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A Defense Of Mod .a7e TTonsen.

Let no man say that the change Of
woman from the sentimental, insipid
and angelic creature Of the last century
to the vigorous and hearty person of to-
day is change that begins and ends
with eating and drinking habits. Let
the pessimists say what they will, the
present IS an age of genuineness and
candor. There is less mock modesty,
less Of the humbug of seeming, than in
any generation that has gone before us,
if We may accept as true the pictures of
life given us by Smollet, Fielding, Fanny
Burney, Thackeray and the writers Of
the time of Queen Anne. The civilized
world admires the delicate and fragile
beauty of American women. But it is
the pride Of the country that feeds the
world with beef, grain and game that
the rare flower of American loveliness is
no hot-house plant, reared in a nicely
adjusted atmosphere. The womanliness
and the manliness OF our country spring
from rich and nutritive soil. We have
the best provision for the table in the
World.-NeaU York Times.
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Feminine Small Tal6.

DISCREET wives have sometimes nei-
ther eyes nor ears.
DIR. ANNA WARREN, of Emporia. Kan
sas, makes $1,000 year by the practice
of medicine.
The Yonkers Statesman discusses
"Women as Wives" The idea seems
feasible.-NorristoVn Herald.
Mrs. MARY DURANT, of Elkhart, Ind. ,
blind for twenty-five years, claims that
her eye-sight was restored through
prayer.
A DOUBTFUL statement is afoat in the
papers 10 the effect that cigarette and
cigar smoking among all classes of Bos-
ton women is becoming general.
THERE is girl in Plymouth county.
Mass, who had eighteen different lovers.
and not one of them ever got his arm
around her. She weighs 39l pounds.
The daughter of the late Commodore
Maury, who assisted him in the COM
pilation of his well-known geographical
series, is school teacher in Richmond.
THE dislocated leg of man at Lafay-
ette, Ind, was treated by woman ply
sician as though it had been fractured.
He demands $40, 900 damages, the mis-
take having crippled him for life.
Mrs. TELLER, the wife of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, is tall and slender,
with black hair and the blackest of
black eyes, and is the possessor of an
unusually gentle and attractive manner.
"THE most beautiful woman in Wash
ington" is the wife of the Swedish Min
ister, Countess Lewenhaupt. She is a
delicate and slender blonde, with fair
complexion, golden hair and blue eyes.
TWENTY-FIVE women physicians in
Russia who took part in the military
operations of 1877 have been decorated
with royal honors. The number of fe-
male medical students in Russia is said
to be rapidly increasing.
Mrs. CHANDLER, the wife of the new
Secretary of the Navy, is delicate but
handsome woman, with fine and re-
fined face lighted by large black eyes
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INSECTS is TALKERS.

"Two ants" says Buchner, "when
they are talking together, stand with
their heads opposite to each other, work
ing their sensitive feelers in the liveliest
manner, and tapping each others head"
Numerous examples prove that they are
able in this way to make mutual commu
nlcations and even on definite subjects.
81 have often, says the English natur
alist Jesse, "placed small green cater
pillar IN the neighborhood of an ants
nest. It is Immediately seized by an
ant, which calls in the assistance of q
friend after Intellectual efforts to drap
the caterpillar into the nest. It can be
easily seen that the little creatures hold
a conversation by means of their feelers.
and this being ended theyrepair together
to the caterpillar in order to draw it into
the nest by their united strength.
Further, I have observed the meeting of
ants on their way to and from their
nests. They stop, touch each other with
their feelers, and appear to hold con-
versation, which, I have good reason to
suppose, refers to the best ground for
food" Hague writes letter to Darwin
that he one day killed with his fingers a
number of ants that came every day from
hole in the wall to some plants stand
ing on the chimney piece. He hadtr
the effect of brushing them away, but it
was of no use, and the consequence of
the slaughter was that the ants who
were on their way Immediately turned
back and tried to persuade their com.
panions, who were not yet aware of the
danger, to turn back also. A short con.
versation ensued between the ants.
which, however, did not result in an i'm.
mediate return, for those who had lust
left the nest convinced themselves of the
truth of the report. 4. ~ e2 l
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Stick TO the Kitchen.

