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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-24, Page 3Baton OEITIZABIC ' One Of the Greateet Dangere te WhIQh ' Then hale rinpeaed in-t-ettenion Cenetructlau, of iiite letelawnhanges tiotua tta An tereateat evestereeetanitoene oatileep Children a etet—oveatug etuttles —The Miju. ennemitee litealuning in Our acnools. t _mem_ citron the Boon Monate larly to bed should be a ineea rule in childhood. The bream of asked children of to -day Ale exposed to retner too ranch we an teat. Tam Anne more sleep than did their pareate before them at the same age, for oti name tome ohauged etud life hos growu more etteleial, .beavier burdens have been put ulna teem, and new influences have developed 'mental tend to enfeeble braiu power end obstruct healthy intellectual growth. Comndining it many anti divers funatio. ne,, the breiri wonderfully simple in its construot tion. rt is only a mealtwork of teams and cells, eboundieg everywhere in blood vessels. " The cello are in every head by the millions, and every motion, thought and volition means the work, and death ot hundrede of theme cells." Their plateau are inimethately filled through the blood supply, and so great M the ailment of work done by this organ it requires one-fifth of all the blood in the body to keep up its viteltty. There are, then, always going on in the brain at Meet two processes—one of deimy and one of repair. Now, the latter is not ea rapid during waking hours ; hence the necassitn for sleep, that once in every 24 heart' the work of restoration may be effected. We go to bed tired and Worn, but, after a night of sound sleep, awake in the morning re- freahed and rejuvenated; during the period or rest, new substance haa been taken through the blood to the bran to replace that which hae decay ed ; fall repairs hail been made and the balterice = metered. Nature has provided that periods nf activ- ity and rest shall alternate. Every organ in the body works under this law. Even the heart has its periods of suapension ; they age, of course, brief, and yet this organ is actually iu repose six hours out of every twenty.four. its ream are taken after every pulsation; the lungs rest after every breath ; the digestive organs do their work and then fold their hands, as it were. And so it is with all the other organs of the body. For the braiwthere is NO REST EXCEPT DURING SLEEP. As one writer has aptly timid "So long as an individual is &Wake, there is not a single ,secona of his life during which his brain is altogether inactive. Its substance is consumed by every thoughts, byevery motion of the will, by every, sound that as heard, by every object thatle ifiten,ba every substance that is touched, by every odor that is smelled, by every painful or pleasur- able sensetien ; and eb each instant of our lives witnesses the deociy of some portion of ite mass and the formetiou , of new material to take US plata." The great restorer of brain power is, therefore, profound sleep, and the achool. going child must have plenty of it. His need is, in fact, wastly greater than that telt in adult life, for not only meet the vital energy of his brain be eaula day re- stored, but all the while it must be growing and developing. In childhood,owing to the a/znost ceaselets aotivity, the expenditure of nerve force is ',tiny great; there, is much more rapid and extensive decay of nerve tissue than in later life, and longer sleep is required for repair; and, beside making up for the wear and tear, there must be an extra amount for the ad. dition of new matter and the building up of the brain. Deny a child suffieient sleep, anti not only will he be stunted in intellect, but in physical stature as well—he will be both of feeble mind and puny body. Moreover, it is believed that too little sleep in childhood is one of the causes of insanity in after years. The regular bedtime of a child first entering school -0 or 7 years of age— should not be later than 7 pen., for he will actually need from 11 to le, bourn sleep. Of course, a little latitude in the way of a trifle longer evenings before• days on which school is not in session, may be allowed, but in all such instances the ahild should sleep later the following day. After the seventh year the duration of sleep may be gradually diminished; but even at the age of 19 and 20 between nine and ten hours' sleep are actually needed. In a general way it may be sad that even after a child is 12 years old, and from that time on until his school life ie ended, 9 p.m. ought to be his habitual hour for retiring. One great fault of our educational system is the requirement of 3ttlay out of school. In order for children to find titne for their meals, have 'eufatient exercise, etc., they must study eveninge, and often late into the same. As a consequeoce they not only