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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-23
The Help Yourself Society.

1 COULD not help stopping in H..
midst of my writing just now, to watch
some little sparrows on the porch ro"i
just outside my window. It a re,u '
lar feeding place for them, for We scat.
ter crumbs there every day, lust f.,
the pleasure of their company, Even
the baby has caught the spirit. Hs !.
something like
THAT bad little girl Of Ounce
Who never would finish her cr,st"
So he saves his for the sparrows, III,
raining and Louie's last crust is beau.
tifully soaked. just on the edge Of thu
roof. Down came an old motler.smr.
row and four great baby.sparrows.
never should have known they wers
her babies only for their actions, for
they were as big as she was and great
deal fattcr. They never offered to touch
the bread, but all sat in a row scream.
ing ut their mother to wait upon them
with their mouths wide open.
There was no reason in the world
why they should not help themselves,
only that they always had been fed BY
her. They were not patient children
but each seemed to be crying out NE
first, mother. me first!'' in such a dis.
tracing way, that the poor mother
seemed quite confused in her efforts u
satisfy them. They would hop before
one another, and catch the crumb,
from each others mouths in q verv
greedy way; and if the mother tried 70
eat bite; most likely they snatvhed
that up. too. No wonder she was very
thin and looked tired, ut least thought
SO. She flew of with u bite Of bread to
tamarack tree near by, to eat it in
peace, but three greedy children pur.
sued her. The fourth stayed by the
bread, and it was funny to see his at.
tempts ut helping himself. He would
dive his bill into the bread and then
lump back us if it had burned him.
l have seen some great children about
as helpless and exacting, ndtheir poor
mothers usually looked thin and weary
and troubled. From morning till night
you will near such questions as Mother.
where is my history?' Mother. won't
you sew on my shoe.buttons?" Mother,
won't you sew q button on my jacket"
Cant you put up my luncheon. ! am
in such a hurry?" Every one Of these
things the boys and girls could have
done quite as we'll for themselves II
they had only thong hit SO. There is no
rea o l why a boy should not learn !, to
sew on y jacket-button as we'll as bis
sister. Il is not half so hard as learn
ing to skate or white. Boys and girls
if you wish your beloved mother to
live long and happily with you, join al
once the "Help Yourself Society,"
Baptist Weekly.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-23

plants for window decoration in winter.
Young plants from ''tip" cuttings IN
small pots are fully IS good tor TINS
purpose as larger ones, ana occupy
much less room. Some OF the newer
varieties of this plant have very delicate
solorings and markings, and almost
every year varieties of special interest
are added to our already large list. Tho
principal difficulty in keeping coleus in
an ordinary dwelling-house is that the
plants become chilled at night, which
will cause the leaves to drop, and IRE
quently kills the plant. Most varieties
Of coleus require q good exposure to the
sun, in order to develop their finest
shades and markings.
There are some kinds of plants, not
generally regarded as house'p!ants'
which are desirable for winter bloom
ing. Pansies, tuberoses, sweet a!yssum'
stocks, etc., are among those which can
be grown indoors. Tuberoses which
have been planted in the ground during
the summer, but which are too late to
bloom and escape the frost, may be care
fully lifted and potted in good rich soil,
and they will then bloom in the house.
For house culture the dwarf variety,
"Pearl," is in every way superior to the
old variety. Achyranthes Eersicolor IS
a pretty plant, of very compact growth,
q quality which makes it superior to
most other varieties of achyranthes,
which are of a much coarser growth. The
markings of Achyranthes Versicolor are
very handsome. Cuttings of verbenas
NAV be started at this time, and will
make good plants for winter blooming.
Wood taken from geranium plants in
pruning is excellent to start young plants
from, which may be done by placing
each cutting in q small pot filled with
fine loose soil. The soil should be kept
evenly moist, and the pots plunged in
sawdust or other material, in cool,
shady situation. Scented geraniums are
indispensable in every collection of par
lor plants. As their chief value consist!
in the fragrance Of the leaves, small
plants are nearly as good IS larger ones
while they take up much less space Of
the stand. This class Of geraniums nov
numbers q great many varieties. o
which rose, apple, lemon, variegatet
rose and skeleton .leaved are desirable
ones. The apple scented is particular.
! rich.-Cor. Examiner and Chronicle.
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THE BABY.

