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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Richard Croker is reported to be buy
ing more land in England.
Abram Garfield, youngest son of the
late President, has entered politics in
Ohio.
King Edward VII. and Queen Alex
andra have been married thirty-nine
years.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson lias
returned to Washington from a West
ern speechmaking tour.
M. Snutos-Dumont, it is reported, in
tends to visit New York City next sum
mer and fly about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Congressman Chester I. Long has
been renominated by the Republican
convention of the Seventh Kansas Dis
trict.
Senator Piatt, of New York, has gone
to Florida for a stay of several weeks.
The trip is taken for the benefit of his
health.
J. Pierpont Morgan thrives on
corned beef and cabbage, Senator Mar
cus A. Hnnna on corned beef hash and
buckwheats.
James Dick, the Scotch rubber im
porter and manufacturer, who died a
few days ago in Glasgow, left $5,000,-
000 to charities of that city.
President Roosevelt has found time
to prepare the manuscript of a new
book on the deer of North America
The volume is one of a series, and will
be issued lu the early summer.
Senator Gallinger, of New Hamp
shire, sent to the library of Congress
the other day for a Bible, which, one
of the oldest employes says, in forty
two years is only the second time such
a request has been made by a member
of Congress.
Archibald Bard Darragli, a Congress
man from Michigan, and Thomas Rob
ert Bard, a Senator from California,
great-grandsons of Richard Bard, a sol
dier of the French and English war of
1750-1700, met for the first time iu
Washington recently.
"LABOR WORLD.
Tlie Iron mines in Germany give
employment to over 40,000 men.
Blast furnace workers all over the
country will ask for three eight-hour
shifts instead of two twelve-hour ones
per day.
Fall River (Mass.) manufacturers
have agreed to raise the wages of
employes.
The coal miners and operators of the
Pittsburg district have adopted the
wage scale of last year.
A special commission lias been ap
pointed in France to codify the laws
concerning working-class legislation.
Helena (Mont.) labor unions have ap
pointed n committee to make plans for
the erection of a labor temple in that ;
city.
State Labor Commissioner McMackin
favors a law in New York requiring
evidence of legal age before a child
can be employed in a factory.
The Conciliation Board of the North
of England iron and steel trade has ap
pealed to English workmen to support
employers in the effort to recapture ,
the world's trade.
The Southern Pacific Road has innu- j
gurated a system of merit and demerit
marks for the detention of freight ears. |
Train masters and train dispatchers ;
will be held responsible.
After nine and a half months the ;
great strike of the iron workers at
Ban Francisco, Gal., has ended, and
3000 machinists, who have been idle
since last May, have returned to work.
The Supreme Court of California de
clares unconstitutional an act passed
by the State Legislature of 18S0 regu
lating the sanitary condition of work
shops, asserting that it is arbitrary and
special legislation.
The American Tin-Pin to Company
and the Amalgamated Association of
Metal Workers have harmoniously
agreed upon a scale of wages for the
coming year, thus preventing ull dan
ger of u strike or lockout.
The Swine Kfece,
To-day we are the same race, with
the same impulse, the same power and,
because there is no longer a frontier
to absorb our overplus of energy, be
cause there is no longer a wilderness
to conquer, we remember the old days
when our ancestors before us founded
the outlet for their activity checked
and, rebounding, turned their faces
eastward, and went down to invade the
Old World. So we. No sooner have
we found that our path westward has
ended than, reacting eastward, we are
at the Old World again, marching
against It, Invading it, devoting our
overplus to its subjugation.
But though we are the same race,
with the same Impulses, tho same
blood instincts as the old Frisian
marsh people, we are now come into
a changed time and the great world
of our century Is no longer war but
trade.—The World's Work.
MASTERY.
Let not Ambition master thee,
But bo Ambition's master?
Thus will Power thy servant be,
And not thy soul's disaster.
—The Criterion. j
j Amy's BirtMay Flowers.;
BY ELIZABETH MCCIIACKF.X. Q
Mrs. Dale's fingers trembled, and
her lips trembled, too, as she stood
before her mirror, tying her bonnet
strings and pinning her veil. Amy
had usually tied her bonnet strings
and pinned her veil.
It was almost a year since she had
one day folded Amy's hands and slip
ped into them the last flowers that
they ever would hold in the world,
but she had not yet grown accustomed
to doing for herself all the little
things those once ousy hands had
done for her.
