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SUICIDE AND THE SEXES.
It b Mm Frequent With Men >»4 la
Destined to laaraaaa With Wemen.
At the preaent day man la much more
prone to subside than woman. Thia is true
of man in regard to epiiepsy, orime and
marked signa of degeneration. But
It baa been observed that as woman ap
proaches man in her 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 lass harassing part she has taken
in the straggle 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 la noticeable that
feminine suicide in 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 does, 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 due 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, however, 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 Overexereiae.
In a lecture on "Pedagogical Aspects of
Physiological Psychology,” delivered at
the University Extension school, Philadel
phia, Professor Halleck said:
"In the case of the vast majority the
brain attains its maximum weight by the
age of 16. Examination of sections of the
spinal cord have shown that between the
time of birth and the age of 16 there has
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 ago, a decline in actual weight
and in the number of connective Übers,
which afford the physical substrate for
thinking and for association. Roughly
speaking, nerve cells are plastic in inverse
proportion to their ages. Those facts point
to the conclusion that few people save
geniuses ever get an absolutely new idea
into their beads 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 60 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 yacht. 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 be 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 know what might happen un
less her majesty would be graciously pleas
ed to move her seat, a comp 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, "lam afraid I can only
make the same remark I did once before—
that I think it would be very 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.
A little turpentine and oil applied to
furniture with a flannel cloth, the furni
ture then thoroughly rubbed, will give it
a bright, clean appearance. If your rose
wood refuses to polish, have your furni
ture man repolish it for you. He will rub
it down with sandpaper and varnish it so
it will last for years.—Ladles* Home
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" SHALL THE WALTZ GO!
Pvofeesers Think Our Pronenem to Brenp
Has Killed It
The best known dancing masters of
New York gave The Journal the follow
ing statements of their views concern
ing the waltz:
Professor Augusto Francioli said: "It
is true that the waltz as a society dance
is a thing of the past. It will always
hold its own so long as dancing is done
on the stage. The reason for its disap
pearance is the popularity of the min
uet, than which there could not be a
more stately or refined dance. My opin
ion is that the quality of grace is to be
developed to the exclusion of romping,
which has nothing but the exhilaration
of exercise to recommend it. Society
people will now affect the minuet and
the gavot; will learn to use the anus
with grace in the danco and abandon
that barum scarum, degenerate, vulgar,
ungraceful thing, the nineteenth cen
tury waltz and its hoidenish compan
ions, the quickstep and polka and the
like.
"I believe we are to enjoy a renais
sance of the beautiful costuming of the
middle ages, a necessary accompani
ment of the reform in dancing. ”
Professor Lawrence Daresaid: '“The
waltz has become a romp. lam sorry
to say it, but I must put the blame
where it belongs, at the door of the col
lege boy. College boys presume upon
the amount of their fathers’ money.
They claim a freedom that no gentle
man should want. They back u lady
about without fear or favor. I have
found in my 20 years’ experience as a
dancing master that the college boy is
the one I need to watch in my classes.
“He does not realize that the rule of
dancing is always to take care of the
lady. He violates this by backing her
about as though ho were moving fur
niture. Go to any college dance to con
firm this. So long as the college boy’s
rule on the dance floor continues the
waltz will be in abeyance. The two
step in slower time will be its succes
sor. ”
Oscar Duryea said: “The two step is
the leader. The secret of its success is
that it is easy of accomplishment. It
requires no art to acquire it. It can be
easily learned in one lesson, while it
takes a season or two to thoroughly
master the waltz. There is more inspi
ration in the music of the quickstep,
because it is quicker, and the American
must hurry, even in his amusement A
waltz is not such unless it is danced
to slow, dreamy music. You cannot
hasten the tempo of a waltz without
spoiling it The reason for the present
decadence of the waltz I take to be two
fold. Its rival, the two step, is more
easily learned and can be danced with
greater rapidity, thus appealing to the
American love of rush. ”
Professor T. George Dodworth said:
.“The disfavor shown the waltz is due
to the romping introduced into it of late
years. The two step brought out much
boisterousness that was carried into
other dances, the waltz among others.
