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Fashion.
Magnolia white is a charming tint
for the rich silks and satins of even
ing dre.-ses.
Large foulard fans used instead of
parasols and matching the costume
are the latest Parisian novelty.
The striped cadet blue ginghams,
with plaitings showing the darkest
stripe on top of each pleat, ars pretty
for morning dresses in the country.
The princesse pelisse, a long over
garment of india pongee is useful as a
traveling cloak. It is bordered with
a chicoree ruche.
The sash panier terminating behind
with a long looped bow is more popu
lar than the festooned drapery that
curvi s upward in the froufc.
A gray linen dress with sweet-peas
painted upon it, with the same flowers
on hat and parasol, was the toilet worn
by a French Marquise at the Grand
Prix.
Ivory white surah dresses for sum
mer evening parties have the skirt
covered with flounces of Venetian em
broidery, imitating the designs of old
point lace.
Lace mitts reappear. Black mitts for
ladies and dark red for children are
.most fashionable. The MarguerUe
mitts of closely woven silk are most
serviceable.
The Derby costume is the new Eng
lish dress for ladies. It is made of
dark blue muslin with a white pique
or linen vest, and a masculine blue
jacket fastened by a single button at
the throat.
A new bow for the garniture of
dresses has three colors of ribbon in it,
such as blue, red, and bronze when
dark shades are used, while for lighter
bows tilleul green, and sky blue are
combined.
The new colored veils of chenille
dotted tulle add a gay touch to the cos
tume, but they require the flowers or
feather g.mature of the small bonnet
and are not becoming to the face in
warm weather.
Light-colored grenadine dresses are
again in fashion for midsummer. Tur
quoise blue, Nile green, and lavender
shades aio chosen for young ladies.
They are trimmed with silk laces, and
worn with many natural flowers.
An elegant dress for a brunette is
made of copper-red tulle over faille of
the same shade, with a border aud
panels of darker red roses clustered to
gether without foliage. Another also
for a brunette is of yellow satin
with a lace overdress and cor
dons of yellow roses with foliage of
dark-brown leaves.
The design for a pretty fan, for
which a prize was awarded to a young
Japanese aitist, shows four different
views, representing the foliage of the
different seasons. Held in one way
the fresh green leaves of spiing are
seen ; snother view of this side shows
the rosy blush of summer blossoms.
On the opposite side are drifting red
autumn leaves, while in another view
there is seen a lone bird on a bare
bough aMid the falling snow.
Origin of the British Races.
' Mr. Grant Allen thus sums up his
articles lu Knowledge on the ethnologi
cal composition of modern Britain.
First, he says, there is a sub stratum
or oldest stage of dak, nou-Aryan
people, called Euskarians tor conveni
ence, who are tbe descendants of the
very earliest aboriginal inhabitants in
recent times, the Neolithic folk.
These Euskarians now nowhere exits
in very great purity, but tfiey are still
found in a fairly unmixed form
among the black Celts of Ireland and
Scotland, where one or two little com
munities yet remain almost uualtered
in the wilds of Connaught or the
highlands of the central Scotch hills.
They are also more spaisely recogniza
ble in many parts of England itself,
especially in' the Yorkshire plain, in
Lincolnshire and aldng the Severn
vallej. And they are fairly frequent
In Wild Wales. All over the country,
too, persons or families of this dark
early type occur here and there spo
radically.
Next, there is a substratum or later
stage of light Aryan people, who have
broken over the islands in three dis
tinct waves—Celtifc, English aud
Scandinavian—and have everywhere
mixed more or less with oue another,
aud with the old Euskarian race.
