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get the wine ? My sweetheart sent it, he reek*
reekoned—my sweetheart, the humpback.
That was a poor, dwarfed lad who was the
only bin I had on earth, and who had come to
see me beoanse his dying mother told him I was
his eonsin and rich, and might help him to get
t. plaoe. I answered that I had bought the wine
with money paid me for lace I had knit.
‘And fool-like yon pour it ont and let it set
and lose its strength,’ he returned, and the n<xt
instant I saw him in the mirror oyer the man
tle put bis band upon theg ass and raise it trom
the table. 1 was about to utter a warning cry,
but a quick, fierce temptation seized me and
stifled the sound in my throat. Stifled it for a
moment only, but the next moment it was too
late. He had swallowed the wine and the poi
son, and I was- what yon called me just now—
a murderess. You know all the rest. It has
been blazrnod in police gazettes, and women
bare shuddered at the thought of the ungrate
ful wretch who murdered the husband and ben
efactor who had lifted her from poverty to ease
The | oor, deformed lad figured as the lover io
the case, for there must always be a lover, else
it would lack the strongest spice of sensational
ism . I fled from the law, because I knew circum
stantial evidence was against me and that 1
would have no ohance against the money and
influence Roger Bradford’s relations would 1 ring
against me. The miser had left many thousands,
these would pass to bis nearest of kin if bis wife
oould be proved a murderess and hung or im
mured in a penitentiary for life. I escaped in
a disguise and through the kindness of a ser
vant She hid me for day Bin the city; then 1
oame here disguised as you have seen me with
the black hair and brown wash upon my skin
and glasses which I have since laid aside. I had
returned Mrs. De Hal e’s call onoe as a bridt
betoie my tyrant bad begun to shut me up from
all society but his own. Your step mother was
present with her little girl. 1 heard her allude
to the schorl-friend whose daughter I have pre
tended to be;I htard her any where she lived, it
came suddenly to me and with it the strong im
pulse to go to her and < ff tr myself as a govern
ess I bad a scrap of Mrs. De Hatter’s hand writ
ing. It was easy to forge tin recommendation tha
deceived her; one sin,yon see, leads to another.
‘Therefore, it was easy to add to the list by de
ceiving a true, honest-hearted boy,’ Harry said,
Bternly, though he had heard the woman s story
with kern pity and a deep conviction in its
truth. He had studied the faces of criminals too
often to be deceived.
For the first time her mouth quivered, her
stony, hopeless face was crossed by a spasm oi
emotion.
•Oh! poor, loving, true heart,’ she moaned,
wtiugingher hands together, ‘that was indeed
a bitter sin—to deceive you. Bat I did not mean
to. God knowB I did not. I thought my heart
was too seared and blighted for love. Bat Love
is God's messenger, and comes—’
‘Love,* Harry interrupted, bluntly. ‘Don‘t
play the hypocrite, don’t say that you love the
boy.’
Her eyes fl shed.
•You have called me murderess. I accept that
as a i art oi my punishment. Imposter—I de
serve that too, but you shall not tell me that
tvtn I could be so vile as o marry your brother
without love—marry him as a refuge, that I may
escape from the country and from punishment.
No, 1 love him, love him with every throb of a
heart that never knew love before. Tell him
ths. I cannot bear that be should think me all
a wretch when 1 am dead,or gone away where 1
can never see him again. No, do not tell him.
He 1. ves me, God bless him! and he will suffer
less, he, will get ever it sooner if he thinks 1 am
wholly despicable. So let him believe £haC i
only wanted him as a sLield for my crime —as
a means to put nr self beyond the arm of the
law. Tell him tha:; it will not matter, life is
nothing any more—there only remains punish
ment, and endurance, or death. Well, sir, are
yen empowered to arreBi me? I am here,’
•Mrs Bradford,’ Harry said, struggling against
conflicting feelings, ‘I do net know what to do,
— wi at to say I can’t nelp believing yonr sto
ry and pitying more than blaming you; but I'm
in a manner cn my honor in this business. It’s
my duty, I know, to—’
‘have me taken iu custody. I know it. Let
no leeling of pity for me stand in the way of
your duty, sir,’she interposed, a smile, bitter,
haughty, sad, flitting over her beautiful face.
