Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1882, Page 6

HOME MATTERS. Cieaxtx.; Mrerors.—If you clean your mirror "with a soft paper instead of a cloth, time and ; trouble will both be saved, as there will be no tint, and the glass will have a better polish. Meat that has gathered molsture in the re- frigerator should be dried in the oven before being sent to the table, even if it isto be eaten sold. Meat is often wasted just from a lack of this care. To Cax Cony.—For every eight quarts of sorn cut from the cob take an ounce of tartaric acid; cook together and can. Last year we put ap rere cans for family use and all kept weil. LOUGH TravCars fee, two ounces 1 vne cance Spanish licor- ined sugar, two ounces of ic, and extract of Beat the whole together, ; to be dissolved in the sh Is troublesome. Qnely-powdered gun ai len 0 sina Mouth when the AScre Ceres rox Cuarrep Haxps is some- thing greatly to be desired. hands in warm ‘Try th water, then rub th in the water used to w ful of pure glycer irritate the sk in. Currais wg a dress up by th put one at each s Hot pure it will n loops of braid or cloth; le of the waisths skirt. If loops kind are used to hang the waist itseif by sew th on at the under side of the armhoie. st can then be folded ia the same way as when it laid in the trunk or drawer. Granta Gexs ror Ixvattps.—Mix finely ground Graham flour with half milk and half water, add a little salt, beat, making the butter thin enough to pour: have the gem-pan very hot; one It, fill as quickly as p le and return mediately tow hot oven; bake about thirty Practice will teach just the proper consistency of the butter andthe best tempera- ture ofthe oven. It is very important to beat it ; well. Orsters IN THe Sert.—Opea the shel's and Keep the deepest ones for use. Melt some but- ter, season with minced parsley and pepper. When slichtly roll each oyster in it, using Care that it dri a ia the shells. Add to nt cover with grated bread er a bak- inz pan and ein a quick ov just betore little s Serve in the ee done add a Preservep Tomato Plum-shaped tomatoes those that are ripe but Rot the least soft. Pour boiling water on them to take off the skins; all: vand of suzar Take of the yellow tle water as will di Temons to seven pou 8eeds from the lemo syrup. When boiled Boil very geatly three-qu Baxaxas are d Rot too thin and before it di: rev and put the slices in tie ne tomatoes. icions fer tea. er powder es squeeze the ju or they may be me They m ped eream with whi sored with A tablespoonfut and stirred intot ered Serve with sponge cake. © Potato Perr with the meat makes ine dissolved esa body to it. ion of a little cold breakfast di To d potato allow two weil- by minutes to hs Dake in well xp can be made in this way: Put in the bottom of the s layer of cold boi gprinkle pepper pour little w egar to flavor the ter with the vi May be added to su’ Foop.—A good complexion never goes with a Bed diet. Strong coffee, hot bread and butter, Beated grease, highly spiced soups, meats or game. hot drinks, al @re all damazing to s Strong tea ‘Weed daily will after a time vive the skin the @olor and appearance of jeatier. the skin less,but the nerves more. nda healthy | Bervous system is necessary to beauty. Late @uppers, over-eating at meals, eating “Meals, candies, sweetmeats, pastry, preserves, @e., produce pimples and blotches. To Ri tHe Horse oF Fries.—Tlie London Daily Nees recommends, to prevent the tor- ment inflicted by the flies on horses, an application tothe latter before harnessing, of a mixture of ‘ene part of crude carbolic acid with six or more parts of olive oil. This should be rubved tly all over the animai with a rag, and ap- more thickly to the interior of’ the ears ‘and parts most likely to be attacked. This plication may need to be repeated in the course Of the day. but while any odor of the acid re- ‘malas the flies decline to settle, and the horse is free from tieir annoyance. Ove oF THE Most ConveNTENT articles that a Woman can possess, even if she does but little sewing, is a small lapboard with a yard meas- Bre on one edge. Myown is of light wood, with two cleats on the under side. The board is ers of ayard long anda little more than haif a yard wide. It has a curved side, ‘and on the straicht outer ede is the measure. It ts carefully and exactly divid inch spac and has the eichth and quarter and half of the y plain figar to which it may be pui oceasionally and is useful also as an h a cup of coffee and a Plate of toast may be placed.—. ¥. Post. Gkarrs May Be Picxiep In a variety of ix ways is recom- at: Boil ripe grapes - tillthey are soft,then mash them through a eolanier, leaving the seeds only in it. To one pound of zrapes use three-quarters of a pound > Ofsugar and halfa tescupful of vinegar. Boil Until almost like jelly. Then, just before tak- from the fire, add cinnamon and cloves to | your taste. No. 2: Take ripe grapes; re- Move imperfect and broken ones. Line an earthen jar with grape leaves; then fill with To two quarts of vinegar allow one it of white suzar, half an ounce of ground | —— and @ quarter ofounce of cloves. Let vinezar and spices boil tor five minut then add the sugar. Let it come to a boil, and “hea, when cold pur over the grapes. if pe on while hot it shri them, even {t Paces not break the skin and spoil the Reset Bnce of the pickles. Grapes pickled in this way | &fe nice put with mixed pickles in a castor or | plekie bettle.