run the risk of injuring their eyes, but their GENERAL HEALTH IS THREATENED. The average school °bile of to -day is nervous and restlese, end very generally it is the result of too little sleep. The harder his studies in school the longer the even- ings allowed him in whioh to get his lessons; which is just the reverse of what should be, for the less sleep' he gots the duller will be bis comprehension, and the slower be will be in leareing' hie tasks The man of brain work know e well that if kept up of a night t vso or three boars after hie regular bedtime he is more or less "broken up" for the following day; and yet, as likely as not, he allows his thild to pore over his books, night after night, long .after he shanld hava.been in bed. And when he growa irriteble, coraplains of dyei morale synaptoras, leaks pale, ia dull and disinelined to play, then his teachers are blamed and accused of eputting too heavy •burdene upon him; wheneas did he gb to bed as he, ought, and det suffieient sleep, the eame etudies +wield bit cotupetatively easy and the lessons meth nore quickly learned. The perfectly healthy child rotas an abundance of eleep: Batthe children of today are not by any means all healthy. The pendia of rileby o tlierti are of highly nervous temperament, and not a, few are viotinas of !serve weakness. There are also parent s" who stiffer ftintilieetse, 'MA ethers whiner° cenetitritionrilly infiete as the eon - sequence of pernicione habit, such ati smoking to excess, using alcohol, Ma In fact, were the phyainal constitutith °tall parents carefully studied, a large proportion ofthem would be found to have some defeat which it is poesible for their children to thiamin Let parents set to it that their ,thildren have aufaelent sleep, and they will have done infinitely tertieb in remove' in- herited tendenciee, not only to 'Jeans( die - eases, but to all others, 'Unfortunately, all parentrs not know when they have aefeets which are likely to pass on to tilde ehilaren. It may be aceopted t hat those of the present generetion whe are abso., intely ftee there are comperittively few. A tethet Narita hail predicted that the dent of the UteAnitNen Oi oth rdlon id Surely Coining, life rightly states that wo hide our &Udine, our dements, Ana our Pauper hetirlat In hatienti of refuge out of our eight „Hod. We Pet these retreetetend all our mentally anci, physioally ellitMed Were leteed to drift about in the community, ea in former theme, these otter preeent evils and evidences of natiellial depreeietion, would triehten um We would ethda thaae than we do the laws of health, and bow hest th meintain meral, iutellectual and natignal supremacy. Look at the ever in. greasing demands for hospitals, asylums tor insane and inabecilea, eohoole ter Noble- minclea, retreats for nervoint complaints, elrashousee tor bIlDaeO weeolte, prisons tor chronic and oongeeital vagabonds, end then say ifa vicious 'latent of eartitation, of cum team, of habits, and of edneetion has not something to ao with this state of thingo. This is not the jerenaiad of the pessimiet ; rather it is the story of a danger etanal to Which we would do well to take heed. As has been seiti, our edueational eystem is often blamed whore it could not be held, re- sponsible. There is =eh in it, however, to criticise. Chitdren well advanced in school are generally obliged to devote two hours to study at home, so that they are actually at work—and hard at work—about as many hours eaoh eohool day as the ordinary adalt laborer. Certainly, this is not as it should be, and to burden the young and tender brains of the coming race in this way is simply putting a premium upon aegentera. Hon. No child slaoald be allowed to study evenings before he is 15 years old. It is absolately the duty of every parent to observe this rule, and its violation is a sin. It is the parents, not the teachers, who are reeponsible for the health of school children, and it is for them to em- phatically shut down an the present ruinous system of cramming, They alone oan apply the remedy. But all must an. dept their duty, and do it. As it is now, if a child is not allowed to study °vetting° he falls behind his class, for the majority of his mates are victims of the fault which his parents protect him from. But in the end Id will he the gainer, even if hie school course, lasts a year or two longer than theirs. He will be like the elowly growing tree, whioh takes the deepeet root and has the toughest fibres, while theirs is likely to' be a henhouse mushroom growth, which means early decay both to mind and body. Children should pass THE HOUR DEPORE BEDTIME very quietly. Books should be laid aside tend rompine.euspended, that, the nervous system maybe relieved of all excitement. Children may amuse themealves with light games, music, needlework or something of the sort, but