Oootl ant! Bart Children. Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow tall and stately You must try to walk sedately. You must still be bright and quiet, And content with simple diet; And remain, through nil bcwild'ring, Innocent and honest children. Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places— That was how, In ancient ages, Children grew to kings and sages. But the unkind and the unruly, And the sort who eat unduly. They must never hope for glory— Theirs Is quite a different story. Cruel children, crying babies. All grow up as geese and gabies, Hatred, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces. Abont I>oll. The origin of the word doll is curi ous. Centuries ago, when saints' names were much in vogue for chil dren, St. Dorothea was the most popu lar, and her name the best and luck iest that could be given to a little girl. The nickname was Dolly, or Doll, and from giving babies the nickname, it was an easy step to pass It on to the little Images of which the babies were so fond. The word doll is not found in com mon use in our language until the middle of the eighteenth century, and as far as can be discovered, first ap pears in the Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1751, in the following; "Several dolls, with different dresses, made in St. James street, have been sent to the czarina, to show the man ner of dressing at present in fashion among English ladles." Previous to this the word used to describe the favorite plaything of all girls in all countries and in all ages was "baby," which is to be found, to gether with "poppet," or "puppet," in this sense in the works of most of the earlier writers. The wax and china doll originated in the middle of the seventeenth cen tury. There were no ladies' fashion papers as now. and in order to show what was being worn on the continent dolls were beautifully and expensively dressed and sent to the various Euro pean countries, and from the models orders were taken. The dolls, to show off their costly garb, must be made of more precious stuff than wood, so wax and china and even ivory ones were made. Thuringa is the land where most dolls are born—puppetland, it is called on this account. About 200 years ago most of the dolls were made in Flan ders, and they were called, not dolls, but Flanders' tobies. There used to he an old English couplet which ran thus; The children of Holland take pleasure in making What the children of England take pleasure in breaking. At one European doll factory of the present day 100,000 dolls are produced annually, some 500 men, women and children being employed. To make one talking doll requires the joint labor of thirty men. Dolls' eyes are made in underground rooms, into which the sunlight rarely peeps, and violet orbs are the most difficult color. There is one town in Germany where three fourths of all the dolls' eyes in the world are made. Only in the ease of the most expcnslvo dolls is human hair used. In a doll factory are wood carvers, headmakers, leg and arm makers, eyemakers, portrait artists, hair dressers, doll sewcra and doll Bluffers, also a small army of fashion able dressmakers and milliners. The Hindu child is probably the only doll-less child in the universe. The little Egyptians have their wooden "Usliabtl"—the same in style as 4,000 years ago. Theso were sometimes made of porcelain. When a child died its dolls were buried with it. in the ex pectation that their spirit forms would rise and do service in another world. The paradise of dolis is Japan, where they are most elaborately and gorge ously attired affairs; so are the dolls of Kioto —"genroku," as they are called. They are often valuable wood earrings, enameled in colors, or statu ettes of great artistic merit. One of the most interesting collec tion of dolls in this country is that be longing to the bureau of ethnology, Washington. They are dolls of the Zuni Indians of Arizona, and are made from the roots or subterranean branches of the cottonwood tree, being whittled out with knives; they are decorated bright red, yellow, green and represent the gods of the tribe —tho god of the snow; the god that eats up the rain clouds; the fire god; tho sun god and the corn goddess. The Zani children play with these dolls as other children do. Any one who goe3 into a Zani habitation is certain to see a row of these dolls suspended from the ceiling —not being in use they are hung up until wanted. Da Infantila is a doll with a history. Vt is made of clay aud is