Ireland is, perhaps, mainly peopled
by Euskarians, intermixed, in most
parts, with Celts (but least so in Con
nemara and Kerry), while round its
9 east coast there is much Scandinavian
blood; and in Ulster there are many
Scots, who are really Stratholyde
Celt-Euskariaus from the western
lowlands. So-called English settlers,
many of them Welsh or Lancastrian,
and others Norman, are scattered
throughout the Pale. But, as a
whole, Ireland is probably more Eu
skarian aud less Aryan than any
other part of Britain. In Scotland,
the north and the Isles are Celt Eu-
skarian, with a large Scandinavian
admixture ; the Central Highlands are
Euskarian with a ve y small Celtic
clement intermixed ; the eastern Low
lands are mainly English ; and the
western Lowlands are peopled by
Strathclyde Welshmen—that is to say
Celt-Euskariaus, probably with a
larger dash irf Aryau Celtic and Kug
lish blood than elsewhere, Wales is
Euskarian at bottom,slightly Celticized
and with a little English and Norse
blood. England itself is mainly Eng
lish (or Low-Dutch) in the south-east;
English and Danish, with a little Celt-
Euskarian admixture, in Ihe eastern
counties tbe north and the midlands ;
English and Celt-Easkarian in the
west country and ttie Severn valley ;
aud Norse and Celt Euskarian in Lan
cashire and tbe lake dntrict. Corn
wall remains almost wholly Euska
rian in type.
All these statements, however, must
be accepted merely in the rough, and
they apply especially to the agricul-
mral classes and the mass of the
people.
Eat Your Breakfast First.
Dr. Hall is authority for the follow
ing thoughts upon breakfasting before
much exercise in the open air, partic
ularly iu districts where fever and
ague are abundant: Breakfast should
be eateu in the morning before leav
ing the bouse for exercise, or labor of
any description ; those who do it will
be able to perform more work, and
with greater alacrity, than those who
work an hour or two before break fast.
Besides this, the average duration of
life of those who take breakfast before
exercise or work, will be a number of
years greater than those wno do other
wise. Most persons begin to feel weak
after having been engaged five or six
hours iu their ordinary avocations ; a
good meal reiuvigorates, but from the
last meal of the day until next morn
ing there is an interval of some twelve
hours; hence the body, in a sense, is
weak, and in proportion cannot re
sist deleterious agencies,whether of the
tierce cold of midwinter or of poison
ous miasm which rests upon the surface
of the earth wherever the sun shines on
a blade of vegetation or a heap of offal.
This miasm is more solid, more con
centrated, and heuce more malignant,
about sunrise aud sunset thau any
other hour of the twenty*four, because
tbe cold of the night condenses it, and
it is on tire first few inches above the
soil iu its most solid form ; but as the
sun rises it warms and expands and
ascends to a point high enough to be
breathed, and being taken into the
lungs with the air and swallowed
with the saliva into the stomach, all
weak and empty as it is, it is greedily
drunk in, thrown immediately into
tbe circulation of the blood, and car
ried to every part of the body, deposit
ing its poisonous influence at the very
fountain-head of life. If early break
fast were taken in regions where chills
and fever and ague prevail, and if, iu
addition, a brisk fire were kindled in
the family room for an hour, inclu
ding sunrise aud'sunset, these trouble
some maladies would diminish iu any
one year, not ten-fold, but a thousand
fold, because the heat of the fire would
rarefy the miasmatic air instantly,
and send it above the breathing point.
But it is “troublesome” to be building
fires night and morning all summer.
It being no “trouble,” requiring no
effort to shiver aud shake by the hour,
weeks and months together.
The Faculty.
The Paris Faculty of Medicine has
just collected some statistics relative
to the medical profession. According
to those statistics there are in the
world 182,000 physicians with proper
degrees. France possesses most doc
tors in proportion to her population,
and there are few countries in which
the profession takes such part in poli
tics. In the Chamber of Deputies
alone there are forty medical men, in
cluding the well-known M. Ulemen-
ceau. Then the number of tlio doctors
who are Senators. Couneillors-Gen-
eral, and Municipal Councillors
amounts to tlie enormous figure of
6,700. In Paris alone two hundred
and flfty-six physicians contribute
regu'ariy to the newspapers or to
uiedioai journals.
—• — ■ >O» -
“ I never preteud to know a thing
that I do not,” remarked Brown.
“When I don’t know a thing, I say
at once, ‘I don’t know.’” “A very
proper course,” said Fogg, “but how
monotonous your conversation must
be, Brown.”
Milk for Bright’s Disease.
