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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-1-21, Page 3itgeasP"elOthiluastiteasGessettasualleuellsmule, vigor yers uai.r. ,1 0 the letde,eltel Hair -dressing. It re. 11 stores tan atolor to gray hair ; prellletes a fresh i ale 7;gorous growth ; prevents the formamiltn, a dandruff; mikes the hair soft and silken; and imparts a deb. 'ee. cate but lasting per i fume, "Several months e ago my hair com- menced falling out, and in a few weeks my head was almost bald. I tried many remedies, but they did no good. 1 final, ly bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and, aftex using only a part of the con- tents, nee- head was covered witle a heavy growth of hair. I recommend your preparation as the best in the world."—T. Munday, Sharon Grove, Ky. "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for a number 'of years and it has always given me satisfactionIt is an excellent dress- ing, prevents ethenhair from turning gray, inanres res vigorous growth, and, lame the acalp white a,nd clean." —. Mary Ae,,Tee...ejeson, Salem, Mass. "I hay ed Ayer's Hair Vigor for pronaothien growth of the hair, and think it unequaled. For restoring the hair to its original color, and for a dress- ing, it cannot be surpassed."—Mrs. Geo. La Fever,. Eaton Rapids, Mich. sen.yerts Ilair Vigor is a most excel- lent preparation for the hair. I speak of It from my own experience. Its use promotes the growth of new hair and makes it glossy and sat. The Vigor is also a cure for dandruff:ea-J. W. Bowen, Editor "Enquirer," :McArthur, Ohio. "1 nave used Ayer's Bair Vigor for the past two years, and found it all it is represented to be. It restores the natu- ral color to gray nein eaeses the hair to grow freely, and keeps it soft and plia,ut."-Qefrs. M. V. Day, Cohoes, N. Y, "My father, at about the ago of fifty, lost all the bair from the top of his bead. After one month's trial of Ayer's Hair Vigor the hair begancoming, and, in three months, he liacl a fine growth of katr of the natural colorae—P. J. 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Il\TTERCOLONIAL R ILWAY .F CANADA, Thedirectroute betvveen the West and all poling ou the Lower St. Lawrence and Bale des Chalenr,Provinee of Quebec also for Newle runswick,Nova Seotla.Prince Plclward Cape B re ton islands , and Nevelt' an diem dand St. Pierre, • vx.gress trains leave Montreal an rt Halifax daily (Suaciays excepted) and run through withont change between thess points in 28 hoots and 25 miuntas. The through express trarin oars of 1 he In- tercolouial Railway aro Minium tly Ightod by electricity and heated by steam from tho locomotive, thus greatly increasing the COM fort and safety et travellers, New and elegant buffets waning and day ears arerun on through express trains. Canadian -European Mail and Passenger Route. Passengers for Groat Britain Or the conti- nent by Menthe 'gent+ eal on Ieriday morning will f vin outward maflStoamor at Halifax on Saturday. • The a Iten lion ofssbippers is directed totho superior faellit Ms offered. by this route for the transport of lion r and Cenoroj merchan- dise intended. fur then asteirn Provinees and Newfoundland; also f or shinuents of grain andProduceinteudect for tile E nropean mar. ket. • Tickets ratty be obtalue et and inform tion about the route; also freight and paeseuger rates on application to NW8AT Mena T aN , WesternPreigbt drnaseenge Agent ssnessinefoueettleek :Kea tit .Toronto D POT. 012R, Chief euperintendeet ay OfficeakIeneton, Nen. TIIE oF AN. yEkETER " TIM ES. ' HOUSEHOLD. Best Rind of Bed. . Shall it be feathers, hair, wool, cotton or excelsior? ehall we have one mattress or two? We all want a sof b bed, end at the same time a healthy bed, says Good House- keeping Every one's preferenee for a foundation is a good wire -woven spring. A medium thick, best quality curled hair mattress is the latest, made in two parts, one square in shape the other to fill the remaining space. Once a week the square may be turned around, turned over the next week, the lower part turned over every other week and occasionally exchanged with the upper part so that the mattress wears evenly. In a Girl's Bemin, Somebody once said, "Show me a lam I mares bedroom and I will tell you what she I is like." It is natural tor every girl to want her own little nest to look as pretty as possible, says a writer in the Ladies Home Journal, and I wish I could en- courage her in this. Let her learn to have around her the books that are really here, the photographs of her special friends, the lade bits of bric-a-brac which she has picked up here and there and: were given her at Christmastide or on her birthday. Pub all them where they will 8110P7 at their bestand do not be afraid of furaishine even your bedroom, with too many books or pictures. Remember, though, thee it is younbedroom and that you