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THE USE OF EYE GLASSES.
characteristics ofPeople Who Wear Spec.
tacles-Craze or Necessity2

characteristics ofPeople VINO " ear specs
tacles-Craze or Necessity
"Is it q craze or a necessity?" was the ques.
ton asked of leading optician in regard to
the use of eye glasses by the youth of the day.
"a necessity always. There are few people
who do not have some defect Of the eyes.
Either it is nearsight or farsight or ono eye
Is larger than the other, or some visual imper.
fection exists that renders the wearing OF
spectacles imperative"
ain old times young people and school
children were not accustomed to wearing eye
glasses!"
"No! they bent double over their desks and
brought OIL consumption and diseases Of the
brain by wrong positions and overapplication
to their studies. Parents and physicians are
wiser now and make a study of the eyes"
All this time the oculist was fitting a pair
of steel-bowed spectacles to the prominent nose
of O woman who sat bolt upright and with an
expression as if she were in dentists chair
He had all alphabetical card with letters
ranging in size from an inch to ordinary
print. He was asking her if she could read
the smallest line, which he said was "norlna
print"
~ don't know anything about norma
print" she said, "but we have normal schoo
in our town. Say, can sew with those specsP
GIf you use the lens that you do for read
ing, ma'am."
II don't know nothing about lens, but car
sew with the best, and I want to piece quill
for our minister's wife. What l want tx
know is, can sew with them"
@If YOU use your needle about the same dis
tance from your eyes that you would book
like this"
"Young man, I don't hang my sewing OF
the end of my nose. I expect to see to threat
needle and sew without squirting all around
an jest want you to answer me yes ol
no, can sew with them specs"
1--WE have any number of patients like that,
said the optician. "They want to be fitted
without any preliminaries; some OF them ge
very nervous"
"What class of patients do you like to
serve bcstm -,
"Dusiness men. They have no time to wait
They have faith that I understand theil
needs better than they do and they offer III
resistance when measure the eye and fit th'
glasses"
do men or women lose their eyesight ear
liestl"
"lYomen. Their work is not so steady, bu
it is more complicated. However, they d'
not take kindly to spcctacles, and few OF then
arc willing to admit that they need them 10
old are. 1t is usually some other excuse.
"What about colored glasses"
"Wcll, there is the Arundel tint, the rose
color, tho violet, tho blue glass, and tn
smoked. These arc all used, but the clear glas
for reading and the smoked glass to protec
the ewes, these arc the standard styles"
"Do you sell the onc-eyed glass-quizzinI
glass"
.Only to Englishmcn and society swells L
is hardly safe to use them in this country.
believe New York fops affect them some
what. .n-Detroit Tribune.
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What VIII Happen to Girls.
Thirty--liine girls.

lnlTty -lllHt guns.
In ten years fifteen will have married.
In ten years seven of the fifteen will be
widows dependent upon their own exertions
for bread and meat.
In ten years fifteen of the remaining
twenty -four will be sleeping beneath the sod.
And how far apart they will be sleeping! One
in Georgia, one in California, one i'll Ohio,
one in Virginia, another, perhaps, III mis-
sionary's grave in China, another amid the
ashes Of the ancient Aztecs Of Mexico, ar-
othcr-but only time will tell where they all
will sleep.
In ten years the n.nc have not yet men,
toned will begin to lose their sweetness and
develop something Of the sourness supposed to
be inSeparablc from women that are destined
to be old maids
In ten years, not one Of the thirty-nine but
that will have tasted of the bitterness that
comes in time to all human beings. Hope
will be bHghtcd, loved ones will he claimed
by that same skeleton you beheld just now,
sorrow in q hundred forms will be exueri-
enced-indeed, to every one surfeit Of dead
sea fruit will be offered. Atlanta Constitu-
lion.
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Tho DisilIusion Of Niatrimopy.

