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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Feminine Faces and Limbs.
[Sunday Mercury

sunday Mercury
Two professional beauties in England have
drawn the attention OF the masculine world
to their peculiar antagOnism. There is war
of blOOdlesS, but nevertheless of an inter-
csting character One of the most celebrated
beauties has lovely face, an arm fit for
sculpture, but lower limbs meagre in proper
tions. a rival for general society favor and
for the cOndescendingly admiring glances OF
the Prince of Wales, has cOmely but not
lovely face, but arms that swell with Phidian
proportions, and lower limbs and feet of vO-
ed in to invent costume which will show
off the lady with the deficient lower limbs
to advantage, and thus with her naturally
sweet and engaging face and splendid arms,
enable her to eclipse her rival. Now, every
thing in the world is incomplete and in
state of progression The effort of nature
through volcanoes, earthquakes and storms
is to produce perfection. In all the range OF
artistic experience there has not been found
one perfectly formed man or woman. Facial
beauty is given to woman at the expense OF
form, and fine forms are given to women at
the expense of their faces Some day, so the
naturalists of the Darwin way Of thinking
argue, perfect human beings will be evolved,
but as that process will consume ages, fe-
males must be content with their cOnstruc-
tion. Men, if fascinated by an exquisite
face, never care much about arms. legs and
feet, and such as are fascinated by forms
usually make faces secondary consideration.
Art may help along the fascination, but, after
all, men penetrate ii and discount it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Ammonia In the Kitchen.

The pantry shelves are getting grimy, or
finger marks around the door latches and
knobs are looking dark and unsightly. For
lack of time they are left day after day, for
it is hard work to scour all the timc and it
wears of the paint, too. The husband keeps
his bottle of oil, or perhaps large can holds
it, for he never stints in that. Now suppose
his wife has her bottle of spirits OF ammonia
to use. She takes Il basin of water and
clean cloth, just puts on a few drops of the
fluid and wipes off all the dirt. 1t is worth
more than a half-days labor, and does not
hurt the paint either. She could put few
drops in her dish water and see how easily
the dishes could be cleaned few drops on
a sponge would clean all the windows in the
sitting room, making them shine like crystal
1t would take the stains of the teaspoons,
and a teaspOonful in the mop-pail would do
more toward washing up the kitchen floor
than ten pounds of elbow-grease applied to-
the mop-handle. \ housewife has Just as
much right to make her work easy and ex-
peditiOus as her husband has. Ii she does
not do it, the fault is her own in great
measure
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
The Make up of the Body.

Supposing your age to be lJ orthereabOuts
| can figure you to I: dot. You have 100
bones and 800 muscles; your blood weighs
- pounds; your heart is five inches in length
and three inches in diameter; it beats 20
times minute, 1920 times per hour, 1OO,-
OOO,eOO per day, and 36, 49,, 600 per year At
each beat Il little over two ounces OF blood is
thrown out of it. and each day it receives
and discharges about seven tons of that Won
dertul fluid. Your lungs will contain a gal
Ion of air, and you inhale $4,000 gallons per
day. The aggregate surface of the air cells
fyour lungs, supposing them to spread out,
exceeds 10000 square inches. The weight
of your brain is three pounds; when you are
Il man it will weigh eight ounces more. Your
nerves exceed 100000 in number. Your
skin is composed of three layers, and varies
in thickness. The area of your skin is about
100 square inches, and your are subject to
an atmospheric pressure OF Is pounds to the
square inch. Each square inch of your skin
contains $500 sweating tubes or perspiratory
pores, each of which may be likened to a
little drain tile, one-tourth of an inch long.
making an aggregate length of the entire
surface of your body of drain or tile ditch
for draining the body 2;}s miles long.-Dio
Le,ris
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
A BridegrOOm's Superstition.