everythingapproathieg ex• oitanaent or brainwork is forbidden. The youth of to.day is singularly given to books of action, riot' in soubstirring tales. To read one of these until bedtime means an hour or two of restlessness, and frequent &earns when at last sleep comm.' on. The nervous system of the dreamer is not at rest, and he is expending nearly as ranch nerve force as he would were be awake and experiencing the same thong/lea and mental einitements. While one is exeited 'from any cause, the circulation -in his brain, is correspondingly active, and it must quiet down before sleep is possible. So, to insure a ohild a good nigatt's IM the hour before bedtime be a quiet one, and, above all, let there be no brainwork over school books. • A word as to the sleeping apartixient and the night clothing of children. It ought not be necessary to emphaeize the impor. tattoo of pure air, but, unfortunately, few parents rightly estimate its need. Without it is absolutely impossible for children to be well. Even older children should not be allowed to go to bed in n cold mom ; it should at least be comfortably warm while they are undressing, but the heat should he shut off during the night unless it is intensely cold. Flannel nightgowns should Id the rule in winter for children of all ages. The older ones generally sleep in woollen vests and wear over tbem cotton or linen niglatgowne. It would be infinitely better did they remove the vest and sleep in a long, loose flannel nightdress. The bed covering should be sheets and blankets only. The eheming rooms of children are never too large, and are almost always too small. A 10x12 room, with a ceiling eight feet high, really ought not be occupied by more then one person, be it child or adult. And with only one occupant, in order to keep the air of a room of that size healthy, it must be ell changed four times every hour. As for children and adults sleeping together, it a bad practice. Without entering into the probable explanation, we will simply oey that children, as a rule, Buffer more or leat! under such conditions, and not inftequently they in turn become pale, enfeeblecelanguld and dull. This is most likely to to the case where the adult bed -fellow is especially strong and robust. The Dlystery of the Rain. We know very little about the method° of the transportation and concentratien of moisture in the atmosphere. We can determine the proportion of me itt te e itt the air within our reach. We can (11 aieta by tile formation of water drops; en the outside of an ice picther that there is a greater or less quantity of moieture in the air around the pitcher, and instruments are in use to declare the relative arnotatt. Whet can we know ot the vast bodies of water stored up in the clouds above us, and ready at a momenta' warning to pear out their floods upon us ? We may theorize about the vapor of water being careied be. tween the atoms of the Nit as WaAer is contained in the pores of a sponge, but we have no proper idea how the tons of ram, snow or hail are held aloft in the clouds or transported from place to place over a con- tinent. We have recently had all the rain cloudcarried over ue from the Galt to tbe north and northwest, to be poured down in floods upon the Mountains of Pennsylvania and Virginia,' while the rice and cane fields yef Louisiana were parched and arid. Now the rain -laden skies aro giving all their stores to us ani d drought s being paid for with intermit. It is early enough to predict ram tt today, but what, after all, do we know of the great clintatie laws which burn our fields'with drotight Id Lune ad &wet them with in down -pour in July ?—liteentive Age (WasItietgion). A. Base Slander. " I think," remarked Mem Palltuse to Intro, Lakeview, "that the way, the papets run Chicago about divoroe is amply scan. &aloes. I wouldn't say anything if there were any reasonable geontla for ; but there ien't. nig all made mit of whole cloth. Why, I don't believe I know twenty divorced Phople in the entire eivele of nay e.ccenaintantre 1" . Discovered the Truth About liana. Btown—You don't raean to tiny you' ve quit *gilding With tutaw0 2 Why, I thought you'd swear by Cutaway4 Robittemet—I've got throughewith him. I °Wed him a little bill, arid he Sent around heat week to Bey that be' wan it urgent need of funcle, Wortla consider it a great favor if I Would lieln hira out, laroten--Atia you fottad it itteonvenient Robilleten—allo ; it Wen quite eenvenient ; bill Lord 1 / thought the man was ricle —.The Only weight te be boneeh---eizteen ouneeii to the petted. THE Obaremorlettes (novelly Caricatured by Penchi For the troper production of the Young itrt.ttEie thets xe natny ;;;TteiXIttYs'hb:4 °,11 dY provide him with A wealthy. father, slightlY ilevored with a good tional position and political temes. nena him to ce puha° sehool, hovitig