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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-2-24, Page 6Ent Oa Cr ckery Teapot Put a. teaspoonful of the genuine $air every TWO cups. Doug° en freshly BOILING water and let it stand for live minutes. THE RESULT will be the most perfect flavoured tea you ever tasted. enc ,odfag®o Sonny's Bath. " Conte in!" cheerfully called out the young neighbor, in' answer to the old-fashioned mother's knock. "You're just in time to see Sonny have his bath." "Perlsapa I better not," the caller answered; at the same time closing the door behind her; ''won't he make an awful fuss?" "Not Sonny," the little mother r'e- plied, "He dust 'lovas his Intl: Why, it's oui frolic -time. Eh, halt? nail".' In answer the baby waved his chub- by arms, kicked, smiled, 'end emitted a series of sweet, cooing sounds. The visitor was astounded. "He'll cry before you are through h with him, I bet. You're the first mother I ever heard of who spoke of a baby's bath as frolic -time! My babies always screamed from the moment I took them up to bathe them until I had finished. It was my day's hardest task, and.I was always thankful when it was over." "I don't think he'II cry," was the mother's only answer. "See how good he is while I wash his eyes, nose and mouth." The older woman watched in amaze. rent. While they were talking, the young mother had put a teaspoonful of boric' acid into a cupful of warm water. Now she pulled tiny bits from a roll of absorbent cotton. Ont of these she dipped in the water, and carefully squeezed a single drop from it into each eye, quickly wiping the eye with a dry bit of the cotton, The baby gurgled and laughed. Keeping the baby's attention all the time, with deft fingers she squeezed a bit of white vaseline on two more swabs of cotton, twisted them firmly, then care- fully cleansed each nostril, using a separate "twist" for each. Again he laughed. `It took but a moment to wash the rosebud mouth. Baby's mother wound a piece of the cotton around the end of her Little finger; dipped it in the baba acid solution, and while baby bit at her soft finger, washed tongue, gums and lining of the mouth. "Well, I never!" the caller said. "I never went through all that for any babies. It's lots of work, isn't it?" "Yes, it does take extra time, but it's worth it. Baby has never had sore eyes or mouth, and his iittle nose is so clear he can always breathe through it." "I wish I'd known that when I had babies to take care of. Theyahvays had sore mouths, and sometimes red, inflamed eyes. But we thought that was as common with the babies as cutting teeth. As for the nose, when I saw it was dirty, I cleaned it with a small hairpin. The youngsters al- ways fought against it. I suppose it did hurt." The young mother 'shed - tiered at the very thought. "Ah, now he'll cry!" the caller exclaimed, "when he gets the soap in his eyes!" But no soap was used on Isis face, It -was carefully washed with clear water and patted dry. Until then the baby had been fully dreseed. Now lois mother removed his clothes—kimono, ' flannel petticoat, shirt, binder and diapers. "I always take off his nighty, which is apt to be damp, the first thing in the morning, and put on a warm flannelette kimono. He is never fully dressed until after his bath—always at half -past nine." The old,-fashi'ne'l mother thought of her •babies, who had lain and fussed in their nightclothes until she was ready to bathe them. Perhaps, she wondered, that may have been one reason why they were so Bross during the bath. She wondered, too, if sh•e had ever been as quick with her fing- ers as this little another, herself scarcely more than a girl. Every movement counted with her. Soaping a • wet cloth with centile soap, she, washed first: the back and then the front of the baby, and while' the caller stared with wide-open eyes, lifted him gently into a tub of water. With the fingers of the ieft hand spread to Support the tiny head and shoulders, she rapidly rinsed off all tho soap with a vet sponge, and in the twinkling of an eye • had the baby again in her lap, face downward in the large soft towel she had pinned to her )!eft side, and almost eneelaped by the free end of the towel which the mother had thrown over his wet body, The