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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-6-2, Page 3el JUNE 2, 1999. TPUB BRUS$E P .0 T. OWdaM1elNeliAN IMeWhWlydlM13 -t IIOU LDv ' BABY'S BATiI. For babies, ate I suppose all mothers ham, the daily bath is very import- ant, As a rule, all ohtldren love mu- ter, and it is not often tliaL a baby will cry when once in the bath, and it feels ,the warmth of the water all .over its little body up to its neck; this shduld always bo the height of the water in the bath—otherwise, although .ono part of the child may be quite warm, the other part will bo feeling very oold from exposure to the air, and then the child will become oross and dislike its bath, Babies require .111.0011 more warmth and feel the oold much more quickly and more intensely than we do. Great oars must be taken about the temperature of the bath. Nothing .frightens a baby so much as being put into water that is too hot, and when •once it bas been frightened it takes .a long time for a baby to regain con- fidence; on Lho other hand, if the wa- ter is not warm enough, it produces a feeling of chilliness whieh is very disagreeable, and Lbe child, in conse- quence, looks blue and is very shivery when it is Laken out of the water. Colds on the chest, which with young infante, very quickly take the form of bronchitis, are often than not caught in tbie way. The right temperature oe a bath for quite a young infant—that is, one that is just born—should be of about blood heat, 90 dog. Fehr. Afterwards, until the end of Lhe third month, it should always be given between 92 deg. ant' 98 deg. Fahr., never below 92 deg., towards the end of the third mouth it may be given between 70 deg. and 80 deg., and at six months old, uo1 before, it may be lowe'•ed to between 80 deg. and 70 deg. A cold bath should nev- er be given to a little child until it is quite eighteen menthe old, and not then when it is noticed that it gets wbat is commonly palled "goose flesh," and blue lips wben it comes out of the water. Everything should be kept quite ready beforehand for Lhe bath. The clothes that the child is going to have ori should be put before the fire, and the towels warmed, a cold towel should never be used fur drying a child, A needle and Bolton should be at hand ready to stitoh on any garment which cannot properly be fastened with strings or buttons, such as the bind- er, for instance. Pins should never bo used, not even safety pins, to fasten on any article of clothing for a child. In a separate basin should be placed a little warm water; this is for bath- ing the child's eyes and ears, for which soap should never be used, Before taking off the nightdress the eyes should be well cleansed with soft pieces of rag, which must be thrown away afterwards, so as not to be used again. Much of the inflammation ot the eyes that young babies so very frequently get, is due to carelessness in this 'wipeout. After this has beau done and the eyes carefully dried with a soft towel, then the ears must be attended to, care being taken that all waxy deposit is removed. After this the child's face should be washed with a soft piece or flea/lel. For the face also it is not desirable to use soap; a young baby sloes not require it if the skin is very well bathed. The nurse should then ascertain if the wn- ter• is of the right temperature and ready for the child's immersion. Before putting it into the bath the body should be well lathered with soap, par- ticularly between the folds of the body, as it is there that a young child will so very quickly get sore. After this has been done, put the child into the water, and bathe it all over, always excepting its face ; even the head should be bathed, and if the water is made to run off in a backward di- rection, there will be no fear of its getting into the child's eyes. neve minutes is quite the longest time it should be kept in the bath. There is a right end a wrong way of drying a child, as there is in doing anything else, and of course it requires to be done gniokly,therefore when the child is removed from the bath it should be laid on its stomach, across the knees, and the back and arms and legs rap- idly dried with the hot towels; then it should be turned over and the re- mainder of the body dried as quickly as possible. The nurse should then re- move the clamp flannel apron that she has been wearing, and replace it with a warm, dry one, so that nothing damp will come near the child's ohothes while it is being dressed. We aro told that for the good of Lhe child, and to pre- vent' Its getting at all cold, it should be both washed and dressed in twen- ty minutes; and this will not be diffi- cult when everything has been pre- pared 'beforehendd. DOLLS FOR GIRLS. Mothers