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AN IMAGINATIVE ROMANCE OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
WEITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH
BY HERBERT D. WARD.
STNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
In a tie epinj car Journeying from the West to Chicago are six chance acquaintances,
Millionaire Tanrterfrn, ot Chicago; Prof. Wilder, inventor of the Aeropole; Serjreant Wlll
tvri, who rai with Greelyand with Lockwood on their Polar expeditions: Royal Sterne, a
lechnie.il institute student; Jack Hardy, who Is going into real estate in Chicago, and Fred
erick Ball, an astronomical tutor. Out of a jewing remark a serious expedition to the
orth Pole in Prof. Wilder's airship is arranged. Millionaire Vanderlyn furnishes the
money. Wilder the conveyance, Wllitwfg the experioncc, and the three younger men the
enthusiasm. Just as they start officers arrive to serve an injunction on Wilder. The action
Js brought by Hennepin, who claims the airship is his invention. After some excitina ex-
Seriences the officers are persuaded to desist. The airship pets off. and when over Lake
iichigan Sergeant Will tw is remembers that he left his supply of matches in Chicago.
CHAPTER IV.
A SIW DISEASE.
No mention has been made of the fact
that this new form of what might he called
flying, but which was, in reality, a motion
much more steady, hail brought its inevit
able nausea. The excitement of the contest
with the flock of birds, added to the de
cision in regard to the matches, had put
this abhorrent feeling to fight from our
travelers.
It ig a curious circumstance that the hu
man frame must undergo new tortures in
accommodating itself to new conditions.
The slightest change throws the mechanism
out of gear. Commonplace seasickness is
our most evident illustration of this. The
rocking railroad train is another. A fever,
often of a nialicnant type, prostrates the
Europeans who land upon the west coast of
Africa or penetrate the jungles of Ceylon.
There is a certain odd sensation which at
tacks sensitive organisms when they ride
upon the electric street car. An elevator
creates its own maladies for the passengers.
The aeronaut has his peculiar sensations
when the balloon leaves the clouds, as
specks, under him.
Judge, then, whether this airship shall
not, by very reason of its fearful novelty,
be the parent of a new disease.
At the moment when Sergeant Willtwig
mentioned so common a matter as clothes,
"he iclieved the strain upon the thoughts of
the party, and the r.nique motion now
gripped their minds and clutched their
bodies and prostrated them.
The shock was as inexplicable as seasick
ness, and as subtle as nostalgia. This mal
ady, which has been hitherto unknown, and
to which we give the name "airsickness,"
now attacked them ferociously. Sud
denly, everything spun black" before
their eyes. Their throats became parched;
their heads swam; their hands and feet be
came nerveless; their hearts palpitated
fiercelv. The four men in the main room of
the car sank into heaps and groaned.
Professor Wild;r alone.sustained hitherto
not only by the conversation, but also by
the excitement of guiding his monstrous
serial creation, withstood the indisposition.
He concentrated his attention upon the in
tricate machinery ahead, as he piloted his
mercurial ship. Once, only, lie looked at
bis companions, then he turned away, for
he felt dizziness, like a serpent, creeping
upon him.
Here were two rodders which he had to
control, whatever happened. The one de
termined the direction of his ship; the
other. Its altitude. The slightest deviation
of the latter might send the vessel gallop
ing to the moon, or crashing to 'he earth.
Jnst like the rudder of a yacht, it needed
the constant pressure of the hand.
Here was a condition unforeseen. Here
was an uncalculated calamity. Shall air
sickness disable the crew and wreck the ex
pedition? When all difficulties hare been
conquered, when all things have been ac
complished what an irony is this! Surely,
there is some power more intelligent than
cold and ice that protects the inaccessible
wastes of the North Pole, that extends its
baleful influence even unto the inaders of
the air.
Prof. 'Wilder (a nervous little man, with
fine eyes and intelligent, sandy face and
sandier whiskers) looked out of the win
dow. He did not know what to do. Far
below the restless water of the lake re
flected the sun. There was evidently no
time for him to pilot the airship to the
land, before helplessness would overtake
him too. He ground his teeth in the agony
of the prospect H;s companions, even
the unconquerable Sergeant, were pros
trate, helpless, perhaps insensible. They
did not care whether they lived or died.
Bet the Aeropole could not'travel un
guided. To keep up at all it had to go
ahead. There was no time for considera
tion, for choice. A fearful spasm of the
heart and convulsion of the head warned
him. Blackness began to film his eyes.
He reached out his head to retard the ves-
Attacked by Air Sickness.
pel's motion. He grasped the lever that
controlled the power. He pulled it. His
other hand was upon the wheel that guided
the horizontal rudder.
He did not know that his nerve centers
refused to tend the correct messages to his
hands.
He pulled the lever the wrong war.
The machinerv, adjusted with the" utmost
nicety and perfection, responded to the in
creased power. Even at her terrible speed,
the airship bounded faster ahead, as if she
had struck a down grade.
Fortunately, even as the professor fell
from his chair insensible, his other hand
dropped from the rudder, and as it did so, it
gave it a slight inclination. At that speed,
a deviation of an inch in the vertical rud
der would cause the airship to describe a
circle almost immediately. The movement
of a hair's breath upon the horizontal rud
der would make an immediate deviation in
the airship's altitude.
