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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 10, 1892.
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THE MAGAZINE
THE DECEMBER FORUM.
HE INVESTIGATION
of the achool-room work
in the public schools of
our principal cities made
for the Forum by Dr. J.
M. Kice has provoked a
volume of comment and
correspondence perhaps
unequalled in periodical
literature. In the Da
cember number appears
the results of Dr. Rice’s
investi g a t i o n of the
schools of St. Louis and
of Indianapolis—St. Louis
representing the evil effects of a mechani
cal supervision, and Indianapolis the
beautiful results of some of the best
school-room work done in the world*
which is described in detail. Confirming
the conclusion reached by Dr. Rice, Presi
dent Eliot, of Harvaid University, writes
perhaps his btst contribution to periodi
cal literature on “Wherein Popular Edu
cation has Failtd"—a comprehensive re
view of our educational woik that is
among the most tLoughtful productions of
ttiis generation.
The World’s Fair is discussed from two
points of view—from one point of view by
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, the well known
writer on art, to show that the Fur is the
noblest of all object-iessons in art, by far
the most notable spectacle that one may
see any where on eaith or that men have
seen since the fall of ine Roman empire.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer argues that it is the
duty of every American man, woman au«l
child to make auy s »ciitiee to see the Ex
position, for the sight of it will be an
event in any lifetime. It-v. John W
Chadwick, following Bishop Potter’s nota
ble article in the Uctober Forum, tells
why Congress must rescind its action and
the Fair mart be opened on Sunday—an
argumeut based on a reverence fur S m-
day, but offering a plea for freedom.
Another timely group of articles is on
the Problems of Poverty. Prof. Francis
G, Peabouy, of Harvard, who made for the
Forum a study of the German system of
poor-relief, especially iu Dresden, writes
a minute description of this system, which
has rendered a case of acute want impos
sible and has banished beggary. Follow
ing this, Mr Jacob A. Riis tells of the spe
cific needs of the poor iu New York City,
aud shows how help for them is hindered
by politics. This number xs notable also
lor its literary articles.
Me. W. H. Marlock, writing on “Are
Scott, Dickens, and Thickeray Obsolete?"
makes a most entertaining study of these
matters of fiction ; and J tines Whitcomb
Riley explains the true function of dialect
in literature in his own characteristic way.
Among other articles iu this number are
one on “Politics as a Career," by Ex-Sen-
a or E imuuds, who writes what the out
look is for a well equipped young man to
euter public life; auoiher by Mrs. Faw
cett, the well known English writer, on
“Women in Ejglish Politics," and a thor
ough study of tne Swedish system of reg
ulating the liquor traffi • by giving the
monopoly of it to municipalities, by Mr.
John Graham Brooks, who visit-eu Swe
den for the Forum to make this investiga
tion.
element are hardly more noticeable than
the personal element, which is represent
ed entertainingly by four articles: (1)
“Leaves from the Autobiography of Tam-
maso Salvini,” in which the great Tra
gedian relates the reminiscenses of his
youth and his early experiences on the
stage, with characterizations of his master
Modena and of Adelaide Ristori; (2) the
R v. Stopfurd A. Brooke contributes an
article of personal reminiscence and criti
cism, entitled “Impressions of Browning
and his Art"; and (3) an attractive anec
dotal article by Ronald J. McNeill on
Jenny Lind forms the first of a new series
of separate papers in the Century on “No
table Women." (5) Mr. Archibald Forbes
follows up his papers on the Paris Com
mune with a paper on “War Correspon
dence as a Fme Art," illustrated with
portraits of William Howard Russell, Dr.
Kuster, Kingston, Henty, Millet, Colonel
Grant, and Mr. Forbes himself. These
four articles are accompanied by interes
ting portraits.
