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| Publisted by the Prose Publishing Com Park Row, New York. Entered at t] "at New York as Second-Class Mali Mat ter. ny, No, 68 to 63 Post-Office , DECEMBER 31, 1902. =e V ENTN C= » Sd ha ae Ma » ~ VOLUME 43 Maijotenon. her marriage chains and become a woman. and freedom! . The episode is su E , bare facts are these: The oftener he's “tight.” The Princess has been unfaithful to her marriage — i it ‘yows. She has committed an offense for which the pun- eas Sane eke missing a pro- j < posal last night. a ishment in an earlier and ruder state of soclety Was} "noi. vou aid? death. Stella—Yes. He got down on his knees She has dishonored her children—the “darling chil-|and I thought he was merely looking j@sen whom she adores.” for a ping-pong ball.—Harper's Bazar She has set the worst possible example, as being that] --phey say lemon juice destroys of Saxony but of all western nations, It f plunge as the Princess has done. deal with a chaotic condition of society. LEMONS AND TYPHOID. ders “© From London always something new! r - Health after experiments. desiccate it. «phylactics. currant jelly. In serving ‘to be too fearful of typhold? from measles (in 1900) or from suicide. men and 279 women. a twenty-year period. of the disease and only 29 women. of fatalities occurred in the fall months, ber and 70 for December. water subject to contamination. ‘the country, Bvening World's proposition, supported at Sry conventionally tied. ‘cessful one. descent of ability whereby the characteristics and the fold by investigation, may be cited here: MOTH@R TO SON @uxannah Werley, “the mother @F Lyman Beecher @tber in scientific purcuits, t us Loulea M Aire Oliphant, ihe author, whom) samuel oa wrow “Bob, Son of Battle" | York banker 1 Howe. cd own the Hapsburg line. THE ELOPING PRINCESS. fhe those only who fill the highest stations I know of Rone more unfortunate than those who envy them.—Mme. de will a8 follows: Ages. nomen. Fifteen w x ‘Twenty 43 Twenty Av 4 u Total Taelieasot 268 162 FATHERS ANDO DAUGHTERS. The late Mrs, Jessie Benton Fremont illustrated Th the time of its advancement by Interesting data furnished by “mar-| o) iaying parsons” and others, that elopements are as apt| esto result in matrimonial bappiness as where the knot is) jo. She was only sixteen, a mere girl even for Virginia, when she eloped with young Lieut. Fremont, but their marriage was a conspicuously suc- daughter the father's. cases that occur, and which could be multiplied many-)| not the owner of the land been a sriend Alcott NO. 16,107. ‘There is a disposition in some quarters to throw a giamour of romance over the elopement of the Crown Princess Louise with the French language teacher. for love, and a throne well lost—that is the idea, with applause for the slave of a palace who dared to break Sunder the ties that bind to an uncongenial spouse and away with your elective affinity to the mountains of Awitzerland All ently romantic if looked at from the sentimental point of view. But the actual, plain, of a high royal personage, for the women not alone be an easier matter for wives unhappily married to make the If every woman 80 situated were to adopt this royal remedy for her trou- Dies, it is to be foared that we should speedily have to Luckily true ‘womanhood finds more comfort in an III-assorted home “Ulfe than in taking refuge in a feverish and short-lved Y Last year the / jfeare of cancer by the eating of violets, this year the cure of headache by the perfume of roses, and now Dr. Asa Ferguson's theory that a few drops of lemon-juice will ‘kill the typhoid germ in a given quantity of drinking This theory {s indorsed by the Chicago Board of _ ‘What the doctors call the specific bacillus of typhold fever survives freezing and a sufficient degree of heat to If it Is to yleld to the gently acidulous attack of lemon-juice we shall be able to control its ravagee with one of the most easily procurable of pro- The man who Is beginning to grow uneasy about the typhoid possibilities of oysters will feel re- 4 assured and will come to understand the uses of the seg- ‘ment of lemon furnished with them when served on the half shell. There is, of course, a reason for all gas- tronomic combinations—for pork and apple sauce, chops (and tomato sauce, bacon and greens, roast mutton and lemons with raw oysters ‘dietetic instinct may have anticipated the doctors. + Any