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t Spring Place Jimplecute.
CARTER & HEARTSELL, Proprietors.
VOLUME XI.
COL M’CLORE AND NICOLAY.
Th» Editor Not OuupHmeatar; to Tbe Bl
ognplMr
Philadelphia, July 8.—The fol¬
lowing editorial of Col. McClure will
appear in to-morrow’s Times:
’’The ignorance exhibited by John
G. Nieoluy in his public telegram to
the widow of ex-Vice President Ham¬
lin is equaled only by his arrogance in
assuming to speak for Abraham Lin¬
coln in matters about which Nicolay
was never consulted and of which he
had no more knowledge than any oth
er routine elerk about the White
House.
“1 do not regret that Nicolay has
rushed into a dispute that must lead
to the clear estalishinent of llie exact
truth as to the political death ot Ham¬
lin in 1864,- It will surely greatly impair,
if not destroy, Nicolay’s hitherto goner
ally accepted claim to accuracy as tbe
biographer of Lincoln, but ne can
complain of none but bimself.
“I saw Abraham Lincoln at all hours
of the day and night during liis presi¬
dential services, and he has himself
abundantly testified to the trust that
existed between us. Having had the
direction of his battle in the pivotal
state of tbe Union, he doubtless ac¬
corded me more credit than 1 merited
as tbe only success in politics and war
is success; and the fact that I never
sought or desired honor or profits from
his administration, and never embar¬
rassed him with exactions of any kind,
made our relations the most grateful
memories of my life.
“In all of the many grave political
emergencies arising from the new and
, often appalling duties imposed by in
' ternecine war, I was one of those call¬
ed to the inner counsels of Abraham
Lincoln. He distrusted his own judg¬
ment in politics and was even careful
to gather the best councils from all
the varied shades of opinion and inter¬
est to guide him in his conclusions and
there were not only scores of confer¬
ences in the White House, of which
John G. Nicolay never heard, but no
man even met or heard of John G.
Nicolay in such counsels ”
The editorial then says Nicolay was
a good mechanical clerk, but utterly
inefficient as the president’s private
secretary. President Lincoln Nicolay
saw, but never Abraham Lincoln.
Nicolay’s biography is invaluable as
to Lincoln’s public acts, but every line
of private biography has unpardona¬
ble errors. Continuing, the editorial
says:
“I now regret that in obedience to a
telegrahie request from President Lin¬
coln, I visited him at the White House
t he day before the meeting of the Bal
tirnore convention of 1804. At the in¬
terview Lincoln earnestly explained
why the nomination of a well known
Southern gentleman like Andrew
Johnson, who had been congressman,
governor and senator by the favor of
his state, would not only nationalize
the Republican party as the govern¬
ment, but would greatly lessen the
grave peril of the recognition of the
Confederacy by England and France.
He believes . that the election to the
vice-presidency of a representative
statesman from an insurgent state that
had been restored to the union would
disarm the enemies of the republic
abroad and remove the charge of sec¬
tionalism from the government that
seemed to greatly hinder peace. No
Intimation, no trace of prejudice
against Hamlin was exhibited, and I
well knew that no such consideration
could have influenced Lincoln in such
an emergency. Had he believed Ham¬
lin to be a man who could best pro¬
mote the great work whose direction
fed solely upon himself, he would have
f avored Hamlin’s nomination regard¬
less of his personal wishes, but he be¬
lieved that the! great public achieve¬
ment would be attained by the elec¬
tion of Johnson and 1 returned*to Bal¬
timore to work and vote for Johnson,
although against all my personal pre¬
dictions in the matter.
Nicolay’s letter from Baltimore to
Hay asking whether Leonard Swett
was ‘all right’ in urging Judge Advo¬
cate General Holt’s nomination and
Lincoln’s reply, ‘Swett is unquestlona
bly all right,’ cited by Nicolay as proof
that he bad admission to the conven¬
tion,” the editorial says, “shows Nico-
1 ay was not in Lincoln’s confidence, for
Leonard Swett was of all Jiving men
the most trusted by Lincoln. Swett
and 1 both labored to nominate John¬
son and Swett made Holt, an impossi¬
ble candidate, fail to divide Hamlin’s
Supporters.
“Had Lincoln desired Hamlin’s nomi
Swett would have desired and
labored for it, and Hamlin would have
been renominated on the first ballot.