Tbe efficacy of milk in the promo
tion of heahh aud the cure of disease
in the human body lias been much
written about by medical men, and
its administration practiced by many
of them. Still we doubt if the vast
benefits its use may bestow are half as
well understood r,s they should be.
Sweet milk, warm from the cow,
skimmed milk, boiled milk, sour
milk, butter milk, limed milk, each
finds special recommendation for
special dise >ses aud each year adds to
tue favorable developments of the
uses of all.
Of late years, especially in the
United States, the prevalence known
as “Bright’s Disease of the Kidueys”
h is fright ully increased. Hardly a
daily paper can lie picked up but it
chronicles deaths by this disease.
It seems to attack all classes
aud both sexes, youth, mid
dle age and old age, alike indis-
criminately. The curative powers of
much advertised mineral springs are
invoked by tbe wealthy, but the
grave seems to open the same, sooner
or l iter, for the victims of a well de
fined case of Bright’s disease. The
papers teem with advertisements of
patent medicines warranted to cure,
and perhaps they do sometimes cure,
but we fear too often fail in thousands
of cases that do not reach the public.
But as the Medical aud (Surgical Re
porter, from which we take the fol
lowing, says it becomes a medical
question of paramount interest that
we should discover some potent
method of combating it :
“Some years Biuce Carel first called
attention to the treatment of Bright’s
disease by using milk as a diet, and
since then Duncan, as well as many
other prominent physicians, have
written upon the subject. We have
c urselves seen some remarkable re
sults follow this treatment, while Dr.
S. Weir Mitchell, of New York, is
now’quite an enthusiast on this sub
ject. This method of treating a for
midable disease has received a suffi
ciently distinguished indorsement to
recommend it seriously to our notice.
We would, therefore, ask all phy. i-
ciaus who lead this article to try this
method of treatment, aud to furnish
us with their experience, which we
will publish. Tbe milk is used thor
oughly skimmed and entirely freed
from butter. To procure the best re
sults it has bem advised that the
patient shall restrict himself absolutely
to milk and continue the treatment
for a long time. If it disagrees with
the st imach (as it will in some cases),
Dr. Mitchell advises that the patient
be put to bed and the treatment com
menced with tablespoonful doses, to
which lime water is added, until the
stomlch tolerates the milk, when
from eight to ten pints daily ah mid be
taken, and absolutely nothing else.
The sanction of such a distinguished
physician as Dr. Mitchell forces us to
■eriously consider the merits of this
treatment, and we trust to receive the
experience of all readers of this jour
nal who may have ca:-es of Bright’s
disease to treat.”
In a late Baltimore paper, The Day,
we find the following regarding the
*case of Gen. Robert C. Schenck, as
given by a correspondent, which
seems to point to the tflicacy of the
milk treatment. The correspondent
says:
“Instead of finding a very decrepit,
worn out, pn his last legs old mao, as
he had been pictured iu the news
paper, I found an aged man it’s true—
he is over seventy years old—but one
whose physical appearance gives as
surance of some years yeltoeujoy
this life. He said he had been about
given up some months ago as incura
ble with Bright’s disease of the kid
neys, when some one told him to use
skimmed milk as his only diet. He
says: ‘I tackled the skim milk, stuck
to it, and here I am almost a new man.
I believe tbe skimmed milk is a spe
cific for Bright’s disease.’ ”
In any event the remedy is simple
and harmless. It is inexpensive and
at the hands of all. ,
A Japanese laborer lives in a house
of not me re thau four rooms; one for
eating, sleeping, and sitting ; one for
cooking, one for baching, and one to
spare. He never wears boots or brings
mud into the house. He and his fam
ily sit on the floor when they eat and
take their meals at a low table. The
floor of their dining and sitting-room
is covered with soft mats, upon which
at night cotton comforters are spread
to fleep under. Such a house can be
built aud furnished for $100, aud
though cheap and small, is comfort
able. The bath, found in almost al
laborer’s houses, is iu daily use. .
Pious Gems.
Our busy hands from evil stay;
Lord! help us still to tasks divine-
still keep us lu the heavenly way.
