The Exeter Advocate, 1892-11-10, Page 7r
WOMAN'S KINGDOM'.
To Wed Or Not to Wed the Question
of Questions,
CHARM BETTER THAN BEAUTY.
Bright Vaits for Those 'Who Brighten. Lira—
NoveIlaies Front Over the title—Yellow
teltrysantheinunt the Favorite Flower—
Things Werth liitowertg — ileininine
0411S Med to Wailt-81entibi
log Cleves One 'Way of iirititiag—
Sunday's Illenut--Whitt the Ladies Are
Baying.
NASIVIUCH ari the
following brief chap-
ter from the Chicago
News -Record touches
upon a matter in
teresting alike to
maids and bachelors,
wives and husoands,
it falls naturally into
place here.
A theory has re-
tr candy been advanced
1.1by Mies Susan B.
.Anthony, says the
News -Record writer,
that we are upon the eve of an era of un-
inarriod women. She saws the fundemental
causation of this pr edicted calemity is the
clash between men and women in the field
:of labor.
The factories, too, innocent though they
may appear, form no meagre part in this
nearing change, for the reason that they
now manufacture the articles and materials,
the making of which kept our great -grand.
smothers so actively employed.
In these modern days there is no weav-
ing, spinning, carpet and scam -making to
.heep our young -women at home, thereby
musing them to inconsiderably step ieto
Tar101113 parts of the bosieees world. At
first it was with an air of timidity, but as
their abilities became reoegeized a mien of
self-confidence wa,s assumed, which always
is regarded with both weeder and reapect
by the lovers of the " brainy " woman and
greeted with wild derision by admirers of
the clinging, timorous girl.
The modern girl is prone to believe that
she must necesearily make a selection be-
tween a life of devotion to the man she
ninnies or one of advancement in her chosen
-work. With an emphatic nod of her pretty
head she declares that the Mau shall be
sacrificed.
To be mire, it is rather rough treatment
for the man, but he min heal hie wounded
heart and spirits while the girl is pro-
olaiming her intentions of developing into
a dear, cross, citt-loving, tea drinking old
maid.
In this mental picture of herself she is
posing before an enraptured pulse° as a
clever artist, jean-m.1M or musicien—
'whatever her ambition may be.
That contemptible money question is
another leading feature toward this revo-
lution of oldonairlism. For exaniple,
girl receiving remuneration for her ser-
vices in a downtown office will probably
do IRMO very extensive thinking before
murmuring a soft "yes" to a youth whose
incenae exceede hers only by a few dollars.
The little arguments concerning fineness,
which will occasionally spring to life
among the happiest of married people,
muse our every -day busmen girl to thank
her lucky atars that she has not yet been
caught in a matrimonier trap and that her
little pocket -hock et all her very own.
She congretulates, helmet' heartily when
her married friends dismally relate the
diffieultiee that invariably attend the pur-
chase of a new hat or gown, and considers
her freedom a glorious bleesing when Mrs.
Wifey affilmetlaat " men ere funny things
anyway ; you never know how your hus-
band is gobsg to perform when you ask him
for some extra mooey. Sometimes he may
e give it with a smile, and throw in a hiss
into the bargain, but, as is oftener the case,
hell scowl like a sevege and growl some-
thing about your Spending a lob this
week."
have a dear little enerried friend to
whom I love to dilate on the subject of
strigle blessedness.
She takes the defensive and our debates
always terraime,te in one way. It is by her
Masteng her hands firmly and putting such
an I-kramv-what-Inretalking-a.bout txpres-
Mon on her face that I realizs at once that
tem emi is near. Then she mess :
" My dear girl, I have heard. folks talk
before. I have bad real sensible girls tell
me of the wonderful hoped-hutiniest that
they antieipated in monating the pedestal
of fame and fortune.
" They solemnly declaredthat they would
never marry because wifehood and its
atone -lent duties would not allow the time
for perfootiug their work. revery one of
these ambieions creatures has mired my
'opinion retterding the moat becorniug color
for a wediunt dress.
"Von c map Cupid. No, indeedemy
dear; he's had his job too long. When a
girl falls in love iiho case ambition to the
winds end says with a meet delightful little
pont: Whe cares? I love my John,' and
that reettlea it."
