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How Women Nav Please.

The first requisite in woman
toward pleasing others is that she
should be pleased with herself. In
no other way can she attain that
self-poise. that satisfaction which
leaves her at liberty to devote her
self successful to others. Let
women, if they would remain charm
ing, by all means keep their hold on
love, their faith in romance. The
power of feeling gives vitality and
interest to faces long after their
first flush has passed. Speaking as
a matter of fact, this is the case: for
emotion has a livelier power than
the sun has over the blood, and the
miracle of love in making a plain
girl pretty is explained by the slim
ulating effects of happiness on the
If you would preserve
in you looks, beware
how you repress emotion. Guilt
vate not the signs of it, but emo
ton itself; for the two things are
very distinct.
Laugh, weep, rejoicesor suffer as
life provides. Only feel something
natural, worthy and vivid enough
not to leave your face a blank
Dare.
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A Ducking Stool.

After reading the poem, "a House
keepers tragedy" published else
where, we came across the following
on the Ducking Stool, which we
think should be kept up, not only
for the scold but also for the exces-
sively clean housewife; for if there
is any thing after a scold that will
destroy the peace and comfort of q
home,iU is one of these monomaniacs
on cleanliness. Sometimes they
are combined IN the same person,
but this is too terrible for any poor
man to contemplate:
In the crypt of Warwick Church,
the mighty ribbed arches of which
spring from one enormous pier,
there is an article which has long
gone out of use-whether sdvan-
tageously or not shall not venture
to say-a ducking stool, made for
the public discipline of scolding
women. This is one of the only two
l believe, that remain III England.
1t consists of a strong oak frame on
low wheels, from which a seat rises
upon an inclined beam that works
upon a pivot or axle. The scold
was dashed into the seat, and then
the institution" was drawn to the
river side at a convenient deep place,
and rolled in until the patient sat
just above the water. Then the
land end of the beam was tipped up
and consequently the other end with
lbs lading went down under the
water, where it was allowed to re-
main not too long, and was then
raised for breathing time. This
process was repeated as often as it
was thought beneficial TO the lady
under treatment, or necessary for
the peace of her family and neigh
borhood. Whether husbands ever
interceded tor wives thus diciplined,
as wives do now sometimes for hus-
bands who are unreasonably inter
ferred with in the gentle sport of
backing their eyes or kicking their
ribs, is not recorded.-We GALAXY.
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Why She Stopped Her Paper.

She came bouncing through the
sanctum door like a cannon bail
and without pausing to say "Ho"
dye do? she brought her umbrella
down on the table with mighty
crash and shouted;
Il want you to stop my paper.
"All right, madam"
"Stop it right of, too" she per
sisted, whacking the table again
"for waited long enough for you
to do the square thing"
She quoted down for moment
as we ran our finger down the list
of names and when we reached
hers and scratched it out. she said
"There now, mehbe you'll do as
you'd ought to after this, and not
slight a woman jes cause she's poor
If some rich folks happen to have q
little red headed, handy legged
squint eyed, wheezy sqaller born to
them, you puff it up to the skies
and make it out an angel; but when
poor people have a baby, you don't
say a word about it, evel if it's the
s9uarest-toed, blacklist haired, big
gest headed, noblest little kid that
ever kept a woman awake nights
Now talk about my baby again in
yer little old paper! That's what's
the matter, and that why l stopped
my paper.
And she dashed out as rapidly as
she came.
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"New-Mown Hay"

A day or two ago a family con-
tanning four ladies halted on Wood
ward avenue, near the Holden Road,
and one Of the females shifted the
air and cried out:
"Ah! how delicious is the scent of
that new-mown hayp'
"Ah! ali! abr the rest of them
cried out as they elevated their
noses.
A man in his shirt-sleeyes was
leaning over the fence, but they did
not see him until he cried out.
81 begs your pardon, ladies, but
the old horse fell into the ditch
there three days ago and died, and
l didn't find the body till an hour
ago. I've sent a team to haul it
away, and I'm sorry about the smell.
Drive along a little and you'll get to
windward of the corpse r'-Detroa
Free Press.
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A EousEKEEpER's TRAGEDY.

