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Scarcity of Women Architect*.
Mrs. Nichols of Brooklyn, the pion
eer amons American women arctii
tects, ascribes the limited number of
her sex who enter the profession f
architecture to the dearth of schools
which admit women to the architec
tural courses.
She says: “In no other profession
are women so handicapped. Yet I be
lieve that architecture provides a fair
field for women—especially in the
work of building homes. I think, too,
that all women should study architec
ture. as they do music or any other
art. Such knowledge has a practical
bearing on household economy, which
a majority of women are called upon
to administer, and as a social force
will aid greatly to make of American
towns the City Beautiful of our
dreams.” —Harper’s Bazar.
JftpaniM* MHiflfin* t Home.
The Japanese maiden of however
high rank is early taught to sew, cook
and be a model homemaker. The rich
est women embroider their own gar
ments, and nearly ail make them.
The family dinner table is unknown.
In Its place individual tables about a
foot square and eight inches high are
employed. A lacquer tray holding
four or five little dishes is placed on
each table. For the arrangement of
the dishes there is a definite and in
flexible rule, tho soup bowl always
occupying the centre and the rice bowl
standing on the left. Exquisite designs
are the pride of the Japanese chef.
Fish appears shredded to look like
snow; omelet In the shape of a chry- j
santhemum and chicken fashioned in j
all sorts of odd devices. Everything
is served in the daintest fashion.
Fffnft Which Wan Not. on Program.
One incident l must dwell upon,
writes Mme. Melba, because it was
the most beautiful that has happened
in my career. I was singing one
snowy evening at the academy of mu
sic in Philadelphia. When I started
to cross the pavement to my carriage
after the performance, my arm3 were
full or roses that had been sent, to
me during the opera. A white-haired
woman stepped forward and said:
"God bless your beautiful heart. I
have been waiting in the snow for you
to come out. Your voice is the most
beautiful in the world. Will you give
me a rose to keep in memory of it?”
There she stood, white-haired, in the
driving snow, poorly clad in black
and with lines of grief and age seamed
on her face, waiting to tell me that I
had made her happy. I gave her
every flower I had. I kissed her on
both cheeks and we cried there to
gether.—Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post.
Dii it £lt*r.4 of Pioneer*.
The National Society of the Daugh
ters of American Pioneers has decided
to have an exhibit of relics and heir
looms of the noted ‘ pioneers in the
colonies and states. The society was
formed something more than a year
ago, with purposes similar to those
of the other patriotic societies. Any
woman is eligible for membership who
is descended from an early settler, if
acceptable to two-thirds of the local
chapter to which she seeks admission.
The president-general, Mrs. Mary
Parr Warfield Gibbons, is one of the
Warfields of Maryland and Kentucky,
and holds membership in the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution. Colo
nial Dames. Huguenot Society and
Daughters of the Confederacy. The
other officers of the national society
are: Corresponding secretary-general,
Anna M. Shrewsbury; recording sec
retary-general, Clara V. Leonard;
treasurer-general, Mrs. W. M. Strauss;
historian-general. Alvaro P. Gibbons;
vice-presidonts-gcneral. Mrs. Libbie
Beeson Butcher and Mrs. Reuben H.
Taylor.—New York Tribune.
Yiol*t Cone Out of Fashion.
For the first time in many years the
violet has lost its place as a fashion
able flower in woman’s spring head
gear. Tho rose has crowded tho mod
est purple flower out.
The milliners say that it is due to a
whim of the young queen of Holland.
The rose is Queen Wilhelmina’s fav
orite flower. She wears roses, pink,
and white and red. whenever she can,
and when her wedding trousseau
wa made in Paris, the makers had to
pt lots of roses in her finery.
That set the fashion in Paris, where
there are not beautiful royal brides
every year, and all the Parisian mil
liners took the rose into high favor.
Paris sets the pace for the fashions
here, so New York women are wear
ing roses too and violets only hold
their own at the florist’s.
Next year, perhaps, when probably
there won’t be so interesting a young
queen to have a wedding the little
bunches of purple may reappear in
the hats. But it is an interesting
fact that the fancy of the young queen
of an unimportant European country
Is setting the fashion in a great re
public many thousand miles away.—
New York Sun.
