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Your Gifts.
If you have the gift of seeing, ever look for
beauty;
Noting faults In all your friends, is plainly
not your duty.
If you have the gift of hearing, list to wbnt
' Is meet;
Shut your ears to everything that. Is not good
and sweet.
If you have the gift of talking, use tratpleas
ant words;
Let your speech be glad and cherry as the
songs of birds.
—Emma C. Dowd, In "South’s Companion.
The Gingerbread Man.
Bat flve years old was little: Nan
When she fell in love with a gingerbread
man.
Site said as she placed him beside her cup,
“I love you enough to eat you up!”
Aud then the roguish little miss
Devours 1 her sweat heart'with a kiss;
“How nlee you are!” sold little Nan—
And that was the end of the gingerbread
man
tears passed, and the math to womatfnoc*
grew,
And she had of suitors a, dozen or'two;
But she found none as sweet as the ginger,
bread man,
'For he was a regular snap," sighed Nan.
—The Commonwealth,
The Blossom of My Heart.
Azure eyes a-twinkle,
Silver Amber looks a-oarl,
Shining laugh a-tlnkie, o’ pearl;
teeth
When she is nigh
I gaze and sigh
I cannot fly
The spot:
There is no fairer blossom than
That sweet Forget-me-not.
/
Poets sing of beryls,' 1
Gems of peerless hue;
Coula they meet the perils
In her eyes of blue.
Each captive wight
To be her knight
With wild delight
Would plot;
For she can smtle to wltoh the wOrH
My sweet Forgot-me-not.
V
When the blossoms shimmer
In the dawn o’ May
When her glee grows dimmer ..
On our wedding clay,
And in my pride
I lead my bride
May Her joy tot; betide
The blossom o’ ray heart for aye,
Mv sweet Forget-me-nott
—Samuel M. Peok, In Boston Transcript
As to Friends and Enemies,
Preserve me from my friend, because I whis
per in his ear
The little secrets I’d not like a cruel world
to hear;
And if he at some looso-tongued time gives
forth what I have said,
The world sadly will say he head. speaks the truth, and
wag its
But If my enemy should spread that Belt
same truth, yon see,
The world would cry “We doubt It—he’s the
fellow’s enemy!’’
—John Kendrick Bangs.ln Harper’s Weekly.
A Commonplace Letter.
It seemed so little, the thing you did—
Just to tako.the pea in your hand,
And send the warm heart’s greeting, hid
’Neath the common two-eent stamp of the
land.
But over the mountains and over the plain,
And away o’er the billowy prairies went
The small, square letter, to soothe the pain
Of one who was fretted with discontent.
She was ill and tired; the long, hot day
Hal worn itself to the merest Bhred;
The last of the light, ns it ebbed away,
Fell on her patient needle and thread.
A Where shadow came fading flying sunlight across filtered the gp am through;
the
There was just the gleam of a sweet young
face, you.”
And a voice said, “Here is a letter for
i
The quick brushed tears blurred them in a sudden mist,
But she nway, and then she
smiled, should how kissed
And you have Been she
and kissed
The postmark’s circlet, like a child.
"Why, the name brought back the long ago
When she dressed in her best of afternoons.
When she found it a pleasure to sit and sew.
And her seams were hemmed to tripping
tunes.
Poverty, change, and the without drudgery end,
Of work that goes on an
Had fettered the heart" that was light and
Till free, she’d almost forgotten she had
a
friend. *
The people at home so seldom write.
Her youth aud its pleasures He all behind;
She was thinking bitterly but last night
That “out of sight is out of mind.”
-
Now, here is your letter! The old hills
break
Beyond these levels flat and green;
She thrills to the thi ash as his flute noteB
wake
In the vesper hush pi the woods serene;
She sits again in the little church.
And lifts her voice in.the choir once more;
Or stoops fora four-leaved clover to search
In the grass that ripples up to the door. J
It was very little it meant, for you—
An hour at best when the day was done:
But the words you seat rang sweet and true,
And they carried comfort and cheer to one
Who was hear needing the to feel she a clasping used hand. hear:
And to voices to
And the little letter, the breadth of the land,
Was the carrier-dove that brought home
near.
—Mrs. E, gangster, in Christian Advocate.
A Chinese Superstition.
