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WHAT THE SPHINX SAW
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"I wonder what it's like down there," you can write more articles. as good: as
whiaperred Wilfrea Cunningham° to him- tame I am using, I shall be pleased to
self, as he gazeil over the edge of the aceept as many as you can produce."
parapet at the hardly visible, swirling Cunnintanone went cold all over, He
Waters beneath, did not care to- tell this raeiant beauty
It was sIgnificant of the depths of de- what her preiniee meant to him, nor did
impair to which Cunninghame had die he mention that last night's meal with
mended that Ito should. seriously ask his little aldmuxia was the first good
himself this question. It was still noire food he bad tasted for a week,
significant that the frigid silence of the Ile faltered his thank:3, but she cut
river canal to him in a voice by no him short. "I know a good contributor
meows unseductiM, "What is it like when I come act -I'S one," she said. "1
dawn there'?" he had. whispered, and, in am a woman of business, and. I want to
Ms inmost soul he was thinking, 'Per- buy your services. If you will stay to
haps better than up here, anyway." lunch with me, we can talk over a feta
A thick yellow fog drifted sluggishly ideas for future articles which you could
along the Embankment, diming lanme write."
and choking the throat. Intemoine and He shook his head.
motor -cars swept east and meet in the "I have an appointment with a lady,"
'Jrra4adway Cunninghame, but he he said, with half absent-min:lea liurn.or,
did not notice them. To him, these evi- "A little girl, I mean---"
deuces of luxury and. wealth were on a "You are fond oi children?"
far-off planet. 'What had a starving "I did not know I was till last night,"
failure of a journalist to do with han• he laughed. "In fact, I should never
some and motor -cars? Nothing. His have dreamt of ;quell a thing. But ox'
mind was far more set on the question perienee teaches. I need not bother you
of how to pay his landlord for his gar- with the story; but the fact is, I have
ret room, and how to keep body and
soul together on a diet of bread. and
Water.
"Fortunately," he muttered, "no one is
dependent on me."
But at that moment the ids, though
he did not guess it, were instantaneously
proved untrue, for close by him in the
darkness of the parapet, he heok a cry
—the thin, quivering cry of a ehim.
He turned, and groped his way 11 Mw
steps through the fug in the direction
whence the voice had come. Black and
sombre above him he saw one of the
Embankment sphinxes loom up, crouch-
ing on its pedestal at the base of the
Cleopatra Needle and. smiling its inscru-
table stone smile, And beneath the
, Shelter of the mighty piece of sculpture
I'
he found a small child.
He bent down and. peered into the sha-
dow.
"What's wrong?" he queried gently.
A little girl struggled to her feet and
toddled forth—a mere baby of five or
six, shabbily but not thinly clad, and
trailing behind her a wisp of shawl
which had been wrapped. about her
shoulders.
"Esc hungry," the little one lisped,
looking up into Cunninghame's face.
"Frankly," said Cunningham°, with
grim humor, "so am I."
The child opened wondering eyes.
"I got a penny," she said, unclasping
a grimy paw and exhibiting the coin. "A
genleman gave it me. Could we buy a
bun?"
"Could you buy one, you mean?" Cun-
ningham° corrected her, a lump in his
throat.
With Cockney shrewdness, the child
grasped his meaning.
"No," she said, sturdily. "If you'se
hungry, we'll eat the bun between us."
"Thank you," said the journalist,
gravely, "But is there no one with you2
Are you quite alone? Wheres' your
mother?"
"Never had none," quoth the child, un•
grainmaticaly, anin one sense, at any
rate, truthfully. "I'se lost, and oh"—
her voice trembled, poor mite!—"oh, Esc
so hungry, an' so sleepy! Will you take
me?"
The appeal was direct, unmistakable.
-'11( Cuuninghame clasped her hand.
"Come along, then," he said.
"Mae so tired," she pleaded. "Will
you put me to bed"—she hesitated, and
then added swiftly—"after we've eated
our
"You're tired, are you?"
Cunningham° picked her up in his
arms, and marched off towards his lodg-
ings.
Overhead, in the drifting mists, the
great carven lips of the sphinx still wore
their inscrutable smile.
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lanalord eetnne to Isiah ro belp Imo 11(MT° DRINK .
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to make a Atilt in flying froin win-
aow of the second story. hat he reminds
him that .?ai marlit •fell and brenk bi
neck; thereupon the "1/ le rleekles, to
put off his flight "until after ten.”