Luckily, the great fanlike rndder dropped
the sixteenth of a second, and the airship,
manned by useless inmates, rose steadily
and kept to her course
How long the men lay there, no one
knows; it might not have been over a half
an hour. They had passed from over the
bosom of the great lake and were now
speeding over the Canadian Dominion.
Many miles before them arose the blue out
lines of unexplored mountains. Though a
hundred miles or more away, the airship
could pass them in less than half an hour.
Such speed seems phenomenal, but it is
bv no means impossible of imagination,
even if one has no faith in the invented air
ship. There must be a first to all things.
That the airship of the lar future will sur
pass in i-ompass and velocity the achieve
ment of Pro!. "Wilder, just as the express
train ot to-day surpasses the inventions of
Stephenson, no man in this age can reason
ably doubt. A hundred miles an hour on
steel rails is a greater marvel than twice
that speed where there is neither road nor
resistance. To go from Liverpool to ,
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Sew York through the water in four
days is a greater achievement than to go
from Chicago to the North Pole through
the air in 20 hours. The ingenuity of the
mechanic must be proportional to the
power of the resisting medium. Which is
harder to overcome the resistance of land,
or water plus that of the air? or, only to
overcome the atmosphere itself, which, as it
becomes conquered, changes from foe to
friend, and even at its fiercest mood aids
rather than retards the traveler?
So the speed of the Aeropole is not a
trreat marvel: it would, indeed, have been
I a thing to wonder about if she did not
travel at that ratel
Though there is no elixir invented to pre
vent or to cure seasickness, yet each one
carries about him a powerful antidote the
capacity of physical readjustment At sea
it may take days fcr the body to set its
function by the motion of the waves, just
as you set your watch by the fall of a ball.
Bat in the 'air it is different Like the
plague, the terrible rack seizes its victim;
but like a tornado, it is soon by, and the
healthy body can expel its foe after a few
minutes' unconsciousness. One can soon
get used to the sense of height joined to
that of velocity, even though, at the first
experience, it almost robs a man of his life.
The Sergeant first awoke from his stupor.
He opened his eyes slowly and looked
around him. To the man of action and of
familiarity with the extremity of danger,
the recovery to consciousness is instantane
ous. The leader knew his situation and
wondered if the disease would attack him
again. About him his three companions
A Narrow Etcape.
lay like Iocs. By the peculiar whistling of
the air he knew that the vessel was travel
ing at a tremendous speed. It did not
occur to him to be troubled about
it He congratulated himself that the
man at the throttle and the helm had
escaped this terribletattaek. He lay look
ing toward the stern of the airship, and did
not think it necessary to turn around. In
deed, he did not think it well to raise his
head at all, for fear the symptoms would
immediately return. The smooth, unjarrine
strokes ot the roachinerv lulled him to rest
He felt verv drowsy. Yet he thought "that
he ought to inquire about the Professor be
fore he slept He had no concern about the
three torpid men about him, for he knew if
he could pull through that they would in
due time.
"Wilder! Say, "Wilderl" he feebly cried,
in a voice still loud enough to carry to the
front engine compartment
He listened and heard no answer. He
Imagined that he bad not called loud
enough and tried again, then listened. The
heavy breathing of his stricken friends was
the only sound that replied to him.
"Wilderl Prolessor! Answer!"
It was the commander of the expedition
who spoke now with an instinct of fear.
Sergeant Willtwig lifted himself upon
his elbow and turned around. The sight
made him cry aloud with horror and with
terror. Before him, upon the floor, lav the
designer of the airship, bis head perilously
near a revolving wheel. But beyond,
through the window in the airship's bow,
he saw a black mass looming before them.
"With a bound he dashed into the engine
room. In view of some horrible emer
gency, he bad learned the use of the differ
ent parts of the complicated machinery.
Indeed, its important features were
marked. Before the airship towered
mountain crags. They were not more
than two miles away that is, a second's
journey as the Aeropole sped. The Rocky
Mountains were thousands of feet high,
while the airship had barely attained an
altitude of three thousand feet Trappers
must have often asked of themselves why
that mountain range had ever been thrown
up. But now its use was made manifest.
It was in iniquitous league w ith the witch
of the North Pole. For 10,000 centuries it
bad been ordained that here should be the
barrier to this profane expedition. These
rocks were cast up to grind to dust these
sacrileg.ous explorers, who, mutinying
againBt the earth, dared the transit of" the
heavens.
This was Sergeant "Willtwig'a bitterest
moment of alL The stalwart man who had
shaken his fist at death a hundred times had
no fear.
In that fraction of a second, facing an im
minent and terrible doom, the Sergennt had
agonizing thoughts. He was giad that his
companions were mercifully spared even
the knowledge of their own death. Tho im
pact lollowing upon such an unheard-of
impetus would mean instantaneous annihi
lation. For himself, he mourned the death of his
mission more than his own slaughter; as he
yielded to his compassion, he cave a mighty
turn to the wheel that controlled the ver
tical rudder. The airship careened so that
he was thrown from his feet Even before
one could write the dot upon the i he felt a
grating, crunching sound. There was a
shriek from the cabin.
He looked out of the window. The ship
had grazed the side of the mountain just
escaped destruction.