Among the Mari savages of India, if IL
young man wants to marry, his father takes
with him some friends, and they set out to-
ward the village or house indicated by the
youth. If they hear bird chirping on the
way, they return dismayed. 1t is bad omen
If they meet hare OF a squirrel, wild boar
or a mountain cat, it is likewise an evil omen
But ii they meet a stag OR bullock, a buffalo
or young maiden, it is good omen, and
they go ON their way rejoicing The chirp-
ing of the bird, the innocent cat or hare, wild
boar or squirrel, may make two fond hearts
disconsolate; for, once abandoned, search
in that direction again for wife would be
profanity. So full are their lives of supersti-
tious fears, SO great is the amount of misery
caused all over the world by those woes
which we fancy only, but which may never
happen! The wealthier abodes of London
and Paris are nearly as full of this supersti-
tious reverence for fashionable caprice as the
lOwly families of the Maris for the rude ira
ditions of the Contemporary Reriem.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May 5, 1881.
Cultivation of Self-respect.

child that is uniformly treated with
courtesy, with consideration, with Justice,
will uncOnciOusly deem himself worthy of
such treatment, and will become worthy of
Il, unless he by nature wholly base: and he
will uncOnciOusly treat other as he is treated
1t is fearful thing to give a child the lie, to
accuse HIM OF stealing, to accustOm him to
unexpected and unmerited blows and cuffs
He may merit punishment, but the wise
parent never will admit into the household
vocabulary the terrible words "liar" and
thief" and will never permit in himself or
others the hasty blow, the bitter taunt, the
stinglng epithet. The refined and educated
parent can never tolerate such language as
we have indicated Bitter words are more
cruel than blows, and inflict more lasting in
juries. Care in the choice of associates will
do much to foster selt-respect in a child.
Some mothers think their SONS and daughters
can go where they choose and play with
whom they please, and come out all well in
the end There never was greater mistake.
AS well might one think it no difference
what air we breathe Children are quicker
than we to catch the tone of associates, to
pick up slang words, bad grammar, vulgar
ldeaS-these often seem to be taken in through
the very pores, as typhoid poison is, when
least expected Care in the choice of reading
will do much to foster due self-respect in a
child. The boy who grows up with a famil-
lar knowledge of Washington, of Franklin,
of Lincoln, and other great men who have
been the glory of the nations in which they
have been conspicuous, will be far more like
ly to find his mind filled with noble images,
with high ideals, with lofty ambitions, than
one who reads sensational newspapers, dime
novels, and the comic almanac. Any soil
that yields abundantly must contain in itself
elements of fertility, and barren soil may
have elements artifcially supplied to them |
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Heredity of Beauty.
lCornhill Magazine.7

! Mr.. Darwin believes that the general
beauty of the English upper class, and es-
! peclally thai Of the titled aristocracy, is
probably due to their constant selection of
the most beautiful women of all classes
/ (peeresses, actresses, OF wealthy bourgeoises)
as wives, through an immense number of
generations. The regular features and COM
pleXiOns of the mothers are handed down by
heredity to their descendants Similarly.
1T would seem that we must account for the
high average of personal beauty among the
ancient Greeks and modern Italians by the
high average of general taste the strong love
of the beautiful diffused among all classes
in both those races. The prettier women
and the handsOmer men would stand bet
ter chance OF marrying, other things equal,
and OF handing down their refined type and
figure to their children. If this be so-the
evolutionists, at least can hardly doubt it
then we should expect everywhere to find
the general level of personal beauty highest
where there was the widest diffusion of
aesthetic taste. Now, our own squalid poor
are noticeable, as rule, for their absolute
CIV ASPulolsC usoSllHtSS, tNtL WHICH compared
with those of other European countries.
Gaunt, hard-faced women, shapeless children,
people the back slums of our manufacturing
towns. Their painful ugliness cannot all be
due to their physical circumstances alone
for the lazzaroni who hangs about the
streets of Naples must lead lives of about
equal hardship and discomfort-yet many of
them, both men and women, are beautiful
enough to sit as models for Leonardo On
the other hand, every traveller speaks of the
beauty and gracefulness displayed by young
and old among the aesthetic Polynesians
while in many like cases l note that Euro
peans who have once become accustomed to
the local type, find decidedly pretty faces ex-
tremely common in several savage races
whose primative works of art show them in
other ways to possess considerable taste. In
India, where artistic taste is universal, al
most every man or woman is handsome On !
the whole, it seems fairly proved that the
average personal beauty everywhere cores
ponds to the average general love of beauty
in the abstract
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Marriage, Health and Morals.
LondOn Tinles.f +