One day as l wandered, heard complain
And saw poor woman, the picture Of
gloom;
She glared al the mud on het doorstep ('twas
raining,)
And this was her wall as she welded the
broom:
''Ohl Life Is a toll, and love is trouble,
And beauty will fade and riches will fee,
Ind pleasures they dwindle, and prices they
double,
And nothing is what 1 could wish it to be.
There's too much of worliment goes to bon
net;
There's too much ofironing goes to a shirt;
There's nothing that pays for the time You
waste on it;
There's nothing that lasts but trouble and
dirt.
In March 1t is mud; it's slosh in December;
The midsummer breezes are loaded with
In fall the leaves litter; in muggy September,
The wallpaper rots and the candlesticks
rust.
There are worms in the cherries, and slugs
in the roses;
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pies;
The rubbish of spiders no mortal supposes,
And ravaging reaches and damaging flies.
It's sweeping at six and busting at seven;
It's victuals at eight and dishes at nine;
It's potting and banning from ten to eleven
We scarce break our fast till we plan how
to dine
With grease ard with CRIME, from corner to
centre,
Forever at war and forever alert,
No rest for day lest the enemy enter
spend my whole life in struggle with
dirt.
Last night, in my dream, was stationed for
ever
In little bare isle in the midst of the sea;
My one chance of life, with a ceasless en-
deayor
Tosweep off the waves ere they sweep over
me.
Alas! Twas no dream-again l behold it
yield; am helpless my fate to avertP
She rolled down her sleeves, her apron she
folded;
Then lay down and died and was buried in
dirt!
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LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLINE HAROLD, EDITOR.
Marry to be Happy.

Men and women wed each other
to be happy. And why not if they
marry wisely The man should al
ways be little older, a little drawer,
little stronger, little wiser, and a
little more in love with her than she
is with him. The woman should al
ways be little prettier, and a little
more inconsiderate than her hus-
band. He should bestow upon her
all his worldly goods and she should
take good care of them. He may
owe her every care and tenderness
that affection can prompt; but
pecuniary indebtness to her will
become a burden. Better live on a
crust he earns than a fortune SHE
has brought him. Neither must en-
courage sentimental friendship for
opposite sex. Perfect confidence in
each other, and reticence concern
ing their mutual affairs, even to the
members of their own families, is a
first necessity. A wife should dress
herself becomingly whenever she
expects to meet her husbands eye.
The man should not grow slovenly,
even at home. Fault-fnding, long
or scolding, ends the hap
piness that begins in kisses and
love making. Sisters and brothers
may quarrel and snake up" Low
ers are lovers no longer after such
occur, and married
people who are not lovers are bound
by red hot chains. If a man ad-
mires his wife most in prints, she
is silly not to wear them. If she
likes him best in black cloth, he is
fool if he neglects to indulge in it.
They should contrive to please each
other, even if they please nobody
else, for their mutual happiness can
only be the result of their mutual
love, and that love will never fail to
exhalt its object.
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Milk and Lime-Water.

Milk and lime-water are frequent
ly prescribed by physicians in cases
of dyspepsia and weakness of stom-
ach, and in some cases it is said to
prove very beneficial. Many per-
sons who think good bread and milk
great luxury frequently hesitate
to eat it for the reason that the milk
will not digest readily; sourness of
stomach will often follow. But ex-
perience proves that lime water and
milk are not only food and medicine
at an early period OF life, but also at
later, when, as in the case of in
fants, the functions of digestion and
assimilation have been seriously
impaired. A stomach taxed by
gluttony, irritated by improper food,
infamed by alcohol, enfeebled by
disease, or otherwise untitled for
its duties-as is shown by the vari-
Gus symptoms attendant upon in
digestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea dys-
EMERY, and fever-will resume its
work, and do it energetically, Oh an
exclusive diet of bread and milk
and lime-water. A goblet of cows
milk mayhave four tablespoonfuls Of
lime water added to it with good
effect. The way to make lime water
is simply to procure a few Jumps of
unslaked lime, put the lime in a
stone jar, add water until the lime
is slaked and of about the consis-
tency of thin cream; the lime set
les, leaving the pure and clear lime
water at the ton.
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Cola in the Head.

