Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1882, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JANU HOME MATTERS. FARIONS SUGGESTIONS HOW TO TREAT THE EYFs AND THROAT A TALE aBbOUT THE TEETH— CAUSE OF NECRALGIA— SOME USEFUL RECIPES, On-CLotis Storey ne Wasnen well to free them frem dirt, and then have two coats of copal varnish given them, If this is done once a year, it would tmsnre the lasting of the cloth a long again as it otherwise would. Ox IS SOMETIMES TROUBLED WHEN FRYING Canes by a sedi t forming In the lard, which darkens it, and sticks to the outside of the eakes. To remedy this, peel and wash raw potatoes, ent them in slices an_ inch thick, and drop thew into the hot lard. They will readily absort Ulack particles, and you ean easily take them out with a skimmer and not waste the iard. Prerey Snoveise Bas ate made of dark cardinal satin. Cut a piece of pasteboard the ary sance-plate, cover it with the alength of satinto this. @n the catthe top draw in an old-gold satin ribbon. The depth of the bag is a matter of choice, but to a pasteboard bottom of the size mentioned two-eighths of a yard is about the right proportion. This is to carried on the arm, notin the hand. This requires no orna- mentation: the mgterial is brizht and handsome, . belng fastened by the ribbon, ow any decoration to advantage.— A Smrte Cover ror «1 Waisk Broom.—Take One of the common Japanese willow enils, and wet It in warm water until you can press it flat, or nearly so: then decorate it with erewel em- broidery in stem stiteh and laid stiteb, working the esthetic eat- with its narrow green leaves upon all sides of it; ora miniature sun- fiower and es in natural colors; or a simple cluster of daisies. and trim it with bows of rib- bon, and suspend it with cards or ribbons. It can be very quickly made, and will prove of more service. than if made of pasteboard and covered with plush, velvet or in, while it is also much more economieal.—Country Gentle naen. Pretty Lamp SHapee.—aAt a recent dinner party the ladies amesed themselves in the even- ing by making imprompta lamp shades so nd so pretty that I will describe of ordinary colored tissue paper led onee, and held in the thumb he lett hand, like a pocket hand- biet It is then drawn through the right . from top te bottom, over and oyer again, till it Is a mere wisp. inch is cnt off the point at the top, to form the hot the chimney ofthe lamp to pass through; the paper is then spread out, and fats in four graceful crimped points. ‘The shade is complete; and when dexterously put over the glube (before the lamp is turned up very bright) throws a pretty subdued light. Pink, pale green, yellow or violet are all favor- ite colors, and when two or more cglors are put over &ch other the effect Is very pretty. It is thus easy to vary the lamp shades, and to have a selection of all colors in reserve. The soft, subdued light of the shades is pleasant, and at the same time becoming. Pretty shades can be made of hn delicate tern fronds or on and varnished, an edge of rennd at the last. Old disce shadescan be re-covered, and thus renovated with advantage. —Hovme Journal. A Coip Ix Tue Eyrs.—This is a very common affection, and consists of an inflamed condition of the membrane covering the eye-ball and lin- is, and is often due, as the name lies, to exposure to a draught. The patient as if some dust had got into the eye, and can some times be hardly persuaded to the con- vie i the white of the eye itselfis seen to be reddened. and there is a constant flow of blind- ing, sealding tears. The best treatment is to foment the eyes with pure warm water, or bet- ter. with water in which two or three crushed poppy heads have been boiled for half an hour, to extract their sedative qualities. A shade should be worn over the eyes during the inter- vals of fomenting. and adose of rhubarb and magnesia should be administered. If the in- flammation does not subside in a day or two, a doetor should be consulted. if possible; but, ' if this is not possibie, good will probably be done by dropping into the eyes, two or three times a day, some solution of sulphate of zine or white Vicriol, in the proportion of one grain to two tablespoonfuls of water. Saur For THe TuRoat.—In these days, when diseases of the throat are so universally preva- lent, and in so many cases fatal, we feel it our Guty to say a word in behalf of a most effectual, if not positive, care for sore throat. For many years—indeed, we may say during the whole of alifeof more than forty years—we have been sub- ject to sore throat, and more particularly to a dry, hacking couzh, which is not only distress- to ourselves, but to our friends and those ith whom weare brought into business con- tact. Last fall we were induced to try what virtue there was in common salt. We com- menced by using it three times a day—morp- ing. noon and t. ve dissolved a table- spovatui of pure table saitin about a half small tumbler fall of water. With this we gargled thé throat most thoroughly Just before meal time. The result has been that during the en- ‘, hacking cough has en- ed. We attribute these satis- solely to the use of salt gargle, rdially recommend a trial of it to those who are subject to diseases of the throat. Many persons who hd gargle have the impress Sueh is not the case. n that it is unpleasant. On the contrary, it is pleasant, wholoves a nice. clean mouth, and a first-rate sharpener of the appetite, will abandon it.— | Euchanse. Daxcers rrow Decayixe TsetH.—It is not true that savage tribes and semi-ci zed people civilized, On the contrary, the conditions of eutture and refinement favor the pre ati of health through eare and cleanliness. Cleopatra was to have been the most beautiful woman ef her time, but what would be thought of tne claims of a mod- ern belle whose smiles should be marred by a display of teeth in various stages of decay, as were those of Exypt’s famous qneen? Beauti- ful and well-kept teeth do more than anything else to atone for defective features, But there are other considerations of far greater impor- which require watch ma slected teeth are fre- of disease and death. [ do not remember ever to have seen a case of facial neuralgia that could not be traced to this cause. In recent cases a cure can generally be effected by extracting such teeth as are much decayed, and filling those that can be saved in that way, J have r vl two patients, one of whom aad suffered ‘almost constantly for two years ‘Wh neuralgia of the face and neck. I advised the dmoval of two teeth and the Milling of all others where cavities could be found; and since that time. about two months, there has been no Teturn of the trouble. The other, a young lady of