“Picturesque New York" is described
by Mrs. Sonuyler van Rensselaer, whose
name suggests intimate acquaintance with
the subject of which she writt s, an i pic
tures by Mielatz and Manly reinforce her
contention that New York lias unique pic
turesque features. “To Gipsylami,” the
second paper of Mis. Pennell’s experience
among the Hungarians and Bohemians, is
as interesting as its predecessor in the
November number, and is uniquelv illus
trated with pictures by Mr. Pennell.
In * Topics of the Time" the meeting of
Congress is editorially taken note of by
three articles; one, on “Tue First Duty ot
Congress," in which the repeal of the
Silver Law of 1890 is urgently advocated ;
another, on “Immigration Pioblems;”
and a third, on “G •vernmeut Architec
ture in America." Mr. W. J. Henderson,
music -1 critic of “Tne New York Tim^s,"
coutiibutes an Open Letter “To Peis >ns
Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Music."
Altogether the number is one of great va
riety, entertainment aud special interest.
Tne Century ai-.nounces that in the J sii-
uary number w ill be a humorous sketch
by Mark Twain, in bis most diverting
vein, entitled “The £1 000,000 Bank Note."
Th i Century for December falls into the
current of the Cunstmas feeling with a
number of features. First ot all, it has a
beautiful and appropriate special cover.
In addition to this there are five fuli-page
engravings of pictures by American ar-
arusts t ou religious iheuns, besides a
frontispiece of a beautiful “Madonna aud
Child" by D ignan-Bouveretc, one of the
choicest of the French artists, and a lead
er in the tendency to revive the Christian
sentiment in art. The American artists
thus contributing are Simmons, Du Moud,
Thayer, Miss Macom'ier, aud Blashfield,
th) representative of the last being his Sa
lon picture of 1802," “Ringing the Cnrist-
inat Bells." Tu-re are several poems and
stories reflecting the Cunstmas feeling
and more or less relating to the holiday.
These include “My Cou-in Fannie,” by
Thomas Nelson Page; “Their Christmas
Meeting,” by Florence Watters Suedeker;
and discussions of “the Effect ot Scientific
Study Upou R-uigious Beliefs," by H. S.
Williams; and of “The Problem of Pover
ty," by Washington Gladden, and sub
jects relating to cniid-lil'e, su ;h as “Some
Tenement House Evils," by Liliiau W.
Betts; “The Prevention ot Blindness in
Infants," by Swan M. Burnett, aud a se
ries of poems about children entitled
“Some More Boys," by James Whitcomb
Riley, with illustrations by Kemble.
. In addition to the two stories above
m nttoued, the number contains five
more; “The New Cashier, by Edward Eg-
gl. et .u: “A Knight of tne Legion of Hon
or," by F. Hopkiuson Smith, author of
Colo lei Carter ot Cartersville" ; “St-reue's
Religious Experience," by Cornelia At
wood Pra t; aud two of Grace King’s sep
arate senes of “Bale >uy Scorn a,” entitled
“The Balcony" aud “A Drama of Thr*e.”
In addition to these short stories the uum-
ber contains the second part of “Sweet
Bells Out of Tuue,” the New Yora society
novel by Mrs. burton Harrison, the au
thor of “Tue Auglomauiacs," and the
opening par; of the posthumous novei of
Western life by Wolcott Balestier, en
titled “Beuetiis Forgot.” Nearly ail of
these stories are attractively illustrate^.
la addition to Mr Riley the poets of the
number are Thomas Bally Aldrich, Rud-
yard Kipling. Harrisou S. Moiris, Joun
M y, Mary E. Wilaius (* prose poem),
Jouu Malone and Richard Watson Gildei;
and iu the department “la L gnter Vein,”
William Bard McVi ;kar, Manly U Pike,
Margiret Vaudergrift, aud Frank Demp
ster Sheruiau. Thus the Century main
tains its reputation for h iviug a targe va
riety of p n-tic material iroui writers of
reputation.
