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Women and Leap Year.
Many women have no initiative in
fove matters. It would never occu:
to this type of woman to fall in love
with a man until he had first signified
his approval of her, but no sooner
does he declare his affection than she
forthwith blossoms out into a devout
lover. Her affection is due merely
to a negative reciprocity. Leap year
would be of no use to a woman of this
kind.-—Gentlewoman,
Forgot She Owned an Estate.
The Axminster (Devonshire) Board
of Guardians have been assisting a
woman named Olsen, an inmate of
their workhouse, to establish her
claim to an estate in America, which
she is said to have purchased many
years ago and apparently forgotten
all about it until quite recently, when
it was brought under ber notice as a
result of inquiries in England as to
her whereabouts. It seems that Mrs.
Olsen, who is about sixty years of
age, on arriving in England some
years ago, was in the possession of a
considerable sum of money. This is
stated to have been spent, and the
woman, becoming a pauper. in an
East Devonshire village, was even-
tually taken care of in the union
workhouse.—Woman’s Life,
Women With Two Souls.
At last science has thrown a great
Jight upon that deepest of mysteries
—the way of a woman. After solv-
ing most of the other riddles of life,
the crowning victory of psychothera-
peutics. is the discovery that women
have two souls, perhaps more. We
have the word of President G. Stan-
ley Hall, of Clark University, that
there isn’t a bit of doubt about it, and
it is upon this hypothesis that he ac-
counts for the “fickleness’ of woman
and “her erratic methods of jumping
at conclusions, and her intuition.”
Wisely President Hall observes:
“Woman is much more susceptible
than man. There is good reason for
this. We know that she has two or
more souls. She may love and hate
at the same time and the same per-
Av
m- will ever disappear entirely is
ely, but there is no doubt that
she is boing pressed harder and hard-
er by the ready-to-wear trade. A sta-
tistician who had occasion to compile
a record on this subject says that the
individual dressmaking trade shows
a falling off of thirty per cent. in the
number of persons employed since
1890. By natural increase, had there
been no disturbing factor, the number
ought to have doubled in this time.
At the same time a tremendous fall-
ing off has been noted in the dress
goods departments of retail stores,
the decline in the last three ycars
having been eighty per cent.
The great variety and cheapness of
the ready-made garments, the surpris-
ing smartness of many of them and
the great convenience of buying the
garment ready made, appeal to an in-
creasingly large number of women,
and the manufacturers of such cloth-
ing are constantly improving their
stock, both in variety and design. One
manufacturer #4nnounces, according
to Crerand’s Clpak Journal, that for
the fall of 1908 he has three hundred
models to select from. This means
everything from the simplest jumper
dress up to magnificent creations of
Irish ,lace and wonderfully wrought
silks, so that if a woman needs a
pretty gown on the instant for any
occasion she has only to telephone for
it.
In one Western town, with a popu-
lation no greater than Yonkers, N.
Y., a merchant advertises that he has
eighty models of women’s gowns to
select from for the summer, ranging
in price from $9 to $90, and the New
York market supplies between $3000
and $4000 -worth of women’s dresses
to one Chicago firm alone. One
manufacturer of women’s coats in
New York has expended $30,000 on
samples alone. They are not called
samples, to be sure, models being
considered a more elegant term, but
samples they remain, and as such
they will be sold at half the cost of
production before the season is very
old.
Designers of women’s dresses in
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thirty minutes.
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Our Cut-Out Recipe.
Paste in Your Scrap-Book.
of stewed prunes and cut them in small pieces; rub one cup-
ful of stewed and sweetened apricots through a sieve; steam
and cut in small pieces one dozen plump figs.
of one cupful of sour cream, to which has been added half a
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water, a little
salt and flour sufficient to make a paste that can be rolled
out. Line a pudding dish with a portion of it, and put in the
fruits in alternate layers until half is used, dotting each layer
with bits of butter and sprinkling them lightly with flour.
{ Cover with a very thin layer of crust and use the rest of the
fruit in the same way as at first; cover with crust and bake
Serve warm with any preferrel sauce.—
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son. She may say and think that she
is sick or well when the reverse is
really true. It simply means that one
soul is in the ascendancy. . These two
souls may be absolute strangers to
each other, but they certainly exist.
We have proved it beyond the shadow
of a doubt.”—Kinsas City Journal.
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Women Fail in Business.
Women as a class have not be-
come enmeshed in professional and
business life, which are about the
same thing, through their own de-
sires, but through the working of
economic forces beyond their con-
trol, says a writer in Appleton’s. The
socialization of home industries has
altered women’s status, and in many
cases forced them upon the world.
