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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Msefnl aud Curious.
Color and Complexion-A Study for Ladies.

Color and Complexion-A Study for Ladies.
RED DRAPEEY.-Rose red cannot be put in
contact with the rGsest eomplexions without
causing them to lose some of their freshness
Dark red is less Objectionable for certain COM
plexions than rose-red, because, being higher
than this latter, it tends TO impart whiteness to
them in consequence of contrast of tone.
GREEN DRAPERY.-A delicate green is, on the
contrary, favorable to all fair compilations which
are deficient is rose, and which may have more
impaired to them without inconvenience. But it
is not as favorable to compilations that are more
red than rosy, nor those that have a tint of or
add to this tint will be of brickish hue. In the
latter case dark green will be less objectiona-
bic than delicate green.
YELLOW DRAPERY.-Yellow imparts violet TO
fair skin, and in this view it is less favorable
than the delicate green To those skins which
are more yellow than orange it inparts white;
hut this combination is very dull and heavy for
fair complexion. When the skin is tinted more
with orange than yellow. 1t produces effect up
on the black haired type, and it is thus that it
suits brHnettes.
VIOLET DRAPERIEs-yiolet, the complement
tary of yellow, produces contrary effects; thus,
it imparts some greenish yellow TO fair complex
ions. II angments the yellow and orange skins.
The little blue there may be in n complexion it
makes green. Violet, then, is one of the least
favorable colors to the skin, at least, when it is
not sufficiently deep to whiten it by contrast of
tone.
BLUE DRAPERY--Blue imparts organge, which
is susceptible of allying itself favorable to
white and the light flesh tints of fair complex
ions, which have already more or less deter
mined tint of this color. Blue is, then, snitablc
TO most blondes and in this case jnstifies its rep
utatiOn. Ii will not suit brunettes. since they
have already too much of the orange.
ORANGE DRAPERY.-Orange is too brilliant to
be elegant. 1t makes fair compile xiOns blue
whtens those which have orange tint and
gives green hue to those of yellow tint
WHITE DRAPERY.-Drapery of lustreless
white, such as cambria musin, asserts well with
fresh complexion. of which it relieves the rose
color; but it is unsuitable to compilations which
have disagreeable tint because white always
exalts all colors by raising their tone. conse
quently it is unsuitable to those skins which,
without having their disagreeable tint, very
nearly approach it. Very light white draperies
snch as muslin, plated or point lace have an en-
tirely different aspect.
BLACK DRAPERY.-Black drapery, lowering
the tone of the eolors with which they are in
juxtapositIOn whiten the skin; but if the YER
million or rosy parts are to a certain point dis
tant from tue drapery, it will follow that, al
though lowered in tone, they appear relatively
to the white parts of the skin contiguous to this
same drapery, redder than if the c0ntiguity to
the black did not exist.-Harmony Of cot0rs,' By
N. E. Cherreul.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Utilize Old Paper

wish to sell it, use it in the house. Some house
keepers prefer it to cloth for cleaning many ar
ticles of furniture. After stove has been black
ened, it can be kept looking well for long time
by rubbing it with paper every morning. Rub
bIng with paper is a much nicer way of keeping
the outside of tea-kettle or cofiee-pot bright
and clean than the old way of washing them in
suds. Rubbing with paper is also the best way
of polishing knives, tinware and spoons; they
shine like silver. For polishing mirrors, win
dows, lamp chimneys, etc, paper is better than
dry cloth. Preserves and pickles keep better if
brown paper, instead of cloth, is tied ovea jar.
Canned fruit is not apt to mould if a piece of
writing paper, cut to fit the can, is laid on the
fruit. Paper is better to put under carpet than
straw. 1t is warmer, thinner, and makes less
noise when one walks over it.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
selett goetrp.
GOING HOME.