But, horror upon horrorl Even as he
looked, congratulating himself, and feeling
as brave men do weak as water after a
narrow escape the mountains loomed up
before him again.
lie had torgotten to straighten the rudder,
and the airship, describing a gigantic circle,
more swiltly than the hungriest bird of
prey, now bore down again upon' the dia
bolical obstruction. The Sergeant's hands
were paralvzed. "Mr God!" he cried.
Professor Wilder, who had been lying on
the floor during these unparalleled' crises,
was aroused at the exclamation. This was
the first word which the Sergeant had ut
tered. The inventor opened his eyes. They
tell upon the wheel that controlled the
direction cf the airship. His trained eye
saw that it was terribly turned. He did not
know the danger which they had escaped.
He only knew that something was
altogether wrong. Deftly and quickly he
turned the wheel so that the ship, suddenly
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diverted from its circular count, darted
straight ahead.
Past the defiles of the mountains, over
narrow valleys, the ship sped with the in
telligence of the breath of life. The ser
geant staggered to the main compartment,
got past the engines, and fainted for the
first time in his life.
So, at the last second of time, the inven
tor became as he should be, the preserver;
and the Aeropole charged on her journey
with the unconsciousness of danger or of es
cape, which always surprises us in a grand
machine. It seemed as if she ought to un
derstand. To J5a Continued Ntxt Sunday.
FAHCY WOBE WITH KAILS.
A Woman Can Do Wonders In Spit of Sinn
on Her Carpenterloc SUIT.
Of all the many decorative fads and fan
cies that have taken deep hold on the femi
nine mind, no one is simpler or more effect
ive than the nail work. It consists of noth
ing more eomplieated than the driving of
nails over a given outline, and requires no
skill beyond that of driving true, which,
despite the slurs cast upon the carpentry
of womankind, is a question of practice
only.
If the nails be selected of really hand
some brass heads, if the design be one of
simple conventional figures, and the work
be done with precision, success will be the
inevitable result For screens, for wood
boxes, for picture frames, and even
for fire places, the nail work makes
a most effective form of "decoration.
IS Clipboard.
The corner cupboard and the woodbox ofler
suggestions for simple designs which are
carried out in nails of different sizes. The
cupboard is made of oak or of pine richly
stained, on either side of which foundations
the nails make an excellent effect It can
be fitted to any corner, and when hung with
soft silk curtains becomes an addition to
the furnishing of the room as well as a great
convenience. ,
LITEEATUSE AS A PE0FESSI0IT.
Alphonse Dandet Speaks Dlsconraginxly
From His Pinnacle of Fains.
A correspondent of Thb Dispatch re
cently asked Alphonse Daudet, this ques
tion: "What do you think of literature as
a profession?"
"I do not think anything of literature as
a profession," answered Mons. Daudet
slowly. "I speak from bitter experience,
for I have lived by my pen all my life.
After all there is nothing so weary as brain
work, and it is practically impossible to
keep up the sort of strain undergone by
every literary man for many years without
breaking down. Of course, if the would-be
author has a small independence, and is
thus sure of not actually starving, there ii
no real reason why he should not give him
self up to letters altogether, but still my
strong advice to the young people who come
to me for my opinion on the matter, always
is, 'stick to your profession, ana if yon
have it in you to write anything really
good you will always find time to do it' "
"And do you believe in Journalism as a
stepping stone to literature?
"I cannot say that I do; although of
course, j. aiso nave been a journalist in my
time, and some of the writing in our news-
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Alpttonte Daudet.
papers is undoubtedly literature in its high
est form. The young man who begins writ
ing in order to-'support himself invariably
drops into newspaper work. But as the
work has to be done extremely quickly, the
Btyle insensibly alters, and from being lit
erature becomes journalistic."
"And do you approve, Mons. Daudet, of
women writing?"
"How should I not when my own wife
has always written; and when much that
is best in my literary work is owing to her
influence and suggestion. A woman can so
often say things that we rougher natures
cannot express in just language." And
then lions. Alphonse Daudet tells in few
eloquent words all that bis wife, the beau
tiful and charming Julia Daudet, who has
signed some of the truest and most subtle
descriptions of French child life ever
written, has been to him. "I often think f
ot hrst meeting with her," he says smiling.
"1 was quite a young fellow, and had quite
a prejudice against literary women, and
especially against poetesses, but I came,
saw and" was conquered," he concludes,
smiling, "and have remained under the
charm ever since."
VICIOEIA'S EEWAED FOE TEIPLET8.
it I Mot a r.Itht Mother Can Claim, bat
the Qaeen Is Libera'.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The statement that so often appears in
print that Queen Victoria gives the wife of
any one of her subjects a bounty of 3
guineas, or about 15, on said wife giving
birth to triplets, has caused so many formal
demands on Her Majesty that she nas issued
a statement explaining that the bounty can
not be claimed as a right, and that it is
never given except when the parents are ton
poor to provide for the comfort of the three
newcomers, and when all three of the babies!
are born alive and survive the perils of
early infancy.
In spite of these conditions, which have
always been in force, though not formally
announced until recently, the Queen has
paid the bounty as many as 150 times,
while her private lecretary " has refused
more applications than he has recom
mended for action.
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Professor- Blley, of the Department or
Agriculture, Writes on Classification
The System tlie Great Llnnfeos ?ro
posed Essentials of a Collection.
WntTTBK FOB TITE DI8FATCH.