This is the baby's birthday. She is
eighteen months old, and she's got two
mumps and lots of measles. Grandma
saws they've come out splendid. |
should think they had. I don't believe
there's half . one left inside of her, and
she's as cross as cross; she goes yao",
vaou, yaou, ,vaoM, waou. vaou, and she
keeps knocking her mumps axidentical-
", all the time, and then she Just hollers
my, how she hollers!
The picture a little way backs pict-
ure of her. The dot is her nose, she is
so swelled up that it looks like little
i've made up some poetry for you to
put in your Ortograif album. 1t be-
gins: -
We are all in the dumps
Because Of the mumps.
| That swells up In bumps,
And gives vs. hig humps,
And will not bear any tnuinps,
trunp .
Jumps
| crump
That's far az could make up the
lines, but know lots more words taa'
rhyme, so I've written them down lo'
you to make up some lines to your
self.
Grandma sends love and says an
not to write anything that will worry
you, so guess had better s'op no.
for fear shall. Hope your cough il
better, and YOU don't have to TAXI
Droyer's powders to make you sleep.
Your very atsectionateIy daughter,
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A MOTHERS LETTER FROM HOME.

MY Darling Mamma:
PAPA says may write and tell you
that we are all we'll and you must enjoy
Yourself and not worry about us for wc
are getting along splcndidly.
That's just what he told me to write.
and he has directed an envelope all
ready for me to put the letter in. But
don't see what he means by saying
we are all we'll, for there's a lot OF
things the matter with us. There's
measles, and humps, and malaria, and
if there were any more sicknesscs that
began with NJ, l guess we would have
them, too.
Grandma-shc's got the malaria;
that's the prettiest name, and | think
it's the pretticst.looking sickness. 1t
makes her face yellow. but it don't putt
her out like mumps. Edith and me
think it makes her cross. DO grown
folks get cross when they are sick just
like children? She takes Queeneen to
break up chills, she says, but | am
afraid she will break up herself, for she
shakes as if she would fly to pieces
some DAYS. think she's got all the
malaria there is in the house for none
Of the rest of us have had any; but
there was measles enough to 60 round.
and we've all had 'em except me. l
suppose should have had some of
them, too, but grandma says | had 'em
nine years ago when l was only a year
old.
Billy, the boy that carries news
papers, brought us the mumps, and we
amt much obliged to him. | asked him
what he wore his face in worsted COM
ferable for, an he said caused he d
got a corn behind his ears, and then he
asked me if l saw anything green, but
OF course I couldn't through his big
comfortable. Anyhow, I don't believe
it was green corn in the middle OF
winter. Hannah said, the next to-
morrow, when she saw him, that 'twa:
m,,lnps, an he had no business to come
here, and she said, you'll catch it.
Miss, for talking to that naughty boy
in the hall when you was told not to!
did catch it, too, and wish l hadn'
talked to him, for my mumps was awful
but they are most better now. Once
sneezed while had them, and though
had torn off both ears and turned IN,
nose wrong side out, it hurt so; but
hadn't.
This is a picture of Edith. with bot
her mumps.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-23
Edwin I.andseer's Dexterity.

