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flBIFFIN, GEORGIA, U. S. A.
flrifflu in the beet and most promising little
Hu the South. Its record lor the past
lecttde, its many new enterprises in oper-
__ __, building and contemplated, prove this
0 tea business, statement and not* bypen.
WicSJ description.
During that time it has built and put into
t successful operation ft *100,000 cotton
,„.jry and with this year started the wheels
of a. second of more than twice that capital,
ft has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot-
■■ works, a sash an 1 blind factory, a
K broom factory, opened up the finest granite
quarry in the United States, and now has
our large oil mills in more or less advanced
stage* ol construction, with an aggregaf» ap-
f tboriaed capital of over half amiihon dollars.
it is putting up the finest system of electric
If jghting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied far tn o charters for street railways. It
If- has secured another railroad ninety miles long,
and while located on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec-
tion with its, important rival, the EastTen-
|| BMgee, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
«d direct independent connection with Chat¬
tanooga and the West, and wili(,break ground
I" in a few days fora fourth road, connecting
** j with a fourth independent system.
With its five white and fourcoloted church
h, it has recently completed a *10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased itspdfr-
I fe: ulatioa by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from nearly
t every State in the Union, until it is now sur-
’ rounded on nearly every side by orchards
W and vineyards. It has put np the largest
| fruit evaporators in the State. It is the home
of thegrape audits wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in-
| sugu rated a system of publie schools, with a
•even years curriculum, second t8 none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of haying the finest elimate, summer and
winter, In the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile aud rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between 6 000 and
H sort—wide-awake, T,000 people, and they are the all times, of the ready right to
up to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel-
aome ifthey bring money to help build up the
o wn. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
F if you see anybody that wants a good Ioea-
' fion for a hotei hi the (fenth, Just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffis hjnws
s published—daily and weekly—the best news¬
paper in the EmpireState of Georgia. Please,
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.!
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to be changed in a few months
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
completed.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENKY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY \ T< AT LAW
HS-ITON, OEORgIa.
Practices in all the State aud Federal
ourtt. oct9d&wly
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OB1FFIN, OEOBOIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H.
- White’s Clothing Store. roar22d&wl.y
THOS. R. MILLS,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. [girts. Office over George St. Hartnett’s
comer. ? . nov2tf
JOHN D STEWART. BOBT. T. IUNIKI,.
STEWART & DANIEL
ATTorfllEYS AT LAW,
Over George St Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
ourts. julyl9dtf
CLEVELAND & GARLAND,
DENTISTS,
OBIFFIN, - : : GEORGIA.
i D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WOODBCKY, OEOBOIA.
Pprompt attention given to all business!
Will practice hi aU the Courts, and Where
ver business call#. • f -
ttF Collections a specialty.
LOOK!
Now Is TBb AG CBirtefl Time!
1250 acres Land in 18 miles of city, lying of
on river and creeks, in 6 miles of depot
A. A F. ML house, 6 double tena
to eulti ivate it, with mules, corn, fodder, Ac.,
to feed them. A bargain will be given in this
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«8 acres inside citjjrlimits—good city limits.
12 acres inside dwelling.
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10 « « “ " “ fruits
21 " “ “ “
IS Houses arid variant lots too numerous to
SwwSHsass to sell will do well
A SHEAF OP FANCIES.
A LOOK AT LIFE FROM THE STAND¬
POINT OF A NONCONFORMIST.
Waata to Be a Protoplasm, a
Barnacle or a Bint l —The Barth Will Be
a Paradise Some Day—Better to Be a Bird
sod Fly Than a Toad Under Water.
1 am tired of the ceaseless wait* of events.
I want to go back and baa protoplasm. 1
want to be a barnacle on a South Sea
Island rock and let the full Pacific tides wash
over me and the southern tuna steep me In
Infinite calms of iastoesa I wnett to forget
that there are such things as electric lights
and steam engines In the world. My brain
aches with the effort to keep up with the
" ‘ ' l have felt the way
same
cowcatcher of array fast hone, ar
a train. I should expert
once the same sensation, 1 believe, tied to the
tail of a comet sparkling through space.