soon realize how much a doll will help in developing womanly i in a lithgirl. Not only qualities s e le g 1S the love and care -taking that spring from the embryo motherhood, but the prao- tioal thought and handiwork necessary in furnishing a wardrobe and keeping it in order. With e. little wise direction, taste, neatness in sewing, and judgment in regard to proper dross will be called' 'into play and strengthened for future use in larger ways. •„ lteoently a little girl of ton was allowing her big doll and its clothes. ji " Mamma helps mo a little in cutting out the dresses, but I do all the sew- ing myself," aloe explained. There were print work drawee s and aprons, a , anci the mutest little wrappers, made from solid -colored dark rod print, And there were white. epeerns to be worn with these. ''Wea read with t ho al'tis- te "little woman," who said she thought hor doll looked the best of all in these, A yard oe narrow lace or a few spools of embroidery silk wilt bo pennies wall invedtocl, because they aid in then appreciation of woman- np ly finishing touches. The wisest gift -giver always gives that which will pull into exercise the superior qualities in the one who re- ceives tine gift. No gift will do more for a little girl than a doll, with the further addition from time to Lined of material for skilful planning and mak- ing Besides the knowledge of all that goes to make up a woman's wardrobe will be gained a self-rolianae in deaid- ing meteors of taste and judgment in dress. In addition a small bedstead, thougb it be rude In construction, may be made the foundation for doll bed olollees, and so an intimate knowledge bo gained of all that entere into the beauty and comfort of a bed—that ne- cessity In all lives. Mothers who have used the doll as an aid will find their growing girls much more helpful and capable in all branches of planning and sewing, COAL GAS AND PLANTS. Many people who wish to keep flow- ers where they think ornament lamest needed plaoe them in the parlor or sit- ting room where a coal fire is burn- ing. Then they wonder why it is that they have no luck with flowers. The leaves drop off and the plants soon be- come a mass of naked, or rather rag- ged, stenos, for so long as the plant lives it must keep, during warm weather, enough leaves to absorb oxy- gen during the daytime, which the plant gives off afterwards. It takes also the minute portion of carbonic acid gas whish is in all pure air, but if it gats too much of earbonlo acid gas, as it is sure to do in a room where a coal stove is burning, the plant suf fere mush a9 a living animal might tin- der the same circumstances. On the farm the best place to keep house plants is in the kitoheu, where a wood. are usually burns, and where all day the steam from boiling waLer In a teakettle or from the cooking of vegetables is always pouring into the room. The kitchen is in the farm huuse the principal living room, and flowers are more needed there than in. any other in the house. There is no- thing so good for house plants as moist, warm air. It proveuts the dust which would cover their leaves in a dry atmosphere, and if the plants can be exposed to sunlight near a south window during the day, they will grow as vigorously as they did out of doors in summer, but the plant that has pro- duced abundant flowers in winter should not be used for winter flower- ing, nor vice versa. All the year growth exhausts them and they need a rest. Even in Florida, in localities where it never freezes, most kinds of plants take a rest and almost cease to grow during the month when the days are shortest. THREE CAKES. Cream Almond Cake—One-half cup butter, 1 cup powdered sugar, whites 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon bale- ing powder, 1-2 oup of milk and 1-2 teaspoon almond flavoring. Cream the butter, add the Auger gradually, cream thoroughly, sift flour and bak- ing powder together, add milk and flour alternately, add flavor, out in stiff whites. Bake in two layers. Hickory Nut Cake—One-half oup butter, 2 cups flour, 11-2 cups sugar, 3-4 oup' water, whites 4 eggs, 1 cup hickory nut kernels, 1 teaspoon bak- ing powder. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, than add the water and flour, stir until smooth.; add 1-2 the well -beaten whites, then the nuts, then the remainder of the whites and the baking powder. Pour into square flat pans lined with buttered paper to the depth of 3 inches and bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes. Cocoa Cake—One oup flour, in which mix 2-3 oup cocoon, or less and 1-2 tea- spoon cream tartar. In 1 cup sugar, work 1-4 oup butter, 2 eggs, 1-2 cup milk, in which dissolve 1-4 teaspoon soda. Bake In two thin loaves and put together with whitteicing. AMUSING BLUNDERS. Some Langhabic Instances of,tbsent•.1ltad. educes. The lack of co-ordination between brew and muscle leads to many a laughable mistake, a few instances of which are here given: A woman recently went to purchase some Hamburg trimming, and wishing to put on her glasses opened her um - broth instead and having a merry heart as well as tricky biceps, she hurried riway from the counter con- vulsed with laughter—the salesman no doubt thinking his would-be customer was something of a lunatic, A Leacher in a well-known academy has a habit of carrying his umbrella over his shoulder like a gun, mud one cloudy morning picking lop a broom instead of the umbrella, he hurriedly walked off with it and would no doubt have gone direoLly Lo prayers so ae- oured had not Cts wife called him back A young lady took an dee cream sods, and took the long spoon away wit, her, discovering bar mistake eviler she undertook to fan herself with the spoon at (.ace counter, Who that uses pail and mucilage has aol; dipped Lite brush hi the ink, and sprawled over the Isapar inadvertently dipped in the wrong bottleI Perfectly sober and perfaotly. sane men have walked in at neighbors' doors and ton entered the dining - room before discovering that they wore perhaps several doors from their own, These errors of hand, eye and oar would afford a valuable study to the 1 ist, but they servo bei to c ae a x s h 1 peepos/ perhaps In giving occasion for laughter as we jog on, 11TCYCL)3 RIDING AN OFFENSE, It is eorolsidemed a heinous offones to ride a bieyele enywhore near the city of Co asLanlinoplo. A NOVEL IDEA. alert Onto Tasks May Determine Ilia Olive. Ilea or the A, cite /:nrreals, A British geographical society is about to make a departure In investi- gating the pules. Some years age Cap- tain George Malnuote, the fumuus explorer., was wrecked un an ice floe somewhere in the ,Arctic Sea. His ship fell to pieces under the pounding of the billows, but he and the crew escaped in a boat. The fragments of bis Draft ware never found, yet on pulling away a strong current toward the pole was encountered. ;This sot the explorer to thinking. If the pieces of his ship were carried off into Lbe unknown seas, why might human agencies be not? So far the only reason for sending out expeditions northward has been mainly for the purpose of observing a daily record of events, such as latitude, longitude, soundings, daily drift, find- ing the Arctic Ocean's bottom whore possible, and so forth, with the possi- bility of discovering the North Pole, A far-seeing geographer asks: "Why undergo tills human risk when it can be obviated with the use of oak casks?" It is never too late to adopt a good Idea, and so, acting on the suggestion, the sooieLy in question is about to set afloat 100 specially made casks on Arc- tic waters, These casks are to be made on the principle of a spindle, oonioal shaped at each end, of 20 gale lens capacity, and iron beeped. They are to be set afloat In Behring Strait, and it is thought that at the end of four or five years they may be expect- ed to turn up at Spitsbergen and Greenland, during which period they will have travelled round the pule. Should pr'esenb geographical deduc- Lions be correot, these casks may do- munstrate the existence of a current, far enough to the north and west to meet the polar drifts whish run south- ward along the east coast of Green- land, whence IL turns to the westward, Welke to the southward, where, as part at the Labrador pack, it eventual- ly finds its way into the Atlantic Ocean. You can trace this route in the Arctic regions on any good map of the world. So far as regards the stability of the easke to stand the great strain they are sure to be subjected to on their novel voyage, they will be made of heavy oak staves one and a quarter inches thick, bound round with heavy iron hoops three sixteenths of an inch thick and two inches wide. Coated with a solution of pitch and resin, the cask,: hilt be almost oorrosive proof. The,, are to be placed on the heavy floe pieces that they may drift with the ice. Each cask is to contain a number of records printed in the prin- cipal languages of the world, these re- questing the finder of any one oask to preserve the latter, but to send the records to the hydrographio office of his own country, such office in turn to send to all other important coun- tries the other records found within the cask, stating the latitude and long- itude where found. WOMEN MASONS. It to not generally known that there exists in Franca a lodge of women Freemasons. This ourious fact, with all that it implies of masculine som- placenoe and of feminine audacity, is to be explained by the religious situa- tion in France. The Roman Catholio Church forbids its member's to be