Where you going fast old man
Where are You going 80 fast
There's o valley to cross and river to ford;
There's clasp Of the hand and parting word
And a tremulous sigh for the past old man
The beautiful. vanished past
The road has been rugged and rough old man;
To your feet il Is rugged and rough;
But you see dear being. with gentle eyes,
Has shared in your labor and sacrifice.
All that has been sunshine enough old man.
For sou and me-sunshine enough.
How long since you passed DER the hill, old man,
OF life-o'er the top of the kill
Were there beautiful valleys on tOther side
We're there flowers and tee with their branches wide
To shut out the heat Of the sun old man
The heat of the fervid SUM-
And how did you cross the waves old man,
OF sorrow-the fearful wavesl
Did yon lay your dear treasures up, one by one.
With an aching heart and 'GOd's will be done"
Under the wayside dust old man
In the graves meath the wsyside dustf
There sOrrov and labor for all old man;
Alas! there Is soErow for all
And you, peradlyenture, have had your share
For eighty long Winters have Nhiiened your hair;
And they We whitened your heart As well old man-
Thank God your heart as well
You're at the foot Of the hill, old man
At last At the foot Of the hill
The sun has gone down in a golden glow
And the heavenly city lies just below;
Go in through the peariy gate old man.
The beautiful pearly gate.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
THY MOTHER.
BY Mrs. LYDIA II. sIGOUKSEY

Who, when thy infant life vas young.
Delighted, DER thy cradle hungi
With pity sOothed each childish moan,
And made thy little gIieis her own
Who sleepless watched in hours of pain,
Nor smiled till thou vert well again
Who sorrowed from thy side To part,
And bore thee, absent, on her heart =
Thy mother, boy! How can'st thou fsy
Her tender care, by night and dayf
Who joined thy sports with cheerful air,
And joyed to see thee strong and fart
Who, with fond pride, TO guest and friend
Would still the darling child eOmmendi
Whose tears in secret flowed like rain,
If sin or wo thy life did stain
And who. with prayers uneeasing sigh,
BcsOught for thee home on high =
Thy mother. boy, How cans thou pay
Her tireless love, by night and day
Bear on thy brow the lofty smile
Of upright duty, free from guile;
With earnest diligence restrain
The word. the look, that gives her pain
If weary toll her path invade,
Come, fund and fearless, TO her aid
Nerve thy young arm, her steps to guide
If fades her cheek, be- near her side;
And by life of goodness pay
Her care and love, by night and day.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

MIDSUMMER IN NoEwAY.-In Norway and
some other countries the shines at midnight
for week or two in the summer, but such light
Is purchased too dearly by the long months of
the dark winter in>which the genial face of the
king of day is never seen at all. Very odd you
would find it to spend midsummer with the
EsquimauN of Greenland. At first, the sun
only shows himself for few minutes daily, but
they are all very glad to see him and at last
he stays all day and all night. Still his rays do
not melt the snowdrifts the hills, aud for tins
the boys arr not very sorry, for, as they have no
village greens commons to play on, the snow
field does duty as play ground, and bat and
ball is played, with little round bone for n
ball, and long sticks for bats. The Esquimaux
bat and ball club is no less popular in Green
land than the baseball OF football clubs which
your brothers delight in. When the lads grow
tired of running about, they perch upon the
black rocks by the sea shore, and watch for the
white sea-birIis, which they catch in nets with
long understanding like butterfly nets.
The Esquimanx, who do not mind the fishy
taste, think these birds make a capital supper.
Every one in Greenland makes the best of the
short midsummer holidays.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
A THREAD OF SONG.

1t was only broken chord of song
That sang itself the livelOng day
Over and over in my heart
And always in the same sweet way
Always beginning low and soft
Like a tenderly spoken love good night"
And ending in glad and joyous strains
Like morning psalm when the world is bright.
And the hours of the day were woven In
BY the mystic thread of the haunting song,
That, somewhere out Of the vanished past
Sent forth its witchery clear and strong
S0methin. akin 10 the song Of birds
When the sky is flushed with the coming dawn.
Yet sad as the thoughtful hour which comes
When the last red light of day is gone.
Beautiful echo that drifted back
From the far-of shore of long ago,
Over the wide and rugged waste
Where never the winds of gladness blow,
bringing the olOr of wildwood flOwers
The laughing song of the mountain rill
The green glad fields where the eOwslips grow,
And the CLEAN of waters calm and still.
Sitting alone in the twilight still.
Whose mantle covers the earth with gray,
My heart IL touched and my eyes grOw dim,
As the glow Of the sunset fades away
And / feel the presence of the unseen guests
That out of the shadowy regions thrnng.
And know they have crossed from the farther shoi
On the slender thread of the sweet oil song.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
To Those Who are Going to Sea.

