fCRET 8ERVICE6ECnETIVSNE88
Pta On Ever Heard of Ceteetlv
Being Killed.
"Tunny thing, but can you remem
kef ever having hennl or read of a
Oecret Service operator havlrs b- en
nurdredT" It was an old New York
tctlve speaking. "Of course you
feaven't, and yet they are In a line of
work In which men are killed now and
then. In spite of the fine way In which
II the Secret Service men stand
by each other. The fnt Is that
the Secret Service fceops the
murder of one of Its agents
Just as secret as some Important mat
ter of State It has discovered. TUe
Secret Service man when he Joins
knows that If he dies In the discharge
ef his duty he simply disappears and
becomes as one who never lived. Ills
relatives never know.
"They are told he has gono on
some far distant mission. In which he
finally disappears and they begin o
receive bis pension. Yet, while the
murderer of a Secret Service man la
never arrested or punished for fie
crime, never even accused, he la pun
ished Just the same.
"I remember the case of a Secret
Service man who was stabbed to death
after midnight by an infuriated Italian
counterfeiter in Mulberry street, not
half a mile from Police Headquarters.
A Secret Service man drove up swift
ly In a cab Intended for the capture:!
counterfeiter. The dying man was put
In before he had left much blood on
the pavement to tell of the murder.
He died next day. No one ever beard
of it nor of any punishment for this
murderer. But the counterfeiter was
shortly after brought up for counter
feiting and got a sentence long enough
to keep him In State prison for the
rest of his life."
The White Death.
One of the n:ort curious of the nat
ural phenomena peculiar to the Rocliy
mountains Is tho r.:ystcrIo:i3 ttoi'.n
known to the Indians as "the white
eeath."
Not many years ago a party of three
women and two men were crowing a
part of Colorado in a wagon during
tl:e month of February. It was a de
lightful morning, very frorty, but with
brilliant sunshine, and tho atmosphere
as clear as crystal.
Suddenly one of tho women put her
Land to her face and said tlir.t she hud
been stung; then other members of
toe party did the same thing, but ro
Insect could possibly live In that tem
perature. A moment later they noticed that
the distant mountains were disappear
ing behind a cloud of mist, a most un
usual thing for that time of year. They
drove on and In a few minutes a gen
tle wind began to blow and the air
became filled with fine particles of
something that scintillated like dia
mond dust In the sunshine.
Still they drove on un,ul they came
to a cabin, where a man signalled
them to stop. With his head a!l muf
fled up be rushed out and banded the
driver a piece of paper on which was
written:
"Come Into the house quickly or the
storm will kill all of you. Don't tali
outside here."
No time was lost In getting inside
and putting the horses under cover,
but in less than an hour the whole
party was seized with violent counts
and fever, and before the next morn
ing one of the women had died with
ail the symptoms of pneumonia. The
others managed to pull through after
long Illnesses,
Scientists call this phenomena froz
en tog, but whence It comes has not
at present been traced.
They Worked on Benches.
The dignified dame was not really
English, but she had mastered the dia
lect to some extent.
"My nevvew 'Erbert," she said,
"wants tq marry a school teacher!
Fawncy! A person who works for a
living! To be sure, now thut I thin';
of It, that is not always a d.'Egrace.
You, my dear, write for the press now
and then, I am told, but you don't 'avc
to. you know. That Is different."
"Yes," replied the young person to
whom she was speaking, "but I may
be said to have Inherited a tendency
to work, My father and grandfather
both worked for a living, and they
were not -allowed even the luxury of
chair to lit on. They worked on
benches.'
"Dear me!" exclaimed the dignified
dame, greatly shocked. "What did
they ah work at?"
"Well, my father was a Judge of the
superior court, and my grandfather
was one of the Justices of the United
Btates supreme court."
Directions for Amateurs.
A writer in the Munich Juesd baa
published Ave signs which shiLld be
helpful to all wno have to criticise
pictures.
1. If the artist paints the Bky gray
and the grass black, be belongs to the
good old classical school.
2. If be paints the sky blue and
the grass green, he Is a re a! 1st.
S. If be paints the sky green, and
the grass blue, be is an lir.iirer.sioniat.
4. If he paints the sky yellow aud
the grass purple, he is a coiorist.
I. If he paints the sky black and
the grass red, he shows possession of
great decorative talent.
Japan's Railroad Extensions.
