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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-11, Page 2MISCELLANEOUS READING GDITE AND QTREDWISD. neadinf,, For Leisure Moments for Old as Well as Young. Interesting and Prelltable. There's No One Like a Roes Mother. . Some folks think a boy's life is all 1?lay They don't know the trouble he has every by; Hard lessonsto learn, wood to chop aad bring And loads more lobs he hates worse than sin, Xt is "Johnnie, go here," or "Johnnie. tlo this." Till a boy never knows when a. moment 15 1115. nett there is School, with hard stuns to get right, With girls sure to tease you, and boys bound to heat ; You can't punch the small ones, because they are small. You daren't hit the big oues, bemuse they are And seine girls are silly, and some boys are eruel. And it's mighty tough work to keep every rule. Some cheat at their work, some tell on each other, I'm sure such mean boys can't have any mother. Oh, I tell you a mother's n ran good thing; She always knows where to thut you it string Or a ball that is lost. or a book. or a. pup, And she 11 leave her own work to hunt them up. Then when you've been bad, bad as bati can be, There's always a cosy place on her knee, For her dear naughty boy to lay his head, And repeat his prayers before going to bed. And whenever I'm sick, or in pain, just to know That muther is near always omforts me so. How she nurses and cuddles me, no toungue can tell, And the good things she cooks, I just hate to get we 11, Onee I told her a lie. and it grievecl her so sadly. It made me down sick from feeling so badly And I made nvow then I shall keep tiU 1 dle— To be upright always and never to lie. One day while at school I frOt into disg.mee I omitt not help seeing her sorrowful face); So thinking that something, had. kept her boy late. She'd saved me my pudding, heaped up on a plate (For father is striet, and. if late for a meal Docks off your dessert, which boys keenly fe Mother's face haunted me all the rest of the day, interfering with work and just spoiling my play: Boys' fathers are all vi:ry wellin their way, Bat mothers ean distance them any day ; Most fathers storm round if you've cot up bad, And teach you repentance by use of their ,qui ; But dear, gentle mother her face is so sad,"' Though she never bel'eves her boy wholly bad. And when things lo air darkest she makes them seem bright, Or when opelessly mixed she makes them come right. Then hurrah, boys, for mothersa rousing hur- rah 1 Who guide us by love, not rule as by mw; Whose unfailing, patience with all our rough ways Commands our respect to the end of our days; Who share in our sorrow, our sports and our joys, • And ake no selfish pleasuresapart from their oys ; Anil although you may love father, sister and brother, I tell you there's no one jut like a boy's mother. Keep in Line. When the world is going right, Keep in line; When the path is strewn with light, Keep in line; When across life's rippling sea Joy is iioat'ng far and free, liPhile the birds sing merrily— Keep in line. When the world is going wrong, Keep in line; With an impalse pure and strong, Keep in line ; Drivethe shadow from despair. Smooth the wrinkled browpf care— Plant a song upon the air; Keep in line. There's a noble task for you, Keen in line There's'enough for all to do; Keep in line; Through the billows' wildest play, Hope still points an open way— You may anchor in the bay, Keep in line. How He Outwitted His Dreaded Spouse. Two belated. young business men tar- ried on a street corner the other night to talk it over. A social game of poker had detained. the gentlemen until long after the last ear had passednorth. As one of the tardy men nervously drew out his -watch the clock sounded the hour of three. The striking bell seemed to pos- seen an omniorts sound for the nervous gentleman. He had toyed. late with the delusive ivories before. and his mind. re- verted to a familiar scene in which his wife invariably figured triumphantly. " Great Scott !' he exclaimed, "its three o'clock and I'm not home. I'll have a time with my wife this morning." " Oh, nonsense," declared the other. "I haven't any patience with you. Slip in quietly, tell 'er you've been at work. Anything of that sort will square her. Brace up, old man; you'll come out all right." 