—V. ¥. Post. Sweersreans, if properly cooked, make one ‘Of the most delicate dishes that can be put upon the table, but care must be taken in selecting nd it is only one Ask for the “heart and select the largest. There IY Ways to cook them; thisis a good a Parts the sweetbreads and put them in ‘@stewpan and seavon with salt and cayenne “totaste; place over a slow fire: mix one large nful of browned flour with a small Piece of butter. add a leaf of mace; stir butter nd gravy well together and let all stew for aalf an hour; then set the stewpan in the oven, and when the sweetbreads are nicely browned “Place them onadishpan. Pour the gravy into shalf pint of stewed tomatoes, thickened with Steaspoonful of flour and a small plece of but- ter, and season. Strain it through a wire sieve pase the stowpan, let it come to a boil and stir i + then pour over the sweetbreads and ‘Berve very hot.—V. ¥. Tribune. Pracu Sno: KE.—Take two heaping tea- of baking powder sifted into one of flour, a scant half teacup of butter, ‘tablespoonfuls of sugar, a little salt, enough milk (or water) to make a soft dough; out almost as thin as pte-crust, place one ina baking pan. and spread with a very le butter, upon which sprinkle some flour, add another layer of crust and spread as and so on until the crust is all used. fourteen inches : : : : E number of use " Wert many. It serve table, a writing-desk put a teaspoon- | 4 more convenient to | nd on the | ove the | Coffee affects | Sa work- | | decisions, and equitable devices. A GERMAN DUEL. How the University Boys Settle Their Litde Difficulties, The Sacramento Union-Record publishes a long letter from Minister Sargent to his son, de- scribing some duels he has seen fought in Ger- many. Here ts one of them: Two young men were seated in chairs facing each other. The right arm, neck and breast of each were protected by heavy quilted stuff, and over the eyes a pair of frof goggles. So heat Js the padding on the arm that two men support the weight for the fighter in the Intervals of rest. So. protected, the face and head are Mable to cute, but it is dificult to inilict a serious injury. Inthe pending case it was said that one of the combatants was an officer In the reserves, and the other desired to be, but some reflection on his courage had been made by the officer, and hence this duel. challe ht th’s comparatively harmless breast. Ata workofordér’the men took thelr fect, helr seconds put. sapiens tm their gloved hands, handies ot whith har) been Avell chalked, rapiers! afa'abdutithree feet and a half | sharpened tpt a Tok at, the end, but | polated. They danced. tar within about | fect of eachother, andistood: with the wea- | Sra word. At ffi sii 'ef eact! was iis second, an umpire was elose by, unda doctor for emer- . The crowd pressed back a respectful nce. “Auf mensur!” of the seconds. “Baulel die 5 “Gebendun Sind!” “Loss!” (Bight!) And quickly following the response comes a flash of steel, the singing of the weapons as they whiz through the air above the heads of the | figiters, and the thud of blows falling on arm | or breast. All at once a red streak is visible on the forehead of one of the parties. “Halt!” exclalns his adversary gnd the sec- onds at the sae moment. The combatants | | drop their fatigued arms to the supporting help o r ants. who hold them up as Aaron and Hurt held up those of Moses. The doctor examines the wound and sponges it, and both have their faces wiped by the sc onds, and the same formula recalls tiem to the | This lasts fifteen mimutes, each getting | | cuts from whieh the blood rans Uberai! ; | on their shirts, until they look like but | he But the time allotted is up. They have nd slashed at each other, and set the ad lost their blood, and thereby showz | theircourage. But yet, not quite so, for there | | hasbeen an army officer there closely watching | | the fight. He has noticed that the challenging | | party. who wished by this fight to prove | *, had dodged back on two occasioi the poor youth will not get to be (To the fight!) exclaims one Swords together!) (Swords are ready!) | teet Perhaps it was some evidence | in favor of the truth of tlie assertion that the | on rather than a combat with | A wbove! their heads, Waiting for the | | those who had the ear of parliament, were prac- | oughly he may be persuaded that we overdo the | ti Hy 4 year two back, “in one pened only a or two Eoeodous: tase @ husband took his wife's property, spent it on a mistress, and finally left he wife to starve, while the mistress was by his will endowed with his wife's money. The mar- ried women’s property act, in 1870, en- deavored to rem the worst of these evils. But, like many halt-hearted measures, it created & vast number of hard cases, and proved more beneficial to lawyers than to those it was in- tended to relieve. It drew hard and fast lines as to the amount of property that was to be con- sidered as settled without express words. and introduced many fine and unsubstantial dis- tinctions. The