The Japanese government Intends
W spend $75,000,000 during the next
five years on railway construction aud
equipment Among other Items, im
propriations are made for doubl'.-
830 miles of track, and for construct
ing 900 locomotives, 1,000 passenger
cars, and 19,000 freight oars.
A Substitute for Wotk.
"Physical culture, father, is per.
fectly lovely!" exclaimed an enthuc!
astlc young miss Just noma from en!
lege. "Look! To develop the arms I
grafi too rod by one end and move it
slowly from right to left."
"Well, well!" exclaimed her father:
"what won't science discover! If tiu:i
rod had straw at the other e:id yoj'C
be sweeping."
THE POWER OP WATER.
A Stream from a Fireman's Hose Vi'.'l
Knock a Man Down.
When a man go?9 in swimming nt
tfcii cecisliore and slaps the water fo.'
ciij'.y with ills hr.nd, or takes a back
dive fro.u a pier sud lands snuarc'y
ou his back, ho realize.! that the un
stable )i(iiid olfeis not a little resist
ance. Yet, says a writer in the New
York Tribune, it would surprise almost
anybody to se what water will do uu
d"r certain CTilitloriS.
A stream from a fireman's hoie will
knock a mnn down. The Jet from a
no.Voto used in plnccr-minlng in the
West cats away a large piece of land
In a day, toys with great boulders ns
If they were p?bbles, and would shoot
a man over the country as though he
were a projectile fio;n a cannon.
"luere is a story of an Eastern
blacksmith who went West and made
a bit l-.r.t he could knock a hole
through the J t of one of these noz
y."3 v. ltli a Bic'U.e-hnmmer. He lifted
his ormi;, swung t".,e sledge, and came
down cn tho ten-inch stveau with a
force that would have dented au anvil.
Hut the Jot, never penetrated, whlsUed
the massive hammer out of the black
smith's htinds, and togsed It several
hundred feet away into the debris of
gold-bearing gravel beneath a crum
bling cliff. After this the blacksmith
left out iron when he spoke of hard
aulruitnc!.
There is also a power plant near
Durango, Colorndo, where a United
Stales cavalryman one day thought he
had an easy Job in cutting a two-Inch
ureain with his sword, lie made a
valiant attack. The result was that
lis sword was shivered in two and
lis wrist broken.
A little thinner Jot of water descend
ng sixteen hundred feet to a manu
factory at Grenoble, Spain, and travel
ng at the moderate speed of ono htm
lred yards n second, fractures the best
Jlades of Toledo.
Of courrc ; on o people will not be
leve such stories v;itliout having sccu
Uio tlihis. a:id one may think it a
iroof of the hcienlfilc Imagination to
say that on Inch-thai: sheet of water,
provided It had Bitilli-icnt velocity,
r.Ouid ward olf bombshells as well as
tee! plate.
NpvcrtlieleF3, many persons, while
traveling, have seen a bvakcmnu put
i an.-' 11 hydraulic jack under one end
)L a Pullman car and lift twenty tons
r so by a few leisurely strokes of tho
.lump handle; and the experience of
-Itliug every day in a hydraulic elova
'or tenda to remove doubts of the
magic power possessed by water hitch
ed to a machine.
Children's Sayings.
Wordsworth's lino3 of the child at
play, "as if his whole vocation were
endless imitation," were recently re
called by a conversation overheard In
tho children's ward at the John Hop
kins Hospital.
A little girl of mine, whoe role wns
that of nurre, rang an imaginary tele
phone on tlie wall to talk to her com
panion at the farther end of the room,
who played the part of doctor.
"Helio!" said the nurse. "Ia this
the doctor?"
"Yes," answered a deep voice; "this
is tiie doctor."
"This lady Is very sick," he was in
Taxied.
"Well, what seemB to be the trou
ble?" a bit gruffly.
"Ehe has swallowed a whole bottlv
ol Ink!" said the nurse.
The doctor, not flurried, InquircJ
what had been dono for the patient:
but the nurse, too, was ready in eme r
gencies. She answered,
"I cavo her two largo pads of blot
ting parer!"
lien, aped 5, was Inclined last au
tumn to dispute the fact, as taught
him by his father, that God gave him
all he had. After an incredulous "Even
those peanuts from the store?" be
yielded to an older mind, and. screw
lug his eyes tight shut, continued Ilia
evening prayer.
After asking a blessing for each
member of the family, he said,
"Thank God for the peanuts and my
express wagon," adding after a slight
pause, "but, oh, Lord, you certainly
did Bend baby some wormy chestnuts."