But in the world they are not
making the place for themselves that
they formerly held in the home, as
equal factors with men. It is clear
that, in the professions to-day, men
are quite equal to the demands.
There is no function of leadership, in
other words, that any woman pos-
sesses that some man cannot exercise
as well as she. The doors of oppor-
tunity are being closed to her again,
because opinion seems to have crys-
{allized into the belief that woman
has not “made good” in the sense
that she can stand aione, well sup-
ported, successful and unanxious,
upon her own work. One does not
. mean necessarily that the nrofession-
al woman has failed, that she has not
earned a living, or made a reputa-
tion, or both, but that she has not
made herself an indispensable part of
professional life, a factor .of undis-
puted worth. 5
The opinion even of women on this
subject is strangely unanimous. They
are not satisfied with the position in
which they stand in business nor with
what they stand for. They have be-
come unsettled about themselves and
their ability to fight suceessfully
shoulder to shoulder with men, given
the opportunity, and are looking to
themselves, for a wonder, to see if
the explanation lies within.
Woman has failed to “make good”
her pretensions to consideration as
an independent leader and thinker in
the professions and in business. Al-
most nowhere in the high places do
we find women. Very few are they
among physicians of note, few among
lawyers, and few as executive heads
of colleges or holders of professional
chairs, few among the ranks of edi-
tors. And in the teaching and news-
paper fields they have had great op-
portunities, whatever may be the case
to-day. .
- Ready-to-Wear Garments.
That the dressmaker who makes
{ndividual dresses for individual wo-
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the big factories of New York receive
from $2000 to $20,000 a year, and
the trade employs 50,000 persons the
year round, and from 150,000 to
250,000 in the busy seasons. The
sales in women’s cloak and suit de-
partments in ‘retail drygoods stores
have increased 100 per eent. in the
last four years.—New York Tribune.
Jumper frocks are worn by both
young and middle-aged.
The tight and long sleeve is seen
on both coats and gowns.
Chamois gloves are popular for
traveling and everyday wear. .
The scarlet and green sunshades
are often worn with white dresses.
The truly fashionable woman
matches her gown with her parasol.
Brown is fashionable and is met
with in all shades and all materials.
The two sides of the newest gown
are not the same. That is, the bodice
The modish short skirt is between
two and three inches above the
ground,
We now not only have Russian de-
signs but Russian colorings, so-
called. -
Tussor and net is a combination
of materials much favored at the
present time. : :
If you are up to date you will speak
of “Charlotte caps” not ‘Charlotte
Corday hats.”
Puffings and pleats of tulle or silk
are let into the brims and crowns of
the hats of straw.
As a relief from plain coats with
striped skirts, striped coats with
plain skirts are seen.
Feather trimmings and ostrich, os-
prey and egrets im particular, are
heaped upon dress hats.
Be sure your hips are sufficiently
graceful in outline if you desire to
wear one of the mew scarfs.
AX lovely leghorn from Carlier is
swathed in a cloud of tulle—faint
pink and yellow and blue and laven-
der.
Cravenetted satin is one of the
more expensive bathing suit ma-
terials in favor with those who are
partial to silk.
Is there any prettier trimming for
a leghorn straw than pink roses and
a well-placed toueh of black?
will be draped perhaps on one side
with a part of the border of the ma-
teriel while the other side will be of
the plain.
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A SERMON." &
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(RAW. HENDERSON
Subject:
Foes of the Flag.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at
the Irving Square Presbyterian
Church, Hamburg avenue and Weir-
field street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell
Henderson, pastor, took as his text
Psalms 20:5: “In the name -of our
God we will set up our banners.”
He said:
The flag of America is the symbol
of her conception and of her pro-
gress. Its stars and stripes and
field . of blue bear eloguent though
silent testimony to the method of
her making, the character of her
sons and the influences that have
militated for all that is best in her
national life. Whether we be de-
scended from the long line of the
forefathers who laid the foundations
of America deep and broad and
strong in the everlasting rock of the
truth of the living God or are but
lately. naturalized citizens of the
land we love, the flutter. of the na-
tion’s ensign finds responsive pulse
within our hearts. For the flag
typefies the soul of the people, the
hope of the nation, the sacrifice of
the host who, living and dead, have
poured out upon the altar of a true
devotion to this land of promise a
meed of service, for the welfare of
the country and the glory of Al-
mighty God. :
No true patriot is-he who can
gaze upon the beauty of “Old Glory”
without pride and a warming heart.