'No," sadly echoed the fearful one, "you. on't know my wife, I do," and he turned his face toward home aud the partner of his joys, with the air of a criminal bound for the scaffold. The friends met the next day. It was late in the afternoon, after the close of business. The timid man was radiant. "Well, what's up, old. fellow?" grinned eels friend, scanning the delightecl coun- tenance before him.. "Did yon fix, her eip all right?" "Elegant, first-class fine as silk," and the timid man chuckled and wanted to hug, the other in the rare exuberance of delight that filled him. Then he unfold- ed a wondrous tale: r11 tell you how it was," he said, as the pair watched the preparation of a cocktail at a neighbor- ing bar. "I went home slipped into the house and up to the bedroom. Now, my -wife is a peculiar woman. When she sleeps soundest she has one eye on me. Sort of a 'possom slamber, you know, and 'hadn't any hope of evading that open eye on this occasion. I sat down to take of my shoes, and affairs moved on splen- dialy until I dropped one of the infernal ;things on the floor. She hadn't spoke, and I began to indulge in, a rosy hope ...when this a,ecident accurred. I knew I eves lost, and cursed myself for a fool. Ohe stire8d, then raised herself and look- ed at me in a sleepy sort of way. Hos- elides have begun," I said to myself and waited - e" George, dear,' she said sweetly, and yawned. 'I didn't think the voice had the old ring of war in it, but I hadn't the nerve to take courage. Imagine the shock to imy nervous system when she continued. : UL What on earth,' continued the Sweetness, 'are you doing up so early, George ?' 'Well, George had. to pinch hiinself to ;see if the was living, but he tumbled. 'Ye :goats,' I thought to myself, 'she hasn't mimed me Then I pulled myself to- gether and manfully' replied : $'Oh—t--.-I--that is—I got tip to go to market this mortting.' "Just fora minute my blood stood still, for I neveriold her a lie in my life that she didn't catth me, Did. I get out? Well, I shotild -say I did get out. Say, what do youiliink my wife did? Why, he deliberately ordered nee to get eggs for breakfast, and then went to sleep. lholted for the Jcitehen, a basket and eon from the house. Fortunately it was uterket .morninee and I iniug Around for three hems, until the time of opening. I bought everything in sight, and. W01$ glad of the opportunity, 'Ne hy, old man, 1 feltlike hugging every market woman I strack. l'ety wile was axi angel at break- fast, She said itwas too bad her boy had to get up so early on market mornings," The timid man surveyed himself in the mirror, chucked his friend in the ribs and then drank to his own. cleverness. A.1 ova Story -Teller. Conan Doyle's aptitude for telling sto- ries began to toll itself when he was very young, and his schoolboy friendr used to ffer ohim rewards ill the way of tarts to relate romances. The author is a yery fine specimen of manhood. Reis big and blond, six feet tall, athletic and weighs 225 pounds. He is only thirty-five. ler. Doyle is due in the United States in Octo- ber to lecture ou George Mere lith and "The Younger Influences in English Lit - erotical • "ZACCIIEUS, COME DOWN. TALMAGE SAYS WE MUST ALL COME DOWN FROM THE TREE LbIB, Drop Curiosity, Get Down and Follo•o---- Tax. Gath erers of Old and Office -S ee k - ere To-Day—Heaven Isn't Reached Through Athens, but Through Beth - Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now prepar- ing to leave Australia for India, on his round -the -world tour, has selected as his suleject for to -day's sermon through the press: "The Tax -Collector's Convereion," the text being taken from Luke 19 ; 9: "This day is salvation come to this house." Zaccheus was a politician and, a tax - gatherer. He had an honest canine., but the opportunity for stealing was so large the temptation was too much for him The Bible says he was a sinner—that is, in the public sense. How many fine men have been ruined by official position! It is an awful thing for any man t / seek office under Government emless his prin- ciples of integrity are deeply fixed. Many a mann upright en an insignificant posi- tion has made shipwreck in a great one ! As far as I can tell, in the city of Jericho this Za,echeus belonged. to what might be called the ring. They had things their own way, successfully avoiding exposure —if by no other way, perhaps by hiring somebody to break in and steal vouchers. Notwithstanding his bad. reputation, there were streaks of good about him, as there is about almost every man. Gold is found in quartz, and sometimes in. a very small percentage. Jesus was coming to town. Thepeople turned ont en masse to see Him. Here He comes—the Lord of Glory—on foot, dust -covered and road weary, carrying the griefs and woes of the world. He looks to be sixty years of age when he is only about thirty. Zencheus was a short man'and could not see over the people's heads while standing on the ground; so he got up into &sycamore tree that swung its arms clear over the road. , Jesus ad- vanced amid the wild excitement of the surging crowd. The most honorable and popular men of the city are loafing on, and trying to gain his attention. Jesus, instead of regarding them, looks up at the little man in. the tree, and says: "Zaecheus. come clown. I am going home with you." Everybody was disgusted to think that Christ would go home with so dishonorable a man. I see Christ entering the front door of the house of Za,ccheus. The King of hea- ven and earth sits down. and as He looks around on the place and family He pro- nounces the benediction of the