first eliminated ae much yeuthfulness as is compatible with con, tineett exietenee. A.dd „emcee flattering masters, mad a distaste for aemen Season with the idea that be is helm for a great :tl‘ardeettgtiLretlitttadve14:4 etintdP°1e4BoilbielCle'ci verbose eboonse• tradiet hid elders. Mere youth and trabeier hot to university. Ad4 more verbosity ana a atroeg extract of priggiehines. Throw in it degree, and two speeches at the Union. Set hirre tomimmer for two ears in a, poplin censtitueney, and serve aim up, a chattering pedant, of. 24 at Wenhsttrni::06°nrr. lile Of the conteet whioie re- sulted in hie return to the House of Com. mons, the yoang M.P. will have tasted the sweets of advertisem'ent by eeeing hie name conetantly placarded in huge letters on colored posters. He will have been con- stantly referred to as" Our poptilai young Caneidate," and he will thus have became eonvinced that the welfare of his country imperetively demande his irareediate presence) and permanent oentinuence in Parliament. Wrier' the genial butcher who, hesided retailing the oareassee of sheep and oxen, tits in the 'Town Council, and pre• sides over one of the looalpulitleal siesortim tions, dealered, as he often hes at other conteme and of other • candidates, that never, itt the course of his political career, haci he Haunted to more mature wisdom, adorned with nobler eloquence, than that which luta foams from "1 Our young and popular Candidate," he was merely satiety ie g at ' burning desire for rbetorical expeaisionawitho,ut anytpam tionlar regard to aocnracy of statement. But the candidate himself greedily maps that lamp of flattery, and alt tbe praise which is the conventional StIttOe for every political gander. On thie he grows fat, and being, in addition, paffed up by a very considerable conceit of his own, be even, tually preeents an Emmet whittle is not pleasing, and assumes (towards those who are not voters in the constituency) at man- ner which oan scarcely be dessribed as modest The majority of hie cionstitueiats regard • him simply as an automatic: machine for ,the regular distribition of large eubscriptions. e regards himself as a being of great importenceeand capacity, and enciowed with , the„ power of acting as he likes, whilst tbeilocal wire- ptdlere , look upon him as a convenient mask, 'behind which tfiey mey the more effectively carry on their own petty schemes of personel ambition. DIANING rams= SOLID. As a candidate, moreover, the young M. P. will haye discovered that the trianaph of his patty depeeds not merely or even chiefly upon the dos exposition of those poiitioal principles with which he may have lately °rammed himself by the aid of a stray volume of Mill, and a " Com- pendium of Political History," bat rather upon the careful observance et local °latent and local etiquette, and the mann less effort to trunap histeadvereary's every trick. lite will thus have become the Preeideut of the local glee club, the petron of a ecientifie association, and a local dog thow, the Vice -President of four cricket °labs and of five football clubs, a Member of the committee of the hospital bail, and of the Society for Improving the breed"of Grey Parrots; to say nothing, of the Guild for Promoting the Heppiness of Micicilwagea Honest:nada, and the icioal Aesociation .for the Distribation of Pellrly Bane, at cheep prices, to the deserving poor. Moreover, before he was discovered the true relation of benefit sotsieties to Politienhe will find himself a member of the Odd-feilows, the Foresters, the Hearts of Oak, tbe Draids, and the Loyal and Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Buffaloes, with the right, conferred by the last- named society, of being s.ddreseed on ledge nights as it he were a baronet, or, at least, a knight. Having thus ram and shaken hands with the workingman during bis hours of festive relaxeation, the young M.P will be properly qualified for dieunseing those temial questions whicb form the chief part of every aspirant's politica baggage. Being gifted with as happy power of enunciating pompons platitudes with an air of profound conviction, and of spread- ing batter churned from the speeches of his leaders on the bread of political economy, he will be highly thought of at meetings of political leagues of either sex, or both combined. It is neceseary then he should °atoll the eye of the Speaker during his first session. He tvill afterwards talk to hie constituents of the forma of the House in the tone of one who is familiar with mysteries, and is accustomed to aningle on terms of equality with the great d famous. He will bring in as bill which an M.P., who was once young, has abandoned, and, finding bis measure blocked, will discourse with extreme bitter- ness of the obstruction by whicla the efferts onrising political geuine are opposed. 