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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-11-12, Page 6lliE WIFE AN OT ER Aultitudes of Young Single NV omen Also Do Their Part. Malay daughters have done virtu- ously, but thou excellest them all. - Proverbs xxxi, 29. This is what the wise man tells lib of the ideal woman of his daya A woman may be model, married erenle, but not. ideal. Tho ideali woman is the wife and mother. The; needel wife reigns as a queen in her home, exerting a tremendous influ- ence in life's battle. Of the mo- ther some one has well said: "The hand that reeks the cradle guides the world." Her constant presence aith the children in the home, while the husband and father toils it his daily task, gives her the op- portunity of exercising the prepon- lerating influence of good or ill up - sin the characters of the children lo the formative period of their livers, During these golden days e ideal mother will both by pre- :ept and example molcl the minds pnd hearts of her children into ocatutiful symmetry. THE YOUNG WOMAN. But there is a model single wo- raanhood as well. Multitudes of young women are single either by Melee or by force of circumstances, end yet nobly do their part. We need but glance at the great com- panies of deaconesses in our various Christian churches who have taken ap the work these lase years, as the Bisters of Charity have for a much longer period of visiting the homes of sickness, and poverty, bringing ;Lid and comfort in the name of Shrist, or the army of nurses in our liospitals who are as brave in their consecration to duty in the face of disease and contagion as the soldi- er who enlists for battle, Add. to these the untold thousands of young 1.110111011 who quietly and modestly engage in services to eke out fami- ne expenses, to care for father or mother, or to educate for life's bat- ele younger brothers and sisters St that many a man would say, if -µ,•*•.. ..... 1, he told the whole truth, "I owe ray position in life to my self-sacrnie- ing Meter." Shall we say of her as Gray in his "Elegy" -"full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetn 658 on the desert air 1" Nu, the sweet sacrifice of such a life is not a waste, but rises as an "odor of sweet incense" to heaven. THE IDEAL MOTHER. How much fills the bands and heart of the ideal mother. The re- sponsibility for rearing 'correctly, and the verde.' and proper training of the children necessarily rests up- on her. To see that the children are properly fed and clothed, and with tho passing years to educate operly and to be careful that the associates are all they should be, devolve largely upon her. Then there is the temptation to be too strict on the one hand or too leni- ent on the other, If the former, then the danger that when the day until a aewenaper reporter chewy- make life with him enudrable, comes when the hild is released e red their plight, and succeeded in expected my husband to be a strong c interesting the American Legation. mak on which I might lean. I did a sum of money was at last, raised sufficient to enable tho family to end their miserable enforced vacs, - ton. Those Americans are by no means in the Missouri courts because he the only people who, having left home for a holiday, have found was too affectiemate. To which complaint her husband themselves unable to return at the meet, answer:''Mytreatment of appointed time. Only last March an English clergyman, staying lily wife is not that to which she Madena for a short holiday, at was accustomed at her own home. the curious expeeience of hadbeing When we were married she thought her life heavenly; now she says she INVOLUNTARY IT clhoollwaorsulidn hhaivs epooxelociteta,uygootci loat-Pearson's Weekly, naolleflooirsbat JAPAN'S WAR ON THE PLA,CICE SOME HOLIDNYS THAT COULD NOT BE HELPED. People Who Went Away from Home and Had a Very IMpleasnut Experience. A year or two ago an American family consisting of father, son, and two daughters, arrived at Chalkis, in the island of itubuea, and put tip at the hotel there. They were evidently well-off, and ent money freely. They had been travelling all through Greece, and meant in a month's time to return to Athens, and thence to make their way home. Suddenly their regular weekly re- mittances stopped, and, cabling to America, the head of the family re- ceived a reply that, through the loss of a lawsuit, he was ruined and absolutely penniless. Tho hotel bill amounted to near- ly' $500, and they had no fund e to lionures was the subject of helium- settle it. Tho