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Pethwell philosopher, re.
'Maas the Ottawa Citizen, was well
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lulObt's 'debate by Mr. Nicholas
$100d Davie, who described him
4itti.(1Veat laughter, as °Hein GI's-
tedly from that seat to which,
his infinite mercy an all wise
rrovidSjee has allotted him tiud
i'aeliog`Maridarneurally uneasy. 1
YalWays sympathize with him in
,aucha position. He has too much
learning., he is uneaay in hit mind
untfi he gets oil' his constitutional
•ettpression of profound pricipleo."
But he took such a long time it was
'hard 'to cosi at his point : "At last,
as. I sat here to day, and tried to
• make out what my honorable friend
mai tit, though I had a pen in hand
• and was taking note, I could not
disover what it was. Then I asked
self what he was like, and 1
--thought he was like an aged Ifen in
• state of metaphysical dubitation as
to whether she would lay at egg or
not."
This exactly hits Mr. Mills off
and will stick to hirn-"an aged
hen in a state of metaphysical dubit-
ation as to whether she would lay
an egg Or not."
THE TOBACCO HABIT.
• , - .. The Rev. James E. Sentz, of the
Presbyterian Church in Morriston,
N. J., is being disciplined for play
ing tennis and treating the young
men of his congregation to cigarets
tee.
This time it is Thomas Rooney,
of Freemont, Ohio. He chewed
• and smoked for over eighty years,
• and died at the age of one hundred
and nine. He continuedthese
pernicious habits up to within a few
days of his death.
There is a wellsknown man of
something like 52 years of age in
New Ilatsen, Conn., who. never
knew what tobacco smoke was like
until he had passed his 45th year.
Now he Uses00 cigars a month on
an average.
• Dr. Keeley says of the cigarette
habit :-"lt brings confusion to the
brain and heart and a train of ills
from which it isard to recover,
‘p
even though you st the habit. I
will not treat a..tnair who persists in
using the cigarette. It results in
"r
insanity and death."
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CANADIAN CATTLE TRADE.
Montreal cattle men are somewhat
worried over the following letter
whieh has .been recieved by • Mr.
• Bickerdike from Mr. R. Wedder-
apoon, a leading member of a large
firm of cattle salesmen in Scotland
dated March 14 :---"From the news.
paper reports you will notice we.are
• in a perfect moos here with foot and
mouth disease, and no body knows
where it is to. end. If the Govern-
ment go on as they have started it
it will be a very bad base for Canas
dian shippers. I would strongly
advise you to buy nothing in ad-
--Nance •thatsissnotsfi t-forsthe•fet•-mar-
ket, otherwise the losses may be
serious. Glasgow market was en•
tirely closed last week for home
• cattle and it again closed this week.
This should have a tendency to
raise the price of States cattle. as
butchers will be entirely dependent
on them for supplies." Meetings
are now being held almost daily in
• one or the other steamship corn%
panv's offices. The summer rates
• for the railways will ehortly come
into effect, and as steamship men
are interested the two are busy talks
ing the matter over. From present
appearances it would look as if it
would take but a few more meetings
to, settle the matter. It appears
that therailway companies want to
put the rates too high to suit the
steamship people. They want even
a highbr rate than last year, which
the steamship interests think high,
enough, and the latter say that if
it is any higher they will' not be
able to compete with the American
lines for Weiitern States goods from
the old country.
MEDICAL HINTS.
Cure for Dyspepsia.
As is well known' this troublesome
omplaint arises from over -eating the
use of too much rich food, neglected con-
stipation, lack of exercise, bad air, etc.