1 AN IMPORTANT runsexecia. In London society the young M.P. may be recognized by an air of oonsoiona Len- ortance e.s oe one who carries the burden of the Slat upon his sboulders, and desires to impress the Mot upon °therm Xis may be flattered by being catenated as to the secret intentions of feign Cabinets or the pro:meets of party aivisicate He will then speak at length of his leaders as we," and will probably annorincet in a voice intended not so much for his Immo- Mate neighbors as for the thoughtleas crowd beyond, that "we shall sthash them in committee," and that " Altera -Douglas " (or Arnold Morley, as the ,case may be) " Ids asked me to answer the fellows on the Brit bayelIpledaet t,0„.7Xithoer_riv0 02:r4N1 n s. peaiit o eurobeI i g already complete. On mho. follotviegi day be will epeak during the ainneriliour t& an audience of four, mad, having escaped being counted out, will be greatly adimired bY constituents. Ete will assiduously attend all social fnnotions, and will not objedt, to settieg hie name id the paragremlag of society panere, It ie net absolutely nodes- eary that Me young ha.P. ehoula be bald, but it is essential that he should wear at „hook coet. It id well, alto, that hie dress should be neat, hut not ostentatiously spruce, lest the more horny,handed a his eupportere should take umbrage at an offensive assumption nt superiority nyer those whose votee keep hitniil place. HOW IT ALLnens. Custom domande that the young Bt. P. Should travel eiteneively, and that ho should enlighten hie liornseataying coneti.\ triente as to the designe of Barataria, the labor question in Iiutiptd, and the prom emote of federation in Laputee by regalia of lettere addressed to the looal newspaper, Ele will ebb intervietv ftireign poterlittee and statesmen, and came the fad t bo ionblieltea thttelgh the medium of Hatter: On his return, he will write at book, sttd deliver a leotard before the Eiltithal prevenient' Steady et the Mena he reprei tantelate will then mini, in Ordet thet Id may attendblatiters' rueetinge by deputy, an4 Mthlte hilt Wife te Make levish Plittehlteee at it 10(40,1)11'4K which Id urillhave opened, shortly anetwards he will peleoe an on, popular fad, whioh ,eortoin mentbees et his own purtY ePProYel and Will take Vignat one Plead against it an prtnoiple, ,thug earning the commendation tat all Parties as a man of iudependent viewsneed unit winving rectitude. It, at So subsequent election, lee ehoeld change to be rejected at the poll, he wiUpub1zcy profesa that he is delightea to Id relieved ef an uncongenial burden whilst assuring his ftierids in private thet the country in whit% elate and honest men ere negleeted meet be in a very, had way. Es will, however, publish an addrees to tee electors, in which he Will cleim a 'Merin Vititory, and will ensure them that it will ever be one et hie proudest memeriee to have been connected' with their conetit. nency. °He will spend the period of hie retirement on the stump, and, nelees be be speedily teraished with another gonstitu- °nay, wilt entertain, or:inlets as to the sanitY of lets p arty leaders. Subseqnently he will find himself again in the Ltouse of Com. mous, mid, having been spoken of as a young nean for about a quarter of at con. nary, will at last become an Under- SocretaryioaState, and a grandfatheran the 'tame yeer.--Putich. Tata A el e lo ON ea Alan it is Difficult for a Elanag,ar to Invent, but it Lools.3 Easy Enough. " I suppose that very few of the people who have ever seen the menthes of hellen girls in specteoular productions have .stoP• pea to think of the immense fiLtIOUOt of labor involved in the preparation of those Maraca," said a well.knowin theatrical manager the other day to the New York Sun. "The audience looks at the long lines of brilliantly arrayed girls as they gb through the most intricate figures with never a thought of the work ot the designer of tbe figures. The girls do their part with such apparent ease that there is no indica. tion oft the weeks of toil whiah was re- quired to produce the effect. Let me tell you how as march for the ballet girls is made. There are only two or three pro. feesional rnaroh designers in this country, and they probably pursue different methods in getting up new figures; but I will tell you of the way I went about it 5 year ago, when I wanted to train some girls. 1 had never given as thought to the Mot that it wee one thing to train the girls to march and quite another one to design the figures. I told my stage manager to train the girls for an amazon mantle and thought that was all that was required. He aimed me if I had any figures. 