The Christmas element and the story
The North American Review for Decem
ber embraces a vaiiety of aitides that, go
far towards asolution of the questions ban
died, and to which the public mind is at this
moment directed. Tne established policy of
The R view is to St cure papers from those
men upou w hose opinion aid action the
decision « f the matters under discussion
largely depeud. Mr. Giadstoue, ttie Prime
Minister oi England, hasepokeu iu its col
umns on the condition of affairs iu Ireland,
his paper being a reply to the Duke of
Argyll, and in tbe December number the
Hon. Aithur James Balfour, Secretary for
Ireland in the Salisbury administration,
gives what ha claims to tie the view of the
real maj nily in Great Britain. His arti
cle is entitled “The New House of Com
mons aud the Iiisb Question." The mean
ing of the Papal infallibility is made very
oie*r by Hie Rev S. M. Brandi, of the So
ciety of Jesus at Rome, in “When Is the
Pope Infallible?"
He reviews various utterances and de
crees of the Pope aud points out their dis
tinctions in character. The Governor of
Jamaica in “Opportunities for Young Men
in Jamaica" sets forth with some <-mhu
siasm and yet practical detail the business
advantages that are afforded by the some
what neglected island. In view of rtceui
achievements by American-bred horses
aud the revived interest in flue stock an
article of special value is that ot Coi.
Theodore Ayrauit Dodge on “The Horse
iu America." Iu “A Campaign for Ballet
Reform" the Hon. E. Bucd Giubb re
counts the history of the fight made
against oonuption at the polls in New
Jersey, which led to the conviction and
imprisonment of a large number of tbe
guilty politicians. Haunis Taylor writes
a strong paper on “A Blow at the Freedom
of the Press, ’ and expresses in a legal
argument the belief that recent legisla
tion in Congress and judgment in the Su
preme Couit affecting the mails are
dangerous, and should be, aud will be, set
aside. M. Allred Naquet, of tbe Cbamber
o' Deputies, the author of tbe Divorce
Bill, explains the absolute need of a cer
tain freedom in dissolving the marital
relation in his article “Divorce: From a
French Point ol View." A paper that is
brilliantly written, and that will have a
considerable bearing on the yet unsettled
question of au international contest for
tue cup, is “International Yachting," by
the Earl of Dunraven. E. L. Godkin, iu
“A Month of Quarantine," gives some ac
count of the inconveniences of the present
system of detention, and urges the control
of quarantine by the Government on a
basis of ihorougu science. T. D. Crothers,
M. D., discusses tht question, “Is Inebriety
Increasing Among American Women?’
Another article of interest on a similar
line is one by Dr. Hei ry South Williams
on the “Wages of Siu," noting the nature
of paresis. The English pnsi has re
cently been discussing the problem why
poets and novelists so often fail in their
efforts iu writing dramas. W. T. Price, in
“Playwrights and Literary Men," points
out the peculiar naiure of dramatic con
struction. In other papers S. Ruett R miau
discusses “American Chauvinism," aud
E. Iren ants Stevenson contributes “Criti
ciam Criticised."
enough to be the fitting climax of so awful
a disease. To make the image yet. sadder,
and hence truer, it should be added that
paresis usually selects for its victims the
more intellectual members of the com
munity. “Selects," did I say? Rather, I
should have used the passive tense; for
paresis does not come unbidden. Ruthless
as it is when once it has seized a victim,
it need have no terrors for any one who
does not invite it by his actions. And
this, perhaps, is the saddest fact of all in
the sad hirtory of this baleful disease. To
stand helpless and see a strong man cut
down by disea'se is always appalling ; but
to feel that his disease was preventab e; to
know that he is but reaping as be has
sown; to have the words come unbidden
to your lips, “the wages of sin is death,"—
this is indeed a bitter aud humiliating ex
pel ieuce. Yet such is the lot of the phy
sician as often as he meets a case of
paresis. Powerless to stem the tide of
this disease he must stand aside, reproach
ing himself and his art, while victim after
victim goes down to certain death before
his eyes. Only one thing remaius for
him; be can give a warning cry to those
who are unwittingly treading the pHb
that leads to this pitfall. From “The
Wages of Sin," by Henry Smith Wil
liams, M. D , in North American Review
for December.
