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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-7-15, Page 3s.. It d e sf4 Idd le .e it le' ae re or ga e av- re er hi ve PY 1m 1110 ite ran ane Its, ep- "is are ,er, �11t sm me ex - la NTS. s is (l d- n.y- ha Sir I Gish call ent't:. JULY 15, 1998 TBEE BRUSSELSPOST.. - O 1 I Young I I -O--o 0' -O -O 4 -0 O POINTS ON WOOD CARVING. Have you a good pocket knife, one which contains two blades, a large and a email one ? It, out, get one at once. The best is the cheeped:, This, and a ' quarter or throe -eighth inch ebIsel,ts arias sharp tools you will need, An ordinary mallet completes the outfit, For Inaterial, get a piece of soft pine, free from knots and about ao inch thick, p ick Now take some simple fpicture, which le plainly shaded, so that you. can get the relief points oorreetly, If you: are not apt at drawing, get a sheet of transfer paper et the station- er's, Place this Ripon the boards, lay the picture smoothly on that, and fix the whole in plans with a few pins, Now take a sharp dick or lead pencil 'anti follow the oatlines; the transfer papa' will leave them plainly on the board. Remove the papers and 11 the 'outlines are weak follow them over with your pencil and leave them dis- tinct. Now lay the picture handily by to refer to. Next Lake the ohb el, piece the edge .square on the outer line, and with the mallet strike lightly, driving the tool straight down iatu the wood. Do not •try to go too far at first, as you will be apt to leave a ragged edge, Follow all the outer lines this way, going over them again and again, until you have reached the background, (hie- ing away as you go. Now look at your picture, find the next points in relief from the back- ground; carefully eut straight down again, do not leave any ragged or split places, and chip this away. Work back this way until you have finally reaoh- ed the surface. Now you have it in the rough. Take the small blade of your knife, .and proceed to round over, shape out the curves, and carefully smooth as you go, constantly keeping the picture in your mind. When you: have finished, smooth the baclrground; if you cannot do this neatly, make you a stamping tool and stamp it. To make this, get a piece of square steel, about a quarter of an inch through and three inches long, take a three -cornered file, and file furrows atoms the flat end, then turn and file the other way, making it dozen or more lLttle squares coming toe point. When using this, tap firmly with a hammer. Now you will find this a great deal easier than you think. Try it and you will be pleased with the result ; and anxious to do something more difficult. Don't say you haven't the ingenuity, for you have, if you have patience, as this is the secret of a genius. A CAT TN PETTICOATS. • Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved her family of dolls very mach indeed. Sbe kept them in per - feet order. Each doll had its ward- robe of clothing, all neat and well .made, and the tidy little girl was so fond of seeing them gowned in freshly starched daintiness, that she asked her mamma to hang them up about the room by a ribbon tied about their waists, so that she would not crush. or muss them. Then she would stand back with folded hands, admiring them with such tender looks that her mam- a. ma thought there had never been such a very nice and careful little dear as she, But there was another pet that the little girl loved more then her dolls, and whom she treated with still great- er tenderness. That was a large black oat named Muff. Mule had played with her and the dolls ever since he was u tiny kit; and as she was very thoughtful and kind to him, never tak- ing .him up unless he wished to be taken, and never running after him or frightening him in any way, he trusted and loved her and let her do ,just as she liked with him. So she had gradually accustomed him to being drowsed in olothes,like the d.olla. For a long time she did nothing but lay a silk start over him when he had his nape. Then she tied a soft little hood very tenderly over his head. Next she put on a petticoat, taking care that the band was not too tight to be.00m- fortable to an easy-going, unfashion- able oat who had never worn any- thing lout a loose fur ovcrooat. Finally her mamma gave her a hong baby dress that she bad herself worn about eight years before, and it fitted Mr. Muff to perfection. And then she very gently put on all the garments, petticoat, dress, bonnet and shawl, and laidher live blaok baby down for his morning nap. And ieEr. Muff not only saw no objection to steeping in cos - tuns, but he seemed to feel. rather proud of it; a+nd ho washed his paws and purred himself off to sleep with a look of the greatest aatiafaetion gleaming out of his big, blinking yel- Low eyes. ,After sleeping two hours, he stir- red and :seemed to wish