Then there is a yating malt who is al -
'Ways looking for a hateaet; he thinks
Le tom suddenly bedtime ree strong that he
natet hew away the Ainorway in order
that be may be Able to go in and eut
Another one is that of a man who, with
tears in his Ole% beg e the stammer to
protect him from a huge butterfly, which
wishes to attack him nod eat his Moine,
Another man thinks he le seed of corn
and he will ask a stranger to put bim
in his pocket, so that se wild mem net
blow him away,
Recently one of the patients was ter-
ribly frightened by the -idea that he was
a Mustard seed and that the birds might
eat him. His hot quieted him by say-
ing; "Have I not told you that you arc
quite safe, for the birds eat only hemp
med.?" Then there is a "Queen of Rol-
land," mho hold; her court with all the
pomp imaginable; with great Mate she
pretends to receive her visitors and re-
grets that her soldiers. have not been
able to receive them, and then she sings
in a shrill voice aim from the best known
operas. 'When her visitor leaves her pre-
sence she goes to the window, gives or -
adopted a, .canld." ders for an imagine -1'y chamberlain and
"And you love her very much?" points to the mhantem regimente, which,
Ounningbame had never thought of
to her fancy are filing past her window.
loving anyone before, and he was sum She is the daughter of a leading Dutch
prised to find himself answering enthu-
siastically
statesman.
spastically: "I think I should Weak my The landlords of the inns of GUM.
heart if she were taken from me."
Clever Miss :Burton's eyes shone with
a very soft light
"We shall see," she murmured inaudib-
ly, as Cunninghame bowed himself from
the room.
IV.
by sipping a tumberful of bot-oert
hot water about half an hour before
each meal.
. OUR FUTURE XING,
Veracious Drummers Ten of 0;c1-1 Imo
Assists Holiday Party in a Carriage
dent—Saved Horse'e Life. An
They pave Known • •
A.cci-
An interesting episode in Which the I recall one hotel down in the South- and evidently debating inwardly assign -
Prim of 'Wales took part occurred at land which had one a the most prima ed me to a bad sod turned in.
Windsor on Coed Friday afternoon. aye bills of fere in the world, writes At midnight every cot was filled and
holiday party , half the pickled log rollers were snoring
About half -past three
. . . E. Crossland in the Chicago Tribune. when suddenly and without trace of
warning, every Mt was overturned, the
oecapants dumped on the floor, The
sleepers arose, put on what elothee they
had removed before retiring and started
out without comment. I wits dazed for
a minute and then began to kick to 'OW
ehcoi,ss,,AwlhlOosuttop in the doorway and yell -
"What the dickens does this meant"
I demanded, hotly,
"First shift turning out," be ex,plain-
ed, and as lie did so a line of rata march.
ed in and retired, while those who Mal
slept in the first shift slipped away to
the near by saloons. At 3 o'clock the
second shift. was dumped onto the floor
and at 6, when the third shaft wail dump-
ed, I paid the bees $1. extra to let me
turn in and sleep until 8.
In earlier days, when I was selling
farm machinery in western Kamm, I
struck some queer hotels, but the oddest
of all was owned and operated by a gero
WS named Richards, in a little village
in Sheridan county, fifteen or twenty
milesfromIisvoansiea.
queer character, and
his specialty was invention. He had ha
vented more worthless things than any
The animal was exhausted and the mo- man in the country. Almost everything
torist ordered a pail of water to be Pnssiltl°' he made would work, but they all re -
brought and poured on its bead, This Once in ?Moises I doubled up with two quired more time and labor than the
. I- d but thelimit was
reacheone niht when I reached a small
"My experiment was this," wrote Miss
Burton, in one of her "cynical" articles
in the "Review"; "I obtained. from a
miserable beggar -woman a young child,
and placed her near the Cleopatra Nee-
dle on the Embankment. I. chose this
spot because it was midway between the
Bast and the West End. I stood neer
by to -see What happened to the child,
and to find the answer to Inv question:
'Are Londoners Taind-Hearted?'
"It may be thought that 1 acted cruel-
ly; but it was not so cruel as it seemed.
This child was accustomed to cold and
want; and I had clothed her warmly,
and, as I say, was in hiding myeelf near
by, to see that no harm came to her, as
well as to watch the development of my
experiment.
'Almost all the passers-by were men.
Of these sonic dozen did. not observe the
half -asleep in her corner, at all.
Out of the number of those who did ob-
serve her, when she woke, nine were
gentlemen—I suppose I must refer to
them RS gentlemen—in evening dress. Of
the nine, six passed on after a hasta
glance. Two others spoke to the child,
and then passed on, quite indifferent to
her helplessness. The third gave her a
penny, and thus presumably soothed
• When Cunningham lit the gas in his
attic, the tiny girl, who had slept on
' his shoulder all the way from the Eno
, bankment awoke.
"Where's the bun?" she asked, prompt-
ly.
"Here it is," said. Cunningham°, produc-
ing it from a paper bag. "You were
' asleep when I got it. I got the big-
gest I could see, though. I thought it
would be nicer 'for you—for us, I mean-
- to eat it here, at home, than in the
I shop."
Be brought a coacked plate from the
cupboard and put the precious bun upon
• It .As be did sot his eye caught a letter
• which awaited 'him on the mantelpiece.
, He tore it open, and found within it a
, cheque for a guinea. One of his articles
had been printed and paid. for.
. "She's brought luck," he whispered,
almost superstitiously, as he gazed at
are very courteous and respectful to the
Insane; they humor all their wildest
whims. Altogther it is a wonderful sight,
and the entire absence of any restraint
would astonish the most modern student
who lifts specialized on the treatment of
the insane.
OPEN AIR IS BOERS' ICEBOX.
