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The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
a saCHELoR's LAMENT.
de Comments ON the Want OF Puuctuality
in the Fair Sex.

in the Fair Sex.
I have read an anecdote that uns
something like this: A distinguished
lawyer. observing that his wife always
delayed ten or twelve minutes before
she came down to dinner, and being
10th to lose so much precious time
daily, commenced the composition OF
a work, which he prosecuted only
while he was thus kept waiting. The
result was, at the end of fifteen years.
a book in three volumes quarto, which
has met with a large sale and is much
esteemed. The anecdote is told as an
Illustration of the value of time, and
to show how much might be made Of
the very crumbs and parings of this
valuable commodity. But | have al
ways regarded it in a different light.
To my mind it stands up as an over
whelming reproach of the fair sex, for
the troubles with which they visit us
through their thoughtlessness respect
ing time. Three quarto volumes
of sound law-as it probably vas
written in fifteen years, during the
various quarters of hours which mad.
am spent in superiuou5 labors upon
her dress! In what a strong light
does this place the friyolity and
non-punctuality of the one sex against
the patience and assiduity of the other!
1t appears to me that it is woman's
chief stee7y to be late. The trial Of
mans patience is with them a matter
of the incest calculation. It is not
that, for mere sport, they like to see
how long al unfortunate husband will
wait, greatcoated and hated, while
they are adjusting their bonnet strings;
it is not that they take Il wicked pleas
ure in causing the poor mans dinner
to cool and spoil, before they will con-
slider themselves ready to come down
to partake of it; it is not for these
reasons that they keep the robuster
sex dangling. 1t is only for the pur-
pose of trying their consequence with
the hapless lords of creation. 1t would
be most unwomanish to be ready to
go out exactly at the same moment
with ones husband. He W9ulG not
know he had a wife, if she were to
study his convenience so far.
As for the troubles which sisters and
daughters infict, it is all one thing.
The creatures r only trying on
brother Or father the powers which
they are ultimately to exercise in full
vigor on husband. The ''natur' of the
critter" is to give trouble to mankind,
and it matters little on what particular
kind of relative the instinct operates
n. 7. Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
nEEiclAL SCRAP BOOKS.

go he President Is Enabled to ACQUIRE
Lot of Information.
Three times a day a messenger
srings into his Office a big bundle Of
-.awspapers. and the aggregate for
saeh twenty-four hours is over three
baadred. Some of the more impor-
s.nt Papers are subscribed for, but the
us;crity of them are sent by their
m,hlishers without fee or hope of re-
rara. When Mr.. Montgomery arrives
III Tie morning he finds the first batch
aneued and spread out on his table,
and he at once attacks the huge pile.
As RAPIDLY as possible he chances down
eolamn after column, and whenever
RI aces any thing that seems to him to
Is ut for the scrap book he marks the
,arapraph with a real editorial blue
aencil and later or saws it out with
lid shears. As a rule the wolk is
quickly done.
The scrap book generally consists of
half q dozen volumes, each devoted to
anne particular subject or series of
subjects. One is devoted to comments
"A the CiviLServiee reform, or other
wise. al the Administration. and what
aver nav be said, critical or lauda-
tory, of appointments or dismissals is
iii skilfully pasted on one of the
blank. brown pages. The Southern
question has q volume all to itself,
and within those covers the great is
sue IS discussed. Every utterance has
It's place, and every nan Of National
Importance, and a few who are of no
Importance at all, are on record in
black and white for black or white.
What is said and written about the
foreign policy of the Administration
BIZ native or alien experts is a book
all By itself, and another of the vol
umes has in 1t such scraps as relate to
Territorial matters. land grants and
ether affairs which disturb the Interior
Department.
The most interesting Volumes that
which Is made up of direct references
to- the President, social and personal
some of them far from social in their
pature, and many of them too vio-
fently personal to be pleasant. The
great bulk Of the paragraphs are, how
ever. smooth and musical and pleasant
To read.
OF miscellaneous matter, too general
ID its nature to be easily classified,
there is a wealth, and the volume set
apart to receive it gets filled up quicker
than any of its associates.
A great deal of low grade matter
fails TO find a place in the aggrega-
ton. a man with no literary ability
and devoid of discretion would proba-
bly, ill n of the volumes in a few
hours; under the present arrangement
. book il rarely complete in less than
. Eeek-Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
EDUCATION OF GIRLS.
Mrs. Fred Grant Advances Some Strange
Reactionary Ideas.

