Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1877, Page 10

THR CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATUR DAY, MARCH 17, 1877—TWELVE PAGES. S seen an artist daub his canvas Quill’s_**dust heap of Englishliterature, "—other- fricndless In the way enggested. Make fngijy THE HOME. TO SARAI JANE. 1 hiave read your plaintive ples, Aud in all sincerity ‘Write I now these lines to thee, Sarah Jane! For 1100 am 32d and Jone, Sightng for some faithfal one hoin I may call 1y own, Sarah Jave! My aze's in just thirty-three— Yope 'twill suit yontoa T, For I fain wonld married be, Sarmh Jane! Tell me something of yoursell; Never mind about the wealti— 1've enough for both of pelf, Sarah Jane! Little matters it to me What your rank or fame may be, 11 from trifling you are free, Sarsh Jage! 1f you bave a Toving heart, and are tolerably smart, T will toke thee a8 thou art, Sarah Jane! - Soin eadness sit no more, Nor your **unsonght lot™ deplore, Fate has joy for you in'store, Sarah Janel 1f to this you make reply, 1 your side I'll gladly 1y, And will quickly make you my Surah Jape! Cmcago, March 15. F. MorTv... CARE OF CHILDREN IN JLLNESS AND NEALTH. To the Editor of The Trivune. Cuicaco, March 16.—The appalling mortality among children whichis at oncs the despair of ‘medical science and the ehame of our sanitary s55- tem must very largely, no doubt, be set down to an iznorance on the part of the motber, not only of proper nuring in flincss, but of the method by which sound health may be mointained. Desides theactual loss of life, the amount of suffering en- dured by youny children, dircctly traccable ina a8t number of cases to mismanagement on ahe part of the mother, fs onc of the most painful things an educated observer has to con- . template. Tgnorance of the requircments of an fufant; ignorance of the indications of grave dis- ease and inability to distinzuish between these and those slight alments which need no trectment s reaginess to accept foolish counsel without refiec- tion: an easy adoption of fatlacions theories and notions not fonnded in reason—all these things teil fearfully against the chances of the little one for ‘health and coatinued existence. What wonder s it that the baby dies or lives o guffer perpetual torment, when we consider how jnnocent most young mothersd are of any knowi- edze whatever of their important sud novel duties? During her illness she zathers a few items of infor- snation from the nurse, her mother. or the mother-in- law, or the mafden annt may be st hand with ad- ¥ This advice may be wholly judicrous: some of it will doubtlese be excellent, but it will he strange if it is not adalterated with foulish whims aud crude absurditics. Such as it is, however, it i« the young mother's whole outfit, save in escep- tionat casee. 1 do not foret that a quick inteili zence can atone for a maltitude of deticie ncies,and | Tt o litde good sense will go far to make ameuds | for waut of vx perience, but this will fall sbort of theneed. For the good of her child the mother needs all the pos1tive knowledge she can acquire, superadded w her own judgment of what is proper and desirable. Itisa dreary thing for the mother to reflect, Fears after the grave has closed over Ler child, that if sbe had known earlier what rhe knows now, what ecems eo simple and easy to learn, that <he might huve saved the precious lifc which went out s0 Bsoon. For we, T confess I cannot be comforted for this Toss of life by the trite consolation that the little one i ** better off and perbaps takeh away from the evil to come.™ 1 think that this life isa goud thine, that its experience is needful for the sym- ‘metrical ronnding out of human charzcter.and that §t i9 & great misfortune 1o Josc what this life has o give, 1o matter how far transcending its en- Soyments are those of that other life of which we Luow eo little. The ¢ and the £it and nat- ‘ural way is the livins ont of this Iife until the ripe- ness of old age lookens our hold upon it. These cousolations, which really console nobody, are only our vuin strivings to lighten the burden of that insupportable and immitigable sorrow, Death. And =0, becanse there are 80 many mothers sit- ‘ting underthe shadow of a great woe that need not “have been, and becanse I pity the poor babies, who, Vesides belng exposed 10 the nataral perils of in- Juncy, are subject to those of officionencss and ignorance, T propose to tellina few consecutive papers what T know aboat taking care of children. in sickness and in health, hoping thus to be of some service to those who are willing to learn. T ehall assert nothing which has mot the tanc- tion of the best authority, aud if at any tune 1 venture an opinion or sugzestion opposed 1o the zeneral view, 1 shall take care to indicate that it 18 my opinion and gve my reasons for it At the outset § wish to nrze upon motbers a few cousiderations whose reasonableness will, 1 think, be caslly apparent. Do not be too ready to adopt general maxime or juflexivle rules for the treatmeat of your children, such as fhat **ap infant should have n cold bath dny,” or that **food should never be given eu meals.” e satisfied with principles. aud details be governed by circumstances. that ~conditions vary constantly. of illness, crione or otherwise, yon have chosen a physician in Liememver In case ‘when do nut hastily discard his advice for tbat of the well-menning, but perhavs mistaken, mother, or aunt, or neighbor. It is true that the doctor may D wrong, but the chances are a thousand 10 one Abatitis the friend who Is so. Consider that, thou:h she may have nursed and raised half a score of children. his experience is wider than hers. A phyeician in good practice sees more disease in one ‘pidemic than the most peripatetic neighbor, wlo ix.** 50 pood in sicknees, ™ sees 1n a lifetime. ~ The doctor, 100. trained as he is Lo observe details, sces things which ercape the unprofessional eye, and he kuows, dlso. heir _relative! importance. I speak of the l-educated physician, and ‘haveno wish to nndervalue those sensible, good ‘women whoze practical experience is worth more « thanthe emperficial knowledze of the irmorant ‘gradaite whoee study wasa sham and whose di- 'flnml is & fraud. Iwish chiefly to indicate the act that amateur doctoring, though it may chaunce 1o do well. ix au unsufe dependence, since 1t has few privciples to guide it and it practice is founded upon 8 limited namber of facte, and those but imperfectly understood. Like everything clxe amsteur, it is wholly unsatisfactory when tried by any high standard of professional art. Qbey the doctor's dircctions implicitly. The ex- 4zency seléom arises when it s eafe to put aside his instructions. 1f it secwns to arise, it is better to consult him, even at the cost of some trouble, iy to run an¥ risk. . Do not alwayx be dosing children. The slight malaise will often dlenppear under the combined inflvences of rest. light dict, and slcep. - Do ot on the other hand, ‘et the child suffer day “after day when you don’t know what s the matter, be- caase you **don’t believe 1n medicines.™ 1t is one tins fo give medicine when it 18 not required, and ‘another to use it judiciously to ward off or control jng new-born children from room o o on from houre {0 house, fur Gxhibi- tton. "Fhave no doubt that many of the obseurc Iwwellas familiar discascs of infants have their Y in T this reprehensible practice. Nothing. __Is _more easy. than for e e sitive surface to become chilled, And varions congestive disorders may be thus in- Aed. Lot the baby remaln for the first few weeks in the room with the mother, the air there being Fept pure and sweet, and only very gradually in- Sl to changes of temperature. 1t fliould be kept quiet: not_unnecessarily tosscd about or rndeiy Tandled. In the case of the prematurely-born chila, these suggestions of equahle wurmthand per- fect repose become Infinitely more important. The endeavor should be 1o maintain a condition as nearly as possible resemblmg the ante-natal one. hese children 1 wonld bave kept especially warm _snd still, gently bathed fn - warmt water inot more than twice a week, the daily bath being ropliced by inunctions of cod liver or olive oil applied 1o the whole surface of the body, the narse sitting near the fire mean while and _cai teeting the child from draughts. Many of these chuldren die from an im- perfect development of the vital ormuns which are thercfore incapable of a proper performance of their functions, but I believe a much larzer pro- portion of them might be saved with more ju- <1.cious aud cureful treatment. 1 deci@edly prefer the warm bath for voung in- fants, the temperatare not heing below that of the euriace. As the child grows older und stronger the bat h may be made cooler. The cold bath is certainly invigorating when 8 cfect reaction can be obtained, and licute children, after_the first year, may be creatly benefited by it, if it is carefully given. - ‘The roomn Should be warm, the skin _rubbed dry and made to olow like a rose. Salt added to the water is use- Tul, and a little aquz ammonia mukes 8 stmulating bath. When the reaction is deficient, one or the other of these shonld be used if the eold bath i= ut- Sempted. They are equally serviceable inthe warm Lath. “Alwnya be able to command a fire in at least one eleepine-room in the house. The prictice of ‘bani=hing all the stoves to the garret in the spring has probubly been the occasion of more illness than any cther family custom. In gur climate there i not a month in the year when damp, ellly weather s not Jisble to occur, and in such weather a fire is esseptial to the comfort and health of chiidren and feeble adalts, ¥ "An open raie or fireplace is, of course, as health- ful s it i< pleasant, but in a room where children are gometithes left alone, a close stove s far safer, 20 moap-stone Klove coines nearer beingabsolute- 1y eafe than anyliing clse. since even Cutton sars nents will not take fire when bron:ht into trancient ‘ontsct with it For this reason. too. it is of ad- Inirable gervice in_airing and warming children's Clothes. The heat is cquable and azrecable, and & fire can be kept all nicht. For el Amber and common fl\'hl: rooms the & ¢ stove i3 ¢ ¢ plus ultra of invention in ction, L Ame M. Havg, M. D, RUSSIAN DIET AND BLTE GLASS. 