The food should ba thoronghly chewed
and never bolted or swallowed in haste,
stimulants must be avoided and exercise
taken if possible. A remedy which has
rarely failed to give prompt relief and ef-
fect permanent cures, even in the most
stinate came, is Burdock Blood Bitters.
acts by regulating and toning the di-
gestive organs, removing costiveness am'
increasing the appetite and restoring
health and vigor to the system. As a
case in point we quote from a lette
written by Miss L. A. Kuhn, of Ilamil-
ton, Ont. :-"Two years ago life seemed
a burden. I could not eat the simplest
food Without being in dreadful misery in
my stomach, under my shoulder' and
across the back of nay neck. Medical
advice failed to procure relief and seeing
B. B. 13. advertised,- 1 took two bottles
of it, and have been entirely free from
any isymptoms of my complaint since."
This gives very conclusive proof of the
efficiency of this wonderful remedy.
ME WORLD OF' FAS1110,
SEASONABLE HINTSAB.QUT FASHION-
ABLE VISITING COSTUMES.
Tho Roosters °stelae -A Symplitiny he
Beliotrope#,Oopes and Wraps-Poshion
Dots, -All About the Latest Styles and
Natertats in a Few lanes,
The old idea that one could drop in and
see a friend anyhow and at any hour, has-
praisebe to Madam Etiquette -been lost in
that stream where all bad ideas should be.
To,day, when one goes to see a friend, one
!toilers one's self and her by dressing to
suit the occasion. From the wife of a
millionaire to the gentlewoman who keeps
her own apartment in order and yet re-
mains a lady, who has not known of the
horror of having a friend drop in? Nowa-
days all that has been changed, and every
woman who has a circle of friends, no mat-
ter how small, has her "at home" day, and
on that day, and that day alone, unless it
should be by special invitation, are her
friends expected to call. This is a relief
specially comprehensible to a housekeeper ;
or it gives her time not only to see that
her own household is in ostler, but that she
herself is prepared to see her friends men-
tally and materially.
FASHION DOT,
AD About DM Toatetst fritYloti 41111111"""S
n;e Vow Um's.
The filet as a decoration for the feminina
bead is a fashionable suceess.
Newest bonnethave strings which are
tied under the chin in a large bow.
ColetedUlk underskirts can be exhibited
to advantage when you wear a train.
White cloth suits soon in the street at
this season make the sealskin•clad shiver.
Harlequin hosiery is fashionable among
women who pick out muddy etreet cross-
ings.
Japanese ,warming sticks are quite a
fad. They must be used to be appre-
ciated.
An "all -wool Henrietta" does not mean a
colored girl, but a fashionable dress ma-
terial. •
There is a fancy for the oddest combina-
tions in colors in the matter of evening cos-
tu mei.
Upholstery material these days are hand
-
sinner than what used to be made into ball
drosses.
A handsome material formerly'used only
for wraps, but now used for parts of gowns,
is velours du Nord, a Limit: which may be
described -as a short -piled plush or a long -
piled velvet.
There is an increased preference for lus-
trous, heavy -grained poplins. These goods
are nearly as handsome as silk proper, and
they are far more durable, Furthermore,
they never wear shiny as do the moat ex-
pensive silks.
There is a tendency toward wide collars,
the cape effects being sought. Turn -over
collars of linem, plain and lace -edged, and
those of embroidery are worn with tailor
gowns, though the standing collar with
turned points is Dot abandoned.
There is a fashion now, and a very pretty
one, too, of wearing a band of satin ribbon
around the throat -the color of the ball
gown -fastened in the back with a small
rosette and two long ends that reach to the
bottom of the skirt. '
The latest designs for this season's gowns
are of fine texture woollen stuffa-eashmere,
camel's hair, cloth, and the fleecy, rough -
finished falirics. For trimmingof brown
mink or beaver, or with the fleecy Mon-
golian fur --white, black or colored -to
Match the cloth, is still the rage for stylish
street costumes.
ME, WORLD OF WOMEN,
THE WIDOW., QF SPURGEON, THE
GREAT LONDON PREACHER..
Suceoaqui Woman Musical Dortiposer.,
Fenialis Lawyer's Advantarse-Wo.
monis Tender Hoart-The Face of Dor.