On the snhject of sea-sckness Col. Knox, who
is great traveller, has this useful hint TO offer
To those who contemplate going to sea have n
little advice TO offer that may save them the
pangs of the marine maady. The night you are
to sail, take blue pill-ten grains-iust before
you go TO bed, and when you get up in the MGR
ming, take, the first thing, dose of citrate of
magnesia. Then eat your breakfast and 90 on
board and will wager four to one that you
will not be sea-sick, though the water may he rs
rough as an Arkansas travellers manners.
The above was given to me several years ago,
and have rigidly followed it every time have
gone to since / received it. Ii has saved me
from sea-sickness. and il has been of equal value
to many Others to whom / have given it.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
An Appalling Thought.

During the second year of the war, q grocer
In an Ohio town scaled his prices by report:
from the front. One day defeat would cut the
price of butter four cents, the next day victo.
~ would raise the price of eggs penny doz
en-, and victory or defeat was certain to hit even
the jar of nutmegs on the top shelf One day
farmer who had some butter TO sell, entered
the store, and asked the going price.
"Pm paying sixteen to-day" was the answer
"But only two days ago you paid twenty"
eyes, but You see, Pope has been defeated
since that, and there is a back action"
The farmer sold ont, and wanted the most OF
il in sugar, and the grocer remarked, as he made
ready to weigh it:
"Sugar has advanced cent pound, since
Monday"
"Mercy ON mel how is that 7"
"Because the rebels got licked in Tennessee
The old man sat down on a nail keg, and
thought it all over, and presently looked up and
said:
my friend, if a federal defeat eheapens what
yOu buy, and a rebel victory enhances the val.
ne of what you sell, what hell of fix you'd
be in if there should happen to be drawn bat
tle.r-HaH Street Nelrs
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
WHAT THE OWL KNOWS.


Nobody knows the world but me;
When theyrt all in bed. sit up u sess
I'm a better student than studeoss, ALL
For l never read till the darks.ssI tnll :
And never read without my glasses
And that Is how my wisdom passes
Can the wind Nov. who can do thati
l >ee the dreams he has In his hat
l sec him snorting them out as he GOES
Out at his stupid old trumpet n1ss-
Ten thousand things that you couldn't think,
write them down with pen and ink
Yoa may call it learning-I call il wit.
Who else can watch the lady moon sit
Matching the boats and the long legged fowl
On her nest the sea all night. but the oslf
When the oy sters cape TO sing by rOte,
She came pearl down each stupid throat
So yon see kn0w-you may pull of your hat.
Whether round and lofty, or square and Dat.
You can never do better than trust to me;
You may shut your eyes as long as see
While you live viii lead you. and then-Imt be owl
IL bury you nicely with my spade and shovL
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
THE FERRY.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GKRMA,

Der this stream. in years long burief.
Have /. once before, been ferried;
Here's the tower in evening gloonias-
There the falls, as ever, booming.
And in this same boat together,
Went with me two comrades thithers
One, friend, like father seeming
One, more yoang, with ySuths hopes teeminl
That one labored hesr, still -hearted.
And so from us, one day, parted;
And this forcing all before him,
Fell mid storm and strifeelouds DER him!
So. when over days gone by me,
Happier then to think try me,
Must miss some comrades ever
Dear ones, whom deaths shadows sever.
Yet what all our friendship bindeth,
Il that spirit, spirit findeth
Spirit spells were those that bound me,
Spirits still to-day are round me.
Take, then, ferryman, pray thee
Triple fare. I willing pay thee;
Two that here beside me ferTisd,
Spirits were Of friends long buried
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Use OF RAwHIpE.-The skin of an amin

whether COW, calf, colt, OF horse that dies on
the farm, is worth more at home than at the
tanners. Cnt it into narrow strips, and shave
off the hair with sharp knife before the kitchen
fire, or in the workshop, of stormy days. You
may make them soft by rubbing. rawhide
strap an inch wide, will hold horse better, and
last longer, than an inch rope. 1t is stronger
than hoop iron, and may be used to hoop dry
casks and boxes, and for hinges.
Try it on n broken thill, or any woodwork
that has been split. Put il wet. and nail fast.
Thin skins make the best bag strings. A raw
hide rope is a good substitute for a chain 1t is
valuable TO broken link in trace ciaiu For
some purposes it is hest TO it in its natural
state. For other purposes il may be dressed snft
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Chr fun Of ths Ching,
CABIN LOVE SONG.


