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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-6-6, Page 7rr"ra r tr rr,a'wr 0 0+0+0+04' i tl L OR, A SAD LIFE STORY +o+-04'04 o4.04.0+0+0+0+0+ 0+04-0+0+0+-0-4-04-(,)+0+0+0+ C11AN'1'i.R XXXI,--(Conlinuedl, "Stu) was up the moment t be- fore r the nurse, was holding her propped up site said she was so tired 01 10111. She had been quite laughing, the nurse said." "Almost laughing." corrects Sybilla, who bus forgotten to lie clown upon her sofa, 0itd is sitting on a herd churn like any ono else. "Quite laughing," continues Cecilia, "at her own urn] for being so thin. Sho had pushed up her sleeve to look at it, and hail said somelhin—soolelhling quite funny, only the nurse could not remem- ber the exact words—end Then, all In a minute, she called out, In quite at ab tered voice, "rho sails 1 Quick 1 Quick r mut her head just fell back, and she was gone 1" end she had not bid ane of us good- bye 1" cries Sybilla, breaking into a. loud wail, There comes a dreadful and incongru- ous flash 0f that ridiculous, which 1s the underlying all our tragedies, across Niles mind al, this lament. The going, "laking no farewell," naturally seems to Sybilla the most terrible feature on the whole ease, to her who his so repeatedly taken heart -handing last far'ew'ells of her family. "Who would ever have thought that I should have survived her?" possum Sy- billa, still sobbing noisily, and without the least attempt at self-control. Cecilia, who 1s silting with her head on her arms resting on the table, lifts her tear -blue - red 1:ice and answers this apostropihe in a voice choked with weeping. "inn always did ; he always said flint you would see us all out.." Again that dreadful impulse truants Mirth assails Burgoyne. is it pessi 110 that, at such an hon', ile can feel a temptation lo laugh out loud? But, later again, this horrible mood passes ; later, when they have all grown more com- posed, when their tears run more gen- tly, when their voices are less suffo- cated, and they are telling each other little anecdotes of her, aiding each other's memories to recall half -effaced trails of her homely ltindtless, of hey noiseless sell -denials, of her deep still piety. They bring out her photographs, mourning 0001' there being so few, and such old and long -ago encs. There are effigies by the dozen of Cecilia, and even totiching presentments of Sybilla stretched in wasted grace upon her day- bed; bel it had never occurred to any enc 1011.51 of ell to Amelia herself—that there was any need for her linage to be perpetuated. And now they are search- ing out, as treasures most precious, the scanty faded likenesses 11101 exist of her, planning how they can be enlarged, and repealed, and daintily franked, and generally done homage and lender rev - essay lo, Jim listens, occasionclly pulling 'in a low word or two, when appealed to to contra Or correct the details of some little story about het. But it seems to 111111 RS if his anguish only begins when the stream of their reminiscences, turns into the channel of her love for him. "Oh, Jim, she w0s fond of you 1 We were none of us anywhere compared to you ; 8110 worshipped the ground you hod upon, We all knew—olid not we, Syllilln?—did not we, lather?—when you used to 1x1 away for so long, and wrote lo her so seldom— Olt, I know 1"— ltnstilly—"tint you were not to blame, that you were in out-of-the-way places, -where there was no Post, but Thera were sometimes long gaps between your let- ters ; and we. always knew—did not we? —when she had heard from you by her lace, long before she spoke," Next it is— "How she tied up if any one said any- thing slighting of you, she never cared in the Mast if one abused herself ; site always thought she quite deserved it; but if anybody dared to sty the least disparaging thing 01 you"—ie is pretty evideut, though at the moment in his agony of preoccupation the idea does not Occur to Jim, that this has not been an uncommon occurrence—"site was like a lioness at once." "The saddest thing of n11," says Sy- bIlle, (eking up the antiphonal strain, "is that she should have died just es she was beginning to be so happy 1" Just beginning to be so happy 1 And he might have trade her heavenly happy so easily, since she asked so little—for eight years. The groan he utters is low i1, proportion to the depth of the foun- tain. i springs, a.l lain