to get ap and walk about. So the little .girl very thoughtfully removed his clothes, as she knew he would never like her if she did not treat him exactly as she would like to be treated if she were in his place. ge stretched and yawn- ed, and went away for a walk, while 1,he little girl folded up his shawl and his gown, and his petticoat, and laid hem neatly in a drawer. h next morning at ten o'WLeek, when Mull got ready for his long nap, she took the clothes from the drawer and int he ut theta n as before, being careful to undress him, the very mo as gat up. An11 so it cams boat that every morning MOH would go and sit by the drawer and wait to have the olotlles putt on him before taking his nap. One day a'very Hinny thing hap- pened. Muff had been robed in a clean frock and was lying on the sofa with the soft silk 011(111 about him, which wavered bis bleak paws and grate ooneeateet his head, when tiro hell rang 5nd the clergyman was shown in, Ile would probably not have n° - r eexcept float the bundle on the sofa for e, slight movement under the skirls, which was caused by Muff twirling the end oe his tail in ills dreams, Thinking it was a baby the clergyman oxelaimad: "All how de - 1 ighLfull wbat 5 blessing to have a baby in tee home," and stopping up he turned away the shawl, with the evident intention of kissing the Miele ing child, When he saw' a great black tial instead of a fair, pink baby he dren' bask in such haste (bat he over- set a ahatr, exolaiming: "ant -new, just funoy 1 Who would have sup- posed that a oat in clothes could act like a Blaby 1" Male blinked el him disdainfully, than smoothed off his silky paws and wont to sleep again; while the little girt's mamma talked to the clergy- man of the weather. For several years Muff took his naps in this droll way, until the little girl grew to be a large girl and moved away from her home. And then. al- though Muff loved her very much in- deed, he could not be induced to leave the old house, and before very long he died, because he had no one who un- derstood his ways. It is very important to understated the ways of one's friends, whether they be people or oats. OUT GO THE ROCKERS. If 111e onus popuiar airs, "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" and. "Rooked in the Cradle of the Deep," are seldom heard nowadays at the fashionable gather- ings of the rieh it is not only be- cause those lyrics. are considered a bit "seedy," but also beefless it is no longer fashionable to rook. And the fashionable w'oinan is always quite pre; pared to immolate at the shrine of Fashion any oldtime fad or ouslam, be it never so previous, even to the ex- tent oC turning her back on tuneful melodies and a rocking chair. Yes, in fashionable circles the rock- ing chair is doomed. And this is by no means a sudden caprice on the part of the socially elect, Slowly, but surely, for many years there has been a or less insidious crusade again- st any article of furniture built with rockers. First of all, this new order of things was tried on the wee infant of the household -a force too insignifioant, of course, to rise up in rebellion against the enemy in the person of an aggres- sive and impressive medical roan, who grandly waved every comfortable era - die tittilating on rockers oat of the nurseries of upper tendon by declaring them unhealthy. This was only' the beginning. The elimination of the cradle was soon fol- lowed by the expurgation of the rock- ing chair from rooms et state such as the drawing room, dining room, and library, and then, not yet satisfied, fashion pursued her relentless way above stairs, even into the very bou- doir of my lady, which to -day, although rich in broad divans loaded down with the downiest of pillows and veritable sleepy hollows of chairs, is, as a rule, quite bereft of rocking chairs. But the worst has not been told, It now appears that the rocking chair - that soothing relic of the good old days -is to be banished even from the piazzas of fin de sieole country houses at fashionable watering places -New- port in the lead. Now if there is a time and place of ell others when and where a nom fortable high back rocker is at a pre- mium it is certainly on a shady piazza during a midsummer afternoon. But for sons inexplicable reason Fash- ion at present frowns on any of her devotees who dares inolude the delight- ful article in the furnishings of her summer piazza -an out of door draw- ing room :really, so far as the quantity of furniture is concerned. As to quality, of course, it is simpler, For instance, the majority of the set- tees, ohairs and tables are of splint, rash, wicker, rattan and bamboo, with or without cushions according to pre- ference, and some of the very smart- est specimens are upholstered with matting -very fine matting, indeed - sprinkled with various colors and de- signs. The newest models of chairs