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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18
Table Manners.

Good manners at the table are al
most an infallible evidence of refine
ment and careful breeding. A safe
general rule to be followed there, as
elsewhere, is that of consideration for
the feelings of those about you-a de-
sire to avoid giving offence by uncouth
or coarse actions. 1t is well, however,
to remember the following timely pre-
cepts: Eat and drink leisurely and
without noise-it is not appetizing to
have the hog trough and its accompa-
niments brought vividly to mind at a
meal; do not scrape your plate, tilt it
up to get the last drop, or wipe it dry
with a piece of bread-stingineSs on
the part of the host or hostess might be
implied; if you mix messes on your
plate, it looks as if your desire for hash
had not been gratiied; carrying your
mouth to the food, instead of the food
to your mouth indicates an acquaint-
ance with chop sticks or something
worse; taking chicken and other bones
in your fingers is uncouth, and might
imply ignorance of the use of knives
and forks; loud talking or mysterious
whispered conversation are both bad
for obvious reasons; discussion of dis
tempers, medical treatment, etc., is
trenching on dangerous ground; avoid
sneezing by pressing your finger against
your upper lip, under the nose; keep
your elbow at your sides and your
hands in your lap when not eating,
and do not lounge in any way or tip
back your chair. Many other points
of etiquette must be learned by obser-
vation.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18
The Antique Feminine Waist.
Magazine of Art.

| believe it is said that the corset was
not unknown to Rome, but it is clear
that the Greek and Roman women, as
a whole, were quite convinced that the
human form was itself beautiful, so that
they made no attempt to dishgure it by
compression or addition. Young girls
were dressed simply, chastely and yet
elegantly in the flowing stola, slightly
open at the throat and occasionally
falling in two sets of folds. On the
eve of marriage they were clad in
white robe called the regilla. After
that event they wore the girdle, which
the Roman matrons generally placed
Immediately beneath the bosom. Some
times it was a band and at other times
a cord tied in bow, over which the
folds of the upper part of the dress fell
gracefully. Among the Greeks, though
not infrequently worn as just described,
it was often placed lower down. Oc-
casionally the stola was bound about
the bosom by band passing over the
right shoulder and under the left breast.
This gave the right arm liberty for ac-
ton and it was only for this object or
for speedy motion that the waist cord
ever seems to have been drawn very
tight. So little did the Greek and
Roman women think of the waist that
in great numbers of draped statues their
mantles are so arranged as to hide it
altogether.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18
SOciety's Law.

A first call from new acquaintance
should be speedily returned.
Great pains should be taken by a
hostess to introduce shy people.
A mistress should inform her SER
wants what they are to say to all COM
erS.
One card year left at the door, or
one sent in an envelope, continues the
acquaintance.
In calling on the sons or daughters,
every visitor should have card for the
father and mother.
Introducing should not be indiscrim-
inately done, at home or in society, by
any lady, however kind-hearted.
If one lady desires to be introduced
to another, the hostess should ask if
she may do so; of course, unobtrusive
ly.
There is no necessity of calling after
tea or general reception, if one has
attended the festivity or has left or
sent card on that day.
No gentlemen should ever be intro
duced to lady unless her permission
has been asked, and she be given an
opportunity to be refused.
In her own house a hostess should
always extend her hand to a person
brought to her by mutual friend and
introduced for the first time.
Strangers staying in town, who wish
to be called upon, should send their
cards by post with address attached, to
those whom they would like to see.
A disagreeable woman can always
find precedents for being formal and
chilling; a fine tempered woman can
always find reasons for being agreeable.
Cards of coincidence must be return
ed by mourning card sent in an enve-
lope at such reasonable time after the
death of relative as one can deter
mine again to take up the business of
society.
A lady who is fully aware of her own
respectability, who has always lived in
the best society, is never afraid to
bow or call first, or to introduce the
people whom she may desire should
know each other.
Cerelnonious visiting is the machin-
cry by which an acquaintance is kept
up in circle too large for social visit
ing, but every lady should try to make
one or two informal calls each Winter
on intimate friends.
In America it is the fashion to shake
hands, and most women, if desirous of
being cordial, extend their hands, even
on first introduction but it is, per-
haps, more elegant to make bow only,
at first introduction.
1t is we'll for all housekeepers to de-
vote one day in the week to the recep-
tion of visitors-the morning to trades
people and those who may wish to see
her on business, and the afternoon to
those who call socially.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18
FafherIy Advice.