considered by its owner —a Mexican lady—and by hosts of other people, to be a worker of miracles, and quantities of costly gifts arc constantly being offered to it. A room in the house of its owner is set aside for its exclusive use; hero it reclines in a canopied hod of solid silver; it has beautiful tresses and rich Jewelry, valued at thousands of dollars. Among Its latest glft3 is a magnificent piano, which is played by thosft who visit the doll, as a part of the service of adoration paid to it. A Criminal Tre. We hoar many stories of many trees, but they are not often endowed with human characteristics; but you must take Uncle Abner's word for it. He was sitting on his porch telling it to the young man from the city, who h&4 leaned his bicycle against the gate, and was resting on Uncle Abner's step. "You sec that there tree by the snow ball bush, do you? The one out there beyond the pump that looks sort o' sick and guitly like? You notice some of the limbs drag down a little, as if it wasn't very well. Don't you take any stock in it. That tree is just pretend in'. It's laying low and thinking of some dishonesty. It's the sharpeet tree in the yard, and as I said to Ab'gail, there ain't an honest leaf on its top. "You know what a dry season it was last summer? Well, the grass in the yard dried up, the trees begun to shed their leaves in June, and in August they looked just as if they had stepped out of a brush heap, as I remarked to Ab'gail. All 'cept that there maple tree I'm talking 'bout. It never with ered, nary a leaf dropped off. Tho hotter and drier it got the greener and perter got that tree. While the other trees were drooping and hanging their heads that tree just stood up there as chipper as you please, and waved its limbs and rustled its gr??n leaves in the hot wind as if it was the middle of May. "Says I to Ab'gail, T wouldn't take a plumb thousand for that tree. "I was proud of that tree, and calletl in all the neighbors to see it, and bragged 'bout it all summer, and got the editor of Grit to speak about the 'strange phenomonom' at my place. Hut all the time I was harboring a vegetable viper in the bosom of my yard—as the schoolmaster remarked. "The summer went on and that tree never withered, and its leaves didn't drop ofT until snow flew. Along In De cember the pump gave out, and I sent for Lon Rogers. Lon can fix anything; he's best on watches and grindstones and such things with wheels in 'em, but he's good at pumps, too. He said it needed new valves, and ho went to the tannery and got some leather, and he fixed It and charged me six shill ings, which I paid. Still, couldn't get no water. So I went for Lon. This time it was the piston all wore out, so he fixed that, and charged me a dol lar forty, which I likewise paid. "No water, however. So I went fov Ben Harkaway, and he pried off the cover of the cistern aud went down ! in, and hollered up there wa'n't any water, which was the reason the pump wouldn't pump. I had neverr known that cistern to go dry before in twenty years, so I says to Ben: 'Somethin's wrong. Look about and find It.' He | snooped around a minute, and says he: 1 Well, if there ain't a pesky tree root i 'most as big as my arm come through ; the side, and put out morn'n a million [ little roots, and drunk up all the water > slick and clean.' j "Then I saw what that scand'lotw ; maple tree had been doing all summer, i while I was bragging 'bout it—sucking ! the life-blood from my cistern like a ! South American what-d'ye-call-it— vampire—as I said to Ab'gail." Some Good Advice. If I felt tempted to do a young per son a good turn I should arm him with a pair of BCissors, sheathed for his pocket in a neat case, and add thereto the simplest and cheapest form of in dexed file or portfolio. Then I would ask the young person what subjects really interested him. They might he anecdotes of uncommon intelligence in the animal world, new feats in ama teur photography, ingenious applica tions of the electric current, or fresh iriumphs of mechancal ingenuity. Om these, or any other attractive themes, I would ask hira never to miss the prompt clipping out an article from his newspaper; then, in the course of every year he would have a budget of information on a subject near his heart which would astonish him, when ever he gaveian hour or two reviewing it. by showing him how much richer he was than if ho had never started this savings bank of knowledge. Scores of valuable facts and hints which, at the time of first