Having learned something about bow to
collect insects and how to mount and pre
serve them, you nat
urally wish to know
how to arrange them
in classes. The study
of natural history can-
I 'mEvvjCJi 7 advantage without the
I VwraJw u ProPer t0l "tudy
j Nt t4 naming and classifi-
Jig. t-A TrueJlus,. ef and her
" shall be met at the
outret with some rather bard scientific
words, but these are the "tools" of- the
science. No great knowledge of any special
department of human activity can be ao
quired without such technicalities.
Insects proper form a class of a great
sub-kingdom of the animal kingdom
called the Artbropoda. The Arthropods
include the crabs and lobsters and
shrimps, the spiders and mites, the thousand-legs,
and many otber forms in addi-
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tion to the true insects. True insects are
called Hexapods, from Greek words mean
ing "six legs," and this character of six
legs at once distinguishes them from all
other Arthropods.
I will not weary yon with too much de
tail in the matter of classification, because
all classifications are but means to an end.
They difier somewhat according to the in-,
dividual views of those who propose them.
Classification Linnsans Proposed.
Insects are quite naturally divisible into
seven chief orders, based upon the character
of the wings and the mduth-parts. This
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sevenfold system is essentially that nf Lin
naeus. On account of its simplicity it is
preferable, for beginners, to the more com
plex classifications proposed by more recent
writers and founded upon more profound
knowledge of the subject The first of these
orders to oe considered is the Hymenoptera,
(Figs. 1 and 2), from Greek words meaning
"membrane-winged." This order includes
the familiar bees, wasps, ants, etc The in
sects belonging to it have tour membranous
wings with comparatively few veins, the
hind pair being always the smaller. The
month-parts, with some modifications
are.mandibulate that is, formed for biting.
The transformations are what is known as
''complete;" this means that the insect when
it hatches from the egg bears no resemblance
to its parent Hymenoptera is the order
Fig. 3 A Beetle.
which includes most of the social insects
insects in which we find a high degree of
intelligence and a sub-division of labor for
the common good. The young, or larva, of
these social insects, the name invariably
given to the second stage of insects, is in
variably grub-like and helpless, and fed or
nursed by the parent There is a large sec
tion of the order, including the saw-flies
and horn-tails, in which the larva resembles
somewhat an ordinary caterpillar, and is
able to feed itself the moment it hatches.
The order next in importance is the
Goleoptera, meaning "shield-winged," be
cause the true flying wings are generally
shielded by a pair of hard or horny wing
covers, technically called elytra. , The
popular name for these insects is "beetles."
(Fig. 3.) The characteristic of the order is
that the front wings lie close along the
back in a straight lma. The mouth parts
Fig. U 'Butterfly and Larva.
of beetles are also fitted lor biting or gnaw
ing. Their transformations are "complete.
Thelarvffi vary greatly in the different
families, but ail ot them ore very unlike
theparent
The third order is Lepidoptera, or "scale
winged." This is composed of the butter
flies and motliF. (Fig. 4). These insects
have four broad wings, with branching veins,
covered with minute scalis, which are so
small that when rubbed off they resemble
dust The mouth-parts are fitted for suck
ing that is, they are haustellate and con
sist mainly of a long narrow tube which can
Fig. 6 A Plant Louie,
be thrust down into a flower to suck up
honey. The transformations of these insects
are complete. Their larvte are commonly
known as caterpillars. (Fig. 4).
Fourth comes the order Hemiptera,xnean
Ing "half-winged." These insects have
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their mouth parts formed for sucking. They
have also a horny beak, with whlchthey can
pierce the tissues of plants or animals.
Their transformations are incomplete that
is, the larvse, when first hatched, look very
much like the full grown insect, exoept that
they have no wings. The Hemiptera are
divided into two important sub-orders. The
first of them, the Heteroptera, includes the
true bugs. (Fig. 5.) These have the base
of the front wings thickened and the end
membranous, and they fold flat across
fUr. 7 A Jfy.
the back when at rest The other snb
order, the Homoptera, includes the leaf
hoppers, plant lice, bark lice and flea
lice, (Fig. 6,) With these insects all four
wings are entirely membranous and they
fold down the back in a roof-shaped man
ner. The insects of the fifth order are known
as Diptera (figure 7), meaning "two
winged,"acharacteristic which distinguishes
them from other orders, the seeond pair
of wings being reduced to mere little knobs
or scales, known as balancers. These are
the true flies. The mouth-parts are con
structed for piercing and sucking. The
transformations are complete. The larva
are commonly known as maggots. Well-
JRff. 8 A Orasshopper.
known examples of this order are the com
mon house fly and the mosquito.
In the sixth order fall grasshoppers, lo
custs, katydids, crickets, cockroaches, etc.
It is known by the name Orthoptera, mean
ing "straight-winged," the front wings
being usually straight, narrow and parchment-like,
thickly veined, and when closed
they overlap at the tip. (Fig. 8). The
hind wings are usually large and fold like a
fan. The transformations are incomplete.
The larvse differ from the parent chiefly in
lacking wings.
The seventh and last order Is known as
the Neuroptera, from Greek words mean
ing "nerve-winged." This order contains
the most lowly organized insects and is
the one which has been the most sub
divided by late writers. The wings are
four in number and many veined, resemb-'
ling network, The dragon flies may be
looked upon as typical examples of the or
der. (Fig. 9.) The insects of this order
fall into two chief natural divisions; the
one known a? the Neuroptera proper, in
which the transformations ate complete;
the other as the Pstmdo-Neuroptera or
false Neuroptera, in which the transforma
tions are incomplete.