must leave sufficient space to move around, to dress and undress; and that yon must not lumber your dressing table with trifles of no moment, when yon want the room for your broshea and the numerous boxes ited bottles that hold your toilet belongings, .An eve= owdecl bedroom is a horror and an inconvenience. Have one or two big easy chairs, with a view not only ot the comfort of to -day, -but of the the when it is possible you may be a bit of an invalid, and want a oomfortable chair to enshrine you. These chairs need not be richly upholstered ones, but instead of rattan or wood made delightful with great big soft cushions, luxuries, by the -by, that whim bought, are rather expensive. How- ever, the gni who is malting her room look pretty can beg one or two pillows, not in use, from the household store, and eovering them with gay silk, wrough over with em- broidery eilk and tinsel thread, can have them to look as rich as those gotten as the smartest upholsterer's. Now, my dear girls think this over, and rnake your neaten pretty as a girl's bedroom should be. Spend a reasonable amount of time on its furnishings, and you will not regret it. Care of Feet. To relieve perspiration and remove un- pleareent smell from the feet, bath in am- monia and water at night ; Outage stockings often, and always when changing rub the feet dry with a clean towel. For chilblains, minion salt water baths. For ingrowing toe nail, cut the end square and close and serape, with it sharp knife or piece of glass a line in the center of the top of the nail go thin that only the inner lining of the nail is left. If this is kept up, the edges will raise instead of growing down. Corns may be - relieved by applying a mixture of olive oil, laudanum =don of wormwood, equal parts, arid entirely removed if you add the wearing of light, pliable, aerasedefitting shoes. Don't be afraid of the size /Nature intended you to wear. Why The Hair Falls Out. Dyspepsia is one of the most common atuses of baldness. Nature is a great econo- mizer, and when the nutrient elements furnished by the blood ere insufficient to properly supporb the whole body she cuts off the supply to parts the least vital, like the hair and nails, that the heart lungs and other vital organs may be the better nour- ished. Incases of severe fevers this economy is particularly noticeable. A single hair is a sort of history of the physical conditiou of an individual during the time it bas been growing if one coul(1 read closely enough. Take a hair from the beard or from the head and scrutinize it o.ncl you will see that itshows some attenuated places, indicating that at some period of its growth the blood supply was deficient from over work, anxiety or underfeeding. The hair falls, out when the strength of its roots is insufficienb to sustain its weight any longer'and a new hair will take its place unless the root is diseased. For this reason each person has a certain definite length of hair. When the hair 1.egins to split or fall out massage of the scalp is excellent. • Place the tips of the fitters firmly upon the scalp, and then vibrate or move the scalp while holding the pressure steadily. This will stim alatethe blood vessels under- neath and briug about better nourishmeieb of the heir. A brush of unevenly tufted bristles is also excellent to tufa upon the scalp, not the hair. The Sleeping -Room. The windows should be large -with one sot of dark shades and another cf light ones, that the eyes may be theroughly rested by darkness during sleep ; Etna where there arc any draperies they should be of light and delicate texture rather than thick and heavy ones and should baso hung that they can mailer be run alongoil rings and shaken rather than gathered in close folds to catch and keep the dust. Often, where there nre flowing draperies at the window, the toilet table also and its glass are draped in lace or some sort of em- broidered muslin, which gives a dressy effect to the room, and helps to keep the dust to some extent from the various little china, boxes and toilet articles there. In old colo- nial houses it was once the 2 ustom when there was a death in the family to draw the cartains &arose the mirror, as if sbuttiegoub 111 the face of such solemnity, the vanities and frivolities of life. • There should be a lounge in every sleep- ing -room that the bed may be- lett intact for the night if one wishes to rest in the 'clay ; and there shoul& be easenehairs and a sewing -chair, a writing -table, or a daven- port ;. while the little prie-clieu which torms a pert of the furnishingof every French lady's bed -room or boudoir is a comfortable thing to have forBible or Prayer -book or devotions. The pictures on the walls of this rooM should always be 'cheerful light prints and water -colors, and things suggestive of pure and gracious and lovely thoughts; and the books should be those winch are