reading, ho felt sure he would never forget, hero confront him with all the surprise of new found treasure. And as the clip ping habit becomes confirmed, it re deems the newspaper reader from the utter gainlcssness of the desultory skimmer of articles and paragraphs. Empty, Indeed, must be the Clarion of the crass-roads that doesn't yield some small spoil to the eye alert for ac cumulation. It may be no more than the weight of a prize pumpkin, or the results of introducing a Norwegian apple, but shall it not fit into the B compartment in which botany has its due garnering? That compartment, doubtless, is already swollen with new facts intended to be presented in an essay on "Acclimation" for the local horticultural society. It is the inten tion to use one's store that gives zest to its gathering. Hence the cardinal importance that the young person should at first be sparing, rather than lavish in clipping.—Geo. lies. The hyer yoo clime up the mountain OV suekscss, the colder yoo find yoore surroundins. A mlllyunairo kin freeze a man out ova job with wun ov his lickwid air frowns. Slumber Hue o' Klderdown. Eiderdown bought by the yard makes a pretty couch covering or slum ber rug. It should have a thin sheet of French wadding added and a lining of silkoline. The edges may be bound with two inch wide satin ribbon. Mnliognny linit at ion. The revival of massive old-fasliioncd furniture for everyday use is on tho increase. Many people, however, are purchasing bits of so-called mahogany that are really another kind of wood that never saw San Domingo or South America. Unless an expert In the grain of wood one cannot tell the difference after it leaves the furniture maker's hands. Art G'a.a of Hem. Drake. Lovely lamp shades are made of pieces of stained glass leaded together. The lead may be bought already pinched into the groove, and with a tool or so is easily manipulated Then tho pieces of glass can be purchased, too. All that is lacking for the home-mado lamp shade is the frame, and that ought to be obtainable, as well as tho foundations for square to hang in screen fashion in front of the lamp or to adjust to the window. The scheme Is attractive at present giving time. Color In the Kitchen. The kitchen, it goes without say ing, should be the first department settled. Make that part of your apart ment comfortable, and the rest of the machinery will be sure to run well. A certain sense of equity should prompt the householder to do this. White makes the ideal kitchen, tho introduction of blue, in either tiles or china dishes, producing a charm ing and delightful result. White tiles are beyond the means of most persons, though the bath enamel or the white oil cloth can give effects almost as good. Next to white and blue comes yellow—white woodwork an 1 yellow walls. Green is always cool and refreshing, and, with the imitation oak woodwork seen in every flat, makes a good com bination. Stained floors in most apart ments are desirable, although tho white linoleum is a great addition.— Harper's Bazar. AIWRV Itfaly for Coinpstny. The first time my husband walked in with three extra people for dinner nearly brought me to the verge of ner vous prostration. My dinner, already cooked, consisted of four lamb chops, six potatoes and two cups of custard. It meant a scramble and a polite re fusal of every dish on the table by my husband and myself. After that day I added what I called an emergency shelf to my pan try. On the shelf will be found one bottle of salad dressing, one can of lobster, one can of salmon, one can of deviled ham, three cans of assorted soups, several bottles of fancy pickies and a package of banquet wafers. Canned vegetables are, of course, a necessity. As soon as anything is used, replace it at once. The housekeeper who once starts an emergency shelf will never let it drop out of the pantry. She is amply re paid by having friends say they are always certain she is prepared for company. Chopped celery, ready for a salad, can also be added; it makes a nice addition to the list, as salads are generally liked by all people.