But by far the most amazing instance
of the technical powers of our subject IS
that which is Ia itself, without regard to
I.andseer, a subject Of extraordinary in
terest to psychologists and inquirers into
the nature Of the action of the brain and
the distribution of nerve power. Our
informant is Mr.. Solomon Hart, a royal
scademician remarkable for his accom-.
plishnent and acute observation. A
large party was assembled one evening
at the house of gentleman in the upper
ranks of London " society," crowds OF
ladies and gentlemen Of distinction were
present, including Landseer, who was.
as usual, lion; . large group gathered
about the sofa where he was lounging;
the subject turned on dexterity and ia
city in feats of skin with the hand.
No doubt the talk was ingeniously led
in this direction by some who knew Sir
Edwin could do wonders Of dexterous
drauRhtsmanship, and were not uwill-
ing to see him draw, but they did not
expect what followed.
Alady, lolling back on . settee, and
rather tired of the subject, As ladies are
apt to become when conversation does
not appeal to their feelings or their in
terests, exclaimed, after many instances
Of manual dexterity had been cited
"Well, there's one thing nobody has
ever done, and that is draw two things
at Once.' She had Signalized herself
by quashing . subject Of conversation,
and was about to return to her most be-
lcshhg attitude when Landseer said
sSOk can do that. lend mo two pen
ellis, and I will show you!" The pencils
were got, 3 piece Of ,psper was laid on
| the table, and Sir Edwin, = pencil il
each hand, drew simultaneously and
without hesitation, with the one HAND
the profile Of . stays head and oil it
antlers complete, and with the othe1
hand the perfect profile Of q horse
head. Both drawings were full OF en-
srgy and spirit, and although, As tn
occasion compelled, not finished, the!
were together and individually quit
las good Is Tia master was accustomed
to produces with his right hand alone
the drawing by the left hand was no
inferior TO- that BY the right.-F c
StGoNenS:, "a. ~ f.l;t 14t;r ~ .
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Mixed Metaphors.

A GERMAN author has made 9 collec.
ton of mixed metaphors, which he calls
pearls of thought. Some of them are
worth quoting, If only as 4 warning to
high.tlown orators not to allow their
magniloquence to fly away with them
altogether. 1--WE will" cried an in
spired orator, "burn all our ships, and
with every sail unfurled, steer boldly out
into the ocean of freedom!" Even that
Fights surpassed by an effort of Justice
Minister Hye, who, in 1913, in a speech
to the Vienna students, impressNely de-
clared: ''rhe chariot of the Revolution
is rolling along and crashing its teeth
as it rolls" A pan-Germanist Mayor of
a Rhincland corporation rose still higher
in an address to the Emperor. He said {:
"No Austria, no Prussia, one only Ger
many, such were the words the mouth
Of your imperial Majesty has always had
in its eye.'' But there are even literary
men who can not open their mouth
"without putting their foot in it." Prof.
Johannes Scherr is an example of such.
Ina criticism on Lenau's ''Lyrics," he
writes: "Out Of the dark regions Of
philosophical problems the poet sud-
denly lets swarms Of songs dive up, car.
rying far-hashing pearls Of thought il
their beaks.' Songs and beaks are GER
tainly related to one another, but were
never seen in that homogeneous connec'
ton before. A German preacher, speak
! ing of repentant girl, said: "She knel,
| in the temple of her interior and prayed
fervently," q feat no India rubber dol
could initiate. The German Parliamen
| tary orator of the present day affords
many examples of metaphor mixture
but two must suffice. Count Franken
berg is the author Of them. Anew year
ago he pointed out to his countrymel
the necessity of "seizing the stream o
time BY the forelock;" and in the las
session he told the Minister of War tina
if he really thought the French were Sc
riously attached to peace, he had bette
resign Office and ''return to his paterna
oxen" The Count had. no doubt, tn
poets paterna rura in his mind at tn
time. But none Of these pearls
thought and expression in the Father
land surpass the speech of the immorta
Joseph Prudhomme on being presente
with a sword Of honor by the cOmpan
he commanded in the National Guard {
France. ''Gentlemen," said he, 9TH
sword is the brightest day of my life!
-Gdignan;'s Messenger.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-23
Out.oi.Door Games.