During the time that was almost a
year she had missed Amy with that
loneliness with which a mother does
miss the daughter who goes away into
the great, strange silence just when
she is old enough to be her mother's
best friend as well as her child. Mrs.
Dale missed all those things that had
made up Amy's life, and, perhaps most
she missed the little things that Amy
had done for her, and that now she
did for herself.
Then, too. Amy had been her only
daughter. Mrs. Dale's two sons were
in college, and her husband was away
from home all day. She had many in
terests and many duties, too, yet she
was very lonely. She was much more
lonely without Amy than even her hus
band or her sons could know.
As she stood before the mirror, ty
ing her bonnet strings and pinning her
veil, her heart was even heavier than
it usually was. The next day would
be Amy's birthday, and instead of pre
paring gifts and surprises, Mrs. Dale
was about to go into the city to buy
the most beautiful flowers she could
find to lay on the girl's grave. Amy
had loved flowers, and the next day
would be her first birthday in that
other world, that world in which
mother's are never left lonely.
Mrs. Dale was thinking all this to
herself as she went into the city on
the trolley car. It was September,
and it was afternoon. The car went
past fields beginning to turn brown,
and between lines of trees beginning
to show among their green sometimes
a red leaf, or a leaf of bright gold.
The sun made the leaves all the
brighter, and it gilded the brown fields
too, and made the trees cast long
shadows. Amy had always been so
glad that her birthday had fallen on
one of the mystic days that come just
before September slips into October.
Her mother thought of that, too.
She thought of so many things about
which Amy had been glad. She was a
little less sad and lonely as she re
membered some of them. She thonght
and remembered all the time that she
wa3 in the trolley-car, and even after
she was in the city, and walking along
the crowded street to a florist's shop
on one of its corners.
When she reached the florists shop
she stopped, and stood looking at the
flowers in the shop windows.
"What shall I get?" she said to her
self. "Roses, white roses; Amy al
ways loved them. Or violets —it is
rather early for violets, though. Or
lilies—l might get lillies."
For a moment she almost forgot
that she was not buying them to give
Into Amy's eager hands. She was not
very rich and she began to consider.
She compared in her mind the num
ber of roses with the number of lillies
Ehe might get. She decided upon the
roses.
"They are sweeter and simpler for
a young girl like Amy," she said to
herself, gently,
j She turned away from the windows,
and was just about to open the door
of the florist's shop when she saw
! coming up the street towards her one
|of Amy's girl friends. She paused
! and waited. She had always been
i very friendly with the girls, and now
she felt even a greater interest in
them. She had especially liked Elean
or Greer.
The girl was coming so rapidly up
the street that she would have passed
tho florist's shop without seeing Mrs.
Dale if that lady had not spoken to
her.
"My dear Eleanor, you certainly are
in a hurry," she said.
Eleanor came to a sudden stop. "O
Mrs. Dale, dear Mrs. Dale, I am so
glad to see you!" She took Mrs.
Dale's hand and held it for a moment.
Eleanor had loved Amy, and she, too,
| had been lonely without her. She,
too, remembered that the next day
| would have been Amy's birthday. She
I said not a word, but she held Mrs.
Dale's hand very closely, and looked
| into her eyes; and Amy's mother un-
I derstood the unspoken sympathy.
I "How are you, my dear child?" was
| all that she said, for she did not yet
! speak very often of tho daughter who
: had died.
| "I am very well," Eleanor said, "and
! very busy. I read the history of
I music and teach children music—just
ias usual, dear Mrs. Dale." She smiled
just a little wistfully, Mrs. Dale
thought.
Prompted by tho thought, she asked
gently, "Are you happy, Eleanor
,dear?"
! Eleanor hesitated for an instant,
! and then she smiled again and said,
I "Yes —usually I am. Just at present I
am sighing for the luxuries of life.'*
Mrs. Dale was relieved. She knew
that Eleanor was too sensible to sigh
very long for anything. "What do
you mean by the luxuries of life,
dear?" she asked.
"Now really, Mrs. Dale!" Eleanor
protested brightly; then, with more
color in her face, she added, "Just now
they are the eight concerts that the
Beethoven Society is 'going to give." j
Mrs. Dale smiled in sympathy,
"They are certainly the greatest of
luxuries to music lovers," she agreed, j
"And to music teachers who must
spend their money for —other things," j
Eleanor added, with a laugh. "Please
don't think I am really unhappy be
cause I can't afford to go, Mrs. Dale.
I'm not; I'm just croaking a little.
