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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 /onnml. • " 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, ~w ■ — I———w 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 1 \ ... t AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THB EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTOBIA,” AND u PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. L DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of ” PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now M eoerv bear the facsimile signature of wrajqter. This is the original M PITCHER'S CASTORIA,’’ wAich has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought , on the and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is || March 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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