Give me tbe quiet that lurks in the clover
blossom and shadow haunted woods, a , and and you
are welcome to my place in a crash crashing,
smashing, file indisariminative world; you may
fall Into with “rich men, poor men, beg¬
gar men, and thieves, ” and take up your
march with them over Satan’s grand boule¬
vard to the trim and trig burying ground
where souls and bodies go into eclipse.
’ THIS PLANET’S FASCINATIONS.
1 wish I were a bird to spread my wings
and fly away to the top of a tall dim tree or a
mountain pine, leaving forever this crazy
world,and steering my feathered sails straight
into the upper blue, dipping my plumy oars
in tar off seas of silence. I’d go to Oregon,
where the ghoulish wood chopper had never
left his mark, and I’d find some forest so vast
and deep that even the flutter of a falling leaf
oornld be heard in the still air, and there I’d
build me a neat of silence, drink sunshine for
wine, and never grow (rid. And when death
came Pd turn Into ah angel without any more
tote than it takes fOr a bud to change to a
blossom. I’d have no funeral, nor crape, nor
mourning friends, nor floral display, nor out¬
door parade of hearse and followers, but I’d
simply die and be done with it, as “morning
melts into noon. ”
That fopey suggests another. Do you
know, 1 think it would be rather difficult for
| wide awake, public spirited mortal to be¬
come, at once, an angel f He would always
be coming bock and poising his wing like a
butterfly over a rose, to see how tbe world
was faring. He wouldn’t feel half as much
interest in tbe hallelujahs that he used to feel
in an election. It would take a long time for
him to forget his old political war cry, or use
himself to a government where they didn’t
change rulers every four years.
How would it seem, I wonder, to revisit
earth after tbs gyves of mortality had been
stricken from our faculties and the dust of
limitation brushed from our visions; to watch
the green globe, Hkea bubble in tbe sunshine,
floating on its way amid the stars! Would
one care to linger or be quick to hie away
back to tbe heavenly country, glad that one’s
was only run forever i
•hooting stars are angel tears after all,
shed by homesick spirits grieving for the old
camping ground. Dimpled with delis and
carved with hills, starred with seas and
fringed with forests, 1 a a inclined to think
this beautiful planet would seem, even to an
angel's vision, a complete pocket edition of
Paradise itself, for never tell me that Heaven
can be any fairer than earth shall be one day
when freed from sorrow and sin.
THE OTHER SIDE.
But, aside from nature’s perfection, what
would a heavenly visitant sea today! Tribes
and races boiling like an Irishman's stew-,,
men treading one another down to chase &
mote of gold through the air; grown np boys they*
blowing babbles and cursing when
broke; a honeycombed landscape of graves
over which forever broods the dark wing of
unaUeviated sorrow; fair women at their
tiring glass like painted dolls in satin gowns,
with sawdust in their hearts and cotton bat¬
ting in their brains; cherub babies coming
up from the border lands of heaven into
the highways of sin, like doves flocking from
green meadows and blossomy trees into the
smoke and dangers of the town; ships sailing
treacherous seas, freighted with souls; ships
sucked down in yeasty waves while pale
hands toss for help; tempests, like packs of
hungry hounds loosed from the leash, track¬
ing fruitful lands with desolation; lovers
walking hand in hand together; friends and
in goodly fellowship, until invisible
voices summon one and another away as
our May day fields the ghosts of dande¬
Sowers are called by unseen winds; tbe
and unstayed march of progress; the
of steeds of steam, the crash of con¬
disaster; tbe myriad ways of taking
the shock of armies, the secret flash of
assassin’s blade, the thud of suicidal
the flickering out of love guarded lives
wind blown lights, the sowing of tares
evil hands, the patient gamering of scat-
harvests of golden deeds, the unequal
of right with wrong, and all the in¬
of might over right; but where and
what am I, pray!