sixteen, with teeth that are beautiful and per- fect in appearance, has suffered frequently with ie head: Teould discover no defect in the teeth, and began to distrust my theory of the origin of neuralgia ip the head, but I ad- vised her to consult a dentist, and he discovered narrow, but deep, cavities in the crowns of five teeth; these were filled a month ago, and there has been no return of headache. It should be known that ordinarily cures are thus effected in Fecent cases only. have in several cases of long standing advised extraction of all the teeth. There is an interruption of the disease usually for a few months, but it is apt to return again; bat with diminished force. Decay is death, and dead and decaymg teeth poison the blood by absorption, and debilitate the patient. There is nothing su repulsive to the seuse of | odd degree smell as a decayed tooth: nothing that more surely carries disease to the vital organs than to inhale effuvia from such sources of corrup- tion; nothing that so nauseates and diszusts everybody as fetid breath emanating from such decay. I never saw an adult person with bad teeth who had not dyspepsia, and who was not more or less untidy. Almost unconsciously, there is a want of sel pect. Ifcleanliness is Rext to godliness, why should net uncleanliness be next to eomeihing else? Parents should Jook often and carefully to their children’s teeth, as weil asto their own. If decay commences, even with the first teeth they should be filled. If the permanent front teeth project outward so ‘as to prevent the lips from closing easily, the defect should be remedied at all hazards, for if the air habitually reaches the lungs through the mouth, bronchial trouble is certain to result Sooner or later. Parasites always infest neg- lected teeth; und tartar accumulates around them and barrows downward, destroying the jum and the teeth. To guard evils, great care Js necessary. Soap will destroy purasites. and proper tooth powder, en will Boge the tartar from accumulating. wor vise the greatest caution in the selection of preparations for the ‘rtised con- teeth. Many of those that are a tain acide; and althouch they clean the teeth at first, they will in time inevitabl them. It matters not, however, what to preserve the teeth, so long a attained and the method: feet an methods employed é never tried the sait | have sounder teeth, as a rule. than are found | MRS. SYMINGTON’S BARGAIN. BY LUCY RANDALL COMFORT. | From Harper's Bazar. All women, we are told, have their wéak- nesses, and Mrs. Stanhope Symington was a | chine maniac, a8 are mest people to some de- | gree in this esthetic nineteenth century of the world. But Mrs. Symington excelled in the | matter. She would prowl in second-hand stores, penetrate into the cavernous recesses of tenement houses, driye long distances into the country to old homesteads where she had heard vague rumors concerning “flaring blue,” ‘‘old green glaze,” “butt low,” and “genuine old India wares.” She weet Temereeteusiy! turn the choicest pieces of modern bric-a-brac fro! her tables to make — for spoutless teapot: cracked bowls and j She crows her drawing room with brackets, shelves and eabinets for the accommodation of ancient plates, which she called “plaques,” and pitch- ers, which she rechristened “vases.” Mr. Symington, a meek little man with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose and colorless eyes Hike dim glass marbles, began to find it no slight task to make his way through his own house without breakage or misfortune. “‘Lwish there was not sucha thing as old china in the world,” he lamented upon one par- ticular occasion, after he had knocked a han- dleless cup from a tripod draped in olive velvet. “Stan! ,” reproved his wife, not without severity, “*would you retard the of modern civilization? This cup, fragile as it may seem, represents an era in decorative history. “Well, it. won't represent it much observed Mr. Symington, as he gathered up the fragments, with something very like vindictive- ness in his faded eyes. “But, Stanhope,” eried his wife, “what are you going to do with those pieces?” “Throw ‘em into the ash-barrel, of course,” said Mr. Stanhope, spiritlessly. But Mrs. Symington reseued them from his graxy, with # shriek of apprehension. “ Are you mad, my dear?” she ejaculated. “‘T ean mend them with a little cement and a great deal of time; and even then I wouldn't take twenty dollars for this exquisite cup. And I h: n thinking Stanhope—” Vell, my dear,” said the luckless iconoclast, looking dolefully at his finger, which had been cut with one of the pieces of broken crockery, “what have you been thinking?” “That I should like to go up into Maine next eek.” said the lady insinuatingly. “Into Maine? In midwinter?* echoed her amazed spouse, opening the dim eyes very wide indeed. “To see Aunt Grizzel,” explained Mrs. Syming- ton—‘‘my aunt Grizzei Grumpton, you know, at Wild River.” = Humph!” remarked Mr. mingto aging his finger with his pocket-handkerchief. didn’t know that you cared so very particu- about your aunt Grizzel.” ‘My dear,” said Mrs. Symington, merging her speech into’ a inysterious whisper, “I've just remembered—all of a sudden, as it were—that she has 4 set of cery old flaring bine china. She must have. It belonged to her mother before her; and how I've forgotten it all these years I'm sure I can’t imagine. Even now I shouldn't have recalled it to my memory, I suppose, it I hadn't chanced to see, at Mrs. Hepburn’s after- noon tea yesterday, the darlingest little egg- shell eups, with bridges and pag@das and wil- low treea ali over ‘em, exactly suchas Aunt Grizzy’s mother used to have. And then it came to me like a flash of lightning—Aunt Griz- zel’s china!” “Probably it’s all broken by this time,” gloomily suggested her husband. “Nonsense!” said Mrs. Symington, bri cy. ‘unt Grizzy never broke anything in her life. She is carefulness itself; and up there in Maine, you know, they don’t have clumsy waitresses to fling things about. No, no; you may depend that she has it alt safe and sound in one of those odd little three-cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure, Stanhope, a perfect treasure. Money wouldn't buy such a set as that; a hundred years old, ifit'saday. So, if you don't mind, my dear, I'll just run up to Maine, and see about it. “Do az you please, Arabella,” said Mr. Sym. ington, resignedly.’ He knew that Mrs. Sym- ington generally did as she pleased, and he saw no especial advantage in debating the question. “Thanks, dear; so kind of you!” uttered Mrs. Symington. "“-And of course I can't go to the polar regions entirely unprotected, so I'll | order one of those comfortable seal dolmans that everybody is wearing now, and a new plush hat with a cluster of ostrich tips. One must go dressed like other peopie; and if you can give me twenty-five or thirty dollars, I dare say Aunt Grizzy will let me have the set for that (she don’t know the value of old china, poor thing!), and the journey won't be more than thirty dollars both ways, ifI go by sea, | including @ stateroom.” “It appears to me,” said Mr. Symington, dis- gly, ‘that this is a good deal of a-wild- goose chase, going dancing up to the northern poundariés of Maine at this time of year fur an old set of trumpery china which probably didu’t cost ten dollars to start with.” ‘Oh, Stanhope, it did!” eried the lady, indig- na ntl; “It was real India ware, imported, with- out paying a dollar of du ‘an old sea-cap- tain in the India trade, expressly for my crand- mother Grampton. And. besides, you are s0 dreadfully grovelling and prosaic in ‘your ideas. As if the original cost of a thing of this nat snified! It’sthe esthetic value that we look at. don’t you see?” ht” said Mr. Symington. if you Must zo, you must go, I suppose; and of course I shall have to give you acheck for what money you are likely to want.” And Mr. Symington sighed deeply, and went up stairs to get a piece of court-plaster for his | cut finger. Mrs. Symington went to Wild River, in the northern bonudaries of Maine, where the pine forests were thatched with snow, and the icicles | tinkled in the woods of a moonlight night like 80 many castenets gone mad. She made the greater of the voyage by sea, and was con- sequently very seasick, for the water was rough and the gales tempestaous. “I will come back by land,” she said to her- self, as she sat in the little hotel at Portland. and viewed her green and yellow complexion with a shudder. ‘+ Money wouldn’t induce me to risk my life again in tiiat horrid steamer, where one is buifeted and seesawed about on waves that are as high aga house. The palace-car fare will be something of an extra expense, and I shall lose my retyrn et by steamer, but Fim sure Mr. Symington won't grudge it to me when he hears how I've been pitched and tumbled about on the ocean in peril of my life.” And she put on her black brocaded silk, her new plumed hat, and the seal dolinan, and took the northward bound train, resolved to present an imposing appearance to Aunt Grizzy Grump- ton when she should reach Wild River station. It was very cold—a dull. bitter ieaden cold— wit® the ground frozen like a rock, the streams bound inice, the sky gray and bitter, with an ineffable gloom. Aunt Grizzle Grampton lived in a little one-storied house on the top of an un- compremising hill, where a solitary cedar-tree was twisted around like a corkscrew with the force of the east wind, and the few lean sheep huddled behind the rocks in shivering groups, picturesque, but far from comfortable. And even after they had come in sight of the old building whose one coat of red paint had long ago been worn away by the suns and rains of well-nigh a century, Mrs. Symington had serious doubts whether the one-horse sleigh in | whieh she was jerked and jolted up the incline would not be blown sheer away by the rush of the emepeee before they could reach their desti- nation. However, it wasn’t. And once in Aunt Griz- zy"s cottage, things were very comfortable. ‘here was no wide-throated chimney, filled with moss-fringed loge, such as the fancy of city dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary farm house. People in Maine knew better than that. But there was an immense cook-stove, which heated the room to an atmosphere of eighty 8; the cracks in the window-sashes ; Were pasted over with brown paper, and sand were laid on the top ledges. while a double heaped to the very top stoos in the anne oreo to the very in tl chimney-piece. Aunt Grizzy’s dress was of blue homespun flannel, and she wore a worsted hood ed over her ears, and a little plaid shawl folded across her and ehe was addicted to the use of snuff, and one addressed a casual er. My cheeny?” said Aunt G “Well, Pm free to own I think @ deal of that cheeny. But I don’t know, Niece Arabella, how you caine to hear of it.” “It is an heirloom in our “Hey?” said Aunt Grizzy, with her hand placed sounding-board fashion behind her ear. “Every one must have heard of it,” said Mrs. Symington, at the risk of breaking @ blood ves- sel in her throat. G "3 wrinkled face fairly beamed. cak te it ain’t absolutely ugly,” said 5 jut still, if you've really set your heart on it, Niece Arabella— But it ain't unpacked. Talways put it away this time o’ year when there ain't no tea given.” Aunt “Well, I “Oh, there ain't no secret about it!” sala Aunt Grizzy, as she turned the hissing sausages in the pan. ‘Only I hain't had time to overhaul it = ye — here.” a “Naturally 7” interrupted Mra. ington. “But I = it is all in good condition? “Sartiniy, sartinly,” said Aunt Grizzy. “You it yourself if you like, N Ara- ” said Mra. “Oh, that Is not at alt i Symington. “But now as to the price, Aunt Grizzy 2” haggle with my relations,” Speedy one to Sens <4 said Aunt Grizzy, givi ing-pan a shake over the blazin; ficka” “Set your own re s Arabella, and if I don’t like tt I'll make bold to ea y 80.’ se ou think, Aunt Grizzy.” hesitated the city lady, “that twenty-five dollars would be a reasonable compensation for it?” “Well, yes,” said Aunt Grizzy. “It never cost me that, hecause—-” “No, of course not,” hurriedly int Mrs. Symington, and she produced the twenty-five dollars, all in gold hatf-eagles, with the ex- ultant feeling of one who has picked a precious diamond out of the dust. ‘But I should wish you to feel that I had dealt fairly with you In a matter like this.” “Well, [hain’t_no reason to complain,” said Aunt Grizzy. ‘Some folks fancies cheeny. [ don't. A plate’sa plate to me, and acup's a cup, and you're kindly welcome to my set if you've took a notion to it.” Mrs. Symington went home the next day, through a whirlwind of snow, having been fed upon pork and sausages, sausages and pork. at every meal since her arrival, and retaining a yery vivid recollection of the Maine winds and tempests. “I don’t think I'd go back there again even fora set of old china,” said Mrs. Symington, as she seated herself on the velvet cushions of the ‘palace-car, and shrank shiveringly inside of her seal dolman and fleece-lined fur gloves. “‘Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural death; shell be blown away, like Mother Hubbard.” But all these petty tribulations were forgotten as a thing out of mind on the brilliant January rning on which, in front of the sea-coal fire in her own cozy drawing-room, she unpacked | the coarse wooden box wherein were concealed the priceless treasures of Aunt Grizzy