tent— "This day is salvation come to this house." Zaccheus had mounted the sycamore tree out of mere inquisitiveness. He wanted to see how this stranger looked— the color in His eyes'the length of His hair, the contour of His features, the height of His stature. "Come down, said Christ." And so, many people inehis day get up into the tree of curiosity or speculation to see Christ. They ask a thousand gels er questions about His divinity, about Gcd's sovereignity, and the eternal decrees. They speculate. and criticize, and hang on to the outside limb of a green syca- more. Bat they must come down from that if they want to be saved. We can- not be saved as philosophers. but as little children. You cannot go to heaven by way of Athens, but by way of Bethlehem. Why be perplexed about the way sin came iuto the world when the great question is how shall we get sin, driven oat of our hearts ?How many spend their time in criticiem and religious specula- tion! They take the Rose of Sharon'or the Lily of the Valley, pull out the anther, scatter the corollia, and say, "Is that the beautiful flower of religion that you are talking about?" No flower is beautiful after you have tom it all to pieces, The path to heaven is so plain that a fool need not make any mistake about it, and yet men stop and cavil. Suppose that, going toward the Pacific slope, I had resolved that, I would stop until I could kill all the grizzly bears and panthers on either side of the way. I would never have got to the Pacific coast. When I went out to hunt the grizzly bear, the grizzly bear would have come out to hunt me. Here is a plain road to heaven. Men say they will not take a step ma it until they can make game of all the theories that bark and growl at them from the thickets. They forget the fact that as they go out to huut the theory the theory comes out to hunt them, and so they perish. We receive the kingdom of heaven 1 sim- plicity. William Pennington. was ono of the wisest men of this country—a gover- nor of his own state, and afterward Speaker of the House of Representatives. Yet, when God called him to be a Chris- tian he went in, and sat down among some children who were applying for church membership, and he said to his pastor, "TaLk to inc just as, you do to the children, for I know nothing about it." There is no need of bothering our- selves about mysteries when there are so many things that are plain. Dr. Ltd- lovet my professor in the theological seminary, tatight me a lesson I have never forgotten. 'While putting a variety of questions to him that were perplexing, he turned tpon me somewhat in stern- ness, bat more in love, and said, "Mr. Talmagfe you will have to let God know some things that you don't," We tear Mir hands on the spines of the &teens in- stead of feasting our eye on its tropical bloom. A. great company of people now sit tswingieg themseIveS on the sycamore tree of their pride, and, 1 cry to you, "Zacchette, come down!" Come down out of yoar pride, out of your inquieit- ivettese, oat of your speculation. You cannot ride into the gate of heaven with (emelt and four, postillion ahead and lackey behind. "Except ye becenn) as little children ye eennot enter die king Um of God." God. has ehosen the weal; things of this world te confound the mighty. "Zaecheu.se come clowa, come &owe. !" I notice that tide tax -gatherer aeoom- Ponied his surrender to Christ with the restoration of property that am not be- loag to him. He says, "If I have taken anything,• by false accusation, I restore l'ourfoW' That is, if I have taxed any ume for ten thousanddollars when he had only flIPL3 thoteetind dollars' worth of property, auti put inmy own pocket the tax for the last five thousand, I will re - ;tore to him fourfold, If I took from him ten dollars, I will give him forty dollars; if I toole forty I will give him 8160. Exodus 22 1 "If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore live oxen for an ox, and. four sheep for a sheep. If a thief be found breaking up, and. be smitten that he die, shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon hitn, there shall be blood shed for him, for he should make full restitatioa ; if he heve nothieg, then he shall be sold far his theft. If the theft be certainly found. in his hand alive, whether it be an ex or an ass, or sheep/ he shall restore double. If a mat shall cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and, shall feed in another man's field of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vine- yard, shall he make restitution.'' You say, "I cannot make restitution The parties whom I swindled are gone.." Then I say, "Take the money up to the American Bible Society and consecrate it to God. Zacchetis was wise when he dis- gorged his unrighteous gains, and it was his first step in the right direction. The way being clear, Ohrist walked into the house of Zaccheus. He becomee a different man ; his wife a different wo- man; the children are different. Oh! it