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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
How We Treat Our Feet.

A wcll-formcd foot" says Chapman
in "The American Drawing Book, SIS
rarely To he met with in our day, from
the lamcutahlc distortion it is doomed
to endure bv the fashion of our shoes
and boots. Instead of being allowed
the same freedom us the fingers to eX
crcisc the purposes for which Nature
intended them. the toes are cramped
together, and are of little more value
than if they were all in one; their
Joints enlarged, stitlcned. and distorted,
forced and packed together, often over
tapping one another in sad confusion,
and wontonly placed beyond the power
of service. As for the little toe and
its ncighbor in shoe-deformed foot,
they are usually thrust out of the. way
altogether. as if considered supernu-
merary and useless, while all the work
is thrown upon the great toe, although
that too is scarcely allowed working
room in its prisOu-hOuse of leather. 1t
:.
foot that has grown under the re
straints of leather, for perfection OF
form and hence the feet of children,
although less marked in their external
anatomical development, present the
best models for the study and exercise
OF the pupil in drawing"
L.. in, ha
tcenth century, son the Best Form of
Shoe says that his treatise originated
in Jest made with his pupils, who
"did not believe should dare to make
public work on such Il subject,
which indicates the small estimate that
was put upon the foot as an organ OF
the body. He begins by deploring the
pervcrsity which wholly neglects the
human feet, whilo forcing the greatest
attention to the feet of "hOISes, mules,
oxen. and other animals of burden
aud declares that from the earliest in
fancy the foot-coverings worn serve
but To deform them. and make walking
PAINFUL. ana SpintilllltS ll'l'pNSi'i'
and he lays the blame on the ignorance
of shoemakcrS.
James Dowic, practical and scien-
titic Scotch shoemaker, in his excel
lent little book, makes the same state
ment as the artist and the great Dutcl
surgeon. whose treatise he had trans
lated into the English language, also
lameuts that the subject of the feet il
so neglected 10y those who are compe
tent to instruct us about them. LORD
Palmerston said to Dowic that 'Shne
makers should all he treated like
pirates, put to death without trial u,
mercy. rs they had inflicted more suf.
fering ON mankind than any class he
knew Popular Science Monthly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

should eat in winter mainly of warm
ing food, such as meats, fats, oils,
sugar and all the grains, tarinas and
starches in summer, the fruits and
berries and melons and vegetables OF
the field, the garden and the orchard,
which cool and open and ventilate the
system.
Nine-tenths of the inmates of insane
asylums who recover are those who
are sent within IL year after the first
manifestation of their iufirmity.
The best anodyLe in ali nature Is
moderate, steady and continuous ex-
ercise in the open air.
The worst cold may be promptly
cured if, within twenty-four honrs
after it has been taken, the patient will
keep warm in bed and eat little or
nothing for day or two.
In going into Il colder air, keep the
mouth resolutely closed. and walk
briskly for a few minutes, thus pre-
venting chilliness. which is always the
precursor of cold.
The portion of the body which most
requires protection against cold and
wind is that between the shoulder
blades behind, as it is at this point
the lungs are attached to the body, and
the blood Is easily chilled.
TO spend two or three moments, on
rising aud retiring, in rapid frictions
Of the whole surface of the body with
the hand is IA more rational treatment
of the skin, and more health-pro-
noting operation, for most persons,
than il daily coldwater bath.
\ good cleansing Of the entire body
with soap and warm water once a
week is all the bathing the human sys-
TEN requires for purposes of health,
in ordinary circumstances. - Halls
journal of Health.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
Girls should Learn Domestic
Duties.

A mother has no right tn bring up a
daughter without teaching her how to
keep house and if she has an intelll-
gent regard for her daughters happi-
ness. will not do it. BY knowing how
to keep house, we do not mean merely
knowing how books should be arrang-
ed on a center table. and how to tell
servants what is wanted to be done.
We mean how to get Il breakfast,
dinner, a supper; how to make bed :;
how to sweep a room how to do the
thousand and one different things
which are requisite to keep house IN
order and to make it pleasant. \ per
son who does not know how to do a
thing well, does not know how Ia have
it done we'll. No number of servants
makes mp for the want of knowledge
in mistress. 4 family employed Il
girl to do general housework. She
came just at night, and the first thing
assigned to her to do was to wash the
supper dishes. She washed them III
cold water and without soap! a gen
tlcman sent home a roasting piece of
beef and a quantity of cut Porterhouse
steaks. When he sat down to dinner
he learned that the new cook had
roasted the steaks, Yet many Il
boarding school miss at the time OF
her marriage might make either OF
these mistakes. Not one woman in II
thousand knows how to make bread as
good rs it can be made. And sour
tcmpers, seedlings, dyspepsia, with ITS
understandable horrors, and even death
itself. not unfrequcntly result from bad
cooking. Mothers, whatever else You
may teach your daughters do not neg
lect to instruct them in all the mystic
rics of housekeeping. So shall you put
them in the way of good husbands and
happy homes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
Health MaNiIils.

