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SME SIGNIFICANT CONTRASTS BE.
TWEEN BONGS AND REAL ESTATE
MORTCACES.
IDIfftcufty of Subdividing a Mortgage and
Necessity of Examination of Property
Makes Sale Difficult, if Not Impossible -
prospective purchaser; of a mortgage will
have to' go 16 tho expellee of a careful
search of the title Of the property snort.
gaged; hewill have togo to the expellee
and trouble of -having the property vela.
ated, he will have to worry about the
question of insurance. In short, it js.,po
groat wonder that mortgages comet be
Sold for their Paco .value, 01, on .the oilier
hand, tho seller of a mortgage has to
nay- all these expenses when the pur•
chaser demands it, - he .la that much worse
oft, as theexpense adds to hie loss.
In the easeof bonds all this trouble is
All Right for Big Estates and Com.. obviated for the reason that the legality
patties -Moro Sut`tablo .investments for 1 mid' eeoarity of a bond issue are, ars a
Mile, carefully examined and passed upon
Those of Small Means.
The articles eontrlbuted by "Investor"
.are for the sole purpose. of guiding pros.
poctive investors, and, if possible of say.
Mg g them from losing
money b
tie y trnuIrh
it in "
wi!
dwle htit
-placing sour ea.. The
mprmati and reliable character upon of the.
information may be relied upon. The
writer of these articles and the publtoher
of thispaper have no interests to serve
in conuaotien'with this matter other time
those of the reader.
The question ofdiatribntio�n+p of risk is
one that few mortgage levelLors bear in
mind. As a rule, the average investor
`,has ` but limited means, and, therefore,
•cauaot buy - more than a fewmortgages
at the most. These, too. are altogether
"
ll1,t,•rre- to be in his own neighborhood.
The result id that when a .year like the
present comes -severe drought - in many
places, perhapp causing total failure of
the area in tho particular district in
which one has been loaning -those isa
very good chance that interest, at least,
will not bo forthcoming. It is hard; if
not impossible, for a person of small ca.
pital to get a saitietent number of small
mortgages to enable him to distribute -his'
riskr
P operly: Onthe other hand, in the
ease of many bond°, one can buy denom.,.
inationa of $100 and upwards. Tho fsarmer
who is willing to plane a mortgage for so
small a sum as that on his property in
On probability is in suchstraitened cir•
oumstances that the seuurity is very
doubtful.
Of course, in the case of a very large
.estate the question of proper. distribution
of .risk demands that a certain proper•
Mon of the money involved be put idto
sound mortgages:
As pointed out Iast week,: ,.the feet tbat
mortgages are saleable only with dila-
oulty, is a serious 'drawback In the case
of many investors. The reason for this
08 quite obviou8. Iii the first place, inert.
awe- 'gages,' that is, real estatemortgages, are
usually made 13. private individuals. They
are not dlvieable, so that it is impossible
for a purchaser to buy part ofa wort.
gage, In the ease of abond, on the
contrary, the holder ofa.thousand dol.
lar Wm;. Davies bond, for example, oan
divide it into ten bonds of $100 each,: eaoh.
of which is equally as 8000850 as the
whole., and it is issued by a compn.ny
whose ohit�roholdcrs, intheir desire fpr
dividends, a will see tl that
its o r
n nmg.power
tie kept up, if at alt possible. Then the
once for all by, one or more of the most
skilled lawyers in Canada. Pxoept inthe
ease of small municipal bond issnos the
issues are for large amounts and are.
therefore generally so. well known that
there is no need formorethan the mere
°tate
snout that
ono wishca to sell .in
order, at most tlmoo, to find a ready, pur-
chaser.
For - the small' private investor, then,.
there is n000mparisou between the two
classes of seouritiee.
The writer will, of: course, be accused
of prejudice against mortgages. . That
isquite true, but it is based on exyeri.
once. For, satiny' years ago I' loaned a'
small sum on a first mortgage. The
amount wassmall and on ample security
-residential property in. a part :of To.
mato which : was rapidly, growing in po.
pnlation and value. It so happened that
0 found it necessary togetsome': ready
cash for another and much more dear.
able investment. I tried to sell the molt.
gage.The first and only offer was for an
amount equal to only 80 per cent, of its
face value. As this meant a substantial
loss' of $200 out of every thousand, it was
naturally' not accepted. Finally, the other
investment, t, whit
hoved
r
P , profitable to.
those who "got in on it," had to be passed
by.