— -
Refrigeration Furnished by Nature to
Those Learning Her Ways. :
These boxes Were fired into with the
Lei projectile. Some of the weapons
used were the Colt caliber 45, carrying
at 46 emit some of the 'bullets were jac-
keted or eheathed with steel.
After the spluttering of clay displaced
by the fired projectile was over liquid
plaster of pans was poured in, filling
the cavity, and, the mass was allowed
tao cool, after whidh the cones were un -
cased. Some of the cones, were twenty-
two inches longoaome about twelve incit-
es, resembling red icicle. Examination
was then made with a view to the re-
covery of the projectile and note was
made of its condition.
When the Hof outlet is fired. into wa-
ter or clay the round Mal, which is made
of steel and antimony molded htto the
point of' the bullet, invariably becomes
detached from the bullet proper -
In water or in soft clay this bullet
muehrooms in a manner very like the
hollow-poirit man -stopping 'bullets. The
Hof bullet is ,claimed to be egilal to the
what Ile called hit conscience. , latter in accuracy, combining with its ac -
"Knowing human nature as I do, 1 curacy man -stopping died-. Bet per.
guessed that the first man who would haps on humanitarian grounds a nonde-
pay any real atention to the ehildd ' tachable compound bullet mill be urged.
would not be it so-called gentleman, but The test of the Hof bullet should pro-
m working man, probably in corduroys, perly be made into Jiving flesh of some
and certainly poor. As it happened, I animal. Sometimes these tests are made
was partly wrong. The man who finally mine cadavers obtained by legitimate
took pity on the child was shabbily dree- medias. In the present case the car -
sal, utterly penu iless end starving. ease of semi -frozen beef was laid Mai-
Neverthelees, be carried off the child to
his lodging—whither I followed him sec- zontallY and fired into, using projectiles
of lead or projectiles jacketed' or sheath-
ietly—fed hen and actually adopted her ed with cupromickel steel, also by Hof's
—although as I afterwards ascertained, bullet,
he was so poor that he had eerieusly cone i
! The arms used were caliber 45. Per-
templated Weide that very night, and
bad gone down to the Embankment 11Or 1, haps half a dozen shots were fired for
the very purpose. Strange are the see- .• the purpose a inflicting flesh wounds
rots of the 'human. heart." , only; others were fired carefully, aiming
Thus wrote the brilliant Miss Burton, ;', at the bones. The paths traversed! by
in one of her cleverest articles, a few , the bullets were then carefully measur-
weeks later. She did not add, however, • ed and probed and, the condition of the
the end of the story, -which would have flesh and. bones struck by the bullet
interested her readers more than the be- . careful! noted arid. made of record.
ginning. I When y a bullet of smell caliber and
For having followed. Wilfred Cunning- , having great energy strikes the bone it
home to hie home to see that he would makes a Mile through it that is clean
look af ler -the child properly, and not cut. 'When a. bullet of caliber 45 strikes
merely band her over to a police-insepe- re large bone or when one of Hof's men-
tor, the had made inquiries from the stopping 'bullets strikes a large bone its
landlord, and was amazed to hear the splits fractures or pulverizes 'the bones.—
name of the shabby, good Samaritan. It Boston Transcript.
was a name already familiar to her— I ----mem--
the name of a writer, some of wleme 1 WHY ARE WE RIGHT-HANDED?
submitted articles elle had just been 1 Many theories are given by way of
ninghame; hence 'her understanding ' answer to the inquiry, Why are we right -
medium Hence her invitation to Cun-
him. of handed? Some suppope itis because of
But the tale slid not conclude them for ' long ages of heredity; that centuries
a few months subsequently, "the famous upon centuries of merely partial employ -
new author, Mr. Wilfred Cunningbame" meat, or none at all, has caused the neg-
-thus the papers described bine now— lnecintegd left had to use its natural enn-
"has married the charming and giftedAmong biologists (says Mr. 0. P.
young editrems of the 'Monthly Re-. Morris, writing in °the New York TM -
I bunch, it is notorious that many ani -
view,"' and so forth.
The fondling, it may be added, lives ' ....„birds,1 insects have had organs
male, ant
both external gnd internal—fall into
plea,sant flat in a certain private hotel
desuetude through disuse attendant
which looke'forth over the Embankment
to where the Sobinxia still smiles its in- i upon changed conaitions of environment
• the little girl, whose teeth were already scrutable srl____„4,_Ile.—Iondon Answers. wa s of living.
' bemied in the luscious bun. "Here, wait," I One great physiologist points out that
he added, aloud. "Pm going out to buy PEOPLE HUMOR INSANE WHIMS. , when man was a cave dweller, and. had
some milk and eggs and things. Don't ; to fight with mammoth or mastodon for
eat the bun all at once, Wait till I come How Gheel Takes Care of Its Strange I bare subsistence, stone axe or spear in
_
An Important but Much NCO.
looted. Art
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(IV Robert Bell, M. TM
The importanee of the art of drink-
ing becomes apparent when we are re-
mindea that more than two-thirds of the
it -returning lo a hired carriagefront
weight of the human frame is made up The colored boy appeared at the elbow
ginio. Water, found itself in an awkward
on those vital changes which are eon- the horse drawing the earmage aaa kick- and his simple inquiry covered the en -
of Priest IRll of time guest morningg noon and. night,
ground.;
of water, and that life is dependent up- predicament, At the foot
Mealy eumeedioe each other in the van- ed up its hind, legs and one of them had are
becorne firmly fixed in the woodwork 01 ,
ous fluids of trio body, the carriage. The vehicle was all but 'How you talk yoh alga?"
