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Health Department.
By Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. D.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Intcrninrringc of Disensc*! Persons
—Examples of Evil Effects— Age
ami Xatioualities in Jlarrlage.
Intermarriage and Disease—If, as I
hay* shown in the preceding article, persons
having similar temperaments and predisposed
cn this account to certain diseases, should not
intermarry, no argument would seem to be
needed to prove that no man or woman should
enter in to the marriage re'ation with one actu
ally diseased. It might be reasonably presumed
that all parties duly regarding their own happi
ness and the natural responsibilities of married
life would most carelnlly avoid a matrimonial
union with a confirmed invalid, or even with
one of manifestly feeble vital power, though not
thus confirmed in ill health, or a subject of pos
itive disease. But daily observation teaches us
that the facts do not justify this most reasonable
presumption. We see ‘candidates for matri
mony’ making diligent inquiry as to the wealth,
education, social position, habits, disposition,
personal appearance and everything else con
nected wiith their contemplated life-partners,
while health, the most important thing of all, is
generally overlooked as something either un
knowable or nor worthy of consideration. But
without health what other blessings can be enjoy
ed? Without this the pcssetsion of wealth and
everything else calculated to promote happiness
places the one so situated very much in the po
sition of the fabled Tantalus, w ho stood forever
chained within reach of the much coveted fruit
which could never be seized and enjoyed. Health
then, should be the prime consideration with
persons contemplating marriage, with those who
would enjoy the happiness which is to be found
in wedded bliss—the purest, highest enjoyment
remaining to this sinful world.
Of all the sources ef conjugal happiness, chil
dren are the sweetest, the tenderest, the most
essential, the absolutely indispensable.
But these children must be healthy. Other
wise, instead of being a well-spring of enjoy
ment they become a source of constant anxiety,
a ceaseless torment, a curse rather than a bless
ing. And how is this health to be secured ?
Not by any direct miraculous or supernatural
interposition, but by the operation ot the natur
al laws of transmission, which have already been
explained as embracing not only the original or
congenital peculiarities of parents, but also those
that are ai quired by bad habits on the part of
these parents. It is to this latter point I wish
to direct special attention in this article, having
in a previous one spoken of the transmission of
the inherited qualities of parents to children.
Acquired as well as inherited qualities being
transmissible, it follows that, however sound
and free from disease one’s ancestry may have
been, however free from hereditary taint, yet,
if disease has been acquired or superinduced by
bad habits of living, such disease, if fixed and
habitual, is transmissible.
Examples of Transmission—Sir James
Clara tells us that the appearance of scrofula in
the families of persons not themselves tainted
by it, is generally owing to the hurtfnl influence
of dyspepsia in the parent, brought on and kept
in activity by mental indolence and irregulari
ties cf regimen: or in plainer terms, by hziness
and over-eating. Two of the most common
causes of disease, by the way, in the present
day. _____ )
J>r, Combe says: ‘It is ln'TSis lr*y chai many
persons pass years ot their lives in a constant
state of suffering from ‘bilious’ and ‘stomach’
complaints, induced solely by inattention to
diet, exercise, pure air, cleanliness, or other
equally removable causes, and unthinkingly
turn over a part cf the penalty upon their inno
cent offspring. Not aware of the real con n e-
quences of their conduct, they cannot summon
resolution to give up the indulgencies to which
they have accustomed themselves, or to take the
little trouble required for the preservation ol
their own health, and they are surprised when
assured that, while thus trifling with their own
comfort, they are sporting with the welfare and
fate of those cn whom their whole affections are
one day to be centered; yet such is the fact.’
•By the same process of reasoning the other
wise unacccnntable stupidity of the children of
men of genius can be explained, for, with few
exceptions these men are enthusiastic, excitable,
irregular, the sport of every passing emotion,
and, almost without exception, martyrs to in
digestion and ofton to melancnolly.’ In the
same way we may account for the appearance of
an idiot in the family of a father habitually so
ber, but who occasionally drinks to excess. The
changing condition of parents, according to
habits, age, and other ciicumstances acting on
their mental and bodily constitution, will seem
to explain why it is that all the children of a
family have a general family resemblance, while
no two are alike.