1 started out with tbe desire to be a pro¬
and have evolved into a pictorial
angel I Supppse we drop the sheaf of
and talk about commonplace things,
the only way to avoid the world’s ridi¬
my dear, ti to be commonplace. like
in a trench, the way to save our
from the sharpshooters is to “lay low.”
signal for your scalp lookB to fty is given
you raise above the level Be like other
and tbe world will let you alone; rise to
individuality, or scorn to be a conformist,
you at once become the target for bul¬
Did it ever occur to you, though, that
is more glory in losing one’s head, pro¬
one finds it again in glory, than in
it on one’s shoulders here, and hav¬
it counted of about as much worth by the
appraisers as a unit in a row of 10,000
pins! I’d rather march into heaven
my time comes without a head end
All over with soon, than with a head
full of feathers or a soul so tame that
had never dared lift itself above cover for
of getting hurt The toad that stays
water will never be shot, while the
that seeks to fly will now and then fall a
to the huntsman’•aim, but who wouldn’t
be born with a bird’s daring than with
toad’s caution!
When 1 hear mothers entreating their chil¬
not to do so and so because “folks’*
think them peculiar, or to be precise and
and prudent, merely because that is the
way to escape criticism, I want to say:
Lord had meant everybody to be alike
would have created them by the gross, os
turn out paper boxes, instead of one at
birth. If you want to carry out tbe divine
in the training (ri^ y e mr chm^ teach jffin
A conformist is tbe most uninteresting
possible short of a tallow candle or
work quilt."—“Amber” In Chicago
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Shirt bosoms Dover blister if starched oo
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 15, 1889.
NAPOLEON AT ELBA.
The Extravagance That Characterised H la
Manner of Living.
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The scene of Napoleon’s landing at Porto
Ferrate was a curious one. He had taken
the municipality by surprise, so that the pro¬
posed decorations and triumphal arch were
incomplete. voted Eighty pounds sterling had been
for these preparations, and the council
had also decreed that £40 should be expended
In the purchase of suitable furniture for the
palace which was set apart for him. But, If
their means were small, the El bans’ hearts
were by warm. Napoleon was met on the mole
the mayor a
and other clergy.
The people crowded around the harbor, and
waved bunting from their windows. The
keys of the city were offered to him In a sil¬
ver dish by ly the 9 did t
them with his fin Hie troops then at
the tittle piazza of white
houses with green Jalousies, now known as
Piazza Cavour, into the adjacent piazza
(Vittorio Emanueie), by one side of which is
the plain little cathedral of the city. Here
a Te Deum was sung with enthusiasm. Na¬
poleon stood throughout the function with
bent knees and a far away look. He was
afterward presented with a map of. the
island. Then be lunched, mounted his white
horse Tiber tin, and rede out of the bah
ttemented little town to see something of this
residue of his great empire. Tbe vicarious
vision.of the opulence that was to come upon
Elba with the emperor was illusive. The
revenue of the island, ail told, was only 887,-
OOOL Of this, as soon as the figures were be¬
fore him, Napoleon devoted 200,0001 to public
works, such as roads and fortifications The
balance was little enough for the mainte¬
nance of a court and the several hundred sol¬
diers of the Old Guard who had followed
him Into exile
By the treaty of Fontaineblean, an annual
allowance of 2,000,000 francs was allowed to
him. But he received not a franc of this,
and had he not carried with him a sum of
8,400,000 francs he would have been at the
mercy of the Elbans for the means of exist¬
ence. As it was, he did not eke out his funds
very judiciously. Had his mother kept the
bag the Elba establishment might have held
out for two or three years instead of lea than
one year, and Waterloo been postponed.
During the first few months he seldom passed
a child or a peasant In the road without a
brief Inquisitorial chat, which ended in the
gift of a couple of gold pieces. He gave
ragged boys money to buy clothing, and lit¬
tle girls napoleons in. exchange for flowers.
Such lavishness could not last Retrench¬
ment had to be the order of the day. Thus,
at length, the worthy, astonished Elbans
found such burdens of taxes laid upon them
as they had never dreamed ot At Capoli-
veri, indeed, there was a revolt The people
intrenched themselves in their village an d took
op stones of resistance against the tax col¬
lector. i “So Gapoliveri wants to make war
with me!” exclaimed Napoleon, with a brisk
air, when he heard of this. But, bidding upon reflec¬
tion, Capoliveri yielded to the of the
victor of Marengo.—The Comhiii Magazine
iifmwtoirriMl firtlfhi* "MM DM UmMst
W hen Dr. Finsch landed in Astrolabe bay,
New Guinea, a while ago, he went with an
escort where of sailors buried a. short distance forest inland, large
he found in the a
village The party was accompanied by some
of tbe village men whose acquaintance they
had cultivated at the shore The women,
however, were none the less frightened at
the strange appearance ot the visitors, and
most of them ran off into the woods. A few
old women, however, who had been brave
enough to face the strangers, were rewarded
with presents, and through their efforts the
other women were soon induced to return.