personal and treasured and like friends. , Another valuable piece of furniture that ahould be opened betore the washing -stand is a screen, a piece demanded by delicacy, even if one occupies the rooni alone'and surely by modesty and decency where there is more than one. It is not necessary that this screen shbuld be a, costly or elaborate construction; indeed, it would not ham g enonize with the rest of the room if it Were; but any Pretty chintz, such as covers the lounge and chairs, can be stretched with gilt reties on a small elothes-horse, like those used for the aiving of linen in et laundry, and will proye to be all that is desired, while the screen itself will add considerably to the beauty and sense of oecupancy of the r oarn. For the resb, this room is so entirely a personal and individual thing 13122113 113 should be allowed to represent individual tastes, and shoula be sacred to one's self and one's closest friends. • A Perfent Figure. The height of a person with a " perfect figure" shoina be exactly equal to the dis- tance between the tips of the middle fingers of eithev band, when the arms are fully ex- tended. Ten times the length of the hand or ee times the length of the foot, or five times the diameter of the chest, froin one armpit to the other, should also give the height of the whole body. The distance from the junction of the thighs to the ground should be exactly the same as from that point to the crown of the head, The knee should be exactly midway between the first named point and the ground at the heel. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle ileger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle line of the breast, From the top of the head to the level of the chin should be the same as from the level of the 01210 130 that of the armpits, and from the heel to the toe. Trottlna Children on the Knee. The practice of "trotting" a child on the knee of the nurse or the mother, though it has the sanction of long practice,has liot the sanction of common sense, and should never be indulged in especially with infante. Treating the adeltbody in the ratio of cor- responding strength, the exercise would be about egoivalent to being ourselves churned up and clown on the walking -beam of a good sized steam engine. Rotes of Note. Chili is the woman's Utopia. It is the only country in the world in which women are possessed of full political rights. Every woman over 21 can vote an ell questions. The street ears are all conducted, by women, too, The native women have not good op- portunities for education, but they are said to be possessed of fair metal ability, and boast of one native woman doctor. in man. ner they are 'modest and dignified, in person, small and delicate. Following the example of India, and Japan the Siamese are about to establish a seinen fcr the native girls of high rank under the management of English ladies. Another in- teresting educational experiment is that of a college for girls in connection witlmthe University of Sydney. Dress i eform has invaded the stronghold of fashion, Paris, the frivolous city. At a meeting ot the "Federated Fenn:dee of Fra,nce-" it was resnlvea by fifty women delegates from the different branches of the association to organize e calm -edge against modern costume. Theyave pledged to wear short skirts, to discard stays, broad hats, boots with high heels, and gowns with low Deelcse Boston has duly licensed her first woman undertaker, Mrs. Julia Brown, who has been qualified by the Board of Health to carry on the business left by her lately deceased hus- band. A Frenchwoman—Mme. Lacroix—has been elected a, member of the Academy of Madrid, an honor never before extended to a woman. The honor is due to the admir- able mural paintings executed by her for the Madrid Athenteum. It will interest the ladies to learn from thestatistics of the hair industry, whose cen- tre is in Paris, that the bulk of hair handled by the dealers is not supplied by the coif- feurs who travel about the Continent per. chasing the flowing locks of peasant girls. lt is estimated that in Paris alone ladies comb out daily and throw away fifty kilos of bair among the refuse. This the rag - pickers, 'who carry on a great trade in comb- ings. collect from the dust bins and sell them to the ChUfbniers. The hair is then rolled in sawdust, cleaned from nind, dust, and grease, carded, separated, arranged ac- cording to length and color, who sells it to the master Clatienicr, who in turn sel s it to the hair dealer. The most expensive shades are white, chestnut and blond, then brown and red. Mrs. Fawcett, the English lecturer, sup- ports her claim for woman's suffrage by stat- ing that there are 3S,000 women land own- ers in England and Wales, and that of these 20,000 are engaged in farming on their own account. The Baroness von Zuyllan of Paris has the finest stables in the world for her