Cost of Railroad Tics.
The railroads of this country are
each year calling for more crosstles,
jnd they are rapidly shrinking In
number and Increasing in cost. The
total number of ties purchased In
1907 was 153,609,620, an Increase ol
50,855, DT8 over I'jOu. The tela cost
of the crossties purchased In 1M7 was
JTS.t'oS, 81)5. an average of til cents a
tie. The Increaso in total cost Wan
therefore. ?i.13'i.5Tl, or (.1.7 r-.r cent
tor Hui7 the h';;liest at eras cost, 5:
cents, wao reported for red .rood ties
-Many experiments have !.cn n;.idt
with nie'al tie?, with a. view of llinlitit
a sibMitule for wood, but noi!;in;.
satisfactory lus yet. beeu produced
Several of the leading roads have
large tracts of trees gran-lug. and ma',
in a dozen years oi more ir.ay be ah'.,
to surply their own wants. (irowis;
trees on railroad lamia teems to hi
the most practical way to provide 'o--the
future.
Conservation.
The resources of the earth are th
basis of our national wealth. Bj
means of theti alone, in material
thing?, conies leadership among the
nations. The conservation movement
now fully under wav tjibraces the for
est movement ss ono of its source
ar.d great divisions. Thus the canst
of foiejt reservation throughout tin
coumiy hrs won a powerful ally an'
a mere effective support for the mrl
th-.t lies Just hrfii'e us. Clifford Hi.
chot In New Knclrnrt M.itrar.lne.
Grass Raincoats.
The summers In Mexico are too i:r
for the wearing of rubber giraio
to shed rain, and closeiv woven res
of grass are a fair substitute. g,-,
of these have a hood attached.
Fainting.
Of the l.'jOl young women
fainted last year 9S7 fell lul0 tt ,
af o,cn. two fell on the floor and t
Into water batu Ufo.
THE EXPECTANT HAND.
No Chtrge Made, Gut a Present cf
Money Not Refuted.
tn locorilir.g nn lllnes of his grand
father, Uen. John Watts Db Pejvjtor
Icl.s an r.iiiusing story In connection
with !uJ!a: he. up. It la printed In l.ii
bioKi :;ph.v by Mr. Frank Allnben.
Indian hemp was reef-, 'mended ns
ft remedy durinr; ray grv.ic..'ather's Ill
ness, but whore to get It was tho
question. Finally so...e one said it
wits crown in the garden of old Jlf.
Henry Brevoort, who cvned a lare
plot ou the eat side of Lroadway, ex
tending through to the linwery above
Tertli street. Grace Church stands on
part of tills Eroiuid.
Doctor Kiliby pave me rim morey,
to!d me tn jump into Ms f, g. drive up
to Itrevoort's old low-sto.ied coltag.j
house on tho flowery, and tell tho
or.-nrr that I wanted some Indian
keinp for ray grandfather, John Watts.
I was to use diplomacy If necessary,
but not to return without IL
I trotted nlor.g briskly, roused -Mr.
r.revc.irt from a nap. stated my ca--e,
found no demur, and got the Indian
hemp, which be dug up with his own
hands.
"How much am I to pay?" I ques
tioned. "I never sells It," Mr. I'.reroc:! ro
plied, "hecauhe If I I ,i;.?s raoricy for
Indian hemp. It weakens the vartoo."
I stated that I was o:iered to p:,y.
r.nd we discussed the matter, walking
across the gnrden toward the E!3.'
which I had left on IJror. Iway.
I had made up my i.itr.J that I ha I
met with a di-lnte cftci! Christian.
1.ua replaced the mo. v !n n'.y j'ec':ct,
as'l had my foot on the l - f .cp, vi-.ea
t felt n brawny, sunburnt, freckled
hand restraining me. ami heard these
.vords wi.tcpered In my ear: "I raver
-eiis TciVan hemp, for t'.iat weakens
Jio vartoo but if I gives it, I never
rc.'t:. e3 a ,r.;vnt."
I cM-lcul. J tho rroney confided to
n e. piaee.I !t In the i:;piclant hand,
hurried hor.ir and related my story,
and I have heard it laughed over
many times.
Newsboys.