remedy calculated to reduce the ravages of ty- hold is to be treated with the consideration the fmpor- tance of the disease deserves. But are we not Inclined Of the 70,000 deaths in Greater New York and Quoens County last year hardly 1 per cent. were from typhold fever—not so many as The report of the Board of Health on the typhoid mortality In Greater | New York last year is therefore of timely Interest appears that of the 727 victims of the disease 448 were The mortality among males was greatest between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, and mong women between the ages of fifteen and thirty, ‘Thus more than one-half of the male deaths and ‘about five-ninths of the female occurred within less than Only 43 men past forty-five died The largest number the record being 95 for September, 102 for October, 70 for Novem- It is an old theory that typlold Increases after a hot summer in communities depending on well water or Experiments made by the Michigan State Board of Health showed that cases were most numerous when the water in wells was low-| est, and least numerous in April, when the wells were |"; full, This discovery has an Interesting bearing on the| poyle sald, it was suxgested that his] ‘ eases of disease brought home from summer outings In| view « But Mrs. F ramont is particularly interesting as an! wcuje tand in the suburbs of Cincinnatl, example of Galton’s law of the change of sex in the) and lately has been building tt up wt son inherits the mother's | vuses Some| FATHER TO DAUGHTER hove daughter | Methodism,’ who wax Joho Wess | war Marriet Deevher Sieve He EU CIsE inelapaloeoniaheine Yer'n mother, She hereelf, tn Muy er of the talented |” Doty austin drench ahs Dil Bears ta csteay Fijiom Gilser to land iiitateayPheodnela Dire Alvins | A crones, Oe ny rate ee Aaughter, wania mininier’s daugh- | Neckar, t at Fre i sssn ease aaa ihe vee ahs | Neckar the rat Trench ran’ |jast accounts tt tooked @e 1f he stood a i SRE ca Race hoes ‘unne'| dh. Biase) came Mme | ood show of loslig his new $000 house. erame famous as a novelist. th Bronson Aleott, father of the more —_ rated ew | father of Julla Ward Iadiother cases discoverable everywhere and tn all| here a Manny Kemble, there an Amelia Ed-| a Sometimes the father gives the daughter her, uty, as in tue case of Mme. Recamler's father, the Pceuiisome notary of Lyons; sometimes her voice, as| ‘the case of Jennie Lind, whose father, a Swedish lace- | Me + had a local reputation for his singing. ft inheritance is only a feature—a thick under-| Some-| Marie Theresa received from her father and) But In all cases trave of the Immediate ancestry. h was the spirit, the energy, thi {JOKES OF THE DAY! “Going to ‘see the olf year out?" “T'm going in a poker game to-night and T'll consider myself lucky {f the ‘new year doesn't see me ‘out’ “He's gone bankrupt and freed himself of all debt.” “Just my luck! The fellow ge owed me an apology for six months, “What is the meaning of the musicat term, ‘a measure?" ‘In the bass drummor's case {t repre- sents from one to three ‘pounds.’ " On our vocabulany It's hard to throw much light When the “looser” life a man leads typhoid microbes.” “Well, that needn't scare any typhoid germs that may be lurking in the aver- age church fair lemonade.” “The Judge hasn't handed down a de- cision, yet, in Brokely's damage sult.” so much for lack of cash as lack of de- elsion.”” “Here's a hotel that advertises ‘all home comforts.’ "* “Not any in mine! Give me a home that advertises ‘all hotel comforts.’ you don't ad- said the young a it fs charm- “T am sorry, Geor| y new dres: verybody Your friends, my dear, pay ya com- pliments; I pay your bills,” replied her hugband.—Tit Bits. “Trains leave at 3, $20 and 4.04," Remarked the clerk, the blushing pair addressed. bridegroom whispered “Don't you Think that that suit us best?’ The tenderly, train for two will “New Year's ix a day one should spend with one's relatives, if possible.” “I know it, T usually visit my uncle on that day, as a result of too long a sojourn with the ‘ante’ the evening before." j” SOMEBODIES, Louls AAL, A. Aa well-known 8t merchant, fa perhapa the only man in the country whose signature requires: the use of only two letters. AMHERST, LORD—has made a coltec- ton of crowns which inchides those of George IV.. Charles 1. and Queen Adelulde. o ‘OR, BISHOP—of the Newark (N. J) diocese, has Just celebrated his silver jubilee, attended ty 20 priests. SIMPSON, DR. T. G.