Rule* for Vassal- Bills in 186S
When yassar college was opened on
September 20, 1865, the course of study
which had been arranged for the 353
girl students, and which had cost its
founders many disputes as to what
studies were best Included, was as
follows;
"Mental and moral philosophy, an
cient and modern languages, mathe
matics, natural philosophy and chem
istry, natural history (including geol
ogy), botany, zoology and physical
; geography, physiology and hygiene,
rhetoric and the English language, lit
erature, vocal and instrumental music,
drawing and painting.
“What the life of the student was
in those days can best be seen from
the time table that was followed,
which ran like this:
“Rising, 6 am.; morning prayers,
6.45 a. m.; breakfast. 7 a. m.; arrange
ment of rooms (silent time). 7.40 a.
iri.; morning study hours. 9a.m. to
12.40 p. m.; dinner, 1 p. m.; recrea
tion, 2 to 2.40 p. m.; afternoon study
hours, 2.45 to 5.45 p. m.; tea, C p. m.;
evening prayers, followed by silent
time, 6.30 p. m.; evening study hours,
7 to 9 p. m.; retiring. 9.40 to 10 p. m."
When one adds that no girl was al
lowed to go anywhere off the grounds
without a chaperon, that she had to
consult the lady principal about every
move she wished to make and every
cent she wished to spend, one wonders
where the amazing amount of emanci
pation and liberty came in which so
startled our grandmothers and grand
fathers. —The World’s Work.
The Brenthine of Women.
Asa matter of fact, not one woman
in a 100 breaths normally. The res
piration of the average woman varies
with every change of mental state or
physical condition; grief, depression,
fatigue, all have their influence in
lowering the amount of oxygen that
goes into the system, and it is a rare
thing for woman to use her lungs un
less she has had the special and defi
nite instruction incident to the vocal
training of singer or elocutionist.
A little knowledge of physiology and
a few hints on the subject, however,
will enable any woman to comprehend
the precise art of filling and emptying
the lungs on scientific principles. The
main thing is to be sure that the lower
lobes of the lungs are well filled with
air, and that one breathes from the
abdomen. After one has acquired
this habit the chief thing is to breathe
in as much sunshine as possible and
to believe in the eificaey of oxygen as
a remedy for nearly all the ills that
flesh is heir to.
The following are some excellent
rules for improving tho respiration
and bringing it up to a normal condi
tion: Stand at an open window or re
cline on a couch with the waist and
chest uneonfined; hold the chest walls
high and inhale in slow, long breaths;
exhale as slowly, three times only at
first. Gradually the number of times
may be increased and the time length
ened for the breathing exercises.
Fifteen minutes, twice a day at least,
should ho devoted to this exercise to
accomplish the desired results.
To inhale long, deep breaths while
slowly raising the arms above the
head, and to exhale as slowly while
lowering them, is one of the best
breathing exercises ever invented.
The practice of breathing very deep
ly while walking in the open air is
recommended not only for the general
health, but is one of the best cures for
obesity, as the increased amount of
oxygen greatly augments the con
sumption of waste material. —Home
Advocate.
In many instances flower hats have
foliage crowns.
Ready-made underwear has come tc
be almost entirely run with pink or
blue ribbons, because these are the
most generally demanded.
A Frenchy scheme for the girl in
half mourning is to have narrow black
hems hemstitched onto the ruffles of
her dainty white petticoats.
In the new belt buckles a hook and
eye forms a rather pretty clasp. The
hook and eye are each an inch long
and are set solidly with brilliants.
It is a mistake to head a petticoat
ruffle with a ruche, because no matter
how lovely it may be of itself, it
makes a clumsy line on the dress
skirt.
The flare in some of the tailor skirts
is produced by opening the seams on
either side of the fiont and at the
sides and inserting a plaiting of the
material. In dressy thin gowns this
fulness is sometimes of lace.
A French fancy that comes as a
startling innovation is the use of de
signs of cretonne on cloth. Paquin is
responsible for the idea. Garlands of
flowers cut out of the cretonne are
applied to the cloth, which is perforat
ed to show the incrustations.
Single-faced velvet ribbon is prom
ised as one of the trimmings for fou
lard gowns and it is to be stitched on
at the upper edge. Graduated bands
of piece velvet were stitched onto the
skirts of the winter models, so it is
only the same idea differently ex
pressed.
The new crepe de chine sashes are
lovely in coloring, texture and gloss.
Some of thme have an embroidered
design in white around the edge and
all of them have silk fringe on the
ends. They are pretty to drape around
the shoulders, with a knot and ends
at one side.