While New England journals are
loaded with long-winded efforts to tell
where and how woman can enjoy the
independence for which she is supposed
to long, Western editor has solved the
problem by suggesting the kitchen. If
any one doubts the correctness of this
view let him invade his own kitchen and
attempt to assert authority. He may
be tyrant in the parlor and nuisance
in the dining-room, but in the kitchen
woman reigns supreme, no matter
whether she is a feeble wife or brawny
servant. It is strange that women never
made this brilliant discovery for them
selves, for any one of them who has
hired help in the kitchen knows that the
servant is autocrat in her own domain,
and before her the queen of the rest Of
the house is but poor, tinid, futtering
creature. But such independence i'm
plies the ability to work in the kitchen,
and of this the American knows about
as much as she of Patagonia, who has no
kitchen at all.-NeaU York Herald.
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THE OLD MINIS VETO.

An easy-going, honest minded old
country merchant in Iowa had been in
trade for dozen years when he took in
his son as partner. The boy had lived
in Chicago for three or four years and
was up to snuff. One day, after the
partnership had lasted six months, the
old man came down in the morning and
found the doors of the store closed, and
a sign up to the effect that tho firm had
failed He walked over TO his sons
house and asked:
James, did you lock the door?7
"I did
What's the matter?"
"Why We have failed and can only
pay Is cents on the dollar"
James" continued the old man, as he
pulled down his hat, TIN going down
to open the door with a crow-bar and
resume business at 100 cenea on the dol
lar For thirteen long years I have
given fifteen ounces to the pound, ana
measured both fingers with every yard
of cloth, and the idea of taking any
further advantage Of the Lord goes agin
my conscience. Just consider that we
have resumed, and come along and
scrape out them sugar barrels"
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CATS AND THE WEATHER.

Cats have the reputation of being
weather-wise, an old notion which has
given rise to most extensive folklore.
1t is almost universally believed that
good weather may be expected when the
cat washes herself, but bad when she
hcks her coat against the grain, or
washes her face over her ear, or sits with
her tail to the fire. As, too, the cat is
supposed not only to have good
knowledge of the state of the weather,
but certain share in the management
fit. it is considered by sailors to be
most unwise to provoke it. Hence they
do not much like to see cat on board
at af1, and, when one happens to be
more frisky than usual, they have a
popular saying that "the cat has got a
gale of wind in her TAIL" A charm
often resorted to for raising a storm is to
throw a cat overheard but, according
to Hungarian proverb, as cat does
not die in water, its paws disturb the
surface hence the flaws on the surface
of the water are nicknamed by sailors
"cats'-paws." In the same way, also, a
larger furry On the water is "cat's-
skin y and, in some parts of England, a
popular name for the stormy northwest
wind is the "cat's nose" Among
other items of weather-lore associated
with the cat, there is q superstition
in Germany that if it rains when women
have large washing on hand, it is an
infalIible sign that they have spite
against them, owing to their not having
treated these animals we'll. We may
also compare the Dutch idea that a
rainy wedding-day results from the
brides neglecting to feed her cat;
whereas, in the valleys of the Tyrol, girls
who are fond of cats are said always to
marry early, perhaps, as Mrs. Busk re-
marks, San evidence that household
virtues are appreciated in them by the
men," Once more, there is German
belief that any one who, during his life
time, may have made cats his enemies,
is certain to be accompanied to the grave
amid storm of wind and rain. .-Har-
oer's Weekly.
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Frizzes, Bangs and Po,cder.

It being generally known that no col =.
lection would be taken up, there was an
unusually large attendance of Lime
Kilners, and when the bell rang the
audience to order, every bench seemed
taken. Brother Gardner looked the
picture of perfect health as he shook the
kinks out OF his spine and said /:
"Gem'len, what am dat objeck on dat
sky stool ober dar ?" "Dat's de
water-pail, was the answer. "Jess so,
gem'len-jess so. If that pail war
painted red or blew, what would il be 2"
"Nuffn' but pail" "Jess SO, again.
If we shud paint dat pail, an fresco de
hanle, an siver-plate de hoops an call
it de Tower Of London, it wouldn't be de
Tower any moar dan it is now. We is all
agreed on dat-all but de women. My
ole woman, who am black as de one-spot
OBJ spades, lame in de left leg, and wild
no noah bewty dan de hind eend of a
butcher-cart, frizzes curl over her left
ear, ties a red ribbon round her froat,
puts on hustle, squeezes her corset till
she can't holler, and sails down the street
wild de idea in her ear dat she's turkey
OBJ de fust water. She reckons dat no.
body can gaze on her widout shiyer Of
admiration, and dat folks Will e-magine
dat I own all de corner lots on de Brush
fam. But she's muffin but my ole wom-
an after all-nufin' but a bundle OBJ
aches. Walk out on de street, and what
dye see? Ebery female in the lam rubs
paint on her cheeks and powder on her
face. Dey frizz der ha'r, squeeze up on
DER corsets, nip along on der toes. an
der hull air is to deceive de men into
believin' dat dey am han'sum and lubly.
De uglier and meaner lookin' de woman
am, de moar she frizzes and de harder
she nips. De less money dey hab to
dress On, de richer de duds are, an de
moar iewelry dey wave aroun'. A man
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MARTIN VAN BUREE.