makes a great change in auy hoase when Christ. comes into it. How many beauti- ful homes are represented among you! There are pictures on the wall; there is music in the drawing -room ; a.nd luxuries in the wardrobe; and a full supply in the pantry. Even. if you were half asleep, there is one word with which I could wake you, and thrill you through and through, and that word. is "home !" There are also houses of euffering repre- sented, in which there are neither pic- tures nor wardrobe, nor ad.ornment—only one room, and a, plain cot, or a bunk in a. corner ; yet it is a place where your loved ones dwell, and'your whole nature tingles with satisfaction. when you think of it and call it home. Though the world may scoff at us, and pursue us, and all the day we be tossed. about, at even- tide we sail into the harbor of home. Though there be no rest for us in the busy world, and. we ,go trudging about, bearing burdens that well nigh crush us, there is refuge, and it hath an easy chair in which we may sit, and a lounge where we may lie, and a serenity of peace in. which we may repose, and that refuge is home. The English sol - di ire, sittine, on the walls around Sebas- topol, one night heard a company of mu siciaus playing "Home, Sweet Home,". and it is said that the whole army broke out in sobs and wailing, so great was their homesickness. God pity the poor, miserable wretch who has no home. Now. suppose Christ should come into your house. First the wife and the mother would feel His presence. Religion almost always begins there. It is easier for women to become Christians than us men. They do not fight so against God. If woman tempted man originally away from holiness, now she tempts him back. She may not make any fuss about it, but somehow everybody in the house knows that there is a change in the wife and mother. She chides the children more gently. Her face sometimes lights up with an nnearthly glow. She goes into some unoccupied room for a little while, and the husband goes not after her, nor asks her why she was there. He knows without asking that she was praying. The husband notices that her face is brighter than ou the day when, years ago, they stood at the marriage altar, and he know$ that Jesus has been putting upon her brow a wreath sweeter than the orange blossoms. She puts the children to bed, not satisfied with the formal prayer that they once offered, but she lingers now and tells them of Jesus who blessed little children, and of the good place where they all hope to be at last. And then she kisses them good -night with something that the eleild feels to be a heavenly benediction — a something that shall field on to the boy after he has become a man forty or fifty years of age; for there is something in a good, loving, Christian mother's kiSe that fifty years cannot wipe oil the cheek. Now the husband is distressed and an- noyed, and almost vexed. If she would only speak to him he would "bow her up." He does not like to say anything about it, but he knows that she hate a hope that he has not, and peace that his has not; he knows that, dying as he now he cannot go to the same place. He can- not stand it any longer. Some Sunday night, as they sit in clurch side by side, the floods of his soul break forth. He wants to pray, but he does not know how. He hides his face, lest some of. his worldly friends see him ; but God's Spirit arouses him, melts him, overwhelms him, And they go home—husband and. wife—in silence, until they get to their room, when he cries out : "Oh, pray for me !" The prayer begins abraptly and ends abruptly; but as far as I can understand what they mean, it is this: "0 Saviour! help us! 'We do not know how topray. Teach us. We cannot live any longer in the, way we have been living. We start te-day for heaven. Help us to take these chil- dren along with us. Forgive us for all the past. Strengthen us all for all the future. And when the journey is over, take us where Jesus is, and where the little babe is that we lost. Amen ?" It ended very abruptly; but the angels Came out and leaned so far over to listen, they wouli have fallen off the battlement but for a etreke of their wings, and cried, "Hark! hark! Behold he prays !" That night there is a rap at the bed- room door. "'Who is there?" cries the father. lb ie the oldest child. "What is the matter? Are you sick ?" "No; I want to be saved." Only a little whale and all the children are brought into the kingdom of God. And there is great joy in the house. Years pass by. The tele- graph goes click, click! What is the news flying Meer the country? "Come home. Father is dying !" The children all gather. Some come in the last train. Some, too late for the train, take a car- riage across the country. They stand around the dying bed of the father. The oldest son Upholds the mother, and says, "Don't ery, mother; will take Care of you f" The perting blessing is ,give. No long admonition ; for he has, through years, been