are low and roomy with high backs. Strange to say, there has been no embargo as yet placed on the ham- mock, but it is by no means safe to predict for just how much longer so- ciet), svill contemplate with complac- ency the undulating movements of that truly rural product of the manu- facturer. A most comforting conclusion, how- ever, of the whole matter is, that, if so inclined, one may still have the privilege oC electing to be unfashion- able and rook. WEDDING PRESENTS. After-dinner coffee cups of silver are conspicuous among the wedding pres- ents which are being showered upon the brides to be. Some of these little luxuries are of fantastic shape, fanci- fully chased and lined with gold; °there aro very plain, a narrow silver beading and stiff'., angular handle be- ing the extent of ornamentation. lFluted saucers, like shells, are rather pretty, and with these the cups have fluted edges which look like Eliza- When ruffles. The fatnoy for silver coffee cups extends beyond the magic 011001 a of millionaires, and one can buy ma eulps and saucers with a tray and a coffee pot of thane design for a sum out of all proportion to the air of lux., urywhich they give the dinner table . when brought in at dessert, 01 ' course, those inexpensive sots are made of triple plats, washed with silver, but in these daye•of fabulous wealth it is whispered many of the rich and groat nee triple plate rather than tempt their servants or live always in fear of burglars. 7:1IE WAY WE LOOK AT IT. There is acme difference between e joke and a mean trick. 'lhtat'et so, a joke la a mean treat thee your play on 110Otlaer fellow, and a mean trick lee joke that another fel" low pints on you. 3 uirrr(vmrrr�rmrrr'flni ir�awlnnvir�w�rl�+w� HOUSEHOLD. pW� d 8X OLD nvufr00urru00iNrn00‘wh0 lrtr 805,111 GOOD R1CCI:PIlS, Broiled L -tum, --Cut .Wim one quarter of uu inch thick, scald in hot water, wipe dry and broil over a clear lire, Garnish win daintily fried eggs, browned, nut In holier, but sweet olive oil, :Eggs and Toast, -Iron the capricious appetite, tired of eggs and toast for breuk[aet in the ordinary way, comes the recipe from a notable North Caro- lina housewife, ,After Meeting the bread an even delicate brown dip in melted butter. ,Boil hard es many eggs as are =steed, chop the whites and add to a rloh cream settee ; place no toast in a warm dish, pour over it the sauce and run the yolks of the eggs through a potato masher over the whole. Lamb Cutlets, -Either broil, braise or fry the lamb outlets as you please and servo on a mound of spinach, previous- ly rubbed through a sieve and heated with a little csrealn, white pepper and salt, and serve with the following sauce round: Stew a small cucumber in white stock till Lander enough to rub through a sieve, then add to it a lit- tle milk or white stook, and allow it Lo reduce till it is a pretty thick =tree; then ser in with this a short half pint of 1.1011 Mehemet sauce, season to teats with white pepper and salt, re -heat the whole it the uammarie, coloring it to w pale oaoumber green with a drop or two of green coloring, and just as you are about to use it Stir in a spoonful or two of stiffly -whipped Dream, Pound Cake. -Cream well together six aunees of butter and eight ounces of powdered sugar; add the beaten yolks of four eggs and beat again ; add one quarter of a teaspoonful of ground mace, the juice and one half of the grated rind of a lemon, one quarter of teaspoonful of salt, and seven ounces of sifted pastry flour. Beat hard, add the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs and beat again for at least ten =m- utes. As 110 baking powder is used the lightness of the cake depends upon the eggs and the amount of beating, and there eau scarcely be too much of the latter. 'Bake 01 three layers, and when cold put together with boiled ic- inrVine for invalids. -Five pounds of rhubarb stock to every gallon of water; rain filtered water is the beat; out it in slices and let it remain in an open tub nine days, stirring it three times a day; ithen squeeze it through a ooarse cloth, and to every gallon of li- qulor, add four pounds of brown auger, the juice of two lemons and the rind of one; also toasted bread and berm ; cask it, and when fermentation ceases bung lit. Strawberry Cheese Cakes. -Bruise a pine .of berries with a wooden spoon in a china bowl; add four heaped table- spoonfuls of powdered sugar and eight well -beaten eggs. Line patty pans with good paste, fill three parts with this mixture and bake in a well -heated aeon. Baked Ion Cream. -You have heard that old joke about warming ice cream? Itt is a joke, no longer, for it has been 6ouud possible to place a brick of it in a very hot oven and not only have it keep its shape, bat have it improved by the process of heating. It is only the Work oe two or ,three minutes. At a child's party last week it