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About The morning call. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1898)
FRENCH_MARRIAGES. matrimony jhe great object to ALL GIRLS OF FRANCE. Custom* In Tbl* Particular Have Chanced Radically—At the Present Time the Per sonal inclination* of Young Women Are Considered. Miss Anna I*. Bioknell is an English lady who has had most unusual oppor tunities for studying French life. For a number of years she was a governess In the household of Napoleon 111 and re sided in the Tuileries. For The Century Miss Bicknell has written an article on “French Wives and Mothers.” Miss Bicknell says: The old mariage de convenance, which caused so much sorrow and consequent evil in former days, when a girl was taken out of a convent to be shown the man io whom she was about to be mar ried, is now a thing of the past. It must be acknowledged, however, that mar riages are still made up, often too has tily and superficially, by nicely balanced family arrangements and by the inter vention of friends. Nevertheless, attrac tion and repulsion are now taken into consideration, and a girl is no longer forced to marry a man whom she posi tively dislikes. I could quote instances in the very highest (historical) aristoc racy where, at the last moment, after the trousseau had been sent in (marked, according to custom, with the united initial letters of the two names elabo rately embroidered) and all the social preparationsyjnade, the marriage was broken off/becanse the bride had de clared that she could not “get accus tomed” to the bridegroom nor endure the idea of seeing his face in her home during her natural life.. In one of these instances the family lamentations over the initials of the trousseau were really amusing. Fortunately a substitute was soon found whose name, like that of the rejected suitor, began with an X, and the complications were thus happily settled. The great object of the French girl’s life is marriage. Frblir the time of her birth her parents have prepared for this event, and in many cases they have con siderably straitened their income and curtailed their enjoyments to make up her dot. Every girl in every class is ex pected to have something. Those who have nothing are exceptions and consti tute a minority of old maids. The girls who from choice do uot mariy generally become nuns, usually much against the wishes of their parents. The old tales of young women being forced into con vents to improve the position of their brothers are forgotten in these days, when, while no child can on any pre tense be deprived of a share in the fa ther’s inheritance, monastic vows are not recognized by law. Nulls and spin sters are exceptions; marriage .is the rule. When a girl is of age to be introduced into society, her friends and relatives immediately look out for a suitable hus band, whom it is considered highly de sirable to obtain before she has reached the age of 21, that she may not be pro claimed fille majeure when the banns are published. The principal considera tions are equality of birth, of position, of fortune, and in the last particular the scale is.usually expected to weigh rather more on the side of the young lady, especially if the young man, in addition to sufficient present advantages, can bring forward a number of relatives not likely to live long. This is called having hopes (des esperances—beaucoup d’esperances). If the young lady with a substantial dot can also show a satisfac tory background of invalid uncles and aunts, then everything is as it should be, and the young people are brought together with every prospect of a favor able conclusion. It happens, however, too often that they do not know each other sufficiently, and that they are' per suaded to believe that the mutual liking is greater than it really is. Sometimes this sort of undefined attraction ripens into a deep and devoted love. When this occurs, there are no more affection ate wives or more faithful widows than Frenchwomen. More frequently, especially in the higher classes, a sort of cool friendliness springs up, where they see but little of each other, and freedom is enjoyed on both sides. The authority of the hus band is less felt than in an English household. There is a sort of under standing that in her home the wife is queen and settles matters as she pleases. But their best and warmest feelings are awakened by all that concerns their children. French parents are perhaps the most affectionate in the world. The interests and welfare of their children are their first consideration, and won derful sacrifices of their own pleasure and enjoyment are made in favor of their sons and’daughters by the most worldly men and women. These are taken as a matter of course; no one thinks of doing otherwise or of seeing any merit in such acts. The mothers especially are unequal- ■ ed. Nothing will stand in the way of a Frenchwoman where her children’s in terests are concerned. This love is so engrossing that it swallows up every other. They are more mothers than wives, and if called upon to choose be tween allowing a husband to go alone on a foreign mission or leaving their children they would not hesitate. “Mes enfants avant tout. ” ‘ More Proof. O’Hoolaban—Countin the two min yesterday, there’s been 13 kilt so far on the noo buildin goin up across the street. O’Callahan (impressively) Thot’s another proof av the unluckiness av the number 13.