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Frescoed Women.

1t is a relief to see woman, be she
young or old, whose complexion is not
artificial. Time was when the woman
whose face was powdered and rouged,
whose lips were painted and eyebrows
stenciled, was viewed with social suspi-
cion and mentally placed where she no
doubt properly belonged. 1t is differ
ent now, very different. Partisan art
certainly beauties the face, but the ar
tifcialty is detected simply because it is
too beautiful to be natural. 1t is argued
that the dissipations of fashionable life,
the round of gayety, late hours, luxur-
ious eating, inadequate exercise and
fresh air prematurely destroys youth and
freshness of face, rendering recourse to
cosmetics necessary. No doubt this is
true, and more's, the pity, and one can
only conjecture what manner of faces
must be hid behind the masks seen on
the piazza, at the table d'hote and in the
parlors. Saratoga and Long Branch
abound in these frescoed women, and,
from certain standpoint, they are q
sight to see. It is all in keeping, how
ever, with Vanity Fair.-MeU York Mail
and Express.
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A White Rat Story.

Some days ago the Brooklyn Eagh
published an item of news about the
finding of nest of white rats with pink
eyes in bale of galangal root imported
by Messrs. Stallman & Fulton. The
Eagle stated that 140 of the beauties had
been captured, with hopes of finding
others on the premises. White rats are
so rare that the published facts attracted
widespread attention. The papers in
other States reproduced the article, and
ever since the discovery was given unso-
licited publicity the finn has been over.
run with inquiries from far and wide.
Correspondents wanted to know where
they came from, how the firm intended
to dispose of them, if the rodents had
any black spots, and recommending that
they be tenderly raised, as white rats
were scarcity in this country. One
dubious correspondent believed they
were made white by the same compound
which Barnum used to make white
elephant. A New Hampshire lady wrote
the firm to ascertain how to get rid Of
the common household rats and closed
her epistle in the following words: "Let
the light of your superior knowledge
shine upon my darkened pathway, which
Stallman & Fulton did in prompt re-
sponse. AS members of the drug trade
dropped in from day to day on business,
they never neglected to mention about
the colony of rats, and the queries be-
came such bore to Mr.. Fulton, who has
to answer for the firm, as Mr.. Stallman is
in Europe, that be had to enforce strict
rule not to allow any discussion upon the
subject during Office hours. The porter
has been instructed to ''fre" all persons
mentioning rats. The number found
reached 800, and they were carefully
placed in tin cans and removed up town
by certain parties who wanted them for
some purpose.-OH, Paint and Drug Re-
3o0rter
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Drunken HottentOtS.

Gresswelrs "South African Empire"
gives the following account Of drunken
ness among the Hottentots:
"Any chance visitor to Cape Town
should take walk from Wynberg to the
vineyards of Constantia on Saturday
afternoon to fully realize to what an ex.
tent this social blot exists, even in the
centre of South African civilization.
Troops of Hottentots, men and women,
come reeling along in all states OF
drunkenness, fresh from the visit to some
neighboring canteen. Frequently they
are brandishing in their hands bottles of
that fiery stuff procurable at a shilling
bottle. Not being allowed t, get
drunk on the premises, they sit down by
the roadside and hold their uncouth
Bacchanalian rites. Excited by these
orgies, and maddened by the poison they
imbibe, they commit all sorts of crime,
and are brought up before the magistrate
on the following Monday morning,
sadder if not wiser beings.
It has been calculated that fully three
quarters of the crimes committed owe
their beginning to drunkenness"
The Hottentots thus furnish another
illustration of the fact that alcohol is no
respecter of persons. Temperance Ad-
u0cdte.
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A Plucky Widow.