Freemasons; therefore the Freemasons are alt revolters from the ohureh. But do not for this jump to • the conclusion that the French Masons, being Free- thinkers, have freely invited women into the order. Such a foot would have made a great noise in the world. The truth is simpler; it is that the same impulse that has gathered the men into lodges has driven the women into lodges, also—the reaction from au extreme to another extreme. The women Masons also are revolters from the 'church. The origin of the movement dates 50 years bactr. At that Lime certain Masons, who were also Feminists, pro- posed to adroit women into the lodges, and were overruled by a small major- ity. In 1882 a lodge near Paris, called the "Freethinkers, initiated the first woman, Mane. Maria Deraismes, at that time ]loader of the Feminist move- ment in France. The high authorities dissolved the offending lodge. Some time ;Assad, and a'certain Dr. henry Martin again made a preposition to ad- mit women. Being refused on all sides, the ordea came to Dr. Martin that, by founding a new "ubedienoe," it would be possible to organize an ex- clusively woman's lodge, which, in 1804, was done. Seventeen women were solemnly initiated by Maria Der- atsmes, Male..Oeraismes remained at the head of the order until her death, when her piece as Venerable was taken, and is oeoupied to -day, by Mme. Henry Martin. The Paris woman's rod a is galled 'Le Droit lIumain" Human Right. Tbese 17 women have now become 200 which is to say that the idea makes headway, and they have created 011151• lodges at Lyons, Rouen; Zurich, which adds about 80 more to the number. The meetings aro con- cluded in all things like those of the men, and there aro no Masonic secrets not known to the women, CATCHING TURTLES. A curious mode of catching turtles is practiced in the West Indies. It con- sists in attaching a ring acid a line 10 the tail of a spooks of sucker fish, which is then thrown overboard, and immediately .maims for the first turtle he can spy, to which he attaches self. Tho fisherman thea hauls both turtle and sucking fish in. IN HIS LINE. The Conductor --I don't believe I got your fare, sir. Tdtl 2'Tianomelr•-elle, brcltthelt' ; you will not allose me to lead you from the walks Of tee unbelievers. CLOCKS OF BYAONE DAYS, Interesting Collection or 'rime Pieces 11 ! selirolrt berg, Ceremony. in the town of Soliramberg, in the Blank 1'ur'eet dietriot of Wurtember'g, Germany, where one of the chief In- dustries is that of oluok making, there has recently been established an 10- Leresting museum of tiurepieoes, The oulleeliun displays the gradual develop- ment in the making of clucks fur many ceuLnries. Ainung the ourlosities are many of great histurical value. There is an alarm clock cunsLrneted in the year 1810 for the use of travellers. In form it resembles a lantern and the iutor- ior is designed to Bold a lighted min- dle. Tho candle is slowly pushed upward by a spring, which also controls the mec'hanism of the cloak. A little pair of shears slips the wick of the candle automatically every minute tc regu- late its light. Tho lantern is enolosed with movable sides, so that the sleep- er 13 not at first disturbed by the pre- sence of light. The alarm is set by inserting a peg in the second dial plate. When the re- quired hum arrives the alarm is sound- ed, and at the same time the movable sides fall, flooding the room with light•. Among the curiosities ie a Japanese saw Gluck. The elook itself produces the motive power by descending a saw formed strip of metal, the teeth of which operate the wheel of the oloek- , work. In another Japanese clock the band is attaolied to a weight, which sinks once in twenty-four hours. The time is indicated by a -hand on the per- pendieular scale. USEFUL INVENTION. lllridslght Made Possible to Athletes by a New Contrivance. " Hindsight" is bettor than foresight in some contingencies, and a man who appreciates that fact has laid the foundation of a modest fortune in se- curing a patent upon a novel little de- vice which supplies "hindsight" to the people who need it most, " A post -visual reflector " is whet the inventor calls his new invention, It is an arrangement of adjusted mirrors, which enables the wearer to see ev- erything oeeurring within a certain ;range behind his beck without turn- ;ing his head. '.the post -visual refleotor will be use- 'ful to jookeys, drivers, rowers and cy- clists. I For jockey this appliance Is fasten- ed to the bows of a pair of big spec- taalea, fitted with clear glasses of no ' magnifying power. The glasses are in- tended as mud -guards, to protect the eyes from the dirt thrown up by the horses' flying fest. The little refleo- ,tors are fastened above the glasses, and set at 1sn angle which brings