The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-09
Remarkable Utilization of Scientific
Idea HOWiScrnwny WOmen.uay
Have Rounded Forms
y. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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n Y. Cor Chicago Tribune.
Gen. Pleasanton claims that light
through alternate strips of white and
blue grass is the most potent of powers.
Under these commingled rays neither
death nor even wrinkles will ever reach
us. Growth for the dwarf and the lean,
strength for the weak, and color for the
pallid is promised To those who accept
the conditions which are made clear to
them through glass doors or windows or
even through blue lace curtains.
Yellow light subdues the too energetic
and excitable. 1T controls speculative
k5te-hying. Red elevates the spirits end
is of great assistance to the depressed
man of business. Violet strengthens the
understanding, but blue makes every
thing grow.
Blue rays are to be the cure for all
sorts of agonies, both mental and physi-
cal, so our enthusiastic converts assert,
and there is no formulated reason that
can be used against their position. A
pain in the head is to be relieved in
three minutes, by holding blue glass
screen beteen the skull and the sun. and
entirely cured in ten minutes. Hand
screens of blue glass are already in tenn
porary use, while the pressure upon the
glass manufacturers is 50 heavy that a
proper permanent arrangement of the
windows which shall insure perpetual
vigor is a beautiful hope that is still far
i'm the future Possibly if blue glasses
were placed in the windows of the glass
factories speed would be secured, but
this, very likely, has been one of the nm
thought of applications of the late theory
of blue speed.
All our thin young ladies are especial
ly greedy to get their orders filled earli-
est, because sun baths are the furore
for this month, and comparative eXhib-
iting of local consequences are the de-
light of confidential friends.
Z" You know how thin my arms were
lust above the elbow" said Felice to
Sally Matilda yesterday. " / really be-
lieve they are already rounding out. /
have made Simpkins hold the blue glass
between those hollows for two hours each
morning when the sun shone. ] am very
careful that she does not let the light
reach too lar up where my arms are
already fat enough, for | am awfully
afraid of seige. l don't mind if the
blue rays touch my elbows, for | never
heard of too much plumpness on those
ugly points. When my arms are fixed
| intend to have my collar-bones
pumped round trifie, and then | have
an idea of throwing the rays under my
chin"
"What beautiful discovery" said
Mrs. Prolific. "When Johnny outgrows
his summer suit aud Jimmy is too small
for it by the next year, a season of blue
glass will fetch him right up to fits in
shirts, hats, boots, urowsers, and round-a-
boutsl What saving in woman's purse
Rpifa
mother of thirteen children won't be
such an awful affiiction as it was when
hemming up trowsers, tightening hat7
bands, taking in and letting out tucks
required two-thirds of mothers time
wear in and year out. However, it won't
be any trihing care to keep the proper
ones under the blue influence, and shut
the others out who might suddenly get
too large for their new clothes. oh, dear
Nothing is perfect IN this worldl What
helps one thing hurts another"
"If | could only grow up to the size
of my feet and handsi" | heard dis
trustful lad of eighteen complain to his
mother, "I wouldn't mind being en-,
cased in a blue bottle for year, if could
only get rid of the name of Leather
Plantation which the young ladies call
me behind my back. only wish eouid
direct the blue rays upon some OF ther
noses, would compensate them and my
| self also for their hatefulness."
"That is unnatural, my son, I'll study
the Pleasanton theory and see if there
have been any experiments in color that
will suit your mental conditions"
This is how they rave about the Cen
| PIeasanton discoveries in New York
| Office windows are already in stripes OF
the two colors. Not few of our leading
and rejecting business gentlemen, who
have almost concluded that defalcations,
misappropriations and embezzlements are
an epidemic, and consequent upon dis
| eased action of the human system, are
proposing to adopt proper colors for their
| Office doors and windows, even the tlntss
of the ceilings are being considered, and
| this involves deal of investigation ana
reflection. The phrenologist, the physl-
ognomist, physiologist and physician, be,
sides careful ascent of genealogical
trees on two sides of a family must be
included in the business of colorlng an
Office wall and toning or combining the
lights of heaven that fall upon a man
who holds position of trust.
Some of our citizens are already plan,
ming to warm their rooms with blue ano
white glass windows next winter, and tnt
amount of added luxury in consequence