landlord allowed ation, but these statements were them tho use of one room in the successfully traversed by the injur- basement, and here the unforta- ed wife, who, having secured the eat° people were obliged to drag phonograph, produced it in court. cut a miserable ratistence for weeks "Evander loved me too well to SEEKING DIVORCE. - - S01110 Strange Reasons for Wishing to Sever the Marriage Never, surely, was stranger rea- son for 4 divorce than that lately redeemedby a Mrs. Richards, who, in the Chicago courts, applied for a decree against her husband, who is secretary of a local football club, co the ground that his club lost too many matches during the season. The husband did not oppose his wife's petition., as only when his team won was his home at all en- durable. . Persecution by photograph is a novel reason for demanding a sep- aration, Because Mr. Helium:, of Newark, N. J., spoke an impassion- cei address to a young lady into a phonograph, which he nightly plac- ed outside his wife's door, he was haled before a judge. Both he anel the lady who was the chief cause of the trouble declared that Mrs. from all parental restraint there c. a rebound in the other direction and liberty be turned to license; if the latter, the danger that the liberty permitted be abused. Tho American people know how the mothers of President Garfield and President McKinley were asked to be present when their sons were inaugurated -a tribute of love and devotion on the part of these noble sons, who appreciated the part their mothers had in their success. All aro familiar with the saying of the martyr President Abraham Lin- coln: "All I am I owe to my angel mother. Thank God for the oppor- tunities for woman, and thank God snore for the noble uses made of their opportunities. May not the words of the wise man aptly apply: "Many daughters have done virtu- ously, but thou excellest them all." REV. WILLIAM M. CARR. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON. NOY. 15. eesson MI. The Lord Our Shep- herd. Golden Text, Pea. e8. I. Verse 1. Jehovah is my shepherd -At first reading, perhaps, the substitution of the proper name for the expression -The Lord" may teem a weakening of the introduc- tory sentence so familiar to us in the older form. In the Hebrew text, however, the personal name of Israel's God, " jahveh," does occur and that name, with all of t_ss histuric significance to members if the chosen race, is; always in the Mid, if not on the lips. of the de- rma IIebrew of to -day as he reads he psalms. as it has been in the needs of his ancestors through the iecaales of centuries since the poem eas first written. Upon reflection end after a little practice in its ase, in this familiar sentence, the strength and dignity of the proper name over against the expression "The Lord," which in verbal ut- teranee the Hebrew substituted for the aurae of his God, will appeal to even a modern and a Gentile student of the psahn. I shall not want -The abunclance or want of many a flock and herd in grazing countries reflects the in- duetry or the indolenee of the shep- herd, his care for the sheep or his indifferenee to their welfare, quite as much as the abundance or spar- sity of pasturage in the vicinity. It is the voinecioueness of the feet that his shepherd is Jehovah which com- forts and eesseure.s the shepherd king of Israel amid the perplexing problems of his busy private and publ'e life, 2. He maketh me-Perlto,pe every shepherd in the Orient is intent on securing the greatest possible com- fort and the best possible pastures for his flock. But still there is a difference even between good shep- herds, and the emphasis of the psahn ab this point is dearly on the personal psonoun. Leadeth---The sbeeherd leads, he does not drive his flock. Beside till waters -The morning meal hue been enjoyed to the full and le consequence of their hearty feeding the sheep have rested for a while "in greets pastures," nbt is woodmen but in contentment and peony., Now the meoning.is far advanced, the noon hour Is ap- proaching, the sun is hot, and the hoop are thirsty, but the shepherd finds for them a 'drinking plane, Perhaps it, is in some protected nook along the course of the moun- tain 'stream where the .rushing brook mimeos fore roomette in a, quiet, pool; perhaps beside a deeP well, or perhaps en the gentle elopes 'of a broad, deep stream. S. Reetoreth my does the eeoling, refreehing drink itt noon- tiran, Geis -let's me in the Mehl - After the drink by stream or well, an af- ternoon climb on the narrow, well- worn paths of the foothills loading to some new grazing place, or to some familiar rendezvous awaits the sheep. But here, too, the shep- herd leads the way. In the religi- ous life it is the narrow path of righteousness that the trusting dis- ciple treads in following his Divine Shepherd. 