The,' reason why large companies like
insurauoe, mortgage and loan companies
And . mortgagee so attractive is this: In
the first Place, they employ large staffs
whose duties are so divided that all such
small, but important, details of a mart.
gage as insurance, etc., are 'attended to
as part of the routine of the day's work.
They pan afford to employ their own
skilled valuators who do nothing' else bet
pa'$s on the security ofmortgageoppor•
tunnies offered them. Finally, their year•
lyincomee aro 80 great and from such a
diversity of districte that. if John Jones
and, porhaps, a scorn of others Andit
impossible to meet -their interest pay
meats they are by no moans worried -
they let 'treat for a season, when, in the
usual course of events it will be caught
Detest!, therefore. you are willing to go
to a lot of trouble' and worry, not only
over staking- your original investment.
but in all the time it is •ourrent, ft is
best to ovoid mortgages. 08 °ours°,
many people have made money out of
mortgages -but not in a way anyelf.
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on
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, person would care to do,
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EUROPE'S TIPS NO.OIGGEII
NEED OF A FIXED SCALE STILL
EELTt BY TOURISTS.
Standards iii Different Countries--.
' C1tltJty:'AMen Sometimes
f. Disapppint.
Molt ti' fellees will agree that the
painful and disagreeable 'thing
abouttippl'ng is not the extraotien
of extra money from their pockets
but the calculation of the proper tip
and the perpetttalfear of ttoing the
calculation wrongly. We are all
weak minded whop the expectant
staff gather around the door,
It is a poor spirited traveller that
won't face secretary, Manager and
proprietor of he thinks he has been
overcharged; few aro they who do
not dread mores -than the gallows.
the imagined sneer or pity of, the
unelertipped' menial. The con-
cierge snakes cowards of us all.
The trouble is that there is no fix-
ed tariff, no regular scale. Hotel
tips vary from so many causes,
'writes A. G. T'hrossell in the Lon-
don -Evening Standard, that only
long experience and . observation
can teach the traveller what he
ought to• give in each case. Not
only elo they vary according to the
quality acid amount of service rend-
ered and the characteristics of the.
tipper`= -a teetotaller, for instance,'
might tip,'the heat' ' waiter extra
well' to thew that he shunned' the
wino list on 'principle not parsi-
mony -.but they also vary accord-
ing to whether they are called
`.`tips," "pourboire," `'tfnkgeld"(
or "bakshishe'
A SURPRIgED PORTER.
At Ventimiglia, which is the worst
arranged of all Italian frontier sta-
tions, the porter wants two' francs
for taking a very little truckload
of luggage from one train through
the customs to the other, But at
Riva, the southern entrance to
Tyrol, the grizzled' Austrian porter
regarded me as a reckless spend-
thrift when I gave him two kronen
(1s. s.
8d, • fo1
taki th
n
g.e same
load
through the customs over a hundred
yards of heavy gravel and up a
flight el hotel stairs. It was only
later I discovered that in Austria,
wherecoins of the value of one-
tenth and one-fifth of a penny are
frequent'` and useful, 50 hailer or
fivepence,`will go ell far to make est
porter or waiter smile as a franc
does in -France or Italy.
One thing to be thankful for is
that tips on the whole are probably
not growing larger. A few years
ago Americans got themselves dis-
liked .by their efforts to get special
attention for themselves, the re-
sult being to raise the standar,] Por
every one, but most particularly for
themselves; •.to an extent they did
not bargain for. Americans of
known' wealth were expected to give
huge donations (they could not be
called mere tips) after the shortest
stay.
For ins
F .
instance, the staff
of
well known hotel on the Italian
lakes was deeply disappointed when
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, after a
visit of two or three days, gave
"only" ton lire apiece.
MILLIONAIRES' TIPS.
They would not have been .as-
tonished if they had got a hundred
lire each; not realizing that Mr.