It's such a help to any one to hear
good music, —especially to a music
teacher, —and such a joy! But I'm
not unhappy about it; I'm glad I can '
do other things. I don't feel a bit like
croaking any more since I've seen
you!"
"You dear child!" exclaimed Mrs.
Dale, warmly. She knew that most of
the other things that Eleanor did were
done for other persons, and done will
ingly ami bravely. "You dear child!"
she repeated.
Eleanor pressed her hand closely.
I must fly to my next pupil, Mrs. Dale.
May I come to see you tomorrow —
perhaps late in the afternoon?" she
whispered.
The quick tears came into Amy's
mother's eyes. "Yes, do!" she said.
"Good-by, my dear!"
Eleanor sped up the street to her
next pupil, and Mrs. Dale turned to
enter the florist's shop and buy the
white roses.
"Eleanor is a dear, good child," she
thought, "so brave and unselfish! It
is a pity she can't go to those concerts.
They would give her such help, and
such happiness, too! I wish I could
give her a ticket to them. Amy would
be so pleased; she loved Eleanor. If
to-morrow were not Amy's birthday,
and I were not going to get the flowers
for her grave, I should be able to Jo
that for Eleanor. She would let me
because I am Amy'i mother. I won
der—"
She stood quite still. A pleasant
new possibility came into her mind.
She turned away from the florist's
shop. In less than an hour she was
going home, past the yellowing fields
and sun-lighted trees. She had no
flowers with her. but the look in her
eyes was less sad and less lonely for
Amy.
In the last few moments of daylight
she wrote a little note to Eleanor. The
girl wept tears, half happy, half-sad.
as she read:
MY DEAR CHILD: To-morrow, as
you know, is Amy's birthday. If Amy
were here I should give her something
to celebrate it. Amy is not here, but
you are dear; and you are a girl like
Amy, and her friend. Will you not
take the gift lor her, and go and listen
to the glorious music that you so love
and can so well make helpful to your
self and others? Come to see me
soon, and believe me, Your warm
friend,
AMY SPENCER DALE.
Slipped into the note Eleanor found
a ticket to the Beethoven society con
certs. Amy's mother had sent it very
happily, but after It had gone she set
alone in the gathering twilight, wish
ing that she had just one flower to
take on the next day to Amy's grave.
"Amy would have liked me to do
that," she thought, "but still —on her
first birthady—"
She did not finish the sentence, for
just at that moment little Marjorie
Williams, who lived next door, came
running in.
"O Mrs. Dale," she cried, "I've been
to the woods with father, and I've
brought you some flowers!" She ran
up to Mrs. Dale, and dropped into her
arms a great mass of golden rod and
blue autum dasies. Then she kissed
her and danced away home.
Mrs. Dale gathered the golden rod
and dasies in her arms, and pressed
her cheek softly against them. The
next morning she took them anil laid
thom on Amy's grave. Strangely her
heart felt lighter than it had felt since
Amy died.
She did not know why, but when
Eleanor came, later in the day, and
kissed her again and again, and
thanked her with wet eyes for the
gift, she began to know. Never after
did she cover Amy's grave with costly
quick-fading flowers.
Instead, at Christmas, and at Easter
and on Amy's birthday, she did some
lovely kindness for some other girl for
Amy's sake. Sometimes it was small,
sometimes it was large; but always it
was something that made the girl
happier and better, and consequently
more valuable to the world. —Youth's
Companion.
A Itonl Philosopher.
A Battersea workingman was once
possessed of a notoriously bad tem
pered wife, who did not scruple, when
the fit seized her, to lay violent hands
upon her patient spouse. One line
day he was observed by a friend, who
saw him entering a crockery shop lad-
I en with an armful of cups and sau-
I cers.
"Hello, John!" he cried. "Selling up
your home?"
"No," responded John, "but I really
couldn't stand the expense any longer.
These here ones break into little bits
at once when my wlfo throws 'em at
me, and so I'm going to change them
for thicker!"— London Answers.
The plan of destroying hail clouds
by exploding bombs among them
was suggested nearly 100 years ago
by Prof. Parrot of Riga.
iSHFra
Feed for Prcfl:.
Feeding animals only to keep them
over winter Is not profitable. Every
animal should be so fed as to make a
gain. It is a loss of time to feed in
winter simply to hold an animal over
until it can be turned on the pas
ture. There is no reason why the
farmer should sacrifice the winter
months. Warm quarters and proper
food should make animals gain and
pay in winter.