The convention was a Lincoln body
pure and simple, and no man conld
have been put on the ticket with Lin¬
coln who was not known to be his
choice. It wee not proclaimed, but 4
SPRING PLACE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1891,
was In the air, and pretty intach every¬
body but John G. Nicolay scented and
bowed to it.
“Of the few men who enjoyed Lin¬
coln’s complete confidence, Char les A.
Dana was conspicuous, and his state¬
ment, given in another column, is as
credible testimony as conld now be
given on the subject. He was trusted
by Lincoln in the most delicate mat.
ters, politically and military, and he
logically tells of Johnson’s ‘selection
by Lincoln,’ for the vice-presidency in
1864. With Dana’s direct cot robora
tion of my statement added to the
strongly corrobated facts herein given,
I may safely dismiss John G. Nicolay
and the dispute his mingled ignorance
and arrogance has thrust upon me.
LINCOLN FAVORED HAMI.IN.
Chicago, July 8 — Burton C. Cook,
of Chicago, who was chairman of the
Illinois delegation in the Republican
convention of 1864 and who nominated
Lincoln in that convention for re elec¬
tion, declared, in' an interview this
evening, that Lincoln favored Hanni¬
bal Hamlin for the vice presidency.
Cook says:
“Although Lincoln had not told me
directly he bad given me to so under¬
stand, aud the fact is further proven
by the action of the entire Illinois
delegation, which was a unit for Ham¬
lin, understanding that We were at
Lincoln’s service in tbe matter.”
EXECUTED BY fc L-.iiTRIcn Y.
Fonr Criminals Snft'-r th* Extreme P«*n>
alty o< the Law
Sing Stno, N. Y., July 7.— The four
condemned murderers who ware put to
death by electricity to-day were Jugiro,
the who murdered another Japa¬
nese sailor ni a New York boarding
house; James J Sic cum, the ex-baseball
player, who murdered bis wife; Harris
A. Srniler, who killed one of his wives;
and Joseph Wood, eoloied, who murder¬
ed a fellow workman.
The apparatus was put in place and
everything in readiness f it giving the
new method of execution a new teat and
a better one than was afforded in the
Kemmler horror.
The death chair stood in the middle of
the room and ih> re was nothing about it
to indicate the purpose ior which it was
to be used. The tbctric contrivances
and their attendants were in an adjoin¬
ing room The wires from tbe electro
podfB running along the walls and floor
from the execution room into tbe room
where the switch-board was situated.
Behind the chair and out of sight was a
little push button, just like the buttons
to tie seen everywhere in dailv use for
ordering messenger boys, signalling for
waitcisor ringing for elevators. It is
the gentle pushing of this button by the
forefinger of the warden that sets in
motion the apparatus of death, which is
of the simplest construction imagina¬
ble. The dynamo that supplies the
electricity was run by a steam engine
1,000 feet from the electrocution room.
The current having been conducted
from the dynamo to tile room next to
that of the death eliair was tested by a
voltmeter and by two dozen electric
lamps, to be sure that it was over a
thousand volts in strength, and thus
able to destroy, in a painless and in¬
stantaneous way, the life of a prisoner.
The approxomate time of turning on
the current in each case was: Slocum,
6:40; Smiier, 5:10; Jugiro, 6:05,
Tbe prisoners had received seme in¬
formation beforehand that the execu¬
tions were to take place this morning
and they were prepared. They went
to tbe execution chair bravely and met
their fate without a struggle. They
offered no resistance, but rather assis¬
ted the keepers when they were
bound down in the chair.
Tbe electrodes were not applied as in
the Kemmler case, to the top of the
skull and base of the spine, but were
bound to the foreheads of the con¬
demned men and the calves of their
legs.
The current was turned on in each
instance for twenty seconds. The vol¬
tage was about 1,600 and 1,800. In
e ach case there were apparent eviden¬
ces of revival—as in the Kemmler case
—and in each of these four cases the
current vas turned on a feeoi.d tin e.
In spite of tbe fact that the sponges
were kept constantly wet all of the ex¬
ecuted men were burned by the cur¬
rent and especially about the calves of
their legs.
The medical men present agree that
death came with the first contact, and
that the seeming revival was mere re¬
flex muscular action,
None of the witnesses were over¬
come by fright and all who have
spoken have made the statement that
the electrodes were successful and
d eath, in all cases, was instantaneous
and painless.