visitor gasped. It had all been done so quickly, yet so thoroughly, without a murmur of dissent, Instead a peeping o t n ttirtle- faishion from the towel were two bright oyes, gazing at the visitor's rets shawl, while their owner contentedly sucked amoist pink arm. A, gentle patting. with the bath towel, a carefal drying of all the creases, a brisk rubbing of tho scalp, and then a slight sleeting of powder In chefeable spots—and Sonny was toady b d s a to re se d. Once more the older woman ex- claimed, "Here's When he'll cry!" But again rase was wrong. There stowed• to he no bungling, hard -to -pet -on 'lothes. Instead of tho tight belly - Ph • he had always dreadedf� NOW whiO 'NOW oft, t�rls mather slipped over # a . Orin ster'• het a Mit bail with y g �f t i, ti blenlds1`'etaps,`' to ellirt was delble- 145 tell and i`srstot ed .With Otte email ag fotyspian, The pettieo'ats were 'slip - peal fete the dimple lint+, *Picas, and as one garment were drawn over the feet, Baby was turned face down- ward, and the three . garments were buttoned without further disturbing the wearer. He actually enjoyed it. When at last, the little mother brushed back his silky down of hair, and, after wiping her nipple with a piece of cotton saturated with the boric acid solution, placed him at her breast, she turned to the visitor with a happy effete, "Do nu weeder I enjoy this hour?" she asked. ii•Sotniy is always like this art bath -time. He is never tired or hungry at half -past nine; I have everything ready so I don't have to make him wait, half- dressed while I find some necesset 'y thing; the water is always the same temperature -98 deg.—so he reeeives s shock when place him ill the tub; noho'k I ac P and• most of all, he feels how much I enjoy it, and so has confidence in me. Now he'll nurse and go to sleep." "It's well-nigh wonderful, the old- fashioned mother replied. "I'd never have believed it could be done if I hadn't seen you do it. Bathed a baby —put it in a tub of water even—and it, laughed and cooed and kicked its legs and waved its arms in glee all the time!" Tho caller glanced et the clock,. Quarter of ten! Still snore wonder- ful! She had only been in the house fifteen minutes. - Gardening in Winter. Just as soon as the spring seed catalogue, begin to appear, we think about our garden for the following summer, so it is lads of interest to begin planning early. In making the planting plans there aro three things to be kept in mind, First, when each plant blooms; sec- ond, what the color of the blossoms is; third, how tall the plants grow. Careful considerati-cm of the first shatter will enable you to avoid bare spots and make possible a desirable amount of bloom throughout the gar- den during the whole season. It is important to study color in order'to avoid bringing inharmonious shades too close together•. The importance of the height of the bloom is obvious, Small plants must not be hidden by larger ones. The tallest should bb used as a background for the lower ones, and the lowest should be placed in front. Though each of the three subjects admits of extended study, the first is of the greatest importance to the amateur gardener. Unless due con- sideration is given to continuity of bloom, it may happen, in feet, it is more likely to happen that when one side of the garden is in its glory the other side will have so few plants in bloom that it will be hare and dull. Here is a fascinating and practice] aid for the gardener who wishes to go on planning and planting even after the last flowers have faded and the garden is buried in snow. You can spend the winter studying and Arrang- ing plants. Have printed cards, and have a card for each plant. On one side record the common and the scientific name, and whether the plant is perennial, a bi- ennial, or an annual. Also leave space for the botanical classification of the flewers for telling what color it is, how tall it groove and when it blooms. Next record whether it prefers sun or shade and where it came from, This last item is of particular interest when the plant has come from some friend or from a special garden, When the seed should be planted or the plant set oat may also be of much interest. Also a liberal space should be pro- vided upon that side of the card for notes