1 told him that I hsan't, and he said that I would have to get some for him before he could do anything with the girls. I went to the halletmaster and asked him for some figures. He told me to call the next day. I did so, but he said that he wasn't quite ready for me yGt. I called several times, and he always had some -new exam° to offer. I went to another bailetmaster, end had the same experience. They were evidently unwilling to let auy one have their figures. There were no othe: men in the city to whom I could apply, so I said to myself : I will invent some figures myself. After giving the matter some thought I bought as set of poker chips and began my work. I took sixteen red chips and sixteen white ones. Then I got down on the floor, and arranged the poker -chips in two long rows—a white row and as red row. Then I straightened up and looked at them. I tried hard to imagine that the poker -chips were girls, but I only partially succeeded. Down I got again and began to move the ohipa, one at as teme, into curious figures, but it was slow and unsatisfactory work. I found that I would have to work with other material. I proonred some large beads, and strung sixteen of them on a string, fastening them about an inch apart. I strung sixteen beads of another color in the same way. These beads represented the thirty-two girls who were to take part in the mirth. Then I began to arrange them in figuree, and when I got what I thought was a good one I made a tope of it. For over two months I worked in this way with the beads and the polterathips before I was satisfied with the tigures. I handed the diagrams to my etage manager, and, with my help and cxplauetions, he' trained the girls. This took two months more, but even when they were perfectly drilled the work was not over. It is never over. The reason of this is that very frequently I either have to discherge one of the girls, or ehe may leave of her own accord. Then as new one—a raw rearnit—has to be taken on and trained. To train one girl it is necessary to make the entire thirty-two go through the march over and over again. The next time that any one proposes that I shall start an amazon march I will strike hint off my list of friends. I have had enough of it." Idioms et the Stage. To say that a scene or play wants more " ginger " means that ih laths "snap " and " go." A reception" is the round of applause that greets an motor when he makes his first entrance. A "guy" line is a line Met ie so foolieb that the audience laugh at its absurdity, not at its humor. When one artist ia made special meution of in the programme or on the billa he is "I eatured. " Tbe play is called "the piece," the motors "the artists," and the advertising litho• graphe and posters "the paper." To "got his notice" is to receive wore' that atter the two weeks etipalated, in the contract hie services will not be needed. An "open stage" ia a stage with the back very far up and an "sneber is the fool that supports the shove witlahis money. The 0. P. entrance is the "opposite prompter" thiamine, and is emote the stage from the entrance in which the prompter Mande. To " queer " at scene is to " gag " or ie- trodece lines tallith do not belong there and so make the other eaters laugh or for- get their linen "A blualofaeo act" 100 variety' "turn " in butnt cork ; a 'turo" is the specialty or act of at variety performer or rausio hall artist. "To hug the centre," or "bog the cen- tre IP is to keep tho middle of the stage, gold so fhttraot the entire ettention of the sudience. "A fly-by.night " company is a company that leaves without lig uidating ifs indebted - nese to the landlord, toad it " oneatight stand " is at stop for ono night. A. Membrane failure is called a" frost," O poor company a " man " company, a pair na. rtheatrical towa a " jay't tette, and a poor actor it "Ita"—New Yard Evenitt9 Was It a Newspaper -Prize Watch? Aunt Cenpen—And now, Georgia, how do yon like the fine gold watelt sent sou cle stoat birthday Geergiee-I lilted it very well, anetie. Altor rue an' Billy Smith got tied o/ hear - it' it tiok wo basted it crin and took out dor worke. Blare got der spring fad onto his deg. WEI a bill)y dog, too. WinOntarint ellaticiarat Jeridesnaalds' Coetunten Tole Mteeoeatione and Other Coneettet Drideelnaide are very important and pic- turesque features of the modem Weadogi 00d their costunme are net only extremely but in any cases X13614 attilltiO as Well. At en Idnalish wedding this Winter the bridesmaide wore gewne of white silk draped with white gatiee and teinemed With eilver gatoon, wants binge painaborough hate severed with went) ostrieh featbers adorned their heads. At a " violet wed- ding", the bridesmaids were clreesed in COS- tulnes of purple velvet copied from a popular painting, and at novel feature of this wedding was that many of the gnests wore matte:cies whioh were in some shade of the same A reoent wedding in an eastern city had some vary pretty features. The eight bridesmaids were (dressed in gowns of yellow eetin trimmed with Chantilly laoe, end they wore wreaths of attunes and