This leech: ol Beauty.
Beyond beauty, clevernees, wit, attain-
ments ; beyond any endowtnent which
cam be given to a woman, is the simple
and indefinite tribute whirth we call
charm.
It is impossible to analyze its component
parte, and equally so to write, says the Chi-
cago Herald, a prescription in avoirdupois
or apothecary's weight the resultant pm
dentate of welch shell compose the best of
the Creatorn gifts to woman.
Eve had it, we Miley, and Miriam, Ruth
and the Queen of Sheba, ; and it belonged,
too, no doubt, to Jezebel, the infamous,
bub eplexadel and surpassingly brave prin.
Dent before whom even Elijah's courage
Sappho heel obarm '• CD had Cleopatra and
Beatrice and Reselind. Mary of Scotland
bawl' cited nienn hearts not less by her coe-
eitiering charm Mien by her wonderful love-
liness! and her &undone daring ; while
Elizabeth of Eogland--many-eirlecl, strong
and resolute, with a men's heart under a
wornates corstige---had the fatal effect of
lacitieg chem.
There are women in every community, in
every church, who with no apparent effort
captivate all hearts and enjoy a popularity
which others vainly envy, continuing to
please lintel their latest day, for age cannot
wither nor cadent) stale the infinite 'variety
of a really charming woman.
Atroce is a rose and a cabbage is a cab-
bage, and each hat its place ; but nobody
mistime obelus for st contbagh, though it
AMMO the priest at re coneltry fair e while the
eimplest ritsebrid on the bush by the way.
'tide challeugett the world of fieweres With
this royal distinction, '
What is it A trick of mermen, of speech,
•A liftingtof the eyebrow,. a deoephig of the
lip, an am of gentle breeding, a fine-grained
Mentosyt
Theta *My lee part tot it,, hub clistrei is
something deeper. The pretty waitreso at
emir elbow may possess it, while it is dented
to her insistreen ;he daughter, perheps, of a
hundred cork.
Whatever else it is, be sure it le pure
womanlinese and has belonged to the fair
oex eine+) that lar -off day when the eons of
God beheld the doughters of men, and, be-
holding them, loved, them.—Boston Globe.
'Me Favorite Flower.
Yellow ! Yee, yellow as virgin geld I
That is the Accepted color and will, les the
rage 'blunt fall," Iaid an uptown florist to me
yesterday. "If eras were marked by colore
this would, indeed, be the golden erain
floriculture. A yellow chrysanthemum is
the flower by long odds most in fever and
will be the reigning favorite throughout the
season. They fete!' double the price of any
other shade of the earne. flower, and so
great is the dernarad for them that it is Ma
poesible to obtain enough to supply it.
They are used or corsage and hand
bouquets. Nothing is handsomer than a
bunoh of these golden beauties worn at the
coinage of an ivory white evening dress, and
a bane bunch of them, with the long ote 48
tied with a wide Spanish yellow ribbon with
long ends, is just the thing to set off a
white or black dress.
" Yellow roses are also much in favor,
but they pale their ineffectual fires when
compared with the rich shades of the chrys-
anthemum. A young swell thinks hims If
in high feather when he can get a big yellow
chrysanthemum to wear for a boutonniere.
From ere to $45 is nothing for some men
about town to pay for a beautiful tasselled
and perfectly filled out chrysanthemum.
4' The rich, deep yellow single and double
marigold are also much in favor, but they
lack grace on, account of their otiff sterns
and do not make such effective decorations
on that account."
Bloves.
It is well to have a little basket purposely
for gloves that have come to mending filled
with tan, grey and black silk, or cotton
thread, for just lately cotton has come into
vogue for glove -mending, many claiming
that it is less apt than silk to cut the kid,
while it wears off and matches the color
more perfectly. So says Good Housekeeping.
There should also be in the basket a
paper of assorted glove needlea, a bit of wax
and a box of the tiny buttons which have
been saved from worreout gloves as well as
pieces of gloves of different colors. It is
always advisable to buy gloves of the best
quality and then to carefully pull them in
shape, straigbtenieg the fingers before put-
ting them away after wearing, being sure
that they are not damp with perspiration,
sprinkling the inside with violet powder if
there is the least trace of it, otherwise you
may find your gloves mildewed, and wonder
how they came to be so.