"You wish to be lawyer, John--well, I'd not
say word
Unless felt quite certain that your longings are
absurd;
don't wish to discourage you, but then I can't
consent
To board as I'd hev to do, and pay your office
rent.
"You've got lusty set of limbs and ordinary
head,
And you were meant by common toll to earn
your daily bread:
But thriving farm and pleasant home where
man and wife agree,
Beat any one-horse lawyers luck as far as you
can see.
ago hev shown
That you had gifts, by stealing off to study books
alone;
Now, if you've ever read book, rally don't
know when,
Though, come to think, b'lieve you sling a
somewhat legal pen.
"Be wise, my boy, the legal ranks are more than
crowded now,
And half of them who starve therein was cut out
for the pillow.
But they mstook pure laziness for talent, under
stand,
And helped to fill big supply where there was
no demand
care they not educated? Yes, but here let me
explain,
Seed that's grown in shaky soil brings forth but
little grain;
And this higher education fitted to common
mind
Is like pair of big gold specs upon man that's
blind.
"There is no prouder place than 'twixt the han
dies of pow,
Though stumpy land has humbled me at times,
must allow,
And as for human greatness, I should think
had my share
If could take the prize for hogs at our next
county fair.
"Just emulate your sire, my son, and just as sure
as fate,
You'll live to be respected, though perhaps you
won't be great
But enter law and five short years will clean you
out so bad
You'll have no recollection of the last square
meal you had"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

b%It is very easy to forbear stealing
other mems goods, but hard not SO
much as to covet or desire them very
easy not to bear false witness in judg-
ment, but not easy to avoid detraction
in conversation; very easy not to de-
sire another mans death, but hard not
to desire some inconvenience, to him
easy to forbear defaming our adversary,
but hard not to despise him.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

bT"It is as plain as the nose. on
your face, and there's no excuse for
your overlooking it." exclaimed a hus-
band whose wife had forgotten to re-
duce the size of a buttonhole in his
shirt collar. "But, deary, how can l
help overlooking the nose on my face ?"
was the patient and placating answer
that set him wild.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

OMistress-"I wish you to do
some sweeping to-day" Maid-"To-
morrow is my day off, mum, and |
never lets myself get tired the day be-
fore, because then l can't take no en-
joyment when gets out, mum" "Oh,
well, do it day after tomorrow, then. "
"The day after bein' out I am alters
tired, num-"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

A Cause for Rejoiciag Among the Weak and
Debititated.
A PUBLIC WANT FILLED AT LAST!
SCHROEDER'S
IRON TONIC And BLOOD PURIFIER
The only Iron in solution ,oithom Orydation (rast-
ing.) Entirely free from alcohol. Not 1nJurl-
Gus. The best in the world. Price so cts.
at Druggists and Country Stores.
DEpoT-1O3 HANOVER ST., BALTIMORE.
HOME TESTIMONIALS
Mrs. Annie M. Shirley, of Harrisonville, Balti-
more county, Nd, writes "I was troubled with
Indigestion and after using Schroeder's Iron Tonic
it gave me great relief. 1 think it an excellent
medicine in family
Susan Ann Gosnell, Of Harrisonvile, writes =
'I was very weak and feeble during the hot
weather. and took bottle of Schroeder's Iron
Tonic and Blood Purifier, which strengthened me
greatly and gave me good appetite"
Mrs. L. St. Leon, of SO st. Paul street, Balti-
more, writes that Schroeder's Iron Tonic has en-
tirely relieved her of nervous debility and weak
ness.
A REMARKABLE CURE.-I was suffering with
cough and pain in my side for the past two years
and grew extremely weak. During that time 1
had several physicians attending ne, but deriving
no benefit from heirtreatment. They pronounced
my disease consumption. 1 concluded to try
Schroeder's Iron Tonic, not expecting it to cure
me, but merely using it as an appetizer and tonic.
After using three bottles I was entirely cured OF
my disease and feel stronger than have for the
past eight years. F. PFAMMILLER,
BAG w. Pratt street, Baltimore.
Oct.11tJuly19,'S5.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

