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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Female Luxury in France.

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph writes to that
journal "Our latest novelty in the
way of female Injury is eminertly
characteristic. 1t is now the fashion
for ladies, like snails, to travel about
with their own houses-not exactly on
their backs. but with their trunks.
Several grG'adeS DANES dc par Le monde
have had constructed bathing machines.
or rather bathing cabins, which can be
taken to pieces and put together again
in few minutes. They can be packed
up in box like telescope umbrella or
a camp stool. These fastidious females
have had their houses built of vanished
wood, and their monograms engraved
on the street door. The inside is lined
with white leather or wadded damask,
and provided not only with every i'm
aginabie toilet luxury but also with a
small stool | was looking to day at
some bathing habiliments, so elaborate
ly adorned with braid as to resemble
the costumes of the young ladies who
disport themselves in burlesque. Now
if there is one place more than another
where coquetry is unnecessary, it is in
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Insect Pests.

Mr.. Charles Thompson, in the Scien-
tific American, makes short work with
all the insect pests of the house and
garden, ION paper and his ideas are
good, in the main, though his remedies
are by no means always infallible, in
practice:
| have not seen hed-bug or flea in
my house for many years. If an army
of them were to be brought in, mercury
would speedily exterminate them, but |
think cleanliness the best and perhaps
the only preventative. The common
house fly do not modest, believing that
it more than compensates for It's trouble
by clearing the atmosphere of eff1uvia
and the animslcules which always arise
from the putrifaction of decayipg sub
stances during the warm weather. So,
also, with the birds, which are numer
GUS here during the summer instead of
shooting them, or setting up scarecrows
to brighten them away, 1 throw out
every possible inducement for them to
build their nests in my fruit trees. The
birds capture a large share of the insects
in the larval state, and thus the millers
are prevented from depositing eggs for
a future crop of worms. AS to the loss
of fruit by the birds, the latter are
always sure to be on hand in force in
the season of ripe fruit, whether they
come early enough to take the worms
or not For the residue of insects
which infest M vegetable garden, | find
that the laboratory of the chemist fur
nishes material fatal to them all, among
which white hellebore and cayenne pep
per are of the most utility; the bug or
worm which cannot find vegetation IN
favored with these articles will seek its
breakfast elsewhere, and leave my gar
den unmolested. A few drops of car
bolic acid in a pint of water will clean
house plants from lice in a very short
time. If mosquitoes or other blood
suckers infest our sleeping rooms at
night, we uncork bottle of the oil of
pennyroyal, and these insects leave in
great haste, nor will they return so long
as the air in the room is loaded with the
fumes of that aromatic herb. Ii rats
enter the cellar, a little powdered pot
ash, thrown in their holes or mixed with
meal and scattered in their runways,
never fails to drive them away. Cay
enne pepper will keep the buttery and
storeroom free from ants and cock
reaches. If a mouse makes an entrance
into any part of your dwelling, saturate
a rag with cayenne in solution, and stuff
it into the hole, which can then be re-
paired with either wood or m ortar. No
lat or mouse will eat that rag for the
purpose of opening communications
with depot of supplies.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

VALUE OF OATMEAL FOR INFANTS. -
In a communication to the Soci, te Med.
ical des Hopiteaux, NM. Dujardin.
Beaumetz and Hardy make known the
results of the employment of oatmeal,
says the Medical Press and Circular, on
the alimentation and hygiene of infants.
According to them oatmeal is the aliment
which, by reason of it's plastic and res
piratory elements, makes the nearest
approach to human milk. It also is one
of those which contains most iron and
salts, and especially the phosphate OF
lime, so necessary for infants. IL also
has the property of preventing and ar.
resting the diarrheas which are so FIRE.
quent and so dangerous at this age.
According to the trials made by Mr..
Marie, infants from to ii months OF
age, fed exclusively upon Scotch oat.
meal and cows milk, thrive very nearly
as we'll as do children OF the same age
sucked by a good nurse.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
A Follower of Etiquette.