Reactionary Ideas.
It is said that Mrs. Fred Grant has
some ~reactionary ideas on the subject
of the education of women which she
is carrying into effect upon her own
little daughter. Mrs. Grant, who was
a Miss Honore, is of French extrae-
ton, was herself bred in the convent,
where, as is known, the most ad-
vanced ideas are not as a rule incul-
Gated. But she goes even further back
than do most of the modern converts.
She has a perfect horror of the theory
fSf woman's suffrage, and quite as much
aor the theories of those who advocate
the higher education OF women, in
which she does not in the least believe.
She holds that women should not be,
nor even desire to be, any thing but
wives and mothers, and not even wives
and mothers according to the modern
standard, but should strictly conform
themselves to such rules as used to be
laid down for them by the stern
fathers of the Church. Following out
this theory, Mrs. Grant has allowed
nothing to be taught her little daugh-
ter which would tend to make her in
dependent, self-reliant or forcible.
The four rules of arithmetic are the
strict limit of her mathematical
education. Philosophy of any sort
she is not even allowed to hear
a suggestion of. She is never
permitted to argue upon any subject
whatever, and is trained to accept
absolutely whatever is told her without
question. Her education consists OF
the study of music, such literature
cas- her mother thinks best for her to
aead. a little history, drawing, RssEe-
work. and the languages, and all this
is taught her by a private governess.
who lives with her anp is warranted
not to instill ideas outsides-f those
elementary ones Mrs. Grant considers
suited to female capacity. The
Honores have always carefully kept
up their French, and the Grant
children have had, besides, a French
nurse, so that they would learn the
two languages together and know no
difference between them. Mrs. Grant
takes great pains with their pro-
nunciation, and they really speak
beautiful French, with the fuency
and accent Of natives. She is particu-
larIy pleased on their account that her
husband should have a mission to a
German-speaking country. and before
his term at Vienna has finished they
will undoubtedly be speaking the
language like natives, as she means to
surround them entirely with Germans
as their teachers and attendants, in
order that they may speak the tongue
with that ease which can only be had
fran intimate association with the
Teutons. The daughters is q pretty
child of a brunette, French type, and
resembles the Honores entirely, while
the boy is a Grant.-Cor. N. I. World.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
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! When you don't feel well and hardly
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Blood Balm) a trial. 1t is a fine tonic.
T. o. Callahan, Charlotte, N. G., writes:
"B. B. B. is a fine tonic, and has done me
great good"
L. W. Thompson, Damascus, Ga, writes:
81 believe B.. B.. B.. is the best blood purifier
made. 1t has greatly improved my general
health.'
An old gentlemen writes: "B. B. B. gives
me new life and new strength: If there IS
anything that will make an old man young,
it is B. B. B."
P. A. Shepherd, Norfolk, Va, August
10th, 1883, writes: Il depend on B.. B. B.
for the preservation Of my health. | have
had it in my family now nearly two years,
and in all that time have not had TO have a
doctor"
Thos. Paulk, Alapaha, Ga, writes: ~
suffered terribly from dyspepsia The use
of b. B. B. has made me feel like a new
man. l would not take & thousand dollars
for the good it has done me-"
W. NJ. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga, writes: 81
had a long spell of typhoid fever, winch at
last seemed to settle in my right leg, which
swelled up enormously, An ulcer also APP
peared which discharged a cup full o fmat-
ter a day. l then gave B, B. B. a trial and
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The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
G o BABIES.