—of Vermont, to the present owner of the musket which fired the first shot at Bunker Hin. 1! belonged to Major John Bimpson, his grandfather. SPINNY, RBY. DR. C. L—ot Orange, 1a a full-blooded Indian and wan for- merly known av "Chief Blackboard." Although now a Presbyterian olergy- man, he stil takes an acttye interest in all matters pertaining to Indian | welfare. ———————— CONAN DOYLE ON SKELETONS. “L heard Dr. Conan Doyie, tell a good} story during a trip I made to London last winter, He sald that at a dinner party he had attended the guests began discussing the dally discoveries made to the detriment of people occupying hig stations In Ife and enjoying the cont, ‘ence of the business world. Dr. Doyle sald that it had always been his opinion that there was a skeleton in the cloast of every man who had reached the age of forty, ‘hin ied to a lot of dise some of the guests resenting th that there was no one who had n the pest something that were better cor ssion, o r sa result of the o Dr. roversy, skeletons be put to liners selected a man of | thelr acquatntance whom all knew only Jas an upright, Christan gentleman. | whose word was accepted as qulokly 48 @| Ms bond, and who stood with the hig- ext in respect, We wrote a tele |gram, saving: ‘AM la discovered; Nee at to ths pillar of soctety, sald Le Doyle, and sent it, He disappeared the next day and has never been heard from to family the t The nce. —————__—_— GOT THE WRONG 1.4T. Tilden B. French, formerly Treasurer jot Hamilton County, O,, has been hav- | Ing an odd experience. He owns consil- Recently he dullt, without knowing It, an expensive house on a lot belonging to another person, and had Jot his serious legal difficulties would | have followed, The mistake came from ‘the buthier mistaking the directions aid ing up the house un the south half GOOD-NIGHT, Good night, good night! ah, good the night That wraps (hee In tte silver ght, Good night! No night is good for mo ‘That does not hold a thousht of i? MR. HOTFOOT COMMUTE “Then the poor fellow tan’t suffering | ; His Last Train-Catching Exploit Pictured by Artist Kahles. Ly OM Uys UE. 0449444 O56,0$0OO0O1090449960009006- Fn PAY RENT? me 44350 BUYS AHOME Sua fj in BEAUTIFUL, Ee ease PA Conanul? hema ALL MODERN IMPRO- YEMENTS & BATH. ay i joiyjey || Ms) V'll just tag along behind that snow plough. (1) “Goodness gracious! Up against ft again! I'll never catch this (2) “Hurray! I'm saved! train if I have to flounder through the snow drifts.” (3) “This is a cinch! Ing through slush | WONDER WHAT HAPPENE: GOOD MORNING.) ¢ f A patriotic, thoroughly American, and at the same time ex ceedingly clover toast, Js attributed to Benjamin Franklin, baseadors, and at the conclusion of the dinner these toasia were drunk. First, the son of Britain arose and thus laude4, “Pngland—the sun whose beams enlighten and fructify the remotest corners of the earth.”’ with national pride, the Frenchman drank; “France—the moon whose mild, steady, cheering rays are making their dreariness beautiful.”” “Poor Re¢hani" could not have been furnished with a finer the witty retort: "George Washington—the Joshua, who commamed the A more familiar one Is the toast of the brave Decatur: “Here's to our country—may she always be right; The origin of the word “toast,” used in describing tie prow posal of a health, dates back to mediaeval times, when the feature of every feast. This cup would be filled totho brim with wine or mead, and on the liquor there floateda piece of host passed {t to the guest of honor on ‘his righthand, who did likewise, then handed {t to his neighbor. Tivm one to who drained the cup and swallowed the piece of toast an @ tribute to all the guests gathered about the t tent of punches and drinks in Merrie England, but have long since been taboocd as unnecessary. Rochester, in instructing — | “Make it go ‘large that, filled witl Up to the flowing brim, Like ships at sea, shall swim.” Health-drinking and offering of toasts ardas old as (m~ that the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptianjand Assy; were acoustomed to pledge one another's hdth at th ‘At Athens etiquette required that each gSt drink to Me assembled companions until he could possi¥ hold no morey altar of whatever pagan god was nearestt hand. In, the imperial city of Rome similar practices pfailed, and Bao- drunkenness. In each Instance, however}f(er-dinner ona< tory was discountenanced as out of pla¢and probably @ selves with fting thelr cups and exclainis: "I salut be happy,” the Romans said merety: “I ink your health.