saying to his children all he had to say to them, It is e plain "Good- bye," and the remark, "I kuow you win all be kind to your mother," and all is over. Life's duty done, as sinks the ehtv, Light from its load, the spirit dies; While heaven mid earth oxalate to sari How bless'd the righteous when he dies. A whole family saved. forever. If the deluge come, they aro all in the ark -- father, mother, sons, daughters. To- gether omm earth, together in heaven. What makes it so ? Explain ib! Zee - elms one day took Jesus home with him. That is all, Salvation mile to that house, SA What sound is it I hear to -nigh',? It is Jesus km/eking at the door ofeeyour house. Beheld 1 a stranger at the door: lie gently knocks—has knocked before. If you looked out of your window and saw me going, up your front steps, you would not wait, but go yourself to open the door. Will you keep Jesus standing, on the outside, His locks, wet with the dew of the night ? This day is salvation come to thy house. The great want of your house is not a new carpet, or cost- lier pictures, or richer furniture—it is Jesus ! Give yourself no rest until your chil- dren are the, sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Your son does just as you do ! He tries to walk like you and to talk like you! The daughter imitates the mother. Alas! if father and mother miss heaven the children will. Ole, let Jesus come into your house! Do not bat the hale door, or the parlor door, or the kitchen door, or the bedroom door, ae.aiust Him, ' Above all, do nob bolt your heart. Build your altar to -night. Take the family Bible lying on the parlor table. Call together as many of your family as may be awake. Read a chapter, andthen, if you can think of nothing else besides the Lord's Prayer, say that. That will do, Heaven will have begun in your house. You can put your head on your pillow feeling that, whether you wake up in this world or in the next, all is well. In that great, ponderous Book of the Judgment, where is recorded all the im- portant events of the earth, you will read at last the statement that this was the day when'salvation came into your house. Oh, Zaecheus, come down! come down! Jesus is passing by. A Touching Incident. We heard a story told the other day that made our eyes moisten. We have determined to tell it, just as we heard it, to our little ones : A company of poor children who had been gathered out of the alleys and gar- rets of the city, were preparing for their departure to new and distant homes in the west. Just before the time of start- ing of the .cars, one of the boys was noticed aside from the others, and appar- ently very busy with a cast off garment. The superintendent stepped up to him, and found that he was cutting a small piece out of the patched linings. It proved to be his old jacket, which., hav- ing been replaced by a new one, had been thrown away. There was no time to be ome, lost. ' John come," said the superin- tendent, "whatare you going to do with that old piece of calico ?" "Please sir," said. John, "I am cutting it to take with me. • My dead mother put the lining in this old jacket for me. This was a piece of her dress, and it is all 1 have to remember her by." Opt And. as the poor boy thought of that clead mother's love, and the sadildeath- scene in the garret where she died, he covered his face with his hands and sob- bed as if his heart would break. But the train was about lea,vind, and John thrust the little piece of calico into hie bosom to remember his mother by, hurried into the ear. and was soon far away from the lilac° -where he had known so much sor- row. We know many an eye will moisten as the story is told aud retold throughout the country, and many a prayer will go up to God for the fatherless and motherless in all the great cities and in. all places. Little readers, are your mothers still spared to you? Will you not show your love by obedience? That little boy who loved so well, we are sure, obeyed. Bear this in mind., that if you should one clay have to look upon the face of a dead mother, no thought would be so bitter as to remember that you had given her pain by your wilfulness or dis- obedience. Took His Advice. At last after these many months it has been discovered how Will Pope happened to rob the bank, and it all seems now so simple. Brokers John W. Green and Tom Maize made the discovery yesterday afternoon as they: talked in the bank which was the victim of the robbery. Their environs naturally suggested the muth-talleed-of disappearance of man and money, and reminiscences were in order. "D'you remember," asked Mr. Maize, "how anxious Pope was to make money ?" "That I do," answered Mr. Green. "Every time I came in here he would say: Mr. Green, how can I make a little money?' or what must I buy?' " "Heeused to ask me the same question," broke forth Mr. Maize. "He aid ?» "Yes, and I used to get pretty tired of the -same old greeting." "It was Saturday that he skipped out, wasn't it?" eyeeee Then came the discovery. "Why " exclaimed Mr. Green, 'I have it -1 know—it is all plain to me now— well, well—" Mr. Maize wondered what it was that his companion knew. The latter ex- plained: "On the Thursday before the robbery I came into the bank and went to Pope's desk. Pope greeted me as usual. 