4kint 10 the Lower Animals When the First
Consciousness Appears.
In the course of a lecture delivered
in New York the other day a dis
tnguished female physician said that
fhe inability of a baby to hold up it's
lead was not due to the weakness of
the neck, but to lack of development
ofthe will power. The act of stand
ing was instructive and initiative.
while facial expression and gesturel
we're due almost wholly to imitation.
a baby's smile. she said. was the
most misunderstood thing in infancy.
real smile must have an idea behind
Il. but the expression resembling a
smile which is SO often seen on a very
young baby's face was without an idea
and vas due to an easy condition of the
stomach or to some other physical
satisfaction. The smile with an idea
does not appear earlier than the fourth
week 50. too, with the crying of a
BABY. The c~ontortion of the features
lsdue TO physical causes. The baby
beds no tears. because the ~lachrymal
glands are not developed for several
weeks after birth. The chief pleasure
Ct al children is to change from one
condition to another by their own
Efforts. This is the beginning of the
aevelopment OF the will power. and is
often aftested in what has been called
1he s~sllnperative intention of tears"
ms il not disclosed until after the
seesnd o. third month.
q baby tests every thing by its
month"; It's sense of taste being the
%lFes6 and most reliable guide it has.
hhe~ attention of all young children is
aaaacult 10 attract and they must AZ
sait considerable age before they be-
glh g notice. Then colors and sounds
are most potential. Fear has been
Known to be manifested by a baby only
aarae weeks old, and, in all cases, the
sensation Is produced by sound more
Man by sight. Children OF luxurious
ana carefully-guarded homes are
agEles1 wholly without fear, but the
children of poor and exposed parents
alsTays manifest it. jealousy and
sgnpathy begin to manifest them
selFes IN the second year. Curiosity
aasc begins to develop here and proves
~ 4be p self-feeder throughout child
hood. A little later the ego begins to
appear, and the baby has the first con
sclousness of itself. The ego first APP
PEARS as q muscular sense, and the in
aalf gradually learns to distinguish
asaelI from surrounding objects. 1t Is
aRsa the hand that is distinguished,
ana then the foot, and finally the
whole body. Memory does not appear
osloFe the child is two years of age.
~ tha reasoning of children is prim-
ave and elementary and develops
slowly. Darwin noticed an ~associa-
ston of Ideas Id the mind of his child
wen II was only five months OF age.
Ans lecturer related experiences OF
babies gith the first view of mirrors.
Aaa showed that their actions under
~ new conditions were similar to
sAsse ct anthropoid apes and dogs un-
aeFllkB conditions.-Boston Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
.Reonl,ritv in the care of stool,

Regularity in the are of stock
should be the aim of every farmer. II
they are fed and watered at the regu-
lar hours they will pay all the better
for the trouble.
Study to feed the plant, not to
make the soil rich, if profit is the OBJ
ject- Farmers should never overlook
the fact that the object of agriculture
is to make crops grow rather than to
enrich the soil.
1t is wrong to cut a slit in a hogs
snout. The hog should be able to
root When kept on the ground all OF
the time and fed a variety of food, hogs
do not root. When they do they
ought to.-Farm journal.
One of tn heaviest things On earth
is a sheet of paper after it has been
transformed intNa farm mortgage; it
always takes a strong man and his
whole family seAral years to lift It,
and often it can't oe lifted at all.
1t requires more experience ans.
good judgment to cure clover cheaplS
and nicely than to cure timothy; but
it is better hay when you get it, for
most purposes, and it leaves the land
in far better condition for the follow
ing crops.-Rural New Yorker.
Beef Cakes: Chop cold chips OF
beef roast, Or cold steak, two cold
onions, q bit of carrot, a quarter of a
turnip, one cupful of potato and n OF
meat; moisten with cold soup, gravy,
or hot water sailed and %peppered.
Mold into cakes with the hands and
brown in a well-greased spider.
Apple Ginger: Make a sirup of
four pounds of granulated sugar and a
pint of water in which cook very
slowly four pounds of inely-chopped
tart apples. peeled and cored. and two
ounces Of green ginger. Add the
grated rind of four lemons. Take il
off. tJhvtEse6ve when it looks clear
Good Housekeeping.
Tomato Toast: Take fresh OF
canned tomato, stew and season with
salt, pepper and ream, with a little
-four stirred to a paste in small por'
ton of the citeam before adding to the
rest, then toast slices of bread, spread
them with butter, and spread on the
tofhato while hot and immedi
ately.
Stock may be kept in too close
stables. There is not so much danger
of this as the summer ONE on as
there is in the winter when every crev.
ice is closed to keep out the cold.
There is more danger from bad odors
now, however, than in the cold oil
winter. and there should be a free cir
culation of air to carry away any odor
that may be injurious to the stock u
milk.
If the meadows are rough and IN.
productive, the heroic treatment will
be found best. Plow, replow, level,
clear off all stone and stumps, f~ertilize
and re-seed, using some clover, which
will disappear in about two years. By
this method plant food will be set free
at the surface and brought from the
subsoil by the clover roots, there will
be enough available fertility in the
surface soil to produce many abundant
harvests.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
QUEER Neutrality-suspicious.