—Brooklyn Eagle. Oysters after they have been brought away from the sea know by instinct the exact hour when the tide is rising and approaching their beds, and so of their own accord open their shells to re ceive their food from the sea, as if they TVPi’P nfc hnmo THE NAVAL CHAPLAIN. Hl* Official Station and Duties In Tims of Battle. The chaplain’s official station inmost ship ceremonies and in time of battle is at the sick bay, where lie the sick. Dis cipline and fresh air are wonderful pre servatives of health, and a chaplain’a duties to the sick in times of peace are Very light. At naval hospitals, however, whither are brought from the ships the very sick and the seriously wounded, a chaplain finds ample field for the exer cise of that tender sympathy which wins souls to God and for the minister ing of the consolations of religion. It is also the duty of the chaplain to assist at naval burials. The regulations re quire that Christian burial be provided for all men who die in the service. If possible, the body is interred with the rites of the church to which the deceas ed had belonged. When this sad duty is required at sea, the ship is hove to, the flag displayed at half mast and the offi cers and men are mustered on deck to pay their last tribute to the departed. The funeral services follow, and the body is then consigned to the deep. A guard of honor fires three volleys over the watery grave and the bugler sounds the last “taps”—sad, mournful notes of the bugle which tell of the hour of sleep. If the death occur at a hospital, an escort and a guard of honor from the ship to which the deceased had been at tached accompany the funeral cortege to the grave. As the procession enters the cemetery the bugler precedes, fol lowed by the chaplaiii. This spectacle is always impressive. It naturally sug gests the prayer that angels, led by the angel guardian, may bear the soul of the deceased before the throne of God as friends bear the body to the grave; that the angel at the judgment seat may proclaim welcome, joy and glad ness as the bugler at the grave recalls loss, sadness and regret.—Donahoe’s Magazine. » SLATE PENCILS. What They Are Composed of and How They Are Made. Slate pencils undergo a number of processes before they are ready for use, and in making them nearly all of the manual labor is done by boys. First broken pieces of slate are put into a mortar run by steam and are crushed to a powder, which is then bolted in a ma chine such as is used in flouring mills. A fine slate flour results, which is thor oughly mixed in a large tub with stea tite flour and other materials, the whole making a stiff dough. The dough is kneaded by being passed between iron rollers a number of times, and it is then taken to a table, where it is made into short cylinders four or five inches in thickness and containing from eight to ten pounds of material each. Four of these cylinders are placed in a strong iron resort which has a change able nozzle so that the size of the pen cils may be regulated. In the retort the material is subjected to great hydraulic pressure and is thus pushed through the in the shape of a long cord. AS the cord comes through the nozzle it passes over a knife and is cut into the desired lengths. The lengths are laid on boards to dry and are then placed on sheets of corrugated zinc, the corrugation preventing the pencils from warping during the baking process. The baking is done in a kiln into which superheat ed steam is introduced through pipes. The pencils go from the kiln to the finishing and packing room, where the ends are held for an instant under a rapidly revolving emery wheel, which neatly points them. Finally they are packed in pasteboard boxes, 100 pencils in each box, then 100 of the pasteboard boxes are packed in a wooden box, and they are ready for shipment.