As love is always an idealizing process
and it is the charming craft Of the girl to aid
and abct the illusion of the devoted lover by
q thousand exquisite arts that he never sus-
pects-the chances are that in nine cases out
of ten the first six months OF married life are
months Of disillusion.
The sense Of possession, which plays so i'm
portant role in the consumption of love, has
q finality with her that be cannot understand
This is the end of her drama But he doesn't
want it to end. 1t was the delicious little
actress that he admired without knowing It.,
and now she insists upon turning off the gas
and washing off her paint and prosaically In
forming him that the curtain is down.
Alas. how many women have awakened
from their long dream of hero, and in the
silence aud desolation Of their chamber have
poured bitter tears out to their mirrors, be-
cause chivalry and poetry and sentiment
hsre resolved themselves into common mas
culinity with O large appetite and dispo'
sitioa to &c. weary Of tenderness now that
there is no bar to it.
Where is the man OF woman who can touch
khcso intricate and absorbing themes outside
OF fiction with the deft fingers Of truth and
ssrei:ncat-NyTn Crinkle ip New York
World. -.
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The Reporter as nm Interviewer.

A reporter, in the course of his diurnal and
nocturnal perambulatioas, runs up against II
vast deaf of human nature of one sort anil
another The modern fashion of publishing
o budget of miniature interviews every day,
quoting remarks that probably The speaker
had not the remoteSt idea were going into
print furnishes many illustrations. Hardly
day goes 10y Tut what somebody gets mud
and says he never said what he Is quoted AS
saying. He demands a correction. and gen-
orally gets it But he doesn't deserve it, and
be knows it, The trouble is not that he did not
say what was printed, but that he did
not want everybody 70 know that he said it.
And SO he charges it MI up to the reporter
and makes out that he deliberately falSiiicd
tho returns. If the reporter was guilty Of
one-half tho crimes that are credited to him
be would be a most nlonstrous monster.-Pio-
neer Press Listener"
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pecu,Iar 70 n Boarding. School

There is fashionable boarding school In
New York where the "young ladies" are
taught to enter and get out of carriage. A
vehicle with the proper pedal arrangements
for this sort of exercise, which determines
lady's breeding and claim to social position, is
kept in the back yard Of the educational es-
tablishment, and there the carriage classes
are put through the most arduous training.
Another accomplishment, peculiar to this gilt
edged academy, is learning to eat asparagus,
oranges, grapes and other juicy and unman-
aseable viands, IN style that shall represent
the perfection of table manners. Stood House
keeping
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furnishing Crime in China.

They have their own ways of Furnishing
crime in China. IncentliariSin has given
much trouble in q southern district Of the
country and n penalty was extemporized
which will probably have a deterrent effect
A culprit taken red handed was placed during
Il long summer day i'll a cage, where his eye
lids were burned with lighted incense sticks
AMI hot incense dust was blown into his face.
An official report states that the women i'll
the neighborhood, several Of whom had lost
children in the fires, were especially active i'll
adding to the severity of the punishment.
Brooklyu EnTlp
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Uncivii Manners Between Boys.


There Is a good deal of r,ldeness between
boys in their intercourse and bearing with
one another that is not really intended as such,
but is not, therefore, any the less to bo disap-
proved 1t is often simply the overflow OF ex-
cessive high spirits. But the very best good
humor, unrestrained by proper bounds and
limitations, may become the most positive in
civility. We often apologize for the coarse.
ness of people by saying HE means well "
1t is well if we can make such an apology foi
them, for If their rudeness is really intentional
they are not fit to be received into any worthy
persons society. But they who mean well
should also do WELL and the ways of polite
ness are never so easily learned as in youth.
Tho boy who is habitually coarse and rude In
his bearing toward other boys will be such as
a man toward men, and all his life will never
gain the reputation of being a gentlenan.-
PHILADELPHIA Call
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Curtains for IA Badly Lighted Room.

The following advice is given by The Art
Amateur to a correspondent who wants to
know a cheap but effective way Of cnrtaining
the narrow and disproportionately high
windows of poorly lighted sitting room:
"Cut off from the upper part of tue windows
enough to make the height Of the window pro-
portionate to the width and fill the upper
part with Japanese lattice work, which can
be bought very cheap at almost any of the
Japanese stores. Below have narrow brass
pole, with the usual brass rings. From this
suspend Crete curtains, which are trallspar-
rent, but heavier than the similar grcnadine
goods called 'Madaras.' With light buff or
rich cream-color window shade as back
ground for the latticework, as it will
be if the shades are kept down foot or
two, you will retain more light in the room
than you could secure by the use of any other
kind of curtains and have an artistic effect at
small expense. ."-E1chanSe.
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cHERuBs OF THE HOTELS. IN
Uncanny Ways OF the Mature Children :,
of the Town-Juvcni1e Tretchedness.