4. The -valley of the shadow of death -Some dark and treacherous stretch of pathway through jungle of deep ravine where lark hidden danger and death. Thy rod and thy staff -Symbols of guidance and protection, the mere sight of which inspires confidence. 5, 6. A table before me in the presence of mine enemies - The evening shadows are deepening, the dangers to the right and to the left are multiplying, yet even now in the very presence of the lurking foo, the shepherd finds a safe feed- ing place where his flock may par- take of the evening meal. On every eide, iu holes and coves, in jungles and; behind rocks and knolls, wolves, jackals, panthers, and other enemies of tho sheep are prowling near. Yet in their very presence the sheep are fed in safety. My cup runneth over -The mea- sure of the day's blessings, with its bounty and protection, its rest and its, refreshing, overflows and pass- cth understanding or ability to a,p- predate. Yet while the blessings of even a single day cannot be measured or rightly valued, they still serve in the experience of the trusting soul to inspire a confidence that all will be well even unto the ond of life. This confidence is re- flected in the words of the closing verso of the psalm: "Surely good- ness and loving -kindness shall fol- low me all the days of my life." Dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever -Under the protecting care of the shepherd the flock has safely reached the fold. The night is spent within the gate in safety. OBLIGED AT ONCE. The proprietor of a hotel, hear- ing of the whereabouts of a guest who had decamped from his estab- lishment without goingthrough the formality of paying his hill, sent him a note: "Dear Sir, - Will you send amount of your bill, and obligee To which the delinquent replied: "The amount is $38,75. - Yours respectfully." THE RESULT. "Now, Willie, you know I told you not to go swimming, and yet you have been in the water," "I know it, ma; but Satan tempt ed me." "And why did you not tell Satan to get behind you "1 (lid, and he kicked me in," EIIT NEM MUM. "It takes a baby mos' two plane learn to talk," said Uncle Ebon, "an' den it takes da res' of its life- time to learn to keep rem UAW too meeb," • se....—en Time fruits ADO not unwilling to ae hidden by the leaveee not want a man to give me my way in everything," said Mrs. Evander L. Craig, of St. Louis, who last year sued her husband for divorce turned into a stowaway and canned across two oceans before he saw home again, He went to lunch with a friend aboard the big South American liner, Araguaeia,, which had called at Maderia, and, chatting over a cigar, nearer noticed that the ves- sel had slipped her moorings. When he got on deck, the ship was three miles from land. Being a mail boat, the Araguayo could not turn back, se the poor gentleman, who had, of course, no luggage, and only fif- teen shillings in his pocket, was carried to Pernambuco, Brazil. There he left the ship, travelled to cut a question. There is no seem - Bahia, caught a steamer, and carie I faction in such a humdrum exist. home via Portugal. In all, his ence travels amounted to 7,000 miles I Ghosts have played important Speaking of being carried away to parts in the Divorce Court. Mrs. sea, a couple of Maltese tradesmen Anna Rivers's life was rendered wentaboard H.M.S. Caesar ono unbearable by the spook of her hus- morning to collect certain money band's first partner, which haunted due to them. The old saying in the the house and made matters goner - Navy is, -"The first turn of the ally unpleasant, smashing the fur - screw pays all debts." However raw° and playing other outrage - that may be, the two tradesmen oris pranks in approved poltergeist were horrified, on returning to the fashion. At last, rendered deeper- clack,to find the great warship ate, sho sought relief in the Divorce steaming out of harbor. The next. Court. So, too, did a Mr. Bates, land they sighted was Gibealtar, when he charged his wife with car - and from that place they had to eying on a perfervid flirtation with gel home again as best they Iniglit, the spirit of Mr. Florence, the ce- The victim of as mysterious a lebrated actor, whom she had prom - case of "shanghaing" as ever was ised to marry at her death. heard of was Johann Magers, a "It is not unlawful for women to steward of the German liner, Kai- attract mankind with devices and ser Wilhelm der Grosse. Tho man attachments used to improve the got a holiday at Bremerhaven in or- work of Nature. Otherwise why ser to get married. On the way be- should not false hair and other fan twoon the ship and his bride's sities peculiar to females be made house he disappeared, and was not a ground for divorce I" Thus spoke seen or heard of again for nearly Judge Davis, when dismissing the a fortnight. petition for divorce brought by His story is that be was spoken Charles Kraus against his wife, on ire- ground that she had concealed ng the ship, and after that lie tc, by a strange man Pica alter leav- the membered no more until ho found the imperfections of a glass eye and a false log until after they had been himself struggling in a carol. He married. --......-.....*— — got out, and fouhd himself in Am- sterdam, but how he got there he INDIA'S GREEN FLY. could not imagine. His money was — gone, the name on his overcoat had A Serious Menace to the Comfort ben torn off, and his head was shav- of the People. on. As not a penny was left in his pockets, Magus was obliged to One of the evils of Calcutta is the tramp the whole way back to Bern- Plague of green 'files' from wbUl erhaven. the whole eity suffers at certain Not mysterious, but very tinplea- times in the year. The happy hunt - sant, was the adventure which he- ing-time of these minute insects is fell tho wife of a lighthouse Mapco- during the late autumn and 'eanly Lan in November, They 1906. Her bus- winter. are a serious mis- t•and took her for EIJ cruise to visit anco both in and out of doors. They that graveyard of the Atlantic, wing their way through all the open feeble Island, and, as the weather doors, into the houses, and into was delightful, she greatly enjoy- every room, making life ttubeer- ed the trip, She was so deeply in- ai-Lie• torested in the island a,nd its inha- Like most insects, the little green Intants, then she insisted upon flies have a great affection Inc the staying a night at the lighthouse flame. On occasion the inhabitants settlement while her husband re- have found it necessary to put out turned to the ship. During the all the gaslights -oven ab a pub - night; a heavy gale dame on, and the lic dinner -and to take their meals steamer was forced to leave the practically its deep gloom, illemin- dangerous neighborhood. The ated only by flickering candles, storm raged for a week, coal was Naturally, it is not at all plea - running low, and the vessel had to sant to go on eating with dense return to Portland, Maine. clouds of insects swarming over - In the end the poor lady was head, or roasted to death, falling deliged to spend nearly six weeks about one in patteking showers. marooned on the island. She 1148 They seem to opting into osis - probably had enough of lighthouses eme from nowhere; perhaps it is to last her for the rest of her life. almost dusk, when the lights of the The experience of Mr. John E. atreet-lanme aro becoming visible. Wand, a wealthy oemanian, may be Then, suddenly, the air, which a cited as a warning to holiday -mak- moment before was quite clean, is ens who go off alone on wanting full of myriads of green flies, drift - tours through country they are not ing in misty patches, and obscuring familiar with. In the winter of the etreet-imps. 1003 Mr. Ward went to California, Often the number of insects which on businees, and took a sheet hole. have been goorelled to death le so day to explore the country afoot, great that little heaps of them ton Tramping across the wild counery loot Inside the litanies: while bucket. inland from San Bernardino, he leade have to be 8"lb up fr°111 the got lost, and wandered for three reads nex t rene_erninng' days without food or mem', eubsieb. ing on the pith of the lavee of the yearns efor a man who well boss her plenty and make her stand round. About this oak -tree busi- ness, I believe that if a branch of some sturdy tree had been proper - is, administered where it would do most good from time to time I could have proved myself more worthy of the title of model husband." On very similar grounds Mrs. Byrning lately obtained a divorce at Denver from hor husband, a travelling passenger agent on the Northern Pacific Railway. "Ho has 00 strength of mind," she averred, "and grants all my requests with - WOMANISH. prickly cactus. [Te was nearly 'Von eould never elid) 11. womon's dead when picked up ny a party of belief 1,1111 what; burgles w mitt prospe(ors. By a curious irony of eeally like to got Would be the then Ahook bras redel les hiti.