7o the Editor of The Tribune. Drearcit, March 12, —some time azo T read 3 setter in The Home headed in this way: **A Phyeician's Thonghts, " which I read with iteres cxpecially thut part of it where he spoke of 1 and the food of 1he laburd < bread and garlic. e gays the active and powerful. and subsist for the most b on rve bread and sarlie, and are full of wility, Sivacity, and bilarity, singing blithely over their work. e : o, Tlikeall the gaod thines that are daily epread apon the **festive board,” but that seu- “They are fall of agility, vivacity, and baanted me, and. wishing to be like dechied to adopt their foud und hanze the m bill-of-farc on & pez in the forthwith went ways amd byways of <t and_smokiest-lookin: and ewnloved him to_buy th and make me the blackest Tands cou ndthen 1 Geparte nnto the Eaburbs of the city, and called unen a Germun marlen mehing hix greedi- s with 5 liheral supply of my beloved rreen- e, he nzrecd (o devote his tine, fntellect, and patel of ground to the ra asiic for my con- Sumption. And then, with 2 bappy heart, a buo ant, step, ond, las, her pocketiook. L K furhec to my abiding-place well pleased with the preliminary armo A % Nest day 1 sent delicately worded and highly ards to Cllrick, Blenz, and {ui- telling t dizapp tl 5 slaughtering and packing swine habitants of this mund:ne a brizht and snon-backshdi wian aystem of diet, and was o 1ud beefsteak forever and throw suu : “from whence it came, bat 1 added I s to compensate thein for their loss of bus by employing them in the healthy and fra- Frant pursuit of raising rye and gurlic. My sister and my sistier's hushand. after a lena! Aation. decided that, with the extra mon iy would sccumulate on account of my tem- perate aiet, they would put ina bow window and Puild an addition tu their honse the next summe On the first of Jast month, in fisbting order, { bezan the O the_followin the mornini. c ¢ cither moved away to the extreme end of o oftly left the church, aud I saw people d even impudently. and 10 une of my delicate nd the bovine in- s 1 nd become t to the ll(" the Tookinz at me cariously “twas exceedingly anuogin sensibilitics. In the evening, the same scenes were enacted, with the differcnce that the minister, after h ing abont ten munutes, sxid he would be oblis dismiss the congregation on secount of 4 di able and diegusting odor that pereaded the Phere. Then he looked at e, Sasped once or twice, and pronounced the benediction. After such an insalt, [can assur u tiat I uever dark- ened the doors of that "church in. No, indeed® 1 quictly withdrew, and. benceforih and _forever, my weekiy mickel will ition-box. and mi be missed from the cont: worsted dozs and cauton-flannel rabb awain adorn the faney-iables of their < 230 my brotier-in-1 roing aw Tailinz. and he was xoing t climate: and he d few days after my sister gathered up her children, and after packing her wearing avpare) und_sprink: ling them liberlly with chioride of lime, *+to tak off thut smell of ~garlie,” ns #he unfeclingly ry marked. she etarted for Chieago, followed by my Teproachful slances. You may be surc 1 felt lonely. and yet my medi- tations were with roseate colors (. for the young man to whoin 1wus cnzazed wax com home after a three monthy' absence, —yes, coming the mext day,—and I =uddenly remembered th: 1 wear it frizz d, curled, and braided), vith the Jight of love in my eye oted pleasure on my cheeky, and cuw ir-pins in my hands, ‘The next doy, after_eatine 3 hearty dinner of gariic and rye bread, Tawzited his arrival, and he came: bat alas! he didn't stay long. [e hadn’t been in_the house but 3_few moments, when I thoughtfully said: **Oh! I've hud one of teeth filled since you went away. noticed it,” he said, and adding, goyly: J, you have Teeth so fine we miglit suspect them, But that curfous eves behuld 1n thefr milsy way of whitencss Just one gratn of gold.” The placed bis fingers under my chin, torned my face up 1o his, at the same time bendin? forward to —why. to take o closer look at that little s 1d, of course. and then he recoiled as if §een strack, while 2 sudden ashy palence: face overspresd, and muttering. air, or1 div, he rushed to he door and takine misstep fell down the front steps, broke his le: and famited. When he returned 10 concciousnesy e broke our engagement, and that brokemy heart. Tut our physician, who understands my consti- tation perfectly, says that time and a new fover will heal the wonnd. Instead of being disconso- late. 1 am cheerfully waitinz for the new jover to ‘‘put in_an appearance.” T sent the old onme vack his letters, rinz. and s lock of hair, had_my monograms put on the packaze, cntwined with a wreath of onfons and garlic, and perfamed with the came. Deserted by my friends, my church, and my lover, 1 sighed for **new fields fo conquer. ™ and as I sat ‘serions discase. Discourage he growthof crotehets in sour braln, and keep a teachabic spirit. In any sudden iliness e watchful and careful. but be cool. Do not give “way to unreasoning frieht, and don't foolishly, I had almost ratd wantonly, eacrifice your own health fn a frenzied eoliciude io do evervthing yourseif. It the disease is one that runs a swifi coarse and the Taby's life ix told off by heart-beats, the mother may then well forget hereelf and _refuse to leave The badeide of her darling, but if many daye or Yocks are o paes it is requieite that you ubtain Fleep, eat nutritious food, et frequent baths and fre air. A little carcful husbanding of re- koarces ai the beginninz, when the symptoms are mild and the danger not"-rgent, will sometimes €usble onc to be of incstimable service st a crisis When evervthing tells on the result, In contagious diseases ‘religiously observe the precantions designed to éecure your own safety ‘aud that of others, ; Let us capsider now the new-born babe. He Is a2 vgls a7 8 frogand not-unlike one. with it die- Pprog large trunk end limbs sprawl; BW8ly avon. —Scareely in the world ks troubles have already” Degtn. ‘The ‘murse washes the 80ap o bis eyes and then pins him up tightly in a .Danduge. Is this for warmth? A Hamnel band Joosely applied i 8 wise arrangement. No; not for warmth, but to kecphim in sbape. There is danger, then, of his falling apart. ' Nature, it seenie, 'did not know whist «hé was ‘about when the fashioned those flexible ribs and -those clastic ot sirpng abdominal walls. One would think ‘they were designed om pur- pose to ‘maintain ‘the cobésion. I belleve they were, amd that they are fully adequate to that end. ¥ adrise the ‘mother, when ehe is able, 10 Jook to that bandage. Very injurions préssare Day be made with it quite unawares. to the nurse, Donot burden the baby and tax yourself with the removal 3nd replacement of numerous strats of fantastically made garments. The more simple the clothes and the fewer, 8o that srarmith be e- cured, e befter, Let therebe ahaolutely no pres- m the chest, no carting wn of Etraps or scamb about the shouiders andaaDIte, 10 avoida: ble wrinkles anvwhere. The red creaccs scen in .7thie tender fish “when ~the child is undreseed +"ofbnbear witness to the ‘cruel fashion of the _astire. ' The undergarments shonld be made of soft. fiazpel. o enmmer this may bo. light, and, if the wkin is scnsitive, 8 very thin muslin may be in- betweenit and the surface of the body.s 1t must be remenibéred ‘that infants, have but a ‘feeble power of enerating heat; ‘and are absolute- Ir dependent apon commuxlealed wamty. And bere 1 must enter my earnest protest ‘against “the \ a sighing. like & flash of inspiration came the thought of blue slass, and in a moment I was standing upon the highest pinnacle of the Moun- tains of Delight, with the sun of science ehining full npop me, and the next instant I was down in the deepest depths of the Valley of Despair. for I remembered that I had none of the *‘ills that fiesh is heir 10"'; not 3 pain racks my frame, fevers, rheumatism, boils, and warts come not nigh me, and, ' in fdct. I am as well as I alWoys dm, for T can assnre you that T have never taken adose of medicin sitce the time T stood on the border line of childhood, and stepped over into the enchanted land of girlhood, and escaped at the same time from the clutches of that awful despot. King Castor Oil. . **Itisverrevident 1 eannot cxperiment upon yself, " { mattcred. as slowly and eadly 1 wenaed my way to the coal-shed: and, 3s I looked mourn- fally at the littic pile of coal in the corner. th scatence, - Ill put blue glass in the coal-shied, dropped from my lips and ecattered my melancholy asthe eanshine ecatters the clouds. And1did, and I'm glad to state that I'am now the happy pos- gessor of the best-yielding coul-mine in the world. T have taken contracts tofarnish the coal-deslersof all the large Eastern and ‘Western cities with coal. I got the contract because it docsn't cost me a cent, and consequently I can sell it cheaper than any one else. 1 have sent my advance agent to that place which is known by the cinssical Tiame of fades to