Wool Dimming Admired -A Woman's
Curious Arinor,
If you were to question any member of
the great congregation attached to the Lon-
don Tabernacle of the Rev. Charles Had-
den Spurgeon concerning the pastor's wife,
he probably would .quote those words of
Scripture by way of reply : "She stretcheth
out her hand to the poor ; yea, she stretch-
eth forth her hands to the needy. She
looketh well to the 'ways of her husband
and eateth not the -bread of idleness. Her
children rise up and call her blessed : her
husband also, anti he psaAseth her." None
•' sestaste issoss •
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0.1),(4 oweaingle consignment ,32,00 dead
haniming 1)irde; .The birds Are isin
hiring the mating season, when in the
triumphs of love the htle, of the tleautifol
bird, burn *ith moat intepso plendor,
They Are skinned alive, because it is only
by eltinnifig while the body.' still' quivers
and the blood is hot that t,ho•fuli vividness
of color is preserved for the bonnets of
wdmo,uh clod,
Clara Barton, president of the Red Crosa,
of America, reports that under the auspices
of the Red Cross no car loads of grain are
now ready to be transported free by the
railroads to any port where a ship can be
made ready to carry . it across the sea.
Iowa women are very enthusiastic in this
relief work, and the contributions received
by her for the work has come in small
sums, and mostly from women. Miss Bar-
ton has ascertained by a visit to the Rus-
sian Legation that Russia would be glad of
help, that the Czar himself is giving largely
of his private means, and that the Govern-
ment officials are giving up their salaries to
help the, starving people. -New York Sun.
it WOIllall'44 Armor.
"Arn't you sometimes timid ?" I asked a
young lady whose work sometimes takes
her, late at night, into parte of the city
where the "tough" element abounds, says
the Boston Herald.
"Oh, not at all," she replied. "I go
armed, you know."
"Armed? Do you mean you have a six-
shooter concealed about you ?"
"I never fired a revolver in my life."
"A dagger of the dainty tragedy pattern,
perhaps ?"
"No : I am not an Italian, though I work
among them."
"It co,n't be you've borrowed your
brother's razor ?"
"A razor ! Oh, no ; does my complexion
justify the assumption that I could use that
for a weapon ?"
"Well, then what do you defend yourself
MRS., SPURGEON. with ?"
better dosoribe the woman who for thirty- "Why, one of these hatpins," she replied,
five years has shared the toils and triumphs as she drew from her jaunty toque a needle -
of her fatnous husband. • like article with a round solid knob at the
Mr. Spurgeon was but twenty-two when end, .• "If a, man attempts to molest me,
he made choice ot a wife in Susanna, the and I jabbed that into his arm, don't you
daughter of Mr. Robert Thompson, a mer- believe he'd halt without much ceremony?"
!chant of Falcon Square, io" the city of "That would give me time to escape, per -
London. •But if young in years, the preach-: naps, or, at least, raise an alarm. These
er was, of course, even then old in wisdom,' pins are of the finest steel, you know, and
'and the excellence of his judgment fully xever bend or break." •
atoned for the earliness of his marriage.
Mr. Spurgeon was then pastor of a smaller C tin Natinto 's Preference '
arc g
chapel in South London, and resided in the
poverty-stricken neighborhood of the
borough. During the first fortnight of the
year 1856 -the marriage took place on
January 8th -the young man was preach.
ing in several of the provincial cities.
Not very long after marriage Mrs. Spur.,
geon fell a victim to a disease from the
effects of which she has never wholly been .
free.