Avery pretty gown has insertions
of Renaissance lace with a falling ruf
fle around the edge of the yoke edged
with Cluny. Thi3 ruffle is carried
down on either side of the opening
at the front, which is closed with little
ribbon bows. There are insertions of
the lace set in a graceful design at
the tops of the sleeves of this gown.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERS YILLE, GA.
'jwCjjildrein
I’rinre O’ Dlinple < hiii.
My mighty Prince o' Dimple Chin!
High on his throne sits lie,
And by his footstool here I wait,
Jlis serving-maid to be.
My learned Prince o’ Dimple Chiu!
With wisdom all his own,
He muses on affairs of state
There on his wicker throne.
—St. Nicholas.
I'ase IngrHtif u le of an Oriole.
The oriole. It seems, had tumbled
out of its swinging nest and was
picked up by a lady. When the lady
attempted to put the bird back in the
nest the bird objected. His little whim
was respected and he was taken into
the house. A diet of worms was fur
nished, but Mr. Oriole scon showed a
taste for the things that human be
ings eat, and bread, boiled eggs and
sugar took the place of the worms.
He developed a fondness for candy,
and that also w r as supplied.
While he was very charming, he was
also a very determined little autocrat.
He had a way of waking up his mis
tress in the morning and demanding
his breakfast of bread and water.
After he had been fed he would take
an after-breakfast nap on his mis
tress’s pillow. He was full of fun and
enjoyed nothing better than to get
hold of and tangle his mistress’s hair.
In consequence, while the combing
process was going on, this small,
fluffy creature had to be put out of the
room.
When autumn came and the rest of
the birds began to get ready for the
winter trips southward the oriole be
gan to get restless. One morning he
was seen hopping on the window
ledge. The next Instant there was a
flash of yellow—and he had gone back
to his own people and his own ways.
His experiment in civilization was
over. —Baltimore Sun.
Seen Through a Stereoscope.
When you look at an ordinary pic
ture all the figures in it appear fiat,
but when you look at a picture through
a stereoscope the figures appear solid,
and stand out from their surroundings,
just as they do in life. Comparatively
few persons, perhaps, understand how
the stereoscope produces this effect,
but the prinicple is very simple. When
we look at an object, say the trunk of
a tree, each eye sees it differently, the
right eye seeing the front and a part
of the right side, and the left eye see
ing front and a part of the left side.
In other words the right eye receives
one image of the trunk and the left
eye another, and it is the union of
these two images that makes the
trunk appear solid instead of flat.
Now, if two photographs of the
tree trunk be taken, one from where
the right eye sees it and the other
from where the left eye sees it. and
an arrangement be made by which
they can be united, so as to come to
our eyes as one picture, precisely the
same effect will be produced as if we
looked at the object itself, and it will
of course, appear solid.
The stereoscope accomplishes this
perfectly. Every slide used in the in
strument bears two pictures. They
seem to be exactly alike, but they
are not, for one of them is for the
right eye and the other for the left,
and the lenses are so adjusted that
they bring one of the pictures over
the other and make them form a single
image in our eyes. That is why the
object appears solid, for in looking at
the two pictures of it through the
stereoscope we see it exactly as we do
when we look at the object itself. —
Philadelphia Record.
A Helpful Ho bin.
One evening recently, while lying
in my hammock. I noticed a wounded
robin fluttering and hopping across
the lawn. It was making its way to
ward a maple tree in which I knew
a pair of robins had their nest.
Having reached the foot of the tree,
it made several futile efforts to fly
up Into the branches, but only suc
ceeded in fluttering around in a circle
near the ground, as one wing was
broken. It seemed to be a hopeless
struggle, and I wondered bow it would
end.
I had recently been reading “Wake
Robin,” and these words of John Bur
roughs came to my mind: “One may
go blackberrying and make some dis
covery. Secrets lurk on all sides.
There is new’s in every bush. What no
man ever saw may the next instant
be revealed to you.”
The repeated efforts of the bird to
reach Its nest attracted the attention
of its mate. She soon flew down be
side him, emitting piteous little notes.
Aftar hopping anxiously around him
for a few moments, she flew away,
and the wounded robin Bettled quietly
down in the grass.
In three or four minutes the mate
returned with a large worm in its
bill, which it deposited by the side
of tho sufferer. The worm was eager
ly devoured by Mr. Robin, who ther.
again rested in the grass, his mate
meanwhile having returned to her
nest.
