The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-12-06

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room, introducing zinc tube to communicate
with the outer air. Remember that foul air
always rises.
If member of the household is stricken
down, put him at once to bed, make him as
comfortable as possible, and give him at once
purgstive dose of castor oil or tincture of rhu-
barb, or if you have it, Dovers powder. Let
his diet be light, such as beef tea, mutton broth
and soups and gruels generally. No solid food
should be given. Keep the room warm, but
not close. Fresh air is required above all
things, avoiding draughts. Battle the face
and hands with warm water, and induce per-
spiration by wrapping up warm.
If mothers would inform themselves upon
these simple precautions they might often ar
rest disease in their little ones very quickly.
We would not underrate the value of an intel
ligent physician in any case, but usually
child is taken III at night and the physician, if
remote, cannot be called until morning. When
he is called, unless the case is painfully urgent,
there is a necessary delay of some hours while
he is making the round of his patients. In
the meantime the little sufferer toSses and
means and is consumed with fever for want of
the simple attentions of judieious and intelli
gent nursing.
When it is necessary to call a physician, be
sure and tell him what you have done He
will be certain TO approve of your sanitary pre-
cautions, and will be much more likely to ap-
prove of the nurse in whose care he must leave
his little patient. Obey his instructions as to
administering medicine TO the letter. but re-
member that good nursing is half the battle
and pure sir the complement Of every remedy
HOW TO DRESS WELL.
To be well dressed wear the right thing at
/ the right time. A woman overdressed and out
of keeping with her surroundings displays
/ lack of refinement which is commonly called
bad taste.
Never dress for effect or try to outshine your
neighbors, or you viii be sure to be over
dressed
If your means are limited, and you can afford
but one good dress, select black OF some quiet
/ color: it viii wear better, and you win not be-
come as tired Of it as you would of some strik
/ ing shade
One nice dress, well made, and of good mate
/ rial, can be worn on almost any occasion, and
! shows much better taste than q number of
dresses made of cheap shoddy material
4 dress made plainly viii remain in fashion
| longer than one heavily trimmed.
We can all be in style nowadays. Indeed, it
would be difficult 10 dress out of fashion, for
dresses, hats, and cloaks of all kinds and de-
1 scriptions are worn.
There arc now no absolute rules in fashion
as sfermerly-p people follow their own individual
faneies.
Some young ladies are prone to affect the
| heroine OF the typical novel. who throws on
her clothes with dashing air of originality.
But this sweet disorder in the dress" while
quite Irresistible IN book, is disgusting in real
I life, and she who Affects the negige style al
ways falls FAR short of her ideal, and becomes
only an untidy girl.
A very slender woman should not wear long
straight drapery or very tight sleeves, that
makes the arms look like turkey legs.
A stout person with a red face should not
wear the new trying shades of strawberry,
terra Gotta, and raspberry, or any of the warm
shades.
Combination costumes remain in high favor.
| This gives an excellent opportunity for max
ing two old dresses into one new one.
Skirts Of dresses should be made narrower
when there are many founces used in trimming.
High stright collars are worn by ladies with
long slender necks, or bands to the dress with
friil OF lace.
Petticoats of coIored flannel with embroidery
or knitted wool lace, are mora worn than any
white flannel skirts
Wells are worn short, barely reaching below
the eyes, and are omitted 2ltogetherif if the CON-
plexion is good They are black or in eolors.
Our Boys,
AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE TRAINED N MIND
AND BODY.
Suspicion has crystalized into the conviction
that our system of popular education has
10 direct bearing upon the practical concerns
of life. The demand is for change, and as
the family is the primary grade of all the
educational institutions in the land and the
mother the great first teacher, we propose to
carry knowledge OF this demand right into
the home circle.
The failure Of our educational system is that
it is mere book-cramming, with no direct bear
ing upon the actual concerns Of life. 1t is a
failure, also, in that it holds up false ideas tC
the impsessionabie minds of our youth and
children. 5 simple knowledge OF the " three
II" acquired by boys and girls in the country
who have 10 rise before daybreak TO do theil
share Of the days work, outdoors and indoors
! is better--becaase il carries with it sense OF
life's real dutiess-than al the books on exact
science, speculative philosophy and the dead
languages that can be crammed down ths
throat Of & graded pupil in the entire dozer
years mapped out by the approved course.
The indirect tendency OF popular instruction
Is equally al faalt III that it directs the amb
tious youth almost wholly in the direction O
politics and the professions, instead Of exalting
the useful trades and giving TO utility and in
veHtion the position that they should properly
/ occupy IN the minds Of our youth. IN whosl
keeping are the destinies Of the Republic.
Beokframming. with no possible regard tc
is bearing upon practical life and pursuits, il
the chief aim OF our schools The boys anl
Slts1 DIT tsttlEs4t diGta uCtf dA1 htlEUGu
the French peasant catches his geese and open
, ing their mouths Grams them so full Of fooi
that they can hardly close their bills, in crde1
10 furnish that luxury of the French table
: goose liver pie. The only difference is tina
the peasant performs his work, day after day
inteligently.
Another false tendency of our schools ha
been TO degrade labor, aud 10 make our boy
believe that to be the future great men o
this country they must be lawyers, doctors
school professors or politicians. The examples
held up 10 them are all Of this class. WI,
ever heard q man address company Of schoo
boys and hold up 70 their young ambitions tha
! apostle Of civil engineering, the shepherd boz
, OF SeOtland, whose invention of the suspen
sion bridge and the aqHednet Of Dee led TO thi
2 establishment Of those splendid engineerin;
works from the Caiedoniaa Canal TO the IndiaI
Ocean and from tho London docks to thi
GOtha Canai IN Sweden, and of whose fabulou
inventions the suspension bridge that span
the Niagara and that great Brooklyn marvel o
modern engineering are the indirect results
Even the name Of Telford sounds strange {,
our unaecustomed ears. Or who ever heart
them tel of Newcomer, the iron moDger. O
Of Watt, whose discoveries led TO the develop
mont OF the steam-engiRc, which has so largel,
4 nodded the dcstinies Of the world Or O
George Stevenson, the collier lad, who gave &
] the world the locomotive steam engine ant
founded the railway system of the entir,
: world2 Or Of Joseph Bramah, the apprentice
joiner who became the inventor of the by
graufc urrcS rho aa~ifast s,r5ucfnle af on