Apart from her intense piety and great
energy, Mrs. Spurgeon is a woman of some'
accomplishments. She has something of
the poet's faculty, and although very rarely
reading any work of fiction, has told her
friends innumerable little anecdotes
indicating the brightness of her imagina-
tion. She will relate, for instance, how
walking one day with her husband in
their grounds • at Norwood, she came
across a skylark's nest in the thick
grass, • much to their delight. Next day.
she went to the field to again look at the
bird and its tiny eggs. What was her dis-
tress'to find that the cows had been let
loose into the iield. "Surely," she thought,
"the little nest will be trampled upon and
destroy the young." Approaching the spot
with trepidation, Mrs. Spurgeon was over-
joyed to find that the neat was unhurt ;
the cows had eaten the grass all around,
'ant as if with some divine instinct had left
his spot untouched. Upon such an incl.
lent Mrs: Spurgeon would base a sermon as
powerful in its way as those of her has -
YpIJNG FOLKS' coliNgit.
A 0009 PICTURE 9F THE MOST
VALUA134#E DQ G IN THE WOW?.
geoliraphleal Chlditles on the i"ontinent
of Anierien-The 411)04 in tile Den—
Deeoription of the *rt of Sielzh Oen
Molcing-Wind Carriagee.
Our Dumb Anitnale says that at the re-
cent New Ynrk bench show of dogs the St.
Bernardo were the first to he seen on going
in. There are two kinds of Stl-liernarde,
the rough -coated and smooth -coated dogs.
Et is very hard to tell which aro the hand-
somer, but the smooth ones look more
comfortable. They were such splendid
A Symphony in Heliotrope.
Women who find the various shades of
heliotrope becoming , to them, are, for the
time, casting all other colors aside for it,'
and having their tea -gowns, their evening
dresses and their visiting costumes made of
the shade which is so dainty, and which
is also so very trying. A typical liclio-
-ss trope cloth , is most simply but
prettily made, and intended • for wisit-
ing. No other color but this one is
In almost every instance, the visiting toi-
seen on the toilette, except where a touch
THE RUSSIAN COSTUME.
lette has the Louis Quinze coat or the
Russian blouse for the bodice. The skirt
has a very slight train, and almost invariab-
ly a foot trimming outlines it. For a
slender figure nothing is prettier than a
Russian blouse, which is- shown in the
illustration above.
The toilette illustrated is of light mode
ttloth with a perfectly smooth surface. The
skirt is the usual bell -shape, with a slight
train in the back. The bordering which
outlines it is in emerald green cloth over-
laid with gold passementerie, a design be-
ing chosen which permits .the bright color
to show through. The blouse, as it is call-
ed, though it is in reality a coat basque, has
s, yoke of the green cloth overlaid with gold,
and is drawn iu soft folds to fit the figure,
while the skirt, which reaches almost to
the knees, is full, and confined by a fancy
belt of gold clasped in front by two buckles
elaborately set with imitation emeralds.
The edge of the basque skirt is finished like
the edge of the skirt, with a band of green
overlaid with gold. The collar is a high
straight one, with the gold over it; the
sleeves are full ones of the mode cloth,
drawn into very deep cuffs of the green,
with gold -decorations that flare just at the
wrist. The bonnet is a very small one of
gold net, with the usual three plumes of
green tied on at the back, and a gold
crescent decorating the front; the ties are
of green velvet ribboo. This costume,
which is made by its gold decoration to
look very rich, can be developed in a much
simpler, fashion: if one desires it. Black
passementerie, either silk or wool, may be
used in place of gold; that is, when the
'material itself is black, and if one wished
a different color, the gown could be
developed with no tritnming, except that
required on the belt, on the cuffs and on
the yoke.
That there is economy in a visiting toi-
lette cannot be doubted. Like the house-
dress it -has its place, and not being used
for any other purpose it retains its fresh-
ness and beauty longer than it would if it
were a general wear frock. Of course, it is
suited for 'opera or concert wear, but I
would not advise its being worn where one
hats to sit down all the time, as it is apt to
lose its shape after'three hours' crushing in
the ordinary seat in any place of amuse-
ment. By care and thought, very rich cos-
tumes may be arraqged without a great ex-
pense, and the woman who early in the
season carefully selects her fabrics and gives
her dressmaker time enough to develop
them, will find that she has saved money,
and that she possesses a gown appropriate
for all daytime functions -Elizabeth A.