nego- tiate with ls Satanic'Majesty. He was a book- gzent. and 1 am almost confdent he will persnade his Majeety to discard sulphur and nsc ¢oal. And if he doce clinch a bargain with him [am o made woman—fnancially. Not wishinz to be idle while waiting for 3 mes- sage from below, T put blue rlass in one of thesout windows, placed a rocking-chair with 3 weak back in the rays, andsat down to note the effect. Lut £ was sicepy. and 1dozed, and, finally, like Cain, 1 srentorerintothe ¢ land of Nod. * And while Telépt the sun intentionally and malicionsly changed his position. and then the biue light fell across my feer, and just tobk in the little Anger of my right hand, And'T, O heavens! slumbered on unconscious of the awlul transformation the aforementioncd por- tigns of my anatomy were undergoing. ‘At last] awoke, and #s my glance rested upon mylittle foger, sloeplly T wondered tow I hap- cned to_fall asleep with the rolling-pin in my and; and then Wn ‘wandered down and light- cdupon my feot ¥y fect? Oh, mo} There's 4 dranken tramp Iying on the fioor. with one mighty bound I Innd nesr the door ax the opposite side of the room and with my hand spon tie knob, 8 frightened look and a throbbing haet, Ishonted, and. 1 turneid me back to sce thosc feet. but th , and after a frantic in vestis eution i di dress and extend- protruding from under my ing hialf-way across the room. x i i orrible sitaation. A T an inetant 1 tool in the horrible situation. A fense of diz: ness came over mc an and, as I fell, my head* struck the marble-topped table, and stove it Into a thonsand fragments (Mot wy head, but the table). )l‘“‘il]‘gnl tell you of my rage, bnt meekly ask if there is anyihi a 4 ATects of blug glass. that will counteract the ef ooty Of In: &t those gi- dly think of other days can Imagine my feclings w zantic foct, and then fon Shen they were dressed in nobby Xo. Lam in'a terrible con!dltlon:l liu} L 't like to stay in, and I feel ba e o ol even if my fect were a3 see how ridiculous it my thumb and three d then o make some calls, but, they once were, you can ‘all ould be for e to array wcrs ina delicate pearl-tinte: fi carry the oth Theonly fresh air and down 1he alleys contant dread, for 1 _am any snonient as & tramp or muticred malediction upon other aroun 1 repeat the question, 13 there any hope tears, nd 1 get js at nigh in the durk, chicis blue my agons, oF MY lue 2 Boots. 1 i glove, nywhere You I can’t goout, : want n a meal-sack. nt when I w and I'm alway liable to be arrested ar en-thief, W ‘lass and sci With a ence, for me or: this side the River Jordan? or am [ dooued to me- ander throuzh this val of me as Longfellow ktride a e she me fully, said of His . <ures™? Yours, quite hope- THE B. M. A. The_Tridune. b the Editor of GrExwooD, Ia., Mareh 13, our Association was well atten ent that the members were deeply communications that would be laf After the Restorer bad been circulated and the report of the Secretary meration had been received and acte brethren. Ie of tears with people sayins atha: * At enclhl Caat. of d upon, ~“The last meeting of ded, it being appar- interested in the d before the regularly Enu- the President, who is comparatively a young man, and of a sanguine temperamen t. “eaid that he was pleased to see that our condition had at lastawak- ened uan nter ‘amony intelligent peaple tha was general in its pagure, 1 not sympathetic. and that ‘wes, he trostedy sults, He thereupor pres rezular order the “scveral and “Dewey. tianks was at once ordered for_the ladics who had +o kindly furnished the name and address of 3 the suthor of the tar-water remedy. , who fs a short man, and has ahi Guil_Saerwood, 1. 0. G. S, Lady Clerk, elly By rother 1 e ra. A vol Snuff, to be productive of happy re- ted and read in_their communications of e te of nt tempur, béing the first speaker, said that the su- festion of Gail wae incendiary’ and of a hizily dunzerous tendenc Association adob! +opply kerose: t is’ true, become bright and shink prohiibiting the burs the streets would deter all pood citizens i the city ordinance bish in * I iz of slug, " said he, ** the her method for removing the ¢ and set fire to it!’ We would, « lights, but rub- from ndopting it,” and he very much doabted whether it would realls be prod ctive of good; he for his part did not care to join any such torch- light procession. 11e was follow Q by Brother I, who has a row of delicate fringe surrounding an estensive tal of his cranium, 0, our heads tozether," topped by a general cry of +‘XNo, not Pat haim onty ™ ’l'hcyl’reshlcnt, after be had | Put him ont, " ete. wble-land of tar on who said: but the was at summit “‘Let vs lay once Order! ' cecared order, severely censured Lo, . for sug- pro.Lite ro. P. at once apologized. 1le went on'to say that he thought that | proceed. and ] gesting such a thinz, as it wonld, il adopted, be | ¢ of much necdless suffering and misery. | permitted to | some farther inquiry saould be made futo the man~ ner in wiich tar was to be said he, ** ep thie hair frow fallin clear how it #hould be ap <ed. o lied. Lady Cl “+1t s evident, ™ from our exnericnce, that it is good to but it 15 mot yes eric telld ud that her head is covered with soft duwn, but that ghe did not apply the tar to_ her seal lear,"] and I, 0. U. & nie #faithfully, out subject,” “+andall these vague hintsas to of its application are of alarintni ren,” said he as the tar began to warm apand rows its zrip. **ontrages are belng bund of scheming female “*Tlear, intends hasband This ‘o has fs a to pour dark by who has *freely baud's head” poor old man's he. 1h My str lie was, ere this, doubtle even the raid ature, erpetrated upon us Look ned the tar- A flannel cloth and upplied it to_ her hus- cavine us in toral oblivion as to whether the flannel cioth or the tar was applicd to d. And notu word from an untimely arave, —done to his death by watef It to Brother W. hair over the top of hix head in_the (This W ly Bly invented her remed 8 11 it please the Conrt, T ar uttention ta the remedics propnsed for re- All the information that we have te points withont doubt to lari or e world. ed un to da Jer Do cuision would be a surprise to us. Tne picee of sarcasm. The friends of the fied their snrprise as o its efect up hip, but that he thou would bear” Lin_out in saying that such surp The communicati were then referred 1o the Committee on ssociation adjorned. ling of di=ratixfaction in the Sacie- | ure of the remedies su -, amd T honestly believ ble memb: were hardly to be desire ents, and the 1 ty a ¢ removing the of them will be aopted. Dly s, In the State of her criminal ca put tar on their heads er? never™] Must we f all_thoughiless mirth in o the object of the gibes and &n and not a sinzle bear in the land clased by the President. who said tt Tie had notiecd 2 Jitte remark of M. 3. ¢ the effect that if we used the tar-water the ‘result | e regarded this a8 u | L Oh! oh!™] Tlere seve of a kindred nature as our only hop ons of the use of a Doty wa ver be the su communi ociation had already testi- n our hono: 4 the brethren ot ‘manner of bretli- | members d 1o secure the Noor, bat it was finally wwarded who used to comb his few spears of n hope of before ¥ . in_pure fri 1+ it possible that we must anoint our he: wish styles [(iroan< and crics [Cries of : that she | it her - coffec.’ he, Mrs. er The chine ubject v. und ed for | that none | In the meantime we ure thankful for the favors shown us, and would hum- | cost that it i< qnite pronable that one woman Mich-zan will have ness in advising old men to Can some one furmsh ug withthe name of a zood attorn, ot retiined us counsel by How long will it take the 13 Uncle Nelly Bly all still Tive? Will come gentleman who has used tar-water atisfactury result (o hims #0 kind a< to tell ns al) abont with a wife) Wil the Zushand-of Mrs. in confidence to the Association hiis own bersonal experience with tar? Respeetfully, & THE SLAUGHTTR OF THE INNOCENTS.” who resides in_ St doseph, Micl unt tarto *tw The old man, does he Nelly Bly S. commu Sec'y. B. H. 7o the Editor of The Tribune, Drep admit another men! nd relieve her m ** gpea The world eries consta ¥ bein not . and to ut! ract. of othe the good of tlx donbedly and to mal gumentaty Traxk, the great anti-tobacco man, has treated this subject from afnust every point of view, pre- senting reason upon reason for the apolication of the total avstinence principle in the use of tobacco of intoxicating beverages. thne and azain has the cost of the usciess indul- as well as the u: . 1L, March 15 nd "'y —Will Tue Trin- :r to The Home, and per- mit an old gister (oh, not o very old, after all) to increases its resources by the discov- 15 made in Science izes them for its material prosverity the knowledze of eauses and cffects makes proz- ress, men ought to learn more and more of Ul Rults of certain habits in plysical life as only their own personal condition, bat tnat ze this knowle It i= not intende: article to attempt any analy=is of the intricate sub- jectof the hereditary transmission of evil habits and vices (a subject. from its importance, un- worthy of the highest consideration of both Christian and philanthroplst), but merely to kpeak of a few of the evils of the use of tobacco, ¢ the article suggestive rather than ar- and gence been shown, somcthing as follows: ents 8 20'centsa day 18, Stib also been shown in a could be zained to one's self or famil tion. inprovements, and_vrivilezess the whole round of culture and comfort, which could be enjoyed, but for the indulgence of this Thie diszusting filthincss of the practice has aléo been pictured in lanzuage, thougl true to Tife. too revolting to be repeated. ' But neither are are these the aspects of the subject at present to be considered. Mere loss in dollars and cents, though siderable, is mot the greatest evil connected more_ especially Innocents, ** apnetite. co with the _practice. the ¢‘Slaughter which the writer in this article. 