present act has adopted a plain general rule. All property of whatever kind, and to whatever amount, which is inherited by, or bequeathed to, or gained bya married woman, is to belong to her, just as if she were single, apart from ali control of her husband. The act is retrospective; that ia, It applies to a woman married before the act, but only as to property which comes over to her after the act. ‘a compensation, the wife is to be responsible for her own debts incurred before marriage and aiterward; she is liable to support her own chil- dren it the husband cannot, and even to sup- port her husband if he would otherwise goupon the rates and she has money. The law has thus, for all sorts and con- ditions of women, been brought into ac- cordance with public sentiment. We have “ged behind not only other nations in rope in doing so, but behind our own kith and kinin the United States and in many of the colonies. The reason, no doubt, wa: that the richer classes, the ‘‘vocal” classes, tically satistied with the system of settlements. All women are now brought within the pale. It is to be hoped that the knowledge, among even the lowest and roughest, that a woman Is no longer a poor wretch with no rights and noth- ing she can eall her own, though it is earned by the sweat of her brow, will tend to give her in- creased protection. ing iow many women among the poor are bread-winners and money- spinners, the chances of their bread being \ changed’ to gin and the money spent by the man on himself alone may be considerably diminished. The most lawless domestic tyrant | ought to be influenced by the fact that his vic- tim is under the protection of the law. New Clothes, There is something almost regeneratingabout new clothes. They possess moral influence | which even the missionary who carries them to the heathen has not overlooked, however thor- | { matter. What man in his new spring suit ever | refused his fife a favor? Wien he had on his H old things, and felt down at the mouth and 1 shabby enough, he could doubtless do it with- | but let him o: get inside of his! nee in his Even Pat feels nature himself hedged inin his Sunday clothes and | limited as to drinks, and if he is going | comes to the surface. er, for it is an inflexible rule that no | ng ¢ I. I hs | teed this act of perhaps involuntary ik | but more experienced eyes had, and hi d | divested of their , and it seemed to me were re- ota heavy task. 1 took the | nee around the room at th ly all had slashed fa da replaced nose. My captain had a | map ofcrossing Ines. Some of the were ancient, some were but lately anda few were cuts evidently made | y. Th re de le | | refore decorati I w iy reminded of a re rk I have heard, iso, that the Germans are becoming a near- | by observing that nearly a third | ent—and all were young but me— | | wounds | healed, | that di | di ge ee n Keep Expense Books. tlanta Constitution. It is a hing stcht to see a woman bein | to make up her e lyresolved to put ¢ to find | out how to economiz goes. Procuring a s ; entry, and on the Monday after the first Satur- | day in which her fusband brings home his pay, she carefully tears the margin off a new and, with a blunt peucil, strikes a trial balance something in this way John brought me home $48.40, and $1.43 I and $1091 lent Mrs. re all the money | makes a due } if, itil go do $49.93, and what lave I done with that? Then she puts down the figures, leaving out the items to save time—a process which enables | | her to leave out most of the items to where a round sum is involved, on the supposition that they have already been put down. As thus: Six dollars aud fourteen cents for meat and 10 cents for celery, and 10 cents on the street cars, and a bad 5 cent piece I got in exchange, and 2.81 I paid the milkman—who owes me 19 cents—that’s 23, and 15 cents at church, and the groceries—they were either $15.60 or $16.50 and I don’t remember which they were, but I guess it must have been $15.60, for the grocer sald that if I would give him adime he would give me a half a dollar, which would make even change, and I couldn't, because the smallest I had was a quarter—and $2.75 for mending Katie's shoes, which is the last money that shoemaker ever gets from me, and 10 cents for celery—no, I put that down, Finally she sums up her trial-balance sheet, and finds that it foots up $64.28, which is about $15 more than she had originally. She goes over the list several times and checks it care- fully, but all the Items are correct, and she is | just ebout in despair, when her good angel hints that there may be a possible mistake in the addition. Acting upon the suggestion, she foots up the column and finds that the total is 244.28, and that according to the prinelples of the arith- metic she ought to have 25.65. Then she counts her cash several times, the result varying from $1.40 up to £1.97, but then she happily discovers that she has been mistaking a $2 gold piece for 2 cent, and remembers that she gave the baby a trade-dollar to cut its gums with. On the he has come within 36 cents of a balance, | and that; she says, !s close enough, and she | enters in one line of the account book: ‘*Dr.