Eirtlily joy cau take but a bat-like
flight, always checked,always limited,
in dusk aud darkness. But tbe love
of Christ breaks through the vaulting,
and leads vis up iBto the free sky
above, expanding to the very throne
of Jehovah, and drawiug us “still up
ward” to the influite heights of glory.
Make channels for the streams of love,
Where they may broadly \ un ;
Aud love hath ovei flowing streams
To fill them every oue.
But If at any time we cease
Such channels to provide.
The very founts of love lor us
Will soou be parched and dried.
I thought that the course of the pilgrim to
heaven
Would be bright as the sun and as glad as
the morn :
Thou show’dst me the path,—it was dark
and uneven,
All rugged with rocks and all tangled with
thorn.
O most grateful burden, which com
forts them that carry it! The burdens
of earthly masters gradually wear out
the strength of those who carry them ;
but the burden of Christ assists the
bearers of it, because we carry not
grace, but grace us.
Our field is the world; whether sowing or
reaping,
Or gleaning the handfuls that others have
parsed,
Or waiting the growth of the seed that with
weeping ,
On rocky and desolate plains we have cast;
Yet eac l for his toiling and each for his
mourning,
Shall sometime rejoice when the harvest is
won,
And know, in the flush of eternity’s mo nlng
That tbe toil, the reward, and the glory are
one.
Mrs. Douglas’ Tea Cups.
An Inii-une of Her Wonderful Taot and
Winmne W&ys
The legend-lovers of Washington
have always reme i bered the pretty
and graceful ways of Mrs. Douglas,
and never ceased to hold her up as the
model of a statesmans wife. Her tact
and amiability were boundless, and
although when site married the Little
Giant she was very young and much
his junior, she adapted herself to the
position from the start so thoroughly
that no wite of twenty years’ experi
ence in public life could equal lier.
At oue of her receptions in Washing
ton, a great, Bhy, awkward constituent
from the most rustic region of Illinois
presented himself in Mis. Douglas’
d orway, sent up there from the Capi
tol by the Senator, who assured him
that his wife would be delighted to
see him. The visitor was anything
but a parlor ornament, a rude, unpol
ished son of the prairie, unused to the
w ys of society, but a power in the
politics of his home, and a man whose
influence could be of vast assistance to
Mr. Dougla®. Eutei iug the room gave
him a nervous chill, Mrs. Douglas’
pretty greeting threw him into a
fever, and her inviting him out to the
refreshment room completed a case of
palsy. Iguoring his trepidation, she
chatted away to him herself, paid no
attention to his stammering refusals,
and poured out the tea iu some mirac
ulous littte cups of eggshell Sevre 3 .
Grasping the fairy calyx in his Augers
for the first sip, the delicate bit of
Sevres was ciushed to pieces and the
the hot tea poured in a hot stream
over Mrs. Douglas’silken train. With
a gay laugh the lady said: “ How
brittle they are! just look at mine,”
and with a mighty effort she broke
another cup between her lingers. Re
assured, tiie constituent drew his
breath and fouud himself at ease,
while that incomparable hostess
talked to him, asked about his mother,
his wife aud his children, all of whom
she remembered so well and called by
name. That mau went home to work
for, vote for and swear by Stephen A.
Douglas, aud way back of his political
convictions lay the pieces of those two
brokeu*te:i-cu ps.
Some ladies were discussing the in
cident at a lunch party the other day,
aud, said one pretty woman: “ 1
wouldn’t break my best teacups for
any constituent iu my husband’s dis
trict.” Out of tbe group there was
only one who courageously said : “I’d
break my whole dinner set if it would
send nay husband to the Sei ale, and
buy new ones when I got to Washing-
ton,” she shrewdly added.
Domestic Economy.
Banana Pie.—Slice raw bananas,
add bulter, sugar, allspice aud vine-
gar, or boiled cider, or diluted jelly;
bake with, two crusts. In the South
they use cold boiled sweet potatoes in
this way, and regard the pie as choice.
< Pook Man’s Fruit Oake.—This
cake is excellent as well as economi
cal. Take oue and a half cups of
brown sugar, two cups of fl mr, one of
butter aud oue of chopped raisins,
three eggs, three tablespoons of sour
milk, half a teaspoon of soda, half a
cup of blackberry jam. Mix the
sugar, butter and eggs together first,
then the flour aud milk and fruit.