eves the dalntest item of tile spread, HOUSEHOLD HINTS. If you use a seater cooler in summer you eau 000l lemonade in it by putting the beverage in a. bottle. A piece of its will keep some time 11 laid on a Meets of muslin which is tied. over a bowl tight enough so that the ice cannot touch the sides or bottom Than tie another cloth over the top. The water from the melting ice is be- low, and does not accelerate the melt- ing, as it wo,uld if the ice were stand - tug in it. Silk stockings should be washed and rinsed in luke-warm water and wrung between towels. Silk underwear should be washed in warm soapsuds, to which a little ammonia has bean added. If flour is sprinkled over suet when while ironing they will save many cal- lous spots on the hands. If flour is sprinkle clover suet when it is being chopped it will prevent the pieces from adhering togeLber. Brooms hang in the cellarway will keep soft end pliant and wear longer than if kept in the dry air of the ]kitchen. For polishing oak, woodwork or fur- n[tltre, use raw umbar, paraffin oil, turpentine and whiting in the tenpin - tion of one pint of oil, ono and ono half gills of turpentine curl three table- spoonfuls each of raw umber and w'hit- in7he bast way to clean petaled wails is to use a large soft sponge. They should be wrung out of waren water in which ft little soda has been dissolved, and the walls wiped downward, going ovete a' small steles 5h a time, before it is wiped dry again with Glean house cloths, --- SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. The canning season begins with the strawberry. 'Though this fruit does not retain se much of. eh0 'genuine fruit flavor us some others, yet canned atrawberrtes, strawberry jam and strawberry pre5Orves are "not bad. Bat, all are better if nine, sound, not ' over -ripe fruit is used -fruit (bat should be fresh, too; in faot, the qual- ity ot the fruit largely dotermines the quality of: the aannec1 resultant, Don't, to save a few pennies, try to urs old rubbers on your fruit cans. When your Trait "works" you'll wish you hadn't. Save the 0a1ts wi.l:la tops that; don't fit quite snugly for the pick- los. If year fanuly 18 M51 (110 pint pees are mach nicer than larger ones. One gets ao tired of the mune sauce re- appearing legate and again. hough canned fruit for a time quite superseded preserves and jams, and Wer, much vaunted as morn healthful it has dawnedupOrl WA that'. they are in- sipid annealed to those preserved In to. rich syrup. The latter are more work to prepare 5110 more costly, but they are 10(0'e more agreeable to the palate, Currants, for Matinee, liutt are nu good oa earth wean tanned, are del.tr, lots in jam and spiced, Variety Is the spite of life, :Cry it in putting up your fruit 1.11ie year, and don't can every- thing in sight because it's easy, A broom will wear best if the brush is greenish, with the Ij•oom firmly fix- ed on the handle and no stables extend- ing below the sowing. If you, would dip the broom in boiling water. suds, 01111x1 a week it will last twice ns long. The ' ath toughens it. Spots on furniture, says an exchange, may be removed by rubbing with es- sence of peppermint or spirits of camphor and afterwards with furni- ture polieh or oil. The dark spots on dining tables anti sideboards will gen- erally vanish after an application of equal parts of olive oil and turpentine, with a brisk rubbing with a flannel cloth afterward. Instead of rubbing that kitchen floor any longer, cover it with linoleum, ev- en if you don't have another new thing for the house this spring. Think of the backaches and weariness you: will thus avoid! But do not gat a cheap quality. if you do you will very likely gall me uncomplimentary names. Do not get any at less than fifty cents per square yard. The good grades, as is the case with raattinga, are the only kinds that it pays to buy. They are warm; there is a slight elasticity about them that Le pleasant to the tread; they will last for years; they are easily cleaned, and the patterns are pretty. What more Dns you, wish with a 1100r covering ? Fifty Dents a yard/ seems to some a' good deal to pay for a covering for the kit,+hen floor, bolt think of the work it will save you and how long, it will serve you. Linoleum is a good covering for the dining -room floor also. MENDING LINEN. .Do not watt until a rent appears, but darn the linen. if passible, as soon as it becomes frayed, and thin, before the threads have broken apart. Use thread about the same size as the thread of the goods, or ;f tha linen has a coarse raised thread, a little finer. Where the linen has been torn or has broken evert, fasten under the rent a thin piece of linen cambric -a strong plats of an old hanrlkerchiee will do, Draw the parts of the tear together. Trim off the un- even threads, and with a little of the ravellings of the linen, replace tbem and