The Hong Kong Telegraph says that
the fact that Li Hung Chang’s coffin,
which he carried with him on his trip
around the world, was burned in a
fire on the steamer Glenartney, indi
cates to the.Chinege superstitious miud
that the great statesman will roach a
very old age. - ._______
Murray News.
SPRING PLACE, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1897.
That Bashful Blinker,
BX TV. J. HAMPTON
OW pretty she was as
she sat with her shape
UV ly fingers dancing on
the keyboard of her
typewriter. think the time
I in
X to come when this
(JN- „J shall classic have period become for the the
future centuries, as the ancient Greek
is the classic for us of this time, that
instead of the maiden with the distaff
as we have, they will have the maiden
at the typewriter, as one of the beau
tiful figures that make art everlasting.
Her eyes were so blue, Per cheeks
were so pink, and truly, he; hair must
have been transplanted from the banks
of the Pactolus whose shifting sands
were crystals of pure gold.
The man sat near her dictating a
letter.
On the window pane next to the
street were the words “Hurford,
Blinker & Co., Brokers," and the man
dictating was the Blinker of the firm.
He was aiso the Hurford and the Co.,
seeing that ho had bought out every
body else, including the well-known
name of the firm.
And what a man was Blinker—
Haverhill Blinker. A bachelor of
forty years’ experience, a business
man of large and increasing wealth,
a calculating speculator, a good the all
’round fellow, and among women
very prototype and synonym of bash
ful ness. To see him bow and smile to
and at » lady when meeting her would
have led the most critical to say he
was a courtier of courtiers, but if it
became necessary for him to go be
yond the bowing and smiling limit,
life had no further charms for Haver
hill Blinker. Strange to say, too, he
was not always conscious of his weak
ness, and there were times when he
really thought he was quite a ladies’
maD.
When he recovered from one of
these latter attacks he was always sur
rounded by a large circle of sympa
thizing friends (male).
Until within six months he had
never been' able to persuade himself
that the real and only way to accustom
himBelf to the use of a woman’s society
wa@ to employ a “iady typewriter,”
and then he did it becauso a relative
of his, his aunt, in fact, in a neigh
boring town, had asked him as a spec
ial favor to help the daughter of an
old school friend of hera, in sore dis
tress, who was quite a skilled stenog
rapher and typewriter.
It was entirely beyond the compre
hensibility of Mr. Blinker’s aunt that
Mr. Blinker would give her employ
ment, but the aunt thought he might
know someone who had a place for heT.
Therefore, when he wrote to his aunt
saying tha\ he would give the young
woman a place in his office at $40 a
month she was more than surprised—
she was delighted, and sent the gold- old
en-haired daughter of her dear
sohool friend right over to her nephew.
The day she made her first appear
ance Mr. Blinker was out when she
called about II o’clock, and the office
boy and the clerk having insisted upon
her remaining for a few minutes until
Mr. Blinker should return, she sat
down near the window and waited,
never onee noting the fact that the
office boy and the clerk were each pat
ting in every moment of his spare
time watching her and wondering
what the mischief business an angel
right from heaven had with Mr.
Blinker.
When Mr. Blinker finally appeared,
and the office boy aud the clerk col
lapsed, he hadn’t the least idea who
she was, and bis heart began to pound
so on the inside of him that he
thought it was the shafting janitor turning on
more steam and up the radi
ators in the office and halls, It was
the veiy first time he had ever seen a
woman in his office, and the experience
■was so entirely novel that for an in
stant he was speechless. Blinker?” she inquired,
“Is this Mr.
rising to meet him as he came hesi
tatingly toward"her,
"Yes’m,” responded Mr. Blinker,
as if he were a sohoolboy about to be
licked for pasting a wet wad on the
■wall. “May I inquire to what I am
indebted for the honor of this visit,
ma’am ?”
Blinker would no more have made
such an egregiously silly and stilted
speech as that to a man than he would
have tried to have told the truth in
Chicago, but this was a woman, and
Blinker was not resnonsible.
"Your, aunt,” said the visitor, with
roguish twinkle in her eye, but
Blinker didn’t see it any more than he
saw profit in honest politics. ma’am,”
"I—I—beg your pardon,
he' stammered.
Tbejvery idea of his saying "Ma’am,”
to a girl like that! It would have
been criminal if Mr. Blinker had been
responsible. told him who she and
Then she was,
the way Mr. Blinker began to assume
airs and strut around as if he were a
migbiy potentate with a lot of sub
jects was as funny as it could be.