Bake iu a moderate oven.
Cherry Pie —Line a pie-tin with
rich crust; nearly ftli with the care
fully seeded fruit, sweeten to taste,
aud sprinkle evenly wi.h a teaspoon
ful of corn starch, or tablespoouful of
flour; add a tablespoouful of butter
cut into small bits aud scattered over
the top; wet the edge of the crust, put
on upper crust, aud press the edges
closely together, taking care to pro
vide holes in the centre for the escape
of the air. Pies from blackberries,
raspberries, etc., are all made in the
same way, regulaling the quantity of
sugar by the tartness of the fruit.
Maoar ini Soup. —Six pounds of
beef put into four quarts of water with
oue large onion, one carrot, one tur
nip, and a head of celery, and boiled
three or four hours slowly. Next day
take off the grease, strain out the
vegetables and pour into soup-kettle.
Season with salt to taste. Boil one-
half pound of macaroni until quite
tender and place in the soup tureen.
Pour soup over it—the last thing—and
serve.
Fried Tomatoes.—Cut the toma
toes in slices without skinning, pep
per and salt them ; then sprinkle a
little flour over them and fry in butter
until brown. Put them on a hot
platter, and p«ur a little cieam into
the butter and juice. When boiling
hot pour over the tomatoes. This dish
is very nice served with birds.
Boned Chicken.—Boil a chicken
in as little water as possible until the
meat will fall from the bones ; remove
all of the skin, chop together the light
and dark parts; season with pepper
and salt. Boil down the liquid in
which the chicken was ooiltd, then
pour it on the meat ; place iu a tin,
wrap tightly in a cloth, press with a
heavy weight for several hours.
W’lien served cut in thin slioes. This
is delicious for sandwiches at a picnic.
Facts About the Comet.
Statement Concerning its Composition—An
Interesting Visitor.
A communication iu the Biooklyn
Union says:—
This’ Wells comet proves the most
important ever observed for another
reason. Every comet thus far ex
amined by the spectroscope has given
hydro-carbon lines, showiug its chief
constituents to be hydrogen'and car
bon. This visitor has been very un
favorably situated for spectroscopic
observations in this country, but
recently tiiere were received at the
Dudley Observatory from Lord Craw -
ord’s observatory, iu Scotland, the
i Rowing despatch, dated May 29th :—
‘The spectrum of the nucleus of Comet
Wells deserves the closest attention, as
it shows a sharp, bright line coinci
dent with D, as well as strong traces
of other bright lines, resembling in
appearance those seen in tbs spectra of
Gamma Cassiopeia and allied s f ars.”
The D line proves that sodium is a chief
element among the const itutents of
thiscomet, and the other lines indicate
the presence also of iron and chit rine.
No such spectrum of a comet has ever
before been since the spectroscope has
been iu use.
Now it is known why this wanderer
did not became a brilliant object.
8 >dium is twenty-three times less vol
atile than the hydro carbons found in
all other comets. Had the constituents
of this visitor been those ordina
rily observed, the tail of 4° or 5°, seen
only by the help of a telescope of some
power, would have been a magnificent
brilliant train of 80° or 106°, visible
distinctly to the naked eye in broad
daylight, the prediction of M. Flam-
marion, the famous French astrono
mer, namely, “Just before perihelion
we shall see an immense column of
light rising obliquely in the sky at
the northeast,” would have been real
ized. Will we see the comet again?
Will it be brilliant? It is hazardous
to venture an answer. If visible to us
it will be low down, near the horizon.
The people south of the equator will
have the best view of it. The hard
materials of which it is composed may
cool rapidly, and on the other hand
they may retain heat longef than the
ordinary constituents of comets. As
during the past few months, we can
only wait aud see what lu to occur.
But those who saw this visitor with an
opera glass or telescope have the satis
faction of knowing that they have
seen tiie most remarkable cornet thus
far obs^-ved, and which has now be-
oorne to astronomers the most interest
ing objoot at present in the heavens.