— | by household expenses” so much; and 1s very happy till she remembers, just after going to bed, that she has omitted $2.75 for her nus- band’s hat. ee England’s New Law for Wives. From the Pall Mull Gazette, Among the acts which have just received royal assent perhaps none Is of more importance than the married women’s property act. This act marks the end of a long series of statutes, legal It is the last turn of the wheel in a great social revolution. “The wheel has come full circle.” According to the ancient common law of England a woman on marriage merged not only her personality in that ot her husband when they twain became one fiesh, but also her property. If she pos- sessed land he became owner of the land, not only for her life, but for his; if she possessed goods adn chattels he became their absolute owner. Instead of the hus- band endowing the wife with all his wordly goods, as the church service has it,she endowed him with hers; or. as it has been put, instead of “Mine Is thine,” the adage should have run, “Thine is mine, but mine’s my own.” Long ago inroads were made on this rule. The Chancel- lors placed restrictions upon it; and, when con- veyancing grew into a science, lawyers invent- ed methods of evading it. By giving the in- | tended wife's property to trustees, and making them trustees of the property of the wife alone, the husband, it was found, could be as effectually depriv of any control over the “‘dowrled malden’s” dower as if she had still remained tn her father’s house. The settlement to a woman's se; fe use made a married Woman as absolutely owner of her property as her husband of hig; indeed, when the restriction on anticipation was adopted, more 80; for while he could not keep his prop- erty out of the hands of his creditors if he be- came insolvent, her property could be kept out of the hands, not only of his creditors, but of her own. The practice of settlement became so con- firmed that for many years past no well-to-do or | and bad maa: | tion, ence absolut Biddy a black eye he will do it in And Biddy he be sour énough about her calico, and ready at bandyin; sooner de¢ like behavior seems to be endued therewith. We to stency, and there 1s something in- 1 harmonious to our minds between new cloth and we would fain remodel our attire ity. in bod will find many a gentlem Je them. But when the rude and urftutored | son her best, a vague, unformulated | es her that the old ways are not ith the new thi ; eat a glance th ie simulates the b swell as the cut and But even among th formation, e supposed to he w clothes are capal n. The ¢ preparing new ones or unprofitabl the market unison will per unl tr m clothing hers: nd Ap} uraging t «i commerce, at doing missionary work in her ov alf of herself and her neizhbors; for t tie eye an avenue to the so In the time we will always meet those who the audacity to find fault with new clothe: whom new boots are an inyention of the ingui- sition only second to the thumb screws, wi | never feel at home in the spring suit until ils fresh has departed, to whom the ulster is a | jacket, the new bonnet a species of | martyrdom, who never become resigned to the pline of new clothes.—Harper’s Bazar. A Mardship of Marriage. Col. T. W. Higsineon in the Womm's Journal. We are constantly told that the life-work of a wife is as arduous and as absorbing as that of | hes husband. We are told that if she does her | duty to her family she can have no time to study metaphysics or to put a slip of paper into a bal- lot-box. I think it was the conservative Dr. Edward H. Clarke who declared that the duties of the mother of a family required as much toll of brain and body as those of the captain of a ship. Grant it all; grant that she works as hard as ber husband does. Ifso, the inference is ir- resistible that she earns her share of the family income. The fact that he receives the money and pays the bills makes him the treasurer of the family, that is all; and he has no more right | than any other treasurer to take airs upon himself and talk nonsense. When he pays out moneyto | her, it is not as a gift but as earnings. In many cases the money all came as her | dowry to begin with. In many other cases she | does her full share in the direct earnings of the | income. As a rule, I am told, actresses and | women who sing in public support their fam- | ilies, including their husbands. In our New | England farming regions the wife’s work is not | only as hard as the husband's, but a consider- able share of the direct money-getting comes | upon her. For farming in New England, while | yielding a comfortable support. yields but | little in the form of money; and in many cases | the greater part of the actual cash receipts | during the summer months comes throuzh | the energy of the wife in taking city board- ers. In a farm house near my summer abode a cook is hired at four dol- lars a week. while the boarding season lasts, and ; a “second girl” at three dollars and a half. In| another farm-house near by, the young wife of | the farmer does all the work herself, with. the | assistance of a little girlof twel and she does it as well and for nearly as many boarders. Considering-merely the wages she paves, her | work Is worth nearly a'doliar a day, and’ con-| sidering