For every star has a history and tells
a mighty story; every ruddy stripe
is dyed in the running fountain of
a loyalty and willing sacrifice the
like of which history cannot sur-
pass; every bar of white reveals the
purity of the limpid, true ideals that
run, though often hidden, at the core
and centre of our nation’s life. Blue
as the arching heavens her star
strewn field is redolent with a hope
as vast as the profundity of zenithal
skies. Bathed in a nation’s suffer-
ings and dedicated to a nation’s lib-
erty, the flag of our country has
gained its power and will wield a
future strength because it was set
up in, the name of God and will be
upheld by the efficiency of His
mightiness.. Ever remembering the
consecration for which it stands, the
services of which it speaks, the suf-
fering to which it bears mute tribute,
the hope eternal which its proud folds
counsel, we shall never stray afar or
trail its beauty in the dirt of indi-
vidual impurity or of national dis-
honor.
But glorious as is the history of
the flag and magnificent as is the
progress and ° achievement over
which it waves, it must be sedulously
guarded from subtle dangers if we
are to preserve faultless for the wel-
fare of posterity the heritage which
we have received. No nation has
a greater, a more auspicious, a more
logically magnificent future . than
America. The deeds of yesterday
bespeak larger capacities and oppor-
tunities as yet unused. The sun of
our national greatness is just aris-
ing, the glory of our flag has but
begun. What the limits of the fu-
ture may be no man may mark: We
are entering the sublime age of hu-
man history. And America stands in
the vanguard of progression. Of our
coming eminence we may but dream.
No prophecy is to be ignored, for
no prophecy can tell the half of the
glory God will reveal in and through
America in the coming days if we
guard our hearts from evil, our
minds from wilful error, and our
flag from shame.
The dangers to our national great-
ness and to the spotless integrity of
our flag as the embodiment of our
national life and aspiration are sub-
tle dangers. - They are not so much
overt as abstract, not so much ma-
terial as intellectual and spiritual,
not so much objective as subjective,
not so much outward as internal.
No sane man would underestimate
the heinousness of the material sin
which threatens our flag to-day, no
one has any delusions as to the size
and the determination of the organ-
ized and defiant forces for evil which
‘afflict this land. But, after all, the
forces for evil that are allied and
aggressive and overt, that are de-
termined to rule or ruin, to gain
their ends by foul means or fair,
are not half so dangerous to the pub-
lic welfare dnd to the destiny of
America, as thé more subtle and ab-
stract dangers that are resident in
the hearts and minds of people who
want to maintain the glory of the
flag, the integrity of the nation and
the glory of Jehovah in our midst.
When all is said and done there are
more people whose faces are set for
heaven than toward hell. The great
host of the people want the right;
they do love God, they “long to see
the beauty of His glory in the land
of the living. And the danger is
that these good people,. seeing the
size of the enemy and taking the
measure of his power, may too
often and too long accept evil con-
ditions as necessary simply because
they are ancient or fixed; that they
shall be too careless and indifferent
concerning the value of a stern fight
for the right in the face of in-
trenched iniquity; that they shall be
siovenly and inexact and dishonest in
their thinking; and heedless of the
claims of the spirit of the living God
in the individual and national life.
The flag of America, as the ban-
ners of the psalmist, is set up in the
name and to the glory of Almighty
God... We may leave it off our coins
or place it thereupon, it matters
little, but in our heart of hearts “In
God we put our trust.” Over against
that flag and opposed to the laws of
Deity we have in our midst! to-day
organized and aggressive dangers
that threaten the vitality of the na-
tion. They are strong, they are
armed, they are entrenched, they do
not care to die. Buttheyarerot final,
their length of days may be great but
they are not eternal. They make for
| death and not for life, And they
will go, as they must. The danger
lies not so much in the fact that they
are desperate and determined as in
the disposition of good men and
true, who love the land as they love
their God, to despair and todoubt and
Fito disperse. ‘A greater danger to the
flag than .gl} ihe-sins that assail it
is the weak-heartedness of the peo-
ple of God. A bad thing is of no
effect for long against the efforts of
the organized militant armies of God
Almighty, if they will take heart and
keep-it, and keep the fight everlast-
ingly up. What of Valley Forge and
the first Bull Run? Remember
Yorktown and Appomattox and keep
on! Such spirit and such hope are
invincible as they are unquenchable.