An amusing chapter of Laferriere's
forthcoming memoirs, is devoted to a
Russian celebrity at tie court of the
late Emperor Nicholas, the Count Paul
Demidoff: A young Gttache to one of
the embassies, now a distinguished di-
plomatist, was invited to dine with
Count Demidoff On the return of the
company to the salon groups were
formed here and there, and when the
coffee was handed round the young
qtt0che, carried away by the interest of
the conversation in which he was en-
gagged, took lump of sugar from the
sugar bowl with his finger when the
servant presented the tray to him. Count
Demidoff, indignant at this breach of
etiquette, signed to the lackey to throw
the rest of the contents of the sugar
bowl out of the window. The lesson
was a severe one, and struck dumb
those who witnessed it. But the Spir-
itueL Young offender, while understand
ing eerfectly the insult intended, pre-
served an imperturbable calmness. He
slowly drained the contents of his emp,
and. walking deliberately to the window,
he fixed his eyes on M. Demidoff and
tossed caressly into the street the cup
and saucer of priceless Sevres and the
gold spoon. q did not know that
such was the usage" he said to the
count. And then be recommended his
conversation with an air of perfect nom
chdLence.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

the water. It is true the French
ba5gneuses seldom allow the sea to
come up higher than their knees, and
that they often have to walk half mile
from their cabin into the water. It is
to be hoped that their new temporary
cabins will not fall to pieces at the first
gust of wind. If this catastrophe were
to happen, the ladies would have to
adopt the plan once saw pursued at
a small watering place in Spain, where
they donned and dofed their bathing
costumes at home, and walked valiantly
through the streets dressed la Mrs.
RlOoToar
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

man, and that, unless provoked, il was
quite a peaceable reptile; Furthermore,
that the plaintiff had been in the habit
of teasing the alligator and exciting his
anger by tickling him in the ribs with a
long pole, throwing brickbats at him,
and, on one occasion, went - far as TO
scar his back with red-hot non. Upon
this the defendant was discharged, while
the lady was bound over to Seep the
Deaca
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
French and American Women.

Albert Rhodes, in his book, '"The
French at Home" just published by
Dodd & Mead, says
The face of the American woman is
more beautiful than that of any other
country. 1t has delicacy OF color
and feature, and .JfneSSe and in
tellectuality in expression but the
body supporting the head, re-
garded from an artistic and hygienic
point of view, is inferior. For breath
ing and digesting the upper part is
lacking in depth. In a word, the Amer
lean is more fragile; she is hardly a
Diana, and the French is something
more, although not the Hebe of Rubens.
The French wOman's face is as hand
some as that of any other in Europe,
and fades more slowly. At forty she
glides into an en1bOnpOint with an I'M
wrinkled face and good complexion
at the age when the English woman be-
comes heavy necked and frowsy, and the
American pale and wrinkled. The
climate has something to do with this,
but doubtless her nourlshing food,
generous wine and outdoor air much
more. Her mode of living contributes
thereto-'he exercise and development
of each function in a more natural and
sensuous manner than with MS. There
are ascetic ideas in America which have
tendency to retard the physical de-
velopment of woman, for mind molds
matter. The extremes of American life
are unfavorable to healthy growth, in
its fastness as well as its asceticism,
where the flesh is corrupted by dissi-
patton or mortified by certain religious
teachings. Aside from these causes is
prevalent notion that it is beneath the
dignity of man and woman to occupy
themselves with what they shall eat and
whit they shall drink.
The American has more intellect than
her French sister, but the latter has
softness where she has pertness. There
are nervousness, excitability and clever
ness in one, mellOwness and equality of
character in the other. The forced,
brilliant vitality of woman in America
is subject to fits of reaction, for nature
mas its limit. In the French woman the
mind is more even and cheerful, and in
the absence of exhaustive and irregular
demands made upon it, the uniform
health is better.
In qualities of purely mental char
acter, the equal of the American woman
can not perhaps be found in the world
but with all her knowledge and intel
lectual activity, she lacks that which
made the Greeks what they have been
and the French what they are-organic
cultivation. Entwined in these words
are taste and art. A ripper civilization,
though not purer, shall invest her
with a knowledge of these things, and
harmony of character not now possessed;
and with it will come, alas that de-
cadence in morals which always marches
on the heels of the beautiful in every
age and in every climate.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
GOD KNOWS ALL The REST.

Now lay" repeat 10 darling
nIay me, Hsped the tiny liEN
OF nv daughter, kneeling, bending
Der her folded finger tips.
'Doun to sleep - To sleep, she murmu red,
And the curly head bent low;
90 pray the Lord ~ gently added,
You eau say it all, know.
"Prsy the Lord the sound came faint
Fainter still-''My soul to keep
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
Bnt the dewy eyes half opened,
When clasped her to my breast,
And the dear voice softly whispered,
Mamma. God knows all the rest"
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voluntarily stepped forward two or three
steps. Beautiful light flowed from them
and seemed to battle the very coils of
the serpent. Gradually he drew closer
until, just as he was almost within the
reptiles reach, he fell, feeling, as he
said afterward, as though he had been
struck by stone. When he became
conscious his head was in friends lap.
His first words we're: "Wbo struck
me?" "No one struck you, doctor. l
saw you were charmed by the snake and
struck it with a stone" He had
struck the snake and the doctor had felt
the blow - Home .LOaLrOHL
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