Browning’s Obscurity.
TO SAIL TO THE NORTH POLE.
The Popular Science Monthly for De
cember, 1892.
THE INCURABILITY OF ADVANCED PARESIS.
Of all the diseases that menace tbe race,
omy a few are absoiuteiy fatal. Indeed,
there is but one common disease that in
variably brings its victim speedily to the
grave. Tub, mo it ruthless of maladit-s is
tnatteiribie form of insanity technically
called general paresis or paretic dementia,
aud kuowu co the layman as “softening oi
the brain.” Its unvarying history entities
it to precedence over consumption, cancer,
Bright’s disease; iu short, places it peer
less iu bid p t-aminence. Auu as if this
were not enough, its malignity is ; in
phasized by the way in which it juggles
with its victim before it extinguishes his
Ute. It changes his personality, dvthiones
reasor, almost eliminates tbe mind, and,
steadily weakening the body, leaves to
wards the last a mere skeletal, vegetative
being scarce recoguizible as the vestige of
his former self; unknowing, unfeeling,
mini l ss, to bis friends -it once a tearful
memoiy and a terrible objective presence.
Finally death comes in a form horrible
All that he wrote in the atmosphere oi
his passionate huinanifcywill endure when
ever it is expressed in a form not too dif
ficult or too rugged for the multitude of
those who, iu humility, love nature and
human nature. There is nothiag really
obscure in Browning; bis thoughts are
clear enough to himself, and a few sim
ple clues, easily won by those who will
take tbe trouble, will lead a student to
the centre oi any labyrinth to be found
in liis work. Nor ate tbe thoughts them
selves complex. Tbe diffieulfy of under
standing bis poetry lies iu tbe way in wbicb
thoughts iu themselves quite simple are
expressed. They are twisted, ei tangled,
and broken up in a manner which I do not
like to call wilful, bur. which has that air;
aud this is not good art. What is simple
ought to be kept simple, not changed into
ridiili s, or overwhelmed with fautistic or
nament. He has also another fashion,
and quite a d ffereut one, which makes
him d fii uit. Sometimes he is as com
pressed, luoisive, and vigorous as he is at
other times careless ami fluttering iu
thought He has a way of leaping straight
to his thought aud clinching it at once,
witiiout taking us through auy of the
thoughts that led to it. We see the thing
bat not the process ; and we h-.ve to work
out the process fur ourselves. That is
quite legitimate iu poetry, when there is
not too much of it, aud tbe man who com
plains of that ditli julr.y has no busiuess to
read poetry 7 at all. But when a number
of th-se comp »t'd thoughts are expressed
one aft r auotln r iu a few lines, without
any care for sbo vmg their connection ;
when they so jostle and trip up one anoth
er that they are not really seen as wholes
but as halves—then the poetry does be
come more difii -ult tnau auy artist ought
to permit his work to br.
Some people like this, but it is for the
most part tbe trouble it gives tin m which
they like, and not the poetry; tbe intellec
tual exercise to which they are put, and not
the passionate feeling in the verse, which
is, of course, what Browning most wished
them to enjoy. Tue thought, when tlisy
have disentangled it, is dear to them and
pleases their vanity, because they had
such hard work to find it out—the nut
tasting sweet iu proportion to the difficul
ty of the shell But this is not love of
poetry, but of one’s own cleverness. More
over, when the thought is found out, it is
olttii the same as Wordsworth or Miltou
ha) expressed iu luminous languag, but
which, beiug quite clear toa childe, does
not aive these persons the pleasure of a
double acrosdc —Stopford A Brooke, in
The Christmas Century.
Uncle Moses’s ’Possum Prayer.