A pair of gloves treated in this way, kept
in good repair, with the smallest rip prop-
erly mended, will last nearly as long again.
The best way to mend buttonholes that
have a tendency to stretch or tear is to
baste on the inside—with a fine needle
always --a bit of kid of the Maier of the
gloves. Carefully catch down the edges,
stretching both patch and gloves 'Mike, and
then securely fasten the buttonholes to it
—cutting incisions of the proper size and
sewing to the edge of the buttonholes.
If the seams of the back are torn out a
piece may be put under and so carefully
sewed that it will not show. A worn thumb
or forefinger may be patched with a bit of
another glove, and thus made to do duty as
shopping gloves for some time. Silk, lisle
thread or woollen gloves, if taken when
first begkening to show wear, can be neatly
darned, and are much more serviceable for
the everyday purpose of life than cheapkid.
Advantages of Walking.
No exereise equals welking as a health -
giver and hfsesaver. I don't suppose
Hamilton has 100 citizens who oan walk 20
miles a day, says a physician. And yet
every adult ought to be able to do so.
Pedeetrianism renews every perb of the
body. Try it, notes a neccsaity, but as an
exercise. Get out every morning and walk.
Your feet should be shod with care. Wear
old-fashioned army brogans or good Eng-
lish walking ahem Be sure and have room
in the shoe for each toe to perform its
functions and see that the shoes do not slip
at the heel. Wear thick woollen stockings
and see that they do not crce.ee or bind.
The foot strikes the ground, on an average,
2000,times in every mile, and a fold in the
stockings no thicker than a horsehair will
cat into the skin during a long walk. For
a person unaccustomed let the first walk be
three or four miles leisurely taken. Add a
half mile every other day. Keep it up for
three weeka and you will be able to walk 20
mike a day easily and without fatigue. You
will see the difference in the mascles of your
limbs, will feel stronger in the back and
neck, end your mind will do its best work.
These walking exercises are especially fitted
for persons of sedentary habits of either sex
—teachers, typewriters, printers, book-
keepers, minister's, bankers, physicians and
all. Try it, but do not eat to heve preper
Mena and proper dress.
The Mutest Fashionable iltedh.
Did you kuovv that your walk was as sure
an indication of your place in the social
scale as your gowns ? There is as much a
change it. style in walking as in gowning,
says the Perm Fa-shion Bazar, and unless
you manege to adopt the fashionable stride
along with the fathionable frock yen are
not of the elect. The past summer it was a
rather aetracrive style. It is especially
adapted to strolls along boardwalks or
through broad corridors, and it serves the
purpose of displaying one's gown and one's i
escort to advantage. It s not a swagger,
but neither is it a glide, but a mixture of
the two that is really fetching.
The principal feature of it is not the con-
duct of the feen as might home been ex-
pected, but of the hands. One carriee a,
feathery wrap gracefully and the other is
held on the hips, carefully revealing any
rings orie May wish to show.
The brely is thrown slightly forward from
the waien the gaze is abstracted, said t ho
sir is one of innecenb but entire pros( anon
of the universe. If you can ercomplish
titer walk, it doesn't much mitter whab you
wear, for you will be a success anyway.
Pr011eilVV0111413114/4 Bath.
.A Frenchwoman takee is bath of twenty
minutes' length, as cold shower bath of five
after that and then a rest of half an hour.
After this her throat and neck are sprayed
with elderflovver water or violet wAter, end
gently rubbed until the surface hee a eletir,
ivory hue.
Scented orris powder le rubbcd into the
hair and carefully bruehed out egain,leaming
is feint fragrance impossible of attainment
by any other procese.
A delkete creani is rubbed over the face
and smoothed off again after ten minutes,
obliterating every wrinkle and more lino,
every trace ef wearineenand thenmy French
madame is ready to be dressed,
Bernhardt 'Makes the water for the ttpid
bath milky white with sweet ociora of
Whieh even tier timid does nob know the
eterist.
'Moth or Serge Mown.