oh, listen to me. darkies,
III tell you a little story;
lis all about my true love-
De Flat Creek morIsin' glory;
shes nice a any jevdrnp
Inside de open flower;
She's softer dan de moOnshine,
An lubs her eb'ry hour!
CHoRus-Mag is a flower,
Mag il n daisy;
Mag Is de very gal
To run Niger crazy!
Her head Is like de fun moon,
Her lips is sweet as a cherry;
Her fuTrud's snoou as iookin glass.
An slick as a hnekleberryi
Her face is Ike picter,
Her teef IL white an pearly;
Her eye is bright as q lightnin' bug
An her h'ar Is main curly!
! like to chop de hacker patch,
Wild Mag right close behind me;
I'd like to be q 'baeker-wum.
FL Mag would only find me;
I'd like to be q flock o. sheep,
IF Mag would dribe me '6out;
I'd like 10 be q 'tater-slip,
IF Mag would set me out!
seed her for de fus time
In thinnin' out de com;
She made my feelin's fiutterate,
An now my heart il gone;
Oh. i luhs her like de misehuE,
rs bound 10 tell her soon,
An III cote her at de shuckin',
On de changin OBJ de mooni
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

CURE EoR FELONs-Boil mp in any iron vessel
of sufficient capacity (say four or six qnarts)
enough yellow dock root to make strong liquor;
when sufficiently boiled, and while the liquor is
as hot as can he borne by the hand. cover the
kettle with flannel cloth tn keep in the heat and
steam, and in five minutes the pain will cease.
If 1T should return after a time, heat mp the same
liquor and do as before. In a cure performed in
this way. the joints of the fingers will always lie
preserved. This recipe has been abundantly We
rified here
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Our Strap Book.
ALICE OF THE WEST.
Er WILLIAM ?. MuLcHIsocK.

On the banks of lordly Shannon.
When the Summer, warm and bright,
Gave q glory to the morning.
And q stiffness to the night;
As wandered like q rover,
Free from sorrow. free from care.
Like vision passed before me
Little Alice, young and fair
As the shapes that poets dream Of,
When the fancy viii not rest,
Bright and lovely, soft and tender,
Was young Alice Of the West
With her form Of fairy Hghtness
Clad IN robes Of spotless white.
On the Shannonis banks disporting
With an innocent delight,
Looking down upon the river,
Looking upward to the sky,
Al around that caught her Chances,
Giving pleasure 10 her eye;
While the joy she felt within her.
Well her happy face expressed,
With a graceful, gliding motion,
Moved young Alice Of the West.
have gazed on many faces.
Where the great held festival.
Jewelled beauties. proud and naughty,
Passing through the lighted hal;
i have seen them in the city,
In the large and busy street.
In the search Of pleasure meet;
But no face 10 deep and sxsetly
Moved the heart within nay breast.
As did thine. young CoAaanght maiden,
Little Alice Of the West
Many seasons, swim a. lightning.
Have gone by since first we met,
But my heart her image treasures
With a loving feeling vet.
In my cottage bone in Munster,
With an early furrowed brow
Whep think how sad and joyless
Al my days and nights are now
Back again my fond heart travels,
In its sorrow and unrest,
To the banks Of lordly Shannon,
And young Alice Of the West
And again she moves before me,
And again hear her speak,
While the gentle Summer zephyr
Lifts the tresses on her cheek;
To my view again disclosing
All the magic and the grace
That were ever. ever playing
In hear sweetly winning face.
And, entranced, again l wander.
Not a care within my breast
On the banks of lortlly Shannon.
With young Alice Of the West
Woe il me the Joys Of fancy,
Like the Spring flowers, fade away;
Woe Is me! what most we cherish
Glides the soonest to decay;
And in grief I'm doomed to wander
Over Munster broad and fair
With a footstep weak and feeble
And Q heart oppressed by care;
Grieying daily, grieving nightly.
Sinks the heart within my breast,
When il thinks on shannon river,
And young Alice Of the West.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12
Egypt's Great Museum.