Now she had been with him six
months, and he sat near her dictating
a letter. short.
In the midst of it he stopped this
He had been tempted to do
many times before. He had studied
the matter thoroughly, as he thought,
and having considered it in every
light and having deliberated upon it
for many days, and having tried to ac
complish the desired result by every
means in his knowledge, he had at last
determined to do this.
Therefore he stopped in the midst
of it.
“I am very sorry, Miss Prince,’’ be
began, quite abruptly, and as if he
wanted to get through with the dis
agreeable task in a hurry, “but I am
afraid I shall have to lose you as my
typewriter. clutched suddenly the sides
She at
of the machine as if to support her
self.
“W-w-whv,” she stammered with
qvivering lips, "why, Mr. Blinker,
what have I done that I should be
discharged without warning?” warning,”
“But I’m giving you he
said, half with bravado, half with
apology. "Yon don’t have to go right
away.”
“I do not want to go at oil until I
know why I am going,” she argued. I
Tins is ail I hare in why the I world, Unfitted and
am entitled to know am
for this,”
"Ob, it isn’t your fault, oxaotly,”
be went on evasively. "There are no
such things, you know, asmisfortunes,
which can scarcely be classed as faults.
In your case, Mias Prinoe, your mis
fortune is that you are too tucked pretty,”
and Mr. Blinker actually his
head to one side and simpered at her.
She had been suspicious for a long
time, as most women are when they
have their wits about them under cir
cumstances similar to those surround
ing Miss Prince and Mr. Blinker, and
she almost smiled through the mist
that was gathering in her eyes.
"You have always said, Mr. Blink
er," she pleaded, "that you liked to
see pretty things in your office."
He coughed nervously, uneasily.
How many thingB he had said to her
be did not know. How many more he
wanted to say be did not know. What
he was now saying he did not know
how he wftB evBr going to finish.
“I know that,” he admitted, "but
sometimes, you know, my dear Miss
Prince, a man cannot always have
what he wants. As long as I was a
bachelor, Miss Prince, I could do as I
pleased, but I am to be married, at
least I hope so, and you know a man’s
wife sometimes differs with him on
what may seem to the world at large
to be quite tiivial points.”
Married I
At one blow all her castles were
thrown to the earth, with not so much
as a corner standing to show thut they
had ever been other than crumbling
ruins.
True, ho had never said anything
definitely to her, but there is so much
more in what is never said, and daily
out of the unspoken affinity whioli
turely existed between tbeBe two con
genial people the more foolish woman
had constructed such hopes as women
cherish to the end of time, That ho
had thought enough of her to warrant
tnese hopes, a thousand wordless wit
nesses testified.
How thus in the very midst of the
work that he had given to her to do
for him, and that she loved to do be
cause it was for him, the blow fell.
"Yes?” she responded to his state
ment in the faint pathetic question
IBg that fills a woman’s voice when
she is thus called upon to face her
heart’s doom, and her hands uncon
sciously sought to go on with her
work.
"Yes, Miss Prinoe,” he said, with no
sound of sympathy in his voioe, "and
I am pretty sure my wife will not per
mit you to remain here as my type
writer. Imaysay,”and typewriter.” he simpered
again, "as my pretty the sim
She never so much as saw
per, and in that far Mr. Blinker should
have thanked his good fortune. all
"I have thought the matter
over,” he continued, "and I leave it
to you as a fsirminded woman whether
it is my duty to gain a wife and lose a
typewriter, or vice versa?”
By this time she had recovered
from the primary shock. She had
even begun to wonder bow he had
ever mustered up sufficient courage to
propose to the future Mrs. Blinker.
She even went further and made up
her mind that the lady was a widow,
and had used the traditional wiles of
the widow on the unsuspecting and
.
bashful Mr, Blinker.
"By all means, Mr. Blinker,” cbe
said coldly, "gain the wife. The
world is full of typewriters, but it is
not every day that a man can get a
wife. At least snob a wife as you de
serve,” and in spite of herself there
was something soft in her tone that
she did not want to be there.
Mr. Blinker noticed it, too, but be
didn’t stop to comment upon it.
“Good for you, Miss Prinoe,” he
laughed. "I knew yoa were a woman
of sense.”