Talk about going away to watering
places in the summer for fishing and
hunting, we have the lakes in tbe rainy
season, and splendid, dense and almost
inpenetrable knoweth forests not what on our kind streets that
one of game
mod wild beasts inhabit.
(( TELL THE TRUTH. ”
THt PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY.
Rapid lucre*** ot Plaeappi* Culture on
Lower Indian Klve?.
From the Florida Star.
That section of Indian river where
“What shall the harvest be?” is
never asked, as the pineapple is the
fruit grown to the exclusion, almost,
of everything else, deserves more
than a passing notice at this time,
Mi the growing interest in pine¬
apples in every part of the country
and u few notes of what is going on
and the general look of the section
made by the writer, while on a busi¬
ness trip recently, may he of some
interest to your more slay at home
readers. ;
It is some seven years since we
had tho pleasure of first visiting In¬
dian river south of .Fort Pierce, and
we recollect the feeling of loneliness
one hsd in sailing along, seeing a
house only at rare intervals, and
t hese few and far hot wr en. The
clearings round each place, as a rule,
mere patches, and such as they were
invariably called, pineapple patches.
Of course, there were on>* or two ex¬
ceptions, notably the place of Mr.
T. Richards, at Eden, who had some
eight or nine acres in cultivation at
that time, and one looked at his, at
that time, (xtensive patch with
about the same eyes as he would gaze
.on his famous old sharpie Z phyr,
the largest boaton the river and con¬
sidered a great boat in those days.
But changed, indeed,is the pineapple
section and changed for the better.
Gone are the days when the careless
but happy bach would leave his
patch on tbe least pretext to go hunt
fishing, or visit Titusville lor
grub and it might be a little more
social intercourse than was to be had
so fur south at that time.
The change, even in the appear¬
ance of the people, is very marked,
and it seems to the writer, that the
men look younger and are more
cheerful than in the good old days—
but the cause of this is easily seen.
The patches round each home have
grown into parks or plantations and
with increased knowledge of the cul¬
tivation and packing of Ihe fruit as
well as improved transportation, a
deep-sealed conviction has come to
nearly every grower that he has a
“good thing.” and could hardly find
a better if he tried to. The result of
which is to make him hold on to his
land in cultivation an! keep adaing
to it as his means will permit. This
every settler in the section is doing,
and they have no desire to sell im¬
proved property.
11 has been proved beyond the
shadow of a doubt that there is big
money in pineapples, and now that
northern capitalists and men of
means, who from choice or necessity
on account of their health, have come
to stay permanently on Indian river
find that they can enjoy health, com¬
fort, a paying investment for their
capital and congenial employment
in the culture of this fruit, we may
not unreasonably expect that the
pineapple growers will have a very
large accession to their numbers iu
the near future. The acreage in pines
will be more than doubled and prob¬
ably trebled this year and this is
hardly more than a beginning.
Should the preseLt activity in clear¬
ing up land and planting It in pines
continue for any length of time,and
who can doubt t ut it will, all the
land available for this fruit will not,
if cultivated, overdo the business.
Not only are there sections of the
country, west and north, where, if
seen at all, a pineapple is a curiosity,
hut there is a large field open in can¬
ning tLe fruit which, as yet, has not
been touched. Then, again, the
medicinal properties of the truit are,
as yet, hut imperfectly known. As
an aid to the digestion it is, when
cut ripe from the plant, so good that
it would ruin the average boarding
house keeper to have it constantly
on tbe table; then, in cases of diph¬
theria, it is being used by some of
the first physicians in Atlanta and
other large cities of the South with
very gratifying results; so that, in
view of ils more general use as a
medical agent as well as its increas¬
ing popularity as a fruit for general
use, any fears that its over-produc¬
tion is likely are without foundation
in fact.
The pineapple will thrive on a
variety of soils but not on shell land.
On high hammock it does well, but
on hickory and oak scrub it probably
does tbe best. For a preference,
level, well-drained land should be
selected. In preparing tbe land for
pineapples there must beg xxl deal
oi careful-work done. It should be
thoroughly grubbed, harrowed, roll¬
ed and all the stumps dug out. After
planting thoSsJips the general prac
lice is to scatter cotton seed meal
broadcast. Some of which settles in
the crown and on the leaves of each
plant and gradually forming a paste
prevents sand from blowing into the
crown and chocking up the young
plant.