Presently the robin. having appar
ently regained some strength, began
to chirp, and was answered from the
branches above. His mate again flew
down to his side, and now’ the robin
made a desperate attempt to fly or
spring up; his mate, with outstretched
wings, got under him. and by their
united efforts they gained the branch
es and their nest.
1 heard them chirping for quite a
while, evidently trying to find a com
fortable position for the wounded
bird, and th( n as it had grown dark,
I ceased to watch them. —Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune.
Mofcqnitoefl an<l Their
The department of agriculture re
cently printed a little pamphlet on
“The Mosquitoes of the United States,”
compiled by* Dr. Howard from infor
mation gathered last summer, in the
first place, the doctor found that the
insect Is native in every part of the
globe; that he thrives quite as well
fet Lapland as in South America and
Afrrca —somewhat more vigorously, in
fact —and that he is scattered over
Uncle Sam’s possessions from Maine
to Alaska and from Washington to
Porto Rico.
Heretofore it has been thought that
the mosquito could breed only in
water, loving stagnant ponds and
streams above all other nurseries, but
Dr. Howard finds that immense
swarms of them live in dry prairie
districts, miles away from all water.
While some scientists believe that
this proves that the insedt can breed
away from pools and ponds, the doc
tor is inclined to hold that the hardy
little torment lives from one rainy
season to me next.
Adult mosquitoes sleep through the
winter like frogs and toads, but they
very quickly die when confined under
glass in summer. Without food they
will thrive in a closed glass jar about
eight days, but when provided with a
ripe banana, renewed twice a week,
they have lived thus for two months.
The doctor also finds that, contrary
to the general notion, mosquitoes do
not require blood for food. There is
a wide difference between the mouths
of male and female mosquitoes. The
males can live a long time without
nourishment of any sort, and the fe
male does not absolutely need the
blood of living animals. The females
are evidently natural plant eaters,
while both sexes thrive in great
swarms far from animals which form
their usual prey. Potatoes and water
melon rinds are food for both, and
they sometimes attack fish and other
cold-blooded creatures.
Railroads play an important part in
distributing them to new localities,
and, though they cannot fly in strong
breezes and generally take shelter in
trees during gales, they have been
known to travel surprising distances
in tho suction created by a railway
train.
Awkward Johnnie.
There was once a little boy who met
with so many dreadful accidents that
he was called Awkward Johnnie.
He was always getting bruises and
cuts, tearing his clothes and being car
ried home half drowned or with Lis
bones broken. The family got tired of
pitying him, and on such occasions
only remarked:
“What an awkward boy Johnnie is!”
Once he went to pay a visit to his
grandmother. She felt somewhat ner
vous about Johnnie’s visit. But she
had always declared that if she had
charge of him he weld not be so
troublesome. •So when his mother
begged her to try Johnnie, she could
not very well refuse.
When be arrived his grandmother
said anxiously:
“I hope you will be a good boy,
Johnnie.”
“Why, of course,” replied Johnnie.
You don’t think I'm awkward, do you?”
“No, Johnnie. I’m sure you are not
awkward,” answered the kindly grand
mother.
But the first day Johnnie caught his
leg in the reaping machine. His
grandmother was glad when he w 7 as
safely in bed.
The second day he tore his best
jacket to pieces among the gooseberry
bushes.
“Did your mother say she would
come for you tomorrow, Johnnie?”
•inquired his grandmother.
“Yes-um!”
“I’m afraid you’re too old for me
to begin to cure you of your awkward
ness now 7 , Johnnie.”
“Yes-um!” said Johnnie, from the
bed-clothes.
The next morning there was a slight
shower.
“But it will clea" toward night,”
said Johnnie's grandmother. “Sit
down and keen out. of mischief, for if
anything should happen you won’t
have a suit of clothes fit to go home
in!”
Johnnie sat in the parlor, reading
all the morning. His grandmother’s
heart was quite softened by his good
behaviour, and after luncheon she
gave his permission to go out on the
porch.
The rain had stopped. Andrew had
dug a trench along the road to drain
the garden, and the water was begin
ning to rush through it in a stream.
What a charming place to sail boats.
A half hour later, while Johnnie’s
grandmother was dozing peacefully in
the parlor, she heard Johnnie open
the door.
“Is that you. Johnnie?” she said.
“Yes-um,” answered Johnnie. "You
don’t think I’m awkward now, do you.
grandmother?”
“Oh, no. Johnnie; I think you have
improved very much since you have
been here. I am sure you will become
a very well-behaved child.”
