A TALKING GLOVE. Kovel Convermtloniil Expedient of n Younif Woman Who IN lllind. Deaf and Dumb. "Blind Mattie" is an inmate of the Newark almshouse, says the New York Press. T.fcU Kind of home life would teem satl enough, but for Mattie it mat ters little where she lives so long as people about her are kind and consid erate. Not onlv is she blind, but she is also deaf and dumb, and can neither smell tor taste. With all this affliction she possesses a mind of remarkable activity and even brilliancy, for she can rhyme hymns, which she loves to compose, and, in deed. there is in many of them a real poetic pathos. Ska is 32 years old, but looks much older. ller sad life has attracted much at tention, and recently she received a "talking glove"—a gift from a deaf mute in Hartford, Conn., who had read of Mattie's affliction and who invented the glove to help mitigate them. It is a common white cotton glove, with the alphabet put on it, each letter ©n the balls of the fingers. Mattie isso quick at learning with touch that in a tingle day she had memorized the posi tion of every letter, so that now the people about her can talk to her by spelling out the word on the letters of the glove. She is happy now, sitting by her little cot, waiting for some one to "talk to | her." Over and over again her lips move in spelling out words, and while BLIND MATTIE S TACKING GLOVE. she sits and waits she talks to herself and often kisses the simple little cotton thing, her key to every thing about her. Wind Mattie's story is remarkable. She was born healthy and perfect, and •until she reached her eighth year showed no signs of disease or deforni ity. When she was eight years old her brother died, and she was dreadfully shocked by the event. One day she en tered a vacant room in her home in Newark and there imagined she saw her dead brother, and that he said to her: "Mattie, wliere's pa?" The sound of his voice struck her dumb, and when she was found she had lost the senses which never returned. One of the saddest parts of this i.s that the shock which caused her great sorrow was only imaginary. iJoctors from all parts of the country have worked on the case, with no good re sults. She remembers how the sky looks and what it is like to hear sounds, but never again on earth will she enter the light of material things. Qoeei* \a IIICN for Women. The wives of some of the Indian braves have names as odd and often as droll as their husbands. They seem to have cognomens of their own too and not to take those of their spouses only. Some of tha actual names given in a census of the families of the scouts at one place include Mrs. Short Nose, who was before her marriage Miss Piping Woman; Mrs. Big Head, formerly Miss Short Face; Mrs. Nibbs, formerly Miss Young Bear; Mrs. White Crow, former ly Miss Crook Pipe; Mrs. Howling Water, formerly Miss Crow Woman; also Mrs. Sweet Water. Miss Walk High, daughter of Mr. White Calf, and Miss Osage, daughter of Mr. Hard Case. Thoiie Little Curia. No matter what the style of coiffure is. wether the hair is done high or low. or in pompadour combs, In-low the coil there are found two, sometimes three tiny curls. They add a quaint coquet tisliness to a pretty face that is charm ing in the extreme. Not once in 50 times are they natural. It is imprac tical to curl the ends of the hair that are needed to wind up scientifically the coil. Hut they are pretty just the same and make a pretty face twice as attrac tive. A Itenu t ltler. Medical authorities are agreed that olive oil is a fine thing to build up the tissues and to rectify a run-down con dition of the system. To certain forms of microbes it is death and destruction. Plenty of olive oil in dressing, and once a week a teaspoonful taken clear is as good a medicine as can be found for a general tonic. It is the best beautifier known. InexpenMlve Dlvann. Turkish are very expensive. A broad cot with mattress looks just as well under a large cover reaching to the floor. .No one could detect the differ ence unless the cover is removed, fine very enterprising woman used a piano box instead of the cot. The springs and the mattress were all that were needed. DIMIIIINMIM] IN Disfirnce. "I understand Susie Smartweed was dismissed fr< 111 the hospital service in disgrace." "Yes. She used the chief surgeon's best lancet to sharpen her ltad-pencii." —Tit-Hits. A TALK ABOUT TEA. S«.ine It 4ff)'rl> Mo*t Plrnonnlly, Otliern Are Serloimly Polaoned by n Slnisle t.'uji. Among I "the cups thai cheer but not inebriate" tea and coffee stand pre eminent. Tea is, as a rule, the favori c in notliern latitudes, while the con sumption of coffee is greatest in warm countries. Like most things in this world, es pecially like most stimulants, tea has its good and its bad side. When taken in moderation, and by one with whom it does not disagree —for some persons cannot drink even a small cup without symptoms of poisoning—tea is a stimu lant, relieving mental and bodily fa tigue, promoting intellectual activity, curing a "tired" headache and causing a most agreeable sense of well-being or even exhilaration. Part of this effect is doubtless due to the hot water —in itself a powerful stimulant —yet not all, for cold tea acts almost equally well. When one feels cold, the heat and the alkaloid caffeine —or theine—in a cup of tea act as stimulants to the heart, increasing the warmth of the body. On the other hand, hot tea is asserted to b" cooling in hot weather by reason of the profuse prespiration which it induces. The evil effects of overindulgence in tea are greater than the good effects just mentioned. Taken in excessive quantity, or even in moderate quantity by one with whom it does not agree, tea causes marked dyspeptic and nerv ous disturbances. Tea drunkards suf fer from catarrh of the stomach, flatu lence, inactivity of the bowels —or sometimes the reverse —palpitation of the heart, nervous unrest, muscular twitehings and wakefulness. Some people, who can usually drink tea without any evil consequences, And that they cannot do so if they happen to be worried or in mental distress; at such times the beverage, instead of cheering, aggravates th» worry and adds to it the misery of indigestion Some of the dyspeptic troubles pro duced by tea are doubtless due to the tannin which is contained in it in vary ing amounts, according to the kind and quality, and which is extracted from the leaves especially by long steeping or by boiling.