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DROWSINESS.
A* a Rule It Indicate* Something
Wrong In Habit* or Health.
8! (vp! n t'"* h it normal and
health v condition when it occur* at
the ii-uul !•'*<!li im? .uni when not j
i*\tP’iiii* ami ovcr|mw cring, Imt. it I
i- not alttave -I'.iK niii'il with >!«*<•[*. j
Sonin perron* m |H*rfect health am!
excellent slceners Itanily know the
meaning of drnw-ines*. They are j
active mentally ami physically until
thev are in lied. I lien sleep comes .
ut on< e, and when it leave* them in
the morning they are again in full
mental awakenc--.
There are ie-> fortunate persons;
who never have a complete and sat
isfactory night's rest who are yet
almost constantly drowsy. They
are always nodding, but when the
head touches the pillow sleep re- i
cedes and the night is a succession,
nf drousv lap-.es to sleep with the
in taut return of semiconsciousness.!
In general, with the exception
noted at the beginning of this arti
cle. drowsiness is abnormal and in
dicate- something wrong either
with the hodv of the sufferer or in
hi* halms. Those who habitually;
cat off their hours of alee (I, the
“night owls” and the burners of
tin* midnight oil, pay for their bad
ha hit bv attacks of sleepiness in
tin* afternoon and early evening.
J . ter. unfortunately, as ter the in- |
j! iciiee of digestion wears otr, the
drowsiness disappears, and then, re
lieved of his burden, the person!
“sits up to all hours” again, think- J
in/ in that way to make up for the I
hours lost by the drowsiness. If he j
would abandon bis owlish habit, go
to bed betimes and get the seven or
eight hours of continuous sleep that
lie needs his daytime and evening;
drowsiness would disappear, he
could do more and better work and
find life much more enjoyable.
A slight drowsiness is often no- !
tiled after a hearty meal, because j
digestion draws a greater volume of:
blood to the stomach, so that the
brain is relatively poorly supplied.
In some southern countries this
tendency is favored, and the siesta
after the noon meal is a nationals
custom. With us the after dinner
cup of black coffee often drives
awav the impulse to sleep whether
for good or ill may he left to the
physiologists to determine.
Sometimes we hear of attacks of
sleepiness occurring suddenly at
certain periods of the day ut ir
regular intervals. These are alto
gether abnormal, and in such eases
there i* almost always some poison
at work in the nervous centers,
usually a self manufactured poison,
which, because it is made in too
great quantity or because constipa
tion or kidney disease prevents its
rapid elimination, accumulates in
the system.
An essential in the treatment of
such cases is dieting. Meat should!
lie given up for a time at least, and
the otilv beverage allowable is water
or milk. Youth’s Companion.
Flower* In a Mexican Jungle.
For four or live miles our road
passed through a marsh, and for a
mile our horses splashed stirrup;
deep in water. Then vie reached
the first rise of the foot-hills, and a
tropical growth, dense and high,
dosed in upon us and shut out the
last breath of air that in the open
marsh below had fanned our cheeks
and m some degree made tolerable
the burning intensity of the noon
day sun. Stately palms and gigan
tic ferns, with a luxuriant tropical
undergrowth, made impenetrable t lie
jungle that lined our road. Mar
velous flowering vines that intvvined
themselves in the forest trees,
blooming shrubs and here and
there beautiful orchids and masses
of wild honeysuckle gave a setting
of gorgeous color and charged the j
atmosphere with delicious perfume.
—Outing Magazine.
They Got Through.
Ahrahatn Lincoln was a captain ;
of Illinois volunteers in the Black
Hawk war. Mr. Norman Ha|»good
in his “Life of Lincoln” relates
that during this campaign Lincoln
once had his company marching in
a column twenty nten wide when
be was suddenly confronted with a,
high fence with an open gate,
through which only one man could
pa># at a time. He had no idea of
the proper way to get his men into
single file, so tic halted the com
pany and said:*
“Tins company is dismissed, but
it will ootue together immediately
after getting through that irate!”
Mor« Than Sha Expected.
A little girl well expressed the
mingling of hope and doubt which
anticipation holds for many people
When she received her first "very
own" doll after n succession oi
treasures inherited from her oldet
s.stcr* she turned to her mother n
face fall of rapture.