whence t sp ng , td they do not hoar it. If they diel, they would in Mercy stop, Instead they go on. "Did you ever sec anything so radiant as she wss—that last fortnight? She used to 50 f that she was quite ashamed of being s.) touch more fortunate than any one else, she seemed- always hying 10 make up to sus for ripe being so happy as she was. 0111 she was happy that last fortnight 1" This lime he does not groan, 110 seems to himself to have passed into that zone of suffering winch cannot be expressed or alleviated by the utterance of any Sotmd. Perhaps, byand-bye, Cecilin dimly divines something, some faint I shadow of what lie is enduring; tter she begins withwell-intentioned labor 10 try 10 assert lamely that Amelia. had al- ways been happy, well, fairly happy, as hallpy as 1110s1 people, You could not expect, im this dreadful world, to be al- ways 111 1110 best of spiells, but she had never romplalned. And, 0111 that last fortnight she had been happy, i4 was a pleasure to seen And, oh, what a com- fort it must be now to Jim to think that It tuns all owing to him. She puts out her hand kindly to hhn Eli she 81)001<s, and he takes it., end sl. ler,tly wrings it In acknowledgment, of the endeavor—however clumsy -10 lay balm upon that now lueradic'able word, Ile slays mast of the night willh theta; and when at length, overcome wile wearinaTS and soreow, they rise 100(11 their grief-stricken postures 10 go to bed, 1(11 kisses them all solemnly, even the old (lion. IIe has never kissed any of them before, except once or Hulce cilia on some return of his from the An- tipodes, and because site seemed to ex- pect it. • ,• • Three days later Burgoyne leaves Florence; and, as his ['rival in the City of Flowers had been relived by Amelia alive, so is his departure to companion her dead, CHAPTER XXXI. Time has steppe(. upon [mother year, not. much more than stepped, since that year's first month is not yet nut ; end Burgoyne has stepped upon anter eon- liuenl before WO again rejoin hint. 'There aro few, if any of us, who, in the course Of our litres, have not had oecasion to wish that certain spaces in those lives might be represented by the convenient asterisks that cover them in hooks ; but this Is unfortunately impossible to Jim, as to the rest of us; and 11e has fought through each minute 1111)1 its minulcful of pain (happily no minute can contain Inc tninulefuis) during the seven months that have elapsed since we parted from hint. At first those minutes held no- thing but pain; 11e could not tell you which of them it tt'OS that first admitted within its litho compass any alien in- gredient; and ho was shocked and re- morseful when he discovered that any such existed. But that did not alter the fact. lie has not sold his guns; o11 the contrary, he has bought two new ones, and ho has visited his old friends, the Rookies. Since Amelia's funeral—im- mediately after which he again (edited England—lie has seen no member of his dead betrothed's family, nor has he held any intercourse, beyond the exchange of all infrequent letter, wa111 A-frs, Byng or her son. From the thought of loth these latter he shrinks, with a distaste equal in degree, though inspired by different amuses : from Mrs. 13y11g, because he knows that she was aware of his Weari- ness of his poor love—that poor love 101)Onn, 11011 lie but known it, he had so short a hate to be w'enry of ; and poor Byng, because, despite the ocean of sor- row, of 100101se, of death that rolls in its hopelessness between him and her, he cannot even yet think, -without a .bitter pang, of the woman who had inspired the young man's Ihyslericel teems and sincere, though silly, suicidal impulses. Jim look that pang with him to the Rockies, slinging, even through the overlying load of his other and neknov- ledged burden of repentant ache and loss, and he had brought It back with him. He packs it into itis portmanteau as much as a matter of course es he does his shirts—ill fact more so, for he has once inadvertently left his shirts 'behind, but the pang never. It is the 20111 day of Janizary; here, In )3ngland, the most consistently detes- table month of the year. The good Jan- uarys of a British oc1ogennlrlan:s lite might be counted upon the thumbs of that octogenarian's hands. The favored inhabitants of London have breakfasted and hunched by gaslight ; have groped their way along their dirty streets through a