From these short descriptions it will be
possible for you to place all the Insects you
may colleot in their proper orders. But for
further classification, if you have no older
Fig. 9 A Dragon Ft.
collector among your acquaintance whom
you can consult, you will have to go to some
book.
Here, then, is the proper place to men
tion the few books which will help a begin
ner. There is, I am , sorry to say, no very
good book for school boys or girls unless
they are very intelligent and more than 15
or 16 years old.
"The Butterfly Hunters," by Mrs. Mary
Treat, is a most interesting book for
younger persons, but it treats only of a few
butterflies and still fewer moths. Packard's
(Dr. A. S.) "Entomology for Beginners"
is comprehensive, and covers the whole
field, and will be intelligible with the help
of some older person. "Insecta," by Hyatt
(J. D.) and Arms (H.), is another compre
hensive little book, but it is intended more
for teachers than scholars. Both of these
works are fully illustrated, and manv in
sects can be recognized from their pictures.
Harris "Insects Injurious to Vegetation"
is one of the best books to be recommended.
The greatest resource of a beginner, how
ever, is usually some older collector, or, if
he live in or near some large city, there is
frequently a museum or public' collection
from which he can get some help.
C V. RlLET.
WOHEH IN A SLEEPING CAB.
Tho First One to tho Dressing Boom
Always Slakes the Others Walt.
Given a sleeping car on a long route, ten
women in the various compartments are
notified by the porter promptly at 7, that
the train will stop at Charleston, or Chi
cago, or Denver at 8 for breakfast Each
immediately rouses herself, rescues her
different belongings from the gulfs and
creases into which they have fallen, fastens
them with difficulty at levels which are
strange to them, seizen her-dressing bag
and goes to the dressing room to find eight
other women gathered outside and the door
locked, barred, bolted between them and
the tenth one the woman who forgot
others. Five minutes is the limit which is
allowed by just division and law of equity
to each of these women in which to wash,
bruh and put up her back hair. They
wait patiently for 5 minutes, grumblingly
for 10, impatiently for 15. indignantly for
20, furiously for 25. Then there is an eye
ccnterencc, then a series of knocks which
toke on the character of violent remon
strance. Thirty minutes, 10, 45 I the bolt is
heard to slide back, and some one emerges
combed, curled, brushed, powdered and
buttoned a self-satisfied creature who
smiles innocently in the pent-up cindery
faces which confront her. Then is heard a
long-drawn sigh of wondering contempt
from the group; the one nearest the door
bows deprecatingly to the others, slips into
the dressing room, spends her shrunken
minutes as best she may, and emerges with
wetted sponge and open bag, to stand in a
corner of the passage and finish the process
of making herself unnoticeable.
Fast Book Writing.
The fastest book writing is supposed to be
the achievement of T. P. O'Connor, ot the
Xondon blar, whose book reached its fourth
edition in 48 hours. Its length was 15,000
words, and the manuscript was in the hands
of the publisher within 24 hours after its
author was requested to produce it It was
the life ot Charles Stewart Parnell, the or
der for which was given the day atter the
great Irishman's death.
Wx pack, haul, store, ship, alter, repair, re
finish and reupholster furniture.
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GIRLS.
GUIDING THE YOUNG MIND.
Mrs. Chaoncey M. Depsw Telle How She
Manages Her Interesting; Little Family
They Spenk Kneltsb, French and Ger
manWorking; for Howards Dancing;
Approved.
IWRJTTIN FOR TOE DISPATCH.'
If one were called upon to describe by a
single word the life of a well-brought-up
child that word would be ''.simplicity." A
large proportion of cultured people of posi
tion understand that steady simplicity of
living is absolutely necessary for the de
velopment of both the minds and bodies of
their children.
Three little people whose dally lives are
excellent instances of sensible training are
the son and two orphan nieces ot Mrs.
Chaunoey M. Depew: Ohauncey M, Depew,
Jr., who was 12 years old last July, Anna
Bradford Hegeman, who is in her 15th
year, and Charlotte Niven Hegeman, who
is named after her grandmother, Mrs. De
pew's mother, and is not yet 13.
"I hardly know." said Mrs. Depew with
a smile when asked about her methods,
"what to tell you about the children's edu
cation, for their lives are so perfectly sim
ple. They all speak French and German
fluently. "Since their early childhood they
have had a French governess and a German
maid, and so have acquired both lauguagea
easily, almost unconsciously. Than, too,
when Mr. Depew is not at home, I always
converse with them at table in one language
or the other; one day in German and the
next in French. I think it insures a more
correct form of speech for a mother to sbaro
in her children's conversation in some such
way. My mother and Mr. Depew always
speak to them in English.
Do Mot Necleot the Ensllsh.
"We consider it very important that their
own language should not be neglected while
acquiring foreign ones. In this way they
have obtained a command of three languages
quite naturally, with no study, and with
very little effort. They all three attend
school, now; my two nieces a school for
girls, and my son, a boy's preparatory
school, I do not believe in an exclnsive
home education, for I do not think that it
is possible to make the course of training as
thorough as that of a good school, aud I
also think it well for them
to go among other children. But
Ilrs. Chauneey it Depew.