• be- rN, e ,1 0.:.Is di'. ‚.1 aro fete, Ma. Ward had two thousand baby. gem to fall out. 1 0111W. One Item the 'Killing and Dissection of 800,000 Reds a Year. The plague in Japan nest broke out in 1899, the easee numbering 230. The second visitation was in 1902 and 1903, the eases numbering el. The third outbreak occurred on August 24, 1905, From then until the end of March, 1900, the cases numbered 103. The moans employ- ed for fighting the disease are giv- en by the London Illustrated News as: (1) Collecting and purchasing of mines at five sen a head (or rather body, for the whole carcass has to be delivered). To insure greater activity a ticket is given to every man who brings in a rat. This tick- et is numbered, and may draw a maximum prize of yen 000, (2) The distribution gratis of rat poison on application, Ten cakes 's poison to each house. Delivered to 3,000 houses a day -30,000 cakes cf poison at an average cost of about yen 75 a day. (3) Cleaning of houses and go - downs (warehouses). (4) To prevenb rats from reassem- bling in godowns extensive repairs aro being carried on and all ground floors and walls rendered impene- tiable. (In eonneceion with this re- gulation the number of godowns considered in need of repair was 1,016). (5) The damming of holes in drains to prevent rats getting out. This process was also carried out on the sea coast near the Kobe customs house. (6) Inspection of patients. Doc- tors from the sanitary department make a house to house inspection and where any sick person is dis- covered carefully investigate tho nature of the disease. (7) Examination of dead bodies. (8) Injection of anti -plague serum in family of infected patient. (9) Strict isolation. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'E SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish - Wen. The Gleelark mines, Co. Tyrone, are about to be opened, A burglar just sentenced at Bel- fast SS 32 ,years oitt, and bus been :12 times convicted. At Donnybrook, just outside Dub- lin, the Fair was put a stop to in 1855, after having been bold fur ever 600 years. A serious fire (mourned at the ex- tensive wagon and cart building works of Thomas limiter, Brougham street, Belfast. A fishing boat was swamped at the entrance to Valentia Harbor, County Kerry, and six men belong- ing to the district were drowned, At Tide and Henderson's shirt factory, Derry, the workers, num- bering 2,000 girls, were locked out, the establishment to bo closed un- til orders from headquarters. The annual Industrial Exhibition of the Fermanagh Sodety was hold recently in the Markte Yard, Ennia- kitten. There wore over 1,500 en- tries of a very high standard of ex- cellence. News of a big cattle drive comes from the Co. Clare. It is stated that in the district of Doolin, not far from Lisdoonvarna, some 200 cattle and 300 sheep have been driv- en off five berms, The home of Mrs. Greathead, Lough George, was attacked at night recently by miscreants, who fired 20 shots into the building. The guilty parties escaped. During threshing operations at Proleek, County Louth, a man The rats killed isiTokio from 1900' named Short fell from the top of a b. June, 1906, numbered 4,890,000, ricis into the threshing machine and an average of more than 800,000 a year. The ratio between the num- ber of rats infected and the num- ber of cases serves to prove beyond a doubt that these little animals are the most motive disseminators of the disease; and the thorough- ness and care with which the in- spection is carried on is evinced by the fact that covet 100,000 rats may be dissected without ending a trace of infeetion, yet vigilance is never relaxed. Never for one instant do the sur- geons forgot that the very next one may contain microbes enough to depopulate the largest city. The marvellous rapidity with which the examination is done can be imagin- ed when one learns that from 9,000 to 3,000 rats are examined a clay, according to the number brought in. The cakes oe poison supplied by the Government are made of sweet potato, red pepper and arsenic and are colbred with methyl violet to prevent children eating them by mistake. The deeming of houses 15 carried out most thoroughly twice every year, whole streets being taken at a time. Everything is brought out of the houses and piled up in the streets. Dirt, dust add refuse of all kinds are carted away and burned, MONSTER SPIDER. Web is Strong Enough to Catch Flying Birds. Travellers in the mountains of Ceylon