fog as Clink and close a fab- ric as 1110 furs gathered e cd at nmd their chilly throais ; have, even Within their' houses, seen each other drolly across a lhiticous yellow vapor that kills their ex- pensive flowers, and makes Bair un- willing Paha-trees droop in home -sick sndness. Them is no fog about the Grand Hotel, Muslapha Superieur, Al- giers ; no lightest blur of mist to dins the intensity of 1110 frame of green in w'hMh its 1011110 face is set. It is not ea very grand, despite its unpromising big nave, as it stands high aloft on the hillside, looking out over lie bey exp 110\011 011 the town, looking down more iltunediately upon tree -lops, and on the Governor's ,Unh1100 palace. It is an old Moorish house, enlarged into an hotel, with 1t41ae arched windows 511111) in the thick walls, with red -tiled floors, and balconies, with low white balustrades of pierced brick, up which the lush creep- ers climb and wove—yes, climb anti wave on this 20111 of January, Frill the red -floored balcony over the creepers, between the Perennial leafage 0000000000000000000104e "00 6 Rickets.' Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones ▪ are not forming rapidly enough. a �q 40 Lack of nourishment is the cause. O Scott's Emal r on nourishes baby's O entire system. Stimulates and makes bone. 41, Exactly what baby needs. ALL DRUGGISTS, 60c, AND 61.00 49 440 of the unchanging lima, one 0411 daily descry in lite aZUr(1 bay the Ilny puff 01 smoke that tells that the mall steamer from Marseilles has ,safely breasted the Gulf of 140118, threaded her way altleng the Isles, and brought her freight of 101.0noh and J;ugltsh and American news to 1110•Ilands and ears of Ile Var. b us expeotent 1utionalilpes. To -day., blown by a gently prosperous wind, the boat Is punctual. It Is 111e lyugelle Per rare, 1110 pet child Of the 'l'rausagantlo Cuapuny, the narrow and at'oug-engllned Tillie vessel w'hidr'ik wont to accomplish the transit lu a period of lines loss by an hour than her brother draft. 'Feeley site fins thought hut one geed In the Grand hotel, who, having left the bulk of 114s luggage lo be struggled for by Arabs, and by the lhotel porter at the Domino, arrives ut the modest Moorish -feted hos- telry, having with British nierelfulnorss, walked up I ebreak-neck green lune that teens Muni 1110 stet main t `p solid (J in order to spare nor wretched lillle gulled, pmllpe(1 11011511 that has painfully drag- gi'd hila and his bag from the prier, 1111 Isis travelled straight Iin'ough from Lou- don—Ilfly-live stouts without a pause -- so that 11 is not to he wondered tit that his thoughts turn affectionately Swards a wash and a change of samara(. Hav- ing m101111011 from the case of unclaimed lepers in the filar two or three 11111 hear Ila address of Jamas Burgoyne, Esq„ he is ushered lo this room by the civil Mille fussy Mallen landlord, who, In order to enhance Ills appreciation of the apart- ment provided for him, assures 111(11, in voluble bad Frond's, that only yesterday he bud been obliged to turn away u party of eight. 11 is not until refreshed by a completed toilette --and who can overrate 111" joy of a balls after a journey? --{lint 1l 0c - curs to him to look out of whu:lsw. Ills room possesses two. One faces the hill's rich -clothed steepness, and a raw Of 001111g0 -trees col n•ad with fruit, and al whose fent tumbled gold halls lie. 13u1 the dusk is falling Inst, and he can only dimly see the prodigality of green in which the modest Grand hotel Iles bur- led, The other window looks out—not a very Mlle way lifted above it, for the room is on the ground floor—upon the red -pled terrace. It is grovipg very dim too. At the present moment it is empty and deserted, but the shahs studded over its surface in lallmtive attitudes, as if sociable twos and threw, 10110 had drawn together in chat, tell plainly that earlier in the day ft had been. frequented, and that several people had been sitting out on it. Jim's London memories are too fresh up011 hint for him not to find something ludicrous in 1110 Idea of sit- ting out of doors on the 20th of January. How pleasant it would have been to do so to -day in Hyde Park 1 He turns back lc the table with a smile n1 Ute idea, and, laking out a writing -case, sits down to scribble a line, Jinn's correspondence is neither a large nor an interesting one on the present occasion; his note is merely ono of reminder