Uncanny Ways OF tho Mature Ch1ldren ,
of the Town-Juveni1e Tretchedness.
There "a something uncanny about. these
mature children Of the town. / was at tho
windsor hotel at dinner with some friends
short time ago when pompous little woman
strobe down the long dining room, followed
by two little girls hand In hand. Neither Of
them was more than years old They SET
tied themselves in their chairs, folded, their
skinny little hands and then proceeded to
stare about them and comment upon their
fellow-diners. The elder Of the two children,
after looking intently at q maiden Lady OF
rather noticeable attire at an adjoining table,
turned to her mother and said composedly:
sWhat really startling old trump that Is,
mamma" -,.
(which one, dear7" asked the strict disci-.
plinarian of mother. .
1.-THE cheerful guy beside the bald-headed
man over there" ...e
"Oh, yes" said the mother, with q well.
bred snlilc "rve seen her before. But don't
be so slangy, Marion. Have more tone.
Order your dinner now and see that you let
puree and lamb alone. It's too rich for you"
Then to the waiter: "Take her order, Au-
gllste." :
The waiter leaned obsequiously over the
child, who was studying the menu with o
frown on her little face. =
"No soup, Ogecst," she said intently, sbut q
bit Of weekfsh with egg sauce, an kidney
omelette-not fiat, you know, but nice and
puffy-and artichokes-"
"Ver' sorry, Mees Maryon, but there Is no
artic-"
There, thought So" said the girl, slam
ming the card down on the table and biting
her thin lips. ats the most provoking thingI
Whenever set my heart"
ave have some green corn-" {
"Eat it yourselfl" said the child In huff. =
The waiter was quite unmoved Ho seemed
to be accustomed to such ebullitions Of temper
and went OH suavely taking tho orders Of the
others, while Miss Marion sat tho picture of
overdressed, pampered and pouting discon'
| tent.
And the children of the fats. Who ever
| hears of these shy and melancholy little be-
ings who speak in whispers and have been
bullied, reprilnanded and scolded by servants,
tenants, janitors and parents until they glide
about like shadows and dare not laugh for
fear of disturbing some one7 The joyousncs
and life of childhood have been crushed. out
of them And the children of the boarding
house, who live under perpetual protest
from the grim aud snappy landlady and the
testy boarder of the "frst floor front" who
must have the house quiet so as to enjoy her
afternoon nap. Nearly every boarding house
that advertises now puts forth the fiat mo
children" and the little ones are 50 thoroughly!
cowed that they are as pitiful IN mien as in
body. Then there are tile children Of the
tenements and the scums There Is no end
to juvenile wretchedness here For place;
that children should be kept out Of, commend
me to New York. .-Blakely Halls New York
! Letter. .-. /,
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xyb.t "Fatber Saws" and Does.

If parents think that children do not notice
closely everything they do they make a
serious mistake. Children see quickly and
reason with marvellous exactnesS, and are not
easily deceived. They are more likely to no
tice every little act of the father. because
he is not always at home, and what
q father says" and what father does" are the
things they most wish to say and do. No
matter how dearly they may love their
mother it IS undoubtedly true that children
initiate the father far more closely than they
do the mother. So, therefore, the Iart a
father bears in the training of children is q
very, very important one, and he who shirks
e, throwing it all on the shoulders Of tho al
ready overburdened mother, will have q serl-
GUS sin to answer for some day.-Cleveland
aaler
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Gallant Rescue of an English Tourist.
Word comes from Fortress Monroe, Va, Of
the gallant rescue of an English tourist,
Thomas Cunningham, of London, from
drowning in the bay by DR.. Irving g. Rose,
a noted swimmer, formerly surgeon of the
Corwin during the Jeannette search expedi-
ton. Cunningham, confident of his strength,
had wageret that he would reach the red
buoy, quarter Of mile out beyond the float
anchored q short distance from the shore
Beyond the float tho current was strong to
seaward, and only vigorous swimmer cnn
hold bis own against it. DR.. Rose, while
resting on the float, observed tie English
swimmer throw up his hands in distress, and
the doctor plunged to his rescue. On reach
ing him the doctor called out: "H you obey
my orders I'll save you; If you don't 1 will let
you drown" The Englishman obeyed, and
by fecbly treading water enabled the doctor
to grasp him by the nape Of the neck and hold
him until he recovered his breath. The doctor
then succeeded in pushing him in to the shore.
Baltimore Sun.
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Should Harden tho Little Bodies.