1t of 1y (the smatlest sum ear, is tl wishes And, first, attention is called to the fatal effects to health upon woman, who live in homes where tobucco is used. As an illnstration of the particujar phase under take a common case: A young Tady. with good health, and as fair a_prospect of fe and happiness as conld desired, marrics erate chewer or smoker. Tong before =he grows sallos, thin, and shattered But one says, she knew all this be- forehand, and stould have counted the cost before placing herself for life in the chewer or smoker's measarably trac, but right here is a view of the consideration, lonz an fnv in health. of a filth; 0 ‘matter not to be overlooked. When the_young man came ‘‘a wooing," he kmew that his breath would be offensive to the fair one he wished to gain for his own, and that hispres- ence might not be repulsive fo_her, to use deodorizers, in the extreme pains restrain himself when in her company. pursuit and_ possession. -of suffering is their stances, I cite but one. their house is alw: with it, and the wife is just -stomach, clogzed lungs, ane i use She, poor did not altogether realize the difi'cn':‘nce between ‘She thonght **things Wwere as they seemed, ™ and that all wonld be well. But when she became inevitably secured to him the deodorizers were - too tronblesome'and - the re- straint was Jaid aside; and now she must bear the consequences. These conseqaences are, in a longer or shorter time, a languidness she cannot acconnt for.—a lack of nervous cnergy, disarrangement of stomach and lungs. and a general failurcof vitality. Life becomes, not what she anticipated, bat a state of constant ill health. In some cases the end is not Jong in beinzreached, and the young wife's friends, in sorrow and angaish, lay hér away.in her eatly grave, wondering at the mysterions Providence which removes her from ber home. And they never dream, least of all her husband, that her sys- tem had been gradrally weakened and polsoned by the fumes of tobacco. ‘T do believe that many wives are sacrificed in this way; but if, by care and judi- | clous treatment, they live, the numbers zre very few ‘where good health is En]u:éd. In most cases, years portion. A lady neighbor of mis whose first home was free fmmythe gwnmm(n’:t?;’n of tobacco, and in which she enjoyed reasonable health, a few years eince, for a second husbaud, married an inveterate smoker. er ured hy any on r5 10 cents o day i S36.50 a year cte. And unmistakeable fignres whit in cduca- and fndeed, he to polluted atmosphere This may be me. he an of the man; Tho atmosphy 8 polluted with the odor of to- baccos even the clothe is thoroughly 'satarated sing away with sick eral languor, yand is | offs" not to his and m this It will not be thing, nicate £F util- 50, 18 for And Fi it hay resent took d to weed y in- ere of ! dren oughttobe p i not know. { mot puff his ¢ | of interest from be; never knows an honr of relief; and; withont donbt. Tier condition i3 attributavle to the inhalation of 1abacco-snoke. “Fhat this statement may be true, take any of- fensive smell, ana_ how rickening it becomes to 3 delicate lady, o, indeed, to sny one of cither sex. A vitiated stinosphere from other gources thun (o~ hacco isso_oflensive as to be intolerable. causing faintness, naugea, and coughing, and® how mucl more intolerable ought the polsonous fumes of the Indian weed to be considered, as its futal effects are known. ¥ 3 Tiut, in the second place. tue mischief Is even catér to a more helpless class of innocents, —the fittle oncs of the housebold. For months they are Tnecesearily confined to warin, close rooms. 1ill old cuough to be taken into the. pure, fresh air. Awl 1o thiyclass, found in homes Where the father uses tonacco, never restraining himself, but filmg 1he bonse with an odor buneful to the little oncs, the eifects are_terrible: in_disorder to the weak stowach, irritation to throatand lungs, and often o affecting the delicate nervoussystem as to cause convulsions and speedy death. Even the kiss of affection is fraught with diseast to the innocents. (And above all thing s for wife and chil- e, ow a_family where not one child—and the ve or g1 in fi—is cmpt from irritability of throat and bronchial tuhes. They are subject to constant coughs in winter, when 0 the house than atother sessuns and all'are frail and puny-looking, apparently jus Decause the father will smoke incessantly in’ the living-reoms of his home in the presence of wif and children. “The writer has faken some pamns, during this winter, in which diphtheria, searlet fever, and sore throuts have been o prevatent, 1o observe thut these diseases have been more severe und. fatal in those familics where there are devotees offering p their abominable incenscat the shrinc of to- bucco. In pure homes, these diseases have been more easily controlled and les A From close obscrvation, it jsfevident that many wives und_children with diseased stomachs and , and disordered nervous systems, suffer thess thinzs from this vice, and vet, as I said before, the of sicknessa acknowledved. ery possible and impossible reasou s given for result but the right o But it i snid, again, that peop] things, and do not mind the children rather lke my cisas is true that the n does adapt itself. in some measure, to a condition of impurity, but this by no means proves that no injury Isreceived. And it dogs seem jmpossible that a time ever comes when a pure=minded, refined, and caltired woman liles er the atmosphere of a tobacco-scented home. instinctive delicacy inust eXcrcise u coustant pro- testuminst it She must dread the influenee of Lren if, hy her care, they the habit uncn lier cl And especially is e live to gTow to maturity. anxious that her sons and dau rhifers should not go out to homes polluted as hers has veen. No, no! Do not Hatter yourself that bocauxe glie mukes no outcry and patiently endure e likkes it She cannot like cither it or the disgusting tilthiness con- nected with its use. It was suid in the beginning of this article that men ought to learn the etfocts of certam lndul- zences upon themselyes and others. Lut will They? Is there mental vivor or conscience enonzh leftin the tobacco-stupeiied inebriate 10 lot either assert itself, in approvin: the right. and a - cordingly? 'One almost despairs of the refor: of any of these devotees. 'The habit 1s as pe ent s fute itself; it demands xo fmperarive and clumorous that gratification must follow at what- ever cost to oneself or suffering to others. Then what is o be done 1 éandidly confess T do “The hiavit hos reached sucn dimensions that scarcely a man or boy can be found who docs in your face, remril-es of good manners, or breathe his itolerably polluted breath in your presence, reardless of decency. To supply the demands of such a multitnde, whole pluniations 1w our own and_other countries are exclusively devoted to the production of to- bicco. Warchouses are Elled with it; and its o ing for market, it sule. and ity mantfacture into ¢ forms in which it is used furnish employment for thonands of Jaborers, ~ Almost every town of a few hndred inhobitints has it ¢ ©facto- rv, from which isstte daily a Jot of yonnz men and boys in admirable trainin to make more customers for the urticle. They learn to use it hecause others do, and so the evil kpreads, undermining the healin and v of the whole race of man, the iunocents, a< usual. enduring the most sufferme. Lut the qu still remains. What is to be done? Perliy liad to be done in the temperance.canse, the w to azitate, and azitate., and avitite, bringine tiy before the people the evil of the practice, g the troth clear the conscience and awaken thought. tiuae to fizht it out, on whate ing ol Kiccesx, if, as (en. ingf the Kebellion, it take nerntion of suwmni uch may be done by Sabbath and day school teachers in instructions to children and i the principles of health and sonud moral all who love purity, zoodness, and the wel race, cleanse themselves from the b pructice, and help carry on the reform in reaching others. ' My sheet i3 full, and I cl d well-detined. to arouse Then con- COMADCAR VIOU 7o the Editor of Th - Mareh 11 niin to atious of cl ner tian i Thule,” which was gene coded (o 1 ot powerful and inferesting of Black's no There is not one eharacter introduced in the but i< the type of u class,and plays the part assizn- el Nim or lier with 4 churming fidelily o nature. James Drummond i just impertect enonzh to he human: withont the flaw of beinz biased in judzment of Violet's love for bim by his ey oplaon, tie conception. of his noble, tender na- ture wonld seem_purely ideal. Th¢_author has finely porirayed the fancitul, whimsical manner witll whieh Drummond’s modvsty ed the Tridune. 1 This hook is ful 1, and the deline- **A Prine i TLOONT: and nobility of bis senti- manner sparkling wit. wisdom, ments, making asspmed appear _constitutional even to fricnds. Ttistrue that George Ml rtion to Drummond should " ha nst the theories of Mr the interview with Vie! IMller's abrupt_departure from the Ueed, **sometiving for 3 wan to thin] Test Of his life.