weave the stitches be to keep the edges together for about en inch on each side of the rent, sewing them through the back of the linen cambric. If this work is carefully done it will be quite difficult to trace the tear, pro- viding the linen has been properly washed and ironed after it was mended. SHAKESPEAR1 AND THE BICYCLE. A New Demonstration That 1.116 llramatisl. Is Not orae Age, but of All TIMOR. Shakespeare, it would seem, must have known something about the W- eenie, for throughout his plays he makes frequent references to .the wheel, It must be thee Hamlet's fa- ther had visited 5 bioycle academy where beginners on the wheel were plenty, for his ghost said: What a falling 'off was there. This description, is paralleled by an- other in the same play, in which re- ference was made to an accident, tee new woman of the early sixteenth cen- tury being evidently the greatest suf- ferer. The First Player. says: "Break all the spokes and follies from her wheel." Then the Fool iu "King Lear" gives advice to coasters, of the merits of which 10.0de111 4,010,s may judge for themselves. He says: "Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs damn hill lest it break thy neck with following it." There were evidently bicycle thiev- es in these days, and owners had to guard carefully their precious wheels, .In "The Terupest" Alonzo says to the Ring: 'We, too, my lord, Will guard your person while you take your rest, And watch your "safety" In the same play Ariel undoubtedly heard the Sing and his attendants coming on their wheels when he sung: Hark! now I hear them; ding-dong . hell. '!'hero is no doubt. that: Achilies, in "Troilus and Cressida" travelled. on a wheel, for he says to his myrmidons: Attend me while I wheel. It appears from a remark made by the Ring in "All Well That finds Well' that the law required lamps to be carried at night, and that a viola- tion of it was followed by tLeath, He says: Let me live after my flame lacks oil, Chains were not noiseless 1.11r( bells were used in the days of the "Comedy' of Errors," as is shown by a conversa- tion between the Mroroio of. Syracuse and Adriana, which rtlua thus: '11 0ha(It, a chain; do you not blear it4" "What? 1110 delta?" "No, no, the bell," The availability of wheels in danger- ous service is illustrated in 'Tortol- anus" when the winged messenger says to C'enninius•- Spios of the Volsoes, Hold 111e in chase, tliut I had forced to wheel Throe or four miles about, else had, sir, Half nn hour since brought my re- port, The tire of which Shakespeare wrote was evidently filled with hair tusteae of air, anal even its color was of lin- portnnce, In"Much' Ado About No- thing" Margaret says: "I like the new tire within exceedingly, if the hair were a thought browser," I'nk's prophetic remark about plac- ing 5 girdle round the world in forty lninni.0s is full equalled ley that of Lannee 01 the "'Iwo Gentlemen of Ver- ona." He says: Then tatty 1 set the world on wheelie Surely tills prophecy has been fttlfilled, WOMEN IN WNRRIOR GUISE When Rev. Anna thaw a few months ago announced a desire to " become a policeman" 111e declaration was under- stood to mean a prompting to serve high moral purposes rut her than apre- Lerenlso for pugilistic encounters. The valorous inc'Iinatien of women-1V!lith proverbially fulls theca. at sightof o. mouse -le usually of u shifting sort. that admits of the adjustment of shoul- der straps on the person of a manly eubsLitute. Clearly, the mi asonaan spir- it is confined to It few localities 011 the globe, and It is prubabie that gener- ally when women have noted as war- riors it hes been through forced Dir manaa:mem of birth and, education, in- stead of an overweening :uneaten to fight. Not that woolen are hacking in prin- clpies of putrintism or loyalty to home and native land, but simply in the or- dinary run of events their round of duties has been prescribed in other fields than those of Mara. If ever they enter lite blood+y scenes of battle it is as ministering angels of comfort and mercy, and In this capacity womanly heroism has been well proved. Miriam the Bible heroine of war, was first introduced as a girl of 13 years, keeping watch over the frail basket among the flags of the Nile in which her brother ;Moses lay conceal- ed. Later she became at joint leader with Mases and Aaron, according to tbe Prophet Mime, and celebrated the Passage of the children of Israel through the .tied Sea w•ILh music and dancing. This was in answer to the singing by bioses of his great "Song" the earliest recorded poetry in the history of the world. Scripture relates that "Miriam, the prophetess, the sis- ter of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out af- ter her with Limbrels and dances. And Miriam answered them, "Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed glor- ieuely; (he horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.'' But Mir - tum was smitten by leprosy, and, ex- cept the record thee the peopi0 testi- fied estified their reverence and affection tor her by remaining in camp until she was healed, there is no further men- tion of her mull the account ot her death, which occurred nineteen years later. Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, who died about 230 years before Christ, is an example of hew a womanly na- ture may be imbued with the heroin or ambitious spiritof the age. Her teachings spurred hex' sons on in their public career, her undaunted courage prevailed against the weak tendencies of her children. To her honor her sons were associated with the popular cause, yet their revolutionary measures led to their violent death. Tha story of Coriolanus displays like instance of the domination of brave, womanly influ- ence over a eon's weaker nature. A name that is burnt into the scroll of history by acts of military prowess and by the martyr -pile of a May day in 1481 is that of Joan of Aro, who, through actually raising the siege of a oily of that nein, acquired the title of the Mein of Orleans. In ,Toan of Arc were combined the rare elements of personal beauty, purity of charac- ter, strength of resolve and martial propensities. Her career was partly in- spired by religious enthusiasm, but her power as a ooeimandaut and the great influence she exerted over others were elements in the fame that has pre- served her memory in lasting story. Another religious devotee was Char- lotte Corday, who brooding over the history of Judith, went forth to free her people from the tyranny of Marat, who, being horrified at his threat that the Gixondiet.s should perish by the guillotine, plunged a knife into his heart. Her belief was that this single deed wet docl off civil war, and one of her tieing decimations was: " great criminal has been laid low. The happiness of my country makes mine.' This was the eighteenth century heroine to whom it. was proposed to raise a statue with the inscription, "Greater than Brutus," So for the strategic powers of wom- en have been hardly touched upon. The adventurous journey of the daring wives of Weissberg has been chosen to fitly represent that quality of wo- manly ohnreetcr. 1Ve are indebted to the rich folk lore of Snabia and tbe war chronicles of Cae- sar far the relation of an act of ming- led wifely devotion anti courageous on- slnugllt. The ruins of an old castle at W'einsberg, thLs'ty miles from Stutt- gart, are fraught with an almost ro- men'tin interest because of what is chronicled ae the procession of the " Welbertrue," It grew out of the "strife between the Hohenstaufens and Wells. in 1180 Conrad appeared be- fore the castle and a struggle ensued in which Welf fell, wounrled, and sur- render was imminent " Without grecs or mercy," was the edict of the emper- or, and both town and castle were in- cluded ie his fiat. Then the high-born duchesses and wives of the town of- ficers dleeided to try the power of a personal appeal for their own safely, and elan that in their emus they might be allowed 10 carry with them "their most precen is possession." The enapete or woe kindly disposed neon the np- pearance of the women and granted them permission to leeve the besieged town end to take with them all they could carry upon their shoulders, Doubtless he pictured them as a t'e- treating foe bearing away loads of elot.hing, jewels and silver. When In the early morning rho gate's wens opened and the army of Conrad drama up 111 file, attended by Duke Frederic, the emperor's brother, they beheld the band of women, marching single file, led by the stately ducbess of the easl:le, Uta, with the 'cement ea Deka Welf uponi iter back! leach of the women was, similarly burdened with the husband, of herheart "car- ried Open hoe shoulders." Consterna- tion filled tbe mind of Luke Frederlo, and, turning angrily to the Emperor, he de0lerod that this was not the ea- turo of the compatot..13ttt whether in Adherence to the belief (het te Ring's word was not to be 11101 ee, or is con - vetoing' admiration of this exhibition emper- orwomanly faithfulness, (he e rat or allowed the procession to move on down the steep hillside and out into the country rued. 7h<tuvn d the deserted castle were left to the troops, and 11 is stat- ed Mil the emperor generously order- ed that: all this ordinary treasures of the women be collenhod and carried out to them. The ruins thee remain in Per- petuation of this instance of w00105- ly fidelity have ever shim borne the name of " Weihertrue "- woman's failbfulness. In a wcibpreserved por- tion of the ruins. the, castle was main- ly deetroyed, by fire in 1025, is an oil painting commemorative of this wife- ly flight, whie.h was presented in IC69 to the old Weinberg Church. Above the picture le the inscription: "area M:annee Herz tlarf sich auf sic verlas- son.'' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, -Proverbs, xzxh. 11, 44 DISEASES OF DIVERS. r,u'alyaix Comm. 0a ,Ertel Working at 41reat Dept its. An interesting case of divers' para- lysis is reported from Guy's hospital, London. The patient was working with five other men at a depth of 102 feat and welt down three times; re- maining below 20 minutes each time, the ascent occupied six minutes. Re felt quite well after therm descents, but at the fourth descent a heavy piece of ma- ohinary slipped and jammed him up against an iron beam. He did not lose consciousness, but triedto econo- mize the air at his disposal. After about five minutes Is felt suffocated, had intense pain and noise in the head and began to lose consciousness. It had been noticed on the lighter that the air tube was not working, and another diver went down and by following the line reached the patient and freed the air tube so that he could be drawn up. He felt very giddy and sick, but did not notice anything else amiss. On standing he noticed ufeeling of numb- ness in his feet, and this was present also in his arms, both as to power and sensation. On admission to the hos- pital nine weeks afterward there was marked loss of power in both legs. There was no marked wasting of the muscles of the legs, though they were soft and flabby. The knee jerks were normal. There was partial anaesthe- sia over the inner aide of both legs from three inches above the knees to three 1nc11ea above the ankles, the areas roughly symmetrical. There was no loss of sensation to pain ; the sensations to heat and cold were normal,. The patient, who had had three pre- vious attaoka, gave some interesting In- formation as to the difficulties to w hich people engaged in this ocoupn- tion are liable. He said that in his experience the paralysis only comes on after working at great depths and seems to be clue to too sudden altera- tion of pressure. The disease is fre- quently due to divers having to be quickly hauled up, owing to the air tube being foul. Old men, he thought, are more liable to these attacks than younger ones and the character of the water and the duration of the stay are not so important as is the age oe the diver. At a depth of 150 feet there was not much inconvenience, but ev- ery.two or three feet lower makes a difference. IVben diving at great depths 1110 men always have a sense of fulness in the head, buzzing in the ears, and flashes of light before the eyes. On coming up there is often bleeding from the mouth, nose, and ears. The patient also referred to the condition known to the men its "bends" -that is, wrist-drop and foot-drop. This usually lasts from tsvo hours to twenty-four hours, when it: completely passes off, unless it is an exceptionally bad attack. This condition was ascribed by the pa- tient to tbe bands applied round the ankles end wrists Lo make the diving suit water -tight. A FAMOUS RUNNER. Ran pawn 4' try to ('onniry Dearing Despatches. Fifty years ago the renown of Er- nest Manson spread all over Europe. His exploits made the pedestrian feats ot the present day look insignificant. He was a runner who first came into notice by running from Paris to Mos- cow, a distance of 1,700 miles, en thir- teeneighteenIn 1 8 days and hours. 886 he ran through Central Asia from Cal- cutta to Constantinople, bearing dis- patches for the East India Company. The distance is 5,615 miles, and he ac- oomplishod it in fifty-nine days, one- third oC the time taken by the swiftest 051'110501, A favorite employment for him was as the messenger-extraorutnary of sov- ereigns, He ran frau) country to coun- try bearing letters and dispatches of the highest import, and always beat ah mounvaysted couriers when matched ran. never w against them. He alked, but Invariably he took the direct route to his destination, climbing moun- tains, swimming rivers, and guiding himself through forests in a way known only to himself. His food was a small quantity of biscuit and rasp- berry syrup. His rests he took twice in twenty-four hours, when he usually leaned against some support, covered his fano with 5 handkerchief and slept. 