eam- rieri bueohes of yellow daffedile. At tbe reception the bridal 'maple Mood beneath two floral hearts in white, tied with at true lover s knot, which were placed against a background of crimson plash. The gone:ling of the bridal party was very pretty, nth gold -backed Japanese settees being used with excellent effect. At this same wedding the bride's gifts to her bridesmaids were phe in the form of two pearl heart, end the ring hidden in the cake was ot two raoonstones carved in heart shape. English fashion journals say. that ropes of flowers meander about their table drat peries, ana the fruit is disposed among them. At a reoent bridal breatfast, where all the china and flowers were wnite, oranges peeped out of masses of their own flowers and leaves, and the centre -piece was a aollection of white Vienna china on bisque organ pipes, around whioh was twined at vine of roses and buds in their own foliage. The epergne, which has been so long relegated to the china closet, has come back again 'and leaves and buds and flowers are teethed about its tall branches end it is used as at setting for a mat of foliage. Another new table decoration is a wire framework, made to resemble at flat piste; in this the flowers, with short stems and without foliage are placed, the favorite flowers for such decoration being violets, crocuses, jonquils, daffodils or heerteease. The foundation of wire is, of course, coucealed and at each plate is placed ono of these plates, smell and matching in color the china and other decorations. One ot the prettiest of the customs now observed at Beglish weddings is the intro- duction of tiny pages to hold the train of the bride. They add greatly to the plenum ague effect of the occasion in their pretty costumes. At at recent wedding two little pees were attired in reseda velvet, fastened with silver buttons, and slashed with oream silk, with broad white silk sashes tied on one side, deep Spenish lace collars, reseda stockings and tan leather aloes with paste buckles. At another wedding, the pages wore cream serge Fauntleroy snits braided with gold, and white silk collars and sashes. They also wore eilver watches and ()hates, the gilt of the bride. On another occasion the pages were dressed in Charles I. costumes of pale blue satin, with puffed eleeves, cloaks tined with white satin, col- lars and cuffs of Vandyke Irish croohet lace, blue lace ceps with white ostrich plumes, and bine satin ahem with buckles. Arrangement of Furniture. In arranging your furniture avoid straight tines as much as possible. How much more easy appearieg is a chair placed across, instead of into, a corner. It looks as though some one had jest relinquished its comfortable Teem, and seems to &dually offer itself to you in return, says a writer in "Table -Talk." Curves, angles and the like are artistic, we are taught; but what a hopeless task is it to impress upon oar neat -handed " Phyllises" that these 'apparently careless itrrengements are stndied touches, after all. It is really somewhat amusing to note how Phyllis, who will decorate tables and bureaus with reaently employed dust -rags, and leave scrub brushes in deceptive corners of the staircase, will persist in going about and straightening the "artistically -angled" furniture and ornamente. Not a few housewives have special hobbies; among them the foregoing ; another is their table- ware and their mantel brio -a -brae. They value these treasures immeasurably, but crack a piece the slightest, or "nick" the tiniest bit off an edge, and all trace of esteem VADiSh39. "Break my china," said yoting housekeeper as few days ago, "but break it into Atoms, don't amok it. I can't bave it continue to stand about as if nreepr.,oa, ohing for the lack of care and tender- ss 'Will Salute. A regulation has been introdaced in the British navy requiring all officers and men to salute hereafter according to military fashion. The new method, it appears, is due to the Qaeon, who realizes that the woe, 41./0410'41191'.0" There are Precious Vow renple Who Know ROM It Ortatnatado One peotelier fact brenglet out bY 01_0 qcent right between the BOltrd „01 Trade and the bunhet-sbOpil is that the origin of t hAe noahreli eitaogfo tNh ee wl t treerpt tneoko rt aenketVa , 0 0 v„ Grail prominent Chicago speOnlators their opinions on the subjeot, and all agreed tha mitoatth4r.iengWee dettaitely animal regent/big the '4 The name was extaut befere MY time," ionriigdirtaat,r; Liebetern, Qf datnee Murphy Co. I havn'tthe elightest idea of itie William Eppley, Mr. 0 stens and eeverai Board ot Trade operators expreseed the same opinion. ° The only theory regarding the origin that has ever been advanced comae from the village of St. Louis, There was, it ie said, in Mtge of yore at inanufaotory of tuba, buckets ana other domestic recep. tacies on 3rd street, near the