about the plant; what particular care it needs, what its enemies are and how and whet to combat then. On the reverse side of the card should be printed a small diagram of the garden plot, showing the beds, walks, -and so forth; on .the diagram the exact location of the plant or var- iety of plants recorded en the face of the card may be indicated by Iittle dresses or dots. Let the cards be arranged accord- ing to the months when the plants flower, Under June we find all the plants that blossom in 'June. If the blossoming continues into or through July, a duplicate card should be filed under July- By that plan you can see at glance what bowers blossom in any particular month, and by referr- ing to the chart on the other side of the card you can learn what color the 'plant is, how high it grows and where it should be planted. By studying the bloom of the pre- eeding and of the following month you can plan a full garden for the eitite season. You can work out beautiful compositions, either in harmony or contvast of eolor, and the garden will beeome alinost a reality, even while winter winds whistle down the chim- ney and snow drifts' over' the garden plot, An Embryo PolltielSs, "Mother," said little Itay fn an ag- grlbol tone, "you Itave no son tttu , tional right to seed fns to hed without my supper." "Whitt deo yon mean, Itay'inolto?" "Sot eye oxorciadng rule witisott the ctelree tt of the governed." III She darted out en tlse baele porch, across the sandy yard; white as if snow had fallen, along the lot fence, into the shadow of the barn, 'She looked across the fields between her and the woods, white with a weird secret brilliance, Once out of the shadow of the barn, tete noon shone on her with bald brightness, revealing her flight, The cotton was up to her waist, and the open bells scraped her free hand like fuzzy worms, She hugged the gun to her body; ft stood no more ready to her father's hand, As for the rat- tletrap gun, probably he wouldn't see that, It Iay in- the shade, and her father didn't see very plain when he wasps he was to -night. She ran into the "shadow cast by the pines, then stopped and' looked back toward arise house. She could see the end of the front porch. Along the straight edge where it joined the house she made out a protuberance. Her father had risen and was stand- ing there age -lost the wall, She started to scream, Uut that would firing Ben running, Sie could only wait panting here, A stick crack- ed in the woods and her father jump- ed off the porch. She could see his burlybody bolt' above the hip -high cotton, his white shirt, his hair in the moon- light, white like en old man's hair. He broke into a crouching run toward the match that had struck and the stick that had cracked. He looked like a white ape, bent forward, sun- ning. It would not stop him to scream. He would understand, he would rush on at Ben, She pointed the gun at the moon, shot her eyes, and pulled convulsively.' Both barrels went oft. In her excitement she had pulled both triggers. The kick staggered her, the -echoes rolled from the amphitheatre of woods like an army firing. When she opened her eyes her father had stopped. IIe could not see her in the shadow of the woods. IIe turned and ran toward the house. She heard him stump up on the porch, clown the hall, into his room; she heard his muffled, maddened voice calling her up -stairs. She looked at the gut in her hand and smiled. Somebody was running along the edge of the woods toward her. She could see hint brushing -through the cotton, see his white shirt, then his white face, then hear him panting. IIe caught her hard by both shoulders, his eyes burning down into hers. "Ben?" she whispered. "Are you all right, Tess?" She nodded and smiled. IIe straighened up with a profound breath, brushed his hat off his head, tan his hand over his hair. "I thought you had shot yourself!" "I stole the gun," she said. He was looking toward the house, his head and shoulders rising above the shadow into the moonlight. He seemed to swallow something hard down his throat. "Here," he said quickly. "Give me the gun." He unbreached it. "It's dead," he gasped, and drew out the empty shells. "Stand aside, Tess— there, toward the woods," She backed away, her eyes of his face. "Here, Ben?" "Yes," Be