Great consternation followed by wild
laughter, was au innovation of the chapel
exercises at the penitentiary the other
morning. It was occasioned by a ’possum
prayer from old Moses Allen, a South
Carolina negro with cue leg, who was
dreaming of Thanksgiving day in tilt
near future.
Chaplain Dudley opened the prayer
meeting, as usual, and pri oners followed
briefly. When all heads were bowed in
reverence old Mose jumped at the oppor
tunity aud delivertU the following pray
er :
“Dear beloved brudderin and sister’n,
I tank de Lor.i for permittin’ me to kum
ter church dis yer beautiful Sabbor moru.
Ye all dunno that beautiful Thanksgiving
day is near at ban’. On dat day some
folks wi‘i eat turkey, some eat chicken,
some eat duck, some eat lamb, aud some
eat sheep.
“But us Liggers, we
good old ’poas. Cooh
take all the lxaar of
two nights aud
Bring ’irn in.
Stuff ’im like you would a turkey, an’ base
’im. Put ’im in de pan. Put sweeten
taters ail round dat ’puss. Put ’im in de
stove aud shst dat stove doab. Go way
thinking about Bjoregard, Jeff Davis, Lin
coln and Grant.
“Lit ’im stjy in dere a while. Open dat
stove doah. Ol’ ’pussy all turned brown
aud de gravy dnppm in de pan deelar cat
’poss am coosed. Bring dat ’poss out dat
stove, put ’im on de table. Dou t cut ’im
while e’s ’ot. Fur Christ’s sake, amen."
Chaplain Dudley stood aghast at the
conclusion of the prayer. A moment after
ward the chapri re-echoed the wild and
wicked shouts of the prisoners.
For nearly five minutes consternation
reigned, at the eud oi which time prayers
wtie re'umed, with no .further expres
sions from the c dored brethren —Coluux-
ous SDdcial iu Cleveland Leader
Dr. Kansen’s Expedition Will go in a
Ship Especially Designed.
No vessel has ever been so carefully de
signed and built for the purpose of bat
tling with the Arctic ice and endeavoring
to reach its core at the North Pole, and
certainly no more solidly constructed or
perftet description of vessel has ever bsen
turned out of a builder’s hands for Arctic
service than the one just fiaished for the
use of Dr.- Nansen’s Arctic expedition.
The vessel is constructed on nearly simi
lar Hues to those of a Scutch buckleboat or _
Norwegian pilot. Sbo is furnished witb i out by the lato Car\ill
engines of about 170 inuioated horse pow- | G F. Wright appear iu
er, powerful pumps to be worked by
steam or baud power, and electric light
ing machinery. She also takes with her a
balloon to he held captive for purposes of
observation, and carries seven boats-four
on davits and three on skids over the
main hatchway. Two of these, larger than
the others, are capable of carrying the en
tire crew, with provisions for several
months, and warm tents in the event of
tbe abandonment of the vessel.
The expedition will leave Norway in
February next so as to arrive at Behring
Strait in June, when the vessel will enter
the Arctic waters, and push her way far as
possible toward the Pole to the north of
tbe Liaklxov Islands, where she will be
The high character of The Popular
Science Monthly is well sustained in the
December number. Under the title Fioin
Magic to Chemistry and Phjsics, Dr. An
drew D. WLite shows how the world has
been robbed of many of the benefits of
science by the oppression of a narrow
theology. Dr. A. M. Fanning, of New
York, contributts a thoroughly practical
article on Deafness, amt the Care of the
Ears. That the Cathode Church still
holds to the belief in possession by devils
is shown by Prof. E. P Evans, under the
title Modern Instances of Demoniacal
Possession. Certain Recent Glacial D;s
coveries iu Engl ami that have bceu worked
Lewis aud Prof,
this number, ac
companied by a folded map. Tbe evo
lution of the traits of the dog—Canine
Morals and Manners, as the author calls
them—is described in a very readable
way by Dr. Louis Robinson. Auother
evolutionary article is that on Pruttc.ive
Devic*s ami Coloration of Land Snails, by
Henry A. PUsbry, which is illustrated the
Environment of Grecian Culture, is d>-
piettd by George Perrotr, who tines many
features of the laud of Greece iliat have
made their mark on its people. Rev. A.