Then Johnnie stepped around in
front of his grandmother’s chair, and
when she saw him she said:
“Good gracious!”
Johnnie was covered with mud from
head to foot. The streams of water
ran down into little pools all over the
carpet!
And Johnnie’s smartness did not
save him from the spanking he de
served! —Brooklyn Eagle
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Liquid air has been used to propel
an automobile and for refrigeration
and blasting. Other applications have
also been-contemplated. Thus far,
however, none e? these have yet been
developed to a stage that insures a
commercial demand for the product,
and the problem of storing it without
evaporation is not yet fully solved.
Recent trials of heavy steam trucks
by the Italian military authorities
have demonstrated their usefulness as
an accessory of the army transporta
tion service in that country. Wagons
carrying four tons besides their jwn
water and fuel for a 20-mila run, have
developed six to eight miles per hour
over all kinds of roads on which 10
percent grades were frequently en
countered.
Motor vehicles in Holland are coming
into considerable use, and the pros
pects for American machines are good.
The machines intended for Holland
should be made narrower than those
built for use in America, because the
roads are too narrow to permit two
machines of four feet eight inches in
width to pass each other. Carriages
must not have more than 2220 pounds
weight on each wheel.
Every cart of the Berlin Fire Bri
gade is provided with a portable tele
phone Instrument, which can he speed
ily attached to the alarm pillars in
any part of the city and operated by
means of the same wires that are used
for telegraphing. One operation does
not interfere with the other. That is
to say, one man can talk over the wire
while another man is sending a tele
graphic message. A slight knocking
is heard in the telephone, but it 13
not loud enough to prevent the voice
from being distinctly heard.
Dr. A. Hesekiel publishes anew pro
cess of color photography which gives
transparencies. In anew form of
plateholder three consecutive pictures
of the same object are taken on a pan
chromatic plate behind red, green and
blue-violet filters, the plate being
moved along after each exposure. The
exposure for red is three times as
long as the others. The three nega
tives, developed and fixed in the usual
manner, are printed on celluloid film,
coated with bromide chromgelatine
emulsion. The films are developed
in warm water, giving relief pictures
colored white by silver bromide. They
are fixed and washed, and then dipped
in colored solutions —blue-green for
the red; red for the green, and yellow
for the blue negative. After drying the
films are superposed, and a transpar
ency in natural colors is obtained.
The exact way in which yeast causes
fermentation and the true nature of
the fermentation process has been one
of the chief problems of recent biologi
cal research. The point of greatest
interest has been whether the pres
ence of the living yeast cell is neces
sary to produce fermentation, or
whether a simple chemical extract of
the latter will suffice. The last issue
of the proceedings of the Royal society
contains a paper on the subject of
Buchner’s Zymase, which is held by
many biologists to be the alcohol-pro
ducing enzyme of yeast. The authors
describe a long series of experiments
for testing the above questions, and
finally state at the end of the paper
that the results of their investigation
cause them to doubt tho existence of
an enzyme and lead them rather "in
the direction of a theory which refers
the phenomenon to the vital activity
of the yeast cell protoplasm.”
KnnnitiK a Pump by Telephone.
A pumping plant is referred to in
the Electrical World (presumably
electrical), where the actual pumping
apparatus is located some three miles
away from the headquarters of the
plant, from which point it is governed.
The fact that the pumps arc working
satisfactorily is ascertained and a con
stant attendance done away with by
the use of a telephone. By simply tak
ing down the receiver at the main of
fice the working of the pumps may
be listened to through the telephone
wire at any moment, and any difficulty
or imperfection in their running imme
diately noted. A somewhat similar util
ization of the telephone was reported
some time ago in the case of a large
new engine, in a factory situated in a
small out-of-the-way town in rhe west.
Something went wrong with it of
which the local engineer could not
discover the cause, and the engine
builders were notified. Instead of
sending an expert on a railroad jour
ney of several hundred miles at a con
siderable expense of time and money,
they had him put into communication
with the local engine room by tele
phone. After listening to the engi
neer’s explanation, without '‘getting
any light on the subject.” he asked to
be allowed to listen to the engine it
self; and in a few minutes was able to
explain the cause of the trouble and
to indicate how 7 it could be corrected.
A Item ark Material.