1.0 he was compelled to remain quiet anyhead. length of time, he complained of giddiness and rush 01 blood to the in 1842 he was employed to diaeover the source of the Nile. Starting from Silesia in May, 1843, he ran to enrage, tom, then to Caere, and up the hanks of the Nile into Egypt. Just outside the village of Lyang he avaSeen to stop and rest, leaning againsta palm - tree, his face revered as was .his wont. IHe rested so tang that some persons tied to wake him. They tried in vain, tor he was dead. C'UItRldN'lT' NOTES, writer '1 til tee a tar A sv itt r in the rpr 11th C n y, Sir Martin Conway, declares that the. highest of all arts is the "Art of Liv- ing," This is the art wbiee compre- hends all others. and rightly esereiset would fill each day of every individual with beautiful eetinne, mukhng even the commonpiaredeeds of ordinary lite full 01 grace and charm, The manner of doing a tiling is often more than the 1.hiug dopa. and 0lllilers cease- quently belong as much. to art es dues architecture and palating, the dltfere once being that the art ie exer•eived tie a different material. The greetings of everyday life exhibit the presence or the lack of art in the individual portion as auroly as does the handling of his brushes or of his chiselby the pointer or sculptor. Are consists in the man- ner of the work -not in what. is done, bat in bow it is done. If we applied ort in this sense to the lives of the people, if the tine are cif living were cultivated, every roxnmun- ity would be composed of citizens who had always time for courtesy, living in houses as shoots as you please, but well proportioned and well built, barmen- taus in Dolor and tastefully decorated. However plain their clothes, they would: be suitable and comely, however s'tmplo their food itwould. be well cooked sad palatable. They would use no imple- ments that were not of good forms and perfectly adapted to their purpose. They might be mahout pictures or sculptures, but if they bad any they would be good ones. They w'oulcl speak their own language clearly and with propriety. They would make their landscape as fair as the nature of the climate would permit. and surround themselves with cities and towns clean and fair to look upon. Such in substance is. Sir Martin Con- way's description of an ideally artistic people. and he adds: "Assuredly the England of the nineteenth century has not been Inhabited by an artistic peo- ple; will the England of the twentieth century be better off 1" Nor, indeed, will he find them in any country, and yet he does nut despair that the evolve tag years will ultimately produce such a people. As birth and breeding are the products of wealth and virtue in the preceding generation. what is true of the individual is true of the race. If we desire to produce a community of well-born and well-bred persons we must set to work training and breading the generation that is to become their parents. We must begin with the chil- dren, and through them finally affect the race. As we toots back over a hundred years or more we can see what vast progress mankind has already made toward higher ideals of living, and the cozieratst between the England or the America o£ the eighteenth century and the England or America of the nineteenth century is so impressive encs so striking that it is not difficult. to imagine still higher and nobler achievements, Slowly, it may be, but quite surely how slowly soever, 80i- ence will make its way, and this re- volution in the art of living, will be rounded out. When drat has hap - pend the great: days that we now but dimly foresee will come, and all the fine arts will flourish and culminate together. OFTEN THE BEST SOURCE. Difficulty, adversity and suffering are not all evil, but often the best source of strength and virtue. Some men only require a great diffic'uliy to set to their way to exhibit the force of their character, and diffiouliy, once conquered. becomes one of the great- est incentives to their progress. It is not prosperity so much as adversity, not wealth so much as poverty, that stimulates the perseverance of strong and healthy natures. FINES' CYCLE ROAD. The fineal, cycle road in the world is the Grand Trunk hood of India, It is almost too level, the surface is ideal, anal the scenery magnificent, so says the Cycle. There are, in Lite seventy-five miles between Calcutta and 13urnwan, four places where refreshments can be obtained., There are at least half a dozen places of historical interest, and hundred or charming bits for the tim- e s; the railway runs parallel to the I road almost l he. whole distance anal shel- ter is abundant. 00 course the Heat. lu the daytime makes eeoling impossible, and most of the cycling Ln 111111) take es place in the early morning. A Gle\NT CANDLE. At the Stockholm Exhibition 0, firm of candle -manufacturers as their °eltib- it had an immense stearin° candle eighty feet high anis over eight feet thick. IL was canted by a brick steu0- j lure representing a onncllestiok. The i bt•ir.k was silvered whit aluminum bronze powder. A modem candle feels. cry cuts installed in the candlestick. CAUSE OF THE T3OU11T,.E. Daggs -W'hal'e 50011 for inamnnta, 1toctor7 , • II 1 t Doctor -How long Heys yeti !see' troubled with it 3gs- 011, I hav• en't• got it et, all but my wife baa, Sometimes she deceit'% There are Lon places in a newspaper 'gel, t0 5105{) until 2 or 8 o'clock in the where a man doesn't care to have his morning. nam e appear -the obituary column uulf ,Dor tox-fell t'd atdveee you Lo t ¢ the police sulrecord. going homy earlier.