Down on Chartres street there is a
fourishing factory, running an engine of
eighteen-horse power and employing
thirty five men, women and boys, that
has been established, built up and is now
under the sole direction and supervision
of clever, plucky woman. Ten years
ago this lady's husband died, leaving
her utterly unprovided for, with large
family of children to support. In just
such desperate circumstances has many
a mother had to face the world, but
there are few, unfortunately, who have
the energetic determination of this little
widow.
Her husband had been boxmaker,
employing a number of Northern hands,
from whom his wife had learned every
department of the trade, little guessing
when she sat up at night to help the girls
out in the work given them by the piece
that this same knowledge would one day
stand her in such good stead. But so it
was, for after failure in business and q
long illness the husband died, leaving
debt instead of money to his family.
Something had to be done, she says,
and that done quickly, for there was not
money enough ahead to pay even the IS
rent for the attic in which they lived.
A brave heart and high courage, that re-
fused to be daunted, helped her to de-
eide on turning her knowledge of box
making to practical account, and way up
stairs, in the fatroofed, crowded gar
ret, she began her work, making herself
every variety of paper box the market
demands.
She went around to the wholesale con-
fectioners, druggists, shoe shops, millin-
ers, every business house that used large
quantities of these packing cases, solic-
iting patronage and meeting with
marked success, being another CRATE
full woman to testify to the univer-
sal courtesy, kindness and good will
New Orleans people show to the work
ing class. So many orders did she re-
ceive that in few months she was able
to double the space occupied and de-
sccndcd one story. Another year went
by and the trade having grown to large
and flour shing proportions, warrant;ng
another increase, the tnlru MOOR was
added and this factory was no longer an
experiment, but an establishment of rep
utation.
The successful manager travelled for
her house, getting orders from all parts
of Louisiana and going on drumming
tours through Texas that always resulted
in a large increase of patrons. A fact of
which she seemed to be most proud was
that when she once secured a customer
they were hers always. Two large
houses she mentioned here in the city
that had first given her work had never
wavcred; she made hundreds of boxes
for them to-day.
Three years passed, and at last the eau
tious head saw her business guaranteed
adding the fourth and ground floor to
the three others, now too crowded.
Neso Orleans Times Democrat.
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Advice to the Girls.

Girls, if your skin be dark, be satisfied
to be in the category of the nut.brown
maidens, if for no other reason than that
''the leopard cannot change his spots. !"
Let the sun kiss the dusky cheek and add
to it the ruddy glow that belongs to the
dark skin, and which the rouge pot can
not supply.
Of course you can't change your fea-
lures. But you needn't trouble yourself
much on that score. Some person has
said that if our Mary could put some of
her beauty of feature into real everyday
prettiness she would be loved where she
is now admired.
The towering -nosed maiden among
the proud daughters of the Nile was the
beauty of Solomon's day, as was the
woman with no nose at all in the time Of
Tamerlane. In the land of the free there
is no standard of beauty on the nose
question. The American nose is type
all t. itself. But at all events your nose
is forcgone conclusion, and all the
sleeping in ciothespins to pinch down
the too prominent nostrils, or stroking
with the lead pencil to subdue the OBJ
noxious bump, is so much labor thrown
away. Eut when it comes to the mouth
the wou!d-be beauty has more promis-
ing subject to deal with. Although
the shape of the feature cannot be
altered, if the lips be kept fresh and the
teeth in perfect condition, very much Is
gained. If the spot where love seals
its VOWS be of an exaggerated size, don't
be constantly on the grin, as that keeps
the muscles on the stretch. Cultivate q
classic reposc of feature. Keep the
mouth shut when asleep, for more rea-
sons t! an one. Don't snore. Never bite
the lips to make them red, or for any
other reason. Bathe them occasionally
in water, with little dissolved alum or
borax, and apply glycerine and tincture
of benzoinc. This will keep the lips
fresh looking. The only harmless way
to keep them red is by contrast with the
teeth, which should be milk white.
A good tooth beauti6er is powdered
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Penalty Of Being a Belle.

TIC be belle, with all it implies, is
really arduous labor. 1t means devotion
to everybody and to everything except
ones self, with no quiet moments; it
means to live in the glare of public life,
to have every action noticed and criti-
cised. No wonder the term professional
beauty" came up in London! L. is most
difficult profession" to follow, to be al
ways at ones best, never to obtrude pri-
vate gricfs or joys, to be always unruf-
fed. How few who are really beautiful
are capable of being so professionally;
in other words, of really making bust
ness of it. And then the constant dread
of eclipse; newer and younger beauties
are coming upon the scene every day, and
the heyday of an attractive woman is as
short as the life of a butterhy.-Aaryom
Courant.
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Improved Vaccination.

AS protection by ordinary vaccination
is not secured until after the lapse Of
thirteen or fourteen days-that is, a Pc
riod at least equal to that required for
smallpox to develop-it has been con-
sidered of no use after symptoms of the
disease have been already infected. But
by modified method, Russian medical
student, NJ. Gubert, claims tc make such
late vaccination effective. In experiments
on dogs he has rapidly saturated the
system with protective virus by several
successive daily inoculations with calf
lymph, by which means he has succeeded
in bringing the vaccination process to
completion within four or five days. This
result has enabled him to arrest the de-
velopment of smallpox in twenty-seven
persons in whom he was quite sure the
disease was incubating, while in twelve
others the disease was modified to simple
yarioloid.
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sulphur, which is also an excellent tooth