Nature is very much like u shiltlesS
child. who, the more he is helped the
more he looks for it. The more medi-
cine man takes. the more he will
have to take, whether it I've anodyne,
tonic OF Alternative.
The thinncst veil or silk handker-
chief thrown over the face while riding
or walking against ii cold wind is a re-
markahly comfortable protection.
Never sit or stand with the wind
blowing on YOU tor 4 single moment.
for il speedily produces a chill, to be
followed with a fever and then a bad
cold.
Exercise To the extent of great fla
tigue does more harm than good.
\ hearty meal taken while excessive
" fatigued, has often destroyed life.
Chlline>s of body dampens the
spirits. sours the temper and renders
the whole man unlovely.
Cleanliness in all the surroundings of
a family mansion pays richly i'll many
ways, in good health, moral elevation,
personal comfort, aud dollars and cents
besides.
Life is warmth, growth, repair and
power to labor. and all these are de
rived from the food we eat and the
fluids We drink. and these should bc
good.
At every period Of life, at all seasons
of the year. aud from the tropics 10 the
poles, in every cline and country, the
Temperature of the human body i'll
health is the same TO degree, that is,
ninety eight of Fahrenheit hence We
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

has so much respect for nine-spot
man. A mans brain weighs three and
one-half pounds. A woman's is some
what lighter but of finer quality
That is what enables her to taste the
lard in her neighbours pastry. The
heart in its normal condition beats
seventy-five times a minute, but when
young man meets a pretty girl at a
party and steps trembiingly up to
proffer an escort home, the number of
beats-heart beats INSTANTLY mounts
up to i62 in the shade. The average
number of teeth is y. but when one OF
them is decrepit, and in the dark 1t
runs on to an ambuscaded raisin seed
in a piece of wedding cake, man is
apt to fancy that he has only one tooth
at the most, and that is three feet
square.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
Facts TO be Remembered.

Every man has 24U bones Except
the minstrel end-man, who has 24I
The lungs contain one hundred and
seventy five million cells. This is what
makes man Il practical joker. A man
breathes about twenty times minute
that Is, unless he is fat, or is walking
away from tailor with bill 4
mans average weight is 40 pounds
Except when he has to wait for his
wife to change her necktie. Then it's
forty minutes. The brain of man is
twice as big as that of any other ami
mal. That is why really noble dog
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

TO Editor y. Y. Tribune Il read
recently an article which made some
statements of startling interest to every
smoker in the land. 1t was asserted
that IA certain physician after investi-
CATION satisfied himself that the rapid
increase of certain detestable forms
Of disease from apparently unknown
causes was directly due to the fact that
among cigar makers "a practice was
maintained of fastening or sticking the
point" or small end of every cigar.
after it had been wrapped, by placing
the end in their mouth, thus making
saliva do what paste was intended TO
do. Also, that many of them had dis
cased mouths and lips, and in this way
disease was frequently communicated
to the smoker. This practice was gen
eral not only here, but among the
Cuban cigar makers. This is terrible
if true. and as an old smoker, | am
anxious for facts i'll the premises. VIII
You kindly aid me?
Smoker.
New York. March -, 1854.
Careful inquiry satisfies us that
these statements are perfectly true.
The filthy habit referred to is extreme
" common among cigar makers, Il great
many of whom suffer from constitu-
tional disease which pOisOns the saliva,
and the Infection is readily conveyed
to the SMOKER Editor Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
Brother Worry.