When is it time to drink? I say any overturned, the horse went clown, and • Indeed, the south. until within the last
time except during meals. tho holiday-makers, Ifho were Londoners, decade, and in some mots still, furnishes
The food should waver be washed (Iowa hurriedly descended. the limit in the hotel line. I remember
At this moment a motor -car appeared
descending the bill, The. driver Of the
carriage, hoping for assistance, acid up
Ws hand,, and the ear stopped. A gen-
tleman alighted, 'walked up to the party
and remarked to the driver. "You have
had a gerioue accident. If you will obey
my instructions I will try to get the
horse extricated,
The stranger then took off a long grey
coat and called on bystanders for as-
sistance. Meanwhile a lady and a little
by any other fluid. than the saliva. Were
would rule more strictly observed we
would bear much less of deemepola, and
fewer people would be overburdened with
an undue deposit of fat, When the meal
is finished,, the food. lutviug been than'
oughly incorporated with the salivary
and gastric secretions,, you may take
what , fluid you feel inclined for, and
there is no lin-lit RS to quantity, My con-
viction is that we do not drink half en-
ough between meals, If we keep the skin
and other orgium actively employed by
Imbibing freely of non-alcoholic bever-
ages—and, it is impossible to overtax
them if we confine our drink to what
Nature has provided for us in the way
of fluids—we will be rewarded by en-
joying all the comforts of a pure and,
therefore, healthy blood. stream, for the
simple reason that every organ of the
body will benefit thereby'.
We should never overlook the fact that
there is constantly being f accumulated
in tho blood not only most° matter, re-
sulting front chemical changes taking
place in the upkeep of vital energy, but
also toxins 'absorbed. from the intestines
Now the blood can only be freed from
this noxious material by means of the raised a cheer and the stranger, the gr
lungs, skin, etc., BO it is not difficult lady and the little girl, now recognized room and that occupied, and hoped /
to see that the more actively emp%acid. by the delighted holiday party as the would not object to doubling up. with
daughter, the Prinems Mary entered the occupant, who had 'already retired.
He lighted me to the room, showed me
these important organs are kept the Prince and Princess of Wales and their
the bed, put down the lamp, and as he
started to leave he askel casually:
"I suppose you've had smallpox."
"No." I replied.
"That' bad," he remarked, and ad-
ded cheerfully, "but I don't suppose it
can be helped."
He was going out when I inquired:
"What has smallpox to do with this"
"Nothing," he answered, "nothing—
only your bedmate lies it.'
I beat him downstaho and slept in a ram we began to ascend again and stop-
ped suddenly. A gust of wind struck
life is persisted in changes in the blood the second is essentially a general condi- chair.
suffer, and if this unhygienic mode of One of the oddest hotels I ever struck me and as I was about to elimb through
was up in the lumber district of upper ' the window Riehords opened the door
will be certain to followt which in all don while the whole success in prevent -
probability will culminate in gout, or Mg 'the third depends upon the immedi- Michigan. I bit 'the town one election ' and asked:
night and found the place crowded with "How did she work?"
poseibly organic mischief of graver im- Metrical treatment. It is therefore the
port. Now such a catastrophe would be last condition which must be considered topers from all up and down the river.
much less likely to ensue were the elm- here. Among the public it is a generally There was one hotel, a small board M-
ille precaution of drinking from half re accented idea that the thing to do in the fair. The office and dining room occup-
ied one side, the kitchen was a leanto
pint to one pint of water during the
forenoon and also during the afternoon
resorted to.
It will also prove a wise proCeeding surgery a mixture known as "Carron
if men; of sedentary habit (opera:Oily oil" is advocated.. of eot beds with heads to the wall made
would during the proems of dressing . the furnishings, and yet there was only
The Me of such applications cannot ho about room enough for a third of the vise
slowly sip at least a pint of hot, mat- too strongly deprecated and indeed if Mors in town to sleep. Alone: about 9
ea This would stimulate the circulation the lay mind could be taught that the o'clock I decided to retire, and the. Th-
in the lungs, akin, etc., and prove of im- best thing to put on a burn before the prietor after looking nut over curiously until the cyclone passed.
manse -service in promoting the secrethig doctor is called is a hot compress wideh • ---------------------
back, and we'll have a feast."
He ran downstairs, cashed the cheque
from 'the landlord, who was only too
pleased to receive an instalment of his
'rent, and give a few shillings thange,
tand shortly afterwards had retorned to
lthe garret, loaded with cheap pepvisions.
;On his little gas stove a pleasant meal
of bread- and -milk was soon cooking,
and he and Sphinxia—for thug, with ra-
ther bitter humor, he had, thristened the
foundling, had a marry meal. An hour
later, wee Sphinxiit was in Cunning-
, ham's bed, eleepixig like a tom while
the journalist made lihnsell comfortable
outstretched on two chairs.