Aa to the profits in piueapple
growing there is no hart! and fast
line one may go by. If you buy an
article for a dollar and sell it for
$1.38j >oa know you have 25 per
cent, on your turn over. But if two
individuals buy ;land adjoining, of
the same quality, and each plant an
acre in pineapples at the same cost,
say for grubbing, plants, planting
ana fertilizer, Ibr two years, the
average co 4 of which is from $2<i0
to $800, one may roceivi for his in¬
vestment $500, while the other may
only get $300 and lie might get $750.
No two men have exactly the same
experience, owing to any one of a
number of dunes. It may ne in
packing the fruit after Jetting it lie
and getting heateFiu the sun,careless
packing, it may be sent to a com¬
mission man whq has more fruit than
he can handlo to good advantage, or
a variety of other muses too numer¬
ous to mention. Like every other
business, attention to detail is well
repaid in this, abd the more careful
one is with every phase, from plant¬
ing to stenciling the crates loa ship’
ment, the more profitable will the
pineapple business tie.
One grower on this river who has
made pineapples a hoboy for the
past six or seven sears has made
from barely three- eightns of an acre
from $200 to |3iiO each yrar. Last,
year he got, net, for his crop $276.
Orange growing Is his business, but
his jiineappies arje his pets. f
It cannot be denied that pineapples
are occasionally injured even here by
frost. A very plight frost does it,
Nil, uevcrtlythese drawbacks Intelligent
only serve to make the
and progressive grower keep a
brigher lookout and make him more
careful in every detail of the busi¬
ness, and in no way does it deter men
who have looked into the matter
carefully, from investing their capi¬
tal and woik in this fascinating oc¬
cupation. The occasional slight
frosts that do occur can beavtried by
smoke. Some growers having largo
iron pots placed at intervals in their
field-, ready charged with light
wood knots,far ar>d rubbish,that will
create a dense smoke, so that, should
the thermometer go down to nearly
freezing point, they are ready to
light up and so eicapo injury. In
some pari- ol Michigan, ana else¬
where north, bricks made of pressed
sawdust and tar are used for this
very purpose. There are other ap¬
pliances, and doubtless some of the
growers will, ere another season
comes round, be so well prepared for
Jack Frost that they will be indiffer¬
ent whether he tays them a visitor
not
GET A HOME.
Get a home or place where your family
caw reside, and a place v, here your wife
or daughter can plant flowers; feel and
know that it is for herself and family,
and no landlord dare claim a superior
rignt. Where ev ery shade tree that is
set out, every fruit tree that you plant is
intended for you and jours to rest be¬
neath its boughs and pluck fruit from
its limbs, and w. >re your children play
and feel joyful, be, use it is home. A
place where every nk ”ou drive, every
board that is fastened o. is for you and
yours; a place that none dare enter with¬
out your consent, from which no man
can driveyou; a home though an humble
one, to its'owner a paradise, a fortress,
a place of pleasure and stronghold.
Though the acres may be few, yet no
rent is to be paid, no moving from year
to year Home is the place of happiness.
Let it be a permanent one, where the
longer you remain the more endeared it
becomes to the family. It is the home
of the nation that brings forth patriot¬
ism. With each fixed home stands
linked tbe love of the country, the de¬
sire of its well being and prosperity. It
has been well and truly said by an
American that tho homes of Americans
constitute her standing army.
Florida Encampment.
Tallahasse. Fla., July 8. —Gover¬
nor Fleming has ordered the Florida
State troops, eleven companies of infan¬
try and one battery, into annual en¬
campment at 8t, Augustine foom July
to 28.
BEAUTY OP FORM.
The Chftvin of Proportion In Both Man
and Woman.
Beauty of the human form is to-day
exactly what it was in ancient Greece;
It is the same through all the centuries,
however blind we are to its characteris¬
tics through ignorance. The census of
ages is a true verdict, and classic forms
become safe models. Greek sculpture
was wrought when the body received its
highest cultivation, and was so beautiful
a: to be called divine.
This sculpture should be carefully and
continuously studied, as well as pictures
of good nude figures. They are to be
made familiar, that one may learn why
they are good, why they deserve admira¬
tion. Most people fancy that they ad¬
mire these classic models, but it must be
in imagination only, else why should
they allow themselves to exemplify false
standards of form, and positively distort
their own God given bodies 7
Searching for the highest standards of
human form, we discover that manly
beauty and womanly beauty differ es¬
sentially. It is agreed that the type of
manly proportions includes a compara¬
tively large head, wide shoulders, rather
square, a torso tapering to a contracted
pelvis; while the whole may be 7 1-2
heads in height, or an additional half
head added to the length of the legs, giv¬
ing a particularly elegant figure.