I do not believe in sending children to
school very early. Twelve years old is quite
soon enough. They need plenty of time to
strengthen and develop their bodies belore
beginning to tax their brains, and then, at
that aee, tbey are better able to understand
their lessons and to apply themselves.
"I am glad to see that the system ot
marks' is being so almost entirely done
away with In schools. I think that it was
bad for the children in many ways. I do
not believe very much either in 'prizes' or
rewards. It is so much better for them to
learn to do the work for its own sake, be
cause it is right; for love and not through
fear or emulation.
"They are all quite musical and all take
music lessons. I do not think that it is
well, however, unless one has a decided
talent, to devote too much time to music
It would be much better to give that time
to some other talent that one might posses
and of so much more benefit
The Benefit of Learning; to Dance.
"They all show decided talent for draw
ing, which they are cultivating. They also
take dancing lessons. Dancing is such good
exercise for all parts of the body and, too, it
teaches them to walk and to carry them
selves well. Light calisthenics arc also ex
cellent, and they practice them for a cer
tain time every day.
"They keep early and regular hours al
ways. They get up early in the morning,
co to bed early at nieht Dinner they have
in the middle ot the day and a light tea at
night They eat very few sweets confec
tionery or anything of that sort Their des
serts consist' ot some simple pudding or
cake. They eat all sorts of.plain food that
is, roasts and chops, and fillets, for meat,
nnd all kinds of vegetables the greater va
riety the better. Then, when they come in
from their walks, I always have a cup of
broth ready for them, hot beef or mutton
broth, particularly in the winter. It is
good for them andthey seem to enjoy it
"Twice a day they take a brisk walk, not
too loner, for over-exercise is quite as in
jurious as too little. Children are often
allowed to over-tire themselves, and grow
cross and fretlul without being able to un
derstand or explain the reason. In summer
they are out ot doors almost all the'time;
although they study just a little.even then,
for I do not think it well for them to be
entirely idle for so long a time.
Dress Pretty Bat Plain.
"And then I dress them all very simply,
very elaborate clothing seems so out of
place for children. I like to have all that
they wear pretty, but plain, so that they
can romp and play as" children ought with
out being hampered, and without any
thought or fear of rumpled finery.
"One acoomplishment that I am anxious
to have them all acquire is that of reading
aloud welL I consider that a very neces
sary part of a good education, and also that
they should learn to enunciate their words
clearly and correctly.
"I do not allow them to read fairy stories.
I do not think that it is well for tbem to do.
Instead, I give them interesting and in
structive books of history to read. There
are such charming little histories for
children written nowadays ! They began
with historical stories written in words of
one syllable, and already my son baa a real
ly wonderful knowledge of historical events
for a boy of his age; bat then he has a
natural love for the subject. That makes a
difference I suppose. I also encourage them
to play various instructive games, that amuse
and give them useful information at the
same time; geographical puzzles, authors,
and other games of that soit
"On Sundays their usual toys and games
are put away. They have 'Grandma's Old
Testament Game' "and 'Grandma's New
Testament Game,' and on rainy Sundays,
when we cannot go to church, wc read the
service together.
Courteous to the Servants,
"Thev have a large playroom, but are not
confined to it They never wait to be sent
tor; but run in and out of the rooms where
we are at all hours of the day, and they
always sit with us at the table. Unless I
made them my companions I would not get
to know them well or to understand their
characters, and that knowledge is so neces
sary, for it teaches one how oest to guide
and govern them. I believe in encouraging
them to develop their individualities and to
cultivate a certain independence of char
acter. "I do not think that I st-trted out with
any particular theories of education; it I
had thev must neeessarilr have been much
modified, for each child needs a special
sort of training adapted to its own particu
lar nature and capacities. My boy I, my
self, taught entirely until he was eight
years old,
"One thing that I particularly insist on
with all the children, is thai they should be
polite to all the servants. It seems a little
thing, but it is one that really has much in.
fluence over a child's character and man
ners. Courtesy and consideration for others,
no matter what their station in life is, are
lessons that cannot be to early learned."
A pleasant picture of wisely guarded and
gnided child life, is It not?
WHAT WOMEN WAHT TO KH0W.
Shirley Dare Prescribes for Bamry Cheeks,
Wrinkle and Flesh.
Among the queries sent to The Dis
patch for Shirley Dare she has found tim?
to answer the following:
S. A. I would like to know what to do
to prevent my cheeks from becoming baggy.
Do yon believe in massage? I have tried it
for a number of months and itqeems to
make my skin coarse and flabby, I feel
that I am too young to have wrinkles, or
that old look around the lower part of the
face which we see generally in women past
GO. But I have bad a great deal of sickness
and care, and in spite of cheerful disposi
tion I find myself growing old-looking at
39.
Poor, dear womanl Life comes hard in
the thirties, harder often than it ever is
again. It is something to have our troubles
when we have the best strength to meet
them, although it gets pretty well used up
in the process. As to facial massage, as far
as my opinion goes, I don't believe in any
outward treatment when the internal is
neglected. Like any other treatment, mas.
saco may be overdone, and commonly is.
Anything whjch draws the blood un
naturally to the face will leave it coarse
and flabby in reaction.