His last thoughts, before slumber
eame to him,.were: "It's a queer thing,
but I'm happier to -night than I've been
'for months, though I've done tho silliest
tithing in the world—namely, started, a
family* of my own."
Down On the Embankment the sphinx
with Mr. and Mrs. Cunningliame, in a
still smiled.
HI.
"You expected to ace a man, I sup-
pose?" Miss Burton laughed, at she
grasped Cunningloonete hand. "Why
Should people always take it for granted
that the editor of a magazine is a man,
/ wonder?"
Cutininghame was silent. Ito cottein-
lylthel been astonielted when the editor
of the "Monthly Review" had evritten,
' so suddenly, askitig him to call; but he
wive still snore astonished to fid that 'Mich Is hie due and therefore he strivea
the said editor, though by no means a e
eo master hie affliction SO that Ito ?hall Feminine Sophistry,
girl) was an exceedingly 65 -ming 'amid not losable privileges. Time little children
beautiful member of the fair sex, and "It's impossible," 41rtid it Toronto man,
of Gheel have learned how to lonolle
Oonsideraidy younger than himself. "to reason with a W0111/1.11 about general
them curious visitors; they play with
principles. My wife mai Lively grieves if
" them fearlessly and. walk and talk with
"1 have been reading *with great in
tereet the oracle* you bare sent me," theft Sometimes the patient may he men she thinks I have been playing poker.
oho Went on, motioning him to 'ti, daft 'tending the baby. Yet last week she actually indulged. in
"Two 'of them I shall use. This ono"- - Natteteally enough, Meet is Wad with her first betting, and won five dollare
on
she tapped a mamitetipt which lay be. maltreat -oft "Queens," eminalei mem. the races. When expressed the proper
fore her' Muet return. Its tone is too lionitiree;' "Popes," "Archbishops, and amount of horror she atetely 1001M1
mynical, myself write all the cynical other magnifieent people; yet ell thoughtful and replied -
anklet*, which appear in the 'Review.' mime arc treated Most kindly MO res. 'Perhaps it looks like betting, but I
Besides, you are no eyrie." pectfully by the inhabibutto (Meet pat fifty cents in one of those little
"Perhaps eireumstonees 'MAO me Om." There is one ease of a "Knee who tells baalka for the lanue for the Aged, and
Pla emiled all noweoaters that he line twe left legs really needed re pair of gloves.
"If you Man monetary elreatinstaala- and therefore he is obliged to- have two quite different when you lose largo sums
OffP she said, with disarming itankhess, left boots and two left legs to his nom that Might to he spent on the fittnily."
loet neartielf at rest on that Past. OM A.nother old: gentleman thinks be From tho Canadian Courii0
Population. , hand, he probably used the rtght hand in
I order to keep his heart—most vital of
The care and treatment of the insane ' organs—as far away as possible from
can be studied under very novel condi- an adversary's assault .And later, when
tions at the little Belgian, town of Gael tribe fought tribe as common foes, it
or Gheol, twenty-six miles east south was found convenient to wield weapons
of Antwerp. Ghee]. is really 0.. town of in uniformity, leaving the other arm free
the insane. One meet them everywhere; , for preserving balance 'and for holding a
they roam about the etteets; they take shield:. In this way it is thought right -
their refreshment in the cafes and they handedneas was brought about and pass.
go through their daily laboio often with : ed down front father to son for untold*
more sense than does many an ordinary generations. Man has ever been a fight -
citizen who is believed, to be sound in , ins animal, and it mast have been clear
mind and body. ' to him from the earliest times that if
There are about 1,500 out patients, a
arhe mine of the fighting phalanx were right -
they are taken as boardere by the. towns- I handed and others 'left-handed, their
people. Of course these. are harmless i ireapons would be continually clashing,
cases, and the dangerous insane are look- I and their squares thrown into disorder,
after either in the local asylum or in re- 'with disastrous effect when the enemy
mote villages. The inhabitants charge .
i should. perceive a momentary confusion.
from £12 to £120 a year, according to - On the other hand, if each man used
the way in which the patient. wishes to spear or axe with the same hand as his
live; yet ,no matter how little he pays, neighbor, symmetry and system evauld
he is elevens treated with wonderful be given to the fighting force. To main -
kindness by the family 'with whom he '5 'tam that the left hand milers from any
boarding. Tim good. people of Gheel, sa:ye physical disability, as comparea with its
the London Glebe, seem to have a special more favored fellow, is mifair, and, nett in
faculty for being able to treat the insane accordance with fact. This may Tie
successfully, and many marvellous eases shown by anyone Who takes - pains to
of recovery are on record. Thin is the to- train his leftehand; he will soen find
stilt of heredity, for the experience gain- that one ntay become as clever as the
ed has been handed down from father to other. One may go further, and point
soh for centuries. • ' ' out that in some matters of everyday
The 'indent is really the guest of the life the left hand is habitually given
household; the armchair ha allotted th equal rights with the other, Thus' in
lim, he has the best place at table and knitting a woman gives both an equal
he receives the most attention. Thus be share of work; and apparently she is
learns groduelly time value of the respect equally skilled with melt hand.
ono evening in March down in leentueley.