Probably no character in our history
is so hard to analyze as that OF Martin
Van Buren. The secret of his power
seems to have died with him. He was
not renowned as an orator, and yet must
have possessed great powers as an advo-
cate. He is not usually credited with
having devised any great public meas
ures, yet, during the most important
epoch of his party's history, every meas
ure to which it owed success not only re-
quired his approval, but showed his
shaping, modifying touch. He was not
eminent in debate, but was always
leader Of his party in legislation. He is
said to have been personally calm, self
poised and unconfding. He heard ev-
cry ones opinion, but took no ones ad-
vice. He was accounted shrewd and
cunning, but never was accused of per-
sonal treachery. He was cautious to
the verge of timidity, and, at the same
time, confident to the verge of rashness.
He never exulted over victory nor whim-
pered at defeat. He had few personal
friends, but an amazing popular follow
ing. In theory he was the broadest of
democrats /; in practice the most exclu-
siVe Of aristocrats. None of his asso-
ciates seem to have regarded him with
affection, and few of his opponents
looked upon him with animosity. Per-
haps no political life in our history
shows so few mistakes. In no single in
stance did he fail to make the best of the
occasion, viewing it from his own stand
point; unless it were the last and great
est of his life-the opportunity to lead
the movement that eventually trans
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APPLES As FOOD,