She shrank as if she had been
touched with a hot iron.
"Thank yon, Mr. Blinker,” she said,
“Now, if you please, we will go on
with our work. ”
It had seemed as if a lifetime had
past since she had written the last
and as she bent down over it,
if the better see what it was, a tear fell
upon the line.
This Mr. Blinker also observed, hut
said nothing, seeming to enjoy it.
"Before we do, Miss Prince," he
said, "may I ask a favor at your hands
—a promise?”
"Wliat is it? Yes,” she answered,
Mr. Blinker braced himself.
"Ihavif this woman whom I am
soon to ask formally to be my wife,”
he said, "should refuse me, that you
will marry me.”
For an instant the girl looked at
hitn, then she rose to-her feet, her eyes
fairly blazing.
Mr. Blinker saw that the tigress was
about to spring, and he was fright-,
ened.
"Wait, stop!” he explained, hold
ing up his bands as if to shield himself
from the blow. “Hold on till I tell
you who the woman is. It’s you, Miss
Prinoe—you—you—youl Won’t you
marry me? Will you be my wife?
Haven’t you always known I didn’t
care a cent for any woman on earth but
you? Ruth, darling, don’t look at
me like that!”
Mr. Blinker was going all to p ieoes
mentally and emotionally, ana the
young woman took pity on him, for it
dawned upon her all at once that the
more bashful a bachelor is the more
ridiculous he is in love, and the only
way to prevent a tender emotion from
becoming ludicrous is to accept it on
the spot.
Which she did, and Mr. Blinker
never had another pretty typewriter.
—New York Sun.
SpfKins,
It is admitted that spoons are very
“nnoiont," but just exactly how old
thef are and by whom and where they
■were first used are points upon which
we are left completely in the dark.
Creighton says: ’ Spoons must have
"been a very ancient invention, for tv
Saxon spoon of perfect silver gilt, or
namented with gems was found in a
grave at Sarre, Thanet. ”
When forks were unknown, spoons
played a very important part at the
tabte. Spoons of the thirteenth cen
tury, and even later, had handles ter
minating in a knob, knot, acorn, or
other odd and cumbersome devices.
About the period of the Restoration,
of which so much is said in English
history, a great change was mado in
the forms of spohus. In some of the
unique patterns the “spoon” part
divided into two, three and even
parts, and the handle always split
twisted and turned up, instead
down and back. SpoonB of that
iod were all blunt, instead of
pointed, ns in the forms continued generally
seen at present. They George
and blunt down to the time of
I., whon they were first made
and had the handles turned down in
stead of up.
About the year 1500 what
known as "apostle spoons” were
troduced. They were so called be
cause they had the figures of
twolve apostles carved upon their
handles. They were generally
by sponsors to children at fheir time
of baptism. The wealthy
the entire twelve, those who could
afford to indulge in snch
giving one ox more, according as
felt able.
The most curious and
spoon in the world,perhaps, is a
onation spoon” preserved the among Tower
other royal relics in of gold and
London. The bowl is
handle of silver. The handle is
down the middle and set with
kinds of preoious stones. The relio
valued at about £20,000, or upward
$ 100 , 000 .
Grades of Mackerel.
"Mackerel only comes in three
grades,” said a well known grooery
man, "though there is not one buyer
in each thousand who knows anything
about it. These grades They are bloaters, also
selects and extras. are
known as Nos. 1, 2 and 8. Number
ones should measure thirteen inches
from the tip of the nose to the crutch
of the tail; number twos should be
not less than eleven and a half inches
long, all sizes smaller are lamped un
der the general head of number three.
The terms bloaters, selects and extras
refer to the quality and condition, and
not to the size. Mess mackerel means
that the beads and tails have been re
moved. In the oase of mackerel the
fatter the fish the better is the quality.
Mackerel are also referred to as Nor
ways and shores, This indicates
where they are caught, Shores are
not as fat as Norways. The mackerel
caught off Prince Edward Island and
known as islands should be of a dark
red oolor. Those caught in the St.
Lawrence Bay ate known as ’bays,’ the
meat of which is darker than that of
the ‘islands.’”—Washington Star.
For Neuralgic I’nins.
For facial neuralgia this is the very
beet plan to secure quick relief: Heat
a freestone hot and roll up in a cloth,
wetting one side of it and turning
about a teaspoonfnl of essence of pep
permint on the wet surface. Lay the
face against this and cover the whole
bead up warmly with flanneh It will
give relief in almost every instance.