Down by the pond that -.
"here hly-pads grew tlfc,r "
NJ 5000 a house all by itself.
not made Of stone or brick
lowered upward TO the axis
nc torty feet or more:
Gnu one small family
hept house upon each So,r
d was an old and withered tree,
vim not a leaf in sight.
Anu summers sun and winter,s sx
naa oieached its surface white.
n elt stood, when all around
IN beauty seemed to thrive,
<s.te dead to all appearances
4e1 very much alive.
Hos many, many little birds
me tenement posse )sed;
anu on! with what amazing skill
Eaen one had built its nest.
nouse some fifty stories high
", what q sight was that
DON'T believe that anvwhara
You'd find so tall a 1at.
anu as 1ne birds few in aud out,
Like bees o a hive,
NO other tree in all the nlace
oeemea quite SO much alive.
ana mus God gave it
for loss Of leaf and stem.
AIe plrds repained-while in its heart
- MADE o home for them.
Josephine Pollard. in N v rnda,o
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
"Qui fqt IN heros au Billiard

Il un LCEO du AtlH1SbEEC.
When the French game was introduced
into England, at which time the Re-
gency in France brought something
like peace and goodwill between the
two Nations, it soon superseded the
old-fashioned game. It vas played,
according to contemporary accounts,
''only with masts and balls" the mast
being the masse, or mace, an instru-
ment still to be met with in billiard
rooms With the lac the ball is
pushed and not struck, and English
players adhered to the mace long after
it had been superseded on the CONT
neut by the cue. And the mace was con-
sidered the lady's weapon ever up to
recent times. The French game was
played with two white halls, and the
play consisted in hazarding your adj
versary's ball. and keeping out of the
pocket yourself, just as single pool is
played nowadays. But before the end
of the century a third ball was intro
duced-the red ball-whieh bore the
mysterious name of ''carambole." And
how to hit the two balls successfully
became one of the points of play, and
the caram, or cannon, added a fresh
interest to the game. With this came
into existence the English game, ..par
excellence" at which all hazards
count to the striker, except that un-
fortunate one known as a coup, where
his ball flies into a pocket without hav-
ing touched another on its passage
ALI the Year Round.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
Ere the Farewell, "a spo.xen

On the deck of the steamer, Or on board the
that is to peal you away from those
dear to you, you will, if you are wise, have
safely slowed away in your luggage a sufh-
cient supply of that safeguard against i'll
aess- Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Com
1ercial travellers, tourists and pioneer
smigrants concur in t~estifying to the forth
flying and saving properties of the great
tonic. Use for constipation, biliousness,
aalarial and kidney complaints and merry
a1snaaS
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
a srvirnrninr professor saws

a swimming professor says in re-
gard to sea bathers caught by the un-
dertow, that the bather should keep
cool, lie as fat on his back a. possible
and wait for a wave. With the wave
he should make a vigorous stroke for
the ehore and then lie still and level
again until another wavo will help
him. in this way he can cheat the
sea of victim.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

GREAF mistakes are often made in trying
to eTesonomise. 1t is safe rule to follow that
the bestis always the cheapest. Aeheap pny-
sician may cost you your life. II you have
Malaria in your system, you will not only be
miserable, but unfit to work. Lost time is
money lost. One dollar spent for Shallen-
berger's Antldote will cure you in twenty
four hours. Sold by Druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

TIE Queen of Siam has a thimble made Of
gold, in the form of q lotus bud, the lotus
Being the Siamese royal floral emblem, and
thickly studded with diamonds, SO arranged
as to form the queens name and the date
of her marriage.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

The New York Tribune gays: zone OF
the most remarkable phases of college stu
dent lifein this country is the fondness for
amateur acting which has been developed
in nearly all the large colleges during the
past few years"
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

Two SCOTCH worthless were lately CRITICS.
ing the new minister very severely. SAID
John, the discontinued, about the reverend
gentleman: "Weli, We see, frae Monday to
Saturday he's inveesible, and on Sabbath
he's incomprehensihle,n
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