It should never be forgotton, then, that the
health of children and the happinessof married
life depend on the health of parents, and that
the happiness of both parents and children is
mainly dependent on the manner in which the
parents live—on obedience to these physiologi
cal laws which God has inseparably connected
with the welfare cf parents and their children.
What stronger motive could he urged on pa
rents as an inducement to right living? How
suggestive the remark of Dr. Combe, that ‘many
a lather has grieved over, perhaps resented the
distressing and irreclaimable follies of a way
ward son, without re Heeling that they actually
derive their origin from some forgotten irregu
larities of his own 1’
And if such be the influence of the father,
what must be that of the mother ! If such are
the influence of either, what must he the des
tinies for time and eternity that are enfolded in
the lives of both father and mother 1
Time ol’Lile lor MnrriHge.—In view
of the considerations above, the time of life at
which marriage is consumated is a matter of the
first importance. While many good reasons
may be adduced for early marriages, premature
marriages are undoubtedly a cause of early de
cay and loss of health, strength, and beauty.
This is (specially true of women, for reasons
that need not be explained, as they will readily
suggest themselves to all reflecting minds.
While much might be said, it is proper to give
rules rather than reasons, in treating this sub
ject, and therefore I will give this rule as to the
time of marrying: No one, and especially no
woman, should marry till the whole organism,
in other words bones, muscles, and all are fully
developed and consolidated. After the growth
is completed it is better to wait for the consoli
dation or firm growth, until nature can be con
firmed in the great t obange from childhood to
womanhood and manhood. The time at which
the human organization attains this state ot
maturity and consolidation varies with climate
and other influences. In our latitude it may be
put at from eighteen to twenty-five years for wo
men and from twenty-five to thirty-three years
for men.
Age and Nationalities in Marriage.
—Physiologists teach that great disparity of
years constitutes an objection to marriage union
when such exists; and as many other reasons
could be given why the unnatural and uncon
genial unions between December and May
should be avoided, the teachings of Physiology
should not be disregarded in this respect as in
so many others.
As to the intermarriage of different nationali
ties, the facts seem to show that the marriage of
the same race, but of different nations, should
be encouraged, and the history of nations seems
to sustain this idea. This being admitted, the
people of the United States should become
the greatest on earth in intellectual and physi
cal development, Here we have different na
tions, mostly of the same race, and the union of
these different elements should exert a happy
influence as to the character of our people: pro
vided always that we do not render our advan
tages in this respect nugatory by gluttony, whis
key drinking, tobacco chewing and smoking,
and other habits which are doing much to un
dermine the health of a people who enjoy great
er advantages for health and long life than any
other on earth.
Domestic Affairs.
To make this department interesting and
practical, we would be glad if our lady readers
would send us short contributions, reoipes they
have tested, and suggestions—the fruit of their
experience or observation. We would like them
to ask questions of each other concerning house
hold matters that perplex them, and to trans
cribe from their note-books and diaries any bits
of information relative to honse-keepiug, home
decorating, garden, poultry-yard, etc. Ladies,
with their ready ingenuity, are always devising
some tconomical scheme in dress or in home
management; if they will give their ‘sister wo
men’ the benefit of these through' the oolumns
of the S. S., it will be doing a real kindness to
ous readers as well as ourself. *
Remedy for the ‘Summer Complaint.—I send
you a prescription for the cure ot diarrhea and
derangement of the bowels, which I Have tried
repeatedly and know to be as efficacious as it is
simple. It is this. To one teaspoonful of oom-
mon salt add one tablespoonful of good vinegar,
then dilute with water until palatable, and takG
a swallow of it every few minutes until reliev
ed.—C.
Instant Cure for Tooth-ache.—Wet a piece
of cotton in ammonia (harts horn) and apply to
the tooth, or, if it is hollow, put the ammonia
inside tho cavity.—C.