”1 expected I’d have n doll %orr.r
dnv.” she »nid breathlessly, “but I
didn’t expert I should ever have my
expect Exchange. •
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DRUDGERY OF MUSIC.
JoWihim Practiced One CorrfjO»itio»
For Over Sixty Year*.
When in interviewer, who had
: put to Kubelik a question as to* the
number of hours a day he panel irdL j
! was answered, “Practically all my
i waking hours,” it i* probable that
; the interrogator, as well as others j
who beard the reply, thought the j
response ii bit of artistic exaggera
tion. Yet there is much evidence i
. to sustain Kubelik’s assertion.
I’uganini, the greatest of all vio-,
linist-, was conipt*lied by an avari
cjous father to practice twelve or
fourteen hours each day. So wearied I
! did I’aganini become of his drudg
erv that for several years he actual- j
Iv laid aside the instrument over j
which In- had such consummate
i control and devoted himself to ag
. ricultural pursuits. This period of;
musical disgu-t soon passed, how-;
ever, and the violinist again turned
to his hard work, and to such good
purpose that, there was nothing ■
written for the violin, no matter |
what its technical difficulties might
he, that he was not able to play
Late in bis life Paganini gave over
his practicing, for the reason, it is
said, that he then played only hie
own compositions.
A saving of Rubinstein’s indi
cates concisely the importance of
: unwearying practice, “Should I not
practice for a day I know it, should
I miss two days my friends know
! it, and should I miss three days
: even the public knows it.”
Joachim, another violinist, during
his student days was an inmate of
the house of his master, and it was
j largely due t<> the inexorable de
mands to practice that the teacher
laid on him that Joachim was cn- !
aided to attain his proud position.
The room wherein the pupil prac
| (iced was without any window, but
I had a glass panel in the door. If
; the sound of Joachim’s violin ceased
i for a moment during the hours set
| apart for practice, then could be
seen tbe scowling face of tin* in
structor peering through the panel.
Joachim practiced one composition
the difficult Beethoven concerto
for over sixty years.
Mendelssohn lias left an interest
ing observation touching bis ardu
ous hours of practice. Speaking of ;
certain recitals he was giving on j
the organ, lie said: “1 became so;
interested in mv work that whole j
days passed like hours. I practiced
pedal passages to such an extent j
that the act of walking along the 1
street actually transformed itself
into a fugue, so automatic had my |
| movements become.’’
With regard to his practicing |
Paderewski entertains some odd no- ;
tioiis. one of which is a penchant ,
i for a nocturnal running of the
, scales. The great Pole has been
! known to spend the whole night in
| achieving perfection in one or two
i runs of a composition he is study-
I ing.
Paderewski has said that the
| greatest foe a musician lias to fight
is the feeling of satiety that is sure ,
i to oppress him should his work he !
I not well apportioned. Each season ]
the Pole finds that he must acquire j
Mime twenty to thirty new eompo- i
sit ions. So hard does he work at !
(lime that at tlu> conclusion of his ,
short tour lie cannot endure to hoar !
a single bar of any of thorn. Like j
many other musicians, lie is saved
from inaction only by the acquire- i
incut of novelties. Now York
Tribune
Coat* of Arms.
The origin of the term “coats of |
J arms" is thus explained: lit the;
! davs of chivalry the knights, of
j course, wore coats of linked steel or
: some kind of armor to protect them j
ii*. battle or tourney. These coats
i would soon become useless on ae- j
count of the rusting caused by ex
posure to drenching rains, and in
tin* sunlight they were exceedingly 1
hot and dazzling. So the kuigbts 1
put on a silken surooat over these
coats of mail, and as. with helmets
ion and visors closed, there was no
wav of distinguishing one from an
other the armorial bearings of each
knight were emblazoned on his silk
en surcoat, which thus became a
t “coat of arms.” The practice was
then extended to the trappings of;
the horse and afterward to tin* arti
cles of the household, as the linen
and plate.
King Canute’s Church.
Canewdon is a small Essex vil
lage which once held an important I
place in the making of England. It
was here that Canute and his Panes
won that decisive victory over Ed
mund Ironsides which gave the Eng
lish crown to the Panish pirate
The conqueror named its rising
ground “Canute’s Down" (Canew- j
deal. and gave the five manors com
prising the parish to his son Sweyn.