There were three maidens who loved King;
They sat together beside the sea.
One cried, 81 love him and would die
If but for day he might love me-"
The second whispered, "And would die
To gladden. his heart or make him great"
The third one spoke not, but gazed afar
With dreamy eyes that were sad as fate.
The King be loved the first for day.
The second his life with fond love blessed,
And yet the woman who never spoke
Was the one of the three who loved him the best
The GALAXY.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

s9rA little boy came to his mother
recently and said: "Mamma, should
think that if was made out of dust, l
would get muddy inside when I drink. :"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

B9~"My DEAR" said husband in
startling tones, after awaking his wife
in the night, 81 have swallowed dose
of strychnine u "Well, then for good
ness sake lie still, or it may come up"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

D@"Yes," said the level-headed
school-boy, "I'm at the foot O. my
class, and calculate to stay there. Then
1 don't have to stand the wear and fear
of anxiety for fear I'll lose my place"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

B0-The crow is not so bad a bird.
1t never shows the white feather, and
never complains without caws.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

A Cause for Rejoicing Among the Weak and
Debilitated.
PUBLIC WANT FILLED AT LAST!
SNIJR OEnERsS
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
Montreal Botanic Gardens.

We are indebted to a friend for a
copy of the Montreal Gazette, contain
ing the report of meeting held re-
Gently in Montreal for the organization
of an association with the purpose of
establishing botanic gardens in that
city. The meeting was well attended,
and the project was carried out with
enthusiasm. Professor Penhallow of
McGill College (who, by'th way, is a
graduate of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, has been very active
in promoting this organization, and the
authorities of the college take great in
terest in the matter. The park COM
missioners of the city will make lib
eral concession of land in Mt. Royal
Park, suitable both for a botanic gar
den, and also for an arboretum. The
garden will embrace not only hardy
species, but will be supplied with hot
houses and Conservatives for the fl ora
of warmer countries. The support and
assistance alike of the city, the pro-
vincial and general government are as
sured, and Montreal thus takes the
lead among the cities of the continent
in this important work. We shall watch
its progress with sincerest interest.
The chairman of the meeting was DR..
I. Sterry Hunt, president of Montreal
Horticultural Society, and other men,
bers of that lively society (Messrs
Evans, Cheney, Glib and Shepherd
among them) took very active part in
the proceedings. A body of corporators
was chosen, and the work fairly set
upon its feet. 1t has now only to march.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
The Worth Of an Agricultural Paper.

1t is a not uncommon remark that
such and such articles published by an
agricultural journal are each worth
years subscription" We are not sure
that we have not occasionally used the
phrase ourself, with private grin that
did not appear in print. The truth of
the matter is, that the worth of printed
information depends fully as much upon
the man who reads it as upon the man
who writes it. We do not believe there
is an agricultural paper in the United
States so poorly conducted that it does
not every week print articles, each of
which may be of more value to some
man who reads it than many years sub
scription. But too many farmers are
waterproof, yea, bullet-proof, against
such information. Agassiz, speaking
of skill in observation, says that " every
eye sees what it brings the skill to see."
So every intellect takes in such infor-
nation only as it has the skill to take
in. Water does not run off ducks
back easier than facts of the utmost
value and consequence roll from the
mind of the careless, the stupid, or the
uninterested reader and nearer. The
proverb applies well to knowledge, that
"you may lead horse to water, but
YOU can't make him drink"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
A Few More Notes on the
Silver Question.