Fare for Hard Times—How We Live on a Lit
tle and Keep Well and Fat.—We are two per
sons in family—my husband and myself—we
are forced to use every economy in living, as he
is out of employment. We have reduced our
bill of fare to a minimum, yet strange to say, I
never was healthier and fatter or felt better in
my life. For breakfast we eat oat meal, boiled
done and well and eaten with fresh butter or
milk. {Sometimes I make a dish which is both
palatable and nutritious. It may be called, egg
on toast,and is made this way. Break three eggs
into a little stew pan with salt and pepper to the
taste and a heaping tablespoonful of butter.
Stir constantly as it cooks,and when it is smooth |
and moderately thick.pour it over the pieces of 1
toast you have already prepared, by cutting thin j
and browning in your stove. We have a large j
fig tree on our place, and this summer we have
figs and milk for breakfast. Oh, how nice,how
cooling to the blood, what a heaithy summer
dish this is! Fruit is so cheap, we have it abun
dantly at dinner, stewed or raw, and I have
made some nice fruit syrups, very cheaply. I
can turn these into jelly whenever I please next
I winter, in this way. Take a little gelatine,dis- j
Lv'! w “ it It a pi»t of acid wai Thick gmt a
lemon peel. Let this stand an hour and a half,
then add two and a half pounds of crushed su
gar and a pint cf the fruit syrup. This makes
quite a quantity of nice fruit jelly for tea or to
eat with baked fowl or a Christmas turky.
I always have soup for dinner, and make it
usually without meat,though one can get a soup
bone for a nickle. I put my corn, tomatoes and
okra and squash, if I Lave it, in equal layers in
a pot, then sprinkle lightly with salt. Then I
work a tablespoonful of butter (I have used lard)
into enough flour to make a soft paste, with pep
per and salt. 1 put this in my pot, add a quart
of cold water and let all the ingredients boil
slowly. —Susan Field.
A Woman s Question.—Which is the most eco
nomical lor farmers—to attend to their meals
promptly, at the ring of the bell, or defer it from
fifteen to thirty-seven and a half minutes, and
keep a hard-working woman in a fret that length
of time ?
Soft Sugar Gingerbread.— One cup of butter,
two cups of sugar, four eggs, five cups of flour,
one cup of sour milk, half a teaspoonful of soda,
half a cup of yellow ginger. Beat butter and
sugar to a cream; add the eggs, well beaten,
then milk, with the soda dissolved in it;ginger,
and lastly flour. Bake in shallow pans thirty
minutes.
Imitation Guava Jelly.—Three pounds of
acid apples, one pound ot quinces, four pounds
of loat sugar. Fare, core, and quarter the fruit.
Stew the apples and quinces separately, as the ,
latter, being tough, require longer cooking. (
Put them together with the loaf sugar; boil till
all the fruit will mash against the side of the
stewpan, then strain, and put them into pots,
with brandy papers over them.
Milk Sherbet.—Six lemons, six cups of sugar,
one pint of water, two quarts of milk, two table- !
spoonfuls of corn sturch. Squeeze the juice of i
the lemons on the sugar. Put the skins with
one pint of water on the fire; let them simmer a
few minutes, pour the liquid on the sugar.
Scald two quarts of milk with two tablespoon-
fuls of corn starch and one cup of sugar. When
cold put in the freezer; when it begins to stiffen
add the syrup of lemon-juice and sugar, then
freeze. This is delicious—more delicate than
ice cream.
What a Housekeeper Cannot do Without.—
It is just ammonia—our old fashioned hartshorn.
I had just as soon do without the salt-sack in
our house, as without my big glass bottle of
hartshorn. I have just cleaned up an old blaok
cashmere dress with it and it looks so nice I
must really sound ihe praises of ammonia to the
readers of your admirable paper. Here are
some of the uses of ammonia. Put a teaspoon
ful cf ammonia in a quart of warm soapsuds,
dip a doth in it and go over your soiled cloth
ing, and see liow rapidly the dirt will disappear;
no scrubbing will be necessary. To a pint of
hot soapsuds add a teaspoonful of the spirits,
dip in your fork or spoon (or whatever you wish
to clean,) rub with a soft brush, and then finish
with chamois-.?kin. For washing windows and
mirrors it has no eqn.l. It will remove grease
spots from every fabric without injuring the gar
ment. Put on the ammonia nearly dear; lay on
blotting paper, and set a hot iron on it tor a
moment. Also a few drops in water will cleanse
and whiten laces and muslin beautifully. A
few drops in a bowl of water, if the skin be oily,
removes all uncleanliness and disagreeable
odors. Added to a hot hath it entirely absorbs
all noxious smell, and nothing is better to re
move dandruff from the hair. For cleaning
nail and hair brushes it is equally as good. For
heartburn and dyspepsia the aromatic spirit of
ammonia is especia.ly prepared; ten drops taken
in a wineglass of water will give relief. For
house plants, five or six drops to every pint of
water, once a week, will make them flourish. It
is also good to clean plant jars. So be sure and
keep a bottle of it in the house, and have a glass
stopper, as it eats away cork.—Mrs. A. T.