Fred Digosttble Food*.
It is possible to give an animal an
abundance of food and yet not supply
Its wants. It is the amount of diges
tible matter in foods that fixes their
value. When hogs have a desire for
coal, charcoal, rotten wood, etc., the
indications point to a possible lack
of something required, which may be
the mineral elements, especially lime.
The feeding of wood ashes or ground
bone would no doubt satisfy the de
sires of the animals. The food should
also be improved by the use of bran
and ground oats.
Slipping Plant#.
In taking slips from plants for root
ing many persons take off the young
branches from the sides and base of
the stock, forcing it to expend all its
energies in sendng out new growth
from the top, and the result is a
"scraggy" plant. Try taking your
slips from the very top of the plant,
leaving all sprouts at the base and
sides of the old stalk, and you will
be surprised to find what nice bushy
plants you will have in a short time.
Geraniums, coleus, begonias and pelar
goniums are benefited by such prun
ing. Long branches of wandering jew
may be put into a bottle of water and
hung behind a picture so that the vines
will twine about it, making a pretty
decoration while the roots are form
ing and the little branches are start
ing out along the stem.—The Epito
mlst.
Oi cliurri Gran*.
Those who have sown orchard grass
along with clover on land adapted to
its growth have usually been well sat
isfied with it, as the two are fit to cut
about the same time, or much nearer
together than either of them with tim
othy. They also should have the seed
sown at the same time, that is, as early
in the spring as the ground can be
made fit. As its name indicates it
grows well in the orchard or anywhere
in the shade, and it likes n rich, sandy
loam, deep and moist. On such soils
it. starts early in the spring and grows
rapidly, thus it makes a good grass
lor a permanent pasture, but when the
ground is strong enough It Is more val
uable for hay, as its rapid growth en
ables one to get two or often three
crops a year. It needs to be sowed
thickly, say three bushels when sown
alone, or two busheds with 15 pounds
red clover seed per acre when they
are grown together, as if sown thin it
makes a coarse straw, that is rather
poor hay, especially if not cut quite
early enough. It needs considerable
curing, but if cured as we would cure
clover, mostly by sweating In the heap,
it' makes a hay that is much relished
by horses. Some sow the clover and
orchard grass and add about five
pounds of white clover seed to the
above mixture, mix together well, and
after cutting the hay one or two years
make a pasture of it. This is a very
good way, especially if the field is one
that the blue grass and red top will
come in naturally.
Winter Witching of Fruit Trees.
The winter season offers the fruit
grower his opportunity for wreaking
vengeance on the insect enemies which
play such incalculable havoc with tue
fruit trees in the summer months. The
insects are practically at his mercy in
the dead season, for they cannot flee
from the deadly poison he may with
safety apply for their destruction, and
if the owners of orchards care to ex
ercise their powers of quelling infes
tation at the proper time and in the
proper way then can largely diminish
if not entirely remove the risk of
harmful insect attacks. The board of
agriculture has prepared and -is circu
lating free of charge a leaflet dealing
with this subject which is deserving
of thoughtful attention.
As is well known the insects hiber
| nate in the broken hark of the trees.
I and the course of treatment proposed
! is the washing of the trees with caus
tic alkali wash, the use of which has
j been found effectual in removing the
rough decaying bark under which the
l insects shelter, and at the same time
I in destroying the eggs of noxious in
i sects. The directions given for the
preparation of the wash are: First dis-
I solve one pound of commercial caustic
I soda in water; then one pound of
crude potash in water. When both
| have been dissolved mix the two well
i together; then add three-quarters
' pound of agricultural treacle, stir well,
and add sufficient water to make up to
10 gallons. The best time to apply
is about the middle of February, when
■ the eggs are in a more susceptible
' state and the trees still safe from in
jury.—London Post.
Trained Bntterinen Ncorled.