N. Some.s des :nbe some of the evidences
that point to Prehistoric Cannibalism in
America. Recent application of paper
form the snt ject of au article by Emman
uel Ratoiu. There is a strong and whole-
frozen in, and then conveyed, according some arraignment of the S iam ignorance
n. which has been deemed essential to inno-
to Dr. Nansen’s theory, to and pass tbe
Pole, and be finally discharged into the
E ist Greenland seas.
The dim -onions are as follows: Length
of keel, 31 00 metres; length on waterline
34 50 metres; length over all, 39 00 metres ;
oeain molded at waterline (including “ice
sheathing") 10 40 metres; greatest ream
(exclud.ng “ice sheathing") 11.00 metres;
depth molded 5.25’ metres ; displacement,
at draught, ol 4 75 metres (800 ton*) ; height
of lot k *ut from “crow's near" on main
topmast above the water, 105 feet, total
sail area, GOO square metres.
Coal is carried for over time month's
constant steaming. Thetngints will give
her a speed of six knots, but ots.ili will be
used generally *s motive power. The crew
will consist, all told, of not more than
twelve men, and provisions for five years
will be carried. The vessel is rigged as a
three masted fore and aft scht oner, with
square sails, which can be rigged on the
foremost when required. The origiual es
timated cost of the expedition was about
£16 700, but will probably come to cousi 7^
trably more.
A WISE OLD TOAD.
It Lived for Thirty-Six Years Uuder a
French Farm House.
would like that
’i u, bring ’im iu,
’im, put ’im out
let ’im fross.
Parberl ’im.
Marble Works.
See Wat ha n & Go., for first-cla«s
cemetery work of all kinds. No. 169
Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. tf
Amoug all the stories which aie tcld of
toads, none is more remaikeble, perhaps,
than that of a toad which lived for more
than thirty-fix years in a hole beneath the
door-step of a Freneh farm house.
How old it was when first noticed, no
one could say, but it hail probably lived a
long time before familiarity with the sight
of man emboldened it to rest tranquilly on
the door-step over which persons were
constantly passing.
The step became the batrachian’s “bunt
ing-ground,” where with little trouble it
might capture the ants which persisted in
crossing and reerossiug the step. The
toad “hunting for its supper" came to be
regarded as one of the sights of the neigh
borhood, and certainly the skilful manner
in which it usi d its wonderfully formed
tongue entitled it to be ranked as ail ex
pert.
For one thing it showed wondeiful skill
in judging distances; tne tongue was
never darted out until the insect came
within a certain range. The accuracy of
the creature’s aim was auoiher matter for
surprise.
The rapidity with which the tongue was
shot foith excited much wonder. The
operation is a complex one. The tongue
is doubled or folded up, when in the
mouth ; therefore a two'old action is re
quired—au uncoiling of the weapon, and
Uien the darting of it forth
The withdrawing of the tongue, with
the captured insect on the tip, was not,
less remaikable. Notwithstanding the ;
rapid motion, tbe fineness of the tongue- j
tip, and the struggles of the prey, the vie j
tim was never dropped.
The toad was so tame that it might
justly be called “domesticated " It would j
lemain quietly in one hand, and take its i
food from the other, provided a leaf
were placed on tne hand which held it.
Without this precaution, the warmth of
the hum m skin was evidently annoying
Few things seemed to please it more
than to be placed on the table in the even- j
ing when the lamp was lighted, It would *
look round with the greatest confidence in
its gleaming eyes, and when insects were ;
placed on the table it snapped them up
with even greater iapididity than in its
Jay huntings.
In this way the toad lived for thirty-six
years, the pet of tbe neighborhood. It
might have lived many years more, had ;
not a tame but spiteful raven pecked out
one of its eyes.