Embracing Christianity. Canute
founded a church at Canewdon. and
to this day Canewdon gives its name
to a rural deanery which include*
Southend, eight miles to the south
! —Westminster Gazette.
the Montgomery moNitoh—thi usDav, jfi.y ioob.
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A PERPETUAL CLOCK.
Th« Way Its Curious Mechanism Dis
appeared In China.
'ln the eighteenth century an in
i genious jeweler named James Cox
! of Shoe lane, London, constructed
a clock which was rendered per
petual by a cleverly contrived at ]
- tachment which utilized the risi !
and fall of the barometer to supplv
the necessary energy.
'fhe movement of the mereurv
actuated a cogwheel in such a map
ner that whether the mereurv ro-t
or fell the wheel always revolved ir.
the same direction and kept the
i weights that supplied the move
ment of the clock always wound
I up. The barometer bulb dipped
into a mercury cistern. The cistern
hung uttached to the extremities
: of two rockers, to the left end of j .
1 one and the right end of the other
The bulb was similarly attached
to the other extremities of the rock
: ers, which are thus moved every '
r time there is a change in the -
amount of mercury in bub* andcis-! ■
tern respectively. The rockers ac
tuated a vertical ratchet, and the
teeth were so arranged that the
wheel they controlled could only
move in one direction, whether the
ratchet ascended or descended.
The clock itself was an ordinary
one, hut of very strong and su
perior workmanship and was jewel
ed with diamonds at every bearing,
the whole being inclosed in a
case, which, while it excluded dust, ’
displayed the entire mechanism.
The fate of Cox's clock was
brought to light in a workvt*alled
“Travels of China,” published in
, 1804 and written by John Harrow.
In this hook it is stated that in
the list of presents carried by “the •
late Dutch ambussador” were “two
grand pieces of machinery that .
were part of the curious museum of
Cox.” One of these apparently was
this perpetual clock, and it was
taken by the Dutch embassy to Chi
na, where in the journey from Can- •
ton to Pekin both the instruments -
suffered some slight damage. Ef
forts were made to repair them at
Pekin, but on leaving the capital it
was discovered that the Chinese
prime minister, He Tchangtong ’
had substituted two other clocks ol ■
very inferior workmanship and had .
reserved Cox’s mechanism for him
self.—London Times.
All There.
A philanthropic citizen of a small
city, moved by sympathy for his
t unfortunate townspeople, who were j
suffering from want during an ex
ceedingly cold winter, arranged a
public entertainment in their be-
I half. Xo admission fee was charged,
but it was announced that a collec
tion would he taken. The evening |
came, anil (he hall was well tilled.
The entertainment, consisting of i
recitations, music and amateur
sleight of hand performances, was
generously applauded, and with
much satisfaction the philanthropic j
citizen, assisted by the performers, i
; proceeded to take up the contribu
■ tions.
They amounted to ss. (id.
“Well,” he said to the audience
after he had counted the money, I
: “this collection, as you understand, i
j is for the benefit of the poor —and !
thev seem to be all here.”—London
Tit-Bits.
• Watch the Sky.
The different colors of the sky
are caused by certain rays of light
! being more or less strongly reflected :
or absorbed, according to the amount
of moisture contained in the atmos
phere. Such colors do, therefore,
portend to some extent the kind of
weather that may naturally be ex
pected to follow. For instance, a
red sunset indicates a fine day to
follow, because the air when dry re
-1 fracts more red or heat making rays
and as dry air is not perfectly traits- j
parent they are again reflected in
the horizon. A coppery or yellowy \
sunset generally foretells ruin. The 1
following has been advocated as a
fairlv successful wav of prognosti
eating: Fix your eye on the small
est cloud you can see; if it decreases
and disappears, the weather will be ,
good; if it increases in size, rain
may be looked for.
Improving the Opportunity.
The small bov was ready to start
on a long promised week’s visit to
his grandfather’s in the country.
There was an exasperating delay in
the appearance of the carriage to
take them to the station. The
young man worked off his impa
tience in various annoying ways for
half an hour. Then suddenly he
was seen to kneel beside a chair in
the corner and bury his face in his
hands. After a few minutes his
mother said:
“Well, Kenneth, what arc you do
ing?”
“Just getting my prayers said up'
i for while I’m going to lie out at
grandpa’s. There's nothing to do
here, and 1 speet to be pretty busy
j wlulc I'm there.” * j
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