Or heat a basin of salt very hot, put it
in a bag and apply to the face. There
is something about the salt that seems
to relieve the pain where simply the
beat will not help it.—New York Jour
nal,
WORDS OF WISDOM,
We have but one instant to live, and
We have hopes for years.
The winner is he who gives himself
to his work body and soul.
happy Doing good is the only life. certainly
action of a man's
Our happiness in this world depends
ohiefiy on the affection we are ahlo to
inspire.
Whep the character of a person is
discussed, silence,in the good natnred,
is censure.
There are more fools than sages; and
among the sages there is more folly
than wisdom.
We must often consider not what
the wise will think but what the fool
ish will say.
The next time you are tempted to
buy an article on credit remember
the impudent collector who will call
on you.
One reason why the world gains
knowledge so slowly, is that every
child must find out for itself that fire
is hot.
Be honest, Dishonesty seldom makes
one rich, and when it does riohes are
a curse. There is no such thing as
dishonest success.
It is well to remember when in or
out of society that people acid fine
linen never made a porcine character
a fine gentleman.
"The older a man gets,” said the
corn-fed philosopher, "the harder he
finds it to feel sorry for a woman
whose pug dog has died.”
One of the superstitions that will sur
vive until the end of time is that the
man who does not smile when ad
dressing a female acquaintance is a
cross-grained bear.
The wife who is meek aud patient
and forgiving and always meets her
husband with a smiling face no matter
how much he makes her cry in secret,
gets terribly tiresome.
Narrow-minded men who have not a
thoughjt beyond the little sphere of
their own vision, lecall the Hindoo
saying, “The snail sees nothing but
its own shell, and thinks it the grand
est in the universe."
Climate and Movement,
"The most important physical fac
tor in determining lines of movement,”
says a well-known man of science,
"has been climate. Speaking broadly,
migration follows the parallels of lati
tude, or, more precisely, the aud lines of
equal! mean temperature, not so
much, I think, of mean annual heat as
of mean winter boat. Although the
inhabitants of cold climates often
evinoe a desire to move into warmer
ones, they seem never to transfer
themselves direotly to one differing
greatly from that to which they are
accustomed; while no people of the
tropics has ever, so far as 1 know,
settled in any part of the temperate
zone.
"There is one instance of a North
European raoe establishing itself on
the southern shores of the Mediter
ranean—the Vandals in North Africa,
and the Bulgarians came to the banks
of the Danube from the still sterner
winters of the middle Volga. But in
the few oases of northward movement,
as in that of the Lapps, the cause lies
in the irresistible pressure of stronger
neighbors; and probably a into similar their
pressure drove the Fuegians
inhospitable tendency isles. retain similar
"The to
climatic conditions is illustrated by
the colonization of North America.
The Spaniards and Portuguese took
the tropical and sub-tropioal regions,
aegleoting the oooler parts. The
French and the English settled in the
temperate zone, and it was not till
this century that the country toward
the Gulf of Mexico began to be oc
cupied by incomers from the Carolinas
and Northern Georgia. When the
Scandinavian immigration began it
flowed to the Northwest aud has filled
the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota
md the Dakotas,”—New York Herald.
The Balancing of Trees.
A very interesting suggestion con
cerning the utility to a tree of the
irregular arrangement of the branches
is made by a correspondent of Nature.
WatohiDg a large plane tree during a
gale, he observed that while one great
limb swayed in one direction, another
swayed the opposite way, and although
all the branches were plunging did and
bending before the blast, they not
move in uniBon, or all at once in the
same direction. But for the peculi
arity in the motion of the branches,
he thinks, the tree could not have
escaped uprooting; and he suggests
that this kind of balancing serves in
general to protect large trees, like
oaks and beeches, wbioh have their
branches unsymmetricaliy placed,
from being overturned by high winds.
He Knew the Meaning.
A teacher was giving lessons in word
illustrations, and was examining the
word atom. She told the children
that atom meant a small particle of
anything. It might even be so small
that it could not be seen by the naked
eye. After she had defined the word
m i plainly that she thought the pnpiis
all knew its meaning, she said: "Now,
some one speak a sentence in which
the word atom will be used correctly. ”
A boy answered: "Jimmy Brown hit
me, and I’d like to get at him.