THERE is great magnetic power in the
eyes of several of the lower animals.
The lions, the tigers and the serpent's
eyes are all magnetic. 1t is well known
that the serpent will charm birds that
are flying above it, until in great circles
they will sweep down to the destruction
which awaits them. A friend of mine,
a doctor, was one day walking in the
field, when he saw an adder lying on a
rock. He drew near to examine it and
presently looked at its eyes. He was
attracted by their great beauty and in
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Gentlemen Coach Drivers in England

One of the most brilliant sights of the
season was the parade of the Four-in-
Hand club on Wednesday, June 2, in
Hyde park, London. The luxuriant
foliage the intensely green grass, set
off with rhodOdendrOns, masses of gera-
NUNS, and other flowers the variega-
ted costumes; the flashing waters of the
lake the sparkle of glistening harness ;
and the animation which is always i'm
parted by the presence of fine horses,
tossing their heads, prancing, and show
ing off their handsome figures, make up
altogether a very striking and lively
picture. The long file of four horse
coaches, all as bright and speckless as
silver plate, drawn by horses of the
best breed and groomed to the highest
polish, is in itself a very attractive
spectacle, especially to those who can
appreciate the graceful skill of the
driving.
The Coaching club and the Four-in-
Hand club are for the most part COM
posed of the same members, but they
have different uniforms, the color of the
former being brown and that of the
other green. There were twenty five
teams of magnificent horses, mostly
chestnut. The bay browns of MIR.
Eaton, the silk merchant, attracted gen
eral admiration. Among the teams
there we're two grays and two blacks; a
gray and bay and two blacks; a bay,
a gray, a chestnut, and roam a chest
nut and white (skewbald is the technical
term and three bays. Count Munster,
the German ambassador, had also a
good team in the line. Next week the
green coats will be put on for the
Coaching club, which is to drive to
Alexandra park, in the north of London.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Alexander Dumas, Father and Son.

A fellow author and friend, desiring
to be agreeable to the son, wrote what
he considered a handsome panegvric on
the elder, and, to his surprise, Dumas
the younger did not think he had done
justice to the subject. We're he told
that the elder Dumas was the Shaks.
peare of the nineteenth century it is
probable that LIE would not question the
Justice of such an opinion.
His admiration of his fathers gifts
did not prevent him from seeing the
grOtesque side to his character. On
one occasion he said: My father is
50 filled with vanity that he Is capable
of getting up behind his carriage to
make the people believe he has a ne
gro."
At dinner of men of letters some
one gave an account of a seri. of
humorous subterfuges by which debtor
eluded creditor, the character of the
debtor being highly colored, at which
Dumas, jr, laughed heartily, when a
neighbor told him that the person de-
scribed was his father. Impossible, "
answered the son, "or he would have
put it in his Memoirs.
The elder had a singular way of
Judging of genius, illustrated one morn
ing, when he sought in vain for pair
of boots, with the remark "Figurez
voua qu' Alexander en- a douze peire,
etalees sur une blanche de sa garde-
robe. Ce garcon-la, n'aura iamats de
genie -
As a further illustration of the rela-
tions between father and SOD, it is told
that the latter, when a student in the
Latin quarter, desired to make a good
re: asst with a companion, but found on
consulting his purse that it contained
only five francs. "Wait," said he to
his companion, "while / run up stairs
and borrow five more from my father,
and ON the ten we shall dine like
princes"
"Well, - said the waiting man on his
return, "have you got the temp"
- haven't even the first five," an
swered he ruefully "father is better
at borrowing than / 1.-THE Gal1J3J
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

They have heart in the Georgia med
ical college that was taken from man
who tried to commits suicide. He
stabbed himself with knife, and the
point scratched the heart. He lived for
thirty days, and might have recovered,
if he had not got drunk, and the next
morning he was dead.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

MARs.-The star now so conspicuous
in the south for it's red light, is the
planet Mars, now in opposition to the
sun, and which, on the 28th ult.,
when nearest he earth, was hardly forty
million of miles from us, or nearer than
at any time within the last fifteen years;
but as the planet is at the great south
declination of about twenty eight de-
grees, it will be low there even When
highest, while in the southern hemis-
phere it will be ve-y high, and thus
afford the astronomers at the observa-
tories in Australia, Africa and South
America excellent opportunities during
several weeks for measuring twice daily,
or when east and west, the distance be-
tween the planet and some star near it +;
and thus, for determining the suns
paralax, pehaps quite so accurately as
was determined by the recent transit of
Venus,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

