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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13
Economics of Early DAYS.

Those were times when fashions bad not
vet learned 10 change with suGl cha,nss&oR-
like speed and people did occasionally wear
their old clothes with an unblusbinG eEroat-
cry that would lie well nigh disgTacetUl TO-
day Silks and satins, laceS and farhelovs
were all of the costlieSt description, and their
owners were cilary Of diScarding them, or
even of lightly exposing them TO ruin. Emile
Souvestre's languid lady, who proves the
purity of her blood somewhat after the rnsn.
rer of the princess and she pea, by snpsrcih-
GUS Indifference to the fate Of her volvet
mantle in a snowStornl, could hardly have
existed L lew hundred years ago.
We h. in Pepys' diaIy most amusing
record of his disgust at being over persuaded
by his wife to wear his best suit on certain
threatening May day, ard how Of course 1t
rained, and all their pleasure was spoiled
The guilty Eve was quite as unfortunate Us
her husband, for she, TOO, had gons fo7tA
extraordinary fine = her lowered tabDy
gown. which we are greatly relieved T.
learn a little later was two years old, but
smartly renovated with brand new lacings.
Only fancy being so careful Of a two year
gown as to begrudge it to the sight of court
and commoners on May dayl
The same frugal spirit extended down to
the last century, and was of infinite value to
self respecting poor. Artisans had not yet
found it imperative to dress their wives and
children in imitation finery, and farmers
were even less awake to the e1igenies Of
fashionable attire We read of rural couples
placidly wearing their wedding clothes into
their advanced old age, and we are lost in
hopeless speculation as to how they accom-.
modated their spreading proportions to the
coats and gowns which presumably had
fitted the comparative slimness Of their
youth With what patient ingenuity did
the good danes of Miss MiHoTds village,
aided occasionally by an itineTant tat1cress,
turn and return their husbands cast OF
clothing, until from seeming min. thaR had
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

requisite 10 robust sous. More misery is in
the world today from unhealthy motherhood
than from all other sources combined Nerv
Gus disorders, diseases of the brain, unwise
ambitions, feeble frames to sustain ambitious
purpose, come from prenatal starvation
Oxygen is the mother of wisdom. Mothers
need more field life They cannot grow
good children when they cannot grow good
roses.
When l find in boy a clean, healthy or
ganization-that is, ruddy cheeks and an eye
looking out from a skull full of brains-I ex-
pect to bear a good deal about mother"
Mother is a marvellous work 1t means
maker, creator, molder-maker of souls and
bodies. The mother in her child is reproduc
ing herself, her moods, her passions, her
powers, her honor, or her shame.
But | said, also, gentle fathers. do not
know what should lead us to call Philip sgd
ney the ideal gentleman if our husbands are
ashamed to be like him. The word gentle
man was well born, and there is no need for
better A man should be gentle; gentler
than men are, as they average in best society
Women should be stouter and frmer than
they average as mothers. OF course, if
aesthetics Of either sex, on backward march
toward the monkey, assume to be typical
ladies and gentlemen, they do affect the real
thought bodied in those words, lady and
gentleman. In modern life, more and more,
the man and woman must interchange work
1t is not that woman ought to have a right to
be a physician or a speaker, but it is that
society needs her as such. Man also is claim
ing certain rights or confessing certain duties
in the other direction. He is more of a home
builder than in oiden times Woman be-
comes stronger and more self reliant, men
more gentle and true to the amenities of home
life. 1t is only in the middle passage be-
tween barbarism and civilization, where
woman is throwing down the blankets and
traps of her master, that she has to contend
for the privilege of doing something intel
lectually to her taste. At the same time man
slowly leaves his drunken brawlS to sit beside
his wife when the angels are born.-Mary E.
Spencer in Globe-Denocrat.
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A Wife's just Complaint.

Farmer Bell did not believe in mental or
moral sugar plums-at least, within his own
family circle. He was quite willing to COM
mend friend or acquaintance, but he had a
theory that his own family would be best i'm
proved by a species Of Spartan discipline.
Tho children must learn to do their duty
without the need of praise, and as for his
wife, she had toiled for fifteen years without
having orce been told that she was salts
factory housekeeper.
One night, the two came home from a tea
party at a neighbours house, and Mrs. Bell,
with the courage of the meek, opened fire
upon her husband.
Ezra" said she, Seems to me heard you
praisin' up the notices the Smith girls
workedr
Eyes, did, said Mr.. Bell "Real pretty
they were, for such fancy nonsense"
"Your own girls have made some just like
EN- You'd better praise them. It'll tickle
em 30 death. And didn't hear you say that
squash pie for supper was powerful niceF"
"Well, Miranda, twas a good pie"
"Was it mite better n mine, EzraTn
"Weil, no. l can't say as twas"
When have you ever said one word to
praise pie or cake I've set afore your
Maybe aino pra1sed ye much, Mlranda;
but then amt complained"
Eyes, you havo,n said Miranda eyes,
you havei Sayin' nothin' 3 oomplainin',
sometimes It's Jest like pushtn' heavy
load up hll, besides wfat you've agreed to
carry, 10 go along day artsr day an not hear
a word O prsiss. I tell you, Ezra, you're a
man, an you don't bnow anything about It p'
Ezra began to shink he didn't, and, al
though he by no means changed hts spots en-
tirely, he did from THAT time forth try to act
on the theory thsb women folks" are fond
of comnendatfon. -Youth's Companion.
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Mosby's Plan of Campaign.