Dr. Finsch says that throughout his ex¬
plorations ho took particular pains to ingrati¬
ate himself with the old women. He often
found that they wielded important influence,
and their good will was very helpful. He
admits that he did not always find -it a - par¬
ticularly agreeable task to win the favor ot
the older women, for they are not fair to
look upon. But it was to his interest to have
all the old ladies on his side, and so be pat
his best foot forward to make them think he
was a very nice sort of a fallow.
Dr. Finsch advances one rather novel idea
about tbe women of uncivilized tribes in
tropical countries. He reports the well known
fact that these women lose their youth and
freshness while still young, but he adds that
they would not seem to fade so early in life
if they wore clothing and understood tbe arts
of the toilet, with which women in other lands
long contrive to conceal advancing years and
artificially supply the charms they have lost.
—New York Sun.- „
The American GlrL
The American girl is gradually invading
every department of operatic representation,
and always with success. For years past
more leading prime donna have been pro¬
duced by the United States than by any
European country. Mine. Patti is almost an
American; Mme. Albani is a Canadian; Mma.
Valleria, Mma Nordica, Mma Nevada and
Miss Van Zandt, with many more whose
names will at once suggest themselves, are all
from the United States. Miss Geraldine
Ulmar, an American, is one of the most at¬
tractive members of the Savoy company,
and Miss Huntington, another American,
reigns supreme at the Prince of Wales’. We
now hear of a new American Juliet, Miss
Earnes, who, coming after Mma Patti at the
Paris Opera-house, has almost equaled htate.
Patti’s success-, of an American dancer, Mile.
Flint, who has made her mark in the grand
ballets of Milan and of Rome, Stendhal was
certainly mistaken when, rather more titan
fifty years ago, he wrote that America was
tiie freest ooantry in the world, bat one to
which Italian music could never appeal—St,
James' Gazette.
A Vicious Cat.
G Charles Stites, of Newark, N. J., had an
encounter with a cat that be will not soon
forget He was walking between two piles
of lumber in the street when hk attention
was attracted by an ugly growl He scarcely
bad time to turn to see whence It came before
a cat sprang from beneath the boards and
-planted its teeth In the calf of his leg. His
flesh was further torn by bis efforts to shah*
tbe animal off, and finally, at the risk of hav¬
ing his hands bitten, he seised it around tbe
neck and bad to choke It into insensibility
before the vicious brute gave up tbe fight
Even then be bad to remove its fangs from
hls leg by main force.—Nsw Orleans Pica¬
yune. - 2 .
I have tasted no afi butcher's meat for ton
years and have lost f I appetite for it It is
on my table at nearly eras? meal, botl
take any. However this abstinence may sal*
other people, it has had a most satisfactory
influence on my health, and 1 have only a
aim recollection of what inaigesaon is ura,
or how a headache feels. I am also a total
abstainer, bat smoke -------.....go moderately. Tobacco
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WOMAN m HOME.
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THE COMPENSATION THAT COMES
TO THE WIFE AND MOTHER . 1
Mow to Terns and Train a Canary Bird.
Valuable Thoughts «a the Core of Chil¬
dren—Physical Culture for Ladles—Tho
Noble Deeds of Some of Barth’s Angela
“My boys end I hav# been shut up together
for six weeks," said a Ittie woman the other
day, her bright face flimpling with sonny
smiles, showing bow fweet and fresh Is the
quality of youthful#* which makes the
matron as captivating la her meridian as the
girl must have been in bar morning. "Quar¬
antined," she added; deesrthda “add we’ve had a siege ill,
of it; but the ware never really
notwithstanding the dreadful character of
tbe disease which had them In Ita dutches.