‘1 wiil not act at all to-night,’ Harry s»id de
cisively. ‘It is nigh on to morning. Fray go
to bed, Mrs Bradfjrd; you need rest badly,’ he
addbd, lookiug with keen pity at her death-white
face.
‘Rest!’ She echoed the word mockingly. Har
ry turned from her and quitted the room, tak
ing one backward glance at the slender figure
leuning against the mantle, in such ao attitude
oi dreary dtspair. He needed the open air to
calm him after this interview. He went out on
the piazza. There, near a window that opened
into the parlor, he saw his brother standing,
his tall, broad-shouldered figure immovable as a
statue. A look showed him that the window
was partly open. He went up to the motionless
figure.
•Preston, you here? Then you must have
heard- ?’
•Every word she said. I came out here. I
heard you taikiDg inside and listened at the
window. I know all—’
•I am g’ai of it then. Saves me the pain of
telliug yon. It is a dreadtul bad business. It
cut me up awfully. And its hard on you, ol I
fellow, but better know it now than later. Of
course there will be no marriage now. It would
be the madd'.st folly.’ He spoke the lost clause
half interrogatively, and after a short pause, he
repeated it in the same tone, and Preston re
sponded quietly:
•Yis, the maddest folly.’
Of course it’s a disappointment, and you're
young and take such things hard. When you’re
older, you 11 get used to having fate turn the
game on j on upon a sudden this way. But this is
all for the best, I think. It was a queer match
anyway, Bbe was ol ier than yoa, some years, I
should say, and then I’ve s^en handsomer wo
men. Minnie M. pies for imtance, sopuuip and
rosy. She would be called a tiuer woman, eh?’
•Yes,’ assented Preston, ‘I think it likely she
would.’
lie spoke quite calmly and coolly. H-rry
was a little taken beck. He had Ini i * i
out to play the part of comforter, i*uh >hi Uli.
tacin rn brother of his didn’t seem woudenuity
in need of comfort, flarrj’s surprise was mix
ed w.th a little indignation. He had felt more
for the women than he had cared to show, and
with tier pasfeionate assertion of love for his
brother yet fresh in his ears, he could not help
fetlir g that Preston was bearing his disappoint
ment w *11— almost too well. Harry knew the
‘Jedge’ to he a cool, undemonstrative, matter-of-
fact fellow, bnt he had never thought him
hesriless. He had even believed there were
warm depths under that cool exterior. More
than once he bad seen tokens oi it, aud ho had
had proofs of the boy’s devotedness to him. He
waited now f or some further demonstration, but
Pres’on only asked a little anxiously:
‘What are you going to do?’
•I'm going to sleep on it,’ Harry answered,
‘rather, I'm going to think it over aflerlam in
bed. It’s then I put on my studying cap. Let alone
wl at she's done yonder, she’s imposed on rs
all here, and the e Id man and the madam w 11
have to know about it and she will have to leave
of course. Bnt I shan’t report on her, duty or
no duty, not foi fifty times the pay they offer >o
have her found, that they may put her s. fely
outoftne question, so she’ll not turn up any
more and sue »or her share of the property. No,
I’ll not betray her. That bnsband of bers was a
brnte and sbe bad provocation enough, God
knows. Then she has loved you, Pres., that’s
enough to ensure her from any harm through
me ’
For all answer, the young man s«ized his
brother s hand and gave it a grip that nearly
brought tears into Hal s eyes. He released his
fingers from the vice, and said:
‘Go to bed old fellow, We’ll talk it all over
quietly to-morrow; it’s getting deuced ohilly out
here.’
Ten minutes afterwards, Harry had his bead
on the pillow and bis studying cap on. He lay
awake thinking over the woman's story, and her
voice aud look when she said: ‘And so you hunt
ed me down,' and the desolation in her face as
she stood w ith her head leaned upon the mantle
piece, with al! that golden stream of hair flowing
around her. It was an excellent thing for Pres,
that he had not loved her more passionately,
bnt it was a great marvel that he bad'not.
The night was clear bnt slightly windy. Har
ry fancied he heard noises in the night—voices
and'footfalls, bnt as Preston’s numerous ghard of
dogs made no demonstration, he concluded it
must be the wihd and did not stir, though his
door was unlocked.
He slept at last, but his sleep was disturbed
with dreams. One of them was especially vivid.