One Of the most significant signs OF q
change in our social habits is the an
uouncements which meet Us at every
turn iOf archery contests, ,cr0quet
matches and lawn tennis todrpanents:
No summering place in the North is held
to be furnished this year unless it has q
tennis court and a field for archery. In
the SsotN no usual tournaments 1Sye
been .h6ld, bnt IN these The SexerciDe y
confined to men. The ladies watch the
gallant knights on fiery steeds dash
mainly alta ring with . long stick, and
their only part In the pastirne is to smile
and look.pretty, and crown, the victor
afterward, according to the old.fash-
toned role Of women which may DO pic
turesdue and romantic and emotional,
but which, assuredly does not strengthen
their legs, lungs Or stomachs. Tennis,
goquetr ard archery aFea saTes t9r
much, ]sp f0Phssy,, ID gsvei,sa hce0f
healthier women as wives, and mothers
for the next generation! IL f'''f-
a long step has been taken BY mod
xrn women Il, proper, physical develop
msnt Increasing familiarity with the
models 81 beAuty in sculpture and paint
ing has done away with tight lacing;'an
educated woman to whom the figure Of
tue Medicean Venus Or Diana OF the
\ 1.avrak lrDiliaa al h0r own lould bt
ASHAMED I'd apSaS wf,A the 6iltorted,
\ wnsp.fke waist q witch ifer ~motht1
was so vain. City mothers know enough
Of hygiene and physiology, too, 70 teach
their girls gymnastics, rowing, riding
skating, as well as dancing. Perhap:
ttKs ilbst gplH4& EXAMINES 81 physical
health in the country are to be found
among the children Of the higher classes
,asSJst R ssai1 a '5salss!
1 snd wealth. hare dsne all that is posi-
II BE. Outdoor games are among tn
| most efficient aida q this physical edu
cation. Presently our women will b
able to,ride and walk with Is much en-
ergy and good results to their health q
their English cousins.-New Yore III
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G1xeERBREAD.-One cup sirup, two
tablespoonfuls melted butter, one tea
spoonful ginger. mix thoroughly to-
getler; one teAspoonful sa!eratus in one
oup'of boiling water; let 1t cool . few
moments, then put all together. and stil
lin lightly three cups Of hour.
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JOsEY AND JIMMY AND THEIR TWO SICK
NESSES.
Your canary bird isn't we'll, and we've
took him out of the nursery. It can't
be malaria because he is yellower than
grandma, anyhow, and couldn't get any
worse; and I don't suppose it's measles.
because the feathers take up too much
room; and if it mumps, it will have to
be a very small kind or else they will
be bigger than he is.
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The Sad Sequel T. ~ ,Elopement.

A SPECIAL from Kingston, N. Y,
to the St. Louis Republican, says:
The suicide Of Carrie Barton, near Rock
Village, this county, on Friday, is the
sequel to romantic though melancholy
HISTORY ! She was the daughter q Capt.
Jas. Barton, at one time q leading bust
ness man Of New Orleans. During the
GM MAI. Capt, Barton served with dis
tinction in the Confederate army. At
the close of the war he removed to La
fayette County, Mo. Carrie grew up to
be an intelligent and refined young
woman. Among her admirers WIS
Charles Thornton, . worthy young man,
whose father was highly respected and
Twealthy. The young couple became
ardently attached to each other, but
Carries parents were adverse TO- his at
ttsntipsss bGng & sdsairoas thet Their
EdsSf les Aud we'd ) ssitof 4 thRt1
own selection. Carrie Vas determined
to marry Thornton or remain single.
An elopsmant and secret marriage VA
taareSd upon. { Two hontA ago thu
left their parental roofs. deciding u
come to New York, where Carrie had
relatives. At St. Louis .theY.were mar
rie1 md tlen cahtinuA their bu1pe9
Eanta ,FxrsaIont, six v4kA 10 lo&0
couple N8ppa Mthe residence o1 MI
p. D. Griswold, an uncle Of the bride
AM . .xsfF ski florhtffSt 93o ~
were afraid to communicate with thei
parents for, fear Of q storm Of parenta
over 81 ltf0ubles, aAA Dbl NaesdAy Id
left his wife, since which time nothinl
has been seen or heard Of him. On Fri
''fG [8|s'|,Ai 4||| 4aM4,. !: III r. :
. corpse. Her remains have been for
kWarded tOthe home Of her parents.
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Potting Plants for Winter.