It Is good to hear that measures are
on foot to help the poor little New
York uev.sljoys, writes N. N. Moore
In N. Y. Home .lotinial. I don't mean
ue'.v 'boys as a class, for trey are gen
erally nn independent and self-respect
ing ret. I man the tired little fellows
who beseech ouo to buy an evening
paper nt about the hour when the
morning paper Is coming off the press.
There is said to be In this city bo
municipal regulation as to tho of
the children who are permitted or re
C'lired to do this sort of work. There
rcrli-iuly ought to be. Boston lirenses
:d I believe uniforms its news'jo;
md New York cught to hivo followed
Boston's cxamp!'! long njto. Some of
'hose hoys are too hri?ht to be left to
srov.- up on th streets rt night. Tho
other day a lady stopped to talk with
ona of these walfi niter her escort
had bought a paper. "How many pa
yers have you left?"
"Six, ma'im."
"And how much have you rrado to
day?"
"l'ifly-two cents since two o'clock."
"And do you s.ell papers In the morn.
Ing?"
"Yes'm."
"When do you sleep?"
"Oh, I gels a snoor.o now and then.
I don't sleep much."
"Hut dup't you know that you must
sleep if you want to grow up to be a
b.g. strong man?"
The little mite looked keenly at the
lady did he size her tip for a Sunday-school
teacher? and then said,
Does Goa sleep?"
That boy might bo n Charles O'Con
nor if he had a chau e.
A Man's Life Saved After Choklnf
on Tough Beef.
How a man's life was saved by a
common seldtitz powder is described
by a German physician, Dr. Frauck.
who was called to treat a man who
had swallowed a large piece of toug'a
meat, which stuck in lis gullet. As
it was impossible to dis'.odgo the
meat by natural means, and as the
patient's condltioa was critical, th".
doctor tried the efficacy of the gas
vliich is generated when the constitu
ents of a seldlitz powder are mixed
He directed the man to swallow the
two halves of oae of the ponders
separately, and the resulting pneuma
tic pressure, aided by the man, who
shut his mouth and c'o ed the naa'.
passages, was su'licleut to drive the
piece of meat out of the gullet into
the stomach.
A Lazy Boy's Invention.
The lor.g-handled shove! has made
over three hundred thousand dollars
for Its iuventor, and the Invcnyor was
a lazy, shiftless boy of seventeen
named Iteuben Davis, whose father
lived In Vermont at the time. He set
Reuben to digging dirt and loading (1
on a wugun. und the short-hauuled
shovel uiude the boy's back uche. One
afternoon when his father was away,
he tonk out the short handle aud fib
stituted a long one, and found the
work much easier.
When Mr. Davis reached homo Reu
ben got a whipping; but ifter the old
gentleman had used the shovel him
self, he saw that It was a scod thins
and had it patented. They are now
manufactured almust by the nilll'.uu.
The Goo's of India.
India is a laud of Idols. It Is e-.tl-mated
that Uwie are throe hundi'C'l
aud Uilrly-thtve million gods In llin
dustan. The throo groat und special
ly venerated deitk-s ate li,.-.!ima, Vl. h
nu, aud Sua the HiiiJu Triuiurtl o;
trinity, tlrahma stamls Crst. unap
pioachablo. There are cm.y thrci
temples in nil India erected lu 1.!.
houor; he Is merely Invoked as tho
chief of the Ti'i.nurii, but is nut made
the object of actual worship, as he
Is not supposed to takif any Interest
in mundane n.Viirs. He Is the cre
ator, the giver ol all g:fis and of all
bleimys and covie.s t'te d. stines o!
men, yet at V: j a ::e clmo Is co.i:
plc'.cly tadli-'ercut to 'J., n.
a wgeo eatinu cRiBPHw. i
It Protects the Rubber Plant from the
Lalang.
It i-.p.iea.s that nt last an antidote
i.:. j bven found to tho noxious weeds
wl.iiii Co f.ci,ueutly the death ol
(citaiu fin ns of plant and vegetable
life In ti e Ka.it. Specimens of this
wonderful "find" have been forwarded
to the authorities at Kew Gardens.
Ttiis pbr.t is a b'uo flowering creeper
botnnicnuy known ns the Commellna,
dudiflora iina?;i, but called "rumpu
gremnli" by the natives of Malaysia,
and "ge-wtir an" by Vke Javanese. Al
though the report nbde at Kew goes
to show that this creeper Is common
throughout the middle East, It would
seam that the managers of estates and
plantations have not known of its pe
culiarly welcome properties until Terr
recently and accidentally.