1t is not worth while to waste much
time discussing this subject with papers
like the NeU York Erominer, which de-
clares that the only money we should
have is gold coin and national bank
notes. 1t is like scolding against a
northwestern blizzard to tell American
voters that financial system which
has made money plenty without max
ing it cheap-which has reduced inter-
est rates fifty per cent, and yet gives us
currency with equal purchasing power
to that of any nation on the globe-is
the work of fools or fanatics.
Senator Sherman of Ohio stands as a
statesman, and especially as financier,
on an equal footing with any man.
His views on the silver question are
nearly identical with those expressed
in these columns. Lately, in Califor-
mia, he has made some speeches on the
subject, and seems to think that per-
haps the best thing the United States
can do is to wait no longer for Europe
to join us, but to increase the weight of
our silver dollar, and recon all our sill
yer on new standard. Perhaps as a
threat this is well enough. 1t would
scare every European government out
of its boots for this great silver nation
to reduce the silver ratio from sixteen
to one to eighteen to one. But aside
from the effect of such proposition as
a piece of bull-dozing craftsmanship
what good would it do to carry out the
idea practically at this time? The
United States can, it is true, force
European governments in that way to
recon all their silver at lower stand
ard with heavy loss, but even the
United States cannot make silver really
and intrinsically worth one cent al
ounce more or less, though it can, as
Germany has done, temporarily disturb
the market for that metal by Theoretical
and fanciful legislation. Just as Ions
as Germany's hundred and odd millions
of silver blocks the way, there is NJ
way of finding out just what silver il
worth, in comparison with gold. This
being so, what is the use of jumping a
a ratio, as Mr.. Sherman proposes, Bet
ter wait awhile We are masters of thu
situation, anyway. Perhaps we hat
better lessen the annual coinage of sill
yer, or even stop it entirely for a yea
or two. Bismarck and William are no
going to rule Germany much longer
There is strong feeling in that empir
against Bismarck's policy on this point
The Cologne Germany Gazette affirm
that all financial circles in Germany ar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

"THE Patrons of Vermont are COM
planning that the funds given by the gov
eminent for College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts are absorbed by
their University and that agriculture
and mechanic arts get no benefit from
it. Why do they allow this when they
can correct it at any time they are dis
posed to 90 to work and do it? Com
planning amounts to nothing. Work is
what will tell" So says the Maine Far
me1', and the Maine people have a right
to advise, for the grange is power in
the Pine Tree State. But we fear the
trouble is that the Vermont farmers
don't want an agricultural college, lest
they may have to pay twenty-five cents
apiece, annually, towards its support.
Vermonters are not wont to allow them
selves to be swindled uncomplainingly
and when they do submit to such a
thing it is generally because they dis
like the probable alternative. Now
Green Mountain Changers, if you will
prove by your actions that we misjudge
you, we will make as handsome an apol.
ogy as we know how to. You CAM
please us better than by proving that
we have done you a wrong.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

SAME HERE.-The Ne,C England
Homestead says: "The Homestedd' S
fertilizer department this spring has
won high praise from both producers
and consumers. Some manufacturers
are still disgruntled when an agricul-
tural paper attempts to tell farmers
anything about the mixing of fertilizers,
but the progressive ones see that the
more the subject is discussed the better
the farmers will understand it, the
more intelligently fertilizers will be
used and the greater the satisfaction
all around"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
A Great Need.