A new eloell or erne gown is jest neer a
necessity to every women% werdrobe, mid
nothing will he fonnd more servicalble thee
le pretty tailor -mane drees of nhestnut-brown
serge. The skirt should be perfectly pirate
ante for the two bendof ttessian braid
Metes& the 'bottom, the first three Wilms
•
wide, the oecoad Much narrower, The jacket
eedice (Mould be tighafitting and rather
long, and outlined, as on the skirt, by one
oroad braid,followed by a narrower one,
worked fancifully in the corner% A vest
of white hopsack buttons rigidly from the
chin down,
Loudon Dress Talk.
" Coasili Madge " writes M London
Truth :1 saw a sweet little frock for a
small girl the other day. It was a mock of
Nile green silk, accordion-pleeted as to
ekirt and sleeves, and set into a brown vel-
vet yoke covered with coffee -tinted Iriah
point, the °elk tieing suede to match the
yoke. What children a dressmakers would
do without Chine silk it is difficult to
imagine, so universally is this soft and
pretty material used for this purpose.
A very awoot and pretty trimming on a
white cloth coat wae a deep, pleated collar
of tan -colored velvet, arranged in pointed
flutems from the neck to the ohoulders aud
falling rather deeper in front and at the
back. The sleeves had cuffs to match and
the fastenings were in tan -colored cord. A
white felt hat was worn with this, trimmed
with tan-golored feathers and a band of
lovely gold embroidery.
A girl at Scarborough wore a blue aerge
gown, turned back with tan /esthete the
sleeves being turned up at the elbow, with
tan eether cuffs, these being met by, long
tan-oolored gloves in exactly the same shade
of color.
The whole of the beaks of some of the
new autumn mantleare covered with fill0
embroidery.
On our way to town from Scarborough we
saw a pretty American girl with is charming
figure at as railway station. She was much
admired by every one who passed her, but
she was quite spoiled by her florid manner.
Why should not some kind friend tell her
to abstain from twirling her surtshad e about,
swaying herself frorn side to side when she
laughs, making exaggerated gestures of
terror at every small a,larnt of approach-
ing luggage -laden trolleys, and putting her
head on one side each time she looks in a
man's face?
Menu.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Rexwheat. Sugar and cream.
Fried Egg Plaut. Bengal Omelet.
Stewed Potetoes.
Rolls. Coffee.
Diemen.
Consomme.
Leg of Mutton. Oyster Stuffing.
Mashed Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes.
String Beans. Baked Macaroni.
Canvas Back Duck. Currant Jelly.
Lettuce Salad, French Dressing.
Wafers. Cheese.
Bisque Ire Cream.
Coffes.
SUPPER.
Thin Slices of Cold Boiled Tongue.
Watercress.
Radishes. Sliced Tomatoes.
Milk Biscuit.
Preserves. Cake.
Tea.
Scotch Plaid Blouse.
One of the features of fashion is the
weming of Scotch plaid silk blouses, with
black silk skirts. In Paris this notion has
been wildly taken up, and it bide fair to be
as popular here.
Many blouses are made of the bright
"Royal Stuart" plaid, in which red
and white predominate. Not only are the
tartans worn, but very many fancy plaids.
School girls are wearing dark blouses of
poplin in the Graham plaid, the dark blue
and green'with the yellow hue, also in the
42 -cent plaid, a small dark blue and green
plaid, with no crose.bar, of gold. These
are worn with black or dark blue cloth
skirts, and make very serviceeble school
costumes.
Women Are Buying.
Chamois shoes for infants.
Many shades of ladies Moth.
Shaped and round belts of fur.
Smell bonnets and smeller crowns.
Open and closed ostrich feather fans.
Velvet and velvet effects of every kind.
Wool taffeta under and outer pettkoate.
Gauntlet and fancy colored derby gloves.
Wide black velvet ribbons for skirt
borders.
Tam o' Shunter hats of surah for small
boys.
Pretty ruchings of double chiffon as a
ruffle.
Eton jackets and sleeves of fine Persian
larnb.
Two -toned hosiery for afternoon hose
wear.
Short cloth capes trimmed with fur or
velvet.
Babies' underwear of fine all -wool stock-
inet.
Electric blue violet and dark red Bearls
for men.
Various effects in silk and wool dress
materials.