—Philadelphia Times. Some Royal Title*. The kings and queens of England were not always styled “his” or “her” majesty or after the pattern of that bestowed upon Victoria “her most gracious majesty. ’ ’ Henry IV was styled “his grace;” Henry VI, “his most ex cellent grace;” Edward IV, “high and mighty prince;” Henry VII, “his grace and his majesty;” Henry VIII, “hi! highness” and afterward "his majes ty. ” Subsequently the English kings were styled “his sacred majesty." While on the subject it may not be un interesting to give the meaning of some royal titles—thus: King means father) kaiser and czar, Caesar, or autocrat, ■ contraction of Samoderebeta; duke means leader; emperor, commander; hospodar, master of the house; khan, provincial chief; landgrave, land reeve; margrave, border reeve; nizam, ruler; pharaoh, light of the world; shah, pro tector; sheik, elder; sultan, ruler. Longevity of Astronomer*. The longevity enjoyed by astronomers is proverbial, and an astronomical jour nal gives a long list of them who have far exceeded the threescore years and ten. Among the eminent names are Cas sini, who lived to 97; Caroline Herschel to 98, Sir W. Herschel to 84, Newton to 84, Mary Somerville to 92, Halley to 86, Sir George Airey to 90, Sir David Brewster to 86, Sir E. Sabine to 94, Humboldt to 90, Schwabe to 88, Santini to 91, and Fontenelle to 100. Regular ity of habit conduces to longevity in any walk of life, and it is a necessity to the astronomer. 'This, added to the calm pursuit of those who study the heavens, counterbalances the effect of late watch ings and exposure to the night air. Not Impressed. “That tenor of ours has a mat felons voice. He can hold one of his notes for half a minute. ” “Faugh! I’vp held one of his notes for two years. ” —Cleveland Plain Deal er. The most expensive stamps for col lectors are those of Mauritius and Ha waii. • The proper distance between the eyes is the width of one eye. Marvslou* Mnrical Memory. % When Mendelssohn played on the plana I or the organ, the listener felt the great musician and composer in every bar. The man’s musical memory was marvelous. Sir Charles Halle, who in 1842 spent sev eral weeks with Mendelssohn at Frankfort, describee, tn his “Autobiography,”three ■ instances of the composer's memory. Ho I writes: ► The greatest treat was to sit with him st the piano and listen to Innumerable , fragments from half forgotten, beautiful works by Cherubini, Gluck, Bach, Pales trina and Marcello. It was only necessary to mention one of them to hear it played 1 to perfection, until I came to the conclu sion that he knew every bar of musio ever i written, and what was more, oould produce ; it immediately. One morning Hiller and I were playing together one of Bach’s organ pieces on the 1 piano—one of no particular interest, but which we wished to know better. When 1 we were in the middle of it—a part hardly to be distinguished from many other simi i lar ones—the door opened, Mendelssohn i entered, and without interrupting us, rose on tiptoes, and with his uplifted finger , pointed significantly at the next bar which was coming and contained an unexpected and striking modulation. ' So, from hearing through the door a bar ’ or two of a—for Bach—somewhat com monplace piece, he not only recognized it i at once, but knew the exact place we bad ' arrived at and what was to follow in the next bar. His memory was prodigious and his knowledge intimate. , It is well known that when he revived Bach’s “Passion Musio” and conducted the first performance he found, on stepping ' to the conductor’s desk, that a score simi -1 lar in binding and thickness, but of an other work, had been brought by mistake. i He conducted this amazingly complicated work by heart, turning leaf after leaf of , the book ho had before him in order not to > create any feeling of uneasiness on the part of the musicians and singers. Some Induction Problem*. In one of his lectures on “Electricity and , Electrical Vibrations,”given at the Royal institution, London, Lord Rayleigh gave one or two illustrations of ‘ the use of the telephone and sensitive flame in induction problems and performed an J experiment which was remarkable for the paradoxical character of the conclusion to be drawn from it. A circuit carrying an induced current was made to branch into two parts, ' one of which passed through one wire of a coll carrying three windings, while the , other passed through the other two Wires . of the same coil. Owing to mutual induc tion and self induction the telephone ' showed that the current in one of the 1 branches was greater than thatin the main before it separated into two parts. So far Lord Rayleigh in these telephone experi ments had been dealing with vibrations whose frequency was mainly determined , by the ear, and was in the neighborhood ! of 1,000 a second. He now turned to the currents of still higher frequency obtained by the discharge of a Leyden jar. The fre quency depended on circumstances, but 1,000,000 a second was not out of the way, and 10,000,000 might be reached. For purposes of experimental investiga tion it was desirable to have some means of slowing down these vibrations, and this might be done by using a source of elec tricity of large capacity and making the discharge pass through a coil with great self induction. This was equivalent to in -1 creasing the Inertia of mechanical system, i The interposition of the coil reduced the I frequency of the vibrations to perhaps 1,000 i a second, and