Without them the very fabric of our
national civilization is endangered as
no other foe can harm.
No sin has a longer mortgage up-
on the future than we care, under
the grace-and empowerment of the
living God, to allow. We may not
see the breath leave sin as we have
planned, but if we will struggle sin
will die. It is for us to labor. It
is for God to direct. . It is for us to
follow. . He shall lead. However
insurmountable the obstacle or
time-honored the grievous sin, God
will enable us to overcome through
the might of His power if we will
but serve with steadfastness and
fidelity. © But God Himself cannot
bring the victory to an army that
will not follow, or success to a pious
host that is afraid of .a long fight
and a shard one. No, my friends,
weak-kneed and weak-hearted piety
is a more subtle and dangerous foe
to the nation than all the forces of
wickedness combined. :
Another danger is the danger of
indifference. Men do not care about
the public good, they are too busy
or too lazy or too self-consumed and
centered to think about the publie
weal. When sin’ stalks the street
they stay at home with an easy chair
and a cosy nook for comfort, saying
to themselves, “I have enough. What
can 1 do? Let ofhers-battle; I am
content.” It is as though the hand
said to the foot; as Paul declared,
“I have no need of thee.” Such
men aré enemies, twofold enemies,
to the republic.
A still more subtle danger is that
of loose, careless, slovenly, dishon-
est thinking. The glory of our
schools is that they fit men to think.
But how few of our citizenship take
the time or the trouble to. think
deeply, thoroughly, conclusively,
with a real and .painstakinz effort
not to justify a theory or a precon-
ception, but to ascertain the facts
and to comprehend the truth. In
the press and in the pulpit, at the
bar and in the business world, dis-
honest and lazy intellectual effort is
as rife as it is appalling. Jesus said
“Ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free.” Jesus
never dignified thought as a means
to force facts, to justify preconcep-
tions or as a means to stultify the
truth. Jesus was a clear thinker, a
close thinker, an honest thinker, He
wanted the truth. He was not in-
terested in supporting theories. He
gave His life to the revelation and
the comprehension of the eternal
truth of God. But to-day how other-
wise it is, even after centuries of ex-
ample of the unwisdom of dishonest
thought, among even the very fol-
lowers of the Christ who was the em-
bodiment of the truth. The press
twists fact and truth to justify the
lie, too often, for the public good.
The pulpit descants with scant wis-
dom, too often, upon the errors and
inconsistencies of movements and
principles that bid fair to challenge
or to overthrow, not religion, but
lawyer -defeats “justice by the maze
of unhealthy and obnoxious techni-
calities and perversions of the spirit
of the law. The business man glosses
sin for a consideration. And so
it goes. Close thinking is too hard,
clear thinking is uncomfortable, hon-
est thinking is unprofitable. There-
fore, let us think loosely; let us
think good is bad—for profit; let
us clothe the ancient lie and call it
truth, that the status quo may be
preserved. The danger is evident.
May the God of truth protect us
from it.
Another danger is the prevalent
inclination to forget and to dismiss
religion. No theory of government,
no system of economies, no discip-
line of philosophy, method of life,
can endure wholesomely and vigor-
ously except there be foundations
laid in the religious consciousness
of man. Without the saving, con-
serving, transforming and inspiring
presence and power of “the spirit of
the living God as a resident fact and
force in the individual and national
life we cannot maintain the integ-
rity of our flag or the health of the
people. No nation can realize its
greatness, as can no individual, with-
out God. In Him we live and move
and have our being. He is the
source of all light and progress. Ec-
clesiasticism may misrepresent Him
as it has aforetime done. But let
us never forget Him. For He is
inescapable. He is greater and
grander and more beautiful than
all our theories about Him. He is
our shield, our defense, our guide,
our love and our friend. We can
do nothing without Him. With Him
we may do anything. This is ele-
mental, it is simple. It" is infinite
and everlasting truth. Let us never
confuse disaffections with churches
and ministers and creeds with
‘atheism. However unsatisfactorily
and falteringly God's children may
reveal Him to their fellows, let us
never forget Him, let us never cease
to serve Him. The danger is that
drifting from the church men may
drift from religion. The danger
is that leaving the Christ of the
churches, with rather much less
reason than more, they shall lose
their vision of, and shall deny the
Christ of God. Nothing could be
more dangerous to America than
that. In the day that America for-
gets Jesus let Anmnfterica place her
flag at balf mast. For in His truth
lies her greatness-and in the appro-
priation of Him by the nation lies
the hope of the ages that are yet to
come.