Gros -grain silk striped with mein for
petticoats.
More and rnore of Oriental hangings and
rugs.
A few robe dresses embroidered on one
selvedge.
Leather trimming bands have designs in
colors.
Small table covers of satin damask in
Rococo designs.
Many equeetrienne tights in black for
cold weather.
Magnificent teagowns of satin almost cov-
ered with lace,
Very faehionable Meek trimmings of blue
or black fox.
Heavy kid gloves of russet or Russian
leather, red shades.
Fur -covered buttons forfur-trimmed coats
and jackets.
Velveteen sleeves and girdle with heavy,
coarse plaids.
Lovely piano, banquet and table lamps of
Japanese ware.
Cashmere gloves in gauntlet style for
girls' school wear.
The United States Senate, as at present
coestituted, consists of 88 members, of
whom 47 are Republicans, 39 Democrats,
and 2 Farmers' Alliance men. ivrenty-nine
senators go out in 1893, of whom 11 are
Democrats and 18 are Republicans.
An old 'almanac for 1814 gives the fol-
lowing as the rates of postage prevailing at
that tune "For every single latter by
land, for 40 mils, eight 'mute •, 90 miles, 10
cents ; 150 miles, 12e, cents ; 300 miles, 17
cents ; 500 miles, 25 cents, and for more
that 500 miles, 25 cents. No allowance to
be made for intermediate miles. Every
double letter is to pay double the said rates;
every triple letter, triple ; every packet
weighing one omace at the rate of four sin-
gle letters each ounce. Every ship letkr
originally received ad an office for delivery,
6 cents. Magazines and pamphlets, not
over 50 miles' one cent per sheet; over 50
miles and notexceeding 100 mile% one and
one -hall cents per sheet ; over 100 miles,
Me cents per sheet.
Dusty Rhodes—If 1 had money 1 should
get my life insured for $50,000. Fitz
William—What good would it do you?
Dusty Rhodes—No company with an eye to
Mistletoes would let smelt is policy -holder
starve.
Little don't like my new goy.
erness, mamma ; she's SO untidy Mother—
What do you mean, my dear Little
Annie—Why, she goes to bed With her
chignon on and never takes it eft like
do.
GOSSIP OF PARIS.
What the Oitizeiv of the Gy Capital Find
to Ta1)4 About,
Death Claims Xavier llearinaler, Another
1Parielint Celebrity—Mae* Totem:44)e
Lielied jat Last—A. Martine% Mania for
Strangling Wouten—Tonehlng wish 01
the 'eying 110111111 Realizeilli-i" lip the
Spout " for Fortrihree Years,
PARIS, Opt. 3L —Yet
another vacancy in the
Academie Francaise.
Last week it was Ernest
Renan who shuffled off
his mortal coil ; to -day
is the turn of 'Xavier
Martnier. Altboughnot
a universal celebrity, he
was is figure well worth
noticing. He had at
least one distinction—
he was the member of
the Academy who had
travelled the most. He went through
South America before railways were known
there, and saw perhaps more of it than any
other traveller of that eporla excepting
Humboldt. He likewise explored Norway
and Sweden in the days when steatn
was in ita infancy, and pushed
es far as Spitzbergen, where he
managed to find the materials of a romance.
He made several other voyages in distant
parts, all of which he turned into interest-
ing and instructive reading. He was is
great book collector, and leaves behind him
a colossal library. When he became too
feeble to walk his bath -chair might have
been seen daily on the Quip Voltaire and
other bookworm resorts, whither be re-
paired to amuse himself by looking at the
second-hand bookstalls. His atrange figure,
with his long wnite looks end eacetic cast
of countenance was familiar to everybody
in the neighbornood. A more amiable man
could not be found. Of rare aimplicity, he
was the sworn enemy of noise and puffing,
and lived a secluded life, surrounded by hie
books, which he loved as a miser loves his
hoard. For the,last twenty years he was a
vegetarian, feeding only on eggs and salad,
washed down with a little wine and water.
It was perhaps this sobriety which helped
him to attain the ripe age Of 84, for physi-
cally be was not is Hercules. Losing his
wife and daughter at an early date, he lived
alone.