Of course we were terribly anxious, wed the
doctor kept warning us thatweoouldnot be
too careful; and I had suoh a horror of any
infection wafting itself from our doors iuto
the home of somebody else where there were
children that I could cot sufficiently multiply
precautions; but when all was said, and all
the privations and disappointments borne,
there ware compensations. The bow and I
grew so well acquainted! Wo read several
splendid books through, from first chapter to
finisi we studied the New Testament; we
played games. They told me everything,
just as when they woke my babies toddling
over the floor -and coming to mamma with
their questions and their troubles; and now
that it is over I dial] always lock back with
a certain gratitude and pleasure of memory
on our six weeks in quarantine.”
Mothers whom boys and girls are full of
the excitements and ambitions of student
life, or whose brood Is just poising for flight
from the home nest, will understand this
woman’s feeling perfectly. has
A similar experience been the portion
of many of ns, varied perhaps by certain
conditions. The dear husband, it may be,
has been very ill, so that for some days life,
seeming gray faced and unfamiliar, has
taken on a new and stem aspect; what with
the secession from the ordinary routine,
meals altered to suit the convenience of those
in attendance on the invalid, the world of
fashion and of recreation temporarily ex¬
cluded, the daughter’s practicing hushed, the
little ones diverted In a far away nursery
that papa should not be disturbed, kindred
coming with anxious faces and soft foot falls
to make daily inquiry, flowers and dainty
food left at the door by friendly neighbors,
the pastor dropping in os often as the physi¬
cian, the door bell muffled; while to all hearts
in the household there has been eon vaguely
threatening the menace of t
sorrow.
What If the happy, easy going, merry
voiced man, spending his life between busi¬
ness and home, the morning and evening
regularly calling him to one or the other
point with the steady jogging back and forth
of the pendulum, should be about to leave it
all, to lay down the cares and forget the ao-
who has accepted much of his devotion., as a
matter of course, her right like that of the
flower to sunshine and rain, suddenly in a
glimpse of revelation perceives how much
she loves Unit appreciates his generous lore
for her; and when, later, the tide turns, and
the patient is convalescent, the first blessed
helpless querulous stagwover, and the ‘‘season
of calm weather,” ti# when health fairly is coming
back like the at flood, inaugu¬
rated, what delight, what ecstasy, what re¬
newal of the wooing and the winning days
of long ago I
“Papa and mamma,” the children ray, smil¬
ing as they pass the door and hear the voices
of the married lovers in endless confidential
chat, “are really more devoted than ever.!*
For the first time in years the pair have an
opportunity to.be much together in that soli¬
tude of two which is the sweetest thing in the
whole world, and Itself an Eden returned,
when the two, heart, soul and human Inter¬
ests, are* absolutely one.
Nearer to God we climb by light such a ladder as
this, and heaven sheds ita of jasper and
amethyst over earth’s prosaic days. There is
• kernel of compensation within the husk of
such suffering, common though it be, and the
home values rise higher, the home unities are
betteg conserved, the home attitude of de-
frase against outside temptations is more
resolutely maintained in consequence.
A child’s school course is interrupted just
When parents and teachers are most jubilant
over the rich mental development which is so
rapid and so promising. The eyes, the back,
the quick growth, some danger signal- flung
out by nature In pallor or fatigue, sleep waste, walk¬
ing or forgetfulness, pain or nervous calls
alum the family doctor, and be a halt.
Father and mother are reluctant to admit
that the studies and school discipline are too
much for tbe son or daughter of whom they
are so proud; but they are people of common risk
sense, and too much is at stake to make
possible. The boy leaves the desk and takes
up the hoe and rake; the girl goes from tbe
piano to the seaside; a journey is planned,
and a thousand inflfwmcra hitherto out of
range are brought to bear upon the culture
of the youthful mind. The time, far from
bring lost, is put to good account. Tbe law
of compensation holds everywhere, never
more firmly than in the life of the household.
—Harper’s Bazar.
Training and Taming Canary Birds.