A feature requiring more attention
! on the part of buttermakers Ib that
' of cleanliness in their creameries. As
this feature Is so essential to making
butter of the best flavor, it would
seem that it would not be necessary
to even mention it, but the fact that
It is one of the things which the but
termaker most commonly neglects. As
very few of the buttermakers through
out tho country are graduates of our
dairy schools, there are not many ol
them who understand the influences
that affect the flavor of butter. They
have learned buttermaking in a me
chanical way and go through the pro
cess according to rule, hut if anything
should occur to Interfere with the
working of these general rules they
find themselves at sea. There is noth
ing more difficult to understand than
the production of flavor in butter, but
in most of our dairy schools the prin
ciples of producing it are taught in
such away as to place it almost com
pletely under the control of the but
termalcer. The buttermaker finds it
hard, unless he has studied his work
at a school where principles are taught
to adjust himself to conditions and
consequently some of the bad butter
which is produced is traceable to his
lack of information as to the best
method of treatment. We would nat
urally expect, from the fact that few
of our buttermakers are graduates
of dairy schools, that considerable dif
ficulty is experienced in testing th
milk. Every well equipped creamery
at this time has a Babcock milk test,
and its operation is one of the impor
tant features of the factory. If a but
terma.ker is incompetent in this direc
tion he is sure to have lots of trouble,
as it is quite common for farmers to
become skeptical about their test even
if it is accurate. We have had in
quiries come to us along this line ask
ing where an official test should be
obtained, as the patron did not think
that his factory was giving him a fair
tost. It may be said here that the
dairy commissioner makes such tests
and the creamery departments of the
various experiment stations are also
willing to make tests of this kind.
This Is work, however, which should
be acceptably performed by the butter
maker, and the fact that there is so
much trouble over it simply indicates
that more of our buttermakers should
be graduates of dairy schools.—Wis
consin Farmer.
Growing Tree# to Withstand Drouth.
It has long been noticed how much
better deep rooted trees and growing
plants stand a drouth than those which
are shallow rooted. The tendency to
root in any particular way Is largely
an inherited characteristic in the va
rious varieties of trees or plants, hut
partly a matter over which man has
some control. There are conditions in
which moisture is so frequently sup
plied by rain, or where the water from
below comes so near the surface of
the ground that it is impossible and
unnecessary to try to make the trees
loot deep. There are no fruit trees so
far as I know, and but a few kiads
rf nut-bearing trees, which do well jf
their roots extend to a perpetual wa
ter strata. But on ordinary soils, and
under usual conditions, trees may be
to pruned and trained that they will
send their roots deep down, and the
deeper rooted the trees become the
healthier, the longer lived and the
more productive they will average.
The trees from the same nursery, on
the same kind of root, if planted in
California, will stand a drouth which
would kill Its fellow planted in New
Jersey, with its ordinary root sys
tem. This fact leads me to inquire if
there is not sotne way by which trees
may bo induced to root more deeply.
The chief cause of the difference is
that in California the soil about the or
chard trees is kept well cultivated, and
each wet season the ground is deeply
plowed, thus all the surface roots and
rootlets are cut off. The moisture
during the growing months is sup
plied by a deep furrow system of ir
rigation, so the water is sent well
down into the ground and the root 3
have no need to come to the surface
for water. Indeed the top soil Is kept
so well cultivated that there is always
a dry layer cf earth of several inches
in thickness, which prevents the ra
diation of moisture.
From experiments which have been
made in the east it is possible to force
the roots to go deeper than were na
ture let alone, and always, so far as
I have investigated, has the experi
ment been attended with satisfactory
results. If the main roots of a young
nursery tree are pruned square across
a number of small rootlets immediate
ly start near the point of amputation,
and their growth 13 usually at right
angles to the root from which they
originate. Now if in place of a square
cut, a fresh very oblique cut be made
the tendency is for a single main
sprout to grow, and in the same direc
tion with the root from which it start
ed. It is evident if this rule holds
true, that a deeper rooted tree can be
obtained by pruning the tap root or
roots in this manner. The side roots
should be similarly pruned aifd the
oblique face of the cut turned down
ward. Then If in addition to the proper
initial root pruning, the orchard be
plowed and cultivated, if not as fre
quently as is the custom in California,
at least once in a while, so as to cut
off the surface feeders, then the tree
will depend more and more upon its
deep roots. It would not be well to
allow too long an interval to elapse
between these root prunings for the
removing of a considerable quantity
would be a severe shock to the tree.
Better do it often.
Deep rooted trees do not respond as
quickly to fertilizers, but on the other
hand they do not make known a want
as quickly. There are always a suffi
cient number of small roots to take in
the food or water, and the fact that
there are none of these upon which
the tree largely depends will be a guar
antee that year in and year out the
deep root system Is best. The experi
ment is well worth trying.—Charles E.
R:char-s, in American Agriculturist.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTSr.
A Vienna medical paper states that
an Austrian scientist has discovered
that a cold in the head is due to the
presence in the membrane of a special
bacillus which he has called the micro
cocus caparrhalis.