1 had driven twenty-five miles over mud
roods and, arriving in the hotel, which
appeared tolerably comfortable, I in-
quired if I could get a hot bath And to
my delight was informed that I could..
A fine rain, half snow, was falling and a
high wind. blowing. I went to ame room,
disrobed,, and throwing a Dade robe
aroued me, followed the negro boy
down the corridor. Pretty soon we em -
an to a hat ticea back porch on
tators. The motoriet told a man to fetch the wend storey and, in a lattmewoik
girl got out of the ear and became spec-.
a crowbar and axe front the Park Lodge,
and then directed their use on the ve-
bide. Then front wheels were taken off,
some wood was chopped away, end with
a great deal of difficulty the horse was
released
that was covered with vines in midsum-
mer stood a, bathtub, into which the boy
had dumped two buckets of hot water.
The latticework WAS open, and even
the fairing lamp, sizzling as the snow-
flakes struck it, revealed me to half the
neighbona I gave up the luxury of the
bath and retreated in as good Order as
was done, and the horse revived. It was
slightly town iweetern Texas, tired out
------
The stranger then put on his overcoat
from a long drive across country (I things be had invented.
and handed the driver half a sovereign
was selling 'irrigation pumps), and in- He put me to 'bed in a small room, per.
as " little present from the Prince mired for quarters. The hotel mall re- haps 8 by 10 feet, with one small win -
and Princess of Wales," the bystanders
q tt d exceedingly'diet he had but one dow and one extremely narrow door. I
noticed as he showed me into the room
that the place seemed, to have double
walls.
I retired. The night was sultry and
close, but after a time I fell asleep. Some
time during the night I was awakened
by a jarring, a rumbling and the thought
flashed into my mind that a cyclone had
struck us. I leaped out of bed and ran
to the window. A sickening sensation
of falling came over me, Everything was
dark. I jammed my arm through the
window and my fist struck solid earth.
I was terror stricken, but 'with a jar the
movement ceased, and within a few min -
things he tried to improve on. His
barn loft and barn, its well as hie lit-
tle one storey hotel, were filled with
healthier the individual as a whole will
be maintained. When, therefore, active
exercise is withheld, as in sedentary oc-
cupation., it is not -difficult to conceive
there will be a tendency towards an ac-
cumulation of effete matter within the
vital fluid, and this will be accentuated
If the atmosphere of the apartment
which the person °amities becoones vitia-
ted in coneequehee of deficient ventila-
tion; lotbargy, loss of appetite, and dys-
pepsia will as a rule supervene; the
health as a whole will sooner or later
their car, and departed.
me.
PROPER TREATMENT OF BURNS,
The Use of Flour or Oil is Strongly
Deprecated.
In eases of burns death may be duo
first to asphyxia; secondly, to shock and,
thirdly, to septicaemia.
The medical man seldom gets to the
case in time to treat the first condition,
ease of a burn is to dust flour over it or in the rear and one long bedroom ex -
to cover it 'with oil, and, indeed, even in tending along the entire side of the ho'
some comparatively late text books on tel completed the outfit. A double row
I demanded an explanation.
"Cyclone," be said cheerily. "Took the
calf barn and two haystacks and part
of Dobb's barn and his windmill, thought
it was going to hit us and let you down.'
The next morning he showed me the
mechanism. Every sleeping room woe
really a double room, the inside being
like an elevator, and lie had rigged
weights and counter weights ,until
by -
pushing a lever he could drop all the
eleoners in the hotel down into the cellar
power of those important organs, and should contain some bormic acid, if there
at the eame time prepare the stomach is any in the house, it is probable that
for the reception of food. be prevent
the majority of death e due to septicam
On the other hand, when an abundartee
of exercise entore into the daily life, mite after burns would. ed.
whereby the circulation in the akin and For the whole aim and. object of the
mucous mombrane of the lungs 13 itug- local treatment is to prevent sepsis;
f
mented—it may be to the full expau- lour and olive oil may be soothing arta
eion of the network of bleod-veseels mem allay the pain. bat there is no anti -
which ramify in every- direetio.n over septic property in them; rather they are periods of thiety days are as followe:
these surfaces—the loss of fluid. from excellent culture media for -bacteria— Woodburn, Ont., May 20, 130 cows
the blood will create a demand for hq- London Hospital.
* • * average 608 lbs. milk, testing 3.2, 22.0
uids which it will he impossible to re- lb. fat .Hioliest yield of milk 1,970 lb.,
means of repeated supplies of water Cowansville, Que. May 27, 130 cows
lowest 245 lb.
sist. Thus, by flu -aiming the blood by the ' FOR REMEMBRANCE.
in one form or another, while the me- Build now the house wherein thy soul average 619 lb. milk, testing 4.1, 22.8
reting surfaces are in active operation, me now the gracious work, the message
wovad dwell lb. fat . Highest yield of any one cow
1,29.(1 lb. milk testing 4.5.
the vital energy of every organ of the Keene, Ont., May 23, 02 cows average
For the man whose: ha -bite are sedentary Whose memory sweet the
tell,
11 last.
body is benefited. 730 lb. milk, testing 3.3, 24,1 lb. fat.
the following routine might with advam
y Heed well the moments ne they speed
away Best yield of milk 1,260 lb. and lowest
(1) Two tumblerhals of hot water be- FiTin etipimeelhm3gsotiedreionnsdefeldigsht ;the maithen yield 290 lb.
average 568 lb. milk, testing 3.6, 20.7 lb.