I have tamed several birds.'' 1 left England
ons^yeor ago, and before I came hid a bird
that was so wild, it was terrible to go near
the cage. This is what 1 did; I hung the
cage np against the wall in my bedroom,
more from fear of the oat than anything,
and at night when it got dude I threw over
the cagq a light oovering. When I went to
bed smd the gas was burning bright it roused
the bird, and rite generally I gave a twit, covering twit,
asking if I was there. took the
off, placed her on my table and used to sit by
her talking baby nonsense, till at last she
came to tbe side where I was sitting, flatter
her Wings and open her beak, which I took
for a kiss and “good night” I always pnt
her np and covered her; sometimes she would
twit and worry in her cage after I was In
bed, upon which I always called out, “Go to
sleep, birdie," and she wa# generally quiet
During the day I shut myself In my room
and opened the cage door; It was not long-be¬
fore she came out and would pick op any
threads sad carry them into the cage. Since
I came to America I bought her a large cage,
such as they put mocking birds In, and gave
her plenty of specs (when I placed the old
cage on the table she refaaed to go Into It).
Never hang canaries in a draught I always
placed ber cage on the dining room table at
one end and there I kept it, with tbe door al¬
ways open, unless 1 opened tbe window and
then I it far a moment, when she
hopped about the cage in a fury. At dinner
time tbe always went to the potato dish, and
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bopping Into my room mid would twit
till she rouskxi mo, then she bopped io my son’s
and performed th» same kindness to him.
At lost rife would follow me into the klteli-
en and be very enraged if I drove? her back
to If I the called sitting room. would §he always fetch esmo biread to from me
her and
any point, aud If I protended to toko it from
her, would fight like a littlo fury; she
would do the same for my son. We placed
little reins on liar and she would hop round
the table, and Just as 1 had taught her some
little tricks she suddenly died from cramp,
caused by some one, thinking she had not
water enough to bathe in, pouring some
water which had been iced and, taking cold,
had killed her. 1 have not had another.
Why, In England a lady living In Sussex has
a large cage full out of doors, and all her ca¬
naries li vo in the trees, and at feeding time
they all come down and she is covered byk
yellow cloud os they perrii mi her in overy
spot they can find to rest upon.— Savannah
(Gad Lady In Good Housekeeping.
Dramatic Education.
the slightest intention of ever going on the
stage. They do it as the readiest and means of
acquiring charm of manners a good
presence.” The Dolsorte system qf training,
rightly taken. Is the finest way of acquiring
flexibility of figure, grace of movement and
facial control I have often wished In ob¬
serving the gauche motions and tricks of
manner is even educated women that t£ey
could for a few months have the training a
good actress receives. One sees these tricks
of face conspicuous In country people ooming
to the centennial, and plenty who are not
from the country either. The, The, women women smile, smile,
and they wrinkle up their eyes, their noses,
and shew their gums and teeth like enraged
poodles.
A good dramatic teacher would attack
these faults at once, and keep criticising
them till the pupil was cured. Delsarte’s
“decomposing really exercises”—attractive acquiring name!
—are tho finest things for They
grace Mid control of the figure, are,
you know, a series of relaxing movements
by bending each joint separately from the
finger tips to being the hips, formal differing and from fatiguing. calis¬
thenics in less
Delsarte had tho fault of a Frenchman in
tho passion for formulating theories which
afflicts that nation. Formulas seldom do
justice to an art, and his rules sound absurd,
while their practice is quite another thing,
A woman (retiring the completest physical
and emotional training should put herself
under an enthusiastic pupil tot Delsarte.—
St. Louis Republic.
Sleeping Booms for Children.
Possibly the attention of very few mothers
has been directed to the importance of the
position of their children’* beds. With cer¬
tain orderly, careful mothers a small alcove
adjoining their deeping room is generally
considered suitable, leaving the main room so
much freer for other uses. But to what fate
are we consigning our child when wo exile
him tothealcovol Here lurks all the stale,
jy tliefrear currentsof the main room*
The child breathing this air night after night
experiences a loss of vitality, a tendency to
colds and a languid, depressed condition in
tbe morning, quite different from the re-'
froshed awakening in pure air.
It has been demonstrated that the beds
nearest the walls in tbe hospitals have tbe
highest rate of mortality, they being subject
to influences of polluted air similar to the
alcove of the bedroom. The existence of bad
ventilation around the corners and sides of
rooms has been so well demonstrated that it
has already given rise to the building of ro¬
tunda hospitals, wherq the current of air
along tho floors rises as it reaches the wall, firej
effectually ventilating the whole. The
suggestion of this idea came from the drop-'
ping of a small piece of paper near the center
of a rotunda, where it skimmed along the
floor and rose as it reached tho wall In an
ordinary room a similar experiment with a
piece of thistle down will indicate the usual
direction of the air currents. —Babyhood.