—Good Housekeeping. Re - C,p ? s Grape Sherbet —Mix a quart of grape juice with two cups of orange juice and two cups of sugar. When the su gar is dissolved turn into a freezer. When half frozen tnke out the dishes and mix in the beaten whites of two eggs. Pack and set away to harden. Spiced Beef—Remove all fat from four pounds of the round of beef; chop it fine; add to it four eggs, three dozen small crackers, rolled fine, one-half pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of black popper, one tablespoonful of ground maoe, one teaspoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of molted but ter; mix well; pack firmly in a tin pan and bake for two hours in a moderate oven, basting frequently with butter and water. Fricasseed oysters—Heat the oysters in their own liquor. Put one heaping tablespoonful of butter in a frying pan and blend in one heaping tablespoon ful of flour; when smooth add one cup ful of hot milk, stirring until it boils, then add the oysters, one-half cupful of their liquor and pepper, mace and salt to taste. When It begins to boil again, remove from the fire, stir in the weli-beaten yolks of two eggs and one teaspoonful of minced parsley and serve. Jellied Chicken—Boil two chickens until the meat leaves the bones; let ttie water be reduced to one pint of boiling; removo all skin, fat. gristle and hones, and place the meat in a wet mould in alternate layers of white and dark meat. Skim the fat from the liquor, add peppor, salt and lemon juice to taste and one-half ounce of gelatine dissolved in water; let it come to a boil and pour over the chicken while hot. Let cool and garnisli with celery leaves and slices of lemon sprinkled with parsley. To copy nature seems to work well. The Holland submarine boats are built in the shape of a whale. Ilow'i Thi WfrnfforOne Hundred Dollar* Reward for anj-c.a-eof Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CifENßr & Co., Props.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney lor the la-t 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable iu all business tran-actfon* and financially able to carry out any obliga tion m de by their llrm. WKKT & TBUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, WALDINO, KIWJT A?F A MARTIN, Wholesale Ifrugglsta, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh (Jure is taken Internally, act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. pe bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in.the num ber of Great Britain's insane. WHAT IS GVA¥TIS?~ A dull, throbbing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the Bide, with an occasional shooting pain, indicates inflammation. On examination it will be found that the reffion of pain shows some swell ing. This is the first stage of ovaritis, inflammation of the ovary. If the roof of your house leaks, my sister, you have it fixed at once ; why not pay the same respect to your own body ? You need not, you ought not to let vourself go, when one of your own sex holds out the helping hand to you, and will advise you without money, and without price. Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., and tell her all your symp- MBS. ANXIB ASTOX. toms. Her experience in treating fe male ills is greater than any other living person. Following is a letter from a woman who is thankful for avoiding a terrible operation. 44 1 was suffering to such an extent from ovarian trouble that my physi cian thought an operation would be necessary. 44 Lydia E. Pinlchara's Vegetable Com pound having been recommended to me, I decided to try it. After using several bottles t found that I was cured. My entire system was toned up, and I suffered 110 more with my ovaries."—Mas. ANN* A ASTON, Troy, Mo. Dr. Bull's Cough Cures a cough or cold at otice. Conquers croup, bronchitis. yll gf grippe and consumption. 25c. J PATENTS kS A MII.O 11. STKVKNSACO., 1864. Div. 817-Utli STRPPF, WASHINGTON, I>. C. branch ofllcos: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. GREGORY LV'V;; varieties. New catalogue PRKE. W J. *• H. UMMiOXI A ton, Mf. DRQPSYXXXBKSSSPiis CMMi Book of UwtiinoninU aud IO days' truatiueot Area. Br. K. H. QiU.E'J BSOMU. toe *. AUeata. Qe. 3yvsin civil wur, ltadjudicatiug claim*,atty sinca. p Boet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Uao miiin'm 1 A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL! If R LIND MAN ' S BUPr is a good I llr fSt game t0 p,Qy * But vou can- | V^ i 'SJ not affor<l *° piay '* with coffee. I I Know what you are drinking! | I Know what you purchase! j I 0 WiifaMs' Uncover your eyes and see 1 I whether vou a p e getting I or some cheap glazed substitute 8 Watch our next advertisement. thflt JIQS bCCR treated Wi th polisil- I ing materials, in order to hide imperfections. Look at the I package! Is a lion's head on it ? COFFEE is the coffee I of purity and strength. Try it once. 1 If. at e l Ctr P lc^ a^c of L!Oftt COFFEE you will find * folly Illustrated mi A.