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What is Life?
Our business is, not to build quick-
ly, but to build upon a right founda-
tion and in a right spirit. Life is
more than a mere competition as be-
tween man and man; it is not who
can be done first, but who can work
best; not who can rise highest, but
who is working most patiently and
lovingly in accordance with the de-
signs of God.—Joseph Parker.
You are not likely to see a saint
by searching your mirror.
the ecclesiastical status. quo. Thal
Le Mouvement Geographique, of
Brussels, Belgium, fills half of its last
issue with an article by A. J. Wau-
ters, the well-known geographer, de-
scribing the adventures of a Belgian
named Adler, who has made a jour-
ney of 7000 miles in Africa in the
wide regions between the routes of
explorers and prospectors. Adler's
idea was to discover new mineral
districts and to sell the knowledge
he acquired to the colonial govern-
ments or to mining companies.
Leaving Cape Town in March,
1903, he reappeared in Brussels. in
April last, five years and a month
after he set out on his African wan-
derings. He was a prospector with-
out grub stakes, and for four-fifths
of his long journey he depended upon
the resources of the country and the
helpfulness of the natives to whom
he gave medical services, to supply
himself and his half dozen porters
with food. He traveled on foot most
of the way, and as he advanced north
he zizzagged far east and west. As
he was looking for new mineral
sources he kept as much as possible
in unknown regions. He has made
the longest journey ever accom-
plisheq by one man in Africa and
has seen an important area of en-
tirely new country.
Adler’s story as to his route is con-
firmed by letters from colonial offi-
cials, missionaries and traders whom
he met on the way. As to the results
of his scarch for minerals, he is un-
communicative except that he says
they are important and will be re-
vealed, when he had made arrange-
ments, to those who are interested.
He traversed the whole of Portu-
guese East Africa from south to
north, followed a tortuous route
back and forth in the mountainous
southwestern part of German East
Africa, spent many months in the ex-
treme eastern part of the Congo
State in the region north of the
Lukua River, where the streams are
still marked on the maps in broken
lines because they have not been ex-
plored, and finally made his way
down from the Congo to the Atlantic.
At the start two other prospectors
were with him as his partners, but
when difficulties began to thicken
they abandoned the enterprise and
he went on his way alone.
Reaching a mining camp not far
from the delta of the Zambesi
River, he found the miners consider-
ably excited over the discovery of a
piece of gold, which, they said, bore
the effigy of King Solomon and was
another proof that this region was
the ancient Ophir and the domain of
the Queen of Sheba. At the north end
of Lake Nyassa Adler met Dr. Koch,
who was studying the causes of the
cattle disease which had wiped out
hundreds of thousands of the native
cattle. Adler says he found every-
where that the rinderpest had been
equally destructive to the big game.
He found, however, great herds of
antelope, and in the southwest part
of German East Afriea lions, leop-
ards, cheetahs, hyenas and jackals
are the plague of the country, prey-
ing upon game and cattle. The gov-
ernment had offered a premium of
fifteen rupees for each lion and- ten
rupees for each leopard killed.
He spent some time in the country
of Merero, of whom we have heard
very little since many pages of a
book were given to him some twenty
years ago. Adler says that Merero
and a neighboring potentate, Koma,
are the two most powerful chiefs in
German East Africa and that each
can bring to his suppost about 60,-
000 spears in time of war. Koma
has given the Germans no end of
trouble, but he was finally convinced
that his spears were no match for
ZiGZAG AFRICAN JOURNEYS
FIVE YEARS IN THE WILDS IN SEARCH OF MINERALS.
Belglan Explorer Visited Many Places Never Before Seen by a White Man—
Revival of Merero—XKoma and the Germans—~Gorilla Carries 01f Woman.
rifles, and for some time he has been
paying his hut tax without a mur-
mur.
Throughout that rich . region,
where the Germans have done little
as yet, Adler says he saw herds of
as many as 5000 to 8000 cattle, the
property of these two chiefs, that
grazed far and wide under the care
of herders and were driven into
kraals at night to keep them from
beasts of prey.
Adler prospected all along the
route where the Germans are now
building a good wagon road 250
miles in length to connect Lakes Tan-
ganyika and Nyassa. It is only a
few miles east of a similar road that
the British have long maintained in
their own territory, and the Ger-
mans decided that they must have
equally good facilities.