A FACT worth rememberipg-Five
cents worth OF SheridAn's Cavalry Condition
Powders, given TO a horse twice a week. will
save double that amount in grain, and the
horse will be fatter. sleeker. and every way
worth more money than though he did not
have them.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

MARRIED ladies', under all circnm-
stances, will find Parsons Purgative Pills
safe; and, in small doses, mild cathartic.
They cause no gripping pains or cramp.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

AN ALLIGATOR CAsE.-An alligator
was once the cause of a curious case
being tried at New Orleans. A young
lady brought an action against neigh
Dor for keeping an alligator in his yard,
asserting that the beast was of extraor-
binary size and ferocity. and that she
was in fear of her life. The defendant,
who had been arrested, being required.
to plead. stated thai he kept the animal
as kind of house dog or night watch
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Avoid COnsump tfOn. Guard against its
frs approach. The timely use Of TGtt's Expector-
ant will prove a sure preventive. Very pleasant
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"THERE! exclaimed the indignant
Boston wife, as she fetches her husband
a resonant whack on the head with a
chair rocker, "I'll raise Bunker Hill
monument on you that you'll remem-
ber,"
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nSYCHOmANCY, or soul Charming

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The Way the Ruin is Wrought.

the great hotels, and nine times out of
ten one goes to the Grand Union.
Sometimes the band stations itself In
the parlor, but oftensr on the inner
piazza, overlooking the beautiful
grounds. If the former, the audience
is composed, for the most part, of ladies'
and of ladies' men, that is of males
who are so far subjugated and overcome
by female charms as to be willing to
give up their own ideas and habits.
The men love to listen to the music
when the musicians are on the piazz",
which enables them to indulge i'll tFat
never ending companion of male lips,
the cigar. And those who are still de-
voices to the practice abominated by
Mrs. Trollope are enabled to enjoy the
waltzes of Strauss without rising every
two minutes and making for the door
with face IN which embarrassment and
the outlines of huge chew struggle
for the mastery. While the band plays
the ladies make their innings and en-
deavor TO complete the impression which
they may have made yesternight on the
other piazza or in the dance-roOm. The
presence of Charles Augustus or of
Henri or Rodolf having been acknowl-
edged by a sweet smile, friendly move
ment OF hand indicates the fact that
there is, by the merest chance, an I'M
occupied chair in the immediate neigh
borhood of the young lady. The gen.
tleman, who, being by himself, feels
little out of countenance, and grateful
therefore for the encouragement, is,
however, little dubious on account of
his cigar, which he holds hesitatingly
in his hands as he advances. He makes
little motion as if to throw it away.
"Oh, pray don't think of it, /" the young
lady shrieks instanter 81 adore the
smell of them in the open air, when
they are good and you, I am sure,
have too good taste to smoke any but
the best" The young man takes his
seat beside that female spider, so tickled
and fattered that the ar seems full of
happiness.- Saratoga Letter.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-18

CvEIcE-Oa Second street. opposite the South
Front Of the Capitol.
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OOC WEST s5rH ST.. SECOND FLOOR-A RE-
Ae)O spectacle girl as first class waitress can take
entire charge Ola dinin, room: city or country 90
lection to private boarding house good city refer
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-28
Selection, Of Books, .r

What to read is one of the inlpor
tant questions of the day, especially
as regards our young people, and yet
tits surprising to see how very little
attention IS given to the subject by
either parents or teachers.
So far as my experience goes, the
majority are suffered to read whatever
they please, or if any supervision is
exercised, it isin the way of wholesale
denunciatioli Of all works that SAVIOR
of fiction. Either course is fatal to
the forming of correct taste in the
selection OF books.
One permits too much, the other too
little latitude. While vicious or
trashy literature is to be avoided, as
one would the plague, all fiction is
not hurtful. On the contrary, it is, in
proper quality and moderate quanti-
w, healthful and necessary 10 the
growth and formation of young minds.
Indeed | should regard child who
did not relish one of Hans Christian
Anderson's charming fairy tales as an
unnatural specimen OF humanity. en-
tirely too old and wise for ME to COM
prehend In fact not q child but a
changeling. Good, well written stories
are to the mental nature what sweets
are to the physical Il natural craving
| that must be satisfied at proper times
| and in proper quantities. Young ma
lures require certain amount OF food
| for the Imagination, afldif they cam
not have it openly, they will procure
it secretly; often times at the expense
| of truth and integrity; thus making
a sin of what at most might have been
| an error. at HHe
Our duty in the matteris by SYM
| pathy to secure the confidence of the
young, Ihat we may be able TO form
their taste aud influence their choice
Of books, that ere long they may not
only read and appreciate a work Of
fiction, but also any well written book