What S. A. and all women like her need,
is rest, early sleep and lying abed morn
ings while the daughters attend to the
housekeeping and bring mother a nice little
breakfast before she gets up. I know a boy
of 21 years, a good deal of a pickle in some
ways, who does this often for his
nervous mother who has nearly worked
herself to pieces. I should like to
hear of more girls doing hi for their
weary mothers. By moderate com
putation there are several thousand worn
out women who would be the better in looks
and feelings this spring for a strengthening
medicine like this. Take tag alder, wild
cherry bark and wintergreen each two
ounces, and infuse in a quart of boiling
water three hours in a warm place, closely
covered, then strain and sweeten to taste.
Dose half a teacup three or four times a
day before meals. I will take up this sub
ject hereafter. That this is a beauty medi
cine, all will own who try it The effect is
strengthening, regulating, purifying to the
system, softening and clearing to the skin.
More or less dragging about the hips and
weight in the back is associated with the
flaccid cheeks, being part of the general de
bility. Sponging the body with aromatic
spirits restores tone wonderfully, provid
ing it is done regularly, and often with this
the muscles of the face resume their firm
ness. Cold salt water or sea water is one
of the best lotions to restore firmess to the
flesh, always bathing the cheeks upward,
giving massage in the same direction. A
delicate domestio recipe against wrinkles
is the whites of two eggs beaten with twice
as much rosewater, and half a teaspoonfnl
of powdered alum, dissolved in a spoonful
of rosewater added to it Keep this In a
covered cup and apply to wrinkles on going
to bed.
Mrs. S. W. C. C. and others An old
fashioned dose of cream-of-tartar and com
pound powder of jalap for a stoutish per
son to reduce flesh, is from one-half to a
full tabletpoonful. It is the best to begin
with a smaller dose and increase if desira
ble. The best form of compound powder is
the British formula as follows:
Powdered jalap, five ounces; best cream
of tartar, nine ounces; ground ginger, one
ounce. Mix, sift through a fine sieve, and
then-rub together in a mortar. The cream-of-tartar
rubbed with the jalap makes it
eaiier to take and increases Its effect; the
ginger prevents griping. Three doses a
week at night are all that Is advisable for
reducing flesh and the gravy of lean meat
and dry toast should be taken to keep up
strength. The treatment is distinctly low
ering to temperature as well as flesh, and
one must avoid taking cold. A flannel
band tight about the hips will aid in reduc
ing size and keep of! dangerous chills.
EACIHO WITH H00F3.
The Jfovel Athletic Amusement Which Is
411 th T!ae In francs.
NEW kind of athletic
sport has been intro
duced among the
French. boys. A soci
ety called "The Hoop
Club" was organized a
few weeks ago in one
of the large towns,
Brest, for regular races
with rolling hoops.
The club numbers 27
members. A monthly
race was appointed. Its
rules and prizes were
fixed by the committee.
Each runner wears
on his left arm a tri
colored band oma-
menteu uu three'letters: "C. C. B.," Club
Cerceau Brcstois. The umpires wear a lit
tle white-and-red rosette in their bntton
holes. Every runner who registers for the
race receives a white C3rd on which his
name and age are written. At each goal on
Bhowing this card he receives a ticket; a
pink ticket at the starting post, which he
exchanges on reaching the turning post,
where the home run begins for a yellow
ticket; he receives there also two bine
"passage tickets." When he reaches the
starting point he has to show his runner's
card and nis two blue passage tickets.
All the C. C. B. fellow's enjoy the races
immensely and are enthusiastic over tbe
sport Two public races have come off. In
the first 15 champions took part Tife course
was from Brest to Trinity and return, a dis
tance of about eight and three-quaftermiles.
The best three runners went over the ground
in one hour five minutes, one hour ten
minutes and one hour eleven minutes, re
spectively, all driving their hoops in fine
style. The result of the second race over
the same course was more remarkable still;
the winner, Georgc3 Guittar, finished the
race in one hour.
Itlchesor theOsases.
The Osage Indians are the richest com
munity on the face ot the earth. They are
1,509 in number and have $8,000,000 de
posited to their credit in the treasury at
Washington, on which they draw $100,000
interest every three months. This income
will continue until Uncle Sam gets, ready
to pay them the principal. They also have
1,470,'000 acres of the best land in Okla
homa, for which the unterrified "boomer,"'
totally indifferent to the rights of the red
man, hopelessly sighs. Half ot them wear
blankets to this day.
Hones Like Perfume.
There are some perfumes that are very
grateful to horses, however little credit a
horse may commonly receive for possessing
delicacy of scent. Horse trainers are aware
of the fact, "and make use of their knowledge
in training stubborn and apparently in
tractable animals. Many trainers have
favorite perfumes, the composition of which
they keep a secret, and it is the possession
of this means of appealing to the horse's
rcstheticism that enables so many of them to
accomplish such wonderful results.
Bapid Match Slaking.
The fastest machine is a match-maker
that eats up 150 different bands of wood at
the same time, the wood having been shaved
of a uniform thickness, and turns oat
10,000,000 matches a day.
21
PLANTING IN EGGS.
Novel Way to Get Ahead of Tour
Keighbors on Spring Flowers.
THE BEST KIND OP SEEDS TO SOW.