From the earliest ages apples have
been in use for the table as dessert.
The historian Pliny tells US that the
Romans cultivated twenty-five varieties
OF the apple. In these latter days we
probably possess over 1000. As an
article of food they rank with the potato,
and, on account of the variety of ways in
which they may be served, they are far
preferable to the taste of many persons /;
and, if families would only substitute
ripe, luscious apples for pies, cakes,
candies and preserved fruit, there would
be much less sickness among the child
ren, and the saving of this one item
alone would purchase many barrels of
apples.
They have one excellent effect upon
the whole physical system. feeding the
brain as well as adding to the flesh, and
keeping the blood pure; also preventing
constipation, and correcting a tendency
to auidity, which produces rheumatism
and neuralgia. They will cool off the
feverish condition of the system; in
fact, they are far better for these pur-
poses than the many nostrums which
are highly praised in the advertisements,
and are SO constantly purchased by
sufferers. A ripe raw apple is digested
in an hour and half, while a boiled
potato takes twice the time.
While apples can be purchased at
cheap rates every family should keep a
dish of them in the dining room, where
the children can have access to them and
eat all they please. They will rarely re-
ceiye any injury from them if they are
thoroughly masticated. Baked apples
should be as constant dish upon the
table as potatoes. Every breakfast and
tea table should have plate of them.
Baked sweet apples are very pleasant
addition to saucer of oatmeal pudding,
and, when served with sweet cream,
they are very appetizing.
They are not SO commonly used as
they should be, as they will supply as
much muscular and nervous support as
dishes of meat and vegetables. Thou
sands of bushels of sour apples are used
for pies and puddings in hundreds of
families where well-baked sweet apples
would prove more nourishing food and
much more economical. They are also
good food for old people, and are usual
ly greatly relished by them. In my own
family they are always, when IL season,
3 payt Of the meals Of the day, and are
as commonly used as a slice of bread
Country Gentleman.
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and framed in heavy black locks. Her
carriage and her manner are full of dig
nifty.
A WOMAN was committed for contempt
of court by New York Police Justice
because of her refusal to take an oath OF
testify in case of assault. "Judge, :"
said she. 81 never took an oath in nv
life, and I'm not going to take one now.
These people can settle their difficulties
without calling me in."
A WOMAN who does all her own house
work, attends to seven children and
turns her dresses half dozen times to
make both ends meet, may be a good
Christian, but when lady in a 1000
carriage and $500 dress halts at the
door and asks her to subscribe to some
charitable object she can hardly be ex-
perted to act and talk like one.
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stan's up in de broad light OBJ day, an
de whole worl' can see if he's humbly,
an ugly, an lame, an sneaky, but de
woman sails along in cloud oh gorgus-
ness, an de lameness and de deception
doan' come out until after she's got you
fas'. Eff a pig is pig, why should we
call him cook-stove? Eff woman is a
woman, why de need of all dis paint an
powder an pippin aroun'? De white
man doan' appreciate it, de niger is sick
OBJ it, an I tell you, gem'len, dat de time
am comm when dis country am gwine
to sigh mighty hard for return oh de
days when clean calico dress an a
healthy woman went roun' in company. !"
Detroit Free Press.
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;ection of manuscript. He is not called
upon to write private critique on the
article to the author OF it. His accept
ance or rejection is an absolute and un-
questionable fact. Among amateur
writer's this does not appear to be un-
derstood.
"The article is hardly available for
the columns of the Daily Designer, I"
writes the editor of that journal. Now
that is sufficient. That should end the
matter. The article may be better in
some respects than a dozen others he
accepts, but if he be in any sense wor-
thy of his place he has an innate intui-
ton of subtle fitness and intellectual
adjustments, which he could no more
communicate than he could put his
mental life on exhibition. Moreover.
there is not the slightest necessity of his
communicating them. But his contrib
utor cannot let the matter rest. Per-
haps she has written a book, and she is
not gratified with his review of it. She
must write him letter deprecating his
Judgment. She wants to know if he has
read her book carefully. She tells him
the Critical COrnotsseltr gave two col
umns OF extracts from it, and that she
thinks it too bad, she does, that he re-
ferred to it SO unkindly. She favors him
with nine pages of her views upon his
conduct. She alludes touchingly to the
fact that seven of her dearest lady
friends each sent her copy of the Daily
Designer that contained his cruel allu-
sion to her volume on Transatlantic
Hurricanes" and she begs him to devote
one little half hour to her production and
then write fairly of it.
All sub-editors and reporters under
stand that it is an unjustifable imperti-
nence to ask the managing editor his
reason for publishing or not publishing
any matter submitted to his Judgment.
Outside wri ers and aspiring amateurs
rarely seem to comprehend this truth,
and their transgressions are largelyfr from
Ignorance rather than from intention.
The nature of editorial work requires
absolute power of decision in order to
preserve the unities of the journal the
editor conducts, and the amateur con-
tributor should not permit his amour
propre to incite him to open any dis
cussion regarding the justice of the
editorial Judgment.
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.a-~ WEBsrER,S PRESENCE.

In the speaking of Webster this was
very noticeable. His personal presence
was so remarkable, the figure and mien
30 Olympian, the cleaning Of the eyes
In the dusk of the swarthy and project
mg brow so weird, and the whole i'm
preston so imperial, that it was impossi-
BILE to suppose that what was said would
not be as weighty, majestic and memoir
able as the speech of such man ought
to be. That it was always so was not the
fact. but the grand aspect and manner
were so overpower1ng that it was i'm
possible not to recall the majestic pres
ence again and again, and to believe
that you have heard great speech. In
the famous Wyman case, when Mr..
Webster was associated with Mr.. Choate.
he was suffering from his annual catarrh,
and his overcoat was buttoned closely
around him, and he constantly used
huge red bandana handkerchief--one of
the eight, perhaps, which he said a
fllend similarly affected s'took" for a
remedy-and his voice was hoarse, and
ne seemed to be half surly; but he pro-
duced the same unquestionable effect of
power as when he stood in his blue and
bluff Wing uniform in the Senate on
one OF his great field-days. At another
time he was announced to deliver a
lyceum lecture. The audience was i'm
mense. The expectation was very great.
But his discourse was prolonged COM
mon place essay, absolutely unrelieved
by any felicity Of phrase or striking
thought, and it seemed as if conscious
ness of the character Of his discourse
made him more majestic than ever. His
port magnificent. The greatest of ora
tors pleading sublimely for his country
IN the very crisis of her fate could not
have had the air of saying momentous
and solemn truths more completely than
Webster upon this occasion when he
was saying nothing in particular. Prob
ably the great audience felt that they
had never received more fully the worth
of their money. and describe to their
children and grandchildren the imperial
grandeur of Webster as an orator.
Editors Easy Chair, IN HGrper'S Maqa-
zine
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formed the nation. He seems to have
had all mems regard, but to have given
none his trust. By his opponents he
was called cunning; by his followers sa-
gaci0us. More justly than almost any
other politician, he may be said to have
achieved his own successes. Living, he
was the envy of all who would succeed;
dead, he has been the model OF unnum-
bered failures. Few statesmen would
covet his fame, fewer still do not envy
his success. He is the Sphinx Of our
history-the hidden hand in many great
erents-a man in whom the elements
were so deftly mixed that no friend
knew his heart and no enemy ever came
within his guard.-Our Continent
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LAY PAINTING PERSON DoWN.