and India speak of a gigan- tic spider that is to be found there. It measures about six inches across, and is quite handsorne-if a spider can be that. The ander pare of the body is either bright gold or scar- let, and the upper part is covered with a delicate slate -colored fur. The web spun by it is like yellow silk, with a central not five feet in length. The web is strong enough to catch and hold a good sized bird. Sometimes a man rides into one of them without seeing it, and the threads wrap about his face like the silk cords of a real net. Having spun its web, the spider sibs motion- less, waiting for its victim. Pre- sently some large insect, or per - shape a bird, comes flying against it, and is- at once caught in the meshes, Then bhe monster runs fast across the net and begins throwing the coils around the cap- tive. It works rapidly and swishes the head completely wrapped up, so that the captive is first blinded and then choked. The bite of the spider is not poisonous, like that of the tarantula, but a man thet-ran into anio of these webs, and got nipped in the nose by the watchful owner, says its jaws are as strong as the beak of a bird, Here and there in the forest may bo found skeletons of birds hanging in the webs, the threads of which are strong enough to retain the bones after the wee. tiler has destroyed the flesh and blown away the feathers. THE NATURAL CAUSE, was killed immediately, his body being frightfully mutilated. The most bibulous towns in the 'United Kingdom are in Erin. Olen - reel -cannot get along with fewer than one public to every eleven pri- vate hinnies; Waterford has one to fiftteen; and Kilkenny ono to sev- enteen. The annual generaleabstracts of the a,gracultural statistics for 1908 show, among other things, a de- crease in the area under potatoes; a marked decrease in flax, and a lenge increase in the number of cat- tle and sheep. Many instances of the spread of consumption in Ireland are. due, says an Irish Local Government Board report, to persons in an ad vancecl stage of the disease return- ing from America to end their days with their relatives at home. OE 47,290 linen workers employed in the United Kingdom and Ireland in August last, 32,296 were engaged in Ireland (viz.,16,739 in Belfast, and 15,594 in oer places, 13,194 in Scotlaud (6,400 in Fifeshire and 0,- 794 in other places), and 1,800 in England. SENTENCE SERMONS. No perfection apart from pruning. Only those who love really know, Definitions cannot go beyond ex- perience. Tho love that springs from hea- ven swoops men back there. The keened condemnation of im- purity ie the silent pure life, The best fitting for divine work is faithfulness in daily work. The open mind is the only one that can stay in the open way. The lights of tho world do not in- vite the world to watch their smoke. No nem over died of poison by burying' the gall of malice in bis own breast. Spiritual wealth may often de- pend on willingness to experience material poverty; The potato cannot understand why roses are popular, since they cannot bo eaten. Painting people with depravity seems to be a poor way to produce desires for purity. People who relish mud are apt to talk about the need of realistic studies in morals. The gloomiest hearts on earth aro those that have never earned any glow of grabitude, Goodness cannot become habitu- al unless we will to be better than we 'absolutely need to be, Ho becomes a drag rather than a leader who makes his appeal to the prejudices of the people: When a mannete up to be a, guide to heavers just watch to see if Be goes before in the hard pleuras. it's en uphill propoeieion coun- teracting the six days' cared, with one hour in a Sunday school bane - men t. Dissecting Jews who have been dead 3,000 years semee to bo a roundabout way of analyeine mod- ern problems, I's o popular delesion when yout take sand Inc your teem:ration to imagine that you are putt mg it in "NESS Witte's conversation le 110 i11,111' ba,okbona. seimulating." "Maths because she puts Plante's A SILLY QUESTION, 'of spirit in her talk." DPW 11:: Do eon blow jeer 1 ire, no .t.J,' man? COSTLY MOOTING, Expense of Entertaining the King is $50,000 a Week. Shooting, while a capital sport in England, is not recommended for those whose pnrses aro limited, ospecialle if they have anibitions to he this hosts .of royalty. That sea- son just now in swing has cost sev- eral notable families 151 English so, elegy ab least 5i150,000 _apiece fur the privilege of 0111,ertaining his majesty for a week with the guns. The me- jority of these