'Mr. Green,' said he, how can I make some money?' Rob the bank,' said I. For once he took my advice." A TALK MIR MOTHERS. Suggestions as to the Selection of Foods — Over -Feeding as Dangerous as Starving—Soine Directions That Are Applicaole to Grown Persons. Of the total number of deaths in warm weather, according to the records, nearly oee-thir are children under one gee/of age. INow, is this mortality a necessary evil? We are inclined to think not. The diseases from which these children die arise as a rule, from preventable causes. 'Not always so ration from the want of care as from the want of knowl- edge how to care for thern. To devise means to prevent this great infant mor- tality is a work wen worthy of a phil- anthropist. If we look to the classes of eieease elosely, the inference is that a Co :siderable number of these deaths have in reality a close and direct relation to the kind of food given. The general cey oe teething is nonsensi- cal. It a child is bathed and fed, regular- ly. clothed loosely and comfortably, not over -nursed or "mauled" on a warm day/ anl given reveler hours of rest, the teeth will eome throagh elmest unnotieed. 11 must be remembered that a child cannot digest food containing stareh, such as nee water, bread food, pap or gruel until it has teeth. Thereiore milk, which is animal food, has by nature been given ae the only one needed up to that time. Careful examinaiions prove that the highest mortality is among children that are brought up by hand. This shows for itself that they are given a poor substi- tute for their natural food. Covv'e slightly watered and sweetened with sugar of mnilk, is perhaps one of the best substitutes for mother's milk. A table- spoonful of lime water may also be added to each pint of milk. It is a most sorrowful sight to behold a haggard, restless, moaning child, huddled up m warm arms, or heavily blanketed on a feather pillow in a baby coach in warm weather, and very, very often a long -tubed bottle is in the mouth, and perhaps has been there for two hours. This is enough. to kill the child, if noth- ing more. Mothers, let me tell you that most of these troubles can be avoided. Take your babe from its bed every morn- ing at a regular hour, bathe it well, but carefully, in luke-warm salt water; dry with a soft towel. If it is discolored by heat, dust it lightly with rice flour, then put next to its body an all -wool gauze flannel shirt, long enough to well cover its bowels over this a thin flannel skirt with muslin or linen body, then its slip, which should be simple and plain, with high meek and long sleeves. Zephyr socks should cover its feet, and a linen bib protect the neck of the dress. After this feed, if not from the breast, prepare a hall pint of milk, turn it into a sweet bottle and put on a short nursing tube. Hold the child while feeding in a semi-erect position. If the child is on its back or side the milk is likely to be thrown up and lost to the child. How ofteinwe see a nurse in feeding a child by the bottle fix ie comfortably m bed on its back, put the tube in the mouth and. leave them to suck as much milk and. air into the stomach as can conveniently be done. All this favors these accidents, which it is desirable to avoid. After the child has taken the half pint of milk, lay it down on a mattress, cover it lightly, and allolv it to take a good long nap, which in most eases it will gladly do. After this nap a four or five months baby should be fed regularly every three hours and should not under any cireumstances be fed oftener. Overfeeding frequently produces the same results as starvation The child should have another rest about 1 o'clock. At the close of the day, say 6 o'clock, undress it, rub lightly with the hand, and change all it's clothing for a night's sleep, which may be about the same as the ones taken off. Never allow the ehildto sleep in garments worn dur- the day. After this feed it and put it to bed. It is a great mistake to keep a child out in the night air in a coach disturbing it to transfer it to a bed at a later hour. When disturbed in this way a child may fret all night. No food is required be- tween eleven and five unless the child be awake from some unnatural cause. A flannel bag, four by six inches, contain- ing a teaspoonful of ground cloves, a tea- spoonful of cinnamon, a half teaspoonful of ginger, a teaspoonful of allspice, a grated nutmeg and three or four blades of bruised. mint should be made and kept in the house to use if necessary. This bag moistened with alcohol, made warm, and placed over the stomach will allay vomiting, or over the abdomen will sooth and govern the