the full width of a race track for a dia- ltance of 100 yards within clear range of vision. For rowers and bicyclists the poste visual reflector is as valuable as it is to horsemen. Rowers and cyclists do not need the mud -guards, and for them a second patent provides for the adjustment of the reflectors, to a light head band, e1'Web holds them in exact relative posi- tion to the eye, no matter at wbat angle the head of the wearer may be turned. ROYAL COOB:S. It would be hard to find in all Ger- many a Princess who is not a good nook and housekeeper. For more than a hundred years the daughters of rulers in Germany have been carefully trained to these arts. Empress Au- gusta Victoria took lessons in cooking when she was a young girl, and she was also so skilled as a dressmaker that even after she became Empress she bad her attire made under her own person- al supervision. Grand Duchess Louise of Baden told her only daughter Prin- ease Victoria, wife of the Crown Prince of Sweden, never to forget that "every woman, whether she lives in' a palace or a ootl.oge, should be a careful house- keeper and a perfeot cook." Princess Victoria did. not forget this lesson, and there are few better housekeepers or cooks than she is. Some of the Princesses of England arra trained nurses, and the Princess of Wales is a skilled. bookbinder. The Queen Mother of Holland Look care that her only daughter, Wilhelmina, should he carefully instructed in the domestic arts, and are as a result it is said that the young lady is not only a good cook but also an excellent laundress. When she was a child her greatest delight was to wash and iron her own clothes, She also learned how to knit, but was not patient enough for such work. "When I be- come Queen T'll sea that the poor peo- ple, who work so hard and get so lit- tle, are well treated," she said one day when she found that, do what she would, she made no progress with, her knit Ling. • At the court of Vienna tile young people are carefully instructed in fore- ign languages. After .Emperor Francis Joseph became engaged to Prinoess Elizabeth of Bavaria, one of his first aots was to furnish hor with tenellers who were to instruct her in the Italian, Hungarian and Bohemian Innguages, and great was his satisfna- tfon when he was informed in a short time that his betrothed was making excellent progress in those languages, Tho Queen Mother, however, was not yet satisfied, She remembered that the Emperor of Austria was also King of Poland, and she insisted that the future Empress should also learn Polish, DAD'S WAY. Teacher—One should be thoughtful in dispensing favors, Tor example, suppose your father, Johnny, was in a crowded street car and two Indies, one old and the other young, got in, whiob of them would he give his seat to 2 Johnny—Geese you don't know dad. Ho wouldn't give it to either. • 1 MY Did yon ewes &minder what a great word—what an immense word, in foot —that little pronoun of two lettere is— MY? "I" occupies considerable space in the tubule of loose of us, and figures very oonapicuuusly in ordinary eonversatlon, tl trequently usher's in a long, de- tailed, five-volume account of what "I have been doing, and what I expect to do, and what I think and believe"; but. "I" only stands for one's self, while "My" latitudes the whole scheme of areal -ion, Did you ever observe the multitude of people who invariably tank that Possessive "my" on to everything? "I got out of my bed, and I had my bath, and I put on my Mulles, and I ate my breakfast, and T took my walk, and thea I went for my drive, and after that I went out to do my shopping and I had to hurry to oatoh my oar, for I must get back to see my butcber about my turkey; and my grocery man domes at eleven; and my nook ie all out of temper if all my supplies for my dinner are not ready to her hand when she is ready to com- mence. And my husband always gets home by one, and he expects me to have my toilet made, and to be ready to receive my guests, if he brings them home to dinner." It is not women alone who indulge in an excessive use of the word "my." Oh, not at all. Any store where you are shopping will furnish you with a striking example of the general use of that all -pervasive word. A little dapper, eighteen -year-old clerk, whose sbirt collar embraces his nook until his ears are only half visible to the naked eye, will tell you that you will not find the article of whiob you are in pursuit in "my" store. We have ordered it, but my consigners ere aw- fully slow—large orders, you know— and 1 shall have to send in my orders again." And then probably he will proceed to enlighten you as to what you really do want, and what you had better have, something in this wise: "Now, my advioe to you would be that you had