-r • 9 I £• .° USe pei '' 4ll * act > no woman, man, boy or girl will fad to find in the r . pe 1 I T hlc , h Wlll contribute to their happiness, comfort and convenience and which Met l C I A simply cutting out a certain number of Lion Heads from^the our one no? H I t Packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee is sold). pound scaled | | WOOLSON SPICE CO., TOLEDO. OHIO. B ————nwEiMiminiwi 111 . I Red, Palms, and Painful linger Enas. One Night Treatment Soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of CUTICURA SOAP. Dry, and anoint freely with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, with the finger ends cut off and air holes cut in the palms. For red, rough, chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply wonderful, and points to a speedy cure of the most distress ing cases when physicians and all else fail. I WAS troubled with hands so sore that when I put them In water the pain would near set me crazy, the skin would peel off, and the flesh would get hard an d break, then the blood would flow from at least fifty places on eacn hand, words never can tell the suffering I endured for three years. I tried at least eight doctors, but my hands were worse than when I commenced doctoring. I tried every old Granny remedy that was ever thought of without one cent's worth of good and could not even get relief. I would feel so badly mornings when I got up, to think that I had to go to work and stand pain for eight or nine hours, that I often felt like giving up my job, which was In the bottling works of Mr. E. L. Kerns, the leading bottler of Trenton, N. J~ who will vouch for the truth of my sufferings. 1 Before I could start to work I would have to wrap each finger on both hands, and then wear gloves, which I hated to do, for when I came <0 take them off, it would take two hours and the flesh would break and bleed. Some of my friends who had seen my hands would say, 44 If they had such hands they would have them amputated 99 \ others would say 44 they would never work," and more would turn away in disgust. But thanks to Cuticura, the greatest of skin cures, it ended all my sufferings. 1 Just to think, after doctoring three years, and spending dollar after dollar during that time, Cuticura cured me. It ha* now been two years since I used it and I do not know what sore hand* are. I never lost a day's work while I was using ft or since, and I haye been working at the same business, and in acids, etc. T UOS. A. CLANCY, 310 Montgomery St., Trenton, N. J. j B ' B External and Internal Treatment for Every Humor.' \UllvU£ <3 of COTICOR. Rnp (Ho.), to cloon.e the aVIn of cni.t. and ■caleg, and aofioa th* thickened cuticle, CUTICURA Ointment (50c.), TL„ ll lAI AP instantly allay itching, Inflammation, nnd irritation, and soothe and I fIG rtfil XI Jh . oa !' unfl °H TIOD . nA JtisoLVKNT (50c.), to cool and cleanse the blood. ' *' U y® 1 ,7T ! W A b "? QLM *5 ? fUu " umclent * cr the most torturing di.n*. mini;, nnd humiliating skin, scalp, and blood humors, with )os of hair, when all else fail*. Bold throughout the world. POTTER DRUD AND CHBX. CORP., Bole Props., Boston, U. S. A. IVSillions of Women Use Cuticura Soao Assisted by Cuticura Ointment for preserving purifying, and beautifying tho skin for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair for aoftonlng, whitening, and soothing red much, and snrc hands, In the form of baths for annoying Irritations, Inflammations, and chuflngs, or too frco or offensive perspiration In tho form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic nor poses which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and fof ali the purposes of tho toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount nt persuasion can induVthnsi who have oneo used It to use any other, especially for preserving and .urlfvlne the .L in B lp , and hidrof Infants and children. CuTlrum Soap combines delicate eniolflent Dmn' ®Jtlos derived from CtmODRA, tho great skin cure, will, the pnrestof cl.anslng?ng?adP,£ftS" and tho most refrosblng of flower odors. No ether meiieatei soap ever compnundn In. .J bo compared with It for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skln Sip halr nnd hands. No othor foreign or domestic lotlrt soap, bowover expensive. Is to baenmn. 22 ■with It for all tho purposes of tho toilet, both and nursery. Thus It combines In 0S?nf tha " M BUn Bnd com P' ex luu soap[ tho BEST
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