! London Times.
1t has been shown from statistics that in
general married people have less mortality
than the unmarried or widowed. Among
the facts indicating the relation between
marriage and physical health, it has been
proved by Mr.. Jansens, of Brussels, that at
all ages widOwers are twice as liable to phth-
isis as other men, but that married people
are generally more liable to this disease than
celibates The law is constant for women
with men it holds good only before twenty
five years Of age and after 45. Such facts
and their meaning are discussed by M. Ber-
tillOn, in a paper following the cue on ''Statis-
tics of Marriage" which we notice lately.
NJ. BertillOn goes on to show the influence of
the family state on the morals. Not only do
married people die less than Others but they
show less tendency to suicide, to mental de-
rangement, to assassination, to theft, or other
evils or crimes Widowers commit suicide
much oftener than married men, AS regards
crime generally, they may be said to rank
between the single (abOve) and the married
below 1t is remarkable that men who
have families commit less crime (including
suicide) than those married mem who have
not, and the same applies to widoMcrs. The
to sense Of duty. The influence of children
further appears to be greater than that of 4
wife, and it keeps back married men from
crime more than widOwers. In all social sit
uatiOns women are found to be much less
disposed to crime than men, and the presence
of children greatly influence the morality Of
married women. Those who have children
show only about half the tendency to crime
of the others. Widows, on the other hand,
seem to be more often inspired with criminal
thoughts where they have children than
where they are without them. Is this from
misery or some other cause? AS regards
suicide, the presence OF a young family exer-
cises peculiarly well marked influence.
Both in the case of married men and that of
widowers, this presence diminishes by about
one-half the tendency to commit suicide.
Women are less disposed to suicide than men
but whether in the married state or widows,
they show much less tendency to take away
their own lives where they have children
than where they have not. Some of these
results are contrary to common notions.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
How Were the Alps Formed

different scientists have answered this
question lI in different ways Sir Roderck
hurchlson argues that the mountains were
mn lpILlled by upheaval and subsequent fracture.
o.iers contend that Switzerland was once
"aersd iU'. by water, and that this water operat-
s lhrongh long ages, has fashioned the
p,"uilt'lns pr"n and hills, valleys and ravines.
anS = aTieSsor Iyndall concludes that water ice
.,u "anI wearing away have, to use his own words.
.nd P'ured the Alps into their present form !:
a b;sta ne says; That such is their genesis and
tbo oSy, Is as certain as that erosion produced
theon, ~nlnes IN the Isle of Wight. The erosion
Ie'.e ascnbes the formation of Anime val
"SS 10 the agencies here referred to
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Going to See a Girl.
Auburn Mich J Courier


The Eel River road shows up the latest
smash-up of railroad material. Last Sunday
train ran off the track between Auburn
Junction and Cedar Creek, smashing several
cars badly, and destroying quantity of
flour and grain. The most prominent sensa-
ton connected with the smash-up is as fol-
lows: young man from Butler, dressed in
suit of black broadcloth, and his mug"
adorned with spring plug hat, was OH his
way to see girl. The conductor was on the
engine when it jumped the track, and, walk
ing ,ong to the rear end of the train, he
spied 81 lie object crawling out of the mud
and water that accumulated along the ditch.
1t arose, and there before him stood the
wOuld-be lover
Hello, what's up!" asked the conductor
And emptying the water out Of his plug,
he remarked:
I'm h-l of looking thing to go and
see girl, amt I ~
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
4 Good Example.