Carnegie's generosity has usually
a purpose. But if this tip was sens-
ible, another and even better known
multi-milliollaiee' carried common
sense to the limit. Mi•. J. D,
Rockefeller stayed at the same hotel
a week, and his tip to those of the
staff who did:. anything for him was
two -lire, Even F.rankfnrter Ger:
mans give more 'tan that; But
possibly, hie courier could; have
thrown light on, the matter,
Still Ieis adequatete the ,circum
stances, blit a• mistake etf igne ance,
was le tip given by a lady in Mel-
bourne.- She was estranger, on
het way from New Zealand to Eng-
land, and an hour br so before her
steamer - was due to leave she awak-
ened from an enthralling conversa-
tio.
n to the
o fact that the train had
taken her to the terminus of a short
suburban lino exactly In the op-
posite point of the compass to- the
wharf. It was as if she aimed at
Tilbury and reached Bammersllith
Broadway,
The train would st1rt'beet 'in a few
minutes, but still it might be a
close thing, She said to him, "Oh,
couldn't the driver start s1aner,
and -do please ask him to go as
quickly as possible 1" rind = she
pressed into the guard's hand half
a crown withwhich to bride the
engine driver' to ignore the time
table and turn arespectable sub-
urban slow into
ATHROUGH EX'TIr7:.rS,
TJio glum', I regret to say, said he
world do his best, Quite in accord-
,once with feminine nature that lady
is a 5810Cessful business; woman, and
of course she wants a vote.
Australian railway stations,, by
the way, ere (or wore recently)
among the few places on earth
where you do not have to tip for
services rendered. You Can
of
course, e
, IV
a
lk
oat
of
all
Ti .I
hotel and "forget," the er any
g s`c:rvants,
and they wont seize year luggage
or call the police or even like the
thickest sort of "hide" and a cer-
taintythat you will slaver want to
i
etay n that hotel wain.
There is only One authenticated
instance of a traveller 'caking a
dignified and applauded exit with-
out giving any tips. Be' too wee an
Ame1'ieen; not, presumably, a
plutocrat, but of a manner both
imposing and genial, and he left
amid a shower of smiles and good
wishes, Afterwards an the staff
were asking °sell other the same
question, to whish the sane anew . r
cable; `°No, he de'n't give me Any-
thing, but he shook hands with me."
So much for the power of affability
to disarm the predatory instinct,
Axosb- of us OCn only .offer up the
harmless,'necessary cash,
And what a handsome `snuck'°"
their many •'°miokles" make most
travellers are no doubt vaguely
aware. Itis by their tips that head
waiters blossom in due season into
hotel owners. For the sake of the
tips in big 'louses the concierges pay
large premiums to get the Position,
One Riviera concierge usually goes
for three months motor tour in
his A1,000 ear while his hotel is
closed in the summer. Another fur-
ther north, after playing the civil
and obliging servant all day, walks
out of the hotel at night to be pick-
ed .up around the °' corner by his
own private landaulette with Jiv-
erieel chauffeur and driven home to
his own private villa, which is not
.the leastdeierable in the neighbor-
hood,
SCIENCE SAYS ALUM IS UNFIT
FOR USE` IN FOOD.
1:n Great Britain no one is allowed
to sell alum hidden in baking -pow.
d'er, because the English law pro-
tects the people from this injurious
acid. .
Canada has not yet enacted a law
against tie use of +slam, . and as
alum in baking -powder cannot be
detected by its appearance, many
manufacturers are using this con-
demned, acid because • :it is a cheap
achtlterant:
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WEAVERS OF PERISAN IS N DUGS
PRODUCED ON THE VERT' RUD-
EST OF LOOMS.
Choice of Dyes and Materials -
Row They Determine Shape
and Pattern.
By ,the beginning of the seven-
teenth' century the Persian had at-
tained to the greatest skill in the
weaving of rugs, consequently the
industry must have originated at a
much earlier date. This theory
would seem to be borne out by the
fact that the weavers often sing
songs some of which are so ancient
that they are in a language which is
not now understood.
During all these centuries the
Persians have preduced their own
dyes, yet, strange to say, during the
past hundred yearn the secret
of making certain colors; particular-
ly, the dark blue so much admired
It is a fact at in
stomach produces the alum y
same die ---1 Dyeseofour in nsuper orest old uqualit s been
epecially results to the delicatei rods and greens, which even uro
organism as you will feel in your l can ingenuity has been unable to
-mouth by putting a tiny piece on equal, are obtained liy the people'
your tongue, Science of Kurdistan from flowers and
alum reduces
herds theIds
r
low of the•' 1 growing gastric � g gin thein mountains,
juices and weakens their power of The art of extracting these dyes has
assimilation, causing indigestion
and the ills that follow.
