crank is a man
veho will not go to a game.
—So many men are foolish who can t
afford to be.
A aTOR Y OF Tole HAL
$1001.10t111141r, About the retn4QMK Strand
May -pole Erected in 1001.
The onetime of raising Mainnelee On the
firet day of May originated probably in
the thirreentla er fourteenth century., It
was quite general in Great Britain and
other European imuntriet; for eeveral
bemired- yeers, but after the Advent of
Peritaxiisin it died out almost completely,
The most renowned London key -pole, and
the one longest in existence, was that put
up in the Serand immedietely after the
restoration. The Parliament of 1044 hilid
ordered the demolition of all Nay.nolee,
and enforced the decree by heavy
penalties. When tlee populaoe again
gave way to their May -day jollity,
in 1661, they determined to plant
the tallest of these poles they could find in
the most eonspicsuoue part of the Strand.
They brought it in triumph, with drume
beating, liege flying, and Music playing,
from Scotland yard to the opening of
Little Drury Lane, oppoeite the Somereet
Efonse, where they erected it. The lane
was afterward known as "May -pole
Alley." "That stately cedar erected in
the Strand," writes is contemporary
author. "was coneidered as a type of
'golden days' about to return with the
Stuarts." It was raised by seamen, ex-
pressly sent for the purpose by the Duke of
York, and was decorated with three gilt
crowns and other ornaments. In 1713 it
was surmounted by is globe, with is long
streamer beneath it. Four years later this
famed pole, having become decayed, was
taken down and sold to Sir Isaac Newton,
who used it as a support for a telescope.
Wonderfal Mechanism.
The Bank of England doors are now so
finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing
knob under his deek, can close the outer
doors instantly, and they cannot be opened
again exoept by special process. This is
done to prevent the daring and ingenious
unemployed of the great metropolis from
robbing this famous institution. The bul-
lion departments of this and other great
English banking establishments are nightly
submerged in several feet of water by the
action of machinery. In some of the Lon-
don banks the bullion departments are
connected with the manager's sleeping -
rooms, and an entrance cannot be effected
without setting off an alarm near that
person's bead. If a dishonest offioial, dur-
ing either day or night, should take even
as much ite one from a pile of a thousand
sovereigns the whole pile would instantly
sink and a pool of water take its place, let-
ting every person in the establishment
know of the theft. --Exchange.
Juvenile Murderers Guillotined.
Some little sensation was caused recently
by the execution in front of the gate of La
Roquette of two juvenile murderers, aged
respectively 17 and 21. The had etrangled
an elderly ooncierge in broad daylight in
the Rue Bonaparte, with a view to robbing
San. Preeident Carnet was dissuaded from
sparing their lives, with & view to dispel a
current but deep-rooted impreesion among
the youth of the dangerous classes that it
is unlawful to guillotine "infante." The
one hardship in their °see was that fifty-
nine days were allowed to elapse between
their sentence and execution, and the delay
enaouraged them to hope for a commuta-
tion of their punishment. They met their
fete with courage.—Cor. London Telegraph.
Jim Was There,
The two eons of an eastern merchant
abated for India. Some months afterwards
the father received this telegram : " 3im's
dead." In reply he cabled : "Ship corpse."
In due time a large box arrived which was
found to contain the body of an enormous
Bengal tiger. The parent again oabled
" Mistake made; tiger in box." To which
his surviving son replied : "All right; Jim
inside tiger."
Mashers' Shirts.
Young Paris mashers are now said to
wear colored shirts—pink, blue or red—in
the evening. They are displayed with the
regular low cut evening waistcoats, and to
heighten the contrast they are fastened by
large jet studs. The demand 13r such shirts
is already so great that they cannot be
made fast enough. The young Prince of
Naples introduced the fashion.
Would Never Do.
" Your refercences are very satisfactory
but I cannot engage you."
" May I inquire why not, madam 2" asked
the would-be butler.
"Your hair is red and my dining -room is
decorated in robin's egg blue."
George Francis Train has not shaken the
hand of 'a man or woman for fourteen
years.
D. C. N. L. 22. 90.
Marriage Paper arid particulars of society pree
that pays $000 at marriage. A
Address The Globe, York, Pa.
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