as to some trilling or- der, addressed to the landlord of his London lodgings. It does not take Tem ten minutes to pen, and when it is fin- ished he turns to have 0110 final look out of the window before leaving the room. How quickly the dark has fallen I The empty chairs show indistinnct, Outlines, and Ilhe heavy green trees have turned black. But the terrace is no longer quite empty. A footfall sounds --coming slowly along it. One of the wailers, no doubt, sent to fetch In the chairs; but no 1 an overworked Swiss wailer, hur- ried by electric bells, and with an immi- nent .swollen tales d bole upon his bur- dened mind, 130001 paced so slowly, nor did anylhiug male 01'00 steps so lightly. It must be a woman: end even now hes while gots makes a pistols of light upon the dark background of 1110 quickly oncoming night. A white gown on the 20111 of January 1 Again that pleasing sense of the ludicrous tickles his fancy. Silo must be one of the persons who lately occupied the empty chairs, and have cone in search of some object left behind. 110 recollects having noticed an open book lying 00 the low ptrepet: She has a while gown; but what more can be predicted of her in this owl -light? The radiance from Ilte candle behind him makes a small illuminated square upon the terrace, falling between the bass of the window through which the M0001811 Indies once darted their dark and in- effectual ogles., Having apparently a000mpliShc-d her errand, the white -growled figure oblig- ingly slops into the ilhunineU square, and still more obligingly- lifts her Mee and looks directly up at Trim. It is clear that the notion Is dictated only by tho impulse which prompts all seeing even - tures to luau Iigblwards, and no gleam 01 recognition kindles in. the eyes that are .averted almost as soon as directed towards him. Placed as he is. will. his back to 111e light, his 0)011 mollies, could mei have distinguished his features; and, after bet' one careless glance. the white -gowned lady turns away and dis- nppeor:s again into the gloom Site has one more oasts of light to traverse be- fore she reaches the motel porch, just discernible., gleaming in lis whitewash. at the far orad of the lessees,_; just ane more lit window throws its ch0gueccd lustre an the Iles. invsses Isis face against the hers of 1115 own lattice, and hods bps brcnllt until she has reached and crossed that belt -tale patch, Her traversing of it does not occupy the tenth pact of a second, and yet it puts the seal upon what he already 1010)0.0. Five minutes later he is standing be. fore 1110 case, hung on the wall of the enhrencc-hall, which contains the names, and numbers of the rooms of the visitors, eagerly scanning them with eye and (In - ger. Ie semis them in vain. The name 111 seeks is not among them. Had It not been for that ave ,ltitnutes' delay—that live mnhules of stunned and 51ipi l star- ing out. into the clerk after her --I must have met her in the hall. He is turning away in baffled disappointment, when the 111110 host again accosts him, Monster Im151 excuse 111111, but he 11111st, explain tint the list of visilors that monsieur has been so obliging as to per- use Is by no means a 11111or correct 0110. '1.'o -morrow 01000111g he shall have the pleasure of placing beneath monsieur's Dye it proper and complete list of Iho visitors ; but, in point et fact, there has been such a pres8 of visitors, ho has both dally obliged to turn away such large and comma it Taut families from the door, that time has been inadequate. for all his obtigatens, which must bo hisexouse, Btn'goyno 0. 006pts his apologies to silence, It would seem easy enough to inquire whether among the English visa - tors there are any of the mule of 1.8 Marchant; but the question 1tche in ills lhtr ' it is seven menthe since ho lush ptonolt)u:cd that name aloud, end hu eppe11rs, 10 havo lost We faculty of doing it. '1'111' host 00111115 Io his u1d. IS there perhaps a family --a friend whorl monsieur expects lo meet? But I111IISleur' only shakes 11IS head, and 111011'5 away. Ile hos ascertained than the table d''holn is at seven, sod it is. now half -pest Ilvo. fie has, therefore, only an hour and a half of suspense ahead of haul, 5110 will surely appear at the table d'hete lint will she? ('L'o ire continued), ON THE FARNL e FORMALIN FUI1 SHUT IN CRAIN. Three different lines of 1('e1111130111 111100 been recommended to destroy