rumor is in circulation that, in order to re-
plenish his empty treasury, Arab Pasha pro-
poses TO sell the Boolak Museum, a priceless col
lection of Egyptinn antiquities. For weeks
past, Psychologists have trembled lest the one
great attraction of the city of the Mamelukes
should have fallen prey TO the cupidity of the
Arabs, or to their blind rage for destruction.
The European staff of the museum reported
to have left the director, Prof. Maspero, alone,
he remaining To guard the storehouse, on which
he set such value.
The museum owes its conception to the late
Marietta Bey, the eminent French antiquarian,
whose enthusiasm first rOused in the minds of
the Viceroys some interest in the colossal inonu-
ments of their predecessors. Though English
scholars among Others DIR. Birch, Mr.. Villiers
Stuart, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Mr.. Pool, and Miss
Edwards-have, like the students of every conn.,
try, drawn much of their information from the
material freely thrown open to the world. to
France is due the principal credit of the Boolak
Museum. France, Empire and Republic, al
ways encouraged the directors, and the School
of Archaeology, stationed in Cairo, did much to
keep alive an interest i'll Egyptology, just rs
the similar institution in Athens has for many
years trained series of students in the princi-
pies of classical antiquity.
Isniail Pasha built the Booak Museum. New
''the endowment of research attended
with results admirable. Cairo speedily be-
gan to possess attractions for tiferdti well as
for painters, oilers, and invalids. The fine
khedivial Library, rich in korans and the frag-
ments of early Egyptian manuscripts, which had
escaped the deposition, grew under the hands
of its German ''bibliothekar" into n collection
of fame, while the Boolak Museum at the bid
ding of Mariette and his assistants. became
what it is-the orderly synopsis of Egyptian
history.
No one who has only gazed in bewilderment
at the Egyptian antiquities in European mu-
seums conceive what Boolak became through
Marietta and Maspero The student who had
gone through Wilkinson, Vyse, Champollion,
and Quatremere, will learn from the ''Musee
Boulaq" how little he krew before. The spirit
of the place is a stimulus in itself. The endless
rows of kings and queens, their canopies of
state, their gods and their domestic animals,
their slaves and their children their jewels and
their wills, their neutrality-suspicious. I'M
opened when death came, and unread for three
Thousand yrars-cvrrything that mnistered to
all are here, and every day adding to the
splendid collection.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

EVERY one should know that hot water will
restore cnt flowers that are faded by being worn
on the dress carried in the hand. Cut half an
inch from the end of the stem, and put it direct
~ into boiling water; the petals will smooth and
resume their beauty in a few minutes. Colorcd
flowers will revive most perfectly, for white
flowers are inclined to curl and turn yellow
The thckest textured flowers will he RESTORED
the most wonderfully. Flowers will keep fresh
after this treatment almost lou., they would
have done if freshly gathered.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

An old lady on a steamboat observed two men
pumping up water to wash the deck, and the
Captain being near, she accosted him as follows:
well, Captain, got well aboard, chi"
"ies, madam, always carry one" said the po-
lite Captain.
"Well, that's clever. | always dislike this
nasty river water, especially in dog days
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

A FOPPIsH nobleman, who saw Descartcs en-
joying himself at the table, having expressed
his establishment that philosopher should ex-
hibit such fondness of good cheer, got this an
swer for his pains: "And pray. nv lord, did
you think that good things were only made for
foolsir
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

An irnscible old gentleman was taken with
sneezing in the ears, lately. After sneezing in
the most spasmodic manner eight times, he ar
rested the paroXosm for q moment, and extract
ing his handkerchief, he thus addressed his mas
al organ. Indignantly saying: ''oh! go On-go
on-you'll blow your Internal brains ont pres
entlyw
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

FELLOW in Chicago, under arres: as a va
grant, was put through the regular course of
questions, which he answered satisfactorily m
I'll he came to the point, "Are you married or
singlef Being on his oath, the poor fellow
couldn't really tell.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

NAUGHTY little boy, blubbering because his
mother would not let him go down to the river
on the Sabbath, upon being admonished, said
81 didn't want to go a swimmin' with EN- ma
only wanted to 20 down and see the bad little
boys drown, for goin' swimmin' on Sunday
boo-hoor
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

A DYING West India planter groaned ont to
his favorite negro servant: ''Ah, Sambo | am
going long, long journey!r Never mind,
massa, said the negro, consolatOrily, "him all
down HILL"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

al HOPE, my little daughter" said mother
one morning, that you will be able to control
your little temper to-day" eyes, mamma, and
hope you will be able to control your big tenn
per-"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-10-12

A LoAFER happened in at one of the printing
offices at Lynn, day or two since, and asked
the question: What's the newsi" 1.-TWO dol
lars year, in advance" was the reply He
subscribed