* In an obscure bac street Hives a man ¥ pursues a curtoug but not unlucrative calling. He !s a langge teacher to pars According to the particular foreign mar to which they ary to be sold. The whole of the parrot for's house, except thelr cages being divided up by soun/foot partitions.tato,, several smaller compartments, each d@ining a cage, that pune. “I believe I am the only Iangj® tutor to parrots,” sald the man, “I've iived in severforelgn cittes and foreign languages 1s the African gr#@rrot, from the west coast of Africa and Prince's cho methods? Well, TOASTS IN ALL AGES. He chanced to be dining with the French and English Am- his native land: . Not to be outdone by ‘his one-time enemy, and swell tho delight of all nations, consoling them tn darkness ané opening, and the quaint humor in ‘his soul bubbled over In sun and the moon to stand etill, and they obeyed him.” right or wrong, here's to our count oat taree-handied loving cup wus regarded as an indiensnblae toakted bread. After taking a stp himself from fie cup the one ft went until It came back to the master of the board, At a much Jater period toasted biscults formed an tngred Vulcan how to fashion him a drinking cup, s& / Vast toasts on the delicious iake, | pibing the intoxicating beverage étscif, histoy Informing ug clal dintngs. after which the remainder of the wine wugpilled oves the chanalfan banquets flourished in all the'rory of vice ac physical imposalbility—and while tho ee them- A TUTOR FOR PAROTS. rots, his specialty being that of teacht two rooms, is given up to tho birds, tfooms in which are the pirds may not Hear cach other, f# the Chicago Tre know seven forelgn languages. ThgSt bird for teaching diet and warmth are important, IPP my parrots In ag urtificlally warmed temperature of [Ut 50 degrees, acolm- LOVELy HOMES whok SALE win AND €010 FoL, Doors, opeN race PLUMBING 2I¢,e7¢, There goes my train!! (6) “Late again, by the jumpin’ giblets! (5) “Help! Help! I'm caught tn a snowdrift! ENJOYED IT, SOMETHING TO ATTRACT. WELL PREPARED. FOLLOW:NG HISTORY. ° “They say Kate was held up by t "What's Mickey the Rat doin’ two men last night.” “She turns more h . wid all dat shootin’ gear?” Micky—Hey dere, Jim, look out, “Gracious! Did she scream?” any girl that passes this way.” “He's aimin’ to ‘stablish a yer goin’ in er hole! “No, indeed! She was skating “Why, she is not pretty.’ peaceful blockade at de school- Jim—Aw, what der | care. | and if they hadn't held her up “No, but she wears squeaky house.” got ole cloes on enyhow, see? she would have fallen.” BOOT RODEO Ono NEW YEAR'S GAMES FOR THE LITTLE ONES. j Then the ball 4s thrown qufckly toy tions they will keep during the year. some one else. Suppose it goes to Jan-} Next a large ball made of wary. He replies quickly: And every month “I am January and bring jumbles Will bring good cheer jand junk." ball is then thrown to some one,| The funnler the replies are the bet- The hotder of the ball says: ‘The old year's gone, The new ts here, LI, the games at this New Yeor's party are favorite old games, dis- qulsed as new ones, so all the chil- dren will know how to play and enjoy them, ‘The first is “Hunt the New Year.” Three or four times as many little gifts there are guests have been careful ‘apped {n tissue paper and hidden the room or house. ‘Yhase may bo vory inexpensive, tiny China dolls, rubber balls, nuts from the Christmas tree. plotures of animals, &c¢., pasted on red or gray cardboard, photographs, penclis, bead necklaces or bracelets, &e Among them must be one calendar, and the one who finds this and knows !t as the New Year wins a blue ribbon, whieh should decorate his person for the rest of the evening. The next game is Phe Old Year and to be used as a target. Bach guest, sta bons, and try again to decide ball—after supper or funch, dining-room, where rl ‘for good luck." served wrapped in or Japanese napkins, and covered each a blue ribbon. Months und days, Mlenths and days, hun away with months and days, Little New Year. ‘When any one and if he falls hia right hand neighbor takes his place. his g: played until every one h chance to be the “Old Year.” Next comes « sitting~lown game, All A BLUE RIBBON NEW YEAR'S PARTY. thee Good night! Good night! Be every nigh as sweet Aw that which made our