To get tho full benefit Of the summer vaca-
ton, little girls should not be dressed every
day as though on Sunday school picnic Or in
training as embryo bellies, but their wardrobe
should be simple and comfortable, permitting
the freest action of lungs and limbs. It's not
enough that when they return they be "as
brown as berries" but digestion should be inl-
proved, endurance increased and muscles
hardened.-Dr. J. Il. Ripley in Babyhood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-22
How to Choose Wall Paper.

Light wall paper should be chosen on q sun
shiny day, and dark paper in somewhat
shaded corner. The reason for this is that
tho light paper is lighter and reflects bright
hess, and the dark paper is really darker, on
the wall than when ono side only is shown in
the lighted room. It would be well if paper
hangers had corner rack, that is one with q
right angle in it, to judge Of the reflections OF
two walls Of any sort of paper.-Cleveland
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"Colored Men Made to Order"

Ono of the oddities of Partisan journal Is
this advertisement: "A factory III Bellcville
produces within few days artificial negroes.
The mctamorphosis, which is entirely harnl-
less, is caused by iodine. 1t opens brilliant
future to young men, rs black servants, circus
negroes, ETC., arc always i'll GcrlaiHl. Prices
low and payment easy. Curling irons for the
manufacture of woody hair always Kept Oh
hand. n-Doston Journal
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Several Methods of Removing Stains.

Table linen and other articles that are liable
to be stained should be carefully examined
before washing, and such spots removed by
soaking in milk or dipping in melted tallow;
fruit stains disappear when equal parts OF
kerosene and soda are applied; cover wine
discolorations with salt, dampened.
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For the benefit Of such young ladies the
following items were given by an old Lady OF
GO. who Is still considered beauty, and who
retains q complexion noted for its delicacy OF
coloring;
Wear q large white sun hat when out
doors in the daytime, even if sitting in the
shade.
The neck should never be permitted to be
sun-burned, and to avoid this wear thin flan-
mel underwear, with lawn or muslin dress,
and tie q silk handkerchief about the throat
when out boating. =.
A cheap toilet water is made out OF half
pint of water, small cup of cider vinegar,
and the same amount of milk. Put into
jar or bottle, and apply to the face with
soft sponge Let it remain over night or
until perfectly dry, and then wash it off with
warm water. It will remove tan.
A shining face may be avoided by ladies
who do not use powder If it IS bathed over
night with warm water and the eyes only
sponged in the morning.
A pomade for the face, to remove tan and
whiten the skin, is made out of OH ounce OF
almond paste, the juice of two lemons and
little eau de cologne. 1t is to be applied at
bed time and left Oh the face until morning.
Gloves should be worn constantly to pre-
vent the hands from tanning. The most ser
viceable are large ones of dog skin of dull
tan shade, and these are suitable for most
country pleasures
Rain water is the best for toilet purposes
and keeps the skin soft and smooth. Boiled
rain water is considered as effective as
Turkish bath in removing tan.
Masks of white cloth, dampened with warm
water, are worn at night by ladies who have
the courage to stand their unpleasantness,
and are considered most effective for beauti-
flying the complexion.
Dark colored wells Of heavy gauze are q
protection against the sun when driving or
ridins.-New York Journal
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Out of nearly 700 Vassar graduates about
200 have been drawn in nuptiai moose The
full-blown buds left have taken up various
callings There are II physicians, organ
lists, 10 bookkeepers, 5 chemists, 15 school
principals, 9 farmers, census clerk, insur-
ance agents, $50 teachers, q artists, law
clerk, librarians, copyist, 12 music teachers,
astronomical assistants, Journalists, GYM
nastic teachers, 2nissionarieS, 3public readers
and & authors.-Chicago Herald
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Stage Rules In Franco.