The necessity for properly-managed
agricultural colleges is felt by the far
mer who desires to educate his boys.
He sees that the son of neighbor, who
has studied for four years at one of our
old colleges, returns with his thoughts
and the best of his mind directed
away from the objects which worthily
and usefully occupy his father and
his brothers. He is useless and inferior
in the sphere of his homestead; he can
not labor; he must go from home; he
is driven from it; he can do nothing
but enter profession, and in any pro-
fession he may enter, if he cannot
make conspicuous mark, he is mis-
cradle thing at best, and almost certain
to fall into ruinous habits and to be-
come their victim. And the unhappy
and disappointed father loses not only
the cost of his education, his own
struggles and expended energy, but in
three cases out of four the son himself.
Well-conducted agricultural colleges
may produce different condition of
affairs, and supply educated yet prac-
teal farmers, as West Point educates
soldiers and Annapolis educates sailors.
1t is high time, if the sword has its col
leges supported by law, that the pillow
should have hers, for it is as much a
matter of national policy for our young
men to knew how to feed men scien-
tifically, as to know how to kill them.
-ETchanue,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

CoTToN-sEED meal has been quite
extensively used as fertilizer by Con-
necticut valley farmers for several
years. The seed has also been long
used in the South as a fertilizer, and
with high appreciation of its value
for the purpose. While it may be
equally valuable to a Vermont farmer
as a manure, still it will be found a
higher economy to first feed it to stock,
and then carefully save the manure
from the stock kept. Rich feed gives
rich manure, and if this is carefully
looked after the fertility of the land is
provided for.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

in favor of bi-metallism. If this is so,
the government cannot long hold out
against public sentiment, for already
the working classes have petitioned
for it. Let Germany resume a BIZ
metallic currency and, instead of hav-
ing train load of silver to sell, she
will be in the market as regular buyer.
And if meantime we do as Mr.. Sher-
man proposes, we may in year or two
have to return to the present standard,
and again recon all of our silver.
Surely it is better to go slow on so inn
portant matter, in which there is no
real emergency, or need of haste.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON, the we'll
known statistician, estimates that our
American population consumes food to
the value of "a $40, 100000 every year,
or an average of 1885 cents day per
capita, equal to 1861 each per year.
The total value of tobacco consumed
is estimated at S450,000, 900, and of
intoxicating liquors, 100000 10000. That
is to say, American fools waste over
three-tenths as much every year, in.rum
and tobacco, as it costs to feed this
great people-to say nothing of the loss
of time and of health which results
from the use of these noxious drugs.
This loss is more than all the profit that
remains from the nations labor. And
yet the majority of our people are prac-
tically Indifferent to such stupendous
evil. In other words, we who do not
put a stop to this ruinous waste by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

THE Boston Cultirator is mourning
mutations of unused money at the COM
mercial centers cannot be loaned to the
farmers who are paying from seven to
ten per cent on mortgages. The Cul-
tirdtOr does not understand the situa-
ton. A good farmer in the East with
business habits, who is known to pay
his interest promptly to the day, gets
all the money he wants, nowadays, at
four or five per cent, and country CAPT
taists run after him to loan him money
Most of those who loan money need
their interest to pay current expenses,
and if when it is due there is no GER
tainty of getting it for year to come,
as is often the case with interest due
on farm mortgages, the lender thinks
it poor compensation to be nominally
receiving a higher rate. A large
amount of the pecuniary trouble
amongst farmers is due to their utter
want of anything like proper habits OF
business. They have to pay for this ig-
norance, and the general shiftlessness
that accompanies it, in vast number
of ways, and it is not very astonishing
that the noses of such farmers are on
the grindstone most of the time. Farm
ing is business, and must be done on
business principles. in order to attain
success in it,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

WITHIN year the Boston & Lowell
railroad has secured a lease of the differ
ent railroads running out of Concord,
n. II. Since securing control both the
passenger and freight tariffs have been
reduced. The reduction on produce
from Wentworth to Boston is seventeen
cents per hundred pounds, and in like
proportion from other towns on the
road. In consequence, the farmers
sold their potatoes, during the winter,
for forty-fve and fifty cents per bushel;
this spring for fifty and fifty-fve cents,
and for choice ones sixty cents, deliv-
cred on the cars. Correspondence Home
stead.