its effect was apparent by , the changed character of the spark, the snapping noise of which was exchanged for a sound possessing a more definite musical character. Napoleonic Feeling In Corsica. Napoleon, “le grandempereur,” lives in the hearts of the people as vividly as though ho had died but yesterday. I was present at a curious scene at the theater at Ajaccio, where an intolerable drama en titled “Napoleon” was performed by as villainous a company as ever trod provin cial boards. The house was crammed, and the enthusiasm so great, with cries of “Vive I’empereur!” that I thought it well to retire before Sir Hudson Lowe came on the scene, to be followed possibly by “A bas les Anglais!” The audience seemed really to be moved as one man by the frenzy of imperialism. I was not sur prised to hear after this that the Empress Eugenie, who wished to revisit Corsica, had decided, on advice, that it would be unwise to do so. To the same fear of arousing popular feeling may be attributed the fact that the directions left in his will by tbe late prince, generally known as “Plon-Plon," that he should be buried atthe“leleß San guinaires,” have never been carried out. The tenacity to the “Napoleonic Idea” may be further illustrated by the fact that the hostility of a great Corsican house to the Bonapartes has never been forgiven. Its present representative is regarded with a hereditary resentment An Ajaoclan gentleman who was calling on an English lady rose and left the room on the entrance of a fellow townsman whose greatuncle had been Napoleon I’s opponent.—Fort nightly Review. Explosives as Medicine*. Professor Alonel says that we often swal low or apply substances which, if Incau- ■ tiously treated or used in any but the mi nutest quantities, would blow us to atoms. What is more, these substances, so destruc tive in largo quantities, are of the most beneficial nature when used in tbe form of medicine. One of tbe best remedies for heart trouble, neuralgia, asthma and head ache is nitroglycerin, which is the only ex plosive ingredient in dynamite. The dose is only one two hundredth of a grain, dis solved in spirits of wine or combined in gelatin tablets. Collodion, a sirupy look ing liquid that is used to form a false skin ovpr abrasions of tbe cuticle, is nothing but gun cotton dissolved in alcohol. In its natural form it is one of the most dan gerous of explosives, and yet, as a medi cine, it has no equal for the purpose for which it is used. Another explosive -used as a drug is picric acid. This is prepared from carbolic acid, and is administered in ternally in very small doses for ague and headache. This acid is one of the explo sives used in the preparation of bombs. These and many otherdangerous drugs are perfectly safe when used as ordered by phy sicians.-—London Standard. A Windfall For Faure. President Felix Faure was agreeably sur prised the other day by a visit from an old lady to whom, after urgent solicitation, he had granted an audience. Her motive, which she had concealed, was to inform him that her admiration of his policy was so great that she intended to leave him l,0()0,000 francs. The president tried to dissuade her, but seeing that she was re solved he thanked and embraced her. SUICIDE AND THE &EXES. It I* Moro Frequent With Mon aad la Deatlned to Increase With Wonwa At the present day man is much more prone to suioldo than woman. This is true of man in regard to epilepsy, crime and other marked signs of degeneration. But It has been observed that as woman ap proaches man in hpr mode of life she also becomes more familiar with those abnor mal conditions which have previously been peculiar to man. The comparative immunity of woman from self destruction in the past has depended greatly upon the relatively leas harassing part she has taken in the struggle for life. Today it is differ ent. Now woman occupies the fields of art, literature, finance and even politics, and, as she goes deeper into these voca tions, she must expect to suffer the conse quences. Already it is noticeable that feminine suicide is not now entirely due to the sentimental causes of disappointed love, desertion and jealousy, but to those trials of a more material order such as have led men to the act of self destruction. Imitation far exceeds any other of what are called trivial causes of suicide and asserts itself more in woman than in man. It is much more common than is supposed. When self destruction becomes epidemic, as it sometimes docs, its prevalence very largely depends upon Imitation. It is said that many years ago the wail of Thomas Hood over “the one more unfortunate” brought many a sentimental person to a watery grave in the Thames, and in our own day the vivid representation of sui cide upon the stage under conditions ap pealing forcibly to the imagination has been known to be followed by the self im posed death of persons whose conditions resembled closely