sulphur, which is also an excellent tooth
preserver. This may be used daily. Fol
occasional use, say once a week, the fol.
lowing is good: Pumice stone, one
ounce; bicarbonate of soda, ons-halt
ounce; powdered tale, one-half ounce.
Fresh-looking lips, clean, white teeth,
and breath like sweet frankincense, aloe
and myrrh will make up for many de.
ficiency in feature.
If the ear be big and obtrusive, @ loose
arrangement of the hair or q few curled
locks brushed carelessly back will help
the Objectionable organ wonderfully
Never comb the hair tight back from a,
ugly ear.
AS for the eyes, better leave them
alone. Trimmed lashes often refuse to
grow again. Da k eyebrows and lashes
are great promoter of beauty, and if
yours happen to be lighter than your
hair, especially if that is red, I think
you might just touch them lightly with
sponge dipped in black walnut bark
boiled in water with little alum, OF
apply simple walnut juice. The eye,
Ui0WS may UC given oliSat oiCh oao
the fine line so much sought by simply
pinching the hairs together between the
fingers several times day.
But it is through the complexion that
you have the greatest scope for beautify.
ing. If every pore in your skin is stuffed
full of 'lily white" you must expect
those dreadful pimples and horrid black
specks. To the girl with the ugly skin
l say, you must teke two or three mile
walk every day; you must wear shoes
big enough for perfect comfort, and, il
the skin be thick and oily, you must es.
chew fats and pastry.
In the spring it would be we'll to try
the sulphur remedy, and at the same
time you may rub sulphur in a little
glycerine on the face at night, washing
it of in warm water and few drops oil
ammonia in the morniug.
A little camphor in the water will re.
move all shine. And remember, girls,
all face powders are snares and delusions.
st. Louis Chronicle.
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WORDS OF WIsDOM.

Everything good In man thrives best
when properly recognized.
The blow from knife may be easily
cured; not so blow from the tongue.
Our happine in this world depends
on the affections we are enabled to in
spire.
A man who cannot command his tenn
per should not think of being a man OF
business. -
Enmities are more attractive than
friendships. Many persons will 60
further to crafty grudge than to re-
ward merit. -
The living get credit for what they
might be quite as much as for what they
are. Posterity judges man by the best
rather than the average of his attain
ment.
There is no knowledge for which so
great price is paid as knowledge of
the world; and no one ever became an
adept in it except at the expense of q
hardened and a wounded heart. .
If there's right thing to be done, and
we seem to pass through wrong thing
on our way to it, depend upon it there's
another way to it and better one. and it
is our own fault, and not Gods, that we
do not find it. g
How many soever you may ind or
fancy your faults to be; there are only
two that are of real consequence-idle-
ness and cruelty; unless you are deliber-
ately kind to every creature, you will
often be cruel to many.
He who has stood beside the grave, to
look back upon the companionship which
has been forever closed, feeling how i'm
potent there are the wild love or the
keen sorrow to give one iustant's pleas
ure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the
lowest measure to the departed spirit for
an hour of unkindness, will scarcely, for
the future, incur that debt to the heart
which CAN only be discharged to the
dust.
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NOON.

Full summer, and at noon; from a waste bed
Convolvulus, musk-mallow, poppies, spread
The triumph Of the sunshine overhead.
Blue on the shimmering ash-trees lies the
heat;
1t tingles on the hedgerows The young
wheat
Sleeps, warm in golden verdure, at my feet.
The pa'e, sweet grasses Of the bayfield, blink
The heath-moors, as the bees of honey drink
Suck the deep bosom of the day. To think
Of all that beauty, by the light defined,
None share my vision! Sharply on my mind
Presses the sorrow:-fern and flower are
blind.
-Nichael Fisld
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DraMing on Glass With a Hot Pen.

An ingenious little instrument called
the "hyalolyphotype," or (more sensi-
bly, hot pen, has been invented, by
means of which drawings can be made
on glass or CLASSY substances with a
waxy composition, which is solid and
somewhat hard at ordinary temperatures.
The pen can be heated by gas or e!ec-
tr;city, and when heated the waxy ma
tcrial flows easily from it, setting so
quickly on the glass that s-patching
can be done more rapidly than with an
ordinary rem and ink, without risk Of
blocking the angles. Corrections can
be made with a penknife. After the
drawing his been made, the plate is
etched by fuoric acid, and when COM
plete it can be either electrotyped, stereo.
typed, used directly, or applied to any
purpose fol- which engraved surfaces ara
required.
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Shameful.