—-Youth's Companion. TRAINING THE VOICE. Ileanty (if lltterancp. In Speech in SOIIK, I" » Murk of Culture in All Ciootl Society, Aristotle said: "It is not only nec essary to have something to say, it is also necessary to know how to say it. A well-trained voice is a mark of cul ture in all refined sociely. This is as true in speech as in song; the same principles govern both, tint are even more important in relation to speech. Song implies a distinct art, whereas speech is universal. Modern civiliza tion exacts purity of speech and dis tinct articulation, but— "Tls not enough the voice be sound and clear, 'Tis modulation that most charms the ear Sir Morrell Mackenzie says:"lt is a mistake to think thai speaking requires no special training and exercise. Even in ordinary conversation speaking is an art, and a dillicult one." Fcr the club woman and the woman of society not to specially cultivate the Ol Ol conversational voice is tc handicap them with u defect wholly unnecessary. A well-modulated voice may be ac quired i:i adult life, but the preferable period of acquirement is in childhood and youth. The generality of mothers are nol awake to Hie beauty of utterance. If they were they would consider the ac quisition of a weil-modulated speaking or conversational voice should go hand in hand with piano-playing and sing ing. If the cultivation of the every day speaking voice had been giver the attention and study tliat piano playing has received, the disagreeable element so often complained of in the American voice would have disappeared long ago. Spurgeon said: "I believe that every one should train his voice and body un der some system of elocution. First, for the health it affords; second, for its educating effects; third, for the ad vantage it gives over others tor use fulness." —Chicago Post. C ushion* for Wicker Choir*. In making cushions for the popular wicker furniture it will Vie found thai nothing is more durable lhan velvet een. and the different varieties of the fabric sold under various similar names. Being a cotton fabric, it does not gather moths, and both its dyes and texture are almost waterproof. The beautiful tints in which it is show n make it available for any scheme ol decoration. XJIIK Sever Grow Equally. The nails of two fingers never grow with the same degree of rapidity. The nail of the middle finger grows with the greatest rapidity, and that of the thumb least. It has been computed that the average growth of the finger nail is one-thirty-second of an inch pet week, or a little more than an inch and a half per year. The tattle Muff. Muffs of velvet and fur combined are finished at the opening with a ruche of finely plaited glace silk or lact which has been stiffened a little in the plaiting. The fancy for having' then perfumed is going out of fashion, as the scent is not always agreeable te others. A Trifle Severe. Mr.Hunter tK A II ICO.. Mlllon, Pa. tlfllB!# M Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use ga rain time. Sold hy druggist*. Ml j in HEALTH IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Injurious l.nliori In Home Life md Hotv Thfr May lie Avoided. Among all the health destroying occupa tions in which the housewife may engage none is more productive of harm than is the back-breaking, muscle-twisting, nerve destroying operation of washing and scrub bing clothes upon the ordinary wash-board. The woman who etands over the tub inhal ing the hot, unwholesome vapors cannot hope to maintain good health, to say noth ing of the effect of being confined to a stooping, unnatural position, which, in time, will wreck the strongest constitution. Do not wreck health and happiness over the washtub in this day of washing machines. Get the best mechanism in this line and re lease yourself from the galling slavery of the wash-board—that instrument of domes tic torture which is answerable for nine tenths of the diseases with which our wom ankind is cursed. Take, for example, the Rocker Washer, which is the representative product in this line, and compare its work and its results with the labors of the old style "blue Monday" day. Not only does this washer do the work in a fraction of the time consumed by the old-fashioned methods, but it does it much more thor oughly, the clothes being whiter, sweeter and cleaner than could possibly be the case were the garments cleaned by hand. For the convenience of our readers who realize that the highest class article in any department of domestic equipment is not : only the most satisfactory, but in the end | is really the cheapest, wc vould state the washer in question may be had from the Rocker Washer Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind. The woman who insists upon continuing in th» health-destroying methods and the man who permits such a cruel and unnecessary sacrifice has much to answer for. When work can be done more quickly and far bet ter without the slightest risk to health it is a crime to persist in what causes such general and widespread harm. The woman who discards the washboard for the Rocker Washer will, at the end of the year, be brighter, better, healthier and happier for the change, and could never be persuaded to return again to the days of her degrading and unnecessary slavery.—J. H. Meyers, M. D., in American Journal of Health. The NHUIIOHI Woman. He (an old hand) —They had dropped their anchor. She (a beginner)— Served them right. It has been hanging over the side all day long. —Tit-Bits. Settlera Warned on Michigan Farm I.and*. Choice cleared and stump lands in Central and Western Michigan, suitable for fruit and general farming. Very low prices and favorable terms to actual settlers. Excel lent schools and markets. Write 11. H. Howe, Land Agent C. & W. M.and 1)., G. R. Si W. R'ys, Grand Rapids, Mich. Often the Way. Whenever some people are able to raise the wind they can't resist blowing them ! selves. —Puck. 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