Up the Air-Line.
Tlie Beautiful Nacoochee Talley—A
Hundred Thousand Dollar Resi
dence, with Fish Ponds ami
Deer Parks Aronnd
it—Mount Yonali
—Exquisite
Scenery.
NACHOOCHEE valley.
This valley is twelve miles west of Clarkes-
ville and is reached by an excellent road. I
was not at all prepared for the exquisite beauty
of this delightful scene. The view from the
eastern end, by w hich you enter it, is one of the
finest. The length is four miles and the width,
will average half a mils through; at some points
it stretches a mile in width. It is highly culti
vated in grasses and corn throughout its entire
extent, with orchards surroundiug the houses
which are built on the declivity of the hills.
At the upper end of the valley rises the majes
tic cone of Yonah, (the Bear,) which dominates
the valley and surrounding country. A smaller
range of mountains line both sides of the valley
formiDg a perfec- barrier. You can only trace
the entrance anh exit of the Chattahoochee,
which flows through the valley, by a depression
in the woods closing the eastern and western
limits.
Thoughts of the vale of Tempe, and of the
beautiful valley of Basslas prince of Abysinia,
awakened in long-buried cells of memory; all
gentle thoughts, pleasant recollections, happy
reminiscences rose harmonious in keeping with
the quiet, peaceful beauty of the 6cene before I
us.
SETTLEMENT.
and valleys, which are the home of rill, rivulet
and river, spreads and enlarges and floats about
the breast and summit of the mountain—vi
brates, rises and sinks in oonfused movement
for a while,becomes thinner and thinner, breaks
into irregular fragments, transparent and light
as gossamer, till it finally disappears, absorbed
into the clouds above. All this beautiful crea
tion may be watched from the shady poroh of
•mine inn,’ while cosily reclining in your rock
ing chair and inhaling the fragrant fumes of
pipe or Havana, the mountain air fanning your
cheek, and all nature lulling the soul into a
"dreamy reverie in keeping with her serenity.
A grand lullaby to the tired denizen of cities—a
bath to the soul tired of endless labor, wearied
with the frivolities and petty cares of life, fret
ted with the envies and jealousies of the crowd
ed city, thwarted by opposition, cankered with
grief, oppressed and broken by sorrow. This
is the medicine for a ‘mind diseased.’ For
awhile,at least, the glories and entrancing forms
of nature wiil soothe the memory of a rooted
sorrow, and ‘raze out the written troubles of the
brain.’ For awhile, at least, the soul, absorbed
and entranced, beoomes part and parcel of the
‘great whole,’ and Nature supplies her ‘sweet,
oblivions antidote—the sick and wearied soul
is steeped in Lethe—the world rushes on, but
its turmoil strikes not on the ear of the sluin-
berer in the Isle of Rest.
Fun For tlie Family.
A man who lately sent a communication to a
newspaper signed it ‘JEqiiitas;’ but the signature
came out ‘A Quiet Aas.’
She was plump and beautiful, and he was
wildly fond of her ; she hated him ; but, vomao
like, she strove to catch him. He was a flea.
The height of politeness is passing round
upon the opposite side of a lady, while walking
with her, in order not to step upon her shad
The first white settlement in the valley was
made by Mejor Edward Williams, in 1822. He
emigrated from North Carolina with his wife
and children. He was a man of energy and
great probity of character.