the profits she brings to the’ establish- ment, it is worth probably three times that. Yet probably the payment ts generally made through her husband as treasurer, and what- ever money she spends would be regarded by her neighbors as “given” her by him. And ifthe farm is paid tor by their joint accumulations, the neighbors would consider—and, indeed, the Jaw would assume—that it was paid for by him and belonged to him. Lam perfectly willing to admit that in the majority of cases this whole matter settles itself, but there is a large minority of cases where the wife is kept, during her whole life, in a false position from a false theory of treasu- rership. There are no doubt cases where a man earns a great fortune, while his wite’s existence is that of a butterfly. These cases are rare, taking one family with another. The wife works as hard asthe husband, and the fact that his share involves the handling ot the money does not make it his money. Tt belongs to both, and what he aye over to her is nota gift, but a matter of ht. “This was a present’ to me from my wife,” said a rich man, ahewi an or- nament. ‘Bought with your money?” said a friend, jocosely. “No!” he said, “out of her own hard earnings. She keeps house for a man of your acquaintance.” ——_-+-___ An Honest Judge. From the N. ¥. Times. Tt was to be expected that the defendants in the star route cases would endeavor to avold a Tetrial before Judge Wylle. The counsel for the prudent father allowed his daughter to m: without one, or left money by will to a marri woman without providing that it was to be for her separate use. But though the practice was thus brought into harmony with the sentiments of society. which had long outgrown the notion that the wife was to be entirely in the hands of her husband, the law still remained, broad]; speaking, in is ciginal er onsequently, the poor wife, who in Te- spects wanted more protection than ue’ ‘one. had still to scanty her een minutes in a | the bidding eae en Drabends and’ t fick oven, turn out upside down, tak layer (the bottom when baki {Pisce }. spread plentifally with pee ge e off the | clever wife who made by iting money vo i defendants have all along shown untiring per- Marie ee every step of the prose- cution, as well as in watching for protest- ing inst any decision of ihe cote seemed to indi injury to their side of case. Rulings that were favorable for the aoe id pagihden Tay and the Tor great isfaction. The final te ‘ylie was undoubtedly a to the irators and their law ery ‘announced eve fee that the defendants | than your annual product with the relation be- | than the plains of Tartary. ; Who have largely and honorably contributed to | closest comm | whether it be | too frequent | means the exhaustion of the body capital and THE GROWZH OF KANSAS. A Wonderfal History — Ex-Secretary Biaine’s Spzech. Ex-Secretary Blaine is thus reported in his speech at Topeka, Kansas, at the state falr grounds, to an audience of twenty thousand People. His speech consisted of a rapid review of the history of Kansas, ot the achievements of the state, of its extraordinary developmgnts, and of its still more extraordinary fature. In twenty-one years of the state's existence, fol- lowing its stormy and bloody experience asa territory, it had grown to be a commonwealth of 1,000,000 people, with a product this year of, perhaps, 150,000,000. ' Accustomed as we have been for a century to the muarvels of growth of America, the developthent of Kansas seems to us a mystery, and almost a miracle, and, appar- ently, this growth has only begun. When Kan- sas shall have 5,000,000 people its power to ex- port willbe more than five times as great as it is to-day. Of your 52,000,000 of acreage not more than onc out of eight has been cut with the plow, and the greater portion of eas vast acreage Is such that it needs only to tickled with a hoe to laugh a crop, and that which will not laugh the crop out of cereals will perhaps produce an even richer result in the production of beef and of wool. Your growth in wealth is therefore remarkable in the valuation tables by which you agree to appor- tion your taxes. You estimate yourselves to be worth less than $200,000.00. scarcely more tween principle and income maintained. Kan- sas cannot to-day be reckoned as worth less than $1,000,000,000, and yet twenty-eight years ago she was of no more yatue to civilization There are present here to-day a large number of men who ‘have seen this entire growth and it. During the very same period, during even Hie frenty-ne years of Kansas’ existence as a state, THE GROWTH OF THE WHOLE CoUNTRY has been extraordinary. Indeed. within those twenty-one years the people of the United States have acquired-twice as much property and wealth as lad b acquired on the North Amer- ican continent from tie discovery by Columbus down to the daywhen Abraham Lincoln was elected Presidyiit. A great change awaits on the trade and commerce of Kansas. To-day you look for your markets and your exchanges o the east. “The day will comie, and may not be far distant, when you will look to the west. can myself ember that honest old Goy. Ribner, of Pennsylvania, astonished his hear- ers by predicting the day when the valleys