The Western Christian Adrocats men.
tions that ''it is said that the saloon
kept by the United States at the Sol
diers's Home, Dayton, sells more than
twenty barrels of beer day." and that
the government "makes handsome
profit on the beer" For the United
States Government to go into the busi-
ness of beer selling under any circum-
stances is dcplorable, but to thus main
tain a beer saloon in connection with
the Home, supposed to be Of benevolent
intent, to provide shelter and protection
for homeless and disabled soldiers, is
shameful in the extreme. There should
be protests against it loud and long till
it is abandoned. Temperance AdOocate.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Tho Founr Of Health.


Ths fount of health springs glad and free,
And points to heaven above;
Strives all to win toward lake or len
Through her abounding love
For her the clouds plume snowy folds
And laugh in rainbow hue;
For her gresnsward drinks torrents up
And sparkles in the dew.
"Come drink Of me, come drink OF ne,
Nor taste the blood-red wine;
IT'S life I offer unto thee;
he, death to thee and thine"
Come worship at the fount Of health,
Ye lads and maidens fair;
Twill give you many joy-fraught hours
And save you grief and care.
All! in the air her music list
While pleading DER and DER
For all to come and share her wealth
Now and for evermore.
"Come drink of me, come drink OF me,
Nor taste the blood red wine;
'Tis life I offer unto thee:
he, death to thee and thine"
.Cornelia Sherman, in Temperance Ban
ner.
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The Drunkard's Grand March.

"Out they march-60, OOO OF them o
year into drunkards' graves. St. Louis
has 1900 barrooms; Chicago and Gin
cinnati, 5000 each. Cincinnati, with
its3, 900 barrooms, can alone make the
/ GO, 900 drunkards- that would be only
twenty to the barroom. The old dog
died drunk, but they say he died OF
apople1y, heart disease, or something OF
that sort. They always lie about it.
Nobody can say he died drunk. They
will hatch up a sun stroke if they
can't ind anything more plausible-that
is, if he has any family. You can tell
absolutely nothing from the statistics.
But you know what that barroom is.
1t is the recording Office of hell And
is sustained by the voice of the COM
munity Sixty thousand go down into
drunkards' graves this year. They go
into your family for recruits to keep
the ranks of this army of drunkards
full. Your John, William, or Henry
they inveigle into it.
eff men will make and sell and drink
whisky. let them hide and skulk in the
mountains, and let it be known that every
man involved in the Infamous business
is a criminal. You say, 'We will de-
fend you; our laws defend you and sus-
tain you in all you say Now, this is
the ve-y question. Your laws forbid
whisky men selling Ii ,uor to minors.
That il q lick at the whisky business.
Your license laws forbid selling liquor
on election days. This is an abridgnent
of the business. There is q snake. 1t Is
biting the race. You believe in hitting
it on the tail or body. I don't. think
you ought to cut its head off. I don't
care anything about its tail. If I have a
right to strike its tail, will strike it
hard, and will strike to kill. l want
to locate it's head and cut it off forever.
"The reason we drink is that we can
not control ourselves. Go to the hog
pen and pour out corn. Say to one hog:
you take six grains of this corn and
no more To another hog: 'You take
ten grains That is temperance aud
temperance with a vengeance. I might
say: 'You take three drinks day., and
soon you will be taking ten before break
fast, ten before dinner, and lie drunk oil
night. You will have drunkards as long
as you have these young dram-drinking
bucks growing up here. 7 am against
whisky every time the issue comes up. I
am in favor of every measure that il op.
posed to it. I don't care how imperfect
the method and the letter may BE-, when
ever the question of whisky is raised
you will have my voice and my vote
against it. When I fall On my knees,
when T get up off my knees, am going
to pray against it. I am going to work
against it. I am going to live against it,
and am going to die fighting whisky.
I have drank to almost my eternal ruin,
but God being my helper, can now
say, here is one man that will die sober.
I will drink no more, and, when get
to where nothing but whisky will save
me, get me shroud and coffin ready,
for am going to die sober.-ReO. Sam.
| jones.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
A Bows Hymn.

A Boys Hymn.
"Just a. am" Thine own to be,
Friend Of the young, who lowest me;
f6coAseerate myself to thee,
OJesus Christ, I come.
In the glad morning Of my day;
My life to give, my VOWS to pay,
With no reserve and no delay,
With all my heart come.
Iwould live ever in the light,
Iwould work ever for the right,
Iwould serve thee with all my might,
Therefore, to Thee come.
" Just as am" young, strong and free,
To be the best that / can be
For truth and Righteousness and thee,
Lord of my life, come.
With many dreams Of fame and gold,
Success and joy to make me bold,
But dearer still my faith to hold,
For my whole life, I come.
And for Thy sake to win renown,
And then to take my victor's crown,
And at Thy feet to cast it down.
o Master, Lord come.