Wurth Remembering.
The following incident was related by a
family physician: Being called upon to visit
a aick child, ho found the babe in apparently
good tinually health, but-crying and struggling con¬
as though The suffering extreme pain
and anguish. mother stated that the
child was desirous of nursing continually, obliged
and in order to quiet it, she had been
to let it nurse 9h. as often as the crying parox¬
ysm came When that failed to quiet it,
paregoric or soothing sirup had beenodmin-
“When did you give the baby a drink ot
water last!” asked the doctor. \
“I don’t remember” him drink replied tho Does mother.
“I seldom let water. he
need it!”
v “Need itt" heed exclaimed the doctor. “Why
should he not it os much as you! The
childfe Buffering from thirst, nothing more.”
He accordingly called for cold water, gave
the infant a few spoonfuls, and it immedi¬
ately ceased fretting and soon Went to deep,
enjoying a long refreshing slumber, tho first
for many-hour a should
All mothers and nurses remember
thia Infants who nurse may often suffer
torment for the lack of a drink of water.
Often a child cries from thirst; therefore use
common sense, and instead of dosing it with
poisonous compounds, give the little sufferer
all be wants.—Exchange. * *
Physical .Culture tor Ladles.
“The Society for the Promotion of Physical
Culture and Corset Dress” is the comprehen¬
sive name under which aboutpno hundred
Chicago women are associated. The nams
leaves nothing to be desired in the way of ex¬
planation. When Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller
lectured hero the society was formed to pro¬
mulgate her ideas and continue in this vicinity
her crusade for dress reform. Meetings art
held on tho first Friday of every montii dur¬
ing tbe whiter, and in the summer a child of
the society, tho “Outing club," keeps the
members together. Mrs. Dr. Cary talked
about tho evils of tight lacing and of kindred
subjects, illustrating her remarks by a mani¬
kin—perhaps it should he called a womanikin.
She told tho members where their lungs were,
and printed out the fact that tbe heart Bra,
in ordinary human beings, near the breast
bone. She also located other internal organs
very accurately. The need tor fresh air was
enlarged upon, and the lecturer inveighed
against compresting the lungs with corsets.
It was remarked that most women are sadly
ignorant of physiology in general and of their
own bodies in particular, and the speaker
emphasized her desire tp spread knowledge of
that tort among feminine humanity.—Chi¬
cago Herald.
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The Tyranny of P ra—mak ers.
A prominent New York woman declared
to a reporter that she is ready to organize a
a siiggtwiio:! of mine. ‘It is not the style
‘But,' 1 protested,‘it is tho most be-
style for me.' ‘No difference,’ re¬
the autocrat, ‘I know best how it should
made ’ Now, if a man were to go to hls
and order a *uit to be made in the con¬
style, it would be made so, no of mat¬ his
what the tailor, privacy thought
taste. But the dressmaker treafe
ber customer as a child and Ignores her
wish*# entirely. Than, too, a dressmaker
will solemnly promise to make a coribwne tm
a certain price, and In three cases out of five
will calmly charge one third more. It ti
high time for women to kick against this
tyranny, and teach dressmakers to do busi¬
ness in a business like way.”—New York
_
Themes Corwin’s Granddaughter.
One of the
Workers this
year is Mrs.
daughter of
carao hero from Ohio with no money and set
to work in various departments of labor.
She is an energetic and successful advertising
solicitor aud gets a handsome income from
that line off lousiness. ' Occasionally she solis
gotiating wio siw ot
railroad ilroad on on commission, commission. Sim is interested in
a now now city city oa cm tbo the Eri Erie and has become the
owner roor ot of severed several lots, lots, and and fa Is ndw^ee now ttag*
couple of houses on speculation*
twang© marmalade of a quality superior w to
the imported article and sells, it to the Whole-
sola dealers. She writes each week a fashion
bright, is always atwork, and is considered
the best collector of money in the advertising
business. Withal, toe is remarkably even
tempered, and so always pleases her custom-
era-Now York Letter.
thin, keen eyed woman whom lsaW in tin
millinery department of a big tome. Spin¬
ster was written all over her face, and a de¬
fiance of age was noticeable inthe material
and cut of her wardrobe. She intornied A
soleswomaujUer ami Easter bonnet must be bought
then there. She was too tired of shop¬
ping to go a step further. The willing but
inconsiderate clerk took down a bonnet of
sober character, with the remark: “This, 1
think, will please you; it Is very suitable for
a middle aged lady,’’ The spinster quietly
requested head, which ber to put the bonnet on her own
tho unsuspecting woman, her¬
self of on uncertain ago, promptly did.