stepped boldly out into the moonlight. He was looking toward the barn, as if he were trying hard to see something. "It'll be all right, Tess," he said. "Sure it'll be all right. Just don't move," His gun flashed em arc through the air as be waved it toward the barn. "Stop, Bill Simpson! Stop, man!" Out of the shadow of the burn her father had t'urst and was hurrying toward them; as she had soot hint hurry toward cotton pickers when they were loafing. There was some- thing in his hands, thrust forward at the hip. The moonlight flashed on it —the rattletrap gun she hail put in his room, She 'smothered tine cry that came to hes Iips; she fought down the mo- mentary dizziness in which the silvery field of cotton swam round and blur- red, Jtist a wistful glance at Ben standing there bareheaded, terribly tense,, terribly watchful; just, a long- ing in her soul that he might go back to his yellow' express papers, to his cottage that he wanted to paint white -.and the girl had darted out of the shadow ahead of him and was running toward her father. "Gut. out o' the way!" he yelled. "You fool!" He went an filling the night with his yells. He raised the gun, she was in front of it, and he lowered it with a choking oath. For all his bulk, he jumped aside like an athlete and rais- ed it again. She sprang suddenly forward and caught the barrel with both hands. Clinging to it, she was jetked power- fully back through the cotton. He was twisting and turning the barrel viciously y through her hands, his face horrible with its effort. The muzzle was pressed against hes body below hes breast:, "I ain't gobs' to turn loose!" she panted, "Never—never!" She closed her eyes --she heard steps running up behind her. Again she was jerked back; again the barrel Training School for Nurses.Ontario Hospital for Insane, Toronto, offers a •three-yeai'el course for youssg wtsnreit in general diad mental infusing. A liberalu son unat>£ttiou with Otvtfoa'zn, hoard and laundry, allowed daring panting. Oamforta.ble nurses' i'esf-' d'ence, For partletilare apply MEDiCAL SIJlERlNTEIVDEN•r Ontario Hospital 'Toronto, Ont, twisted Shit 'way and that, Then he had stopped still, and she opened her eyes, He stood panting above her, his protruding eyes on her beetle clenching the barrel, on the ntucide pressed into her breast, "Hit's the rattletrap!" .he gasped'. Ile choked and swallowed, "Hit'll go off!" he .roared, "Hit'll shoot yowl" "I don't care, Pa." IIe was shaking all over; his soak- ed shirt was clinging to his arms and shoulders, "Look, gal—into yo' pa's faee! You remeltnber—the of gun! Won't you turn loose? Turn loose for your pa, like a good gal?" Re was looking above her now help- lessly. "Bit's a old gun, Ben," he was pant- ing. "Hit's cocked. I'm all shalcin'— I'in afeerd to let the hammers down. They're wore out. Ben, you want to seeher blowed all to hell? Don't touch her, man!" he screamed. "She night jerk! Here, gal—see? I turn loose. Easy, gal, easyl Throw it away from you, Thataway! God A'mightyl" The stock had come heavily to the ground. With a convulsive shudder she threw the muzzle away from her. A. moment ituncertainlypointed at tho sky, , and Be sprang forward. Ben px g Just in front of his grasping hand it tottered and fell; a flame shot along the cotton rows, the cotton mowed down tumbling in after its passage; the roar shook the ground under them. Off there her father stood, chest heaving, face flabby with sobered horror. "Bel,," he choked, "I might -a killed my little gal. Ben—I ain't a soak no more," He turned and stumbled through the cotton toward the house, wiping his face an his shirt sleeve. "Pa!" cried the girl, anti started to run after hint. But Ben caught Iles by the shoul- ders and turned her round, his face Stern, his eyes blazing. "Not yet," he said. "Let him study about it. It won't do him any harm!" They stood side by side, looking in the direction of the house. When at last Ben epoke the anger had gone out of his voice, the terrible look out of his eyes. " SVe'll go now, Tess." They did not find him on the porch; there was his empty chair, and beside it on the floor his pipe and his shoes. Alone the girl went softly down the hall to his room door and looked in. When she came back to the porch where Ben waited, her