On the other hand, fine proportions for
a woman are a small head, shoulders
rather sloping and narrow, the torso full
and widest at the hips; while the front
line from the sternum over the abdomen
should show first a gentle, and then a full
outward curve.
The conventional figure of the day is at
variance with this type. Every effort is
made to imitate masculine characteristics.
The shoulders are thrust up high and
square, or made to appear so, the torso is
made to taper in, and everything under
heaven is done to make the waist look
small. The front line is forced to take
an inward curve below the bust, and the
side lines to form an awkward angle, in
the hollow of win oh voluminous skirts
are hung.
One should study sculpture with the
new knowledge of these proportions most
thoughtfully, till the rhythm of the lines
has fastened itself upon the memory.
Studying of'every the pictures of the best artists
age, wo shall find these princi
cles everywhere demonstrated.
The charm of womanly proportion is
in the long curve from armpit to ankle,
which is so different from the beauty ot
a manly figure. The depression at the
so called waist line—only the meeting of
two large muscles which In a beautiful
woman should be slight—would better
be ignored in the clothing for the sake of
the greater beauty of the whole sweep.
It is to be understood that the long
curves are made up of shorter contours,
one gently melting into another. A
form made up of graceful sweeps alone
would be a weak, nerveless, insipid thin;.
These proportions should be so under¬
stood and so thoroughly appreciated as
to be always in mind, else a beautiful
human form will not be recognized. Use
physical exercises to attain the perfec¬
tion of these curves. Hang pictures
showing them where they may grow into
your thoughts.—[Harper’s Bazar.
The Throat’s Independent Brain.
“Did you ever know,” said a well
known specialist, aa he deftly inserted a
looking glass into the roof of the suf¬
ferer’s mouth, “that the throat has a
brain of its own ? No ? I suppose few of
the laity do know it, but it’s a fact.
There is a small ganglia which exercises
direct control over the muscles of the
throat and acts as its brain. Of course,
it is subservient to the genuine brain, but
at the same time does a good deal of in¬
dependent thinking for itself. It is very
timid and suspicious at any strange ob¬
jects that come near the throat. For
this reason it is very difficult for a phy¬
sician to operate on the throat. Before
anything can be done in this direction it
is necessary for the operator to gain the
confidence of the little brain that dom¬
inates it. It frequently takes weeks be¬
fore this confidence can be secured, and
until it is secured it is impossible to oper¬
ate. When the little brain is finally
made to understand that no harm is in¬
tended it, but that the physician is actu¬
ated by friendly motives, it will submit
to almost any treatment, however pain¬
ful.
“But woe be to the man who attempts
rough treatment to the throat before
the little brain’s confidence, and
spite of its protests. His operations
be resented with violent paroxysms,
of tbe throat, then of the diaphragm,
if the operator still persists, the pa¬
will be thrown into convulsions
more curious is the fact that thin
brain has a memory, and if once
in this way it is almost iiru
to ever gain its confidence, no
how gentle the operator may be.
“I don’t know whether its distrust
extend to other operators than the
who frightened it or not. I think I
try the experiment some time of
whether it can remember face*. *
Press.
An Electrical Saw.
It has been noticed that platinum,
placed in an electrical current, is
to a dull redness. This fact is
basis of the invention of an electrical
which will cut quickly and neatly
hardest wood.
The device is made of steel wire, upon
is deposited metallic platinum.
connecting this modified wire with
terminals of four Hansen batteries
platinum is heated t> a bright re*>
jytot .immma&x*- •
One Dollar a Year.
NO. 26-
LESSONS Dl HYDRAULICS.
Trcmendou. Power of Water Under
High Vertical Pressure.
Justice Field, of the Supreme Court,
at a dinner party at W ashington aston¬
ished the distinguished guests present,
including the President, the Chief Jus¬
tice, and Speaker Reed, by statements he
made, based on his California experience,
of the power of water in motion, as il¬
lustrated by hydraulic mining. Justice
Field, giving ex-Senator Fair, of Nevada,
as authority, stated that under a vertical
pressure of 100 or 200 feet, the force of
the stream is sometimes so great as to
hurl away or hold boulders weighing a
thousand pounds; and that it would be
no more possible to cut through such a
stream with a crowbar or an axe, where
it issued from the nozzle, than to sever
eight inches of solid iron with a penknife.