Mr. Berlslawski, a Russian mining ' *
engineer, has recently discovered ex
tensive deposits of ozokerite (mineral
wax) in the extreme north of Finland.
The deposits are situated along the
bed of the Kemiokin river, and the
ozokerite is said to be extremely rich
in paraffin.
Subterranean lakes have recently
been discovered in the Eucla district,
Australia. They lie about 30 feet be
low the surface and contain an abund
ant provision of potable water. This
discovery is of great practical impor
tance to this especially arid district. It
is of scientific value also, as it affords
an explanation of the disappearance of
certain rivers.
The famous London medical jour- .
nal, the Lancet, is authority for the fgr
statement that the essential oil that
forms the base of all perfumes is a
powerful antiseptic, and possesses dis
infecting properties equal to those of
carbolic acid. A perfumed handker
chief, therefore, may not only please
the sense of sfhell, but prove a guard
against infection, and the large num
ber of people that dislike perfumes
and think the use of them "vulgar,"
may become reconciled to their use,
at least by other people, when they
hear what science has said about
them.
The United States collier Sterling
was the first boat to be. raised by the
new floating dock at Algiers, near New
Orleans. It took just 35 minutes to
fill the pontoons and side walls to
sink the dock to a 19-foot depth. At
first the structure, went down slowly, 1
but after it had gone down till the
water was above the tops of the gang
way openings in the sides of the de
scent into the sandy water was no
ticed very appreciably. The dock was
sent down 20 feet 6 inches aft and 21
feet forward from the tops of the keel
and bilge blocks to the level of the
water over the lower deck. The Ster
ling entered t-e dock drawing 15 feet
forward and 16 feet 6 inches aft. Ex
actly one hour after the actual pump
ing started the dock's lower deck was
clear of the water and the Sterling
was safely lifted high and dry. Naval
Constructors H. G., Gilmoro and J. G.
Tawresey, United States navy, super
>.ended the docking, which was suc
cessful in every particular.
One of the largest electrical con- /
cerns of Germany has for the past L
throe years been experimenting with a
system of purifying water by means of
ozone. Experience gained during this
time has demonstrated that such a
system is eminently successful, the
only question being in its commercial
possibilities. The cost of treating one
cubic meter, or about 35 cubic feet of
water, however, is only 1 1-4 cents. In
the system experimented with the wa
ter is first cleaned by a quick filter,
tho object being to remove the sus
pended dirt. This water is then passed
through brick towers, filled with gra
vel,. During its percolation through
the gravel it is subjected to the action
of tho ozone, which is allowed to en
ter the bottom of the brick tower, the
water flowing in from the top. Bac
terlologically considered, the system
Is a pronounced success, as in every
case the germs present have been re
duced to far below the number permis- A,m
sible in practice, namely, 100 germs ▼
per cubic centimetre. Where the
raw water contained as many as 100,-
000 to 600,000 germs per cubic centi
metre, it was sometimes completely
sterilized and in all cases tho germs
were reduced to from 2 to 9 per cubic
centimetre.
Rules for 1110 I'reaervatfon of Health.
The following 10 rules have been
compiled by a committee of eminent
physicians as the best to follow for
the preservation of health: I—Don't
leave your rooms in the morning with
an empty stomach. 2—Never expose
yourself to cold air immediately after
you have partaken of a warm liquid
of any kind. 3 —Don't leave your
abode in cold weather without warm
wraps around your shoulders and
breast. 4 —Begin respiration in the
cold by breathing through the nose.
This will give the air a chance to get *
warm before reaching the lungs. 5
Never place your back near a heated
oven nor against a wall, warm or cold.
6—Don't stand before an open window
in a railway carriage, nor take a drive
in an open carriage, after violent phy
sical exercise. 7—Don't remain mo
tionless in a cold room, and do not
stand in an open space, on ice or
snow, g—Talk only when you must
for the old pharse, "Speech Is silver,
silence is gold," holds good even in
hygiene. 9—Don't put off your regu
lar bath. When the skin is not kept
fresh and soft tho cold draws the
pores together, and you are rendered
susceptible to pulmonary troubles of
all kinds. 10—Don't retire with cold
or wet feet. Nothing prevents sleep
with so much certainty as the neglect
of your pedal extremities. '
A Two-Fold Surprlne.
"Miss Alice," said the nervy young
man, "I think I will marry you."
"Indeed? Two very remarkable
statements, sir!'
"Two! How two?"
"One that you will marry me; the
other that you think."—Baltimore
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