He dreamed some one stooped over him and
kissed him twice, and said: ‘God bless yon;
good bye.’ He thought that the voice was Pres
ton’s and that he stretched his aims to clasp him
and touched his face and silky mustache. But
immediately he awoke with a start, aud found
the room empty and the door shut
The bud was shining in his window when he
awoke. His first glance fell on an envelope
lying on the table bj him. He seized it, opened
it and read: _ _ ,,
•Good-bye dear brother, and God bless you; I
am gone—with her. Youdidn t think I was going
to desert her in her distress, because the world
turned its back on her, aDd the law hunted her
down. If she had killed that wretch, the ver
dict ought to haye been served him right.
But she didn’t kill him. It was God’s band
reached down to lift the burden from her life.
He sealed her lips that one fatal minnte. I could
not talk to you last night. My heart was too
full. But my mind was made up. I knew she
would go away that night, and I meant to go
with her. I knew she would slip off to keep from
meeting me. In the first place, she ielt she
couldn t meet me after I had learned all; and
then she knew I’d stand by her and she didu t
want the saciitice as she'd think it was. I rous
ed np little Zdke and we hitched np the grays
and waited a little way down the avenue. Buie
enough, as soon as all was still, here Bhe came
in her black dress and face as white as a ghost s,
and a bundle in her poor little hand. I pounced
upon her, and we had a strong argument that 1
oat short by lifting her into the buggy and driv
ing over to the depot half an hour belore the
three o’clock train. I scribble this in the wait
ing room aud Zeke wiil take it to you. I will
write to mother and father. Break this to them
gently as yon can. Tell them not to mind. I
could not be happy and my Helen lost to me.
Bhe is dearer tbau ever now that I know all her
sorrow. 1 will try to make amends. We are
going to , bui I won't tell you now. I will
ON HER METTLE.
Mrs. Felton Vs. Gen. Gordon.
IN eOlfORlssSAX FK , /r«W KEAI.I.ir
I.\UK»TE» TO HIf* WIFE FOB HIS
SUCCESS.
leave you in ignorance for ycur conscience’s
sake. " You shall hear from me.’
Years • ave passed; Harry Btockton, Chief of
Police in the city oi and popular and
jolly as ever, frequently gets by tne Pacific
Express a prestnt ol mammoth pears, or
gnat bunches of pale grapes, like malachite
j.wels, with ‘the loving regards of P. and H.
Aud oQce re paid to the Golden Land,
aud there, on the finest farm a< j iceut to a lioursh-
ii!g young city, he found ‘the Jedge a judge
de facto now, happy aud prosperous, and his
wile, a low-vo.Ced, giaceiul lady, with a touch
of sadness in her lair lace, but known through
out the neighborhood lor her gentle chanties,
and lor her til cuon lor children, and htr halt
worshipping love for her husband.
Items of Interest.
Quebec is snowed up again.
Influenza is prevalent in Boston.
London has 1000 miles of sewers.
Gold still increases in tlie Treasury.
Green peas are in Boston lrom Bermuda.
Scarlet fever abounds iu New York.
In England rod-fishing begins Feb. 1.
There are 107,000 Jews in New York.
There’s a good promise of Spring trade.
Ice boats on the Hudson River have made seventy
miles in an hour.
The Indiana farmers report the wheat crop to be
in splendid condition.
Whipping is the punishment for tramps in Wis
consin, a d they don t like it at all.
There are seventy-three glass factories in Pitts
burg.
•Three deaths in Cincinnati by hydrophobia in one
day last Week.
It is estimated that Great Britain produces one
billion gallons of milk annually.
New York city has fifty-four Catholic churches.
The annual salary of the Mayor of Loudon is
$50,000.
Esquimaux sleds are made of the jawbones of the
whale.
Connecticut proposes to. adopt the \ irginia.bell j
Punch in her bar-rooms.
The ordinary pen of the ancients was a reed cut |
aud split as in the modern practice
Venice has 339 bridges. She will soon be rivalled
in tiiis respect by the city ol Boston.
The population of London is 4,531,000, and os i
Vienna a liitleover 1,000,000.
The mormons aie said to be increasing at the rate
of 10,000 a year.
Noah's ark was 25,720 tons capacity; the Great
Eastern 13,000 tons.