™ Still, Drummond’ of lis ister’s views was bat natural. in real 3 nut find lovers separated b misunderstandings, when there has been freer exclune of confidence between them than at | that time had blessed Violet and Drammond s The strenwth, fervor, divine parity, beanty, and touch- inz sweelness of their love for each vther could not have heen so exquisitely pictared by the an- thor if their conrse of trae ove liadt run <mooth, 1t 13 3 picture which shoald remain in the heart as one of ity chuicest treasures; a picture of that Jove which constitutes the true nmion, without which marruge 18 farce 1o nen, and an_ abomination unto the Blair us suid, **One thing i< cor- tain, that, without g the virts e rec, MO man can attain Fublime parts of _eloquence. must feel what o good mau feels, if atly to move or to interest mankind, A by this rule, Mr. Black should be honored far and wide, for b sublimity of elognen which must **gregtly move man and woman. “The masterly analy: let's cluracter is the sirongest point of the b the force and true womanliness of her matire one fgod for thought in this aze OF woman's rights, and brings 1o mind Wordsworth's ** perfect w an." One sentence in the nuthor's a his ' | i | tions in a_strong dew gminence in 'ty o exists between noble natares. ¢ She saw ¢ e saw them; she was schooling herself to b ecarcely un "opinion of her own.” To the first clnuse we acquiesce: a woman naturally cousclously ses things with the eyes of the ma; sheloves when he i worthy of ber decpest respeet, and when his knowledge is snperior_to hers, even though his intellect may not he 0. It i¢ rare that awoman isas_profound and lozical 3 reasoner ns man, even when her advantages have been equul to his; probably becanse women arrive at_conclusions rather by intuition than by a continued train of reasoping. DBut the second clause we cannot thdorse, Mr. Black has made o mistake which slightly mars his picture, of the submission which is the result of love in natures Jike Violet's. Mo destroys the beauty and srace of such submission by making it appeir that Vio- jet would form no opinions, & course showing weakness of mind and character, and depriving her of the pride and joy of yielding to ** her lord and master” when she conld not_agree with him. A woman of Violet's nature glories in submitting her will as a proof of the power of love, —there is no merit in obedience which arises from fear or a lack of ability to think, reason, and arzue. Man is never infallible: therefore,'a woman owes it to herself, her children, and ‘her busoand to be mo mere ccho of gentiments, but to use the mind which God has given her, if only for the sake of remaining firm to her own convictions where mat- ters of conscienceare involved. There can be no true union where either party i3 8 nonentity. Mr. Black gives an impression of Drummond’s beinz content to have Violet sit always at his fect, which is likely tomislead his_readers into attributing to Drumniond on egotism which is at variance with Ius whole nature, With this protest, we proceed to the discnssion of George Miller’s character, which o admirably represents the unpleasing but harmless traits of the average younz man of this century. The young Millers of this day are usually classiiicd un- der the head of **clever fullows,” the vazmencss of the adjective as applied being o delizhiful, ga it leaves one to infer all manner of excellences fn a very ordinary youth, who is incapable of a single inteliectnal effort or high-minded action, although ““Ius own good opinion of himself would guard against anything mean or dishonorable.” "It i painfully true that **self-esteem, and not any very high notion of ‘morality, keeps many a man from picking a pocket.” There are eo many Mra. Warreners in the world Whose very sweetness and singleness of nature are_their most powerful ux-. iliaries in tangling the life-threads of their dearcst friends, that we sigh in rncuggizmg an_ncquaint- ance. So much harm is done by the officious med- dling of an affection which must determine in its own" way what_qs best for the object of its solicitade. We find much to admye in the character . of SirJActon North,—his intinite pa- tienceand mildness in his intercourse with women, his activity and energy in business, and hia firm- ness, generosity, and_uprightness in degling with men, form a combination of rare cxcellence, Mr. Black's description of personal appearance pos- sesses the charming vaguencss which captivates by leaving the imagination of the reader to 811 up the outlines according to individual fancy. A hero or heroine frequently becomes distasteful because of 2 union of personal appearance and character which Jars our sense of fitness and harmony. The author's passion geems to be_ for the High- lauds, a8 he rather hurries throngh his story until he can lay the scene there, aud then loiters and lingers, dwelling on every'incident, and tonching with 2 tender, reverent hand the magnificent She scenery, These descriptions, for which Mr. Black shows a geunine love, givo one an impression of e having, in a dreum, seen With ssent dashes of bright and sober color, without any attempt at oy, e & the whiles 10 far.off, dreamy fome, of rorks and skics, isiands and monntains, \water and birds, ill, ag last, the confuscd masees of color, and his' talk, blend imperceptibly, :nd one sces s beautifal but indistinct picture of {hose hings which constitute the subject of hls coliloguy. One polnt we must not forset to men- 1{on,—the author's appreciation of the fact that Ao many women endeavor to assume the style and ex- Pression of a man in writing for publication; and Tntil their fame in_ tho literary world {8 Javean unackmowlediea baif-fledzed desire that their productions be considered emanations from the masculine brain. We refer the reader to Vio- Jet's novel. in whicli she #o studiously endeavors to impres3 the (imaginary) puolic with the belier that they arc fmbibing the wisdom of a man. Pour youns amthoress! how unconsciously &he allows her imnulses to betray the scret of her sex! We_can conscizntiously recommend the perasal of **Madeap Violet " to both sexes, believing tiat a natiwe must be indeed cailons not to derive both pleasure and benefit from the contemplution of such characters as V'iolet's and Draummond’s. Pavns. put A CHARITY SERMON. To the Edltor of The Tribune. Cricago, March 12. —Now 1 have put on m best cap aud miy new gold-bowed pecticles, will sou udinit me to a seat in the chimuey-comer of your eharwing Homer 1 will not take wuch space, and Wil try not to be too srrulous. but the spirit noves e to speak to some of these dear youns_people, and I trust they, a9 well as you, will kindly indulge an old womai's wish. Iirst, to these yomug Jadics—unmarried, I mean—I want to say a few words. Bless your brizht cyest 1 know so well how you emjoy Tiving,—how the funshine grows brighter where you are, and the very etars twinkle with envy when you Took up ut them. L know how- tie world looks to_yon every morning, asif it were justuewly madé for yoar expross pleasure. know how far o old “age secms, and that care, arief, and trouble are_only words zpplicd to other feople, and it scems impossible that their dread ‘weaning should ever come to you. 1 know how no hight seems tou Jotty for you toscale, no hope two bright for you_to reulize, no human good 00 remote for your daring fingers to graep. I know, for 1 was once s girl, and T have not forgotten. ut beeause kind [eaven has given you blcssi s ricn and full, do not Torget to lizhten 2 little the burden of some poor sister, Whos i one lonz day of had, ill-paid toll, nnsweetened by a ord of sempathe, perhaps with no liome vx- cept a small, cord closst in some cheap boardin: house. You can give her a smiling * ing, 7wl vill leave 4 rosy #low over her entire day. She way be a weal, frail wirl, obliged by a hard-hearted employer to stand all_day behind his counter, without a moment's rest, compelled to « smile whatever may be the insolence of the e adually losing all the individual- ity ind spirit she ever possessed, becanse the dear ones at home would starve but for the meagre pit- tance doled out to heron Saturday nignt, and wiiich ¥0 many others stand ready to uccepLif she faints B e St Maiie hor s jigtle tronble as nossibles L a3 cOUrteotls to her as to your associates: treat heras one lady shonld treit another; and it will inate who is bending ull her ener- wies toward becoming o teachier, that she may help T lighten the burden cning the hair of tier mother or brin: to hice father's brow. _There are ma It you can help Ter. Youcan now and then say a féw words of praise of her scholarship her studions or lebits, or introduce ber to some other friend who can aypre and 1 te 4 lady 1 calico as well as in opyoriunity offers wpeak of xome favorite you posses<, und if she bax not read it, it to her, and_do it in such a way that ving yon pleasnre by ac- as these (and your i ), and take an old woman's word for it, dear girls, you will #nd as ick Intelicet, us ‘warm, true, erateful hearts onz them 2= can be found anywhere, Desides, OHF OWR Tatul : and grow sweeter for the eflort, in: 8 it is fur ““more blessed to give than to recely do a little with your brains and hands, as well after so many Do you not know tlul when Make <ome oppor- will en talk of nius ¥ 12 to her, **Mary, dear(or whatever ), if yon have tiune to come Lo our ay+ for au hour, it wonld he a real it atre to #tart you on your way musicward thart you any way, and it will bea merey me 1o make me Don’t you think she wonld wonier if you c.tld even cuess the vieasure you were givinz i And when she comes, play s well for u do for **Bob's Sister,” her station was _cqual to ¥ s, bread cast on the waters in this en_you least expect it. o much for brains, now for hands. You lave all Jearned how to make all sorts of pretty thinze, and, I hope, some useful ones, too: bat I want o learn to kuit real, old-fashioned knittine, nil when you have bits of time, have ¥ w0, serviceable stoc! stter pair of all men, smaller for fittle Loy striped Shaker-yarn, and cuny yours, Jblue, or _white for the ! r fear but there will always be to il If you don't know any Titdle cold to them to the Sup-rintendent of your Sumi Be tilled v and eandies when he hanes them on the Chris +for_the poor little ones who - are sure to be with 10 other friend to give them goodies, o your east-oif elothes, —shoes andall, yothing which will keep a hmman being warm which will not find a welcome &omewhere, Learn 10 make your ol ses into smaller ones to fit the children of that poor widow on_the back strect over yonler, so they ean #0 to chool and to church; and if your oJer i< made in the pretty way you know xa well how 1o assume, you will never offend ie woul. After you have bezun to do these things oppor- tunities will multip} u will invent ways of ¥orr 0w 10 o rood ood more than T conld when yonr ife, you shali hear the w0 *-Inasmiich as ye have doue of these, ye have done it unto me. " my welcome, and that will be et in tite same spint which and heeded by the deur girls to- art £o warms that 1 want them ¢ only picazant memories whe: th’I’ are on unsct side of life,™ ¥ wall bid you all zeod- G SDMA OLDWAYS. promple ward ON SEVERAL SURJECTS. To the Editor of The Tribune. March 1i5.