A Mr. Simmons of Munich, has in
vented a composition of asbestos and
cement "which is mineral, and is not
quite so heavy as wood. It can be
treated, however, in the same way as
wood, for it stands sawing, planing,
drilling, and holds nails. It can bo
pressed into all forms —can be polished
like steel, and can be colored when
manufactured, and used as imitation
marble. It is wire proof and water
proof. and so can be used for mantel
pieces and the lining of fireplaces. It
can be scrubbed and washed with
soap. A material of this kind may
find many applications.
P o VSjitlOLp MINTS
TilH<-(l VphoUttry |
Tufted upholstered furniture Is no
longer la mode. Mahogany of good de
sign simply covered is much better
form.
Upholstered in Red I outlier.
Red leather is the newest color tone
fur the sear, coverings of dining ioon
cr library chairs. This has been
brought about by the vogue of the
darker toned oaks with which it har
monises better. Green was better with
the light oaks in style several seasons
ago, with which red would look just
as out of place as the green does with
the more sombre tones used now.
Sandwich Suggestion*.
Use wheat bread, rye bread, “kim
inelbrod,” “pumpernickel” or salt
water crackers.
For filling use thinly sliced cola
meat, fowl, cheese, eggs (hard boiled),
sardines or caviare.
Slice the bread thinly, and have the
butter soft enough to spread evenly.
Sandwiches should not be over three
quarters of an inch thick nor more
than three and a half inches square.
Woodwork Finishes.
Wood stains are entering more and
more into the artistic composition of
the modern home. Exclusive designers
nowadays consider the tint of the
woodwork in relation to the wall and
floor coverings as much as the hang
ing and tne furniture. The variety
and beauty of the colorings given the
woodwork is very effective. Dark
green woodwork with yellow walls i?
one of the latest schemes that is very
fashionable. There is a light sage
green tint that is stunning in a dining
room, too.
Tuiicheoiis and Hre<*kfasts.
A breakfast and a luncheon are
similar, but not identical, one is given
at twelve o’clock and the other at one
half after one- in the first place; then
a luncheon may or may not begin with
fruit, but it is imperative that a break
fast should do so. Tho final course of
a luncheon, before the coffee, is a
sweet, usually an ice cream with cake,
while a breakfast may or may not have
this course, but it must have cheeseand
crackers with the coffee. The ar
rangements of the table, however, the
doilies or elaborate cloth, the flowers,
the cards, and favors are the sanio in
both meals. —Harper’s Bazar.
To (lean White CKtrirl* leather*.
Dissolve into two quarts of rather
hot water four ounces of white castilv
coap cut into small pidte&j. ’Make the
solution into a latner by beating It
with a stick. Introduce the feathers
or boa and rub well with the hand?
until they are quite’ clean. If neces
sary renew the solution, but this will
not be essential unless the feathers
are very much soiled. After the soap
ing wash in clean water as hot as the
hands can bear. Shake until dry and
when entirely dry curl by taking a few
strands of the feather at a time and
drawing them firmly and quickly over
fi. strip of whalebone. The curl
should be very loose.—American
Queen.
I-nwA of Hettltl).
Reading aloud is conducive to
health.
Coarse bread is much better for
children than fine.
Young people and others cannot
study much by lamplight with impu
nity.
The best beds for children are of
hair, or in the winter of liair and cot
ton.
Children should sleep in separate
beds, and should not wear night caps.
Children should be taught to use
their left hand as much and as well as
their right.
Sleeping rooms should have a fire
place or some mode of ventilation be
side the windows.
The best remedy for eyes weakened
by night use is a fine stream of cold
water frequently applied to them.
From one to one pound and a half of
solid food is sufficient for a person in
the ordinary vocation of business.
Persons in sedentary employments
should drop one-third of their food
and they will escape dyspepsia.
The Care of Cane Bir<l.
Cage birds require a good deal more
attention than they get, and many
people, though devoted to their pets,
are thoughtless in this respect.
Green food is as necessary for our
little feathered friends as it is for us,
and they should have some daily.
A lettuce leaf will be greatly appre
ciated, the succulent mid-rib will be
eaten voraciously. Groundsel will oc
casionally find favor, and can be
varied with chickweed and apple, but
it will generally be found that lettuce
is best liked.
A little hemp may be given, but it is
heating and should be only given wheu
the bird will come and take it from
the hand.
A spray of millet should always b“
in the cage, besides a glass of mixed
rape and canary, three parts of the
latter to two of the former being the
right proportion.
While on the subject of our featb
ered pets, let me remind my readers
to remember the daily oath, which
should be attached to the cage and not
laid on the floor, for in this way the
sand is made wet and the cake un
healthy.