The very young set is chiefly responsible
for this. There have been those who
have always waltzed and danced the
step in a sedate manner. A great inter
est is being shown in the old fashioned,
stately dances, as the menuet de la cour,
the gavot and the pavane. These were
the dances in vogue in the time of the
Louis and require much training in
grace of arm and body. It is usually
more difficult for men than women to
accomplish this grace. Classes have
been organized especially for the benefit
to be derived from practicing these state
ly court dances. The interest in these
old dances has been more marked in New
York. I have been surprised to learn
how little interest has been taken in
them in other cities. New York is lead
ing in taste for these dances.”
Tennyson’s Religion.
It was fortunate, says Mr. Mabie in
The Atlantic, that Tennyson’s biography
was not prepared by a biographer who
was anxious to minimize the religious
element in his life. On the contrary, it
is thrown into the boldest relief, and
the reader is let into those profound
convictions which gave the laureate’s
poetry such depth and spiritual splen
dor. The whole subject is dealt with,
in connection with “In Memoriam,”
with the most satisfying fullness. “In
this vale of time the hills of time often
shutout the mountains of eternity,”
Tennyson once said. The nobility of his
verse had its springs in those moun
tains, and they inclosed and glorified
the landscape of life as he looked over
it He refused to formulate his faith,
but he has given it an expression which
ii at once definite and poetic, illumin
ating and enduring. “I hardly dare
name his name,” he writes, "but take
away belief in the self conscious person
ality of God, and yon take away the
backbone of the world. ” And again,
“On God and godlike men we build our
trust ” A week before his death, his son
tejls us, he talked long of the personality
and love of God—“that God whose eyes
consider the poor, ” “ Whocatereth even
for the sparrow.” “For myself,” he
said on another occasion, “the.world is
the shadow of God.” In his case, as in
Wordsworth’s and Browning’s, poetry
issued out of the deepest springs of be
ing, and he made it great by commit
ting to it the expression of the highest
truth.
To a young man going to a university
he said, “The love of God is the true
basis of duty, truth, reverence, loyalty,
love, virtue and work,” and he added
characteristically, “but don’t be a prig. ”
Through his verse, as through his life,
there ran this deep current of faith, but
the expression of it was free from the
taint and distortion of dogmatic or ec
clesiastical phrase.
A Rode Shock.
Uncle George—You’d better take up
with Miss Gordon, Harry. They say she
is worth a million—
Harry—You don’t mean it, Uncle
George!
Uncle George—Of common women.
Harry—H’m I—Boston Transcript,
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OF COURSE IT’S TRUE.
Thto Story of toe Jerne Bone and toe
Yeans Doetar.
“One reads so many stories about ani
mal intelligence that it would to tocard
oub for a doubter to express his disbe
lief in almost any gathering, of men at
i the present day,” remarked Dr. W. W.
* Watkins. "A little instance came
i ‘Within my own observation ra number
' es yean ego when I was studying med
icine and which convinced mb that the
members of the bone family at least
ought to be credited with the possession
of a very considerable quantity of rea-
i soning power. It was the custom for,
the students at the medical institution
at which I pursued my studies to wear
a small badge upon their coats to dis
tinguish them from others at the col
lege. A horse belonging to the estab
lishment was used a great deal about
the medical department, and the ani
mal seemed to have a special preference
for the embryo doctors more than for
any other people about the establish
ment.
“Ona day, while a number of us were
gathered in a little knot upon a small
campus in the rear of the college, the
animal in question, which used to nip
the grass in the location, came toward
the group limping very badly. He came
to a stop a dosen or more feet from the
crowd and, carefully surveying the lot
of us, finally made up his mind as to
what he wanted to do and without any
hesitation limped directly to my side,
whinnied, stuck his nose against my
body and held up his left foreleg. Look
ing down, I dfpoovered a large nail im
bedded in the frog of bis hoof. This
had evidently caused the lameness. I
then realized the interesting fact that
the animal desired attendance. I ex
tracted the nail with some , difficulty,
and the horse whimpered with relief
and walked away. Bather curious as to
why the beast had picked me out to at
tend to his wound, I glanced at the
boys and found the solution to the prob
lem. Not one of the had his med
ical badge upon his coat but myself.