of Pennsylvania would be unable to produe the breadstuffs and provisions required by the coal and iron makers in the mountains, then considered in large part worthies: and barren. That prediction has long since ve- come history in Pennsylvania, and with these grand chains of mountains to the west, with their gold and their and iron, and their lead and endiess abundance of coal, for the de- velopment of all the productive capacities of these prairies of Ka will be beyond ities of lite hat will be employed it the hidden wealth of Colo- exico. ion that Cortez left in Mexico fifty yea fore a white man’s foot touched Plymouth Reck, and a century before William Rean sailed the Delaware, mects you to the ‘ h and rises m that distant past to give a name to YOUR GREAT AGE OF RATLW which ia turn unites the ps i gland Puritans on the at length of the veterans of the war, who formed a great part of the vast audience. — Work and Overwerk, ers ar ahead. Bou and som rt to stiinulints. Justus von Liebig wrote 30 years aco about the work who resorts to spirits in order to e: ble him to con speak, a renewed, ‘tead of his evitable bank n we can draw is known by 1 body the food we eat; the body ex. y outgoings. The excess of ure is the body capital. are less than the incomings of capital «takes place the body bank; Just as is the case in. the money bank, when more is paid in than is taken out an accumulation follows. The excess is termed the balance. Now, when business firms reduce their balance too far they are in danger of failure if any sudden and anforeseen demand be made upon them. In fact, if their balance be unequal to the demand they may become bankrupt. They usually meet the demand by dra a bill payable at a cer- tain date. In the meantime theyset to work to provide the means to meet the bill when it falls due. Ifthey succeed all is well. If their out- goings just équal their incomings suck accumu- lation of means is impossible, and they become bankrupt unless they succeed in practically staving off payment by meeting the bill coming due by drawing another. Yet the debt remains; and bill-drawing is a costly device which means absolute ruin at no very distant period. But during all this time there Is the grave danger of some new demand, for which no simi- lar scheme will or can provide, for their credit is already mortgaged up to the hilt. Smash then they must. Bankruptcy is the natural end of trading upon fictitious capital. Now, this illus- tration will make clear to the reader what is here meant about physiological bankruptey. It + accumulation collapse before some new demand. Daily we pay into the body bank so much, and every day we draw out so much. Some days the paying in js far in excess of the withdrawal; then we feel energetic. Many persons so circumstanced feel a craving for something to do. A walk, a row in a boat, a game of tennis, anything that will safely take away the surplus energy, is acceptable. Animals are just the same. After a day or two in the kennei the dog delights in a long day’s hunting. So with the horse; after a day or two in the stable he is “fresh,” as it is termed, and quite frolicsome wnen first taken out. The cupis brimming over! On the other hand, man and animal alike enjoy a rest after severe and prolonged exertion. But when the DE COURCEY’S DEATH-LEAP. Forcing His Horve Over a Tremendou® Obstacle, a Noble Duke Dies for His Daring. From the Chicago Tribune. “ Has he seen her foot ?” Reginald DeCourcey, eighth Duke of Wabash, smote his corselet fiercely with the trusty blade that had cloven in twain the skull of many an enemy and looked tenderly upon his wife, the Lady Agatha ¥:Murty, as they stood ‘neath the shadow of a glove which the wife had carelessly left on the lawn. By the Duke's side was his faithful steed Step-and-Fetch-It, in whose veins flowed the blood of the swift coursers of the desert, the Arabia “I know me not.” quoth the Lady Agatha, “whether that of which you speak hath indeed taken plage, but on her return from the tourney at Coshocton, whither young Rupert de Moya- meusing hath taken our daughter, I will not fail to closely question the maid regarding this matter. Truly, it is of much moment whether this young knight, who cometh from beyond the Little Miami, doth wed our Qaughter.” “I prithee do not speak of that,” said Lord Reginald hastily— ‘and yet thou’rt right. And Rupert make not the lass his bride methink will be many a day ere another one so guilele- heayeth in sight. What's o'clock “Three forty-five,” replied: the Duchess, look- ing at the shadows which the sun cast uponghe woodshed. “There is yet time to warn her,” said Regi- nald, “but with another horse than thou. my pet,” he added, stroking the glossy neck of the Arabian courser, “the task were indeed a hope- less one.” “Then haste thee!” cried the Lady Agatha. “Lose not a moment of time that is so precious. Fly with all speed, and I will offer up prayers that thy Journey may be swift and sure. Leaping upon his horse the Duke sped swift- ly from out the court-yard, the clatter of hoots making glad music in the cars of his devoted wife. Suddenly she heard the horse give a mighty snort and stop, and upon the summer breeze that was kissing the locust