NO. BO.
THE FLIGHT OF THE AHR9Y HU
Tlio life of man
Is an arrow’s flight,
Out ot darkness
Into light.
And out ot the light
Into darkness again;
Perhaps to pleasure,
Perhaps to pain!
Thera must be Something,
Above, or below;
Somewhere unseen
A mighty Bow,
A Haud that tires not,
A sleepless Eye
That sees the arrows
. Fly, and fly;
One who knows
Why we live—and die,
—B. H. Stoddard, in the Atlantic Monthly,
PITH AND POINT.
An eavesdropper—The icicle.
No man is a hero to his hired gifl.
Two is company until thoy become
me.
Everything wox&s well on paper—
except the fountain pen.
It’s pretty hard to get people inter
ssted in what you used to be.
Some men have greatness thrust
upon them, but they think they
aoliioved it.
You never knew how to take some
people; but then they are not often
the kind yoa want.—Puck.
Party at the Door—"Is the lady of
the house in?” Cook—"I'm wan of
fchim, surr.”—Boston Transcript.
When some people do wrong, they
waste a lot of time in trying to con
vince themselves that it isn’t wrong.—
Puck.
She—“I hope yon were polite to
papa, dear?” He—“Indeed I was. I
gave him a cordial invitation to make
his house my home."—Detroit Free
Press.
“You geniuses are getting so thick
that ySu will soon crowd common peo
ple off the earth.” "No we wont—
most of us are so lazy.”—Chicago
Record.
Social Discretion: "Osmond’s new
girl baby is sending her cards round.”
"Well, let’s hurry and oall on her be
fore she learns to talk.”—Chicago
Record.
Amy— "Yes; he is very persistent. o'f
He says he would goto the ends the
earth for me.” Alice—“Why not send
him? It would take him some time
to get back.”—Puck,
Hubby—“YeB, dear, you look nice
in that dress; but it cost me a heap
of money.” Wife—“Freddie, dear,
what do I care for money when it is a
question of pleasing you?”—Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Mann (meeting former servant)
—”Ab, Mary, I suppose you are get
ting better wages at your new place ?”
Mary—“No, ma’am, I’m working for
nothing now. I’m married. ”—Boston
Transcript.
Evasive; She—"If yon were to find
that I hod lost all my fortune—every
penny of it—would you hesitate to
carry out onr engagement?” He—"I
would hesitate at nothing.”—Indian
apolis Journal.
Safe Ground—"Slingink has got
out a new book—‘Poets and Poetry of
Patagonia.’ ” “Why, he doesn’t know
anything about Patagonia.” “Neither
do the people to whom he sells bis
book. ”—Chicago Record.
"John, what are you going to do?”
"I am going to hitch the horse to the
sleigh and drive him over to the park
and back. He needs exercise.”
"Aren’t you going to church-?” “No;
it’s too cold.”—Chicago Tribune.
Author—-"I am troubled with in
somnia. I lie awake at night hour
after hour thinking about my literary
work.” His friend—“How very fool
ish-of you! Why don’t v you get up
and read portions of it? ’—Tit-Bits.
Hicks—"Tell me frankly, when
Smoothebore gets to telling bis army
experiences, don’t you sometimes wish
he was dead?” Wicks—“No, but I
sometimes wish that the war had oc
curred fifty years earlier.”—Boston
Transcript.
Soap From Sun Flowers.
The Tacoma News says that a com
pany has been organized in Spokane
County to manufacture soap from sun
flower seeds. The average yield of
plants to the acre is twenty-five hun
dred pounds, gross; percentage of oil
is one-third the weight of the seeds;
so that six hundred pounds of seed
will make two hundred pounds of oil.
The latter, when refined and ready to
use in making soap, is worth about
one dollar a pound, and iB said to
make the finest of toilet soaps. The
net profit of the sunflowers to the
grower is put at eleven dollars au
acre, They require little core after
being planted.
Singing as an Antidote to Consumption,
It is asserted that singing is a cor
rective of the too common tendency to
pulmonic complaints. An eminent
physician observes on the subject:
“The Germans are seldom afflicted
with consumption, and this, I believe,
is in part occasioned by the strength
which their lungs acquire by exercis
ing them in vocial music, for this con
stitutes an essential branch of their
education. ”