the smut spores of seed grain, viz„ hot wider, blueslnue, and foretells. Expert opin- ion stns 130\5 settled upon formalin as the best of all, and of the ltvo ways of ap- plying 11, vies, sprinkling and 11mnet'- sion, the former is favored by the con- .,ensus of opinion. The method is very siwpla, Spread the ggru111 out on the burn Door, and sprinkle till quite, incest with a solution of 0, pound of formalin (n pound Is a little less than a pint) in thirty -Iwo to thirty-five gallons of wa- ter. 8110001 over a few limes, applying the solution while the shoveling Is going on, When all Js web dolnped, shcnml the grain into a conical heap mid cover with old blankets tar two or three 110110s, Then remote the blankets mrd spread the grain mut to dry, stirring oee115101]ill- ly, It is better to mix each time just enough 10 treat the grain that sun be sown within three days. Ater Meat - merit, keep the. grain free from reinfec- tion by contact with bins, ,sacks or spores in 10111011 01111111y recd 1155 130011 contained. 1t is well to remember that eider for- malin or blueslone used loo strung weakens the vitality of the kernel. lin 1005 a subscriber reported having used three glulrters of a pint of formalin In five gallons of water to treat seed wheat, with the result that he had 40 sew his field again. Used according to direc- lfons, the formalin treatment is preen- 0011y lhannilass to the seed, and the pre- vention of 191(1111 represents an items that will handsomely repay the same ex- pense and trouble of the precaution. A pound of formalin, costing about. 75 cents, and procurable at any drug store, will, aoeording to Dr. Fletcher, suffice for 27 bushels of seed oats _or 32 of wheat. BARLEY AS A FEED. For years we have been convinced that. farmers underestimate the value of burley as a fattening or milk -producing food. Every farmer has pinned his faith on corn, and corn it is without further study or inquiry. A recent experiment in feeding iambs al the Wyoming Experi- men4 Station throws some light on 1111s question. Five lots of lambs were feel as follows : (1) Alfalfa, corn, turnips, (2) nlfnlla, barley, turnips, (3) native luny, corn, turnips, (h) alfalfa, turnips, flax seed. The barley fed lambs made the best gains. They required less digestible nutrients for gain than did lot 2 or 3. They also dressed out the highest per- centage. The corn -alfalfa lambs were close seconds. Now o1 the dairy farm there is always a necessity for seeding down with clover every year. Barley sown not thicker than a bushel to the acre hakes the 1ltest nurse crop for clover or alfalfa that we know of. On the Board's Dairyman farm Inst season our Bantle and Primas barleys made a yield of nearly 40 bushels to the acre with' only three pecks of seed to the acre. In some instances the counted from 18 to 25 stalks in a single stool from one seed. This light seeding of the nurse crop let in plenty of sunlight and air and yet gave a very satisfactory yield of grain per acre and the alfalfa seeding did well, corning on with a good growth after the barley was cut. As a feed for cows, ground barley and brat make a fine combination when fed in conjunction with alfalfa .or clover hay and corn silage. however, we believe strongly in changing feeds frequently to g1'0 the cow a stronger relish. On most lands her ey Will yield more matte, value than oats, and it i5 mitcll superior. as a nurse crop to clover or alfalfa. IHELI'FUL HINTS. 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BRANUM'S—Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Melbourne, Australia. her down among- the little chickens; now d'alclt the old hen fight that call Gtve her five minutes of "hen picking" and she will always make a greet circle around little chickens. Luck with Poultry,—It may be very seriously doubted whether there is really any snch 1hi1g as luck in the poultry business, although there probably' is no occupation in which bad luck Is more complained al, says a writer on poultry matters. The so-called "bad luck" is directly due to one or more of the fol- lowing causes : Ignorance, forgetfulness, laziness or negligence, Lice, Writes, hawks, caps, filth and all other troubles chickens are heir to, including thieves, can be successfully guarded against or promptly disposed of by a careful, ob- serving owner. Why bleats everything except 1110 one really to i:lame. Protection of Sitting (lens.