Then, looking her full in the face, the irate
and ancient maiden sweetly said: “It fits
you just perfectly, bonnet perfectly. You were right: it
Is the for a middle aged person,"
Tho sakswomnn bit her lip and removed the
bonnet) in speechless chagrin. She knew her
want of tact had cost her a customer. The
Easter bonnet was sought for elsewhere.—
New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Time to Stop.
Several large retail store* In this city have
put a stop to the practice of sendin g home
find that such articles are frequently usrriand
then returned with the statement that they
do not answer the purpose. A lady well
known in fashionable circles recently ordered
from one of tho foremost hows two dozen
fairy lamps sent to her residence tor approval
Three days afterwards she gave a dinnef
party. Among tho guests was a member of
the firm in question. The fairy lamps were
used with pleasant effect on the table, spark¬
ling among the Sowers and greens or shin¬
ing in shady nooks' about the dining room.
Imagine the merchant's surprize thedayafter
the dinner to hear that the lumps had all
come back to the store with a polite note
stating that the lady did not like them. It is
a Doaitive fact that toe had not even tit*
graco to remove tho stumps of tho burned
candles br wash off the grease dripped upon
the lamps.—Philadelphia Letter.
Why the School ma’am Thrashed Him.
' The following is sample of Friday after--
a a
noon-composition which Adam Biglier wrote
•while a boy at school We may add that
Adam Biglier was soundly thrashed tor it:
“A school ma’am is a verb, because toe de¬
notes action when yon throw paper wads at
tho girls. Switch is a conjunction, and is
used*to connect the verb scboolma’am to the'*
noun boy. . This . i is a compound sentence, of
Which boy is the subject and switch the object ^
First person,'pit ' '
schooima’am I........fima’um is ti M different from from a a boy; boy; a a boy boy
wears pants and a scboolma’am woari woan her
hair all banged on the forehead. She
paint on her face and has some big feller
come and take her homa Ma says a scbool¬
ma’am never gets to be older than 18 until
she gets married. It takes two schoolma’ams
all day to cook dinner."—Preston Times,
r The Nurse's Pride.
“What a pretty child; whose fa it!” said
one Jady to another, as they crossed Madison
square. “I noticed you nodded respond^ to the nurse,”
“Thereby hangs a tale,” used be ber
companion. “The nurse to to my
employ, and left it to become the wife of a
coachman, They live over his stable, not far
away, and the child fa theirs. She dresses it
like a millionaire's baby, to the finest and
most dainty of clothes, which site faithfully
copies from Fifth avenue children. She can¬
not dress herself to correspond, no she wear*
toe nurse’s livery tor her own child, and fa
proud to have passers by stop and - J ~ l ~
him as some favored darling it a westtky
home. Curious fancy for one of iter
isn’t it, who, os a rule, are to a----- **
t he regalia of servlcol”-New Y<
Our Girl* Are Just Great.
Priscilla, the Puritan maiden, would prob-
ably amy have nave been oeen shocked snoexea had naa toe sueoeea beea raw asked
to become a member of a feminine baseball
^•arsfircsrsfssat
den were playing. Priscilla a was was a or nice girl,
as girls went a hundred years Ssfce. ago, but our
Priscillas are just as much ahe os
girls to physical culture a* were such mm as
Miles Standitii and John AJden ahead of cur
dudes as to manliness and brains.—Washing¬
ton Post
A Woman’s Power Over Snakes.
There is a young married lady to Elberton
who is a snake charmer. She fa fearless of
hands any _ _
and has tamed several of them for pets. Once
tiie captured a large snake that seised bar
sport of capturing them. She aerate to tave
a strange power over reptiles, and tt fa sei-
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