The bank of England has a capital oi $72,765,ao:
A Detroit girl wa louud dead, kneeling beside ner
bed in the attitude of pray er.
A Connecticut man shot what he thought to be a
big black bear, but w hich turned out to be a large
Newfoundland dog.
A bill granting women the right of suffrage lias
been introduced iuto the legislature ol Dakota.
The New York legislature has passed a law which
inliicts five years’ penalty lor body snatching.
Large numbers ol fish are lrozen into tne ice on
Lake Ontario—a very uncommon occuntuce.
Two more deaths, last wtek.in Fall River from
hy drophobia. Multiply the dogs, by all means!
The great canal of China is 325 miles long, 200 feet
broad, anu deep enough .or vessels oi laige cargo.
Every loaf of bread sold iu Cincinnati must have
its weight stamped it; on it tosatisiy the Jaw.
Two thousand sleighs were manufactured in
Westborough. Mass, Has cason,and nearly all sold.
Dr. Janes, the stale commissioner of agriculture,
has returned fiorn the National agricultural con
gress at Nashville. He was re-elected president
of the body.
The seventy-second anniversary of the birth of
Ilviiry W. Longfellow wasobserved by the presenta
tion to him on Hie part ol the children; ol Cambridge
of a handsome chair carved from the horse-chestnut
tree celebrated iu the “Village Blacksmith.’
We publish the letter of Mrs. Dr. Felton sim
ply because we have not before seen such a po
litical manifesto from a woman. It comes like
a scorching blast from aD i‘ jured and angry
politician and reveals the fac. that the Doctor
certainly has a power behind his throne; and
the question is whither or not this power is
greater than the throne itself.
Mr. A. W. Reese, in an editorial correspond
ence with the Macon Telegraph and Messenger,
charges that during the recent canvass, in the
seventh district, a letter was written to Senator
Ferry (rep.), of Michigan, ‘imploring, in the
most piteously pathetio terms, material aid from
the radical congressional campaign committee
for Dr. Felton, in his canvass against the dem
ocratic nominee and party.’ Mr. Reese says
Senator Ferry sent the letter to Hon. J. A. Hob-
bell, a republican member cf the house from
the same state, and also a member of the above
named campaign committee. It was afterward
turned over to Mr. Gorham, stcretary of the
committee, and also secretary of the senate. ‘All
the persons named agree as to the nature and
tixt of the letter, and how eloquently the writer
plead for radical money to enable tin- so-called
independent leader to carry the elec’ioo,’ Mr.
Reese does not giv9 the name of the author of
the letter, bnt bis language conveys the im
pression that Mrs. Felton was the writer. In a
matter of this kiDd there should not be any
hints or intimations. Mr. Reese says he does
not publish it, but known the name well. He
should give it by all means.
Although A. W. Reese, of the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger, is the person known as
my assailant (his name being signed to he ar
ticle on which von comment), General Gordon
is recognized by me as the author of the assault.
Since A ‘A. W. R.’ did not give the name for
which’ you call, I cannot ats rt that lam the
person pointed at, but as yourselves and others
are similarly impressed that it was intended
for me, I shall reply to it. I have become in
some measure accustomed to the abuse showered
so liberally upon niy husband and myselt in
the late congressionaFcampaign, but I am gl.id
to say do provee'tion has ever induced ti her
of us to retaliate upon the families of our oppo
nents. Chivalry seems to be at discount v. i h
the so-called ‘organiz--d’ in Georgia. All good
citiz ds, who respect and protect their o*n
hearthstones, w II give the independents credit
for better conduct.
‘I understand the charge to be that I ‘plead
in piteously pathetic terms for radical money’
to help my husband’s election, Had I done so
the allegation would come with bad grace freon
an owner of the Macon Telegraph and Messer -
ger, which paper was subsidized by Governor
Brown in the matter of the state road lease for
the snm of two thousand dollars.
I only recognize the master in this attack—
not the servitor who does General Gordon’s
puffing as well as his dirty work in his news
paper.
If A. W. Reese in
his strenuous efforts to
secure a place under the senate organization '
finds it necessary to show this subservience to j
General Girdon, I cannot stoop to notice a
man working for such selfish ends and such I
substantial rewards. The senator, I find, his \
been very active in this matter—his position
entitles him to some attention.