TEE capacity for happiness, like oevery
other, needs continual exercise for its
ally checked and postponed, it will wither
away.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

Why 4 West Point resignation
#as d-Lieutenant-" Don't
9aa NOW enough to salute your supe-
kseE e~aicer2n New Sentry-I did,
Lieatsnant-I failed 10 see
Na New Sentry-Just as You
a1ong / said .ah. therei' but I
ssssa gou didn't hear me.-Judga
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

A LADY in Boston has a thimble made
from a piece of the old Washington elm at
Cambridge, the tree under which Washing
ton stood when he took the oath as COM
m-ander-in-chief in IT'S
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

The famous CorIils engine that was
built to drive.the machinery of the Centen-
NAL exhibition Of 1876 is now in the shops
of the Pullman Car Company at Kensing-
ton, near Chicago, Ill. 1t is the largest en-
pine in the world,
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

THE cooperative maid" is a young WON
an who goes from house to house, dresses
hair, mends stockings, brushes clothes, puts
on buttons, etc., and charges each lady who
desires her services two dollafto~a week.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

T FIrTY-Two chicks from fifty eggs is the
record that a LenaWee County Mich man
proudly presents in behalf Of one Of his
PATCHING hens.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

THE Governor of Pennsylvania uses a
g~raphophone. It enables him to talk to Of
fce-seekers and go visiting at the Ame
time. It fills a want long felt by high of
fciaIS.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
BILLIARDS IN FRANCE.
The Introduction of the Fascinating Game
Into Polite Circles.

Into Polite Circles.
King Louis XIV. was a great lover
of billiards, and his magnificent mobiles
in their grand peruques, his Marshals
and Generals, matched their skill
against their royal masters about
some e%laboratery inlaid billiard table
in the royal saloons of Versailles. One
Chamillard is recorded to have gained
a high Office of state from his skill al
billiards (which the King delighted tc
uH6saess. This was the same Chamil.
lard
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

Ii you want to ascertain the cireumfer-
enee of a man, ask his neighbor; but if you
want to get at his exact diameter, easur
him al, his own freside.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

ALI. cases of weak or lame back, backache,
rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one
of Carriers Smart Weed and Belladonna
Backache Plasters. Price 25 cents. Try them.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

THE man who is penny-wise and pound
foolish, attempts to wash the sore on his
mules hind legs, but he who knows the
WAYS of the beast takes him to a veterinary
surgeon.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

PROBABILITIES Of red and green cloth came
into fashi,lp at the close of the fifteenth
century. n
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

ANY one can take Carter's Little Liver
Pills, they are so very small. No trouble to
swallow. No pain or gripping after taking.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

The authorities in Holland ,R% Z decreed
that women a not serve on a school
board. In! STSTeden it has been decided that
they a
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

AwoRD of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain; while witty sayings are as easily lost
as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

NEVER whisper in company. If what you
wish to say can not be spoken aloud, reserve
it until another tine.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

THE slave trade may be accounted extinct
in Egypt. During the last sixteen months
only four slaves have been imported into
that country.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

H~ALF-cURED eruptions will return. Erad
cate them with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

NEVER appear Indifferent when others are
talking. Listen politely to every th1n z, and
don't interrupt.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

THE sumptuary laws of Richard IL pro-
hibited collars from being worn. The law
was never enforced.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

DR.. Pierce's Pellets-gently laxative or
actively cathartic according to dose. 25 cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10

SAN FRANCISCO firm has built the largest
~ . cellar in the world. 1t is capable OF
h ng 3,00O,000 gallons Of wine. Its coss
W $4,000.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-10
The Wfsest Gle

The Wfsest Gle
bought my wife q velvet sack"
Thus proudly boosted Mr.. Brown.
He'll be, with that upon her tack,
The beSt-dressed dame in town."
1t velvet sack or diamond ring
Scan bring no balm to suffering wife.
1ayorte PrsSt riptiOn is the thug
To save her precious life.
The "a at and sovereign remedy, known
the wor -er, for all female troubles, in
fiam-~sruel backaches, and interna
disp is DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scriptahe ~ is the only guaranteed cure
See & zee on every bCttle-Wrapper-
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A 1oc. SMOKE for 5c.-"Tansill's Punch"