He raised a large family ot children, most of
whom are still living in the valley and practis
ing the same old-fashioned virtues which dis-
inguished their father and mother. His young
est son is the wetl.l known merchant and banker
of Charleston, G. W. Williams, Esq. This gen
tleman has a plain house on Busk Hill, to the
rignt of the road as you enter the valley from
Clarksville, where he generally spends two
months of the summer with his family. He is
nearly as active ia extending the rites of hospi
tality and projecting improvements as he is in
business at home. He is one of those men who
is never happy unless employed.
Th« old homestead of the Williams family is
occupied by the youngest daughter of Major
Edward Williams. It is built on a declivity
about mi'lway in the valley. It consists of two
stories and ah attic. The upper story projects
over the lower, and is sustained on arches, form
ing a porch in front of the lower. It gives evi
dence that the original builder was a man of
some means and taste. Dr. Ed. F. Starr, for
merly of Borne, Georgia, married the youngest
of the Williams 8isters. The original of the
name if Nacooche was that of a beautiful
daughter of a Cherokee Chief, meaning evening
star, after whom the valley was named. The
many admirers of the beautiful daughter of Dr.
Starr called her the “Evening Star.”
Three ot the Williams brothers, one sister and
five of the second generation have residences in
the valley.
CAPTAIN j. K. NICHOLS.
Art ho of cue Vaiiey is till*
residence of Captain J. H. Nichols. This gen
tleman has spent one hundred thousand dollars
upon his resident and the various convenienc
es attached to it. It is lighted with gas, and
has water supplied to every room. The house
is built in most elegant style, and is handsome
ly furnished. The walls are embellished with
paintings, some of which represent the scenery
in the valley and waterfalls in the neighborhood.
Captain Nichols is a keen sportsman, and he
has a dozen hounds of the best breed, whose
kennel is a model of comfort in the way of dog
lodgings, Immediately in rear is a pond filled
with fish, which come to the surface when he
stamps hi3 foot on the bank aud feed out of his
hand.
Attached to the domain is a deer park of forty
acres. The does come at the call, and are per
fectly tame, allowing themselves to be petted
and fondled with the hand.
A splendid specimen of the cashmere goat is
one of the ornaments of the grounds. He climbs
the steep steps to the billiard room to take a
look at the Captain and his guests.
Captain Nichols is a model of a Southern gen
tleman, generous and hospitable, abounding in
charitable and neighborly acts. He fought gal
lantly through the war and retains a kindly
feeling for all who wore the gray.
MOUNT YONAH—(THE BEAR.)
This mountain is reported to be two thousand
two hundred feet high, and is one of the most
conspicuous peaks in Georgia. The distance
from the foot to the summit is about a mile,
though the difficulty of the ascent makes it seem
like two.
We rode on horseback to within two hundred
feet of the top, up which distance we led our
panting horse. The top is a mass of granite,
part of it bare, save moss, and the rest with a
soil strong enough to support a dwarfed forest.
A precipice ol' several hundred feet in depth
extends along the western face, and the rough
parapet of rock prevents large trees from grow
ing nearer than from six to twelve feet from the
verge. For two or three hundred feet the prec
ipice is a sheer, perpendicular, the only verdure
on ils shaggy sides being a few tufts of grass,
moss and lioheD. From the bottom.of the prec
ipice to the has? of the mountain is a steep,
broken declivity- figged boulders, fragments of
rocks and stones dislodged by storm and wind
from the frowning walls above. Beyond stretch
the green valleys of the head-waters of the Chat
tahoochee, dotted with some farm-hamlets and
cultivated ground, interspersed liks speoks in
the dense forest surrounding them. Beyond
the valleys the Blue Ridge, like huge billows of
the ooean, roll one after the other to the sky.
To the southward stretches, far as the vision can
reach, what seems a vast plain, all minor hills
and Inequalities being obliterated by tne great
height from which the view is taken.
Involuntarily one is reminded of the ooean
when calm, so vast and limitless seems this ver
durous plain. From the eastern side there is a
fine view of the gentle vale of Nacooohee which
sleeps at the foot of the mountain, calm and
peaceful, while the stern-ribbed Yonah keeps
everlasting ward and vigil above her.
IN THE LABORATORY OF THE CLOUD.