The horse had recognized the insignia,
realized its significance and acted ac
cordingly. ” —New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat.
AFRAID OF THE HOODOO.
Why the Street Car Conductor Would Not
• Cut the Pageant In Twain.
A hearse crossed the track and the
motoneer put on the brakes so suddenly'
that the car nearly stood on its nose.
Then he sat down on the front seat to
await the passing of the long string of
carriages following the black draped
vehicle.
A fat man who had nearly been
thrown over the front rail by the sud
den stopping of the car snorted angrily:
“Why don’t you cut across? I’ve got
to catch a train. I can’t wait here all
day.' ’
“Can’t kelp it, boss. You’ll have to
wait and catch another train.”
“Well, I'll report you to the cotn
( pany. That procession will take five
( minutes in passing us. ”
“Report away. I can’t help it if the
procession takes 20 minutes. You
couldn’t hire me to run this car across
that funeral procession for the best job
on the line. That’s the worst hoodoo a
man could run up against. ”
“BahI” said the fat man.
“All right, boss. I know what I’m
! talking about One of the best men on
' this line crossed a funeral procession
, soon after the trolley system was put
in. A live wire dropped on the back of
| bis neck and electrocuted him before
. he’d gone a block. A little while later
another poor fellow cut across back of
[ a hearse. Ho ran over three children in
as many weeka. He quit the road as
crazy as a loon. Now the conductor on
that same car has lost every cent he
had in the world, and his wife and
child have died. Bah, yourself! I’d like
‘ to see you get off this car and walk
! across in front of one of those carriages.
' I’ll bet you’d be catchin your last train
in this world pretty quick. Jest hop off
and try it now.
But the fat man only shifted uneasily
1 about on the hard car seat and waited
silently until the last carriage had
passed. —New York Telegram.
How Beea Embalm.
Bees, says Horbis, can embalm as
[ successfully as could tho ancient Egyp
tians. It often happens in damp weather
; that a slug or snail will enter a bee
[ hive. This is, of course, to the unpro
, tected slug a case of sddden death. The
bees fall upon him and sting him to
death at once. Bat what to do with the
1 carcass becomes a vital question. If left
' where it is, it will breed a regular
1 pestilence. Now comes in the clever
' ness of the insects. They set to work
and cover it with wax, and there you
* may see it lying embalmed just as the
nations of old embalmed their dead.
When it is a snail that is the intruder,
1 be is, of course, impenetrable to their
sting, so they calmly cement his shell
1 with wax to the bottom of the hive—
-1 imprisonment for life, with no hope of
‘ pardolf.
l Both Wrong.
’ The Toronto Saturday Night tells of
* a man who kept a ferret being obliged
* to go into the country, leaving the cage
> with the ferret in charge of a neighbor
till he should return.
’ The neighbor incautiously opened the
> cage dcOT, and the ferret escaped,
whereupon tho owner brought a claim
I against him fcr damages.
' The following was the decision of
the learned magistrate before whom the
> case was brought.
* "Nodoubt,” he said to the neighbor—
* "no doubt you were wrong to open the
cage door, but”—turning to the owner,
“you were wrong too. Why did you not
clip the brute’s wings?”
> '» 1111
> The Franks took their name from the
francisqnes, or battleaxes, which they
t threw with deadly effect
Ago is a matter of feeling, not of
years.—George William Ourtfa.
, ——. z , •- exx
OLD TIME FLYCATCHING.
Friealttre Hptbnd as eilltol BM ed the
Newton M. Wilson, living <m mile
east of town, says a Scottsburg (Ind.)
communication, has hanging in hie born
an interesting keepsake in the shape of
• flycatcher. It is not so curious tn it
ffjtf aaqit is in showing the primitive
methods resorted to by the farmers in
early days to rid themselves of flies. Il
is simply two smooth walnut boards,
perhaps 80 by 12 inches, beveled at one
end and fastened together by two whang
cords strung through matched holes.
In the antebellum days people never
thought of keeping flies out of the
house; the problem was to dispose of
them as they swarmed through the
rooms, making life miserable generally.
In fact, the use of netting to prevent
their ingress is of cominratively recent
origin, the invention of this much need
ed article dating bock only 15 or 20
years.