my purpose" said Mosby, was to weaken
the armies invading Virginia by harassng
their rear. AS a line is only as strong as its
weakest point, it was necessary for it to be
stronger than was at every point to resist
my attacks" He tells in these words what he
sought 10 accomplish, and how he proposed
to accomplish 1t.
II endeavored, as far as l was able to di-
minish the aggressive power of the Army of
the Potomac, by compelling it to keep large
force ON the defensive. assailed its rear, for
there was its most vulnerable point. My men
had no camps II they had gone into camp
they would soon have all been captured
They would scatter for safety, and gather at
my call like Children of tie Mist A
blow would be struck at a weak or unguarded
point, and then quick retreat. The alarm
would spread through the sleeping camp,
the long roll would be beaten Oh the b1gle
would sound to horse, there would be mount
ing in bot haste and rapid pursuit. Bus
the partisans generally got OF with their
prey. The pursuers were striking at an In
visible foe | often sent small squads at
night to attack and run in the pioietS along
a line of several miles. OF course, these
alarms were very annoying, for no human
being knows how sweet sleep Is but q soldier
| wanted to use and ooi.s,mue the YorJl!,Q'a
cavalry III hard wor& i bave often tI0us, IL,
that thoir fierce hosU.hoy ~ me WAS more or
account Of tie sIoep 1 nl.t!e them lose tina
the number We killed and uapGned. Il.Aa.,
always been a wu9.der with people now i
managed to collect my iIEen al0er dis@>cir.n
them. The true secret Was that il w.Ie u
fascinating lle, and is ttttfaCtiCAfs fai' i!ole
than counterhalaneed rs bssrdshlis ANA ola
gers. They had no camp duty ~ DO, w...cs.
however Necessary, is disgusting to sAldlel,,
OF high spirit To put Llean to suczl routine.
work is like hitching race horse to "a plowl'
Globe Democrat Book Review.
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The Morals of Children.

The "hoodlum" element is a menace TO the
safety of society. 1t has been allowed to
grow until it has become prolific source of
crime, and it is not easy to control it. Va
rious remedies have been mentioned and they
are good. One man says that there is too
much charity and mercy in the present moral
administration of society" II he mean, as
he doubtless does, that parents and all others
who have the care of children, too often ex-
hibit the spirit of easy good nature, rather
than a wholesome frmness, he is right.
Children need to be made to realize what
duty Is and that it must be done, more than
many are now made. Another declares that
our public schools ought to teach fewer use
less branches and pay more heed to inculcat-
ing good manners and morals, and many
will agree heartily with him. Another
urges that the prevalent evil Is due largely
to the fact that children are allowed to ram
BILE freely after dark, and he certainly is
right In saying, keep them at home"
But back OF all, and more important than
all such specific remedies, there must be a
genuine arousing of public sentiment. At
present many of the very people whose chill
dren belong to the ungovernable class do not
themselves think the matter one of serious
Importance. Perhaps they used to have the
run of the streets when they were young
and escaped harm, or do not yet understand
how much harm they received. Perhaps
they would rather that their children be-
haved better, but know that their own slack
ness long ago caused them to lose all control
over their boys and girls. The number Of
parents is sadly large who have learned what
it is to be openly and impudently defed by
their own offspring In any case, we all
need to wake up to the fact that such parents
and all parents must he toned up to do their
uty.-Congregationalist
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Dressed IN Ten Minutes.

DotweeO the brisk young woman who can
dawn upon tho breakfast table neatly and
completely dressed IA ten minutes after her
eyelids have opeued TO the light of a new
day, and the leisurely damsel who requires
f0rtyIfive minutes or an hour for the same
operation, there is q whole gamut of fem
mine variations. The close observer of these
varying types Of fair dressers finds each pos
sessed of INTEREST. There is the honest, candid
girl, who corlfesses inst It takes an hour to
assume the rSime1t Of the day and to do full
Justice TO the mysteries Of the dressing
bureau and the bath She takes her hour,
and no one expects better things. There is
this girls opposite-yet counterpart-in the
equally truthful young woman who says she
can make ready for breakfast or the walk in
ten minutes, and who does so in nine cases
out Of ten.
Then comes the host Of cratic ones. The
girl who win be ready in a minute" only to
keep up expectancy on the part of the wait
ing ones for twenty times one minute. There
is the fair one whose voice cheerily rings out
q statement that she has only her bonnet to
put on, or bow to pin, who apparently de-
votes moro time to that simple operation
than to the varied operations of appareling
The art Of getting into ones daily habili.
merits with rspidity, and yet with neatness,
is possessed BY the minority of Ewes daugh-
tiers only Yet this trait Of rapidity in dress
ing should be of honest acquisition, and
through heredity, for Of a surety Eve was
not given to spending much time at her tot
let, and yet her fair descendants do not in
hcrit their remote ancestors traits.-Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
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Marriage, False and True.