Grump- ton’s china. “Don’t touch them, Stanhope,” said she, with asmall shriek of dismay. ‘Men are so dread- fully careless. Oh, Bes Gevare on the top, all wrapped in arate pieces of paper.” vehe” said Mr Symington, standing by, with a hammer and screw-driver brandished in either hand. ‘Are these—antiques?” “Good gracious me!” gasped Mrs. Symington. “What can this possibly mean?” For the china which she unwrapped from its coverings of coarse brown paper was a cheap and common style, such as is associated in the mind with tea chromos, gaudy lithographs and salesmen of the Hebraic persuasion—white, with a band of imitation gold around each piece, and acorse flower sprawling below, as if it had been laid on with a miniature whitewash-brush. “This is never my grandmother Grumpton’s old china.” said Mrs. Symington, bursting into tears, and pushing the lecous atrocities away with a force which cracked two plates. “Dil write to Aunt Grizzy at once, and this misun- derstanding shall be cleared up.” In the course of time an answer came from Wild River, stiffly written in pale ink, and cot veying in its tow ensemble the general impre sion that Aunt Grizzy had wrestled with it as if it had been a fit of the Asintic cholera. “Dear Neice” (it said),—With Love and duty I take up my Pen to inform You that the China is all right, Bo't from Snefley & Pipkin, in Boston, last November, at Eight (#8) Dollars the Set, to be transported at myown Dammage. As for my Mother's old Set, witch Captain Bab- cock bro’t from Calcutta in the Year 1796, I Gaye it to his Neice Helen Hosmer two Yeres ago fora Pare of Gold Spectackles and a Fur Muff, being so Cracked and Old-fashion that it Wasn't worth ne more. But I am told that she puts iton Ebony Sheives in her Best Parlor. But Helen never was more fhan Half-Witted, and your set witch you took home with you is worth a Deal the most Monney. So you have the Best Bargain. With love, I remain, Your Aunt to Command, “GRIZZEL GRUMPTON.” “Ab!” said Mr. Symington, who had been list- ening intently to the contents of this much blot- ted and besmeared piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt Grizzy’s thimble top, and still retain- ing a subtle odor of fried sausizes griddle- cakes. “A seal dolman at three hundred dol- lars, a thirteen dollar hat, a pair of fifteen dol- lar ‘far gloves, a fifty dollar journey, and a twenty-five dollar investment, ‘al! tor a set of china which you can buy anywhere on the Bow- ery or Grand street for ten dollars! How does that look, my dear, as viewed in the light of political economy?” And Mrs. Symington answered only by her ars tears. “There, there, Bella, don’t fret,” said her hus- band, kindly. “Let the thing go for what it is worth. Forget it.” ut I can’t help f-f-fretting,” sobbed Mre. mington. “One thing is quite certain, how- ever—I never will be sueh a fool again. I will not spend another cent for ceramics until I have economized enough to pay for this outrageous swindle.” “Gently, my dear, gently,” said her husband. “Now you are going too far. Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. You said you wanted her china, and she sold you her china at your own term “But I didn’t mean this china,” said Mrs. Sy- mington. “How was she to know what you meant?” said Mr. Symington. ‘China is china, and to is as good as another.” too broken down even fo argue the point with him. ~ see Webster as a Host. Robert C. Winthrop. How could I ever forget those delightful days which I spent there with hifa, forty more or less! His matchless form rises to my eye at this moment as he welcomed the British minister and myself at his door on a mid-sum- mer morning, clad in his favorite rustic suit, with the broad-brimmed white hat overshadow- ing that Olympian brow—just as he may be seen in one of the most characteristic of his ‘familiar portraits. He was a subject fur Rem- brandt on that morning, and Rembrandt never had a eubject more worthy of his magic brush. I remember well how proudly he treated us to fish of his own catching, togame of his own shooting, to beef or mutton of his own raising, and to vegetables of ever sort from his own ger- dens, with nothing on his table from any other source except the delicious black Hamburgs which grand old Colonel Perkins, his lifelong and devoted friend, had jnst sent him from his greenhouse at Brookline. But his own presence and his own conversation were the choicest lux- uries we enjoyed. He was not always gracious in society, and at other people’s tables on cere- monious occasions le was sometimes reserved, and moody. But he was the very prince o hosts at his own board; on that occasion, cer- tainly, his rich reminiscences and sparkling an- ecdotes “‘Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.” ce gee nee Mining by Assessment. “No; no hoisting works—not if I know it. You can fool away a good deal of good, hard coin on hoisting wor' How in the thunder do you run your mine?” “On the assessment plan, sir. That's the latest and most approved method. When we have a good map of the lower workings we don't need any works to speak of. Ikeepa man in Virginia at €60 a month to superintend the location and write weekly letters, and I stay in San Francisco in my office on Pine street and levy the assessments every sixty days; that’s as often as the law allows. I'am the president, board of trustees, secretary, treasurer and everything — more the treasurer. Of course I draw salary for all the offices, and when I get through drawing galaries I turn the rest over to the agent in Virginia to off the hands. By not employing any hands, he saves enough to pay himéelf. This is what I call scien- tific mining, sir. You get the silver out of the pockets of the stockholders and leave the vast argentiferous and auriferous deposits in your claim for your children, who can go right ahead sald “Hey?” whenever remark to he i and develop the mine just as soon as the public quit putting up, which Ian't at all kely to hay pen. As long as le are being born inNevada and California deplcnts will Tan on like a chro- nometer clock.” *‘But,” said the Utah 1e beh does mine,” quoth the Golden State chap. “Thousands of men are working night and day to pay the assessments. It keeps the country as ee a8 a bee hive,” and the speaker sauntered to the Soran Core tavcmies assessment No. 36.