Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-01

acquisition that can apply the truth to the |
reasoning powers, and properly classify it |
under the general principles of the |
science to be learned. We must produce |
thinkers, reasoners and learning by heart |
will never do it. We must not suppose a
child knows his lesson when he can repeat |
1t; but when he can repeat it, it is the
teachers duty to lead the child on to ap-
ply it to the principle in questionable
School,
The handsome houses Of yore still re-
main at Long Branch, but an old resident
says that times there have sadly changed
within the last few years. The present
summer residents spend very little money
in the town. Their carriages, if they have
| any, are not seen lining the village streets
| as used to be the case with the teams of
the rich Americans, whose purchases de-
veloped the local shops into the biggest
stores boasted by any watering-place on
the coast. Those rich Americans are now
at Narragansett, Newport, and host of
little cottage communities. The natives
ascribe their loss to the gambling dens.
Another American wife, dating from
Paris, appears in English print, bearing
testimony regarding the relations between
American husbands and wives. She pro-
tests against the American custom of hus-
band and wife living much apart. and re-
cites some idle Washington gossip of other
days. She expresses her veritable belief
that there is not a single big city in the
world which contains so many worthless
wives as Chicago. The lady owns to 50
years of married life and confesses that
there Is nothing more CALLING than to see
the airs assumed by young and pretty
| American women toward men of intellect
and position.
Two sisters at Boston, who found them
selves with q lot of accomplishments, a
nice taste in literature and no funds, es-
tabllshed book shop on a new pian They
laid in supply of books and back of the
shop fitted up charming parlor furnished
according to the best canons of decorative
art, covered the tables with magazines and
books and set up dainty tea-table, with
old Dutch and Wedgewood furnishings.
The little parlor began to be center for
clever people who were glad to drop for a
moment into this pretty room, where two
agreeable women were always ready to
give them a cup of tea and talk about the
newest books and freshest literary gossip,
who could tell them what to read and
were clever in hunting out obscure alIu-
sions. Men and women met each other
there and discussed their favorite authors
and rarely left without carrying something
in covers with them. The shop has prosp-
cred, the parlor has had another drawing
room added to it, and the sisters have a
respectable little bank account now.
Says a writer in the PHILADELPHIA Press:
A red-headed girl, believe, never turns
brown. That, | understood from learned
physician, is because she has too much
iron in her blood. 1t is the iron that
gives the fine, Titan hue to her hair. If
she had less iron in her blood her hair
would probably be brown or chestnut, or
perhaps blonde. The varying degrees of
redneSs that you see in different red
headed girls is due to the different proper
tions of iron in their blood. A girl with
glossy, brownish hair that shows red in a
strong light has only fair share of iron
in her blood. but a bricktop, if may be
permitted the expression, bricktop is full
of iron. The doctors know of no way of
neutralizing the effect Of the iron. Per
haps they wouldn't resort to it even if
they knew 1t. For it is iron in the blood
that makes red-headed girls so strong and
hardy and good-natured. 1t also is the
cause of freckles, which are very good for
the health. And it is noted as a singular
thing-probably also having some relation
to the iron in the blood-that mosquitoes
never bite red-headed girls. So you see,
according to the dictum of this learned
physician, red-headed girl has many ad-
vantages over her dark-haired sister