bowels. It can be used over and over as long as the spices retain their strength. As the child grows older and the teeth appear take this sign that food a little different from milk is required. A little beef broth carefully made, a little mutton broth, in which rice or barley has been boiled and strained out, may be given. Try your best not to give a child bread until it is at least /our months old, and then the crust only, or that portion that is most thoroughly baked. The balling should be kept up every morning, until th,e end of life for that matter, and the change of the day for the night clothing as well. It is a mistake for children or grown people to sleep in the clothing'any portion of it that is worn during the day. The undervests when taken off at night should be hung out to thoroughly air un- til they are wanted next morning:, and in bathing use as little soap as. possible. .A. half ounce of benzoine put into one pint of alcohol with half pint of rose water, all well mixed, may be kept in the bath- room to add to the bathing water, if you so desire. This mixture will keep the skin soft and in ,good, healthy condition. but, personally, I prefer until the child has passed its seventh year, a salt bath every morning. A box of sea salt can be purchased and kept at hand and dissolved in the beth tub. Not until after the ehild is four or five years old should it be al- lowed to see auything but the light of day. Give it its breakfast at a regular hour, then its dinner at as nearly 12 o'clock as possible, then its supper at say 5 or 5.80, and in an hour it is ready for bed. Much of the evil and sickness of chil- dren comes from the fact of their being allowed to remain with the family in the evening. It makes them peevish and restless and ruins their health. Keep them children as long as possible. A boy is net a man until he is twenty-one, and a girl is not a woman until she is about the same age. Remember that all the bones are not fully developed until after this age. Plain, nutritious food, composed of bread, mush, milk, eggs, fruit, rice and a few well -cooked vegetables, up to a re- cent period, was the food of our children and is still, where the mother is possessed with common sense. The diet of children requires just as much care as that of in- fap.cy. In fact it requires more care, as the passions of children overpower their instincts, and reason has not made its appearance. Rapidly growing children should eat Thar times a day, but meat should be given only twice a day; in face, once a day will answer. Most children eat too much trash between meals. If a child complains of hunger in midwinter he is frequently given a pop -corn ball, a little candy or a banana, while the mother would never think of refreshing herself with the same style of food. " Mantas can I have a glass of nillk if I drink this vinegar'? Will it agree ?" asked a small boy within my hearing a day or so ago. "Why, yes," answered the mother. "Your aunt always takes vinegar after milk and it agrees with her," aba then the whey -faced boy steal - lowed his mixture with confidence and pleasure. He still lives. Why? Simply beettuee his COnStitUtion is good and the poisou he swallows a,ets elowly, but ibis doing its work nobly, end by the time he is twenty,or perhaps fifteen, his stomath will be milled, and be will add his name to the list of puny men, who have to brace themselves up ia the morningwith strong coffee. If mothers would stop for a moment end eonsider what kind of foodnourished bone, mnsele and brain, and what sort produced fat and what lean, we would not see ene 'child ready to burst from over fat or pull and. another so thin that he is unoomfortable. Our blood isenriched by meat, and the blood -heats tempered by fruits and other eseulents. Our brain tissues and neuseles are strengthened by the phosphates of crude cereals. Extreme monotony should be avoided. Family whims should be guarded against, so that in after years one may be saved the em- barrassment of passing almost everything at a strange table. After care has been taken with the selection and preparation of a, aneal, children should not be allowed to criticize. A. healthy boy or girl should be ready to eat anything in the Ivey of wholesome food. At least, so I find it. Wholesome food, a rational style of doss, museular exercise in the open air, all tend to the full development of the di- gestive organs. Beauty's Debt to Invention. Vanity furnishes the inspiration for many of the inventions shown at the Patent Office. One of the latest of this sort is a mask of very thin rubber, de- signed to be worn on the face at night. It causes profuse perspiration, which washes impurities out of the skin and makes; the complexion clearer. Sun -tan is quickly removed, so it is claimed. An- other device for producing dimples, is a woman's idea. It is a wire mask, like- wise to be put on when. going to bed. By an arrangement of screws, pencils of wood, very blunt, are