7, T -kcn a , .‘^.^.BRnator ran run a con
vict camd, which ‘is a disgrace to civilization, ’
for money—when he can manipulate,’ a south
ern insurance company and a southern univer
sity publishing company, not to speak of other
circumlocution enterprises, where the money
of the subscribe rs disappeared forever— where
he could borrow .he money of a southern bishop
— and the bishop sold the collaterals for only
one dollar in me hundred, you need not be
surprised that he should attack the wife (if a
political opponent. When his name in con
nection with me m ney r f Jay Gould and Hunt
ingdon was m. street talk of WishiDgton City,
which astoni-e ed th 3 tattle i < a s of Judge Uc -
derwood an.i Colonel D. B. Priutup last spring,
commented on by strangers at a dinner table
cf one of the principal hotels in W. shington,
can you w<,irler that he should sae money at
the bottom of any enterprise ? If he and A. W.
Reese d<s ie to establish the pri cedent of fight
ing ladies to iijure their husbands, they may
find it uncomfortable it well carried out. Pre
cedents o out astonishingly sometimes.
Theclmrge that Lwrote to BeDator Ferry, or
anybody • ise, asking tor radical money,’ or any
other no i oy, to help.my husband's election, I
firmly d ny. If ‘A. W. It.’ will furnish a gen
uine i< er of mine, I shall need no further
proof. That I dia w rite a friendly letter to Sen
ator F- . rv, with whom I Lad acquaintance for
seven.’ years, asking him to use his influence
to hr i; up the combination with Bryant in
the H<> /.el..w movement I frankly admit.
J. E- Bryant informed a gentleman of Rome,
Geo’^ia, a distinguished democrat, that ‘he was
on h>s way to Dalton’ (the day before he
brought out Holtzolaw) ‘to organ, zs the repub
lic ns in the interest of Judge Lister.’ Do you
d-.-ne his name? The faot that Bryant was
fn i mshed money by the national exeemive com
mit ee of the democratic party was published
i mil in the Indianapolis Journal of October
*21 1«78.
That Bryant was seeking to get money from
t> e republican naiicral committee, I was also
pliably informed. That I did r< quest Senator
Ferry to use bis indaence to circumvent this
nefarious plot, I h ive no disposition to deny. I
should likely do so again under sinilar ci cam
s'ancts. My husband was away ironi home iu
the upper counties and my wifely anxiety in
duced me to write without delay, which I did
on my own responsibility and over my own
signature- What his cooler judgment would
have advised, I did not knew. He certainly ap
preciated my heartfelt interest in his success
against the strong combinations to which the
history oi Georgia furnishes no parallel. It was
a bitter fight made by unscrupulous men, and I
have no apo'ogy to make for my efforts in be
half of my husband. It is a sad day for Georgia
when ‘sensational newspaper mendicants’ can
assail the wife when her husband stands in the
path of a public man from whom the scriobler
derives his < filcial existence and whose patron
age ho ei joys-
If I am thus to be made the target of ‘organ
ized’ abuse, the independents of the state may
understand that do man’s home is sacred from
attack if he dares to resist the encroachments
of the ‘public plunderers' on the old common
wealth of Georgia. I think I understand and
appri ciate the feelings of the good and honest
men in both part es, and they will rebuke any
party or clique ll.at spares no six or condition
in their insane desire to keep themselves in
office.
The very fact that sitifty politicians attack
everv body who interferes witn tin ir combina
tion for public plunder has done mor6to injure
the democratic organization in Georgia than
everything tlse. To this they add the resolve
to attack women, because guilty cowardice re
fuses to meet more responsible parties. Drive
the money-changers from the democratic
temple, and set up iffioi Is whose honor and
reputation aro dearer to them than convict
camps or the money of Jay Gould or Hunting
don.
Respeotfnlly, mbs. w. h. fei.ton.
Dots by Dell Dare.
One of the fnnniest things I oan sometimes
see,is a full blown member of snobocracy strain
ing a point to admire operatio squalling, just
because it is fashionable in the so-called ‘first
circles' to preteDd to go into exstaoies over this
sonl-barrowing performance. No one can Jove
mnsic that he or she does not feel, and I have
never yet known one heart to be touched by a
cyclone of vocalism. There is abont as much
melody in it as in Bridges Smith’s string band
of cals, with their tails fastened in the unique
machine his fancy invented for the purpose,
and I would greatly prefer to hear the latter
mnsic, provided it was no-in fnlljblast when I
was trying to woo nature's sweet restorer,balmy
sleep.