"Mark you," she is speaking to her boy
lover, 1--WE have always this advantage over
you've can at any time step into ease and
competence, where you must labor patiently
for it. A little weeping, little wheedling,
a little self degradation, little careful use
of our advantages, and then some man will
say come be my wifer With good looks and
youth marriage is easy to attain. There are
men enough; but a woman who he's sold her
self even for a ring and new name, need
hold her skirt aside for no creature in the
street. They both earn their bread in
one way. Marriage for love is the beautiful
est eternal symbol of the union of souls: mar
riage without it is the uncleanest traffic that
defiles the world. "-"Story of an African
Farm
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counter ana seIcrUen the literature best SUI -
to the caliber of my intellect She had been
on her feet since o'clock, working hard all
the while, pulling down goods, carrying
them about, making up peoples minds for
them, being continually crowded and jostled
and asked four hundred thousand questions
on as many different subjects, and yet at 3
o'clock, when left her, she was gentle, civil
obliging and ready to do anything asked of
her, with apparently as much interest in get
ting the things for my house as | had my
self. | doubt if there are many women in
the upper world of New York who could
show such days record of cheerfulneSs, pa
thence and sweet temper. New York World.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13
To Make Children Happv.

81 try so hard to make my children
happyl" said mother with sigh one day
in despair at her efforts. "Stop trying" ex-
claimed practical friend at her elbow,
land DO as neighbor Of mine does" And
how Is thatr' she asked, dolefully. "Why,
she simply lets her children grow and de-
velop naturally, only directing their growth
properly. She has always thrown them, as
far as practicable, upon their own resources,
taught them TO visit upon themselpes-no
matter how many servants she had-and to
construct their own playthinGs. When she
returns home from an absence they await
but ono thfng-their mothers kiss.
Whatev1 has bSsn bought for them
Is bestowed when the needed time
comes Nothing exciting b allowed to them
1t night, and they go to bed and 10 sleep IN a
Wholesome mental state that insures restful
Lumber. They are tau Tht 70 love nature,
and to fGel thaI tbeCe> Is D0bbtDG arEayGd SO
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nnely as the lily or the field, tie bees and the
butterflies; that there is nothing so mean as
a lie, nor anything SO miserable as disobedi-
ence; and that good health, good teeth and
good temper come from plain food, plenty Of
sleep and being good" In order to thrive,
children require certain amount of letting
alone" Supreme faith in the mother, few
toys, no fnery, plain food, no drugs and
early to bed are the best things to make
them happy.-Cor. Detroit Free Press.
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WOMAN AND HOME.
THE NEED OF STOUTER MOTHERS
AND GENTLER FATHERS.
Economies of Early Days-Morals of Chill
dren-A Wife's Rebuke-Dressing-C
dren's Happiness - Unselfshness S. Mar.
riage-Rints for the Household.

dren-A Wife's Rebuke-Dressing-C
dren's Happiness - Unsolfshness - Mar
riage-Hints for the Household.
A good home has unity Of purpose bad
community is in it when children do not find
their joys In company with their parents
find this, that children are often sent to
school to get rid of them They are ordered
to bed to get rid of them. They, in turn,
like nothing 70 little as the company Of their
parents. 1t is an error to believe that natair
ally the young dislike ali company not of
their own age. Friendship of the finest fervor
exists between the young and the old Yet
we should never be seclusive, hoping to keep
our children as a kind of private property
You and begin our education over again
when the babes begin to come. We thoagh'
we knew something, but now there is an
other whole world open before rs Our new
lessons are self government and self restrain.
only not too much of it Parents do not
always let loose enough rein to themselves.
They grow reserved, formal, prim, old, and
the young do not fall in with them One
who thinks herself immortal should be very
bOyish at 80.
A good home needs stouber mothers and
gentler fatherN No, do NOT mean gsntlS-
mothers and stOOter fathers; but mSaR sz-
RctlY- IS ! Sid Robust bsalsh b ~ arSt
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Make the Work Easier.