Il suppose that you won't 60 to the Sab
bath school to-day, Lucy?" said mother
one stormy Sabbath morning, settling herself
to read.
please let ME go to-day, mamma: want
to 90 because it rains"
why, Lucy, that is my excuse for staying
at home How can you make it a reason for
gOing?" =
.'Our teacher always goes, mamma, i'll all
weather, although she lives so far away. She
told the class that one Sabbath, when she
went through the storm and did not find
even one scholar, she was so discouraged that
she could not help crying. She asked us, too,
if we did not 60 to our day schools in the
stormy weather; and she s;lid while we must
obey our parents, if we asked them pleasant
ly to let us go they would likely be willing
Mamma, will you please let me go to-day 9"
We'll, am willing, my dear, if you wear
your school suit Go and get ready.
But the mother no longer took any inter
est in her book, but said to her husband, "a
lawyer who came in from the library, Lucy
is going to Sabbath school to-day because it
rains, so that her teacher may be encouraged
by the presence of at least one pupil. Sup
pose we 60 to chapel for the same reason if
not for a better.
Agreed I never could plead cause to
an empty court room, and ministers must
find it hard work to preach to empty pews'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
DAILY HERALD:
rHE OLD BROWN SCHOOL HOUSE.

EY REV. DWIGHT WILLIAMS
II stood on a bleak country corner
The houses were distant and few,
meadow lay back in the distance
Beyond rose the hills TO our view.
The roads crossing there at right angles
Untraversed by pomp and array,
Were cropped by the cows in the summer;
I've watched them many day
In memory's hall hangs the picture,
And years of sad care are between;
II hangs with a beautiful gliding.
And well do love it, ] ween.
It stood on a bleak country corner,
But boyhood's young heart made it warm
II glowed in the sunshine of summer,
Twas cheerful in winter and storm.
The teacher, G. well remember
My heart has long kept him place:
Perhaps by the world he's forgotten,
His memory no touch can efface,
lie met US with smiles on the threshold,
And in that rude temple of art,
lie left, with the skill of a workman,
His touch on the mind and the heart.
Oh, gay were the sports OF the nOontide
When winter winds frolicked with snow;
We laughed at the freaks of the storm king,
And shouted him on all a-glow.
We dashed at his beautiful sculpture
Regardless of all its array,
We plunged in the feathery snowdrifts,
And sported the winter away.
We sat on the old fashioned benches,
Beguiled with our pencil and slate;
We thought Of the opening future,
And dreamed of our manhood's estate.
o days Of my boyhood bless ye,
While looking from lifes busy prime,
The treasures are lingering with me
| gathered in life's early time.
q, still III that bleak country corner,
Turns my heart in WEAKNESS yet;
Where leading my gentle young sisters,
With youthful companions l met.
! cast Il fond glance DER the meadow,
The hills just behind it see,
tway III the charm of the distance,
old Schoohouse, u blessing on thee.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
HUMBOLDT AND THE LUNATIC.
A Very Natural Mistake Made by the
Great Savant.

! Great wits are sure to madness nearly al
! lied" and a quaint anecdote, taken from
Humboldt;s "Wanderjahre,' aptly demon
strates how readily even so keen an observer
as the great German traveller may mistake q
genius for q lunatic. During one of his
many sojourns in Paris, Humboldt, who took
a deep interest i'll the mysteries of mental
alteration, conceived desire to converse in
timately with some incurable maniac, and
requested one of his scientific friends, an
eminent mad doctor, to to give him an Oppor
tunity of meeting one of his more remark
able patients A few days later he received
an invitation from the specialist in question
to SUPPER and on his arrival at his friends
house found two strange gentlemen awaiting
him, neither of whom was formally intro
duced to him by his Amphitryon. One was
an elderly gentleman of grave demeanor,
dressed in the height of the prevailing fash
iOn by no means talkative, and manitestly
devoted to the pleasures of the table. The
other was q comparatively young man, ex
tremely excitable in manner, with long,
disheveled hair, ill-made clothes, and so ex-
huberantly voluble that he all but mOnopo-
llZcu TIC COutcISittlOu tllc
ing, although Humboldt himself was one of
the most loquacious men alive This wild
looking person displayed extraordinary ver-
satility and restlessness in his talk, which
teemed with paradoxes, and dealt with an
infinite variety Of subjects. Humboldt lis
tened to his brilliant ramblings with absorb
ing interest, and upon taking leave of his
host at late hour of the night expressed
gratitude for the psychological experience
afforded him, observing that "the mailman
had amused him beyond measure
"How is that? exclaimed the doctor; you
scarcely exchanged word with him all the
evening"
Il mean, OF course" rejoined Humboldt,
that excitable young man."
"YOu are altogether mistaken; the mad |.
man was that quiet, decorous old gentle =
man."
"And who, then, was the person took to
to be demented?'
"That person, my good friend, was NJ.
HOnOre de Balzacw
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05

How Connecticut Blacksmith's Dau-
ghter Married Baronet.
Toronto Globe.