1t is surprising how everybody rushea
at a fainting person and strives to raise
him up, and especially to keep his head
erect. There must be an instructive ap.
prehension that if person seized with
fainting or other fit fall into the re.
cumbert position death is more immi-
nent. I must have driven a mile to-day
while lady fainting was held upright.
found her pulseless, white and appar-
emily dying, and believe that if had
delayed ten minutes longer she would
really have died. I laid her head down
on lower level than her body, and i'm
mediately color returned to her lips and
cheeks, and she became conscious. To
the excited group of friends I said: Al
ways remember this fact-namely, faint
ing is caused by a want of blood in the
brain; the heart ceases to act with
sufficient force to send the usual amount
of blood to the brain, and hence the
person loses consciousness because the
function of the brain ceases. Restore
the blood to the brain and instantly the
person recovers. Now, though the
blood is propelled to all parts of the
body by the action of the heart, yet it is
still under the influence of the laws OF
gravitation. In the erect position the
blood ascends to the head against
gravitation, and the supply to the brain
is diminished, as compared with the re-
cumbent position, the hearts pulsation
being equal. If, then, you place per.
son sitting whose heart has nearly
ceased to beat, his brain will fail to re.
ceive blood, while if you lay him down,
with the head lower than the heart,
blood Will run into the brain by the
mere force of gravity, and, in fainting,
in sufficient quantity to restore con-
seiousness. Indeed, nature teaches us
how to manage the fainting persons, for
they always fall. and frequently are at
once restored by the recumbent position
into which they are thrown. Medical
Journal.
Daily globe., 1883-08-28
TYPE-SETTING MACHINES.

A London letter says: Type-setting
machines have had fair trial in this
city at the office of the Times, having
been use for several years past. There
is an idea extant that they are labor
saving machines, and this is so far exact
that they can be worked by boys, and
when once filled do their work with con.
siderable rapidity. Concerning this
there is no difference of opinion.
When the tiresome work of filling the
tube has been performed the type-setter
works quickly under The care of a boy.
This being granted, even by the work
people themselves, it remains to con-
slider the drawbacks to the type setter in
nse by the Times. It destroys great
quantity of type, as much, it is said, as
three Or four columns per diem. No
satisfactory method Of distributing"
the type for it has yet been discovered,
and so they have fallen back upon an
automatic type-caatlDg machine which
daily sends in page after page of abso-
lutoiy new type in tubes for the type
setter. A foundry has been established
on the premises and the Times makes its
own type. Every day three or four
columns are sent from the foundry into
the office. It is also said, on good
authority, that at the Times Office there
is marked indisposition to acknowledge
failure Of any kind; and that as the
type-setter is what may be called "fad'
of Mr.. Mcdonald, the manager, it must
be made success, or at least made to
appear one. There has been endless
trouble with the machine; but, inasmuch
as the manager has made up his mind
that it shall succeed, everybody puts the
best face on the matter and let's it down
as easily as possible. It is limited that
the accounts are made up so as not to ac-
centuate too sharply the charges against
the type-setter. By these means a
species of spurious success has been
manufactured" for composition by
machinery; while. in fact, it is gross
failure from an economical or financial
point of view. The machine does it's
work, it is true, and 80 ,"show"' is very
good; but it breaks mcte tbsn it saves.