While near the top we had to take shelter un- ;
der the broad leaves of a chestnut from a pass
ing shower. On these mountain tops there are
almost daily showers. You are, in fast, in the
very laboratory of the clouds, and the grasses
near the top are luxurious and nutritious* The
cattle are turned into the mountains in the
spring and find abundant grazing till about the
first of Oototjer, when they are driven back to
the valleys, and from thence to the markets of
Atlanta and other cities of Georgta,
CLOUDLAND.
One never tires of studying Nature's process
es in the formation and dispersion of her clouds.
First a mist, fog, or vapor rises from the chasms
ow.
The proper time for a girl to marry is after
she has counted up her cash, and found that
she can support herself in case her husband
turns politician.
The boys of the New Hampshire Reform
School last year used 200 neckties, 000 boxes of
paper collars and large quantities of lemons,
oraDges, figs, candy and oysters. ‘Helen’s Ba
bies,' ‘That Husband of Mine, ’ and books of
that sort were purchased for their use.
The Sweet Singer of Michigan wants to follow
in the wake of her brother poet, Bryant, and die
in June. When one refleots how dismally dis
tant June is, and how fecund is the Sweet
Singer, this aspiration of Julia seems a cruel
procrastination.
When a woman rises in the dead of night,
nowadays, and brains the family with a bludg
eon or an ux, they call it hysteria. The term is
preferred to emotional insanity and has the ad
vantage of not being hackneyed.
Mr, Byron, the dramatist, met an improvident
and impecunious actor, who extracted a few
sovereigns from him as a temporary loan. A
few minutes after ne encountered an old friend
whom he had not seen for some months. ‘Why,
Byron,’ said he ‘you’re getting quite thin!’
‘Thin ! I should think so; so would you. Why,
I’ve lost several pounds within the last ten min
utes !’
An Irishman has his honest doubts od the
uppermost theological question. His wife died
recently, and, meeting a friend in the street,
he said despondingly. ‘Well, the old woman
is gone.’ ‘Where?’ asked tho sympathizing
friend, who had not heard of her decease. ‘1
don’t know; but she’s dead, any how,’ said
Patrick. „ _ Av,,
I One of those excrescences of life, a female slan-
i derer, wert into a neighbor’s house the other
■ morning with her tongue loaded with venom.
1 There were several women present, and the slan-
i derer’s eye glistened in anticipation. Throwing
! herself in a chair, she sighed and said, ‘One
: half the world don’t know how the other half
lives.’ ‘That ain’t your fault,’ quietly remarked
one of the company. The slanderer turned
yellow.
The 3Ien.
There was only one white man in the Repub
lican county convention at Chaster, S. C., and
he was an ex Confederate.
A Dr. Lavender, of Georgia, is said to out off
all the forelegs of his goats at the knee, and
never to allow a horn on any of his stock.
James Gordon Bennett will invite the press of
the whole country to send representatives to the
North Pole free of charge.--N. Y. Times. We
speak for the bunk next to the stove.—N. Y.
Herald.
‘Dr. Carver can knock a hole in a silver dollar
every time.’ So can we, every time we take our
girl for a walk down a street that boasts an ice
cream saloon—and a deuced big hole it is, too.
The presents of Prince Arthur of England to
his betrothed Prussian Princess,have been man
ufactured in Paris. The gem of them all is an !
opera glass of gold, studded with jewels in beau
tiful and ingenious devices,among which is the
coat of arms of the Princess surmounted by a
coronet.
Another Irish judge has refused to inflict pun
ishment on a prisoner because of the severity
of the new prison rules, which provide that for
the first month of his or her term, the prisoner
must sleep on a plank two feet wide in the clothes
worn by day. At the Kildare assizes, the Lord
Chief Baron had a woman named Kelly, brought
before him tor being in illegal possession of a
sum of money. The Judge bound her over in
£20, on condition that her husband would re
turn the money to its owner before the next as
sizes, and said he would send no female convict
to jail while the plank-bed regulation was in
force, if the justice of the case permitted.