—Denver News. Steep Rallway Fares. “What makes the burden heavier,” satd a San Francisco theatrical manager, “‘are the immense DON'T DO IT. How to Keep Well and Live Long by Net Doing Things. Frem Dr. Foote'sHealth Monthly. Don't sleep in a draught. Don't go to bed with cold feet. Don't stand over hot-air registera, Don't eat what yo do not need just to save it. Don't try to get cool too quickly after exer- cising. Don't sleep with ineecure false teeth In your mouth. Don’t start the day's werk without a good breakfast. Don't sleep in a room without ventilation of some kind. Don't staff a cold lest you be next obliged to a fever. Don’t try to along without flannel under- clothing in winter. Don't use your, voice for loud speaking or singing when hoarse. Don't try to get along with less than eight or nine hours’ sleep. _ Don’t sleep in the same undergarment you wear during the day. Don't toast. your,feet by the fire, but try sun- light friction ins Don't neglect to have at least one movement of the bowels each day. Don’t try to keep up on coffee and alcohol when you ought torgo to bed. Don't drink ice Sealer by the glass; take it in a ewallow at a tie, on’t eat snow to quench thirst; it brings on inflammation of the throat. Don’t strain your, eyes: by reading or working with Insufficient or,flickertng light. Don’t use the eyes for reading or fine work in the twilight of evening or early morn. Don’t try to lengthen your days by cutting short your night's rest; it is poor economy. Don’t wear close, heayy fur or rabber caps or hats if your hair is thin or falls out casily. Don't eat anything between meals excepting fruits or a glass of hot milk if you feet faint. - Don’t take some other person’s medicine be- cause you are troubled somewhat as they were. ae o> e Hew He Reported the Wedding. From the Brooklyn Eagie. I say!” said the police reporter, tipping his hat over his eyes and scratching the back ot his head, “I don't know whether this ts right!” “Don’t know whether what is it 7” de- manded the managing editor. This wedding. 1 went there last night and they gave mea heap of rot about their frocke, but I don’t know whether it comes out straight or not. Now here is Mrs. Isaac Belding. I've got her in a pannier silk, trimmed a @ gros grain, with black pomt lace underskirt and box ited hair. Does that sound natural ?” Who sent you tu a wedding?” asked the managing editor contemptuou: “Don't you know that gros grain isacolor? That was a gros grain, box-plaited dress, trimmed a lablack, oint lace, and her hair was combed en pannier. ‘on ought to know better than to set things mixed that way. Who else did you get? How was the bride dressed ?” “Eve got her all right,” replied the police Teporter. She wore a white bouffant with a Prine of Thule veil; the underskirt cut de collele around t! bottom, and trimmed with a basque at the sides.” ES) ‘That's better,” said the managing editor, bri encouragiagly. “That sounds something like. How was her hair?” “Her hair was shirred,” replied the police re- porter. “Shirred at the sides and corsaged on Whale on Cobb's Inland. VALENTINES, On Jannary 6th, at So'clock p.m., an alarm was given by one of the men at the Life-saving Station that there war a whele on the bar. The surf-boat was launched at once. The boat crew consisted of Nathan Cobb, Thomas Spady, Oliver Cornell, W. J. Goffigon and Warren D. Cobb. The gallant crew, full of exeitement, sprang to their oars, and the beat soon reached the mon- ster. Captain Cobb, with his large double- barreled gun, fired ten times with the largest size shot, which seemed to have no effect upon the whale. The y had no harpoon of any consequence, or we, but the ty went te work to stop his spout with a pole, and that seemed to have no effect. The next movement was te the effect of an ax on the head of the whale to cut a hole into him, which Captain Spady did with great alacrity and expertneszs, while the fish was floundering in the FAMILY SUPPLIES. - . = The Fourteenth of Febrnary Triftes | JUST RECEIVE ‘That Cost as Much as Fitty Dollars | Fhcrox cucuwnriee From the New York Star. | FLORIDA TOMATO SO om, ¥ ality of the valentines ex- | Gonetuntly ox hawt, paanea Sokre team pai equaled. A Slar ponent tA — end CHIUKENS. reporter visited the establishment of a veteran | Ale the very best POULTEN. manufacturer of this style of goods and took | KS. TEBE TR, view of the new varietics. “The sales so far this season.” said the proprietor, “far exceed | those of any previous year.” One beautigal | specimen was contained in a box —or rater the | ;box was part of the valentine. The outer cov- | ering was ornamented to represent. prec stones and presented a very rich appearauce. ‘On the lid, in the center, was a scroll. on wh! the namie of the fair recipient could be writ by the hand of the. lover. Corner Lath eteet and New York avenue, SS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES POR CANNED GOODS. camsstandart | Beans best TOMATO! Moms CORN Goons tine PEAS... = x sey No Came] Goods kept frou one wason bo aneuier. yellow or w'ite, forgl On raising the lid a , WEPMER, water, but this did not even luce the desired ss of lace drapery was revealed, with a piece | . “ effect. The party resolved to make a last des- | MSs of lace drapery was r z ea | BROCER perat efartupenias ite of fringed ribbon ‘at each corner, tie cc sharpening a size pole drove it into the hole which had cut a distance of three feet and broke it. The party had one small harpoon, which they threw into the whale, but the cord parted. By this time the tide began to rise and the whale be- gan to get a little lively. As it seemed, the party had nothing with which they could-con- quer the monster, Cornell insisted that the boat should be pushed up alongside in order for him to mount the whale. Goffigon said the tail of the ish was dangerous, and did not likehim a bit. Nathan was not afraid. Spady thought there was no danger, asthe whale “was right sick.” Warren was watching every move. While this talk was going on the whale grad- ually moved off as the tide rose. He was not less than seventy fect long and grounded in twelve feet water. How much beam he Lad no IS PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, forming an avenne toward a very sucgest! ——— building—a church. This costs only ten doltns. Other varieties were ornamented with <oid, silver and diamond dust. The cheaper varieties, | ranging trom ten cents to one doliar. are prinei- | Only gemuine natural Selters Water, entirety free Hy composed of lace In fact it may be | = : Eid that ane paper is ite foandathon of enon: | from artificial imerndients, from the Royse! Prwwtiam tines. “Some of the latter are +0 constructed | Sprit at Nelder Setters that on pulling a cord a miniature stage is | : So revealed, ‘with lace curtains and ornamental | D*Set for Van Beis RYE AND ROCK, vhile at the back a sentimental youth | — {den are perched upon a baleeny, gazing at a moon whose nearness would startle the ordinary observer in real life. Even forgo trifling “a sum as five cents a very pretty little memento } may be purchased. ‘The retail price of valentines.” said the er, “runs from one cent to fitty dollars.” B. W. REEDS Sc 1216 F street mortiwest. | DAY. IPORNIA WINE. JELLIES. DELICIOUS FRENCH COPFRI OURCe! e lebrated “OLD GOV'T” JAY. s Do. you mean to say that the latter sum in Moc. COFFER, — one could tell. Night coming on probably saved ) y “agen J DURKEES SALID DRESSING. the whale’s fife, for he went as straizht out the | €XPended upon one valentine?” asked the | OCOLATES OF ALL RIND, inlet. says one of the party. as Captain Cornell |"? S GRAPES, ORANG NANAS. “Certainly, here is one.” and he displayed a | magnificent creation, in which gold and silver | lace paper, diatnond dust, real lace, ribbon and beautiful feathers combined to make a perfect beauty, the whole being inclosed in a rich could have steered his vessel.