Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-21

evening society," and II he goes out to
dinner has tc ieave his friends before
wine. He has 81 charge his patient Rf.-
QUO year One young doctor has
standing engagement of e4OO q year to
look after the health Of an old LADY. She
mad 70 be inspected three times dav.
was strong as horse, and so selfish and
peryerse that hes had great trouble with
her.
America Is to day in the second stage
OF architecture.' saws the Cleveland
Leader. In this stage the general idea
Is IN the fneneas Of the materials used.
The nation still wants big things. but
they must be raale of the finest marbles
and the most highly polished woods.
Tue third stage in which fineness Of ma
terial and grandeur of size are combined
IN harmonious artistic beauty America
mas not yet reached. All of our public
building are like the works of a pauper
who has suddenly become a millionaire.
Money is thrown around profuseIy and
extravagently, more for the sake of
showing that maE has money than for
the accomDlishment Of any beautiful end.
Look at our public buildings 10th here
and at other great citiesl They are big
and costly; and the glitter of marble
and the gilt of varnish and veneer runs
through them alI. There is little artistic
conception in taem and their interiors
are as rule coHlfortless. cherries, and
III adapted to the purposes for which
they were designed"
The last baby born in the family is
very apt to be baby all his life. even
in manhood. The first one, of course.
creates the deepest interest during his
early days. The intermediates are simply
bright or pretty. None Of the degrees
OF comparison is ever lavished on the
intermediate baby. It is the first and
the last child which create the gossip
and attract notice. But as the first
grows up and she others follow every
thing tender seams to cluster about the
last born. He doesn't have to wear
the old clothes Of the others. They
are constantly reminded that this one
Is their youngest brother. They must
play with it, and everything new that
comes into the house must be inspected
by this last addition. He is always
supposed to be the flower of the flock.
AS he grows older and stronger the old
people cling to him the closer. AS long
as he lives there is home. The Others
have become men and women and gone
away, but the baby remains at home
with the old people. It is bitter day
when he leaves. His going out from
the homestead is the first signal for the
grief which sits at the hearthstone dur
ing the long winter nights and thinks
Of the boy out in the world 1t is the
beginning of the robbery of home.
The origin Of the cholera ccourge is
unknown, but its existence is noted as
long ago as 400 B. G. by Hippocrates.
who traced its advent into Greece to
India, and by Isalen in A. ID. 131. Since
the year 1856 it has been noticed that
the cholera breaks out in India on the
occasion of thetwelve yearly pilgrimages
to the Hindoo temples. The attention
Of English physicians were first specially
directed to it ia 1917, when it appeared
in most virulent form in Jessore, Ben
gal. From theu until 1882 it gradually
approached the European seaboard. and
was thence transmitted to the United
States by emlgrants, extending with
greater or less havoc as far west as
Chicago, and south to New Orleans.
in which city 5000 people per-
ished out of population of $4,000. In
1S4S it was again brought to the United
States by emigrants in u ship which ar
rived at New Orleans from Havre. This
terrible foe to Humanity is always pres
ent in enc country or another, and its
present menacing front will no doubt stir
up the health officers in all the cities of
the United States to take the utmost pre-
caution against its spread here. Person
al tilth il great propagation of the dis
ease. and in guarding against it man
should be viewed from a strictly scien-
tific standpoint, which reveals him as "a
carbonic acid gas exhaling. sewer gas
generating, folh perspiration exuding,
symmetrical lump of latent decomposi-
ton, and not from the delusive point Of
view OF the gushing novelist.