Mallon, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Capes add Wraps.
Concerning styles for the coming season,
newmarkets are naturally first on the list.
It seems to me that newmarkets will be
bought in woollens at the commencement
of the season, and in cravenettes and light-
weight materials later on -say in May and
June. So far as variety of Amps is con•
oeroed, there seems, at first, to be no possi-
bility of inventing anything new ; the gar-
ment has been so exhaustively exploited,
,that it is not an easy task to create one dif.
ferent in style and shape from what has
been used before. It, is not so long since
we had a very big newmarket season.
Ulsters have always been bought more or
less, and the newmarket was quite a popu-
lar garment last fall. But the pliability of
the soft, light -weight materials at disposal
has been of assistance to the designer this
spring. The newmarket of the season
will be a plaid, locise-fitting garment, and
whatever ingenuity is to be displayed will
be restricted to the cape. But a clever de-
signer will find tills quite sutlicient.-The
croak Journal,
of some other -shade is required on the bon-
.•
isIt g• not 1
with a coat basque, and so its wearer can,
during the cold months, assume a handsome
fur wrap, or, when the season growszarm
enough, go abroad in her figure.
The illustration below' shows •just what
• S11 Beams sem
(The most valuable dog in the world).
fellows that it seemed as if nearly every one
deserved a prize, but Kingston Regent, Sir
Bedivere and Donald were the handsomest.
Sir Bedivere has taken many gold cups
and medals in European exhibitions.
This dog cost Mr. Seers, the owner, near-
ly seven thousand dollars, is now nearly
four years old, of very rich orange color
with perfect white markings and black
shadings, and weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds,
In answer to Is question,1Mr. Sears writes
us as follows : "With reference to there be-
ing a more valuable dog in New England
or America, I can say without hesitancy or
boasting that he is the finest dog in the
world."
GEOGRAPHICAL ODDITIES.
A Few of the Little Wonders of the won-
ainent of Aincrica.
The only woman's face about which the On Lummi Island, State of Wasshington,
late cardinal Manning was ever heard to ther,3 is a mountain slope of white sand -
express an opinion Ives the pictured face
A HELIOTROPE CLOTH DRESS.
the gown is. The skirl is very smooth -
fitting and barely. touches the ground in the
back, so that it is quite possible to walk in
it. The lower edge is finished with a, two-
inch band of velvet, exactly the shade of
the cloth, and starting from under it at
regular intervals are strips of ribbon velvet
that form theskirt decorations ; the center
one seethes almost to the knees, the ones
on each side of it are much higher, while
the ones beyond them:come far • up on the
hip. The velvet is drawn up and tied in a
flat bow with ends, and all of it so securely
fastened down that it looks like a decree,
tion brocaded on the skirt, or a passemen
terie applied to it. The bodice is close
fitting, sharply -pointed one, arching over
the hips and laced in the back. It is out
lined with velvet like the bottom of the
skirt, and has, starting from the throat,
ribbon decorations like those described on
the skirt ; although, of course, a narrower
ribbon is used for this purpose. A high
collets is hidden under a band of heliotrope
feathers, tied in the back with long, broad
velvet ribbons, the bow being a small one
but the ends reach almost to the end of the
skirt. The sleeves are raised on the shoul-
der, shaped into the ordinary faehion, and
are decorated with as bow of velvet ribbon,
appliqued to positionsmd finished with a
hand of teathers.
The bonnet is a small one of heliotrope
felt, with a hunch of feethers at, the back ;
there are high velvet bows in front, and
oliek velvet, Lir'. that cross under the chin
%IA then over the !melt ;it the received fash-
on, so that it seems ea it two sets of strings
vere ss red. Z%re of lavender un
t iI :4 ,:,'yl ,i.1, such a
,0411,1 ,.,r1 lc It.1:1.11 .t;1.1.4140:`11 velvet.