Mansonville, Que., May 29, 75 cows
tage be followed:
forp breakfast. a . fat. Most milk front aim one cow 890
(2) At breakfast a large cupful, or clay lb., testing 2.4;lowest yield 270 lb., teen
two if desired, of tea, which has not Ere fall the shades of night, ing 3.9.
utes. This will prove quite sufficient to And. when the oorowe of a world in pain o
Fall heavy on thy heart, age 680 lb. inilk, testing 34 21.3 lb. fat.
been infueed for more than three male 'lathy, Que., May 20, 118 cows aver -
of the leaves, which are comparatively When fades life's brightness, then of joy
again, lowest yield 225 lb.
abstract all the aromatic constituents Highest yield 865 lb. milk testing 4.0;
and gummy extaacts will be left behind AilTdhowuheynettaistataahloklactipart,
age 653 lb, milk, testing 3.4, 22.7 lb. fat.
innocuous, while the undesirable tannin. Lotbiniere, Que., May 30, 84 cows aver -
foots of tea -drinking are chiefly due. I no more
East and West Oxford, Ont., May 27,
would repeat, however, that this por- The glory of the night,
behold
104 cows average 842 lb. milk, testing
and it is to the latter the injurious of- Highest yield, 040 lb.
tion of the meal should be left until all Then shall a purer radiance thee enfold
3.2, 27.4 lb. fat. Highest yield 1,620 lb.
the solid portion Juts been disposed 1.f. To bless thy failing sight.
milk; lowest 290 lb. .
(3) Dying the forenoon and afternoon And when to thy dulled ear earth's
Central Smith, Out., Joule 2, 107 cows
either plain or aerated water may be the voices wane,
average 828 lb., averagriest 2.9, 24.1 lb.
beverage and to the amount pMvionsly And singing birds grow dumb,
fat. Highest yield 1,630 lb. milk in 30
indicated. Then angel harmouiee with sweet re-
frain days.
of water, a bottle of ginger -beer, ginger- Shall to thy spirit come.
(4) After lunch either a. tumblerful C. F. W.
ale or lemonade, soda and milk, or half For the veiled past shall show a smiling
a pint of cider.
(6) The same after dinner; and To all who work the works of Muth and The standard yard prevails throughout
And blessing shall not cease;
grace.
fate,
o CURIOSITIES OF MEASUREMENT.
tiring it tumblerful of -the United Kingdom but the length of
(6) Before reamid soda. the English', Scots and Irioh mile is di!-
cold or aerated water or milk eLife's memories shall bring peace1
—Annie E. Lyddon. Meant in each, which is the more curious,
Of course, there will be other fluids par-
seeing that the English and American
taken of during the course of the day.
bunts of the food, of athieh more ram ------emem----......
local variations in our English acre are
These will emisist of the watery consti- miles are identical But the occasional
Weller mention may be made of milk, Women Still Sew.
even more remarkable. These were, per-
friut and vegetables, all of which should The statement recently mode that
haps, originally due to the inexactitudes
30,000,000 spools of thread are annually
purchased by Chicago housewives is en- of ancient land surveying, which oma
enter to a large extent into the dietary.
eouraging to those who have regarded
oompareatively of such a free and, easy
-So much, then, for the are of thinking sewing as a lost art and have behaved
as a. preservative of health. Let us now that in the feminine mind the peedlo has description that the sores of neighboring
counties, not to say adjacent parishes,
consider for a little how this may be been supplantedeby the pen or the golf
health. As a rule we will find that a sometimes vad.
rie
taken advantage of as a restorative to stick But in reality what do these fig -
great proportion of ill -health ling its or-
igin in sonic disorder oftbe digestive Or-
gans.
Let mo then point out Mewhat man-
ner the art of thanking may prove of
'service in certain disturbanceo of the
stomach, especially that condition mita h
Is designated catarrh. Wten this is pre -
tent we know the mucous membeene is
In a state of subacute congistion, The hr -
variable result of this ie a deficloot, ?ac-
cretion of mucus. The cores3.11MCO is
that when food. enters the stomach it
does not digest as rapidly as it should
do. New, when this is the case fermen-
tation is certain to follow. The distress
produced by :fermentetion extends to
the beatt and. lungs' whese amvemorte
are frequently eonsiderobly imoredrd,
giving rise to prapitittion mat breathless-
ness, It IS then imperotive that the diet
COW TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. that the so -cal -led "acre" was too often
what the local wiseacres happened to
Dominion Department of Agriculture, make of it By long use and. want it
Branch of the Dairy and Cold. Stor- eeeme 'probable that the diecrepaneies
age Commissioner. thus arising occasionally crystallized into
Some of the recent results of the customs, of which some examples still
weighing and. -tasting for the regular survive. A Welsh Rem was formerly
twice as large as an English one, while
Scottish mire is larger than ours by
more than 1,000 square yards.