better take my latest novelty goods. .They are the very newest, and everybody who has bought them is perfaotly satisfied with my taste. IVly experience in buying has given me great facilities, I assure you, I give you my word chat my cousin, who has a very large store in my native city, and enjoys the trade of all my old friends, assures me that I am not mistaken in my estimation of these goods. And it is my candid be- lief that you will be better pleased with them than with anything else in my store." The butcher tells you that nowhere can "my meat be equalled, certainly not surpassed, and my oustomers will endorse my assertion." The dressmaker you employ will as- sure you that "my fits cannob be dup- licated in the city, and that my sleeves always set well, and can bo made to fit skin. -tight --yes, absolutely skin- tight—and will be easy; for I have made tbat my study; and my whale- oones never prink through the fazing of my waists, becesrse I have my whale- bones always sheathed with e. contri- vance which is my own special in- vention." The teethe]: of your cbildren will tell you how "my school is a model, and my discipline is perfeot, and my order is excellent—I pride myself on my order—and my pupils never dream of disobeying my orders, and nobody ever yet complained of being en - suited when they passed my school- house. And my schoolhouse has my flag floating over it " and very likely it floats from "my" flagstaff. The pompous householder will speak of "my plane, and my stock, and my lawn, and my grounds, and my stables, and my horse and buggy, and my team, and my Goddard, and my dogs," and so on down to the smallest of his earthly possessions. And his wife and children will use the same phraseology. because It is catching. People who are on the invalid list aro very jealous of their proprietor- ship in all their diseases. They always allude to a cold as "my cold," just as ie they had pre-eanpted it, and copy- righted it. and patented it, and trade- marked it, and taken a warreutee deed of that particular cold, and were de- termined to stick to it to the bitter end, just as it generally sticks to them. "Aly cough, my neuraliga, my mumps, my nervous prostration, my corns, my headaehes, my rheumatism, my doctor, my nurse," and by and by, if they could only be alive to allude leo it—'my undertaker." And there seems to be an immense amount of satisfaction to the average mortal In this profuse employment of "my," and while it may amuse some of us whose minds are presumably idle, it never hurts anybody; and far be it from your present scribe to put any restriction 0n anything which affords poor humanity even the slightest de- gree of saLisfaption. KATE THORN. TO 9'IIEE, lIlay God's protecting hand avert from th All painoel and grief and inward misery! May never tear bedlm thy hazel oyes, And when thou liftst up thy prayers on hh-• May all thouigaskst from above be shed With grace and. blessings on thy dear head) .. May health's soft luxuries over bless, With it's biight hues thy ltelinoss I And when thy beauty lies reposed rn sleep, May sweetest visions round thee sweep; As Moonlight. with a soft and holy power, Circles the beauty of a drooping flow. err. ITEMS OF INTEREST. ,► Pew Paragraphs WbleWill be Pintail 1Turili ?teatime. Some of the streak in Chinese e1tlea are only three feet wide. Mutt is wukiug up. She has .begun the manufaeturo of smokeless puwder. Last year Lbs number of new books published averaged thirteen a day. Among every 1,000 bachelors there are lief ariminralse while amung married men the ratio is only 18 iu 1,000. A stone bourn Is nut so durable as One of brick. A brick Mouse, well oon- structed, will outlast one of gran- ite. Rats attacked a full-grown bog in Youngsville, N. Y., and killed it. The farmer Lound the animal half devour- ed in the morning, Not one residental house in forty in England, counting even those oeoupied by the nobility, has a stationary bath - Lula with running water, Locomotive eagineers in Germany, if they have run the engines Len years without accident, receive from the gov- ernment a gold medal and 3500 in cash. A toboggan slide in St, Moritz, Switzerland, extends terse -quarters of a mile and is said to be the longest in the world. The desoent has been made in 71 seconds. In two respects Charles Mater, of Maysville, Ky., is a remarkable man. His age is eighty, and he has been married fifty-three years, yet he has never experienced a day's illness nor had a cross word with hie wife. A wasp's head, if cut off and put on the point of a needle in front of a plate containing sugar and water, will at once begin eating the sweetened water, unaware of the fact that the food drops from Its gullet as soon as swallowed, in an outburst of enthusiasm a negro