The world wags, and it ‘wags merrily, laugh
we or sorrow.’ If life to you is but a jester in
fool’s cap and bells, the earth will not make one
revolution the less, or you may sit bowed by
the dead sea of your grief, yet the sun will Bbine
goldenly all the same, and
‘The birds will have for you
No sorrow iu their songs.’
That ODce enigmatical personage, Junius,said
that instinct was trntb; consequently, there is
much trnti a ont dogs, women and ohildren,
and every other animal, unless we except man
and his anthropoid prototype that Mr. Darwin
and his scientific flunkies have assigned him.
As man has bnt little instinct, I presume this is
the reasen he gets ‘bit’ so often, whether as re
gards h:s wealthy creditor in whom be confid
ed, or the wife of his bosom, in whom he confi
ded a little more.
The scientists say there is much oz ne in
healthful air. Ozone is, therefore,a very whole
some edible, and it is dirt oheap. No need of
nickles and postage-stamps for exchange, and
poor folks can subsist upon it for an inde finite
length of time, while it takts no fuel to make
the pot boil.
I have often heard that the hour of death was
an honest one, bat the last sentence in the en
suing paragraph is the best illustration of the
fact I have ever seen.
The will of Governor Blatchett, of Plymouth,
Mass., proved in 1783, contains the following
singular clause: ‘i desire that my body may be
kept so long as it may not be offensive, and that
one of my fingers or toes may be cut off to se
cure a certainty of beiDg dead. I farther re
quest my dear wife, that as she has been trou
bled with one old fool, she will net thiDk of mar
rying a s< cond.’
The Tnrco Russian war brought Servia into
mnch public notice, and here is what a poor
Servian girl saDg in a ballad in the long, long
ago: ‘Our Lard hi s of every thing His fill; but
of poor people He stems to have a greater plen
ty than aDy thing else.’ Nov much poetry abont
it, unless in its truth and quaint pathos, aud I
think it wonld do to chant in this age also, and
in most any country,
This distinguished individual was a very rice-
man, and wore an aspiring col'ar and silk hat.
de was an independant w.iter and thinker,and
a ‘blue-ribbon’ leader of the press. But the
best and nicn-t of us will sometime listen to the
tempter’s seductive sweetness; and ODe day this
him-ribbon leader told a rich man who didn’t
have much of a ‘hi ad piece,’ but aspired to a few
v. hoops of the vox popnli, that if he—the rich
man—wcnld let him nave a fifty dollar bill on
time ad infinitum, he, the blue-iibbon leader and
independent thinker, would write the rich mao
up so high in brain and the virtues, his own
a ife wouldn’t know him.
it there is such a thing as incomplete satis
faction, it is felt by tLe woman of small means
v 55 known she looks fen times j>_weeter, and
handsomer in a nickle calico than some'other
v oman in shimmering silks and heavenly laces.
O.i the other hand, while a well-dressed 'female
is a beautilully complacent fact, it cannot equal
the intense gratification of the woman who has
jis deliveied hirself of a pit ce of her mind.
One of the most s'riking indications of a d?-
pn.-sed finance just now, isamuDin tight pants
ami a short-tailed coat, trying to make headway
around a corner against a stiff nor’ easier.
a nd the bright sunshine of heaven are essential
to the health and happiness of infancy. Some
mothers seem to appreciate to some extent this
trnth, bnt then they are so fearful that the 'lit
tle things’ will take cold that they often suffer
for the want of pure air, even when carried out,
and wheD the nursery-room is not wanting in
it. This is brought abont by having the cribs
or cradles of children enclosed with curtains
or their faces covered while sleeping, so that
they are subjected to the necessity of breathing
over and ovet again an impure air, impregnated
with the exhi lations from their bodies, and ex
hausted of its vitality, thus depriving them of
the advantages of ventilation, however complete
and unobjectionable the arrangements for se
curing this may be. In a similar way, the ben
efits of out-door airing are often lost by smoth
ering np the face of the child in blankets or by
tacking its head under the cape or shawl of the
mother or nurse.