Heat and Moisture First and Light and
Moisture Afterwards
A DEHGHT FOR TAB BOYS AND GIBES
rWRTTTXIt TOn THE DISPATCW.1
The young gardeners who live where ont-of-door
sowing cannot be begun befora
May 1 may start their plants in tha
house. Plants from seeds sown about April
20 and transplanted May 20 or later still,
quite out-blossom the open-air sowings.
Some flowers love to be transplanted
pansies and phlox thrive on it and so do
sweet peas. If the ground is frozen hard
outside, so that a few spadefuls cannot ba,
taken up and thawed by the fire and dried,
you must get some earth from a green
house. It is best to sift the soil in an ashps siere
and put it in shallow pans and set these in
the oven to bake, that every egg and worm
and insect, and likewise every weed seed
may be destroyed before yoa plant yonr
flowers.
For sweet peas you want larger boxes
common soap boxes will answer than for
any other seeds except nasturtiums. There
must be a depth ot at least six inches of
soil to give tbe strong roots room. Sprinkle
the peas thickly on the top. Don't have
tbem so near as to touch each other, but just
separate. When all are in then sift over
them an inch more of earth, pat them down
gently all over and then sprinkle them with
the watering pot Set them on the floor of
Packing the Egg Shelli.
the kitchen somewhere, not far from tho
fire, and it is best with these, as with all
seeds plantedin boxes, more especially with
small and delicate seeds, to lay a paper over
the top to retain the heat and moisture and
prevent too much heat from reaching them.
They Will Spront Quickly.
In a few days, in a marvelously short
time, yon will" see your peas sprouting
little green loops of stems pushing up
thickly all over the top of the soil. Now
take them away from the heat, carry them
off to some cool sunny window,watch them,
water them and cover them at night if there
Is the least danger of their being too cold.
When the weather softens, put them out of
doors, or open the window and let them
have the outer air all day, but cover them
at night till all danger 'from great cold is
past By the middle of May your boxes
should be a solid mas' of strong and vigor
our plants five or six inches high, already
putting forth their tendrils for climbing.
It is not necessary to have such very rich
soil in which to start pansies. Sift and
bake and when cool fill your boxes to within
half an inch of the top and jar them to set
tle the earth slightly but firmly. This is
better than pressing it down with your hand.
Then scatter your golden grains of seed
all over the top and sift over them Iu?t
enough soil to cover them about twice their
thickness in depth. Very gently lay your
open hand over the surface, just its weight
hardly any pressure. Sprinkle with the
fine spray of the rubber hand-bulb and set
the box in a warm place, as for sweet peas.
In a week's time or less you ought to sea
them sprouting. The soil must never get
dry. Seeds do not need light, but heat and
moisture. But the moment they are up you
cannot give them enough light, nor can yoa
give them too little artificial heat, short of
actual freezing. Pansies love the cold,
but of course you must be careful about
the baby plants. The moment they
have sprouted carry them away to
the cool, sunny window oT some
upper room, perhaps, which is warmed by
sunshine and safe from frost. Open tho
windows for a few minutes every sunny
day. Keep the soil always moist, never
wet you most learn the value of this dis
tinction. Transplanting In HgS Shells.
Watch them and tend them till the pretty
round second leaf is formed, and if you have
been faithful all the little plants will ba
dark green, stout and stocky and full
of promise. Save all the shells from
the eggs used in the kitchen, be
ginning the 1st of January. Then
when it is time to transplant pansies
&cy
Beady for T,xmtplanling.
yon are all ready. Take empty shallow
boxes those about the height ot your eggs
are best. Stand your eggshells upright in
them till each box is full. Then with a
spoon half fill them all with rich, sifted
soil, first making a hole in the bottom of
each shell for 'drainage.
Now take a half-filled shell in your left
band, let the top of one finger under-it stop
up the little hole in the bottom, and fill it
with water. Hold It so in the left hand,
and with the right take the teaspoon and
lift carefully a little group of pansy plants
from the box. Xay this on its side,
and take from it with your finger
and thumb one little plant by the stem.
Hold it in tbe middle of the eggshell, so
that the roots will float out and all the deli
cate fibers find their places withont cramp
ing. Then fill round them with earth to
nearly the top of the shell and press it
about the plant with the end of your finger
till it is sate and firmly fixed. Set it back
into the box and go on with the next.
When all are full put enough earth in be
tween the shells to hold them steady in tha
box.
How charmingly they will look, tha
rows of white shells, each with its littlo
green tree upright and full of promise!
Shade them from the sun a day or two,
keep them moist, and after this they ara
safe if you don't forget to water them.
Stronger and stronger, larger and finer
they will grow every day, till the time yoa
are'ready to set them in your girden.
The girl who selects Iceland poppies for
her garden may have a charming littlo
preface to her work if she chooses. This
is what I do, and a fascinating thing it is,
believe me. I save the shell of eggs until '
I have a dozen or two. Then with a spoon,
I fill each shell with nicely-sifted, earth
nearly to the top. Next, I wet tho earth
thoroughly, so that it Is dump all through to
the very bottom, and then comes tho Joy of
planting.
I have tot packet of mixed Iceland poppy
seeds white, yellow and oranse all ready,
and from It I take a pinch of the little shin
ing black seeds and drop it lishtly on tho
top of the earth In each eggshell. I snrinkla
a pinch of earth over and press softly down
with my Anger. Citu. Thaxtx.
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