Board of Trade. Here the sportively inclined Mist sourians were wont to gather and illegitie mately deal ia stooks and grain. The place was, the legend runs, ultimately changed into an outside brokers' establtshment, and from this eirounaetance, it fit claimed, ernanatea the term " buoketmhop," now tio universally irt use. She Cured Ellin. "bud thus she cured him; and this way Will I take upon me to wash your liver As clean as a sound sheep's heart, That there shall not be one spot on't.'' This is cloiee by the use of Dr, Pierce's Golden itledioalDiaoovery,whiohthoroughly dominoes the systera of all impurities of tile blood—wasbes out the liver clean - battle:luta pimples, boils, blotches, scrofula, tuber. culosie, and ell tendencies to Coesumptiont Dr, Pierce has prepared this remedy " you like it," and placed it with all the drug stores, where the daughter ef the Duke as well as the olown, or Orlando, may obtain it for their cure. It is warranted to benefit or cure, or money paid for it will be re- funded. True, in One Sense. Fir et Barnstormer—Faith, me friend, am overjoyed to see you! What luck? A regular ovation at yonr last appearance, hope.. Second Barnstormer (gloomily) ---S' death, me boy, I know not what you caftan ova- tion. Yet hold! Mine was such, if you bear in mind that in Latin, ovum meaneth an egg. "What's female beauty, bat an air divine, Through which the mind's all -gentler grazes ThaibeinaneO; be good logia in poetry, but in real life "the mind's all -gentler graces shine" to better advantage when enclosed in a sound physique. Dr. Pierce's Favor- ite Prescription is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases oE lencorrhea, excessive flowing, painful men- struation, unnatural suppressions, pro- lapses or falling of the womb, weak back, " female weakness," anteversion, retro- version, bearing -down sensations, chronic congestion, infanamation and ulceration of the womb, inflammation, pain and tender- ness M. ovaries, aceorapanied with " internal heGatel Businesis Business. em Girl—The paper saye a matri- s racmial exobange 1-88 been started for the benefit of foreign noblemen and American heiresses. Plailatielphia Girl (who deals at Wane- makers's) —Isn't that spIeedid 2 I hope they'll have a bargain counter. The awe-struck audience gazed On the figure, gaunt and gray; 'Twas the murdered king, or the ghost of hint And Hamlet was the play. Me hour was briet, he said, He must go ere light of day, To the place of torment prepared for him, Till Jais sias were puued away. Yes, purged, was the word he used, and I thought what a remedy rare Would Pierce's Purgative Pellets prove, In his case, then and there. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pargative Pellets have no Neal as a cathartic in derange- ments at the liver, stomach and bowels. Small, pleasant in aotion, and purely vege- table. " I have an article on How to manage a wile,'" reraarked a man as he advanced to the editor's desk. "Fon are untnarried, I believe , ' replied the editor. "Yes, why ? " Nothing. I just thought so." Lord Acton is considered the most learned man in England. He is a Roman Catholic, and in addition to his barony has a baronetcy. His library contains no less than one hundred thousand vol- umes, all of which are carefully selected and number among them some very rare books. About 1,500 different kinds of dream, books are in the inarket, and all of them find buyers. ?,...7aVOICV:I..".1115111E612120521112=MX124=11691 D. D. PT. L. 17. 90. " off oap" is a positive danger in e. tropical me_ climate, while at other times it is often a source al discomfort. Sailors nowadays are net so picturesque as they used to be. They do not hitch up their troneers and preface their remares with " shiver my timbers " ; and novelists and dramatists will in future be compelled to abstain from picturing them as mitkieg a sweeping salatation with a dropped cap and the cheerful cry ot "Aye, aye, sir ?" Thieves in Sleepers. A. little thoughtfulness will prevent losses in a sleeper. The passenger who goes to bed with his watch and purse under his pillow, in the old-fashioned way, could be robbed easily. That is where the thief shesys looks. He can get the vest or trousers from the pillow without waking the sleeper. The best plan is to put the money and jewelry in a handkeroltief, lift up the mattress on the aide near the *window under the body, not under the head, and put the bundle there.—St. Louis Globe. Democrat. 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Tlecaltse otherS hare, ed b5 no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at oncc for a treat Ite and a Proai ratOttVo of my trrralifielo nontecir, Give Moine§ tetetutl Post Office. It costs you nothing fora trial, and it will mire AildresSz-fie ex 00%14 01411.0.5 Memnon matelot 186 'Wart AMIAAIDg STREtTs TOGIONTO.