Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-07

ones, 100. Iices. tilDTOlueTlts. nech-
ties, gloves, and, in fact, all the little
refinements and elegancies Of costume
depend for their looks on the care taken
of them. Ii is not only bad taste and
bad manners, but it displays a real lack
of personal refinement for a lady to wear
crumpled, torn or soiled finery. There
is no need and no excuse for it. All
these delicate little articles of adornment
can be so carefully laid away when not
in use that their freshness and beauty
shall be preserved. So with gloves; so
with fine dresses or garments Of any
sort. To see an elegant silk all full of
wrinkles. looking As though it has been
slept in, or to see handsome cloak all
out of shape and dotted with lint through
being carelessly hung up under other
clothes in wardrobe, is offensive in the
extreme 10 refined taste. On the con-
trary, the daintily cared-for lace and
ribbon, looking fresh and bright as
though just bought, the carefully done
up collar. the carefully kept, unwrinkled
dress, all mark the woman of real re-
care of things.
And the same art is most necessary
one in order to the attractive appearance
of our homes. The housekeeper who
knows how to use things, and Yet take
care Of them. is possessed of happy
secret. Ii does children no good, it
does not make them whit happier, TO
allow them to pound or scratch or abuse
things. Entirely too much latitude has
of late been allowed children in this
direction. If children wish to cut wood
or drive tacks or ride on chairs, by all
means let them have play-room where
proper material will be afforded them,
but compel them to respect good nature.
They are no better for being allowed TO
put their feet on chair seats or the
carved support of the center-table.
They have no business to put candy on
the piano or smear it with greasy fingers.
They may just as well be taught that the
carpet is not the place for their muddy
boots nor the floor the place for their
hats. The mothers work is to give line
upon line and precept upon precept in
any case, and one of the best things she
can teach her children through this
educational process is the art OF taking
care of things.-Erchange.
CoCA.-The remarkable properties of
coca-thc dried leaves of small tree
growing in Peru and Bolivia-and espe-
cially its power TO enable one to put
forth long continued exertion without
fatigue, have been exciting good deal
of attention among scientific men for
hn la ~
were known and priced long before the
Spanish conquest, the leaves being en-
plcyed, even as a medium of exchange.
After the conquest, they We're among
the most valuable articles of export. AT
Potosi alone, 100000 bushels were con-
sumed yearly. Under the influence of
the leaves of this plant, the miners can
work night and day, with only brief in
tervals OF rest and sleep. The slightest
food and a handful of the leaves enable .
the natives TO endure the severest and /
most protracted toll of every kind. They
take them three times a day, chewing
them and lodging them in the side of
their mouth. ike a quid of tobacco. In
1876, the Toronto (Canada) Lacross
Club, consisting of Is players, all of
sedentary professions, held the cham
pionship of the world against all corners,
white men or Indian, fortified mainly by
coca, which they chewed during the
game, swallowing the saliva. One day,
during which the heat in the sun was AT
ll0o F., though their antagonists, me-
chanics and tradeSmen of sturdy build.
were utterly exhausted before the game
was finished, the former seemed AS free
from fatigue as at the beginning. Its
chief action is upon the heart, and il is
believed by some, at least, that it is
liable to the same objection as other
stimulants and narcotics. \
French writer afiirms that when long
lsed in excess IL affects the hrain ana