those of the suicide in the drama. Attempts have been made to prove that climate has an effect upon the rate of sui cide, but these attempts have never done more than show that the temperate regions have the highest ratio. This, of course, is not duo to the climate, but to the more complicated civilization, the greater physi cal and mental wear and the more exten sive interference with natural laws met with in the temperate regions. While it is true that climate exerts but little influ ence over the rate of suicide, the seasons, on the contrary, do strongly affect it. The popular belief is that suicide is more fre quent during the months of winter and spring. This, howeyer, is incorrect. Cold, wet, damp weather does not, as so many people suppose, promote despondency and suicide. Strange as it may seem, at that period of the year when the sufferings of the poor and the sick are least, when em ployment Is most readily obtained, when the pleasure of living should be at its highest, suicide is most frequent. May, June and July, the months of song and sunshine in all countries, give the greatest number of self murders. For this there is no satisfactory explanation, unless we ac cept that of the medical fraternity, which Is that during the period of early summer the organism is working at a higher ten sion, every function of mind and body is more active than at any other period of the year, and consequently there is greater liability to sudden physical and mental collapse.—Popular Science Monthly. Warning Not to Overexercise. In a lecture on “Pedagogical Aspects of Physiological Psychology,” delivered at the University Extension school, Philadel phia, Professor Halleck said: “In the case of tbe vast majority the braiu attains its maximum weight by the age of 15. Examination of sections of the spinal cord have shown that between tbe time of birth and the age of 15 there bas been 100 per cent increase in the number of developed nerve cells, while an increase of only 4.6 per cent has been shown after 15. The brain also shows, with ad vancing age, a decline in actual weight and in the number of connective fibers, which afford the physical substrate for thinking and for association. Roughly speaking, nerve cells are plastic in inverse proportion to their ages. These facts point to the conclusion that few people save geniuses ever get an absolutely new idea into their heads after the age of 83. They generally build upper stories on founda tions already acquired. “Nerve cells have been shown to de crease in volume 50 per cent as a result of fatiguing exercise. In the case of deer in an English park, hunted with dogs for sport, but not killed, the deer frequently never recovered from the effects of fa tigue. The nerve cells of those collegians who fall overexhausted after a boat race may never again recover their full vigor. Exercise of every sensory and motor brain "tract is very beneficial when not carried beyond the proper point, for this exercise puts the nerve cell in the best possible con dition for assimilating more nutriment and developing more fully. Inaction in any tract tends to an undeveloped spot and to atrophy.” How the Queen Stopped Grog. There is an amusing story told in con nection with one of the queen’s cruises along the Cornish coast while Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence was still in com mand of the royal yaoht. One day her majesty and several ladies of the royal party seated themselves on deck in a shel tered place protected by the vessel’s paddle box. Some time later the men were seen to gather in little knots and talk together in whispers. Presently an officer approach ed the queen, but his courage forsook him, and he retired A little later another offi cer also approached and then walked away. The queen was amused and mystified, and when Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence came on deck she inquired if anything was the matter, adding, with a smile, that she hoped there was not going to be a mutiny. Lord Adolphus laughed and replied that he did not knew what might happen un less her majesty would begraciously pleas ed to move her seat, a camp stool. “Move my seat?” replied the queen. “Why should If What possible harm can I be doing here?” “Well, ma’am,” re plied the captain, “the fact is your maj esty is unwittingly closing up the door where the grog tubs are kept, and so the men cannot have their grog.” “Oh, very well,” responded the queen, much amus ed, “I will move on one condition—that you bring me a glass of grog.” This was accordingly done, and after tasting it her majesty remarked, “I am afraid loan only retake tbe same remark I did once before— that I think it would be vary good if it were stronger!” It Is almost unnecessary to add that ”The queen, God bless her!” was drunk with enthusiasm that day.— Sketch. Polish For the Furniture. 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