eyes were swimming. "Ben," she whispered, "he's sittin' by the window in the moonlight—an' Ben—he's cryin'!"' Then she too began to cry softly, But out in the border of the woods, where a match had been struck, a mocking bird, perched lightly on tlse topmost twig of the loftiest pine, was filling the brilliant night with song, (The End,) Scent From Beyond? Of the many stories told of uncanny experie»ces, that related of the late Empress Eugenie is one of the most amazing. After her son. the Prince Imperial, tvas killed in Zululan'l, the Empress, accompanied by .the late Field -Mar- shal Sir Evelyn Wood, paid a visit to his•grave. This spot bad been marked by a cairn of stones, but by the date of the visit the jungle had encroached so that even the Zulu guides, who had been among the Pr'ince's assa/lents, could not find it. The Prince had a passion for violet scent; it was the only toilet accessory of the kind he used. Suddenly the Empress became aware of a strong smell of violets. "')'his is the way,' she cried, and went off on a line of her own. She tore along, stumbling over dead wood and tussocks, her face beaten by the high grass that parted and 'Closed behind her, until, with a loud cry, she' fell open her knees, e-yiug, "C'ect icii" (ft is here): And these, hidden in al- most impenetrable brushwoodd, they found the cairn! "Tho Empress toll me," sacci Sir Evelyn afterwards, "that the first whiff of perfuse ]sed been so overwhelming that she thought site was going to faint. But it seemed to drag Iter along with it; the felt no, fatigue, and could' have fought her way through the Jungle for hot re,"- tn t 1 jg _ I The Honeymoon Habit. The custom of referring to the time immediately after one's wedding as a honeymoon descended from the am cleat tribes of Central Europe. New. lyinarried couples drank and served to their friends a wine made from honey gathered during the first thirty days (or lunar month) after the per- formance of the wedding ceremony, After persisting for several hundred Years, this custom dually died out, but its significance remained, particulasey as the serving of the honeyed wine was succeeded by the practice of mar- riecl couples leaving tbelt' horse for a varying length of time. For this rea- son the trip which follows the mar - tinge ceremony is now known as a honeymoon, though it has nothing to co with wine, and generally lasts less than a month Clearly Absurd. A Frenchman ]Darning .Englieh said to his tutor: ".English is a. queer lang- uage, What dcee this sentence mean: 'Should Mr, Noble, who sits for this canetitueat'oyn aoestert to stand again and rani isas wl!I in all probebility have a walkover'?" IB9tlf• No, fi .:-'21, PERFUMERY FOR MI )y CANADA COMES FROM ALGIERS. CHINA AND INDIA. lalIes anal Lands along the Mediterranean .Also Grow Sweet -Scented Flowers, When you pay the apothecary a sum that scents like a dollar a whiff for something that deiighte your sense's, on if you are especially fa$tidloue, have him oonlpannsal the seeit• that "snits" your persenelfty, did you ever stop to wonder where hes precious In- gredieets came front? The mural isles and lands along the Mediterran- easn probably grow same ot the flowers, others perh 5515 were plucked by (lark Moorish hands in ,Algeria., and nray- hap an animal in the brooding hills of western (ihina gave its life to ferules one eonstitnetan ot the perfume. • The vegetable-]t:itlgdous is necessari- ly the most fertile source of perfumes. From its fiowere, such as the rose and -Jena -mine, and from its, seeds, woods and barks, such as the spites and san- dalwood, even the newt fastidious con- noisseur would be able to select either come simple odor or a complex boa. (met. Nor are they for perfumes alone, but for scenting soaps, cream, pomades, and in making flavorings and extracts. Rosemary, thyme, sweet basil and marjoram aa'e found in great perfu- sion in Mediterranean countries s and here the chemist can. distill the whole plant and not bother about picking the flowers. Shakespeare, the unfailing slaterallet that he wae, made no error when he the a for OIlrelia the flowers she scattered, The Lavender of England. The old-fashioned lavender flowers, in which our grandmothers used to pack the household linen and their rich old laces, grew