magnifi- cent horses. Even tnose of the great Czar himeelf do not equal them in magnificence. On Sunday afternoons she takes her tea in the stables, where down the centre of the great building a thick pile carpet is placed leading up to the tea room. The horses come up to the table for sugar from their mistress like pet dogs. The buildings cover three acres of ground. A vote was taken at a business house in Boston where 500young men are employed, to See how many were for woman's suffrage, and out of the /lumber only twelve were un- gallant enough to declare against it. If a similar vote were taken among an equal number of women on the same question it is doubtful if an equal numberwould be found in favor of it. A Dayton man whom the women adore with reason, is the ownerof a railroad which runs through the suburbs of the city. By his order all workiog girls and women may ride on his cars at half 'price, and the laundresses with their baskets and tailoresses • with their bundles travel free. • • A novel business parthership is that of the Rev. Leslie W. Sprague and the Rev. Lila Frost Sprague, his wife vam were recently installed as ministers dein, let a. Cenitarian Church at Pomona, Can • Found a Manacled Skeleton in a Tree. Near Tishomingo, Tex., recently a strange discovery was made by some woodohoppers who were working in the hills west of that place. They brought" to town a thelcton and blie section of a tree lo bear evidence of the truthfulness of their story. They out down a large min tree which was partly hollow, but the entrance to the hol- lowed pertion had Almost entirely grown over, leaving only e narrow slit in the out- side of the tree. When the tree fell totho ground it Was split open by the shock, and there lying in the centre of the broken wood, was the skeleton of a man. On one enkle of the skeleton was a band of iron'at- tached to a piepe of chain, evidently from the manacles worn when he sought refuge in the hollow tree. From all indications the skeleton has grown sufficiently to almost cover the opening through which lie crawled to hide, TWo of the ribs were broken in 12011 manlier onto lead to the belief that ib V218 done by a bullet. ' , BATTLE WITH BATS, minteas Experlence in a (lave meow nociceastte Raver, lie- amity. Eight miles east of Mount Vernon, KY., near Rockcastle river, is a famous group of wild, rocky, pine:covered hills, locally anew as Round Stone knobs. A couple of days ago Dr. J. J. Kite, a prominent young dentist of this place, went with, dog and gun into that locality to ehoot quail, and for a time he had excellent sport. After noon, however, a thunderstorm came up and he entered a cleep, rocky gorge with the hope of finding shelter from the menacing elements, Seeing an aperture in the cliff on his left, he entered it, and was simprised to find himself in a large winding gallery with steep and craggy walls on either side, and with a roof that rapidly ascended to a considerable neight. About twenty-five feet from the entrance was an object which arrested his attention. It was a gigantic bowlier, oblong in shape, and weighing hundred of tons, lying in an oblique posi- tion on a high, jutting ledge, with its huge crest upreared awfully into a gap in the cavern's roof. lt looked as though a slight ehock or the touch of a meadleeeme baud might displace it and cause it to come crash- ing down. Indeed, ib was one of those PRICEMPEL DEATII-TRAPS ofnature, grim and sinister, sometimes found en subterranean passages or upon jagged precipices. It in well known that Dr. Kite is of an adventurous disposition, also that he is a naturalist and geologist of no small repute. The eovelty and excitement felt in penetra- ting the unexplored, so fascinating to daring spirits, allured and emboldened him. Be- lieving that he should make some iuteresting discoveries, he advanced resolutely into the cavern. As he did so his faithful, dog sud- denly curled its tail between its legs and mule a speedy exit. At the same instant the doctor saw two fiery 'saes glancing from, a dark corner. Hastily rinsing his gun, he took deliberate ahn and let go both barrels simultaneously. He never knew what, the animal was or what became of it, for the in- fernal din that bellowed and rebellowed through the cavern was followed by an ful creel), suffecatieg columns of dust and dense darkness, and he was thrown violently forward and almost buried beneath Manes of falling sand. lZe scrambled to Ids feet again, bleeding and gasping for breath. Terror -struck and entailed lie realized that Ole huge bowlder above had been precipitated Into the pas- sage, clempletely blocking the corridor and shutting him, like the doors of a _ponderous tomb, forever from the light Ile saw no way to escape. mecTonmei DARKNESS enveloped him. Moreover, a vast tribe of bats, disturbed by the detonation of his gun and the shifting sound, began to swarm