As everybody knows, flies are excep
tionally thick in farmhouses, even
where screens are used, and when they
are not they ere almost intolerable. In
the olden days the method most com
monly employed in the country de
stroy the troublesome fly was the use of
such instruments as the one described
above. The boards were beveled and
J\ftng in such manner that by their
weight they separated at the bottom,
and thus hung in an inverted V shape.
To attract the flies they were smeared
with molasses on the inner surface.
Thus prepared, they were suspended
in convenient places about the house
in kitchen, hallway, porch, which gen
erally served as the summer dining
place, and especially in passageways.
It was a common duty of every member
of the household when passing one of
those catchers to dap the boards togeth
er, thus mashing the flies which had
collected thereon. The cook dapped
them in the kitchen, the hands as they
passed to and from the house at meal
times did likewise, the whole household
dapped them together hundreds of tynes
a day, and thousands of pestiferous,flics
met their doom.—St. Louis Republic.
TIP MARKS ON TRUNKS.
Th* Lu*gage Signals Deed by Betel em
ployees Abroad.
Travelers whom every day brings
back from the continent say that this
season, more than ever.givemplentiful
example of the Freemaaonry»wSqh «-
ists
Usually on board the boats fiften Osiris,
Boulogne and Ostend conupared
by tourists who have covered tnesame
ground and followed the tiuqedtfhesery.
The results are significant of n eto queu
ing.” Some such colloquy as' the fol
lowing is often overheard:
“My box and two portmanteaus were
smashed fearfully bwthat villain of a
porter at the Hotel desßafns, Villavilla,
and my wife and X could get no attend
ance. ”
"That is curious, for we were treated
by all tho servants most beautifully.
May I ask you a question? Did you tip
the servants properly at the previous
place, Hotel de Luxe, Lucerne?”
"No; I confess it was an oversight,
but what has that to do with the Villa
villa hotel?”
“Everything. Look at the hotel labels
on your luggage. All on lower right
hand corner. That implies that you are
mean and illiberal Now look at mine.
All the labels in the upper left hand
corner. That signifies liberality—treat
this person well—encourage him—your
politeness will be rewarded. My friend’s
bag here has a label stuck right in the
middle, and that ipeans, ‘A good fellow
—will tip, but very-exacting—not easi
ly pleased.’ "—Loudon Mail.
. Tired Locomotives.
Locomotives, like human beings, have
their ailments, many of which defy the
skill of those deputed to look after
them, says the Toronto Mail. We hear
of tired razors, a simple oomplaint
which vanishes after a brief period of
repose, but locomotives are apt to be
tray indisposition even after a day’s
rest and much oiling of the various
parte
’ Two good engines may be made on
the most approved principle. They may
each cost—as those cf the London and
Northwestern railway d0—£2,200, and
yet one will exhibit from the first a
hardihood of constitution altogether
wanting in its companion. A first class
locomotive cf 800 horsepower, costing
£3,000, is expected to travel during its
life 200,000 miles, or, say, 18,000 miles
per annum for IS years, yet now and
then an engine is found so impervious
to she awwialts of time as to be able in
its old age to do its daily work with all
the zest and vigor of a youngster.
Aa Andes* Prayer.
Old John Ward, who was pilloried
by Pope In the “Dunciad,” and who
actually stood in the pillory in the year
1737, when he was said to have been
worth £200,000, was, nevertheless, a
pious man. He had large estates in
London and Essex and did net omit to
pray for their welfare in the following
manner: “O Lord, I beseech thee to
preserve the two counties cf Middlesex
and Essex from fire and earthquake,
and as I have a mortgage in Hertford
shire I beg of thee likewise to have an
eye of compassion on that county, and
for the rest of the counties deal with
them as thou pleasest!”—Household
Worts. ;
Unworthy.
“That man Davis is clearly not fit to
be a father. ”
“Why?”
“His child is a week and a half old,
and he hasn’t expressed, the belief that
it recognizes him. ”—Chicago News.
Glass bricks are made extensively in
Germany. They an blown with a hol
low center, containing rarefied air, and
they are said to be as strong and dura
ble as day bricks. They freely atail
light
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