The prolific weed known as "lalang"
Is the great eneuny to rubber growth.
It was the accident of observing that
where tho bltm (lowered creeper came
in contact with the lalang the latter
became much less Injurious that In
duced a planter to send specimens to
Kew. It seems thnt at first one be
gins to notice that the weeds are be
coming less proline where the creeper
Is growing among them. This Im
provement st.-,uily Increases as time
goes on and it has been found that
under the Influence of this antidote
lalang which was formerly four or five
feet in height hns been reduced to
only cne or two feet when it starts to
flower.
But the Joyful discovery bavlng
been made that here was an undoubt
ed setback to tho weedy growth that
chokes young rubber and is the bane
of the planter's life, the question
arose.: Would the antidote Itself exer
cise a prejudicial effect on the rub
ber? Therefore the specimens were
duly submitted to Kew, and, as stated
to our representative, the new creeper
is unlikely to have any harmful effect
c:i young rubber trees." Planters all
over the East may therefore take
heart of grace and also tnke this new
"medicine."
' In npper.rance the blue flowered
Commellna nudlflora Is rather pretty,
and like the weeds which It first
checks and then kills It rrovs with as
tonishing rapidity. The particular es
tate whose ninar?r made the discov
ery and acted uron it so promptly and
satisfactory Is the Iingkon estate, In
British North Borneo. The amount
of rubber produced annually in the
Straits Settlements Is of course ery
large, and the results of the discovery
and Its successful application are like
ly to ba far reaching.
A True Pigeon Story,
A gentleman had two pairs ef
plgeoi s living In dovecots placed aide
by side. In each pigeon family tsere
'.vus a father and a mother bird and
two little ones. On a certain day the
rarcins in one dovecot went away to
:;ot food, and while they were gone
one of their little birds fell out of the
'ovecot and down to the ground. The
oor baby bird wns not much hurt,
strancc to nay, but It could not get
back, for It was too young to lly.
Now, the parents In thcther dove
iot were at home when this hnppened,
r.nd it seemed ns if they said to tbom
selves: "One of our babies might fall
out In Just that way. We must do
f onieliilng to make the dovecot safer."
And then this wise, careful father nnd
mother went to work. They flew
ubcut until they found some small
sticks. These they carried to their
own dovecot, aud there in the door
way they built a cunning little fence
of sticks, not so high but that the lit
tle pigeons could look over It, but
high enough to keep them from ever
falling out of the dovecot as their lit
tle neighbor had done. The owner of
the pigeons, who had seen the bird
ling fall and had put It back into its
dovecot, watched the birds the whole
time as they gathered the sticks and
built the fence across the doorway.
This Is a true story, and It is often
told to some children In Boston by a
lady who knows the owner of these
very pigeons.
A Man Who Never Speaks.
Because he was reprimanded for
talking too much when ho was a boy.
John S. Smith, of Kansas City, has
not spoken for twenty-seven yearn. Ho
Is not a recluse, and he does not re
fraln from conversation with those
around him, but he "talks" with a pen
cil and pad only. .
Smith is a contractor and builder
mi frequently has orders to give to
his employees. These he always gives
in writing. When questions axe asked
lie replies In writing, and he and hh
workmen get on amazingly well to
gether, better, he asserts, than If hi
spoke to them. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
What They All Bay.
How we label the man whose opln
'ons don't coincide with ours whea
inr opinions are based on money:
Yes, he's an able fellow, but of
course everyone knows that he's a lit
lie bit off on
Here mention:
Politics.
Ke.iglon,
Medicine.
Literature,
Etc. .
Whatever the particular thing Bay
happen to be.
Early Conditions Important.
Artlsu say that the lurround'.afls of
the child determine whether er not ke
may become an artUt. Hideous sur
roundings warp and twist the percep
tion of the beautiful so that In later
life the child cannot compete with
those who have enjoyed a more artis
tic environment.
Jumped at Conclusion.
Two small boys had strayed in lh
mummy room of a certain museum.
"Wot's these?" said oite.
"Them's guys wot's bin dead a long
time," answered the other.
"And wot's them letters, B. C. 14.
over the guy In the corner?"
"Ut'ess that's the number of the
tiutonobile wot run over the poo:
V.o'-it,"
TALK ON MAIIRIAUS
oxe or the nr.sr diu'skkta-
TIOXS ON HATUIMOXY.