One of his keenest sorrows was the
demolition of the house in the Rue Saint
Thomas d'Aquin, where he had resided 40
yeara and when he was forced to remove to
the Rue de Babylone it seemed to him as
if he were removing into the world from
which no traveller returns. And he was
not far wrong, for death soon followed.
That such is man should eschew all poem
and vanity was natural. Hence nobody is
surprised that in his will he ordains thai
there shall be no official invitations, no
military honors, no decorations, and no
speeches at his funeral, which is to be that
of the humblest pauper. After the church
service his body will be conveyed to
Pontalier, his native town, and buried
with the same austere simplicity. He leaves
many bequests to the poor. One of the
most curious clauses in his testament is
the following :
"In memory of the hippy moments which
I have passed in the midst of the second-
hand booksellers on the quays of the Seine,
moments which I reckon among the most
agreeable of my existence, I bequeath to
these honest people is sum of one thousand
francs. 1 detire that this money shall be
spent by them in a jovial banquet during
which they will be able to amuse themselves
while thinking of me. It will be my thanks
for the many hours which I have intellectu-
ally enjoyed in the course of my almost
daily visits to the bookstalls which extend
from the Pont -Royal to the Pont Saint -
Michael."
M. Marmier was a good raconteur, and
one of his favorite anecdotes was one in
which the Marquis Libei-Carrucci figured as
the hero. The two, on one of their walks
on the boulevards, turned into a second-
hand bookshop. ' Libri dipped at once into
a box of musty volumee turned over a few
pages, and said to the bookseller, "What
is the price of this box ?" " Sixty francs."
" Very well, send them home to me." He
sold them at 30,000 francs, for they were
first editions of some sixteenth century
Italian chronicles.
BARON IDE MACKAY, THE TURNCOAT MAN.
The latest political sensation is the con-
version of Baron de Maclean to the Repub-
lic. These conversions—it would not be
polite to call them coat-turnings—have be-
come frequent during the past few months,
but the present eclipses all the others. The
Baron was for a long time the most active
and unscrupulous enemy of the existing
regime, and did all he could to upset it. It
was he who put himself at the head of the
Boulangist campaign, and until recently he
presided over the Union of Conservative
Parliamentarians. Ir is not astoniehing,
therefore, that the capitulation of such a
distinguished adversary should have set all
tongues wagging. Forgetting ail about the
past, he now declares to the world that he
and his party have been mistaken as to the
real opinion of the country, that the great
majority of the people are Republicans, and
that therefore it behoves all honest men to
rally to the Republic. The Baron, how-
ever, while accepting the regime of the day
does not approve of all that it has done,
and though he will no longer combat it, yet
he will continue to oppose the radical
policy of the Government. Perhaps after
this reservation the Republicans would
rather have him as a foe than as a friend.
DELONCLE'S PROJECTED MAMMOTH TELE-
SCOPE.
Al! Paris has been talking about the
great telescope, far greater in power and in
proportions than anything yet attempted,
which is to be the standing attraction of
the Exposition of 1900. M. Daloncle,
Deputy for the Department of the Lower
Alpo, out of patriotic desire to have some-
thing very big, first started it. He has won
over the astronomers of the Paris Observa-
tory to concede to him that the project is
not irnpossible if once the mirror is Con-
atructe.d. M. Camille Flammarion thinks it
feasible, and has written to the Figaro
about it; but the telescope must be placed
On some higher altitude than the low-lying
city of Paris ; hence the grand idea of
bringing the moon down on the Champ
de Mars" must be abandoned. Whether
or not the seven years, which is all the
time which will be available for its manu-
facture, will be sufficient only the event San
tell. It is still more problematical whether
it will accomplish all the big things which
are talked about it. Diffieultiee, of memo,
there are—very humeroua and very great
difficulties—but they need not deter the
nation which was capable el building the
&gel Tower. The inetrurnent May at least
bc bnilt. M. Diatomic asks for two ad
half million francs ; when he has then the
beat asiistanee will be et his command.
M. Gautier, who has built grime of the
best insteuments of the Park obsereatoty,
is engaged in preparing plans for the
inechsinittal mounting of the great telescope.
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The big telescope of 1900, as it existin M.