divinity student in a North Caro- lina missionary college uttered this earnest prayer: "Give us all pure hearts, give us alt clean hearts, give us all sweet -hearts," to whish the con- gregation responded "Amen!" A whizzing meteor flashed through the air at Skillmore, Ky., and was seen by scores of persons, It buried itself in a sand pit, fifty feet below the earth's surface. The next day it was unearthed, and proved to be a lump of iron nickel and cobalt, 18 inches long, 1( inches wide and weighing 12 pounds. The Bongolas, a tribe of the Congo Free State, are cannibals and resort to a strange custom. Before pelting a victim to death, they break his limbs; then he is placed chin deep in a pool of water, with his bead fastened to a log to prevent drowning. He is left in the water three clays before being killed, as tba treatment is supposed to make the flesh tender. A handy German, who had served his time to a trunkmaker in Berlin, start- ed in business in New York in Amster- dam avenue and painted bis own sign. It reads thus: "Gustave Fritz, maker of trunks sandbags." A policeman called on him to examine the sandbags, and learned from the frightened Teu- ton that he merely intended to an- nounce himself as a maker of "trunks and bags." EYES LIKE TELESCOPES. 371e South Arrivals Bushmen are Gilled 'tilt le Marvelous Night. It has often been remarked that civ- ilized people lend to become short- sighted. This is because in towns and cities their vision is most confined to short distances. Savage races, on the other lrand, are generally gifted with remarkably keen sight, and few tribes are more noteworthy in this respect than the African Bushmen, whose eyes are veritable telescopes. This power is no doubt a wise provision of nature, for bushmen are a small race, and it they were not able too see danger a long way off they would be extermin- ated by their various enemies, wheth- er savages of other tribes or rviid beasts. A traveler in South Africa relates that while walking one day do com- pany with a friendly busbmau the save ego suddenly_ stopped, and gazing animas the plain cried out there was a lion ahead. The traveler gazed long and earnestly in the direction indicated by the bushman, but could see nothing. " Nonsense," he said, " There's nothing there." And he went forward again, Wilk the bushman fobluwing at his heels, trembling and unwilling and still asserting that ire could see a lion Presently the native canto to a dead stop and refused to budge another inoh, Lor this lima, he declared, he could see a lienees with a number of cube, a fact which made the animal more dangerous than ever. But the Euro- pean, who could see no lioriees, much less its cubs, pushed ahead, After walking a quarter of a mile, b'oovever, ha could dimly make out an object mov- ing acmes the horizon. Still doubling that it could ire the object which the bushman said, he had seen, he continu- ed to advance, and at last was able to distinguish a lioness, with her cubs around her, walking leisurely toward the woods. THE BRIGHTEST REWARD. We ars to be rewarded, not only for work done, for burdens borne, and I am not; sure but that the brightest re- wards will be for those who have borne burdens withoutmurmurin . On that. day he will teem the lily, that Inas been retying so long among the thorns, and lift It a to the gloryend o p wonder of all the universe; and the fragrnnao of that lily will draw forth ineffable praises from, all the hosts of heaven.—Andrew Bonar. Two hundred new designs in penny toys are brought out every week In Whitechapel, London. Young Folks. ....-4,-*-O-�6,-9,'-4,-4-4,....0,,.. .� emIs hwiTauhs t31oa Da1sA0k0hGawIIofImtahRneyiSr ofa14o0Msao. yusgh+ writer in an exchange. One float is arranged to their Palma, where thein belongings are kept, and where they, can go and spend, a quiet hour read.. Mg, writing, or in whatever way they, choose. It le true, all girls have a place where they go to steep at night, But many of these rooms are very un- tidy, and no Lhougb•t of neatness and order over sitters their owner's mind. The room may be a mound story one and they think so long as no one will see it It makes no difference about its appearance. All mothers should give tbeir daugh- ters a room for their own, and teach them to keep it neat and glean, foe, the coarser of many a neat and system- atic housewife bee been formed by the interest and pride she .took in bor room' when a girl. I du not have in mind the homes of the wealthy, where Cho floors are covered with the finest of Oriental rugs, and where the fur'nl- Lure is of the richest tinted uphol- I have in mind the home of the peo'r plc. The room should be plainly but neatly furnished, and inharmony witl the eircumatanees and surroundings o the family. If