This can be cured at once, if
taken care of at the very beginning.
Dissolve a tablespoonful of borax
in a pint of hot water; let it stand
until it becomes tepid; stuff some
up the nostrils two or three times
during the day, or use the dry
powdered borax like snuff, taking a
pinch as often as required. AT
night have handkerchief saturated
with spirits of oamphor; place II
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Harper's Weekly.
ILLUSTRATED.
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Strange.

Strange it is that little pleasures
should be esteemed as below mans
regard, while the fall of a sparrow
to the ground, the brief existence OF
fly, the blossoming of ah over, are
not beneath Gods providence
Strange that men should let their
hearts harden with pride against en-
joyments on account of their com
monness, when on every tree, every
single leaf thrust forth in the spring,
and in the summer unfolding itself
to the sun and the wind, Is through
the power of Gods afording."-
Aartyrid.
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TUFTS PILLS

A distinguished physician of New Yorl
avs:
1t is astonishing how universally DR..
Tutts Pills are used. In my daily rounds
[ hear of them not only among the poor
out their virtues are heralded from the man.
;ions of the wealthy and refined. Know
ing the inventor from his long connection
With the medical profession, have great
confidence in their merits, and of late have
often prescribed them with the happiest re.
suits in cases where 1 desired to make de.
.ided impression on the liver"
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French Fashion at the Paris Races.

MAT" writing to the London
World, referring to one lady's cos
tune at the race for the grand prize,
says: "Her skirts were composed
o:alternating stripes of yellow satin,
pink tulle, and purple velvet emilia
zoned with Australian parrots.
Her Bonnet was of skyblue straw,
trimed with two ripe and three I'M
ripe lemons, and it was tied on by
one white and one scarlet string.
She wore pale-green gloves and
cream-colored shoes with bows of
silver gauze, and she shaded what
appeared TO be her countenance with
a parasol of variegated tulip petals,
interspersed with a selection oftroU-
zeal butterflies. THE wife of the
Pasha of the Syrian Desert" muir
INJURED Spartiveno. as we took off
our hats and passed; "may st. Peter
have mercy on the soul of her tailor
There will be small chance for him
l take it, at the gate of Heaven with
such a costume as that on his con
science. According to my ideas of
relative responsibilities for crime I
had rather have robbed a church or
poisoned a new born child"
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Too Thin.

"Now, Ulysses" said Mrs. Grant,
81 have no objection to your dining
with Mrs. Guelph, Arthur WELLESLEY,
or other respectable people, but
don't you come kiting home again
at three o'clock in the morning and
tell me that you have Bin tn lodge
18th Wales. 1t is too thin. Do
you hear me?"
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Tanning Skins.

Flesh and clean the hide; wash
out in luke-warm water, salt and
soap. Make one gallon rainwater,
one gill sulphuric acid. little salt
and a small piece of alum; put the
hide in this bath; let it remain one
half hour, then wash out good in
warm rainwater and soap; rub dry,
and grease with neatfoot or other
good oil.-Jas. II. Moore, in West
orn Harm journal
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sc.5s TAEE on TLrsa
wvz-z THE wElsET N GOLD.
LOUISVILLE, KY.
AUfy- 4 I2-c