This fear of oold is unfounded, and there is
no danger in exposing the face of a child to the
open air, if accustomed to air indoors, if prop
er weather is chosen for outdoor airing, and if
due attention is given to the olothing and par
ticularly to the covering for the feet, arms and
legs.
manual Exercise for Children—It
is hardly necessary to give any special direc
tions as to the exercise of children who are able
to crawl or walk, as they will be sure to take
enough in spite of all the restraints that can be
put on them. But there is a kind of passive
exercise to which very young ohildren may be
subjected, that is highly beneficial. This is gen
tle rubbing with the hands of mother or nurse.
For the first four weeks of their existence,infants
should be allowed to indulge their natural in
clinations for repose to the fullest extent, and
they should be handled aslittleas possible. But
after the first month or two. they should be gen
tly rubbed all over with the hand at least once
a day. The best time tor this is after the daily
wash or bath, which shonld never be omitted.
Tois passive exercise or manipulation is very
pleasant to the child, as manifested by its move
ments, and it is highly conducive to health by
promoting a vigorous capillary circulation of
the skin, thus removing internal congestion
and quickening all the vital processes of nutri
tion and development. This, with a daily bath
and pure air, will do more for their he 1 h than
all the drugs and doctors in the universe.
PARLOR PASTIMES.
(jinnies For Winter Eveninss.
Health Department.
By J. Staiiibiu’k Wilson, M. D.
Air and Exercise For Children.—
The fir.ii * ant oi an miant is an abuuoaut sup
ply of pure air, and jet many people seem to
think that a little babe is a kind of hibernating
animal that can live almost withont air. It is a
fact well known to physicians that the fearful
mortality among children is largely due to the
want of pure,fresh air in the nuisery room. Dr.
Clarke informs us that in the Dublin hospital,
neaGy haif the children were cut ofl within the
first two weeks of their existence; but so soon
as measures were takeu ‘to insure a tree circu
lation of pure air throughout the wards oi the
hospital, the dreadful mortality that ha i previ
ously occurred among the infants inhabiting
them was aimost immediately suspended. ‘Even
wheD deprivation of pure air does not produce
any immediate and fatal train of symptoms the
powers of life are gradually impaired; the prop
er development of the body is prevented by
the suspension of the chemical and vital chan
ges in wLicu the oxygen of the air plays such
au imporiant part, and thus the foundation is
laid tor diseases that are incurable by medicines
and curable only, if at all, by natures great resto
rative, pure air. Tne first effects of confinement
and the want of air are seen in the paleness of
the f: ce, fl .bbiness ot the muscles, dullness ol
the ey es,shortness of breath,smalloi ss ol growth,
want of the vivacity natural to children, and
that general vital deterioration which is the
precursor and foundation of such grave and fa
tal disorders as ricKets, indigestion, bowel com
plaints, consumption, scrofula or king's evil,
and indeed almost all the diseases which are
generally regarded as the natural inheritance ot
childhood, but which, ottener than otherwise,
result from improper eating, insufficient or ill-
adapted clothing, impure air and want of exer
cise.
Children really stand more in need of an
abundance of pure air than grown persons, for,
as intimated above, a free supply of the air is
absolu ely essential to those gr. at chemical aud
vital processes by which the growth of the body
is st cured. If the nursery-room is ciosely ceil
ed, it should be well aired every d -y by open
ing all the doors and windows, while, if the
weather be cold, the children can be transferred
to another room. And an airhole should always
be left opeD, day and night, hot and cold, by
having one or more windows partially or entire
ly open, according to the temperature of tht-
weather. Rut, while pure air ib freely diffused
through the loom, the inmates shonld not bleep
immediately under a wiudow or be < xposed to
a s rong current between doors or windows. A
good plan is to have the iq>p< r and lower sash
so put np that air u ay eut-.=i b< tw en them with
out making a dir( cl current ii i- the room,or,in
other worcs, to have.-, misfitting sati. ut course
there should be no smoking lamps or chtuinej s,
tobacco bUioke or anything tending to vitiate
the air of the nursery-room.
After the fiist mont , infants should be car
ried out into the open air when the weather is
pleasant. They enjoy this wonderfully, even at
an early age, as is manifest from their effirts to
approach an open door, and from their ‘crowing’
and other unmistakable evidences of p eisurt.