famines, however, consider the honor cheap at the price, and many of them are nisei - lied in doing so, for they owe to the King their social position in Eng- land, Of course, the $50,000,. which is the lowest estemate, of the cost of entertaining Inc majesty is not all spent in the week when he is on the ground. As a matter of fact, the •preliminarice acoount for the bet- ter part of the amount, Something like 895,000 is paid ais rent for the 111001'14 and coverts and at least $5,- 000 for the mansion called the shoot- iranbox. The moors generally ex- tend to at least 20,000 acres and the modern hosts of English royalty would hardly dare to invite King Edward to anything smaller. Such an enormous piece of ground re- quires a dozen keepers costing $5,- 000 a year and the preservation. of game, load, repairs and incidentals will mount for another$5,000. For the keep of the mansion itself an enormous figure is revised, especi- ally as a little army of servants is needed, frequenely numbering ess many as 35. - Then there is the emestion of the fellow -guests. The King is invari- ably consulted in this respect and in almost every case _a full deem are- invited to meet and amuse his majesty. These dukes and lords and generals arrive in their motor - ears each with his own chauffeur, footman and valet, while each lady brings her own maid and private secretary, and sunny of them their own private hairdresser. The King and some of the dukes go so far as to bring with them their own favor. its gun-leadees and royalty is al- ways accompanied by its private butler. It is not overestimating to say that each. guest averages five servants, and the hone of a shooe• ing party of a dozen guns would,. therefore, not have to provide for twelve, but- for 79 persons. When the enormous cost of ono of. those royal shooting parties is 'taken into account, it is not ma, prieing. that the hosts of his majes- ty calculate that each brace of birds will cost him something like $50 and that to get the cost as low as that, the moors will have to be plentifully stocked and his guests crock shots. "Yon young scour.drel," said tee L'Atic. I ceminly, Don't father, seizing his dirobedient yen 1, Ito yon are? ley the hair thew you haw to treat our 111001011,' ' Aid he gas e4 151.; Hee. I eove teat or 1-,130 dee. him several bangs on Lee care, 5 5 eeileeee 5.E about CEYLON COMBS. Men Wane 'nem But the Women are Innocent of the Adornment. Perhaps there is nothing in Cing- alese customs, writes H. W. Gave in "The Book- of Ceylon," that strikes the stranger from the West as so extraordinary as the custom which requires the male populatioa of the low country to wear long hair twisted into a coil at the back of the head andel, horseshoceshaped tortoise -shell comb •at the top, while the women remain innocent of the form of adornment. One of the great ambitions of the men of hum- ble position is to possess and wear o huge comb of the finest lustre and most perfect manufacture; and many mark their higher social po- sition with an additional comb, which rises to a considerable height' above their glossy coil. The custom supports a large num- ber of manufactures. The artist, in tortniee-shell obtains his raw ma- terial Utile the hawkbiTheurile, His methods of deeaching the scales were once so barbarous and cruel that a special law had to be passed forbidding them. The poser creatures used to be captured and suspended over a fire till the heals made the scales drop on, and then the turtles were re- leased to grow more. The practise arose from the cir- cumstance that if the shell were taken from the animal after death the color become cloudy and malty. This, however, can be ebviate.d by killing the turtle and immediately immersing the carcass in boiling: Water. The plates, when separated from tho limey part of the animal, 'are very irregular in form. They are flattened by heat and pressure. Tie- ing very Wattle, they require care - tut manipalation, especially as a• eigh• temperature, which would sof- ten them, thistle to darken and cloud the shell, They ,ore therefore treated at as low' a heats as is pos- sible for the week. Thickness is ob- Weed bY softening several plates and then applying pressure, when a mem of the manacle takes plane, limier neat the :hell is also molded into various. artificial forms. NEW WAY 01' PUTTING it Culotte 'Friend ds that yoree lady 1 saw you eith the other day yel*b aisitee2 ellejeeted Suitor (Many) -No, bet sho told the she was willing to bee in Teens; Align titan towns jievei• tors let engegoeseve-minee eme on .se