along the passage, numbers of them alight- ing on bis person. They were of remarkable size and fierceness, and seemed disposed to to attack him. So vicious did they become that he was forced to fight them off by swift movement of his hands. They swept forward in enormous flocks as if to es- cape, and that quarter of the cavern was quickly alive with them. Stunned and only partly aroused from their stupor, thousands precipitated themselves against the jutting rooks and feu upon the floor dead and flap- ping awkwardly about in their wounded agony. They swarmed on the doctor's back and neck like huge bees. The dashed against his face and clung to his clothosehis hair, and his beard, and their whireing wings, bellows -like, whirled the dry dust of centuries about in clouds, irritating the hunter's already exhausted lungs. Threatened with suffocation, he increased the activity of his movements. He struck savagely, and hurled bundreds of the squeaking harpies upon the earth and tramp- led them tinder his feet. The cavern's rocky bottom became so slippery with the blood and scattered ENTRAILS OF MANGLED BATS that he could scarcely keep his footing. That he shouldpreserve his equanimity under such torture was wonderful, but that be did is manifest from what now transpir- ed. Shaking off his fierce tormentors for a mo- ment he pulled off his coat, and, pouring (worn the combustible contents of a whiskey bottle which he carried in his hip pocket, he ignited it with a match,and. as it blazed up he began to whirl it, a circle ot hissing flame and pungent smoke, about his head. The effect was magical. The bats, unable to bear the light and thefnmes, spread their wings and began a precipitate flight to other parts of the cave. Surrounded by panic-stricken birds, even under theepectral light of the torch, Kite presented the appearance of something in- human, ghoulish, demoniacal. Issuingarom the pockets of his burning coat could be herd the sound of bursting shells, which mingled strangely with his unearthly cries. Yelling and rushing from side to side of the cavern, his hair tumbled over his forehead in tangled masses, and his face distorted with fury andaciespairalie whisked the fiery branclabout, searing, scorching, and burning many alive, until the vast ARMY OP RORRID CREATURES had been driven back into further recesses of the underground chamber. Nearly ex- hausted, his clothes and bo dy wet with sweat and blood, he began to consider the possibi- lity of escape from hi$ prison house. H any avenue of escape over the stupendous bowl - dee still 'existed, which was uncertain, it would have been inadnees to attempt to scale it in the deep, reigning darkness. He, there- fore, abandoned such a hopeless idea, and senile to find some vulnerable point at the side of the seemingly impassable stene bar- rier. By the light of a sickly blaze which play- ed over the smoking remnant of bis still burning vestment, lie picked up his gun and thrust the barrels into the crumbling earth and stone at oue side of the huge rock. The mass yielded by piecemeal to Ins exertion, and with the energy of a man entexribed alive and desperate for liberty, he worked heroically, digging up the oath and pry- ing away great fragments of reek. Hope never forsook him, and after seven hears of incessant labor, during which the work ot a Titan was performed he succeeded la making an enening large enough for his body, end thrtough this hole he equeezed himself. • In his bleeding and blistered hands he held the twisted and battered re- mains of a gun, and just as the cold but friendly moon arose behind the tall pines on an opposite cliff he passed out, pale, haggard, and grimy, into the chilly night. ---earanaseeeaensatets— A Boy. "They tell me you are a happy father." "Are you setting up the cigars?" "No, I'm sitting up nights. " ITEMS Or INTEREST: There are sixty miles of anew -she& on the Central Pacific Railroad. 113 18 estimated that 1800 pounds of gold are annually used in the United States. A coal famine is imminent in Nebraska, and western Iowa because of the scarcity of box cars on the railroads. Tee alien laws of Texas forbidding fort eiguers to hold laaid in that State have been declared unconstitutioxial. In Japan, it is said, there are apple trees growing four inches in height, which bear fruit freely About the size of eurrants. During the heavy gales the waves of the Atlantic are from twenty-four to thirty-six feet in height—half above and half below the mean level of the sea. There is a boom in Government land sales in the Northwest. The Canadien Pacific Railway, is selling blocks of land very rapidly. .A. Californian has invented a long-distance telephone of simple construction with which he is confident he can hold eone-nunieetion across the continent or uneer the ocean. According to Swedish papers the expedi- tion of D. Nausea to the North Pole has