The Part Played by the Tint, itm
Place and the Girl In That Ma
mrntoas Ktcb The Authuwlilf
I'nknom-n.
You may ray what yon like abwnt
the "Time the Place and the Girl,
hut, after all, the time and the place
have a lot more to do with the mak
ing of matches than the Girl," said
the spinster with a fondness for sta
tistics. I'vo been getting up some data en
the subject, and I find that la nine
cases out of ten the circumstance
the mood a man Is In, the clothes
girl bnppens to be wearing wheel
they meet have more to do with
matrimony than the llttlebllnd god
l.imse.f. And as to marriages being
made In heaven the spinster shrug
ged away that suggestion with con
tempt. "Kvery wedding leaves sen n,
an won.'.eiing 'what be saw In her.'
I myself have made the remark apra.
pos of half a dozen married wowiea I
know, end In several cases when I
knew the people pretty well, I've In
quired f the husband where, and ai
der what circumstances he fell ia
love."
"And what hare you learaesf
she was asked. ,
"I learned that two of the thtasj
thnt most appeal to men are helpless
ness and a certain dainty femininity
of attire that some women affect
which pnts the tailor-made girl ml
of business every time.
One man told me that he was Imt
smitten by love's dart while cross
ing the street behind a lady, who. on
lifting her skirts from the dust ill.
played lingerie of the dainty, fluffy
order that stamps a girl, to the mas
culine mind, as a 'sweet, feminine
creature.' He followed up the r'rl
and the opportunity. The result
was matrimony and a charming Eat
Then he awoke te the fact that the
femininity was a mere matter of latin-
dry bills; and the lady was In real
Ity one of the sort that Insisted o
having her own way and his, !o-
she was-, tn fsct, a bully of the i-s
type.
"Another n-.an I Interviewed met
his fate n a railroad train. She was
tn the act of struggling with a ro
fractory car-window. 'Her little
handr.' he raid, "locked so pretty and
helpless: and, tea. when ho took the
stubborn lush la hand and forced It
oen. Ma own brawn and mns-
V shaved ap veil by
fcat! Then wha she looked
it him and murmured admiringly
Oh. It' lovely to be so strong!' hU
doom was sealed.
What though she were frekle1
snub-nosed and red-haired? She
was a clinging vine, he a sturdy oak
Well, he married her, of course, and
he greatly fancied bts role for a year
or two: but In course of time her
,'Mnglng become monotonous. He
has grown tired of It, and, between
you and me, I think he has some
times been tempted to bring dam.
ages against that railroad company
for not having Its windows In work
ing order.
"And whnt conclusion have I
reached on the subject you ask?
This. That after a few years th re
nit In most cases is the same! D's
Utuslonment, disappointment, attd
dissatisfaction on the man's part."
"And the woman?"
"As to the woman, she, too, list
her dlsenchantmenta, but then (this
ts strictly between ourselves) any
thing is better than being an old
maid!"
Hands Age Rapidly,
A horrible rerelatlcn ts made In
publication devoted to scientific mat
ters. It Is that hands age even
.itore rapidly than faces. So where
as women make every effort to pre
lervo the youthful aspect of tltetr
'aces, they foolishly allow their
lauds to giv. them away. It la ei-reu-.ely
disconcerting to think that
'l.o obsenaut eye is not fixed on the
'ace. or even on the telltal chin, but
tn the hands. There are ways, for
tunately, by which their treachery
-n be cicumvented, bat precautions
xr more likely to be neglected la
heir case than In that of the fac.
Jahnny en Baths.
Mr. Phelps Stokes, the young so.
elall8t worker, recounted, at a social
ist meeting in New York, her amusing
experiences amongst slum children.
On the subject of baths In winter,
she said:
"I expostulated the other week with
one of those mothers who at the be
ginning of cold weather, sew their
little ones up in flannels, freeing them
with the return of spring. I persuad
ed this mother to bathe her children
regularly. Then, last week, I visited
her again.
" 'Well,' I said, to do the winter
baths go?'
" The children don't like It, ma'am,'
said the mother. 'Johnny refused his
bath positively yesterday. He said
yon could do as you liked, and he
would do as he liked. Tou like to be
cold and clean he like to b warm
and dirty!' "
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41 Hulldays ouly tl mi-','-
No. S, Dally Kxpre.. .... 64
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1 !. Waydallj ev j'i Supd' O. i
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No 7, iMily Expn .3 lilSA v
47, Daily , . . 3 ;l",
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