Dear Brother Worry, what a good
soul he iS-in many respects most
admirable mankind, good and atfec
Tomato. Beneficent too, never stingy
and mean. We have never been re
fused when we have gone to him for
charity he always gives, and, what Is
somewhat remarkable, gives frequent
" more than his ability will allow.
He is constant ut church and ut the
weekly meeting. With all his good
traits, we are sorry to say, he has one
very serious fault. He is almost always
in Il worry about something that is or
may he.
In this regard he and Sister Fret are
very much alike. We do not like to
meet them in the street, for they have
IA frightened look and their words are
in a minor strain. However bright the
morning or prosperous the circum-
stances. they are full of doleful sur
misses. And when any shadow is cast,
they are sure matters will grow worse
and Il dreadful plunge he taken. They
are full of painful tOrebodlngS, and the
air is thick with disasters. The state
| is in an awful condition the cOmmu-
nitv is badly off: the church is befOg-
! ged and bcfoulcd all the integrities
are dying ont; and things generally
are on the high road to ruin. Dear
souls. their faces are like thunder
| clouds: their words merge into chronic
/ groaus. while their hearts, as our good
doctors say, are in state of perpetual
eXacerbation.
| Their presence is like the chilling
east wind upon neuralgia and rheu-
matte conditions of the body. Oh
, how it makes one ache-hOw suggest
. i've of old Giant Despair.
/ We are sorry for them; we try to
help them, but we confess Our effort,
in this direction accomplish very little
Their condition comes partly from
constitutional characteristics. and
largely from habit. They have allow
ed themselves TO look upon the dark
side of everything till the sweet and
promising are overlooked in shadowy
and dark formation the future be
comes for them il dread arsenal aliv,
with mischevOus and destructive nipple
mcnts and machineries Gods provi
dences formidable with wrath, scatter
ing broadcast seeds for harvesting o
pain. Dear Brother Worry and Sistel
Fret, remember God is good, life il
sweet after all that occurs or may occur
Have faith and cheerful trust in God
He is no grim and merciless tyrant
hut a loving Father. Come out of til,
chilling shades into the warm, gla,
sunshine of hopefunrss; make til,
best of everything. Trust, oh trust il
God, for your own sakes for the SAX,
of those around you; for the homo
and glory of God.-IN. \. Observer
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

CTATE OF VERMONT. CALEDONIA DITRCT, S..
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury. within and for said district on the
Sd day of April, y. ID. 1854.
An instrument purporting to be the last VIII and
Testament OF James NJ. Beattie, late Of Ryegate,
in said district deceased, being presented TO Court
by Margaret :. Beattie the Executrix therein
named for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
81 I 'G % hid AZ H. pbt osIi
in ST. Johnsbury, the Goth day of April
\. u. 1sS4, and show Gause, if any they may haVs
against the Probate of said viii; for which
purpose it Is further ordered, that copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue
ces-ivey in the CaledOnian, printed at St.
JOhnsbury, previous TO said time appointed for
hearing.
BY the Court, Attest.
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
\ true copy of Record Attest,
J739 WALTER 2. SMITH. Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

- The Subscribers having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District of
Caledonia. Commissioners to receive, examine.
aud adjust all claims and demands Of all persons
against the estate Of Joseph \. Wells, late of
Dauville in said District deceased represented
insolvent and the of mouths from the 9th
day of March lss4 being allowed by said Court TO
the creditors of said deceased exhibit and prove
their respective claims before us: Give notice
that We will attend to the duties Of our appoint
ment at the dwelling house Of Mrs. Alice VI. Wells
in Danvillr in said district the third Saturday
oflApriI and September next, at one oslOck in the
afternoon, on each OF said DAYS.
BENZ. ID. HARTSHORS, lCon,,-
363S GEO. G. SANBORN. TO-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
A. 3. PERRY,
McIndoe'S Falls.

SiTATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT, IS
y In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
ST. Johushury, within and for said District, on the
it'll day OF April, y. D. 1884
An instrument purportiDgtO be the last VIII and
Testament of Jonathan e. Lawrence. late of Bar
net in said district deceased, being presented to
Court by Mehitable 5. Lawrence, the Executrix
therein named, for Probate: II is ordered by said
court that all persons concerned therein be
notified 30 appear at session of said Court, to be
held at the Probate office in st. JOhnsbury. the
Goth day OF April, \. D., Iss4 and chow cause, if
any they may have against the Probate of saidWill;
for which purpose il Is further ordered that copy
of the record Of ths order be published three weeks
sueeessively in the Californian, printed at st.
.Tohnsbury, previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
BY the Court, Attest
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
\ true copy of Record. Attest,
37-39 WALTER 2. SMITH Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
WEDDING STATIONERY.

We have added some choice wedding PAperst
Ruyelopes and Cards to stock. and with
and beautiful script type, can ht out wedding par
ties at short notice
Also NEE calling cards. siIt-edged, put up in
isathsretts boxes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
cLIDDEN & CURTIS,
INEWI DENIAL IR00Ms.)

