The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-01-15

nOuSenOlO was -Wrapp peO IN Sleep be- be L.
one of the men capable OF editing a mag
azine Ike Pat4aGm,S Monthly in the
broad half day which lies between Office
closing in Wall street and midnight, and
no one could ever say that be did not
keep his work well in hand. He carried
his business habits into literary work,
was prompt, systematic, and got through
with an amount of it which, another
1nan would havespread through whole
day, and been justified in calling himself
we'll tashed after that want to hold
this picture up before Young men who
are ambitious of literary success. If
they can grapple with business. seven
hours a day, study,and write five or six
more for fifteen or twenty years, they
stand a chance of the good things which
the men who own them won in the same
way. The finest literary work the eoun-
try has to be proud of, and that which
does it Iuost honor in cultivated circles
abroad, has been produced by such men
as the twin critics. Z. ii. StOddard and
Stedman, .'after hours" NOT in the Ieis-
ure of a life set apart for ssIch pursuits.
There is a class of young men who Will
not go into business because they fancy
they have q. vocation for art or itera-
ture, and make themselves a terror to
editors and successful writer's by hang
ing round, besaeching letters of intro
duction to.this, that aud the other mag
azine or newspaper, and looking for
position which will at once give them
enough to live on. ....,. ~. 49, --
-s.. UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN. 800.
The mild winter has proved a very
sickly and dangerous one. for children.
and Young people. among whom: dip
tleria and scarlet fever make rayages.
known only to the health officers and
those who casually glance at such re-
turns as seven hundred deaths by dip
liberia in one week. st. Mary's Hall, an
Episcopal school of the best order, for
girls, near Burlington, n. J., was lately
broken up by typhoid fever, thirty
cases of which made their appearance
among the scholars at one time This
cas-, which was caused by the use OF
river water held III foul cisterns ought
TO lead to thorough Inspection of the
sanitary condition of boarding schools
through the country, few of which will
he found quite satisfactory in their ar
rangaments to wel,-bred physician.
Principals and teachers have too much
care on their hands to notice that the
water tastes brackish, or that there is a
bad odor lingering about parts of the
house, or any of a dozen signs which tell
the experienced sense that something i
awry with matters on which health and
life depend. have known ferer bred
in fashionable boarding-School becaii-e
the ciamberInaids had too much to do
- nj
were left TO overflow carpets and vitiate
the air Of the dormitories. And this
leads to a theory lately heard NJ out the
unhealthinesS of New York itself. It Is
fast growing the, home OF Intermittent fe-
yer, so much so that persdns Of certain
;emperaments cannot ike there six
weeks without losing health, and are
forced to give up living there altogether.
The cause has been laid 10 the fault of
sewers, and TO tile imperfect drainage OF
the old marshes about 18th street, which
were b,.ilt over long ago. While giving
this fact due weight, those who have
looked into the subject do not scruple
to charge the argue and Intermittent fc-
Yer Astounding 10 bad ventilation and
i'll conditions insidc the houses. They
say that New York is largely made up
of boarding,hOuSes and hotels, to say
nothing of families. in which the most
giariDg neglect of every law of health is
the rule and. not the exception. Houses
are built on wrong principles and with
their cellar, kitchens and .dining-rooms,
and bedrooms, their. closets and bath
rooms passing thefoulest Extraordinarily y
into the body of the house, are as fruit
full of malaria as If the occupants lived
on the edge of aswamp. Comparative
Iy few even of the. first rate. hotels and
boarding-housesh hayeanything like prop
er Ventilation. The passages smell mnsty,
the air from a hundred close bedrooms
pouring into them, while not "a window
is opened in the halls from October till
May. Not a pleasu.. subject to speak
of, but one o. siial Importance, not only
to residents, out to. prOperty=holie iers in
New York, for it Is a. serious question
to find "a healthy place to live within a
dozen miles of tlIis city, and the most
rigid sanitary conditions must be learned
and enforced where 30. many thousand
dwellers are crowded together, or living
in the city il not to be, thought Of |
will say that families who keep we'll
ordered, well ventilated houses find
nothing to-: complain OF in New. York
more than ia other cities. o. 81.
pEFECTIVE- FLIES. --.... d.
The recent fire on Fifth avenue in
which a fine famiIy-hOuse caught from
an overlIeated fiue, las led TO" strict
searchings into cause and effect which
show the facilities modern houses afford
for getting us burned in uur beds. The
ioists and floors of the finest houses are
carelessly laid, SO that tire ends come in
contact with fire iiues, while the lea-
chars them and prepares the material
for conflagration al a moments ; notice.
The Steiner mansion. owned by n rich
! Jewish tea merchant. took fire last year
from this cause, and the mother and
daughter ola wealthy and happy family
lost their lives. phe magnificent syna-
gogue on Fifth avenue took fire from It
red hot nail heated by the fiue, into
which it was driven. As one eannot
with any assurance of success inspect
every nail head about the house every
night before going to bed-the feelings
with which timid people lay their heads
upon their pillows may be described as
the reverse of soothing
NEW YEARS CALLS. OIL zoo.
The young swells of New York made
their calls New Years Day in the regu-
lation stiff shirt fronts. white neck-ties,
with waxed mustaclIes, and the young
gentlemen had hard time of it, Des-
pite the appeal of the Temperance I'M
ion to the ladies not to offer their callers
wine, it strikes HE great deal of ardent
liquors must have been consumed. For
toward night the young gentlemen wob-
bIed in a terrific manner, and as they
went from the doors TO their carriages
they complained of slippery sidewalks,
when there was no ice, and they show
ed an inclination to sleep that betoken-
ed exhaustion And their tongues We're
thick and their breathing heavy-in
short, had they been anywhere else, j
should have pronounced them fairly on
the road to drunkard,s bed. Pity 'tis.
! tits true
l. MAYOR wIcRHAN
starts well, and that he may hold out Is
the ardent prayer of every good New
| Yorker His first act was to remove
Delafield Smith. the .corporati0a. conn
sci. The Mayor charges him. with hav-
ing actually aided and abetted the ring.
He claims that his defence of the city
against FRAUDULENT claims was wilfully
weak; that for five months he failed 10
prosecute the. city suits against the ring
lin brief that the Interests of the city
| demand man not tainted in that esDe