—When a hen sihows a disposition to set it will be art advantage to induce her to go on a new nest and In a location away from the other stens, as a precaution and preven- tion against Hee. The hen herself should 110 held by the legs and dusted well with insect powder all through the leathers, while a few drops of melted lard should be well rubbed on her head, face and neck or seine of the advertised lice rum - dies should be used. The nest should also be dusted with insect powder. Tho precautions will insure better hatching because the hens will be more comfort- able and the chicks will be free from lice. when alley are batched. 0 A SISTER TO 1-Ti31, "You promised to be a sister to me, didn't you, Miss Spinks 1" said Henry 01 the evening party. I did, replied Miss Spink sweetly, "You moult it, I suppose"" "Certainly." "Then,' said Henry, "1 wish you to act the part of a sister by inking up the at- tention of that tiresome \liss .canes, and allowing rile to devote myself to the charming Miss Brown for the rest of the evening." Miss Sph115 wishes 111111 sle had not so lightly assumed sisterly oblignlfuns. GERMAN SPIES iN BELGIUM. Cour Non -Commissioned Officers Are Arrested. The arrest of four ex -non-commission- ed officers of the Belgian army, who are charged with espionage on behalf of Germany, was brought about in a curi- ous way. An advertisement appeared in a Brus- sois newspaper of April 10 for an in- telligent young Iran, a non-commission- ed officer preferred, who would be well remunerated for certain services. A non-commissioned officer who an- swered the advertisement was asked to peep an appointment the following day. Ile WAS met by a stranger, who inform - et him that the present: (fillet& situa- tion in \1000000 alight result in war between France and Germany. and that Germany wished certain informallon re- garding the numerous forts of the Meuse, espeei0lly Namur, Mnlonne, and Liege. The non-commissienrd officer refused indignantly. Several day's lifer the sol- dier encountered 1110 mon lin. the street, and gave hire into custody. He proven to be an ex -non-commissioned officer, and iris arrest was followed by that of three men who were working will. thin, The quartelie claim that they \Vero 0111 - &led by a private detective agency to work against France, and not Belgium, A SURE'SIGN. "Flow are you progressing with your muisic lessons?" asked Egbert. "Oh, very well indeed," replied Flo- rence. "I am really rapidly improving." "How can you be so sure of that.?" "Well, the family that lived next door gave up their house within a week after I began to practise. The next people re- mained a moult, the next nine 141301)5, and the family living there at the present time have been there just on six months." "Yes" said Egbert; "you must be gelling on." Naggs : "tau are a burden to me," Mrs. Naggs : "You are a beast 1" Naggs: "Yes, that's it; I'm a beast of burden." 100(0 YOU 01 TO DD Td --- -•/rte. sow,- wet Ma .%/.�- --^ ' 'AY mann., / % a r-: _ Y% .-7,--'•-',;-------- ..e W "—'-- p r_r,: 4 --<f,-',.%;1 s. rS-Sesso�f sssIv! F--aa•'-�ytv,1 DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD. Certain prominent cllaracleristies are 1(3 be looked for In each of the emitugi• ous diseases of childhood, Mitch usu. ally show themselves in mild as welt es settlor° cases. As some of West) mug Tidies are ' infectious In theiroarllel stage, it Ls best k1 isolate the child inn nitehu101y 1(0m the rest of the house- hold us soon as it show's any Indica- tion of not feeling well. Loss of hype - tile, languor, and fretfulness ahvays should nrkaouse suspicion.. continue 0 t 0 isolate for a day or two or oven longer, mild the symptoms are sufficiently din vt loped so that the nature of the dis• 131.511 may be decided upon. Even if the ailment should prove only to be a slight indisposition, until you are .certain of that 1111::1 11 Is far wiser to take every prec'I:uton 111111 to rim 1110 risk of let. ling a transmissible disease spread its. infection to 01114n' n1l+1111ATs of the fam- ily. A, sore throat may prove to bo a t comparatively trilling ailment, or' 11 !may he the beginning of a disease that ;d10111c•ihlh, result In a struggle for life or Keep !he quarantined child warm and wall nourished on a light, simple diet 1111111 further symptoms have, declared themselves. The throat should bo hh- st'erted and the feet and body careful- ly examined