best in France and llssglenel.. A temperamental flower it might be called, too, for unless the climate, soil and altitude suit it re- fuses to breathe fortis its usual frag- rance. Fine grades of the plants aro grown in the Drone region, France, at an altitude of 2,500 feet, while the flowers generally considered to have the most agreeable fragrance come from the Mitcham district of England, v est the core it9 ms of soil anal alti- tude are decidedly different from those in France. The rose gesan4um, which has such an exquisite odor, is also grown and dir.tilled in France, but Spain, Algiers and the Island of Heunion engage .in the industry. Unlike the avender, ihowever, the perfume of tine rose ger- aninm cones from its leaves and not from the flowers. But the country that well might be known by its scent is Buigaa'ia, for its rose crop Is second only to its tobacco, More than 12,500 acres of land in the provinces of Phdlippipolis and Stara Zagora are given over to the growth of yeses from the petals of which attar of roses is distilled. In the wonderful gardens at Kasanlik, Karlovo, F%lisou- ra and Stara Zagora the best of the (lowers are grown. The fields are ar- ranged much after the fashion of the vineyard's of Prance and Italy, and the hatfopen, dew -laden buds, which have very few petals, are snipped off by diligent girls, beys and worsen in the early morning of May and June. About 4,000 pounds of roses 010 pro- duced on an acre of land, but it takes about 200 pounds of petals to produce an oanee of ail for an attar, which before the teat cost about $250 a Mauna. Roses are grown in other parts, of the Balkans as well as in Asiatic Tur- key, where they were introduced by Ahmed Vedle the mated Turkish states- man and man of letter;;, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and in India, Persia, the Fayunt province in Egypt, and in France. The industry lately has been introduced into Ger- Spice Isles of Europe. Many of the commies of Europe I have for centuries successfully die-' tilled oil from such seeds as caraway, anise and fennel for flavoring and scenting purposes, and the citrus fruits of Italy and Sicily yield quanti- ties' of valuable oil. In fact, so frag- rant .are the flowers and shrubs of soave of the islands of the Mediterran- ean that they are called the Spice is- lands of Europe aa the Mo]ucca Arehl- Pelago in tithe Dutch Enet ladles are known as the Spice Islands on account of the nutmegs, mace end cloves that they produce. Napoleon said that he would know We native kind, Corsica, with his eyes shut by the odor of the white -flowered elstps. • Frankincense, which is one of the chief aromatic constituents of the in- cense burned in chu'c:he,, is the guru resin of a tree found in East Africa, Arabia, and on the island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean. Ladies and gentlemen in the time of Napoleon used the tanquin bean, a native of Guiana, to scent their snuff- boxes. The animal pal'ftlnses are extremely linsited in number. Ambergris is secreted by the sperm whale, divot by the animal of the same name, and musk by the muakox, the tannic -rat, and the maser -deer, which is found in the high iifnsalayae. Tibet, and east- ern 'Si 'Siberia. bet a. 71lask has one o ] si cul at and almost inexplicable characterls•tic. Ono grain of It kept freely exposed to the air of a we11 ventilated coons, will impregnate 'the atmesphee for ten Yeats without sensibly ditlfiuisisiisg in weight, Women: Use "Diamond Dyes." rr Dye Old Skirts, Dresses Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Each package of "Diamond Dyes" contains oast' directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, eaten, linen, or goods. mixed a g s, B ware! .nom' dye streaks, spots, lades, and ruins tno- tertal by giving it a "dyer] -loom" Buy "Diamond Dyes" only, ' Druggist has Color Card, il' '4' Vl it i'. ew Hotli ygsf, S+lo'. �� � 11 ^SII l w'�r Y a°jYIA -\\ Home me "til de bread is IN Mout doubt the cheapest and most healthful foods that can be produced for human con- sumption. It is the most completely digested ' solid food in the world. over 90% of it )being transformed into health and strengthIt yields nea.lrly twice EMS much nour- ishment as rice or potatoes. and is ten times as