These are the nnerriDg indications of a natural
instinct which shonld teach ns teat tht free air
The game of proverbs is excellent for drawing
out thought and wit. When it is played, one
member ot the company leaves the room, and
the ri st fix upon a well-known proverb. The
banished guest returns and asks each person a
question, who in reply is bound to briDg in one
wo ;« of the proverb in its proper order, and
the questioner tries to find out from these an
swers what the question is. A very amusing
variety of this game is called ‘shooting proverbs,’
The guests inch appropriate one word of the
proverb as before. The one who is trying to
guess the proverb comes in, steps into the
middle of the room and calls in a commanding
voice: ‘Make ready! Present! Fire!' At the
word -fire’ all the company shout their words at
ODce, and the proverb is to be guessed from the
sound, which is a very confusing one. ‘Nouns’
is another amusing game, aDd can be played by
the old as well as the young. In this, one of
the company thinks of one ('articular person or
thing, and the others ply him with questiors,
and endeavor to find ont hissicret from the an
swers. It is nstonishinp how judicious ques
tioning C:*n draw the most cut-oi'-the v^y oi’jttofc
out of myi-tery iuto the light of day. ‘Trades 1
is also amusing. In this game, each person
chooses a certain trade, and cue member of the
company, who is named by the r st, makts up
a story, in the course of which be introduces
an account of his shopping excursions,and calls
bap-hezard upon the reprt s ‘Otativ6 of each bu
siness to name some noun which belongs to L's
trade, Tbcs, a batcher is to name a certain joint
of meat, a grocer some article of groceries, and
so on. No item is to be mentioned twice; and
if there is any hesitation in naming something
suitable, a forfeit must be paid. Another good
game is called ‘dumb crambo. 1 When playiDg
it, half the party lei ve the room, and those who
remain choose a verb which the others are to
guess. When the absent onr s return, they are
told ( f a word which will rhyme with the word
fixed upon, and they cor sr lt together to find
out what it is. instead of speaking their guess
they RCt it. If they guess right,they are applaud
ed, if they fail they are hissed. A word spoken
on either side, excepting by the actors for the
purpose of private consultation, entails a for
feit. None of these garni s are particularly new,
but they are amusing, nevertheless.
At Mrs. Hayes’ last Saturday reception she
wore a white silk, with drapings of white-strip
ed gauze. A white camelia and ivory comb
were worn in her hair.
The celebrated Welsh harpist, AptoD.as. was
present with Mr. Widdow«, or the Metropol
itan Church cbimep, celebrated by Don Fiatt, of
the Capital. Mrs. Cameron wore a rich garnet
velvet dress with vest and petticoat of palest
blue biocade, 8Dd many other exquisite cos
tumes were noticed.
One Day Only,! 9.
THE GREAT SENSATIONAL EVENT
will be produced at at enormous expense
The NATIONAL SUCCESS! The first appearence in
this city of the gilted American Artists
MR. MoKEE RAA KIN,
—AND MISS-
KITTY BLANCHARD,
In their Beautiful and Cliarniipglj - Pure Americas
Drama of
THE DAN1TES,
By Joaquin Hiller, J he Poet of the Sierras.
Supported by
LOUIS ALDRICH, C. T. TARSLOE,
And a Wonderfully Strong Phenomenal Caft.
This attract on i» under ttie management of Mr. J. II.
HaVERLY. Manager of Haverly's Theaire. Chicago, who
pays Mr McKee Rankin and Mi j s Kitiy Blau,hard a
certain y of $40,000 lor Forty Weeks.
THE D ANI i Es, wherever produced has been applaud,
ed to the echo by cultured and enthusiastic audiences"
and at many Fa-binnable Theatres numb rs were nightly
tinned awsy, ui able to gain even standing room. And
the management confidently expect that the critical and
i telligeiu public wiil endorse the verdict, th-it THE
DANl’IEHis he American Play bo long sought after
at ast found !
Popular prices- $1.00 at d EOc. Reserved seats at Phil
lips & Crew's wnhouuxtra charge.
ti X i a Vl Off per day at home. Samples worth
IU tree. AddressStinsc n &Co.,
Portland, Mai ne.