The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-19
CABINET DAY IN WASHINGTON.

CABINET DAY IN WASHINGTON.
Says the Boston Post correspondent
Wednesday is cabinet day in Washing
ton, aud there is a terrible futteramong
the ladies on those days. says the gOs-
sips As Mrs. Fish is supposed To be the
most elegant in manners. her handsome
residence is filled during calling hours bv
foreign and best home element. Mrs.
Fish is great favorite with foreigners.
They consider her manners the most
finished and eourtly Of any official lady
in America, and they pay great court to
Miss Edith, the fair, slender, quiet eyed
daughter, who will in time mature into
a likeness of her mother. At these re-
eeptions a carpet stretches from the car
the dainty feet and apparel of fashions
favOrite children pass. At the entrance
liveried servants open the hall door, and
take the cards on silver salvers and an
nounce all entrances to the hostess, who
stands just inside the drawing room
ready to welcome her guests. You say
good morning, make some trivial re-
mark and pass on to the ladies assist
ing, thus giving those following an op-
portunity to repeat the same polite
nothings. If these arduous attempts at
conversation prove too much for ones
fortitude and strength, coffee and ehoc-
olate, with a little JouHIon, or roast
fowl, served in the further room, may
revive one sufficient to enable proper
adieux to be made. Apropos, femi
nine correspondent says: ~ Mrs. Noble
of New York, is making us pine and die
from sheer envy of her toilets, they are
so magnificent. Use the word advised
ly, well knowing its off-repeated use has
nearly worn off its significance, but imag-
inc me emphasizing magnificent as only
woman can, and maybe you will take
in what | mean; you will, if you are a
woman, but will not if a man, for men
are so very stupid"
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.-E England
approves the compulsory education she
has recently attained, although many
among the parents and employers Of the
children endeavOr to evade it. France is
contemplating n similar step; Italy has
moved toward it,; Spain debated it, and
Germany sought to perfect a system that
was very complete before. In this cOun-
try Pennsylvania insists more strenuous
ly on the education of all; New York has
made education compulsory, and found
the need of new schOol-houses, and some
of the Southern States are Introducing
the precedent. The Legislature of Hi
nois and Indiana are debating the same
question, and those formerly unaware of
the arguments in its behalf are shaken
by finding how strong they are. 1t can
not be said that there has ever been any
want of interest on the subject in the
older States. They have realized the
necessity of general education for pOlit
| ical, industrial, moral and every use
| The interest has not extended as it should
II
been baked in not few Of the older.
Facts show that the remedy is being ap-
| piled on no mean scale, and We may well
hope that our records of iiliteraey will
be reduced everywhere, and that the ben
elits of this reduction will be- as widely
| felt.
|
i Gfrra M.
box of the Shah Of Persia consists of a
small room, fourteen by twenty feet.
Here, spread upon carpets, lie jewels val
ued at u, 900, ,OGO Chief among them is
the kaianIan crown, shaped like a How
er pot, and topped by an uncut ruby as
large as a hens egg, and supposed to
have come from Siam. Near the crown
are two lambskin caps adorned with
splendid aigrettes Of diamonds, and be-
fore them lie trays Of pearl, ruby and EN-
erald necklaces, and hundreds of rings. A
MIR. Eastwiek. who is reported to have
been allowed to examine the collection,
states that conspicuous among the gaunt-
lets and belts covered With pearls and
diamonds are the kuianian belt, about IA
foot deep, weighing perhaps eighteen
pounds, and one complete mass OF pearls,
diamonds, emeralds and rubies One or
two scabbards of swords ere said to be
worth a quarter million each. There is
also the finest turquoise in the world,
three or four inches long, and without a
flaw; and an emerald as bigas a walnut
covered with the names of kings who
have possessed it.
| We wish the Importance of admitting
the light Of the sun, as well as building
these early and late fires, could be prop
erly impressed upon our hOuse-keepers.
| No article Of furniture should ever be
brought to our homes too good or too
delicate for the sun to see all the day
long. His presence should never be ex-
cluded except when so bright a. to be
uncomfortaE le to the eyes. And walks
should b. in bright sunlight, so that the
eyes are protected by IA veil or parasOI,
when ineOnveniently intense \ sun
bath is of far more Importance IN pre-
serving "a healthy condition Of the body
than is generally understood A sun
bath costs nothing, and it is a misfortune
that people are deluded with the iGea
that those things only can DE good or use
ful which cost money. But remember
that pure water, fresh air, sunlight, and
houses kept free from dampness, will
secure you from many heavy bills Of the
doctors and give you health and vigor
which no money can procure IL is a
well established fact that people who
live much ia the sun are usually stronger
and more healthy than those who's oc-
eupatiOns deprive them Of sunlight.
HORSE STORY.-A stable keeper ia
Rochester has hack horse OF which the
following stories are told: At the end
of the stable Is water faucet, under
which has been placed large tub for
the hJrses to drink FROM When this
animal is thirsty he turns on the faucet
with his teeth and holds his head uLder
the running stream until his thirst is
| quenehed, and then turns the faucet of
again, and with knowing look at his OBJ