Deloncle's imagination and on M. Gautier's
dravviege, is to be of colossal proportions,
built on the reflecting principle, with a tube
of a length not leas than 132 feet—more
than double that of any existing telescope,
This will put Mr. Lick's little instrument
very far indeed in the background. At the
bottom of the tebe will lie a concave mirror,
nine feet ton inches in diameter, which will
reflect the light it receives from the heavens
back to a focal point, The fashioning of
this mirror will be the great difficulty.
Nothing on so large a scale has
before been attempted, a glass 9 feet 10 in-
ches in diameter—the size of a suburban
lawn—conoeve, and ground with ouch
mechanical accuracy that not a single beam
of light it receives on any part shall go
astray, but all shall converge to the esatct
point indicated. A mirror of these propor-
tions is oak:elated to weigh nine tone; the
largest yet constructed has weighed less
than a ton. Such an instrument, if the
mirror be at all satisfactory, will, it is
maculated, project four times more light
than any existing telescope, and enable WI
to discover new wonders in the heavens; to
see stare of but one-fourth the brightness of
the fainteet of those now visible.
HE HEARTILY LOATHED WOMEN.
Happily for womankind, there is one
hater of the sex the less at large since an
individual, who had been for some timepast
terrorizing the neighborhood of Saint Owen,
gave himself up to the police, making the
following declaration:
"1 come to entreat you, Monsieur le
Commissaire, to arrest me at once. I am
not mad,but owing to a physiological afflic-
tion life is intolerable to me ; I cannot be-
hold a woman without becoming mad with
fury, then I throw myself upon her and do
my best to strangle her."
At this juncture a lady entered the
police station, and Lafontaine, who ie of
herculean dimensions and strength, imme-
diately dashed for and, seizing her by the
throat, hurled her to the ground. The com-
miseaire happily succeeded in mastering the
monomaniac, who was at once removed to
the infirmary. This misogynist, naively says
the commissaire, is "not quite right."
RERAN'S tA5T WISH GRANTED.
It is interesting to compare the late M.
Renan's manner of entering into rest with
the following passage from his charming
"Souvenirs de Jeunesse," the "story of
his own life."
"1 have only one petition to make to
the good genius who has so often guided,
counselled and comforted me—a sudden and
painless death at the allotted time, be itt
early or distant. The life which was given
me unasked has been for me a blessing.
If it were once more offered to me I should
gratefully accept it. Unless my remaining
years have cruel pain in store for me in
bidding farewell to life, I shall only have
to -thank the cause of all that is good for
the charming excursion it has been given
me to take through reality."
Very much the same were Macaulay's re-
flections on his approaching end, and it is
remarkable that both these men had their
prayer granted. Macaulay died peacefelly
at his writing table at the age of 59. Renan,
who had attained his 69th year, was occu-
pied with his favorite studies to the very
last. "There was no final struggle. With-
out a word or a groan, the great savant
went to his rest."
A STRANGE UMBRELLA.
The annual inventory taken in the Mont
de Piete with special regard to those objects
which have been for a long time in its pos-
session reveals some very curious facts. An
umbrella was pawned in 1849 for the sum of
six francs. It is still there, for the interest,
now amounting to thirty francs in all, has
been faithfully paid. Now, why doers the
owner of that umbrella cling so tenaciously
to its preservation as to go on paying for 43
years the yearly forfeit to prevent its being
sold? Or why has he never redeemed it
outright? As a meane of preserving family
heirlooms one would have thought that a
pawnshop left much to be desired.
Grand Duke Paul, of Russia, is to tall
that he has to carry his own bed along
whe.n he is travelling.
The man who lets his wife split all
wood may mean well, but he shouldn't b
allowed to do all the talking at prayer meet -
ng. —Ram' Horn.
TiTIrmr the riding contest between Vienna
and Berlin was finished and some of our
contemporaries were bellowing about the
beneficial results of such a brie! of 'sedum
anee, we took occasion to say that those
who rode the horses to death and rimester
should have been sent to jail. The follow-
ing verses will show that no less an
authority than the London lleferee held
the same opinion as we did:
THE RIDE OE DEATFL
Hurrah, hurrah, for the soldiers brave,
Hurrah for the famous ride!