According to authority, there are sev-
en different 'measures still in use by
which tbe acre may be oariou.siy defined.
Lamea.shine hes within her borderie sores
measured on a customary Iowa scale,
while the so-called Cheshire acre is even
larger than that of its Welsh ezeighbcm—
From the London Globe.
4-*
SHE CAN'T BELP IT.
urea stand ler? Do they mean overwork,
nervousness and vanity, or are they a m
sign of successful Achievement, of the hatand at tatloor of a ehurch on Sum
triumph of femininity, and of a coin-
n
Some day and bid mentosexteestop, tall
mendable practice of economy? ones and' entail ones, as they happen to
hygienists say that the needle is a foe to m out. Theat.make them put their
Ayomen, that it encourages their nerve wass
left feet one belated the other, and the
diseases and makes them stoop shoulder -
length thus olateuneel Mall be a right and
ed, but on the other hand women them- lawful roaa to measure the land with,
selves have been beard to say that sew -
nal the sixteenth part of it shall be a
limas the art that soothes and that the
right ma lawful foot."
needle is an aid to the imagination.
This iq olnieKt laughable; but we 'have
But whatever hygienists or pessaimiste
only to apply to one .of the older diction -
may say, and however much the price of
ones to fin I that any thing like exact -
thread nutty soar, one thing is sure, that
nem, whether of definition or of fact, is
nothing will ever part a woman from her :
i quite a modern scientific doveloproont.
needle or educate Iter beyond a depend -
And the story of the acre 114 di ease in
once upon thread,.—Chicago Tribune.
point. It was supposed' to have be= M-
amma to it common standard in 1305, butt
It was not -until 1824 flint we clotted
A book published an the reign of Ed-
ward VI. gives the following curiously
native instructims rot the subjeet:
Stealing Diamonds at the Mines.
the statute acre ea 4,840 square yards.. Blobbs—"I can't possibly lose on the
- •••
A London syndicate contracts to tale
With time loos syetem of measure- races to -day." Slobbs--"Got a sure
the entire output of the Kitnberley mines
motif- prevaalang for tile greater part of thing, oh?" Blobbs — "Yea,; I'm not go'
and all cutting is done in the continent
that long interval, it ie not surprising ‚big to make a het."
of Europe, chiefly in Ameterdam and
.,
The Marned Woman's Tender Sympathy
for Spinster Sister.
When She meets a particularly attract-
ive, busy, contented spinster, she says,'
plaintively, "Poor Ada, of Virginia, or
Emmeline! What a pity that she never
married!" She cannot 'help it any more
than she can help the color of her hair.
When Freleriek—fumbling dreadfully,
by the way—slipped the ring upon 'her
finger he endowed her not only with all
his worldly goods, but also with an in-
eradicable pity for those upon whose
hand the yellow band heal never gleamed,
says Anne O'llsman in Harper's Bazar. If
he had taken to beating her the follow-
ing week, had developed an undue appe-
tite for drink the next month, and. hael
deserted her the following year, she
would still have looked with patronage
upon me, unbeaten, unacquainted with
intoxication, ndeserted.
There is no wife so unhappy, so neg-
lected, so trampled upon, that she has
not, in her own opinion'someone still
more pitiable to whom to condescend—
and: that is any unmarried woman, no
matter how busy, how cheerful, how pop-
ular.
The Papa -Hen.
The mamma -hen eeta imp in a nest,
An' pretty soon they's an egg,
But the papa -hen lie swells Ms chest
And kicks the sand wIt his lege.
The papa -lion finds a worm or a crumb
And haters, "Quielst culeki quick!"
But he eats its himself when the mamma -
hens ovine,
Or else it's only a ritick.
I bet you if I wasthe para -hen
haix'soree an. Mg an' stout,
I'd lay eggs one in a while, an, then
Have somethin' to faller Oottti
-.Newark News.
Professional Pride Touched.
The municipal grafter had made a full
confeseion.
"Don't you feel better note?" theit
asked him kindly.
"Well," he admitted, "I'm a little pets
to find that I went cheaper than some
of the other fellowst"—Ithiladelphla
Ledger.
Antwerp. 'The stones vary enormously in
quality anti fetch in the rough from $1.50
to $200 per carat There is very little
"leakage" considering the stupendous
scale on which the diamond mining is
done. One year ago, bowever, a negro
sem-ter was found to loam swallowed $3,s
700 of atones, out R. colleague broke this
record by ?twat:owing 348 'carats 'of dia-
monds worth $5,300. —World To -day.
-0 • *
Warning to Ladies Hailing a Car.
The Lady in it trurry—Why
you stop at ence, conductor, when you
saw me waving my hand?"
The Emotions CoOduetor—tioe, miss,
Why, I thou!Alit you were a.throwin!
Mama at Ina—London Sketch.
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