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Conversation. —One of the fine
ways in which women can contribute
to the culture of society and continue
their own, is by making their home the
centre ot intellectual influence and lit
erary conversation. A lady in Detroit
has opened her house for conversation
of the highest order, and the best peo
ple in the city have filled her parlors
to hear Emerson, Alcot and Mrs. Howe
and other celebrated talkers; and now
a distinguished scholar of Ann Arbor
is reading a course of literary lectures
to such as will come to hear, supple
menting the reading with criticisms,
suggestions and inquiries of their own.
We hear of similar circles in Chicargo,
Dubuque, Bloomington and other pla
ces and hope the plan will be carried
out in all our cities and large towns.
Surely there are people enough in all
our cities who are prepared for some
thing better than the usual receptions
and parties of fashionable society; and
it only needs for such people to throw
their influence into a common centre
to creatg the beginnings of anew order
of things. Let every cultivated woman
do what she can to add anew intellect
ual and literary quality to the society
she moves in, and we shall soon have a
purer and more invigorating atmos
phere, and customs that are elevating,
and a fashion that is refining:.
“ Sally,” said a fellow to a girl who
had red hair, “ keep away from me, or
you’ll set me on fire.” “No danger of
that,” replied the girl, “ you are too
green to burn!”
W noLEsoMK Law,- —The sympathy
expressed for the “ poor drunkard” has
been differently expressed by a recent
act of the Wisconsin Legislature, which
provides, among other things, that “ it
shall be unlawful within this State tor
any person to become intoxicated.”
The punishment of violators of the law
is imprisonment from one day to two
months certain, with a further contin
gent imprisonment at the discretion of
the court until the costs of conviction
are defrayed. Further still, any per
son foil ltd drunk may be taken in
charge by any person so disposed, and
held until sober, when the expense of
his keeping, together with a fee of two
dollars per diem, must be paid. This
is a move in the right direction, but it
should be improved upon by classing
drunkenness with insanity, and taking
the person to au asylum. A person
who will get drunk is only fit to live
in an asylum.
Don't forget that the Mutual Aid
Job Office is in the comer building, up
stairs, Alabama St., opposite Atlanta
National Bank.
Hints on Health. —Coarse bread
is better for children than fine. Child
ren should sleep in separate beds, and
should not wear night caps. • Children
under seven years of age should not be
confined over six or seven hours-in the
house, and that time should be* broken
by frequent recesses. Children and
young people must be made to hold
their heads up and their shoulders
back, while sitting, standing, or walk
ing. The best beds for children are of
hair and cotton. From one to one
pound and a half of solid food is suffi
cient for a person in the*9frdinary voca
tions of business. Persons in seden
tar}’ employments should drop one
third of their food, and they will es
cape indigestion. Young persons
should exercise at least two hours a day
in the open air. Young ladies should
be prevented from bandaging the chest.
We have known the worst disease, ter
minating in death, which began in this
practice. Reading aloud is conducive
to health. The more clothing we wear,
other things being equal, the less food
we need. Sleeping-rooms should have
a fire-place, or some mode of ventila
tion besides the windows. Young peo
ple and others cannot study much by
lamplight witli impunity. The best
remedy for eyes weakened by night
use, is a fine stream of water frequent
ly applied to then? B *'
Remedy for Painful Wounds.—
This remedy for the pain attendant
upon burns or wounds is said to be ex
cellent : “ Take a pan or shovel with
burning coals and sprinkle upon them
common brown sugar, and hold the
wounded part in the smoke. In a few
minutes the pain will be allayed and
recovery proceeds rapidly. In my own
case a rusty nail made a bad wound in
the bottom of my foot. The pain and
nervous irritation was severe. This
w T as all removed by holding it in the
smoke for ten minutes, and I was able
to resume my reading in comfort.
We have often recommended it to oth
ers with like results. Recently one of
my men had a finger mtSl torn out by
a pair of ice tongs. It became very
painful, as was to have been expected.
Held in sugar smoke for twenty min
utes the pain ceased, and it promises
speedy recovery.”
Olive Logan commenced one of her
lectures at Newark recently, with the
remark, ‘Whenever I see a pretty girl,
I want to clasp her in my arms.’ So
do we,’ shouted the boys in the gallery.
For a moment Olive w T as nonplussed,
but recovering her self-possession, she
replied, ‘Well, boys, 1 don’t blame
you.’ *
Artificial Milk. —From the reports
in circulation it would seem as if science
were about to make cows superfluous.
Artificial miik has been prepared by a
French chemist from sugar, dried whites
of eggs, carbonate of soda, olive oil and
water. By substituting gelatine for
the whites of eggs, and with less admix
ture of water, cream is obtained. An
other chemist, Gaudin, in discussing
the preceding suggestion, gives his tes
timony as to depriving fats of all un
pleasant odor by mere subjection to an
appropriate temperature, lie also states
that very good artificial milk can be
prepared 1 from bones rich in fat, by pu
trifying this fat by means of super-heat
ed steam, and combining the fat thus
obtained with gelatine. This milk is,
he says, almost like that of a cow; and
when kept, acquires first the odor of
sour milk, then that of cheese. The
gelatine in it represents the casein ; the
fat, the butter; the sugar, the sugar of
milk. It serves for the preparation of
coffee and chocolate, of soups, and
and creams of excellent flavor, and its
cost is trifling.
It is related of a clergyman from
Northern Vermont, who years ago
paid a visit to New York, and was in
vited to fill a city pulpit during the
time of dog day pastoral vacations, that
he had never had thej privilege of lis
tening to a church organ, and was to
tally unacquainted with the fashion of
hiring a few vocalists to do the singing
for the congregation. Giving out the
first hymn, the organist played a fancy
prelude, and in the highest style of art
the choir rendered the four verses Ad
dressing the Throne of Grace in a fer
vent invocation which stamped him as
a man of intellect and power with his
audience, he coolly re-opened the hymn
book, and turning to a page, exclaim
ed—
“ The audience will now join*with
me in singing a good old Methodist
hymn, and those persons running that
bag of wind in the gallery will please
not interrupt.”
Old Roger.— Old Roger was visit
ing a friend who had a remarkably fine
little girl, about three years old, famous
for smart sayings. As usual she was
showing off before our esteemed friend.
“What is papa?” said the “parent/’
in order to draw* out the precocious re
ply-
“ Papa’s a humbug,'’ said the juve
nile,
“ I declare,” said old Roger, “ I nev
er in my life saw so young a child with
so mature a judgment.”
jgUr 9 “Mutual Aid Job Office” is
up stairs, in the Corner Building, Ala
bama St., below James’ Bank.