Iii $ Helen Dauvray says: "French audi
cnccs lose intrrc,: in the play during the half
hour intervals l.rtwccn the acts. In my own
theatre e,Iall never allow an actress more
than nine mins:cs to change hcr dress, or
carpenter more than eight to set the stage"
--E.EHhNnge
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Helen Hunt Jackson's Sensitivencss.

No one loved beauty more than she; no
one could dcprcciate the body more when 1t
began to lose its freshness For strong
young mcn in their prime, for blooming girls
and mature womanhood, she had an admira-
ticn as frank and almost as unqualified as
Greeks. But her very alteration of physical
lovelncss made her peculiarly sensitive to
imperrecticn and the dismal accompanimcnts
of sickness. In her own case, when accident
brought inGrmity upon her, it was received
Mt first with a shudlcr of disgust, kind Of
quick impulsivc scorn, Of which, perhaps,
only noble natures are capable. She spoke Of
lcr illness as "a career of disgrace" 1t was
not, probably, for the loss Of creature COM
forts, nor even the long train of Affections
which it cntailed; these she could endure;
they proved, in fact, field for the exercise
of q fortitude which was little short of heroic.
Health meant liberty, its loss an endless
series of restrictions affecting her activity
and the free play Of her intelligence. She
resented them as something outside of har-
self, which deserved only contempt and
chastising. Her soul, she thought, could lift
itself above thcm-was above them.
Throughout her suiferings, she kept her
sunnincss of spirit, her serenity and elaS-
ticity And she continued to work. This, i'll
decd, was al integral part of her creed. 10
idlcrS and dilcttanti she had always turned a
cold shoulder; they had no place in her
scheme of things. If her antipathy assumed
at times q humorous form, it was none the
less real and deep seated. 1t would have
gratificd the most rigid economist to have
heard her set forth this thesis of life as a
period of active production. She rejoiced to
call herself, and be called, working womani
there was 10 better title under heaven to hes
sense, and her life was long enforcement OF
the belief, fruitful illustration Of how ii
could be practiced with dignity and success
Princeton Review.
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Secret OF Being Well Dressed.

Nowhere is an American woman dressed so
we'll as in New York. An Englishwoman is
dressed well nowhere. The American woman
will not have dress made in London if she
can get across the channel to be measured on
French soil. 1t will not do to employ q
dressmaker in England, although rank and
wealth there command the best modistes. It
does not answer to say that their art deteri-
orates, like the flavor of Beaujolais, by trans
portation, for when the Englishwoman goes
to France to be dressed she, like the New
York woman, comes back no better dressed
than when she left home. @DreSs!" exclaimed
= Chicago girl "It all depends on tho way
you swing it." That is the secret after all
The Englishwoman cannot swing it at all; the
American woman swings it pretty well, but
the swinging of a Frenchwoman IS poem.-
Courier-J cunal.
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>Jr yor,p Lat;tes in the Country,

sit is well enough to so into tho country
and pay tennis and croquct, go on fishing
excursions ard picn;cs, and sit in tho hot sun
half of the day, but what shall one do with
their complexion" lameated fashionable
young lady tic other day.
Some oue suggested that it was fashionable
60 return homo as brown as an Indian.
aBut do not get brown" she exclaimed. "
turn q hor,id red, and then my skin begins te
come of, and my face gets rough and does nc'
lock at all pretty.
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po,,teno,s OF a Newport coaohman.

A wealthy New Yorker had engaged a
splendid cottage at Newport, and also new
driver for his horses The driver was advised
to be very polite if be intended to keep his
place. Accordingly when the master went to
the Queen Anne stable the following dialogue
en:ued: Master-Well, John, how are tho
horses? Coachmen-They are quite well, sir,
thank you, and how are youa-Boston Bea'
con.
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viii Make Good Ironing Holders.

The tops of leather boots, not too heavy,
holders, as leather is q non-conductor of heat.
Cover with two thiclnesses of old cotton
flannel.