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Ltoll l'•1:
band's. Then in .11er reports of the "Boob
!Fund," in miscellaneous contributions to
the "Sword and Trowel," Mrs. Spurgeon
nes, shown some literary gift, scarcely les#
marked than the hhmely toote, the modest
art w i�1ihhf Thiide Miele 61
Westwood as beautiful as its outside, and
its surroundings as beautiful as to all her
husband's adherents appears the character
of its mistress: --Frederick Dolman, in the
March Ladies' Home Journal.
A Woman Composer.
Here we have a portrait of Miss Maude
Valerie White, whose recent success in
musical composition have won for her fresh
fame in London this winter. This lady, a
native of Dieppe, lately of Vienna, and 110M
resident in London, was "brought out''
musically by 1\fr. Charles Santley. To this
great vocalist the musical world also owes
of stone, 100 feet wide and 1,300 feet long,
called the Devil's Slide. The strange thing
about it is that every few minutes a scale
of sandstone comes shooting down the slide
and is hurled into the waters of the bay.
The unsolved mystery is this : What causes
the scales to detach themselves in this
unique' fashion ?
MEDICAL LAKE.
Medical Lake is fifteen miles by rail from
the city of Spokane Falls, State of Wash-
ington. The lake is two miles long, half a
mile wide, and sixty feat deep. It is filled
with a saline and alkaline- water, having a
slightly chalybeate achnixtute, and is 21
popular health resort for thepeople of the
northwest.
SOIJR LAKE,
Sour Lake is to small lake of acidulous
mineral water, in Hardin County, Texas,
forty-five miles by rail east of Houston.
Its waters ,have a considerable local re-
putation in the treatment of various 'dis-
eases.
THE FACE IIE ADMIRED.
"Princess T—," among Lenbach's fine
pease:its. Of this the Cardinal said to Mr.
Meynell, "That's pretty," "I think," adds
Meynell, "he admired it because the lady'
had her eyes cast down." For equally
acetic reasons he liked the high-foreheade ,
'colorless madonnas better than all the
magnificences of ari o.
MAUDE VALERIE WHTTE.
it5'acquaintance with her beautiful songs,
"Absent yet Present," "The Devout
Lover," • and her characteristic petting of
Heine's poem "Ein Jungling liebt ein
Madelien." Miss White's compositions
comprise, among others, three volumes of
German songs, "How do I love thee ?"
"Priere," "Ici-bas," "Love in exile," "Du
hist wie eine Blume."
A GLASS CANO.N.
There is said to be a canon on the slopes
of Mount Baker (in the State of Washing-
ton), the walls of whtch are composed of a
kind of volcanic glass. -Notes and Queries.
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A. Female .Lavvyer's Advantage.
Whatever disadvantages a woman law-
yer may be under in the practice of her
profession, site has certain compensating
a dor WM Gies "Wer dilleFrarriTeliei
can never enjoy. A little incident in' the
chambes part of the Supreme Court thb
other day will -illustrate this point, says the
New York Tribune, It NAS Monday,
which is always the busiest day of the
week in this branch of the court. There
was an unusually long calendar this day,
and, although it was almost 1 'clock, the
„court -room was still crowded with fifty or
sixty lawyers, who had been waiting impa-
tiently since 11 o'clock to argue their mo-
tions or to get ex parte orders signed.
There was an unusually largo pile of these
orders on the judges desk waiting to be
signed, because his honor had been so busy
that he had been unable to attend to them.
A modest looking, neatly dressed young
woman.came into the court room with seine
legal papers in her hand, She walked up
to the rail, while the clerk quickly came
forward, all attention. He took the papers
whish she carried and handed them to the
judge immediately, while the court officers
hustled around and brought her a chair.