No housewife should buy a bak-
been known for ages to the people
of those regions; but alas, says
Mary A. C. Colquhoun in the Los
ing-powder made by a manufactur- Angles Times, these vegetable dyes
er that is afraid to print the ingre- J are being superseded by aniline
dients plainly on the label of each
can, and the wording should state
that there is no alum in disguise
inside.
SANITY AND BIG FEET.
New and startling doctrines are
constantlybeing sprung upon us,.
One of the latest is that .sanity can
be measured by the feet. It comes
from the Paris Academy of Sciences,
where two distinguished professors,
after patient investigation, have
arrived at the conclusion that sane
men have
large g feet and sane Wo-
men small feet. According to the re-
port of the scientists, eigtheen out
of every hundred normal men have
small feet; and out of 'a hundred
insane men, only twenty-four have
The former were Used by the'
Persians as long as the making of
rugs was in their own hands. They
gave great softness and riebness'of
color to the old rugs, and retained
their brightness, .so that the shades
in a rug
A HUNDRED YEARS OLD
are as clear and bright and beauti-
ful to -day as on the day that it left
the loom. But now the rug indus-
try is largely in the hands of
European firms, which unfortunate-
ly are introducingthe he thea e
r
p
aniline dyes.
If you have ever seen a Persian
rug fifty years old or older which
had been used only in its native
country you have doubtless observ-
ed that, though made of wool, it had
arge feet. The proportions for 1 the sheen of velvet. This was
women are .almost exactly revers- due partly to the excellence of the
ed. Out of every hundred sane dyes and the workmanship, but.
women, twenty-three have large partly also to the fact that it had
feet, and, on the contrary, only 18 never known the touch of a shoe,
per cent. of madwomen have small but had been walked over in stock -
feet. Thusis proved spend the inged feet. If a man should enter
ancient, popular opinion that a your 'drawing room and stand on
small foot is a beputy in women, the sofa and upholstered chairs it
Even the Chinese may be justified would appear no more outrageous
if, by reducing a woman s foot, you to you than it does to a Persian to
wily increase her sanity. ' - walk with shoes upon his
rug.
It seems i
Inpossible that such a
beautiful thing as it Persian rug
TIP TIPS. should be prodriced on the rudest
of looms, consisting, as they do,
merely of crooked, irregular beams
of wood roughly fastened together•.
The rude construction df the loons
explains why it is that every genu-
ine Persian rug of any length . is
more or less crooked.' This is be-
cause after part of it is woven it
must
be •
lemov "
ed from
he loom
and
Wh
.Iohnn
Y hew did
lowered; and on so 'crude an affair lout, and so muddy, too 7"
it get
it is impossible to get the warp of "Playing football-"
the second part exactly straight "Yes. I know, hut were you the
with that of the first ;part, . football 7"
Unitil quite recently each pro-
vince had its own style of rug, each
village its own pattern, and yet
each rug had an individuality of its
own and no two rugs Were identical
in design. The weaver copied de-
signs and effects from
Porters and hotel ,servants on
the Continent use. very ,ingenious
marks .on luggage directly a tip has
been given. The symbol indicates
to all other porters the character
and generosity of the traveller.
A curved mark on the top left; -hand
corner ,signifies that the traveller
ist Li
tC a -
"novice q OVICe
and inCx •1
'.
p
er
entad." A. diagonal scratch oil
the -bottom 'left-hand corner means
"very precise and disagreeable,"
A cross on the bottom 'right-hand
corner means P°exacting but liber-
al." Small vertical narks near the
lock indicate "magnanimous," and
a traveller whose luggage bears
this mark can be sure of the most
{iambi' attention. But a horizon-
tal line on the top right-hand cor-
ner shows that the person is miser-
ly, and that tips are very small and
few in number.
THE WARNINGOF FOOD EX-
PERTS AGAINST THE USE
r
OL� r
ALUM P011<llLBS,
stretch the warp, is more easily
woven than a wide one. The only
rugs which approach a square in
shape are those which of late years
are being made for foreign trade.
The customary arrangement of
carpets in a Persian room is as fol-
lows: On the two sides and at the
end opposite the ' door are rugs
about two and a half feet wide and
the length of the space to be cov-
ered. They are sometimes woven,
but more often gee of the soft, silky
camel's hair, which is pressed to
gather into a mass an inch or more
in thickness and has some pattern
stamped upon it. In the apace
between these three .narrow strips is
the real woven rug.