Toronto Globe
Many years ago a young man made his
appearance in Stratford, Connecticut, and
passed a few weeks at the tavern which then
existed to afford shelter to stage coach trav-
elers. Whence he came, and what was his
business, none could guess. Directly OppO-
site the tavern stood the small cottage and
forge of a Blacksmith named Folsom. He
had daughter, who was the beauty of the
village, and it was her fortune to captivate
the heart of the stranger. He told his love,
said that he was travelling incOg., but in con-
tidence, gave her his real name, saying that
he was heir to a large fortune. She returned
his love and they were married a few weeks
after The stranger told his wife that he
must visit New Orleans He did so, and the
gossips of the town made the young wife I'M
happy by disagreeable hints and jeers
In few months the husband returned, but
before week had elapsed he received a large
budget of letters, and told his wife that he
must at once return to England, and must 90
alone. He took his departure, and the gos-
sips had another glorious opportunity tOmake
a cOnfiding woman wretched. To all but
herself it was clear case of desertiOn. The
wife became a mother and for two years
lived on in silence and hope. BY the end Of
that time letter was received by the STRAIT
ford beauty from her husband, directing her
to 90 at once to New York with her child,
taking with her nothing but the clothes she
wore, and embark in a ship for a home in
England. On her arrival in New York she
found vessel, splendidly furnished with
every convenience and luxury for her COM
ort, and two servants, ready to obey every
wish that she might express. The ship duly |
arrived in England, and the Stratford girl
became mistress of mansion, and. as the
wife of q BarOnet, was saluted as Lady Sam
lei Stirling. On the death of her husband,
many years ago, the Stratford boy succeeded
o the title and wealth OF his father, and in
he last edition of "Peerage and Baronetage'
le is spoken Of as the issue of Miss Folsom of
'tratford. North America
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
America.

An old book in the Lexon Library, New
York City, printed in 1907, speaking of the
Western Continent, says:
But now the regions have been more ex-
tensively described and another fourth part
has been discovered by Americus (as will ap-
pear in the sequal) | do not see why it should
not be named America, that is the land of
Americus, after its discoverer, Americus, a
man of sagaciOus mind since both Europe
and Asia took their names from women"
This is believed to be the first suggestion
that the new continent should b e named
America, but it appears to have been favor
ably received and subsequently adopted
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Children at School.

An exchange says: "We believe that as a
rule children are sent to school at too early
an age. This subject has recently attracted
the attention of physicians in the Eastern
States. The medical committee which made
an examination of the health of the school
children in Providence, hold that pupils are
taken too young; that the vitiated air Of the
school rooms causes consumption that epi-
demic diseases are caught there; that the
premature development of the brain causes
nervous diseases; that the young minds are
crammed with unintelligible studies, and
that the method is too artificial. The COM
mittee hold that children should not be ad-
mitted to school under the age of seven, and
that the hours of confinement and mental
effort should be ShOrtenedn
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-05-05
Well Fixed.

Princess Dogourouki, widow OF the late
Car, left ST. Petersburg two hours after her
husbands death, with her three children.
The Vienna papers say that she no doubt
availed herself of the general confusion to
quit the Winter Palace unnoticed, and ira
versed Russia under false name. Her fear
was lest she would be put into a convent
and separated from her children. Her future
is sufficiently assured, there being over $780,
OOO. 900 to her credit in Berlin. The latest
deposit of Sc, 1000, 900 was lodged in the bank
only three weeks before the Cars terrible
death. ~ ST.