The bird brought upou itself universal ;
hatred foi this assault, but sympathy was
no profit to the poor toad. He could no
lougei measure distances accurately, or
aim with certainty, and he died in about a
year after his injury, apparently from
starvation.— Youth's Comnaniou.
cence, in * paper ou the Symmetrical De
velopment of our young women, by 0. E.
Brewster. Dr S. T Armstrong ti.ls what
progiesi has been mule toward Protective
Inoculation for cholera. In filacirs of
modern Economises, some current theo-
ri» s of the socialists, nationalists, aud
other economic reformers are vigorously
attacked by Arthur Kits m. G. Valbert
describes the Evolutiou « f the Alphabet,
Agnt s L Carter tel is how to Tie a Rope of
Sand that shall save our wasting beaches,
J. T. Donald writes interestingly ou Nick
el and its Uses, and ibeie are a portrait,
and biographical sketch of Prof. George
Fredeiick Wright, the eminent geo ogist
of the Oheriiu Theological Seminary.
New York : D. Appletou & Company.
Fifty cents a number, $5 a year.
The Weakness of Sham Iguorance.
Th assume, therefore, that our young
women are ignorant of a state of things of
whose existence tlmy are perfectly well
aware, is to put them at once upon the in
secure basis of the dissembler. Is this
simulated innocence of intrinsic value?
Does it not rather dwarf growth and
cripple usefulness? Unless early ao us
touted to viewing such matters from the
truthful, helpful standpoint (and such
standpoint does exist), our young girls
become bitter and unsparing iu judgment,
sharers in that sweeping intolerance
which half-knowledge always breeds.
Is there, I ask you in ail fairness, any
justice in exacting such a false social
state? Here, as elsewhere, give our
young women a chance to work. Do not
briug them home with education “fin
ished"—thorougi.ly equipped mentally,
partially equipped physically, but utterly
denuded of that intelligent moral accou
trement which is to make them well
rounded in character, a power in their
little world. Apply the strength now de
voted to shielding their supposed ignorant
innocence to the development of heatli-
ful views on a subject which must, sooner
later, confront every thinking woman.
Many contend, I know, that our young
girls are not strong enough to bear a com
prehensive knowledge oi this subji-ct; that
knowledge, even though it may not rob
them of their pure conceptions, at least
causes them to become depresstil and ut
terly cast down. But 1 think not told
with reverence, as a whole. They must
face this knowledge eventually. Is it any
less cruel to encourage the building up of
disproportioned ideals which must ulti
mately be chipped away, piece by piece ?
—From The Symmetrical Development of
our Young Women, by C. E. Brewster, in
The Popular Science Monthly for Decem
ber.
Secure a Easiness Education.
Mr. Joseph Hemmerich
An old soldier, came out of the War greatly
enfeebled by Typhoid Fever, and after being
in various hospitals the doctors discharged him
as incurable with Consumption. He has
been in poor health since, until he began to take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Immediately his cough grew looser, night
sweats ceased, and lie regained good general
health. He cordially recommends Hood’s Sar
saparilla, especially to comrades in the G. A. K.
HOOD’S Pills cure Habitual Constipation by
restoring peristaltic action of the alimentary canaL
The importance of giving every! young
min a thorough business education is uni- |
versally recognized; and t.he Georgia *
BusinesSgColiege of Macon, Ga., by com
mon consent, leads all Southern Commer
cial Colleges. It not only unfailingly
graduates students within two-thiras the j
time and cost of others, but assists them
to positions, thcire not being one now idle.
A handsome catalogue is sent every appli
cant.
STKAMiC nCT TRI E! 1 ifi*e away Planus, llrcng, and Sewing
Hachlne«. Send your address, nu fiostai. at nwe, tell whidi
you need and learn how it's dona. A cent sent to Bent is well
■oent. GEO. P. ^E\T fC!erk No. 55 ), Cbieairo, III., M'f'r. o£
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