Charles Wagman had been a notorious char
acter in St. Louis for twenty years. He served
a term for manslaughter; then for ten years kept
the dog-pound, beating out the captured brute’s j
brain with a club in a manner so horrible that i
at last he was removed. He spent his last mon
ey in a spree, then walked to the pound and
blew out his brains, the top of his head being
taken off and thrown to a distance of many feet.
He had two mistresses, each of whom had borne
him ohildren and with whom he lived alternate
ly. One came and looked at the body without
any manifestation of feeling; another woman
said his soul was now where it belonged, and a
third declared that this was the nest thing he had
ever done.
Be Cheerful at Meals.—‘Unquiet meals,’
says Shakspeare, ‘make indigestion;’ and the
contrary is produced by easy conversation, a
pleasant project, welcome news, or a lively com
panion. I advise wives not to entertain their
Husbands with domestic grievances about chil
dren or servants, nor to ask for money, nor pro
pound unreasonable or provoking questions,
and advise husbands to keep the cares and vex
ations of the world to themselves, but to be com
municative of whatever is oo8afortable, cheerful,
and amnsing. Self-government is the best step
to health and happiness.
The women in the Post-Office Department at
Washington quarrelled like cats about having
the windows open or shut; so at last the Post
master General had to interfere and make a rule
that windows should not be opened till a cer
tain hoar of day.
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a number.
If you propose to pay your subscrip
tion with postage stamps, let them be
one-cent stamps, if possible.
In sending us MSS., or writing us
letters don’t fail to prepay the postage in
full, if you wish us to take them from
the post office. The Department is
very particular in charging and collect
ing the extra or unpaid postage on all
matter passing through the mails.
In writing your own name or the
names of others be very particular and
write as plainly as possible. Leave off
all flourishes and aim only at being plain
We have much trouble sometimes in
making out names and frequently get
them wron<;.
When you write on a postal card
don’t forget to write your office on it.
We sometimes find it impossible to at
tend to orders because no postoffice is
given.
In ordering your paper changed from
one office to another don’t fail to name
both offices.
Don’t ask or expect compensation, un
less you have good reasons for believing
that the public would be pleased to
hear from you because of your establish
ed popularity as a writer. If you are
poor and needy that does not add to the
merit of your writings. ' The public
knows nothing of your circumstances
and is not at all inclined to make al»
lowances for an inferior article in a pub-
lic'journal.
In sealing your letter or MSS., be
particular and do not allow the glue of
the envelop to stick to the letter. They
are sometimes torn to pieces in getting
off the envelop.
It would encourage us so much if all
the friends of the paper would renew
regularly and promptlv at the expiration
of their time. We"cannot know wheth
er you wish the paper continued unless
you notify us in time, and the mailing
clerks in addressing the papers skip all
names whose times have expired. Bear
this in mind.
And old subscriber can renew for 12
months for §2.50 : for 6 months for
§1.50; 4 mos. for §1.00; 3 mos. for
7 5 ets.
Two new subscribers sending together
can get the paper one year tor §5.00, or
6 months for §3,00.
The Sunny South and Boy'’s &
Girls of the South will be sent one
year for §3.50.
Advertisements.
A few unobjectionable advertisements
will be inserted at 10c. per line. Special
contracts made at a lower rate according
to the time aud quantity of matter.
Club Rates.
Two subscribers one year, ., $ 5.00.
Five, “ “ « .. 12.00.
Eight, “ “ “ .. 18.00..
To any one sending us a club of six
ubscribers at §2.50 each, we will send
lim or her the paper one year free.
How to Procure Agencies.
We receive many applications for
Agencies from unknown parties which
ire not noticed unless accompanied with
trong and responsible indorsements.
Ygents must give satisfactory guaran-
ees for energy, faithfulness and houesty.
Ye have been grossly deceived, cheated
nil swindled by many whom we
hought worthy of confidence and must
xercise rigid precaution iu fnture in ap-
loiuting Agents.
Overtask! nip the Entrglta.
It is not advisable for any of r.s to overtask onr ene?-
gies, corporeal or mental, bnt in the «uer pursuit ok
wealth or fame or knowledge, how many transgress this
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to all who Co so to know how they can regain the v gor
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or difficult to obtain. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
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Single
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