Why do SO many women object to methods
of making their work easierl Some say it
looks lazyl Nonsense. Men always improve
such contrivances to the utmost and are
never called lazy for SO doing Now, for in
stance, why should not q woman have a
chair high enough to sit in for many opera
tons of kitchen and cooking work, arranged
to permit free use of the arInsi 1t would
promote health, save strength and prevent
much weariness. Good Housekeeping.
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evolved sound garments for their growing
boys; and with what pardonable pride did
the strutting youngsters exhibit on the vii
Iage streets these baggy specimens of their
mothers skilll-Agnes Repplier in Atlantic
Monthly
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Don't find fault, that is, in the flaw picking,
grmnbling way. 1t not only makes you look
and seem and feel disagreeable at the time,
but it permanently mars beauty. About the
mouth there is certain TO come a cluster of
lines to tell the world at large of the peevish-
ness of its owner. 1t makes the eyes smaller,
because they contract at the time, and the
lips grow extremely sensitive from continual
biting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

To remove indentations from furniture,
wet the indsnted places we'll with warm
water; then take some brown paper five or
six times doubled and well soaked in water
and cover with it the bruises Then apply to
the paper O hot fat iron until the moisture is
evaporated, and if the indentations have not
disappeared repeat the application until the
whole surface is completely level So recon-
mends an exchange.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

Boiled or roasted onions are specific for
colds ON the chest. They may not agree
with every one, but to persons with good
digestion they will not only be found to be a
most excellent remedy for cough and the
clogging of the bronchial tubes. which is
usually the cause of the cough, but II eaten
freely at the outset of cold they will break
up what promised, from the severity Of the
attack. to have been q serious one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

Fashion and the most exclusive taste have
hanished all pictures from the parlor. The
hall and passages are now the picture gale
ries, and even the walls of stairways are
lined with them Very often all the colored
pictures are concentrated in the library, and
some houses have the dining room lined with
engravingS
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

To keep baby quiet who has passed the
age when everything goes into the mouth,
touch the tips Of the thumbs and forefngers
with dissolved gelatine and give him downy
feather to play with. He will spend half an
hour in picking it from one adherent6nger
to another, and SO back again.
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more judicious restrictions; when deicacy
and chivalry shall contribute their due share
to the sanctity of welded life, and when di-
vorce shall become, let us not say easier, but
less desirable, then the failure or success Of
marriage will be no longer an open question.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

For musquito or gnat bites an experienced
traveller writes that he uses u solution of
alum water as strong as it can be made, add
ing onefourth of aromatic vinegar and one
fifth of glycerine. Shake well before using
IL will instantly cure the bite.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13

Tomato vinegar is patented in England
1t is made by reducing ripe tomatoes to
pulp, stepping the pulp in water twenty-four
hours, then drawing off the liquid, adding
sugar and allowing it to ferment.
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A suburban Boston poet has discovered
that the order Of sequence in couruship is first
to get on good terms with the girl; second
with the dog, and, third. with the parents
N.nslnlrr.rt nr,l Nrifin
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A great deal of profanity attending the
putting up of stOvepipe in the fall might
have been prevented if the joints had been
marked with chalk when the pipe was taken
down in the spring.
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A little exercise before bathing, and good
deal after bathing, is very essential, says a
household note. 1t will sometimes be found
that some exercise while bathing will not
be altogether useless.
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x NJ 40 In all it's Branches,
Al the LIGHT Job Office, No E. Commerce st.
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lie b CaasaarAGI
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Reliable Business Houses Worthy
of Your Liberal Patronage,

r~oOLTON, JNO. H.. ,-.o,,o,,.
Auctioneer and Commission Merchant
Houston street, next to the bridge. Consign-
,uents solicited.
The gale., 1888-01-20

TCpr-o JOURNAL
Dir. A. l.. Caruth, on3 o. cuS most
highly esteemed citizens, lost hfs iif3. In
most horrible manner, on Friuay last.
He was standing ON the track Of Jle NJ.
All . Railroad, talking to some psrtfes
from the country, with his back TO some
detached box cars, when q freight train
backed up to- couple on to these cars and
struck them with such suddenness and
force that NJ. Csruth wes Knocked down
and ran over before he realized the dan
ger. LIS lower limbs were badly crush
ed and he survived only few minutes.
Ills death was terrible blow TO his de-
voted wife and children whom he. had
| left only few hours previous III perfect
lhealth, and v as also shock to the en-.
I tire community His funeral tool plaes
on xaturdey from the Bhptist church, O
which he was member, with Masoni,
hcnors, Rev. l.. II. Burress having cfiici
ated as chaplain. Mr.. Caruth was
Knight Of Honor as well as . rason, an
| stood high il both orders, and was res
pected aud esteemed BY all who kue,
him, for his genial disposition ard ste,
ling traits Of character. II syrl3sth
could be of any asail, tho ,,oaVcmen
Of his distressed family would be sl!eyid
! ted sy sympathetic friends.