THE PRAYER RUG
has a shape or rather a design
peculiar to itself, the border being.
square at the bottom and having
an arch at the top. This arch in-
dicates the proper place for the,
prayer stone to which the devout
Mohammedan frequently touches
his forehead while performing his
devotions. Thus we see that cir-
cumstances Iargely determine the
shape apd pattern of a Persian rug.
The amount of labor that 'goes to
the weaving of a rug is almost in-
credible. In the finest silk rugs
there are hundreds, yes, sometimes
thousands, of knots to the square
inch. Every bit of the work is done
by hand. It is not surprising,
therefore, that the weaving of such
e rug of ordinary size requires
years of time.
Often the one who begins the rug
dies before it is finished and an-
other takes up the work, and as the
pattern was only in the mind of the
first worker the second part of itis
more .er less different from the
first. But these things, the slight
crookedness, the change of pattern
and the irregularities of design,
things which might be considered
blemishes inmachine made Eur-
opean articles, only serve to en-
hance the artistic value of a Per-
sian rug.
Until recent years the rugs were
not woven in factories by women
who devoted their entire time to
that work. Rather each village
woman had her own rough
loom
stretc
hd
e under a rude awning in
her own courtyard. She perhaps
devoted but a short time .each day
to this work, the few moments
which she could snatch from more
sordid duties, and this was the only
artisexistticence. bit of work in her whole
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LOOKED THE PART.
TREES AND FLOWERS
or from common objects in every
day use, 'S'Ometilnee a verse from
the Koran or a stanza .of armee), in
the graceful, intricate Arabic char.
actor, formed part of the pattern.
One reason why the Persian rug
is more beautiful than tho Eueop•
xllcr0 2800 manp eoueeeeeoe that can 18 that its pattern does not
unthinkingly use alum bakin -low- t' Prosont !solvers bots n t
dor gl + . , q, q s 'neer s in making biscuits, cake :and + er objects thrown up to a layer of
pastry, when it would only lake ad flowers or leaves strewn on the
little precaution to avoid doing se, 1 ground, oei•taiely a more suitable
Baking -powders that contain I style for a fabric meant to bo used,
alum > cause indiggestiori and nertio I under foot, and ono, also, which
disorders. English food expertsmakes iossible
t 1 Moro hatnoniolts
em
condn alum As an injurious edul-; blending,0± shadn Moroes.
tr.
e n o tu t
L fit£
or a
baking -powder
Th ',
in -I o rugs s ar. r
j g c always narrow in
gi'edic.lt. If you. are net careful ' proportionto their .length, This
you may be buying alum in your J isdue pal'l;ly to the fact that they
baking -powder, and .putting. it in ° arc lvot•erl for l' • ,
tomes ,el- • f that
ecli-
food. The way to be ewes is to read.? tines of eonstruotinn .maks f that
lsoiter. nolitcly%` lint firmly; end 11 the snip' the b alring,powder, same shape., partly 10 the feet that
railway61, ort
remind You. r. it calls for the ediEnts 100 .tot °,lain -i It narrow eerpt,t, since it dr•n.: not
• nti,lted on it, refuse to accept it. require a large frame on which tir
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When the sewers of the body—bowels,
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the blood quickly becomes impure and
frequently sores break out over the body,
the way to heal them, as Mr. Richard
Wilson, who lives near London, Oat,,
-found, is to purify the blood. He
writes:
hop some time I had, been in a low,
depressed condition, My appetite left
Yue teed 150011 began to suffer from indi,
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and blotches formed all over my skin, 1
tried medicine for the blood and used
many kinds of ointments, but witl'out
satisfactory results, Whatwas wantecj
Nos a thorough cleansing of the blood,
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eine that would accomplish this,
At last Or, tlforse's Indian Root pills
were
r hies'*A '
t to
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have ever known. Illy blood was ptin•
tied lri a eery short time, soros healed u
tug indigestion vanished. They alwaj
have a place in Icy home and ate looked
upon ns the family remedy,"
T)r, Morse's Indian Root Pills cleanse
the system thoroughly. Sold by alt
dealers at gee a box.
UNEOWJ UN tTE Cet1f14O'i."fw'.rt
Present State of the Woman 'Who
Longed to Be an Empress.