—Now that we know who'is and who wrote fie **Jericho Road, " we may all séttle placidly d to the study of the Epril cs, und the di on of the best wavs ung. It is certainly ¢ ver to read of grand eprini seninzs of millinery and dry-goods stores, with ¢ snow whirling t.rongis the streets and tne “sorm wind Enrorydon ™ sending dashes of sloet azainst the window-panes. ~ Those who sally forih to gaze upon the arthicial ** buttercupy and and all the pretty fowers,” and the Worth-y new pions in overskirts and triminiigs, may think npon the fate of the youth i the fable, who. having scen on a sunshiny day, atoo venturesorse swallow, which he hailed as 'a sure harbinger of spring, ‘at_once proceeded to dispose of hixwinzerclothing (wheth- er to his **uncle” ormot I know not), and soon had canse to reret it. A picture of thix im Youns man ina copy of **Exop's Fables ihicli] used to pore wheaa child, —representing him as a central fgure, shivering in a very scanty cos- tume, with the dead body of the poor little swallow on one side und 2 frozen brook on the other,—has alway: ned in my memory as a warning not to purchase one's soring bonnet or percales too early. **Tiie Ides of March are not yet passed.™ is auother thinz happily settled also, and he case of **The People va. Alexander Sul- —where Judge and jury have triumph- antly chown to an admifing populace that the ” accused is puilty of mothing what- ever, and is restored to his delighted friends with a strong recommendation to the hishest oflice in a grateful people’s gift. . To be sure there was a hittle **unpleasuntness “in the family of one Francis Hanford, which resulted in his belng— well—skot. you know—at his own_threshold. in his wife's presence,—thus making tiings a little uncomfortable for the Sullivans, but he ought not tospeak lis mind about auybody's wife; and, above all, upon oeing knocked down he ought not tocetwp. A 1man who. when smitien upon one cheek, Tefnses to present the other also, descrves 10 be killed. No wonder the jury were affectcd 10 tears at the pathetic appeals of the accused's counsel to restore him to the bosom of his family. The murdered man had a family, too, but he had xid that Mrs. §. belonsed to & ** Ring, ™ whereas the othier had only taken a life. and sent a coul to its lust acconnt. ~An intellizent jury had no difi- culty in deciding which was the greater crime. few years ago there was_quite tir about the it of 2 man with o railroad. " which resulted in the man’s coming off second-best, as is apt to be the case when un individual sttempts, gle- Tianded, to ixht a corporation: in this case, how- ever, the individual has nothinzto compia of, for Sandy certainly has ridden rongh-shod over the Mosaic Jaw, —the American Constitution, and the * case of the People,™ presented by able and cn- ergetic counsel. —ull because of the very peculiar views of those twelve **good men and true,” ‘What says our Western poet: And what dld Jopes, Lycurzus AWt i known H1osyneracy s B He smiled a bitter lm{]':! to see, ‘And drew the weagon of Bowle. In the Interim he slaughters no fewer than twen- ty-three innocents— And then when Jones, Lycurgus B. 1124 wiped the wennon of et " ‘Twelve Jurymen did {nstantly Acqult and set Lycurgus frec. Why will pople be o0 disappointing! Last Sat- urday I was reading the lettor bf one of Quill's m:- ponents. and had complacently thought to myself, *Why, this yonng man writes well, ' when he must £00il it by fnishing off with, **All we are learned ia" cte. 1am sure he meant, We are tanghe, but why didn't he say 0, instead of committing that egregions, though very common blander, especially. in the midst of A diseertation on the sclence of lan- guage, of all sciences? Oh! why did he do t? Inthe old time of toarnaments and troubadours, a. belted Knight or an Earlnever **Inid lance [n rest™ witha person of plebeion extraction, becanse he wss beneath him in romk. ‘As ‘it was then, f0 ft is now. A challenge to_ be asccepted must come from one's equal, and I will only say to my last week's _poor little ‘critic, that 1 think it very possible that I, as well as other cor- Tegpondents, may have onthinkingly used words— whether :ono or poly-syliabled—inat were above her comprehension; but that only brings me back to what I 'said in my former lctter.” She must study. She must cachew the readmg of Beadle's dime novels, and apply hersclf -sssiduously - to and means of how enough Lo make cnz wise, Webster's Unabridzéil. 1 find Marzaret’s 1lusband entertaining, and hope he will write peain, f wonder if Paul 1L L. isuny morcof 1_gentleman than George Eliot. e, or she, well dcservea the thanks of the ladies for en- deavoring to teach them all how to be beantiful. whichls **a consummation devoatly to be wished.” - Laura Eanre. SERVANT-GIRI-ISM. To the Editor @ The Tribune. MansnaLtrows, Ia., March 13.—Aund still an- other ** back broken by @ straw." I would like to say 10 Em's Aunt_ that, {rom close observation, I have found that the most_cxactiis and intolerant ‘mistresses are those who in their carlier years were servants themselves, although to the public they proclaim themselves the champlons of hired girls. In your jssue of the 10th, in The Home, she states that ** it does not cost more to Keep three than two if_you_live well.” * Perhaps the one who Toots the bilis will not corroborate her statement, or, it may be, she is not frugal, and her hired girl only consumes what -otherwise would find its Way into the slop-pail. Whatever may be the casc, having been for a Tong time one of a_**Committee on Houschold Expenditures,” I know her asser- tion is not correct. Servapis are costly ap- pendages, They cannot be kept for less than Siper week, and ns much more should be ndd- ed for their extravagance and useless waste. Such ‘minor matters must be enumerated in_ estimating the actual cost of keepinz help, She may say that there ia no necessity for waste if a woman properly manages her houseliold. But, if she has a larze family snd an cxtensive acquaintance, her rocial oblizations and other duties preclade her from ex- crcising other thana general supervision of her domestic alMairs. When an order, trivial or other- wise, is given, she cannot follow up a servant to see it 13 foithfully execated, as such surveillance would necessitate nearly a3 much labor us to do the work in the first place. Again shic #ays, -*'Treat servants ltke human be- ings.” Kindly consideration for their welfare should be shown, comfortable quarters provided. and good food und an sbundance thercof. But does Em'e Aunt think such treatment consiats _in giving them the wide latitade they generally de- and, such as cnjoying equal privileges wita the 1ady of the house, and having free dccess to every- thing, even to the mistress® wardrobe and toilet appartenances down to the tooth-brush? — But lcliese ‘‘eating at the table with the family™ is g preromative they especially insist shall be granted. I your dwelling is commodions, and yon live™ in princely style, they are not 5o exacting; but if you livein an unpretentions building on 2 moderate income, unless this end can _be attained they coolly assure you -*if they are not gnod enough to eat with you. ihey ore not Zood euonzh to work for yon.” (This fa the exact formala used by all of them.) Their goodness is not the point involved. ‘They entirely fimore. the fact that thewr gocial statns i3 not tac same as yours, and that they are employed for their services and not for their companionship. While not gnests, acither can they be like oue of the family, as your interests are not identical. They will sit at your table and listen to the genti- ments frecly discussed and the playful badinage often indulged in, and no scal of honor clpscs their lips, 1% often before nightfall they have re- capitulatéd all that was said to others occupying & wimilar station in life. (Let me herc deprecate the habit muny matrons have also formed of making their ured girls the lesding topic of their convers: tion at informal gatherings snd small social enter- taloments. Very questivnable taste is certainly isplayed.) . Servants are a honschold necessity, and the ay- crave of them are ulso a household pest,—not only carcless and ineflicient, but utterly devoid of mozal principle, often manifesting the basest in- wratitude. Most of them wili desert the kindest of employers, ven in sickness, if they are offered siizhtly fucrcased wases. und withont riving timely notice. Zealous fricnds c<nousing their cause hare attributed the existence of ‘such a category of fauits to tac treatment they have formerly re- cewved, and, to ameliorate and elevate their condi- tion. advocate the same treatment for them to which n daughter or loved member of a family is entitled. A I take isene with them upon this point. Tgno- rance and want of moral training are the catses of toese lamentable defects in servants. Menial 1abor s not considered dezrading to the mistress of an_cs-ablishment, yet every intelligent, refined girl shrinksfrom flling the position of a'**hired girl.