—kastern Shore PICKLES, 8. FS AND POTTED MEATS Herald. 5. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF OLD WINES AN} LIQUORS. e GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, — Drawing-Room Malaria. From The London Globe. Wel hich health to be } Same. 430 1209 F RTREET NORTHWEST. ve live in an age in which health seems “Such a valentine as that.” said the manu- | Jo) = a — =~ assailed by more subtle enemies than our ances-| facturer, “generally does the business. “Go, KOE % AR’S RECEPTIONS! tors had to fear. and thus to need more and more cunning disciples of Aculapiue to keep Pace with the growing numbers of our foes. Medical science has done much to protect us, and cleanliness stili more. We no longer have much cause to fear the “black deaths” and “sweating sicknesses” which decimated whole towns or provinces in the Middle Ages, but then, on the other hand, we have surrounded our- selves with dangers unknown in a less civilized community. One of these is an insidions dis- ease lately made known to physicians, and best deseribed as drawing-room malaria. The at- mosphere of a hot room in which many living thou and do likewise.’ se- | The Cost of Modern Ornamental Gare dening. ‘The finest Sherry, Port, Madeira, Preuch Beanda, Cordiais, Ligneurs—all of our importation. From the Garden. Aleo, the fresbest Fruits, Nuts, Candies aud Ruisina, Emptoyers, for example, seldom trouble them- selves to inquire where the thourands of bed- ding and other plants come from that Mt their | 428 spn _ 807 Market Space. _ Parterres aud borders during the summer | WE ARE RECEIVING DAILY motiths alone: but if their gardeas had to be | | farnished by contract to their taste and wishes | by some nurseryman, and they found that it would cost perhaps £400 or £300 simply to fll HUME, CLEARY & 00., EXTRA BLUE GRASS MUTTON, PRIME STALL FED BEFF, | plants are kent. has quite recently been found to | te beds or an ordinary flower garden, they SELECTED OYSTERS, | be impregnated with a moist. vapor arising from ey =e ee oye en a ior peceny GAME AND FRESH FISH, the earth in which these plants are rooted. The moderate-sized garden will absorb twenty soil from which they derive their sustenance is | 0T thitty thonsand plants, common and valu- Coustantly op hand ree ble, and we question if any Gne would con- generally rich in organic matter, which is drawn | 20! + , ke ont of it by the heat and diffuses itself into the noe ce el ladeetaaey oe . On close air imprisoned in the apartment. Tuat a | S10 Mi jem coat, than £10 or £20 per 1 sort of low fever might be generated in this j ort nis does not take tnto sccoant th oe Nay, isa theory which was enunciated in 1879 | OF tne Earden, bat only the plants and planting by the: learned Professors Klebs and Crudeli, | it. a x it view hai |. We know one gentleman who pays a London Been connec nore Aately teal ‘their view bed} 9, tener £190 tor luttiehing Mic Seoue non aon fie required proof has coine from that part | £1888 porch attached to his London imanaion for | _@ 1119 PENNSYLVANTA AVERT orld whieh might be expected to furnish | titee months daring the season. and for which | rynaT SPLENDID MINNESOTA FAMILY FLC hat is to say, from Russia, where the sitting- ; OUly common plants are used. The same gentle is to say, , iy at a very | Hal's cardener supplies allthe cut Nowere,many | “avorably known athe high temperature with little ventilation. Pro- | OF them. valuable orchids, during, the 1eting | 3ielda,in perfection, white, sweet abd wholesome bread fessor von Eichwald was consuited as to the | Period, has Bic ey. HUME, CLEARY & 00., health of a lady, who, though living in a healthy | CoUttry mansion every other mouth of the year, PHILADELPHIA CHICKENS AND TURKEYS, At the BOSTON MARKET, LEON SCHELL & CO., top.” I don’t believe that’s right.” observed the managing editor. ‘Read that again.’” “It was corsaged at the side and shirred on top,” said the police reporter, referring to his notes. “Of course,” smiled the managing editor. “It makes all the difference in the world. You never saw a woman with her hair corsaged on top in your Iife. Who else have you got?” “Here's the bride’s mother." She pranced around in an iridescent bead, cut low necked and hoisted up on the side with some kind of a plant. [ve forgotten the name of it.” “Lk yle,” said the managing edi- elbows on his desk and his chin It had a big rip down the back, at's It, like a Vand tied up with a green string!” ‘Of course!” grinned the manazing editor. ‘You can't fool meon frocks. You want to sa that it was a—whai color did y the sh string was? Green® Then the frock must have been red!” “No, it was the color of a lice reporter. “Oh, yes! p.” said the po- Yes, yes! Tknow. You want a gore en pouf, ticate floral de ide hich was ally ri id you get her hairt” - “Her hair was French. Thad it somewhere, bat I don’t find it.. It was either French or ish, and I forget which.” “You ought to be careful about such things, but we'll call it @ la Pyrenees, and she can take her pick as to the side of the mountains she be- longs to. Who elsq was ther jth was the bridesmaid. She th a streak of yellow tapestry Her hair was bumped.” | demanded the man wore silk socks, up the side. Tt was plastered down in front and stuck up behind, like a hen’s fail.” Banged! you mean. ent? ell, it was an even etre of her neck half way up the was one piece. Then she had on a petticoat that showed the whole front and was trimmed with some cloudy stuff that had dropped down at one end. That back part was the en Ys though, and she called it a train, with scme | kind of a law term in front of it.” ‘Was it revised statute asked the editor. | “No, that wasn’t it.” “Did it have anything to do with alimony and the custody of the children?” “That wasn't it. it was a train with some- thing legalin front of it. I tried to remember, because they have it in the City Hall.” i ‘Couldw’t have been anything about con- tempt of court, could it?” the police reporter; a a the lower part of the re it hooked on to the How was her dress h from the back front stairs. That bustle? ‘ “Yes, she had it tied up with broad. white tape and the darndest big -bow knot you cver saw.” “Certainly, that’s right,” said the managing editor. “You want to say that she had a court train looped back with a delicate tape so us to show the contour of the petticoat which was elaborately finished with loops of linen.” “I see,” replied the police reporter, making amemorandum. ‘Her cousin was Miss Me: of Quogue. [ only got her hair, It was poached on top with revers, and had a big pair of silver tongs stuck through the hind part. Better say anything about that?” ‘Certainly. You've got it right. Did they have a big supper?’ “They had boned head cheese and candy ster and some shaky stuff. Lots of wine.” ‘You bet!” “Then, just give the caterer’s name and say that on this occasion the table fairly groaned under the weight of his excellent provisions, and even the most fastidious appetites suc- cumbed to the charms of his delicacies. How are is going to wind it up?” “I say that the guests danced untila late, or rather an early hour in the morning.” “That's business!” smiled the managing edi- tor. “If you do it all as well as that last part, you've got an ‘ine article.” cm sos Jha SoS Jarsey Lightning.: A Now Jersey corresponaent, writing about the applejack made in Sussex county, says: “Aman never wants to ge§. drunk on applejack more than once. A smalldrink of the liquer will climb | to the head of a man wlio tsn’t used to it in less than ten seconds. \His'face gets red and feels Jol sunburned; when hé closés hig eyes he sees nine million torchlight processions ch: ten abreast, and ifthe two drin! be induced to vote!for h-priced street rail- roads or machine méminées, or do anything else disgraceful. Finally befalls asleep, but it is a | peculiarity of the ‘that when he wakes he Will find himself ket'than when he lay down, and for three Seen will sound as if a ; She discovers what a difference there is between j Intercourse of two such familiar acquaintances? ot, exhibi ar if necessary. with cut flowers and planteon an | 428 __ 001 Market Space. spot, exhibited all the svinptoms observable in 3 a ee - thoee who. inhabit marshy places The usual Acces anpred DUP ce eke OQ"? STAG PURE RYE WHISKY remedies, eonsisting chiefly of quinine, were ap- owed ta See Cor abe a sted piven plied with success; but as often as ‘the lady, | allowed to charge for Se would teprieean | wneeiten Nec sinbeaiom, Saini iach pastig: an after recovering from an attack. ventured into | London furnisher, or any other, would represent v her drawing-room the same symptoms persist- | & Sum of money greater than is incurred in keep- } for the sideboard and xickroom ts unrivalled ently reappeared. It was then that the doctor, | it up kitchen gardens, pleasure grounds, flower remembermg the new theory, ordered the re- moval of the numerous ferns and plants whien filled the drawing-room, and the complaint which had been #0 obstinate was found to dis- appear at once. It is possible that a good gardens, and houses, together during the whole year. The extension of fruit culture under glags has tended to increase the cost of gardening a good | 428 deal, but it has increased the profits also, when HUME, CLEARY & CO., | aera the glass is utilized to its fullest extent; ‘but in| JP2RIME MEATS, he es iti + sf Beaciachen Gnd tncispos. pepe ne houses for plants, such as orchids, now becom- |" s¢2 orm STREET WING CENTER MARKT, with more or less violence in proportion to the | "8 $0 popular and necessary that no lady or | 430 _M. C WEAVER. gentleman likes to confess being unacquainted with them, the case is different, for, mi as thes should be, and much attention they need, } they increase the expenses very consi iy mumnber of the flowers or plants kept and the heat of the room in which they grow. es The Deceased Wife's Sister. A 629 and 630 Cent ei withont showing any substantial’ return on the | and 206smi 208 Mosibese Takei, Maan ee aes, From the N. Y. Times. face of it, save the rare biossoms-now and then | Box 71, City Post Otfice. There are many thousands of Englishmen } produced. Marketing delivered free of change to all art of the whose chief object in life isto marry their de- ee ceased wile’s sisters. They have formed a so- Bars and Nuggets, SAFE DEPOSIT CO. RITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY, ROBBERY, FIRE OR ACCIDENT. TIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, ® 1étH Breeer any New York Av Charter Act of C 23 Cepital. ents year, cs all’ kinds of Securities and Valuables on. pected Deposit at lowent, Fa JAMIN P. SNYDER, President. 3S C. GLOVER, of Rize & Co., View Presidemt, ares From the Territorial Enterprise. The first piece of gold found in California was worth fifty cents, and the second $5. Since | that time one nugget has been found worth $43,000; two, $21,000; one, $10,000: two, $8,000; $6,500; four, £5,000; twelve worth from 200 to $4,000, and eighteen worth from $1,000 to $2,000, have been found and recorded in the history of the state. In addition to the above, numberless nuggets worth from $100 to $500 are mentioned in the annals of California gold- mining during the last thirty years. From the date of the discovery of gold in California to the ciety for the euitivation of this peculiar sport and annuaily attempt to induce Parliament to abolish the law whieh now interferes with their singular passion. They denounce this law asa lic of the Roman Catholic dominion, and in- Wile’s sister is not :matvm in e to an enlightened ve that she should be malun prokibitian. So far Parliament ha! ito listen to them. The majority of amen do not wish to ters, and naturally should wish to: has never writ- ws the deceased wife's SECU, bs) THE Coun Perpetual ©.E. ‘Suan, Arst. Seey. Dintc Benjamin P. Snyder, ‘Charles C. Glover, John Cassels, Henry A, Willan, ‘Thomas Evans, aud inasinuch as Mr. ten a painphict denounei Albert L. Sturtevant, ° ister as the sia present time the yield has been about H John G. Parke. rl on to suppose that he will suddenly become | 21,000,000,000; therefore It Ix very easy to see | = wiiwel “Ga her champion. the small’ Bure that nuggets cut in the zold | J OUISIANA STATE LOTTERY. It is a curious il character of the 1 30,000 Englis ing to marry their déceased wives really enterprising community these ave avoided all trouble an: res by the origi yas this tration of the uninventive vield. ets are very fine things to ish mind that there shou show, but after all it is the fine ;old—the a dust—that shows up. Although ten years | ,Al