LOUISVILLE, KY.
Aug. 3, 1876
DR.. TUTT Dear Sir :
For ten years I have beer
a martyrto dyspepsia, con.
stipation, and piles, and
had well nigh exhausted
the materia medica for re-
lief from this living death,
when, by accident, youi
Pills were brought 70 my
notice. / began their use,
and the first dose gave me
such reliefthat Icontinued
70 take them. ] am now a
well man, have a good ap-
petite, can digest well, the
piles have disappeared,
and I have gained forty
pounds in solid flesh. ]
would not be without
them for their weight in
gold.
REV. X. L. SIMPSON.
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DIR. Tut has been en-
1 gagged in the practice o
medicine thirty years, anC
foralong time was demon
strator of anatomy in the
Medical College Of Geor
gia, hence, persons using
his Pills have the guaran'
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles
a nd arc free from al
quackery.
He has succeeded il
combining in them The
heretofore antagonistiS
qualities Of a strengthen
fng, PEygGffVe, GHdG PHT-
flying tonic.
Their first apparent ef
feet is to increase the ap,
petite by causing the food
TO properly a ssimitate
Thus the system is nour,
ished, and by their Toni
action on the digestive or
gans, regular and healthy
excavations are produced
The rapidity with which
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A new fashion in weddings has
been introduced in England. Not
long since a beautiful child of five
years acted as chief bridemaid, and
wore a white foulard frock, trimmed
with torchon lace, and chip hat with
long white feather.
England is behind the times
America is looking out for s0me-
thing still later.
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Herald:-After all, one of the
most tempting of breakfast dishes
is new cabbage warmed over with
potatoes. 1t is naughty but it is
nice
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can be demonstrated that a pound
of wool can be grown as cheaply in
this Central Basin, as a pound OF
cotton, while the market value,
through a series of years is -four
times as great. But this is not all.
The soil given to sheep will be en-
riched, that upon which cotton is
grown will be sterilized and per-
manent and irreparable injury in
tiicted upon society.
Fright here is fearful response
bility resting upon us all. 1t is our
duty to take care of the soil upon
which we live, both from economic
considerations and upon moral prin-
ciples-upon economic grounds be-
cause it adds to our individual
wealth and to the wealth of the
whole country-upon moral princi-
piles because we have no right to
entail poverty and want, restitution
and misery, ignorance with all its
concomitants of vice and crime, be-
cause of our Incidence. We have
only lifetime interest in the soil,
and it is our duty to transmit it i'm
proyed-not impaired In its fertil-
ity, and not be worse than he who
wrapped his money in a napkin
Our imprudence is fast destroying
the very germs Of our vitality and
national wealth. The nation s
heart will beat the feebler as the
streams of lite blood are drawn
away thro' the deep gashes made by
our own prodIgal sons. The peO-
pie who raise cotton in our State
live upon the life blood of future
generations. For every dollar s
worth of cotton they sell, five dol
lars worth of soil is destroyed,
washed away, floated on toward the
gulf to build up new continents in
the far distant future, when man
himself may have persisted from the
very face of the earth. Posterity
is pauperized by such course.
"The whole economy of the cot
ton planter is false, and will, in the
end, prove disastrous. He sells
raw products and buys finished
ones. In this he gives the labor of
three men for one and makes him
self entirely dependent On the sea-
sons. He sends his raw products to
distant markets. double loss. He
raises more Of his peculiar staple
than the market demands; thus
selling the cream OF his soil at the
lowest price. The lower the price,
the less his profits; the greater the
strain upon his soil to supply his
the greater the tendency
to consolidation, the less room there
is for diversified employments; the
less room there will be for associa-
ton, without which there can be no
control over the powers of nature,
which, when harnessed by intelli-
gence, obey the will of man and toll
for his comforts and necessities.
The economy of the cotton planter
is the economy of decay and death;
of never ceasing toll and never end
ing poverty. He who prostitutes
the land Of this central area to cot
violates the inscruta-
BILE laws of nature, and will pay the
penalty, sooner or later, by impov-
erishing the country in which he
lives, impoverishing himself, and
moral, mental and phys
cal degradation upon his pos
5erity."