there is more than one girl in the family let two occupy one room. An all -wool ingrain carnet can be purchased for about 80 cents a yard, and will do good ssrvioe for anumbep of years. If this is beyond the family purse I am sure almost any girl who is interested in her room, can, with her own work, and little expense, maks a very pretty rag carpet. The wall should be papered and shades hung at the windows. These throe things are the most important ones in the fur- nishing of a room. These neglected and a room will be robbed of its.er- tistic finish, though it may have the finest of furniture within its walla. We live in an age when pretty and durable furniture can be bought very, cheap. So you have only to decorate your room ; pretty Swiss curtains may, be hung at the windows, and I am sure any of the girls can make a pretty quilt for her bed, if she will give a little of her time and patience to it, and it will prove a joy forever and be a monument to her skill and patience in needlework when she is old. And many other little articles you can from time to time add to your room; a (0o- rocker should be one of the articles of furniture, so you can enjoy a rest, while you enjoy an hour with your favorite needlework or read a chapter from the greatest of all books. And do not forget to bang a taw pictures an the wall. Now that your room is fin- ished does it not please you? And girls, the most important thing that I wish to impress on your minds iS to keep it clean and in order. Keep all loose articles and clothing in their places; air your room every morning;. keep it so that when your girl friends call on you to spend the afternoon you will not be ashamed to take them to your room, There you can spend an hour or so and talk over such things as all girls talk about when alone. FAULTS OF OTHERS. Do not get into the unpleasant habit of criticising everything and every- body; particularly, do not be hasty in correcting in oibers mistakes which are trivial and really not worth noticing.. Even the most good natured person does not like his faults pointed out to him. We are all aware of the fact that we have faults, with the exception of a few conceited folks, but we do not like to think that other people bave noticed them. Sbould your best friend possess a fault that is really Ind, and you feel that you must call attention to it, do so in the nicest manner possible, says an exchange, You might mention the fault as belonging to some one else and speak about It in some such fash- ion as this: " So-and-so never seems to have any subject of conversation bat dress, does she ? I£ I were she, I think I would try to find a new topic occa- sionally. One gets rather tired of hearing about her new dresses and bats." If your friend has any wits at all she will take the hint to herself and profit by it. • Or, again we will suppose the per- son at fault is a man, and you say to him, "I do like to see a man keep his hands and nails trim and clean." Un- less he is very sensitive, he will not think you are reproving him actually, but will probably endeavor in the fu- ture to live up to your expectations. Another occasion upon which we long to correct the mistakes of our friends is when they pronounce words or names wrongly. Do not bluntly repeat the word in its correct form and make the culprit feel hot and uncomfortable, but a little later use a sentence into which you can introduce the word, giving it the right pronunciation, and the cor'r'ect form will most likely be taken to heart. THE TOILET TABLE. Every girl who can possibly afford it, indulges 111 the luxury of a dress- ing table these days, and whether fit- ted up from a large bank account or r i fuunhdit•m v' t u weekly savings s it must be in harmony' with the rem, nd some one color scheme must be marled out in the kniokknaoks. If blue and white effects are sought after in the mum, then all the toilet articles shoal(' be in ))elft or Saxony or Oman ware. And almost every era tick necessary 'for the table can bo found in some ono of these blue and white wares. Sets of brush, comb, mirror and tray come he Delft, or a clever imitation of the quaint Dutch styles. Jars of different sizes for pomade, eN 11 create r ' van Ila and cold el ea are imported from Japan and solei for a'trifling sum, , And e little dgjviug into Orion Lai shops • 1 n ' will, bran to light blue and white h to pi trays, hairpin loxes, oandleeticlrs and • match receivers—all artistic and rare t: ly OxpeInaiVO. A pretty scarf for the table [5' of Japanese bale and white cotton. It is considered exceedingly bad taste to keep a Crush and comb which ham been in nee shut up in a 0111111 or plusre lined box, The old-time "oesket" ll discarded when oink the toilet articles have come into servteo.