™ Any otner work is preferable. althoush &hop-xirls and seamstresses are not more hizlily munerated. Why is this? Becanse the majonty of our servanis for previous years have come from the lower strata_of society, often from the very drezs of humenity, or from illiterate parents in fmpecunions circumstances, who, not appreciating the advantages thal accrue to the educated, only care for tne physical comfort of their children, who when old cnouzh are sent “forth to earn their oin subsistence, totally unfitted for any avocation. Housework is _all they cuneven attempt. They are well posted in nothing but their **rignts,” and their mistrogs’ duties to them. The prompt pay- wment of their waves is their only concern, —not their lack of ability to discharge their duties. In thig respect their consciences are dormant. Yon are asked to treat them a4 daughters. Yon wislh to try the experiment, as_yon feel kindly i posed to them, You manifest this feeling on alt occasions. and give them_motherly connsel, and make them feel at home. Instead of feeling srate- ful, they misconstrne your kindly motives ‘into an appreciation on your part of their valuable (¥) services, and in the proport:on as their sclf-im- portance and errogance increase, on this account, ¢ir _respect for you decreases. You certainl bejony to the “*quality * and are not at afl “istuck up, in their estimation. and you find it difficult to fell, in_an incredibly shors time, who is mistress of the situation or of the huuse cither. American mrla, imbued with the true republican spirit,are the greatest ** sticklers for their rights, ™ ana are fully as impudent as the Irish, who are not as well educated as other forcigmers, Shall women of culture alone euffer for the jgno- rance of servants? Or should they not be_made to feel it isnot **bliss™ in their case, till they will De willing to cducate themselses up ton proper standard. and remove the stigma that rests upon the name of -hired wirls"? Those who have shunned the kitchen will then ‘do so no_longer, us social ustracisw will not be the inevitable conse- quence. I fear these results cannot be attained until_compulsory cducation i universal. Then the lower classes’ can be reached, and when grls are required there will be fewer advertiscments readinz thus: **No American or Irish need ap- ply.” They will learn that the best way to sccure their rizhts is to respect those of others, and they may also discover that barefaced impudenee is not independence. Gusste. OLLA-PODRIDA. Ta the Editor of The Tridune. Orrawa. 1., March 14— Dryan, I would like your pattern of the lambrequin you so kindly of- fered. Send it to P. O. Box 1032, Ottawa, 11l T t Bryan £ome Keventeen years ago. and well ember those fountain wells vou can get up with €0 little trouble. Dut Bryan always made me think of a camp-reeting ground; the land is so flat. and the houses were small and ecattering then, wich 2 heavy belt of timber on the outskirts of th own. Thope the Sccretary of the B. 1. A. is satisfied with the attention he has received of late. Was it wi your wives that matched you bald-headed, or what? Would you like to try another remedy? If €0, come to Ottawa: go Lo the xlass factory, and have them blow a blue glass hat on your head where the hair onght to grow. I would advise Charley’s wife to_use hime-water for worms. Yon need not go to the drug-&tore to get it. as my namesake advised, but take & piece of unzlacked lime the size of an_cgw, pour on & quart of hat water: when settled bottle for use. One tablespoonful in xome _milk 18 a dose. Dy mixing linseed oil with fime-water you have a good linaZ ment for burns. ‘The sister that wished beef-tea recipes has had some rent her. Twill send two more. * Cut it up in small bits free of fat: coverit with cold water and let eimmer two or three hoars. Another wuy is to broil the meat, then cut it in small bita and pour hot water vn it, and let stand a little while. Biddy McBruiser, are we never to hear from you agam? 1 hope o, for I lil our frank way. Nora Clifton, I think your little say was the best of all the little says about the **obey.” T hope 1t i8 laid on the table, and for a finale” let me repeat tome’ lines I read some years ago. They are worthy to be cherished in the innermost recesses of your heart: like -Soldiers' Homes, ar when vacated, o soon will be, conert them 1nto houea g homeless. From Foundiinzs' Homes, Orphed’ Tums, Poor-Honses, Momes for. the Bresd athér the children in, and begina new cdnegi f truthfullyand honéstly conducted. the meadd: be in less danger of iheritine tho lila of Je Tt than from tho weak-nerved, Rociety-jaded gt and seminary araduates who have been e uilluence. Al this native refiement and. mf,fi but, g 3¢ wonld help greatiy i riehtly directe; protont_embloze1, makes ity vieth : thghit manfaily orwomanly the hnttlc‘!‘?)’fl?!?%iu prives thew of mach which makes it worly ot ng. - i “Fiic rosy country girl, with her round well-developed bods. with right phy. .;'1'”:,‘_{‘4 eep the advantaze stepay With naked feot ang” o tion, mizht to okl age of her city cousin. clothing she climbs the hills and scatters the from clover-blossoms o fnd and mulk her ko Tn rain and shine, at times when she - shogy kept dry and quiel, her work in_and out of gy disease gocs atesdily on. Seeds of s Eown may lie dormant for years, h“ sooner or_ lnter, will Weaken “or destyyt i Dut the city zirl, poor, dear. durlinz, can's gy the hills, or'even to the top of her lme:': ?.: sion, to see the sun Gut his crescent in the blnepny or whter. The last night's damce exhausted aj i strensth, -and whe mastslcep away the-golden hop in ‘*ciotely curtained rooms flled to fainey with perfumes, ™ and wwake at 8 late hour, hollae eyed and Ianguid, not always in the best of moogy. £ prepare for the next party or dance. = D%t We heard _yesterday, on good authority, o workingwoman 8o well nd strong that she et s her work in a larze manufactory in this city g half an_hour before the birth of her baby. Sh had hard work to get excused, it being near fre dinner time, 2nd mot until she told the Over. scer the trath would he let her gy She had worn her clothing o loose, no one suspected her condition. When her bibe was 2 foy Tours old she sent her husband to her einployer gy retain her position, os she only needed a few dy for rest and get Strength to resume her work, Lap us, 28 intelligent, thioking women, stady . Gagg: axws in natnre, and allow oar bodies to compassall the steougth the Creator intended. Do not cripple ar dwarf his work. We may then, and not unti} then, hope to bequeath to our children an inherit- ance purified of sickness, sin, and crime, which- shall ingogurate the milleniom. Mus. E. G. C—, M. D, GOOD FOOD—GOOD HEALTH. To the Editor of The Tribune. Mapisos, March 1h.—I um a straoger to The THome, but hiave been for some time silent reader of the opinions of its contritntars upan varions subjects, some -valnable, and some that will not bear the light of Investization. 1 am deeply inter- ested in progressive women, and the ciorts they sre making in The Home department fora higher intellectasl lifo and tha best methods of conducting household matters, particalasiy on the subject of our food. For thore can bo mo health with cating fmproper combinations of food, snd I find eome recipes entirely at e riance . with physiological _ principles o chemical laws. The first T noticed “Panbnase.” & combination of hoz's fesh, wzscs; all physiologists hold uniit food for the haman svs’” tew, and Graham flour, us a chesp breakfast fon enildren, witose food should be of a kind to builds, ood constitution, and for ‘adaits who may suffering from a poor one from daily repasts upm some form of hos material. Then oavmeal mush 2th spices, —why render. it injurious by spicest ‘When simply made it is 2 most healthful food. Then bread, which. it properly tade, is the stad of life: but'**for breakfast, the dough rolled out thin and fried in Jard,” aud doughnuts, another abomination incrnsted with lard. Is it strange we sce so many pale-faced children an easy prey to scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles, where phyeiological fuws are disregarded? 1 would_like to kmow what good n slics of pork put_on the neck of achild can do when threatened with aiphtheria? 