blossoms above her head the sound of a dull thud. Running with fear-hastened feet across the portcullis the Duchess saw the af- frighted animal standing in front of some huge object, while further on lay the eoppse of her husband, the cold white face locking up to heayen as {fin a mute appeal! for pity. In an in- stant she was by his side. but the kisses that she pressed upon the pallid lips of the man she lo so well were unfelt, and the words she spoke broucht no response. Then, going to the horse. she took him kindiy by the bridle. “Ido not blame you, Step-and-Fetch-It,” she said, for there are some things which even an Arab steed may not leap over, and it was very care- less of my daughter to leave her oyershoe in such a place.” Lincoln's ‘Fitle of I In an article entitled Ho ment of 1860, Mr. Frank B. Carpenter reveals, in_ the October Century, mary facts not gene ally known connected st nomination of Lincoln, and following in regard n y became popu ails were At the Institut . of Californis é no war upon the against the south. ene in” (pol hibited on the pl e to to stop the e Sanitary Condition ef Schools. Dr. D. F. Lincoln contributed an important paper on this subject at the recent session of the Social Science Association. He thinks schools shouldbe in the country whenever possible. Boarding schools especially should be there. The buildings should be spacious. Dormitories may contain one, two, or abdut ten beds; the latter kind is easier to warm and ventilate unil- Such dormitories should be much rin proportion to the number of inmates than school rooms. The London Lancet’s re- quirement of six hundred and fifty cubic feet.of room a head for boys from under twelve years of age, and eight hundred and thirty for boys from twelve to sixteen, is rather low than high. Allrooms ought to receive direct sunlight and communicate directly with the outer air. Cor- ridors must have windows at both ends for through and through ventilation. Windows in rooms should be planned to assist in yentila- tion; exclusive reliance upon flues and ducts is not well. A hospttal-room must be reserved; but colds or other minor illnesses ought to be rare inawell conducted school. Confinement within doors fs one of the most fruitful sources ofa tendency to take cold. Discipline ought to be enforced without curtailment of a boy’s exer- cise, If possible. Corporal punishment is less injurious than such deprivation; and in order to reduce punishment to a minimum, teachers of experience ought to be retained longer than they now are. Boys ought to be compelled to play or drill. The latter exercise needs to be sup- plemented by gymnastics. Theamount of sleep required is approximated by the average of nine and a quarter to nine and a half hours, which Is that resulting from the thirty-nine English schools that sent replies to the Lancet in 1881. it | 4 anon there came | ten- | Lincoln has split the | LADIES’ GOODS. PALL niportation ow * DRESS: TREMMINGS, CMOS VEETIER. ETC. M. WILLIAN, Mite vou Bra oy am 907 Fynpe ivania aven a Having sailed for Europe July 12th to perfect her ar- acoapaa for the FALL SEASON, the Summer stock FINE MILLINERY Ow on hand will be sold syl4_ BELOW THE COST OF IMPORTATION. DOUG uA! HOOPSKIRTS AND B' COR Sse eae On Sune eeee 50c. UP. A 8 MADE TO ORD -R. HOOPSKIRTS OF “REFUSE” STEEL, 250, a‘ fine Freuch Woven COKSET at $1, usually solday 0. ch, Contille Hand-miete CORSET, at $1. is corset is sold in other cities st $1.50. hay quespecial ot of Children's Rewular Mado in Cardinal, Biue and Brown, at 25c. Would vs cheap at 350. = DOUGLASS, wit! AND F STREETS mai Mss ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, 490 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Mokes CORSETS to order in evers Sud guarantees perfect ft and cr SPECIAL TIE! Hi French Hend- and finest Imported Patent Shouidk S AR ing, Merino Underwear races Dress Reform Gpo's. French Corsets ard Bust rhe **Hercules” Sap- porting Corset, for which Misa H. is epecial azeat, anda $1 C er own take, that for the prise 23 F, street nort! Rent. Secon: malers always on Land. | ing, Kaabo, Weber, etc. | in the best of style aad pron C HAUNCEY J. REED, k ing done tly attended to, 65-2mi" 423 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, DEALER IN GERMAN AND ITAL GUITAR STRIN K INSTRUME? THE CELEBR BELLO OF Liss 1 Offers the following REVISED PRICE LIST OF SPECIAL BARGAT No. 1.—Genuine Wm. Heineomp mse cont Attar DAVIS & CO.'S PIANOS. ASELECTED STOCK OF T RE SUPERB PIAN( EFURNISHINGS. HER IS CC urchasing a OR FUR | (OLD wea itearly by 3B if_ you will favor ‘our inspection the goods in this city. Agents for the St. George and Stag Head Elevated Oven Kanges, Social and IL W. 8. JENKS & CO.. ‘7 Tth street nortnwast. pottery AND PORCELAIN. DIRECT IMPORTATION FREN ENGLISH AND GERMAN POTTER! as ‘AND PORCELAIN ‘a RICH CUT ENGLISH AND FRENCH GLASS, We call special attention to our new Fall Stock now arriving, which has been selected with great care as to style, quality and price. M. W. BEVERIDGE, sl 21009 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE N. W. 709 WILMARTH & EDMONSTON. 