The distinguished guests were incredu¬
lous, and Justice Field promised to col¬
lect evidence in support of his statements
that would satisfy the doubters. He has
done so, and the New York Sun has had
the opportunity of collating some of the
wonders of practical hydraulics gathered
by Justice Field. We think they will
astonish the general reader who has paid
little attention to this branch of me¬
chanics.
Mr. Louis Glass, for 16 years the super¬
intendent of the Spring Valley mine, as¬
sures Justice Field that he has seen an 8
inch stream, under 311 feet of vertical
pressure, move in a sluggish way a 2 ton
boulder at a distance of 20 feet from the
nozzle; and that the same stream strik¬
ing a rock of 500 pounds would throw it
as a man would thru .v a 20 jwund weight.
“No man that ever lived," adds Mr..
Louis Glass, “could strike a bar through
one of these streams within 20 feet of
discharge; and a human being struck by
such a stream would be killed—pounded
into a shapeless mass. ” Mr. Augustus
J. Bowie, of San Francisco, the author
of a standard book on hydraulic mining,
estimates that the stream from a 6 inch
nozzle, under 450 feet vertical pressure,
delivers a blow of 588,735 foot pouuds
every second, equivalent to 1,070 horse
power. “It is absolutely impossible,”
says Mr. Bowie, “to cut such a stream
with an axe or to make an impression on
it with any other implement. ” Mr.
Bowie adds that, although never to his
knowledge has a man been struck by
such a stream aa it comes from the pipe,
several accidents have occurred where
miners were killed by very much smaller
streams at distances of 150 or 200 feet
from the nozzle. After elaborate series
of computations, Professor Samuel B.
Christy, of the University of California,
an eminent authority on mining and
metallurgy, reports to Justice Field
fclliit/——
“If a nozzle of from six to nine inches
diameter were specially arranged to throw
a stream vertically upward against a
spherical boulder of quartz weighing
1,000 pounds, the vertical head being any¬
where from 100 to 500 feet, the boulder
would be forced up until the diminished
velocity of the stream established an
equilibrium of procure. There would bo
a point at which the upward pressure of
the stream would exactly balance the
gravity pressure of the boulder, holding
it, the half ton rock, there suspended.
In practice, of course, the boulder could
not be balanced accurately upon the axis
of the stream, but would fall to one side
or the other. But if a large conical bas¬
ket of iron bars Were arranged about the
nozzle so as to catch the boulder when¬
ever it should be deflected from the stream
and return it to the u. zzle.the 1,000 pouuds
of ball quartz in fountain. would be kept in play like a
a As to cutting these
streams, Professor Christy says that he
has often tried to drive a crowbar into
one of them. The stream felt as solid as
a bar of iron, and, although he f couldfeel
the point of the crowbar enter the water
for perhaps half an inch, the bar was
thrown forward with such force that it
was almost impossible to retain it in the
grasp. An axe swung by the most power¬
ful man alive could not penetrate the
stream; yet it might be cut by the finger
of a child, if the child were seated on a
railway train moving parallel with the
stream in the same direction and with
the same velocity. That velocity would
be considerably more than a mile :>
minute.”
Good Words for Girls,
Your mother is your best friend. i 5
Have nothing to do with girls who
•nub their parents.
Tell the pleasantest things you know
When at meals.
Do not expect your brother to be as
dainty aa a girl.
Exercise, and never try to look as if
you were delicate in health.
Introduce every new acquaintance to
your mother as soon as possible.
Don’t think it necessary to get married.
JThere is plenty of room for old maids*
and they are oftener happier than wives.
Enjoy the pleasures provided for you
by your parents to the fullest extent.
They will like that as a reward better
than any other.
Most fathers are inclined to over in¬
dulge their daughters. Make it impossi¬
ble for your father to spoil you by fairly
returning his devotion and affection.
Never think you can afford to be
dowdy at home. Cleanliness, hair well
dressed, and a smile will make calico
look like silks and satins to a father or
brother.
Do you quarrel with your brother; do
not preach at him and do not coddle
him. Make him your Mend and do not
expect him to be your servant, nor let