~ss~sv
before removing to permanent winter
quarters. ID, i "a. "'''tiI q
To insure the best success, the opera
tor should select cool or damp weather,
and provide himself with good, friable
soA. i When there is but little to be
done, morning or evening is good time
for operations. Plants when set out in
the open ground form their roots very
differently from what they do when
grown in pots, the roots being long and
Struggling, and very liable to be cut
when but q small portion of soil is re-
moved with them. Consequently the
coil should be made very vet before re.
moving the plants, and the earth around
he roots should be lifted q compaetly
as possible. Very light soilswill require
especial care in this respect.
Another important point Is to prune
the plants sufficiently. Plants that have
made . rank, succuIent growth, or ore
removed with . coni 1ersble los q
iuots require most pruning. Pla1ts well
cut back are jnA1eDa - I'm young
shoots, which will give the plaaAs d moro
symmetrical town, ard rconduce to the
developnsntSf A60Jrlsuds. % In many
cases, However, little o. no pruning i
necessary. .sanoisbard ,sdA'ui .s'I4a'aa
In removing plants from the ground
take of all the Soil not connected with
the roots, and plsee . little fresh soA Of
good quality in the pot, when placing
~ plant IN Il. This gives the plant
dex Flood to work upon. Plants need
better son Wien growing in pots than
1h1n tin the open ground. When the
1t has bean properly pressed into the
4ilk apply sufficient water to moderately
sasurate the soil, and .eet To plants in Z
cool and shady place until the roofs an
formed See t hat !hs pla4te de p q 'q T:
after potting, they %, left in the open
a. Il; i sSs ee's1 &lSS Ed. .. IS isaEf 5te{'
heat che pots, and dry out the roots Of
the plants. The proper way is to plunge
the Ss;p o:' T. tas Ss'm' in some light con
Large plants a. gsraniums, which
have bloomsd all summer and are thus
united ioraheuse decoration, may be
kept during the winter IN . light warm
hcealat! Occasional waterings will be
neesssdry 10 keep the plants from dry
| iag.IT II Is bdt little trouble 10 keel
fladAS over winter in this way, and from
What I hAve Deenthe present summer
6elievethat old, large, plsats of eerani
I yRs arS especially desirable for bedding
I p1 poses. They make . show Of boil
TX Isons end foliage earlyin The season
T Before small young plants come on
! Annthst advances s. d large orcld plant
Is that they are alWpgt proof agains
that intidious enemy 6f the geraaium
hsvhlts ant In saeh plants the pit
seems = b, tee tough for. the ants t
bore. $50, .Asd.apl.iaf&E J, H7faf Il
III tCQlsQs ',mlles, tsn6esaingJ bsaatit
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Diphtheria In Canadian Provinces.


UOWAAO- Sss0sO osV nV O0WVAc1 V.SO0 vAsV1V
are no guttSvS ID TIE sttjjl. Eud Hal6
srIno attention hss, b,ea given 70 epr-
face drainage. The streefs- are often
hhhY, but they arsreilly Tie eleanest
part u tlMlIle Any opsFh2. hAei
aiken uD his abode for . week or > fort
night in one 81 these villages which arc
Just outside d thA line Of sanitary i'm.
IHu4 q4nts will find it hard to escape,
/ a. Unpleasant Impressions. The Va
ter from wells is 6at and insipid, having
the. unmistakable taint Of saturated soil.
The surroundings ore simply &bomina-
De" Fortunately, the people are It
length becoming aroused, and ara Or.
g6ahil1x voluntary sanitary associations.
lncreasad attention Is also, We are g1ad
"a, observe heingb estswel a sa4taazJ
matters by CITY Commissioned >CoAtR
worth, and No better measures can -
adopted than 10 purihcation Of tie city
Farming 1aia1lms., ,rsedtlyb wAsn
Uexter 4emenway, s. yean IpA, was
visited b. his nix bruthSrS. NJ. Hemen-
way played A.h1l6tba M TIA bAptiil
I C6a0 1or thirty years, yitheut miealns
SSlkdAS. He and ~ IL M 10 eo66I
l6p 5l4 yba<n1 Nu1llnAfie H1lks
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