love com- plece; Tit that last night when death shalt be One brief “Good night” for thee and In ange Good night! —8. Weir Mitchell. choose ‘betiween the Suppose September catches it. He or | ter, twisted into a eoft ball. Each chit ts|she must reply quickly: are given the name of a month. If tere] “i am September and 1 pring shad pay are more than twelve children the sea-|and suspenders” (or any other articles | get sons are also added, and if necessary | spelled with the initial of the month { SIL In Ls errale abd. ® hapaxercniels ia ‘Those who forget thelr month, or not ready with their replies must a forfeit. Those who do not fal) & blue ribbon. ‘Those who have’ to redeem forfelt cnn we, made, to, tall weet Then whe tug @ war. oosmnences: An pean, bene® ame lp iy R 5 tissue paper and filled with candies wrapped in olled paper t# hung In the doorway tloned a short distance from it, has @ chance to hit tt with a ping pong bail if he can do it when he Is biindfoldea! The successful ones receive blue rib- which shall have the pleasure of breaking the Partners are chosen to march into the refreshments are served. The table Js decorated with blue pons, and there should be a big New Year's cake with ona large candle on it The eatables may be with course guessed, the fortunate guessers winning the New." A mask with the eyes cov- ered and a we may be worn by the Just after refreshments the ball may one chosen to represent the “OM Year,’ be broken by hitting {t sharply with a but If that Is not convenient, simply cane, and the children scramble for the blindfold the “Old ¥ Make a candles as they fall to the floor, Bach clrele about him, give him two spoons ohid should be provided with a paper and tell him: to choose the New Year bag to hold the candles, touching him only with Tit & & played Wke "London spoons, and trying to guess ‘he Briage” words as follows: If he guesses correctly he wins Little New Year a blue ribbon. He has only one guess, Run away with months and days, caught he must ‘Old Year" and the ‘New Year," taking sides accordingly. ating them to cooler temperaturesfore selling, and give them some proportion of thelr food—palm nuts, ba nanas, &c. [instruct my parrot #8 !n the mornings;and evenings, first pronouncing one wq°r days together, latex two or three words. I make serfe® of words that joln easily together. A bird will lear) Short sentence in leas than a fortnight. “An 4mportent secret 4@ that oj teaching @ bird that tt will seem to speak intelligently ¢ {f {t understood whag was happening at the momenf'¥s by pulling out my watch and then saying ‘What'¢ ‘me?’ the parrot sooq learn'’s to eay ‘What's the timdhencver it sees a watolt produced. To teach a bird t Visitor with ‘How dydy Jo?’ on the proper occasions, I/at these words as I enter the room where tho parrot ts./Make him say ‘Must you 0? Good-by,' I rise from a pick up my hat and sttols and go out of the room repeq the words." GEN. LAWTO} LAST KISS. Soldiers and all others whfW Gen. Lawton still mee when they recall his leavin{ Mantia ‘home, kissing wite and children and promising eturm soon, that December morning in 199, says the Pif® Despatch, What a return tt was. But a grateful nf Noted the pathos and; tebe a sorrow not often experig “t that homecoming. ds = result gallant Gen. Lawy ear ones will never know want, The great Generaf*th was pathetic. That sad return was pathetic, Prft McKinley's regret at’ not having given him earlleftlon was pathetic. Do you remember that a goodly fet of old Colonels were mate Brigadiers eoon after Lf ® death? ‘Who can think of old{ PoP, who went to Mamila a@ chief surgeon on Gen, Cf® %8f about a year ago, with jer a brave battle with diséase, out sorrow? Last spri he surrendered, Mra. Hi@tted home with the body and dled before reaching whart when the transyf OPM request to be taken tmether, the officer said: “I am grieved to tell you Pope died on the way overs both your mother ani forth his own glory. So Hylacomy- the new continent was, after all, noe p name would euit it better than that , Amerigo, : far and wide, and 80 quto! hat when, later on, She trae a scovesed was already rooted too deeply in gen« |, and was even exten(led to the north while Hyloomylus hed only ménnt when Amerigo ti lus proposed th: a part of the I of his ¢amous ‘The book wi proposition aco was known, tt eral use to be [t part of 1.0 of" SON pany's cars ip e vers, enjovabis ie are awarded to the