The arguments of the leading lights were
stopped, his honor took the papers, glanced
over them quickly, and put some hiero-
glyphics, which stood for his signature, at
the bottom of them. The clerk handed the
documents back to the young woman, and
in less than five minutes after she entered
the court room the woman lawyer had ac-
complished her object and gone -back to her
office.
Just as she was disappearing through
the door a lawyer's clerk came up to the
rail.
"Has the judge signed that order which
I handed up this morning ?" he asked.
"No," was the reply, "he will not sign
any orders before 2 or 3 o'clock."
Woman's Tender Heart.
The Society for the Protection of Birds is
making progre'ss in England under the
leadership of the Duchess of Portland.
From its investigations the public learns
that in the London warehouses, the great
market to which the birds of the world are
sent, you can walk ankle deep in bird skins
and sea them piled shoulder high on each
ode of yon. One dealer is said to have re -
The Jinglot in the Bell.
"The making of sleigh bells is quite an
art," t says an iron founder: "The little
iron ball is too big to be put in through the
holes in the hell and yet it is inside. How
did it get there? The little iron ball is
called 'the jinglet.' When you shake the
slcighbel14tjingtes. sIn- -making the bell
the jinglet is put inside a little ball of mud,
just the shape of the inside of the bell.
Then a mould is made, just the shape of the
outside of the bell. This mud ball with the
jingle inside is placed in the mould of the
outside, and the metal is poured • in, which
fills up the,space between the ball and the
171°`11ld
`Wh. en the mould is taken off you see as
sleigh bell, but it will not ring, as it is full
ot dirt. The hot metal • that the bell is
made of dries the dirt so it can he shaken.
out. After the dirt is all shakeri. Out of
the holes in the bell, the little iron jioltlet
will still be in the bell and will ring. It
took a good manyyebcaiisi.Lo Lwtehinitsctoonoe
outhow
to make a sleigh
Journal.
VIrginia'a Boasted Chivalry.
The Virginia Legislature has, after a
vigorous contest, finally decided to refuse
to permit women to practise law, or to pro-
vide women physicians for women patients
in insane asylums. No objections were ad-
vanced against woman's right to pursue
these callings, but her value as a wife and
mother was eulogized, as if all women were
and were to bo forever brides and the
mothers of little children. The Virginia
lady who had stirred up the strife, herself
a wife and mother, asking the privilege to
practise law with the full consent of her
husband, sat in the hall and listened to the
speeches.
About Wind Carrlagea. '
Did any of you ever know this -that at
different times in the history of man car-
riages have been built to be driven over
the land by the wind. Imagine such a
thing now, and your sailing along the street
with the sails of your carriage puffed out
by the wind, as ships are carried at full
sail over the water. How astonished both
you and Your neighbors would be ! Yes
once in the sixteenth century a man named
Simon Stevinius really invented just such
a carriage, sailing in it himself. He went
forty-two miles in a high wind in two
hoots. But the trouble was about getting
back. There was so much trouble about
that, indeed, that the question never has
been settled even to this day. -Lillie Ham-
ilton French.
Baby.
One little head of golden hair,
Two little cheeks so r.,und and fair,
Two lit' lips with fragrant sighs,
One lit is nose and toxo bine eyes,
Two little hands as sort as a peach,
Two little feet with five tees each.
Two little smiles and two little tears,
Two littlo legs and two little ears,
Two little elbows and two little knees,
One little grunt and one little sneeze,
One little heart but no little sins,
Plenty of skirts and lots. of pins,
One little cloak awl ploll'y of fracas,
ene little hood and s voI.ttle socks,
A big disposition to haul and to poll,
One little stomach thet's never f ull
One little mouth to tee ru,sos tint,
One little bottle of 1 #mt. !mit t,
Plenty to eat and lot, to n e.st
And yet the baby's cross as It bear.
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