DR. o. T.. NETTLEToS- has opened Dental
Rooms in Walkers Block Main street, and is pre-
pared To do all work Of the profession in thorough
and satisfactory manner and nj reasonable rates
Office hours from a u. 10 p. m S0u
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
yANCE'S ESTATE.

LNRA NKLIN NANCES ESTATE.
l. The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court tor the district OF
Caledonia. Commissioners To receive. examine. I'd
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate OF Franklin Vance, late of Danville
i'll said District. deceased represented insolvent
April 1854 being allowed by said Court to the
creditors ofsaid deceased exhibit and prove their
respective claims before us: Give notice that We
viii attend To the duties of oar appointment at
the dwelling house of the late franklin Vance, in
Danville in said District. on the LIST day of May
and LIST of October next at one o'clock in the
afternoon on each at said days.
WALTER DAVIS (Co,,r,.
37-3e TIMOTHY CARR, comm rS'
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CALIFORNIAN OFFICE
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-15
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
STATE OF WISCONSIN,

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that at the Genera
Election to be held in the several Towns, Wards
Villages and Election Districts of the State o
Wisconsin, on the Tuesday succeeding the frs
Monday, being the fourth day of November, A
d. 1884, the following officers are to be elected
to-wit:
dent of the United States.
A Governor, in place of jeremiah NJ; Rusk
whose term of office viii expire on the first
Monday of January, A. ID. 1885.
Lieutenant Governor, in place of Sam s.
Fifield, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. d. 1885.
Secretary of State, in place of Ernst G.
Timme, whose term of Office win expire the
first Monday of January, A. d. 1856.
State Treasurer, in place of Edward c,
McFetridge, whose term of office will expire on
the first Monday of January, A d. 1885.
An Attorney General, in place of Leander
the first Monday of January, A. D. 1885.
A State Superintendent, in place of Robert
Graham, whose term of Office will expire on
the first Monday of January, A. D.. 1885.
A Railroad Commissioner, place of Nils
P. Haugen, whose term of Office viii expire on
the first Monday of January, A. d. 1885.
A Commissioner of Insurance, in place OF
expire on the first Monday of January, A. d.
1885.
Representative in Congress for the Third
Congressional District consisting of the counties
of Dane, Grant Greene, Iowa and Lafayette, in
place of Burr W. Jones, whose term of office
will expire on the fourth day of March, A. d.
1885.
A State Senator in the Twenty-eighth Senate
District, consisting of the counties of Iowa and
Richland, in place of William c. Meffert whose
term of office will expire on the first Monday
of January, A. d. 1885.
Member of Assembly in each Assembly
District of the State, and all county officers
required by law to be chosen at such election.
Given under my hand and official seal, at
the Capitol. in the City of Madison, this First
day OF August, A. d. 1924.
ERNST. G. TIMME,
Secretary of State.
To the County Clerk of Iowa County Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-15

There is a great deal of talk
INDUCED in by some democrats
about compelling Col. w. +. Villas
to accept the democratic NOM
nation for governor. The DEM
ocrat deems this kind of talk fool
ish in the extreme, and we be-
lieve that the injury done by
it to the democracy of Wis
consin can not be estimated. Col.
Villas is II citizen Of whom the
people of the whole state have rea-
son to be proud; broadminded
statesman, brilliant orator, a sue
cossul lawyer, and an upright man.
That he has frequently declined to
be candidate for office, if fault
is surely one that leans to virtues
side, when the aim and purpose OF
50 many of our great men appears
to be to hold office. Mr.. Villas
would make n strong candidate
for governor, but it is far more nee
essary in order to secure success
that the members Of the dem
ocratic party should be guided by
right political action, and boldly
set forth the true principles of the
party, than to be constantly cast
ing about to find men to place in
nomination for the offices whose per-
sonal popularity may perhaps pull
the party through. There is no
lack Of good democratic timber in
Wisconsin out of which to make
an excellent state ticket, and the
talk of compelling any man to run
for an Office if he does not desire
so to do is undemocratic and silly.
The trouble with these would-be
great politicians who talk of forcing
this man or that man to accept a
nomination is, like Swift's ingenious
architect, they would build their
political house by beginning at the
roof and working downwards to the
foundation. We believe that the
democratic voters of Wisconsin when
they meet in convention will be
controlled and guided in their de-
alterations by the same spirit
which appears to animate the
democracy everywhere throughout
the country to-day, and that they
viii make prudent nominations,
and whether the state ticket be
headed by Villas or some other good
democrat, it will be such as will
commend itself to the people as a
ticket representing the aims and
purposes of the party, and in No
vember place Wisconsin in the list
of democratic states.