Alas for the horse with a broken heart
And the gashed and bleedinu side 1
No wonder the wide world stared aghast,
And the nations held their breath
.As the story was flashed from pole t'
flci pole
Of that merciless ride to death.
Hurrah for the heroes crowned with bay
Who gallantly rode the race
Alas for the tortured steeds that fell,
Killed by the cruel pace!
Let the doughty deeds of those riders be
The theme nf the foreign bard;
They'd probably get, if they tried it here,
A couple of months—with hard.
Mr. Blifkins (to Mies Dorothy, with
whom he is deeply smitten and cannot flnd
a way to propme)—I hate these weddings,
with so much Mee and feathers, so many
guests and flowers, and musk and all that.
When merried there'll be no one
present but myself, the bride and the
minister. Miss Dorothy—Oh, 1 am so
sorry. I was hoping to got an invitation to
your wedding. Such an old friend as I
should not be left out. Mr. Blifkins—
When I'm married you will be there.
Alittle close obacreation will enable the ob-
oerver to put parsons in the class to wbich
they belong. The man whose eye is almond-
ehaperl is almotit always dishonest at hearn
if not in overb ace The eyes of some of the
most notorious thieved in the eountryare
of this pattern, and the expression given
the face by tine sort of eye is eery striking.
"Mamma deer," sclid janet, "at what
tinie in the day was 1 born ?" " At 2
o'clock in the mornieg." "Ansi at vithet
time was I bore V' asked iTaek. " Not
'until 8 o'clock." ".h 1" cried janet•
" my birthday's longer than yours."
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He Never Told a Lie.
I saw him standing in the crowd—
A comely youth and fair,
There was a brigbtness in his eye,
A glory in his hair!
I saw his comrades gaze on him—
Elie comrades standing by ;
I heard them whisper each to each—
" He never told a lie?"
I looked in wonder on that boy,
As he stood there, so young:
To think that never an untruth
Was uttered by his tongue.
thought nf all the boys I'd known—
Myself among the fry—
And knew of none of whom to say
" He never told a lie I"
I gazed upon the youth with awe
'fhat there enchained me long;
I had not seen a bos before
So perfect and so strong.
And with a itomething of regret
I wished that be was I,
That they might look at me and say,
"He never told a lie!"
I thought of questions very hard
For boys to answer right:
"How did you tear your Sunday clothes!
" My eon, what caused the fight?"
" Who left the gate ajar last night?"
" Who bit the apple pie I"
What boy could answer all of these
And never tell a lie?
I proudly took him by the hand,
My words with praise were rife;
'blessed that boy who never told
A falsehood in his life.
I told him I was proud of him—
A fellow standmg by
Informed me that tiara boy was dumb
Who never told a lie.
Growing Old Together.
You do not love me, dear, so much
As you did len g ago,.
When you used to praise my rosy cheek,
And forehead white as snow.
You do not ru h to kiss thee cheek
With all your old-time fire—
Perhaps, indeed, it is not now
The cheek that you admire.
You do not fold me in your arms
As often as of yore,
Your hand once dallied with my curls—
It dalliesthere no marc;
And 111 did not know my hair
Was far past girlhood's day,
I well could read it in your glance,
That Las meI am gray.
Yet deem not, love, that I upbrain,
By your neglect appalled—
For loved you better when
You were not wholly bald:
And were you as demonstrative
.As when you first did woo—
d should despise such idiocy
In an aged gent like you.
" Be Good to Yourself."
" Good-bye! Good-bye 1" the driver said,
As the coach went off in a whirl
And the coachman bowed hishandsome head),
" Be good to yourself, my girl 1"
Ah 1 many a fond good-bye I've heard
From many au aobing heart;
Andaman, a friendly farewell word,
When strangers came to part;
And r ye heard a thousand merry quips,
And many a senseless joke,
And many a fervent prayer from lips
That all a-tromble spoke;
And many as bit of good advice,
In .mooth proverbial phrase;
And many a wish—of little price—
For healtri and happy days;
But, musing how the human soul
(Whate'er the Fates may will)
Still measures by its self-control
Its greatest good orill.
Of benedictions, T protest,
'Mid many as shinieg pearl,
like the merry coachman's best:
" Be good to yourself, my girl 1"
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