He describes an incident such as
probably has not occurred before in
the experience of the whites in
Africa. When Adler reached the
little station of Kabambare, an iso-’
lated post of the Congo State, he
found much excitement over the dis-
appearance of a native woman. A
gorilla had appeared on the out-
skirts of a native village and, lurk-
ing in the grass, had seized one of a
number of women, the wife of a
State soldier, and carried her off into
the forest. Lieutenant Gosmes took
a number of men and started in pur-
suit. It was believed that the wo-
man would be found alive, but hope
was nearly abandoned when a whole
week was spent in alternately los-
ing and finding the tracks of the
animal. He was at length brought
to bay in the depths of the forest
and killed. The woman was with
him and was still alive, though she
died the next day from her long
agony of fright and suffering. She
was able to speak a little of the ter-
rible story pefore she died. The
gorilla had fed her as well as him-
self with the fruits and edible roots
of the forest which he collected.
Adler was in miserable plight
throughout the latter part of his
journey. He and his faithful men
were almost without food for days
at a time, and were on the point of
perishing more than once when they
would reach, perhaps, two or three
huts occupied by the poorest of na-
tives, who always helped the suf-
ferers to the limit of their ability.
He remained at one place for eight
months, killing game, which he ex-
changed with the natives for vege-
table food.
At one of the white stations he
wrote to the Congo State Govern-
ment at Brussels asking permission
to prospect for minerals in parts of
the Katanga mineral regions that
have ndét yet been studied. A year
elapsed before he reached a place
where he found that his letter had
been answered. His request had
been provisionally granted and he
had been assigned ,to one of the
State posts as his headquarters. He
was very weak and ill, however, and
the only hope of life seemed to de-
pend upon his return to Europe. He
was assisted to go home.
Adler says that the finest develop-
ment. he saw in all his Jong journey
was at Baudouinville, on the west
shore of Lake Tanganyika, in the
Congo State, where the Catholic mis-
sionaries have gathered around
them several thousands of natives
who live in neat houses aligned on
regular streets. Here are primary
and industrial schools, many work-
shops, cultivated fields, orchards,
herds of cattle, wonderful kitchen
gardens and a church that is one of
the finest edifices yet erected by na-
tive labor.
DISSECT CLINTON'S BRAIN.
Surgeons Comment on Remarkable
Conditions Found in Body Organs.
Of decided interest and undoubt-
edly of some medico-legal value is
the result of the microscopical exam-
ination of the brain of General Geo.
Clinton, whose body was recently ex-
humed from the Congressional Cem-
etery at Washingjon and reinterred
at Kingston, N. Y., his native place.
The body lay in a leaden coffin, which
already had been opened, so that it
was not tight, and water had filtered
inter it.
The soft parts of the thorax and
abdomen were found to consist of
adipocere, a substance which takes
its name from its resemblance to fat
and wax. Of this substance medical
history states that when the Ceme-
tery of the Innocents at Paris was re-
moved in 1786 great quantities were
found where the coffirs containing
the dead bodies were placed very
close together.
As to the brain of General Clinton,
the result of the examinaticn showed
the skull to contain a ‘‘soft, rather
friable, putty-like mass that to the
naked eye suggested brain.” Under
‘the microscope it was seen the majer
part of the material consisted of a
feltwork of sustentacular tissue re-
sembling neuroglia. Groups of large
pear-shaped cells were apparent,
more or less in orderly arrangement.
This was interpreted to be ‘‘strong
ial examined represents vistages of
some parts of the central nervous
system.”
Commenting on this subject, Dr.
S. G. Evans, Surgeon, United States
Navy, who was present during the
examination, says: .
“The fact that the material found
in the skull was certainly the re-
mains at least of brain -tissue as
shown by the microscopic ezxamina-
tion made by Dr. Spear at the time,
is rather remarkable. To my mind,
however, the most practical point
elicited by the examination was the
fact that he had evidently suffered to
some extent, if not severely, from
,Theumatism or one of the manifesta-
tions of uric acid diathesis. The un-
doubted evidence of a cavity in the
lung and the fact that the cavity was
at the apex, would also tend to prove
death from pneumonia or phthisis.”
— Washington Correspondent of the
New York Times.
Window Gardens.
Among the valuable lessons which
Australian visitors might learn in
England is the use of flowers for win-
dow gardens, such as beautifying
shops and hotels, houses large and
small in a hundred parts of London.
Occasionally one sees a window ledge
similarly adorned in Melbourne or
Sydney, but the art of window gar-
dening'is not practiced to a hundredth
of the extent or with anything like
the same taste and skill as it is in
presumptive evidence that the mater- | this city.— British Australasian.