been postponea until 1893. The delay is caused by the impossibility of sooner finish ing the ship to be used. There are now twenty-one law firms in the United States composed of husbands and wives, and there are About 200 American ladies wbo practise Lew in the courts or manage legal publications. The German merchant marine stands next to that of England. In 1889, tbe lat- est year for whion figures bave been pub- lished, German vessels made 66,834 voyages. carrying 21,398,522 tons of cargo, The representative of Swiss dairymen has returned to Switzerland with options OR land in three counties in Oaliforma, the in- tention bMng to establish a colony for the purpose of developing the dairy industry. It is altogether shameful, the way some of tee Chicago judges in the divorce .court "rattle off" their so called hearings "and decisions. Meeks like the worst .kind of judical trifling. Twenty or more cane are adjudicated at a aingle session of two or three hours. Mrs. Fannie Washington Finch, a grand- daughtPr of Omura President's halebrother °banshee a ming her moat precious pesetas - lens a little silver hatchet made from A spoon 01000 owned and used by George Washington.. She is said to resemble her great nestle in features, and to be of a tall and imposing figure. Dr. C. G. Truesdell, wbo for twenty year bas been superintendent of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in his last report centime the public against indiscriminate giving to street -beggars, and denounces the " Multiplication of free lodging and soup homes which furnith inducements for the unscrupulous to practice imposition and Ilse in idleness." •ete In Galveston in sinktug an artesian well, which is now 2,040feet in depth, grey and green clay mixed with wood, lime concret- ions and pebbles were found at a depth of 1,510 feet. The age of the wood is estunated at 200,000 years by Professor Singley, and in the stratum, wilich is 106 feet 10 thick- ness, he found seeds resembling apple and backberry seeds. The New York Recorder says that in New York city about ten thousand sub- scribers are connected by twenty-five thous and utiles of wire, and they Ilse the tele- phone over a litindred thousand times te day. A careful caleulation shows that during the year over four bemired and fifty million ton- versations were carried on by telephone in the United States. Mr. AI chibald Forbes, the great war cor- respondent, holds hirnacif at the command of his editomin-chief at all hems. He has tvto entire equipments,one for cold countries, the other for the torrid zone, Firearms, clothing, saddles, are all ready, even to a purse full of gold and passports for every country on the globe. An order by tele- phone, and instantly he departs for -Zanzibar or Moscow, The Hermit of the Sonnbliok. The " Hermit of the Sonnblick," Peter Lochner, wbo last year passed the winter months in the observatory on the summit of that lonely peak, now &Mares that he will not stay there another wmter -unless he has 1 a companion with him. He would, he says, ; prefer a wife if be could find one. Other- i wise be will be content with a male companion, who could take turns with him in his constant task of reading the scientific instruments. This decision on the part of the "Hermit of the Sonnblick" really threatens the further existence of the high- est observatory in Europe. For the Austrian 11Jeteorological Institute lacks the funds to support a compilation for Lechner, and the small sum—about one hundred pounds a year—that is wanted for the purpose is not forthcoming from private sources. I believe says the Vienna correspondent of the Stand- ard, that the real explanation of the disconn tent of Herr Lecliner is that lie is annoyed at being forgotten by the public, who have neither sent him Christmas presents nor published laudatory paragraphs about him in, the newspapers of tale. Three years back he said he wanted a wife, and hundreds of offers at once poured in from all quarters, including several rich and many good-look- ing women, but he then laughed 2113 13120 idea, and continued to prefer the state of single blessedness. It would be a distinct loss to meteorological and pbysical science if the Sonnblick Observatory were to be closed,but some means will probably be foiled of recon- ciling Herr Peter to his lonely but lofty abours for another winter. All Her Own Work. Young Wife—I knew you would like the slippers, Harry, if for no other reason, be- callusteisIbainuatl—e ythotoin don't mean this is allyour work 1 Why what a telented little wife I have, to be sure. Young Wife—Yes, all my work. Of °ourse, I bought the uppers and Mary sew- ed them together, and I got a man to sole them ; but I put the bows on and did them up in the box. And do you know, Harry, I am just proud of myself. I didn't think I could ever do euch things. 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