Irno>iurisl-a- iinig as an equal value a meat" No bread is more truly whole- some or more perfectly satis- factory than that baked at horde in which l oyall_Yeast Cakes are used. Scientists have discovered a new and truly wonderful use for Royal Yeast Cakes Phyetcians are prescribing it with remarkable success for conditions attri- buted to poor blood conditions. Soak a cake of Royal Yeast for half an hour in a cup of luke-warm water with one tea- spoon sugar Then stir well and strain once or twice through muslin and drink the liquid. BETTER results will be ob- tained by allowing It to soak over night and drinking half f a nbefore break- fast. e ak- fast. Repeat as often as desired. Send name and address for free booklet ern - titled "Royal Yeast for Setter Health." E. W. Gillett Company, F(sa>ftiidedl Toronto,. Canada etaMaxie ism Cassailte astrushates4 Success P erceniages An intensive study of success and failure made by financial expects has yielded some very interesting data. For the purposes of this study con- sideration is given to 100 men repre- senting an average group of persons starting out in life at the age of twen- ty-fh'e. At thirty-five years of age ten of tltenm are rices. Ten are well-to-do. Forty live on their earnings. Thirty- five have made no progress ahead. Five of the original 100 have mean- while diet. _ At forty-five years of age only one is rich, Three are well-to-do. Sixty-five live on their earnings. Fifteen are 'no longer self-snpporting. Sixteen have diad, At the age of fifty-five one is rel. Three are well-to-do. Forty-six live on their earnings. Thirty ere not self- sluporting. Twenty have died. At sixty-five year's of age one is rich. Four are -well -o -do. Five live on their earnings. Fifty-four are not self-sup- porting. Thirty-six have died. At the age of seventy-five one is rich. Two are well -o -do, Thirty-four are dependent an others for support. Sixty-three have died. Now it seems very remarkable to in- fer from these figures that out of every ten men who at thirty-five years of age are rich, nine lost most of their money by the time they have reachesll forty-Ilve, This is accounted for large- ly by speculation. Seven out of ten of the well-to-do at thirtyllve a•te no: longer in easy circumstances ten years) later, owing to speculation, un.euceess-! tut heelless ventures, etc, More striping still is the Increase in, the number of risen who are no longer, able to nsake a living for themselves,' ae age advances. As will he observed, more than ]calf of them at sixty-five years• of age are more or less dependent' upon others for their maintenance. , Again consider the case 01 these 200 average niers at death. One of then leaves wealth. Two leave comfort for their wives and children. Fifteen leave from $2,000 to $10,000. Eighty- two leave nothing, . Thus it seems that, taking an ever age, four out of every live men go through life without accumulating any. thing. They pass out of life egad -fly as they entered it, without a dollar. Very apropos of which is the saying of J, J. Hill, the greet railroad builder; "IP you 'want to know whether you are cle•srtlned to be a success or not, you can easily find out. The test is simple and infallible. Are you able to save stoney? If not, drop out. You will lose. Von may think not, but you will lose as sure as fate, for the seed of success le tat in you." A Pencil Clock of Paris Paris is a city of curious cloelce. Perhaps the most original one serves as the signboard of a pencil manufac- turer, who aimed, as the mop on the clomkkhows, at conquering many mar- kets. This clock ]reels good time, says the Wide World Magazine, des- pite its square face and the necessari- ly rectangular arrangement of the horn's, which are formed by pencils ars-ttngetl as Roman numerals, Yon can see this clock en one of the swain I • boulevards, high above the heads of foot passengers. It has been construct- ed on a very big scale so as to be clearly- visible from the street. The impulse to do our best,—ah, here Iies the secret of all living! Our blankets are named after a Flemish wearer called Thomas Blan- ket, who lived in Bristol in 1340. London has adopted Verdins, as well as several villages in the Meuse Val- ley. 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