for any trace of eruption. Have the sheets and night clothes well warmed before putting the little 0110 to bed, so fiat should there be any rash lurking In the system the possible chill caused by rtlact w1111 cold bed 1111011 I cnmay (1)1. prevent its developing as it shmnd- 1'(11' EMIT throat keep a pan of ladling wailer in the room. Info this put one tcaspoonfill at a lune of the fol- lowing mixture:r I 1 Two ounces Ofl'lel• glel 1 i line, one-half drachm of oI1 of eircalyp. nus, one drachm of oarbolic \Cid, Should ih( case prove a transmissible disease scecl, if possible, a room on the top story for the sick room and forbid all communication with the rant of the mouse. One parson should devote her self to file care of the invalid to the exclusion of all other claims or duties, She should keep her hair covered with a cap, and change this and her dress and apron and wash her hands and face in antiseptic solution whenever she fs olliged to leave the room. A sheet dip. ped Is antiseptics should be hung be- fore tate door, that its moist surfaoe may attract the germs which otherwise might escape in dust through the cracks of the door. Whatever is brought to the Isiclt S"10111 should be left • outside the door, and everything to he token away put in the same place. The dishes used must be kept separate from all other table and kitchen ware, and must be scald. 0,'. before used by the rest of the house. The sick child's soiled linen rshould be soaked in hot water containing one- quarter of a .pound of sulphate of zinc and one-eighth of a pound of salt to every gallon of water. Then have iG' boiled in water to which sal soda has been added to prevent the clothes hav- ing a greasy feeling after they are dried. A pail of water with as much copperas in it as 11 will dissolve should be poured down the closet each time it is used. CARE OF ONE'S SELF. Headache 011110st instantly yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. A towel folded, dipped in hot water, quickly wrung out and applied quickly over the ,seat of pain will, in most cases, promptly relieve. There is no domestic remedy that so promptly cuts short congestion of 1110 lungs, sore 11100811, or rheumatism as hot water when applied promptly and thoroughly. A strip o1 Darnel oe towel folded sev- eral everal times lengthwise and dipped in hot water, then slightly wrung out and ap. plied to the neck of a child sldfering with an acute attack of croup, will use - relieve the sufferer in the course' of len minutes if the flannel is kept hot. The virtue's of the MI -water applies, Ion are recognized lo such an extent' that hot-water hags are made in a great variety of shapes and sizes. The latest designs are made to 111 around tate bow. Tiley are very effective 111 the joints such as the knee, alkide and ,elbow, and for 1110 treatment of ntylagia, pith- r11iles, rheumatism and similar af[ec,- 4)110. There is no Such thing as a perman- ent er man-ent. cure for corns if 1110 shoes do not 111 properly, Any 1)105.81100 or irrita- tion will cause their growth again. A formula that will remove then is nada of one-half ounce of desircated salts of tartar, ole-qua'ier ounce of bole ar ntenh0 and one-half ounce of resin oint- ment. Mix, and cut n piece of kid the. exact size of the corn. Spread the kid with the paste and apply to the corn, petting I slay on for several hours. Remove and soak the fool, when the corn should be soft enough to remove. DIET E0 -11 --INVALIDS. That all solid foods must be of a kind to he very ,n..ily digested - is what a doctor means when he orders the shot ICI be light, Everything rich and heavy --sud11 as beef, ,port;, goose, salmon, rtes—s11011111 be carefully eschewed, and <tily short -grained flesh—such as that of chickens, game, end rabbit—a1latV d. No "oily" fish—lu:rrings, mackerel, etc. sane into the category of a "light and nourishing" diet, nor tiny pink -fleshed 11.11, such as salmon. White fish is the only kind permitted, and .of these the whiling—the 'chicken of the sen" -is hest, For very delicate people it is bet - pet stewed 111 ntillc than hied, DELICATE, \','11110: ,"rhis paper says another 00• logen0rian is dead, What's an ()Mege- 11111r1011, anyway?" Flossie "I don't know, but they news(. 170 awfully 81111)ly. They are n0Arly 1,1 - ways dying," About two hundred oysters would bo 1'csluired daily to supply sufficient 11our- ishment for one neu5'on'