te drawin younger than California, and a producer of a | GAkD and JUBAL A. FAMLY S precious inet ‘ada has yielded in an xood : 000,000. The an- nual product of gold is s than $1,000,000 throuzhout the world, and its foreien coinage has practically ceased. In the United States the production of gold has of late years greatly iminished. In 1878 it was $47,000.00: in 18; it was $38,900,000, and in 1880 but ,000. '$1,000,000—to which &. rent A large part of the coisare sn our as at eee See papceS resent is of plate and of foreign and worn an overwhe'nune 1 Y Eoin tie Tepurts and accounts submitted to made SSD Saedreentaaemomasinn the director cf the mint show during the | [TS GRAND SINGLE BER DRAWINGS WILL year deposits of gold of domestic production FAKE PLAC 8 5,815.536.55, of plate, jewelry and worn coin - distrbube = $1,784, GT, and of foreign coln and bullion TICS ARITAL PRIZE S000, ss csc, $92,255,858, being a total of $130.833.102.45, an | 100,008 TICKETS AT TW. PALS " HALF TICKETS, ONE DOLLAR. pees sd $32,000,000 over the gold deposits of Kaas Ge Peneee PARTICULAR NOTICE. ASPLENDID OP} pany | SECOND Gita TREO Apne Bord TURSDAY, LEBRUAEY Th, 1882, Idler MQNTHLY DRAWING. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COM, Incorporated in 1868 for twenty -five years | lature for Educational and Charitalie’ bur: and Xpedient is, no Englishman ap- thought of it. When one of the and wishes to marry a girl, he ap- parently thinks it necessary first ‘of all to marry her sister; then to wait until his’ wife dies— which is In most eas a trying, tedious and un- certain oceu nd then to spend the rest of his life in ‘ying toobtain the repeal of the law which stands between him and the ob- ject of his affections. All this trouble and un- happiness could,be avoided were the man to marry the coveted sister in the first instance but such Is the obstinate conservatism of the British mind, that it will probably be half a cen- tury hefore Ei ishmen avail themselves of this simple remedy There is another way in which the almost national English desire to marry a deceased wife's sister may be looked at, but it similarly requires us to Note the characteristic English lack of enterprise. It would oceur to mostmen this country that a wife's sister lacks the ele- of romance. an’s wife has an un- d sister, and she is not an objectionable girl, she is very certain to be on familiar terms with him. She is the one to whom he naturally looks for help when his wife issick. She comes and takes care of the children and temporartly superintends his buttons. She pours out his coffee in the morning and meets him when he comes home at night from business. Thus she knows him thorough! If he is cross and un- reasonable in the early as many men are said to it from his wife's sister. Ifhe comes home at night teo tired to try to make himself agreeable, vane sB Awanled =e EEBES: CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER. eve SEERA Medals, i iF to. corresponding aeute wanted at toto vera compvetuation will Ue pad. devon, Rend orders By i ete any, Letter, a Movey Order by mau, a.ONLX to i PPHIN, MEW OULE ANS, LOUISIANA, or M. A. DAUPHIN, 127 LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL., or J. P. HORBACH, 3 lm STREET NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, ‘The New York Office is Removed to Chicago. N.B.—< Irders addressed to New Orleans will receive Proipt attention. ‘THE BEST KNOWN REMEDY FOR BACKACHE OR LAME BACK. AHEUMATISM OR LAME JOINTS. CRAMPS OR SPRAINS. NEURALGIA OR KIDNEY DISEASES, LUMBAGO, SEVERE ACHES OR PAINS. FEMALE WEAKNESS. a brother-in-law and an unattached young man who exhibits himself to ladies only at his most agreeable moments. She knows the condition of his shirts and stockings; she seeshim without his wig, and she learns the precise numberof his The particular attention of the public ia called to Factthet the entire minder of the tickets foreach Seng Drawing ix sold, and conseyuenti¢ att the ri: @rawing are sold raaud pad.” dal. W. H. WHEATLEY'S . . false teeth. On the other hand, if she is ever Are Superior to All Other Plasters. irritable in the morning, he euffers from it; if she an a Op ee wears false hair, she can not keep it secret from Are Superior to Pads. SCOURING ESTABLISHMENT. him, and ft is morally certain that at some time Are Superior to Liuiments. he will meet her dressed in a way that will de- strov any illusions he may have cherished as to the beauty of her figure and her entire physicat genuineuess. é How can there be room for romance in the in the Dies of address. proper. expreee {rom country. aot" EE RN G™ALLrox ANTIDOTE—A SURE PREVEN- MB 3 AND CURE FOR SMAI x. eate snd oy ny aes pt ger will receive Are Superior to Ointments or Rilves. Are Superior to Electricity or Galvaniem, They Act Immediately. ‘They Strensthen. ‘They Soothe. ‘They Relieve Pain at Once. ‘They Positively Cure. Wi gre rcpt of stom In the nature of the case there can be none. When the American widower determines to marry again, he naturally desires to renew the romance of his earlier courtship, and so seeks his new wife among women with whom his ac- juaintance is so zlight that he can assume that they all imaginable perfections. That the jlishman, instead of taking this course, prefers to marry his wife's sister, simply shows that he lacks enterprize to search for a wife. He prefers to save himself the trouble of search, by requesting his sister-in- in capacity, has sewed on occa- sional buttons for him, to sew on but- tons in the capacity of his second wife, Nothing more beget pred than the courtship of a lecensed wife's sister be and can it could only take in the most prosaic and ‘unen! ing of count CAUTION.—Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters have | #260": been imitated. Do not allow your: name. ‘Sce that the word is spelled C-A-P-C-I-K-E. Price 25 conte, © SEABURY & JOHNSON, swarm: of bees had tiived there.” This man has been there. Two Brazen Youra.—Two brazen, rather than gilded, youth residing in adjoining rooms enemy knocks at A’s door A pays.no attention if} for some time; but presently B puts ont bis “Ai, there, Tsay; confound it, hammering on the door 80 ‘ou see eae is no- opened long ago. Now I want you to get out of here.” The visi- tor is furious, but the logic of the lodzer is un- he has to retire. Then, when at B’s door, A pops out.—From itries. But all, let us Eo, Englishmen the possible - Perhaps they do marry their deccased wives’ sisters Sey ae teo unent sing and prosaic to search other wives. the charm of the deceased wifes’ sister lies in the fact that she is prohibited. Here, where a man can Ae GLAR? ANSE CES in: oo stent 8 possible wives. anion ot limited Pacers —— ng