made to press upon the cheeks and chin at the points where dimples are desired. Uncomfortable ? Why, of course. But, as the French say, it is worth while to suffer for beauty's sake. Inventions are on record at the Patent Office for supplying pretty nearly every part of the female form divine. Though a woman may have no more figure than a broomstick, she can be transformed into a veritable Juno, so far as outward appearances go, by means of these devices. False busts, hips and calves are made of rubber, to be blown up like balloons, and in many other styles, while the young lady of build hopelessly skeletonesque may procure a. complete stuffed jacket which fills out her shape at every point to the extent requisite for counterfeiting desirible em- bonpoint. Lerjf one is so unfortunate as to lack a• nose, he can obtain a false one of papier mache artfully enamelled to imitate the skin. One kind of imitation proboscis is attached to a spectacle frame, so that the owner puts on his counterfeit nasal organ in adjusting his glasses. Yet another - style is intended to be painted at inter- vals. When it gets shabby the wearer has merely to go to some capable artist and have it touched up with water colors. Several applications have been made for patents on processes for setting diamonds in the teeth—the front teeth, of course—holes being drilled to receive the gems. Such ornaments must have rather a ghastly effect, one would think. Dental surgeons have patented processes for imitating gold fillings in false teeth. This is done by burnishing gold foil upon 'them in the manner commonly termed. "fire gilding." Nobody would be likely to suspect that grinders showing plain signs of repair were artificial. A. very curious invention is a device for keeping the mouth open while singing. Teach- ers of -vocal music have had trouble as to this point with their pupils; but it may be obviated by employing the aontriv- ance described, which has a spring and may be set so as to expand. the jaws at any angle desired. Speaking of the mouth and teeth reminds one ot a patent that was granted only two years ago on an ordinary corncob of the pattern famil- iar in nature. Covered with corundum paste, it was to be used for polishing dental plates. The notion of getting a patent on one of God Almighty's own corn -cobs seems rather absurd. But many queer things have slipped through the great bureau of inventions, owing to carelessness. In 1878, for example, ex- clusive rights were grated in a process which consisted of nothing more than punching pinholes in hen's eggs. This device was for the purpose of letting the. inclosed gas out of preserved eggs, *o prevent them from exploding when boil- ed. A patent applied for, but not granted, was for using corn -husks as wrappers for bottles. This was to be done by remov- ing the ear from the husk witheut dis- turbing the integrity of the latter un- necessarily and putting the bottle in its place. Besides making an excellent wrapper, the husk serves as a disguise desirable in prohibition communities. Masculine vanity is concerned in the genesis of about eighty patents fer vari- ous kinds of mustache guards. Some of these contrivances take the form of metal attachments for the cup or glass. One such is a gold plate, with a spring, which may be fastened to any drinking vessel at a moment's notice. Another is spec- ially designed for beer glasses. A. tube connecting with it goes down deep into the beer, so that the mustached drinker is able to avoid the foam. Similar de- vices are applied to spoons. Other guirds are to be worn like spectacles somewhat, with wires to pass back of the ears of the wearer and hold them on. The shield for the mustache is of gold or silver, or of fine gold wire net. More simple is a pair of wire springs in the shape of a helix one of which is made to encircle each 'wing of the hirsute ornament, keep- ing it away- from the naouth. In buying any cosmetic it is safest to select a pat- ented article, because the govornment will not grant such rights for any article that is injurious. That is one reason why most makers of such preparations keep their coMpositions secret and content the nselves with trade marks and labels.. The protection accorded by law to a label or trade mark may be perpetuated in- definitely by registration, whereas a, patent can only be extended by ad of Par- liament. The rules of the Patent Office reject all that is "injurious to the well. being or sound morals of society." A. patented cosmetic is good to reuehase be- cause it has been analyzed by skilled Government chemists and has stood the requisite test of novelty and usefulness. In Holland the peasant girls who ere swainless at fair time hire young Men for the occasion. A handeome man who is a good dancer has a high value, so much so. that sometimes three girls have to club together to hire one swain, It takes 100 gallons of oil a year to keep 01 large-sizedlocomotive in running order.