'And then we are giver recipes for lotions and washes in which pofsonous articles are used. Do not use recipes that have no merit excopt that ther Woro given by some (rienl, who probably ad no knowledze of chemical com- binations or the effect of subtle poisons upon the human system. How many **mysterions Provi- dences™ have come to familics in_consequence of iznorance of the laws of health I leave to higher Enowledze to_solve and_remedy. [ believe that most of the diseases the human family are aflicted with_result. from o violation of eome moral ot pligsical law, whether inberited or otherwise, lousekecpers, above all persons, shonld have some knowledge of chemistry in the combinations of food and medicine for human ills, of which so many have remedics to olfer. If ourschools woald teach practical chemistry to girls, instead of so much mathematics, they would be better fitted 10 enter npon the duties of life when they -*dnish their cducation. " Irejoice inthe dawninzday indi- cated by the schools for danghters to learn theart of housekeeping, in Engiand and our own Jand, shen zirls may not énter wifehood and mothezhood ig- Torant of the duries and laws belonging €5 those situations. For, althongh they may have the wealth of a millionaire, which is a boon 20 ardently rought in these days, that ane may live a eclish, useless life, they cannot”fimore or deputize the dutics of motherhood. - For ip tiy department if they **Sow to the wind, they. will reap the whirlwind.” This brings me to a subject, of the hiizhest intcrest, caild-life, *-the neatected class,™ not in its outward adoraings, for.thére:Is more thun cnouxh actention given 1o that; io teach them the signiticance of shams; but the proper in- terest and dircction of their budding fife. The most important veriod is when' the foundation of charucter is Iaid, but toooften crushedand dwarfed Dy unconscions ignorance of mothers and tezchers. 1'will not occapy more time at present upon this subject, which interests me so deeply. A reform is yet to come In s more sympathetic and careful calture of child-life. The child is ever father to the man. Bad boys and girls can never make zood nica and women. AL WL WOMANLY OREDIENCE. To the Editor of The Trivune. MorsT CansoLL, March 12 —Xlthough the sub~ ject has been worn almost threadbare in the ¢ol- mps of The Home, [ will venture to makea few sage remarks on the question of womanly obe- dience. I have just read Mry. Cap. Brown's let. ter, and T think it splendid.~ Her views on this all- absorbing subject are what T should suppose with 3 few exceptions all noble-minded women with no- ‘le husbands would huve. Althouch I bave never had any experience in matrimony, [ will, a3 said before, rise on this occasion to make a few re- murks. Life, my friends, is composed, s youall well know, of hopes and fears, of joy and tears, of goodness and oudness, of sdrrolw and_gladuess. We arenone of us perfect and we are noge of u8 alike, and, thank goodness, we are mot. When people immizrate into the marriage state, they must not expect to slide smoothly and gracefully along on a ses of rose-water in & gilded bark, not go flying over flowery plains In palace-cars, fot gome will_find that it will be a stormy road, an ofd immigrant wagon or a one-wheeled vehicie to creep +lowly alfony in, and the dasty roadside will be teeming with life in the shape of crasshuppers, tarantulas, beetles, and scorplons. But tiked crust of contentment, Life would not be worth having if it were not for a little variety. 1donot believe any one ever heard of a well-regulated family not having their trials snd tribulations, aml of those trial< and tribulations not bein: sometimes verbally cxpressed. What if Cleopatra did not black Hinsldo's boots when he asked her to, it is 20 sign they will never be blacked. What if Rinaldo daes not get Cleopatra her new spring bonnct when she asky Bim to, its no sign that she will never have & new spring bonnet. And If she does occasionally appear at the breakfast table with her hair un- combed, it does not neu:unrilg follow that she 19 nntidy and indolent, Whut if e does occasionally tyrannize over her, has she not 3 rigat totyrannizs over him? If she is occasionally disobedient and kicks in the truces, he may take his rights and disobey and kick in the traces too. I sbould notlike everything to be in a pacifc state very long AIml showers bring May flowers, you Know. Cleopatra sometimes gets jmpatient and xcolds, i she s virago? And if he retalistes sometimes, 19 hea regniar old curmadgeon® No. Suchsnd cased only occur when R. or C. is too Jazy to help do ha spicing, and theroby add variety to conjugal blisa. I'here needs to be an even distribution of the’sout and sweet, So take my advice, dear {riends, make the acales balance evenly. When Cleopatra frowns, do thou frown also Rinaldo; when she ymiles, Home's not merely four square walls, Thouzi with plctures huug and gilded; Home is where aife-tion calls, Fllied with shrines the heart hath bullded; Hoyme! go watch the faithful dove, Safling beneath the heavens above us; Home I3 where there's one to love; Home I8 where there’s one to love us. Tome's not merely roof and room. 1t needs something to endear It, Home s whiere the lienrt can blodm e there's some Kind [t What 15 Hom with nom 1o mane, > C et Aoie to Welcome, none to grect us? Home Is sweet and only sweot Where there's one we love to meet us! Berram ‘¢ ONE THING THOU LACKEST.” 70 the Editor of The Tribune. Cmicaao, March 12.—With Hayes for President, and The Home department in Tug Cutcago Tiis- TNE, what can be wanting to make us a healthy, weaithy, and lone-lived people, and fit us for the Eternal Mansions? We have knowledge of the starry heavene. The earth which carries and fecds us is continnally opening her treasures and reveal. ing to us her secrets. Philosophers, chemists, and alchemists are numbered by tens of thousands. Engineering. which a_quarier of s_century ago would have been thought impossible, and now £cems mirucle, i3 to-day lifting rocks from under the sea, and has tunneled whole mountains of granite, We ride, eat, and sleep in_palace-cars as comfortably 2s ot ‘onr own firesides. The ozone of the mountain air can, by & new and simple apparatns, be carried to every home, however humble, in the lond. This life and health giving element. 8o much songht by invalids and health-seckers, on mountains and the sea, fs carried into _caves aod mines, fillea with poison air, a3 easily as_the Iantern which guides tne miner, We cominand time and_distance, and live like Princes in the land. These are o' few corapared to the uncounted namber of aids which this century brings to perfect onr badics. We aguin ask, what lack we yet® The query -is. rath- cr, of what avail are all “these helps, considering the frailty of humsn stracture? Has not the brain and nervons system run away with the remainder of the body? How and where are we to mend hu- manity? Doesnot continued_patching weaken the fabric? That God intends purity of strictare seems to ns o plain that ‘‘they who run may read.’” Bducate young girls in all' that pertains to bodii; vizorand” endurance before caltivating the intel- loct. The schoolemust be remodeled; new methods and courses of instruction replace those now used, which require e0 much memorizing; kindergarten teaching shonld never cease. What we learn from observation, or object-tesching, remams with us longer than’ that which we learn from_books or commit to memory, " We appeal to the hearts and. intelligence of those who command means to try the eyperiment of “educatmg ‘the howmeless and emile also, or a littie before she does, judicionsly though. Do not, if you value your own bappi- ness, act the part of an abused syimt. 1f you once cominence, depend upon it, you wili have to be snffering angel all you life. "Wnena man gothers Dis beantiful rose ke must expect to find thorns, and when a woman, —well we all know the most amiable of the mascalines are nettles anyho®. the hitwbands of some of the ladies who write for The Home may think that rather unjust, I Wi add, by way of an apology, these fines: Even the snowflake Iets a shadow fall, & whitest, sweetest sou S -::muuum"-mug To thtee thak. Enow them Flattery will do a great deal, take my advice: s e itor P Marrooy, March 1i.—Nowadays, everyoody reads the' mewspapers. ~ Sermons, scandats, **Thoughts on tke Uriverse," palitice, my opinion on finance, and yours on domestic_economy BeITe to muke up the head-linds of the average edition, which places within the rcach of every housebolts knowledze of people and events of incalcalablo importance. The newspaper of to-day is the ¥o0- der of our.era, and yet among all the Ll tions made !hmufh the columns of The Home 8 to where to find profitable reading, no voic® ‘been raised in its favor. Can it be that we are uEg aware what an_educator the family newspaper, 77 The reader who constantiy pores over books, b7} comes by-and-by a one-siged theorist. Toem! 4 from the -coversof his favoite volumes clings him; the ‘cigar slowly turns io .mshes oa S lips.': Not 8o with the wide-awake man With €0 mopolitan views born of newspaper reading. ‘Ther? is the . complacency and sssnrance of one¥: knows “! what is going on ™ abont him. His stef echoes **What's the news?™ and hia cigardissolves in blue, carling wreaths above his head. I wnnm Tather converse ten ' minutes ‘with a womsa wEO rezds the }mvers, than = half ddywitha gmdym_ vourer of a circulating library. **Daniel DE ronda ™ marks an epoch in literstare, but it 1s 8% months old, and why does every other person yOu meet blandiy inquire if you have read it, andl €% asperation i an untimely hour incites u!‘:nm BT o That you would liko to pat an to D eronda.” is remark, having come to the m’: of some of ‘your brethren in the chnrch, bet o versed in’ theology than light literature, yOu :r_ horrifled by Gndlz yoursel regarded as '8 M5 derer in heart.” The cant of the dayis the g marole sbout books whick we have all gotst 0% fngers’ ends. -Mrs. A ‘talks witnh "B 0 sbout the Darwinian theory. She -KknoFd only that ' Darwin believes hat - =0 882 race sprang from morikeys. Mrs. B_rel that sho hay lately been reading up EDERsGR ~Ah,” says Mrs. A, that *Over Soul ' 15 B pre e e z 3 i e e e