709 ‘We are now prepared to offer to Hi Ine of WHITE FRENCH CHINA and &TONE PO! LAIN in NEW SHAPES. DECORATED DINNER, TEA and TOILET SETS. TABLE CUTLERY, FINEST PLATED WARE and KITCHEN UTENSILS, atthe Lowesr Casu Prices. WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, au3l 109 MARKET SPACE. SFRIGERATORS AT REDUCED PRICES. BAGHEM Dow sdteene: sal ae any window. PATENT CREAM FREEZERS. FRUIT JARS, (best make.) JELLY GLASS} Gilroy’s Improved LACE CURTAIN STRETCHERS. GEO. WATTS, 814 7th street, 5 doors above Penna. FAMILY SUPPLIES. jylt +o- ‘The Irrepressible Girl at the Opera. From the Philadelphia Times. The opera season is just opening and music- loving people are looking forward to their usual annual delights from this source. Managers have returnished and reconstructed their build- ings to attract and render comfortable thelr pa- trons. They have secured contracts with the best and most attractive singers and performers and done all and several the things they could well do to furnish delightful entertainments to the musical public. But notwithstanding all their. care, there will be several annoyances which will mar to no,inconsiderable degree the pleasure and enjoyment of the really musical people in the audiences. The peanut fiend will never be absent, and the boy in the gallery, with his hideous whistle, is sure to be on hand in full force. There will be the usual number of people who go out to see aman between the acts and come tramping in withsqueaking shoes after the curtain has been rung up and the suc- ceeding act fairly under way. horse must work every any his owner feeds him up—gives him more stim it food. This, how- ever, cannot go on forever, The horse is at last found unequal to bjs work; the veterinar: surgeon is called in, whp pronounces him “us up” and prescribes a course of “grass.” That is, the horse has to have along holiday, a rest in the country, until hetis strong again, Awaiting the Guillotine, From the London Telegraph. So soon as the sentence of death.Is passed the criminal is placed on double! allowance. The ordinary prisoners havé rations of meat and of wine only on Sundays and Thursdays; but the conyict get apart for the guillotine has roast beef eyery day and a ‘‘cinquieme” of wine both at breakfast and dinner. ‘He miry read, write and smoke as much as he likes. He has two war- ders constantly in attendance upon him, and their orders are never to contradict him and not to abstain from enteriig into cheerful conversation with him. The assassin Tropp- Pindamall tee du holt'sexercino ally the conde: dn hour's exercise every day in the “ promenoir” attached to the cca infirmary, ‘Chere are, it is true. afew irawbacks to his physical enjoyments. sentence is the er is ge pacase tl ‘com- his But no one of the foregoing sins against the peace and dignity of the ordinary concert or opera-goer, nor in fact all of them combined, will prove so annoying to the real lovers of fine music as the irrepressible girl. We call her girl—although she is quite often a pretty old girl—simply to call her young lady would bea misnomer. There is nothing of the lady about her, except the form and dress. The irrepressible girl is always there, although no one could ever tell what she goes for, as she has no more taste for good music than one of Baraum’s elephants. Sometimes she is in com- pany with her young man, who becomes her rtner in annoyance, but quite as often she as One or more like-minded companions of her own sex — pretty gen 80 a8 always to be who have come there to enjoy the music. en she has had time to look round and take her bear- ings, see who is it that she knows, and observe all the oddiv Frei met —_ who may — com- Lidar cen herself at the expense of oe on ot the company. e 1 DOZEN CANS NEW LOBSTER, $1.75. Large can Boston Baked Beans. 1 Box Good Cicars. 1 Bottle Fine Whi 1 Bottle Good Whisk: : : aed i ent are given. GEO. A. O'HARE, 816 1213 7th street northwest, between M and N. BBB EEETTTTH HEEE SS8q DDD BBE HOHE. S.3D"D Ad BB RE t HEU ES Sss5qD Baa KEE T H HEKESsssSppp Aa. NATURAL MINERAL WATER IN GLASss. B.W. REED'’S s0NS, 1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. <__ TRADE SUPPLIED. pu NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS! 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A OHN MILLER, Wholesale and Te: POAL AND Main Office, Depot tail Dealer in Woob, dd ‘tins Wood MM, 434 and Virginia aveme southwest 1h Oftices, ith Street northwest and 143 B stro theast. ‘Telephonia coune ovived direct by ‘Orders pro cannet be dine 5 the mines en. kept under c v. livered in any part of the city. oJ CUNSON BLOTHERS, WHOLESALE AND RETATL DEALERS I COAL AND WOoD, Dy water and rail direct from the mines, Yactlities unsurpassed by any firm in the United t cakh prices, and delivered promp wharves amd depot, 12th su a ‘ctor 02 F et. now, 3 Pats. n. 12 9tn'st. id Pa. —_— STEAM {UR POTOMAC RIVE STEAMER THOMPSON 4 rect Wharfevery Monday, Wednesday any other boat. to Oth strect wharf of LANDINGS. aye * lc up,” and Mattawoinan Creek om and Mondeys ** returuing to \ Mouday. Wednesday ‘and Fulag afternoons. For information applys2 — m8 ___& Titties Mitek Ppereuac TRANSPORTATION LINE. ‘On end after MATCH 19th tain W. C. JHEGAN, “A O'dock p.m, AllRiver Retunuing, . 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