The mad ex -Empress of Mexico
kept her birthday recently, sed,
1n0mbera of the Belgian 507281;
family journeyed alit to the Chat-
eau de Bouohont to wish her
"many happy returns," rJ.'hiio Irish
seems a115Otlt a m00kery, says the
American Woman's Review, for the
seventy-first birthday of the Era -
press Carlotta.
Ever sine 1887 she leas ,heels,
mad, and rhos had to be looked
after as a mad woman, Her bro-
ther, Leopold II., took charge of
her, and she has never loft Belgium
since. They were devoted as o11i1-
dree to each other, and one of the
King'.is ohoieeat •t1'eaeuree "was a.
marble azure of 'tis sister as a
child,
For • years', the ex-Enxpreses was
lodged in the Terneuzon Palacee s
but in those days she was very:
violent, and contrived to set it on
fire and burn it down.. She has be-
come more quiet, 'but leads a
strange life. .She never goes out-
side her own park gates, and for
many year would 8ee no one but
her ladies in waiting. But of Iota
she does not refuse to see members•
of the royal family, though she
never speaks to them.
Fee e ma.d til ars
o a iitt itY:ion t a y She '•would be
poisoned through her food. So a
'special servant carried her meals
into a private room, ' whiclt she
looked. Then the Empress enter-
ed, locked the door and partook of
her meal alone. Now she is more
reasonable, and elle eats with her
ladies in waiting, She has lapses
of silence of years duration; then
she will begin to talk again, but
always of trivial things, and she
never refers to the past.
She reads books and papers, but
never makes any reference to what
site reads. All newspapers were
kept from her when King Leopold
died, as the news of his death
would, it was feared, cause a
shock. But she reads the journals
again now andmust know he is
dead u'
makes. reference o]' o t
t Ence i .
Shet
b plays the piano constantly„
but only just those pieces which
she learned as a girl, and though
a good performer she cannot be
persuaded to look at a new com-
position. She plays cards in the
evenings with one of her three
ladies in waiting; but always in
silence, and it is an unwrttben law
silence, and it is an unwritten law
game. She seldom speaks, and al-
ways impersonally, never using
even - the royal "we."
From time to time some of the
leading medical men make an ex
amination of her health.. Not long
ago she completely surprised one of
them by speaking to .him. She
called him to the window and said,
"Do you see a serpent coiled
round those. trees 7" The dootor,
thinking to humor her, said he did.
"And,' oho went on, "do you
See a serpent coiled round the
branch above him I" The dootor
saw that too, and many other
strange things besides—or said he
did. "Then," she cried, angrily,
"it is you who are mad and not :I ;
for I see none of these things."
She is extremely particular about
her dignity and exacts every ounce
of the prestige which was hers as
the Empress of Mexico. Nothing
makes her so angry as for any one
to refer to her as the Princess. In
all her weak moments she never
forgets her once great position. It
is small wonder that—her mind
being fixed at the moment when
she lest her reason—she cannotbe-
liele elm has changed in power.
Having once seen herself in a mir-
ror under her changed conditions. r,'
she screamed out, "leo 1 no !" and
became frightfully agitated. She
could not believe that the wrinkled.
bent figure in the mirror w•a8 once
lovely Prinoess Charlotte. Since
then mirrors have been abolished
in the ohatea.u.
CURED BY IMAGINATION.
It is astonishing holy the- -mind
controls the flow of blood to any
particular part of the'body. Here
is one way to prove it. When your
nose bleeds, immediately persuade
yourself to believe that .you are
running with all your might atp the
steepest fight of steps you can,
think of, or up a high hill ; that is,
just think of doing either of these
things, and doing it fast. Think,
at the same time, that you are
carrying a heavy piece of baggage
with both hands, and add thoughts
of any other bodily exertion. You
will bo surprised how eoon the
trouble will end, Why is this 7
Well, when we .really start to run
more blood .is given to the arteries
euplllving the,muscles of the legs
time trey .were receiving while at
rest, As the same thoughts, in the
nnind produce approximately +t,,,
same. doling einem, If one in merely
d'in'es of running but does not
rut the blond ,will go to the lege
anyhow, and awe f
mh
away the head
asdsi,
desired. d.
Simi'oi. •
ly, if 'ono Irolzs
ail a lemon, and' thinks of suelfi.Lig
it, his mouth filmed -lately 'eaten,
•
"I understand that after w
twenty years she _lrlarl'i
piing ,.,,e
str•uac
but